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20 PAST AND PRESENT 30 DOWN (AND OUT) Gov. Cecil Andrus and DEPARTMENTS ON THE FARM former Gov. Robert Smylie 5 Campus News Political organizing in the speak their minds on Idaho \6 People face of the worsening farm politics. 18 Fo undation News crisis. 40 Top Ten Scholars 24 A STATE DIVIDED? 41 Alumn i News 34 CLOSING THE Often acrimonious, Idaho's 4. Sports GENDER GAP Women make progress in Legislature embodies the President's Comments .. Idaho political circles. antipathy between state regions. 36 STRESSING CIVICS COVER Through social studies, 28 THE CAPITOL IN Among other things, Idaho politics COLOR schools hope to instill have been called colorful ~ much civic-mindedness. Photos of Idaho's political like the glass-rimmed dome of the focal point. Statehouse's four-story rotunda. Photo by Glenn Oakley.

FOCUS is published quarterly by the Boise State University OHice of News Services, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725. Offices are located in Room 724 of the Education Building. phone (208) 385-1577. PLEASE SEND ADDRESS CHANGES (WITH THE ADDRESS LABEL, IF POSSIBLE) TO THE BSU ALUMNI OFFICE, 1910 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, BOISE, 10 83725. If you receive duplicate copies of the magazine. please notily the Alumni Office at the above address. Friends of the university who wish to receive FOCUS can do so by sending their names and addresses to the Alumni Office. Correspondence regarding editorial matter should be sent to the editor. Unless otherwise noted, all articles can be reprinted as long as appropriate credit is given to Boise State University and FOCUS. The staff of FOCUS includes Larry Burke, editor; Marie Russell, Bob Evancho and Glenn Oakley, writers; Chuck Scheer and Glenn Oakley, photos and graphics; Sharon Charlton, Ed Clark and Jim McColly, student assistants; Lana Holden, alumni news; Brenda Haight, editorial assistant; and Dana Robinson. typographer. The FOCUS advertising representative is POint of View Advertising, 411 South 5th Street, Boise. 10 83702, phone (208) 385-0338.

4 BSU requests fiscal equity Boise State will have to wail yet another year to receive a bigger slice of the state's budget pic. In February BSU seemed to be winning the debate over the equity of the budget distribution for higher education. Then, the Slate Board of EducatioJl said the university was underfunded by 5[i1;hlly more than Sl million compared to other institutions. But the board also stressed that the dif­ ference couldn't be made up unless the Legislature passed an appropriation that went beyond $106 million, JUS! enough to maintain programs and allow for some inflation. When legislators approved a higher education budget of $105.9 million, BSU's equity hopes grew dimmer. The board finally extinguished them, at least for 1988, in April whl!n members voted 4-3 against allocating even a portion of the equity money agreed to earlier in the year. "It is unfortunate that equity was not settled this time because it is clearly an issue based on fairness. The decision not Key players pose at an entrance 01 Campus School after the April 12 announcement that to fund it at a time when we could will Micron Technology would donatl! $1 million to Boise State to buy the elementary school. From left to right: Micron board member J.R. Simplo!, BoIse Schools Superintendent Barney make il difficult for everybody next year," Parker, Micron Chairman Joe Parkinson, and BSU President John Keiser. says BSU President John Keiser. Chuck SchHr photo Keiser has insistet! for 10 years that BSU's budget was too low based on the board's formula. Micron offers $1 million gift The board approved a $36.1 million budgel from state general account funds Micron Technology giveth. The voters facilities. We think this is a tremendous for next year, an increase of 4.8 percent can taketh away. opportunity," said Joe Parkinson, chair­ over last year. BSU's lotal budget, in­ Micron, the Boise-based computer chip man of Micron. cluding fees and other campus revenues, firm, set up a classic win·win situation in "This is a major example of teamwork is about $60 million. D April by donating $1 million so Boise State ... of saying very directly and effectively can purchase Campus School from the that education is important," sait! I3SU Boise I ndependent School District. President John Keiser at the April 12 About this issue The district. in turn, will use the money announcement of the gift. The donation With the November election drawing to construct new buildings to ease over­ will help Boise State and the Boise schools near, FOCUS takes a look at Idaho's crowding in southeast and northwest Boise solve their needs for additional and im­ peculiar brand of politics. schools. proved space. Enclosed on three sides by We open with an analysis of political The only catch: District patrons have to BSU, Campus School has an inadequate regionalism. We follow with a story of pass a bond issue to build the new schools playground and fronts University Drive, how Idaho farmers arc organizing 10 fight before BSU can occupy Campus. The elec­ posing a traffic hazard to students. the elimination of family farms. Also in­ tion is May 17. BSU has tried to arrange purchase of cluded is a story examining the increasing The district is asking for a replacement the school for two years, most recently role of women in the Legislature and a price of $1.5 million for Campus. BSU during the last session of the Legislature story explaining what Idaho schools are wlll raise an additional $500,(X)) to accom· when funds were not approved. The uni­ teaching youngsters about citizenship. pany Micron's donation, and with that versity plans to convert the school into Finally, two deans of Idaho politics - amount in hand, district officials hope offices and other space to house the Gov. Cecil Andrus and former Gov. voters will approve the new bond issue to School of Social Sciences and Public Robert Smylie - tell how they have build schools in southeast and northwest Affairs, which now has six departments I managed the reins of this unpredictable Boise. scattered in the Library, Education Build· political animal we call Idaho. D "Boise State and OUT elementary ing, Pavilion, Administration Building schools will be winners with expanded and Communication Building. D , Spulnik Legacy Lives on

Joe Spulnlk: A " maior role mode'" and "h.ro" to many of his students.

e 13U[lht his first BJC class about thret rnonlhs before building most of the chemistry lab faci lities on-site. Pearl Harbor ignited World War II. On Feb. 14, 1988, As Boise State grew, Spulnik worked hard to acquire ex­ H it ended. J()( $pulnik died of leukemia at age 75. panded facilities for the o;ciences. In 1976 his dream 'o\'as realized Brand neYo Ph.D. in hand, he left Oregon Stale Uni"ersily when the science wing of the Science-EtJueation Building was to leach chemistry jU~1 as Ihe growing junior college relocated completed. on the site of BoiSt"s old airport. By the lime he ret ired in 1976, BUI Spulnik's legacy goes beyond bricks and mortar. he had become a major architect of Boise State's growth into Through his teaching and personal advising he touched a major four-year university. serving as Ihe school's first dean thousands of students. And few of them 'o\'iII ever forgel him. of arts and sciences. Ed Hedg~ , a Boise reallor and active BSU alumni leader. His demanding classroom demeanor combined ¥I'ith a is typical. "He wa~ a major role model .. , he was a hero of hustling, hobby-filled lifestyle stamped him as the character most B.'5U alumni. with delight and ailcasl one chuckling anee­ The Boillt' Mutl' Unil'Crsil)' Foundation has estahlished a dotC', could pick out of a crowded yearbook picture. scholarship 10 honor Joe Spulnik. The scholarship ",ill be His career began Ihe day he decided to hawe BJC Presi­ lI~' ardfd to :,an ollblandin~ chemistry :!otudfnt. Memorials can dent Eugene Chaffee OUI of $1,750 10 teach science. Chaffee be made to the BSU FOIlndation, 1910 Unhersit)' Drill'. Hoise. wasted no time in gelling his full value_ II) 83725, Spulnik became boxing coach, golf coach, basketball refer~, mine e~cr since I caddied for him as a boy at the Plantation. dub advistr. bus dri\'er and general ramrod for dozens of cam­ We always u5td to say that if you could get an 'A' from pus and community projects. In the meantime. he pursued his Spulnik, Don Obee and K. Fritchman, you could graduate with hobbies with a passion ... acting, singing, playing the violin, honors from anywhere." painling. fishing. And he honed his golfing skills 10 lhe point SpulniJ..·s boss, former president John Barnes, had a similar Ihat he could nearly earn a second income from his cronie~. observation. He taughl labs. [eclUred, and perhaps mosl imponanl. "He was for all of his career an exaptionally skillC!

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7 WE Maximize research, says panel Research funding at Idaho's universities growing importance of research in Idaho WANT and college should be made based largely and suggested problems and solutions for on the individual institution's ability to Idaho's institutions. "One of the very dif­ win supplemental noo-state funded ficult tasks facing Idaho is how to max­ TO research grants and contracts, according imize the quality and quantity with the to a report by the Advisory Committee on limited resources available," states the Academic Research. report. The advisory committee was created by Some of the key recommendations the Idaho State Board of Education to made by the committee are: ~ develop policies for allocating research • Increasing incentives and competition funds. The board is budgeted $2 million for faculty engaged in research. annually from the state Legislature to fund • Increasing funding to support research research projects. The committee is com­ infrastructure (library support, gra­ YOUI prised of the academic vice presidents duate research assistantships, techni­ from Idaho's three universities and one cian support, equipment, etc.). The four-year college; legislators Janet Hay committee termed infrastructure sup­ and Pete Black.; three consultants from the port at Idaho institutions "woefully in­ Universities of Nebraska. Oklahoma and adequate at present." rom Arizona; Bill Griffith, former CEO of • Increasing emphasis on research leading Hecla Mining; Clyde Frank from the to or involving cooperation with in­ Idaho National Engineering Laboratory; dustry and business. and three board of education members: • Increasing emphasis on the develop­ Gary Fay, Colleen Mahoney and J. Ray ment of research centers, involving at Cox. least three faculty members plus equip­ TEMPORARY SERVICES The committee toured the four state in­ ment and support personnel to conduct stitutions early in 1988 to inspect ongoing long-term research projects. research and gather ideas. • Establishing named professorships to 345-3051 The committee's resulting draft report, encourage continued research by prepared in late February, detailed the outstanding faculty. • Creating a permanent state research council to advise the State Board on the PREMIUM QUALITY implementation of the recommended research policies. The committee also recommended that the presently appropriated $2 million "should be incrementally increased until SwiSS ~h lIa~~ it reaches at least $5 million by 1992." This would require legislative action. CHEESE FACTORY In calling forincreased deve10pment of research infrastructure, the committee Gift Shop and Deli stated, "The distribution of these funds will be made on the basis of the individual Try Us For Your Party Trays, institution's demonstrated ability to at­ tract competitively awarded non-state Cheese Trays and Sandwiches research funding over the prior three Take Exit 38, off 1-84 years." 0 COLBY JACK. FRESH CHEESE CURDS HOT PEPPER. MILD CHEDDAR COLBY. OLD FASHIONED LONGHORN MARBLE. CARAWAY 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mon. - Sat. Open 10 am. to 6 p.m. Sunday P.O. Box 280 Nampa, IV 83653-0280 ''The Silent Search" BOISE - (208) 345-0210 • Discreet NAMPA - (208) 467-4426 • Professional Premium Quality The Old Fashioned Way Call 375-6330 or 467-2221

8 Oliver, Parkinson honored Boise State professors Mamie Oliver cil on Youth, the Project Independence and Del Parkinson have received honors Task Force (on aging), the National this year for their service to the state and ~ssociation for the Advancement of community. Colored People (NAACP) and the YMCA Oliver, professor of social work at Boise board of directors. State for the past 15 years, was named one of five area recipients of the sixth annual Parkinson, a professor of music, was Jefferson Award, an honor given for one of four winners of the Governor's outstanding service to the community. The Award in the Arts earlier this year. following month she was also chosen as An internationally known pianist, "Social Worker of the Year" by the Cen· Parkinson taught at Ricks College for tral Dranch of the Idaho Chapter of the eighl years before coming to BSU in 1985. National Association of Social Workers Gov. Cecil Andrus said Parkinson has Ties between BSU and the Basque Country (NASW). made "a significant contribution to not were strengthened this spring following a The Jefferson Award panel of judges only the arts but also to the people of the visit by Basque President Jose Antonio cited Oliver for her work with the SI. state of Idaho." Ardanza. During his Boise visit. Ardanza and Paul's Community Ministries Center and A native of Blackfoot, Parkinson began BSU President John Keiser signed a protocol to e)(pand cooperative programs and studies. other local church work. studying piano al age 5. He was the re­ According to Stephen L Cummings, cipienl of a Fullbright-Hayes grant for NASW executive director, Oliver was graduate study in London. He holds a recognized for her "achievements as a doctor of music degree from Indiana Job placement social work educator, leadership in the University and a postgraduate diploma Community Ministries Center, consulta­ from the Juilliard School of Music. activity starts tion in the area of ethnic concerns and He has performed in Carnegie Recital community organization, and extensive Hall in New York, Chicago and London. A little teamwork can go a long way, and service to Ihe community in many other Other concert performances include the the Department of Employment and Boise ways. " Guadalajara Symphony, Indiana Univer­ Stale's Vocational Technical School hope Oliver is a member of the United Way sity Symphony, Boise Philharmonic and that a cooperative effort between the two board of directors, the Governor's Coun· Utah Symphony. 0 will team up BSU students with Boise-area employees. The Department of Employment and BSU's Vo-Tl'Ch School signed a formal agreement earlier this year to eoonlinate job placement activities. "We're trying to stop students from fall­ ing between the cracks," says Julie M. Kilgrow, Department of Employment director. "We've simply got to keep them here," THE Tom Denison, Vocational Technical School acting dean, estimated nearly 15 THERAPY percent of the school's graduates lea\'e the slate to find employment. One of the goals SOURCE of the agreement is to give students the necessary skills and contacts to find jobs with Boise employers. • PhYSK:al therapy and athtetlc Jan Rodriguez, supervisor of the train­ t[

9 Church Papers Boise's Own ••• guide completed Scholars and other researchers outside Idaho who wish to dive into Boise State's Owphee Plaza huge amassment of the Frank Church ------~~HOTEL.------Papers will have a better idea of just what the collection holds thanks to an index The Gamekeeper Only the best ingredients go into the preparation compiled and written by the university. of the finest food available in Idaho. The Frank Church Papers: A Summary Guide was recently completed and will be The Plaza Grill Enjoy delicious breakfast, lunch, dinner or Sunday distributed to research libraries across the brunch In an informal setting that retains the country, says Ralph Hansen, BSU asso­ Owyhee Piau's classic historical charm. ciate librarian. Hansen says the 40-page guide was The Gamekeeper Lounge Relax with your favorite beverage in the written primarily for researchers who don't live near Boise but want to know comfortable atmosphere of the Gamekeeper Lounge. more about the Frank Church Collection. The university's in-depth computerized index of the collection doesn't help those • Banquet facilities to accommodate up to 300 people who can't reach the BSU campus, he • Comfortable guest rooms with Cable TV explains . • Free airport limo service "The guide is intended to alert people • free local phone calls to the fact the collection is completed and • Private meeting rooms ready for use. . The libraries we send the guide to can catalog it so when scholars are doing work on anything hav­ ing to do with the Church Papers, they'll .109 Main st.. loise, Idaho 83702 • (108) 343-461 t be able to find out what we have here," The Frank Church Papers: A Summary Guide was funded in part by the Idaho Humanities Council. It includes a biographical sketch of the late U.S. Sylvan this summer senator from Idaho, a preface by Boise State President John Keiser, and descrip­ tions of the collection's contents, which in­ Better~des cludes photographs, autographed material, dozens oflarge dipping albums, congressional records and bound commit­ nextlall. tec reports, memoranda, reports of federal This summer, free of regular school classes, agencies, information from special interest schedules and activities, your child can master the groups and think tanks, and hundreds of basic reading or math skills he or she needs to do films and videotapes of speeches. much better next falL All it takes is two hours a week at a Sylvan Learning Cente[ Call now. Hansen stresses the Frank Church Diagnostic Testing· Individualized Instruc­ Collection is not open to the general tion • Personal Attention· StatHlf-the-Art Materials public. 0 • Unique Reward System. Now enrolling for Reading· Math· Study Skills· Algebra· College Prep· Readiness· Sylvan Littletree Inn of Boi5e CLEAR Writing~'"

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10 Computer businesses chip in @tJ Two Boise companies have donated "The Chessboards will make possible .". computer equipment to improve educa­ our usage of new software that has been tional programs at Boise State. developed, as well as provide more exten­ BREAD The Computer Store's donation consists sive applications with our existing equip­ of to Macintosh computers and a Laser ment," said Thomas Stitzel, dean of the Writer printer that will be housed in a lab BSU College of Business. "They will at BSU's SimplotiMicron Technology greatly enhance the effectiveness of the in­ Center. The equipment, valued at $SO,())), stitution when you consider virtually all of will be used for accredited public training our students in the College of Business use and for faculty and staff research. computer systems." ::::J Bill Brownlee. The Computer Store general manager. said the uniqueness of the donation to BSU is that it was done BSU receives award at the retail leveL Boise State University is one of four in­ Temporary help Micron Technology donated 70 memory stitutions nationally to receive an $11,500 matched to your expansion "Chessboards" worth $35,000 cash award from the Military Order of the to the College of Business. Purple Heart. exact needs. A scholarship of $1 ,500 will be awarded -Office Clerical -Data Entry during the spring semester to a student in -Word Processing -Marketing special education. The remaining $10,000 -Personal Computer • Technical Support FOCUS wins will gO to the BSU Foundation for an en­ For Boise State, it was like the Academy dowment to support. special education CaU us today. Awards and Wheel of Fortune, all in one scholarships in the future. (208) 322·8564 night. SERVICESIELL~=" The other three institutions are the BOISE In February BSU received seven Associated Colleges of Central Kansas, the 198' ".' y s." cos In, awards. more than any other university, University of North Carolina in Charlotte Nobody puts temporaries from the Council for the Advancement and Cleveland State University. D to the test like Kelly.' and Support of Education's Northwest district. BSU's publications and fund-raising programs won grand awards as the best in the region, which includes Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Alaska, PERSONAL and three Canadian provinces. INJURY FOCUS was selected as the best large circulation alumni magazine in the region, and writer-photographer Glenn Oakley won a gold medal for writing excellence. BSU also received awards for Search. a semiannual research publication, for photographer Chuck Scheer's work in the university's recruiting booklet, and for direct mail publications for the Year of the Teacher campaign. D FAX Send copies across the country instantly. BUSINESS kinko'S LAW QNd cop_ G..,m people. 615 s. capitol Blvd. Boise, Idaho FREE CASE 342-7995 1412 W.IDAHO PH.345-9400 EVALUATION

II BSU's English department reaps honors

Two studenrs: receiy~d national recogni- faU to screen Nell Shipman films at an in­ tion. A professor was named among the ternational festival. He will ~bow the films top 10 in the country, Faculty are scattered The mester's program coin­ in Paris this June, across the globe teachlng and condu{!tlng cides with a period of dynamic English faculty are engaged in a variety research. And a new master's degree is of projects here and abroad. Carol Martin ready for falL growth and activity. is currently teaching in the Studies Abroad Yes, iI's been a good year for Boise program in London. Driek Zirinsky will State's English department, teach in London next yeal\ James Maguire The new ~i,A. degree in literature and awards this fall: Mike Knapp earned a and Lonnie Willis are both in London creative writing is an expansion ofthe;;:ur~ 52,200 grant from the National Endow­ working: on individual sabbatical projects, rent offering of an M.A. in education "'ith ment for the Humanities to conduct Glenn Selander. Orvis Burmaster and an English emphasis, Department chair. research on the history of the Cincinnati James Maguire are also collaborating on man Charles Davis says the new program Dial and Mark Wheeler received one of a textbook for literature of the Amerkan will "appeal to Ii larger audience" while only three national scholarships awarded Wesi. Zirinsky ha$ been appointed to serve still sernng teachers. The Engli.sh depart- by the English bonor society Sigma Tau as a consultant to the commission on men! VriU continue its oooperative program : Delta. supervision and curriculum development with the College of Education. he adds, I' Four studenu - Knapp, Sean O'Brien. by the National Council of Teachers of The 33...::redit program will be "very Debra Matthe>.\-~ and Karen Erbland - English, and Davis was named executive flexible;' according to Davis. with, read papers at the recent Undergraduate secretary of the Rocky Mountain Modern students creating a conrse program to suit ' Literature Conference at Weber State. and Language Association. their needs. student Viki Smith was named one of Publishing projects continue (0 grow The master's program coincides with a BSU's Top Ten Scholars. within the department. Currently the period of dynamic growth and creativity Tom Trosky was named among the top English department publishes Ahsahta within the English department. 10 in the Teacher of the Year competition Press, cold-drill, the Western Writers Undergraduate enrollment of English spomorcd by the Council for the Support Series, the Rocky MOUlltifin Rericw, majou is at an all·time high with 243 and Advancement of Education, the only WORD WORKS. Poetry in Public Place!) stndents. tcacher west of the Mississippi to be so and hosts the Rocky Mountain Modern Two of those students received national awarded. Trusky also traveled to Italy last Language Association. ;:::::

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N~ ______Papa: The Legendary Lives of Ern<.'st Hemingway runs May 6-12 aT 8:15 each evening in the BSU Special Events Center, ~,------with a matinee at 2:30 p.m. on May 8. CJry, SlaIe, Zip Tickets are $15 general and $13 for students and seniors. Peppard, who had offers to open the play in London as well as other U.S. cities, was attracted to Boise because of its proximity to the Wood River Valley where Hemingway lived and worked, and because BSU is the home of the Hem­ ingway Western Studies Center. "We are pleased we could do the show Idalto atHeart in Boise. There is no better place to open because of the interest in Hemingway," says Peppard, who will also spend four a specialty gift shop days rehearsing in Boise. The ~how is a character study of Hem· ingway, who speaks to the audience from his home in Havana in 1957. "This, I think, will be the definitive stage play on Hemingway ... it's a very r<>l/(>o.-_ Iw"" ., gifts from Idaho Idaho a l IIn,l honest play. In it there is a strong message ...... Il~ ~ of hope," says Peppard, adding that the cards, candles play does contain some "frank language." ' 'i-'? Papa's playwright, John de Groot, will II o Tile Vill>9* S/o::lppo"'l c.rc .. also be here for the rehearsals and open­ oak furniture ing. De Groot, a journalist in Florida, was on the reponing team fhat won the antiques Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Kent State shootings in 1970, He spent five years researching and writing Papa. Come In to a warm. friendly atmosphere Peppard has 25 films and three televi­ sion series to his credit, including starring We specialize In helping you find the perfect gift roles in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The for that special personl Car~tbaggers and How the West Was Won, and NBC series The A·Team and Fairview & 5 Mile - The Village Shopping Cen ter • 376· 3303 Banacek. 0

1J Scholarship money sought by 'B' Club The Bronco Athletic Association's new Varsity "8" Club, an organization of for­ mer Bronco varsity athletes, has set in mo­ tion a series of functions and activities to help establish an endowment that would help current student-athletes complete their education. The primary recipients of the endowment would be fifth-year seniors. "We want our student-athletes to know that this program wants them to graduate," says Fred Goode, the athletic department's academic adviser and one of the "8" Club's organizers. "Our student­ athletes need to know that their relation­ ship with the university doesn't end after they've completed their athletic career." The inaugural gathering of the "B" Club took place in the Pavilion Feb. 20 prior to the Idaho State-Boise State men's basketball game. Approximately 100 former Bronco athletes attended. Encouraged by the turnout, Goode says more social events are planned. The next NEW EXCITING is prior to the Blue-Orange intrasquad spring football scrimmage at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 7. The tentative site of the TOURS gathering is at the Idaho Sports Medicine Institute. D Boise Tours & Boise Trolley Double Now offer Group Tours through-out tax-free income Southwest Idaho. Local Tours on The Tour choices for Train & Trolley. Regional Tours By & Idaho residents Motorcoach Custom Mini-Buses. Northwest rnvestor~ Tax-Exempt Business Tru~t otfers two high-quallty. high-YIeld muniCip"1 bond funds that are exempt from both Federal * ~ & Full Day Historic City Tours and Idaho Llxes '(,eld and share proce will vary. '(ou keep 100% of the inte'en Income earned from your invenment. * Idaho Wineries & Cheese Factory For preservatIon of ("'PIt;" and high yield • The Idaho l.Jmited Maturoty Tax-Exempt Fund * Snake River Canyon Birds of Prey FOI higher current yield and greater return on Investment • The Idaho Extended M.,turoty TaK-Exempt * Old West Tours to Idaho City & Fund Nonhw,ut Invntor Tax-Exempt Buslnen Silver City Trust features: • InItial investment (S5.COJI * Malad Gorge • Free exchange~ between funds. • Invening In Idaho. • No redemptIon charges. * Jet Boat Hells Canyon • Automatic monthly re,"ve~tment or diVIdend options. • Personal serVKe from oul ~hilreholder * Payette River Raft Trips reprel<"ntatlve~_ For more Information, call the * Catered Picnics & Dinners with The Investors Northwest Hotline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Tour Train (8001331-4603 (Toll free) InvestDrs Northwest Call Now for Special Group Rates 7117 Sp",," A,~ 342-4796 342-4802 1-800-999-5444 (Nationwide) . WA 9920'l

14 Dear Editor: Dear Editor: FOCfJS invites reltdlU5lo :i.bOOt letren to the editor. Letters may be edited to fit Dr, Keiser's essay, "The Vanishing Let'5 see now, , . FOCus publishes the MVidlable Sp,il4.':e. PJf:asemail corres~ Majority;" President's Comment, winter Winter '88 edition dedicated to diver'sity pondeDct' to FOCUS Editor, 1910 Univer­ 1988 FOCUS, impressed me as important in Idaho. President Keiser chooses the sity Drive, Dollie, ID 83725. for the issue':; theme, Mixiug In: occasion to write "Comment" - a spot Minorities in Idaho, and for our time in always reserved for him - from the history. perspective of a white historian in full Dear Editor: Each person is iii minority. with pride in academic garb, adorned wirh racial insen~ familial roots, integrating in a diverse sitivity and ignorance, to lament the p;tor Kampala, Uganda Idaho Human Rights Commission of Financial Aid 0 " PEOPLE

ART Arnold Panlteh attended • delivered a research pap~r Studiss Abroad to the the 19aB L.eglstatlve Con- American faculty position tor entitleroles- National Postal Forum W(JSt Robert Boren conducted Band Cootest in Pocateno, siollalism In State ~a- in P'hOetIix and was a the WOrkShops "Meeling and assisted in the organlza- lures," has been atx:epted fur delegate to the National Management" to Shipley tiOn and administration of the publlcatlon in Stare and Local Postal Forum jn Washington, Associates ltl Salt Lake Cfty loaho Olstr!ctlll Marching Government Review. Moncrief D.C. Eichmann starred as during Jallua!)', and "'Making Band Contest held at BStJ, attended a conference on fred Graham in the BSU Pro'esstooal Presentations" to The Unlversltv Brass Quintet state legislative reapportion- theatre arts and music depart- executive officers of ANG under the direction of SheltOn ment held at Sanga1'Tl(ln State ments' production, "Kiss Me. Coal Gasification in Sue/at!, performed their annual con- UniverSity. Springfield, III., in Kate," presented at the N.D., during February. cert tour In January. March. His co-authored paper, Morriron Canter in March. Ben Parker and Harvey Shelton served as host for "Too POliCy Implications of Pitman presented a com. the third annual BSU Band Professionalizing State MIUTAR'i SCIENCE municatioJ1 training worksP'lGp Clinic held In January. Mike Legislatures," was poesented tor mld-managemenl person- SambaU, JOhn 881dwin and at lhe annual !'ne$tlng of the Roger MUnM hfl$ been nel of Idaho Power Company Edmund Winston served as Midwest Political Science seiected lor promolion to in Boise during January. c!ink:jans: for the program. AssOCiatiOn, hald In ChIe<'90 majOr In the U.S, Army. He Pitman also presented a ShOiton oJ$O served as con- in AptiL Moncrief I1as also has also been 00Iec1ed to February workshop jn Boise dooor and clinician fur the been nal1'Wi'd to serve on the aMend the Command and titled ·'Listening" kif the S001hw$S1 Oregon Honor Idaho Centennial Commls- Genetal Staff College at Fort Trell.9ure valley Operating Ba.nd In Coos Bay, Ore., in sion's History Committee, Leavenworth, Kan. Munns is Room Nur$ElS. February. Richard Kinney convened one of only 58 offjoers Marvin Col( attended the and chaIred It panel on "The selected nallonwlde to attend InlernatiOnal ~iatenin9 NURSING Politics of Agency trudgel the one-yeer course. ASOOCiation annual meeting &Jcress" at lhe Westet'n held in SooMsdaJe, Ariz., Connla CMpeoter and Poli1iCai Science AssOCiation's TEACHER EDUCATION dUring March. Ingrid 8rudenell will attend annual meeting in San Fran- The communication depart- ihe Adult EdUCl:ltion Research cisco In March. During lhe Jeanne Bauwens has been ment will hosl a two.~ Conference in May a1 the S9SSioo he presented a invited by fhe College of summer workShop for Idaho University of Calgary, Alberta, research paper, "Agency William and Mary to be an in- high sct'Ioof speech teachers CIlJ111da, 10 present a paper Expenditure Actions DUring stfUctor in lis summer school who are minimally trained. on theIr research proiect "A BlJdget Execution and program in Williamsburg, Va Pitman and Rayborn will Comparison of Attitudes S1,ldgtitary SUCCe$S in ldaho," She will teach a strategies (li(ect the workshop, whic.'; Toward Computerized Inslruc- co-authored with Sydney course On cooperative plan. wll! (;Snter around the newty too and Adult StlJdent Learn- Duncome of the University of nlng, cooperative teaching created course of study from ing Styl"." The research Idaho. and cooperative learning. the Stale Department of project W3$ 1unded by the Steve Sallie presented a EducatIOn. The workshop is UnfVersify Research Center Richard Hart has been research paper entitled "Open primarily designed for tor 198Ni8. elected preSldef'lI of the Economies and Represaiv& teachers In small, rural Idaho Pam Gehfke was invited to Teacher cduoati(Jn Council oj Pnllties? A PoIi1it:aJ Extension districts. attend tlte annual State Colleges. and UntveJ- eight" of the Open Versus Closed Spring NUrslJtg Research slUes (l'ECSCU). He will serve Ecooomy Debate" He also RSVP Confefenee at Lewis-Ciark as presidenlwelect for the presented a peper, "Open State Collega, lewiston, in 1988-89 school year and Economies, Fom.gn Debt and April, where she will present a president tor 1989-90. Jerri Grlmmltl has been Government RepreSSion appointed as the new director paper on "An Assessment of Within less Developed Coun- of the Retired Senior Orientation Needs {If Home tries: A Cross-National COMMUNICATION Volunteer Program. RSVP Hea!1h Nurses," 5ttidy," at tM International provides volunteer oppor- June Penner was a Studies Association annual Professors David Rayborn, tunities to poopfe 60 years or delegate to lhe Idaho Nurses meeting in 51. louis in April. Suzanne McCorkle and older to share their ex- Assoeiation annual convention saJlie authored a chapter students Rebeeea Ford, perlence, abiJ!1les and skills in SUn Valley_ entitled "'Depenmncy and Cindy Randall and Stephen with the community. Pat T aylOf preS9'nWd a two- Govamment Represslnn King atten(led the annual day conleumce in January in Within the Third Wond," corwet'rtion oj Western Twin Falls on "NevrQlogicai which has been accepled by Speech Communioalion MOSIC Nursing care," She has also Praeger Pubfisheffl: to be part Association held In San Diego !:teen asked 10 speak at e of the book The Third Worfd during February. Reyborn is Madeleine Hau offered her "Medical..stlrglcal Updat9" at the Crossroads, edited by an officer of the Communica- semi-annual master class to conference in Twin Falls in S.A. Ali. The book is sche- lion Education lnlerm Group youngsters in preparation for May. 0 17 Foundation News Top Eight Progress Report The 1987 -88 Greater University Fund is targeting eight pro­ jects in which private contributions would make a difference Giving Notes in RSU 's efforts to assure quality and e.xcellence in its programs. The Following is a list of those projects and the dollar amouD!S ra ised through the Boise State University Foundatio n BSU alumni and friends have contributed approximately to date: University Enrichment. SIO,200; Year of the Teacher Campaign, $362,500; BSU Marching Band, $5 11,700; The 140,000 for the Meistersingers to perform in England this sum· Frank Church Chair of Public Affairs. $290,000; graduate mer. The choir members have generated another SlO,OOO for fellowships in raplor biology. $62.(JOO; scholarships, $400,300; the lrip. The BSU group is one of only three American choirs Library, $60,000: KBSU. 510,000. participating in the choral festival at Cambridge. The investment firm of BUfJoughs and Hutchinson has com­ mitted $5,000 to the BSU Foundation for the establishment of Chaffee Associate Spotlight an endowed library fund for the purchase of books in the Creating an endowed scholarship is one way in which many finance area. people have chosen to make a timeless memorial to honor a A scholarship in memory of fo rmer Boise State University loved one as well as assist deserving students. The Odus and chemistry professor and physical science department chairman Luella Glasgow Scholars in Management program was estab­ Joseph B. Spulnik has been established with the BSU Founda­ lished at Boise State University by Luella Glasgow Hendryx tion. The scholarship will be awarded to a chemistry studcnt .... ith such a purpose in mind. at BSU. Memorials may be made to the BSU Foundation, 1910 Luella Childs married Odus Glasgow in 1925 and worked University Drive, Boise, ID 83725. in their Buhl gasoline service station as the bookkeeper and bill Micron Technology Vice Chairman Ward Parkinson has collector. Together Odus and Luella worked hard to make their donated 2,000 shares of Micron Siock to be used for schol­ business a success. In 1934, they moved to Boise where Qdus arships at Boise State University. The stock establishes the became a major partner in a Goodyear tire distributorship. " Ward Parkinson Scholarship Fund in Technology." The Following Odus's death in 1978, Luella sought to honor her funding will provide scholarships for students working on late husband, their success in business. and their 53 ycars of the SimplotlMicron Technology Center video transmission marriage. In 1985. Luella gave $75,000 to the Boise State program. Unh'ersity Foundation, creating the Odus am.I Luella Glasgow Scholarship in management. an endowed scholarship program Publications Win CASE Awards at the university. BoiSe State's De\'elopment Office was recognized recently Income from the endowmenl is awarded to selected studenls for its publications by Northwest District VIII of the Council majoring in management. In establishing the schol'lTShip, for Ad\'ancement and Support of Education (CASE). Luella noted that neither she nor Odus had been able to atlend The Development Officc received recognition for superior college, and she wanled to offer promising students such an accomplishmenl in two areas: the grand award for financial educational opportunity. Today, Luella is married 10 James suppOrt programs; and the gold award for fund-raising com­ W. Hendryx and remains involved in a number of community munications programs. activities. CASE annually recognizes institutional and individual ex­ Luella's establishment of the Odus and Luella Glasgow cellence in a{h'ancement programs. Northwest District VIII Scholarship made her a lifetime Chaffee Associate at Boise includes public and private institutions from Washington, State. Chaffee Associates are members of the Boise State Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, British Columbia, Alhena University Foundation's premier giving society. Lifetime and Saskatchewan. membership in the Chaffee Associates is extended 10 those who contribute S10,000 or more outright or pledge $15,000 or more Hill Memorial Established to be paid over a period not to exceed 10 years. While unrestricted gifts are enc('luraged. dunations to any program A fund in memory of fonner Boise State University Adult qualify for Chaffee membership. Learning Center Director Stephen E. Hill has been established with the BSU Foundation. Hill died in December. The fund wit! be used by the BSU Adult Learning !:wIer to assist students Venning Establishes Scholarship who are unable to pay the General Education Development Test Dr. W.L. Venning. a retired Boise pediatrician, has estab­ fee. lished a scholarship fund at Boise State. Hill was director of the Adult Learning Center and chief ex­ Income from the $50,000 endo ..... ed fund will be awarded to aminer of the General Education Development Testing Center students based on their academic achievement and potential. from 1981 to 1985. He received his B.A. from Boise State, his Venning was a practicing physician in Boise for 47 years. M.A. from Idaho State University and had recently been During that time he taught several classes at the university and awarded his Ph.D. in adult education from Pennsylvania State has been active in a number of community and campus University. activities. Hill's wife, Glenda, is. health development director at BSU In commenting on his gift. Venning staled he was extremely and his mother-in-law is Jackie Cassell, assistant to President pleased with the gro'>'-1h ~perienced at Boise State and felt that John Keiser. through the scholarship, he could best express his positive feel­ Memorials may be made to the BSU Foundation, 1910 ings about the university. University Drive, Boise, ID g3725. 0 "

Views from the Top

As governor. you have 10 pull Some say Idaho is pullet.! Idaho's diverse population apart at each end by Spokane together. Are there some and Salt Lake City. Do you Q. mechanisms that )'ou use? Q • stt evidence of that? ANDRUS: You've got to have ANDRUS: Governmentally. a positive mental attitude 10 no; financially. yes. Money, evcn run for public orlice. If like watcr, runs downhill A • you don't have the anilUde A • through the Coeur d'Alene that the glass is half full and getting fuller. valley right over to Spokane. For major then you' re in the wfongjob. You pick out financing, ii's easier to go to the Spokane Robert E. SmyUe served as key peopk a nd you work with them. marketplace, or it used to be. With large Idaho's attorney general from Frankly. I have never worried much about major branch han king. thcy do get some 1947-55, and as govemor from partisan politics in this state. It comes as influen« down here, but tradition is a 1955-67. Now retired and living a great shock to me when I ste it rear its hard thing 10 break. In southeastern Idaho in Boise, he writes a column for head the way it has this year. you recognize that Salt Lake has another attraction, and of course that's the Temple the SMYLIE: I used to use the governor's Idaho Statesman. conference technique quite a bit - I think and the religious influences. I would say J in\'cnled it. as a malter of facl. This was financially and influence-wise we have largely an exercise in group dynamics to three: centers, but not governmentally. Photos by Chuck Scheer get people interested in the same sari of thing in all different pans of the state. 20 Two Idaho governors discuss management of a diverse -and sometimes divisive - state

What does that mean for a SMYLIE: I think it's just a Q . gomno,' function of distances. I don't kno ..... of any state where you A • have to go so many miles to do so many things. For instance, the ANDRUS: You've got to be acquisition of an airplane by the state fleet or foot; you've got to be government did nothing except increase nimble enough 10 understand the demands on the governor's time. It • why people feel that way. You A didn't make it easier, just made it worse. know, the personalities of people don't You just about have 10 be their pride ami change when you move across a cou~ty line or a river or a bridge, so we work wIth joy. This is about all they h.a~e left of a Cecil D. Andrus was elected one another. king. The pageantry part of 1I IS the. most governor in 1970 and served un­ lime consuming and the least rewardmg as SMYLIE: You have to be constantly on far as an individual governor is concerned. til he was apPOinted Secretary of the road, or the next time yOll turn A rodeo is a rodeo and 16 in one summer the Interior in 1976 by President around, they say, "Who dat?" is ridiculous. Jimmy Carter. He was again What is differenl about the elected governor in 1986. What is leadership style that a gover­ it thaI unites nor has to adopt in Idaho, Idahoans? Q• compared to other slates? Q • 21 ANDRUS: Oh, I think pride Does that mean. then, that we is one; we have a fierce, in­ are destined to be a stale that dependem pride in the state of really is always goi ng to have A • Idaho. But Idahoans have a Q. this north-south connict? • 101 of personal pride and we sti ck together that way. Our educational institutions and the economy - our tax base - those tic SM YLIE: I think it is alway~ us together, too. going 10 be a problem. Oneor SMYLIE: I don't know. There ..... ill be the reasons is that we have things from time to time. One of the prob­ A • done some things, like the lems with this Centennial observance is, wilderness concept, that have built fences. how do )'ou get something going that ean There is nothing much that has happened be thought about the same ..... ay in Bonners between Riggins and Lewiston simply Ferry as it's thOUght about 880 miles :may because all the real estate is gone. Therc in Montpelier? A good deal of the prob­ Jue not going to be any iUl..lustrial lem arises out of our strungc geography, d.eveiopmeOls up there probably forever , which just happens to be a ll that was left Simply because of the fact that we ha\'e on the drawing hoard. I think that (.'On­ declared it to be wilderness. cei\'ably you can make something o ut of the Centennial, but I don't know. It'll be a bra\'e show, but whether or nO{ there will There are some who think that be a residual of state identity, I don't all the good things come to know. Boise, often at the expense of ANDRUS: E\'erybOOy is proud of being Q • the r¢st of the state. Do you 100 years old, They want a big birthday agree? part)'; cvcry community is going to ha\'e their own. Everybody wants to put a SM\'l..l[: It is in part true and candle on the cake. And thai wi ll bring us it is, in my judgment, Boise's • together. greatest danger. Boise over the A • years has had a tendency to be tremendously chauvinistic about its rela­ Is Idaho a state that thinks I tionships with the area ami with the state. more regionally than it don as And mostly to Boise's detriment. I don't a whole? think there's any way that you're going to Q • prevent the centralization of things in ANDRUS: Betv.ttn north and Boise anymore than )'ou're going to south there's some regional. The nonhern part of Idaho prevent the centralization of things in ism. Pari of that is the 10PO- has always felt isolated and ig­ Washington. But I wish that Boise would A • graphy: the goal Irailthat has nored by the rest of the state. act like the rest of the Treasure Valley was been our main high\\ay for many, many Q. How can that be handled? a part of the scene_ yean; has been an impediment. I see us ANORUS: Once you exceed 100,000 in come together when times are good. But SMYLIE: North Idaho has population, then boom, it feeds on itself •... ,hen times are bad. times are bad. So, if always been a little like a and it becomes a magnet. Where is our ..... e can stimulate the economy, then the wealthy widow. They very largest airport? It's ..... here the most people problems will not sec:m SO larae. A • Quickl)' learn that the'defini­ are. Who uses the airport? Businesses . tion of enough was more. And it JUSt goes on - that's nonnal. But The northern counties have always felt that'S good, because other people get the How well do you think the that there ought to be more transportation spin-off of it. The jealousies are a fact of various H'ctions of Idaho between north and south Idaho. The life:; it's been going on for about 150 years marketplace doesn't support it. In other know and understand each in America. So you've got to learn to play words, you can find a lot oflraffic on the il. Q • other? north-south highway bet ..... een Boise and You take the Micron plan!. Do you SMYLIE: Not particularly Riggins and between Coeur d'Alene and realize thaI from the Gowen Road exit well . The greatest dichotomy Gran,l!;cville. But between Grangeville and where the plant is located, it's ]4 miles is always thought to be north Riggins there isn't very much. The fact down the freeway to Mountain Home? A • and south. I don't Ihink it that the railroads never made it over that You can drive one way in less than ]0 really is. I think it is probably north and route and the airlines barely did indicates minutes. legally . There are people who like southeast. And that's just a function of that you've got some economic patterns the small IOwn atmosphere, or smaller distance. It's further from Bonners Ferry that are built into the system. They are just classroom sizes for their children ... to Montpelier than it is fr om Portland, not going to get broken up very soon. Mountain Home could promote that very Maim:. 10 Atlanta. And it's pretty hard to Dist ribution pallerns t~ntllo originate in well. I try desperately to promote and ~stablish any community of interest of any Spokane and Grangeville and in Boise and bring development to other areas. We've substance. Riggins. bttn very successful; people accept it. 22 Do you think that Boise State changed. We're closer; il doesn't mean benefits or loses because of its that Spokane doesn't have a great deal of association with the city? innuence over the Panhandle - it does. Q. But the regional strife, I think that was your word, has decreased. Every once in SM YLIE: I think that a' while somebody gelS a little ginned nr people's attitude toward and brings seceding up again and wants Boise, per st', shakes OUI on to elect an honorary gO~'eroor of north A • Boise State. No other way. I Idaho. They hold a mock election, but just don't think there's any escaping the they're not serious. They used to be name. There's a lot of hislory in that. serious. In the '60s they were passing peti­ When the Junior College Act was passed tions to the Congress of the United States in 1932, the Boise powers that be promised to make it a separate state. the state that Boise State would never hap­ SMYLIE: Never did we have any ofthc pen. And that's no small cra ..... in a 101 of back-biting or the bad feeling that seems throats. to become almost pan of the scene in the last five or six sessions. What the reason Do you think the institutions for that is I don't know, eJtcept excessive of higher education are really partisanship, I think, on both sides. the cause of regionalism, or Q. are they really just symbols? ANDRUS: They're symbols Do you think in general that from our past life, but they Idaho is a state that works continue to be significant together very well? A • because there's nevcr cnaogh Q. money to go around. A year ago, we had SMYLIE: II has 10 be made to a good appropriation for higher education happen. And there arc some and did you notice, there wasn't the inten­ areas of endea~'or where we sity that there was this year. • jnst probably never will get This is a new posture for me, by the A anything to happen. llhink here again thai way. I think we'd be better off wilh either some of this extreme partisanship that a .~trong chancellor or a one-university we've got going on now is maybe a kind system where you took what money you of a last burst of juvenility in the political had and said, "OK, now, train and process. They want to play games instead educate these men and women in the of ron the store. following fa.~hion." I think we'd be bet­ I do not know how a legislator builds any Essentially, there isn't anything very ter off with a rednction in the connict partisan about any of this junk. Public among our presidents. And the only way loyalty to anything by appropriating money 10 the State Board of Education. schools aren't partisan, the y' re public to do it is to have a boss over those three schools; and universities aren't partisan. presidents that would take them out of the It has no alumni association. In other words, you've got to have a thi ng to be they're universities. And potholes are not arena and put some single person in the partisan, they're potholes. The object of arena. loyal to. AI; it ends up, the way we allocate funds to higher education is a de\'ice for the enterprise is to go ant and do Gov. Smylie, you feel that making it impossible to blame anybody. something about them. And as a mailer competition among those It's a device for avoiding conniet. If in­ of fact, there jnsl aren't very many three institutions is healthy. deed there should be an engineering school ideological questions Ihat occur in state government. The money question ob­ Q • You've e\'en advocated going at Boise State, which is probably true, the back to line-item bndgeling fault li es in Ihc hanJs of whomever was viously has got ideological overtones ... for each school, rather than a lump sum governor anJ whomever was the Board of how swiftly it moves from one sector to to the State Board of Education. Wonldn't Education 15 years ago, because that's the another. that fuel the regional fires that burst ont last time anything significant could have once in a while'? been done about it. How does our regional makenp compare to other SMYUI=:: They burst out, bUI Do you think oor regional states? I think that this isn't to say nature has changed since you that they are not continually first came into the state Q • A • smoldering ... to no good • government? SMYLIE: I think there used effect. So why not break the fire out and Q to be a fair amount of com· see what it'll burn'? No, we have done ANDRUS: It's decreased. parison that conld be done some silly things because we let that fire Communication has improVed A • between northern and south­ smolder and don't let it burn. I think that and transportation has im- ern California. I don't think that's prob­ competition between our instrumentalities A • proved. You've got good ably as relevant now as it used to be. is healthy; it can also be unhealthy. Keep­ telephone communications; radio broad­ Again, distance is a great problem. I think ing it healthy is a fnn ction of leadership. casts and television networks have inter- yo u can fi nd some parallels in Nevada's (Continued on page 38) 23 •

Territorial In Idaho, 'Home Sweet Home' has more than a Instincts

\ sentimental • "As long as we've gOl everything based in the great Slale of Boise, . we'll never raise enough money to gec the same amount of service meanmg. they've got here." R~p . Mack Neibaur, R.Paul, debating on funds for public television. • "Those of us in the north arc getting downright surly and in­ solent. You all oughl8 just kick us out of the stale. We deserve it and so do you." Rep. Tom Giovanelli, D-Coeur d' Alene, debating on Idaho's license plate slogan. • "Ada County against (he world has failed." Sen . Phil Bau, R-Wilder, By Lar,." Burke commenting on move to purchase Campus School for BSU. • "jFAC (Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee) finished coday. The north was mad at the south, folks at Pocatello felt threatened, peopJe at Boise had been threatened, everybody was mad at Boise, and Boise was mad at ev~rybody." Sen . Ron Beitelspacher, D·Grangc:ville, writing his column for the Lewiston Morning Tribune.

he sounds of a state working together? Or the sounds of Idaho being itself? You be the judge. Even before statehood, Idahoans developed highly sensi· T rive territorial instincts. Divided in so many ways - geographically, culturally and economically - we almost seem genetically programmed to circle aUf wagons at the slightest pro­ vocation from another part of I he state. Gary Moncrief, chairman of Boise State's political science depart­ ment, wrote in the book Int~rest Group Politics in the American

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25 Wesl that, .. Sectionalism is the fu ndamen­ and linked only by a twisting Highway 95 nock County. Likewise. religious and tal truth o f Idaho poli tiC5_" that Gov. Cecil Andrus once called a cul tural di fferences reinforce the north­ Whether it's higher educat ion, the "goot trai l. " south split, wi th the consen'ative LDS in­ public school formula, highway funding. If Idaho "ere to have a Mason-Dixon fluence more domi nant in southe rn Idaho public television. sta te buildings or just line, it would be Whitebird Pass, just than it is in the north. about anyt hing else, Idahoans arc: (a) fed­ below Grangeville on that highway, and Economicall y, there are characteristics ing persecuted . (b) pe r ~cu t i ng each ot her. the transportation and communication that lead to di fferent sets of regional • or (c) both _ watershed betwL-en north and south. priorities. The northern economy is based The debate grabs headlines each wimer The re lative isolation ofthc stale's three on t i m ~ r . mi ning and dryland farming, ..... hen representatives of Idaho's competing corncrs has led 10 the cliche about Ida ho while the southeast is based on ranching, interests are thrown together fo r a thret­ havi ng three capital cities - two of them irrigaled farming and the federal govern· month legislative session_ oul-of-slale" Spokane in the nort h and Salt ment . Southwestern Idaho is more mixed, On the surface, the rhetoric often seems Lake City in the southeast tug at either end wi lh a combinalion of state government, to resemble school-yard bickerin g_ But the of Idaho, providing those regions ..... ith irrig.1ted fa rmi ng, and large businesses and consequences are serious: In an era when cul tural, communications. and camme r· banks, ..... e should be thinking on global terms. we ci al services. Southwestern Idaho is the "Cleavages in Idaho tend to reinforce spend a great deal o f time and energy only portion of the state that looks loward each other. II 's not just north vs. south. defending parochial interests ..... ithin the Boise for those things. It 's Democrat vs. Republican, moderate state's boundaries_ vs. conserva ti ve, urban vs. ru ral. All of " There may be another Stale thai has ut Idaho's sectional nature can't be those th ings te nd of confi rm one another 3 more serious regional problem than cxplained by geography alone. and the connicts are stronger and deeper Idaho, but I'm not a ..... are of it ... ~c· B Moncrief says sC\ eral infl uences than they are in a lot of places. A lot more tionalism in Idaho is almost as bad as it combine with geography to reinfo rce each issues get defined as regional issues in gets," says Moncrief. ot her. Idaho than they do in other states." Mon­ Legislators themselves admit to the For example, the north is heavil y crief ex plains. problem. Democratic, while the south is heavil y Few legislative sessions have gone by " The way social groups 3re made up Republican, wi th the exception o f Ban· without complaints of neglect from north and thev.ay the st3te is divided geographi­ cally, that some regionalism is inherent is the nature of the beast - and we've got to come to understand that, not misun ­ \ derstand it," comments Rep. Ed Brown. Boise: In the eyes of the beholder former mayor of Pocalello. Boise bashing is not a ne ..... sport in Idaho. It's been going on al least since " I think it hurts ::. 101 ... yo u can see the contro\"ersial move of the state ca pital from Lewiston 10 Boise in 1864. the tempers flare." adds Rep. Ki tty Gurn­ Thus, legislators, reprcsenting the sentiments oftheir constituency, 3re carry· sey, who has seen her sha re of regional in&, out a tradition that is as old as Idaho itself. Here is whal some of them ha\c squabbles as co-chair of the l egislature's budget-setting committee. to say in 1988: Why docs sectionali sm seem to be a fi x­ -"It seems like so much that goes through here is for the bcnefit o f the Boise ture on the state's political landscape? community and it has no effecl on the rest of thc state. People who re present in Idaho , centrifu gal forces spli l the Boise feel like economic times throughout the s taf{~ are the sa me as they arc here state in several ways. For starlers, - and they're not. They have ve ry lillie feeling or compassion for v.hat the rest Idahoans don't know one olher very well. of us go through. If you look at the legislation that has a lot of economic im ­ Litcrally and fi guratively, it is a long way pact, most of it settles right here in this \alley." from the Canadian to the Utah border. Rep. Mack Ncibaur (R-Paul) Aside from athletic events and family re­ -"That's what creates regionalism in our ~ tate - the fact that Boise gets unions, there are few occasions when ..... e e... eryt hing that'S any good, that's economically advantageous. That's what is travel outside our regions, and rarely does perceived, and it's not without foundation in the eyes of nearly all of us who anyone make the trip from top to bollom. don't live in this Boise area. Boise looks like boomtov.n. It seems like thc rest Boise State President John Keiser says of the state has to figure into the' prosperity that seems peculiar to the Boise area." Idahoans could get to know each other Sen. Chick Bilyeu (V-Pocatello) better. " There's not enough encouraged interact ion. We haven't had to because it -"There's a general auitude over there ... it's called Ponneuf Paranoia. We see Boisc State as a threat; we see the fact that you have to sacrifice a whole is possible to non-associate becau ~ o f the long distances," he says. day or t ..... o to come over here and lobby the Legislature as a real dctriment to Speaker of the House Tom Boyd , R· communication. We're at a tremendous disadvantage 10 get our views across." Genesee, explains a simple trU lh. " There Rep. Ed Brown (R-PocateJlo) is a good number of people from the north -"They sec the largest percentage of our budget going to someplace in Boise. who have never been to south Idaho ... They feel \' cry strongly that Boi~ geu everything. They also gang up against and probably have no desire to come." us and we end up with the net effect that Roise gets nothing, and that's whal One reason for thai reluctance is bothers me. That was certainly displayed on the pork barrel to buy Campus idaho's major population centers in the School. The nOrlh and south ga nBed up on us and we got nothing ... zilch. north and south are divided by some of We just ha\'cn't gollen any bucks in this part of the state for anything." the most rugged mountains in the nation Rep. Kilty Gurnsey (R-Boise) 0 Idaho's northern and southern regions are separated by a 'goat trail. ' 1

Idaho. "Peorle (etl very definitely that the north gels the short end -that everything re\'olves around Boise and we'vee-nded up here in southern Canada," C'xplains Sen. Mary Lou Rttd, D-C~ur d'Akne. "We fttl \'cory connected 10 Spokane and Montana - our alliances are more along that highway than they are along the 'goat trail.' Boise seems like a long ways away," she adds. Nonh. and south often clash on 50- called "moral issues." where the more populous south is accused of imposing conscr\'a\ive "iews on the more libertarian north. "The two ends orlne state's philosophy of life arc different. The nOrlb is more moderate in its thinking as far as state spending is concerned, and we arC' nOI in as much of a mood 10 legislate moral , issues," says Boyd. boundries remained fixed. source of distrust 400 miles away," she­ In the meantime, the state Le-gislalUre laughs. ut Brown reds southeastern Idaho is did what it could to satisfy the north, most orten misunderstood over the roots notably by pUlling the University of Idaho f there is one thing that seems to unite of its philosophy on moral issues . • B in Moscow. With anne.ulion 10 Washing­ Idaho's regions. it is the distrust Reed "I think it's much more- of a problem ton a moot point. Idaho gOI aboul the I jokes about ... the belief that Boise in the- north, which fC'C'ls like- every time business of writing its constitution and is getting all the spoils, often at the ex­ an issue that appears to have 'moral' preparing for admission to statehood. pense of less populated regions. hooked to it, it's \Oted in a way they don't Sccession is discussed now only in idle "There is an anti-Ada County anitude, like to see; the)' se-e the Mormons trying barbershop conversations, but the senti­ I would say." explains Brown. "It's joked to dictate the morality of nonhern Idaho. ment lingers. about, but there is a negative feeling." "Even if it's not the- case, it is the- case­ "If this v.ere a perfecl world and they " I think most of us who represent areas in their minds. It's almost a non-issue in outside of Boise have a feeling that the southeastern Idaho, but r think it's a big could choose, I'm confident the 10 north­ ern counties would be more comfortable Boise area is like Rome - all roads and issue with north Idahoans who feel this everything thai is good leads to Boise. I other block is trying to run their lives," with little chunks of WaShington and Montana," says Reed. think that's perceived and I don't think it's says Bro ..... n. without cause," adds Sen. Chick Bilyeu, Today's SC'Ctionaltu5sics, as pitched as "That would cause problems of its own, they sometimes seem, pale in comparison though. Sometimes it's asier to have the (Co nti nued on pagr 38) to Idaho's formath'e years when ~on­ ist feelings ran high in northern Idaho. Prior to Idaho's territorial days, na­ tional politicians toyed with differelll border combinations. finally deciding in el!ej BOij .!)nle,.io,.j, the 1860s to draw an a ..... kward looking CxpUUiom of good 9aJtL in 'bui~n. I state whose broad base eventually squeezed into a slender panhandle jutting between Washington and Montana. By 1864, the more populated south had RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL DESIGN plucked the capitai from Lewiston, igniling emotions that found expression more than 20 years later when Congress passed legislation 10 include north Idaho 1746 West State • Boise. Idaho 83702 with Washington. The move was vetoed (LOCATED IN ALBERTSON'S MARKEll'LACE) by President Cleveland, and Idaho's 345-9085 Capitol Views From the polished spheres of Montana The glass-rimmed dome is supported by granite at its base to the copper and bronze eight pillars that ring the four-story rotunda. The golden eagle perched atop its dome, Idaho's large columns are not marble, but steel with a Capitol rises 208 feet above the streets of scagliola veneer. Idaho hired Italian artisans to Boise. create the sagliola veneer, a mixture of granite, Patterned after the National Capitol in marble dust, gypsum and glue. Washington, D.C., the Idaho Capitol is built of The interior of the dome is decorated with native sandstone quarried by convicts, four 13 stars representing the 13 original colonies, kinds of marble and Montana granite. The ex­ plus 43 smaller stars representing Idaho's in­ terior sandstone blocks, some weighing 10 clusion as the 43rd state in the union. tons apiece, were cut by inmates at the state­ The golden eagle perched on a triple owned quarry above the original Idaho Peniten­ pedestal of sandstone stands 5 feet, 7 inches tiary. Inside, green swirled Vermont marble tall and weighs 250 pounds. It is solid copper creates the walls, gray Alaska marble with in­ dipped in bronze. laid patterns of near-black Italian marble the Begun in 1905, construction of the Capitol floors and staircases, and Georgia marble of was completed in 1920 at a cost of $2.3 reddish-pink the trim. million. 0

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In growing numbers farmers afe taking up the admonition of Texas' commis­ sioner of agriculture Jim Highto ..... er to, "Raise less corn and more hel!." In Idaho they are united by the Idaho Rural Coun­ cil, a group affiliated with the National Save the Family Farm Coalition; the League of Rural Voters, a Minnesota­ based organization with one staff dire'Ctor in Boise; and the American Agriculture Movement. If the farmers are upset over low com· modity prices and bank foreclosures, the message given by these fann organizations makes them furious. The elimination of family farmers, they are told, is de liberate. While rejecting conspiracy theories (of which there arc plenty in rural America these days) the progressive farm move­ ment groups do define the farm crisis as a "crisis by design." Jo"" Spanbauer says his politicat activism was spurred by theloreclosunt of his parents' he message Phil Lansing of the eastern tdaho farm. League of Rural Voters carries to T farmers across Idaho is this: "The farmers. It is now a boast that less than the costs of growing the crops. United States made a government policy 2 perrent of the country is engaged in pro­ Minnesota's commissioner of agricul­ 20 years ago to remove farmers from the ducing food for the rest of the nation and ture gave Idaho farmers a national land. We are moving to ..... ard a national the world. perspective on the situation at a Rural picture of 50,000 super-farms controlling While many farmers have gotten Qut, Council rally last year. "Last year we pro­ the \'ast majority of food production in the many others have gotten big, but they are duced 8.] billion bushels of corn," says United States." not farmers in the traditional sense. In­ Jim Nichols, • 'subsidized the farmer $11.9 The slide sho ..... he carries across the state surance companies, most frequently billion and sold 1.1 billion bushels. Do you and shows in sc hool auditoriums, through foreclosures, have acquired more know how much it was worth? Three churches and homes lays out a picture of than <4 million acres of American point one billion dollars. We spent $11.9 the major grain corporations, banking in­ farmland. according to a recent article by billion in subsidies to sell $].1 billion in stitutions and chemical companies work­ the Washington Post. Prudential alone is corn. If you hate the farmer, for God's ing in concert to convince Congress and s.,id to control some 1 million acres, which sake have mercy on the taxpayer and give the administration to establish farm it manages through its agricultural divi­ the corn away .... And who's behind it policies that favor their interests at the ex­ sion. Thwugh foreclosures, the Farm all? The multinational corporations - the ~nse of the small-scale farmer. The Credit System and the Farmers Home Ad­ Cargill's and Con Agra's of the world. league details a history of corporate ministration control another 4 million They've figured it out. Drop the price on maneuvering, beginning with a 1%2 acres. 8 billion bushels of corn so you can sell report by the Comminet for Economic I billion. Then they buy it back cheap. Development, a corporate-funded think orpor:ue control of food, say the feed it to their cattle and sell thcm at a high tank, which argued for "a program, such farm organizations, CJltends from price to the consumer." as we are recommending here. to induce C the dying farm towns across rural excess resources (primarily people) to America to the poverty of Third World he league explains the consequences move rapidly out of agriculture." The villages. "To caplure larger markets," that follow at the local level: "We league says there is a "revolving door" says Lansing, "you ha\'e 10 destroy T s~nd huge sums of taxpayers' between the CED and the U.S. Depart­ markets in other countries, which is what money to compensate farmers for part of ment of Agriculture. we're doing by grain dumping in the Third their losses caused by this subsidy to the President Johnson's special commission World." State Senator John Peavey, a grain trade," states the league's booklet, on food and fiber policies carried on this Carey rancher and Rural Council member, Crisis by Design. "Then we force farmers philosophy, identifying the n3tion's big­ also takes a world view of the farm crisis. 10 borrow enormous sums of money to gest farm problem as a surplus of farmers: By keeping grain prices low and dumping cover the rest of their losses." . the technological advances in them on foreign markets, he says, "We go This borrowing has heirx'd precipitate agriculture have so greatly reduced the on the side of thc big banks and the friend­ the current farm crisis. Farmers who tried need for manpower that tOO many people ly governments who go against the aspira­ to expand in the more bountiful late 19705 are Irying to live on a national farm in­ tions of the people of those countries." are falling behind in their loan payments come wholly inadequate for them." The While the mOlivations and intent of the because of continuing low crop prices. The theme was carried on by Agriculture U.S. farm policy are open for debate, federal lending authorities press the banks Secretary Earl Sutz under President there is little doubt that current policies are [Q collect on these debts, and the farmers Nixon, who championed the slogan, "Get indeed crippling the small-scale farmer. end up further in debt fighting off fore­ big or get out." Grain prices, set by the United States closure in the courts. Foreclosure and Many farmers have gotten out, with government, arc considerably below the bankruptcy creates a downward spiraling either scarce notice or even approval by cost of production. The government effect of ils own. As more farms are auc­ the American public. At the turn of the makes up a portion of the difference tioned off, the sale prices drop, lowering century onc-third of all Americans were through subsidies. but not enough to cover the value of the land for the remaining 32 farmers. Since a farmer's ability to bor­ pressure from the lending institutions as "Their major social function is to go to row is based on the value of his farm, the cause for the bill's failure. But while the church. They're nOl the sort of people to remaini ng farmers' ability to qualify for bill was co-sponsored by ranchers La ird mobilize behind a social issue. There's not fina n cin~ decreases and their vulnerabil­ Noh, R-Kimberly. and Peavey, the other the time 10 do that and run a fann, too." it y to failure increases. two farmer/ legislators on the Senate Trying to organize farmers, she says. "is Nationwide there are but 2.2 million Agriculture Commiuee voted against it. like trying to keep frogs in a wheelbar­ farmers , hardly a major politica l force Not all farmers accept the views of the row." numerically, especIally considering their Rural Council and the progressi\e farm isolation. "We don't amoum to one move ment. "I'm not unsympathetic. I Daniel Levitas, research director for the square block on a city as far as votes go," could ha\e gone bankrupt, too." says Stn. Iowa-based rural ad\'ocaC)' group Prairie sa)'5 Harold SlOrey, a Magic Valley fanner L)'Il n Tominaga, a Ru pert farmer who Fire, suggesls another hindrance inherent who was foreclosed on in February. along'" ilh Sen. Jerry Twiggs voted against in organizing Idaho farmers. '" think Rut leaders in the farm movement are the mediation bill. Tominaga says he Idaho is one of the hardesl nuts to crack, ,. quick 10 point out that rural America - believes the banking imtitutions when they he says. "The ideology of 'me and a six­ the small towns and rural residents - say mandatory mediation will dry up shooter against the world ' prevails." account for one-th ird of the U.S. por'JUla­ credit for young farmers like himself. But many have adopted Challis ranch­ tion. The national progressive farm woman Mabel Oobbs' belief that "the organizations hope to rally this sizeable political involvement can be more impor. and potentially powerful group behind lant than lhe ranch work" at times. Dobbs their cause. and her husband ha\e juggled ranch work The powcr of the farm movemem was and political activism while fighting off cvklcnccd in the Midwest presidemial foreclosure on their cow-calf opera tion. primaries. In Iowa, the League of Women " I'\'e made a commitment ," says Dobb~. VOlers deferred to the l eaguc of Rural " If we lose everything ('II spend Ihe rest Voters in staging a Pr~ide nlial Forum on of my time on hotlines and do whatever Agriculture and Rural Life. The Republi­ I can 10 get the word out." cans refused 10 participate, bUI all Democrats, excepl ing Albert Gore, did he same inlensity of I:ommitment is come to Ames to discuss farm issues, and seen in many of thc politically acti\'c all but Gore and Bruce Rabbiu suPPOrted T farmers. John Spanbauer, a Magic higher commodity prices and supply Valley farmer who is president of Ihc management, the two key issues with Ihe American Agriculture Movemem of Idaho progressive farm movement. Ri chard and vice president of Ihe Southern Idaho Gephardt '5 subsequent rise in the polls was Diane Pee¥e, asks who will control the mean. Rural Council , says he was spurred into of food production in Ament • . attributed by the league to his strong action by the foreclosure of his parents' popu li st stand on farm issues. easlern Idaho farm. "To see what they did "PolilicaJly, what's interesting to me," But Tominaga. and olhers also feel thaI to my dad and mom, I'm prett)' much says Peavey, "i.\ t h~ strength of Jesse many farmers who have 10SI their farms committed," he says. "I could go some­ Jackson in Idaho." Not ing that Jackson through fi nancial trouble are simply where and get a good job, but I can't did not come in second in the Democratic "poor managers." Before vot ing against quit." He picks up his two sons and adds, C3m:ust$ by appealing to Idaho's miniscule the bill Tominaga sa id , "We're talking "This is another reason. These will be the black vote, Peavey says, " Jackson is the about a small percentage of farmers who fourth generation of farmers in the famil y. closest thing to a populist" running for are having problems. Taking a hard look If there's any thing Idt." president. The N~I' York Times notes that at it , perhaps some of these peoplC' don', Spanbauer describes the difficulties of Jackson "s~ agriculture as part of a belong on the farm ." Twiggs, a Blackfoot farmers entering the political arena. "I('s 'systcmatic crisis' in wh ic h small farmers farmer. concurred, stating, "In some so hard for us to fight because they [op­ arc thrcalened by large farming and cases, bankruptcy is the best way for the ponents of the mediation bill , particularl y business interests . JUSt as some workers' farmer to go." banks) have guys in Uoise who can be al jobs are threatened by the merger of the Legislature in five minutes, take guys multinational corporations. " armers are painfully aware that to dinner. We don't. I've been 10 Boise association wi lh the progressive farm five times in the past year. I"s my gas. my eavey belie"es " little organiz.a t ion~ F groups can carr}, a negative stigma. money, and my job herc on the ranch like the Idaho Rural Council ha ... e Tominaga said of the Idaho Rural doesn't get done when I'm gone," P an incredible future. It's a big, Council. for exanlple, "I lhink they repre­ "We wan', win Ihis issue wilh farmers powerful coalition waiting to happen out sent the farmers who are in financial alone," 53)'S Diane Peavey. All rural there - labor, farmers, small businesses, problems." voters, she says, will be needed to change and even small banks." Diane Peavey, the Ru ral Cou nci l's local and national policies. And from an Idaho seems tailor-made for the farm direC1 0r and wife of Jobn Peavey, says, C\'en broader perspective, she says, the mo\'emenl. Agriculture remains the "Anybody who becomes active is branded farm mO\'cment should be of concern to leading industry and farmers and ranchers as someone who is do"'n and out." Hoth everyone in the country. conSlitute the single largest occupational Diane Peavey and Lansing say their The broader issue invol"es a very fun­ force in the state legislature. groups include many members who are damental quesrion, she says: "To me it'! N('\'ertheless, the Rural Council 's most financially solvent. a struggle that goes beyond 'Is this coveted legislation - a bill mandating The stigma of failure would make farm community going to save its farms?' It's mediation bel",-een foreclosing banks and organizing difficult enough were it not for how is this country going to do its business inde bted farmers - failed for the third other characteristics peculiar to farmers in the next 50 years. Who will control year in a row during the 1988 session . The and ranchers. "Farmers are very indepen­ the means o f food productio n in farm organizations cit e intense lobbying dent, isolated people," says Diane Peavey. America?" 0 33 THE FEMALE FACTOR

With 28 members, women are still a minority In the state legislature, but their numbers are growing. "'8ric Wiblals photo

By Marie Rllssell Twenty-eight women now serve in the year 10 political office. 126-seal Idaho Legislature. Although "There is a growing public perception Idaho has never had a female governor or of women as being a viable force in istorically, Idaho women have lieutenant governor, the position of stale politics,O' says Rep. Patricia L. Me­ sen'ed a political role as supporters treasurer, now filled by Lydia Justice­ Dermocc, a lO-term legislator from H and campaigners for their politi­ Ed ..... ards. has been held by a woman for Pocatello. "I think at the ballot box, the cian husbands. Today the tables arc turned 26 yurs. Although numerically. women electorate doesn't hoJd being a woman as women are stepping out from behind are a still a minority in Idaho's political against you. There is a different at­ the men to take their place in frOnl of the circles. the traditionally conservative slale mosphere now, and voting for a woman podium. is electing more and more women each is not that traumatic."

34 But the presence of women has meanl more than JUS! occupying seats at the Statehouse. Idaho la .... s have been altered as women have brought on legislation dealing with day carc and domestic vi olence and other concerns that were previously considered "women's" issues. McDermott points oul that these issues were not raised singly by women legis­ lators, but came about because they were concerns of the elettorate. "For the most part, legislators renect the philosophies of their constituents," she says. "Wornen approach politics differently: they have sensitivity that men do not show," says Ann Rydalch, a third-term senator from Idaho Falls. Rydalch says, however. that in spite of the term "women's issues," a bill won't go anywhere if it's "not a good bill." "You take a look at each issue and because you support it , it does not betome a woman's issue. II needs to be a good bill and serve constituents," she says. ... . a woman needs to prove herself a little longer hree women in the Idaho house chair in the trenches to get support." T committees, including Rep. Kathleen - Sen. Ann Ryda/ch "Kitty" Gurnsey of Boise, who co-chairs the powerful Joint Finance-Appropria­ tions Committee (JFAC). Gurnsey, who "Politics is very hard on marriages. legislators are "just as willing to listen." has climbed the legislative ladder of When households are forced to put the "Idaho has been good in the sense that power, says that for anyone to succeed in woman's concerns before the man's. it can I've never felt blocked OUI because I was pol itics it takes " charisma and brains." cause problems," she says. " Traditionally a woman," she says. " Working up inlo 8 U1 fo r women. key qualities also include \\hen men were the only ones involved in other elected positions. though, a woman extra time and money. politics, women would serve as campaign needs TO prove herself a lillie longer in the "The average busi nessman eannn\ manaKers. Men are not eager to fi ll that trenches to get support." afford to be in the legislature," says role for women." Gnrnsey, a seven-term member. "It's an ideal arrangement for someone who docs not monetarily have to support them­ ut the struggles between men and he highest elected position, that of selves. A single woman can't do it - only Bwomen haven't been so pronounced in Tgovernor, has nevcr been sought by a someone with no financial or time the House and Senate chambers. For the woman. The closest they have: come to the concerns. " most part, women legisl ators say the)' are position is former Idaho treasurer Gurnsey waited umil her youngest child accepted by their male counterparts. but Marjorie Ruth Moon's unsuccessful bid was 16 before she ran for public office. admit that hints of discrimination exist. for lieutenant governor in 1986. Bm all Her husband could support the family "Actually. they weren't as chauvinistic agree that there is no reason why the fina ncially, so Gurnsey had the freedom (when I started] aslhcy are now," McDer­ governorship should elude a woman to pursue a political career. mOil sa)'s. "At that time it wasn't a threat; candidate. Gurnsey's sentiments are echoed by it may have been considered a little excep­ "It will be the issues that decide it," Rydalch. "It would be extremely difficu lt tional. But now there are a number of ~ys Rydalch. "It's experience and exper­ for women with small children. There's a bright, intelligent women succeeding in tise Ihat the electorate would gravitate lot of commitment to this work," she politics and it's becoming very pressing." toward." says. Mary lloyd, a freshman legislator from McDermott sa)'s it's a matter of liming Juggling acarcer, politics and a family Pocatello, said she hasn't encountered and that women are no longer a "novelty" can take a serious toll on women, Gurn­ many difficulties based on discrim ination. in political office. sey says. Many working women arc " You have to gain respect from each "When it comes (0 gubernatorial races, counted among those in the legislature. other," she says. "You don't gain it by it's a mailer of liming and who's available including an attorney, restaurant owner, crying 'I'm the woman or I'm the man.''' to run," she says. "Women in both par­ a legal secretary and a dental hygienisl. Rydalch agrees with Lloyd, saying that. ties are playi ng increasing roles. It 's the Gurnsey says many times the pressure all hough she has encountered "a Hule bit equality of opportunity. Idaho is way past proves too much. of a male ego problem," she finds male the days of tokenism." 0

3l Reading, 'Riting Citizenship

Schools pledge attention to civics

By Bob EVlmcho burden them 0.1 all. The schools are teaching ci tizenship now in some respect . as ci\'ic-mindedness given wa y but in a very passive way," to civic illi teracy? If so. does the Arter Brimhall's measure was approved blame rest with our schools? it was sent to Ihe Senate - where it died A bill approved by Idaho's in committee. Several educators believe H the bill mel a proper fate. H ou~ of Representativcs d uring the 1988 Legislature indicates some slate lawma\:ers " I'm really quite amazed at legislators think so. After much debate, the House who on one hand say that education is approved a state law requiring Idaho's their number one concern and then come public schools to place mo re emphasis on up .... ith legislation like that." says Da\te citizenship. Rep. PreSIon Brimhall. the Schjeldahl. principal of Dora Erickson b,lrs sponsor. contended the musure Elementary in Idaho Falls. "II indicates would foster morc emphasis on n:spect for to me a real lack of knowledge of what's the law and the fights and properl)' of going on in tht classrooms. It 's nO( uni­ que to Presion Brimhall. I think it's prelty Olhers. It would also urge ~tudcnlS to achicve economic seif-suHidency as typical of the legislators: they give it a lot quickly as possible. of li p service, but I don't think many of Brimhall. an Idaho Falls Republican. them have been in a public schoollalely," and supporters of his measure argued Ihal ttOn..ling to Schjeldahl. tht civic thc slate's schools arc not stressi ng civic A education curriculum al Erickson - education and social matters enough. and the rest of Idaho Falls' DistriCl91 - Violent u:levision sho ws and movies, is much rnore than a pointless smorgas­ Brimhall added, have lert children with bord of social siudies. Consider: little respecl fo r Ihe rightli of olhers. • Within the pa~t year, civic leaders such .,\ thi nk in Ihisstate .... c've adopted the how a voting booth works, and discuss as Gov. Cecil Andrus, Idaho Falls idea that we let things happen and then we \'oter registration and the responsibil­ Mayor Tom Campbell, and stale Ireat them," Brimhall says. "It was my it y Ihat goes ..... ith i1. senators and representatives have feeling Ihat we need 10 do what we ca n 10 • Beginning with the 1988-89 academic "isited Erickson. pre\'ent these sociological problems which year, District 91 will install a ne ..... • As part of their civic education reo are going to consume us economically if elementary social studies curriculum quirements, Erickson second- and fifth­ we don't promOie better citizenship," called "global awareness." The courses graders are instructed 10 write to public t.l(,amine and com part the \'arious social ndeed there is 3 concern among some ofricials asking Ihem about their role studies based on international interrela­ regarding a lack o f civic leamin, in our in government. I tionships and interdependence. schools. Part of it stems from swe«:ping • To ob$trve Idaho's upcoming CC'nten­ criticism leveled at education and the nial. a number of Idaho Falls schools The Boise School Dislrict will also in­ teaching profession in recent years (~ staged an Idaho history ~lcbralio n . trOOuct a nC'.\ K-12 social studies pilot "Today's Teachers: Lo~rs or Leaders?" • District 91's A. H . Bush and Emerson program into its curriculum in September. FOCUS, Spring 1987) while olher detrac­ elementary schools commcmo rated tht According to Jack Craven, district cur­ tors claim schools don't have the bicentennial o f the Constitution with riculum director. the program is the result wherewithal to help develop Siudents into programs Ihal featured civic Itaders, of extensive in-house research and good citizens. patriotic music and ski ts. development . "Educators say they are already • In November, Erickson will hold a Civic learning, Craven says, has always burdened with tOO many additions 10 Ihe school election to coincide with the betn a part of the Boist School District's curriculum," I1r imhall charge5, "but the general election. Prior to that, reprt­ social studies curriculum . •. At one time we kind o f inslruclion I envision would lake sentatives from the local election board did have isolated in our program courses about 10 minutes a wee ... . it wouldn't will visit the school, show thc sludents called 'civics' that concentrated on ci tizen- J6 Educators say II strong social studies cur­ riculum can help prevent flagging patriotic spirit among students.

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o counteract such failings, Robert C. T Sims, dean of BSU's School of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, supports pro­ posals that would require students 10 per­ form community service. The original thought was 10 place the requirements in all college undergraduate curricula. "Bul it's nOI jusl a university phenomenon" says Sims. "The movement is sl retching down into the public schools, too." In California, the state assembly is con­ sidering a law that would require com­ munit)' service for high school graduation. "Lots of communities are doing thaI for individual school districts, and schools in Atlanta now require 75 hours of public service," Sims adds. Such requirements, Sims believes, are essential 10 create a sense of civic respon­ sibility. "You don't just do it on a theoretical basis," he stales. "You don '{ go into the class and lell people why ii's importanl; you act ually get them out and do things for other people. TIle 'doing' is very imponant ... , At the public-school level, I think there needs 10 be an awareness of what each person's respon­ ship," he says. "Specialized courses likl! mitmcnts ... but I don't know through sibility is as a citizen - and part of that civics have fallen by the wayside. but the any kind of study lhat kids are that terribly means to be an active participant." concepts inherent in those courses, I lacking. Fulfilling civic obligations and acquir­ believe. have been inculcated into the " You always see these surveys about ing knowledge in the various social broad spectrum of social studies courses what children don't know, bUI J ha\'cn't sciences are important in the shaping of Ihat now exist." seen anything stan ling. Can we do a beller good citizens, but leaching America's job? Of course. BUI you ca n ask most basic values is perhaps the mosl crucial amont Lyons, associate dean of Boise people on the !'.treet the same Questions aspect of civic education. In lyons' opi­ L Statc's College of Education, also and not get any better responses. nion, these fundamentals underlie a much believes much of the criticism regarding in­ "When you look at the Boise School larger design. adequate civic education in tooay's public District, for example, yuu sec progres­ "The whole purpose of civic education schools is unfounded. sively from grades 7 through 12 a very has been and should continue 10 be to "The public has always had pretty high comprehensive social studies curriculum. foster some cognitiVe understanding of expectations of the school's role in pro­ ... There was a time a decade or two ago our basic values," he says. "But more moting citizenship and values," he says. when many of the social studies classes than that, some emotive commitmem to " Historicall y, that has been one of the were kind of fluffy, bUI nOI an),more­ them. There arc some values that are so primary purposes of education in this not from what I've seen," fundamental 10 our system, thai if each country. Among all the other complaints Despite the efforts to inSlill a social con­ generation doesn't come to understand now about schools is that the kids don' t sciousness in America's students, the them, make some commitment 10 them, know enough about citizenship, or they materialistic priorities of their "me and renew them to give more full mean­ don't have the right values, or they don', generation" parents can make the ta~k ing to !hem, !hen the system won't work. behave properly, or have the right com- difficult. It's the glue that holds us together." 0 J1 Governors Territorial Instincts (Continued from page 23) (Continued from page 27) together. It seems like everybody checks experience. Nevada is not developed as a D-Pocatello. up at about the last second," he laughs. srate, simply because Las Vegas and Reno, Keiser: "Urban life is different than "I don't think it [sectionalism] is as bad as two major cities happen to be gambling rural life. People in Boise have certain as people think it is. As a whole, we rise halls for Los Angeles and San Francisco, cosmopolitan interests and backgrounds above it. Overall, we take a look at what's and thus, tied in most economic ways to that not only tend to be different from, beneficial to everybody," agrees Neibaur. other areas. but offensive to, some people in other "It's not that somebody is trying to ANDRUS: Western and eastern Oregon parts of the state. get somebody else," adds Brown. "It's have got the same problem. Western and "There seems to be an attitude that the just the way things fallout socially and eastern Washington, same problem. money and privilege that is focused here geographically. If we understand that, Northern California vs. southern Califor­ is in some way sinful ... and there's a we can move past our barriers to com­ nia. You get below Fresno and they don't good deal of resentment about thaL" munication. " even know there's a San Francisco or What may cause some resentment Humboldt County. I don't think we're toward Boise is the urban-rural gap that ut others say there is no end in sight any different. We're in better shape in seems to be widening in Idaho. Like many to the deep differences that divide Idaho today than we have ever been at other states before it, Idaho could be B ",. anytime in our history. Everything is going undergoing a transformation from a "I don't see any short-term resolution positive for us. We're selling more spuds predominantly rural society to an urban to sectionalism," says Moncrief. "It's nationwide. The mines have got some one. something you have to live with as a part people back working again, that's improv­ "Society is changing," says Brown. of politics in Idaho. Any resolution would ing. The red meat prices are improving. "Unfortunately, as the big cities grow, require a couple of things - one is some Some of our commodity prices in they will become supercompetitors with substantial migration pattern changes to agriculture are going up. We've got anybody else around. By virtue of our lack alter the mix of cultures that you find in Micron that's going to build here. We've of ability to compete, we'll become less different parts of the state. The other is got Trus Joist going into Twin Falls. able to compete. a general move toward a different We've got Odmark going in Lewiston. "Boise in and of itself isn't trying to economic base in all parts of the state." We've got two new businesses, r can't say create it, but it will appear to people that With such diversity within the state's their names, coming to the Coeur d'Alene way," he adds. boundaries, it isn't easy to define what it area. And we have a new clothing group means to be an Idahoan. Aside from the in the Sandpoint area. There's a plastics eiser agrees. "Urbanization is a state government structure, there isn't plant in Soda Springs. We're doing very, relatively new phenomenon in much we have in common. very well. There are 16,314 more people K Idaho, and therefore the effect is Perhaps the simple fact that Idaho is working today than there were a year ago going to be felt a little more strongly. To home is enough for most people. at this time. The average per capita income stand in the way of change that is in­ Says Bilyeu, "We love the concept of did increase last year. evitable could cause a rough period," he Idaho - that it's a freewheeling type of Now, we've got some minuses, but says. individual who loves to live in Idaho. We we're on a roll. The people feel good Will sectionalism ever end ... or even have an affinity for the outdoors, and that about it; I feel good about it. And if you'd abate? Efforts like the Centennial celebra­ brings us together." give me just six different legislators in each tion and the push for economic develop­ Keiser agrees. "1 think the dominant house, I'd be a lot better off. Now, I don't ment have the potential to bring all feature in this state is land and natural say they all have to be Democrats, but you sections of Idaho together for the common resources. If there is anything that give me six that think in a positive vein, good. Idahoans have got to be able to rally and we'll really light a fire to its tail. On most issues legislators put aside their behind, it's the natural beauty that they regional interests when the good of the have the good fortune to be supervisors whole state is at stake, according to Boyd. over," he says. "People stop just short of forgetting WhO[', an Idahoan? "The recognition of that can be an Q. that we are a state and remember at the awfully strong unifying factor - maybe last vestige of time that we better get stronger than anything else." D ANDRUS: A very indepen- dent person . . . may not Dust Problem?? always be right, but is seldom A • in doubt. They love to have the ability to recreate; whether or not they do it in the great outdoors, they don't We can't help with want anybody telling them how to do it. your cleaning ... but They are just uow moving into what we we do have dust covers would call semi-sophistication on an inter­ for computers national basis. But an Idahoan is, like I say, an independent person, but warm, and printers compassionate, friendly, Western in nature, always willing to help somebody who truly is in need through no fault of Your Solution for Forms, Accessories, Computer Supplies their own, but they wouldn't give a plug FACS Corp. 518 S. 9th Street 344-7997 nickle for a bum. D 38 Profs bid adieu after careers at BSU Nary a premedical or psychology .stu­ dent has passed through Boise State University without comins in contact with , John Phillips or Harry Fritchman. Sct to retire in May, both Fritchman aud Phillips came to Boise Juuior College in \954. In the J4 years they taught here, they've wilnessecl their programs and deparlments literally built from the ground up. Nearly allthc premedical studenls who began their education at BSU received a fair share of thai education from Fritchman. He has instructed courses in everything from genetics and vertebrate embryology to anatomy and baclerialgy. He led field expeditions in Mexico and the Southwest United States. and iu the years from John Phillips Harry FritChman 1978-1981, Fritchman was beswwed with the Distinguished Professor Award. In path within nis department. which was which all life forms dispose of or throw 1986. Associated Students of Boise State non-existem when he arrived in 1968. off waste products. toxic substances and University named him Outstanding When Lamborn came 10 Boise State Col­ dead portions of the organism. Professor for the College of Arts and lege . lhe business depanment was housed Kelley has applied his e.xpeftise as a con· Sciences. in its entirety on the second floor of the sultant and rcsean:her in a number of The long arm of Fritchman's teachings Administration Building. By 1969, Lam­ ecological and environmental studies in­ has gone beyond Boise State. He has born had helped establish and became the duding the Julia Davis Park Pond Study, been a visiting professor at universities in first chairman of the new economics Lucky Peak Reservoir Water Quality Washington. Oregon, amI California. departmem. studies, Boise River Crossing Study, Fritchman is also respousible for the During his years as chairman, the Boise-Cascade Lake Study and the Er"f­ synoptic zoological display. 12 illuminated economics faculty grew from three to eight Kay ParkCenter Study. cases in the halls of the biology instructors. induding John Mitchell. now Other retirees iudude professor of departmenl. seuior vice p r~iden t of U.S. Bancorp; marketiug Duston R. Scudder and School Phillips. the chairman of BSU's Barry Asmus, recently listed by USA of Vocational Technical Education in­ psychology department since its creation Today as one of the mOst sought·after structors Joan lingenfelter and Mary in 1968, has taught courses in all phases spea kers in the nation; and Don Holley, Dallas. of the discipline from general psychology an economic forecaster for Ore-Ida Scudder, who retired in December. and child developmcut to psychological Foods. spent 24 years at Boise State. During his systems and the psychology of learning. In nominating Ellis for emeritus status, tenure at BSU, he taught at Preston While at Boise State. Phillips served as current economic~ departmcnt chairman Polytcchuic. England, under a Fulbright dean of students from 1957-59 and was the Charles Skoro wrote: faculty exchange. He also served as director of (esling from 1954-57. From "Ellis was imtrumental in deve]opiug president of the Treasure Valley chapter 1959-68, he served as the chairman for the the economics curriculum and was a prime of the American Society for Personnel division of social sciences, the psychology mover and major force behind thl: I!!rowth Administration. department's forerunner from 1959-68. of the business program. His innuence Lingenfelter \\ill retire after 15 years at He also instructed classes on child and wa~ considerable iu guiding Roise Sta te DSU . She sened 3s the pro@ram head and physiological psychology and personality from a small, local junior college with a instructor of child services/ management. at the University of Idaho exlension in few courses in business aud economics to She also sened as the chaimlan of the ser· Boise from 1954-65. a university with a regional reputation and \ ice occupations department frolO 1979-85 Phillips authored several articles and a college of busiuess that is fully accredited where she acted as a liaison for faculty and books during his tenure at Boise State. in· through the master's level." administration . She wrote E.¥ploring a c1uding HoII' to Think About Statistics , Kelley also came to Boise State College Child's Environment. a manual for which was published this year. His text ­ in 1968. He specialized in invertebrate teaching scieuce aud environmental ac· book, Origins of Intellect: Piaget's zoology and fish biology. An associate tivities to preschool children through third Theory. is in ils second edition and has professor of zoology. many students were grade. been published in three foreign Iauguages. instructed by Kelley in anatomy and Dallas, who began teachiug at BSU in Relative newcomers in comparison to physiology classes. 1976. served as a program head and in­ Fritchman and Phillips, retirC<."S Ellis Lam­ He published several articles while at structor of practical nursing. She has been born and Fenton Kelley are 20-year BSU, including a 1975 article entitled the adviser to the BSU chapter of the veterans at Boise State. "Elimination," which was published by Vocational Industrial Clubs of America Very much like his counterparts. Encyclopedia Brittanica. The article and will continue to do so after her retire­ economic professor Lamborn forged a covers Ihe mechanisms and proceSSeS by ment. 0 39 Alumni chooses brightest and best

They are the brightest of Ihe besl. There She also received the W.H. and Gladys E. are only 10 of them - Iha Top Ten. Every Langroise Scholarship. Honored faculty spring the BSU Alumni Association honors 10 member: Richard Payne, professor of seniors for their academic accomplishments. economies. It is an award shared by less than 1 percent Vlkl J. Smith, of the graduating class. In March, the Boise, is a senior students received their honors. and In turn English major. named the BSU facu lty member most Influen· She has been the tial to them. As I this Ten recipient of the was a cross section Peninsula Educa· Brian E. An­ tion Association cell, Boise, is a (Wash .) Scholar· senior accounting ship, Phi Theta major. He re­ Kappa Scholar· \ ceived the Inter­ ShiP, Scollish Aite Scholarship and Ihe Ada mountain Gas o Hatch Scholarship. She IS a 1ulor at Ihe BSU and Bela Alpha Writing Center. Honored faculty member: Psi scholarships Margaret Peek, former associale dean of the and was named a BSU College of Arts and Sciences and Beta Alpha PSI .. English professor. National literary Scholar. He is employed at Lisa Soren­ Coopers & Lybrand CPA firm. Honored fac­ son, Idaho Falls, ulty member: William Mech, honors program is a senior ele· director. menlarylspecial Kerilynn education major. Erland, Boise. is She received the a sen ior pre­ Idaho Congres· medicinelbiology slonal Teachers major. She has Scholarship and received two pre­ BSU Teacher Ed· •. \ professional de­ ucation Scholarship. She is a member of Phi partment scholar­ Kappa Phi and was awarded highest honors ships and the Vic­ on the dean's list. She is student teaching in lor Duke Schol­ the Aesource Aoom at Summerwind Elemen· arship. She has been named with highest tary. Honored faculty member: Jeanne honors to the dean's list and has served two Lundy, associate p~:::.:~::~ Bauwens, assistant professor of teacher inlernships, one with a family practice physi­ Karen J. Kuk- .• education. cian and Ofle with a general surgeon. linskl, Boise. is a Elaine Whitley, Honored member: Harry Fritchman, senior elementary Boise, is a senior educalion major. general business ; She has been management ma­ Boise, is a senior named to the jor. She is a mem­ criminal justice dean's list for five ber of Phi Kappa adm inistration semesters and Phi and Beta major. She has receivoo the BSU Gamma Sigma been awarded Teacher Educa- • \ and IS serving a various scholar· tion and library Science Scholarship twice. marketing and ships and com­ She was the recipient of the Weisengerber client relations Internship. Honored faculty pleted an intern­ Scholarship in 1987. She is student teaching member: Bong Shin, professor of ship wilh the the fourth grade at Pierce Park Elementary management. Child Proteclion Division of the Department School in Boise. Honored faculty member: Aobert 0, of Health and Weifare. Honored faculty Jane Dunbar, special lecturer in teacher Woodbury, Boise, member: Jane Foraker-Thompson, education. is a senior pre­ associale professor of criminal justice Tarey Ayn mediclnel biology administration. Read, Boise, is a major. He is vice David Ken­ senior economics president of the nedy, Nampa, is major. She is a BSU chapter of a senior history member of Phi Phi Kappa Phi. major. He is a Kappa Phi and was the recipient member of Phi Omicron Della 01 the State of .:r' Kappa Phi and Epsilon. an ec0- Idaho Scholarship placed 11th nation- assisted with Ihe nomics honor ally In lhe Elks Most Valuable Student processing of the SOCiety. She has competition. Woodbury is working as a Frank Church Col· r. ,­ received highesl honors on lhe dean's lisl and researCh assistant at Mountain States Tumor Ieclion at the BSU , / was listed as a Scholastic AIi·Amencan and Institule. Honored facully member: Harry Ubrary. Honored member: Phoebe in Outstanding Young Women 01 America. Fritchman. 0 40 ALUMNI

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19505 D. Date Willman (BBA, accounling, 79) is a partner Donald Dlelsch (DIP. '51) WIth Balukotl, lindstrom & was named bUSiness dlrec10r Co .. an accouflling firm in lor the Nampa SchOol DISlnct Boise. Gerald l. Weston (M. 'S7) was apPOinted by Governor 1980s Cecil Andrus 8S a judge 01 Mike LaTour (MBA. '81) The BSU Athl.U<: Hall 0' Fame 1988 inductees were honored duro the 3rd Otstllel Court In ing halftime ceremonl •• a' the Idaho State-Boise Siale basketball Caldwell. received one of the two game Feb. 20. From left to right: 0" John Bames, Joe Aliottl, David "Outstanding Paper" awards Hughes, Rolly W~"Y. Pr ••ident John Keiser (representing Frank 1960s lor the 1988 Southeast Deci· TeverbaughJ. and Kevin Wood. slon Sciences Institute Con· John Gustal son (AS. '65) ference in WInston-Salem. ~ a wlldt.le biologist In the en· N.C. He IS currently an assiS­ dangered species program of tant professor of marketing at Penn St. names Jayne the CalifornIa Department 01 Old Domlmon UnIVerSity, FIsh and Game In Sacramento Norfolk, Va Benjamin A. Jayne (BJG. '48) has been selected as Ihe second William C. Miller (BA. Ted Sharp (BBA. account· prolessar to occupy the Maur.ee K. Goddard Chair in foreslry SOCial sCience. '69) was mg, '81) has formed hiS own and environmenlaJ resources at Penn Slate Umversity. Jayne named Ch ief 01 aeronautics lor accounting and computer con· the Idaho TransportalJOn IS currentty a prolessor of natural resources In the School of suiting ' irm in Pocatello Department In Borse. Forestry and Environmental Studies at Duke UnIVersity Norman D. Wright (BBA. management, '81) is the Jayne was a siudeni-athiete al BJC and in 1948 was named 19705 to the small college All-America !colball team. He IS a member MagiC VaHey Mall branch of the BSU Athlellc Hall 01 Fame. Randy Teall (BA, socia! manager for First Federal Since earntng his Ph 0 In forestry Irom Yale in 1955, Jayne work , '72) was named 10 the Savings & Loan of Twin Falls has served on the lacuhies of Yale Umverslty, Washington State board 01 dlfOClcr' IOf the Bob Maloney (marketmg University. the University of Washington. North Carolina Slate Grealer Coeur d 'Alene management. '84) was named University and Duke. The early pan 01 hIs career was spent in Chamber Convenhon & Idaho's 1988 Photographer 01 ViSItors Bureau the Year. He also received research and teaching In loresl products. later, strong interests Michael "Mlck" Cole two Kodak Gallery Awards and expertise In applied mathematics eventually led 10 teaching (BBA. management, '72) has and Portrait 01 the Year. and research on mathematical models applicable 10 problems been hIred as Boise Maloney operales a studIO in 01 nalural resource and environmental management Redevelopment Agency Rupert In 1976 Jayne was appointed dean 01 the School 01 Forestry project coordinator. Michele deReus-Vevlg and EnVIronmental Studies at Duke Unlversily. In 1985 he reo Robel1 N. While (BBA. (BBA, marketing. '85) IS 8 lumed to teaching and research. concenlrating on probfems of accountmg, '74) has been credit manager at Norwest resource management In the less-developed counlnes of the appointed vice preSident 01 Financial in BOIse world. Over the past lew years hiS research has taken hIm to finance lor Ore· Ida Foods, Roger D. Johnson (85, Bohvla, Nepal and Bhutan. He has also leclured In Japan, Inc in BoIse. geology. '85) reported lor duty Thailand and China. Dorolhy L. Olsen (MA. With Patrol Squadron 50 reading. 74) receIVed her Naval Air Station at Molfen Bonachea named Salem head doctorate 01 educatIon from Field, CaM Brigham Young University Tim Bunn (MA, education. Former BSU history professor Rolando Bonachea has been She is a learning disability '86) is the associate paslor 01 named preSident of Satem State College. Satem, Mass leacher In the Boise schools Nampa's Karcher Church 01 Bonachea has been acting president of Duquesne Umverslty, Donna L Hend8J'$On (BA, the Nazarene. Pinsburgh. since September 1987 Prior to holdIng Duquesne's art/education, '74) 01 Debra Brown (AS, medlcat lOp administrative posl, Bonachea was vice president of Grangeville has wnt1en and records, '87) pass8CI the academiC affairs. His other admInistrative experiences include published a book, My Moun· American MediCal Record serving as dean of the College 01 Arts and Sciences al S1. louis lams, Where Ihe RiVfK SIIIf Association exam. She is the University, SI. Louis, from 1980·85, and as associate dean of Runs Downhill medical records manager at Mountam River Hospital in the College 01 Arts and Sciences at BOise State Irom 1979·80. Kenl J. Hollingsworth (SA, '77) was assigned as an air Idaho Falls. An expert in the field 01 Latin American studies, Bonachea cargo speclaJisl With lhe 83rd Loris Pointer (BBA. has written and edited numerous scholarly works on Central Aerial Port Squadron in marketIng, '87) is an asslslant America, the Caribbean and U.S. policy in those regions. He Portland, Ore account executive at Austin has delivered remarks on radio and television, and has been Tom Gilber1son (BBA. KeUey Advertising in Atlanta. a guest lecturer at many government agencies, colleges and management. 77) was named Clifford Green (BBA. '87) universities, and professional conferences. senior loan ollicer lor First was selected lor the 1987 edI­ Bonachea came to asu in 1974 after earning his doctorate Fooeral Savings & Loan In tion 01 Outstanding Young at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. TWin Faits. Men in Amence based on hiS., BSU visits NW cities More than 200 people turned out for alumni gatherings in Seattle and Portland earlier this spring. The meetings were Boise State salutes design&d to bring alumni, friends and prospective students in those areas up-to-date on events at BSU. Those in attendance heard from BSU President John Keiser, 'distinguished' trio football Coach Skip Hall, Alumni Director Dyke Nally. and admissions representative Gerli Arnold. Of the 140 who attended in Seattle and 60 in Portland, about t would be difficult to select three more deserving reci· one-third were prospective students and their parents. pients of the BSU Alumni Association's inaugural "The interest shown demonstrates that we have excellent bases of support in these two cities. We were lIery pleased with Distinguished Alumni Award than the trio so honored by the response ... it was good to see $0 many old friends," says Ithe university earlier this spring. Nally. In conjunction with the Alumni Association's annual Top With the success of those two meetings, Nally says plans are Ten Scholars banquet, retired corporate executives James under way to hold similar gatherings in California and Spok:ane, McClary and John Elorriaga and Rhodes Scholar Karl Knapp Wash. thiS farr. 0 each received the award. According to Karin Woodworth, Alumni Association spokesperson, the association plans to make the award presentation an annual event. Biology grad wins award The Distinguished Alumni Award was established to honor professional and scholastic achievements by Boise State Boise State is two for two. In the two years since the Christa graduates. McAuliHe Fellowship program began, both grant recipients from Idaho have been affiliated with BSU's College of Education. fter 36 years in the corporate world, most of those as one This spring Ann Harrigan, a BSU biology graduate now of the nation's top banking executives, Elorriaga retired teaching at North Junior High in Boise. was Idaho's choice to A receive the $26.000 grant. She was selected from a field of 36 as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the nominees. United States Bank of Oregon and U.S. Bancorp in October Harrigan plans to use the fellowship to establish educational 1987. programs at the Idaho Botanical Garden near the Old Peniten­ Born in 1923 in Jordan Valley, Ore., the son of Basque im­ tiary. She will also continue to work: toward her master's degree migrants, Elorriaga began his college career close to home, at BSU. attending Boise Junior COllege and receiving his associate Last year's winner was Caldwell teacher Chuck Randolph. a of arts degree in 1949. Elorriaga earned his bachelor's of master's degree student at BSU who used the grant to write a business administration from the University of Oregon and new social studies curriculum. his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. The federally funded fellowship was established to honor the He joined the U.S. National Bank of Oregon as an ex­ teacher-astronaut who died two years ago in the explosion of ecutive trainee in 1951 and left in 1967 to accept a position the Challenger space shuttle. 0 as assistant to the chairman of the board of Evans Products Co. In 1970, he joined Columbia Corp. as its president and chief executive officer. Hoffman film unveiled In 1972, he returned to the U.S. National Bank of Oregon A special shOwing of the film Promised Land, which was written as president and became chairman and CEO of the bank and and directed by Boise State graduate and Rhodes Scholar U.S. Bancorp in 1974. Michael Hoffman. was sponsored by the Alumni Association at Elorriaga. who resides in Portland, served as director and The Flicks last month. adviser on numerous boards. The April 20 Showing of Promised Land featured a champagne He and his wife, Lois, have six grown children and three reception for the Alumni Association board of directors and university offiCials. 9randchHdren. Hoffman. an Idaho native. said the film is loosely based on a holdup that took place in Payette in 1979. =-1 civic and professional the Nampa area. contributions. Robert Williams (chemistry) 1960s reunion slated Dillniel Smithey (BS. was awarded tenure as a pro­ physics. '87) is a graduate fessor of OiOChemistry at the A reunion for the classes of 1960 through 1969 IS being student at the University of Uniformed Services University planned during homecoming festivities. Oct. 28-29, 1988. Oregon in Eugene, studying of the Heallh Sciences in Anyone who attended Boise College or Boise State College physics Washington, D.C. during those years and interested In attending the reunion is Karen Anderson (nursing. Alan RaneV (85, math. '87; asked to contact the Alumni Association oHice at (208) 385-1959. '87) is employed with Mercy is a marketing engineer with Alumni wishing to serve on the reunion committee are also Medical Center, Nampa. in Hewlett·Packard in Boise. asked to contact the office. adolescent care and surgery. Dyan Pickering (BBA, Weddings finance/accounting, '67) IS Charles Tillinghast and Alumni meeting slated May 11 employed WIth Peat Marwick camille Oliver (BoiSe) Sept. 5 The annual meeting of the BSU Alumni Association and in· Main & Co. in Midland, Tex. Jane Burman and Ed stallation of association officers is scheduled for Wednesday, Tlmothv Carleton (BBA. Webb (Homedale) Nov. 14 May 11 at noon in the lookout Room of the Student Union, management. '87) is working John E. L.-w.on and Linda Members of the association who wish to attend the luncheon for Centennial Corp. of McNichols (Meridian) Nov. 21 can make reservations at the alumni office, phone 385-1959. 0 Nebraska as a supervisor for John S. Clark and Tracy " Boise State 's first Distinguished Aiumml are, from lett to right: James McClary. Karl Knapp and John Elorriaga.

lhird-generation Idahoan born in 1917, McClary was n Oecember 1980, Knapp became Boise State's second A wllh Morrison-Knudsen Co. for 4S years, serving as the IRhodes Scholar. firm's chairman of the board from 1972 unlit his retirement Aher winning the prestigious scholarship and graduating in March 1978. magna cum laude from BSU in May 1981, Knapp elected to McClary served as a project manager in 1942 and general study English at Oxford's Pembroke College the following manager of an M-K subsidiary's operations In Mexico from October. At Oxford he spent the next two years studying 1947 to 1950. In 1950 he returned to Boise and became English literature as well as running lor the university's cross assistant general manager at company headquarters in 1953, country team. He finished al Oxford in June 1983, receiving and was elected a director in 1955. The following year he second class honors in English language and literature. was elected a vice president and by 1960 he had been pro­ Knapp was raised in Corvallis, Ore., where his father was moted to executive vice president before becoming chairman dean of undergraduate studies at Oregon State University. of the board in 1972. After graduating from Corvallis High School, Knapp McClary attended Boise Junior College from 1934-36 entered Boise State in the fall of 1976 on a track scholar· before going on to Stanford, where he earned an engineer­ ship. A four-year standout distance runner, he won the Big ing degree. McClary has been On the BSU Foundation's Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete Award hiS senior year. board 01 direclors ever since the junior college era and served Academically. Knapp was named outstanding English major as president from 197o-al. He was also named Boise State's at BSU in 1981. Alumnus of the Year by the Alumni Association in 1971. Knapp spent the first three years after OKford on Wall He has been an active lorce in Idaho, having served as Street, where he wor1

Tich..:.k (Boise) Nov. 28 Edward Waynetska (Boise) Anne TiddeRII (Boise) Jan. 23 time ot his death Melissa Stephenson and Dec 27 Kelley Lower atld Trish Gary R. Homer (BA, Joe Golcoechea (BoISe) Dougl•• Scrivner and Thomas (Boise) Feb. 5 elementary education, '75), Nov. 26 Kathleen E. McCarthy (Calil.) Sharon Michelle Groghan 48, died Feb. 27. Harner Mike Goodell and Bonnie Dec. 27 and Ne.1 GerJIrd Wliion taught elementary school In A, Kemper (Caldwell) Nov 28 Lance Loewenstein and (Woodburn, Ore.) Oct. 18 Wallace and Nampa, and was Trisha Hill and Gregg Heather Nisbett (Kansas City, employed as a third grade Mlzuta (Boise) Dec. 5 Mo) Dec. 28 teacher at Roosevelt Elemen­ Je"r~ Hickey and Petty Julia Howell and George tary School at the time 01 hiS Deaths Wallace (BOise) Dec. 12 Cochra n III (Calif.) Dec. 28 death. Stephen Shaw and Kitey S~n aearh.n and Stephen E. Hili (BBA, '73), Gteora Spackman Jacob­ Ru.e (Meridian) Dec 12 Victoria Pyle (Va) Jan. 2 36, died Dec. 28. Hill was the son (AS, education, '61), 50, Rod Glover and Teri Scot M. Lud.dg and Teri lormer director of the Aduh died Feb_ 18. Jacobson was O'Rorke (CinCinnatI. Ohio) M McKenna (Boise) Jan. 2 Learning Center at Boise the lirst WOrRan 10 be elecled Dec. HI Kristin Kugler and Todd L. State University. as student body president at Fred Weddel and Maf]orie Box, Jan. 9 John K. Couzen. (AS. '65) Boise Junior College. She L. Jones (Bellevue. WA) Sandra Poole and R. Scon died Dec. 25. Couzens was was on the BOise staff 01 U.S. Dec. 26 Salel. Jan. g working lor the New MeXICO Sen. James McClure until her Tere.. M. Beer and E. Michael J. 8~n~n and State Engineer's Office at the recent illness. Broncos net Big Sky, school records

t was a season like no OIher b:lSketblili season at Boise State University. Under I Coach Bobby Dye, the Broncos posted the best record in school history with an overall record of 24-6. En route to that impressive mark, BSU won the Big Sky Conference regular season title and captured the postseason tournament championship with a dramatic 63-61 win over host Montana Slate on a driving baseline layup by junior guard Chris Childs with two seconds remaining. That victory qualified the Broncos for their first berth in the NCAA national tournament since the 1976-77 season. In the first round, the Broncos lost to heavily favored Michigan, 63-58, bUI not before throwing a huge scare into the lOth­ ranked Wolverines as a potential game­ tying, 3-point shot by guard Brian King just missed in the closing seconds. Senior forward Arnell Jones became the first player in BSU history to be named the league's most valuable player as he led the team in scoring and rebounding for the second straight season. Jones and Childs were named to the All-Big Sky Conference first team and Dye won his second straight Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year award. Along with its record-breaking season, Boise State also established attendance marks for the BSU Pavilion. In eight Big Sky home games, the Broncos averaged a league-leading 10,422 in average atten­ dance. On Dec. 22,1987, Boise State set a school and league record when 12,265 fans watched the Broncos play fifth­ ranked Wyoming. The Bronco gymnastics team completed its most successful season ever with a Boise State climbed to the top of the Big Sky in 1988 as Brian King celebrates the Bron­ seventh-place finish at the West Regional cos' regular-season title-clinching win over Nevada-Reno while Doug Usitalo cuts down. Championship meet. The Boise State the net. Chuck Scheer photo team, 17-5 in the 1988 regular season, set four team and five individual records, in­ game. duding a 182.8 overall team score. heavyweight Pat McDade, senior 142- pounder Randy Schimmel, and junior The 1988 indoor track season saw many Coach Yvonne' 'Sam" Sandmire gradu­ 134-pounder Travis Krawl. successes for Bwnco athletes. Both the ates three seniors, but returns nine gym­ The 1988 women's basketball team also men's and women's teams took second at nasts, five of whom will be competing in enjoyed its most successful season since the conference championships, and the their final season in 1989. 1977 with the Lady Broncos' first ever men placed seventh in the nation - the 1988 marked the first season for the appearance in the Mountain West Athletic highest finish for any Boise State or Big Bronco wrestlers as Pac-lO Conference Conference postseason tournament. The Sky Conference team - at the NCAA members. Coach Mike Young's team Broncos finished fourth in the conference meet in Oklahoma City, Okla. completed the season with a 5-7 dual meet race with a 10-6 mark, 18-10 overall. At the nationals, senior Troy Kemp record, tallied victories against Pac-IO Sophomore forward Ann Jensvold took second in the high jump, senior opponents Cal State-Fu!lenon and Oregon became the first Boise State women's Wendell Lawrence triple jumped his way State, and finished eighth in their first basketball player named to an all­ to fourth place, and senior Steve Muse Pac-lO meet. conference first team since the program took fifth in the shot put. All three were Three Bronco wrestlers competed at joined NCAA Division 1 in 1982. JensvoJd named All-Americans for the 1988 indoor nationals in the first round: junior averaged 14.6 points and 5.8 rebounds per season. D 44 Story and photo by Glenn Oakley The skiers were hooked up to a elec­ nside the gy mnasiu m applause rever­ tromyograph and asked to image the race Psych they had just run. The muscles of the berates off the ..... alls _ Gymnasts are I hurtling through the air 10 Ihe strains skiers responded during the mental of continuous taped music. Offi cials playback in precise correlation to the actual ski race, complete with mistakes scurry back and forth. With 10 minutes made during the race, she says. In effect. to go before the start of Kar ie Kunl.:ler' ~ Out! the mind can be trained to perform its own event, tension mounts. Shc stands off to the side and focuses instant replays. her energy on the centcr of her body. Con­ Sport psychology Posi tive reinforcement is simply work­ centrating on her breathing and heartbeat, ing with the coaches and athletes to the noise and distractions fade into the gives gymnasts engender attitudes conduci ve to success. bad:ground. Kunkler piclures herself For example, Pctlichkoff suggests that before the bars. In several precise, quick extra edge technical instruction by the coaches be bounds she approaches and leaps in an preceded by positive comments so that the are, hands meeling the smooth rail athlete is more recc!ptive to the instruction. perfectly, her body shaming forward, up Ra ther than saying "No, that's wrong, do and over. Her moves are deft, deliberate this," Petlichkoff would have the coaches and sure. Now nearing the end of her say, " Hey you've improved a lot this routine, Kunkler releases the rail, twists week. Now Ic" s work on this. " her body in a full rotation and lands, feet Petlichkoff also helps the athletes planted solidly together. establish goals in a structured program Her name is called and no ..... Kunkler that includes writing down short- and steps before the beam to recreate the sccne long-term goals. evaluating them periodi­ she has just performed in her mind. cally and idcntifying strategies for achiev­ This is sport psychology, a co ll ection of ing goals. mental techniques and exercises used by Petlichkoff. who recc!ived her doctorate many U.S. Olympic athletes, nearly all in sport psychology from the University Eastern European athletes - and now the of Illinois. recognizes that "there's a lot BSU gymnastics team. of people dabbling in sport psychology Since October 1987 , Linda Petlichkoff, who have no qualifications." As a result, sport psychologist for the U.S. Sailing there is considerable confusion over ..... hat Team at the Goodwill Games and a new the field is all about and what it can do. assistant professor of physical education Petlichkoff says her role remains secon­ at BSU, has been working with the dary to the coaches. " I should never be gymnasts to develop mental skills that can the focus of the sports team," she says. give athletes a winning edge over their And she adds that the athletes must be competilion. willing to accept the ideas for them to Sport psychology is frequently viewed work. with a mixture of skepticism and misu n­ derstanding. But Petlichkoff says much of BSU gymnast Kane Kunkler used mental 1m· ymnastics coach Yvonne "Sam" her work is simply refining mentaltechni­ agery In her recovery from a knee tnjury. GSandmire says most of her athletes ques man)' of the athletes already use. Her have accepted the sport psychology pro­ primary psychological tools are relaxation, "Imagery is the ability to sec yourself gram. "This was looked at as kind of an centering, imaging and positive rein­ performing the routine," says Pctlichkoff. edge overlearns that aren't doing it," she forcement. In a sense it is highly refined daydreaming. says. "In gymnastics, where so much is " When we're kids we're told: 'Hey! Don't mental, it's really helped . Because they've D elaxation techniques are de,·eloped in daydream an ymore,' .. says Petlichkoff. practiced the routines over and over, it's na series of four phases, beginning with "So we tend to lose that abilit y." possible for them to perform thai skill the athletes tensing and (hen relaxing dif­ Imagery is used by athlctes to prepare perfectly every time if the concentration ferent parts of their bodies. This pro­ for new routines as well as troubleshoot is therc." gresses until they can isolate tension in problems in old routines. " When the Kunkler used relaxation and imaging their body and relax those muscles at will . athlete is having trouble getting over a extensively in her comeback from a knee Eventually, each athlete adopts a word hump - can't perform a particular move injury. Mentall y performing the routines which, when called upon, can trigger - they can visualize it done correctly in "was al1l could do," she recalls. "I'm a relaxation. their mind," says Petlichkoff. real strong believer in the mental aspect." Centering. says Petlichkoff, is a The technique not only prepares the Despite. the injury and subsequent knee "calming yet energizing" technique of athletes mentally for the routines, but surgery which sidelined her for a half-year, focusing on the body's center of gravity. physically as well, she says. "You're Kunkler says " I've done a lot better Ihis a point slightly above the navel, halfway actually training the muscles subcon­ year than in the past." between Ihe abdomen and back_ Center­ sciously," she says. " What I accept in my These are the resul ts Pellichkorr strives ing is a martial arts technique developed mind, my body doesn't distinguish be­ 10 achieve. " I don't do miracles," she to help fighters maintain balance. tween real and imagined." says. " J'm here to help athletes reach their Physically, there is no change in someone potentia!. But I want people to know who is centering, of course. "It's all the etlichkoffrecoUnlS a test conducted on there's research behind what we do. It's mind contr011ing thc body," P downhill ski racers fonowing a race. not just gimmicks." 0 4' Politics: The Higher Education Variety

By John H. Keiser President, Boise Slate Unjversity

olitics have always been a critical part of higher education because they fear change and wish to maintain the sectional status in Idaho, and they always will be. Historically. it was a quo, ala 1890, 1932, 1960. or, at best, 1987. Unfortunately, that P political d~ision thai placed the University of Idaho in is impossible; and, moreover, backsliding is both expensive and Moscow and the prison in Boise; and a few weeks ago, it was destructive. Educational decisions made for primarily political politics that prevented the issue of equitable funding among the reasons arc wasteful and ineffective. The fact is that the present institutions from being settled this year. The Lewiston prcs~, and institutions of higher education arc here to stay, and that they others, remain convinced that the University of Idaho lobbied play critical, bllt ever changing, roles. against a larger budget for higher education to frustrate the Previous legislatures took their best shots at Lewis-Clark, and equity issue, and the Pocatello paper refers to local public discus­ with supreme patience, President Lee Vickers denectN them and sions asking: Why push for higher funding for the universities more than justified his institution's existence. The Boise bashers since a disrroponionate amount would go to Boise State Univer­ have done their best to slow down Boise State by methods as sity? The statewide system is the machine; politics turns the diverse as encouraging Micron Technology to leave town, to wheel, or prevents it from turning. It is not surprising that when sabotaging its budget, to carrying BJC signs at rallies. However, the system bows too low to politics, it encourages more of the il is the largest university in the largest market and will continue same. Whatever works! to grow proportionately. Idaho State, in spite of the loose talk All states are artificial political constructs at best, and Idaho of shutting it down or selling it to the LOS community, serves is distinctly divided into sections. Since politicians, businesses a critical regional need that could not be met any other way. And and residents of all kinds must respond 10 their localities, and the University of Idaho provides an unduplicated land-grant since there is a university in each section of this state, the univer­ function in agriculture, mining and forestry, and wi\[ continue sities cannot escape sectional politics. The approaching study of to do so. governance in higher education will dramatically make my point. The present system accommodates politics and regionalism, For example, those who want a University of Idaho system as any system which is expected to function must, and should, will think again when they see University of Idaho, Boise; Univer­ do. It has permitted change, albeit begrudgingly, in the minds sity of Idaho, Pocatello; and University of Idaho, Moscow on of those of us with less patience. It depends on people, on leader­ the signboards. Which site do you think ,,"ould dominate that? ship, and on recognizing that parochialism will always exist. The And why do you think it won't happen? better the people, the beller the system works. It's as simple as The only reason the headquarters for a centralized system that. Constructive parochialism admits the reality of sectionalism would not be in the capital city would be political; but having and that it must be served. It admits that tax money from Boise it anywhere else would be a demonstrably had investment of must go somewhat disproportionately to other areas, but requires public funds. that other SC1:tions not stand in the way of Boise's growth. Then there arc those who prefer the ye aide Chancellor system At the present time Ihal tension is too great. A new balance led by a man or woman of clear eye and great authority on a must be struck, and southwest Idaho must keep a fair share of white horse. Even if Rambo would accept the job, he wouldn't its resources at home in the future. Destructive parochialism last long. It will be recalled that every time recent executive direc­ fights change, lives in the past, raises its nag high and marches tors have acted like chancellors to direct change or to increase backward. Ultimately, there is no longer any such thing as purely efficiency, they have been dismembered by a sectionallegislalUre private higher education or purely public education. Rather, there or by a board appointed with sectional balance as a primary con­ is higher education that works, is efficient, accountable, and of sideration. Anyone who wants to know more about chancellor­ high quality. or there is higher educalion Ihat doesn't work. ships, and what they can and can't do, should speak 10 Bud There are institutions that are a good investment for taxpayers Davis, recently fired chancellor in Oregon, who mounted up, and private monies, and there are those which are less so. A rode into the political wars and saw his sword snapped. decreasing minority of folks open their wallets for solely emo­ What about separate boards? One for puhlic education and tional reasons these days. The market, good business judgments one for higher education? One for each institution? One for a with attention to quality, fairness, equity and relative regional combined U of I and ISU and one for BSU? There is no panacea needs will control the future of higher education in Idaho. in that approach either, and tinkering with the boards will not Where and how can you get the most for your mone)" the most eliminate scx:tionalism and politics, although it would broaden quality as demonstrated by the product, anJ the most efficiency the playing field. as demonstrated by the numbers, is the issue. Politicians will In Idaho, interestingly en(lugh, many of those advocating a frustrate, statesmen will lead, but politics are as inevitable to new approach to governing of higher education are doing so the next stage as they were to the present stage. 0

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