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Fit Stop - 830 West Bannock • Court House - 7211 Colonial Drive Vol. XIII, No. 2 Winter, 1988 8 TURNER'S TRIALS 30 THE BLACK VIEW BSU alum Jesse Jonathon DEPARTMENTS BSU's Fred Goode and Turner remains a hostage 6 Campus Ne",'s Mamie Oliver present the one year after his abduc 16 Peoplr black perspective. tion in Beirut. 18 Foundation News 41 Alu mni News 32 RESERVATIONS 20 HISPANIC HOPES 45 Sports TO EDUCATION Idaho Hispanics face a 46 President's Comments Native Americans grapple long road to assimilation. with maintaining their culture while earning 24 A RACE APART COVER degrees. White separatists seek a Like spots of color blending into homeland in Idaho. a sea of white, Idaho's minorities 34 BEING BASQUE eye assimilation while fighting to Basque culture thrives in keep ethnic and cultural roots. Boise. Photo by Chuck Scheer, FOCUS IS publishe<l Quarterty by the Boise State University Office of News Services, t 9t 0 UniverSity Drive, Boise, 10 83725. OHices are located in Room 724 of the Educallon Building. phone (208) 385-1577. PLEASE SEND ADDRESS CHANGES (WITH THE ADDRESS LABEL, IF POSSIBLE) TO THE BSU ALUMNI OFFICE , 1910 UNIVERSITY DRIVE. BOISE. 1063725. If you receive duplicate copies of the magazine, please notify the Alumni Ollice at the above address. Friends of the univerSity who wish to receive FOCUS can do so by sending their names and addresses to th e Alumni Office. Correspondence regarding editorial matter should be sent to the editor. Unless otherwise noted, all articles can be reprinted as long as appropriate credit is given to Boise State University and FOCUS. The staff 01 FOCUS includes Larry Burke. editor; Me.rie Russell, Bob Evancho and Glenn Oakley, writers; Chuck Scheer and Glenn Oakley. photos end graphics; Sharon Chanton. Ed Clark and Jim McColly. student assistants; Lana Holden, alumni news; Brenda Haight. editorial assistant; and Dana Robinson, typographer. The FOCUS advertising representative is Point of View Advertising, 411 South 5th Street, Boise, 10 B3702. phone (206) 385-0338. 4 Tech college 2 million in Pavilion seeks approval If all goes weI!, the proposed College of Technology at Boise State could become a reality by this summer. The proposal went before the State Board of Education Jan. 18-19 and the board's determination isn't expected until June. The proposal seeks \0 incorporate the School of Vocational Technical Education and several other existing programs under onc administrative structure. The plan will create a School of Applied Technology within the College of Technology that would offer pre-engineering, conSlfllclion management and the bachelor of applied science programs. It wi!! also include a cooperative arrangement with the Univer sity of Idaho to provide engineering education on the 8SU campus. Larry Selland, BSU executive vice presi dent, says, if implemented, the new Col lege of Technology will fill a gap in technical education in southwest Idaho. Selland says the gap exists in the innova tion/production process, and the new col lege will work with local industry to help develop new ideas into prototypes and, ultimately, commercialization. Thc new college is consistent with BSU's designated mission of giving special em· Suzanne .u... Eag". I. JoatMd with loot bee.UM she w •• the 2 millionth person phasis in the area of applied technology. to .Hend en event In the BSU PnMlon. KNU received some of Mr 't,000 In prizes from Dexter King, leh, who hu been ••K utlve director of the P.vilion slnc. II Selland says the technical education now OI»nllClm 1H2. The2-ml.lonmartt .... ~Dec .1 2 .. theSan ~ buttet available at BSU is "good and proper, but blllI game. Ihttl Wlbbel. photo not enough." "Technology is changing the workplace so that a two-year education will not always suffice," he says. Selland says the University seeks budget increase new college will include a program in After one of the best budget years in the salary equity to bring salaries in line with manufacturing technology which is not 1980s, higher education leaders are hop similar institutions. BSU is also requesting offered elsewhere in the state, as well as ing that the good times will continue in the 5376,000 to maintain or gain accreditation boosting some of the programs from two 1988 session. in chemistry, theatre arts, public affairs to four years. BSU President John Keiscr said the and nursing. 0 The College of Technology is not a new salary increases and general budget sup ~ idea for BSU, Selland says. It was port last year have yielded dividends in in· originally proposed in 1983, but rejected About this issue creased research, economic development by the State Board, which requested more activity, and service to the state. Is Idaho's I million population a evidence on the need for thc program. melting pot or a salad? Selland, armed with data from needs "Given the goals of the state and the How are ethnic and minority cultural assessments, an independent study on real needs of the primary service area of groups faring in a state with a predomi companies that may expand to Boise and Boise State, failure to support this year's nantly white population? Have while an endorsement from the Boise Chamber budget request must be considered a step separatist groups tarnished Idaho's of Commerce, is optimistic that the Board backward into a non-competitive stance," image'? In this issue of FOCUS we ex· will give the proposal its blessing. he writes in the university's annual budget amine the state's minority populations "This is a good sound proposal based publication. and their opinions on life in Idaho. on need," Selland says. BSU is asking the Legislature for a Articles range from investigative pieces Initially the new college won't require 12-pcrcent increase over its base budget of on Hispanics and the Aryan Nations to additional staff or expenditures. Selland 529.1 million. Of that, $1 million is for in· personal testimony fronl blacks and says future plans include building a new flation and relatcd costs to maintain cur Native Americans. 0 facility as well as adding programs. 0 rent operations. Another $568,000 is for 5 The Hostage Scholar BSU graduate Jon Thrner remams captive By AJarie Russell he man in the picture smiles shyly, with brown eyes peeking out T through horn-rimmed glasses. Estel!e Ronneberg offers another picture of her son, this time his boyish looks are hidden behind a fnll beard. The pictures are not recent. In fact. the most reccm picture Ronneberg has see,n of her son, Lebanon hostage Je.sse Jonathon Turner, is a Polaroid taken by his captors that appeared in newspapers in December. Above: Turner as a student in the early ·70s. At right: Turner and wife, Bader. "I know he'll be fine if he has things to read," she says as she slowly tnrns the pages of the two scrapbooks filled with newspaper clippings, cards and letters she's received since her son was abducted there, saying 'It was his own fault,'" a year ago. "I'd hardly ever see him Ayers says. "But that doesn't matter. No without a book.. He is a thinker." one has the right 10 deprive someone of Indeed, Turner is a scholar. After the his life for a year." <lO-year-old Boisean graduated from Boise State College in 1970 with a bachelor's he abduction launched Turner's fam degree in psychology he went on to col T ily in Boise and his wife, Bader, in lect advanced degrees in math, computer Beirut, into a seemingly endless Tontine of science and philosophy from the Univer waiting and worrying. Ronneberg says the sity of Idaho. After teaching at colleges United States State Department keeps in in Hawaii and California. Turner took a close contact with her regarding the job in war-lOrn Beirut. He told friends sitnation. that the stndents in the embauled coun "They tell me they have many irons in try embraced learning in much the same the fire, bnl won't tell me what they are, II way he had. she says. "It's really addicting to have stndents It's not easy when the only contact into neberg that Turner is probably receiving who realiy want to learn," says Kathleen the dark, frightening world where your good treatment because leachers are Ayers, a BSU math professor and long son exists is Ihrough media reports. revered in Lebanon. time friend of Turner's. "I can realiy Ronneberg says it is especially hard each understand why he'd go into a situation time a new report abont the treatment of amilies and friends of hostages have where he was in danger.