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Aquarius 1/20 - 2/18

It’s 1965 and time to drive — at least for John Lennon. be sure to stay off the road, we don’t remem-ber what his driving was like.

Pisces 2/19 - 3/20

Planning a trip to Boston? Pack a fire extinguisher because today you woke up in 1760 and the place is about to get hot.

Aries 3/21 - 4/19

Thank goodness it is 1891 because you have had some terrible breath for quite some time … sorry pal. Luckily, The Wrigley Company opened in Illinois — you’re friends will come back.

Taurus 4/20 - 5/20

Grab a box of tissues, the TV re-mote and some chocolate because tonight it’s 1992 and you’re about to cry your eyes out to the series finale of “Golden Girls.” Sad day.

HOROSCOPES

Libra 9/23 - 10/22

Saddle up for 1955, cowboy. Grab your toy guns, cowboy boots and hat because it’s time to tune into “Gunsmoke.” Pew pew, pew pew.

Scorpio 10/23 - 11/21

It’s time for a royal wedding. No, not William and Kate, we’re talking much further back. Heck, we’re not even talking about the same country. That’s right, in 1160 you will attend the wedding of Louis VII of France and Adele of Champagne. Remember to pow-der your hair.

Sagittarius 11/22 - 12/21

GOOOOAAAAALLLLLL. Oh yeah, you just scored the game-winning goal for the USA in the 1981 70th Davis Cup against Argentina. Hope someone took a picture, no one will ever believe you.

Capricorn 12/22 - 1/19

Dude, shut up, it’s 1496. You should probably watch your head when you visit Italy — word on the street is Leonardo da Vinci tried to make something fly. It fell instead.

Gemini 5/21 - 6/20

You seriously took a wrong turn in Albuquerque son, how did you end up in 632? Chisel it in your stone tablet because you only witness the origin of the Persian Era once, apparently.

Cancer 6/21 -7/22

It is not your lucky day, or your significant others’, because child-hood “cooties” really do exist when you wake up in 1439 England, and kissing is banned to stop spreading germs. Washing hands just didn’t cut it back then.

Leo 7/23 - 8/22

Hold on tight because in 1898 your life is a roller coaster. Your best friend Edwin Prescott likes to watch you going up and down. Remind him to add a seatbelt to his coaster carts.

Virgo 8/23 - 9/22

In 1504, you have to leave your prude-pants at home and throw on your toga because you’re about to witness one of Flor-ence’s most amazing unveilings — Michaelangelo’s David. You’re a lucky little bugger, you better not close your eyes.

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PG-13 Daily (4:15) 7:00 9:50 Sat-Sun (10:45) (1:30)“Tatkinmah” — this was the name Na-

tive Americans gave Moscow when they came to harvest camas root each year. They came from areas that ranged from Nez Perce, Idaho, to Potlatch.

In the 1870s, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe presided over the Native American community in what is now Nez Perce. The first white men to visit “Tatkinmah” were David Thompson and Alexander Ross in the early 1800s. They wrote about the Native Americans here but did not stay.

Daniel Crandall, director of the Latah County Historical Society, said the first settlers of Moscow came from Walla Walla in 1871 to farm.

“Not only were the soils in the (area)

fertile, they could grow wheat all year round,” Crandall said.

Availability of fertile land brought the first settlers of the Tatkinmah area in 1871.

In 1873, a post o!ce was established called Paradise Valley and the name “Tatkinmah” changed to Paradise Valley. In 1875, Almon Asbury Lieuallen moved to Moscow and opened the first general store in a log cabin. Almon, Asbury and Lieuallen streets are named after him. There is also an Almon Asbury Lieuallen park and a house named after him that was originally constructed in 1884.

Mayor Nancy Chaney said the post-master in 1876 was attached to the name ‘Moscow.’

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The photo on the cover shows the destruction of the burned Administration Building. The university’s most revered landmark burned on the morning of March 30,1906. Jay Glover Eldridge was the dean of faculty at the time. During the blaze, students and faculty attempted to save important documents and relics. Eldridge climbed a ladder into his o!ce and threw desk drawers filled with records to students and staff below, to save them from burning.

For some time after the blaze, it was debated whether the Admin could be rebuilt using the origi-nal structure, but this was decided against and the building was dynamited.

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With Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber taking over the radio waves it’s nice to be reminded that once music was about more than teen pop stars, flashy costumes and sugges-tive lyrics.

OK, maybe the suggestive lyrics have always been there.These 10 songs are classics. Some of these songs and their respective artists aren’t old

enough to be called vintage, but should be in everybody’s iTunes library.

“Walk the Line” — Johnny Cash (1956)A little rough around the edges and all musical genius — Johnny Cash was one of country

music’s original bad boys. “Walk the Line” was one of Cash’s earliest and perhaps best songs. It was not the original intent of the song, but it is a perfect tribute from Cash to his wife of more than 35 years, June Carter Cash.

“Great Balls of Fire” — Jerry Lee Lewis (1957)Tom Cruise may have brought this song back into people’s minds when it was featured

in the 1986 movie “Top Gun” but fans were rockin’ to this piece about 30 years before. Lewis, like most other great musicians, was not without scandal. That didn’t stop this masterpiece from reaching number three on the R&B charts and number two on the country charts when it was released.

“Are You Lonesome Tonight?”— Elvis Presley (1960)Michael Jackson may be the “king of pop,” but Elvis will always been the “king of rock ’n’

roll.“ Songs like this love ballad helped him earn the title. If Elvis’ smooth voice doesn’t help a person fall in love, the sweet, sappy lyrics will do the job.

“Hey Jude” — The Beatles (1968)Hum the melody or sing the lyrics to this — one of the greatest songs recorded anywhere

in the world — and it’s no doubt listeners will find those around them joining in. “Hey Jude” was written by Paul McCartney for John Lennon’s young son Julian.

“Wish You Were Here” — Pink Floyd (1975)The whimsical feeling and soft vocals enhance the power of this song. A tribute to a fallen

band member and close friend, “Wish You Were Here” is probably Pink Floyd’s best-known song and a reminder to anybody who’s lost somebody that it’s okay to be sad. Things will and do get better. It’s just a matter of time.

“Beast of Burden” — The Rolling Stones (1978)The Stones are often compared to The Beatles as one of the greatest bands of the 20th

century, and “Beast of Burden” is proof. This song is flat out sexy and when the lyrics rolled smooth off Mick Jagger’s luscious lips, it is certain every teenage girl in the Western Hemi-sphere played this song on repeat for days.

“Billie Jean” — Michael Jackson (1982)This album featured Jackson at his best. His killer dance moves and likeable personality

would have helped him conquer the world with a mob of screaming fans at his back. As Jack-son got older and suffered from a variety of serious ailments, he spent more time protecting his reputation and less making music. What people didn’t realize is that Jackson was about to have his own second coming.

“Sunday Bloody Sunday” — U2 (1983)This song is a reaction to a horrible tragedy that occurred in Ireland — where each of the

band members are from — and it is a political statement about war. Listeners can almost feel the emotion coming out of Bono as he sings the lyrics.

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Like a furious mime, humanity always strains against its limitations. People exercise and stay ac-tive to improve their physiques. They take classes, read books and watch programs to increase intellect. They travel abroad to cultivate global understanding. Some-times, they settle for Sudoku.

People have broken through barriers of technology, culture and gravity in the quest for greatness. Read on for inspiration if that invisible box is caving in around you.

Film company RKO-Pathe produced a short in 1955 en-titled “The Future is Now.” The film showed research laborato-ries and scientists developing the era’s technological ad-vances. There were automated manufacturing facilities run by “giant computers” with “infallible memories,” guided Falcon missiles and solar pow-ered silicon batteries. In “the kitchen of the future,” electric buttons opened pesky refriger-ator doors and motion sensors lowered cupboards within easy reach. Such scientific marvels would enable the woman of tomorrow to do her duty and avoid unseemly perspiration.

One of the best inventions was the videophone. Someone would pick up the receiver

and see the caller’s image projected on a TV screen. Then Johnny could see whether Jane was really washing her hair when she rejected his request for a prom date.

Science brings people together.

“Progress and Harmony for Mankind” was the motto for the 1970 World’s Fair in Osaka, Japan. It was the first global exposition in Asia, and brought more than 60,000,000 site-seers to its 120 plus attractions.

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Editor’s note: Anthony Saia is the station manager of KUOI. When he became manager, he looked into the history of the station and discovered some interesting facts.

KUOI’s story began with a little hope and a pipe dream.

The station was formed in an attic in Northern Idaho. A group of Univer-sity of Idaho engi-neering students thought it would be interesting to string electrical wire through the steam tunnels, in an effort to bring two hours of daily music and Shakespearean drama to the student residence halls.

It was in 1945, as students returned to campus dur-ing wartime, that static first appeared on radio waves at UI. Among the students who helped establish KUOI was Ted Cady, the son of the Dean of Engineering, Orval Hansen, who went on to Washington, D.C., as a congressman and owned five radio stations and Sam Butterfield, who became the head of the United States Agency for International Devel-opment in Asia.

With borrowed equipment from the NROTC, the original “Voice of the Van-dals” throbbed through the airwaves at two watts.

Starting out, KUOI had its struggles. During the 1940s class was not optional. It was di!cult to find a listenership when students were likely to be in class. It was also dif-ficult to find students willing to volunteer their time, and there was a curfew of 6:30 p.m., followed by quiet time at 7:30 p.m. This meant KUOI’s broadcast time was between 4 and 6 p.m. five days a week. Weekend programming had not yet arrived.

Tuning into KUOI during the early years would have the lis-

tener caught up in an intense radio drama or listening to Nat King Cole’s “Unforgettable.”

As KUOI grew larger in the 1950s, deals were made with national organizations. A deal was made with Lucky Strike cigarettes and KUOI received

an Associated Press teletype machine. In exchange, DJs encouraged callers to identify songs they played on air to win free cartons of cigarettes.

KUOI joined the Intercolle-giate Broadcasting Company in 1946, and this furthered

administrative and technical collaboration among college radio stations. With this expan-sion, KUOI started to broadcast from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and by 1955 was operating on a small annual budget.

The ‘50s were a time of expansion for KUOI as the sta-tion moved from the former Engineering Annex to the new built Student Union Build-ing. KUOI became the o!cial “Voice of the Vandals” at this time and began to call football games — a tradition that still exists today.

Despite advancements, the 1950s were not all great for KUOI. The station suffered from restrictive funding policies. This did not hold KUOI back, and the sta-tion continued to progress.

In the 1960s, student activism at universities such as University

of California, Berkeley and Kent State were felt on campus, and this included music format. The 33 1/3 long playing record was used instead of the 78’s DJs spun before. The ‘60s and ‘70s are known as milestones of mu-sical development and KUOI’s vinyl library has a variety of selections from these eras.

KUOI’s record collection boasts more than 88,000 records. From original press-

The evolution of KUOI

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KUOI has had quite the evolution since its start in 1945. Broadcasts began with a small group of en-gineering students in a tiny attic. Today students have an array of equipment to broadcast student-hosted shows, and a residence on the third floor of the Student Union Building.

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ings of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Green River to Pink Floyd’s The Wall, KUOI has seen, heard and played a lot of great music that came forth during those eras. During that time, the station remained true to its free format status.

Later in the ‘70s KUOI was granted more autonomy and funding after leaving ASUI to join the Communications Board. During this time the station went through its first transfor-mation in the SUB as students like John Rankin and John Hecht floated around it’s halls.

Terry Date is a metal pro-ducer who has worked with bands such as the Deftones, Slipknot and Soundgarden. Date, started at KUOI in 1974.

“I would go around to bars and record performances to bring back and broadcast on the radio,” Date said.

Date said he DJed a show on KUOI once but it couldn’t have been that great.

“My show was on Sunday nights and all I played was jazz. I’m pretty sure no one re-ally listened to me,” he said.

KUOI first broadcast on

stereo in January 1978 under the guidance of Chris Foster. By 1980, KUOI had become a state of the art facility and cultivated more musical styles and shows under its free format mantra.

Bands such as ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Talking Heads and others were on the rise and around this same time, the Board of Regents held the license of KUOI since they were responsible for what went through the airwaves. They still allowed the station to be student run until 1988.

I would go around to bars and record performances to bring back and broadcast on the radio.”

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Gem of the Mountains | 1972Students enjoyed live music on campus at the Blue Mountain Rock Festival in 1972. Gem of the Mountains featured a commentary about the event. “Yeah, a whole lotta people got together and had themselves a good time with all sorts of musak all the way from rock down to down home pickin’ and fiddlin’. And it rained...but that didn’t bum anybody out, they just went inside...and the sun came out...but nobody digs bad omens anymore, and besides, the vibes were just too good, so everybody went outside again...and it rained again, but with all that wine and whatnotstu! you are just too warm inside, and so whatthehell, it can rain and shine and do whatever it wants to do because that’s fine...and all the people can get together, and if they’re willing, they can be warm wherever...and that’s fine.

1972Blue Mountain Rock FesivalDJ James Donley has had a show

since 1982 but didn’t recall the tumul-tuous times. He said he was able to make it through this time with a spe-cial brand of show that explored music through genres. Donley is KUOI’s most senior DJ and has been on air for almost 30 years.

The Regents took the station from the students in 1988 and had new management broadcast 200 to 300-year-old music. According to the book “A brief history of KUOI,” by Lee Robartes, the Regents faced backlash from the Federal Communications Commission regarding KUOI’s con-tent, so they said it was their decision who would fill the student manager position. The decision did not sit well with students and would not remain that way despite the ups and downs of station managers to come.

With the explosion of Grunge in the early ‘90s and Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Jesus Lizard under the needles of KUOI’s turntables, progression through technology has caused contention at the station for a number of years.

The ‘90s welcomed the rise of Indie music. Students stood dejected as Brit-ney Spears and N’Sync consumed com-mercial radio. KUOI DJs tried to stay away from commercial radio program-ming to adjust to the compact disc and mp3 world of today.

As Death Cab For Cutie was cued up in the early part of the new millen-nium, more experimental music came forth on KUOI’s airwaves.

Confinement Loaf, Saturday night’s psychedelic rock journey with Andria Marcussen and Ted Kelchner, has culti-vated a new listenership for KUOI.

“We play a lot of psychedelic rock while playing some heavy metal and Frank Zappa,” Marcussen said.

Shows like Confinement Loaf and The Beef Vortex show a more aggres-sive side to KUOI. Shows such as Good ‘Ole Boy Country have a different take on music and KUOI’s free-format.

Ultimately, it is these shows that make KUOI so unique. The station has suffered through small budgets and incompetent station managers but it has still left a mark on students and participants.

“KUOI is the only thing I’ll miss about Moscow,” said Sue Miller, a DJ in the 1970s.

KUOI broadcasts 400 stereo watts and can be listened to

worldwide via KUOI.org

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Dean of Students Bruce Pitman said the changes the University of Idaho has undergone since it was founded are remarkable.

The physical changes to the university are apparent. Many buildings on campus have come and gone, and boundaries have expanded in size from accommoda-tions for less than 50 students to more than 12,000. The original Administration Building burned to the ground in 1906 during a fire. The campus has physically expanded to multiple times its original size, Pitman said.

What may not be obvious is how rules and the code of conduct have changed during time and the effects of these changes on students.

Pitman said the late ‘60s and early ‘70s brought changes to campus rules and regulations.

“When I got here in ‘73 it was pretty wide open — meaning that the drinking age had changed,” Pitman said. “There weren’t any real visitation rules. Basi-cally, most of the rules, most conduct issues, had been thrown out. Except the common sense ones about safety.”

Most changes that have happened regarding rules and in turn student life at UI have had smooth transitions, Pit-man said.

Other transitions, like the change in the legal drinking age from 19 to 21 and the introduction of new, stricter smoking laws have had rocky starts, Pitman said.

Alumnus Jim Mottern said society had a different attitude toward alcohol and smoking when he worked on his

business degree from 1961-70. Mottern was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

“When I was in school, probably 30 percent of the house smoked,” Mottern said. “When you sat down at a formal dinner there were ashtrays on the table. You would smoke after dinner, during dessert or as coffee was being served.”

Smoking was socially acceptable at the time because the health hazards of nicotine weren’t known. Mottern said most people smoked but women did so as a personal or social statement.

Rules regarding alcohol consump-tion have probably changed the most throughout time, he said. He recounted a prohibition era story regarding mem-bers of his house and the “notorious” Dean of Women Permeal French.

“During prohibition, the SAE’s had the dean over for a formal dinner. Every house had a formal dinner on Sundays — suit and tie included,” Mottern said. “Suddenly, they hear a big bang, and pretty soon the smell of mash comes up. The guys had a still in the basement and were brewing their own liquor. It just so happened that the dean smelled it and put them on probation for awhile.”

Pitman said French took her job as Dean of Women seriously and because she did so, the women’s dress code and curfew were strictly enforced.

“Her role was to protect the virgin-ity of the women,” Mottern said. “She had rules (such as) women could only wear dresses on campus. If a woman

sat on a man’s lap, there had to be a pillow between them.”

The strict rules that were enforced from the turn of the 20th century on changed when veterans returned at the end of World War II. Pitman said students had a lot to do with changes in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

“It was in the context of the Vietnam War and all the other peace activism,” Pitman said. “There was a women’s movement doing important things, and there were certainly other social activism and groups that were active on campus … and there were issues of gender equality related to af-firmative action. It was a time of great social change.”

Professor emeritus Terry Armstrong came to UI as a graduate student in 1961 and was a doctorate student in 1967. He was hired by the university in 1969 and retired in 1995 but remains active on campus. Armstrong said he has seen firsthand many changes the university has undergone since the ‘60s.

Armstrong said teachers’ and par-ents’ expectations of students’ grades are one change that has occurred since he was a student. He said most people don’t realize this has happened.

“Grading standards really are relaxed now,” Armstrong said. “In the olden days a ‘C’ was what you got for doing really good work. To get an ‘A’ you had to rival your professor in terms of competence.”

Armstrong said a ‘C’ was perfectly acceptable for a student to get, a ‘B’

was rare and receiving an ‘A’ was prac-tically unheard of.

As grading standards have become more lax, the dress code and curfew have gone from being strict and en-forced to nonexistent.

Rules change,traditions don’t

Gem of the Mountains | 1955Fred Williams, the editor of The Argonaut in 1954-55, showcases the Poor Cougars issue, which cel-ebrated a big win for the Vandal football team. Williams and other men were allowed to smoke indoors until this social act was abolished.

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Philip “Flip” Kleffner said the relationships he formed during his four years at the University of Idaho have lasted a lifetime.

“My wife Jo and I were both students here and we were mar-ried and we still are,” Kleffner said.

Kleffner attended UI from 1951 to 1955. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and was on the university football and baseball teams. Kleffner said when he returned to UI in 1980 to serve as the direc-tor of alumni rela-tions, 55 buildings had been constructed on campus in the time since he graduated.

Approximately 2800 students were enrolled at UI during his freshman year, Kleffner said. He said the isolation of living in Moscow brought students together and they became a family. At that time, The Perch was a café where students met to drink coffee and play bridge.

“We would start a bridge game and someone would have to go to class, but another person would be coming back from class and take their place and the game would continue all morning,” he said.

Kleffner said meals on Sunday and Wednesday were formal and he wore a coat and tie to the din-ner table. During the university designated lunch hour of noon to 1 p.m., he ate lunch at the Beta house with other fraternity members and used proper social etiquette at every meal. Kleffner said each fraternity had a house-mother who instructed them in

social graces and table manners.“She was one way you did

learn about manners and made sure you opened the door for women and knew how to pass stuff without spilling on every-body,” he said.

Brent Aizawa enrolled at UI in 1968, and said it was a time when many people went to college to avoid being drafted into the Viet-

nam War.Aizawa said his birth

date was drawn in the first lottery system of the draft, but his num-ber was 221 and the cutoff number was 125.

“They basically drew your name out of a fishbowl, and one semester you were in school and then you weren’t,” he said.

Aizawa studied recreational man-agement and was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He

worked as a breakfast boy — also known as a hasher — at the Pi Beta Phi sorority, and said everyone would gather around the radio in the evenings to listen to the new numbers that were called for the draft.

“We were at the Pi Phi house and we had all just sat down for dinner in the kitchen, and the girls wanted to listen because of all their boyfriends,” he said. “Two of the hashers I worked with (had their) names … called and they were in the top 50.”

Aizawa said one of his most memorable times during college was during freshman year right after Christmas break. The tem-perature dropped to 15 degrees below zero, and UI did not cancel school. Aizawa said students ran from building to building, stop-ping long enough to thaw out be-fore continuing the chilly journey to class.

“It took forever to get to class,” he said, “Everyone was always late.”

When Kelly Sullivan attended UI in 1979, students scheduled classes around their favorite TV show.

“I knew some girls who would not take a 10 o’clock class because they had to get their soap opera fix in,” she said.

Sullivan studied political sci-ence and was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. In her free time, she enjoyed participating in intra-mural sports and happy hour at the bars on Friday.

“They had a bar at the time (and) for happy hour you could

buy mixed drinks by the pitcher,” Sullivan said. “$4 for a pitcher.”

During her time at UI the legal drinking age was 19, and Sullivan said the social setting usually revolved around which bar offered a deal that night.

“Almost the entire campus could go to the bars,” she said. “Now most students can’t go until their junior year, but back then almost everyone could go their

freshman year. A ton of change has occurred since I went to school there,” she said.

A glimpse of the past

Phillip “Flip” Kleffner 1955

Kelly Sullivan 1980

Brent Aizawa 1972

She was one way you did learn about manners and made sure you opened the door for women....”

Flip Klefner

I knew some girls who wouldn’t take a 10 o’clock class because they had to get their soap opera fix in.”

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Gem of the Mountains | 1955, 1972, 1980

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Journalist, World War II master sergeant and former Ar-gonaut assistant editor Fenton Roskelley has lived a full life.

Roskelley, born Jan. 13, 1917, joined the Army in 1942 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He served three years in the Army, and spent time in France pro-viding anti-aircraft cover until the end of the war.

“It was then, after the war, I was detached from my unit to set up a school of journalism in Heidelberg (Germany) … I published two newspapers The Rhine Valley News and Italia, which was an Italian news-paper,” Roskel-ley said. “(We) printed tens of thousands of army forms and numerous his-tories of various regiments and battalions there.”

The journal-ism school, which he operated for seven weeks, remains mostly unknown, Roskel-ley said, and he periodically checks his 1930s suitcase to make sure he didn’t dream it up.

Roskelley met his wife of 66 years, Violet, during World War II when his battalion was attached to her British regiment in England. She worked with the regiment as a telephone operator.

“It was on a Sunday when I didn’t have anything to do, so I left the o!ce and walked over (to the) big expensive lawn out-side of our headquarters, and I met her and I talked to her and a couple hours later, I knew that she was the one for me,” Roskelley said.

John Roskelley, the second of Roskelley’s three children, said when his parents went to sign their marriage license his mom looked at the name on the mar-riage certificate and said, “Who’s Fenton?”

Roskelley said Violet thought “Roskelley” was two words: Ross and Kelly. He said she called him Ross for a long time and still does.

Roskelley graduated high school in Challis, Idaho and at-tended the University of Idaho from 1936-1940, where he wrote for The Argonaut and Moscow daily, The Star-Mirror.

“I covered all kinds of stories, everything that you could imagine: City Council meet-ings, crime stories. You name it, I wrote about it,” Roskelley said. “We measured the number of inches in each story (so) at the end of the reporting year (we could) determine how many inches of news stories you had covered. And I set the

record there for the school and it was never really broken.”

Roskelley’s daughter-in-law Joyce Roskelley said he is one of those time-tested, greatest gen-eration people. She said Roskelley has lived a full life.

“The university was a huge part of his life and he was so proud of having been the almost

editor, the assistant editor,” Joyce Roskelley said. “He was very disappointed that he didn’t get to be editor…Bill Johnson was the editor and he didn’t (graduate) for some reason so he did a fifth year and got to be editor again.”

John Roskelley said his father is a typical journalist from the ‘40s and ‘50s.

“His writing typifies … the style back in those earlier years. I mean this in a good way,” John Roskelley said. “It (was) very…blunt, very straightforward, very factual, there wasn’t any opin-ion in it — no guess work. He learned basically the bottom-up journalism and that’s what he practiced all his life.”

John Roskelley said his father is very interested in fly-fishing. Roskelley continues to write for numerous fly fishing magazines.

“People come up to me and say, ‘We miss Fenton’s writing. We sure miss knowing where those fish are … though,’” John Roskelley said. “My dad was one of the best, as far as knowing

where those fish were going to be located and how to go after them and what to use … A lot of people didn’t like him expos-ing their favorite spots. That’s where he would get himself in trouble.”

After graduation from UI, Roskelley worked for the Spokane Daily Chronicle before and after World War II. He then worked for The Spokesman-Review where he was assistant city editor for several years.

“I worked on all the major stories that were breaking at the time,” Roskelley said. “They sent me on a prison riot, mining disasters and interviewing poli-ticians and army o!cials. You name it, I was assigned to cover the thing.”

Joyce Roskelley said he’s “a writer, not a talker,” a sensitive, sweet and disciplined man, who still lives on newspaper time.

“He still … gets up at four a.m. … goes to his computer and writes. He’s still writing articles … and of course he’s asleep in the chair by 8 o‘clock at night but he is still on that newspaper schedule,” Joyce Roskelley said.

John Roskelley said it amazes him that his dad is so mobile and sharp at 94.

“He writes articles and writes things for himself. He fin-ished a book that he’s trying to get sold of his life’s adventure,” John Roskelley said. “For me to look at what he does at 94 and the way I am at 62, I wonder how a person can be so happy … It’s his mental sharpness that I think is most impressive.”

Roskelley said he has a posi-tive outlook for the future of journalism, even newspapers, though he shakes his head at some broadcast news organiza-tions for lack of verification and investigation.

“It will always be around,” Roskelley said. We’ve lost a lot of newspapers, especially a lot of these big dailies. They just can’t make it. The (Spokesman-Review) has cut staff dramati-cally and sometimes just a bit too much …Yes, I still think there will be newspapers in the future, but they won’t be the same kind of newspapers.”

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I covered all kinds of stories, everything that you could imagine: City Council meetings, crime stories. You name it, I wrote about it.”

Fenton Roskelley

Dick O’Donnell | CourtesyFenton Roskelley poses with two German lugers while serving the Army in Germany.

Fenton Roskelley | CourtesyFenton Roskelley posed for a self portrait of himself and then girlfriend Violet Roskelley. The Roskelley’s have been married for 66 years.

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University of Idaho students through the ages were not exactly pioneers of fashion, but may not have been as far behind as some people think.

Susan Torntore, instructor of the history of Western dress at the UI, said it’s a misconcep-tion that up-to-date fashions and trends took a long time to reach the “wilds of the west” during the 1900s.

“Those students knew they were fashionable,” Torntore said. “They knew what the style was within a year.”

Students of the early 20th century had access to current trends through magazines and mail order catalogues and could have these fashions de-livered from the east by train. Because of this, students had knowledge of popular dress and style.

The concept of current acceptable style has shifted throughout the past several decades.

Women began to attend col-lege regularly in the late 1800s.

“That period — the 1890s — is exciting to me,” Torntore said. “It wasn’t a key practice to send women to college but now we see the idea of the ‘new woman’ … when women were starting to come to UI.”

Torntore said the American apparel industry was one of the factors that created the idea of the “new woman.”

“They didn’t have to make their clothes,” Torntore said. “They could go out into the workforce. American manufac-turing made that possible.”

She said in the past it wasn’t right for women to wear slacks.

“On campus, you were expected to be dressed up,” Torntore said.

Dr. Sandra Evenson said col-lege was a privilege for women back then.

“It was important to dress professionally because it really was sort of viewed as a job,” Evenson said.

One of the first occasions that prompted women to wear slacks was their entry into the workforce.

“World War II is really when it became conventional,” Torn-tore said.

Even so, daily dress for fe-male students from the ‘30s to the ‘50s consisted of sweaters, hand-embroidered and but-toned to the neck, and tweed or plaid woolen skirts that fell past the knee.

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Fashion flashback

Gem of the Mountains | 1933, 1972Fashions at the University of Idaho have been as diverse as members of the student body. Fashions worn in the 1930s were drastically di!erent from fashions women wore in the early 1970s.

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from the past

The Argonaut | 1970

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most of the information that we have in our files,” Monroe said. “But we don’t have a designated university historian, which makes it di!cult to find sources.”

Bartley Cottage, built in 1921, was located on Nez Perce Drive and Blake Avenue, where the O!ce of Develop-ment now stands. There is no evidence to suggest whom Bartley Cottage was named after. It was originally a girls’ dormitory until it was converted to a music studio in 1929.

Center Cottage, also built in 1921 next to Bartley Cottage where the Farm-House Fraternity is now located, was the first home of Omega Alpha Sorority. After Omega Alpha moved out and became Delta Delta Delta, Center Cottage was converted to a music studio. It was torn down in 1952 to prepare for the construction of French House (later FarmHouse) in its place.

The Student Health Center on Ash Street between Idaho and University avenues used to be the location of Crest Cottage, built in 1922. Crest Cot-tage served briefly as the Phi Delta

Theta fraternity house and the Chi Beta Epsilon sorority house before it was connected to the old infirmary in 1927 as part of an expansion project. There is no exact date for when Crest Cottage was demolished, but the old infirmary was demolished in 1966, ac-cording to university records.

Craig Cottage may very well be standing today, but there is little evidence sug-gesting where it is. Craig Cottage was built in 1930 on Sixth Street, between Urquhart and Line Street, and was a stenographic center, infirmary quarters, and o!ce space for the Agricultural Economics department. It was moved in 1937 to Line and Seventh Street to make room for the Kirtley Engineering Laboratory No. 1, and was sold and moved off campus in 1951. No records exist to suggest what happened to

Craig Cottage after it was moved from the Idaho campus.

Cedar Hall, built in 1932, served many purposes in its brief lifetime. It was at varying times an infirmary, Phi Delta Theta fraternity house, a men’s living group and a music recital hall.

Now a parking lot, Cedar Hall was located on the southeast corner of Ash Street and Idaho Avenue. It was torn down 25 years after it was built be-cause it was deemed in poor condition.

Between 1921 and 1955, the presi-dent of UI lived off campus at the President’s Residence on 514 East First Street. The building, which was a wood frame two-story house, was built for $7,500. It was sold in 1955, and the President’s House was built 11 years later in 1966.

Purchased by UI in 1920, Jenkins Cottage housed 30 female students, but unlike other buildings, the life of Jenkins Cottage was short lived. Also known as Jenkins Hall, the cottage was one of two new dormitories opened on the Moscow campus in 1921, and was constructed as an annex to Ridenbaugh Hall. Located west of the current Art and Architecture North building, Jenkins remained a housing option for female students until its destruction in 1928, when the annex was torn down to build Memorial Gymnasium.

Lindley Hall went through many name changes in its 53 years on campus, and whether it was called Pine Hall, Hudson House or Van-dal Hall, the building has a unique story that connects it to the city of Moscow. Built with Jenkins Cottage

in 1920, Lindley Hall was used as male housing and was large enough to hold 100 occupants. The building was located at the corner of Ash and Idaho and cost $83,000 to construct. Its construction was not funded by the university or the State of Idaho, but by citizens of Moscow.

After construction of Lindley was completed, UI leased the residence from the city and used it as a dormito-ry. Two years later, the university saw a rise in enrollment for the following academic year and decided to add a third story and more attractive wood roof to the hall. This increased the student occupancy from 100 to 150.

Lindley Hall remained in use until 1971, but the name was o!cially changed to Pine Hall in 1963 and to Vandal Hall in 1969. The building was condemned in 1971 and torn down in 1973.

One of the few buildings on the Moscow campus that was not used for housing and later torn down, Liszt Hall, proved to be a versatile piece of UI’s landscape. Built in 1897 just east of where the present Administration Building stands, the two-story wood-en-framed hall sat on the campus’s eastern slope. Measuring only 24 by 34 feet in size, Liszt Hall was used for horticulture research. The building

A current student at the University of Idaho probably would not be able to navi-gate the university campus of the early 1900s. Many build-ings that once existed at the university have been moved, renamed or torn down during the past 70 years.

Very little evidence of these so-called “ghost buildings” exists, and most of the infor-mation comes from annual student catalogues or bulletins that contain the ever-mor-phing campus maps.

Julie Monroe, a library assis-tant in the Special Collections department, said information on these buildings comes from “Beacon for Mountain and Plain,” a university biogra-phy written by Rafe Gibbs, or from the “University of Idaho Register,” an online newsletter for UI faculty, staff and alumni that documents campus hap-penings, including the con-struction of buildings.

“Grant Morton and the late Judith Nielsen, a univer-sity archivist, also compiled

We don’t have much information on these buildings because they were only standing for a short time..”

Julie Monroe UI Library Assistant

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Zach Edwards | rawrSeveral buildings have existed and have been torn down on the University of Idaho’s campus.

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Mysterious buildings at Idaho

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“The postmaster then was born in Moscow, Pa., lived in Moscow, Iowa, and thought Moscow, Russia, was a glam-orous city due to stories he had heard from the Russian migrants,” Chaney said.

This is the suspected reason the postmaster changed the name of the post o!ce from Paradise Valley to Moscow in 1876.

Ann Catt, a curator at the McConnell Mansion, said the Mansion was built in 1886 and home to the third governor of Idaho, William J. McConnell.

“This is one of the oldest, if not only building in Moscow that still has most of the mate-rials used for its original con-struction in place,” Catt said.

From 1893 to 1897, it was referred to as the McConnell house. Later, it was handed to the care of the Latah County Historical Society and was referred to as the McConnell Mansion.

In 1887 Moscow was char-tered. A year later, Congress created Latah County from part of Nez Perce County, and Moscow was named the coun-ty seat. In 1889, the University of Idaho was created.

“Having the University of Idaho located here was critical to Moscow’s future,” Crandall said.

Although UI was created in 1889, it was not o!cially opened until 1892. The same year UI was created, Latah County courthouse was erect-ed, and this enabled outlawing the local sale of liquor in 1908. In 1911, City Hall was built and one year later the 1912 Center was constructed.

“Moscow has continued to grow, however slowly,” Cran-dall said.

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“In the ‘40s and ‘50s and probably before, men had to wear slacks Monday through Friday,” Armstrong said. “Levi’s were reserved for the weekends and I don’t think they even made them for women back then. Women had to wear dresses and if it got cold enough for them to wear slacks, they had to wear a coat that went below the knees with them.”

Mottern said male stu-dents never had a curfew that was enforced by any-body but female students had one enforced by the Dean of Women until the ‘60s. Although men didn’t have a curfew, Mottern said those in fraternities were encouraged to be in bed by a certain time.

“Everyone had to be in by 10 p.m. on school nights and 11 or midnight on the weekends,” Mot-tern said. “Seniors had ex-tended hours. By the time I left school, juniors and seniors had easier access to stay out of their living groups. Women, basically, all had to be accounted for by 10 p.m.”

Mottern said though rules regarding curfew, dress, smoking and alco-hol have changed since UI opened — with less than 50 students in 1892 — that some things will always be the same.

“Moral tradition had been very consistent until the Internet,” Mottern said. “People were doing the same dances as those who danced 50 years prior. People sang the same songs. The songs and traditions have stayed the same.”

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Included in the exhib-its were pieces from the world’s greatest museums, about 2,000 craft items from 90 countries and an Apollo 11 moon rock. The first IMAX film was shown there. The event’s profits have funded efforts to cultivate Japanese culture abroad, through theatrical performances, construc-tion of gardens and the purchase of language and educational materials.

Woodstock was cool, but it could never display the cultural fruits of 76 coun-tries, four international organizations, two corpora-tions and China’s govern-ment. Free love was but one idea of hundreds, and cheap thrills can’t compete with real ingenuity.

Some people aren’t satisfied with thrilling or ingenious happenings alone. In 1960, Joe Kittinger combined those elements in

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“A sweater set and wool skirt would have been con-sidered casual in the ‘40s and ‘50s,” Torntore said. “Men would have worn shirts and ties to class.”

Students would often change clothes two to three times a day, depending on the occasion, Evenson said. Acceptable dress was different for school, church, parties or picnics.

“You dressed a certain way for certain things,” Evenson said.

The concept of modesty is another aspect of fashion that has developed throughout time.

“Young women were pretty covered, wearing layers, until the 60s,” Torntore said. “The whole concept of modesty changes as cultural and social practices change.”

Evenson said coming to a university helped students to think outside the box regard-ing many aspects of life, including fashion.

“College has always been a place where there are new ideas,” Evenson said.

The 1960s brought major adjustments to what would have been considered accept-able dress, including bright colors and patterns, more skin showing and increased individual expression.

“All of a sudden we see fashions diverging into differ-ent pathways, different trend areas,” Torntore said.

These changes are still in place on campus today, where we see different types of students, especially those of different majors, dressing with a drastic amount of variety to go to class.

“You can really say more about who you are through how you dress,” Torntore said. “You can dress as fashionably as you want … or not.”

Universities have always tried to be diverse, Evenson said. It is a place where people form different ethnic, econom-ic, family and political back-grounds can come together and express their individuality, and one of the ways this was done was through fashion, Evenson said.

“Everybody is welcome,” Evenson said. “You won’t get that in any other country in the world.”

The building stood on cam-pus until it was removed in 1952. No building stands in Liszt Hall’s old location.

“We don’t have much infor-mation on these buildings be-cause they were only standing

for a short time,” Monroe said. “They also were generally of less financial value to the university and not specialized for any particular function, which made them easy to replace.”

Today, there is more docu-mentation of current buildings. Articles from local newspapers are archived systematically and can be searched online. The facilities department also keeps

detailed plans of all buildings and construction projects on campus. As for these “ghost buildings,” information is less available.

“The story is there,” Mon-roe said. “It just takes a little digging.”

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the highest free-fall jump ever recorded. As part of the Excel-sior project, Kittinger achieved the desired 100,000 feet in a helium balloon. He hovered 20 miles above the Earth and was the first man technically in space.

“(The) sky was black as it could be. I couldn’t see any stars,” he said. “I was on the highest step in the world, looking down on our planet. I could see the clouds below and the atmosphere, the haze layer. It was a very profound feeling … the realization of … just how hostile that environment is.”

He observed the splendor of the heavens for a few minutes and then leaped into oblivion. He fell at the speed of sound but said he had no sense of it until he looked up at the bal-loon, which seemed to be “fly-ing away” at a “fantastic rate.” He fell for four minutes before reentering the full atmosphere of Earth. He said coming back to the planet was like seeing “the Garden of Eden.”

“We really don’t appreciate what a beautiful planet we have,” Kittinger said.

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