Get ready for some basketball
Dear Students,
Basketball season is here. The first game of the season was last Friday, a win against Evergreen State, and the next is at 7 p.m. this Saturday against Willamette University in Memorial Gym.
The team needs your support early and often this season. A rowdy student section is important in creating a home-court advantage and making Moscow a difficult road trip for all opponents. Student support motivates the players, increases their confidence and energy, and helps them to perform to the best of their ability.
The team and I appreciate your support and we look forward to seeing you at all of our upcoming home games.
Go Vandals.
Sincerely,
Don Verlin
Idaho Men’s Basketball Coach
Truth about Gaddafi
After reading the article “Gaddafi’s last words” by Bethany Lowe, I have to say I agree that wearing a Gaddafi mask for Halloween is tasteless, but her portrayal of Moammar Gaddafi is revisionist history of the first order. Gaddafi has done more than a few evil deeds, yet only the good that happened during his regime are mentioned in the article.
First he tried to wipe out the Berber culture in Libya, attempting cultural genocide on the Berber people. Just a taste of his benevolence to the Berbers included making their language forbidden in Libyan schools and government institutions, forbidding Berber parents to give their children Berber names, and forcibly removing Berbers from their ancestral villages.
Gaddafi was responsible for the disappearance of Musa Sadr, who was considered a Martin Luther King, Jr. figure. From the late 1960s to the late 1970s Sadr was largely responsible for helping organize the Lebanese Shia, a large segment of the population that had almost no power whatsoever. He was last seen in Tripoli on a visit to Gaddafi, but Gaddafi said he never showed up and never bothered to look for him.
In regards to the Lockerbie bombing, many historians believe Libya did indeed help fund the operation with Iran in revenge against the U.S. for shooting down Iran Air Flight 655 earlier that year. It was likely carried out by agents of Abu Nidal, who were caught with bombs that had the same type of explosive placed in the same type of radio earlier in the year.
Forty years of repression in Libya, sponsoring terrorism, killing a transformative Muslim leader and cultural genocide … but at least Libyans got free electricity, right?
Mac Wilson
History Major