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Show Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 StatesmanCampus News The writing on the wall Museum tells truths of Grimm's fairy tales BY AUSTIN LABAU staff writer KAYLA MANGUM SIGNS THE FREEDOM WALL by the TSC fountains.The USU Students for Liberty club set up the wall to encourage students to express themselves and remain anonymous. It is also a way to remind students that they have First Amendment rights. AMANDA DUNN photo Page 3 At the USU Museum of Anthropology, Saturday, Lynne S. McNeill, a professor from the English department, showed how surprising and funny the origins of today's "Little Red Riding Hood" and Disney princesses can be. McNeill's lecture, "What Big Eyes You Have: The Truth Behind Grimm's Fairy Tales," presented the history of 19th Century German scholars Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's collection of fairy tales "Kinder — and Hausmarchen" (Children's and Household Tales). "Chances are if you think of a folktale off the top of your head, they collected it," McNeill said. Many of today's fairy tales have been censored over time, starting with the Brothers Grimm themselves. "We're still able to build on these things, while still maintaining their original meaning," McNeill said. "They were escapist sorts of stories that encouraged imagination and creativity." The audience laughed throughout McNeill's lecture as she read several passages from Cinderella, such as "She cut her heel off, at her mother's request" and "the pigeons pecked out one eye from each of them." McNeill said she decided to study folklore as an under- graduate at the University of California-Berkeley. "I took a class called the rhetoric of folklore," she said. "And pretty much on day one, I was like, 'You can study this?"' Brian Cook, a recent USU graduate who has taken one of McNeill's classes, said "I'm not way into old folklore, but the way she presents it is clear and enjoyable." Cook heard about the lecture through an anthropology department email. "You can be open to learn stuff wherever you go in folklore," he said. "So whenever there's a presentation on folklore I eat it up." Activities were programmed along with the lecture to entertain children. Kids could make masks of their favorite fairy tale characters, then pick a tale out of one of the Grimm's Fairy Tales books and act out the story. Or they could color and combine different pictures to create their own storybooks. Several of the museum's exhibits and programs are geared towards children. There is a working loom which children can operate, a display of animal furs such as those used by different native groups and merit badge classes for Boy Scouts. "We have events every week and a lecture about once a month," said Jessy Swift, program coordinator for the museum. - labauski@gmail.com From Page 1 Hazmat drill allows hospital to practice for chemical disaster contaminate the whole hospital. We got a couple that slipped through before we were able to get the building secured." Christina Roberts normally does fundraising for the hospital but volunteered as a public information officer for the drill. The drill wasn't just to practice treating contaminated patients, Roberts said. It also tested their information system by giving scripts to student journalists. "When the press is trying to get to us, we want to be able to know that they can get us through the phone system — they can get us through email, they can get to the contacts they need," Roberts said. Roberts said the drill allowed the hospital staff to practice the process of giving out information about the drill itself. "It's not just dealing with the information — getting it out — it's the actual process we're doing." The student journalists played dual roles. They received scripts asking them to play the parts of Herald Journal or Salt Lake Tribune reporters, while they reported on the drill for various other news sources. chris.w.lee@aggiemail.usu.edu Briefs Campus & Community Next Kiger Hour speaker selected Leadership is something Maj. Matthew T. Badell knows a thing or two about. Utah State University's new head of Military Science and Army ROTC program was learning to fly Apache helicopters on Sept. 11, 2001. Afterward, he deployed to Afghanistan where he served from 2003 until 2005. Badell will discuss his perspective on freedom and leadership as the featured speaker for Kiger Hour Sept. 15. Learn more about Badell at Kiger Hour, an intellectual social program presented by USU and sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Caine College of the Arts. The event will be held Sept. 15, from 5:15 to 7 p.m. at Hamilton's Steak and Seafood, 2427 N. Main St., Logan. A buffet with appetizers, desserts and soft drinks, iced tea or coffee is available. Cost is $6.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and billed on an individual basis. Guests can also order from the menu, and a cash bar is available. Register for Restoring the West conference Registration is in progress for the 2011 Restoring the West Conference slated for Oct. 18 and 19 at USU's Eccles Conference Center. Discounts are offered for students and participants registering by Sept. 30. "Sustaining Forests, Woodlands, and Communities through Biomass Use" is the theme for this year's gathering, which features talks and workshops led by scientists and land managers from throughout the western United States. Cost to attend the two-day conference is $120 if registration is received by Sept. 30, and $140 after that date. Cost for students is $30 if registration is received by Sept. 30. Two Mormon history writers honored at USU ROBERT PITCHER GETS AN UPDATE on the "explosion" in the midst of all the commotion while decontaminating patients.Volunteers were covered in a glowing gel only visible under black lights.They were then scrubbed down and emergency workers could see how well they'd done based on what showed under the lights. AMANDA DUNN photo PoliceBlotter Friday, Sept. 2 • A person reported their brown and white Shiatsu dog got loose and was last seen on Old Main Hill. Officers searched the area but were unable to locate the animal. • Police responded to a medical assist at the Rocket Summer concert. A female student passed out from exhaustion while watching the concert. Paramedics arrived and evaluated the student. The student was then released to a relative. Sunday, Sept. 4 • USU Police and Fire Marshal responded to Jones Hall on a fire alarm. The alarm was set off due to smoke from cooking. The alarm was reset and the residents were instructed on how to avoid the problem in the future. • USU Police responded to a report of a male individual that was unconscious on the steps leading up to the LLC from 800 East. The individual was a 19-year-old male who was very intoxicated. The male was issued a misdemeanor citation for MIP alcohol and was then transported to Logan Regional Hospital by ambulance. • USU Police responded to the Big Blue Terrace dues to a suspicious individual that was possibly intoxicated and throwing items at passing cars. Officers searched the area and were unable to locate the individual. Monday, Sept. 5 • USU Police assisted a complainant in obtaining his keys that he had inadvertently dropped down the elevator shaft. Contact USU Police at 797-1939 for non-emergencies. Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 Wednesday, Sept. 7 • USU Police responded to the Fieldhouse for a medial assist. A student was working out and was feeling ill. The student was feeling better when police arrived and did not need further assistance. • USU Police received several items that were left on the Aggie Shuttle Bus. These items will be placed in the found property locker until they are claimed. • USU Police responded to an address in Aggie Village on a welfare check of three children. The children appeared to be healthy, however the living conditions in the apartment was deplorable. This incident will be forwarded to the Department of Child and Family Services. Tuesday, Sept. 6 Saturday, Sept. 3 • USU Police received a report of a stolen bike from the Living Learning Community, Building E. A student's new bike was stolen from the bike rack. Police are investigating. Thursday, Sept. 8 • USU Police recieved a report that a student's vehicle was stolen from the Aggie Terrace. While investigating the theft, the police advised the student to call family members who may have access to the vehicle. The student did so and found that his father came and took the vehicle to storage. • A student's scooter was damaged in the engineering parking lot by another motorcycle. A scooter or a motorcycle tipped over and damaged the scooter next to it. Police are investigating. Authors Matthew J. Grow and Ronald G. Watt, this year's recipients of the Evans Biography and Handcart Awards, will attend an award ceremony and book signing at Utah State University Sept. 16. The event is open to the public. Grow, a historian at the LDS Historical Department, will receive a $10,000 prize for his work Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer (Yale University Press, 2009), which chronicles the life of the prominent religious and social activist who also crusaded against slavery and advocated for women's rights during the 1800s. Watt, a retired historian from the LDS Historical Department, will receive $1,000 for writing the story of one of his ancestor's rise and fall within the LDS church in "The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion" (USU Press, 2009). The university's Mountain West Center for Regional Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences presents the awards every two years. The center was founded in 1986 to advance the understanding of the Mountain West, its land, history and cultural groups, through interdisciplinary research efforts. The public is invited to attend the both the luncheon and award ceremony at the David B. Haight Alumni Center. The ceremony is free and begins at 2 p.m. Book signings will occur afterward. The luncheon begins at 1 p.m. and costs $16.50. Please RSVP for the luncheon to mwc@usu.edu by Sept. 9. ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. 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