Boise State University ScholarWorks Student Newspapers (UP 4.15) University Documents 10-12-2006 Arbiter, October 12 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]. THE INDEPENDENT STUDENTVOICE OF BOISE STATE SINCE 1933 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2006 ISSUE 17, VOLUME 19. FIRST ISSUE FREE. CULTURE ---------------------------- Until death do us Get the latest on the group .~ One Ring Zero, while The Arbiter gives you a taste for all things platonic. OPINION PAGE 6 On the eighth anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death, openly gay student Taylor Newbold talks about hatred In our society. SPORTS PAGE 8 Check out the preview for the Boise State game at New Mexico State Sunday and meet the Bronco goalkeeplng duo. BIZTECH PAGE 12 King of search snaps up "Kings of Internet video." Read about Google acquiring YouTube In a all stock $1.65 billion deal. ARBITERONLINE.COM New York Yankees pitcher Cory L1dledies In a fiery plane crash when his aircraft crashed Into the Belaire condominiums In New York City Wednesday. For the full story visit www.arblteronllne.com. WEATHER FRIDAY High: 73F / Low 49F '~~/~ ,>i. F ~?/r(r~'> SATURDAY . High: 73F / Low 49F SUNDAY High: 68F / Low 51F ON CAMPUS FRIDAY - The Impact of the 'N' Word." Student Union Jordan A Ballroom. 11:40 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. There are a lot of Distiguished lecture series speaker Kozol encourages volunteerism people who do not understand how powerful words can be, BY CEAN SIEGEL Park said. lation, of black and Latino children who attended: hood in Boston. He was appalled by especially derogatory words. News Writer ' Kozol started off his speech by has returned to public education ., "I thought the interesting thing the conditions of the schools, and This workshop looks at the "n'" urging the lawmakers and state with a vengeance," Kozolsaid. was, a lot ofthings that happen over after being firedfor reading poetry word and how it has affected In the first part of the board members to try teaching a At the end of his talk, Kozol there [New York, Boston, Chicago) written by Langston Hughes, he different cultural societies. Distinguished Lecture Series, pub- class. suggested. that anyone at the col- similarly happen in Idaho; even to wrote the book "Death at an Early Free. Call 514-8513. lie education advocate Jonathan "When I say intervention, I'm ree . lege level who wishes to make a white students, because of the pov- Age: - .' Kozol gave a speech about "Federal ferring quite specifically to one form ,difference should sign up for erty levels here in rural districts; 'This book received the 1968 SUNDAY Intervention in Public: Education: of intervention. I'm referring to the volunteer programs. Koziuksaid. National Book Awardin Science, Can I Kiss You?" . .' . Facing the Challenges" Thesday, mania of high stakes testing ... and "Ifyou do this, make an obligation ,Kozol wasbom in Boston; Mass., Philos.op.hyandR.eligion.S.inceth..en.' Student Union Jordan D Ballroom. 12: 30 to 2 p,m. Oct. 10, in the Jordan Ballroom in the other corporate model elements to maintain. your loyalty to them in 1936.He graduated summa cum Kozolhas continued to write books, Author Mike Domltrz's theStudentUnion Building. During ofNo Child Left Behind, which have [children). And most iIIiportantiy, laude from-Harvard University ,and workelfas anactiViStfuarierrort • presentation Is an interactive his speech, Kozolcriticized the pub- not improved, but worsened,' the after you have done your volunteer ' .and went on to accept the Rhodes to reform the public school systems. program that teaches lie school systems and the No Child conditions of education in our pub- wOrk;tostimd up and speak out ScholarSWpto Oxford t!~versity. 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THE HEADLINE"S the U.S. Geological Survey. stantiallyimpactcoastaleconomies," ."I've never seen so many blanks," impacts significant," scientists con- are very fortunate to have her on the WORLD Experts said the magnitude was Margaret Davidson, coastal services said Baker, who set pots for four days cluded in the 2004 Arctic Climate faculty." 'fairly small for a nuclear test, equat- director of the N~tional Oceanic and Impact Assessment. "Dr. Shimon has shown great U.N. condemns nuclear without pulling up a single crab. ing to 300 to 800 tons of TNT. By Atmospheric Administration, said StPaul is a speck ofland in the Not all the impacts are negative dedication and energy toward the test by North Korea comparison, the nuclear bomb that in a statement. ' Bering Sea, the treacherous expanse - at least from a human perspective. education of her students," said fell on Nagasaki, Japan, in August The blooms, first spotted Sept. 29, of water that separates Siberia and Warmer water favors some spe- Launa Moser, former president of Global condemnation rained 1945 was the equivalent of 20,000 have littered beaches with decaying Alaska near the top of the world. cies, including pollock, the "money" IAHPERD. "She is a wonderful role down on North Korea on Monday, tonsofTNT. fish - turning off tourists, especially Since Russian fur-traders came fish that dwarfs all other fisheries model for all with her passion for Oct. 9, as intelligence experts Most analysts agreed that North on windy days when surf spray car- seeking otter pelts in the 1700s, this worldwide and winds up primarily life and her work, and she puts forth questioned the rogue nation's claim Korea either has or soon wiII have ries irritants from the algae, said northernmost reach of the Pacific in imitation crab, fish sticks and fish great effort to prepare her students that it had successfully tested a nuclear weapons. If confirmed, the Mark Fisher, science director for the Ocean has created fortunes and burgers. A fleet of ships, mostly from for the work force." nuclear weapon. test would vault North Korea into an coastal fisheries division ofthe Texas claimed the lives of mariners drawn Washington, mines nearly 3 biIlion Shimon has taught secondary Even without solid confirmation, exclusive club of seven other nations Parks and Wildlife Department. by its astounding bounty of marine pounds of pollock from the Bering physical education and adolescent North Korea's boast that ithad joined known to have nuclear weapons: Because the red tide alga thrives life. Sea each year - the equivalent of 10 physical activity at Boise State since the list of nuclear-armed nations set the United States, Russia, Britain, during hot days, biologists hope Whales, walruses, seals - one pounds for every man, woman and 2001. Previously, she served as a cer- off alarm bells in world capitals and France, China, India and Pakistan. cloudy conditions and a cold front, species after another was slaugh- child in the United States. tified athletic trainer atvarious high raised fears of a nuclear arms race in Israel is thought to have them, but- expected Oct. 12, wiII kiII off the tered to the verge of extinction, "This is not a clear doomsday sto- schools and universities. Shimon is Asia. The United Nations convened that hasn't been publicly confirmed. blooms, Fisher said. yet a wealth of living resources ry," said George Hunt, a University tfle author of several articles found . an emergency session to discuss While' there is no concern that remained untapped. of Washington ecologist who moni- in the journal "Strategies" and in possible economic sanctions, while NATIONAL the current red tide spread will ul- Today the Bering Sea yields half of tored birds during the Thompson the "Journal of Physical Education, world leaders worked the phones timately poison seafood, it still can all seafood harvested 'in the United cruise.