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Hedlund report raises questions, concerns

by Deborah Akers and Patricio Snyder

pholo by Mille Saunders

Up, Up and awake-N IC Sophomore Jim Elgee gets some big air while skurfing on Hayden Lake. Please see story on p. 15.

SenUnet Slaff Faculty members are raising questions about the sufficiency of air testing done in the Hedlund Building :ind 1he adequacy of a study presented in a recent 1echnical repon. '"In all of the repons. there does not seem 10 be data 10 explain which pro!!rams were in operation. :ind to what extent. during the testing period," Kris Wold. le3111ing cenier director. said.

Programs suspected to be sources of hazardous fumes entering the second-Ooor classrooms 31'C: diesel mechanics. autobody. welding and marine technology.

Rolly Jurgens. dean of administration. said he feels the air samples were done at a ..,,alid period of time.'"

According 10 Roger Brockoff. physical plant director. tlir samples from the second floor were tested for haz:irdous chemicals in 1990 on fon. I 8, 19, :ind 24. A carbon monox.ide 1cs1 was performed during a one week period in April 1990.

Those test results found 22 hazardous chemicals all below their short-term exposure limits set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administrotion.

Wold said that faculty members questioned air testing because it was done for only the "most obvious路路 chemicals known 10 exist and not all of them.

OSHA requires chemical manufacturers to provide '"Material Safety Data Sheets路路 (MSDS) on all products sold. Files for Marine Technology, Auto Body, Welding and Diesel Mechanics vocauonal programs :it NIC indicate that over 200 hazardous chemicals are present in products used. The

MSDS ,:;.plains both sh,,n-1crm acute and long-term chronic health effec1s 1ha1 <"Ould result from over-exposure. Some of the S} mptoms :ind effect~ listed for chemicals used in NIC vocation:il programs are: headaches. nause.i, rashes. giddines~. respiratory irritation. repir.itory failure. muscular incoordination. kidney/liver damage. central nervous system damage and cancer.

Faculty members are also ques1ioning carbon monoxide 1es1inl!, Wold said. She said she was told by Dr. Wolfe. an occupational heallh specialist. that carbon monoxide is dirficult 10 measure accurately.

Carbon monoxide is known 10 cause headaches and dizziness: prolonged exposure can result in death. According 10 an official at the Spokane Poison Control Cenier. it takes 5-6 hours for carbon monoxide to leave a healthy res1ing adult.

Questions as 10 the adequacy of a another recent repon has been raised by Michael Miller, director of business education. Miller has five facu lty members with classes nnd offices in the Hedlund Building. His lener 10 the administration in May prompted the closing of the second floor.

The repon in question wns prepared Aug. I 2 by Wayne Dockstader. an industrial hygenist with the Idaho State Insurance Fund. "'The repon sounds like a casual review by an individual who had Strolled through the building, reviewed literature and interviewed people through a survey,"' Miller said.

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Library move delayed for some classes

by A!Mnda Cowley Sernine4 Reponer

Constructio n plans for the new library/computer center are a li ule behind schedule.

According 10 Dean of Administration Rolly Jurgens, some classes will stan there on Sept 16. Some classes, such ns the Learnin g Center and business office edua uion have been delayed a week bec:iusc safety requirements have not been met.

space early, the library and the compuu:r telecommunications 10 make themselves 01 center are not scheduled for use until the home. and some of the classes 1hot found beginning of the spring semester. so the themselve~ homeless due 10 the closing of necessary equipment and books can be the top floor of the Hedlund building to use moved in over the Christmas holidays. space for temporary quarters.

Present construction will continue in the On Wednescl3y, SepL 18th. an Op.!n house The ~econd floor y, ill hold five different pans of the building that classes do not is planned, and tours will be given 10 computer labs, a telecommumcauons center, occupy. Jurl!en~ said.

By the middle of September. the acquaint staff. NlC students and the medfa faculty offices. and :in e:tpanded oum::ich University of ld:iho should start 10 take wi1h 1he new building. For informauon. fnc11iry for the Unhcrsity of ld:iho.

While some? cl:isses will be occuping the possession of their new offices. contact Sandy Palmer.

The $4.3 million-dollar building will house on the fir.a noor, not only the new libr:ir}, but also a small audi torium, conference rooms. a special collections room, a classroom nnd staff offices.

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Colloquium examines truth began to redesign lhe general education core for the A .A .. the A.S .. and the A.A.S. Wi1h the help of a large grant from the degrees. Part or this redesign was a National Endowmen1 for the Humanities. commi1ment LO initiate a Humanities North Idaho College has also been Program which is currently chaired by NlC examining a new way of learning. teaching history instructor Judy Sylte. and thinking for two yelll's.

In the summer or 1990. NIC approved the As a capstone of the effort. this summer new curriculum course. Montage: An 16 or NIC's educators from a variety of Introduction to the Humanities, and funded a disciplines met in a four-week-long summer seminar. headed by renowned ,·i~iting scholar Dr. Ka rl Sandberg. that guided 22 or tlie hum:inities faculty in planning for the expanded curriculum.

Last February, the campus participated in :i well-auended Humanities Forum that featured Dr. Parker Pal mer as key speaker.

Palmer is well known in the academic world for photo by Slade Zumnote his thoughtful WHAT IS TRUTH?-phliosophy instructor Patrick Lippert (front) critique on some of and English instructor James McLeod attend a humanilies the foundations or colloquium on the nature of truth and knowing this summer. higher modern education. colloquium 10 study and consider the nature In order to further the intellertual or truth and knowing. The colloquium was eJtcitement, program director Judy Sylte and designed to strengthen, not only the study or colleagues ob1ained a grant in April 1991 for humnnities. bu1 foster understnnding among $96,373 from the National Endowment for the diverse faculties on campus. the Humanities. It funded this past summer's Much groundwork to funher these goals colloquium. matched NIC's funds or SI0.000 had already been laid. Three years ago a for a library update on the humanities campus-wide General Education Committee collection. set aside money for foculty travel

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10 professional conferences and will make possible a weekend humanities faculty retreat later this month.

H en thusiasm is a valid measure or success. then the grant monies that were used to fund the June colloquium were well-spent.

The ins tructors who participated readily admit to having been swamped by homework and groan some about the heavy load of required papers, but n unanimous consensus is expressed that the time spent was more than worthwhile.

The theme or the month-long. eight-houra-day colloquium was an explorarion or the nature of truth and knowing. The study used for a textbook 77 works of ancient and modem literature of many different cultures.

It was led by four visi ting scholars: Dr. Holmes Rolston Ill. a professor of philosophy from Colorado State University: Janice Hubbard Horris. n professor of English from the Uni,•ersity or Wyoming; Dr. Henr y York-Steiner.a professor of English at Eastern Washington University: and Dr. Parker J. Palmer. a former university and seminary professor and currently a writer and lecturer.

NIC inst ru ctors who p:micipa1ed expressed great enthusiasm. Phil Corlis. head or the an and photography depanment said.

"For me. it was the most enriching experience I' ve had at NIC. IL was· profoundly moving."

Edwina Stowe. a math and calculus instructor. said, " It was one of the most stimula1ing experiences I have ever had: it was a wonderful opportunity to study with colleagues or other discipli nes."

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NIC changes parking policy, improves lots

by Patricia Snyder

NewsEd,t0< North Idaho College's parking lots and policy have seen changes this year.

For the first time. NlC students and staff are required lo purchase a parking permit.

The tags are available from 1he Security Office in the Winton Building for SIO. The tags are transfernble from one vehicle to anoLhe r. but all the vehicles must be registered at N!C. According to Dean of Administration Rolly Jurgens. S5 will be refunded to students who are not returning to NfC for spring semester. No permit is required for parking after 5 p.m.. Jurgens said. ·-niere are too many events going on at night."

Fines for illegal parking have increased.

A S l O fine will be charged for no visible tag or one on an unregistered vehicle, parking in a crosswalk. blocking a driveway. parking in restricted areas such as visitor. no parking or loading zones and other illegal parking.

Parking in a handicapped space wi1hout a Depanment or Motor Vehicles or parking in a fire hydranl access area are equal to a S15 fine.

Fines are payable in the Business Office in Lhe Lee Adminis1ration Building. Onehalf is deducted if ii is paid within three days, and the fine is doubled if it is not paid within JO days. Students may appeal the ticke1 within three days at the Security Office. ''The whole idea (of the fines and fee) is - - - --pl8ase see PARKING p. a

New registration process 'easier' on staff, students

by Loil Vivian

srudeot intended to keep the classes sophomores this December, which would who did not anend lhe fim day of class, scheduled, the postcards were to be mni led gi ve them the needed priority for openings were created in otherwise closed Before North Idaho College studen ts back to N!C. ff the cards were not returned graduation. Other students would be classes. For those students who are left for summer break, the Registrar' s

by July 26. tbe registrars office did not required to reg.ister normally. desperate or tenaciou~ enough to choose the Office implemented a new system called enter 1he studen1's schedule.

Enrollment i~ up from las t years over-ride policy, an armload of paperwork preregistrntion. This sys tem offered According to Streeter. "Even though a :ipproximrue 2,900 students to 3,069 lhis awaits. Students must have a copy of their returning. studcnL~ lhe advanrage of first few cards were later reponed lost in the year. According to Streeter, "Whereas a class schedule. confirmation of when they choice for cla.'iSCS offered in lhc foll. mail. there was a very good response in the slight enrollment growth is anticipated, received their acceptance letter from According to Registrar Karen Streeter, cards being returned." there is a limit to the iacre:ise. Without admissions or confir.nation of participation preregistration was "on easier and more Although some of the clnsses were eJtponding lhe fucilities. NlC is simply not in preregiwntion. a degru audit, and 11 efficient system." fr gave the returning nnd filled by the time th e reghtrars office equipped to handle a large growth.'" copy of the program they :Ire following 10 graduating students priority for core processed the end of the cards, Another 27 course sections were added this confirm the ncccssiry of student. Actordiog requirement classc.(, reduced the number of preregistered studen ts still had the se mester 10 :iccompany the rise in to Streeter, the division choir wiU take into people who had to sLand in long lines. nnd advantage over firs1year <;tudcnls. enrollment. According to Streeter. consideration the graduating core on the whole mode regis1ra1ion ca.,ier for Streeter said "On the whole, ii worked enrollment caps wCl'.e set on cl:issrooms and reguirements and available options of lbe students and ~tafr. reasonably well ... "the standard has been bener maintained srudent in deciding over-rides.

Last scmeMer. lhe Registrar's Office The Registrar· s Office is considering this year. thereby enhancing the quality or New software anticipated next year requested returning students complete a should sireamline the registration process. ,chcdulc cord by listing the classes they eliminating returning the postcards. the clnssroom experience."

According to Streeter. it would eliminate The majoriry l)f students who did not The number of credits completed and the wanted for foll. During the first week of July. nddi1ional inrocmation nnd a postcard the unreliability of the moil. The registrars n:cei ve lhe classes they needed opted for dote on admission application could w~ senl to preregistered students. If the office is also considering offering the waiting list instead of the extensive detcnnine reg.istr.Uion dates. preregis1ration to just the graduating over-ride policy. By dropping the students Sen1Jnel Repor1e1

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Friday, September 13. 1991

Freshman senator petitions due today S1uden1 Handbook, must be in his or her holding current ASNJC identification cards.

According to the Student Handbook. 10 be office n minimum of four hours a week and '6yfra.;l1 bevore eligible to be a candidate. a student must must attend ASNIC meetings, which occur 5elltinel Reporter have and maintain a cumulative grade poini on Mondny and Wednesday, 4:30 to 5:30 Eleciions for 1he posi1ion of fresh.men average of 2.0 and be presently carrying a p.m. Each officer must also nt1cnd various enaiors on ihe Associa1ed Students of Nonh minimum of 12 semester credit hours of committee meelings. Elec1ed senators :daho College board, ASNIC, will be held on receive 4 monlhly paychecks per semester college work.

Sept. 25.

Three offices are open for freshman along wi1h !heir own personal desk 10 be Any freshman wishing to run for o'.~ce used during office hours. mu~I acquire an eligibili1y form and peurron senator candidates. ll1ey are academic. open Polling places will includl! 1he fro~ the ASNIC offices. located in the and vocational senators. The open senator Adminirnation Building, Vocati:i:ia: candidate shall be elected by the en1ire basemen! of 1he Edminster Student Union Building. The petition and eligibility form ASN!C student body. while the vocational Education Building and the Student Union must be turned back in to the ASNIC office and academic candidates shal I be elec1ed Building. The election will be by secret before Sept. 13 in order for a student to be only by ASNIC students of their respective ballot and students must present their current ASNIC identification card 10 be eligible 10 eligible to run for office. Each petition must schooling.

A freshman senator. according to the vote. bave a minimum of 50 signatures of students

Sept. 25 date for election

NIC nurse urges measles immunization

by Patricia Snyder News Editor

A surge in the number of measles cases has prompted the student health nurse to encourage NIC students to be revaccinated.

"A measles epidemic could have a pretty serious impact for students," Linda Poulsen said. A person who ~ontracls the disease could be unable to work or attend classes for at least eight-JO days.

"Jusl because North Idaho wasn't hit doesn't mean we don't have students from South or East Idaho," Poulsen said. Recent outbreaks have occurred in Middleton and

Council, she said, and isolated cases have been reponed in Hailey and Ada County.

The Ada County case was in a 24-year-old, she said.

Over 25 percent of the na1ion's cases have been in college students, according to Poulsen. While national cases seem 10 have peaked in 1990. dropping from 27,000 reponed cases and 97 deaths 10 just 8,000.

Idaho's rate continues to rise.

Poulsen attributes the nalional drop to natural immunity.

"The amount of immunization that's going on is relative to the amount of cases."

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Montana recently passed a law requiring students receive a second MMR shot. before they are al lowed to enter a college or university. NlC currently does no1 require immunization. ''I'm really encouraging people to get a second MMR (measles . mumps and rubella) shot so we don't have 10 deal with an epidemic.·• Poulsen strongly recommends shots for all those under the age of 34. The shots are available free from Poulsen, who is located upstairs in the S1udent Union Building.

Marine technology program finds new home

by Mabel Kosanke Sentinel Reporter

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The Marine Technology Program will be moving from the Siebert Building 10 the marina at 1100 E. Lakeshore Dr. in Coeur d'Alene around late September or early October, accord ing Lo instructor Bob Traverse.

He said they were moving for various reasons, one being the benefits to the students. Traverse, who has worked in the marina before, feels the move will benefit the students by allowing them 10 train in a more realistic atmosphere.

"The building here is simply too small," he said. "We have room for only two boats; at 1he marina we will have access to about

Clarence Haught, dean of vocational instruc1ion, said the cost will amount to about $25,000 a year.

He said another reason for the move was a problem. in one instance, when fumes from the marine technology room seeped th.rough the intake pipe leading to the Hedlund Building, which resulted in an instructor fainting.

"Marine Technology is a program in high demand from students," he said. ''The move was already in the planning, so when the issue came up, we felt the 1ime was right to go ahead with it"

Dick Eberhart. a marine technology studen1, said he will be pleased with the move.

"There is no boat dock at the school. At the marina we will have oar own slips." He feels 1be only drawback is no! being on campus for other classes, but that the benefits of the move will outweigh that fact.

Another student, Rocky Sandau, said he feels great about the move because of more hands-on experience.

"Having no boat dock here at the school is not only inconvenient for the students but for customers who are forced to drive their boat th.rough town and fight traffic to get 10 the Seiben Building on campus."

Perkins Act provides vocational funds

by Sentinel Staff The Perkins Act bas provided approximately $198,000 of vocational federal aid to help NIC students. The four programs recieving aid are 2-C. Tee-Prep.

Sex Equity, and Single Parent Displaced

literacy and providing counseling for students that have trouble adjusting to classes.

which received about $16,600, is to aid people who are en1ering 'non-traditional' jobs-such as a male secretary or a female welder.

The Tech Prep Program recieved $50,000 Counseling help is also available th.rough 10 aid area high schoolers in completeing the Single Parent Displaced Homemakers Homemakers. vocational careers early. It allows students to Program. lltls is targeted mostly for women The 2-C Program has received about ''get credit for the information they brought 25 or older who have been out of the work S6?,000. This program gives special with them" to college, said Clarence Haught, force for an extended period of time. ~s1stance to the educationally or financially dean of vocational education.

Counselors will assist in making career disadvantaged by improving computer The main purpose of the Sex Equity Act, choices and in obtaining financial aid.

EWSNOTE

Trustees alter meeting time The NlC board of trustees have changed their meeLing dote to lhe fourtJi Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m.

The board said it wished to meet at a time that did no1 conflrcl wi1h eampus events.

Student cards now available Students can pick up their 1D cards at the ASNIC offices located in the bns~n:ent of the SUB. 'H,e cards are in the hallway just out~ide of the ASNTC offices and are avail ~b!e during the day. Signs were postt·d to assist students in finding the ASN1C' ~l'fices.

Klinger NCTE contest judge The Nationa.i Council of Teachers of English, NCTE, appointed NIC English teacher Chad Klinger to be a regional judge for the 1991 NCTE achievement awards in writing. This compe1ition is now entering its 34th year_ Its goal is more effective teaching of the English language and U1erature in the nation's schools and colleges.

NCTE publishes journals. books and recordings to aid teachers in the classroom and in their developmenL Approxima1ely 800 high school students, out of 4,000 nominated, wilt be cited for excellence in writing and recommended to colleges and universities.

House project earns prof its A house built by carpentry students as a project last year ae!led abou1 $25,000 in profits for NlC. Last year was the first year NIC funded the carpen try project. The carpentry students had previously bui.11 a house for an individual who purchased the materials.

According to Steve Schenk, dean of public relations, 1he college will fund !he carpentry project again this year. NlC has already purchased land in the Stanley HiII area.

Schenk said the profits from the sate will go toward the new library and vocationr· - '-...lo.rchin~.

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Frosh struggle with dog days Summer is over und foll is upon us. All or the beach bunnies and pany animal~ hove di~ppeared. and a new breed ha;, invaded the Nonh Idaho College campu-the college student.

Many types can be sc.:n ~uch a\ Returning Rover or Sophomore Skunk. but the worst of all is the Frc,hman Ferret (FF). They are everywhere. rnarming like bee.., in anu out or bu aiding~. clunering up the ground~ and ..curching rorparkingplace.\. They can be identified by the s1anlcd lost look on their faces. and !hey arc usually c:irrying a large amou nt of book!..

Upon entering this p:ut of 1he jungle. they are given maps and told 10 get lost. They r.an he round under the trees and in the hulls. peering al the maps and bumping into everyKittie Law thing. A whole new language Staff Writer must be learned by this new breed-words such ns Pell, GSL. SUB. adviser. dorm. · roommate. Bos. and bathroom.

These poor FFs did not know what they were gelling into when 1hey volunteered to le:ive their burrows to venture in10 this new jungle. The worst part ori1 is they pay to be able to do this. Now they are fneed with dorms. instructors and a whole herd of top dogs called Admin istration Airedales.

By now the FFs are missing their home dens and jungles. They have to feed themselves and keep clean by some means or another. Instead or the free den they :ire u~ed to. they have 10 pay for sheller fron: the weather and a warm place 1ocurl up. The fat cats are always demanding money for things FFs have taken for gr:intcd like food, !K:hool supplies. clothes and Kleenex.

Bui they are free!-or so they 1hink. Free 10 come and go as they please- free m choose 1he pack they want 10 run with-free to break the rules of the jungle and suffer the consequences-free 10 go broke-free 10 pursue an interest 1n 1he opposite gender- free 10 fail-free to succeed.

No one tells them what to do or how to survive unless they ask; then. if they ask the wrong person. they may be lost forever.

Several weeks of this and the weaker ones are weeded out. Bur the survivors may find the following skill~ helpful in making it through the scmcsrer: so listen up all you FFs. and pay attention.

Set aside a specific lime to study and keep that time S3Cred. It usually takes about three hows of study time for each credit-hour you nrc u1king. Designate a quiet. unclu11ered niche to study in . Some hD11e found o closet useful, especially donn dogs. Get your sleep, eru righ1 just like mum told you. because there is no one to check up on you. lfyoudon·1 unllcrstond.ASK! II isbe11ertorisk feeling like a fool than risk being a failure.

Take lune to have fun. There are many activities und clubs on campus w11h enough variety 10 plense everyone. so don· 1 be o Lonely l..nb or o Study Snake. Social Schnouu:rs ore heller survivo~ if they moinwin balance in their hubus.

Be of good courage. FFs. Hong in there, and some day you may grow up to be a skunk.

Overcrowding problems insignificant when students', employees' health at risk Problems.

NIC's administration and board of trustees have got some big ones on their hands.

The staff and students who have occupied the second noor of the Hedlund Vocational Building also have problems on their hands. . . and in their arms and legs. in their chests. in their noses. on their brains. and only doctors will be able to tell where else.

After years of continuing health complaints and failed attempts to solve the problems. tbe Hedlund Building's second noor was finally closed on May 17.

More problems.

With enrollment at an all-time high. the closure of those classrooms has added to an already serious space-availability problem. Compounding the overcrowding problem, there is a push by governmentfunded programs. such as JOBS. to return displaced students to stable classrooms.

How these problems are dealt with, and in what order, is of the utmost importance 10 all of the factions involved.

The college risks hcuvy financial expenditures by solving the health problem first. lf the space availability problem takes priority. the student~ and employees who must face returning 10 the building risk something much more imponant-<heir health.

The administration and the board of truslccs have already displayed their propensity for taking the path of least resistance. A March 29. 1990. Sentinel article reponed that an air quality 1esring firm provided the

college with two options One was 10 spend SIS20,000 on a comprehensive air sampling; the adm inistration opted for the ahernauve "common sense approach," checking the building for air-now problems.

These ··common sense approaches" have not proven successful. Jt is time 10 look for sound. scientific explanations and solutions. An expen at curing sick-building syndrome and a top-notch toxicologist need to be brought in. a1 any cost. to ensure the safecy of the men and women who spend extended periods of time in the Hedlund Building. lf these tests conclude that the building is safe.

I.hen. and only then, should it be reopened.

If the experts find the building unsafe or if this testing does not take place. then space for the classes should be rented off campus. the vocational programs should be moved or the second noor should be used as a storage area.

Another option would be 10 move the offices of the administration to the area that they alone seem 10 be so sure is completely snfe. .

At any rate. taking the path of least resiSWICC this time could nol only prove dangerous from a health standpoint. but from a liability standpoint as well.

Students who have concerns about health risks associated with the Hedlund Building should contad ASNIC for representation . For questions regarding legal rights. ASNJC also has an anomey on retainer for that purpose. at no cost lo the student

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Media affects views of Amtrak route through homosexual lifestyle Idaho needs support This /ttter was 11•riitten to Bobby Hammond, News editor of rhc /99().91 Sentinel.

Dear Bobby: f didn·t realize 1ha1 ii was the last issue of lhe year when I wrote you reganling your article of April 25 (The last type of acctptable discrimination). The arc1icle I sent to you was first printed in New~week. April I, I991. I noticed 1hat it wns reprinted in Reader's Djges1. AugusL 1991 issue.

J recall a proverb on the front of a small 1own newspaper which said. in effec1. "Give the people light and they will find 1hcir own way" (I cnn't remember the exact wording).

Is thal not whal journalism is supposed 10 do?

Again, I ask you 10 reprin1 the anicle by Dr. Noble. in the Sentinel. Even the name of your publication should indicate that you would do everything possible to let your readers know of the dangers facing them.

In regard 10 lhc content of your article, I read a statistic the other day tha1 was very in1eres1ing to me. In 1960. 68% of Americans disapproved of homosexual ac1ivity; 75% do today.

That says something to me about all of the exposure in the media.

People are more aware of the homoseitual lifestyle and with all of the filth asssociated with ii. Also, homosexual's associa1ion with the AIDS epidemic is treated differently 1han other group's association with infec1ious diseases.

People are understanding it bener and approving it less!

Sincerely, H.S. Woffenden The followi11g is an excerpt from the Reader's Digest anicle.

'The Myth ofSafe Sex. "

One Night last winter, the evening news !Old of students who wan1ed their high school to give out free condoms. A fresh.faced teen-age girl said people her age were having sex, so what was the big deal aboul condoms?

Two eitpens commented. One was a lady who sat very straight, her while hair in a tight perm. The representative of an organization that promotes sexual abstinence for teens. she declared in a prudish voice that condoms don't work very well. The other expen--a young. attractive w(lmansaid that teen-agers who arc scitually active shouldn't be denied the protection of condoms. I found myself agreeing with the prude.

What do I know about all this? I'm an infectious-diseases physician. I'm taking care of a 21-year-old who has AIDS. With his looks. he could have been a model

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Dear Editor.

We ask your help in the establishment of transcontinental AMTRAK ser"ice between Florida and Sea11le via Idaho.

Oen\'er, Amarillo. Oklahoma City, Arkansas and Birmingham. The route would enter Idaho from Spokane going 10 Priest River, Sandpoint, Kootenai and Clark Fork before going into Montana and Wyoming. This route would be of benefil to Idahoans in a number of ways: ( I) ii would add an east-west rou1e through the state:(2) it would allow connections within the stale, so as 10 create more inLra-state service not to mention open up travel to many other poin1s in the country and (3)the ser\•ice would be very beneficial to residents. tourists and businesses alike.

AMTRAK has not set a specific priorities lis1, so it seems those who push the most will gel 1he service. AMTRAK has received additional equipment monies from Congress and ordered some new equipment it cou ld better utilize.

AMTRAK therefore seems 10 put on service when ii wants, regardless of the cost involved if the service is feasible and we believe because of all the new cilies served plus the interconnections with other passenger routes thar this service will be feasible. Nevenheless, out of an abundance of caution, we had cennin congressmen ask AMTRAK to do a study of the route. Would you believe they refused! It looks like we will have to ask Congress to order an independent study of this route.

You can help in two ways: First, contact President Bush and your U.S. Senators and Congressman. Tell them you suppon the establishment of Sea11le-Florida service as well as service from Salt Lake City through Idaho 10 Yellowstone National Park. and to eitpand capital and operating funds for AMTRAK. Ask your legislators 10 insist that AMTRAK es1ablish these services; Second. contact your Jdaho state legislators and your Governor.

Ask them to do wha1ever they can to make sure they help establish these services.

Thanks in advance for your help in making eitpanded rail passenger service to Idaho and the nation a reality.

Sincerely.

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College campus' changes spark columnist to write 'em down Rus.~ia, the Berlin wall. Coca Cola and now NIC have all experienced change.

NIC has changed, you ask? Sure.just look around.

All the new faces alone should be enough of a change for the average NIC veteran. Look :iround and see what's new.

First. there are many more students flocking around campus. An estimated 2,950 s1udcnts are no11,1 attending the "~ollege Johnny Hunt by the lake." That's a 5 perStaff Writer cent hike in attendance. Or if you want 10 talk about change. we could talk about tuition. Last year 1ui1ion was$4 IO; 1his year it'sS430. That'sadifference of$20.

Nex1 year there will be another cosl increase, and the year after that, and the year after that until 1ui1ion reaches S 1.720. Then they are going 1oadd Judocla!,<;es and buy a new riding lawn mower for the grounds keepers.

01her changes around 1he school include the paving of the parking lot behind right field of the ba~eball diamond. (The baseball team is also pulling more emphasis on left field power hitters this year.)

Also. parking fees are going up. Last year 1he fees were $3 for illegally parking. This year a simple misdemeanor costs$ IO and a major violation (handicap or fire hydrant) costs $15. Those driving a Gremlin to school will be charged a S20 fine.

Ano1her new change around NlC is every urinal is working. so you can nushagain without having a guilty conscience.

Also, in a semester the new and improved NIC library will be opened with an expanded Dewey Decimal System that will include the whole Or. Suess collection.

This year the always energetic NJC cheerleading team will have a new advisor. After a long and beneficial stay at NIC. former advisor Linda Bennett ha.~ decided to take up schooltenching.

Even though there seem to be a great deal ofchanges at NIC, there are some 1hings that remain the same: There remains no soccer team at NIC, and you can miss nine days of speed walking and still pass as long as the walking is made up on the student ·sown time. There are still the same number of students named Norman enrolled in school (one). Also. the library turned down a chance to subscribe to Playboy bur did pick up a year's subscription to Nintendo Power.

Look around you forthese new changes here at NIC, the college by the lake, as we strive to make this school a more enjoyable place for all.

The NlC Sentinel

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T hey said it: At a board of truStce meeting, Trustee Beny McLain heard. "Aren't you glad you don't get a salary so you don't have to buy a (parking) pennit'!' This is the first year students and paid NIC staff members must purchase parking permits.

Preparing to leave for a field trip 10 the Coeur d'Alene Press building, one S1udent directed another, "Oh. it's right up the street from the mayor's rcson."

T hey didn ·1say it.

A reponer was seeking information for the Hedlund Building fume story and made appointments with Kathy Baird. interim dean of academic affairs. and Dr. Roben Bennen. NlC president. Before the reponer could keep her appointments.

Baird's secretary called, saying 1ha1 Baird said she didn't have an}'lhing to say regarding Hedlund that other deans haven't. And Bennett had "left early," leaving instructions for the reponcr 10 t:tlk 10 Steve Schenk. dean of college relations. but Schenk didn't know the answers to mo,t of the questions. What's a reponer 10 do?

Sniff out her own infonnation!

The last red lights in Wall:ice haven't really received the publicity they deserve. Everyone knows that when the new freeway stretch opened la.~l "eek. the highway no longer had any lt:lffic lights all the way from Seanle to Boston. Maybe everyone :ilso doesn't know that Wallace no longer has its "fonnal" red light district.

The ladies are out of work because of AIDS. FBI raids and miners not paid. Another appropriately rhyming word would be"laid,' but this is a good·Ulste newspaper.

for Donatello's "David" His lover, who works in a bank, looks like II fellow you'd see m Sunday school. He's had seit with only one person. my patient (/us second partner).

These guys aren't dummies. They read newspapers. You think condoms would have saved them?

Smart people. I've learned. don't necessarily wear condoms. They know about herpes. genitnl wans and the link between s~ually transmiued disease and increased risk of cervical cancer. Ycl in the heal of passion. the brain shuLS down.

I can't say I was comfoned. either. when I read a governmen t pamphlet on condoms.

"Condoms arc not 100-percent safe," ii said, "but if used properly will reduce the risk of se,cually transmitted diseases. including AlDS." Reduce the risk of a disease that's IOO-percenl fatal! That's all that's available between us and death? So much for "sare sex." I've noticed that the ca1chworf now is "safer scit."

Most folks don't know whether a panner is infected. h's not !IS if his or her nose turns purple. Right now. lots of people with herpes and wan,,•irus infections are lying their heads off to their seitual panners-lhot is, 10 those who ask. What's more, condoms can brenk.

One study shows they do four percent of the lime.

Nobody lobbies for virginity. abstinence or a lifetime of sex with one mutually faithful. uninfected panner. Thal would be boring. But th~c arc effective prevention strategies--the only totally effective ones. I read that in

another government report.

So I'm going 10 tell my daughters that having sex is dangerous and that condoms give false sense of security. Reducing the risk is not the same as eliminating the risk. My message will fly in the face of o.11 other media messages they receive. In the movie The Tall Guy, a nurse goes 10 bed with the "Guy" character on their first date, boasting th11t she likes 10 get I.he sex thing out of the w11y 01 the beginning of the rel11tionship. His roommate is tl nymphomanio.c who is always in bed with 11 mnn or 1wo. This was supposed 10 be cute.

Pretry Woman s11ys you c11n find happiness with a prostitute. Who arc the people who write this stuff?

Thal prim lady on TV h11d it right.

Unmarried people shouldn't be having sex.

Few people arc courageous enough to say this publicly. In today's culture. they sound like cranks.

But the truth is that doctors can't fix most of the things you can catch 001 there. There's no cure for the viruses that cause AIDS or he rpes or genital warts. tr untreated. gonorrhea nnd chlamydia! infection can ruin your chances of geuing pregnant and can harm your baby if you do. Syphilis is skyrocketing. Ectopic pregnancies and infenility from sexually trnnsmiued diseases continue to be a problem.

There is 110 "safe" sex. Passing out condoms 10 teen-agers is like issuing them squin guns for a four-alarm blaze. Condoms just don't hack it. We should stop kidding ourselves.

Our cops have couth.

Last week was the Human Race-Run for Human Rights. sponsored by the Kooten:ii County T:isk Force on Human Relations. The race smned and ended at NIC. with the rest east of the college. A police officer saw a young man pulling up a barrier near the Coeur d'Alene Reson. Upon checking. the officer discovered no permit had been obtained for the race and its potemiol traflic problems.

The officer dro,e 10 the college and could not find a race official. So with a large herd of humans at the stnnmg line. the discerning officer allowed the race 10 ~,an. Although a purpose of the sponsor is 10 ignore human color. many face.-, "ould lmve been red if the race had been stopped.

NIC graduates have fan.-d well in their transfer work nt the University of Montann. Hu,bnnd and wife Randall and Teresa Green were the top graduates of thc,r major schools this spring. Randall leading the journalism graduates and Teresa the phy~ical therapists. E, idently they will be in graduate school this full al UM, where Randall was layout editor of The Kai min. the school's daily newspaper.

NIC journalism grads Da"id Carkhuff and Brian Waller nlso are nt UM this foll Carkhuff will be layout editor of The Kai min. and Walker left employment as a ~ponswriter for The Spokc~mnn,Review Thursday night 10 drive to Missoula for a similar Job wuh The Missoulian tonight.

T he good ne"s 1s that the tree in the Shcrm:in School parking lot wns spared when tile lot was lnid out and paved this past summer.

The bad news is that several trees became twigs this weel ns the new lot nonh of the new library was leveled for paving ioto budly needed ~paces.

The good news is that cheeseburgers in the Student Union Building are now only 20 cents more thnn hamburgers. Previously that piece of cheese was 25 cents. more than any other burger place in town. And the SUB prit'es have remained the some.

Hey! There's twice as much good news as bad news!

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Friday, Sep1embcr 13. 199 1

LIFESTYLES

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NIC students face Cd'A housing crunch t,y Monica cooper Senbnel Ref?Otler

Is the number of homeless Nonh Idaho College s1uden1s increasing~ The answer is both yes and no. NlC's dorm wns completely full for !he 1991-92 school year as of la$! May. When hordes of students sho"ed up at regist.rnrion in search of housing. NJC advisers didn't know wha1 10 tell them. All the advisers could offer was a shon list of av:iilable housing that consisted of vel') fc,... opponunities. As a result. many of ihese homeless students were forced to seek 01her a.l1ematives. Meanwhile. locnl newspapers began printing aniclcs abou1 i'flC s1udents ..,Hestling for space" in the g)mnasium M:iny students proceeded 10 con1:ic1 ~nlty offic~ in the Coeur d'Alene area. but had troubles finding something dcsir:ible in their price range. Some students just gave up and "ent back 10 wherever they came from. "hile others chose 10 sleep in their cars or friends' closets. rent a motel room. or camp out at the Robin Hood campground.

One homeless NlC student. Roger Smith. said that he's now looking into buying a house. Smith claims...It would actually cost les-~ for me 10 bu} a house than it would 10 rent an apanment .. Smith started looking for housmg during the lirst week of August. He called local realtor~ and checked out NIC's off-campus housing list. but couldn't find what he

NIC administration searching for solution to housing problem wanted. On Sept. 6, Smith was approved for a S45.000.00 loan through First Interstate Bani.. Uniil he finds a place 10 bu), Smith will be residing in a camper-trailer located on some Coeur d'Alene prop.:n) owned by his relatives.

How does the college's adminis1rn1lon solve the housing problem'? According 10 Dean of Students David Lindsay. there are both long-term and shon-1erm solutions being considered. "We were really nervous a1 first (d uring registration). Then anicles came out in the Coeur d'Alene :ind Spoknne newspapers and the commcni1y responded really well." Numerous people in the community called NlC and offered rooms for homeless students 10 rent. Since foll registration, NlC's off-campus housing list increased in size from 1/2 page 10 two pages, and is being updated weekly.

Linds:ly also added 1ho1 "it's not uncommon for NJC students 10 stay at Robin Hood Campground, because it's convenient for them."

As far as long-term solutions are concerned. it's quite possible that a ne" dorm will be built. Lanny Stein. director

of Auxiliary Services. said...Right now we're trying to get bonding for n new housing project. We arc also trying to lind out what students are looking for as far as housing is concerned." Stein also emphasized 1h01 "NIC ofiic1als have 10 decide if they want 10 be in the hou)mg business or the educating business.''

John Jensen, the new director of housing al NlC. fell the impact of the need for more housing opponunities. "We had probably twenty-plus names on the housing waiting lists for both males and females." He also gave o hrid de,;cnp11on of the 1entn1ive plans for the new dorm. He said that the current dorm would be gulled out and remodeled into single units instead of the current double units. and n new building would be constructed 10 the north of the present dorm with a commons area linking the dorms. which would house the auxiliary services.

Since registration week the number of homeless NIC students has decreased. thanks 10 the community's re~ponse 10 a few newspaper articles and local fnmilie< willing 10 share their homes. Until a new dorm is built. NlC officials encourage people in the communi1y 10 keep informing them of any housing opportunities 1hcy can provide for NIC students. Anyone wishing to advenise housing opportunities or obtain a current list of off-campus housing can call the Auxiliary Services office a1 769-3261.

A kind of learning more powerful than a classroom

by Amanda Cowley

Senttnet Reporter

For a while this summer. Judith Syhe. Humnniues direc1or and history in.<truc1or. forgot about North Idaho College. She was many miles and untold centuries away.

For a while, she traveled 1hrough time down dusty trnils m Greece and Turkey, immc~d in the study of the 3ncien1 culture.< which shuped so indelibly the course of wcstt'm civilization.

Findmg obscure maps and following them down ru11cd roads 10 find rui~ nol l>CCO by a c:1.5ual passerby ha.~ given Syltc more than juII a scholarly understanding of our hcntage from Greece ond Asia Minor. She says, "It appeah enormously to my imagination. and it makes me feel in touch with a much larger sen.se of reality than my rather limited hfc here in Coeur d'Alene in the 1wentieth century.~

The ..limi1ed·' life of which she speaks enl:lil~ a strong commitment to NlC. She came 10 the college 16 years ngo as an English teacher and then switched to the Histoi; of Civilization class which she still teaches. Currenll)', she chairs the Humanities Program which she and :i team of NlC fncult) began 10 develop 3 years :igo. The program has received national recognition and ~ants from several sources. most recently S96.373 from the Nruiolllll Endowment for Ille Humanities.

Another of Sylte's interests is Scottish bis1ory and cul1ure. n study she shares with her husband Jim McLeod. also an NIC instructor. They hove jointly led severnl study tours 10 Scotland as part of NlC's Scottish Studies Program.

Study tours. Syhe says. are a really e;{citiog area for growtl! for NIC. Last summer she. McLeod. and Lloyd Marsh took a .. miscellaneous group of adventurers" which included faculty, students and community members, 10

Judith Sy:te (center) and friends in Crete.

photo by Lee Ray

Greece. They hope to lead another tour 10 Greece and Turkey next summer. "'This kind of learning is more powerful than anything that can happen in a classroom...

Sylte says.

Faculty and student interest has been expressed in trips 10 many different parts of the world. ''I'm a total gypsy:· she says, ..give me a ticket. and I'll go anywhere happily.

If I can take friends along. so much the be11er."

People and their personal histories are another of Sylte's interests. Personal/Family His1ory and Oral History. which teach how to research and record the lives of ..everyday'" men and women. are two courses Sylte teaches when she has ti me. She also manages the Nonh Idaho Oral History Project :ind the Idaho Cent¢nnial Living History Project. both of which record, on audio mpe, the remembrances or Nonh Idahoans from all walks of lire. Some of these tapes recall regional history of a century or more ago.

When asked why she stays al NIC. S) he ~ays she discovered immediately when she came here that she rl!ally loved iL She likes the mixture of 18-yeM-olds with older studerus; the old,.;st she's 1augh1 was 88. Also a plus. she says. is the ability to interact with the faculty and the student\. She is .iwurc that everyone on campu.~ has 10 be a juggh:r wh1c:h forces ~rudcrus and instructors to make the c~innection with wha1·s happening in real life. She says. "You can't be off in an ivory tower."

For Syhe the study ~nd 1enching of ht\lOry doesn't hove anything 10 do with ivory towers. "We all have a need 10 get outside ou~lves and look at things in a larger perspecth·e; I can·11hink of JJ\ything that doe, 1ha1 bc11er than the srudy of history - the more ancient 1he bc1tcr."

She .idds a fa\ orite qume."'The self is 100 small an object tor perpetual enthu:.iasm."'

The NIC Sentinel

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Women's financial workshop offered

Exchange students face culture shock in world's potato capital

by Monlca Cooper Senbnel Repor18f

"Take Charge of Your Life by Taking Charge of Your Money" is the name of a workshop series coming soon to Coeur d'Alene aimed Lo help smgle women become more knowledgeable about all of the linnncial aspects of their lives.

The workshops will be held from Sept. 18 through Nov. 6 on Wednesdays Crom 7-9 p.m. at Christ the King Lutheran Church. They will cover topics including invesunents. wills. bank accounts, t:IXe:. and es1ate planniog. While the series is intended for women age 25 and older who are forced to make lin311Cial decisions. males and females of all ages arc welcome.

Preregislralion fees arc SI O for one person and S15 for a couple. A limited number of scholarships arc available. The deadline for preregistration is SepL 5.

An additional $5 fee will be Chtlfged for late regist.r:uion. For iofonnation, call Kally Walenhaupt at 667-6426.

PARKING rromp2--

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by Johnny Hunt

Sentinel Reponer

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people park where they're suppose to," Jurgens said.

The money from fees and fines will go toward a new parking anendant. who will patrol daily. and toward parking renovations. Jurgens said.

Construction began on the lot beside the tennis courts Sept.

9. Jurgens said it should be completed by Oct. 21. Until then. the lot will be closed.

"Bear with us for n linle while." he said. "It's very similar to remodeling the bathroom of your house. You have to put up with a linle inconvenience."

The new lot designs have provided 255 spots for staff.

One employee has repeatedly parked illegally. he said.

According to Jurgens. NIC will tnke n stronger approach toward staff using their designated spots. ··we· ve tried to prO\'ide staff parking very close to the building where they ha\'e offices. I don't happen to think one-half a block away is that bad," he said

status. or a title; while those of us in the U.S. must Life in Coeur d'Alene, to some. is 11 simple study hard in college to get a good job. routine. But what if you've only been in Coeur Watanabe also had a summer job in Japan. She d'Alene for two weeks. or the worked at a bank from 7:30 United States for that mauer? a.m.- 8 p.m.

Chika Watanabe is a 21Her family was split on year-old foreign exchange lelling her come lO Coeu r student from Japan who is d'Alene. Four years ago anending NIC this ye:i.r.

Watanabe came to America Watanabe is staying with and decided she wanted to her host family. Connie and come back. When she James Aker. ls she different graduated from high school, than other Coeur d'Alene her mom said she could go to students? No, she wakes up at school in America. bu t her 10 a.m., cats a good breakfast. JAPAN, AS SUPERIMPOSED OVER A PILE father did not want her to. He then journeys off 10 class. She Of POTATOES gave in bu t her grandmother stans school at 12 p.m. and goes to 4:15 p.m. She's was afraid because she thought all Americans carried taking writing. rending, conversation. listing and guns. Watanabe has not yet been shot in America. grammar. Then she comes home and practices her flute Watanabe likes Coeur d'Alene and NlC very and relaxes. Her daily routine in Japan was n little much. she says. She thinks lhe city is beautiful and she different. though. When she was anending Kajike High hopes to join some clubs at school and meet lots or School in Kagoshima in southern Japan. She woke up new friends. W:nanabe wants to be an interpreter and early and went to school for long hours. The Japanese get married at around 30. She plans 10 stay in the teachers just talked and never had any interaction with United States for three years. the class. She studied hard for her entrance eitam 10 Her favorite foods are hot dogs and baked get into college. She passed and now the road is potatoes. When one of her Japan masters asked her. smoother for her. In Japan, once you pass the entrance "Why are _you going to Idaho?" she replied. "I love exams and enter college you do not study the same as potatoes," and what beuer place than the pomto cnpital in an American college. Tl'l the Japanese. college is a of the world.

TRUTH tromp.2 - - - - - - - - - -Netson. a physics. engineering and ast.ronomy instructor. "I liked it bec.iuse you could share ideas with some of the other teache_rs on campus; I don't lock horns with them too often during the year."

Denise Clark. an NIC librarian. appreciated the foct that "it allowed us time to explore connections between disciplines.

These connections will be translated to students in the cl:issroom.

"Math classes," said Stowe "are usually cut-and-dried.

This colloquium showed that there can be m.iny w.iys of approaching a problem; there isn't just one ·right' way of arriving at .in answer."

Chad Klinger, an English instructor. said, "It increased my ~ense that education is more spiritual· in nature than we've formerly been willing to ockno~ledge:· Summing up the precepts or the month long study. Nelson stated. "The seeking of the truth was what the whole colloquium was all about. What is the truth? Is the truth in n writing? ls II a poem? Is it :i philosophical idea? We nil left knowing that we "ere seekers of the truth."

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Friday. September 13. 1991

Students, teacher participate in exchange

by Roger Branscome Senltllel Reporter

Culrurnl "chnnge! 11 was the main focus 1his summer a,; 16 female Jopanese studen1s from an NIC sister schoel in Jap.in spenr close 10 n monrh in Coeur d' Alene. according to Jim Minkler. e.,change program board leader.

Dunng their sta) ar NIC. rhe visiting studenrs from Nagasaki Junior College were kepi busy "ilh n wide ,â&#x20AC;˘nriery of ac1ivi1ics.

From June 3-28. Minkler said. they enjoyed horseback riding. roller skatin g, golf. n softball game nnd a trip 10 Cnnada. They :ilso spent one day a, a local mall showing children how 10 write rheir names in Jap:lllcse.

The organizer~ of 1he program. unril recently. have only hosted guests from Japan.

They now plan 10 send 20 NlC students to Japan this spring semester.

"This is the first program where NTC 5tudents have had a chance to go there,"

Minkler said. The e:\change is open to an) studenr.

NIC ha., 1--.0 <iMer college, in Japan. and both nre :ill-girl schools. In June 1990. lkuei Jun ior College became rhc first. The following March. 1991, Nagn.w.i wns added. t.llnk ler said. c,en though no stud ents this semesrer w1 II be .mending NIC from sister schools in Japan. borh schools will most likely be sending <tudent!> here in the spring. Nagasaki "ill probably send 20 girls along with another 20 from lkuei.

Anyone interested in going 10 Japan during the week of spring brenk next semester is encouraged to conrnct Minkler.

His office is located in the Fon Sherman Officers Quarters. Office hours are 1-3 p.m.

Mondays. Wednesd:iys and Fridays and 10 a.m. 10 noon and 1-2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursd:iys. If he is not in. he said, those inrerested should leave their name and number. Deadline 10 register is October. He

IF YOU SOLD BOOKS AT THE BOOK-SWAP YOU CAN PICK UP YOUR In The Sentinel Office Of The Sherman Building

~aid 1hc e1oc1 cm,1 of going to Japan is not yel I.no" n. however. an ~duc:ued gu~ss 1s

around SI ,200, give or toke a few hundred. hundrcdaid.

Physics teacher selected for China trip NIC physics and engineering instrucror, Cun Nelson. w:is selected 10 panieipnte in the International Physics Educa1ion Delegation in China as pan of the People 10 People Eisenhower program.

The People to People progr:im was founded by former President Dwight Eisenhower to promo te international peace nnd goodwill.

Nelson doesn't know how he was chosen to go. He said he received a leuer one day inviting him 10 the delegation in China. He said the trip was the "chance of :i lifetime."

Seven other physics instructors will accompany Nelson to Chinn on Sept. 12.

They will be introduced 10 two Germans.

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two llalions nnd lwo Aust ralians. The group will be in China for approxim:uely three weeks.

While in China, rhey will be visiting n number of colleges. Nelson snid he will be giving a speech abour what exactly he docs during an average day as an American physics tea cher. The International Physics Education Delegation in China will highlight subjects such as physics curriculum and how 10 train te:ichers, he said.

Nelson said he is visiting China as an ambassador and expects to come back with good ideas and a belier understanding of China.

The NIC Sentinel

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Union Gallery celebrates century of Idaho art Traveling exhibit displays art by past area artists ld.3ho art over the ~ cenrury wns recently celebrated at !be Nonh Idaho College Union Gallery with a Boise Museum of An cravcling ~position called "JOO Years of Idaho Art." The e;,;position. which ended on Friday.

Sep1ember 6, featured paintings. lilhograpbs. nnd ,~ntage newspaper clippings from 1850 to 1950.

The show's focus was on works of art by fdaho artistS or ariwork wi1h an Idaho theme. While most of the pain1ings featured S0u1hern Idaho. very few featured northern Idaho. Feodar Von Luerzer's ''Cabin Point," which was done in 1910, wns one of the few 10 fealW'C the Coeur d'Alene area. The pain1ing is of o cabin which once 531 on the southern point of what is now Tubbs Hill The show fea1Urcd only one arti~t from the North Idaho :irea. Coeur d'Alene arus1, Patrick Flammia had one piece en1ered in10 1he show. Flammia's painting. •·t.ogg Jummcr:· wa< done in 1950.

M311)1 of the pieces bn,e very in1eresting siories behind lhem. xcording 10 Donna Bain. exposition c11retaker. Bnin. an NIC fine ~ studem. said lhllt one of the mosl popular pieces in the <how was II piece called "View Of Boise."

The 1949 piece. by ams1 Robert W. Addi<on. shows a ,,ew of the Boi'IC valll?} from the surrounding hill<. Bain nccn:dilcd 1he piece's popularity m the abundllncl? of color m the painting.

Along wilh "View Of Boi!lt" were many other preces, including 1he original st:nc sent of Idaho. The seal. which is an oil pamling, was lhc cenlerpiece of the show. Idaho's state seal hns the dis11nc1ion of being Lhe first state i.eal 10 C\'er be designed and painlcd by a woman. The seal was d~igncd by Emma Edwards Green in 1892.

Among lhe portraitS at the show was one of a former Idaho governor. Frank Stevenborg. The portrait was done

by Herbert A. Collins. Stcvenborg was probably best known for never wearing a 1ie the whole time he was in office. S1cveoborg was so adamant about his dislike for tics that even in his portr:iit he refused to wear one. "He felt that ties where frivolous." explained Bain.

Among the traditional pieces were also some that

weren·1 so 1rnditional. The show featured numerous alternative types of work.

The obstruct piece. ''Landscape," was one of the few abstract pieces of work in lhe show. The painting wns done

by Canon Mathews in 1948.

Probably one of the mosl interesting pieces in lhe show, accordini 10 Bain. was a piece called "Turkeys."

The piece was done by Jnmcs Castle. Casile was a denfmu1e and had a pwion for 1>3in1ing. Oft.:n he would pick up anything he could find :ind start to paint on it.

According 10 Bain, ''Twi:eys," was done by Casile: when he found a milk carton and naueoed it out and sinned 10 paint on it.

Although many of 1he paimings where done for just pure enjoyment there where some examples of the prnctical uses of art in lhe first century of Idaho's existence. Among lhesc wa( the original :irtist's conception of lhe Idaho state Copitnl building in Boise.

Many vintage newspapers from around the state where also fc,nun:d in the show. They showed how journalism bns changed over the past I00 yc:irs in ldaho.

According LO Bain. Lhe show was visiled by nbout live people a day, which was not as good as she would lulvc liked 10 hnve setn. MA lot or !he students have no ide.i we where even here," she added.

The show S13J'!ed oul as a part of Idaho's Centennial Celebraiion. The original show was twice ns big as the version a1 1he Union Gallery and also included many sculp1ures.. The version which came to the Union Gallery is a traveling show. designed to appear at galleries in twoand four-year colleges across Idaho.

With 1he end of this show comes the Start of another.

The Smilhsonian traveling exposition on arcbi1ec1urc will premiere on Seplembcr 25 in the Unron Gallery in cooperation with the Museum Of Nonh ld:lho.

I THE OLD SEAL-NIC fine arts student Donna Bain displays lhe original Idaho state seal (felt) and "View of Boise" by Robert Addison.

Jonas creates bronze sculpture for new library

by Lori Vivian Senllnel Reporter

Joe Jonas, an an instructor at Nonh Idaho College. is taking a year-long sabbatical to create a bronze sculpture for the new Library/Computer Ccnier. Jonas, who has been teaching at NIC for fifteen years. began working on the sculpture in April and ii should be compleied sometime in May. According 10 Jonas. the sculpture is "a poetic epic" of his interpretation of the surrounding area's history. The sculplure will conLain live panels approximately 4 feet 8 inches wide and 14 feet high e.ich. The first panel illustrates the bounty of animal life in the nonhwest with elk. griu.ly bears and buffalo. The second panel portrays a brief s~ey of the Coeur d'Alene Indians from past 10 present. The third panel represents the discovery of minerals in the area. The resulting advancement is ponrayed with railroads, early towns, fur traders and steam boats.

The founh panel depicts the beginning of the building era with the St. Thomas

Church, courthouse and city hnll. portraying the building of 1910-1930. The fourth panel's march through history steps up to the growing of area industry. The prominent industries represented are logging. mining.and farming.

The symbolic bronze epic ends with the firth panel revealing the present. The advancemenl of logging and mining, the recreational aspect of the area, the symbolizing of new technology, and education have a strong foothold in the present panel. The fifth panel ends with a symbolic reach toward 1omorrow.

Jonas' sculptures can be seen all over campus. The "direc1-welding" sculplure of runners upon lhe Gymnasium wall, lhe piano player in the entry of the audi1orium. and the three small bronze sculptures in the library are a few examples of Jonas' craftsmanship.

According 10 Jonas, the new sculplure is "very complex, with lots 1hings going on."

Toe bronze sculp!ll!C is done in both low and high relief and will be seen on the lobby waJI of the new library when completed.

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A cosmic joke perpetrated by a bored god J realize this topic h~ been batted around so much that almos1 anything r say will ~ cliche. This 1opic has been wrestled with &ince Darwm wenl on his hllle voyage.

E\•olution \•ersus creation. An argument epic eoougb 10 warrant inclu$ion in that <hon li~I of eternal struggles-good versus evil, light ,ersus dark. nngcl versus devil. woman versus man ...

But should it be a stru&J!le 7 Should the 1wo philosophies be locked ID combat?

Why 001 combine them and save us all some time to think abou1 more pressing issues. like money?

The Big Bang. Good theory. I can sort or understand the physic.\ and 1hcorie~ behind it, except j~1 why II happened. Did some ultra-compressed atomic singularity ju~, d,•citle 10 explode and fonn Kevin Brown a universe? Or did God (or Instant Culture Editor Allah. or Thor. or whoever-pick your deity) 1hin~ it migh1 be a good idea 10 cause the Big Bang" Consider.this-God may have 001 even 1houlJhl it wns a [!ood idea. May!>.' he cor she--bul lei's not ge1 into that now) had nothing beucr to do. Think about this 1heorv: The entire uni\·ersc is a prac1ical joke perpel;.;ited by ~me bored ~up~me ~ing looking for a laugh.

Next issue Life C\olved from little wa1cr cniatures. Huh? Even 1 don't ge1 how we ended up. cxaclly. Though ii is a fact that early in a pregnancy, babies exhibit gill-like muc1ures :ind look like tadpoles. or something like them.

Evolution \ounds preuy wacko. huh? Thnt"s because i1"s explained improperly, in most cases. Thus, here's the bes1 e~plan:mon of how e\'olullon works 1ha1 I've C\'er come acros.s.

Giraffe~. How did they gel tho~e long necks?

Answer-the) have to eat leaves from 1rees, righ1'.I They grtw the long necks 10 eat the leaves from trets.

Huh? So you're 5aying lhnt they grew those necks m ulcro, like self-generated evolu11on?

No. dummy Li~ten-lhe gir:i(fes evemunlly ate all the leave~ 1hn1 were low on the branches. Those with naturally longer necks-1herc h d1ffcrcotia11on in heij!ht, l'\'Cn m the animnl kingdom-were able to reach the lca,c~ that were ,lightly hij!hcr. 1110-e 1h111 cuulJn't \t:II\etl to dcalh Su 1he nnl) l•ne, left were tho<e w11h somcwhJI longer necks. and 1hcy brtd with ca(h other The oll,pring inherit the characll"riMic~ of the parcnt\-1 c , longer necl. ,puns. The ,honer incl1\'itlu.ih were weeded out 11f 1he gcnl.' pool {lhi, 1, known a, nJlurnl ,c:lcc11onl. and the evolving cun1inuc:d. Jnd )1111 probJbl) cominut',, in order 10

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Though losing their religion. 111.: Athens, Gcorgiablsed fourwme R.E.M. are losing li1tle airplay. With

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the relea.-e of their lat~l. •·ou1 of Time'' the band ha., us first number one Jlbum after nearly 15 years in till" alternative ~haduw.

Sp3Wnini; such h1L, a.~ "Losing m; Religion " and "Shiny, Happy People··. "Out of Time.. i~ propelling lhc b.md 10 a new level o( pop ~tardom while lhrustiog lheir leftist. political lyncs into the hean, and homes o( top-lO-ht>ad~ e1·erywhcre.

Though. for nil of the succes< of the album. th.: content< oi "Ou1 of Time·· emerge remarkably uncommerciali.ttd, 11ml mo~t 1mportJJ11ly, c,m~i~l~ntl) R.£M And 1bougb I mu~t .idmi1 it lack~ u lot of the ra\1 energy ot pre\'iou, rele.:is<!.,. "Out ot Time" ,~ a thoughtful Jnd stirring ~ollection or lr.ld., not 10 t,e m1,~cd. 1ncluclmg '"l\,k ID Honey," a duel ieuluring 11!:id ,anger Mich.r..:I Sti~ and the ,oaring ~e>c:nl~ of K,11e Pierson of 1he 852',. and a roignan1 b.il!JJ dubl>ro ''Count!) f-«dl>:u;J;· n·1eJhng II I) ticul dcp1h Ihm die· harJ funs hJ\'C com,· to C~pl"CI from th,• bJncl.

"Ou1 of T1mc:" " w11huu1 a Jnub1 one ot their mo,1 toi:eth.:r ulhum< 1c, d,ue. u1eorp11rJ1tnp :i f'•r-scn~ibilil} lhJI ,huuld \l'f\'C 10 L"l1nvinc.: cv,:n lhe mo<t discerning listener

Home Volleyball match NIC , .. Ricks College Spokane S)mphony, 8 p.m. Panayis Lyros, piano; Vakhtang Jordania, conductor.

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Pingpon[! tournament. 4 p.m. in S1uden1 Union Building game room (Register 31 3:-15 p.m.

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Friday, September 13, 199 1

'Handmaid' rivals Orwell's '1984'

More marital difficulties for Julia Roberts

by Mabel Kosanke Senttnel Reporter

Quick rundown of summer movies

by Kevin Brown U1estytesllr!S1ant Culture Ed110t

n case you're one of !hose people who've been in a coma all summer and haven't seen lhese movies. or if you need someone else':. opinion in order 10 fonnulate your own, or if you're bored and want 10 read yet another review aniclc. here's a quick rundown of the summer's least vomitous movies (Note: I do not seek out movies lhat arc notoriously wretched. such as Point Break or Hudson Hawk or Dying Young. Therefore. r m not going to even mention them funhcr.)

Backdrall- This is a movie in search of a plot. Firefighter brothers-a passable plot. A murderer who kills with calculated Cltplosions-another pnssnblc try. But the combination doesn't worll. Fantastic action sequences, despite the dialogue, make the movie worlh the lhrce bucks to see iL The Racketeer-A thoroughly enjoyable movie. Bill Campbell projects the 90's-s1yle hero of a nice, unassuming jcrlc in a late-30's setting and somehow makes it work.

TilllOlhy Dalton makes a believable villain, though not as nasty a bad guy as the kind he usually faces off against a.s James Bond. The 1echoo-an1ique machinery designs att

exceptional. Worlh three bucks and more.

Robi.n Bood--A good mo,•ie in spite of Ke,•in Cosiner.

Yes, in spite of him. Put Timothy Dnlton in the title role and you'd have a superb movie-he could trade olT wicked oneliners with Alan Rickman. the summer's best sccne-stenler.

Costner. meanwhile. looks as ifhe forgot where he put his surfboard. An ensemble supponing cast and a sturdy script keep this one tlfloat.

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey-Sometimes I laughed my head off: sometimes I stared at my watch. Their absurd ignorance transcends mere boncheadedness. The most memorable part is wben Bill and Ted play board games with Dcalh to win their lives back. Equnl good parts and bad.

Double lmpact- Jcan-Claude Van Damme plays identicnl twins. Two Damme much, if you ask me.

Terminator 2--The best movie ['ve seen this summer.

Mind-bending special effects. a good, light script, even n non-violence message amidst the carnage. Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is lhe best aspect of lhe film-she has 1urned from a useless waitress to a rulhless tigress. with a fine sprinkling of insanity. Still not as good as lhe first one~ a relentless liule thriller--but beuer lhan all the rest.

All in all, this summer was no different from the last four or five. A few blockbusters. more than a few Oops. a fair scattering of drama, a great dcnl of splattered blood, maybe a linle something for the kid in all of us. a few lhings absolutely not for kids (but !hose miserable excuses for parents take their kids 10 see lhem nnyway), and. once in 11 while, something to make you think.

"Sleeping With The Enemy" has it all: a luxurious beach home equipped with a handsome. successful husband. Manin Burney. played by Pnlrick Bergin and his benutiful. sexy wife Laura, played by Julia Robens.

Sound great?-recheck that title. It doesn't take long 10 come to the conclusion that something is not right in paradise. thanks to the very convincing acting of Robens in displaying the timid. self-depreciating wife.

Bergin plays his part equally well as the cruel, abusive husband who keeps her very nearly a prisoner in lhe home.

The feeling that something is going on behind those beau1iful brown eyes is confinned when she sets her plan in action to csc:ipe from her sadisiic husband.

Al the loss of his wife his torment is so grea1 ii becomes apparent 1h01 in his own sick, demented way he really did love her. Bergin plays this part so well !hat i1 is hard not to feel some kind of pity for his charac1er Martin, however minimal.

After making one very srupid mislllke Laura secs ou1 trying to make a life for herself in a new town where she meets a drn.ma coach. played by Kevin A~dcrson. whose ac1ing may not be on par with Roberts and Bergin, but isn't all bad.

Somehow though. I kept getting the feeling lhat he was a psycho too.

The suspense grows when Laura's obsessed husband, who will s1op at nothing. catches up with her for a smash ending you'll have to spring for the video 10 see.

"Sleeping With The Enemy," a Leonard Goldberg production, based on the novel "Nancy Price;· has a good script and good acting. I give it five scars.

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The law of 1hejungle. you might say.

And lhc crea1ed-evolution thing does not only apply to people and animals. The prevailing sentiments behind the "opposite·· theories go back in10 1he origins of the universe. which is really the origin of life.

Pay attention here.

Failh says life is pan of II plan. Science ~nys that life 1us1 happened. Where faith has. by its very definiuon. been unswerving. science has altered itself--or, at least. its 1ene1s--10 keep up with the no" of information. Going from Aristotle's Principle of Continuity--in which nature passes from lhe lc:i.st perfect to the most perfect. with hell at 1he center. heaven at the outermost reaches--to the Copernican Principle, which holds that ''no pm of the universe is any more privileged than any other." the evolution of 1he evolution theory has gone hand in hand with the latest developments in modern thought. The simplest of physics points out that life had to form a~ it hai> on Earth, or it wouldn't have formed at all. Factors such as the rate of radioactive decay. New1on's gravitational cons1.1n1, and Planck's constanL. aside from being basic physical la,v~ with which 10 measure and understand our universe. are factor~ which can not be altered without screwing up something down 1he line. Put more simpl). life had 10 exist much as we l..now i1. or it wouldn't have existed al all. (This is al~o a convincing argument both for and again~! ex1r.11errestrial life--life will cx1s1. surel y. but it won't be methane-breathing creatures or beings made of pure energ). You lose. Star Trel...)

Now, wha1 broughl 1hese physical la" s inlo being?

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So. Who·s responsible'? God? Maybe. II could. possibly, all be the result of random forces. but I don't buy that. Everything is just 100 perfect and too functional.

Except for hum:ms--possibl) the exception Ihm proves the rule--who aren't content "ith just knowledge and curiosity: we need undemanding. And choosing just one theory puts a suaigh1-jacke1 on all that wonderful in\entivcness we so cherish.

And those aren't the only 1heories for 1he origins of homo sapiens. Last year, there was always somebody willing to make their O\\n narro"minded, expansive. or just plain asinine observations. always somebody willing to prove how goofy they can be. No offense 10 any of chose enlightened souls, bu1 "Godwasannlienism"? Huh? This theory-I use the term ad\'isedly-s1a1es that some advanced race of interstellar ev:mgelists decided 10 create some pee humans and watch while 1hey try to figure lhemsehes out.

Okay...

The mouse-a11d-dolphin creator 1heory. Mm-hmm.

Another viable theory. I don't know why we don't all just hop into the ocean and embrace our creators. Get rid of those mousetraps' You·re killing all-powerful being~. our benefactors! (Or perhaps they allow us to waste them with ra1 poison in order 10 be resurrected and re-infest our homes. Yea. verily. unto the gates of Rat Hea,en.)

The "'Everythingi\m'· 1heory "All suggested possibilities are true." thb theor) claim$. Its random logic. in a circui1ous way. makes itself true. Wishy-washy. No

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And there's this other 1heory. which no one has suggested ye1 in a lener.

"The universe is composed of one single subatomic parucle which l!'llvels at infinite speeds, and is time-shared by every atom in the universe. in order 10 represent every molecule. every panicle, thus creating the illusions of thought. motion, solidity, and C;\iStence: I don't know who lhought of it, but it makes just 3S much sense a.~ anything and everything else.

I think the universe was created, or somehow happened. 10 be very prccisc--and, :is it so happens, aesthetically beau11ful. (That last germinates in to the Principle of Beauty somewhere along the line. yet anoiher theory from the Wonderful World of Physics, which happened 10 win the 1979 Nobel Prize. This principle states that the most beautiful theory 1s also the correct one.)

Another aspect of this stuff long neglected is the study of eschatology. which is, as -..call know, lhc study of1he uhimate fate of the universe. Does the creation theory spawn a destruction theory? Does cvolu1ion give rise to deevolution? (An alarming lhough1 once proposed 10 me ls that we are actually re-evolving. that all the wonders of the ancients were achieved at a higher itn1e of evolution. and that we "devolved" in10 Neandenhals, and chat we're only now regaining the ground we losl.)

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Wakeboarding: Sl<URFIN' USA aterskiers. snowboarders. surfers ond snow,kiers: LISTEN UP!-there路s a brond new. bom-agoin spon in town, and ils name is wakeboardi ng.

Easy enough for n four-yCllr old to get up on, yet fast nnd light enough to jump even the biggest wakei., wakcbonrds have t.nken lhe wnter spons world by storm.

Thinner and more maneuverable than ever before, this yCllr路s innovations in the design of the wakeboard. the H.O. Hyperlite in panicular. have turned a spon that hod nearly died into the late.st rage.

NIC sophomore business major Jim Elgce can't get enough of the high-speed. high-Oying action.

"Anyone who waterskis or snowboards ha.~ got to try skurfin'," Elgec said with a pie-eating grin. "It's a completely different spon with these new boards."

De.spite lhe price tag, around S150. Tim Qualls, manager of Tri-State Outfiners in Coeur d'Alene. says the new boards have outsold every waterski in his store this summer.

"People love them becnuse of the tricks they can pull. and getting up on them is very easy:路 Qualls said.

Elgec. apparently like many others. didn't let cost get in his way. "l had to go in on it with a friend:路 he said. "but with all the fun rve had. it's definitely wonh having one."

A~ with all good things. you have to expect some bad things, too. With all of the speed and tricks it is po~siblt to get in some preny heinous wrecks.

"When you wreck. you feel like your eyes are hanging out on your checks. every skurfer will know what J mean."

Elgee grimaced. "Sometimes you hove to pat your eyes to see if they are still in the socke1s."

For anyone who would like 10 get in on the action. demons1rntion models of the new wakeboards are available for SI 5 per day al Tri-State.

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Sbredding--(At right) Elgee hits the woke in much the same way a ~urfer hits the waves.

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Spraying-(Above) Here is where skurfing most resembles water skiing.

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YMSHORT Mens' basketball team in search of league title

by Cralg Mesenbflnk

Senrinel Repo11er There is good news and bad news nbout this yenrs NTC mens¡ baske1ball 1eam, according to team members. The bad news, they said, is 1he 1op 1hrec rebounders and three of 1he top five scorers hove moved on from NIC. The good news ,s point guard Donald Perrill. guard Darrell Davis and o host of highly talen1ed freshman said 1hcy are ready to go af1er the league title.

Allhough 1he season is almost three months oway, the Cardinal men said they have been working extremely hard. Coming off a 19-12 record last year ( 12-6 inleague), both Davis and Perrin said they feel this year's 1eam will be much better. Davis even predicted a first-place finish this year.

If the Cardinals want 10 finish high with this young but talented group, head coach Rolly Williams said he is going 10 have to count on the leadership of Perrin, Davis and Fred Butler. These three will lead the team that includes three Washington All-State players: Chris Spivey, Lewis Lofton and Terrance Davis.

Although the Cardinals said they plan 10 finish high in league. they arc still going 10 have to work as a team in their highly competitive league that features one of the premier teams in the nation; the College of Soulllem Idaho.

To get the automatic bid 10 nationals, the Cardinals said they need 10 get by CSL 'Toerc is no doubt in my mind we'll get them (CSI) this year,'' bavis said.

Even though Butler is one of the key ingredients on the team, NIC will be without his service until the second half of the season, Perrin said..

NlC lost several key players off of last years 1eam, but don't figure on this hurting the Cardinals, players said. With good team work and a lot of hustle expect the NIC Cardinals 10 Oy high.

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This year's NIC Fall Golf Classic provided some laughs as well as some serious golf.

Jim Headley earned the righ1 10 wear the prestigious Green Jacket for a year with n s1rong eigh1 over par performance scoring a 35. The Green Jacket is awarded 10 the winner of 1he ovcmll title. H~ley captured the men's division along with lhe overall championship.

Beverly Young was awarded the women's division crown driving and pulling her way to a IS over par for 1he day scoring a 42.

A new award this year is the Mo~ Likely To Give Up Golf title. This award wcni 10 Dean Benncu who sliced and hooked his way 10 a score nobody's quite sure of. Benne11 also speni n good part of the day fending off harassment from n <warm of yellow jnckcts. one of which Ocw up his wife's shons slinging her for an even

Tracksters prepare for opener

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Wi1h Ille first meet for the NTC cross counlJ'y team coming up a1 the Whitman Invite in Walla Walla. Sept. 14. Coach Chris1y Davids, said his goal\ for the girls and boys cross country teams are sligh1ly different Davids said he firmly believes the girls will make their way to lhe nationals.

"No one stands out head and shoulders over the rest - they're all prcuy strong.

Thai will help in placing at nationals."

Davids said. He said fteshman Shannon Blankinship who ran 2:19 800 in high school showed promise.

His ne;,;1 priority is to find the team leaders of the in coming group, he said.

Davids said one problem is " the team is ahemntely strong and weak from year 10 year.'' He said he plans to groom them so they contribute next year.

According 10 Davids, only two sophomores are returning this year: but next year's rc1uming group be big.

He said he is looking for freshmen as well as sophomores for leadership 10 stabilize the alterna1ion of 1he strong/weak years into simply strong years.

Davids said he feel's the girls team is a linle stronger than Inst year. He said he firmly believes 1ha1 1here will be freshmen All - Americans. "l.asl year's team clicked very well," Davids said.

Davids said he feels that one must be focused, because a strong friendship will result in indecisiveness. "It will leave the runners a linle hesitanl in their race 10 drop their running mates." For instance. in basketball, players must decide if 1hey should 1ake the shot or pass iL "It's all part of the mental preparation.

Davids said his goals for the boys are the same as the girls, "excepl the boys don't have 1he s1rength that 1he girls have." His approach is 10 go righ1 to the 1op.

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photo by Randall Field Cross-Trai ning-Jose Maria Gonzalez (front) and Diego Hammett do a little power-running during cross-country training.

Davids sa[d he expects Darren Hunter and Jose Gonzalez to be the leaders of the boys. Hun1er ran the 1,500 in 3:54 and achieved a personal record in tbe mile wilh a time of 4: 16. He said he didn't run cross country due 10 a.n ankle injury.

Davids said he was impressed with Gonzalez. who is from Spain, because of his "fast limes. academical strength and big meet experience.''

Ideal qualities for a cross country a1hle1e 10 be successful are discipline

and competitiveness. Davids said.

"Consistency usually pays off." Davids said. "Where you lack in ability, that consistency can usually ge1 you 10 your competition mentally stronger as well as physically."

The ways in which NIC stacked up 10 other regional teams didn't concern Davids.

"I don't care about other people in the region," Davids said. "I'm 001 out there 10 beat any particular team; my goal is to win the nationals."

Baseball Cards to be cut in half

by Mark Jerome

Senbnel Reporter ..;;..;.--T-h""e--" N""' o-rt..;.; h_l_da_h-o- C-o-ll-eg-e- C-a-rd-i-na- 1-s-b-a-se- b-a-11- ,e-a-m- is currently engaged in fall drills. According 10 Coach jack Bloxom, the goal is 10 cut 50 players down 1o 25 ibnt will hopefully make a good run :11 the Region J 8 Tille.

A combination of injuries and a drop in balling O\'erages made for n poor 16-24 season las1 year.

Returning pitchers Derrick Conces and Allan Mocabee. both of whom underwenl elbow surgeries last season, will be coun1ed on 10 provide leadership in the pitching ranks along wi1h ano1her returner Doug Nell, Bloxom said.

Bloxom said ii is still too early 10 tell what kind of a team will dC\'elop this year. ''The nucleus we have has a tremendous amoun1 of po1entilll. but our freshmen will have to mature immediately," Bloxom said. '1t's still too early 10 tell with our freshmen but we'll need some bener hilling than last year.''

Coach Bloxom is currently running practice si;,; days a week and searching for an assistant coach, 3 posi1ion he hopes 10 fill before the season begins in March.

The 1992 Cardinals will need 10 have some consistcnl pitching as well as more ac1ivi1y from the plate in the form of hits and runs to reach 1he1r goal of a Region IS Championship, Bloxom said.

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Friday. September 13, 1991

Rhinehart appointed cheerleading coach

by Georgia Sawyer 5e0nnel Repotte1

by Johnny Hunt Sentinel Reporter

Pure energy! This phra.<;e captures the ~nee of Ema Rhinehar1.

This year Rhinehart was appointed cheerle:iding coach al NIC and said she is ,·el) pleased wi1h 1hc position ..

"I reallv enjoy con1nc1 w 11h 1he siuden1s. Afr er IO years aw.a} trom 1each1ng il's grem 10 gel back 1n10 it," Rhmehan ~aid Rhinehan grew up in Seaule "ilh a 10,e for rumbling By 1he rime she entered her senior }ear of high school Ema had qualified for man) gymnastic compewions lhrough-oul 1he Nonhwesl including nationals in New Jer,;ey.

The autumn follow.mg high school gr:iduntion Erna nnended the Universi1y of Washington and earned a bachelors degree in physical education.

This year there are se,en cheerleaders, and Rhinehan said she hopes 10 add 1wo more.

Jacquie Carrier-Allen, Bill Booth.

Kim Hensley. Heidi Johnson, Cory Young. Judi Beckendorf and Cap1a1n Chrissy Smith met 1hrough-ou1 the summer with out help of an advisor.

Rhineharr said she is very proud of the

photo by Randall Field NIC cheerleaders. front row from left: Jacquie Carrier-Allen. Heidi Johnson. Cory Young. Second row: Chrissy Smith, Judi Beckendorf, Kim Hensley and Bill Booth. said. for her.

01her than coaching Rhinehan said she "The toughest thing. is not cheering for enjoys announcing women's 1he Cardinals. I feel like I have a muzzle on." basketball grunes and outdoor activities wilh her two small children and husband.

Rhinehan would like to encourage everyone squad She said she has always been an involved 10 come 10 the games and support the 'They are so dedicated. I can· 1 use I.he players and lhc cheerleaders. word 'dedicated' enough," Rhinehart fan. and 10 announce games is very fulfilling

Wrestlers try for title

by Ryan Bronson Sentinel Reporter

Allhough North Idaho College·s wrestling team finished second in the na1ion last year after winning 1he national championship a record four yeass in a row. Coach John Owen snid he believes experience and recruiting can bring the title back 10 NlC. 1n the 22 year period that Nl C has had a wrestling team they have manufactured more national titles. more national champions and more All· Americans lhan any other junior college.

Experience exists in 1he lower weight classes led by returning national champion Frank Velazquu at 134, and with returners at I.he 118, 126, 134, ISO and 158 weights. NlC's team is loaded with depth, and perhaps the deepest wei ght division is presen1ed at 118, Owen said.

Shaun Fossen will rcdshin after finishing sixth in I.he counuy last season.

Rob Edelblute, in his third year from Lakeland High School. and Shane Light, the four time Iowa slate champion, may be competing for the swting spoL Dan Schumacher is returning after finishing second in the nation at 126.

Velazquez will stan at the 134 pound

NIC visits Ricks

class and John O"dell is back at 158 after pan time starting last year. The 1990 Washington state champ is at 150 and Coeur d' Alene's Mike Smith will compc1e for the 142 pound spot.

The hc:ivier weight divisions are a bit more difficull 10 coordina1e. Owen said.

"We recrui1cd very hca,•ily in the upper weights," Owen said. "Most of our recruiting came from the states or Washing1on and Wisconsin."

James Watkins. a heavyweight. is the only returning starter above the 158 weight class. He finished in seventh place at nationals. The rest of the upper weight classes arc up for grabs, Owen said. The wrestler.; that win lhosc spots may make the difference wi1h documeotcd power in I.he lower clnsscs. he said.

The No. I ranked wrestling 1eam in the National Junior College Athletic Association is from Garden Ci1y, Ill .. which returns two national champions from last year. NlC hasn ·1 finished any lower than third in the past 10 years.

Owen said I.he wrestlers have I.heir work cut out for them, but will have a long fall to pull together and eventually chaJ lenge for the national crown.

Breu Taylor ~,ans his ,ixlh \ca,on as 1he North ldoho College vnlkyhall coach "ith high ru;p,rnuons.

Last )Cnr NIC finhhed 20 -16 nnd mi~~ed regionals. but this ye.,r Ta) lor 1) looking for bener 1hing~ "We're shooting for the top 1hen make i1 10 regionals and pos\ibl} nationals:· Tn} lor ~:ud.

NIC lost ou!Slde h,uers Dana Doi-on and Gena Oldham and also lo,1 Edie Bnli"a over the past year but picket.I up trnnsfer.; Daisy dcPaulis from Ra1hdrum. Robi Riggin and rcdshin freshman Bc1h Raynor from Sandpoim 10 pick up the slack.

Taylor feel~ the s1reng1h of the team comes in their height. "\Ve· re going 10 be tough at the net."

Taylor said.

NIC has six players over 5" 10·· including co-captain Paula Hooper.

NlC concluded lhe College of Southern Idaho tournament on Aug. 31 where they finished 4-3. Their nex1 mmch is the Ricks tournament Sept. 12-14.

NIC has returning starters Hooper.

Hilary Dowling, Brigi11e Hammer and Michelle Klassen. NIC opens at home Sep1. 16 against Walla Walla Community College at 6 p.m.

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Gym expansion and redecoration proposed

by Darrel Beehner

SDOQs Ed,to,

With completion of the new NIC library in sight. administrators have turned their auention to another projec1-1he expansion of Christianson Gymnasium.

The proposal, which was put before the Board of Trustees during their Aug. 22 meeting. calls for 1he expansion and relocation of 1he concessions stand, expansion of 1he women's' locker room. addi1ion of a training room. addition of a fitness center and many other projects that are estimated 10 toial just over SI million.

Final approval or denial mus1 be given 31 !he September Board of Trustees meeting in order for the proposal to be put on 1he November ballot.

According 10 Rolly Jurgens. dean of administraiion. funding for the project would come from a special levy the Idaho Legisla ture passed last year that allows colleges 10 tax local propeny owners one hundredth of one percent to used specifically for the remodeling of gymnasiums and grounds. Trustees approved the levy Inst spring. giving NIC a S157.310 increase.

The administration hopes to use the gym improvemen1s as encouragement to the gcvenor to approve improvements on Lee Hall. Last year. the govenor vetoed a bill that would have allowed for improvements including handicapped access.

NIC has a choice of either making the improvements over an extended period of time as the money becomes available. or taking our a· bond and completing 1he project

at one time. Jurgens said.

Jurgens and Athletic Director Rollie Williams said they believe it would be more cost efficient to mnke !he all improvements a1 one time rather paying for it o,er a period of several years because of rising costs and because belier rates can be had from contractors for larger projects.

"It could cost half again as much 10 (make the renovations) over a period of 10 years. than 10 make them all ;11 one time.''

Williams said.

The g) mnasium. which was built in 1949, comes up shon when compared to other college gyms in ldabo and Region 18, Williams said.

"We're in the Dark Ages compared 10 Ricks (College) and (the College of Soul.hem Idaho)," Williams said. "We could easily place worst 10 the league as far as facilities go. We definitely have the oldest" Ricks' gymnasium has 4.500 theater scats and a fitness center. Williams said. CSI is comparable with a seating capacity of 4,000.

"What seems exorbitant. perhaps is not," NIC President Robert Bennen said. "I want to express thal it is not exorbitant. comparitivly speaking."

Williams said the expansion is needed because the current facility is over-used.

"The gym is used from 8 a.m. 10 I0 p.m., by 1hc physical educa1ion classes. athletic teams, intramural teams and students just looking for a place 10 get some exercise," Williams said. "We need general access rime for the students."

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Square Feet

Lobby/Concessions

2,750

$137,500

Women's Lockers

1,050

78,750

Training Room

200

10,000

Office Additions

850

-42.500

Fitness Center

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205,000

Video Control

2,600

156,000

Comfort

35,000

175,000

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variable

49.720

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variable

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Fall steam pipe replacement set

by Lori Vivian

Senbnet Reporter

For !hose students who have weathered a winter in 1he Lee Adminisu111ion Building, memories of shivering in swe:i1ers may be jus1 1ha1. .. memories. The 40-year-old, leaky steam pipe lhiu provides hea1 for the Lee Administra1ion, Gym, old library and Seiler hall buildings is being replaced this fall.

The lentative schedule for replacement is for lhe end of Sep1ember.

According 10 Roger Brockoff. physical pion! direc1or, '"Once struied, the work should talce :ibou1 30 days 10 comple1e."

Af1er three years of nego1ia1ions be1ween NlC and the Depruimen1 of Public Works in Boise. S91,000 was awarded 10 NIC for replacement of the failing s1eam pipe. According to Rolly Jurgens, de:in of adminis1ra1ion, funds had previously been denied because lhe Depanment of Public Works fell the fauhy steam pipe had no1 reached emergency sl.ltus.

The cons1ruc1ion inconvenience to NIC students should be minimal.

Jurgens said. Ramsey Plumbing, which wa~ awarded the conll1lcl, will have 10 run a ditch across 1he road in fron1 of the Lee Administration building to lay the new pipe. According 10 Jurgens, 1his should no1 affect studenl parking, allhough traffic will need 10 be redirec1ed. The replacement of lhe new pipe will also require the hea1 10 be 1umed off in lhe buildings concerned for a shon time while 1he actual hookup is taking place. Jurgens said he hoped the wealher would still be mild then.

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Last year's NIC Sentinel s111ff received several awards over the summer. The awards were in writing. photography and layout For the first lime, a college paper was awarded 1he Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment's '"Ou1s1nnding Reporting In Ch•il Righ15'' award. The award, which is given each year to a member of the nonhwest news media. was awarded 10 the Sen1inel for a series of anicles on discrimina1ion.

The Sentinel also received awards from 1he Society of Professional Journalists. The Sentinel received firs1 place for General Excellence in College Newsp:ipers. Four and 1wo-ycar schools in Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Idaho. and Mon1ann competed for lhe award. Linene Freeman. Dan Hyde. Al Thompson. Deborah Akers, Bobby Hammond.

David Thompson. Karen Lau. Ken Allen, Darrel Beehner. Scou Clawson, Kiley Pe1ersen, Mike Saunders, and Mindy Mullen also won awards from 1he organiz.:ition ror their writings in 1he Sen1inel.

The paper's lifestyles sec1ion also won an award. Lifes1yles editor.

Karen Lau, and pho10 editor. Dan Hyde, won 1h1rd place for photo and page design for a piece on the college's cullinary ans program. The award was from lhe Na1ional Design Workshop, wh1ch is pu1 on by 1he school of journalism at lhe Univer5iry of Missouri.

While 1hc pas1 has brought many awards, Sentinel Advisor Nils Rosdahl also sees lhe fu1ure as being very promising. Rosda.hl feels lha1 the Sentinel has a good chance for several upcoming awards 01 the National Collegia1e Pres~ Association conven1ion in Denver 1his foll. He (eels that the paper may win in severnl ca1egories including: Na1ional S1ory of lhe Year for lhe paper's discrimination series and for 1he paper's coverage of the Gulf War, National Pacemaker for 1wo-year schools and a photography sward for Daren Reasor's snowboarder. ..The recognition of 1hese awards renec1 the skill. dedication nnd ability of the s1uden1S involved," Rosdahl said.

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Hedlund rromp

,·- - - -- - - -- - - - - - - - - -- - "The hability worries me, 100:· Miller Miller said one problem with the ~tudy is lhat Dockstader surveyed people on the "first floor." He said the problems said. "The college needs to m.:ike an adequate asscssmen1 before they put have been on the second floor and not lhe fi~t floor.

"By intcl'\·iewing people on both floors and mixing them. anyone back m the building."

"For thoo;e people who ha~e to "'·orl. in it seems 10 dilute the impact of what"s said by people on the that building. this 1s the biggest thmg in second floor:· Miller added.

An other employee said another concern 1s if the their life. It's easy for u~ to accept "hat Dockstader rcpon is unbin~d <incc Dockstnder works for lhc the studies gy. v.e don·1 h:s•e to go back m group that pro\'ides Workman ·s Compcns.iuon to the college. there." f'.hller said.

Jurgen~ said 1he college has spent Jurgens i-aid he feels the rcpon is unbiased Nine Workman's Compensation claim.\ have been filed to S56.000 \incc 1988 in tf)·ing 10 whe the date by employee<; in the Hedlund Building. So far, Jurgen< problems. most of which included work performed by CIGNA and Fay1ek m the said. the state is not paying on them.

Dockstader dec lined to answer quesuons. cxpla1mng he spring of I990.

"The best thing I'd like to find is the got invoh•ed "because of a need to prepare ourselves for claims coming from that situation:· However. he did confirm problem-then v.e could sohc 11:· Jurgens that he did not interview employees to determine what sa,d. Effons so far have not been nble to solve the problem. chemicals were being used during different times of the year.

Jurgens agreed that the college did not ask the insurance Health complaints and dislocated fund to send someone and that the college did not have to pay classrooms further complicate the Hedlund for the 24-page Dockstader rcpon.

The repon suggests th:11 symptoms arc the result of poor situation.

•Carolyn Macln1yre. a 34-ycnr-old office arrangement and Video Display Terminal (VD1) setnursing student. said she suddenly "It's easy for us to accept what the studies developed epilepsy and a cys1 on her brain.

•Sharon Foster. a 53-ycar-old say. we don't have to go back in there.• secretarial science student. complains of Diesel exhaust rises from a running truck in the mechanics area, -Michael Miller permanent numbness in her nght arm and located near air intakes for the second floor of the Hedlund Building. leg. up. low level exposure to volatile organic compounds. and •Shirley Marks. a second-year medical secretary classroom situation doesn't change, according to J.O.B.S. psycho-social related stress. student. said she experienced chest pains, dizziness. and Idaho Panhandle Coordinator Rondy Geib.

The repon nl so found that odors may be entering the fatigue. ··1 am concerned with the impact on my student's b.iilding from outside air intakes. and low levels of carbon •Janice Owens. a lhird-ycar secretarial science student, educationaJ continuity caused by their moving around," Geib monoxide may have con tributed to the experience of was taken to an emergency ccnccr when she couldn' t get said. "If the problem is not resolved snusfactorily, I could put headaches and lethargy by second-floor occupants. lhe program out for bid. They may need to look at renting enough oxygen to breathe.

Dockstader·s report additi onally recommends ways to •At least one instructor has fainted and several have space somewhere else." improve the odor control. Some are: changing the pressure in reponed symptoms they attribute to the fumes.

Lori Dild.:iy, a secretarial science student who was in duc1work ventilation system. rerouting air intakes. and These ailments all occured during the 1990-91 school the Hedlund last sc hool year. now attends a medical installing catalytic reduction sys1cms to "scrub" air intakes of ye.ir. Other complaints include headaches. nausea, skin rashes, terminology class that meets in a carpentry classroom with no carbon 111onoxide and oxides of nitrogen. The report states. and loss of memory. computers.

"Ac1iva1ed charcoal filters alone will not be sufficienl. .. ," But students say they are concerned about returning to the To determine if the fumes have resulted in health According 10 Jurgens, the improYmenls currently being damage. 31 instructors and staff members have undergone building until they can know for sure u·s safe. made include: cleaning ceiling riles. replacing carpet. painting extensive testing by Drs. Wolfe and Lantsbcrger.

'Tm pulling out a lot of money for education and I walls. moving the marine technology depanment and the Occupa1ional Health specialists. Those reports will be don't want to be in that building: it's not conducive to study installa11on of charcoal ac1iva1ed carbon filters. He said a presented to the Board of Trustees a1 an open meeting on Sept. there when you're experiencing bead.:iches.'' Marks said. "I'd catalytic scrubber is nol planned. feel beuer if they moved the classes permanently to another 25 at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Building.

Miller said he is concerned with the "nilrrowncss" of the Preliminary rcpons have indicated evidence of some building." research list attached 10 the Dockstader report. They all appear employees having higher than normal levels of carbon ''I'd just as soon not work or study there until I can to be agency synopses. with the exception of one uniYcrsity monoxide in their blood, Jurgens said. find out for sure if it's safe." Owens said. "Someooc should be research document which is six years old, he said.

Trustee Bob Ely suggested I.hat everyone who regularly looking out for us and mking care of this-representing us." worked or studied there be screened or asked 10 sign a waiver "I think students have a right to know what chemicals we're being exposed 10 1n the building." student Nancy if they choose not to lake pnr1 in the screening.

Jurgens said they were waiting for the rcpon from the Aldridge said. "We should have the right 10 decide whether or occupational health spccialsts before determining the course not we want to be there."

Owens descri bed the fumes as "something different to take with students.

Meanwhile. closure of the second floor has mo,·cd CVCC') d.:iy.'' She said they vaned from the smell of hot road tar classes to different buildings: some are scheduled 10 stan to cleaning solvents.

A recent report by Wayne Docks1ndcr. indusmal "I'm putting out a lot of money for education, hygenist with the Smte of ld.:iho. suggests that ·,he unccnainty to the overall s11U3Uon may have contributed to an enlarged and I don't want to be in that building. • pen:cpuon of the degree of risk:· --Shirley Marl<s Some instructors have sa,d they uc concerned thar their sy mp1oms may be labeled as ~psychosomatic."

Sept. t6. pending apcninl! of the library: and instructor'< are However. health complaints a.re not hm11cd to those anending sharing offices or domg w11hou1. Jurgens ~aid the li brary or working at NIC. During. the spring of 1990. Faytek and QuaJ11y Conservation tested the Hedlund Building for a1t-flow would onl) be tcmporOJ') housing for the classes.

"We've got a lot of square footage that we don't want problems.

According to Jack B:irtholomcw of Quality 10 !nose:· Jurgens ~:ud. '"The finaJ decision for re-opening will Conc;erva11on, (from o Mnreh 29, 1990 Sentinel story) '1be be dcc1JcJ by the Bonni of Tru~tecs."

Photos by Tom Bnght The J.O B.S. progrnm. which funds the placement of second day I 11.os here, I left feeling like a dazed lunatic. !he Adult basic education instructor Ila Jones teaches in a pcopl~ in adult ba<1c education and general educauon degree third day I Wlb here I had a hard 11me making decisions and library corner without a chalkboard following closure o: clns~es. may be "11hdrown from NIC 1f the temporary had difficulty getting the keys in the ignition of my car." the second floor of the Hedlund Building.