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,Ly OU FEARLESS MEN OF IDAHO ., should make an effort to keep (the Chinese) out of Idaho," ww_ the clergyman A. W. Sweeney \. IUM" ' exhorted a crowd of Lewis- ton miners in the late 1860s. The Chinese came to Idaho in the early I860s to'work-the-gold-mines. By 1870 they' , comprised 28.5 percent of the population of Idaho. ',- Sweeney reasoned that the Chinese presence was forcing merchants to relocate beeause Chinese businessmen would only deal with other Chinese. Only one man stood up to defend the Chinese miners, W.W. Thayer, a miner, disagreed, saying that the United States' treaty obligations overruled any attempts to force them out, and asserted that the Chinese coming represented the contin ring tradition of America ·"opening its bound- aries to the emigrants of all countries." According to the North Idaho Radiator, "heated words flew as both men spoke intelligently on their positions." What could have remained a peaceful, adventuresome life in the Idalio Territory during the late 19th century, became a time of prejudice, malicious pranks, and general disregard to human rights. Needed, Not Wanted Out-numbering their white counterparts by almost five to one. the Chinese miners of northern Idaho worked day and night. Was it because they were hard workers and had the patience to profit from claims that whites had abandoned -for loss that the Chinese miners were despised and hated by, white miners? Whatever the reasons behind the popular prejudices,' they' re- sulted in torment and agony for the Chinese. Two reasons for these. spiteful feelings, The editor of the local paper called the rotten eggs and tomatoes in summer," gave the Chinese because they thought they Jackie Day-Ames says in her article in the judge's opinion "a mass of baseless, utterly Betty Derig revealed in the article "Silver were some lower caliber human being, I Idaho Humanities Forum, were that, the absurd almost senile ano wretchedly ridic- City Chinese". know we are all ashamed of the things that Chinese were seen in terms of the comic ulous slop," - Children in Lewiston liked to roll large happened in, the mining camps." strip world of Fu Manchu: sinister opium With that kind of attitude being pub- rocks .over theChinese'sstc;lVepipes that dealing "heathen Chihee", and that "when lished at least twice a month, it's no wonder stuck up' from their sod houses, causing large numbersbegan.arriving in thel860s, that children, who had no real quarrel to smoke to pour into the house, A variation ,Taking Advantage 'the Chinese were seen as a threat to the pick with the Chinese laundrymen, cooks ,of this was to lower peppers ,into the "I have known hundreds of cases," Caucasian workers". In, addition, Day- and gardeners, pulled harmful pranks. stovepipe, barricading the door to the Thomas Donaldson said in an Idaho Ames claimed that newspaper coverage, was, A stunt often used by Silver City children Chinaman'shouse, so that escape would be Yesterday article. "when white men among "extremely racist" and was partially was to dig a pit, cover it.with alight piece of difficult, ' ' us took every possible opportunity to cheat responsible for the origin of'attitudes which cardboard and sprinkle it with snow. The Kesler. Flock remembers in his oral the Chinamen." But to the miners' way of entered the popular consciousness.' children would then, tease a Chinese into history interview, "I can recall some of the thinking, this was justified. In the early In 1869 a chief justice's opinion declared chasing them down thetrail.v'No Chinese stories that don't bear repeating of the the Chinese miner's tax unconstitutional'. . was ever safe from snowballs in winter.9r treatment that the miners (and children) Continued to page 6 •

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Many American women may be suffering needlessly trying to live up to the image of the superwife. A Tennessee psychologist . has discovered that most men in college don't expect their future wives to have a -good job and be a great horrrerrraker:: Dr.: '. '.' Beryl West asked male and female students to rate the importance of 18 traits in a mate. Women thought men would rate chastity first and good financial prospects second, with cooking and housekeeping also high on the list. Instead, what men wanted most out of women and what women expected out of men turned eut to New ASBSU officers and senator being sworn in by Justice Dess be the same: dependability, emotional Nelson, left to right are, President Deanna Weaver, Vice-President stability, mutual attraction and a pleasant Richard Jung, and senators Michael Kruse, Joseph Brennan. Steve disposition. For men, chastity, money and Jackson, Gina Christensen and Jeff Stitzel. Photos by Brad Kurtz. cooking and cleaning were not important. USA Today, April 13, 1983. New Senate Takes Charge__ . Big Bang vs. Tiny Seed ASBSU Justice Dess Nelson swore a new tarian Richard Jung took control of the Jackson now represents the Health Sciences . :.'The folks who sit around trying to figure president, vice president, and four new office of vice president. _ Department. out where the universe came from have senators into office for the. I 983-84 Jeff Stitzel is the new representative of Each new senator and officer swore "to ,dreamed up something to replace the academic year last Wednesday. the School of Business, and Michael Kruse uphold and protect the constitution and :long-favored "Big Bang" theory. Now they Former ASBSU Vice President Deanna now represents the Vo-Tech Department. laws of ASBSU, the state of Idaho, and the think it's possible that the universe evolved 'Weaver assumed the' responsibilities of From the School of Arts and Sciences United States of America." from a "seed" of energy no larger than an president, while former Senate Parliamen- comes Gina Christensen, while Steve atomic particle, which in the tiniest fraction of time began doubling and redoubling its _ size. Before even a second had gone by, the Legislative Rel1-=-o-=-rt~: _ universe was the size of a softball, with a temperature of 20-billion-billion degrees. After the expansion had gone on for about loo-thousand years, the universe thinned Evans Vetoes Education Budget out enough to become transparent, and .galaxies began forming. Scientists like Alan -Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of by Iran Cheshire Technology say this theory would explain Governor John Evans ordered Idaho education funding and further tax hikes. clause was removed that would have made the extraordinary uniformity and regular legislators to reconvene on May 9 for a At the news conference, Evans said other it a misdemeanor to participate in the expansion of the universe. New York special session on the state budget. budgets were being considered for veto programs. The Senate was worried the Times, April 12, 1983. In a news conference last week, Evans action, including the appropriation of $B.5 provision would discourage people from said he would veto the Legislature's $215 million for agriculture research, $4 million' reporting the scams fo authorities. million nllocation for public schools and for junior colleges at the state level, and The investment projects are called High ..Tech Scouts $70 million allocation for the state's three $13.4 million for vocational education. He "pyramids" because the people who initi- universities and Lewis-Clark State College. said all these may be on the special-sessions ate them are paid for others they bring into The Girl Scouts have decided there's Evans said he wants a minimum of $224 agenda. the program. Those people, in turn, receive more to life than selling cookies. According million for public schools and $73 million Evans did not make a decision on a payment for those they attract to the to National Executive Director Frances for higher education. whether to require legislatures to address group. Hesselbein, the new emphasis will be on "I cannot swallow the education budget the problem and ever-evolving issue of People organizing or promoting pyramid turning scouts into "productive, figures hammered out by the GOP-domin- Idaho Power Company's water rights at schemes, which includes chain letters where self-confident, socially responsible ated legislature. The allocations for public Swan Falls on the Snake River. cash is transacted, now can be convicted' of women." A new career education program schools and higher education will severely Evans said he wants to subordinate the a felony. is emphasizing math, science and damage those programs. if they are not utility's rights to clear the way for technology. "That." says Hesselbein, "is increased," Evans said. Evans added that expanded irrigation and other develop- where the action is." Her Say, April 11, he will travel around the state before the ments upstream from the Snake River dam. 1983. special session in order to gain public In other business, House Bill 180 (HI80), support for more funding for education. outlawing pyramid schemes in Idaho, was In the legislature, the Republican leaders signed by Gov. Evans last Thursday. Dinosaurs said they are in firm opposition to increased The bill passed the legislature after a Mining inSpace There's new evidence that volcanoes--not a giant asteroid--may have killed off the Education or Training One ofthe last men to walk on the moon dinosaurs 65-million years ago. A pair of says it's only a matter of time before we go NASA scientists say soil samples from back--this time to Set up permanent Europe and Northern Africa cast doubt on by Paul Holt colonies. Former New Mexico Senator the theory put forth by Nobel Physicist Is there a need for a core curriculum, and faculty are, by and large, products of a Harrison Schmitt, a'member of the last Luis Alvarez that the dinosaurs died when a if so, what should be included in it? Is the graduate education which is very narrow Apollo crew in 1972, predicts earthlings will giant meteor hit the earth, kicking up a dust content, and thus the quality, of our and confining, and specialized." This be lured back to their largest satellite by a storm that blocked the sun's light for three education adequate? What is an educated makes faculty ill-prepared to ask important mixture of scientific curiosity and a desire years. They say the ancient soil shows person today? These are some of the questions about the form of education to exploit the moon's resources. The lunar evidence of massive volcanic activity over complex and challenging issues Dr. Paul students are receiving, he added. soil, Schmitt says, is rich in valuable several years. The effect, however, was the Bragdon, President of Reed College, Bragdon also pointed out that the reward minerals such as titanium, as well as same: bye-bye brontosaurus. addressed Wednesday in a lecture at BSU. system for faculty tends to reinforce this hydrogen and helium gasses, He feels tile The lecture began with a brief intro-_ specialization and narrow-mindedness. moon could also serve as a bioengineering duction by former ASBSU President, "Promotions, tenure decisions, recogni- laboratory, offering hope for the total Marlyss Fairchild.' President-elect Deanna tion within the profession, all are based eradication of disease. And after that? The Watt was Right? Weaver then spoke on her personal primarily on what you do. within your former astro~aut foresees human philosophy of education. specialty or your discipline," Bragdon said, settlements difMars. "The technical Maybe James Watt was right after all: "The' best thing an education can adding that keeping current in one's own problems have been solved," he says. "The according to a survey of who buys what in attempt is to train out mind to the use of its field is hard enough without having to issues that stilI need to be resolved are America's 10 biggest cities, Washington, own powers and then inspire us to learn," "give thought to the larger issues of political, psychological and economic." D.C., is at the bottom of the listw"hen it Weaver .said, and then introduced Dr. institutional curricular purpose and the . While he remains optimistic about the comes to buying rock records;·t~A.is the Bragdon. education of students." : ,,: future of space exploration, Schmitt, who number one rock market, while Boston is -, "We have reached a point where there is While Dr. Bragdon admitted to his lack served as senator from 1976 to 1982, has tops in classical music. The survey, by a sense that there is not enough coherence, .of'concrete answers for the question of misgivings about what's going on down Mediamark Research, also found New not enough sense of a' faculty knowing what .what and educated person is today, he did here. "Congress has become increasingly Yorkers are the most ardent baseball fans, it is doing and reflecting that conviction in state several general qualifications and illiterate about science," he says. "Our

o Detroit women use the most mascara, the curriculum," Bragdon began. educated person.should possess. school systems have failed to prepare the Philadelphians purchase the most Stressing the need lobe. watchful of . The, first and .most important criteria, voter--orthesenators and

o deodorant, Chicagoans the most candy over-specialization among faculty .in a according to Dr. Bragdon, is the ability to representatives-to make informed .bars, and Bostonians the most diet cola. university; he continued, "Members of our be able to learn how to learn . decisions on scientific issues."

UNIVERSITY NEWS • APRIL 2(f..26. 1983 • PAGE 3 ----.- ....~.-.--.--·-~.a-e---'-.-----4.~·--..:.-.--'--·--.--.•-----.--ee---.---'-!--._ Healthy Mind ..•

Personal health editorials usually read like a vitamin commercial--'in the hubbub of your busy, stressful work-a-day world it's often easy to forget blah, blah, blah .. .' Somehow in marketing us our health advertising has turned our well-being into an expensive cliche. Meanwhile the evidence mounts that the best route to good health doesn't come from pushing the pills after you're ill, but rather from simple preventative medicine. This weekend, April 22-24, over 23 area organizations are going to give Boise an opportunity to sample preventative health care at Heath Fair 83. Health Fair 83 participants will be screened for problems of weight, height, blood. pressure, the mouth, feet, visual acuity, glaucoma and hearing. Health education inforrnauon will be provided on numerous topics including radiation safety and emergency medical services in Idaho. The best attraction is, however, that with the exception of an optional $8 blood test, the entire event is free. The fair, held at the BSU Pavilion, will be open Friday and Saturday II u.m. to 7 p.rn. and Sunday from II a.m. to 5 p.rn, Be healthy, attend Health Fair 83.

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Chinese Polly Bemis (Lalu Nathoy) is remem- bered in history because not very many • Continued from, Cover Chinese women were around in the 1860's. stages of the Chinese influx, these reasons Polly made it because of her marriage to , were listed. urging the miners (If lewiston a white, man and because of her "basic to refuse the admittance of the "Tartars": decency," a characteristic that surprised the white populus at that time because of "If the miners stand by their old their prejudiced attitude against the Chi- laws they will have no occasion to nese in general. fear a Tartar raid. But there are Sold by her father in China to a individuals in our different camps plunderer, Lalu Nathoy eventually was that are quite strenuous for the "shmuggled (sic) into Portland by an old introduction of the Mongolian. If woman. Lcost 2,500 dollars ... Old Chinese- these persons would give a few man he took me along to Warren in a pack moments to reflection, I think train." Polly told Eleanor Patterson. they would conclude the future She worked in a saloon until her master disadvantage would out-balance lost her in a poker game' with Charlie the present-gain: .. While they Bemis. work for small wages, they don't Charlie Bemis came tQ W.arren in 1,863.:64 spend much either. which is bad from Connecticut to work a claim with his for the economy .." father. Not inclined to hard work, he took to the saloon life. He kept Polly as his mistress until she saved ,his life by cleaning The article. signed simply with "K". out a wound In his cheek with a crochet ended by saying that the Chinese are an hook. They were married on August, 13, outside people because they subsist on 1894. one-fourth of what the whiteman makes. Chinese Parade at the corner of Capitol Boulevard and Main Street in the early 1900s. Two years later Polly received her The Chinese presence was pointed out as certificate of residence under the provisions the cause of "the dull times in Boise of an Act of Congress. Soon after that, she Basin." May IS. 1867 in the Idaho World. and Charlie moved to his fifteen acre ranch "Stagnating business is greater than has on the Salmon River. Here Polly raised been known since 1836 to '37." the article plums, pears, grapes, cherries, straw- reported, "In San Francisco. trade is at a men relaxed. thc loaded pipe caused the hot completely changed the nature of the berries. blackberries. corn, 'clover, and 'stand still. and the business pressure is stove to blow up into tiny pieces. Several mining district for the better. watermelons. It was a very happy time for unusually severe. The same complaint is in miners were seriously injured. The men On July 8, 1882, Witt leased sixteen Polly and Charlie. Polly was working the Nevada. all through California •... and called together a makeshift court of justice claims to Ah Kle and friends for twenty- land as she had in her homeland, and Oregon. " and the Chinese man who had been blamed five years. MacLean forcibly ejected them. Charlie's good friend Charles Shepp lived Though the article would admit that a was quickly sent to death by hanging. For When Ah Kle took them to court, the just across the river, making their isolated severe winter that had kept the miners out some reason the sentence was changed to district judge, Willis Sweet, was not ranch less lonely. of the fields was partly responsible for the twenty-five lashes by the strongest man. impressed with the Chinese claims. He was Twenty-six good years were spent on the dull economy in Idaho. it quickly goes on The man was whipped. freed and told to more interested in the congressional race he Bemis ranch until August of 1922, when to say: leave the camp. He was forced to make his was entering to keep, the University of their house burned to the ground. Charlie way through the snows of northern Idaho Idaho in Moscow, so he went along with died from his injuries in OC14'ber and on "But the too great of influx of the to the next closest town some ten miles Maclean's reasonings-they're not citizens, November I, Poily left for Warren. The Chinese laborers is the greatest away. so they're not legal. spring of 1923 workers began rebuilding and most ruinous of the causes The year 1886 was the climax of the Ah Kle appealed to 'Idaho's Supreme her house and in 1924 Polly came back. which militate against the present boiling unrest of the Chinese immigrants . Court in January of 1893. The defendants' Polly gave Shepp and his partner half the welfare and future prosperity in David M. Fraser was reportedly killed by main argument was that the United States' deed to her property in return for their this city and in Boise Basin." seven Chinese using knives. axes. hatchets law did not prohibit leasing of mining care. She was seventy-one. and a gun. The suspects were arrested and claims by non-citizen Chinese. An 1887 All of her time in Idaho wasn't spent placed in sack-like containers until their United States statute prohibited future raising fruits and collecting eggs, though. Retaliation on the miners' part took the trial the next day. Mascarading .as a aliens from owning or holding real estate, In 1923 she rode in her first automobile to form of claim jumping. It got to be so bad drunken Indian, Lonnie Sears, who under- but Ah Kle's lease was signed in 1882. The Grangeville and saw her first motion that the Chinese hired whitemen to "jump" stood the suspects' language, listened as the court ruled in favor of the Chinese in their picture in her first train. The next year she their claims for them. While they worked Chinese freely discussed the murder. As battle with the sheriff. went to Boise and saw a street car, a high their holdings they paid the "Chinese they talked they decided that the two very building, and rode in an elevator, too. Herder" to assert ownership of the oldest of them should be announced as the She died on November 6, 1933 and property. White loagers would often come guilty ones. The n~xt day when the old ones Respect despite her wish to be buried by the Salmon out to a Chinese claim, and with a blank admitted to the crime, the spy revealed the River on her ranch. she was buried in license. would act like license collectors. Chinese men's plot. The five were hung But other people that had daily contact Grangeville. pocketing the five dollar .foreigner 's fee. from a pole stretched from one pine tree to with the Chinese did see admirable qualities The last Chinese miners of the old another. in them. frontier packed up their shovels and picks Revenge In her 1970 book, Idaho Chinese Lore, and headed for civilization in the late Idaho Acceptance Sister Alfreda Elsensohn quotes from the 1930s and early'40s. railroad contractor for Central Pacific, At one time hundreds of Chinese families With no understanding court of law to Charles W. Crocker. "I had faith and lived in the Boise area. Now there are only a turn to. the Chinese would periodically Both the legislature and lower court respect for the Chinese's abilities. If the handful of family names. Their downtown retaliate with violence. One evening in the judges insisted on denying the Chinese any Chinese built the Great Wall of China. they buildings burned or were torn down, and winter of 1866. one of the Chinese miners rights whatsoever and a Nampa judge even can build a railroad." the Chinese Gardens are gone with the joss hollowed out a piece of stovepipe, filled it threw out a case in which a white man was In a 1869 edition of the Boise Tri- Weekly' houses and apothecaries. The special flavor with gunpowder and placed it in the room accused of killing a Chinese, because, the Statesman, this quote appeared: the Chinese gave to Idaho's past remains as where the prospectors usually gathered. judge said, "there is nothing in the law "It's been proved that the Chinese are stories in the library of the Old West. The following evening while the white book that says it is murder to kill a admirable railroad builders. His labor is . . Chinaman. Case dismissed." The Idaho ------,----- cheap, his temper is good, his disposition is --.------.-~-- - Supreme Court, however, refused to adopt docile, and his strength and endurance is c • the anti-Chinese feelings like other western wonderful, as are his mechanical skills." states. Alonzo Brown, who worked in a store in One of the reasons was the dogged Elk City during the rush of 1861, said that reliance upon California Court precedents. .the Chinese proved to be good customers. The courts held that, Idaho's rules were "They lived within their means. If they did copied from California; therefore, if in well they spent their money liberally and California the Chinese were given consider- when they made a little, they lived on that. ations of the raw, in Idaho they would be I did not lose any money by crediting them too. and have had a better opinion of Chinamen "Clearly," John Wunder writes in his ever since." article The Courts and the Chinese in As for their mining skills, Jim Witt, a Frontier Idaho, "in civil cases decided from manager of an 1869 ditching service in Elk 1883 to 1902, the Idaho Supreme Court City, said that the Chinese proved to be the refused to treat the Chinese as racially or best of the placer miners. "They kept culturally inferior persons. More often than strictly to themselves and prospered where not, the court defended the Asian minority many whites failed." against the hostile non-Asian majority A. J. Hoffman, a miner from the Elk attacks, even in the sensitive area of City mining camp, remembers in Elsen- mining-claim disputes." sohn's book, "They enjoyed life here (in In face, the most important Chinese civil the camps)," They were, according to case in Idaho involved James Witt, Ah Kle Hoffman, "patient, good-natured, fun- and three other mining partners, A.C. loving, hard-working and law-abiding," MacLean and his three non-mining part- nersand Sheriff MacLean of Idaho County. One Who Made It Witt came to Pierce City in spring of I 1862. He brought out many miners in Elk Far away from the violence and pre- City's mining district and had' excellent judices of lewiston, Boise, Orofino and the Chinese vegetable vendor in Idaho City. Polly Bemis in front of her cabin on the ditch networks. He believed the Chineseto shortlived uprisings of -Hailey, was' the Salmon River: ' be superior placers and thought they town of Warren, where, PQIIy Bemis llved.

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Education orTraining Should the Broncos survive the are camera shy or not. Some of the men's and women's bowling began on October 15th has also first cut to six teams, they will the big names in' collegiate teams at Boise State operate on a drained the club's finances, so the • Continued from page 3 face' another cut to three teams women's bowling will be at the, yearly budget of about $4,000. team is seeking donations at local which takes place on the final day tournament, including 'Penn Woolum added that of that bowling alleys to help defray the "The most consistent thing I've of the championships. The final State, University of California at amount "half comes from the cost of the trip. heard from Reed' alumni in re- three "are the televised finals," Fresno, Indiana State, Ohio State ASBSU and half comes from fund 'Making the trip for Boise State spect to vocational progression is according to Woolum. The BSU and West Texas State. raisers." Woolum estimated that will be Jackie Schlee, Woolum, that they have taken on a new job women bowlers will have to face With big names comes big most of the bowling teams BSU . Hibbs, Chris Hohnstein, Karen that they were less well prepared some stiff competition before they money, which puts BSU at a will face operate on budgets that Link and alternate Cindy for.. .and eventually don as well or get a chance to see whether they disadvantage. Woolum said both run ito five figures. A season that Coonradt. better than those in that vocation because of their ability to learn how to learn. Education for the longer pull, rather than for some specific task, is a practical thing," Genuine French Bread, Bragdon said. Chocolate Desserts, Dr. Bragdon said that the ability to think, speak, and write I & Croissants clearly, along with an "apprecia- - tion of the various intellectual Affordable Prices for the Student Body strategies which can be brought to In the Chand lee BUilding 5th & Idaho Picku Small Cars 4915 State St. bear' on· the-naturalvand-vsocial .. ~ world" are also skills that an .,Downfown"'rk>lse' . .." _ , ' ..•... Free Parking ...•.'.-." . educated person must have. ••••••••••••••• • •••• •• Dr. Bragdon said a core cur- riculum should include "an ap- preciation of the past and the arts, and an awareness of science and technology." ~ Dr. Bragdon stressed, however, that "I've said nothing new and Now Open in the BSU nothing dramatic, and I cannot help you breathe specific content .sfudent Union BUilding into the core requirements ... 1 hope what I've said reinforces your own ttTtrrking--aiHI--eoIT-=- c1usions. " After the lecture approximately twenty members of the audience, IlOBI\L~-TRAVEL-SERVICE which included BSU faculty members as well as students, .. Airline Tickets .. Cruises .. Tours .. Car Rentals .... Hctel Reservations formed into groups- to discuss ideas which were presented later N,O CHARGE FOROUR to the BSU core curriculum 342-5625 committee. SERVICE Many suggestions, such as do- ing away with the core require- ments (on the theory that content doesn't guarantee the thought process), making survey courses four or five hours long instead of three, and creating interdisciplin- ary survey classes were discussed. At the forefront, however, was the idea of broadening the ed- ucation base, or as one discussion group pointedly put it, "more education, less degree." The con- sensus seemed to be that with more input from every field, the process of learning how to learn would be facilitated.

~I---.t Bowlers Strike itBig _ by Gene Hayes

The female half of the BSU Varsity Bowling Team is prepar- ing for a road trip most bowling teams just dream about. Six women bowlers from Boise State will be joining II teams from across the nation for the National Collegiate Bowling Champion- ships in SI. Louis, Missouri on May 5, 6 and 7. The National Collegiate Bowl- ling Championships' feature the best 12 women's bowling teams in the nation, with some 500 schools competing for the top 12 spots. .' , ' try and western, do does coun . BSU Bowling Club secretary am's 7 &7UR. A n s . in moderatwn. Cheryl Hibbs commented, "it's . .th the "",iting la'" of S,ag' iih. 1 &, 1.Enjoy ou, QUah,', Y just the ultimate in team collegiate h bowling." Boise State represents' Region 14, which includes much of Idaho; Oregon, Washington, Montana and Wyoming. The regional representative for male stirs wit .. bowlers is the team from Wash- R:~;:tifth'r~;l ington State. Their appearance at the national championships is a first for BSU women bowlers. The men's team Se~ell&S~ell went to the championships in 1981, where they finished in 7th place. Bowling Club vice presi- 'dent Janet Woolu hopes her team can do better this year. "It's going to be real tough.bur we have a good chance to make it to the final six. " e 1982'iiNJIJNJ 0ISIlliRS co, five MlR~ 1IImY. A Bl.(Ml, BOPROO-: ''SeIeHJp" ard -71J'" 3Il! traden1aIl

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