News
County
landfill site to be selected soon
06/16/03
If all goes
as planned, Cache Valley will have a site for its new landfill this
fall. / By Marie Griffin
Utah
braces for summer fire season; fireworks restrictions will be enforced
06/12/03
Another
dry summer is upon us and though most Utah fire marshals have not
yet declared restrictions, there is a good chance they will be just
as restrictive as last year. / By Tiffany Erickson
Features
MORMON
CRICKETS:
They are hungry; they have bad attitudes; and they are coming our
way. A Mormon cricket, above, was one of many swarming over Interstate
80 recently near Winnemucca, Nev., about 200 miles west of Logan.
The insects are about 2 to 3 inches long and can jump almost high
enough to reach the step of a Subaru Forester door. The bad news is,
not many are headed west. / Photo by John H. Cushman
Speech
pathology grad recalls feeling 'stupid' over her own mispronunciations
06/16/03
Some time
in the second grade when she was 7, Maggie Anderson, who had trouble
with the letter "S," suddenly realized that the other kids
weren’t leaving the classroom to get special help like her.
She realized she was different. She realized she had a problem. She
realized she was "stupid." / By Meghan Dinger
What
a long, strange trip for former Deadhead, from discontent to determination
06/16/03
Six years
ago Jill Heffner lay in a La-Z-Boy recliner in her living room with
a midwife coaxing her to "get on top of the pain." /
By Jasmine Michaelson
Life
in two cultures a maze for a Hmong named 'crazy rat on opium'
06/16/03
Na Vongsa
Vue was only 21 when he was asked to marry. But Vue had other plans.
He wanted to marry a woman he loved instead of a stranger. Even so,
he could not deny the fact that he was betrothed. He was forced. And
things got nasty when he wanted a way out. / By Christopher Loke
Non-traditional
student goes from party hippie to DVD producer, German scholar
06/16/03
Sipping
on a "Hippie Speed Ball" (an iced, quadruple shot espresso,
mocha) at Caffe' Ibis and flipping through the Fall 2003 course catalog,
Utah State University student Chris Lott, now age 30, talks about
why he decided to start his college career at the age of 26. /
By Jill Heffner
Tiffany
Erickson, left, and her mother, Joan, enjoy the year-end journalism
department banquet.
For
a growing number of Utahns, the question of race is complex (and just
dying to be asked)
06/16/03
"I'm
African-American, Samoan, and white," Tiffany Erickson says when
people finally ask the question that's been bugging them. Cache Valley's
multiracial population is small but growing. / By Jonas Manuel
Star
Coulbrook: Writing makes good medicine in women's lives
06/16/03
"I walked
out of school the day I turned 16," said Star. "Back all those years
ago you could go tell the principal, 'I'm not learning anything and
I'm leaving.'" / By Tiffany Erickson
Sports
Lifestyles
Somebody's
Attic a collective labor of love
06/16/03
Born in
the basement of another downtown business donating a yearly sum of
$10,000 to charities, the Attic now resides in a clean (if not old)
and spacious two-story building all its own on 100 North, just west
of Main Street. And last year alone it donated more than $70,000 to
local charities. / By Jasmine Michaelson
Chinese
student's independent streak includes secret marriage
06/16/03
Computer
science doctoral student Jing Hu had a successful life in Shanghai,
but he needed challenges. He found them at USU, including the difficulty
of a long-distance marriage that he has kept secret from loved ones
in China. / By Wenlan Xu
Opinion
Arts
Like
his public art, bipolar artist's life deceptively natural-looking
06/16/03
In the middle
of a cream-colored brick wall that stretches five stories in Utah
State's Eccles Science Learning Center hang three tan panels, each
about 5 feet by 5 feet. The panels feature purple-gray, three-dimensional
depictions of a manta ray, a leaf and a mollusk shell and appear to
be carved sandstone. Who would guess they are really Styrofoam?
/ By Myrica Hawker
Craftsman
carving his name in lore of hunting knives
06/16/03
In the basement
of his home, in a room no bigger than your average tub, tile and toilet
lavatory, Gary Etherington spends anywhere from 10 to 30 hours sawing,
sanding and shaping a single knife. / By Karina Fain
In
'Rolling Stone,' slick packaging, commercial photographer's work grabs
the buyer's eye
06/16/03
"Give
me a look that tells me I am making a wise purchase," Chris Dunker
says. With a change of music, U2, the model gets back on the bike
and pretends to ride the exercise equipment, and this time she gets
it, the self- knowing look. / By Jill Heffner
