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Arbiter, October 30 Students of Boise State University Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 10-30-1996 Arbiter, October 30 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]. '~<"'!.""~'''''-''' .._--''''1".'-'''''''''---.~- 2.NS.DE ------:..----------------WEONESOAY, OaOBER30,1996 THEARBITER Bob Dole. Old message: I'll make I~o~@, everyone rich with this tax break! New message: Clinton has character of a weasel. Maybe so, but the electorate knew Clinton wasn't perfect in '92 and choose him anyway. Message to Dole: Character doesn't matter, it's the n;rli;w~:V:~:;1~i'..';;:,:\;~;, News economy stupid. Threat of snow doesn't bust hemp festival. Jack Kemp. Wantsto reform system so that white, rich kids aren't the only ones who can get the capital to own their own businesses. Trickle-down economics doesn't work Jack, but at least your heart's in Happy New Yearl the right place. @l~~\x,Hootenanny --i.Bl.. 1 Percent Initiative. Shift property taxes to ___Flicks host fund raiser for log cabin literary other taxes, fine. Cut government spending, fine. center. Try to do both simultaneously with a butcher - Sports knife approach invokes a recipe for disaster. NBA in town. Lakers vs. Sonies. Stop the Shipments. Vote for it and send a message, vote aginast it and send a message. Purely symbolic initia- tive won't change the fact that the deal's done, but would show the world Idaho's not happy about it. The choices: , having no agreement versus having a crappy agr~ement. Helen Chenoweth. OK so she's a little out there. At least she's consistently out there. She gets asmilling egg for having campaign commercials which talk about her record. In short-yeah, Icut government, that's what I said I'd do. Term Limits Initiative. This measure assumes the citi- zenry is unable to limit terms hy voting incumbents out of office-we can't be trusted. If this is true, then what's VOTING ACTtVISTS -rnAN\<FULL'f DI5c.AKt>ED the point of having a democracy in the first place? Limiting SOME OF "THE MOtU:. LUD\c.RoU:> ::)Ul'lb~,\ON::> democracy is bad, bad, had. ON HOW \0 MAKE VOTlN6 ~ CONVENIEN",. The Arbiter is the official student newspaper of Boise State University. Its mission is to provide a forum for the discussion of issues impacting the campus and the community. The Arbiter's budget consists of fees paid by students of BSUand advertising sales. The paper is distributed to the campus and community on Wednesdays during the school year. The first copy is free. Additional copies cost IRIITER $1 each, payable at The Arbiter offices. 1910 UniversityDrive,Boise,Idaho 83725 THE STAFF Editor in Chief Kate NeillyBell Business Manager Chris Adams News Editor Asencion Phone - (208) 345-8204 Fax' - (208) 385-3839 Ramirez Hootenanny Editor Josh Costen Sports Editor Amy Butler Health/Beauty /Fashion Editor Ariel Spaeth Out-of-Doors Editor Rhett Tonner E-mail- [email protected] Opinion E~itor Joe Relk Online ~ditor Mike Moore Art Director Jonathon H~Smith Sports: [email protected] Photo Editor John To~e. Ad DeSIgner Brenda Zipfel Advert,ising Mqnag~rMatt Po~enger. Local AdvertiSing Sales Sean P. Murphy Staff Writers David Augello, Robert News: [email protected] Bansh, Enn B~rden, Jarod.J. D.ick,0ary Doherty, Matthew Haynes, Mark Holladay, Seth Jaquith, Don Kelsay, Jim Klepackl, Clint Miller, Kelly Millington, John Sackmon Susan Stroder Mark Letters to the Editor:[email protected] Taylor, Jill Winje Columnists David Aguello Damon Hunzeker J~nnifer Ledford'" Kevin Whitesides Phot?~raphers KaTOLynn Brow~, Rick Kosarich, Shown'Recordf(~fuputer Arts and Entertainment:. [email protected] Syste'!1s Administrator Mark H~lIad?y Circulation Innc Figueros~ L1~is Figueras Receptl,on Yvette Bryant, KatyPetty EditOrial Adviser Peter Wollheim 'Business Adviser William Hart " , 'BITER of the Week ~~D~ T~iSweek's 'Biter of the Week is Stoff Writer KellyMillington. She's written a pair of.insightful sfe- For back issuesvisil us al: .nes for our elections pullout. She's never late and she can always be counted on. Thanks, Kelly. http://www.idbsu;edu/ orbiter Sports EditorAmy Butler should also be recognized during recovery from her recent trau.matic e~perience of se~ing the Lakers and Sonies naked. Get well soon, Amy!, '; " ' ..,I I, _,J". I J," " " l ~ I .~ i",1 I "- I1-----' ________________________ OPINION3 THE ARBITER· WEDNESDAY, OaOBER 3D, 1996 right" if you told a crowd he was conservative. They colleges and universities, populated by the least ignorant wear their conservative labels like war medals. But why and most educated people in society, tend to lean collec- Liberal is not a should conservatives think Bill Clinton would be insult- tively to the left. In essence, the liberal focus is on diver- ed by someone calling him liberal? He's a Democrat. sity and culture, whereas conservatives always seem to four-letter word Democrats are liberal. What's the problem? be concerned with the bottom line. Which seems more Does the insult effect stern from the speaker, or the ignorant to you? listener? In the case of George Bush, probably the for- Then we move from the ignorant to the hypocritical. by Josh Casten mer. And people caught on to it, so now Grandpa Dole Conservatives seem to have the market cornered there. Senior Staff Writer says it and his crowds erupt. The people now hear "lib- First off: family values. Conservatives are so right- eral" as a negative label. How did that happen? eous when it comes to this, but consider the dark under- Ah, politics. So much of what we hear in commer- Any idea taken to an extreme is, of course, probably belly. Bob Packwood comes to mind. Bob Dole, who cials and debates is mere semantics, an exercise in bad. Lots of liberalism leads to inflated taxes, more was accompanied by his daughter at the first debate, choosing just the right word or phrase to apply the prop- bureaucracy and more regulations-not necessarily failed to mention he had disowned her and his ex-wife. er spin. And it shows up in all aspects of politics, from good. It's Newt Gingrich who really takes the cake, though. the inane to the monumental, and ranges in subtlety In the long run, it all balances out, but it's the short- The guyserved divorce papers on his first wife while from that of a hummingbird to a tank. A politician says term people tend to pay attention to. Thus, the party in she was on her hospital bed with chronic cancer. Aside one thing, hoping listeners will interpret it in a different power is held responsible for all sorts of problems, as from an almost inhumane act of-insensitivity, what's the way. theliberals.have been lately. Those naughty guys. point? She'd be dead eventually. But Newt couldn't Take the word liberal, for example. The American They're the source of all our problems. wait. Gee, way to stay loyal tothe family. Heritage Dictionary defines liberal as "Broad-minded; But in a two-party system, liberalism is just as neces- Then there's the whole small government thing that tolerant," and "Favoring civil liberties, democratic sary as conservatism. They work together. Just as too Republicans keep talking about, how the Fedruhl reforms, and the use of public resources to promote much liberalism is bad, so too is an excess of conser- Guvmint shouldn't interfere with us on a daily basis. So social programs." A more concise definition has been vatism. what do you call outlawing homosexuality, banning offered by Don Geronimo, of the radio duo Don and But you don't see many liberals running around call- abortions and tearing young children away from their Mike, as: "cares about other people." ing Newt Gingrich a conservative. Out of control, Nazi welfare mothers? Sounds like outright invasion to me. And what's wrong with that? If you're a Republican, and corrupt maybe, but no one uses "conservative" like The reality of the situation is that Republicans want a apparently a lot. George Bush threw the word around as "liberal". So what do conservatives know that liberals small. un intrusive government for the rich and big much as he could with Mike Dukakis, saying it like he don't? What are they hiding? Probably just a better industry, but will still usc legislation to keep the rest of might utter "communist" or "pedophile." He wanted the understanding of semantics. us in line. American public to believe liberalism is a bad thing, and But back to my question. What's so bad about being Oh, but now we can drive 75 rn.p.h. Bigger tickets is kept repeating the L-word to that end. Probably called a liberal if that's what you are? Is someone imply- all that means. What it really boils down to is that lan- Republicans feel if they enunciate "liberal" as if it were ing it's shameful to be open-minded? guage is a two-way street. A word has only as much a curse enough times, it may transform its own meaning. It looks that way.
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