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Show esman! Tsunami in the Indian Ocean Floods in Utah Floods in New Orleans Earthquake in Pakistan Mudflows in Guatamala Landslides in California Student avoids darkness and fish BY ELISE RASMUSSEN Staff Writer Caught: Aggie Shuttle 8lh East Express Hometown: Sandy, Utah Favorite Color: Green Camous Utah Statesman: Why did you choose to come to Utah State? End of the World??? . Sign up for Geology 1200 Intro to Environmental Geoscience (BPS) and find out! Kevin Gardiner: A scholarship, i US: How did you pick your major? j j Gardiner: I liked engineering and 1 though I wanted to be civil. I liked building things. US: What is your least favorite class? US: Why is it bad? Gardiner: I just took a test. It is just a general studies and it is a lot to learn and hard to know what to study. Come to our US: If you had a supply of monkeys what would you do with them? Gardiner: Um, let them run wild in people's houses, I guess. I would video tape it. Gardiner: Essential to life science. Got Computer Problems? •Kevin Gardiner • freshman civil engineering US: If you had five hours of free time and money was no object, what would you do? Gardiner: Money was no object? I'd go to a movie, go shopping. US: In your opinion, who is the best professor? US: What is your favorite breakfast cereal and why? Gardiner: I like Professor Bryan Bornholdt. Gardiner: Count Chocula because I like chocolate US: What does he teach? on ALL used computers! Gardiner: He teaches my calculus II class. 3125 N Main Ste. 1 North Logan Michael Sharp/michaelsharp@ccusu.edu {H-AUGHT see page ? KEVIN GARDINER SAID he would never eat fish, even if it were dipped in chocolate. Buy when you cry 755-0727 just inexcusable. But don't think I'm the only one who subscribes to the "buy-when-you-cry" principle. Recent studies show that a third of our country is obese and that consumer debt is at almost-$2 trillion. That, my friends, is a lot of stuff, and it doesn't look like the trends are going to reverse anytime soon. That we are bigger and but I think own more stuff is clearly evi*Wal-Mart may be ; it's some dence that we are some pretty kind of sad people. destroying the old evoluAnd those growing numAmerican way of life, tionary, bers suggest only one thing: survival- we still don't have enough. but they're doing a o f - h i mThe relationship between with-thethe emotional/spiritual self reat job of making it m o s t - and the retail world is more stuff prin- real than you may think. ciple. There is a Kabbalistic idea W e that the world, since its incepare all tion, has managed to get itself sad some- all muddied up. times. Sad is understandable, but there's no reason to be depressed, hungry and unfashionable. HOPPING That kind of behavior is see page 7 I got some Zach Pendleton ity and interpersonal relationships. test scores back this Thankfully, week and we, in the United they reminded States, take the higher me that life can road to stress managebe hard somement through eating, times. And I'm cursing, consuming not just talking copious amounts of about the gradalcohol and engaging Not Quite in heavy retail therapy, ing part of life. may not be able to None of us Nietszche take it with me when are immune to hard times, but I go, we've all developed ways to but I rememcope with them. ber reading Personally/ when life hands somewhere me lemons, I've made a pol- that FedEx icy of taking them to Wal- and UPS Mart. should find Those guys will take back a solution to anything. that within When all is said and done, the next five there are few things a trip to 10 years. It really to the Holy Church of the National Retail Chain can't doesn't matfix, and nobody knows this ter what I when as well as the people of the buy United States. I'm feeling down. From a Believe it or not, in some reading light with a strobe parts of the world, people try setting (can you say Technoto deal with their problems dance party?) to a box of the through meditation, spiritual- hair-removing miracle Epil- llmhStote UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE www.bookstore.usu.edu ALL CHILDREN'S BOOKS NOVEMBER 7-19 Stop Plus (they really are serious when they say it shouldn't be used on the face), I've explored about every retail product's value in regards to grief management. Wal-Mart may be destroying the old American way of life, but they're doing a great job of making it feel great. I would be lying if I said that I understood the processes that lead me to buy when I'm sad, The best of the small snacks BY DIANE D. URBANI KRT Snack makers are rolling out downsized, 100-calorie packages of favorite treats. We tried a handful of these handfuls to see which are worthy of your snacktime. The snack industry has seen the light at last: Calorie - counting works far better than fat-gram calculations or carbohydrate deprivation. So marketers got busy pairing low-calorie foods with another untrendy but effective standby, portion control. We tasted 11 of the snacks that are part of a new wave of 100 - calorie items now on supermarket shelves, dividing them into The Salty and The Sweet. In addition to the products listed below, you'll soon be seeing 8-ounce cans of Coca-Cola, mini Pringles potato-chip pouches, singleserving bags of Pop Secret popcorn and Quaker granola bars with 25 percent less sugar, all promising to be no more than 100 calories. Here are the results of our sampling, in order of tastiness. The Salty: Wheat Thins Mini Chrisps Did you know Nicotine is more addictive than Heroin? Want to stop smoking? Join others like you nationwide for the CREAT AMERICAN SM4kE*lT on Nov. 17. The Student Wellness Center will have a booth on the TSC Patio on Wednesday the 16th and Thursday the 17th to help you quit. Get a quit kit, information on smoking cessation and enter a drawing to win prizes. These are loaded with distinctive Wheat Thin flavor. The package contains 24 pieces, which should perhaps be renamed Wheat Even Thinners. By bag's end, we felt like we'd had the real thing, only smaller. • SNACKS see page 7 |