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Presidential search

First candidate on UI campus Birx attends first open forum in UI presidential search Kaitlyn Krasselt Argonaut

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Melissa Cavileer, left, and Jose Cruz study music theory Monday at Bucers Coffeehouse Pub. Coffee houses in Moscow are a popular place for students to study throughout the week. During the academic year Bucers is open until 11 p.m. Monday and Thursday, until midnight Friday and Saturday and is closed Sundays. Many midterm exams begin this week.

Dees on rights Lawyer who took out Aryan nations to speak at UI today counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Dees became involved in the campaign to Morris Dees, one of the primary lawyers re- remove racial hate groups across the South sponsible for deconstructing the Aryan Nations and in North Idaho, when he took on the case of a client who was attacked by in North Idaho, will speak at 3:30 p.m. members of the Ku Klux Klan in the today in the Student Union Building early 1980s. Ballroom as this year’s guest for the “We took on a case of a black guy Bellwood Memorial Lecture Series. who had shot a Klansman and almost Dees speech, titled “Justice for all killed him because the Klan was atin a changing America,” will focus tacking him,” Dees said. “We used on comparing human and civil rights Morris Dees cases like that against these hate issues prevalent in the U.S. today to groups and put them out of business.” those faced by Martin Luther King Jr. Dees and a team of lawyers from the SPLC during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. “It couldn’t be at a better time when we’re developed a strategy that used civil lawsuits finding a small group of congressmen are against groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the holding the country hostage because they’re Aryan Nations of North Idaho. Dees helped his trying to get rid of Obamacare … because clients sue the organizations for wrongful acts they just don’t happen to like it,” Dees said. against the clients, and when he won, the courts “It’s a movement, I’m sure, Dr. King would seized the groups’ assets such as money, land and be on the forefront of in Washington to get buildings, which put them out of business. In health care to the masses of people who 2001, Dees won a $6.5 million case against the don’t have it.” Dees is the co-founder and chief trial Kaitlyn Krasselt Argonaut

SEE Dees, PAGE 5

Poo to profit Cows in Idaho prove useful in making biodegradable material Aaron Bharucha Argonaut

The University of Idaho Civil Engineering program has developed a system to turn cow manure into biodegradable plastic. Erik Coats, associate professor of Civil Engineering, is now in the process of completing the system with his research team. He said he ultimately hopes to commercialize the technology once it’s finished. However, he doesn’t see this as an overall replacement for the plastic currently used. “If we look at all the plastic we use globally and we look at all of the organic waste that would be available to us to make plastic, we could never make enough plastic to completely displace,” Coats said. “But, the market is growing for these bio-plastics so there’s definitely a need out there.” Coats said the system begins when SEE profit, PAGE 5

The first finalist in the search for the next University of Idaho president will be on the Moscow campus today for a series of meetings and open forums with UI students and community Donald Birx members. Donald Birx, 59, is the chancellor at Penn State Behrend, in Erie, Pa., a position he has held for the last three years. Prior to Penn State, Behrend held similar administrative positions at the University of Houston and New Mexico State University. Birx will visit all UI campuses throughout the week, but will be in Moscow for an open forum at 9 a.m. today in the Administration Auditorium. A second open forum will be geared toward the Moscow community and will be held at 3:30 at the 1912 Center on 3rd Street in Moscow. Birx also spent 19 years working for Systems Research Laboratories Inc. in Dayton, Ohio, giving him an industrial perspective of academia as well as the administrative perspective. “I got to see the other side of things, the industrial side and the academic side, It gave me an appreciation for both — and for the differences between them, and also for the bridges that can be built,” Birx said in a 2010 interview with the Erie Times-News. During his time at Penn State Erie, Birx’s vision for the university has focused heavily on research and bridging gaps between industry and academia. He has worked to develop an open laboratory environment at Penn State Behrend, something Bill Gonda, director of Marketing Communications, said has been a part of Birx’s vision since becoming chancellor for the university. Gonda has worked closely with Birx during the last three years and said he has been Birx’s primary consultant in communicating with students, faculty and staff at Penn State Behrend. SEE Birx, PAGE 5

Keeping UI healthy, happy Student health provides flu shots to students free of charge available from 3:30 - 7:30 p.m. Oct. 15 in the Kibbie Dome Training Room. They will also be available in the TLC 143 Lounge from 1-5 p.m. Oct. 28 and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 29. Both influenza and meningitis vaccines will be available on all dates. Shannon Haselhuhn, health education program coordinator, said the goal is to give students multiple times and loca-

Arianna Anchustegui Argonaut

Free flu vaccines will be available from University of Idaho Student Health Services Oct. 9, 15, 28 and 29 at various locations across campus. The university purchased 2000 influenza vaccines that will be available from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 9 in a classroom at the Student Recreation Center. Vaccinations will also be

tions to receive vaccinations. “It saves students from a doctor’s visit, nothing is billed to their insurance,” Haselhuhn said. “It’s very quick and easy at convenient locations.” Prior to this year, the Student Health Center has provided vaccinations at the health center, but this year has decided to adjust to make vaccinations SEE healthy, PAGE 5

Abi Stomberg | Argonaut

University of Idaho faculty, staff and SHIP plan holders waited as much as 25 minutes in line for their free flu shot Sept. 19. The Vandal Health Education is offering free flu shots to UI students from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Student Recreation Center Classroom.

IN THIS ISSUE

Idaho tennis wins individual victories at BSU and WSU over the weekend. sports, 6 News, 1

Sports, 6

Opinion, 9

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