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Ruch formally asked to resign

resign." By Andy Benson sibility, a lack of leadership and a disre- touch with students. resolution. His office referred the The Arbiter gard for the students of Boise State. The resolution stated that upon the Arbiter to previous comments Ruch has Brooke Baldwin, ASBSU Senate pro ASBSU president Nate Peterson receipt of 1,000signatures on the ASBSU made about the petition. tern, said she was disappointed with Ruch's refusal to acknowledge the Boise State President Charles Ruch started the petition last January calling sponsored petition, Ruch would be Last January, Ruch said he was the Senate's resolution. officially received a resolution from thf! for Ruch to step down as university asked to resign. right person for the job and would not "1 think he is blatantly ignoring ASBSU Senate last week calling for his president. The petition reached the 1,00000igna- resign. ASBSU," Baldwin said. "He has to resignation after a petition critical of Peterson cited Ruch's response to the ture mark on Feb. 5, but the resolution I'm disappointed they felt I'm the prove to me why he doesn't need to Ruch collected 1/129 student signatures. budget crisis, the $85,000 logo and wasn't sent to the President's office until single and sole reason for their frustra- .Change or how he has changed." The resolution accused Ruch of PeopleSoft software cost overruns as March 4. tion," Ruch said when the petition drive showing a history of financial irrespon- examples of an administration out of Dr. Ruch refused to comment on the was announced. "1 am not going to Graduates face tough eeormmy, competffforr

By Mary Marggret Rice The U.S. Department of hunting before landing a Tile Arbiter Labor's National Data Book job .. says the largest and fastest The Occupational Soon-to-be college grad- growing occupation with Outlook Quarterly opti- uates must dig their heels the highest pay is computer mistically reports more in and stand firm as they systems analyst, .with a education gives individu- prepare to enter into projected 1.19 million job als an opportunity for today's economic turmoil. openings. higher earnings. According to the United Job growth is expected It says employers think States Department of reach an all-time-high of educated employees are Labor, total employment is 4.6 million retail sales jobs more organized and learn expected to increase by 14 and 3.9 million general. more easily. '. percent from 141 million in manager / top execunve i. At the same time, gradu- 1998 to 161 million in 2008. positions. ates should consider mov- However, the 20 million Farmers and sewing ing to where the money is. jobs to be added by 2008 machine operators will "As the job market tight- will not be evenly distrib- have the hardest time find- ens more graduates will uted in the major industrial ing jobs in the coming look at relocation even and occupational groups. years. though previous statistics The constant structural Service jobs will have show 85 percent have taken changes in the U.S. econo- the most job openings, jobs in the valley," Rapp my will be caused by con- mostly because of their said. sumer demand changes,. inherent replacement A better job market technology, and a faltering needs. might be found in a state economy aggravated by Two years ago the with a higher total personal Sept. 11. Bureau of Labor Statistics income. Occupations topping the analysis indicated future Idaho does not have a list as expected to grow good news. - high total personal income, most between 1998 and They predicted 1998- standing at $31 billion with . ',I 2008 are: registered nurses, 2008 degreed job openings a.4 percent distribution. computer systems analysts, would almost equal the California has the nation's counselors, college and number of college gradu- highest income at $1.09 tril- I university faculty, and ates entering the labor lion with. a 13.1 distribu- 1 .physicians. force. tion rate . The projected fastest Dick Rapp, Career Students might think growing occupations Center director said, "Most twice before moving to between 1998 and 2008 are: graduates will find jobs, it . Wyoming;- at $13.4 billion computer support special- will just take a little longer and a .2 distribution, it has ists, computer engineers, now to find them." the lowest total income of speech / language patholo- Rapp says the job market all the states. gists and audiologists, bio- is very competitive in According to Time mag- logical scientists and vet- today's economy, and esti- azine, students graduating erinarians. mates two to five months of see JOBS page 3 Photo by Ted Hormon. The ArtJIter.

Heather Rulz shines durIng her floor routine on Monday. For more coverage ofthe meet turn to page 6. Program helps Japanese Chi Alpha'hosts God students flne-tune English By Ted Harmon vs. science debate - The Aroiter The 22 Japanese students visiting BSU from ous straits between 'know-noth- Tokyo will complete their studies in Boise next National scholars to debate ing' skepticism and 'anything week. after finishing an intensive program goes' credulity." designed to sharpen their spoken English. creationism' vs, science Guarisco said Chi Alpha has . The Asia University Global Studies Program felt an event like this would (AUGP) transplants students from Asia University By Julie Underwood do not, will not, and cannot con- greatly benefit the BSU commu- in Tokyo to Boise State for an intense seven weeks Special to The Arbiter tradict." nity. . of English conversation and listening comprehen- . According to information on "Many students feel that sion study.. "': Have you ever considered his web site, Ross' mission is to belief in God is unscientific, so Students also spend time studying historical .what the universe has to say show how science and faith are we felt it would be good to have and contemporary aspects of American culture. about the existence of God? allies, not enemies. two scholars debate the issue," The Japanese education system mandates a Dr. Hugh Ross, astrophysi- Ross said he started at reli- he said. minimum of six years of English classes to gradu- cist/ and Michael Shermer, pro- gious" ground zeso" and arrived After researching the best ate high school, but those classes focus mainly on fessional skeptic, have, and will at his current beliefs through sci- scholars to debate the issue, Chi grammar and writing, not on conversation skills. be sharing their conclusions in a ence. Alpha had to overcome schedul- Many English classes in Japan meet just once a debate entitled, "The Universe Shermer, founder of the ing issues. . week, and are taught by teachers who have often Speaks," sponsored by Chi Skeptic Society and "Skeptic "It's not easy to get on the cal- never worked with native English speakers, said Alpha Christian Fellowship Magazine" will confront cre- endars of scholars like these," Eric White, coordinator of intensive English pro- Tuesday, March 19 at 7 p.m. in ationism head-on. Guarisco said. ''We had the idea grams on campus. the SUB Jordan Ballroom. "Creationists. don't actually two or two-and-a-half years ago, "The pattern we lend to see with Japanese stu- Nino Guarisco, Chi Alpha do science. What they do is rum- but we couldn't get the schedul- dents is that their analytical skills are very strong; director, said the debate will mage through scientific journals ing worked out until now." you give them a multiple choice test and they can focus on answering the question; and books and try to find holes He said the debate is expect- knock your socks off," White said. .' ''What can a rational person con- in theories or find what looks ed to be lively but respectable, However, the very same students have a diffi- corroborative evidence for dude about creation by scientifi- like The experience of the partici- cult time verbalizing the language, White said, cally looking at the cosmos?" creation," Shermer said. pants shouui lead to a great because the opportunity doesn't present itself in Shermer is the author of, Ross, founder and president exchange of ideas, he said. Japanese classrooms. of "Reasons to ..B.e!ieve" and ''Why People. Believe Weird "We are hoping for a lot of While at BSU, the students attend 14 hours of StudentsfromAslanUnlversityptacUce .nationally known author and Things," and has been featured participation from students and classes focusing on spoken English; _ listening comprehension oflaroe numbers • . on LanyKing Live and Oprah. . lecturer, will argue for creation- pro~rs/ especially. during the Th e students split into two. groups and alterna te Shermer said, "The key to ism by asserting new. scientific qu tion d an er segm t gh Museum in Boise. . f j skepticism is to continually and wWch willfullo~ debate. :;n. ,between classes tau t by Seana Sperling and Students took notes on various exhibits for class discoveries which he said, Jennifer Wylie. '.' - . and Sperling d W Ii often 'prove, "God's revelation 'of vigorously apply the methods of . ''We try to give them a taste of what people ' assignments, . an ~e were . .Himself in scripture and nature ' science to navigate the treacher- actually sound like," Sperling said. recruited to posefor pictures with . students. One of Sperling's recent classes demonstrated Exhibits involving firearms consistently.drew a the difference between the technical pronunciation crowd of students anned with digital ~ . of numbers and how Americans actually say them. The AUGP also provides for two interna'tional advisers. The_ advisers, are' students at Americans don't enunciate clearly when they 1..":' Ie abou 20 h . Week ·th the say numbers quickly, she said, "twenty" becomes ~ . Wuu 'r0r t . ours per '. '.' WI ...... "twenn' .". . '.' Japanese students. '...... : .:- :'~ Y .KirkGammil,'an Environmental Science major: ·.The lesson focused onhlrge numbers anddeci- on exchange from Humbol4tStatelJniversityin. .~ :. .... 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initially against the will of Boise State budget solidating building use and of Economics at Boise State. the .American public. reduction plan approved reducing energy costs by The Lecture Series is free championships, Albany,. NoY. heating or cooling buildings and open to the public. Free Her presentation will MARCH 14 show how the deliberate .StUdentrecital, JessicaDean, TENTATIVE. Boise State will imple- fewer hours. parking is available in the and recurrent use of the ment several cost-saving "We made every effort to visitor lot behind the clarinet, .Morrlson ,Center strategies she has docu- Rectial 'Hall. 7:30 p.m. MARCH 15-21 measures, increase student preserve the university's Student Union Building. mented, facilitated the cre- . Alcohol Awareness Week, fees and reduce budgets to acadeinic programs and For more information call Presentedby BoiseState music ation and expansion of such department. Free. Call 426- Student Union, various tUnes. accommodate an estimated keep personnel layoffs to a 426-3351. Presented by several Boise .federal programs as income 3980. $9.34 million shortfall in the minimum," said President Charlotte Twight is a tax withholding, Social State department, Student fiscal year that begins July Charles Ruch. professor of economics at Union and Activities and 1. "While this budget Boise State. She received Security, Medicare and sys- MARCH 14-16 tematic surveillance of ordi- Student Housing. Free. Call The plan drafted by the means a reduction in the her Ph.D. and J.D. degrees First Nations Conference, nary citizens. 426-1223.. university's Executive quantity of our services, it from the University of Student Union. Presented by Budget Committee was by no means diminishes the Washington in Seattle. Her . Cultural and Ethnic Diversity, Board. MARCH16· approved by President quality of what we pro- research has focused on the Documentary film "Long Charles Ruch on March 12. vide," he said. economics of public choice Free to BoiseState students, Boise State to host Nlghts}ourneyinto Day:South The State Board of and its afplication to the $25 general if registered by engineering job fair March Mar. 1, $30 after Mar. 1. Free to A4ica's Search for Truth .and Education must allocate the growth 0 government in 19 in student union Reconciliation," .Albertson higher education budget America. She has published BoiseState students,discounts for faculty arid staff. Keynote College of Idaho Langroise and vote on student fee pro- National privacy expert to articles in numerous schol- The sixth annual Idaho Auditorium. ,1 p.m. Free. posals in April before the speak at Boise State lecture arty journals,' testified addresses ,are free. Call 426- Engineering Job Fair will be 1223. Sponsored. by The Iriterfaith plan is finalized. series before Congress and is held from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Alliance,Idaho Human Rights The plan was drafted in nationally recognized in her March 19 in the Jordan MARCH1S Education Center and .Ada response to the state-man-. Charlotte A. Twight, a 'field. Ballroom of the Boise State County Human Rights Task dated 10.1 percent reduc- national exp!'?l1on privacy, '" .Dr, T\'(ight will discuss "Mahalia: A Gospel . University Student Union. Musical," Morrison Center Force, tion in the university's gen- issues and the economics of "her,'new'"bool<, Dependent • Students from Boise eral account budget. One of politics, will be the featured on D.C., and her assessment Mairi Hall. 8 p.m. Presented by State, Idaho State MARCH 16-17 the key components is a speaker at the Len 'B. and of how dependence on the Boise State Women's Center. University and the Tickets:$8-$i9 at Seleet~a-seat, Pow Wow, Student Union proposed 12 percent fee Grace Jordan Endowment ,federal government has University of Idaho will Jordan Ballroom. Noon-mid- increase, which will result for Economic Studies become a central character- 426-1110, 426-1494 or participate. wwwJdahotickets.com night March"16, noon- 6 p.m., in approximately $4.34 mil- Lecture Series ,at 7 p.m. istic of modern American Employers will be seek- lion in additional revenue. Tuesday, March' 19, in the politics. In her presentation, March 17. ing students for full-time Documentary film "Long All day event. Presented by If approved, Boise State's Boise State University she will explain how and internship positions in Boise State Intertribal Native current $1,334 per semester Student Union' Jordan America changed from a NightsJourney into Day:South. engineering,' construction Africa's Search for Truth and Council.Call426-4259. fee would increase approxi- Ballroom. nation where the federal management, computer sci- mately $160. The Len B. and Grace government played a rela- Reconciliation, First ence, computer information PresbyterianChurch. 950West Bronco gymnastics at Cal The remaining $5 million Jordan Endowment for tively limited role in the systems, Information tech- shortfall will be made up Economic Studies was day-to-day affairs of ordi- State.7 p.m, Free:'Sponsoredby with SanJose. nology, geophysics' and through.budget reductions established to encourage nary Americans to one in The Iriterfaith Alliance, Idaho other technical fields. The Human Rights Education Bronco Buck-Off climbing and savings measures. the study of public policy which there is almost no event is free and open to the Boise State will reduce its issues and to support schol- activity that the govern- Center and Ada County competition,Climbing Gym. 9 public. Human RightsTaskForce; a.m.-4p.m. Presented,by,Boise work force by 41 posi- arships for economics. ment cannot, at its discre- Recruiters from approxi- tions- 22 faculty and 19 "Senator Len B. Jordan tion, r~g~late, manipulate StateOutdoor Center.eaU 426- mately 30 companies and MARCH 15-16 , 1946. ' staff. Of those, 10 will be dominated the Idaho politi- or prohibit. . agencies will conduct inter- laid off. The other 31 posi- cal scene for many years. Dr. Twight will describe "Un Masqued!," Special views during the fair. Eventscenter.8 p.m. March 15, MARCH 17 tions are currently vacant or Each year the Len B. and a, universal process by For more information will be vacant due to retire- Grace Jordan Endowment which, with bipartisan sup- 2 and 1 p.m. March 16. FacultyArtistSeries:Faculty ments, for Economics Studies port, the Congress, the call Leandra Abarusa in Presented by Boise State BrassQuintet,Morrison Center Boise State's College of The university also has allows us to honor senator Supreme Court and the Student Programs Board. Main Hall.Presented by Boise Engineering at 426-4432 or Tickets: $3.50-$6 at Select-a- State music department. instituted several savings Jordan and his wife, Grace, president have expanded visit the fair's Web site at programs, including mov- with a' program that the role of the central gov- Seat, 426-1494 orwww.ida- Tickets: $5 adults, $3 seniors coen.boisestate.edul intern- ing to a 4-day week for acknowledges and cele- ernment without resort to hotieI

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1" The Arbiter • Page 3 ~~==.:::~~.20·02 ---:...... ;...;....:-.------_.. N····ews . -' Tutors reatr,u-«=tllre,andrefocos Peterson Learning Center in the Writing center -help is of well in math. By Amy Wegner effective." . free charge. Pavilion, and focuses on lower division The main objective of tutoring ser- She said the center offers the oppor- The Arbiter The tutoring center implemented tunity for students to work with some- math classes. drop-in tutoring this spring instead of vices on caID}'US is to help students During the month of February, the with math and science cIasses within ' one who knows what they are doing The university's budget crunch has private intensified tutoring. math center in the Pavilion logged in the core group of classes, instead of muddling through on their sent many programs scrambling to ''We experimented with it a lot in the 2700 hours of tutoring time' If there is enough interest and atten- own. Crans said she is considering cutting come up ~th ways to save money and fall, and it worked really well, especial- "A student simply go to the can cen- , " ly in the sciences," Crans said. dance in another section of core classes, the hours available in subject areas in prove. their place on.campus. • another tutoring section could .be ter with a homework assignment, and BOIse State tutonng services are no If a student feels like they need to lower demand. She said attendance added, if the need balances the expense. anytime they run into a problem they exception. have focused, one-on-one tutoring, they records indicate demand to the centers. Crans said, "Instead of having tutors can't answer there is a tutor right there So far, none of the tutoring services will now have to pay the tutor for their Attendance' for science tutoring, for' different professors or classes, we to help," Siu said. will be cut, however changes have time out of their own pocket. esP:ecially chemistry and physics IS have a vision to hire a tutor that has a The majority of the tutoring budget already taken place, and many tutoring The tutors charge 'between $10-$15 basic background in a subject, for goes to math tutoring. Last year, math high. goal d vi . make services have for effi- an hour, some even cost more. "My an V1S10n IS to sure been restructured instance, Oiemistry, that is able to tutor tutoring was all done in one center, but ciency during the current school year. The Writing, Center is another that we're not wasting university all lower levels of chemistry, without it was recently split up to two different Lois Crans, Tutorial Services coordi- .source of student help focusing on money. And the number one demand having to break it up by professor," places. nator, said, "At this point, the Tutorial tutoring writing and editing papers. The first math center is in the Math for tutoring right now is math," Crans Rick Leahy, Writing Center director, [oni Sill, a junior math: tutor said she said. Program has not been compromised thinks students who don't take advan- and Geosciences Building, and concen- due to budget reductions. Instead it has said, "There's no change that I've tage of the drop-in tutoring center are trates on upper-division math. been reorganized to meet the needs of heard. The Writing Center doesn't have missing out on the opportunity to do The other center is in- the Ed more students and to be more cost any budget cuts coming." ASIAN UNIVERSITY JOBS from page 1 from page 1

from college last year were 1980's to 4.0 percent in November 2001, 900,000 faced with the worst 2000. jobs disappeared. - Because of this, March American economy in ten Last June, the pool of years. . available workers was ata 2001 is considered by some Because of this, active record low of 9.8 million, analysts to be the official student recruitment by however morale was still beginning of the recession. Throughout the months employers on camf.uses high, said Business Week's of May, June, and July, jobs was decreased by hal . James Cooper. disappeared at an average :1 About 50 percent of "On the' surface, higher rate of 117,000 per month. iI firms withdrew their offers wages would seem an :1 [une was a month of [j while the remaining 50 per- inflation worry to the Fed. 'j great economic change. The cent' continued fervent But they aren't troubling us 11 weak economy caused the attempts to recruit stu- as long as workers produce 11 dynamic service sector, a dents through signing enough goods or services . main source for jobs in the ~ bonuses. to cover the increases in Because 2001's increased their paychecks," Cooper 1990' s, to suffer. , 190,000 census jobs were corporate productivity said. lost in the crunch. 1 allowed businesses to raise 13 months ago, the The U.S. Labor or keep a consistent output unemployment rate was 3.9 Department reports with fewer employees, percent. employers cut 113,000 Business Week journal pre- Following the September manufacturing jobs, the dicted companies would terrorist attacks, 415,000 Americans lost their jobs in federal government cut continue laying off 6,000 jobs, though local and employees well into this October. This amount was double state governments added year even if. the economy 30,000 [obs, mostly in edu- . had recovered by now. the original prol'ected A 6.5 percent unemploy- amount given by ana ysts. cation. Retailers also added ment rate looms in our The high fluctuation of 18,000 employees. future; manr economists the unemployment rate from 4.9 percent to 5.4 per- The Labor Department think it wit rise to this also said the nation's height by June, cent was a clear indication of full-blown recession. unemployment rate Kotaro Shlmosato takes notes on the Native AmerIcan "PIpe and Smoking" exhIbIt for a class However, The New York jumped up to 5.7 percent Times said some forecast- One-fourth of lost jobs assignment. was a direct result of ter- during the month of terrorist attacks, White said. ers predicted a rebound November. Boise State's budget crunch fits the students' needs, and the with. increased employ- rorist attacks, said Thomas current recession in Japan has Before the scare about 30 stu- Nardone, Bureau of Labor More than 300,000 jobs hasn't affected the program's dents planned to attend, but only ment by this month. were dropped in Dec. 2001. operation because Asia been a factor. According to the , Statistics chief. Recently, a weekend trip to 22 actually made the trip. In October, an index of University funds it. "The students weren't National . Data Book, Attacks lowered morale Sun Valley that had been taken and hope for quick recov- nationwide help-wanted The cost to the visiting stu- spooked, but th~ parents were," employment status ratios advertising fell to its low- dents depends on how long they in previous years had to be elim- steadily increased from ery after a mild recession; inated to keep the cost down. White said. "It really captured est point since 1982. stay and what activities are the imaginations of the more sen- 57.4 in the 1970's to 64.5 in because of this, the mild This year's lower than expect- recession escalated into a So far this year, t~e planned. sationalist press over there." 2000. White said each year, both ed attendance wac; at least partly more serious one. economy suffers from a 5.4 At the same time, unem- percent unemployment universities work to develop a due to the anthrax scare that ployment ratios declined However, between the occurred in the aftermath of the rate. curriculum and a price tag that from 4.9 percent in the months of March and A P P Lie AT ION SOU E ! ! , .

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\ .. I t • ! Seeing the light on the evils of corporations \ I have seen the light! It' libraries across the nation What is even worse is wouldn't believe whatthese conditions of societal and CEOs are grossly overpald ..I : \. finally clicked in my brain free computers and soft- how Microsoft abuses its guys are up to. They had the environmental p~oblems:' mea~, ho.w hard could It , why capitalism is so bad and ware. Oh, the humanity! To employees. The average nerve to put together the Now here's the kicker: The poss~blr. be ·to oversee a : why communism is so good. think that he would try to yearly salary of a Microsoft Ben & Jerry's One World, grants are funded by corpo- multI-b~lhon dollar compa- : I apologize for trying to mis- pollute young children by employee (counting yearly One Heart Festival (June 22, rate profit! Bastards! How ny With thousands .of : lead everybody with my giving them free computers salary, stock options, and all 2002 in Warren, Vermont). dare they give away 7.5 per- employees, knowing that the I faulty ideas, to use to better benefits) is close to $300,000. This is a free concert featur- cent of their pre-tax earrungs fate of t~e regions eco~o~y : poor grammar, their education. Now, granted, much of this ing bands like Blues to help fight global warmmg rests With every decision : and faulty All he succeeded is because of stock options, Traveler, The Iguanas, and and poverty. Nice l~tt~e you make? Heck, a.llof those : research the in doing was force but Enron has showed us Sloan Wainwright. I'll bet cover up. Notice how It IS CEOs probably hed when I last year and these kids to buy what happens when evil cor- that couple of thousand peo- l're~tax earnings. Ther write they said they work an aver- : half. Now that Microsoft the rest porations offer employees pie show up for this display that 7.5 percent of their age of 75-80 hours a week.. : I will be sup- of their lives: stock options. of debauchery, many of taxes so it does!1't eve.n And look at all the evil : porting left- But Microsoft Maria Cantwell is a great them causing environmental affect them. All this does IS they do at. g?lf ~ourses. I : wing ideas, my doesn't stop there. example to show how much damage as they trample a take money out of govern- mean, providing Jobs for the I grammar will Gates showed the harm Microsoft has done to grassy field and produce all ment social progra~s that people tha~ pick up golf : improve and so vorld that this nation. that consumer waste from help feed poor children. balls, caddies, bartenders, : will. . my ae is syn- Cantwell is a Democrat eating ice-cream all day. Ben Who would have ever golf course designers. chauf- I research meth- an y m o u s Senator from Washington. & Jerry's must be stopped thought that Ben & Jerry's feurs to shuttle them : ods. See I'm' with Satan She beat incumbent Slade because of their blatant dis- were in the business of around. It would be far bet- : already ~njoy. when he Gorton to win her seat. regard to envtronmental starving children?· ter if these CEOs just died so : ing the benefit: :> 1e d g e d Cantwell is a millionaire that quality. The other part of c~rpora- all of these peo~le could .do : of being a leftist. $10 billion to got all of her money from Of course, the absolute tions that makes me SIck are the honorable thing and live , So what is it that changed help third world countries. Microsoft. Yep, she exer- worst thing that hasHap- these CEOs. I have recently off the g~:lVernme,:,t. , : my mind? I'll tell you. 1 Look at his corporate greed. cised her stock options and pened is the Ben & Jerry's been informed that all CEOs Hey, It looks like I.m out :

started looking at all the evil Making people get healthy earned millions. Now, Foundation. Did you know do all day is play golf and of space. 1hope that With my I things corporations do to and learn to read just so they because Microsoft gave her that this Foundation, started' drink martinis. After seeing excellent left-sided research : .everybody, and it just made . can. buy Microsoft products stock options, the U.S. by CEQs of a c?rporation ho~ much money Larry t~at I have been able to con- : me want to vomit. Let's start in the future. Senate IS in control of was started with stock Ellison, CEO of Oracle, vmce everybody how bad ' out with the richest corpora- This is a blatant example Democrats. All because of options?! Now this obvious- donated to the Democratic capitalism is. Or are leftist : tion of all Microsoft. of exploitation that must be evil corporations. ly fraudulent business gives Party, 1 must believe it. One this retarded for actually : Bill Gates, the founder of stopped. I urge all of you to Another evil corporation grants to people and organi- would have to be drunk to believing this stuff? : Microsoft, is one evil person. write Microsoft and demand that must be stopped is that zations "which facilitate support Democrats that : To think that he had the that this $10 billion in aid be faceless ice-cream behemoth progressive social change by much. :, audacity to give rural stopped immediately. known as Ben & jerry's. You addressing the underlying On a serious note, those I I, I I , I I I Americans are not the only casualties I, I I then proceeded to bomb into trators to justice, without would admire. hegemony-regardless of the: Last Friday, President Bush going to endorse ways of fight- oblivion an entire nation of adding as heavily to the death To the families who lost human toll. Our leaders' deci-] shed tears over one of the casu- ing terrorism that won't cost innocent people, a people who toll. However, this life-saving . loved ones that day, we have sions and. bombs have provid-: alties of his war. "I know your thousands more innocent had not elected the tyrants rul- option and others like it were proven our willingness to ed more fodder for the terrorist, heart aches, and we ache for lives? Unlikely. The rejected, \ . ing over them, and who had blanketly with only extend their agony to more fire-not less. : you. But your son and your President's tears and words nothing to do with the Sept. 11 one voice in Congress voting families, in their names. Many The "War on Terrorism" is a: brother died for a noble and demonstrate with perfect clari- crime. Our leaders took this against giving. Bush the of these individuals have spo- farce. For heads of state and: just cause." Bush audaciously ty the convoluted, irrational action knowing that it put 7.5 authority to kill thousands. ken out against Bush's unend- business owners it is a game' spoke these words during a morality that has gripped the million innocent people at And what exactly has Jhe ing and unjust wars; "not in that will be manipulated just: speech supporting his broth- u.s. and its leaders since Sept. severe risk of starving to death. U.S. accomplished or proven our name" they say, but to no like the "communist virus": er's gubernatorial campaign. 11th. Their authenticity is not These were people decimat- through its unilateral violence? avail. was for the past 50 years. As: Members of the .-- --. suspect; the ideology cd by years of drought whose 'To the dead Afghani chil- And finally, we have Reagan did, Bush will use thiS: victim's family sat in ~ that created them is. only food source was the tons dren and their parents, we p~oven to the world that we new excuse to broaden and, the front row. Their If justice is mea- of humanitarian aid being have proven that their non- are still willing to murder and stabilize U.S. imperialism. Our: brother and son, also sured in terms of pun- shipped into the country by U.S. lives are worthless. To starve millions of innocent government will continue to: a U.S. soldier, is now '...... ishing the offender the UN and other agencies. Americans, dead 1hird World. people simply to reassert our murder innocents as well as: dead because of trW:...... and protecting the Well aware that our bombing civilians are rubbish, mere global domination and protect train and fund other nations' Bush's violence. '. . . innocent, the U.S.· would sever this lifeline, the "collateral damage"-and cer- the economic interests of the that are also murdering and: Where does this ~. -.,-- government has U.S: attacked. Later, we tainly not worth the trouble wealthiest one-percent of our raping innocents, all in the: President, who has failed. mocked our victims by drop- they might cause our collective population.· . name of fighting "terrorism:" killed over 3,000 ping a pinkly number of food conscience if we saw them on Our officials' continuing It happened in the 1980s with: innocent Afghanis, packets on them-packets that the 10 o'clock news at night. response to the Sept. 11th almost the same people and: as well as numerous were the same color and shape To the murderers that tragedy, including the decima- almost the same language, and: U.S. servicemen, and as our anti-personnel cluster thought nothing of killing tion of Afghanistan, has noth- it's happening now. And 20: who lromises to bombs. thousands of' innocent ing to do with justice. The years from now, as terrorism' expan his military For U.S. officials, the risk of Americans, we have proven memory of those who died and anti-American sentiment: aggression infinitel} starving millions of innocent that we are just as ruthless and that day has been tarnished by continue to flourish across the: with the total numl.,<:. t'ollowmg me atrocity, offi~ people to death and the cer- just as willing to murder inno- mega-corporations and politi- globe, we will still be asking: of dead innocent children, cials quickly moved to exacer- tainty of murdering several cents as they are. We have also cians wno have seized the ourselves "why do t~ey hate: women, and men yet to be bate the tragedy's destructive thousand more (including U.S. handed them a partial victory. 0fPortunity to free themselves us?" Here's a clue: think mas-' determined, find tne gall to impact. First, Bush refused to servicemen), was an acceptable If their goal was to impose dra- 0 tax burdens, advance their sive, violent oppression-not: address the loved ones of his acknowledge Taliban offers to sacrifice in pursuing "justice:' conian, fundamentalist laws neo-liberal economic agenda, envy.. : victims in this way? turn over Osama bin Laden if But justice was not our goal. upon our populace, our lead- grab at lucrative oil pipeline Our president shed tears. I: How does he manage to not given evidence linking him to Had it been, we would've led ers have accomplished that deals in the newly "stabilized" firmly believe that criminals' incessantly shed tears over the the crime. Because of our an international police-style goal for them~ven using the Afghanistan, fatten "defense" can repent, but given the evi-: droves of innocent Afghanis, leader's failure to even consid- anti-terrorist operation that same rhetoric. Bush and revenues, and further milita- dence, it appears we still have: Palestinians, .and Israelis that eJ.this opti.()I1\\,ewill never would've had the same or bet- - Ashcroft's theme of destroying .~rizc- thc U.s. for_its C9!!l!l1ue_d a murderer on our hands. , he has already sentenced-to know its sincerity. U.S.offiCfals ter odds of bringing the perpe- "evil" is one bin Ladenites role in ensuring its economic·--· --.__ ._---_....-..'__ ..._... death? He is crying, but is he U.8. should look at past before resorting to nukes have unpredictable conse- me is that our President would. ories, and the contemplation of justify).A nuclear attack against actually contemplate (as did' Bv Rene t, Gonzglez treaties, environmental treaties China would force the Cliinese quences. and others are a major cause for breaking the "nuclear stale- Nixon) the use of nuclear Berrios . to launch their nuclear weapons The mere usage of nuclear concern. It seems that the cur- mate" by considering the use of weapons in an aggressive fash- Massachusetts Daily Collegian against the United States arId weapons would destabilize rent President is "masturbat- nuclear weapons in aggressive, ~on (a new development), and (U. Massachusetts-Amherst) rather than defensive action. possible U.S. allies (like Britain governments in many parts of ing" with the idea of supreme, the world, and could lead to furthermore, to publicize it in a unilateral and authoritarian For years, mutual nuclear and France), destr0r.ing much manner that may destabilize AMHERST, Mass. - The of the Western civilization in "preemptive" smkes by other power and worst of all, the destruction theories have held !?overnments around the world Bush administration decided the process. nations (China, Russia, and American people are consent- that rational (and this is very even Israel) against each other (especiallythe seven mentioned on Saturday, March 9, to important to the theory) leaders There is debate about how instruct the Pentagon to pre- ing to it. All theories that pro-' many weapons China has, but for fear of a breakdown in the as possible targets). fessed the conviction that the would not resort to tile aggres- During tne Cold War, pare contingency plans for the it has at least eight presently international nuclear order. The American people would not tol- sive use of nuclear weapons nuclear states often threatened possible use of nuclear readied for immediate launm- Chinese and Russians would erate an authoritarian President because the cost would be too most likely strike at the United defensive retaliation if nuclear weapons against at least seven high if they did. World War I ing against the eight major countries: thina, Russia, Iraq, encroaching on the democratic cities of the United States. States and the West, and maybe weapons were used. But, ratio- power of the American people started from this type of com- nal leaders in all nations knew North Korea, Iran, Libya and Estimates of the total number of even each other if suspicion are being put to test, and tney plex military alliance obliga- was high enough. The Arab that aggressive nuclear action Syria. tions. It began with a simple nuclear weapons China have The release of this informa- are failing; world and Israel would be . would be met with resolute This failure of the American assassination of a Serbian ranged from 50-200.A launch- retaliation and would give tion comes at a time when ing against North Korea would severely destabilized, causing people to realize what their leader, and then progressed to doomsday results. Uthe present declassified documentS regard- also have a similar Chinese turmoil in the region and possi- President is doing (or worse, be one of the world's worst ble Arab war against Israel and government cannot see the ing President Nixon's activities wars. The possibility of another reaction (because of the consenting to it under the erro- the subsequent usage of Israeli error of its ways, then it is up to during his presidency revealed World War beginning with the Chinese-North Korean that ilie president seriously con- neous belief that they must sup- nuclear weapons to defend the citizenry to do sometlling port their President in a time of ignorant aggressive actions of a alliance). A U.S. launch against about it or else face the conse- templated using nuclear Russia would ensure the total itself. The reactions of nuclear crisis by not dissenting) has jingoistic President - is not quences of an overly ambitious weapons to bring the Vietnam destruction of both Russia and India and Pakistan are also War to a close with a U.S.victo- reached its logical conclusion: unlikely. unpredictable, possibly escalat- President with absolutely no the belief of a U.S. president of In practice, yve could con- the United States. Russia has idea of the repercussions of his ry. thousands of weapons, enough ing the present Kaslimir and his right to unilaterally alter the template some possible out- other conflicts to· nuclear pro- "tough Texan cowboy" atti- Nixon's actions and gradual comes of the U.S:s aggressive to destroy the United States and moves by the present adminis- most fundamental of power portions. tude. politics in the modem nuclear use of nuclear weapons (no its Western allies many times tration to erode safeguards over. Launches against Iraq, All of this, I admit, is purely age. Namely, the abrogation of matter how "small", as the pre- speculative. But what is scary to regarding civil liberties, war sent administration is trying to Iran, Syria and Libya woula conventions, missile arms mutual nuclear destruction the-

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This is a low~ I to. you.remploYmentoffice,:\thebasiS for this .ai'gUnlent? stl~le/()r~venfit m with the have more than doubled interest loan for u1ldergradu~ i themessagelSC{qitecIearthat,'Tosaythatsuch a place js a . pO~lI1arn()tion of "democra- ate and graduate students MERIT is notweicomed at justifiable target for Violent cy,' a truly oppressive since 1980even when adjust- Affirmative Action is a ing for inflation. Household with exceptional financial misguided prin~ple Boise State and that politics, action in war shows the inhu- regime has been unseated. need, and it helps prevent incomes have risen at a sig- , not achievement, determine manity of those who strange- People should be happy, as nificantly slower pace, and students from amassing crip- , . advancements. Iy claim their activism is on women aren't going to be so Dear Dr. Ruch, Why is working families tl}roughout I urge you to take prompt behalf of innocent people likely to be beaten for reveal- pling debts. .' . .. . your employment office the nation have struggled to In response to mcreasmg named, "Office of measures to correctly return around the world. As for the ing their faces. keep up with college costs. college costs and decreasing Affirmative Action?" your employment office to its various stray "smart bombs" Education is going to be Although higher education access to Ngher .edueation, . Affirmative Action is a bank- more accurate title. By repair- that killed many civilians, more. widespread, including the Democratic Party has ing thls error, you will send a such tragic' errors may very education for women. People provides the best avenue !'l1pt concept of placing. the through which young taken a more aggressive mterestsof a politically clear message that.at least at well have been the result of can legally enjoy music now. Americans can find well-pay- approach. During the last favored minority group BoiseState, it is the content of dubious manufacturing prae- Shouldn't we also praise ing jobs, it's harder and nard- eight years, we raised the Pell ahead of members from other one's character, not the color tices of Eagle-Pitcher the fact that there is no longer er each year for many stu- Grant maximum award from groups who are better quali- of one's skin that matters. Technologies who makes the the very oppressive regime in guidance batteries. ' Afghanistan that sullied the dents to pay for college. $2,300to $3,750. fied. All-across the United Additionally, we guided Ina time of, desperate reputation and image of President Bush has shown States, programs bearing the J. Tyler Ballance measures, such as the time on Islam by using it as a justifi- he understands this problem, the creation of the HOPE "Affirmative Action" label Scholarship and Lifetime and after Sept. 11, the sus- cation for its horrible oppres- but he has consistently failed have been successfully to take arms against it. Leaming tax credits, which attacked in our courts Nate Williams misses the pension of certain rights in sion? And people who say Despite increasing college have helped nearly 10 million because of their unjustifiable point apprehension of suspect indi- that the attacks were to be American families pay for viduals would seem a most expected as a result of our costs and the erosion of grant college. Although only 43 bias against citizens of the pragmatic thing to do for the support of Israel's actions and loan purchasing power, Nate Williams, your edito- percent of students benefited m~jor~~ and disfavored sake of preventing similar against Palestine, if one looks Bush has proposed freezing minorities. rial about how the war in from federal grants and loans events as the MC attacks. back, one can find that the or only marginally increasing Just to give you some per- Afghanistan must end does- the funding for several in1992, 59 percent did by n't really present much for However, this does not actual motivation behind spective, accordint? to the justify mistreatment of such Osama bin Laden had far important initiatives. 1999. - Census, there are thirty-eight people to digest besides Notably, his administration The difference between shady facts and a non-prag- detainees or irresponsible more to do with the station- the Democratic record and million white Americans cur- disregard for their human ing of Westerners on "holy" has flunked the test on three rently living in poverty in the maticconsideration and par- programs that affect the day- the Bush record thus far is roting of Afghani accounts of rights. land. United States. This is larger What domestic groups the Israeli-Palestinian to-day lives of millions of clear and striking. It's time than the entire Latino or the the bombing compiled by Americans. we energize college students Howard Zinn. does Nate refer to when he troubles were not cited as a to be motivated by these dif" entire black populations declares that groups that motivation behind Osama's First, President Bush has respectively, yet, First, your claim that the failed to deliver on campaign ferences and to ftght for an goal of the war was initially challenge capitalist exploita- cause until after the WTC agenda aimed at improving "Affirmative Action" pro- tion are labeled as "terror- attacks when it became con- pledges about Pell Grants. grams routinely deny oppor- to bring the perpetrators to These federal grants target their future. justice is true in a broad ists"? The Earth Liberation venient for him as he wanted Fewer than 30 percent of tunity to impoverished white Front? The various anarchist to rally the Muslim world low-income students, and people, based solely on their sense, though, to imply that they're the government's Americans 18-21years of age - that it was the ONLY goal is rioters at the various MO against the West. I mean, cast their votes in the 2000 race. I can assure you that, if meetings, etc. - who, by the Nate, come on, this guy used most far-reaching effort to you were poor it would mat- absolutely wrong and shows reduce barriers to higher election. Many are cynical how ignorant the argument way, stole the show from the the money he got from capi- about the effectiveness and ter very little to you what more peaceful, more justifi-talist enterprise and upper education. Although Bush's percentage of your source is. As a matter of fact, before campaign proposed that the intentions of politicians, and any military action took able protesters? class inheritance to fund his they .want national leader- population. you represented; Does Nate even watch the violent action as an expres- government increase the poverty hurts, no matter who place, it was publicly said, maximum Pell Grants to ship fighting on their behalf. time and time again by gov- network or cable news that sion of his religious extrern- They need to be reminded you are: he criticizes, or does he sim- ism! Of course, the actual $5,100, his 2002 budget The reason why some of ernment officials, that any offered only $3,850 and his why it is worthwhile to make future action would include ply parrot the accusations moral justification for the a trip to the voting booth - the best people from around made by leftist critics of war can be debated, but Nate, 2003 budget proposes freez- the world used to come to getting the individuals ing grants at their current and they need to remind responsible for the attack, but media? I took a class from next time you feel the urge to President Bush why he needs America was that it was per- Professor Martin Orr in present your ignorant $4,000level. ceived that in the USA any- that the goal was much big- Second, President Bush to listen to America's - ger than that - to stamp out which we "learned" about assumptions as fact, do a lit- one could get ahead based on how the popular media tie research. I've noticed a lot has failed to support the younger voters, their own MERIT. terrorism as a whole. It was In short, America's young_ ignored issues critical oflarge - of errors in your "facts" in Leveraging Educational Affirmative Action programs also made clear before mili- people need President- Bush tary action took place that corporations or the govern- this and other editorials Assistance Partnerships to commit his administration short-circuit this fundamen- ment, but I could never fully you've written. tal basis of our society's suc- those who harbored "terror- (LEAP),a program that allo- to higher education - not - ists" could be targeted for agree with the arguments just in words, but in action- cess and instead plunge our made because I've seen plen- Mike Smitl: cates funding to state govern- country into the racial future action ,as well. The and it will only happen if Taliban was given the chance ty of stories in the news about ments for the purpose of America's young people are favoritism that has corrupted poorly performing smart expanding grants and loans. many of the third-world to hand over the al-Queida Bush fails to deliver on committed to activism, not in bombs, the civilian deaths in While Bush's 2002 budget countries. Affirmative suspects, but refused. Thus, higher education words but in votes on elec- the Taliban government was the various campaigns of the proposed freezing its fund- tion day. . Action, creates an environ- recent decade, including the ment where hiring and pro- toppled, thankfully. During 'his campaign for ing, his 2003budget proposes In a war, people die. That war in Afghanistan, and Senator 101m Kern) (D-MA) motions, whether deserved President, George W. Bush eliminating the $67 million must be expected, though other issues that some people & CDA National President or not, are always tinged say the media absolutely frequently addressed the program altogether. with the haze of political those fighting should take importance of expanding Ashley Bell great care to prevent inno- ignores. This isn't to say that Through LEAP, states have favoritism. Consequently, the media is never biased, access to higher education. In smoldering racial resentment cent deaths. the fall of 2000, he saidi "1 provided need-based grants However, how does a rela- though. is easily fanned into a flam- I think that the war in want to make sure that high- and work-study assistance to inginferno. tively small number of civil- er education is affordable students with substantial ian deaths invalidate the jus- Afghanistan. is one of the With a staunch commit- most easily justifiable mili- and accessible to every need, and the program's ment from leaders like you to tifications for the war? American. I am committed to Civilians weren't purposeful- tary campaigns in recent his- elimination would potential- base all hiring a.nnd promotion tory. Why, is it that we neyer helping families prepare for solely on MERIT, the popula- ly targeted as they were !:;Iy Fr,ici~y;ihdSatilr~~¥i~~t,~~~~~~?§~; IHave your Pre-funk party with us! MAIN &TREET

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, I BSUgymnasts upend Is it just TIle fifteenth ranked BYU , , . , By Phil polley March madness The Arbiter The Boise State Broncos getting madder gymnastics team hosted the , ) By Darrln Shindle to the tournament they 15th ranked Brigham Young The Arbiter always seem to find some- Cougars on Tuesday night. where to hide. Until they In what was the last home Is it just me, or is this can get over the hump and meet for three seniors turned year's NCAA basketball get to a final four I can't out to be the biggest night of tournament going to be one pick them. the season for the Broncos. of the best ever? If it's not A team that I can pick, SeniorsJamie Johns,Heather the best then it will defi- and the team I think will be Ruiz and Rachael Goetz might nitely be one of the most in the final four is USc. have competed in their last memorable and maybe the Sure they are a four seed meet at the Pavilion but they hardest to predict. and that's not much of a defiantly saved the best for last. The field this year is so sleeper, . but they are in It was only last week when deep and has so many pos- Duke's bracket and I think the Broncos scored a season sible "upsets" that my mom they can beat Duke. USC high 194.825 in a loss to could probably do a better did lose to Arizona in the Southern Utah. This week Boise job filling out my office Pac-l0 championship game State not only set a new season pool than I could. Of course but they have so many ath- high in scoring they did it in a that could be true in a lot of letes on their team I would- win against a top 15team. cases since I suck at office n't count them out. The Broncos set the new pools. Every team in the Gonzaga is the team that mark beating the Cougars tournament has shown that got snubbed the most, get- 195.35 to 194.8. Jamie Johns they can be beat at any ting an inexcusable six who scored a season high of her time. seed. This seed not only own with an all-around score of Let's look at Duke for hurts them, but also 39.275 once again led Boise instance. Everyone was Arizona whom they will be State. Other Broncos helping saying how invincible they playing in the second the winning cause were were at the beginning of the round. This is an elite eight Heather Ruiz who added a season, but they managed caliber game being played solid scored a 9.85 on her floor to lose three games. They in the second round. I don't : routine and Breanne Holmes have the best starting line- know what the selection who threw down a 9.9 on the up in basketball, but their committee was thinking, bars. bench is definitely lacking. but maybe they need to get Freshman Tiffany Putnam And if Jason Williams and out and see some games who scored an enthusiastic Mike Dunleavy are cold next season. 9.925and took first place on the then it could be a long When it comes down to floor exercise also led the night for the Blue Demons. picking the national cham- Broncos. Kansas has shown they pion I think it would be The Cougars came into the are probably the best team hard to bet against Kansas. meet with a lot of confidence in the nation, but just as They went undefeated in already beating the Broncos they were placing them- the Big 12 this season and I back on Feb. 22. All-American selves on the unbeatable think it is Roy William's Kelly Evanson led BYUwith a list, they lost in the Big 12 time to win it all. They have 9.950 on the vault. Angie championship game to too much talent and are Hickman also helped out the Oklahoma. coming out of the easiest Cougars with a season tying And then there is region in the Midwest. best 9.875 in the same event. It will be Kansas against The Cougars would go on to tie Pholo by Ted Hermon, The Arbn er Maryland, whom one can Senior Jamie Johns puts some distance between herself and the beam. argue is among the elite USC in the national cham- the second best performance in school history on the vault with 1\ teams in the nation along pionship game with Kansas Berkeleyon March 16to take on Conference Championships on coming out on top. But it's a score of 49.100. many falls on the bars and on with Kansas and Duke. the balance beam proved to be California and San Jose State. March 23 in Logan, UT. They have about as good of probably just me. BYU's Jamie Mabray won the all-around with a career too much to overcome. They will then gear up for the a team as anyone in the Boise State will travel to Western Gymnastics nation, but when it comes high score of 39.350 but too Boise State NC.AATournament bracket met vvith baseball kicks curiosity,questions, debates, confusion off season in Washington By Payld Teel Maryland receivedNo.1 region- No. 2 in the West opposite Sunday, less than three hours generated poll of all324Division Daily Press al seeds, the Blue Devils in the Cincinnati. before CBS'selectionshow. I teams. South, the Terps in the East. "Cincinnati and Oklahoma But the most curious seed Gonzaga and Pcpperdinc By Darrln Shindle The Arbiter CHARLOTfE, N.C. Kansas in the Midwest and were the teams we really strug- was Gonzaga's. The West Coast give the West Coast Conference Multiple top seeds for the ACC, Cincinnati in the West complete gled with," said committee champion Zags do not hail from multiple entries in the field.Ten the No. Is. chairman Lee Fowler, the athlet- a power conference, but they other leagues earned more than The Boise State baseball a California gold rush and a one bid, led by the Big 12, team opened up its season last snub of the Zags mark the 65- Oklahoma, which defeated ic director at North Carolina advanced to the regional semifi- team NCAA Tournament brack- Kansas in Sunday's Big 12 State. nals each of the past three years. Southeastern, Big East and Pac- weekend at the Sunnyside 10 with six each. Five Big Ten Tournament in Washington. It et revealed Sunday. Tournament finaland Maryland Deadlineaffectedthosestrug- Despite that history, a 29-3 ACe Tournament champion during the regular season, also gles. Kansas and Oklahoma did record this season and top-10 teams made the field, four from was a tournament that saw Duke and regular-season titleist contended for a top seed but is not tip off until 3:30 p.m., standing in the national polls, the ACC, three each from seven teams from the north- Gonzaga is the No.6 seed in the Conference USA and the west compete, including the West and faces a possible sec- Mountain West and two each University of Oregon, ond-round galllcag"U1st Pac-l0 from the Missouri Valley an<:l_Universityof Montana, Seattle ==-:=---:=-~-=--::::::~--~-.+- Tournament champion Arizona. Western Athletic. University, Idaho, Eastern When Gonzaga's seed was The field also includes seven Washington, Central Oregon _.#:_' ·-~-A"';"I-:-~"';"A-.1!"'''';''I''';''O''';''N''';''''!-;;;''''·-L-~_1~_.'·t;~-·::",,~_:;;~-;G£_;')_, + revealed, the crowd gathered on teams from California, a record and BoiseState. the Spokane, Wash., campus for state representation. The The Broncos carne away booed. seven: Stanford, UCLA, Cal, from the tournament with a "We discussed them a lot," Southern California, .500 record with two wins and Up to $3,000.00 Per Semester for Fowlersaid ofthe Zags."They're Pcpperdine, Cal-Santa Barbara two losses. not an easy team to 5(,'Cd." and San Diego State. After losing the first two Fu//-Time Students III Fowler attributed the low Hampton is Virginia's only games to Seattle University seed to strength of schedule. representative.The Pirates,seed- and Eastern Washington, 11-8 * Montgomery GI Bill * Montgomery GI Bill Kicker Gonzaga, he said, won 12games ed 15th in East, face Big East and 3-2 respectively, the * State Tuition Assistance * Cash Bonuses against teams ranked below 200 Tournament champion Broncos turned it up against * Student Loan Repayment Program by the NCAA's Rating Connecticut on Friday in Central Oregon, winning 3-0 Percentage Index, a computer- Washington, D.C. behind a strong pitching per- For More Information contact: rilel Your rilture The bracket's finalpiecesdid- formance from Steve Gowans. TSgt Rod Elson ~ _.;;;::::z: n't become clear until late Gowans, who found himself 422-5597 or (8001 621-3909 , ~/r National Guard Sunday afternoon, when Ohio in the pitching rotation this State defeated upstart Iowa in year for the first time, pitched the Big Ten Tournament final. seven innings and gave up With Ohio State and four other four hits, three walks, and had conferenceteams lockedinto the seven strikeouts in the shutout. field, an Iowa victory would Normally Gowans plays first have given the BigTen sixrepre- base for the Broncos. sentatives and knocked out an The offense for the game at do these locations have in common? at-large team. was supplied by a 2-run home- The lowest seeded at-large run from Jeff Baranco. I , teams are Utah, Missouri and The Broncos wrapped up Tulsa, all No. 115. the weekend with a 2-1 win Italy Thailand Afterlast season,when only a over the University of Oregon, third of the field (22 teams) despite not playing up to par. Spain China played first-round gamesin their "We played terrible, but we time zones, the committeemade still managed to come out with a concerted effort to keep teams a win," Gowans said. louisiana Maryland closerto home. With new brack- Another bright spot for the eting guidelines, 39 teams play Broncos in the tournament and Maine first-round games in their time came in the 3-2 loss to Eastern zone, according to Fowler. Washington. Jeff Baranco was Among the teams the com- scheduled to start at pitcher They are all program sItes available to Boise State students offered through mittee bypassed: Butler (25-5), but was only able to go a third the International Programs Office! Memphis (22-9)and Utah State of an inning when he had to (23-7). Butler, with a Horizon come out do to an arm injury. .@ Next semester you could be studying In an exotic locale, using your fInancial Leagueregular-seasontitleand a Dusty Hovrud was able to aid and still graduating on time! non-conference victory against come in and pitch a great game Indiana on its resume, is the according to Gowans. most notable exclusion. "Eastern Washington is in But Indiana was Butler's only our league so losing to them game against a team ranked will hurt our league standings, Study Abroad & Exchange Deadline - Aprtll5, 2002 among the RPI'stop 50.Also, the but we know we can beat Bulldogs lost to. lowly them," Gowans said. Wisconsin-GreenBayin the first Boise State has two weeks With Boise State International Programs. the world Is your classrooml round of the Horizon off before they travel up to Tournament Moscow to take on Idaho. "The committeefeels like you After that the Broncos will start F~~more Information contact International Programs Office, , can playybur way mar play NCBA league play. The 1136 Euclid Avenue, Boise, ID 83725. Phone (208) 426-3652. Ask for Starb your way out," Fowler said. Broncos play their nome games out at the Columbia Village Real Education for the Real World fields. ..

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\ ' It's been eight years since IIMusical'M'.&.Mts~k:~ Los Angeles-based gothic- l30lse ..·,Stiil~"$ rockers Concrete Blonde DepartIDt'mtof ~~sic have been in the studio. And is ..·...pre~~ntingi~>.~n , ' . , ;1t's been almost that long orches~ta:·.. i· ".." cOnCEiJ;'t, \ I :$ince they have been on a "Musical M &1\-1'8/' -tour bus zigzagging the this Sunday night' in _lower 48 states. Concrete the Mol'riSOnCenter's ".Blonde's bus arrives in Boise Main Hall, ",this Sunday for a St. Patties "Musical M&M's" -Day concert at The Big Easy. stands for' the com- And nothing says Ireland posers Mozart and like Concrete Blonde. Just Mussorgsky . Tile .'first :"kidding, of course. . portion ofthe evening The band formed in north features Boise State's '"Hollywood in the early '80s. .Orchestra" playing ,,,They released a five-song , Mus s 0 r g sky's ~,album in 1982 called Romantic blockbuster ""Caroline," which featured "Piduresat ,",the haunting title-track song Exhibition/'whieh is a , .' ",:'Caroline." Lead singer musical depiction of ..[ohnctte Napolitano's is the 19th· century admittedly an Anne Rice Russian artist Victor ,,,fan. Her dark and brooding Hartman. ,,,lyrics work well with her " The second part of ,gutsy and emotional voice. the performance, the , In 1987, the band released orchestra is playing ::,their sophomore effort, sim- excerpts from - ply named "Concrete Mozart's comical ,,,Blonde." The album showed opera, "Abduction their grass roots sensibilities From Seraglio," which f • .., and aptitude for writing Concrete Blonde unwInds after a hard day at the office. they recently played in "'sad, heartfelt lyrics. "Dance its entirety. ,,,Along the Edge" is a desfer- "Scene of a Perfect Crime" giveness. The concert starts at . .ate song with no relic in and minor hit "God is a The band is on the road 7:30 p.m. and tickets sight. "True" is a ditty about Bullet." promoting their latest are $3 for students. For "leaving town for good, and But Concrete Blonde IS release "Group Therapy," more information call ,"Still in Hollywood" is an mostly known for their which is their first album of If you gO••• 426- 2980. anthem about the true spirit alternative smash hit "Joey," new material since 1994. 'of the north Hollywood which has been on several of Napolitano reunites with L.A. rockers Concrete Blonde are coming to The DIg , streets. "She lives under a the band's compilations and original band members Jim Easy this Sunday night for a St. Patties Day celebration. truck / She doesn't give a is done acoustically on their Mankey and Harry The show starts at 7:30 p.m, TIckets can be purchased at "Salon des Refuses" .... .fuck." The album is chalk greatest hit's album, 'Still in Rushakoff for this latest all TIcketWeb locations or by calling 1-800-965-4827. Saturday, night, , full of urban angst like this. Hollywood." "Joey" is about tour. Boise State's Liberal Two years later, Concrete the pain of heartbreak, Arts' League is pre- , Blonde released "Free," fueled by a drunken binge sentingtne 1st annual which featured major hit and a healthy dose of for- "Salon des Refuses,", .which literally means ~. a show of rejected art. ' ~. Ani Difranco plays her In this case, 'Salon des brand of punk-folk to a Refuses" is a showinR sold out show at the of works that didn t Big Easy. Die-hard make the cut for the fans packedthe Juried Student Art adjoining Bourbon Show that is. currently ... ' ...- Street bar hours before showing in the, Liberal the doors opened In Arts Building gallery. anticipation of The goal of the LAL ~ 1 Difranco's hard hitting for tlie show is to dis- I ' pel the perception that I I show. , I - rejected art is bad. The ,l - show boasts great diversity and will fea- ture an open forum of discussion. The open- ing runs from 6-9 p.m. in the Campus School ... Building- Room 103. .... This event is free to I~-,....- thepublic. ------: "'" ."' ~\ : ...... - Latin vibes .at "", Bouquet .•• -.... Agua Dulce, a -... southern California- , ...."'. based band, is coming , " l~' to . the Blues Bouquet ""'"'" this Friday for a night ..., of . sizzling . Latin ..."'" music. . arlo, Agua Dulce fuses ""."'" , ,.. Afro-Cuban, salsa, . 1i!1I~ "'- samba, reggae" and "'" Photo by Jeremy Branstad, The ArbIter • funk music into a ..'" dynamic package of I¥" ...... -~======::=::;:-=;;;:=;;;:=;;;:=;;;:=::::::::::::::::::===.", Latin vibes. The last ..", time they played at the .... Bouquet, tnedance ... floor was a .veritable "'"~: sea of bobbing heads, ..."'" ' and. the management '"",""" IIIEvents expects more. of. the. t'A"'" ~- arelreelll l\1l- 1 sameJhis Fri~aYnig.ht. Inn" ' The show. starts at ...... 9:15. p.m. and tickets -,-- are $4 at the door. For - frida,'3115: \"-:~.-') more information call ,(IN(:~r'''') the Bouquet. at 345~ -.....am_ n:ae-_BrmIIlll8 ~"--""" '~. ia;J I,,' ,'" J 6605. .'...... -1IclIIII 1IIIlIIbIt '~-=-· ...Q,fIJ *",IIUtIIIIIVTowersIaDIIIIIIU - . ~ ..... 3118: .~ ,' ... "' ea IIlllltllD123 *,.....I8I .. $25. S!88111188BC. SUdlJ311J: : - flllnIIr ...... 12,.·...... _ 1IiIiI1I. ·...... 11:3I-_1'IIdI1ICl .:\.5 The Arbiter • Page 9. T~~------...L.-----:'-"":""------':""_-, Diversions 1 1 -,.1.. "i· t I - " d .1 By )gson Shofner more than 120,000 house around t~ Special to The Arbiter world, sheltering some 600,000peQple.i!! affordable housing.' Grammy-nominated band Third Day The band donates $1 from each ticket joined forces with Habitat for Humanity at theX sell to assist Habitat's efforts. the Pavilion last friday, and they left Boise , One thing I'm excited about, is that it's not set up where were doing this commer- with more than just a concert. '" The Georgia-based Christian rock j;roul' cial from stage ...When people come to the has agreed to sponsor the construction of show they're automatically donating to eight houses after partnering with Habitat this cause," guitarist Mark Lee said. . {or Humanity, a non-profit organization "They bou~ht their ticket, they've got p. whose goal is to help eliminate 'homeless- Third Day shirt and a Paul Coleman CD or ness around the world by providing hous- whatever, and so for us to ask anymore of es for families in need. the audience I don't think would be quite Third Day is currently on tour with fair, so it's cool that we were able to have Bebo Norman and The Paul Coleman Trio. it set up that way. What we do can have an Third Day is scheduled to perform in 51 impact for a lot longer then just one day. cities, following the November release of There is a legacy involved." their fifth album "Come Together," which Lee hoped those who attended the co~- immediately jumped to No. 31 on the cert would be encouraged to help support Billboard chart .. after selling 56,000 copies the local Habitat for Humanity in Boise ... in its first week. More information on Habitat for Part of the goal of Friday'S concert was Humanity can be found on the Web at to encourage the audience to get involved www.thirday.com, and www.habitat.org, with Habitat for Humanity by volunteer- or by calling the Boise office at 331-2916. ing their time and resources. The organiza- tion was founded in 1976, and has built

Chambers sings about the world's As upbeat and quirky as "21 hop flavored drum loops _ it's as if chart a mere five weeks after its of Basement [axx and Daft Punk. Things" is, she spends much of the Morissette purposely tried to release. Top 10 success is all but . Occasionally, as on the dreamy ills, from murder to starvationto war. She's angry and she's venting, CD exploring the same emotional retrace the blueprint of Jagged assured. The last time Minogue "Fragile," Minogue's delivery is as And we're listening to her potent minefield she navigated in Jagged little Pill, which sold 28 million was in the U.s. Top 10was back in smooth and breezy as the melody. little Pill and its follow-up, 1998's copies. 1988 with her cover of little Eva's For the firial cut, ''Burning Up," shc words. Mario Tarradell HQt new music Dicks Supposed Fonner Infatuation But the saving grace is her voice 'The Loco-Motion." Though she's convincingly goes from quiet and FlELDY'S DREAM "Rock N Dallas Junkie. ; - an ever-shifting instrument maintained stardom throughout coquettish to loud and fiery. The TIle Moming NI!WS Roll Gangster' (Sony) Grade: F "Narcissus" fu the flip side to .brinuning with comic nasal twists Europe, none of her five albums music moves right along with her. KJliglrt Ridder Newspapers And a dream it surely must be "21Things," a no-holds-barred per- and strange diction. The guitars, . from 1990 to 2(XX} saw the light of Ultimately, Fever is all about for Reginald "Fie1dy" Arvizu, the ALANIS MORISSETTE .sonality study of the ego-crazed drums and keyboards on Under - day on this side of the Atlantic. moving ~ on the dance' floor, of Yoda-like bassist for rap-rock band "Under Rug Swept" (Maverick) jerk she makes the mistake of Rug Swept might be stale, but.. '. So for the young. especially the course. Oil, it's also about ensuring Kylie Minogue's world promi- Korn, to get to put out his own solo Grade:B fullingin love with. Morissette's moody vocals make pop radio constituency, Minogue is . "SoUnsexy" and "Flinch" stud- her lyrics all the more interesting. a new artist. Fever, released in nence. Mario Tarradell disc. Such arc the fringe benefits - When Alanis Morissette when you arc part of an influential ies the way certain men send her Thor Ouistensen October overseas, is an irresistible emerged ill 1995- sounding like band that has made a lot of money. self-esteem reeling. And "Hands KYLffi MINOGUE "Fever" introduction to the uninitiated. KASEY ~BERS an old soul trapped in the body of Rest assured, it is his member- Clean" ~ the CD's first single and (Capitol) Grade: B From start to finish,' the album "Barricades & Brickwalls" Zl-year-old '- it was obvious she ship in that band that made this its most intriguing tale - is sung in Talk about an appropriate song mixes electronic grooves with pop (Warner) Grade: B+ was more than just another flavor dreadful release possible. It's doli- the voice of a male record-biz exec title:Australian pop-dance princess hooks to creatc a trance-like confeo- It would be wrong to say rootsy of the week. nitcly not on the basis of the disc's who's having an affair with his KylieMinogue's latest international tion. It's club music with structure Australian singer-songwriter True, some skeptics dismissed "music" or the content. On his own, . young protege: "I(itweren'tformy hit "Can't Get You Out of My and style. Kasey Chambers has mellowed on her as a post-grunge anger mer- Fieldy appears to dream of nothing attention, you wouldn't have OC'Cl1 Head" sticks in your brain with the The weakest link is Minogue's her second album, Barricades & chant But anyone who bothered to more than being a hip-hop gang- successful," he says, spinning a strength of industrial Super Glue. voice, which sometimes must fight Brickwalls. listen to the entire Jagged little Pill ster in the style of Coolio or Snoop web of mind games. Just one listen to the song's hypnot- to rise above the soundscapes. Still,the effort lacks U1estartling ,CD (not just the snarling "You Do~. : Is the song autobiographical or ic, electronic beat and its "la 1.1la" Although we do hear some of her fire of her powerful debut, 2(0)' s Oughta Know") discovered a song- The disc establishes its "aspira- fictional?Morissette's not telling,of refrain will do the trick. You'll seductive personality, her cute-sexy The Captain. writer who wrote about the pitfalls Chambers is singing more tions" from the very start: Thc of love, and life with uncommon course, never get it out of your head. way with a phrase _ particularly on about love this time - love gone opening "song" is a IS-second depth. Uncommon, at least, in the But what makes her psychodra- 1hat's why "Can't Get You Out the atmospheric title track and the awry, of course - on tracks such as 'recording of gunshots. Those go on Hallmark Quod-likeworld of rock mas worth listening to is the fact of My Head" has been such an intoxicating opening number, across-the-board smash. TIle song "More More More:' (No, it's not a "Not Pretty Enough" and "A to become the percussion for the lyrics. they always sound as if they're next song. "Baby Hugh Hef," If the written from experience. If only her perched itself at No.1 in 17 coun- cover of the Andrea True Million Tears:' But she can tum Seven years and two albums raw and sardonic when she's war- title doesn't tell you everything you music were as revealing as her tries, selling 3 million copies in the Connection disco classic.) later, she's still digging away at the bling about matters of the heart. need to know, how about the lyrics' words. process. Now all eyes are on the But Minogue already proved male-female dynamic and uncov- The traditional country gem "A original turns of phrase such as "1 Although Morissette produced United States, where Minogue's she had strong pipes on 1994's ering nuggets of wisdom. "21 Little Bit Lonesomc," with its like the fame and the fortune, I can't and wrote evcry tune on Undcr been a non-entity since 1989,when Kylie Minogue and' 1997's Things I Want In a Lovcr" - the prominent fiddle and slt.'C1guitar, oomplain, what a great lifc:' witty tune that opens Under Rug Rug Swept, the album stillbears the her second albwn Enjoy Yourself I"-,possible Princess. This time, was relcased. . slle'fJjust having a good time with boasts tllCgreat lines: "I'm a littlebit No one would begrudge Fieldy Swept - is just what the title says: formulaic imprint of Glenn Ballard, The verdict's in: Shl"S con- the blips and bleeps. And much of lonesome/It's all your fault:' his right to the pursuit of happi- Alanis' wish list of potcntial- her producer and co-writcr on Pill quered Middle America. "Can't the album has a state-of-the-art Yet the best song on the album ness. If only he'd keep his wannabe boyfriend traits. As fans of the cere- and Junkic. Most of the new songs gangster hip-hop stuff to Get You Out of My Head" stands at Euro-dance flavor. It will remind is the hidden track "Ignorance:' himself. bral singer might guess, wa.mboard sound so 1995 - lots of echoey On his own, the dude sucks. No. 15 on Billboard's pop si~gles you of the strobe light-ready work Witll just an aooustic guitar, abs are not on her list. drums, distorted guitars and hip-

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