Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 11-14-1988 University News, November 14 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]. Boise State University JEI..l:O Volume IX Issue 11 Jello Biafra to speak on November 14, 1988 censorship See pages 6 & 7 Shanties become favorite protest t_oolat campuses across U.S. (CPS)-The makeshift "shanty," "Symbols are always fluid," noted -until recently an icon of the campus Todd Gitlin, a University of Califor- anti-apartheid movement, seems to nia at Berkeley professor who have become everybody's favorite authored The Sixties: lears of Hope, symbol this school year. Days of Rage. Indiana University sports an anti- "People are always lldapting a rape shanty and briefly had a shan- symbol with one meaning and giving ty protesting IU's crackdown on stu- it another," Gitlin added. "Thllt's dent alcohol abuse. what happens with flags." In early October, volunteers at an Dr. Ohnuki Tierney of the Center off-campus soup kitchen built a for Advanced Studies in Behavioral shanty on the University of Penn- Sciences near Stanford said, "People sylvania campus because Penn has can read symbols upside down. One yet to help establish a promised "sur- group can see it one way and another, vival center" for Philadelphia's another way." No one is quite sure who invented homeless. 'Io object to "U.S. money to Israel the shanty as a political symbol, subsidizing the oppression of Palesti- though Rob Jones of the American nians,". Muzmil Ahamed's Muslim Committee on Africa, the New York- Students Association built an anti- based group which has helped Zionist shanty at the University of organize many anti-apartheid efforts in. the United States, remembers We sent Brian out to get a cute photo of a squlrrel ln the r~ln, and this Is what he came back with. This Michigan, where shanties protesting racism, the Reagan administration's someone coming up with the idea_at Ii!Ue fellawas shetterlngIn a maple outside the Student Union. ' meeting as early as 1984. GeJltmL~merica!1PoJicies.a.n.<!apar-, _ ,,-,' __' .' PhQ\o. by ~r\~I!._Bec:k.(I! . "The' idea didn't develop in Ii theid in South Africa also have vacuum," Jones said. "It came out crowded onto campus, At some schools, students are of regional conferences in which peo- , building shanties to' protest protest ple sat down and said, 'What can we shanties. do?'" Brokaw,calls for renewed activism Mike Rubin, a University of Texas In those days, the anti-apartheid at Austin junior helped build a . movement was looking for ways to "hovel" on the school's mall next to publicize itself. After enjoying a brief by Holly M. Anderson The homeless issue and the uneven an .anti-apartheid shanty. , vogue in the late 70's, movement ac- The University News economy are both cause for great Rubin.rpresident of the Universi- tivists had been reduced to trying to concern, he said. ty .'Libertarian Group, said the get speech time at nuclear freeze The 1988election will not go down Citizens have a responsibility to be "hovel" dramatized poor living con- rallies. in history as one of the most informed, and Americans should not ditions in the Soviet Union, but also But the awarding of the Nobel memorable, NBC Nightly News expect to get all their news from a was a demonstration of antipathy Prize to South African Bishop Des- managing editor and anchor Tom half-hour nightly news program. toward the two-year old apartheid mond Thtu and a spate of attendant Brokaw told a near-capacity crowd in Brokaw said he advised Boiseans to structure. publicity in late 1984abruptly caught the Morrison Center Nov. 11. get information from more than one "I wanted to educate people to the students' attention. In November, "What if they gave an election and source to "assemble a composite pic- idea that divesting is not a good campuses from Oberlin in Ohio to no one came?" Brokaw said, refer- ture" and encouraged the reading of idea," he said, "and draw attention Wesleyan in Connecticut to Southern ring to the record low voter turn-out' newspapers and journals. to the plight of the people in the cal in Los Angeles began erupting in for the election. "The process is too Soviet Union. In South Africa the divestment protests. long" and as such, "encourages the See 'Visit,' page 10 blacks are oppressed, but not as bad By April of-1985, more than 100 conventional-" as everyone in the Soviet Union." campuses had joined the movement Brokaw said Bush and Dukakis ;_··~~:~r~B9I-Z;:}7}j~:~::J7:~~i~:;,j:~~::·~Anti-shanty students at 'Yale "were not exactly the Newman and University built a similar "gulag' last See 'Shanties,' page 10. Redford of presidential politics. They IJ,~lli.lJg'l!i school year. were more like Bartles and Jaymes" and therefore did not do much to ex- HW,;;,:;~'fiil~I~~II~;?~4%;! cite the voters. ." <~<? >';.";', ~:;;~}~' - - .~, -,' ,;, -' "-/'TP, .:.:_· i..•· .<,,> Brokaw said political action com- lb' 'R";;"':';":' .' '" .:'i·;:~,·;:.:_,:;':;:,;r;:.';·:'·: .. Increased dollars, decreased t,h;e". -toi" ,debat~~; mittee's are a primary hindrance to : y.o,5.'!mll~. .' '."", ronnilt ~ 'pglitieal' the American political system today iTheUtiiversit '-':c"* ..,. , tJ1l~'·ilillJ(,tlJe for~' support for state colleges f' .. ' , ...,.' ." .:"-.::";:'m; .··b}t;~I1~politl¢liilis·i and often contribute to a lack of pro- gress. "PACs don't give money to : -Th~ t.i.ro~w,·;N:. 'Y;N~w.$··;;'L.. ".........v:.>: .'. r.tYt()'teiribl~.con:; (CPS)-States are spending 12.4 Novak added that evensome seem- ancho~, .. 'was '··-~n·. e':,f0t·sttictedforniats,"·b(said; ".:-:., Congress in the interest of good percent more on their public colleges ingly prosperous states have cut their ·sev~ralh()~rs.~Q~.JL:, . !l'appeared·{:>j-I~suggest(id.sQlutiOn:·isJorthe citizenship. " than two years ago, but colleges are campus funding. Still, Americans have "no real :ill aq~e$~on '.. ·t§sWerJ'irigdJit'\lletworks,tCl ¢Stllblisfitheir own for~ getting a smaller share of their state "There is a disparity in spending the Morrlson .. .teTtspon(l!'ld, by .':matS,as;onJ'I/BC'sMeerThePress . right to complain" if they do not par- budgets, a new accounting of state among the states. Some are okay KTVB.llSJ)artothes~ti()Ii's3S th :I.\ndtell tlie;p()iiti~ianswhaL time ticipate in the process, he said. Ac- to funding has found. economically, but there are recent :annh'er~ary.c~I~"'~ti<)~.,... ....:'. ..showup."Those that sho\~ up; get tivism, public service and public life In al1, state legislatures devoted notable exceptions/' Novak said. punng a pressconf~rencepriprto on, ?headded. are not held in high esteem in the $36.2 billion to run public col1egesin New York, California and Jlis·.p~entati~n;'};l~QTil\W:.fielded .....Brokaw said h,esupportsunifornl United States today. Instead,we "pay 1988-89,. the Center . for Higher Massachusetts, he said,'have strong hOlT\ageonly to our self-interest." He questio~s: frorri~em1iers pfthc:16cMpoIl •.times around the country so economies, but their support of press about thc:rec~ntc:lectiOnsand . presidenHillwinners' would no( .be· Education at Illinois State Universi- stressed that such indifference could ty found in its report, issued in late higher education "has leveled offor 9mpaigns, G~()rgc:B\.I~~·flJ1dtelevi-.'tJredicted by networks before voters declined in the last couple of years." not continue. sion'srole in polities llndpolitical ..'on the West Coast have a chance to October. "It's easy to make a buck, a little But the figures reprcsent a smaller New York siudents may have a debates.' _.'(" yote .... ..•. ...•.•..•.... ." . tougher to make a difference," !tarder time getting financial aid,. He said dlc:.negll.tivec.ampll.ign.· '. He said :a more eqliitablesystern financi.al commitment to campuses, Brokaw commented. accordmg to Rich Novak of the since state aid declined I percent, thc ~?vc:rtisement~:~Nc~IJ1~~dated the" would betohave. al1pollsopcn at the' Brokaw added that all citizens are American Association of State Col- Center for Higher Education's study aJf\'lllves at Iq~:nahonllt.a!1d J()cal' same lime around the country and qualified to participate somehow in leges and Universities in Washington, showed. levelsdurillgthc:.1988el~ti()nseason . close at the same time 24 hours later. the public arena by virtue of our ex~ In general, though, states have in- would result!'jn.a 'l()tofrecrirnina-' "Do iton the weekend so it wouldn't D.C. istertce on this earth. Just because "In 1980-81 higher- education creased' their student aid by an tions in the.po§.t.el~ctionanalysis/' .interfe.re..with. school·' an~ work" there is no Vietnam, no civil rights . He also said the;ilegatiyc:advei:-Brokaws!iid, , ...• •.' represented 9.2 perccnt of state average of 20 percent since the movement or some other prominent tiserneilts.paid Jor b}'pOlitiCalcam- C!la!iging.·voting procedures re~ budgets," Novak said. "In 1987-88 1985-86 schoOl year. national issue to rally around does states spent 8.1 percent of thei; paignsneed tob~thoroughIYexamin~. quir~anacf of Congress. Brokaw no.! mean the problems the nation cd andsaidi~'(We}leed)toput .... ." budgets to support higher See 'Funding)' page 10 faces today are any less important somc:body fulHiriieon that case." .