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Show wwwMtahstatesman.com Logan, Utah Utah State University Today is Friday, March 20, 2009 Breaking News A former Bush administration official said Thursday that many detainees in Guantanamo were innocent men taken by U.S. forces unable to distinguish between noncombatants and enemies. Campus News 1 M 1 i i 1 ^M James Sejvar of the Center of Disease Control said West Nile virus is still a concern. Page 3 Features Read HKHI mil spice ways up to ^_5L ^^H3 your ; ' ^ H^ xM B H Saturday. 1 A MEMORIAL SCULPTURE H O N O R I N G T H E VICTIMS OF A 2005 V A N CRASH was unveiled Wednesday in theTSC Juniper Lounge.The monument, which will be moved t o the new agriculture building when its construction is completed, displays a bronze panel for the professor and each of the eight students who died Sept. 26, 2OO5.Aundrea Varela shows the panel created in honor of her uncle BradWilcox.BR/AN FRANC0M photos Monument of remembrance USU honors victims of the 2005 van crash Jonathan Dennis Jorgensen, 22, of Peoa, Utah; Curt A. Madsen, 23, of Payson, senior news writer Utah; Ryan Wayne McEntire, 22, West Point, Utah; Bradley G. Wilcox, 26, of A memorial, built to commemorate Salt Lake City, Utah and instructor Evan the lives of eight Utah State students and Parel Parker, 45, Hooper, Utah. their instructor who died almost four Albrecht, Vice President for Student years ago, was unveiled in a ceremony Services Gary Chambers, Perry followed by a reception Wednesday. VanSchelt, Mark DeGraffenried and The individuals the memorial honors Daniel Bolt of Monument Arts spoke were killed in a van accident Sept. 26, 2005. A memorial was given at the time . Wednesday prior to the monument's unveiling. but the sculpture will help the memory, "Students approached faculty and of the accident victims to perpetuate, insisted the monument be built," Bolt said Stan Albrecht, president of Utah said. "It was a concentrated team effort, State University. not just with our team, but with the Those victims were Steven D. Bair, Utah State committee." 22, of Moses Lake, Wash.; Dusty Dean Braden Jensen, ASUSU senator for the Fuhriman, 22, Tremonton, Utah; Justin -College.of Agriculture, said, "The unveilW. GunneJf K'Wellsville. Ulah; Justin ing was a good representation of how the Huggins. 22, of Bear River City, Utah; By BECKA TURNER student body and the university feel." Bolt said Monument Arts was selected to design the memorial by a committee made up of USU faculty. Bolt said he was grateful to have been able to participate in learning about each of the individuals and the memorial was an act of celebrating life. The monument was designed by a team of artists involved with Monument Arts. Daniel Cummings designed the granite background, which has a silhouette of the Wellsville Mountains. DeGraffenried, a USU alumnus, sculpted the steel panels, each of which represents a certain agricultural aspect of the victims' lives. Bolt said. "The monument is 7 feet tall and 20 [M See BRONZE, page 3 Teaching methods need changing, says prof Sports By MACKENZIE LOVE staff writer Men's basketball preparing to face Marquette in the NCAA Tournament in Boise today. Almanac Today in History: In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson notifies Alabama's Governor George Wallace that he will use federal authority to call up the Alabama National Guard in order to supervise a planned civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. , ^hi Weather High: 55* Low: 33* Skies: Partly cloudy, rain expected later this weekend. Archives and breaking news always ready for you at www.utahstatesman.com Methods of teaching need to be changed so students can develop deeper understanding in science education as well as in other courses, said William B. Wood, professor of biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in his seminar Wednesday titled "Changing the Way We Teach: Why We Should and How We Can." "Clearly some students manage to do just fine in the way we teach. I think they're doing it in spite of the way we teach in some cases rather than because of the way we teach," Wood said. "They learn STUDENTS DON'T RETAIN a lot of how to learn on their own and they go out what they learn in college, said William B. and do what needs to be done and they Wood, biology professor at the University of develop a deep understanding of science, Colorado in Boulder. Students need to take a more interactive approach and create the but for most students we don't do a very knowledge themselves. CAMERON PETERSON good job." photo Wood spoke Wednesday afternoon to a group of mostly biologists and educators about a new teaching method he believes will be more beneficial to the way students learn and retain information past graduation. Although Wood spoke from a science perspective, he said science education applies to other courses as well with what works for students and how teaching can be more effective. Wood began his seminar by playing a clip from "The Five Minute University", a 1982 Saturday Night Live clip that comically shows what it would be like to obtain a college degree based on what graduates remember five years after graduation. "Students don't retain a lot of what we teach," Wood said. "And 1 would say that in general we're not doing a good job of teaching biology and other sciences to the [1 See TEACH, page 3 Positive body image reflects attitude ByCANDICESANDNESS staff writer Less than 2 percent of women have an hourglass figure yet so many women aim for that body shape because it is perceived as perfect, said said Bridgerland Applied Technology College fashion merchandise professor Colletle Pulsipher. The reality is more than 70 percent of women have a triangle or pear-shaped body, Pulsipher told 13 audience members at Positive Body Image Week's guest speaking event. "Hips are bigger than your bustline proportionally, and that is just how the female body is," she said. USU VVellness Center dietitian Brooke Parker said emotional eatinc can be tri«gered by boredom, stress or simply by the pressure of a social setting. The alternatives to suppress those triggers are to exercise, create a to-do list, clean or read favorite books. Watching shows such as "Dancing with the Stars" or "The Biggest Loser" are not good building experiences for some people because the show displays small, abnormally thin people and body shapes that are too perfect. Parker said women should wear pant sizes that fit them, not the pant sizes they would like to be. "If a size 2 girl were to wear 0 pants ail day, she would feel fat and she would make different food choices," she said. "Would she want to deprive her body of food or go work out instead of eat?" Parker said to wear clothes that make you feel attractive but also feel comfortable in. "Ditch the skinny clothes that you want to fit into," she said. An additional way to reach body satisfaction is to quit "body checking" the vulnerable body parts, which are the stomach, thighs, arms or butt. "This becomes very habitual and very common and we have a lot of people who are stuck in a negative routine because of habit," Parker said. "Many people get in the mindset that 'If 1 keep worrying about it long enough, it will go away.'" In body checking, you must find another element to compliment yourself on, she said. Since body checking prompts a lot of negativity, Parker advises people to go down a path that makes them feel good and beautiful. Anything else is hostile terT COLLETE PULSIPHER, Bridgerland Applied Technology College fashion merchandise professor, said more than 70 percent of women have a triangle or pearshaped body. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo ritory. she said. Parker said women lack gratitude for their bodies because society doesn't promote it. "In between TV shows you have all the slutty, beer commercials, make-up ones, and weight loss ones, but not anything that promotes body gratitude," she said. Parker said women should find three features on their body they believe are Cl See POSITIVE, page 7 |