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Show Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011 UtfahStat•Slt, "Campus Voice Since 1902" • Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahsta Today's Issue: Campus News Love is For Everyone is an organization that has the opportunity to work with the new LGBTQA director. Page 1 AGGIE LINEBACKER BOBBY WAGNER kneels on the field at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala. after the Aggies dropped a heartbreaking loss to the Tigers of Auburn on Saturday, Sept. 3 42-38. Wagner had 10 tackles and one sack in the game. AP photo The Celebrate America show set for another entertaining year. Page 5 USU narrowly defeated BY TAVIN STUCK! sports editor Sp orts What seemed like complete victory turned out to be utter defeat, after the Aggies dropped a heartbreaker in the season opener against Auburn, 42-38, Saturday, Sept. 3. After a 1-yard touchdown run by running back Robert Turbin, Utah State was up by 10 points with just under four minutes remaining. Auburn junior quarterback Barrett Trotter started the drive from his own 35-yardline and, six plays later, found himself facing third down and goal, from the USU 15. Trotter connected with tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen on a pass to the flat and the 6-foot-5 junior found his way to the end zone to put the Tigers within three, 38-35 Utah State. With 2:07 left in the game, the Tigers attempted an onside kick. Auburn receiver Emory Blake recovered the ball, knocking over USU's Chuck Jacobs, as he snatched possession away from the junior receiver. Barrett once again marched the Tigers down the field, this time eventually handing the ball to star running back Michael Dyer for the 1-yard touchdown run to take the lead, 42-38 Auburn. With just 30 seconds left on the clock and starting a drive from their own 20, Utah State could not get into field goal range to force overtime or secure a victory. Dyer had 14 carries, for 58 yards, and two touchdowns for the Tigers. Barrett ended the game completing 17 of 23 passes for three touchdowns, including the two late in the fourth quarter to put Auburn on top for good. Utah State head coach Gary Andersen said it was a very disheartening outcome. "It's obviously a disappointing loss," Andersen said. "We failed to execute a gigantic play on the onside kick to pretty much win the game." Turbin had 22 rushes for 72 yards, and two touchdowns in his first game back from injury in 644 days. He said the focus of Women's volleyball succeeds in multiple matches. LGBTQA director leaves Page 9 BY LIS STEWART staff writer Opinion "Kobe Bryant got off easy. H proved he was male, but also proved he was not a man. n my computer as I Diondre Borel and Robert Turbin return to anchor the Aggie's offensive arsenal." Page 17 Interact Now! Today: A look back at WOW Week. Welcome back to campus! Added Value! You took some GREAT photos this summer, we just know you did. Time to share them with others. Send your best shot to statesman@aggiemail.usu.edu to win in The Best Photo I Took All Summer contest. Deadline Sept. 24, 5 p.m. Categories: Landscape/Scenic; People/Activities; Bizarre/Unusual. One entry per person per category. Online exlusives, blogs, a place to comment on stories, videos and more. Free Classfieds, too. www.utahstatesman.com Replacing Maure Smith-Benanti, former program director for the LGBTQA office at USU, will be no easy task for the Access and Diversity Center. "We have very big shoes to fill, so make sure that we can get the biggest size feet we can get in those shoes." Access and Diversity Director Michelle Bogdan said. Bogdan met with student leaders in July to discuss what they want in a new coordinator, and how to run things until he or she gets hired. It was decided to make the job posting a 30-day statewide search. Smith-Benanti, who is held in high regard by many students who have come to the office for help, left her post this summer to go work with the LGBTQA office at the University of Oregon. "I know that it was very difficult for a lot of us for Maure to leave," Bogdan said. "We were all really tight with her, and so I know this is hard. There's no point in not acknowledging that." Students in the LGBTQA office said in an interview they would like to see someone they can easily relate to, and while it doesn't mean the future program coordinator must come from a conservative, Christian background, it certainly would help. Someone who is sensitive to the cultural climate in Utah is important. "Regardless of who we have it's going to be different," Ian Masen, a junior in biology, said. Students at the meeting stressed the importance of finding someone who is understands national as well as local LGBTQA issues. Smith-Benanti's position was a sort of jack-of-all trades for LGBTQA concerns on campus, the students said. She was an advocate, ran the office, set up discussion panels, was advisor to the LIFE club and managed the library in the LGBTQA office. When asked what sort of qualities they wanted to see in the new coordinator, students in the office often referred to Smith-Benanti. See STOP, Page 2 the team, now, is on winning. "I am on the hands team," Turbin said. "We practice over and over with onside kick situations. We have been over it countless times and we just have to do a better job and be more prepared. I don't think you understand how much this game hurt, to be up 10 with four minutes to go, with the defending BCS National Champions on the ropes." Aggie linebacker Bobby Wagner had 10 tackles and one sack in the game, and said he puts the loss "solely on (his) shoulders." "This game came down to defense and we did not step up," See ANDERSEN, Page 3 MAURE SMITH-BENANTI, former LGBTQA director, left USU this summer totake a job at the University of Oregon. Though the position has not yet been filled, students from the LGBTQA have stepped up to maintain the association and hold events until a new director is appointed. Statesman file photo Rocket Summer brings fun, danger for some BY CHRIS LEE news senior writer Crowd favorite The Rocket Summer, the moniker for performer Bryce Avery's musical stylings, performed a nighttime street concert at USU Saturday, and inadvertently showed some listeners how dangerous large events can sometimes be. Shortly after the headliner left the stage, a young woman fainted, said Reno, Nev., resident Andrew Blackmore. Blackmore was one of the several hundred students and non-students who came from throughout the region to see Avery perform. "I saw them hold her up and pull her over the fence," Blackmore said. The woman appeared to be unconscious when she was lifted over the barrier, which separated the crowd from the stage, he added. "She was getting squeezed in, and so people around her got concerned, so they picked her up and passed her over the top to security staff," said Capt. Steve Milne of the USU Police. Milne said the woman was Ashlee Whitaker, a student from Utah Valley University, and she recovered quickly, backstage. Soon after seeing the girl faint, Blackmore said he and his friends were pressed up and squeezed against the fence. "My rib cage was caving in," Blackmore's friend Amy Glaess said. "I couldn't breath." After being pressed against the barrier, Blackmore knelt down and, clutching his chest, USU police helped him walk to some nearby grass where he was checked out for injuries. "I was borderline passed out due to asphyxiation," Blackmore said. "I got crushed against the gate in front of the stage." Blackmore said he didn't let getting crushed by the crowd ruin his night, though. He continued watching Rocket Summer from a less-crowded area after he recovered. He said he traveled over 600 miles to see the band and would have driven another 600 if he had to. USU Police Sgt. Jessica Elder said the crowds often create problems at concerts. "With crowd surfing we give them a warning," Elder said. " If there's anymore problems, we kick them out." Elder said the biggest problem with previous concerts has been high school and See PREPARE, Page 2 |