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FIRST COPY FREE WWW.,ARB1TERONLINE.GOM VOLUME 16 ISSUE 4 Dean sidesteps ASHe'ROFT VISIT SPURS LIVELY usual haunts for nationwide PROTEST IN BOISE campaigning
BY RONALD BROWNSTEIN Los An~eles Times Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service
AUSTIN, Texas From suburban Washington, D.C., to downtown Seattle and even President Bush's home state, Howard Dean has sent a message in the past three days to his Democratic presidential rivals with ail imposing display of nationwide organizational strength. Since Saturday night, Dean has crisscrossed the United States on a four-day, eight-state, lO-city "Sleepless Summer Tour" that reached Texas on Monday and ended Tuesday with a late-night rally in New York. Almost every event so far has drawn large crowds, and a coordinated drive to raise money through the- Internet while Dean was on the road approached its $1 million goal. "We wanted to demonstrate that we are a national '1 ! campaign," said Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign manager. PHOTO BY OAN WOLF/THE ARBr:rtR "We are running in 50 states and we are doing it right now." A group of protesters hold up picket sighs and chant "We want our rights back! Take away the Patriot Act!" As Attorney General John Ashcroft pulls up to Indeed, the tour underscores the Boise depot to give a speech to justify the Patriot Act Dean's evolution from a dark- horse candidate who typically Among this outspoken crowd several Butch Otter was one of only a handful U.S. would be forced to focus American flags could be seen waving, as well as elected officials that voted against the act. limited resources on Iowa and Protestors march to the lively protest signs showing their disagreements Among the many people attending the New Hampshire - the key early Boise Depot to highlight over the application of the post Sept. II bill organized protest was Sen. Elliot Werk (D-ID). contests on rhe vnomination Werk said he felt the need to attend the protest calendar - into a top-tier dubbed tbe USA Patriot Act. disagreements over With protest signs proclaiming such more out of a sense of personal obligation than contender with the money and statements as '''Patriot Act' Un-American" from an elected officials' duty. popularity to compete across PatriotAct and "The Patriot Act Terrorizes All Americans" Werk expressed concern that law the country. the crowd of approximately 60 people spent enforcement can now freely enter targeted "I think he is going to be BYJASON KAUFFMAN a warm afternoon awaiting the arrival of U.S. individuals' homes and leave without their ever around past Iowa and New News Editor The Arbiter knowing it. Hampshire," said Bill Carrick, Attorney General John Ashcroft. Ashcroft's visit was designed to promote "I don't want to see groups that are legitimate a senior strategist for Rep. Though they came to the Boise landmark tlle U.S. Patriot Act. The' Attorney General's in the United States targeted for investigation Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo., from various walks of life, all said they came to schedule in Boise primarily consisted of because they don't meet with the status quo," another presidential contender. help forge a unified voice here in the shadows a closed-door meeting before' Boise law Werksaid. "He is going to have enough Addmg considerable numbers to the crowd ofthe Boise Depot. enforcement officials. money to take a punch or two While the many voices among the crowd The arrival of Ashcroft is especially poignant were students from Boise State University. and keep going." varied In speclfics, their basic message when one considers that Idaho Congressman According to Robby Parker, a volunteer with Dean still faces resistance remained the same. from many party leaders See Ashcroft page 3 who believe he has taken positions too liberal - such as his unrelenting opposition to "Pia. gia. rize: to present the ideas or words of another as one's own," -- The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. the war in Iraq - to effectively compete against Bush next year. But his current tour shows Plagiarism receives greater scrutiny at Boise State how much ground Dean has gained since he began his checking each student's paper. Five of the 12 students were also campaign as the little-known BYMONICA PIDCE former governor of one of the News Reporter "It was a mess," Jessing said. investigated for plagiarism in other Electrical Engineering 540, Advanced classes. Jessing said those students were nation's smallest states. His The Arbiter 1 fierce criticism of Bush's march Integrated Circuit Processes, is a brought before an appellate board. 'i to war with Iraq won him a core While grading final papers for his graduate level class with a senior class These cases are not isolated. iJ. of energetic supporters, and electrical engineering course, Boise taught simultaneously. According to According to Blaine Eckles, Boise State 1 he surprised many by raising State Professor Jeff [essing came across Iessing, 13 of the 14 graduate students student conduct officer, 58 students more money than any of his one of the biggest academic no-no's in were accused of plagiarism. were accused of cheating or plagiarism Democratic opponents in the the book - plagiarism. Jesslng said one of the cases was last spring. year's second quarter. Recent With the end of the spring 2003 considerably minor. This student The Student Conduct Board has 'polls have put him narrowly semester just a few weeks away, many simply failed to use quotation marks in tracked academic dishonesty since Fall ahead in Iowa, viewed as a of the seniors enrolled in Iessing's class the paper. 2001. During the 2001-2002 school year must-win state for Gephardt, were due to proudly receive their hard Other cases were more flagrant, 43 incidents were reported; in 2002- and in New Hampshire, where earned diplomas. Iessing said. In some of these instances 2003 104 incidents were reported. . Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., had All those plans came to a halt when Information was copied word for This trend shows an alarming been the early favorite. Iessing uncovered not one, but 13 word from technical manuals and the Increase, but Eckles warns against being Dean appears to have gotten counts of plagiarism. Grades and Internet. . misled by the numbers. a new burst of momentum diplomas were withheld while Iessing "At the graduate levelI expect students "Its not the number of cases spent about a month and a half carefully to know right from wrong," Iessing said. PHaro BY KRISTA ADAMS/THE ARBITER See Dean page 2 See Plagiarism page 2 Mandarin Chinese course offering sparks student interest
school students. students during the summer learn more about the Chinese English speaker, tone may not come easily to most students," Pu had taught English in China BYANNIE BERICAL and fall semesters have· taken language ill order to aid them in be discernable, but for Chinese so she is able to focus more on News Reporter for ~ix or seven years before the plunge and are learning their research," Pu said. speakers, changing the tone of students' reading skills. After all, . The Arbiter coming to the United States, but Mandarin Chinese instead. Pu finds that after just one a word can alter its meaning if one intends to spend any time her exposure t()~~tive English With a population of 1.4billion Professor Guofeng Pu summer session course, her altogether. in China at all, being able to read speakers was Iiniited, so she -;'-people, the world's largest arrived in the United States in students are able to hold simple Yet another difficult concept signs would be a beneficial skill. didn't have many opportunities standing army and the globe's 200lfrom Hubei Province after conversations in Mandarin for' English speakers to grasp Although she is a native to use what she knew in actual fastest growing economy, one receiving a graduate degree Chinese. One of her. favorite about Mandarin Chinese Chinese speaker, Pu remembers conversation. would imagine that the West in Educational Technology. moments in teaching the is its lack of verb tense. In being introduced to English as Pu recalls that-much of what ! would (a\.(e a serious interest in Though she still teaches courses summer course came when English, time is broken down her second language during she learned.· in sth~l·-'about China. in her first discipline, she has student~ were asked to give a into distinct, finite units. but. secondary school. ,I English was llinit~d: to :bQok I However, Chinese language is also taken on two courses in final group presentation entirely in Chinese, one verb tense "In China, English as a work and fuatuponarriviIlgin I often ignored, despite its ever- Mandarin Chinese; one for in Chinese. serves the speaker just fine.' second language is emphasized the United, Statesin2001,she' ! growing relevance to people advanced students who took the The most difficult language Tone becomes the important beginning around six, years found that she had dot orworlc in every discipline, especially summer course, and another for feature for students to learn, Pu information carrier, and verbs before students enter college," to do in order t~iInPn:w.eher business. But, while most BSU beginners. says, has been Mandarin's four are subjugated. she says. Perhaps, the same word choice and pronunciation· . students opt to learn more "Many of my students are different tones-each carries Surprisingly, says Pu, "... earlyexposuretoChinesewouid I familiar languages like French.: history majors who hope to a distinct meaning. To the writing Chinese characters has benefit American secondary ~~lli-se p~'2 . ! German or Spanish. a. few'//·:<;·"~··'· .
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Dean from page 1 erupted when Dean said, "Most organizational capacity. from the increasing violence strength in so many parts of the The tour also has provided the and turmoil in Iraq. Following country so long before the first of you know that I am the only leading candidate who did not Dean campaign an opportunity the quick fail of Iraqi President caucuses and primaries. to exercise its electronic fund- Saddain Hussein's regime last In part by using the Internet support the war in Iraq." As the cheers echoed off corrugated raising muscles. 'During the spring, most of Dean's rivals to rally supporters, Dean April . through June period, believed he would be on the turned out more than 4,000 walls, he added: "Don't yell so loud. (Bush political adviser) Dean collected almost half of defensive by now for opposing people at Saturday's kickoff his $7.6 million in donations - the war; Instead, he's been event in Falls Church, Va., and Karl Rove will hear you all the way over in Crawford." through the Internet, in part aggressively contending that about 800 in Milwaukee later by conducting a sort of online that day. On Sunday, at least Carrick, llke- many political . the war may have diminished telethon that enabled donors to 3,000 turned out to hear him in professionals, cautioned that American security by creating track his financial progress. Portland, Ore., and more than large,noisyralliescancreatefalse chaos in Iraq - an argument The campaign asked 8,000 greeted Dean that day in impressions about a candidate's with powerful appeal to many supporters to contribute $1 Seattle. Another 900 showed up strength. Drawing a crowd is Democrats who opposed the million over the current tour to at a rally Monday morning in "in some ways a function of invasion. match the amount Bush raised Spokane, Wash., and about 500 how much resources you put "There is no question he has last week at a fund-miser in captured something," Carrick people attended a fund-raiser into it," he said. Eric Hauser, for Dean in Austin. Some 900 communications director for Portland. said. "He has been able to take By late Monday, the Web were expected later for a rally in former New Jersey Sen. Bill the activist base of the party site reported contributions of SanAntonio. Bradley's 2000 presidential and convince them he is what almost $660,000. they want - which is a strong In Austin, supporters bid. agreed that Dean's crowds anti-Bush, antiwar candidate filled a coffee house, roaring might demonstrate more the with enthusiasm at Dean's depth of his support among Times researcher Lynn - and he has translated that into Marshall in Seattle contributed genuine support." denunciations of Bush and the activists than its breadth among to this story. That was evident in the other Democrats seeking the the Democratic voters needed to past few days. Rarely has a White House. "The way to beat capture the party's nomination. presidential candidate sought this president is not to try to be But Hauser added that Dean's' to demonstrate organizational like him," Dean said. The room tour showed formidable
Plagiarism from page 1 designed to catch students increasing," Ecklessaid. zero for the assignment is the The Internet has turned who plagiarize. One website, . Instead, Eckles believes there top sanction against students plagiarism into a simple task www.plagiarism.org, boasts is a rise in the number of cases caught, followed by an "F" in of cut and paste; there are the use of "document being reported. the class and reduced credit for numerous websites tempting source analysis" to "digitally The sttident handbook the class. students to download term fingerprint" papers. Documents outlines cheating or plagiarism There have been two papers for a tidy sum. are then cross-referenced with in any form as unacceptable. suspensions and two expulsions One such website, their database. Simultaneously, "To promote... dishonesty in since 2001.Boise State keeps all www.thetermpapers.com. offers the University can be defined records confidential and puts no a database of "over 100,000 web crawlers are checking the generally as cheating or notation on transcripts about quality term papers" for $14.95 Internet for matches. A color- coded 'originality report' is plagiarism." academic dishonesty. a month. The Internet hosts According to the Student "We don't want to ruin their hundreds more websites with made, complete with web links Code of Conduct, sanctions for entire chance for an education. similar offers. to sources. plagiarism and cheating vary Webelieveineducation greatly," On the flip side, professors Technology is making it easier from a warning to expulsion. A Ecklessaid. - can use web-based services to plagiarize and to get caught.
Course from page 1 skills. children in China and used students about the Chinese will be a step toward greater Much of Pu's exposure to in formal situations) Guofeng language, but feels that understanding for BSUstudents. spoken English was .to British focuses on pronunciation with culture has a significant role -not just an understanding ofthe English, so upon arriving in the her students. in educating students about language, but an understanding U.S.,there were many occasions "People may be interested a language. Throughout the of the role China plays on the when her pronunciation in the Chinese language now summer session, her students world stage as well. If you're of certain words inflected because of China's entrance gave cultural presentations looking for a language option differently inhibited the listener into the WTO. A lot of big related to what they were with broader opportunities, from understanding. So, as a corporations have headquarters learning about speaking look for Mandarin Chinese in teacher of Mandarin Chinese in China because of China's Mandarin Chinese. next semester's catalogue. (now the official required Open Door Policy,"says Pu. Hopefully, Pu's Mandarin dialect learned by school Pu not only tries to teach her Chinese language course
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I Ashcroft visit spurs lively protest in boise Ashcroft from page 1 ., I BSU College Democrats, the rights of U.S. citizens against Beth Gorringe ofBoise said she Shepard said that after Sept. protest was designed primarily search and seizure. felt a need to attend the protest 11 people seemed to forget that to help increase the public's "They can go to libraries and so she could add her voice to the civil liberties are the foundation knowledge about the Patriot get lists of books that individuals ongoing discussion. of the U.S. Act. have checked out and libraries "A lot of people aren't even "I just feel that we need to Parker believes uneducated can't even tell those people," aware they passed this in such preserve our civil liberties," voters are the main danger in Struble said. 1 a hush-hushed, rushed way," Shepard said. issues such as this. Capt. Miller, Valley Division she said. Continuing, Parker said Commander of the Boise Police Terry Shepard, attending that the current presidential Department, said that along his first protest, could be administration seems to care with the Attorney Generals' seen holding a sign that little for what the general public own security, they hoped to said, "Tyranny is worse than thinks. According to Parker, all accommodate everyone. Terrorism." that is left for Americans to do is . According to Miller, the close to exercise their constitutional proximity of the protestors rights. 10 Ashcroft's arrival was a "Allwe can do as Americans is strategy designed to allow the vote," Parker said. Attorney General to hear the Among the protestors was protestor's voices. Chris Struble of Boise, a "We plan for the unexpected,
software engineer. He said the but right now everything is as "" ~~,. :" .,: Patriot Act undermines the we expected," Miller said. ." Sepfember3rd (Wednesdayl • 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Ah Fong Room (in the SUBI • Refreshments provided·' . . A protester holds up a sign outside of the Boise Depot to express . , <, 'i'~ his discontent about the Patriot Act. Make a Difference PHOTO BY DAN WOLF/THE ARBITER ,', W wiw • g e 0 cit j c s . c 0 III I h S II C Q II e g c r C 1111 b lie 11 11 S '"
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BY MEGHANNE DOWNES applications increased by 40 Saracino said Notre Dame's enrolled freshmen are children The Observer (U. Notre Dame) percent. freshman classes are histo rically of alumni. ,U-Wire Saracino attributed the rise strong with academic ability • Seventy-one percent of the in minority applications to and geographic diversity, class of 200i participated in at SOUTH BEND, Ind. - When increased recruiting, summer whereas ethnic minority least one varsity sport and eight freshmen. arrive this weekend, programs and the hiring of diversity was an area where percent of the class will playa they will constitute the most Tyrone Willingham as the head Notre Dame has been weak. varsity sport at Notre Dame. selective and racially diverse coach of Notre Dame's football Minorities accounted for • Thirty-six countries are class in Notre Dame's history. team. 17 percent of Notre Dame's represented in the class of2007, WlI flEE 1EI1BOOKS Dan Saracino, assistant "I think the 'story of Notre undergraduate students in the with international students e-mail your answer to provost for admissions, said Dame' is reaching a much spring 2003 semester. making up.four percent of the [email protected] for a chance the applicant pool for tile more diverse population than "We are great in so many class. class of 2007 contained over it had before," said Saracino. areas but ethnic minority isn't Fifty-six percent of to win a weekly prize, and to be entered 12,000 applicants, with less "To hire a black football coach where it should be," Saracino applicants ranked in the top into a Grand Prize drawing at the end of the than 30 percent accepted. The .- that says something to the said. "Being a residential five of their class. contest for FREE textbooks. Look for average SAT score for admitted ethnically diverse population." campus, education is not just • Twelve freshmen earned students rose nine points from Ethnic minorities compose 21 limited to the classroom." perfect scores on either the SAT official rules in the classified page. 2002 to 1360. percent of the incoming class Other facts on the class of or ACT. The number of applicants with 4.5 percent, 8 percent, 7.5 2007: • Twenty percent of incoming overall increased by 24 percent and 1 percent being • The median SAT range was freshmen are children of percent from the class of 2006 black, Hispanic, Asian and 1300 to 1460. educators. and the number of minority Native American respectively. • Twenty-two percent of .PAGE 4 ON THURSDAY AUGUST 28, 2003 The Arbiter Stopping CELEBRATING 70 YEARS prison rape
• THE WASHINGTON POST 1910 University Drive The Los Angeles Times - Washington Boise, ID 83725 Post News Service Phone: 345-8204 Fax: 426-3198 The following editorial appeared in www.arbiteronline.com Tuesday's Washington Post:
Destrihuted Mondays and The most important aspect of the Thursdays dUring the academic Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 is schoo/year not the specific steps the bill mandates. These represent a useful beginning to addressing a problem of alarming, if inadequately understood, magnitude-- Editor-in-Chief but they are only a beginning. The bill's greater significance is the unanimous ANDY BENSON x105 recognition in both houses of Congress that prison rape is a problem that ca~ Interim Business no longer be ignored. For too long It ' Manager has been common knowledge, and part of the popular culture, that rape is a BEN MARTIN x117 routine feature of prison life. And there }lUS been a tendency to regard it as an And you thought Boise was a inevitable part, one of those extralegal Advisor punitive dimensions of the prison DR. DAN MORRIS xl07 experience that makes a life of crime dangerous. But with this bill, which General Manager political backwater 000 now awaits President Bush's signature, BRAD ARENDT xlOI Congress has taken a decidedly different stance toward sexual violence Managing Editor - Presidential candidate and Attorney General visit City ofTrees among the incarcerated. Being raped, JESSICA ADAMS xl06 the national legislature has said, is not a part of a prison sentence, and all levels News Editor support of the infamous PATRIOT Act. BYANDY BENSON of government have a duty to ensure Editor-in-Chief More than 60 protesters - including many JASON KAUFFMAN xl02 that prisoners are safe from coerced The Arbiter Boise State students - turned out to voice their sex. Sports Editor opposition to the act, which single-handedly Nobody knows how many prisoners ANDREA TRUJILLO xl03 There I was, suffering under the impression turned the Bill of Rights into privileges to be are raped in America every year. that Boise was just a quiet burg on the political revoked at a whim by the Justice Department. Congress cites expert findings that A&E Editor road map. . The event went off without a hitch; protestors 13 percent of inmates in American BRIAN MAYER xl04 And then, in a two-day period of serendipity, carefully respected limits imposed by the FBI prisons may have been sexually two prominent national figures occupying almost and Boise police officers. Unless, of course, you Photo Editor assaulted, and studies suggest that polar-opposite positions on the ideological count Arbiter photographer Dan Wolf - who was. in some institutions, more than 20 MARY DAWSON xl21 continuum swung through town and ruptured forcefully threatened with arrest when he strayed percent of inmates may be victims. In my illusions of provincial irrelevancy. out of bounds to capture Production Manager other words, in a country with a prison Earlier this week we the image on this issue's xlll population exceeding 2 million people, MIKE ROCHE were visited by two front page. "Fun Ashcroft fact: he has there probably have been hundreds major league players: Ashcroft's appearance Asst. Production Manager of thousands of rapes. Yet as a report Presidential candidate in Boise was particularly DAVID HABBEN xl l l two years ago by Human Rights Watch Gov. Howard Dean and the dubious dlstlnctlon of intriguing since it's Rep. documented, prison rape is generally Promotions Manager Attorney General John Butch Otter's horne turf. tolerated, and prosecutions are rare. Ashcroft. being the only person in Otter, of course, was TERRI STENKAMP x110 The tolerance leaves certain categories On Sunday Dean, the the only Republican of prisoners--young convicts, the Office Manager Democratic upstart, flew member uf Congress history to lose a Senate mentally ill, gays, first-time offenders into Boise to throw some to oppose the act when HILARY ROBERTS or those who are physically slight-- red meat to an anti-Bush race to a corpse - as an it passed shortly after Online Editor crowd of Democrats, Sept. 11. True to his particularly at risk. SHAWN SHAF~R independents, leftists libertarian roots, Otter The bill would require the Justice and the occasional incumbent, no less." protested the stripping Department to compile national data disgruntled moderate of anyone's civil rights on the problem and provide training AD DESIGN Republican. Dean is deemed a terrorist and help for state and federal officials Terri Stenkamp currently riding the momentum as the only suspect by Ashcroft (without judicial oversight). responsible for preventing and Jason McHenry candidate possessing both guts and media Otter now finds himself on the Attorney prosecuting prison rapes. It would coverage. His rapid rise is forcing the Democratic General's enemy list; the AG's office is labeling authorize federal grants for prevention programs, and it would require the AD REPS establishment to trip over themselves in a rush to Otter's amendment - which would cut the department to formulate national Brandy Johnson drive a stake through his candidacy. funding of 'sneak and peek' searches of private standards for controlling prison rape- Mica Schuster Dean had some good lines during the stopover, homes - the "terrorist tip-off' amendment. -standards with which states must Mikel Beckham mentioning that no Republican president had Fun Ashcroft fact: he has the dubious comply or suffer reductions in federal Brandon Beckham balanced the budget in 34 years (remember distinction of being the only person in history to when Republicans used to pride themselves lose a Senate race to a corpse - as an incumbent, pri_son funding. It would also create on their ability to balance a checkbook?) and a national commission to, study the REPORTERS no less. His challenger for the Missouri Senate encouraged Democrats to double-check their seat in 2000 was the late Missouri Governor Mel problem of sexual violence in prisons Dustin Scott courage and stand up for what they believe. and make recommendations to Jake Hansen Carnahan, who died in a plane crash a month The latter comment was aimed toward the before the election. After Carnahan won post- the department regarding what the Jason Bright Democratic National Committee, which hopes national standards should require. Kimberly Ritz mortem, Missouri's new governor, Roger Wilson, to slink its way into the White House with a 'me- picked Carnahan's wife, Jean, to fill the seat. All of this is constructive--all the Monica Price too' approach to the Republican platform. more so because it seems to represent Maurice Sapp Ashcroft, of course, was then picked up by the Several students are working on Dean's Bush team to head the Justice Department. a genuine bipartisan acknowledgement' Danaka Oliver • campaign, so expect to hear a lot more about him that the current tolerance is intolerable. Aaron Haynes as the Democrat primary draws nearer. This editorial is strictly the opinion of the Even at a time of harshness in prison In addition to Dean's stop, we had another Editor-in-Chief and doesn't reflect uietus of The sentencing, when filling prisons is a PHOTOGRAPHERS prominent national figure visit Boise. U.S. Arbiter Editorial Board. The Editorial Board higher priority for policy-makers than Stanley Brewster Attorney General John Ashcroft, paladin' of the is comprised of tile Editor-in-Chief, Managing ensuring inmates' rights, government Krista Adams new American nee-police state, spent Monday Editor, section editors and the Photo Editor. owes those it locks up protection from Brittany Rosenthal afternoon rallying local law enforcement in one another. Dan Wolf
COWMNISTS Aubrey Salazer Dustin Scott Dr. Decateur Reed 'What Idid on my summer vacation,' by the president Maurice Sapp BYMATIHEW PINSKER the tradition of presidential summer Clinton, as we all now know from his occupied a government-owned mansion EDITORIAL CARTOONIST History News Service vacations, cantankerous President John wife's memoir, slept on the couch at on the home's extensive grounds and David Habben (KRD Adams lasted about 10 days before he Martha's Vineyard. enjoyed a- wonderful panoramic view decided to spend the city's first official But American politicians inevitably of wartime Washington. On most President Bush will spend most 'of The Arbiter is the official summer secluded in his hometown, measure themselves against Abraham mornings, Lincoln commuted into the this month at his ranch in Crawford, • independant student newspaper Quincy, Mass. Lincoln. Although it was difficult to city, but during hot summer months his Texas. By fleeing the White House, of Boise State University. It's In the years since 1800, vacationing escape during the Civil War, even pace slackened noticeably. he continues a tradition of more than presidents have escaped with golf, the Great Emancipator found ways The Soldiers' Home provided the mission is to provide a forum 200 years. That's noteworthy because beaches, travel and rest. During the to unwind his famously long frame. president and his family with a peaceful for the discussion of issues presidents at .ease tend to. reveal key 1870s, Ulysses Grant and his entourage Prodded by his wife, Mary, who wanted sanctuary from the turmoil of the war. affecting the BSU community. aspects o~ their character, Just ~s D?n repeatedly invaded the Jersey shore. more privacy fortheir family, he agreed' Guests recalled seeing Lincoln lazily The arbiter's budget consists of Van Natta s recent book on presidential . In the summer of 1903, the always- to establish a summer residence. clop around the _place in his oversized fees paid by the student body and golf, ':First off the Tee," claims. Even energetic Teddy Roosevelt rowed Beginning in 1862, the Lincolns carpet slippers, sometimes carrying advertising sales. The first copy more unportant, as the case of Abraham his wife around Oyster Bay in Long officially vacationed each year from a large palm-leaf fan to cool himself. is free. Additional copies can be Lincoln demonstrates, a well-structured Island and then reported that he about late June through early November The president liked to read aloud, once purchased for $1 apiece at the vaca.tion can also help shape a great spent his downtime chopping wood at the Soldiers' Home, an institution even sending a drowsy aide into a deep president, "industriously." Harry Truman relaxed for disabled military veterans built on i Arbiter offices. sleep as he acted out passages from I I·. Washington became the nation's on a cruise up the Atlantic coast with a beautiful, shaded property just over Shakespeare's "Richard III." capital in June 1800. Inaugurating eight other men and lots of poker. Bill . three miles from the White House. They See Vacation page 5
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Bronco volleyball prepares to host tournament Canadians, is Broncos' tallest player on reloaded, starting with a setter; a Tranter also averaged 2.42 digs per BYWID HAYS Demps. Pryor, the Broncos recruiting the roster at 6'4". Slated to play on the hitter and a middle blocker in three game as a junior. Moore, a returning Courtesy of Boise State Athletics coordinator, served as the head right side, she received her associate's Special to TheArblter coach at Southwest Baptist for two dedicated returning players, and starter in the middle, averaged 2.08 degree from Lake Land College in seasons before joining the Boise State mixing in an athletic and excited kills, 2.08 digs and 0.52 blocks per Mattoon, Illinois. She went to Nevada- 2003 marks a fresh start for the Boise staff. Demps played and coached group of 10 newcomers who add both game in 2002. Moore was also selected as a freshman where she played on the State University volleyball team. Three offensive power and defense. The three to the WACAll-Academic Team. professionally in the U.S. Professional volleyball team before transferring to experienced returnees, 10 new players, returning players are comprised of two Volleyball League in 2000 and 2001 Lake Land as a sophomore. Heath, a a remodeled practice and competition before coming to Boise. seniors and one junior. Of the 10 new The Junior Class ••• The junior class is composed of 5-10 outside hitter, is another Idaho arena and a revamped coaching staff Also in 2003, Bronco Gym - the players, one is a division 1 transfer, native who returns to her home state combine for a renewed enthusiasm in volleyball team's home in the 70's, three are junior college transfers and the team's returning starting setter, Mindy Bennett, and three newcomers after playing at Trinidad State Junior the Bronco program. 80's and first half of the 90's - has been six are true freshmen. The entire team College in Colorado for two years. To truly appreciate the work of renovated to include fresh paint on the now has two seniors, four juniors, one - Idaho Falls native and Long Beach Both Ramsay and Heath were named rebuilding and reloading Coach Scott walls, new lights, a new sound system, sophomore, and six freshmen that State transfer Kelsey Young, and junior to a number oOC tournament all-star Sandel has engineered in his first year and a refinished floor. The Bronco converge on Boise from eight different college transfers Kim Ramsay and Lacie teams. on campus, one needs only look at volleyball team is moving back to the states within the United States as well Heath. Bennett, the team's returning starting setter, averaged 9.34 assists where he and the Broncos started in. facility, where the Broncos were 373- as Canada. The Sophomore Class ••• 2002. First of all, Sandel's first day on 306 from 1975 through 1996, made two last season as a sophomore and was another Bronco WAC All-Academic The Broncos' lone sophomore is the job wasn't until Aug. I, only one post-season tournament appearances The Senior Class ••• also the team's final junior college week before two-a-days started. He and tallied 14 winning seasons in 22 The senior class is comprised of honoree. Young, a 6-1 outside hitter, is returning to her home state. She transfer, Kim Fenneman. She joins and the_.Broncos struggled through years. The Broncos are looking forward outside hitter Megan Tranter and was a part-time starter for the top 25 the team after a successful freshman the prograIrr's-tourth straight losing to the team's return from the Pavilion, middle blocker/ outside hitter Christina , 4gers and for the Broncos already was year at Galveston Junior College in season, but were determined to turn where the Broncos have played for the Mooro. Tranter has started for the Texas. Fenneman, the team's second their fortunes around quickly with past six years, back into the friendly Broncos full-time since her sophomore a Preseason All-WAC honoree. player to call Canada nome, was the hard work and fresh faces. season. She is Pte team's top returning confines of Bronco Gym. captain of the school's volleyball team In the off-season, Sandel added The Bronco squad has been hitter averaging 2.95 kills in 2002. Ramsay, one of the Broncos' two new assistants Mark Pryor and Keisha See Volleyball page 6 \Downtime with Danaka I D. Mike: The go-to guy of 2003 influence and from whom or BYDANAKA OLIVER athlete that is a student? My weakness on the field ... I Sports Reporter A student athlete. School is don't want to say. Idaho State what do you get your strength , The Arbiter first; you need to make sure might be reading this. when things get tough? you have an education before Off the field, I don't want to My mom, she's been through Q. If one day you become anything else. say, just because. a lot in her life, but she keeps a father and have a daughter, Q. If it weren't for your Q. Which game this season going forward, and keeps would you let her date a guy scholarship, would you are you looking forward to the bettering herself. She just got' like you? still have had the resources most and why? her master's degree, I'm proud Sure, I would let her. I'm a and desire to further your The first game. Because that of her. pretty good guy. education? means we've started. Q. What are your plans for Q. How big of an influence Yes, but it would be harder. Q. How many kids where in after college? have your parentIs been on Q. If a theme song were your family? ~ Make money. your football career? played every time you came Three, a big sister, a little Q. Bronco football has put A big influence, they got me out on to the field, what would brother. Boise State on the map. how started when I was younger. it be? . Q. What do you like best does it.feel to be a part of it? When I was seven I would "Untouchable," by Mac about being a Bronco? Great, I never have been part just sit around the house and Mall. Wmning, period. of something this great. do nothing, then they signed Q. Boxers or briefs? Q. Demi Moore and Ashton Q. If you were stuck on a me up. Nothing, ha-ha. Kusher, sick or "go Ashton"? deserted island and could only Q. If you couldn't play Q. What do you consider to Go Ashton, Demi is so, so have three things with you, football tomorrow would be your strengths on and off fine! what would they be? you still. pursue your college the field? Q. If you could change one Airplane, pilot, food. So I degree? On the field, running the thing about yourself what could get off, ha-ha. Absolutely! ball, and off, personality. would it be and why? , Q. Do you consider yourself Q. What are your weaknesses I wish I was taller. , to be a student athlete or an on and off the field? Q. 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Kim Ellis graduated Green Mountain High School The Freshman Class ••• from Papillion La Vista High in Colorado and played on the The freshman class is the School in Papillion, Nebraska. A Front Range Volleyball Club, largest on the 'squad. These six middle blocker, she was selected which was the 18th Open Junior players will make an immediate to the Nebraska Prep .AU-Star National Gold Medal Champion. impact to the Broncos present Team. Cameron Flunder is a The Broncos sixth true freshman and future. Several played on middle blocker out of Kent, WA. alphabetically, Jackie Stroud, state championship high school She graduated from Kent Lake is from the same hometown as teams. Most were all-state High School and played on the ((oach Sandel- Amarillo, Texas. honorees themselves. Each was Kent Juniors Volleyball Club. She is an outside hitter, played honored as an all-league player Sarah Johnson is another for the Amarillo Juniors and and was a starter on their teams. freshman and an outside hitter graduated from Amarillo High All know the work ethic involved from Idaho's neighboring state School. She was a Texas all-state in bringing a winning attitude to of Oregon. Johnson graduated selection. the division one level. from Gresham High School. Her prep team was the two- Jessica Childress graduated I SPORTS THURSDAY AUGUST 28, 2003 'Tis the. season fortailgating party quicker than someone By Larry Gierer Georgia visits features hot dogs. opposition school. getting drunk, so care must be Knight Ridder Newspapers Homecoming calls for a special A skilled photographer, she meal with casseroles and a has thousands of snapshots taken. T nUL V F R E E C H E C K N G Tell your bank the jig is up. You're done with jhelr monrhly fees. You're done jumping through hoops. 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Texas-Austin) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas - aGUFF festival director Sandra Martinez was worried about people getting in the Austin Gay and Lesbian Film International Film Festival last week for a special event with "Daily Show" movie maven Frank DeCaro. The festival, which is well underway now at the Regal Metropolitan, . of course, was more concerned with the filmmakers coming out. For the sixteenth consecutive year, .aGUFF opens its doors and its arms to a city, that deep in the heart of Texas, has opened its arms as well, leaving both parties to await an embrace. That time came when Scott Dinger, the former St~rlig~tMints: manager of the Dobie Theater, started showing gay-themed films at the Dobie as a casual stili blo InD on horns week-long event. While the programming could've simply gone down as one of the many innovations that Dinger brought BY JASON BWGHT the lyrics become mischievous. "It hits is suddenly new age and pop halfway As with any band, they do have their to the Austin film community, A&EWriter you like a subway dark," while a creepy through. Fortunately, it all works like flaws, real and imagined. If it didn't The Arbiter the festival displayed Austin's violin cackles in the background. Truly, solar systems in a universe. In fact, work so great together, each instrument interest in cinema that went the only thing constant during the entire much of their work sounds--not earthly- separately is pretty simple. There are no against the grain, and along Retro rocks, and Starlight Mints are set circus is Vest's -but stellar. Due to dazzling asides or riffs, (not always a bad with Cinema texas, showed on proving it. Okay, not retro but ska ... dry and thin, the background in thing) but there are so many incredible future organizers of South By "Zillion Eyes," you instruments in the album; why not let Southwest and the Austin Film no wait, classic rock ... hold Oil, lounge slyly appealing them shine for a while? Furthermore, the Festival that the city could host music ... pop or maybe ... voice. He has a they will be at feel as though a a world-class festival. Not only is Whatever the classification, Starlight very disciplined starry night sky band has an uncanny knack for building aGUFF the longest running film Mints' second album, Built on Squares, range, and the Neurolux on is about to crash intrigue and anticipation, as in "Black festival in Austin, but one of the is impressive. As soon as the rhythm and doesn't let down on the world. Cat" when the tempo unexpectedly longest running in the country beat become predictable, it all flops 180 the listener by Thursday, August Starlight Mints lurches faster, only to drop. This feeling of its kind. and taps you on the other shoulder. If slaying notes does it well both is like suffering through some mystery "The reason it has been the guitar becomes boring, then pick outside of it 28, at 8pm, so give fast and slow, as novel only to realize that the whole durable is because of the support from harmonica, piano, vibraphone, because he exemplified in story was the narrator's dream. Finally, from the community," Dinger them a big Boise doesn't try, this track. The the band is officially a trio but various said. "And when it became a cello, trombone, trumpet, or violin beat is slowed and non-members provide different talents non-profit festival with a board to feast upon. Each song is its own which is to be welcome for different instruments in the album. of directors, that was what ensemble of oddity and intrigue. commended. sappy yet prods sort of solidified its longevity, For instance, the album opens with The band's the listener along. Starlight Mints only tour as a group because with that, then people a violin setting the pace for suspense, other two main "Rinky Dinky" of five though. Built on Squares is so from the, community stepped but it's so light that you can't quite m e rn b e r s , is obviously the lush, so thick, that hopefully the lack of in to work on the festival, and place why it feels so odd because it's Andy and Marian Nunez, play various most fun song, with its Irish slap dance people touring will not dampen a live with that help, it was then able so perfectly placed. There is a childish instruments as well as provide great feel, but still somewhere beyond it performance. to grow into a bigger festival, comfort in some of the lyrics written and backup vocals to Vest. They contrast all, exists, a broody, dark character. It is said that Starlight Mints are and it opened up the doors for performed by Allen Vest, such as "broom him perfectly through incredibly high Listening to Starlight Mints is like visually appealing live, and they will be volunteerism on everything touring a medieval castle in daylight... at the Neurolux on Thursday, August from the board of directors to zoom" and other babbling, while the and liquid notes. it always seems something or other is 28, at Bpm, so give them a big Boise committee heads to put in work weight and murky thickness of flat notes At times the songs become strangely welcome. If for nothing else, go see great into the festival ail year around make you want to stand in a corner so no schizophrenic. "Irene," track six, watching you. That feeling is much of too," on~ can sneak up behind you. Suddenly begins very 80's cultish Cure-like, but the magic created by the Mints. ska ... no wait, pop ... or is it retro rock ... See Texas page 11 PB to the rescue tailgate party held at the north the human genome and more BY JAKE HANSEN practice field (located at the specifically stem cell research. A&EWriter The Arbiter stadium) to get ready for the For more information and football season opener against complete list of activities visit Every fall thousands of new Idaho State University. There Guide to Entertainment's students come to Boise State will be live music performed by website at entertainment.boise with dreams of academic Six Circles and Half the World. state.edu, or call 426-1223. enlightenment and hopes There'll be a rock climbing wall, SPB is composed of Boise State of establishing their place in basketball shoot, face paiqting, students to ensure the activities the world. While all of these smurf turf putt putt, and much will interest the majority of students are diverse in heritage, more. All students are invited students. SPB is always looking study fields, opinions and such, and encouraged to come. for students who want the they all have one question on On Sep. 14, SPB will host a responsibility of voicing the their mind; "what should we toy trade. The toy trade will be wants of the students. If you do?" Boise State has created like an open market for families are interested in joining the the Student Programs Board, or with unneeded or excess toys. SPB committee, contact Kristen SPB, to guide these scared and Families are encouraged to Salo at 426-4239, or e-mail her lost youngsters on their trail to come and haggle and barter at, [email protected] entertainment. with other families, to exchange otherwise you can always visit SPB has many exciting events toys. the student activities info desk planned for the upcoming For allof the scientific whizzes located in the west wing on the school year. On Sept. 6 they on campus, SPB has planned a first floor of the Student Union Building. will host a barbecue called The lecture from Dr. David Magnus. Kristen 8010(left) 8PB director discusses an upcoming event with graphic designer Linda He will speak on his studies of Bronco Blitz. It'll be a giant Kirkendall(center) and assistant director Heath Gripple. \ \ 1 Festival draws thousands to new arts district in San Francisco j Sherrill said he still has hopes Berkeley Association, the festival Falk said the association plans Thailand to organic beer. Within the last two years, the BY WENDY LEE that his booth will attract more Daily Californian (U. California- officially opened the recently to hold another festival next year But the scene Downtown district has had several new regular student customers to his Berkeley) finished Berkeley Arts District and is considering extending the was very different 20 years additions, including the Roda restaurant during the year. on Addlson Street. festival further than this year's ago. Back then, the theater Theatre, Aurora Theater and "This is a migrating (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. Festival organizers said they Shattuck Avenue and Milvia was surrounded by several Capoeira Art Cafe. community. There's a whole • San Franciscan Ofer Maran hoped the event would entice Street borders. automobile repair shops and Besides the surrounding new population of students boogied to Latin beats on more incoming students and The festival cost approximately vacant spaces. culture, incoming students Addison Street. San Francisco residents to visit $100,000 to put on. organizers "It was sort of sitting marveled at the festival's sights every year," Sherrill said. Although vendors mey not Betsy Bradshaw and her the new district. said, adding they are confident there, being neglected in and sounds. have profited monetarily from nartner Jennifer Sands "The arts district has been a that beer sales will help them some ways," said Berkeley "There's a lot of food inside," the event, many attendees said showcased their hand-knit wool long time in the making and we break even. City Councilmember Kriss said UClA second-year student j- they would come back a.'1.dvisit coats for sale. are finally getting people here As of 4 p.rn., Bison Brewery Worthington. Celine Sin, holding hands the arts district again, even If And Sarnir Goradia, who lives to experience the fruition of it," staff said they had sold about In the late 1980s, the Berkeley with UC-Berkeley second-year there wasn't another festival. just around the comer, realized said. Susie Falk, spokesperson 200 beers at $4 each. Repertory Theater was almost student Jeremy Sim, "I didn't know much about there was a whole lot more than for the Berkeley Repertory "This is hot," said sales forced to move to Oakland due But the street traffic still wasn't I this street," said UC-Berkeley h, he realized to Berkeley's new Theater. manager Jesse Ferber. "It's a to lack of financial support for as heavy as .some business student Jeff· Niemetschek, arts district. In four years, the district wonderful day to sell ice tea and maintaining the arts district. owners had hoped. ·I~: a third-year who lives in an . j ." An estimated 10,000 people has grown from a single small beer." Butin 1999, city staff members "I'm happy if we break even, " apartment a few blocks away. strolled up and down Addison theater to a full block. that Nearly 30 businesses lined discovered a way to raise $4 said Baron Sherrill, owner of "Now that ·1 know more •. I Street during Downtown includes outdoor sculpture, the street, hosting booths that million dollars for the theater Original Mel's. "The hot weather probably will." . Berkeley's Front Row Festival sidewalk art and a jazz school, promoted products ranging _. by issuing 'certificates of probably discouraged people Sunday. . among other artistic endeavors. from bead necklaces from participation. similar to bonds. from buying more food." Organized by the Downtown . I , ...", ARTS·& ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY AUGU;ST28, 2003 lhe cullure 01 drumcorps is serious slull BY PATRICK KAMPERT who counts a slew of corps as ChicalkRWbune clients for his costumes. "So we've decided it's both." It also is a big business, by DeKALB,Ill. - The west stands necessity. DCI is a non-profit of Huskie Stadium weren't filled umbrella group comprising yet, they would be by the end of the corps themselves, which the evening, but each entrance share the money on a tiered was jammed with fans who basis depending on where they wouldn't dare move out among finish in the competition each the crowd until the drum and year. Annual specials on PBS bugle corps on the field finished and sales of CDs, DVDs and its number. corps apparel help subsidize "It's like the symphony," the corps, which typically have said Beth Jones of Madison, budgets between $500,000 and Wis., under the stands as she $700,000. prepared to watch her daughter Although DCI has a small Melanie, 17, play the marimba. administrative staff, much for the Capital Sound group. of what keeps drum corps a "You wait for the intermission." vibrant part of Americana is a For the in crowd, the culture blended fuel of volunteerism of drum corps is serious stuff. and camaraderie. The contest "People who know what drum judges and the staffs of the corps is are very enthusiastic corps have "real" jobs when about it. There's definitely a cult the summer corps season isn't following," said Niels Knutson, keeping them on the road 21, a St. Olaf College student constantly from Memorial Day from Minnesota, shining his through mid-August, hom on the lawn behind the "Those of us who aren't stadium as he waited for his schoolteachers off in the group, the defending champion summer pretty much use our Cavaliers, to get its tum at Drum vacation to come and judge," Corps International's Midwest said Marie Czapinski of Chicago, Championships. DCl's head visual judge, who If the public stereotype is director of operations for a of drum corps is akin- to Chicago real estate developer. Members of tho Cavaliers drum corps play at tho midwest championships in Dokalb. Illinois. on July 12, 2003. anachronistic marching barids The judges do have the that TV ignores during the perk, paid for by DCI, of flying in your life unless you become halftime of football games, the to competitions around the a development director at St. tour and what it was like and other troupes crowded an a Navy Seal or something," reality of DCI is a thoroughly country. But for most of the Francis de Sales High School how they sleep on gym floors. opening in the fence at the Fiedler said. "Because you're modern milieu. Today's corps drum corps contingent, life in Chicago during the school And I said, 'I don't think I'm far end of the stadium to always on the clock. Today, are more likely to play original on the road is something like year. "Most of tile top corps ever going to be doing that.'" get a glimpse of the Cavs' we ate for an hour, had three music, compositions by Chick the case of the five-time world are a 24-hour organization in So much for predicting the complicated, demanding hours' rehearsal, ate for another Corea or Bela Fleck, or James champion Cavaliers, -based in tile summer. Somebody is up future. Her son aged out of the routine. hour, had three hours' more Bond movie themes than John Rosemont, Ill.: Chartered buses at every hour. At 3 a.m., it might corps last year (the age range is "I'd go out there, too, if I rehearsal, and on top of that, we Philip Sousa. carry 135 performers (who just be the drivers. At 4 a.m., 17 to 22). But Duewerth is still could," noted Joe Beitman, 18, did a (90-minute) clinic." They also feature a color have paid $950 each for the when you (arrive) somewhere, here. of Baltimore, a baritone player And that was before guard of male and female privilege of being a Cav), 30 or everybody's up because you So is Fiedler, who started for the Bluecoats of Canton, their performance. in the athletes garbed like Lance so staff members and another gotta move in. Everybody goes marching with the Cavaliers Ohio, who was holding down competition, which continued Armstrong and Christina 30 volunteers. One .large truck to sleep after that -except for in 1973 and now runs the the fort at his· team's T-shirt their three-year winning streak, Aguilera, respectively, who add hauls the band's instruments the cooks, who are starting the organization. The Cavaliers are booth. "Last year, they scored about 55 straight victories. ballet and acrobatic gymnastics and uniforms; another is breakfast." a Chicago-area group simply 99.15 out of 100 points; that's to the standard fare of tossing essentially a kitchen on wheels, Among the early birds would because they're based there. just amazing." But it's more than the grueling physical labor that sabers and waving flags in including a walk-in refrigerator be kitchen manager Rosanne Theirs is a world-class team Fiedler says he's training changes corps participants. high-energy, 15-minute spurts and walk-in freezer. And, by Duewerth of Chicago, who first that attracted 500 hopefuls leaders, and there is a certain Being cooped up with the same that would leave the Energizer the way, everybody sleeps on volunteered in 1998 when her from throughout the world to military air to being part of a 200 people every day for three Bunny gasping for air. the gym floor at a local school son was a Cavalier. compete for a few openings corps, which often will include months matures the young "We don't know if it's a sport; near the competition venue. "I was talking with a mom at last November's auditions. a conditioning coach and a performers and teaches them we don't know if it's an art," Everybody. whose son was in the color Even their opponents hold nutritionist. said Michael J. Cesario, a design "Nobody's at Motel 6, guard," she said, "and she was them in what amounts to awe. "I tell the new people that this how to get along. professor in graduate studies at not even the drivers," said telling me about going out on In DeKalb, musicians from is the hardest thing you'll ever do Purchase College in New York Cavaliers director Jeff Fiedler, , i . i;~:...;- ;..,:.;-_ --'.~~;:'~~~-~~::::::~~,~~':~'~.-- ~.,' "~., ;".'.'"-.,;.,.,,.,:. 7'· ..-, :".", ..",,':' 'tHURSDAY AUGUST 28, 2003 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 11 T CD REVIEW: ' Ween stomps back with spacey new album BYTONYHERRMAN from the White Album. It's no released a country album. album that doesn't come with a' Kansas State Collegian (Kansas surprise that song was written Track eight, the cheery "Hey parental advisory warning. StateU.) by George Harrison, who is an There Fancy Pants," is evidence So if you take Quebec home influence for Gene and Dean. that Ween once cut a track called and play it on the family stereo, (U-WIRE) MANHATTAN, Kan. II ••• My favorite song on the album "Loop de Loop" about shoe tying parents will be less likely to - The Boognish is back. this is a is the second to last, "The for the Nickelodeon cartoon complain, although they -- like The Boognish, a deity created Argus," which is right up there "SpongeBob SquarePants." most of the world -- probably by the band Ween, appears on with "Baby Bitch" from the This is possibly the first Ween won't understand the lyrics. all of the album cases and often fairly accessible album "Chocolate and Cheese" is mentioned in song lyrics. as Ween's best psychedelic On Aug. 5, The band released album for the song. Quebec, its first album since It is true that most Ween fans 2000's White Pepper. . (at least the ones I know) are Aaron Freeman and Mickey casual listener, no strangers to the doors of Melchiondo, better known as perception. Gene and Dean Ween founded but it's avvfully Quebec is not monopolized the band in the early '90s. Dean by these spacey tracks, though. and Gene have created such It opens with the rockabillytune humorous songs as "Bananas tame for Ween. " "It's Gonna Be A Long Night," and Blow," "Japanese Cowboy,' the most rockin' song on, the and "Mister Would You Please album, and with lyrics like, "you Help My Pony." bring the razor blade I I'll bring I had been looking forward most ofthe tracks on Ween's live awfully tame for Ween. the speed." It's definitely the .,' to the release of Quebec all compilation album Paint the However, the album is heavy most brown, which is to say the , 'summer. The band's Web Town Brown. The kind of tunes on the other style of music that most raw. " Weekly ~f:»ecials site had promised an album only an ardent Ween fan such as Ween does well, which is to say The tenth song -- "Chocolate as low as $94 that would be a return to the myself would enjoy. the cold, spacey-psychedelic Town" -- an alt-country song "browner side of Ween." Unlike Paint the Town Brown, variety. complete with steel guitar and a To me, this means the raw, this is a fairly accessible album Nearly all the songs sound like similar sound to Gram Parsons (208) 455-2359 ~~:~~I~o~~5 ear-blistering guitar solos and for the casual listener, but it's the BeatIes' "Long, Long, Long," .- is evidence that Ween once distortion that can be found on It's time to exercise something Texas from page 9 With Martinez, the former an outlet through our yearly "People Like Us," a film the feedback they got and all other than your mind. owner of the once-prominent series, My Gay Movie series, about the impact of Jonathan the support, maybe, that made Austin nightclub Promises, which is a thing we put out into Dernme's "Philadelphia" and them go on to finish it." steering aGUFF into the the community to encourage "No Secret Anymore: The In a time where Tv's "Queer non-profit realm, as' well people to pick up a camera and Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Eye for the Straight Guy" has as establishing a national say, 'Try it.' We're kind of the Lyon" are equally compeIling. grabbed attention for gay reputation, the festival found catalyst to say, 'We'll show it.''' However, with last year's voices in front of the camera, its feet and began launching This time around, aGUFF, "Dildo Diaries," a' truly aGLIFF has been doing the films and filmmakers which started Aug. 21 and homegrown documentary same thing behind the scenes during a 12-day stand at the ends Sept. 1 with the Austin about Texas' sex toys statutes for a much longer time. Metropolitan. Somewhere premiere of "Psycho Beach that has gone onto worldwide For Dinger, Martinez and a along the line, which both Party," scribe Charles Busch's festival success, Dinger and dedicated staff of volunteers, Dinger and Martinez cite is latest film, "Die Mommy Die," aGLIFF had real cause to coming out has a multitude of around the time the festival is introducing a whole new set celebrate. meanings and this week, it's became non-profit, 12 days of filmmakers from the world "There was a local filmmaking the films that are getting an turned into a year-long event, over. Films like the Israeli team [Judy Wilder and Laura irresistible makeover. Finally, a place to work out that fin a small studem Dinger concludes, "The one where aGUFF has become military drama "Yossi and Barton] who submitted a kind budb'Cl and a busy student schedule. Curves is 30- thing that the festival can do more actively involved in Jagger" and the Argentinean of work-in-progress short minute fitness, commonsense weight 10", and all the road movie "Suddenly" called 'Dildo Diaries' and that theaters normally can't, fostering new filmmakers. suppon you need 10 /'I..,. they submitted it to My Gay is that the festival can create "I'd like to think that aGLIFF show off the festival's foreign achieve lour goal" a kind of excitement and a (.;4ftVe~ has inspired filmmakers in flair. But domestic fare such Movie, and we showed it here, platform for films and shorts all sorts of ways, since we as-.,J.!l<:..-sooh-to-be feature and they got a lot of positive The power to amaze yourself" and documentaries that you have been around this long, "D.E.B.S."(which played the feedback and encouragement normally can't do with a , that maybe people have seen fest this past weekend), a from that," Dinger said. 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