The North Idaho College Sentinel Vol 64 No 11, Apr 12, 1990

Merger discussed NIC administrators have scheduled two question and answer sessions 10 clarify the status of the proposed secretarial studies-office occupation$ merger.

Th,. first session will be noon Wednesday in Room 109 of Seiter Hall. Dean of Academic Affairs Dennis Conners will answer questions concerning the proposed merger. Conners recommends all business faculty members, secretaries and students Bllcnd.

The second session will be April 20, the day after the Board of Trustees vote on the merger proposal, at I :30 in lhe Kootenai Room of the Student Union Building with President Robert Benncll talking with studcnis about the outcome of the merger proposition or any other concerns they may have.

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North Idaho College's Student Newspaper

Vol. 64 No. 11

Thursday, April 12, 1990

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Evans, Smith get nod for election

by Linette Freeman The primary resuIts are in and the candidates for the 1990-91 Associated Students of North Idaho College student board are read y for the ballots, which will be cast Wednesday.

On the ballot for president Colleen Evans (62) and Mau Smith (53) beat Al Thompson (41) and Felix McGowan (30).

The race for the vice president's position was a closer one with candiales Stacey Pry (52) and Mason Hiau (48) defeating Ruth Woodbury (47) and Kathy Northway (36).

An open forum for the candidates to present their views 10 the students will be held Mon· day from noon to 12:30 p.m. in the Student Union and from 12:30 to I p.m. in the Hedlund Building.

Other candidates on the ballot arc Don.oa Wood, Kathy Rennert, Mitch Alexander and Angie Madel for the three sophomore senator positions

and Don Atha running uncontested for his second term as activities direc tor.

Because there was only a one vote difference between Hiall and Woodbury the ballots were counted twice and the same 101als were reached for the two candidates with a slighi difference of one or two votes in other positions.

Of nearly 2,500 students eligible to vote, only 186 people voted in lhe presidential primary and 183 for the vice president's posit on. Last year, when candidates were unopposed, only 28 studcn1s voted.

The I.as! time an ASNIC election required a primary was in the spring of 1988, which resulted in the election of past· President Mary Jo Hansen.

However, the number of candidates 1ha1 were on the ballot Wednesday is unusual for NIC because, according 10 ASN IC adviser Tony Stewart, "The last time we had a turnout this large was close 10 10 years ago."

Getting loaded for the celebratlon-Centennlal Committee

photo by Al Thompson

members and supporters (from left) Steve Schenk, J im Mcleod, Jo Webb, Judith Sylte, Bob Slngletary and Robert Bennett gear up for Fort Sherman Days (see p.6).

.Forum brings cont lict to NIC

by Tonya Broderhausen

Matt Smith

Colleen Evans

Conflict is everywhere-on the streets (crime), among families, in religion and even in education; therefore, the effects of lhis conflict reflect upon people everywhere, according 10 Tony Stewart, political science instructor at North Idaho College and coordinator of Popcorn Forum Weck.

The purpose for the week or talks and discussious is so s1uden1s and people from the community may

be able to gain a belier understanding of the conflict that directly affects them and discuss ways to deal with problems in a better way, Stewart explained.

Spcalccrs, who arc experts on specific areas of conflict, will come 10 NIC to talk about these problems free of charge to anyone who will a11end and engage in conversation with the audience and a response panel about the subject. This will be happening the week of April 16-20 on NIC campus.

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Hedlund goers breathe easier, safer classrooms above. Fay said this created the possibility that toxic levels of chemicals could have contaminated occupied areas in the Hedlund Building. However, "Those routes are now scaled," Fay said.

Testing of air samples from Hedlund by Faytek and earlier testing by CIGNA, the insurance carrier for NIC, did not indicate any unsafe levels of toxins, according 10 Fay and a memo from CIGNA. But, Fay said, symptoms may occur before longterm health is endangered.

"You can make people sick without harming them," Fay said.

Alth ough testing was done when employees In Hedlund said fumes were at their worse, Fay said unsafe chemical levels could have occurcd inbctwcen tests or for short periods or time and not show up on test resuhs.

"We don't know whether levels ever got to a point where long-term health was ever endangered," Fay said.

Also, according 10 Fay, the number or chemicals present in the auto-body paint shop prohibited testing for them all.

"Every time they changed Lhe color of paint they were using we would have had lo test for a new range of chemicals." Fay said.

The air routes that could have carried chemicals into working areas are now sealed, and Fay said, "You can't find any air movement" from the shops into office and classroom space.

by Bobby Hammond

Students and staff in the Hedlund Building are breathing easier as work to end the seepage of chemical fumes into their classrooms and offices is completed this week. Final repairs were completed April 9, and further 1es1ing 10 evaluate their effectiveness will be done April 13, accor· ding 10 a spokesman from FayTek, the company doing the repairs.

A classroom and working area that had been closed because of the fumes are now in use again, and employee and student complaints have nearly ceased.

According 10 Clarence Haught, dean of vocational education, auto-body shop

"You can make people sick without harming them.''

-Jan Fay painting, which had been curtailed because of the odors it had caused in other occupied areas of Hedlund, has resumed and operation is back 10 normal.

Jan Fay, co-owner of FayTck, said the company's testing had revealed airflow from the auto-body paint and diesel mechanics shops into offices and

According 10 members of the administration, the odors had existed for several years, but began to prompt serious complaints in November from employees and students suffering from headaches,

"We don't know whether long term health was endangered... '' -Jan Fay nausea, dizziness and other symptoms from Lhe contaminants.

According to Janie Anderson 0 assistant director of the Leaming Center, where the odor was strongest, employee complaints and symptoms have "dissapeared for the most part" since the first effective steps 10 reduce the pollutants were taken in Lhe last few weeks.

Anderson noted that a practical nursing classroom and a back room in the Leaming Center that had been closed because of ~he chemical efOuvium are now open nnd an use.

Haught said the administration "has been trying 10 fix this for a long time," but when staff efforts proved fruitless, professionals were hired.

In January the administration hired Faytek, a Coeur d'Alene air analysis firm 10 study the problem. ' Fauhy ventilation, leaky duct-work and cracks between wall and ceilling joints were found by igniting smoke bombs in various rooms and tracing the smoke as It worked its way through air passages, vents and ducts.

A final smoke bomb test will be conducted by FayTek Friday, and FayTek is advising that NIC staff routinely monitor the airflow in Hedlund and keep up on maintenance that could prevent the seepage of fumes from rc-ocurring, according 10 Fay. Although she said she couldn't be definite, Fay said the age of the building and wear and tear from normal use was probably 10 blame for the fumes suddenly gelling worse in November.

Routine testing could be done by using ''smoke guns" lhat emit a light-weight, white smoke to examine wall joints and ventilation ducts, Fay said. The smoke would indicate whether air was escaping or entering through the wrong places or going the wrong direction in vents and ducts.

Ahhough final figures for the cost of repairs and testing were not available at press time, according 10 information from Steve Schenk, dean of college relations and development, nl least $9,700 will be paid to FayTek alone. According to Schenk, that may represent only partial payment.

Students 'feel betrayed' ...

Secretarial students 'hopping mad' Degree

by Karin Lau

Some North Idaho College secretarial studies students arc hopping mad at campus administration for not infom1ing them about 1hc proposed merger of their academic program with the vocational office occupations program, according to several students in the program.

Students Carey Kolden, Marie Schnore and Sandi Williams said they wished that someone had informed them about the

''They are messing around with our futures•.. I think the administration was ,, sneaky ••• -Sandi Williams merger before they enrolled at NIC so they could look for options elsewhere.

Instead, Dr. Dennis Conners, dean of academic affairs, said be instructed

secretarial studies instructors JoAnn Nelson and Lamona Arthur-Stinnene 1101 to tell their students because he felt it would be in the students' best interest if they were informed after concrete information about il was available.

Conners said he did not want 10 be "trading ignorance."

He said he wanted to wait until the merger bad been finalized and was no longer in the proposal stage. He said that this way, the students would be given solid Instead of incomplete information.

But Koidco, Schnore and Williams don't agree with Conners; 1hey said they feel cheated out or a fair choice.

"They (Lhc college) get their money. and then they tell you," Schnore said.

They also said lhey believe there has been a cover-up going on because, as Schnore said, the office occupations program is not successful.

"They're phasing us out, and we don't like it," she added.

All of the women said they believe if the programs merge, it (the merger) will fall and a lot of students will drop out of the program. As it is, a first-year cap on enrollment has been limited to 60 students, which is less than the current enrollment of both programs combined.

"We looked at both sides and decided this (the academic) was the best one for us," Kolden said. " I don't want it to be merged. If I wanted to be vocational, I

would've already been there."

Williams said she had gone to a vocational school in Montana before coming to NIC and that it "was a waste of my time and money" because most secretarial jobs require at least two years of experience. She said that when prospective employers saw she only had a vocational certificate, they told her that she would have 10 have a twoyear degree in order to be hired.

She said that she came 10 NI C to gel her Associates of Applied Sciences degree to belier enhance her chance of employcmenl and now she feels cheated.

"They are messing wiLh our futures and financial situations," Williams said. "As a mother of two, I don't have to time to fiddle around. I wanted to be notified earlier. I think (the adminisuation) was sncalcy."

The women said they resent having to possibly go to school for an exua year and that they want their money back for what they think was a wasted year in college.

In other merger matters, the Curriculum Council will hold a special meeting April 17 to decide whether to adopt the proposed merged curriculum. If they accept it, the merger will !hen be passed on 10 the Board of Trustees for approval April 19. If passed, a question and answer session wilt be held by the administration for concerned students.

Students are permitted to attend all of the meetings.

focus of Senate

by Sandra Martz

A new issue that came before the Nonh Idaho College Senate at Its March meeting was strengthening the graduation requirement for the Associate of Applied Science degree so it is as credible as the Associate of Arts degree and the Associate of Science in its requirements, according to College Senate Chair Judith Brower.

The change will require that a minimum grade of C- be earned in all courses required for a program that awards the A.A.S. degree.

Brower said the credentials of students earning this degree will therefore be even suonger.

Some of the Senate's recent work has Involved reading, studyina and discussing new or revised policies, including faculty responsibilities, harassment, the structun or the Curriculum Council and the most appropriate time for the elec· tion of Senate officcn. Discussion has been free and open, and decisions have been unanimous, Brower said.

The next Senate meeting is noon Thursday, April 19, in Room 103 of Seiter Hall.

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25 faculty members develop Introductory courses

Five programs undergo review

by Deborah Akers

The 1989-90 Academic Review Program will be coming 10 a close within the next month. Five departments have been under an extensive year-long process of evaluating programs for continuation, revision, or termination.

The divisions invol\路ed in this process arc Business, Communications, Fine ArlS, Life Sciences and Mathematics. The Programs under evaluation are Secretarial Studies (an Associate of Applied Science is offered), RA TV, Art (Associate of Arts or Associate of Science), Com mercial Art (A.A.$.), Health Care Administration (A.S.), Health Science (A.S.) and Computer Science (A.S.).

A review committee for each department

will submit a report to the Curriculum division chair, the main reason for the Council for review the week of April 16. recommendation to eliminate the 1wo proBased on these reports and recommenda- grams was simply that no students were aptions from the Dean of Academic Affairs plying for the A.S. degrees In Health Care Dennis Conners, the Curriculum Council Administration or Health Science. He said will then make recommendations to the this would not affect classes already Board of Trustees for final decisions con- offered. cerning these various programs.

"Mainly, it is saving about a half page Some preliminary recommendations of space in the catalog," Murray said have already been made. The Secretarial jokingly.

Science (A.A.S.) program may move 10 the Conners described RATV as an vocational department (see related story). "amalgam of courses," not a degree The Health Care Administmion (A.S.) program.

"In my opinion, we need to focus on and Health Science (A.S.) curricula have been recommended by the Life Science general education and a few limited review commiuee to be eliminated. And the specializations such as business, nursing, RATV classes have been recommended for education and engineering," Conners said.

"We ought to do a few things extremely "phase-out" by Conners.

According to Bob Murray, Life-Science well instead of a lot not so well."

Conners said another reason for his recommendation was based on future replacement costs of equipment. He said there arc 100 few students to justify the expense and also a need for more faculty would be a possibility.

Michael J. Miller, director of Telemedia Services, said without these RATV classes he is concerned about where he could find trained students to facilitate the various functions of the Tclcmedia Department.

The NIC Public Forum is produced with the aid of about 12 RATV students. Also Tclccourscs and the vidco-taoing of various NIC functions are done with the assistance of students.

Miller said he is not adverse to change, "but the dilemma is what will the studenlS be replaced with and at what cost."

Microwave courses offered

by Deborah Akers

By fall of 1990 classes could be delivered "live" 10 North Idaho College from other state campuses, according to Michael J. Miller, Tclemedia director.

NIC is one of six campuses statewide that will participate in miorowave satellite transmission of courses and telcconfcrenc~. The other campuses are University of Idaho, Lewis Clark State College, Boise State University, Idaho State Uni\'ersity and the College of Southern Idaho.

According to Miller, the new library will have a telecommunications classroom from which "live" teleconferences and courses can be sent or received. In the meantime

the current studio in Boswell Hall could possibly be used.

Delivery of the receiver, transmitter and satellite was made 10 NIC in February.

Miller said the State Board of Education funded the S60,000 acquisition.

Additionally, other equipment upgrades or rcplaocments have recently been made in the production studio, said Miller.

"We're in the process of upgrading the studio because of it being part of the State Telecommunications Network.'' Miller said.

A total of SIS,300 was spent, of which Sl5,000 was funded by the NIC Equipment Replacement Fund, according to Miller.

Included in the purchase were an audio board, character generator and

VCR/editing system. Miller said this represents "a huge improvement on quality."

According 10 Miller, some of the equip路 mcn1 replaced was 12 years old and no longer serviceable.

The audio board controls sound level from microphones used on the set. The character generator (CO) is used 10 slate titles and names the viewers sec on their television sets.

The new VCR/editing system was the most expensive part of the purchase at SIJ,000, Miller said. It consists of two "SONY Y.-inch SP Edit-Pak VCR 's... the best technology that SONY makes," he said.

Miller said with this new equipment the

vision is to be able 10 send news stories 10 Idaho Reports where a reporter will feed the news story to Moscow or Boise. Also he said 1hcrc had been discussion of sending Panhandle news spots to KUID. The University of Idaho is requesting delivery several courses: Business 472, Operational Planning and Scheduling, Education Administration 535, School Finance; Social Work 14-0, Introduction to Social Work; Biology 410, Environmental Science and Pollution; Environmental Science 470, Survey of Waste Management and Treatment Techniques; Environmental Science 580, Environmental Law and Regulations; Chemistry 470/570, Hatardous Waste Management and Chemistry 579, Hazardous Waste Site Remediation.

Group recognizes 'Earth Month' by recycling

by Karin Lau

Earth Month is here, and with that the Student Education Awareness League (S.E.A.L.) has stepped up its efforts 10 eventually make North Idaho College a recycling campus and to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday, April 22.

In March, S.E.A.L. passed out a survey to about 130 NIC faculty and staff members as part of an experimental test in the workability of a recycling policy at NJC, 11ccording 10 S.E.A.L. President Kari Hailey.

The reason for the survey, which was coordinated by Hailey and S.E.A.L. member Cynthia Dwyer, was " to sec what the faculty felt about a recycling policy," Hailey said.

"Out of 130 (surveys), we had 51 returned, and out ofthat, lhcte was only one 'no'

and three undecided answers. The rest were for the policy," S.E.A.L. will present its findings to the College Senate at a date when it will "coincide with Earth Day and the events of the whole month of April," Hailey said.

"What we want to do is give a pollcy to the Senate that says NIC recycles. It wouldn't set up procedures for recycling, but would say that this is a nice idea and NIC should do this."

Hailey and Dwyer said they were pleased with the survcy路s results because 47 people supported the policy.

"It really seems like (the faculty and staff) arc really in support of this," Dwyer said. ''Out of all of them, there were only a few who were really cynical about the idea, saying (in the comment portion of the survey) ' This isn't going to work' or 'This is what you have 10 do.'"

Hailey said that S.E.A.L. plans 10 malce a special bulletin board where they will post

the results of this and a student survey conducted last ye~. along with basic information about recycling.

Environmental films will be shown downstairs in the Student Union Building April 18 and 25.

The first film, Poison in the Rockies, is about surface mining degradation and will be shown at 7 p.m. on the 18th. Following that will be a film narrated by actor Robert Redford called Tht W.I.P.P Trail: Nuclear Waste Controversey and shows diverse opinions about the transportation and disposal of nuclear waste.

April 2Sth's first film is Voices of the Victims: Hanford Downwinders at 7 p.m. and is followed by Mobile Miss/es: Do Wt

Need the MX, Midgetmen, Both or Neither.

S.E.A.L. has also been busy making preparations for Earth Day at NIC. Beginning at 2 p.m., Student Activities Director Dean Bennett will plant a tree near Lakeside Theater on the Port Sherman Grounds, Hailey said.

Weather pcrmiuing, auomey Scott Reed will give a keynote address at Lakeside Theater at 3 p.m. followed by a speech by Dr. Rodney Frey, assistant professor of anthropology at Lewis and Clark S1a1e Col路 lcge, about man's relationship with the land as told in Native American stories.

Live music will also be provided by the bluegrass band, Mountain Air and a beach clean-up will follow.

S.E.A.L. has high hopes for Earth Day. "We want it 10 be big and h should be celebrated," Dwyer said.

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Administration talks!

The lines are open.

Although the editorial in the March 29 issue of the Sentinel may have raised a few hackles on the backs of various administrators (and more than likely a couple of faculty and staff members who think the Sentinel staff is a bunch of trouble makers), it has allowed administrators to see the need for open discussion of topics that are of student interest, such as possible curriculum changes.

While North Idaho College President Bob Bennett strongly denies that a "gag order" had been issued by his administration, he has admitted that communication lines between the administration and the rest of the college are in need of upgrading.

To help restore these corroded lines, the administration has planned a couple of question and answer sessions.

The first of the sessions will be held Wednesday, April 18, at noon in Seiter Hall's Room 109 and will deal with the possible secretarial studies-office occupations merger. Dr. Dennis Conners, dean of academic affairs, will be in attendence to answer questions and listen to student concerns on the proposed merger.

Conners recommends all business faculty members, secretaries and students attend.

On April 20, the day after the merger proposition goes before the Board of Trustees to be voted on, Bennett will be in the Kootenai Room of the Student Union Building at I :30 p.m. to give students an oppurtunity to meet with him face-to-face about the outcome of the previous night's Board meeting and any other concerns the students may have.

Bennett said he hopes to be

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able to hold these meetings four or.five times a year in the future.

It is now up to the students of NJC to "grab the keys" and attend these sessions so they can voice their displeasure or support of administrative actions that affect their education.

At the same time, administrators need to know that

decisions that affect the campus as a whole shouldn't be made by a few individuals behind closed doors.

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Oh, by the way, kudos to the many students who have come out of the woodwork and filed for the previously unopposed Associated Students of NIC offices after the elections were forced to go into overtime due to a lack of participation.

The only problem with the late turnout is that it hasn't given the voting students a chance to get to know the different candidates and their particular viewpoints on different issues.

Because of the scheduling of the elections, the Sentinel was unable to interview the canidates before the primaries. However, students are encouraged to attend a forum featuring the two finalists from each position. The time and place of forum was unknown at press time.

Editor: I was appalled by the article on merging the Associated of Applied Sciences degrees with Vocational Education. I am not concerned with the vocational attitude, "Get them out as fast as possible and make it so they're on the job in nine months.'' With this attitude all you will accomplish is flooding the typing pool.

Dr. Bennett, have you been living in a hole? I am here to tell you if you were 10 read the job "want ads" you would see that your students' chances of gelting a decent job were none to nil because most law and medical offices now require two-year degrees.

I also feel cheated by not being told in the beginning of this year that this was being considered. I would have gone to Spokane to get the education I need for the work field I am pursuing. Now I've wasted my time taking classes that only transfer with a degree.

What's to become of Northern Idaho with this type of attitude? And what is to become of the well educated instructors you have working for tlnis community? Are they lo be slapped in the face too for wanting the best life has to offer?

Dr. Bennett, I will not hesitate lo go to Spokane if such a merger is to take place. And I will leave with sorrow in my heart for the young people of the growing community of Coeur d'Alene. In these days. those degrees are worth every painful minute spent obtaining them. We never know what cards life is going to deal us, and many will tell you that usually one degree leads to another.

Without transferable credits or a degree, I am not interested in any program you have to offer. It's sad enough 1he skill level of Northern Idaho will give outsiders still another reason lo come in to take advantage of the already poor work situation.

Dr. Bennett, we all know there is no quick way to anything; otherwise, we would all be tennis s1ars, or basketball stars, or lawyers or doctors. I would like 10 be reimbursed for all the nontransferable credits I have taken and given back all the time and swea1 I put out for those classes.

Marie Schnore, Irate Student

Poetry review reviewed Editor: "What. .. "? Poet questions writing A good poet is not hard to find - unless the reporter has failed to do her homework. Maybe that is what Laurie Ingle already knows. Apparently in do· ing her homework, she failed to recall that Neidy Messer was introduced as Idaho's Poet-in-Residence, that Ms. Messer mentioned before and after her reading that the form of her poetry was narrative, that had she asked questions of the author about the form and the "point," she would have demonstrated her ignorance to only a few people rather than the somewhat more extensive readership of the Sentinel, and, that had she enquired, copies of the poems read were available for her perusal.

Ingle, a journalism student, should work more on her reporting rather than on poetry analysis. Her reporting not only missed some of the rather vital facts regarding Ms. Messer, but also falled to report the title of the objectionable work.

The first poem read by Ms. Messer, "No Visible Trace," did mention a market, the ordinariness of daily routines and grocery items and the innocence of a small boy as contrasted with an act of violence committed against a woman shopper at that same market in the not-too-distant past. The thought that poem created for the reader was " .. .I look at his face ...and wonder where it comes from, the

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Male bonding myth seen as 'phallacy' david gunter Pardon my penis.

Call it an act of God, chromosonal collision or Fate. Whatever the reason, for me and countless millions of other males, ownership of the above said appendage has become a cause for grave concern.

Al the work place, we live in fear lest some word or action be seen as sexual harrassment. Al home, in a restaurant, at the movies, we're pictured as time bombs, ticking off the moments until our androgens make us explode in a frenzy of

spousal abuse, date rape and hundreds of unspeakable variations. ¡ It's not the heartless handling of male emotions-painting us as randy Vikings just off the longboat-that breaks our spirit. What hurts is the "us and them" stance being adopted by women.

The cruelest blow comes in the way we have been disenfranchised from the support movement.

New support groups are forming almost daily, all of them for women and all based on the assumption that men have been supporting one another for centuries.

A dangerous assumption, considering the facts.

The old boy network is a fallacy (phallacy?), male bonding a myth. Like dogs in a pack, males group together for protection. Any sign of weakness will send the assembled members lunging at the throat of the poor outcast. Even that time-worn example-the hearty handshake-grew

out of a foundation of fear and mistrust. History shows that the two parties are simply grasping hands to assure that neither is armed or dangerous.

With so little left to us in the way of nurture and encouragement, where will the male population find support if not in the ranks of women?

This exclusive gender-club mentality can also cause severe anxiety and even death. Nonsense?

Take for example Vincent Van Gogh, who worked for years to become a member of a support group for female artists. His madness-long figured 10 be the product of drink, bad genes or both- actually was caused by the frustration and futility of that effort.

In the last, tragic episode, he severed his ear and mailed it 10 the chairman of that support group as a pitiful gesture of his need for their help.

Rumor has it that he just couldn't bring himself to mail anything more convincing.

Merger creates dilemma for 'middleman' karin /au I'm stuck.

How did I manage to get in the middle of this one? Well, it's typical of me to get stuck in some bizarre s1iuations, but this one beats them all.

I'm stuck right smack dab in the middle of the secretarial studies-office occupations merger and I can't see the light past the academic side, the vocational side and the administrative side.

I feel like I should become an declared mediator in a premarital agreement-the marriage being between the two programs and the agreement being the proposed curriculum of the future union.

How did I get here? I'm just a student learning how to be a reporter, not a faculty member or administrator!

My dilemma is thisOn one hand I have the vocational people who are delighted about the merger and singing its praises in almost every sentence they utter.

On the other hand I have the academic people fearfully pleading no comment and giving me offthe-record statements that I can't confirm on the record.

Since I have run out of hands, the administration gets one of my feet (that's not intended as an insult!). They try their best to put these statements into an understandable perspective, admitting they are "speculating" and that they "can't second-guess anybody."

That leaves me hobbling on one flat foot that

must provide information so the reader can decide what is truth and who is telling it. I must say that I don' t hobble very gracefully.

What is the truth?

All I know is the following: The Curriculum Council will decide whether the proposed curriculum is acceptable during its meeting April 17. If it is acceptable. it will go 10 the Board of Trustees April 19 for approval (or disapproval).

I know that Dean of Academic Affairs Dennis Conners asked the academic instructors not to tell their students about the merger until after the proposal was finalized and ready for presentation .

He gave me this information freely without me prying it out of him. I believe he asked them to ,vithhold information from students, not because he wanted to hide information from them, but rather protect them from misinformation.

By postponing when the students would hear about the merger to a time when there was a final proposal, Conners said he thought that the instructors would more adequately be able to answer inevitable questions with facts rather than " I don't know" or misinformation. This way "We're not trading ignorance," he said.

I know that there has been a lack of communication, but I don't know on whose part.

There is a possibility that people feel they cannot speak freely, not because gag orders were issued by the present administration, but because of leftover intimidation from the Barry Schuler administration.

There is also the possibility that the present administration is intimidating in its own way, but I have been assured that it doesn't go so far as 10 leave people feeling 1ha1 their jobs arc on the line. (If I am wrong, I wish someone would tell me this on the record). If people do lose their jobs over their concerns with the merger, the ad-

ministration will not only have to answer 10 me for lying, but will have 10 answer 10 one hcllacious lawsuit. I seriously doubt that is in the administration's best interest. especially if the allegation that money is the main concern is true.

The absolute truth here is that everyone involv¡ ed is concerned about the students of North Idaho College and each person has his or her own individual philosophy as 10 how 10 best serve our needs. Individual ideas arc bound to clash, and there will never be a group of people who can totally agree without some degree of conflict.

The objective is 10 get past the peuiness, vindictiveness and fears and move toward a more open and fair process of communication that will initiate compromise.

"The Idea (of the merger) isn't bad. It's the execution that's been horrible," Michael L. Miller, head of the business department, has said.

Lack of communication always produces "horrible" results-rumors, "jumping to conclusions," speculation, "making snap judgments," or assumptions about what the other side is contemplating-and never brings the different sides together where they should be.

I'm sure that each side is guilty in its own way and I know that this has been an emotional issue on par with busing or abortion, as Conners said, but the emotions need to be expressed openly, dealt with and resolved so that the real issue can be settled-what is ultimately best for the students.

Conners said, "My kind of strategy is that the more you attend 10 the other peripheral kinds of issues, you lose sight of what you're really after.

What we're really after here is 10 get two programs. which have for JO years, 40 years, been separate, and merge them. Not to change them -

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Fort Sherman days kick off centennial

by Kristy Jellesed

North Idaho College will step back in time April 20-2 1, to host the official opening of Kootenai Cou111y's Idaho Centennial Ce1ebration with the annual Fort Sherman Day,.

Thr\ year h going to be bigger and bc1tc1 than la~1 year, ,aid Robert Srngle1ary, Fort Sherman Days chair· man and NIC hi\tory instructor.

Fon Sherman Days officially begins tit noon. April 20, with a procession commemorating Fort Sherman, the frontier site of social activity du ring Coeur d'Alene's early sculemcnt days and gathering spot for the Coeur d'Alene Indian tribes. The procession will include the Coeur d' Alene Indians, fur traders, "Black Robes" (Jesuits), military, steamboat captains, miners, loggers, homesteaders and seulcrs, all dressed in full costume, and present-day community leaders as well as tomorrow's lcadcrs--t:hildren from Kootenai County elementary schools.

Following 1he procession and opening ceremonies, the Spoknne Falls Brass Band will perform a1 12:30 p.m. At I :IS p.m., Bryan Elementary 1hird graders will perform the play 'Scenes of North Idaho,' followed by the first and fourth graders of SeHice Elementary, who will be performing the Idaho Folk Dances a1 I :40 p.m., all of which will be in the Fort Sherman Park and Theater.

Also, between noon and 4 p.m ..

RuMler's Roo~1 will be serving a chuekwagon barbequc lunch. and rid~ on 1he Giesen Freight Wagon will be available at the Fon Sherman Gate.

01hcr activities on campus will be the "Technology Through 1he Age~" display between 10 a.m.-3 p.m. as well as tour) and free diabetes screening and blood pr~surc checks in 1he NIC Voca· tional/Technkal School In addition, the Museum of North Idaho Centennial Pho10 Displays will be in the S1uden1 Union Building on the first noor m the lobby. The Centennial Living History Projects will be on display between noon-4 p.m. in Boswell Hall, and at g p.m. the North Idaho Symphony Or· chestra wi1h the North Idaho Concen Choir will perform to end the firsl day of Port Sherman Days.

The final day of Fort Sherman Days begins at 11 :30 a.m. April 21 with the nag-raising ceremony by the Frontier Regulars at the Old Fort Sherman Parade Grounds.

The schedule for Fort Sherman Park Theater will be: Noon-concert by the 25th Army National Guard Band: 1 p.m.- Kootcnai County Centennial Children's Choir composed of 60 founh and fiflh graders from Kootenai County schools; I :30 p.m.-Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe Dance demonstration: 2 p.m.-"Mrs. Hercules," a one-woman show based on 1he life of Ma y Arkwright Hutton, performed by Maureen Gri and writ1cn by Tim Rarick,

NIC drama instructor: 2:30 p.m.Turn-of-1hc Century Parlor Music by Laura Dickenson and David Cole; 3 p.m.-"The Rainbow Chaser," a oneman show based on the life of Noah S. Kellogg, performed by Dennis Redford and wriucn by Rarick: 3:30 p.m.Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe Dance demonstration: 4 p.m.-the Panhandle Fiddlers; 4:30 p.m.-"H1s1oric Scenes" by 1he Coeur d'A lene High School drama department ; S p.m.-Cocur d'Alene Indian Tribe Dance Demonstra· 1ion, and 5:30 p.m.-thc Harrison Hot Shots Kitchen Band.

The final poi nt of the day ends in the SUB wi1h a barbeque dinner at 6 p.m. with entertainment by the Junior Hocdowners. A square dance follows a1 7 p.m. with music by the Mica Flats Grange Band, ending wi1h 1he Centennial Dance and music from 1he the 25th Army National Guard Dance Band.

Throughout the night, Northwest Old Tyme Photos will be laking instant Centennial photos of people in costume.

Ahhough it isn't required, the Fort Sherman Days committee would like people 10 dress up in authentic period attire, said NIC Public Relations spokesperson Sandi Ludka- anywhere between the 1890s to 1he 1950s.

Fort Sherman, named after the famous Civil War Oen. William Tecumseh Sherman, was founded on April 16, 1878. Pour reasons for the fort

were to maimain the peace in 1he area to which Mullan Road had opened access, to help pave the way for senlc· ment, 10 keep an eye on the Canadian border and to guard railroad and telegraph crews.

"The lakeside po~1continued to grow and eventually comprised of 52 buildings, including the commandant's and officers' home~. barracks, Mablcs, powder magazine, smithy and ~addle shop, sa\\mill, posthall, bandstand, chapel, and school," accordmg to the Foomcps Around Fort Sherman brochure.

The fort was home to an average of 2SO soldiers through the years, including four companies of infantry, one cavalry troop, a band and medical personnel as well as headquarters staff.

In April 1898, the 16th Infantry marched past 1he gates of For1 Sherman to fight the Spanish-American War. The unit never returned.

In Augus1 1901. the post was officially abandoned and the remaining buildings were sold at a public auction.

Fort Sherman Days is only the begin· ning of Centennial curriculum. More than 70 cvcms are scheduled for 1990 in Kootenai County-some for sports fans , some for art lover, , some for history buffs and some for those who simply want 10 celebra1e, said Mary Waggoner, Kootenai County Centennial Committee chairwomen.

Faculty group plansGreecetrip

by Deborah Akera Greece: Land of milk and honey; land of Homer and Socrates: pristine islands and turquoise waters; mousaka and Ouzo; Apollo and ihc Acropolis. These are im· ages that come 10 mind for 2S North Idaho College faculty members, staff and friends who plan to travel there this summer.

As part of a 1wo-wcek study tour, members arc also participating in a pre-trip cou rse, "Gateway to Greece" through Lewis Clark State College.

NIC Instructors Judy Syltc, Jim McLeod and Lloyd Marsh arc leading the instruc· tion: however, participan1s arc engaging in their own learning process by selecting 1opics 10 discuss.

"Everyone is not an cmp1y vessel to poor knowledge into," Syllc said. ''Everyone has something 10 contribute."

Topics being discussed arc Greek literatur~. environmental issues, art, politics and 01hers.

Annie McKinlay, an NIC speech instruc-

tor planning for 1he trip, is researching lifestyles of Greek women-today and historically. " I love to travel, and it's especially in-

tcresiing to sec the differences in women's roles in other cultures," McKinlay said.

English instructor George Ives is researching modern Greek Poe1ry.

"This has been an amusing project to me as an ins1ructor," Ives said. "I'm finding myself with the same excuses ns my s1udents... no1hing written on the subject; i1 's 1101 in our library; there's not enough time 10 get it from inter-library loan.

"It's enlightening as to how little modem poetry is written, especially when our foundation of western poc1ry goes back to Lhc Greek Classics," Ives said.

Marsh, physical science department chair and tour leader, lived on the Island of Crete in Greece from 1977 10 1980.

While on Crete, Marsh managed the NATO Missie Firing Installation.

"Living in Crete was a great experience," Marsh said. "Each day was like a walk into history. Many days I would walk into the hills and find Roman cisterns and watchtowers."

Marsh said his favorite ~pol in Greece is Delfi, where the oracle was given in the temple of Apollo.

"There is a mystical abcration associated with this place, a very special feeling,"

Marsh said.

The two-week 1our will start on the island of Crete, then continue 10 the Peloponncssus Penninsula and end in Al hens. The cost of 1he 1011r is S1,650, including airfare, hotel and some meals.

Ives said, "When an opponunhy like this .comes along, even I'm smart enough to know ii 's a great deal."

According 10 Sylte, there is room available for a few more participants.

Anyone interested can contact her al ex1cnsion 397.

"The idea of taking the class ahead of time is to allow more free 1ime in Grctcc," Syltc said. "Participants will have a lot of options to do what they want," she said.

The itinerary will allow for cxploraLion of monasteries, Byzantine churches, Greek and Roman ruins, Minoan and Mycenaean ruins, museums, fishing villages, beaches and more. Also planned is an optional 4.5 hour hike tlirough the Samaria GorgeLhc longest gorge in Europe.

Syltc and McLeod have made three extensive lrips to Greece. One of the most interesting and challenging trips, according to Syltc, was in 1982-she and Jim were married there!

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Hentoff addresses stu dent s, faculty an d community

Freedom threatened, speaker says Cong~ess sho/1 ma~e .no law resP_e~t!ng on estabhshm~nl of re//gt~n, or pro~1b1!,ng the free exemse thereof. or obndgmg the J~eedom of speech or of the press; or the r,ght ofthe people peaceably to assemble, and to petiti~n the Government for a redresss of gr,evances.

- The Firs t Amendment to the Constitution

by Deborah Akers

educ:ition and j~. Heals~ 1s a regular colummst for th~ Vt/loge Voice, New Yorker and Progress~ve. .

In promoting ~reedom of ~x~r~ss1on, He~toff opened his speech by inv11tng the audience to. "denounce authority.''. He co~.cluded w!th reference 10 T:S· ~hot._ . There will always be ~ sttuauon in "".h1oh one n:ian or_ wom~n will render a ~rvice to their society simply by standing alo~e on an unpopular opinion ... tell ing Freedom of expression and freedom 10 their countrymen _they're w~ong, with no learn is being threatened, according to a re- h~pc to accompl~~h anything except to cent speech given at NIC. witness the truth, quoted Hentoff.

Nat Hentoff, a nationally known jour~ent~ff spoke about a recent ';,end on nolisi, received thunderous applause from umversuy campuses to encourage speech the audience during the opening speech of codes." At Harvard, Stanford and all six University of California ~~mpu~es the Convocations April 5.

Hentoff-clad in plaid tie, red sweater stud_ents, faculty and adm1ms1ra11on are and pocketed red bandana hankie-spoke punished for verbal harassment that could about censorship of books in schools, cen- be considered sexist or racist. These sorship of pornography in communities "speech codes" arc endorsed by the Afroand speech codes being implemented on the American Law School Association, the Asian-American Law School Association nation's campuses.

A self-described "advocacy writer" and and the Jewish Law School Association, "First Amendment purist," Hentoff is the according to Hentoff. author of two dozen books on civil rights, Hentoff, raised a Jew himself, said,

"The frightening thing is these schools are pass laws 10 protect Jews, Blacks, Catholics producing our future judges." Judges and handicapped rrom being offended and often make decisions based upon the First soon the First Amendment would drown Amendment's right to freedom of speech. in a sea or exceptions." " You can't stop bigotry by suppressing In speaking about education in speech," Hentoff said. "Bigotry thrives in American schools, Hentoff said the prodarkness." blem is "deficiencies in thinking." If Another recent development for which students don't have the right 10 read and Hcntoff had "much concern" is the 81. explore books of their own choice, how will tempt 10 get around the First Amendment they ever know their true potential and true under the disguise of civil rights questions. interests. Hentoff asked.

Hentoff gave the example of city or"Do students know mainly what they're dinances passed to ban pornography. told to think or do they know how 10 think A recent pornography ordinance was for thems.elvcs?" asked Hentoff. passed in Indianapolis and also tried in !he "right to read" compl_etes the cirBellingham, w 83 h. according to Hcntoff. cu11 of the freedom 10 wnte and the He said the ordina~ce allowed a woman to freedom of Sl)CCQh. He said children must file a complaint if she found pornography, be able to. explore the "unknown. magic" pictures or words, to be offensive 10 her. of _the hbrary for self~ducat1on and The material would then be removed, he ennchmcnt. said.

Henioff said this only works Ir the Hentoff said a Federal District Court library i~ not controlled b)• authoritarians Judge, Sarah Barker, appealed this who censor the books available by ordinance. eliminating choices. He said 100 often the Hentoff said her reason for appeal was School Board hides behind "a shield of " If an ordinace is passed 10 protect women community values" in the name of from being offended, then others could censorship

Grandma day is tops at children's center

by Krl1ly Jelleaed

Thursday momlngs between 9:30 and 11 :30 are better known as Grandma Day at the North Idaho College Children's Center. Each Thursday about 20 children get to see Grandma Sylvia Wheeler, Grandma Ellen Keough and Grandma Hazel Mason, said Bethanne Fuller, children center supervisor.

"They (the children) gel really excited when they (three women) come in, and they really look at them lilce they're arandmas," Fuller said. "They look at anybody that's a lot older than lhey are like a grandma and grandpa figure ...

Some or the kids just sit down with them and talk to them," she added.

Grandma Day was originated by Doris Lantz, a Children's Center

teacher, after she conlacu:d the senior citizens center and requested volunteers to start more multi-generational nc· tivities, Fuller said. Wheeler then decided to volunteer, and since she enjoyed it so much, she t.alked Keough and Mason into volunteering.

The women are being encouraged 10 do one-on-one activities wilh the children. Some of the activitl~ include bringing dogs to the center, reading and talking to the children, and according to Fuller, the grandmas also plan to do some cooking activities with the kids.

"They're (the grandmas) Just really fun to have around," Fuller said. "The kids really li ke them."

Wheeler and Keough both began volunteerina at the center Jan. 2S and Mason started March 8.

Wheeler works with a group of senior citizens who go around to nursing homes and day care centers. Due to lhat exposure, she wanled lo volunteer at the NIC center as well, Fuller said.

On the other hand, Mason just moved lo Coeur d'Alene and is having a house built, so while she's staying in a motel, she has plenty of free time, ac· cording to Fuller. Because of thal, Mason decided to join Wheeler and she enjoyed herself so much, she agreed to come back every Thursday.

According 10 Fuller, both Wheeler and Keough were both worried because they have he"8ring aids and were afraid that with a large group of kids, there would be too much noise that would bother them. f ortunately, it didn't bother them because tbe Children's

Center ls a nice, calm atmosphere, Fuller said.

Fuller said she hopes 10 keep the volunteers throughout lhe summer and next year. ''It's been really areal lhat they have decided to do this. It's hard to find older people that would be wiUing 10 work with preschoolers," she said. "I'm glad they're comfortable with it and ii 's really nice 10 see them come in and get more and more involved with what we're doing.

"It's been really nice for all or our staff," Fuller said smiling. "h's just a real warm reeling to sec them come in, and they' re so excited to be here and the kids are excited to sec them. lt'1 ntat."

Do you like having a 'grandma' come and visit you at day care?

M1rl11 Stuhla-age Yes, she plays with us.

Corey J1mleaon-1ge Yes, because we read.

Nicole C11well-1ge 3: I like grandma Silvia. She read me the lizard book.

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delivery, the baby almost died.

Just like her earlier miscarriage, he blamed her.

"Once again I started playing !he perrect wire, the perfect mommy and doing everything he said, but it seemed 10 be getting worse. I just couldn't seem 10 make him happy."

The physical abuse started coming in cycles-every six months.

The verbal degradation came every single day.

FinaUy, in 1987, he left her because he said she wasn't perfect enough. " He said, 'you know, you really are screwed because you're never going to find a man. Nobody's ever going to take you because they'll know what I know-that you're worthless."'

"And I believed him."

He came back 1hrcc weeks Later under one condition-"He said, 'well, l 'll give you another chance if you promise to be a litllc more perfect.

"At this point we had been married for seven years and I believed him, forgave him and took him back. I was convinced that no man would ever want me and that I wasn 'I worth it. I could never visualize a good guy ever wanting me because I thought he was a good guy and I couldn't do anything 10 make him happy."

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child would talk about killing herself.

"When I found out, that also fell into place.

As for their youngest daughter, Rose, his "perfect child," he had just started fondling her.

She would climb into bed with her parents every morning and "be would (fondle) her and then he would send her ... " She couldn't speak for a moment. The tears in her eyes and the strain in her voice reflected her intense pain. She swallowed hard and took a deep breath.

Softly, she continued.

"He'd make her go back to her room and then he'd have se,: with me .. .''

She poused and swallowed hard again.

"And I didn't know. I just didn't know ... " she said in a nearly inaudible voice.

May finally came and with it, his day in court. Brandy and Carla went together. ''Brandy made a statement that I will probably never forget. She said, 'if he's guilty and everybody knows he is, they why isn't anything being done? I feel like the guilty one.'''

As she spoke, she paused for a moment and then grew very quiet. She proceeded to tell me about the night of Oct. 2, 1987, the night that was to be the last night they would spend together.

He had got drunk and beat her and raped her. The next morning after he went to

"l didn't have an answer."

Brandy also said, "If there's a God, why didn't He stop this?"

Again, Carla didn't have an answer.

In court, the rest of his secret came out.

"He had molested 14 other kids before mine. He'd had intercourse with his mother.

He raped his sister. His family knew he was a cltild molester and they never told me.

His grandfather had molested him and then I guess he was raped by a biker gang."

According to newpaper reports, he pleaded guilty on May 20, 1988, to two counts

work, she got out of bed and went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

Again she paused. The room was too quiet. I knew that she could s//11 see herself in that mirror and was seeing herself in it now. It was as if the mirror were in front

of lewd conduct with a minor under /6. Each count carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a SS,000 fine. He was allowed to remain free on his own recognizance until sentencing June 24.

of her face instead of the kitchen window and that the date was Oct. 3, 1987, instead of Feb. 5, 1990.

Before he was sentenced, the judge gave him a chance to speak on his behalf.

"He stood up, turned around to my daughter and said 'I'd like 10 lhank the litlle girl who turned me in. She's changed my life around. Because of her. I can get belier.'

And Brandy turns to me and she said 'he may be able 10 get better, but I'll never forget.'"

"And she started to cry."

"My eyes were au swoUen. My neck had fingerprints all over it. Up and down my arms I had bruises. My wrists were all bruised. The back of my head-God, I don't know how many bumps were all over it from being slammed up against the wall. I just stood there and I looked and it occured to me. I said to myself, 'Oh my God. I am a victim.'"

Later that day, a friend of hers had to literally drag her out of her home and into a women's shelter.

Two weeks before Thanksgiving and about five weeks after their final separation, she star1ed talking to him again. Soon he was begging to come home and she was thinking about taking him back. " He kept telling me there is something really horrible that l 've done that I need to tell you aboui."

One week later, Carla's mother asked if she thought they could get back together.

Brandy, her nine-year-old daughter, overheard the conversation and called Carla into her room. "She said, ' Mom, I have 10 talk 10 you.â&#x20AC;˘ I said 'OK, what do you have 10 tell me?'

"And she said, 'He's touched me.'"

His secret had been exposed.

"I really hated her. I didn't want to hear someLhing like that...11 wasn't ihat I really hated her. I hated her telling me.

"And I asked if she was sure and she said 'yes, l 'm sure.' I knew that she was talking about my husband."

Carla said she ran ou1 of the room. She screamed and started beating the walls.

Later on, during the police investigation, Carla learned all the details about how he had molested Brandy.

"What it came down to was that he had been molesting her since she was 3~-years old."

When Carla learned about her husband's secret, things began to fall into place. He had always spent a lot of time in Brandy's bedroom and if she would try to come in, he would threaten to beat her.

"He spent so much time making me feel worthless that I never questioned it. I chose to overlook it."

When he wu with Brandy, he would sing to her while fondling her. And as time went on, things got progressively worse to the point where he was trying 10 penetrate her.

"He would tell her it hurt down there and he would need her to rub ii. Brandy said she didn't want to, but she knew she had to."

Carla also learned that six months prior to tellina her, Brandy had warned her friends at her birthday party "that her father was a child molester, that be was molesting ber(and) she had to warn them because she was afraid.''

The children told their parents about Brandy's secret, but no one told Carla.

Police filed charges against him in January 1988 and he was scheduled 10 go to coun in May. Sometime between November and May, Carla learned that he had also molested their other two daughters, who at the time were Sand 2~.

"He would make his rounds.

"After he was finished with the girls, he would come into my room and want 10 have sex with me. It drove me crazy when I found all this out.''

Bcf,ore they went to court, she learned that, "according to him, two years before he left he had started molesting Beth (the middle daughter). "During that time, she changed 50 much. Then in the last two years of our marriage, and especially the wt year, she used to sit behind chairs and say that nobody liked her and that she was going 10 kjl\ ~~~!:-).t !~Y. ~ me though, because I.......... couldn'¡-¡.......... t figure out .why .. a S-year-old

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He was sentenced to 180 days at the North Idaho Correctional lnstilllfion in Coltonwood for evaluation. If he failed the evaluation, he would then serve two concurrent JO-year sentences at the state prison.

After the judge's decision, "his lawyer turned 10 him and paued tum on the back and said, 'Congratulations. You just won.' Any child molester that gets sent to Cottonwood for six months knows that they're going to get out and walk. They never go to the big house (prison).

"And so we lost. My daughter knew she lost and I knew she lost and it tore us apart.

"He walks around a free man today and Brandy lives with her guilt and her insecurities and her fears and her hurts and her loss of Innocence. She's not innocent anymore.

She's lost all the things that liule girls arc supposed to look forward 10. She sometimes has a hard time dealing with her friends because they seem immature to her. She's wise beyond her years. She says she's come 10 forgive him, but she just doesn't understand why.''

Beth, the daughter who was suicidal at age five, still baso't faced what her rather did 10 her.

"She doesn't talk about it and if you ask her about it, she'll say 'nothing happened.'

But, according to her father, when he was molesting her, he would tell her that he wasn't doing anything. So for her, that's her answer to the solution-that nothing happened."

Beth's therapist is more worried about her than her sister, Brandy, because she is burying aU of her experiences. (Brandy and Beth have both been in counseling for the past three years).

The youngest daughter, Rose, now six, isn't in therapy yet because the extent of her abuse didn't go very far and she still docsn'i understand what has happened to her.

As for Carla, she said, " I'm angry. I'm mad at !he system for allowing him to walk.

I'm angry at myself because I should never have let him do what he did 10 me in the first place. I should've been stronger and I wasn't. The worst part is that J never ever believed he could do it. Never. I trusted him. I had to because be was my husband."

During the interview, we asked Brandy if she would like to write in her own words about her feelings. She hesitated only briefly and then said "yes" with a huge smile on her face.

She later told her mom that she wanted to share her story to make sure that what happened 10 her does not happen to another child.

As the writer, I turn over the re.st of this page to Brandy.

I am Brandy. I am in sixth grade. I have been sexually abused. It went on for weeks, months, possibly years.

Inside I knew what my father was doing was wrong, but in a way it comforted me, my own special time with my dad.

He took everything from me. my confidence, my ability 10 laup al jokes at school.

Now after years of therapy, I can do many things my father took away from me.

It was OK for me to tell and it was the right thing to do.

Now I can be me again.

All of the names, except Carla and Brandy's, have been changed to maintain their anonymiry. Carla is now a sophomore at NIC and will graduate next year.

The writer is Karin Lau. She is also an NIC studentand is majoring in /ournalism Wllh plans of earning lwr batcheior's degree from Gonvzga Uniwnity .

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Posters for disabled top in state

by Karin Lau When North Idaho College student Gayle Hughes was a child, she and her family were driving across a desert when she spoiled a diner with a sign that read.

"Ea1 here or we'll both starve." Por some reason, 1ha1 slogan stuck In her mind and ended up influencing her decision on the theme for a pos1er she was 10 make for her commercial design course at NIC. The poster was 10 be entered in the Idaho Poster Awards Contest, a yearly pos1er design contest that stresses a theme of employment of people with disabilities. Hughes came up with the

"It's a good program, and I hope ii stays on the books."

Gayle Hughes slogan "Everyone Benefits-Hire Able People" because the slogan of that diner'< ,ign hnd remained with her.

Everyone benefits, whether in the case of eating at 1his diner or employing the disabled, Hugh es said.

Hughes' poster took first place in the statewide competition, reclaiming 1he spot for the second year in a row for an

NIC student. Student Kathy Rau won it last year. As a whole, NIC took six of the eight awards this year.

NIC winners were Hughes, first place (S IOO); Danny Fraser, second place ($50); Matthew Swaim, fourth place ($20); and Greg Collier, Kimberley Leonard and Cynthia Poole, honorable mentions. All will receive a cemlicate of commendation signed by Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus.

Hughes' first place entitled her 10 enter the national poster competition against 50 other state-winners from across the country. Hughes placed in the top four entries and received an honorable mention nationally. The poster will be held over and presented at the President's Commission on Employment of People with Disabilities annual meeting May 2~.

"I was shocked," Hughes said, adding that the winner is from Tennessee.

Hughes said she plans on continuing her education. She said, "When I grow up, 1'd like to be an artist."

Being a part of the comest w.u a rewarding experience for her, she said, cit Ing that great strides have been made in parking, curbsidcs and restrooms for the disabled, but a~ for employment, "We're still in the Dark Ages."

"It's a good program, and I hope it stays on the books. 1'm proud to be 11 part of it."

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Helpers of the handlcapped--Artlsts (from left) Greg Colller, Gayle Hughes, Danny Fraser and Matthew Swaim pause by poster entries.

'Phantom,' medieval music in NI C program by

Donna Wood

Love. Obsession. Mystery. Intrigue. All these words describe what the play, "Phantom or the Opera," depicts 10 the audience. Excerpts from this musical and medieval tavern songs from "Carmina Burana" will be performed at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 20, by lhc Nonh Idaho Symphony Orchestra, North Idaho Concen Choir and soprano Kay Damiano.

The story "Phantom or the Opera" was written in France by Guton Laroux in the early 1900s. The theme, rerlccted in the music, is a mystery with a romantic twist. A Scandinavian girl, Kristina, after growing up in her homeland, ventures to the Paris opera and secures a job as a wardrobe usistant. While at the opera, Kristina meets a childhood friend, Raoual, who is the brother of a wealthy count. Raoual falls in love with her, but Kristina doesn't return bis advances.

Meanwhile, the Paris opera is sold to new owners who inherit a &host-the phantom, who is a mysterious

creature livina in the opcrahowe basement. The phantom, upon hearing Kristina's angelic voice, loses his heart to her and makes it his soul destiny to make her his own and the star of the opera.

Musical hiahliabts from "Phantom or the Opera,'' composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, will be followed by exmpu from another modem composition, Carl Orfrs "Carmina Burana." Selections from this musical depiction of medieval monks "are all secular and pertain 10 more popular things in nature," according to Todd Snyder, conductor of lhe orchestra and choir.

"Phantom of the Opera" could also be considered popular. Seats are going for S200 at a Los Angeles pro-

duction. For general admiuion or S4 for adulu, S2 for seniors and SI for students and children, with NIC students and staff in free, music lovers can enjoy the orchestra and choir miditions of boch "Phantom of the Opera" and "Carmina Burana" in Boswdl Auditorium.

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About 65-7S pieces are on exhibit, including oil and watercolor paintings, sculptures, clay work, photography and drawings. Students who took art classes this semester or last semester were allowed 10 submit three entries per category, said an instruc-

Daboll said. " We're very proud of them."

Each piece shows investment in thought and at1cn1ion, she said.

An opening reception was held April 9 in order 10 single out pieces and award a special recognition for the artist. Winners and prizes remain under consideration.

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Foreign student events offer international experiences

by David C1r1thuff

Even the food will be foreign at the Foreign Language Festival to be hosted by the Nonh Idaho College International Student Relations Club al Templins Restaurant in Post Falls.

The menu will range from Australian dcsscn to Calgary red eye stew during the international buffet on April 24 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Other dishes will include Brazilian rice and beans, Japanese fried rice and Spanish chocolate and coconut cake. Tickets costing $3.SO arc available this week in the Student Union Building al NlC, according to NICISRC president Gabrielle Zwaan.

The buffet provides an opportunity for international students to interact with the community, Zwaan said. During the festival, however, the gathering focuses on foreign students, according to adviser Gme Leroy.

"We want as many foreign students as possible 10 represent various countries," Leroy said.

International students will attend the festival on April 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Activities will inc.lude dancing, singing and game-playing across language barriers.

Tee shirts with international design wiU sell for SS and tong sleeved shirts for $10, available from NICISRC members for the remainder of the semester, according to Zwaan.

"We're just trying to push more activities around campus," Zwaan said.

Another activity is a car wash at NI Con April 23 from 9 a.m. 10 3 p.m. organized by the NIC Foreign Language Club. Cost is S2 per vehicle, according to president Michelle Braid.

Both clubs on campus joined together to furnish their individual activities, according to Leroy.

Entertainers to play for NIC lunch crowd

by Lauria Ingle Two performers are featured for Nic's Nooners this month, presented by Associated Students of North Idaho College. Folksinger Tim Hall will perform Wednesday, April 18. Kier (his whole name), musician and comedian, will perform Thwsday, April 19. Both performances in the Student Union Building will start a1 11 :30 a.m. and end at I p.m.

Hall, from Seaule, began playing professionally about five years ago. He spent three of those five years as a member of a quartet known as "Shay's Rebellion.''

With "Shay's Rebellion," Hall performed at labor union events and peace rallies from Managua, Nicaragua, to Sioux Falls, S.D. Hall has done many solo conceru, traveling from Ashland, Ore., to Vancouver, B.C. "I fancy my job as a singer 10 be com-

parable with that of mulch in the garden," Hall said, "I gather in songs (rather than grass clippings) and reshape them a bit to fit my own musicality."

Some of the establishments Hall has performed in include coffeehouses, pubs, colleges, art festivals, llbrariC5 and grade schools. He once even put on a HaUoween ghost-ship concert.

Kier, orig.inally from Indiana, grew up in South Carolina. He first started playing guitar when he was 16 and started writing songs soon after that. He swted performing in 1978. He plays the guitar, piano and the harmonica.

After starting our in clubs and lounges, Kier now spends the majority of his time performing in coUeges and universities across the United States.

Critics reviewing Kier's show said the audience thoroughly enjoys it and his show is a chance 10 hear p0pular music combined with intelligence and a sense of humor.

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Rarick's summer play put to music

by Karin Lau

Pioneer wcddin&s is the su~ject of a new, 1ight·h~art~1d ~us1cal, "The Silver Wedding, wnuen by North Idaho College theater department head Tim Rarick.

•'The Silver Wedding" will debut in Wallace at the Sixth Street Melodrama 1his summer.

The play, which Rarick said 100k aboul four months 10 write, involve$ 1hree turn-of-1he<entury weddings 1ha1 occurred in 1hc Silver Valley. The fic1ional Judge Buck narrates 1hese talcs of 1he real-life weddings of Noah Kellogg, Mae Hutton and True Blakc-"1hrec people who made a big impacl on North Idaho," Rarick said.

"Judge Buck talks about the his1ory of our state by focusing on colorful people of our past and thrilling days of yesteryear," he said.

The first wedding is that of Kellogg to a woman named Mamie. At 1he 1ime, Rarick said, Kellogg was 6S years old and was an instant millionaire from discovering the Bunker Hill and

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"There were a 101or ladies who would've liked to marry him," Rarick said , but Kellogg decided on Mamie, who la1er 100k him for everything he had. Rarick said that

a song even describes Mamie's penchant for digging into her man's wallet.

The second wedding is 1hat or Mae Hutton to Levi Arkwright.

Levi was a quiet, small man and

1he "complete opposite" of Mac. He was Mac's " temperaturetaker, if that's what you want to call it," Rarick said. '" Now, Mac, settle down,'" Rarick said, imitating Levi.

Mac, who discovered the Hercules Mine with her husband and another financier, was known for being very out.spoken and opinionated and la1er became a champion for women's suffrage in Washington State, but Levi kept her from going overboard.

The third weddi ng is that of a man named True Blake to a woman named Hallie. Al 1he time, Rarick said, SO-year-old True was living wi1h his brother, Dennis, and making a name for himself with 1he Sunshine Mine.

He and Dennis were lifelong bachelors uoti.l Hauie came along.

True married her and, because he and his bro1hcr were so close, she moved in wit h her new husband ...and Dennis.

True and Dennis were diffcrenl from Noah Kellogg and Mae HutIon Arkwright in thnl they did n'I ma ke 1heir fortune through mining. lns1cad, they gave most of 1heir money away, choosing 10 live

only in comfor1 rather than extravagance, Rarick said.

"The Silver Weddings" is an adap1ation of three of Rarick's earlier plays: "Noah," a musical tha1 was produced in 1983· " Mac," produced in 1984, and "The Go-Devil Boys,'' produced in 1986.

Tom Cooper is composing the music for lhc play. He has collaborated with Rarick on several of his other plays, including the much-praised " Riversong." Nine songs arc being wriucn for " The Silver Weddings" and three dances arc being choreographed.

Rarick, who has written seven fuUlength plays and countless other smaller ones, said he is not directing the produc1ion 1his 1ime.

The play is scheduled 10 debut in la1c June and will run every other day 1hrough the end of Augus1, Rarick said. " Rivcrsong" will also hove 10 performances at the University of Idaho for the Idaho Repertory Thca1er during the month of July, he said. As part of 1he Centennial Celebration, both lhis revival and the upcoming musical receive o grant from 1he Idaho Ccn1cnninl Commiucc.

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America is a funny place. Americans are stranger still.

America is currently fighting a drug war. Bui Americans are strange. Take for instance aU the lime, energy and money that is being spent to educate kids to just say NO. Then notice how many commericals on the idiot box that say to take this little pill if you can't sleep and this if you can't wake up or this itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny pill that will help take off those extra pounds the painless and easy way.

What about drugstores? I'm not even going 10 mention all the ads for beer and wine because they just taste great, or is it less filling? What happened to the lesson from the last prohibition? It would seem that more time, energy and money is being spent on teaching kids "Do as I say, not as I do.''

Americans are strange. Ronald Reagan was . elected to two terms and George Bush, former

director of the ClA, is now the big cheese. Enough said.

Americans spend more money on pornography than they do on cookies. Are the girl scouts in the wrong business?

America is one of Eanh's greatest producers of food. Yet people starve throughout our grea1 land while grain spoils in storage.

Educators and politicians wonder bow it is that

such a great percentage of students are either not graduating from high school or can't read anything more complicated than Batman. Meanwhile, back at the Jones', the TV drones on for an average of seven hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year... So now there is war to help out the education system in our country because American students in general place near the bottom of the pack compared lo the other industrialized nations who sponsor the same standardized tests. Duh. Hence, Bush bumbles on in his typical bass-ackward rash.ion and wants 10 cut student aid. If that wasn't bad enough, the price of Top Ramen is inching up, too. It's no wonder that students today are so broke that they can't even pay attention.

Youth in general are placed in a strange Catch-22 situation by the rights and restrictions placed upon them by a constantly changing society. Teens are expected to refrain from the in's and out's of premarital sex while their hormones and the media are telling them that "sex is fun" and "try it, you'll lilce it." Also, 18-ycar-olds are given the right to vote and the right to sacrifice themselves for Mom and apple pie in the ultimate male-bonding process called war. but they are not considered mature enough to go and have a beer after a long day of work.

Ob, well, life's an abyss and then you dive.

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Singers, syncers compete at NIC

by Damon Darakjy

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Talented trio-- The best group talents Include (from left) Colleen Evans, Ann Paul and Dan Wyman.

The second annual North Idaho College Lip Sync and Talent Show coordinated by Dean Bennett, director of intramural recreation and spons, proved to be a tremendous success. This was obvious from the audience's reaction during the show and following it.

The entertainment began with the famous "Holy Toledo" scholars. including Mona Klinger, Sandy Brashears and Nils Rosdahl, performing a lip sync about shaving cream. They did a very good job getting the audience involved by spraying shaving cream into the crowd after their act. By talking 10 some of the members of the audiece, however, it was apparent that there were some negative reactions concerning this act.

Katy McHcnney, who was the winner of the female

solo talent category, impressed many by singing a song from the Judds. On the men's side, Alva Street was the winner of the male solo talent category. Colleen Evans and her group were rightly chosen as being the best group talent. Kelly Gonser won the male solo lip sync category.

The group singing Poison with Karen Lewis as the leader won the group lip sync i:ategory. But perhaps the performance of the evening occurred when Gina Petri's group performed a lip sync to the BS2's song "Love Shack."

Prizes were awarded to the certain categories: SJOO to Gina Pclri and her group, SSO awarded 10 the other winning participants. The "Mike Kirkenbeast" band earned honorable mention with its "Lumberjack" song.

Reviewers refrain from knocking comedy MOVIE REVIEW

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by Tonya Broderhausen

The movie "Opportunity Knocks" focuses on the lighter side of crime, In which two con artists, who steal the viewer's heart, humorously engage in the biggest con scheme of their careers.

During an attempted house burglary, the two con artists discover (via phone answering machine messages) that the luxury home they have entered will be unoccupied by its owner for two months and the intended house-sitter, Jonathan Albertson, is a no-show. This is where Dana Carvey, playing Eddie Farrel, recognizes opportunity knocking and assumes the role of Albertson.

Carvey charms the audience when he says, "Oh my God, I'm Jewish!" when invited to a bar mitzvah. Herc he attempts

win the heart of Annie Malcomb (portrayed by Julia Campbell) by dancing sexy and ridiculously for her in front of everyone. He tries to coax her to dance with him or even laugh for once. She is an all-too-serious community doctor who is not easily taken by the executive type.

Carvcy's character is effective because of his display of childlike, untamed qualities as he tries 10 fit the description or Albertson: rich. intellectual Harvard man.

I found this movie 10 be charming and funny, while a bit ridiculous in some scenes. For example, I feh houscowner Milt Malcomb should have been less naive and belier able to see through Farrel's masquerade, such as when Farrel (as Albertson) is forced to use his foreign language speaking abilities 10 interpret for a Japanese client of Milt's bathroom accessories company. The client is simply asking to go to the bathroom (subtitled). Farrel rakes the language, insults the client and interprets his middle finger as meaning "number one" in Japanese.

Two mistakes made during the singing of "Born to be Wild'' made it obvious that Carvey was lip syncing; however, this scene was fabulous otherwise.

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"Opportunity Knocks" is a funny movie which I would re<lommend 10 anyone who is not too serious about life and easily amused, like me. Out of a possible rive, I give it three boxes of Jujubees.

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by Deborah Akers

Maybe it's because I grew up with the original cast of "Saturday Night Live," but in my opinion no one can deliver lines like Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase, ct al.

Dana Carvey, the new, young whippersnapper on "Saturday Night Live," makes his debut at the movies in "OpportunitY Knocks." Unfortunately, for the audience, he falls short of his predecessors.

The ftrst third of the movie makes several dry attempts at humor, con-man style. In one scene, Carvey and his sidekick show up at a house disguised as employees from the gas company. Carvey introduces

himself as Bob Marley and almost gets away with the TV until he is thwarted by two young boys in karate outfits.

Carvcy's impressions of a Harvard intellectual and wine connoi"eur arc more cmbarra,sing than convincing. As an intellectual, he is quick to assess that the average person spends seven and a half minutes staring at the back of bathroom doors. That is, he explains, 3,280 hours in the average human life when advertisers have a captive audience. Hardly on par with the best of "The Church Lady."

Perhaps the most energetic par1 of the movie is when Carvey lip-syncs "Born to Be Wild" on a Chicago night club stage.

As empty or content and devoid of humor as I thought this movie to be, even I couldn 11 control the laughter when Carvey immitated George Bush in the men's room at a Chicago Cubs game. "Not gooonn do it, wooonn by pru-dcnt. Ooood for the e<onomy. Hand blowers arc goood, pa-per towels, baad."

From Carvey's own line," As Pericles said to the Athenians, 'Let each man receive unto his merits,"' sob my review based. Let "Opportunity Knocks" receive one box of Jujubces based on its merit.

Which New Ye a r's resolutions have you broken in 1990?

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atructor: All of them.

Sherry Ochoa-Law enforcement: To get myself up in lhe morning really early and get my homework done.

Shella Hohman-Engllah In, 1tructor: I resolved to have a lot of love affairs and I've already broken that one.

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Turtles take theaters by storm; critics brave elements

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Splinter, 1akcn caplivc by walking can opener Shredder and his ninja cohorts, 1he fool pa1rol.

During the course of the movie, the special effects arc impressive. The nips and karate chops by these ninja turtles arc totally tubular.

Myself, 1 enjoyed the action, violence and the pizza. This movie is definitely a must-sec for all 1hose radical dudes and

by Jim Lapos-Drake dudeues. As for me, I'd give "Teenage Cowabunga, dude! These green, three- Mutant Ninja Turlles" five boxes of Jufingered, sewer-dwelling, piua~tlng nin- jubccs (I wish the movie theaters served pizza). as are like awesome, dude.

The four teenage mutant ninja turtles (Michaelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo and DonateUo) in the so-called movie arc taught nijiisu by their master scnsai, an overgrown rodeo! named Splinler. Together, with 1he by Robb Brennan help of news anchorwoman April O'Neil and hockey goalie wannabe Casey Jones, "It's time to kick some serious bull, the turtles embark on a mission 10 recover dude " is the Teena c Nin'a Mutant

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Tunics in a nutshell. Ycs, folks, these four fabu lous amphibians have wormed !heir way out of the toy slores and television and 0010 the silver screen. And it ain't no stinkin' cartoon, mahnl These Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles are like some creation of Young Frankenstein, Timothy Leary and Bruce Lee. Actually, they are all Muppel magic a la Jim Henson and company.

The special effects arc really what carry this, the most mondo o' shows, not the in1rica1c 1wistings of the plot nor the real bilch'n dialogue. For instance, the Turtles' awesome, totally excellent dialect sounds like some 101al whitebrcad chump in a suit wrote the script with only lhe words he picked up from some mall that day, but hey, this movie is targeted at the young whitebrcad middle class of America.

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erfects, 'cause I was sorta expccling dudes i~ Godlillaish garb. The action on flips, kicks and general asswhipin' was ·very good, perhaps too good for a PG ra1ing.

Although this is no "Blood Sport," ii might be a questionable movie for little kids. Ya, I know its jus1 a good ol' fantasy flick wilh no harm intended, bu1 some of lhe sub1le1ies need to be addressed.

First or all, it shows that violence is fun, by the smiles, laughing and the Three Stooges routines of the 1urtles during combat. Also, the movie portrays young kids of about eight or nine up 10 older 1ecns smokin', sccalin' and hangin' out in an underground, super-secret ninja speakeasy which cronlBins aU 1he groovy things chat kids really dig.

11 's all fun and games 'Iii someone gets !heir eye poked ou1. On a scale of one 10 five, therefore, I'd give " Teenage Mucant Nin'a Turtles" 1wo boxes of Ju 'ubccs.

Artnic calendar compiled by Kim Patzer April 12-6:4.S p.m. Campus Crusade for Christ presents for the Easier season "Jesus," a family film, in the SUB TV Room. It is free 10 the public.

April 16-11 a.m. Easter Sunday music will be performed by Christ the King Lutheran Church in Boswell Auditorium.

April 18,19-11 :JOa.m. ASNICsponsorcd Nic's Nooners presents singer Tim Hall on Wednesday and comedian and singer Kier 10 follow on Thursday. Both performances arc in the SUB. April 20-8 p.m. The North Idaho Symphony Orchestra and the North Idaho Concert Choir with soloist Kay Damiano and conductor Todd Snyder prcscm "Carmina Burana" and "Phan1om of 1hc Opera." These musical excerpts will be performod in Boswell Hall. General admisllon is S4 for adults, S2 for senion and SJ for s1udeots and children. NIC students and staff arc admitted free.

Aprtl 22-9 a.m.-5 p.m. Auditions for Coeur d'Alene Swnmcr Theater will be held in Room 113 of Boswell Hall. Shows for production include "Company," " Fantastic:b" and "Oklahoma."

For more information, call 667-02$4.

Aprtl 28-8 p.m. The North Idaho Symphonic Band and Jazz EDSe111ble will perform " Music for a Spring Evening" in Boswell Auditorium. General admission applies.

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Club focuses on meditation; a tool for student relaxation

by Bobby Hammond

Spring is here and 1he morning air is filling with the napping foo1falls of health-conscious joggers; athletic clubs walch as their rolls swell with bodl~ rounded by winier neglec1, all hurriedly shedding and trimming for swimsuit weather.

Muscles everywhere arc ncxed, stretched, toned and firmed. Like an inventory from Gray's Anatomy, nothing is excluded. Excepl perhaps lhc most important amalgam of tissue of all: the brain. Two and a half pounds none of us can afford to lose.

The North Idaho College Meditation Club was founded 10 provide the conditioning the mind could use and seldom gets, according to founding member Tom Flint.

"Meditation serves to calm the mind, concentrate the mind and clarify lhc mind," Flint said. "It energizes as well as relaxes.''

Flint secs a daily routine of sitting quietly in a comfortable position and concentrating on nothing but your own breathing as a sort of "conditioning program for the mind." " We do all kinds of things for our bodies but almost nothing for our minds except cram them full of facts," Flint said.

According 10 information from Flint, meditation results in a "relaxation response" that involves the mind gaining control of the body, including such automatic functions as heart rate, aspiration and metabolism. Scientific research has shown that metabolism decreases to levels not even reached in several hours of sleep in just one half hour of meditation.

But like any other exercise program, the bencfit.s will not come overnight or from just one or two sittings, Rint said.

"Meditation is not especialy fun, you have 10 work at it. The benefits ocour slowly and gradually in conjunction with with daily sitting of at least a half-hour over a period or weeks."

According to Flint, the weekly meetings held by the club are " set up for people who want a daily practice" and serve to suppori 1hem in 1heir individual endeavors. Just anending the mee1ings each week alone is pro· bably not sufficient 10 gain the full bcnefiis or meditation, he added.

In a memo from Flint and club cofounder Micheal J. Miller, also an NIC instructor, to club members, 1he essential elements for successful medhaiion include: a quiet environment; a mental device to keep the mind from wandering, such as concen1ra1ing on one's breathing or a mantra (a simple repeated incantation); a passive atlitude, and finally a comforiable position.

The group mce1s Thursdays a1 5 p.m. in the RA/TV studio in Boswell Hall. Panicipants should wear loosefitting clothing and bring a firm cushion if they intend to sit on the floor. Usually there are several minutes 10 answer questions and talk before the whole group assembles and sits for a half hour or so, according to Rint.

The group numbers around 25 people on paper although all have ye1 to appear for the meetings, Rini said.

NIC personnel make up the majority or the group, but several NIC students are included. Flint said the group is looking for new members and students, NIC employees and members of the community are welcome to join. There are no dues or officers in the club.

Flint emphasizes that the club embraces no religious affliliation or instruction, saying it is "strictly secular.''

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Rowing cl ub preparing for regattas

by Mike Saunders

While most NIC students took Curriculum Day off. the NIC rowing club 100k 10 the water in prep.iration for three r~sa11ru. it will compete in 1his momh.

In 11s fourth semem:r at NIC, rowing, or the "ere\,.'' has been s1eadily growing, both in participation and accomplishments, according 10 volunteer coach and NIC student Tim Hanz.og.

The program includes the NIC team, comprised of 30 studenlS, and a masters te.am with 10 10 20 community members panicipating for fun and exercise.

Competing against teams from all over the Northwest, including clubs from the University of Washington, Washington State and Gonzaga, NIC has steadily improved from no top-three finishes in its first season to first, second and third-place finishes last semester.

"Bvery season we've golten beucr and scored more and more points," Hanzog said.

Hart tog cites prac1ice and hard work as the reasons for the club's success.

"I've been to a coaching clinic and seen videos in which the rowers are doing 1hings the right way, so I know what it looks like," Hartzog said. "It's really incredible to see that we're finally doing it like it's supposed 10 done."

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Stroke--(from rlgh t)Coxman Greg Hudson and rowers Matt Smith, David Klein, Steve Jungen, Michael Stevens, Dan Martin and Alex Evans train on Lake Coeur d'Alene.

The club will compete in a regaua Saturday in Corvallis, Ore., as well as regattas April 21 in Vancouver, Wash., and in the Tri-Ci1ies April 28.

Everyone in the clu b will anend the regat1as, whether they compete or not, according 10 Hanzog.

"I try 10 enter enough shells (boats) so everybody gets to row al least once,

but that's not always possible.'' he said.

Harizog is currrently lobbying for ASNIC funds to purchase three used shells from Gonzaga University.

"The shells we're using now were made in 1961 and 1964. It would be a great help 10 get the S),000 for the newer ones."

Hartzog encourages anyone who is in-

tere~ted in the program 10 contact him before or after one of the club's practices, which arc held along the beach by NIC\ Bench House 3-5 p.m. weekdays.

Club fees arc S75 for the first semester, SSO for the second ,emcs1er and S2S each scmc~ter thereafter, according to Ha rtzog. ''We're really having fun, and it's never 100 la te 10 join," HarllOg said.

Fresh man Freel finds 'niche' on track team

by Damon Darakjy

"Just awesome" were the words that track coach Rob Conner used after seeing freshman Mark Freel run only the second 800 of his carc:cr in I :SS.4. Freel's time was the eighth fastest in NIC history and placed him third at the Universi ty of Mon tana Invitational in Missoula March 31. " It is really exciting 10 see a kid who really was not in the picture during cross country finally find his niche on the team," Conner said.

Along with Freel, freshman Chris Gilbert and sophomore Clint Gertje ran excellently, according 10 Conner. Gilben placed third in the 1,500 and ran the seventh fastest time in the school's history.

Oenje ran a 4:05.4 to set another personal best for the season. "Every race for Clim this year has been a personal record," Con· ner said.

Freshman Maria Ridley qualified in a second event for nationals in the 3,000 with a time of 10:36.7. Freshman Kelly Swin· ney posted a time of 11:04.1 in the event,

photo by A l Thompson

Kicking It ln--Freshmen Mark Freel (far right) and Chris GIibert (mid· die) completed a 1·2 finish In the 800 at Spokane Saturday.

placing her seventh on the school chans.

Sophomore Kelly Gonser had a personal best in the 400-mcter hurdles with a lime of SS.4 . He curremly holds the school record in the event.

Conner said he bas high expectations for the rest of the season.

"Right now, everyone is coming around and everyone on the team should expect their best efforts. That's when you are in the best shape, qualifying for nationals and seuing personal besu," Conner said. "And I fetl that everyone is capable of doing jus1 that."

The Cardinals wW travel 10 Seaule Saturday 10 compete a1 the University of Washing1on.

Freshman Chris Katon, from WaUa Walla, won the 3,000 steeplechase in 9:27.03 at the Bigfoot Invitational at Spokane Community CoUege Saturday.

Freel and Mai Taylor were also victorious in their events.

On the women's side, Ridley outkicked an opponent in the final SOmeters 10 win the 1,500 in 4:SJ.S6.

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Baseball team entertains Ricks Friday

by Brian Walker

The North Idaho College baseball team didn't quite bring back the riches it was looking for at Treasure Valley last weekend, but 1he team hopes to find bel¡ 1er foriune when it entertains region foe Ricks Friday and Sa1urday. " I don't know a lot about Ricks," head coach Jack Bloxom said of last season's Northern Division champions. "I imagine 1hey're not as strong as last season, but we'll have to play well LO beat them."

The coach said College of Southern Idaho defeated Ricks in three straight earlier 1his season.

NIC, which split both doubleheaders with Ricks tas1 season, meets the squad for the first time 1his year. The Friday doubleheader is scheduled for I p.m. before the Saturday contest at noon.

The Cardinals are amidst an I I-game homestand that began with Tuesday's twinlJill against Yakima Valley.

The Cards lost the opener 8-2 before

winning 6-2 in the second game.

Bloxom praised the efforts of Cardinal The team will continue with home games starters Finn, Stordiau and Conces. with Spokane Tuesday, CS! April 20 and The team, as a whole, hasn't been slow21 and Blue Mountain April 24. ed by injuries, an aspect which hindered it With the Treasure Valley contests being earlier in the season, Bloxom said. Catcher the squad's first conference competition of Randy Young is still hampered by a the season, NIC fell to 1-2 in league and hamstring pull, which limits his action.

12-10 overall.

Hitting, especially from some expected A two-run Jason Newmack homer in the leaders, is an area Bloxom hopes to see and top of the seventh inning lifted NIC to a improvement in. The team average, 7-6 win in the opener against Treasure however. has improved from .244 to .290, Valley. Staner Derek Conces scattered he said. seven hits and picked up the win. Freshman Daan Stordiau, from Holland, suffered the loss in the 2-0 shu1ou1 in the second game as the Cards salvaged only five hits.

The Chukars tben won a nine-inning contest 8-1 Saturday. Freshman Darren Finn took his first loss of the season as four runs crossed the plate after three innings.

Todd Hubka had three of NI C's eighl hits in the game. Newmack's home run in the ninth was the lone Cardinal run.

"We played well enough to compele, but not enough to win," Bloxom said.

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"We have to play better in all aspects 10 win in the league," Bloxom said. "We have to make more routine plays on defense and can'I leave runners in scoring position on base."

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Good Cut--Cardlnal Ray Ward takes a whack.

Should pro athletes be able to compete l don't think so because it's the big thing for all the amateurs to shoot for.

Bloxom said the team has the potential to win the league if it improves overall.

photos by Al Thompson

Chalk one up-- NIC centerflelder Derrek Knight scores against Yakima Valley Community College Tuesday.

Mike Barlow-business: No,

"l don't like to use the word 'slump' but we've got three or four guys that wer~ expected to be leading in hitting and and we're about at mid-season.''

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Thi.nday.APriJ 12. 1990

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Wylder is top banana in Montana

NIC sports trainer Al Wylder found hlmself In an unusual position at the University of Montana lnvilatlonal March 31.

Wylder, who was running the anchor leg of the men's open 4X400 relay, received a banana rather than a baton. The setup was organized by NIC sophomore Clint Gertje.

"I was so doggoned surprls· ed that I didn't know what to think," Wylder said. "I ran the whole quarter mlle laughing.

It's like a baton, so I went ahead and ran It." Laughing and finishing In 81 seconds. Not too shabby for a trainer.

Stealing baseballs then, skipping class now brian walker

Funny how ii relates to a present dilemma that I go through almost daily. It's 1he ever popular, " H's 100 nice outside to be in a classroom. Should we skip just this one time? It can't hurt anything."

In both cases, the urge seemed to constantly pop up in my mind. They'd both work me to a frenzy, but most of the time the good birdie overrode the bad one. Still, the bad birdie occasionally go1 1he best of me.

Throughout my lire, spring time has been a period where I feel mischievous urges. After realizing a direct correlation between a present and a past urge, it was discovered that, to a certain extent, I haven't changed much from my childhood years.

My Little League baseball experiences would go something like this. Sometime during our practice when I'd come across a semi-white ball, I'd hide it in some way. I can't recall where I'd place them, but a vivid memory comes up about putting them in a sprinkler system pipe.

Taking a stroll down memory lane, I'II confess up 10 one of my no·no's that I went ahead and performed. The confession comes partly because it's too late for my authorities to punish me and partly because they more than likely don't know where l 've been hiding out these days. They could, however, make me feel guilty.

The scene was my favorite place to be as a lit· tic tikc-the baseball field. The short, pudgy second baseman that seemed to do no wrong was up to something-no good. Liule did his family, teammates and coaches know, he was about to commit a felony. He was going steal baseballs from the team.

It's a good thing that my teammates wouldn't bother to take a peck in the pipe when it was time to scan the field after practice for balls. The coach might have caught on if a baseball somehow sneaked its way in a pipe barely larger than the diameter of the ball.

"Let's start keeping better track of the baseballs," my coach would say. " If we keep loosing them, we won't have any left. They just don't grow wings and fly away."

After I'd manage to to play Easter Bunny and put the ball away, I'd return to the scene of the crime after the team would leave and collect my

prize. I wonder if my coach really thought that I was that dedicated to stay after practice once in a while.

Upon returning home, J'd proudly add the ball to my growing collection. The large plastic bag from which I kept my stash was now 100 heavy to lift without busting.

Perhaps he caught what was going on after a bit. Perhaps he thought the guilt 1hat I'd later feel inside would be a sufficient punishment.

I'm sure my insLructors foUow suit. They figure if I proceed now, I'll feel it further down the road.

They're right.

I now ask myself wba1 good did it do to obtain a collection of baseballs. I cenainly didn'I use one for hitting, one for fielding, one for playing catch and so on. 1 ended up selling the majority of them al our family rummage sale.

A feeling of stupidity arises now 1ha1 I look back. I'm sure the same would occur if my grades were inappropriate partly due to 1he fact that enjoying nice weather is more fun than watching i1 from the inside.

My past spring experience was a learning one.

Hopefully, the presenl situation won't be the same and instead be a solution. Only abou1 five weeks of school remain. I 1bink I can. I 1hink I can.

Well maybe just once ....

Tho NIC Sentinel

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Intramural softball. ..

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Game over--Jerry Ryan (lef1), Lance Coultrap and Dee Dee Voliva are friends, win or lose.

photos by Mike Saunders

Safe!- -Debble Dallas slides hard Into third base.

Connect on-- teve ost crushes this one In co· rec action Tuesday.

SCOREBOARD Aprll 12............................. Intramural Softball Big Zog vs Bullets and Thorns, 3 p.m.

Mixed Emotions vs SWFM, 4 p.m.

20............................................... Baseball CSI, home, 1 p.m.

21 .................................................... Tra ck Central Oregon Invite

13............................................... Baseball Ricks, home, 1 p.m.

14- .................................................. Track University o f Washington

21 .......................... Outdoor Adventures Canoe Day Trip 21 ............................................... B11eb1II CSI, home, 12 p.m.

21-..................................... Rowing Club Portland 24 ............................................... Baaeball Blue Mountain, home, 1 p.m.

24....................................... Rowing Club Regionals, Trl·Cltles 28 .................................................... Track Record·breaker 1,200, Cd'A 28 .......................... Outdoor Adventures Cllmbers Dream Video, 3 p.m., SUB

14....................................... Rowing Club Oregon State, Corvallls 14............................................... B11eb1II Ricks, home, 12 p.m.

18............................. lntramurel Softball FAST vs SWFM, 3 p.m.

Mixed Emotions vs Bullets and Thorns, 4 p.m.

17............................................... Baseball Spokane Community, home, 2:30

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Baseball NIC 11, Blue Mountain O Blue Mountain 5, NIC 4 INIC 4, Tacoma C.C. 1 NIC 3, Tacoma C.C. 2 l..ewls·Clark JV 8, NIC 7 INIC 13, Lewls·Clark JV 3 NIC 7, Treasure Valley 6 Treasure Valley 2, NIC 0 Treasure Valley 8, NIC 1 Yakima C.C. 8, NIC 2 NIC 6, Yakima C.C. 2

Gonser, 3rd, 55.4; 1,600 Relay-NIC (Gonser, Freel, Taylor, Darakjy), 2nd, 4:25.0.

Track

Man:3,000 Steeplechase-Chris Kalen, 1st, 9:27.03; 1,500-Mat Taylor, 1st, 4:03.68, David Hughes, 2nd, 4:04.56, Chris Cox, 4th, 4:07.20, Dave Tejedor.

5th, 4:09.15, Tim Blankenship, 6th, 4:12.98; 400-Jell Wykoff, 5th. 52.37; 800-Mark Freel, 1st, 1:58.41, Chris GIibert, 2nd, 1:56.97; 400 Hurdles-Kelly Gonser, 2nd, 55:69; 5,000-Mlke Klrken· dall, 3rd, 15:38.25, George Kinniburgh, 4th, 15:49.54; 4X400 Relay-NIC, 2nd,

Unlvrrslty of Montana Women:1,500-Casle Wllllams , 6th, 5:12.8, Katy McElhenney, 7th, 5:14.2, Joey Hankins, 8th, 5:32.0; 11 O· Hurdles-Mindy Wtlght, 3rd, 18:38; 400-Mlndy Wright , 1:07.7; 800-Stacl Preppernau, 5th, 2:30.55; 3,000-Marla Aldley, 2nd, lo:36.64, Kelly Swinney, 4th, 11:04.06; 1,600 Relay-NIC, 3rd, 4:24.6; Discus-Edie Dlteman, 100-2; Shot Put-Edie Diteman, 36-5.

Man:800-Mark Freel, 3rd, 1:55.1, Mal

Taylor, 1:58.7, Damon Darakjy, 2:00.4; 1,500-Chrls GIibert, 3rd, 3:59.6, Cllnl Gertje, 5th, 4:05.4; 3.000- Ga,y Cavett, 4th, 10:08.4; 400 IM Hurdles-Kelly

Spokanr Community Collrtt Woman:1,500-Marla Ridley, 1st, 4:53.5, Kelly Swinney, 4th, 5:07.9; 800-Marla Ridley, 2nd, 2:23.07, Mindy Wright, 5th, 2:29.06, Staci Preppernau, 6th, 2:29.23; 3,000-Casey Wllllams, 5th, 11:18.01, Joey Hankins, 6th, 11 :30.85; 4X400 Relay-NIC, 2nd, 4:23.44.

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According to George Ives, English and media instructor, students and staff here at NIC are not near enough aware of the An Eastern Washing1on University symposiums that will be happening during rcpreseniative will be in 1he SUB on Popcorn Forum Week or even know what Wednesday, April 18, from 9 a.m. uniil I rhey are. p.m. This is the las1 chance 10 learn about Tunes, dates, topics, presenters and locaprograms and enrollmen1 requirements. tions for the week are: Monday, April 16, 11 a.m. in NIC's Audit ions wlll be held on Sunday, April Boswell Auditorium-Dr. Ronald 22, from 9 a. m. until 5 p.m. for Coeur Markman will speak about "Crime and d'Alene Summer Theater productions Society: Violence or Order-Homocide: A "Company," "Fantas tlck" and Unique Crime." Markman is a lawyer, "Oklahoma" In Room 113 of Boswell medical doctor, board certified Hell. Send blo/resume a nd black & psychiatrist, forensic psychiatrist and white glossy to the POB. To schedule neurologist. He has testified in over 20,000 en appointment contact Jim Speirs a t cases such as the Hillside Strangler Murders 667-0254. and the slaying of musician Marvin Gaye.

Entry deadline for the Great Gregory He has also published the book The face Speech Contest, sponsored by Random of the Devil.

The response panel, at I :30 p.m. in the House Publishers, is April 30. The contest is open 10 anyone enrolled in college level Bonner Room, will consist of Markman; speech class and using 1hc text: "Public Tom Mitchell, one of Idaho's leading Speaking for College and Career." Par- defense attorneys; Craig Mosman, state ticipants in Ihe national competition will be prosecutor for Latah County; Carol Peterselected on a video-taped entry. Contact son, director of the Kootenai County Juvenile Diversion Program; Joan Denoo Mike Miller for more information.

NlC's invited finalists will participate in a <;mith, social activist for Combating speak-off at noon until mid-afternoon on Domestic Violence; Nancy White, trainer April 17 in Seiter 107. The contest format for law enforcement agencies on prejudice is: topic of national importance in a per- reduction, and Ernie Packbush, suasive speaking style, 8-10 minute time superintendent of the Eastern Washington length and content of visual aids. NIC will Pre-Release Center. award first, second and third place prizes.

Tuesday, April 17, 10 a.m. in Boswell Auditorium-the topic of "Family and From Mey 7-11 el noon, Mental Health Society: Fragmented or Functional" will be Week wlll be presented at NIC. addressed by Dr. John M. Haynes, one of Speakers wlll discuss the theme of the nation's leading mediation experts. In "Choices" duri ng the week. Contact the last five years he has trained more than Therese Ross at ext. 365 for 4,000 professionals in mediation connict Information. management and negotiations in the six Due 10 insufficient registrants, 1he 1990 countries. In the last 10 years he hos NPC Great Northern States Bodybuilding mediated 2,000 divorces and other interperClasic scheduled for Saturday, April 7, has sonal disputes, including business dissolubeen cancelled. To receive a full refund, tion and inter-corporate differences. return your ticlcet to 1he place of purchase. Haynes has appeared on several television programs such as The Today Show and Student discount vouchers are now CNN Newswaich. avelleble In the recreation office In the The rcspanse panel will be at I :30-3 p.m. basement of the SUB for the Spokane in the Bonner Room. It will consist of lnterplayers Ensemble "Stepping Out" Haynes; Opal Brooten, political activist beginni ng April 20 until May 12. and participant in international peace Vouchers may be used for any Tue s· walks; Madeline Kardong, co-director of day or Wednesday per1 ormance. The the Spakane Dispute Resolution Center; voucher program makes seats Dr. Jack Oakwright, Ph.D. licensed available to voucher,bearlng college psychologist specializing in counseling vicand high school students for $4.25 and tims or battery; Dr. Karolyne S. Rogers, $5.25. Curtain time la at 7:30 p.m.

Ph.D, P5ychologlst in private practice, and An Earth Day celebra1ion will be held by Anne Solomon, Idaho attorney speclalizthe Student Education Awareness League LETTERS from p.,'- - - - on Sunday, April 22, on the Fort Sherman grounds. Featured speakers include at - rage that drives a faceless man (lines 24, tomey Scott Reed and anthropalogy in- 26-27)." I did not see any reference to fruit in that particular poem, nor did I hear any structor Rodney Frey. snores although there were a few mufned • u s s • s 0 p H IC MI OIRI Ill" snifncs.

I N ll E • I ) 'L I I~ • •ITI tlMl r.l So, the question asked, "What was the I RA Bi A 1, ID I l"IOIO 'Si H E LT E R • 8 EC paint of this article? Was it to insult the Tit I Ev AR E • A S P S judgment or the committee who selected y E NT E • E L s• SN 0 RT Ms. Messer as Poet-in-Residence for the MA ( s • I L L • J ,. s PE R State or Idaho, to emphasize the suppased 0 R T • ST IY M l 8 D I II O E UIS AG ES unavailabilil)' of good poets in North Idaho FT • N I C E SE P I A. SC 1 • RE ACT (we won't ment.ion the long list of nationalED E II • A TH I D E A LU P ly published poets at NIC), or was it to - I N R I I 0 CT 0 p l demonstrate a basic lack of understanding AT TE N 0 AN C E R I A C: H A R I 0 T E ER of modern poetry?" '" E EN C 0 UN TN 0 S E S I'll bet many of the readers of " Writer N D0 questions poetry" could answer that.

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Nightmare of incest recalled Fright was wrillen all over her face and her eyes glistened with a layer of tears that neverJell. She did not want to tell me about the horrors she had lived through/or seven long yean of her life because it still felt like ii had happened ~nly a moment ago. ~ut she knew that she had to in order to spare other women and children the same anguish, she had to.

This is Carla's story.

Carla met him at a Halloween party in 1980. She was 21 years old and had a 2 Vi-yearold daughter named Brandy from a previous marriage.

"He came up and we started talking," she said calmly. "He asked me out for breakfast and he was reaJly protective or me." She bad gone to the party wilb another man whom she "had dumped during the evening. The guy ... was real abusive ... and kept bugging us and he was real protective, kind or like a white knight. .. From that night on, we were together."

The next day, he sent her a dozen red roses.

"I thought that was really s1range because we didn't even know each other," she said.

Yet, she went on to introduce him to her family.

"Everybody said I was really lucky to find someone like him."

Two mon1hs later, he began to tell her he loved her.

"I remember the first time he said ¡¡11ove you,' I was really scared. Then he started tal king about gelling married."

He also began to yell at her for no reason.

After an episode in a restaurant where he screamed a1 her because she ordered a steak for dinner, she said from that time on, every time he was upset, he would scream at her.

As she remembered, Carla began to fidget . She grew tense as she unfolded her memories to me and she was having a harder time looking at me and began looking for a comfortable spot in her kitchen to focus her thoughts. She never found it.

"From that time on, it was like he had gained control because 1'd really let him scream

al me. Everyone kept telling me what a lucky catch I had because he was so nice. He'd do anything for anybody and was real helpful. But you could only sec his dark side when he drank."

They got married Dec. 20, 1980.

Her eyes started to sparkle. not from tears of happy memories, b111 from the tears of her anguish. Dark circles began to form underneath them.

"The night we got married, he got bla$tcd. He was so drunk," she rctaUed. After a frightening drive home that aJmost resulted in a car accident, he wanted 10 make love to her.

"We went to the bedroom. We had our standard five-minute sex, which he was notorious for throughout the marriage. " He fell asleep in a drunken stupor and when he woke up the next morning, he asked, 'Did we have sex? And if we did, was it any good?'"

She paused for a moment and looked down at her hands. She had been furiously turning a small pink stone with her fingers and she silently watched it tumble around.

"And I cried. I couldn't believe that I had just married somebody that didn't.."

She paused again, swallowing back the tears that were about to fall from her ever

darkening eyes. " ...just didn't even realize that we had even done anything. And it really hurt."

The hurt was still in her voice, but her lean were less apparent thonthe moment before.

She had suc:ressful/y fought them back.

A week later, he was drunk again. It was the day before New Year's Eve. During the night, he never let her know where he was. When be finally managed to come home, it wu 6 a.m.

When Carla found him, he was passed out at the bouom or the staircase, curled up in front or a heater.

"I was so mad that I threw a boot down at him, which wasn't a good move because he came upstairs and started hollering.

"Brandy came around the corner and I picked her up and he said I was going to throw her down the stairs.

"I wasn't.

"I just picked her up because she was scared."

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the surface again and she choked back her words.

"He always held that over my head, too, that I was an abusive person. He had another control thing, saying that I was going 10 throw her down the steps.

"After a while, he really had me believing that I was going to throw her down the steps but all I did was pick her up."

She pressed her lips together and looked at me. He fare was tense and turning pale from the strain. Her tears resurfaced. She/ought them back, as she would do over and over during our hour and a half together, and I could Stt her struggling. I was silent as she continued. ,

Later that day, he was apologetic, but she wouldn't accept it. lnstead, she asked for an annulment.

He pleaded with her to give him another chance. She finally relented, warning him that if it ever happened again, she would leave. He lived up to his promise, but only temporarily.

In March 1981, she became pregnant, but then miscarried.

"He (was) really abusive with me. He blamed me for the miscarriage ... He'd scream a, me, telling me that If 1'd done things right that I wouldn't have had a miscarriage."

After that, he didn't want her 10 have a baby and told her to go on the Pill.

But she got pregnant again before she could.

"Everything was normal until after my second daughter was born. It was like he never really liked her."

He went out and got drunk all the time.

"One or the things he would do, because he couldn't deal wi th the baby, wu when she would cry, he would take her bassinet and lock her in the bathroom."

She paused and looked at her hands. She was stl/1 turning the stone in her jingen.

Anything could set him off at any moment-the house wasn't clean enough or dinner wasn't ready on time or that his hungry daughter's crying intcrupted his sleep.

"I learned bow to be a really good doormat. I figu red that if I behaved right and I didn't do anything wrong then I wouldn't have to put up with him screaming al me."

For the next couple of years, he continued drinking and she continued to strive for the ultimate perfection as a wife.

In 1983, she was pregnant again.

During her pregnancy, be began drinking heavily again after one of his "dry cycles."

"He'd be really cruel. He'd tell me that I was stupid. That I' d never amount 10 anything. That I wasn't Intelligent. That if I left him, there would be nobody in the whole world who wouJd want me.

"He said he bad scarred me because now there would be no man who would be willing 10 come into my life and take care of three kids. He told me thu all while I was pregnant and I began lO feel like nothing."

One winter night that year, he came home drunk and told her "that he had an awfuJ secret that be wanted to tell her."

Instead or telling her. he again became verbally abusive and, after fighting with her, he took off.

He didn't come home for two days.

When he did he brought flowers with him and apologized.

He gave the flowers 10 her but all she could do was look at them. She couldn't even gel up to put them in water. All she could do was loo~. .

He got mad at her for not accepting his apology and SB1d that she should be more accepting of his behavior. h d' d "He said if I was a better wife, then be wouJdn't have t.~ behave the way e 1 â&#x20AC;˘ These were just lessons to teach me how to behave better. d In 1984, her third daughter was born. Because of a complicated labor an car1Y

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