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As someone livingin the U.S., what

concerns youabout the war on

Iraq?

"All your consequenceshave repercussions. I'm

wondering: if you startdoing stuff to people, are

they going to do some-thing back to you?"

Maurice Sapp, 21,communicationslmarketing major.

"I don't think PresidentBush has given us a good

reason to go towar.'

Aolani McGauis, 22,political science major.

"We don't have U.N. sup-port so we shouldn't be

going. We're going toalienate a lot of other

nations." .

Wyatt Parke, 21,undeclared.

"What we don't like to talkabout with war is that

we're going to be killingpeople, and many of the

people we're going to bekilling will be children and

women."

Maria Hegbloom, 26,communications major.

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Saddam remains defiant,troops move closer to Iraq

Photo By Jim Barcus - Kansas City Star

Urban Tactical training continued at Champion Main in Kuwait. Soldiers of 1st Battalion 325 AIR of the 82nd Airborne attackeda mock structure to prepare for possible urban warfare inside of Iraq. .

Former student leader to..work near Baghdad

By Mark Johnson,. Peter Smolowitz and

Martin MerzerKnight Ridder Newspapers -

KUWAIT-Iraqi leaderSaddam Hussein, defiant ariddressed for battle, Tuesdayrejected President Bush'sdemand that he flee into exile.

The White House called itSaddam's "final mistake."

The 48-hour deadlineimposed by the United Statesarnves at 8 p.m. ESTWednesday. War couldexplode at any moment afterthat, or sooner if Saddam iscaught preparing to use nervegas or seems ready to destroydams or oil fields.

A U.S.-led invasion forceof 300,000 troops awaits theorder to attack.

"It's a good thing we'regoing to do," Lt. Gen.William S. Wallace, the com-mander of U.S. and alliedground forces, told troops inKuwait just before theymoved to within 10 miles ofIraq. "It's a noble thing we'regoing to do." .

Now on the cusp of waroverseas, the United Statesalso stands at the second-highest level of alert at home.

In Washington, authoritiesexpressed new. concern aboutterrorist attacks .againstAmericans at home' andabroad, and the AgricultureDepartment told farmers andfood processors to monitorthe nation's food supply moreclosely.

"Iraqi state agents,Iraqisurrogate groups, .otherregional extremist organiza-tions and ad hoc groul?s or disgruntledindividuals may use this time period toconduct terrorist attacks against theUnited States," said Homeland SecuritySecretary Tern Ridge. .

Authorities enhanced security at bor-ders, airports, seaports and elsewhere. Atthe White House, guards extended thesecurity perimeter around the executivemansion and prohibited pedestrians fromwalking along Pennsylvania Avenue infront of it. .

Speaking from the White House onMonday night, the .'.president saveSaddam and sons Odai and Qusai 48hours to leave Iraq or face an invasion.

On Tuesday, for the first time sincethe end of the first Gulf War in 1991,Saddam appeared on Iraqi televisiondressed in military uniform. His sons andaides issued statements of defiance andvows ofresistance.

"Iraq doesn't choose its path throughforeigners and doesn't choose its leadersby decree from Washington, London or

Tel Aviv," an announcersaid on an Iraqi televisionstation.

The station is ownedby Odai Saddam Hussein,who was q!lot~rl hy Iraqimedia as saying, "Thewives and mothers of'those Americans who willfight us will weep blood,not tears."

At the United Nations,Iraqi AmbassadorMohammed Aldouricalled Bush's demands"the law of the jungle"and the coming war "acrime against humanity"that "is tantamount togenocide."

At the White House,spokesman Ari Fleischerbrushed off such criticismand said time was runningout for Saddam.

"Saddam Hussein has

led Iraq to many mistakes in tile past,principally by developing weapons ofmass destruction," Fleischer said."Saddam Hussein, ifhe doesn't leave thecountry, will make his final mistake."

Even ifSaddam does flee. he could beprosecuted for war crimes, Fleischer said.Five thousand Kurds in northern Iraqwere killed in 1988 by chemical weaponsemployed by Saddam's forces.

Fleischer said the president spoke bytelephone with Russian President

. Vladimir Putin, who opposes militaryaction in Iraq, and they agreed to contin-ue working together on other matters.

"The two of them did stress to eachother the importance of maintaining goodU.S.-Russia relations.. and they bothexpressed confidence that it would,indeed, happen," said Fleischer, whoagain refused to disclose how much thewar might cost. Members of Congresshave estimated the cost at $80 billion ormore.

Secretary of State Colin Powell saidSee Iraq page 4

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By Brandon FialaThe Arbiter ---------

Former ASBSU President NatePeterson is departing Monday for a coun-try near the epicenter of the war on Iraq.

Peterson visited campus this week tosay goodbye to the mends and professorswho helped shape his undergraduate expe-rience.

Peterson is leaving for the countryGeorgia, a former republic of the SovietUnion on the Black Sea between Turkeyand Russia.

Peterson, serving through the PeaceCorps, will teach English and work withcommunity groups to develop problem-solving skills. Peterson will spend threemonths learning Georgian and 24 monthsteaching.

Sept. 11 and the war on terrorism con-tinue to playa role, Peterson said.

"Following 9-11, I decided that now isthe time for service," he said.

Peterson is headed for a countryinvolved in the invasion of Iraq.

"As circumstances with the current waron terror and subsequent war on Iraq haveunfolded, Georgia, which is in closer prox-imity to Baghdad than we are to Seattle, isright in the middle of the current intema-'tional crisis."

Peterson said he will undergo PeaceCorps training that addresses safety issues,but will rely on basic measures.

"I will Just try and blend in with thepeople, and not call attention to myself,"he said.

Peterson graduated from Boise Statelast year with a bachelor's degree in eco-nomics.Since graduation, he has beenworking for various state Democratic can-didates. .

Peterson was student body president fortwo years and the driving force behind one.of the most controversial and visible stu-dent government administrations, .••

~ his presiden . ,Peterson initiat-ed •.a .petition drive '~g for PresidentCharles Ruch'sreSignation, graded ~--

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Nate Peterson is preparing to embark on a journey to Georgia. "istrative performance with a student sur- cated better during his first year. tence of certain administrators, ".vey and rallied for education funding after "As the community is aware, we had . "What some people call confrontatioo- •••~"-the budget crisis. more difficulty communicating during his al, Icall meeting my <hrtyandol?ligiltiQrifQ, ",:"

"Nate Peterson had one of the' most second year," Blake said. the.I?,OOO.. stu.den.ts.a. t.B.S.U ..to..,..1....•.....'..•........•,-.~.:;'.-.•..'.highly visible presidencies of any student Blake said Peterson was less effective their mterests l? the, best of my .•..,.... ... i;< L,body leader that I have worked with on advocating for students his second year Peterson has Bald.- .,,,.campus," said Peg Blake, vice presidentof because he.was more confrontational. .,: "~~tion entailS.,~.'x-ili' lVi:iUlsfudentaffairs.· ' . '.'When you lead, ina confrontational when in the course of isSueS

"And I believe his visibility also style you end ul?shutting down some lines affectingstuden1sj·ytlU~ lij)extended. off campus into a number of of communication that ~ be very.help- rigbls;or allow, thenitQt». .other venues" fuI " Blake said. . . .•.. '. ' .. . . Peterson Silid'nnoe be

Blake said she and Peterson didIl't - 'However, Peterson said his leadership PhCOlJlS,.••·•.m.h¢"W!lllls.·.t(j·· ....always getalopg, although they communi- . stylew~ n~ gi\len theincotnpe- il.D. ,

€ampus ShortsEastStudy caDs students in inmoral, civil actions

, TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-College students are more like-ly these days to serve in soupkitchens. But they're less likelyto get politically involved infinding solutions that do awaywith the need for soup kitchens.

So say scholars at TheCarnegie Foundation for theAdvancement of Teaching whospent three years studying moraland civic actions and educationat more than 100 colleges anduniversities nationwide, includ-ing Spelman College, Duke and'Portland State universities.

"A lot of students are resis-. tant to political engagement,"said Anne Colby, a senior schol-ar at Carnegie. "They're veryturned off by it and cynical."

But Bill Moeller, director forthe Florida State UniversityCenter for Civic Education andService, says lack of politicalaction does not necessarilymean students are not involved.

Young people have justturned away from the traditionalmeans of bringing aboutchange, be it religious or politi-cal, and toward methods such asInternet campaigns, Moellersaid. Despite the differentapproaches, which Moeller saidare all needed, the desire tochange society still promptssome students to step into thepolitical arena.

In "Educating Citizens;Preparing America'sUndergraduates For Lives ofMoral and CivicResponsibility," Colby andother Carnegie scholars arguethat although colleges have a lotof good programs in place thatpromote volunteerism and val-ues, there are still many missedopportunities for students formoral and civic growth.

Some states' prepaid collegetuition funds in 'financialdistress'

'The concept is a good one:States help parents save for their

children's college educations byletting them pay for tomorrow'stuition at today's rates.

The parents are betting thattuition prices will rise more thantheir investments would if theysaved the money on their own.

Unfortunately for many ofthe 19 states that offer the plans,the parents are winning the bettoo handily.

Soaring tuition and the stockmarket's poor performance havecombined with state budgettroubles to put several plansunder a lot of pressure.

"They are experiencing, inalmost every instance, financialdistress," said Joseph Hurley,chief executive ofSavingforcollege.com, a Website that tracks college savingsplans.

"In a lot of these states wherethey guarantee payment oftuition, the tuition prices havegone up tremendously, and theirinvestment fund has beenperforming poorly, so their lia-bility goes up while their assetsessentially go down."

Many state plans are experi-encing what's known as an"actuarial deficit" - a measureof the plan's ability to meet thefuture obligations ofthe existingcontracts with parents.

"We're not talking about animmediate cash flow problem,"said Richard Kaye of RichardM. Kaye & Associates inBloomfield Hills, Mich., whichis the actuary for the TexasGuaranteed Tuition Plan,formerly the Texas TomorrowFund.

Families advised to knowtheir options in paying forcollege

With the college financial aidseason under way, morestudents and their parents arefinding that they're coming upshort in paying for tuition.

Family savings, scholarships. and government grants and

loans aren't always enough topay the rising cost of collegetuition.

So many families are seekingout student loans in the privatesector.

"We've seen it pick up sub-

Mewsstantially," said Mike Novak,director of financial aid atSouthern Methodist University."It used to be they were rareexceptions. Now it seems theyare part of the landscape."

The 2002-03 academic yearisn't over yet, and already pri-vate student loans at SMU areup 25 percent over the 2001-02academic year.

"It's pretty significant,"Novak said, adding that heexpects to see private loansbecome a bigger componentunless Congress raises theborrowing ceilings on federallyinsured student loans.

"Private and state loanprograms for students and par-ents began to grow in the 'SOs ascollege prices outpaced inflationand federal aid failed to coverthe difference," the CollegeBoard said in a 2002 reporttitled "Trends in Student Aid."

The College Board trackscollege- costs and produces theScholastic Aptitude Test that'sused widely for collegeadmissions.

The board estimated that in2001-02, nonfedcral loansexceeded $5.5 billion, consist-ing of almost $5 billion inprivate loans and $634 millionin state-sponsored programs.

MidwestTwo Missouri universitiesdefend minorities-only pro-grams

ST. LOUIS-The Universityof Missouri at Columbia and St.Louis University are sticking bytheir minorities-only programsdespite pressure to abandon orbroaden them.

In a letter dated Thursday,Chancellor Richard L. Wallacetold two conservative advocacygroups that MU believes itsracially exclusive programs arc"consistent with current law."

William R. Kauffman, vicepresident and general counsel atSLU, writing to the groupsFriday, described SLU's pro-grams as "lawful under currentlegal precedent" and guidelinesfrom the Office of Civil Rightsof the U.S. Department ofEducation.

The groups had asked 1\,1U,St. Louis University andSouthern Illinois University atCarbondale to answer by.Friday

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On Friday,the aouse ofRepresentatives.voted 42 to27 to defeat a bill that wouldprovide a .little .more sun-light on the source of-legis-lators' - campaign money.

-Idaho is one of the fewstates that does not. requiredisclosureof'campaign con-tributors' occupations'~ anessential element in judgingwhich' political or economic.forces, are supporting a par-ticular candidate. .' .

. Most, of Idaho's neigh-boring :states requireothisinformation, and at a much

. lower threshold than '.the,$200 federal standard:Alaska; California, Oregon,Montana and Washington:

Idaho Human Rights,Center honors art-contestwinners

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llft ......,·~concern,about effecls of proposal thatwould let public Collegesraise tuition Independently

The Idaho Human RightsEducation Center will honorthe winners of its ThirdAnnual Human. Rights ArtContest at a recognition cer-emony on Thursday, March20, at 11 a.m. at the BlackHistory Museum, located at508 Julia Davis Dr;

Students from all overIdaho, including Hearl Start,public schools, charterschools and private schoolswere invited to participate.There were over 280 entries.

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letters challenging as iIlegal theprograms they limit to minoritystudents.

MU and SLUannouncedtheir decisions Friday and madepublic their letters of reply. Asof Friday, SlUC was stiII look-ing into. the issue, spokesmanSteve Binder said. "We haven'treached. any kind ofconclusion."

The challenges came fromthe Center for EqualOpportunity of Sterling, Va.,and the American Civil RightsInstitute of Sacramento, Calif.The two groups, which opposeall racial preferences, are cam-paigning jointly to call attentionto race-based programs in high-er education and pressurecolleges either to end them oropen them to all students.

They have succeeded so farin getting Princeton University,the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology and Iowa StateUniversity to do so. VirginiaTech joined the trend this week,apparently voluntarily, byenacting a sweeping anti-dis-crimination policy. It bansconsideration of race, gender,color, national origin, disability,age and veteran status in adrnis-

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sions, hiring and financial aiddecisions.

The advocacy groups basetheir case on Title VI of theCivil Rights Act of 1964, whichprohibits racial discrimination atinstitutions that get federalmoney.

SLU and MU set aside cer-tain scholarships for minoritystudents. MU and SlUC offersummer college-prep programsjust for prospective minoritystudents.

Roger Clegg, general counselfor the Center for EqualOpportunity, said Friday that hehad received MU's letter but notSLU's. He said the groups' nextstep in MU's case wiII be to"talk with them" and find outmore about the disputed pro-grams and the university's legalcase for them.

If the university doesn't pro-vide a satisfactory one, thegroups will file a complaintagainst the university with theOffice of Civil Rights, Cleggsaid.

Campus Shorts compiled byBrandon Fiala from UWire and-KRT news services.

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"AII these very flippantwords like evil being

thrown around instead ofreal issues."

Scott Abels, 25, EnglishMFA student

"1 guess I look at it fromthe individuals in Iraq, and

how they are dealing intheir everyday lives."

Annie Kennedy, 22,student

"I think that everybody ismaking a bigger deal out

of it then it really is. That's- what I think."

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Nathan Paddock, 22,student

"1 am scared about thewar because I am an

international student."

Sharon Achu, 18,international student

"I think the war on Iraqcan be fairly well argued

tbat it could do more to .contribute to terrorism

here than withoutgoing to Iraq."

By Casey WyattThe Arbiter -------

Boise State Universityreceived a $7,000 grant from theIdaho Department of Health andWelfare to develop more waysto aid victims of domestic vio-lence and sexual assault.

BSU Health, Well ness andCounseling Services and theWomen's Center are working tocreate a sexual assault responseteam to provide support for vic-tims and planning public aware-ness campaigns about sexualviolence.

Boise State HealthPromotions and PreventiveServices Coordinator ChristinaBerg said the response/preven-tion team would be composed offive persons who have the train-ing to help victims.

The team of campus agenciesis planning a sexual assaultawareness month in April called"Take Back the Night" alongwith further awareness educa-tion that will be ongoing. Theyare also writing a grant to bringa full-time sexual assault pro-gram specialist to Boise State.

The BSU Department ofUniversity Security DirectorBob Scibolt said his office isaware of very -few sexualassaults on campus.

Sci bolt said three or fourinstances of rape reported thisyear are still being investigated.

In the last three years,University Security has con-firmed only one report of rapeon campus. "Part of it may bethat [the assaults] are not beingreported to us," Seibolt said.

Even if they do report theassault, their case may not beprosecuted. An FBI report titled,"Crime in Idaho 2000," foundthat of 127 instances of reportedrape in Ada County in 2000,prosecutors filed only ninecharges in District Court.

Women's Center CoordinatorMelissa Wintrow said becausemore of BSU's students live offcampus than at most colleges'and universities, campus securi-ty statistics don't accurately.reflect reality.

She also said students wholive off campus have fewerresources to deal with this typeof crime. Resident advisers andcampus security can be an assetto victims who live on campus,but they cannot provide thesame support for victims wholive. off campus. The result is anunderreporting of rape and vic-tims with a heavy emotionalburden.

The psychological aftermathand legal processes of reportingsexual assault can be over-whelming. According to a U.S.Department of Justice report onacquaintance rape of college stu-dents, many victims face a hostof psychological problems,ranging from anxiety to depres-sion and thoughts of suicide.They may drop out of schoolbecause they fear the possibilityof facing their attacker on cam-pus.

Wintrow said she 'recentlyacted as a confidential adviser intwo cases where women hadbeen sexually assaulted. "Howcan you study with something'like that?" she said.

Gribb helps guard our groundw_aterBy Lauren Consuclo TussingThe Arbiter ------

By developing a new instru-ment to measure. the propertiesof subsurface soils, MollyGribb, associate professor ofcivil engineering at BoiseState, is helping to guard ourgroundwater.

"In this way, I'm hoping tohelp protect natural resources,and if things have been conta-minated, to aid in the clean up.If you know how water is trav-eling though these materials,you can determine, for exam-ple, what you need to do inorder to clean it up," Gribbsaid.

Gribb's instrument willmeasure how water movesthrough unsaturated soil, thepart of soil that is not com-pletely saturated with water.Any contamination originatingat ground surface must gothrough this 'zone before itreaches the groundwater.

"My instrumentation mea-sures properties of that soil thatcan help determine how fastcontaminants will get into thegroundwater. And, the ideabeing, that if you stop it beforeit gets there, you can preventcontamination of drinking

. water," she said.Gribb will begin testing the

prototype of the instrument thissummer, but she expects thetesting will last for a few years.

In a related project, whichbegan last July, Gribb and herstudents arc also working todevelop and test environmentalcensors that detect contami-nants in the ground.

This project partners BoiseState's department of civilengineering with the depart-ruents of electrical and comput-er engineering, mechanicalengineering, chemistry andWashington State University'schemistry department. Eachdepartment plays a differentrole in the development of thecensors.

Gribb and the civil engi-neering students are responsi-ble for testing the censors insimulated environments, andultimately testing them in thefield.

Theil testing system, adiesel truck with a hydraulicjacking system, is used to pushthe censors in the ground. Thesystem offers students a saferand cleaner method of soil test-'ing compared to the traditionalmethod of using largecorkscrew-shaped augers thatdisplace large amounts of soil.

"If the soil is contaminated,then you're bringing all thecontamination to the surface,

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The ultimate goal, Gribbsaid, is that civil engineeringstudents will be able to pushseveral specially packaged cen-sors into the ground to form anarray for tracking contaminantplumes. Then, the sensors can..wirelessly transmit informationabout changes in concentrationof groundwater contaminantsback to a central computer foranalysis.

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news arrived when northernIraqi opposition groups agreedthat U.S.-led forces would takeresponsibility for all security inthe major northern cities ofKirkuk and Mosul in the event ofconflict. That, at least for themoment, quelled fears thatTurks, Kurds and possiblyIranians might vie for advantage.

Late Tuesday, a spokesmanfor Turkey's government said itwould ask legislators to voteagain on the Issue of allowing62,000 U.S. troops to useTurkish soil as a staging arca fora northern invasion of Iraq.

The U.N. Security Council,apparently undaunted by its tail-ure to craft a diplomatic solution,prepared to hear againWednesday from chief weaponsinspectors Hans Blix andMohamed ElBaradei.

Blix's report, releasedTuesday, includes a list ofremaining disarmament tasks,including searches for Scud mis-siles and biological and chemicalwarheads and agents. He isexpected to say that, had Iraqcooperated, the inspectors couldhave finished their mission with-in a few months.

the president is doing is the rightthing."

That was not the caseelsewhere.

In Britain, Prime MinisterTony Blair appeared againbefore Parliament and pleadedfor support from his splinterednation and rebellious p~'

"Back away from this con-frontation now and future con-flicts will be infinitely worse andmore devastating in theireffects," he told the House ofCommons.

In the end, Parliament effec-tively approved military action,voting 412 to 149 to use "allmeans necessary" to disarm Iraq.

But Blair again sufferedrebellion in his own party. Of410 Labor Party members ofparliament, 136 voted for ananti-war amendment, 14 morethan the number of Labor mem-bers who opposed their leaderduring a war debate and vote lastmonth.

The symbolic votes have nobearing on whether Blair cancommit British troops to war, hehas said that he will, but theypointed to a continuing split thatthe crisis has brought to his rul-ing party.

In Turkey, a measure of good

Iraq from page 1---30 nations have joined with theUnited States and 15 othernations have offered supportmore quietly. "We now have acoalition of the willing," he said.! The State Department identi-fied the 30 nations as:

Afghanistan, Albania,Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria,Colombia, Czech Republic,Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea,Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia,Hungary, Italy, Japan (post con-flict), South Korea, Latvia,Lithuania, Macedonia,Netherlands, Nicaragua,Philippines, Poland, Romania,Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, UnitedKingdom, Uzbekistan.

Still, the United States andBritain have contributed nearlyall of the combat forces. At least250,000 U.S. troops and 45,000British troops were in the wartheater, and they spent Tuesdayreviewing attack plans.

"There's a sense of sadnessbecause war is always tragedy,and there are always going to bea lot of people hurt by this," saidAir Force Capt. Dan King, apilot with the 336thExpeditionary Fighter Squadron."But everybody believes what

Photo by Ammar Abd Rabbo! Abaca Press

An Iraqi woman looks over small pollution masks at a market in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqipeople were stocking up on supplies, such as containers to store water and oil, candlesand pollution masks as they prepare for a possible U.S.-Iraq war.

Mysterious lung illness spreadsBy Emma Ross nine people - seven in Asia andThe Batlalion (Texas A&M U.) two in North America. Its rapid

spread in southeast Asia' inrecent weeks caused a rareworldwide health alert to beissued on Saturday.

Health officials say it may beseveral more days before theyare able to identify the disease.However, they said several ofits features suggest it is causedby a virus, which can often bedifficult to pinpoint quicklyusing standard lab tests.

"Certainly influenza is on theminds of many people," saidDr. David Heymann, communi-cable diseases chief for theWorld Health Organization.

Lab tests have ruled outsome varieties of flu as well assome viruses that cause hemor-rhagic fever. However, manyother possibilities remain,Heymann said.

Those include "a new strainof influenza" or such exotic dis-eases as the closely relatedHendra and Nipah viruses -both newly recognized, causingflu-like symptoms and capableof being spread from animals topeople.

"If it really is the flu, it couldbe we have a new organism thatcould cause a pandemic," saidDr. R. Bradley Sack, director ofJohns Hopkins' internationaltravel c1imc. "People immedi-ately start thinking of 1917," theyear a worldwide flu epidemickilled at least 20 million people.

Experts discounted the pos-sibility that terrorism is thesource and believe it almost cer-tainly isa contagious infectionthat spreads' most easily from'victims to their doctors, nursesand families through coughing,sneezing and other contact with

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Few drugs exist for treatingviral diseases and often they'must run their course unttlbrought under control by thebody's natural immune defens-es.

Tests so far have ruled outthe H5NI bird flu, which haspopped up occasionally inChina and which many. fearcould be catastrophic if itspread widely among humans.

No cases have been con-firmed in the United States, butGerberding said the CDC ischecking out a few calls. TheNorth American fatalities werea woman and her grown sonwho died in Toronto after visit-ing Hong Kong.

Also on Sunday, thc WHOreleased a report from the ChinaMinistry of Health on theGuangdong outbreak, whichsaid "the epidemic situation hasbeen controlled and the patientsare being cured one by one."

In that outbreak, the Chinesesaid, most victims were youngadults, and the disease apparent-ly 'was spread similarly toSARS. The outbreak peakedbetween Feb. 3 and 14 inGuangzhou City and has sincedecreased markedly.

The Chinese said 7 percentof patients required breathingtubes, but most eventually gotbetter, especially if they werenot also infected with bacteria.The disease seemed to weakenas it passed from person to

, person.

nasal fluids."Nothing about that pattern

suggests bioterrorism,' said Dr.Julie Gerberding, head of theU.S. Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention inAtlanta.

The illness is being called"severe acute respiratory syn-drome," or SARS. The incuba-tion period appears to be threeto seven days. It often beginswith a high fever and other flu-like symptoms, such asheadache and sore throat.Victims typically developcoughs, pneumonia, shortnessof breath and other breathingdifficulties. Death results fromrespiratory failure. .

The World HealthOrganization has been aware ofthe outbreak for about threeweeks but issued its global alertthis. weekend because of con-cern that the illness wouldspread to North America andEurope.

The WHO estimates that per-haps 500 people in all have beensickened if an earlier outbreakthat peaked last month inGuangdong province in. Chinaturns out to be part of the samedisease, as they suspect it is.

Ninety percent of the mostrecent cases have been in healthcare workers.

The CDC prepared cards thatwere being given to travelersarriving from Hanoi, HongKong or Guangdong provincein China, warning they mayhave been exposed. It recom-mended they see a doctor iftheyget a fever accompanied by acough or difficulty breathingover the next week.

Investigators suspect .a virusis involved, because victims do

COLLEGE STATION,Texas - A deadly, mysteriousrespiratory illness spread large-

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acts" that occur on campus.I don't care if it is in the name of safety, I do not

want some person who holds a grudge against mebecoming a volunteer and reporting me to be "suspi-cious." You can guarantee that I will fight against this.

I am also wondering why student parkirig has to haveas much information as they do on us. Recently, I hadan experience where my car broke down and I used mypermit on another car I borrowed. I got a ticket for $40for not informing them first. Why should I? I paidmoney for that permit and I should be able to use it howI please.

On another issue, I am against any war with Iraq.I supported ASBSU Senate Resolution 30. I have

spoken to ASBSU about why I supported it. The Arbiterprinted that speech in the March 6 issue for those whowould like to know more. I hope this has been resolvedso that ASBSU can move on with other issues.Regardless if this bill was passed or not, many groupsare going to take action. So, lets go forward.

Also, I have spoken with Jack Rahmann, the assis-tant director of the Student Union and have asked wherethe ATM machine is that is supposed to be in the edu-cation building. He says that he will look into it. This isthe same answer I received last semester on this issue. Ihope that this time, we will see a follow through.

I have spoken to some workers in the restaurants atthe SUB and they have informed me that they do havedebit and credit machines installed. This has cost us alot of money, why are we not using them?

One final thought is that you can vote for me or not.I will still do what I have been doing.

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Tabielle "Belle" AntchekovRunning for SSPA senator

Many of you already know where I stand on someissues. I realize that you might not agree with me onthese issues, but at least I speak my opinion and youknow where I am coming from. I have noticed that inthe past, some candidates tell you what you want to hearand then you find out how they are later. I will tell youthe truth.

My main concern for the campus now is protectingour liberties and privacy. We will never be completelysafe from the unknown on campus, but we cannot com-promise our constitutional rights and use fear as a justi-fication. _

I am concerned with what I read in The Arbiter in the

Nov. 21, 2002 edition. In case you missed it, The AdaCounty Sheriffs Department will start a program wherestudent volunteers will inform oflicers of "suspicious

Thomas should try tolerance(albeit rhetorical) is distressing.It speaks to one of non-vio-lence's tenets, however, withwhich I will close."Nonviolence is an effort torestore a sense of "the belovedcommunity."

If it were easy to do this, thenit would be no big deal. It isvery hard to do it,and muchharder in our atomized societywhere we encounter one anoth-er not as living beings, but asbits and pieces transmitted bythe media or the Internet"(McReynolds).

Mr. Thomas, I choose toview you as a member of theBoise State University commu-nity. Whether your speech andactions ensuing from it willostracize you is your choice.

Please consider whether it ismore courageous to approach asituation knowing that you willend up with a sore hand at worstor not knowing how manyblows you will endure by yourown choice in order to honoryour "pledge[d] not to commitadditional violence."

Many people advised meagainst writing to you, Mr.Thomas, dismissing you assomeone who likes to stir upcontroversy and aims to makeinflammatory comments. I con-cede that your column mustmake The Arbiter more interest-ing. But, this is precisely why Ihave taken the time to entreatyou.- The factthat I know so muchabout you though we havenever met, yet still you wouldbecome intimately involvedwith me through active violence

(illegally) assault them mid-sentence. BUT, "When he(assuming that women, ofcourse, would not bother evento defend their beliefs in yourpresence) gets back up topunch you" is a red herring.

A person practicing non-vio-lence would use your action tosolicit compassion for you, bothfrom the self and from all othernon-violent persons. Asexplained by author and non-violence educator DavidMcReynolds in his series onwww.tolerance.org, " ... It iswhen we stand our ground, suf-fering without retaliation,accepting blows but not inflict-ing them, that the way is openfor the opponent to see us ashuman, and to question theirown behavior."

My final question is your usc'of the term "anti-war cowards."

"There is overwhelming evi-dence that Iraq supports theseinstruments of evil?" into aquestion, as written in yourGuest Opinion contribution?

What I would like to addressis the grave misinformation thatyou have disseminated aboutnon-violence, as well as give acautionary note regarding whatcould well be considered hatespeech. You are not alone inyour misunderstanding; in fact,cartoonists for Maxim magazinearc currently under scrutiny fortheir depiction of a muscle-bound man beating up Gandhi.The magazine is debatingwhether drawing - a cartoonwhich calls for a certain groupof people to physically harmanother group of people is cov-ered under First Amendmentrights or whether it is incite-ment to illegal action. Should

any related incidents occur andbe attributed to the printing ofthis cartoon, both Maxim andthe cartoonist could facecharges of conspiracy to com-mit hate crimes. Keep in mind,though, this is just a cartoon. Itis not a list of instructions onhow, specifically, to assault aparticular group of people.What cannot be predicted ishow someone who would find aset of directions on assaulting anon-violent person persuasiveor even just amusing wouldreact.

Finally, [ would like to pointout that in the scenario, whichyou do buck-pass as an e-mailyou received, but fail to proper-ly acknowledge, there is oneglaring error. You walk up to anon-violent person, you demandto know their stance on vio-lence, they tell you, and you

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'Jibbitty, jobbity,' Just <doyour Job!Guest---OpinionBy George TbomasStudent -------

As a student of Boise Statefor the past three years andbeing in my fmal semester, Ifind it terribly humorous thatpeople in the ASBSU Senateand others are directing much oftheir effort in an attempt toexplain behaviors that werebrought into question in the firstplace. My point is this and it isvery clear, if you were doingyour job correctly, whoever it is,there would be no reasons forexplanations of your actions.

The student newspaper is aforum for students to have theirviews, questions and OPIN,IONS placed into print to bringlight to issues of the university.There have been many strongissues that the paper has put into

print, from the former ASBSUpresident fighting and criticiz-ing the pniversity president, toour current ASBSU presidentand the campaign to increasehigher education funding.

Ipersonally find these issuesof significant importance to thisstudent body. Recently, howev-er, I find these issues becomingmore and more childish, withrecriminations against a specificindividual for improper behav-ior. The specific issue I amspeaking of is a dispute betweenPam MaGee and Mike Clifford,

In Mr. Clifford's article therewere specific questions that heasked, however in Ms. MaGee'srebuttal she wanted to highlighta disagreement -between herselfand Mr. Clifford. It would havebeen more appropriate to justaddress the questions in theASBSU Senate, and the goodthings that have happened intheir name and behalf. The per-sonal issue is something thatwould be better for a one-on-one addressing instead of illus-

trating to myself and the entirestudent body that his questionsaddressed a specific attack. It ischildish at best, and I personal-ly have stronger words for itthan can go in print.

I laughed when I read thereply, and I am laughing stillthat there have been calls toThe Arbiter to have some sortof recourse towards the editor-in-chief for printing articlesthat may offend a specificgroup of people whose behav-ior recently has been drawninto question.

There is a reason that thetitle editor-in-chief is given tothis person. They are responsi-ble for the image and opennessof the paper. They are not thethought police controlling peo-ple's freedom of speech. Everystudent at Boise StateUniversity pays fees so thatThe Arbiter can publish theopinions of everyone in the stu-dent body.

Everyday public officialsface criticism about their

Everyday PublicOUIclals face crlUcl,mabout their behaviors

and conduct. Theseomclals would not beIn office very long"thay took oUense toeverything that was

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CowboyRepublicans have warped worldviewBy Edvin SubasicTheArbiter ------

The anti-war protest onWednesday, March 6 wastagged as an anti-governmentand anti-republican rally -designed only for those whowish to perpetuate peace andtheir own agendas.

These comments come most-ly from Republicans. I don'tknow why they identify anti-warwith anti-Republican. If thislogic is used, then one couldidentify the word war withRepublican. I don't think theGOP should come out with com-ments like this because they willonly beat themselves with theirown words.

I often hear the cowboy theo-ry of using violence as the onlysolution to modem global con-flicts, and that the peace protest-ers are cowardly and hate U.S.soldiers. Others carry signs stat-ing, "Support The U.S.Government And TheirTroops." I hope U.S. soldiersknow that their citizens supportthem in killing and being killed.It probably makes them happy toknow that they are supported forwalking headstrong into death.

Those cowboys who supportthe toughness of war must havereal perspective in the Iraqi con-flict. They see Iraq as a milkingcow, and their SUV's are run-ning on milk, using the milkfrom their own cows, and whenthey are out of their milk, theyuse someone else's cows. This isall done with pride and old cow-boy toughness, thinking that.they are tough, while somebody

else has to deal with the war faraway from their ranches. Thereal toughness is over there, nothere, where people have choiceto live in freedom.

As matter of fact, the realtoughness and the real cowboysdied a century ago.

To be clear, the anti- warprotests were organized to showpeople's opinion that a peacefulsolution in the conflict we haveis the best possible' solution.This is not political campaignagainst any parties. People who

. came to the peace rally andspoke deserve appreciation, notjust hotheaded attacks without areason or logic.

Even in moments like this,they can't show tolerance fordifferent opinions and perspec-tives, but they rather hide behindpatriotism and use support forU.S. soldiers to back up theirtheories and comments.

People who are for peace arethe real patriots, and the realsupporters of U.S. troops. Wewant them to live their lives, notloose them in some meaninglesswar or live the traumas of thewar.

I expected the peace rally tobe a little bigger, considering thesize of BSU. College studentsshould support peace. Our edu-cation is intended to get usthinking critically about politicsand to question patriotic feel-ings. I' understand that it washard for some to walk out -ofclass on March 6. School is

. much more important for ourindividual benefits than any war,especially a senseless one inIraq.

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.everything that was said to orabout them.

For instance President Bushis criticized everyday and it con-tinues to increase, however,instead or crying foul he shrugsit off and continues doing hisjob as best as he personally seesfit.

To all the senators who feeloffended by personal attacks,.face it that in the public eyethere is no haven.Criticism hap-

, penseveryday and by complain-ing more and more about itbreeds the level of complaint. Ifyou represent the student body,then stand up and do so, anddon't become personallyoffended if people disagree withyou. To win your office, it was apersonality contest, and the pop-ular win, but as a leader,because people disagree ordon't like you has little bearingon how well you do your job.Represent the students and do

something that will have an. impact on our future. Do notclaim to be representing uswhen you spend time whiningabout what people think aboutyou. Take CJ.eoffensive and justsay, "Jibbity, Jobbity." Whichmeans, you are wasting oxygen

.speaking to me because I standby the record and I am doing myjob.

So to those that may havebeen offended by words and thecandor of this quest opinion, Iwelcome any and all replies tothis, however, it would be moreadult to handle things on a one-on-one basis, but if publicity isyour desire, I have more thanenough time to write until myheart is content. The bottom lineis this, this is my own opinionand I have brought the questionto light that rebuttals on a per-sonal nature are those thatshould be handled in a moreadult manner.

Dr. Dan MorrisAdviser

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Lacrosse team gains new identity;By Andrea TrujilloThe Arbiter ------

The Boise State Universitywomen's lacrosse team kickedoff this season with the loss offour players.

They chose to leave theteam, depleting the Broncos oftwo offensive players, a defen-sive player and the team'sprime goalie. Coach MarciJensen also left, and the teamwas left with big shoes to fillin a short time.

A few weeks after theteam's first tournament, BSUhas a new coach, a couple ofwins and an identity. JenniferSchmultzer, also the coach forBishop Kelly'o women'slacrosse- team, stepped in ashead coach with BSU men'slacrosse coach Alain Rodrigeassisting with practices.

Sophomore offensive playerHannah Stauts said Schmultzerand Rodrige have broughtrnuch .needed structure andexperience to the club.

"They are both determinedto take the potential of ourteam to a new level of compe-tition. I don't think they realizehow much their time and effortreally mean to. our team,"Stauts said.

Boise State's first showingwas the opening weekend inMarch, when the team traveledto the "Sweet OnionShootout," hosted by WhitmanCollege in Walla Walla.

The Broncos played withoutfour of their strongest playersand still managed to split, win-ning two of their four games.This topped any of their previ-ous tournament records.

Stauts said even though theteam lost their final game tothe University of Puget Sound,seven to four; the team wasthrilled with their play.

"For a club team with sever-ai rookie members to playaswell as we did against a varsi-ty team is an amazing accom-plishment," Stauts said.

Lacrosse team in practice earlier this week behind the SUB in preparation for home tournament April 12-13

Stauts said that althoughlacrosse has been viewed as amajor sport on .the east coastfor over 100 years, it's justnow starting to pick up in thewest. Three years agowomen's lacrosse had not yethit the valley. Today, there areeight middle and high schoolprograms.

Three years ago BSU prac-tices consisted of four to fiveplayers. Today, the club con-sists of 18 members and wasnamed Student Organization ofthe Year in 2002.

This weekend the Broncostravel to Eugene, Ore., for atournament hosted by theUniversity of Oregon. After

that trip the team travels awayfor one more tournament,before hosting a home tourna-ment April 12-13.

Stauts said the team hopesto gain some student support,and urges students to come outand see BSU lacrosse firsthand.

"The reason we walk

around campus carrying oursticks is to recruit new mem-bers, and to teach more peoplein the west about a game thatoriginated here. Lacrosse hasbeen played by several Indiantribes. It's the true Americansport," Stauts said.

Stauts encourages studentsto inquire about the team. "If

you're looking to meet peopleon campus and gel in shape,lacrosse is a wonderful team tojoin," she said.

Any woman interested injoining the BSU women'slacrosse team can contactjunior Kat Cottrell, acting teampresident, at 284-3771.

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Wrestlers battle for nation-al title

American tradition that we call"March Madness."

The first, Vermont, IUPUI(Indiana University PurdueUniversity Indianapolis), SouthCarolina State and TexasSouthern will need only tomake hotel arrangements forone night because never has a16-seed won an NCAATournament game. .

Second, ycu can bet theFinal Four participants willcome from these conferences:ACC, Big XII, Big East, BigTen and Pac-lO.

Regardless of the dominationof the power-conferences, theNCAA tournament allows all.that are invited, big or small, tohave the dream of winning it all- or at least that's why wewatch, right?

long before those underachiev-ers ,,:ho are placed on theSouthEastern Conferencepedestal.

But why not look away fromteams in bigger conferences andlet in some lesser-known' ,schools that have had a greatseason?

What about the College ofCharleston? They beat Woffordtoo! Twice as a matter of fact,and with a 24-7 record theyhave to settle for the NIT. Whynot leta team like this ininstead of another underachiev-ing team from the much-lovedtop conferences?

With some teams getting in,and others getting the shaft, onething about this beloved tourna-ment stays constant - that youcan never tell who will get the

thumbs-up to participate. Whenin doubt, give the major confer-ences the nod.

Every year the NCAA com-mittee leaves someone out andlets another in for what appearsto be arbitrary reasons, butthat's just the way it is. Mostlikely the 64th and 65th teamshave no shot at winning one, oreven two games. Much lesseaming a trip to New Orleans.

So who's this year'sCinderella? Could it be the oldstand-by Zags from Spokane, orcould it be NCAA tourney first-timer Troy State. Maybe it willbe Wisconsin-Milwaukee thatwill do the unthinkable andsend one of those dreadfulpower teams packing.

There are only two certain-ties when it comes to this great

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·only mid-majors can onlydream - the Final Four.

H seems already there hasbeen, like always, argumentsover teams that shouldn't be inthis year's "Big Dance."

Schools like Auburn, whohad non-conference winsagainst nobodies like Wofford,Murray State and SE Louisiana,or Alabama who hasn't had aquality win since it beat Xavierback on Jan. 4 should not haveeven been invited to participatein this season's tourney.

Quality teams with winningconference records like BostonCollege and Seton Hall wereleft by the wayside for these .mediocre teams in what some

·experts think are elite confer-ences. C'mon, these two Big'East teams should have been in

Four Boise State wrestlers,.led by Ben VomBaur at 125

.pounds, are seeded in theirrespective weight classes forthis weekends NCAANational WrestlingChampionships, which startstoday at the Kemper Arena inKansas City, Mo.

VomBaur received thenumber three seed in hisweight class and will faceMatt Valenti of Penn in thefirst round. VomBaur, whoplaced fourth at last year'sNCAA Tournament to earnAll-American honors, entersthe three-day event fresh offhis 2003 Pac-IO ConferenceChampionship. VomBaur hasa record of 28-1 this season.

Boe Rushton received thefifth seed ill the heavyweightdivision and wrestles his firstround match against KevinHerron of Missouri. Rushtonhas a record of 22-5 and hasthe most pins on this year'steam with eight. He is makinghis second straight appearanceat nationals.

In the 149-pound weightclass, Collin Robertsonreceived the sixth seed.Robertson will face RonDoppelheuer of Edinboro inthe first round. Making histhird straight trip to theNCAA Tournament,Robertson brings a record of29-5 into the championships.

Gabe Vigil is the finalBronco to receive a seed tothis year's tournament. The2003 Pac-I 0 Champion at 141pounds, Vigil is seeded 10thand opens the tournamentwith a match against CoryAce of Edinboro. Vigil has arecord of 21-4 this season ismaking his fourth straightappearance at the NCAAChampionships.

Four other Broncos includ-ing Jesse Brock, BenCherrington, Tony D'Amicoand K.C. Walsh are also mak-ing the trip to nationals thisweek.

One of the greatest times ofthe year is upon us as todaystarts this year's NCAATournament.

For those who are unaware,it's that time of year wheneveryone from the die-hard fanto the fair-weather novice triestheir hand at picking the winnerof the best tournament everinvented.

This year will be no differentthan the past as upsets by inferi-or talented teams and dominat-ing wins by those expected tobeat up on the "little guys" willtake place in the next threeweeks. In the end, those hatedpowerhouses from the top con-ferences will advance to a place

Sun Belt doesn't quite cut it for Vandalswith Boise State. Since BoiseState's move to the WAC, theU of I has concentrated all itsefforts towards "catching up"and finding a bigger and betterconference to join as well.Congratulations U of I, afterall your poking and proddingaround you were finally ableto stir up an invitation to theSun Belt Conference. You'vereally hit the big time with thatone.

The Sun Belt is only a stepbehind the WAC, actually it'smore like five or si-x, but youdid well. The biggest problemfor the U of I now is that theBig Sky Conference, their oldstomping ground in their daysof Division I-AA, doesn'teven want them back.

Maybe Lewis and ClarkState or Northwest Nazarenewill take them. The StateBoard might be trying to senda message. Moving back toDivision J-AA would be thewisest choice, but for the U ofI that's unacceptable.

Tomorrow's sports head-line at the University ofIdaho:Vandals win Sun Belt ChessChampionship!

The Big West Conferencedoesn't even exist in DivisionI-A football and the Sun BeltConference is merely an I-AAponference with an I-A label.When the NCAA governingbody readjusts the I-A atten-dance requirements, the mem-

bers of the Sun BeltConference will be sentback to where theybelong - Division 1-AA - along with the Uof I!

Idaho attemptsto kept up withBroncos

trips to Western Kentucky(Bowling Green), SouthAlabama (Mobile), FloridaInternational (Miami) and let'snot forget the University ofNew Orleans.

Has the U of I simply over-looked the fact that all theseteams compete in theworst Division I-A foot-ball conference?Supposedly the Uof I could have acompetitive pro-gram again in atleast one sport.

The U of Imust believe thattheir key to sue-cess is by takingon SouthwestAlabama StateCollege of the .Ozarks in a rousing match ofsynchronized water polo.

The U of I can't evencompete now in the ranksof the Big WestConference. A losingrecord in the BigWest equals a losing

· record in the SunBelt. That looks likeprogress to me.

Commentary byGreg ShoemakerSpecial to The Arbiter

With the coming and pass-ing of last week's state boardmeeting and the various dis-cussions regarding the sur-vival of the University ofIdaho's Department ofGeological Engineering,tossed to the "back-burner"and pushed aside once morewas the U of I's invitation tojoin the Sun Belt Conferencein all sports.

Currently affiliated with theSun Belt in football only,Idaho has been invited to jointhe conference in basketball,volleyball and underwater bas-ket weaving.

Supposedly it will be easierfor travel purposes, getting toplay the University of Denveron a regular basis, not to men-tion those incredibly "short"

That's rightU of I; DivisionI-AA is whereyou belong. TheNCAA sets theattendance stan-dards for

Division I-A sothat schools that

are able to meetthose standards can

maintain their competi-tive survival within the ranksof Division I-A.Circumventing those estab-lished standards would onlyhurt those schools economical-ly.

What the U of! won't admitto is their desire to keep pace

Friday night is 'BeachNight' for gymnastics meet

The Boise State gymnas-tics team hosts its final meetof the regular season thistomorrow night at 7 p.m., andto help everyone gear up forSpring Break, it's "BeachNight" and "Buck Night" inThe Pavilion.

Come enjoy beach flavor, By Andrew Bagnato round. If BYU wins, the Flyers games. Key injuries. RPI.as the Broncos and visiting Chicago Tribune would be shipped to the South, SOS! And we don't meanSouthern Utah get into the where they might face Texas - strength of schedule.beach theme. Pr~-meet, .enjoy Q: How many NCAA tourna- or LSU or Purdue. .. .' . Every tournament fieldBeach.Boys ~slc,andvldeo~." .-rnenrccmmfrtee-members-does- "''''''"Dayton''i"S1I''€atholie-school;' 'tlmves"someone;" scratehing'°-his '.'-as' wo/I1as. a limbo cont~st to it take to screw in a light bulb? but this week its fans. had better head. But this year the.wholesee who Is~eady to ?It the A: Depends. Do you need the be rooting for the Mormons. nation is itching for answers. .beach. And, It 'f0uldn t be a light on Saturday or Sunday? What we have here is possi- Count Kansas coach Roybeach ~arty Without beach The NCAA's basketball tour- bility overload. In a typical tour- Williams among the befuddled.balls.gomg through the cro~d. nament gurus did the impossible nament there are just enough His Jayhawks finished first in

Tickets to the ,:vent are Just this week, They have turned the possible match ups to whet your the rugged Big 12 regular season?ne dollar, so pull out your Big Dance into the BCS. appetite. This is like a blocklong but drew a lower seed than th.e~ha~.es and ~est ,?each" wear It's that baffling. All we lack breakfast buffet. Texas Longhorns, who won nei-fo.r :~,e~ch Night . ~nd Buck are the Nebraska Cornhuskers, We might have expected ther the regular season nor theNight In The Pavilion. By forgetting a very basic selection committee chairman tournament title. And Kansas

seeding rule - Brigham Young Jim Livengood,' a Brigham beat Texas head-to-head. TheUniversity doesn't play on Young alumnus, to notice the Jayhawks were shipped out toSundays - the selection panel mistake. Livengood, the the brutal West Regional whilecreated a potential bracket rack- Arizona athletic director, the Longhorns will bask by. thect. If nyu wins two games, half majored in physical education in pool in nearby San Antonio,of the South and Midwest brack- Provo, according to a recent provided they survive the firstets would be flip-flopped so the Wildcats media guide. two rounds.Cougars wouldn't face a Sunday Granted, this isn't an easy "To me the whole selectionregional final. .' task. Placed under the micro- thing was more confusing thi.s

"This is a big national story. scope by reporters and fans, year, and perhaps that means ItI'm getting' calls. from. all over often the same people, the panel was more difficult for the com-the place," BYU Athletic has to follow a laundry list of mittee too," Williams toldDirector Val Hale said "principles" when seeding the reporters in Lawrence Monday.

And you thought Enron 6S-team field. . "It's hard to put logic to it,"shredded a ton of paper? Wait Try to avoid rematches. Williams said. .until the Cougars rip up the Can't play on a home court. This shouldn't. be so compli-brackets - not that there's much Can't have two teams from the cated. The easiest way to inject abenefit for them. Two wins same conference meet before bit ·of. sanity into Marchcould mean a Sweet Sixteen date the regional final. Madness would be to give thewith Kentucky instead of Texas. Before the committee even committee a 24-hour breathingOuch. gets to that stage, it has to decide . period after the conference tour-

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Boise State Universitysenior Kate Hoffman' hasachieved a lot since she begantaking classes four years ago.Four organizations, includingthe Golden Key NationalHonor Society, have recog-nized her as an honors scholar ..

In addition to winning theBSU President's EssayWriting Award twice, she hashad a poem, an essay and ashort story published in thenational yearly journal ofSigma Tau Delta.

Most recently, Hoffmanwon an award for academicexcellence and overallachievement given by thenational honor band fraternity,Kappa Kappa Psi.

The award recognizesachievement. in academics,band, Kappa Kappa Psi itselfand other extracurricular activ-ities.

In a time when most of us. would be happy to have apoem published bypoetry. com, Kate Hoffmanstands out as someone withserious passion. Of all herareas of interest, music is prob-ably her biggest passion.

Hoffman is one of thefounding organizers of theBoise State chapter of KappaKappa Psi, which only becamean official chapter this year.She has been vice-presidentsince its inception as a colony

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John Grisham's latest novel,"The King of Torts," tells thestory of the young lawyer ClayCarter's rise and fall through alegal field portrayed as littlemore than cattle herding -round up the clients, settle thecase.

One day, Carter works at theOffice of the Public Defendermaking about $40,000 a year.

last year.Kappa Kappa Psi, which .

Hoffman describes as a serviceorganization, works with theBSU music department to sup-port bands and marching bandsat BSU and in the community,including area high schools.They are also going to beinvolved with this year's GeneHarris Jazz Festival.

"Founding this fraternitywas the biggest, hardest pro-ject I've ever undertaken,"Hoffman said.

For this, Kate Hoffman hasbeen recognized by the veryorganization she helped estab-lish in Boise.

"This award would've nevercome about for me had it notbeen for the fraternity,"Hoffman said. '

For the past four years, shehas played alto sax inthe BSUKeith Stein Blue ThunderMarching Band, and spentthree years as section leader.Last year she acted as tile pres-ident of the marching band.

Hoffman has been involvedwith music virtually her wholelife, starting piano lessons inkindergarten. She has beeninvolved with band for elevenyears and marching band forseven.

She plans on stayinginvolved in band after gradua-tion through the BSU AIl-Campus Concert Band, thoughshe's nat sure for how long.

"I've been in marching bandfor, it will be eight years by the

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She says. her involvementwith music will probably takea 'more supportive role aftershe graduates.

Though she may not bemarching, she will continue tosupport marching band pro-grams in the communitythrough alumni events andpolitical lobbying.

In the past, she has beeninvolved in lobbying for morefunding and better facilities forthe Blue Thunder MarchingBand.

For her senior project,Hoffman is writing a bookabout marching bands, inwhich she will use anecdotesto illustrate the social and emo-tional aspects of being a part ofa marching band.

It will be a way for her tocombine her passion formarching band with herTechnical Communicationdegree.

It is a book about "why welove marching band, the expe-rience of it and why it shouldbe supported and continued,"Hoffman said.

Kate Hoffman may be aEnglish major, but she

often' feels like themarching band is her

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to legal royalty.A large drug company tested

an anti-crack drug in thcWashington area that inexplica-bly drove some of its users tomurder and Max Pace, a self-described fireman, tells Carterthat if he can get the families ofthe deceased to each take a cou-pie million dollars with no ques-tions asked, Carter will receive$15 million in Icgal fees and hisown law firm to fight a separatecase against the drug company's

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There is one major flaw inthe book's plot. Carter knowsthat he may get audited. Hethinks, "No sense trying to beatthe government out of sometaxes. Pay them and sleep well."Carter is a multi-millionaire.

Still, though, not three pagesafter the above thought, heengages in insider trading, sell-

Thursday, March 20, 2003

ble upon the houses."Icarus" combines comedy,

tragedy, passion and music tocreate an enchanting story aboutdreams.

"It has a lot ofwcight to it. Inmy personal opinion, I wouldcall it a comedy. There's alsosome dramatic parts, so it kindof fits under the new style oftheater called tragicomedy,"Teagle said.

Altagracia falls in love withBeau, but establishing a rela-tionship with him is unthinkablebecause Altagracia is severelydeformed while Beau is beauti-ful. Yet, Beau is the one whowears the mask.

"Altagracia is ugly, and sheowns that. Falling in lovechanges her, because it's more

.challenging to let someone findher beautiful," Teagle said.

Teagle creates a deformedlook by sticking clear tape allover her face.

"I wanted to mess with myactual face because Altagracia is

, not ashamed of her ugliness. Ithink a mask would conveyshame," Teagle said.

competitor, Ackerman Labs.The plotline is cliche, but

"The King Of Torts" isn't con-cerned with originality. Thebook is concerned with givingGrisham readers what they want- entertaining stories aboutAmerican law - and it does.

We've been on Grisham'sroller coaster many times, butreturn again and again for themile-long drop, the mile-longmahogany desks and the mile-long string of zeros following

The troupe has been rehears-ing the play for over a month inhotels and outdoors.

After Weaver decided to pre-sent the play, he recruited thefive other actors because hethought they would make theperfect cast for "Icarus."

"Often actors are at themercy of producers and direc-tors. I had a vision to get togeth-er as a group of actors," Weaversaid.

"We founded our companybecause we wanted to do thisplay," Teagle said.

East-West Actors Theatrewas formed while the actorswere touring with the IdahoShakespeare Festival. Membersof the company come from NewYork, Chicago, Seattle andBoise.

"We wouldn't be togetherunder any other circumstances,"Teagle said.

Teagle graduated from BoiseState as a theatre major with theperformance option in 2001.She worked with BoiseContemporary Theatre andIdaho Shakespeare Festival

ing short 100,000 shares ufAckerman Labs, the very corpo-ration he personally filed suitagainst. Big surprise, he getscaught.

While power, wealth andshady business practices cometo trademark Carter's characterand legal practice as his law-suits come and go, he remainsrational such that this insidertrading move destroys "TheKing of Torts" momentum ofbelievability.

East-West Actors Theatre presents 'Icarus'throughout college.

The entire group is currentlytouring with the IdahoShakespeare Festival perform-

)ng "The Comedy of Errors" forhigh schools and communitycenters throughout Idaho.

"Our' common theme is thatwe're all professional actorsworking in Idaho," said Weaver,

"Icarus" is the first produc-tion this group has performed,and it is premiering at the FultonStreet Theater.

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We all have dreams, but it'swhether we achieve them, giveup on them or discover newones thatseparate us from eachother. Edwin Sanchez's "Icarus"presents this idea visuallythrough five eccentric charac-ters.

"Icarus" is an award-winningplay first performed by theActors Theatre of Louisville asa part of the Humana Festival,the number one showcase fornew American plays, accordingto director Brian Weaver.

"Icarus" is set on a beachwhere two houses are located.Beau, Jake Rademacher, themasked man trying to escape hispast, lives in one house. Anaging movie star, EvelynHubbell, trying to relive herpast, inhabits the other.

A sick boy, Carter Davis, ona quest to touch the sun, hisoverprotective sister Altagracia,Eden Teagle, and their half-crazy middle-aged companionMr. Ellis, Ryan Spickard, stum-

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:St8pheo·King .gives 'Dreamcllcher' 'two Ihumbs up'f. . .' .

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MH: One of the things thatstruck me about Dreamcatcheris that they managed to squeezethe entire novel into two hours,without leaving anything out.And it's a big book.

SK: It's amazing, isn't it? Tome, it's like magic. Idon't knowhow they did it. It is a 600-pagebook, and it's meat to the cor-ners, but they really went tosome pains to respect the book,and believe me, they don'talways do that. Did you like themovie?

MH: You're not supposed toask me that! .

SK: I've been doing inter-views like this for 20 or 30years, and I never ask people ifthey liked something. But this.

· time, in every interview thatI've done, I ask them. There area couple of people who have

.danced around the question, but

Hunting trip turns to disaster in Dreamcatcher.

colonel. When I read the book, Iwas thinking of Robert Duvallin that part ..

SK: Yeah, Duvall was oneverybody's mind. They cameup with Morgan Freemanbecause he was available andhe's a class act. They asked me,and I hesitated for about threeseconds and then said 'Sure,why not.' I think his eyebrowsought to get a special supportingOscar. Those are far out, man.(laughs)

The rest of the actors I likebecause you haven't seen a lotof those people before. They arefaces that arc fresh and a littleunfamiliar.

MH: You've watched manyof your books be turned intomovies, some good, others bad.Have you learned' to separateyourself emotionally when yousell the film rights, or are youstill sweating the movie whilethey're making it, hoping theydon't screw it up?

SK: It's like sending a kidoff to college: You hope thatthey're going to be OKand theyaren't going to meet bad.com-panions and get into trouble, butthere isn't a lot you can do aboutit.

MH: But you do have somesay in the movies, even if you'renot directly involved, which isunusual.

SK: I'm involved to thisextent: For the past 10 years,I've had script approval overmost of them, cast approval,director, all that stuff. The rea-son' why they give me that isthat they understand - particu-larly at Castle Rock (the compa-ny that producedDreamcatchert, which is namedafter the little town in Stand ByMe - they know that I'm notgoing to be unreasonable, thatI'm not going to tell them theycan't do this or that unless it'ssomething that's frankly totallyoverboard. I can think of maybeone or two cases where a namecame up and I vetoed it.

MH: But aren't you evertempted to call them up and say'You know, I think you guysshould do it this way ...?'

SK: My idea is that if youwant to be involved, get in allthe way, and if you don't wantto be involved, get out of theirway and let them do the best jobthey can. Because they'respending a lot of money. every-body wants to do the best jobthey can, they're terrifically tal-ented people, and so the bestthing to do is to stand aside andlet them do their job.

MH: You did have someinvolvement withDreamcatcher, though.

SK: Yeah, Larry Kasdan-was

War:what is it good for? Cable news ratings

I don't really care. I'm onlydoing these interviews because Iloved the movie, and I'm curi-ous. Ithought it was a lot of fun.

MH: I liked it too, actually.Watching it really mirrored theexperience I had while readingthe book, which isn't usually thecase with adaptations.

SK: Did you see it with abunch of people or were you onyour own?

MH: There were a few otherWhen. it comes to movies, press people there.

'Stephen King is his own tough-.SK: Was there any reactionest critic. In the past, the writer. to it?has not been shy about openly MH: Not really, but journal-'lambasting film adaptations of ists are always very reticent to,his novels, even suing to have let anyone know what they'rehis name removed from one of thinking, at sereenings.'them (The Lawnmower Man) _ Although the woman sitting,when it was clear the filmmak- behind me did let out a little yell.ers were just out to exploit. his when (edited to protect sur-brand name. prise). The movie is a very full~, But Dreamcatcher is a dif- meal, though.;ferent story. The movie is an SK: (laughs) The producers'adaptation of King's novel were so worried that people'about a group of four longtime wouldn't get it. There was all.;friends (Thomas Jane, Jason this doom and gloom that peo-Lee, Timothy Olyphant and pie would never understand;Damian Lewis) who encounter some of the stuff in it, like the:Jnonsters, aliens, deadly, flatu- memory warehouse (a visual-:tence and ja mad U.S. Army ization of a character's inner.eolonel during their annual monologue). But I think audi-alunting get-together in the ences are so hip to movies now,;.Maine wilderness. Directed by they get that in a minute.~awrence Kasdan (The Big MH: William Goldman co-Chill, Body Heat) and co-writ- wrote the screenplay for

.ten by William Goldman Dreamcatcher, and he also'(Misery, The Princess Bride), adapted Misery. Why is it that'J)reamcatcher's A-list pedigree guys like him and Frank"wakes it the highest-profile Darabont (The Shawshank:King adaptation since The Redemption, The Green Mile)~Green Mile. adapt your stuff so well, while>, More importantly, other people flounder? Is there a-Dreamcatcher has also eamed trick they know others don't?:King's approval. He likes it so SK: I think they must have amuch, in fact, that he has agreed lot of the inner child left, the"to help promote the film, even one that remembers what it's'though he was not directly like to be younger, and also stillinvolved in its making. feels a childish glee at a good

Calling from Sarasota, Fla., gross-out. When they saidwhere he was vacationing, King Lawrence Kasdan was interest-sounded chipper and excited as ed in Dreamcatcher, I thoughthe spoke ~ The Miami Herald 'Oh good. This covers bothabout movies, respectability and sides of this personality, theretirement. Apollonian and the Dionysian.'

He's the guy who did The BigChill, and he's also the guy whowrote the script for Raiders ofthe Lost Ark and The EmpireStrikes Back. So he's got thatchildlike side, but he's also aguy who has explored the angstof middle age and what it's liketo be a guy and get older.Dreamcatcher has both of thosethings. .

And Bill Goldman is justballsy. He picks a couple ofthings that he really likes in astory, and he did a wonderfulscreenplay, and then Larry camein and worked on it some more.I think Larry had a clearer ideaabout what could be done withspecial effects nowadays,because Bill had never donesomething like a big War of theWorlds, effects-type movie.

MH: What did you think ofthe casting? Morgan Freemansurprised me as the crazy

Escalating talk ofwar drives news·cable ratings· By Richard HuffNew York Daily News ---

War may be hell, but it can,be heaven when it comes to: Nielsen ratings.

Escalating talk of war, the· movement of troops and diplo-, matic efforts to avoid a conflict, have driven viewers to the three', all-news cable-networks in large, numbers,according to a New, York Daily News analysis ofNielsen Media Research statis-tics.

The Fox News Channel,CNN and MSNBC are all up inprime time .and on a 24-hourbasis compared with four weeksago.

Last Monday evening, Foxwas the second-most-watchedcable network, an unusual feat

for a news channel, and CNNwas No.8. Typically, the topspots go to the entertainmentnetworks.

"The people who are reallyfascinated by it have a place togo, which is the cable news net-works," publisher ofthe TyndallReport, a newsletter that tracksTV news coverage, AndrewTyndall said. .

For example, in the weekending Feb. 23, the Fox- NewsChannel averaged I .69 millionviewers in prime time. By themiddle of last week - the mostrecent figures available - thenetwork was averaging 2.5 mil-lion viewers. .

During the same period,CNN's, prime-time audiencerose to 1.77 million viewersfrom 951,000; And MSNBCaveraged ·585,000 viewers, upfrom 343,000.

In all, roughly 1.5 millionmore viewers were watching thethree main cable news networksat night last week than four

weeks ago.Clearly.some of that can be

attributed to the crisis over Iraq,but it has been a fairly heavynews cycle overall, with cover-age of the Rhode Island night-club fire and the return ofteenage kidnap victim ElizabethSmart, among other events.

The growing appetite fornews also comes at a time whenthe broadcast networks are com-ing out of a sweeps period andfilling their time with a fewmore reruns than usual.

The audiences for the BigThree evening newscasts havebeen relatively stable over thepast few weeks. Last week, acombined' 30.5 million tunedinto the three shows, which havedevoted much of their time to

'the Iraq, situation. .For example,from March 3

to 7, the three' evening news-casts devoted 82 minutes to theIraq story, m~re than any otherissue during the week. The sec-end-most-covered story, the

search for members of al-Qaida,occupied just 26 minutes. Eachof the three programs airs about20 minutes of news a night.

Except for the week thespace shuttle Columbia disinte-grated, Iraq has been theevening newscasts' most-cov-ered story each week, accordingto Tyndall.

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very dissatisfied with the endingof the movie after he screened ita couple of times. Test audi-ences were confused, and Larrysaid to me 'I think Ifumbled theball on the one-yard line.' Sothey sent me the movie withoutthe ending, and we all talkedabout what could be done, and Imade a few suggestions. I don'tknow' if they used any of them,because I haven't seen the newending yet, but I know theyreshot the last five minutes. I'llfind out when I see it at the pre-miere.

MH: You are now consid-ered a serious writer, but therewas a time when the New YorkTimes wouldn't even reviewyour books. Was there a specif-ic turning point in your careerwhen critics started treating youdifferently?

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outlived some of my more viru-lent critics. Then winning the O.Henry Award for short fiction,and getting some stories pub-lished in The New Yorker ... thatsort of thing changed minds.But mostly, it's just that timehas gone by, and once peoplerealize you're able to do morethan one thing. they tend tolighten up.

MH: Did the success ofmovies like Stand Bv Me andThe Shawshank Redemptionhelp?

SK: Movies have had aninfluence too. People have atendency not to think of movieslike The ShawshankRedemption or The Green Mileas horror movies. And still ...some woman came up to me atthe supermarket once and said'Oh, I know who you are, andI'm sure you write wonderfulstuff, but I don't read that horrorstuff, and I don't go to see thosemovies.' I said 'Well, did. youlike The ShawshankRedemption?' She said' 'Oh, rLOVED that movie. MorganFreeman was so wonderful.' Isaid, 'Well I wrote the story thatwas based on.' And she said,'No you didn't. No you DID-N'T!' (laughs)

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Today's Birthday (March 21).Continue to focus on the finan-cial goals you've set. Stickingwith a tough program gets easi-er with practice, At first you'lldo it just because you said youwould. As you go on, therewards become more obviousand make it all worthwhile,

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Taurus(April 20-May 20)- Today is a 6 - Others may beedgy now, but you're relativelycalm. You might even induce atleast one of them to listen toreason, You've got a good rea-son for them to stay cool.

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