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TIIE UNIV ERSITY OF IDAHO i equi. » t » I':+I: CR a TH E STUDENTS VOICE v'ili/il ~agni,'tut The longest continuously published college newspaper in the Northwest Friday, February 1999 5, Volume I OO, N o. 42 Moscow "Fo~. nf and by students since 1898." j~ Atro-»at'ves VofiIifg 80Ofh i! Expect some The Beasley OtIL, t it cold and dreary Coliseum is hast- Wc want your opinon about our weather this ing a plethora of EE~C week. big name bands Opinon page... -'l~(//,I CPS Idaho has a promising young crop of this weekend. freshman for this year's 'fennis season. Entertain ment„A6 Opinion, A4 Sports, A7 Non-tra itional student appointed to ASUI Senate Will corporate By Beth Creen non-traditional student in thc donors dictate to bc involved with natural resource I run in April," she said. Attorney General. "Our goal is to University ofIdaho Argonaut Senate. issues "I in developing countries, and would like the University of find them a place in our student gov- Shc came to the Ul to I'ullill hcr she said her appointmcnt to thc Idaho to maintain and increase its ernment where they can show their policy7 On Wcdncsday, the ASUI appoint- "dream of pursuing a college degree Senate will help hcr develop person- user-friendliness for the students in desire and interest," ASUI President ed two new senators to fill vacant which I feel will give rne ihc By Bob Fick options al skills necessary to achieve hcr the areas of looking into the transi- Mahmood Sheikh said of ihe seats, One of the new senators is to do what I want to It Associated Press do, has come dreams. tion for new students coming in and appointees. junior Debra Ann Hodge. at great persanal cost to myself." I.vcn I though lodge did nat know helping to facilitate the outgoing As senator, I lodge has been Ifodge, 34, is what is loosely "It was BOISf —Gov, Dirk Kemp- a controversial issue in my she was up lor the appointmcnt until graduates in the areas ofjob search assigned defined to thc College of Graduate thorne has picked up where other as a non-traditional student family, I was basically ostracized," Monday night, shc is ready to and graduate school placement," Studies, the ASUI Academics Board policy makers leA off in trying to one above the age of 26 or a part- she said, assume her responsibilities as soon 1 lodge stated. I fcr definite goals are and ASUI Rules and Regulations maximize increasingly inadequate time student. Thc Ul student body is Perhaps because of'her emotional "I as possible. need to be like a not yct clear. Committee. She will represent public resources in an anti-tax only a little less than 38 percent non- hardship, Ilodgc is driven to suc- sponge to learn as much as I can, I'm Thc Senate also appointed Bradley Chrisman and Neely flails, and the atmosphere. tradi tiona1, according to New cess. Shc is a I'ull-time student in thc not coming in with a big agenda, but SchaA to the position of senator and I'armhouse and Phi Delta Theta liv- The new governor is using finan- Student Services. Hodge is the lone natural resources field. cial Ilcr goal is I certainly will have one by the time Krista Brady to the oAice of ASUI ing groups. incentives that encourage gov- ernment managers to find eAicien- cies that free up the matching cash Jury rules web required to participate, And he is focusing on individual and corpo- rate largesse for the financial sites amounted pa i„ bridge needed to make some pro- grams realities. to i +<a It is a national trend, and in threats Idaho one that goes back years. I"» Sy Lauren Dodge g:, -„"',»i'tat» .'; .." It has leA government oAicials <ssociated Press with little choice but to intensify private fund-raising and procure- PORTLAND, Ore. —Abortion ment of contracts with industry to generate the money needed to con- 'ocs vvho created "wanted" posters tinue meeting public demand for md a Web site listing the names and their services iddresses of "baby butchers" were "I see no groundswell to raise irdered to pay dlrs 107 million in taxes," Kempthorne said. "You lamages by a federal jury that said can enhance services through part- he tactics amounted to i I legal nerships. But we can't let us get hreats, into a position where the basic ser- Planned Parenthood, several vices are shifted to others." It is that line, one Senate Finance ibortion doctors and a clinic had Chairman Atwell Parry admiis is ued the activists under the U.S. fine, 'm today's world that has acketeering statute and a 1994 fed- raised some questions about just :ral law that makes it illegal to incite how much donors or corporate »iolence against abortion doctors or contractors can, or should, influ- heir patients. ence public policy. "We Unlike previous cases brought i appreciate the money that is coming in from around the state, inder the 1994 law, this onc did not and we don't want to discourage nvolve confrontations any physical that," Parry said. "But it simply ir explicit threats. Because of that, comes down to, 'He who supplies he anti-abortion activists contended the gold makes the rules,'nd you he Internet site and the posters were run the risk of that hapening." irotected by the First Amendment. Kempthorne's point man in the "Thc jury saw the posters for campaign to increase childhood vhat they are - a hit list for terror- immunizations, James Hawkins, is actively stumping for private sts," Gloria Feldt, president of donations. 'lanned Parenthood, said Tuesday. "An overwhelming response is Yet within minutes of Tuesday's coming from the corporate com- erdict, constitutional experts said it munity, doctors, hospitals," vent too far and defendants said Photo hy Cade Kawamoto Hawkins said aAer an anonymous hey would appeal, calling it a threat donor gave the campaign $ 10,000. Teacher assistant Aaron Donnelly confers vvith students using the new McClure Hall computer lab. o constitutionally protected political Examples are numerous. peech. The Albertson Foundation is giv- ing Idaho public schools some 50 "It's really just a statement from $ million a year. Hewlett-Packard he court that says, 'Please shut up,'" "It's and others give computers ta aid defendant Michael Bray, an Mines dedicates new computer lab schools. ibscene assault upon the right to Idaho's four public colleges are that when an ree speech. It says By Stephen Kaminsky last lail, and continues to be utilized this computers. A lab monitor at work there said raising tens of millions of dollars a cries out that he feels for Over .bortionist University of Idaho Argonaut semester. the lab used to be nearly empty, But lately it year scholarships. half the speech of others, their operating budgets are under- rightened by Lance Deverich, who is employed jointly by has been nearer to capacity as morc students, shut their written by contract income and hat the speakers should The College of Mines and Earth Resources the COMER and Information Technology mainly from thc College of Mines, learned of contributions. Few if any new nouths." will dedicate new state-of-thc-art Services, will maintain A oAicially a computer equipment. it. lab monitor is present for computer help buildings are constructed without he jury took 4 I/2 days to reach . teaching lab today from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 The local networks can be more eAiciently and to ansvver questions from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. at least some private cash. ts verdict, which consisted of dlrs p.m. maintained by technicians familiar with the Monday-Thursday, an Friday from 7 a.m. to 8 Micron Technology Inc. put up 06.5 million in punitive damages The facility represents an investmcnt of individual requirements of each system as well p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. $5 million to build a $ 10 million std dlrs 500,000 in compensatory approximately $200,000 paid for by student as the overall network. until 8 p,m. Interstate 84 interchange near its lamages. As part of the tight securi- lab fees, said Tamitha I lammond, senior secre- University of Idaho Provost Brian Pitcher McClure Hall is relatively new and also Boise complex. It paid $6 million y surrounding the case, the judge tary for COMER. will formally cut the ribbon at a reception houses other interesting areas like the seisinO- and Boise State University cajoled supporters to another aid thc names of the eight jurors Thc ncw teaching lab, available to all Ul fac- hosted by the COMER and the Office of ogy laboratory and room 209, an impressive put up $6 million for the $ 13.5 million engi- vill never be made public. ulty, is located McClurc Ilail 214A and con- Outreach and Technology, Assisting him will multimedia classroom open to all colleges. neering building complex. Some of the defendants, who tains 26 266mhz Pcntium II computers, each be Glenn Wilde, vice provost for Outreach and The rest the building is divided into of up Thc technology building Micron ncluded morc than a dozen individ- CD-ROM. and with its own Zip drive and Technology Earl Bennett, dean of oAice, classroom and laboratory space. was demanding on the BSU cam- anti-abortion organiza- ials and two Like other computer labs, this one is hooked COMER.. McClure Hall is located directly across the pus in the early 1990s was initial- alter their ions, said they would not up to thc campus network and also to the Room 214B, the student lab located adjacent street from the old Mines building, and west of ly privately financed through what actics.