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“Photographers have a uniquely powerful instrument in their hands called a camera. If they use that with another uniquely powerful instrument called their brain, we have an extraordinary opportunity to change the way humanity is seen. Too many photographers still aren’t embracing that opportunity. They’re still celebrating prettiness, and that’s not enough now. We already know that nature is pretty, especially when it’s left alone.”

—James Balog, photographer, in “Melt Down,” Outdoor Photographer, October 2012. Balog’s images were used to produce the film Chasing Ice (November 2012). (Thanks to alert photo-WORDster Mark Larson)

IMAGE: From Balog’s Ice: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers, Extreme Ice Survey, in Vanity Fair, 2012

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News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• 50¢ more for Aggie Blue Bikes, but fee board rejects other requests, by Kyle Heywood 
• Banquet-goers go hungry to raise awareness, combat poverty, by McCall Bulloch 
• School assembly morphs into surprise rock concert with a message, by Jessica Sonderegger 
• Take the bus! Cache Valley riders cash in to improve air, win prizes, by Seth Merrill 
• Smithfield romance writer RaeAnne Thayne’s career flourishes, by Shayna Marcure
• Falling in love? In the end it’s a chemical romance, by Jonathan Larson
• Aggie TV News (2/12/13)—Reaction to Pope retirement, $3M gift, weather & sports, anchored by Emily Landeen and Kelton Wells 
• Lights out? Cause of campus power outage still unclear, by Shayna Marcure
• Graphic design professor Alan Hashimoto dies in department office
• Musical ‘Jane Eyre’ pushes emotion ‘over the edge,’ composer says, by Dani Hayes
• 10-year-old kids making sweet music: ‘I like all the sound we make,’ by Katie Swain
• Fry Street Quartet concert honors Caine family generosity, impact, by Curtis Lundstrom
• CNN’s Jessica Ravitz comes to USU for Morris Media & Society Lecture  

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