The Utah Statesman, February 6, 2012

Student leaders rally for education

BY BRIANNA BODILY staff writer

New program to cut campus emissions;

BY MARISSA SHIELDS staff writer

Faculty and staff

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$10 of their travel reimbursement checks to projects that promote sustainability on campus, said Nat Frazer, chairman of the USU Sustainability Council.

"We wanted it to be voluntary," Frazer said.

"We wanted it to be a tax-deductible donation to the university, and so we needed to work closely with the Controller's Office and the Development Office to see if that could be done."

After a trip and before a reimbursement is paid, faculty members can review the reimbursement form. If they so choose, faculty members can check a box to donate $10 of their reimbursement to the Carbon Offset Program, Merrill said.

"We just took a look at what we had as far as our travel and expense management system, and we decided how we could modify it to accommodate this type of contribution," Merrill said.

Unlike other universities, USU is not buying carbon credits. People participating in carbon-emitting activities, such as flying in an airplane, can buy carbon credits to off:.et tht: emissions.

The carbon credit company will then plant trees to help soak up carbon dioxide, Frazer said. The catch is these trees aren't planted locally, he said. The College of the Atlanti~ in Maine claims to have achieved zero carbon emissions, Frazer said, but it buys carbon credits that plant trees in Oregon, not helping Maine's environment at all.

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"We just made a commitment that we weren't going to buy carbon credits," Frazer said. "We started trying to figure out other ways that we might do it."

Instead of using carbon credit companies, USU officials decided they wanted to keep efforts local, Frazer said. Donations will be used to make improvements at USU that reduce carbon emissions. Their first project is replacing gas lawn mowers with electric or propane mowers, which burn less carbon.

Future projects depend on the success. of the program, Frazer said. The amount of money the program raises depends on how many

Students welcome Year of the Dragon

BY STEVE KENT news editor

Students and community members welcomed the Year of the Dragon during the Chinese New Year Banquet in the TSC Ballroom on Saturday.

"We want people beside Chinese to know about the lunar new year, and the Chinese culture as well," said Vivian Kwok, Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) vice president of Student Life.

The two-hour banquet included musical, dance and spoken-word presentations by Chinese students, followed by fireworks on the HPER Field. One event, titled "If You Are the One," was tailored after a datingbased TV show popular in China.

CSSA hosted the banquet, and local Chinese restaurants Black Pearl, Royal Express and Mandarin Garden Restaurant contributed. The fireworks display, which had to be cut short due to strong wind, was sponsored by ASUSU and the Science Council.

CSSA President Chao Guo said USU students came to the banquet, but members of the Cache Valley Chinese community and students from other universities in Utah and Idaho were also in attendance.

USU President Stan Albrecht and other university officials were also in attendance. Guo said he invited Albrecht one day when he saw him in the Taggart Student Center and was pleased that he came.

Guo said the Year of the Dragon began THE ANNUAL CHINESE NEW YEAR BANQUET brought together students and community members to

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tion in its banquet, giving an envelope containing a raffle ticket to each guest. During the celebration, tickets were called and attendees won prizes, including an iPod Shuffle, Chanel Chance Eau Tend.re perfume and a Nintendo Wii video game console.

Qi Fei, a graduate student from China studying biological engineering, attended the banquet with his friends Della Esparza, a freshman from Colorado majoring in Asian Studies, and Yoshi Heshiki, a graduate student from Japan studying biological engineering.

Fei said he enjoyed the show because he had friends among the performers.

The majority of speaking during the event was in Chinese, with some of the announcements between performances spoken in Chinese and English.

"I think they should have added some English," Fei said. The performances were nice for Chinese speaking guests, but he thought his friends didn't understand some of the show, he said.

"Everything was in Chinese," Esparza said. "It would have been more interesting if I could understand it."

Fei compared the Chinese New Year with holidays traditionally celebrated with families in America.

"It's just like Thanksgiving or Christmas," he said. Guo said because many Chinese students can't

spend New Year's with family, they look forward to the traditional CSSA banquet. Spending the new year in the U.S., Kwok said she

missed the red packets and the food. Were she in China to celebrate the new year, she said she would've spent the first day of the year with her husban~'s family and the second with her own. - steve.kent@aggiemail.usu. edu

Monday, Feb. 6, 2012

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economy.

"It all starts with re.search to guide our actions," the Prosperity 2020 website states. "In the future, education will be even more important. If we want a prosperous future, if we want to succeed in a global knowledge- and skills-based economy, if we want to expand opportunities for our children and grandchildren we must invest and innovate in education."

Beginning the day on the Hill with the rally, the students then split into meetings with 53 of Utah's legislators. Mikkelson said the hope was to communicate their positions to the men and women who can make a difference.

"It was a great exchange," said Rep.

Jack Draxler, R-North Logan. "They helped me understand the student's perspective about why it's i~portant that we have aqequate funding for higher education - why it's important to have world-class researchers and st11ff."

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Student appreciation night at the Spectrum

Thursday, Feb. 9 has been designated Student Appreciation Night at USU's Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. Both the women's and men's basketball teams take on Louisiana Tech, starting with the women's game at 4 p.m. followed directly by the men's game.

Student Appreciation Night is made possible through the efforts of Trademarks and Listening, Athletics and the USU Bookstore.

The first 200 students to arrive will receive free pizza, courtesy of USU Athletics.

Students can look forward to discount coupons being distributed in the Spectrum.

Students are also encouraged to vote in two national contests for "Best Student Section." Fans can cast their votes for USU on the Facebook pages of "GEICO Best of College Basketball" and "I Love College Hoops."

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"It was really cool to that."

IStudents taking part in tHe meetings said they felt encouraged by the enthusiasm of the legislators and tlie progress made with each one. Jessica Daniels, a USU student who participated in the event, said she spoke with legislators when she was in high school, and it felt good to get involved be on kind of a council position with legislators here that are for our views and totally understand where we're coming from," Daniels said. "They agree that higher education is getting overlooked and that we need more funding."

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David Smith, a University of Utah student and representative for Education First, sajd

Friday was a good start but only the beginning of the movement. Volunteers plan to stay politically involved until the government gives higher education the support it requires. "We want to make sure we're staying on the radar," Smith said. "We are going to get involved in the caucus meetings and students are going to continue to be a part of

Students aren't the only citizens getting involved. Organizers have engaged community members, faculty and administrators throughout Utah in the movement.

caucus meetings as possible, we're either getting somebody elected or we're raising the (awareness) of education and making sure it is on the radar for those delegates who are putting these things in line."

"We'll be training folks on campuses how to go to their caucus meetings and teaching them how to get elected as a delegate," Smith said. "So as many - brianna.b@aggiemail. usu.edu

Sustainability Council looking for green ideas from students

The Controller's Office processes about 20,000 travel authorizations per year, said Megan Maples, accounting assistant in the Controllers Office. Every day, there are 200-300 travel authorizat_lQn§. in circulati9n, Merrill said. Anyone who travels on school business, such as picking up a guest speaker from the airport, can be p · to the reimbursement system, said. cause the Carbon Offset co,npletely voluntary, ffl fo know how success1.iDna.liifolllraith will be, Frazer said. bade in six months, and I'll tell you 'how much we've got," he said. A former faculty member of the English department, Chris Cokinos, formulated the idea, but the creation of the program was a group task, Frazer said. Cokinos had the inspiration, Frazer took the idea to the president's Executive Council and Pr sident Stan Albrecht came up with idea'ori,'\ilhng?"' a tion check box on reimbursement forms, Frazer said.

.Maples, Ryan Merrill, the database amator, and Sharyn Bradfield, t resident for business and fi in the Controller's Office,

worked to implement the program, he said. Over the course of the semester, the Sustainability Council will ask people for ideas on future projects, Frazer said. Purchasing carbonefficient lawn mowers will cost $10,000-$20,000. After the money is raised, the council will look for new projects, he said.

"There are lots of different things we could do, but, my guess is, when we open this project up and ask people for ideas, they'll come up with things we haven't even thought of

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that are better than what we thought of," he said.

A moderately expensive project is putting a green roof on the MerrillCrazier Library, he said. Green roofs are built to house plants and can reduce heat inside buildings during summer, he added, which can double the life of the roofs.

The library was built to support a green roof, but plants and a necessary irrigation system weren't funded with the building, he said. The project would cost $100,000-$200,000.

Frazer said Facilities has been working toward sustainable initiatives for years. They've replaced lightbulbs with florescent bulbs and retrofitted buildings to make them more energy efficient, and new buildings are built to be energy efficient, he said.

Facilities also waters the lawns with recycled water, and dining services eliminated trays in dining rooms to save water and reduce food waste, he said.

USU officials enacted the Glimate Action Plan in 2010, a strategy to decrease carbon emissions to zero by 2050, Frazer said. Albrecht was the first university president in Utah to sign the American College

and University Presidents Climate Commitment, and he was one of the first 100 in the nation, Frazer said. Nationwide, 674 colleges have signed the climate commitment, he added.

Frazer said he cre'j!its the students for voting to increase their student fees to create their own sustainability office.

"This is the opportunity for the faculty and the staff to join the (Facilities) people and the students in being more sustainable," Frazer said.

"We've got the university operations. We've got the students on board. And so now the faculty and the staff can follow the good example that the students have set."

Bradfield said she was most excited that the money earned from the program is staying in Cache Valley and not being sent across the nation.

"We hope it will contribute to a healthier, happier environment here in Cache Valley," Merrj.ll said.

"USU is pretty big in the valley, and if we can reduce our footprint, it will be beneficial to all the valley's residents," Merrill said.

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A paper recently published in a leading international chemistry journal by USU graduate student Timur Galeev has been selected as a "Very Important Paper."

Galeev is first author on the article, published in the Feb. 1 online issue of "Angewandte Chemie International Edition," a journal of the German Chemical Society.

"The 'VIP' designation means that Timur's paper is among the top 5 percent of articles selected by the journal's referees," said Alexander Boldyrev, professor in USU's department of chemistry and biochemistry and faculty mentor to Galeev. "This is an impressive honor from a prestigious journal and an impressive accomplishment for a doctoral student."

Boldyrev is quick to point out that Galeev has published 10 papers in peer-reviewed journals in the past year and a half. The doctoral student's paper in "Angewandte Chemie" details the research team's successful production of a molecular nanowheel that achieves the highest coordination number for a central atom to date.

"It's a new record," Boldyrev said.

USU scientist helps with evolution study

For the first time, scientists have measured how fast large-scale evolution can occur in mammals. The answer is 24 million generations for a mouse-sized animal to evolve to the size of an elephant.

USU's Morgan Ernest is among the authors of the study published Jan. 31 in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." She and her colleagues describe increases and decreases in mammal size following the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

"The demise of dinosaurs provided vast evolutionary opportunities for mammals," said Ernest, associate professor and co-director of graduate programs in USU's department of biology. "It is well known in biology that size profoundly influences everything from how quickly a species reproduces to its vulnerability to extinction."

The research team of 20 biologists and paleontologists, led by Alistair Evans of Australia's Monash University's School of Biological Sciences, discovered size rates decrease much faster than growth rates. It takes only 100,000,:: generations for very large decreas- ":] es, leading to dwarfism, to occur. •~

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cake shaped as a cat? All of these delicacies might be found at the 25th annual Benefit Valentine's Day Chocolate Festival held on Saturday. The Logan Chocolate Festival has raised money for the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and the Logan Health Center. After a number of years of being held at the Whittier Center, the festival has moved to Hamilton's on Main Street in North Logan. Before the chocolate festival came into existence, the event committee wasn't sure what it could to do

to raise more money and awareness for students and uninsured people who use the Logan Planned Parenthood Clinic and the Health Center, said Nancy Sassono, a festival committee member.

"We just weren't sure how something like that would go," Sassono said.

1'And we still, every time, sit there biting our nails thinking 'Will people come?' or 'Will there be enough food?' And of course, there always is more than enough."

There are plenty of regulars who enter the contest, Sassono said.

"It's great, every year the list grows," she said. "We have some people who've been faithful from the beginning."

Street Grill and first-time contestant. Friday was Center Street Grill's sixth Man vs. Grill competition, which Miller said was started up just so locals could have something different and fun to do. To win, each contestant must clean his or her plate in a 45-minute time period. There are no bathroom trips and vomiting in the tin wash tub means disqualification.

"We give each ofthem a barf bucket, but no one has needed to use it, yet," said Jordan Jeppson, a Center Street Grill employee and social work major at USU.

"Out of the 30 people who have attempted the challenge, three have actually finished." In the main dining area is a wall tacked with pictures of those who failed and those who conquered the giant burger.

After Friday, one of the seven contestants was added to the "Wall of Fame." Contestants ranged from elementary school children to fathers to hungry teenage boys. Contestants' family members and friends sat nearby to watch, slurping milkshakes and munching on baskets offries.

Just after 7 p.m., an air horn

sounded, starting the clock, and contestants dug in - most tackling the

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The Festival, which began at 6:30 p.m., consisted of taste testing, silent and live auctions and judging of the chocolate entries. The judges were people who have previously entered the contest, who are renowned chefs in the Valley and who have culinary expertise, Sassano said.

For judging, all entries were split into either the amateur or professional categories, after which the judges voted for the top entries in each one. Public taste testers could sample any of the delicacies available and vote for the people's choice award.

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LMFAO almost knows how to throw a party

If you read my column consistently, you might see I occasionally get into a rut. Lesser-known indie artists are the ones I get excited about and f9llow, so they tend to appear in my columns often. For all of you partyrockers out there, I am revealing one of my darkest secrets this week by sharing my personal love for the dance floor.

There is a certain energy that is on the dance floor, a brotherly camaraderie that can't be found anywhere but when you're dancing furiously to a DJ's custom mix. Being drenched in a delightful concoction of your own sweat and the sweaty bodies of hundreds of other people in the room does something to your senses. This feeling led me to review one of my favorite party artists out there, LMFAO.

Their album "Sorry For Party Rocking" has rocked the music scene since the day it was released last June. With great singles like "Party Rock Anthem" and "Sexy and I Know It," most everyone has seen the hit videos and try to "shuffle 'ery day," but has anyone really heard

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"Sorry for Party Rocking"

Grade: Bthe full album? This week I'm going to dissect the album and see if it is worth six bucks on Amazon or just worth buying the few hit singles from. This debate over depth and lyrics has been around since the ushering in of the rap era in the 1980s. The question remains: What is more important, what you say or how you say it? I would argue that on a day-today basis, people decide to listen to different genres because they have different moods throughout the day. People demand songs that move

the body and songs that move the soul, but sometimes the two don't mix. Like balancing a scale, there are two musical forces in this world: the party and the day-to-day. With each deep, thought provoking song, there is an extremely shallow song about getting girls and getting drunk to even it out. "Sorry for Party Rocking" is great for partying, but if you want lyrics, search elsewhere, friends. If you "came here to rock the house," this album is the way to go.

The first step to listening to LMFAO is to get into some leopard jeans and blast it over big speakers. If that is unavailable, go to the club. If it's a Monday or a Thursday afternoon, then headphones work just as well. The album starts off strong with "Rock The Beat II," which leads you to believe the album is all about laughs and good times, but then drops you into a dubstepesque beat to roll into the title track "Sorry For Party Rocking." The party keeps it real with a stadium-style chanting of the iconic title. After this, "Party Rock Anthem" shuffles through with bubbly catchy beats,

great rap and danceable leads. If you haven't already, watch the wonderfully choreographed video of the song on YouTube. Even if you don't like dance music, the parodies or the song's choreography is sure to do something for you. My favorite song, "Sexy and I Know It," is a romp about being checked out by everyone in the club and having "passion in his pants" and not being afraid to show it. Surprisingly, not only does it have a well-crafted beat, but it has artfully made lyrics that fly you away to an idealized world of the club. It makes me want to jump up and strut my stuff - even if my stuff is nothing to write home about. It takes a skill to make even the un-sexy of us feel great, and putting on the shoes of Red Foo does just that. "Champagne Showers" is the next song on the list, ending the singles that make up the first half of the album. Sky Blu takes the lead and raps his and the listener's heart out, but this song is the end of the greatness. Just like the party where you are getting tired but you want to

Chocolate show brings out Logan community, raises money we have the right to take it and offer it in the live auction," Sassano said. "When we bring it to the live auction it's gomg to go (or a lot more."

Chocolate desserts and delitacies were not the only things auctioned. Several local businesses donated goods, services and meals for the auctions, too.

"There are a couple different people who offer dinners they make in their own home and groups of eight will bid on the;IP, Sas~ono said. "It just sffows the tenerosity of people donating their time and exper:tise."

At last year's festival, tp.1ee different groups bid

on a Spanish tapas and wine tasting package. After some nego1fltion, the couple offeriug t · d o'it tru'll,C,( s a.ratE:. times if each group

paid the final bidding price of $1,300.

Offering a final opportunity for festival-goers to walk away with something good, were grab-and-go bags available for $10 each.

"That's become a really popular way for some people to take something back from the Chocolate Festival without having to have the stress of bidding, or,,being able to spend a little less money," Sassano said.

People who may want to participate in the festival but not enter desserts have the option of volunteering at the event. This year there were more than 30 volunteers, said Keith G'rant-Davie, the member of the committee in charge of organizing the volunteers. 'It just shows that there's lots of support for the cause in

the valley," Grant-Davie said of this year's 25th anniversary turnout. "It's great this year."

"There's a wide range of applications to chocolate," Sassano said. "Chocolate things are not strictly the only delicacies served and auctioned. Entries in the past have included chocolate sushi or chili chocolate, and there is sometimes an entire category that is un-chocolate desserts."

One of the best things about the festival, said volunteer Shelby Frauen, is the strong community feel that is brought by the people at the event. Many of the people who attend are the kind of people she said "you don't see in main Logan all the time "

Frauen is a member of VOX, Voices of Planned Parenthood, an organization that works closely with Planned

Parenthood to raise funds. Last year the festival brought in almost $23,000 for Planned Parenthood. The event is the biggest source of income for the non-profit organization, Sassano said.

Many members of the community and students flocked to the Chocolate Festival on Saturday night to enter desserts, volunteer or just to enjoy a little bit of Valentine's fun in the valley.

"We try to make a little bit of everything for anybody," Sassano said More information about the Festival can be found at www. thechocolatefestival.org.

- mandy.m.morgan@aggiemail.usu.edu

keep it going, the album keeps the beat, great synths and bass, but it is nothing to brag or even care about. The lyrics aren't as catchy and the rap beat feels similar to "Party Rock Anthem" and other singles. It's like the duo is providing aspiring DJ's with fodder to make a new dance party, but alone it isn't great. The beat is still fun and keeps it going, but, regrettably, the tracks aren't worth it.

Bottom Line: LMFAO's album "Sorry For Party Rocking" is perfect for any party, especially the singles at the beginning of the album. Busta Rhymes makes an appearance in "Take it to the Hole," but, other than that, the middle songs are bland and are only good to keep the party going. For the price on Amazon of $5.99, it is worth downloading the album, but if you are the breed of people who just likes singles, then buy alone. Overall, I give the album a B minus. - a/exander.h.van_oene®aggiemail. usu.edu

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Hairdresser sees diversity in campus hairdos

BY MACKENZI VAN ENGELENHOVEN

features senior writer

Not many barbershops in Logan are visited daily by clients from all over the world. But in the lfSU Barbershop on the bottom floor of the Taggart Student Center, there is a map of the world with colored pins stuck in every continent. The pins represent the home countries of barbershop visitors.

"We get people from all over the world every day," said Stephanie DeFillipps, USU Barbershop employee. "I gave someone from Poland a haircut this morning."

DeFilipps, a senior majoring in communication studies, said the div&rsity of the clientele is just one thing that keeps her job as a stylist at the USU Barbershop exciting.

A Tremonton native, DeFilipps went to beauty school in 2007 before serving an LDS mission in Australia. Upon her return, she decided she wanted to go back to school and earn her degree, and she chose to attend USU. After she arrived on campus, she began looking for an on-campus job that would fit into a busy student schedule. When she heard the barbershop was hiring, she applied, and quickly joined the shop's fiveperson team.

DeFilipps said her co-workers keep the job fun and exciting.

"We all get along so well," she said. "I always think I'm going to try to do homework when

we aren't busy, but mostly I end up chatting with them. We play games, too, like trivia games, and sometimes we even order pizza."

For DeFilipps, an average day includes arriving early at the barbershop and working on homework or socializing with her co-workers between haircuts.

"Haircuts come in and out, and the number we do vary every day," she said. "We're like a restaurant. Sometimes we're very busy, and other times it's very slow."

DeFillips said she loves her job at the barbershop, because it means spending time with her co-workers and seeing her friends who either pass through the TSC or come to get their hair cut.

DeFilipps said most of the people who come in for haircuts are male students and professors.

"I think girls are a little more hesitant, because it 1S called a barbershop," she said. "And for lots of girls, getting a haircut on campus can be a turnoff. They don't want to have to walk around with their hair wet."

DeFilipps said professors are the barbershop's most steady clients. She said they also cut the hair of university President Stan Albrecht, who comes in frequently.

"He's so nice," she said of Albrecht. "I've been so impressed by him."

DeFilipps said the barbershop is a way students can save money. The prices are competi-

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tive - $13 for a haircut - and ahead of time, so we can bring the location can be convenient in all our stuff," she said. "But for students on the go. it can be a good idea. Color can "Haircuts aren't something be so expensive, and if you're you want to skimp on," she said. paying $100 for a color treat• "They can be expensive." ment, you feel like you have to be

Avoid gloomy colors this spring

The weather forecast may still be dark and gloomy, but in the fashion world spring has arrived.

The highly anticipated runway shows for spring and summer are over and new trends are already making their way into the mainstream market.

While the fall runways focused on rich retro hues, dramatic hemlines and classic • prints, designers really shook things up for spring.

This season, the top runway shows showcased a wide range of looks, all oi which played on the concept of opposites, such as pastel versus neon, feminine details versus sporty minimalism and delicate prints versus bold geometric prints.

Despite the variety of looks, the spring runways all seemed to share a sense of energy and optimism.

It is precisely that sense of energy that inspired fashion gurus everywhere to crown "tangerine tango" as the "it" color for spring 2012.

Pantone, the authority on the trends and science of color, has even named the vibrant orange hue as its color of the year for 2012.

Though orange hues aren't always the easiest to wear, this shade has a rich, red base that makes it universally flattering on all skin tones.

Here are some tips on how to pull off the season's musthave hue.

Think skin

When wearing particularly bright colors, it's important to keep your skin tone in mind. If you have fair skin, try wearing prints with tangerine accents or use tangerine accessories, rather than wearing the color llf!&d to toe. Avoid wearing bright colors close to your face as they tend to wash you out. The further away a bright color is from your face, the more flattering it will look. If you have an olive or dark complexion, feel free to wear as much of this vibrant orange as you want. Sunny hues like tangerine tend to compliment darker skin tones beautifully, so wear as much of it or as little as you'd like.

All in the details

Trends are called trends because they usually don't stick

around for too long. If you're not ready to make a commitment to the mighty tangerine, try adding splashes of color to your wardrobe through accessories. Buy a tangerine bag, beaded necklace, belt, etc. You'll still get yoar Vitamin C fix, and when the trend is gone you won't have a closet full of orange.

Tone it down

Because tangerine is a rich and vibrant hue, always wear it with more toned-down colors and neutrals. Pair tangerine with dark denim, charcoal gray, navy or white. If you're wearing a print that has tangerine, you have a little more leeway to pair it with bright colors. Use your best judgment. Although this spring is all about blocking bright colors you don't want to overdo it.

Update your makeup

Color trends don't apply to clothing alone, you can also incorporate them to your makeup routine. This season's orange was used everywhere from nails to eyes. Pair a red-orange lipstick or lipstain with neutral eyes and a little bronzer on your cheekbones.

Trade in your classic black or brown eye liner for a bold orange eye-crayon. Pair it with nude lips and don't be afraid to add extra coats of mascara which will help the eye crayon pop. Try a tangerine manicure. Wear it alone or pair it with nail art. Geometric prints are big this spring, and this goes for nails as well.

The key to pulling off bright makeup is to focus only on one area of the face. If you want to focus on the eyes, keep the lips simple, and vice versa. Although there are some signs of spring, it's still a little too early to bring out your favorite sundresses and shorts. However, it's never too early to start experimenting and shopping for new trends and styles.

Adding a little tangerine to your style regimen is a great way to give stuffy fall wardrobes a breath of fresh air, and by the time spring rolls around you will have mastered your new spring/ summer look.

- Jimena Herrero is a liberal arts major minoring in journalism. She attended ABM in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and majored in fashion design. Her column runs once a month. Comments or suggestions on how she can keep you trendy? E-mail her at jimena.h@aggiemail.usu.edu

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barbecue sauce and 4 ounces of ranch were drizzled on the patties and buns - not to mention the mayonnaise. Between mouthfuls, Dmitri made good use of the dish towel he was given. While some contestants consistently used their forks and knives to make a dent in their burgers, others peeled it apart, eating it layer by layer.

With lO minutes left in the burger competition, all but two ofthe contestants stopped eating: Jake Crawford, a 16-year-old from Ogden, and 21 -year-old Hyrum tire technician, David Sessions. Crawford folded the bottom bun and patty into a taco shape, and said he doubted he would finish, while Sessions only had the toppings and bun left to consume. With five minutes remaining, the crowd huddled around the table and cheered while Sessions dipped the buns into his cup of water and shoved them into his mouth. Five seconds from the buzzer, Sessions lifted his hands and revealed his tongue to the audience.

For defeating the mammoth burger, Sessions

Difilipps said she encourages students to consider coming in to the barbershop for their next haircut.

"We love the student population," she said. "The barbershop is a competitive and convenient choice for their next haircut." -

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received $50 in Center Street Grill gift certificates, a T-shirt, a barf bucket and $20 to reimburse him for the cost of the burger, Jeppson said.

"There was a guy who did this competition before who had a few bites left, but couldn't finish,• Miller said.

"He told his young daughter that ifhe didn't finish she couldn't go to college. She put her head down on the table and cried, telling him he had to eat it" Sessions, buried his face in his palms while his friends and family pat him on the back. He could only speak with hand gestures.

"I feel awesome," he said, while his friends laughed.

"My stomach fee1s all right," Jake said. "I just couldn't handle that barbecue sauce. It just didn't taste good anymore."

With one pound of food left on Jake's plate, a waitress boxed it up to save for later, and Jake said he would have no problem eating more hamburger the next day. - catherine.meidell@ aggiemail.usu.edu

'The Artist' a sure Academy Award contender

BY MACKENZI VAN ENGELENHOVEN features senior writer

Best Picture Nominees: "The Artist" "The Descendants"

"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" "Hugo" "Midnight in Paris" "The Help" "Moneyball"

"War Horse"

"The Tree of Life"

It still baffles me that "The Help" made this list and "My Week with Marilyn" didn't. "The Help" was a clunky bookto-movie adaptation that didn't really do anything for me, except remind me that I want to grow up to be Emma Stone. Fortunately, I don't think "The Help" has a shot. The two most powerful contenders for this statue are "The Artist" and "The Descendants," both of which took top honors at the Golden Globes. Both are solid films, but "The Artist" is not only incredibly well made, but also an artistic - no pun intended - and downright beautiful movie. The Academy Awards are meant to celebrate the best in cinema. Hopefully a movie this unique and creative will not go unrecognized.

Who Should Win: "The Artist" Who Will Win: "The Artist"

include Tilda Swinton for "We Need to Talk About Kevin." And Glenn Closewhere did she come from?

I am crossing my fingers for Michelle Williams, who is on her third nomination without a win. She was absolutely stunning as Marilyn Monroe, but I'm preparing for Meryl to add another statue to her collection. "The Iron Lady" may have been a snoozer, but Meryl Streep was phenomenal as Margaret Thatcher. It's been long enough since "Sophie's Choice." I think we're starting to take her awesomeness for granted.

Who Should Win: Michelle Williams for "My Week with Marilyn" Who Will Win: Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady"

The best director statue and best picture typically go hand in hand, and I stand by what I said with best picture: Hazanavicius deserves it in recognition of his creative and flawless throwback to the Golden Age of Cinema.

Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"

Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, "Bridesmaids"

"Bridesmaids" was not my cup of tea, but the fact that it even got a nomination from an Academy that doesn't approve of laughter in movies is a triumph for the comedy genre. Women, love it or hate it, "Bridesmaids" was a groundbreaking and stereotype-shattering film, and I'd love to see Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo get a little recognition for that. Best screenplay would be a perfect Oscar for them, because "Bridesmaids" isn't best picture material, but deserves a nod. Even though it's strange to think of a silent movie winning best screenplay, I'm going with "The Artist."

Peter Straughn, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"

I can't imagine there will be much of a competition in this category, especially if "The Descendants" gets shafted for best picture. The screenplay of the film is very well done, and an Oscar in this category would be a nice "good for you" nod for the film.

Who Should Win: "The Descendants" Who Will Win: "The Descendants"

JEAN DUJARDIN

Best Actor: Demian Bichir, "A Better Life" George Clooney, "The Descendants" Jean Dujardin, "The Artist" Gary Oldman, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Brad Pitt, "Moneyball" George Clooney was fine in "The Descendants." He was his usual Clooneyish self: solid and smoking. It was his performance alongside the supporting cast that really made this movie shine. If we want to give him an Oscar, why didn't we do it for "Up in the Air"? Jean Dujardin, on the other hand, needs to be commended for his knock-out performance in a film with zero dialogue. I was glad to see Gary Oldman got a little love, and the nomination for Demian Bichir was one of this year's completely leftfield oddballs. Really, it's a race between Clooney and Dujardin. Clooney is great, but we've seen him before. Let's celebrate something - and someone - new.

Who Should Win: Jean Dujardin for "The Artist" Who Will Win: George Clooney for "The Descendants"

Best Actress: Glenn Close, "Albert Nobbs" Viola Davis, "The Help" Rooney Mara, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady'' Michelle Williams, "My Week With Marilyn"

I still can't look at this category without being absolutely floored by the fact that it doesn't

JONAH HILL

Best Supporting Actor: Kenneth Branagh, "My Week With Marilyn" Jonah Hill, "Moneyball" Nick Nolte, "Warrior" Christopher Plummer, "Beginners" Max Von Sydow, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"

This is the only category that really isn't a race. It's going to be Christopher Plummer, though it's less of an Oscar for this particular film and more just to recognize his incredible 40-plus-year career that has gone without a nod from the Academy. It's a giant pat on the back for everything that's happened since he strapped on his guitar and broke out the "Edelweiss" with Julie Andrews.

Who Should Win: Christopher Plummer for "Beginners" Who Will Win: Christopher Plummer for "Beginners"

Best Supporting Actress: Berenice Bejo, "The Artist" Jessica Chastain, "The Hel " Melissa McCarthy, "Bridesmaids" Janet McTeer, "Albert Nobbs" Octavia Spencer, "The Help"

I don't feel great about anyone in this category. Berenice Bejo is cute, Janet McTeer is consistent and I still have no idea what Melissa McCarthy is doing here. At least one of the winners is probably going to come from "The Help," and I'd rather it be Jessica Chastain, even though her Southern trophy wife role is probably the least important thing she did this year. If we can't give her the Oscar, can we at least find a "you had an awesome year" statue?

Who Should Win: Jessica Chastain, "The Help"

Who Will Win: Octavia Spencer, "The Help"

Best Director: Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris" Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist" Terrence Malick, "The Tree of Life" Alexander Payne, "The Descendants" Martin Scorsese, "Hugo"

WOODY ALLEN

Who Should Win: Michel Hazanavicius for "The Artist"

Who Will Win: Michel Hazanavicius for "1he Artist"

Best Original Screenplay Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"

J.C. Chandor, "Margin Call"

Asghar Farhadi, "A Separation''

Who Should Win: "Bridesmaids" Who Will Win: "The Artist"

Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxton and Jim Rash, "The Descendants" John Logan, "Hugo"

George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, "The Ides of March"

Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, "Moneyball"

Bridget O'Connor and

PUSS IN BOOTS

Best Animated Feature "A Cat In Paris" "Chico and Rita" "Kung Fu Panda 2" "Puss in Boots" "Rango"

Can we talk about how strange it is that "War Horse" got a best picture nomination, but Spielberg's far superior film "Adventures of Tintin" is notably absent from this category? Can we also talk about how weird it is to not have a Pixar movie dominating this category as per usual? Without a Pixar presence - understandably after the fiasco that was "Cars 2" - I'm feeling like it's slim pickings. Also, can we talk about how weird it is to have "A Cat in Paris" and "Chico and Rita'' on this list, because they're both foreign language films, and because I'm pretty sure no one knew those movies existed until the day the nominations came out? I'm hoping for some panda love, but not holding my breath.

Who Should Win: "Kung Fu Panda 2" Who Will Win: "Rango"

- m.van911@aggiemail.usu. edu

A SKIER JUMPED onto the flat rail during the

skier open competition. The competition was organized to raise funds for

BY TAVIN STUCKI

sports editor

Since its inception in 2007, Provide for Life has helped give relief to those plagued by disasters around the globe, and Saturday the non-profit group decided to heip in a little bit different way.

Provide for Life set up shop on the slopes at Beaver Mountain Ski Resort with Directive Board Shop, executing a "rail jam" to raise ·awareness of constant relief efforts still needed in Haiti after an earthquake devastated the country in January 2010.

Kristopher Young, founder and executive director of Provide for Life, said the idea behind the event was a community-driven initiative.

"It's all about getting exposure to communities that are close to me - just having a good time and having fun," Young said.

More than 40 mil jam entrants flocked to the hill ab,ove the Logan Canyon yurt, located above the upper parking lot at Beaver MQuntain. There, park crews set up four different rails.

Young's girlfriend and Provide for Life's education director Ashley McKinney said the rail jam was a great success and she is proud of it.

Entrants were organized into heats of skiers or snowboarders by age and given the go-ahead to hit one of four rails, including a down rail, box, log jam and flat rail. Contestants were scored based on difficulty and completion of grin~ng tricks.

Chicken, rice and beans were donated and for sale at the event for $5 a plate.

"This is what I eat when I'm living (in Haiti)," Young said.

Young said all proceeds help the people of Haiti, In addition to Haiti relief efforts, Provide for Life helps people in Sri Lanka in restoring their city's damages caused by the 2004

earthquake and subsequent tsunami that occurred off the Pacific Coast of Sumatra.

Unlike other charitable organizations that can pay overhead of about 50 percent, Young said Provide for Life keeps- overhead costs to no more than 10 percent. So the money can be used to help more people in need, he added.

"I've seen a lot of disaster relief projects gone wrong, because it creates dependence," he said.

McKinney said the organization focuses more on helping Haitians and Sri Lankans to help themselves.

"The jobs in Haiti are all about adult outlet," she said.

McKinney said the idea for a rail jam came from her and Young's love of the mountain.

"Kris always went to Beaver as a kid,"

McKinney said. "It just kind of fell into place. We would love to do it again next year and have it continue to grow. With so many kids with family and friends having fun and healthy competition, it's something I want to promote."

Owner of Directive Board Shop Zach Shepherd provided commentary for the competition and said he thought the event was a good time for all.

"It's a good, fun way to get younger people involved," Shepherd said. "Directive will definitely do this again."

- tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu.edu

Aggie women win on the islands

BY CURTIS LUNDSTROM

THURSDAY,

USU

THURSDAY,

USU

Four players scored at least 11 points for USU, including senior guard Brooke Jackson, who finished with 16 points, eight in each half. Brown and senior forward Maddy Plunkett each added 11. Utah State finished 50 percent from

improving in rebounding, and our bench was great tonight.

in 35 minutes of play. Breanna Arbuckle led the Wahine with 19 points in the game, but was - curtis. lundstrom@aggiemail. · usu.edu

Turnovers plague Utah State in loss to Fresno

BY TYLER HUSKINSON assistant

sports editor

The USU men's basketball team never led against Fresno State on Saturday.

Sophomore guard Kevin Olekaibe, who struggled greatly in Logan, led the Bulldogs with a game-high 26 points to lead Fresno over USU 60-54 at the SaveMart Center in Fresno, Calif.

"We did enough things to have a chance to win the game going down the stretch. and we couldn't win it,"

said USU head coach Stew Morrill. "It sounds familiar. We can't make the plays when we need to."

A 3-pointer from sophomore 'Danny Berger tied the game at 34-all with 11:04 to play. USU had four more opportunities to tie the game or take the lead, but failed to convert, and instead those possessions were filled with turnovers and forced shots.

"We find a way to shoot ourselves in the foot," Morrill said. "We're in every game for the most part. We go on the road and have a chance to win both games, but we can't make the plays. We had three chances tonight to go ahead, but we would take a bad shot, turn it over or not execute our plays. It's certainly frustrating."

Sophomore guard Preston Medlin

hit a pair of free throws to cut the lead to 52-50 with 39 seconds remaining, but the Bulldogs, who finished 13 of 17 from the free-throw line, hit six consecutive free throws to seal the victory.

USU's (12-12, 4-5 WAC) offense sputtered out ofthe gates and never recovered. The Aggies finished the night shooting 41 percent from the field and 22 percent from 3-point range. Fresno began the game on a 10-2 run, and USU didn't hit its second field goal until seven minutes into the first half.

"We didn't get ourselves ready to play," Morrill said of the rough start. "We were out ofit out there. We subbed everybody out and try to get some other guys a chance to see if they would move around a little better. There's no excuse for that, there really isn't. We made a game of it once we got going. Give Fresno rn;dit, their pressure really bothered us."

USU struggled with ball control and committed 16 turnovers.

"You look at the stats and say,

turn it over 16 times in a 60-point game. Credit their pressure, but we can't have our guards tum it over 11 times."

A layup from freshman center Jordan Stone cut a scoring drought of four minutes with 13:19 to play, and USU outscored Fresno 14-11 to cut the deficit to 21-16 at halftime.

Senior forward Morgan Grim led USU with 13 points and eight rebounds, and Medlin chipped in 13 points. Senior guard Brockeith Pane was the only other Aggie to finish in double-figure scoring.

Stone and freshman forward Ben Clifford scored Utah State's only bench points with a field goal each.

The Aggies are now 2-10 on the road but will host five consecutive games at home, where they have been more successful.

"We need to play better when the game is on the line," Morrill said. "We're going to have some more games on the line. Hopefully it will help to be at home. We've got to step up and have a little better leadership and want to be coached. We need to do the things it takes to win wherever we play."

'Boy, you hold them to 39 percent and out-rebound them by 16, you think you can win,"' Morrill said. "But when you tum the ball over - they turned it over three times, that's all we could cause them to turn over - and we - ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu FRESHMAN BEN CLIFFORD defends SJSU's Wil Carter

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16 uoals, one draw

Aggies tie with Northern Arizona in 8-8 shootout

BY MEREDITH KINNEY sports senior writer

When Utah State hockey ended in an 8-8 tie against Northern Arizona University, USU head coach Jon Eccles said he wasn't surprised.

"I told the boys it would be a tough game all week long," he said. "NAU never gives up, they just keep coming

minutes started to add up. Utah State's history with NAU took its toll as both teams battled hard in the corners and dished out big hits. USU beat the Lumberjacks in last year's American College Hockey Association West Regional Tournament knocking them out of national title contention. The rivalry between the two teams was stirred up again Saturday.

battle," said Utah State forward Brian Gibbons. "It's hard to describe. It was a shootout."

Another NAU goal was quickly answered by Utah State's Jeremy Martin.

"I believe that we accomplished some good things," Eccles said. "We didn't buckle when they would go up. We kept fighting, we kept coming back."

skated off the ice with an injury, and Mullane was back in goal.

"I was thankful for the chance," Mullane said. "Any athlete will tell you that any time you lose or mess up, you just want another shot. I got that shot."

Mullane ended the game with 34 saves. and coming. They are a very disciplined team in that way, they don't get down."

The game could have sealed USU's auto-bid for nationals.

"I can't pinpoint it," Eccles said. "Every area of the game for us, our D-men would play good and then they would play bad. Our forwards were good and then bad."

"Instead of being focused and working on the things we want to accomplish," Eccles said.

"We got tied up in these little one-on-one battles."

The Aggies found themselves in an unfamiliar place down 1-0, six minutes into the game. Cooper Limb went top-shelf a minute later to tie it up.

Down 3-2 with seven minutes to play, Eccles made the decision to pull starting goalkeeper Allesandro Mullane.

"We came out to play," Mullane said. "There were just some bad bouncessome bad

The Aggie struggles were exacerbated as their penalty "It was a back-and-forth things that happen. Mullane's stint on the bench was short-lived. Midway through the second, goalkeeper Bryce Scherschel

BY TAVIN STUCKI sports editor

Five Utah State track and field athletes won event titles at the Boise State Bronco Classic in Nampa, Idaho, on Saturday.

Freshman Rachel Orr won the women's high jump with a jump of 1.70 meters (5 feet, 7 inches).

Sophomore Sam Nielson won the women's triple jump in 11.91 (39-1).

Senior Spela Hus won the women's •) From Page 10

shot put with a new personal-best toss of 14.78 (48-6). Junior Bailee Whitworth won the women's 200-meter dash with a time of 24.32 seconds. Sophomore Silas Pimentel ran the Western Athletic Conference's fastest time this year in the 60 with a time of 6.85.

USU head coach Greg Gensel said many of his athletes had great performances.

"Some of them may not have had their mark~ improve," Gensel said,

"It was a rough game, but I never gave up," Mullane said. "I never want to let the boys down."

The Aggies found themselves facing an 8-7 deficit with 10 minutes left to play. With four minutes left, USU forward Matt Hamilton took a shot that trickled past NAU goalie Quinn Mason.

"Billy's playing really hard," Eccles said. "He's very focused as a team player."

The Aggies are back on the ice Feb. 10 against the Brigham Young University Cougars at the Eccles Ice Center.

State forward Billy Gouthro finished the goal off when he got his stick on it, sending the game to overtime Despite Gouthro's lastsecond heroics, overtime ended without a goal from either team and the game ended in a draw. - meredith.kinney@aggiemail.

"but they've improved in other ways with consistency and that kind of thing. Some of our sprinters were working on their speed phases this week, and they had really good days."

Junior Aubrie Haymore took second in the women's 200 with a 24.75, and senior Katelyn Heiner tied for third in a time of 24.81 with UCLA's Kylie Price. Running unattached, Michael Pyrtle took third in the men's 60 with a 6.97.

Pimentel took third in the 200 with a 21.67 and sophomore A.J. Boully took fifth in 22.07.

"They've built on what they've been practicing," he said. "I think we've put ourselves in a good position."

Gensel said the Bronco Classic helped prepare the team for the WAC Championships from Feb. 23-25 in two ways.

"One, it is getting closer to the conference meet," he said. "We're

starting to get the kids completely ready and rested for that meet. Two, that's the facility that we're going to have the conference championship on, so it's always nice to get familiar with the track and everything."

- tavin. stucki@aggiemail. usu. edu

Holliday's performance not enough to give Aggie gymnastics victory over ASU

the bad when you get back at the gym."

Richards said the Aggies had a great week , of practice, but each event seemed to have a weak spot and for this meet "it was time for bars," he said.

Paige Jones, one of the Aggie's all-arounders, with an overaJI score of 97.400, fell once from the uneven bars and had to remount to finish her routine.

Despite the falls, many Aggie gymnasts hit their personal high scores. Holliday tied her high score of 9.8 on the floor. Sarah Landes and Amelia Montoya both tied their high scores on the vault of 9.725 and 9.8, respectively. Susie Miller earned a new high score of 9.775 on the floor.

The Sun Devils hadn't visited the Spectrum since 2002 when they won a tri-meet over

60th USU and Southern Utah. It was also the first time the Aggies faced the Sun Devils since 2004, when they competed in a quadmeet hosted by California in Berkley, Calif.

"It really doesn't matter what's going on with them," Holliday said of the opposition. "It's about you - the other team doesn't affect us at all."

ASU's top performer was all-arounder

Beate Jones with an overall score of 39.175, followed by ASU's other all-arounder Samantha Seaman at 39.075.

The Aggies will compete in the third part of their four-meet home stand against San Jose State on Friday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Spectrum.

- mandy.m.morgan@aggiemail.usu.edu

Giants claim Super Bowl title

BOSTON (AP) - It was like

again for disappointed Patriots fans who watched as their team lost Sunday to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl for the second time in five years. "We're really sad right now," said Molly Mackenzie ofBoston, who was watching the game at a bar near Fenway Park with two friends. "It was a good game, really close."

Hundreds of police officers in riot gear gathered in the streets, focusing on the areas near college campuses and sports bars, where previous celebrations had turned wild. Many were brought in from other departments to help out. But after the Giants won 21-17, fans quietly filed back to cars and public transit stations, past the officers lining the streets.

At Game On, a bar near Fenway, the atmosphere was tense until people started chanting, «Let's go Pats," with about five minutes and 30 seconds left to go and the Patriots up by 2 Then the Giants scored a touchdown, knocking the wind out of their sails. The bar stayed full until the final seconds, when Tom Brady's desperation pass into the end zone fell just beyond Rob Gronkowski's grasp.

"It was very disappointing," said Karen Snyder ofBoston, who was celebrating

her birthday Sunday. "Defensively, we should have done better. We weren't ready for when the Giants changed up their offense."

Earlier in the night, the crowd got quiet when the Patriots trailed in the first half, then erupted into dancing, fist-pumping and shouting when they took the lead with a touchdown right before halftime. "You know Brady," said Frank Monti, a fan from New York City. "He's good for fourth-quarter wins. I'm not worried."

At McGreevy's 3rd Base Saloon in the city's Back Bay neighborhood, where six large TVs and a framed oval portrait of Coach Bill Belichick hung over the bar, manager Art Santora said he had met with the police and the liquor commission to talk about safety measures. No one was being allowed to line up outside to get into the packed bar - once it was full that was it.

Dave Anderson, who was visiting from Denver and declared himself a Patriots fan for the weekend, joined a standing room crowd at McGreevys. Across the street, the top of the Prudential Center was lit up in the Patriots colors of red, white and blue.

"You can tell that there are no fair weather fans in Boston," Anderson said. Victor Janczar

Men's team earns first win ofseason over PSU

MEGAN BODILY staff writer

The Utah State's men's tennis team earned its first win of the season on Saturday despite a shortened roster. Persisting through injuries and illnesses, the Aggies defeated Portland State University 6-1.

USU swept the Vikings in doubles action. No. 1 doubles pairing junior Sven Poslusny and freshman Marcus Fritz closed out PSU's Roman Margoulis and Mitch Somach 8-3. No. 2 doubles debuted brothers junior Lenny Whiting and sophomore Andrew Whiting, playing together for the first time in collegiate action. The brothers defeated Abhinav Mishura and Alec Marx 8-3.

Senior Nate Ballam and freshman Matt Sweet battled against Nick Fracchia and .tach Lubak in the No. S doubles spot. Sweet, playing with a sore right ankle, only participated in doubles, in which he and partner Ballam shut down the Vikings 8-6.

"We played awesome in doubles - great energy," said assistant coach Bryan Marchant. "(That) set the tone for the rest of the match"

Capturing the doubles point, the Aggies continued with the momentum in singles action.

Missing No. 2 singles Fredrick Peterson to illness, USU was forced to make a change to its lineup. Fellow Swedish player Fritz played in Peterson's spot and easily defeated PSU's Fracchia 6-0, 6-3. No. 1 singles player Poslusny exhibited athletic ability to beat Viking Margoulis in straight sets 6-4, 6-4.

"I am very proud of how (Poslusny) finished," Marchant said. "He stayed tough and played right."

Lenny Whiting also dismissed his opponent in straight sets in the No. 4 singles position 6-4, 7-5. Ballam beat PSU's Fracchia, 6-2, 6-4 in No. 5 singles. Brandon Nielsen, a sophomore from Logan, defeated Lubek 6-2, 6-3 in the No. 6 singles position.

The only loss for the Aggies came from the No. 3 singles position when freshman Curran Wearmouth battled PSU's Somach but fell 6-7, 5-7.

"He has had to play some tough opponents. Every match has been battles," Marchant said of Wearmouth. "He works hard, and he believes in himself."

With a week-long break, the Aggies return to action against Mesa State at Sports Academy on Saturday, Feb. 11.

Women's Tennis

The Utah State women's tennis team headed to Bozeman, Mont., this weelcend for a double meet against University of New Mexico on Friday and Montana State on Saturday.

USU 3, UNM4

Utah State was handed a difficult loss to University of New Mexico. Jumping ahead early, USU could not continue momentum to get the win after sweeping UNM in doubles. Utah State's No. 1 singles player Jaci West fell to UNM's Michaela Bezdickova in straight sets 3-6, 1-6. No. 2 singles Kristina Voytskehovich followed West, losing 2-6, 1-6. No. 5 singles Julie Tukuafu

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Don't let candidates run unapposed

A month ago, feelings across campus flared as a proposed recreation center came to the student eye. Though the ARC and accompanying Legacy Fields had been in the works for more than a year, when students learned of the projects' cdsts and associated student-fee hike, some balked.

The president of the College Republicans created Students Against Academic Waste and even went as far as holding a protest.

In an effort to be transparent, current ASUSU Council members created a Facebook group to inform the student body about 2012 fees. Posts in the group are often negative and critical of the way ASUSU spends student fees. Some posts garnered more than 100 comments from students, both positive and negative.

Initially, we thought this showed the student body was beginning to care about the decisions made on their behalf. With so much activity, we assumed the upcoming elections would be filled with candidates wanting to make a difference in their educational experiences.

While some positions are stacked with studentcandidates, other important positions are covered by one candidate running unopposed.

If a single position were running unopposed, we wouldn't be so alarmed. However, there are four positions in which only one person is running. This is a huge reflection on how apathetic our student body is. To have the Service VP, Athletics VP, Diversity VP and Academic Senate President positions with only one candidate is a terrible reflection on one of the largest and most highly respected higher education institutions in the state.

Students are shouting out about how much they dislike the fees they pay, but in a student body of nearly 18,000, only a few are willing to step up to the plate and represent their peers. It's one thing to complain when you're actively involved in an issue, but it's another matter entirely to turn your nose to our leadership when you're not willing to get off the couch and use the system of democratic representation USU has in place.

However, for those who have no interest in running, clearly there are other ways to voice your opinion. We just want to urge those who have even an inkling of passion for the positions available to go for it. None of the candidates running for unopposed positions have proved to us they deserve the seat, but they will receive it anyway.

Here at The Statesman, we'd like to issue a challenge. If you care about your education, your school and your surroundings, do something about it. Don't think our activities are up to par? Run for Programming VP. Don't like where the money from the Blue Goes Green fee is going? Join Sustainability Council. Don't agree with the ARC? Run for president.

There's nothing we'd like to see more than multiple students duking it out and truly earning their seats on the ASUSU Executive Council. Let's see some new voices come to center stage.

Balance between a career and motherhood

I love boys and I love to date, but I hate it when it comes to the question, "What is your major?" For some reason I begin to feel automatic judgment before I have even answered. Now, I understand this is partially because of my own insecurities and partially because of the reactions I have received from boys in the past. In my mind, an eternity passes before I answer. I have already jumped ahead, thinking how to answer their reaction. In reality, it is just a second before I answer, "Anthropology." And then it comes. The pause and reaction, "Oh what do you want to do with that?"

This is the $1 million question. What do I want to do with my degree? As a senior, I have been able to polish my answer as if I have to defend why I am not a business major or why I am not going to be a school teacher. I chose a liberal arts degree where the possibilities of what I can do are endless, these are "degrees to everywhere."

What I really want to do is something that I am afraid to admit on the first date. I want to become a mother and wife. Why can't I say that? You may wonder. Well, I feel that women are in a precarious situation.

If I were to say, "Oh, all I really want is to have babies," there would be a negative reaction, and if I were to say, "I want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company," I would not only get a negative reaction but witness the stereotype that women do not belong in the.executive suite.

On one end, I am going to scare the guy off because it is the :1See ASUSU, Page 14

What to do about Iran

from the left

In George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984," the citizens of the fictional state of Oceania are kept in a state of perpetual war. Thanks to powerful propaganda, their war hysteria is maintained at a fever pitch.

Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has been involved in a seemingly unending series of conflicts around the world. And today, the drums of war are bearing to a tune eerily similar to that in the buildup of the war in Iraq.

During Bush's first term, we were told how much of a threat Iraq posed to the U.S.

We were told that Saddam Hussein was manufacturing "weapons of mass destruction."

Secretary of State Colin Powell even went before the U.N. Security Council to make the case for the need of a pre-emptive U.S. strike in Iraq.

Despite the testimony of numerous opposing U.N. weapons inspectors, U.S. flouted international consensus and invaded.

Nearly 10 years and millions of dead Iraqi civilians later, the U.S. is just now taking its military out of the country but not out of the region.

In his last State of the Union address, President Barack Obama talked tough on Iran, saying that he's taking "no options off the table" in order to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon - eliciting a standing ovation from both houses of Congress.

The Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney speak similarly about a military option in solving the Iranian standoff. The only presidential candidate - Democrat or Republican - who provides an alternative to past and current foreign policy is Ron Paul.

Maybe we should try looking at the situation from Iran's perspective.

U.S. involvement in Iran goes back at least to 1953, when, after similarly enacting an oil embargo, the CIA openly assassinated a democratically elected and popular prime minister and installed the brutal and repressive Shah, whose rule ended in the 1979 Islamic

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I'm sorry Israel, I really am, but it looks like you'll be on your own this time.

Tensions between Iran and the western world are getting hot. What the world has known for a long time behind closed doors has become much more apparent over the past few months: Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.

In fact, the situation has become so elevated that reports indicate current Secretary of Defense Leone Panetta believes Israel will mount pre-emptive attacks against Iran before June.

Though we have tried for years to dissuade Iran from its nuclear program through sanctions and diplomatic means, it has been to no avail. The bottom is falling out from under diplomacy. Just last week Iran's supreme leader promised aid to any state or organization that takes aggressive action against Israel.

In the middle of the two countries sits the U.S. - the war-wearied, economically devastated U.S. As it stands, right now, the U.S. can do little to stay the aggression of Iran and ensure Israel's security. Should conflict between Israel and Iran really heat up, neither diplomacy nor armed conflict provides a viable solution; Israel will be largely on its own.

While I am a strong proponent of exhausting peaceful options before resorting to armed conflict, the simple fact of the matter is that it won't work with Iran. Did we really believe we could come to a diplomatic; resolution with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

This is, after all, the man who stood before the U.N., spouting 9/11 conspiracy nonsense.

Sanctions are another futile attempt to resolve the conflict peacefully. While we would like to believe cutting off trade with Iran would pressure them into bending to our will, the reality is it only strengthens their resolve.

In a centralized government such as Iran's, decision makers are rarely impacted by sanctions. Instead, the economic hardships imposed upon the country are passed onto the common people

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In the 1980s, up to a million Iranians were killed by U.S.-made chemical weapons, which we gave Saddam Hussein in support of his war against Iran.

Iran recently captured a U.S. attack drone and several of its top nuclear scientists have been suspiciously and brazenly assassinated - including the adviser to their missile program.

It would seem then that Iran, given its history, has much more reason to fear from the United States than the United States has to fear from Iran.

No one wants Iran to posses a nuclear weapon, but why does the U.S. always resort to such heavy-handed and provocative responses that are bound to lead to conflict?

During the Cold War, up to 30,000 nuclear warheads were pointed at the U.S., but we successfully avoided a nuclear holocaust by using diplomacy, trading and building bridges of trust. Why the hysteria over a nonexistent one?

We don't need another war or more dead young soldiers. We can't afford it, and, more importantly, we don't have the authority to police the world the way we do. We are on a dangerous trajectory for war unless the U.S. ratchets down its rhetoric. Otherwise, we may not be as far from Orwell's nightmare as we thought.

- Andrew Izatt is a sophomore majoring in economics and philosophy. Comments can be sent to him at andrew.izatt@aggiemail.usu.edu.

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•)FROM THE RIGHT, Page 13 who in turn only grow to detest the U.S.-led sanctioning coalition. We gave it our best effort, but barring a highly unlikely radical change in government, Iran won't stray from its nuclear course without military intervention. Armed conflict, however, is another dead end for the U.S. and will rest primarily on the shoulders of Israel. Over the past decade, the U.S. military has been exhausted and stretched incredibly thin. Our economic resources have been depleted and morale is at a low point. It would be incredibly foolish for us to put boots on the ground in Iran. Perhaps, the only realistic mili-

tary option would be a utilization of the air force and drone strikes. Even that may be unlikely to happen, though, because the commander in chief is sitting on top of an election year. Usually, getting involved in war is a surefire way to rally the country around you and get re-elected. This year, however, may be the exception. The nation is so exhausted from two wars that dragged on long after their projected timeframes that we want nothing more than to crawl back into our isolationist policies and let the world handle its own problems. Getting mixed up in another Middle Eastern conflict,

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