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College of Education 39th in nation JESSICAWARREN

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The College of Education is rewarded for its work toward excellency with a national ranking. The 2000 US. News 8l World GERRYGIORDANO Report ranked Deanof Collegeof Utah State Education University's College of Education among the top tier, or top 50, schools in the nation at number 39. Gerry Giordano. dean of the College of Education, said this is especially good for USU because it is a land-grant school. "When a land-grant school in Utah is ranked in the top tier, that means they are doing amazing things," Giordano said. He said this was well deserved by the faculty and staff. With the amount and quality of teaching plus the amount of research activity, he said the faculty members are superstars. "I'm positive that there is not another dean that has a more productive staff." Giordano said. There are a number of criteria looked at in ranking the schools including research productivity, USU was rated number seven for its number of funded research projects. The college has many research centers such as the Center for Persons with Disabilities, the Center for the School of the Future, Sky High and its on-site laboratory school. The Center for Persons with Disabilities brought in $12 million of outside funding last year, Giordano said. Another criterion is the quality of students. Giordano said the caliber of students they get is exemplary because of the value placed on education at USU. A problem with other schools, he said, is that the pay in the education field isn't as high as other fields such as engineering. Many quality students go elsewhere. Giordano said that is not the case with USU. He said his college's students' ACT scores are higher than the university's mean, as is their GPA. Much of the college's success is attributed to its focus on people, Giordano said. "When people leave USU, they are prepared on the first day to be master teachers," Giordano said of feedback he gets from superintendents and principals. Considering the schools they are up against in the ranking, Giordano said it is a nice compliment. Schools also in the top tier are Harvard, Stanford, Ohio State University and Indiana University. "We do it with so fewer resources," Giordano said. He said the area USU doesn't do well in is voting by superintendents and college deans because they don't have the reputation or the tradition bigger East Coast schools have. This is only the second time USU has made this national ranking, he said, and its reputation will be enhanced because of it. "The publicity from last year's ranking helped us not only maintain but move up," Giordano said. Giordano said it helps to attract young professors and doctoral students. He said he also thinks it gives the undergraduates a sense of pride . ·we continue to set very high levels in all our programs," Giordano said. He said the faculty is a group of overachievers, continuing to show excellence in their work. In the future, the college is planning on renovating the laboratory school. Jumpto Erxx;AuoN,Page3

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In response to student complaints about a lack of available exercise facilities on campus, the Associated Students of Utah State University researched and now wish to build a student recreation center (SRC)specifically for student use. According to Athletic Vice President Sam Winward, ASUSU formed an SRC board that has researched the issue for months and now must bring the issue to a general student vote in order to approve the $11.50 fee to go toward building the facility. "There has been so much work that has gone into this, and now we are taking it back to the students," Winward said. Winward said the idea for such a

facility originated from student complaints about overcrowding in university facilities and a lack of times available because of classes. According to the SRCbrochure, surveys show that 93.7 percent of USU students are interested in a student recreation center. "This is a student initiative," Winward said. "It is by students for students, and we are working on it for them." On Wednesday and Thursday, students can vote for the SRC Referendum online by going to USU's Web site, WebMail or the ASUSU Web site. According to Winward, the vote needs 50 percent approval to pass. Winward said the vote wasn't done during ASUSU elections due to a lack of information at the time and a desire to better inform stu-

dents. We felt it was such a big issue that we didn't want students to make uninformed votes," Winward said. "We didn't want it to get lost in the hubbub of elections.· By not holding the vote during ASUSU elections, which had a voter turnout of roughly 12.5 percent of the student body, Winward said the number of students voting may be low, but the quality of their vote will be better. "Voter turnout depends on how much work the committee does in getting information out," said Public Relations Vice President Christina Domichel. "I think it will have a big turnout because it is such a huge issue. Students have a lot vested in this and want to have the chance to give input. It affects everyone on campus, so I don't see why anyone

would not want to vote." Despite the SRC committee's campaign to inform students, with more than 5,000 brochures printed and handed out. Allyson Luekenga. business senator, said they aren't expecting as many students to vote as in the ASUSUgeneral elections. ·we wish everyone would vote, but realistically, with 2,500 students voting in general elections, we're hoping for at least 2,000,"Luekenga said. ·1 think it will hurt voter turnout just because people don't have voter interest. I think it is better to have the vote now, however, because it would have been lost in everything going on during elections and students would 'have made an uninformed vote." To inform students about the

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Emert parties like a college_studentagain, says students' problems haven't changed LAURA BELLAMY

Senior News Writer

Despite decades separating when Utah State University President George H. Emert was a student and today, he said he sees little difference in the problems students face on a daily basis. To better relate to what student life is like today, Emert spent two nights living as a resident in Bullen Hall during Resident Life Week, entitled "Pseudo-Summer Fun: "My intention was to reconnect with the spirit of our students," Emert said. "I found all the things that I remembered and it was comforting." Emert said he planned to live as a resident to revisit the challenges students are faced with on a day-to -day basis. He said school and students haven't changed much. "Somehow or another it is still hormone dominated," Emert said. In order to get an understanding of what living on campus is like, Emert said he attended resident activities, ate at the Junction, did karaoke at the Depot and slept in Room 112 of Bullen Hall. "It was what I had hoped for and more than I had expected." Emert said. "The most important aspect of the week ... was sitting in the room talking to my roommates." Ryan Lewis, James Jenkins and Nick Aiello had one day's notice before Emert moved in with them, they said. "It was kind of shocking at first and maybe a little stressful," Lewis said. "But then I didn't really think about it. I just acted normal." Emert said he felt the same way. ·1 wanted to be with students," Emert said. "I'm sure they were a little reluctant at first. but I think they overcame that.· Lewis said Emert was open to their ques tions and even clarified some rumors. "Living with him, my perception changed,"

Jenkins said. "You hear things about him on campus, but when you spend two days with him it's different." Jenkins said the attention surrounding Emert's visit affected other people in the building more than it affected him. "Some people talked about doing pranks and stuff, but I talked them out of it," Jenkins said. "With the attention, though, they got to see that (Emert) actually cares about the students." Emert said he felt the conversation with his roommates was very natural. His roommates agreed. "I did connect and they connected too," Emert said. "In talking about dreams and aspirations I found that their dreams were the same as mine and are the same as mine." Despite Emert's busy schedule, the roommates said they spent several hours expressing concerns about professors, assignments and relationships. They also said they tried to find time just to hang out with Emert. He was not too much different than any other student, Jenkins said. "I did homework as President of Utah State University," Emert said. "I think that is one of the things my roommates found interesting.· Although Housing did send over someone to clean the apartment's bathroom, Emert said he did not feel he received special treatment. "I ate the food in the Junction and it was good," he said . "It was just like normal student life, which was my goal." Part of that normal student life Emert said was when his roommate's girlfriend's grandmother called in the early morning hours look ing for her granddaughter. Emert said he told the grandmother that her granddaughter was on her way home. "But that's life," Emert said. "That goes on ." The only complaint the roommates said they had about Emert's stay was that he left his alarm on.

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"It went off at 6:30 (Friday morning) and I had to turn off the breaker because the door is locked," Jenkins said. Emert said this attempt to reconnect with students was not an isolated event. ·we really do that all the time," Emert said. He said teachers need to remember that although students have come to learn from them, they can still try to learn from their students. "The best faculty are those that realize this," Emert said. He said in the future. perhaps other administrators will try the same thing to get a more personal perspective about the students they serve . "I think if we could all do that, we would be better at our jobs," Emert said.

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Marine aircraft crashes in Arizona, 19 killed MARANA,Ariz. (AP) - A Marine Corps aircraft attempting to land during a nighttime training mission crashed and burst into flames, killing all 19 aboard and adding to a checkered history for a new breed of hybrid plane that can take off and land like a helicopter. The MV-22 tiltrotor Osprey, which looks like a turboprop, is part of a new generation of aircraft scheduled to eventually replace all of the Marines' primary troop-transport helicopters. The military began flying the aircraft six months ago. The four crew members in Saturday night's crash were from a task force headquartered in Quantico, Va. The passengers were 14 Marines from 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and one from Marine Corps Air StationMiramar in San Diego County, according to the Marine Corps . On Sunday, investigators were reviewing the crash site at Marana Northwest Regional Airport west of Tucson . Few details were released . Carol Ward, who lives about five miles from the airport, said she watched the plane fly by from her porch. It disappeared behind a mountain and a few second later "I saw the smoke and this big old poof," she said. The dust from the crash "just eliminated the sky," she said. A heap of twisted, charred metal was visible at the scene and aerial footage showed a large blackened patch on the airport grounds. Military officials said the downed aircraft had been attempting to land at the airport when it crashed. It was one of two Ospreys simulating the evacuation of civilians. similar to what Marines would do if they were removing people from an embassy in a hostile COUf}trr 1 The m1~s1~n c~'tt~/1 te0 night vision goggles and infrared radar. officials said Firefighters said witnesses reported seeing the plane head straight down and become engulfed in flames after it crashed.

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Marine captain convicted of reservists'death Arana will be on administrative duty CAMP LEJEUNE,N,C. (AP)- A Marine captain convicted of charges at Camp Lejeune and will not be in a stemming fromthe heat-related command position. death of a reservist received a repriLeto·s mother, Domenica Leto. said mand Sunday and was ordered to for~ she was satisfied with the verdict. "He will not be in charge of any felt $3,600 in future pay. A military judge. Lt CoL Ralph other Marines ... he will be pushing Kohlmann, found Capt. Victor Arana papers," she said. guilty of dereliction of During the sentencduty and failure to obey ing hearing. Arana had 'Many nightsI asked for forgiveness an order. He could have from Leto·s familyand sentenced Arana to as have lain awake his fellow Marines. much as nine months in Facing the Leto family, prison and dismissed him haunted by the he read a statement from the Marines. memoriesof my expressing deep remorse Arana·s attorney had argued that Arana·s own inactions.' for reservist's death. "Not a day goes by career as a Marine officer was effectively over and that I don't think about • VICIORARAN.\ • that he shouldn't be dishim," Arana said. as (.'ON\1Clll) CAPIAl"I missed from the service Leto's relatives sobbed. "I would do or give anyas well. MHispromotion has thing to be able to bring been taken away. He has a federal him back.Manynights I have lain convktion that will follow him the awake haunted by the memories of rest of his life," attorney Mark Stevens my own inactions during the march said. kAdismissal in this case would on July 7." Arana said Leta's death and his be grossly disproportionate to the actions he·s been convicted of." conviction are burdens he willcarry Arana . 28. of Chicago, was charged the rest of his life. His pregnant wife. in the death of Lance Cpl.Giuseppe Betty. sat behind him, when the senkJoey"Leto, 21. of New Milford, tence was read. Conn .. who died following a July 7 "On July 7. my inactions failed night march in 80-degree heat both my students and my staff. for that I am sorry," Arana said. "I never After the sentencing, Stevens said he expects Arana to resign whenhis intended for anyone to get hurt. It is active service ends in December, if my hope that the Letofamily will not before. In the meantime, he said, someday be able to forgive me.:" "Our sympathies go out to the families of these Marines," said Marine Lt. Mark Carter, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, whereJpe fli,ght origjnated. President Clinton called the' units' commanding officers and asked them to "pass condolences to the families and tell them of the importance of their service," White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said The crash is again raising questions

about the safety of the aircraft that has been over a decade in the making. Former President Bush's administration tried to scuttle the project after ~artx safoty concerns, P.ut bu1laers say modifications fn;>mthe original design make today's Ospreys lighter and safer The Marine Corps lists two other Osprey crashes. both early in the air-

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Blackwomen subjected to intrusiveGore, Busheven Customs searches morefrequentlyin the latestpolls WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Customs officials ordered black American women returning home from overseas to remove their clothes or undergo X-rays much more often than other passengers, even though their searches were less likely to reveal illegal hidden drugs, a report says. Only a fraction of 1 percent of the 71.5 million passengers were singled out for searches as they entered the United States on international flights in fiscal year 1998. And the vast majority of those 52,455 passengers were subjected to simple pat-downs. according to the report by the General Accounting Office, Congress· investigative arm, obtained by The Associated Press. The report. requested by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is to be released Monday. Of those. black women were selected for more intrusive searches - strip searches or X-rays - more than any other group. Whites also had a high likelihood of being stripsearched. and black men were cho-

sen more often than most other passengers to be X-rayed. Black women were much less likely than the others to be found with hidden illegal drugs, the report said. "Although searched passengers with certain characteristics were subject to more intrusive searches. they were not always more likely to be found carrying contraband," the GAO said . As allegations of abusive searches surfaced over the last two years, the Customs Service has made repeated efforts to change how passengers are checked for drugs. The agency faces numerous lawsuits alleging people were singled out for body searches because of their race or sex, including an effort by almost 100 black women to file a classaction suit in Chicago . Customs officials said the changes. most enacted after the period studied by the GAO. already are yielding results not reflected in

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush are running neck and neck in the presidential campaign, according to a poll released Saturday. The Newsweek poll showed that 44 percent of registered voters favor each of the two major party candidates . while 12 percent were undecided. Among independent voters, Bush had a slight edge with 45 percent compared with 39 percent for Gore. Bush scored 81 percent of Republican voters. Gore 76 percent of Democrats. Among minorities. Gore was far ahead, getting 63 percent compared with 23 percent for Bush . If President Clinton could run for a third term, against Bush, he would get like Gore 44 percent of registered voters, the poll shows. In that matchup, Bush would get 49 percent. For the poll. 588 registered voters were surveyed Thursday and Friday. The margin of error was plus or minus 5 percentage points.

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WorldGLANce > Hospitals actas hotelsfor2000Olympics . SYDNEY.~ustralia (AP) - For sports fans sick of trying to fmd a hotel m Sydney during the Olympics. a private health company has the answer: Staying in empty hospital rooms. . Looking to cash in on the expected shortage of accommodations. Health Care of Australia plans to offer its empty beds as hotel-style accommodations. The bad news is the beds are only being offered to staff and their families and friends. The company is offering packages ranging from single beds at $45 per_night t? a ward of six beds at $144 per night. ~nd 1t promises that healthy guests will be kept apart from patients. Virtually all of Sydney's hotel beds are booked for the duration of the Sept. 15-0ct. 1 Olympics.

> Protests resume overCuban boy'sfuture WASHINGTON (AP) - The government "will do what is necessa_ry"to_r~unit~ Elian Gonzalez with his father soon, a top J~stJCe offioal said Sunday, as lawyers for the boy's Miami relatives warned that the family can't control protesters if they stand in the way. Attorney General Janet Reno ref used to discuss the use of force as a last resort except to say such plans have not been presented to her formally. "I hope with all my heart that the rule of law prevails, and I expect that it will," she said on CNN's "Late Edition ." Eric Holder, the deputy attorney general. said officials want a peac_ef_ultransfer_ this week but will consider taking Elian from unw1llmg hands 1f they must. "We don't expect anything like that to happen," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We will do what is necessary to reunite father and son, however." I_nMiami, the relatives fighting to keep the Cuban boy in the Umted States would not offer a firm commitment to meet Monday with the three psychiatric experts appointed by the government to smooth the boy's return to his father. Lazaro Gonzalez, Elian's great-uncle and temporary custodian, asked in a letter to Reno that the meeting "be scheduled on a tentat~ve basis" because his daughter was in the hospital and the family wanted her to be part of the discussion. Hundr~ds of supporters gathered outside the family's Miami home a~ ~1mesover the weekend. keeping up a peaceful vigil that off1C1alsfear could turn confrontational if agreement is not reached on handing over Elian away from that scene. Outsi?e Washington, such a vigil became noisy and tense Sunday m the Bethesda, Md, neighborhood where Elian·s father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, is staying at the home of a Cuban diplomat. Within shouting distance of the house, dozens of protesters chan~jng "Help i~ with yoµ" ~egan crossing a police barricade trying to get the father to come outside and meet Delfin Gonzalez, another of Elian's Miami great-uncles, who stood with them. Police held the crowd back.

> Gaspricesdropas crudeoil costsdip LOS ANGELES (AP) - The sharp climb in gasoline prices that had motorists fuming and politicians fulminating may have topped out: as the average pump price dipped nearly 2• cents per gallon m the past two weeks. an analyst said Sunday. The average price for all grades of gasoline, including taxes, ~as about $ 1.57 cents per gallon Friday, down 2.49 cents, accordmg to the Lundberg Survey of 10.000 stations nationwide. I_twas the biggest drop since the winter 1998 oil glut and was ma~nly due_to falling crude oil prices, as producing countries decided to mcrease production, analyst Trilby Lundberg said. "Gasoline prices are beginning to respond and are likely to fall further soon," she said. Last month's decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to increase production by 1.7 million barrels a day had been expected to result in lower prices this summer But the result was dramatic. with crude oil prices dipping from a high of more than $34 per barrel on March 7 to about $25 last week. Lundberg said fierce retail competition helped promote a "rather quick response down at the street level" to pass on the lowered costs. Prices at self-service stations on Friday averaged $1.52 for regular unleaded gasoline. $162 for mid-grade and $1.70 for premium. Full-service prices were $1.83 for regular, $1.92 for mid-grade and just under $2 for premium.

> Union's power growing injanitor strike LOS_ANGELES(AP) - Hoisting brooms and mops, thousands of low-mcome ~orkers are walking picket lines and gearing up for de1!1onstrations across the country to demand higher wages, better Job security and "justice for janitors ." The pressure started building last week when hundreds of janitors went on strike in Los Angeles, leaving the companies that cle~n 70 p~rcent of the county's commercial office space scramblmg to fmd replacements. And the janitors· union says that was just the beginning. 0~ S~nday, a ~mall grou~ of janitors staged a noisy demonstration m San Diego, shouting "Mucho trabajo, poco dinero" "Lots of work, little money," This week, the campaign spreads to New York City, where doormen, porters and maintenance workers plan to march up Park Avenue to promote their demands for contract talks with owners of 3,000 residential buildings. Their strike deadline is April 20. "It'~ ?een the combined disrespect at the workplace and the ~arga!nmg table tha.t led us to do this," said Mary Grillo. execu tive director of SerVIce Employees International Union Local 2028 in San Diego. Over the next few months, maintenance workers, maids and other SEIU members plan demonstrations in Chicago, Cleveland , Seattle and other major cities where contracts expire this year. In Chicago, 125 janitors planned to begin a hunger strike Monday to protest their lack of health benefits. The contract for janito, ·s in Chicago suburbs expired Sunday; the contract for jan itors in the city will expire on Saturday. The t~ming is no coincidence. The SEIU set out five years ago t~ n~gotlate contracts around the country that would expire w1thm months of each other to combine the clout of more than 100,000 workers.

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Students' chances of acquiring fall housing are getting slim. but those still looking for summer housing may be in luck On-campus housing seems to be the area with the most availability. Jenni Hatch, staff assistant for the Utah State UniversityHousing Office, said they have filled almost one building for the summer, and there are still some rooms left. Summit Hall has been remodeled, Hatch said, and is one of the buildings that will be open for summer residents. The rent for this building will be $525 for a private room and $425 for a shared room for the entire summer, she said. Hatch said the other buildings available on campus include Richard,Davis and Jones Halls.The rent for these halls is $425 for a private bedroom and S350 for a shared. Hatch said those prices include utilities. INCREASE The prospects for on-campus housing in the fall are still Continued fromPage1 good. Hatch said. although there are some areas that are referendum. the SRCcommittee full or are getting very close to spoke to several campus organizabeing full. Snow and Davis tions such as the Church of Jesus Halls are both full. while South Christ of Latter-day Saints Student Campus and Bullen Hall are Association (LOSSA).President's close to fillingup, Hatch said. Leadership Council. several sororiThe rent for on-campus housties and fraternities, club sports and ing varies, depending upon a few classes. where one would like to Jive.It Volunteers will also be dorm ranges from $850 to $1,350 storming with the brochures per semester, she said. Monday night both on and off camOff-campus housing is also pus, Winward said. Informational fillingup for fall.Travis Packer. booths will be set up throughout Old Farm Apartments managcampus where volunteers will er, said there are no rooms answer any questions students may available for fall. A waiting list have, Luekenga said. may bestarted around July 3. "We'vebeen trying to target as He said the chances of getting many groups as we possibly can." an apartment for fall are not Winward said. "We want as many very good. students to know about this as possi"Lastyear there was maybe ble.· . . one person on the waiting list Students can pick up brochures m that got a rootn,"Packer said. f 9 I the'faggart Student l'.ZenterRoom I Old Farm does have some n ..ci\26,at the HPFRand at the men's r6Hms~JJ11ablefor sumJJO Costomet Service C~nter in the'fSC:. mer rental. Rent ranges from Informatio:1 is also available on the $350 to $500, Packer said. SRCWeb site: wwwusu.edu/ src/ Oakridge Apartments. Luekenga_saidsome stud_ents another off-campus living facil- have coI?plamed a~out paymg fees ity, has about 70 bedrooms left for a faol~ty they will neve_r~a~e the for fall,accordingto Jamie opportunity to use. She said 1t 1sa. Lower.manager of the apartcharitable way of bettering the umments. Loweralso said they versity. . ... are about 30 percent full for ·we currently enJoy fac1h_ties such summer, but said she expects as the TSC that students paid for they will start to receive more and ne~er used," Luekenga said. "It applications soon. Rent for the would Just be son:e way that stu-. summer is $550, including util- dents could contnbute to the umities. • versity." Some other off-campus Luekenga said a_pl_aquewi(Ibe apartments still have rooms attached to th_ebmldmg nammg left for the summer including those gradua?_ngclass.eswhose fees D's BridgerlandApartments made the ~~oht)'.possible. . and Cambridge Court The faohty will not only benefit Apartments. according to their managers. Accordingto management, Bridgerland'sprices EDUCATION range from $375 to $400. Cambridge Court manager Continued framPage1 Ben Baileysaid there are about 70 openings left for the sumThis is a unique project to Utah mer and the price is $390. State. No other school has an on Both apartment complexes site school and research facility, have rooms available for the Giordano said. fall. "These little children are not

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KSAR.a multimedia production facilitylocated at the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University.and HOPE, Inc.. are the recipients of a nationa l award in video production. announced KSARDirector Tom Risk. The facilityreceived a prestigious Telly Award. "This award is in the league of an Oscar or Emmy, and reflects the expertise. skill and professionalism of the individuals who participated in this project."Risk said. Established in 1980. the Telly Awards recognize outstanding non-network and cable videos, commercials and films. During the past 20 years, the Telly Awardshas become a wellknown. highly respected national competition. More than 11.000entries were judged in 1999. KSARand HOPE. Inc. received a 2000 TellyAward for "Child-to-Child." This video teaches children in elementary grades to communicate with their classmates who have special needs.

LeilaniKitz.USU soplwmoreand memberof the PhysicalPlant's Flower Team, weedstheflower bedoutsidethe TaggartStudent Centera.~part of spring cleaning.The PhysicalPlant take!icareof thegrass, treesandflowerbeds.

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fightforbirthcontrol bill students who are attending the university, but will also help the university to attract students to its campus, Luekenga said. "I think it will have a huge appeal in recruiting students to campus." Luekenga said. "There is also the appeal of having membership in this kind of facilityat such a low cost." Accordingto Luekenga, the $63 student fee once the facility opens is the equivalent of $15 a month for a membership at a commercial facility. "I've been to the Sports Academy and liked it. but it was too expensive for me to keep a membership." Luekenga said. If the vote does not pass, the

plans will be put on hold until another group decides to take up the issue. Luekenga said. "It will be up to another group next year if they want to try to pass it again," Luekenga said, ·but it will still have to go to another student vote." Luekenga said while the brochures are very informative, the best way to learn about the facility is to ask an SRC committee member or an ASUSUofficer because the issue is so complex. ·r would encourage everyone to find out why this facility is good or bad and then make an informed vote." Luekenga said.

Recration ·Center pros and cons If the Student Recreation Center Referendum pa£ses a general student vote, students coming to Utah State University in Fall of 2003 can look forward to a 75.000-square-foot facility dedicated specifical• ly ·to-studenl'S,said Associated Students of USU Business Senator Allyson tueKenga . , · ., 1 , , 1 ,/ •, 1, , ".J1•1 ➔r ut. , " ,(\(C'Otding to Luekenga the J 12.5million facility would indutle a variety -0fcardiovascular equiprnfot; a juice bar arid lounge. a multi• ~ activity court for indoor soccer, roller hockey or other sports: a climbing wall and an elevated track. Luekenga said the majority of complaints she has received about the SRC aren't about the student fee, but are about the absence of racquetball courts in the building's design. The 11 racquetball <:ourts on campus are currently the most underused facilities. Luekenga said, "It's not worth the cost for such limited usage: she said. According to Luekenga, USU President George Emert approved the site location April 3. If the vote passes, the SRC will be built north of the Parking and Transportation Services Building where the USUMarching Band currentlypractices. Currently, the SRCboard has decided the facility will be open from 6 a.m, to 11 p.m. every day, except for Sunday, which they haven't decided on yet, Luekenga said. According to Luekenga. a student governing board will be formed to make sure the facility continues to serve its purpose as an exercise area built specifically to help students.

mice, they're getting the best education in Utah." Giordano said. They are also starting a new program : teaching English as a Second Language. Giordano said they have received many requests from local superin tendents and principals about this need in their schools.

This will start out as an endorsement for students who can then go and get a teaching job, but also be trained to teach ESLclasses, he said. Giordano said the college continues to strive for excellence, and continues to follow its motto: ·1t·s about people."

SALTLAKECITY (AP)- Although Utah lawmakers ignored this year's version of a bill to ensure birth control is part of prescription insurance packages. the issue is getting attention nationa lly. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a New York-basedreproductive rights organization, said 18 states have similar legislation on the table this year. Supporters of the proposed bill in Utah plan to try to pass the bill again next year. "I suspect I will carry this bill as long as I'm around," said Sen. Paula Julander, O-Salt Lake. She has introduced the bill for the past two years only to see it fail both times. The measure would require health insurance providers that offer drug coverage to include coverage for a full range of contraceptives. including pills, diaphragms, intrauterine devices, Norplant and Depo-Provera. It is similar to a bill before Congress that is sponsored by Sen. Olympia Snow. R-Maine.and Rep. James Greenwood. R-Pa. ,. u al,

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"Nothing." That's what one Utah State University student said she knows about the president of her university. Like most students, she knows the president's name but knows nothing else about what he does or who he is. In a recent interview President George Emert shared information to help USU students better understand his role, his accomplishments and goals and his personality. The presidency, Emert said, is symbolic of what the university is. what it has been and where it is going. He said his position involves interacting with the many people who are involved with the university including faculty, staff. students, community leaders, media representatives, legislators and government agencies. On the day he was interviewed, Emert's schedule included introducing a speaker, attending a training seminar for deans and department heads, attending meetings to discuss fund-raising and facilities, meeting with a sculpture committee

to develop the arts on campus and joining students in the campus residence halls for dinner and karaoke. Emert also had a list of the seminars, exhibits and performances on campus he would try to attend if his time permitted. In between all of these activities, Emert said he expected to receive several phone calls to discuss contracts, grants and legislation. -The president's office gets a call once every six minutes: Emert said. While his staff handles most of these calls. many of them must be answered by Emert himself. Emert's presidency began eight years ago, and he is proud of the university's achievements since that time. He said he is particularly proud of the significant amount of money the university has raised for student scholarships. According to Emert. USU has raised $29 million for scholarships in its 112 years of existence. Of that total, $23 million has been raised since Emert became president. Fund-raising efforts in general have increased during Emert's presidency. He said the university raised $135 million in contracts and grants this year. The university is now raising five times the private funds it was eight years ago, and much of this money is being placed in endowments so students can benefit from the money for years to come, he said. Emert is also proud of the work he has done with Aggie alumni. Emert said there were no active alumni chapters eight years ago; 47 chapters now operate worldwide. Alumni chapters in Utah began as County Aggie Committees. Emert said he organized these committees of USU alumni living throughout Utah and asked them to talk to their legislators about USU concerns. When asked about his goals for his presidency. Emert listed the collective oals of the university.

President Emert receivesthe presidentialmedallioncm November16, 1992 as he begin~his can•i•ras prl'sidl'ntClfthe 1111iversity.

like to be an economic player in the community and in the world. He said USU wants to be competitive and have a competitive library. -we want to be a haven for ideas: Emert said. ·we want to be supportive of all mankind. We want to continue to support our core values of compassion, integrity and industriousness: Emert said USU wants its students be good citizens, which is why the university emphasizes volunteer service and community awareness. He said he wants to see graduates be successful both financially and in family matters. ·usu represents family more than any other institution I've been with," Emert said. President Emert addresseFllw Dqy lliiSi~•,.r,.,.,.-~- H~ also spoke of the family-like Saint Insitute's Religionin Life in 1992 a great undergra uate teaching relationship among USU alumni. shortly after he arrivedat USU. institution." Emert said. faculty and students. He also said the university would "If you're an Aggie. you're in the

Aggie family," he said. Emert said he feels his place in the Aggie family is as a member of the faculty. As an administrator, Emert said he strives to remember that he is a teacher first. a member of the faculty , and as such his first concern is the students Emert spoke of the responsibility of helping students during this critical time in their lives. He said there is ·great magic in being in an environment like this. "It's a time that is so precious in your life." he said. "It's a time of magic." Emert spoke fondly of his years in college, even though they were also years filled with hard work. He said he worked a minimum of 40 hours per week while going school While in college he worked as a bell boy and a dishwasher. He made saddles. waited tables, did

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odd jobs and worked in laboratories . Emert earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Colorado. After volunteering for two tours of duty in Vietnam, he resumed his education, earning a master's degree in zoology from Colorado State University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and nutrition from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Emert has worked professionally as a biochemist and has taught biochemistry at the University of Kansas and the University of Arkansas. Before coming to USU he served as the executive vice president of Auburn University. On a more personal note. Emert said his father was a Tennessee farmer and his mother worked in a ]1Jmp.JQ PRtslDENT.Eage 5

'The Beauty Way' Discovering a way of life in the native Navajo experience father.· Dating and marrying a member of the same clan is considered incest, but more importantly ■ Editorsnote: The followingstory contains the ancient clanship system creates unity among the largest tribe in the United States. the experincesof one USUstudent who spent ·1 established an immediate connection with his SpringBreakamong the Navajopeople with those of my clan. They would say you are my the President'sLeadershipCouncil. brother. or you are my little son. In return I would say I am your brother, or you are my There are some things that shouldn't be mother," Keith said. talked about in Navajo country, taboo things. His Navajo name translates to English as Often times they are seen by the eye, but never Justin born of Red Streak Running Into Water heard by the ear or spoken by the lips. and born for Bitter Water. Death is one of them. and the coyote is Rough Rock Community School. established another. Unlike the Warner Brothers cartoon in 1966, was the first contract school of its kind dual between the coyote and the roadrunner, on any U.S reservation. Funded solely by grants the coyote is not something to joke about. To and led by the community, Rough Rock became the Navajo people it is the black cat of superstithe ·talk of the nation· during the late 1960s tion, but much worse. Mischievous and cunning and '70s. Visited by the Kennedy's and others, in nature, the coyote is the bearer of bad luck. Rough Rock later became a ·school of delinIts crossing your path can result in accident, quents," said Dr. Robert Roessel Jr., founder and injury or even death. current director of Rough Rock Community This is one lesson learned during a Spring School. Break venture to Rough Rock, Ariz. "Rough Rock was the light in the night and Led by Eric Olsen, director, Marie Gnehm then it crashed," he added. and Jan Benson. associate directors of High Rough Rock is unique in that it is a bilingual School/College Relations, seven members of and bicultural school. Kindergarten through Utah State University's President's Leadership third grade are taught in Navajo and all stuCouncil (PLC)went to the Navajo Reservation dents are required to take classes in Navajo lannear Rough Rock. guage. culture, history and government. Roessel This is the second year Eric Olsen has said he believes establishment of high selfaccompanied PLC to northeast Arizona. esteem within the culture is what the Navajo ·1 wanted PLC to have a meaningful Spring nation needs to overcome issues with alcohol, Break trip where the members could serve. It drug abuse, violence and other problems facing has done more for PLC: he said. the nation. The ten-hour trip to Rough Rock is an annu"This is not a 'back to the blanket· or 'bring al Spring Break pilgrimage for PLC members back the buffalo' movement. This is how to prewho volunteer as tutors and mentors to Navajo pare for the future," Roessel said. children studying at Rough Rock Community Roessel sees a continuous need to fight batSchool. In exchange for the time tutoring, PLC tles for the Navajo, but Stephanie Klain. a students experience first-hand Navajo culture. junior at Rough Rock High School, sees the and beliefs. • "It is like going home. I am grounded there. I dawn of a new day getting brighter for the go to serve the res (reservation), but each time I desert community. As the lone girl in her fire-fighting unit, she visit I am helped more than I could ever help spends summers fighting forest fires across the anyone," Justin Keith, a Navajo and member of country. 8ut when school is in session she dediPLC said of his visits to the reservation. cates herself to studies, running the school store Keith was born and raised off the reservation, but during the last few years has found his and participating in after-school practices for basketball, and, yes, even football. roots. He now wants to live on the reservation "No matter if it's sports or fighting fires, I feel after completing his studies at USU. important. I feel gooq inside. I feel like I am a "The Navajo believe in a warm kinship syshero." Klain said. tem referred to as clans." Keith said. "Every Dyslexic and challenged in the classroom. Navajo belongs to a clan and upon meeting someone for the first time introduces himself or Klain leans upon people like her English teacher Miss Halsey and her reading group to herself stating first, their given name, followed help her overcome some of her greatest cha!by the mother's clan then the clan of the STERLING BONE

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Lezmond Mitchell, a junior at Rough Rock High, works 011 a pencil drawing in his third periodart class.

lenges. With a desire to be successful Stephanie looks at every game. every homework assignment as her opportunity to succeed. During the fall of 1998, Stephanie sat alone in the girl's locker room preparing for what was going to be her moment of fame. Unaware of the continuing impact she would make on the spectators, Stephanie laced up her shoulder pads. preparing to play in Rough Rock High School's first ever homecoming game. Her black hair with the shine of a crow's glossy feathers now in braids hanging below her helmet was the only give-away to No. 53's true identity. In a culture where a woman is a God, Stephanie is goddess on and off the playing field in Rough Rock,Ariz. Stories of her exploits have practically passed into lore. Stephanie, half Navajo, returned to the reservation after spending her childhood moving around with her mid-wife mother. Determined to learn the Navajo culture and language. Stephanie enrolled as an 18-year-old sophomore at Rough Rock High. Looking around , you might believe that success is remote from her life, but then you look at Stephanie and see her smile. At halftime, her hair, now loosened from its Seventyeight-year-old Etah Bia lwes a traditional Navajolife i11cludingcam1sfor a flock of sheep.PLC Jumpto BfAulyWAy,PageZ member~delii•eredfiri:woodfor her woCldstove.

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PRfslDENT Continuedfrom Page4 laundry . They were married young and neither had a high school education . "My first school was (a) one-room school house - 12 grades, one teacher," he said. Emert said he loves to play tennis, fish, play the guitar and sing. He is learning to play the banjo and he enjoys sorting through his coin collection. Above all he sees himself as a teacher and as a biochemist. He and his wife, Billie, have four children and five grandchildren. Their family has lived in many parts of the country, but Emert said he and Billie, who is from Wyoming , have always loved the West.

·we both love the Rockies," he said. Emert said he still has no idea who nominated him for his position at USU, but he accepted the position so he and Billie could come back to the West. ·1 have sure loved it here and the people have been fantastic," he said of Logan and its university. ·r have never seen collectively a group of students who are better than the ones we have at USU." Emert said he would iike students to know that, as a faculty member, he cares about their well being . Students should know, he said, that people who teach and work for universities do it because they care about students. "People wouldn't be here if they didn't care," he said.

Celebrating the printedwordduringlibraryweek KATHRYN SUMMERS

Staff Writer

This week, April 9 through 15, is National Library Week,

and the Utah State University Libraries are celebrating with a variety of events , said Sarah Jane Clayton, the Library Week Chairperson. Each April. National Library Week is sponsored by the American Library Association and libraries across the country, according to the ALA Web site, www.ala .org. All types of libraries - school, public and special - participate. This year the theme is "Read! Learn! Connect!@ the Library." According to the Web site, "It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation·s libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support ." The main event at USU will be a Freedom of Speech Forum held Thursday in the Taggart Student Center Sunburst Lounge from 2 to 5 p.m., Clayton said. · Max Peterson, the library director, has wanted to do this forum for several years, Clayton said, because people sometimes engage in ·self-censorship." They glue pages of books together, tear out the pages and even "Jose" books on purpose because they don't agree with the book's contents, she said . According to Clayton, the heedom of Speech Forum is a non -confrontational way to "help people realize they are dealing with the Constitution." The panel for the forum was selected to represent different interests. The moderator will be Rod Decker, of

KUTV-TVin Salt Lake City, and panel members will include Kenneth Godfrey, author and former director of the Logan Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Institute: Mike Sweeney, cen sorship expert and professor in the USU journalism and communications department and Rita Reusch. director of the Law Library and professor of law at the University of Utah, Clayton said. The forum will be sponsored by Caffe Ibis and USU Food Services, Clayton said. Another event celebrating National Library Week is the book sale in the Merrill Library basement on April 12 and 13, from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. The books for sale cost anywhere from 10 cents to $10, said Clayton. They are donated by the library and the money raised from the sales goes to funding the gifts program that handles donations to the library she said. On April 12, there will be an awards reception from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Sci-Tech Library, Room 120. ·1 really felt like we needed to involve our staff and our patrons more," Clayton said. Some new awards have been instituted to recognize staff members and show appreciation for their hard work. Barre Toelken will receive the Faculty Award for his work in developing the folklore collection . "We're a pretty high-class place as far as folklore goes: Clayton said. Three volunteer awards will be given to people outside of campus, then there will be a video presentation of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" starring Peterson with children in the

Edith Bowen Elementary library being his Lifeline. ·we try to do something every year with Edith Bowen," Clayton said. National Library Week at USU will wrap up Friday with a lecture by April Haws, an assistant dean of fine arts

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Donny speaksabouthistimeas Joseph er Jimmy He did it in a very small theater, a very small LosAng~es production. I was familiar with the music, but I didn't DonnyOsmond is best know much about the show known as the former '70s Q: Did you feel. though, teen singing idoland current that "Joseph" would typecast co-host with his sister Marie of the Emmy-nominated day- you? A: I have to be honest with time talk series "Donny and you, I thought at first: ·1 Marie." he is a seasoned don't want to do this.- Here is musical theater veteran. this little teen-age kid From 1992-98, Osmond, donned in long hair and 42, toured in the Andrew white But then I continued Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musireading, and after finishing it, cal "Joseph and the Amazing I realized I had to be conTechnicolor Dreamcoat." pervincing not only as a teenforming the role o{ the bibliager but as a 40-year-old cal hero nearly 2,000 times. man in charge of Egypt. I said "Joseph- premiered in if I can be convincing in 1968 as a 15-minute piece at those two extremes, that a London school. Over the would be a stretch. I was years, the composers expandsmart enough to know that ed the musical fable to 90 immediately people could minutes. accept me in that role when During a break from they first see me, but then "Donny and Marie." Osmond you take them on the jourtalks about his often funny ney experiences playing "Joseph." Q After doing it on stage Question: You were 34 for nearly six years, didn't when you started doing you get bored? "Joseph and the Amazing A: I got very tired of the Technicolor Dreamcoat· on show after doing it for so stage. When you filmed this long. I never tired of the version last summer you . were nearly 42. Has your per - music, but it is the mundane schedule of getting up for formance changed as you eight shows a week, doing matured? the same thing and not being Answer: Well, when you able to vary it much. ta,re close to something like Q: Well, I imagine you t_aisinga child, you really would have had a pretty strict don't see the differences until workout regime since your ou go away and come back . costume primarily consists of The difference is amazing a loincloth. over time. A: I got to tell you, I But there is only so much remember the first wardrobe you can stretch because Sir fitting. I walk in and they ¥\.ndrew, as we lovingly call hand me this little piece of him, likes his stuff done a material and I said: "OK. certain specific way. He has a Where is the rest of it?" I put group of people who make this thing on and I am so sure each production is done embarrassed. I said, no way that way because he's a very am I going out there in front hands-on individual. So there isn't a lot of room for stretch - of thousands of people wearing a piece of cloth. So comes ing. When I started the role in time for opening and I am nervous as I can be. The 1992, I had to sing differently press is out there and I am (from the pop style). I had to oblivious to the fact that I articulate differently. You can't sing pop licks in a musi- am not wearing anything because I am concentrating cal like this. I had a wonder ful conductor who taught me on the show. Two weeks into the run the ropes (of Broadway-style this is in Toronto - I am singing). I finally got it after doing this little dance going two years. into the intermission and the Q: Before you started your (actress playing the) Narrator stage stint as Joseph, had you at the time, looked over at previously seen any incarna me and she whispers, "What's tions of the musical? A: I saw my younger broth - the matter?" l am flushed SUSAN KING

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8£AUTYWAY braids, blows in the warm desert breeze. Accompanied by her friends in their satin formals Stephanie is presented to the modest-size cheering crowd as homecoming royalty at Rough Rock High. Unable to change into her off-field elegance, Stephanie smiles, holding a bouquet of yellow and red roses representing her school colors. With the backdrop of shadows of red sandstone plateaus and mesas, she stands in cleats and pads smiling towards the future, photographed by the sun above. ·1 was grateful the people in Rough Rock let me into their world." Scott Teichert, a PLC member who spent time in a kindergarten class, said ·1t doesn't matter who you eat your cookies with, kids are kids." Education major, Lucy Beth Wimmer said, "I realized that teachers need to have hope for their kids, and then push them along with attention, love and hugs."

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red . I look at her and say, Tm naked up here!" Finally, after I relaxed into the role, I realized how little I had on, on stage. Q: Any funny memories from being on the road that long? A: We came up with a lot of stuff to keep from getting bored. The entire cast said, ·we are going to get that loincloth off of you one of these days." There is a scene where Mrs. Potiphar was chasing me around her bed. She falls down on the bed and I fall on top of her. Well. she was chasing me around and everybody was trying to grab this loincloth. It's only held on by four little hooks They finally got it in, of all places, Salt Lake City! The place just howled. The show came to a screeching halt. The conductor just stopped the orchestra and the orchestra stood up out of the pit to look. I just had to put it back on and continue Q : How different was filming the show vs. the stage experience? A: It was rigorous. It was restaged differently. and l am not that familiar with film. My background is TV. Q : And this time around, Joan Collins is playing Mrs. Potiphar.· A: Here again I don't want to consider it a film, but I did a movie of the week with her, it was called "The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch" (in 1982). But, boy, I tell you, she walked (on the set of "Joseph''), and you talk about a diva . And she knows how to work it. When we were rehearsing our scenes, she kept blowing them. She was supposed to take my clothes off and she kept doing it wrong. And I am wondering if she kept blow ing it so she could keep doing the scene over and over. She was blowing in my ear and rubbing my chest and taking my clothes off and I thought, Tm glad my wife isn't watching this!" It's kind of cute the way it was shot. The way they edited it is very innocent because kids are going to be watching . It's a family show.

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Utah State's offense showed great improvement as the Aggie football team ran through its second scrimmage of the spring season here on Saturday. "I feel pretty positive about this scrimmage," head coach Mick Dennehy said. "There are times we are running the ball pretty well. There are times when we are throwing the ball pretty well. There are times we are catching the ball pretty

well. If you look at the percentages you would say not very good, but I think the quarterbacks are playing pretty good. "When they are playing pretty good, the receivers aren't always catching it. When they are not playing good. the receivers aren't making the plays either. I think it is more of a matter of more repetition and getting closer to everybody having the same understanding of what we are trying to accomplish." Jose Fuentes stepped up with the best performance among the five

quarterbacks that played on Saturday. The sophomore-to-be completed nine-of-12 passes for 103 yards. As a team the Aggies were 15of-41 for 166 yards. Last year's starter, Jeff Crosbie, was three-of-10 for 45 yards, while USU's other three signal callers were a combined threeof-19 for 18 yards. Running back John Roberts looked solid, carrying nine times for 53 yards and one touchdown. Roberts had runs of 19 and 16 to go along with his one-yard scoring plunge. Travelle Gaines also scored

on a one yard touchdown run while Emmett White added five carries for 21 yards as the Aggies rushed 29 times for 60 yards. Three wide receivers caught three passes, including Aaron Jones, who had 45 yards, David Fiefia 44 yards and Ky Oday 14 yards. Emmett White had two catches for 45 yards, while Steve Mullins, who was moved from quarterback to wide receiver this week, pulled in two balls for 20 yards. "The kids are improving they are getting better every time out,"

Dennehy said. ·we are seeing some good things on both sides of the ball. The offense is starting to catch up a little bit. It is understandably a little easier to line up and play defense and I think that showed a week ago. The bottom line is I like the way the kids are competing.· USU's kickers were combined fiveof-five as Brad Bohn drilled field goals of 22, 46 and 37 yards and Dane Kidman booted home attempts of 43 and 25 yards.

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Aggies qualifyfor NCAA meet at Washington St. said Gensel. ·we are getting there - making progress. that's what I like." First-place finishes on the men's side came from Brick Bergenson in the 800meter (1:55.04).Marcus Morgan in the 1500-meter (3:51.09),Glen Busch in the 3000-meter steeplechase UTAH STATEUNIVERSITY (9:12.42),and Jason Jones Athletic MediaRelations in the 5000-meters (15:10.77). Utah State University Other top performances juniors Shae Jones and for the men's team came James Parker both automatfrom Brad Bair who place ically qualified for the second in the 100-meters NCAA Championships at · and third in the 200-meters the Washington State with times of 11.20 and Utah State Dual meet held in Pullman, Wash. Saturday. 22.69 respectively. Bruce McCannel earned second Bair set a new school place finishes in the long record and a personal jump (21-09.50) and triple record as she won the pole jump (47-11.25). Also earnvault competition with her automatic qualifing mark of ing second place finishes for USU were Denise 13-feet 9.25-inches. The Ogilvie in the 800-meters -~.(}}d..schooL (1:55.50),Nick Russel in record of 13-feet 3-inches the 3,000 steeplechase set last year. Parker also (9:23.64),and Lance automatically qualified for the NCAA championship as Thurston in the high jump (6-10.75). he took first-place in the In the women's action hammer throw with his Melissa Jensen earned a winning toss of 224-feet 6first-place finish for the inches. Aggies with a time of 2:09 "We had a lot in the 800-meters. of people that USU's 4x400 relay did some great 'Eventhough team had a time of things," head we didn'twin 3:51 also earning a coach Gregg first-place finish. Gensel said. on eitherside, Members consisted The Aggies Kristi Connors, also had four a lotof things of Danielle Kot. Melissa members who happened.We Jensen, and Kristen provisionally Hilliman. qualified for the are getting ·we left a good NCAA portion of our Championships. there-mak- women's team at Senior Mark Calvin did as he ing progress, home because of injuries and a few won the pole that'swhatI from the men's team vault with his also." Gensel said. like.' mark of 17-feet "When we get every2.75-inches. body healthy and Senior Dave • GREGG GENSEL• competing at the Hoffman PQ in l-ltADC04.CH same time, I think we the high jump will be a good team." with his first A few track members place finish of 7-feet 2.5also competed a the the inches, sophomore Brett Weber State Invitational Guymon PQ in the 400Saturday. Top performances meter intermediate hurdles at that meet came from \ ,ith his time of 51.03 and junior Charlotte Wahlin PQ Josh Sides who earned a wit·1 her second place finish first-place finish in the discus (164-3) and a second in I •e hammer of 185-feet place finish in the hammer 3-inches throw (170-7) and Amber Overall the Aggie men's Jensen who earned a secteam was just edged out as ond-place finish in the 800they scored 91 points to meters (2:15.03). WSU's score of 108 points , The Aggies prepare to The women earned a total battle at home this week as of 75 points falling short to they host their first outdoor the Cougars with their 124 meet of the season. the points. Mark Faldmo Open on "Even though we didn't Saturday April 15. win on either side, a lot of great things happened," JumptoTRA<x. Page10

Two qualify despite losing to WSU on both the men's and women's sides

Freshman Chrisina Conrad takesa S-<Ving during practiceearlierthis season.The Aggies only managednine hits in the three-gamet:erie~.

Once again: USU 1-for-2 at Sac. State USU's pitching was strong as the Hornets only scored eight runs in the three games. But. again. the Aggies (14-25 overall, 3-6 Big West Conference) couldn't muster the run support necessary, recording only nine hits in the series. The Aggies will now play 10 of their next 12 games in Logan. starting with the University of Utah Wednesday for a doubleheader .

AARON MORTON

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The Aggies are in a rut. But there are signs they may bust out of it soon . For the third straight threegame series, the Utah State University softball team went l-for-2. this time winning the first, 1-0, and dropping the last two, 5-0 and 3-2, to Sacramento State University Saturday and Sunday.

Game 1 On Saturday at Shea Stadium in Sacramento. Kristin Hommel shone, holding Sacramento State scoreless on three hits . Hommel (7-10) fanned eight batters. She has won six of the Aggies last eight wins. USU took advantage of Hornet mistakes to knock in its only run in the fourth · inning. Sophomore Heather

Curtis scored on an error that first baseman Sandy Taylor batted in on another error. It was the Hornet's only two errors of the game. Taylor also had both of the Aggies· two hits, extending her hitting streak that would reach 12 games before going 0-for-3 on Sunday in game three . The Hornets threatened

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StaceyliftsUtahStatepastUtah'sbestclubWasatch REUBEN WADSWORTH

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The Utah State University rugby club defeated longtime nemesis Wasatch 41-12 Saturday afternoon. USU player Scott Bingham said the team has never been able to beat Wasatch, a club team from Salt Lake City, in his four years as an Aggie. "Everything was good," said USU head coach Nev Pulotu. ·we dominated." However. Wasatch got on the board first when USU's Jose Castillo dropped the ball when trying to catch a kick. Wasatch players picked it up, ran it in down the sideline and made the extra point to

go up 7-0 early. USU's Matt Stacey took over after the first Wasatch score, punching it in after gaining possession on an inbounds play and then crossing the goal line after picking up the ball in a loose-ball scramble . Castillo and teammate Wayne Ngaluafe scored one try each after Stacey's two scores and Wasatch added another try. but missed the extra point to make the halftime score 22-12. Stacey and the Aggies continued their domination in the second. Stacey scored two more tries and Aggie Chip Galloway scored another Getting a lift from a teammate. Matt Stacey looksto catcha throw-in earlierin the season.Stacy scored threetries in Saturday's match.

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Singh holds on for Masters win AUGUSTA,Ga. (AP)- No one ever came farther to get a green jacket than Vijay Singh. The final leg was an uphill climb to the 18th green Sunday at Augusta National, where Singh completed his troublesome journey around the world to claim the most prestigious prize in golf. The Fiji native won the Masters by meeting every challenge from the biggest stars in the game, closing with a 3-under 69 for a three-stroke victory over Ernie Els. Singh rolled in an 18-foot birdie putt on the last hole, kissed the ball as he removed it from the cup and embraced his family. His 9-year-old son, Qass, taped a message to his bag that said, "Poppa. Trust Your Swing." He did. following those directions better than anyone else. Singh ignored an early charge by Tiger Woods, and watched David Duval selfdestruct. He has now won two of the last six major championships. which validates him as one of the game's top players. Once a teaching pro in the jungle of Borneo, the 37-year-old Singh played tours on five continents and was banned from two of them, one for a cheating alle-

SCRIMMAGE Continuedfrom Page8 Defensively USU registered six sacks, while Cade Smith recorded an interception. USU will enter its final week of spring practice with sessions scheduled for Monday and Wednesday. The annual Blue-White game will be held on Friday at Romney Stadium at 6:30 p.m.

gation that he has long denied but has haunted him throughout his career. Singh, who won the PGA Championship at Sahalee in 1998, played with such composure in the face of so many challengers. And that might be enough to finally shift the attention to a game that weathered a wicked weekend at Augusta. He finished at 278 and earned $828,000 for his eighth career victory. Els,a two-time U.S. Open champion, couldn't get a birdie putt to fall on the last three holes and was at 281. The biggest threat came from Duval. in contention on the back nine Sunday at Augusta for the third straight year. His dreams died with a risky shot that wound up in Rae's Creek, a bogey on the par-5 13th. A bogey on the final hole gave Duval a 70, and he finished in a tie for third with Loren Roberts. Woods, trying to pull off the greatest 36-hole comeback in Masters history, got within three of the lead but played evenpar on the back and finished fifth. six strokes back. "I was so focused on what I was doing," Singh said. "It meant a lot." And it showed when last year's winner. Jose Maria Olazabal, helped him slip into

USUScrimmage(April8) Scoring Brad Bohn. 22 field goal Travelle Gains, 1 run John Roberts, 1 run Brad Bohn, 46 field goal Brad Bohn, 37 field goal Dane Kidman, 43 field goal Dane Kidman, 25 field goal Rushing John Roberts, 9-53 Emmett White, 5-21 Travis Cox, 2-5 Travelle Gaines, 6-4 Jeff Crosbie, 2-(-1)

RUGBY Continuedfrom Page8 while Wasatch was held scoreless. Pulotu said Wasatch was the top

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the coveted green jacket. "It feels great," a beaming Singh said. "I don't think anyone should be surprised that Vijay Singh won this golf tournament," Duval said. "He's a wonderful player." Singh set the tone for his victory Sunday morning . With frost melting into dew. he returned to the course to complete his third round and made two critical par putts that enabled him to maintain his three-stroke cushion over Duval. That paid dividends on the back nine Sunday, when Singh managed to escape danger twice without losing his lead. Clinging to a two-stroke lead over Duval, Singh hit his approach into the pond left of the 11th green. After taking his penalty drop, he hit a delicate chip up to 4 feet and dropped only one shot. Then on the par-3 12th. he hit over the green into the most daunting bunker at Augusta. Faced with a shot that sloped down the green toward more trouble he blasted out to 2 feet - the same shot Olazabal pulled off to win last year. Duval. who lives near Singh in Ponte Vedra Beach. Fla.. was still poised to win his first major championship until he made a mistake that will live with him until his next chance.

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ranked club team in Utah coming into the contest. The Aggies' ball movement was excellent. Pulotu said, as they received practically every ball from each scrum and tackled well.

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"This is the most improved we've ever been," he said. "So far we haven't looked as good as we did today." ·we were taking it to them," said Bingham. ·our tackling, speed and endurance kept us in it."

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U.S. wins INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP)Andre Agassi drew the United States from the brink of Davis Cup elimination Sunday, then Pete Sampras overcame a strained thigh to send the team to the semifinals. Agassi beat Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-3, 61 to tie the quarterfinal 2-2. Sampras followed with 18 aces in a 6-4. 6-4. 7-6 (2) win over Slava Dosedel in the final match to clinch a 3-2 victory. The United States will play Spain, a 4-1 winner over Russia, beginning July 21 in Spain. Playing a fifth and decisive match for the first time in his seven-year Davis Cup career, Sampras hit a backhand winner off a 113-mph serve by

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After Agassi prevented the Czechs from winning the series by beating Novak , Sampras took the court and quickly broke Dosedel for a 21 lead. He provided a scare when he pulled up after a running forehand and limped to his chair at the changeover. Sampras strained his left thigh on the shot and he hardly moved for some shots in the next game despite holding for a 3-1 lead. But he recovered and resumed his serve-and-volley game to great effect. Dosedel had no answer for Sampras· booming serve, which reached a high of 129 mph early in the second set. Sampras broke Dosedel for

Dosedel to win the tiebreaker 7-2 and set off a red, white and blue celebration among the 12.002 fans at the Forum. After sharing hugs with teammates Agassi, Alex O'Brien, Jared Palmer and captain John McFnroe . Sampras jogged around the court holding an American flag overhead as "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang blared over the loudspeakers. He passed the flag to Agassi for a lap. then McEnroe did the same. Sampras played with energy and power, two ingredients sorely missing in his straightset flop against Novak in Friday's opening singles. The 7-6 (1), 6-3, 6-2 loss was the worst of Sampras· Davis Cup career.

a 5-4 lead in the second set when the Czech netted a forehand volley off a drop shot by Sampras. Then Sampras served a love game, punctuated by a 124 mph ace, to take the set 6-4. With the crowd chanting , "Let's Go Pete." Sampras had two break points with the third set tied 4-4. but his two consecutive unforced errors allowed Dosedel to hold for 54. They stayed on serve until the tiebreak. Dosedel sent a forehand wide to give Sampras the minibreak on the first point of the tiebreak. Dosedel closed to 3-2 before Sampras won the final four points by hitting winners to close out the match.

Rockets surprise Jazz 99-90 to break streak HOUSTON (AP)- Walt Williams had no idea that Utah had dominated Houston . So the Rockets' 99-90 victory over the Jazz on Sunday was less of a surprise to him than to some others . Utah had won the last 12 regular-season games over Houston dating back to Nov. 9, 1996 and eight straight overall. But that was news to Williams. who is in his first

SOFTMLL Continuedfrom Page8 the small Aggie lead in the sixth inning with two twobase hits, but that was all as USU held on for its thirdstaight win.

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this helps a lot." The Rockets led by as many as 17, but saw that dwindle to five in the third quarter. That's when Houston, frustrated with Utah's style of play, began fouling and drawing technicals. In the second half, the Jazz

hit 21 of 23 free throws, including 3-of-3 technicals by John Stockton. Rocket forward Kenny Thomas was ejected from the game after his second technical with 6:33 to play in the game. "We kept saying, just fight through it," Williams said. "This is how (the Jazz) play. They get a team frustrated and then you don't execute . But today, we overcame it."

runs on six hits . The Aggies never recovered, scoring no runs on five hits - all singles from different batters. USU didn't convert in the top of the first inning when they had two base hits. and back-to-back, two-run innings in the first and second set the tone. Junior hurler Kelly Warner pitched well in relief, allowing just one run in 4.1 innings. That one Hornet insurance run came in the fifth inning.

Not even four hits and four Sacramento State errors were enough to upend the Hornets in the final game Sunday afternoon. Warner pitched well again in relief, but the damage was all done in the third inning. Starting Junior pitcher Amy Stettlemier (2-4) was rocked for two singles and two walks in the inning for SSU's three runs of the game. Warner came in and finished off the inning with two flyouts. The Hornets only had one more hit in the last three

innings. Sacramento State's threerun third was in response to a single run by USU in the top of the inning . Curtis knocked in Tiffany Pugmire on a double to give the Aggies a short-lived 1-0 lead. The Aggies cut the lead to one run in the fifth inning when Aimee Johnson scored off Curtis' groundout. But that was all USU could crank out as the visitors only had one other base runner Markean Neal reached base on a two-out error.

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WASHINGTON Organizers of next month's Million Mom March said they expect more than 100,000 people to come to the Mall on Mother's Day and that thousands more will rally in 20 other cities to push for tougher gun-control legislation. The national event, with television talk show host Rosie O'Donnell as mistress of ceremonies, is set for noon to 3 p.m. May 14 on the Mall. An interfaith prayer service is scheduled for 10 a.m. March organizers want laws Carole Price, left, and Yvonne Pope,who bo/11lost sons in gun incithat would mandate backde11ts,hug afler a 11ewsco11ference about the Million Mom March. ground checks for handgun purchasers and require handnine months since the march another mother to feel the gun owners to be licensed and was ·conceived" and then pain I'm feeling." to register their firearms. They announced last Labor Day Yvonne Pope. of Brooklyn, also want to require safety with organizers often using the grieved for the son who would locks on all handguns and time frame for apt analogies to have turned 26 Wednesday limit an individual's gun purmotherhood - some women had he not been killed on a chases to one handgun a involved have become stoically basketball court in New York month . poised at recounting their nearly seven years ago. Those are measures that sons· and daughters' deaths by ·we·re losing our future,'' Genessee County, Mich., prosguns. Pope mourned. "We're losing ecutor Arthur Busch supports, On Thursday, Carole Price our doctors, our lawyers, our having witnessed the damage stood at a microphone and teachers." there when a first-grader again detailed in a steely voice March founder Donna walked into an elementary how her son, John, 13, met his Dees-Thomases, the New school classroom last month death two years ago at a Jersey mother who was moved · neighbor's house in to action last August as she and killed 6-yearold Kayla Rolland. Baltimore. She told watched the young Granada 'We as a nation how ·we as a a 9-year-old Hills day-campers being escortnation are not ed to safety, said buses will be are not saferwith boy took a 9mm safer with millions Ruger handgun coming from as far away as millions and and millions of from a top dresser Minnesota, Texas and handguns," said drawer as John California. One hundred buses millions of Busch, who flew watched television will arrive from Pennsylvania. handguns.' to Washington for and reassured him A specially chartered "Mama a Thursday news - "It's not loaded, Train" from Newark will pull conference sponinto Union Station with 1,000 look" - Just before • ARTHUR BuscH • sored by march the gun fired a sinriders. PIK>Sf.CUTOR organizers to gle bullet. It shatWith less than six weeks to show his support tered John's cheek go. she said. the www.millionfor the event. He pledged to and exited the back of his mommarch.com Web site is return May 14 with his two head, killing him instantly. logging more than 75,000 hits daughters. ·we will not bury any more some days. Thousands of peoAlso planning to attend on of our children," Price vowed. ple who can't make it to Mother's Day is Nancy ParrisAs she has time and again Washington are expected to Moskowitz,president of the since she heard about the take part in similar events North Valley Jewish march in February. Tina nationwide. On the West Community Center in Jackson stood and talked Coast, rallies are planned from Granada Hills, Calif.. where a about her only child. Tyrone, a San Diego to Seattle. Eight are gunman wounded four chil30-year-old father of three. scheduled in Florida, three in dren last year. He was shot to death on Arizona and one in Maine. "We're moving to heal ourthe streets of Washington, and Yet. Dees-Thomases said, selves,"said Parris-Moskowitz. even though there were witCongress refuses to act on whose community center has nesses, no one was ever what the moms believe are raised more than $10,000 sellcharged. In between deep, ·sensible" gun laws. ing Million Mom March T·we·re still waiting," she gulping breaths. Jackson told shirts and pins. In the nearly those gathered, "I never want said.

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I enjoy reading the Statesman. I really do. However, I do not like reading a column that appears to be lifted. I refer you to "50 bombs for Bags?" I've been reading a lot of silly predictions for Bagwell's 2000 performance. Namely, that he's going to explode for 50 or (gasp!) 60 home runs. Why? Because last year, In response to Todd Johnson's letter about how all Bagwell hit 30 home runs on the road, but only 12 in the money should go towards education, I just wanted to say Pounds of Astrodome. that although we are here to gain an education, a great strawberries. I love facts. And that, my friends, is a hard, cold fact. majority of our education happens outside the classroom Unfortunately, to extrapolate from that fact the expec- walls. Students need balance, and regular exercise helps tation that Bagwell will hit SO-odd home runs is ... well, studentsfeel better physically and emotionally and that in •UNITED PRr.ss it's some sort of faulty logic that I can't identify by name. turn helps students focus more when they study. INTERNATIONAL• I only know that it's faulty logic. After speaking with members of the student committee Bagwell's home run splits last seasonwere a statistical who put the proposal together, I found out a little bit anomaly, plain and simple. From 1994 through 1998, more as to why there's a need for a Student Recreation Bagwell hil 91 home runs in the Astrodome, 77 on the Center. It will add 63 new pieces of cardiovascular road. I'll repeat that, just so we're clear on everything. equipment to the five that currently exist at USU to LETTERS From 1994 through 1998, Bagwell hit 91 home runs accommodate over 15,000 on-campus students. I don't in the Astrodom~, and 77 14 fewer - away from the see this as being all bad. A'strod6me . ...,,...,..,....,;,..,_..., _ i words. Tnere wm ttlso be 13,000 square feet of weight . trninll'ftltm mnybe ,morlAnd then f:rst~ar, probably for no t\ei rooson than ing and cardiovascular areas. The current weight room ened,editedar rejected happenstance, Bagwell hit significantly more home runs facilities don't quite fit everyone's needs. Eventually for reasonsofgO<Xl taste, on the road than he did at home. Now, should this one someone will get hurt in the existing weight room year count fc:ir more than all the previous years? Of because everything is too close. An elevated track, basredund,mcyar volume course it should not. ketball and volleyball courts, an area for indoor soccer of b'imilarletters. How many home runs will Jeff Bagwell hi! this year? and roller hockey and a climbing wall would also be He will, most likely, hit around 20 bombs on the road, as included and greatly benefit students at USU. No anonymousletters he usually does. And if Enron Field is truly mor~ homerI don't think it's terrible to pay the small fee that's will be published. friendly than was the Astrodome, Bqgwell will probably being asked to get this project off the ground. When the hit between 20 and 25 at home. Thus, I think we can facility opens in about three years (not eight!), the fee will Writersmust ~'ignall expect him to hit somewhere between 40 and 45 horn~ escalate so that the students who are benefiting most are letters,with plione runs. And be, as usual, a fantastic player. the ones paying the most. Let's remember students did numberand student Huh. Isn't that interesting. It sure soundsa lot like what similar things so we could benefit from the Student numberclearlyslated. Mr. Hobson wrote in today's column. I understand he Center we use every day. Exercise your vote to help do was responding to a previous letter, but don't ripoff Rob something great for USU and its future. Lett= representing Neyer. grou~ - ar marethan JakeChase oneindividual- must SheridanNicholas havea singulnrrepresentativeclearlystated, with nil necessaryJD and infomu,tion.

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"Acquiring a dog may be the o n I y opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative." Mordecai Siegal I've been thinking of buying a dog for about 15 years now, but I just can't quite decide. Frankly, they (dogs) scare me almost more than them (relatives). Here's why: There's a dog lying on the sidewalk between the coffee shop and a bakery. As people go in and out of the two doors they drop bits of bread and cookies for the dog to nibble. Those that don't offer food, lean over and pet the dog. At the very least, all give a smile and an approving glance. Thousands of homeless people are ignored on the street, live in cardboard boxes and eat out of dumpsters. The contradiction is mind warping. Dogs bring out the best and the worst in us. lfJou believe that God create us in His image, you ought to also believe that we created dogs in our image. They have the semblance of a smile, they are somewhat obedient and come in all shapes and sizes to fit our needs. These are all characteristks we wish were more prevalent in the Homo sapiens gene pool. I can't help thinking we have gone too far; or, that dogs are really aliens that have learned to manipulate our feeble human brains. Come the great holocaust the only things that will be left are dogs, Box Elder bugs and a few of those hairy, buckskin wearing, Montana survivalist militia wackos. It's not that I don't like dogs or animals in general. I like to think of my parents' St. Bernard as the chubby, slacker sister I never had. And , I truly enjoy the companionship of my pet rats. I'm proud that I saved them from a life of being poked and made to do humiliating laboratory tricks by geeky graduate students. Or, be part of some heinous experiments to make waterproof eyeliner safe for the cosmet-

ic consuming public. Dogs have their place, I'm just calling for a little restraint. Proposed code of dog ethics: • Anybody who actually pays to have their dog's hair cut should be required to have their own head smeared with raw liver and allow two hungry, standardsized poodles to rearrange their hair. • Really big, male dogs should be subject to public lewdness ordinances and be required to wear boxer shorts. • If you take your dog cross country skiing, it should be required to actually wear skis and gaiters. * Dogs who chase deer should be shot (oops, that's already a Utah law). • All St. Bernards and other Pavlovian-school-ofthought-dropout drool hounds should have to wear bibs. * Dogs who ride in pick up trucks should be required to wear both shoulder and lab belts. Dogs which stick their heads out the window should be trained to make proper turn signals. • Whoever is responsible for developing the Basset hound and Dachshund (wiener dog) breeds should be required to walk around on their knees for the rest of their lives. • Reduce the dog/cat food isle in super market by 75 percent. I have yet to see a dog truly starve because it doesn't like the aroma and texture of its food. The horrible truth is that we just don't know for sure what's going on with dogs' taste buds. The only thing we do know about dogs discriminating taste is that they I ike to roll in dead fish and eat unattended garbage. The selection of dog foods should be reduced to two flavors, smelly and non-smelly. • Anyone who dresses their pet in bandannas, sweaters or bows should be legally required to wear a choke collar and forced to eat from a bowl on the flqor for 90 days. Cats? Don't get me started on cats.

In the history of Utah State University, students have The issuesurrounding the proposed student recreation funded many buildings and facilities, because of fees. center is not a matter of student fees or who doesn't get Some of these buildings and facilities include: Romney Dennis Hinkamp's column to use the facility. Granted, most of us won't be here for Stadium, Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, Taggart Student appearsroeryMonday in The its opening, but in the long run, that's not really impor- Center and the parking terrace. Becauseof the sacrifice of Utah Statesman. Letterscan be hand tant. As students, part of our education involves becom- students, these facilities are now here for us to use. The deliveredor nu,iledto ing better citizens. I believe that means in part that we as projected date for the Student Rec Center to open is the TlreStott'5f111lnin the a Utah State University community should think beyond fall of 2003. That will give the freshman students an TSC 319,orcan be ourselves to the students who will be here in 2003 and opportunity to use it and other students who will be here e-mailedat for yearsto come. As our school improves, education will for more than three years. editor@ improve; as education improves, so will our community. Another benefit the Student Rec Center has to offer is WF.ATHER WATCH (FROMUTAH CLIMATECENTER) Btldamlm.~ -.alu You can see where I'm going with this. providing about $200,000 a year towards new student / Zane Stephens My point is that this is an opportunity to improve the employees. Jobs are hard to come by in Logan, and this future of Utah State. For those who are concerned about is a great way of opening up work for students. Finally, the longest day is called the the $11.50 fee per semesteruntil the facility opens, make summer solstice. The date Seasons STAFF a sandwich instead of going for fast food a couple of Jumpto lrrrrRs, Page13 occur on marking the shortest day or EorrOR·IN<HIEP. the earth longest night is the winter solJaredSterzer due to a stice. The increase in solar N!w.i EDITOR: tilt of the radiation in the summer Vicky Cam11be/l and decrease in the winter is earth's FEATURES EDITOR: axis in what drives the seasons. JustinBerry SoclAL CAilNDARING WID-1ANN / Ann Bluemlein Between the solstices relation Sf'oRTS EDITOR: cert, Requiem, at 7:30 p.m. in the at 7:30 p.m. in the USU Eccles to the sun. The earth's poles around March 21 and Another week CaseyI Tobso11 Kent Concert Hall. Social and cultur- Conference Center. are tilted approximately 23 September22, days and nights and MAN the l'HorOEDITOR: Les Liasons Dangereuses starts and one-half degrees. Because are of equal length. These speweather is nice. al at the same time. Mozart: his UzMaudsley music has been scientifically proven· tonight and runs through Saturday. of the tilt, varying amounts of cific times are called the Who wants to COPYEDITOR: You need tickets (but they are free) sunlight reach the earth at dif- equinoxes (Latin for equal day go · to class? to make your brain work better. HeatherFredrickson because if they are sold out, not even ferent times of the year. and night). If the weather is great, go to the Who wants to W111EED1TOR: knowing the head usher and some The spring equinox is canyon or an evening picnic or walk On or about June 21 of think about that LauraBellamy other important person in the theater each year, the earth's northern called the "vernal equinox'' around and explore the parts of camterm paper? EorrORW.BOW>: department (hi Philip) will get you in. hemisphere is tilted towards while about September 22 is I know pus you have never been to. JaredSterur It starts at 8 p.m. in the Morgan the sun. Areas north of the the "autumnal equinox". Tuesday If you donated some HeatherFredrickson what we all really want, so I'll make Theater. Adult content so be warned. Arctic Circle have continual The date of the equinox money to the "Mothers of Utah for a brief list here: to throw Frisbees on DougSmealh Friday- The LDS Institute show sunlight with no setting of the varies from year to year LeahCuller the Quad, to sit and read outside the Russia"fund last semesterthen go to Taggart Student Center, to have this free slide show at 8 a.m. Call for choir is having a big concert tonight sun. The opposite is true on or because of leap years. This and Saturday. Tickets in the ticket around December 21. The year, the vernal equinox was someone to hold hands with on a details at 752-2161. Established in 1902. office, $1 off with Institute ID. Wednesday Hey, the library northern hemisphere is tilted on March 20 . The vernal walk through campus. The Utah Statesman Saturday It's Mother's Week-end away from the sun. The sun is equinox is an event that her(Merrill) is having a book sale. Go Well, all I can do for you is offer is published Monday , so celebrate that. Or just celebrate below the horizon and areas alds in the beginning of astrosome suggestionsabout some social check out the (cheap) stuff. Wednesday and "Starting Over Single" meeting. your mother and give her a call/send north of 66 and one-half nomical spring in the northern events, none of which have to do Friday and is the her a letter. degrees have continual twi- hemisph~re. During this time with Frisbees. But you may find a Call 753-1994 for details. official student Thursday- Indian music with li6ht and/or . darkness. of year the length of the day new friend with whom to drink newspaper of Utah Ann Bluemlein is DONE with Continual sunlight or darkness rapidly increases toward a Native American harmonies. It Italian Sodas outside the TSC or posState University . her thesis for ever and ever. Oh at the poles lastsfor about two maximum on the summer solsounds interesting and since it is free, sibly get some hand-holding in. The Utah Statesma11 joy. Oh rapture. To find out the months. So attend a few social events and why not make some Indian food (or is printed on some Native American food) and go date of the celebratione-mail her at Page13 The time of year marked by Jumpto Se8!NG. haul out the shorts and sandals. recycled newsprint. slzkl@cc.usu.edu. Monday- There is a Mozart con- to this potentially interesting concert

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LETTERS Continuedfrom Page12 just think, if the students would have done this five years ago, we would be able to benefit from the Student Rec Center. This is a chance to give something back to Utah State University, a chance to make a difference for years to come. Don't let this chance pass you by. Vote.

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So those OPEC oil barons agreed to give the world more oil and crude oil prices tumbled Wednesday in response. California drivers who paid record-high gas prices this month shouldn't count on lower prices at the pump, however. At least not this summer. Experts say gas prices will easefor a few months, falling as much as 10 cents per gallon. But prices will boomerang this summer - and possibly creep over $2 per gallon - because new oil supplies won't arrive quickly eno~ te>fTl"88'. oomand:, ,,1,, 111·doti't "1i9kc,thi5thing ~s , peaked," said Philip K. Verleger, a Newport Beach-based independent oil-industry economist. ~A lot of people are saying gas prices should come down. I don't see it.'' Prices won't be pushed ctown by new oil supplies because California fuel inventories are low, about 10 percent lower than this time last ear. local refineries normally build up reserves in winter and use those supplies when demand builds in summer. But tJiis year, refineries held off buying oil -

and drained gas supplies - as will increase supplies by anothoil prices climbed in February er 500,000 to 800,000 barrels and March. per day. Crude oil dropped Worldwide demand currentWednesday to about $26 per ly exceeds supplies by about 2 barrel, down from a high of $34 million barrels per day, said the earlier this month. Prices fell federal Energy Information when The Organization of Administration. Depending on Petroleum Exporting Countries, how much additional oil is actuor OPEC, agreed to increase its ally produced, the new supplies oil production by 1.45 million will barely meet, or fall short of, barrels per day. that need. President Clinton on Increased oil supplies will Wednesday urged oil compa- take four to six weeks to arrive in nies to swiftly cut gasoline California. That gives refineries prices and passalong savings to just a tiny window to build consumers. inventories befo re summer Industry watchers, however, begins and vacationing drivers said they doubted Clinton's guzzle more gas. Analysts say request would have any effect refineries will have to run near on oil companies. full capacity to meet demand. ",Ther~ are no price controls "The OPEC deal means less ~1''19'tgulaoons,oogasoli-A<lor.oil - 1 •fuirEmifomia-tha-nit does for the• protlucts,r rsaid Suzanne 'southeas poltIon of the U.S.," Garfield, spokewoman with the said John Cook, director of the California Energy Commission. petroleum division of the Energy "Oil companies price their Information Administration. product according to what will "There's not a lot of excessrefinsell and how it will sell in ing capacity (in California). That California." tends to keep the market pretty Despite the OPEC decision, tight." oil supplies remain strained. Refiners now are trying lo Analysts say the actual supply catch up, he said Areas outside gain will be closer to 1 million California - which are able to barrels per day, rather than 1.45 imrort gasoline from other million barrels, because individ- states when needed - should ual OPEC members already be able to squeak by this sumhave been producing more than mer without price hikes, Osten they agreed as a group to sell. said. If any California refinery Other oil -producing countries suffers an outage, prices will

leap, experts said. California uses a specially formulated gasoline. When supplies here run low, extra must be shipped in - at higher cost - from the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean. Supplies in those areas already are tight, analyst Verleger said.

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If any of you have recently visited the field house or HPER in hopes of obtaining a workout through cardiovascular machines (stair stepper, for example) you may have experienced a common problem among students: wait ing. Funny how tnat is when this university provides FIVE of such machines. You came to the

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extreme is also true with high temperatures only reaching tne 30's. Warm spring weathe~ comes earlier to southern Utah as highs this year have already reached the 80's. Much colder Canadian air, however, has recently pushed as far south as southern Arizona. St. George's high temperature only reached the low 50's on March 20. This is a sure sign the first day of spring does not necessarily mean winter weather will not affect us after that date.

Stephens' weathercolumnruns t-uJice a month in The Utah Statesman. field house to exercise in a manner other than running, so you decide to switch the method and play a round of basketball for your allotted exercise time. One problem though: the courts in the field house arc covered by community members. So you run over to the HPER,only to find classes, practices or Intramural games occupying these courts. The Student Rec Center that has been proposed can help students with such problems, providing over 63 cardiovascular machines, more gyms that will allow participation in a variety of activities (roller hockey, indoor soccer, climbing wall, etc.), and best of all STUDENTS ONLY; no classes, no practices, no community members. The costs that will be implemented next year (only $11.50 a semester, if the vote does indeed pass) are to only get the project started. I will be graduating in a year and will never be able to benefit from this facility. However, nothing can come of the future if the present does not make an effort.

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Rebels assault Russian positions in ~hechnya NAZRAN,Russia (AP)Rebels attacked Russian army checkpoints in Grozny and other parts of Chechnya on Sunday, demonstrating they can move freely despite Moscow's claims to have defeated the insurgents. Posts in the heavily guarded capital Grozny, seized by Russian troops in February, came under attack at least six times Sunday, though there were no casualties, the Interior Ministry's press center said. Russian checkpoints in southern Chechnya were also targeted. According to the com-

mand's press service, one border guard was wounded in attacks on three posts in the Argun Gorge. Several rebels were killed and the others were dispersed, the press service said. "Bandits in groups of 10-15 people are testing the readiness of our units to rebuff their attacks," the command's press service said. Russia claims to control the northern two-thirds of Chechnya, but rebels have attacked checkpoints and ambushed Russian troops deep in the north with apparent

ease, keeping federal forces on the defensive. A Chechen field commander said rebels would keep up the attacks, and warned that strikes against the Russians would increase as summer approaches. "Many young Chechen men who were in refugee camps in winter will come back to Chechnya and join the militants' units in the summer," the commander, who gave his name as Isa, told The Associated Press. He said the militants were still capable of moving freely

around Chechnya in bands of 20-25 militants and can easily attack Russian positions and formations. "We cannot be subdued," he said. Still, the commander, who took a number of wounded rebels to Nazran in neighboring Ingushetia for medical treatment, said the insurgents had suffered heavy losses and were tired and weakened by the winter. "Every third (militant) was wounded, but even those of us who were lucky are feeling sick," the field commander said.

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LIMA,Peru (AP)- In elec- about him. but we know who tions overshadowed by allewe're not supporting. He is gations of fraud, Peruvians sure to be better than voted Sunday on whether to Fujimori," Eduardo Vasquez, give iron-handed President 24, one of Peru's many · Alberto Fujimori a controver- unemployed, said after voting sial third five-year term. at a school set amid shackFujimori. 61, popular for covered desert hills on Lima's years for having crushed left- southern outskirts. ist insurgencies and ending But Fujimori still enjoys economic chaos, was fighting widespread support and had for his political life against a lead of 6 to 7 percentage 54-year-old Alejandro Toledo, points in several public opind U.S.-trained economist. ion surveys going into the Moments election. after the voting 'He has done so "He has ended Sunday done so much afternoon, an much that that appeared exit poll by the impossible," said independent appeared Antero Pasos, a polling firm impossible.., 72-year-old • Apoyo gave retired auto Toledo 45.2 mechanic who percent of the • ANTER.a PASOS • voted at the same votes to vmm school as Vasquez. Fujimori's 43.6 "No other governpercent The ments have rest of the vote was split accomplished what he did. between other candidates. Now we have roads, electriciBut the poll did not take ty, health care." into account isolated rural Fujimori, who says he has areas nbt accessible by road, proven to Peruvians that he where Fujimori is expected to keeps his promises. had be strong. appeared on his way to an If the numbers hold up it easy victory, but in recent would mean a runoff will be weeks Toledo bolted from a necessary, since a candidate pack of eight opposition canneeds to obtain more than didates and was breathing 50 percent of valid votes to down Fujimori's neck. win outright. At a breakfast meeting Apoyo director Alfredo with reporters before voting, Torres said the exit poll figFujimori defended the cleanures were based on interliness of the elections and views with 35,000 voters said warnings from internafrom 3,500 voting tables in tional monitors did not both70 provinces around the er him. country. There were more "We pay no heed to than 80,000 voting tables in threats from other counall. Torres said the margin of tries," he said. "The possibilierror was 5 percentage ty of fraud does not exist." points. Before leaving his house Apoyo's exit polls have to vote, Toledo called the proved highly accurate in campaign "tremendously past elections. But Torres said unfair" and "dirty" but last week they would not reminded Peruvians that the include samples from the voting process is secret. remote rural areas where 10. He said he was going to J:o 15 percent of th~ voters await th~ election results [, 11 llve:. 1 ~r, _,. ,,.,,), l •; .l ~ Uu \H:itside'fnePalace '$fJusfice Toledo, wh.b 'gr~w up1ft 19 v and hop~d'tliere ~ciuld be poverty, has capitalized on "justice for the will of the the country's deep two-year women and men of Peru." recession and high unemInternational election ployment to cut into monitors are upset with Fujimori's support among Fujimori's blatant attempts to the poor. manipulate Sunday's vote to "People don'tJmow much guarantee his re-election.

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