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Former USU president Noelle Cockett, who was dean of the College of Agriculture during the time of the deadly 2005 van crash stands next to the memorial erected at the crash site in Box Elder County.

By Jeff Hunter '96 The darkest day in the history of Utah State University happened on a clear autumn afternoon. On Sept. 26, 2005, a horrific van accident north of Tremonton, just 30 miles from the Logan campus, claimed the lives of eight USU students and their instructor and severely injured two

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Ross Peterson sitting in a dimly lit room smiling and wearing a Braves jersey.

By Jeff Hunter '96 As a longtime professor of history, Ross Peterson is keenly aware of some of the great “what ifs” of American history. What if the Confederate army had won at Gettysburg in 1863? What if the Germans had repelled the Allied landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944? Or

A drone view of three south campus residence halls at Utah State University's Logan campus that are being demolished.

Originally built as women-only dorms, the removal of the three south-campus buildings signals the, 'End of an era.' By Jeff Hunter '96 When driving past the south side of the Utah State University campus with her family in the car, Michelle Hoggan routinely pointed out the location of her first-ever apartment in

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A photo illustration of recent graduate Darcy Ritchie sitting down with a peach and white background comprised of education-related doodles.

By Darcy Ritchie During my second semester at USU, I sat in the second row of my Media Smarts class. We usually spent the first few minutes of class discussing that day’s news, and headlines about a new virus were pretty low in all the email newsletters I had skimmed that

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