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Show AggieUte Page 8 Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008 Loyal fans line up hours before game ByLISACHRISTENSEN staff writer FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER R1CK1 LAKE AND FROM DIRECTOR ABBT EPSTEIN THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN " * ' • ' Special benefit screening event A must-see movie for anyone even thinking about having a baby 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 27 USU TSC Auditorium Tickets $5 in advance/ $7 at the door USU students free with I.D. Panel discussion to follow movie Buy tickets with your PayPal account; sent S to wisechildbearing@yahoo.com Proceeds to benefit USU Women's Center, La Leche League of Northern Utah and the Association for Wise Childbearing wvnv.thebusinessoibeingborn.com UtahState UNIVERSITY There are 10,270 seats in the Spectrum, and more than 7,000 people attend each game, according to Utah State Athletics. Finding good seats, then, can be a tricky thing. But some students have been taking serious precautions to make sure they get the perfect seat. Take David Peaden. Peaden, junior in accounting, said he was the first one to the Spectrum Friday to wait for the ESPN Bracketbuster game, getting there at 7:20 a.m. Although the Spectrum doors don't open until an hour before any given event, Peaden said there are ways to get around that. Generally speaking, he said, the first person there will check all of the doors to see if they're unlocked. Usually they aren't, which is when he uses what he calls a trade secret, sneaking in by other means. The first person will then let others in until he or she feels the waiting area between the outer and inner doors of the Spectrum, where students can wait, gets too crowded, he said. So, why line up close to 12 hours before a game? Shawn Chatlin, junior in biological engineering, said it's S T U D E N T S W A I T O U T S I D E T H E SPECTRUM before the Friday men's basketball game against UC Santa Barbara. Some students arrived 12 hours before it started. TYLER LARSON photo because he loves the team. "How do you put this into words? Basically we love our team. We live and die with our team, especially our hero, Jaycee Carroll," said Chatelin, who got to the Specturm shortly after Peaden. "We're like the sixth man." Aaron Scoll, senior in public relations, agreed. "We don't view it like just going to a game, we feel like we influence the game. We prepare for the game like the players," Scoll said. "We're not just going to have a good time. It's to help us win the game. We feel like we need to outdo ourselves every game." Kjerstin Parrish, junior in family and consumer sciences education, said although most of the seats in the Spectrum give a decent view of the floor, some seats are simply better than others. "Once you go front, you can't go back," she said. While waiting, students entertain themselves by playing cards, watching highlights of previous games on YouTube, watching movies on laptops or playing games like Catch Phrase. Kyle Green, a junior in business and entrepreneurship, said waiting is more than just sitting around. "It's a party, an event in and of itself," Green said. Peaden said he gets about as much homework done while waiting as he would just studying in his apartment. Chad Wilson, Derek Christofferson and Matt Sonnenberg brought a big-screen TV and a game system to play video-game hockey Friday. People also bring pizza or other foods to eat while waiting. Carson Alvey, sophomore in education, is one of these people. "We bring dinner because we don't want to starve, and we 0 See FANS, page 14 Male's bad habits based on an individuals perception By RENAE COWLEY staff writer Rent $450 jQnslte Laumlwmut • C7o5P to USU & Bus Stop • Summer Real S450 • Pmvle |^,. _ Forest Gte East and West apartments $IS20 to $2225 ft. Every referral earns vnu a ticket for a raffle to win items such ai LCI) IV'S, I'ort.ibic DVD players and other sreat ileim. I-very referral ulso earns you money off your rent. LIT 84321 Girls rule and boys drool. Even though drooling wasn't one of the bad habits freshmen Amber Hartley and Whitley Dahle relayed, they had no trouble compiling a lengthy list of things guys do that bug them. "I can't stand it when guys leave the toilet seat up," Hartley said. Yance Bosen, senior majoring in ag business, said his mom would get mad if he and his brothers left the toilet seat up. "I never do," Bosen said. "It's just how I was raised." TJ Zeller, senior majoring in sociology said, "Why would we put it down for girls? Why don't girls put it up for us?" Dahle complained guys tell, stupid jokes and think they are funny all the time. Senior Leyi, Baker responded by saying, "Guys have more self confidence and don't get as insecure, so they are better able to laugh at themselves and their own stupid jokes. Dumb jokes are dumb jokes, and girls tell them too and everybody laughs." Zeller said guys always laugh at their own jokes because they are "always funny." Dahle: "Why do they write in all caps?" Zeller said it depends on his mood or level of importance if he writes in capital letters or not Baker: "I know a few girls that switch between lower-case and capital letters indiscriminately." Not being able to write legibly is a point of annoyance for Hartley. She said she can't even read her own dad's "chicken scratches." Baker: "Guys have bad handwriting because they didn't spend all of elementary school writing notes to their friends. We would rather just talk with them face to face." Bosen: "My writing hand was [• See HABITS, page 14 Diary: Athletic cups and jockstraps The President invites nominations for the 15th Annual UtahState UNIVERSITY DIVERSITY AWARDS Award recipients will be announced in Spring 2008 and will receive recognition by President Albrecht at an appropriate forum next fall Award Categories: Award Criteria: One individual or organization from each of the following categories will be recognized for furthering the principles and values of affirmative action, equal opportunity, and diversity: 1. Models behavior that promotes diversity. 2. Nourishes acceptance of individual differences. 3. Strives to enhance academic, employment, or community relations among people who are different. 4. Integrates diversity concepts and values into academic curriculum, management functions, or community service. 5. Develops methods for increasing and valuing diversity among students, faculty, staff, or local businesses/associations. 6. Maximizes opportunities to achieve diversity. Student Faculty Administrator Staff Community Member Nomination Guidelines: • • Write a nomination letter of not more than 2 pages, formatted to address the six criteria stated afctovc. Nomination letter muet be received by 5:00 p.m. on Wednciday, March 26, 2008, by letter, fax, e-mail or in person. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Office Utah State University 9535 Old Main Hill Military Science Building, Room 216 Logan, UT 84322-9535 Telephone: (435) 797-1266 Fax: (435) 797-0291 Email: lcarolyn.whelan@usu.edu] This call for nominations is available in large print, audio, and braille format upon request Please contact the AA/EO Office at 797-1266 for further information. r \Mcontinued from page 6 latex condoms" are lit by heavenly light, jumping out for every man, woman and child to behold. Most will cower and hide, but the worthy few females will flock to you in droves. At the cash register, it's the same awe.struck looks. The same cartoonish, jawbeing-reeled-in expression from the brunette cashier. "Well, is..." A nod to interrupt her. A stroke of the beard. And a simple, "Snugly." When you get home, you pull out three condoms. One to line the 5-gallon garbage can in the kitchen, because in the whole display you forgot your trash bags-the whole reason you even went to the damn store in the first place. The other two work as gators or some sort of wicking system that goes over your shoes and up your legs to make sure your feet and calf area, up to the knee, avoid getting wet. The other nine will be blown up, some being used to fashion a zeppelin-like air craft, and other lashed together to make a water-tight inflatable raft to use for a flyfishing expedition. Dear man diary, I was at an off-Broadway, local church theater production of "Cats." 1 don't know anything about theater, but was Jesus really supposed to be the brown burmese kitty? That makes no difference, with all the bad singing and nauseating cat noises, I couldn't sleep. But thank God-who was a black and white tabby in this play, I think-l had some ESPN Classic games, Iron Maiden concert footage and a conversation with Bill about fuel injection vs. carburetors-the one we had while putting those new mudders on the '85 Blazer-on reserve in my Manly Mental Bank. I can call that stuff up whenever I'm in real trouble, diary, and everything will be OK. But I need to watch a lot of sports and do some fishing or kill some small animals soon, because there's a two-day "Suddenly Susan" marathon on Oxygen, and if Cheryl has her way, that'll be the only thing on our TV. Did you know, diary, that she'll miss the UFC fight to watch Brooke Shields, who isn't even legitimately hot anymore? Dear man diary, I'm exhausted. I've been trying for six solid months to bring manly back. Only to have my efforts thwarted by some punkass named Justin Timberlake, who claims to be bringing sexy back. What does he know about sexy? He couldn't grow a mustache or a dangerous beard and probably doesn't even own a flannel shirt. There have also been other retro-reenactment campaigns that have pushed manliness to the side. Weird things, diary. People bringing whale oil lighting systems back. Others bringing prohibition back. Worst of all was wnen this crazy broad tried to bring Elizabethan English dress back. Everything is covered up, diary. I don't need to tell you how erotic I tnink female wrists and ankles are. You already know. And if you were real, and not just a black vinyl notebook covered in Power Ranger stickers, you'd get the same tingle in your loins when you saw dainty wrist veins or a pronounced Achilles tendon, too. I know it. David Baker is a senior majoring in print journalism. If you see him sporting a beard, compliment it Comment and questions can be sent to da.bake@ aggiemaii. usu. edu |