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Show www. utahstatesman.com Logan, Utah Utah State Universit Former boy soldier seeks for world peace Today is Monday, August 25, 2008 By LISACHRISTENSEN copy editor Breaking News Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will ,fprmally release her primary delegates to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday in an effort to unite the party. World peace can be achieved through opportunity and education, Ishmael Beah, author of "A Long Way Gone," said to students Saturday morning. Stressing global interconnection and the rarity of formal education throughout the world, Beah said by learning about different cultures and problems, students can make a difference. With education comes a further understanding of feasible solutions applicable to different problems. "When you have that knowledge," he said, "then you can impact someone's life." Beah's book, this year's com- mon literature experience selection and required reading for Connections students, was his memoir of his experience in the Sierra Leone civil war in the early 1990s. A refugee at age 12, he was recruited by the state army at age 13, where he fought until being removed by UN1CEF workers at 16. Eventually, he was rehabilitated and moved to New York City where he finished high school before attending Oberlin College in Ohio. During his last few semesters at Oberlin Beah began writing his experiences and was encouraged to finish them as a book by a [MSee SOLDIER, page 6 I S H M E A L B E A H , A U T H O R O F "A Long Way Gone," speaks to 16 select students at breakfast prior to giving his address in the Kent Concert Hall. Saturday, Aug. 23. TYLER LARSON photo Campus News and a USU's business building receiving $2.5 million renovation to improve atmosphere. •'-•_- . Page 5 Features He was probably one of most kind individuals I've ever worked with." * ^i "Gory loved to teach." ^ He really wanted his students ' to do well/9 . "He constantly wanted to mix with students and be a part of student life.9' ^r ^ ^^d^ Campus and city transportation available to students. Page 9 ByARIEKlRIC Qatfelter, associate dean ofHASS editor in chief Sports G USU tops Seattle in Sunday match at Bell Field Page 19 ary Kiger, former Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences . * • > • • dean, died Aug. 11 after battling brain cancer since,,.-. , February. ,.,...,..,, &^^g^§ Kiger began working at USU in 1983 as a member of the sociology department and became the dean ofHASS in 2003. ^ ' v ^ y * -A^-VH Under Kiger's leadership, the College ofHASS and USU saw mariy changes including the initiation of the religious studies program, a master in social work and the Caine School of Arts. It was also under Kiger's direction that USU built the Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Opinion "So get excited. Get involved. There's all the opportunity in the world lying at your fingertips." : Page 12 Almanac Today in History: In 1875, Capt. Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel, getting from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours. High: 97° Low: SV Skies: Clear with no chance of rain and breaking news always ready for you at www.utahstatesman.com •I See KIGER, page 6 Photos courtesy of DEBORAH BYRNES Fire hits downtown Logan BySETH R. HAWKINS web editor Sparks from a welder working on the Logan Justice Building expansion started a one-alarm fire, Wednesday, Aug. 20, that caused an estimated $50,000 worth of damage, Logan Fire Marshall Liz Hunsaker said. The southeast corner of the two-story building currently under construction received the brunt of the damage, as sparks from a welder working in the southeast stairway lit a stack of roofing insulation on the roof on fire, Hunsaker said. Damage was also done to the roofing deck, which Hunsaker said will have to be replaced. "We know the southeast corner of the building, all of that has been burned," Hunsaker said. "Structurally, the building is fine. The guys did a nice job knocking LOGAN, SMITHFIELD AND NORTH LOGAN that fire down." FIREFIGHTERS put out the fire at the Logan Justice Building expansion project, Wednesday, Aug. 20. An estiA sign outside the construction project mated $50,000 worth of damage was done to the site. states the building is "your tax dollars at DEBRA HAWKINS photo work," but it was a different set of tax dollars at work that put the fire out. as com- bined crews from four fire departments turned their hoses on the blaze. Part *f the county-wide automatic aid system, when the call came in at 1:25 p.m., four fire trucks were dispatched to the scene, the first of which arrived at 1:27 p.m., Hunsaker said. "The vehicles came from Logan, Cache County, Smithfield and North Logan as part of our automatic aid, which today really showed how great it is to have a good automatic aid, as Logan City's fire truck our ladder truck - is down for maintenance right now. It's a two-story building and we had to catch fire, so we needed a ladder truck. The truck was ready to roll, and they did roll that truck in, which we greatly appreciate." Though the fire was contained by midafternoon, construction workers were released for the day- Construction will resume Thursday morning, Hunsaker said. The $6.2 million project is an expansion to the existing Logan City Justice Building, which will later become home to the Logan City Police Department, Hunsaker said. -seth. h@aggiemail. usu.edu |