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The NCAA combined several rule vio-lations men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s track and field and football team failed to follow.

From the 22 allegations between 2005 and 2010 the NCAA found, the majority involved impermissible housing, trans-portation or meals being provided by existing student athletes to incoming stu-dent athletes. Boise State President Bob Kustra responded to the NCAA and the violations April 25:

“I am confident we have responded throughly to the NCAA. Our internal review was comprehensive and our re-sponse was very detailed,” Kustra said.

From 2009 through May 2010 the uni-versity began an internal investigation upon a request from the NCAA. Boise State responded to the inquiries and then discovered secondary infractions in prep-aration for a summary disposition where the university and the NCAA agreed on the violations.

As a result of a new violation in wom-en’s tennis from Oct. 2010, the NCAA has decided to turn the case over to the Committee on Infractions instead of keeping the agreement for summary dis-position which is for the less severe cases.

According to the NCAA, in football alone for housing, transportation and meals provided to 63 incoming student athletes cost $4,934. Services ranged from $2.34 to $417 and were reimbursed by the student athletes.

Tennis and track and field’s cost of providing extra benefits to the student athletes cost $718 for the last five years.

“We are deeply committed to follow-ing all NCAA rules and to ensuring that our athletic department works diligently so that our procedures reflect the highest standards,” said Kustra.

Boise State has made changes to avoid future violations already, including hir-ing additional compliance staff, updat-ing policies in the athletics compliance

manual and transferring complacence re-sponsibility from the athletic department to President Kustra’s office and through the general counsel.

“Complying with NCAA rules is fun-damental to who we are and how we do

things at Boise State. We have addressed the issues and are working with the NCAA to bring this to a close,” said Ath-letics Director Gene Bleymaier.

The NCAA Committee on Infractions will review Kustra’s response June 10.

NCAA: Athletics lack‘institutional control’

Wyatt MartinJournalist Lloyd Hardin McNeil has been charged

with second degree murder and arson in the death of his former fiance Natalie Davis.

Davis, 30, was found dead in her home March 5, when fireman were called for a house fire on Lincoln Avenue.

These charges include the former offense of grand theft when McNeil took Davis’ car, jewelry, and other items when he fled to Montana before going to Seattle.

According to KTVB, McNeil and Davis fought on the evening of March 4. He then suffocated Davis and staged her body on the living room sofa so when her brother left for work early the following morning, he would not realize she was dead.

Afterward McNeil took Davis and placed her in the bed and set the fire.

He then fled the area eventually going to Seattle where he was apprehended on a grand theft warrant and returned to Boise.

Initially the cause of her death was un-known, but court documents released Thursday say Davis died of suffocation.

McNeil’s charge of murder is in the sec-ond degree, meaning prosecutors do not believe her death was planned in advance. If convicted, he faces possible life in prison.

Man charged with second degreemurder in Natalie Davis’ death

Sherry hortonJournalist

Lisa Harris, Ph.D., has been hired as the new vice presi-dent of student affairs, taking over for Mara Afrre, who was interim vice president since October when former Vice President Michael Laliberte left for Wisconsin.

Harris, who was the assistant vice president of Student Affairs for Mississippi State University, has been involved in student affairs for more than 30 years. She has worked primarily in the south with previous jobs at the Univer-sity of Alabama, Louisiana State, Clemson University and University of Tennessee.

“I have dedicated my life to student development and have been fortunate to hold positions at institutions that share my values and vision,” Harris said. “I’m looking for-ward to becoming a member of the Bronco family and part of a student-focused university whose leadership and quality are widely recognized.”

Harris completed her doctorate in vocational educa-tion from Louisiana State in 1997. She earned both a mas-ter of education in 1982 and a bachelor of arts in psychol-ogy in 1978 from Clemson. She has also had experience teaching, having taught various graduate level courses at Mississippi State and Alabama.

Lisa Harris named VP of Student Affairs

Suzanne CraigJournalist

Anchorage, Alaska -- An 18-year-old was cuffed after multiple people called 911 re-porting people jumping on river ice.

Michael Poland, 18, took a voyage down Chena River with friends by breaking off a 10-by-15 foot piece of ice and using a lid cooler as a paddle down the river.

“It was dumb. I know that. It was pretty stupid. But it was all in fun,” Poland said.

The river channel was filling with spring melt, but Poland says he didn’t feel like he was in danger because the water was shallow.

Poland spent the night in jail and was sentenced to 10 days in jail with all 10 sus-pended the next day. He also received 50 hours of community service and was fined more than $100.

Teen arrested after floating on river ice

After the retiring senators were ushered out and the new senators were seated April 26, President of the Faculty Senate Owen Mc-Dougal called for nominations or self-nominations for a new vice president. Silence filled the Hatch Ballroom of the SUB. He asked again and this time the silence was followed by nervous laughter. No one stepped up.

McDougal then suggested Vice President Anne Gregory tell the senate about “the joy of being vice president.” Laughter ensued while

she did her best to do so.McDougal then shifted tactics

and asked for nominations for president. After a few questions and more silence Anne Gregory finally stepped up and nominated herself to a roomful of applause.

McDougal proceeded again with the nominations for vice president. Again silence reigned until Gregory nominated Senator John Ziker for the position. A few uncomfortable minutes passed before he actually accepted the nomination.

The senate was short five seats in the following departments: Col-lege of Arts and Sciences (Division of Natural Sciences), College of Arts and Sciences (Division of Arts

and Letter) two vacancies, Social Science and Public Affairs and the Graduate College.

Associate Professor Joie Burns of radiologic sciences and junior senator for the College of Health Sciences said that the senate can be time-consuming and can take away from personal interests and research.

“It’s also true that while service is one part of a faculty’s responsi-bilities, it is probably the least ap-preciated and rewarded activity in the annual evaluation process and the promotion and tenure process,” Burns said.

So how do senators overcome the time challenge? Professor

Mark Hansen, chair of the music department, said his workload and extremely busy schedule have kept him from volunteering in the past.

“In joining the senate, I make a conscious decision to move this activity up the priority scale in my many commitments to the univer-sity.”

Before stepping down McDougal wished the nominating committee good luck in filling the vacant posi-tions. McDougal would have been taking the past-president position had the constitution made it’s way through the state board. But, be-cause it hasn’t, he’s finished with the senate and back to being an in-structor of chemistry.

Faculty Senate has five empty chairsKiMberley o’bryan

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“I am confident we have responded throughly to the NCAA. Our internal review was comprehensive and our response was very detailed,” Kustra said.

The long hours, debates and headaches make filling spots on Faculty Senate difficult. The senate has five vacancies.Arbiter File Photo

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Carl Wilkens speaks on slaughter in Rwanda

“I couldn’t just say to my friends and colleagues ‘I’ll pray for you’ and then leave.”

Carl Wilkens spoke at the Boise State Special Events Center last Tuesday on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. More than one million people were exterminated in only 100 days. Most of the dead were Tutsis, the minority population, and the moderate Hutus who re-fused to participate in the slaugh-ter. The president was assassinated and the Hutu militia took over the small country, hacking men, wom-en and children to death with ma-chetes. There were roughly 10,000 deaths per day in the tiny country. These armed killers raped more than 250,000 women and left 75,000 children without parents.

Survivors Fund UKThe Arbiter: In the movie

about Rwanda’s genocide “Shak-ing Hands with the Devil,” the general couldn’t drive his jeep down the road because of all the bodies in the streets. Was it really that bad?

Carl Wilkens: As awful as that movie was they didn’t capture so much of horror that happened.

The most grotesque things that were done to people, and what they were forced to do to other human beings, did not appear in the film.

A: When the genocide began and all the foreigners were leav-ing you decided not to go. Tell me what the conversation was like be-tween you and your wife.

CW: Each time we talked about it, my work as a humani-tarian said that when things get worse that’s when you’re needed more. When it came right down to it right there at the genocide, I think at the center of our deci-

sion was the young lady that lived in our home whose ID card said Tutsi. None of us could imagine just leaving her there to be killed.

A: What did your work with ADRA consist of?

CW: That work was defined by the colonel in charge of the city (Colonel Renzaho). I asked him what were the greatest needs and he pointed us to orphanages. I was working on bringing food and wa-ter and medicine to three groups of orphans.

A: Were the orphanages under threat?

CW: One day, when I showed

up with water, we were surround-ed and they (Hutu troops) were threatening to massacre everyone in the orphanage. I decided to get help. The brother of the orphanage director begged me not to go be-cause the troops would kill them. I think back to the relationship I had with the colonel and wonder how much influence that relationship had on how I was treated.

A: You left to see the chief of police, so why did you end up talk-ing with the prime minister?

CW: I got to the police sta-tion and the secretary, whom I’d talked to several times before, told me he was gone, but the prime minister happened to be there. I jokingly said maybe I should talk to him and she responded that yes I should. So, I asked him to spare the orphans at Gisimba. I prob-ably wouldn’t have talked to him if it weren’t for that secretary.

A: Do you think the prime minister would have listened to anyone else beside you?

CW: I never really thought about that. I think it would have been very hard for a Rwandan to ask the prime minister and not be

considered a traitor. The govern-ment tried to put on a face with foreigners of some form of legiti-macy. So I played on that.

A: Did you ever just think “Okay, this is it. I’m done?”

CW: No, there were times when I got discouraged but not to the point of leaving. The reason that we chose to stay was always right there, the young lady in our home. And then the reasons start-

ed to pile up even more. These orphans were depending on us for water and food. The reasons to stay just grew and grew. Hor-ror and hopelessness grew too. The huge need and the fact that we were having some success defi-nitely went a long way.

For more information about Carl Wilkens:

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- Lasted 100 days, April 6 to July 16, 1994- Estimated 800,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsisplus moderate Hutus were slaughtered- Six people were murdered every minute- 250,000 to 500,000 women were raped- 67,000 of those women contracted HIVand AIDS as a result- 75,000 children were orphaned- 40,000 survivors remain without shelterto this day

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The stacked talent pool Boise State football will provide the 2012 NFL Draft makes early speculation nearly impossible

The 2011 NFL Draft has come and gone, and yet again the Boise State football team left its mark with three players being selected: Titus Young (Detroit Lions, second round, No. 44

pick), Austin Pettis (St. Louis Rams, third round, No. 78 pick) and

Brandyn Thompson (Washington Redskins, seventh round, No. 213 pick). Boise State coaches do a phenomenal job of finding recruits who fly under the radar and developing them, the players then make the most of their opportunities. Lately those opportunities have lead

to NFL success (Darren Colledge, Quintin Mikell and Ryan Clady). Winning is contagious, and NFL front offices are starting to take no-tice of the dust the Broncos have been kicking up out west. Here are some Broncos who could be “winning” in the 2012 draft.

Doug Martin is the epitome of an all-purpose football player. Throughout his career at BSU he has paid his dues, while continuing to work hard, patiently waiting for his shot. In a loaded backfield, he was able to separate himself from the rest of the pack after being moved to defense, then back to offense, where he became a monster. Martin may be asked to do the same at the next level, with his background in special teams potentially being an asset to help him get there. Like his quarter-back, his size will be questioned.

OFFENSE DEFENSEAlthough Nate Potter has battled the injury bug at times in

his career, he possesses the size and footwork scouts look for as a blindside tackle at the next level. NFL front offices are always looking for a diamond in the rough, a sleeper if you will, and Pot-ter qualifies for all of the above. If Potter can stay healthy and have a repeat campaign of 2010 versus a stronger talent pool in the Mountain West Conference this season, he could see a lot of doors open for him in 2012.

If ESPN decides to run their “Quarterback Camp” package during the 2012 draft with former Super Bowl winning coach John Gruden, they’d better invite Kellen Moore. The four-year starter may be the second best quarterback in college football behind Stanford’s Andrew Luck. He may not have the NFL prototype measurements scouts drool over, but the guy flat out wins. Moore is about as poised as they come, and is rarely rattled, if ever. His accuracy, overall football IQ and ability to remain even-keeled should get him a shot somewhere.

Coaches and players alike have never questioned Billy Winn’s abilities. When he wants to get down to business he’s as tough as they come in the trenches anywhere in the country. Winn finally seems to be putting all of the pieces together, and at the right time, which is great for him and the Broncos as a collective unit. If Winn can keep his motor going, continue to create piles, and pressure the quarterback, expect big things in the future for the man in the middle.

Shea McClellin is the perfect example of ‘if you can play, they will find you.’ McClellin has proven he can play and is Already on a couple of watch lists for the 2012 draft. He played running back and linebacker in high school. Although he may be a little light for the defensive end spot, he might have a chance to play the stand up outside linebacker position in the NFL with the athleticism to drop into coverage, or collapse a pocket with his pass rushing pres-ence in blitz packages.

The word that best describes Tyrone Crawford’s potential is ‘scary.’ Physically he may be the most imposing figure on a loaded Broncos de-fensive front. As a junior, the transfer from Bakersfield College in Cali-fornia was immediately thrown into the fire vs. Virginia Tech in 2010. He managed to garner honorable mention All-America honors while essentially being a back up to former All-WAC performer Ryan Win-terswyk. Another year of defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski in his ear should prove invaluable.

Senior defensive tackle Billy Winn sacks Louisiana Tech quarterback Ross Jenkins Oct. 26 at Bronco Stadium. The Broncos defeated the Bulldogs 49-20.

Kellen Moore hands the ball off to Doug Martin who eyes an opening in the Boise State offensive line against Hawai’i Nov 6. BSU crushed the Warriors 42-7.

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By Ty Hawkins, Journalist

The unfamiliarity of club baseball unveiled

John GarretsonJournalist

“I thought it was going to be laid back and that we weren’t going to compete like Division I baseball, but that changed very, very quickly.”

That sentiment seemed to resonate with freshman out-fielder David Tovar and fellow teammate, freshman third base-man Corey Leikauf, as they took on their first Boise State club baseball practice in September.

Club sports in general tend to not get nearly the same recogni-tion varsity sports do at univer-sities and colleges nationwide. The lack of funding, fan base and general publicity are diffi-cult obstacles to overcome as a club team, especially at a school where football dominates most of the attention.

However, it did not stop Tovar and Leikauf from seeking their passion about playing the sport they loved for years at the next level. With club baseball, there was no walk on, scholarship of-fer, or invitation to practice, just a small flier in the BSU Student

Recreation Center and a simple phone call to club President Ben Halverson on where the next practice was held sufficed.

Playing baseball on the col-lege level, whether it was club or Division I, is a whole other at-mosphere. Pitchers throw astro-nomically faster and hitters are slamming the ball farther than a standard high school field. The only reasonable emotion for Leikauf and Tovar to feel about the ambiguity of club baseball was frightened.

“I was kind of intimidated. You see all the seniors play and it’s intimidating, I only knew two guys on the team and didn’t know what to expect at all,” Lei-kauf said.

As the team progressed into the spring season, the two fresh-man began to gel with the squad and took on other club teams with force. They swept the Or-egon Ducks and won two-of-three against Utah and Utah State in March and April. With an admirable 14-10 overall re-cord, the Broncos seemed to be a force to reckon within the club baseball scene.

The key to their success: The relaxed, slow paced practices in which guys focus more on enjoying the sport of baseball rather than getting worked up on the small, finite details of the game.

Yet, when the Broncos need to slam on the gas pedal to improve their game play, no teammate holds back on get-ting up to speed on where they need to be, an appealing aspect that enticed Tovar and Leikauf to play.

“I think (the reason I played) because mainly, it’s a different way of playing. It’s low tempo at first but then people begin to pick it up. Practice is relatively loose and then things become natural,” Leikauf said.

Things seem to be going well for the club team, aside from two key hardships: a lack of a

home stadium and publicity. The Broncos seem to shuffle between Storey Park in Merid-ian, Bishop Kelly High School field, and the Boise Hawks stadium which juxtaposes their deficient advertising of home games.

With a handful of departing seniors, Tovar and Leikauf plan on recruiting a younger roster and bolstering their image to the Boise State demographic in hopes of generating a strong fan base.

“With all of the seniors leaving, Corey and I plan on stepping up and continuing this team’s success by getting younger and playing stronger,” Tovar said.

To find out more about Boise State club baseball, check out the team’s website at www.bois-estatebaseball.com.

Freshmen David Tovar (left) and Corey Leikauf (right) have been instrumental for Boise State club baseball’s success this season and bring much needed youth to an up and coming team.

““—David Tovar, outfielder

With all of the seniors leaving, Corey and I plan on stepping up and continuing this team’s success by getting younger and playing stronger.

A cut above the rest

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Nikki HaNsoNJournalist

The Broncos made their mark on the record books for a second-consecutive weekend.

Boise State women’s soft-ball swept Fresno State, a feat that no other Western Athletic Conference team has done since Fresno State joined the conference in 1993.

“I think it feels really good. It is definitely a confidence booster for us and now we think that anything really is possible,” head coach Erin Thorpe said. “That was really

our first win against a key Top 25 opponent.”

Currently the ladies are ranked No. 29 and hold first place in the Western Athletic Conference by two games over New Mexico State.

The Broncos are known for their ability to come from behind. In each of their games they managed to pull through with the win after finding themselves behind the Bulldogs.

“We really concentrated on the fact that we know we score runs, so ‘why are we afraid to let them score a couple?’ I think that really helped us, hav-

ing gone through it on Friday, to understand that it definitely is possible going into that sec-ond day to keep battling and working and just reminding them that seven innings is a long time,” Thorpe said.

Fresno State got on the score-board early, but the Broncos would capitalize on a change in momentum after sophomore Megan Harvey cut down FSU’s Haley Gilleland, the all-time leader in stolen bases at Fresno State, trying to steal second.

Freshman Devon Bridges and junior Allie Crump began the Broncos offensive mo-mentum with a pair of solo home runs.

Boise State tied the game in the third with back-to-back two-out singles.

Crump then became the fourth Boise State player to hit double-digit home runs, giving the Broncos the lead.

After Friday’s win, it was essential for the Broncos to

come out focused and confi-dent. Pitching was a particular strength for the Broncos dur-ing both Saturday games.

“Our pitchers have been pretty consistent all year and we were just hoping for an-other good performance out of them,” Thorpe said. “They have had some experience fac-ing some Top 25 teams ear-lier in the season and I think just using that experience and knowing how they handled it as far as anxiety or nerves.”

In the first Saturday game the Broncos claimed victory, 3-2, after an excellent pitching performance by Crump.

Crump scattered five hits,

struck out seven and did not walk a batter for the second time this season.

“Allie threw a great game this weekend. I thought it was one of her best games of the year. She seemed to have really good control over hitting her spots and location,” Thorpe said.

BSU’s offense dominated the second game as the Broncos broke out for eight runs in the fifth inning to take a seven-run lead and withstood a Bulldog rally down the stretch.

“We had confidence because we faced the same pitcher in the first game as we did in the second,” Thorpe said. “We know that always puts teams in

a bad spot to have to do that. We gained confidence in that first game and we knew that we could hit her.”

Next on the schedule is New Mexico State (37-15, 14-4) for the regular season finale, a crucial series that could poten-tially decide the regular season champion.

“We are still trying to climb our way up and I think being such a young program peo-ple are still hesitant to think that we are really that good,” Thorpe said.

BSU athletics has always thrived being the underdog and softball is no exception.

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Dropped Out: Fresno State (No. 24)Others: DePaul (34-11) 13, BYU (31-15) 11, Auburn (36-15) 10, Boise State (32-15) 9, Chattanooga (34-11) 9, New Mexico State (37-15) 5, Texas Tech (41-12) 5, Hofstra (35-10) 4, Indiana (34-15) 4, Fordham (38-17) 2, Long Beach State (33-14) 2, Tulsa (38-12) 2, Fresno State (29-14) 1, Louisville (33-14) 1, Pacific (32-15) 1, South Florida (32-18) 1The UCS Top 25 is voted on by selected collegiate coaches.

Ultimate College Softball Top 25 May 2, 2011 PO

S TEAM RECORD POINTS Last Week

1 Arizona State (22) 45-5 549 1 2 Michigan (1) 44-4 522 3

3 Texas 44-5 494 2

4 Tennessee 44-7 478 4 5 Alabama 42-7 448 5

6 Missouri 40-6 443 6

7 Florida 43-8 424 8 8 California 34-9 406 9

9 Stanford 33-11 353 12

10 Georgia 42-9 335 7

11 Washington 33-10 310 11 12 UCLA 31-13 261 10

13 Oregon 35-12 256 17

14 Georgia Tech 42-8 248 15 15 Arizona 37-13 242 13

16 Nebraska 35-10 236 14

17 Oklahoma 35-16 209 16 18 Oklahoma State 37-12 183 18

19 Kentucky 33-11 140 20

20 Notre Dame 38-8 139 21

21 LSU 35-15 125 22 22 Baylor 37-12 115 19

23 Texas A&M 36-13 98 23

24 Louisiana-Lafayette 42-9 41 25 25 Houston 36-15 14 30

Softball continues WAC assault, ascends in national rankings

Boise State softball, currently ranked No. 29, is on the verge of breaking into the Ultimate College Softball Top 25 for the first time in its history.

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““—E. Thorpe, head coach

We are still trying to climb our way up and I think being such a young program peo-ple are still hesitant to think that we are really that good.

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Mental illness is serious, not entertainment

What’s the first thing someone thinks of when they hear “psychopath” or “schizophrenic?” If they’ve ever watched television, read a book, watched a movie or even read the newspaper, they’d probably answer with something like: a murderer with crazy hair, insane eyes and a ma-niacal laugh.

Political correctness seems to have ignored mental illness altogether, especially in the mass media. People don’t use the words “nigger” or “faggot,” because they are extremely offensive and hurtful. This censorship is completely ap-propriate.

What’s incomprehensible is the public’s atti-tude about mental illness. People use “retarded,” “crazy” or “schizophrenic” in completely inac-curate and casual ways all the time, yet very few challenge those uses. The mass media are the worst perpetrators of discrimination against those suffering from mental illnesses. Even The Arbiter used the word “crazy” incorrectly in March regarding school funding.

Peter Wollheim, Ph.D., offers a communica-tions course called Media Aesthetics and Cul-ture, in which he teaches students about how the mass media portray mental illnesses. He com-

bined two of his interests, the media and mental illnesses, in order to help alleviate the bad repre-sentation of psychiatry and psychology.

“There’s so much misunderstanding about mental illness, and so much of it is conveyed by the media...the most discriminated people and category of discriminated people in our society, is people with mental illness. It’s still an acceptable prejudice,” Wollheim said. “People still think it’s acceptable to laugh at it and to portray it in such stigmatizing fashion that it’s almost impossible to have a reasonable discussion about how you make public policy for people living with mental illness. It’s so pervasive that it’s invisible.”

The media, by providing books, shows and movies that incorrectly portray people suffering from psychological illnesses, contribute to the stigma that “crazy people” are unstable, violent or even physically look different from “normal people.” Profit and ignorance are just two of many factors that encourage these depictions.

Drama and fear sell -– media consumers want to watch a psychotic, deranged mass murderer brought to justice on Law and Order. They want to watch as someone attributes a mental illness as a direct consequence of immoral behavior. Comedy often takes advantage of mental institu-tions, as seen in the film Crazy People, which de-picts a man brandishing a fly swatter and another who ceaselessly plays the piano.

Other times, entertainment providers have no real knowledge about what they’re present-ing to the public. Ignorance, not meant to insult the media, is dangerous. Media consumers take much of what they see at face value. If false in-formation is provided, the public will believe it to be true.

Jacy Skeen, a junior studying communication and public relations, didn’t realize how much the media misrepresents mental illnesses until she took Wollheim’s class. She has already completed her bachelor’s of science in psychology.

“This class has really allowed me to see a dif-ferent side of mental illness. In the psych side of my education, you were strictly focused on learning what these illnesses are and what they are about. We were given little exposure to what the media was saying about them, or how they were portraying them,” Skeen said. “I never no-ticed how often and how inaccurate the media are putting mental illness out there.”

Awareness, the first step in facilitating change, is extremely important. People need to realize what they’re watching isn’t necessarily accu-rate, and should raise opposition to it. Wollheim stresses the importance of the public writing in to media outlets and legislators in order to ad-dress negative portrayals of mental illness. So send an email or make a phone call -- it will make a much needed difference.

Mexico’s Drug War

Cameron CrowColumnist

Finding someone who smokes marijuana regularly is not a difficult task. But how many of those smokers consider where all that weed comes from? There’s a good chance it came from Mexico where there is an in-credibly bloody war being waged by the Mexican government to take back control of its territory from per-vasive drug cartels.

Since 2006, more than 34,000 Mexicans have been killed by drug related violence. There have also been many Americans who have died as violence has spilled over the border. We’ve all heard about the horrible execution-style killings and mass graves this conflict produces on or near our borders.

Does the regular stoner think about that often? Maybe they should. The United States constitutes the largest market for drugs in the world. It’s just common sense that its poor-est neighbor would be the natural target for drug producers and trans-porters to set up camp and move their products.

Ever since the United States be-gan beefing up its border regulation around the Caribbean Sea, drug trafficking over land from Mexico has become the primary means of feeding our insatiable drug markets. According to a State Department Re-port, 90 percent of all cocaine enter-ing the U.S. comes from Mexico.

So how much responsibility do we Americans have for this? It’s not real-ly our fault, right? I mean, Mexicans are the ones that can’t control their own country. This is a very ignorant and misguided perspective.

Americans plays a huge role in supporting drug cartels. Not only are Americans the ones who pay them, they are the ones who arm them as well. Assault rifles are purchased le-gally every day in the United States and then trafficked over the border, right into the hands of the cartels. Our gun laws are so lax, it is a piece of cake to find and acquire guns. There are about 78,000 registered firearms dealers in the U.S. to buy from, and that doesn’t even take private sales and the black market into account.

So what is the answer? What should the United States do? There are no easy answers. The best way to help the Mexican government win their drug war would be to decrease American demand for drugs and lim-it the amount of guns that get bought and smuggled across the border. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! There are numerous organizations in the U.S. that lobby Congress to make drugs and guns even easier to acquire.

It’s sad to say, but America re-ally isn’t overly concerned right now about Mexico’s perilous war on drugs. The political reality is there aren’t enough Americans dying for the public to get upset enough to be willing to accept major policy chang-es to address drug trafficking.

It’s time to kindly remind those who choose to partake that using drugs is not only screwing up their bodies, but also propagating a war that is killing tens of thousands of people.

The longer it takes for us to get our act together, the harder we make it for the Mexican government and more people will die. America’s hands are not clean in this matter, not in the slightest.

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In the United States, Mother’s Day originally came to fruition thanks to the efforts of Anna Jarvis in 1908. Because of her activism to the cause and her apparently profound love for her mother, President Woodrow Wilson decided to make it an official holiday in 1914. Soon af-ter, however, Jarvis publicly expressed her anger at the holiday , saying that it had become more about what to buy for your mom than doing things to honor motherhood, which made her angry. In 1948, she was arrested for disturbing the peace while protesting what she called the “Hallmark Holiday,” referring to the commericialization of Mother’s Day.

In 2008, the 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day, msnbc.com quoted Jarvis famously saying she “wished she would have never started the day because it became so out of control ... ”

Let’s do Jarvis a favor by making our mums a little something special this year. Mama used to love it when you handed her a card covered in macaroni, glitter, a painted handprint, and a dopey smile on your face. It’s time to remind the number one lady in your life that you will always be her precious little pumpkin. The Arbiter is going to walk you through a do-it-yourself project: gift bags made from recycled newspaper. It’s OK to cut into this issue. You won’t hurt our feelings. (Much.)

1. Cut out the pink rectangle on this page. It should be 15.5” tall and 8.25” wide, if you want to use your ruler on a dif-ferent paper.

2. You will want to per-haps turn the paper over because you will have to fold in at the dotted lines. So, with the pink part of the paper facing the table or counter, fold the paper back at each dotted line. If you lay the piece of paper down horizontally, begin with the top and bottom first. Fold the paper toward you at 2” from the bot-tom if you’re using a ruler and 1.25” from the top.

3. Fold the paper along the vertical dotted lines. If you’re using a ruler, measure from left to right and fold at 4.5” then from that fold measure another 3” and make another fold. Then from that point, measure 4.5” and fold again then make another fold at 3” from that fold. The last fold should be 0.5” from the right end of the paper.

4. Fold the top flap down again (the flap measuring 1.25”). If you want to use cardstock, now is the time to cut them out in rectangles that are 4” by 1”. Glue the cardstock to the in-side of the flap. And glue or tape the lip shut.

5. Glue or tape the 0.5” flap to the inside of the first panel.

6. Now all that’s left is the bottom. Just like wrapping a gift, lay the bag on its side and take the corners of the edge closest to you. Fold them to make a triangle shape. Do the same to the op-posite end of the bag. Then fold one triangle over the other and glue or tape them together to make the floor of the bag. Now the bag has been made!

7. Stand the bag right side up. If you want to make sure there is bet-ter enforcement, cut a piece of cardstock in a rectangle the size of the bag’s floor and glue it to the bag’s bottom on the inside.

8. If you want to, you can also poke holes near the lip of the bag and thread string through them to create handles.

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La razón por la cual se celebra¡Por fin ha llegado Cinco de

Mayo! Todos sabemos lo que significa eso: tacos, margari-tas, comerciales creativas de Corona, y posiblemente hasta un mariachi para celebrar este día festivo.

¿Pero qué exactamente es lo que se celebra? Muchos creen que Cinco de Mayo es el Día de la Independencia de Méxi-co, pero no lo es.

De hecho, México obtuvo su independencia de España el 16 de Septiembre del año 1810. No fue hasta once años después que los soldados Es-pañoles se fueron de México.

Cinco de Mayo se empezó a celebrar en 1682. Sí, casi 52 años después del día de la in-dependencia de México.

Cinco de Mayo se celebra porque México ganó una batalla contra Francia, en la cual el ejército Francés tuvo el doble de soldados.

Según vivacincodemayo.org, en enero de 1862, sol-dados Franceses, Españoles e Ingleses llegaron a México para cobrar deudas de Benito Juarez. España e Inglaterra

hicieron lo que tenían que hacer y salieron de México.

Pero los Franceses tenían otra cosa en mente. Su in-tención era conquistar a México. Emperador Francés, Napoleón III, trajó al prín-cipe Maximiliano y su esposa Carolota a México para regir el nuevo imperio Mexicano.

El ejército de Napoleón no había sido vencido por 50 años. Los Franceses tenían ex-celente fuerza militar y armas modernas.

En un día tempestuoso en Puebla, México, 4,000 tropas Mexicanas esperaban con ma-chetes a 8,000 soldados Fran-ceses bien preparados para pelear.

Al final de la batalla había 462 muertos y más de 300 heridos soldados Franceses (opuesto a los 83 muertos y 130 heridos Mexicanos). México también capturó a 12 tropas en la batalla de Puebla.

Esta victoria atrasó los planes de Napoleón un año. Pero Francia continuó con-quistando a México y se apoderaron de la Ciudad de

México en 1863. Francia de-claró a Maximiliano empera-dor de México, y a su esposa emperadora, aunque su reino solo duró dos años.

En 1865 La Republica Mexicana empezó a prospera-mente defenderse. Al final de la Guerra Civil Americana, Presidente Andrew Johnson mandó a 50,000 soldados a la frontera de Tejas/México para asistir a México en su batalla para desalojarse de los Franceses.

En 1866 los Franceses co-menzaron a huir de México, excepto Maximiliano, quien rechazaba el hecho de que tenía que rendir la Ciudad de México.

Entonces, Cinco de Mayo se celebra, no porque México obtuvo su independencia, sino porque pelearon para conservarla, y ganaron una batalla importante. Aparte de la ciudad de Puebla, la mayor-ía de México no celebra Cinco de Mayo en grande. Pero los Estados Unidos y otros países celebran la cultura Mexicana en este día festivo.

Why we really celebrate itCinco de Mayo is finally

here! We all know what that means: tacos, margaritas, cre-ative Corona commercials, and possibly even a mariachi to cel-ebrate the holiday.

But what exactly are we cel-ebrating? Many believe May 5 is Mexico’s Independence Day; it’s not.

Actually, Mexico’s declara-tion of independence from Spain dates back to Sept. 16, 1810. It wasn’t until 11 years later that Spanish soldiers finally left Mexico.

Oddly enough, Cinco de Mayo became a day of cel-ebration in 1862. Yeah, al-most 52 years after Mexico’s Independence Day.

Cinco de Mayo is actually celebrated because Mexico won an epic battle against the French in which Mexican troops were outnumbered by the French 2-to-1.

In January 1862 French, Spanish and English troops landed in Mexico to collect debts from Benito Juarez, the newly elected democratic president of Mexico. Spain and

England did what they had to do and were out of Mexico.

The French, on the other hand, had something else in mind. Their intent was to con-quer Mexico. French Emperor Napoleon III brought prince Maximillian and his wife Caro-lota with him to Mexico to rule the new Mexican empire.

It’d been 50 years since Na-poleon’s army had been defeat-ed. The French had the finest military strength and modern equipment.

On a stormy day in Puebla, Mexico, 4,000 Mexican troops with machetes awaited an army of 8,000 well equipped French troops.

At the end of the battle, there were 462 dead and more than 300 wounded French sol-diers (as opposed to Mexico’s 83 killed and 130 wounded). Mexico also managed to cap-ture 12 French troops by the end of the battle at Puebla.

This victory delayed French troops for about a year. But the French continued to conquer and managed to seize Mexico City in 1863. France then

dubbed Maximillian emperor of Mexico, and his wife em-press, though their reign only lasted two years.

In 1865, the Mexican repub-lic began to successfully fight back. At the end of the United States’ Civil War, President Andrew Johnson sent 50,000 troops to the Texas/Mexico border to assist Mexico in their battle to get rid of the French.

By 1866 the French began to depart Mexico, with the ex-ception of stubborn Maximil-lian, who refused to give up Mexico City.

When Mexico took back their capital city, he attempted to escape but failed.

So Cinco de Mayo is cel-ebrated not because Mexico gained its independence, but because they fought to main-tain it, and won a highly un-likely battle.

Other than Puebla, much of the rest of Mexico doesn’t make as Cinco de Mayo as big of a deal. But the United States and other countries around the world celebrate Mexico’s culture on this day.

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It’s time to get this horrid se-mester behind us. However, a lot has happened so far in 2011 and it’s important to remember some of these things. On the other hand, it’s vital for the reputation of the human race and our self-respect that we forget a few things as well. You may remember some of these from this semester, unless you were too busy studying…

1. One act of self sacrifice helped the good citizens of this country put aside their differences and unite under on common cause. I don’t mean the shooting of the world hide-and-seek champion, Osama bin Laden. I mean the shared disdain for one little girl’s song. “Friday” by Rebecca Black may have been the worst song to weasel its way into popularity, and for once all of us could agree. All of us except for the pre-teens, that is, but they’re at a confused age. However, she did have to take her song off the internet due to threats, inappropriate comments, and flat-out hurtful remarks. Just like Americans to take things a step too far.

2. Pop culture split the world into two groups this semester. You didn’t know? Here are the two teams -- Charlie Sheen and the trolls. Word on the street is if you are not Charlie Sheen, then you are a troll. Don’t worry my fellow trolls, none of us can reach the lev-el of “winning” the other team has without tiger’s blood, but we can still lead somewhat happy lives.

3. The Jersey Shore cast is head-ing to Italy for its new season. Here’s the kicker, though. They won’t be allowed to go to clubs that serve alcohol, drink in public or create an image of Florence as a drinking town. Basically, they are expected to portray the “cul-ture and food” of Italy. First, the cast’s alcohol consumption cov-ered the fact that they are equally disappointing people when sober, but who wants reality television without drunken fist pumping? Second, I believe they may be too far removed from any type of gen-uine Italian culture and the city of Florence may not understand how little their guidelines will save their image.

4. Ray William Johnson is still funny. And at this point his videos frequently receive more hits than the viral videos he reviews. ‘Atta baby.

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Q: Do you know what Cinco de Mayo is?

A: I don’t. I know that it is a day in May, I don’t know why it’s special…I know that when I’ve been to Mexico over Cinco de Mayo nobody gave a shit.

Q: Do you cel-ebrate it?

A: I’ll get like a Co-rona or something. I’ve been to Cinco de Mayo parties, I don’t do anything specific.

Q: What have you seen people do to celebrate it?

A: I’ve seen people with themed parties with sombreros and margaritas and just an excuse to have a party that’s more festive than most of May.

Kimmy Jefferson, 24, senior, earth sci-ence education, Lakewood, Wash.

Q: Do you know what Cinco de Mayo is?A: No, I really don’t.Q: Do you celebrate it?A: The most I’ve ever done is drink for it.

I used to work at a bar so we had celebra-tions there.

Jacob Sternberg, 19, soph-omore, English education, Boise

Q: Do you know what Cinco de Mayo is?

A: More or less…a whole bunch of people pretend they’re Mexican and drink together.

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