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Show • SNACKS From page 6 Nabisco Cheese Nips This Chrispi, These taste a lot like "normal" Nips. That may be because they have three kinds of oil (cottonseed, soybean and peanut) plus monosodium glutamate, or MSG. The calorie savings come from the fact that the bag has just 19 crackers. Nabisco Ritz Snack Mix This is like a toy snack mix. Everything is miniature: 16 pretzel sticks, 15 thumb - print - size wanna - be Ritz crackers, three cheese nips, four savory Chex cereal squares. Nabisco should have lost the Ritz crackers, which have the essence of sawdust, and put in more pretzels, which are low-calorie anyway. The cheese nips and Chex are probably the regular kind, included to make us feel like we're enjoying a smorgasbord of tiny treats. Sadly, flavor wasn't included. Nabisco Cheese Nips Kid Sense Sport Chrisps These taste more like salt and flour than cheese. No wonder: cheddar is fifth on the list of ingredients, The bag contains 32 sporty shapes, from tennis rackets to soccer balls, but none is worth eating. If you're going to give your child a treat of cheese crackers, choose the adult version. Sunshine Cheese-It Baked Snack Crackers These are the worst of the cheese products. Too bad, because they have a relatively large amount of skim • milk cheese - it's the second ingredient after flour - and no MSG. The packet contains 20 crackers, but we didn't want more than one. The Sweet: Keebler Sandies Shortbread Cookies This is the jewel in the field. We just wish we knew how the Sandies makers got them to taste so buttery. Even the scent is authentic. Our advice: Linger over each cookie, since the packet has only 12. This is 100 calories well spent. Chips Ahoyl Thin Chrisps These bear no resemblance to normal Chips Ahoy cookies. Yet the 17 wafers in the packet are tasty in their own right, once you get over the thinness. The semisweet chips - flecks, really - redeemed them and addressed our chocolate craving. We'd like more of these. Peanut Butter Cookie Chrisps First, we had to get over the fact that these have no creamy filling. But once that was done, we had no problem savoring the peanutty taste. The crisps are ultra-thin but packed with real flavor, and sure enough, peanut butter is the third ingredient. With only 13 pieces in the bag, however, we had to take it slow. • CAUGHT US: If you wrote a how to or self help book, what would it be about? Gardiner: Disco roller skating. Gardiner: Fish Gardiner: Um. I don't know. Pass and let's come back. US: What is your dream vacation? Gardiner: Messy. US: What is your biggest fear? Gardiner: Hawaii. US: Is the bed made? Gardiner: Darkness US: What would you do there? US: Why is that scary? Gardiner: I'd try surfing and water sports. Scuba diving and that sort of thing. Gardiner: No. I'm going to have to clean it today. It's not that bad, just semi-messy. US: What is the last book you chose to read? Gardiner: Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks, it's a fantasy. Gardiner: Because I'd be afraid I would run into something. US: If you were in the Mr. USU pageant, what would your talent be? Ski Swap my lap. US: What would you still not eat, even if it was dipped in chocolate? Gardiner: I had a peanut butter sandwich, a Capri sun, and some eggs and sausage for breakfast. a consolation for the lack of creme filling. They're tasty, though, and gave us a welcome chocolate fix without the guilt. Also, they stick to the teeth like normal Oreos. Keebler Right Bites Chips Deluxe Cookies These are misshapen. Why would anybody make oval chocolate chip cookies? They don't look or taste right. The 12 crunchy cookies have a nutty flavor that over- whelms the chocolate, yet no nuts are listed among the ingredients. A compensating factor: These are the thickest of the snacks, so we had the sensation of eating cookies, not air. jjljj Beaver Mountain Ski Patrol From page 6 US: What have you eaten today? Honey Maid Cinnamon Thin Chrisps Don't tell us about cinnamon unless we'll taste it as a topnote. These crackers are wellsweetened but short on the spice, so we were left feeling a little bitter. The graham flour did remind us of normal graham crackers, but these are pitifully thin. Rather than packing the bag with 20 pieces, Honey Maid should give us maybe 10 thicker crackers. That way we'd feel like we're getting something. Oreo Thin Chrisps These are a whisper of the real thing. The 21 wafers are paler in color than Oreos and come wearing grains of sugar, perhaps as US: What do you picture yourself doing at age 62? Gardiner: Sit in my rocking chair on a porch with a gun in US: What is the state of your room today? Stan Laub Center: 1400 N 1000 E Sell Yours - Buy Theirs Skis, Snowboards, Boots, Bindings, Poles, Clothing, Gloves, Goggles, Ski Racks, Ski Passes and much, much, much more! US: What time did you go to bed last night? Gardiner: Midnight. US: When did you get up? Gardiner: 8 a.m. I'm boring. November 10th 7pm-10pm November 11th 9am - 10pm US: If you could give one piece of advice to the USU student body? November 12th 9am - 6pm Gardiner: Um, I don't know, but this is my stop. -eliseras@cc.usu.edu Credit Cards Accepted Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, Discover Participating Retailers: AL'S ^Jbeayer y Nordas Sportsman Sunrise Clauds CAUTION Our diamonds ignite when held up to light Michael Sharp/mkhaelshorp@cc u$u. edu GARDINER SAID WITH an endless supply of monkeys he would let them loose in other people's houses and video tape them. • SHOPPING From page 6 Shards of the perfect world are scattered throughout the globe and it is our responsibility to bring them back together. How, you may ask. Some say we must do good deeds; I personally believe we must buy. Somewhere there is a Ronco Food Dehydrator that belongs in my house. There is a bobble-waisted hula girl collecting dust on a store shelf that ought to be dancing on my dash. They won't collect themselves. It's not a hobby — it's a mission. It's a call for each of us to plumb the depths of human sorrow with nothing but a plastic credit card and an ever-increasing limit. Shop, buy, eat: it's the American way. Zach is a junior majoring in English. Please send any comments to zpendelten@cc.usu.edu takes college courses and turns them into an Internet-accessible resource for free usage by anyone. Marion Jensen, an instructional technology graduate student and member of the COSL team, said, "We currently have 14 courses online and viewable. Our goal is to get all of them. Every course offered at Utah State should be available to everyone. "Being an agricultural school, our first classes done were in that field. We literally have people dying in India and Third World countries trying to get hold of this information to become more educated in farming." Jensen said, "I worked in the corporate world for a long time and was never very satisfied. This is one of the best experiences I've had. Working with COLS allows me to help others throughout the community and the world." Clark agreed and said, "I love it when faculty comes in to ask for help. It s great when they leave and they have a product they like, but my favorite part is figuring out the problem. It's like an adventure and we get to find the solution." Bell said she loves the chance to work one on one with people to help them solve difficulties. "These people with call or come in and have questions and we love to help them discover the answer," she said. The Faculty Assistance Center for Teaching is open Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and can be contacted at (435) 797-9506. -nebutler@cc.usu.edu DIAMONDS &_ FINE JEWELRY 575 East 1400 North, Suite #130 • Logan • 753-3050 University Village Shopping Center, next to Lee's Marketplace >FACT From page 5 information and registration, they also provide tutorials from the computer along with written instructions. Another aspect is the ability for faculty to access templates and ideas on how to prepare their work and instruction. "We have so many resources on the Web for whoever needs the help," Clark said. "Just about everything a computer savvy person could want is there. It doesn't replace the one-on-one in the drop-in-center but it does make it possible for us to reach more people/' The support provided by FACT doesn't just stop at the university, though. It is also working with The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning. 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