Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 9-2-1998 Arbiter, September 2 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]. � • ., pO., • _ " • 'T.-, -:- '""' ..- - "; ••.. L'." -"'1:--'." ........ _.•. l,~, . .........,. " ...'" :'''','f BSU phon'es rtng, , ,"1010 stalls "11 'Bunt toSptll' tromps Chomsky 19 ' .. ' .', .::" ..... , ;'.•••. ", ~ c. " .. ~ - ,-;- "'"' _'-' ..... ~." ...... '... ..' "C' " ,Th~;AilJiter__ 3 _ ,.," "'IIOUillrilJIriIf '----- September ~ 1998 contents .iIf,UtIl7l5 ~I Editor in Chief Opinion The Grinch who stole Homecoming last year has returned! Asencion ItIy MDtiDglli TNt Ramirez questions morals in America ••.••••...••.•.•...•.•• 5 Business Manager IridAr!ldt Dale-n-lra recommend other countries for the U.S. to bomb ..... ·... 6 News Editor CiJiluJt" . What's Going On? Sports Editor IkUdcm Films, game times and Founders Day! ••••.•..••••••••.••••.• 9 " Arts & Entertainment Editor EIkIIlill News The ASBSUSenate is back in full swing. Find out what's on the Online Editor rmitNidsol agenda . • • . I. • • • • • • • • .'. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •11 Advertising Sales The new BSUlogo in limbo ..•..••••.••••••••••••••••••• 12 . StIlKu!pQ Classifieds ItIJINQ Production Manager Cover Ever wonder about the significance of that sculpture by the SPEC? rmitridlll What does the cement conglomeration by the library mean? We give Staff Writers IIlUlDIiIlulr 0AIIDIII!lJHs you all you need to know about art on campus •• • . .'. • • • • • .14·15 kilt IIaIIIlI QMIeJttiwri 0 J!lll1AlIU DtlM IWtiak ' Rilt 1'lIm8 olillf PkuIli Tu,R!iIbI IIlJtTlIllr°.1lrIlI Arts 8: Entertainment Reviewing Eve 6 and Built to Spill ••••••.••••••••••••••••• 18 Photographers TrlJIIr1I 1lI!sU"IlllIlSUQu , ' .CoIUIDDistS' Sports Three coaches, three sports,aUstartingonth~.same;day ••••• ~ ••• 22 IIIIIIlAllll·IrIA1p , _BmdIr NatePeterson runs throughl3ronco FootbaU's'TopTen •• " " .~23 --,,'-' , .... , ...... , ~01lI AniH IBIift 0 .lkllld Cartoonists lrIiqloElkIllis L1uGo!lllu We didn't have room for News Nuggets this week, but there's J!IrmJ LlIDiI,hlJI Study Break! D.Skd always the HorrorScope and Crossword! •••••••.•••.••.•.••.• 26 Distribution Supervisor RiIhIlGoll Distribution 'Biter of the Week . goes to Erica Hill, A&E Editor and new photographer Rafael RilhDlIIlIe Saakyan. 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With so many people tI They who are in highest engaged in or attempted multiple ruined by summer droughts and its ongoing slaughter of both working overtime, where the hell places, and have the affairs. The political pundit inter- floods. More recently, Americans H~tus and Tutsis, the impending else are they going to meet? With most power, have the .preted the President's behavioras . celebrated a shrinking national economic collapse and massive ,work so dull, who can possibly symptomatic of a man bored and debt while Japan and Russia social disruption faced by the for- keep from thinking about sex? So least' liberty, .because frustrated by lack of challenge. teetered on the brink of econom- mer Soviet Union,and fresh casu- , why does a company fork out mil· they are most Apparently Clinton, like Ghengis. ic collapse. Wft too~ our vaca- alties in Northern Ireland and. lions because someone told a racy observed." Khan, Napoleon and Alexander tio's, lap l \ Onshinh;a'd / Palestine, I feel deeply embar- joke to break up the monotony? I John Tillotson the Great" suffers from con- ttt ''fasted that America's attention foolishly believed that Jones v. queror's malaise, from' whO lem~ , focused on presidential Clintonwould usher in a return to extramarital meandering , a mostly media- sanity. A A ~ments 'after him some relief," red crisis garnished Instead it gave birth to the IVr;,resident Clinton . If this is the talk of impeachment Lewinsky matter, starring a pert , dmitted to an inap- rulingout the simpler e~£ ~ancy. I imagine the 90210lookalikewho, incidentally, propriate relationship with that' Clinton simply di ,\, of thousands of confirmed (as office Lotharios MonicaLewinsky,I heard an inter-' that sex and power go rain~so ,':hinese, blood- knew all along) that some working esting observation from a so- like french fries and secret sa current ,.~1@d Congoleseand the weaker women are game for a workplace called network "expert" on presi· then Clinton may represe '. ~sCflne, gasps of. starving North romance. What a revelation! dential behavior. He noted that America more fittingly than Vi , )~ did' Vietnamese, urging America to Perhaps now we can talk honestly long-term analysis of Clinton's may have realized. millio~s of entertain GETALIFE! and realistically about adult political career yields up a consis- This summer citizens of the themselves this summer? What fools we must appear, human sexual behavior and knock " tent behavioral patterm Clinton's world's leading superpower Asteroids, aliens,' giant wasting. our resources and crip' off the false modesty! Don't be philandering increases in direct enjoyed the luxury of sturdy, clio lizards and impeachment, .that's pling a capable president over a naive. proportion to his po~iticalstand- mate-controlled housing, while what. Perhaps the recent spate of cheap item of gossip that never Instead we've sunk ever ing. Earlier in his political career thousands of, Chinese, Africans, disaster flicks represents more deserved investigation, much less deeper into the national obsession and during campaigns he curbed than just Hollywood daily, national, right down-to·the- with curbing sexual freedom Use The Arbiter to make your point. • . copycatting; maybe DNAscrutiny. while gorgingon fictionalized sex- these films' popular' I had hoped long ago that ual content. I'd like to give a BSU STUDENTS, FACUL TV AND STAFF ity suggest that we, Paula Jones' case would expose good, hard titty-twister to the too, are feeling the ridiculous lengths to which next person I hear wailing, "How under-chatlenged. sexual harassment laws had gone do we explain the president'S Films such as in order to legislate the expres- affair to our innocent children?" ot a beef? How about some- Armageddon and sion of sexual interest. Sexual Dothese concerned parents ever Godzilla indulge us ·themes dominate' American bother debriefing their children thing good to say? Share. with ultimately advertising and popular entertain- after their daily six hours of tele- , harmless fantasies ment, yet heaven forbid someone vised violence, greed and sex? I your views with the rest of of doom and annihi· rnakea pass at work. I thought doubt it. If the kids felt vexed at tation by a Force that maybe by bringing the issue all by the Lewinskyscandal, it is \ BSU in The Arbiter's regular feature, Guest mightier than the of sexual harassment all the way only because they have to flip good old U.S. of A. to the White House, the Paula through endless channels of gos- Forum. It's easy! Submit your column on Given that we know Jenescase might shed some light sipy news anchors to. get to the whichforce will pre- ona bizarre state of affairs in good stuff Ii to AaronSpelling. Macintosh disk or double-spaced typewrit- vail long before we which the feminist movement had The real scandal lies in mil· buy our·' popcorn, come full· circle to endorse the lions of ungrateful Americans ten pages (son~~ handwritten notes