The Arbiter 10.13.2015

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Editor’s note

To the archives: connecting the facts, information Justin Kirkham Editor-In-Chief

History is something that we’ve addressed pretty heavily in our past coverage here at The Arbiter.

Brittany Lindstrom, our resident history and archive expert and Culture Editor in the office, is constantly excited about ways to incorporate Boise’s rich history in our articles and weekly coverage in the culture section.

But, this time around, it was our Sports & Rec Editor, Ali Roberts, who pur-

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sued a historical approach to one of her pieces. Over the past few weeks, Roberts has combed through the archives here at Boise State, looking at old press releases, news articles and photos from the past decades of Boise State football.

When approaching this piece, she couldn’t just ask a singular source for an interview and call it good. Instead, she had to compile documents and documents of information in order to consolidate and best present her infor-

mation. The article now looks like a pretty seamless journey through each decade of football history, but, at the beginning, Roberts had far more information than she knew what to do with.

Information comes in various different forms.

It’s usually pretty obvious that a random official on a topic might be well equipped to provide as much knowledge on that topic as possible. But, it may be less apparent that this information can come in the form of old docu-

ments and files—it just takes a lot more work to find.

When you read Roberts’ article on page 12, be sure to keep that in mind. People often think of journalists as fact presenters. But, oftentimes, it is up to that journalist to connect the dots and better illustrate those facts for a reader.

It’s our hope that articles and multimedia content in The Arbiter help do this for our readers—even if it is something as simple as a journey through Boise States football jerseys.

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NEWS Patrick Adcock News Editor

The bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières— Doctors Without Borders—hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan had life-altering consequences for the doctors and patients involved.

As efforts are made to investigate why the attack was carried out it reamains unclear what consequences this will have on the American government and military.

The hospital was struck several times over the course of an hour on Oct. 3, killing 12 staff members and at least 10 patients—three of whom were children—and leaving 37 injured.

The Department of Defense responded to the attack, saying they are “still trying to determine exactly what happened” and why the strike was carried out.

According to General John Campbell, Afghanistan Operations Commander, the strike was requested by Afghanistan forces but carried out by the U.S. chain of command and mistakenly struck the hospital.

“If errors were committed, we will acknowledge them.

We will hold those responsible accountable and we will take steps to ensure mistakes are not repeated,” Campbell said. “We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility.”

To avoid accidents like this the hospital’s coordinates were shared with both the Afghanistan and United States governments—as recently as Sept. 29—raising even more questions about

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why the attack was carried out.

Three separate investigations by NATO, the U.S. and the Afghanistan government are now underway in an attempt to get to the bottom of this tragic incident. MSF has requested a third-party investigation to be conducted claiming that war crimes were commited.

However, Michael Allen, political science assistant professor at Boise State, said getting a third-party investigation is unlikely, and even if one were to take place, he doesn’t think it will make much of a difference.

Getting an independent party with enforcement to have control over the fate of a US service member’s life seems very, very unlikely to occur, at least from my perspective,” Allen said. “That comes with being one of the most powerful countries in the world; there’s not many options to restrain that power.”

International President of MSF, Dr. Joanne Liu, announced that MSF is seeking an investigation through the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.

“This commission was established in the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions and is the only permanent body set up specifically to investigate violations of international humanitarian law,” Liu said in her announcement. “We ask signatory States to activate the Commission to establish the truth and to reassert the protected status of hospitals in conflict.”

Allen said, even if said investigation were launched,

it is unlikely there would be grounds for war crimes.

“For it to be a war crime it would have to be intentionally done by some actor that said ‘we should bomb this hospital’ without mitigating circumstances,” Allen said.

“We’ve had accidents like this before.”

According to Allen, war crimes are typically charged after a war against the loser of the war, not in situations like this.

“The only real standing body that can deal with war crimes presently is the International Criminal Court, and, for all intents and purposes, the ICC does not have jurisdiction over the United States,” Allen said.

“We helped establish the court, but then we did not ratify the treaty, so we are not subject to it.”

Allen said, in order for the court to have authority over the U.S., it would have to volunteer itself.

“The likelyhood of any member of the United States being brought before the ICC is practically nil,” Allen said. “There could be an independent investigation into it, but they would be unlikely to have any meaningful enforcement.”

Isaac Castellano, political science adjunct professor at Boise State, agrees with Allen’s conclusion of a lack of consequences for the United States.

“In terms of international law, there’s really nothing.

Unless intent was proven, but even then, the biggest, strongest statutes that would put the U.S. in some sort of legal trouble or violation of a treaty (would have no

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US bombs MSf hospital effect),” Castellano said.

“There’s nothing really that exists that would tie the U.S.’ hands or be anything other than a political and PR fallout.”

Castellano said is not an isolated incident in United States history and these consequences are something that come with drone strikes.

“You could call it egregious. You could call it shocking, but this is not terribly different from what a normal drone strike looks like,” Castellano said. “Effort is made to reduce collateral damage—but often times there is lots of collateral damage.”

Allen mentioned a wedding celebration in Afghanistan that was bombed because attendees were firing guns in the air during their

celebration.

“That’s pretty terrible,” Allen said. “But again I don’t think much really happened from it because the people who conducted the operation thought they were under fire and responded in time, and it was more of just a huge misunderstanding.”

Allen said these misunderstandings are counterproductive to the goals the U.S. has for Afghanistan and the surrounding region.

“Bombing civilians is never good, and if your goal is to win the hearts and minds of another country, then this certainly is propaganda against you in that regard,” Allen said.

According to Castellano, the United States has repeatedly violated the Geneva Convention over the past 12 years, though he believes

progress is being made to ensure the security of citizens.

Though the record is not in MSF’s favor, it appears there is some hope for the organization.

“Being unjustly harmed in this situation may give them more exposure to give them more support, more donations, more volunteers to continue doing the good work that they do,” Allen said. “That’s not anywhere near the same thing as having justice occur, but it may help them continue the things they’re doing as a humanitarian measure.”

This is where student involvment can really help.

Two ways students can get involved are donating to MSF online and communicating their desire for policy change with local representatives.

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NEWS

Plan for your midterms Sam Harting Staff Writer

As midterms approach, stress levels rise and the hours of sleep decrease. Taking advantage of free services around campus can help improve both students’ grades and moods. “(Students) need to allocate enough time to thoroughly and properly prepare for an exam,” said Jillana Finnegan, associate director of advising and academic enhancement. “The rule there is it always takes about twice as long as you think you need to really be prepared.”

Finding enough time to study can be difficult, especially during midterms, but making time helps students make the grade.

According to Finnegan, material shouldn’t be tackled all at once.

“Ideally you schedule (study time) in blocks of two to three hours over the course of the week,” Finnegan said.

Studying in this manner requires planning ahead, but can help students feel prepared for tests.

“The least effective strategies are simply re-reading your course content and making note cards that simply take what’s in the book and put it on a note card,” Finnegan said.

According to Finnegan, students should instead write note cards in their own words, with only about seven words. Study groups and practice exams are some of the best ways to get ready for midterms, finals and other general tests.

“The key to learning and to remembering is repetition over time,” Finnegan said.

Finnegan also said that reviewing how past exams went can help when reviewing for midterms. By learning from past mistakes, or successes, stu-

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dents can help reduce stress of not knowing what they are up against.

Reducing stress is vital, because workloads generally increase dramatically during midterms.

“I feel like I have a lot more things to attend (during midterms), like study sessions, review sessions, maybe meeting with classmates and studying with them,” said sophomore social work major, Hannah Stark.

For those who want help with time management, or other techniques for being a successful student, academic enhancement and advising offers different free workshops to help students.

The Writing Center

As midterms and finals approach, the Writing Center receives many more reservations than normal. Writing consultants are available to help students, but they only have so many time slots available.

Alex Jones, senior English major, has been working as a writing consultant for two years. Jones encourages students to make appointments weeks ahead, because “midterm time is (the Writing Center’s) busiest part of the fall semester.”

Although consultants will not write a student’s paper, or do copy editing line by line, they help get students on the right track.

“We help any student that has come in with something to work on. That could be anything. That could even be an outline, or ‘Hey, I just have five ideas. Can we sit and talk about them?’” Jones said.

Jones noted that sometimes students come in and are looking for help with things other than their papers, but writing consultants are well-trained in

dealing with stressed students.

“We’re here to help students and if students have a breakdown, and they’re having a hard time, that’s okay. We try to help, we try to listen. We try to also assist and if there are other services that a student needs that are on campus, we try to give them the resources that they can plug into,” Jones said.

Being Successful

“(Midterms) kind of stress me out personally,” said Alex Phan, sophomore and prenursing major. “But I feel like it is a good review of everything I have done so far.”

The added stress is expected, but even working on small things can put students on a better track to success. Checking grades is the most common and easy to fix problem Finnegan sees.

“I would like students to be fully aware going into midterms what they need to get on their exam in order to maintain a passing grade in their class,” Finnegan said. “I find that students who are really struggling—the anxiety of actually knowing what their current grade is—leads them to not look.”

It might be intimidating for students to check grades after they do poorly on an exam or found a class to be difficult.

However, it is important students know what their grades are so they know where they stand in the class.

Eventually, midterms will come to an end, and then students can breathe again. Well, at least until finals.

“When you do good on (midterms) it kind of makes you feel accomplished and it does give you an opportunity to kind of like cushion that grade if you need it,” Stark said.

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NEWS

Students, community use Uber over taxi services Shelly Bohorquez Asst. News Editor

For the past six months, an increasing amount of the Boise community has been downloading the popular car sharing app Uber. In the six years since its San Francisco debut, this app has morphed the century-old taxicab industry.

The implementation of this driving service was approved by Idaho’s legislature in April, after months of hesitation in allowing the car sharing service to enter Idaho.

Casey Desmond, senior

marketing major, downloaded the app after receiving a promotional code for a free ride.

“Uber is cheaper than cabs and I like the fact that you can see who is picking you up and in what car. It actually gives the driver a rating so I really appreciate that,” Desmond said.

Using a five star rating system, the app allows people to rate their drivers, as well as drivers to rate their passengers.

This allows students to know how polite to expect their driver to be and vice versa.

The app also shows the

make and model of the car picking you up, along with a picture of the driver and their route to your location. This acts as a safety measure because passengers know what to expect.

“A lot of college students, especially at Boise State, tend to be out-ofstate students and don’t have a car, so it’s an effective way of getting around without having to ask for rides,” Desmond said.

Derek Sloan, whose name has been changed to protect his privacy, is a local Uber driver who has been with the company since mid-April.

“It’s different; if you work for a cab company, they’ll give you a specific shift and, as a new driver, you’ll probably get a less desirable shift,” Sloan said.

“I had time from my other job and I know Boise pretty well from living here for three years,” Sloan said.

According to Sloan, Uber is a better business model for transportation, and it gives drivers the flexibility they want and need for working.

“I think the primary role of an Uber driver is to transport people safely and efficiently. I’ve made 1800 trips and I have a

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Joe Marshall, owner of Boise Green Cab, keeps his business more private and exclusive due to his views on the dangers of the taxi industry.

“I’ve never been in a more corrupt industry,” Marshall said. “We work what’s called the downtown market, which is close to 30 or 40 bars.

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According to Marshall, this keeps him away from potentially dangerous

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“When somebody gets in your car and is intimately close, you don’t know the person. With big companies like ABC and Boise City Taxi; their drivers don’t want to work the night shift because it’s dangerous,” Marshall said.

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NEWS Justin Kirkham Editor-in-Chief

From flitting hummingbird research to unremitting marching band travel costs, students can invest in the organizations around campus directly from their own wallets through PonyUp, Boise State’s new crowdfunding service.

“There are so many programs that need small amounts of money,” said Cara Walker, senior director of annual giving at University Advancement.

“This will be a tool to provide motivated faculty and staff, student organizations and departments with dedicated project leaders to build their own sources.”

After a successful run with the Boise State observatory refurbishment project, which has been funded at $9,170 with an end goal of $8,000. PonyUp just launched three new projects on Monday, Oct. 12: hummingbird population research in Idaho City, an organic food health study and a Blue Thunder away game fund.

“Crowdfunding is something that all these different areas of campus can participate in,” said junior international relations major and University Advancement crowdfunding coordinator Alex Belisle.

“It’s not only a tool for fundraising, but it’s also a way to tell the story behind the different areas of crowdfunding.”

Much of the funding cir-

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cling organizations, groups and departments comes from fundraising efforts at University Advancement.

Employing direct mail processes, student phonea-thons and email solicitations, the Annual Giving section of University Advancement gathers charitable gifts ranging from $1 to $25 thousand.

PonyUp is part of this philanthropic initiative. It is a specialized web platform where groups—along with one to three designated group leaders and a list of potential donors—can gather funds. Each project, displayed in a similar fashion to GoFundMe or Kickstarter projects, shows the amount of current donors on a project, how much they’ve raised and what percentage of a project’s goal has been reached.

In an effort to best capture the stories behind each project, PonyUp sports videos urging potential donors to become invested in, monetarily and emotionally, the projects at hand.

University Advancement has partnered with The Student Foundation to provide potential project leaders with social media and media production assistance.

It was this sort of outreach that helped the observatory funding become successful.

“The university, as part of my hiring process, provided some research funding that I could use in principle to refurbish the observatory,” said Brian Jackson, assistant profes-

sor in the Department of Physics and project leader for the PonyUp observatory initiative. “But I thought, instead of building it up to be a research facility, let’s make it a community facility.”

Instead of relying solely on university funding, Jackson wanted to increase awareness for his project through crowdfunding, allowing him to gather quite a bit of extra money and awareness for the physics department in general.

“Some of the donors have actually emailed me directly to tell me why they donated,” Jackson said. “In that sense, I think it has sort of built up a community around the observatory even before it’s even running.”

Many of these donors are past Boise State students who used the observatory during their undergraduate careers in the 1980s.

The PonyUp crowdfunding project has generated excitement among old and new observatory users throughout the community.

Because, as Jackson said, “the university is always sort of short on cash,” crowdfunding is a good alternative to relying solely on internal and external grants. While the funding is available for those who want to apply for university-based grants or outside grants from organizations like NASA, crowdfunding might beget funds more quickly or provide a project with more publicity and community value.

“The amount of money

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PonyUp will raise funds for research. you could get from one of those grants will be way more than you could get from a crowdfunding campaign, but a crowdfunding campaign can provide that seed money to get things started,” Jackson said.

“Once you have that seed money, when you put in a proposal to one of these governmental organizations, you can say, ‘we’ve already put a little bit of work into this project and the community is invested in this project.’”

This, according to Walker, is why crowdfunding has surfaced in the past two years as a new form of fundraising at the univer-

sity level throughout the country.

“We, as the university, are the car, and those charitable gifts are the gas,” Walker said.

In essence, Walker aims to provide platforms through which organizations can spread the word about the projects they are undertaking. By gathering funds to keep programs running on their special projects, she believes University Advancement is integral to the funding process at the university.

According to Belisle, many students may not realize how important fundraising is when it comes to the different projects they

participate in each year, leaving room for “a lot of stuff on campus that isn’t necessarily part of our tuition or our fees.”

Walker stressed many projects can be funded through the university.

But, by doing this, they don’t tap into the community as well as they can with crowdfunding or fundraising.

“Because the observatory was a crowdfunded project, 107 people are able to raise their hand and say, ‘I think this is important,’” Walker said. “Now all of the people in the public know we have an observatory and they’re excited about it.”

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NEWS Patrick Adcock News Editor

Two years ago, Boise State received a grant from the National Science Foundation to help the university with environmental research. This grant let the university the participate in the MILES project—Managing Idaho’s Landscapes for Ecosystem Services.

“The MILES project is a grant that’s generally focused on improving our capacity to do environmental research,” said Shawn Benner, hydrologist and MILES project lead at Boise State. “It includes hiring a bunch of new faculty members, and it includes some actual research.”

This five-year project focuses on developing models that can be used to help make decisions about Idaho’s resources by making predictions about the future of the Treasure Valley.

“We call that alternative futures modeling. So we’re basically trying to run these models in time and say ‘if we make this decision now, 100 years from now the landscape might look like this,’” Benner said.

Andrea Leonard, graduate student in hydrology, is a member of the team working on building these models.

“I’m looking at farm management decisions, different irrigation systems, different rotation schedules, fertilizer application—how that all

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shifts water use on the farm scale,” Leonard said.

“I’ve been looking at historic trends in the valley; it’s mostly alfalfa or wheat, corn seed, sugar beets and surprisingly not many potatoes.”

This information is taken into account with other models that account for other factors like climate change to give an even clearer picture of the future.

“It gets me excited because I know it’s actually going to be used and it’s bettering our valley. It’s definitely really valuable on a larger scale,” Leonard said.

Leonard said this information is critical because people are so disconnected from their water and that makes it difficult to make decisions about it.

The MILES project is about to enter its third year, and they have gained a lot of insight into the problem they are taking on.

“When you dig down and start studying what happens to that water,” Benner said. “It’s pretty clear that even though there is a mechanism that leads to that water getting to all these different fields, when push comes to shove, we don’t really know where any of the water is being used or how much is being used.”

As the Treasure Valley continues to grow, information from the MILES project becomes increasingly valuable to policy makers who are making decision that affect the fu-

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ture of the area.

“Ultimately, if we want to influence how we make decisions about resources then we need to understand how we actually make the decision about those resources,” Benner said. “So when there’s water used in the Treasure Valley, it’s really complicated how that decision gets made. There are people all along the chain that are making decisions that are dictating how that water gets used.”

The MILES project is unique in this way because of its interdisciplinary focus.

“My role in this large National Science Foundation project, and the public policy research center’s role, is really to provide the social science perspective and expertise,” said Eric Lindquist, director of

the Public Policy Research Center at Boise State.

The role that Lindquist plays in the project is helping to define public policy, understanding how and what science is used in policy decision making, listening to water users and helping to network stake holders and policy managers to one another.

Lindquist said that unlike many interdisciplinary projects he has worked on in the past, the MILES project has done a great job of incorporating social science.

“They forget that social science is just as complicated and complex. Economics, psychology and sociology are just as critical to answering big questions as technology, engineering and math are,” Lindquist said. “There’s a lot of cultural change that

has to go on before an interdisciplinary project like this can go on and be successful.”

It’s because of this culture that Lindquist has had the most fun in his career on the MILES project.

However, interdisciplinary research is not without its difficulties.

Bangshuai Han, postdoctorate researcher for MILES, said his role has become more complex through adding social science.

Han performs much of the modeling for the project and thus has to incorporate many different kinds of data.

“There are a lot of factors that influence (water) climate, urban growth, population growth, land use and water rights. We want to incorporate as many factors as possible

in the model,” Han said “It’s pretty noble research.

This kind of integration of different models to project future scenarios is the cutting edge of science. A lot of people are interested in this topic.”

Benner said there are a number of challenges in a project like this, one of which stems from the lack of shared knowledge between disciplines that causes members to talk past each other.

“We do have ambitious goals. Our goal is to really shift the mechanism by which we tackle complex problems,” Benner said.

“Academia has gotten itself in a place where some of the structures are not super supportive of this effort, so we’re trying to fix that.”

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Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Planned Parenthood Boise State Student

I just finished reading your free advertisement for Planned Parenthood on page 6 of the Sept. 29 Arbiter publication. To say that this is “News”, as displayed at the top of the printed page, is meaningless, as the article was onesided and had a clear agenda of promoting Planned Parenthood and placing the organization in a good light.

There was no counterpoint, and the article never answered its own question, “What would happen?”

The article never recognizes the social issue has changed as a result of the recent videos. In general, the public trusted that Planned Parenthood was

dealing in good faith despite ongoing criticism— that Planned Parenthood really didn’t want to perform abortions but would much rather prevent pregnancy in the first place, as it claimed.

The videos have revealed this to be a lie, and show that Planned Parenthood not only profited from abortions, but introduced business plans to increase their frequency and the profit margin of the organization. This was done in a callous manner that reduced human life literally to pieces.

As a BSU student I am disappointed that The Arbiter is so transparently one-sided. There was not even an attempt at journalism in this article—only a regurgitation of propaganda.

Staff response: Patrick Adcock News Editor

l would like to genuinely thank you for your concern for the content of The Arbiter. As an editor, it is always great to hear feedback on the work we produce.

When I was writing the article, I was concerned that it could appear onesided. This is why I included as much data as I could.

My goal with the article was to let the facts speak for themselves.

That being said, there were two errors in the article that Katie Rogers from Planned Parenthood informed me of after publication that are worth noting.

In an interview, Rogers told me, that in 2014, Planned Parenthood “provided 18,156 people with

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services,” when, in reality, they provided 18,156 services to 7,404 patients in 2014. The second error regarded the number of clinics in Idaho that provide abortions. Rogers told me only one of the clinics provided abortions, but all three health centers provide abortion services.

Both of these errors were discovered by Rogers and she promptly informed me of them.

I was in no way trying to insinuate that defunding Planned Parenthood was wrong or right, or whether or not it would be feasible.

My intent was only to consider the consequences this would have and to encourage students to prepare for them.

The article does not fail to answer the question of

“What would happen if Planned Parenthood were defunded?” It very clearly states that funds would be transferred to other health centers to fill the gap Planned Parenthood left. If you are looking for a more definitive answer, I would encourage you to do more of your own research.

The purpose of the Arbiter is to inform and stimulate conversation on campus. In the end we simply want you to think more thoroughly about current issues.

That being said, the point of the article was to bring to light an aspect of the social issue that I felt was not being considered or talked about enough.

Thank you again for your comments and concern. I hope you will continue to read The Arbiter.

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Feature

BOISE JUNIOR COLLEGE

Ali Roberts

Sports & Rec Editor

In their first blow out game of the season against Idaho State University, the Boise State football team walked out onto the field showcasing the newest versions of their athletic uniform.

The blue jerseys, orange pants and matching helmet haven’t been the only change to uniforms in recent years. All of the current changes to the uniforms have been widely publicized, across the school’s history.

While Boise State looks forward to the remainder of their season, it’s always interesting to see where they’ve come from. And, all of this history can be found at the Albertsons Library archives.

1930s

Boise State’s history began in 1932 as Boise Junior College, with their first ever football team starting

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in the year 1933 under Coach Morris “Dusty” Kline and Gene Caffee.

In their first season, the team finished with one win, two losses and one tie.

The team’s uniforms mirrored several of the ones that were common to the time period. Leather helmets, cloth cleats and sweater style jerseys were what the team used as far as equipment, which looked like the traditional stereotype of the “good ole’ boy” days of the sport.

1940s

There was a gap in football seasons from the years 1942 to 1945 because of World War II, faculty and students foregoed college to take part in the war. The team wasn’t fully disbanded, but rather continued as a six-man team and played only local colleges within the Treasure and Snake River Valleys.

The very first stadium was con-

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structed in 1940 where the current Student Union Building now sits.

In an excerpt from Bob C. Hall in the book “Broncos, the Athletic History of BSU,” Hall describes the first stadium.

“First it must be remembered that 90 percent of all Bronco athletes in the immediate post-World War II years had rarely played anywhere else but up and down the Snake River Valleys of Southern Idaho and Eastern Oregon,” Hall writes.

“Those young men were neighbors who felt immediately at home in the first Bronco Stadium. A few rows of wood plank seats inside a gray painted board fence defined the difference between the football field and the cast empty space around it.”

In 1947, Coach Lyle Smith became the head coach of the football team and held this position until 1967. Even at the age of 99, he still

remains involved with Boise State Athletics to this day.

1950s

In the 1950s, the construction of a newer stadium began. This stadium would become what Boise State now knows as Albertsons Stadium.

This stadium was constructed in 1950 and remained until rebuilt in the 1970s.

At this point in the school’s history, Boise State participated in their first bowl games: the Potato Bowl and the Junior Rose Bowl.

An excerpt from an Idaho Statesman article from Nov. 11, 1950, covering the Junior Rose Bowl game, shows how much the atmosphere of football and college football games has changed since these times: “The second crowd awakener also occurred in the third period.

A mountaineer lineman emerged from the lower realms of a pile-up

to find a cherished gold tooth missing. He called a time-out and, with the assistance of the entire Eastern Oregon team and some helpful Boiseans, spent some three or four minutes poking through the grass in search of the lost molar. The searchers found nothing, however. Tooth or not, the game must continue, the official decreed.”

The uniforms in this decade started to resemble more of what people today think when they think of football uniforms-- the broadshouldered jerseys and plastic helmets, but still lacking a face mask.

In addition, the uniforms were more decorated with additions of stripes on the arms.

1960s

Boise State made the move to a full fledged college—renamed Boise College—in 1967. Afterward, their football team spent two seasons independent from any confer-

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ate’s football history ence. Boise State was invited to join NCAA on Oct. 15, 1969 for football and basketball. The uniforms at this point started resembling modern day uniforms that have helmets with facemasks.

1970s

Following the two years Boise State operated as an independent team, the football team joined the Big Sky Conference as a Division II school until 1978 when the team made Division I status but remained with the Big Sky Conference.

1970 was the first time Boise State had Buster Bronco attending the games, which, has since been a school tradition. This led to the football team playing one of their main rivals, University of Idaho, on Sept. 11, 1971.

The 70s were a time when football jerseys began to emulate the uniforms worn today, with full pads and facemasks. The main difference

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was, that during this time uniforms began to change more and more through each passing year, swapping between showing Bronco logos and a simple “BSU” on the sides of helmets as well as different designs on the uniforms themselves.

1980s

In 1986, Boise State made their mark by installing the first ever blue turf on the home field in Bronco Stadium. Despite the importance the turf holds today, it was originally seen to be a fad statement.

1990s

“A victory for Boise State this Saturday will give the Broncos a tie for the Big Sky Conference Championship with the University of Nevada,” reads a Bronco Athletics press release for the 1990 BSU versus U of I game. “Though it will officially be a co-championship, Boise State would receive the automatic

(bid) into the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs because of its 30-14 victory over the University of Nevada.”

After this, Boise State left the Big Sky Conference and joined the Big West conference from 1997 to 2000.

This timespan is the one most people are familiar with: jerseys that are made of mesh, and the beginning of using “high-tech” equipment and gear.

“In 1996 and 1997 we always wore a shirt with white pants, and after that, went to the blue pants and orange jersey so that was kind of the trend then,” equipment manager Dale Holst said.

2000s

Boise State remained with the Big West Conference until 2001 when they joined the WAC (Western Athletic Conference). This brought Boise to the era of Coach Chris Petersen—better known as Coach

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Pete—in 2006. This point in time was when Boise State exploded into the college scene after winning multiple Bowl games such as the Maaco Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl.

This time in Boise State’s history is a major turning point for the uniforms, as well in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Boise State was already in a uniform contract with Nike, but not solely, as the team wore gear from Russell as well.

This is significant in that Russell was the major supplier of football gear until Nike began to produce their own, and in the following years, took over the market.

“Our first Nike uniform would have been in 2003 so up until then we wore Russel. We had a Nike deal but we weren’t wearing full uniforms,” Holste said. “We had been with Nike since 1998, socks and shoes and those types of things, but

they didn’t get heavy into the uniforms until a few years later.”

2010 to current day

2010 was the end of Boise State’s affiliation with the WAC as they left to join the Mountain West Conference for the 2011 season.

Coach Peterson left the team in 2013 to fill in a coaching opening in Washington. That was filled with current coach, Coach Bryan Harsin.

Looking back at how far Boise State has come in 82 years, the university doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.

“Bronco Football has lasted my entire life and this next year will be 70 Bronco teams, but it’s young men that have taken part in the program,” Lyle Smith said in an interview with Bronco Athletics. “We’ve had a few fall through the cracks, a few bumps in the road but all in all it’s been a great trip.”

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Culture

Cheyene Austin Asst. Culture Editor

In 2007, a car bomb exploded in Baghdad, killing 26 people. It also destroyed Al-Mutanabbi Street, a historic literary district filled with booksellers, publishers, stationary shops and literary cafes.

Shortly after the bombing, San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil and Sarah Bodman, a University of the West of England book arts professor, called upon the international community of artists and writers to create works in commemoration of the event.

The project was called AlMutanabbi Street Starts Here and has become a collection of art responses to the obliteration of a beloved literary street.

“The Shahbandar coffeehouse, a meeting place for generations of Iraqi writers and intellectuals, was blown to pieces; the owner’s four sons and one grandson were killed,” theeconomist.com said in an article regarding the exhibition. “30 people died and 100 were wounded in the blast, for which no group ever claimed responsibility.”

Boise State graphic design professor and director of Idaho Center for the Book, Stephanie Bacon, curated the exhibit and discussed the significance of the 61 works in the gallery—a portion selected out of several hundred from the full exhibition.

“One of my favorite books is an artist’s book

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that takes the form of a pack of cards, and it was made by a collective of seven or eight Australian artists. The cards are photographic. On one side, they show an image of everyday life, and some of these have line drawings in them,” Bacon said.

She went on to explain their meaning.

“The line drawings are sort of meant to ask you to think about the absence of a person who might be there but isn’t there,” Bacon said. “On the other side of the card, the artist just kind of took photographs randomly with their cameras and made an image to use on the back of the card, I think, to speak to this idea that something is really lost if that human presence is not there.”

This gallery is filled with broadsides, poetry, books and fine art prints all created in response to the car bombing. The meanings are accessible to the viewer, either overtly within the work itself or explained on a card below the work.

One print depicts two girls reading a book—one is wearing hijab, the other is not.

“They’re in this abstracted context that could be anywhere,” Bacon said. “It could be Baghdad, it could be Chicago, but they’re sharing this act of reading, and there’s a hopeful character to the image because of that.”

Bacon discussed the interesting ways artists’ responses have taken different forms over the years.

“Some of the work that

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Art exhibition honors literary district in Baghdad

28 cards dedicated to lives cut short. was made immediately following the bombing is really raw and emotionally fraught and powerful, and as time goes by the treatments of the themes have become a little bit more abstracted and reflective,” Bacon said.

On display in the middle

of the room is a tiny book that, according to Bacon, measures no more than an inch and a half by two inches. It has vessels that fit inside each other, and the book itself is letterpress printed with tiny type on fold-out pages.

“The whole thing is covered with a beautiful, tra-

ditional book textile,” Bacon said. “The name of the work is Memento. I think the artist was thinking about something on a scale that one could carry it on one’s body, like wearing it around one’s neck as a token of remembrance. It’s a book in this tiny, private, precious little keepsake.”

The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here exhibit opened on Oct. 2, and will continue through Jan. 2016. It is located at the Arts and Humanities Institute Gallery at the Ron and Linda Yanke Family Research Park on Parkcenter Blvd.

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Your dorm stereotypes Mckenna Schrader Staff Writer

When it comes to dormitories on campus, stereotypes are rampant. Ranging from which dorm is the nicest, which is the most popular and which has the best people, the list goes on and on.

The following freshman students have many opinions about where they think the best place was to live out freshman year. As it turns out, where a student lives says a lot about them.

Chaffee Hall is the largest residence hall on campus and is, undoubtedly, known as the most popular.

“There are always a ton of people in Chaffee,” kinesiology major Gabi Fortino said. “I think that’s because it is known as the party dorm—people just want to hang out there—and because it has the P.O.D.” P.O.D. stands for Provisions On Demand—a market that sells food, coffee and other assorted items in the lobby of Chaffee Hall.

Taylor Hall and Keiser Hall, located near the Albertsons Library, are known for their newer and nicer

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housing.

“People think we are snobby because we have our own rooms and it costs more to live here,” marketing major Madison Belzer, a Taylor resident, said.

Fellow Taylor resident and kinesiology major Brandon Kameny heard from fellow students that, “Taylor is the most desirable dorm, and people ask how I got in it.”

Driscoll Hall and Morrison Hall are thought to house the more academically-minded students.

“I would say that Driscol and Morrison are known as the nerdy, smart dorms because of the honors hall,” undeclared major Briel Mosekian said.

University Square is widely known as the dorm students are not sure is an actual dorm.

Pre-occupational therapy major Emma Costigan expressed her own confusion concerning the dorm.

“Is University Square a dorm? I don’t even know where it is,” Costigan said.

Located across the street from the Brady parking garage and also shared with upperclassmen housing,

many students are unaware freshmen residents live there.

Then, finally, there is Barnes Towers. Towers is on the far east end of campus, located next to the Morrison Center. When asked about this particular dorm there was not as strong a consensus as the other dorms.

“I don’t know what to exactly say about Towers, but it is more outdated,” Kameny said. “I had a professor who stayed in Towers.”

Pre-nursing major Payton Eiseneerg echoed the Tower’s isolation.

“Towers are the outsiders. I forget they even exist sometimes to be honest,” Eiseneerg said.

While most of the students had strong opinions on each of the different dorms, very few had actually been to all of the dorms. In fact, most of them had only been in one or two outside of their actual dorm, with few exploring past the lobby. But, in spite of this, “Everyone has to go through dorm living once—it is part of the college experience,” Fortino said.

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BSU LiNK rescue team sheds light on North Korea Cheyene Austin Asst. Culture Editor

Imagine going to a salon and being forced to choose from just 28 governmentapproved haircuts. Imagine turning on the television and only being able to watch a closed domestic network of government propaganda.

The BSU Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) Rescue Team is a student organization that aims to expand the story surrounding North Korea, educate people and fundraise for refugee rescues.

“One (goal) is to change the narrative surrounding the people of North Korea

and North Korea in general, simply because a lot of people associate the regime with the actual people, which is not necessarily true,” said Hailie Johnson, BSU LiNK Rescue Team vice president.

“So it’s an attempt to change the rhetoric surrounding it.

Changing the discourse is incredibly important.”

Western media typically portrays North Korea as a nuclear weapons factory with Kim Jong-un’s finger on the detonator of a missile, and it completely glosses over the struggles of the people who live there. North Koreans have virtually no freedom—in addition to the

two previously described scenarios and many others, only officials can own motor vehicles and some homes receive electricity for just several hours per day.

Sophomore computer science major Dustin Montierth explained how his ideas of North Korea were shaped.

“I think ‘The Interview’ (2014) is a good example of the western perception of North Korea,” Montierth said. “We tend to view them as a radically militaristic country out to destroy the world.”

According to Sarah Palmer, Liberty in North Korea

Rescue Teams manager, it’s nearly impossible to cross the border between North Korea and South Korea.

Although it’s called a demilitarized zone, it’s the most heavily fortified border in the world. So their only option is to cross either the Yalu River or the Tumen River at the China-North Korea border.

“Once they cross, they’re at risk of being caught and repatriated. A huge percentage of North Korean women who cross are trafficked.

They’re either forced into the sex trafficking industry or sold to Chinese men as brides.

Labor exploitation is

also really common among North Korean refugees.

There are over 30,000 North Korean refugees estimated to be in China today,” Palmer said. “We provide rescues at no cost or condition to the refugees.”

The national program has four main goals, all driven by the fundraising efforts of rescue teams like the one at Boise State—rescue, resettlement, empowerment programs and changing the narrative.

“I think our community has become very blasé about human rights issues,” Johnson said. “This is something we as a country are not ad-

dressing hardly at all. There are a million clubs and organizations, and I think that oftentimes we just push them to the periphery and don’t necessarily evaluate their importance. I think every organization has importance, but I think organizations that are focused on human rights issues are especially important.”

BSU LiNK Rescue Team welcomes new members regardless of prior knowledge or experience. They will host Chili’s Give Back Night on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 5 p.m., and 10% of each bill will go toward funding rescue missions.

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Culture

Justin Kirkham Editor-in-Chief

For the past decade, Boise State Sign Shop staffer Pete Kutchins has scraped off and applied the lettering and signage for each new exhibit in the Student Union Gallery.

This month, he put up his own name.

“I’ve almost personally put up the lettering for every show in the space,” Kutchins said. “It was a whole other thing to finally put my own name up.”

Kutchin’s exhibit, Gomi, or, “Ghosts of Obsolete Machines Incarnate,” consists of 11 “post apocalyptic folk art” masks made of discarded wires, cords and speakers. The futuristic tribal faces sport more than flesh-toned telephone wire hair and audio cable faces. Their eyes, made of reused speakers, make the exhibit a multimedia experience with trailing whines

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of static and whispers of Christian and talk radio stations.

“From a distance, I couldn’t hear the speakers, but I was intrigued and approached them,” junior computer science major Kelson Ball said. “The addition of the audio medium to the already stunning and invigorating aesthetic thoroughly rounded out the atmosphere.”

Bringing personality to wires

In creating his masks, Kutchins gathered cords and wires from dumpsters, contractor sites and thrift stores, building up quite the collection of old wiring. His goal was to turn what seemed like trash into something personable and engaging.

“I wanted to create some kind of tangible spirit through this refuse,” Kutchins said. “And people identify with faces.”

He took this personal

connection a step further by adding sound into the mix. The masks, all hooked up to a collection of Kutchin’s old roommates’ speakers and disposed radios behind a square of panels, are set to play frequencies between common radio stations in an effort to emulate incomprehensive voices.

One mask was set very close to a Christian station with interviews from Pope Francis. According to Kutchins, static and talk radio seem to emit the “creepiest” sets of tones and voices.

When viewers approach the masks, the sound from the masks intensifies, making for an interactive art viewing experience.

“I want (gallery attendees) to be surprised,” Kutchins said. “I want them to change what they see the conventions of art to be, and it’s taken me awhile to make this feel like an art project rather

than a craft project. I want them to recognize the potential of everyday objects around them.”

Tying cords as fast as possible

Kutchins began work on his first mask his freshman year of college at Boise State, pursuing a degree in graphic design. After graduating and working at the Sign Shop for just around ten years, he applied to show his artwork in the Student Union Gallery--something interested art students are welcome to do as well. With just a few months to prepare, his project had to come together.

“That deadline was probably the best motivation I had to create them,” Kutchins said. “Then it’s sort of that organic process where you start out with a plan in mind and hope you don’t work yourself into a corner.”

Instead of utilizing sta-

ple basket weaving techniques, Kutchins reused the same knot he found in one of his mother’s books over and over to, in essence, tie his masks together. It took a while to perfect his technique, and, every few weeks, he had to break to let his hands take a break from all the rough wire manipulation.

And the project is still underway. Kutchins is currently working on allowing the masks to connect with cell phones via BlueTooth wireless technology. In addition, he hopes to flesh the entirety of the project out in a sort of performance art. In promoting Gomi, he donned a smaller, wearable mask and handed out flyers downtown in a baggy hoodie.

“You would expect someone to be dancing around some tire fire in an alleyway with this,” Kutchins said. “ At least, sometime down the road.”

Recycle, Reuse, Rebirth

While Kutchins doesn’t necessarily want to explicitly frighten all viewers at the exhibit, Kutchins hopes that all people attending the gallery will walk away with some sort of authentic, emotional reaction to what he called “noisy and weird.”

In his artist statement for the exhibit, Kutchins describes his masks as having been “born out of the same ashes of unwanted wires and devices, the leftovers of an evolving technological dependency.”

“The point is rebirth,” Kutchins said. “Creating something new and vibrant from something sort of stale.”

Gomi is on display in the Student Union Gallery on the second floor of the SUB until Nov.1. Students can delve into what Ball described as an “immersive and almost interactive” exhibit during SUB hours for the rest of the month.

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Sports & rec Tiffany Poole Staff Writer

Last year, the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year was the one and only Geordan Martinez, a wrestler for Boise State. Martinez won the Pac-12 championships in weight class 141, now moving up to 149 for 2015-2016 season.

“We are a force to be reckoned with, and we have a reputation to uphold,” Martinez said.

Throughout this experience as wrestler, Martinez has been as humble as he is strong.

“I’m having the time of my life right now just trying to make it last. I have had some tough losses to swallow, but I try not to let it get me down,” Martinez said. “At the end of the day it is just wrestling. The ultimate goal is to become a better person because of the sport that I do.”

It isn’t only seen as a sport, but a lifestyle. From cutting weight and practices to the 3.0 grade point average required by the team, these athletes devote a large portion of their personal lives to the sport.

“There is just a different dynamic; it is pretty difficult,” Martinez said.

“You are literally physically fighting another person and you don’t have pads.

It’s a dog fight, it’s tough.”

Head Coach Greg Randall expressed the intensity of the sport.

“The parents of the

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wrestlers—they really just go through hell each match,” Randall said.

As much as wrestling is an individual sport, the team had some tough team duals lost last year. This year, Randall believes it will be different with the 31 members.

“We have a young team, but all of them are leaders. Geo (Geordan Martinez) is young too, but it’s great having someone that works hard and is also a leader.

He’s not a vocal leader but he does lead by example. ” Randall said.

Martinez still finds training and being part of his team to be the best part of the sport.

“It kind of sucks now in the moment but, looking back 10 years from now, I’m going to miss it,” Martinez said. “You can’t do this sport your whole life, but I am definitely not looking forward to the day that I miss it.”

“It’s just nice being around 30 guys that are trying to attain the same goal that you are,” Martiniez said. “It’s just fulfilling and reassuring that you’re doing what you love and that you are having a good time doing it.”

Randall’s philosophy of being consistent, not only in wrestling but in daily life as well helps keep the team focused.

Although the team was younger last year than in former years, Randall ex-

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This year’s team is full of young leaders. presses that his team members are more than just wrestlers.

“I think they are a good group of young men. They realize that what they do now is going to carry over with them for the rest of their lives,” Randall said.

Randall explained the importance of coaching is

in the integrity, not only in wrestling, but daily lives for the wrestlers.

“One thing that I have always brought up is integrity. Especially if it’s after a loss,” Randall said.

“It’s tough when you lose and lose again but I think it all starts in the wrestling room and your habits. Get

back to work.”

This coming season, Randall put the student body as a focus for the team. Martinez shows his faithfulness to his coach by expressing this.

“Friends, students or anybody that doesn’t know a lot about wrestling— just come and watch. Last

year we didn’t have the best year, we took it pretty hard,” Randall said. “But this year we have been working hard and things are looking up. And for the future we are going to have a pretty good team.”

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Broncos roll over rams in away game 41-10 Rylan Kobre

Asst. Sports & Rec Editor

Boise State clinched their fifth win of the season over Colorado State in 4110 fashion on Sat. night, Oct.10.

The Broncos jumped out to an early 17-0 lead thanks to a deep pass thrown by wide receiver Shane Williams-Rhodes to fellow receiver Thomas Sperbeck for a 53 yard strike. That got the scoring started early for the Broncos.

“I’ve been looking for a way to get in the endzone.

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I’ll take a pass,” WilliamsRhodes said. “I have never thrown a ball in a football game. Never.”

It was that kind of play that jumpstarted the Broncos. Boise State got a field goal followed by a 56-yard run from Jeremy McNichols that opened up the game early for a 17-0 lead over the Rams.

Colorado State answered with a 13-yard touchdown pass to make it 17-7, but the Broncos got those points right back with a 85yard touchdown pass from freshman quarterback Brett Rypien to Thomas Sperbeck

and it was 24-7. Rypien finished the night 22/35 with 339 yards, one touchdown pass, one interception and a quarterback rating of 70.4.

“I was really proud of the way that he (Brett) played tonight,” Head Coach Bryan Harsin said. “I just see him each game getting better and better.”

Colorado State got a field goal with 3:11 left in the first half to make it a 24-10 game, but that would be the last time they would get points on the board. The Broncos got a field goal to end the half and it was 27-10.

The only scoring in the

second half came from a one yard run by Jeremy McNichols and a four yard touchdown run from Brett Rypien giving the Broncos their 41 points and their fifth win of the year.

The defense was able to hold the Rams to 10 points by forcing three turnovers­— two interceptions and one fumble recovery.

One of the interceptions came from senior safety Darian Thompson who had his fourth interception of the year. The interception and win for the Broncos capped off an exciting week for Thompson, who missed

practice earlier in the week due to the arrival of his first child, a baby girl. Thompson’s mindset changed after hitting the field for the first time as a father.

“It was definitely a different feeling,” Thompson said.

“I’m a father now and that’s just something that I keep in the back of my mind when I have to go out here and provide for my family.”

The night also marked the 18th interception of Thompson’s career which ties San Diego Chargers safety Eric Weddle’s Mountain West record.

“There’s a reason he’s a

captain. There’s a reason he’s on our side of the field,” Harsin said. “He’s been ready to play and wasn’t going to miss (the game). I am sure he’s looking forward to getting home tonight and seeing his family.”

The Broncos played in Fort Collins with a large contingent of Boise State fans present.

In this week’s AP poll, the Broncos have jumped four spots from number 25 to number 21 in the country. Boise State will take on Utah State in Logan, UT next Friday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.

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Coach Jon Mundy leads lacrosse to successes Staff Writer

Last year was a successful one for the Boise State men’s club lacrosse team. Six players were selected to the all-conference team, and two members were chosen for the All-American team.

The team also finished the season with a winning record thanks to solid coaching.

Head Coach Jon Mundy received the Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League 2015 Coach of the Year. Boise State players and local fans are huge supporters of this coach and look forward to the men’s

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lacrosse successes after Mundy’s first year at Boise State.

“I love being part of the Bronco family. It’s really cool to have grown up going to the all the games and loving the Broncos—to have the opportunity to represent the state of Idaho,” Mundy said. “We are known nationwide with a reputation of excellency. Why would I not want to be part of this?”

Mundy graduated from Timberline High School and has been coaching for almost 10 years now.

He began his coaching career in local high schools such as Eagle, Timberline and Bishop Kelly. When he was offered the head coach position at Boise

State, he was running his own personal coaching and league lacrosse Mundy believes coaching a sport also helps the individual develop and form good habits for life.

His philosophies include helping young men develop time management skills, make good decisions and work hard—all of which are reflections that show in the sport.

Mundy has strict expectations for school work to be done, not only to make it to the late practices at 10 p.m. to midnight mid-week, but to help performance in life overall.

“It’s not about sports over school, it’s about ‘let’s re-

ally take care of business.’ If we aren’t getting it done in the classroom first, then really we are just another club,” Mundy said. “When they are taking care of business off the field, they are able to make practice.

And that’s exactly how we approach the sport lacrosse. It’s very systematic. “ Mundy made sure that his players are not just athletes but think about life outside of lacrosse.

“So it really lines up with life, if things are getting it done in the classroom then you’re not getting it done anywhere else.”

Since Mundy has held the head coach position, the team made the playoffs last year and

are also hosting the tournament here in Boise.

Both of these are a first for

the men’s lacrosse team that was established 20 years ago.

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Football for the Non-footballer: The basics Staff Writer

With football season already upon us, the majority of students may be thrilled for the new season.

But, others who know little to nothing about football could feel lost.

Boise State’s football team has rapidly grown and gained attention over the past couple of years.

It now means something to call yourself a student and fan of the Boise State Broncos. But, a lot of students don’t know what that means.

“During my four years at Boise State, I probably attended one football game,” said biology undergraduate Corey Dondero. “I never really understood the draw, so I never got into the game.”

Many who don’t attend games, don’t go because they don’t understand how football works.

But in reality, many students attend the games because of the social environment not the actual “sport” or “game.”

“I go to the games, but only when my friends go,” senior education major Cora Bellomy said. “I don’t know how the game really works besides when a touchdown happens.”

Football is a competitive sport that draws people in for a common goal. The sport teaches not only the players, but fans, about teamwork and how that can improve overall outcomes. But, it never hurts to understand the basics of the football game at hand.

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the basics of the game

Each team gets four chances to get the ball past 10 yards. If they succeed, they get to continue with the next 10 yards and so on until they get the ball across the end zone line, which results in a touchdown.

The entire game lasts two halves, each half containing two quarters, each lasting 15 minutes. offense and defense

Offense is what the team with the ball is called and defense is what the team without the ball is called.

Some offensive players on Boise State’s team are Brett Rypien, who is our new starting quarterback, Thomas Sperbeck who plays wide receiver for the team and Shane WilliamsRhodes, who also plays as a wide receiver.

Boise State has some great defensive players too, such as Donte Deayon— who is a cornerback—and Kamalei Correa who plays defensive end.

rules of the American college version of football.

Other rules come into play in special cases.

For example when the person with the ball is in his own end zone, or when a foul is committed by the offense in their own end zone, two points will be awarded to the opposing team.

When a team doesn’t get at touchdown after four downs, but is in field goal range, they bring out their kicker. If he makes the field goal, the team scores three points. These are the ways each team can score points and not break any rules.

Knowing a little more about the actual game can enhance a student’s football experience, and bring out all the Boise State fans.

rules of the game

When teams score points with field goals, which occur after a touchdown, the team has a chance to get an extra point with a field goal kick on the 15 yard line. A touchdown is worth six points and a field goal adds another point.

The team could also try and go for a two point conversion after the touchdown which means, instead of kicking for an extra point, they try again to get the ball past the end zone line.

These are the most basic

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Jessica Richmond

Offense players have the ball.

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Check out the latest fall arrivals!

Shown from left: Kilmer zip jacket, $65.00.

Serif Stone tee, $27.00.

Hernan jacket, $54.00.

Bartlett 4s annel longsleeve, $60.00.

Stonith tee, $25.00.

Frickin Mod jogger pant, $49.50.

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Pg 23

BSU

bucking around ACROSS 7 “Phone home” is associated with alien at heart (7) 8 Stupid law rebels partly overturned (7) 10 Statement approving issue of Homer? (6) 11 Nasty dent acquired by a French female beginning to drive without care and attention (8) 12 Character backed to leave Man United? No (4) 13 In a rut, alas? Throw that wild party! (10) 14 Rector first off will wear English suit and casual shoes (11) 19 Crowd turns on police, having energy for a brawl initially – one of these may be thrown? (6,4) 22 Bowled for one, needing to secure runs (4) 23 Want to stop nasty kid being a pest? (5,3) 24 Half from Salish, a Native American greeting (6) 25 Old stick that’s been thrown away? (7) 26 One could be e.g. ten? Right (7)

Pg 24

DOWN 1 A place for a holiday? Never!

(7) 2 Drunk after good craic, finally the man’s getting hiccups (8) 3 Winds on board ship will be raw, mostly (6) 4 Case for circuit training to start with – that’s said to produce muscle (8) 5 Symbol of authority supporting rule over a country (6) 6 Bird wants dirty sex? About time! (7) 9 Book added to total price (11) 15 European girl cut call off, being hypersensitive (8) 16 You’ll get stiff treatment from this person (8) 17 Has paid almost all debts?

So we hear (7) 18 UK citizen needs to catch up (7) 20 Count on Kelvin to be taken in by scam (6) 21 Vessel capsized close to island (6)

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