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Show OwrView AboutUs Editor in Chief A horrible weekend |cube an Aggie ** e/ve always got to kick you when you're down. It wasn't enough that Utah State's women's soccer team had to lose in double overtime to Hawaii > by one goal. :^-l:i':^^M!^''r'T;.rf''.i .^- : >"!^::%> ; ^. ' It wasn't bad enough the women's basketball team had to lose by one point to Pacific on a last second free throw on Friday night. And it wasn't enough to have the hockey team drop two matches at home over the weekend. But it didn't end there. The sports gods still had to f.pile it on the Aggies. ^•-•*_. And leave it to the football team to break the Ibseby-one trend. They went out in a much more cruel, evil fashion — a 52 point drumming by the Boise State Broncos on Saturday in front of a sea of orange. At least the athletics department got a boost from the 18,864 fans that paid to watch Boise State, the No. 17 team in the nation this week, play, because we assume very few were there to watch the Aggies. . But the biggest of all the crushing blows was the men's basketball team's loss at Weber State. The one, shining hope for USU athletics gets beaten for the first time in the last seven times the Aggies and Wildcats shared a court and a ball. After a sloppy, Britney-Spears-without-make-up ugly win over Southern Utah University Friday night, some wise, sage-like Aggie fans may have seen it coming. But haven't Aggie fans had to endure enough? .^Haven't we had to sit through heart-wrenching defeats on a Saturday-by-Saturday basis? ;:;,,;, , .._ What price do we have to pay? jrr \ V e could start ritually sacrificing BYU fans to '^appease the temperamental, sports, gods. That may prove to be a flawed plan, though. The pleasure ,involved in such a glorious act would possibly cost us the benefit of appeasement, because the absence of 'i:«pain signifies the absence of gain. yr Maybe instead of being outlandish, we could just ?' board up the windows and wait the storm out. There > are only two more possible losses for the football team. The Aggie men are going to be better. The Aggie women are going to be better. 3?V''!•' So pray for strength. Pray for courage. And pray "for the Aggies. Seth R. Hawkins News Editor Arie Kirk Assistant News Editor Liz Lawyer Features Editor Manette Newbold Assistant Features Editor Brittny Goodsell Jones Sports Editor Samuel Hislop Assistant Sports Editor David Baker Copy Editor Rebekah Bradway Photo Editor It's just business now I 'm sorry, but this relationship is over. It was nice for a while. You accepted everything I brought you - good, bad and indifferent. I felt needed. I felt special. I felt like I was making a difference in somebody's life. Now, I guess it is all just business. I know it is partially my fault. I was gone for six months and really didn't keep in touch, but how was I to know so much had changed? The last time we met, you picked over me like the last 10 minutes of a Saturday garage sale: "I'll take this but not that, I only have room for so much stuff in my life now." Well, sorry, but I won't part myself out. You have to take the junk with the treasures. I'm moving on. Yes, my favorite thrift store no longer loves me unconditionally, and it hurts. How low do you have to sink that the charity thrift store won't take your stuff? It's not as if I drove up with a box of kittens, potato peels and brown bananas. I offered a comfortable chair considered fashionable a few years ago and the usual box of least-loved clothes. True, if nobody buys this stuff for 50 cents, they are going to have to send it to the landfill, but that is the price you pay for taking the two vintage Herman Miller chairs. 1 mean, I know I have never been a fashionable person, but my clothes should still be worth 50 cents on the middle-aged-guy rack, shouldn't they? I realize you don't know me and my record of responsible giving, but that is the problem in a nutshell. It's just business. So I am now dating outside my religion. Though it represents a church of which I am not a member, my new flirtation is Deseret Industries. You drive up, they smile, they take your stuff and ask you if you want a receipt. The people who work there actually seem to enjoy it so much that they wear the clothes sold tnere. I know some of it will end up in the landfill or shipped off in containers bound for Somalia, but it feels friendly. I leave with a smile, wondering who might be waking up to the tones of my old clock radio or skateboarding with my old MP3 player plugged into their ears. And truth be known, one of the main reasons I give stuff to the Dl is that it makes room for stuff I want to buy from the Dl. It is sort of like the fourth law of thermodynamics of stuff - it is neither created nor destroyed, it only moves from one place to another. 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