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Week of October 22, 2019 www.usustatesman.com (435) 797-1742 TSC Room 118 VOTING INSIDE Free single copy 2019 SPORTS | Come at the crown STUDENT LIFE | Pumpkin patch NEWS | Wrist management Utah State basketball becomes first team in MW history to North Logan’s Pumpkin Walk showcases imaginative Local USU student has career aspirations derailed by wrist be unanimously selected first in preseason poll pumpkin-ized scenes for visitors of all ages injury see PAGE 4 see PAGE 3 see PAGE 2 BUILDING FRUSTRATION Construction on Center Street in Logan has local business owners exasperated RESPECTUtah State basketball ranked 17th in AP preseason poll PHOTO BY Megan Nielsen Utah State center Neemias Queta celebrates during the Mountain West championship versus San Diego State on March 16, 2019. By Jason Walker SPORTS SENIOR WRITER For only the third time in program history, the Utah State men’s PHOTO BY Iain Laurence basketball is in the AP Top 25 preseason poll. Voters placed the Construction on Center Street in downtown Logan was scheduled for completion in October but now may not be done until mid-November. Aggies at No. 17 in the rankings released Monday morning. Last By Karcin Harris day. weekdays, the restaurant now ping up the road that was re- week, USU was picked as the unanimous favorite to win the Moun- NEWS STAFF WRITER The business of restaurants closes its doors at 3 p.m. ally loud and pretty intense. It tain West by the media. on Center Street has been af- “It wasn’t worth staying open felt like the building was shak- The last time Utah State saw itself in the preseason top 25 was It’s a little after 2 p.m. on a fected by construction that at night anymore because we ing, but now it’s not that bad.” the 1970-71 season, a team with Marv Roberts and Nate Williams Wednesday and The Waffle was originally scheduled to be just weren’t getting the foot Gabriella Cale from Ah-Sigh- — two future NBA players and Aggie legends. The only USU team Iron is just minutes away from finished this month — they’ve traffic that we usually would,” Ee, located near the two break- in the first poll was in 1960-61, Cornell Green’s senior season. closing time. A couple months been told it won’t be done until Madden said. fast bistros, said the water Last year Utah State closed the season by winning 17 of its last 19 ago, its doors wouldn’t have mid-November. Madden said the construc- sometimes is shut off without games, winning a share of the Mountain West regular-season title closed until 8 p.m. One dusty, According to the minutes tion has forced the restaurant warning. and the outright conference tournament crown. That run helped noisy road under construction from the Logan City Council to stay closed for entire days, “We were actually working the team eke into the final AP poll released for the season, ending has made it too expensive for meeting on June 4, construc- saying “When they do pipes, and then it shut off,” she said. the year ranked 25th in the nation. the restaurant to stay open all tion on Center Street was they have to turn all the wa- “We didn’t have water for a few The No. 17 ranking to start the season is already the highest rank scheduled to start in ter off. There’s been multiple hours.” the Aggies have achieved since March 1917 when the team was August and be com- days where we haven’t had wa- Austin Jensen, Cale’s cowork- ranked 16th. pleted in October. ter and we’ve had to just shut er, said foot traffic on Center Confidence in Utah State’s talent comes largely from its two re- Several restaurants down.” Street “got cut in half,” which turning stars, Sam Merrill and Neemias Queta. Merrill, a senior this have said that’s no The Crêpery shares a building has led to a decrease in custom- season, won MW Player of the Year last year and is also this year’s longer the case, and with The Waffle Iron and has ers for businesses on the street. preseason conference player of the year. Additionally, Merrill is on business has already also had their share of frustra- Joey Coletti, who has been the Jerry West Award preseason watch list. Queta, a sophomore been impacted tions. working at Great Harvest for center, earned the MW Defensive and Freshman Player of the Year enough. Chelsey Monaco, manager of three years, said, “the morn- honors last year and is on the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar watch list for Annora Madden, The Crêpery, said the restau- ings are a lot slower, as well as this season. an employee from rant had to close its doors on the evenings. The lunch hours Along with Merrill and Queta, the Aggies return two other start- The Waffle Iron on two Sundays because the water are still pretty busy.” ers, point guard Abel Porter and guard/forward Brock Miller. Sixth Center Street, said was shut off. Coletti said he and his co- Man of the Year candidate Diogo Brito also returns with forward the construction Monaco said the first two workers regularly get calls Justin Bean who saw a greatly increased role late in the year as a has made business weeks of construction were the from customers asking if Great spark off the bench. slower and caused worst and most confusing. Harvest is still open and where Staying in the rankings will not be easy during USU’s non-confer- “confusion all the “At first everyone was a little they should park. ence schedule. The Aggies will face two ranked teams in the first time.” The construc- bit confused,” she said. “They The four restaurants were months of the season — LSU (No. 22) and Saint Mary’s (No. 20) tion has also affect- didn’t really know if we were told construction would be and a top 10 team in December: No. 6 Florida. ed The Waffle Iron’s open or not, but then the city complete in November, but Co- Utah State’s season will begin on Nov. 5 at home against Montana PHOTO BY Iain Laurence business hours. put out big signs on Main letti said he doesn’t “expect it State, six days after an exhibition against The College of Idaho. Construction has closed sidewalk access to the area, reducing Instead of staying Street that said ‘we’re still done until December, maybe foot traffic for local business. open until 8 p.m. on open.’ When they were first rip- January.” @thejwalk67 Aggie Heroes: overcoming adversity By Nichole Bresee to personal, academic and life and mask his same-sex NEWS STAFF WRITER work life. Clinton Behun- attraction. Behunin reported in, the third speaker of the that, by the time he gradu- While they may not have night, said he was surprised ated college, he was 360 lbs. super powers or save lives, to hear he was nominated and had to get gastric bypass they are heroes in the eyes of and initially thought he surgery. Following the birth the USU community. wasn’t a hero. of his second daughter, he On Wednesday, Oct. 16, “They had me tell my story decided to pick up running USUSA hosted the third and my journey, and I just with a few words of advice annual Aggie Heroes, a TED- told it without reservations from his good friend on how like event featuring five guest and edits and told my pro- to do it: just walk, but faster. speakers sharing their stories cess of coming to be where I After a year of running, Be- that make them heroes in the am today,” Behunin said. hunin not only learned that Aggie family. Behunin spoke on how he he didn’t need to be afraid This year, the featured overcame the fear that ruled of running, but he also lost speakers talked about a his life, causing him to fall 200 lbs. and ran his first 5K. variety of personal issues and into an addiction to food as PHOTO BY Nichole Bresee how they overcame them, see “Aggie Heroes” PAGE 6 Aggie Heroes featured five different speakers highlighting how they overcame a variety of personal issues ranging from personal, academic, a way of feeling “full” in his hitting major topics related to work life. PAGE 2 WEEK OF OCTOBER 22, 2019 NEWS Several cars burglarized in campus area By Karcin Harris Police Department are still NEWS COPY EDITOR investigating and have asked the public for information Sunday morning, several and for help identifying a car cars were broken into in involved in the robberies. Logan and on Utah State USU police also sent out an University campus, according email to students and facul- to an email sent out by ty with a list of precautions campus police. to take to prevent future The thieves targeted un- burglaries, including check- locked cars but also broke car ing parked cars periodically, windows to get into locked parking in well-lit areas and cars.