Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 3-26-2012 The Utah Statesman, March 26, 2012 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah Statesman, March 26, 2012" (2012). The Utah Statesman. 1740. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/1740 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]. Monday, March 26, 2012 Utll "Campus Voice Since 1902" • Utah State University• Logan, Utah Joday's Issue: CHaSS Week highlights research Campus News BY LIS STEWART judged on several cri- submit something with casual. interest in the quiz bowl staff writer teria, but the main one those themes," she said. CHaSS Week starts will spread. was creativity, she said. Prizes will be given to with a universitywide "We hope to generate CHaSS Week includes CHaSS is a unique researchers for the best- quiz bowl at noon in more excitement than a hat tip to the Oreo college in that its majors judged projects in each the TSC International last year," he said. cookie this year, in range from quantita- category. The public can Lounge, said journalism The Dean's addition to other events tive to literary studies, see the finalist projects major Rhett Wilkinson, Convocation on Tuesday like Slam Beat Poetry Norton said. Thursday at 7 p.m. in the the senior in charge of at 2 p.m. in the TSC night and a student-run "Pretty much every- David B. Haight Alumni CHaSS Week public rela­ Auditorium includes a research symposium fea­ one in our college could Center. Dress is business tions. He said he hopes speech by CHaSS Dean turing projects from the John Allen, who will College of Humanities speak on the week's The Home and Garden Show gets and Social Sciences, theme, "Ignite Your according to Erika locals ready for spring as tempera­ Passion." Norton, CHaSS senator. "He'll be speaking tures rise "This creates an about the college in l'age3 opportunity for students general and how we are to display their work, passionate about the and they can put this on things we do," Norton Features their resume," Norton said. said of the research Instead of pizza, symposium. the usual refreshment, A lot of students don't Wilkinson said the think they can par­ planning group picked ticipate because they see Oreo cookies to celebrate research as just writing a the 100th anniversary of paper, Norton said. The the cookie's inception, submitted projects were per the suggestion of divided into categories of Michael Lyons, interim journalism, multimedia, LAST YEAR'S CHASS WEEK featured a "Nifty Fifty" dance party and other events. director of the political research and creative This week is the 2012 CHaSS Week which will include a research symposium, a quiz bowl writing. Projects were and a Dean's Convocation with CHaSS Dean John Allen. File photo ►) See CHASS, Page 2 Thousands gather at a Hindu Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. Campus group organizes safety campaign Page4 BY JULIA STOCK Lora Hudson, a Zero Fatalities Hudson said. "People die all fingerprint to pledge support. Sports staff writer outreach coordinator, said the time from distractions in Students involved in Txt A group of 10 students and using a phone while driving can general." L8tr are part of management a member from Zero Fatalities impair a driver's reactions. The group had a table set up 3110, the business class that displayed their texting and "Texting while driving is with a poster that stated: "With usually sponsors yearly SEED driving awareness campaign the same as if you had a blood this thumb I commit to keep fundraisers. Justin Berry, a stu­ presentation known as "Txt alcohol level of (.16). So it's as if both hands on the wheel." The dent involved in Txt L8tr, said L8tr" next to the Business you had double the legal alcohol group provided an ink pad for this year the class focuses on Building March 23. limit for adults in your body," passers-by to leave a thumb or organizing local service projects rather than raising money. Also on display was a page dedicated to Taylor Sauer, a USU student who recently died after the vehicle she was driving reportedly crashed into a semi­ trailer at 88 mph. According to a press release from Idaho State Police, Sauer used her cell phone extensively throughout the fatal trip. Hudson said the Txt L8tr Aggie men's basketball scored group told her it wanted to do tnple-d1g1ts Sunday and will go the project in honor of Sauer on to the CIT hampionsh1p. when it first contacted her. "Anything that takes your f'ase7 eyes off the road for one second can cause exactly what hap­ pened here with the Utah State student," Hudson said. Opinion As a part of the display, the n vtrtu group set up a row of cones through which people could onsc1ous ride two Big Wheel bikes to iat simulate the effect of texting while driving. TO DISCOURAGE TEXTING AND DRIVING, the campus chapter of Zero Fatalities constructed an obsta­ cle course on campus. Students rode a Big Wheel through traffic cones while texting. They were told that texting while driving has the same effect as driving with a blood alcohol level of .16. DELA YNE LOCKE photo ►) See GROUP, Page 2 Alumnus speaks about social media BY TAVIN STUCKI the way to make everything fit for what sports editor we need to say, but there are rules that Today: Mercer? apply," she said. "You can change things . English is a continually evo"lving Where the and everything, and I feel like a big part language that has undergone changes for ofEnglish is coming up with different heck and what centuries. creative ideas of how to switch things the heck is During his speech Friday, the latest around and say it. But I feel when we to installment of the College of Humanities start to shorten things and be lazy about Mercer? Check and Social Sciences' Distinguished it out: all those rules, you start to lose something Alumni Speaker Series, author Brandon more about the language." Schrand spoke about issues regarding Brianna Anderson, a sophomore Added Value! the way modern trends in the English majoring in creative writing agreed. language are perceived both positively and "I think it's also affecting people's abili­ negatively. ties to write," Anderson said. "My little Schrand called his speech "The Virtue sister - I'd read over what she writes, and of Misbehavior in the Digital Age; Or, I could tell it's like texting or Facebook or How the Humanities Taught Me to Take something." the Time." Brinkerhoff said she's noticed things Reading from his own essay, titled such as diverse vocabulary are going the "Esto Perpetua," named after Idaho's way of the dodo because of 140-character state motto, which is Latin for "let it be limits in the way people have started to perpetual," the 2003 USU graduate spoke express themselves - Twitter posts are specifically of the way social media like limited to 140 characters. Facebook and Twitter are changing the "There's so many vocabulary words English language. that are missing nowadays that can add "Twitter is unabashedly all about com­ so much to what you mean and what you pression and acceleration," Schrand said. say," Brinkerhoff said. "I think everyone "Twitter has not only made email seem could speak a lot stronger and have more clunkish and antiquated, but it seems to meaning to their words if people would be rerouting the way we communicate." stop shortening things." Jasilyn Brinkerhoff, a sophomore Schrand shared an experience he had majoring in English education, said she in his current position at the University of USU ALUMNUS BRANDON SCHRAND talked thinks language is destroyed when con­ Idaho as an assistant professor in which densed too much. about the impact Twitter and other social media are affect­ "I feel there's a certain structure in ►.,.)_S_e_e_TW--ITT__ E_ R_,_P_a_g_e-2---- -- ing the way people think, talk and communicate in today's society. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo Page 2 Campus News Monday, March 26, 2012 •)From Page 1 CHaSS Week celebrates students and the work they have done through the year science department. Picnic on Wednesday, Wilkinson positions from human resources about the upcoming presidential campaign this year, which Lyons, who brought Oreo cook­ said. A number of clubs plan to to sales to upper management, election. includes a presentation by each ies to his class the Monday after set up booths in the International Norton said. Men are invited, but "I will be analyzing what's college about how politics is Spring Break, said he sympathized Lounge at 11 a.m. and serve food the workshop is focused mainly going on and what's going to connected to that college's area of with students who didn't want to until it is gone, he said. Admission on women, she said. However, a happen in the future, and why study. return to the classroom after the is $1. management-related major is not Romney's having a hard time seal­ "Politics is everywhere," break. When he saw the sandwich An interesting new event for necessary. ing up the presidential nomina­ Norton said. cookies were on sale at Smith's CHaSS Week is the Women in "There are skills and things tion," Lyons said.