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Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 8-24-2006 Arbiter, August 24 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]. FIRST ISSUE FREE THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE OF BOISE STATE SINCE 1933 ISSUE 03 THURSDAY August 24 2006 www.arblteronllne.c;:om VOLUME 19 N!WS ---------------------------- PAGE 4 Learn proper parking procedures at Boise State by An energy-independent scanning our map. u.s. 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THE HEADLINES world the plane had caught fire at anal- in federal funding cuts proposed by for local law enforcement and pre- local/bsu what the? titude of about 33,000 feet and the President Bush. ventive programs has plummeted: 171killed in crash crew had decided to make an emer- There's no question that violent said David Kennedy, director ofthe gency landing after giving an SOS crime is up sharply. Murders and Center for Crime Prevention at New Canyon County Come on snookums, of Russian airliner; signal. non-negligent manslaughter in- York's John Jay College of Criminal Ukrainian emergency services creased 4.8 percent nationwide In Justice. "I think that matters. I OKs mosquito plan let's be reasonable ... terrorism ruled out told Russian television that a heavy 2005-the largest jump in 15years, would say that's not the only thing thunderstorm could have caused accordingto a preliminary FBI re- going on, but it does hurt." BY DAN BLACK A Pentecostal preacher's wife in A thunderstorm, rather than ter- the crash. port InJune. Senior lawmakers in Congress Courtesy Idaho Press-Tribune Newport, Ark., found out that her rorism, is thought to have caused The 1\1-154was flying from the Murders were up compared agree. husband was. sending romantic a Russian airliner with at least 170 Russian resort of Anapa on the to 2004 rates by 76-'percent in "The Bush administration has The Nampa City Council voted and flirtatious text messages to a people on board to crash over the Black Sea to St. Petersburg over Birmingham, Ala.; 44.1 percent in repeatedly cut federal funding for unanimously Monday Aug. 21 to young lady in the church's youth Ukraine Aug.22. Ukrainian territory. Charlotte/Mecklenburg County, law enforcement, and I don't think join the Canyon County Mosquito group. So, while he was conducrlng.an A representative for the Russian Andriyanova also said the plane N.C.;42percent in Kansas City,Mo.; the rise in violent crime we've seen Abatement District. emergencies services said there had come down 30 miles north of and 38 percent in Cleveland, Ohio. recently is a coincidence," Sen. The action sets in motion a evening church service, she pulled weren't any survivors. the major city of Donetsk. At the same time, the Bush ad- Joseph Biden, D-Del., a member of legal process by which the district a gun Oil- him and demanded that "Aterrorist attack is ruled out," ministration is cutting grants for the Senate Judiciary Committee, would annex the city, bringing he admit his infidelity to the spokeswoman Irina Andriyanova national '. state and local crime-fighting pro- said in a written statement. a new property tax of about $15 entire congregation. said. "Ukrainian sources said the grams on the grounds that they've "Because of these shortsighted per $100,000 valuation on a home A two-hour standoff ensued plane was caught in a thunder- Law enforcement outlived their usefulness or under- budgeting declstorfs, the Bush ad- each year. after which she surrendered storm." performed. One such program is ministration has effectively aban- Residents of the existing mos- to police. The St. Petersburg-based officials battle $1.1 COP,S,a Clinton-era initiative origi- doned our front-line defenders quito abatement district must Pulkovo Airline said the passen- billion funding cut nally designed to hire 100,000 po- against crime and terrorism." vote to approve the annexation in Mask? What mask? gers of the 1\1-154jet, the mainstay lice officers nationwide. In his fiscal 2007 budget, Bush November for it to become final. ofthe Russian air fleet, included 39 Like many local law enforcers asked for $19.5 billion for Justice The expanded district would I wear these because children under the age of 12 and With murder and other vio- and crime analysts, Greenville, Department discretionary spend- extend its spraying program to they're comfortable six more children under the age of lent crimes on the rise in many S.C., Police Chief W. L. Williams ing, an eight percent decrease from areas inside the city, including two. disagrees with the Bush adminis- fiscal 2006. About $1.1 billion of known breeding grounds and American cities, local law enforce- A masked bandit robbed Laura tration's reasoning. His department the cuts would come from funds anywhere mosquitoes -congre- Russian television's Channel One ment agencies and elected officials Little's' Fudge shoppe in Prairie • said (citing Ukrainian sources) that received a $4.47million COPSgrant for grants to state and local law en- gate. are battling to stave off $1.1billion Village, Kan., making off with In May to improve radio communi- forcement. Council members had called for cash and eight pounds of choco- cations so that police, fire and other Administrationofficials labeled a public hearing on the issue but late pecan fudge. emergency agencies in four coun- several programs as obsolete or no citizens spoke for or against His mask consisted of a pair of ties can speak to one another. That underachieving, including the the annexation. .' women's panties. fixes a glaring weakness exposed by Byrne Justice Assistance Grants, a Councilman Stephen Kren the Sept. 11,2001 terrorist attacks. crime-fighting grant program for asked if the action had to be done "COPSis working," Williams said states; the COPS Law Enforcelnent immediately. Hello- oh, it's you, ,;,:' of his department's grant. ,':Ipis Technology Grants, which provide "We're just getting the inforrna- . is a huge step for law enforcement funds for police agencies to mod- tion on this tonight," he said. "I'd what a lovely surprise in the state of South Carolina and ernize equipment: and the Juvenile like to get some feedback from my something that could not be done Accountability BlockGrants, which' constituents about this." A prostitute claims that she on our own." support efforts to stop youth crime. Mayor Tom Dale implored the had a sexual relationship with a That's a local example ofa nation- "Federal law enforcement funds council to act quickly because it Daytona Beach, Fla., police of- Total Dea ths 2605 al problem. Former New Jersey Gov. need to be spent where they are is an urgent problem and "people ficer, and that they even did the Thomas Kean, who chaired the bi- most effective, and (those pro- are getting sick." nasty in his patrol car a couple of partisan commission on the Sept. grams) have failed to demonstrate Ed Burnett, director of the . times. 11 attacks and made recommen- significant effectiveness," said Canyon County Abatement The cop denies everything, but Casualties in Iraq dations to prevent more of them, Scott Milburn, a spokesman for the District, explained that the coun- she offered as evidence the fact called the federal government's White House OfficeofManagement ty far exceeds infection rates that he called her 82 times, using "War Is not a life: It Is a situation, one which may neither be Ignored or accepted," failure to solve such communica- and Budget. that constitute an epidemic. up all of her cell phone minutes. - T.S, Eliot tion problems among emergency- "Since2001,Congress has worked He said wider spraying is essen- response agencies a "scandal." Last with the administration to reduce tial in curbing the serious illness You hearlf me! Beat December, his panel gavethe White their funding and redirect funds to and deaths.