·Jimc.:-l.im•tcd Fd1t10n S325 00 Order Dc.:adhnc MIDNIGHT ;\ta~ 22, 1989 0\·c.:rall PrinrSi7c: BLACI 601 Main Street, Boise, Idaho 83702, 336-5899 Vol. IX, No. 3 Spring, 1989 38 22 PUPil 38 SE STUDENTS They represent a bewilder DEPARTMENTS There is no age limit to ing variety of backgrounds, 5 Campus l'o ews one's thirst for knowledge. these Boise State students. 17 Foundation News 18 People 40 c tv s 0 26 CREATIVE 42 Alumni News This survey compares Boise EMPLOY r 46 President's Comments State freshmen with their From fertility evaluation to counterparts nationwide. telemarketing, students are "on the job" in many 45 ON unique ways. co Basketball player David Fostering ideas that bloom and Lowery goes beyond de 28 ACTIV grow has taken on added emphasis fining the term "scholar It may not be the '60s, in this, the Year of the Student. athlete." but there are still those Photo by Glenn Oakley who are willing to "get involved." FOCUS is published quarterly by the Boise State University Office of News Servtces, 1910 University Drive. Botse, 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, ID 83725. If you receive duplicate copies of the magazine, please nottfy the Alumni Offtce at the above address Friends of the university who wish to rece•ve FOCUS can do so by sendtng their names and addresses to the Alumni Offtce. Correspondence regarding editorial matter should be sent to the editor. Unless otherwtse noted, all articles can be repnnted as long as appropriate credit is given to Boise State University and FOCUS The staff of FOCUS includes Larry Burke, editor; Amy Stahl, Bob Evancho and Glenn Oakley, writers; Chuck Scheer and Glenn Oakley, photos and graphics; Lana Holden, alumni news; Brenda Haight, editorial assistant; Dana Robinson, typographer; and Kyle Calhoun, LaVelle Gardner and Jim Hawe, student assistants. The FOCUS advertising representative is Point of View Advertising, 411 South 5th Street, Boise, ID 83702, phone (208) 385-0338. 4 BSU receives Construction continues equity adjustment After years of study and debate, the State Board of Education at its April meeting approved a $1 million "equity ad justment" for Boise State. The money is intended to bring funding· at BSU more in line with the other state universities. With the board's action, BSU will receive a larger share of the state ap propriation in the future. The equity issue has been at the top of BSU President John Keiser's agenda for almost 10 years. The $1 million adjust ment is a "solution whose time is over due," he says. "We are pleased that the board took care of it. It will not only help us, but it will also allow us, perhaps, to get what has become a kind of shibboleth off the books," he says. The money will be added to BSU's base budget. Much of it will go toward hiring 19 new faculty, many of those in high demand disciplines such as English and math. With the new hires, BSU will be able to reduce the number of part-time faculty it uses and increase the pay of those who remain, says Keiser. Other funds will be used to hire needed administrative staff, and graduate assistants, increase sabbatical leaves and keep some academic offices open during the summer. "Most important, it will allow us to bet ter meet what I think is the most compell ing force, which is a large and important market that needs to be served," Keiser says. Work has been on a fast-t.-.ck pace on the new S5 million Technology Building since With the equity adjustment, BSU will the groundbreaking In November. The building will be ready for limited use this operate with a $40 million state fall. Chuck Sch- photo appropriated budget next year. That is a 10.2 percent, or $3.7 million, increase in funding over last year. That compares with 6. 7 percent and 7.2 BSU to buy Campus School soon percent increases for the University of By mid-June Boise State's family of a $1 million donation from Micron Idaho and Idaho State, respectively. 0 buildings will add a "new" member. Technology. The university will borrow Then, BSU will own Campus School, the remaining $500,000 internally from which has occupied a corner of the univer bond surplus funds. About this issue sity's campus since the 1950s. "We won't go to the state to ask for ad To celebrate the Year of the Student, The building will become vacant in the ditional money to purchase the building," this issue of FOCUS takes a sometimes summer of 1990 when a new school will says BSU President John Keiser. "We are serious, sometimes humorous look at open in southwest Boise. BSU will then pleased to come up with a way of handl the individuals for whom our Ex move its political science department and ing it ourselves without burdening the ceUence Bell tolls. A diverse lot, rang several art professors into the remodeled state." ing in age from 16 to 82, BSU's building. While BSU will take ownership of Cam students fit no stereotype. They do The Boise School District will use the pus School this spring, it will still be used share one common goal - to learn $1.5 million purchase price to help pay for by the school district for one more year. more about this world. With this issue two new schools that were approved by During that period, the district will lease we hope to learn more about them. voters in December. the building from BSU for approximately BSU's purchase was made possible by $140,000. 0 5 ,. The Bullington era ends By Larry Burke just the helpmate the newly-appointed John Keiser needed to carry forward his agenda. "When Nancy and I interviewed in 1978, we really weren't fter 21 years in the center of Boise State's rapid growth spiral, Richard Bullington will retire this summer. committed to coming here until we had lunch with Dr. Bull How will he be remembered? There are so many ways, ington. The pride, commitment, confidence and optimism he had A were major reasons why we decided to come," says Keiser. "He by so many people. has a perspective on BSU that gets past the shadows on the wall To football fans, he was an eager pass receiver in the alumni and gets to what the place can and should be." game who one year took a hit so hard that his helmet flew off and his socks came down. uring the '80s, Bullington solved problems that were dif To Board of Education members, he was a soft-spoken ad D ferent from those in the '70s. Rather than the budget growth ministrator who often convinced them to vote "yes" even when of his earlier years, Bullington had to guide the university through they didn't want to. painful budget reductions that cut into faculty and academic To two university presidents, he was a role player par ex programs. cellence, a loyalist who always put the university first, himself Even during those years, Bullington didn't lose his en second. trepreneurial spirit. Instead, he directed two important building To faculty, he was a sympathetic listener, a man who hated projects, the BSU Pavilion and the Simplot/Micron Technology to say "no" because he wanted to help so much. Center; Jed the successful effort to accredit the College of To students, he was a friend who often took them into his Business; helped develop much-needed master's degree programs, home, an administrator who enjoyed them and drew energy from and Jed BSU's effort in distance education and use of technology. their presence. But Bullington's legacy reaches beyond buildings and pro And to the community, he was a valuable bridge to the univer grams. It also touches people . . . the countless number of sity, a forger of partnerships and a selfless civic volunteer. students and faculty he has helped as confidant, mentor and role From the beginning, Bullington and his wife Pat worked as model over the years. a team, weaving BSU into the fabric of their lives through their Says Keiser: "I believe for a Jot of us - specifically for me support of the Bronco Athletic Association, the Women of BSU, -he is a reason to be here. He clearly measures his value out and many other campus organizations. side of salary. He has left his mark, and that is more significant Dick Bullington's career at Boise State began in 1968 when than a few dollars in the checkbook." he was plucked out of Arizona State by then-President John Barnes says: "He can deal with people so smoothly and Barnes, who was looking for a ramrod to help develop Boise warmly, and yet achieve things. I don't think anyone can State College's growing academic and vocational programs. duplicate the depth and range of his contributions." Bullington, a former pilot, school principal and university After his final commencement ceremony, the Bullingtons will department chairman, fit Barnes' job description. retire to their new summer home on a lake near Bemiji, Minn. "I was looking for a strong 'in-house' man, a person who But next fall he will be back on familiar territory, working could be the academic leader and adviser on the future," says part time at BSU on a series of special projects that include the Barnes. "Dick was very good- super smooth with faculty and establishment of a new Institute for Traffic Studies, a new administrators, and also with students. He was awfully good." master's degree for National Guard members, faculty develop After a year as interim president in 1977-78, Bullington was ment, and the Year of the Student. 0 6 Registration goes plastic "Charge it!!" That's what some Boise State Univer sity students will be saying when they sign up for summer school. For the first time, students will be able to put their registra ros,... tion fees on their Visa or Mastercards. The new payment plan is being offered through West One Bank, Idaho (formerly Idaho First National Bank). William Jensen, BSU's director of Continuing Education, anticipates that 50 percent of the 4,500 summer school students may pay The Center for with plastic. The "charge it" option may be extended to spring semester, says Gail Maloney, BSU's director of administrative Manag_emen_!_ Development services. Maloney says summer session is "a trial" for the program. Several special programs are planned The Center for Manage General enrollment for the summer session. They include a ment Development was porcelain workshop offered by BSU art programs available to all, professor John Takehara, a survey of con formed in 1975 as an out including national tele temporary Soviet life through film, and a reach arm of the College of conferences, are presented biology course on insects, spiders and ticks for teachers. Students also can tour the Business. Since that time, during the Spring and Soviet Union, study Spanish in Mexico the Center has been Fall. In addition, the and attend the theater in London and Ashland, Ore. providing high quality, Center provides in-house The first of four summer school sessions reasonably priced profes programs, tailored to begins June 5; the last ends Aug. 11. New and returning summer session students sional and management specific organizational register May 1-31 at the Registrar's Office development opportunities needs, in a broad range of in the Administration Building. Students for the business and subjects. also can register June 2 and throughout the summer for classes that still are professional communities. available. The guiding principle Undergraduate fees are $61.75 per credit hour; graduate fees are $78.75 per in developing Center pro credit hour. grams is effective respon Summer bulletins, which include class schedules and applications for admission siveness to the needs of and credit cards, are available by calling area organizations, BSU Continuing Education at 385-3293 or managers and professionals. 385-1709. They can be picked up at the Registrar's Office. 0 Temporary help For more information about the Center, and matched to your how it can help meet your organization's training exact needs. and development needs, call Dave Ripley at •Office Clerical •Data Entry 385-3861, or write to: •Word Processing •Marketing •Personal Computer •Technical Support The Center for Management Development Call Kelly today' College of Business (208) 332·8564 Boise Boise State University 1910 University Drive I1yTem~orary KELL Serv1ces Boise, Idaho 83725 The KeiJy Girl" People-The First Ar.d The Best:• 385-1126 I 385-1105 ~1989K~I~Se From snow-topped and mist-shrouded mountain ranges of the world. great Arabica beans are shipped to Idaho and roasted daily. At a dime a cup, you'll find they are well worth the journey. AVAILABLE IN THE NORTHWEST'S GREAT STORES. Service • Knowledge • Quality YES, WE WILL SEND your family and friends coffee and gift packs V/s1t Bo1se's Specialty Sk1 anywhere in the world. 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Allen Award is given an nually by the Cornell University Labora tory of Ornithology. Cade received the ... We Make The Difference! award at a presentation April 14 in New York City. In the Alaska Center at 1020 Main St., Suite 100 in Boise 386-7000 Cade, director of raptor research at BSU, founded The Peregrine Fund in 1970 to prevent the extinction of the falcon in North America. The captive breeding techniques developed by Cade are now being used at the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise to save several other en dangered raptor species. Since 1970, more than 2,600 captive reared peregrines have been released, resulting in the re-establishment of the species in North America. Cade has published more than 150 ar ticles and scientific papers and three books, including Falcons of the World in 1982. He joined the BSU faculty in 1988 after working at Cornell for 20 years.O SYLVAN WILL. 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He got his start in teaching in 1954 as a social science instructor and basketball coach at Rigby High School, then moved on to Idaho Falls High School and Idaho State University. Connor joined Boise State College in 1966 as an assistant basketball and football coach. Over the years, he has taught at numerous summer athletic camps and Bus Connor Louis Peck officiated sports from badminton to weightlifting. 33 years. and received numerous honors. Peck's work is familiar to artists A native of Shoshone and graduate of In addition to his BSU teaching ex throughout Idaho and the Northwest. An Boise Junior College, Peck has exhibited perience, Peck has guided students at sum accomplished watercolorist, he has been work in juried exhibits around the world. mer sessions at the College of Idaho and chairman of the BSU art department for He has had more than 40 one-man shows Brigham Young University. Peck also is a familiar face in the artistic community as a judge at art exhibits in Idaho and Utah and at watercolor demonstrations and workshops through SAY GOODBYE out the Northwest, Hawaii, Canada and Spain. HIGH CALORIES. Ralph W. Hansen• ••and Bob Jameson are relative newcomers to campus, but their varied backgrounds have been valuable to BSU faculty and students. Hansen and Jameson also are retiring in May. Hansen, associate librarian at BSU, came to the school in 1979 and was given responsibility for public and technical ser vices at the BSU Library. From 1984 to 1988, Hansen oversaw processing of 1, 100 boxes of material from ALL 1HE PLEASURE. the collection of the late Idaho Sen. Frank NONE OF 1HE GUII1. • Church . .. TCBY" He began his career as a reference The Couni11J~ &sllbqurt. librarian at Brigham Young University in 1953 and joined the Stanford University library in 1962, where he established the university archives. A special lecturer in the College of Business' management department, Jameson received his bachelor's and 7103 Overland Road ...... 323-1904 master's degrees from Boise State Univer 111 Broadway ...... 336-9337 sity. He joined the BSU faculty in 1979 as 1517 N. Milwaukee ...... 376-4600 director of the College of Business Pro 415 ParkCenter Blvd ...... 338-1317 fessional Development Program and was 1790 W. State Street ...... 345-0994 an adjunct lecturer before being named specia1lecturer in 1980. 0 10 Vonnegut to give Hemingway talk Ernest Hemingway knew when he set dancers, a keynote address by Vonnegut, foot in Idaho that he was embarking on a reception for Vonnegut and one paper a lifelong love affair. He was taken with session. the place and its people. The full conference fee covers the Boise "Idaho's Largest The 50th anniversary of his arrival in events, round-trip transportation between Independent Gallery" the state and a novel he wrote while living Boise and Sun Valley, film screenings of in the Wood River Valley will be The Spanish Earth and For Whom the Bell SPECIALIZING IN: celebrated with a three-day conference in Tolls, a tour of Hemingway sites, two Sun • Fine Art • Custom Framing June in Boise and Sun Valley. Valley paper sessions and the seminar. 1115 W. Heise Ave .. Boise, ID 83706 Writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., playwright A Saturday evening dinner at Trail 206-342-6661 John DeGroot, North Carolina State Creek Cabin is available at an additional University professor Michael Reynolds cost. and University of Montana professor Gerry Brenner are among the scholars to Reservations are due May 20 for those who would like to get a reduced room rate ,,.~ gather June 9-11 to honor Hemingway IDAHO ~-A~\131 .If :t~o~Mv. 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An Arlington, Va., England on 18th century sermons deal firm, ERA Corp., performed the initial ing with the passions or emotions. screening of research proposals submitted This is the second year state research by Idaho's public institutions of higher grants have been awarded. D education. The final awards were made by the Board's research committee. Gifts, jewelry, cards, Research proposals funded include: magazines, posters, • A $34,623 award to biology professor Alfred Dufty to study the role of housewares and assorted vocalizations in brown-headed twentieth-century items of cowbirds. interest. All this and • A $25,270 award to health, physical education and recreation professor Un an espresso bar. da Petlichkoff to study the dropout rate of student athletes in Idaho public 1101W.IdahoSt Boose, Idaho 83702 schools. 206•344•5383 • A $26,448 award to professor of mathematics Sidney Porter to work on M-F7am-7pm"0'"' Sa19am-7pm one of the most fundamental unsolved Sun 9am-6pm mathematical problems: the decoding YOUR UNIVERSI'IY RING by JOSTENS Boise, Idaho Something's missing from your college days, but you can't put your finger on it? Now you can. You graduated without a oollege ring and never thought you'd miss it But things are different now. Pride, success, achievement - Please enter my name on the continuing everything symbolized by a college ring is more important to you educatioo mailing list than ever before. Especially the memories. Here's your chance to Name ______order the same college ring we made for your graduating class. 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Waldheim, chairman of Area Technical College in Zanesville, the department of industrial technology at Ohio. a non-smoker, California State University at Chico, has From 1%1 to 1971, he was plant you need been named dean of the College of manager of Waldheim Iron Works Inc., Technology. Waldheim will assume his in Buffalo, N.Y. A certified manufactur duties July 1. ing engineer, W aldheim earned his BLUE CROSS OIIDAIIO As head of the College of Technology, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees he will supervise programs in vocational from the State University of New York at technical education, pre-engineering, con Buffalo. 0 struction management and applied sciences. He will also direct the opening BSU earns honor of a new $5 million Technology Building for adult program Boise State was honored in March by Correction US West for the university's services to In the last issue, three names were omit adult learners. ted from an article about the Friends of BSU participates in PATHWAYS to the Nursing. Those who should have been in Future, a program that gives U S West cluded on the board of directors include employees the opportunity to take short Jody DeMeyer, chairperson; Arnold term courses or return to college. In Good, and Marilyn Haynes. Idaho, 280 employees have enrolled. Friends of Nursing is a community An individual award went to BSU stu group established to support nursing dent Martha Hamilton, an estimate line education at BSU. FOCUS regrets the assigner with U S West who began error. 0 college in 1987 under the PATHWAYS program. 0 • $1,000,000 of Protection • Doctor • Hospital • X-ray & Lab • Accident • Prescription Drugs • Physical & Speech Therapy • Chiropractic Care Invest 8 Months MAJOR MEDICAL 750 Nonsmoker ra.les With Us & Age of apphcam Mon 15 LINDA'S Preserving the Game published Diete J.R. Jones, born May 10, 1873, in Gouge Eye, Calif., built a life based on the Center· strategies of poker. In his adventurous Tlwuotltt.Jou,...,...-.h' career as a big game hunter, homesteader, "Real Food Makes The Difference merchant, conservationist and author, at Diet Center." Jones was ever the gambler. Indeed, when Linda, the Counselor who cares! his regular business ventures hit rough times, Jones would supplement his income 345-2220 by playing poker in his adopted hometown 1615 W. State St. of Jackson Hole, Wyo. Across from Albertson's. But, fortunately, Jones did continue FREE CONSULTATIONS AVAILABLE. writing, both fiction and nonfiction, un- J. A. Jones til his death in 1936. His articles and short stories have now been published in a new book, Preserving the Game, by Boise State University's Hemingway Western Studies Center. The book includes a preface by en vironmentalist and longtime Jackson Hole resident Margaret Murie, and additional text by Jones' granddaughter-in-law Reade Dornan, an English professor at the University of Michigan, Flint. Jones was an avid hunter who, after witnessing the slaughter of elk for their ivory teeth, became an ardent conserva tionist. Perhaps his most notable contribu tions were his efforts to establish national park designation for the Grand Tetons. In the summer of 1919, when the National Park Service was first openly considering park designation for the Tetons, Jones was the sole resident of Jackson Hole to support the notion. He was condemned 1tewlett ·Pacurd's Wctra PC works as hard as any other per· and ostracized by his friends and sonal computer But ot doesn't work you as hard. neighbors for his unpopular stand. Dor Ttwre's no confusmg lost ol MS•-oos commands to memonz.e. Instead you somply select options from a plain-Enghsh menu nan writes authoritatively about Jones and on screen his efforts on behalf of Grand Teton Na The manual's easy to follow, too. So you can gct up to speed tional Park. and then speed through your "ork-qui Pavilion gets scoreboard Giving Notes • Daniel Thomas has donated $2,000 to a tennis scholarship in his name and $3,000 to athletics. • The Vocational Technical Scholarship fund has been received nearly $500 in memory of Lyle Trapp, a former BSU voca tional technical instructor, who passed away in March. • Steven R. Appleton has donated $2,000 for the establish ment of a scholarship in his name. • Broadway Center Merchants Association donated $500 to the general scholarship fund as part of its BSU Apprecia tion Days celebration in April. • All Kitchens has donated $2,000 to the Vocational-Technical Culinary Arts Program. • Kevin Voyles has donated 50 shares of W.A. Krueger Co. stock, valued at $515, to the Frank Church Chair for Public Affairs. • Jon Barnes donated $2,000 to the College of Business scholarship fund. • Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood donated $2,000 for university enrichment. Marching band van donated BSU Athletic Director Gene Bleymaler, right, thanks West One president Bob Lane for the bank's $263,000 donation to pur chase a new scoreboard for the BSU Pavilion. Penning Memorial Keith Stein Blue Thunder Marching Band director David Wells Scholarship Established stands beside the 1989 Safari van donated by Keith Stein and Dan Thomas for use by the band. Intermountain Gas Co., with friends and business associates of the late Reed Penning have established and funded a memorial scholarship with the Boise State University Founda New Foundation Executive tion in honor of the company's former executive vice president, who died in January. Penning was a trustee for the BSU Director Hired Foundation. Commenting on the scholarship, Intermountain Gas Co. Robert S. Fritsch will become executive director of the Boise President William Glynn said, "This memorial will serve as State University Foundation effective May 15. as a constant reminder of the impact of Mr. Penning's vision Fritsch has been the senior development associate at St. Ed for the natural gas industry on the Idaho economy. We are ward's University in Austin, Texas, since 1981. He has also pleased to establish this at an institution and with the founda served as director of development at the College of St. Thomas tion where Reed served as a trustee." in St. Paul, Minn. and as special assistant to the president at Contributions to the Reed Penning Memorial Scholarship Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga. may be made to the Boise State University Foundation, 1910 Fritch earned his BA in economics and an MBA from the University Drive, Boise, ID 83725. University of Notre Dame. 0 17 THEATRE ARTS Tom Kraker is completing Plain, Idaho," at the American Polish Immigrants to Toronto: his term as chairman of the Association of Petroleum The Solidarity Wave," at the Rod Ceballos and Helen board of directors of the Geologists research con- Pacific Sociological Associa- Lojek of the English depart- American Society of Radio- terence at Snowbird, Utah. tion meeting in Reno, Nev., in ment coordinated the High logic Technologists. He has The paper was co-authored by April. School Theatre Arts Festival also been appointed to repre- David Hawk of the J.R. Baker's article, "Refugee in March at BSU. sent the American Society of Simplot Co. Assimilation: A Study of Phil Atlakson wrote and Radiologic Technologists at Another of Wood's papers Polish and Czech Refugees," produced the December the lnterorganizational Summit has been accepted for pre- was accepted for publication departmental production on Manpower in Radiologic sentation at a Geological in the Spring/Summer '89 Weeding the Field. The play Technology. Society of America Sym- issue of Humboldt Journal of was presented in Seattle and posium on Neogene Volcan- Social Relations. Sun Valley last November, MANAGEMENT ism in the Cordilleran Western "Backtracking: Ancient Art and at the American College U.S. in May at Spokane, William Wines, Nancy of Southern Idaho," a project Theatre Festival in Grand Wash. that will illuminate the aes- Napier, and John Bigelow Junction, Colo., in January. Wood was guest speaker thetic achievements of Idaho's presented papers at the Atlakson has adjudicated and panelist at the Federal prehistoric residents, has Western Academy of Manage- performances at Idaho State Emergency Management been funded by the Idaho University, Ricks College and ment (WAM) conference held in San Francisco in March. Agency Course "Earthquake Humanities Council. Max Lewis-Clark State College. His Hazard Mitigation tor Utility Wines and Napier presented Pavesic will serve as co- essay, "Writing with Holes," Lifeline Systems" and spoke "Toward an Understanding of director of the project. The appeared in Script, the North· to the McCall Rotary Club culminating exhibit from the Cross-Cultural Ethics: A Model," west playwright's guilP letter. in January about Idaho project will shown at BSU and Bigelow's topic was be William Shankwetfer earthquakes. in the fall of 1990. directed the departmental pro- "Developing a Computerized Interactional Partner: Rule A new coffee-table book, duction Antigone, and is serv- The Art of Geology, features TEACHER EDUCATION ing the Boise Little Theatre as Versus Frame-Based Approaches." the photographs of Monte consulting director for the Wilson and alum Thomas Jette Morache spoke on 1988-89 season. Bigelow, secretary-treasurer "Study Skills for Dyslexic Col- on the WAM executive com- Jacob. Wilson's two-page Charles Lauterbach was spread on the alpine karst lege Students" at the Western mittee, also presented a six- granted sabbatical leave fall of the Austrian Alps and College Reading and Learning hour session on the use of semester 1988 to do historical Jacob's two-page section on Association spring conference microcomputer programs in research for publication. Idaho's Lost River Range are in Seattle. management teaching. Stephen Buss served as included in the book, pub- William Kirtland spoke on Napier was among 17 set designer for Antigone, set lished by the Geological "The Values of Reading In- American and foreign pro- and light designer for Boise Society of America. dependently" at Centennial lessors selected to attend the Opera's production of Tasca, Graduate student David High School's "Read Week" and director of the music- three-week "Winterim" pro- this spring. gram at the American Gra- Lawrence's paper, "Geologic theatre production of Fiddler Field Trip Guide to the North· Kirtland and Lamont lyons duate School of International on the Roof. ern Succor Creek Area, represented BSU at the Management (Thunderbird) in Buss is also serving as Malheur County, Oregon," spring Ricks College Transfer Glendale, Ariz. chairman of the Inland North- has been published by Fair in Rexburg. west Region of the United Oregon Geology. Lyons made two presents- States Institute of Theatre ARTS & SCIENCES lions at the Rocky Mountain Technology. In its second annual Faculty ENGLISH Regional Conference on Sandra Cavanaugh visited Social Studies Education in Recognition Awards ceremony, Lonnie Willis made a New York in December for a the College of Arts & Sciences Phoenix, Ariz., this spring: film project and met with a presentation on the role of the "Why Do We Teach Social has honored four of its faculty hero and myth in contem- representative from National Studies? Attempting to Place members for distinguished porary culture in conjunction Theatre for Great Britain. She contributions. Recipients are the Horse Before the Cart," adjudicated and offered work- with the "Superman: Many and "Martin Luther King and Monte Wilson, geology and Lives, Many Worlds" exhibit shops at the American Col- geophysics, Award for Oistin- Non-Violent Action: Teaching lege Theatre Festival last fall. at the Boise Art Museum, Suggestions for Upper guished Teaching; Marc Linda Zaerr has been Jole Allred, director of the Bechard, biology, Award tor Elementary." BSU dance theatre, was named the American faculty Carroll Lambert was Distinguished Research in the member of the 1990 London choreographer for Fiddler on Sciences or Mathematics; awarded the Early Childhood the Roof. spring term program spon- Educators award for 1989. Alan Brinton, philosophy, sored by the Northwest In- Award for Distinguished Her recent presentations in- RADIOLOGIC SCIENCES terinstitutional Council on elude a workshop on learning Research or Creativity in the Study Abroad. She will teach Arts or Humanities; and Jack centers, "Turning On an Gary Craychee is com- two courses and will lead a Elementary Classroom," to Dalton, chemistry, Award for variety of excursions while in plating an article titled "The Professionally Related primary teachers from Dangers of Using Rating London. Service. Fruitland, New Plymouth, Scales for Interviewing in the SOCIOLOGY, Payette and Ontario, Ore., S1udent Selection Process." and "Creating the Environ- GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS ANTHROPOLOGY & He also was re-elected to the ment to Best Suit Your CRIMINAL JUSTICE position of historian of the Spencer Wood presented a Teaching Style" to the ADMINISTRATION Western Intercollegiate Con- paper, "Seismic Stratigraphy Treasure Valley Association sortium on Education in of Neogene Lacustrine Sedi- Dick Baker presented his tor the Education of Young Radiologic Technology. ments, Western Snake River paper, "The Adaptation of Children. 18 Several of the learning where the NCEC A con- Teacher Education Council of original work commissioned games made by students in ference was held. State Colleges and Unlver- by the music department, to Lambert's Creating Materials Cheryl Shurtleff was in- sities (TECSCU). TECSCU is premier at a concert next Workshop will be displayed at vited to represent Idaho in the the teacher education sub- year; "Timberline," a tribute the Canyon County Associa- 14th annual Invitational Draw- group of the American to Mark Shoemaker that pre- tion for the Education of ing Exhibition organized by Association of State Colleges miered at the President's Young Children Conference at the Eppink Art Gallery at Em- and Universities. Hart will concert in April; and Northwest Nazarene College. poria State University, Em- serve as president until "Western Impressions," a Lambert and Thel Pearson poria, Kan. February 1990. concert piece that will be gave a workshop to second- Photography instructors used during the Idaho grade teachers from the Boise Brent Smith and Howard HEALTH, PHYSICAL Centennial celebration. Public School District on Huff had work accepted in EDUCATION AND Shelton recently served as using manipulatlves and in- the Mountain West Biennial RECREATION adjudicator for the Gem State terest centers to increase Photography Exhibition, and League Maiching Band math skills. one of Smith's photographs Shennan Button was Festival, Pocatello; the lnvita- Jeanne Bauwens served as was selected for a purchase elected as the Northwest tiona! Marching Band Contest, a consultant in cooperative award. The exhibit will be delegate to the American Pasco, Wash.; and the Black- learning to foreign language shown at Utah State Univer- Alliance for Health, Physical foot Invitational Marching teachers in the Boise and sity this summer. Education, Recreation and Band Contest, Pocatello. Kuna schools. Her recent Huff and Smith also dis- Dance (AAHPEAD) and at- Shelton was guest presentations include played photographs of the tended the organization's conductor-clinician for the "Regular Education Initiative Idaho landscape in the School national meeting in Boston Gem State League Honor - Strategies for Special of Art Gallery at Louisiana during April. Band at Bonneville High Educators to Work with State University last November. The Northwest AAHPERD School in January. Included in General Educators," in the Huff's work has been conference was held at BSU the program was his original Rhinelander, Wis., Juneau, included in an exhibition during March. At that meeting, composition, "An American Alaska, and Kalispell, Mont., featuring 16 Pacific North- Button was given the "honor" Celebration." He also served school districts and "Coopers- west artists. The exhibit, award, bestowed annually to a as conducting clinician during live Integrated Reading and Field and Stream, was shown member for meritorius service the Northwest Music Educa- Composition," a specific this spring at Pritchard Art to the organization and the tors National Convention held cooperation learning strategy, Gallery on the University of profession. at BSU in February. to Mountain Home School Idaho campus and will be District faculty. shown Aug. 5 throu!IJ MUSIC ATHLETICS Joan Suedmeyer presented Oct. 22 at the Boise Art Duo-pianists Madeleine Ed Jacoby has been ap- the workshop, "Outlining Museum. Hsu and Del Parkinson Without Fear," at the spring John Klllmaster's work pointed by The Athletics Con- recently presented the recital meeting of the Boise and was reviewed and published grass (TAC) to a four-year in The New York Art Review: "A Concert of French Music term as chairman of the TAC/ Heartland reading councils. for Two Pianos" at the Kerr She also attended the Interns- An Illustrated Survey of the USA National Committee tor City's Museums, Galleries and Center, Scottsdale, Ariz., in Men's Development. As chair- tional Reading Association celebration of the bicentennial annual convention and led the Leading Artists, Las Krantz man, Jacoby will coordinate of the French Revolution. Hsu workshop "Visual Outlining Publications. coaching efforts and training Killmaster exhibited enamel also presented a solo concert philosophies of men's track Strategies for Enhancing for the benefit of the Arizona Reading, Writing and relief work in the 1988 Pacific and field events throughout Northwest Art Exposition held Circle of the Polish Institute of the country in preparation for Studying." Arts and Sciences in America in Seattle during October. the 1992 Olympics. Virgil Young delivered a and the Warsaw Conservatory paper at the Seattle meeting PSYCHOLOGY of Music. VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL of the National Social Science Hsu is on sabbatical leave SCHOOL Association. The paper, Garvin Chastain has from the university and is "Lessons Learned from received funding from the studying Latin American Writing an Elementary School Marjorie Williamson, Idaho State Board of Educa- music, languages, and business and special pro- Textbook," will be published lion for his project "An Ex- civilizations at Arizona State in Science Perspec- grams division. was elected Social perimental Evaluation of University. She recently spent tivBS later this year. president of the Idaho Busi- Three Models of Visual 10 days in the Yucatan penin- ness Education Association Spatial Attention." sula, Mexico, studying the for the 1988-89 academic ART Chastain presented "Probe Mayan civilization. ,...,._ John Takehara was invited Identification and Distance In recognition of her accom- to exhibit his work at the In- from the Target of Moving At- plishments, Hsu was recently POLITICAL SCIENCE ternational Ceramic Con- tention" at the joint conven- named Master Teacher by the terence in Arizona and the lion of Western and Rocky Music Teachers National Gary Moncrief's article National Council of Education Mountain psychological Association. "Reapportionment and the for Ceramic Art (NCECA) in associations in Reno, Nev., in Melvin Shelton completed Puzzle of Representation" Missouri. Two of his pieces April. He has also recently several composition projects has been accepted for were shown at the Northern served as special reviewer for while on sabbatical leave dur- publication in the May 1989 Arizona University Gallery, Perception & Psychophysics. ing the fall semester. Com- issue of The Legislative plated works include "Centen- Studies Quarterly. which is hosting the ceramic EDUCATION conference, and four pieces nial1890," a collection of Moncrief has co-authored a were shown at the Media Richard Hart was recently tunes popular during the year book, State Legislative Career Gallery in Kansas City, Mo., installed as president of the Idaho became a state; an Patterns, which has been ac- 19 cepted for publication by the firmative Action," has been COLLEGE OF BUSINESS LIBRARY University of Tennessee accepted for publication in the Dean Thomas Stitzel has Ralph Hansen attended Press. Western Joumaf of Bfack been appointed to the board "Understanding Congress: A Gregory Raymond Studies. of trustees of Boston-based Bicentennial Research Con- presented his paper "When SteinRoe Variable Investment terence" held in Washington, Nations Arbitrate" at the an- NURSING Trust. D.C., during February. nual meeting of the Interne- Hansen's article, "The Frank tiona! Studies Association in June Penner was awarded HISTORY Church Papers at Boise State London in March. He was the fifth annual Faculty library Award for excellence University," was published in also invited to present his Charles Odahl presented a the January, 1989 Senate research on the NATO in library-oriented teaching. paper on "A Pagan's Reac- History newsletter, which was alliance at an April conference Joann Vahey recently tion to Constantine's Coover- presented "The Aging Work- distributed at the conference. at Rutgers University. sion - Religious References force: Policy Implications for After many years of service to Raymond's article "Alliances in the Trier Panegyric of 313 Corporate America" to the the library, Hansen is retiring and the Preservation of Post- A.D." at the Classical Associa- Idaho Association of Affir- at the end of May. war Peace" will be published tion of the Pacific Northwest mative Action Directors, and in a new book "The Long conference in April at the "Elder Care: Corporate Agen- PHYSICS Postwar Peace: The Sources University of Victoria, Canada. da of the 1990s" to the of Great Power Stability. Odahl chaired a session on Mayor's Committee for Em- Dewey Dykstra has been Willard Overgaard served "Reports of Far Off Places- elected to the executive board ployment of Handicapped and on a discussion panel on Medieval Western Travel Ac- of the American Association Older Workers. "Restructuring Soviet Internal counts of Constantinople and of Physics Teachers and has Vahey attended the national Politics" at the annual meet- Scandinavia" at the Rocky co-authored a guide to an in- meeting of the American ing of the Western Political Mountain Medieval & Renais- structional videotape for in- Association of Gerontology in Science Association in Salt sance Association conference troductory physics classes, Higher Education, where she Lake City. in April at the Grand Canyon What ff . . . '? The tape and made a presentation on newly Steven Sallie presented his Lodge, Ariz. Odahl is a past accompanying manual were established academic stan- paper "Open Economies and president and executive coun- presented at the 1989 joint dards that regulate geron- Repressive Polities Within the cil member of the association. winter meeting of the Ameri- tology programs in colleges Third World" at the lnterna- can Association Physics and universities. Vahey is a of tiona! Studies Association an- PHILOSOPHY member of the academic stan- Teachers, the American nual meeting in London dur- Physical Society, and the dards committee. Alan Brinton presented his ing March. American Association for the Vahey and Mary Lou Long papers "Hutcheson's Essay Richard Kinney served as Advancement of Science. chair of the panel "State were co-recipients of a grant on the Passions" at the Budgeting in the United from the Western Institute of Northwest Conference on BIOLOGY States" at the annual meeting Nursing to implement a state Philosophy in November, and of the American Society for seminar for registered nurses, "The Outmoded Psychology Graduate students Jody Public Administration in "'Essentials of Quality Nursing of Aristotle's Rhetoric" at the Carter and Alison Beck Miami. Care of the Elderly," which meeting of the Western States recently made a presentation John Freemuth's article was offered earlier this spring. Communication Association in about animal adaptations to "The National Parks: Political Jackie Fuller has authored February. 75 fourth-grade students at Versus Professional Deter- a chapter in the book The Ef- Brinton's paper, "Appeal to Valley View School. mlnants of Policy" has been fective Education Secretary, the Angry Emotions," has Russ Centanni, Dotty accepted for publication in which will be published by been accepted for publication Douglas, H.K. Fritchman, The Public Administration ETC Publications of Palm in the journal/nformaf Logic. Rtchard McCloskey and Jim Review. He has also authored Springs, Calif. Her contribu- He has also received Idaho Munger attended the 31st an- two articles on the proposed tion is titled "The Effective State Board of Education nual Symposium of the Idaho Sawtooth National Park, ap- Higher Education Secretary." grant funding for research on Academy of Sciences. Paper pearing in Outdoors West and "The Passions as Subject presentations included, Idaho's Economy. CHEMISTRY Matter in 18th Century British "Clonal Architecture of Salix Freemuth was an invited Sermons." Setche/liana," Douglas; Robert Hibbs has received "Wildfire Education in the speaker at the Science and an award for distinguished National Parks conference SOCIAL WORK 1990s: The Needs Defined," service from the Institute of McCloskey; and "Sublethal held in Tucson, Ariz., in Food Technologists, Inter- Doug Yunker recently at- November. He was also in- Parasites and Host Energy mountain Section. He served tended an American Society Budgets: Tapeworm Infection vited to present a research as the institute's first chair- on Aging meeting in Wash- paper on "Cross-Boundary in White-Footed Mice," man in 1962 and has served ington, D.C. He has been in- Munger. Impacts on Federal Lands" at in other capacities for many vited to attend the National the Western Social Science years. Association for Rural Mental Association annual meeting in Health conference in Madison, ENGLISH Albuquerque, N.M., in March. PAVILION Wis., and the Council on Drlek Zlrlnsky has been Stephanie WHt will join the Social Work Education Bac- elected to a three-year term faculty in August 1989 as an Dexter King is completing calaureate Program directors on the executive committee of assistant professor. She is his final year as chairman of meeting in San Diego, later the Conference on College currently completing her Ph.D. the Board of Regents of the this year to present a Composition and Communica- at Washington State Univer- School for Public Assembly workshop on "HIV/AIDS: In- lion, a constituent group of sity. Her co-authored article, Facility Management in tervention and Teaching the National Council of "Faculty Attitudes Toward AI- Oglebay Park, W.Va. Strategies.'' Teachers of English. D 20 hey represent a bewildering variety of backgrounds, these Boise State T students. From freshmen who have never left home to war-toughened Viet nam veterans, they all converge on cam pus, seeking the opportunities that higher education provides. Some are wealthy, others are not. Some are blind, and will never see a teacher. Others are deaf, and will never hear alec ture. They range in age from 16 to 81. In today's BSU student body come people from every social and economic background imaginable, from small towns and huge cities, from farms and urban housing projects, from every county in Idaho, 40 states and 33 foreign countries. Unlike more homogenous campuses, there is no such thing as a "typical" stu dent at Boise State. Because of its urban location, BSU attracts an unusually large population of students who are returning to the classroom after years of experience managing a home or business. At BSU, these "non-traditional" students mix with recent high school graduates to form an 11 ,700-member stu dent body that is a cosmopolitan blend of ages, tastes, races and personal histories. This blend gives BSU's student body its distinct personality. Using facts and figures from several university reports, here is a description of that personality. • The age of BSU's full-time student population is younger than many might think. The median age (one-half of the students are above that age and one half are below it) for full-time students is 22. • The median age for part-time students, however, is 32. • The "average" age, for all BSU students is 28.6, but 17 percent of the student body is under 20. Forty students are older than 70. • Last fall women outnumbered men 6,505 to 5, 165. Most of that difference Keiser: BSU dedicated to educational quality This year ... the Year of the Student dent scholarship campaign, photo stu January. "The task is to listen to ... Boise State is focusing its efforts dent identification cards, review of the students, categorize, prioritize, and act on the improvement of the services it core curriculum, automation of finan as effectively as we are able. Most im provides to students. The agenda was cial aid services, and improvement of portant is the message that Boise State set during the spring semester, and the academic services. is dedicated to achieving educational main Year of the Student committee The goal of the Year of the Student quality in your field of interest," Keiser and two subcommittees are now work agenda is to enhance the quality of told students. ing on a long list of goals. education at BSU, says President John While the Year of the Student of The two subcommittees, one on im Keiser. ficially ends Dec. 31, 1989, the univer proving instruction and the other on sity will continue to work on the year's improving university services, are "The contention that we exist to agenda until most of the projects are already working on a specific list of 30 serve students deserves examination," complete, according to committee chair projects, including a Year of the Stu- he said at a student convocation in Richard Bullington. 0 22 comes from part-time students women (2,276) almost double men (I ,280) who attend part time. • Women have a higher grade average than men - 2.68 to 2.41. • Ninety-three percent of BSU's student body comes from Idaho. Ada County accounts for 63 percent. • Students majoring in business made up 26 percent of nSU's enrollment. There were 3,142 business students last fall. • Arts and Sciences is the second largest college, with 2,335 majors. • Interest in elementary education has re bounded from earlier in the decade. Last year there were 644 majors, com \ - -.;,. ~- ::;.~-~ pared to a low of 422 in 1980. • Enrollment in the baccalaurete program AMERICA'\ GRILL & BAR in nursing has jumped fourfold since 1980- from 55 to 223 students. • The most popular major~ at BSU are general business (784), elementary "A little hard to find ... the first time." education (644), accounting (527) and communication (347). • Freshmen account for the most withdrawals. Of the 1,305 students who AT T HE NEW PARKCENTER MALL withdrew last year, 569 were freshmen. R ESERVATIONS ACCEPTED In addition, many freshman do not return for their sophomore year. Last 345-6700 year the freshman class had 2,000 more students than the sophomore class. • About 900 students return each year after "stopping out." Another 980 transfer from junior colleges and other CORRESPONDENCE \..• "" .. schools. t..AsTUDY from: • Of the total baccalaureate degrees University of Idaho awarded last May, 434 went to women in Boise State University and 346 to men. BSU also awarded I 53 Idaho Idaho State University master's degrees and 428 associate degrees and certificates. Lewis-Clark State College • There are 596 veterans enrolled, down more than half from the I ,263 who enrolled at BSU 10 years ago. 'j, ~ .}~ ~IJ-(d; • BSU awards $10.5 million in financial aid and $2.3 million in scholarships 4bJd_ 'm£ a- each year to more than 3,000 students. r ~ • Minorities are sparse among BSU's mostly white student body. Last fall .:'\arne there were 103 blacks, 53 Native Address______Americans, 269 Asians, and 292 Hispanics enrolled. There were 10,842 State /.IJ> ;;~ white students. ------• Students who list Boise as their Areas of Imere~t hometown make up nearly half of the student body. Outside the Treasure Valley, Twin Falls County sends the most students with 343. Bonneville County in eastern Idaho enrolls 150. CORRESPONDENCE STUDY • One hundred seventy students come in Idaho from Oregon. Another 140 are from Uni\crsil) of Idaho <·amJHI' California. The Bahamas leads foreign Moscow, ID 8~843 countries with 12 students, while Hong Kong has II and Canada 10. There are (208) 885-6611 78 foreign students at BSU. 0 '------; In the 1980s there a of college students tt. gious factions in Beir punkers, crewcut jock piece suiters, latter-c normal kids, too. So i college students at Be we have tried anywa~ student species, in an old-timers like ourse strange minds of. . . JOE AND JOSEPHI Major: Business Administration Theme song: It's Money That Matters, by Randy Newman Hero: Donald Trump Club affiliation: Young Republicans Latest accomplish ment: Earning a 49.4 percent return on stocks purchased at mid-level risk. Goals: To land a management position with a major corpora tion, climb to the top and then crush and buy out competitors. Favorite book: lacocca Favorite author: William F. Buckley Favorite magazine: Inc. Favorite movie: Wall Street Favorite game: Monopoly Favorite beer: Coors Light Favorite Boise bar: Pengilly's, when all the attorneys are there. Favorite Boise restaurant: Angell's Favorite holiday: Labor Day Favorite color: Navy blue Favorite bumper sticker: Ollie for President Footwear by: Florsheim 24 r more types and styles n there are armed reli . There are skateboard computer nerds, three- r granolas and a few not easy to stereotype State University. But xamining two current tfort to give alums and b an insight into the E COLLEGE, 1989 Major: Liberal Arts Theme song: Talkin' Bout a Revolution, by Tracy Chapman Hero: Pee Wee Herman Club affiliation: Snake River Alliance Latest accomplish ment: Scoring tickets to a Seattle Grateful Dead concert. Goals: To stop the Special Isotope Separator from being built in Idaho, raise organic potatoes while writing a best selling novel, and get a new mountain bike. Favorite book: Steal This Urine Sample Favorite author: Hunter S. Thompson Favorite magazine: Mother Jones Favorite movie: Lair of the White Worm Favorite game: Frisbee golf Favorite beer: Anything but Coors Favorite Boise bar: Pengilly's, after all the attorneys have left. Favorite Boise restaurant: The Metro Favorite holiday: Halloween Favorite color: Black Favorite bumper sticker: Die, Yuppie Scum Footwear by: Birkenstock 25 Thousands of college students have kept themselves in books, beans and beer by frying burgers, sacking groceries, waiting tables and pounding nails. Indeed, more students than ever before are combining their college studies with part-time or full-time jobs. But not all are finding traditional college employment. Here are a few samples of creative employment - odd jobs handled by current BSU students. By Glenn Oakley weeks training Eskimos in a remote village on the Bering Sea. ach spring Gene Stone Eleads 30 axe-wielding con victs into the forest. It's the safest work he does all year. etting kicked, bitten, Stone, who earned his Gtrampled and dragged is business management degree an occupational hazard for from BSU in 1983 and is now Erin McBride, but she working on a teaching cer wouldn't have it any other tificate, is squad boss for a way. Exercising yearling fire fighting "hot shot" crew. racehorses at the prestigious The hot shot crews are the Billingsly Creek Ranch in elite fire fighters of the U.S. Hagerman Valley is a natural Forest Service, assigned to the for McBride. Like the tho toughest, most dangerous in roughbreds on the end of her fernos. Last year Stone chased lunge line, McBride's life has fires from Canada to North revolved around horses. Dakota to Wyoming, to Idaho "My parents have pictures to Oregon to northern Cali of me in a saddle when I fornia, back to Wyoming, wasn't even a year old," says then to Utah, to northern the petite 20-year-old from Idaho, back to Yellowstone Jerome. She showed Ap National Park, then to paloosas all across the West California. while growing up and exer But before and after the fire cised racehorses at the Jerome season, Stone trains a crew of track through high school. inmates from the Idaho State Now studying to be an English Penitentiary. For Stone, who teacher, McBride says, "I hopes to teach business or figured if I was a teacher I'd social studies in high school, have summers off the rest of the convicts may be the most my life to play with horses." cooperative students he will Her current work at Bil ever have. "It's probably the lingsly Creek isn't exactly most prestigious job at the Gene Stone chases forest fires around the country, and teaches prison play, but McBride says it's prison," explains Stone, "so inmates the art of fire fighting. Glenn Oakley photo fun working around horses it's very competitive. They get worth $20,000 to $60,000. At one chance. If one of them blows it, it blows it for everybody. the beginning of each summer she is given stewardship over eight You get a lot of cooperation." to 10 yearling thoroughbreds and quarter horses. Her job is to Stone notes that "These are your model prisoners. They're exercise them daily, teach them manners (like not whinnying at trying to acquire a skill they can take out of prison. They're really the mares), wash and groom them and keep them well fed and good students." The convict crew is always accompanied by an watered. "It's really tough working with yearlings because they armed guard. want to play and goof off all the time," she concedes. The convict crew in Idaho is in its third year and has worked The horses, averaging 15 hands high and 800 pounds, are a well, says Stone. Thirty prisoners are trained, but only 20 go on bit on the wild side when McBride begins working with them. the crew at one time. "Those yearlings," she says, "You can get in real bad fights with Stone, who put himself through college on an athletic scholar them. They have bad tempers." The stallions are the worst, she ship and by fighting fires, has now expanded his fire-fighting says. "They are a pain. They're always rearing and striking. You teaching. He recently returned from Alaska where he spent two always have to watch out. You never know when they're going 26 to reach out and bite you." be horrible for them. Sometimes it does help just to talk to them, And if the horses are spooked, watch out. "Those yearlings to tell them somebody does care and they're not just a test tube." think you're their protector. So if they get scared they want to But not all her dealings are with infertile couples. "Sometimes get as close to you as possible, which means on top of you." men come in and wonder why their wives or girlfriends are preg A horse got spooked last year and ran over a co-worker. She nant when they had a vasectomy. It can be pretty touchy," she escaped with a broken finger. admits. Still, when the yearlings are sold at the annual sale in mid summer to buyers from across the nation, McBride is left in tears. " It's sad," she says. "You get very attached to them." n certain evenings Jim Hawe telephones hundreds of Opeople using a false name and a slightly altered accent. "You • try to use your acting abilities," says Hawe, an English major rystelle Mischenko takes a lot of teasing from her classmates who moonlights for Sturner & Klein, a Boise telemarketing firm. Kbecause of her job, but then her work is inconceivable. He simplifies his name to Hall for his telemarketing job. At age 19, when most college students have yet to take their The company telephones people who have let their magazine first course in human reproduction, Mischenko is managing subscriptions lapse and gives them a pitch to renew. "You talk the Boise affiliate laboratory to black people for one hour of Reproductive Medical for Black Enterprise, then to Technologies. scientists for one hour for Her office provides labora Scientific American, then to tory testing and treatment for environmentalists for Audu fertility evaluation. Typically, bon, then right wingers for In patients referred to RMTI are sight," says Hawe. couples who have been unable "I try to sound a little bit to have children. Mischenko, black when I call for Black the sole employee at the Boise Enterprise and I try to sound lab, sees an average of 15 pa fairly scientific when calling tients a week, referred to her for Scientific American. You by some 65 area physicians. can't overdo it," Hawe says. She conducts 35 different Hawe says his job offers an laboratory tests on blood, offbeat view of America's semen and urine, counsels the cultural geography. He patients, and takes care of all notices, for example, that billing, bookkeeping and people on the East Coast tend filing. In her spare time she to read a lot. Conversely, conducts experiments in the "It's like nobody reads in lab "just to satisfy my own Mississippi and Arkansas." curiosity." She works four Except for Bassin' magazine, hours a day at the lab while of course. maintaining a full student ~ Subscribers to horse maga- course load as a radiology ma ~ zines are the most polite, al jor at BSU. though he says insults over the Mischenko explains that the phone are rare. ''This company RMTI lab is the only facility has real high ethical standards. in Idaho specializing in fertil We don't do any pushing.'' ity problems. The techniques Other tidbits gleaned over used to test for the causes of the phone: A lot of scientists infertility - and overcome really are absentminded, re them- are not well known, peatedly forgetting to resub even among the medical com scribe to Scientific American. munity, says Mischenko. The New Yorkers are blunt. If technology and understanding Hawe tells a Manhattan resi of infertility is changing rap Krystelle Mischenko operates Idaho's only laboratory specializing in human infertility. Glenn Oakley photo dent he is calling long distance idly, she says. for The New Yorker, the per Although friends "tease me horribly" about the job, son will invariably ask just where he is calling from. When he Mischenko says, " I like informing them about it and seeing their tells them Boise, Idaho, the typical response is, "That's stupid!" reaction." (Hawe says the company is located in Boise because of its good Mischenko's lab provides semen for artificial insemination, business climate and because Idahoans speak clearly.) and prospective parents can shop for their semen donor by con Aside from sore throats - "we use a lot of cough drops in sulting a list at RMTl. The list provides information on the this business," Hawe says- the most significant occupational donor's race, hair and eye color, complexion, ethnic background, hazard is cracking up on the phone. "You wouldn't believe the height, weight, blood and body type and profession. names people have," says Hawe. "Liverlips Lee is a real name. Although her work is primarily technical, Mischenko notes Urban Hipp is a real name. Ki tty Kay Katz subscribed to New that infertility is an emotionally charged problem. "Infertility Woman. There's Dr. Bird with the Audubon Society." patients are often upset and confused because they hear so many To maintain composure, says Hawe, "I've had to hypnotize different, conflicting opinions," says Mischenko. "Infertility can myself on some of these calls." 0 27 In the 1960s college students sang along with Pete Seeger's peace mm-'ement an them, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Today, Seeger might be more inclined to sing, solo, Where Have All the Stu dent Activists Gone? Caucuses and causes Student activism, once synonymous By Glenn Oakley on this campus is a lot of hard work." with anti-Vietnam ASBSU may not be hard~line partisan war protests, has in politics, says Russell, but, "There are a lot of the 1980s become What a difference a decade makes. Jeff similarities" between campus and "real" Russell, the outgoing ASBSU president, sits politics. Indeed, for many aspiring politicians, diffused, diminished behind a broad, neat desk in a formal suit and the Associated Students of Boise State Universi and quieter. With tie, and calls it, "the political pendulum. I ty is a proving ground for local, regional, state no single catalyst to think it goes in cycles," he says. and even national politics. solidify student ac "My sister is 10 years older than I am and Rick Overton, who jokes that he has "the tion, activism has we couldn't be further apart politically," he honorable distinction of being in just about become an indivi observes. After school, says Russell, his sister everything at ASBSU," has also made the move dual undertaking, "didn't know exactly what she wanted to do, into real world politics. In the 1988 election he spent a lot of time traveling." Today she lives campaigned for State Sen. Mike Burkett and a commitment of in Santa Cruz, Calif., and teaches rock climb then was awarded an internship at the State conscience. ing in Colorado. house. "For three years I learned all these Student activists Russell suffers from no such hesitation about things about politics through ASBSU," he says. today tend to work his life's purpose and goals. "I was always in "I was prepared for understanding how people alone or in small trigued by politics the way some people are react to ideas, to political change." He defines groups. The causes with movie stars," he says. "I guess I've himself as a liberal and suggests that America's adopted by today's always been a leader." The 24-year-old business diminished economic power in the world is major says, "Ronald Reagan was a real symbol responsible for the political conservatism college students re for me .... I'm a real patriot to the point of prevalent on college campuses. "This is the first flect the interest of being corny. You can call me a flag-waver, but generation that believes they will have a lower the indiYiduals. In I really believe in America." standard of living than their parents," he says, this series we take a While Russell is not the average BSU college adding that there is a great deal of "desperate look at various student, he does reflect the political conser behavior on account of that." causes and the Boise vatism that has dominated university campuses Overton says politics, for him, is "this hobby State students who in the 1980s. At age 14, Russell was campaign I'm afflicted with. I'm trying hard not to make ing for Idaho Sen. Steve Symms. In 1984, his it an end unto itself. I kind of resent a person haYe made a com second year at BSU, he joined the College devoting their life to trying to get into mitment to these Republicans and then became chairman of the politics." It should be a cause or reason that issues. group. In 1986 he took a semester off to work motivates politics, he says. as the Republican field coordinator for the First Eric Love is a student driven by causes. The Congressional District race. After the election president of the Black Student Union, vice he returned to school but continued working as president of the BSU Ambassadors and 1988-89 the political director for the state Republican homecoming king says his concerns focus on Party. In 1988 he consulted with five "racial issues, human rights issues and peace . Republican state senators and then ran and won . . . I see something I don't think is right and I the ASBSU presidential campaign. He plans to get involved to try to change it. If everyone work for a corporation after graduation, then does their part it will make a difference." Love return to graduate school to earn either an made news in 1988 by leading a rally protesting MBA or law degree. And then, he says, "I BSU's holding of classes on Martin Luther think I'll probably run for the Legislature." King Jr. Day. "Our purpose was just to raise Russell says that college students nationally awareness," he says, "to let [BSU President are registering 4-to-1 Republicans over Dr. John] Keiser know there are people who Democrats. "My belief is the majority of care about this holiday. We accomplished our students on this campus are fairly conser goals." vative," says Russell. But, he adds, "I don't Love's political beliefs spring from his unique think I was elected [to ASBSU] because I was a background. "My mother's white English and Republican. I think the key to getting elected my father's black American," he explains. 28 POLITICS "There's no way I could possibly be prejudiced between black and white. I'm proud of my dual heritage. I consider myself a world citizen." He says he would like to "dedicate my life" to working on issues of peace and justice, but will do so outside the elected political arena. "I am involved in the issues I want to be involved in," he says. "I don't need to run for an office because I might win or it will look good on my resume." The political winds may have shifted in the last decade, but underlying distrust of politics remains. "Politicians," says Love, "become the opposite of what they should be." But Russell, arguably the most politically ambitious student at BSU, believes political ambition is generally honorable. "I wanted to represent the students," he says, "but you have to be honest about it and realize you do a lot of it for you. But people who are motivated generally do a good job for those they serve." 0 ~ainst the flow A uthe political pundits told Mack Sermon that Jesse Jackson, a liberal black from the South, wouldn't stand a chance in Idaho. Ser mon became state spokesman for the Jackson campaign anyway. On the night of the Democratic caucus the then 22-year-old stood in amazement as his candidate took second place amid wild and raucous cheering of "Win, Jesse, win!" Jackson, of course, did not win the Democratic nomination, much less the presiden cy. But that may not be the point, says Ser mon, a secondary education student at Boise Mack Sermon likes moving in political circles while maintaining his grass roots connections. Glenn Oakley photo State. "If Jesse serves no other function, he serves as an agenda setter. And if that's the on Sermon explains his political activism as a ly role I serve, that's OK with me, too," says natural outgrowth of his longtime involvement Sermon. in speech and debate. He is currently president At age 16 Sermon was campaigning for a of the BSU chapter of Pi Kappa Delta, the Republican prosecuting attorney in Idaho Falls. honorary speech and debate fraternity. The same year he worked door-to-door for Originally from Idaho Falls, the 23-year-old Democrat Richard StaJiings' successful cam Sermon says, "Moving to Boise was natural for paign for the Second District Congressional me because I enjoy politics, and this is the seat. hotbed for it." He says he fmds being a pro In 1984, at age 18, Sermon was the second gressive in Idaho stimulating rather than stifl youngest delegate Idaho had ever sent to a ing. "If I were living in Massachusetts I Democratic Convention. Four years later he wouldn't be having any fun," he explains. was state chairman for Students for Jackson "When you don't have a struggle, you don't ''When you and then state spokesman for Jackson's have anything to fight against." don't have a presidential campaign. Currently, Sermon says, "My thing is pro "I don't classify myself as a hard-core mOting non-traditional and working students' struggle you Democrat," says Sermon. "If I were going to issues. I'm going to spend the next year holding don't have any classify myself I'd call myself a progressive. ASBSU accountable and making Pi Kappa Populism and progressivism - those are my Delta the best club on campus." Does he find thing to fight two p's. My personal hero is Teddy Roosevelt. student politics a letdown after working on a against.'' He was this colorful character who'd get out presidential campaign? No, he says. "My ap and tell people what they wanted to hear. He proach is grass roots. So for me it doesn't went against big business, big government. change very much. I'm not in the news every He went to the people." night, but that's OK." 0 29 Rare action By Glenn Oakley E nvironmental activists at Boise State are as rare as black-footed ferrets - and twice as busy. With no established conservation organization on campus, environmental activism at Boise State has been a mauer of a few individuals working independently. In the late 1970s Boise State biology student Bill Lawrence established a campus conservation organization. But, says Pat Ford, the former director of the Idaho Conservation League, "It was sustained by his energy. When he left for graduate school it col lapsed." ''I'm here to get Most recently, history and secondary educa a quality tion student Ed Cannady has auempted to establish a campus conservation group. The education, but I 32-year-old Cannady says he arranged for know if you legislators Gail Bray and Ken Robison to speak at the Student Union Building, but "no Ed Cannady believes environmentalism Is rooted in don't act now students came." Cannady says BSU students the environment "are an untapped resource" and he considers Idaho Peace Coalition, whose primary emphasis the tapping of that resource "a challenge." is stopping the SIS, a plutonium factory for will suffer.'' But Cannady is already stretched to the limit nuclear warheads. in his capacity as Ada County chapter president "The main opposition to the SIS is en of the Idaho Conservation League. "I want to vironmental," says Crooks. "We do not want have an impact, but I want to keep my studies to come out as anti-nuke or anti-INEL, because up," says Cannady. "I'm here to get a quality we're not. But the site in Idaho where they education, but I know that if you don't act want to put this has been named as one of the now the environment will suffer. biggest pollution problems in the nation. We " I would like to start a campus chapter at feel like the problems that have been created BSU, but I need to find some people willing to should be taken care of." take an active role," says Cannady. He fears Crooks says, "I think there's a lot of in that college students today are primarily terest, but students don't know about the Idaho motivated by materialism. "It seems to me the Peace Coalition." A booth set up in the Stu most popular thing is dressing right or looking dent Union Building garnered 1,000 signatures good on a skateboard. It's not restricted to against the SIS in three days, plus $75 to help Boise State; it seems to be epidemic. ll's such a send Crooks to Washington, D.C., where she turnaround since the '60s. It seems the only joined a nationwide group lobbying against the student groups making headway these days are SIS. the Young Republicans." The Idaho Peace Coalition in late March Students Sheri Crooks and Joel Sanda started claimed 10 BSU student members. Most stu a student chapter of the Snake River Alliance dents who talked with the coalition members at in the fall of 1988 in response to plans for con the SUB booth signed the petition, she says. struction of the Special Isotope Separator at the But half of the students "didn't even know Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The what the SIS is. chapter became its own entity within a few "I can't believe people don't become more months. Crooks now serves as director of the active," says Crooks. "But I look at myself, 30 ENVIRONMENT A responsible life F or a radical environmentalist Ed Cannady is a pretty conservative guy. He talks about tradi tional American values, the importance of a work ethic and responsibility. "Responsibility, I'm big on that word," says Cannady with a smooth Oklahoma drawl. In the Oklahoma town where Cannady grew up, he was one of three adults who rode a bicycle. The other two ''With a little were mentally retarded. "I took a lot of teasing enthusiasm and for that," he says. But it saved him gas money, kept him fit and would perhaps reduce the need hard work you for one more Oklahoma oil well. It was the can go responsible thing to do. Oil was king in Oklahoma, and few ques anywhere.'' tioned the business that brought money to the community. But Cannady recalls that, "When I was growing up we had a farm and we had open sludge pits on our place. We couldn't make the oil companies clean them up." The family moved to Parma while he was still in high school. As soon as he graduated from Parma High, Cannady left to see the world. "I had a strong back and a reasonably sharp mind," says Cannady. "With a little enthus iasm and hard work you can go anywhere." At age 31 he returned to Idaho and enrolled at BSU in history and secondary education. He decided to volunteer some time for the conser leading a responsible life. Glenn Oakley photo vation cause, but had in mind work with a shovel, not a notepad and telephone. " I like and I only became active after I got so angry I hard work and I thought I'd volunteer on trail went out on the streets and organized the first crews," says Cannady. " But I soon learned march." That January 1989 march was fol that that's not where you'll have an impact." lowed by an Easter weekend protest on the Within a few months he was elected president Statehouse steps. Crooks says the closing of of the 300-member Ada County chapter of the Idaho's borders to nuclear waste by Gov. Cecil Idaho Conservation League. Andrus alerted her to the problems at INEL. He wants to give the local environmental "That's when I really became informed. The community a more positive image. Cannady is more I found out the madder I got because interested in establishing a stronger recycling they hadn't considered the people of Idaho." program in Boise, and placing bird nesting The 29-year-old communication major says boxes along the Greenbelt. H e has helped she did not know how to go about fighting the organize a program to rehabilitate the badly SIS and seized upon the march as the most eroded Boise Front and has lobbied for legisla visible way to express her concern. " I think tion promoting conservation. there are a lot of people out there who are con But he also wants to put the brakes on un cerned but don't know what they can do to controlled dam construction, logging and help," she says. development. Unlike many universities, Boise State has "We have to make sacrifices and sacrifice is nothing comparable to a Public Interest not a word we like to hear," says Cannady, Research Group (PIRG). PIRGs are student who eschews air conditioning, dishwashers and funded organizations that tackle issues ranging a host of electrical conveniences. from environmental activism to landlord/tenant "The principal thing in a lot of peoples' lives rights. Most environmental issues last much is getting that new BMW in the driveway. It's longer than the typical four years a student at misplaced priorities," says Cannady. "It should tends college. "Without some non-student con be taking care of people and taking care of the tinuity," says Ford, "it's very difficult for environment. It's part of being a responsible anything organizational to survive." 0 person." 0 31 Religion and reason By Bob Evancho group founded by BSU students, to find a com mon ground. "A university setting has the tendency to be As a public institution, Boise State may be very intimidating," says Yadon. "With the em prohibited from offering religion classes. But phasis on reason and logic, which can run that doesn't necessarily preclude religion from counter to religion, I think UCF offers the university experience. On the contrary, says something to students with similar views." Lamont Lyons, associate dean of the College of Yadon, whose father is the minister of the Education. New Life Fellowship church in Boise, agrees with Lyons when he says the university ex In regard to students who possess well perience offers a challenge to students with entrenched religious beliefs, Lyons offers a religious beliefs. philosophy that goes something like this: You can take the student out of the religion, but "That's good from a religious aspect," he you can't take religion out of the student, says. "I think that is one of the unique things about a public institution: It makes you either "People bring to the university their interests reinforce and re-evaluate your beliefs because in religion because religion is a way they ex you're forced to defend them and define them plore and explain things of the spirit," Lyons intellectually, or you kind of blow them off says. "An important part of the hwnan spirit transcends physical things. and say it was just a phase you went through." "A liberal education is supposed to be a For Staker, a Quaker in her first year at BSU, the university experience has indeed liberating experience. It is going to challenge forced her to ponder her faith. The party at "I think going religious beliefs .... A university experience is mosphere that pervades a good portion of on not going to destroy your beliefs, but it will get to a university campus life often conflicts with the strict tenets you to examine them and think more seriously of her religion. makes you look about them. at your religion "I have to decide in the secular arena - "The various things that happen on campus in a logical where I work and where I move about - what are things I have to be able to deal with," she do my religious beliefs mean?" he continues. says. "If you enter a situation like this and you way.'' "I think any student will come across those don't have strong faith, you'll get caught up in same questions in a good university experience. it." ... A good liberal education has students ex For Tacke, a member of the St. Paul's ploring ideas and values in avenues other than Catholic Student Group, the opportunity to at through empirical and logical ways." tend a public university - and experience the religious plurality that goes with it - was a Boise State students Margo Waite, Nancy welcome change. Tacke, Anne Staker and Randy Yadon are "I had the chance to go to a private Catholic among the many exploring avenues, yet main college," says the Boise native, "but after taining personal religious beliefs. going to parochial schools from kindergarten "I think going to a university makes you through 12th grade, I wanted to broaden my look at your religion in a logical way," says perspective.'' Meridian resident Waite, who, like Lyons, is. a Tacke, who graduated from Boise State with member of the Mormon Church. "It makes a degree in psychology in 1987 and returned you ask yourself certain questions. And even this school year to pursue an elementary though religion isn't something that can bt teaching degree, believes she made the right determined logically, I think it makes you choice. evaluate it a little more." "Meeting so many people from other Waite, a junior biology major who was on religions made me step back and look at my the LDS Student Association freshmen cabinet beliefs," she says. "I look at that in a positive and teaches religious instruction to 4-year-olds way, and it made me feel more strongly about at her church, believes her faith helps her with what I believe in." the daily demands of school and work. Tacke also believes the religious tolerance she "My religious beliefs help me because they has developed during her college career will want me to improve and be a better person," make her a better teacher. she says. "But I think religion and what you "I think my college education has helped me want to believe in is really your own business." to become more open-minded," she comments. While Waite leans toward a more personal "I think it will help me to be a model to my approach to religion, Yadon, a senior history students. I won't do it by pushing my religious major from Boise, joined the University Chris beliefs on them, but by upholding the values tian Fellowship (UCF), an interdenominational that are present in most religions." D 32 RELIGION Quaker oaths W hen Anne Staker decided to attend BSU on a gymnastics scholarship last year, she wasn't sure what to expect. "I had never heard of Boise State before," admits the Hoyt, Kan., native. But then her teammates weren't sure what to expect either. "When they heard I was a Quaker I was told later that some of them thought I'd be looking all prim with a dress and bonnet ... like a pilgrim-looking person," she says with a laugh. "But I don't think of Quakers as being different than any other basic Christian religion.'' Staker may be a wide-eyed freshman far from home, but the rigid, non-drinking, clean living rules of her religion have helped her develop a maturity well beyond her 18 years. "So much of college is based on parties and a lot of alcohol," she says. "It's hard knowing at times you might have to stay home on a Saturday night because all your friends are out doing something else." "Anne isn't the type who goes away to col lege and then goes wild," says BSU gymnastics coach Yvonne "Sam" Sandmire. "She has her priorities in the right place." Staker may not be BSU's answer to Spuds McKenzie, but that doesn't bother her. She believes her strict religious upbringing makes her a better person, a better student and a bet ter athlete. "Religion has taught me to be more dedicated in my sport," she says. "I think religion gives you discipline, and if you're a disciplined person you're going to get better grades and perform better as an athlete." Staker's religious activity goes beyond atten dance at church on Sunday. She is involved with a Quaker youth ministry, in which she works with children and attends Bible studies and retreats, and has joined the Fellowship of A beaming Anne Staker says religion has given her the discipline to handle sports Christian Athletes. and school. Chuck Scheer photo Despite Staker's youth and inexperience, her coach says she is among the most inspirational Although Staker finished fifth in the bars in the of the Bronco gymnasts. 1989 NCAA West Region championships, Sand "Anne is the type who asks for more and mire believes Staker's best event could be the harder workouts," Sandmire comments. "She beam. "That's because the beam is where con is the type who doesn't resist coaching, but centration is so necessary for success," the hungers for it. She excels at everything she coach says. "She is the type that has that kind does, and I think her religion helps her with of determination." that." "Winning is important, but you can't put it It's Staker's discipline, Sandmire says, that fust," says Staker. makes her young athlete a standout gymnast. She leaves little doubt what is first. U 33 Through the Women's Crisis Center, Jan Kosglow helps abused women deal with the court system. Chuck Scheer photo Caring and conviction By Amy Sta111 Child Care Connections, a referral service that matches the needs of parents looking for child care with resources in the community. C ollege degrees aren't required here. It takes Although Aitchison puts her heart on the line more than book learning to make a difference daily for these causes, she doesn't see herself as "I feel like in today's social problems. an activist in the traditional sense of the word. Conviction is what counts most, say four At the group home, she speaks out for children students owe it Boise State University students. who may have no one else to look after their to themselves to Bobbie Aitchison, Mark McCullough, Jan best interests. "I don't consider myself an ac Kosglow and Alexa Gregory are BSU students tivist like [human rights supporter] Eric Love or get involved." whose interest in issues transcends the class people organizing rallies," Aitchison says. "It's room. They put it to work in group homes, real low-key." family planning clinics, as advocates for bat "I'm definitely a lobbyist for the children tered women and in dozens of other ways. and their individual case plans. And I definitely "I feel like students owe it to themselves" to give my two cents on where they should go." get involved, says Aitchison, a senior social Like Aitchison, McCullough reaches out to work major. "Why wait until you have a troubled youths. He is a counselor at the Nam degree to do it?" pa Boys Group Home, an affiliate of the Idaho For eight years, Aitchison has worked off Youth Ranch. The program's goal is to en and on at Challenge Group Home, a Boise pro courage boys who "have been deprived in some gram for developmentally delayed youths. She way,'' to get involved in school, groups and says growing up in an adventurous military physical activities and build their self-esteem. family that moved frequently gave her a good " I always try to think that I'm teaching these outlook and an open mind to the "exotic" kids survival skills, that I'm teaching them how teen-agers who live at the group home. to problem solve," McCullough says. As part of her degree program, she works at McCullough took what could be considered a 34 HUMANITARIANISM long and winding road to social activism. The 36--year-old father of three worked as a lab technician, drove a truck and was a foreman in Respect for all a meat-packing plant before, as he says, he "matured." Then he entered BSU's social work program. Hers was an Ozzie and Harriet type of up A senior, McCullough says that students are bringing. Jan Kosglow's mother stayed home in a unique position to direct their energy and took care of the children while her father toward improving the lives of others. They can worked hard to provide for his family. study a situation objectively as an outside But Kosglow's foreign-born parents taught observer and share fresh ideas. "Professionals her about more than poodle skirts and malteds. get so isolated and tied down. Students have "Living examples of the American dream," the freedom to become involved and try new says Kosglow, they awakened in her a desire to things. love her country and fight to make it better. "We almost have a responsibility to use those Kosglow says, "They instilled in me a great things even before we get out of school," sense of gratitude and a]so an awareness that McCullough says. the system does not work for everyone." Jan Kosglow concurs. "Students have the en A Boise State University senior earning a thusiasm and idealism to be involved," says second bachelor's degree in social work, Kosglow, a social work major with a long Kosglow has spent years battling for those left standing interest in women's issues. behind by "the system." She helped set up a Kosglow, who works as an advocate for bat jail counseling program, worked to open a tered women, says that during college, students community park and established a program to are thinking and testing their values. And the teach Girl Scouts about disabilities. As part of time is right to test out those ideas. her degree program, she works for the Women's Sometimes principles are what is put to the Crisis Center at the YWCA as an advocate for test. BSU junior Alexa Gregory provides infor abused women and also answers phones for a mation on family planning as a clinic assistant 24-hour crisis line for rape victims. at Planned Parenthood of Idaho Inc. At a Kosglow, 45, had her eyes opened early to in Portland family practitioner's office where she equities in society. Fresh from college in 1966, once worked, Gregory came face to face with she started out as a caseworker in a New York "If you see some hostile anti-abortion protesters. "At first City ghetto. The poverty and hopelessness of something it made me really upset. Then it made me life in the urban jungle made a profound im mad," the 21-year-old says. "I'm not infringing pression on the self-avowed liberal. wrong, try to do on their rights, why should they infringe on In retrospect, Kosglow says the experience something about mine?" was disillusioning because it illustrated "how it.'' But the conflicts of such a volatile issue are the system had failed." far outweighed by the satisfaction Gregory gets But it didn't stymie her desire to help others. from her job helping to prevent malnutrition, "You see that there's a need and you go ahead unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted and do something about it. diseases. "The activism, the social work, fits in with Gregory, who is majoring in health science my religious philos9phy: the respect for all with an emphasis in health education, wants to individuals." share with others what was missing in her own Her principal social concerns, though, are upbringing. "I never had any sex education, women's issues. A beeper on Kosglow's belt health or nutrition information. I just kind of serves as a constant reminder of her involve slipped through the system," she says. ment with the battered women's program. In addition to counseling clients in the clinic, Kosglow would like to bring it full circle. she also gives "Good Touch, Bad Touch" pup She's working to establish a program this fall pet shows on child sexual abuse and helps con that would provide counseling for men who duct parent-child workshops through Planned abuse their wives. She feels that the experience Parenthood. she's gained through the Women's Crisis Center Gregory's been an advocate of family plan advocacy program, working with other profes ning for years. And she wouldn't have it any sionals and dealing one-on-one with victims has other way. In fact, people who complain but equipped her to get the program off the don't .take action annoy and perplex her. Using ground. elections as an example she says, "I don't think And just as Kosglow's parents instilled their anybody has a right to complain about a presi values in her, she hopes to pass a legacy of dent if they don't vote." social activism on to her three daughters. She The same goes for social issues. Plain and hopes they will heed the motto that she lives simple, she says, "It's important to get by: "If you see something wrong, try to do involved." D something about it." D 35 Doin~ ~ood for ~oodness' sake By Bob Evancho ment and with the Red Cross' annual blood drive, which she pursued with such zeal she earned the nickname "Dracula," Ford has They are active in community services, some served as a BSU ambassador and as an officer gush, to "make a difference" or "get in in the Communication Students Organization. volved." That makes sense, because it sure isn't She also volunteers her services with the for the money or the acclaim. Call them "do American Legion Auxiliary and the Meridian gooders" or "bleeding hearts" if you want - Quick Response Unit, where she serves as an just don't question their sincerity. emergency medical technician. Besides, it's unlikely these students are con Leach, a senior majoring in human resource cerned about labels. These are the students who management, also says her involvement in clean up litter along the Boise River, spearhead public service, particularly in BSU's Circle K campus blood drives, promote AIDS-awareness Club, has instilled a sense of discipline in her campaigns, raise money for charities and devote life. huge chunks of their time to other community Leach was a typical commuter student who minded causes. "lived at home, had a job and didn't have Spend some time with socially conscious much contact with fellow students" when she students such as Rebecca Ford or Christy Leach started at Boise State four years ago. That has and words like "sacrifice" and "self-denial" changed, however, with her involvement in the are rarely uttered. "Enjoyable" and "educa Circle K Club, a nationwide community service tional" are the descriptions they usually attach organization of college students developed to their altruistic activities. under the auspices of Kiwanis International. Phil De Angeli, an English and economics "I found it was a good way to get involved major from Boise, seems almost apologetic with things on campus and to meet people," because his volunteer work at Boise's Ronald she says. "From that experience I discovered McDonald House - a four-bedroom home that I liked getting involved. It also helped me near St. Luke's used by out-of-town families become more organized. When I get into these "Sometimes I whose children are receiving treatment for activities and combine them with school it wish I could take serious medical problems - is not all that forces me to make better use of my time." demanding. Leach, Ford and De Angeli find time in their a day off and do In addition to his work at the Ronald busy schedules to help others, but of course something for McDonald House, De Angeli also volunteers as there are even more reasons for not getting one of BSU's 31 student-ambassadors. involved. myself, but it's Such magnanimity could be construed as self Studies show that the number of college what I like." serving by cynics, but De Angeli scoffs at that students who do charitable work nationwide is notion. "Some people might look at what we small. For example, a 1988 study that examined do as resume padding," he says, "but as far as volunteerism among seniors at Stanford Univer the people I know, it's not true." sity reported that 36 percent of those polled Despite the demands of school and work, said they occasionally performed community Boise residents Ford and Leach both seem to services during their four years at the school, thrive on the additional responsibilities they while only 18 percent did so frequently during place on themselves with their volunteer work. the same period. "My first semester at Boise State I wasn't "Students are busy," says BSU social work involved and really wasn't doing much of professor Dan Huff, a primary proponent of anything, just a little bit for the Red Cross," community service among BSU students. says Ford, a junior communication major. "They've got school, they've got jobs and a lot "The next year I got involved with the (stu of them have families. So it's going to be dif dent] senate and heavily involved in other ficult to tap that source for volunteerism. things and the year went much better. I was "1 wouldn't say they are apathetic. I would busy and I had to stay involved. I can't see say 'preoccupied' is a better word .... I don't myself going back to the way I was my see students being any less concerned than they freshman year." used to be. But at Boise State, we have a lot of In addition to her work in student govern- students with other responsibilities." 0 36 VOLUNTEERISM Brother by choice B ig Brothers, Big Sisters of America recently announced something that 12-year-old Jason Ramirez has known for three years - Dan Balluff is someone special. Balluff, an English/ secondary education major at Boise State, is Ramirez's Big Brother and was recently named the 1989 Big Brother of the Year for the organization's six-state Northwest region. Balluff and 13 other regional award winners were honored at a banquet in New York City in April. It all started in the spring of 1986 when Balluff decided to join Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Southwest Idaho, which eventually matched him with his "Little Brother" Ramirez. " I've been away from my family for several years," says the 33-year-old Michigan native, "and I just decided I wanted to help some kids. I was pretty active in volunteer work in high school in the '60s, and I think it's important to try to change things and let individuals know they can make a difference. I thought the only way to follow through with that was to get in volved again." Balluff certainly is involved. In addition to school, a part-time job at Hewlett-Packard, and his relationship with Ramirez, he is currently the vice president of the Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Southwest Idaho board of directors. T he organization's goal is not to provide substitute parents, but positive examples for children from single-parent homes. It's a healthy philosophy, Balluff says. "Once I got into it I realized I was directly affecting another person's life," he says. " It's such a one-to-one contact you can really effect change, not necessarily to try to mold some one, but to give that person help with his self esteem." Those who volunteer to be Big Brothers and Sisters are asked to make a one-year commit ment and spend a minimum of four hours a Dan Balluff says the relationship between himself and his " little Brother" week with their Little Brother or Sister. The in Jason Ramirez Is mutually beneficial. Chuck Scheer photo vestment in time is mutually beneficial and the money spent is minimal, Balluff says. " You just take them with you to do things you normally do, like skiing or walking the Greenbelt," he says. "People sometimes think you have to spend a lot of money and take "Once I got into them to entertaining places all the time. But the it I realized I average amount of money spent per visit is $3. Basically, they just want to be with you and was directly af know you care for them. fecting another "The whole experience has been great and a real eye-opener for me." 0 person's life." 37 "These students are fascinating. It's interesting how much they know and to listen to them talk about eras we actually lived through." Boise State's golden girls By Bob Evancho f Lucile Johnson's fellow students only knew. I Here they were, discussing Gertrude Stein in their graduate English literature course, displaying their knowledge with livel> self-assuredness ... while Johnson, 74, and her two friends, Mary Zurcher and Ruth Okeson, also septuagenarians, sat quietly in the back of the room, listening intently to their younger classmates. Their insight notwithstanding, the younger students probably could have learned a few things from Johnson had she chosen to join the discussion. As a young woman Johnson went to Paris for a year to study art and the cello after graduating from the University of Utah in 1935. During her sojourn, Johnson was among a group of American music and art students who met Stein, a Lucile Johnson, 74, brings firsthand knowledge to her early 20th century English literature celebrated author and patron of the arts course. Chuck Scheer photo in Paris at that time. "The students did not like her at all," the same $20 rate as university employees. until they both moved to Boise later in life. Johnson recalls. "They weren't a bit im For the spring 1989 semester the three Through church activities they became pressed and were actually making fun of decided to audit English professor Rena friends with Okeson. Although Johnson her. It says somewhere in her book [an Sanderson's "literature and culture" class. and Okeson had begun auditing classes autobiography) that that kind of treatment Okeson, a grandmother of 14 and a earlier, the spring 1989 semester was Zur would not bother her, but I remember that great-grandmother of one, began auditing cher's first. she was quite indignant." courses with her husband after he retired "They influenced me to take this class," When asked by a fellow student why she a few years back. When he died three years says Zurcher of her two friends. "They didn't share her experience with the rest ago, she decided to continue. said it would be fun, and it has. We love of the class, Johnson replies. "I guess I'm The courses, she says, have been ex it. These students are fascinating. It's in too bashful. Besides, I'm intimidated by cellent therapy to battle "a little problem teresting how much they know and to the rest of you." with depression" that she endured after listen to them talk about eras we actually " I keep telling her that she should say her husband's death. "My doctor says the lived through." Zurcher, a grandmother something, but we're kind of over best thing for depression is to keep busy," of 23, loves it so much she and her friends whelmed by the rest of you," Zurcher comments Okeson, who completed one plan to take Sanderson's "women adds. year of college before she married in 1937. writers" course in the fall. Johnson, Zurcher, 74, and Okeson, 76, Her latter-day education has included Johnson, a former teacher and artist are among the many older students who courses in history, geology, English and who played the cello with the Boise are taking advantage of a special senior music, all of which she calls "interesting Philharmonic, is also impressed by her citizens' rate offered by Boise State. and enlightening." young classmates. Students 60 and older may take any Although they both graduated from Salt "I love to listen to their discussion," she number of classes- for credit, or to audit Lake City's East High School in 1931, says, "they're pretty amazing." without credit or grade - for $5. Begin Zurcher and Johnson, who has seven To the other "traditional" students in ning next semester, senior citizens will pay grandchildren, did not become acquainted the class, the feeling is mutual. 0 38 Memory problems? Forget 'em By Bob Evancho ike most college students, Hugh Har L ris has struggled with his studies at times. "I found it a bit difficult this year," says Harris, a part-time student at Boise State. "My memory doesn't work quite as well as it used to." Harris can be forgiven - he observed his 82nd birthday in April. BSU's oldest student doesn't seem overly concerned about his forgetfulness, however. Borrowing a line he heard from folksinger/humorist Utah Phillips, Har ris wryly suggests the following: "Memory problems? Forget 'em." With occasional breaks, Harris has taken one class a semester at Boise State since 1975- the year after he retired from the state highway department at age 67. Before that, he had never taken a college course. Although he has accumulated 35 credit hours, Harris is not pursuing a degree. "I gave that up a few years ago," he says. "My wife and daughter figured at the rate I'm going I'd be 93 or 94 before I got a degree." Not that Harris has any plans to discon tinue his education. "I find it stimu lating," he says of his courses. "I tried auditing a couple of times, but I like doing the work and getting into the discussions. ' The Canadian-born Harris, who prefers interdisciplinary classes such as "Early Russian Films," has been selective in his t lloice of courses since he embarked on his college career. "I've only taken classes that appealed to me," he says. "I don't like [going to school] afternoons and evenings and I didn't want to tie up three mornings a week, so I usually take classes Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and make a few exceptions for the ones I like." Harris moved to Boise in 1961 and met his wife, Ruth, here. Ruth Harris, a "youngster" at age 63, holds a master's degree in social work and works for SeniorLife, a geriatric assessment and counseling center at St. Luke's. "Work ing with Senior Life is a real advantage for Ruth because she has an in-house consul tant," Harris jokes. BSU's oldest student, 82-year-old Hugh Harris, waits in line to register for the fall 1989 Aging problems for Hugh Harris? semester. Chuck Scheer photo Forget 'em. 0 39 Students on death & taxes ompared to their peers across the country, more freshmen at Boise CState talk politics, but fewer par ticipate in demonstrations. More feel over whelmed and depressed, but fewer attend religious services. And more BSU fresh men use computers, but fewer tutor other students. Those are some of the conclusions drawn from an informal poll of freshmen attitudes that FOCUS conducted to com pare with results of a survey conducted na tionally by the Higher Education Research On tax increases and abortion, BSU social values, helping others in difficulty, Institute at UCLA and published in the freshman and their peers are close to and participating in a community action Jan. 11 issue of the Chronicle of Higher agreement, while a lower percentage of program. Education. BSU freshmen feel homosexual relations Perhaps reflecting BSU's older fresh Politically, BSU freshmen describe should be prohibited. man, only 53 percent list getting married themselves about the same as their peers In both groups, only a minority - less as an important objective, compared to 67 do. Forty-eight percent say they are than 20 percent- support the legalization percent nationally. "middle-of-the-road," compared to 54 of marijuana. Both nationally and at BSU, students percent nationally. "Liberals" and "con The survey also reveals the personal ob indicate that bread and butter issues are servatives" at BSU are about equally jectives that are important to freshmen. At the most important reasons to attend divided at 24 percent and 22 percent. BSU, the highest percentage, 72 percent, college. But when it comes to political and social say raising a family is most important. Eighty-five percent at BSU and 82 per issues, Boise State freshmen reflect a That is followed by becoming an author cent nationally say that getting a better job mixed set of viewpoints. ity in their field, 71 percent. is very important in their decision to at For example, BSU freshmen are not as tend, and "to be able to make more hawkish as their peers on defense spend Freshmen across the nation have more money" is important to 75 percent of the ing. Only 11 percent of the BSU freshmen materialistic objectives than those at BSU. BSU freshmen and 72 percent nationally. feel defense spending should be increased, More of them - 73 percent compared to Perhaps reflecting a more cynical at compared to 26 percent nationally. And 58 percent at BSU - Jist "being well off titude than exists in Idaho, 35 percent na only 31 percent feel nuclear disarmament financially" as an important objective. tionally say they are in college because is attainable, compared to 60 percent Likewise, more nationally want to be suc there is nothing better to do, compared to nationally. cessful in business and to become experts just 5 percent at BSU. BSU freshmen take a hard line on the on finance and commerce. Nationally, 68 percent of the freshmen death penalty. Just 5 percent feel it should BSU freshmen have more socially say they are attending their university of be abolished, compared to 23 percent oriented objectives. They are more in first choice. Sixty-one percent of the nationally. terested than their peers in influencing freshmen list BSU as their first choice. D 40 Attitudes and Characteristics of This Year's Freshmen BSU National BSU Natiolllll BSU National .. .. "' ...... Age on Dec. 31, 19811 Smoked cigarettes 27 10 Marijuana should be legalized II 19 Discussed sex 31 Busing to ;u:bieve racial balance 16 or younger 0 .I 66 Drank beer in schools is all right 18 17 0 3 Homosexual relations should be 18 73 Drank wine or liquor "67 " Discussed politics " 19 prohibited 23 49 19 28 19 " Stayed up all night " 81 The chief benefit of collese is 20 6 2 " Felt overwhelmed 22 that it increases one's earning 21-24 13 2 73" Felt depressed II poWQ 34 69 25-29 7 .7 61 Discussed sports 43 Employers should be allowed to 30-39 12 .8 Worked in political campaign require employees or job ap- 40->4 I .2 11 9 " plicants to take drug tests 42 71 55 or older 0 0 Reasons Doled as very im- The best way to control AIDS portant in deeldlng to go to is through widespread, man- datory testing 40 68 Residence during this term college Only volunteers should serve With parents or relatives 18 15 Parenu' wishes 19 in the armed forces 34 Other private home or Could not fmd job "8 3 " apartment 42 32 To get away from home 20 11 Persoaal objed:l.ves eon- To be able to get a better job 85 82 College donnitory 45 38 sidered essential or very Fraternity or sorority house 4 7 To gain general education 69 60 importau.t Other campus housing I 6 To improve reading and study Other 2 2 skills 34 49 Becoming accomplished in a Nothing bette£ to do 5 3 performing art 9 11 To become a more cultured Becoming an authority in your CoUeae atteaded (BSU) is person 60 field 71 72 your To be able to make more " Obtaining recognition from money 75 72 collelijlues 49 First choice 61 68 To learn more about things 74 Influencing the political " Second choice 21 23 To prepare for graduate school "32 50 structure 22 17 Third choice 5 6 Influencing social values 46 37 Other 7 3 Politkal views Raising a family 72 67 Becoming an expert on finance Far left I 2 and commerce 11 26 Reasons that were very Liberal 24 22 Having administrative re- importaat ia selecting BSU Middle of the road 48 sponsibility 27 40 Conservative 22 "20 Being very well-off financially 73 Relatives' wishes 27 7 Far right 2 2 Helping others who are in " Teachers' advice I 4 difficulty 61 Good academic reputation 25 Agree strongly or somewhat Participating in such organiza- " Good social reputation 14 23" that lions as Peace Corps or VISTA 9 7 Offered financial assistance 24 21 Making a contribution to scien- Offered special education Government isn't protecting the tific theory 11 12 programs 2 22 consumer Writing original works 16 13 Low tuition 21 Government isn't promoting " " Creating artistic work 11 13 Advice or guidance counselor "4 8 disarmament 25 67 Keeping up-to-date with political Wanted to live near home 19 Government isn't controUing affairs 40 33 Friends' suggestion "6 8 pollution 84 Being successful in own Recruited by college I 4 Taxes shouldn't be raised to " business 46 Recruited by athletic reduce the federal deficit 31 28 Developing a meaningful philo- department 6 4 There is too much concern for sophy of life 50 " Graduates of BSU get good the rights of criminals 69 Participating in a community- " jobs 4 34 Military spending should be " action program 32 22 Not offered aid by first choice 4 5 increased 11 26 Promoting racial understanding 31 32 Nuclear disarmament is Getting married 67 attainable 31 60 " Activities doae frequeady or Abortion should be lep.l 50 57 National percen~ are Wen from "Tbe AlnerkaD oeeasloully in the past year The death penalty should be Frahmaa: National Normo for F.U 1988" by Ak:ander ARiD, abolished 6 23 publi&hed by the Amc:rican CouDdl on Educallon aad Uaivcr- Used a personal computer 27 It is all right for two people who s:hy of cal:lfomia at Los Aqcla. Attended a religious service 34 82 like each other to have sex even Was bored in class "74 94 if they've known each other Participated in demonstrations 14 for a very short time 33 50 Didn't complete homework on " Women's activities should be time 47 69 confined to the home I 26 Tutored another student 6 Couples should live together Discussed religion 36 "21 before marriage 33 Did extra course work or Students might appreciate the " reading 36 11 value of college more if they Studied with other students 72 87 had to pay a greater share of Was a guest in teacher's home 2 30 the costs 32 " 41 ALUMNI - BSU grad wins Honor Role By Amy Stahl 1960s MBA, '81) is working as an assistant professor of aturday mornings are a time of rest and relaxation Terry P. Smith (AA, '61) marketing at Old Dominion for most teachers. English teacher Jennifer Boyd was promoted to vice presi University, Norfolk, Va. S spends hers camped out at a Nampa cafe, exchang dent/manager of both West LaTour's article, "Female ing ideas and advice with her high school students. One Bank offices (formerly Nudity in Print Advertising: An The two or three hours Boyd spends " parked" at the Idaho First National Bank) in Analysis of Arousal and Ad restaurant are some of the most productive of her week. Meridian. Response" was accepted for Lorn Adkins (BA, publication in the journal She says the sessions are "a time of renewal. It revitalizes history/English, '69) was Psychology and Marketing. me. And the kids definitely appreciate it. " honored as Idaho's His co-authored article, "Us Boyd's commitment to her students has not gone un "Counselor of the Year" by ing Fear Appeals for AIDS noticed. Last fall she was named Idaho's Teacher of the Gov. Cecil Andrus. Adkins is Prevention in the College Year in a program sponsored by the Council of Chief State a counselor at Centennial Aged Population: An Analysis School Officers, Encyclopedia Britannica and Good High School in Meridian. of Arousal and Ad Response," Housekeeping magazine. was accepted for publication 1970s in the Journal of Health Care The second Boise State University graduate in three Marketing. years to earn the honor, Boyd says she's had plenty of Mary Linda Pearson (BA, Terri Hembree-Smith help. "I am only a product of the expertise of the teachers business administration, '73) (BBA, marketing, '79) has I work with," she says, stressing the close working rela has left the private practice of joined First Interstate Bank in tionship among the English department teachers at Nam law in Lewiston and is em Boise as an underwriter in the pa High. " I'm in the best department in the state because ployed as an associate judge real estate department. for 14 western Washington Michael Nutt (AAS, hor we share ideas." tribes by the Northwest Inter ticulture, '79) was promoted She's also grateful for the guidance she's received from tribal Court System of Ed and is working in the cor BSU education professors Patrick Bieter and Phyllis monds, Wash. porate offices of the Lilly Edmundson. Duane B. Smith (BA, Miller Seed and Chemical Co. Her professors say Boyd's creativity, enthusiasm and business, '73) has joined in Portland. communication skills are what set her apart from other McCall and Valley Realty teachers. Bieter, who worked with Boyd while she was pur in McCall as a sales rep 1980s resentative. suing her master's degree in curriculum and instruction, Tom Luke (BBA, account Michael Reynolds, (BBA, says that she is a true "advocate for learning." ing, '74) has assumed respon economics, '80) is working in "She will take the ordinary and personalize it for the sibilities as a Ricks College Bogota, Columbia, South kids,'' he says. ''A student has to work hard not to do well internal auditor. America, as a child evangelist in her class." Barbara C. Weinert (BS, with Youth with a Mission. psychology, '76) is a coor Charlotte J. Boyd (BA, dinator for the homeless music, '82) has been ac finance, '85) is employed as Larry S. Boyd (BBA, outreach project and a lec cepted to the Brown College an expense analyst in adver business, '87) is employed as turer in algebra review and of Court Reporting in Atlanta. tising for ESPRIT de Corp in a contracts administrator with citizenship with the BSU Adult Richard Deaver Jr. (BBA, San Francisco. CH2M Hill in Atlanta. Learning Center. electronics, '82) was promoted Cindi Durgan (BBA, William C. Salter (BA, art, Jerry Reid (BA, economics, to communications specialist marketing, '85) was promoted '87) reported for duty with the '76) was elected to a fouryear with the Bureau of Land to branch manager at First 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at term with the Lewis Soil Con Management in Washington, Security Bank in Lewiston. Camp Pendleton, Calif. servation District in Mohler, D.C. Lynn A. Walhof (BA, com Melissa Whiteman (BBA, Id. ShoShonna Henderson munication, '86) was pro marketing, '87) was promoted Carol Matney (AS, nursing, (BBA, accounting, '83) has moted to the position of public to manager of Maurices in '77) is the director of physical been promoted to controller at relations and communications Boise. health for the North Central the American Bank of Com officer for Key Bank of Idaho. Jeff Connolly (AAS, elec District Health Department in merce in Boise. Daniel Givens (BBA, tronics service technology, Lewiston. Martha Roletto (BA, marketing, '86) is working as '88) is employed with Micron David Short (MBA, '78) mathematics, '84) is a an account executive with Technology in Boise as an was promoted to vice presi hydrologist with the National Hanna/Wheeler & Associates, electronic technician. dent at the American Bank of Weather Service in Bismarck, inc., a Coeur d'Alene advertis Norman Dowd (MBA, '88) Commerce in Boise. N.D. ing agency. is teaching in lwaki-shi, Edwin M. Johnson (BBA, Donn Durgan (BBA, real John K. Johnson II (BS, Fukushima, Japan. accounting, '78) was pro estate, '85) is a mortgage political science, '86) has ac Byron Keely (BS, moted to financial analyst for loan officer with First Security cepted a position with sociology, '88) is enrolled in Fisher Controls in Miphigan. Bank in Moscow. Morrison-Knudsen as a per the master's program at Idaho Mike LaTour (BBA, '78. Susan Turner (BBA, sonnel recruiter. State University and is work- 42 From the chaos of an urban school, in 1976 she moved into the relative calm of Vallivue Junior High School. There she found students with different types of problems, kids whose needs were more emotional than physical. oyd honed her "mothering" skills at the junior high Bschool, then landed in 1984 at Nampa High School. There she found a supportive, energetic staff and students she could relate to. "I really like teen-agers. Maybe my development stopped somewhere in my junior year," she says, laughing. A "feeling-oriented teacher," Boyd is concerned for her students but she isn't easy on them academically. "I have high expectations for my students. I coach them to meet those expectations." Though she may "lose a few" students, her compas sion wins her the admiration of others. And she's willing to go the extra mile to show students she cares. Despite a heavy class load, the single mother of a 14-year-old son still finds time to attend school events and talk to students after school. Earning her students' respect is just part of what keeps Boyd interested in the state of education. She also cares deeply about the future of her " exhausting" profession. English teacher Jennifer Boyd goes the extra mile for her students. Boyd says that "one of the top concerns of a teacher is Chuck Scheer photo to make the job manageable." A native of California, Boyd earned her bachelor's She would like to see smaller classes and a lighter degree in English in 1969 from Point Lorna College workload. And she would like to participate in a mentor {formerly Pasadena College) in California. She received program to share with other teachers what she has learn her master's degree from BSU in 1984. ed about managing stress, how to be reflective and where Her first teaching job was both challenging and to turn for help. frustrating. She started at an inner-city Los Angeles school Boyd says she would like to "model that a person who where she found classes sometimes took a backseat to has been teaching for 19 years can still retain vitality." real-life crises. Her students meanwhile continue to benefit from Boyd's " Teaching people to read and write was secondary to enthusiasm for her job. unwanted pregnancy, apathy and racism in a low-income And what do they have to say about her latest honor? school," she said. One day she found a student in a drug "They somehow feel responsible for the award." induced stupor passed out on the floor. Rather than throw "They also laugh at it because they know my human up her hands, she got tough. "I scared him straight," Boyd ness. They know my shortcomings. But they know I care. says proudly. They know I care that they learn." 0 mg as a teaching assistant. Outstanding Secondary Deborah Sherman and death. Teacher of the Month. Oakes laurence Hurrte (Fruitland) Mark Shoemaker (BM, Sharon l. Walker (BA, is an English teacher at South Jennifer Hovey and music education, '88) died social work, '71) has been Fremont High School in St. Michael Falash (Boise) Dec. Dec. 26. Shoemaker taught promoted to vice president Anthony. 30 music at Weippe and Pierce and manager of the West One Bruce Marsden and Wendy schools. Bank training and develop Cary (Boise) Jan. 21 lane Marotz (BA, ment department in Boise. Weddings Justin D. Bell and Kimberly psychology, '87) died Jan. B. Jeffery M. Wall (BBA, '86) Markham (Boise) Feb. 18 Marotz owned the Kenpo completed basic training at Jeffrey Kezar and Danora Jay B. Hyder and Camille Karate Schools in Rexburg Fort Jackson, S.C. Latreille (Boise) Dec. 17 Cope (Boise) Jan. 21 and Ashton. Barb Acker (BBA, '87) was Jack L. Huston and Toni Richard Deaver, Jr. and McColly (Boise) Feb. 23 Ellen A. O'Brien (culinary named woman of the year by Debbra Hamilton (Washing arts) died April 9. She has MEKIDA Charter Chapter of Lori Bielenberg and Daniel ton, D.C.) March 16 been employed with the Dutch the American Business Hague (Post Falls) Oct. 22 Tamilyn Wright and Robert Oven Cafe, Nina Mae's, Pasta Women's Association in Men Eric Stansbury and Edie G. Storm Jr. (Boise) April 1 Plus and was food manager dian. She is currently a pro Lambert (Boise) Nov. 12 of The Edge at the time of duction engineering assistant Alex Hugo and Tracy L. Deaths her death. for Hewlett-Packard disk Young (Boise) Nov. 26 memory division. Jeff Sheirbon and Ronda Nathan McChesney (CC, Michael Brown (CC, elec Lowe (Meridian) Nov. 26 auto mechanics, '80) died tronics, '68) died March 19. Sallee Oakes (BA, manage Shelley Jones and Dave Feb. 22. McChesney was Brown and his brother owned . ment, '73) was chosen by the Malmberg (Winnemucca, employed with Micron B & B Electric in Boise where St. Anthony Rotarv Club as Nev.) Dec. 23 Technology at the time of his he worked until his death. D 43 Network has 125 members The Alumni Association's new Career Network program, launched in March, now boasts over 125 members. The program is designed to aid BSU students by joining them with alumni who can provide insight into various occupations. Based on their own work experience, Career Network members may discuss such items as training, skills and possibilities for advancement. Career Network members may also help students and new graduates by critiquing resumes and discussing career placement opportunities. Alumni who wish to participate in the program or need fur ther information may contact the Alumni Office, 385-1959. 0 Boise State's Athletic Hall of Fame inducted four new members in ceremonies last February. From left, they are Rick Woods, football, Little Broncos meet May 20 1978·81; Frank Kaaa, football, 1960·61; AI Marshall, football, 1970-72; and Scott Barrett, wrestling, 1979·82. Little Bronco Club members are invited to join Buster Bronco and friends at "Zoo Day" on May 20 at the Boise City Zoo. This event is held in conjunction with the Boise Parks Department Alum active in space program Zoo Day festivities. Little Broncos will meet at noon across from the zoo entrance. Gary Bennett (AA, '60) has joined NASA as the manager Buster Bronco will hand out Little Broncos Club member but of advance space power systems in the propulsion, power and tons and there will be a drawing for prizes from BSU's bookstore. energy division of the Office of Aeronautics and Space Special admission prices for ages four and older (including Technology. adults) is 50 cents and admission for three years and younger Prior to his new appointment, Bennett was with the U.S is free. Some of the activities for the afternoon include rides in Department of Energy, where he managed the safety and the Forestry Aerial Tree Pruning Bucket, gymnastic and dance nuclear operations for the power supplies for NASA's Galileo demonstrations, zoological guest speakers, an Idaho Raptor and Ulysses spacecraft. Rehabilitation display and a children's wildlife art display. Much of Bennett's career has focused on the use of nuclear Children who have not yet signed up with the Little Broncos power in space. He has served as chief of the research support Club may also attend Zoo Day and sign up at the drawing. branch of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and as pro For more information, contact the Alumni Office. 0 ject manager in the Space Nuclear Systems Office. He was cited by the Department of Energy for his support to the United Nations committee on the peaceful uses of outer Coming events space, and for a study of applications of nuclear power in space. He also received an award for his work on the Voyager space Bronco alumni and boosters will take on the University of Idaho program. Vandals alumni and boosters on the greens of the McCall Golf Bennett and his wife Susan reside in Rockville, Md. 0 Course during the annual Broncos vs. Vandals McCall Golf Tour nament, scheduled for June 3-4. St. Paul's leader in Colombia The Alumni Association will host a special celebration party to honor May graduates on Saturday, May 13 from 3-6 p.m. in Father William Steuber, who served as pastor of St. Paul's the east end of Julia Davis Park. Student Center at BSU from 1981-87, is now in Cali, Colombia, The party will feature free hot dogs, beverages and a live band. South America. Graduates will receive a graduation gift from the Alumni Associa While there he will minister to a large mission parish that has tion Board of Directors. Information about the Career Network chapels in several barrios, a community center and a school. will also be available. Faculty and family members of graduates Following his service at BSU, Father Steuber lived with the are also invited. For more information, contact the Alumni Office, Nobertine order in Philadelphia and taught in a Nobertine high 385-1959. 0 school there. 0 Four chosen as Distinguished Alumni directory coming in 1990 Four more Boise State graduates have been added to the list Boise State's Alumni Association has contracted with Har of Distinguished Alumni honored at the Distinguished Alumni ris Publishing, White Plains, N.Y., to print a directory listing the & Top Ten Scholars banquet each spring. names, addresses and other biographical information on BSU The new honorees are William Agee (BJC, '58), chief executive alumni. officer of Morrison-Knudsen Co.; Patrick Fleenor (marketing, '69), Harris publishes similar directories for several universities and professor of business, Seattle University; Michael Hoffman colleges throughout the United States and Canada. (theatre arts, '79), filmmaker; and Anne Millbrooke, (history, '73), The company will survey alumni in early 1990 to gather infor corporate archivist, United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, mation for the directory, which will be published next summer. Conn. Harris will market the directory to alumni by both mail and More complete profiles of the four new Distinguished Alumni phone. 0 will be published in the summer issue of FOCUS. 0 44 Working overtime David Lowery juggles court, career and kids By Bob Evancho hink you've got a busy schedule? Ponder the five months David T Lowery put in during the past basketball season. • As a starting forward for Boise State, Lowery had to withstand the rigors of daily practices, long road trips and burly opponents pounding on his 6-foot-5, 197-pound frame - no easy task when you consider the demands of coach Bobby Dye's chip-on-the-shoulder, belly-up style of defense that has become the Broncos' trademark. • As a radiography major, Lowery is required to spend six hours a day, three Reunique and David have become substitute parents for Ry-Yon, left, and My-Yon. days a week accumulating clinical experi Chuck Scheer photo ence at Mercy Medical Center in Nampa. past season was really rough at first, but them with you," Reunique recalls her This is in addition to four other classes. I just tried to put myself into a gear where mother saying. • As part of his hitch with the Air I could do them all. I might not do them "We actually chose not to have children Force's "Palace Chase" program, in all as well as I'd like to, but . . . " yet because we're both serious about our which he resigned his active duty to join A typical day during the basketball careers and school," says Reunique, who the Air National Guard, Staff Sgt. Lowery season would go something like this: met her husband when both of them were must report to Gowen Field one weekend Work in Nampa from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Back serving in the Air Force in England. " It a month for six years. in Boise at 2:30 p.m. Practice from was a high anxiety situation for both of • Oh yeah, Lowery and his wife, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Home. Dinner. Parental us and I felt guilty for a while because they Reunique, are raising her 8-year-old twin duties. Homework. "It's a little easier on aren't really our responsibility, but I sisters, My-Yon and Ry-Yon. Tuesdays and Thursdays," Lowery says. couldn't handle the way they were being There have been variations on the same " I don't have to go to Nampa those raised." theme listed above during his three years days." The Lowerys' lives have been made with the Boise State basketball program, s for all student-athletes, life at times easier thanks to many helpful friends and but one thing is certain: David Lowery A is a juggling act. " It's pretty tough associates. " A lot of people at the univer knows the meaning of discipline. when we go on the road," Lowery says. sity and Campus Elementary (where the With this issue of FOCUS devoted to "I've missed a lot of time with early prac twins attend school] have helped us out a the "Year of the Student," Lowery, a pro tices and road trips that I have to make great deal," says Reunique, a senior spective X-ray technician and member of up. I've also had the same problems with psychology major. "Everything has the 1988-89 Big Sky all-academic basket my Air Force commitment." worked out really well." ball team, embodies the meaning of All these responsibilities increased when Reunique, who is the treasurer of the scholar-athlete. But as a husband and Reunique's two sisters joined the couple Black Student Union and serves on the substimte father, it's obvious there's much last summer. " I went back home [to ASBSU Judiciary Council, and David more to this 25-year-old Pennsylvania Atlanta] last summer, and I really didn't plan to go on to graduate school after they native. like the conditions they were living in with leave BSU. But frrst there is the small mat How has he managed to balance basket my mother," says Reunique, whose ter of one more basketball season for ball, books and sudden parental respon parents are divorced. "I came to Boise and David. "Coacha Dye has lready told me sibilities? told David how stressed out I was over the he's expecting a lot from me because I'm "It's been hard," he says. "But my first situation.'' a returning senior," he says. two years when I wasn't playing much Eventually Reunique, 25, asked her Life after Boise State may include helped me out. I was able to sit back and mother to let the girls join her and David medical school for both Lowerys. "It's a observe and figure out what I needed to in Boise. Her mother's reply? "If you're lot of work, but we'll have 40 years to do to be able to do all these things. This so damned concerned about them, take enjoy it," Reunique jokes. 0 45 Broncos pack Pavilion again he Boise State Pavilion was a veritable T basketball mecca this past season with big names, record crowds, national TV coverage and another banner year for the Bronco men's team. Boise was one of eight cities that hosted first- and second-round games in the NCAA men's tournament, drawing then top-ranked Arizona and Player of the Year Sean Elliott, Nevada-Las Vegas and its legendary coach Jerry Tarkanian, and six other teams to the Western Regionals. While Arizona and UNL V advanced to the third round with two wins each in the Pavilion, the Boise State team was mak ing its third straight postseason appear ance, meeting Oklahoma State in the National Invitational Tournament. Although the Broncos dropped a 69-55 The Bank That decision to the Cowboys, BSU's 23-7 record marked its third consecutive 20-win season. Boise State earned a share of the Big Sky regular-season crown and the right to host the conference tournament. Means Business Coach Bobby Dye's team, led by league usiness banking is a discipline demanding specialized skills MVP Chris Childs and first-team all different than those in consumer banking. That's why First league selection Wilson Foster, advanced BInterstate Bank of Idaho pioneered the concept of Commer cial Banking Centers in Idaho: eight regional, stand-alone facilities to the championship game before losing staffed by business banking experts to serve strictly the needs of to Idaho 59-52. business. Privately. Expertly. Efficiently. The gymnastics team also enjoyed another successful season as the Bronco Whatever the nature of your business, be it manufacturing, finished the year ranked 20th in the nation agricultural, retail or service, large or small, you' II benefit from and taking fourth in the High Country the expertise and full-time personal service offered by the people Conference meet. With freshman Liz at our Commercial Banking Centers. They not only possess the Seeley earning all-conference honors the knowledge and dedication to serve your business needs, but Broncos broke every team record and they're backed by the strength and resources of the worldwide either set or tied all of the school's in First Interstate Bank affiliate system, with assets over S60 billion dividual marks. and offices throughout the t;.S. and worldwide. In women's basketball head coach Tony Business loans, operating lines of credit, cash management, real Oddo's contract was not renewed after the estate construction and term financing, SBA loans, leasing, inter Broncos finished with an 18-11 record. national banking services or any other business requirement BSU wa·s seeded third in the Big Sky tour when you need to talk to a banker about business, talk with the nament and dropped a 56-52 decision to business bankers. First Interstate Idaho in the first round. Bank of Idaho, the bank that means In wrestling heavyweight Pat McDade business. took fourth in the NCAA championships Commercial Banking Centers con to become the Broncos first wrestling All veniently located in Boise, Caldwell, American since 1982. Twin Falls, Burley, Pocatello, Idaho As a team the Broncos finished third Falls, Coeur d'Alene, and Lewiston. in the Pacific-10 Conference. The BSU women's and men's indoor track teams took second and third, respec tively, in the Big Sky championships. High jumper Clifford Dillard won the league crown in his event with a leap of First Interstate Bank of Idaho, N.A. 7-feet-2 inches while triple jumper Eugene Memb<>r f"OI(" Greene finished 16th in the NCAA na tional indoor meet. 0 46 Great Expectations: Are We Meeting Them? By John H. Keiser we remind ourselves of student expectations and encourage President, Boise State University criticism and evaluation, the agenda can easily be ignored or un consciously changed. That's why we had the student convoca niversities are geared to rank, grade, classify and judge tion earlier this spring and asked thousands of students who potential students, actual students and graduates. From attended to list and rank their concerns. And that's why we U time to time, there is an increased societal emphasis on reported to all students what actions were under way to meet standards, achievement and methods to separate the best and those concerns, and why we intend to repeat the convocati~ n the brightest. But in any era, much time and attention is spent next fall. And that's why we view the many special accredita on assessment of others by professors and administrators. tions the university and its programs are asked to meet as minimal Therefore, it is not surprising that university personnel standards, leaving us free to point out that accrediting agencies sometimes find it difficull to submit to evaluation themselves. occasionally have a life of their own and conflict with some of The debates that rage over student evaluation of teaching is a the student expectations. case in point. Even in the age of accountability, grading the Thus far, the response to this self-examination has been ex graders seems an unusual reversal of roles. But that is what Boise cellent. In one form or another, the question has been raised, State University has invited during the Year of the Student in "Who are you to set expectations for students?" Obviously, the an attempt to provide more responsible service and to create a expectations can also be seen as the societal and academic pur more exciting and effective learning community. poses for higher education, leaving those who have other expec In comments last fall, I listed 10 student expectations against tations to seek other organizations. It is unlikely that every new which the university and its personnel should be rated. It still freshman has precisely these goals for the university. Of course, appears to me that each student at Boise State University the agenda itself should be debated. After all, what is a "value deserves: oriented atmosphere?" l. A high-quality, accessible education. Then there are those who conclude that if the students' greatest concern is parking, the university must be doing its job in the 2. Professional and caring teachers who serve as role models. important areas. We are determined not to succumb to that 3. Adequate and effective student services, including a safe and tempting rationalization. The pointed out that secure environment. University News a great university should have a great library. That, of course, 4. Opportunity for cultural enrichment, entertainment and is included in the expectation of "a high-quality, accessible educa recreation. 5. A value-oriented atmosphere. tion," and our plans for the library are before donors now. Many 6. Stimulating fellow students, from and with whom one can others have wondered about "affordable costs," and ask that now that funding formulas have been abandoned, is it ever ap learn. propriate for students to pay for progress at one campus and 7. Affordable and predictable costs, and reasonable oppor the state to pay for progress at another, or why shouldn't students tunities for work and financial assistance. 8. Opportunities to participate in research and meaningful at each of the state's universities pay a similar share of their public service. educational costs? What should that share be? These questions are compelling and unavoidable. 9. Recognition of achievement, of excellence, and a voice in governance and evaluation. The Year of the Student gives us a chance to measure our suc 10. Expanded career opportunities. cess in achieving the university's overriding goal to produce educated persons. The students' perspective is one that must be These are truly great expectations, and they provide a live taken into full account if Boise State University is to reach that agenda for the university. It is never finally realized, but unless goal. How close are we to meeting those great expectations? 0 47 For Idaho's tOOth Birthday, There's Only One Card To Get. The Official Idaho Centennial VISA. This is no ordinary VISA card. Sure, you can use it to charge just about any thing -anywhere. VISA is honored more places worldwide than any other card. But as the one and only VISA card that helps fund the Idaho Centennial, every time you use it you'll also help celebrate the state's 100th birthday. With each purchase, a donation will be sent to the Idaho Centennial Commission. The Commission will also receive your first $20 annual fee-a// at no extra cost to you. So give yourself a little credit for supporting the Idaho Centennial. Reserve your VISA card through First Security Bank by calling toll free: 1-800-445-2689. Alumni Office Orgamzation J Boise State University OSTAGE 1910 Universtty Onve AID Boise, Idaho 83725 Bulk Rete acct. 921-L 101 I , Permit #36 L_"oreat Grow, Oregon Address Correction Requested