Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 5-7-2007 Arbiter, May 7 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]. A YEAR IN REVIEW. After publishing a controversial map in the first issue oftheyear, KIVI,TVChannel 6asked, Boise State students around campus if The Arbiter's "Orientation Issue" had crossed the In the midst of an unusually hot summer, The Arbiter's front-page head- line during the evening newscast. The map in- line in the June 26, 2007 issue read "It's Fn hot." The headline sparked a va- cluded descriptions of common buildings new riety of letters to the editor questioning the appropriateness of the headline students would use, including the Business and one BSUprofessor dedicated an entire series oflectures to the topic and Building - described as "the bucking bronco the argumentative reader responses it received. with the huge erection out in front of it." The Health, Wellness, and Counseling Center -. was described as the place to "get your STDs c. checked out." . ' The Associated Students of Boise State1 All students interviewed on camera found • University opened up theflrst,ever·~ext' • the map's content funny and not offensive. book libr;uy~ in late AUf! $tas a resource '1\l11i fQrstud~ntswho cann . ';" y for their'~Wtextbooks.rr was the flrstciflts kindata" ,.'"". egebil. .~~!r~~1~hthenatiohl'\Y;<I;:, , ' ,• :, , ,' ;. " While, he was serving in Iraq; the Associated Students of Boise State University' removed Sen. Jonathan Sawmiller from the 'Student senate for failing to meet the minimum require- ments for extracurricular activities. Sliwmillet was' immediately ~einstated once he returned home and enrolled as a ,. full-fee paYing~t~dent. " • ,j ,I .: • The Marriage Amendment debate raged all ..'i· across the country and Boise State was no different. Up until the' 2006 election several readers wrote in voicing their opinions on the subject and Boise State University held several events during Diversity Week to discuss the topic. The marriage amendment easily passed in Nov.2006, defining marriage as being between a man and a woman and banning civil unions. Today's l\.r~fter' News ; , A-2 BiiTech..; ., ;..A-5 Yearin Review ,.~ A6,7 Opinion ; ;.;: A~8. Classifieds ; A·IO Pinals Relief ,.~..: A·ll . Culture B-l Toast & Roast .: B;4;5 Sports", ..: , ~.; ;.;;~ ;., ". B-6 WorldiNat,:naI/What the? stories court~sy of MCT Campus WI;e Services unless otherwise credited. local/BSU May·7, '2007 stortes are courtesy of the Boise Stat~ Web site at 1'I1'I1'I.bolsestate.edu-.All st~r1es are complied by Nel'lS Writers. THEH EADLI NES------- WIIAI III C? . .Imight have been at the Why do you say that? He was surprised to learn that all . But this spoils everything Not once, but twice station, why do you ask? suspects in interrogation rooms are videotaped at all times. A ts-year-old BSU student was After crashing his car into the An activist wanted totake aformal It appears that a caught in bed (sleeping) with his A man waiting at the police bedroom of a sleeping couple in stand against the legality of cam- male co-worker in their hotel room pattern is emerging station in Arlington, Va., to retrieve Alice Springs, Australia, at 2 a.m., ~ Why do you need to see ID? eras that photograph people run- by the maid. The maid then apolo- his impounded vehicle, stealthily drunk driver freed himself from the ning red lights in Houston, Texas, gized for "interrupting." The same A 74-year-old man was ar- reached into the purse of a wom- wreckage, pulled a brewski from his Three burglars broke into a so he purposely went through a red maid came in later only to find rested for drunk driving after lie an standing next to him and stole vehicle, and told the stunned hom- home in Sylvester, Ga., and stole light intending to challenge the evi- the student sewing a button on his crashed his car into a guardrail in her keys and some cash. But she eowners, "I'd better have another the checkbook. belonging to the dence from the camera being used pants while in his boxers. Susquehanna Township, Penn. caught him, so he gave the stuff beer. I'm going to jail for sure." homeowner, who is an employee of against him in court. Alas, a cop He told police he was headed to back and fled. a local bank. saw him run the light and arrested court fora hearing on a previous Police had no trouble locating Now think Ma'am, did you Then, in a stroke ofvery bad luck, him. The camera evidence won't be Definitions aren't always drunk driving arrest. they went to that bank to cash one necessary. him since he had already given his put them on this morning? pleasant, words can hurt name to the desk sergeant. of'the checks. Looking for me? But why? Dude, they were really The woman in charge of teach- A 19-year-old BSU student was here. I swear, man Do you mean 'Wich?' ing the police academy course on videotaping a young woman com- After a vendor at the California driving under the influence of al- I'm back and I have ing out of the women's restroom State Fair was paid with a counter- A man called police on his cell A man in Lancaster, _England, cohol was pulled over while driv- :broughtthehandcu~ one day. To get back at him she feit $20, he told the cops that the phone to report that he had been enraged that his girlfriend broke ing 90 mph on the Florida Turnpike threw a dictionary toward his neth- kid who passed the bill was carry- chased up a tree by narcotics up with him, spray-painted with an open bottle of Southern A few weeks after a sheriff's er regions. This young man learned ing a strip of pictures from a nearby officers in St. Cloud, Minn. obscenities on her very expensive Comfort. She was roaring drunk deputy came to her home to to never mess with copy editors photo booth. When the cops arrived, they Peugeot, including the word "bich." and naked from the waist Gown. investigate a noise complaint, a ever again ... and also learned how A check of the film turned up a found no narcotics officers, and He was caught because he called When arresting officers asked her woman in Aloha, Ore., dialed the words can sometimes be used as picture of the lad and his friends determined that the man was high her that in a text message and where her pants were, she replied, 911 emergency number to ask that weapons. proudly displaying wads of bogus on drugs and was hallucinating. misspelled the word there as well. "I don't know." he return because he was "the cutest cop I've ever seen: cash. Not knowing that the cops No big deal, it was just I have some previous Get yourftlthy hands off The officer did return and were now on the lookout for him, This is a stick-up ... Oh, the kid returned to the fair and tried my whole apartment that experience with crime me, you damn dirty ape arrested her for misusing the police no, don't ... Blam! emergency system. to pass more funny money'. burned to the ground A man applied for a job as an Officials in New Delhi, India, A man went into .a gun shop in Upon learning his apartment Did I say Manson, officer? Atlanta police officer. have solved the problem of Auckland, New Zealand, with rob- . ARBITER . burned down, a BSUstudent called When they did a background monkeys boarding the city's trains bery in mind. Alas, he had armed I meant to say.Mason into work to tell his supervisor he check on him, the cops found that and frightening passengers. himself only with a machete. He WHAT THE? would "be late" because of a "small he was wanted for a bank robbery. They have hired their own was immediately shot. Police in Illinois took a man into fire" at his house and he had some monkey, who has been trained to protective custody because he was stuff he needed to take care of. The Oh, you're a cop? Us too scare offthe other monkeys. I feel much better now heavily intoxicated, but he didn't entire apartment was destroyed. want the cops to know that he had a Hey, wait a minute ... you When asked if he had lost every- A man impersonating a police Yes officer, that's them Authorities who arrested a drug warrant' out for his arrest so he gave want me to do what?! thing, he replied by casually saying officer pulled over two men in a smuggler at the Lagos, Nigeria, air- them a phony name. "oh, naw, I still have a few sweat- car in eastern Kentucky, only Two 19-year-old men stole a tram- port, forced him to sit on a bedpan Unfortunately, the name he gave A group of five BSUstudents em- shirts in my car." to find out that the two were poline form a back yard in Dunedin, and (ahem) rid himself of the illicit was of a man who was also wanted barked on an adventure to Phoenix, by police.