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Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 11-10-2005 Arbiter, November 10 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]. THURSD~Y NO.VEHB.ER.10 2005 TH£ IND.£P£NOlIH STUDENT VOICE OF e o i s e STATt:: SIt ...c e 1933 , ' '1 FIRST ISSUE FREE ·,:, ~I . .....•...: ~, ".. .., r ~ A . .•. .. ~ _ ........ ;;:;::;::;;;;.. _~ e,'-.;.._ .....-r;;;..r'~ .. Volunteer Services Board seeks ASBSU, student participation - BY TESS~ SCHWEIGERT include several events relating to "We'll take [donations] and make upper-class. Meals are determined . Brothels" at 7 p.m, in the Hatch C Service Saturday begins at 9 a.m. Assistant News Editor local and global poverty. sure they go to the appropriate based on the class system. Lower- Ballroom of the SUB. this Saturday. VSB Director Taylor Newbold agency," Newbold said. class meals may consist of only rice, The Oscar-winning documenta- It's the last Service Saturday As mid-November approaches, said BSU students and employees :As'·;; .part· of Hunger-'. and while the upper-class diners will be ry focuses on children who are the for the fall semester, and is a the Boise State Volunteer Services can donate to an ongoing food and Homelessness Week, VSB will something more hearty; product of prostitution in Calcutta. program where BSU students Board Is spotlighting pover- clothing drive that directly benefits provide a free hunger banquet on "It's ·not a typical banquet:' Newbold invited ASBSU senators volunteer throughout the . ty issues and Is asking students locals in need. Tuesday, Nov. 15. Newbold said. "I wouldn't recom- to Hunger and Homelessness Week Boise community. to participate. Items can be dropped off in the The interactive banquet will mend showing up hungry." events in their Tuesday meeting, "If you're a good-hearted stu- Hunger and Homelessness Week Student Union Building near the place attendees into three catego- On Friday, Nov. 18, VSB will and also encouraged participation dent or senator, please show up," will be held Nov. 12 to 18 and will Associated Students ofBSU offices. ries -Jower-class, middle-class and show the documentary "Born into in VSB's other events. Newbold said. \04 candidate SPEAKER INTRODUCES STUDENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO· for president to visit BSU BY HIC~H HCL~UGHLIN News Writer 2004 Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik will speak at Boise State Thursday Nov. 10 and Saturday, Nov. 12, about the United States Constitution and constitutionality. The lecture will be held from 7 to 8 p.rn, In the Student Union Building's Jordan Ballroom. Admission is free. There will be an opportunity for questions after he speaks. Saturday's seminar will last longer wllI be held between 1 and 5 p.m, in the Barnwell Room of the SUB. The seminar Is available to those who have registered; the price $50 and Includes a book. The lectures will focus on the intent of the Founding Fathers In writing the U.S. Constitution, ac- cording to Robbi Kier, adviser to Students for Liberty. The seminar will also provide an in-depth discussion of impli- cations of the Constitution, said Kier. Students can expect to gain "a heightened awareness of what our country was based on and a more real Idea of what the intent was," said Kler. That is, Badnarlk will be he. BSU International Student San Francisco but was brought up in back,' He said smil- speaking about the reach and scope ing for children is nat- of tbe Constitution. Association hosted "The Art London, said he first learned about "I do believe that it would be of Living," a six-day workshop the Art of Living during graduate ural; it's as if their "joy was [from] a. Libertarian standpoint. school at the University of California beaming out." However, I think it's a very valuable T aimed at reducing stress through class because [ Badnarlk Is] ... very breathing techniques, at Boise State at Santa Cruz. He said he took the "That smile starts to wear off as we educated" and an expert on the U.S. course in May 1995 and has been ex- become adults, and the workshop Constitution, Kier continued. Nov. 3-8. The seminar, in which mil- According to Kier, the lectures lions of people have participated in- periencing the benefits since then. helps people get [their] youthfulness are of particular value to political ternationally, ended with a gradu- Koka said the techniques he learned again," Koka said. science, economics and pre-law Koka said he has been teaching the students. However, anyone with an ation ceremony for 27 students and in the Art ofLiving workshop gave him interest should find these lectures community members Tuesday night. clarity of mind and a better attention Art of Living course for four or five informative. years. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar founded Badnarik's visit is sponsored "Stress is like a veil that prevents and retention span during school. by BSU's resident Libertarian or- people from living life at its fullest," "Ifelt a shift right away. [The course] the Art of Living Foundation in 1982 ganization, Students for Liberty. helpedme focus much more. I didn't and introduced the Sudarshan Kriya, Students for Liberty is a student said Iani Koka, the leader of The Art of organization advocating the reduc- Living seminar at BSU. "People pick needto study so much, but I got better the breathing technique central to tion in government size and the ex- up so much stress and it builds up as grades," Koka said. the course. Koka said the Kriya has pansion of individual rights. been helpful for people with anxiety, Badnarik, an independent com- emotional garbage." Koka said he continued to use The puter consultant since 2001, has Koka said he uses the experiential Art of Living tools when he entered depression and sleep disorders. been studying the .Constitutlon. Koka said the Art of Living course since 1983. He was the Libertarian workshop to teach practical- tools to the business world. candidate for the Texas House eliminate stress and "give the feeling "I worked as a software engineer for is particularly beneficial for college of Representatives In both 2000 12 hours a day in Silicon Valley, and students and the stress of school they and 2002 for the Austin area. The oflightnes_s." Koka said he has person- Libertarian Party nominated him ally felt reduced stress and a greater the breathing techniques gave me experience. as its presidential candidate for the quality of life in .using the program, .mentalstalllina," Koka said. "I was , "So many students have anxiety 2004 elections. He won less than one percentaf the popular vote which includes breathing exercises, able to have fun at work." and depression at such a young age," during that election. Currently, yoga, meditation and knowledge. Koka said his relationships have he is the Libertarian candidate for Texas Congressional District 10, ac- Koka, who currently is based in improved and that he "gothissmile cording to his Web site. Couple," starring Nathan Lane and torched. mostly in the outlying dis- , Though one of his boys suffered Matthew Broderick. world tricts of Paris. according to the un- head injuries and was hospital' Tour members will also have the official tallies of various news out- ized, Watts and the rest of his fam- opportunity to visit several cul- Riots in France lets. ily were relatively lucky compared tural sltes.. including Rockefeller By midnight Sunday, another 95 to their neighbors in the trailer Center, the Empire State 'Building, intensify; restoring 'people had been arrested and an- park, the site of the most fatalities the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, order is'a priority other 528 cars had been set ablaze from the tornado. By Sunday eve- the New York Stock Exchange and around the country, according to ning, Vanderburgh County officials the backstage of the Metropolitan estimated that at least 17 people PARIS- As violent disturbances police. Opera. had been killed in the trailer park, intensified Sunday in cities across Residents of some communities Cost is $2,900, which Includes where 144of the 350 mobile homes France, President Jacques Chirac hit by the violence have started to round-trip airfare from Boise, six were either obliterated or left unin- said restoring public order and se- set up neighborhood patrols to pro- nights of hotel accommodations in habitable. Five other people died in curity was his government's "abso- tect schools and businesses. the theater district, tickets to the- "We are at the point now where nearby Warrick County, Ind. lute priority." ater and music performances, ad- "If we're lucky that's going to be Chirac, who has been nearly in- we have to call in the army:' one be- mission charges, guided tours, ad- it, but I've got a'feeling it's going to visible during 11 days of the worst leaguered shopkeeper in Paris told ditional sightseeing and activities, go up," said Don Erk, Vanderburgh unrest France has experienced French television. selected meals and credit or non- County coroner, who said three since the student protests of 1968, The rioting was triggered by an credit fees, children were among the dead warned that "those who want to Oct. 27 incident in which two im- Space is limited.