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Aggie volleyball swept at home in threegame tournament.
World-renowned artist coming to USU invites students to join with him in creating a new installation for campus.
NEWS | Sub in The Hub
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Aggies nearly pull off the upset against Michigan State By Daniel Hansen SPORTS STAFF WRITER
For a moment, all 75,000 people in Spartan
Stadium were completely silent.
Utah State erased a double-digit lead in the
second half, holding the lead with less than
five minutes to play before the upset bid fell short in a 38-31 loss to Michigan State on Friday night in East Lansing, Michigan.
“We will take some confidence going out of
this game,” head coach Matt Wells said.
“(MSU) is a very good football team and a
program that has been consistent for a long, long time. I have a lot of respect for them... and to be able to play the way we did and
have a chance to win at the end, I’m proud of our guys. Don’t misconstrue that to say that that was a moral victory... but we will take confidence out of this game.”
The Aggies struck first in the game and struck
quick. A 7-play, 75-yard drive ending with a 1-yard touchdown run from sophomore QB
Jordan Love ushered in a tense quietness to
the Spartan fans in attendance. Love finished the drive with four completions on four
attempts for 68 yards. For the game, Love
finished with 319 yards on 29-44 passing with two interceptions, with both INTs coming as a result of tipped passes.
“We prepared all week for their defense,”
Love said. “We were able to attack them in the passing game. We prepared for them and we
knew what they were going to do, and we did a good job.”
With the Aggies making an early statement,
MSU would answer with two field goals before an 8-yard TD pass from QB Brian Lewerke to WR Cody White put the Spartans in front for the first time. USU refused to flinch though, responding with a 9-play, 72-yard drive
capped off with a 2-yard TD run from JC transfer Darwin Thompson.
Michigan State, considered to be one of the
contenders for both the Big Ten Championship and the College Football Playoff, showcased
exactly why that is by taking the lead before halftime with a 13-play, 75-yard touchdown drive and following it with another 10-play,
81-yard touchdown drive to open the second half and build a 27-14 lead.
Even with a field goal from junior Dominik
Eberle trimming the lead to 10, USU’s hopes of an upset seemed slim until senior safety Gaje
Ferguson intercepted a pass from Lewerke and returned it 40 yards for the score to bring the Aggies within three points.
“I saw that play coming, it’s a play that I’ve
PHOTO BY Al Goldis/AP Michigan State’s Felton Davis III, right, makes a catch while falling down against Utah State’s Ja’Marcus Ingram during the fourth quarter of the Utah State vs Michigan State football game on Friday, Aug. 31 in East Lansing, Mich. The Aggies lost to the Spartans, 38-31.
studied on film all week, every day and I saw
Michigan State then pieced together a 9-play,
It stings because we know we’re capable of
pick that off,” Ferguson said. “The opportunity
TD run from Connor Heyward, adding a
week. We have a huge chip on our shoulders
myself pick it off. Told myself I was going to
presented itself and so I picked it and obviously, it was a great feeling. I’ve never had a pick that sounded so quiet before but it was awesome.”
After holding the Spartans to a field goal on
75-yard drive to retake the lead on a 13-yard
2-point conversion to secure a 38-31 lead. On the Aggies’ last attempt to tie the game, a
batted ball led to an INT for the Spartans, sealing the victory.
“We knew they were going to be good,” Love
The American Society of
Civil Engineers recently
awarded USU civil engineer-
ing senior Seth Thompson the prestigious Samuel Fletcher Tapman ASCE Student Chapter Scholarship.
Thompson is the only Utahn
to receive the 2018 scholarship. There were eighteen
total scholarships awarded to students throughout the nation.
The native of Payson served
as the ASCE Student Chapter president last school year, in
which he said his involvement was “key to receiving this
to get that first W and we’re going to carry
that chip and it’s just going to keep growing
because we’re going to prove how good we are this year.”
Utah State will return home to Logan and
the ensuing possession, USU took the lead via
said. “They’re just a good team. Just came
Maverik Stadium Saturday to take on New
score of the game.
than us.”
Arizona Bowl. NMSU won that contest 27-20
a 1-yard TD run from Thompson, his second “I knew we’d find out real quick about this
down to the end and they made more plays Following the loss, the team ventured to the
team,” Wells said. “I think we have a very, very
section of Aggie fans who had traveled to the
guys that we just went up against are very
for their performance.
physical football team because I know the
physical... We came in here to win the game.
game, who gave the team a standing ovation “We came out here with a chip on our
The way they fought and came back from a
shoulder and I think that chip just grew
half... Very proud of my guys. I thought they
“We let a big one go. We could’ve made a big
two-touchdown deficit early in the second fought.”
With their backs against the wall, and their
Playoff aspirations possibly on the line,
tonight because we let one go,” Ferguson said. part of Utah State’s history tonight and we
could have really done something special to
come in here and beat a big team on the road.
One of 18 engineers nationwide By Kortni Wells STUDENT LIFE STAFF WRITER
that. So, I think that propels us going into next
scholarship.”
smart. He is gifted in the
with his Bachelors of Science
scholarship by perusing the
time outside of the classroom
plans to complete an MS in
Thompson found the
ASCE.org website.
“The application process
required a 1-page essay on
classroom, generous with his and is a fun person to be around.”
Awarded the Outstanding
got a chance to know Thomp-
weirs at the Utah Water
recommendation, a financial aid budget sheet, and an
academic transcript,” Thompson said.
According to Paul Barr,
professor and department head for the Civil and
Environmental Engineering
department said, “Thompson is dedicated, happy and
he served as ASCE president. “I was impressed with his
for them,” Barr said.
Thompson will graduate
Civil Engineering student awarded prestigious scholarship
Blake Tullis, a professor in
seen Thompson’s efforts pay
students and make it better
@TheGrandDanny
campus,” Thompson said.
business end of being
of wanting to take care of the
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Aggie Radio at 92.3 FM or visit aggieradio.com
Research Laboratory on
the Civil and Environmental
President, but never lost track
Kickoff versus NMSU is scheduled for 8 pm.
performance of labyrinth
willingness to do all that
needed to be done on the
ready for New Mexico State.”
“I will be conducting
as a professional engineer, a
son better in class and while
back to work on Monday morning and get
year.
hydraulic research on the
narrative resume, 2 letters of
“Hopefully, we’ll hold our head high,” Wells
said, “and we’ll be very humble and we’ll go
Civil Engineering at USU next
Senior for the Civil Engineer-
ing department last year, Barr
in overtime.
degree in December, and
my involvement in ASCE, and plans for future involvement
Mexico State in a rematch of last year’s
Engineering department has off in both the work field and the classroom.
“Seth reached out to me see “ENGINEERS” PAGE 7
PHOTO COURTESY OF Seth Thompson
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WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
NEWS
USU Dining explains its choice to bring in Subway
PHOTO BY Cimaron Neugebauer Utah State University’s Dining Services has recently added Subway to The Hub and it’s set to open Wednesday, Sept. 5. Alan Andersen, USU’s Dining Services director, said Subway was chosen partially due to the price. He said a place like Chick-Fil-A would be exponentially more expensive and unlikely to be added to The Hub. By Naomi Ward NEWS STAFF WRITER
recognize it,” said Andersen.
said. “We knew we needed to make the Hub
to students returning this fall, Dining Services
coming in with training systems and great
Though the Subway may come as a surprise
On Wednesday, after years of collaboration
with Taco Time and Caffe Ibis, the Utah State
University Hub is adding another familiar
name to the menu: Subway.
“Dining has done a lot of things on our own
and we do some things well,” said Alan
Andersen, the director of USU Dining Services.
“But bringing in Subway is a tradeoff. There’s
value in name recognition and the systems
and marketing that come with the company.” Andersen said he hopes name recognition
has been working on this project with Utah State’s Student Association and previous
student body president Michael Scott Peters for some time.
“We’ve been planning to renovate the hub for
a long time," Peters said. "I met with Alan to brainstorm ideas based on our budget and
input from students. It didn’t get publicized
very much, but Dining really sought feedback from students and student body officers.”
wouldn’t be able to afford, we can kind of piggyback off of that.”
Taco Time wasn’t always the only outside
company feeding students on campus.
Andersen mentioned that when the Hub first opened about 20 years ago, a Pizza Hut was also stationed there for five years until their contract with the university ended.
The Hub also used to house Hogi Yogi and
Teriyaki Stix, which were replaced in 2013 by
“Not everyone realizes that USU Dining is
Bull, both created by Dining Services.
importance of saving money in the process.
all over the world. So even international
self-sufficient, so we aren’t using tuition
students can come in and immediately
marketing programs that we certainly
One thing Andersen emphasized is the
will bring in more students.
“Taco Time is more regional, but Subway is
more cost effective. Because Subway is already
money or student fees to operate,” Andersen
the In B’tween sandwich shop and Teriyaki
“We always like to have at least one outside
owned and operated by USU, so the revenue comes back to the university.
But for students hoping to buy their Chick-
Fil-A sauce and nuggets on campus in the near future—don’t get your hopes up.
“We’re looking for ways to be frugal. Anytime
a company comes in here, we pay a franchise fee and royalties. That’s a big part of the reason we chose Subway and not, say,
Chick-Fil-A. It cost us about $80,000 to put in the Subway, which is relatively inexpensive,
whereas putting in a Chick-Fil-A would have been at least a quarter million.”
– naomiyokoward@aggiemail.usu.edu @naomiyokoward
company here,” Andersen said. “Both are
Weeks of Welcome encourage students to stay enrolled that college is meant for growth, not just
By Hala Louviere NEWS STAFF WRITER
learning facts or the skills that you need to
Members of Utah State University’s student
organizations are hopeful that the Weeks of
Welcome will encourage more people to
become involved in student programs, thus
increasing retention rates.
“I think that just having these events that
they can come
to, where they
can see other
students and
realize we’re
not that
just get a job,” Rayburn said.
Joe Busby, a first-generation college student
and member of the A-Team, agreed with Rayburn.
“Before, I would go to school and I would
come back. It was just something that I had to do, not something that I wanted to do,” he
But once I started getting involved with the activities here on campus, I got a deeper connection of why I did this. — Joe Busby
said. “But once I
started
getting
involved with the
different, is important,” said Monique Masina,
activities here on campus, I got a deeper
ship program for first-generation students.
becoming something that I wanted to do. I
a member of Aggie First Scholars, a scholarMasina said these university-sponsored
events encourage first-generation students to
become a part of the Aggie community by
getting involved and participating in the
festivities.
Taryn Rayburn, a first-generation college
student, said getting involved enhances one’s
college experience.
“I think involvement really does show you
connection of why I did this. It started
wanted to be up here, I wanted to go to events.”
Busby added that events during the Weeks of
Welcome gather large crowds that build a
stronger sense of community among Aggies and motivate people to stay and graduate. – hala.louviere@aggiemail.usu.edu @halaback_girl
PHOTO BY Matt Halton Utah State University Student Association hosts Day on the Quad during Utah State’s Week of Welcome on Wednesday, August 29. Clubs, organizations and local businesses each held a variety of games and engaged with students during the event.
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STUDENT LIFE
MORE THAN JUST A 3-DAY WEEKEND By Brianne Sorensen STUDENT LIFE WRITER
The first Monday in September is known
E L A S
in the United States as Labor Day. Labor Day is a federal holiday that commemorates and celebrates the triumphs brought about by the labor movements that occurred during the industrial revolution. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, this day is a tribute to American workers’ social and economic developments and achievements. These contributions to the American labor system, such as shorter work days and work-free weekends, have helped the country grow strong and prosper. During the industrial revolution, many jobs were created to fulfill the need for manufacturing factories. According to The History Channel, these factory jobs required 12-16 hours of work a day, and employees were often paid less than a dollar per hour. The owners of these factories grew richer and richer by paying their employees minuscule wages and working them for so many hours a day. While the labor system worsened, some
GRAPHIC BY Gage Scoville
employees created labor unions. Labor unions were often created to protest for better working conditions, shorter working hours and higher wages. After years of riots and protests, the U.S. government passed legislation to allow for an 8-hour workday, work-free weekends and the creation of a national minimum wage. Labor Day celebrates this legislation and the laborers who made it possible.
Cynthia Hawthorne, a junior at Utah
Without these people who fought for
State, recently started doing research
better labor systems, we may still have
about Labor Day.
child labor and 14-hour work days.”
“I wasn’t sure what the day celebrated
With the scent of Labor Day barbecues in
affected the current labor system. “The three-day weekend is a perfect time to have a barbecue and celebrate before the weather turns cold. I have always
before my research,” Hawthorne said,
the air, students throughout campus are
seen Labor Day as a last hoorah before
“but now I see Labor Day as a celebration
taking the time to learn about and
school really starts to get going,” said
of the people in history who stood up for
appreciate the American labor movements
Callum Wright, a sophomore at Utah
what they wanted and believed in.
of the late 19th century and how it has
see “Labor Day” PAGE 4
Aggie Passport: campus wide travelers brought her out to the carnival on the Quad. “I want to get eight swipes. That’s my motivation to print for free, but I also get to come to events,” Canan said. On the other hand Cale Orwig, a USU freshman, was excited to be able to mingle with other students. “I think it is awesome. Us new students have places to go and socialize. You can bring friends or come alone and meet new friends. I’m especially excited for Day on the Quad and the neon dance party,” Orwig said. This year’s passport experience includes more events than ever to help bring in a diversity of students. “We have more events on the passport this year and you don’t even need your card to swipe, you can just type in your A number,” Bing said. “The events are all super important for each individual, we have a wide variety. Different events PHOTO BY Timothy Carpenter Utah State University freshmen are given an ‘Aggie Passport’ at the beginning of the first semester. Students are encouraged to attend events like the Big Agg Show to discover what USU has to offer. By Shelby Black STUDENT LIFE SENIOR WRITER
New Utah State University students have the opportunity to travel to different campus events through the Aggie Passport experience. The Aggie Passport is given to freshman and first semester USU students in their connection classes and orientation. The goal of the passport is to encourage these students to come to various events
and discover what they are all about. Grady Bing, from Student Orientation and Transition Services, stressed the importance of these students becoming involved in the on-campus community. “The Aggie Passport program is to promote student involvement within their first year. One integral part of a college experience is to be a contributing member in the Aggie community. This is expressed by going to events and
it gives you more opportunities to be involved,” Bing said. The passport comes along with perks as well. If students attend eight events, they will have $10 added to their Aggie Express account. If a student attends 10 events, they will then have $20 dollars added to their account. This cash can be spent anywhere on campus that accepts Aggie Express. For freshman Abbi Canan, this incentive
field different people.” The Aggie Passport experience will be running for new students from August until the middle of October. To begin earning your way to Aggie Express cash, look for the Aggie passport table at events. For the full lineup of events visit usu.edu/passport/events. —shelby.black@aggiemail.usu.edu @shelbsterblack
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WORLD-RENOWNED ARTIST COMES TO USU
Patrick Dougherty invites USU students to participate in building wood sculpture
“You have to be in the spot and mea-
sure the space to know what you are
going to make. That’s how I come up with a starting point for working,” Dougherty said.
While visiting Logan, Dougherty
noticed the beauty of Cache Valley.
“The mountains are so predominant.
They are so close and right at your doorstep,” Dougherty said.
During the weeks that the construction
will be taking place, students and community members will have to
opportunity to volunteer and work with the artist. As of now, the sign-up list is entirely full.
Dougherty had a message for his
volunteers.
“Get ready to work. We really have a
good time when we are building,” Dougherty said. “When they start
working with the sticks they learn a lot.
Patrick Dougherty will be working with USU students to construct a sculpture from tree saplings on campus. Dougherty’s project will run from Sept. 4 to Sept. 21.
By Shelby Black STUDENT LIFE SENIOR WRITER
Beginning Sept. 3 outside the Merrill
Cazier library, volunteers will be work-
ing with world renowned artist Patrick
Dougherty to install a sculpture on the
Utah State University campus.
Dougherty work can be found all over
the world. He has spent the last 30 years
building around 250 different pieces
with tree saplings. Dougherty’s work on
the Utah State campus will be the first
piece to be installed in Utah.
Craig Jessop, dean of the Cain College
of the Arts, said this will be the perfect
way to conclude the year of the Arts at USU.
“I only knew Patrick from reputation. I
was fascinated by what he did. I just knew I wanted him here. We spoke
about him even before we did Year of
the Arts planning,” Jessop said. “Now that it is happening, I can’t think of a better grand finale.”
Laura Gelfand, Art History Professor and
Overseer of the Dougherty project, ex-
plained just how sought-after Dougherty is. “We had to wait years. We had to get
on his calendar a while ago because he books years in advance,” Gelfand said.
PHOTO BY Timothy Carpenter
This highly anticipated installation at
Utah State will be a new treasure to the
art school and for the community as well. “It’s a wonderful visual symbol of
everything we celebrated during year of the arts. The very nature of Patrick’s
work creates community. It creates a
gathering place for people, and we know it will do the same here,” Jessop said. Gelfand also hopes that bringing
Doughtery to campus will help inspire fellow art students as well.
“I think bringing in major artists and
having them work shows students what is possible. It helps to have aspirational models,” Gelfand said.
Earlier in the summer, Dougherty came to
campus and scoped out where he wanted to construct the sculpture. He explained
A lot of people are really interested in trying it out and being a part of the activity.”
To see previous examples of Patrick
Dougherty’s work, there is currently an exhibition on display in the lower level of the library. Students can also hear
Dougherty speak at the Caine College of The Arts Deans Convocation on Sept.
18th at 5:30 p.m. in the Daines Concert
Hall. To celebrate the completion on the installation there will also be a ribbon
cutting ceremony on Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. To stay up to date on the construction
there will be a time lapse and livestream by the Arts school viewable at arts.usu. edu/willow.
—shelby.black@aggiemail.usu.edu @shelbsterblack
why this was important to his process.
“Labor Day” FROM PAGE 3 State. “But now that I know what Labor Day is really about, it gets me thinking about how labor laws have an effect on my job and income.” Nathanael Packard, a sophomore at Utah State, is studying economics and encourages students to learn more about our modern labor system. “As students, we should learn about how our labor system really works. If nothing else, having a basic knowledge of economics can help you avoid being taken advantage of by employers.” One of the biggest triumphs of the so-called “Labor Day Legislation” was the creation of a minimum wage. This is crucial legislation for students at Utah State, since young adults ages 16-24 are the most likely to be paid minimum wage, according to Pew Research Center. When this legislation first took effect, government officials determined minimum wage to be the minimum income that provided a man with the means to provide a modest but comfortable household for a small family, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division. Currently, minimum wage is determined by the government based on factors such as the financial and physical needs of workers and their families, worker and job productivity, comparable wages and requirements of social and economic development both locally and nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
The current two-tier wage system helps differentiate minimum wage from higher wages. The first tier in this system is considered to be minimum wage, a mandatory wage all workers must be given to improve coverage of employees and promote productivity and economic growth. The second tier is much less regulated and considered to be the voluntary amount employers pay employees that is above the minimum wage. Minimum wage varies state-to-state and is reviewed each year by each state’s Department of Labor and Employment. Minimum wage may change due to the department’s findings. The current minimum wage in Utah is $7.25 USD per hour. “I get paid minimum wage and I just do not understand how people can survive on such a small amount of money. Even working 40 hours a week is not enough to pay rent and still have money left over for food,” said Courtney James, a freshman at Utah State. Taylor Jinney, a senior at Utah State, gets paid $12.50 USD an hour, $5.25 more than the minimum wage. “I only work 20-30 hours a week with school, I think it is unreasonable to ask full-time students to work more than that, and I can barely survive on such a small amount of money.” — Brianne Sorensen @SorensenBrianne
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SPORTS
Utah State senior middle blocker Lauren O’Brien goes up for a block in Saturday afternoon’s match against Cal Poly. The Aggies were swept in tournament, falling to Cal Poly, UT-Rio Grande Valley and Loyola Marymount.
PHOTO BY Iain Laurence
Aggies swept in weekend tournament
By Lauren Lomeli SPORTS STAFF WRITER
Utah State volleyball endured a weekend of defeat by losing all three of their games during the USU Invitational. The first match for the Aggies was on Friday against University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, which ended in a three-set sweep in the Vaqueros favor. In the first set, the Aggies had a late lead and were about to take the first set at 23-21, but a four-point run boosted UTRGV into the winners spot. USU had 39 kills in the first set compared to UTRGV’s 47. “We need to kill the ball better,” commented USU head coach Grayson DuBose. “We need to get more kills. We need to find a way to do that. I didn’t think we did that very well today, killing the ball. Those are things we need to take care of so we can be where we want to be at the end of the season.” The Vaqueros went on to win the next two sets and finish out the match 25-19, and 25-20. The last game of day one of the Invitational for Utah State was against Loyola Marymount University. In the first set, the Lions took the lead early on while the Aggies trailed by a single point for a majority of the game, and ended set one 25-22. During the
second set against LMU, the teams experienced six lead changes, 17 ties, and five deadlocks past the 20-point mark which sent the the set into extra points. While tied 24-24, LMU had back-to-back kills to end the set 26-24 and then proceeded to win the next set 25-21. Utah State finished out the weekend against top 20 ranked Cal Poly on Saturday. The first set ended 25-19 with Cal Poly on top, but during the second set of the match the two teams were neck-and-neck with at least eight ties within the set. “I think the whole neck-and neck thing is just us staying focused,” stated senior setter Kassidy Johnson. “We don’t let them go on runs, and if they do go on a run we stop it as soon as we can and then we go on our own runs. That’s the most important part to us, as soon as we let them start going on a run, we dig ourselves in a hole. We are just not very good at coming back and catching up. Playing catch up is not our game. We just have to stay with them, if not keep the lead, and that’s how we win.” Sophomore outside hitter Gabbi Shumway was able to add another kill and tie the game at 22-22, while freshman middle blocker Corinne Larsen followed suit with another kill
to bring them to 23-23 before the Mustangs finished off the set 25-23. Cal Poly took control of the final set early on by adding five points to the board and leaving Utah State behind with nothing. USU was able to tie the game 10-10 before going on a fivepoint run and propelling themselves ahead in the match. Next came five more deadlocks, and a 16-16 tie before Cal Poly took the lead with a four-point run. After back-to-back kills by USU, the Aggies were not able to pull through and ended the final set 25-21.
“The biggest thing to take is we’re going to be better by the end than we are now. I like where we are gonna go. This tournament was as hard of a tournament than we have been in, in a few years,” DuBose said following the closing match of the weekend. The Aggies will play next on Tuesday night at 6 o’clock in Orem, where they will take on an in-state rival in Utah Valley University. @lomeli_lauren
PHOTO BY Iain Laurence Utah State celebrates after scoring a point in Saturday’s matchup with Cal Poly at the Wayne Estes Center. The Aggies lost all three sets to the Mustangs, 25-19, 25-23, and 25-21.
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PHOTO BY Al Goldis/AP Photo Utah State’s Gaje Ferguson, right, returns an interception for a touchdown against Michigan State’s Matt Dotson (89) as Utah State’s Chase Christiansen (48) trails during the third quarter of Friday’s football game in East Lansing, Mich. The Spartans won the game 38-31.
Utah State vs Michigan State: By the Numbers By Jaden Johnson SPORTS CONTENT MANAGER
Aggie football is FINALLY back, and so is my weekly “By the Numbers” column. In this week’s edition, I’m going to look at some of the most important statistics from Utah State’s 31-38 near-upset of No. 11 Michigan State.
25 - Number of rushing yards
Utah State earned
Last season, there were 875 college football games played at the FBS level. Of those 875 games, exactly two of them were won by teams who had 25 rushing yards or less. Yet, somehow, Utah State didn’t get completely blown out of the water in this game. Now, before you get too down on USU’s run game, you should understand how good Michigan State’s run defense is. Last season, they held three different P5 opponents to 25 rushing yards or less. They also held all but two opponents to 116 rushing yards or less. That’s ridiculous. While I don’t think that fully dismisses the poor running performance by the Aggies, it certainly makes it a little bit more understandable. Junior running back Darwin Thompson accounted for 28 of Utah State’s 25 total net rushing yards. Yeah, that’s right. He had 28 yards, while the rest of the team combined for -3. The Aggies did, however, do a nice job of punching the ball into the endzone, putting three rushing touchdown on a defense which only allowed 12 last season.
season, there were just four games in which 10 or more USU players caught passes (three of those were blowout wins), and this game was just the second time Jordan Love was able to find 10 different receivers in a game. What that tells me, is that even though the Aggies were facing one of the toughest defenses in the nation, Love felt comfortable enough in the pocket to be able to read the defense, move through his progressions and make the right throw. 65% of the time, to be exact. One of the worst kept secrets of the summer was the ridiculous depth Utah State has at the receiver and tight end posi-
tions, and Love did an excellent job of showcasing that to the nation on Friday night.
3:37 - Average USU time of
possession on scoring drives
I’ve seen and heard some people talking about how badly the Aggies got killed in the “time of possession battle,” which I think is silly. Yes, Michigan State possessed the ball for 37:44 to Utah State’s 22:16. However, that’s not entirely a negative thing. The Aggies showed that they are very capable of moving the ball quickly, effectively, and efficiently
when they need to. Matt Wells made it very clear heading into this game that his team would use an up-tempo, fast-paced offense to try to catch Michigan State off guard, and there was no better example of that than the seven play, 75-yard touchdown drive to begin the game which only took just over two minutes. Of course establishing a solid running game will help keep the ball out of their opponents hands, but if the offense is as efficient and the defense is as good as what we saw on Friday night, time of possession is the last thing for this team to worry about. see “By the Numbers” PAGE 7
10 - The number of Aggie players
who had a catch vs the Spartans
While, as I noted, Utah State’s rushing offense suffered in this game, it’s hard for Aggie fans to not get excited about what the offense was able to do through the air. Last
PHOTO BY Al Goldis/AP Photo Michigan State’s Felton Davis III (18) catches a pass in the end zone for a touchdown against Utah State’s Gaje Ferguson (23) during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in East Lansing, Mich.
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Local bands wow USU at Big Agg Show By Allison Allred STUDENT LIFE WRITER
Aggie Radio 92.3 KBLU, The Utah State University Student Association Series Committee and Utah State University came together Thursday for the annual Big Agg Show Music Festival. The festival featured a whole host of bands local to Utah, including The Cronies, The Backseat Lovers, Cinders, The Solarists, Grey Glass, Brother., Tiny Cartwheel, The Band VERA and The National Parks. The nine artists were divided among two stages on the USU Quad. The concert began at 5:30 p.m. and continued well past 11 p.m.. Many students and community members alike were a part of the show from the beginning and braved the heat of the earlier sets in hopes of catching the National Parks, who headlined the event. Aggie Radio music director, Lydia Velasquez was impressed with the show’s turnout. As the festival went along, the crowd continued to grow, and Velasquez was thrilled about the support the local bands were receiving. “I loved the effortless support given to the bands from everyone that came,” Velasquez said. “From Logan locals supporting Logan bands to people from other parts of Utah coming to support their favorites, to Utah State students seeing bands they’d never heard before.” Read the entire story and view more photos at usustatesman.com PHOTOS BY Tim Carpenter and Megan Nielsen
“Engineers” FROM PAGE 1 spring 2017 looking for a job. After working
on his internship for an engineering firm, he began working for me and has done a great job ever since,” Tullis said.
Barr relates that Thompson has been a
delight in class and through his research.
“He is the kind of person that you would not
only want to have in your company working
alongside of you but also with your friends at a football game,” Barr said.
Thompson’s goal is to graduate debt free
with a master’s degree, and among other
scholarships that he has received, this one will help him do that.
When Thompson isn’t working in the campus
water lab, he enjoys fishing, hiking, mountain
biking, snowboarding and hiking with his wife and family.
USU has helped Thompson not only achieve
his career goals, but has made an impact on his life for the better.
“As a first generation college student, I have
had a great experience at USU. I have made great friends and truly have found a profes-
sion that I am interested in, that is challeng-
ing, and that is meaningful for me,” Thompson said.
— kortni.marie.wells@aggiemail.usu.edu @kortniwells
“By the Numbers” FROM PAGE 6
3.9 - Allowed rushing yards per
attempt for Utah State
Remember how one of the major concerns
about this Aggie team coming into the season was how well they would be able to stop the
run? The USU defense doesn’t. After ranking 115th in the nation in total rush defense a
season ago, the Aggie defense marched into
East Lansing and had a pretty respectable day stopping the run. Now, holding an opponent
to 3.9 yards per rushing attempt isn’t groundbreaking, it truly isn’t even all that special.
But when you consider the competition USU
was facing, how badly they struggled to stop the run last season, and the fact that last
year’s leading tackler Suli Tamaivena wasn’t even on the field, it was a pretty solid
showing. Oh, that’s not even to mention the two ridiculous goal line stands where the
Spartans had first-and-goal inside the USU
three-yard line and were held to a field goal.
— jadencrockettjohnson@gmail.com
@jadenjohnson00
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OPINION
Column: The truth about PRIVILEGE By Diego Mendiola NEWS STAFF WRITER
If you are reading this article, you are probably
someone who is very privileged — more
privileged than billions of other people on this Earth — and this should be our starting point. We all experience privilege; having the
opportunity to attend university and expand our lives and minds is not a possibility for a vast majority of humans.
Now, let's accept privilege exists and that it is
“Black people make up nearly 40 percent of
America’s incarcerated population and are more than five times as likely as whites to be behind
listen. Those who aren’t privileged must be
patient and kind to those who are genuine in
their curiosity because it is in the best interest of all of us to learn more about each other.
Exercising our capacity for empathy is one of humanity’s greatest qualities.
From here, our point of privilege, we experi-
ence different lives. In this country and society this is reflected in institutional treatment
between genders, race, and wealth, among
others. And in the long run, the differences only benefits those at the top of the social pyramid. Some examples of privilege:
A white person will often have better access to
healthcare, to bank and mortgage loans, and to
education. Statistics show that black people are
approved at half the rate of their white counterparts.
And there are institutions that affect people of
color, in particular.
Remember Flint, Mich., that largely black
community that had lead in its drinking wate?
The crisis began in 2014, but the city has only in recent months declared the water safe to drink.
At peak levels, the lead could have hospitalized a child with one glass of water at 13,000 parts per billion. Lead is a neurotoxin that causes increases in violent behavior and decreased IQ in
children. Worse still, many in Flint still don’t believe their water is safe to drink.
Have an opinion you’d like to share? Email your letter to opinion@usustatesman.com.
bars,” the article read.
This is what racial and gender privilege
ultimately accomplishes — isolation, resentment and perpetuation of myths about generalized groups of people. And a divided populace is
Letters must not contain personal attacks or other inappropriate language and should be limited to 400 words or less. Anonymous letters will also not be published; please include your name and a phone number or email address (neither of which will be published).
weak and undermines democracy.
Why privilege isn’t always an advantage:
uncomfortable and socially harmful, even to its benefactors. I believe that the privileged must
Letters to the editor
A Mother Jones article by Eli Day highlighted
the disparity of intuitional treatment of others:
It may be hard for you to see how you are
privileged, even if your life isn’t particularly easy. You may not feel privileged if you are paying
school out of pocket, are in debt, sharing a room or struggling to gain friends. Your privilege
might not keep you from getting an MIP, or from going bankrupt or from getting fired — you might not see your own privilege.
You may be able to get out of that speeding
ticket, or have a family that will be able to pay your bail. People on the street might not find
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you suspicious or threatening or you might get paid more for the same work others do.
Even though your privilege isn’t your fault, it is
your responsibility to use it well. That’s why you should use your privilege in a positive and productive way by listening, learning and
accepting others experiences that differ from yours.
If you have learned to relate to those different
than you, flex that unsubstantiated credibility to
you are an activist, “it is not my job to educate
for it’s no secret our society is becoming more
help others. If you see racism, sexual harassment
you” can’t be a commonly adopted stance.
toward others, make sure you are checking on
no interest in having good faith conversations
help bridge the societal gaps by giving a hand,
behavior.
because nothing productive will come from
a positive community that has room for all
institutional, racial and gender slights that
because, as a group, we can’t afford to miss an
activist, or simply would like to improve
empathy and connection with those who you or
others understand your difficult experience. If
Our aim should be to increase social cohesion
or coercion, bigotry or general poor behavior
the person who is experiencing the victimizing Those of you who experience the many
Yes, there are many people out there who have
with you; those people should be dismissed
arguing. But be very careful who you dismiss
society dishes out, if you consider yourself an
opportunity to gain an ally, to experience
collective experience, try to help the privileged
I tend to see as alien and as wholly unrelatable.
divided politically, socially, and economically.
Instead of jaded cynicism try believing you can
showing solidarity and participating in building ranges of experience.
Diego Mendiola is a senior writing for the Utah
Statesman’s news vertical. Contact him with feedback at diego.mendiola.93@gmail.com.
AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER? By Kristian Fors OPINION STAFF WRITER
Freedom, however, is not the last word.
Freedom is only part of the story and half of
the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive
aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of
responsibleness. That is why I recommend
that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast
can partake in any form of redemption.
have pre-incident indicators.
states in his novel The Brothers Karamazov
Soviet gulag concentration camp system
pathological by birth, there is usually a
take yourself up, and make yourself
Archipelago. In the book, he goes into great
Preliminary empirical data indicates that
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a victim of the
and recorded his experiences in The Gulag detail to explain the atrocities that the
Soviet authorities committed. Interrogators would leave prisoners in boxes full of
bedbugs for 12 hours at a time, prison
guards would tie prisoners to logs and roll them down this one flight of 365 stairs in
on the West Coast.
that it is only one’s self that matters, neglecting the community at large. Are we not our brother’s keeper?
We are all capable of extreme malevo-
lence. If we do not take responsibility and
acknowledge the existence of evil and our
capacity to perpetuate it, it is possible that we will one day be subject to ideological
possession just like the Soviets and Nazis were.
Part of taking on responsibility means
recognizing that there is a part within all of
us that is capable of evil, and then checking it.
It’s a very old idea;, it’s the same idea illus-
trated in Dante’s Divine Comedy, namely
that you need to go through hell before you
psychopathy.
Imagine if people took responsibility for
the well being of other people. Imagine if we taught children that their behavior is
that is capable of evil.
been the source of almost all of the com-
interest has led to a commonly held belief
is potentially a causal factor for adulthood
there is a part within all of us
Our individualist and capitalist society has
been, its overwhelming emphasis on self
being a victim of bullying as an adolescent
ity means recognizing that
— Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
er, as great as capitalism’s benefits have
causal element when it comes to violence.
Part of taking on responsibil-
be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility
forts we experience in modern life. Howev-
This indicates that unless someone is truly
capable of sending
another one down a
path of resentment to the point where they could commit an atrocity.
Our behavior impacts
the Solovetsky camp, prisoners would be
other people.
among many other unimaginable forms of
conflate the right to do something with
beaten for the guards’ entertainment, torture.
But here’s the crazy part — Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn did not blame them for their
behavior. He recognized that if one or two
circumstances had been different in his life, then he would have been the perpetrator and probably would have enjoyed it.
“If only it were all so simple! If only there
were evil people somewhere insidiously
committing evil deeds, and it were neces-
sary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being,” he said.
Security and threat analysis experts such
as Gavin De Becker have come out and stated that there is no such thing as a
random act of violence. Almost all incidents
Freedom is dangerous. We often tend to
sponsorship of it. I do not think that this message is stated enough. Whenever
something is legalized, said behavior
that, “There is only one salvation for you: responsible for all the sins of men. For
indeed it is so, my friend, and the moment you make yourself responsible for everything and everyone, you will see at once that it is really so, that it is you who are guilty on behalf of all and for all.”
We underestimate the degree to which we
impact those around us and the overall
world. We need to return to the adoption of individual responsibility to ensure maximum human well-being.
In my own life, I have tried to embrace the
philosophy of Solzhenitsyn and have
admitted to myself that oftentimes I cannot
blame another for their behavior even if it’s
hard to do so at times. While it’s difficult, in those situations in which I’ve approached
from this perspective, a mindset of understanding, things have seemed to work out well in the end.
Things especially tend to go well when I
increases. For example, just because
assume guilt for whatever problem arises,
good decision to use it.
behind trivial matters and figuratively
marijuana is legal does not mean that it is a Freedom provides us a domain in which
we can act, it does not identify the range in which we should act. As Frankl said, freedom is a danger unless we use it
responsibly. Likewise, we certainly have the right to ignore each other and continue to exist in a purely self-interested way, but that is not the proper way we should
even if another person “started it.” Put
speaking, carry your cross. Take responsibility for the world. Not only is this what is best for society, but as Viktor Frankl said “the way in which he takes up his cross,
gives him (man) ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances to add a deeper meaning to his life.”
conduct ourselves.
Kristian Fors is a student at Utah State Universi-
again look at the world through the lens of
opinion columnist for the Utah Statesman. He
We need a paradigm shift and to once
individual responsibility. Fyodor Dostoevsky
ty majoring in Finance and Economics and is an can be reached at krfors@gmail.com.
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PINE Album Release 7:30 p.m. PINE is coming back to the Cache for the release of their new album, Nibiru! The Last Lost Continent and Big Sis will be joining them that night for a killer show you won’t forget. Tickets are $8, you can get them on our website or at the door. Doors open at 7:30 and music starts at 8:30! 119 S Main Street Logan, UT
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