June 28 & 29, 2004 In
the News
Tuesday June 29, 2004
PARENTS
PLOT TO GET BEYOND MONOSYLLABLES AT THE FAMILY DINNER TABLE
Dinner conversation in the Cutter family sometimes slips into
giggles and disjointed thoughts. It's an art form to get the
kids beyond "fine" when they're asked, "How was
your day?" … Tom Lee, a professor of family, consumer
and human development at Utah State University, said parents
should encourage children to express their views and resist
the urge to lecture at the table. (Newshouse News Service, 06/28/04)
Click on: http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/melendez062504.html
HEARING LOSS:
CHILDREN CAN TAKE PART
IN STUDY
Researchers at Utah State University are conducting a study
to determine the best ways to help infants and toddlers diagnosed
with permanent hearing loss. The team will collect data from
Greater Cincinnati and 15 other cities. The study needs 150
children with hearing loss and 50 children with normal hearing
between the ages of 1 and 4 1/2 years. Participants are expected
to perform a three-hour test every six months and will be paid
$50 for each session. For information, call (866) 236-9164.
(Cinncinnati Enquirer, 06/26/04)
ROLLY AND WELLS:
MORE PROOF OPPOSITES ATTRACT
You might recall that last year the College Republicans at Utah
State University held an "Affirmative Action bake sale"
on campus, charging minorities and women less for the bakery
items than male Caucasians as a dig on Affirmative Action programs.
… After some heated exchanges, Angie Hammond, ASUSU vice
president for diversity, and Scott Dewey, an officer for the
College Republicans, agreed to arrange a debate on the USU campus,
with Dewey's side arguing against Affirmative Action and Hammond's
side supporting it. (Salt Lake Tribune, 06/28/04) Click on:
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/jun/06282004/utah/179474.asp
'SONG OF SINGAPORE'
LURES THEATER VETERAN BACK TO HIS LOGAN ROOTS
As a Utah State University freshman in 1961, Jon Cranney played
Horatio in "Hamlet," the first-ever USU production
at the Lyric Theatre in Logan. … Now, 40 years after he
graduated from USU with a degree in drama and left the state
to pursue a successful theater career, Cranney is back.
The Utah native is directing a musical, "Song of Singapore,"
for the Old Lyric Repertory Company. The show, which opened
Thursday at the Lyric, is the first he has directed in Utah
and marks Cranney's return to a stage that holds fond memories
for him. (Salt Lake Tribune, 06/27/04) Click on: http://www.sltrib.com/2004/jun/06272004/arts/179001.asp
CLOSE TO HOME:
TAKE A BACK-ROAD BREAK AT DAIRY FARM STORES
One of the great things about traveling any back road in America
and specifically Utah involves finding a great dairy farm store
where you can buy freshly made cheese or curd straight from
the factory. … Established in 1966 by Swiss cheesemaker
Edwin Gossner and still owned by his family, Gossner's is famous
for fresh curd, cheese spreads and boxed milk (available in
numerous flavors) that does not require refrigeration. The store
also sells Aggie Ice Cream, a real treat from nearby Utah State
University. (Salt Lake Tribune, 06/27/04) Click On: http://www.sltrib.com/2004/jun/06272004/sunday/178648.asp
USU, SUU AMONG
TOP 10 FOR 'VALUE'
The May/June issue of Consumers Digest lists Utah State University
and Southern Utah University among the top 10 best values for
public colleges and universities. … USU, ranked sixth
in the nation for best value, costs $12,876 in annual tuition
and room and board while the same bills at ninth-ranked SUU
run $13,558, according to the report. "To make the top
10, which represents both the high quality and cost effective
measure of the university, is outstanding," SUU President
Steven Bennion said in a press release.
(Deseret News, 06/27/04) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595073384,00.html
FUEL-EFFICIENT
HYBRID CARS WILL SOON SYMBOLIZE A BETTER LIFE
It was inevitable. With all-time-high gas prices driving the
demand for gas-electric hybrid cars into overdrive, prices for
fuel-efficient hybrids were bound to take off. The Wall Street
Journal reports that with a backlog of more than 22,000 orders
for Toyota's Prius, the car is now fetching a dealer markup
of $5,000 over its original sticker price of between $20,000
and $26,000. Some dealers are auctioning off spots on their
waiting lists for $500 or more on eBay, and one customer even
resorted to ebay to pay more than $32,000 for his new Prius
when his local dealer couldn't deliver even after a six-month
wait. Despite the price gouging, most buyers appear all too
happy to get a hybrid car — any hybrid car — regardless
of color, options or an opportunity to test drive it. …
Edwin R. Stafford teaches marketing strategy at Utah State University.
His research centers on the marketing and consumer adoption
of cleaner technology. (Deseret News, 06/27/04) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595072809,00.html
S.L. PIANIST WINS
2ND PRIZE IN N.Y.
Brandon Lee of Salt Lake City won second prize in the second
New York Piano Competition that concluded here Friday. Lee,
18, has been studying piano for 14 years and moved with his
family from Hawaii so that he could study music with Professor
Gary Amano of Utah State University. He also has performed with
the Utah Symphony and is a past winner in the Utah State Fair
and the Salute to Youth piano competitions. First prize winner
was Hannah Sun of Flushing, N.Y., a Chinese-born musician. The
event was held at the Manhattan School of Music. (Deseret News,
06/26/04) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595073292,00.html
GARDEN HELPS INMATES
CULTIVATE CHARACTER: PRISONERS GROW FOOD FOR JAIL, GET JOB OPPORTUNITIES
This little-known garden grows more than food. … The patch
at the Utah County Jail also produces reformed citizens who,
when set free, hopefully will never look out through steel bars
again, Utah County Sheriff's Lt. Dennis Harris says. …
"We harvested 110 pounds of spinach," said Adrian
Hinton, horticultural specialist with the Utah State University
agricultural extension office in Provo. Hinton serves as the
adviser for the project, now in its first year. (Deseret News,
06/26/04) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595073242,00.html
SPIDERWOMAN:
SPIDER-MAN HAS NOTHING ON USU'S LAURA BENNETT
Laura Bennett's spidey sense tells her she's seen millions of
individuals who could defeat the film world's Spider-Man in
battle. If only physical size were equal. … "The
film Spider-Man wouldn't survive a minute in the real world
of spiders," said Bennett, a Utah State University student
who has devoted her lifetime to studying "all things that
creep and crawl." (Standard-Examiner, 06/27/04) Click on:
http://www.standard.net/standard/news/print_story.html?sid=00040626190012312336
KTVX NEWSCAST:
USU/SUU HIGHER ED
Consumer Digest released its top 10 Universities for the Best
Prices. Florida International University is first, USU is second
and SUU is third. (KTVX news, 5:30 p.m., 06/27/04)
KSTU NEWSCAST:
USU/SUU HIGHER ED
Two Utah schools are listed among the nation's top 10 for their
value in higher education. The schools are Utah State University
and Southern Utah University. There schools were named in the
May/June issue of Consumer's Digest. (KSTU news, 5:30 p.m.,
9 p.m., 06/27/04)
Monday June 28, 2004
MINNESOTA TEACHER
MARGO MAGNUSSEN HONORED AS NATIONAL SUBSTITUTE TEACHER OF THE
YEAR BY KELLY EDUCATIONAL STAFFING
Margo Magnussen, a substitute teacher at Bemidji Independent
School District in Bemidji, Minn., was honored this week as
National Substitute Teacher of the Year by Kelly Educational
Staffing. An award presentation was held during a school board
meeting of the Bemidji Independent School District. …
To attract and retain quality substitute teachers, Kelly goes
beyond paying the prevailing wage in the school or district
by providing weekly pay, direct payroll deposit, free software
training, vacation/holiday bonus pay, and access to health benefits
and a 401(k) program. An orientation/training session and comprehensive
grade-appropriate handbooks developed for Kelly by The Substitute
Teaching Institute at Utah State University help prepare Kelly
teachers for the classroom. (Yahoo Press Releases, 06/24/04)
Click on: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040624/deth027_1.html
INMATES RAISING
FRUITS, VEGGIES
Kory Ford is working away the hours of his six-month sentence
at the Utah County Jail weeding, planting and harvesting in
the jail's new garden. … The jail and Utah State University
Extension Service teamed up this year to plant a two-acre garden
on county property near the jail and animal shelter in Spanish
Fork. Planting stared in early spring, and inmates are already
harvesting the spinach crop. So far, they've cut 110 pounds
of the vegetable, which has ended up on inmates' plates. (The
Daily Herald, 06/24/04) Click on: http://www.harktheherald.com/print.php?sid=27604
ROLLY AND WELLS:
DISPUTE BECOMES ALARMING
College students might be famous for standing in line all night
for rock concert tickets, but in Logan they did it to vote.
… About 30 members of the College Republicans at Utah
State University pitched tents, ordered pizzas and doughnuts
and mingled for 12 hours outside Mount Logan Middle School so
they could be first in line at the polls. (Salt Lake Tribune,
06/25/04) Click on: http://www.sltrib.com/2004/jun/06252004/utah/178734.asp
A PATH BLAZED
BY A LOVE OF LEARNING
It took Deanna Winn 14 years to complete her bachelor's degree.
The Logan native was no slacker, she simply had other priorities:
raising four children and following her Army pilot husband to
military bases around the United States and Germany. …
Those advanced degrees allowed Winn to become a college professor
at both Utah State University and Weber State University, an
associate dean of USU's College of Education as well as the
Logan university's interim assistant provost, and, finally,
to serve as an administrator with the state Board of Regents.
(Salt Lake Tribune, 06/25/04) Click on: http://www.sltrib.com/2004/jun/06252004/utah/178744.asp
DIRECTOR'S ATTACK
OF BUSH BRINGS HEATED COMMENTARY, PRO AND CON
In the run-up to today's nationwide opening of "Fahrenheit
9/11," Michael Moore has done what a filmmaker is supposed
to do with a new film: promoted it relentlessly. … You
certainly wouldn't expect the film to have a broad impact,"
said Michael Lyons, associate professor of political science
at Utah State University. "I'm not aware of a case where
any political motion picture would have had any detectable impact
on a particular presidential election." (Salt Lake Tribune,
06/25/04) Click on: http://www.sltrib.com/2004/jun/06252004/friday/friday.asp
STATE OKS FUNDS
TO LURE TECH JOBS
A local high-tech communication systems company will receive
$800,000 from the state of Utah if it brings 400 high-paying
jobs to Salt Lake City. … Curtis Brunson, CSW's president,
told the board the company has relocated a couple of hundred
families to Utah over the past five years. But many of the new
hires are graduates from the University of Utah, BYU, Utah State
University and Weber State University. Brunson said his company
was the largest acquirer of talent out of the University of
Utah's engineering school. (Deseret News, 06/25/04) Click on:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595072865,00.html
DAVIS GARDENER
HAS A FLAIR FOR ROSES
It's easy to spot the Jerry Yoneda home in this Davis County
town: It's the one with all the roses growing in the yard. …
Yoneda, a rose-grower extraordinaire, has 720 roses of different
sizes, shapes, colors and types. He admits the roses took over
his berry patch a few years ago and are quickly diminishing
the size of his vegetable garden. … Larry A. Sagers is
the regional horticulturist, Utah State University Extension.
(Deseret News, 06/25/04) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595072745,00.html
CRICKET WOES
THE WORST YET
This year's cricket invasion is the worst yet, with cricket
sightings in unfamiliar places across the state. … The
little pests have been spotted as far north as I-80, and all
the way south to Beaver County, said Matt Palmer, a Utah State
University extension agent who covers Tooele County. (Deseret
News, 06/25/04) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595072907,00.html
BUSES WORSE THAN
SUVS
Maybe Quinn Smith Calder (Readers' Forum, June 23) is unaware
that an SUV produces about the same seat-miles per gallon as
a bus that may be full going one way during rush hour but is
pretty much empty going the other way and drives around nearly
empty the rest of the day. In addition, EPA regulations allow
buses to emit about 10 times more particulates than cars and
SUVs are allowed, about 40 times more hydrocarbons, about 50
times more carbon monoxide and more than 120 times more nitrous
oxides. Nitrous oxides are what cause the ground-level ozone
(smog) that makes your eyes smart. A bus creates more smog than
100 SUVs with only one person in each. … Duane Miles research
engineer Space Dynamics Laboratory USU Research Foundation.
(Deseret News, 06/25/04) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,595072772,00.html
COUNTY LINES
Aggie Day at Newgate Mall; OGDEN -- Aggie Day at the Ogden Newgate
Mall will be Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aggie ice cream
will be supplied by the Utah State Alumni office. Also, there
will be a preview of cars for the future Aggie Car Show, set
for July 17 at Liberty Park, 751 21st St., in Ogden. This Saturday's
event is sponsored by the Ogden Chapter of the Utah State University
Alumni Association. (Standard-Examiner, 06/25/04) Click on:
http://www.standard.net/standard/news/print_story.html?sid=00040624234509574437
COUNTY LINES
USU workshop on using rainwater: LOGAN -- The Utah State University
Extension Utah House is sponsoring a workshop on catching and
using rainwater in the home and landscape July 17 from 9 a.m.
to noon at the Utah House, 920 S. 50 West, Kaysville.
Workshop participants will learn ways to determine potential
catch-and-use amounts, how to build a rain barrel, small and
large-scale commercial options and tips for choosing the best
home system. Workshop fee is $15. Call 801-544-3089 to pre-register
by July 14. Class size is limited to 30 people, first come,
first serve. (Standard-Examiner, 06/25/04) Click on: http://www.standard.net/standard/news/print_story.html?sid=00040624234509574437
THE GENDER DIVIDE:
MONEY A HURDLE FOR MALE TEACHERS
Even though teaching has been something Norm Fowers has enjoyed
for 35 years, he understands why few men choose it as their
profession: money. … Of Utah State University's education
students, roughly 130, or 15 percent, of its 840 education students
are males. Most of those students, 81, are studying be secondary-education
teachers. (Standard-Examiner, 06/25/04) Click on: http://www.standard.net/standard/news/print_story.html?sid=00040624234545216143
SDL LENDS EXPERTISE
TO NEW SATELLITE: SCIENTISTS LOOK TO REVOLUTIONIZE WEATHER FORECASTS
A new satellite that could revolutionize weather forecasts might
have a piece of Utah State University on it. … The Space
Dynamics Lab at USU has teamed up with BAE Systems on the project.
BAE received a $20 million grant from NASA to develop the satellite
and has earmarked $1.3 million of that to SDL to develop the
Hyperspectral Environmental Suite, or HES, for the satellite.
(Herald Journal, 06/25/04)
'MOON OVER BUFFALO'
SHINES AT LOGAN LYRIC
Despite all the howling at last Thursday night's season opening
of "Moon Over Buffalo" at the Caine Lyric Theatre
in Logan, there wasn't a dog in sight. The Old Lyric Repertory
Company raised the curtain on its 37th season with the hysterical
theatrical face by Ken Ludwig that brought Carol Burnett back
to Broadway in 1994. (Herald Journal: Cache, 06/25/04)
OPENING WEEKEND
The Old Lyric Repertory Company announces the opening of the
second production of the season, "Song of Singapore,"
with book by Alan Katz and lyrics by Erik Frandsen, Robert Hipkens,
Michael Garin and Paula Lockheart. The production opens at the
Caine Lyric Theatre in downtown Logan (28 W. Center St.) on
June 24 at 8 p.m. and will run in repertory through Aug. 7.
(Herald Journal:Cache, 06/25/04)
PLAYING THE TABERNACLE'S
PIPES
The 2004 Noon Music at the Tabernacle programs continue throughout
the summer, Mondays through Saturdays. … After transferring
to Utah State, [Amy Reimann] continued her organ studies with
James Drake for three years. (Herald Journal: Cache, 06/25/04)
HIGHLIGHTS OF
WASSERMANN
A broadcast of highlights from the 2004 Wassermann Festival
Concert Series is featured next on a collaboration between Utah
Public Radio and the Utah State University department of music.
…The Wassermann Festival is named for Iving Wassermann,
who began teaching in the Utah State University music department
in 1955 and served as a director of the piano program and was
music department head. (Herald Journal: Cache, 06/25/04)
SCHOOK'S SALT
FLATS LECTURE
Utah Sate University associate professor of English Ron Shook
offered a popular lecture last year as part of the Friends of
Utah State University Libraries lecture series-so popular, in
fact, that he has been invited back to share his insights again
in the summer series. (Herald Journal: Cache, 06/25/04)
OPPORTUNITY FOR
ART EDUCATORS
A former Utah sculptor, now based in California, is the special
guest during an "Evening for Educators" at the Nora
Eccles Harrison Museum of Art on the campus of Utah State University.
The event is designed for teachers. (Herald Journal: Cache,
06/25/04)
ART CAMP OPENINGS
REMAIN
There are still some openings available for the remaining three
weeks of AVA Summer Art Camp, Art Camp offers students a taste
of many of the arts: visual, ceramics, culinary, storytelling,
music and drama for children ages 6-12. … Some of Art
Camp's teachers this year are: … Grace Harvell, professional
pastry cef and baking instructor at USU and Kitchen Kneads.
(Herald Journal: Cache, 06/25/04)
'SYNECDOCHE'
In its fourth broadcast, Utah State University's locally produced
radio program "Synecdoche" will take the audience
along on a couple of western river adventures, said department
of English faculty member and program producer Marina Hall.
(Herald Journal: Cache, 06/25/04)
FAMILY HOUR
The first series of family story hours at Utah State University
is Wednesday, June 30, from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m. Sponsored by Utah
State's Museum of Anthropology, family story hour is free and
all are invited to attend in Old Main Room 225. (Herald Journal:
Cache, 06/25/04)
KSL NEWSCAST:
WATER CONSERVATION
KSL is tracking outdoor water use at three homes to see what
type of landscaping conserves the most water. KSL, the Utah
Rivers Council, and USU Extension Service are monitoring a xeriscaped
yard, a traditional green lawn, and a mix of lawn and water
wise plants. The goal is to see which lawn conserves the most
water and how homes can save more. Researchers say 65% of our
culinary water is used on landscaping, and fifty% of that is
wasted by those who water too much. (KSL news, 6 p.m., 06/23/04)
KUTV NEWSCAST:
EATING DISORDERS LOCAL TIES USU CENTERS FOR CHANGE
Weighing in on Anorexia: One in five women deal with eating
disorders. Becky Mann was 12 when she says she started getting
"chubby". She says she tried dieting and exercise
and eventually developed an eating disorder. Becky suffered
from cardiac arrest. When Becky started college at USU she started
therapy at the Center for Change in Orem. Becky is now a nurse
at Timpanogas Hospital. (KUTV news, 9 p.m., 06/23/04)
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