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Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 3-15-2000 Arbiter, March 15 Students of Boise State University Although this file was scanned from the highest-quality microfilm held by Boise State University, it reveals the limitations of the source microfilm. It is possible to perform a text search of much of this material; however, there are sections where the source microfilm was too faint or unreadable to allow for text scanning. For assistance with this collection of student newspapers, please contact Special Collections and Archives at [email protected]. I ! il'i'P . >g_Lcl!~'Dblin lick.· 011 sale now .at Record Exchange or ~ 344-8010 OVER 21' FULL BAR. $11 �+ --- - -- • ~ ~ ... -~--- --- _..,.<-----'J (~------(Wt suitable programming> And what .about the reports on news Idaho's News Channel 7? Ahh ...what moral char- How appropriate does it seem Don't pull out' a black acters those Channel 7 execu- -that the stationwhich prides tives are. They decided earlier itself on ethics ran .the name, wallet or cell phone this month to pull "God, the video shots, the high school this week! Devil and Bob" from its reg- and the address of a 16-year ularly scheduled prime time old Boise teen who had been spot Their reason, according charged as an adult for sexu- to General Manager Doug ally molesting a six-year old Armstrong, stemmed from a girl? This teen hasn't gone to "continuing commitment to trial yet but Channel 7 decided cover provide quality, family pro- it more important to get the gramming." Armstrong pro- scandalous information on claimed that the sitcom's the' air first. BLT - it's not just a content included drinking So much for moral sandwich any more. and sexually explicit dialogue, responsibility. the progr.am- didn't seem Whether or not the appropriate. programming seems suitable Okay, let's stop for a for young children should not minute and take stock of the be the decision of a local tele- so-called "commitment to vision executive, but the provide quality, family pro- responsibility of the parents gramming" during prime who allow their kids exposure time television on Boise's to this kirid of content. NBC affiliate. Does Friends, a "show .which .continually hypocrisyIt's' that:thisgivesniediaakind of •Ir.'il~}.,"':).?H,!:l:i,i",~~~~~[7.'f~;R:';t;";~0~t~j~~~i~ centers around sex, quaIify as bad name. ' Columnists: staff Ira Amyx Damon Hunzeker box Lesleigh Owen Dale Slack Cartoonlsts: Eric ElliS ' sports EdItor In ChIef: Erica Hill Photo Editor: Jim Allen AssocIate EdItor: [essl Loerch Photographers: EdItorial AdvIsor: Peter Antonelli· Ted Harmon Wollhelm Rafael Saakyan DesIgn Directors: Tiffany Thompson Broncos tumble into Stephanie Pittam OnlIne EdItors: Jeremy Webster Heather Welburn Big West. News EdItor: Stephanie Matlock General Manager: Brad Arendt News Writers: Business Manager: Krista Harkness Jake Campbell Ad Director: Melica Johnson Mike Winter ClassIfIed ad manager: Mark Woods Bannister Brownlee Hannah Bankhead Ad DesIgners: Joshua Hammari The opinions presented in advertise- Sean Hayes Michelle Van Hoff Kate Hoffman Ad Sales: ments, editorials and cartoons within reflect the Wolf Hoffman Chris Hinson Sara Mitton Ofllce Managers: views of those who created, them and are not Jim Steele Claire Bonner necessarily the views of The Arbiter or its staff Amy Wegner Emily Childs Cameron Wiseman Distribution Supervisor: AGE EdItor: Brlttney Raybould DlstrIbutlon: ' The Arbiter is the' official' student news- AIlE Writers: Fernanda Barbosa Dominik Brueckner [ordt Figueras paper of Boise State Univers!ty. I~ missi~n is Mindy Butler Anna Marla Figueras to provide a forum for the discussion of Issues Mark Holladay Geoffrey Godfrey Jessica Holmes impacting the community. The Arbiters budg~t Sports EdItor: Doug Dana, consists of fees paid by students and advertis- Sports Writers: . ing sales. The paper is .distributed to the cam- Pete Erlendson Josh Jordan pus on Wednesdays during the school year. The Dave Stewart first copyis free-Additional copies cost $1 each, payable to The Arbiter offices. _ -•••----J) ('"--~---c.•.. .Lawmakers approve Boise State budget What seems certain, reached a state record at 16,000 however, is BSU's $7 million students and officials now won- increased request from fiscal tate lawmakers have der where to put them. year 2000's base figure. "That given their stamp of A $612,700 request to S money includes a change in approval to many of Gov- enhance educational programs employee .compensation which ernor Diik Kempthorne's in Twin Falls and Nampa as funding recommendations includes a 3.5 percent increase well as $1,230,000 to renovate for Idaho's collegesand,uni- based on merit," ~aysJohn multipurpose classrooms with versities. But an effort to Franden, executive assistant to updated technology were also keep qualified faculty at the President Charles Ruch. "A five knocked down by committee university through a salary percent payline move for classi- members. competitiveness program fied personnel ~ authorized Officials continue to wait appears to have died. Last by the committee but the uni- on a decision to fund BSU week the Joint Finance- versity will have to find the West, a satellite campus in money to fund it," he adds. Appropriations Committee Nampa. But Senate Finance authorized $287.5 million of Franden adds that the Chairman Atwell Parry says the the $297 million that univer- process of setting the salaries BSU request is "a goal of comes later this week. sity officials had asked for. mine," adding that he believes Shot down in the funding Kempthorne suggested just lawmakers will, find money for over $288 million. Distribu- process was a $1,225,300 the expansion. A decision on tion of that money will appropriation that President that request will coine when the depend on the decisions of Charles Ruch says would help committee takes a look at the the State Board of Educa- to "better serve students and Permanent Building Fund tion in the coming months. respond to continuing enroll- sometime in' the next' two ment growth." Attendance has weeks. Changescould make student life less taxing they must work with. Although it sounds like a "It's very different from confusing bureaucratic reorgan- what most of us do, and I think ization, Blake hopes that' the it's the right way to go," says . changes mean that individual Blake. "I believe it's the right offices can help more students cracy could simplify student model for Boise State at this with fewer hassles. dealings with the financial aid, time in our history. Essentially, the lines enrollment and registrar's On July 1,the" financial between the three offices are offices. aid, enrollment: and registrar's blurring, and each will take care By making-the changes offices officiallybegin reporting of more student needs. Peg Blake, Boise State's vice to Mark Wheeler, Boise State's EniployeeswiII cross- president of student affairs, dean of enrollment services, train, so that basic financial aid hopes students will get more of and Wheeler who then answers matters, .for example, could be their problems resolved at one to Blake. .taken care of in the registrar's place in the administration Blake currently receives office.The hope is that students building. reports from Wheeler, who will not be sent from one loca- In addition, incoming manages Boise State's enroll- tion to another for the right students should face fewer has- ment services: along with the specialist •..while dealing with sles as the reorganization deals financial aid. and enrollment everydayissues. with many of the departments offices.. .... _----~) ,. .('----_ .....~ Horticulture program blossoms in fertile soil of Old Pen jesst Loerch trays of sand into the room to learn about landscape contours. associate editor Just to the east of the utside, new snow cov- Old Pen, Lisa Whitwell, a first O ers the ground and year student in BSU's applied sandstone buildings near the technology horticulture pro- Old Penitentiary. The surprise gram, walks down the rows of snowfall quickly melts away as plants. She displays an impres- an early afternoon sun hits it. sive knowledge of every aspect But inside Boise State's horti- .. of the greenhouses. She points culture program's greenhouses, to a spiky, dark green plant located at the Old Pen, one called a sago whose would never guess there could palm, species lived with the be snow outside. The moist, dinosaurs .. Further into the warm air smells of growing greenhouse she mentions two plants and fertile soil. large staghorn ferns, which: Boise State's horticulture don't require soil. One grows program; part of the college of on a large piece of plywood, applied technology, moved the ~ther simply rests on top of from its old location near the the. metal, mesh table. tennis bubbles to the' Old Pen . Whitwell· points out the{ last August. The program's pre- string dividing the table tops' . vious location didn't leave .into sections. Each student uses room for expansion, or offer a one section for their. personal wet laboratory. -, learning projects. A wide vari- The Old GuardHouse, ety of plants grow in each which houses the classrooms, space. Some will be donated to seems' an unlikely location for the program's yearly plant sale, teaching students about soil others become gifts for family types and landscape contour- or friends, but all help students ing. But, both to the right and learn about the growing the left of the main door, stu- process of the various species. dents are doing lab work in In her own section, converted rooms. In one room, Whitwell shows off plants students examine soil on six- growing in a material called ver- sided tables; the lab counters miculite, a ground-up mica. It haven't arrived yet.