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Show UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY redboxin' it up Page 4 Logan, Utah • Campus Voice Since 1902 www.utahstatesman.com Friday, Feb. 2,2007 Electrical engineering may partner with Weber "This is two institutions working together to assist one of the major employers in the state of Utah," Kendell said. The electrical engineering proThe students that receive the gram at USU may extend to Weber degree this proposed program will State University in attempt to fulfill offer can get a job at Hill Air Force the need for more engineers at Hill Base starting at mid $50,000 a year Air Force base. fresh out of college, he said. Sen. Greg Bell presented a bill (SB 53) Monday, Jan. 22 to get funding Hill Air Force Base has a current for this new partnership from the need this year for 700 to 750 new Utah Legislature. This partnership engineers and next year will have a will allow people in Davis County projected need for 600 to 650 new to receive their degree in electriengineers, Bell said. The base also • Senator Bill 53 proposes an cal engineering close to home, he has the need to offer continuous edusaid. This "perfect marriage" will be electrical engineering partnercation to the employees they already located at the WSU campus, located ship between USU and Weber have in order to keep up with new less than a mile from Hill Air Force technology, he said. State. Base, he said. Jeff Wandrey, deputy direc• Weber provides buildings, USU torCol. "We want partnerships. We want of engineering at Hill Air Force provides the degree institutions to do what they do well Base, also said this partnership is a and feel a need to involve other insti- • Both schools would get funding good thing. The base has a continututions," Bell said. ing demand for engineers, he said, from the state. and currently 160 of their current The Davis County building that engineers are in the retirement will house this proposed partnership • The partnership is being probracket. Hill Air Force Base is the was funded a few years ago by state posed to help fill jobs at Hill Air number-one employer for the state, legislature and is located in Layton Force Base and allow people in employing 24,500 people, he said. as an extension to WSU, he said. This allows people in the Layton Layton to not commute. Wandrey said Hill Air Force Base area to not have to leave far from is primarily looking for electrical home to get a degree, he said. More and software engineers, which is and more people today are getting exactly what this program will cretheir degrees online or in distance ate. learning centers like this one in Weber State and build this partnerBell said if the bill is passed, both Layton, he said. ship," Hinton said. USU and WSU will receive funding This proposed program will allow Bell also said the program will be from state legislature. These funds WSU to begin training students in a great way for USU to fulfill its obli- have not finalized yet. Building a electrical engineering, after which gations as a land-grant university in whole new program will cost a subthe students can finish their bachstantial amount of money, he said. Utah. elor's degrees through USU's proThis partnership will save a lot of Richard Kendell, Commissioner gram, Bell said. WSU will provide of Utah State Higher Education, said money while allowing USU to share the building while USU will provide this is a very responsive program its electrical engineering program, the degree, he said. he said. for Hill Air Force Base. He said it is a strategic move for the future of Dean Scott Hinton of the College -emredfie@cc.usu.edu of Engineering said this partnership Utah. BY EMILY REDFIELD Staff Writer is very important to USU. He also said President Stan Albrecht and the rest of the school take the land-grant mission very seriously. USU, being a land-grant school, is responsible for having and sharing with the state of Utah expertise in various areas including electrical engineering. "We are excited to work with Need to Know i— — Dean's Office wins Thurs. Quiz Bowl • Q u i z BOWL see page 3 Soldier/journalist speaks on news coverage in war for making the assumption" that running the man's picture in the paper had contributed After a year as a military to his death, "but...too often journalist in Iraq, Marshall in the combat zone, security Thompson, a USU graduate, is used as an excuse to censor spoke to students about how when it actually isn't a secuthe media is being censored rity issue." and manipulated in the war While explaining military zone. cover-ups, he recounted a His lecture on Tuesday story in which he witnessed in the Eccles Conference the cover-up of a mortar Center exposed listeners to training exercise accident the military's justifications for where soldiers accidentally controlling and censoring the blew up a house in a nearby media, which include to protown. Thompson said that tect security, ensure accuracy, no one knows if anybody was avoid the complication of mili- killed because there was absotary policy, cover up mistakes lutely no investigation, and and demoralizing stories and the accident was never reportpropriety. He also examined ed until now. the ways the military can "So you can imagine these censor the media, including kinds of incidents, just imagcover-ups, confiscating source ine what you are not being material and controlling told, what will never surface, where journalists go, whom except maybe in death bed they speak to and to what confessions," he said. information they have access. Besides cover-ups, Regarding security, Thompson said the military Thompson explained the has many ways of controlling importance of restrictwhat is and is not reported. ing information that1 could One way is to confiscate compromise soldiers safety source materials such as notes if released by the media. and video footage. "This is However, he said that "securi- strictly against U.S. military ty" is often used as an excuse guidelines, yet it happens all to censor. He related an expe- the time," Thompson said. "If rience when he received a call they find out there is somefrom a colonel who called him thing embarrassing... they will a murderer. try to take your source mate"He said that I had run a rial away from you." photo in our newspaper of an Also, officials may revoke a Iraqi soldier, that someone journalist's privilege to travel had found this photo, gone to and talk with troops, or they the man's house while he was can arrange for journalists to on leave and killed him, and speak only to those who truly that I was responsible for it," believe in the official stance. Thompson said. Thompson said, "The jourThey immediately stopped nalist goes into the interview, printing the faces of Iraqi sol- they feel like they're getting diers in the paper in order to an honest interview, and they protect them. are. But what they're not getLater Thompson discovered ting is a representative picture the man who had been murof Iraq as a whole." dered had never been in the Thompson concluded, newspaper at all and that the colonel who had called hated the media. Thompson said, "I • CENSORSHIP can only guess at his reasons see page 3 BY DAVE EDWARDS Staff Writer BY ALISON BAUGM Staff Writer Members of the Dean's Office came out victorious after battling students, professors and department heads in yesterday's Quiz Bowl. The bowl was part of this week's Education Week, which is put on by the Education Council. Students were able to enjoy free Aggie ice cream while watching the competition. The Dean's Office began the competition against students from the College of Education and Human Services in three five-minute sections. Then the department heads competed against professors to see which team would make it to the next round. Questions varied from what kind of dog has a blue tongue (a chow) to the trophy given to champions in hockey (the Stanley Cup) to names of battles and questions about literature, just to name a few, Eric Bingham, a senior in biology composite teaching, said he was told not only would the questions be completely random, but that there would be some about pop culture. Bingham said he didn't know anything about pop culture but was still happy to compete. The Dean's Office came out victorious in the final round of a best-of-three competition. With the professors winning both of their first rounds, they were matched against the Dean's Office for the championship. While spectators expected a close round, the Dean's Office took the lead and won strong with a seven to three victory. Members of the winning team were Dean Carol Strong, Jason Barnett, LuAnn Parkinson, Hal Potter arid Michael Freeman. They were awarded flash drives from the USU Bookstore, Jamie (ranefjamieiranegccusu.edu SOT. MARSHALL THOMPSON spoke to students Tuesday about journalistic integrity and how news gets slanted in war time. Thompson came as part of the journalism department's speaker series. Di Lewi$/dilewis@«.usu.edu DEBATE COACH TOM WORTHEN, right, recaps the results of the debate tournament at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., while the team looks on. USU's debate team took first in the Northwest conference for the third consecutive year. Debate team places first in conference BY RANAE BANCERTER Senior Writer Debating big issues for a whole semester helped the USU debate team finish first in their conference and receive a $5,000 donation. This is the third consecutive year that USU has come in first place in the conference. "Doing well the last few tournaments definitely helped out but we did really well in this last tournament," said debate team coach, Dr. Tom Worthen. The donation, given a month ago, means that he is not the only one paying for the team to travel to tournaments. "We're not funded like the football team, basketball team. Basically I donate all my time, I donate all my money, so we can travel," he said. After Worthen donates, the university matches his donation so the team has funding. At the final conference tournament held at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., the team debated against 25 other universities. The team not only won 38 trophies but also the Northwest Forensic Conference Championship. The team gives all the credit for the wins to their coach. "I think we're all really dedicated because our coach puts so much time and money and effort into this that we want to return that back to him and work as hard as we can, so • DEBATE see page 3 |