FOCUS Is Published Quarterly by the Boise State University Ohice of News Services, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725
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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.