Trib: UI tailgaters have final say
In his editorial this morning, Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments:
At some point in the 1930s, French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval suggested the pope would appreciate the Soviet Union not leaning so hard on that country's Roman Catholics. To which Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin famously replied: "The pope? How many divisions has he got?" In other words, authority doesn't count for much without the means to insist.
Case in point: Last Thursday's season opener at the University of Idaho's Kibbie Dome. Outside, Vandal fans continued their practice of tailgating parties with beer, wine and liquor - a tradition 20 years in the making. The wrinkle in all this was the Idaho State Board of Education's decision last month to, in effect, deny these tailgaters the right to drink booze at the UI's parking lot. More here.
