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A student Tuesday with an unusual pet October 23, 2012 The USU boys are Page 4 back www.utahstatesman.com Page 8 8WDK6WDWH8QLYHUVLW\/RJDQ8WDK UtahThe Statesman Sustainability hosts first Alternative Transportation Week BY MITCH HENLINE When students or fac- from different organiza- realize there are other and not just ‘bike to work’ and Tomlin hopes the staff writer ulty arrive on campus by tions on campus. They options available for get- week,” Tomlin said. “The week will get students in bus, foot, bike or carpool, include tickets to the Banff ting to campus besides Student Sustainability the habit of thinking about Students, staff and fac- they will be able to check Film Festival, a car bike driving. Office works a lot with sus- sustainable transporta- ulty may be rewarded for in at Aggie Blue Bikes rack and block meal plans. “We understand that tainable initiatives on cam- tion. using different forms of using their A-number or Stephanie Tomlin, Aggie it is not reasonable for pus, and we do a lot with “The idea is obvi- transportation to get to student ID card. A com- Blue Bikes program coor- everyone to ride their bike cycling on campus. It was ously long-term changes,” campus during USU’s first puter will randomly pick dinator, said the event every day, so that’s kind kind of a natural fit for us Tomlin said. “Sometimes Alternative Transportation daily winners. was set up to help USU of why we opened it up as to team up and conquer.” Week, Oct. 24-31. Prizes were donated students, faculty and staff Alternative Transportation The event is a week long, See BIKE Page 2 College of arts considers differential tuition BY KATRIEL WILKES staff writer The Caine College of Arts is considering implementing dif- ferential tuition beginning Fall 2013. Associate Dean Chris Terry said the college may add new programs with the extra tuition. Film, dance and commercial music majors are among those being considered. If the college decides to go forward with plans, the change would be implemented in phases over three years, Dean Craig Jessop said to students at a town hall meeting last Wednesday. Jessop said the money could help pay for a new arts building on the corner of 1200 N. 800 East, as well as expansion to the current Fine Arts Building. Unlike other majors that charge differential tuition, implementing the fee could do away with student and course fees in the arts school. Jessop said this would mean students would no longer have to pay for STUDENTS STAND IN THE HALL of the Chase Fine Arts building. If the Caine College of the Arts decides to charge differential tution, practice rooms or equipment. the building may be expanded. JESSICA FIFE photo Jessop said the initial cost would be $15 per credit for representatives from every pro- The three-year-old Caine tuition was implemented to He said new internal infra- Caine College of Arts courses. gram in the college. College is modeling the fee help the business school with structure of administration and He told students the cost is a “There will be one or two structure after the Jon M. increasing costs of faculty and faculty in the Business College fraction of what business stu- students from each emphasis — Huntsman School of Business’s declining support from the has increased enrollment. He dents pay for their credits. perhaps a professor, maybe the differential tuition plan. This state. said none of those changes “Next year, students would department head,” Terry said. year, students in upper-division Snider said the additional would have been possible if it see an elimination of fees,” Although nothing has been business classes paid $67 per tuition has helped the Business had not been for differential Jessop said. officially decided, the admin- credit on top of their regular School hire ten new faculty tuition. A concern among art stu- istration is advocating for the tuition. members from other nationally- Jessop wants to make similar dents voiced in the town hall change. Terry told students “The Business College has recognized business schools. changes in the Arts College. meeting was how the funds this will provide a foundation charged differential tuition They have been able to create “I am hoping I can appeal to would be divided among the for the arts school to become since 2006, and it has proven new master’s degree programs, your sense of long-term vision programs. renowned. to be very successful,” said a internship office and an a and your commitment to your Terry said a board of students “If I could sit down with any Huntsman Business School entrepreneur advising office school in building a school of and faculty would be created student for ten minutes, I con- Dean Kenneth Snider in a pre- with the extra funding. excellence and quality,” Jessop to help decide what the first vince them that this is a change sentation given to the Business Snider said if differential said. priorities are when it comes to that they should be 100 percent Council last Tuesday. tuition adds value to the school, distributing the money. Terry behind,” he said. Snider said differential then people will come. – [email protected] told students there would be Library celebrates open access BY STEVE KENT “This worked just fine for 350 years, editor in chief but with the rise of the Internet and digital publication and all that electron- This week, librarians at USU are cel- ic dissemination of knowledge, we can ebrating a trend which is changing the start moving beyond those journals,” way scientists and researchers spread Wesolek said. their findings. Wesolek said over the past four Open Access Week, which started on decades, the cost of scholarly journals Monday, was planned to help research- has increased multiple times, and the ers and the public understand the rate of inflation and libraries can afford ways electronic publishing is changing to subscribe to fewer journals. scholarly journals, according to Andrew “Even the most well-endowed librar- Wesolek, scholarly communication ies in the world simply can’t afford to librarian at the Merrill-Cazier Library. purchase all of the journals,” he said. Wesolek said the highlight of the week “They’re just too expensive.” will be an address by John Bollen of He said open access helps researchers Indiana University nd Roger worldwide by making the findings of Schonfeld of Ithaka S and R on Tuesday other scientists available. at 4 p.m. in the library. Wesolek said “They now have access to all of the the concept of open access encompasses information, rather than just what their more than research articles, but for libraries can afford,” Wesolek said. Open Access week, the events focus on Wesolek said open access is espe- scholarly publications because it’s one of cially relevant in the developing world. the most problematic areas. Harvard, which has one of the largest Traditionally, scholarly journals research libraries in the world, sub- have collected, reviewed and published scribes to 98,000 scholarly journals. By research findings. Those journals have contrast, the most well-endowed univer- been the method through which profes- sity in India can afford 10,000 journals. sors and researchers share their work. Jan Sojka, the head of the physics Published articles can help a researcher department, said he’s had positive ANDREW WESOLEK, A SCHOLARLY communication librarian speaks about open find a job or secure grants to pay for access and how it is changing scholarship Monday afternoon. DELAYNE LOCKE photo future research. See FREE, Page 2 Page 2 CampusNews Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 As students bundle up, bees become active BY TMERA BRADLEY mally be dormant in nature.” staff writer Strange said the simulated winter can be conducted during While most insects are dor- any season even summer. In the mant for the cold season this life cycle of most bees, there’s an time of year, the research bees obligatory winter period where a on USU campus will become season of dormancy is necessary active again within the next few for the bees to fully develop. weeks. The queen bumblebees are Hundreds of queen bumble- stored while dormant, then acti- bees are being stored in boxes vated in a greenhouse. A colony in a refrigerated cooler on the is started by taking the queen north side of campus. out of winter hibernation and “We’re doing two proj- giving her a nest box in the lab. ects,” said James Strange, Strange said it takes a couple United States Department of months for the queen to get the Agriculture research entomolo- colony up and running to where gist. “One is to look at wintering it becomes an economically these bumblebees for commer- viable pollinating unit. During cial uses. If you can keep all this process, the bees can’t fly these queens in a refrigerator outside in the cold or they would situation over the winter, you die. can then take them out and start “That means all the food has a nest with them.” to come from us,” Strange said.