Where to find Waylon, Muffie, Ingmar and Mardi Gras Tuesday, November 16 Antique Festival Theatre, 8 pm, SUB Ballroom Coffeehouse, Muffie Blakeley, 8 pm Boisean Lounge Dorm contest, "Almost Anything Goes", 3:30pm Morrison Hall Alpha Eta Rho films, 7 pm Boisean Lounge Foreign film, "Cries and Whispers" (Bergman), Sweden, 7 pm Special Traditional IK-TKE Toilet Bowl, plus Powder Puff Game, 6:30 pm Events Center Bronco Stadium Flaherty senior recital, 8:15p.m., Music Aud .. 17 Wednesday, November Saturday, November 20 Uri Geller, Lecture, mental telepathist 7:30 pm SUB Ballroom; HomecominJt Jt&me, BSU vs. Web�r State, 1:30 pm Bronco Stadium; announcement of Homecoming Queen and Mr. Bronco, plus King Beard coronation of Homecoming Queen and Mr. Bronco at half-time Bud Gudmuson, Coffeehouse, 8 pm Boisean Lounge Alpha Chi Omega pancake feed, 8am-12 noon, SUB Gamma Phi Beta beer-chugging contest, 7:30pm Bronco Hut Homecoming Dance, "Today's Reaction", semi-formal at Ramada Downtowner Ballroom, 8 pm, no admission charge, Homecoming Queen Thursday, November 18 arid Mr. Bronco presented Concert, country-rock star Waylon Jennings, plus Jessi Coulter, 8 pm Faculty Recital, 8:15p.m., Music Aud. Gym, $5 student, $6. 50 general, $7at door Alpha Eta Rho films, 7 pm Boisean Lounge Friday, November 19 Sunday, November 21 Sorority Mardis Gras Pop film, ''The Four Musketeers", 8 pm SUB Ballroom Boise, Idaho Volume II, No.3 The Monthly Newsmagazine Of Boise State University Homecoming Welcomes Alum By Bob C. Hall Homecoming events, this one offers an invitation to all BSU alumni, friends and It started almost a half-century ago, students to attend. when Jacmto Urresti tied three strips of Also on Tuesday evening, a two­ adhesive tape around one leg of his foot­ decades old campus Homecoming event, ball mol(skins to hold thighpads in place, the clash of Intercollegiate Knights and slapped the ball to teammate Jim Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity in the Shawe, then laid a key hlock that sent Toilet Bowl }'ootball game �t 6:a0, the single wing play crushing across a behind the Student Union Building. I muddy goal line and a 6-0 defeat of the Following will be a Powder Puff scrim­ .. Univ ersity of Idaho frosh squad on mage hetwt'en feminist footballers and Homecoming Day, 1934. sorority jockettes Forty-two years later, this Saturday Wednesday, November 17, will offer on N'ovember 20, 1976, "Gus" Urresti an evemng entertainment double bill. �II return with now-thousands of World-famous Israeli mentalist Uri former Boise State University graduates Geller will lecture and defend his claim to take a Bronco Stadium seat and to bend object by mind power in the SUB whoop for their successors in sleek, ballroom at 7:30. stretch fit orange and blue uniforms as Geller will stay on stage to help they face Weber State University on [continued on page 2) Astro-Turf. It will climax HSU's Forty-Third Homecoming Week celebration that has scheduled lectures, tht•atre specials and a. nationally famous pop musidan as a mark of the university's growth since 1933. In 1934, the only event besides the second Homecoming Game was a "Home­ coming Party" held afterwards. It All Came Together In'47 Welcome to Boise State's Homecoming! Whether you are a current There was not even a Homecoming student, alumni, guest, or football fan, the upc6ming game and home­ Queen until 1947 when, after a long World War II shutdown of normal coming festivities will hold many exciting surprises! Please share them campus activities, B.J .C. "re-converted" with us. to a major institution. It already had the BSU offers opportunity for many students with varying interests, key to Homecoming, a powerful football especially in the field of community involvement. For example, the team under Lyle Smith, a Homecoming Devrea Herman, recent "Pie-Fly" on campus resulted in students contributing $350 to the parade, a Queen, Faye Spilsbury, and 1975 United Way Campaign. Queen's Attendants, Dorothea McFall The advantages of attending Boise State are multiple. Personally, I and Evelyn Zamzow. have been rewarded many times over in my decision to complete my There were mums for alums, a ban­ education here. quet at the Hotel Boise and, just like in 1933, a great Bronco running back, Bob Homecoming is clearly a time for meeting old friends as well as making new ones. If you are not acquainted with BSU on a friend-to-friend basis, Mays, cutting for great gains behind the l!_ undefeated Broncos' Notre Dame Box w at better time to begin than the weekend of November 20? to power blocks beat the Idaho Frosh Paula Stueve 19·12. Bob Mays is now a partner in Boise's MissBSU successful Starline Equipment Co., who11 join Urresti as one of a long line of Bronco alumni who've made equal gains · in Idaho business and community leader­ Susan Clark ship since their playing days. 1965Homecoming Queen Those who come back to see BSU in 1976 will find a university-wide celebra­ tion of that same state leadership growth. A Five-Day Festival All Homecoming events will take five Faye Spilsbury days to complete, starting with a folk­ First Homecoming Queen, song evening with Muffle Blakeley in the 1947 Boisean Lounge of the SUB. Like all BN [ ES .... ?M IT ALL STARTED at St. Margaret's Hall in 1932, above. School faceliftings came as fast as name changes as the fledgling BJC in 1949, right, with its football field, Ad Building and Auditorium, turned into an expanding Boise College by 1966, left, page 3. That face is still changing, as the 1976 photo, right, page 3 shows the new science building under construction. State Board Eases Gift Acceptances In a session devoted almost wholly to motion from Idaho State University actions affecting non-university sectors officials that would liberalize acceptance of Idaho public education, the State of gifts by administrations at all state Board of Education took one action universities. affecting operations at Boise State Uni­ All university and college presidents versity this month. will be allowed to accept small, indi­ Meeting in Gooding and in Twin Falls, vidual donations "of a routine nature," November 4 and 5, the board accepted a without first submitting these for formal state board approval at a regular meet­ ing. Gifts over $500 in value and others of Evans,Booth less value but rated as "non-routine" will still require board approval at regular session. Edit 'drill' In other action on public education affairs, the board: Rhonda Booth, Kingston, and Georgia STUDENTS IN 1950 showed typical BJC spirit when they pitched in to build the Evans, Boise, have been selected as Deferred a request from Rep. John familiarcampus fireplace located behind the Special EventsCenter. student editors for the 1976-77 edition of Sessions (R-Driggs) for their support of the Boise State University literary a higher priority listing on the State Per­ magazine "the cold-drilL" manent Building Fund projects rating Both are English majors at BSU. for a vo-cational-technical building at The magazine features art work, Eastern Idaho Vocational-Technical more homecoming poems, short stories, essays and plays School. Proposed building cost is $1.2 by BSU students, staff, faculty and [continued from page 1) million. At 8 p.m., AI p h a Rh o c h apt er o f alumni. In the past the magazine has announce the 1976 Homecoming Queen, Granted their support of a public edu­ Kappa Sigma Fraternity will present won several awards. BSU's Mr. Bronco and winner of the cation campaign planned by the Idaho Idaho's popular Antique Festival The- 1976-77 traditional King- Beard contest. The issue will be printed in League of Women Voters. The league atre troupe in the classic play "The Little February. It will contain a symposium Entrants in that event shaved three will seek private funds to produce media Foxes," at the SUB Ballroom. weeks ago, have been racing their with nationally known Oregon poet programs and materials on public school William Stafford as well as a special whiskers along with various psychic and There's a ticket fee for that event: funding in Idaho. Aim is to get support $2.50 general admission and $2 students, issue of "Truest Confessions," a collec­ for reform of the system. medical aids to produce the most macho tion of student "pulp" stories. brush and bristle by contest deadline available at the door. The student editors are still in the Heard from Lewis-Clark State College Wednesday. Culture One Day, Then Pancakes processof collecting material for the new that the school's teacher education pro­ Gamma Phi Beta sorority will help the A special foreign film classic, Ingmar issue. FOCUS readers who want to sub­ gram has received accreditation from celebration along as sponsors of a beer­ Bergman's "Cries and Whispers" sets a - mit articles for consideration can bring the National Council for Teacher Educa­ chugging contest at the Bronco Hut that starker tone of entertainment realism at or mail manuscripts to Taunya Blake, tion. evening. Starting glugs will be taken at the Speccenter theatre Friday evening, English department secretary at Boise Authorized Board President Ed Benoit 7:30p.m. 8 p.m. Students get in free, others pay State. to seek support from Governor Cecil Waylon Jennings Is Centerpiece just $1. Editorial selection will be made Andrus for a supplemental appropriation Homecoming entertainment center­ It all aims toward Saturday, when an without the author's name so the deci­ that would make up a budget deficit for piece is a concert Thursday evening by Alpha Chi Omega sorority pancake feed sions will be 1mpartial, according to state education.