The North Idaho College Sentinel Vol 67 No 10, Mar 28, 1991

ENTINEL North Idaho College's Student News paper

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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Tenure woes result in frustration

by L Freeman, 0. Beehnar and 0. Akers Smtintl Rtporrtn

Tenure is a StatUS which Insures academic freedom for instructors, according 10 a manual called Tenure: A Survn•al Kit. The North Idaho College tenure poticy has rcicently oomc under Ii.re by many faculty and ad· minismuors due to apparenr discrepancies that surfaced in recent rcnure application proa:cdings.

According to the manual. tenure is a status granted to an instructor after a trial period, protecting him/ her from summary dismissal. The manual says that, at NIC, tenure is oo.scd oo the oompetcnc:e and prof~ionalism of a faculty member. For faculty members who receive tenure, lite procedure also has a reviewing process in place to insure quality instmction.

According to NIC Tenure Commiuce Chair Mike Swaim. "One of the things t11e tenure process docs is protect instructors from whimsical firings. No one likes to be fired without some kind of cause."

But the policy may nOI be perfect, and problems. recently discovered, do e,cist.

"NIC hns a sound pr=, however, ir was not adhen:d to. People (adminimation and division chairs) dJdn't do the right thing.s at the right time," said David Lindsay, dean of stuclenis.

Knowing t.hat the ball was dropped Lindsay said many people became frustrated.

In the case of science instr11ctor Bill Richards, who was approved for tenure at the March 21 board of truStees meding. that approval was met with some objection. Communications major Sh111~1Kl'rac Johnston testified in an executive session 10 protest Richards' tenure renewal.

"I told the truStecs that I thought the instructor should be placx:d on tenure advised Status and put on a year probation because he doesn't take his responsibilities as an iAAructor seriously," Johnston said.

Specifically, Johnston cited an inslllllce when she said Richards was 35 minutes late for cJas.s because he wns in his office talking on t.he phone. She waited for 25 minutes and !.hen left. Richards then arrived and spent the remaining IS minuteS of class lecturing, she said. When the class met ngnin, Richards answered questions pertaining to the 15-minutc lecture with sarcastic oommenis 10 S1Uden1S who

Home again Instructor Jim Straub ret urns from Operation Desert Storm see story p. 7

ROLL ON - Student rollerbladers Russ Lamson and Jeff Lewerenz demonstrate their rollerbladlng skill by

s oaring off the sea wall. Please see related story on p. 16.

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Survey probes cheating charge

by S.nllnel Stall

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A srudy by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advan<:ement of Teaching reponcd thnt approximately 90 percent of college studems chc:11. In an unscientific poll conducted last \\Cd, by the Scnuncl. Nonh Idaho College studmts and faculty both confinned and denied this figure.

Most of those into:rviewed agreed that students cheat, but estimates or how many ,aried greatly. Son~ interviewees said "2tt0" or "minimal," "'hile others felt 1ha1 the 90 pcn:cnt estimate was fairly accunuc.

Of the 18 students questioned, 11 s:iid they had cheated at NIC. Dean or Student Services David Lindsay feels the NIC cheaung rate is abou1 30 percci11. One student also said 30 perccm. Four students placed the rate lower, five: placed it higher and eight did not answer the: question.

Those students that placed the d1eating perta1iage at 50 perccnt or lower were either non-dleatcrs or had cheated onct and said 1hey would not do it again.

The studcm who ci1ed the rate at 90 pcrci:nt and a student who cited ii al 85 pcr<rnl adrruued 10 cheating. Both said tlicy would do it agian. Ncitl1er student wished to be identified.

About the brooder estimates, Lindsay said, " I' ll bet that the peoon that says the cheating rote IS 90 percent IS a flagrant cheater and is trying 10 justify the means."

Students cited a wide range of "the mcans"-the ways students cheat. Asking

others what was on an e.-:am IS a tame fonn of cheating, 5tudcnts say; an anonymous business major ~d tl1a1 he ' 'never considered it cheating," 1hat he was "just finding out what I should study."

"The biggest way students chea1 is by wandering eyes," said Paul Rhodes, a forest management major who says he has never chea1cd 111 NIC. I le says less than 20 percent or the sruden1 body cheats. "People truly interested in teaming would have no reason to c:hea1."

"Cheating i., only for losers." said an IS-year-old from Post Falls whose major is undecided.

"You end up cheating y~lf out of the knowledge," a 19-year-old business admini5tralion major said. "h's only a minor vic1ory, with big setbacks later in life because of ii."

Students offered mon: than the standard "wandering eyes" as cheating methods: writing nOlcs on one's hand, cn"b notes taped lO wrists under long sktvcs (or on knees under skirts), a blatant "cheat sheet" slipped under the l~ paper, even wnting f111C-prin1 no1es and sliding them inside a clear plastic pen.

Some of those imervicwed s:iid they would be more likely to cheat if 1hc msiructor lcfl 1hc room during a 1cs1. " If they (the i1mruc1ors) cared, I ,1oukl 100," Lace WUliruni. said.

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FAF deadline approaching of factors arc used in detemuning a stu· dent's eligibility for fuiancial aid. Such fac_ __ The dcadlu1c for Financial Aid applica- 1ors are family w.e, the number of people tions is soon approaching, and the earlier in the studen1's family who arc auendlng studcnlS get their appli.:alion in, 1he higher oo~ emiJlcnt medkal or dental ~ their chances arc or n:celving financial aid. and income ru¥I a.~.

The deadline is April IS. and ancr that The time to .ippl)' is now. The applica· flMIICial ax! .....111 be on a first-came. lil'\l- tion pl'OC'CSS can be a long and frustrating $Cn'C basis. It rakes approximately two to one due 10 a vruicty of federal finan..ial aid lhrcc momhs bc1wecn the time studcnb resulations. F"tnancial aid could enable a ma1 the FIJWlcial Aid Form (I'Al-) and the studmt worling t\\O or tlutc OUL\lde jobs time they rt\lell'C financial aid. For tll05C to drop one and th~ ghe the student more ttudcnlS who arc ha\ing prob[cn\\ filling ~rudy lime. out their appti,.:auons, Studenl Services is To apply for financial aid, students will a1-ailable 10 nn, wcr any que.tio11s. tt«d to comple1c the FAF. They can pick "The biggest qucstion Mudmt5 ask is 1ha1 up in 1he Financial Aid Office on the ·- whc1hcr ar not the) 1hould claim \CCOnd floor ol the Studcnl Union 1hcmtcMs nlepcndcnt or dcpcndcnt," said Building. Srudent, need 10 :.ubnut ~ of Jille Shankar, direaor of fUW1cial aid. their I990 lllC'OlllC UL\ returns and, in some The minimum a student can l'Uffl'C for aa,es, the rerums of their ~ 10 the oolf1nancia1 aid is $600, and the higlat ii cloee iear. An NIC llnm.ial aid application muu ro SS,900. The total financial aid 11-aillblc be fllled out u wdl. Other infonnalion also ror last year (1989.JJO) was Sl.7 million, in- may be llCICCS8rY. cudq Stale and fcdcnl aid, Shanlw said.

Ona: the FAF ii complclcd, it takes apFour typCS or financial aid are availablt al NIC: sdlolarships, loans, grant~ and proximately rour to Ml( ~ms lO be n:turn· work S1Udy. All I\XlUile the i;AF e-<cqJt the ed to the srudcnt. A fee of $8.75 mllSI be non-need h a ~ ~ and depart- me ludcd ~ith the FAF fo< one oollegt. mental grants m aid. Shanw said. Nearly Studmb ma) request additional IXlllcgt$ Bl 40 pcn'fflt or 1ht Wdcnt, \\ho artmd NIC an additional fee For infoml!IIIOn on tinancul aid or re\rivc wmc 1ypc of finruaal aid.

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d'Alene, Williams said she would check her answers with the next petSOn's paper. "Afterward I got real hard on myself because I don't think i1 's right."

NIC students ,1erc just as varied on the conccpl of punishmcn1 for cheating. Most felt that the paper should be thrown away wi1hout a make-up, while some felt thal in addition the cheater should be ridiculed in from of the class. Punishments wcni up 10 c.,pulsion from class and expulsion from the insti1ution.

Janey Hamada, 18, a law enforcement major from Honolulu, said that de1cmion or a fine would be suitable, or perhaps the punishment should be left up 10 the cheater's class.

Most students agreed that 1hc punishment should include a zero on the 1es1 or ;wigrunem. ''The coUege delivers a consumable good," Lindsay said. " If you decide to cheat when you've paid money, where else arc you going 10 chea1 and lie?"

According 10 the NIC Policy Manual, penalties can range from a wriucn warning to expulsion from the class, but cannot exceed disqualification from lhc course.

Students agree 1ha1 it is the pressures of heavy class loods. deadlines and outSide famil)' or economic problcrrtS that fora: siudcnts to cheat.

"Sometimes 1hi11gs come up, unforeseen problen1S like kkl\ or jobs." ,;.1id n ~t11clen1 who wished to remain anonymou~. " I have chcatcd and didn'1 feel good nbou1 it, bu1

under the same circumstances, I would do it again. There arc diffcrcn1 degrees or cheating.

I would not ou1-and-ou1 cheat."

11is often that fine line between "low-level" or pcnnissablc cheating and "hard«irc" cheating that is difflCUh for students 10 define. " I foci badly that somc::ooe is under so much pressure tha1 they have to rcson 10 that," said Judith Brower, NIC math instructor. "I wam LO find ou1 abou1 their s1udy habits and what makes them cheat-pressures a1 home, abuse from 1heir husband, etc."

"Cheaters arc \tickmg themselves in life, and they will OC\'Cf learn," c;aid Jeni Ecker, a child de\'eloprnent major from San Gabriel, Calif. "There i.\ a big diffcrm:c in the chcaJing rate between hctt and California. People up here wan1 10 make ~ing or thcmsches.

They don'1 need 10 chea1 10 gC'l help."

Lindsay ,;.'lid, "My concern is more for 1hc bigger picture:. We need 10 make a toll<:Ctled erron 10 talk about ethics. Whal else arc )'Ou going 10 che:u on? Your kxls. your wife? ll's a d!Sheartcning 1;1.1b~, for me 1h.11 h."IS a gn:a1 deal of socil.'lnl impat1." nu1 some s1udents shrugged ii orr. Mark Douctt, a ph)'lical cduaition major. wd, "II (cheating) doe.-n't bodlt'I' me.·· Other studmt.s say 1hey never chea1. Or, 01 lerut, tl1ey never succeed.

Jim BmnlOn, n pre-1:iw major from MO'oCOw, said. "II\ 100 hard 10 chem on the college le\d-bcliC\c: me, I've tncd."

Parking policy may change ped ,one or ncxl 10 a fire hydrant. Prc::,ently,

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The Nonh Idaho College parking polic) could be in for '>Ome changes. Profl()'i3b have been made to mi.le parking ticket tinc-; and 10 irn,1i1u1e a parking penni1 rec.

Aho propo<;cd arc change, to 1he p.,rl.mg <A:lion of the Student Handbook AIXOrdmg to Don Phillip,, head of s«\IOI). one of the changt-s under con,ideration i.\ to rcmo,e all r~fcmices 10 ,wfl. placing them in the Polic>· 11 lanual. Staff n:ft'~~ belong in the: Policy Manual, not an the StudC'lll I landbook.

Phillips said. PhilhJX ~ another l'CCOmtnat· dn1ion would be 10 remo,c: 1he tenn "la" enlon:emem" and replao: ii \\ith the ,1ord "sc,..~ril)'."

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Handicapped parl.mg pmnii- "a~ abo a proposed ~e. Phillips said that students noed 10 I.no\\ that the '>Choo! OUN cannoc IP'~ OU( 11.lndicapped pcrmib. Rather. Ph11l1ps said. pcrmib. both pcnnanen1 and tmiporal'). are a,-aibbk from the Vehicle Ltctn..: Bun::iu "ilh a doctor·~ \talctllffll. ,\a.'OrdJng to Phillips, the prOfl<)lc:ll increa...e m 11.:l.c:1 flllC'> \\Ottld be S5 10 S7 for ~lat fino. double the line if the 11 1; not paid m 10 d.1h and hahc the line if u 1s paid \\ltlun 1hn:.: ·c1a~~- SIO tf 1he ollmckr h.l, no_ parkltl& perm11. S~ 1f the ollcndcr ,, not dhplay1ng tu, or her parf..m!,l pcrnu!, and m,"Te:l.;;c .from SID Iv IS for parl.1 in a handi,;ap-

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"Too many \ludcnts figun: that Sl per day not bad for park mg," Phllllp<, "'1id. NIC $o.'Uri1y issues 2,500 tickets l)(r year, he wd, and rno-1 ase the "fmc type." More 1han JOO \(Udmb ha\C t10I I ~ thl"U' \ffllC~ this ><as, Phillip<, \3ld. It CO.I!, S210 fmd out \\hO owns the \chicle. he 'laid, bocau...: Sel'Urily ha.., to trace the ,chicle tit-cnsc number.

A \ludy w.c, done 10 compare parkang fine, an other ~hoob. Phillips said, LO uy and bring NIC "in I.inc \\llh other colleges." Phillip<, noted that a JXUkang pennil for Bot..e S1atc U1mmi1y ~o,l!, S6S. Mier a m«Ung JI which both \tudcnt and fa...'Ull) n:pn:,,cnliltion \\Cl'C Jll'C'<fll, the propo,,al., \\eJC for,r,;udcd lO the Admtni:>ltatl\C Coundl via ~n of Adminis1rouon Rolland Jurg(lb, PhilliJ)) "31d.

In addition 10 a proposed parking permil k,:, Bennett a.ho mentioned thal a rC\Cf'\ed ~"tlOII or ti..-urr park1ng nu> be '<I Jsadc "for people "ho an: \\11lmg 10 pay a tiule mon: L\

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Al-cording 10 Pn:,,t<k'llt Rob,.,rt 13c!1netl, !he U11:rcase in fillC'o h an eflon 10 aid 1n the upkeep of pa,kUIJL He "3id the college ,hould ha,c ··good parf..111g ~ l'IC\l )C:U," ~ he "anted 10 ··nmc 5U~ \\C rake care ot 11. He ~ !he parkmg \\UUld mclude ligh~ and !oC\.-Unt) p,.-r.:ond 10 CINI~ pror,..-r p;vf..m~ .~k .said he "aJlls-d -.; I( 10 ti} 10 absorb park1111.1 pcrsonnd and nwntalfl(1lo.-C c,p,:n

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Thursday, March 28, 1991

'We tlie Peop[e: 'Rjane 'Eis fer Dr. Riane Eisler opened the 21S1 year of lhc Popeom Forum calling for an overhaul of the structure of society. Eisler believes socic1y should be based on a "pannership model" 1hai encourages cooperation and cqualil)'.

Eisler urged an overthrow of what she believes current society is based on~ "dominator model" tl1a1 teaches ac:ceptanee of oppression and censorship.

In order to realize the fullest potential of the rll'St Amendment, Eisler said, society mUSI rear children in an environment of equality and pannership.

Eisler is a world-renowned author and peace researcher. Her book ''The 01alice and the Blade" has been ca!Jed the most irnponant book since DaJ'\vin's "The Origin of Species."

In ha- book. Eisler argues that early peaceful, agrarian civilmuions developed on the pannership model but were dCS1royed when barbarians overran the Meditcrmnean societies. She believes ihe dominator model came with the barbarians and has been 1hc primary model for wes1em civilization ever since.

'Tfiompson. vs. Morris Nobody los1-nci1her the deba1ers nor their audienct.

The rcccm controvm")' surrounding Miami anomey Jack 1l1ompson's cffons 10 ban 2 Live Crew's albtun, "As Nas1y As TI1ey Wanna Be," produt't'd healed arguments bclwcen 1l1ompson, tour manager John Morris and their nudicnce.

Thompson, who suox:ssfully conuibutcd 10 "As Nasl)' As 1l1ey Wannn Be" being banned in 22 counties and two countries. snid he opposes censorship-<:<11ling it unconstitutional and un-American. However, he docs suppon "the constitutional enforcement of obscenity laws.''

"The problem with 2 Live Crew is that their album described, advoca1cd, promo1es, glorifies and inci1cs the rape of women and the mental molestation of

children in describing 10 (them) 1he idea thal a woman is nothing bu1 a piece of mea1 to be'1rcated as less U1an a human being," 1l1ompson said.

Responding to Thompson's sra1cmcn1S, Morris said tha1 although he regards the album as "artisLically worthless." he does no1 believe 2 Live Crew and their leader Luther Campbell advocales rape.

"Luther Campbell and 2 Live Crew have about as much social validity and 1vill go away jUS1 as quickly as New Kids on the Block," Morris said.

A smaU but vocal group of people arc trying to de1em1ine wha1 Americans see, read and listen 10 in order 10 have a socie• 1y that conforms 10 i15 moral standards and ideas, Morris said.

Morris asserted Thompson and obsttni1y law advoca1es like him are trying to strip away the individuals freedom of choice.

1?,icfiartf 'lla[eriani "Reporters rcpon the news, and that's where the trouble st.ans," Richard Valeriani told 450 lis1cncrs a1 North Idaho College March 20. The fonncr NOC corrcspondcn1's address revolved around issues of media control during the Gulf War and journalism responsibili1y.

JoumalislS report "connict, controversy and contradiclion," and record "change which is in1crcsting or important and which is seen by an ouisider (1hc rcponcr) on behalf of oUier ouisiders (!he public)."

Valeriani said. Insiders often criticize wha1 is said by outSider reporters; 100 much reporting of bad news tops 1.heir list of complainlS, he said.

Before Glasnos1. Valeriani said the Soviet govcmmen1 newspaper, Pra1'Cla ("Truth"), pri111cd only good news. Arter the a,cmobyl disns1er, it still printed only good news wi1h hl-adlines stating "1l1ousands of Ukrainians receive frce vacations.'' Both the disaster and the press' lies instead of the truth abou1 the si1uation threa1cned lives, he said.

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However, he undcrs1ood the need 10 balance press frt't'dom 1vith national security.

On the Gulf Wnr media control. he said the si1uation raised queslions of what kind of restrain! i~ 1olerablc. Ali.hough about two.thirds or Americans supponcd media ron1rol, Valeriani said the military should no1 be the one 10 exercise res1rain1.

Rather, he offered, joumalisis themselves should be able 10 recognize sensi1ivc information and withhold it of their own accord.

No other military offensive in America's history saw as much media restriction as 1hc Gulf War, Valeriani said.

"We should have been nying yeUow ribbons for the First Amendment," Valeriani said wryly.

'Bi[[ 'Wassmutli Named the Idaho Sta1csman of 1hc Year in 1987, Bill Wassmu1h knows firs1hand 1hc in nuence of religion in America; for bo1h good and bad.

Wassmu1h identified religious movements that have su ppor1cd individual freedom and 1hose 1hnt have oppressed i1 1hrough censorship and discrimination.

"II should be more apparent 1hn1 when freedom in one area is diminished, freedom across 1hc board is diminished," Wassmu1h said.

Wassmu1h discussed how censorshi p rcstric1s religious freedom and vice 1•ersa.

One main theme throughout his hourlong speech deal1 with living in a religiously plu ralis1ic socic1y.

"S0me1imcs its a fact we gloss over ... We have no official religion," Wassmuth said. "We have no religion that really is American. Sometimes we act as though we have one, a1 least unofficia lly. Soem1imes we speak of 1his being a Chris1ian country. We need 10 remember that we arc a pluralis1ic coumry."

'Bryan Jofinston Dr. Bryan M. Johns1on. Associate Dean of Williameue Universi1y's School of Law, closed out 1he 21st year of the NlC Popcorn Forum Weck. Johntson spoke Friday, Feb. 22, on the al1emalivcs of "Dispute Resolution and Cons1i1utional RighlS: Friend or Foe?" Johnston staled that wiving disputes on a "community" level is preferable for the panics involved, because a solution or compromise can usually be reached wi1hou1 going through the long proccs., of the coun sy51em. But. Johns1on said, when the solution is reached 11ithou1 1hc aid of the coun systems, "society as a whole can suffer, because the rights which had been fough1 for are not c.,pressed 10 the society as a whole.''

Johnston enumerated wha1 he 1em1cd the "three types of t-onnict resolu1ion."

The fim type, he said, is the "resolu1ion through power." when one pany uses force 10 inlposc hs will on ano1hcr p.'lfty, and he offt'f'Cd the Gulf War ns an e.~amplc. Ano1hcr c."mmplc, he snid, i~ a h1bor union 1ha1 goes on s1rikc.

TI,c second 1ypc of conmct resolutlon, OC'l-'Ording to Johnston. is the "resolution 1hrough law," which uses the couns to enfom: personal rights.

The third method of ronnic1 resolu1ion Johnston related was tlwt of "resolution 1hrough in1erests." which is the type society seems 10 be embracing. This resolution g& the disputing panics to compromise, either with or without legal aid.

Negotiation, mediation and orbi1ra1ion.

Johnston said, arc the parents of li1jgation- a law\ui1. But litigation is exploited in 1•ery small numbers, Johns1on said.

In answer 10 the question of alternative dispute resolution and Consti1u1ional righlS being friend or foe, Johnston said. " Yes and yes," with each being an al1emativc 10 and a complcmen1 of the other.

Text by Karin Lau , Kevin Brown and Alex Evans. Photos by Bob Sheridan.

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Congress sliaf[ ma{q, no [aw respecting an estah{isfiment ofreligion, or profiihiting tfie free e~ercis e tfiereofi or abridging tfiefreeaom ofspeecfi, or of tfie pressi or tfie rig/it of tfie peop[e peacah[y to assemhu,ana to petition tfie (jovernment for a rearess ofgrievances.

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Education: A service Progressive businesses moving into the '90s realize that to remain competitive they must put the customer first. In a growing trend employers are seeking customer service training for their employees. Rising to meet that demand North Idaho College, through vocational job training, provides management and employee courses for local businesses.

According to Robert Ketchum, director of short-term training, NIC employees visit prospective businesses and assess their training needs and then "customize a program to fit those needs as closely as possible."

While this cause is both noble and needed, NIC should first evaluate ils own need for customer service training and then "customize a program Lo fit those needs."

Ln the college setting NIC provides students (its customers) with an education which costs $402 a semester instate, in-county; and even more out-of-county or out-of-state.

Alhough NlC is less expensive than many institutions of higher education any amount of money is 100 much if students are not satisfied with the education provided.

The annual tenure proceedings brought to light a few needs that must be addressed to insure that students, as customers, receive the best education possible.

Were NIC 10 "customize" a customer service course for itself, descriptions of the topics addressed could read as follows:

1). Customer satisfaction: The importance of student imput.

This portion of the seminar would emphasize to administrators and instructors the importance and necessity of frequent input, through student evaluations-from those of us who pay the big bucks.

After all, if a service being provided is unsatisfactory, repeated business cannot be insured.

2). Systems overl oad: Realistic expectations or division chairs. This portion would address the importance of additional training for the additional duties expected of division chairs. These include instructor evaluations and how to create plans for remediation (which is the job of the division chair, not the academic dean).

Evaluation of the course load taught by the division chair in comparison to his/ her additional duties would occur in order to provide students with the best service possible.

3). Crises : Handling breakdowns in the system and still putting the customer first.

This last session would address how to identify and correct an inadequate policy, the tenure policy for example, and eliminate any student disservice.

Tenure approvals that the board of trustees granted on March 21 may have been a disservice to five years of future NlC customers-about 15,000 students. And then again maybe not. Only timeand student evaluations-will tell.

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Community support appreciated Editor: I would like 10 express my deep and come.st gramude 10 all of my friends al NIC for Lheir terrific support. When I was out of the United States it was comforting 10 know that I was supported, and I could depend on Lhem for any emergency 1ha1 my family might have.

I would like to offer 11 ~pecial thank )'OU 10 all of those who gave money, wrote letters and otherwise went out of their way 10 mnke things a tiulc easier for me and my family.

Their sctness contributions are very much appreciated.

Jim Straub

Student defends science courses editor: In response 10 last issue's story about science courses and ''bone-head'' das.scs at NJC, I would like to offer another opinion. I nm a student in historical geology and do not find the course or instructor boring. The part of the article that disturbs me most is the inference that a lot of students will never need 10 use the science they ll'arn in their majors, communications being one of the majors listed. I would think a reporter doing a story on wnr and oil, space programs, weather, greenhouse effect. water and food supplies from our soils and oceans, research of diseases, fires, floods and earth· quakes that make headline news stories could benefit from all the science courses of· fered. Why auack the sciences without mention of other required cou rses that may never be used in a major like history or gym? The article suggcst5 our science teachers should not teach terms over concepts, but I believe you need 10 learn terms and basic subject mauer in class so you can apply the concepts after class through life. The reporter used "bone-head" probably as a mock of unimportance of specie remains. However, CNN Newscast Inst week found it important enough to do a story of a dinosaur's bones recently recovered in Colorado which showed evidence of bone cancer 140 million years ago and is being researched. I lost my mother and best friend 10 cancer a few months ago and never thought my geology class would give me insight on things that could have harmed her. The teacher did not teach cancer. I took the basic sciences and am applying the knowledge 10 a field or interest related to society. I wish students would spend less time complaining about science and spend more time implementing what they learn to make this a better world.

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Tune in, turn on, drop out? Get a life!

America has reached middle age, some say. Our rebcllous you1h is behind us. We can look forward to a gentle retirement from our world pre.eminence as Europe, Japan and other democracies we have ' fostered so dearly move out of our shadow. We can be the graying wise Bobby Hammond man in our new world order, watching our fellow nations carefully, guiding them when needed, perhaps scolding. A sort of international "Father Knows Best."

A far cry from the chaotic decade of the '60s.

Indeed, some say the exact opposite.

"The '60s are dead," writes George Will. "And not a momen1 too soon."

George Bush confidently announces that with our victory over Iraq the dreaded "Vieinam Syndrome" is behind us.

The nation seems 10 want 10 divorce itself from that part of its pas1-1he decade when we rioted in 1he streets, burned bras, 1t1ned in, 1urned on and dropped out-when we killed the Kennedys

and Martin Luther King Jr.-when we invaded Max Yasgur's farm.

I was not there. I did not sec the Summer of Love (born in the summer of 1970, I was too late to even be a product of it). But I still sec 1hc '60s in America-they are not dead.

America was torn apart 20 years ago; it was sometimes chaotic, sometimes cruel, sometimes stu pid, mostly bewildering. But 10 disavow 10 years of extrordinary hisrory would be to deny a large part of what makes us what we arc today-good and bad.

The '60s destroyed, or at least weakened. the traditional value system of America. Satisfaction with the status quo was no more. America underwent a radical transformation.

No longer was government always right.

Political activism was the order of the day, sometimes to radical extremes. American youth indulged themselves in almost every night of fancy they had. That was the key-everyone do their own 1hing, everyone be happy. As the old order was questio ned, limitations suddenly seemed less reasonable and not as strong.

Blacks would no longer be limited by segregation, women would no longer be limited 10 the household. Politics no longer belonged exclusively 10 backroom brokers.

This is still with us today, and it is good. Limits should be vigorously questioned, and when the reasons behind them arc lacking, they should be 1hrown down.

But this refusal to recognize limits ultima1ely meam the counterculture was doomed. The political strength of 1he youth movement was sapped by the Hippie movement and its isolation from practical methods of change. America was repulsed by the excesses of the drug culture and retreated back into the conservarivc fold. Nixon was elected President in 1968.

The conservatives of today rail agiansL the whole decade, but let's not throw out the good with the bad.

We need to sift more carefully through the events of those years and define more clearly what we want 10 be today.

That is the largest legacy ot the ¡ws. It dcs1royed the old value~ and replaced them with nothing. We cnn not afford to tune in. turn on and drop out. But neither can we afford to give up the gains that came so painfully.

We need to decide who we arc, and to create our own decade.

Media earns C- for war coverage Now that the war is - - - - - - - ~ over. much debate echoes about who did or did not do their jobs in covering the news of the in the Gulf War. If the military's job was to censor the press, it gets an A.+. If the journalists' job was to get the news home, they get a C-.

And then what was Peter ic:._ _ _ _ _ ___, Arnell 's job?

Deborah Akers Arnell said he reported - - - - - - - - what he saw. His critics said he aided Saddam. But, turning the coin, if Arnett was the enemy and the objective was 10 muzzle him, then his critics would also be guilty of aiding an enemy, What they've done with their protest is only to help promote his book sales and lecture 1our.

What I say is "hats off" to Peter Arnett for standing amid the bombs and getting some news home 10 us. But just because he can conjugate a verb does not make him a military expert.

But throughout this debate I'm cominually disturbed by the number of journalists who are whining about being censored in their coverage of the Gulf War. Instead of finding solutions or ~lternatives, many are crying censorship and clingmg to the First Amendment like spoiled children.

Yes. we should denounce authority when it threatens our First Amendment rights. But, I think what some are 1rying to do is cover up their laziness and lack of creativity by hiding behind the shield of the First Amendment.

Many journalists were lazy right from the start and shouldn't complain at aU. For instance, Capt.

Robin Grautham, a press information officer at Fairchild Air Force Base, said she'd invited two representative.s from each of the major local media to go to Saudi Arabia with her last fall.

She alerted them early to get 1heir documents in order. But when 1he time came, only KREM and the Spokesman-Review had their act together.

How many others across the nation are likewise guilty?

And then, of the journalists that did make the trip, many were not very creative. Sure, all of the reports coming out of press pools were censored before they were sent home. But why beat a dead horse? If their questions weren't being answered-drop it and go on to somelhing else.

Be innovative.

For example, you can't go to Saudi Arabia on a tourist visa. So, by being there they had a wonderful opportunity to show us the culture of the Saudis, but they didn't. If a journalist's duty is to educate and inform his audience, why didn't they? Who arc the Saudis and Kuwatis that we spent billions of dollars and gallons of blood in defending?

If we're going 10 make intelligent decisions concerning Middle East policy, shouldn't we be learning about their society? For example, a few questions they could have explored are: What is the education system? From what countries do they import? How are their laws made? What is the cost of living? What is their family life, music, art, religion? Yes, what about Islam?

In fact, not much positive air-time or favorable print-ink was given to educating us about Islam.

These same journalisis that shout "freedom of speech" must have forgotten that the same law that protects them-the First Amendment- also protects freedom of religion.

So with one hand raised they will shine a spotlight on press freedom, and then turn their cheeks while the other hand shoves religious freedom a little farther in the dark. And we all know bigotry thrives in darkness.

Finally, out of frustration with the media, some Americans went 10 libraries to learn about the people of the Middle East. I applaud them. But I'd also like to ask them to write 10 their newspapers and TV stations and ask them: Why wasn't more time spent informing us about the culture of these people and less time doing tapdances speculating about the outcome of the war and drowning us with the tears of war-torn families?

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Low level of science literacy not surprising

Lloyd Ma rsh

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As an avid player or the game "Trivial Pursuit." an addict or lhe television game show "Jeopardy," and Lhe Chair of the Ph ysica l Science Division . I ree l compelled 10 respond 10

Deborah Akers' article, "Science Courses. Trivial Pursuit Alike." This article raises the dilemma or the student who loses a childhood curiosity of the wonders or the universe during the inevitable march in to adulthood.

Yes. I am saddened, but not surprised, by the statistics renecting the low level of scientific literacy of adult Americans. I am also deeply concemed by the perception 1ha1 science classes and science textbooks arc intimidating, boring and filled with trivia that is unrelated 10 the "real world" and the society we are preparing studcnLS 10 encounter as adults. If this is the stud ent's perception, then it is, in fact, reality, a reality 1ha1 science teachers must deal with.

The article acknowledges that a liberal arts education requires learning based on n brood selection of subjects (including science)-a requirement that I strongly endom. This conviction is rein· forced every day as I am exposed 10 the myriad of information about the universe, the cnrth and the inhabitants, the culture or arts and humanities, about our successes and our railures, and about our joys and our sorrows. At this point the temptation 10 pontificate on the need for a broad education, nnd the adage "ignorance is bliss" that can be realized only in isolation, will be suppressed in deference 10 a few points of clarification.

path of learning in a crawl, walk, run sequence. Along ,his path of learning, in the crawl stage, the student must undergo the painful, less glamorous experience of learnmg the "tools and the rules," if only the language l>y which we communicate. It is with these descriptions, terms, and fom1ulas that we develop the concepts, the walk stage. and hopefully relate and use these in our relevan, life, the run stage. If this can b~ done in a continuous sequence, disguised so that 1he student will not recognize the pain, intimidation, or boredom while learning abstrac, information, then it is the science teachers' good fortune to do so. If not, the stu· dent must develop an awareness that learning science is normally accomplish· cd sequentially and th at the rewards of undemanding and using these in the role of future decision makers is yet to be realized.

I must rake exception to the ,enn "bone,head" classes in refere nce to inlroductory sciences. On ,he contrary these disciplines, ou, of the selected ma: Jor, are 1101 intended 10 remediotc 1he st udent. The courses are an inlcnse effort 10 Lhink about and understand the living and physical surroundings in perhaps the only formal, albeit brief educational experience. We mus, com: mend and encourage the student lo take pride in their effons and acquired knowledge:.

The complaint about 1ex1books may be valid. Science textbooks, wrinen by science reachers. often lack 1hc appeal 10 ,he s111dents used 10 reading narralion, nor scientific technical writing. The now of presentation for students not accustomed 10 rhinking about the relationships between what is being read and previous knowledge learned is often difficult 10 assimilate. Science teachers must help students 10 integrate concepts and undersrand the use of relationships called equations that bring them closer 10 understanding lheir world. Students must recognize this different approach and make a particular cffon 10 deal wirh To declare that the science curriculum the material in a way 10 learn and use favors de.scription over function. terms these necessary skills. over concepLS, and the examinations are Ye~. Deborah. as you said. "let us try a regurgitation of facts. like n game of Trivial Pursuit, is a student perception to revive that childhood curiosity." I again (reality), 1h01, if true, science t'Ontend 1h01 it is not dead and never will teachers must be aware of and work be. It needs only to be rcviralized. This hard 10 dispel. At the same time we must can be done if students and science nil recognize the wide spectrum of stu- lt'achers actively continue to comdent needs, interests, and abilities that municate about their perceptions (realiare being served. For the student, they 1y) and make conscious effort to bridge must recognize that, when de1•eloping the gap of understanding. science concepts and rela,ionships in In any case, consider your chances of particular for the humanistically inclin- winning the game if the categories are ed students, lhey must follow a logical all science related. I would bet on you.

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Time to recycle paper on campus Editor: Coeur d'Alene has been named as one of the United States' All-American Cities. I think one of the important aspects for lhis was due to the beauty of the city. This is a time of environmental awareness, and I think we should be the leaders in the community in environmental issues.

I have been very surprised since coming to NIC's campus thal no steps have been taken to recycle PAPER. It seems ob1ious tbat a college has an abundance of discarded paper. I am upse, at the amount of paper I discard on a daily basis, and I shudder when I consider that amount compounded by hundreds.

I spoke to Mr. Mike Young at Panhandle Recycling, and he would be happy 10 take our paper. He asked that it be separated and no, include anything with glue (such as post-it-notes), no metal (except staples), or plastic, and FAX paper is unac«p1able. Paper should be divided into colored paper, computer paper, bond and notebook pap<r, and newspaper. They will pay I to 2 ccnLS per pound.

It may not sctm like a lot of monetary return, bu, I don't 1hink money is really 1he issue here.

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THERE AND BACK: ''WE JUST DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO"

by Dan Hyde Stntintl Editor

When Jim Straub first joined the Washington Air National Guard in 1988, he never imagined ll1a1 he would be sent 10 the Persian Gulf. "The guard was sem 10 shovel dust when Mt. St. Helen's blew-that's the kind of thing that I expected, 1101 war,'' Straub said.

Straub, an NIC mechanical technology instructor, spent ten weeks as a crew chief al an airbase in western Saudi Arabia. llic nearly 250-man squadron maintained the KC-135 tanker airplanes that sometimes len Ilic base at a siaggering one hundred nights each day. The KC-13Ss l1cw air-to-air refueling missions to allow allied warplanes greater penetration imo the he.utland of Iraq.

"It would have taken me a 101 longer to learn my job any other way," Straub said. "You just have 10 learn as you go. It was a lot of work."

Straub says that aside from the furious work pace at the airba.lC, life was "really monoionous". l\vemy miles away at l.be barra.clcs he spent most of his time watching Cable News Network, or reading the English-written Arab News or the doi.ens of letters that he recieved from supponm back in Ilic S1n1es. With lhe lllreat of terrorism a reality, the troops were confincd 10 the miUtary compounds. Only after the war ended were they allowed 10 mingle with the civilian population.

"I wasn't sure whether I supponed the wnr or not before I got these, and I hoped that we were not just !here for

lhe oil supply,'' Straub said. "I ,va.gi't in the country very long before I flglued out that if we wouldn't have gone to rescue Saudi Ambia, the whole eastern pan of the country would ha,'C fallen 10 Iraq." . Straub says lliat he met B-S2 and F-111 pilots that told hun about many close calls from heavy anti-Oircmfi guns and missile fire and of near misses by allicd aircmn in t.he ~1um1cd sky over military targets. Some of lhe F-111 pilots, who l1ew at lower altitudes man the B-S2 pilotS, dCSCT1"bed ~ lot of ground damage, but were impressed at how selcaive the bombing was. To most of the pilots, it was the "unbelievably" huge cloud of black smoke over t.he burning Kuwaiti oil fields that set the tone of the Gulf War.

" Hussein is a terrorist, plain and simple,'' Straub said.

"How can anyone open a two-foot oil pipeline into the Persian Gulf and not consider it an act of terrorism? What Hussein has done will have a tremendous environmenUll effect."

Straub said he was a long way from the action. "I didn't carry a gun and I didn't shoot any bullets, but I did carry a gas mask."

Straub says lliat his homecoming from the Gulf was "indescribable" and in stark contrast 10 that of the Viet¡ nam conruct where he served as a Navy mechanic.

"When we came back from Vietnam, there was only our families ll1erc 10 meet us. Not even the brass was there.'' Straub said. "People shouted comments at us and didn't have any respect for the military. 11icrc was no pride in America."

But for Ilic thousanili of American soldiers returning from the Gulf War, coming back is a time for national celebration. Straub says that even the people !hat didn 11 support the cause still supported the men in the Gulf.

"The support that we got was tremendous, not just as soldiers, but as people," Straub said, "espo:ially from the kids at school (NIQ. I got leners from all over the nation with my name on them. Most of 111cm told me what 11 great job we were doing and that they hoped we were home soon. They made a big difference as far as the way we fell about being over there."

Straub's March 12 arrival at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane n'OC\~ vigorous media coverage as the troops were welcomed by top military officials and a large crowd of family, friends and supponers.

"It was really heartwarming,'' Straub said. "It's not something that happens every day." "ll1is was t.he first anniversary we've misscd in 21 years,'' Linda Straub said. "When you have both of your anns you take them for granted, but when one is gont you really notice. The kids really depend on their dad."

Straub is sti1 on OCU\'C duty and could be called up again at any time.

"I don't feel like the hero lha1 some people think I am," Straub said. "We're nOI heroes, we just did what we had to do."

. "When we came back from Vietnam, there was only our families there to meet us. Not even the brass was there. People shouted comments at us and didn't have any respect for the military. There was no pride in America."

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Animals too interesting to annihilate Like most homegrown - - - - -- --.. Idahoans, I have hunted and killed animals for fun.

There was nothing I enjoyed more than getting out into the woods for a weekend lo do some serious stalking with a few close friends. However, the thrill of hunting endl-,._ _..;;,_ _ ___.""'""...., cd for me when 1 got my Ken Allen first deer. l was young, barely fif. teen, when I put a .30-caliber slug clean through a doe from about 50 feet. She was on the run and by all accounts it was a beautiful shot. The thing that freaked me out, and still freaks me out, was the size of the bullet hole.

The entrance wound was barely noticable, but ihe exit wound was massive. Much bigger than anything I could have imag.ined. 1 could tell the hole was big because the size of the stream of blood gushing out of her was also massive. I wasn't grossed out, and I didn't feel sorry for the deer, I was simply suprised at how destructive a bullet can be.

I don't know. Looking down atthe dying deer, l couldn't help but think I had somehow cheated

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The great white hunter 1 was not. ln that instant, while standing in the cold with smoke rolling out of the barrel of my gun, wat· ching the snow slowly turn red, I realized that hunting and killing game was a.o activity I could condone and even understand, but it was something l would never enjoy.

I would never kill that easily again.

Hunting has many merits. l believe hunters are right in their many claims concenung the benefits of the sport.

It does serve as an effective method for wildlife management. Without hunters, the animal population would grow too large for the forest ecosystem to sustain it, causing a massive famine with wide.spread death the ultimate result-more deaths than our modern hunting seasons could ever be responsible for.

And although a slug traveling around 1,000 miles per hour can tear up an animal's Ocsh preuy good, I do believe it is more merciful than the prolonged agony of slow starvation.

So I think hunting is good. I do, however, have a problem with the lust for blood attitudes of some hunters-namely my friends.

I don't grasp where it is they are coming from.

For instance, we were sitting around in a clear-

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It doesn't matter. He could never shoot a bird that small from that high of a tree with that size of a gun, especially after all those chemicals he ingested.

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Editor's note: While this article is fictitious, all the e'l'ellls, persons and locations depicted ore token, at least in port, from the author's actual e.wefiences.

by Kevin Brown As.istant Editor

"Don't go down 1hat street!" a guy warned me last August. "Fort narnrchS Apart.menis is down there!"

"I know," I said slowly. " I live there ... " He drew away from me in obvious terror, as if he expected lightning to strike me down momentarily. Slinking back several yards. his eyes wide, he carefully turned and broke into a panicked sprint.

It seemed my place of residence had a terminally bad reputation. So, in my spare time, I investigated ibis nearinfamy, becnuse that¡~ what journalism majors are expected 10 do.

I began by interviewing an area his1orian, one Monon J. Sault. He was kind of unusual. He always wore a yellow raincoat and had a severe facial lick which made bolh sides of his face leap up into a ghastly grimace. My interview didn't go very well; I fell a strange presence in the room \\1th us, causing my throat to constrict. The interview went mOS1Jy like. "Hi. My name. Is. Uh. Um. My. F"trst. Question is..â&#x20AC;˘ " Gelling 110\\here wilh inrervie\\ing, I opted to poke around the apartment building. Very few people know this, bul ihe building has a basement. In a 'dimly lit alcove in said basement, I found what I was searching for.

I suppose it was quite dumb of me to go poking around in the first place. Fort namrchS Apartmenis is a very dangerous place to live. I feel my life is in jeopardy whenever I venture out iiuo the halls. "Corey!" I shout to my roommate. " I'm going 10 get the mail! Cover me!" I've lost two roommorcs to mail 1rips. Their bodies still lay in a heap under the mailbox. A third roommate, severely injured. left for New Me.xico. Often, ihe rioting is 100 intense to permit cgrcs.s, and as a result my mail is appropriated by postal looters.

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out between athletes. .F"lre alarms went off at odd hours. light bulbs burned out. Strange noises sounded from within walls. Dogs howled all night. Eerie laughter floated from lhe shadows. Ectoplasm spurted from people's noses. An iceberg grew in my refrigerator.

But this is not the work of mere random fon:cs. This is not chance or fate or bad karma. I, Kevin Brown, Awesome Journalism Student Extraordinai.re, got righl to the heart of lhe matter!

We face not a calamitous converging of chaotic circumstances. This situation is not indescriminalc in nature.

Raiher, IT IS ALL ORCHESTRATED BY A UTILEKNOWN NORTH IDAHO DEITY LIVING IN THE COEUR D'ALENE AREA. This Ofth -rote demigod, in charge of the General Nuisance Factor, is usually called Plcph. Some interviewees call him "Legion," or "White Boy," or even "Bob." He is dcscnbed as a tall, slender elf wiih long purple-<lyed hair.

Authorities advise anyone who encoun1ers him to gcnuflc,..'t immediately and do not, repeat, do not attempt 10 apprehend him.

Plcph takes unholy delight in tormenting those mortals inhabiting h~ area of influence. He will relent only in his days off, when he goes over to the Student Union Bt1ilding and mingles wiih lhe boring psuedo-intelleCluoJs, vacant-eyed Euro-traSh and pumped-up pre-strata-yuppies found ihcre.

These creatures allegedly give Plcph frc<ih ideas. indeed. only a few weeks ogo, Pleph re3.lizcd I was close to crocking open his entire operation. Thus, he went 10 Fort namrehS Apartments and tampered with my water heater. which then petulantly refused 10 produce heated water. My roommateS and I were subsequently forced to undergo ihe moot indescribable torture, namely, the dreaded ICE-COLD SHOWER. 11\is version of the standard shower originated in 14th-<entury Outer Mongolia as a method of interrogation. Fortunately, the damage to the watt'r heater was soon repaired, but the harm to my person lingers still.

Pleph concluded that direct action against me is ineffectual. He has iherefore tried exuernc annoyance 10 drive me lega.lly insane.

This villian has supplied dozens of people to run amok in the Fon namrehS Apartments building corridors-people who seem to varush without a trace when I peer out into the haIL I think they actually go up to the apanrnent above mine and stomp around to further infuriate me. HowC\-cr, I siress, reliable sources claim to have observed the HALLWAY ROMPERS in the act. of romping.

I recmdy htard ~11a1 sounded lilce the Three Musketeers busily dueling their opponents with aluminum ladders. When I was sufficiently roused. nanoseconds after the first thrust and parry, I staggered out to invcstig,ue the proceedings. I had hoped for some 1eUtalc blood and maybe even a few twitching bodies to photograph. No such luck.

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I foUowed a trail or brokC11 11 and candy bar wrappers 10 lhe basement. There, in that 1!1)', dim oomer, I round a mcssnge inscribed on the waD., r,-.r,prescnl Orange Crayola: "Pleph U"esl" I ruso iOOlffld a surprisil13iy ordinary-looking lile cabinet 11ull ~ith documents on the Frifflds or Plcph.

This org;ini1.111ion, the Frieodlf Pleph, is 3 seact society which holds mce1in~ in the For,anuthS Aparuncms basemcn1. (Some sourocs call 1his or,mlion "the Broihtthood. ") TI1cy also hold ~ on Thursdays in room A-23 a1 2:30 p.m. TI1e F1ld$ or Pleph cany ou1 Plcph's ordffl, such as 1he abdaon or fattign dignilJlties.

This group is also suspc,:1ed or fldng the Church or S:unn on numerous occasions-ll)'JlilUlting smiley races and dirty limericks on the iaai£il llltll!S, Slcaling goal.I. and so on. i-\1 this very n1()1t1('1111 ha,-c a "J)Ortcr in· m1rating 1his organimtion 10 ~ infomiation on their activities. An advance report by III bm,-c "J)Ortcr stales 1ha1 1hc Friends or Plcph plan lllave their new headqunrtcrs in lhe as-yc1-unftnished lfaly/oompu1cr center, a building which unromfonably ronblcs a def,cl1-siz.ed Piz:ro Hui. Pleph has lricd 10 intimidalc .• in.io silence. Case in p0in1: our door keeps ~ling km'"· A1 Hrs1, I thought this was just a few oo"wdl)' ~ who wanted 10 obtain my roormnatc's (jcn(:Sl1. lme Video Game/Homework ProcraitinatioS)'!lcm. I now ~ it's not that simple.

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SpokcspcrSOns ha\'C SU1ted thal b Tenant Advisory Council is in no \\'ti)' affili:ucd .-ith 1he lends of Pleph. Nor. for 1ha1 maucr, are they in,'Ol\-cd ~; the Mafia or the House of Rcprcscntntivel or the ld:lhO lldctu Lobby.

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The major action undertaken by the TcnMI Advisory Council thus far is 10 uy and "'tlm C\'crybody 1ha1 then, is a Ttnam Advisory Council. 111C)' also appear 10 ha\'C nlCdin&S, during which d1cy presumably make imp011an1 decisions, such n.s, ''The basketball game was dcicrmincd to be the probable c.1use or the poor nuendruia:."

I C3\'~ropped on nn infonnal meeting. They \\'Crc dlscus5ing new rules: "No mart than three fmfrghts per week," Md "Armed robbefics are not allowed aficr 3 n.m."

I feel safer already.

THIS JUST IN AVE MINUTES PRIOR TO MY DEADLINE: An anonymous tip on the Tu-cmy-Four-Hoor Scnlind Action News Hotline has led me 10 ccnain information which suggests that Pleph, he of the Ocneral Nuisance Fae· 1or and nefarious ways, has mas1crmindcd se,'Crnl other prtviously UJISUSJ)CClcd and baffiing m)'Slcrics.

Apprum~y. Plq,h has arranged for my roo11una1c 10 sponiancously break in10 song. This would not be an Iha! objectionable "'Ctt ii no1 for lhe rac1 that he chooses 10 do so at times which precisely coincide with my crury into REM sleep. And, as a further sad fact, he occasionally makes a high-pitched noise during oenain ,'Cl'SCS. This sound (quOlc, "rrrRRAAAEEGHHI") is vaguely akin 10 lhe sounds a mallard makes when slowly crushed by a wood-, working vise.

Pltph, t>illcndy, is rcsp0nsiblt for the disappcarancc of Jin,my Hoffa. I hav-c also discovered ~ which links Pleph to notorious organized crime figures, inlfflllltional icr· rorists, lhe IRS, lhe IRA, the ERA, Ted Bundy, Salman Rushdie, the govcrnmem of Paraguay, the makers of Granola Bars and the NIC Coffee Oub. That final link. howe,'CI', cannot be confumcd.

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TH IS J UST IN ONE MINlJTE PRIOR TO MY DEADLINE: l caugh1, romcrcd and in1erviewcd Plcph!

'The cimJmstances must. for Mlional sccuril)' reasons, rt· main confidffitial. IVha1 f0Uo"1 is an ACTUAL TR,\ NSCRIPTION or the short interview.

Mr. "What arc you d0111g "ith that bag ruu of dynam11c?"

Pleph. "Mmnu-u-rrr,iani.zz."

Mc. "Go ahead and tall imo the mi..·rophonc, dummy!"

Pleph. "BEGONE. FOOLISH MORTAL! MAY LOKI BLAST YOU AND YOUR FOUL SENTINEL! YOU ARE SPAWN OF AN IGNORANT SLIME, AND TO SLIM!! YOU SIIALL RETURN!" (Yes, he was actuaUy speaking in capital !titers.)

Mc. "Sorry. Ploph. Plccf. \VhatC\er... " Pleph. "I HATE rr WHEN MORTALS MISPRO· NOUNCE MY NAME." Me. "So?" (Toni's 1he A"csonic Journalist asking YCI another probing, in-depth quest.ion.)

Plcph. " ..." (Thm's an indcs<.1'ibable sound of inanicub1c rage.)

Mc. "Gee. Um, b)'C, I have n clas.\ now. No hard feelings? Call me a11d \\'C'll do lunch sornctimt..."

(At this point, Pleph wniih<s. He has no1 been in tlic nrca in quite sonic time, ahhoogh, for some unexplained reason, aU tl1c Pepsi Vfflding machines on campus ha\'e been dananding sums of suety cents instead or 1he usual r.r1y cents. This may or may no1 be related 10 Plcph's disappcamnce.)

Now, I know " ha1 you're thinking. You're saying lO yourielf, "Kevin, that's brilliant! If I may say so. )'OUr deductive journalistic acumen is maiehcd only by your f1C11dishly wiuy SC1lS<! of humor and rugged good looks. You should m:ei"c, ni the ban:s1 minimum, both the Nobel and Puliuer pri,es."

Don'1 mention ii.

Shooting strlngs-(top) Gerard Mathes plays his nearly comple ted M-16 vlolln. (right) M-16 violin before completion.

Mathes builds electric violin resembling M-16 automatic rifle

by Johnny Hunt

Srnriotl R,porttt

Gerard Mathes is fiddling around wi1h a new idea--<X>nslJUcting a violin that looks like an M-16 au101natk rifle. Of course, 1he M-16 violin ,,ould only be loaded wi1h music.

Maihes started 1his ;,roj«t abou1 three weeks ago. Mathes has always been interested in musical instrumcnis and writing music, and he tries 10 be creative in his effons. Mathes is in his third )'tar or teaching music theory at Nonh ldalio College where most of his studcnis arc interested in rock and roll music.

"I think my M-16 violin will fit in well with the class," Ma01es said.

Mathes' idea came from n rock tune that the class was rchearnng. It dcall with war and Mathes decided to combine the mo1ivc or the piece 11i01 an actual instmmcnt. To create this.

Mathes ftrst went 10 the library and found a photograph of an M-16 and blew up the photo so it was the same length as a violin. He 100k the photo, plllced it on a board and cut the shape out.

Matl1cs made the rifle shaft the same ,vidth as the ,~olin handle and he had the rine butt act as a shoulder rest. The finger board was made out of ironwood. " l wanted to try something new. No one else has tried this, at least not around here. l was inicrcstl'd to sec if I oould do it and have

it work." Mathes said.

Mathes, who has plllycd Oie violin for 20 years now, performs all types of music on his violin and is in a group, Sultans of String.

TI1e group is an aU acoustical string band that plays a mix between country rock and bluegrass.

If tl1is project goes well, Mathes said 1hcrc could be more, pondering the idea of converting a baseball bat into a cello. An even bigger accomplishment would be to 00111-en a ceUo into a ba1 and see if Darryl Strawberry could hil a home run while playing the na· tional anthem. Mathes said.

Ma1hes hopes to finish the violin by mid-

April. The violin will be paintl'<l the same colors II.\ an M-16 and it will be electric. Next fall he could use his violin and play in a heavy metal-baroque band, although he said he is uruure or this prosp«t.

Mathe:I, who once repaired a violin "ith the handle of n 1cnnis racket. thinks a market doesn't exist for his skills In making instuments. People also said there wasn't a market for television, or the horseless carriage, or W1ificial turf, or the New Kids on the Block and these things have changed the world. Who knows, maybe If all goes well. Mathes will transform a guitar into a nuclear warhead. or course Matl1es ,viii ha,·e LO be the one to di= it, too.

Guitarist Cole presents upcoming NIC recital

by Kht le Law

Snttln,I RqKNttr

Music with a South American flavor will be the theme of Nonh Idaho College guitar instructor Dal'id Cole's recital April 7 at 4 p.m. in, the Boswell Hall Auditorium.

A Canadian by birth, Cole lll()','Cd to the United States to persuc his career as a scholanhlp srudcnt or the BanifT School or Fine Arts. He did his Wldergraduate studies at Lewis and Clark College in Ponland and his graduate studics at the Univenily of Arizona.

Cole continued his studies ",th such nationally acclaimed musicians as David RUS51ell, Oscar Ohiglia. Philip Roshegcr. Michael Lorimer and George Sakelhriou, which resulted in his winning the Naliona1 Music Tlilldlm Naliona1 Awlciation and plagng 8CIOOlld in the Shilon Competition in

Tucson.

After a year on the road tour· ing as a clam:a1 guiwist, Cole's music was described as "int:ffabl)' tmder and btauliful with a chocolate-like quality" by music aitic Lawrence W. Qieclc or the

Tuc:soo Ckizm.

Besides a busy oona:n career, Cole b on the staff of NIC. Gonzaga Unil't!ISity and Whilwonh College. His srudcnts aoclailn him as ,uy supportive and innovative.

"He lei's you v.'Ork at your own pace," said beginni,g· guilar student Dawn M~. "He pmbes you but !IOI too far. He really motivates Ith studenU bec:luse be is COOSlll1dy encouraaq thml and conplimcnlkig lhcm on their~" Anolher guitar 5tUdmt. Laurie Toew5, uats Cole is ''exalml, SIIIJl)Of1M, CllCOUrlPII, pllicnt

and ha,, a pOSitive attitude. " He is a vay accompmhed

pcooo,''Toews said.

Cole's extmsive repenoire varies from works of the twentidb-<lC!lnuy masters adl as Joaquin Rodrigo 10 the baroque filipe of Johann Sebastion Baljh.

AaxrdiDg IO Cole, the term "cllmical piw'' is DJt named for the DlUlic bul for the type of

auai-utCd.

"A dll9licll aullar ls III ac,.

COUlticll bOI .... wilh nylon sfrina,," Cole Slid. "Tbe type of music pll)'ed OIi la Vlria widl the pcrfonncr."

Cole putS hundmb or hours in for each IDUIIICl or per(Of11WICC. He said he aimndy praaiccs at least five hows a day.

"After having a gukar in 1111)' hand aD day while teaCbiDa lltllliena.'' Cole said, "thll CID pl pell)' tiresome."

Cole's future plans include I recording and coalilluq bis

leachina and CIOIICClt c:anicr.

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···Li~·-;;~h-~~~t~1·1~~kfu;·1 for musical impersonators I

by Pelltcll Snyder

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Money, music and mania will sw at the Lip Synch/Talent Show at 7 p.m. April 8

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in ~wdl Hall Auditorium.

Spon.<;ofed by the Associated Students of North Idaho College. the show will feature NIC students in six ca~-malesolo, female aolo and group performance both in fip synching and in talent.

The toP puticipanl in each category will ro:icve $7S. The best overall ooruestant will rtlQe\'e an additional $150. No entry fee is I'-./) l required. ~ 1.

The dres, reheallia1 will be hdd April S , in the Kootenai Room. Studmts may sigAI ~~ •1~ up in the ASNlC offices, located downstairs in the Student Union Building.

Signing up is not Miuired, ASNIC Ac,. tivitics Dirr-ctor Don Atha ~ Students may come to the d.rcs.s reheaml without signing up, too. Atha said to bring the background tape tO rehearsal prise" to fuid out how talented NIC In regard to lhe show presented last students arc, Atha said. semestl'r, Atha said It w·.is "an excellent Admk\ion is S2 geoenll and SI srud~.

I )bow...especially in the talent field.'' He Atha said approximately 200 pooplc auend· , said lhai three to four people panidpatcd ed the bst show. For information, contact in C3ch caiegory la.~ rime. It was a "sur- _ ASNIC nt exl. 367 or vi~il the offlOCS.

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by Ktn Allen Stnflntl Rtpontr

The North Idaho CoUcge Student Art Sho~, fea1uring ori~ -:vorks executed exJ cl~vely by srud~ts wi':"m NIC .art ~ .

I will run froi:n April 8-?fi m ~e Umon Ga~.

An opening ~uon will be held April 8 from 6-8 _P,m. m the ga~ry. .

According to gaUery director Allie Vogt, studcnlS are allowed 10 enter three separate wor~ per discipline. Work ca~ be submiued Apnl I from noon-6 p.m. 111 the gallery, located in th_e SUB basement. . .

The submmed art works 1vill be Juried by NIC Art Department Instructors. Vogt said.

Work ~01 chosen for display n_iay be picked up April 4 from noon-6 p.m. m the gaUery.

An work not accepted is not nccccssarily 1 due to poor ~uality, Vog_ t s.'lid, but !"9thcr , from a po1enual lack of d15Play space m the gaUcry. This rellccts less on the size or the t

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galk:ry-although Vogt said the galJcry is more than adequate for a campus of this size-but · student ra ther on the large amoum of quality entries.

Submitted an work mUSt be ready 10 hang and marked with two three by five index cards. For two dimensional works, studcnlS should adhere with tape 1wo cards in the top right comer of each piece. For three dimensional works. place cards on the bouom of the piece. lndude the foUowing infonnation: name. title, medium <md price should be ineluded on the card.

Accepted art work will be further juried by a visiting artist to issue cash awards for top pieces.

TI1c Union Grulc.ry will take a JO percent commission on student work sold. Work displayed may be picked up afier completion of the show Apri.l 26 from 4-6 p.m.

TI1e gallery i:, open 10 the public and is free or charge.

NIC becomes casino for gambling students

by Patricia Snyder

Assistant £d11or

The North Idaho College dormitories wi.ll present Casino Night Apn1 S, from 8 p.m. 10 midnight in the Bonner Room.

Ticket~ are S4 ror students, who must show an identification card, and S5 for NIC employees and the public and will include a free, non-alchoholic bar, free snacks, such as popcorn and pretzrls, entry in10 a main drawing for a weekend trip for two to San Francisco and $2,<XXJ worth of scrip! money to san1blc with.

The San Francisco uip will include airfare, room. tranSfers and $150 spending money.

According to dormitory director lkcky Coffman. who is coordinating the C\ffll, the night will rea1urc roulcue. black jack, era~ and poker. Students may purchase raffle tickets for hourly drawings "ith the script money. The ramc will include such priL.cs a~ dinner ccnilialles, coolers, cameru~. clock radios, baked goods and a color television. A small dance floor is also planned.

The non..alcoholic bar will include such drinks as ~hoppers, fuzzy navels and

margariw.

Dormitory residents will be aaing as <leam, banenders and ticket sellers. Tickeu will be available at the door. SrudenlS mUSt be pre-

~Ill to win the main drawing at midnight and the hourly drnwin~. For infomuuion, conl8C1 Coffman a1 ext. 409.

·nie Associated Students or Nonh Idaho Colltgc board donated money to the dorms for this event. ASNIC members will also be assisting with the work, \uch 3.\ with decorating, ASNIC Activities Direaor Don Atha sa.id.

Coffman said that I.he night is being put on "for fun," and that the prolilS will go "10 reward the students who" are working on Caililo Night. The dormitories sponsored a Casino Night every year from 1981417.

What do you think was the best point made by either Jack Thompson or John Moms at the music censorship debate?

David Lindsay- Dean of Student Services: Morris did a good job of reminding us that it's up 10 Lhe parents, schools and society 10 influence the individual's thinking to make the proper decision about what to buy, look at or listen to rather than have the government legislate those decisions.

Mike Palmercommunlcatlons, pre-law: Morris' best point was that censorship, which is Thompson's goal, is exactly what the Nazis did. Funhermorc, it is a fundamental abridgmcn t of our Constitutional rights, which is illegal.

Susan Weller-English:

Mr. Thompson didn't have any good points. Maybe Morris' best point was 10 call Mr. Thompson on his repeated references 10 rape.

Thal argument was a "non· sequitor" and Mr. Morris pointed that out.

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or maybe out of fear and insecurity on our part, we want to impose the truth on those around us," Wassmuth said.

A religion orten believes its God and faith is beuer than all others, and the expression or this belief takes on many forms, Wassmuth said. One example is the message, "It was the Christian thing to do" implying that Christian equals good.

"What does it mean when we say 'That was the Islamic thing to do?' Or 'That was the Jewish thing to do?' We haven't equated those with good in the same sense that we have equated Christian with good," Wassmuth said.

its convictions, thereby diminishing the freedom or anyone else or their religious persepective," Wassmuth said.

People impose their religious views on others mainly because it's natural for people to belie,•e they have found the truth and want to share that with others, Wassmuth said.

"So, 'Let me share what I have, and what I enjoy, with you' sometimes becomes 'Let me impose it on you for your benefit and for your good.' ...Sometimes out or our graciousness or conviction on our part,

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"Did your Ood bless the Persian Gulr War?" Wassmuth asked later in the speech. "Billy Graham's did.''

Fear or a pluralistic society also rcsuhs in discrimination based on religion, as seen through the Aryan Nation's doctrine, Wassmuth said.

"I think the supremacists here say out loud some things that are hidden deep in the guts or the rest of us," Wassmuth said. "Supremacists openly fear pluralism. They sec it as the ruination of all that is good and impcrtant.

They want to be rid or it in our society.

They see it as the destruction of the white Christian society that is America in their minds."

Should the Rev. Butler's church succeed in establishing their beliefs, then the Pacific Northwest, including Idaho, would become a white Christian nation.

To combat prejudice suffered by religions, sometimes at the hands of other religions, Wassmuth challenged Lhe audience to oppose only imposition, not their freedom of religious practice.

Even the white supremacists in Hayden Lake have those rights, he said.

Too orten, people feel threatened by and fear what is different, and want to be rid of those things, Wassmuth said.

When true concern is no longer shared with but imposed on others, the problems with religion begin.

To see the Christian God as the same as the Jewish God, the Native American gods or the Wiccan goddess, for exam-

pie, one must respect the differences of the religions rather than deny them, Wassmuth said.

After his speech, Wassmulh was interviewed for this story in the Kootenai Room. Gathered around the table were rour NlC students and Wassmuth. In the center of the round table stood a pepper shaker. Wassmuth drew a comparison to the salt shaker as God, and the people around the table as believers or different faiths.

"We've got five people sitting here and this is a pepper shaker. We've got f1ve different perceptions of that pepper shaker. This thing is the same, no matter which avenue you look at it," Wassmuth said.

"We've got five different perceptions based on our backgrounds, our culture systems with which we sec t.bis thing.

Maybe we're partially color-blind. We all probably sec a big different color system there. For some people, pe~per is a good thing. For other people, II upsets their stomachs and triggers their ulcers, so its a negative. " You've got all that sort of stuff just with a simple little thing li ke a pepper shakcr ...The (pepper's) the same. The perceptions we use and the approaches we take to it arc different. None of them are contradictory. None of them arc mutually exclusive. They're just different.

"Why can't we do that in terms of religion?"

Beware of baseball's big blasts ypical college students arc generally pretty conservative when it comes to spending money and rindi ng living arrangements.

But I've come to the conclusion that many NIC students (and possibly some faculty and stafl) like to take their chances 10 help solve the so-called parking problem on campus. After searching to salvage an available spot and finding no success of it in the immediate parking lotS, some decide 10 live life either ii· legally or dangerously for the moment.

Flrsl or all, 1hcrc doesn'I seem to be much of a parking "problem." Sure, the closest lots may be fill· ed for a couple hours ! . - - - - - . . 1 at various times during the day, but the proBrian blem is not using up Walker the large area behind - - - - - the new library/com· puter center. I've yet 10 see the area fu ll of vehicles.

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This is where the illegal aspect comes in. If all those autos parked in the yellow areas were in the parking lot, we could seriously judge if there is a parking problem.

Some students have taken the legal rou te, but have gone beyond the "NIC will not be liable for vehicles damaged by baseballs" signs that stand at the en· trances of the lot behind the right field baseball fence.

According 10 NIC b11scb11II coach Jack Bloxom, no vehicle parked in the lot had been hit by a baseball that he knew of as of Monday.

A word of caution, however. Baseball season is gening imo full swing. And a runswing, particularly by a leftie, is all it will take to send a student home angry with a cracked windshield. About 340 feet (the distance down 1he right field foul line) or 36S feet in right-center field isn' t out of the reach of a slugger by no means.

" We've got two kids of thal type that can and will hit ,hem out there," Bloxom said. "There hasn' t been (any vehicles hi1), but it will hnppen."

The owner of the first vehicle hit should at least get to keep the home run ball. Maybe they'll react the same as a

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Baseball team struggling Hosts Columbia Basin in doubleheader today

by Johnny Hunt Stntlnrl Rtporrtr

One hit in three trips to lhe plate makes for a pretty decent batting average; not so much can be said for one win in every three games.

The Nonh Idaho College baseball team finds itself in exactly that position and, at 3-9. the team may be wondering just what has gone wrong.

Bad breaks, key errors and untimely hitting had sent the Cardinals 10 the worst start in team history, taking only one game in its first eighl outiog.s.

But last weekend's trip 10 Yakima's Bill Faller Invitational college baseball toumamcn1 may have answered some of the questions.

The Cards blanked Centralia Community College 9-0 in saturday's tournament opener behind the shutout pitching of Coeur d'Alene freshman Doug Nell and the hot hitting of sophomore ca1cher Jason Ncwmack, who had three hits including a home run.

NIC got cooled off in a huny, however, falling to a tough Tacoma Community College team, 8-1, in the nightcap. Brian Bcrkdy. a freshman left· hander from Kirkland, Wash., absorb· eel the loss as the Cards managed only three hits in the five-inning contest.

In itS only game Sunday, NIC dumped regional foe Clackamas, 5-2, with Cary Orcenflcld and Doug Schow collecting two hits apiece.

More silent bats on Monday ended

the tourney for the Cards. which dropped the last game 5.3 on a final-inning three-run homer by Mount Hood's Will Block. NIC had only two hits. " I was really confident when the season began," Bloxom said. "We've got the ability to win, we have good sophomores, and I still expect a good

season."

There ccnainly are no problems 011 the mound, as the NIC pitching staff had been phenomenal in the flrst eight games with a combined earned-run average of 1.77.

Bloxom hopes lhe pitching can carry the lcam until lhe hitting comes around.

"We're just not hitting the ball wcU," Bloxom said. "One kid had 14 strikeouts against us."

A few injurie.5 have also hit the Cardinalcl. NIC's staning ccntcrficlder has a displaced nerve and its second basemen has had major knee surgery; both an: out for 1.he season. leagiJc play ~tam April S and Dlo:<· om 1hinks the Cardinals can tum the \cason around.

"11ic kids aren't down, the attitude is posiliv,: and I feel confident we can tum it around. We have the staff and the nucleus to do it," Oloxom said.

The Cardinals take on Columbia Basin Community College in a I p.m. doublthcader today and this weekend wiU host lhe Eastern Oregon Junior Varsity for two more double dips I p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday.

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DOWN THE PIPE - Sophomore Aaron Leavitt

pallently awalls his pitch during batting practice.

Three tracksters set records

by KIiey Peter.Ofl A1'Slstun, Editor

Christy Davids is no comedian. but he ~ure can improvise. C>avich, Nonh Idaho CoUegc head rracl: .:ooch, has very little to work with. No trad;, no indoor fadlity, no fidd piss, not C\'Cll good weathc!r. Howe•,tr, tbe fll'Sl )'&I" roach i& 1-iing into the U'll..'i: season with a pretty good aa.

"We're OOl a powerhOUSt. W,(, don't have a trade. We don't have a lot or good weather, or an indoor 1raining facility, bul we will S\-'l pcopJ.: 10 nationals. We may win an individual 1131ional title." Da,ids $lliJ. Davids has already bad good perforlllllllCts OUI of $Ophomorcs Ouis Gilben and David Tejedor in lbe men's evaits.

Sophomore Maria Ridley and frcwnan Carolynoc MifsudBlul have sbnd on Lbe womm's side.

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Gilb.:rt, Tejooor and Ridley hav-,: all ;ct school records in thtir respo.'"tive cven15 and have qualified for nationals. Gilbcn, an AD· American in crass OOW1U)" in both his years at NIC, brok.: the school record in the S,00).mmr run with a 14:JS at the Husky Track Classic al tbc Univmiry of Wa.._\flington. M3!Ch 16.

Tejedor. also an All-American in cross eow11Iy, ran away with the )COO()( rcconi in the 3,(00-meter steq>lechase at tbc Classic wilh a 9:10.7.

Ridley ,:t a ro.x>rd in lbe 3 . ~ run wilb a time of 10: 14.S. Davids said he expects bcf to be running undn 10 minutes soon and SClC'i bcr as a coniam for lbe national title. Mifsud-Ellu.l finished ~ 5 seconds from qualifying 11 nadonals. Her 18::?S time placl:d her fowth amona NIC's alkime S,O(X)..mcra' lisl.

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Without a training facili1y, Davids is con-

tinuously uying to fmd allcmative methods to train. ··11 is defmitdy a credit to our runnas that we do as ~cu 115 we do because they don't ha~ th,: .same facilities," Davids said.

The Cattlinal~ wiO be competing in the \Vcstrm Washington Open April 6.

Special note: NIC n.'a!ived tbc Nilce Cup whJcb honors the junior collqte 1otith the ~ 511cx:cssfuJ mm's and women's croo "°'1l!LrY program combined.

The men·s 5QU8d lin6hed in third pia«, ju.'1 four points out of scoond, at nalionals in Brevard, N.C., last fall. The womcn'5 IC'alll frniwd fourth.

Da~ids said the Mice Cup \WS a par honor became it is unusual foe a acbool to ha~ cxcepoonal mm's mrd women's prosrams.

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Rollerblades gain in popularity for high-speed, high· flying excitement

by Mike Saundort Sf"'NI t tllt<N

II 1hc gnarly dude. at Ven,cc Oe:1,h, Calif.. ha,c known nbotn m..,11 for )'c:ll'\; 10 the bi1ch1n • bud\ ai Da)tona Ueach 1h~;·'re old flC\,,. "No big. man."

I Jere in Nonh Idaho, 1hough, 1l11ng, j111t don '1 h.1ppt.11 111.11 fa\! f me, roUcrbLtdes 1~1,c been a,ailable m th~ arc.1 for '>1.'\'Cntl )..-.1r,, but 1hcy ju-.t l1:1H11'1 ruuglu on here like thl'} ho, e 111 'iOmc ol the mare "bead1in" lo..:ation, moond the ,,orkl.

Until now. l.ook around nc.,t tlmr )ou'rr m the do1,T110,1n C'llCIU d'Ak~ ()I' do\111t011n Spo1-.U1C area,. II') W..d) you'll '<-°I: more thnn n h,.'\1 wc-hu.rd rollcrbL1dcn. cruL, utg around 31 '<.'Cmintil>· brcal.-11C.\:I. \ JX't'(h, fl)ing off of th,, kd~r or Jumpin!I off ol that Qairna)'.

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1\ C1.'01tlul!l Ill U'\l'ffl'IJJ and lam.son, the fn.q-f(l(.'l'd m:11011. C'J.(c.' llf mancu1('1'Jbili1y and low imp.1ct on the l.nC1.-s ond nnl.k:s pul rollcrbbdmg in a clas.s b) iL<clf comp.1!Cd to the maitl)la)"S of kntcboarding and roller\kating. "/)(111~ "'"'' rompa!\' It 10 rolt'r.lat.ing," l.anbon lau&hetl, "you c:in gou /offaster on blad('S." I c11 crrl17 cnthu!>ia)tkally ~ hoo. the fccluig.

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" l\c \\Tc.\:l.cJ pl.:111) of um~." I am\On ...iid, ..,, ith pad, it\ no probk.m." lltc la~tp and bucl..lc-up ~ ma(hinc,, ha,c abo found their way m10 the tr.unmg rcguncn for sport., rru1ging from ice hockey 10 do\\llhtll ~l.iing. 11 5C'Cm, the motion 11h1lc blading l\ ''Cf)' bcnef11:i.1110 lower-bod) L'Olldniorung.

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above the pave, menl with his rollerblades.

Cardinals fall to CEU in regional tourney opener l>y Mike Saunden ~Ed,1~

" ...it'll bC' ju.st likt' \taning over," John Lennon once crooned: the lyri(:. somcho\\ SC\.'ln qril.c a chord for 11e\t ~n's IC men·~ baskc1b.1U team.

The heart of the Cardinal, 1990-91 squad, 1ndudmg Ainon Dud,tt'\ich, F-di\ Ml'Gowan, Cnse)' lrgcns nnd Daan Siordiau ,,;u graduate thi, ,pring and mo, c on to larger ~hoob- lea1ing Roll) Wi111.1n1S, NIC athl.:ti.: d1rccmr-b.1Ske1baU cooch fC\, rctumm and numerous QUC-\tion mark~.

Th~ high 1umo,cr rate IS a budt-u, problem for a1J 1,10-y,:;1r ~hoob; COJChes on1) ha,c tht' pla)Cr\ through their <.ophomorc )ror. Williams, all 10 famill.lr

"ith the S) 1cm, <,CCO\S to wish it didn't ha,c to rod so quid.I)•. "\Ve'l'l' n01 onl) losing n big churu. of the scoring, but we're also losing some great I.id<." \V-tlli.1,m said of his graduates.

Tho;e graduate), and the resi of the NIC men. finished their ~non a SO!Tle\\hat sour 11()((', bc,\\ing 001 in the first round of the NJCAA Region 18 Tournament- for the sa'Ond Straight )tar. \\'illi:uns. "ith O\?T 600 ""iru under tu, bC'l1, hls c:,perie~ alm051 C\er)Ulll\& on the basl.ctball roun, but the opening-round 96-73 ~ to the Co:Jtge of E.astcm Lta.h defies C\ en lus common <;CmC. "I cannoc cxpbin that (game) in m) <l"TI mind," \\'illiams '3id. "It\ lil.e somcbod>

stuck us with a pin and let the air out, like a balloon. We just died."

Tu Cards had beaten CEU r,.,cc dur111& the l"gUlar season, and "ere as de~ as aght points m the second half. If Ihm was one good reason for the 23-point ~. it mtl) ha\'C been found on the bowd.s; NJC was ouucboundcd 27JJ in the fir.t

half.

"If )OU control the boards. )OU <X>Otrol the game.'' \\ illiams said. as he aJw:t)'\ has.

"We jUSI (!OI. beat up."

11ie team 1113) 113,'C abo been \lig/uJ) u ndermanncd ib le\ mt plarcrs left the Canlin.1J roost 11m .IC3.SOll for rcooru ranging f rorn cmciptiJw)· action to (X)Of grades:

it fUIIShcd the season with only nine acuve pla)crs, a fact lha1 Williams h painfully COflSCIOUS or "I wasn't pleas.ed with the numbers m the end," Williams said "We started the sea10n "'ith <Mr 20 playm and gOOd pottnlial, bul rtd.shtnS and the Olher ~ really hurt us '. w illiams rechhirt poli,:y, "'hich allo"''\ a pla)cr 10 mnmw.in I\\O >= of eligibiliry ofrer their freshman )tar, IS one that he strongly bC'hC\es in. ha\1118 rcdslurUd lumsdf at the Uni,cnity of Idaho.

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Thursday, March 28, 1991

Season wrap-up

Lady Cards receive mixed blessings WorkOne Weekend AMonth AndEarn SIB,000

by Miko Saunders Sports Ed11or

10 experienc:e may have played a part in the Lady Cardinals' season ending sooner lhan it would have liked, but that same inc.xperience may prove to be a bles.sing in disguise.

Next year's team will return no less than nine players. most or whom gained valuable experience during lhis season's sophomore shonage.

The Lady Cards finished the season with only two scx::ond-year players still in commis· sion; Khris Gruber. who earned honors as a second-team all-region selection, and MicheUe Sandholm.

1l1e team's other sophomores, Chanda

Tebay and Carla Whitaker were bolh non· factors this season; Tebay lost 10 injury early in lhe season and Whitaker redshirting following a knee injury.

The NIC women fmishoo the season in lifih place with a 10-8 record, just behind two teams with 11-7 marks. The Lady Cards had beaten one or those teams both times they played and split two games with lhe other.

Because only the first four teams qualified for the Region 18 tournament, the NTC women needed a win over arch-rival College of Southern Idaho in the season finale, but came up short.

Despite the loss, Coach DeHaven Hill was in1presscd with his team's performance in the second half of the season. The Lady Cards

managed a 6-3 conference record after the break, narrowly nlis,qng a 7-2 mark, according to Hill.

"Overall, I was pleased with the team's J)Cf· fonnance," Hill said," "but of course you're always disappointed when you sci a goal for the season, strive to achieve it and come up just short."

Lack of consistency may have been the Lady Cards tragic flaw, according to Hill.

"We would play weU for a couple of games, and then tum around and not play well at all," Hilt said.

With as solid of a returning cla~ as the team will have next season, tha1 consistency soon might not be all that hard to fmd.

Rowing club hits the water

compiled by Mike Saunders $pons Editor

Owen named coach vs. Cuba

The NIC Rowing Club is now on the water. Every one intcr~tcd in having fun while getting n good workout i~ invited to join NIC wrestling coach John Owen has been chosen to coach the them-no experience i~ necessary. The club meets Monday United States national wrestling team when the elite squad takes through Friday around 3 p.m .• but if someone who h interested on the Cuban national team Saturday, April 13, in the Spokane is a little late or can't make every practice, they will still be hapColiseum. py io have them show up. Look for the small group of people The U.S. team boasts three Olympic gold medalists in John by the long, sl..inny boats on the NIC bench. For information they Smith who recent ly became the first wrestler to win the prestigious invite you to come down and tolk to them. For tho,c interested Sullivan Award-given to America's outstanding amateur athlete, in rowing, wearing ,weats and bringing nn extrn pair or ~ocks is Kenn)' Monday and Randy Lewis. advised.

Although Owen's selection is an outstanding tribute to his coaching abilities, with the talent in place on the U.S. team it seems that the position may be more of an honorary one.

NI C golf tourney slated

Ski club looks to next season

Spring 1991 has sprung, and with it a new tradition h born 111 NIC; the first-ever Nic's at the Link\ Golf Tournament on Satur· The NIC Ski Clu b has set its goals for the 1991-92 school year, day, April 20. at noon. planning to add competitive downhill and nordic ski teams to the The tournament will be held at the Liberty Lake Goll Course already succe)Srul recreational program, according to advisor and will require n S15 entry fee that includes gr«ns fees. The fi~ld Howard Garber. f'or the recreational skier, the team is puuing together packages for the tournament is limited to 32 golfers. with the deadline for for Whistler Olackcomb and Vail Beaver Creek for next ski season. entries (limited to NIC employees, students and their "\ignificam Interested skiers will be able to pnrticipate in fund raisers this others") being April 12.

Cash and gift prizes will be awarded, in three sli.ill categories, spring. summer and fall which will deduct from the cost of the for lowel,t net and gross, longest drh•e, closest to pin and longest trip.

Don't miss out! Get involved with the NIC Ski Club. It meets putt.

For information and entry forms call Steve Okelberry at every Thursday at noon and again at 4 p.m. downstairs in the 769-347 1.

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Kelly Kalser-pre,Jaw: I'll have to go with UNL V. They're good. They are going to win because they arc better than everyone else.

Ronny Cooperpsychology: I ho~ UNL V will win because they are the best team and always will be in my eyes.

Michelle Sandholmsports: Arkansas Razor· backs because they arc a quicker team than UNL V with not as much meat on them and they'll be tht underdog.

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A CSJ baseball player, after cleaning the bleachers following the game, came across rudely to the pep band and insisted he swept where they were performing. Band director Terry Jones said he hopes to give a Huie payback this time around and is working on getting the act set up.

"We were Just doing a couple numbers like we do after every game," Jones said. "He had a 'let's fight' attitude and called some of the members 'band geeks.' He also knocked over some microphones. We're not looking to pick a fight, but I think some verbal harassment is in order."

Salt Lake Community College, second to College of Southern Idaho in the Scenic West At hletic Conference Tournament this season, has announced the hiring of Norm Parrish as men's head basketball coach. Pnrrish, an assis1ant the last two years at SLCC, replaces two-year head coach Jeff Mendoy, who resigned to pursue other opportunities.

NJC split games with SLCC this season, winning at home before losing on the road. Shortly after Lhe game at Christianson Gym in an empty Bruin locker room, Menday said that his team was the worst shooting team in the league. It must've improved greatly as the sixth-seeded Bruins advanced to the

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Male/Female Communication and "How were 1wo or the most reoen1 topics for the Women 's Group meetings a1 noon in Haught's sub1opics were: Wh.y ~hould we the S1udcnt Union Building. 11,c speeches arc learn 10 say no, why it is so dlfflcuh 10 say pan of a series or weekly discussions or no, and how 10 say no. womens issues. '"No' is the lirs1 word we learned," Haugh!

Male/ Female Communication-coined ''The lm~ible Dream"- was the subject of said. "Now, we need LO set limits and pro1cc1 1he speech given by spet.-ch instructor Annie our resources." Allhough 1he women of the McKinlay for the women's group Feb. 2S. '90s ha,•c discarded the superwoman model, The lecture was anended by a large group they still don'1 like 10 be limited, Haught said. of women and four ''token" males who were "We have 10 Slop people rrom making constantly called upon for reference. unauthorized withdrawals from our energy "Males and rema1cs'.ire programmed from rcc;erve bank," Haught said. Some of the ways binh," McKinlay said. "The fim question thal Lo do this, at"C'Ording 10 Haught, arc model· is asked is ' Is i1 a boy or a girl?' From there ing self care by mking care of self. being it is a blue or pink blanket, and it goes on honest "ith ourselves and having compassion rrom there." toward ourselves.

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lecture with sarca..'itic comments 10 students who lefl the previous session, she said.

Another complaint Johnston said she has wi1h Richards is Lhai he didn't rc1um course assignments until one lab before 1he mid1cm1.

Because there was no lime LO go over matcri.'11, portions in error on 1hc ~ignmcnts were probably missed on the 1es1, she ~id.

Richard~ refused 10 commcm, slating con· ccm for students currenlly enrolled in his classes.

Afler the cxoculivc sc:Mion was dismi..~. the 1rus1ces unanimously voled 10 approve Richards for ruu 1cnure. Tnmec Nonn GiNil did request thai 1he entire tenure p ~ be rCVtCv.cd bcalu\C there MlC!ll 10 be "tlnws in the way infomuuion is g.uhcrcd."

"I don't think 1he boortl likes i1 thm ~ mconc can have scathing review~ and ,tide by on a 1echnicalny," Lindsay <:aid.

The "lcdmicalily" may have bo..'ll !lie complc.'(ily or the proccs..,.

"It's a legal document, and (lcnurc) not done properly, lhen the 111.Slrus1or'\ nghlb have been viola1cd," S"ain1 ~id. "Then v.e don'1 have any kga1 r ~ bul 10 grant tenure.''

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NIC Prc,,idmt C. Robcn llcnn<"u s.1.id that he m."Ommended Rich,mh be approved for t(llure lxcl~. nner consultntion with college auomcy Steve Wcllel, the documcnmtion was not in place for a tenure-advised s1atus.

Richard, 11M tcmincd a local mtomey. Bob Bro\\11, to over;re his tenure proceedings.

Swairn ..aid the tenure committee plans 10 review Ille pr!XCS.\ in general. ·'We're going to be looking through the whole :.)"ill'lll to~ 1h:11 i1 docs whm ii i~ suppc)'iC(I 10 do. Wr: don't wam loopholes in the thing, but 1hc college is not in !11c habit or mooling the " ounded, eilher,'' Swaim said.

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RELIGIOUS •tn the name of .Ail/ah-the merciful, the rompasslonall! .•

smuth speaks against religious oppression

by Karin Lau St.ntlntl Editor

ha1 they f1TSt saw was the painful horror.

Bony hands stretching in sheer agony through barbed-wire fences.

Pleading eyes with their sorrowful gazes reaching to rouch anything that resembled life. Surrounded by death for years, months, maybe only days, the prisoners reached and stretched everything they had left in their spirit to ~ their saviors-Unit.ed States soldiers.

The Jewish prisoners were tbe barely living horror left behind by the neeing Nazis.

Some of the pri~ncrs me1 rhcir fate through death. Nazis failed to cover up tlJe gruesome evidence: ovens with charred human remains still inside, mass groves overnowing with executed Jews.

Although this atrocity happened in a land far away from the comforts of North Idaho. people do live here who would like 10 see this happen again. In the woods ju.~ nonh of llaydcn Lake sits a wcUguardcd church c:illed the Omrch of Jesus Chrut Christian Aryan.

111c Rev Richard Butler, the church's pai.tor, preachc:. hb imcrprellltion of God's word to his followers. To Butler, God says that while Christians arc God's chastn one:.. To Butler, Hitler was on thu right track when he demanded that six million Jews be c.~terminmcd. To Burler, North Idaho should bc\:ome the homeland for white Ovis1ians, the Aryan race, to the e.~clusion of all others.

Since the beginning of time, C\'ClllS like the Holocaust and preachers like Butler have sought 10 oppress different religions, aet"Ording 10 Bill Wassmutl1, a former Catholic priest whose home was bombed by members of The Order, a group made up of fomtcr members of Butk.'f'S chun:h, which is rommonly kno\\11 as the Aryan Nations.

"When is the free e.~cn.'ise of religion prohibited or diminished?" Wassmuth ask· ed the audienoe during his speech on religious censorship at North Idaho College March 22. "When arc bclie\i:rs the victims of intolerance or ~rship?"

Wassmuth Slid one common reason for oppression comes from a lack of understanding of rdigions different from one's own religion. Often believers of dif. fcrent faiths opprm each ocher, he said.

White Otmtians, throughout America's

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history since the landing of Columbus, have often denied Native American culture and religion, "often belittling (their) religious bellcfs, making them sideshow piect.s," Wassmuth said.

Native Ameri<:ans eventually learned 10 rcson to secret religious ceremonies "so that (their religions) are not somehow cheaply imitated or oo-opled by those who see certain practices as trendy or cute," Wassmuth said.

Members of Wicca, a nature/earth religion that worships a female God bellev· eel 10 be present in all living things, also practice secretly because of their fear of pa.\t witch hunlS and heretic hunts, "where hundreds of tlJousnnds of people were persecuted and k11led. Espccia.Uy women were killed, au in the nnmc of God, by tl1c Catholic Church," Wassmuth «.aid.

Sometimes that lack of unden.tanding is subtle, Wassmutl1 said.

Public schools often have a ''lack of sen.gtivity to those children who are not of the Christian faith," Wassmuth said.

Show-and-tell questions that ask students tell about how they celebrated Easter do not at\.'Omoda1e the beliefs of cluldren who happen to be Jewish, Buddhist or even atheist, Wassmuth &lid.

Wassmuth stressed that oppression is no1 inflicted just by Christians, citing current cases of the Catholie-Pro1cstanl situation in Ireland and the persecution of the DaJai Lama in Tibet. erpetrntors often are those whose religion dominates one area. In some pans of Southern Idaho, in order to get a job anywhere, people m\lSl be a member of the Chun.:h of Lauer D:!)' Saints, Wassmuth said. However, Mo.rmons also suffer oppression themselves.

For many )'ears, Article six. Section three of the Idaho State Constitution denied voting rights to bigamists, polygamists or any person living in a plural, patriarchal or cdestial marriage.

Mormon marriages arc oelestial; therefore, Mormons within those marriages were prohl'bited from voting, Wamnuth said. However, the law was never aauaDy irnplcmcnted because it violated federal law, and was evenrually ovururned in 1982. But, Wa.ssmuth said half of aD nonMormons polled woold have voccd io keep it on the books.

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&lid. ''The abortion question may or may not be such an issue," Wassmulh said. " l f n person or a church argues against obortlon because they say it is God's will or God's law, then I would suggest t11cy'rc imposing their religious beliefs on olhcn in our society. If a person argues ag:ains, nbonion because of the rights of persons bom or unborn, or because or basic tnws, or bccnuse of some other basic 1.ruth.\, then I think It's 1101 the imposition of religious beliefs."

Imposing one's views on others does not promote a religiously pluralistic society, Wassmulh said, as can be heard within many of the abortion issue's voices. They can be heard promoting only one view of how society should be based on lhcir religious beliefs. Should these rclisiously-bla.sed opinions be acted upon, even if they ore those of the majority, the results could be classified as oppression based on religious belief,, Wassmuth said.

"It is one group impasing its religious convictions and conclusions of - - - p k o s ( ' •rt

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