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Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 12-10-1991 Arbiter, December 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]. Tuesday, December 10, 1991 Bookstorel dorms to vend condoms fund, he said. installed in men's and women's being negotiated, said Al Hooten, The Bookstore and Student By Melanie Delan restrooms in Towers and Chaffee associated vice president of Health Services are also selling • Staff Writer residence halls. Morrison and Financial Affairs. All of the pro- condoms. The Bookstore is offer- A once-rejected proposal to put Driscoll halls will have their ceeds from the sale of condoms ing three types of Trojan-brand condom machines in residence hall machines in the laundry rooms. will go into an AIDS education condoms for 50 cents each. The restrooms was approved Monday, Prices for condoms are still student health center is selling Dec. 2. condoms for 10 cents each. The proposal was passed . Some students said they think unanimously by Student Residen- Condom .sense installation of condom machines tial Life and was later given the will reduce the spread of sexually final OK by Boise State University By Melanie Delao transmitted diseases, including the Acting President Larry Selland last Staff Writer H1V virus. Others suggested that AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Idaho. week. students may be more receptive Idaho will not be excluded from the recent surge of STD's that is ex- The bill was proposed last year about having safer sex if condoms pected to affect the United States, according to reports by the Central but was tabled because of a lack are made available for purchase in District Health Department of the Idaho Department of Health. Cur- of interest on the part of students a discrete manner. "People are ~ntly, 107 cases of AIDS have been recorded in Idaho, according to a and the administration, said Tina afraid to go and buy them:' said "t Fletcher, information director of biweekly report issued by the Central District Health Department More Jennifer Stark, a Towers resident Sexual Awareness for Everyone. cases are expected to be reported, the report noted. adviser. "It's a humiliating The number of individuals who have tested positive for the virus "We revisited the issue and mv experience." is just as alarming. The October biweekly report issued by the Central decided it was a matter of respon- Selland said he did not District Health Department reported 321 Hlv-positive cases in Idaho. sibility," Selland said. see Condoms on back Condom machines will now be see STDs on back Support group members nurture parents of murdered children By Anna Fritz They have been in the group since The main focus of both the na- Special to the Arbiter the first meeting in October 1990. tional group and the local chapter Beth West's son Randy was a "We thought we could help is ongoing emotional support for week shy of his 24th birthday others," Mrs. West said. "We families and friends of murder when he was kidnapped in 1980 survived, and they can too; but victims. These survivors suffer from the Boise grocery store they need each other. They need more than usual grief following where he worked. His body was support" the death of a loved one. found:six months later. His kiner, ,' ;.P,Q:¥S ~.sanati()l\alorganiza- .' ..'. "I don't think YO\l ever get over o..'kiI1ers;hl1ve'neveroeen'fQWul·· . ....•tion,that .Was·sr4rted.in"l978'1I'j:'~'4·<'~~Mti;;W'at~j:~i~~'0'i',''''''S Cincinnati by a couple whose IOlofanger; everi'Mter'auihis' ¥, •••; "It was quite hard for Us," Mrs. West said. "We had no one to tum daughter was murdered. time. But each of us deals with it to! There were no such things as The Idaho Capital Chapter was in a different way." victim support groups back then." founded by VaLynn Mathie and Survivors must deal with po- There were 21,500 homicides in Linda Owsley. Both women had lice, lawyers, reporters and the the United States in 1989 and 26 lost a child to homicide. Anldaho criminal justice system. They homicides in Idaho. Although well Statesman article gave them some have to hear the details of the -.~ exposure, and the group became murder over and over again. They below the national average, the have to accept that someone de- Idaho murder rate is more than just "We thought we could liberately killed their loved one. a statistic. There are countless hu- help others. We survived, They have to stand by as con- manbeings behind those numbers, victed killers sometimes receive and those people have joined to- and they can too; but they need each other. They need light sentences or get off alto- gether in the ever-growing victims gether. They have to endure the Photo by Richard York rights movement support." -Beth West countless appeals. Robert MacNeil of the MacNeiljLehrer News Mrs. West and her husband Ralph are co-presidents of the see P.OM.C. on back Hour addresses a crowd in a speech for Idaho Idaho Capital Chapter of Parents official. They now have 57 mem- Public Television Tuesday, Dec. 3 of Murdered Children (POMC). bers. Students get bent out of shape By Laura Allison and plastic sheet. Shawna Hanel, Regina Lesperance president of RHA, said she was Staff Writers proud of the eff<Xtto get the project It started off with 20 to 30 started. "A lot of people worked people scrunched into the middle to get this together, and they were of a board covered with green, a great bunch of people to work yellow, blue and red dots. with," she said. As appendages and colors were The event was held in the Jor- called out by the announcer, the dan Ballroom C from 2 p.m, to 5 participants thinned out to a flex- p.m. on Saturday. About 45 ible few. With their bodies being people of all ages showed up to try curved into' various positions re- their hand at head-to-toe' combat sembling huinan pretzels, these with people they'd never met be- brave souls struggled to survive in fore. Rhonda Ford, an eighth the game of Twister. grader said she enjoyed the game "We've been loddng forward to despite the entanglement of legs Photo by Jessica Dorris it for a long time," said Denise and arms. "It's kind of hard, but Students contorted theIr bodies in a giant game of Twister saturday. Bunch, a sophomore at BSU. it's fun." she said. "We'd like to use it at halftime The idea was established by the Snacks were available for vic- ' The Twister committee was he is excited about future plans. Residence Hall As$OCiationas a tims of Twister to nibble on, and "It's going really well and it should of Ihe basketball games and again chairedby Chris HaskeI and Eldon in the SlXingfor finals week," said fonnof entertainMent' to help re- punch and water to revive their Delos Santos, who also acted as grow." Renee Waters, an RHA member lieve the pressure of finals. Mem- stamina. ·The winners of each referees for the game. Haske! said The Twister game board will be frorit Chaffee Hall. bers frorit the ResideriCe Housing game were given a prize, and he thought the game was success- available for clubs, organizations .Association spent .two nights awards were handed out for vari- ful in its campus premier. He said and olher campus activities to use. painting 750 dots on a25 X 30 foot ous abilities such as most flexible. The Arbiter Boise State UnlvelSl~ Safe,'se~A': pathetic joke , j:~f w~k,~o~ s~~'(jn1~er-' , 'lhemain message that has evolved si,tj.~Oted t6:allow, thep,a~eilt 'Ollt of his tnigedy is that sex is all of condom Jjla~lUneson camPUS:, light, as long as' one person is 'rlieinajoritYofstiJdentsagree)vi!h ' wearing a condom. ,Think about ,~ d,~is.i0'l, just as tl)e' ~ajoiity' ' 'this:' would' you have sex with a :of ~,tU~e~tsb,e1i~v~*~'<'~e,~ll:', 'person that you knew was infected :se~~il! iJ}ttI'CQUrse. ~~iIe.usmg, a with the HIV'virus, as long as one -condom, fpr.~Xanil?le, is the best of you wore a condom? I bet that :al~~v~lO llrowcta person from ' when it came down to the moment :a sexiially-ttansmitted disease." , of truth, most of us wouldeall a cab, : The 'phras'e"'sare' sex'; is an and rightfully so. Who in their right :ollYJl!pfQn.Those two words don't mind would put their life on the line ArtlIodgson :~!orig'm. thr Same Sentence. There for a temporary thrill? Apparently, What a beautiful piece of architecture! :Iu!$'~ev~[ ¥en, ~d I doubt there quite a few of us. , :~~rr~ver ,~" anything '~e about 'Speaking for the male half of the :sell; . ,:. ' .. ' :' " ," , , ' planet, I can say that when things : <;o~~OI,ns ar!"not 100 pe~e~1t ,get hot between two people, most, Celebrate the holidays with the homeless ,efTec~ye~. n) had to. gamble wi~ , not all males' would be willing to the alarming number of those home- before Christmas.