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Show 30 November 2009 NEWS www.dailyutahchronicle.com Cougar fan finds Utes more diverse, hostile Jamie Bovvcn STAFF WRITER Nate Olsen's first memory of being a BYU fan was when he was 3 years old. Olsen remembered seeing his dad's Cougar sweatshirt, and— feeling cold—he stole it. "I was like, 'Yeah, Cougars!' I liked the animal, and that's where it started for me," he said. But Olsen decided to go against his childhood passion and attend law school at the enemy up north—the U. "It was a very easy decision because I didn't get into (BYU's law school)," he said. Olsen grew up in Draper and decided to attend BYU for his undergraduate studies. He graduated with a degree in Spanish in 2007. He left what he considered to be the "more homogeneous" BYU and came to the diverse U campus. Olsen said all of his friends grew up in Utah, and all of them served missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "The only difference (between us) was the cars we drove COURTESY DAVE ZHONG Dave Zhong is a U graduate in the MBA program at BYU. Zhong is sure to wear his Utah gear during Rivalry Week. Nate Olsen has been a Cougar fan since he was 3 years old, but now he has to keep his true colors on the down-low as he attends the U's law school. and the music we listened to," he said. Olsen said that he likes the change, having more diversity and having people from all walks of life. When Olsen moved his family to the U, he tried to keep his blue blood on the down low, particularly after an experience at the Field House gym. "I was walking around and I went to the gym," he said. "I was U student at BYU'sticks it to them' wearing BYU clothes and people said, 'F-you, F-you!1 so I stopped wearing it," Olsen said hostility only comes from Utcs and not from Cougars. When he went back to BYU to take summer classes a few months ago, he wore his Utah sweatshirt and said no one gave him any grief for being a Ute. Jamie Bowen See BYU Page 32 See UTAH Page 32 STAFF WRITER Dave Zhong moved to the United States when he was 14 from Hainan, China, when his dad was offered a research job at the University of Wisconsin. His family moved to Salt Lake City when he was a junior in high school, and he attended East High School. That was the start of his allegiance to the Crimson wins out over blue in 'green' contest Jake Hibbard 14 schools, receiving a D-. However, BYU did not return the STAFF WRITER surveys CSRC sent to the schools for Every year, studies such as the Col- feedback on sustain ability programs "tege Sustainabiliry Report Card grade on campus. Instead, its grade was college campuses on their sustainabil- decided solely on public information ity efforts. CSRC released its 2010 rat- gathered about the university, accordings in October, which are available at ing to the report. www.greenreportcard.org, and accord- Jen Colby, the sustainability cooring to the report, the U is in a com- dinator at the U, said she wasn't surpletely different league than BYU, prised to see BYU's low ranking. -•-J However, BYU's embarrassing "Usually that's what happens when grade isn't from a lack of sustainabil- a school doesn't participate in these ity efforts—it's from behaving like a studies," Colby said. "They get hamcloistered, anti-social campus. mered." The U received a B grade on the reLarry Baxter, a chemical engineerp o r t , and BYU was one of the bottom ing professor at BYU, said he isn't ticipation in "green" programs, the worried about BYU's low ranking. "Nobody wants to be the worst at study gave Utah A grades in the catanything," Baxter said. The report is egories of transportation, administranot reflective of BYU's sustainabiliry tion, food and recycling and climate programs, he said. "My own research, change and energy. personally, is world-known for its efThe U cooperates with sustainforts in sustainable energy," he said. ability studies because it wants to be Baxter is the faculty adviser to the known as a "green" campus, Colby student group BYU Earth, which is said. active in proposing energy programs "We realize a lot of people look at and policies that would lower emis- these," she said. "We'll do our best to sions for the campus, he said. give them a fair picture." The U returned CSRC's surveys, and, along with receiving a much Recycling higher grade than its rival down south, All U buildings have paper-recycling was named a "campus sustainability leader" by the study. Looking at par- See SUSTAINABILITY Page 32 ~ |