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Call: (435) 750-6534 or email: elc@elc-cv.org CampusNews Page 4 Monday, April 5, 2010 Slam: Aggies and professionals take stage I continued from page 1 Casillas said reading his poetry in front of others is his way of venting, because he usually keeps his thoughts and experiences bottled up. "I can air out the things I'm going through on a level that people can identify with," he said. ASUSU President Tyler Tolson read two of his original works, "Ice Cubes" and "Dishes in the Sink." Utah House of Representatives member Christine Johnson attended the poetry night in the TSC Ballroom as a fan of Gibson's poetry. She currently read Gibson's poem "Say Yes" to the House, which replaced the habitual prayer that usually takes place when the House meets. "I'm not religious and her poem is the closest thing I can assimilate to saying a prayer," Johnson said. Johnson said she read "Say Yes" to her colleagues because she wanted them to think about ways to say yes to Utah citizens to improve their situations. "Say yes to health care, say yes to the disabled, say yes to the working poor, instead of just slamming the door," Johnson said. Gibson performed her poem "Say Yes" as her last act during poetry night. She performed a handful of other pieces of various lengths and accompanied Wakefield's poetry acts by strumming the four chords she knows on her ukelele. Gibson said she suddenly received an assortment of messages on her cell phone, referring to the poem being read to Utah's House of Representatives and was surprised but excited. However, she was confused when the media referred to the poem "Say Yes" as a gay poem. "I don't have one gay word in the whole poem," Gibson said. USU's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Ally organization was present for the poetry readings and one member, Amelia Bennett, said she was grateful to be in an BUDDY WAKEFIELD, two-time Individual World Poetry Slam champion, performs his work at the USU Beat and Poetry Slam Night Friday while accompanied by spoken word activist Andrea Gibson on ukelele. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo atmosphere where the word "gay" was used openly. "It's nice to be in a place where gays and lesbians are openly acknowledged and it's not in a negative way," Bennett said. "Sometimes we go to events and get harassed." Wakefield's and Gibson's visit to USU was one stop on their tour, "Awkward While Airborne," which was arranged by USU activities and leadership coordinator Stephanie Baldwin. Star Coulbrooke said Baldwin was instrumental in having big-name poets like Wakefield and Gibson come to USU and will be upset to see Baldwin leave her position after the semester. Coulbrooke said that with the help of Baldwin and many other students and faculty, Beat and Slam Poetry Night has grown every year. This year's poetry night yielded a turnout more than three times the size four years ago. "At first I was worried about the slam scene," Coulbrooke said. "But, the poets are always so in tune with their audience and care about them so much." The poetry night's performers were accompanied by jazz musicians, Chris Poppleton playing drums, Mike Frew playing guitar and Rich Hansen playing bass. USU's ceramics guild donated mugs of all shapes and sizes for attendees to pick from as souvenirs. After choosing a mug, coffee, tea and hot chocolate were made available by USU Catering for audience members to fill their new mugs with a beverage to accompany the show. Student art was displayed and available for purchase. — catherine.meidell@aggiemail. usu.edu Gold: Students honored as scholars continued from page 3 The Diamond Wholesale Fable S.E. 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When retailers (anyone who sells to the public) use the word "wholesale" they are hoping that customers will assume that they are getting a "special deal" that another business cannot offer. Those who fall prey to such misrepresentation do not necessarily get a better price. We use the name "S.E. Needham Jewelers" in our advertising, as it accurately portrays who we are. We are jewelers who are confident in our prices and services. S.E. Needham is my name. It is the name of my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father, and now my son. We strive to keep our customers happy with fair and honest transactions, hoping that clients past and future will appreciate us for it. Stare Hours: Where Utah Gets Nava! Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 7:00 141 North Main • 752-7149 www.serteedhain.cont titi itairldit of tit 610•11 • f Eke rip the [let h_ 4 With guidance from faculty mentors Heng Ban, J.R. Dennison and Jan Sojka, Koeln has a technical article under review for publication in an international journal. The sole undergraduate presenter in the 2009 Frank J. Redd International Student Competition at the 23rd annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, he received an honorable mention for his submission. Koeln earned first place for his research presentation at the 2010 Utah Section of the Association of Mechanical Engineers' "Student-in-Industry Day" competition. Call hails from the small community of Batesville, Ind., where he graduated as salutatorian from Batesville High School in 2005. The physics major shares a love of science and aviation with his father, a commercial pilot. A USU Undergraduate Research Fellow and Honors student, Call currently serves as president of USU's chapter of the Society of Physics Students. Following graduation from USU in 2011, Call plans to pursue doctoral studies in physics and a career in materials science aspects of energy studies. Math: Origami has real-world applications continued from page 3 In other words, it can't interweave layers. Lang went on to explain his equation for any origami design. Begin, he said, with an idea, then add paper and the result is origami. He elaborated, giving his four-part explanation of the process of origami design. In the beginning, there is a subject. From the subject, Lang said make a tree or a stick-figure representation. Using the stick figure, you pull out a more 3-D model, using flaps. This, Lang said, is where math can "get us over the hump." From the paper base, fold and mold the paper to develop the subject. Another shift in the world of origami, Lang said, was the realization that different "packing" of circles on a flat piece of paper will determine the different appendages of the figure. He used the example of a white-tail deer, showing how a certain packing will change the result into an elk or moose. The next big development in origami was that of intelligent design, or using computers to help design origami. These new developments led to what Lang called the "bug wars." According to Lang, insects were the untouchable design for origami in the 1970s. By the 1990s, with new technology, suddenly, even insects with small, skinny legs were fair game. This resulted in a great one-upping in the origami community. "People would actually pour through etymol- ogy journals looking for different beetles," he said. Lang used the examples of a praying mantis and tick to show how the war was waged. "How are you going to top a praying mantis?" he asked. "Two praying mantises. How are you going to top a tick? Let's try it life size." Lang went on to explain how origami has made its way from an art to an advertising tool, showing a commercial he did for the 2006 Mitsubishi Endeavor. Every element of the commercial besides the car, he said, was folded, even the parts that were computer animated. Origami, Lang said, has also been adopted for many real-world applications. Telescopes use a type of origami called mathmatical-geometric origami to figure out ways to make them smaller. Scientists study how paper folds, since it mimics how microscopic protein folds. Origami has even made an impact on car safety in the form of airbags. Lang explained that car manufactures had to figure out a way to have all the airbags deploy and protect people of all ages and sizes, so they turned to origami. Aside from his Web site, langorigami.com , Lang finished his presentation with a suggestion for any who might be interested in origami art. He said, "If you're really interested, there's a conference in Singapore in July." — k.vandyke@aggiemail.usu.edu |