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Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 6-26-1996 Arbiter, June 26 Students of Boise State University Although this file was scanned from the highest-quality microfilm held by Boise State University, it reveals the limitations of the source microfilm. It is possible to perform a text search of much of this material; however, there are sections where the source microfilm was too faint or unreadable to allow for text scanning. For assistance with this collection of student newspapers, please contact Special Collections and Archives at [email protected]. :' " : ::: :-:':-.'-:'.';- :.....>:::~.,", .,. ,,:.': ::.::.~,,:,... .:: ..- " . , I:" i . ! i \' ;;.' . , , I . ..... .-.' . \ .--~, .. _._--,~~~--~~..:_-' -' .,_ ..~- ."------ . ·,t·, , of bolts around in favor of bikes: City Planners, won't 1. More Independent bike paths In hlg~tramc areas. In Holland bike paths 'you join the Bicycle stand off from the road. Thjsmakes travel ~ Revolution? more enjoyable, efficient and safe for • NEWSBUCKET. •• The increased traffic that accompa- both cyclists and drivers. ,;.. • R.chearillfl'~odonnerASBSU'Vice·President- nies our fair city's growth has spurred the . 2. Construdblkti'tuDnelsand • St. P.'sms services . development of-new overpasses,widened ba:idges.These allowcyclis~, togo ,over • Marriott Who?.. SUBgets a II8W host; ~ Host •roads, and the virtual extinctionof stop . or under high-traffic areas, ideal for:inter- signs in favor of traffic lights. With all the sections like Capitol Boulevard and road construction going on you'd think University Drive, Whichis currently our city planners were pretty savvy,but being worked on anyway, they seem to have forgotten that not 3. More bike racks. Seems simple · w."""., ","" d,'" everyone drives. enough, yet every fall-rack room is a •• n:.. s" . ...,."...' ... While tar and asphalt continue to scarce commodity at BSU. Racks are a engulf Boise, planners should consider cheap way to encourage bicycling and ' . ways to get people out of cars and into reduce automobile traffic, and should be other forms of transportation.One such designed for peak capacity. alternative is the bicycle. 4. Increased courtesy between blk- • BoIse River Festival •• Though the highly underratedbicycle ers and non-bikers. Many who do cycle • Festival Schedule has already won many converts(includ- to work or.school find it difficult to . ing the police department), people contin- maneuver outside the greenbelt. Cycling ue to view it as a recreational fancy,not a seems to exist in a confusing nether- serious transportation option. world between pedestrian and automo- Biking is an inexpensive, healthy, bile. • BlISh (olK8l1 Review clean and surprisingly efficient method of Many drivers view cyclists as traffic • Bush Intervlew_ transportation. Some students even find nuisances that should stay on the side- • Oriental Exhilit at B.A.M. that, due to stop light labyrinths, they can walks. Likewise many cyclists are bound • ·N.w MuskR""',," make it to BSU more quickly by bike. and determined to convince people that .·M.Hour. ••" Cyclists also don't have to waste time they are lawful traffic, even to the point looking for parking spaces or buying of biking in the middleof the road to parking passes for large and ugly parking prove it. garages. If planners encouraged cycling maybe ~ Here's some suggestions to get peo- they wouldn't have a constant need to • ·BoIs. SI,,'. Unl'BI'sily and ("sino" pie to stop dragging that two-ton bucket turn the City of Trees into the City of Road Construction. The Arbiter is t~e o~dal s~dent ~ewspa'perof Baise State University. Its mission is to prOVide0 foru~ for the dlSC~lon of Issues Impartmg the campus and the community. The Arbner's budget COnsists~f fees paid by studen~ of BSUand advertising soles. It is distributed to the campus and community on Wednesdays dunng the school year. The first copy is hee additional copies are $1 each, payable at TheArbiteroffices. ' 1910 University Drive, Boise, Idaho 83725 Phone - (208) 345-8204 Fax - (208) 385-3839 Editor In Chief Kote NeillyBell Business·Manager ChrisAdorns. Hootenanny Editor E-mail- Josh Costen Out-of-Doors Editor Rhell Tonner Opinion Editor 'Joe Relk Art Director/Production Manager Seon "Angus" Mcdonold Ad Designer Brendo Zipfel Sports: Sports@c!oven.idbsu.edu Online Editor Odil~ Relk Advertising Manager Moll POllenger Advertising Sales News: [email protected] M~1tPo~enger ClaSSifiedAds Manager Rhell Tonner StaH Writers DovidAugello John Bntschgl, Jarod J. Dick, Mory Doherty, MotthewHoynes, Mark Hollodoy, 'Ted.Rithmon, 'Steve Letters to the Editor: [email protected] ~cl~b Photographers Korolynn Brown, Rick Kosorich, Shoun Records, John Tone,' Aubri . 0 er Computer Systems Administrator Mork Holloday Circulation Manager Arts and Entertainment:[email protected] Darren.Elledge Reception Darren (Worthy) Elledge, Rhell Tonner Editorial' Adviser Peter Wollhelm Business Adviser WilliomHort . For back issues visit us at: People are lucky I don'. carry a gun. http://www.idbsu.edu/arbiter/intro.html -Angus _"-- ---:Ne::.:.m:.:...=.3 Student takes two firsts in BSUteam places second in Jury trial set for national competition business policy competition Debra McKnight, a student from the School of A team of six Boise State University students ASBSU leader Applied Technology at Boise State University, took placed second overall in the 32nd annual International first place in the application/interview skill division Collegiate Business Policy Competition held recently in and legal concepts division at the Business San Jose, Calif. The six-person BSU team also won .accused of rape' Professionals of America national competition in first place for higliest return on assets, Phoenix, Ariz., earlier this month. She also took ninth BSU team members were selected from nomin- .by Kate Bell in the business knowledge skills division. naions submitted by faculty in the College of Business Editor in Chief McKnight also took first in application/interview and Economics. Team members were Eric Boyington, skills at the BP A nationals last year. Zeynep Kocabiyik, Rob Larson, Hsin-Fang Jessica After semen tests were conducted by an FBllabora- Led by McKnight's two ctiampionships, the five Liao, Rebecca Phillips and Saliesh Smith. tory, former-ASBSU Vice President Darryl Wright was BSU students who qualified for nationals registered the Twenty-five schools participated in the com pet i- named a suspect in a rape case stemming from an incident best performance ever by a group from BSU with two tion in which each team is a manufacturing company on Oct. 15. Wright was arrested on charges of rape on May seconds and two third-place finishes. More than 1,000 competing against four to five other businesses in the 14, just two days after graduating with his master's degree. postsecondary students from 17 states competed in the same industry. A jury trial has been set for Oct. 7 in Lewiston. five-day event, The issue 10 be decided at the trial is not whether sexual Other BSU students who finished among the top intercourse occurred between Wright and the woman, competitors were Natalie Burrell, second in computer- Student wins regional but whether she was conscious and able to consent at ized accounting and sixth in payroll accounting; the time. Carmen Hogle, third in legal concepts and 11th in bowling championships After almost two days of preliminary hearings application/interview skills; Kristy Starner, second in Boise State University student Brandi Hostetler June 10-11, Nez Perce County Magistrate Stephen application/interview skills and third in administrative recently won the singles and all-events bowling titles at Calhoun ruled that the prosecution had presented sub- assistant; and Jennifer Yoakum, fourth in computerized the ACU-I Region 14 Recreation Tournament in stantial circumstantial evidence that the crime of rape accounting and ninth in payroll accounting. Bozeman, Monl. She will advance to the ACU-I nation- had occurred while the woman was unconscious. Nez al bowling championships in Atlanta. Perce County Prosecutor Denise Rosen said that means Hostetler is a sophomore majoring in civil engi- "a lot" of evidence. neering. Wright pled innocent to charges of raping an Student group wins Idaho State University student senator in his hotel room national award at the Armada Inn in Lewiston on Oct. 15. Calhoun said Phi Kappa Phi initiates 54 the formal charge is that the alleged victim was "uncon- Boise State University's student chapter of the Fifty-four BSU students were recently initiated into the scious of the nature of the act and this was known to the American Production and Inventory Control Society BSU chapter of the national honor society Phi Kappa Phi, accused; and/or she was incapable, through any recently received the APICS Bronze Circle Award for which recognizes superior scholarship in all academic dis- unsoundness of the mind, whether temporary or perma- outstanding chapter management. In only its second ciplines. nent, of giving legal consent." year of existence, BSU's student chapter was selected The honored scholars are: According to an article published in the Lewiston from among 183 schools for the honor. Jason Aberg, exercise science; Mary Amstutz, gen- Tribune on June 12, the woman testified that she Since 1988, the APICS Bronze Circle has been eral art; Vicki Barron, history; Michael Batdorf, physics; remembers nothing between about 12:30 a.rn., when presented annually