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Show Take Note: 5 Monday, March. 6,2006 Don't forget to vote for ASUSU! • 797-1769 features@statesman.usu.edu I cleaned the sink! Dear Diary, I think I can finally eat ice cream again. It's only been seven days, but I'm beginning to imagine consuming my favorite food once ^^^^^^^^^^ more. Qarrett Wheeler see page 7 Cache Valley offers an army ofpaintball venues and suppliers to those who can't get enough of both speedball and woodsball Up until now, t h e thought h a s made m e want to ralph. Last Chew on week, this I summoned enough courage to try Logan's most popular food challenge: "cleaning the sink" at Angie's. For those of you unfamiliar with this monumental task, shame on you. If you live in Logan, you should know that cleaning the sink involves inhaling so much ice cream it comes out of your ears. It also usually involves a couple paramedics, a licensed psychiatrist and a truckload of previously consumed malt beverages. For me, it all stemmed from the desire to quash a year-long ambition to acquire a dumb bumper sticker. A highly coveted bumper sticker, nonetheless. Dessert is my favorite meal of any day, and not having had any previous lactose problems, I decided that if anyone could do it, I had a shot. I wasn't at all worried until l(tbe giant sink-looking bowl was brought to my table. It looks a lot smaller in the menu picture. There should have been a warning sign like on side-view mirrors on cars: Warning - Object appears more grueling in person. I wish I had just walked away. '•- But at one time in my life, I ate a bowl of ice cream almost every day for two years straight. More recently, my mother-in-law constantly has expected me to eat more ice cream every time I visit. I love ice cream. I was ready. I shouldn't have had that double Whopper for lunch. But it was too late. Majestically heaped in front of me was roughly 3,000 cubic centimeters OT ice cream and whipped cream served with two whole bananas and three other toppings of my choice. For tnose of you less than metrically inclined - it's a hell of a lot. Or more precisely, there's enough ice cream to come out of your ears. Stalwart I sat as I embarked upon the sickening task at hand. At least the dessert was sure tasty or I would have stopped much sooner. But I kept going much to the amazement of my wife. I think she finally determined that I am truly a moron. But she laughed, told me stories and fed me a few fries and pieces of bacon to try and balance the incredible sugar load. What a good sport. Seemingly almost as quickly as I dove into the endeavor, I hit the fan. I couldn't eat another bite. I had to leave the minute dregs of my dessert behind. I was about a cup of melted cream away from eating the entire mound. Oh wait; my wife had a :couple bites. What a good sport, I was sick. I felt like I was burping whipped cream. I thought tor sure I would end my incredible run at not throwing up. I'd been vomitfree since '93. At that point, the only desire in my head was for a salt IV and a stomach pump. > ICE CREAM Fast and colorful games BY HOLLY ADAMS Senior Writer (allie6rover/(allieann@ctusu.edu ABOVE: One of the many paintball guns available at JT's Paintball Store in downtown Logan. Guns range in price from $55 to $1000. BELOW RIGHT: Just a few examples of the helmets that JT's Paintball Store has to offer paintballers in Cache Valley. BELOW: Paintballs come in all sorts of colors and come in bags of hundreds and although they may cause come bruises, paintballers say the sport is worth it. What started out as a way to mark cows and trees has evolved into a way to pelt friends and foes with paint. Paintballing began in the '80s when some guys in New Hampshire took a cattle marker — not a gun — and played the first game ofpaintball. There are two types of paintballing: speedball and woodsball. Sean Jones, a paintball tech at JT's Performance Paintball in Logan said speedball is when bunkers, or large inflatable barriers, are placed in a field and paintball players can duck and hide behind them. Woodsball is played in the trees. Some of the popular places around Cache Valley to play woodsball are up in the canyons. One popular place called "Fruit Loop" is by Zanavoo restaurant. There are other popular spots in Green Canyon, the Black Smith Fork river bottoms and in Providence and Millville canyons. "I'm into speedball," Jones said. "Most Non-traditional Aggie dares to dream big passes Mexico and Canada. It was cool." Staff Writer While going to the Brigham City She's a mom, a student and a seri- campus, Hewitt has been an advocate ous racquetball player. for change. The university Continuing She developed a program for stuEducation association named her the dents with children that includes an top non-traditional student in the „ education-based childcare center United States, and according to USU where students can bring their chilpsychology Professor Brian Tschantz, dren while they are in classes. she could rule the universe. She also provides workshops that Kiersten Hewitt, a senior in psyhelp students with children cope with chology at the USU Brigham City stress as well as parenting and financampus seems to do it all. cial issues associated with going back "She always takes the leading role," to school. Tschantz said. "My prediction is that Hewitt said when she sees someKiersten is going to be the ruler of thing that needs improvement, she'll the universe. She'll be calling the take charge and that's why she startshots and we won't be doing badly." ed the childcare center. Hewitt is a single mother of four, "I get unsettled when I see somewho returned to school four years ago thing that needs to be done. I get after a 12-year absence. antsy until I do something about it," She said she always wanted to she said. "I get a bur under my saddle go to college, but was married as a that needs to be taken care of." senior in high school and was pregWhen Hewitt started at USU nant with her first child soon after. Brigham City three and a half years She waited for her husband to get ago, she went to the director of the a degree, but after several years, they campus and asked why the university decided it was her turn to get the uni- didn't have childcare. versity experience. He said it was a risk-management Now, four years later, she has been issue that was up to student represennamed the top non-traditional stutatives. dent, an award she will receive in San Another problem was there weren't Diego April 12. any student representatives, so It is presented to students who Hewitt took that role. are at least 25 years old and have Now, almost four years later, the had their education interrupted by childcare is in action and is used by at least two years. The award is also 19 students, Hewitt said. based on grades and community serBy the end of the first year, they vice. expect it to be used by about 50 stu"It's been a bit of a surprise," ents. Hewitt said. "I was nominated in the western region and received that in the fall and just recently received the • HEWITT see page 7 national award, which also encomBY MANETTE NEWBOLD of our games last a few minutes. They go really, really fast." Jones said they play on five to seven man teams. To get out in a game ofpaintball, the ball has to break anywhere on the person. "By the time you're hit, you have about 20 balls coming at you," Jones said. The markers are set to shoot 300 feet per second. Jones said most goggles can only stand up to that speed. He said the markers are powered by carbon dioxide, compressed air, nitrous or propane. A I6~ounce propane tank will power 50,000 shots, Jones said. He said paintballing is geared towards all ages, Tve seen people as young as 7 and as old as 70 out there playing with us," Jones said. "Kids won't like it as much because it will hurt. Layers will make it not hurt as much. I usually just wear jeans and a T-shirt." Jones said the only required equipment for paintballing is a mask. • PAINTBALL see page 8 Two buddies think they know when to hold em BY PATRICE M . JONES es. "With any poker event, there are going to be some reservations CHICAGO - The bond about gambling," Beck said. between buddies Craig Rabin and "But the students don't pay a Jason Beck is obvious, particular- cent to enter our tournaments, ly in the way they tend to finish and everyone wins at least a the dangling end of each other's small prize." sentences. Beck and Rabin aim to ride the The way Beck tells it, he called poker wave; there has been an Rabin as soon as he got the idea enormous growth in the game's in 2004 to start a business that popularity in general and in colwould host free college poker lege poker, in particular, during tournaments at which students the past few years. would compete for scholarships. There are about 3 million It didn't matter that the pair was young people, between ages 14 separated by more than a thouand 22, who gamble at cards on sand miles, with Beck in college a weekly basis, according to a in Miami and Rabin at Illinois recent study by the Annenberg State University in Normal. Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. About Rabin picks up the story: "I half of the males attending colwas like, 'This is a great idea.' So I had this business class that was lege gamble at cards at least once on small business ownership. We a month, the research showed. had to create a fake company. But Long a popular pastime, now I was thinking, why create a fake poker events on television have hot dog stand when we have got glamorized the game and those this great idea?" who play it. Since 8th grade, Beck and Beck, who worked in the Rabin have talked about running University of Miami's intramural a business together. Now, less department and played poker in than a year after graduating from college, said he couldn't help but college with business degrees, notice students' growing interest they are hosting free traveling in the game. He said he thought Texas Hold 'Em poker tournascholarship tournaments - hosted ments at six universities. In April mainly by university intramural they will hold an online national departments and funded by local championship with a scholarship and national sponsorships prize pool of up to $20,000. would allow students to enjoy the excitement of the game without The budding entrepreneurs the troubling aspects of gambling have succeeded in avoiding the corporate 9-to-5, but they are entering controversial territory in bringing a "legitimized" version • POKER of poker onto university campussee page 7 KRT |