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GROWING UP GAY

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It might be the best way to recover, page 9

Silence answer is not the

Acceptance is more than just coming out

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Four people stood in the Idaho Commons lunchroom and wore gags tied around their mouths with the word “HATE” scrawled across them.

The Day of Silence is a national event that members of the LGBTQA club held on campus April 15. One member of the club stook at commons podium and said, “For those silenced by violence and hate, we are here for you.”

Alex Barnes, a sociology major, said growing up in Kooskia, Idaho, a rural town with a population of about 600, kept him in the closet throughout high school.

He said his experience with coming out in college and acclimating to adult life has inspired him to become a social worker and help minorities, people of low-income and others in need.

Barnes said he has not experienced hate on UI’s campus but when he visits home someone may drive by, flip him off and call him a fag.

He said these actions may have silenced him when he was in high school, but today he would probably confront the person and ask them why people are acting like this. “(I would) let people know because it is important, and if you don’t talk about it, it’s easy to be swept under the rug, and that shouldn’t be happening,” Barnes said.

He said he experienced depression in high school because of many factors, but being gay was a big part of it.

He said to help himself deal with those who didn’t un-

derstand his sexuality he just externalized it and decided it was not his problem.

“But I know a lot of people that it does really pound in, you know, because they are attacking a piece of you … a private piece of you, and it’s really intense,” Barnes said. “I think I got a lot more resilient from it. I was one of those people that took it in, whatever it was, but I shrugged it off at the same time.”

Barnes said another struggle he had in high school was when his mother would pressure him by constantly asking if he was gay.

“And I was like, ‘I am not coming out now because I see how you’re reacting about it,’” Barnes said. “And now, I don’t know, because she is like, ‘Yeah, I knew and I am totally fine about it.’ And I’m like, ‘You couldn’t be more understanding when I was in high school? Thanks.

You just made my life a living hell.’”

After his experience, he moved in with a group of friends he said he now considers his family.

Joe Black had an experience quite different from Barnes. Black, a senior public relations major, said his parents did have a hard time accepting his sexuality at first and it was difficult because when he came out, it was the first time he ever saw his father cry. He said he asked him later if it was because of religion and his father told him it wasn’t because he believes God loves everyone.

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On April 15, LGBTQA students gathered in the Idaho Commons to celebrate the national Day of Silence, an event that brings attention to LGBT people who have been silenced because of violence or hate.

Getting things done

TRADITIONAL DANCE

Perez and Corona get a head start on 2011 - 2012 ASUI positions Molly Spencer Argonaut

As the spring semester ends and fall rolls around the corner, Samantha Perez and Juan Corona, 2011-2012 ASUI president and vice president, have started to work on their three-tiered platforms.

“Our third goal was to improve ASUI as an organization and so one of the ways we wanted to do that was hire sooner,” Perez said.

ASUI typically hires the executive branch in the fall but applications have already been turned in are now being reviewed, Perez

said. Interviews for the executive positions will be April 27.

“I think that will be huge for us because we have a lot of new people that will have a better transition and better idea of what they’re doing,” Perez said. “That was kind of a huge change we made, and so I’m very excited about that.”

In addition, Perez and Corona will be working on training executives during the summer.

“For Senate it will be pretty much the same, but for executives we’ll have training as well, so we’ll have combined ASUI training together and just talk about the office,

procedure, outlook …” Perez said. “We’ll do some training that’s specific to Senate and specific to executives.”

Perez said they hope to build ASUI up internally in order to serve the students better externally.

“Our second goal is transparency with the students and the university,” Corona said. “So something that Sam and I started working on is trying to see what’s going on at the university, and then do focus groups where students are invited to know what’s going on with fees or with anything that’s

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Delta Gamma sisters from 26 different states will come together in Moscow April 29 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the sorority. Patty Stratton, co-chairman from the 1968 pledge class, said it is a tribute to Greek Life and to the University of Idaho to have so many women who want to return to campus and share with each other the fond memories of their days in the Delta Gamma house.

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union committee collegiate chairman, said Delta Gamma was founded nationally in 1873 in Oxford, Miss, at the Lewis School for Girls. Delta Gamma was installed at the UI campus Sept.16, 1911, Johnson said.

“The centennial is a celebration of the past 100 years of Delta Gamma at the University of Idaho and the beginning of what we hope will be another 100 years of Delta Gamma on campus,” Stratton said.

Stratton said Delta Gamma was the first sorority on the UI

campus to have its own chapter house. The Delta Gamma sisters moved into their current house in 1920.

Katherine Aiken, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, was part of Delta Gamma’s 1970 pledge class.

“I think one of the reasons people appreciate being Greek is always having someone to celebrate a success, and someone to commiserate with when there isn’t a success,” she said.

Aiken said it has been more than 40 years since she has lived

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Aiken said Stratton — who has taken on this event with the alumni office — and other members have worked hard and deserve acknowledgement.

“Three of us helped plan the 75th reunion, which was in 1986, and it’s been interesting planning this reunion because back then, only 25 years ago, we had to write letters back and forth or make arrangements for long-distance phone calls,” Stratton said.

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The Ballroom Team at the University of Idaho practices nightclub 2-step in the LDS Institute Saturday morning. The student-led ballroom team will put on their final semester performance at 7 p.m. April 29 in the Physical Education Building, room 210.

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From the East coast to the West coast, foxtrot and the Charleston — the ballroom dance team has a style for anyone interested and will show their moves at their final performance Friday.

The University of Idaho ballroom dance team is comprised of 47 individuals from UI, Washington State University and the surrounding community, which is further split into a Tuesday-Thursday team and a Saturday team.

Both teams have different routines and solo sets that will be performed in the semester finale.

The ballroom dance team will perform from 7-9 p.m. in the Physical Education Building, room 210. Admission is $5 at the door, and proceeds will support the dance team.

The team will show off an array of ballroom dance styles at the final performance. Group dances will include the waltz, rumba, East and West coast swing, nightclub two-step, tango, Charleston, foxtrot, bolero and samba. Solo numbers will also be performed.

Originally founded and coached by Trevor

Dougal, who graduated from UI May 2010, the team is now run by Garrett Lumens, a graduate student in the College of Art and Architecture.

“The Charleston routine will be really fun … it’s a bunch of us dancing and kind of making fools of ourselves, getting the crowd excited,” Lumens said.

Lumens will join six other couples to perform the Charleston.

Bethany Davis, a UI sophomore in interior design, has been a part of the ballroom dance team since spring semester 2010. Davis practices for two hours every Tuesday and Thursday

with the team, as well as additional practice.

She will be performing in the samba, waltz and tango group dances and will also perform a solo number that she helped choreograph.

Davis said this semester’s performance is a little different with each number having its own character, personality and flavor.

“This semester has been so fun for us. It will be rewarding to see all our hard work presented in front of an audience,” Davis said.

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“I wouldn’t want my child to be gay because that is such a difficult life. It breaks your parents’ hearts to know that their kids could be beaten up or killed just because they are gay. No parent wants that for their child,” Black said. “But I think that my parents are kind of coming around to it.”

Black grew up in a small town outside of Boise. He had 27 students in his graduating class. He said during high school he felt a bit more asexual because there was nobody he was interested in dating.

“A lot of people that know me pretty well and know who I am think that I came out of the womb singing show tunes,” Black said. “But I really didn’t have any inclination that I was gay until I went to college and kind of got out of that environment.”

He said when you come from a small town people sometimes have misconceptions about what it means to be gay.

“I was kind of sheltered. I wasn’t exposed to the media array that I got into after I left,” Black said. “When you get out into the world you see that people come in all shapes and sizes, regardless of whether you are gay or straight.”

Jerica Haley said she was the victim of hate crimes while growing up in Moscow, mostly when she was in high school, but hasn’t experienced any in college. She said she has moved past the experience because she realized the boys in her school who teased her were ignorant of her situation.

“Violence or hate comes from fear or lack of knowledge,” Haley said. “I think that’s where it comes from … It made me feel like I wasn’t … human. Because all humans have dignity and have respect, and I think all living creatures are entitled to that dignity and that respect.”

Haley, a freshman in sociology, said the experience she went through helped her decide to refuse to ever be a victim again.

“I know sometimes people are victims, even if they don’t want to be, because sometimes it is just out of their control.

But … I am very careful not to put myself in a situation where I could be a victim,” she said. “I am careful about going out at night by myself, I am careful about my girlfriend, public affection … because of what I know about human society, because I couldn’t live with myself if my girlfriend was put in danger.”

Haley said she didn’t experience feeling like she couldn’t come out, she just felt alone in her sexuality. She said many people have stereotypes or misconceptions in mind when they think about the gay community.

“I think that is probably the biggest issue that gay people and queer people face is that we get put into a box and put into a stereotype. When you do that then people don’t stop to see who you really are and what makes you up as a person,” Haley said.

Barnes has gone through a phase of accepting his sexuality that he referred to as synthesis — a stage of life where the individual realizes that sexuality is only one small part of who they are.

“Sexuality has been blown so much out of proportion.

Look at it now — it doesn’t play a big part of my life other than that it might be harder in rural Idaho, to find somebody like you, but whatever,” he said.

Black said his sexuality is only one part of who he is.

“The amount that my sexuality plays in my life is like an ingrained thing in my personality — I could never get rid of it.

It’s kind of like my right arm, I don’t always think about until I go to reach for something,” Black said. “I don’t think about it, but it’s something I know is there. It’s in my DNA.” Haley said her sexuality is not a choice. She said she loves being herself but doesn’t think anyone would choose to be discriminated against, hated or to be treated like a secondclass citizen.

“I think that’s the first misconception that people need to realize is that I don’t choose who I love, I love who I love and I make the best out of it, and I try to be the best person I can be,” Haley said.

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going on money-wise.”

They plan to create opportunities for students to educate themselves about what’s going on in the ASUI Senate.

The last goal in their platform is to engage students with ASUI. “Right now the way that ASUI is set up is that we have office hours and we kind of expect students to come to our office, but we think that role should be reversed — that we should be out seeking students’ input constantly and always wanting to hear about what they want,” Perez said.

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from page 1 Today, Stratton said all documents pertaining to the centennial are sent by email rather than handwritten, and sent through the mail.

“It’s so much more efficient,” she said.

Stratton said the most mature woman attending the centennial is from the pledge class of 1938. There will be 395 sisters from 26 different states attending the centennial, 195 of whom are from Idaho, along with two former presidents and the current national president, Stratton said.

“It’s interesting because I don’t know how many people get back to the campus unless they have something bringing them back here,” Stratton said. “I’ve had a lot of women tell me that this is the first time they’ve been back on campus for 40 or 50 years. You have to have these kinds of things to get people back once in a while.”

Kendra Roberts, a junior accounting major and president of Delta Gamma, said there is an alumni committee who has been working on this event for

One way they plan to do this is by developing a survey for students to take that will ask questions about how ASUI communicates with the students, and for feedback on programs and events.

“It’ll give them a chance to give us all their feedback and we’ll probably launch that the first two weeks of school in the fall,” Perez said.

After that, Perez said they plan to host the small focus groups.

“It will be 10 to 15 students that will meet for an hour and they’ll only talk about one aspect of ASUI. We’ll do several of those small focus groups to get that more in-depth feedback,” Perez said. three to five years.

“We’re having a banquet night that will have a lot of history about the U of I campus,” Roberts said. “We’re handing out awards to different Delta Gamma members, that’s like kind of the recognition part of it.”

Roberts said some people will also share past memories of Delta Gamma. There will also be tours of the chapter house.

“I’m personally looking forward to talking to the older alumni and you know, hearing what it was like however many years ago it was here and what Delta Gamma has done for them,” Roberts said. “It’s going to be a good time to bond and share memories and learn more about Delta Gamma.”

There will be a reception for members at the University Inn Friday night, followed by a brunch at Delta Gamma Saturday morning and the banquet at the Eastside Marketplace Saturday night.

“I love meeting all the alumni and hearing their stories and everything, so next week is going to be really fun,” Johnson said. “I really enjoy hearing about how things used to be and how things are now.”

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Ending on a high note Season finishes with positive scrimmage Kevin Bingaman Argonaut

The Vandal football team played its final scrimmage of the spring Saturday during the annual Silver and Gold game, which showed how much the team has improved during the course of spring ball.

The Vandal offense finally got going in the scrimmage, moving the ball more effectively than it did all spring. Coach Robb Akey said he’s happy with his team’s performance on both sides of the field.

“This was the best scrimmage we had all spring,” Akey said.

“I like the fact that guys on both sides of the ball were making things happen.

Offensively, we made more plays. Our defense swarmed

the football very well. It was a good way to close things out.”

Senior quarterback Brian Reader hit 11 of 17 passes for 93 yards, his best performance of the spring. Running back Ryan Bass sparked the running game with 11 carries for 45 yards and one touchdown.

“We got better and better as time went on,” Reader said.

The defense, which has been impressive all spring, continued to play well. Defensive end Benson Mayowa led all tacklers with five, including one for a loss. The defense also sacked the quarterback four times throughout the scrimmage. Senior linebacker Tre’Shawn Robinson said the defense has started to come together.

“The defense has developed immensely this spring,” Robinson said.

“Everybody knows what they’re doing. There is no hesitation.”

The Vandals will now get a break before heading into fall camp, with the first game Sept. 1 against Bowling Green inside what will be a newly renovated Kibbie Dome.

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Left: Coach Robb Akey talks to his team Saturday morning on the SprinTurf during the annual Silver and Gold spring scrimmage.

Right: Running back Ryan Bass takes a carry during the Silver and Gold scrimmage.

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He can be explosive like Michael Vick.”

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Losing to gain a competitive edge Kristen Whitney Argonaut

Pressure to lose weight for athletes is often associated with femaledominated sports, such as ballet or cheerleading, but to be competitive on the mat, wrestlers must also watch the scale closely.

Hayden Garfield, a University of Idaho freshman, dropped 20 pounds his senior year of high school to make the varsity team, because spots in higher weight classes were filled with tough competition.

“I knew personally I wouldn’t be able to compete and I wasn’t strong enough to wrestle at the higher weight,” Garfield said. “I knew I’d do better at where I chose to wrestle, which is 135.”

Garfield’s case is not typical for high school athletes, and he put in extensive effort to reach his target weight.

“When I was cutting hard my day started at … 4:30 a.m., and I‘d go for a run, then go to school ... then I’d go to practice and try to lose as much as I could. Then a lot of times I’d go for a run after practice,” Garfield said.

Garfield said he also watched

how many ounces he consumed, and the portions he allowed himself got smaller as the weight came off.

“My little brother hated me for it because we shared a room, but I would leave my windows open at night so I’d shiver, so I didn’t get very much sleep but I would probably shiver off two to three pounds a night,” Garfield said.

Jonathan Davis, Moscow wrestling club coach, said there isn’t much weight-cutting at the high school level, but as the competition gets tougher, the advantages to lose weight increase.

“Wrestling is so intensely physical and at higher levels of competition, especially collegiate levels, any little advantage you can get is going to be fairly significant,” Davis said.

He said the best wrestlers he has seen — the ones with natural talent — often cut little amounts of weight. He said wrestlers may be lying to themselves in thinking that competing in a lower weight class will mean they are stronger, because that isn’t always the case.

Davis said he has seen wrestlers so physically drained from the weight

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Position battle

Fighting to be tight end Kevin Bingaman Argonaut

To play the tight end position in football, a player has to be diverse in their skills and abilities — they have to be able to block like a lineman, yet catch like a receiver.

The battle for the tight end spot on the Vandal foot-

ball team is heating up as three main competitors have emerged.

Last year, Vandal tight end Daniel Hardy was injured mid-way through the season, leaving the door open for younger players to get some experience. Taylor Elmo was the main guy who benefited from it and ended the season with 18 catches for 148 yards

and two touchdowns. Michael LaGrone also snagged 13 passes for 112 yards. Elmo, LaGrone and Clayton Homme are all in an all-sophomore battle for the starting tight end role. Tight end coach Al Pupunu said this group has a lot of potential.

“They got some huge shoes to fill since Daniel Hardy left, and he’s a tre-

mendous athlete,” Pupunu said. “These guys have that potential, but they’re young.

We got to get these guys ready to roll come fall time.”

Elmo was expected to be the guy coming out of spring, but he suffered a broken foot that has sidelined him. Pupunu said it’s tough to sit out

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Idaho senior Andrew Blaser pole vaults Saturday morning at the Cougar Invitational in Pullman.

Blaser vaulted 14-9.5 (4.51m) and claimed second place in the 110m hurdles (14.85) last weekend.

Blaser also threw the javelin 142-2 (14.00m), and put the shot 33-1 (10.08m).

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Vandal track and field won seven individual titles Saturday at Washington State’s annual Cougar Invitational in Pullman.

“It was amazing having this type of day after the week we’ve had of weather,” Idaho director of track and field Wayne Phipps said. “We didn’t compete a ton of people, but the people we did performed very well today.”

The women claimed five firstplace spots and broke the meet record for the 4x400 meter relay.

Karlene Hurrel, Keli Hall, Lauren Schaffer and Liga Velvere teamed up to finish in 3:45.10, the best time the meet has seen since 2008 and 10 seconds ahead of Washingtong State’s second-place finish.

“The 4x400 was probably the highlight for me,” Phipps said. “I was really excited about the way they competed and raced against the clock toward the end, and they were really motivated for that race.”

The same women came through to score in individual track events throughout the day.

Hurrel, a sophomore, also won the women’s 100-meter dash in a career-best 12.27 seconds. Velvere and Schaffer took the 400-meter race in a 1-2 finish for the Vandals.

Velvere crossed the line at 55.47

and Schaffer followed at 55.75.

Their times are the second-and third-best in Idaho history.

It was Velvere’s first time running the event this season, Phipps said, and she delivered a solid performance. Schaffer’s primary focus is the 800-meter race, but Phipps said she ran well Saturday.

The Vandal women made a solid showing in throwing events at Washington State’ s Mooberry Track with two wins and top-10 school marks.

Sophomore Kristine Leonard won the women’s shot put with 41-8.5 (127.71 meters). Later she hit a career-best mark of 157-10 (48.11 meters), moving into sixth all-time for women’s discus and taking second in the event behind Washington State’s Ashley Kenney.

“That’s a good day for Kristine,” Idaho coach Julie Taylor said. “She had a few bad habits that we’re trying to break and change, but she’s getting better and better technically, and that’s why her marks are going up.”

Sophomore Sarah Nutsch began the day with a four-foot personal best in the hammer throw.

Nutsch beat her own fifth alltime record with a toss of 173-3 (52.80 meters) to come in second to teammate Gaby Midles.

On the men’s side, senior Eugenio Mannucci won the shot put

with a throw of 56-1.25 (17.10 meters) and sophomore Colin Briggs claimed the men’s triple jump title with a career-best 4511.25 (14.00 meters).

Junior Donavon Cunningham arrived at the meet after playing the Silver and Gold scrimmage Saturday morning and took second place with career-best 170-3 (51.89 meters) in the discus.

“The kid has been doing football and hasn’t been able to compete much, so for him to come out and throw a PR is pretty huge,” Taylor said. “Donavon is an amazing athlete.”

Only two weekends stand between Idaho athletes and the WAC Championships in Honolulu, Hawaii May 10.

Half of the team will head south to Stanford’s Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational April 30 while the rest compete in the Duane Hartman Invitational in Spokane.

“We’re trying to finalize some top-eight, top-12 times in the conference, so we’ll be racing everybody next weekend to try to move people up in the WAC, and we want to try to secure some people in their bids to nationals,” Phipps said. “It’s going to be hard to replicate what we did last year at NCAAs, but I’m very pleased with how many we’ve got, and how high some of them are (in the NCAA West Region rankings).”

The Idaho women’s tennis team ended its regular season Saturday on home courts, and the Vandals finished the season the same way they began it — with a win.

The 5-2 victory brought the Vandals to their final score of the regular season, 17-7, and 4-3 in WAC play. Idaho will travel to Boise to compete in the WAC Tournament Thursday, and will go into the tournament at either the No. 4 or 5 seed.

The defeat over Lewis Clark State College Saturday was also Senior Day for seven Idaho seniors — Yvette Ly, Justine Textor, Molly Knox, Barbara Maciocha, Silvia Irimescu, Jana Siwa and Natalie Kirch. Idaho coach Tyler Neill said it was a positive last match for the veterans.

“It was nice to get our seniors out there playing today, and get one final home match,” Neill said. “I thought we played pretty well. I thought LCSC competed really well and they made it tough for us, but we responded in most of our matches and I thought we matched their intensity.”

Idaho had no problem sweeping the doubles point for the match, winning at the No. 1, 2 and 3 spots, and also had strong singles victories with Maciocha winning 6-0, 6-0, Irimescu 7-5, 6-1, Knox 6-0, 7-6 and Kirch 6-3, 7-5. Despite the win, Neill said the team will still need some fine-tuning this week before the WAC Tournament.

“I still think we need to get a little

File Photo by Zach Edwards | Argonaut

Yvette Ly returns a ball during a doubles match against Gonzaga.

The Vandals finished the season with a win against Lewis and Clark State Saturday.

more practice heading into the tournament, and work on a few shots, but other than that I think we’re competing hard, which is good,” Neill said. “Obviously whoever we play is going to be a tough team, and we have to be playing up to our potential in order to win or have a competitive match.”

Men’s losing streak ends Jacob Dyer Argonaut

The men’s tennis team ended a three-game drought as it won its last two regular season matches with a victory Saturday against Nevada.

Friday the Vandals defeated the 61st rank Arizona by a score of 4-2, and then the following day topped Nevada 4-1. They are now preparing for the WAC Championship that begins Friday in Boise.

The Vandals started the match by winning the doubles point, taking two of three matches with wins by the teams of seniors Alex Joitoiu with Lachlan Reed and sophomore Abid Akbar with senior Andrew Dobbs.

Idaho coach Jeff Beaman said the doubles point was critical in claiming victory.

“I think the doubles point was huge, we had to

play really well to pull that point out, and if we hadn’t have won the point, this is a match we easily could have lost,” Beaman said.

Singles matches went well for the men. Reed won a hard fought match in the No. 2 spot against Kristian Kuharszky 6-3, 6-4.

His teammates helped out with as Akbar and junior Alan Shin came away with enough victories to end the day for the Vandals. Joitoiu and freshman Jose Bendeck’s matches were both called in the second set.

The victory ended the team’s season with two consecutive victories and an 18-7 overall record. Beaman said he is glad to have the momentum coming into next weekend.

“It is good to gain the momentum back, winning some doubles points, beating some good teams, going into the conference tour-

nament — should give the guys a lot of confidence,” Beaman said.

The Vandals have finished in conference play with a record of 4-2 this year, and are placed in the third seed for the tournament. They begin by playing against Utah State, a team they defeated April 8 in Moscow by a score of 5-2. The winner of the match will go up against New Mexico State, who the Vandals lost to 0-5 April 21.

Beaman said they have some things to work on and decisions to make before the tournament starts, but most importantly they need to get well.

“We are definitely a little banged up, it’s just one of those things where we need to work on a little fine tuning, maintain the confidence, but also get healthy,” Beaman said.

Men’s golf finishes regular season Jacob Dyer Argonaut

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The Vandal men’s golf team finished with sole possession of second place this past weekend in Indiana behind the solid play of junior Jarred Bossio and sophomore Damian Telles.

The men were competing at the Boilermaker Invitational in West Lafayette, where they finished only behind Purdue.

It was their last regular season tournament of the year before

they head to Las Vegas May 2-4 for the WAC Championship Tournament.

At a combined 25 over par, the Vandals finished 12 strokes behind Purdue and two strokes ahead of Bowling Green.

Helping lead the Vandals to their second-place finish were Bossio and Telles. At four over par each, the two Vandals finished in a tie for sixth place. Not far behind the pair was fellow Vandal junior Stefan Richardson, who finished at

five over par, including an even round 72 Sunday.

Bossio started the tournament out by shooting even par in the opening round, but followed it up with two rounds of two over par. Telles shot his 72 on the second round and walked away with 74 in the other two rounds. Richardson struggled in the first two rounds by shooting a two over, followed by a three over, but turned his game around the final day.

The tournament was held at

the Kampen course, a link-style course that, at times, baffled players on the course. Last place Chicago State University had a difficult time as they ended the tournament with a combined score of 194 over par. Three other teams finished with scores of at least 60 over par.

Rounding out Vandal scores for the tournament are freshman Zach Wanderscheid at 12 over par in a tie for 20th and junior Justin Kadin in a tie for 44th.

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Idaho lacrosse falls short Theo Lawson Argonaut

After taking an early lead, the Idaho lacrosse team was unable to secure a win in its last regular season game, falling to rivals Boise State 13-11.

Heading into the fourth quarter of play, Idaho trailed 11-8 but senior Eric Fletcher ignited a spark for the visitors, assisting one goal and scoring two to tie the game at 11. But the Broncos capped off a hot offensive appearance with two late goals and secured home field advantage in next week’s Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League playoffs where they will host Idaho once again.

Fletcher was a part of three of Idaho’s first four goals but Idaho, who was up 4-3 in the beginning of the second quarter, saw its lead slip away following two Bronco goals. Idaho attempted to find its way back into the game and although the Vandals managed to tie it up twice more, they weren’t able to regain the lead.

Idaho outshot its opponent 41-34 but Boise State goaltender Kevin Kaup denied the Vandals on 22 occasions, compared to 15 saves from Blake Uphus of Idaho.

The visitors outshot the Broncos 28-16 in the second

half but only scored five times, compared to six from Boise State.

Fletcher’s contribution included four goals and three assists, combining for a game high of seven points.

The senior now ranks third in the PNCLL for points per game with 4.778 and fourth in goals with 29. Kyle Morse added three goals while John Kopke converted two for Idaho, who ended the spring season at 5-6.

Five Broncos scored two or more goals, but Kaup had to be the player of the game, concluding one of his best performance’s with a save percentage of 66. His average save percentage of 62 leads the PNCLL. Idaho’s PNCLL record of 1-2 ranks second in the North Division, led by undefeated Simon Fraser. Although the Vandals have scored 87 times, they have allowed 113 and led the league in this category.

The postseason begins this Saturday where Idaho will make the trip to Boise for another matchup with its in-state rivals. The 6th seeded Vandals will try to avenge last weekend’s loss when the 3rd seeded Broncos at 1 p.m.

With a win, Idaho will move on the quarterfinals where it will face either 2nd seeded Oregon or 7th seeded Montana May 7.

Paul’s triple-double lifts Hornets past Lakers BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With his left hand wrapped in a black bandage and cut patched up over his right eye, Chris Paul triumphantly cupped his hand to his ear and soaked in the roars of a packed and delirious New Orleans Arena.

Hornets fans rejoiced in knowing they would get to see Paul and Co. back in the Big Easy at least one more time, thanks to the All-Star guard’s first triple double of the season.

Paul had 27 points, 15 assists and 13 rebounds, and the New Orleans Hornets held on for a 93-88 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night to even their firstround playoff series at 2-2.

“Regardless of what happens in this series, it was good to see the city with a smile on their face,” said Paul, who hit 7 of 14 shots and all 11 of his free throws. “It was fun, man.

I’m just so thankful to get to say this is my way of life.”

Paul scored 14 of New Orleans’ 24 points in the fourth quarter. He capped what will go down as one of the best playoff performances in Hornets history by driving into a crowd of Lakers and turning an aborted shot into a perfect pass to set Jarrett Jack’s short jumper, which made it 90-86 with 9.3 seconds left.

“I was about to take one of the worst shots I’d taken all game,” Paul said. “I thank the Lord I saw Jack out of the corner of my eye.”

After going scoreless for most of the first half, Paul did it all from midway through the second quarter until the final seconds, even jawing with Lakers star Kobe Bryant a couple times and drawing a technical in one of those instances.

Paul said he wasn’t playing mind games. It was just raw intensity — a sort of fuel he was not about to suppress in a game the underdog Hornets had to win to have any realistic chance in this series.

“It’s not by design,” Paul explained. “That’s just who I am. I’m not into playing those get-underyour-skin games. Kobe has seen it all. He’s seen guys try to get him ejected and stuff like that. I’m just being me.”

By contrast, Bryant did not seem himself. He scored 17 points but was held scoreless in the first half and made only 5 of 18 shots. He also came up lame late in the fourth quarter, favoring his left ankle after a collision with Willie Green.

After soaking his ankle in ice, he said the injury appears worse than a sprain of the same ankle earlier this season.

“It’s more on my foot,” he said, but added, “it’s going to take a lot to stop me from playing. I’ve played through so many of them that it kind of becomes old habit.”

Bryant’s last miss came on a 3-point attempt in the final seconds, and Jack snared the rebound to seal the win.

“Well, it’s a series now,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said.

“We punked out there on the court tonight.”

The Hornets’ victory ensured the series, which resumes with Game 5 in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, would return to New Orleans for Game 6 on Thursday.

The Hornets might still be a long shot to win twice more, but believe they have a chance as long as they have Paul.

“He’s maybe 6 feet and he had 13 rebounds,” said Trevor Ariza, who scored 19 for New Orleans.

“He played unbelievable. He’s made our team go all year. He’s carried us when we were down.”

In addition to playing strong defense on Bryant, Ariza had 16 of his points in the first half, repeatedly slashing into the paint and once converting a soaring double-pump dunk over Andrew Bynum. His early production prevented the Lakers from pulling away by more than nine. Carl Landry finished with 16 points for the Hornets before fouling out in the final minute.

One of the Hornets’ scrappiest performances all season came a day after coach Monty Williams showed the team a popular internet video clip from a safari in South Africa in which buffalo bulls save a calf from an attack by both lions and crocodiles. The message: stick together and never give up.

Green said the Hornets were caught off guard by the video, thinking they were about to analyze video of their mistakes in a Game 3 loss.

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“In my mind, that was perfect timing,” Green said.

Pau Gasol and Ron Artest each scored 16 for Los Angeles, with all of Artest’s points coming in the first half. Bynum added 11 points and Derek Fisher 10.

As far as Bryant was concerned, the Lakers had to accept that they might have trouble containing a star like Paul, but must be resilient enough to win the series.

“He’s going to have games like this,” Bryant said. “I mean, the majority of the game, he’s just a phenomenal player.”

The Hornets, who led 49-45 at halftime, never trailed in the second half and opened their lead to as many as nine points, at 57-48, early in the third quarter when Marco Belinelli’s 3 capped a 20-3 spurt that had started in the second quarter.

Bryant had been shut out to that point, but that was about to change. He scored the next eight points to cut New Orleans’ lead to a point. He wound up with 14 in the quarter, but with Paul driving New Orleans’ offense and helping out on the defensive end with a key steal and five rebounds, the Hornets held a 69-67 lead heading into the fourth quarter.

“Chris Paul, that was one of the better performances I’ve seen in the playoffs,” Williams said. “A lot of guys score. He scored. He assisted.

He rebounded.”

New Orleans opened the fourth with a flourish. After setting up Green’s 3, Paul added a tough floater from the baseline as he was fouled and a step-back jumper on the baseline capping a 12-3 run that made it 81-72 with 6:13 left.

Steve Blake turned the momentum with a 3, then Bryant added a pull-up in the lane and a free throw to cut it to 81-78 with 4:24 left.

Bryant had a chance to tie it at 83 with a little over 2 minutes left, but his shot was short and Paul scrambled for the long rebound, drawing a foul on Gasol and hitting crucial free throws to make it 85-80.

The Hornets were narrowly able to hold on after the Lakers had cut it to 88-86 on Gasol’s inside basket and Lamar Odom’s free throws.

That’s when Paul set up Jack’s crucial score at the shot clock buzzer, and Jack added three more free throws for the final margin.

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NCAA should consider banning criminals from playing Mike Greenway Argonaut

College athletics are fun and exciting, but some of the players behind the jersey may not be the kind of people many want to associate with.

The NCAA should consider taking a stronger stand on players who commit crimes, as they make the campus around them less safe.

It is not fair students have to live in a vulnerable position because a coach wants to win. The students on campus should have rights as well.

Crimes like smoking pot or underage drinking don’t always call for a player being banned from playing as these crimes, although illegal, don’t always make the campus less safe.

Crimes like rape, assault, battery and murder do make a campus less safe and those players should be banned from playing NCAA athletics. Success on the court or the field is not as important as the safety on campus.

This is not to say sports aren’t important or necessary, but who is representing the team and sport is also important. Coaches and schools don’t seem to care about that — the main concern at places like Ohio State, Florida and Oregon is winning. As far as these schools are con-

cerned, as long as the player performs on the field it really doesn’t matter what they do off the field, and that’s wrong.

Oregon running back Mike Greenway Argonaut L a M i c h a e l James was arrested on domestic violence charges. He was in jail for five days for strangling and assaulting his girlfriend. When he was released from jail, he faced no disciplinary action from Oregon or the Oregon football team, as he was eligible to play in the team’s first game. If he was an ordinary student, he would not have been treated so kindly by the school. James, at the very least, should have been thrown off the football team for his actions, if not kicked out of school entirely.

These types of incidents occur at many other places and the NCAA should step in and not allow these types of players to play. If the NCAA steps up and does not allow players to play who have committed crimes, campuses nationwide would be a lot safer.

US women win hockey worlds Beat Canada 3-2 in OT ZURICH (AP) — The United States has won its third straight women’s world hockey championship, beating Canada 3-2 in overtime.

Hilary Knight scored the winner 7:48 into the extra period Monday for her fifth goal of the tournament, giving the U.S. its fourth world title in the last five events.

Defending Olympic champion Canada, which lost for just the fourth time in the last 13 meetings, forced overtime on Rebecca Johnston’s power play-goal with less than 4 minutes left in the third period.

The U.S. opened the scoring at 16:56 of the first period on a goal by Jocelyne Lamoureux with twin sister Monique assisting. Gillian Apps’ slap shot evened the score with 8 seconds left in the period.

U.S. captain Jenny Potter made it 2-1 with a backhander at 12:05 of the second.

Canada had a strong attack in the third period, getting 23 shots on goal — including the tying score from Johnston.

U.S. goalie Jessie Vetter finished with 50 saves. Canada’s Shannon Szabados had 47.

Earlier, Finland won the bronze medal by beating Russia 3-2 in overtime for its third straight third-place finish at the worlds. Finland also won bronze at the Olympics last year.

Finland captain Karoliina Rantamaki scored the decisive goal after Minnamari Tuominen, a student at Ohio State, scored twice in regulation. Goalie Noora Raty made 35 saves.

The U.S. is scheduled to defend its title on home ice when the 2012 championship is staged in Burlington, Vt. The U.S. and Canada have met in every worlds final since the tournament debuted in 1990.

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loss that they aren’t as competitive as they could be.

“I’ve seen it where it’s a disadvantage where if they had worked on technically getting better and staying at a comfortable weight, it probably would have been better for them,” Davis said.

In Idaho and many other states across the nation, there are set regulations on the minimum wrestlers can weigh to compete. Davis said at the beginning of the season wrestlers must weigh in, take body fat measurements and pass a hydration test to assure they didn’t drop a few pounds of water weight before the test.

“There just always has been abuse in the sport and for a growing body ... if they’re cutting weight significantly then they aren’t getting the nutrients they need and it can stunt their growth physically,” Davis said.

Davis said the body fat and weight measurements determine the lowest weight at which an athlete can wrestle. If they are currently above that weight they are also given a chart that displays the maximum amount of pounds they can lose each week to still be eligible.

The Argonaut “It puts in some pretty good checks and gives acknowledgment that there should be limits to weight loss ... I was really pleased to see those changes happen,” Davis said.

The regulations also give wrestlers a two-pound increase for each weight bracket in the middle of the season because of muscle mass that is gained.

Brad Bruce, a senior at Moscow High School, said he runs to keep his weight in check and doesn’t worry too much about diet until a few days before a weigh-in.

“The main thing is water weight, drinking weighs a ton. If you drink a big Powerade that’s 32 ounces, that’s two pounds of weight that stays with you,” Bruce said. “When you get to higher competition, everyone cuts down, so you’re eventually wrestling guys a lot bigger than you ... you want to cut down to be more competitive.”

The most intense thing Bruce said he has done to fit into a weight class was losing six pounds in one day. He said he did it by wearing two or three layers of “sweat suits” during practice and running afterward. Bruce said he has seen other competitors sit in the sauna or wear plastic suits, which are illegal

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during the spring, but he’s confident Elmo will push the other two guys in fall camp.

“I think it hurts Taylor because he’d be a couple steps further come fall time, so now it’s like starting back at square one,” Pupunu said. “But I think he’ll catch on as long as he keeps working and doing the right things, but the main thing for him right now is to heal.”

While Elmo has been out, LaGrone and Homme have been stepping it up. Pupunu said the two have improved a lot this spring and have been making big plays.

“They’ve both gotten a lot better since the beginning of spring ball and really progressed, so when we come back in the fall it’s going to be even better,” Pupunu said. “… Michael LaGrone has made huge strides this spring and is making some tremendous plays on the field, and the same with Homme. It’s hard to

now. He said when he was on a national team was when he saw the most extreme measures for making weight.

“There were kids just riding bikes for hours and hours by a hot tub so it’s warm ... they’ll drop like 10 to 15 pounds before weighin,” Bruce said.

In order to curb his hunger, Bruce chews gum. He said many other wrestlers would spit to ease their hunger pains and also to lose water weight.

“They’ll eat candy, like Jolly Ranchers, and spit into bottles,” Bruce said.

“They candy makes them salivate so they can lose some water weight.”

A big mistake rookie wrestlers make is bingeing right after a weigh-in.

Bruce said he used to do this before he knew better and it would always make him sick. He said the best approach is to eat healthy meals with portion control.

“You can’t just go eat a ton, you’ll be sick,” Bruce said. “One senior ... it was his first year wrestling and he cut a ton of weight, but after he weighed in he’d pig out. It happened twice that he would go to wrestle and puke in the middle of the match because he was so full.”

say because both those guys are doing it on the field so it’s good.”

Pupunu said he’s been impressed with how his guys have been working together.

They are young and he said they still need work with blocking and fundamentals, but they’re working together, despite competing with each other.

“It’s nice to see they’re helping each other out,” Pupunu said. “They understand they’re competing with each other, but there’s no animosity there. They’re helping each other out and they’re growing, which is good to see, that’s what you want.”

Since the spring season has ended, fans will have to wait until the fall to see who will be starting at the tight end position. Pupunu said no one has claimed the role yet and it’s anyone’s game.

“They’ll all be pushing for the spot,” Pupunu said. “That’s what makes it fun because now you’re putting pressure on all the guys, so we’ll see what happens.”

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Idaho senior Andrew Blaser prepares to throw the javelin Saturday morning at the Cougar Invitational in Pullman. Last weekend, Blaser threw the javelin 142-2 (14.00m) and put the shot 33-1 (10.08m).

Blaser also vaulted 14-9.5 (4.51m) and claimed second place in the 110m hurdles (14.85).

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SEATTLE (AP) — The Mariners seem to keep finding ways to lose lately.

Sometimes, it’s the bullpen self-destructing. Other times, it’s the offense struggling to provide any run support for Seattle’s starting pitchers or the defense making costly errors.

The Mariners’ 5-2 loss to the Oakland Athletics on Sunday was just the latest example.

“We’ve got to break through this,” Seattle manager Eric Wedge said. “We had opportunities on and off throughout the course of the ballgame.

These guys are going to have to figure out a way to fight through whatever they are going through mentally, fundamentally for that matter, and finish off innings. That’s the difference in the ballgame.”

Brett Anderson (2-1) allowed two runs, one earned, and struck out six for the victory. Brian Fuentes came on in the eighth inning and struck out three of his four batters in picking up the four-out save. It was his sixth save in seven chances.

Mariners starter Doug Fister gave the team a chance to win. He allowed just one run on four hits over six innings and left with the game knotted at 1. It was Fister’s third quality start in his last four outings and he has allowed three runs or less in all but one of his starts this year. Yet Fister has just one win to show for his efforts.

“He didn’t have his best stuff, but he battled,” Wedge said. “He didn’t give in to it. I thought that was a gutsy performance on his part.

“I’ve been thrilled with

the way he’s thrown the ball this year.”

Coco Crisp had three hits, scored three runs and stole a base, and Anderson pitched seven strong innings as the A’s earned a series split.

With the game tied at 1 in the seventh, Crisp reached on a fielder’s choice against reliever Aaron Laffey (0-1) and moved to third on a single by pinchhitter Conor Jackson. Josh Willingham followed with a double down the left-field line that Milton Bradley misplayed in the corner and allowed Jackson to score from first to give Oakland a 3-1 lead.

Seattle got a run back in the bottom half as Michael Saunders led off with an infield single.

Jack Wilson reached on a throwing error by Kevin Kouzmanoff and the runners advanced as the ball caromed into the stands.

Ryan Langerhans picked up an RBI on a groundout to first that allowed Saunders to score, but Wilson was left stranded at third as Ichiro Suzuki flew out to center and Chone Figgins struck out looking.

“You just keep on playing,” Wilson said. “Every team is going to go through a rut like that. We just won two in a row then had two tough games and Anderson was pretty darn good out there and we just couldn’t get a jump on him.”

The Mariners threatened again in the eighth inning, but pinch-hitter Luis Rodriguez struck out to strand the tying run at third.

An error by Figgins on a possible double play ball kept the ninth inning alive and Willingham doubled to score two more

runs for insurance off Jamey Wright to seal the win.

After the game, Seattle optioned right-hander Josh Lueke to Triple-A Tacoma and recalled righty Dan Cortes in hoping of helping stabilize a battered bullpen.

Anderson allowed two runs, one earned, and struck out six over seven innings of work to earn the victory. Brian Fuentes came on in the eighth inning and struck out three of his four batters in picking up the fourout save. It was his sixth save in seven chances.

Hideki Matsui came up with a two out single to right field that scored Crisp from second to give Oakland the 1-0 lead.

Suzuki led off with a bunt single of his own in the bottom half of the first and, despite being picked off by Anderson, was able to get into second base safely when Daric Barton’s throw hit him in the backside.

A grounder to second by Bradley brought Suzuki home and tied it at 1.

Fister worked out of a jam in the fifth after giving up a leadoff triple to Crisp. Adam Kennedy snared a one-hopper from Barton at first and kept Crisp from advancing home. Fister then forced David DeJesus to pop up to third base and Willingham flew out to end the threat.

Crisp then flashed his glove.

In the sixth inning, Miguel Olivo led off with a drive to center that Crisp tracked down and caught running full speed before slamming into the wall with his left shoulder. Crisp seemed to favor it briefly before shaking it off and staying in.

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OPINION

Page 9 April 26, 2011

Our View

Senator scandals losing shock value Let’s play a game of fill in the blank — Senator (blank) from (blank) has stepped down from office amid allegations of a sex scandal with a political aide.

It doesn’t matter what name or state is inserted into those spots, nor does it matter the party preference or length of service from said senator.

There is no longer any shock or public humiliation attached to a political figure’s

sexual misconduct, which shows the American public now has the mindset of, “It’s OK because they all cheat, we expect it to happen.” The integrity of the office members of the government hold has gone down every time a scandal of this nature happens, and it has eroded to a point where integrity almost no longer exists.

The latest senator who failed to stay faithful was John Ensign (R-Nev). Ensign has

been under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee after having an extended affair with former aide Cynthia Hampton in order to help Hampton land her husband a lobbying job in Ensign’s home state.

Ensign announced his resignation from the Senate April 22, stating he would leave office May 3. This move means Ensign’s case will no longer be under the ethics committee jurisdiction, and in turn, they will not be

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Quick takes on life from our editors

Catch-22

I’m not quite sure I understand the working world — you guys want me to have anywhere from two to five years of experience, but how am I supposed to get that experience if I can’t get a job without it?

— Kelli

Fascinating

I’m taking a class called Dress and Culture this semester, and we’re learning about sari, the national dress for Indian women, in the last part of the course. It’s amazing to learn about all the different rituals and meanings associated with the sari, like how the first major piece of furniture women buy is a steel chest to keep their saris in, and how some motherin-laws keep women’s saris under lock and key to prevent them from leaving the family.

I just throw on jeans and a Tshirt every morning.

— Chava

Easter

Congratulations to Real Life Ministries for doing an Easter Sunday service without mentioning Easter. I think it is an interesting idea, but I don’t know if it is a great idea.

— Jens

Why Flav, why?

After only four months of being open, Flavor Flav’s fried chicken joint has closed down in the small town of Clinton, Iowa. I can only imagine the “time” and effort he put into his food.

— Madison

Why do you hate me, Mr. Weather?

I really try not to use this space to talk about weather.

Someone once told me that people talk about the weather because they have nothing intelligent to say. But, seriously, what is with this weather? My fingers no longer have mobility because they are frozen solid. My pasty skin is aching for Vitamin D. My hair is flat and wet every day. Please, summer, don’t make me wait much longer.

— Tanya

The sugar shakes

Samoa Girl Scout Cookie ice cream is my methadone for Easter candy withdrawals.

— Anja

Really?

All I want is a second job for the summer. Why is this a difficult process? Oh, and happy birthday, Loren Morris. Have fun tonight.

— Kelcie

Freedom

I celebrated Easter by sleeping in and eating Subway. I love college.

— Loren

Whispers

I heard rumors of some new uniform changes for the 20112012 Vandal football team. If it involves silver, gold and black, I know they’ll be awesome.

What if the team got flat black helmets with a gold “I Vandals?” OK, now I might be getting a little too out of hand.

— Nick

Warm weather…

When will you be here? I miss you so bad. You teased me this weekend by being all pretty and nice outside (I could comfortably wear a dress at 9:30 p.m. Saturday), and now it is just rain and gray skies. I am not impressed.

— Elizabeth

able to charge him with any wrongdoing.

But we cannot just turn a blind eye.

These are the men and women who have been voted in by the people, and have a job to do. If they can’t be upheld to the same ethical standards as the rest of us, maybe voters need to stop being apathetic and pay attention to the people they are putting in office.

— MM

Juliana Ward Argonaut

Capital punishment not constructive How often does a No- tate someone there would be bel Peace Prize nominee get greater progress.

Five years incarcerated, put to death by the American justice system via capital Williams had a religious conversion and resolved to begin punishment?

One might even wonder again. Williams got to work how a person on death row immediately after seeing the receives such a prestigious damage he had done and the nomination. Stanley “Took- potential damage to come for children inie” Williams received corporating themmultiple nominaselves into these tions and an execugangs. He wrote tion in return. He is children’s books better known as the that described his man who started the story, and encournotorious gang in aged children to Los Angeles called live up to their pothe Crips, which is tential by resisting one of the largest the gang life. He gangs in America. Casey Dail He was convicted of Argonaut also spoke to those already involved in four individual murthe Bloods (anothders, not including the many completed within er highly organized and well known gang) and the Crips, his gang.

What is a state to do to pleading for peace between bring this havoc to silence? the two.

Shouldn’t this man have The justice system chose to put him on death row in been released? He could have done a lot of good for those 1979.

Pope John Paul II discuss- in gangs, because of his past es the death penalty in “The as a member, but also as the Gospel of Life” and said, one who established a major “The nature and extent of the gang. It was during this time punishment ought not to go Williams was nominated for to the extreme of executing many Nobel Peace Prizes and the offender, except in cases Nobel Literature Prizes — of absolute necessity: In other but instead won death from words, when it would not be the state. He was no doubt possible otherwise to defend guilty, but repentance should society. Today, however, as mean something.

In fact, some on death row a result of steady improvements in the organization of are found innocent. Since the the penal system, such cases 1970s there have been about are very rare if not practically 120 people who have been wrongfully accused and renonexistent.”

The main point of the leased, and a possible 38 exPope’s statement is second ecutions of innocent people. chances rather than ending a People understand wrongful life. If a society can rehabili- execution is a crime in itself,

Discipline is meant to redirect the wrong action.

In order to redirect a child’s negative behavior, the punishment should be in accord with what the child did. but what about those who were merely accused for a while and released?

One example was a man sentenced in his early 20s, who was unable to finish school and start a family. He feared for his life, all the while knowing his innocence, and was released in his 50s.

Discipline is meant to redirect the wrong action. In order to redirect a child’s negative behavior, the punishment should be in accord with what the child did. If a boy calls his sister names, then making him do dishes is punishment. Having him voice five things he admires of his sister is redirection, while establishing rules of a respectful household. But with the death penalty, there is no option for redirection, but rather a parent giving up and sending him away.

Within capital punishment, we do not allow the person a second chance.

The most important eco- also mean the value of the nomic issue currently facing dollar would plummet. This the U.S. is something people would mean the end of the might never have heard of — American economy as most of the population is forced the debt ceiling.

A majority of Americans into instant poverty.

So why is there even a oppose raising the debt ceiling, according to some polls. debate about the debt ceiling at all? The debt This doesn’t mean ceiling has been they actually know raised before, and what the debt ceilis regularly. But ing is, or what it now it’s become does. What they do a battleground for know is they opthe fight for fiscal pose it. responsibility.

The logic is fairApparently letly simple. The govting the Ameriernment has gotten can economy fail into debt by spend- Max Bartlett ing irresponsibly.

Argonaut to make a political point counts as “reThe debt ceiling sponsibility” now. is the maximum The Republicans, natuamount the federal government can legally borrow. If rally, have been at the head we don’t raise the debt ceil- of the big push not to raise ing, the federal government the debt ceiling. They want can’t borrow any more mon- to lower the national debt ey, forcing them to reduce by cutting spending. That’s why their plan would add the debt.

Turns out that simple logic $6 trillion to the debt in the isn’t enough here. The prob- next decade.

Oops. lem is, the governIt turns out ment can’t actually that it isn’t acstop borrowing if tually possible it wants to functo have a function. And failing tioning governto raise the debt ment without ceiling would have debt. The govsome fairly serious ernment has to consequences. borrow money The big issue in order to be is that if America able to spend hits the debt ceilmoney, and ing, the governthereby keep ment can’t borrow the economy any more money. moving. And And if it can’t America’s debt borrow any more isn’t really that money, it can’t bad, viewed in pay the debts that proportion — we have. we have trilThis means we lions of dollars have two options in debt, but we to deal with the situation. The first would be also earn trillions of dollars to massively raise taxes. Rais- in revenue every year.

Failing to raise the debt ing revenues can be a good way to actually have money to ceiling is not an option. spend. Raising taxes like this Without the ability to borisn’t an option — it would re- row, the government will quire so much tax revenue so not be able to fund itself. quickly that it would basically Don’t let members of Congress hold the economy hosdestroy the economy.

The other option is to de- tage by threatening not to fault on our debts. We would raise the debt ceiling. Right simply say we can’t pay any now, doing so is politically of our debts, since we can’t convenient. It’s up to us to raise the debt ceiling, and make sure we do not reward declare bankruptcy. This Congress politically for would effectively get rid of threatening the future of the our debt problem. It would American economy.

Failing to raise the debt ceiling is not an option.

Without the ability to borrow, the government will not be able to fund itself.

Mail Box Correspondence with our readers

Thank you, students On April 23, during the ASUI Saturday of Service, a group of University of Idaho students traveled out to Troy to help us work on the community garden. Last fall, a group of students helped us put the garden to bed for the winter, and this group helped wake it back up for spring. By the time they had weeded, spread fertilizer, rototilled and raked all the plots, the plots were beautiful and ready for people to plant. This is such a wonderful service to the communities, and I wanted to say thank you so very much to them for all their hard work and their friendly, energetic, can-do attitudes. And thanks, too, to Marlene and Bob Wilson of Troy, who let us use their rototiller and hand tools, and gave freely of their time and expertise. It is community efforts such as this that make projects like the community gardens in our region possible. The Troy Community Garden was started three years ago by the Troy Horizons group and has been a wonderful success. These gardens feed the people and bring us all together for a common cause. Good luck, students, as you go out into the world, and thanks again.

— Susan Westervelt Manager of Troy Community Garden

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The Argonaut

Definitive Four

Memories of Moscow

As another set of University tributing to the community.

Moscow Farmer’s Market of Idaho graduates prepare to leave town, each one will take gives a person a chance to see away some unique and special Moscow’s more eccentric side.

A lot of people, esmemories of Moscow. pecially students, Some are bad, others fail to realize the good — but most will town has quite a few miss the town, at least a colorful characters. little bit.

The Farmer’s MarIt would be easy ket tends to bring to complain about the this crazy element bad things most people together for a few won’t miss after leaving hours each Saturday town — bad music bemorning. Between ing played loudly, no fashion sense whatso- Cheyenne Hollis that and the food, it ever, a lack of quality art Argonaut cannot be matched. and ridiculous-looking Scenery lifted pick-up trucks Going for a run are just a few of the unpleasant or bicycle ride in Moscow is things in Moscow. a joy. There is always someHowever, those are likely to be forgotten once a person has thing new or different to see left the town and starts becom- when cruising around. The ing nostalgic. What will be re- most obvious choices are the membered with some fondness trails or paths, but there is are the things that make Mos- more to it. There are very few places where one can go runcow special.

Moscow may not be the big- ning past a bunch of sheep or gest or most exciting place to other barnyard animals.

Most people also fail to come to school, but there are a few things everyone definitively realize how spectacular the campus is because they are too misses once they have left. busy thinking about school to Farmer’s Market take the time to look around.

The Moscow Farmer’s The scenery will not be nearMarket is about more than just ly as good for most graduates the food. Of course, the food once they enter into the daily plays a big role. It is great, but grind of life after college. there is more to it than just that. It also goes beyond the Getting around Driving from one end of sense of civic pride some get about buying local and con- Moscow to the other takes

about 5 minutes, even under the most dire of traffic conditions. For those without cars, nearly everything important is within a reasonable walking distance, and the town is extremely bicycle-friendly.

There is also an effective public transportation system in Moscow.

It is nice to have a plethora of options available to get from point A to point B. The lack of real traffic congestion is also a bonus as well. Very few places match the speed or variety Moscow has when it comes to getting around town.

The price

One of the major drawing points that attracts people to Idaho is that it is really cheap.

There are plenty of things to miss about Moscow, but most people will miss the cheap cost of living the most. Things are not likely to be much cheaper after graduation.

For all of the town’s shortcomings, they are quickly forgotten once a person figures out just how much money he or she saves by going to UI. Everything else is likely to stay the same in Moscow, so there is always the option to come back and enjoy it again.

Living the scant college lifestyle only happens once, and will be missed as soon as the first set of bills arrives.

April 26, 2011

Reform needed for welfare The misconceptions con- lose them because they are cerning Medicaid and wel- unemployed. Right now, unfare benefits are getting out of employed people are required to provide documentation of control.

It seems the general pub- actively seeking work. This lic does not really know how is the way it needs to stay, or either system works and are even more will go hungry.

A second welfare benefit blaming the lower class for poverty. It needs to be made is Section 8 of the housing clear — yes, there is a small policy. This is a government percentage of those in pov- program that provides subsierty who could make a few dized housing for lower class changes and raise their status, families or individuals. This program is also esbut for most, poverty sential, but much is where they will stay harder to obtain because of the system then food stamps. currently in place.

There is a miniTo understand why mum two-year the lower class does waitlist for Section not simply need to 8 housing, leaving budget better or work many who need longer, there needs to it immediately be a brief overview of homeless until how it all works. their name finally Food stamps are Katy Sword Argonaut reaches the top. one of the crucial elWhen it does, ements of the welfare they have to system. Lately, many have been abusing this ben- jump through many hoops efit and are giving those who to receive benefits. Similar actually need the service a to food stamps, the receiving bad name. Food stamp ben- party is evaluated and given a efits work through income price scale for rent based on evaluation according to a scale family size and income. They based on how many people then are given a voucher and are in a household. There are have 45 days to find housing, then multiple forms to fill out but there are many problems correctly and submitted by that can arise. The property specific dates, and must be owner has to accept Section completed every six months. 8 vouchers, which many do Increasing household income, not, and the house has to uneven a few dollars above the dergo an official inspection.

This can often take as long as income limit, ends eligibility.

When families finally get two weeks.

Applicants can also only a raise or find new work that pays better they are punished apply to one house at a time, by losing the benefits they so if the first is not approved, rely on. Receiving a 25 cent they have to start again, and raise does not close the gap any earlier prospects are most between having food stamps likely no longer available. or not. This rule discourages Once moved in, residents those in poverty from better- can relax — slightly. The ing their work situation, be- application process is redone cause then they will be worse every year, and if residents miss or are late paying rent, off than before.

The Republican Party has they may lose their funding.

Then there is Medicproposed new requirements of recipients to work and aid. The application process cuts to these benefits, which is similar to food stamps, would leave even more poor but the recertification takes families without food. This place annually. Losing benmeans someone who is laid- efits is also similar. If parents off and needs the benefits the move out of the allowed inmost is the person who would come bracket, even slightly,

It seems the general public does not really know how either system works and are blaming the lower class for poverty. they lose all of their medical, dental and vision benefits for children 18 and under. These are extremely vital, and are the reason many children receive any sort of medical care. While Medicaid may cover the basics, anything more is rarely covered and leaves the family to pay out of pocket.

For example, dental braces are rated on a 10-point scale. The child’s teeth are evaluated, and every problem is given a point. They must receive eight points to qualify for braces, which for most is a high standard.

This leaves children with, at times, excessive problems because Medicaid will not cover treatment and their parents cannot afford to pay themselves.

This happens for more than just braces. It occurs with any larger surgery, prolonged treatment or medical supplies, such as crutches.

The welfare system might have its benefits, but the current construction makes it almost impossible for those in it to move out, and get what they need while in. The current proposed cuts might seem like a good idea, but only to those who do not understand what the lower class has to go through to receive any benefits. If Republicans really want to save money, then the system needs to be redesigned so people can slowly work their way up and out without punishment.

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