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The Voice of the Students

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH - 451 E 400 N - PRICE, UT 84501

VOICE OF THE STUDENTS October 9, 2011Volume XXXVI•Number 3

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VIEWPOINTS- Love anybody?- Bipolar disorder- School calendar of events• page 3

What’s Inside . . . LIFESTYLES-Need a ride? - Changes in the cafeteria -Last weekend of play in Geary Theatre - How to achieve •pages 6-7

SPORTS- Volleyball: SWAC play begins- No magic for the NBA- Young coach sparks baseball team •pages 4-5

JUST ANOTHER DAy IN THE NEIGHbORHOOD

photo by Nikolle McCarty/The Eagle

SUN Center’s volunteer dayRoad Rally 2011 featured dozens of USU Eastern Utah students volunteering throughout the community and college. Free T-shirts were given to the first 30 volunteers and everyone got free pizza at the end of the activity. Samantha Fletcher, Skyler Hardy and Godwill Tandoh paint a fire hydrant on campus as part of their volunteering effort.

Utah has at least 208 unsolved homicides from 1965 to 2005.

That staggering number is an important piece of information for Richard Walton, assistant professor of criminal justice at Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah (USU Eastern).

“If we can identify the magni-tude of the problem, then we can better identify the fix,” he said.

Getting to this number was the motivation behind a statewide survey of sheriff offices and mu-nicipal police agencies conducted by Walton and Scott Henrie, asso-ciate professor of criminal justice at USU Eastern over the past year. The survey was done in coopera-tion with the Bureau of Criminal Identification, the Utah Attorney

General’s Office and the Bureau of Forensic Services.

Walton presented their findings last week at a cold case homicide summit in Salt Lake City at the Uni-fied Police Department. Attending the summit are state, national and international law enforcement investigators. Walton presented some investigative methodologies.

With a more accurate number of unsolved homicides fresh in hand, he said the next step now is to help demystify the enigma behind the reinvestigation of these crimes and to acquire resources for law enforcement’s efforts.

Walton knows a few things about how to do this. He wrote the textbook on it. He’s the author of “Cold Case Homicides: Practical

Investigative Techniques” pub-lished by CRC Press in 2006. He joined USU Eastern in 2007 after receiving his doctor of education degree from the University of San Francisco. A nationally recognized expert in the field, he has more than 30 years of law enforcement experi-ence in California with specialized training and expertise in criminal investigation and forensics.

Walton is also member of the Vidocq Society, which is co-spon-soring the Salt Lake City summit in cooperation with the Unified Police Department. The Vidocq Society is recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice as a viable cold case resource for law enforce-ment. He said society members, more than 100 strong, are forensic

professionals and motivated private citizens who, as a public service, donate deductive, scientific and other skills for the common good.

In addition to presentations in cold case investigation methods and strategies during the summit proceedings, agencies will review unsolved cases with a panel of ex-perts from Vidocq in an attempt to help advance their investigations.

“We use our expertise to evaluate, refocus, revivify and assist in the solution of unsolved deaths officially presented to us by law enforcement,” Walton said. “We do this with an eye towards rekindling or refocus-ing an investigation.”

That is his main goal when working with law enforcement of-

ficials, he said. It is a deciphering process that involves assisting law enforcement agents in learning how to revisit a crime with fresh eyes and reinvestigate it. He said there are likely numerous cold case crimes in Utah that have fallen between the cracks, many of which have oc-curred during the transition period from paper to computers. It is likely that many written cases that didn’t get transferred into digital form have dropped off the radar screen.

“Who knows how many boxes of files that may still exist in some single-wide trailer on somebody’s ranch,” he said.

It is under this lens of crimes long-forgotten or ignored that he assists law enforcement agents in learning how to find evidence, how

to reconstruct an earlier investiga-tion, how to locate previous wit-nesses and how to deal with all of the administrative issues that are important to the case.

Despite his heavy teaching load, Walton said he welcomes the op-portunity to consult and train law enforcement agents. On average he spends upwards of hundreds of hours every year training and consulting pro bono.

“We do this for the victims,” he said. “Often we are their last chance to achieve some form of justice, to identify their killers and to perhaps help their families try to find some solace in knowing the crime was solved, and then perhaps, just perhaps, some heal-ing may occur.”

Criminal Justice professor presents at Homicide Summit

Utah State University-Eastern will commemorate its founding on Oct. 15 in celebration of its 73-year education legacy, that will include an important announcement per-taining to the future growth of the college and the greater Price community.

From its beginnings as the old Carbon College in 1938, USU Eastern has undergone many changes, but its education heritage and traditions remain the same. Honoring those traditions is the focus of this year’s celebration in the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center. Fifteen individuals among college donors, alumni and community members, will be recognized for their support and contributions to the USU Eastern legacy.

“The college’s first president,

Eldon B. Sessions, described a ‘bright and productive’ future that was in store for Carbon College,” said Joe Peterson, USU Eastern chancellor. “It is a privilege to take up that torch, to honor those tradi-tions and to be keeper of a flame that shines even brighter than it did 73 years ago.”

It is a torch that many have helped fuel and carry, he said, including those the college will be honoring that night. They are Dennis and Susan Deaton; Michael and Clyda Harrison; the LaVell and Mayzell King family and Grady and Jeanne McEvoy who are be-ing recognized for their giving to the college. Athletic Hall of Fame recipients include LaDona Richmond Rukavina and Jared

Seth Richardsstaff writer

s.richards@eaglemail.ceu.edu

Stealth is not the goal of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Mobile Vet Centers. They come into your community and onto your college campus. These cen-ters offer confidential peer coun-seling to honorably discharged veterans throughout the country.

The 50, currently commis-sioned mobile vet centers, work out of over 300 buildings with the intention of making certain that veterans in the more remote and rural areas receive the counseling they need and ensuring that they know what benefits are available. The nearest such stationary office can be found at 1807 North 1120 West Provo. Other offices in Utah can be found in Salt Lake City and soon in St. George.

The counseling covers com-bat-related trauma counseling, military sexual trauma counsel-ing, bereavement counseling, individual and group counseling and family and marital coun-seling. Other services include explanation and referral to the Veterans Benefits Administration, employment assessment and refer-rals to a plethora of other services available to veterans.

The primary goal of the cen-ter, in the words of mobile center driver Dave Brown, “is to change the dynamic that went on with Vietnam veterans… to make sure people get the benefits they need.”

These services are free to any-one who has earned an honorable discharge. So if you or anyone close to you is a veteran in need, don’t hesitate to call 1-866-644-5371 to get the assistance or referrals you deserve.

Mobile Vet Center helps local vets Important announcement about growth of college, community as part of 74th annual Founder’s Day

see Founder’s page 3Nursing instructor and vet, Kimball Johnson, talks to Dave Brown.photo by Jessa Adams/The Eagle

USU Eastern head basketball coach dies Tuesday

Once in a great while a coach comes along that not only wins, but also inspires his

players and those around him. Utah State University Eastern lost one of those coaches on Tuesday, October 4, 2011. Mens’ basketball head coach Brad Barton, 31, was found dead in his Price, Utah, apartment by police Sgt. Bill Barnes and assis-tant coach Brian Edel-stein. Edel-stein and the mens’ bas-ketball team became wor-ried about Barton when he didn’t show up to practice that afternoon and nobody had heard from him since Monday afternoon, according to the Sun Advocate.

Affectionately known to all of campus as “Coach Brad,” Barton

achieved many of his life goals and did what he loved until the day he passed. In an article in The Eagle written by Shala Pitchforth titled, “Assistant basketball coach plans to stay in profession for life” the article reads, “He said he has always known that he wanted to play as long as he could and coach until the day he died.” He said when he was 7.

Barton played high school basketball at Davis High School in Kaysville, Utah. After gradu-ating from high school, Barton attended BYU-Hawaii two years. He finished his four-year degree at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, where he captained the 2003 conference championship team. After finishing at WSU, Barton played professional European bas-ketball for a year in Switzerland. He then returned to the Utah and started his coaching career.

Barton was an assistant coach at Viewmont High School, where he coached the sophomore team and won the regional championship with them. Barton then moved to Snow College in Ephraim, Utah where he assisted coach Mike

see Coach Barton page 5

David Osborne Jr.sports editor

d.osborne@eaglemail.ceu.edu

Coach Barton