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February 27, 2014 • Issue no.42 Volume 26
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“Under sex you put ‘missionary.’ Did you just not have enough time to fill that out?” This was just one joke from Kelly YenZie Tsai’s spoken word performance on healthy relationships and identity this past Tuesday, Feb. 25. Tsai’s opening video piece “The Relationship Resume” (which the quote above is from) explored the concept of what relationships would be like if couples interviewed each other (as Tsai did in the video) and got all their “stuff ” on the
table before entering the relationship. While Tsai had the audience laughing at relatable relationship concerns (emotional baggage, previous relationships, family drama) she also had the group consider less immediate and talked about areas in relationships. Tsai’s spoken word poetry, inspired by her life experiences, explored how we formulate our identity and how that influences our relationships with romantic partners and how our family members, politics and the world around us contribute to shaping the relationship.
“Sometimes people can be a certain way in their personal relationships but then wildly different in their social relationships with their friends,” Tsai said after the performance. “For me it’s all connected in terms of creating a total whole network of support for yourself in the world.” Tsai’s poem “Love is easy, relationships are hard” is a list of major obstacles— “clear communication, same desires, exes not being crazy”—and minor obstacles—“toilet bowl being scrubbed, on point hygiene”—couples encounter in serious relationships. Megan and Wes Austin,
who have been married for a year and a half, found the poem’s content relatable, since they are exploring marriage. “It was very well spoken; it was easily relatable and to understand about all the concepts of relationships, that everyone feels the same emotions,” Wes Austin, a CWI freshman, said. Tsai also used personal stories to show the audience different aspects of relationships. Tsai told a story of how one of her girlfriends did something similar to the relationship resume by asking her guy friends about
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For me it’s all connected in terms of creating a total whole network of support for yourself in the world. —KellyZen-Yie Yen-Zie Tsai Tsai —Kelly her character qualities that were ideal in a relationship and created a rubric she used on people she went on dates with until she met her husband who met almost all of her criteria. Tsai’s friend decided the two items her now husband didn’t meet (being tall and black) were not deal breakers. Megan Austin said she
enjoyed the diversity of media (videos, song, poetry) Tsai used in performing and exploring concepts of relationships. “I loved that she has such a wide range of what she does,” Megan Austin said. “I just loved that Kelly has all these different things that she does. I was really impressed by that.”
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Gun bill would cost university $2 million annually Ryan Thorne @RyanThorne86
As Idaho’s Guns on Campus bill (SB 1254) makes its rounds in the legislature, Boise State security officials claim if passed by the house, the law could cost the university nearly $2 million a year to implement additional security measures. “Officers will now have to be trained in ‘good gun v. bad gun’ situations and, most importantly, be expected to handle the results of ‘bad gun’ situations,” said Jon Uda, executive director campus security and police services
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in a Feb. 20 memorandum. Uda outlined the need for additional weapons checkpoints and metal detection equipment at campus venues should gun owners with enhanced permits be allowed to carry at Boise State. “There will be substantial costs incurred by each campus venue or the university to purchase and maintain the detection equipment. Campus-wide policies and procedures will have to be formalized to ensure each venue complies with established regulations and protocols,” Uda said. Meanwhile, officials at
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Idaho State University say SB 1254 may not interfere with nuclear research conducted on campus, but the proposed law would add to the universities overall security costs. “In the event that Senate Bill 1254 is approved, we will take the necessary steps to ensure compliance,” said Howard Grimes, vice president for research and economic development at ISU. “Compliance will inevitably involve a fiscal component. We’re in the process of assessing those costs.” Law enforcement leaders like Boise Police chief Mike Masterson openly
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oppose SB 1254, saying it will complicate police ability to respond to a campus shooting. “Senate Bill 1254 is not a well-thought out bill. It has problems. I am expressing legitimate concerns about the passage of SB 1254. I’m a citizen and police chief who is exercising my right to speak out after being denied the right to speak before my elected leaders,” Masterson said in a Feb. 19 public forum at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral. Masterson expressed frustration over a recent senate hearing for SB 1254 in which he and fellow Idaho police chiefs were not allowed to speak on the proposed bill. “There is a disconnect in this country when a small, vocal, well-organized minority with substantial political influence can bring about laws that Idaho police chiefs, including myself, believe will do more harm to the public than good. I’ve learned this week of the courage it takes to stand up and ex-
press your opinion,” Masterson said. Boise State President Bob Kustra has now sent out two emails asking for students and staff to actively oppose the bill. “This bill would allow students and others to strap weapons openly on their hips or across their shoulders as they stroll across campus or enter their classrooms,” Kustra said in a Feb. 26 memorandum circulated throughout the university. Kustra said without funding from the state, campuses across Idaho would be stuck footing the bill for additional security and training. “The bill likely would require such costly inspection measures because if we did not take these steps, we could be open to lawsuits for not enforcing the law and its restrictions,” Kustra said. Kustra also argued the proposed gun law would go against the recommendations of conservative supreme court justices in the Heller vs. DC case, in
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which gun owners were allowed to keep weapons unloaded, disassembled or bound by a trigger lock. “Justice Scalia wrote in the Heller case that ‘nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on the longstanding ... laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings’,” Kustra said. Opponents of SB 1254 plan to stage demonstrations against the proposed law at the Capitol Thursday, Feb. 27. at 12:30 p.m. Facebook group, Keep Idaho Colleges and Universities Safe—No Guns on Campus, which created the event, recently called for public support against the bill on their web page. “Let’s meet on the steps of the Capitol at 12:30 to show the Idaho legislature our opposition to this bill. Students and professors outside of the Treasure Valley who cannot attend will meet on their campuses around the state,” the group’s Facebook page read.
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