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Show Monday, Jan. 28, 2008 Page 8 Cheaper rent option... STUDENTS SHOWCASE THEIR HANDIWORK IN THE OLD FARM APARTM E N T COMPLEX. From left to right Mark Stucki, Paul Ackerson, Alex Gardner, Nikki Schwarz, Erik Packard, Joseph Keller built an Igloo 14 feet by 14 feet and 9 feet tall. It took them 7 hours to complete the Igloo using buckets and other containers to compact the snow into blocks before stacking them. TYLER LARSON photo National Guard COLLEGE FIRST Enlistment Option Up to two years of non-deployment following completion of Initial Active Duty Training Up to a $20,000 Enlistment Bonus $20,000 Student Loan Repaymcnc (must have pre-existing loans) Basic Educational assistance of $317 per month Montgomery G.I. 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How was last year's Summer Sales experienceP Was it a kick in the pantsP! Race: Hockey players fight racism 9 continued from page 5 boards, and there is enormous pressure on players to ignore racist abuse. "In some regions, I'll tell refs, 'Dude, they're talking s**V They're throwing me off my game. I don't want any trouble.' Some refs will just be harsh. They'll just say, 'Let it go' and skate off. All they want to do is ref the game and get paid. Some refs are like that and it sucks," Hashimoto said. The best defense for a player who is being picked on is to know that he has a hockey team on his side, he said. "You need support from your teammates. I can't be on a team where if I get attacked no one steps up for me. 1 want to hear my teammates say, 'Don't worry about him, we'll take care of him,'" Hashimoto said. "Of course any racial slur is going to hurt someone's feelings, but it's always going to help if you've got the support of your boys on the team." Unfortunately, everyone isn't an ideal teammate, he said. "It's funny because a lot of the guys on the team think we are all cool and we can all make fun of each other," Hashimoto said, "but sometimes it hurts. I don't want to name names, but there was this guy I played with for like three years and one day out of nowhere he goes, 'Dude you need to open your eyes.'" Hashimoto said he felt like he had no good choices to deal with the racist barb. "I just say, 'That's f***ed up,' and that's about it." Hashimoto attributes much of the racism he has been through to ignorance, not hatred. "I think Midwestern hockey players don't see enough race, so when they do they try to make a joke that isn't funny," he said. "Californians, we face so much racism here because of all the diversity. It sucks being on a hockey team where they make fun of each other even though it's light-hearted. A lot of California hockey players, even the white people, they grow up with racism and prejudice." The NHL Coach Dealing with professional players at the highest level of the sport, Nashville Predators Associate Coach Brent Peterson said he doesn't see too much petty racism or immature joking about race. Peterson said the most important guideline for players is, "Hockey is a game for everybody. Players need to control their emotions yet still play with emotion."' There is a difference between trash talking in the heat of competition to try and intimidate a person who is mentally weaker, which Peterson said is part of sports, and bringing religion or race into the discussion. "Trash talking about people's race or beliefs shouldn't be tolerated," Peterson said. "We have to have some sensitivity towards different religions, beliefs, cultures and races. We're in the 2000s here, we're not back in the 1950s. We've come a long ways, but there's still people out there who don't get it. Other people are different races and everybody is equal." Peterson said coaches need to educate their players about tolerance and acceptance, but there is a limit after which teaching is no longer an option for dealing with problem players. "Some people maybe shouldn't be on teams" if they can't get their act together, Peterson said. The African-American Player Growing up playing hockey for Taylorsville High in Utah, Josh Groves said he didn't get a lot of racial taunting or harassment, mainly because he played in net. But when he started playing junior hockey, Groves moved to forward. While on a trip to Las Vegas, Groves said he was playing horribly and wasn't expecting to make the team after the coach sat him on the bench for an entire game. Then, "some kid wanted to fight on the other team. He knew a kid on our team and he's like, 'Hey number nine • wants to fight somebody.' I wasn't doing anything else so I was like, 'Hey coach I'll go put and fight him.' Went out and fought him, whupped him, and then I was on the team. So basically 1 was like the enforcer for that entire year, so I heard a lot of everything. It wasn't just racist comments, anything anybody could throw at you when you're fighting people. If any of the little guys started getting picked on they would say, 'Groves, get out there.' Go out, drop the gloves. Good time." Groves said he, and most other players he has played with, would rather not be known as someone who tells. "You don't tell a ref. You just get back," Groves said. Not only that, but Groves said, "All the junior coaches I ever had would say drop the gloves instead of, 'Go tell the referee, that's bad, he called you a bad word."* Groves had to adapt his two-fisted brand of self-reliance when he started playing collegiate hockey for Utah State. Players wear full-face cages and face a one-game suspension for discarding their equipment to fight. "College is more trash talking than any of the others just because you can't fight," Groves said. "I think because you can't drop the gloves with somebody, it's easier for them to be a little punk. You can talk trash all day behind a cage. You just take it and if I could get them back later in the game with a good check or maybe a cheap shot or something that's fine." -graham, terry@aggiemtiil.usu. edu Like our police blotter published every Monday? Can't get enough of it? Then get your fix by checking out our NEW interactive online police blotter at WWW.0TAHSTATESMAN.COM/BL0nER Caught: Mom is most important [] continuedfrom page 6 ATTENTION experienced Door to Door managers and Sales Representatives! Our rapidly growing environmental company is looking to fill management positions for 2008's summer sales program. Manage for a company where everyone in your office is successful. Find out why people stick it out for the entire summer, and our cancellation rate is less than 5%. Working with our company is unlike most any other sales experience on the planet. 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I can do or say absolutely anything with her. It's just crazy. US: If you could write a book, what would it be about? LI: Human behavior. 1 love to study the reasons. I really enjoy figuring out why people act the way they do and the social circumstances that make them the way they are. US: What is your favorite type of music? LI: Electronic music and rock, but I also like world music. -j.p@aggiemaiLusu.edu |