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Show N Western Wats Western Wats has increased wages, and we are still willing to work around your schedule. We still offer weekly pay, a fun work environment, and we'll give you time off for school events, tests, and holidays. Call Cody 753-1303 or apply online at surveynetwork.com/application. CRESTWOODs Bmitwood 7.V) I. l)0(l N Lyin\ odd SNO N foO I: K(l»e\w>oil 736 I. SOU N Crest •woods [kuh n-veen-yu/? ns] Definition: Low summer Rates! (From $450) -Private bedroom; private bath -Expanded cable; Free High Speed Internet -Air conditioning; Covered Parking (Edgewood) -Washer and dryer in your apartment -Practically on Campus Monday, April 21, 2008 Page 6 Bellydance: Club holds spring performance IJ continued from page 5 Beginning next fall, the group will no longer meet asa club but as a studio called Shimmering Sands, which will hold classes for various levels in the Whittier Center. The club caters to all abilities, she said, as will the studio. Amy Duffy, a first-time performer, started dancing in February and said she was surprised at the difficulty of the art form. "I took ballet as a little girl and all through high school and this is a lot tougher than ballet," she said. For her, she said, dancing has been a lifetime activity, dancing all through childhood and up until she had children 12 years ago. Belly dancing has been her first return to dancing since then. The best part, she said, is that it's a great workout. However, practicing belly dancing and performing it are two different things, she said. Friday was her first time dancing in public and she said she was very nervous about going out on stage. "I'm freaking out," she said. "My hands are really sweaty." Performing gets easier each time but technically harder, said Marie Heniger, who has been taking belly dancing lessons for about one and a half years and performed about six times. As a student improves, she said, the technique takes more muscle and control. There are different reasons a person might belly dance, she said. "It's like my zen, my release, my me time," she said. "Dancing is my therapy. Some people paint, some people sing. Dancing's my thing." Utah, and specifically Logan, has some very talented dancers, though there isn't very much work for them, said Rebecca Habtour, or "Shems," the guest dancer for the evening and former USU student. Now living in the Washington, D.C., area, she said there is a phenomenon among Utah dancers that isn't quite found anywhere else. In D.C., she said, belly dancers will be quickly hired when they get to a certain level because of the area's high ethnic diversity and large Arabic population. However, once they are hired, they don't usually feel the need to improve their skills further, she said. In Utah, though, there are very few jobs available for dancers, she said, so dancers will continue to learn and improve their skills. As a result, she said, Utah dancers are frequently better dancers than some professional dancers in other areas. "It has made me appreciate our dancers a lot more," she said. "V^'e have great dancers here." As difficult as belly dancing might look or seem, Hanzalik said it's important to remember that anyone can belly dance. "There is no age limit, no body type needed, just come and have fun," she said. "We'll teach you how." -lisa, m.christensen@aggiemail. usu.edu Synonyms; Summer, Social, Fun, Good Times Used in a sentence: With Crestwoods, your housing choice is made! See also: www.logancrestwoods.com USU'S M I D D L E E A S T E R N D A N C E C L U B , H A F L A , held their annual spring performance Friday night. CAMERON PETERSON photo Soldiers pass time with video games 435-753-0724 - www.ppau.orQ Providing birth control, STD testing, condoms, ' 5 emergency contraception, sexual health care ••- Still Looking for a Summer Job? U T fl H CONSERVATION C O R P S Now Hiring crew leaders & members. Camp out, build trails, and work to restore Utah's national parks and forests! By MEG JONES Milwaukee journal Sentinel Habbaniyah, Iraq - The Marines are running through rubble-strewn landscape, blasting away with guns and screaming at one another as explosions send plumes of smoke into the flint-gray sky. Some are wounded and breathing heavy, their gasps sounding like a death rattle, while others shout expletives as they sprint past concrete blast barriers and the blackened hulks of vehicles. One of the Marines keels over. "Dude, you're so dead," siys Cpl. Fernando Izaguirre, 25. * "How do you figure?" protests Lance Cpl. Tristan Van Scoy, 20. Izaguirre, Van Scoy and other members of 4th Platoon have just finished an all-day mission for Milwaukee-based Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines, including an 11-kilometer foot patrol through a village near here in Anbar Province. They're tired, they're covered with dust and sweat, they stink and they're hungry. But the uppermost thought on their minds - now that they've put down their M-16 rifles and shrugged out of their body armor and helmets - is trading their real weapons for fake ones and playing the hot new shoot >m up video game "Call to Action 4" on Izaguirre's Xbox 360. The irony is not lost on Van Scoy, who's on his first deployment to Iraq. "It's more fun than reading a book," Van Scoy said. Today's warrior still does all of those things. He also plays video games, which are hugely popular among U.S. troops serving in this war-torn country. Many bring PlayStation Portables, Xboxes and PlayStations, and some buy them at the post exchange - commonly known as the PX - or from departing service members who don't want to haul the equipment back to the States. Some load their laptops with games. At many of the recreation centers on U.S. bases in Iraq, video games can be checked out and played on PlayStations and Xboxes set up in booths. It's common to walk down the line of video game stations and see guys - and it's pretty much all males - playing "Madden '07," "Halo 3" and golf, car racing and World War II games any time of day or night. Video game tournaments are held at individual bases with games and equipment for prizes. Ads in a recent Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper available at military installations overseas, are touting a tourney where players can compete against service members at other bases throughout the world. And this month the U.S. Army is sponsoring a large "Halo 3" tournament in North America starting online with Xbox Live and culminating in a highprofile, high-stakes finale, said Brian Jarrard, community director for Bungie, the creator of the "Halo" games. "It's another example of the game's popularity within all levels of the armed services, even so much as using it as 01 See SOLDIERS, page 7 NEW ERA OF PLAY www.usu.edu/ucc Soldiers and Marines in previous wars passed time by playing poker, throwing around a football or Frisbee, reading tattered paperbacks, smoking, writing letters and napping. L A N C E CPL. B R A D LEY, 2 2 , plays "Guitar Hero," which he bought at a PX, or post exchange, in Iraq. He doesn't know how to play a guitar and got booed off the stage when he started playing the video game but now he said he's moved up a few levels and become proficient. MEG JONES Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo Canned Food Drive Spring Fling with the Grand Friends: Latter-day Voices Spring Show "Clean Out Your Cupboards" April23-3o Thur. April 24, 1:3o-2:3opm "In Defense of Liberty" Moving out for the summer? The more food you donate the less you have to pack! Boxes will be set out in the institute for canned donations. Visit the Institute study area for a grand adventure with seniors from Sunshine Terrace who will perform and entertain you with delight! Fri-Sat April 25-26 jfj Pre-show 6:30pm, Show 7:00pm. The show is FREE, but you'll need a ticket to gete in. Cet your rickets at the bookstore or from choir members. |