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Panel readies probe in harassment case Danny Glover to speak at BSo Currently serving as the chairman of the An Affirmative Actor, activist will board of TransAfrica Forum, Glover is well Action investigation into suited to discuss the issues facing the con- a sexual harassment address issues tinent of Africa and its people. For his suit against a BSU pro- activist work, he won the first annual fessor will continue this facing Africa William Kunstler Racial Justice Award, month as school Amnesty International's Lifetime resumes. Special to The Arbiter Achievement Award and an Essence BSU senior psychol- BSU Ncws Seroices ------Award. ogy major Kirk Hazen Fletcher, a long-time activist and orga- filed a tort claim on Danny Glover, acclaimed actor and nizer, was named president of TransAfnca Nov, 25 with the human rights activist, and Bill Fletcher, Forum in January 2002. Drawing on his 'Secretary of State's president of TransAfrica Forum, will many years of work with labor and social office accusing Pennie give the ke,Ynote speech at Boise State justice for people, of African descent Seibert, assistant psy- University s Martin Luther King around the world, Fletcher coordinates a chology professor, of Jr./Human Rights celebration. broad network of activists and researchers firing him on June 25 Glover's and Fletcher's address, at 8 in providing policy alternatives and issue "as a result of having p.m. on Jan. 22 in The Pavilion, will analysis in the areas of economics, health spurned her sexual focus on presenting alternative per- care, politics and national and global poli- advances." spectives on the economic, political cy. and moral ramifications of national The TransAfrica Forum mission state- 5 years ago ... and global policy regarding Africa. ment says, "The work of Trans Africa Admission is free, but complimenta- Forum is summarized by the words from a Complaint against ry tickets, available at the Student section of the declaration of the 5th Pan- ASBSU cleared by Union information desk and The African Congress (1945), which reads in state Pavilion Box Office, are recommended. part: 'We believe the success of Afro- Tickets are also available at Select-a- Americans is bound up with the emanci- Idaho's Secretary of Seat outlets for a $1 service charge per pation of all African peoples and also all State has determined ticket. To have tickets mailed to you other dependent peoples and laboring that the Associated call Select-a-Seat at 426-1494. A service classes everywhere." Glover and Fletcher, Students of Boise State charge will apply. Seats will be held through their inspiration and hard work, University did not vio- until 7:45 p.m. for guests with tickets. are committed to creating a world in which late the provisions of After 7:45 r.m.guests with or without every voice is heard and every person mat- the Sunshine Law dur- tickets wil be admitted for remaining ters. ing their campaign seats. Glover's and Fletcher's visit will be part against passage of the Glover has been an entertainment of Boise State's weeklong focus on human 1 Percent Initiative, icon for over 20 years, working as an rights, Jan. 15-22. The theme this year is because the organiza- "Free at Last?" Activities will include a tion is not a political actor, producer and director in televi- sion, film and theater. Winner of more march to the Capitol Building on Jan. 20, committee. the annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebra- _ Student John Slack than 10 entertainment industry awards, Glover's projects, such as "The tion dinner sponsored by the Black filed a complaint on Student Alliance on Jan. 15, a pre-screen- Oct. 31 against ASBSU, Color Purple" and "Beloved," have showcased his versatility and placed ing of the documentary "Two Towns of claiming the student Jasper" on Jan. 20 and numerous work- organization was a him at the forefront of Hollywood's leading men. ' .' shops and volunteer projects. political committee and For a schedule of events or more infor- should therefore have Glover has also been involved in the global struggle for human rights. mation about Boise State's Martin Luther certified a political trea- King Jr./Human Rights Celebration week surer and file the Appointed a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Development Program, he activities, call 426-1223 or visit entertain- required campaign dis- ment.boisestate.edu. closure reports. has worked as an advocate for people Photo 'courtesy of BSU News Services of African descent worldwide. Danny Glover 1 year ago ... Ruch says plan for Court decision could curb freedom of campus press higher student fees By Richard Wronski other colleges across the ing editor Margaret (myself included)." based Student Press Law against' the students, Boise State Chicago Tribune country are closely Hosty took over the Just as that issue had Center, a nonprofit advo- Welsh said, colleges that President Charles Ruch watching the case. semimonthly Innovator been completed and dis- cacy group, filed a brief want to maintain an addressed concerns : CHICAGO - In late 'College journalists at in May 2000, the paper at tributed, Dean Carter on behalf of the students, independent press can regarding the outlook October 2000, an adrnin- public schools and free- the 9,000-student college tcld the newspaper's along with 11 other col- set a clear policy that for Boise State in 2002 istrator at south subur- press advocates worry in University Park start- printer, ' Regional lege and professional administrators won't in a speech last week, ban Governors State that a ruling on behalf of ed ruffling feathers with Publishing, that the media organizations. review student publica- e According to Ruch, University called the the univerSIty will choke investigatIve journalism Innovator must be Mark Goodman, ~xec- tions. more budget wrangling company that printed the off their First and cnticism of faculty reviewed by a school utive director of the· "They can create a is coming for BSU school newspaper and Amendment right to free and administration. official before more Student Press Law non-Hazelwood paper if including possible staff ordered it to stop publi- expression in the often- "We didn't pull any issues were published. Center, said' the theywant," Welsh said. and faculty reductions cation. ' lively campus press. punches," Hosty said. Since then, the 'Innovator, Governors State case had Carter's 'actions, and increased student The reason given by In particular, they fear The Innovator's last founded in 1971, hasn't "enormous" implications Welsh said, did not vio- fees, all while attempt- Dean of Student Affairs a 1988 U.s. Supreme issue, published Oct. 31, been published. for college students and late the student's First ing to maintain quality Patricia Carter: No one Court decision from a 2000, prompted an irate In January 2001, Hosty faculty beyond the 7th Amendment rights and within theuniversity. from the university had case in Hazelwood, Mo., statement from universi- and Porche sued the urn- CirCUIt, which has juris- were not improper. Ruch said the fall reviewed the .paper for that gave wide powers to ty President Stuart versity administration, diction over Illinois, Meanwhile, at semester was a period journalistic quality and high school principals to Fal7,an. chargmg their First Indiana and Wisconsin. Governors State, a new of extraordinary change that it may have con- control student publica- 'The Innovator did Amendment rights had "It will be a first-of-its- newspaper, the Phoenix, for our country, with tained ' grammatical tions will be broadened not enlighten nor did it .been violated. kind decision," started publishing three changes also affecting errors." to the college level., inform the GSU comrnu- Federal Judge Goodman said. The months ago, university BSU, That action prompted "The (Governors nity through thoughtful, Suzanne B. Conlon on Illinois attorney general's spokesman Charles a legal battle between the State) argument is to accurate and fair report- Nov. 13, 2001 dismissed office rejects the con- Connolly said. Freetobacco cessa- student editors and the extend that ruling to col- ing," Fagan wrote, with- the students' claims tention that the case rep- Connolly said the tion classes at BSU, university over freedom lege papers," said Jim out citing a particular against the school's resents a challenge to administration could not for faculty, staff and of speech and alleged Killam, president of the example. trustees and several freedom of, the press on comment on the Hosty students. censorship by the admin- Illinois College Press "Instead of fairness in administrators, with the college campuses. case. But he said istration that will be Association ana adviser reporting, the reader was exception of Carter. "That's the way peo- President Fagan gave an Fivecorisecutive played out Tuesday in a to the student newspaper presented with an angry On Tuesday, the 7th pie are framing it, but I'm interview to the first edi- federal appeals court in at Northern Illinois barrage of unsubstantiat- U.S. Circuit Court ot not sure that's really cor- tion of the Phoenix in ~h~r~~aV~~sJ~~~:30,' Chicago. University. ed allegations that essen- Appeals will hear argu- rect," said ASSIstant which he "restated his Feb.,6,20,27,and College' administra- "We find that outra- tially - and unfairly - ments in Carter's appeal. Attorney General Mary belief in a free press." MarCh,6,2003. tors, constitutional law geous." excoriated some mern- A ruling could take Welsh, who represents . experts, journalism After editor-in-chief bers of the university fac- months. Carter. groups and students at [eni Porche and manag- ulty and administration The Arlington, Va.- If the judges rule gi~~!nrmion'S ••Brlnk Room,',»"" Fo'r·~dreln;otmati6n,' Armed civilians stir border fears in anti-migrant effort contact Nancy ",,'.,," But organizations aid- It's become such a hot from dehydration after vandalized, activists say. CaspersonRN: . ing the Immigrants call topic in these rarts that becoming lost in the Simcox, editor and al,342·,O~oa.",.",,', these patrols dangerous Rep.-elect Rau Grijalva, desert. publisher of the and say they are a throw- D-Ariz., has asked the During the same peri- Tombstone Tumbleweed back to the Old West, U.S. Border Patrol to od, the Border Patrol said newspaper, issued a "Call to Arms" ina ban- when armed posses car- keep close tabs on it arrested 156,950 undoc- i ried out vigilante-style Simcox's group because umented immigrants ner headline two months I justice across the south- he fears "innocent people who crossed into ago, asking locals along I, western u.s. could get shot." Arizona illegally. At least Arizona's southern bor- "All we want is for our Grijalva said this sec- twice as many may have der to forma people's border to be secure from tion of the border has made it through, officials militia to patrol the terrorists or anyone who seen a large increase in estimate. ' , region. I: MOSflyCloudy wants to harm the United foot traffic since Sept. 11, Armed civilians are Simcox, 42, a former States," said Chris 2001, because the Border the last thing that's need- California schoolteacher, Simcox, the homeland Patrol has cracked down ed on the border, said said more than 600

Photo courtesy KRT, defense group's founder, ~m the flow of illegal Robin Hoover, president responded, and since Chris Simcox, publisher of the Tombstone a loaded .45-caliber pistol immigrants at major of Tucson-based group then small groups have Tumbleweek newspaper in Tumbleweed, AZ. holstered on his right crossing points. Humane Borders. begun patrolling a sec-, hip. But this 20-mile trail is "I don't even want to tion of the border just "Letting everyone already fraught with think about all the shoot- south of Tombstone, site By Ray Quintanilla The dispute is expect- enter is just not good pol- danger, most of it from ings that could happen in of the famous gunfight at FRIDAY Chicago Tribune --- ed to grow as border traf- icy," he added. the desert's harsh ele- the desert with vigilantes the OK Corral. . fic increases in January, When. the flow of ments. Bandits also roam out there ... ," Hoover "If the Border Patrol .. 48°/35" . NOGALES, Ariz. - The with illegal immigrants immigrants steps up in the area in four-wheel- said. was doing its job, we :1' t,'':' .. battle over immigration returning to the U.s. after coming days, many of drive vehicles and are "This situation with wouldn't nave to get out policy is heating up in visiting their families in Simcox's 300 followers, suspected in numerous vigilantes could get real- there," Simcox scud. "So Showers , the Arizona desert, Mexico or Central some on horseback, will robberies and unex- ly out of hand fast," he it's up to us to do our -where . humanitarian America. try to stop people at the plained deaths in recent added. patriotic duty and step The newly formed SATURDAY organizations are setting border. Their mission: months. . Humane Borders in, You should see the up water stations to aid Civil Homeland Defense make citizens'arrests and Inall, 133 illegal immi- places .fresh' drinking way these people .•leave illegal immigrants and group is conducting detain the thousands grants . have died water at numerous desert the desert all full of trash .48°/35" self-described "gun-tot- armea patrols of the bor- who are expected to attempting to enter this locations· to keep immi~ and strewn with old ing patriots" are trying to der, citing the area 'as a Mostly Cloudy enter Arizona illegally area in the last 12 grants from dying of clothes." catch people crossmg the prime spot, f9f terrorists along a desert traiI~just months, officials say. dehydration. Some of the provided by border illegally. to enter as well. we.thor.com west of here. Most of them perished water stations have been

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'x~(:;r~.;>.,.;·t.'i..'..,.;'.,: Campus Shorts ,e&?· . t day residents. Ferrante, 19, is as a history major, and one of E his roommates, Stephen Stromberg, is a political Roommates living it up junkie who wants to run for in FDR's Harvard digs office. When they got an e- .~1~~~UilivetsitY ....,IntetnatiQllal mail over the summer -that Harvard University the Roosevelt suite was •.Prograxns;;.()ffice,~recently sophomore' Matt Ferrante .award"ed~:".:,•....•...... •.\,Jta£Ulty becoming available, they :mtemaf.i.QiW:Oeyelqp!Uent has a nagging complaint jumped at it. A W about his new dorm room - "Just to think, I've been :'13 . ;a.r.,.d.,·Ss. t:JFIDt' " ...•.',f'..;P.~~.t1.C!t~:toW'd Franklin Roosevelt's old toi- .,. DlSC". a e,·.JJ.i1ClLl·-r··an studying Roosevelt for my 'staffmemben;:' ;'0'"'<":."'" let will not stop making midterms, and a hundred j' ·FII5.A~; rovidEi"fUridilig strange noises, and frankly, years ago he was studying fOifcicUll:lan..·.··'asta£t1.'O:par~ it's getting annoying, for his own midterms right The president's leaky .ti~pa,te. IJ\' sutn.Ner~ ldlant'- here," said Stromberg. 19, of guage pro$rams aoroa .- 0 pull-chain commode is one Los Angeles. learn: o~: Jmprov~forelgn of the many quirks the "It's an awe-inspiring feel- langu~ge .·.s~nl~< apd:. ~o Arlin&ton Heights teenager ing. Before he changed the expenence.llnmerslon .:m and hls two roommates have world, he was just a student another culture.FIDAsare discovered as the first stu- like us." awarded each year and the I dents in almost 70 years to The three students printed Photo by Chuck Kennedy, KAT Campus application' deadline is typ- ,~ live in FOR's old home. photos off the Internet of ica1ly in November. The palatial 19th century Franklin, Teddy and Eleanor New Senate Majority Leader Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN), center, meets with fellow GOP lead- FIDA recipients receive suite, which Roosevelt used Roosevelt, FOR appearing ers in the Russel Senate Office Building on Monday, Jan. 6. a $1,500 stipend for hous- during his years at Harvard, with Winston Churchill and asked Fangman, doesn't that ing and airfare costs; I.'n from 1900 to 1903, served in Westmont, is a star basket- friends have been raped by Josef Stalin at the Yalta con- mean she was consenting to audition, their p'rogram obscurity for decades as a ball player at the school who boyfriends or ex- tuition is waived.' The fol- ference and other Roosevelt sex? professor's private office. But moments, pasting them on last month pleaded guilty to boyfriends," she said. lowing faculty and staff an unprecedented housing assault causing injury after a Another woman was raped "If you put yourself in my have been selected for the the wall as a makeshift bed, naked, and give me crunch this school year female athlete at the school on Fangman's own couch,. FIDA one-month summer shrine. (oral sex), what do you think prompted the university to On the downside, though, told police Pierce raped her. she said. language study: turn the landmark back into He was originally charged She thinks a lot of young I'm going to do?" he said. Elisa H. Barney Smith, the apartment's gilded mar- Fangman furiously retort- student housing. ble bathroom hasn't been with felony sexual assault, men come to college without assistant professor of engi- Plumbing issues aside, but as part of. a plea agree- knowing exactly what rape ed that the woman had not neering, for study m remodeled since the put herself into Pierce's bed, Ferrante and his friends have McKinley administration, ment entered a guilty plea to is. Germany fallen in love with the suite. the misdemeanor charge. He "I think they think if a ~irl and that no matter what Peggy Cooper, assistant university officials say. Its transpires between a man The presidential history is old pull-chain toilet often was sentenced to a year of is willing to do somethmg professor .of collections palpable, they say, plus the probation, 200 hours of com- [sexual], then they can do and a woman, as soon as a uevelopment at Albertsons refuses to flush, and the con- woman says no, consent is room is a hit with the ladies. stantly running water tank munity service and ordered anything they want," she Library, for study in Costa "Women come up to us 'all to undergo counseling. said. clearly withdrawn. Rica keeps them awake at night. "1'1111, I could be laying on the time at parties and ask to And for the first few The incident has riveted But her friend Roling, 22, Wayne Fischer, educa- see the room," said Ferrante, and riven the campus. Some an economics major who also top of you, and if I say it's tion specialist in the weeks Ferrante said he had done, (after that) it's rape," who returned to the Chicago to pad across the crowded students furiously contend works at the athletic center Student Success Program, area for the holidays. that Pierce, 19, a former prep and knows and likes Pierce, she said. for study in Germany dimng hall in his bath towel And a shocking number Jacqueline O'Connor, "But we really don't use it until Harvard staff installed basketball star at Westmont questioned the woman's as a pickup line. It would High School, was treated story in the case. of men at the school think it assistant . professor of a shower in Roosevelt's old is acceptable to violate English, for study in Spain sound a bit sleazy." clawfoot bathtub. more leniently by the school She told police that she The three-room suite has "But the bathroom is a because he is an athlete. and a 'friend went to the females, the sorority women Pierce remains on full ath- home Pierce shares with two said. Student employee of the 15-foot-high ceilings, French- small price to pay for living year nominations cut windows and a working letic scholarship and on the other players because she Of the 55 members of two there. It's really kind of pledge classes at their house, fireplace -with mahogany cool," Stromber!? said. team, although he will not be had been drinking and want- ed a ride home. She was in Osgood said, she knows of Boise State University mantel and elegant Doric "Of course, it s sort of odd allowed to compete this year. supervisors are invited to columns. On the wall is a There have been protests, an unoccupied bedroom, she 10 who have been raped. She to think you're sitting on the knows of only one who con- nominate outstanding stu- plaque and also a letter same toilet that FOR sat on." petition drives and calls for said, when Pierce came in and tried to remove her shirt. tacted police, and that young dent employees for the young Roosevelt sent to his firing basketball coach Steve 2002-2003 Student mom and dad, praising his Alford, who after Pierce was She told him she did not woman did not press want to have sex, but then charges, Osgood said, Employee of the Year swank new room, which was Midwest arrested said he believed that award. an off-campus apartment at the player was innocent. agreed to perform oral sex in because she was worried about her parents' reaction. April 13-19 is National the time. At U. of Iowa, students And the case has opened hopes that he would not Student Employment It was "light and airy" and heated discussions among insist on intercourse, she Speaking a week after she debate meaning of initially gave that count, Week, sponsored oy the he got a great deal on the students about the rules of said. Pierce then pinned her National Student rent, Roosevelt wrote, sign- word 'no' sexual engagement; about arms and forcibly penetrated Osgood raised it: Another sorority sister, she said, had Employment Association. ing his name as "FOR" even the lines between sexual her, she told police. Boise State currently at age 18. lOW A CITY - Kelly freedom and responsibility; Though Pierce publicly been raped and yet another employs 1,142 student Whereas Roosevelt fur- Fangman and Tim Roling and about whether date rape apologized for forcing had escaped after a young employees. nished the' suite with have been friends for almost is an act of predatory VIO- "unwarranted intimate con- man with whom she was Nominations must be European throw rugs and all their lives. Lately, though, lence or an alcohol-fueled tact" on the victim, he told a drinking in his room received by Jan. 31. An Jordan Marsh curtains, the they find themselves arguing misunderstanding. sex-offender counselor hired grabbed her by the hair and employee may be nominat- current occupants' decor is fiercely over the subject that Fangman, 23, who gradu- by his attorneys that the sex tried to pin her down. ed online at decidedly Target and Bed, has consumed many on the ated in May but still works at was consensual. . "It's a serious epidemic," http;/ / career.boisestate.ed Bath & Beyond. University of Iowa campus: the university athletic center, Roling told Fangman he she said. "It's really u / StudentEmployeeOfThe But the significance of the Pierre Pierce and date rape. - said date rape is appallingly isn't sure where the truth demoralizing," YearWebNominationForm place is not lost on the latter- Pierce, of west suburban common at UI. lies. But if the woman will- .htm. "Three of my four best ingly performed oral sex, he Hardcore garners build souped-up pes for games By Dean Takahashi ment. o graphics strategy games desktop from Gateway (with Kllight Ridder Newspapers And yet, accordinl? to like "Warcraft III" and "Age a 2.8 gigahertz Intel Pentium Case, the author of 'The of Mythology" and role- 4, an ATI Radeon 9700 At any given time, Loyd Extreme Gamer's PC," (pub- playing games like graphics card and 1 gigabyte Case has five to eight net- lished by Osborne in 2002), 'Neverwinter Nights" and of Rambus DRAM) and it worked personal computers choosin~ the right hardware "Morrowind" came out. But had no problem runnin§ in his basement so that he isn't as intuitive as just buy- now that games feature com- "Unreal Tournament 2003' can host Friday Night Follies, ing the most expensive binations of rich 3-D graph- with all of the taxing graph- his name for a circle of machine you can afford. ics, physically accurate ics features turned on. The friends who gather to play "Garners want to play a objects and motion, and bet- game ran fine and I couldn't networked multi player PC game at the most realistic ter artifical intelligence, tell the difference between it games. The gang puts the level possible on a system gamers need to pay attention and anything else in the hot machines through real-life that is stable," Case said. to both CPU power and rod domain. A lot of my stress tests with the most Every system will be dif- graphics. For instance, games still run fine on a 10- demanding games and helps ferent, but in general, Case Microsoft's "Combat Flight month-old ~eneric system Case perform his day job as a advises that a perfectly good Simulator 3" pushes a with a 1.5 gIgahertz Athlon section editor and writer for system can be built or bought machine to the limit because XP, an Nvidia GeForce 4 ExtremeTech, a Ziff-Davis for $2,500. Anything more, the CPU must calculate the graphics card and 512 Web site for hard core PC he says, is candy. physics of every bullet that a megabytes of DRAM. enthusiasts. "If I were shopping for a plane fires across the skies as But because the specialty About 99 percent of the game machine," Case said. "I well as tax graphics with game machine vendors population doesn't need the would focus on CPUlerfor- semi-transparent special know what garners want and kind of systems that Case mance, .graphics an more effects like see-through need, they are like one-stop assembles himself. But mil- memory and scrimp on smoke and clouds. shops that offer machines lions of hard core PC game everything else, like not get- Aficionados like Case that are better balanced for fans - those who resist the ting the biggest hard drive enjoy building their own sys- gaming, with good blends of siren song of. the newest available." tems, and there are plenty of graphics, CPU, memory, video game consoles - know PC ~amers used to divide resources available on the penpherals and sound. that .PC games are the most neatly into groups, Case said. Web and in books to help VoodooPC, Alienware and sophisticated consumer First-person shooter games, garners do so. With a build- Falcon Northwest also offer applications out there and who eat up games like your-own system, you can game-focused technical sup- Lagoon is looking for talented singers, dancers, actors, require every bit of muscle "Unreal Tournament 2003," ignore manufacturer's. war- port and the extras. sound and lighting technicians, and stage managers from the latest microproces- were the heat seekers who .ranties and try to overclock . VoodooPC is even push- for its 2003 summer season. Located just minutes sors and graphics hardware. ppshed a system's 3-D the CPUs, or run them at in~ a $6,000 M Class maChine north of Salt Lake City, Utah, Lagoon is on A trio of computer makers graphics capability to the higher speeds than nicom- With an insurance policy that the forefront of theme park entertainment. - Alienware, VoodooPC, and limit. 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litigation." patent to K-Tron. The comf'a- thesis work. The litigation began in ny never capitalized on the Four years later, the com- 1997, when Morein sued technology and eventually mittee dismissed him, saying Drexel claiming that. a com- allowed the patent to lapse. he had failed to complete Ius mittee of professors had No one made any money thesis. dumped him after he accused from it. Morein claimed that the his faculty adviser, Paul In 1991, Morein went to the committee intentionally had Kalata, of appropriating his head of Drexel's electrical undermined him. idea. engineering department, Judge Sylvester agreed. In His concept was consid- accused Kalata of appropriat- her ruling, Sylvester wrote: "It ered to have potential value ing his intellectual property, is this court's opinion that the for businesses in minutely and asked for a new faculty defendants were motivated measuring the internal func- adviser. by bad faith and ill will." tions of machines, industrial He didn't get one. Instead, The u.s. Supreme Court processes and electronic sys- a committee of four profes- receives 7,000 appeals a year tems. sors, including Kalata, was and agrees to hear only about The field of "estimation formed to oversee Morein's 100 of them. theory" is one in which scien- tists attempt to calculate what they cannot plainly observe, such as the inside workings of a nuclear plant or a computer. Prior to Morein's dismissal, Drexel looked into his com- plaint against Kalata and con- cluded that the associate pro- fessor had done nothing Photo courtesy of KRT wrong. Kalata, through a uni- Professor Robert Morein from Drexel University goes to Washington. versity. lawyer, declined to comment. By L. Stuart Ditzen contends that he was dis- The state Supreme Court At a nonjury trial before Kllight Ridder Newspapers -- missed only after his thesis declined to review the case Sylvester in 1999, Morein tes- adviser "appropriated" an and, in an ordinary litigation, tified that Kalata in 1990 had PHILADELPHIA - Even innovative idea Morein had that would have been the end posed a technical problem for the professors who dismissed developed in a rarefied area of of it. him to study for his thesis. It him from a doctoral program thought called "estimation But Morein, in a quixotic related to estimation theory. at Drexel University agreed theory" and arranged to have gesture that goes steeply Kalata, who did not appear that Robert Morein was it patented. against the odds, has asked at the trial, said in a 1998 uncommonly smart. In February 2000, the highest court in the land to deposition that a Cherry Hill They apparently didn't Philadelphia Common Pleas give him a hearing. company for which he was a realize that he was uncom- Court Judge Esther R. His attorney, Faye Riva paid consultant, K-Tron monly stubborn too - so much Sylvester ruled that Morein's Cohen, said the Supreme International, had asked him so that he would mount a adviser indeed had taken his Court appeal is' important to develop an alternate esti- court fight all the way to the idea. even if it fails because it raises mation method for it. The u.s. Supreme Court to chal- Sylvester held that Morein the issue of whether a univer- company manufactures bulk lenge his dismissal. had been unjustly dismissed sity has a right to lay claim to material feeders and convey- "It's a personality trait I and she ordered Drexel to a student's ideas - or intellec- ors used in industrial process- have - I'm a tenacious guy," reinstate him or refund his tual property - without com- es. said Morein, a pleasantly tuition. pensation. Morein testified that, after eccentric man regarded by That brought roars of "Any time you are in a much study, he experienced friends as an inventive genius. protest from the lions of acad- PhD. program, you are a serf, "a flash of inspiration" and - "And we do come to a larg- emia. There is a long tradition you are a slave," Cohen said. came up with a novel mathe- er issue here." in America of noninterference Morein "is concerned not matical concept to address the A five-year legal battle by the courts in academic only for himself. He'feels that problem Kalata had present- between this unusual ex-stu- decisions. what happened to him is pret- ed: dent and one of Philadelphia's Backed by every major uni- ty common." Without his knowledge, premier educational institu- versity in Pennsylvania and Drexel's attorney, Neil J. Marcin said, Kalata shared tions has gone largely unno- organizations representing Hamburg, called Morein's the idea with K-Won. ticed by the media and the thousands of others around appeal- and his claim that his K-Tron then applied for a public. the country, Drexel appealed idea was stolen - "preposter- pate~t, listi~g Kalata and But it has been the subject to the state Superior Court. ous." Morem as co-inventors. of much attention in acade- The appellate court, by a 2- "I will eat my shoe if the Morein said he agreed "under duress" to, the mia. 1 vote, reversed Sylvester in Supreme Court hears this- Drexel says it dismissed June 2001 and restored the sta- case:' declared Hamburg. arrangement, but felt "locked into a highly disadvantageous Morein in 1995 because he tus quo. Morein was, once "We're not even going to failed, after eight years, to again, out at Drexel. And the file a response. He is a brilliant situation." As a result, he testified, he complete a thesis required for time-honored axiom that guy, but his intelligence became alienated from Kalata. a doctorate in electrical and courts ought to keep their should be used for the noses out of academic affairs advancement of society rather As events unfolded, Kalata computer engineering. signed over his interest in the Morein, 50, of Dresher, Pa., was reasserted: than pursuing self-destructive Middle East conflict comes to campuses "a~n By James M. O'Neill tend teach an anti-Israeli per- dinner. Kllight Ridder Newspapers -- spective on the Middle East. "I sympathize - but that's Nomi Deutdl, a Penn State not the only concern," Horesch The Arbiter PHILADELPHIA - Fueled sophomore from Glenside, Pa., said. "We see a lot of pro-Israel by family ties to the Middle has been to Israel 15 times. She East and -personal trips to the recently rallied pro-Israeli stu- stuff on campus done blindly. is celebrating its We know what's going on region, college students with dents on campus to counter there and can't just let that go. pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian what she viewed as growing leanings have brought debate anti-Semitism. Israel has the means to protect itself, and, unfortunately, it over the contentious Middle "There was no active pro- East conflict to university Israeli political base here:' she dOL'Smore than protect itself." Student activism on the Anniversary greens across the country. .. said. Middle East conflict has Students who support the So, with financial help from Palestinians have used political Hillel, a Jewish student-life prompted college presidents to street theater, creating mock group, she and others formed speak up. In September, Harvard Israeli checkpoints at the Israel Action Committee, University's Lawrence Pennsylvania State University brought in speakers, started a Summers surprised many by and the University of pro-Israeli petition drive, and Catch arguing in a university address Pennsylvania. built an electronic mailing list of that "profoundly anti-Israel Mimicking the 1980s divest- 300 students. views are increasingly finding ment movement against South Although her father grew support in progressive intellec- African apartheid on college up in Israel and fought with the tual communities. Serious and campuses, the pro-Palestinians Israeli army, Deutch said he Monday's -thoughtful people are advocat- have also called on universities doesn't understand' why she ing and taking actions that are to divest of stock in companies expends such energy over the 'anti-Semitic, in effect, if not that sell military supplies to debate. their intent." Israel. "But the students we reach Some Harvard faculty mem- Students who support Israel on campus could be the next congressmen, the next ambas- , bers who favored divestment issue to win a have countered by invigorating were offended by his statement campus Jewish groups, holding sadors, future heads of corpora- and were miffed to have their lectures to promote Israel's per- tions:' Deutch said. support labeled anti-Semitic. spective on the Middle East "Their experiences on cam- , The 'pro-Palestinian stu- conflict, and attacking the pus will help shape their view dents' call for divestment has divestment drive as anti- of the world." Bogus Basin generated the most forceful Semitic. On that point, at least, pro- debate on campuses, as well as 'Students are not the only Palestinian students agree. cries from pro-Israeli students ones lunging into the fray. That's why they began organiz- of anti-Semitism. ,College presidents - who . ing in the first place. ' "Not all criticism of Israel is moved quickly to prevent a Uri Horesch, a University of PelUlsylvania graduate student anti-Semitic, but there are anti- season pass backlash against Arab students Semites who are using criticism after the Sept. 11 terrorist who grew up in Israel and of Israel as a cover:' said Rabbi attacks - are now speaking out served in the Israeli army, Howard Alpert, executive against what many call speaks against Israel's polides , director of Hillel of Greater increased anti-Semitism on in the occupied territories. j Philadelphia, which oversees campuses. "Most Israelis' stand by, the Jewish student groups on 28 A Philadelphia-based Web doing nothing," he said, "or site called Campus Watch, complain about their own situ- campuses. It's OU_RBirthday meanwhile, lists faculty mem- ation: Because of the suicide bers who the site's backers con- bombings, they can't go out to but YOU get the gift. 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9,2003 Pa e 6 • The Arbiter s arts Broncos end season in Top 15 By Phil Dailey higher in the ESPN / USA and head coach Dan The Arbiter ------Today coaches; poll (12th) Hawkins honored as the and the AP media poll coach of the year. The final rankings for Forget about being th ranked in the Top 25, the (15 ). the Broncos gives the WAC Boise State football team In what is arguably the its best showing since Air Women's hoops accomplished more than greatest season in Boise State Force back in 1998, which football history, the Broncos squad gears up that in 2002, finishing the finished 10th in the coaches season among college foot- rip1?ed through their com- for WAC home petitors, losing only once to poll and 13th in the media ball elite - in both major poll. stand polls. Arkansas on Sept. 7. After the loss to the Razorbacks, The Falcons also fin- The final Division I-A col- ished the season 12-1 with Thi>Boise State women's lege football rankings were Boise State won its next 11 basketball team had a rough games in a row. ' their only loss corning in released Saturday and the WAC play against Texas go of things early in the Broncos finished the season The Broncos swept all of WAC season, losing to San the WAC's postseason hon- Christian 34-35. ' ranked in the Top 15. Boise State opens its Jose State 69-64 and to After defeating Iowa State ors as running back Brock Forsey was named offensive 2003 campaign on the road Hawai'i 62-44. Tonight the (7-7, 4-4 Big XII) in the 2002 player of the year, safety in Provo against Brigham Broncos (3-9, 0-2) look to get Crucial.com Humanitarian Young on Sept. 30. Bowl on Dec. 31, Boise State Quintin Mikell named their first conference win defensive player of the year Photo courtesy of Stanley Brewster against Fresno State (7-5, 1-1 (12-1, 8-0) climbed even Broncos celebrate their win in the 2002 Humanitarian Bowl WAC) and end their five- game losing streak. Mandy Welch is the ' Bronco team leader in points, averaging 11.4 points per Florida's QB to take next step game despite only starting four games. Senior Abby By Jeremy Fowler of the junior. This past sea- Vaughn has also been solid, son, though, he had to rely adding 10.2 ppg as well as Independent Florida Alligator (U. Florida) on his stance as a leader and leading the team in steals as a person to carry himself with 21. Tonight's game Rex Grossman has been an and his team. starts at 7 p.m. inspiration to future college Grossman was the runner- After their date with the quarterbacks across the up in the Heisman Trophy Bulldogs tonight, the country. balloting after throwing for Broncos will face Nevada (7- Now that the country's 3,896 yards and 34 touch- downs in 2001, but he didn't 5, 0-2) on Saturday at 2 p.m. best high school player will one day take snaps for UF, he always look comfortable may have wanted under Zook's offensive sys- Grossman's advice or his tem. example to follow or his pat Constantly he was hurried Men battle for on the back when practice by the opposing defense because of an offensive line first place begins. Instead, the baton was that failed to protect him. passed from old to new He was forced to make The Boise State men's bas- through a press release. things harpen on his own ketball 'team is on the road The Gators' junior quar- instead a letting the game starting tonight as they travel terback has decided to forgo come to him, which caused to Fresno State. At the begin- his senior season and declare 17 interceptions, including eight total against ning of the season, not many for the NFL draft, while Mississippi and Louisiana people would have thought Chris Leak, USA Today's High School Player of the State alone. that the top spot in the WAC The offense abandoned would be played this early Year, made a verbal commit- ment to UP's recruiting class the long ball, which worked against Boise State (8-4, 2-0 Sunday on ESPN2. under Spurrier, for the short WAC) and Fresno State (9-2, "[Grossman] would have screen passes toward the end 2-0). been a great tutor for me," of the season, which made Boise State was picked to Leak said in a television the quarterback mold his finish near the bottom of the interview. play for the team. WAC by most media outlets No doubt Grossman has "1 think Rex is a Jot better back in Nov., but have put had a memorable yet erratic athlete than people think," together two last-second career as a Gator, but now Zook said. "I think Rex will be the wins against San Jose State the Bloomington, Ind., native can focus on his future as an first to tell you that what you and the two-time defending have to do is what's best for WAC Tournament champs. NFL player, straying from the Steve Spurrier talks, the others." The Broncos will have struggle to win with coach Now, Grossman is their hands full with the Ron Zook and the exhaustive rewarded with something Bulldogs, who possess the talks about whether he'll stay different - a chance to con- last two WAC Players of the or go. centrate on himself. Week. "It was a very difficult The junior is expected to Fresno State's Hiram and decision for me because I, go somewhere in the first Jonathan Woods have been love being a Gator, and the three rounds of the NFL draft, although the first is the gil-to guys as of late for whole program has been so good to me," said Grossman unlikely. the' Bulldogs. Hiram' and Listed at 6-foot-l and 215 Woods combine for over 24 in a statement Saturday. "I would like to thank coach pounds, he's not the proto- points per game. Zook, coach Spurrier and courtesy of KRT typical NFL quarterback, but Florida quarterback Rex Grossman forgoes his senior year to enter NFL Draft. Up next for Boise State is [UF athletics director] Jeremy he makes up for it with his Nevada (5-6, 0-2) on Foley for the opportunity tection and a coaching staff shirt sophomore Ingle After a first year filled accuracy and ann strength. Saturday, The Wolf Pack lost they have given me. that enjoyed working with Martin, but Leak has the abil- with turmoil, this possibly Leak has the same attributes, their first two WAC games "I would also like to thank the popular quarterback. ity to be a factor sooner than could be the biggest step for only he's faster. on the road this year to Tulsa the fans and all my team- Wide receiver Kelvin expected. the UF coach. With Dickey, this gives and Rice. mates for all of their support. Kight now has to run routes Grossman's and Leak's However, finding a player Zook two scrambling quar- Once a Gator, always a for someone else. careers are similar so far. that has Grossman's arm and terbacks with strong arms. Put Martin in the mix and -By Pllil Dailey Gator," "I really didn't want him Grossman threw for 9,164 fervor for the game may be The quarterback will hold to leave," said Kight, who yards as a Gator, while Leak difficult. there's a fight for the starting a press conference Monday caught 37 passes for the compiled 9,885 yards in the "I will forever be grateful job in Leak's first year. at 3 p.m. Gators this year. "He's doing last two years for for having the opportunity to Grossman will fight for There, he will say his last what's best for him, so I'm Independence High in coach Rex Grossman," Zook playing time in the NFL. It's public goodbye to the happy for him." Charlotte, N.C. said. evident he'll have no prob- numerous receivers that Next year, Kight and the With last year's offensive "He is a tremendous play- lem with that. were on the other end of his rest of the receiving corps workhorse now gone, Leak's er, leader and person." passes, the 2,000-plus will play with redshirt fresh- decision on UF couldn't Through his sophomore pounds of offensive-line pro- man Gavin Dickey and red- make Zook happier. year, UF saw the true talents '. Hayes would have loved this Buckeyes team '

By Wendell Barnhouse fewer points, no way it ends lessons. If}nately, I think we play or a kind call, they got it. Knigh! Ridder Newspapers - Miami's repeat dreams and all want to ~e part of a group, Miami spent most of the 34-game winning streak. playa role in the group." game blocking Ohio State's TEMPE, Ariz. _" Three' "The camaraderie on this Before Dr. Phil starts to blitzes (the Hurricanes' first yards and a cloud of dust. No team is' unbelievable," update his coaching resume, TO came when they beat the phrase ever better described Buckeyes sophomore defen- let's make this clear. Tressel blitz.) On the game's final a football program than that sive end Simon Fraser said isn't all touchy feely. His play, fourth-and-goal from depiction of Ohio State under after Friday'S 31-24 double- game plans are grounded _ the J-yard line, MIami decid- Woody, Hayes. A smash- overtime victory in the Fiesta literally. Quarterback Craig ed to throw. mouth running game and Bowl. "It's something books Krenzel hoisted 21 passes "They went trips, a blatant brass-knuckle defense pro- are written about." against Miami, but averaged passing formation," senior duced national, champi- Tressel, 50, from Mentor, a little more than 17 throws linebacker 'Matt Wilhelm onships under Hayes in 1954 Ohio, is a coaching version of per game. Tressel believes in . said. and 1968. Ward Cleaver. These defense, kicking game, field, Ohio State linebacker Cie FIFTH ,and IDAHO So what label best fits col- Buckeyes have embraced position. Woody would be' Grant blitzed from the weak down tow n b 0 iI e lege -football's new kings, Tressel's teachers like -a proud. side. Miami's Willis Ohio State circa 2002? Tressel bunch of eager Beavers. Never lacking in talent, McGahee, who-had a better Ball? Nope. Close Still Growing up in a coaching what Ohio State needed was game 'blocking blitzers than Counts? 'Fraid not. Defense- family, plus nearly three a coach with a different atti- rushing, was in the locker Special Teams-Opportunistic decades of coaching experi- tude. Tressel instilled team room with a severe knee Offense? Too bulky. ence, has firmly embedded values and confidence. This injury. Grant had a free shot Borrowing' a phrase from Tressel's coaching-values. Buckeyes team didn't start at Miami quarterback Ken The Arbiter is seeking interns for Alexandre Dumas, here's the "Our defense is our differ- believing after the Cincinnati Dorsey, whose pass was - a spring semester 2003. best description of Ohio ence-maker," Tre'ssel' said or Purdue victories; it harmless, grass-bound

W1!ore offering Jew{Q/ thru-eredJr State's current state: All for Saturday morning before entered the season believing , floater. If McGahee had been Inttmshlps. No uperlencf! ntefssary. but one, one for all. . accepting and, posing 'with it would win the national available, would he have students who have tabn thl reporting ond fiN'S writIng COUN' are pn'f!~ In two seasons, coach Jim' five championship trophies. championship. Few outside made the block? Or would he', Tressel has instiHed a Three "But we have a really talent- the Ohio State locker-room have carried for the ill to Internships available: Musketeers togetherness in a ed scout team that makes our shared those thoughts. extend the game? Editorial columnists program that used to be me' defense better every day. The Many- people carry buck- "We're a team of destiny," Sports writers first, last and always. scout-teamers accepted that' eyes as good-luck charms. Wilhelm said. These Buckeyes had their Hard news writers -Without the new spirit, role on behalf of the older there's no wayOhio State's guys.. _ pockets stuffed with the Diversions (A& E)writers record is 14-0, no way it wins "This is a great medium to brown nuts. Every game, Contl(1 Jamu Pettitk K@/IYII 3"5-11204 (ht. 105) for more InformUlan seven games by seven or help teach those types' of every time they needed a / _JI._':"_' __ Diversions Editor Lauren Consuela Tussing Phone: 345-8204 xl04 , E-mail: • .•.. m.~w.oo.miwro_~m Thursday, January 9, 2003 Diversions The Arbiter· Page 7 Spike Lee goes beyond race in '25th·Hour' ruins of the World Trade imagine that 25th Hour is an Center. Barroom bathrooms action film. In fact, there's .sport "wanted" posters of virtually no action. It's a rela- Osama bin Laden. tionship picture. "We made post-9/ 11 New In a practice that is now a York City our backdrop," rarity In. Hollywood, Lee Lee said. "We don't address always demands at least two it directly, but we certainly weeks of rehearsal with his don't ignore it. I just felt that principle players, before I couldn't go the same route putting them in front of the as other filmmakers who had camera. a chance to acknowledge this "I feel these characters major event but instead used have to have a life even computers to digitally before you start shooting. remove the WTC towers These people have to know from their footage." each other, And by 'rehears- "I live here. I grew up ing' I don't mean just going here. And we all felt we over their lines. It's a much could not shoot our film in bigger process: goin~ out to New York City so soon after dinner together, talking, get- those events and not even ting comfortable with each acknowledge the catastro- other," Lee said. phe." Lee likes to describe Lee contends he merely directing movies as being intended the Sept. 11 refer- like managing a sports team. ences as background. But it's "You have all these differ- difficult not to contrast ent personalities, people who Monty Brogan's personal cri- have different ways of work- sis with the national one ing. Now I don't dictate how looming around him. people arrive at the results," Lee's use of these Sept. 11 he said. reference~ suggest that we "I'm only concerned with are a nation that must come the results themselves. So the together to face a deadly rehearsal time lets me learn threat. The backdrop high- how each person works. lights our shared indelible Then I can adapt and mesh memories of heroism, all these different methods Edward Norton in Spike Lee's 25th Hour. Photo courtesy of KRT, mourning and charity. and work habits. That's Those feelings are con- when I'm the coach." trasted with the essentially By Robert W. Butler oh, there are white people in Street bond trader, Jacob long. Everybody is in a very selfish concerns of the char- Knight Ridder Newspapers this movie,''' Lee said in a (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a uncomfortable position. acters in 25th Hour, although phone conversation from his nebbishy high school English What do you say to that per- Lee said that was not a con- Spike Lee's dazzling new New York City home. "And I teacher and with his girl- son? It's not just Monty scious decision when he was film, 25th Hour, has no major don't think my actors all got friend, N aturelle (Rosario who's having a rough time. planning the film. It was a African-American charac- together and ,whispered, Dawson), whom he suspects His girlfriend, his father, his case of a movie acquirin~ a certain meaning dunng ters. 'Gee, we've got a black direc- may have turned him In to two best friends - everyone's There's virtually no talk tor!'" the DEA. trying to make amends, shooting. about race. In fact, there's lit- "We're storytellers. We're All these characters arc blaming themselves, blaming Indeed, none of those ref- tle about the film to suggest it looking for good stories." likable to some degree, yet each other." erences were in Benioff's was made by the man many Lee certainly found one in they all juggle questions of There's yet another major novel or in his screenplay. believe to be America's pre- 25th Hour, based on David 'guilt, greed, responsibility character in 25th Hour: post- "In fact, I never heard of the novel," Lee said. eminent black filmmaker. Benioff's novel about a and regret as Monty, terrified Sept. 11 New York City. The "But David Benioff and I But those who still cling to young drug dealer, Monty of the torments that await film's opening credits appear share the same agent, who the idea that Lee can only Brogan (played by Edward him behind bars, careens against footage of the sent me the script. Iliked it a reflect the African-American Norton), who is enjoying his through a night of drink and columns of light that for sev- lot and sent it on to Edward last day of freedom before heartfelt discussion. eral weeks last year marked experience - as he has done Norton, because he and I had so brilliantly in films such as reporting to prison for a "When you have a guy ground zero. who's going away to prison In one haunting shot, talked about working togeth- [ungle Fever, Do the Right seven-year sentence. er if we could find the right ,He spends his remaining for seven years, it's akin to Jacob walks through Francis' Thing and Motcolm X - are in project." for an eye-oRener. hours with old high-school having a terminal disease," downtown apartment to find that a picture window opens Because its central charac- "Look, when I read this buddies Francis (Barry Lee said. ter is a criminal, you might script I never thought, 'Oh- Pepper), a swaggering Wall "He won't be with us for up on a hellish view of the MTV2's compilation pleases By Kim Andrews done. reminiscent of Coldplay, but The Johns Hopkins News-Letter One of the three best songs the song has more depth than Need an extra class (Johns Hopkins U.) ---- on the album is from Phantom most songs by that band. Planet, a relatively obscure The (unfortunately) short (V-WIRE) BALTIMORE - band that currently has a small and little-known "Ramona" by The new MTV2 compilation but devoted following. Guster is an ear-pleasingly simple song with clear guitars but can't get in? CD Handpicked: Yolume 2 is a MTV2 did very well to put collection of the newest semi- Phantom Planet's "Lonely and an uncomplicated back- pop and alternative songs from Day" on this album, as it is beat. both widely known artists and completely infectious and The sheer, unfettered good- groul?s destined to become cult musically superb. ness of the song is a rare bird in favontes. ' With undistorted guitars, pop culture and is probably The compilation is a wide almost Beatles-like major chord most of the reason why the departure from such pop-CUl- progressions and endlessly song is so addictive. ture collections as the infamous energetic vocals, Phantom Thus, in their separate ways, and never-ending Now [That's Planet outdoes even the heavy these two bands emerge on the What ICall Mllsic] CDs and the hitters (such as Jimmy Eat top of the heap of a very wise- normal sold-out MTV mixes. World, Cold play . and John ly chosen collection. Handpicked: Volume 2 starts Mayer) on the album with This is not to say that the last out with two songs from bands "Lonely Day." three songs, by Citizen Cope, similar in both name and . It seems that the following Jack Johnson and the Music, do sound: the Vines and the song, Norah Jones's single not have their own merits. Hives. These new-wave emo "Don't Know Why," was sim- "If There's Love" by Citizen bands have won a small but ply put on the album to be Cope is another major-key devoted following with their politically correct; without her, ditty, but this time there are hits "Set Free" and "Hate to the compilation would be , significant jazz and blues influ- Say I Told You So," respective- entirely devoid of a female ences present in both the trail- ly. ' voice. ing vocals and the multi-lay- These songs provide a lively While she has amazing ered musicianshil" opening for the album, vocal talent, the song' itself Jack Johnson s "Inaudible '. although it's mostly unintelli- seems to belong more on a Memories" is one of those gible screaming backed by blues album and seems a bit songs that you know you've mediocre musicianship. oddly placed in this particular heard, but whose artist you From here the album moves collection. The assessment for can't name. It's a laid-back, on to an equally catchy and this one: wonderful song, .acoustic man-plus-guitar son9· PSYCHOLOGY much more sonically refined beautiful talent, wrong album. While it's a solid tune, there s single called "Get Over It" , To return to heavy hitters, nothing particularly irnpres- from the little-known band OK the live version of John sive about it. The big surprise of the, Go. Mayer's hit "No Such Thing" This foot-tapping alterna- appears in goodcompany. album comes with the Music's , tive song fuses distorted gui- . With .a completely new "Take the Long Road and We can get you in now! ,tars with unexpected sounds introduction (recogruzmg the Walk It." The album comes fUll (such as a synthesized organ) song is at first very difficult), circle with a band whose and harmoruzed vocals to form this version of the song is ener- sound .seems to combine the An.yone, Anywhere, Anytime ,a tune that lands somewhere 'getic and refreshing, even young simplistic guitars of the between straight alternative, though the studio version has Hives with vocals that are punk and new wave classic. long been played out. faintly reminiscent of, believe it To tone things down a bit, The two triumphs of the col- or not, AC/DC. the middle of tile album turns lection, though, are' by far Sadly, this.energetic ending Indeoendent studvln 'Idaho to such artists as Coldplay and "Caught by the River" by to the album makes the listener want more and doesn't give a Howie Day. Doves and "Ramona", by The well-known Coldplay Guster. The vocals of Doves are full sense of closure. Full college credit transferable. 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