Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 11-16-1987 University News, November 16 Students of Boise State University Although this file was scanned from the highest-quality microfilm held by Boise State University, it reveals the limitations of the source microfilm. It is possible to perform a text search of much of this material; however, there are sections where the source microfilm was too faint or unreadable to allow for text scanning. For assistance with this collection of student newspapers, please contact Special Collections and Archives at [email protected]. Volume·111_Ulll\1tar_ltJlllN-VIII Issue 11 )", ' 'Boise Slate University , ~," Novcmber16, 1987 AlllS p,olicYSet tor 'BStJstridents~ staff by Steve F. Lyon AIDS will not be required for admit- The University. News tance into the university or employ- rnenteliglbllty, Identities of students University guidelines for dealing and employees infected with AIDS with AIDS and AIDS victims were will not be released by the university released by the BSU President's Ad' nor will those people be barred from visory Cornmittee.ut a. news con- work or classes. ference on Nov. 12. Currently, there are 'no known " The guidelines are aimed at BSU cases of AIDS among BSU students, students and employees and address faculty or staff. the disease and victims' rights with The five-member committee began a booklet and two videotapes. work on the program in February. The guidelines developed by the The 42- and 20-minute videos were committee have been published ina produced by Russell Centanni, booklet, AIDS in the University, microl5iology professor and educa- which will be distributed to all BSU tion director of the, Idaho AIDS employees and, will be available on Foundation. , campus. The booklet explains what Campus and community members AIDS is, the chances of contracting may check out copies of the video- AIDS and the rights of students and tapes at no cost. Twenty copies of employees diagnosed as having the tapes will be available at the per- AIDS. sonnel department, offices. ' Under the guidelines, screening'.....for~. (I). :i -0 :c:Q o o Women' more interested in Iri·ThisIssue':,t - .• -. " -..', ," .condoms, safe .sex practices' I. (CPS)--Women students reportedly however, the genders no longer reportedly left none laying around. arc more interested in., the earn- discriminate. ' Otherwise, however, shyness still pus condom craze than men, various The University of Minnesota gave seems to keep many students from OJdJoe Vandal sources said. ' away anestimated 3,000 free con- taking advantage of campus condom The •.University of Nebraska at domsat orientation in Septmeber, machines or services. ,Omaha's health center, for example, though freshman Eugene Mayer said Hanori said she "really didn't ex- will bite ttJe has sold only 12 condoms since as many as half, of the condoms pectanyone to come in and ask for August, and all have been to women, given away at his session were taken them" because it meant standing in dust'next according to nurse Supervisor Ruth' by women. a waiting room and telling the recep- Hanon. "That shocked me," Mayer said. tionist what was wanted. j About 65 percent of all the con- "lthought it was just something for "Women," she said, "usually take week. dorris bought are purchased by men." the responsibility for sexual activity, "women, according to Margaret At the University of British Col- whether it's birth control or keeping "Whited .Scarborough, of Denver's umbia, "gladiators" threw an themselves safe. Women take AIDS W.estvend COrP., which makes con- estimated 10,000 condoms from a' more seriously than men." \- . -. dom vending machines. truck outfitted to look like the Tro- I When it comes to free condoms, jan Horse to campus passersbwwho .See.Craze,.~age 5 j ,I Senatqrs.'·tab/~:pro~y·: -' ;.. '-.' - . :legis/at·;on"s,.upporf. split,S BOE,:,,·' ,. ,. by-Paul Bouffard Senate Joint'R~solution Tho: The :. The University News . {SIL resolution, passed at the' ,01ocklegislature's fall 'session in : On Nov. 5, the ASBStJ Senate , , late October; calls for the splitting' postponed, indefinitely .further _ 'of the State Board.of Education'; consideration of Senate Bill Eight, into two boards.vone- of which . .whlch would have allowed would oversee educationthrough . absentee votes to be cast by high school; and one of Which : senators who are considered to be . , would, be it board of regents, . absent excused, which would oversee public. post- : In debate over the motion to secondary education; . postpone the' bill, Sen. Karen In announcements, ASBSU· Scheffer said; "Excused or not, President PerryWaqdelI said that, ' absent senators will miss informa- , by' thefall of 1989; . the'BSU tion,so proxy votes should not be . Library will have a computerized . accepted." . catalog system; The new system's : Sen. Frank Hartmann said pro- 30 terminals are to replace the ' xy votes should be accepted microfiche now in use. because "there are legitimate ex- In its Nov. [2. meeting, the ' cuses for being absent from senate Senate allocated $61 to. Marriott ' meetings." Food Services to cover expenses The Senate also sent to the for the ASBSU retreat last month, Chris Butler I University News Ways and Means Committee a Such retreats are held to discuss Mark Mary solicits pledges fromAlumni as part of the Development Of- resolution supporting the Idaho legislative and leadership issues Making money: fice's Phone-a-thou. The fundralser will continue through Nov. 20. State 'Intercollegiate Legislature's within ASBSU. by Paul Bouffard playwright, musician, painter, actor, devotion to education by establishing ..... ' The University Nell'S producer and director. In 1913, theinternatiorially known Visva- Sahni writes Tagore became the first Asian to Bharti University,the first "open-air" BSU English professor Chaman receive the Nobel Prize for literature university. ' . about India's Sahni has written a bio- for his book of poetry, Gitanjali. When Tagore died in 194[, The GiVe Washington Post reported that his bibliographical account of Rabin- Tagorc. published 60 volumes of Renaissance drath Tagore (186[-1941), published in poetry, 40 plays, 14 novels and over .contributions "may .be the test of the 1987 issue of Contemporary 200 stories. He also wrote numerous whether the age-old gulf between Blood. Authors, a reference work of works on philosophy. Asia and Europe can ever be man American writers published by Gale A prodigious social and political bridged." Research Company of Detroit, Mich. activist, Tagore was a close friend to Thgore is best kl)own as a poet, ! Mahatma Gandhi. He confirmed 'his ASBSU. ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY· 2ND FLOOR SUB A~ Evening of A JOB FOR ONLY THE BEST. Featuring: ASBSU TREASURER $350.00/mo. ASBSU ausINEssMANAGER - $150/mo. EDUCATION SENATOR $.150/mo .. Altlisted are 12 month posltlons, 'Job descriptions and ap- plications can beobtainedatU~e.ASBSU Ofnces,2nd floor~· Student Union. " .: '.' ." j I<.nown to millions 85 Ml\lor Frnnk Burns from M"A"S'U J,t Wednesday, November 18, 1987 ~.I 8:00 p.m. J Student Union Building - Ballroom Brought to you' byStudentPrograms ~ocVd /I. fun-filled evenJragof M' A' 5 'II cOl1lpdyl Tickets available at ..II SELE,CI:A·SEAJ' locattons Sunday, Nov. 22 at 7:00pm, Monday, Nov. 23 at 7:00 pm FREE toBSU students $3°0 Students: $5°0 General Public " . wI act. card' Co-sponsored by,: in the SPEC $1.00 Faculty & staff • Wed, Nov. 25 at 3:15 pm ~10Sfm $2.50 general .~n'theAda Lounge~SUB . ,. ~~_:.;~:':'.~~'1~'~-<;';':'~T"'"-'T""".:,-,,..,.,,,~~........-,,,,._......."~,~,,.a ... ........ ~~ ..,. .....',...4, ... _~_-' ~#..,...~•. ~ .....~ ..., ..11:""'..,.1· ....• t-~...J :;':~-,J.1 ~~.J ',.1~. i ~.( .-~_~..~t' _.'_"',_.__-..,....',...:.....'....:. ,.,# "..,:~~-.~-:'_---r~':"" --_ ..~...,-:' ....""~,---' ~-," ;--'-' ..',~-,_":'-" .• --...... \ -;" :J It' • IIIBrief Monday, November 16, 1987 3 . ~ '. , " ' - , .' <J; ; ~ <. > • • .. ", .- • ~ , • 1 ,'~ , ,~.~ ~- - ... ~.-- ,-...... -~- .~. National·· News Campus parking gets tough (CPSF-The sight of. Army heli- unknowingly landed a UH·60 ·by a helicopter was apparently too .copters landing 'at Embry-Riddle Blackhawk helicopter in a storm of much for .a campus cop, according to Aeronautical University in Daytona campuswide grumpiness caused by a Paul Novacek, editor of The Avion, Beach, Fla., is not all that unusual, new set of strict parking regulations, the university's paper. as the armed forces regularly drop in which had students and faculty upset When the recruiters returned to the to try to recruit aviation specialists and worried about where they were helicopter, they found it had been the school produces. going to park to attend classes. ticketed for violating the new park- But recently, Army recruiters . To have parking spaces consumed ing regulations. Yaleofficials protest opinion CPS'-Apparently trying to calm" During the 1986-87 fiscal year, Yale that?" alumni fear and preserve a rich raised $31.1 million in donations Meanwhile, 'the Yale Daily News source of donations to the school, from alumni, some of whom wrote . reported on Sept. 18 that the Yale Yale President Benno C. Schmidt Schmidt in the commentary's after- chapter of the Kappa Alpha Theta sent a letter to approximately 2,000 math to ask about its veracity. sorority still had 1985 guidelines fudraisers condemning a newspaper In his letter, Schmidt said, "It is from the national chapter for ridding opinion -piece which called Yale a too bad tllat serious, concerned the houses of members "engaging in "gay school." readers can be misled by such jour- homosexual acts." The article, run on a commentary nalistic drivel." The guidelines, written by the na- page of. the Wolf Street Journal, Journal Leisure and Arts. Page tional chapter, suggest pointing out alleged that 25 percent of Yale's Editor Raymond Sokolov said he was to the student involved that homosex- students is homosexual. sorry Schmidt was upset by the art i- uality is illegal and if the student con- Schmidt said the piece, written by cle, but refused to disown- it.