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Show 8 Gi ant continued from page 4 shape his life. As Gardner is an avid reader as well as a lover of poetry, he also received five original Emily Dickenson publications, dating back to 1891, from the chamber. Two of the speakers were Jeffrey R. Holland, a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Dr. Charles Sorenson, president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare. "Through all this great hulk of a man, he is as tender as a child," Holland said during his speech. "He weeps often. He weeps openly over the things that matter most to him: his family, his friends, his faith, his love of everything good in this life. Bellowing voice and boisterous manner aside, Kern is in fact a huge gigantic marshmallow, a sheep in wolf's clothing. He is purely and simply one of the most generous men I have ever known in my life." Gardner's son, Christian Gardner, said his father deserves the award. "I think it's a great honor," Christian said. "He's very excited, and so are we. I think it's a great honor for everything that he's done through- FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 THE SIGNPOST Engineering continued from page 4 out his career, not just in business, but his community involvement and civic responsibilities." Gardner is on the advisory council at WSU and mentioned that with the help ofWSU's president Arm Millner, he has been working on contributing to the Dream Weber program. The program provides qualifying students with free tuition. "Your president is one of them that I feel is really a giant, so I enjoy working with her," Gardner said of Millner. Gardner provided advice for current students at WSU and hoped that they would become more involved in serving others. "Well, I think the needs are all around us and you don't need to invent the wheel," Gardner said. "There are nonprofit boards that are involved in (WSU), and if you give of your time, it isn't necessarily having a lot of money or resources, it's giving of your time. I think they ought to join a United Way board or Boys and Girls Club board. Just help out in the community. That's my advice, and if they do, they'll make the best people in the world." interested in engineering may be interested in a bachelor of integrated studies or combining an already established major with a major in the College of Applied Science and Technology. "Engineers are needed to solve so many of the problems we have like clean air and clean water, making sure we all have food, getting electricity out of ocean currents," Baine said. "Engineers also have to make sure that they don't hurt the environment while trying to get resources out. Engineers have to solve those problems and still have an environmentally friendly system that's not hurting the animals." Baine's most recently published book, The Green Engineer, focuses on one of the newly popular majors in universities throughout the United States, which is environmental engineering. Baine pointed out that almost all jobs touch the environment, and there's a ple are not aware that a place for engineers within company like Wilson that designs sports equipevery field. "It's really good to take a ment will not hire an enbit of time and make a list gineer to design tennis of everything you love to rackets unless they play do and put it on the list," tennis themselves. "Even if you can take Baine said. "Whatever it is, put it on the list and pri- only one class a semester, oritize it. Then maybe look just stay in school," Boninto the engineers in the giovanni said. "Pick something you love and work field you like most." According to Baine, for it a little at a time. You'll engineering can be com- get there eventually." bined with anything Comment on this story at students are passionate wsusignpost.corn. about. She said most peo- House chairman wants new rules on Afghan security By Donna Cassata writer I Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is intent on barring private security contractors and Afghans from guarding U.S. bases in Afghanistan, a move that could complicate President Barack Obama's timetable for withdrawing American forces after more than a decade of war. Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., introduced the legislation on Entrepreneursco ntinued from page 4 Thursday in response Thayne did as many as started three years ago by to the insider attacks by 19 credit hours during the John Richards, a professor Afghan security forces off-season of his business. at Brigham Young Univer- against U.S. and other At times, he said it was pretty sity. The Utah Student 25 coalition troops. McKeon difficult trying to work and encouraged him to be suc- held a hearing last month do school at the same time. cessful in his business. He in which the military said He prioritized both by work- applied for the competition more than 45 insider ating hard and getting up early. while some of the students tacks have occurred since "Starting a business is re- were nominated. All of them 2007 - 75 percent in the ally not as hard as you think said they were excited to be past two years. if you really have desires and a part of the competition In a recent spate of ambitions to get it done," and looked forward to hear- anti-American violence Thayne said. ing what they ranked. touched off by the burnThayne, along with the ing of Muslim holy books other students, is part of at a U.S. base last week, Comment on this story at the competition that was wsusignpost.com. two U.S. troops were gunned down by two Afghan soldiers and an accomplice on Thursday. All total, six Americans have been killed by their Afghan partners in recent days. "War is bad enough that we put our young people out there at risk," McKeon said in an interview taped for C-SPAN's "Newsmakers. "They shouldn't have to worry about security within the base." The legislation not only would prohibit private contractors and Afghans from protecting U.S. installations, it would prohibit the president from shifting troops from current operations in Afghanistan to protect bases. Such a step would force the president to increase the number of troops in the country - a move certain to face strong opposition in a war-weary Congress. The United States and its NATO partners agreed in late 2010 to end the combat mission in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. The mission would transition to an operation focused on training and advising Afghan forces. Obama plans to reduce the total U.S. military presence to 68,000 by the end of September from the current level of about 90,000 U.S. troops. McKeon disagrees with that timetable. "I think the president bringing these 20,000 troops home this year is too soon," he said in the interview. "I know there's disagreement on that, but my feeling is I would like to see them stay in theater through the fighting season." Frustration with the decade-plus war has increased in Congress, reflected in votes last year in both the House and Senate, and more recently in congressional hearings with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week. Several lawmakers questioned the continued U.S. presence as anti-American protests claimed U.S. lives. The military said last month that most of the attackers acted out of personal motivation and were not controlled or directed by insurgent groups. The second most common circumstances involved insurgents impersonating or infiltrating Afghan security forces. Defense officials have spelled out a screening process for Afghan nationals who are used to provide security for U.S. forces. That program incorporates some improvements made after the March 2011 attack at Forward Operating Base Frontenac that killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded four others. One of the two killed was Army Spc. Rudy Acosta, who was from McKeon's congressional district. "The tragedies that those parents had to deal with, the parents in my district, and the other young man was from Ohio," McKeon said. "They shouldn't have had to deal with that." Shepherd Union Building Ballrooms |