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What seemed like complete victory turned out to be utter defeat, after the Aggies dropped a heartbreaker in the season opener against Auburn, 42-38, Saturday, Sept. 3. After a 1-yard touchdown run by running back Robert Turbin, Utah State was up by 10 points with just under four minutes remaining. Auburn junior quar-terback Barrett Trotter started the drive from his own 35-yard-line and, six plays later, found himself facing third down and goal, from the USU 15. Trotter connected with tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen on a pass to the f lat and the 6-foot-5 junior found

his way to the end zone to put the Tigers within three, 38-35 Utah State. With 2:07 left in the game, the Tigers attempted an onside kick. Auburn receiver Emory Blake recovered the ball, knocking over USU’s Chuck Jacobs, as he snatched possession away from the junior receiver. Barrett once again marched the Tigers down the field, this time eventually handing the ball to star running back Michael Dyer for the 1-yard touchdown run to take the lead, 42-38 Auburn. With just 30 seconds left on the clock and starting a drive from their own 20, Utah State could not get into field goal

range to force overtime or secure a victory. Dyer had 14 carries, for 58 yards, and two touchdowns for the Tigers. Barrett ended the game completing 17 of 23 passes for three touchdowns, including the two late in the fourth quarter to put Auburn on top for good. Utah State head coach Gary Andersen said it was a very dis-heartening outcome. “It’s obviously a disappointing loss,” Andersen said. “We failed to execute a gigantic play on the onside kick to pretty much win the game.” Turbin had 22 rushes for 72 yards, and two touchdowns in his first game back from injury in 644 days. He said the focus of

the team, now, is on winning. “I am on the hands team,” Turbin said. “We practice over and over with onside kick situations. We have been over it countless times and we just have to do a better job and be more prepared. I don’t think you understand how much this game hurt, to be up 10 with four min-utes to go, with the defending BCS National Champions on the ropes.” Aggie linebacker Bobby Wagner had 10 tackles and one sack in the game, and said he puts the loss “solely on (his) shoulders.” “This game came down to defense and we did not step up,”

USU narrowly defeatedBY TAVIN STUCKIsports editor

LGBTQA director leaves Replacing Maure Smith-Benanti, former program director for the LGBTQA office at USU, will be no easy task for the Access and Diversity Center. “We have very big shoes to fill, so make sure that we can get the biggest size feet we can get in those shoes.” Access and Diversity Director Michelle Bogdan said. Bogdan met with student leaders in July to discuss what they want in a new coordinator, and how to run things until he or she gets hired. It was decided to make the job posting a 30-day statewide search. Smith-Benanti, who is held in high regard by many students who have come to the office for help, left her post this summer to go work with the LGBTQA office at the University of Oregon. “I know that it was very difficult for a lot of us for Maure to leave,” Bogdan said. “We were all really tight with her, and so I know this is hard. There’s no point in not acknowledging that.”

Students in the LGBTQA office said in an interview they would like to see someone they can easily relate to, and while it doesn’t mean the future program coordinator must come from a conservative, Christian background, it certainly would help. Someone who is sensitive to the cul-tural climate in Utah is important. “Regardless of who we have it’s going to be different,” Ian Masen, a junior in biology, said. Students at the meeting stressed the importance of finding someone who is understands national as well as local LGBTQA issues. Smith-Benanti’s position was a sort of jack-of-all trades for LGBTQA concerns on campus, the students said. She was an advocate, ran the office, set up discussion panels, was advisor to the LIFE club and managed the library in the LGBTQA office. When asked what sort of quali-ties they wanted to see in the new coordinator, students in the office often referred to Smith-Benanti.

BY LIS STEWARTstaff writer

MAURE SMITH-BENANTI, former LGBTQA director, left USU this summer totake a job at the University of Oregon. Though the position has not yet been filled, students from the LGBTQA have stepped up to maintain the association and hold events until a new director is appointed. Statesman file photo

Crowd favorite The Rocket Summer, the moniker for performer Bryce Avery’s musi-cal stylings, performed a nighttime street concert at USU Saturday, and inadvertently showed some listeners how dangerous large events can sometimes be. Shortly after the headliner left the stage, a young woman fainted, said Reno, Nev., resi-dent Andrew Blackmore. Blackmore was one of the several hundred students and non-stu-dents who came from throughout the region to see Avery perform. “I saw them hold her up and pull her over the fence,” Blackmore said. The woman appeared to be unconscious when she was lifted over the barrier, which

separated the crowd from the stage, he added. “She was getting squeezed in, and so people around her got concerned, so they picked her up and passed her over the top to security staff,” said Capt. Steve Milne of the USU Police. Milne said the woman was Ashlee Whitaker, a student from Utah Valley University, and she recovered quickly, back-stage. Soon after seeing the girl faint, Blackmore said he and his friends were pressed up and squeezed against the fence. “My rib cage was caving in,” Blackmore’s friend Amy Glaess said. “I couldn’t breath.” After being pressed against the barrier, Blackmore knelt down and, clutching his chest, USU police helped him walk to some nearby grass where he was checked out for

injuries. “I was borderline passed out due to asphyxiation,” Blackmore said. “I got crushed against the gate in front of the stage.” Blackmore said he didn’t let getting crushed by the crowd ruin his night, though. He continued watching Rocket Summer from a less-crowded area after he recovered. He said he traveled over 600 miles to see the band and would have driven another 600 if he had to. USU Police Sgt. Jessica Elder said the crowds often create problems at concerts. “With crowd surfing we give them a warn-ing,” Elder said. “ If there’s anymore prob-lems, we kick them out.” Elder said the biggest problem with pre-vious concerts has been high school and

Rocket Summer brings fun, danger for someBY CHRIS LEEnews senior writer

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kneels on the field at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala. after the Aggies dropped a heartbreaking loss to the Tigers of Auburn on Saturday, Sept. 3 42-38. Wagner had 10 tackles and one sack in the game. AP photo

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LOVE IS FOR EVERYONE (LIFE), USU’s gay-straight alliance, holds their weekly meeting. While not directly under the LGBTQA umbrella, LIFE sometimes works with the LGBTQA coordinator to promote gay-straight relations. Last year LIFE chose Maure Smith-Benanti as its faculty adviser. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo

middle school students. She said the smaller kids get swallowed by the crowd, and they get crushed against the gate. There weren’t as many middle school kids in attendance, Elder said. She said overall the crowd was better behaved than those at the two concerts held last year. “Our job was pretty easy,” Milne said. lot of it had to do with the age of the crowd. There seems to be more college students compared to what we had before.” The Student Traditions and Activities Board (STAB) Activities Director Kellen Hansen said ASUSU Programming tries to prepare for incidents like these at concerts.

“We make sure that the police are defi-nitely on hand. We have to make sure medi-cal is there,” Hansen said. “And we usually try to have an area where they can take them.” Hansen said police and medical teams were allowed to take people to the tent behind the stage, as well as an additional temporary command center for the event. “We have a command center,” Hansen said. “This one was in HPER 102, where the police can take anybody that’s acting up and get them away from the crowd. Or if there’s any severe medical situations, and they don’t go straight to the ambulance, they can use

what we call the ‘command center’ as a place to treat them.” Along with police and medical teams, Hansen said they had people certified in CPR, as well as security teams on hand. “It was the fewest number of incidents we’ve had, but we had probably more help this time than we have at any of the other concerts,” she said. Milne said he deploys officers based on the types of events. He said events with large, rowdy crowds require more officers than the more mellow events. “We knew from a year ago when they had the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, we didn’t

anticipate a very big crowd,” Milne said. “We didn’t have very many officers there, and there was more people there than we antici-pated. We ended up having to pull Logan City (Police) off of their regular patrol duties to help us out.” Milne said they brought in more staff for the last two concerts. He said the Rocket Summer concert had two medical incidents and one incident of a minor in possession of alcohol.

— chris.w.lee@aggiemail.usu.edu

THE ROCKET SUMMER performs on stage for USU students and the general public at USU. Some attendees drove as far as 600 miles to see the performance. The Rocket Summer has not performed in the United States for over a year, and was selected by ASUSU Programming to play their first stateside show. AMANDA DUNN photos

Finding someone who is understanding, a good coun-selor and an advocate is important, they said. “One thing Maure can do that I thought was really good was she could stop a fight,” said Matt Volk, a junior in speech communications. Kennedy Tripp, a junior in business, said Maure knew the ins and outs of legal issues a lot of LGBTQA students might face, and it’s a good idea for whoever is hired to know them as well. While the new coordinator could be straight, it would be a lot more difficult as a job, Volk said. “They [the program coordinator] have to do outreach and counseling,” Volk said. “I would really like to see a new program coordinator come in and really teach the students to have a voice,” Bryce Sprosty, a senior in marketing, said. The coordinator also needs to be good at understand-ing people from all walks of life, Tripp said. Since Smith-Benanti left, the students of the LGBTQA office have been without an official director, but Bogdan has been serving as their interim director, and said the students are doing fine. “What’s really cool is we’ve had people step up and stay pretty strong,” said Bryce Sprosty, a senior in mar-

keting. “I think if we don’t find someone soon it’ll get burnt out and be a step back for our community.” At the meeting students requested a temporary struc-ture to help LGBTQA matters be set up. During the first month of school many students are dealing with the transition of ‘coming out’ and need a place to come to for advice and counseling. “I feel confident in our Access and Diversity staff, that we can help any student who walks in that door,” Bogdan said. “We all have to be willing to pull together and col-laborate, including with LIFE, and we need to be willing to collaborate.” Love Is For Everyone, or LIFE, is a student club that works to educate and bring others together in regards to sexual orientation and other LGBTQA matters. The job posting for a new coordinator will close at the end of September, Sprosty said, and a student and faculty panel will then be set up to help screen candidates. Vice president for Student Services Eric Olsen, who was also at the July meeting, said it was important to him that they take the time to find the right person. “Let’s do it right and get the right person,” Olsen said.

— la.stewart@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Event planners, police must prepare for medical incidents due to crowd size

The ASUSU Student Voice Committee is being restructured by this year’s Student Advocate Jason Russell, who said his goal is to fully utilize the committee and bring it to its full potential.Russel said the new committee will help him learn what students want from USU. “This restructuring of the stu-dent voice committee is going to be so great,” said ASUSU President Erik Mikkelsen. “He’s creating him-self an avenue to get that voice — to hear that voice.

Mikkelsen said the student advo-cate is the voice of the students as a whole for the ASUSU Executive Council. “All the people on the execu-tive board, they know their groups of students,” Mikkelsen said. “But they have nowhere near the access to student opinion as the student advocate does.” Russell said the committee cur-rently has one member, but applica-tions for the rest of the committee have been given out. The director of theStudent Voice Committee is Keenan Neuhring.

Neuhring said he is “the person that is coordinating everything, making sure people are staying on task, and just overall facilitating meetings.” The committee and the student advocate will help students voice their concerns to the university administration and the ASUSU Executive Council, Neuhring said, as well as help students with any concerns they have. Russell said he spent the sum-mer interning with many of the services on campus such as Student Housing and the USU Bookstore. He said the internship helped him

learn who he should talk to about any concern a student may have. “Students have rights at this uni-versity that they don’t understand they have,” Neuhring said. “They have a voice first of all, and they have outlets. The administration is willing to listen.” The rest of the committee will be made up of, potentially, six or more officers and eight students, elected by each of the USU Senators, Russell said. The officers appointed by the senators will represent and work with their specific college. They will be required to do at least one survey in those colleges every

year. Russell said there will be officers in charge of each of the student advocate programs, as well as offi-cers over the committee’s use of social media, like Facebook. Two programs Russel said he plans to offer are Brutally Honest and Start, Stop, Continue, which were run in previous years, and he said he hopes to bring them back. “What I envision (Brutally Honest) to be is a panel of ASUSU officers getting together and hav-ing an open-mic night with the students,” Russell said. “This will

ASUSU student advocate restructures committeeBY CHRIS LEE

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The Student Traditions and Activities Board (STAB) will be starting a Cinema Series this fall. The series will show movies on campus for USU students, Arts & Lectures Director Marie Squyres said. “There are a lot of students who either lack transportation or lack money, and on the weekend they still definitely want something entertain-ing to do,” Squyers said. Squyers said the series will show a movie to students twice this semes-ter, and a few more movies will take place next semester. Squires said the series will start by showing movies just on Friday nights, but if demand grows they will expand and show movies on Friday and Saturday nights. Squyers said USU students can receive admission to the movie by donating a can of food, or they can pay one dollar. She said the cans of food will go to the Student Nutrition Access Center (SNAC.) Squyers said the movies will be held in the TSC auditorium. The first movie will be “Limitless” staring Bradley Cooper and it will be shown on Friday October 14.

ASUSU legislative website restored ASUSU Executive Council

Administrative Assistant Jordan

Hunt has spent the summer updat-‐

ing the USU legislative website.

Hunt said the website documents

all bills and resolutions passed by

the Academic Senate, the Executive

Council, and the Graduate Student

Senate.

Hunt said the website hadn’t been

updated since 2006. He said, “it was

not very user friendly. It was hard

to search, it was hard to find docu-‐

ments.”

The website will be easier to

search and will now contain the

minutes from the ASUSU Executive

Council meetings as well as all the

bills and resolutions passed, Hunt

said.

“A bill is something that ASUSU

has power over, or some sort of say

in. A resolution is something that

we kind of recommend, or that

some students have mentioned,

or some sort of student initiative,”

Hunt explained. He said the council

doesn’t have power over the resolu-‐

tions, but they will pass it to the

appropriate organizations to make

the desired changes.

With the website updated stu-‐

dents will be able to view the text of

the bills and resolutions, Hunt said,

students will be able to see what

is going on with ASUSU without

attending every meeting.

The legislative website is www.

usu.edu/legislation.

Wildlife research is actually about 10 percent study of animals and 90 percent study of vegetation, says Utah State University graduate student Stephanie Graham. “Habitat is the focus of wildlife study,” says the wildlife biology major in USU’s Department of Wildland Resources. “How are animals adapting to changes and surviving in their environment?” Graham is one of three Utah recipients of this year’s competi-tive $2,500 student grants from the Utah Chapter of The Wildlife Society. The award supports her contin-ued study of Greater sage-grouse and the bird’s habitat in Utah’s remote northwest corner. “I’ve had six f lat tires in last couple of months,” says the master’s student, whose research takes her over rough terrain in rural Box Elder County. “So the additional funding is very much appreciated.” With faculty mentor Terry Messmer, principal investiga-tor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service/USU Sage-grouse Restoration Initiative, Graham is studying the birds’ response to Bureau of Land Management treatments.

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Wagner said. “I felt like we were stronger than them. I felt like we were faster than them, but I felt like they made plays when they needed to, and we did not.” USU quarterback Chuckie Keeton was named the starter as the offense took the field for the first time. Keeton completed 21 of 30 passes, to 10 different receivers, for 213 yards to go along with two rushing touchdowns. The 6-foot-2 true freshman was named rivals.com National Freshman of the Week for his outstanding play. Andersen said Keeton is a special player. “I promise you no one is hurt more,” Andersen said. “You saw exactly how he played as a true freshman. I think we are in very good hands at the quarterback posi-tion, just as we felt as we continued through camp. I love Chuckie Keeton. I have loved Chuckie Keeton since I walked into his liv-ing room.” Uncharacteristic of USU teams in recent history, the veteran Aggie front line was able to push around the Auburn defensive front, allowing Utah State to dominate

the defending BCS National Champions in several key statistics, including first downs 27-17, rushing yards 227-78, offensive yards 448-364 and time of possession 37:41-22:19. “We controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides of the football in the run game,” Andersen said. “Which is great to do against a quality opponent.” Keeton said the Aggies took strides dur-ing the game, but need to make improve-ments. “It doesn’t matter, we didn’t win,” Keeton said. “It doesn’t matter how many yards we racked up or points we scored, if we don’t win.” Utah State will play Weber State next in the season home-opener on Saturday, Sept. 10, at 6 p.m. The Wildcats lost at Wyoming, 32-35, last weekend.

—tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu.edu

UTAH STATE LINEBACKER Bobby Wagner (9) reacts

during an NCAA college football game against Auburn in

Auburn, Ala., Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. Auburn won 42-38. AP Photo

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provide valuable informa-tion in letting us know what the real concerns and issues are.” He said a different committee officer will be in charge of Start Stop Continue, which invites students to write down what they want the university to start doing, stop doing and continue doing. The pro-gram was started last year by the ASUSU President’s Cabinet, but will now be handled by the Student Voice Committee, Russel said. Neuhring said sugges-tions from last year’s Start Stop Continue program ranged from resolving park-ing issues to requests con-cerning dances. Most of these programs will happen next semester,

Russell said, but Neuhring said they hope to have the committee running by Homecoming Week. Russell said he is also rebranding the entire pro-gram. Previously the pro-gram’s brand was “Voice Your Concern.” “It’s always been ‘Voice Your Concern,’” Russell said. “A fresh start, having a new theme — ‘Speak Up’ just seemed about perfect.” Russell said the new brand will be all over post-ers and f liers for all the pro-grams the student advocate organizes. He said he likes this brand because it “is exactly what he want stu-dents to do: ‘Speak Up.’”

— chris.w.lee@aggiemail.usu.edu STUDENT ADVOCATE JASON RUSSEL is rebranding the Student Voice Committee

with the theme “Speak Up.” Russel is also bringing back old programs in an effort to enhance

the committee. Russell is still seeking students to fill his committee. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah’s experiment with a first-in-the-nation four-day workweek for state workers is over. Beginning Tuesday, they will be back on the job five days, but they won’t be working a full week just yet. The Labor Day holiday will shorten the week to four days. Lawmakers scratched the experiment, saying it was not saving as much money as hoped and that residents were complaining about not having access to services on Fridays. The change won’t be easy for many employees, said Todd Sutton of the Utah Public Employees Association. Some had arranged daycare sched-ules for the four-day week, while others were using their free Fridays to work second jobs or volunteer. “Employees struggled because they adapted their lives to one schedule,” Sutton said. “And then it goes to a different schedule.” Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman launched the “4/10” workweek - 10 hours a day, Monday-Thursday - for thousands of employees in 2008 to improve efficiency, reduce overhead costs and conserve energy at a time when budgets are tight and resources are dwindling. A 2010 legislative audit showed the savings never materialized, in part due to a drop in energy prices.

The bill that stopped the experiment called on state offices to be open five days, but left it up to the executive branch to determine whether to still schedule workers on for the four-day weeks. The failure of Utah state government to see the savings, however, isn’t reflective of what has been happening in other states and cities that have tried the alternative work week. In Provo, Utah, one of the state’s largest cit-ies with more than 100,000 people, the four-day workweek has been in place for years, with city offices open Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mayor John Curtis said the 4/10 system has improved employee morale and seems to save money. He said the four-day workweek may be more effective at a local level than with a state government. “Our residents see city employees working, and they know the city is responsive to them,” Curtis said. “People don’t have that same interaction with state employees ... and the state needs hundreds of offices, while we only need one,” he said. In El Paso, Texas, Mayor John Cook is propos-ing a year-round four-day workweek after experi-menting with it during the past two summers. “It has a positive impact on productivity and saved us a lot of money,” he said.

Cook said the projected savings for the city of about 800,000 people was more than $400,000 annually, primarily because of lowered utility and fuel costs. There haven’t been many complaints about offices being closed on Fridays, Cook said. Where there are concerns, such as business licensing, the city is developing online solutions. Creative solutions are becoming more popular for governments facing tight budgets, said Rex Facer, a Brigham Young University associate pro-fessor who has studied the effectiveness of four-day workweeks. Facer worked with El Paso and Provo officials to develop their policies. Lawmakers in Oregon and Texas considered four-day workweek bills this year, but neither passed. While no other states have adopted the four-day workweek, Facer said his surveys show more than 200 cities have implemented it in some fash-ion. However, their approaches differ greatly. That proves that flexibility is a necessary ingredient for success, he said. “Local govern-ments are more successful because they are leaner and don’t have the bureaucracy” of states, Facer said.

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Utah cancels four-day work week

Playing in the Cache Valley mud

CACHE VALLEY’S FIRST EVER 5-kilometer mud race, Man vs. Mud, was co-sponsored by the American West Heritage Center. With a funding goal of

$50,000, a portion of the proceeds will go to families in need throughout the valley. USU students mixed with participants from as far away as Missouri and North

Carolina to see who could complete the course first. CARL R. WILSON photo

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A CHEERING CROWD of students enjoy a Saturday night while listening to The Rocket Summer,

a band brought to USU by ASUSU Programming coordinators as the final event in the Week of

Welcome. AMANDA DUNN photo

DANNY PERKINS, A JUNIOR majoring in mechanical engineering, attempts to eat a mammoth

ice cream cones during the TSC Patio’s Aggie Ice Cream giveaway. CARL R. WILSON photo

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Aggies start the year off right

GARRETT SNOW, A JUNIOR majoring in public relations, was roping passersby into the

Country Swing Club, for which he is the public relations officer, during Wednesday’s Day on the

Quad. Snow said that making “a show of it” helps to bring people in. According to Snow, the club is

the second largest on campus with 250 members last year. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

BRYCE AVARY, SINGER AND GUITARIST of The Rocket Summer had fans crowd

surfing and screaming with his street performance on Aggie Bull-evard. Residents from all

over Utah came to watch the free concert. AMANDA DUNN photoRYANNE NIEDENT, A JUNIOR majoring in nutrition, checks Derek Hughes’ mouth for cards

as part of his comedic magic act Wednesday night in the TSC Ballroom. In Hughes career he has

appeared on MTV and Comedy Central. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

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Celebrating America with song and swing is the theme of this years’ Celebrate America dinner and big band show. The show is supposed to take guests back to WWII with patriotic songs and dances, authentic time-period

costumes and a full orchestra. Photo courtesy of Brenda Anthony

Taking a train ride around the country in one night may not be as hard as it sounds for those planning to attend “In the Miller Mood,” a big band dinner and show playing at USU Sept. 6 to 10.“Its a musical journey through the Big Band Era,” said Brenda Anthony, director, producer and writer of the show. According to the show’s program, the audi-ence symbolically boards the Chattanooga Choo Choo in the 1940s and makes stops in Chicago, St. Louis and then back to its origin;

New York City, at the Hotel Pennsylvania — the hotel Glen Miller wrote “Pennsylvania 6-5000” about. One section of the program is music devoted to a contributor to Big Band Era sentiment: World War II. With such songs as “Any Bonds Today?” “He’s A-1 in the Army” and “Why Do They Call a Private a Private?” “In the Miller Mood” pays tribute to the inspiration for big band music and dance. Authentic costumes and miniature skits attempt to transport the audience back in time, as singers honor current military members with recognizable military anthems.Putting on a production like “In the Miller

Mood” requires a variety of performers. The Larry Smith Orchestra will be performing music from the era as well as accompanying the singers and dancers. “One of the biggest reasons I do this is because of the opportunity to sing with a live big band orchestra,” said Michael Dubois, a third-year performer and emcee for the show. The opening number will feature the USU ballroom dance team, and the Stardust Dancers and Stardust Singers will perform the bulk of the music. Anthony said the singers begin learning music in April, and get together monthly until August, when the regular rehearsals from 6 to 10 p.m. on Thursdays and

Fridays, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays, begin. “We have a very strict rehearsal, and it makes the time go by faster,” Dubois said. Though the singers are expected to have all songs learned and memorized by the August rehearsals, the singers are constantly rehears-ing music, with a five-minute break, every hour. “There’s never a dull moment. Every minute you have to be selling it,” said McKenzie Turley, a singer, choreographer and vocal director for

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Team saddles up for competition

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A sitdown with Kate Clissold and Paige Morgan, of the USU Rodeo Team, affords quite the lesson in time management. A normal day for either one includes wak-ing up, exercising their horses and going to practice — and that’s just before classes start. Being on the team while juggling classes, doing homework and finding time for a social life can be a challenge but the women said they are having fun. “It’s like a big family,” Clissold, a junior animal sci-ence major, said. Team members can compete on the collegiate level for up to four years, she said. USU is part of the Rocky Mountain Region, which competes in 10 rodeos per year — half in the fall and half in the spring. The team travels throughout Utah and Idaho. Team adviser Jeffery Hall said being on the team offers a unique experience. “When you do a lot of traveling, you get really close,” he said. “If you rodeo, you know you automatically have help.” Though rodeo is often associated with agriculture, Hall said less than 20 percent of students involved with his team are College of Agriculture students. They come from all walks of life but can find common ground in rodeo, he said. Hall said for most people in rodeo their team is like their family, even to the point they will rely on each other in times of crisis. Hall said he recalled a time when he got a phone call from a member of the rodeo circuit he did not know who asked for help assisting a man who had cancer. Over 100 people showed up to help plant crops for the sick man. Many members of rodeo teams are exposed to the rodeo circuit their entire lives and collect equipment along the way. In the rodeo world, generally quarter horses are used to compete. “Quarter horses are bred to work hard, and they love

to work,” Clissold said. The quality of these well-bred horses does not come cheap. A top of the line horse can cost anywhere from $50 to $60 thousand, Hall said. “It’s like buying a car,” Morgan said. “How well do you want it to run?” The junior agriculture student asked. She said buying a horse is an investment and should be carefully considered. “My horse lives better than me,” Morgan added. Along with horse expenditures, involvement in the rodeo circuit can be an expensive sport for a student. Each year, the club gets a set amount of money from the Outdoor Recreation Program, but most members of the team still to work full- or part-time jobs to be able to participate in the sport. Typical travel expenses include transporting horses and paying for fuel, food and motel rooms. Members also have to pay to house their horses and rent pastures at the local fair ground where they compete. During the five fall season rodeos, the rodeo team competes in events such as bull riding, saddle bronc, bareback, barrel racing, goat tying, breakaway roping, team roping, calf roping, and steer wrestling. At competitions everything from ambulances to vet-erinarians must be present in case of accidents or inju-ries to humans or animals. The home rodeo is the USU Fall Stampede, Sept. 23 and 24. Tickets will be sold a week prior to the event in the ticket office for $3. Tickets can also be purchased from any member of the team. Tickets at the door will be $5. the club gets a set amount of money from the Club and Recreation Department but most members of the team have to work full- or part-time in order to partici-pate in the sport. Typical travel expenses include trans-porting horses and fuel, food and motel rooms. Members also have to pay to house their horses at the local fair ground where they compete and rent pastures.

BY JEN HOWARDstaff writer

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Add a little zest to your pesto I don’t know about you,

but when it comes to shop-

ping, I’m the kind of person

that sees something I like,

looks at the price tag and

thinks “I could totally make

this for a fraction of the price,

and it would be way cooler,

anyway.” I also do this with

food, sometimes. Like when

I see something that looks

really great on the menu at some expensive restaurant, I’ll

scribble down the ingredients on a napkin and then try to

recreate the dish, later, at home.

I tried this trick with pesto, and I am here to tell you it

is definitely one of these things — one of those things that

you can totally make for a fraction of the price it’s selling

for at the grocery store, and one of those things that you

definitely don’t have to go to a fancy restaurant to enjoy.

Why? It takes less than five minutes to make, it’s almost

impossible to mess up and even a college student could

afford the ingredient list.

In case you don’t know, pesto is an Italian sauce that

is traditionally made with fresh basil, parmesan cheese,

garlic and olive oil. I like to add spinach to mine because

it makes the flavor a bit milder, and, let’s be honest, spin-

ach is a lot more affordable than fresh basil. If you want

to, you can make this recipe more traditional by replacing

the 3 ounces of spinach with basil (use 4 ounces of basil

total). If you do that I would recommend trying to get

your basil fresh from a friend or family member’s herb

garden, or the local Gardener’s Market, because it will be

cheaper and much more flavorful.

Pesto is also amazingly versatile. Once you get used

to having it in the freezer, I think you’ll start to see how

much potential it has. It can be used as a sauce on pizzas.

It can be mixed with mayonnaise to make a pesto-mayo

spread for sandwiches. You can dip crusty Italian breads

in it. You can scoop a little bit on top of a steaming bowl

of your favorite soup and stir it in to add some extra fla-

vor.

Spinach Basil Pesto

3 big handfuls (about 3 ounces) fresh baby spinach leaves

15-20 fresh basil leaves (about 1 ounce)

1 medium clove garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped

½ cup shredded Parmesan cheese

¼ cup pine nuts, toasted

¼ cup olive oil

1 tablespoon lemon juice

¼ teaspoon salt

In the bowl of a food processor combine all of the

ingredients and pulse until completely chopped and

smooth. (You can also use a blender.)

Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a

week or freeze for up to three months.

You can also make individual portion sizes that can

be easily pulled out and reheated on some pasta or a

sandwich, for a quick and healthy lunch. Just freeze the

pesto in an ice cube tray, store the frozen pesto cubes

in a zip-tight bag and pull one or two out as needed.

This recipe makes 1 heaping cup of pesto — about 10

ounces.

One of my favorite ways to use this recipe is on a pizza

with artichokes, because I love the classic flavor combi-

nation of spinach and artichokes.

Spinach Pesto Pizza with Artichokes and Pine Nuts

1 (1 pound) pizza crust dough

½ cup spinach basil pesto

1 ½ cups shredded mozzarella cheese

½ artichoke hearts, roughly chopped (you can use

canned or frozen)

2 tablespoons toasted pine nuts

Prebake the crust for 2 to 3 minutes — according to

the instructions of the brand recipe — just until it gets

slightly firm.

Remove the crust from the oven and with a rubber

spatula spread the pesto over it to form an even layer.

(You may want to use a little more or less pesto, accord-

ing to the size of your crust.)

Sprinkle with the cheese, then add the artichoke hearts

and pine nuts.

Finish baking until the crust is golden brown and the

cheese is melted.

Makes 1 medium-sized pizza.

— Jennelle Clark is a senior, psychology major who runs the online food blog foodislikeart.blogspot.com. She

loves making and eating food, and sharing food.

In the fall season, the Rodeo Team will be involved in five rodeos competing in events such as bull riding, saddle bronc, bareback, barrel racing, goat tying, breakaway roping, team rop-ing, calf roping, calf roping and steer wresting. At competitions, everything from ambulances to veterinar-ians must be present in case of accidents or injuries to human or animal. The home rodeo is the USU Fall Stampede on September 23 and 24. Tickets will be sold a week prior to the event in the tick-et office for $3. Tickets can also be purchased from any member of the team. Tickets at the door for $5.

— jen.howard@aggiemail.usu.edu

Fall 2011 Rodeo Schedule

Cedar City, Utah, Southern Utah University Rodeo

September 9 and 10

Pocawwwtello, Idaho, Rocky Mountain Regional

Rodeo September 15

Pocatello, Idaho, Idaho State University Rodeo September 16 and 17

Logan, Utah, Utah State University Fall Stampede-

September 23 and 24

Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah Valley University Rodeo-

September 31 and October 1

Jennelle Clark

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Have you ever seen the movie

“Labyrinth?” Don’t act like you

haven’t. Twenty bucks and my newly

acquired “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

poster says you can’t get David

Bowie’s “Dance Magic Dance” out

of your head, now that I’ve brought

it up.

If you have, you’ll remember that

moment in the film when Sarah — played by looks-hotter-

when-portraying-Red-Cross-personnel-in-Africa leading

lady Jennifer Connelly — first walks into the ever-majestic

vine-laden brick maze. For those keeping score, this is

post- ”just saw the castle at the top of the hill and thinks

the journey will be a cinch” and pre- “just met that overly-

British worm thingy that can be found on several T-shirts

available at Hastings.”

It’s at this far too dramatic moment that Sarah real-

izes this little quest to find her baby brother won’t be as

simple as she planned. This memorable snapshot in time

allows us to follow Sarah on a journey that lifts the cult-

classic from “an overly priced Jim Henson flick” into “an

overly priced Jim Henson flick with lots of people jogging

around corners.” Undoubtedly, that makes all the differ-

ence.

Well, believe it or not, readers, I think I found that

place. It may not have been majestically laden with brick

and vine; there may not have been many castles; and it

sadly didn’t have David Bowie, but believe you, me: it

certainly became one heck of a journey.

It was Saturday afternoon, generally a comfortable

mainstay from the usual week of collegiate education

— along with roaring pingpong matches and “Family

Matters” reruns — and I was making what seemed like a

harmless trip to Hobby Lobby, a run-of-the-mill big-box

store that led me to believe I could simply zip in and zip

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Big mistake.

It was supposed to be a crack job. Walk in, grab a few

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the show Every detail must be taken care of, and much of the rehearsal is spent discussing who will be doing what, how many stage hands the show will need to take care of props, and what side of the stage each individual singer and dancer will enter from. “Everyone on our committee wears lots of hats,” Anthony said.

Anthony said Celebrate America, the cor-poration who produces the show, is a not-for-profit organization and relies on ticket sales and funding from the county. USU will also be participating by hosting the show in the TSC Ballroom. USU catering will be handling the dinner. “We couldn’t do it without the support of the university,” Anthony said. USU will be involved in more than just the location, since all but one of the Stardust Singers are USU alumni. Kelby Bosshardt, a biochemistry senior, said performing for “In the Miller Mood” is a fun hobby and pastime, but he loves being able to perform in front of people. “There is such an energy that comes from being able to sing and dance with a live orches-tra,” he said.Anthony said many of the singers sacrifice time and money to be involved in the show, such as one singer who commutes from St. George, every week for rehearsals. “There’s a lot of travel that goes into this show,” she said. Anthony said, though tickets for Thursday through Saturday are more than $50, students can receive discounted tickets for Tuesday and Wednesday night. Tuesday is a dress rehearsal with just the show, not the dinner or dance, and tickets are $10 per person. Wednesday is the show and dance with no dinner and tickets are $27 for the public, $12.50 for students with ID, and couples pay $10 each. “The excitement and energy it (‘In the Miller Mood’) brings is universally appealing to all ages,” Bosshardt said.

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Wednesday. He loves sports, comedy and creative writing. He

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Big band puts on big show in ballroom

A muddy proposal

USU STUDENT RUSTY LOFTHOUSE proposes to Natalie Anderson during

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— Steve Schwartzman

BY TYLER HUSKINSONassistant sports editor

Special teams has been a concern for the Utah State football team since training camp, this year. Lackluster special teams play cost the Aggies a few games during the 2010 season, as well. This time was different, however. If it weren’t for two well-executed special teams by a very talented and very ath-letic Auburn team, who are the defending BCS Champions, the Aggies could have notched what arguably would have been the biggest victory in team history. Despite leading the Tigers 38-28 with about three minutes remaining, the Aggies managed to drop their 14th consecutive home opener with a final score of 42-38. “You guys have to under-stand how athletic Auburn is,” USU head coach Gary Andersen said. “If you cannot see that out there on the foot-ball field, understand that this is the SEC and the tremendous athletes they have out there on the football field. It is not an excuse in any shape or form, it is a credit to them and their recruiting that they’ve done in their program.” True freshman Chuckie Keeton was spectacular in his career debut as an Aggie. Keeton was 22-of-31 and passed for 221 yards. In front of 80,000 hostile fans, the true freshman didn’t commit a turnover and was sacked only once. “I thought the offense was basically exceptional all day long,” Andersen said. “They did exactly what they had to do to win the game. Special teams and defense at the end did not.” After a 3-and-out series to begin the game, Keeton

orchestrated three consecu-tive touchdown drives. The third touchdown of the game — a one-yard rush by junior Robert Turbin — gave the Aggies a 21-7 lead, midway through the second quarter. “He did a great job,” Turbin said. “You’re talking about an 18-year-old true freshman who is coming straight out of high school and not only play-ing at the Division I level, but being on the road and playing against the defending BCS National Champions. To per-form the way he did just shows that he has a great career ahead of him.” After Keeton orchestrated those three drives is when the special teams problems began for USU. Freshman running back for Auburn Tre Mason took a Josh Thompson kickoff 97 yards the other way to trim USU’s lead in half, which contrib-uted to Auburn’s total of 257 kickoff-return yards. “They have tremendous people running down on kick-offs,” Andersen said. “They have tremendous people on kickoff return. I could go on and on and on. “Auburn has some special men in their program and you have to understand that,” he added. “We played 20-reps especially on the defensive side of the football, and we hung in there. But we gave up a kickoff return that was huge.” Auburn took the lead late in the third quarter when junior quarterback Barrett Trotter found junior wide receiver Travante Stallworth open for a 39-yard touchdown pass. Keeton worked his magic again and led the Aggies on back-to-back touchdown drives, for a 38-28 lead. Auburn scored with a

little more than two minutes remaining the contest and faced an onside kick situation. Once again, the Aggies could not execute special teams. Auburn recovered the kick and scored the go-ahead touch-down. “Guy makes a great play,” Andersen said. “It’s a great kick on an onside kick. The guy rises above us and gets the ball. Is it right? I’m not saying

it’s right. Could we have done better? Yes, we could have.” The Aggies’ next opportu-nity to notch their first win of the season will come Saturday, Sept. 10, when they face in-state rival Weber State. The Aggies are confident they will be resilient and bounce back. “The biggest thing we are going to take away from this game is, we are done taking moral victories and are almost

there,” Andersen said. “There is none of that. We expected to come in here and play very well. We expected to put our-selves in a good position late in the fourth quarter. We will build from it and learn from it. We will know exactly where we sit, and I expect this to be a very good football team.”

—ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Football

WACStandings

Top 251 Oklahoma (32) 1-0 14482 LSU (17) 1-0 14153 Alabama (9) 1-0 14094 Boise State (2) 1-0 13105 Florida State 1-0 11966 Stanford 1-0 11547 Texas A&M 1-0 10338 Wisconsin 1-0 10319 Oklahoma State 1-0 98110 Nebraska 1-0 94711 Virginia Tech 1-0 90612 South Carolina 1-0 84313 Oregon 0-1 82814 Arkansas 1-0 75215 Ohio State 1-0 60616 Mississippi State 1-0 59417 Michigan State 1-0 53018 Florida 1-0 38219 West Virginia 1-0 35720 Baylor 1-0 28421 Missouri 1-0 24222 South Florida 1-0 22123 Penn State 1-0 14724 Texas 1-0 13525 TCU 0-1 130

Heartbreaking lossAuburn steals away program-defining win in final three minutes of game

AUBURN RUNNING BACK Michael Dyer celebrates his game-winning touchdown over Utah State, late in the fourth quarter Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. Auburn won 42-38. AP photo

Soccer soars through sixth straight win

Volleyball serves up success

BY MEREDITH KINNEY sports senior writer

Utah State 1, Utah 0

It was a historic day at the Chuck and Gloria Bell soccer field, Friday, when the Utah State Aggies wom-en’s soccer team defeated the University of Utah, 1-0. The victory continued the Aggies best start ever giving the soccer team a 5-0-0 record in the 2011 season. Utah State soccer hadn’t beaten the Ute’s at home since 1997 — a streak that has lasted 14 years. They also hadn’t beaten PAC-12 for 13 years. “Utah’s a big rival,” sophomore forward Mari

Miyashiro said. “It feels so awesome to beat them on our home field.” The Aggies also picked up their second shutout of the season. “Our biggest goal of this match was a shutout,” Aggie defender Natalie Norris said. “We finally achieved that.” Despite a couple promising chances, it took the Aggies 85 minutes to get on the board. USU wasn’t able to convert until a ball off the foot of Miyashiro found its way across the goal line. “It was a fantastic game,” said USU head coach Heather Cairns. “Both teams had control at different times, we just gutted it out and took advantage of that

opportunity.” With the loss, the Utes are still without a win and have failed to score a goal through the first four games of the schedule. Norris and fellow defender Taryn Rose had particu-larly strong performances along with goalkeeper Molli Merrill, who recorded the shutout — their third on the season. Merrill stopped seven Utah shots and recorded six saves in the match. Utah had some good chances in the second half, including a shot off the foot of Ute Lauren Dudley, who caught Merrill out of position; but the Aggie defense

BY SPENCER WRIGHTstaff writer

Utah State 3, Syracuse 1

Senior All-American outside hitter Liz McArthur posted her fourth double-double of the sea-son, with 13 kills and 11 digs, to help Utah State’s volleyball team (2-3) notch a four-set win (25-23, 25-23, 17-25, 25-19) against Syracuse (3-1) here, Friday, in the second day of the Utah State Invitational, sponsored by Gossner Foods. Junior outside hitter Josselyn White added 12 kills, 15 digs and four block assists for Utah State, while Ashlan Rogers recorded a career-high 19 digs. Freshman setter Paige Neves also had a sea-son-high 19 digs to go along with a season-high six block assists, and junior middle blocker Alyssa Everett had a season-best eight block assists.

Noemie Lefebvre and Ying Shen each had 16 kills to pace Syracuse, while Ashley Williams finished with a match-best 28 digs. McArthur led Utah State with five kills in the first set as the Aggies hit .093 (11-7-43) and held Syracuse to a .020 (12-11-50) hit-ting percentage. With the set tied at 14-14, USU went on a 7-2 run to go up 21-16 and then held on for the 25-23 win. McArthur added four kills in set two, as did junior opposite side hitter Shay Sorensen, as USU hit .135 (13-6-52) and SU hit .073 (14-10-55). Syracuse led by three early on in the set, but Utah State rallied late scoring five of the final eight points for the win. Syracuse used a 10-3 run in the third set to coast to the 25-17 win as it hit .261 (10-4-23) and limited Utah State to a negative .042 (8-9-24) hitting percentage. Everett led Utah State with

four kills in the fourth set as the Aggies hit .059 (8-5-51) and held the Orange to a .000 (12-12-58) hitting percentage. In the fourth and final set, USU went on a 12-4 run in building a 20-12 advantage before posting the six-point win. Utah State finished the match with a .076 (40-27-170) hitting percentage and Syracuse hit .059 (.48-37-186). USU also out-blocked the Orange, 15.5-15.0, while SU posted four more digs (88-84). Both teams finished with three service aces, and Syracuse had three more service errors (6-3).

Utah State 3, Texas State 2

Utah State carried its momen-tum from Friday right into Saturday, in the final match of the Utah State Invitational. Behind a stand-out perfor-JUNIOR OUTSIDE HITTER Josselyn White spikes

a ball in the match against Syracuse University. Utah State won the match 3-1. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

Golf season opens upBY CURTIS LUNDSTROMstaff writer

The Utah State Golf Team kicked off its season over the weekend, traveling to Headwaters Golf Club, at Teton Springs Resort, for the Battle of the Tetons Tournament. The Aggies shot a 903 for the course, leaving them 39-over-par and tied with Hartford University for eighth place. Individual performances were highlighted by freshmen Brennan Coburn and Tanner Jenson, who finished tied for 24th overall, and senior Chanse Godderidge, who finished 30th. Jenson competed in the tourna-ment as an individual. Mason Casper, of Utah Valley University, took the indi-vidual title with a final score of 202, 14-under-par. Casper led the Wolverines to the top of the team standings, storming back from an early 5-stroke deficit to overtake Southern Utah atop the board, and distancing the team from the Thunderbirds for an 8-stroke victory. On day one, the Aggies shot 605, leaving them in ninth place, 29 shots back of the lead. Sophomore Brennan Coburn paced the Aggies through day one with rounds of 76 and 74, leaving him at a 6-over-150 for the first two rounds of the 54-hole tournament. Junior Brendan Dennis finished just behind Coburn, one shot back at 151. USU head coach Dean Johansen is in his 13th year as head coach of the team, and said he liked what he saw in the tour-nament. “I definitely saw a lot more positives than negatives today,” Johansen said. “We graduated two (from last year), but we have Austin and Chance as seniors, which gives us lots of experience, and we’ve got fresh-man hungry to get on the road, and that makes for a good com-bination The second day of the tour-nament saw better fortune for the Aggies, with Godderidge shooting a solid round of 2-under-par, pushing him up

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Don’t give up hope

There is still a lot of season to be played.I know this may be a difficult concept, but let’s not count the Aggies out just yet. Now that my heart made its way out of my stomach and back to its regular position, I feel I can calmly discuss the heart-wrenching loss Aggie football suffered Saturday. I still have one problem, though. I still haven’t decided what to make of the game. Yes, it was painful. A team that has endured so much heart break over the years had a program-defin-ing victory in its grasp. The Aggies lead with three minutes to play in what is supposed to be a body-bag game. Chuckie Keeton deliv-ered what is perhaps the best performance a true fresh-man at quarterback ever has. For a while, the Aggies were trending on Twitter and had the Nation’s captive eye. The roller coaster ride ended in a freefall that left the Aggies wondering why they couldn’t recover an onside kick or make a tackle in the open field. If you were to ask SEC homer and ESPN person-ality Colin Cowherd, the answer would be simple. The SEC is just better — no need for further explanation. At the post-game press conference, USU head coach Gary Andersen echoed the same sentiments saying that Auburn was very athletic and hard to deal with, especially on special teams. He didn’t use it as an excuse, though.

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He told the media that the Aggies are finished with moral victories. They don’t exist anymore. There is only winning and losing, and USU football will only except wins. It was interesting to see after the game how many people who I will term as “fair-weather fans” — and I won’t name names, for sev-eral good reasons — became haters the moment the game ended. Phrases such as “It is Aggie football after all” began to surface, and I almost went along with it. But then I ref lected on a decade’s worth of disappointment from USU football, and I stood with the assessment I made while the Aggies were holding their own against an SEC powerhouse: This is the best Aggie football team I have seen in my lifetime. I will not speculate on how the Aggies will end their season. For all I know, they could go 4-8 and make Aggie fans wish they could fast for-ward to basketball season. I will say this, though. The Aggies do not have another team of the same caliber as Auburn on the remainder of the schedule. From the results of week one in the FBS, Hawaii seems to be the tough-est opponent the Ags should face the rest of the year. That being said, don’t count the Aggies out just yet. If the Aggies can sus-tain long drives and make big plays against a team like Auburn, who knows what they will do to a team that isn’t nearly as talented or athletic. The Aggies have a very important game coming up against Weber State. After that game we will have a better idea of what kind of a team the Aggies will be.

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The Utah State cross-country team got what they were hop-ing for in the first meet of the season: a strong start and prom-ising performance from young runners. The front-runners for the Aggie men, who finished fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively, were brothers Brian and Kyle McKenna, and Daniel Howell. The three runners’ times were within three seconds of each other and led the Utah State men to a second-place finish overall. “The improvement that we’ve shown, both on the men’s and women’s side, from two weeks ago when we started, to now, is phenomenal,” head coach Gregg Gensel said. Finishing first overall was nationally-ranked BYU. The Cougars, who are ranked in the Top 25, won the meet with a score of 24 points. The Y. was followed by the Aggies, with 43 points, and Weber State University rounded out the competition, with 57 points. After the first two laps of the 7-kilometer race, Brian McKenna looked strong against his competitors. The senior also looked to be in good shape to defend his 2010 Utah State Open title but ran out of steam during the final push. He finished 19 seconds out of first, and .02 sec-onds ahead of his brother, Kyle. “Having them at the end really helped,” Brian McKenna said. “I kind of wish we would have strategized more when I got a little gap between me and the leaders.” The younger McKenna, Kyle, ran well in his first race. He crossed the finish line with a time of 21:06.9 in his first race as an Aggie, an impressive time for the freshman, who finished seconds ahead of USU’s Howell, a strong WAC front-runner the past two years.

Other Aggies finishing in the Top 15 were Hunter Nelson (12th, 21:54), Devin Lang (13th, 21:55) and Utah State track and field distance runner Eric Larson (14th, 22:03). “We’ve got a little ways to go for our experienced runners to get a little more speed,” Brian McKenna said. “But it was a good chance for our freshmen to prove themselves.” The Aggie women also showed young talent during the meet. The Utah State runners ran against in-state rivals BYU, Weber State and the University of Utah, all of whom have very strong cross-country programs. The women’s field was lead by the Cougars, who ran to a score of 40 points, barely com-ing in ahead of Weber’s 41 points. In third place, was U of U., with a score of 55 points, fol-lowed by USU with a score of 94. Hannah Williams came in first for Utah State, with a time of 18:05.8. Williams, a sopho-more who is usually on the track during the 1500 meters for the Aggies, felt she fared well in her first long distance race, she said, but also found room for improvement. “I wasn’t a big cross-country runner before this, and I’m still getting into it,” Williams said. “But I’m happy with (my time).” Finishing second for the Aggies, was Stephanie Burt. Burt crossed the line with a time of 18:12.3. The Aggie women were without two of their strongest runners, Saturday. Ruth Hilton who is nursing a foot injury, and Jessie Chugg, who competed unattached during the meet. Chugg, who was USU’s top-placer at last year’s Utah State Open, finished 19th, with a time of 18:15. This year Utah State Open’s course was unfamiliar terri-tory for the Aggies. The Man vs. Mud 5-kilometer mud run

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mance from White, who notched a career-high 20 kills, the Aggies defeated the Texas State Bobcats in five sets and claimed the tourna-ment championship. The strong performance USU displayed was rather different to how it played on Thursday. White said Head coach Grayson DuBose gave his team a little pep talk on Thursday, after dropping a disappointing match to Idaho State. “On Thursday, we had a little talk with Grayson after-wards, and he said that we needed to be better,” White said. “He called up on us juniors and seniors to play better ... play more aggres-sive was the big thing. I took that upon myself and I think the rest of us did too, to just come out and be aggressive and give everything we have and trust that our defense will have our back and cover

us. That paid off for us. It’s a huge difference.” White hit 20-4-42 for a .381 percentage and earned the tournament Most Valuable Player. “She had a great match. She hits .381 on 42 swings and 20 kills, that’s a heck of a deal,” DuBose said. “I think really she did a great job of hitting with some range where she was mixing up the ball a little bit — tip shots, roll shots, angles, lines

— I think she kinda had the whole package going tonight.” USU traded sets with Texas State and headed in to the fifth set with an 0-2 record on the season in games decided in the fifth set. USU was the first to eight points and never looked back on its way to a15-10 victory. White had five kills to propel the Aggies in the fifth set, including three consecutive kills to win the set.

Utah State 3, Weber State 2

Fresh off of a Utah State Invitational victory, the USU women’s volleyball team was ready to roll, Tuesday night, and it showed, as the Aggies pulled out the win in a five-match thriller against in-state foe Weber State, 3-2. It looks like their early season struggles are well behind them. “I think we’re being more aggressive. When you play hard, something good is going to happen,” DuBose said. The Aggies, who started the season 1-3, are now 4-3 and riding a three-game win-ning streak. After winning the first game 25-18 and jumping out to an early lead in the sec-ond game, it looked like the Aggies would be on their way to a quick and easy victory.

Weber State, however, had different plans and overcame an early second-set deficit to win 25-23 and tie it at one set each. The Aggies took control early, once again, in the third set, and this time held on for a tight 25-23 win. Weber State looked to be headed for a comfortable win in the fourth set before USU stormed back and tied the game at 17, then again at 22. The Aggies then took a 23-22 lead and looked poised for the win, but Weber State hung in and pulled off anoth-er 25-23 win. The fifth set was more of the same back-and-forth volleyball, but in the end the Aggies’ stellar defense helped them prevail, 15-13 and 3-2, for the match. “It’s pretty exciting. There was a lot of emotion,” DuBose said. “In the fifth set we had some really nice blocking.

That was the difference.” DuBose also noted the crowd, even though it was in Ogden, was full of Aggies and made a big difference. “The crowd was great,” DuBose said. “Give a shout out to the Aggie fans who came down.” The Aggies will now prepare for the remaining three matches they have this week, at the Long Beach State Baden Classic, against Oregon State, Long Beach State and SMU. DuBose and the Aggies will look to keep the momen-tum going and the streak alive. “We’re up for the chal-lenge,” DuBose said.

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compensated for Merrill’s positioning and pre-vented the score. The first half ended 0-0. The Aggies broke through on a set piece from Miyashiro in the 85th minute. Rose put a free kick on goal that was deflected by Utah goalkeep-er Hannah Turpen. The ball bounced to Kendra Pemberton, whose attempt was also denied a goal by Turpen, who then deflected it to the feet of Miyashiro. Her shot barely crossed the line, but it was enough to give the Aggies the 1-0 lead. “I was right in front of the goal, and I just kicked it in,” Miyashiro said. The late goal was Miyashiro’s first game win-ner of the season, and second overall.

Utah State 1, CSF 0

The Aggie women’s soccer team faced off against the Cal State Fullerton Titans Sunday, winning yet again, 1-0. The overtime win marks the sixth straight win for the Aggies and contin-ues their undefeated season. Pemberton scored the only goal in the game just one minute into the second period of over-time. The 5-foot-9 sophomore raced up the left side and buried a shot past CSF keeper Lindsey Maricic from more than 20 yards away — end-ing the game and winning in double overtime for Utah State. Pemberton said she just didn’t want to run for another eight minutes. “I was so exhausted,” Pemberton said. “I didn’t really remember it because it happened so fast.”

“We just watched the goal on video,” Cairns said. “You can’t ask for a more perfect shooting technique. Everybody stood there because she ripped it so hard. Nobody moved, and I didn’t think she had that much time to get the shot off, so she really worked hard to get that off. It was a quality strike.” Merrill saved two goals in the first half. A Titan goal by sophomore Nikki McCants was called back, offsides. The Aggie offense made a couple nice shots but could not get past Maricic, and the first half ended in a standstill, 0-0. The second half began with what seemed like a huge rush of energy from both the Aggies and the Titans. Cal State Fullerton kept the ball on the opposing side of the pitch for the first few minutes, but the Aggie back line stopped the ball from reaching the net. Once, Utah State was able to overtake the ball and Miyashiro took a shot on goal, but it was stopped by Maricic. With just two minutes left in the second half, USU senior midfielder Chandra Salmon took a shot at the CS Fullerton goal — Maricic again shut it down. The second half ended scoreless, 0-0. CSF got the ball within inches of crossing the goal line, two minutes into the first overtime, but the Aggie defense and Merrill were able to keep the Titans from scoring.

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We’ll have an even bet-ter idea of how they should be after they host Colorado State for Homecoming. Why do I even men-tion Weber State? Shouldn’t it be consid-ered as an automatic win? Not so fa st .

The Wildcats nearly upset Wyoming on the road Sept. 3, and will be hungry to rebound from the dis-appointing loss as well. Just wait until after this Saturday, Sept. 10, before you give up on Aggie football. They may just surprise you.

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forced the Aggies to carve out a completely dif-ferent course than in years past. The race was held adjacent to the previous course, in converted farmland. Although the Aggies had more time to prepare than the visiting teams, they still struggled on the fresh terrain. “Probably the biggest (challenge) was find-ing a rhythm because you get enough turns and enough uneven ground, and you really can’t find that (rhythm),” Brian McKenna said. “And I think I had it pretty good, but I could have used a little more preparation to be solid for the last half of the race.” The Aggies hit the trails again Sept. 19, at the Montana State Open, in Bozeman, Montana.

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the scoreboard and lifting the Aggies to eighth in the standings. Godderidge finished 39th, overall. USU shot much better on day two, than day one, shooting 10 shots better its final round, than its first round of competi-tion. Sophomore Tanner Higham recorded an eagle during the

tournament, to compliment the 34 birdies the team recorded as a whole. Johansen said finishing on top is just a matter of putting it all together. “We have high expectations,” Johansen said. “Young kids pushing older kids, that’s going to be good, we need competition

amongst ourselves. We have the talent to be really good this year.” The Aggie Golf team heads to Colorado nextSept. 18 to 19, for the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational, in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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As each year goes by, here at USU — and President Stan Albrecht’s yearly initiative of heightened enrollment is effectively execut-

ed — we notice certain areas on and off campus continue to swell at the beginning, and to a lesser degree, at the end of each semester. Even though droves of new students are invited to come to USU to enjoy its prestigious research programs, beautiful surroundings and affordable tuition and fees, class sizes continue to grow, parking contin-ues to decrease and roads stay the same size. If we could successfully poll all students on campus and ask them how they feel about the price and practicality of parking — especially in those places like the Terrace or University Inn parking lot, that do not require an overloaded shuttle ride or a lengthy, sub-zero walk in the win-ter time — chances are likely the general consen-sus would be less than positive. And what about drivers whose morning transit routes include a leg on the overcrowded 700 North or 800 East? How many of us, in the first couple of weeks of a new semester, have been in a hurry to get through the intersection of those two roads and screamed expletives at the perpetual stream of ignorant pedestrians who seem to think a flashing-red hand means “come on over, keep on texting, you have plenty of time”? Perhaps, the issue is we all get tunnel vision when it’s early and we’re in a hurry to get to class without showing up late and looking like less-than-successful future leaders of the world.Who hasn’t been guilty of running a red light, jaywalking or pulling a “California roll” through a stop sign once in a while? The problem surmounts when a few thousand people are all doing this at the same time. It’s surprising so few people end up in the hospital — or heaven forbid, dead — because of the negligent disregard for laws we all had to know to get a driver license. Returning students may recall a few years ago when a faculty member biking down the hill on 800 East T-boned a vehicle making a left turn. What turned out to be a couple of fractures and broken bones could have resulted in a coffin and tombstone. Last year, Logan City donated some time, fund-ing and effort to painting “sharrows” on the road to reduce the anxiety and risk cyclists experience while riding in traffic with cars, trucks and buses. Furthermore, after a few repairs to the roads most proximate to USU, the “sharrows” were repainted and are now more easily visible. These road designs, consisting of a picture of a bike and an arrow, instruct drivers to be aware and have con-sideration for bike riders who legally and rightfully share the road. Unfortunately, what’s harder to do is get bike riders to acknowledge they are still subject to the same set of laws as licensed drivers. Low energy, running late or not wanting to give up downhill momentum are not excuses for running stop signs and stoplights on your bike. Sidewalks and roads are not interchangeable — bike riders shouldn’t, and don’t, have the luxury of using one or the other depending on convenience. People behind the wheel of a vehicle aren’t going to expect a cyclist to come barreling down a sidewalk and seamlessly merge into traffic on the street. This is reckless, dangerous and illegal. Lastly, how many people have witnessed col-lisions on campus sidewalks between cyclists, boarders or Razor riders? There’s a reason the USU Bike Plan was concocted this year (the rea-son there are “Yield your wheels” signs all over campus). We’re all adults here, and regardless of what you’ve been told, we all need to be consider-ate of one another. So let’s take our blinders off, and realize there’s a whole world out there that needs some of our attention.

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During a period of eco-nomic downturn and high unemployment, such as the one we are currently experi-encing, the temptation to give the green light to the pipeline project seems like an obvious solution for many, including the President. His prospects for re-election will hinge on how well the economy performs between now and then. TransCanada, the com-pany proposing the pipeline,

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adventurers arrived in Japan with primitive firearms. This was Japan’s first introduction to guns, and it had an imme-diate impact. Japan adopted the new technology and

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Ramana Maharshi, one of the great spiritual teachers of the 20th Century. Peacocks flew to the roof and screamed their hearts out, joining in the general morning celebration. Gradually, my meditation took me to a place of great peace. Here I was in India — a place I’d longed to visit my whole life. And though it was my first visit, I felt like I’d come home. Raised Catholic and granted 11 years of Catholic education, I abandoned the Catholic church in high school, bored by what seemed its excessive ritualism and over-preoccupation with moralizing. I yearned for a richer spiritual life. Like many in the late 1970s, I tried to find it with drugs. Dropping hits of “orange sun-shine” — LSD — the world opened into new dimensions of vision and reality. But this was a temporary and artificial experience, and I wanted something authentic. I began reading Emerson and Thoreau, who wrote about the exploration of the inner life. I was intrigued, but how did one begin? Then I saw a flier for a meditation class and signed up. I arrived at the class and met the teacher, a long-haired guy with a beard and the most amazing eyes I’d ever seen — blue and full of openness and kindness. He looked right into my eyes without fear or competitiveness or aggression, just openly, lovingly. After a year or so of regular meditation practice, I began to feel a great sense of peace, well-being and happiness. I stopped drinking alcohol, became a vegetarian and became active in service work. One day browsing my parents’ bookshelf, I found a 25-cent copy of a book by Thomas Merton, a Catholic monk, called “In Seed of Contemplation.” I read it and was completely astonished at how this Catholic monk was describing meditation experiences like those I had in a Hindu yoga tradition. Eleven years of Catholic education had told me nothing about Christian meditation. I embarked upon what became a life-long study of Christian contemplation, reading books like “The Practice of the Presence of God,” “The Imitation of Christ,” “The Cloud

of Unknowing,” “The Autobiography of Saint Teresa,” and works by John of the Cross, all written in a tradition called “Christian mysti-cism.” The word “mysticism” often calls up images of magic and the occult, but the dic-tionary first defines it as “a doctrine of imme-diate spiritual intuition of truths believed to transcend ordinary understanding, or of a direct, intimate union of the soul with God through contemplation or ecstasy.” “Yoga,” too, I learned, means “union”— union of the soul with the divine. The union Christian mys-tics wrote of sounded astonishingly similar to that described by yogis. I came close to becoming a monk in the yogic tradition I was involved in but fell in love, instead. I eventually left that tradition and entered a spiritual crisis and a long, “dark night of the soul”—to quote John of the Cross. After seven years in crisis, I found my way out when I encountered some books on Buddhism. I began Buddhist meditation and practiced in that tradition for more than 15 years. Once again, I encountered the same inner life I encountered in yoga and in Christian contem-plative traditions. After this long and circuitous journey, today, I draw on all of these traditions, in addition to immersing myself in the poetry of Rumi and Hafiz, of the Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism. In “The Perennial Philosophy,” Aldous Huxley observed that while the world’s reli-gions differ dramatically in terms of doctrine, ritual and belief, when their members write of the inner life, their descriptions are remarkably similar. This, I have found to be true. When I sit in meditation with Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or Sufis, I always feel that I’ve come home — surrounded by a love and peace that “passeth all understanding.”

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— Michael Sowder is a professor in USU’s

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where-next, the pipeline is being additionally touted as a more reliable, stable and ecofriendly source of petro-leum. TransCanada, predict-ably, has assured us that the pipeline will not adversely affect the environment, and that preventing leaks is their first priority. Initially, these all seem to be good points but upon closer examination the pipeline’s appeal begins to lose its luster. About 20,000 jobs, largely tempo-rary, would not put a dent in the current unemploy-ment figures, nor would the short-term gains out-weigh the longer-term risks and potential damage to our ecosystem. Between Canada and Texas the pipe-line would pass under, not only the Yellowstone River — where just this summer

a similar pipeline built and maintained by Exxon Mobil leaked 42,000 gallons of similar tar sands oil — but also the Ogallala Aquifer (one of the world’s largest) and Nebraska’s fragile Sand Hills. One of TransCanada’s latest pipelines leaked 12 times, in 12 months, despite its earlier claim that a leak might occur every seven years, at most. A North Dakota farmer, whose land a TransCanada pipeline crossed, tells of his recent nightmarish experience in trying to report a 60-foot fountain of oil erupting from one of TransCanada’s lines to their “1-800” num-ber, but whose calls for help were ignored because the leak didn’t register on their electronic sensors. No oil company, no matter what they say, can guar-antee that their safety sys-

tems are foolproof, should a leak occur. Additionally, TransCanada fails to pro-vide assurances that the oil they extract will only be for the domestic U.S. market and will not be sold world-wide. TransCanada is, after all, a corporation — not a charity — whose first loyalty is to its shareholders, and who will sell its oil to the highest bidder. Obama is set to unveil his new jobs plan this week. Let’s hope that it includes a shift away from our reliance on fos-sil fuels and companies such as TransCanada, and includes new investments in green technology.

The thinking behind those that wish to phase out oil production is that we will replace it with newer and greener technology. The fact is, though, that there is no green technology to super-sede oil. Wind has reached the end of the road as far as efficiency goes; solar has potential but isn’t there yet technologically; and the political hurdles facing nuclear energy are arguably greater than the scientific ones facing solar. There are, of course, other realms of energy exploration, such as cold fusion and tidal energy, but these amount to little more than pipe dreams. Economies run on energy, and there is no source of green energy that can be a viable alternative to oil. “But wait,” you say, “phas-ing out oil production will increase market demand for alternative energy sources, leading to new innovations.” This is a common belief rooted in the false assump-

tion that necessity is the mother of invention. Most history-changing technolo-gies we have today — air-planes, light bulbs, comput-ers, etc. — were invented prior to any perceived mar-ket need. These goods were only seen as a necessity after they were fully integrated into the market. Booming economies are the mother of invention. The number of patent applications rise in response to increases in GDP. Like it or not, we have an oil-based economy. If we hope to stimulate a market

of invention, the worst thing we can do is put the econo-my in a chokehold by barring projects like the Keystone Pipeline. Do not misunderstand me. I believe in cheap, renewable energy. The fact of the mat-ter, though, is that a clean energy future depends on dirty oil. Plunging the econo-my into depression, or hand-ing over national sovereignty to oil cartels, by refusing to develop our own resources is a foolish strategy toward solving energy or environ-mental issues. Oil devel-opment is essential to our future, and if in the process we can take money out of the hands of oil cartels and put it into that of American workers through projects such as Keystone XL, all the better.

— Andrew Izatt is a sopho-

more majoring in religious

studies. His interests include

studying Middle Easter poli-

tics and conflict resolution.

Comments can be sent to

him at andrew.izatt@agg-

mail.usu.edu.

— Mike Burnham is a junior

majoring in international

relations and economics.

His interests include study-

ing international peace and

security. Comments can be

sent to him at mike.burn-

ham@gmail.com.

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This is the American era of endless war. To grasp its sweep, it helps to visit Fort Campbell, Ky., where the Army will soon open a $31 million complex for wounded troops and those whose bodies are breaking down after a decade of deploy-ments. The Warrior Transition Battalion complex , the only four-story structure on the base, towers over architecture from earlier wars. “This unit will be around as long as the Army is around,” said Lt. Col. Bill Howard, the battalion com-mander. As the new complex rises, bulldozers are taking down the last of Fort Campbell’s World War II-era buildings. The white clapboard struc-tures were hastily thrown up in the early 1940s as the country girded to battle Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. Each was labeled with a large letter “T.” The buildings, like the war the country was enter-ing, were supposed to be tem-

Korean WarJune 1950 to July 1953

Vietnam*Aug. 1964 to Jan. 1973

Persian Gulf WarAug. 1990 to Feb. 1991

Operation Iraqi FreedomMarch 2003 through Sept. 2

LebanonAug. 1982 to Feb. 1984

SomaliaGrenada

*Deaths from Nov. 1, 1955 (commencement date for the Military Assistance Advisory Group), through May 15, 1975 (date the last American service member le! Southeast Asia).**Includes 35 combat deaths from Operation New Dawn, which replaced the name Operation Iraqi Freedom on Sept. 1, 2010.

In the decades a!er Vietnam, the U.S. military was almost entirely focused on training for a big, unthinkable war with the Soviet Union. "ere were small conflicts, such as Grenada, Panama and the Persian Gulf War, but the United States was largely at peace until the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, led to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Sources: Defense Manpower Data Center, Defense Department GREG JAFFE, JULIE TATE AND TODD LINDEMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST

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MAJOR CONFLICTS OTHER SELECT CONFLICTS

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porary. The two sets of buildings tell the story of America’s embrace of endless war in the 10 years since Sept. 11, 2001. In previous decades, the mili-tary and the American public viewed war as an aberration and peace as the norm. Today, radical religious ide-ologies, new technologies and cheap, powerful weapons have catapulted the world into “a period of persistent conflict,” according to the Pentagon’s last major assessment of global security. “No one should harbor the illusion that the developed world can win this conflict in the near future,” the document concludes. By this logic, America’s wars are unending and any talk of peace is quixotic or naive. The new view of war and peace has brought about far-reaching changes in agen-cies such as the CIA, which is increasingly shifting its focus from gathering intelligence to targeting and killing ter-rorists. Within the military the shift has reshaped Army bases, spurred the creation of new commands and changed

what it means to be a warrior. On the home front, the new thinking has altered long-held views about the effectiveness of military power and the likelihood that peace will ever prevail. In the decades after Vietnam, the U.S. military was almost entirely focused on training for a big, unthinkable war with the Soviet Union. There were small conflicts, such as Grenada, Panama and the Persian Gulf War, but the United States was largely at peace. After the Soviet collapse

and America’s swift Gulf War victory, the military bet that it would be able to use big weap-ons and vastly better tech-nology to bludgeon enemies into a speedy surrender. It envisioned a future of quick, decisive and overwhelming victories. A decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan has crushed the “smug certainties” of that earlier era, said Eliot Cohen, a military historian who served in the George W. Bush admin-istration. Most soldiers and Marines in today’s military have seen their entire careers con-sumed by combat. During last year’s 9/11 anniversary, Lt. Col. Christopher Coglianese accompanied his second-grade daughter on her school’s annual Freedom Walk outside Fort Hood, Texas. “Basically the whole stu-dent body walks around the grounds of the school wear-ing patriotic garb and car-rying signs about freedom,” Coglianese recalled in an e-mail from Iraq, where he is on his third tour. The children in his daugh-ter’s Skipcha Elementary School class proudly told him how many times their fathers had deployed and where they had fought. “To be honest there was a certain surrealism about it,” Coglianese wrote. “For this very small slice of American children this way of life is completely normal.” Coglianese believes the separations have forced military children to develop “a strength, maturity and resil-ience well beyond their years.” The long stretch of war has also isolated the U.S. military from society. Senior Army officials worry that career soldiers have forgotten how to take care of their troops outside the war zones. A 2010 Army study partially blamed the service’s unusually high suicide rate on the “lost art of leadership in garrison.” Other top military officials fret that the troops are devel-oping a troubling sense that they are better than the soci-

ety they serve. “Today’s Army, includ-ing its leadership, lives in a bubble separate from society,” wrote retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan, in an essay for the website of Foreign Policy magazine. “This splendid military isola-tion - set in the midst of a largely adoring nation - risks fostering a closed culture of superiority and aloofness. This must change if the Army is to remain in, of, and with the ever-diverse peoples of the United States.” The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have not had the broad cultural impact of previous conflicts such as World War II or Vietnam. The new wars have not produced war bonds, internment camps, victory gardens or large-scale coun-terculture protests. Movies about these fights have largely flopped. The endless conflict, however, has triggered major changes in the way Americans view war and peace. Call of Duty, a series of video games, offers up a fun-house-mirror reflection of this new under-standing of conflict. Each year more than 30 million people play the game, accordingto its manufacturer, Activision Blizzard. Early versions of the game were set in World War II and largely paralleled real-world events. As American troops hurtled toward Baghdad in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein, Call of Duty play-ers controlled virtual soldiers fighting to liberate European cities from a fascist dictator. The popularity of the series truly soared in 2009 with the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which por-trayed a very different kind of war. Modern Warfare 2 begins in Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are locked in a long, bloody struggle with the Taliban. “We are the most power-ful force in the history of the world,” an American general bellows at his soldiers. “Every

fight is our fight.” From there the game veers into the sensational. A terror-ist attack at a Russian airport triggers a global war between the United States and Russian ultranationalists. Game play-ers battle Russian soldiers in the Washington suburbs and fire missiles from Predator drones. In a Russian airport scene, the players are made to take part in a slaughter of innocent civilians, who crawl across blood-streaked floors and beg for their lives. In the World War II games, the players are unquestion-ably good and the war’s ends are noble. The games end in victory and peace. The allies raise a victory banner over the Reichstag building in Berlin. In the Modern Warfare battles, the conflicts are unending. “You find yourself doubt-ing why we fight,” said Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, an industry veteran and game designer. “Villains are killed, but you are left in the end with a completely devastated world.” Victory is unattain-able. Peace, of course, is not just absent from video games. It has faded from any debate in Washington surrounding the wars. New Pentagon organiza-tions set up for Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to per-sist indefinitely to deal with the era’s enduring threats. In 2006, the Defense Department created the Joint IED Defeat Organization to help in the battle with improvised explo-sive devices, which remain the top killer of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. The command has requested $2.8 billion next year. Senior Pentagon officials said there are no plans to scale back its funding. “Outside of Iraq and Afghanistan, there are 500 IED events each month,” said Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, who commands the organization. In June and July, IEDs exploded in Pakistan, India, Somalia, Yemen, Colombia, Nigeria and Norway.

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