<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>Katherine Lambert, Author at The Utah Statesman</title> <atom:link href="https://usustatesman.com/author/katherine-lambert/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://usustatesman.com/author/katherine-lambert/</link> <description>USU's Student Newspaper</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:59:57 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator> <image> <url>https://usustatesman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cropped-screen-shot-2017-10-19-at-4.33.29-pm-32x32.png</url> <title>Katherine Lambert, Author at The Utah Statesman</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/author/katherine-lambert/</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <item> <title>USU’s beard-out with BYU not limited to November</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/usus-beard-out-with-byu-not-limited-to-november/</link> <comments>https://usustatesman.com/usus-beard-out-with-byu-not-limited-to-november/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 23:41:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Life]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22004140</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>“It’s itchy,” said sophomore in agricultural education, Robyn Evans as she tugged on the thick, black, synthetic beard held to…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/usus-beard-out-with-byu-not-limited-to-november/">USU’s beard-out with BYU not limited to November</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“It’s itchy,” said sophomore in agricultural education, Robyn Evans as she tugged on the thick, black, synthetic beard held to her face with an elastic band. </p> <p>Standing on the metal bleachers of the Maverick Stadium four rows away from the football field, she said she put up the itchiness for social reasons. </p> <p>Beard-out social reasons. </p> <p>Long or short, curly or straight, scraggly or bushy, Utah State University’s beards, real or fake, beat a certain student population — Brigham Young University’s. </p> <p>And on Saturday at the USU vs. BYU game, that disparity was made very clear. </p> <p>For the first 750 to enter the stadium Friday, thick, black beards were passed out as part of the beard-out, which was meant to raise awareness for Beards for Wayne.</p> <p>And show off some USU facial hair. </p> <p>This time of year, USU memes often depict the disparity of facial hair between the two because of a phenomenon known as No-shave November.</p> <p>According to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.no-shave.org/">no-shave</a><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.no-shave.org/">.org</a>, No-shave November began as a way to increase awareness for those with cancer. Participants can also donate the money they would normally use for grooming to various charities. </p> <p>This year, USU students participating in No-shave November can join Beards for Wayne, a fundraiser for Wayne Nielsen, a Cache Valley resident, with muscular dystrophy.</p> <p>But no matter the cause or season, BYU doesn’t even rival USU’s ability to grow beards.</p> <p>According to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://registrar.byu.edu/catalog/2015-2016ucat/GeneralInfo/HonorCode.php">BYU honor code</a>, “Sideburns should not extend below the earlobe or onto the cheek. If worn, moustaches should be neatly trimmed and may not extend beyond or below the corners of the mouth. Men are expected to be clean-shaven; beards are not acceptable.”</p> <p>The only<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://honorcode.byu.edu/beard-card"> exception for beards</a> is if a doctor from the BYU Student Health Center faxes a recommendation and the student’s request for a beard is approved. </p> <p>However, Utah State University students are free to grow beards anytime of the year for any reason.</p> <p>While education sophomore Conner Pendergast said he likes No-shave November because it gives him an excuse to grow out his beard, he’s not limited to the month for growing facial hair. </p> <p>“I’ve always like beards and being able to grow my facial hair, and you know, my wife really likes it,” said Conner Pendergast, a sophomore in education. “She let me have my beard for my wedding, so she would prefer letting me have all this facial instead of none at all.”</p> <p>Mechanical engineering sophomore Joshua Guymon said he grows his beard, which goes past his chin, because he couldn’t grow facial hair while serving in the Navy. </p> <p>He said once it got to a certain length, he just didn’t want to cut it. </p> <p>Business administration senior Tyler Ketron said he always has a beard, whether or not it’s No-shave November. </p> <p>“When it’s long enough, you can shave your face to where you can have a better jaw line or whatever,” Ketron said. “That’s what I use it for when it gets longer than this.”</p> <p>But not everyone is as enthusiastic about facial hair. </p> <p>“I get weird looks sometimes from old people,” Guymon said. “The other day I was outside my apartment alone and some lady was walking by and kind of walked faster.”</p> <p>And there are some downsides to growing a beard.</p> <p>Ketron said beard hair can get caught in the grower’s nose or mouth and it can be itchy at times. </p> <p>“It keeps my chin warm, that’s really only the benefit,” Guyman said. “I don’t comb my hair, but I have to comb my beard.”</p> <p>The time it takes to grow a beard depends on the person, but the end result is worth it for some.</p> <p>“It takes patience,” Guymon said, “You look terrible for like three months so you just have to deal with that.”</p> <p>But for those who don’t want to or can’t grow beards, the beard-out offered a chance to experience the good and the bad of facial hair.</p> <p>“It’s keeping my face warm,” said biology senior Jacob Blotter, as he stood in the 20 degree weather for the BYU vs. USU football game. “I feel like it’s a little fun we can have with them [BYU].” </p> <p><i>— katie.l.lambert26@gmail.com<br /></i><i>@klamb92</i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/usus-beard-out-with-byu-not-limited-to-november/">USU’s beard-out with BYU not limited to November</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://usustatesman.com/usus-beard-out-with-byu-not-limited-to-november/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>My Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving-confession</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/my-christmas-music-before-thanksgiving-confession/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:18:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Soapbox]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22003919</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>This is coming from a very anti-Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving person. In the eyes of all anti-Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving people, I have sinned. It was…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/my-christmas-music-before-thanksgiving-confession/">My Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving-confession</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is coming from a very anti-Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving person.</p> <p>In the eyes of all anti-Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving people, I have sinned.</p> <p>It was Nov. 3. I was alone in my apartment studying snugged up in a fleece blanket sipping hot chocolate. It was quiet, so I reached for my phone to put on a little study music.</p> <p>Two hours later, I was stunned to find myself singing “Jingle Bell Rock” horribly off-key.</p> <p>How this happened, I’m not quite sure. The events leading up to the Christmas station playing on my Pandora app are a little blurry.</p> <p>But from what I can piece together, these factors played a significant role in my music selection:</p> <p>1. Baby, it was cold outside.</p> <p>2. It was a silent night.</p> <p>3. My homework was due on a midnight clear.</p> <p>Oh the subtlety of Christmas carols! I stood little to no chance against their wiley ways.</p> <p>Once infected with this “holiday cheer,” I found it spread quickly. By the end of the week, I was watching “Christmas with the Kranks,” shopping online for gifts and looking up Christmas cookie recipes on Pinterest. I was Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving terminal.</p> <p>It was time to go cold turkey. I shifted my focus back to one of the most over-looked holidays of all time, Thanksgiving.</p> <p>Cast in the shadow of Christmas, this holiday is not always easy to focus on. But bit-by-bit I was able to crawl out of my Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving trance into an attitude of thanksgiving.</p> <p>Every day is a struggle. I sometimes relapse. “Santa Baby,” “Here Comes Santa Claus” and “I’ll be Home for Christmas” are just too popular on radio stations. But I pick myself up. I think of cranberry sauce. I think of candied yams. I think of mashed potatoes. I think of turkey.</p> <p>For those of you struggling with Christmas music before Thanksgiving, stay strong. There will be all of December to indulge in holiday music. For now, enjoy the other holiday, the one about thanks.</p> <p><i>— Katie Lambert is a print journalism senior graduating in December. She loves running outside, reading and occasionally eating her weight in Swedish Fish. You can email her at katie.l.lambert26@gmail.com or message her on Twitter @klamb92.</i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/my-christmas-music-before-thanksgiving-confession/">My Christmas-music-before-Thanksgiving-confession</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>From helicopters to hot air balloons, Gary Nate reflects on his career filming for Warren Miller</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/from-helicopters-to-hot-air-balloons-gary-nate-reflects-on-his-career-filming-for-warren-miller/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 02:14:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Warren Miller]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22003749</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Filming skiers jumping out of hot air balloons for Warren Miller films was not a career option for Gary Nate.…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/from-helicopters-to-hot-air-balloons-gary-nate-reflects-on-his-career-filming-for-warren-miller/">From helicopters to hot air balloons, Gary Nate reflects on his career filming for Warren Miller</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Filming skiers jumping out of hot air balloons for Warren Miller films was not a career option for Gary Nate.</p> <p>Not at first.</p> <p>Nate was to be a running back for the University of Utah, get an education on a full-ride scholarship, graduate and find a job, preferably something with a suit-and-tie dress code. </p> <p>But that’s not what happened. </p> <p>After a year of playing football for the U of U, Nate received an injury that took him out of the sport.</p> <p>“That was one of my first grade lessons in life,” Nate said. “I was doing really great and thought I really had a career in football, then I got injured. And I went back to see about the scholarship and they were like, ‘Gary who?'”</p> <p>To pay for his education, Nate worked on railroads as a recruiter for Hill Air Force Base and as a cost analyst for brief period of time but left because “it was just boring,” Nate said. </p> <p>But no matter where Nate went, he said he always brought his skis with him in case there was a chance he could ski on the weekends. </p> <p>“The more I skied, the more I thought ‘How can I ski more? How can I know this freedom?’ And the camera is the thing that really let me pursue it,” he said. </p> <p>In 1973, Nate said he made a deal with Warren Miller he couldn’t refuse. </p> <p>Through his cousin, who had been in Warren Miller films and was on the Olympic ski team, Nate pitched his film “Skiers to Match the Mountains.”</p> <p>“I’d set up here in Utah on the perfect powder day and I’d shot some footage,” Nate said. “If he didn’t like it, he didn’t have to pay me.”</p> <p>But that deal only lasted a year or two, he said. In 1974, Nate became a full-time videographer for the Warren Miller films. </p> <p>“It just mushroomed into what I ended up doing as a career,” he said. </p> <p>Nate said his career led him to film for John Denver specials, the Osmonds and bank commercials, but mostly he filmed for Miller. </p> <p>Which wasn’t always safe, he said. </p> <p>“Warren used to always say, ‘Guess who’s at the bottom of the avalanche path?'” Nate said. “And that’s very scary. You have to be very careful and you have to be very calculating where you position yourself, especially in big mountains, because the avalanches are deadly. If you get into a major avalanche, you don’t have a prayer.”</p> <p>But the risks didn’t stop Nate, nor did it stop the skiers and snowboarders performing the stunts. </p> <p>Despite receiving less pay than they do now, Nate filmed skiers like Frank Bare during front layouts out of trams at Snowbird. </p> <p>Nate even filmed Tom Leavitt and a few others even jumping off the skids of a helicopter at Brighton Head. </p> <p>“We were doing about 30 knots and they did about 100-feet trajectory and hit the powder and skied away,” Nate said. “That was a very interesting stunt.”</p> <p>Beside witnessing the evolution of stunts, Nate also captured the evolution of the ski and snowboard industry. </p> <p>While shooting a film of Tom Sims, founder of SIMS skateboards and snowboards, competing in a competition between snowboarding and skiing competition at Cody Bowl, Nate noticed Leavitt handing a helicopter pilot $100 bills. </p> <p>“When he got to $1,500, he said, ‘pile in,'” Nate said. “So we piled in and went a couple canyons over and shot what I consider some really what I consider real bona fide snowboarding. From there, it just mushroomed.” </p> <p>Throughout Nate’s career, it took some time to convince his father what he was doing was worthwhile. </p> <p>“I called my dad one time and I said, ‘Dad, dad, I’m up here in Alaska. I’m with nine gold medal winners in the Olympics and the governor of Alaska and we’re all going to Homer to go fishing,'” he said. “And he goes, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, but are they paying you?’ And I said, ‘Yeah they’re paying me.’ And he said, ‘I want to see the check.'”</p> <p>But Nate said that his father acknowledged on his death bed that Nate had chosen the right career. </p> <p>“He called me and said, ‘Gary I just wanted to tell you how proud I am of you,'” Nate said. “‘You and Warren Miller have brought more happiness and enjoyment into the world than Walt Disney.'”</p> <p>Though Nate no longer films for Warren Miller films, he does promote the films, including this year’s “Chasing Shadows.” This year, the showings are at Mt. Logan Middle School Nov. 12-14 at 7:30 p.m. with an additional matinee on Saturday at 3 p.m.</p> <p>“I can’t think of anything else I would have rather done with my life than what I’ve done with it,” Nate said. </p> <p><i>— katie.l.lambert26@gmail.com<br /></i><i>@klamb92</i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/from-helicopters-to-hot-air-balloons-gary-nate-reflects-on-his-career-filming-for-warren-miller/">From helicopters to hot air balloons, Gary Nate reflects on his career filming for Warren Miller</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Beyond sauerkraut and lederhosen: Unseen side of German culture on display</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/beyond-sauerkraut-and-lederhosen-unseen-side-of-german-culture-on-display/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 22:02:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arts and Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22003163</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The smell of roasted almonds in Christmas markets, candles flickering in windows, notes from “Silent Night” drifting form churches —…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/beyond-sauerkraut-and-lederhosen-unseen-side-of-german-culture-on-display/">Beyond sauerkraut and lederhosen: Unseen side of German culture on display</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The smell of roasted almonds in Christmas markets, candles flickering in windows, notes from “Silent Night” drifting form churches — this is German culture to David Gamble.</p> <p>“If I could have a Christmas in America, I would choose to have Christmas in Germany,” said Gamble, a sophomore majoring in environmental engineering. “It’s so grand and so spectacular.”</p> <p>But most people don’t think of Christmas traditions when they picture German culture, he said. Most people think of sauerkraut, beer, soccer or lederhosen, said Claudia Schwabe, an assistant professor of German at Utah State University.</p> <p>But there’s more to German culture, Schwabe said, and she wants others to see that through art.</p> <p>The German Kultur Pur, or pure German culture, exhibit consists of projects from Schwabe’s class that don’t focus on stereotypical German culture and in a style not stereotypical of midterms.</p> <p>“I wanted to give students creative reign over their projects,” she said. “They could write a song or poem, create a painting, make something digital, any skill really.”</p> <p>The exhibit includes German fairy tales, handcrafted German Christmas ornaments and even Wolpertingers.</p> <p>Similar to the mythical jackalope of North America, the mythical Wolpertinger of Bavaria, Germany, is a rabbit or squirrel with antlers, wings, duck feet and fangs.</p> <p>Undeclared freshman David Horlacher first saw the stuffed replicas of the creatures while serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany.</p> <p>He said not even the locals seemed to know much about Wolpertingers, but there was one tale Horlacher said he came across while inquiring after the creature.</p> <p>He said heard in order to see a Wolpertinger, a virtuous woman must walk into the woods alone with a man under the light of the moon.</p> <p>Probably a scheme for lonely men to get dates, Horlacher said.</p> <p>“It gets worse,” he said. “The way you catch one — it’s kind of inappropriate — but it’s said in the myth that the woman has to flash the animal, then it becomes dazed and confused. And that’s how you can catch them.”</p> <p>While Wolpertingers are not real creatures, there is some truth behind their appearance. Shope papilloma virus causes tumors to grow on rabbits, often on their bodies. This causes the appearance of horns on the animal’s head and face, which may have have given rise to the Wolpertinger, Horlacher said.</p> <p>“It’s actually really sad-looking, if you find a picture of that,” he said. “But they started this fable, this myth, from these animals.”</p> <p>But not all the projects on display are mythical.</p> <p>English senior Morgan Bronson knows a real part of German culture not many in America do.</p> <p>During the time of the Berlin Wall, East Germany was separated from Western culture, she said. As a result, East Germans developed their own pop culture with icons like the red and green figure for “walk” or “don’t walk,” known as the ampelmann.</p> <p>“It’s become this huge cultural thing, especially in Berlin,” Bronson said. “You can buy like t-shirts with him on it — wallets, key chains, anything you can think of you can probably, but an ampelmann on it.”</p> <p>Food, music and even slow-driving cars called trabants, all are coming back in a nostalgia movement in East Germany, she said.</p> <p>This is because when the Berlin Wall came down, not everyone found the culture of East Germany appealing.</p> <p>“All the sudden when the wall came down, that’s not good anymore,” she said. “People made fun of them and so it’s kind of a reclaiming of that identity.”</p> <p>The exhibit moves from the basement of the library to the International Lounge in the Taggart Student Center on Oct. 30.</p> <p>Until then, some of the projects will be on display in the basement of the library from Oct. 26 to 29.</p> <p>“My vision is to do this every year, that it gets bigger and bigger,” Schwabe said. “And that maybe we can enlarge it to not just the German section, but all classes, all languages could chip in so students really see what else is out there.”</p> <p>— katie.l.lambert26@gmail.com or @klamb92</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/beyond-sauerkraut-and-lederhosen-unseen-side-of-german-culture-on-display/">Beyond sauerkraut and lederhosen: Unseen side of German culture on display</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Laugh it up people</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/laugh-it-up-people/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22002700</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>At best, I can expect a raised eyebrow and a condescending “oh really,” when I tell someone I’m a journalism…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/laugh-it-up-people/">Laugh it up people</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At best, I can expect a raised eyebrow and a condescending “oh really,” when I tell someone I’m a journalism student.</p> <p>No, I’m actually a duck. Yes, really, I’m a journalism student. </p> <p>At worst, I can expect flat out laughter and something a long the lines of the following:</p> <p>“Journalism, isn’t that a dying field?”</p> <p>“There’s still jobs in that?”</p> <p>“How are you going to make a living?”</p> <p>I know I picked the career field that doesn’t make much money. </p> <p>That doesn’t bother me. </p> <p>I’ve accepted that even though some people can’t seem to find the shift button to capitalize “I” or know the difference between “your” and “you’re,” I’ll be called out on social media for any and all mistakes I make. </p> <p>That doesn’t bother me. </p> <p>I know that my work, the stories I spend hours on, often end up in the trash. </p> <p>That doesn’t bother me. None of this bothers me, because I know what journalists are for. </p> <p>What bothers me is other people don’t remember what journalists are for. </p> <p>We are the watchdogs. We are the truth-seekers. </p> <p>We ask the uncomfortable questions no one else will. We are spit on, threatened, beaten, imprisoned and even killed for you. To let you know what’s happening, because it’s your right to know. Because we want you to have the power of knowledge. </p> <p>And all I hear is, “So you’re a liberal?”</p> <p>…</p> <p>Really?</p> <p>Honestly, I think if this is the attitude of America, we deserve Brian Williams. </p> <p>We deserve reporters that give fame to college shooters.</p> <p>We deserve news organizations that won’t report stories because it hurts the image of their advertisers.</p> <p>I’d like to say we deserve better, but do we? Do we when it’s a game to poke fun at journalists? </p> <p>Be angry. Demand better. Feel something other than amusement people because this isn’t funny. Journalism isn’t supposed to be funny, it’s supposed to be true.</p> <p>I’m not saying this so you’ll pick up a newspaper or flip through a news app.</p> <p>I’m saying this so you’ll remember. Remember the days when people wouldn’t leave for work in the morning without reading the news. Remember the days when people NEEDED to know what was happening around them. Remember what it felt like to be informed. Remember <i>why </i>the news is here in the first place because I guarantee you it wasn’t so Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert could launch their comedy shows. </p> <p>We are here for you. You are the audience, we are the writers. It’s not our stories we are reporting, it’s yours. </p> <p>When you’re laughing at journalists, you’re laughing at yourselves.</p> <p><i>— Katie Lambert is a senior in print journalism. She enjoys running outside, reading and occasionally eating her weight in Swedish Fish. Follow her @klamb92 or email her at katie.l.lambert26@gmail.com.</i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/laugh-it-up-people/">Laugh it up people</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>USU engineering students reach out to Hispanic community</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/usu-engineering-students-reach-out-to-hispanic-community/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 03:36:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Life]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22002696</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Two friends, sophomore Jorge Espinoza and junior Daniel Gomez, didn’t really know each other a year ago. As two of…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/usu-engineering-students-reach-out-to-hispanic-community/">USU engineering students reach out to Hispanic community</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two friends, sophomore Jorge Espinoza and junior Daniel Gomez, didn’t really know each other a year ago. </p> <p>As two of the more than 2,600 students in the College of Engineering at Utah State University, the chances were slim that they would. </p> <p>The chances slimmer still that they would become friends. </p> <p>But Espinoza, a civil engineering major with a degree in law and constitutional studies and Gomez, a biological engineering major, now help each other trudge through 12 or more hours of homework a week. This is thanks to Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, or SHPE. </p> <p>“With SHPE, the biggest thing for me is the fraternity with the members,” Espinoza said. “That bond that you make with some of the members that you stick with and will be friends with for life probably.”</p> <p>And it’s this kind of fraternity that is helping Hispanic engineering students succeed at USU. </p> <p>The number of Hispanic engineers increased from 5.5 percent in 2002 to 7 percent in 2010, according to a report “Engineering by the Numbers” by the American Society of Engineering Education.</p> <p>“Right now is a really exciting time to be a Latino,” Espinoza said. “Right now, I feel like we’re on the verge. You’ve seen the elections, you know how immigration is really important. I feel like right now as a Latino it’s really important to help out our community just because of those things.”</p> <p>But even with the increasing numbers, only 7.1 percent of the 2,305,215 engineers employed in 2011 were Hispanic, according to the “Disparities in STEM Employment by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin” census conducted by the American Community Survey Reports. Hispanic engineers were third with 75.2 percent of engineers classified as White and 11.3 percent as Asian, according to the census. </p> <p>This is despite the Hispanic population being the largest minority group and composing of 17 percent of the U.S. population, according to the “Facts for Features: Hispanic Heritage Month 2014: Sept. 15-Oct. 15” report by the U.S. Census Bureau. </p> <p>That’s where SHPE comes in.</p> <p>Throughout the year, SHPE members visit high schools, middle schools and sometimes elementary schools, giving presentations and encouraging students to seek after science, technology, engineering and math or STEM related careers, Gomez said. </p> <p>The club also hosts activities that help get the community interested in engineering. </p> <p>“We also have sessions were we go in and taught to them about scholarships and how to apply for college and things like that, because it can be really daunting,” Espinoza said. “Especially when your parents don’t speak English or they don’t know and you have to figure everything out on your own. Where the money is coming from. How to make payments, things like that so having the support from SHPE, it’s important for a lot of these kids.” </p> <p>But the support does not end when students enter college. Graduated members of SHPE often help USU students, like mechanical engineering sophomore Adrian Meza, with their engineering pursuits. </p> <p>“As a freshman, you don’t think you’re going to get internship opportunities that I’ve gotten,” Meza said. “It’s really opened doors for me, I was able to get an internship, a lot of our members were able to get internships through National Conference, through networking, through relationships within the club… It’s just benefits after benefits.”</p> <p>This what Gomez called a “pipeline of knowledge.” Students can always reach out to more experienced SHPE members for mentors while also being mentors themselves, he said. </p> <p>And some SHPE members at USU are even known for their influence in this pipeline. </p> <p>Former SHPE president, Jose Campos, will receive a SHPE Technical Achievement Recognition award, or STAR award, for his work bringing others into STEM related fields at the SHPE National Conference Nov. 11-18. </p> <p>And there is more than awards to look forward to at the upcoming conference. Thousands of SHPE members will gather in Baltimore this year for the conference, and so will representatives from companies all over the world.</p> <p>“It’s amazing to see how important they think we are as a people,” Espinoza said. “You see all these really amazing companies telling you to come work with them.”</p> <p>As members get a “taste” of what SHPE is about, they tend to stick with club, Meza said. </p> <p>“We stress that we’re like a family,” he said. “And I think that we really are, because we all want to help each other out and we all want to see each other grow.”</p> <p><i>— katie.l.lambert26@gmail.com or @klamb92</i></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/usu-engineering-students-reach-out-to-hispanic-community/">USU engineering students reach out to Hispanic community</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>How to survive a cold, fall football game</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/how-to-survive-a-cold-fall-football-game/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 03:44:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Life]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22002444</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>I think last week’s homecoming game proved to everyone who attended that “winter is coming.” For those us who like…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/how-to-survive-a-cold-fall-football-game/">How to survive a cold, fall football game</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think last week’s homecoming game proved to everyone who attended that “winter is coming.” For those us who like to enjoy football games in comfort, here are some tips.</p> <p><b>Bring a jacket or a coat.</b></p> <p> Even if you think it is overkill, and you feel like the biggest dork as you’re toting it along while everyone else is wearing tank tops and shorts, bring one. And make sure it’s a windbreaker. Even if the weather app on your phone says clear skies, I think we all know by now the weather can turn any minute in Logan. Plus, it gets breezy at night. You don’t want to spend the last half shivering and cursing at every pass play, penalty and time out. </p> <p><b>Wear covered shoes.</b></p> <p> This seems like an obvious one, but you would be surprised how many people wear sandals to a football game in October. I’m also a firm believer that the key to happiness during a football game in winter is toasty toes. So if you <i>shouldn’t </i>wear socks with it, find other footwear options. </p> <p><b>Pack a poncho.</b></p> <p><b> </b>Before last week’s game, I was one of those fools that thought ponchos looked like glorified trash bags. I have since given myself a mental slap. I’m not fan of ponchos. But when it rains, and you’re lucky if it’s warm enough to rain after September, you won’t have to worry about getting your pants wet every time you sit down.</p> <p><b>Bring sunglasses or a hat.</b></p> <p> Unless the game starts at 8 p.m., you’ll want sunglasses. This is because the student section — yeah, it happens to face west. So basically for the entire first half, you’re squinting or trying to shield your eyes. Bring sunglasses or bring a hat if you happen to like your retinas.</p> <p><b>Accessorize.</b></p> <p> Gloves, mittens, scarves, beanies, ear muffs, hand warmers, feet warmers — think of winter accessories as one more layer between you and uncontrollable shivering. </p> <p><b>Consider bundling up in a blanket.</b></p> <p> I would say this one is optional 70 percent of the time past September. It never hurts to have something comfy and warm to sit on during half time, but unless it’s really cold outside and you’re not sure if your coat is going to cut it, blankets tend to be more cumbersome than helpful.</p> <p><b>It’s about the money.</b></p> <p> Some of us are walking <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbomTIWCZ8">Snickers commercials</a> when it comes to being hungry. I know, I’m one of them. That’s why I usually bring about $5 with me, just in case I get unbearable to be around. According to USU’s Event Services Stadium Guide, no outside food or drink are allowed in — else I would tell you to shove a granola bar in your pocket — but rules are rules. </p> <p> Football games at USU are hands down the best. These tips will help you remember the game, not the weather. </p> <p>— <i>Katie Lambert is a senior enjoying her last semester at USU. She likes to run outside, read and eat her weight in Swedish fish on occasion. You can follow her @klamb92.</i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/how-to-survive-a-cold-fall-football-game/">How to survive a cold, fall football game</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>USU students put stock in more than education</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/usu-students-put-stock-in-more-than-education/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:21:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Life]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22001787</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Some USU students are investing in the stock market while investing in their education.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/usu-students-put-stock-in-more-than-education/">USU students put stock in more than education</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only sound louder than the hum of computers in BUS 115 were the students whispering in the back.</p> <p>“I’m very undecided.”</p> <p>“Our markets are already messed up.”</p> <p>“We should wait.”</p> <p>It was Sept. 16, just one day before the Federal Reserve made their decision to not raise interest rates. But the students in the back of BUS 115 didn’t know that yet. Their grades and $50,000 from D.A. Davidson were on the line. </p> <p>Yet this was an investing practicum, practice for the real-world of investing that some students at Utah State University are already familiar with. </p> <p>Economics and Financial department senior lecturer Paul Fjeldsted said in his investing practicum class, students practice presenting ideas, making decisions and living with those decisions through investing. </p> <p>“We’re actually dealing with actual money and so you make decisions differently rather than if we were just doing a simulated test” said Austin Smoot, a junior in finance and economics. “It works with your instincts on the decisions you make really count for something, that goes really well with experience that looks really good on a resume when you want to go into finance.”</p> <p>Finance senior Parker Harris said that though it is nice to practice investing with someone else’s money, he hopes to learn finance tricks from this class that will help him make his own future investments.</p> <p>“I haven’t been super active in my own personal investing,” Harris said. “As I pull from a whole class of people that know more than I do or have different experiences I’ll start playing around with more money in the stock market.”</p> <p>This sentiment is shared by finance senior Nick Fetty. </p> <p>“I’ve got a 401K,” Fetty said, “but like Parker said, I really don’t feel comfortable investing my own money and choosing my own stocks right now. So right now it’s just a managed account but this class should hopefully give me some expertise in what to look for in investments.”</p> <p>There are many reasons why students don’t invest, Fjeldsted said, student loans, credit card debt, limited income are just a few.</p> <p>“I suspect that one of the big hurdles is just knowing what to do,” Fjeldsted said. “You wouldn’t expect people to know this naturally just by watching the news.”</p> <p>Knowing where to find widely-accepted information is also a challenge, and the only way Fjeldsted said to get around it is by talking with others knowledgeable about investing and researching online. </p> <p>That’s why finance senior Gregory Dudley turned to Fjeldsted and an app called Robinhood for the investments he made on his own. </p> <p>Dudley said he’s a “horrible spender.” But once Fjeldsted took him under his wing, Dudley said he began to look into investing.</p> <p>That’s when he found Robinhood, an app that helps users invest without a brokerage fee.</p> <p>With the app, Dudley bought stocks in Starbucks, two automobile suppliers, Fitbit and Verizon.</p> <p>“Starbucks has been my real bread and butter lately,” he said. “I was patient through the most recent sell off. The stock market has been so up the last month and a half but I didn’t sell anything. I just held through it all and now it’s going up a little bit so hopefully my patience will pay off.”</p> <p>Jameson Hartman a senior in finance also uses Robinhood, though he was investing long before he began to use the app.</p> <p>As a child, Hartman said he was “super frugal” with his money, watching it accumulate interest in his bank account. Then as a sophomore in high school, Hartman said he decided to invested in Amazon stock.</p> <p>“To be honest, some investing is just glorified gambling,” he said. “So it was just kind of like this rush that I got in high school. I would watch my little trading account and ‘day trade’ but I didn’t know what I was doing. It was just an adrenaline kick.”</p> <p>Hartman said as he learned more, he began to branch away from “risky investing” and became more knowledgeable about investing. Now he said he invests in the S&P 500, an index of stock made of 500 American companies.</p> <p>Fjeldsted said if students know what they are looking for, they are in prime position to invest in long-term ventures. </p> <p>Ryan Taylor, a graduated USU international business and economics major agrees, but adds that students should avoid investing if they have a lot of credit card debt.</p> <p>But the type of investing venture is up to the student and their “appetite for risk,” Fjeldsted said. </p> <p>“In investing in stocks, there’s really no such thing as safe,” he said. “So the question is whether it’s diversified. A broadly diversified portfolio is something that’s really important.”</p> <p>For college students hesitating to invest because of the risk, Hartman had some advice. </p> <p>“Just try it,” he said. “If you want to learn how it works, just try it.”</p> <p>— katie.l.lambert26@gmail.com </p> <p>twitter: @klamb92</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/usu-students-put-stock-in-more-than-education/">USU students put stock in more than education</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>USU student takes on longest one-day bike race in the country, but he’s not the first</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/usu-student-takes-on-longest-one-day-bike-race-in-the-country-but-hes-not-the-first/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 01:15:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Life]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22001679</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Another LOTOJA, the longest one-day bike race in the country, came and went this weekend, but it left behind another chapter in it's history with Utah State University students.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/usu-student-takes-on-longest-one-day-bike-race-in-the-country-but-hes-not-the-first/">USU student takes on longest one-day bike race in the country, but he’s not the first</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another Logan to Jackson bike race, or LOTOJA, the longest one-day bike race in the country, came and went last weekend, but it left behind another chapter in its history with Utah State University students. </p> <p>Last year, elementary education senior Cody Lind wasn’t looking forward to his own “Little Caesars-sized pizza” at the end of his second 200-mile-plus LOTOJA race. </p> <p>As he pedaled up the last 50 miles, Lind just wanted to stay on his bike. </p> <p>While riding with a group in Star Valley, Wyoming, about 150 miles into the race, Lind said he noticed the rider ahead of his friend was “squirming” back and forth on the road. </p> <p>“All the sudden I look down and the guy in front of me, my friend, his whole back tire slides out from underneath him because of him grabbing his brakes,” he said. </p> <p>Trying to avoid a collision with his friend and the 20 other racers in his group, Lind tried to use his own brakes. But instead of sliding into a jumble of rubber and metal, Lind slid off the road into a barrow pit. </p> <p>Not wanting to quit with 50 miles left, Cody got back on the saddle and started pedaling.</p> <p>Battling leg cramps, Lind said the only thing that kept him going, that helped him finish, was a phone call to friend.</p> <p>This year, Lind has different plans for his ride. This year, Lind said he plans on finishing LOTOJA in 10 hours and 30 minutes, an hour faster than last year. </p> <p>But without two friends and a businessman with a soft spot of road biking, Lind never would have even heard of LOTOJA. </p> <p>Jeff Keller was working at Sunrise Cycerly in 1983 when his friend and Utah State University student, David Bern, walked in with a proposition.</p> <p>“He literally came into Sunrise and said, ‘I’m fat. I’m disgusted with myself. I need to get motivated, how about we have this race to Jackson? That will make me train all summer and lose some weight and we’ll make it into a classic like a one-day European classic,'” Keller said. </p> <p>Keller agreed and by the end of the summer of 1984, Keller, Bern were among the nine racers of the first LOTOJA. </p> <p>But the first time Keller raced the more than 200 mile stretch, he soon found out what the European-style classic was like. </p> <p>“I thought, ‘I’m an idiot,’ to be honest,” Keller said. “There’s enough misery during the ride that you wonder if you’re half stupid for doing it. But then after an hour, half-hour, or hour or two, you start plotting about how to do it better the next time. So it’s kind of this addictive cycle.”</p> <p>Lind agrees, and it seems the 2,000 cyclists that now register every year for the race seem to think so as well.</p> <p>Race director Brent Chambers said the race has grown so much in the past years, getting everything ready is about as stressful as putting on Thanksgiving dinner for a large family.</p> <p>“Eleven months out the year, I’m planning the menu, I’m doing the shopping, I’m getting things all into place,” Chambers said. “And then the month of August comes and then it’s the high-stress time where everything comes out of the oven.”</p> <p>But Chambers wasn’t always the racing director. </p> <p>In the mid 1990’s, a LOTOJA racer crashed into a cattle guard.</p> <p>“Then we got sued,” Keller said. </p> <p>At the time, the race was not USA Cycling sanctioned, and Keller had to distance himself from the race as a result of the lawsuit. </p> <p>In the fall of 1997, Chambers said an employee and LOTOJA racer asked if he would be interested in becoming the new race director.</p> <p>“He knew I had a soft spot for mountain and road biking,” Chambers said. “So I said, ‘yeah.’ Little did I know how naïve I was.”</p> <p>During Chamber’s time as director, the LOTOJA race increased participation by allowing relay teams. </p> <p>While Lind’s first year he raced with his dad on a relay team, this year he returns to ride solo, though Lind said his friend will be standing by the phone, “just in case.”</p> <p>Lind’s preparation for this year involved biking — lots and lots of biking. In order to balance work and school with LOTOJA training, Lind to had to squeeze in biking home from work, on the back roads and canyons in Logan and Smithfield, even during the afternoon along side traffic.</p> <p>“It’s gotten to the point now where if I go too long without riding I get onery and it just messes me up,” he said. “I have to make time to ride.”</p> <p>Aside from occasional pit stops along the race route to eat snacks drink Red Bulls — the only time of year Lind drink soda pop he said — Lind plans on staying on his bike as long as possible to get his goal time of 10 hours and 30 minutes. </p> <p>“It’s going to be a long day,” he said. “I’m prepared for a long day in the saddle.”</p> <p>After the race, Lind admitted it was a long day — but this year was different. This year, Lind said he got the time he wanted.</p> <p> <i> — katherine.l.larsen@gmail.com</i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/usu-student-takes-on-longest-one-day-bike-race-in-the-country-but-hes-not-the-first/">USU student takes on longest one-day bike race in the country, but he’s not the first</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Aggies resurrect radio theater through comedy, drama and suspense</title> <link>https://usustatesman.com/aggies-resurrect-radio-theater-through-comedy-drama-and-suspense/</link> <comments>https://usustatesman.com/aggies-resurrect-radio-theater-through-comedy-drama-and-suspense/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katherine Lambert]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Arts and Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lifestyles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Student Life]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://usustatesman.com/?p=22001605</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Aggie Radio Theater is working to bring the drama back to radio dials for Utah State University students with radio written and produced by students.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/aggies-resurrect-radio-theater-through-comedy-drama-and-suspense/">Aggies resurrect radio theater through comedy, drama and suspense</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Video killed the radio star, and some Utah State University students want it back. </p> <p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.aggieradiotheater.com/">Aggie Radio Theater</a> is bringing the drama back to radio dials for Utah State University students with shows written and produced by students.</p> <p>“Back in the golden days of radio, you would listen to radio not for just music or news, but also for entertainment,” said Taylor Underwood, a junior dual majoring in anthropology and history. Underwood is the founder of Aggie Radio Theater. “You would listen to ‘The Adventures of Superman.’ You would listen to ‘Lights Out.’ You would listen to all of these classic shows that kept people entertained for decades.”</p> <p>The idea to resurrect radio dramas came from the popularity of podcasts like “Serial,” the true story of high schooler Hae Min Lee’s murder.</p> <p>“People are not remembering the quality and type of shows that podcasts came from,” Underwood said. “I feel like now with the renewed interest in podcast and audio entertainment, this is the perfect time to reintroduce radio theater in an Internet medium.”</p> <p>But rather than stick to non-fiction story telling as in “Serial,” the radio theater features three fictional genres: comedy, action drama and suspense.</p> <p> “Lights Out” is a suspense radio show that actually hails from the golden age of radio in the 1940s. On a scale of “Signs” to “Saw,” the show falls comfortably in “The Twilight Zone,” maintaining its old school episode structure said Jeremy Wald, an engineering junior and radio theater executive producer of the show. </p> <p>“There’s not going to be a lot of blood and guts and gore,” Wald said. “But it can get pretty creepy.”</p> <p>Wald and Underwood could barely hold back snickers of anticipated humor as executive producer and psychology and criminal justice junior Serena Johnson began explaining her radio theater show, “On the Quad.”</p> <p>Set around the lives of a group of freshmen, “On the Quad” is a comedy about “freshmen who have no idea what they’re doing,” Johnson said.</p> <p>“Definitely when I was a freshman I had no idea how to be an adult,” she said. “There were a lot things that happened that were ridiculous or I couldn’t believe that I had survived my freshman year. With ‘On the Quad’ I was hoping to appeal to all the freshmen who didn’t know exactly what they were doing in life to let them know it’s okay and things are funny and you can laugh at yourself.”</p> <p>The third show, “Secrets of the Revolution,” took shape while Underwood was in high school through short stories. It takes place during the American Revolution, with bits of history mixed with fictional plot lines.</p> <p>“It’s like if James Bond was in 1775,” Underwood said. “It’s all about espionage and spying and blowing shit up.”</p> <p>The radio theater will also air “The Adventures of Superman,” though the episodes will not be altered in any way.</p> <p>Each of the shows consist of 10 episodes per semester, with each semester making up one season.</p> <p>The trio will work in conjunction with their writers, directors, voice actors and audio editors to produce the shows beginning mid-October.</p> <p>Eventually, Underwood said he could see the number of shows, but for now the team is focusing on recruiting the staff they’ll need to make the shows work, with voice actor auditions Friday at 6 p.m. in TSC 323.</p> <p>“When it comes down to it, the more student man power we have, the more shows we can produce, the higher quality they will be and the more entertaining they will be,” Underwood said. </p> <p>It took most of the summer, but English creative writing senior Jace Smellie said he feels comfortable working with three other writers for “On the Quad.” </p> <p>“I think all of us are pretty good at accepting criticism or feedback from writers,” he said. “It’s just about ‘This doesn’t seem to fit the character,’ or ‘This isn’t good for this person.’ It’s a challenge but I think we’ve gotten pretty good about it.”</p> <p>But to Underwood, the theater radio is all about restoring what the advent of television took out — imagination.</p> <p>“It’s theater of the mind,” Underwood said. “With audio entertainment, it leaves it to the listener’s imagination to fill in exactly what these people look like, exactly what the scene is.”</p> <p><i>— katherine.l.larsen@gmail.com</i></p> <p></p> <p>The post <a href="https://usustatesman.com/aggies-resurrect-radio-theater-through-comedy-drama-and-suspense/">Aggies resurrect radio theater through comedy, drama and suspense</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usustatesman.com">The Utah Statesman</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://usustatesman.com/aggies-resurrect-radio-theater-through-comedy-drama-and-suspense/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>