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Show 32 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE November 2009 / / Rivalry Guide Utes utilize in-state recruitment Although BYU's roster boasts a whopping one more in-state player than the U, Brett Pyne, associate diWhen it comes to keeping talent lo- rector of athletic communications at cal, the U plapes a bigger focus on re- BYU, said recruiting officials at BYU cruiting in-state football players than look for players who willfitin with the BYU community, much more so than vthe school down south. Of 108 players listed on the 2009 Ute from where they hail. In-state status roster, 40 list a city in Utah as their is still an important component of the hometown. That number doesn't in- Cougars' recruitment process, but the clude the six additional walk-ons who team also looks in other locations to are redshirts this year and do not ap- get quality young men, whether in pear on the roster, said Jeff Rudy, di- Utah or outside it, Pyne said. rector of football operations at the U. Utah native Zane Beadles, a senior r- "Our No. 1 focus is in-state," Rudy in mechanical engineering, said he said of the team's recruiting efforts. was recruited by other schools before "If we can't find what we are looking he decided to attend the U. for in-state, coaches will then look "My other offers were Wyoming, outside of Utah." Utah State, Southern Utah, Idaho But if the team has two great stu- State and Princeton," Beadles said. "I dents trying out who are equally tal- have always been a Utah fan, and (the TYLER COBB/lhe OoHyUlohChro .ented, the coaches are going to pick U) was the best football program I the in-state student since that's where Utah native Zane Beadles chose to play at the U because he said he was always a U fan, and it was the TOe priority lies, Rudy said. See RECRUITS Page 33 best football program to give him an offer. The U's No. 1 recruiting focus is in-state players. Rita Totten STAFF WRITER. IJTAH Dustin Cook, is in his second year of his MBA at BYU and he said he thinks the hostility is continued from Page 30 great. "It's all in good fun," Cook said. Both Zhong and Cook sported their Utah - Like many other graduate students be- gear during Rivalry Week last year and got a lot fore him, Zhong, now a 29-year-old alumnus of unwelcome looks. of the U's undergraduate program, went to "I got dirty looks across campus," Zhong said. graduate school in enemy territory at BYU "It was all right. It was like sticking it to them." because, he said, it's a better and cheaper Zhong and Cook are two of four Utah graduschool. And, like the rest of them, he faces ates in the business school at BYU, and they all ridicule. get ridiculed by their classmates. "•* "(At BYU), the kids you see on campus give "They give me crap all the time for being a you dirty looks," he said. "I wanted to have a Utah fan," Zhong said. "I believe we are the betdifferent experience." ter team." I Ute fans such as Zhong are looked down on Although Zhong thought that the hostility like lepers in.his new environment. Zhong de- would end with the students, it actually went cided he wanted to get a master's in business further, clear to the recruiters. 'after graduating in electrical engineering in "A lot of the recruiters have been giving me 2003. When he decided to go to BYU, he knew crap when they look at my resume^ saying, 'Oh. he was going to be in a hostile environment. You go to BYU and Utah,"' he said. But fellow classmate, friend and U graduate j.bowen@chronicle.utah.edu SUSTAINABILITY continued from Page 30 Plastic and aluminum bins are also in various buildings throughout campus. A few buildings also collect glass. The ASUU Sustainability Committee collects recycling around Rice-Eccles Stadium and at the tailgating area HSfefore and after football games. "Depending on how many people we have, we like to have one volunteer at each gate (of the stadium)," said Joshua James, recycling coordinator at the U. Down south, BYU has paper-recycling bins in all buildings on campus, and also has many bins for aluminum and plastic. However, it does not offer glass recycling. The school started recycling plastic just this year, after members of the student group BYU Recycles started bringing their own plastic-recycling bins to campus last year, according to The Daily Universe. BYU . continued from Page 30 Sara Olsen, his wife, said she was reluctant to move to Salt Lake City when she found out that her husband got accepted to the U. "I know at BYU sometimes Ute fans were mean," she said. "I was a little scared, but not hostile." The only ones who really give their family a hard time were their neighbors, but that was all fun and games, she said. Nate Olsen said he remembers last year's rivalry game, played at Rice-Eccles Stadium, when he was invited to attend a barbecue. He received an e-mail that invited people to come and have ribs, but it added, "No Cougar fans allowed." - & "I e-mailed him back and told him I was a Cougar fan," Olsen said. "I asked if I was-disinvited, and he said, 'Yes!'" . - The Sutton Geology and Geophysics Building is being reviewed for LEED certification. BYU also has only one LEED-certified building: the Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center. j.bowen@ chronicle.utah.edu computers set up to switch to standby mode when no one is using them. BYU Earth proposed a policy that would turn all computers on campus to standby mode after 30 minutes of inactivity, Baxter said. The project would save an estimated $80,000 and 12 metric tons of carbon dioxide, acEnergy and emissions In spring 2008, U President Michael cording to the Universe. The proposal Young signed the American College has yet to be approved. and University Presidents' Climate The Physical. Facilities Office did Commitment, which mandates that a study on heat loss in buildings on the U have a plan by May 2010 that Campus and wants to use the informaGreen building At the U> the Eccles Health Science outlines the efforts it will take to be- tion to find ways to reduce the school's Education Building is the only Lead- come climate-neutral. The U is in the energy consumption, according to the BYU website. ership in Energy arid Environmental process of developing the plan. Design-certified building on campus. Many departments on campus have j.hibbard@chronicle.utah.edu |