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UI faces $29 million in budget
make-up
by Morgan Winsor
argonaut staff
University of Idaho President Robert Hoover spoke Wednesday
about plans to raise revenues for the next few years to make
up for the school's projected $29 million budget shortfall.
Although a 12 percent hike in student fees is expected to rake
in around $7 million, Hoover warned of staff reductions and the
dismantling of academic programs.
Like other higher education schools throughout Idaho, UI is responding
to instructions from the state's Division of Financial Management
to restructure its 2003 budget.
The order stems from a nationwide economic slowdown, which recently
prompted Gov. Dirk Kempthorne to ask higher education institutions
to manage on 97 percent of their allocations for 2002.
Hoover said, "it will be highly unlikely" the university
will see additional funding support for fiscal year 2003.
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Accident claims UI sophomore Andrew
Pitino
by Leah Andrews
assistant news editor
Logging on to Andrew Pitino's web site is akin to bringing
the gentle 20-year-old back to life.
On the site, Pitino shares his passions for computer science,
Japanese and the movie "Willow."
He writes about his third year as a Computer Science major at
the University of Idaho and his dreams of being a systems analyst.
He tells readers about his favorite basketball team, the Utah
Jazz, and the Flying Pie Pizzeria, his favorite place to get
pizza in Boise.
Andrew liked being in Boise, his hometown, and he spent the Thanksgiving
holiday there with his parents and siblings.
He and his sister Jennifer, a law student at UI, were headed
back to school on Sunday when the van they drove slid into the
oncoming lane of traffic on U.S. Highway 95 near Craigmont.
Andrew died instantly when a truck collided with the passenger
side of the van. Jennifer was taken to St. Joseph Regional Medical
Center in Lewiston and released Tuesday night.
Stephen Pitino said he still cannot believe his son is dead.
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 Out cold;
Portland hot shooting too much for Vandals
by Jake Alger
argonaut staff
The University of Idaho men's basketball team played its guts
out and put on a late surge Wednesday night at the Cowan Spectrum,
but it wasn't enough to overcome the University of Portland's
unbelievable shooting as the Pilots nipped the Vandals 71-66
in a wire-to-wire affair.
The Pilots (2-2) shot .609 from the field and .412 from the three-point
line, compared to a dismal .311 field goal percentage for the
Vandals. Idaho held a decisive 17-6 edge on the offensive glass,
but their inability to put the ball in the bucket all but negated
that advantage.
"We've got to hold teams to 31 percent shooting," UI
head coach Leonard Perry said. "Instead we're being held
to 31 percent shooting and we're giving up 60 (percent). We got
no chance."
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 Sledding is fun at any age
BRIAN PASSEY
Photo editor
Winter brings the opportunity to participate in many extreme
sports: ski jumping, snowboarding, and my personal favorite -
sledding.
Many may not consider sledding an extreme sport. Clearly they
didn't grow up at my house.
I grew up in Rexburg. How, you may ask, does one learn how to
become a world-class sled master in Rexburg?
It is difficult. The first problem is the apparent lack of hills
in the Snake River Valley. Fortunately I grew up on one of the
two hills in the region. Of course, the hill that made up my
front yard also doubled as a fault line. I think my geology teacher
once said something about how fault lines are somehow connected
to volcanic activity. This explains the plethora of volcanic
rocks on my sledding course. I have seven broken sleds and a
couple of scars to prove it.
Back when I was 9 years old, I looked upon the early setting
of the winter sun with great dismay. Shorter days meant less
training time, less time to become a world-class sled master.
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NY
hardcore blood still runs thick
JIM TOWEILL
Argonaut staff
New York (Gotham City)'s Most Precious Blood play fast-paced,
aggressive straightedge hardcore with plenty of palm-muted, chugga-chugga
breakdowns and pissed-off screamy, emotional vocals.
Heavy use of power chords, short double bass blasts, octaves
and metal riffing to create bits of melody, spoken passages building
up into explosions of all-out catharsis are all signature elements
of hardcore and MPB uses them liberally.
The lyrics are fairly common as well. Singer Tom Sheehan (formerly
of Indecision)'s words are dark and angry with an underlying
theme of positivity that borders on melodrama. One-sentence assertions
like "love is stronger than death," "carry the
lantern high" and "just like a rose ripped from its
root" reek of standard high school poetry.
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301 student union. moscow, id 83844
ph# 885.7845 argonaut
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