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Show Monday, Nov. 28, 2011 UtilhStat•S "Campus Voice Since 1902" • Utah State University • Logan Professor wins national teaching award Today's Issue: Campus News BY BRIANNA BODILY staff writer IR!LDE WARM 111116 ■ Steps plans to continue international aid. Find out what next semester's project will be. Page 2 Features Downtown Logan businesses teamed up with USU to give students entertainment options. Page 3 Sp orts JIM CANGELOSI, A PROFESSOR of mathematics and statistics, was named a Carnegie Professor for 2011. The award acknowledges instructors who work with undergraduate students. He is the I Ith USU professor to receive the award, and the fourth in the past five years. Statesman file phto assistant sports editor Page 7 Opinion "When I was a 3-year-old, I developed a fondness for a four-letter word that begins with the letter F. My parents warned me and tried teaching me differently, but the word had such a fun ring to it I didn't stop." Page 9 After 14 years of waiting, the USU football team clinched a bowl berth with a program-defining win over the Nevada Wolf Pack, which head coach Gary Andersen said is a member of "The Big Three of the Western Athletic Conference." USU held on in the fourth quarter and picked up its fourth consecutive win of the season after beginning the 2011 campaign with a 2-5 mark. Running back Robert Turbin caught the go-ahead touchdown pass from Stanley Morrison to end the third quarter, and senior linebacker Bobby Wagner recovered a fumble late in the fourth quarter to help the Aggies edge the Wolf Pack 21-17 on Senior Day. "What a ride this season has been," Andersen said. "What a great way to send out the group of seniors. They've been through some ups and downs, and nothing phases them. It's a great feeling as a coach to know the team is going to continue to fight, and they're going to fight the way they handle it. "To beat a team like that is a credit to the kids, and I couldn't be more happy as a football coach. That's what we all came here to do — to get an opportunity to take the next step as a program. These seniors started this year with the mindset to leave a legacy, and there is no doubt they left a legacy. They've done a lot that hasn't happened around here for a long time and again the credit goes to every young man on this football team." 0 Find a recap of Saturday's game on Page 6 Today: Check out what USU broadcast students have been up to: Added Value! PRO COAl So, how do you feel about the "apology letter?" Has the Spectrum gotten out of hand, over the line? Give you comments on the story on our web site today. Online exlusives, blogs, a place to comment on stories, videos and more. Free Classfieds, too. www.utahstatesman.com SENIOR LINEBACKER BOBBY WAGNER and junior running back Robert Turbin celebrate the Aggies' win over Nevada Saturday. This pushed the Aggies to a 6-5 record, the best the school has seen since 1997. This record qualifies the team to play in a bowl game, and the team hopes to have an invitation after the bowl committee meets Tuesday. TODD JONES photo Aggie Blue Bikes gaining recognition for efforts BY STEVE KENT Interact Now! you have a bunch of losers. I just don't think it helps our spirit to point out one or two people and go `Oh, isn't he great.' There is an attitude today that we should compete, but we should all be in this together." He said his motivation to become a teacher didn't come the way it does for a lot of other professors. "I hated school," he said. "I got good grades, but it wasn't because I liked math." He said it wasn't until one of his professors opened his eyes to the possibilities that math could bring that he finally began to enjoy the field. Now his main hope is to pass that love on to other students. "We're all in this together," Cangelosi said. "In mathematics, it's not true because someone told you, it's true because you reasoned it out together." See MATH, Page 2 Lucky strike sends Ags bowling Football qualifies for post-season play for the first time since 1997 BY TYLER HUSKINSON Women's basketball claims wins at home over Thanksgiving break. For the fourth time in five years, a USU professor has been named a Carnegie Professor of the Year. Jim Cangelosi, a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics, is the 11th USU professor to receive the award. According to the Carnegie Foundation, the award acknowledges outstanding undergraduate instructors across the country. Cangelosi said despite the prestige this award is meant to sustain, what he is most honored by is the nomination from fellow faculty members and friends. "I am very humbled by the people who have befriended me and said `Yeah, Jim, we want you to be here,' Cangelosi said. "I am just blown away how gracious people have been, especially the students. The students have, over the years, done stuff like thrown parties for me. I have just learned so much from them." Cangelosi went on to say the award doesn't make the professor. "It's like today, the trophy becomes the goal, rather than the feat that the trophy represents," Cangelosi said. "If people need those kinds of things to motivate them to do their job, then they aren't any good anyway." Cangelosi said he believes what should be encouraged, instead of trophy acquisition, is unity and collective purpose among the staff. "It should be about what we do, not who we are," he said. "This idea of picking out one person as the outstanding — the definite article — is stupid. We should all be one team. I just don't like awards. If you have a winner, then web editor A program helping students with daily transportation is now helping USU get some statewide recognition. At a conference in October, Aggie Blue Bike received the Innovative New Program Award from NASPA, a renowned student affairs association for higher education. Shaun Damitz, director of the Utah Conservation Corps, accepted the award on behalf of Aggie Blue Bikes. "We were very honored to accept the award, considering that it was for all the different institutions of higher ed throughout the state," Damitz said. "It speaks volumes of all the staff and the volunteers at Blue Bikes as well as the Utah State University community that's really embraced the program." Aggie Blue Bikes, part of Utah Conservation Corps, started in 2005 with the aim to improve air quality in Cache Valley, said shop manager David Griffin. The program takes donated bicycles, refurbishes them and lets students borrow them free of charge. At its outset, the program had a few bikes available and students could check them out one semester at a time, Griffin said. In addition to the three-month checkouts, he said, students can now borrow bikes for a single day if needed. The variety of bikes available has expanded as well, Griffin said, now including mountain bikes, tandems, beach cruisers and unicycles. Students who need to fix their own bikes can get help at the Blue Bikes shop, located between the Military Science Building and the Fieldhouse. Volunteers teach cyclists how to repair and take care of their bikes, and students already familiar with bike maintenance can just stop by to use the shop's tools, Griffin said. Kaden Harding, a senior studying biochemistry, said Blue Bikes helped him get around after a driver ran a stop sign and totaled his car, this summer. At the time, he didn't have the means to buy a bike of his own so he borrowed one from Blue Bikes. "I still ride it around. That way I don't have to worry about bus times," Harding said. "It's pretty good exercise, and I actually enjoy it." Harding said getting a bike was sometimes difficult due to high demand, but the shop staff was friendly and easy to work with. "It's been a good experience all around," Harding said. "If something malfunctions on your bike, you just take it in, and they help you." Though their main mission is to help See BIKES, Page 2 AGGIE BLUE BIKES PROVIDES students with bicycles that can be checked out for a day or throughout the semester at no cost. In October, it received the Innovative New Program Award from NASPA, a student affairs association for higher education. KATRINA ANNE PERKINS photo |