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Show Utah Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011 "Campus Voice Since 1902" • Utah State University • Logan Today's Issue: Campus News Student comes out of devastating accident alive, thanks to local heroes. Page 1 Features Professor Twohig's research looks I deep into OCD tendencies. Page 6 A MOTORCYLCE AND A BMW collided outside of the USU business building. Motorcyclist Brandon Wright was pinned under the car until onlookers Sp orts ran to lift the car and pull him out. Wright was not wearing a helmet, but survived the incident and was taken to Intermountain Healthcare in Murray, Utah, to recover. JAMIE CRANE photo Heroes lift car saving student BY CHRIS LEE news senior writer Volleyball team loses to BYU in straight sets, 3-0. Page 8 Opinion "It would be interesting to compare the parents' incomes of a typical Greek student to that of a non-Greek student. " Page 11 A motorcycle erupted in flames after colliding with a BMW sedan, which subsequently caught fire and pinned rider and USU student Brandon Wright on Highway 89, Monday, behind the business building. Head of USU's department of management information systems John Johnson was behind the wheel of the BMW when Wright, who was swerving his motorcycle to avoid a collision, made contact with the sedan. "The car was coming out of the parking lot and made a left-hand turn in front of the motorcycle," USU Police Chief Steven Mecham said. After contacting, Mecham said, both the car and the motorcycle, burst in to flames, and Wright, who had been riding the motorcycle, ended up underneath the car. USU accounting major Austin Knutson, USU statistics gradu- BY ALLIE JEPPSON Today: Need your football fix during a bye week for USU? Scan here: Added Value! '44 health. reaviwpAtuk Yup, past issues can be found. Hume, g of We bulb siphon bank accounts http://www.delivermynews.com/ Easy. Just start your research! Online exlusives, blogs, a place to comment on stories, videos and more. Free Classfieds, too. www.utahstatesman.com anything except going and joining in, that's the first action, and the only action," Al Sharif said. He said that Wright was covered in gasoline and would have ignited if they didn't pull him out. "Because of the fire, and usually the bottom of cars are hot, I was really worried that it was going to be really, really bad when the guy got pulled out, but he seemed really beat up," Knutson said, who also helped lift the car. "But he wasn't horribly burned as far as I could see." Knutson said he saw smoke over the business building and went over to the scene. It was then he said he realized it couldn't have come from a nearby construction site. "Some people were kind of going over there; people were saying 'oh no it's going to explode,' people were hesitant to get close," Knutson said. "The guy underneath wasn't moving, I was pretty sure that he was dead. Other people ilSee CAR, Page 3 New facility to bring more housing options staff writer Interact Now! ate student Abbass Al Sharif and bystander Anvar Suyundikov were nearby when the collision occurred. "I was working on my research, and all I hear is screaming in the math department, and I went out to see what's happening," Al Sharif said. Al Sharif said after he saw what was happening, he acted on instinct and went with several others to help lift the car off of Wright. "You can't think of A new facility to be built across the street from Romney Stadium will not only include a new housing complex, it will also have retail and restaurant space, and possibly other amenities like an exercise area, said Auxiliary Services associate Vice President Dwight Davis. "The goal is to add value to the campus, overall, including the athletic venues being right across the street from the Stadium," Davis said. "It will help alleviate some of the housing occupancy issues — certainly when additional housing goes in." Davis said there are various needs and services that some students and campus residents desire, which could be met by the installation of the new facility, Davis said. Typical universities have a "college town" feel, and this aspect might be fulfilled by a new commercial and housing complex, he added. "Certainly, this will help to meet a (certain) market segment," he said. Brooks Butler, a freshman majoring in vocal performance, said he could have used the extra housing this semester, as he struggled to find a place to live. "I did have housing lined up before I came out here but that fell through a few weeks before school," he said. "At that point I was not in Utah, so I was looking for housing online and hadn't been able to find anything until the first week of school." Butler said there was nothing available for a single male within a 20-mile radius, including on campus. When spots on campus did open up, he said he wasn't willing to live there because of the high cost. School started and Butler still had no solid living arrangements and was staying with his bishop. It wasn't until Monday, Aug. 29, at the Imagine Dragons Concert, that Butler started talking with a member of a local fraternity, who asked Butler what his housing situation was, and told him about an opening in the Sigma Epsilon House, which Butler decided to take. Director of Residence Life Whitney Milligan, who dissented the new plans, said additional housing is not a primary necessity. "I do know that we are not currently in more need of housing, but I'm not aware of what the negotiations for housing being built in that location have entailed," Milligan said. Whether needed or not, the facility across from Romney Stadium will be built. The land where the facility is to be built is owned by an alumniowned company called La Veta Financial. Over the summer, negotiations between La Veta and USU — a parcel of adjacent property is ► See ALUMNI, Page 2 TRENTON CHANG, a 13 year old who has studied piano at USU's Youth Conservatory for six years, performs Bach's chromatic fantasy at a concert honoring USU alumna Frances W. Camp, for her work in music composition and piano performance. AMANDA DUNN photo Library concert honors alumna BY LIS STEWART staff writer Piano music reverberated throughout the Merrill-Cazier Library Monday afternoon during "an experiment in performance art," said library Special Collections and Archives associate Dean Brad Cole. The music was part of an exhibit for Frances Winton Champ, a renowned concert pianist and composer who lived in Cache Valley for more than 60 years. The USU music department paid to have a 9-foot Steinway concert grand piano moved into the library for the occasion. Passersby stopped to gather and listen to students of The Caine College of the Arts play selected pieces either composed or played in past concerts by Champ — a rarity, in that she was a concert pianist from Logan. "I know what you're all thinking — this is a library," said USU exhibit curator and student Jeff Lyon, in opening remarks. "I agree with you it's a library, but we're going to have a concert." Lyon, a senior in music education, said he became interested Champ's story while working in Special Collections and Archives )See CONCERT, Page 3 |