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Show WeekendDiversions Page 8 Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 Game simple, unique and alternative to schoolwork At risk of receiving hundreds of hate I like boot up this game and go on a rammail, I'm going to expose the biggest secret at page. In fact, I've found breaking delicates to be very therapeutic - not USU - no one uses laptops for schoolwork anymore. Tim that I condone that type of Admit it, everyone with a Russell conduct in real life. Depth-What I love laptop is either chatting on most about this game is the Facebook or playing "World of many different ways in which Warcraft." I've sat in the back it can be played. Each time I of classrooms before; I've seen play MCS, the experience is what actually goes on. different, because the game is I hate to sound like a so customizable. bickering parent, but USU students need to spend more All of the money earned "Minotaur China Shop" time paying attention in class, can be spent toward stat and less time writing on walls. upgrades and attack moves. With that being said, it would be entirely So, for example, if you'd prefer to sell china, irresponsible for me to suggest a fun alternayou can upgrade stats to make more customers shop. Or if you'd prefer to break stuff, tive to schoolwork - shameful, in fact. you can upgrade stats to make-the store more So to all of my readers who own laptops, cluttered with inventory. I'd advise not visiting www.blurst.com. Going to this Web site during class is a great Also, upgrading the minotaur's attacks way to throw away a meaningful college edu- can be a lot of fun. There are nine attacks cation. total, each with unique abilities. Granted the shop can be destroyed by just walking Blurst is a free service that allows 3-Dinto shelves, punching your way through the based games to be played directly in a Web stores has much more gusto. browser with leader boards and achievements. Blurst offers addictive games such Too short - MCS is free so I can't gripe ENTREPRENEUR CLUB PRESIDENT Brad Larkin stands in front of the Business as "Minotaur China Shop" and "Jetpack about this point too much. Nonetheless, building on campus. Larkin said the Entrepreneur Club provides an opportunity for all stuBrontosaurus." I would have enjoyed much longer chinadents to network with local and state-wide business owners. CAMERON PETERSON photo breaking therapy sessions. For the purpose of exposing the most potentially harmful game to a college educaMCS is made up of five in-game days, tion, I've decided to review Minotaur China resulting in a few minutes each day. So natuShop (MCS). rally the game goes by pretty quick. More time would have allowed players to fully Therapeutic gaining - The game is maximize their stats with ease. played as a minotaur working in a china shop (duh). You can either sell fine china, or Overall, I've never played a video game you can wreck the store to collect the insurquite like MCS. The premise is simple, ance money. Either way, the choice is yours. unique and deep. Furthermore, it's refreshing to be able to enjoy a free, well-made Web However, if you're like me, wrecking the browser game. store sounds much more appealing than folthe E-Club. lowing society's laws. When I'm stressed out, -tim. russeU@aggiemail, usu.edu And that's just what the E-Club does: it BySETH BRACKEN provides an opportunity for all students to staff writer meet with, go out to dinner with and network with local and state-wide business ownWith the economic outlook becoming ers, he said. increasingly grim, many students have "They'll give you their business card and concerns about how to survive in a fiscally unstable world and wonder where to turn for tell you, 'Call me.' And they really mean it," Larkin said. job security. "The club is definitely expanding," Larkin The entrepreneurial program on campus may not have all the answers, but it is a grow- said. "We want students from all different majors. We specifically target engineers. ing field nationally especially in a paining They're the ones coming up with the prodeconomy, said David Clark, executive direcucts; they just don't have the marketing backtor of entrepreneurial programs at USU. ground." "Well over 50 percent of jobs in the priThe E-Club is planning a week-long event vate sector are provided by businesses with where the activities will range from braking less than 500 employees," said Clark. "It certhe world record for the longest thumb war tainly is a growing field nationally." chain to an elevator pitch competition, where Historically, in times of economic downA ee a business pitch is made in a matter of two turn small business and programs flourish, $25 or three minutes. The prizes for the elevator Clark said, although circumstances are difpitch competition total in $10,000, with the ferent this time. With the lack of credit and the lack of lending that the market is current- first prize winner pocketing $4,500. The event will take place April 6-10. ly facing, this is a different type of recession, he said. The E-Club has been around for four According to the Bureau of Labors' Web years and has grown from having four memsite, the unemployment rate is at the highbers in its first year to its current memberest it has been in more than a decade at 7.2 ship status of 40, Larkin said. The club has percent. The unemployment rate has been on seen growth due to many factors, he said, the rise since November 2007 when it was at one of the largest factors being the $26 mil4.7 percent. lion gift that Jon M. Huntsman Sr. gave to To help USU students become competithe College of Business. tive in an increasingly difficult and cutthroat Larkin said many successful businessmen job market, the entrepreneurial program is and women have come from the program rolling out new programs and developing and the E-Club. There are many local busiand strengthening programs that already ness owners that came from the entrepreexist. neurial program. "It's all about networking," said Brad "There's always somebody in the club Larkin, senior entrepreneur, finance and eco- starting some business," Larkin said. "No nomics major. He is also the two-year presione would know that it's Utah State Students dent of the Entrepreneur Club, also known as running the businesses." -selh.bracken@aggiemail.usu.edu Let's go Program helps in tough economy coatfrmi Sam's Club, Mend, Church: Moving to a new culture H continued[from page 7 nothing of it, just a nice guy who's into his religion. Welf apparently there were a few people interested in their religion because I left church that day with two Book of Mormons, "For the Strength of Youth" pamphlet and a 'True to the . Faith" book. I could have educated all of Africa with the amount of literature I went home with. Since then I've learned a lot about Mormons. Interestingly enough, they are not birds. They also do not have horns or 10 wives. They do not dress in pioneer clothing but they make a mean bow! of Jello. Greg Boyles is a junior majoring in print journalism. Questions or comments..can be sent to him at gre'g:boyles@ aggiemail. usu.e"du ^ Commute without the fuss... take the bus. information gathered by Karlie Brand photo by Kn'sty Jordan Come visit the new jewelry store in Cache Vallery Mall! Taking mass fransif saves time, money, stress and the air. Valentines special: y Kent Concert Hall 7:00pni Featuring Ptfferent Films Eaeh Nfofrt Buy one get one 50% off Store opens Friday, February 6,2009. Student s 10 General Admission M 2 More Info: 797-9264 |