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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Silhouettes silent for violent assaults Jacob Dyer Argonaut
Philip Vukelich | Argonaut
University of Idaho students sit outside the Teaching and Learning Center where a “Silent Witnesses” silhouette advertises “Take Back the Night,” an assault awareness event.
The University of Idaho Women’s Center will host Take Back the Night Thursday to inform students about sexual assaults and what they can do to help. The event is an opportunity for the Women’s Center and other groups on campus to speak with students about the dangers of sexual assaults. The event will start at 8 p.m. in the Agricultural Science Building, room 106. The event is slated to take about two hours. “This event is a part of a much wider campus initiative to really inform students, educate students and make sure that they’re aware of their resources on our campus,” said Lysa Salsbury, program coordinator for the Women’s Center. Salsbury said it is important to have this event early in the fall, and if it was plausible she would have it earlier.
From starting pistol to theater stage
of a new semester, at the beginning of the academic year, are always the most critical in terms of intervention for avoiding the potential for sexual assault on our campus,” Salsbury said. The attendance of Take Back the Night is always high, but that’s not going to stop them from trying to encourage more stustudents to arrive at the event will receive a free Take Back the Night T-shirt. Einstein Bros. Bagels is offering a free bagel party to the student group that brings the highest number of participants to the event. After everyone has arrived, Salsbury will give a welcome to all attendees and give a brief history of Take Back the Night. The welcome will be followed by guest speaker Mia Vowels, deputy prosecutor for Latah County and
alumna of the University of Idaho. The group will then head outdoors and meet in the courtyard outside of the Agricultural Science Building. Participants will be given glow sticks, and they will start marching around campus. The march will start toward Memorial Gym, turning east down University Avenue, then toward Elm Street. Then they will turn down Greek Row, crossing Sixth Street, looping around the Living and around the Agricultural Science Building. During that walk, participants will see silhouettes of people along the way with messages on them. These structures have been on the UI campus since Sept. 19. The in large part because of the efforts of UI VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood. SEE SILHOUETTES, PAGE 5
PUllINg OUT THE bIg gUNS
Olympic track athlete, UI grad takes stage Kaitlin Moroney Argonaut
Whether she is running on the track at the Olympics or acting on the stage at University of Idaho’s Hartung Theater, Angela Whyte gives the same amount of dedication. “It’s really fun having a professional athlete on the cast,” Director David LeePainter said. “She certainly understands about the work ethic involved, you know professional athletes are trained many hours every day and every week and she’s brought that same work ethic to the theater.” Whyte, a UI graduate, placed sixth in the 100meter hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics repreof three Olympic competitions in which she has competed. She also holds at the UI and is an all-time top point-scorer, according to a press release. Now, she is taking to the stage in the upcoming UI production of Anton in Show Business. Whyte said that while ath-
letics and acting have their differences, there are also a few parallels. “We do a lot of muscle memory in track so it’s just practice and practice and practice,” Whyte said. “It’s the same thing (in theater), except I’m getting to use my mind. So it’s almost essentially the same … but at the same time it’s a completely different and new world that has opened up pathways for my mind.” Whyte has seen past productions at the university and said that while she has always enjoyed the art of theater she never really saw herself being very involved in it. That is, until Lee-Painter asked if she would like to have a part in this production. “I honestly thought it was going to be a very, very minor role,” Whyte said. “Then after being cast ... I realized wait a second, I’m playing three characters and there are a lot of lines and I honestly freaked out a little bit.” Lee-Painter said that SEE THEATER, PAGE 5
Jesse Hart | Argonaut
Marine Staff Sgt. Jason Heath demonstrates the operation of the M777A2, a 155mm lightweight towed Howitzer, during Military Appreciation Day Saturday morning behind the Kibbie Dome.
In brief
Naked dash takes off naked students Wednesday. The annual event, Nearly Naked Dash, through a fun run and clothing drive. Participants meet on the Theophilus Tower lawn at 4 p.m., strip off all used clothing they are wearing and proceed to the fun run.
Fall and winter clothing is requested and there will be prizes for the best nearly-naked costume and the most clothing donated. Undergarments are required to participate.
NASA scientist to lecture at UI Waleed Abdalati, NASA’s chief scientist, will present a lecture on how the 1968 “Earthrise” image changed
society’s perspective on Earth. The lecture will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the College of Law Courtroom. “Beautiful and vulnerable, and suspended in dark stillness, this image inspired an appreciation that we are one human race, whose fate hinges delicately on our collective actions,” Abdalati said in a press release. SEE BRIEF, PAGE 5
Nine cities, six countries equal new students UI recruitment in South America begins for the first time Erin Roetker Argonaut
Shawn Greenfield | Courtesy
Katie Shiffelbein and Shawn Greenfield socialize during their three-week South American trip to recruit new students to the University of Idaho.
Two University of Idaho employees are in South America for a three-week recruitment cycle. national marketing and recruitment specialist and Katie Shiffelbein, American language and culture program coordinator travelled to nine cities in six different countries. From Aug. 30 to Sept. 18 they stopped in Brasilia, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Santiago, Chile, Lima, Peru, Quito, Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador and Bogota, Colombia. through EducationUSA, which is a network of
around the world that work to promote U.S. education to students from all over the globe. “We were in each city only a couple of days each and had full itineraries where we were visiting local high schools to meet with students, having discussions with universities in-country to consider possible collabotalking with advisers and attending the larger said. “In each city, we talked to hundreds of students who were interested in studying in the United States, either for English language courses, through our American Language and Culture Program, and for our undergrad and grad degree programs at the UI.” SEE STUDENTS, PAGE 5
IN THIS ISSUE
After losing six consecutive soccer matches, Idaho got back on track, beating Utah Valley Friday.
Take Back the Night is a great opportunity to improve student safety — Read Our View.
SPORTS, 6 News, 1
Sports, 6
Opinion, 10
OPINION, 10 University of Idaho
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