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sustainabilityUI student gets involved to save Earth, protect food systems

Ryan TarinelliArgonaut

Brita Olson can be found every Saturday morning throwing axes, chucking logs and slicing away pieces of a log with a crosscut saw.

Olson, an ecology and conserva-tion biology major at the University of Idaho, is on UI’s logger sports team, and said she was first intro-duced to the sport by one of her close friends.

“One of my really good friends was just like ‘we compete and we just throw axes and crosscut saw, it’s the

best,’” Olson said. “So I just showed up, it’s a lot of fun.”

Despite her aggressiveness in the logger sports arena, Olson has a strong connection with sustainable living and the environment.

The logger sports team is only one part of Olson’s busy schedule. She is the president of UI’s organic farm club — the Soil Stewards — an intern with the Stateline Wetland Restoration Project and serves as program coordinator for the UI Sus-tainability Center.

“I’ve really found my home in the Sustainability Center and the Soil Stewards,” Olson said.

As Soil Stewards president, Olson said the organic farm allows students to impact the campus

and Moscow community through providing a source of organically grown produce. She said the farm also allows students to learn about organic farming, while creating a community of mutual responsibil-ity between participating students.

Olson said she was exposed to organic farming from a young age, but it wasn’t until a trip to Ecuador that she started to think more critically about sustainable farming. She said the experience tasting produce from an open-air market, and reading “The Omni-vore’s Dilemma” convinced her to take action.

“It clearly got me thinking about my food system,” Olson said. “I felt very compelled to get

involved somehow, and I’d known about the Soil Stewards student farm for a while.”

Although the only experience Olson had with organic farming was working in her mother’s garden, she started volunteering at the farm last fall.

Olson said the club had a large turnover the year before that allowed her to take on larger re-sponsibilities in the club, including organizing the weekly harvest and delivering the produce to commu-nity members.

“I just kind of plunged right in, like first day in the club. Now I’m working for the club six hours a week,” Olson said.

Olson said working for the Sus-tainability Center as program coor-dinator allows her to organize events — like Bike Fix and the UIdeas Sym-posium — that have an impact on stu-dents and reflect the issues and topics she is passionate about.

Free Cycle reduces waste by reusing donations

Jake SmithArgonaut

The Theophilus Tower lawn has been littered with hundreds of bins and tables in August, for the past five years.

Inside these bins on the Tower lawn are hundreds of pounds in diversions from the waste stream — an ongoing project, which was taken over this year by the University of Idaho Sustainability Center.

This ongoing project is called Free Cycle, though in prior years it has gone by other names such as “Trash to Trea-sures.” At the end of the each

academic year, program co-ordinators collect unused but still usable items from students occupying university housing. The goal is to reduce input into the waste stream.

Donation bins are placed in dorms across campus during the last two to three weeks of the academic year. After students donate items, their unused goods are stored over the summer in the Wallace Residence Center basement. During the first week of the academic year in August, all donated items are placed on the Tower lawn. Students may peruse the items and take what they wish. The program is on

Waste not, want notHamilton Community Garden provides Moscow residents place to rent garden space

Jared JonasArgonaut

The Hamilton Community Garden in Moscow is a place where people can rent 20 by 20 foot space of land to use as a garden of their own.

The garden was estab-lished several years ago by the Moscow Parks and Rec-reation Department and originally contained 44 plots of land that were available

to rent. It lies in the grassy area next to the parking lot of the Hamilton Indoor Rec-reation Center off of F Street in Moscow.

Eric Newell is the recre-ation supervisor for youth programs for Moscow Parks and Rec and is in charge of overseeing the garden.

“It’s really just a place for people to come when they may not have space to grow food at their home or apart-ment,” Newell said.

The garden has been ex-panded to a total of 58 plots, including five raised beds. The garden also has areas for

Community seedsCity holds Free Shred Day for Latah County residents

Andrew Jenson

Argonaut

The City of Moscow will host Free Shred Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at 1638 S. Blaine St. in the Old Tidyman’s parking lot. While it is open and free to Latah County residents, it is not open for commercial use. Residents may not shred more than three paper grocery bags worth of documents per household.

Sanitation Operations Manager Tim Davis said this is the fourth year the event has been held in Moscow. He said the day was scheduled to coincide with the end

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Friday, January 31, 2014

Ryan TarinelliArgonaut

A “kegger” in a residence hall on a Friday night was not an unusual occurrence on the University of Idaho campus in the early 1970s, said Dean of Students Bruce Pitman.

“It was very common place to have a keg, because it was legal,” Pitman said.

From strict dress codes to excessive drinking, Uni-versity of Idaho has seen the extremes of campus culture over its 125-year history.

Pitman said when he arrived at UI in 1973, as the Greek Adviser on-campus social activity surrounded alcohol, because the legal drinking age in Idaho was 19.

Moscow Police Lt. David

Lehmitz said large parties, fist fights and excessive drinking were a regular affair in Moscow. He said Moscow used to have approximately 26 bars before Idaho raised the drinking age — most of them along Main Street and Sixth Street.

“Huge parties, really huge parties … there were huge fights, I mean 15 to 20 people,” Lehmitz said.

Lehmitz said the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, a fra-ternity that left campus in spring 2013, used to host a large party called the “Tin Canner.” He said ATO would line the trees with fishing nets and throw beer cans up into the nets all night.

Pitman said UI’s campus culture changed dramatically

after Idaho raised the legal drinking age to 21 in 1987. However, the change was not fully implemented until 1989 because of a grandfather clause attached to the bill. He said the Idaho State Board of Education phased in restric-tions on alcohol consump-tion on-campus in the early ‘90s.

“It was putting toothpaste back in the tube, because going from a social environ-ment that was not only per-missive but legal, to engage in a wide range of social ac-tivity that involved alcohol,” Pitman said.

Pitman said the annual spring rock festival, “Blue Mountain,” was a prime

Amber EmeryArgonaut

University of Idaho graduates often look back at their college ex-perience, only to realize how long it’s been since they’ve been to Moscow, let alone visited campus. But this isn’t the case for Moscow residents and alumni Jim and Judy Pilcher — who have a special way of expressing their Vandal pride.

“I have a Vandal tattoo,” Judy said. “I got it last year for my birth-day from Jim. It’s just a little one-incher on my ankle, but it shows how much I love the university, so I really like it.”

From freshmen pledging Alpha Phi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon to be-coming longtime leaders within the UI community — the Pilchers have an extensive history with Idaho’s land-grant university.

The high school sweethearts trav-eled to Moscow from Nampa, Idaho,

in 1965 in hopes of receiving a rep-utable college education. Judy, an education major and graduate of the class of 1969, waited for her newly-wed husband to attain his account-ing degree in 1970, before joining him aboard a naval ship.

“I was in ROTC as a student,” Jim said. “That was in the Vietnam era, so it was either be drafted or join

up, so I joined up through ROTC and later served in the Navy. The ship I was on, we would unload 1,000 Marines and drop them off in Panama for jungle training and then the ship would cruise the Caribbean, so I got to see quite a bit.”

Both Jim and Judy were born and raised in Idaho. The Pilchers said that while they enjoyed traveling with the Navy, they quickly realized their innate desire to settle down.

“When it came time that the Navy career was over, we decided to raise a family and Moscow seemed like the perfect spot,” Jim said.

The Pilchers said being UI alumni instantly helped them create a life in their former college town. As an undergraduate student, Jim interned with Hayden Ross PLLC and was offered a full-time job upon his return to Moscow. He has since become a partner and is still there 41 years later.

Though the Pilchers have had busy personal and professional lives, that didn’t stop them from getting involved with UI as alumni.

Throughout the years, they have been heavily involved with their respective Greek organizations as advisers, they’ve been supportive of Vandal athletics by working with the Vandal Scholarship Fund. Jim also currently serves on the advisory council of the Operation Education program while Judy su-pervises student teachers through the UI College of Education.

“I think we’re involved in university activities because that allows us to associate with younger people, which tends to keep us feeling younger in return,” Jim said.

Jim, the 1970 intramural horse-shoe champion, said there are

LGBT service-denial bill passes in committee

BOISE — The House State Affairs Committee in the Idaho Legislature unanimously passed a bill that would allow businesses and medical professionals to deny service to gay individuals, as well as unmarried mothers, without losing licensure — as long as they cite religious beliefs.

Rep. Lynn Luker, R-Boise, said the bill would also allow teachers to deny edu-cating a student if they are gay.

Rep. Grant Bur-goyne, D-Boise, is a proponent for the “Add the Words” campaign — a cam-paign to add equal protections for the state’s LGBT popu-lation to the Idaho Human Rights Act. Burgoyne said Luker’s bill is bringing an op-portunity to have a conversation in the legislature about the state’s slashing equal rights for gays. He said he is hoping to change minds on the issue before the bill is passed.

There is no date set for the hearing. More information will be available next week.

In this special edition of The Argonaut, we take a look back on the 125 years of the University of Idaho’s

history. Flip through our history and check out our “Then and now” photo gallery at fb.com/uiargonaut.

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I think we’re involved in university activities

because that allows us to associate with younger people, which tends to keep us feeling younger

in return.Jim Pilcher, UI alumnus

Gem of the Mountains 1973 | CourtesyStudents relax at The Blue Mountain Festival in 1972, Blue Mountain was a 24-hour rock festival in the early 1970s.

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Idaho men’s basket-ball rebounds from consecutive losses with win over CSUN.

Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival on campus now.

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UI students help business professor meet the market

Erik FinkArgonaut

Mike Kinziger is a retired Univer-sity of Idaho professor who, along with students from the University of Idaho Business 378 Project Manage-ment class, is working to market his “King Frog” activity book.

Kinziger said his book is a resource guide for anyone working with kids or groups for the purpose of team building or recreation. The book is a compilation of what Kinziger consid-ers to be “100 of the best group games ever played.” He said this book is a result of being a recreation teacher

for 48 years.“For years, people have been

saying ‘put together a list of all those games,’ because that’s what I have been doing for so long,” Kinziger said.

Within a few years, Kinziger has managed to sell more than 1,000 copies of his book from his home and is now looking to take things to the next level.

Cody Lewis is a business student working on the King Frog project for two classes. He is one of 20 team members from Business 378, and one of four members from his Busi-ness 415 New Venture Creation class. These classes will handle the

Fiscal budget hearing presents education, mental health as top issues

Chloe RamboArgonaut

BOISE — The Joint Fi-nance-Appropriations Com-mittee heard public testimony on the state budget Friday and limited testimony to three minutes Friday.

After more than two hours of testimony, it was evident top subjects of budget concern are employee wages, educa-tion, Medicaid expansion and mental health funding.

Donna Yule, executive di-

rector of the Idaho Public Employees Association, was first to testify. Yule urged com-mittee members to adopt the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy’s Responsible Alternative to the Executive Budget — a separate budget developed this year by longtime government econo-mist Mike Ferguson. The al-ternative budget includes more funds set aside for education, as well as a guaranteed change in employee compensation every year that includes teachers.

The alternative budget is based on the same outline used by Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s Executive Budget, but adjusts spending to reduce the

amount of money set aside in the state’s rainy day funds and instead invests in state needs.

Yule said the alternative budget will finally give state employees and teachers the recognition and reward they deserve.

“For several years now, they’ve been told they’re important to the governor and to the legislature and every year their compensa-tion falls farther and farther behind,” Yule said.

Yule said the 2 percent salary raise recommend-

Teach for America offers graduates a chance to give back, educate

Amber EmeryArgonaut

With graduation day nearing, many seniors have questions they don’t know the answers to — “Where am I going to work? Where am I going to live? How am I going to make money? What I am going to be doing with my life?”

Psychology and organizational science senior Ada Fryer doesn’t have these questions. She has a full-time job lined up after graduation with Teach for America — a program that recruits leaders to teach in low-income urban and rural communities across the United States, in an effort to solve edu-cational inequality.

“I’m graduating in May and I will leave in

June for San Antonio, Texas,” Fryer said. “I’m going to be a teacher for TFA and be respon-sible for an entire classroom of elementary-aged children.”

There are still placements available for the 2014-2015 school year and applications can be completed at www.teachforamerica.org and are due Thursday.

Justin Yan, managing director of recruit-ment for Teach For America West, said the benefits of participating in TFA are full-time salaries, graduate school partner-ships, traveling to a new place and most importantly — working for a good cause and gaining leadership skills in a service-learning program.

‘King Frog’ fun

Jessica Greene | ArgonautAuthor Michael Kinziger leads one of the group games published in his book “King Frog” with students in Business 378. The students will develop a project to update the book’s design, website and social network presence.

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Net neutrality issue may impact higher ed, casual internet use

Alycia RockArgonaut

The Internet has been relatively unregulated since its inception, but that could now change after a federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Com-mission ruling of net neutrality Jan. 14. Now paying different prices for different Internet services is a dis-tinct possibility.

Net neutrality intends to ensure all websites are treated the same by Internet service providers (ISPs) — namely priced the same and given the same bandwidth prior-ity. This includes those that stream content and those that have higher traffic, like Facebook, Netflix, YouTube or Wikipedia.

“Netflix is the single biggest user of internet bandwidth in the world right now,” said Dan Ewart, chief information officer and executive director of Information Technology Services at the University of Idaho. “You can see why large corporations

don’t like net neutrality.”Net neutrality aims to make sure

ISPs treat the Internet the same as any other utility, like electricity. For example: though electricity is paid for, there is no regulation on what it is used for.

The net neutrality rule was introduced by the FCC in 2010. Those in favor say net neutral-ity keeps big corporations from having too much power. Those against net neutrality think busi-nesses — like Time Warner,

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