News
Aggies
drown Utes in a sea of red in annual Blood Battle
08/29/03
Blood is
thicker than…rivalry? Apparently so, as Utah State and University
of Utah students challenged each other to join forces and resources—in
harmony with this week's highly contentious football competition between
the two schools—for the second annual "Blood Battle"
donation drive. / By Hilary Judd
Hundreds
line up on Quad to see . . . orangish dot in night sky
08/28/03
Utah State
students had the closest encounter with Martians on Tuesday night
that they'll ever have . . . at least the closest encounter with the
planet that gave name to these fictitious creatures. / By Myrica
Hawker
Features
Missionary
in Philippines sweats (literally) for his church
08/29/03
It was his
first time there. He walked off the airplane, and underneath his collared
white dress shirt and navy blue suit jacket he could feel the sweat
start to drip down his back. It was 90 degrees with 100 percent humidity.
"What am I doing here?" he thought. / By Debra Crowther
Ice,
asthma and nasty drivers don't slow marathoner
08/28/03
Twenty-degree
icy mornings, cars that almost hit him, swollen and pained knees and
asthma don't slow him down. / By
Callie Taggart
Just
a flight down to Ogden for dinner
08/27/03
Nate Ellison
knows how to impress a date.Instead of driving his date to dinner
in Ogden, he flew her there.It
was a sunny, snow-shimmering day in January when he and his friend
Clint Demaris flew their dates to Ogden in an old single-engine, four-seater
Cessna 172, with red, orange and yellow stripes on the sides. They
landed at the Ogden airport and rented a car to go out to dinner at
Applebee's. Then they drove back to the airport and flew back over
the whipped cream mountain tops and Sardine Canyon to Logan, all the
time watching a passion-fruit-orange melange sunset.
/ By Callie Taggart
German
native learns quirks of life in Utah, language for speech pathology
08/27/03
She seems
like a typical 23-year-old girl. She is a full-time college student
at Utah State University, majoring in communicative disorders. She's
getting ready for graduation; only one more semester. She works a
part-time job at the Utah State Bookstore, and she often catches herself
staring at the clock that seems to have a dying battery, as time drags
by while she's at work./ By Debra Crowther
Sports
A
FEW POINTER:
Aggie basketball player Mike Ahmad makes a point to a team of Special
Olympians Tuesday outside the Taggart Student Center. Men and women
from USU's basketball teams took on the USU Special Olympics team
in heat formidable enough to make Big Blue, left, sit this one out.
Ahmad wowed the team with his dunks and set picks to create open shots.
/ Photo by Earl Scott
Aggie
basketball players make winners of Special Olympians
08/27/03
The Utah
State Special Olympic basketball team combined with players from the
men's and women's USU basketball teams to play for a supportive crowd
Tuesday afternoon on the Taggart Student Center Plaza. / By Earl
Scott
Lifestyles
Opinion
Austrian's
first impression of Utah
08/29/03
Well, so I am
finally here, in Logan, Utah, after weeks and months of running from
one office to another desperately trying to get about 200 different
permissions, visas, etc. What do I think of Logan so far? I guess
my first thought probably was: "Holy crap, this place is pretty
big and quite beautiful, too." / By Matthias Petry
Arts
From left to right:
Kent Hadfield, Marina Hall, Kevin Doyle, Cassandra Orr and Mark Damen
stand ready for the first recording of Synecdoche. /
Photo courtesy of Fran Titchener
New
radio program 'Synecdoche' highlights local authors
08/28/03
Synecdoche
(sen ek de-ke) is a figure of speech in which a part is used
to represent a greater whole -- for example, ‘all hands on deck'
in reference to sailors or 'fifty sail' for fifty sailboats. In addition,
it's the name of a new radio entertainment program which broadcast
for the first time Tuesday on Utah Public Radio (UPR). / By Justin
Lafeen
Batik
artist, first intrigued at a Grateful Dead concert, now creates for
families
08/27/03
Hot wax
pops over the lip of the double boiler heated on the coils of the
burner and then cools in a bumpy pattern on the stovetop. An ironing
board with a blue and white checked cover stands in the middle of
the kitchen. / By Jill Heffner
