Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 1-22-1997 Arbiter, January 22 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]. ,\ . .~-., 2.NS.DE-~---------------------- WEDNESDAY,JANUARY 22, 1997 THEARBITER that it would not approve fee increases unless the Legislature looked into the constitutionality of charging Idaho residents money for education .. , However, the Board repealed its deci- . .. sion recently, with members writes against teaching Ebonies. .Are tUition prices explaining they want to avoid a rubber band effect. beginingto They are concerned that ews if they refrain from rais- io celebrates 20 ytalS, balloon? ing fees one year, then It seems early in students could be the semester, but handed huge BSU's already increases the thinking about rais- next year to ing tuition. catch up. President Charles ___ .. l8OIenanny Clearly, Ruch is quoted in with Built to Spill frontman. students Jan. 14's should Statesman as say- not ing, "We antici- ____ ~.J'~port.s expect pate very little enecl over Christmas break. the wiggle room" Board because there's to come so much pressure for high quality to their rescue, The Arbi.,eJr..Js looking education with. , low cost. even if it promises. for phot0!lraphe~5 to Well, quit trying to wiggle and figure begin work Immediately. Ultimately, something out. BSU . the best hope already charges more for students have tuition than Idaho's other for stopping fee public universities and col- increases is to lege. Idaho State University stu- fight them, as they dents were not hit with fee increas- did in large numbers es last year. How is it that BSU can Allyou have to do Is point and dick. with Proposition 1. Developing.prints Is not netessary, justify increased tuition hikes when U of I charges less? Hearings on fee increase pro- (we have a negative scanner). posals are scheduled for March 13 Our university can initiate tuition hikes Apply at the luxurious basement and easily accessed in the Student because students don't show up at fee increase at University Drive and Michigan Street Union Building. If you don't show or call Kara Brown at 345-8204. hearings in March to protest most proposals. up, you can't get mad. I BSU students were given hope when the State w.,." ht .. 40lit. Editorials reflect the opinions of The Boardof Education passed a resoiution in April, 1 Arbiter's section editors. The Arbiter is the officialstudenl newspaperof BoiseState University.Its m~sion is to provide a forum for the d~cussionof issuesimpactingthe campusand the community.The Arbiter'sbudget cons~tsoffeespaidbystudentsof BSUand odvertisingsales.Thepaper isdistributedto the campus and communityon Wednesdaysduringthe schoolyear.Thefirst copyis free. Additionalcopiescost $1 each,payableat TheArbiteroffices. THE STAFF . Editor in Chief KoteNeillyBell Business Manager ChrisAdams News Editor Asencion ::~li9ii~:~~~(,,~},l~~(208) 385-3198 Ramirez Hootenanny Editor Josh Casten Sports Editor Amy Butler E~mCln'..~' '''I .idbsu.edu Health/Beauty /Fashion Editor ArielSpaeth Out-o'-Doors Editor A Unle Fairy Opinion Editor KellyMillington Online Editor Mike Moore Art Director Jonathon H. .'". ,'.'•.-''.Sp~rt~::,'.. .,•.dbsu.edu SmithPhoto Editor KaraBrownAd Designer BrendaZipfel Advertising Manager Matt Pottenger Local Advertising Sales Sean P. MurphyStaff Writers Erin Burden,.Angela ; '...·.~~'~~~3;7' .bsu.edu Colerick,Jarod 1. Dick,Mary Doherty,Matthew Haynes, EricaHill,Mark Holladay,Seth Jaquith, Dan Kelsay,ClintMiller,Dan Robbins, Mark Taylor Columnists Damon Hunzeker, Jennifer <letter5;t~·lhe~:~df.,)'.". ,.".">. cloven.idbsu.edu " '. ".. ,' .;...... "c', .,/ .. :., rr.: , -, <Coo, .,,1 LedfordPhotographers RickKosarich,Shawn RecordsCartoonists EricEllis, Brent Irish ,.''.,'Arts and Ent.r ainmenl::[email protected] Computer Systems Administrator Mark Holladay Circulation Enric Figueras, Uuis ',:' .: ,;..c'·>' ;-,':.':(,::rirj., Figueras Reception YvetteBryant,KatyPetty Editorial Adviser Peter Wollheim Business . ' ',~ Adviser WilliamHart IBITERoftheW.,ik; Thisweek's 'Biter of the Week is Hootenanny EditorJosh Costen. He was the token on-the- bollsection editor this week, getting the stories for his pages in on time. He composed - ," , .:~ - ~. almost every story in his section, and all were well-written. If it wasn't for him, the copy editing and production crews would have been sitting on their thumbs until Saturday after- noon. ~rtDi~ectorJo~.otho~.Smithand FacultyAdviser Peter Wollheim deserve mentio.n for their patience while wOltmgfor the rest of the copy to magically appear. • I ,to '. ..", ~'.::~.'.-.1, .• I i, I, THE ARBITER WEDNESDAY,JANUARY 22, 1997 OPINION 3 ;. All I really need to know I learned in the 'hood "II ) , grill, but you won't find anything wrong with our prices. i, by Damon Hunzeker For instance, the following Shakespeare quote can be , I easily translated: "Friends, Romans, countrymen-lend We have a chicken sandwich with a small bite out of it me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." for only 43 cents-today only! Our food's so good Ebonically, it's: "Yo, posse, lissen up. I be here plantin' you'll think we paid you to eat it." The Oakland School Board recently voted to require dis homeboy. Ain't braggin' on him none." Or the music industry: "Today only at Disc Land- the teaching of something called "Ebonies." It sounds three broken Pearl Jam CD's for the price of one Johnny like an expensive pair of basketball shoes, or maybe a But Ebonies is simply a dialect. And it makes sense Rivers cassette! You won't just save money ... you'll disease you for legitimate street folk to speak Ebonicrlly. For instance, it just wouldn't sound right for Ice-T to talk virtually be making money!" like a honky: "Pardon me, officer. I hope I'm not And, finally, political ads: "Take advantage of the troubling you, but I'd like to take this opportunity new Republican trade-in plan. You bring us one to shoot you in the face." And it would be Democrat in any condition-s-drunk, scandal-plagued, equally inappropriate for the Rev. Billy looped on buffalo tranquilizers, it doesn't matter-we'll Graham to start interpreting the Bible in give you Newt Gingrich! Take him home today. And if Ebonies: "In da beginnun, Da Man made you act now, we'll throw in Marilyn Quayle-c-free!" 'It be.dark. da man. Some brutha say, Anyway.jt's wrong to teach Ebonies, because it's a Flick da switch.' And whoop! Dey it waste of tim~. You're supposed to learn things in school was. Den Da Man he chilled fo cuppa that you wouldn't figure out on your own time. Nobody days." taught Snoop Doggy Dogg how to speak incorrectly. He So regional and occupational figured it out all by himself. And nobody taught Phil dialects reside everywhere, but the Gramm how to sound like Elmer Fudd. Like Mr. Dogg, trick is to stay in your own category. he mastered the dialeet'en-his own time. I saw a used-car commercial the other Also, American students arc already pretty foolish. day, with the ad slogan: "You can find They don't need to learn bad grammar; they need to something wrong with every car we acquire some linguistic refinement. But maybe it would have on the lot, but you won't find any- be fun to see exactly how stupid American kids can get. thing wrong with our prices." Essentially, Let's teach other subjects incorrectly, too--like math. they're saying, "Give us 450 bucks, and we'll ("No, I'm sorry, Johnny. Two plus two is 79.") And store one of our pieces of crap in your garage." what about social studies? ("That's right, Jill. The capi- But the technique works for car commercials. tal of California is Africa.") Imagine, however, if other businesses began borrowing I realize it isn't easy for someone raised in a crack can get from eating too much pork. But actually it's the the dialect found on car lots. How about the fast food house to appreciate the importance of coherent syntax. study of pretending you're Shaquille O'Neal. Students industry? "Come on down to Fun Patty and kick a few But hell, even E.T. managed to learn a few basic English of Ebonies will learn how to speak with a gangsta onion rings! Take a tator tot out for a test bite! Hell, you skills. accent. can find something wrong with every hamburger on our Internet, shminternet-if 5 all overrated by Asencion Ramirez come up with the couch pota- to's version of the Net. Shell Staff Writer out the cash and you can get Web browser and a remote con- Thanks to the inventors of Web TV, the Internet just troi to play with. became a little more innane. Nevermind the fact most Currently you can't down- web sites are merely billboards on the Information load anything because the unit Superhighway. This company claims the Net will forev- has no hard drive. There's no ',' er change the way we live, sound either, but in another I' The same thing was said about cable TV, and where I seven months you'll be able to i are we now? Inundated with channels that present low- purchase those capabilities for a I 1 quality programming and, more often than not, re-runs few exira dollars. You get three i I of shows from the Big Three.