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Cadets in the AFROTC "Its just going to be inforwent down to Hill Air Force mation so that the ROTC stuBase and conducted surveys dents, like ourselves, in the and interviews to see what future will have this informasenior noncommissioned offi- tion so that they will know to cers (NCO) expect out of lieu- what's expected of them," he tenants. said. They conducted the study When lieutenants first "to provide military officers work with the officers the with firsthand advicefromthe cadets will only know what enlisted personal that they they've read. will be working with" said "We'll have the book Bryan Butler, a senior in knowledge but if you haven't USUs ROTC program. implemented it, its a totally When ROTC students different," Butler said. 'We're leave the University they will trying to get that information be lieutenants without any out to the lieutenants prior firsthand knowledge until them actually commissioning." their commission. All of the information from "When a lieutenant first the surveys and interviews are commissions, he is basically going to be compiled into put under the wing of the sen- books for cadets to study all ior NCO because most senior over the nation. NCOs have been in for 20 . "As lieutenants we're comyears and a lieutenant has ing in with zero experience only been in less than one" and we're placed in charge of Butler said. men who have 20 to 30 years experience. [The research is "It comes to a difference to] kind of to try to help to between book knowledge and bridge that gap," Butler said. tacit knowledge or on the job experience," said, David The results will be comKennedy, a sophomore in the piled by Dawn DeTienne, program. assistant professor of business, and her students. Captain Lovewell, professor of aerospace studies, told "When the academic book Detachment 860 that Hill Air is given out in the credits, it Force base is so close by and will say USU Detachment 860 they should take advantage of and then it will have Dr. it DeTienne and Captain Lovewell's names attached to They went down on the that book," Butler said. weekend of March 23 - 25. BY RANAE BANCERTER Staff Writer This is the first time that anyone in the nation has done this kind of a study. "We've always known that we needed to know this, but they've never given it to the cadets. It's always been in the past you don't get your NCO perspective until you've commissioned and you're out there with them," he added. The cadets conducted the interviews and asked the senior NCOs the first thing they would tell a new lieutenant Most of them said keep the lines of communication open and that lieutenants needed to have integrity, Kennedy said. T h e thing that we learned the most was communication " Butler said. "Communication lines are very important" There are different levels of responsibility and different levels of expectations, said Kennedy. "I feel like this interview for me at least and probably for other cadets helps disintegrate that line that separates the two sides," Kennedy said. "When we come in as first lieutenants we need to communicate, get to know our senior NCOs. They have the experience and we need to tap that resource." Members say ROTC is more than just military training. It teaches the cadets to be better leaders in the nation. "The mission is to build better citizens for America," Kennedy said. "ROTC is practically some of the best leadership that you can receive." -ranaebang@cc. usu.edu is all about selfish pop Artist: Magnetic Fields Album: " i " Finally, an album dedicated to your selfishness. The prolific songwriter behind the Future Bible Heroes, the 6this, and the Gothic "Archives, Stephin Merritt has returned to the " I . " But instead of creating a Magnetic Fields moniker to coherent concept, the songs release the appropriately titled mesh together to form a kind album, " i . " of post-modern biography, Following up a three-disc taking in themes of relationmasterpiece like 1999's "69 ships, isolation, and selfLove Songs" can be a little examination. "I was born, I daunting, but "\" offers a win- hate this part," Merritt laments dow into Merritfs off-kilter as he relates his story on "I thought process. The view is Was Born." This self-deprecatboth panoramic and personal, ing, wry humor runs throughwith songs that approach the out the album and gives life to mundane from new angles. the deadpan baritone delivery. This album signals a Merritt is a master of clever rhyme and Broadway style, change of approach, though and while he may not be a not a change in direction, for card-carrying member of the the Magnetic Fields. Formerly Church of Tin Pan Alley, he driven by hordes of synthesizdoes occasionally take ers and drum machines, the band has eschewed them on Communion there. In keeping with the album's " i " for strings, an electric sitar self-indulgent title, each of the and the occasional ukulele. 14 tracks oegin with the letter The sound comes together as The best yon'ro never heard of Zacb Pendleton a Baroque Chamber Pop, reminiscent of early Rufus Wainwright or Belle and Sebastian, circa "Fold Your Hands, Child." Despite the some. i t j m e s s t u ffy arrangements, Merritt hasn't lost his talent for writing witty pop songs. And while this album may not be the artistic match of the aforementioned "69 Love Songs," it is, by virtue of its smaller scope, the more accessible of the two projects. So, if you're the kind of person who had a crush on Bach or Vivaldi in the fourth grade, Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields may be your ticket to listening bliss. " i " is an album filled with proper arrangements and enough pop to make the medicine go down. Zach Pendleton is a junior majoring in English. Comments may be sent to -zpendleton@cc. usu. edu FAT RAT From Page 14 . pill is a little hard to swallow for most, Gilbertson said his research is aimed at understanding how the body perceives fat so that more pharmacological approaches to solving the obesity issue may be developed. Gilbertson said that the hope is to devel- op "a more acceptable fat substitutes for the consumer - something that they like as a food additive, so that they are satisfied with eating less fat." This will allow people to still eat and live how they want with out all the serious effects of obesity, he said. -chasep@cc.usu.edu GRADUATING ZEN GARDEN From Page 13 From Page 15 campus this year to recruit USU students, Jensen said, "[That number] may be up a little bit this year." "These are people who actually came and interviewed students," Jensen said. About 3,000 jobs were posted and advertised at USU. Career services offers other information and services to students including individual career counseling/planning, a job bank, a career library, help with resume writing and interview workshops. For heaps of information on careers, including links to Utah-specific information and Choices, go to http://www.usu.edu/career/. -sdobson@ccusu.edu column has attained in the past. ME: So everything that my column has been before now will have to be magnified, improved ... in short, perfected? REPLY: Precisely. 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