| Show A t' Vol 9i No 133 Friday May 12 2000 r Logan Utah 02000 BridgeriancTs Daily Newspaper ? V 's' $J50$ i Inside fki & j) Gogue lands job as president of New Mexico State University By Arrin Brunson staff writer West Side softball beaded to state Pages MatMMatMaiMal(''a'MM-tz t J- Update Another top official at Utah State University has announced his pending departure On the heels George Emert’s resignation as president of USU earlier this week Provost G: Jay Gogue 52 told The Herald Journal wmBrnmiizm Yearbook Thursday that he will assume leadership of New Mexico State Jay Gogue University on July 1 Although the appointment comes just one day after George H Emcrt announced his retirement as president of USU effective Dec 31 the timing is purely coincidental Gogue ' said What is not coincidental is the valuable preparation and confidence he has gained under Emcrt’s strong leadership and caring tutelage Gogue said ' “During the Five years as provost at USU President Emcrt has been an adviser and counselor and mentor to me” he said “He has helped me learn a great deal about how to be a president” Emert responded in kind with praise for Goguc's “accomplish- menls and tremendous abilities" - As USU's provost Gogue has been responsible for all academics and extracurricular programs oit the main campus and USU's 79 branch locations Some of the more significant accomplishments during his administration as provost at USU include major revamping of the general education program: linking for saying he has “an easy manner with people but a firm grasp on what it takes to identify problems and find solutions” Although many officials at USU have had their reputations tarnished on campus ' by the rumor-mi- ll Goguc's image has remained untainted throughout his years of service Gogue could only speculate about the lack of hearsay regarding his personal life and job performance “I don't honestly know” he said “My weakness is sometimes I try to be candid so people usually know where I am on any issue They may disagree but they know that I am straight out telling the truth” the first time the university's-stratcgic plan to budget priority requests hiring three female deans and a num- - her of Hispanic faculty members recognizing the accomplishments arid distinctions of faculty members through programs such as USU See GOGUE on Page 12 get sneakier Milwaukee Journal Sentinel With high school students employing increasingly sophisticated methods to get coded sexual or alcohol references into print some yearbook advisers have become as vigilant as censors and stressed out as air traffic controllers “It’s the scariest thing I do' I think” said Judi Goscnheimcr ycar- book adviser at Germantown High School in Milwaukee “If there’s anything questionable at all we don'tprint it I would call it censorship I guess” At high schools throughout the country yearbook advisers and their student staffers are painstakingly ' scanning artyvork and scrutinizing every joke and phrase submitted to ensure that sexual innuendo scatological humor drug references and even racial slurs are eliminated before yearbooks go to press ' Students increasingly are using known abbreviations that have - sexual or other meanings and partial 'lyrics front songs that no school would broadcast in its halls Students are trying:— and some- - V limes succeeding — in slipping inappropriate messages into the yearbooks in traditional sections that feature senior quotes or wills' Although it's usually just a few rebellious students testing bound- - -arics school officials say yearbook pranks can spoil a tradition for everybody most school officials - lit-ti- e- agree S John WilkinHerald Journal Diehard West Side Pirate fans bundle up against Thursday's frigid May temperatures to cheer on the girts softball team in Dayton Today wilt continue to survive By Michael staff writer RWeibel Mother Nature spared local alfalfa and fruit crops Thursday night as temperatures narrowly remained above the critical mark State Climatologist Don Jensen at the Utah Climate Center at Utah State University said it dropped down to 32 degrees on campus 30 in Hyrum and North Logan and 28 'at the American West Heritage Center in the southwest part of Cache Valley 7 Officials were concerned that Upcoming HJ public forum When: Wednesday May 177 pm Where: Logan High School auditorium 162 W 100 South What: Four speakers representing both sides of hie fluoride debate wiN give presentations and answer questions from audience Public welcome Weather LOS ALAMOS NM (AP) — Slackening wind and increased humidity today gave firefighters a boost as they struggled to hold the line against a fire that destroyed 280 homes Page 12 Up close — Page 2 Index Classified Comics Movies 16 4 8 19 Opinion 17 Objtuaries Cache Sports Saturday T 7 i nil A i Young writers end artists share their work Brfdgerlend wwwhjnewscom f' ' T r usiefc- - r Jr Extension Agent Don Huber “I think we had enough of a Agricultural cloud cover last night it didn't drop as much as expected” Jensen said the cloud cover was lost just after midnight then it moved hack in early this morning and forced 25000 people from the town where the atomic bomb was built “With the light winds we're hoping to get air power in here today to put it out" Gov Gary Johnson said this morning on NBC's “Today" show “There haven't been any new fires a rate'' Rich Wicdcman owner Paradise Valley Orchard in Paradise said it dropped down to 282 degrees in his orchard But he noted that the late frost may have been benefi- cial “We had a pretty heavy fruit set so this will thin it out a little hit” he said Wiedcman thought about running sprinklers in his orchard to help ward off a few degrees of cold temperatures but opted against it “I got up a couple link’s during the night just to check for cloud cover and check the temperature” ' “On some long season things like tomatoes and melons if you of Juno to plant then you get froze in the fall" wait until (he first Huber said “Sometimes on a home gardcn pcople are better to plant a little earlier and be prepared to See COLD on Page 3 sl 7"' j stepped forward today to claim half of the record $363 million lottery jackpot saying he put down a $100 bill on the day of the drawing for 98 tickets and a hot dog X v-iiW- v “Jesus they match!" Larry Ross recalled telling nr - fcl —- Pugh AP photo H Hutchinson of Espanola NM said he fen no need to leave the area northeast of Los Alamos Thursday after a volunteer 50-mp- ' tickets for the Big Game When he stopped Tuesday at Mr K's Party Shoppe in a strip mall near the quiet suburb of Utica 20 miles north of Detroit to buy a hot dog all he had wqs $100 bill “I asked the guy to give me change in lotto tickets” he said igi-la- nt citizen Cache Counts 15-2- him at a news conference said he’s not a regular lottery player but his wife had encouraged him to buy some B Thunks to a tip from a v Rick Hailigan a fire inforevacuation was imposed on parts of the town when wildfires mation officer moved within miles of Espanola Wednesday night Hutchinson evacuthe The fire forced who suffers from emphysema said the smoke and the fires ation of the southern New don’t pother him because he’s ‘tough Mexico towns of Sacramento and Weed and a number tackling the blaze! but winds evacuees returned toda of the rural areas he said of 5 mph have ground- - after fleeing Thursday ahead He did not know how many ed aircraft designed to drop of flames fanned by people had fled or whether fire retardant and water he winds Margrethe and Bill said any homes had been burned See BLAZE on Page 12 In Los Alamos some About 200 firefighters are children standing behind Jeremy staff writer said his wife when he realized he had a winning ticket Then he said “I invented a new dance — 1 started doing the lottery dance” Ross with his wife and Citizen foils car By h Hot dog! Michigan man can eat steak now LANSING Mich (AP) — A swimming pool installer and 50s he said “So far so good" Huber said “we still have anoth-e- r couple weeks when we could gel some frost” The average last frost at USU is May 6 hut the average last frost in Trenton is May 24 V V so this is really positive” But roughly 200 miles to the south a fire in the Sacramento Mountains sparked by a downed power line blew up from the 100 acres it covered when it was reported Thursday to 20000 acres today “This fire has grown at an astronomical in the 4t)s scrape temperatures below 28 degrees could start to damage alfalfa and some fruit crops such as apples pears and cherries that were in full bloom If it had dropped below 26 degrees as much as 90 percent of some crops could have been killed “I think we may have snuck by on this one” said Cache County Blaze engulfs Los Alamos 1 Not all bad be unseasonably cold with the mercury Now he said “I haven't slept in three days It’s a great diet program win the lotto and lose weight 1 haven’t eaten in three days” Ross and his wife Nancy 45 have been married 25 years They have three children The family plans to give some of the money to charity sheriff's deputies have arrested three teens who they believe stole $2500 of stereo equipment from a truck parked at area near the park-and-ri- de Petershoro Sheriff's Lt Kim Cheshire said Wednesday night a “concerned citizen" was driv ing by the area located at the intersection of I'tah 23 and Ctah 30 when they saw- three young men jumping into the back of a truck and leaving at “a high rate of speed" The area is liscJ for carpoolers w ho commute to various jobs in Box Elder County and leave their cars unattended for long periods of time Cheshire said The citizen took down the fleeing truck's license plate and called sheriff's deputies who arrived to find a truck had been broken into and vandalized Cheshire said - See CITZEN on Page 3 |
