Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 3-21-1989 University News, March 21 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]. Faculty awarded' research grants by Paul Bouffard and present professional papers. "I ,ting the National Science Foundation The University News think that students will benefit from interested," Research assistants and research at Boise State," he said. "It . subjects would benefit from the grant Five BSU faculty members have helps the reputation of BSU to have and BSUwould ultimately benefit been awarded over $100,000 in people involved in professional from the publication of his results, research grants from the State Board research projects." he said. of Education. The. money is to be Linda Petlichkoff, assistant pro- Alfred Dufty, professor of biology, used for new and ongoing projects in fessor of physical education, said she said he will use his grant to buy a variety of research areas. will usc her grant for follow-up on equipment used to study song. Jim Baker,' ~director of BSU's work related to her doctoraldisser- development in the brown-headed Research Center, said the five were tation, Petlichkoff said she will hire cowbird. The bird is a brood parasite; selected from a field of 103 ap- two graduate assistants to conduct it lays its eggs in the occupied nests plicants from BSU, ISU, U of I and research on junior high and high of other birds. LCSC. BSU fared well in comparison school student participation in com- Dufty said he hopes to determine to the other schools, Baker said. "We petitive sports. how the. birds ignore the songs .of feel pretty good, " Baker said. "We Petlichkoff said research grant their foster parents and learn songs put down what we truly thought we money is important to legitimize characteristic of their own' species.' needed." BSU received 17 perecnt of research in areas Other than "hard Dufty said he will hire one the total $628,000 allocated across sciences. We need.to bring research undergraduate assistant for the the state. into the curriculum at BSU." project. Sidney Porter, ·assistant professor Garvin Chastain, psychology pro- Baker said the SBOE views the of mathematics. was one of the reci- fessor, said he will use a $13,500 grant grants as "seed money to stimulate pients. Porter said the criteria for to buy equipment and hire research Boise research and to make institutions in Volumc IX assessing research proposals includ- assistants, continuing work .on atten- Idaho more competitive national- Issue 22 ed the competence of applicants, in- tion and learning by monitoring shif- ly .... They (board members) want to State trinsic merit of proposals and utility ting centers of attention in visual increase the level of research in higher Mareh 21, 1989 or relevance of proposals. space, education across the state," he said. Porter said he will usc his grant to "This could be a stepping stone," .University continue work already in progress Chastain said. "We could end up get- Library destroys linguistics mags Inside by Jeff Faulkner backsets, according to a June 3. 1987 Checked and we found quite a The University Neil'S memo from Drown to the Library number of volumes that have tight staff. margins so that the word endings are The DSU Library has destroyed 13 Dayley said he had not been in- lost. We have initiated an effort with periodical back runs pertinent to the formed of the hard copy disposal un- University Microfilm to obtain linguistics· program, according to til after it had occurred. He also said replacements'." DSU Linguistics Professor Jon the library had given him the impres- "Space is of major consideration Dayley. sion that the IJAL hard copy was in and even if the university finds funds The library purchased microfilms storage. to enlarge the library Idoubt that we to replace one of the hard-cover runs But on March 3, 1989, a memo will have sufficient space to house which was destroyed, the Interna- from Associate· Librarian Ralph long runs of periodicals," Hansen tionaL Journal of American Hansen informed-Dayley that "We says in the memo. Linguistics, but Dayley said the have disposed of all the paper copies Dayley said his "students cannot microfilm for IJAL, which began for which microforms were purchas- do their term papers without these publishing in 1917, is "unreadable." ed in 1985." periodicals," and "It is not my jog, University Librarian Tim Brown Drown said the disposal "had at $30,000 a year, to search the library re than you care to read said the IJAL hard copy was dispos- nothing to do with" the IEPBS ex- for what has and has not been j ed of, and the library staff had not- pansion. Library staff had to make destroyed.' '. See pages 12·14. I ':\ examined the deficient microfilm their "best guessat anticipating de- before it was purchased. marld," determining which See 'Library,' page five. Brown said, "We did not serve him periodicals they could or could not (Dayley) well." .keep, he said. In the summer of 1987, the BSU "We have (used) certain criteria to .Library lost 2,600 square feet in the judge," he said. In the case of the Idaho-joins in Missouri abortion challenge Idaho Educational Public Broad- IJAL, "We did eliminate the casting System expansion. This in- backsets." by Bob Franklin In February, the Idaho Senate communities of the state shall make cluded half of the seating in the In the Memo from Hansen to The University News passed, 33-9, Senate Concurrent . those decisions," Smyser said. periodical area, forcing the staff to Dayley, Hansen says, "I have had the Resolution No. 116, which asks the Glaza said, "I think itis irrespon- store' 15 'percent of the journal film copy of the IJAL completely Sixteen years ago, the U.S. Attorney General of Idaho to par- sible public policy to support states Supreme' Court ruled in Roe vs. ticipate as a party or "friend of the rights on this particular 'jssue." Wade that women had a constitu- court" in Missouri's appeal. The Glaza continued "it would be tional right to an abortion. By the resolution must be approved by the possible to have a law that declares end of this summer, abortion may House before the attorney general a fertilized egg a person in Idaho; at once again be illegal in the United can act. Utah, at first movement; in States. Glaza said this action "demon- Washington at 20 weeks; and in "The threat is real, the threat is strates the real threat that exists to Nevada, at birth." . now, and people need to begin to Idaho families and theirfreedom to "Consequently, the women that speak out about it," John Glaza, make private decisions about pro- will suffer most are poor women director of Planned Parenthood in creation, free from government in- because they won't be able to afford Boise, said. terference, consistent with their own that travel," Glaza said. Anyone who believes that Pr07 religious beliefs." "I would like to see our legislature Choice "is a personal and private It is "not consistent with what the put their time and our money into freedom, which is what this country majority of Americans have believed programs that will help prevent .was founded on, can no longer over the past 15 years," Glaza. said, unintended pregnancy, 'rather than assume that this right is guaranteed. adding "For the past 15 years, in poll spending time and money seeking to because it's not," Glaza said. .after poll after poll, a clear majority make abortion illegal and a woman According to Deputy Attorney of Americans have supported the a criminal, "he added: . General Rene Fitzpatrick, last July right to make this most personal Idaho. has two statutes on the the 8th U.S. Court of Appeals ruled decision." books which would automatically in Reproductive Health Services vs. Idaho Sen. Skip Smyser said, if the become law if Roe vs. Wade is over- Webster that several sections, of House passes the resolution, "the at- turned or an amendment to the Con- Missouri's abortion legislation is torney general would enter a brief .. stitution is passed. unconstitutional. saying that it is in the interest of all Idaho Code 18-614 fixes a penalty . While tlie constitution gives states , Americans for the issue of abortion of not less than two years and no a certain degree of regulatory power to be regulated by states," instead of more than five years in the state in creating their own abortion. laws, the federal government. prison to those procuring an abor- , the circuit court decided the Missouri Smyser said the issue ofabortion tion. Idaho Code 18-615 calls for im- legislation had gone too far and over- was decided by the U.S. Supreme prisonment in the state penitentiary regulated things the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 when it "was probably. for not less than one year and no Court sanctioned in Roe vs. Ullde, as liberal as any court has ever been more than five years for women sub- Fitzpatrick said. As a result, Missouri in this country. Today, the Rehnquist mitting to an abortion. appealed the lower court's decision Court is a much more conservative Smyser said "Courts don't always to the U.S.