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Montana State Univer­discarded its General

lies degree in 1974 because .as thought more special­degrees were needed. Al­

: 20 years later. many stu­s are starting to look for a

Ider degree that will give '1 greater latitude in choos­ia career, according to

aretha Wes:'<el. director of ral studies. "Times have shifted. le have different goals or ·re more pressed about non, Wessel said. Pressure on education

come from many direc-1-- credit caps, incompat­transfer of student tran-

In response to these pres­sures, many colleges around the nation, including some in Montana. have recently imple­mented the Generali Liberal Arts Degree. MSU has yet to reinstate the degree although there appears to be a need for one.

"Forty percent of our graduates are transfer stu­dents. \\'hat we have to be cog­nizant of is the fact that stu­dents come to us with a vari­ety of subject matter and cred­its. They find themselves with a large number of credits that aren "t really compatible with a specific degree here," Wessel said. " We often see students who have these transcripts but would have to come here for three more years worth of

as. and employers who are courses in order to finish their ng for people with a well-

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tudent cyclists sked to note laws

As the snow melts and ,: temperature rises, stu­ats dust off their bikes and

die off to enjoy the •hther. Before taking to the !.llets, bikers should be itre of the regulations and •rs enforced on campus.

"What prompted my cern is that a couple of stu­;:ts were involved in a traf­d olation with a city police-

0 1 and received a notice to lear in court," said MSU

U'1 Robert Rippey. "Although • 3 violation on a bicycle, it >eated as another violatwn J:Jurt and is certainly not "'looked."

According to Rippey, on a bike students are no er a pedestrian but are

'iidered a vehicle and are ect to traffic laws. For ex­le, bicyclists must stop at

stop signs and, when biking at night, a light must be af­fixed to the front of the bike.

"I don't think a lot of students are aware of this," Rippey said.

When riding a bicycle through campus during con­gested periods of the day stu­dents are asked not to ride through the Centennial Mall. The MSU police currently give verbal warnings, how­ever, no ticket have ever been issued for riding through the mall. Signs are posted asking students to walk or push their bikes.

'The laws are all geared toward making bicycles a safe form of transportation," Rippey said. 'Tm a grad stu­dent as well as a police officer and I think bikes are great and economical form of transportation; they just need to be operated responsibly."

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Are white men really bad jumpers, as a 1992 movie title claimed? Are women really worse than men at math?

college-admission test and by about 80 points in the GRE - the 800-point test for graduate school.

The so-called gender gap has variously been ascribed to

the psychological conditions surrounding a test.

'When you are a target of a devalumg stereotype such as girls can't do math or African­Americans lack intelligence,

Stereotypes are as old as humanity it­self. What's new is that researchers are begin­ning to study the effect

"We are making the gap go away purely based on circumstantial or

environmental variables such as the test description."

anything that makes you think about that stereotype can make you nervous and dis­tracted," said Joshua Aronson. an education researcher at the Uni-

of these beliefs on people and document who is affected, by

versity of Texas at Aus--Ryan Brown tin who has helped

Jnve.;;tigator of the Recent Texas StuJy spearhead the field. what and how much.

Last month researchers found a way to help explain why men and women perform so dif­ferently on math tests in stan­dardized exams like the SAT.

For decades now, men have outperformed women by about 50 points on the 800-point

innate ability, differences in teaching boys and girls, and test design.

Now, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have shown that performance gaps very similar tqJhe SAT can be created - and removed - by

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"Those are two things you don't want to happen to you during a standardized test."

The math-stereotype study joins a growing body of research that shows how stereo­types subtly affect the way

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WASHINGTON - More than most presidents, Bill Clinton has been blessed with golden luck. Through every scandal to the brink of an impeachment trial, he al­ways came up with a roll of the dice.

But in the Great Balkan Gamble, Clinton's luck may be running out.

Hi s bet that NATO's high-tech air power could slow the ethnic murder in Kosovo shows no signs of pay­ing off.

Chaos may be spiraling out of control. There's pessi­mism that the Balkans are on the edge of the worst human tragedy since World War II.

What then? Would Clinton, aghast

at atrocities, impulsively hurl U.S. ground troops into the Kosovo killing ground? Short of surrender that al­lows Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Mi_losevic to run wild. does he have any fallback options?

Sure, there was a dis­connected unreality from the bombs, door-to-door shooting and refugees 3,000 miles away.

On a brilliant spring day, Clinton tooled around a Virginia golf course, chomping a cigar and work­ing a cell phone.

"IIe's been tightly fo-

cused for days and needed a break," excused an aide. Meanwhile, the Dow stock market gauge once again shot over the 10,000 hurdle -and stayed there. Life was OK in the U.S.A.

Not so in the Balkans, where a nightmare gathered speed. Thousands of refugees spilling into Macedonia, Al­bania and Montenegro. Serb squads shooting political leaders in Kosovo. American flags burned in street pro­tests from Moscow to U.S. cit­ies.

Had Clinton made a ter­rible misjudgment in his wa­ger that NATO planes and missiles could stop a grisly ground war?

Had he lunged into this mission with no exit strat­egy?

Had his Pentagon plan­ners been shocked that Milosevic, a hero to Belgrade, would accelerate his ethnic s laughter?

Had Clinton's decision thrown gasoline on the fires of Kosovo?

"I warn you not to write a conclusion to this story ev­ery night," White House spokesflack Joe Lockhart ad­vised contentious n•porters.

··we knew that super­sonic airplanes couldn't quickly affect door-to-door operations by paramilitary groups," said NATO com­mander Gen. Wesley Clark. his bombers in the sixth day

of a three-week campaign. "I don't think you can

say it would have been bet­ter or worse without the bombing," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. "It was the president's judgment that the alternative (doing noth­ing) would be worse."

That was the only good-news spark for Clinton: Politicians at home generally stuck with him. A Pew poll showed Americans 2-1 behind the air war. Viet­nam hero Sen. John McCain sounded more bellicose : "We're in it, we have to win it."

But the shooting down of a vaunted F-117A Night­hawk, followed by euphoria for the pilot's rescue, was an uneasy omen.

If other pilots are lost, will there be cries to scratch the mission? "That will be the real test," said Armed Ser­vices Democrat Sen. Carl Levin.

Clinton's Balkan deci­sion, which I think was rightly based on humane motives, is in trouble.

What can he do if the di­saster mounts?

-Send in U S. ground troops. Surprisingly. a few U.S. polls speak openly of this worst-case option. But it would take 100.000 troops, fighting in a civil war, staying years in

Tuesday; April 6, 1999

Americans' srnokin~ habits cause g1·ief Indiana Dad1 Sr11de111

In 1964 the Surgeon General issued a report stat­ing most lung-cancer deaths were caused by smoking. He also ordered health warnings appear in all tobacco ads and on packaging. For 35 years, American citizens have known smoking is at the very least bad for their health. and at the most could cause deadly lung cancer.

But they have kept smoking.

And now, they have started to blame the cigarette industry when the conse­quences of their habit begin.

A liability trial against Phillip Morris recently ended when an Oregonjuryordered the cigarette manufacturer to pay a total of$81.l million in

compensatory and punitive damages to the family of a de­ceased smoker who died of lung cancer. According to As­sociated Press reports, this was the largest liability ver­dict ever against the tobacco industry.

Testimony revealed that Jesse Williams smoked three packs ofMarlboros a day and had been a smoker for 40 years. How could a jury decide that the company who sold the cigarettes was as responsible

as Williams for his death, whl there is no way Williams c not know that by smoking, was taking the risk of contra ing lung cancer?

I've seen smoking, a the stubbornness that gc along with it. ruin a relatic ship that will probably ne• heal. My grandfather. Pap Jim, was a chain smoker more than 50 years m than half of a centur;.: His titude about how hi::: smok affected others was this they didn't like being arot smoke. they didn"t have tc around him.

Nowhere in the equal was the compromise of putting out his cigarette w· it bothered others. This k him from going places : doing things he enjoyed cause of no-smoking pohc He and my grandmother" excellent bridge players many years, but they eve1 ally withdrew from tr league after other meml complained he repeat broke the no-smoking rul

His smoking startec ally bothering me in r school. Since he lived al six hours away from m didn't see him often, but ing the holiday gather: when we were toge t

see Smoki.11~ pa~c .1

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Your Tum Do you approve of the U.S. providing asylum for Yugoslavian refugees? P11nros RY 501. LroNARLJ

st definitely! I think our nal conscience requires it:·

Sarah Morga11 BioMed Junior

'' I think we'reobligaled to since the problem there is partly our baby. If we're going to bomb them we should take care of them."

Jeff Ashear General Studies

Freshman

nokin~: When will mericans wake up? ~s were tense. I nor­tried to spend as little

~lose to him as I could, imove myself from his e, which affected my

·lem with asthma. i;s between us came to , d about four years ago,

my asthma was act­p and my Papaw Jim ed to stop smoking

·.g a meal at our house. He told me I could go de if his smoke was

·ng me uncomfortable. rtheroom in the middle e meal and haven't 1im since. We only talk e phone occasionally.

•1gly, dirty habit was 1 important to him than elat1onship with his ldaughlef'. And then, sudden ly, >t quit smoking. I don't

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know what prompted it; al­though my entire family has been waiting for him to develop lung cancer, there are no signs of it yet. And he quit cold turkey. Now, he 's as stubbornly anti­smoking as he once was pro­smoking. This goes directly against current trends- he is removing smoking from his life because he knows it is bad for his health.

Could this be the next trend in smoking and carry us in to the next mi llen­nium? Will the number of smokers, already slightly dropping, begin to take a nose dive? Will Americans, so health- and beauty-con­sciou~ finally wake up to the fact that smokmg is bad for their health?

Let's hope so.

·'Yes lo a certain point. It depends on how Jong we're going to keep them in our country."

Dean Owen Management

Senior

.. Yes I think it is the job of the Uni led Stales as a world leader lo provide refuge for innocent people."

Jennifer Monroe Business Marketing

Senior

" I think in part our bombs are responsible for moving people faster than they would other­wise ... I ' m recommending North Hedges as the place for refugees."'

Dr. Dal'id Schrupp Adjunct Assiswnt Professor

Political Science

Balkans: Clinton fails to identify vital interests

Kosovo. Clinton's shaky credibility and zero public appetite makes such a mam­moth force a political improb­ability.

-Let NATO troops fight their way into Kosovo. After all, it's Europe's war. But NATO without U.S. leadership

Targets would be hard to find. Low-flying planes would inevitably be lost.

-Stay the course. Keep bombing Milosevic's mili­tary hardware into debris. Hope diplomatic pressure, especially by Russia, per-

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duty, he knows the country's impatience for protracted, messy wars without clear goals.

George Stephanopoulos, in his new book, recounts Clinton musing during the Somalia mission, "Americans

are basically isola­tionists. They can

hasn't the back-bone.

-Arm the Kosovo rebels. Popular idea with some congress-

The shooting down of a vaunted F-117A Nighthawk, followed by euphoria for the pilot's rescue, was an uneasy omen. If

other pilots are lost, will there be cries to scratch the mission?

be moved by hu­manitarian mo­tives. But they have to see vital inter­ests at stake."

After 18 U.S. soldiers were lost in a firefight, Clinton pul led out of Soma­lia. How will he re-

men, who envision crates of machine guns and grenade launchers shipped to Kosovo . That would take months. Nothing left but dead bodies.

-Shift the air war to hitting Ser b tanks, trucks and ground forces, flying A-10 "Warthogs" successful in Operation Desert Storm.

suades him to fold. True, Kosovo would be scorched earth, 500,000 refugees overwhelming the region. Sign a peace treaty and call it victory.

Maybe that's Clinton's endgame. As a history buff who sidestepped Vietnam

act to casualties against a far tougher opponent?

Clinton talked his way past every scandal. In the troubled Ba lkan Gamble, he ' ll need a novelty - a leader's steely fortitude. His luck is running thin.

( 4 Tuesday, April 6, 1999 Exponent

Dema11d: Some fear general studies degree lacks direct' degree.··

Some believe it is a point­less degree with no real direc­tion that ·would draw slackers lo college.

"It's not a buffet. What you want is coherence in the cur­riculum, a well thought out ap­prnach to a Liberal Arts Degree. Wf.' would put together some

April7 The MSU Women's

Center is sponsoring a Sack Lunch semina r entitled: ' 'I Never Called it Rape: Ac­quaintance Rape and Sexual Assault at MSU" at noon to 1 p.m. in the SUB room 106E.

April8 Former Montana Con­

gressman Pat Williams and John Frohnmayer, former head of the National Endow­ment for the Arts, will speak on the subject "The Role of Federalism in Promoting and Protecting Individual Liberties and Rights" at 7 p.m. in lhe SUB.

areas of concentration and en­courage pursuit of a minor," Wessel said.

The degree would require 120 credits, including advanced writing and communications skills, with about 50 credits fo­cused on science for a Bachelor of Science in General Studies and the same amount focused

April9 Phi Alpha Theta will

host presentations by MSU history students from 5-6:30 p.m. at Wilson Hall room 1-122.

April9 The Montana Human

Rights Network and the MSU Human Rights Task Force is sponsoring a pre­screen i ng of a soon-to-air PBS documentary with Producer 1vlichael Chan­dler at 7 p.m. at Leon Johnstone Hall room 339.

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"The degree is not one where you automatically go and choose to be a ~neral Studies major," Wessel said. "You need to go all over campus."

"Of course there are cer­tain segments of resistance

people perform and the dra­matic results when the precon­ceived notionsare taken away

The researchers said they did not intend to "prove" that women do worse in math lests because of gender stereotypes.

"What this does is, it takes us beyond the usual suspects: socio-economic deprivation, Jack of preparation, bias in the tests or, in the worst case, some kind of genetic explanation -African Americans and women lack the gray matter to do these tests," said Aronson.

"You can produce stereo­type threats in white male stu­dents as well by saying we are going to compare your test results with Asian students," Aronson said. ''Even students extremely confident of their math tests -their scores dropped''

The researchers proved their conclusions by conducting a series of e~-periments: They told one group of women that a math

from faculty who think that it won't. be as high of quality, but I think the quality of education comes from these areas of con­centration," Wessel said.

Marketing major Dan Voelkel is one student who would like to see the degree implemented.

"I feel you could more from

test would measure whether they were exceptional.

''Yow· performance on this test will not be scored like most normal tests, but rather will be classified as either above or be­low a predetermined cutoff score," the researchers told the group be­fore administering the test.

Scoring above the cutoff meant a woman had exceptional math skills. But "scoring below the cutoff score tells us little or nothing about your math abilities and math potential. You may be below average, average, or even above average."

The test, in other words, would identify the 'math ge­niuses" in the group.

The researchers told a sec­ond group of women that their test- also evaluated by a pass-fail cutoff -would fmd out if they were especially weak.

"Scoring above the cutoff score tells us little or nothing," the researchers told this group. "You

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Tuesd aYt April 6, 1999

ialent femmes bring American music ta ffiSU

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It is not often that a popu­lar band is accompanied on stage by their bus driver, but then again it is not often that the Violent Femmes have done anything normal. Bozeman only got a small taste of the legacy of interest surrounding a band that has been both en­tertaining and surprising audi­ences for 18 years.

Last Wednesday night, when the lights shut down and the Femmes hit the stage, there was a collective excite­ment which can only be brought about by a band that

breeds as much excite­ment as good music. Play­ing to a di ­verse audi­ence, com­prised mostly of younger high school students, the Femmes r a g e d through most of their popu­

lar songs. The fans' collectiYe ability to sing along attest(•d to the Femmes influence on a wide variety of people. The re­peated switching of in:;tru­mPnt:-> attest d to their musi­cal talents

Drummer Guy I !off man the Femmes m•Wt'St m1 mlJt•r who Joined thP band in ~n sur

prised the audience "'hen he and bassist Brian Ritchie switched positions. "We have only been switching drum and Bass for about a week now," Hoffman said. "I till hit some off notes though." Fortunately for Hoffman, the inadequate acoustics of Schroyer gym made it difficult to hear any missed notes.

Instrument switching wasn't the only different thing the Femmes incorporated into their show. Surprising enough, singer Gordon Gano's brother Glenn also hit the stage, with his wife, for a song. Indistinguishable from any other cowboy in the Crystal Bar on a Friday night, Glenn found being on stage ··really intimi­dating." Currently living near Bozeman, Glenn went along with his brother's imagina­tion. "It was Gordon's idea," Glenn said. "I wasn't sure it was a good one." Their :-;ong, which was base on :\lontana pride. had no diffi­culty getting the au­<liPnec to sing along.

Throughout the p!.'t form.incl' 11

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were used by the Femmes. Three horn players, on of which was the bus driver. ac­companied the band. ~we pur­posely have the horns play off key," Hoffman said about their fill in music. On two different drum solos a sound technician jumped on stage and helped pound out a wicked rhythm set.

Ritchie also showed a bit of interesting musical talent when he played a conch. At the end of the concert Ritchie played the "thurman" a top hat equipped with a strange ball that made a eerie whin­ing ound a he touched it.

The Femmes future plans are currently based

around touring; the group currently has over twenty shows booked for the next few months. Adding another al­bum to there current list of twelve is al o in the work,, . For their new album. the Femmes have been working with yet another interesting character. ''He is a 70 year old French guy who is about yea tall" Hoffman said, ges­turing to the short stature of the man. Hoffman is excited about the innovative sounds they have produced for the Femmes· next album which"is way beyond techno music," he said. When con­sidermg the Femmes' style. "that" could mean anything.

( 6 Tuesday, April 6, 1999 Exponent

Technology aids study of Arabic language BY MELISS.\ Vt\NTINF

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is was a unique language to learn and "I can take Spanish or German any time." He noted that "the best way to learn a lan­guage is by going to that coun­try."

Kasey Adamek who is a student finishing h er

Washington's Arabic professor, Nadia Yaqub, will transmit si­multaneous interactive video instruction Lo students at eight schools, including Carrol Col­lege, Idaho State University, MSU-Bill in gs, Roch.-y Mountain

language is Arabic. When students com­

plete their two semesters of in­troductory Arabic language and cultw-al studies, they have the option of studying at Al Akhawayn U:niversity in Ifrane,

Morocco .

culture of the Middle East it is impossible unless you know the language .. .learning Arabic or any language for that matter becomes a gate that you can look through in order to under. stand new cultures."

A group of enthusiastic students who a re currently en­rolled in their second semester of Arabic agree that it is a diffi­cult language to learn but say it i3 a great opportunity and a lot of fun.

Among the 13 students learning Arabic, seven of them will be studying in Morocco at Al Akhawayn University 'in Ifrane ne::-..1. semester. They each were granted a $1,000 scholar­ship from the National Security Education Grant (NSEG) that will help pay for their travel ex­pense. The students can choose to study for half a year or a full year and will pay the same tu­ition they are paying at MSU.

last semester and pre-paring to go to Mo­rocco, says that "it's a great opportunity and the schoo l makes it very avai lab le, you

"The Arab countries are a very misunderstood part of the world and we

have a lot more in common with them than we could possibly imagine."

Travel scholar­ships are avail­able for study­ing in Morocco and students will pay the same tuition as they pay at t heir h ome

Stephanie Becker, as­sistant director of the Interna tional Office. believes that "there are commonalties be­tween American culture and that of the Middle East such as the in1portance of religion, mu. sic, and art." She said that "the Arab countries are a very mis­understood part of the worlc and Wf' have a lot more in com. mon with them than we coulc possibly imagine."

don't want to pass up this opportunity."

The Arabic Lan­guage and Middle East/

Jeremy Fowler, a bio­medical student at MSU, wants to be a doctor but is also inter­ested in learning languages. When he heard he could take Arabic he immediately grabbed the opportunity because he said

North Africa Cultural Studies program is offering Arabic to MSU students through a grant from the NSEG. This course of­fers students the chance to learn Arabic and the cultures associ­ated with it. Elementary Arabic Language (ML 280) will meet Monday through Thursday dw-­ing the spring and fal l semesters.

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school. College, South Dakota State University, University of Mon­tana and University of North Dakota. The professors and stu­dents talk and see each other via a television screen in a class­room in the Burns Telecommu­nications Center, room 126 in the EPS building.

On Tuesdays and Thurs­days the class is taught by a teaching assistant whose native

Currently, the teaching assistant at MSU is Sulayman Alkhayyatt, who is originally from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is interested in teaching Arabic because he enjoys speaking about his culture and language. Sulayman is a former biology professor and is now finishing his doctorate in education at MSU. He says that •'if you a re interested in knowing about the

For more information~ the class ML 280 , contac Stephanie Becker at 994-4031, G

em ail her a sbecker@'montana.edu, contac the website • www.arabicstudies.edu or stop b the Office of International Stuc ies on the fourth floor c Culbertson Hall.

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·te and Feist shine outdoor opener he Expo11e111 Wenatchee, Wash., finished sec­

ond in that event. Senior Tara ·nior All-American Otte and junior Mike ~h won two events as

.,_State's track and field on three of four dual

r Saturday, the first ac­e 1999 outdoor season. ntana State's women 1als with Boise State 110 State in Otte's first "'petition in over a year, e men's team nipped ate and lost to Boise

e's wins came in the !00 meters with times

rend 57.10 respectivly, ng for two of Montana •ve first-place fini shes ·omen's competition. ss won the 800 meters of2:17.l, and Siobhan -Stewart from

Moeller won the discus and fin­ished third in the shot put and sixth in tha hammer throw, while freshman Lacy Hinzpeter won the longjump and finished sixth in the 400 meters.

Feist, out of Great Falls, posted the difficult one-day double in the 1500 meters with a time of 3:56.43 and the 5000 meters ~n 15: 13.66 to pace the Bobcats. Senior Kevin Jacobsen from Billings won the steeple chase, while Carl Newell was first in the triple jump and sec­ond in the long jump and Tono Lippey won the javelin throw in his first collegiate with a throw of 193-8.

The Montana State track teams will be back in action this weekend as they travel to Missoula for a meet on Saturday.

Specwl to the l :..1po11c111

You never know what the weather in Bozeman is going to be like in the spring, making the scheduling of spring football practice for the Montana State Bobcats a little bit chal-lenging for eighth-year head coach Cliff Hysell.

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Rob Compson's voice in the huddle, but that's not going to be an excuse."

One of the strong suits of this year's squad, Hysell said, is experience at each position group. "That makes a big differ-

ence, there's no question,"

But just because the practice time this spring has been lim­ited by snow and cold Hysell and the Bobcats have had the chance to get back into swing of things.

"There's great carryover from last fall , even though a lot of the guys that red­

shirted last fall haven't

he said. "We have some ex­perienced guys that the young guys can watch on film and see them stepping in the right di­rection, lining up properly and what not. There's great carryover from last fall, even though a lot of the guys that red­shfrted last fall haven't

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days of foot­ball practice isn't much,

been coached yet."

-1\lontana State lit>Jd C..oJch been coached Chtf l l_, .... l'll

but it's enough for Hysell to know he likes what he sees in the '99 Bobcats.

"Defensively, the enthusi­asm has been great both days," Hysell said after obser\'ing prac­tice sessions on Saturday and Sunday. "You have to take it with a grain of salt because they aren't in pads yet, but they re­ally ran to the ball well. Offen­sively, the enthusiasm Saturday was sadly lacking, but Sunday was a whole lot better. It was apparent on Saturday that a lot of guys were used to hearing

yet." After a

three-day break pro,·ided by the weather over Easter weekend, the Bobcats got back out on the practice field yesterday and the practice schedule for the upcom­ing days is waiting on further evaluations of the weather con­ditions.

Depending on the out­come of the weather over the next couple days in Bozeman, the 'Cats will continue to prac­tice, moving toward a scrim­mage to be held in the next few weeks.

Defending champs ready to roll Bv Buo GERACIE

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The chances of the Yankees opening the season 0-3, as they did a year ago, are remote. There's a better chance the Yankees will outdo all of last season, which merely was the great­est season in any team's history

Today, in the season opener at Oakland, the Yankees will send five-lime Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens to the pitching mound. Tuesday, it's Orlando Hernandez. The Yankees are saving David Cone for Friday night in New York, and Andy Pettitte has a sore arm, so Wednesday the Yanks must choose between IIideki Irabu and a guy (Ramiro Mendoza) who went 10-2 last season.

It is an embarrassment of riches. And yet, it's hard to hate the Yankees, or

damn them, as previous generations did. Un­like the Bronx Bombers of years gone by, these Yankees possess an Everyman quality.

They're human, as evidenced by the ill­nesses suffered by Joe Torre and Darryl Straw­berry. It's not as if this bunch needs such re­minders, either; they're "good people," lo bor­row a phrase.

The Yankees' clubhouse, for years an in­timidating and unpleasant place, is filled with some of the nicest guys around.

And can they play ball. With the pitching they have, the Yankees

won't need many runs. Too bad. They'll score in bunches anyway.

Chuck Knoblauch, the leadoff man, hit 17 home runs and stole 31 bases and will do better his second year in New York. Derek Jeter has everything it takes to be the next super­star· good looks, media savvy and location, lo­cation, location. But mostly, he got game. Only 24,Jeter is headed to his second All-Star game and his fourth postseason.

Paul O'Neill, Bernie Willian1s and Tino Martinez make up the heart of the order.

So what can stop the Yankees? The one thing that could stop them al­

ready has happened. It remains to be seen what Torre's absence will mean, or how long it will last, but Boss Steinbrenner's recent actions are a bad sign.

Torre, the Yankees' 58-year-old manager,

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walked into the clubhouse March 10 - the day the team was to welcome Strawben-y's return from cancer treatment - and an­nounced he had prostate cancer.

Until Torre returns. Don Zimmer will lead. This is Zimmer·s 5 lst year in baseball, and he thought he had seen e\·­eryt hi ng. Three yC'an; ago. Zimmer was retired and liYing

in Florida. Now he is manag­ing the reigning world cham­pions - and wishing he weren't. That's how much Zimmer thinks of Torre.

"LC'fsjust say we hit itolT from the very first day of spring training," said Zimmer, never one to get mushy.

They talk practically ev­ery day. Zimmer said. and gamp

strategy won't differ much bf'­cause, in that regard, Zimmer and Torre don't di!Ter much.

Where the Yankees will miss Torre is ... everywhere.

",Joe has a cool confidence," said third-base coach Willie Randolph, a player on crazed Yankees teams from 1976-88. "Ile just lets things roll olT of him."

With Torre gone, Steinbrenner becomes a factor in the Yankees' season, and that's never a good thing. Yankees fans can only pray that The Boss has the same good sense as his play-ers.

The Yankees aren't looking to duplicate the greatest season in history. Not that they would mind winning 114 regular-sea-

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son games and 11 more in postseason, but all they~ want is the ring. They~ gratitude for the opportuni defend the title with their intact, a rare gift in thi~ and age. They feel thev their best effo;t to The&, the fans and to them;;elve

These guys are ju:; good.

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ThC' dist ini,,'l.11::-hC'djurist:s haH' ruled for now They han' ruled for conYenience o\·er the Constitution. for the NCAA OYer the kids. The key words are "for nO\\ ... That's the hope. an:vway.

On March 8, U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter barbecued the CAA and said its Scholastic Assessment Test-based eligibility require­ments for athletes were illegal and discriminatory. On Tues­day, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Ap­peals nullified the injunction against further use of the Proposition 16 entrance re­quirements that Buckwalter issued that day.

And so, we wait for the appeal to be decided with the old rules in place. Again. the burden is on the kids. A fed­eral judge with the ability to read the CAA's own statistics and the courage to tell the truth about them ruled the NCAA was discriminating -yet it's the kids who have to live under the rule a little longer while the grownups shuffie paper.

Same old, same old. Here's my favorite part of the deal. Ifs the part where the NCAA argued in a brief to the court that Buckwalter's in­junction was "a radical and un­precedented rejection of aca­demic standards adopted by colleges and universities to address the academic perfor­mance of student-athletes."

Got all that?

lien's n1_\" question: Ex­actly what about till' aca­dl'mic performance of stu­<lent-athlete;:; \\ere they ad drPssing? l\·e said this and l\·e said this and nobody li::-­tens, and. at this point. it would be foolish to expect any­body to listen. but this is a fact:

A fair exammation of the statistics shows that ath­letes already were graduating at higher rates than their non-athlete counter-parts on campus, e\'en

Before t lw SAT cutoff, :i5 percent ofwhilP male athlelf',; were graduating, comp,1red with 5-1 pt'l'C1'nt ofwhltt' malt'" on campus.

Before all the nonsen;;e, 45 percent of black female ath­letes were graduating. com­pared with 34 percent of black females on campus.

Before the roadblocks, 66 percent of white female ath­letes were graduating, com­pared \vith 57 percent of white

,.,mailer percentage of African­Americans have ended up with scholarship::::. Is that what they Wt're trymg to accomplish''

\\'hat were the initial rules about? \\11y did they have to make them tougher with Prop 16? \\'hat are they trying to prove today as they go to court and fight to keep in place a system that was born of ig­norance and which is blatantly discriminatory? And that last part isn't even in dispute. The

discrimination is right there in the CAA's own numbers. before all of this SAT­

based roadblocking be­gan in the mid-'80s.

They were fixing something that wasn 't broken. It had a bad smell to

Their arguments make you laugh. The

They were fixing something that ~asn't broken It had a bad smell to it sometimes. and it had some bad headlines attached to it, but they were in pos­session of the facts

it sometimes, and it had some bad headlines attached to it, but they were in possession of the facts. And the facts were that athletes

CAA asserts that the number of graduating African-American ath-1 et es increased by about 15 percent un-

And the facts were that athletes were graduating.

We'll take you back to 1984, before all of this SAT stuff began with Proposition 48. (If you want to skip the numbers. go ahead. If you want to skip the column, go ahead. I've been writmg them for years and people have been sending me 1-iateful let­ters and e-mails for years, with a few nice ones mixed in. If I've changed one mind on this subject in a dozen col­umns, that might be a lot. Anyway .... )

Before Prop 48, 33 per­cent of black male athletes were graduating, compared with 28 percent of black males on campus.

were graduating.

females on campus. OK. !'hose are the facts,

the NCAA's own facts. Those numbers were published years ago, years and years ago. Black males. white males, black females, white females - all graduating at a higher rate than their civil­ian counterparts on campus, all before this SAT high-jump was put in front of the admis­sions office.

So what were they trying to prove when they put the Prop 48 rules in place? I can't wait until they have to explain that to the U.S. Supreme Court - which could very well be where this thing eventually ends up. We know that a

with

der these rules. Hail. hail the SAT. One problem, though. If you compare 1984

1991 - the most recent year of data - the graduation rates for African-American non-athletes have risen just as fast.

Something else is obvi­ously happening on campus. be it grade inflation or whateYer. It's clearly not Prop 48 or Prop 16. It's not the AT.

Yet the 1CAA fights this thing to the death. They're wor­ried about chaos in the middle of a recruiting season. \\'ell. tough. Have a big. old confer­ence ca"ll. or an eme rgency meeting, or fire up the fax ma­chines. or something - just make new rules that don't in­voh·e the SAT as a cutoff for initial eligibility.

The 6•111 of tt people. Tlwn' ,1re hund of kid;; right nO\\ \\ho signed on to play Di, t :\ foot ball .lQd other ~ who will be on the h thousands of dollars at because the :\CAA c mo\·e quickly enoug change its rules. Tb1 non-qualifiers under ru !es and they have tc their own way as freshr all because of the SAT.

Thousands of do apiece. Thousands of dt apiece because of a disc _­natory rule. And the ruil

NCAA convinced two o three judges that it wasn't fair to change rules of the game ... i middle of a recruiting sei

Not fair? Nor fa whom? That's always b question here, and the ar has always been the ·ar

Because. yes. it ' have been cumberson have to requalify evecy under a different set of bility rules. And because they might ha'>·e had to the scholarship limits year because some kidi didn't qualify for scholaa under the old rules bul mitted to enroll an: would now qualify.

Complicated? Yel possible? No. But when quest ion between orda justice, the NCAA al chooses order - simple Ii las. SAT cutoffs. stanc standards! The :\CAA a chooses order, becausej is just too messy.

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1Is there enough Magic in Orlando to win an NBA Title 3, BRI '" Sc 11\llT/

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ORLANDO. Fla. - Our opic today is very, very, very aboo with l\1agic Coach Chuck 0al:!'.

Touchier than discussing he heartbreak of p::-oriasis.

But what the hey. Here goes: Isn't 1t time to

tart wondering wl1ether the il"agic can win t11e NBA cham­lionship?

Moreover, isn't it time to sk the Magic whether they eriously believe it? Isn't it ime to ask whether you fans o, too?

Sure, definitely. abso­utely. Because time, ladies and -entlemen, is just about up. 'he Magic are running out of ea son.

Under normal circum­tances. you wouldn't be con­:!mplating such notions after 4 games. This. however, is ything but a normal season.

There will be just 15 ames left after Monday ight's 0-rena scrum against oston, and 12 after this week.

The Magic should have an idea by now- in their heart of hearts - whether they are a legiti­mate contender.

All the evidence suggests they are: Orlando leads the Eastern Conference postseason race and has opened a 2{-game lead on Mi­ami in the Atlantic Division entering Monda) 's games. The .:\1agic are 24-10 and finally playing 500 ball on thC' road after takmg two of three.

Now they must verify the evidence by proving their case the rest of the way.

They have reached the point before the playoffs where you have to start walking. talk­ing and acting like a team that can win it all.

Don't sense that, though. Don't truly sense that belief anywhere.

Maybe the lockout dulled fan enthusiasm, and the fren­zied rescheduling left clubs re­garding themselves as works in progress. But here there ought to be a feeling pulsating through team and town that hasn't been felt since Shaq left.

Are you ready? There is only seven issues lefL.

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Bulls broke up. you expected a lot of good horses would run for the roses. But no Secretarial has emerged, not one club that evokf's fear. Anybody totally sold on the 26-6 Portland Trail RlaZL'rs'? Didn·t think so.

The Magic have their warts. but so does everyone else.

They need to clinch home court for the playoffs. They need Bo Outlaw. Most impor­tant, they need Penny Hardaway to take the ball at his whim - no matter where he is on the floor after Nick Anderson returns from dis­agreements with his ham­strings.

There is not a gap so large between the other con­tenders and Orlando that a steady dose of confidence can­not close. If anything can push the Magic through a rugged April, it's their colorization of a black-and-white dream of a championship parade.

They've done too much thus far to dismiss the possi­bility, but Daly will have none of it.

Chuck is not just from the old school ofTaking It One Game At A Time; he graduated magna cum laude from it. As an eternal pessimist, Daly knows a lot can happen on the way to the poslseason Once your team gets there, it 1s a whole different animal - es­pecially this season

If the Magic do think they can plant a flag, they're keeping it a secret like a CIA operative. More likely, they are simply following the unspoken lead of Daly.

They work and lay low. Indiana embraced all the

post-lockout progi10sticators. Miami Coach Pat Riley, the master motivator, had photos of title rings blown up and pasted in the back of every player's locker.

The Magic work and lay low.

Do they truly feel, deep down, they have what it takes? I'm not sure.

Because if there's one thing Miami and Indiana carry with them lhal the Magic seemingly do not, it is a swag­ger Teams with designs on ac­complishing greatness possess such an aura.

Of course, Orlando, laid up by injurie:; the last few years, has not lweu a serious contender since> Shaq's exit. The Magic's self-esteem took more blows during 'l recupera­tion and rebuild ing process. Now they should be repaired and refreshed, if not flying high.

They'll never be as in­timidating or celebrated as they often were when Shaq rnled the paint. But they have Daly and a handful of veterans who know what it feels like to be in the hunt.

And they have enough pinstriped holdovers left to re­member - and re-live - a time when o""'Tler Rich DeVos came up with a catchy slogan a few years back. Hmmmm. what was it? Oh, yes.

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(12 Tuesday, April 6, 1999 Exponent -Big Sky to host 1999 US SnowCross Grand National B' Bns' RuNrn L\f'OllClll Fc11111re.' ,..d1tor

Bridger may be closed but ski season is not over yet! This Thursday and Friday, Big Sky will host lhel999 U.S. SnowCross Grand Nationals and Music Festival. The

be on hand providing commen­lary.

Qualifiers in both skiing and snowboarding events will bP held on April 8.Those who survive will hash it oul again in the finals on April 9. Entry is open to anyone 18 and over but helmets and insurance are

SnowCross meshes motocross required and no poles are al­and BMX racing with skiing lowed. and snowboarding. SnowCross Registration will be held is Montana's first nationally in the Mammoth Room of the televised event of its kind. Mountain Mall in the Moun­Mohawk poster child and ski- ta in Village from noon to 5 p.m. inglegend Glen Plake will also on April 7 and from 8 a.m. to 9

a.m. before the competition begins Thursday.

SnowCross will be held on the Ambush Run on Andes­ite Mountain. Spectators and competitors will get a look at the course from the Ramcharger Quad.

Afler the races, there will be an awards ceremony and Spring Music Festival held at the Huntley Lodge in the Yellowstone Conference Cen-ter. Doors will open at 6 p.m. for Lhe music fest. Local favor­ites Bask, will be on hand Lo

get things grooving with their brassy mix of high energy mu­sic which is impossible not to dance to.

Also performing will be Slightly Sloopid, a reggae punk band out of Long Beach, Calif. whose sounds resemble Sublime. Chola, IIO.R.D.E. Festival performers from Salt Lake City will give the Big Sky a little dose of their funkJhip­hop tunes.

Skiers and snowboarders not participating in the SnowCross will have the op-

portunity to ski at Big with discounted tickets T; another installation of '"Carving for a Cause" Prag A portion of the proceeds \\ donated to Galavan. a profit organization which vides transportation , Gallatin County residen I haYe difficulty traYelingo _. age, health or monetary fac

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Experimental Danish Bela Fleck and the Flecktones to perfor at Willson Wednesda,

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At th.e 1998 Cannes Film Festival, a group of Danish film­mal}ers presented "Dogma 95," a manifesto for a filmmaking practice that vrnuld attempt to subvert Hollywood's facile melo­dramatic conventions.

Tlw filmmakers ex­pressed, in a o-called "Vow of Chastity." to uphold the ideals of a new sort of pure cinema: they would only shoot on loca­tion. neYer use special effects, only use a\'ailable light. and refuse po~t-production sound work.

So far. two Danish films ­Thomas Vinterbergs's "Festen" (The Celebration) and Lars von Trier's "ldioleme" (The Idiots)­have emerged out of tpis tradi­tion. While von Trier's earlier work is more famous, including 199l's "Zentropa" and 1996's "Breaking the Waves," Bozeman art cinema fans are lucky to get a look at the work of the lesser knov:n Vinterberg, as "The Cel­ebration'' plays at the Rialto

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Monday through Thursday of this week. Check the daily movie listings for show times.

W11ile ''The Celebration·· continues in the tradition set by "Breaking the Waves"-using hand-held cameras to capture ils plot about a dysfunctional Danish famil.v gathering for an ill-fated reunion - its predomi­nant interest for me lies in its compelling rel al 10nships Lo pre­Yious literary and ftlmic mate­rial.

First of alL ·~rhe Celebra­tion "'is a Scandinavian film through and through. Like Henrik Ibsen's theatre. iL uses the bleak Danish weather to compel its characlers to con­front their O'Nll dysfunctionality. The cinematic application of such Scandinavian literary ma­terial begun by silent filmmaker Victor Sjostrom and art cinema favorite Ingmar Bergman is complexly re-act,ivated by Vinlerberg within the new Dogma 95 style.

However, the kinds of truths about humanity that Vinterberg's film presents a\:-

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tend far beyond a sociological study of Scandinavians. The film offers a wider investigation of familial relationships, also well grounded in film and liter­ary traditions. The film, in its Chekhovian mixture of tragedy and farce, 1s reminiscent of Jean Renoir's masterpiece. "The Rules of the Game"' (1939l, an­other film which deftlyohserved the collapse of a social order through the lens of the most intimate and compressed famil­ial conflicts.

In his review for the Chi­cago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert wryly captmesThe Celebration's complex relationship to the his­tory of Western drama: "Imagine Eugene O'Neill and Woody Allen Collaborating on a screenplay about a family reunion. Now let Luis Bunuel direct it."

Whether to see the film·s tmique stylistic practices; its in­dictment of morally complacent, so-ca.lied liberal Scandinavia; or just to see the sort of intensely powerful character drama Holly­wood seems incapable of making, don't miss 'The Celebration."

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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones have rede­fined 'energy· and 'origi­nality'

According to Down­beat ~fagazine, they are ··one of the most colorful fusion bands going, with indi\"idualists on every instrument.''

Bela Fleck, Banjoist extraordinaire, bassist Victor Wooten, saxophon­ist Jeff Coffin and synth­axe drumitar specialist, Futureman- comprise the band's latest incarnation.

The quartet offers a dizzying assortment of influences Uazz, funk, bluegrass, folk, world music) in an accessible and fresh blend.

Their musical com­position and style have been eYolutionary, if not revolutionary.

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