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Show New comers of the year UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Page 13 Logan, Utah • Campus Voice Since 1902 www.utahstatesman.com Wednesday, March 8,2006 Final duo faces tough questions from students BY MARIE M A C K A Y Assistant News Editor CAM LEE, ASUSU PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Utah State University students grilled Noah Riley and Cam Lee Monday during the ASUSU presidential debate with complex questions, proving popularity is not the only factor in being elected a qualified student leader. Solving enrollment decreases, relocating the ASUSU offices, providing more on-campus employment and forming smoother relationships with the faculty were just a few problems candidates were asked how they would resolve. "I know both of them and I feel like they won't hit on the specifics," said Chelsea Nelson, a senior majoring in public relations who attended the debate. "They're both good candidates, but you can tell there's a lack of education." As a common theme for most of his responses to many of the questions, Lee emphasized his abilities as an entrepreneur to form relationships with the right people that will fix most problems that exist at USU. "Before the concerns and issues are the relationships. If you get the right people on the bus, it'll go somewhere," Lee said. "I feel that a leader goes out himself and talks to the big people on campus." Riley said he wants to bring ASUSU to the students by moving its offices to the second level of the Taggart Student Center. He mentioned replacing the office for the University's Greek life on steady decline vice president for Student Services or the Housing and Food Services Offices. "We want to have more of a portal for students to be connected," Riley said. Lee's major push in his platform is to increase on-campus employment and said the best way to solve that problem is by increasing minimum wage. Specific steps to accomplishing that, however, weren't addressed. "They're goals not promises," Lee said. "You can have a 'class A idea or platform, but if you have a 'class B' team you can't accomplish your goals." Lee said he took a democratic approach and asked his campaign members what issues students are > DEBATE NOAH RILEY, ASUSU PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE see page 4 I II I I WA BY LIZ LAWYER Senior Writer Enrollment is down at Utah State University and the Greek community is feeling the bite. In 1995, there were 399 members of Greek organizations at USU. Five years later, there were 310. This year, the number is down to 237Sororities have suffered more than fraternities at USU, falling from 182 members in fall 1995 to 112 last fall semester. Fraternity membership was 217 in fall 1995 and stood at 125 last fall. Keri Mecham, asso"On the East CoasVand "i ciate director in the Midwest, if you're of Student Involvement not a member of a Greek and adviser \ organization you have no to the Greek houses on Wiallife." campus, said the decreased Steve Morrill enrollment in Sigma Nu President the fraternities and sororities has not exactly mirrored the decline in enrollment because those who make up the Greek membership are not a perfect cross-section of campus. A large percentage of Greeks are out-of-state students. Lowered enrollment means higher tuition. Those who are hit most by an increase in cost are those from out of state. * " • • - - • D TDTT • GREEKS ScoitErickion/serickion^a.usu.edu see page 3 DAVID SUMMERS sticks his head out of his white van parked in the Hastings parking lot where he has been selling hot dogs for the past three months. Initiatives get funding from Tier II dollars BY MARIE MACKAY Assistant News Editor Improving classrooms and establishing a new university radio station are just two of seven recommendations the ASUSU Executive Council approved Tuesday as part of a resolution to receive funding from Tier II Tuition for student initiatives. A committee, composed mainly of ASUSU senators, distributed more than 900 surveys to Utah State University's various colleges to learn of students' concerns. From the surveys, the committee established seven recommendations: • Establish a student radio station • Provide additional scholarships and funding for graduate studies • Improve the HPER Building • Extend Taggart Student Center computer • STUDENT INITIATIVES see page 4 Resident makes living off selling hot dogs BY LIZ LAWYER Senior Writer The newest place to gefa bite to eat in Logan isn't a restaurant — it's a white van in the Hastings parking lot. David Summers, 48, said he has been parking in the lot six days a week for the last three months to sell hot dogs. But the money isn't exactly rolling in, he said. "People keep telling me, 'Wait till summer, it s going to get better, it s going to get better," he said. "I hope it does." Summers says if anyone knew his life story, they wouldn't believe it. When he was 7 years old, he said his grandmother's car was tipped by a train. That accident left him unable to read or write, he said, and though his family has told him he could read and write before the accident, he can't remember it. He said when he first came to Logan, he went to the library to try to learn, but to no avail. Summers said he was taught how to > H O T DOGS see page 4 Scott Erickson/seridoonjtcuw.edu DAVID SUMMERS waits in his van. Cooking and grocery shopping ideas to be given at fair BY A A R O N FALK News Editor Top Ramen is cheap. Microwavable burritos are fast. Pizza delivery is almost too easy. Too often in the fast-paced, tight-budget world of collegiate life, cheap convenience wins out over healthy eating decisions, says Tamara Vitale, a clinical assistant professor in the dietetics program. But Vitale says it doesn't have to be that way. be samples of healthy foods at the expo, "It's not necessarily hard and it doesn't Vitale said. have to cost a lot," she said. "Healthy eating "A lot of students don't know how to is definitely attainable for college students." cook," she said. "There's so much informaFriday in the TSC Sunburst Lounge, tion about nutrition and health, we'll try to Vitale and a handful of dietetics students make it seem doable." will be presenting information about cookVitale said the Health Expo will also ing and food-purchasing techniques from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. • HEALTH FAIR Students will perform cooking demonstrations every 30 minutes. There will also " see page 4 |