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Student shot at party near· campus reportedly Coincidently, Anderson's Suspect in fled the scene cruiser was parked across the after the inci- street from the house when the custody late dent, which call came, and he responded took place in first to the scene; Saturday night the house's "There were maybe 25-30 bas e men t . Olsen people in the front yard and By James Patrick Kelly Olsen turned another dozen or so in the The Arbiter . himself in to the Boise Police house," Anderson said. Saturday night and was "I didn't hear any gunshots Gunfire erupted early charged with second-degree or anything. Since it happened Saturday morning at a notori- murder. Olsen was granted a in the basement, the sound was .ous party house just blocks concealed weapon permit in probably muffled. Nothing was from campus, leaving one February, police said. really that noticeable." Boise State student dead and Witnesses at the party told . Anderson said parties were another on the run until that Ada County Sheriffs deputies common at the house, and evening. and Boise Police officers the sometimes got as big as 200 The shooting took place on two students had a heated argu- people or more. the 900 block of Belmont St. ment that ended when Davis "I've seen this house bust- about I a.m. as the party was threw a beer in Olsen's face,' ing at the scams. Tonight winding down. and in retaliation Olsen pulled appeared to be mellower, but The victim, Cameron Davis, out a handgun and fired two of course it was one in the 23, .cornputcr science major shots - one struck Davis in the morning. Most likely the party and son of Idaho Senate chest and the other hit the wall. was thinning out." Majority Leader Bart Davis "Evidently, the shooting Olsen is being held in the from Idaho Falls, was freaked some people out and Ada County Jail on a $500,000 pronounced dead at the scene the party dispersed quickly. bond and will be arraigned from a gunshot wound to the Some guy told me he saw the Monday for second-degree upper-chest. suspeet flee' out the backdoor, murder and using a firearm then everyone else scattered," during the commission of a The alleged shooter, Photo by James Patrick Kelly, The Arbiter Vincent Craig Olsen, 21, Ada County Sheriff deputy felony. mechanical engineering major, Ryan Anderson said. Police said this house on Belmont Street has a reputation for parties exceeding 200 people.

"The finger looked convincingly real, Angie Blain talks about 'Women and Peace' so we became seriously By Tammy Sands The Arbiter ------interested in who

As a child growing up poverty it belonged to," stricken in Ireland, Angie Blain, adjunct professor in Sociology and Women's Studies, lived with war con- - Bob Seihnlt, ditions. Her past mingled with the past university security director of her father and grandfather eventualJy led her into the peace movement. "Men in power are careless and indifferent to the needs of women and Severed finger .children. It is women who know that it is better to nurture others than to kill them," Blain said. turns out to be "It's better to feed people than to starve them. It's better to make laws for peace than laws for war, and it's better sausage 'link to value people above profit." As part of Women's History month, By James Patrick Kelly Blain wilJ be presenting "Women and The Arbiter ------Peace," in which she will be looking in depth at women's participation in peace Two residents of Chaffee activism as well as presenting her own Hall discovered what appeared historical perspective. "The most important thing women to be a severed finger on the should be concerned with ismaintain- ground next 'to the Boise ing peace in society because when war Greenbelt Tuesday afternoon. breaks out, it is their children, hus- Roommates Robert Sauter bands, sons and daughters who arc and David Bartley closely killed in war. I believe that not enough examined the shriveled, red- women in society really take this issue stained appendage, and also seriously," Blain said. asked a man walking nearby for Photo by Kelly Day, The Arbiter Blain would like to see women tum Angie Blain believes it is better to value people over profit. his opinion. away from being obsessed with their "At first, it looked like a bodies and their physical appearance. sausage with jelly all over it. poor arc hated because they're blamed war is sowing aseed for another war. but I'm very optimistic because I "I think that's a way of getting believe a new paradigm has taken place Then I hit it with a stick and for their social condition. Wars are outdated, barbaric and uncivi- women distracted from what's realJy lized means of dealing with social con- around the world as a reaction to the rolled it over - it was covered going on in society," Blain said. "It's viewed as a lack of moral char- flict," Blain said. Bush policy of pre-emptive strike," with ants." Sauter said. She believes there arc two kinds of acter, so the poor people in this society are fragmented. They don't have a She said the majority of people who Blain said. "This other guy on the path war going on in the United States: the are going to be killed arc innocent "Millions of people have taken to thought it was a finger too." war against the poor and the war sense of community. The only thing they share is the same sense of vio- women and children. the street to protest this war and aggres- After the three of them against Iraq. . "1 sec the new Bush policy of pre- sion against the Iraqi people .. Saddam reached consensus, another' . "We have millions of people living lence, oppression and inequality," Blain emptive strike as a political form of Hussein is a dictator and an evil person, friend of Sauter's called the' like refugees in the streets of America, said. , Casualties mount up in these war- rape. Rape is the ultimate act of domes- but you can change the situation with Ada County Sheriff on his cell and we're going to pour our economic tic violence against women, against the patience and fortitude instead of going resources away .frorn trying to help like conditions, but they are invisible phone. '. casualties because they arc not dying environment, '1I1drape has everything in and bombing the whole society." "It didn't take long for a . these people to the war against Iraq," "Women and Peace" will be present- from bombs getting dropped on them, to do with power and domination," deputy to get there. He said it Blain said. ed tonight at 7 p.m. in the Student but they die from social neglect, Blain Blain said. looked real and called it in as a She said poverty in Ireland in. the Union lookout Room. said. . Instead, Blain believes there's other '40s and '50s was different because For more information on Blain's life human finger," Sauter said. Blain believes there is a choice to ways of handling international conflict "I joked with him by asking there was a sense of eominunity among without destroying the people in those as a child living in ooverty, check out poor people who were. essentially either spend the nation's resources for ifhe was going to chalk it." societies. her book: Stealing Sunlight: Growing bread or for bombs. . University Security also: enclosed in terrible tenements. "I'm very sad if this war happens, up in Irish town (2000). . In the United States, she believes the "Warsdo not change anything; each responded to the scene fearing'

the worse. .. . t "The finger looked convinc- ingly real, so we became seri- ously interested in who it Committee recommends 9 percent fee increase belonged to," University. Security Director Bob SeiboIt "Those requests focused on the recommendation. per student, the committee pro- The committee also support- said. By Jessica Adams adding to existing services "We don't have any strong posed $5 go to intereolJegiate ed an 8 percent increase in uni- "It was like we had to con- The Arbiter ---~-- rather than trying to sustain indication on what the State athletics to partially offset the versity residence hall rates and nect the dots, we wondered.' Board of Education will rise in fees on athletic scholar- an increase of approximately them;" Blake said. . where the rest of the person BSU President Charles Ruch ASBSU President Chris approve," Blake said. ships and to support compliance 4.8 to 5.4 percent in university was." -. approved the Executive Budget apartment rates. . Mathias told the committee that _Committee'S proposal to raise "It may depend Oil what the with Title IX. The remaining After investigating the possi- $ I29 would be allocated to the The committee also recom- no students have contacted him approximately $2.5 million by State decides, they're cutting ble crime scene, Ada County matriculation fee (general edu- mended that $1.25 of the $I7 in regard to opposition to fee increasing student fees by 9 per- state agencies by 7 percent, if Sheriff and University Security they cut us by 7 percent, it cation fee). ASBSU fee be reallocated to increases. cent, Thursday. . "They don't want to know determined the evidence was a would be devastating." Jones said in the meeting he the Campus Recreation fee to The committee voted unani- the how's or why's," Mathias sausage link. The State Board of heard "reluctant support" for budget for club sports. mously to raise student fees by said. .. "Whoever made this' went to Education wilJ meet April 17- the Athletic Department fee The Arbiter fee request of $1 $ I34 per semester for fiscal per full-time student was not ASBSU Vice President Ken it lot of effort to make it look year 2003-2004. Full-time stu- . '18 to decide whether or not to increase. Blake said the athletic fee recommended by the commit- Rock testified on behalf of stu- reaL The sausage had a naiL--, dent fees, including health approve the proposed fee request was just enough to tee, nor was the proposed fee dents who won't be able to attached and actual crease lines'" . insurance, amount to $ I ,869 increase. just like a real finger,"-Seibolt',; Provost and Executive cover the increased cost for ath- increase to support the Blue afford their education due to under this proposal. Thunder Marching Band. Blake costs. said. Vice President of Student Budget Committee Chair Daryl letic scholarships. ._ "If we didn't pass it, they said the committee chose not to "There are those students, Affairs Peg -Blake said state Jones said the Executive Budget Committee should be prepared would have paid it anyway and support these proposals because who for them" $300 a year budget cuts to higher education would make a big difference on for flexibility within 10 percent they would have had to cut the impact of not approving the will likely influence the State whether they can attend BSU," of their recommendation. some programs to do it," Blake proposed revenue increases Board of Education'S decision would be minimaL Rock said. on whether or not to approve. Of the $ I34 .total increase said.

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Page 2 .. The Arbiter News Monday, March 17, 2003 Campus Shorts , Evan Bayh, D-Ind., one of the Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. East provision's.sponsors, What is not lacking is "The military has identified uncertainty. Enlistment program aimed certain recruitment challenges, So being a Kuwaiti college at short-term grads and one of them is their need student today means dealing for more college graduates." with special annoyances. Will WASHINGTON-While the The plan, pushed through classes get canceled? Will U.S. military prepares for pos- Congress last year by Bayh and. .graduation be delayed? Will, sible war in Iraq, gingerly han- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as the jobs still be there? Can I dles the escalating crisis in the military component of a get on with my life, please? Korea and patrols the globe for larger effort to expand national "Everybody's wondering, remnants of al-Qaida, some service opportunities, requires when will 'war happen?" said defense analysts worry that recruits to attend basic and 20-year-old Fatma Abul, American forces are stretched skills training and then serve who's studying' business too thin. 15 months after the training administration. To tackle that problem, the period on active duty. The tension increases Defense Department, at the thanks to measures taken here behest of Congress, is creating At Kuwait University, stu- on the university's campuses: a short-term enlistment pro- dents warily await what signs - small ones, posted in gram to entice "high quality" comes next comers here and there - that youth, particularly those who warn students and staff not to are college educated. The pro- KUWAIT CITY, leave essential items at the uni- - gram would involve 18 to 20 Kuwait-The Kuwait versity in case war makes the months of active duty - less University senior is a few campus inaccessible; an evacu- than half the length of the aver- months away from graduation. ation drill featuring men with age current enlistment - and A few months more from start- ketchup, as in blood, on them; offer up to $18,000 in ing a job. And his object of the rooms designated as education benefits. affection has agreed to the shelters in case the conflict Defense analysts and some whole deal. So what could reaches Kuwaiti soil. members of Congress say the possibly go wrong? The discussion of war has usual enlistments of three, four War. seeped into classrooms. and five years deter many who The 21-year-old political Students have seized upon a are wary of making such a science major has only one real-life example of an interna- Photos courtesy of KRT long-term commitment. And thing to say about the possibil- tional debate with numerous Colorado's Linda Lappe defends as Texas' Jamie Carey goes to the basket in the they argue that the new pro- ity of a conflict with Iraq dimensions. Economics and first half of the Women's Big 12 Championship semifinals game gram, whose first recruits will delaying his nuptials: "We business professors are dis- concerns about American dom- begin serving Oct. I, is a way believe in God's will." cussing the effect of a war on security and more. ination. There are different to begin to ease the military's At Kuwait University, the monetary system, and "In my advanced classes, opinions. It is the same as in burdens and its reliance on the unlike at universities in the political science professors we talk about the international the U.S. We can say anything reserves. United States, there are no have been especially in order," said Abdullah Y.S. we want." "They -should have the student-led anti-war demon- demand, not only by students Mohammed, a professor in the opportunity to serve their strations and no widespread but also by media and foreign political science department News shorts are compiled country without making it a clamoring for America to get ministries. whose specialty is internation- by Brandon Fiala from KRT full-life commitment right off the path to war. Not that The classroom talk is of al relations and organizations. ActiVists to lecture after college," said Mark there's any desire for blood- democracy, Arab nationalism, "They ask about the and U-Wire IIClI'S services/ Komb)au, spokesman for Sen. shed - unless it's the blood of the role of Islam, Kuwait's prospect of the future, have on women's acUvlUes In peace movement BOISE +STATE Competition prepares students for business Angie Blain and Susan u NIVERSITY Hyatt will lecture on ,I Career Center Services Friday, March 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 "Women and Peace," giving Career, Internship & Part-time, Summer, By Vicki Parsley experience necessary to actualize The Arbiter ------their dreams of becoming busi- p.m. at the Student Union an in-depth look at women's f:, & Temporary Employment Listings on BroncoJobs ness owners. Building. The best student teams activities in the peaee move- 1 ,Career Counseling Kent Neupert, BSU assistant Neupert said a lot of corporate in two categories, undergraduate ment in both the past and the Resume & Job-Search Assistance professor of international business employers are facing layoffs and and graduate, will present their present tonight from. 7 to:; creating job insecurity, Students plans to a panel of 18judges made and management, created The 8;30 p.m, in: ,the..Shjdent'· http://career.boisestate.edu Northwest . Venture who have graduated in the past up of entrepreneurs, venture capi- 426-1747 Championship, being held March ,have sought employment in talists and other members of'.the ' Union Lookout room. ",;" .' 1173 University Drive 20 -22, to hell? prepare future regional corporate businesses. business community. The teams > AngieBlain is an,adjijllct .' 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" Monday,March 17,2003 News Crewsto be 'embedded' with troops on battlefield By Jonathan Storm during the 43-day Gulf War in Knight RidderNewspapers·- 1991, when cumbersome.equip- ment precluded on-the-spot cov- The networks and cable are erage from the few places that massing their own forces at the U.S. military had not home and overseas for this declared off-limits. potential war, "an extraordinary This time, the government is story." permitting TV crews to be If there's no war in Iraq a lot "embedded" with the troops - of money will have go~e to eating, sleeping and ducking waste. Not in the budget of the whatever enemy fire there is, on government, which, even at its the shifting desert sands, in most bellicose, would probably urban battle zones, in the air, and prefer diplomacy over aggres- on the high seas. sron, but in the coffers of all the NBC has 10 such two-person TV news operations that have crews, correspondent and been implementing huge and cameraman/technician, who . complex strategies to cover the have practiced in the Pentagon's biggest story since Sept. II. hostile-environment training ses- "If there's no war, we'll all sions. CBS and ABC are thought come home and say, 'Guess to have an equal number. CNN what? We spent a lot of money,' and Fox News have their own " said Marcy McGinnis, CBS's teams. There are also a handful senior vice president of news of foreign TV "embeds," includ- coverage, in a phone interview. ing even one team from the Arab "What else can we do?" news station Al-Jazeera. McGinnis said CBS began Many are equipped. with planning for war about six gizmos designed to get pictures months ago, "as soon as artd reports out of the remotest President Bush started speaking locations. The technology will harshly about Iraq." largely supplant the videophones NBC, .ABC and the cable that transmitted grainy, jerky news folks have been marching pictures from Afghanistan after alongside, in a news buildup that Sept: II, yet were better than the mirrors the U.S. troop deploy- voice connections and still ment in the Middle East, with photos used in 1991.

well over 1,000 personnel and Using battery-powered lap- Photos courtesy of KAT millions of dollars worth of .tops, the teams can edit a piece Tim Alipalo of Associated Press TV and reporter Malcolm Garcia, foreground, of the Kansas City Star, lay prone after landing on equipment dispatched. and feed it over a satellite phone a field during Operation Viper in Helmand, Afghanistan. For competitive reasons, -no line. "It's pretty extraordinary," one will divulge many specifics, McGinnis said, "the same quali- information on friendly force believed graphic pictures of the It may be harder to control the safety, said Allison Gollust, vice but the big networks' news force ty as anything we do in New troop movements, tactical fighting, even of dead Iraqi sol- images this time, however, with president of NBC News commu- will exceed 500 in bureaus York." deployment, and dispositions diers, would have harmed the news personnel in place and nications and media relations. throughout· Europe and the Network executives say that that would jeopardize opera- war effort. armed with spy-movie gear. As "There's no question that it's a Middle East, in such places as they will not flinch from grim tional security or lives." He said he had seen TV and he was landing in Kuwait City, dangerous situation for everyone Baghdad, Qatar, Bahrain, Israel, images, if they are necessary to "We'll adhere to the the press "as a problem to be one ABC cameraman gushed to over there." Jordan, Turkey and in the field. tell stories accurately, but that, as Pentagon's rules," McGinnis managed," according to Patrick the Times of London about his NBC, like everyone else, isn't On the cable side, CNN may they have in the past with said, "and if something will J. Sloyan, who won a Pulitzer "lipstick cam," which can be forcing anybody to go to the war wind up with as many as 450 graphic footage, they will warn endanger the troops, we won't Prize for Newsday after reveal- attached to a Marine's helmet to 'zone. "It's 100 percent volun- reporters covering various viewers it is coming. transmit it. But we won't cover ing the deadly toll of friendly fire send back pictures the way it tary," CBS's McGinnis said. "It aspects of the war. MSNBC will Whether military officers, only good news, and. we won't in Operation Desert Storm. does from the helmet of a driver is totally acceptable if people augment NBC's team. Fox News and a White House featuring just spit out what the Pentagon "The information function in a NASCAR race. decide they don't want to go." will have a team, too. several of the same people who says. 'Embedding' means we was extraordinarily important," With their anchors in New Still, none of the TV opera- "It's an extraordinary story," kept the information lid shut in can see it with our own eyes." Cheney said after the war. "I did York, all three major networks tions is suffering from lack of said ABC's Su-Lin Nichols, 1991, will let them transmit is Spokesmen at the big net- not have a lot of confidence I plan round-the-clock coverage if staff. executive director of media rela- another question, though the works said they would identify could leave that to the press." war breaks out. No one would "Clearly," Gollust said, "the tions for "Nightline" and "This Pentagon so far has been nothing any material that had been "No matter what the story is, predict how many days that people who say 'I'd love to go Week." but encouraging about wide- provided or modified by the everybody is always trying to would last, but it will be costly. do it' are people who are addict- "It's important to be there in open coverage, and has installed government. manipulate us. We're not a pro- NBC estimated its total losses at ed to covering news." time to have a grasp ofthe region no formal mechanism to In 1991, then-Defense paganda machine. Asking tough $45 million during the Gulf War. We'll see if they will be both logistically and editorially." prescreen images. Secretary Dick Cheney declared questions isn't being unpatriotic. When advertising was suspend- allowed to do it. Advances in technology and It has issued ground rules for a "media blackout" once fighting That's what we're fighting ed after the Sept. II attacks, the' an apparent new governmental embedded journalists that pro- started. Cheney, now vice presi- against. The whole point of networks lost a collective $1 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch attitude suggest that coverage hibit reporting on future opera- dent, acknowledged after the democracy is a free press," billion in ad dollars. contributed to this article. will look different than it did tions, as well as on "specific Gulf War the White House had McGinnis said. But money is secondary to Students raise awareness, donations for Boise homeless By Jeremy Branstad "We see a lot of people from "Everybody talked about their but we also received negative The Arbiter ------rural communities, because in vision, what they wanted to do to comments from people who those communities, there are get out of their situation. One thought we were making fun out For three days and two nights, issues of poverty and homeless- wanted to do social work with of the homeless by setting this 22 Boise State students volun- ness but there aren't services," other homeless people, and up," VanderLinden said. teered to live on the Quad in Roscoe said. another just wanted to go back to "The comments that really J cardboard boxes. BSU Volunteer Volunteers helped raise three school and be a graphic artist," stick out, are the people who Services Board sponsored the barrels of food and clothing for VanderLinden said. have been homeless before. For event called "Live in Shack City" the Boise Rescue Mission. They They also took field trips hop- some people, it was a really hard to promote awareness of home- also took pledges, though 'ing to gain insight into the lives time in their lives, and this is a lessness in Boise. Volunteer Services has yet to of homeless people. reminder for them," I Executive Director Rev, Bill tally funds raised during the "It's given me the awareness Vanderl.indcn said. Roscoe of the Boise Rescue event. that even though we're trying to Because volunteers were Mission said about 1,500 people Several local homeless people imitate the experience of being sleeping so close to the green are homeless in Boise. The num- turned up at the event on the homeless, that it's nothing like belt, several volunteers said they ber of meals his facility serves Quad to talk with students about being homeless," .ASBSU felt insecure sleeping on the has increased 15percent over last the homeless experience. One Senator and volunteer Jim Quad despite security patrols. On year. talked about making shelter on Sherman said. Thursday, someone threw raw Roscoe said women and the Boise River and another Volunteers of "Live In Shack eggs at their cardboard boxes. children - the fastest growing. described his trials with the City" drew a lot of feedback from "It could've been somebody segment of the homeless popula- police. Boise State students. According that just wanted to playa joke or tion - represents a large portion Ray VanderLinden of to VanderLinden, feedback ran something ... but this is a pretty of this increase. An increasing Volunteer Services said students the gamut. safe zone here," Sherman said. Crystal Paulson shows Jim Sherman her temporary number also come from rural participated in campfire talks "We got a lot Of comments dwelling on the quad. areas. while roasting marshmallows. saying that this was a good idea,

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J • • ~.~ \ Vie...... oints Monda March 17 2003 Pa e 4· The Arbiter ASBSU, french fries and German sausage sure that the residents of Ohio are ty I could to learn about the members We may not always agree with Capitol Hill restaurants. In addition, pleased with the way you are choosing of ASBSU before writing this column. ASBSU, but as far as I know they have there will no longer be french toast to spend your time and their money. Some, but not all, of my research not done anything as stupid as what a served at breakfast. It is now called Especially since french fries come- included the following-things: few elected officials have recently "Freedom Toast." _ from Belgium. I followed each member of ASBSU done on Capitol Hill. Oh my. I'll bet the French are mad. However as daring as this move is, for two weeks. Itook blood, DNA sam- Bob, and those 'who support him on ples and pictures of their parents. Capitol Hill, have overlooked one I stopped by the ASBSU office thing. every five minutes for three months' What about Germany? Aren't we and video taped every meeting they going to change the names of German have held in the last five years. stuff too? Maybe we could go from Itook all the members of the student German sausage to "Freedom senate out to dinner, and bailed two of Sausage." Of course, this might pose a By Pete Espil them out of jail. _ problem for male waiters. I can just Imade a list of all prescription med- Humorist imagine some waiter walking up to a TheArbiter ------icine taken by members of the student table of good looking ladies at lunch senate and tried each one myself for a and saying "Hi gals! How would you Recently there has been a lot of ink week. like to try the 01' Freedom Sausage for I went to church with each member in The Arbiter about ASBSU. Many lunch today?" feel the student senate, namely Pam of ASBSU in tum, and then converted And what about French-cut bikinis? Magee and Aubrey Salazar, are not ' to each of their religions, except for the Are they now going to be called "free- addressing important issues and arc one member that is a Devil worshiper- dom bikinis?" I suppose that would be instead looking after their own agen- with him I simply helped sacrifice a a more appropriate name for some of das, stroking their egos and doing large goat and bathed in its blood. the bikinis I have seen, especially the I tried on the underwear of each whatever they can to feel "warm and ones that appear to be made out of two ASBSU representative (including the fuzzy" inside. _ marble bags and a piece of twine, but I, being a former Marine, have a official ASBSU underwear that they where do we draw the line? If this con- hard time equating a phrase like "warm bought with part oftheir budget money tinues there will be kids in backseats and fuzzy" with Pam Magee, another to help them feel warm and fuzzy everywhere engaging in "freedom kiss- "down there") and finally, even took a former Marine, but nevertheless, I ing," and you know that once that shower with each member of ASBSU. decided that these accusations should starts, it won't be long before someone Having completed my research, I be investigated. Therefore I took it whips out a freedom sausage! deduced that ASBSU is NOT wasting upon myself' to launch a thorough Please, call your senators and repre- investigation into these allegations. time or money on unimportant issues. Way to go Bob! You sure showed sentatives in Washington and demand You may find this hard to believe, My evidence for this is that in our Republican Representative Bob Ney them! But wait, it gets better. that the ban on the word French be lift- but in the past I have been accused of Student Union Building: french fries (Ohio), who is "in charge of House Bob Ney was later quoted as saying ed before its too late and we end up not not thoroughly researching a topic arc still called french fries and french affairs," has decided to get back at that "once the French government being allowed to say the name of any . before making fun of it. Therefore, I toast is still called french toast. France for not supporting us in the Iraq comes around, we can get back to talk- country that has ever done anything decided to change my ways and take You are probably wondering what I conflict by changing the name of ing about french fries." Great Bob. I'm that Republicans don't like. advantage of every possible opportuni- am talking about. french fries to "Freedom Fries" in the

sions in class, in her concern for describe quite different phe- Michael Blain the well being of her pupils and nomena,For. instance, while Professor and Chair in supporting the career aspira- some contributors. have simply Department of Sociology Letters tions of current and former stu- used a set number of drinks per The Arbiter is seeking dents. drinking -occaslonto define' a Bushsbould send bis daugh-.' . guest opinions from Boise ters to Iraq.,; ' . She excels in her additional binge (e.g., five drinksina row Guest--'------State students, facultyand duties well. She is so incred- for. men and four drinks in a ~Edit~t as staff. Give us your best . iblydedicatedthat, though busy fO\V for women), others feel 'Mr. President, since you as the dean of the Political that the term "binge" should seem so hell benton war, may I Opinion rant in 800 words or fewer. Advertising does not lead to Science Department, she runs a only be. used to describe an ask one favor? Send your Send submissions to ' binge drinking ... great internship program and extended.' b,out· of drinking. or. daughters .to die and not my editor®arbiteronline.com. While many well-meaning she managed to help me land a other substance use (often oper- sons, " ' .observers believe that alcohol great job, even though I haven't ationalized as at least two days) ads cause people to begin drink- been around since graduating in in. which the person neglects Duane Ayers ing, to drink more or lead to Spring 2001.. ". other activities in order to US Army, retired Boise . increases in' alcohol-related Besides giving me a very drink. problems, the scientific' evi- informative educational expert- In order to avoid the 'confu- .denee does .not support them ence, she helped me 'to .Iand· a sion that .can. potentially. arise Middle Eastern women are ("Experts: Alcohol consump- great internship during my when different clinical phe-extremely opp r essed.... " tion related to media mes- senior year, and now I have n.omena.·are being d.es<;rib.edby sages"). acquired an' excellent govern- . the same name, the Journal has I have been reading articles ' Decades of .research con-. ment job ina field that is excit- now adopted .a'.' pollcr, .. that both 'fro and anti-war, and' dueted by governments, health ing and personally fulfilling, requires tlieteriri "binge" to be whil.e. l\!Ustrongly opposed to; The~bit~r ag¢nciesand universities thanks in great part to her will, 'l~ed in ,a specific.' ,way, in the.\yarm Iraq, [beheve one: 1910UnIversityDrive' Phone:~204' «arcund the world rathtir consis- . ingness to writealetteroLrec, a,ccepte,4.: .,;-,;J;I1~,!sGrlpts; key.,lSS\lebas.b~n..letl,UJlll4-: Boise. 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For these reasons; It soncrepeatCdly" . administers stanccs'these\vomeriare forced; The Arbiter is the official student newspaper of Boise State ProducerSspendmillionsof is my now highly educated alcoholoranother substance to to endure; however,theywere University. Its mission is to provide a forum for the dis- cussion of issues affecting the BSU community. The dollars on alcohol ads because opinion that Dr. > Patricia the point of intoxication,' and .qUickly forgotten as Bush start-, successful advertisers .increase Fredericksen is the greatest!, gives IIp lrisllierusual activities ed screart1ing for blood.. , .. ': Arbiter's budget consists of fees paid by the student body their market share. They do this. . and obligations in order to use .....'The women in. Afghanistan, and advertising sales. The paper is distributed Mondays at the expense of their competi- Fred R. Hale the substance; Itis the comblna- Pakistan •.Iraq, etc. are' being' and Thursdays to the campus during the academic school tors, who lose market share. Boise State alum· tion' of prolonged use '.and the' abused. iUld' oppressed at this year. The first copy is free. Additional copies can be Reliearch has also failed to!pving up ofusual activities that. ,very moment. .They are' kept purchased for $1 apiece at the Arbiter editorial office. find that the depiction of drink- The truth about binge forms the core' o£the definition' ~mprisoned in their houses; they, ing in movies or TV shows has drinking... ora "binge." '. '.•. ; .. J areonly.aIlowed out under the Submit letters to the editor to: any impact other than influenc- If authors ate using the word supervision· of a male {amily ing a brand's market share. 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Reed war crimes, human-rights viola- ing they are Kurdish. Sounds to Student ------tions, and crimes' against me like what Hitler did with the humanity since no one else will Jewish people. Saddam and his As America and the world .take up the issue. regime have used mass execu- prepares for war, I find myself The United States govern- tions, torture and widespread growing more and more con- ment has listed close to 24 dif- destruction to strike fear into'the cerned. Concerned not at the ferent war crimes, but it's the Kurdish population, and to pre- fact that were going over there, British government that has sup- vent a Kurdish uprising. . but at the fact that as plied more information regard- The peace of the Shia Americans, we claim to be this ing his war crimes and human- Muslims, ended when Saddam beacon for life, liberty and the -rights violations than the United came to power. During the '80s, pursuit of happiness, yet we fail States has. These war crimes many Shia clerics were execut- . to even mention the one true . and human-rights violations cd just because they became too reason why we should go over, range from the use of weapons prominent and threatened to Iraq and remove Sad dam and of mass destruction to genocide Saddam's power. his regime from power. and include rape and torture. After the Gulf war, the Shia That reason is Sad dam and One of Saddam's regime's community revolted against his regime's countless war primary weapons ~e::.inst his Saddam. Some 100 clerics dis- crimes, human rights violations people and those who oppose appeared: entire village popula- and crimes against humanity him and his regime is the use of tions were forcibly expelled or they have committed for the torture. killed. Around 40,000 Shia peo- past 37 years. Types of torture include: eye ple have been forced to live in Granted, at the Pro-War rally gouging, hand-piercing with an refugee camps along the Brad Christensen, president of electric drill, pouring acid into Iraq/Iran boarder. the College Republicans, made open wounds, electric shock In 1999, 100 Shia women mention of it, but I still have not (mainly to genitals, ears, and children were killed during seen anyone write, speak or do tongues and fingers), sexual a peaceful protest against anything about these issues. abuse (which includes taking Saddarn and his regime. As a For those who do not know broken glass bottles and placing result of this protest, Saddam what I am talking about, or for them in victims' anuses) and drained massive areas of the those that might have forgotten, falaqa (beating victims' soles Marshlands in Iraq, placing the let me take some time to refresh with a cable). Shia culture in further jeopardy. you. memory. Other physical tortures Saddam's genocide of the For years, human-rights include extinguishing cigarettes Kurds and Shias has resulted in organizations such as Amnesty on the victims' body, extraction the deaths of 1.5 million people. International, Human Rights of fingernails or toenails, beat- book, The Rape of Kuwait, by family member to kill any waste. You arc forced to live These are only a few of the Watch and United Nations High ings, mock executions and acid Jean P. Sasson, you can read female family member whenev- this way until the day of your stories about Saddarn's war Commission on Human Rights baths - this is just if you're a how Saddam's military, during er they want. execution if you last that long. crimes, human-rights violations have been after Saddam and his male. the 1990 Kuwait invasion, When it comes to prison con- In 1998, the United Nations and crimes against humanity. regime for their treatment of Women are subjected to the refused to allow thousands of ditions, just imagine how you weapons inspectors stated that How much longer should the prisoners and of the Iraqi peo- same treatment and are also sub- Kuwaiti people to flee the coun- would feel if our government the Iraqi government had used United States and the world sit ple, including women and chil- jected to being raped repeatedly. try. You can read how the Iraqi arrested you just because you biological and chemical back and watch a tyrant lie, dren. One of Saddam's recent meth- soldiers raped Kuwaiti women, disagreed with a policy, or weapons on some of their pris- cheat, steal, rape, torture, mur- Saddam has been determined ods of torture is forcing male beat them and bit off their nip- because you were a family oners. No wonder the inspectors der and commit genocide before to destroy two civilizations: The family members to watch ples, or cut them in various member of someone that spoke can't find them now - Saddam we will do anything about it? Kurds to the north and the Shias female family members being places and just left them where out against our government. used them. This war is not about oil, and to the south. raped, they were raped to bleed to Therefore, our government Saddam doesn't stop with it's not about finishing what Saddam and his regimes It has been recorded by the death. To this day, Saddam and orders your arrest and throws torture, rape or inhuman prison President Bush's father failed to have countless rape, murder, Human Rights· Watch that his regime have demonstrated you into jail, the size of a dog conditions. He has also perse- do, and to say so is wrong. torture and kidnapping charges. Udday Saddam Hussein, their disrespect for women. In kennel, and holds you without cuted his own people particular- This war is about what Not to mention his acts of gcno- Saddam's oldest son, main- 2000, about a dozen women trial. You're given no medical ly the Kurds in thc north and the Americans claim they stand for: cidc in which Saddam used taincd and used a private tor- were accused of prostitution. care, water but no food, you're Shia or Marshland Arabs in the life, liberty and the pursuit of chemical and biological turc-chambcr, and frequently They were arrested and behead- beaten daily, and if you're a south. happiness. This is why we weapons to kill close to 1.5 mil- raped and murdered young ed without having a trial, or woman you are raped. You have During the late '80s, in a should go to war with Iraq, lion people, most of them women, some as young as the anything that even resembles no rights; you arc not even pris- campaign called the "Alfal," remove Saddam from power women and children, Saddam's age of 14. any form of justice. oucr of war. You arc given 11.0 Saddam used chemical gas to and to bring him before the justification for his actions: Raping women is common Saddam has passed laws toilet, nor a bed to sleep on, so attack a Kurd-controlled village. International War Crimes relentless determination to stay for Saddam's regime. In the making it legal for any male you arc forced to lie in your own Some 5,000 people lost their Tribunal. Homosexuafity is not a morul issue

peers? That perhaps he mis- stigmatization discussed ... the My question for Mr. Kenning Guest-----,-- judges the lure ofthc h;lPPY het- .APA opposes any psychiatric is: What is it about homosexual- croscxual life he hopes to "con- treatment, such as 'reparative' ity that scares you so much? Arc vert" me to? or 'conversion' therapy which is gay people in your life asking Opinion Evcn if I believed that my based on the assumption that you to convert to homosexuality homosexuality isn't hereditary homosexuality per se is a mental because you seem so lonely and (despite nearly a dozen happy disorder or based on a prior unhappy and incapable of Rv Roh McDiarmid homos all over mv father's side assumption that the patient acceptance or satisfaction? 8~isc ------of the family ov~r the years), should change his/her sexual !\1r. Kenning makes an excel- many of Mr. Kenning's conclu- orientation. ~, lent point at the end of his arti- In response to 'Straight Talk sions arc simplistic. The The APA's condemnation of cle when he says, "Change, On Homosexuality': When peo-: American Psychiatric ex-gay therapy is based on the though extremely difficult (but pic talk to me about the moral Association has officially fact that such therapy is prej u- perhaps extremely rewarding), issues surrounding homosexual- declared reparative therapy for diced and often backed by peo- is possible." Clearly that is a ity I usually respond with a kind homosexuals unethical, ple who are seeking to apply profound and powerful state- but finn, "There are no moral Let's share with you the offi- their moral standard on some- ment: issues surrounding homoscxual- cial statement from the APA on one else's life. The problem I Isn't it interesting, however, ..,.._."..- !~n(' ity and plcasc gct with the 21st cx-gay therapy: "The potential personally have with ex-gay that he is W wOlTied about offer- ccntury." risks of 'reparative therapy' are therapy and those who ihink it's ing others the ability to discover pac.kets are· Due Jarcd Kenning's March 10 great, including depression, a viable treatment is that I am his moral conscrvativeness? editorial in The Arbitcr suggests anxicty and self-destructive hardly a lonely, unhappy person Perhaps he could take the time that he has never had an openly behavior, since therapist align- without acceptance or satisfac- to understand why a gay person ~cOOJ[D~OO]~W~M~ 1)9) gay or lesbian person in his life ment with societal prejudices tion. might not want to submit to con- that he could view as happy, against homosexuality may I have been with my partner servative 19th century morality successful and without thc need reinforce self-hatred already for seven years. We havc a nice and perhaps change his need to Pick up youl p'acket today . for ;1is moral judgment. expcrienccd by the patient. house on a comer lot by the want to change other people. Moral conscrvatives in this Many patients who have under- Boise River. My partner attends The great thing about and become a student leadel! country wouid havc you believe gone 'reparative therapy' relate functions with me regarding my America, despite bigotry and that gay and lesbian peoplc are that they were inaccurately told work, we ow~ two cars, have homophobia, is that we arc free' miserablc, and are just waiting that homosexuals are lonely, two telTi'crs and pay taxes. to be exactly who we·want to be. to be enlightr.nccl hy the right unhappy individuals who nevcr His family loves me and my No movement, no mattcr how Elections are April 9 & 10 rcligious group, thus changing achieve acceptance or satisfac- family loves him. Our neighbors morally "right" it claims to be, them into morally "straight" tion. The possibility that the stop and chat with us as we has the right to judge other on BroncoWeb Amcricans. Would it surprisc person might achieve happiness work in the garden. We have Americans unworthy of life, lib- moral conservativcs like and satisfying interpersonal straight couples,' gay couples erty and the pursuit of Questions, call 426-1440 Kenning that I've been,opcnly relationships as a gay man or and transgcnder couples in our happiness. homosexual for 15 of my 36 'lesbian is not presented, nor are lives. We have single straight years and am just as happy and alternative approaches to deal- friends who don't feel threat· content as my heterosexual ing with the effects of societal ened or uncomfortable. IHEARBllERBJ 011 is looking for an" ,is looking f~r .' ...... ~ ....

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Monday, March 17, 2003 ::..=:a.::;.Page-=---:6• T=-==he Ar~biter ~Sports Broncos come up shortC\(~;"·,nstHuskies The Boise State men's tennis team rebounded after losing to ''t\·:~tt~t\)~:;.;: No. 23-ranked Tulane Thursday, By Andrea Trujillo nothing lower than a 9.8," Sandmire to defeat No, 43-ranked South The Arbiter said. Alabama on Friday and Norte Holmes, who has been solid on -Dame on Saturday. Against South Alabama, the The Boise State gymnastics team her three events all season long, took Broncos won the doubles point scored, 195A5 in a losing 'effort second on both bars and beam. with victories at one doubles against ,the':, No. l2-ranked Sandmire attributes Holmes' success with Marcus 'Berntson and Washington Huskies-Friday night in to her sheer desire to win. Guillaume Bouvier, and at two front ofriearly a thousand fans in the "Breanne has this attack attitude doubles with Mahmoud Rezk Pavilion::''':i.,.,:,,· , that is really working for her. She and Thomas Schoeck. Then in singles, Bouvier won The Broncos stayed with wants it so bad and is really aggres- at two, Schoeck won at three Washington on every event with the sive. It's an impressive thing to and Matias Silva won at five, for exception of the vault. The team lost watch. You can just see the intensity the Broncos' four points. South on that event by about .6, which on her face," Sandmire said. Alabama's Heinrich Heyl proved to be the difference in the In addition to the steady high- defeated Marcus Berntson for lights the Broncos have featured all the South Alabama point. meet's final score. , On Saturday, the Broncos Coach Sam Sandmire said it looks season long, a welcome addition was battled Notre Dame to a 4-0 like the Broncos will qualify for the back for the team that night. Senior defeat of the Fighting Irish in west regional. Despite the loss to the Kara Walsh, who has been working their third match of the Blue- Huskies, Sandmire said she is not her way back from surgery, debuted Gray Tennis Classic in on the beam against the Huskies. Montgomery, Ala. Boise State disappointed in the team's perfor- Sandmire said the team needed a went 2-1 in the Classic. mance. A&ainst Notre Dame, Boise "To come that close to a Pac-tO solid hit to lead off on beam, and State s Marcus Berntson and power, ranked 12th nationally is Kara did the job. Guillaume Bouvier won at num- pretty impressive," Sandmire said. After barely losing to the highly ber one doubles. Matias Silva The Broncos struggled on vault regarded Washington team this and Ehren Vaughan won at weekend, the Broncos are poised and number three which gave the and bars, scoring 48.4 and 48.575 Broncos the doubles point. respectively. Coach Sandmire said ready for their last home meet, this In singles, Marcus Berntson she attributes the lower scores to the Friday, against Southern Utah. won at one, Thomas Schoeck increasing level of difficulty the Sandmire said the team still has won at three and Nils Klemann team isapplying tothose events, and something to prove.' won at four. The rest of the looksfor ,the. team to, improve on "The thing is, our best perfor- matches were then stopped in both' events.' , mance is yetto come. We're a high the team tournament format. ' The men's team is off until Afterthe shaky start on, the vault 196 team when w.e hit solid; Weplari -""', March 28 when they welcome and bars, the Broncos regrouped and to do that' at our 'last" home' meet:' 'l' Brigham Young to Boise. performed well on the next two Kara Walsh and Bre, our seniors, The Broncos arc now 10-6 events. Behind the senior leadership deserve that," Sandrnire said. overall. of Breanne Holmes, the team scored a 49.275 on beam .and a 49.2 on Boise State Women's Tennis ,'floor. Sandmire said Holmes chal·, Team Dereats Weber State lenged the girls to focus, and the , , team responded. Kara Walsh on the beam agalnst , Washington on Friday nightin .:' The Boise State women's "Brearmetold the team to change the The Pavilion. tennis team defeated the Weber the path and start attacking, to go for State Wildcats, 7-0, Saturday in perfection. We wenton the beam and the Boas Indoor Tennis Center. In the match, the Broncos, rocked. We hit every set and counted Photo by Stanley Brewster, The Arbiter swept all three doubles positions with Renate Stoop and Alissa Ayling at one. Carolina Pongratz and Erin Polowski at Evolution of women in sportsreaches a new stage two, and Laurie Cheung and . . .' ';" . ,," -. ' ',. . ',,' ~':.'- ~';,' Anna Curtolo at three, "A woman trying to out- Boise State's six singles' 'rensta m bravest are searching for the would play in MayatColonial women's..1 ", ,", S, o limits of their potential. If that not long-after club pro Suzy MliryJq; Ka~e; .director of race a man will be booed out players also won in their respec- of the stadium," he said. tive positions - Stoop at one, "But what about a taller- Polowski at two, Ayling at top Iayin the ~~~~t :~~~u~~: n~~~ir' game ~h:~~y WO:ufdo~~:cJ~~u~~:I~}~: , ~~~ar~h~~~diii;:~~e~ or:~~ three, Curtolo at four, Pongratz "I'm doing this totally ing spotto play in the Greater in Spo'rt-ai!iheMniversity of than-average, stronger-than- at five and Cheung at six. PGA To U r because it's a test for me," Hartford Open in July. ' Minnesota, said:' Sorenstam average woman competing in The team travels to Provo' to Sorenstam said. "I'm not car- "I've always liked chal- should be applauded for her a skill sport? The element of battle Brigham Young this rying the LPG A on my shoul- lenges," said Sorenstam, who attitude. technique complicates the per- weekend before headmg to By Linda Robertson ders by any means. I'm trying chose Colonial because its "She wants to push herself centage of physiological dif- Irvine, Calif., for the UC Irvine Knight Ridder Newspapers - to raise my game to a different design rewards accuracy more as far as she can go," Kane ference." Spring invitational on March 25. level. For me, this is going to than long-ball hitting.' said. "Nothing could be more In riflery, the only coed When Ann Meyers, was become my fifth major." "1 want to enjoy the gender-neutral." NCAA sport, women often Bronco women finished invited to tryout for the Sorenstam is not the first moment to play with the best Could there ever be a day outshoot men. Indiana Pacers basketball woman to challenge men. guys in the world, on one of when we live in a gender-neu- Kane has pondered the in invitational team in 1979, she was given Babe Didrikson Zaharias the best courses. I'm a human tral society at work, at home, sociological implications. "If we argue for the inte- no chance of making lilt: 103- played in a PCA Tour event in being, and I'm going to be and at the arena? When coed The Boise State women's ter. To everybody except 1945 - and made the 36-hole nervous. I know that. But I leagues are the norm? When gration of sports, it helps a golf team finished seventh of 13 Meyers, the whole gender- cut. also love what I do. I want to women putt and swim and few elite women, but it also teams in the Anteater opens up a Pandora's box for Invitational with a 961 after bending exercj se was merely a Other pioneers have made see if I can handle it." serve against men? When other women," she said. three rounds. publicity stunt. breakthroughs in the past. Mickey Wright was the even quarterbacks and point The UC Irvine women's golf Nearly a quarter century Shirley "Cha-Cha" Sorenstam of her era. She won guards are female? Is it realis- "If there's only one basket- team "won the Anteater later, Annika Sorenstam has Muldowney beat "Big Daddy" 13 tournaments in 1963 and tic? Is it desirable? ball team at Connecticut, then Invitational by two strokes over accepted her own invitation to Don Garlits to become the 44 during a four-year stretch. "Women are naturally at a women - not men - will suf- Cal State Northridge at the Coto play against men. When the first woman to win a national She was asked if she wanted physical disadvantage, and fer. If the top five women de Caza Golf and Racquet Club world's most dominant female drag-racing title in 1976, and a to play in a men's tournament they always will be unless we golfers play on the PGA Tour, ' in Coto de Caza, CATuesday. golfer tees it up in the PGA year later, Janet Guthrie by fans and reporters, "but I evolve into different crea- that hurts the LPGA. It's a The' Anteaters shot a third became the first woman to just daydreamed about it," she tures," said David Martin, a dicey proposition. round total of 310 to finish the Tour's Colonial event, she'll race in the Indianapolis 500. said. Georgia State physiologist and ' "What's interesting is what tournament with a score of 925, be given no chance of win- will happen if you start raising two shots ahead of Cal State ning. But 'unlike Meyers, Nancy Lieberman became the "It wasn't show biz back medical director for USA Northridge 927 \ Michigan fin- Sorcnstam has as many sup- first woman to play in a men's then, and there was no IMG or Track and Field. . girls to believe from the ished third at 930. porters as skeptics. pro basketball league in 1980. ESPN," said Wright, 68, who He has done statistical pro- minute they are born that their Cal State Northridges's To her, it's not about Libby Riddles won the lives in Port St. Lucie. jections on marathon times, competitors are not confined Elizabeth Allen shot even par crowd-arousing gimmickry Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race "I never had any illusions. and. although women have to the same gender. People for the tournament (216) to earn but about personal goals. It's in 1985., Jockey Julie Krone I'd win a tournament, then go been improving at a faster rate tend to rise to the level of our medalist honors. Uri's Stella not a battle of the sexes, as became the first woman to win home and practice with ex-pro than men (because women expectations. " Lee shot a two-under Tuesday to a Triple Crown race, at Earl Stewart, and even when haven't been competing for as If it's hard to imagine a finish in second at 220. was Billie Jean King's 1973 Belmont in 1993. Julie I'd hit with a driver, he'd out- many years), he doesn't ever woman in Yankees pinstripes Boise State's Ashley Hog tennis match against Bobby or sharing' a bobsled with a , tied for IOth with 315 as the Riggs, but a battle within her- Croteau played co !lege base- hit me with a 2-iron. see women running 26.2 miles I highest Bronco finisher. self. ball, and IIa Borders pitehed "I admire Annika and it as fast as men. man, recall that athletic schol- - , I The Broncos defeated Thc evolution of women for the St. Paul Saints in the will be exciting to watch her "At least not in the foresee- arships for women were Kansas, UC Riverside, Eastern athletes has reached a new '90s. . play. But as a general rule, I abl,c future, which is further unheard of two generations Michigan, Austin Peay, Cal stage. No longer are they Sorenstam, a Swede who think the men's tour should than anybody can calculate," ago. Poly and Cal State San Marcos grateful for the opportunity to won 13 women's toumaments remain the men's>and the he ,~aid. "Sooner or later you in the team effort. compete. Now, the best and last season, announced she women's should remain the run out of data."

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By Tanya D.obson By Phil Dailey The Arbiter ------The Arbiter ------On Saturday night in the ',;The Broncos headed to Tulsa Reynolds's Center in Tulsa, i laStwee~~ compete-in tlie2003 Okla., the 2003 Western William's. WACwomen's'bils~ Athletic Conference season i ketball tournament/Tuesday the. . ended with the home team I I Bronco's took on UTEP in the advancing to the NCAA · first round of tournament action Tournament. - and dominated the Miners with a Former Boise State graduate, sc9fe of75-58., . Trent Johnson led his Nevada .··j.~e~i,9r:AbbY'V.aug~an ledthe ' ... Wolf Pack team much further than expected as they faced off ·'.~. \Vlth',21~Jlj)lOts ~d·'fre~h •.....,\'c' against top- seeded Tulsa in the •.r.,,' \ :.' ',.. ,',' ", .. -~ championship of the WAC tour- pOI "lin .o '" .un ;"U~"'" nament. w~,Ied. 'by:~Notie:':w6m-eJtI~te ..' .: ". :-,Women'S: Tournament MVP Nevada was hardly a match .W:lt~..14,pomts'; ~ndD\rllglj.nl:t. . for the more-experienced · Z;onc's ,"ouble~ouble'Of'12 Golden Hurricane, as Tulsa pohltS)mdlJ reboUnds::' .'.; defeated Nevada 75-64 and advanced to its third NCAA ,',s~l~~~{~~~~r:r£;b~b~~~: ;,:. tournament appearance in the see~'J;:Q4isiiUla,Tech.t.a;Tech.is- last four years. · ~~/~ix,.th in the co,untry'lirid The championship game '. .eel undefeated It! confer~ seemed to be over before it start- e 'ay't!wing !eglllar season.' ed as the Golden Hurricane had La ..., h beat.theBroncos.bya the home-court advantage as sco~pf80-55 ... '", ,;' '. .'" well as winning the two previ- i;,t~.Q~IlI'OMandy,Weleh had l-l ous match-ups earlier this sea- pq~'ts. and five rebounds, and son. Tournament MVP Kevin JamieHawkins added frl#shinan Johnson took charge for Tulsa 13"j)pjrits; four rebounds and scoring 18 points in the win. , tbreeJ.~teals to the game. :.. - Dante Swanson also added 23 , :,':\~eni()r. Cheryl Ford's 18 points for the Golden Hurricane. points: and nine rebounds, as The Golden Hurricane soared well' as .Trina Frierson who had through its first two games of i9j>oints 'and six rebounds led the tournament against Texas-EI >.~. ,;rech.-Also for La. Tech, Paso and Hawai'i, winning by a . Aadca Rayhad 1:4points 'and. combined 43 points. -Amber Obaze added '10. 'i'~' . Third-seeded Nevada's path " ..,.,i'.,IheBrqncos pnish the sea~ was similar as they beat t4: ~on o.\J,tJlO~f~,P,x~r~!~;!!!\~'t,~-12 Louisiana Tech by six and III coriTetefice'pliiy. . : Southern Methodist in a blow hi other games, Tuesday, out, 81-66. Southern Methodist defeated Tulsa was awarded the num- ber one seed only after the regu- Nevada. Wednesday, seventh lar season champion Fresno seeded SMU defeated second State was declared ineligible for seeded Rice 58-55. Third seed post-season play. The Bulldogs Fresno State defeated sixth seed- put themselves on probation eclt:San Jose State 63-57, and after investigations of academic .; .•!J;.~at'is~ut do;vn Tulsa 62-48, fraud two years ago. Tn the semi-finals, Fresno With no hope of an NCAA , ,$f:l1~e. beat .Southern' Methodist tournament bid due to the viola- SUIte 81-67iUld Louisiana Tech tions, Fresno State wanted to ""defeated Hawai'I 85~58; participate in this season WAC .' The final game was held tournament in defense of its reg- Saturday against La. Tech and ular season title. The Bulldogs third seeded Fresno State. Ford were denied that opportunity by the WAC, fearing they could . I was on fire once more as she broke a WAC single game possibly win the tournament and : I steal the automatic NCAA bid - record and set a new career high keeping a deserving team out of with 25 rebound. She was also this years national champi- named tournament MVP. La. onship tournament. Tech won the conference cham- With Fresno State ineligible, pionship 89-57 against the only one team in this year's Bulldogs and is now on their NCAA tournament will repre- way to the NCAA tournament. sent the WAC. Last season both La. Tech finish the regular Photo courtesy ol WAC Hawai'i and Tulsa were invited season 18-0 in conference and with Tulsa defeating Marquette Dante Swanson and the Golden Hurricane advance to the NCAA Tournament in a win against Nevada on Saturday. 29-2 overall. in the first round. In rule-breaking, Jim Harrick is head of the class

By Dan LeBatard ers have been suspended with UCLA for lying about expense J.1(nightRidder lVClt'Spapers- pay, too. accounts. and askinl! his assis~ Georgia's players, now tants to lie for him, too. ThJ.L J.l.A .1.... l~dL AAArbiter."-JA ~& Aside from the lying and denied tournament play, have Georgia has veri fied at least e cheating and academic fraud been stripped of a fine season, some of the allegations of aca- and fake expense rcports and and there will be much demic fraud that happened allegations of sexual miscon- boohoo-ing that paints them as under Harriek while it contin- duct, Jim Harrick is really victims, but let's not confuse ues to investigate more. A is now hiring for the following everything you'd ever want in ourselves here. team trailed by this kind of an educator. The school, by its own cloud can't be allowed to keep .You know what "class" was admission, is dirty. We don't playing for the championship positions for next at the University of Georgia know how many of the players at the highest level of what is under Harrick? It was some- are innocent, but we don't supposed to be amateurism if Fall '03 and Spri!J..g'04. thing basketball players know how many are guilty, you are still pretending that the skipped and something the pro- either. Harrick wasn't dabbling first word in "student-athlete" gram lacked. in academic fraud because he is student. Harrick has always been was trying to improve his No matter how cynical you known for erasing a program's grade-point average, you are, though, no matter how cor- "L's," so it can't be surprising - know? rupt you believe college sports • Advertising Manager when he eliminates the one that This is a tainted team led by to be, no matter how many " transforms Georgia from insti- a coach the university and times a Dexter Manley leaves tution of higher learning to players knew was tainted college illiterate, it remains institution of higher earning. before he ever arrived at nonetheless jarring to hear a And how perfect is it, by the Georgia. Harrick didn't go player admit that, yeah, the way, that Georgia suspends from a championship at a sto- coaches gave him good grades • Assistant Ad. Manager Harrick· with pay while it ried program at UCLA to an for doing nothing. Oh, well. At least the dis- I. essentially fires his players for outpost like Rhode Island 1 the season? Actually, check because he wanted to spread missal of Harrick's team will that. Given some of the allega- the gospel of education from make room for an honest one tions, we can assume the play- coast to coast. He was fired at in the NCAA Tournament. '1 • Account Executives " , ..s-n 1'IUS""-c$ • Graphic Designers JM?r{deltX'ringLegendary Food and Legendary Service to ,every guest:· We cue flair. We offer fresh cut steaks, the Best BBG ribs in the valley. " baked bread that will satisfy the ~eartiest of appetites. gh Thursday before 6 pm.' I· Some positions available'with ··'evening dinner special i J .' "internship credits andscholUship ...

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'The Hunted' displays an impressrve• • chase

Photo by Andrew Cooper/Paramount Pictures (March 7) Tommy Lei! Jones, left, and Benicia Del Taro star in "The Hunted."

wall? red. Cars, buses and scaffoldings makes sure the momentum nobility of killing with one's By Chris Hewitt We might be willing to cut Blunt, muscular and single- arc all used as Jones and Del never lets up. bare hands, lguess, but a movie Knight Ridder Newspapers - the movie soine slack, except minded, The Hunted is a 98- Toro run after each other, pause Still. The machismo on dis- that thinks we'll believe that Del minute chase scene, and on that to engage in hand-to-severed- play shifts from stirring to goofy Toro - on the run, sleepless and that it also gives us no reason to Jugulars arc sliced and limbs root for either character. That level, it succeeds. hand combat, then run some at about the time Jones and Del with no tools, time or supplies- arc hacked off in The Hunted. was not the case in the far supe- Art incredibly violent film in Jones' role is much like the more. Toro, both of whom have access can create elaborately con- guy he played in The Fugitive, The stunts arc impressive, to machine-guns and surveil- ceived, Rube Goldberg traps for rior The Fugitive, although it which an animal tracker docs bring another comparison (Tommy Lee Jones) uses except we know even less about the acting is persuasive, and lance equipment, stop chasing Jones is a movie that treats us to mind. In that film, Tommy nature-based methods to locate a him. Director William Friedkin Friedkin - who has retained his each other long enough to forge like we're stupid. Lee Jones famously told slaughter-happy, rogue CIA (The French Connection and a affection for crude visual jokes their own daggers out of pieces And if Del Toro's so cagey Harrison Ford, "I don't care." agent (Benicio Del Toro), The lot of crap since) wastes no time like the one where we cut from a of rock and blunt steel. and clever, why docs he leave This time around, you're the one Hunted has plenty of blaze on characterizations but cuts, lit- guy hurling to a waterfall The Hunted means to say more footprints than a muddy who won't care. orange and even more blood erally, to the chase. hurtling down a mountain - something about the primal kid dancing on white wall-to- ·Glover cements reputation lor weirdness in 'Willard'

By Gabriel Shapiro Catching, a collage of sorts, in remake of the 1971 horror film Minnesota Daily (U. Minnesota) which fie took a children's book Willard. from the 1800s and added his Willard Stiles is an over- Crispin Glover might be the own illustrations, photographs grown boy, apf,roaching 30 weirdest man in Hollywood and writing. and still living at tome with his and one of the most multital- With that work, Glover cre- mother and in the constant ented to boot. ated a piece of outsider art that presence of his deceased father. He has appeared in more has been circulating among Willard is tormented by his than 30 movies and rarely fails weirdos, film geeks and the rest tyrannical boss at work (played to steal the show even in small of his fans ever since. by the always awesome R. Lee cameo roles. The actor is best His 1989 album The BiS Ermey), lonely in a crowd, and ,known as George McFly from Problem (does not equal) The beginning to crack under life's 1985's Back to the Future. Soiution. The Solution = LET IT mounting strain. Glover's genius is his ability BE spawned- the endlessly He discovers he does have to bring complexity to charac- creeBY perennial mix tape odd- friends, though not the kind ters, no matter how much ity 'Clowny Clown Clown," a you might take dancing or cook screen time they have. song so uniquely Gloverian dinner with: They're rats. This stems from <1 combina- that, although few people can Thousands of which inhabit the tion of his ability to so convinc- identify the album, most recog- cave-like basement of his ingly become whatever person nize the frantic voice (even if decaying house. he is portraying, his odd, atypi- only as "that McFly guy"). Horror film it may be, but cal {at least by Hollywood stan- These favorites provide this is no simple Slasher flick. dards) look and a sort of tran- some glimpse of Glover's mad- There is a profound investiga- scendental weirdness that per- - man genius, but perhaps the tion of the human psyche going meates everything related to best window into the surreal on. All of the characters, includ- him and his work. world inside his mind is his ing the rats - and even Glover's acting career has a directorial debut What Is It? In Willard's house - become strand of oddity that runs that film, a cast comprised charged symbols, representa- through every role he's played. nearly entirely of actors with tives of the forces at work However, if we step back a Dcwn syndrome told the story inside each of us. little further to include his work of a man obsessed with snails, Glover himself referred to as an author, musician and racism and hell. What Is It was the movie's Freudian themes, director, the whole Crispin screened as part of Glover's saying "There is an id element Glover experience comes touring "Big Slide Show," for that is being represented, and a together into a continuum of art which this reporter spent a superego. If one wants to be at the very fringe of normality. completely bizarre evening at strictly Freudian, it's like the In 1987, Glover's publishing First Avenue way back in 1997. rats both enact Willard's wants company, Volcanic Eruptions, Now Glover returns to the and also tell him to do this or released his first book, Rat leading man category in a don't do that." Willard KAT Photo by Pierre Vinet/New Line Cinema Crispin Glo~er stars in "Willard." Ataris stroll down memory lane

By Charles Nauman to the Ataris' Web site. The Louisiana State University _ "I guess when it comes The Reveille lyrics of the title track, "So graphic design freshman Drew down to it / Being grown up (Louisiana State U.j --- Long, Astoria" tells the story of Rielley. isn't half as fun as growing up," the album. "It's good, but it seems a lit- sings Roc in "In This Diary." After nearly two years with- "Life is only as good as the tle over-produced." "These arc the best days of out an album, the Ataris memories we make / And I'm The polished and more our lives / The only thing that released their major label debut, taking back what belongs to melodic sounds of this album matters is just following your "So Long, Astoria" on March 4 me," sings Kris Roe in the make it seem more mainstream heart / And eventually you'll with Columbia Records. album's title track "So Long, than the Ataris' earlier work. get it right." The album is an interesting Astoria." However, the band members The lyrics and overall solid break from their earlier work The first thing fans will continue their tradition of solid mixing of the album proves the with Kung Fu Records. notice is the extremely polished guitars and lyrics fans have Ataris arc becoming more expe- MONDAY' 03//7' NOON TO CLOSE This is the Ataris' fifth full- sound the Ataris shot for with come to expect. rienced as musicians and Sf'lIflIIfIffJIty length album. The band also has this album. With a new major label putting more time in at the stu- worked on many other compila- Rather than the rough sound comes new recognition for _the dio. LIve MusIc All Day tion albums with the Kung Fu _of its first few albums, the band band. The relatively unknown From the' slow, heartfelt amll:l The Boise Highlanders 8alPIpe 8Gnd Records label. sounds as if they put a lot of band made an appearance on sounds of "My Reply" to the " •• • The album centers on the work into this album. However, MTV's "TRL" Wednesday," hard-hitting rock anthems of I theme of memories, according some fans might miss the some- according to www.mtv.com. "All You Can Ever Learn Is what unpolished sound of The lyrics arc standard What You Already Know," the their earlier work. Ataris ranging anywhere from album features something all "It's kind-of a more cheesy songs about girls to growing up rock fans can enjoy. pop-punk than what I've without a father. Roc belts them heard from the Ataris," said out with his signature intensity. ,.

Monday, March 17,2003. Diversions The Arbiter • Page 9 The BloodBrothers give. lesson in post-modernism

iar territory, where angular guitar lines mix with glass-shattering New vocals in a way that.seems almost necessary. On this album, unlike the previ- album ous two, they take more opportuni- ties to slow it down and add more diverse instruments such as a xylo- spills the phone, electric piano and an . acoustic guitar. The result is complex textures new voice without compromising the sheer energy of the music. of Seattle The sound gets almost atmos- pheric before exploding back into the sharp, detrimental post-punk By Justin Prescott. that only a few can learn to love. The Arbiter ------The Blood Brothers formed in Seattle in 1997 as a five-piece band The hjgh-pitched screaming is including the usual bass, drums and not something you are likely to guitar, but with two singers, which hear on any radio station. The set them apart from other punk and gnawing guitar can eat at your soul post-punk/hardcore bands. and leave you breathless. And, the The resulting vocal possibilities rhythms probably could cause are amazing, and well illustrated on motion sickness in the squeamish. Burn. When I listened to the Blood Lyrically, these guys are poets. Brothers' new album, Burn Piano The imagery is utterly fascinating Island, Burn, for the first time, I and dark. couldn't come up with any reason Their serenading screams tell of why 1 shouldn't try it again. The "bulimic rainbows," eating smiles second time around might prove to off children and hearts "weaving enlighten me further. jackets for children who'll never be Burn is the Blood Brothers' born." third full-length album and second These images flash by the listen- attempt at outdoing themselvescre- er as fast as music video visuals, atively, pushing genre boundaries each line as thought provoking as it and musical skills into a less famil- is colorful. The Blood Brothers offer, to those who are willing to listen, a study in post-modernism. Dude ...Where's the car? From the music to the lyrics to The Blood Brothers look the cover art, we are thrust into a as perplexed as we do. world strangely familiar yet fright- Photo by Pete Starman ening, where excess is the new moderation.

Beautiful to behold and challenging to comprehend, Children (1DIII1C risks being too picture-perfect for its own good. You won't find a handsomer production- even at Chippendales. And the Sci Fi Channel has underscored Dll11C'S super-deluxe look by sending review copies in future-is-now DVD rather than rearview mirror VHS. Devoted acolytes of Frank Herbert's com" plex, otherworldly sagas might be able to fol- low along as easy as one, two, 10,103, the year in which this six-hour miniseries takes off. Those who haven't read the books - guilty, your honor - will be harder pressed to puzzle everything out. In the end, though, a fur- rowed brow or two is an acceptable trade-off. This is a terrifically produced, oft- enthralling mix of mythology and technolo- gy. Seizing the momentum from its standout 20-hour miniseries Take", Sci Fi has put the "E" back in epic while the broadcast net- works continue to lose their luster. Severa]- cast members from Sci Fi's 2000 presentation ofDlIl1e return for this sequel, most notably Alec Newman as Emperor Paul Atreides, the worshipped "Muad'Dib" of the masses. Stand clear, though, for first-timer Susan Sarandon in the showy role of villainous Princess Wensicia. Sporting an out-of-this-world array of hairdos and oversized metallic head orna- ments, Sarandon could be set atop a TV set for the purpose of pulling in UHF Channel 77 from Decatur. She's otherwise boo-worthy KAT handout photogreph via Dallas Maming News (Fen; Warth aut) and sometimes a bit laughable. Her treachery has simmered to a boil for 'I'yckanik (Marek Vasut) listens as Princess Wensicia (Susan Sarandon) plots against the Atreides in Frank Herbert's "Children many moons as she methodically plots to of Dune." take control of prosperous planet Arrakis. Paul, who is presumed dead in the desert Overblown Elocution. So what's the basic point of Children of "Patience has been my only nourishment," after striving to "separate myself from this None ofthis fatal, though. Children af Dune Dune? Namely this: "Every revolution carries the foul princess hisses. At stake are the pre- damnable myth that I've become." is always eye-pleasing and often affecting. with it the seeds of its own destruction." cious commodity Spice and the monstrous, Paul also is cursed with seeing the future. Part L's closing blend of births and deaths That dictum is from the opening narrative. desert-dwelling Worms who secrete it. But he otherwise has the good fortune to is splendidly arranged for maximum emo- What follows is a rousing, compelling, In real life, Sarandon has- read all of the have both a wife and a "concubine," both of tional impact. . money-on-the-screen tale with an overtly bib- DUl1c books and relishes the opportunity to whom are lOs on any interplanetary scale. Young Leto's ,resultanipursuit of "The lical bent. play an outrageously coiffed despot. Respectively, they're Princess lrulan (julie Golden Path," which unfolds in the conclud- Make whatever sense you will of.it, It's "There's a lot of hair-acting in this," she Cox), younger sister of the dastardly ing four hours, likewise has some golden otherwise a consummate sensory trip. recently told TV critics. Wensicia, and Chani (Barbara Kodetova), a moments. "It's almost always more fun to play Hark hardy Fremen woman of strong desert stock. than Peter Pan ... It was kind of like being in Other prindpalcharacters include Paul's 'Snow White' or something. I felt like the evil crazed sister, Alia (Daniela. Amavia), his witch." exiled mother, Lady Jessica (Alice Krige), and Filmed in Prague, Children af DUl1c is nar- the warrior Duncan Idaho. (Edward rated by beauteous Ghanima Atreides Atterton), whose jaunty name seems better (jessica Brooks), twin sister of hettie Leto suited to an Indiana [ones movie. Arbiter Atreides II Games McAvoy). All concerned occasionally do battle with Making their first on-c~mera appearances an overly florid script. Amavia's- Alia fares in Monday's Part 2, Ghanima and Leto find; the worst with a scenery-inhaling perfor- themselves on a quest to de-deify their father, mance from the William Shatner School of .

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