Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 11-12-2010 The Utah Statesman, November 12, 2010 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah Statesman, November 12, 2010" (2010). The Utah Statesman. 190. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/190 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Students at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Utah Statesman by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 UtahThe Campus Voice tatesman SUtah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com since 1902 Kennedy heads to Washington USU’s former Vice President for Federal and State Relations, Michael Kennedy, will join Sen. Orrin Hatch as new chief of staff MICHAEL KENNEDY, PICTURED HERE with his wife, Natalie, left USU to work with Sen. By DAN SMITH to the senator’s organization.” Orrin Hatch as his new chief of staff. photo courtesy USU Media Relations staff writer Kennedy said University President Stan Albrecht is moving quickly to find a replace- D.C. as director of legislative affairs for a lob- Albrecht approached Kennedy and used Former Vice President for Federal and State ment for him. They will have to orient bying firm for various Utah interests. Utah his leadership skills and charisma to convince Relations Michael Kennedy cleaned out his themselves with university initiatives for the State University was one of the clients. him to come back to Utah to work at USU, desk last week and said farewell to Utah upcoming legislative session in January. Being that I grew up in Salt Lake and Kennedy said. In November 2007, he made State University. Kennedy boarded a plane to A few names have been discussed, and didn’t get to Logan that much, I didn’t really the move and pioneered the newly-formed Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night to join Kennedy said he is confident there are several know much about position, vice president of state and fed- Sen. Orrin Hatch as his new chief of staff. people that would be capable of fitting in with Logan or USU,” Kennedy eral relations. “It’s very, very difficult to leave,” Kennedy Albrecht’s team-oriented style of leadership. said. “President He said his predecessor for univer- said. “The opportunity to work so closely to “It’s a big job and a critical one for our uni- Despite not know- Albrecht is the sity state lobbying retired after 30 years such an important senator, the longest-serv- versity, as a major research institution,” said ing much about Logan, kind of guy I and that is when Albrecht decided to ing Republican in the United States Senate John DeVilbiss, executive director for public Kennedy said he was would follow into combine federal and state roles. Putting ... is also an opportunity I felt like I couldn’t relations and marketing at USU. Kennedy’s interested in work- battle ... that the federal portfolio in the hands of pass up.” replacement will be “a person with strong ing at the university kind of a leader” Kennedy would lighten the load for the Kennedy said he received a phone call state and federal ties who will help us con- because of what he had vice president of research, which he about a week ago from the senator, who tinue to build networks and relationships ... come to know about Michael Kennedy, said was a tough job to begin with. offered Kennedy the job. Hatch’s former Chief for state and federal funding.” them through his job in Federal State Relations “The federal portfolio is kind of a of Staff, Jace Johnson, recently took a job else- Kennedy, a Utah native raised in Salt Lake Washington. big ask for any vice president to do,” where. City, said he attended Harvard University and “I was in D.C., for Kennedy said. “So, the president, he “Sen. Hatch is delighted that Michael received a bachelor’s degree in government. those seven years, and worked for the uni- wanted to form a comprehensive government Kennedy has agreed to serve as his chief He completed an internship in Washington, versity and found out all the cool research relations approach and combine the two of staff,” said Hatch spokesperson Heather D.C., with Bennett. stuff that the university was getting funded together.” Barney. “Michael brings a wealth of experi- He said he considered going to law school, through the federal government and from the ence to this new role and will be a great asset but instead, he took a job in Washington, work that I did,” Kennedy said. -See SENATE, page 3 Textbook translation will increase quality of education One of Jump’s main goals and accomplishments while education teachers. Having this book available in Arabic will By KAYLA HALL working with this project was obtaining translation rights increase the students’ effectiveness in understanding and staff writer from the publisher, the National Association for the helping children. Utah State University professor and research scientist Education of Young Children, to translate the textbook According to the NAEYC, “‘Developmentally Appropriate Vonda Norma Jump helps Early Childhood Education Arabic “Developmentally Appropriate Practice” into Arabic. Practice’ is a framework of principles and guidelines for best students and professors by facilitating the translation of a The affects of translating this book into Arabic are far- practice in the care and education of young children, birth widely-used textbook. reaching. Jump said in Arabic-speaking universities there through age 8. It is grounded both in the research on how Jump said she saw a research opportunity in joining the are few written materials for the students to learn from, young children develop and learn and in what is known about “Strengthening Early Childhood Education in Jordan” project. meaning the majority of their education comes from word of education effectiveness. The principles and guidelines out- With her own credentials and the help of colleagues, she was mouth. This form of education can miss key information that selected for the project and received funding. students need in order to become effective early childhood -See TRANSLATION , page 4 Professors discuss balance of power USU honors since the 2008 election – and the Republican By BENJAMIN WOOD takeover of the House of Representatives follows editor in chief a pattern of establishing balance in the federal Veterans Day government. Michael Lyons and Damon Cann, pro- “We have come to distrust By ARIANNA REES fessors in the department of political sci- both parties so much,” Lyons staff writer ence, spoke to students Wednesday about said. the aftermath of the 2010 midterm elec- Even though split-party tions and what to expect from the govern- control of congress can John Kimball, a senior at Utah State University, told those ment over the next two years. often lead to a legisla- present at Thursday’s Veterans Day Ceremony that he is serving Lyons spoke first, focusing tive stalemate, Lyons in the military because “it is the right thing to do. The best thing on the shift of power in congress said voters feel more you can do to honor what someone else has done is to follow in that occurred following this year’s comfortable with a their footsteps.” elections. He said historically, vot- division in power. Kimball was accompanied by vocal performances from local ers tend to distrust a single party “It just makes us schools, a routine by USU’s Swing Club, and remarks from Iwo holding both the white house and Jima survivor Loyd Lewis. Kyle Boes, the Veterans Day ceremony congress – as the Democrats have -See VOTE, page 3 committee chairman and a veteran of the United States Air Force said the goal of the program was to remind everyone of the sto- ries and sacrifices of the veterans. There are 300-400 veterans on campus, Boes said, and many of them experienced the horrors of war firsthand. Dallas Nutt, a Marine Corps Combat Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom who photo illustration BENJAMIN WOOD -See MARINE, page 4 Inside This Issue 11/12/10 Pee Wee’s www.utahstatesman.com Sweets Aggies offers a Check out Cache Rendezvous face first variety and Aggie TV on our home test against of tasty page. All the news that’s fit to Weber State homemade print ... and to broadcast! 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His mes- and the United States are manipu- sage was aimed mainly at China, lating their currencies is threaten- whose trade surplus with the U.S. Nat’lBriefs ing to resurrect destructive pro- exceeds that of any other trading tectionist policies like those that partner. Obama wants Chinese worsened the Great Depression. companies to sell more to their New evidence found in The biggest fear is that trade bar- own consumers, rather than rely NC missing girl case riers will send the global economy so much on the U.S.