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t t l THE UNIVERSITY'F II3AHO The Stuclents'oice Frida, Ma 10, 1996 ASUI —Moscow, Idaho Volume 97No. 63 President, senator accused of scheming Environmental Janet Birdsall to take the job this summer because she involved in the whole fiasco. "He's using StalK would be living outside the 20-mile limit. the ASUI government as his playpen. Pierce. said Houck was hoping to get the Chris is just somebody else he's using to former senator has accused ASUI position. Team further his agendas." wins big President Brian Kane and Senator "He was under the assumption that he' Kane said he has no Chris Houck of trying to problems with give be getting (the position)," said Pierce. Averitt becoming vice Houck the. office of vice president. president, and any Houck said Wednesday he and Kane comments othenvise were made in Students The office will become vacant when jest. place first in were looking at the rules and regulations, "I was joking. It was John Tesnohlidek resigns this purely joking," summer. but he was just joking with Pierce about Kane said. He was accepted Tuesday for a student design contest against trying to get the position. Kane co-sponsored a bill last semester exchange to Utah State next year. Upon "It was a joking around comment. It which allows the president to determine his resignation, Pro Tem Annie Averitt national is kinda got blown out of proportion," whether the vice president competition supposed to take his position. must hold Houck said. "Nothing's up at all. We office hours during the summer. The bill Regulations specify the vice president were just screwing around." was signed in December by Sean Wilson, Zachary Smith must live within 20 miles of campus, and But Thursday Houck said he was then ASUI president. Kane said he was Slaff Averitt plans to be working for a cruise wrong and would take responsibility for unsure if he would require the vice presi- line in Alaska this summer. he UI Environmental his action. "Brian had nothing to do with dent to keep office hours this summer. Team took this year' Sue Pierce, who has just finished her Waste-Management it. I brought it to him. I was dead wrong "I'm still looking at that. This is Education and Research term as an ASUI senator, said kinda Houck told in doing it." short notice," Kane said. TConsortium Environmental Design Contest by her Wednesday Averitt wouldn't be able storm, bringing home an overall first But Pierce said Kane was just as ~ place finish and SEEASUI PAGE 7 nearly $15,000 in prize money. The sixth annual contest, held April 21-25 at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, gives students Drown your semester with the River a chance to put their skills to work at tackling real waste-management problems. Twenty-nine teams from 21 universities across competed in the five-day long contest, present-the'ation ing papers and demonstrating working bench-scale models of their designs. UI's winning team consisted of chemical engineer- ing majors Christopher Doten, Jennifer Meehan, Abbie Parker and Aaron Newton. The team was accompanied to Las Cruces by advisers Dr. Woody Admassu and Dr. Ron Crawford. Of the three tasks WERC presented to the contes- tants, the Ul team produced designs for two of them. Parker and Newton tackled Task I, the cleanup of storage tanks with radioactive hazardous waste. Doten and Meehan collaborated on Task 111<the cleanup of waste ponds and vegetation containinated with - "- ildionuciides and hazardo'us chemicals. '&e team took first. place overall and received the Rust Geotech trophy. In addition, they received 2nd place, $4,000, best oral presentation and $1,000 for Task I. For Task III, they won first place, $4000, best 'xQ bench-scale model, $1,000, best approach, $1,000 and a technical merit award worth $1,000. All the trophies and around $45,000 in prize money were presented at an awards banquet on April 25 where the announcer kept the Ul team on their toes. "It was a lot of standing up and sitting down," said C Meehan. ;) The results came as no surprise to adviser Admassu. "I told them all along that they would win," Admassu said. "This shows that the UI really prepares their students for the real world," he added. The team members were "C'. optimistic about their chances, but home six was a pleas- Jared Smith bringing trophies ant surprise. Moscow's own The River Project will be performing this Friday and Saturday at Rathaus Pizza Parlor. Music ."Iexpected that we would do but I didn' will begin at 9 p.m. well, ~ SEE ENVIRONMENTAL PAGE 9 Recycling Outreach Program to collect reusable items Andrea Lucero clable/re-usable household goods will be to the clients and thrift store of the Alliance Education in order to create the Recycling Staff placed along side dumpsters at the residence along with the community Action Center and Outreach program. halls and on old and new Greek Rows. Alternatives to Violence. "The program was an extension of what the he end of the school year has finally "The bins are different from other recycling "This way, items that students wouldn' residence halls had already started. Now stu- 'arrived. It is time to clean out closets, bins in that they don't collect paper, tin, plas- know what to do with otherwise can really dents have three options. They can throw Tbedrooms and apartments, and time to tic, etc. Instead they are provided to collect benefit the community," Hoover said. items in the trash, recycle them as plastic, tin get rid of all the items you 'no longer need. discarded household items that can be Student representatives from the Recycling and paper, or donate them to the Recycling But this year, instead of throwing your old repaired and given to someone who needs Outreach Program visited each of the living Outreach Program," Hoover said. cloths, irons, couches, lamps, etc. away, take them," explained Tanya Atwood Hoover, groups and talked about what Recycling The Recycling Outreach Program is cur- advantage of the newly implemented volunteer servicecoordinator at UI. Outreach does. Posters were also distributed rently offering internship and volunteer posi- Recycling Outreach Program.;.:.-, Phone numbers will be printed in the bins to explain how the program works. tions for anyone who is willing to help keep The University of Idaho in conjunction!i;..;so,students can call to have the items picked Recycling began with the residence halls the program functional. For more information with Washington State University has created;c,up when the bins become full. The Recycling collecting plastic, tin, paper and glass. contact Tanya Atwood Hoover at 885-5756. the Recycling Outreach Program to benefit Outreach Program has a grant with the Hoover, along with the WSU Service "I encourage everyone to put their recy- students and members of the community. Sojourner Alliance (formerly the YWCA) Learning Program, wrote a grant to the Fund clable/re-usable goods in the bin," Hoover Beginning May 15, bins to collect recy- and the items collected from the bins will go for Improvement . of Post Secondary said. Opinion............16 ~ Diversions. ~ Sporfs ~ Sportse ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o20 Comics.............25 Pnchard Art Gallery Ul trackster sets eyes Classifieds........26 features nese exhibits on Olympics. starting next ureek '9:,iI See page ZZ. See page D2. I , j'„,.;. Mostly sunny =„~a';;-- and highs =->~';--- creeping to 70 by Sunday. NCW Sin brief 2 HE, ABGONA UT EHefag, May 10, 1996 .,have to find a!way to.fund'these napproved by forest. officials, an . expandetI prpgramL alternative oi an option that is - One possibility: enrollment caps. more resoutpe friendly. y c Savings could be:gained by'imit- "In develophg its.diaft plan ievI- ing the number of students allowed sion, forest officials are considei-- to enroll in the state's colleges and ing seven options,.including~ no- universities. action.~ Aiternative 6 offers the 4'= State board and university offi- greatest protection for wildlife and, «4 cials stress that limiting enrollment other resources by recommending isn'ttheonlyoptionunderconsid- more wilderness, less access, eration. Other alternatives include reduced timber harvesting and less redefining how much money is grazing. spent in various disciplines within Federal land managers say their old mummy Protesters call for a university or college. 'preferred option is in the middle to be shown here legalization of tFSln'.StudentS The board will discuss what between the intense resource use . 'Tj'off r!"p'fr'S kinds of programs should be option and the most protectionist despite objections in. marijuana —The State Boaiid p f offered and how to fund them —at alternative. 'OISE Peru Education wants to put a greater its May 16 meeting in Lewiston. —Associated Press CAPE-TOWN, South Africa- —Associated Press As a new constitution was emphasis on job-training classes, WASHINGTON —'The frozen offering more courses statewide in 0 approved in Parliament on body of a girl sacrificed 500 years fields like computer repair and 0 Wednesday, protesters smoking Crapo names new ago by the Incas of Peru will go on marijuana and beating drums out- Tetan, FremOnt VOterS display in Washington May 21 At Boise state University h side called Campaign despite objections from Peruvian for their "indigenous more than 15,000 students study Will VOte On fOreSt herb" to be legalized. part-time in the College of —U.S. Representative'90uyearscholars, the National Geographic a 'OISE Vsgnja~ Technology alone, the shift could management Michael Crapo has selected con- Society said Wednesday. mean dramatically expanding gressional legislative director Will Some Peruvian scholars have course T NT NY "p Hollier serve as his re-election objected that transporting the body ~Prgggn offerings.