University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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Stray Cat Neosia Morris took an opportunity to rub the Weber State Wiidcat's fur the wrong way following a reception. The Vandals won 31-17 in front of the smallest sized crowd of the season. (Hayes) Paper Chase The BSU Broncos found no friendly faces in the UI crowd. instead, they found only @ sea of newspapers in the stands for the teams’ second meeting. (Morgan) ride and Prejudice Vandals hold grudges against neighbors and rivals Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler were less than the best of friends. The Dodgers hated the Gi- ants and the Los Angeles Raiders earned everybody’s antagonism. University students were no ex ception to the tradition of athletic aggression, Students held grudges against Boise State University, Eastern Washington University and Washington State University, just to name a few. Organized athletics may have brought out character, but they also brought out rivalries in the heat of competition. Kindly ath- letes who would help the han- dicapped and take in stray puppies underwent a metamorphosis on game day. The field became a demilitarized zone and players be- came fierce competitors, Fans found the hot lights of the Kibbie Dome conducive to show- ing their feelings against neighbor- ing universities. Everything from scholastic prowess and accredita- tion to marching bands became caught up in the university’s rival- ries with other Big Sky Conference foes. Moscow students vented their passions most vehemently against their southern neighbors at BSU. Be it football, basketball or chess club, Vandals wanted to rub Bron- co snouts in defeat. They had just that chance at Bronco Stadium in November when the two Idaho football powers met for their an- nual showdown. According to the university tick- et office workers, the number of Vandals purchasing tickets for the game jumped from a normal 300 to more than 4,000. Players said they were excited about the game. This is my favorite game of the season,’’ said Troy Ballard, defen- sive tackle. ‘] would like to play BSU 10 times a year.” The Vandal Marching Band got into the act as well. The band took more marchers that ever to the Boise Holiday Parade and Bronco-Vandal match-up. For the fifth year in a row, they watched the Vandals beat their Boise rivals. To the north of Moscow, another Inland Empire athletic power stirred. EWU flexed its muscles against the Vandals in 1985, beating both the men’s foot- ball and basketball teams in three out of four contests. But the Van- dals reversed the trend in 1986. A mid-season football game brought Vandal pride to the Spokane-based crowd. The Van- dals won the contest, beating the Eagles in their own nest, 27-10. The Evergreen State also provided Idaho with an opponent in the form of the WSU Cougars. Athletics gave the university a chance to compete with a Pac-10 rival. In basketball, the Vandals lost three out of four games. Yet the lone Vandal victory was a 59-56 win at the inaugural Inland Empire Classic tournament in Spokane. With the entry of EWU into the BSC as of July 1, 1987, Vandal rivalries with the Eagles height- ened. Before EWU could sink its talons into the Vandal players, though, the Vandals had to fend off other conference rivals, all vy- ing for athletic dominance. Rivalries 19

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The Far Side Eyeing the BSU-UI game's progress from the sidelines, Head Football Coach Keith Gil- bertson had a crowd of Vandais behind him, or at least to the side of him, in the end zone. (Frates) ruliaie PATA NOTE Rohe en Rae erty Ban Since 1982, the football rivalry with Boise State University has fa- vored the Vandals. Five games later, Moscow students graduated having never seen Idaho lose to its southern brethren Looking for a fifth win in a row, Moscow students hit Bronco Stadium for the Nov. 22 match-up. Along with the crowd came the largest-ever manifestation of the Vandal Marching Band — 220 marchers. Director Dan Buckvich said he wanted to ‘‘show the peo- ple of Boise that Idaho was num- ber one in the state and maybe impress them just a little bit.’’ Months before the Boise game, BSU officials decided they should have a comparable marching band of their own. ‘They announced that their band would soon surpass UI’s in size as well,’’ Buckvich said. To show the Broncos a little about ‘‘ Vandal Pride,’’ Buckvich said he decided to increase the size of his band. Non-band students called ‘‘plugs’’ marched in the Boise Holiday Parade posed as Vandal players. Most of these ‘‘plugs’’ became part of the tuba section, ‘‘making a disorderly group even that much more rambunctious,’’ Buckvich said. All the marchers were reward- ed with free seats to the sold-out game. 18 Rivalries

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20 paying id Pool Dries Up Students forced to come with liquid assets for college A Wall Street broker wouldn't plop down $20,000 on a risky ven- ture with unsure returns. But despite the high cost and fluctuat- ing returns of higher education, college students were asked to do just that. And their investments came in an era of rising fees and reduced financial aid monies. In a series of moves, the Reagan administration, under the direc- tion of Education Secretary Wil- liam Bennett, drastically cut the amount of federal aid available to students. Grants and direct stu- dent loans were hardest hit. Re- quirements for the remaining loan funds also became more strict. The repercussions of these ac- tions were felt across the nation and in the farming area of the Palouse. Dan Davenport, univer- sity financial aid director, said stu- dents had to come up with larger fractions of the cost of their own education. “The federal government has made the requirement for financial independence based mostly on age and marital status, so it will be much harder for students to separate themselves from their fa- mily’s income,”’ he said. ‘ Parents are going to have to foot more of the bill for their children, and the government is going to figure this increased contribution into the cal- culations for the amount of aid deserved by students.’’ Aid Epidemic Registration was often a harrowing ex- perience for students, with long lines and last-minute changes awaiting them in the Kibbie Dome. One ever-popular desk belonged to the financial aid office, to which an increasing number of stu- dents had to turn to pay for their educa- tion. (Hayes) When the pool of grants dried up, a trend that began in the late ’70s, students were forced to sink or swim with the help of student loans. In 1975, grants composed 80 percent of the student financial base; a decade later, they only constituted 47 percent, with loans taking up the slack as 50 percent of students’ college resources. According to a Carnegie toun- dation report, the increase in stu- dent debt has shaped student choices as to majors. “Undergraduates are preparing themselves for careers in the lucra- tive fields rather than those fields that interest them the most,’’ the report said. ‘‘These findings sug- gest that students who borrow heavily are concentrated in fields that promise good job opportuni- ties after graduation.”’ The report found that students who were forced to rely more on loans wanted to go into fields that would give them the best ability to pay their bills off and to make their investments worthwhile. After the federal government reduced its commitment to finan- cial aid, states were left to handle the problem themselves, Daven- port said. “‘The trend with the feds has been to put more of the responsi- bility for grants and direct student loans on the state governments. The states themselves have enough of their own financial problems, though, and it’s going to be more difficult to keep people in school without aid funds,’’ he said. For the 1987 school year, Ida- ho was the third smallest state in terms of financial aid given to stu- dents. Unlike many states, Idaho was still disbursing non-need- based forms of assistance, Daven- port said. Students said they were appre- hensive about their college futures due to the cutbacks. “I’m going to have to rely more on Mom and Dad to keep me in school without a change in the financial aid requirements from the way they’re going now,”’ said Dave Grote. The traditional plan of working over the summer to pay for college also became less plausible. ‘‘My summer earnings used to get me through the whole year, but now I’m lucky to make it through the first semester,’’ Grote said. ‘When money runs out, | can take a personal loan out from the bank,’’ Todd Buschorn said. Anymore, it’s easier to do that than to try and qualify for a stu- dent loan, much less a grant.”’ In the registration line, students found the financial aid table a stumbling block of sorts. But for many, it was their only chance at a return on their investment, short of insider trading.