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Local' woman assists student -acfors with dlalecis - - ~---- --- --- ----------- ----Raffgei-'Ch-a:lfen-ge-Team does --- Page 11 , battle in Big Sky country Page 10· • Boise State University iter www.arhiteronline.com Thursday, November 7, 2002 ' VoL'U, Issue:2:': First Copy Free Meet the ASBSU candidates - Page 6 Newbillproposeselectionsignapproval~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Proposal cou Id admit that a change in the bill you're giving the power fa," election material to prevent vent candidates from hang- that there might be censor- will be necessary. Beechler said. them from being posted in ing signs and handing out ship with this new bill. It's a be used to If passed in current form, ASBSU Senators Winnie classrooms and other flyers before they are certain very early stage and we have Bill #13 would require elec- Tong and Jerilyn Grow co- unwanted places. Policy vio- that they meet code. the opportunity to look at restrict free tion chair or chief of staff sponsored the bilI in last lations could result in dis- H they didn't meet code - those things," Grow said. speech approval for all ASBSU cam- Tuesday's senate meeting, qualification of the candidate. such as the new requirement The student senators will paign materials beforebeing but both were hasty to clarify This presents a hazard, for materials to contain the probably seek to reduce the posted on campus. the bill's intent. said Tong, to those running new Website for student vot- bill's demands, requiring By Casey Wyatt Election Chair Evangeline TheArbiter ------- They said that the bill is for office. She cited the possi- ing - the candidate would only that copies of campaign Beechler said that while she meant to protect candidates bility that opponents could have to take them all down material be filed with the would not police the ads for rather than to place controls A bill that could provide a forge signs and place them in again. election chair, or add a stipu- content, sIll' hinted that the on the content of a candi- off-limits areas.' The change Tong and Grow both say lation that the election's chair way to censor campaign proposed code might enable date's campaign. materials' was introduced to the election code, she said, that concerns for free speech cannot disapfrove material future election chairs to cen- Current election code sets could prevent this. in this case are valid, and that on the basis 0 content. recently in the ASBSU Senate, sor campaigns. guidelines for displaying but the co-sponsors of the bill Grow agreed, and added a change to the bill is needed. '''You never know who campaign signs and other that the new bill would pre- "There are some concerns (four ways). The reading of sm. iper. doesn't, ' , , Arabic"The innameorigin,is butprobablyJ!lany' cards includes employing groups claim ownership of four elements or four direc- tions. taro t c·.ards theItaliansfradition,andincludingancientthe 111isis not unlike the four Egyptians and Chinese. types used in Jungian psy-' There's also a strong connec- enology or 111 the Myers- tion to the Jewish mystical Briggs personality test, Conn tradition of cabala," Conn said, By Jessica Adams transformation. Rarely does said. ' In fact, Conn said some TheArbiter _ it mean physical death. In With roots shrouded in clients are referred by psy- I. fact, the death card can be a mystery, and the cards look- chologists who use the I There was a time when a very positive card in a read- ing very different across cul- resultmg session tapes as a gypsy would shuffle the ing, depending on where it tures, mystics in Europe supplement to therapy. farot deck and layout the occurs. embraced them for fortune- Tarot, she said, can be cards to tell a fortune. In a less than favorable telling purposes, according viewed as ancient psycholo- But the use of tarot cards ,position, it still doesn't indi- to some experts. gy, but not as fortune telling. recently by a sniper in the cate the physical death of the But fortune-telling gyp- , Susan Quail, a teacher ana Washington, D.C. area is 'questioner. If one looks sies are tarot images of the reader at tarot cards at turning Thetables. closely at the card, they will past. Tarot cards today are Crone's Cupboard, said the The discovery of a card see a rising sun 111 the used by anyone interested in sniper's use of the Death card with "I am Goa" scrawled background, symbolic clairvoyance - even as a nov- has been sensationalized in on the back, coupled - of a new beginning. elty. the media. with reports of O'Grady said the The Boise phone book lists "In a ,Christian-based soci- I, :/YI" a d d it io n a l. media's desire to sen- several places to get. tarot etyrit isn't surprising that the cards-left at the ·sation·eHze. .events readings~and_ some -practi- >tarot-··Death··--~ard: loy·ouId- be sniper's 'other contributes to mis- tioners even do parties. " used to freak people out. crime .scenes, "understanding . of Tarot decks are easily This incident pfayea off of leaves police and , the tarot and the ' accessible. Hundreds of tarot PE;opl~~5 ignorance," QuaIl the, public to metaphysical' in deck versions exist" Conn sata. ., interpret the generaL said. The death card found.at , "Hollywood has a' large meamng. "The media the sniper shooting was from part infhis. The majority of ' The death card in ' latches on to it the Rider-Waite' Tarot deck, people in this country are the tarot deck fright- as if there is the most common deck in more interested in being ens people when it some connec- use. entertained, not in finding appears in a spread. tion to Drawings and designs out what it actually means.' The . anxiety and fear Sat an" may differ (some people col- People like being scared," 'are ' understandable, O ' G r a d y led them for their artistic Quall said. ' considering the image of said. "It's got value), but all tarot decks Quail said the cards are death. nothing to do with fhe consist of 78 cards. not used for fortune- telling, Is the sniper a practi- , tarot; neitfier the sniper nor Twenty-two are in a but rather for guidance. She tioner of tarot, delivering, a . the media knows anything group called the major said anyone could access the cryptic prediction of The about the tarot cards or any- arcana, with each card bear- cards to the extent of their future? thing like that.. It's just per- ing a figure and a number. knowledge because they are , According to experts, the petuatmg a misunderstand- Conn said they are arche- used to snow you things you answer is probably no. mg of the tarot... but it types such as the moon, sun already know. BSU English professor makes .for a juicy media and death - all relating to sta- "You don't have to go to Sean O'Grady, has done story." tions in life. '. someone else for a reading, research on tarot, and said it Panda Conn a 30-year 111erest of the deck con- but many people interested is a topic misunderstood by reader and teacher of tarot, sists of pip cards with four in this community want to the ~eneral public. said by choosing to leave the suits: swords, pentacles, cups see a stranger to tell them O'Grady said he immedi- tarot Death card, the sniper and wands. Tfiey correspond about their future. It's almost ately knew which card was revealed that he isn't to the four elements, earth, like a counseling _session, used when he heard reports schooled in tarot; water, fire and air. people find. answers they that the sniper had left a tarot "Unless he's more sophis- These' also correspond already know," QuaIl said. card at the scene of a shoot- ticated than I think - that he with spades,. diamonds, As, far as the outcome of ing. thinks what he's doing is hearts and clubs of a tradi- current world events, QuaIl "When I first. heard that" transforming the world - he tional deck of playing cards. said. she sees drastic change the first thing I thought was, is showing that he doesn't Tarot also has. the jack, commg. 'I bet it was the deafh card,' understand," Conn said. q,ueen, king and 'ace, with the "I see more than the death that's the one people focus Conn said it is important addition of cards called card, I see ,the Tower, mean- 'on. People are literalists," to remember the true empha- pages.' , ing sudden, drastic change, . O'Grady said. " sis of this card is on transfor- ,Rituals for doing a read- but it will always tum out for "Tarot is a language based mation, which will take place ing vary by practitioner. the best," Quall said. "Things on images and the oest way during the time specified by Conn Said she has the client are breaking down, look at to approach it is as iHt were other cards or by the ques- shuffle the deck, then cut the world today, it's a mess, a poem.