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Show Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 UtilhStat•Sli "Campus Voice Since 1902" • Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com Today's Issue: Campus News Aloha also means goodbye BY TAVIN STUCK! sports editor Buddhist lifestyles are growing more popular locally and nationally. Page 2 Features QUARTERBACK CHUCKIE KEETON was taken off the field my medics after taking a hit from behind in the second quarter of Saturday's game at Hawaii. Adam Kennedy stepped in and led the Aggies to come back from the 28-7 halftime defecit to beat the Warriors 35-31.This was the first win at Aloha Stadium since 1966. AP photo See how opinion on marriage differs among young married students, gay students, Logan residents and others who Rye locally. Page 8 Sp orts Trustees restructure $48 ,363 collected from the Blue Goes Green Fee three departments in board meeting (summer 2011 collected 52,211, fall 2011 collected $46,162) BY MEGAN ALLEN Page 4 Opinion "This place is something different, and it's you — the students — that make it that way. You guys are amazing. You show up early to games, you wear blue and have the wittiest chants I've ever heard." Page 11 Interact Now! Today: Get to know your sister college. The best way is right here: In its final meeting of 2011, the USU Board of Trustees met Friday to discuss departmental changes and construction developments on the Logan and San Juan campuses. The 12-member board, along with university President Stan Albrecht and Provost Raymond Coward listened to presentations from visiting faculty members, who discussed the needs they had in their respective departments and colleges. Craig Jessop, dean of the Caine College of the Arts, requested a name change for the art department. He said a new name would be more inclusive of the graphic and interior design programs involved. "The department of art is the largest department in the college," he said. "Of the programs in the department, graphic design is the largest." Including graphic and interior design in the department has been a huge improvement for the college, he said. The department is also seeking accreditation for the first time in its history. The board approved Jessop's request, and effective immediately the department of art will be renamed to be the department of art and design. "We commend Dr. Jessop on the work he has done with the Caine College," Coward said. "He has appointed three new department heads this year and is confident this will take the college to the new heights we all expect it to get to." Next — along similar lines — the trustees voted to move the department of computer science from the College of Science to the College of Engineering. "A change like this will not only help solve problems but will make the program even better," Coward said. "As we looked at our peer institutions, we found out that the vast majority of them had their computer science programs in their engineering See TRUSTEES, Page 3 $30,000-$33,000 remaining money Student Internship (outreach, programming, web) Staff Salary blue (Mark Blaiser) c17' green Administrative Marketing grant program (office supplies, poster, travel expenses, web hosting fees...) THE BLUE GOES GREEN FEE was approved in the 2011 ASUSU elections and has brought in $48,363. Up to $33,000 of that will go to the Blue Goes Green Grant Program. A committee will review the grant proposals and allocate the money accordingly. MARISSA CROOKSTON graphic Green fee to fund student grants BY CATHERINE MEIDELL editor in chief While the exact allocation of the Blue Goes Green Fee revenue is yet to be decided, Mark Blaiser, student sustainability coordinator, said $30,000-$33,000 will go toward the Blue Goes Green Grant Program. The new grant program was designed to allow students access to the Blue Goes Green Fee funding through submitting ideas for sustainable projects that can be conducted on USU's Logan campus, Blaiser said. The fee brought in $2,211 during the recent summer semester and $46,162 during the fall semester. The fee only applies to students at the USU Logan campus and does not exceed $3 per student. Blaiser said he predicts the fee will bring in about $94,000 for the entire year. Blaiser his beginning the process of finding additional funding sources including private donors and alumni so he can "return every stone possible," he said. During the 2011 ASUSU elections, the Blue Goes Green Fee was proposed in hopes of propelling sustainable initiatives at USU, after it was initially turned down by the fee board. Students approved the fee with 2,305 votes, while 1,952 voted against it. "Mark was hired the third week of September," said Samuel Abbott, director of Students for Sustainability, "he created a request for grant proposals, and he has created three internship positions that are going to See FEE, Page 3 Experts say wind energy industry is growing Added Value! TiAN 4 RooRs See HAWAII, Page 5 assistant news editor Aggie women's soccer won the WAC championship Nov. 6. ...AND (T's BEEN LIKE THIS FoR MoRE If Aggie fans had been told a week ago that Chuckie Keeton would be carted off the field just before halftime, Adam Kennedy would throw two touchdowns and Utah State would beat Hawaii in the final seconds of the game, they probably would have laughed. That's exactly what happened as the Aggies beat the Warriors 35-31 Saturday night for the first time in Hawaii since 1966. Utah State started off the scoring on a 9-yard pass from Keeton to junior wide receiver Matt Austin just under six minutes into the game, but a huge second quarter for Hawaii left the Aggies facing a 28-7 deficit at halftime. As if that wasn't enough, Keeton was carted off the field on a stretcher with an extreme stinger in his spine after taking a sandwich hit by senior corner Tank Hopkins and sophomore linebacker Art Laurel, with 2:06 left in the half. Junior defensive tackle Bojay Filimoeatu said Keeton's injury was a big blow to the team. "Chuckie's one of the offensive leaders," he said. "When he got hurt, it hurt us bad. We all took a knee, and we all prayed. Right when he got up, the next guy, Adam Kennedy stepped up great." Do you spend enough time laughing and doing puzzles? Check out our Fun Page, today on Pg. 13 Online exlusives, blogs, a place to comment on stories, videos and more. Free Classfieds, too. www.utahstatesman.com BY ROB JEPSON news editor Lack of space, lack of usable water and lack of energy are the three major problems facing the world today, according to the chief information officer the world's largest wind energy company. "I think we easily can solve the two first ones," Torben Bonde, CIO of Vestas Wind Systems, told students and faculty Friday. "There's a lot of space. Just look out the window, there should be plenty of room for all of us. Water, there's also a lot of water. We just have to find the technology to make sure we can use all the water around us in the best way. The real challenge is energy." According to figures from the American Wind Energy Association Website, the U.S. has the wind resource potential to generate more than 14.5 million gigawatts of energy each year. Though, currently it produces only 43,461 gigawatts. Utilizing untapped wind resources could create a significant bump in global job growth, according to a statement posted on the Global Wind Energy Council website, which states that the wind energy industry employed more than 400,000 jobs worldwide in 2008, and by 2020 could employ more than 2.2 million workers. Bonde said he also expects the industry to grow. By 2015, he said the Denmarkbased company Vestas aims to increase its yearly revenue by more than 8 billion euros, to 15 billion euros. To meet this goal, he said, the company will seek help from students in a variety of disciplines. "It's a fast-moving industry, so as a graduate, a freshman, you have a possibility also to get on the fast track, cause *See WIND, Page 2 TOREN BONDE FROM VESTAS Wind Systems spoke to students about the growing industry of wind power and how its technology can help the environment. ROP JEPSON photo |