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Special points
of interest:
Kicking Off the Semester!
• Executive Winter Ball
is Feb. 21st, ticket Steve Hanna—RHA Events Coordinator
sales end February
16th

This semester we started things off right at the Beat BSU Pool Party where
• Room renewal starts
February 3rd
people were jumping, splashing, diving, volleyballing, and basketballing the
semester off to a great start! Over 60 people from over 14 halls showed up
• RA informational fair to make the event a massive success and lots of fun! At teh pool party, we
for prospective RAs is
hosted the 2009 Water Olympics and contests included the dog-paddle race,
February 18th
4x4 100 relay, freestyle races, and the coveted dive and splash contest. RHA
• NRHH Social is Feb- Vandal Olympians took to the diving board and performed their best jumps,
ruary 17th dives, and splashes, which included a good number of bellyflops and
flails. Henry Guzman was double-nominated as a finalist in both the dive and
• Movie Voting is
Online
splash contests, and took home the gold in the dive. Adam from French won
the gold in the splash category. French also won out in the dog-paddle race,
Inside and teamed with Syringa and Global Village to win the 4x4 100 relay. Other
winners included McCoy (freestyle), Scholars (freestyle second heat).
this issue:
I Bring Back 2
Friendliness Important info about the 2009 annual RHA Executive Winter Ball Ticket sales
continue this week for the RHA Executive Winter Ball. All UI students are in-
IBC: 2
vited! Get your tickets for only $40/couple and $25/single. Tickets are not
Too Much
available at the door and sales close on February 16. Ticket price includes a
Work? Or Just
What We catered candlelight dinner for two, social hour, desert, rose bouquet raffle
Need? tickets, and an evening of dancing under the stars of a thousand
lights. Formal attire is required. This will be the biggest event of the year,
It’s A Vandal’s 3
and we are spending over $6,000 to make it a world-class event. The ball will
Life
be held off-campus at the University Inn Best Western Empire Ballroom and
Calendar of 4 seasoned professional Redgy Erb of the DJ Company will DJ the dance. The
Upcoming music selection will draw on a large variety of top 40, well-known radio hits,
Events country swing, waltz, hip-hop, and rock. You will not want to miss this
event! Limited tickets are available. Tickets are available from your hall presi-
dent, an RHA Executive Board Member, or at the RHA office. We will also be
selling tickets outside of Bob's on February 4 & 5 and February 11 and 12
from 5-7 PM.
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I Bring Back Friendliness

Josh Peters—Graham Hall

I’ll be the first to admit
that I come off a little
strong. Ha that’s an under-
statement, but anyways. I
go out of my way to be
friendly. I open doors for
strangers, say hello to peo-
ple, make jokes as much as
possible to break the ice. I
smile at others, usually; I
say hey how’s it going? I
wish everyone went out of
their way to make the
world a little friendlier. I
try to be a good person and being seen as aggressive?
to let the small stuff slide Or smile at each other
too. without it being seen as a
sign of wanting? When I
Of late though, people
do my laundry late at night
have brought to my atten-
and see people I don’t
tion that this sort of behav-
know, why should it seem
ior is apparently “weird.”
creepy if I introduce my-
Why I ask is it weird to be
self and try to get to know
a Good Samaritan? Why is
someone else? I think peo-
it strange to smile at a
ple should be more like me
stranger and say hey? Why
and bring back friendli-
can’t people make eye
ness.
contact when they walk
past each other without it

IBC: Too Much Work? Or Just What We Need?

Students hard at work in IBC
Program
Colin Livingston—Graham Hall RA
What is IBC? Do you ever wonder
what it’s like to be in our university’s Inte-
grated Business Curriculum? Many of my
friends and I dreaded entering IBC be-
cause of how difficult we’d heard the year
long program is. Some people I know even
decided not to be business majors because
of this program. However, as an IBC stu-
dent I can assure you that IBC is a pro-
gram that will challenge you in ways that
you’ve never been challenged before. It
will give you more opportunities to grow
as a student and person than you’ll get in
any other program.
In IBC, students form teams of 5
to 6 members and are given projects to
work on together. Teams are encouraged
to compete with one another, challenging
students to learn and perform to their high-
est potential. While working in teams can
be frustrating at times, it is very rewarding
to see the process that teams go through to
attain their goals.
If you want a unique challenge
here at the UofI, you should consider ma-
joring in business. The IBC will teach you
how to work with other people, and how
to succeed in a team atmosphere. If you
can master these skills before entering the
workforce, your chances of succeeding
improve significantly.
Two Haikus for Winter
Austin Warren-NRHH President
Clear the sky above
Today a spring in winter
Such is Moscow life
Frozen fog abound
This cold will not show mercy
Such is Moscow life
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It’s A Vandal’s Life
Cory Griffard—Scholars Hall
To my fellow Vandals,
Hello and welcome back! I would like to discuss
looking back at last semester and looking ahead.
In my opinion, we look back to think about all of
the good times and bad times (hopefully not too
much of the latter) to analyze our college careers
and think of how to make the best of them.
That’s kind of the neat thing about the spring se-
mester—if you find you weren’t too happy in the
fall, or didn’t feel like you made the most of your
college experience, then you’ve got a chance to
make things better this semester. If you have
been perfectly fine this whole time, then keep
doing whatever it is that makes you happy. Some
people may find themselves wondering how to
make their college lives more fun, while others
may have been too busy with studying and work
and stuff. Well, here are a few hints that may
help. I feel that a fun college experience, at least
if you’re living in the dorms, includes talking to
and hanging out with people from your hall, do-
ing fun events with them, participating in an ex-
tracurricular activity or two, seeing friends in the
area you’ve known since kindergarten, going to a
Vandal sporting event (if not for the team, then at
least for the cheerleaders!), chasing after that cute
girl/guy you’ve liked for weeks if not months,
doing an intramural sport, or if you’re me, bring-
ing a keg of root beer into the top of the Theophi-
lus Tower, thus having the first legal kegger in
the tower. Now please don’t take this the wrong
way and think you still shouldn’t do homework
Want to inspire others, serve your community, and
make the residence halls an even better place to live?
Join the top 1% of residence hall students on campus,
who are doing just that!
Join NRHH!
To learn more, email austin.warren@vandals.uidaho.edu
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and whatnot. As a resident of the Scholars
LLC, I feel obligated to encourage you to study
your butts off, but just not to the point of where
you’re not having any fun. That’s another thing
you can look back on—if you were taking any
classes pertaining to your major, did you enjoy
them? The way I see it you should be passion-
ate about you major and enjoy what you’re
studying, otherwise what’s the point? Remem-
ber it’s not too late to change your major if
you’re not happy about it. Now I know some of
you are taking 18 to 20 credits and only have
time for studying. To you people I would like
to say………well, perhaps you should talk to
your advisors. Now you may ask “Why bother?
What makes campus life so important?” Well,
believe it or not these are perhaps the most im-
portant, most fun years of your life. I know, I
know, that’s what they said about high school.
But I seriously doubt high school even com-
pares to college. And keep in mind (this espe-
cially goes to you freshman out there) college
goes by way faster than high school. I don’t
care if you’re here eight years, they will go by
faster than those four of high school. The first
month or two may have been a bit slow because
you’re settling in and just getting to know eve-
rything, but once you get moving along, time
goes by faster than a cheetah on crack. So with
that in mind, do what you can to make the most
of your life here on campus, because it’ll be
over before you know it. Have as much fun as
you can (while still attempting good grades)
and enjoy your short time as being a Vandal!
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*Room Renewal: ***RA informa- RHA Executive
Any hall, any tion fair for pro- Winter Ball
room spective RAs
(required for all
17th-23rd
applicants)
**NRHH Social
(open to all)

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NRHH member- tions due for 2009
ship due -2010

* Renew rooms for 2009-2010 on

Vandal Web
** NRHH Social is open to any-
one and is at 7:30 PM in the LLC
classrooms. Also, on the 24th the
applications are due at 7:30 in the
LLC classrooms.
*** And questions you have about
RA information contact
Steven Wong at
(swong@uidaho.edu)
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