<DIV>Tom,</DIV> <DIV> Just one more shining example of BSU's total lack of class.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Kiwanuka is an awesome player who will soon be playing on Sunday afternoons. </DIV> <DIV> I understand that his family is revered by freedom-loving Ugandans because of the humanitarian work of their grandfather. </DIV> <DIV> Mathias plans to use a considerable share of his NFL earnings to address the needs of the poverty-stricken in Uganda. To make fun of this man's family name just displays pure ignorance.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> BSU and the City of Boise really turned an opportunity for positive publicity into a complete negative for the city, the Universty and the bowl itself. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Also, the BC team Christmas dinner wasn't too wonderful either--!
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apparently ran out of mashed potatoes. </DIV> <DIV> In Southern IDAHO??? </DIV> <DIV> The mind boggles!</DIV> <DIV> TL</DIV> <DIV> <BR><BR><B><I>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)" name=Generator><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:SmartTagType name="State" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="PlaceType"
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</STYLE> <DIV class=Section1> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">From todays (December 29, 2005) Idaho Statesman <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Mathias Kiwanuka, if you remember, is the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> foreign exchange student who, after surviving his freshman year at BC as a walk-on, earned a scholarship and a starting position on the BC football team. He is now attempting to extract his mother (and family) from <st1:place
w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> where their lives are threatened daily.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">So, naturally, the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boise</st1:place></st1:City> mayor and the Beyond the Game Dinner at the Boise Centre on The Grove decide to make light humor of his name.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Way to go, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">boise</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <DIV style="BORDER-R!
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medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-element: para-border-div"> <div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div></DIV> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Banquet Barbs Fire Up <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">By Nick Jezierny<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">It turns out that all the motivation <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> needed for Wednesday's MPC Computers Bowl came from right here in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boise</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Cou!
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Eagles coach Tom O'Brien and several BC players said after they beat <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boise</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> 27-21 that they were offended by comments made by several speakers </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"> including <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boise</st1:place></st1:City> mayor Dave Bieter </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"> at Monday night's Beyond the Game Dinner at the Boise!
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on The Grove.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">What irked the BC party was the number of speakers who ended their speech by saying "Go Broncos."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">What infuriated the Eagles was when Bieter and MPC Computers CEO Mike Adkins mispronounced the name of star defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier
New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">"I've been to 19 bowl games and have never seen anything like that in my life," O'Brien said. "The pep rally was the next night. You don't disrespect the best player on the other team by making fun of his name and have everyone in the audience laugh at him. There wasn't anything I had to do to get this team ready to play. I ought to thank the mayor and people of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boise</st1:place></st1:City>."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Kiwanuka said he felt "disrespected" by Bieter's comments and even worse by
Adkins'.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">"As far as Mike Adkins goes, he took my name and made it a punchline," <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Kiwanuka said. "I felt he purposely mispronounced my name and then went off to crack a joke on my family name, which is something I hold very dear to me."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Kiwanuka is the grandso!
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Uganda</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s first prime minister.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Elissa Reid, the director of public relations for Nampa-based MPC Computers, said Adkins' comments weren't meant to be defamatory.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">"We were very happy to have <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> here," Reid said. "We apologize for any misunderstanding."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Bieter's spokesman could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Gary Beck, the executive director of the bowl game, said some speakers were out of line because the Beyond the Game Dinner is a bowl event that is meant to be neutral.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">"Obviously there were some speakers who probably should have been more neutral," Beck said. "As a director, I'm g!
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correct that situation. We have to work on making sure what happened doesn't happen again."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Beck said he apologized to BC athletic director Gene DeFilippo after the banquet.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Ryan Glasper, a strong safety who made two interceptions in the game, said the team was angry after the banquet.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
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