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getting Back to campus

Get Rec’d p. 19

Kustra talks diplomas p. 5

Jitters and Joe p.14

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Justin Kirkham

editor@stumedia. boisestate.edu

MANAGING EDITOR Patty Bowen

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NEWS EDITOR

Patrick Adcock news@ stumedia.boisestate.edu

ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

IN THIS

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Make some new friends this semester

Shelly Bohorquez news@ stumedia.boisestate.edu

SPORTS EDITOR

Ali Roberts sports@ stumedia.boisestate.edu

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Rylan Kobre sports@ stumedia.boisestate.edu

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Editor’s Note

Shifting focus: Why do we write what we write?

Justin Kirkham Editor-in-Chief

It’s the beginning of another year here at Boise State, and everyone is scrambling in one way or another. Trust me. You’re not the only one.

It has been a long, rough and fruitful summer at The Arbiter, and we have quite a few changes and improvements ready to roll out with the new, incoming year.

From an entirely new website layout releasing in the next week to a complete overhaul of our multimedia and social media planning, The Arbiter is ready for a strong year of coverage.

Of all the changes made over the summer, the largest is a deci-

sive rework of The Arbiter’s core mission, vision and values. In the past, our goals as a publication have not been fully aligned and recorded.

In an attempt to best connect with you, our campus readers and community members, we have revisited why we create a newspaper.

When preparing for the new year, brainstorming content and making plans and schedules, the editorial staff paid extra attention to our new vision of helping to create a well-informed, connected campus community.

Everything we have done and will do will work toward this end goal.

With this and our mission,

connecting and informing the Boise State community through compelling content produced from a student perspective, we hope to have stronger content, better ties to students and community members and discussioninspiring media packages.

When gathering content for this week, I asked the editorial staff how each of our pieces was better connecting and informing the campus community.

I hope that you find all of the content in this paper relevant and useful. We aim to make content that benefits our readers as much as those who write it.

And, if not, let us know. We can’t connect and inform our community or inspire progres-

sion without input and critique.

Get involved and engage with the entire Student Media staff this year and help us foster an atmosphere where that vision can be accomplished.

Stop by our offices on the first floor of the Lincoln garage for a tour, send me a letter to the editor at editor@stumedia.boisestate. edu, comment on our articles online at arbiteronline.com or through our @arbiteronline social media handles.

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NEWS News

Garretson and Propp talk plans for the coming year News Editor

Patty Bowen Managing Editor

Brian Garretson Favorite TED talk – ‘The Power of Vulnerability” by Brene Brown Favorite animal – Bengal Tiger “I am human, you can text me and I won’t be offended that you text me.”

“I’m just excited for student life, it’s good to have students back.”

“I’m excited for classes to start. I know I’ll regret saying that”

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After a full summer of strategizing, ASBSU president and vice president Brian Garretson and Nick Propp are ready to start the year off running.

During their time in office, Garretson and Propp want to focus on promoting change and restructuring how students interact with ASBSU. “A big part of our platform was redefining what it meant to be part of student government,” Garretson said. “We don’t make rules. We do question things and redefine things, but we aren’t in charge of students.”

According to Garretson, ASBSU has suffered from a reputation of being unapproachable. He wants to assure students that their ideas and concerns are welcome.

“If you have an issue, be vocal about it and reach out to us and we will do the best we can to make it different or provide further insight into why things are the way they are,” Garretson said.

One of the issues that ASBSU struggled with in the past was exhausting club funding early in the year.

This year, Garretson will streamline the application for club funding, creating a more user friendly experience. ASBSU will also allocate more funds toward student projects and less on club logistics, such as food for meetings.

Garretson noted that ASBSU will continue to use

the fund thermometer, to easily track the remaining budget, but the paperwork for that funding will now incorporate diagrams.

“Students will have an image showing what is likely to get funded and what is not likely to get funded,” Garretson said. “All the rules of funding are within the coding constitution, but who has time to go shift through who meets criteria?” Funding isn’t ASBSU’s only goal however.

Over the past year, Propp said that students have struggled to get accurate updates on their grades in a timely manner. Propp will propose several measures to help students better track their grades.

“We’re trying to start the conversation of possibly doing a midterm section, where every professor has to have a grade by midterms so that students know what track they’re on and where they need to focus more time,” Propp said.

In addition to restructuring grading methodologies, both Propp and Garretson want to create new campus traditions. Over the summer, ASBSU conducted several focus groups to find out what traditions students find appealing. The duo is currently working on narrowing down

options for new traditions.

“Trying to start traditions is weird because you need to think ‘what will be cool’ and ‘what will be sustainable’ because you see universities do pretty crazy things for traditions,” Propp said. “We have the position to start something, so what do we start?”

As Garretson and Propp aim to create campus culture, they are also working to narrow down the purpose of ASBSU, creating a solid vision that will carry ASBSU into the future.

“ASBSU has never had a strategic plan,” Garretson said. “Sometimes it’s like one administration comes in, and then another comes in and ASBSU starts at a negative point just because there hasn’t been one vision of the entire thing.”

Both Garretson and Propp have been rewriting their job descriptions and want to ensure the work they do this year is the first step in achieving a more productive ASBSU. “What we’re trying to do is paint the picture of where we’re currently at and then paint the picture of 2021,” said Garretson. “Once we have these clear images it will be easy to get there. If the people after us can do a better job than we can, that’s what progress looks like.”

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If you have an issue, be vocal about it and reach out to us and we will do the best we can to make it different or provide futher insight into why things are the way they are.

Nick Propp Favorite animal - RingTailed Lemur Dream Job - Owning his own dental practice “ASBSU is that bridge between students and faculty.”

“Both Brian and I have the same angle in everything we look at. We’re like one person” “I love students and anything that helps out the university,”

—Brian Garretson

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NEWS News

Kustra sees increase in value of Boise State diploma Patty Bowen Managing Editor

A plan to build new dorm rooms for the honors college was approved last Thursday, August 13. The dorms will help house the roughly 600 students in Boise State’s honors college.

A 50 percent increase in applications to the honors college this year is proof that Boise State’s standards for students are continually rising. This could point to an increase in the worth of a Boise State diploma.

“Over the years you have this tremendous increase in

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academic quality, so universities bring in brighter students measured in test scores and GPAs,” Bob Kustra, president of Boise State University told the Arbiter. “The graduate who attended 30 years ago still has the diploma citing the university as his or her alma mater and gets the credit for how good that school is today, not necessarily what it was.”

According to Kustra, this rise in diploma worth is happening all over the United States.

“I don’t think this is a story that just applies to Boise State University,” Kustra said. “I

can’t tell you the number of people who I run into who are adults, who have been out of college for many years, and joke about the fact that if they applied to where they went to school, they never would make it.”

According to Maura Rasmussen, enrollment coordinator for the school of nursing, this rise in worth is indicative of the rising expectations for students in the job market.

Rasmussen believes job experience doesn’t cut it in any field anymore and a diploma from a four year college is necessary.

“Society is striving closer

and closer to the mark where a college education is more important,” Rasmussen said.

“Although a diploma had a ton of value in the 90’s, now I think students aren’t simply getting jobs off their job experience.”

Rasmussen has experienced numerous students coming back to get their four year degree because they are having trouble in the job market without it.

According to Kustra, Boise State faculty should work to keep improving Boise State for students, continually making it a better school than when they applied.

“I always tell our graduating seniors that our job throughout their undergraduate expe-

rience was to make the degree more and more valuable every year,” Kustra said.

Students earn their diplomas.

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NEWS News

Student services give new students a leg up Patrick Adcock News Editor

Students at Boise State have many resources available to them to make their college experience more enjoyable and valuable, but these resources are rarely taken advantage of.

From childcare, legal council, help in finding a career, and over 200 student clubs and organizations are offered to students at Boise State.

ASBSU

ASBSU, the campus’ student government, is a group of students that represents Boise State’s student body to faculty, the community, and the state of Idaho.

ASBSU is also in charge of allocating funding to clubs and student organizations.

This includes funds allocated to the Dean of Students in order to provide free legal council to all Boise State students. Students can make appointments on Mondays and Thursdays to discuss any legal issues currently plaguing them.

Student Involvement and Leadership Center

The Student Involvement and Leadership Center is a student’s one stop shop for getting plugged in at Boise State.

The SILC is responsible for connecting students to clubs, fraternites and sororities, leadership programs, campus events and activities and service programs.

“We want students to get involved because we want

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them to write their own story on campus,” said Charlie Varland, Sr. associate director at SILC. Varland believes getting involved adds to a student’s campus experience.

“Getting involved lets students explore their passions, connect to the campus community, have fun, serve others and realize their potential,” Varland said.

According to Varland, the SILC can provide students with real world knowledge and skills that employers are looking for.

“At this time of year, many students want to know how to get involved,” Varland said.

“I encourage new and returning students to checkout the Bronco Welcome schedule which has many events geared towards connecting students with involvement opportunities.”

For those interested in joining fraternities or sororities Boise State is home to 17 chapters with two more on the way.

“There are many events planned over the next few weeks that will give students a chance to learn about each chapter, ask questions and get to know members,” Varland said.

If the 200 clubs that are already established on campus aren’t enough, students are always welcome to start their own through the Student Organizations Coordinator in the SILC.

Career Center

When most students hear about the Career Center at

Boise State, it’s usually to tell people about their amazing free chapstick but there is a lot more to it than curing students’ chapped lips.

“We help with everything to do with the career exploration and planning process. We start with students bef ore they even get here, letting them know that they need to start early with making college count,” said Vickie Coale, associate director at the Career Center.

“We start from ‘I don’t know what I want to major in, I don’t know what I want to do with my career’,” Coale said.

When students first get involved with the Career Center, they meet with Career Counselors who help students through an assessment examining their skills, interests and values to help find careers that correspond with their answers.

Students also have the opportunity to speak with individuals in a specific field and learn more about a particular career.

The Career Center focuses on getting students involved in “out of the classroom” activities like clubs and organizations, part time jobs, internships and volunteer positions to develop critical skills that employers are looking for.

“No matter what (students) go into, these are the skills their employers want them to have,” Coale said.

These skills include critical thinking, team contribution, time and priority management, problem solving and taking initiative.

Lastly, the Career Center

helps Boise State students and graduates find jobs through Bronco Jobs. Bronco Jobs allows employers to specifically

target Boise State students and graduates for employment opportunities.

Whether you are brand new

to Boise State or a graduate, the Career Center has something for you. And if nothing else, they have great chapstick.

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NEWS News

Boise State goes green with Boise Green Bike Shelly Bohorquez Asst. News Editor

The cycling hype was extensive as plans to implement a bike share program into downtown Boise became a reality.

In the last month, 770 people have became members of Boise Green Bike. Now going into its fifth month of business with a total of 2419 people enrolled in the program and 15 different locking areas from the Boise Co-op to the ILC, Boise Green Bike is looking to expand additional parking locations on campus.

According to Dave Fotsch, Director of the Boise Green Bike program, the biggest short-

fall of the program is in providing bike parking. Although the bikes can be locked to any ordinary bike rack, there is a two dollar “out of hub fee” for bikes that are parked in an undesignated bike share rack.

“I think if we had more racks around town that were designated as parking for Boise Green Bike, we’d see greater utilization in the system,” said Fotsch.

Working with Boise State’s Transportation and Parking Services, Boise Green Bike is identifying existing bike racks on campus to brand as Green Bike parking, so that students and faculty using these bikes can park closer to classes without a penalty.

Heather Weltner, a junior material science and engineering double major, has been meaning to try out Boise Green Bike.

“We have Physics in the Multipurpose room and then all our other classes are in the Engineering building,” said Weltner, referring to the distance across campus.

Weltner has a bike at home but commutes to campus by car.

To accommodate students, Boise Green Bike offers a discounted annual student membership for 46 dollars. The student membership comes with an hour of free ride time each day.

Adapting to the metropolitan area’s needs, another change in

policy was just made.

“Over the weekend we announced that you can now rent up to six bikes on a single account,” said Fotsch.

Up until now, each rider needed to have their own account to rent a bike.

“This is going to help people ride in groups, help the families take everybody out on bikes, and that’s going to make it easier for tourists to enjoy the bikes,” Fotsch said.

Acknowledging that a lot of people in Boise already have bikes, Fotsch stated he doesn’t see it as a problem.

“Boise is a bike town but that’s part of what’s making it successful as well,” Fotsch said.

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Opinion Culture

The ‘college experience’ evolves with time Arbiter Staff The editorial column is agreed upon by a panel of Arbiter staff members and reflects the stance The Arbiter is taking on different pressing issues. Follow up is encouraged; our desire is to start the conversation on campus, not dictate a campus opinion.

This week Boise State freshmen will swarm dorms, starting a new chapter of their lives entitled “The College Experience”.

Whether or not this long admired four years dubbed by baby boomers a time to smoke, drink and sexually experiment is still what it is chalked up to be is up for debate.

Experiencing college seems like it should be self-explanatory, but, because both the institution of higher education and the expectations behind it were created by a generation that has long abandoned it, it is now mostly occupied by studying, working and stress.

Despite this being the case, students shouldn’t be bogged down by the inevitability of duel part-time jobs or internship with classes. College was meant to give the “life afterwards” context. The undesirable retail job gives students a greater understanding of what occupations could be sustainable after the mid-twenties as well as why obtaining a diploma is an integral part of that process.

Just like the required disciplinary lens classes that have no tie to many students majors, a part-time job, unpaid internship or self-taught study tip entitled “How to pull three all nighters in a row” are just the new addition to that liberal arts education. In a high stress job

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where requirements are never enough, having experience balancing dual citizen in several different islands of life experience is necessary.

To give the “college stress syndrome” context to those who haven’t yet lived it, college students are becoming more stressed every year. According to a 2014 study published by the University of California at Los Angeles, 34.6 percent of college students feel “overwhelmed by all I had to do,” which is up from 27.1 percent in 2009.

This stress can be attributed to several different factors. It’s not uncommon for students to work part-time while getting their college education which can put a strain on class work and social activity. A study by Citigroup found 80 percent of college students are working a part time job and average working 19 hours a week.

Most students attribute their side job to the desire to help minimalize the debt they are most likely accumlating either paying rent or feeding a Starbucks addiction. According to a study done by New America, the average debt of college students has increased by roughly $10,000 since 2003.

Despite the initial glumness students may feel about these statistics, students shouldn’t let it worry them. Balancing a budget and living off of eggs and ramen after the BRC, we assure you, is a skill that will carry students through their life.

Not only that, but the part time job that is barely funding student’s poor—in both senses of the word—eating habits might add more to their resumes than they might have thought.

According to a study done by John Hopkins University Press entitled “The Effects of Work on Leadership Development Among First-Year College Students”, students who work during college, on average, end up earning higher salaries after graduating from college.

In addition, students who worked during college were thought to have “higher quality work, accept supervision and criticism more readily, work more effectively with others, and acclimate more quickly to the professional etiquette and expectations of their post graduation employer.”

“Research has consistently indicated that employment can motivate students to increase their investment of time and effort in their educational endeavors,”the study reads.

“Through the opportunity to integrate the experiences of work and school, working students often are more able to align their own interests and abilities with careers that utilize those skills and match their interests.”

Additionally, students who had jobs during college were more likely to be able to manage and accrue less credit card debit later in life, according to a study by Alex Wang.

There is no doubt that the “college experience” is no longer about creative exploration of the self during four years of carefree partying.

A stressful undergraduate career of working and studying hard is exactly what millennials need to get ahead in the job market and prepare themselves for the real world. Nothing says taking it easy like working nine to five.

students:

60% 61%

of student cellphone bills are paid for by parents

found college to be more expensive than expected

31%

have a credit card

72%

walk or bike to cut costs

88%

grocery shop instead of eat out

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Culture opinion

STUDENT VOICES: On what platforms do you listen to music?

“Mainly pandora or my own iTunes. I don’t like paying for things. I have a couple thousand songs on my library so that’s nice.”

Zerin Beattie

Management and Communication Senior

“Pandora, after that probably crew shark before it was shut down and then Youtube. I have iTunes but I never use it.”

Blaine Cooper Radioloy science Sophomore

“Samsung, it came on my phone and I haven’t felt like getting something else.”

Trevor Clausen

Mechanical engineering Sophomore

“Just my phone or pandora.”

Lindsey Smith Prenursing Sophomore

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Streaming only goes so far Justin Kirkham Editor-in-Chief

Megan Caspary, like many students with ears and a smartphone, streams music every day.

The freshman secondary history education major used to obtain most of her music through YouTube videos on her computer.

Now, she can stream her favorite tunes anytime and anywhere.

“I use Spotify basically every day,” Caspary said. “It makes it a lot easier than buying songs you really like.”

Streaming services like Spotify have collected a bad rap over the past months for their poor artist compensation. But using Spotify isn’t bad; it just needs to be supplemented with other forms of artist support like merchandise and ticket sales.

Apple Music just recently launched its own streaming service this summer and is currently free for iOS users. Caspary has utilized both Apple Music and Spotify, but prefers Spotify.

After pop singer Taylor Swift whisked her own music off Spotify in November 2014, many other artists have echoed her call for better royalties and compensation for artists giving their music away nearly for free--and they aren’t wrong for doing so.

Royalties help support new musicians without a solid fanbase. They can’t create music without compensation and expect to support themselves.

Swift nearly pulled her music from Apple Music until Apple responded to her Tumblr plea to compensate artists during the summer trial period.

Caspary believes offering streaming services is up to the artist in question. She, however, will continue to utilize streaming services like Spotify because of their ease of use. Finding other music will be a side journey.

“If they don’t want to put

their music up, that’s fine,” Caspary said. “There are so many other ways for them to promote their brand.”

This is exactly what artists need. As the music business warps and shifts with technology, file-sharing services and multiple forms of payless streaming, artists have to pick and choose what works best for them. Spotify and the newly released Apple Music just tend to be the best way to spread awareness.

Sam Carlson, house and jazz performance artist and junior percussion performance major at University of Idaho, uses Spotify and YouTube to consume most of his music. According to Carlson, Spotify is an excellent tool for new artists to spread their music to as many listeners as possible.

“At the end of the day an artist’s primary success boils down to how many fans are willing to go to the shows,” Carlson said.

“If an artist wants to complain about how many people are streaming their stuff for free I think you’ll find that they’re actually in a great spot as an artist.”

Streaming services can do just this. By providing a way for artists to become more visible for their varied audiences, Spotify and Apple Music can deliver more music to more people.

But, it’s a bit of a catch-22. More people hear the music, but it’s all free.

“If any average person could conceptualize how much actual work goes into the music they consume, no matter how easy it is to come across, it would be very hard to say that streaming services delineate from the artistry itself,” Carlson said. “Music is music is music. The value is falsely deflated by how easily artists allow streaming services to make their works available.”

Swift has long stood for the

new artist in her streaming service critiques. In her Tumblr letter to Apple, she called for compensation for artists on the potential “platform that gets it right.”

“This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success,” Swift wrote.

“This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut and thought that the royalties from that would get them out of debt.”

Electronic music producer Calvin Harris came to Swift’s side over Twitter Monday, Aug. 17 when the her Spotify decision resurfaced in a highly retweeted photo condemning her seemingly selfish decision.

“While u kids are refresh voting teen choice awards there’s some poor fucker in a basement making your new favorite record trying to survive,” Harris tweeted.

In the end, these new musicians are really the ones who matter. It’s not about avoiding a platform because one wants to follow everything Taylor Swift does with immediate care and precision. It’s more about finding ways to promote the beautiful art that surrounds our culture.

Don’t abandon Spotify just because it doesn’t have “Shake If Off.” Flock to it because it sports the songs of a musician with only a few followers.

Just keep in mind how little support that artist might get from their new single’s play count.

Buying the EP or connecting through other forms of merchandise or touring can bring that value back to the art until a streaming service can finally capture what music really amounts to in dollar signs.

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Culture feature

Sparking the Fire: Dating apps facilitate pre Justin Kirkham Editor-in-Chief

Patty Bowen Managing Editor

Usually the Arbiter office beanbag is a place for slumbering in warm blankets. At the end of May, it was anything but. After a quick trip to the Beacon street Albertsons for diet soda and watermelon, we—Patty and Justin— sat on the collection of foam shavings and timeless stains with newly minted Tinder accounts in hand.

Dating apps like Tinder are a staple on many students’ smart phones, but we had yet to take part in their glory.

Summertime can be boring, and there’s no better way to fill your time than experiential journalism. At least, that was our justification for the project—three months on Tinder each.

During said project, we found that despite its stigma, Tinder is a reflection of our pre-existing culture and that hookup apps like Tinder are

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simply tools that make hookups easier to participate in.

Swiping Left with Justin

Three months of Tinder interactions left Justin listless, not in the contemplative drama way, but in a heightenedscorn-for-society sort of way.

Boise doesn’t offer the largest population of gay men, leaving me with a surprisingly small pool of potential interests. Of the 36 men I matched with, I have only spoken to three.

Amidst textless profiles and the sea of “just ask me :)” and “straight-acting” descriptions that I had the pleasure of sifting through on the ever-comfortable office beanbag, I found very little room for intellectual conversations.

I felt frustration with heteronormative mindsets of the app. I wasn’t sure if I was just out of place in a sea of socially constructed masculinity or if I just wasn’t actually matching with the correct people.

In spite of all of this, Tinder removed the social frustrations and estranged conventions that come along with dating. Talking to people was easier than ever, and there was no pressure for really any sort of continued effort.

This may have been a little too present, though, as I found myself laughing at photos and making fun of profile misspellings. Instead of engaging with human beings, I was presented with an array of seemingly faceless blobs and personality snapshots.

I’m not sure if I enjoy the idea of others doing the same with my profile. I put a lot of effort into filtering my photos and uploading them to a private Facebook album. If I make fun of someone’s collection of firearm and truck photos, they probably take their own jabs at my claims to arcane mage fame.

But, I suppose, if that’s the dating environment we are engaging within, it might be best to keep swiping during

“Gilmore Girls” on Netflix.

A Student Perspective

After beginning our experiment with Tinder, we decided to dive into the experiences of other students.

Junior computer science major Kelson Ball entered the summer with similar goals.

After moving from Everett, Washington to Boise in June, he decided it was time to make new connections.

“Where I work, I don’t get a lot of interaction with people, specifically people of my age or women of my age. Computer science and software engineering is notorious for that,” Ball said. “I didn’t have another avenue of meeting people.”

In search of those new friends, Ball made a Tinder profile. But, after a few weeks without any matches, he was discouraged.

Ball felt uncomfortable sealing his fate with a potential friend or love interest with a single, irreversible swipe. This discomfort was doubled by lackluster profile

descriptions.

“It was as cliché as I thought it would be,” Ball said. “Most tinder bios, if there was any text, were 50 to 70 percent similar from one to the next.

The people with small bios tend to rely on their attractiveness.”

According to Ball, lengthy, in-depth profiles tend to garner more matches. He experimented with short and fleshed out biographies for a few weeks and found himself with a handful more matches after describing himself in more detail.

“But it went up from like 0.1 percent to 0.5 percent of a match rate, which is particularly disheartening,” Ball said.

Even amongst those few matches, there were some duds. Ball said about half of his matches turned out to be spam profiles. He also interacted with several women looking solely for hookup— something Ball himself was not interested in.

One match told him he was

“bad at Tinder” for not wanting to hookup.

With these experiences behind him, Ball hasn’t opened the app in a few weeks now.

“For a while, even when I wasn’t looking for anything, I would still check it--almost like a chemical response. It was an anxiety-relief check like Facebook,” Ball said.

“Now, if there’s any other way to meet people, I would pick that first over Tinder.”

The only way he would return to Tinder would be with a change in its targeted user base, a group he described as “attractive people looking for hookups.”

“There’s definitely a stereotype that men are on there to get laid and that women are on there for friendships,” Ball said. “It was probably one of the first times I felt gender stereotyped.”

Swiping Right with Patty

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e-existing hookup culture, new interactions warm flame arms of Tinder.

Growing up in a culture that constantly reminded me of the objectification and dehumanization—just some of the added bonuses of being female—Tinder was exactly what I had expected it to be.

After the initial hype of possible romance settled, I found myself paying less and less attention to whose profile was on my screen. At one point I found myself making crude jokes or just being outright rude without any worry of the repercussions—there were plenty of eligible males left to make a better impression on if necessary.

I found that Tinder was, in essence, just a way to meet more interested parties more efficiently than normal. In a lot of ways, meeting people over Tinder wasn’t that different than meeting people in real life expect having assurance that they were interested and extra time to think about message phrasing.

This large pool of possible suitors can be overwhelm-

ing if you thrive off quality interactions like I do. The overload of winky face emojis translated to a general disinterest towards all interaction, digital or not.

After a week of using the application, I went on what I thought was soleing for the sake of journalism, but resulted a relationship that just reached its third month of enjoyable summer evenings and what seems like happy, healthy hangouts for both parties.

After my experience meeting a decently nice guy who met all my criteria—handsome, smart, has a cat—I decided to get an expert opinion.

The New Dating Norm

According to Manda Hicks, assistant professor in the Department of Communication, hookup apps reflect pre-existing social trends.

“Depending on your politics and your level of sophistication in this world, there are lots of different ways to

critique the hookup culture that is represented by these two applications but what they really are is ways to meet strangers,” Hicks said.

Although Hicks has never used Tinder, she found that hookup applications like it are a good reflection of how society is growing—tools neither good nor bad.

“We already have a culture of objectification and dehumanization,” Hicks said.

“Tinder doesn’t create that, that culture created Tinder.”

Hicks conclusion really resonated with me. Although I wouldn’t have initially met the people I did if not for Tinder, I feel confident that I still would have interacted with them in the same way.

That being said, Hicks thinks that the negative stigma surrounding hookup culture applications participants is not deserved.

“There’s always some way to make the younger generation the scapegoat,” Hicks said. “Sometimes that’s empty discourse because what

matters is what the social problems that come from the alleged activity of a hookup culture.”

Because Tinder and other online dating apps are just representations of larger cultural trends, Hicks is excited for the negative stigma behind dating apps to disappear.

“A moment that’s notewor-

thy is when you’re sitting talk to new people you’ve met and someone will say ‘Oh, we met on the internet,’ and you’ll think ‘Oh, how refreshing.

Someone is honest about it,’” Hicks said.

One thing’s for certain, Tinder, like all other electronic gadgets, only amplifies experiences and creates convenient avenues for what

would otherwise take a little longer to achieve. If you have trouble meeting people in your daily routine, you will still have trouble meeting people through Tinder.

That being said, Tinder is a great way to meet new people and give yourself a fun reason to upload several attractive photos onto Facebook.

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Culture CULTURE

Start a container garden for an autumn harvest Brittany Lindstrom With careful planning and a little bit of know-how, now is the perfect time to sow the seeds for an autumnal harvest. Even students short on space can get in on the fun and enjoy fresh, healthy foods all semester long.

Here are some tips for students interested in testing their green thumb.

etables. Just remember that students don’t have to plant a super-rare heirloom squash in order to be a prolific gardener. Instead, they should plant what they eat, and eat what they like.

Vegetables that perform well in the colder months include radishes, carrots, bok choy, lettuce and peas. Flowers that blossom in cooler weather include sunflowers, marigolds and asters.

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Container gardening is a cheap and effective way to get some tasty grub. With the summer season winding down, students can purchase discounted pots and soil at grocery stores, nurseries, thrift stores and home improvement centers.

Smaller plants, like radishes, do not require a ton of room to grow and enjoy living in cozy pots. Larger plants, like bok choy and carrots, require plenty of room to spread out.

A lack of ample growing space can stunt a plant’s growth or kill them prematurely.

In addition to purchasing discounted pots and soil in late summer, keep an eye out for seeds and plants. Many late season plants will already have ripe produce ready for harvest and will only need a new pot and some love to stay bountiful.

Students looking to save more cash can turn to online sources for a plethora of ideas. Sites such as Pinterest can provide treasure troves of information on converting items around the home into planters and harvesting seeds from grocery store produce.

Deciding What to Plant

The Myth of the Green Thumb

Seed catalogues and garden centers are a euphoric delight to the experienced gardener but, to the beginner, they can be an overwhelming nightmare. There is no right or wrong way to go about planning your garden. If a student’s dream garden is filled to the brim with nothing but carrots, they should channel their inner Bugs Bunny and grow carrots to their heart’s content.

That being said, gardening is a wonderful way to try new and different varieties of veg-

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delicate greens. Their heartiness is a serious boon once mid-terms start rolling in.

Another perk to autumnal gardening is the atmosphere.

It gives students the opportunity to unwind from the pressures of scholastic life.

Sure, students could just water their plants and duck back inside, but where is the fun in that? Take a little extra time to observe the cooler weather and scenery. If space allows, students can create comfortable garden sanctuaries to study or unwind in.

Becoming a Master Gardener

There are plenty of resources students can turn to if they need help getting started or wish to level up their gardening skills. In addition to the copious DIYs on Pinterest, check out The Old Farmer’s Alamnac and The National Gardening Association.

Students who want something local and hands-on can try attending a class at The Idaho Botanical Garden. With plenty of events and classes year round, students are guaranteed to find the information they need.

Autumn tomatoes are a perk of Fall.

Gardening, like life, isn’t an exact science. Even the most experienced gardener can lose plants to all sorts of seemingly random circumstances. The good news is that autumnal gardening comes with a set of perks that makes it a lot easier on beginning gardeners.

With cooler temperatures, plant loving pests are entering their eternal slumber and unable to attack an unsuspecting lettuce. Bok choy and collard greens are robust, shrugging off missed waterings and cold snaps that would decimate

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Just roll with it: Make your own pill bug habitat Cheyene Austin

Asst. Culture Editor

Pets are vital to human experience. Most people have at least one kind of favorite pet, whether it be dogs, cats, reptiles or birds. But the tragic reality is that some students can’t keep pets for one reason or another. Perhaps they are allergic, forbidden by authority figures or feel they can’t give it proper care with their schedule.

Enter armadillidiidae.

Also known as the woodlouse, the friendly neighborhood roly poly, the

potato bug and the medicinally named pill bug, the armadillidiidae is technically classified as a terrestrial crustacean, which means woodlice are more closely related to lobsters than bugs.

Ew? Not really. These critters improve soil nutrition content and have the ability to curl into cute balls. They are neither poisonous nor dangerous to humans.

It might also be beneficial to note—for those who are particularly desperate for a companion that has a beating heart and can’t make a

daring bathroom window escape—that woodlice do in fact have a beating heart and lack the mental capacity to plan a breakout.

Going by this standard, it might also be concluded that a woodlouse would make an appropriate substitute for a significant other. However, students who go this route risk ostracization.

A proper roly poly house requires a box filled with dirt, small rocks and bark or twigs to simulate their natural environment.

Since woodlice are crustaceans, they have gills, so

their habitat must be kept moist and humid. They eat decaying plant matter, so fruit and vegetable scraps are perfect foods.

They won’t demand that fancy canned filet mignon cat food. However, if anything starts to mold, students should remove it immediately.

Feeding a new best friend mold is unacceptable. The fact that they consume feces in the wild is irrelevant.

When woodlice feel threatened, they will roll up into a ball. Their shells are pretty beast, but they

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Males and females differ slightly in appearance.

While males typically have dark, solid bodies, females tend to be lighter gray and can have spots. If their skeleton turns up collecting dust in a corner of the habitat, don’t worry. The woodlouse did not ascend to a higher, nonphysical realm. It simply molted.

However, if even tiny land crustaceans are too burdensome, a rock is always nice, and they don’t even have legs.

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Know where to go when energy is low Brittany Lindstrom Culture Editor

With early morning classes, evening socializing and late night cram sessions, students are always in dire need of energy. Thankfully, there are plenty of places around campus to grab a well-crafted cup of coffee, enjoy an aromatic tea or have a nosh.

(A) J.R. Simplot Cafe Located on the first floor of the College of Business and Economics, the J.R. Simplot Cafe is run by students for students. While the J.R. Simplot Cafe serves Starbucks coffee, don’t expect the typical Starbucks experience from this gem.

While the J.R. Simplot Cafe lacks the full Starbucks menu, students can select from a great variety of food and beverages. The College of Business and Economics offers plenty of seating indoors and out to study or enjoy a well deserved break between classes.

(B) Einstein Bros. Bagels Sporting the most robust food menu of all on-campus cafes, Einstein Bros. Bagels elevates bagels to culinary art. Situated in the Interactive Teaching and Learning Center, Einstein Bros. offers sandwiches, wraps, soups, sweet treats and — of course — plenty of bagels.

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menu is just as nuanced with classic espresso offerings, Oregon chai tea and a soda fountain if coffee just isn’t a student’s jam.

(C) Starbucks Upon entering the Albertsons Library, students are greeted with the aromatic embrace of Starbucks. The Albertsons Library Starbucks has all of the accoutrements that frequent Starbucks patrons have come to expect over the years—delicious pastries, a large assortment of espresso beverages, tea concoctions and a great selection of noncoffee refreshments.

Students can look forward to seasonal drinks during the fall semester, including the legendary Pumpkin Spice Latte. With a convenient firstfloor location, Starbucks is a necessary first stop for all students needing to spend a few hours battling assignments.

(D) Moxie Java At the heart of the Student Union Building, Boise-based Moxie Java stands perfectly poised to help students lagging through their day. With coffee beans locally roasted in small batches, Moxie Java is a great option for students looking to support local businesses on campus.

Moxie Java’s menu is light on food but heavy on unique espresso options.

The Milky Way, a full-flavored caramel mocha, is one such offering and, if students are feeling a bit over-caffeinated, an Italian Soda is a delicious way to stop the palpitations.

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Staff Reactions “The best coffee I’ve had is from Starbucks. It was plain, but I added enough sugar, regular creamer and hazelnut creamer to make it taste like popcorn. It was the only time I have ever enjoyed coffee.”

Cheyene, Asst. Culture Editor “I’m a black coffee kind of girl, so I’m relatively easy to please. On the rare occasion I decide to indulge in a ‘fancy’ coffee, I adore spiced mochas and pumpkin lattes.”

Brittany, Culture Editor

“I love coffee, but hate the increase in bathroom visits after consuming a 16 oz. To keep awake while my body decays under the semester’s stress, I try to eat roughly 4-5 apples a day. These tasty treats give the ingester a burst of energy and even keep the Health Services away.”

Patty, Managing Editor

“I would say that I get my fix from Starbucks’ cold brew in the library and Einstein’s hazelnut and vanillabrewed coffee.”

Patrick, News Editor

“I prefer to find caffeine that feels nice, both in taste and texture. Thus, in an effort to satisfy both, I look for energy drinks with textured cans and a lack of battery acid taste in the SUB C Store. “ Justin, Editor-in-Chief

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Students seek studying success this semester Asst. Culture Editor When school begins on Monday, Aug. 24, many students, both new and experienced, will panic.

They may not be effective notetakers, they may get test anxiety or they may seem to find themselves falling behind.

Whatever the reason, most students could benefit from a reminder of successful study habits.

“Students should be sure to take a personal inventory and know how they learn best. Everyone is unique and processes information differently, so there is no universal solution that works

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for everyone,” said online testing Supervisor Maria Shimel.

For visual learners, Shimel recommends color coding notes, doodling on notes or drawing out concepts to better understand them.

Auditory learners should record lectures to review later, prepare questions for class to hear the instructor’s explanation and meet with professors during their office hours to go over difficult concepts. The most important tips for tactile learners are to put theory into action and practice things learned in class.

However, every student has their own methods for studying,

as freshman biology major Catherine Alex pointed out.

“Flashcards are nice, but reading my own notes and the textbook seems to be most helpful for me,” Alex said.

Regardless of learning style, students don’t need to read every passage of a fifty-page assignment—unless the professor em-

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phasized the necessity of a cozy all-nighter with their textbook.

It’s more efficient to scan for things that stand out instead— lists, figures, bold, italics, headings and checklists are all good indicators of important material.

Most professors will gladly set up meeting times with students to discuss confusing topics or

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clarify assignment instructions.

They are also available to go over tests and explain their grading. This can be a valuable tool to better understand what areas of the course material that students need to work on.

Writing information down never hurts. It doesn’t have to be a color-coded hourly agenda to be effective. As long as students are taking the time to write down important dates and deadlines somewhere, it’s likely to help them remember.

It’s also good to make note of anything the professor seems to spend a long amount of time discussing.

Shimel suggests obtaining a planner as soon as possible and utilizing it.

“At the beginning of the semester, collect all the class syllabuses and enter all assignment due dates, holidays and tests into the planner,” Shimel said. “Then go through the planner, working backwards, and make notes as to when you should be checking in on assignments, starting to study or when you should be halfway done with a paper. These prompts help students remember projects and not procrastinate.”

If students follow these tips, the foundation of their academic success will be further cemented.

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Welcome to Boise State Football games 101 Rylan Kobre Asst. Sports & Rec Editor Bronco football is almost here and there is a lot that the common fan needs to know for game day. The broncos will kick off Friday, Sept. 4 against University of Washington.

This is one of the most anticipated home games in school history as the broncos find themselves facing former head coach Chris Petersen.

In order to fully enjoy the football experience, new fans will need to prepare for a few Bronco game customs.

Student Tailgate

Your pre-game routine should always start with the ASBSU sponsored student tailgate. Three hours before kickoff, students can come out to the Bleymaier Football Complex east entrance for some free food, attractions and a place to get ready on game day.

This year ASBSU is more excited than ever about the 2015 tailgate scene for students.

“I want students to be here,” said ASBSU President Brian Garretson. “It’s the place to be before the game.”

Dunk tanks, mechanical bulls and a bigger budget call for a great time before rolling into Albertsons Stadium.

Kickoffs

During every Boise State kickoff, the stadium begins to rev up in intensity and excitement.

When the kicker gets set and puts his hand in the air to kick the ball, fans will yell the word “gooo” until the ball is kicked. Once it leaves the ground and begins its flight

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into the air, fans yell “blue” in unison.

Fight Song

Learning the Boise State fight song is essential to a prime student section experience.

As corny as it may seem, it serves students well after every bronco touchdown.

Those interested can learn the song on Friday night, Aug. 21, on the SUB patio with other fellow broncos. If anything, it is most important to learn the ending: “go orange| go big blue| fight fight BSU.”

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First Downs

“And that’s another bronco…..first down.”

Get ready to hear that phrase more often than not during your time as a bronco.

Every time Boise State passes, runs or crawls for a first down the PA announcer will yell “and that’s another bronco” and everyone will yell back

“first down!”

If your throat hurts at the end of the game, that usually means Boise State crossed the first down marker multiple times.

The Bronco Walk

The Bronco Walk began last year and was well received

by Boise State faithfuls. Before every home football game, Boise State players and coaches are followed by the Blue Thunder Marching Band as they walk down a route

that starts on University Avenue and ends in Albertsons Stadium.

This tradition is utilized by many of the top programs in the country to get the players and fans fired up before the game.

Catch the Bronco Walk and then head on over to the student tailgate before entering Albertsons Stadium.

Touchdown Mondays Scoring

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touchdown

doesn’t just mean seven more points on the scoreboard. It also means discounts for students. Every time the broncos score a touchdown, a five percent off apparel is offered at the Bronco Shop on the following Monday.

The discount stops adding up after five touchdowns are scored, but that still means you can receive up to 25 percent off on “Touchdown Mondays” at the Bronco Shop.

Color Schemes

Before you put on your bronco gear, make sure you aren’t the lone fan wearing orange at the “Blue Out” game on Saturday, Oct. 24 versus University of Wyoming.

Each game has a different color scheme. This requires fans from different sections of the stadium to wear certain colors. The opening game versus University of Washington, is a tri-color scheme.

Students wear orange, while other sections of the stadium wear either blue, orange or white.

For a printed copy of the color schemes for your dorm’s bulletin board, you can go to the Bronco Sports website.

Student Concessions

Section 123 is your best friend. Behind this section, located on the main concourse, you will find the student-only concessions stand.

Here you can find hot dogs, nachos, hot cocoa, water and soda, and all prices are two dollars or less. The section is located directly beside the student section.

Make sure you have your student ID card on you to

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Rylan Kobre Asst. Sports & Rec Editor I consider myself one thankful guy and so should you.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in Northern California, a place I will always call home and I miss everyday.

Making the transition to a new living space, a new routine and a new city should never be underestimated and I struggled with it just like you might too.

Time continued on and I was thankful enough to meet incredible friends in the dorms, join the university radio station and get involved in campus events.

Now I’m lucky enough to write this column, which will usually be about sports.

However, in this week’s article, I wanted to share some advice with you while moving into the dorms.

First of all, everyone can find their niche at this university.

Whatever you like to do, I can guarantee you will find people who like it, too. Here is the secret to finding it: Get out of your comfort zone.

While you sit in the Boise River Cafe the first week of school, go find somebody new. Don’t sit by yourself.

You will have plenty of time to eat alone in the BRC this year.

Go explore the many activities the Rec Center has to offer, run down the greenbelt or go hike up to Table Rock with your new friends.

Join a club, go to a football game and have fun adventuring in downtown Boise.

Your grades are important and will ultimately stress you out, but remember to relax a little as well.

You might work or play a

sport, but, you will always have some social time to relax with friends. Your stress will melt away with one stroll across Julia Davis Park.

We are all grateful to be at a university that the community can call “theirs.” Boise is the definition of a “college town.” On game day, when you see the parking lot packed at 10 in the morning with tailgaters, remember how great it is to wear blue and orange.

Follow my advice and get out of your comfort zone.

Come say hello to me on campus. I’m the guy with the white Nike hat or A’s hat, onestrap backpack and yellow water bottle in hand. I hope you enjoy reading my column as much as I will enjoy writing it.

Whatever you are passionate about, you can find it here.

I am thankful to be here every single day and so should you.

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Intramurals set to get underway in new season Rylan Kobre

Asst. Sports & Rec Editor One of the biggest transitions for a graduated high school student is going from athlete to regular citizen.

Once high school ends, a small percentage wind up playing at the collegiate ranks.

Depending on the sport, the idea of playing at the college level can be extremely difficult. Of the 1,093,234 high school football players, only 6.5 percent went on to play NCAA football in 20132014. With the small percentage of students who play in college, it can be tough for the other 93.5 percent who

dedicated their whole life to a sport, and suddenly feel empty- handed.

“It’s hard to motivate yourself when you don’t have people to exercise with,”Kai Collingwood said, a former high school cross country athlete and Boise State student.

Luckily, Boise State students can continue their sports passions by playing intramurals in a fun and inviting setting.

“Intramurals give people the opportunity to have fun and meet friends, all while playing in a competitive environment,” Judd Olmstead said, facilities manager and intramural supervisor of the

Rec Center.

Intramural signups are coordinated through the website IMleagues websitefor signups. This website can be utilized to manage teams, check game times and see who is leading in the standings. Here is everything students need to know for the first intramurals of the year:

Flag Football

Flag football will consist of a co-rec league, men’s blue, men’s orange and a women’s league. The blue league will be at a competitive level while the orange will be more recreational. It will be a sevenon-seven format and teams

can have up to 14 players on a roster. Signups will begin on Aug. 24 to Sept. 8, and the season will run from Sept. 13 to Oct. 15, followed by single elimination playoffs. There is a $50 fee for each team that joins.

Sand Volleyball

Sand volleyball will have Co-ed blue and orange leagues. Blue will be competitive with the orange being more recreational. It will be a four-on-four league and teams can have a max of 16 players. The sign up date will be Aug. 24 to Sept. 8 and the season will run from Sept.

14 to Oct. 8, finishing with a single elimination tournament. Each team will cost $50 to join.

Tennis

The Intramural tennis tournament signups will begin on Aug. 31 and will go until Sept.

8. The tournament will be on Sept. 12 and will have both a men’s and women’s tournament.

There is a $5 service fee to join and the games will take place at Appleton Tennis Courts.

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Rec offers diverse activities for new freshmen Ali Roberts

Sports & Rec Editor For its many sought after purposes, the Rec Center offers students a handful of move-in activities. It may serve as a freshman differently, as a place to get or stay in shape, or a scouting ground for clubs or intramural sports.

Helpful Rec Hints

When arriving at the Rec, the first thing to look at is membership fees. Full-time student membership costs are included in student fees paid at the beginning of the year.

Meaning, for full time students, the Rec Center is free to use. For part time students there is a small membership price. All others, including faculty, staff alumni, or spouse/partner of any current campus Rec member will be charged a larger fee.

Lockers are also available for rental for each semester and are more ideal for students who will be spending added time at the Rec. Alternately there are day lockers, which require a deposit that is refunded after use.

The Rec also maintains strict policies regarding attire as stated on their facility policies page on the Rec site.

“For the comfort of our patrons and to create a welcoming, inclusive and safe environment, shirts and shoes are required throughout the facility.” it reads. “Shirts must cover, at a minimum, your sides/ torso and midriff. Sports bras must be covered by a shirt of some type.”

Activites at the Rec

The Rec offers a diverse range of activities and classes for students, from body and skill assessments to personal trainers, clubs and intramural sports.

“We offer tons of free ‘drop-in’ classes that students can come to anytime. We also have a series of ‘premium fitness’ classes that are easy to sign up for via our website.

Students can also learn about the various intramural sports as well as sign up for a team on our website as well,” Director of Campus Recreation Luke Jones said. “If students are interested in joining a club sport, they need to contact the team’s coach to find out more about tryouts and the season.”

Outside of the Rec, the Outdoor Rental Center is located around the corner from the Rec’s main entrance.

The Outdoor Center offers several trips to students throughout the year, in addition to serving as a rental center for any equipment that is needed to enjoy the great outdoors.

Students can rent several different types of equipment, ranging from camping and climbing equipment to ski and snowboard equipment for winter.

Upcoming Events

The traditional “Get Rec’d” event will be on Aug. 23, on the intramural field. This event is a perfect opportunity for new students to find what classes and activities will be best for them.

At the event there will be fitness competitions, demonstrations of club sports, as well as free food, prizes and music.

The Outdoor Rental Center will also host “Bronco Welcome Rafting” taking place Aug. 29, for students to have a break after the first week back at Boise State. Sign ups are due Aug. 28.

“There is something for everyone.” Jones said. “Whatever your skill level and experience are, come in and explore all that Campus Recreation has.”

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Great affection 25. A reserve of money 26. Alright 27. Sexual assault 28. Varnish ingredient 29. Official tree of Canada 30. Willow 31. Record (abbrev.)

34. Pullulate 35. Type of sword 36. Mousses 38. Eon 39. Condescending 41. Go-between

42. Color of the sky 44. Restitution 45. Blots 46. Embankment 47. Concerning (archaic) 48. Small open pies 51. Buddy 52. Sea eagle 53. Blockhead 54. Region 55. Bloody 56. Terminates

1. WW1 plane 5. Heart artery 10. Whip 14. Humdinger 15. Channel selector 16. Within 17. By mouth 18. Conversion 20. Latticework 22. Estate 23. Neither ___ 24. Quarries 1. Notch 2. Happy cat sound 3. Wings 4. Bluntness 5. Clothing 6. Not yours 7. Ribonucleic acid 8. Care for 9. Backside 10. About a US quart 11. Licoricelike flavor 12. Obdurate 13. Sharpens

58. Lyric poem

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