“pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”

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Aquarius 1/20 - 2/18Just because vintage is in, doesn’t mean you can party like it’s 1969. Come to terms with the generation gap. Allow yourself to be different, and love yourself for the differ-ence. Human nature is the same throughout all time and space, but tastes in body hair and public expo-sure vary from age to age.

Pisces 2/19 - 3/20If your efforts aren’t working for you, change things up. Bring someone along to spur you on. Discipline doesn’t have to be torture. Remember that it’s OK to go slowly, and little changes count as much as big ones. Your partner will still marry you if your full-back tattoo of Jack Sparrow only has its face colored in by the honeymoon.

Aries 3/21 - 4/19That special someone across the classroom won’t wait forever. Strap a six-gun, get on that horse and string up your passivity at the nearest hangin’ tree.

Taurus 4/20 - 5/20Being obstinate can be a plus, but don’t take things too far. Know when to zip it. Remember, when you marry someone you marry their family, too. That includes the dog.

horoscopesLibra 9/23 - 10/22Previous weeks have seen a lot of reckless abandon – time to make a more conservative choice. You never know what will prove help-ful. Be realistic. You’ll waste less voodoo dolls.

Scorpio 10/23 - 11/21Laughter might be the best medicine, but it won’t cure the sickness you’ve got. Too much of a good thing can kill you. Under-stand your situation and make the necessary choice. Dead clowns don’t work many birthday parties.

Sagittarius 11/22 - 12/21Sometimes you tense up, and opportunities get missed. Loosen up and let things slide. You’d be surprised how freeing it can be to let go. Try to emancipate yourself regularly from all waste that clogs your life and weighs you down. Remember courtesy as you learn to give up, and always flush twice.

Capricorn 12/22 - 1/19Yawn … yawn … Stop being so dull. Please. Or everyone you come in contact with this month will … zzzzzz …

Gemini 5/21 - 6/20Life feels a lot like bungee jump-ing: you shut your eyes, take the plunge and hope the one thing anchoring you to existence doesn’t snap.

Cancer 6/21 -7/22It’s okay to indulge today. You’ve worked through the stress, you’ve paid your dues, you’ve held up your end. The beauty of being a mortician is that corpses won’t tell your secrets.

Leo 7/23 - 8/22Never underestimate the power of a smile. With the right look at the right moment, a whole life can change. Just remember that “luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Start small. Floss is cheap, and you can live without broccoli.

Virgo 8/23 - 9/22Be courageous. Don’t cower behind your insecurities. You have the power to change, and it doesn’t matter how your goldfish looks at you. Try only locking the door twice on your way to the tunnel sanctuary this evening.

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Erin Dawson is a graduate student earning her Masters in Clothing, Textiles and De-sign. She is currently work-ing as a teachers’ assistant for the School of Family and Consumer Sciences enjoys painting, photography, de-sign and craft making in her spare time.

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Songs you love to hate

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“Barbie Girl” — Aqua “I’m a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world. Life in plastic,

it’s fantastic.” You know you love it. And if you know someone who hates it … make it their ringtone. You’ll get a laugh every time they call.

“Bye Bye Bye” — *NSYNC Oh, the songs we rocked out to in elementary

school. Guess what? We did that for a reason. The beats are good and the music videos are fun to imitate.

“Macarena” — Los Del Río Every junior high, high school, prom and wedding plays

this song. Why? It has to be the dance moves. Oh yeah.

“Till the End of the World”—Britney Spears Say what you will Britney Spears, this song comes

on the radio and you know you’re bee-boppin’ around behind that steering wheel. Just do it safely.

“Poker Face” — Lady Gaga “Puh-Puh-Puh-Poker Face.” Goo goo for Gaga. The

performer is insane and who knows what she looks like under all that makeup, but she can write catchy, addictive tunes.

“Spice Up Your Life” — Spice Girls I so wanted to be Baby Spice. Maybe it had some-

thing to do with having blonde pigtails … Regardless, this is the perfect song to grab a hairbrush off the counter when you’re getting ready and rock the stage.

“Straight Up” — Paula AbdulCheck out the music video. Paula Abdul kicks it off

with an intense tap routine. Flashback to the 1980s, when the mullet was in style. Love the feel trumpet and the beat. Get ready to dance.

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We all have them. Those songs that come on the stereo or end up on iTunes playlists that we belt out at the top of our lungs and dance like spastic chickens to when no one else is around. These are the songs you love to hate.

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Working out: People do it to beat the Freshman 15, to bulk up, to relieve stress and even for fun. No matter the workout purpose, there are many outlets at the Univer-sity of Idaho to fit personal workout preferences.

Student Recreation Center Campus Recreation

Operations Supervisor Brian Mahoney said during an aver-age school week, for example Aug. 22 through 26, approxi-mately 7,926 UI students worked out at the SRC. Not motivated to workout on Mondays? Aug. 22 the gym had its largest attendance of the week with approximately 1,900 students, not counting wellness class attendance and climbing wall access.

Mahoney said the most workout traffic is from 3 to 9 p.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. offers the best availability for exercise machines and sport courts.

Jess Tangen, psychology major and SRC employee, said she recognizes “regu-lars” that workout at the

gym. She also said students’ gym routines can depend on their class schedules.

Tangen’s routineCardio: Elliptical, treadmill

or stair-stepper Other: Alternations between leg and arm weight-lifting, ab work, and stretches

“Some days I spend too much time (at the SRC) but on days I don’t work I’m more willing (to work-out),” Tangen said. “The SRC is a good resource because we have a lot of machines and a lot of new things... When it gets busy, (SRC members) always have something to do.”

Workout classes for creditThis semester alone there

are more than 80 physical education classes for one credit. Classes include scuba, ultimate Frisbee, badminton, fly fishing, wall climbing, fenc-ing, archery, karate, weight training and vinyasa yoga.

Some classes are set to one day a week, while others are on a case-by-case basis. Activ-ity courses sometimes allow the student to make their

own workout schedule too.Brian Hordemann, cre-

ative writing major, takes weight training and condi-tioning for credit. Horde-mann said he took the class to “learn the motions.”

Hordemann’s routineWeights: Rotations be-

tween lower body and upper body strengthening Cardio: Jogging and walking rotations on the SRC track, i.e. two laps walk, two laps jog, etc. Hordemann is motivated by a “desire to be healthier.”

He said high-energy music like speed rap inspires him. He suggested Tech N9ne’s “World Wide Choppers.”

UI sports teamUI houses numerous

sports teams on campus. Playing on a UI team could

be too intense and time con-suming, so UI offers intramural sport teams. For a $5 fee per team, students can form flag football, soccer, volleyball, floor and roller hockey, basketball, softball and soccer teams.

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School is back in session and campus sidewalks have made their yearly transition from walkway to runway as students break out their best back-to-school finds for the first days of class.

For many, dressing well is about put-ting your best face forward and making an entrance. In the bright colors, bold prints, grunge looks, vintage-inspired de-signs and utilitarian pieces style.com has forecasted to dominate this fall season, what could be better to make a bold first impression?

Fashion is cyclical and this season, this principle is evident. The knitted vests and peasant

tops that have carried over from summer reflect fashions worn by hippies during the youth revolution of the 1960s. In the same way, shift dresses and high boots have gained popularity across campus and are a more modest version of those worn by the Mods of the same era. The loose fitting tank tops, destroyed denim and leather belts seen

campus wide have the flavor of the 1990s grunge trend and the flannels worn with their sleeves

rolled can be described as remi-niscent of Kurt Cobain.

As always, chic practicality dominates on campus, function-ality is built into form and bold colors reign supreme. Oversize, comfortable shirts and knitted sweaters are commonplace and leather is the accessory of choice. Chiffon dresses, sheer leggings, long vests and high boots can be seen around every corner and, as always, the ever-popular oversized handbag remains a staple. Tribal and animal prints that dominated the summer season continued into garments – namely blouses and dresses – for fall season. Bright shades of orange, pink, green and teal of the previous season remain popular. Plaid flannel shirts, Ray

Bans, Keds, flat billed hats and denim continue to be solid, popu-lar choices across campus, paired with sheer cotton t-shirts and an attitude to match.

The pieces forecasted to be the most popular this season?

• Stylized jackets (including leather motorcycle and tuxedo jackets)

• Bold prints (floral, geomet-ric, animal and polka dot)

• Belted shift dresses• Canvas flats (namely, Toms,

Keds and Vans)• Knits of all shapes and sizes

(parkas are slated to be trendy as the weather turns cold)

And of course, the most popular trend on campus will be Vandal gear!

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If someone is unsure wheth-er a friendship has escalated to bromance status, University of Idaho sophomore Maggy Hand has observed some helpful indicators.

“If you’re a guy, and your guy best friend knows what makes you cry, knows what makes you happy and knows when you take a crap, then you’re definitely in a bro-mance,” she said.

Hand defines a bromance as a socially acceptable bond be-tween two men who are more intimate than normal friends, and which each person needs to

complete his individual growth. The bond is unexplainable,

she said, and toes the line between friendship and dating. She said her two male room-mates are in a bromance and she appreciates that because the emotional blocks common-ly associated with masculinity aren’t there.

They aren’t scared to be silly or make inside jokes, she said, and she can be herself.

“(They’re) so intimate that I’m not afraid to be in the mix and be a girl and talk about my feelings,” Hand said.

Assistant Professor of Sociol-ogy Ryanne Pilgeram said there are benefits whenever two

people are allowed to positive-ly connect. She said the bro-mance concept might provide some flexibility in definitions of masculinity, and it may also reflect fears of homosexual connotations.

“People seek out relation-ships with other people,” she said. “I think someone’s sexual-ity has to be pretty clearly het-erosexual in order to pull off something like a bromance.”

Junior Mitch Hornsby said he isn’t totally sure what a bromance is. He thought it was funny when he first heard it as a freshman. The term makes him uncomfortable, he said, because it sometimes

sounds like a denigrating, rigid classification.

A bromance doesn’t seem that different from normal friendships to him. He said guys can just whave conversations, grab some food, hang out at each other’s home, go for a bike ride or toss a football together.

“It’s a really good friendship between two people. That’s how I’d think of it,” he said.

Girls probably see the relationship as “just another stupid thing that guys do,” Hornsby said.

He said the kind of people who form bromances likely only have one or two close friends with whom they often

spend time, and such relation-ships develop naturally.

Hornsby said small group environments like dormitories or housing for graduate stu-dents might foster bromance development.

The Greek community, he said, might hinder it because of numerous and less intimate friendships.

Senior and Beta Theta Pi fraternity member Berkley Olmstead said the college ex-perience itself can be signifi-cant for bromance formation, because students begin the search for identity and make dependent connections with similar people.

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photo illustration by tony marcolina | rawrSophmore Jake Ellis and junior James Cathey share popcorn while watching “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” during Labor Day weekend. Ellis said going to the movies is a good way to spend some quality time with your “bro.”

Brotherly LoveExplainations of the bromance phenomenon

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He said Greek life is one of several possible elements specifically involved.

“Fraternities, for sure, are a big contribution to ‘bromances,’” he said. “Another factor … would be inebriation. When people drink, they tend to get more lovey-dovey. I think if you’re kind of testosterone-driven, too, you get to know your fellow bromancer pretty well.”

Olmstead said people outside of bromances often see them as social taboos, and partici-pants usually brag or make light of the relationships. He doesn’t think any-one takes the idea seriously.

The humor of the bond, he said, is in its abnormal resem-blance to perceived norms of female relationships, like hugging and play flirting.

“I just find the whole concept humorous,” he said. “I don’t think anyone has a heart-to-heart with someone and … actually says they’re in a bro-mance with each other. People (only say) other people are in bromances.”

Kurtis Stark, junior and Beta Theta Pi member, said the term doesn’t mean much, and he thinks people outside bro-mances might be intimidated to befriend people with such close ties.

He said such a connection might also infringe on roman-tic relationships, and it might take more effort to juggle both. Beyond this tension, he doesn’t think girls care much about bromances, he said.

“They probably think they’re just funny, two guys hanging out. I don’t think they really have much of an opinion,” Stark said.

Senior Mary Yovanoff said she spent a lot of time with the wrestling team during high school, and many of them exhibited bromance charac-teristics with each other. She envisions the kind of people in bromances as outgoing, fun and not afraid to be themselves.

“I think that (bromances) generally (make) guys seem more friendly and more ap-proachable, just because they don’t seem standoffish,” she said. “You see them (and you think) … ‘they’re fun people, they’d probably be fun to get along with.’”

Yovanoff said people’s perceptions of bromances might change depending on how well they know the men. Seeing people from a distance, she said, is different from knowing who they are and their situation.

Pilgeram said she isn’t an expert, but thinks the term seems to have grown out of films like the “Harold and Kumar” series, and other pop media. Often in such films, she said, elements of levity and humor allow the relationship

to form, and there’s usually a woman involved to prevent questions of sexuality. Other films involve war, sports and other environments perceived as highly masculine.

“I think it has to be comedy right now,” she said. “There are all kinds of signs and signifiers that let us know not to take things too seriously. If it was a serious docudrama, it would make certain people really uncomfortable.”

Pilgeram said media may reflect and inform our culture and our anxieties, but the norms they set up don’t brain-wash us. The influence, she said, isn’t one-way.

“Relationships are more fluid than the rules the media show us,” she said.

Olmstead said he’d “love to be in a bromance” with Presi-dent Duane Nellis, because he is admired and represents the university well despite the dif-ficulty of his work.

Nellis is like “Moscow’s celeb,” he said.

“I’d throw a disc or two with him,” Olmstead said. “That’s definitely a bromance thing to say.”

If you’re guy, and your guy best friend knows what makes you cry, knows what makes you happy and knows when you take a crap, then you’re definitely in a bromance.”

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Virginia Hutchings, Univer-sity of Idaho English major in the creative writing empha-sis, found the inspiration she needed to pursue creative writ-ing as more than a hobby from a friend. Hutchings and her friend Stuart Davis spent time writing anime stories together.

“His love of words and writ-ing spurred an urge in me to pursue the path of a creative writer and I’m happy with my choice,” Hutchings said. “I feel I still have a long way to go before I’m satisfied with myself as a writer, but I know that I’ll get there one day.”

Hutchings, a fourth-year student from Orange County, Calif. said she was a vocal performance major before switching to English.

If Davis is the reason Hutch-ings became an English major, faculty members in the English department are the reason she is still there, she said.

“I have not met one teacher from this department that I

disliked,” Hutchings said. “And they have a sense of humor that makes me enjoy my classes all the more.”

UI English majors can choose one of four emphases to concentrate their studies on—creative writing, literature, education or professional. The emphasis a student chooses will help dictate which upper division classes they take.

English professor Joy Pas-sanante said faculty and staff take their work seriously and want to make a difference in students’ lives.

“My colleagues spend a lot of time preparing their classes and have a wealth of info for their classes,” Passanante said. “They do research in their fields so they have cutting edge knowledge and ideas, which tries to get people to think. They spend a lot of time with their students, which makes a huge difference. I find that to be the best way to con-nect with the students.”

Passanante, who has been at UI since 1977, said she and her colleagues are offered a lot

of freedom. They don’t have to teach a certain class if they don’t want to and are encour-aged to continue research in their field of expertise and explore new areas.

English professor Ron Mc-Farland said the opportunity and encouragement to expand his horizons is what makes UI and its English department un-like any other.

McFarland has a special interest in 17th century Renais-sance literature, especially poetry, but said he also has a deep appreciation of history.

“I’ve been allowed to expand out of my narrow level of ex-pertise,” McFarland said. “Most universities, you’re pretty much hired to teach a particular course but UI has let me broaden my scope. Getting a new course to teach is exciting to me.”

McFarland, who has been teaching at UI since 1970, said a strong background in English will help students in almost any field after graduation and looks good to future employers as a transferable skill.

UI’s English department

doesn’t come without some challenges or problems for both students and faculty members, however.

“The money is awful,” McFarland said “It is one of the worst paying institutions probably in the country. I think most of us have had four years of salary flattening during which we had no raises and no cost of living adjustments. In my case it is probably the sec-ond or third time it’s happened during the 40 years I have taught. You might feel like you had a great year; maybe you

got a book out and felt good about your classes, and there is no real reward for it.”

Despite budget issues for the English department and UI as a whole, Passanante said she loves coming to work each day. She said members of the department spend a lot of time with students and advisors and teach in every one of their fields, including communica-tion skills that are transfer-rable to any job and analytical skills as well.

Twenty-four hours. It’s not a long time. It’s barely enough time to cram in classes, homework, meals, Facebook, Twit-ter, the latest episode of “Jersey Shore” and sleep. But that is how long University of Idaho theatre students will have to produce six 10-minute plays for the 24 Hour Theatre Festival Saturday night.

The process will begin at 8 p.m. Friday, when student playwrights and directors will receive a topic and theme for their play. In less than one hour they will de-cide how many actors they need for their play. Auditions start as soon as they’ve made their decisions. Playwrights will be home and writing by 10 p.m.

“We are usually writing until 6 a.m., then we just pass out and wake up to watch the play,” Quinn Hatch, a theatre arts graduate student, said.

Last year Hatch wrote through the

night until 4 a.m., read his play, realized he didn’t like it, and wrote a completely different play by the 6 a.m. deadline. Luckily for him, he liked his second one much better, and it was successfully produced by the 8 p.m. show time.

Directors get one hour after they re-ceive the play to plan their production. Not a simple task.

“They get an hour for things that normally take days,” Hatch said.

Then their cast will show up and actors have 12 hours to learn their lines, blocking, intentions, etc. and rehearse before 8 p.m.

Hatch said although the productions are rushed, they were victorious last year. There were five comedies and one drama. The audience appreciated the humor and laughed almost the entire time, Hatch said.

Zac Curtis, a graduate student in the-atre arts and the artistic director for the event, said last year he could feel more

adrenaline than nerves from participants. “I think everyone was just re-

ally excited and pumped up because, you know, whatever quality it is by 8 o’clock that night it’s going up on stage,” Curtis said. “I think at that point, when you know you have to do it one way or another, it’s just exciting and not quite as nerve racking.”

Hatch agreed, and said it was inter-esting how necessity dictates what hap-pens in these plays. He compared the feeling of the festival to that of “Sat-urday Night Live.” Whereas “Saturday Night Live” is produced in a week, these plays are produced in one day.

“It’s rushed, it’s raw, but it’s fun. It kind of has that everything goes feel to it, and I think the audience really feeds off that,” Hatch said.

Last year was the 24 Hour Theatre Festival’s premiere at UI. Curtis said he was expecting a small turnout for the production, but they had about 175 peo-

ple in the audience. This year the festival will be held in the Kiva Theatre, which only holds 130 people, one of the reasons there is a $2 charge this year. Curtis said he is hoping to fill the theatre.

There is one addition to the line-up this year—a musical. The musical will be produced in the same way of all the other plays, including all original songs.

“I’m very excited to see if that can be pulled off. I’ve never seen or heard of anything like that before,” Hatch said.

Curtis said he encourages any commu-nity member or student to participate in the auditions for actors. He said its low pressure and if someone is at all interest-ed in acting this would be a fun way to try it out. They’ll need about 20 actors.

Auditions start at 8 p.m. tonight at the Kiva Theatre, and the plays will be presented at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Kiva Theatre. Admission is $2 at the door, and the production will be a little more than an hour long.

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philip vukelich | rawrEnglish professor Steve Chandler, who specializes in linguistics, stands in front of Brink Hall. Chandler has been teaching in the Eng-lish department for more than 30 years.

Department members boast motivated faculty, inspired students

Love of words a must

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Each year a number of University of Idaho students are accepted into the Resident Firefighter Program offered through the Moscow Vol-unteer Fire Department and receive valuable on-the-job career training.

The Resident Firefighter Program provides housing for full-time UI students accepted into the program at no cost. The program receives fund-ing from the city, grants and fundraisers.

In exchange, residents are required to cover shifts every fifth day, attend both on-the-job training and classes and maintain a 2.0 GPA.

This year, 11 of the 22 resident firefighters in the program are new recruits.

Mitch Chenault, a first-year resident in the program, said the high number of new recruits is due to a larger-than-normal graduating class

in the department. There is no previous training or ex-perience required for accep-tance into the program and Chenault said he has already learned the value of the train-ing provided by the MVFD.

“Pretty much what I have is what I’ve got here in the department in the last three to four weeks,” Chenault said. “We’re really trying to pick up as much as we can as quick as we can.”

Nate Wirtz, a second-year resident, said some of the different training and class options offered through the program, include the fire-fighter one essentials class, driver operator class, fire-fighter two, hazmat and EMT class. Enrollment priority is given to the members of the resident program and other volunteer firefighters.

Wirtz said crews also train during shifts to practice work-ing as a team.

“We generally just prac-tice what we would do on

real calls,” Wirtz said. “We’ll pull hose lines, pump water, practice different fire scenarios and various EMS trainings for different types of scenarios.”

Alan Plass, a second-year resident, said the skills he’s gained during on-the-job training are some of the most important things he’s learned during his time as a resident firefighter.

“Working as a team (and) communicating – it can be challenging to stay calm and work as a group when you’re in a stressful situation, so that’s the biggest thing,” Plass said.

Residents also said there are many benefits to being a mem-ber of this program in addition to having access to training and classes.

New resident firefighter Colten Trotter said this op-portunity has allowed him to not only gain valuable career experience, but also to be able to attend UI.

“What it does is it helps

me out because I know my background with my family,” Trotter said. “We’re kinda low on money, so it provides me with the opportunity to actu-ally live here while I’m going to school.”

Plass said that the unique structure of their living situa-tion can also be a bonus. The firefighters in the Resident Firefighter program live at the three fire stations in Moscow. Plass lives at Station 2 with three other residents.

“Our living situation is a unique opportunity to get really close with a group of guys, especially at our sta-tion,” Plass said. “We only have four people that we live and work with. It’s an interesting dynamic. We’re essentially our own living group like Greek housing or a dorm, but then we also work together and respond to emergencies.”

The residents said balancing a full-time university course load with a full- time position

on a fire crew, like many other students who have full-time jobs, just comes down to stay-ing organized.

“When it comes down to your education, it’s all time management,” Chenault said. “So in the way they have this program set up, it’s easy for someone to manage their time. It’s just that they’ve got to sit down and do it and stick to it.”

While the program is a great way to gain job train-ing, make friends and cover the cost of attendance at UI, all the residents agree that it is important for all applicants to remember that this is a job and it’s hard work.

“Bring your hard hat, ready to work if you get in,” Wirtz said. “This is a job we take very seriously because life and safety are at risk. If this is a program you get into, come ready to work and soak up all the information and training you can because you’re going to need it.”

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photos by melissa flores | rawrUniversity of Idaho student firefighters, who are members in Moscow Fire Department Station 2, prepare for duty Sept. 2.

Resident firefighters train hard with life and safety on the line

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University of Idaho students talk about some of their experiences and pet peeves in the dating realm, specifically first dates.

Running out of gas, awk-ward movies and fuzzy unicorn backpacks. Let’s face it, not every date plays like a scene straight out of the movies. During the years students spend in college, a date is much more likely to be shared between two Cup o’ Noodles and a late-night showing of “The Hangover.” University of Idaho students share their worst dates and dating pet peeves.

Name: Brittani CurleyMajor: AdvertisingYear: Junior

Brittani Curley’s worst date occurred at a drive-in movie. Curley said that despite the romantic atmosphere of a drive-in, there wasn’t much chemistry between the two.

“(My date) just sat there the whole time,” she said. “I was trying to give him hints, like scooting closer to him, but he didn’t even try to make a move, not even the arm across the shoulder until the last five minutes of the movie.”

Curley said she likes guys

who have a positive outlook on life and know how to carry on good conversation, without doling out the details of per-sonal situations too quickly.

“They don’t need to tell me their whole life story on the first date,” Curley said. “I’m not that into you yet…and it’s too much for the first date.”

Curley’s recent move from Pierce College hasn’t put a damper on her sense of ad-venture. She continues to see the dating world as a great op-portunity to meet new people, and even make friends.

Curley said she would be

completely game to go on a blind date.

“To me, that’s fun because you don’t even know the person. I’m one of those people that are up for a new adventure all the time,” she said.

Name: Bryanna SolanoMajor: Secondary education Year: Sophomore

Bryanna Solano may never look at a unicorn the same way again. Solano said that her first and worst date were one

in the same. “I guess those

can kind of tie to-gether,” Solano said.

After catching a movie, Solano’s date had a peculiar surprise.

“My date ran-domly bought me a fuzzy unicorn

backpack,” Solano said. “It was a cute idea, but I never in my life would have picked it.”

That wasn’t the only sur-prise.

My date randomly bought me a fuzzy unicorn backpack.” UI

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SPEAKOUT

Jeff ChambersSenior, music education and composition

“I would want ‘Like a Boss’ by the Lonely Island to play, because I like to think that I’m a boss sometimes.”

Stacy MichalsJunior, broadcasting and digital media

“The song would be ... Bon Jovi’s ‘It’s My Life’ because it’s really

easy to memorize and I really like that song. Bon Jovi was the first

music guy that I liked during my high school years and plus I did a

report on him.”

Melissa AppleSophomore, theatre arts

“I want it to be ‘The Show Goes On’ by Lupe Fiasco because to me that

basically means no matter how many times I get knocked down, I’m going to get back up and … the track, the beats, it’s all catchy

… While other hip hop artists are talking about money, women and

what not, Lupe Fiasco actually talks about is what applies to my life, which is basically adversity or

politics or even society”

Rachel KenneySenior, geology

“‘Pavane’’ (by Gabriel) Fauré ... It’s the most calming song ever. It’s really beautiful and it’s my favor-ite classical piece.”

If a song played every time you walked into a room, what would

it be? rhiannon rinas

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steven devine | rawrSophomore Amber Morales walks through campus mid-morning Tuesday with her pet parrot who wasn’t pleased with being left alone at the house, so she took her parrot to class.

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In the 1930s, the Plantation Tavern building was part of a barracks in a Civil Conserva-tion Corps work camp.

The Corps was instituted by President Roosevelt in 1933 to provide national forestry, soil conservation and other fields of employment dur-ing the Great Depression. The building maintains its connection with the Moscow community as a historical landmark and favorite bar.

“It’s epic, it’s history,” patron Diane Strunk said. “This bar has been here a long time.”

Strunk said she’s been coming to the Plant for 30 years. She said the crowd is often a mixture of college students and older locals, and different types of people – from cowboys to hippies to sorority girls – can all feel at home there.

“The theme is … a ‘down-home’ town bar,” manager Joseph Conti said. “(It’s) just a comfortable place where you don’t have to worry about who’s watching you (or) get-ting creeped on … (You) can come hang out, play pool, relax and get away from the craziness of downtown, but still have a damn good time.”

Conti said his father was a beer salesman, and he used to help his father stock grocery stores and bars. He “knew the business,” he said, and bar-tended at the Plant for three years during his studies at UI.

He said he returned to Idaho after a brief move to Cleveland, Ohio upon gradu-ation, and the Plant owners offered him a management position when they heard he was back. He took the job about one month ago.

“I’ve had a blast at this bar,” Conti said.

When he first worked at the Plant, Conti said, Thurs-days and Fridays were always busy and it was “the smoki-est bar in town.” Attendance dropped significantly when the smoking ban went into effect, he said, but now peo-ple are beginning to return.

He said he’s trying to re-build energy with events like live music on Saturdays and new “Plantation’s Got Talent” karaoke competitions.

Another new element is the “ladder” beer competition, Conti said, inherited from the Sandpiper Grill, in which patrons drink a 64-ounce beer and descend to a 10-ounce for a prize. Tuesday “Wing Nights” have 35-cent wings, he said, and Monday Night

Almost every student has had that moment when they have left an assignment undone due to situations beyond or within their control and have made up that last minute excuse.

Erin Tennesen, University of Idaho history major, said the excuses are lazy.

“It’s usually excuses like ‘I was lazy’, ‘Netflix’, ‘had too much to do’, ‘got too much sleep,’’’ Ten-nesen said. “But the best excuse I’ve actually heard was, ‘I mistak-enly left my homework out and

my brother’s turtle ate it.’”Annette Folwell, an instructor

in the psychology and communi-cation studies department, gave some examples of the types of excuses students give.

“Usually, you get excuses like a deceased family member or ‘I had to take a friend to the emergency room,’ but you cannot really doubt those ones,” Folwell said. “Every once in a while, you get excuses like, ‘I was flying back from somewhere’ or ‘I didn’t know it was due today.’”

Sarah Nelson, instructor in modern languages and cultures, said excuses students give at the

start of the semester do differ from those given during and at the end of the semester.

“The most common excuses given at the beginning of the semester are usually financial aid check not arrived yet, the bookstore ran out of books, Amazon has not delivered their books or their Blackboard pass-word isn’t working,” Nelson said.

Almost any type of excuses can be given during the course of the semester, genuine or non-genuine, Nelson said.

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steven devine | rawrStephanie Ficca pours a beer from the tap for a Moscow resident Monday afternoon at the Plantation Tavern.

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Down-home friends and fun

Football showings will include beer specials and pizza from the Pie Hole.

“Steak Night” falls on the first and third Wednesdays of each month with 10-ounce top sirloin steaks smoked in-house, he said. There’s also a covered patio for all-season outdoor use,

he said, and a horseshoe pit for the summer.

“They did mention that one day they want to get a me-chanical bull,” bartender Alanna Strunk said. “I think that would be really cool.”

Alanna Strunk said that she began working at the Plant in

June. She hadn’t often gone there before applying for the job, she said, but it’s been a good experience.

Strunk said customers have been supportive and helped her learn the ropes of bartending.

Missed assignments equals bad excuses

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“Smooth Criminal” — Michael Jackson

And the ’80s just keep bringing it. No comment on Michael Jackson’s personal life, but he could dance and create mu-sic that gets stuck in your head. Again, check out the music video.

“Ice Ice Baby” — Vanilla Ice Ignore any images of “Dentyne Ice”

that may come to mind. It’s cheesy. It’s old school. Just love it.

“U Can’t Touch This” — M.C. Hammer Perfect for right before a big exam,

job interview, performance or just about anything. Having a good hair day? “Can’t touch this.” Loving the way that new pair of jeans is looking? “Can’t touch this.”

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She had concerns about working with-out a bouncer, she said, but the customers help keep the crowd under control. The one thing she wants people to expect at the bar is “hospitality.”

“It doesn’t matter who you are. You’re friends with everybody in the bar if you’re

here,” she said. “It’s a nice homey feel-ing … Your bartender here is really your friend, (and you get) a lot of time to spend together, and talk and know each other.”

The Plant has some of the “liveliest” bartenders in town, Conti said, and it makes a difference for everyone when they have fun behind the bar.

“It’s the ‘Destination Plantation,’” Conti said. “We try to make it a destination … Come try it out. Don’t worry about the locals – they don’t bite.”

“Usually it’s because they have a lot of homework or they take a lot of credits,” Nelson said. “They don’t tell me but it’s also probably the case – they went out and drank last night.”

The most common excuses at the end of the semester are the “computer-crashed” excuses.

Not all Professors believe students when they give excuses even though the excuse might be genuine.

Rebeca Rond, UI sophomore, said most professors don’t believe excuses.

“They assume you are lying because you are a student, except you can actually cry,” Rond said.

Maggie McRae, UI graduate student, said professors are just too serious.

“Just try to make them laugh because sometimes, they have been sitting down grumpy all day,” McRae said.

“This is the best depart-ment I could have ever imag-ined,” Passanante said. “I have met many English depart-ments around the country They are productive, collabor-ative, encouraging, supportive

and celebratory when people do good things.”

Passanante said it’s going to be hard for most students as English majors at first. She said they need to learn to think for themselves and that not every freshman is pre-pared for that yet.

Passanante said if a stu-dent enjoys the work he or

she must do now, they’ll find themselves loving it more as they grow older. She pointed to herself as an example.

“I love teaching English because I love English and I love the students,” Passanante said. “I love everything about English.”

McFarland said students deciding to study English

have their work cut out for them and although it’s hard work the end results can be very rewarding.

Students need to be prepared to do a lot of writ-ing and reading, no mat-ter what their emphasis is, McFarland said. Doing the required reading and finding ways of balancing course

loads with other responsi-bilities will get a student a long way.

Hutchings has a piece of advice of her own for new students in the English de-partment.

“Write, write, write, write and write,” she said. “That’s one piece of advice but em-phasized for importance.”

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Lauren Layton, UI soccer team mem-ber and international studies major, exercises almost daily. Layton said an average soccer game requires about seven miles of running.

Layton’s routineCardio and weights: Layton has

Mondays off, while Tuesdays and Wednesdays are comprised of soccer practice with sprints, and mostly ab and leg work. Thursdays are lighter, Friday and Sunday are competitive games, and Saturdays are lighter practices. “If you’re not fit you can’t compete,” Layton said.

Layton said seeing other girls on the team and going through workouts together is inspiring.

“Soccer is not an individual sport it’s for the benefit of others,” she said.

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“He then proceeds to tell me we have no money to get gas because he spent it all on the backpack, so his mom had to come pick us up and take us home,” Solano said.

Despite the not-so-successful first date, Solano has found a set of quali-ties that are important when consid-ering a date.

“Honesty, a sense of humor and (the) ability to see the silver lining in difficult situations,” are fundamen-tal to a fun, and unforgettable date, Solano said.

Some dates are so memorable and incredibly picture-perfect they’re ingrained in memories. A high school prom can contain many such mean-ingful memories.

“My best date ever was my senior year in high school,” Solano said. After inviting a friend to join in with Solano’s group of friends at the dance, things took an unexpectedly romantic turn.

“All through the night he danced with me,” Solano said.

Much like a classic romantic movie, Solano and her dancing-partner-turned-date were unwillingly separated by friends at the last song of the night.

But later, “he asked me to be his girlfriend and gave me a movie kiss!” Solano said. “Picture the perfect ‘Prin-cess Diaries’-style foot pop. It was amazing.”Name: George HodgesYear: UI Alum

George Hodges had a great car in high school, but despite the gleam on his gold 1967 Chevy Impala, he didn’t have the best of luck on two unfor-gettable dates.

“My date and I were coming home from a movie, and it had been raining outside for a while,” Hodges said. “We pulled onto an old dirt road about two miles from town, only to get stuck in the mud.”

After trying to reverse his car out of the thick mud, Hodges finally

decided to give up and find out if there were better driving conditions ahead.

“We ended up driving further down the road, at least half a mile, and were soon totally stuck,” Hodges said. “(My date and I) finally had to get out of the car, in the rain, and walk all the way to her parents’ house.”

In another battle between his Im-pala and nature, Hodges encountered snow, and lots of it.

“This time, my date and I were going out for a picnic,” Hodges said. “We got stuck in a snowdrift.”

To get the car out of its snowy entrapment, Hodges used an old car jack to shift the Impala inch by inch back to level ground.

“They were both very memorable dates, that’s for sure,” Hodges said.

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Where to take your date in Moscow

1. Get a front row seat for the sunset

The circular windows outside Ein-stein’s is a perfect place for sharing a latte and watching the clouds drift.

2. Team upHead to the Student Rec. Center

and shoot some hoops, (or play soccer, or toss a Frisbee or take a yoga class). With that many op-tions, you and your date will never get bored. Plus, it’s free.

3. Bring out your inner rock starIf music is more your thing, try

out some guitars at Keeney Bros. With a wide collection of acoustics, electric basses, and even a ukulele or two, you can serenade your date without spending a dime.

4. Get spicyTake a walk downtown to La

Casa Lopez, for some incredible eats. Share a bowl of warm chips and laugh while your date starts sweating from the jalapenos.

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