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Vol. Ill, No.1 Boise, Idaho The Monthly Newsmagazine of Boise State University September, 1977 UNLV Tilt,. What's Up Doc? Dedications Sept.24 Governor John Evans, Boise Mayor Dick Eardley, former Arts & Sciences Dean Joe Spulnik and State Vocational­ Technical Education Director Roy Irons will be highlighted officials for a Dedica­ tion Day of activities schedule aimed at three new Boise State University educa­ tion buildings Saturday, September 24. BSU students, faculty and adminis­ trators are being invited to join with a roster of state dignitaries as ceremonies of "official opening" and building tours will mark first use this fall of: The new Vocational-Technicial divi­ sion Food Technology kitchen and class­ room building; The new Vocational-Technical Diesel Mechanics garage and classroom build­ ing; The new Science-Education building Phase One section. Coordinator of Dedication Day events is Jerry Davis, High School & University Relations Director. He is working with Yo-Tech Division Director Don Miller and Arts & Sciences Dean Dr. William Keppler on twin dedication ceremonies at two campus sites. A Torch For The Governor I!'l HIS OPENING faculty speech "Doc" Richard Bullington took a gaze into .8SU's future last month. A closer look is furnished Those events will be divided by a lun­ courtesy of the hugh astronomy telescope now in place in th�hool's new Science Building observatory. Bullington aad other campus cheon for the dignitaries asked to speak or participate in dedication events at the leaders will dedicate that building aad two vo-tec:h additions in Sept. 24ceremonies. two sites. At 11 a.m., dedication of the two Yo-Tech structures will feature a wel­ come by Dr. Richard Bullington, build­ Bullington: BSU No Longer Pup ing and program explanations by Don Miller, then a special "ribbon cutting" by LarryBurke a successor to replace Dr. John Barnes, the assembled faculty. performed by Vo-Tech welders guiding Boise State University has matured said: Bullington used the speech to glance Governor Evans on the handling of an beyond its "puppy dog" stage and is now "This evening marks the beginning of back at Boise State's rapid academic and Oxy-Acetylene torch. a "young adult, with seriousness of pur­ 'Emergence-Phase 11-an emergence facilities growth over the last decade. pose," BSU interim President Dr. just as exciting and challenging as the After a brief building tour at the Yo­ Richard Bullington told his faculty and prior ten years," he said. Asks Long-Range Plan Tech structures by members of the staff in his first major statement as In his brief historical sketch, Bulling­ audience and dignitaries, the special President of BSU last month. "I do not see any reduction of the ton pictured BSU's life as "both fascinat­ guests will lunch at the SUB, then head Bullington, who is serving as BSU vitality that characterizes Boise State ing and exciting, as it has been literally for the Science-Education building and president until a search committee finds University during our lifetime," he told saturated with challenges of growth." Dr. Keppler's dedication arrangements. As BSU moves from its "adolescence" That will open at 1:45 p.m. on the lawn · phase, Bullington called upon the uni­ adjacent to the building, with a special versity and the entire system of higher presentation to pioneering BSU Dean education for an increased effort in long Joe Spulnik as a dedication events high­ range planning to cope with new value light. Department Chairman of the BSU Women Win Sports Study systems. sciences faculty and the BSU School of By BobC. Hall Health Sciences faculty will lead public Institutions must not only ask, "How tours of the new building following the Clearlysignalling the new prominence can we do this better?" but also "Why official opening presentations. of women's athletic activities in the should we do this at all?" he said. Boise State University community's "In planning for the decade ahead, the priority list, BSU President Dr. Richard characteristic flavor of the educational Champagne Bullington has aimed a standing all-cam­ experience for existing programs and pus committee at an "all facets" study of new programs must change significantly Because Saturday is the date the program for 1977-78. The setting for existing pl'ograms for the major football game must change, for, in a real sense, indi­ As one of the first acts of his Presi­ [7:30 p.m.] between BSU and viduals of university level age must dency, Dr. Bullington charged the Nevada-Las Vegas, Alumni become pioneers again." fifteen-member committee with the task Director Dyke Nally has issued of a study that will wind up next April as "Not pioneers as their ancestors were, a special invitation to all Dedi­ base for "the first fact-backed budget in the forest primeval, but pioneers in cation Day guests to continue proposal" for operation of the growing the technological jungle, where no one the day with campus tours and program here. really knows what tomorrow will then attend the annual opening As Chairman of the important com­ bring ..." game champagne party at the mittee, members elected Dr. Patricia New courses at any of the state's insti­ Boise depot grounds. Ourada, BSU history professor, in an tutions could be "trite and superficial" if group on the overall future needs of Cork time for the event that organization session held at mid-month. the future needs of society are not women's athletics and as a "watchdog" kicks off a year of alumni get­ "seriously and intellectually pondered or In another major committee business agency to whom current program prob­ contemplated." together& is 5 p.m. Guests can item, President Bullington offered to lems can be referred for recommenda­ He Sees These Changes visit and sip until 7 p.m., just them his "list of charges," a nine-point tion. in time to take their seats for program of objectives he wants them to The objectives range from a request to As BSU seeks to meet future needs, change could come in several areas, Bull­ the long-awaited battle be­ accomplish prior to the April deadline. recommend an appropriate level of ington pointed out. He said in the next tween the Rebels and Broncos. Those "objectives" seemed to call for competitive emphasis for women's sports the Committee to act as both a �tudy [continued on page 3] [Continued on Page3) "I �OCUS2 Student �EXIT � NORTHt Musl Tum 00t�.r TowenH Loft 1<1 bit o..,,.,� lOtS! �IYER toCAPtTAL Digs Out ILVD. ��- 1�-.... ""C""- Mult Tym D.C. Book �ltlttto Eall to By JoeelynFauin I�OADWAY� One BSU senior was "buried" for the summer in the files of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the National Archives. c�� Economics student Shane Bengoechea �10 20 recently returned from Washington, I D.C., where he spent his summer com­ 11 piling a 400 page policies and procedures 6 16 manual for the U.S. Bureau of Reclama­ tion, Department of the Interior. Bengoechea had not had previous experience with this type of research. "I just told them I could do the job," he said. "I redid it four times; I even retyped it myseH. It was difficult at times, because it was necessary to read t -'0 between the lines, and much of the Ca: !::co.>. ... material required interpretation," he U-' said. -0-.,o"' Must Tum The research project was conducted RIOf"lto UNIVERSITY DRIVE ondLINC by Bengoechea as part of his work as a _ . O LN_ _____ O.;. .....,;_ temporarily appointed GS-4 para-profes­ � UNIVERSITY DRIVE sional intern in the Office of Contracts and Repayments. The manual was put 3 together, Bengoechea said, by going ".. 0 ,. u through the Bureau's filing system and z z :::; .. the National Archives, taking informa­ tion from policy letters, public laws and acts. Bengoechea acquired his job by writ­ ing directly to former Idaho Governor, Cecil D. Andrus, now U.S. Secretary of the Interior, with his request to be Rx For Postgame Headache employed in Washington, D.C. because of his interest in law and politics and his They called a meeting of city, county by Bob c. Hall the westbound U-Drive lanes to them­ wish to see the federal government in and BSU officials who understand selves.) action first hand. Andrus' office then Bronco stadium postgame traffic last helped him to apply for the position with from the SUB parking area, smart BSU At Front Door week. the Bureau, he said. fans who use the SUB or Ad building lots If Freddie does leave the stadium lot No one showed up. avoid traffic hassle completely. "front door" at the Varsity Center, he The Bureau had been trying to com­ Then they called a meeting of people will find himself with three lanes to pile the policies and procedures over a who don't understand the traffic hassle HeadfagFor Broadway choose, and a traffic officer controlling period of seven years, Bengoechea said. but were willing to try a better system Same old problem for people trying to his entrance to any of them. The finished document will probably be this year. reach their destination by entering 31. available to the public after October Seven officials came, talked and pro­ Broadway from Campus Drive at the One lane will take him south on Grant If The book will contain such items as duced the system that is mapped on this Christ Church entrance. cars turn left Street, to avoid the Broadway traffic solicitors' opinions, opinions of the Sec­ page. toward Warm Springs Ave. and city light wait.

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