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news.Get Friendly with your Neighbors Stoney Vance expected to share a room with one other person in the Wallace Complex when he got to Moscow last week. Instead, Vance has nine roommates and he lives in a residence hall lounge. "When I got here and found out I would be rooming with nine other guys, I thought, 'This sucks,' " says Vance, a freshman from Kalispell, Mont. "One of the worst parts is worrying about someone getting sticky fingers. We just have an 'I don't touch your stuff, you don't touch mine' policy unless they ask to borrow whatever." Vance lives in Room 134 in Gault Hall, previously the hall's lounge. The windows were painted to offer the residents a little privacy. Rooms across campus are packed this fall. Many new students in the dorms are living in converted rooms or staying at hotels. news

arts.Tragic Plane Crash U.S. singer and actress Aaliyah, whose 1994 solo debut album, "Age Ain't Nothing But A Number," sold more than a million copies and catapulted her to fame, was killed in a plane crash Aug. 25 on an island in the Bahamas. She was 22. Eight others aboard the twin-engine Cessna, all U.S. citizens, were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff at Marsh Harbour International Airport, on the island of Abaco, authorities said. There were no survivors, and the cause of the crash remains under investigation, said Sgt. Ernest Rahming, of the Royal Bahamas Police Force. Aaliyah, a New York resident, had been on the islands, which are about 170 miles east of south Florida, filming a music video and was bound for an airport in Opa-Locka, Fla., Rahming said. Her meteoric rise from a 15-year-old talent to new artist-to-watch was built on her sultry voice, sexy attitude and movie star looks. arts

sports.Kick off the School Year The opener for the Vandal gridiron is here again and the expectations are high for a hard fought classic to come our way. Playing collegiate next door neighbor, Washington State, the challenge is to prove that Vandal football is on the way up and will be a contender for a conference crown. "I think it will be a good football game," said UI Coach Tom Cable. "First game of the year, it will be a issue of turnovers and mistakes." Washington is no push over, however. Despite having a poor showing last season in the Pac-10 conference, WSU has the talent to make victory for the Vandals a difficult task. The Cougars have 21 starters returning to the line-up off last year's squad including junior quarterback Jason Gesser who passed for nearly 2000 yards and 16 touchdowns last year. sports

opinion.ASWSU Presidental Challenge Through the course of time there are a couple of things that are givens; should they not happen for some reason, madness ensues. Examples are gravity, the fact that the sky is blue, and the simple understanding that Cougars beat Vandals. Now given, the latter has not been the case for the past few years, and it is apparent that things have not been as they should on the Palouse. The summers have been cool, the winters have been warm, and the lowly Vandals have been going to bowl games instead of the Cougars. But I have faith that this year, things will return to the norm - the winter will be cold, next summer will be scorching, and the Cougars will once again return to their rightful place atop the Palouse. So confident am I that I challenge ASUI President Leah Clark-Thomas to a bet. The terms that follow will apply to the student body president of the opposing school. 1. The losing president will dye his/her hair the colors of the opposing school for the day of the winning school's homecoming rally. When WSU wins, Ms. Clark-Thomas will have the hair colors of crimson and gray. If by some off-chance Idaho should win, I will appear with a head of black and gold; and 2. The losing president will walk, ride or drive the eight mile difference between Pullman and Moscow on the day of the winning school's homecoming rally wearing clothing of the winning school; and 3. The losing president will make an appearance at the homecoming rally of the winning school and profess his/her admiration of the winning school. I look forward to hearing from Ms. Clark-Thomas. And I looking forward to Thursday's game and the sweet smell of the Palouse once things have returned to normal. My best, Jesse S. Keene ASWSU President opinion

nation.US Boycott of Racism Summit
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will not attend a U.N. conference on racism because of language critical of Israel, the State Department said Monday. "It's clear to us now that the secretary will not go to this conference," said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, noting that the "exact nature and level of our representation, if any, is still being considered." The announcement came after weeks of negotiations by U.S. officials to remove language from conference documents that equates Zionism -- the movement that promotes a Jewish state in Israel -- with racism and singles out Israel as a "racist" occupying power. Some of the language was removed, but the Bush administration was not satisfied. Boucher said sending a high-level delegation to he conference, held in Durban, South Africa, would associate the United States with positions it considered "offensive." He said Powell spoke by phone with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan twice over the weekend and again on Monday about the conference. "The level tends to imply a certain association that we may not, certainly don't want with this kind of language," Boucher said. "We spent years working to eradicate some of these ideas from the U.N. system, and we don't think this is a time or the place to put them back in." The U.N. General Assembly, which had labeled Israeli policies of Zionism as "racist" in 1975, dropped the charge after the 1991 Madrid peace talks. The Bush administration also objected to support for reparations for slavery as part of the conference agenda, but U.S. officials said that issue had been finessed. nation

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