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NEWS

Shelly Bohorquez Staff Writer

Boise State will no longer be offering Student Health Insurance Plans as of the Fall 2015 semester.

After a State Board of Education meeting on Feb. 19, it was decided that the original policy requiring universities to offer a student health insurance plan would be amended.

While full-time students are still required to provide proof of health insurance, they must now seek and purchase it on their own.

Universities can still provide a health insurance plan to students, but Boise State has opted out of providing this service.

“There was a consortium that Boise State was part of, and there was kind of an overwhelming vote to say, ‘We don’t want to continue with this contract as far as offering this plan,’ and so therefore that

plan dissolved,” said Tara Brooks, assistant director of Patient and Business Services.

According to Brooks, there has been a notable trend in the rising cost of SHIP—more students waived out of SHIP. With students not paying into SHIP remaining students end up paying more.

There are currently about 2,500 students enrolled in SHIP that will need to find a new health insurance plan for the fall.

“I think it’s a mere business decision on Boise State’s half,” said Dominick Carlyle, a sophomore sociology major. “Essentially what the Affordable Care Act does is make it so that they can’t skimp out on certain requirements being met for health insurance, so it’s going to cost the university a lot more money.”

According to Brooks, Health Services will be working with Your Health

Idaho and local health insurance brokers to assist students in finding health insurance.

While students no longer have to worry about the countless emails at the beginning of the semester reminding them to waive out of SHIP, all full-time students must provide proof of health insurance coverage in compliance with Affordable Care Act compliant policy.

According to the SBOE meeting’s archives, students who are found not having insurance while enrolled at an institution will be ineligible for full-time enrollment in future terms until insurance is obtained and proof of that insurance is provided.

“We certainly had students that were unhappy that the university required them to be enrolled in the SHIP, and I’m sure that there will be students who are going to be unhappy now that it’s removed,” Brooks said. “I think that

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Health services cares for student health. the balance is just trying to make sure that everybody has resources available to them.”

Brooks said that Health Services will invite students to campus and ask questions. They can get

information on and have assistance in finding insurance coverage that’s best for their individual situations.

“The university should provide health insurance, especially when they’re

requiring it,” said Faris Aldosary, a senior finance major. “But when I look at the price tag I say, ‘You know, it’s not that worth it.’ I don’t think it’s suitable for students at all since it’s a state college.”

Housing fair gets pushed back another year

ferent housing options on campus and nearby after they have been carefully selected.

Leslie Webb, associate vice president for Student Affairs, described in an email how formal partnerships must be established with the housing agencies that would be attending.

Webb wrote the goal is for the university to endorse businesses aligned with these expectations.

In short, according to

Webb, the university would only want to endorse properties that are conducive to students progressing in their studies and achieving their goals.

“We want to make sure we’re doing the right area for students,” said ASBSU president Bryan Vlok.

Once the formalities are established, the fair is expected to be held every spring, unless another date would be better to benefit attending students.

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The housing fair began as an idea at the end of last semester, but Boise State has pushed the execution back.

While a set date for the fair has not been announced, it’s expected to debut around this time next year.

Angeline Jacobs, junior biology major, felt posi-

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“It’d be nice, especially for new people coming in, because a lot of people don’t know where to live,” Jacobs said.

At the fair, students can expect a gathering of all the housing agencies close to campus—within a 5 to 7 mile radius—as well as representatives from Housing

and Residence life.

The fair, while certainly open to all students, would have a particular intended

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NEWS

Research erupts in Chile Sean Bunce

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Johnson and assistant professor Brittany Brand.

Among these students is Alex Miller, student pursuing his master’s in geophysics.

“Two months ago, we were planning to go to the top and string up cameras over the active lava lake.

We’re definitely not doing that anymore,” Miller said.

He and the other students will now set up seismic and infrasound equipment around the base of Villarrica in order to help with Johnson’s study of the volcano.

“When the volcano erupts it is releasing energy, that energy is mainly focused on a narrow frequency band below the audible spectrum for humans.” Miller said. “We normally hear 20 and above Hertz, most of the energy that the volcano produced during the eruption was below our audible senses.”

For most of the volcanoes Johnson studies, the trend is the same; each one is active and erupting daily, but they don’t change very much. Villarrica offered Johnson a chance to study something many researches will never get a chance to.

With Johnson’s infrasound equipment he was able to record a mud-flow called a lahar.

“They’re pretty dangerous. This one took out a couple bridges, it wasn’t that big but the exciting thing was that for the first time we were able to record the passage of this mud-flow. That’s a novel piece of science that came out of the study.

“In a nutshell, it’s an opportunity to study an entire eruption sequence,” Johnson said. “This has become a laboratory for me, where I see a volcano start from quiet and then progress to something different.”

According to Miller, this volcano used to follow a distinct pattern of letting off pressure by periodically releasing gasses, a process referred to by researchers as degassing.

“What is interesting is

what has changed in the volcano to all of the sudden stop that kind of effusive eruption, where it’s kind of degassing continuously,” Miller said. “(Now we want to see) what made that end and what made the pressure build up so extensively to where it erupted the way it did.”

Until then, Johnson’s research continues.

“The volcano is not yet back to sleep, although for the last week it’s been very calm,” Johnson said. “More than likely in the months to come, more activity will occur. What we will be able to do, myself and my colleagues in Chile, is understand how the system charges itself as gas accumulates and it releases that gas.”

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An unexpected phone call awoke Jeffrey Johnson, assistant professor in the Department ofGeosciences, the morning of March 3.

Villarrica, a volcano in Southern Chile which Johnson has been studying for the past decade, was erupting.

“I got out of my bedroom and was able to look through the trees and see a column, called a fire fountain, about 1,000 feet high

at that point,” Johnson said. “(There were) big, red incandescent blocks of lava flows coursing down the volcano at all sides.”

Johnson studies earthquakes and sound waves produced by volcanoes as they erupt. The sound waves, called infrasound, are special low frequency sounds that volcanoes produce.

Johnson is in Chile to research and teach. On March 7, 16 Boise State and four Chilean students arrived to take a geophysics field class co-offered by

Johnson poses in front of Villarrica.

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NEWS

Abortion politics ensnares human-trafficking bill Maria Recio

Tribune News Service

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, promised in January when the Republicans took back the majority that they would do things differently, allowing amendments from both sides and generally operating in a bipartisan fashion.

So when the Senate began debate this week on his seemingly non-controversial, bipartisan legislation to combat human trafficking, the Texan was expecting it to easily clear the chamber.

Instead, his bill, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking

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Act became a lightning rod as Democrats suddenly did an about-face, closed ranks and accused Republicans of sneaking in an anti-abortion provision. Republicans angrily denied it and accused the Democrats of failing to read the bill, which had been posted for two months.

The result, in what was supposed to be a new era of cooperation, has been more gridlock, with some sharp, personal accusations thrown in.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., filed a procedural vote that is expected to take place Tuesday that he hopes will break the stalemate.

“That’s really what I find so baffling is what has been a uniquely bipartisan effort has now turned into a partisan filibuster, and I, frankly, am perplexed by that,” Cornyn said Thursday. “Maybe we’ll have some folks come out and explain why they’re filibustering this bill they voted for in the Judiciary Committee. We got a unanimous vote in the Judiciary Committee.”

Cornyn, a former Texas Supreme Court judge, had worked closely with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a former prosecutor, to develop the bill.

Supported by 13 Democratic co-sponsors and 18 Republi-

cans in addition to Cornyn, the bill would encourage law enforcement to pursue traffickers, who usually exploit underage girls, and create a $30 million fund to help victims from fines imposed on traffickers.

The bill was unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February and was poised for quick Senate approval.

“All of a sudden, at the 11th hour, there’s an objection,” said Cornyn.

On the second day of Senate consideration, Democrats realized that the bill included a provision known as the Hyde Amendment stating that none

of the funds in the bill could be used for abortions. The provision is a mainstay of all appropriations bills dating back to 1976 and specifies that taxpayer monies cannot be used for abortions.

While Republicans pointed out that the language had been in the bill since it was introduced in January, incensed Democrats said that Republican aides had deceived their Democratic counterparts.

Furthermore, they said it expanded the Hyde Amendment by extending it to fines, not taxpayer funding, and to a fiveyear authorization instead of a yearly appropriation bill.

“I tell you something, there is one advantage to being around here a long time,” said four-term Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who is retiring next year. “You have the sense of what used to be decent around here when your word was your word and your bond was your bond.”

Democrats contended that Republicans told them in emails that the bill was unchanged from one last year— that did not include the Hyde language—except for minor fixes.

For their part, Republicans ridiculed Democrats for not having read the bill, which is only 68 pages long.

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In the middle of program cuts and department closures, other areas of the university are expanding—including the College of Innovation and Design.

Anthony Ellertson, the current head of the Gaming, Interactive Media and Mobile Program, aims to offer a unique major at Boise State—one he hopes will be profitable in terms of employment.

“We have to think about the return on investment, which is where our program fits in,” Ellertson said. “We are commit-

The GIMM program, a fouryear transdisciplinary major, will offer students multiple special courses including those on animation, app and web development, augmented reality and virtual reality. This fall, interactive programming and digital tools classes will be available to students.

Ellertson stressed that this sort of instruction is vital in the current technological landscape of Boise. Students in the program will be prepared spe-

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cifically for jobs in this changing field, a main focus of the College of Innovation and Design as a whole.

The College of Innovation and Design aims to fill this role, just as other STEM programs.

“It’s not just that we did it so that people could make big money, but that they could make money here in Boise,” Bob Kustra, president of Boise State, told The Arbiter in February. “When you take Micron, HP and somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 software engineering firms who cry crocodile tears that we are not producing enough computer science engineers—clearly you don’t need to be a rocket scien-

tist to see that’s where you need to be churning out students.”

According to Kustra, these programs should be unique to Boise State. Students will not come specifically to the university for a program that they can enroll in elsewhere. Instead, focused and applicable programs can attract more students while “churning out” specialized employees.

Ellertson said GIMM students will become specialized for many of the top demand IT jobs in the current field: mobile, web and game development.

Marketing the arts and humanities

For some, this sort of high

specialization is not as good as it may sound.

Leslie Madsen-Brooks, associate professor in the recently resized Department of History, does not disapprove of the College of Innovation of Design.

But, like others, she has her reservations about growth surrounding the cuts in her own department. She cited an article from IEEE Spectrum, “The STEM Crisis is a Myth,” that recounts the overemphasis on employment-oriented STEM programs.

“There are far more people graduating with STEM degrees than there are jobs for them,” Madsen-Brooks said. “We aren’t giving them magic em-

ployment juice.”

Dean of the College of Innovation and Design Gordon Jones said he’s excited about the opportunity to lead the college in addressing the need for a more transdisciplinary experience.

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skills for a range of possible employment opportunities, including research, writing, critical thinking and group work.

These are the main aims of the Department of History within its coursework.

“You still have to certify that STEM majors can write and communicate,” MadsenBrooks said. “That’s where the humanities and social sciences come in.”

According to MadsenBrooks, the College of Innovation and Design is a solid collection of programs, but she sees some overlap within its coursework. Specifically, the proposed Center for HumanEnvironment Systems offers

students similar explorations that the Department of History already covers.

Madsen-Brooks hopes that the core programs of the humanities will still be able to market themselves as important programs with these new developments.

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The GIMM major is a 48-credit, transdisciplinary program. Ellertson aims to have GIMM students pursue double majors to gain these background communication skills that Madsen-Brooks described.

“There’s a risk if you don’t start from a learning platform

that you’re really giving somebody a skill set but not the agility of thought to know over a lifetime how to evolve your thinking,” Jones said.

Ellertson and MadsenBrooks applied this philosophy to their own career paths.

Ellertson graduated with a degree in rhetoric and professional communication, while Madsen-Brooks has a master’s degree in poetry.

“You’re not your major, and we need to stop treating college like you’re preparing for a single job,” Madsen-Brooks said.

Because of her background in poetry, Madsen-Brooks has been able to write herself into any position she aims for. This

background in the core humanities creates a language for different disciplines to collaborate.

“The humanities have some of the most important things to say to STEM,” Ellertson said.

“GIMM is an effort to bring humanity into technology and start that discussion.”

Jones believes that this conversation is the route higher education should pursue.

“All boats rise when everybody focuses on this, as universities—as industries, as government, as education at the secondary and primary level,” Jones said. “I do see a lot of interest in education for trying to bridge disciplinary boundaries, and I think it is going to be for

the benefit of the country if we all get on board.”

But, despite this focus, programs will still be weighed based on their potential revenue and employability factor, which may make the GIMM program more preferable than core humanity programs in the face of statistics and numbers.

Kustra is hopeful that this will not be the case.

“I’m pretty confident that the liberal arts degree will not go away,” Kustra said. “But there are less people seeking liberal arts degrees because of all the negative stories from employers that want more specific skills.”

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Culture

Professor-student dynamic confuses classroom relations Egipcia Mercado

Student and teacher friendships are a tricky territory to navigate. This dynamic complicates relationships in and out of the classroom.

For Desiree Brunette, professor in the Sociology Department, the line between professionalism and friendship begins to blur when relationships established in the classroom become more social and move off-campus.

“When my kids were younger, I would have former students babysit my kids and they were kind of exposed to my home life and my personal life,” Brunette said. “They had taken a course, we bonded on some level and just maintained contact.”

According to Brunette, it’s difficult for teachers to manage when and where to establish a friendlier demeanor with students.

“At this age the lines are a little bit blurrier on what’s appropriate and what’s not,” Brunette said. “This generation has kind of the expectation that it’s more of a level playing field, and while we have to maintain a level of professionalism, it’s important to meet our students where they’re at.”

Regardless of the dynamic between students and teachers, Brunette still has to worry about keeping a professional line established within her own student friendships.

For her, student-focused investment shifts from just being a mentor to a friend.

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classroom dynamics toe the line. dents to relate to me on a level that a little deeper than just an instructor,” said Brunette “I want them to feel that I can relate to them and they can relate to me.”

In communication professor’s Jonathon Lundy’s case, occasionally the transformation from student to friend is reversed. With this comes the cementing of boundaries in a professional environment.

“I’ve had students that I’ve known prior to being my students and that’s kind of weird,” Lundy said. “I’m pretty good with shutting that off and being professional like, ‘Alright, for this semester, we’re teacher and student, and not like, ‘We’re not going to go and have beers after class or whatever.’”

Teachers usually strive to build respect and trust with their students. But establishing how friendly they are

with their students varies from teacher to teacher.

“I always like to establish a professional relationship first so people take you seriously,” Lundy said. “You can always start out with tight screws and then loosen them, but you can’t start out with loose screws and tighten them down the road.”

Not every student is interested in befriending their professor. However, like Jackie Griesemer, a senior in communications, believes that having a friendlier dynamic with her teachers is actually beneficial to her learning experience.

“I feel like if a teacher can do a good balance between creating a friendship relationship with their students and being serious at the same time, the student can learn more and want to come to class more,” Griesemer said.

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‘Blurred Lines’ verdict blurs artistic lines Greg Kot

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There’s a reason the vast majority of musical infringement cases in the music world don’t end up in front of a jury.

Count Robin Thicke among those artists who likely wonder what in the world he got himself into after a Los Angeles federal jury ruled this week that he and his songwriting partners owe Marvin Gaye’s family $7.3 million. The jury found that Thicke’s 2013 hit “Blurred Lines,” written with Pharrell Williams and the rapper T.I., copied parts of Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.” It’s one of the largest damage awards in a music copyright case, and it follows embarrassing testimony in which Thicke acknowledged that he was high on drugs and alcohol while recording the track, and that he claimed a songwriting credit even though Williams wrote and produced the track.

“The biggest hit of my career was written by somebody else and I was jealous and wanted credit,” Thicke testified. “I felt it was a little white lie that didn’t hurt his career but boosted mine.”

In response, Williams gave the spoken equivalent of a shrug: “This is what happens every day in our industry.”

Indeed it does. As Picasso once said, “Good artists borrow, great artists steal,” and pop culture has been built on the foundation of what has come before. Anyone who says otherwise — anyone who makes a claim to complete originality — is either lying or an idiot. In a sense, just about any song you could name is a pastiche of ideas that preceded it, an homage more than a revolutionary, never-before-heard work. Even as renowned a songwriter as Bob Dylan has been accused with some credibility of plagiarizing lyrics. Scholars noted the similarity of lyrics on Dylan’s 2006 “Modern Times” al-

bum to those of a Civil Warera poet, Henry Timrod.

In the same way, Williams didn’t deny that “Blurred Lines” owed something to “Got to Give It Up,” and expressed his deep admiration for Gaye’s music. But he said just because his track evoked a personal hero’s track doesn’t mean he copied it.

“Feel, not infringement,” he insisted.

Now he, Thicke and T.I. are on the hook for millions of dollars because of how eight jurors interpreted the arcane essence of copyright law, and parsed the crucial difference between an idea and the expression of that idea.

The music analysis included breakdowns of four-note passages and comparisons of bass lines. Such sometimes microscopic judgments by citizens without a deep musical background make one wonder how many songs, hits or otherwise, would withstand similar scrutiny.

The jury’s ruling likely will be appealed, which

should only add to the legal bills piled up in the case already. The financial burden isn’t particularly onerous to deep-pocketed clients such as Williams and Thicke, but there are also costs to be paid related to public perception and credibility.

Some legal experts warn that the ruling could open the door to more infringement lawsuits, serious and otherwise, and could possibly have a chilling effect in how artists pay “tribute” to their influences. But that’s not likely to happen. Infringement lawsuits have been filed against major artists in the past and resulted in

substantial payouts (George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord,” found to “subconsciously” plagiarize “He’s So Fine,” and the Isley Brothers claim against Michael Bolton over their “Love is a Wonderful Thing” are among the most famous). But the musicmaking boundaries didn’t really shift.

The only legal gamechanger arrived in 1991 when a federal court ruled that rapper Biz Markie’s “Alone Again” stole copyrighted material from Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again (Naturally).” The rapper’s label was ordered to pull all copies of his “I Need

a Haircut” album from the market for the sin of lifting three words and a snippet of music from O’Sullivan’s hit. The ruling not only derailed the rapper’s career, it required record companies to clear all musical samples before releasing any samplebased music and raised the price of such samples to a level that most rap producers couldn’t afford.

The “Blurred Lines” ruling won’t shift the business that drastically. But artists with big hits facing a big-bucks infringement lawsuit are probably going to be a little less eager to have their day in court.

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Culture

Netflix Picks: 3 movies for a perfect study break “Copenhagen”

Patty Bowen, Culture Editor Centered on the journey of a young American man searching to find his grandfather in Denmark, “Copenhagen” is a brilliant deconstruction of the young adult romance genre. Through cleverly based commentary and age gaps, “Copenhagen” is able to comment on the common misconception that romantic relationships are the only strong forces that can shape a young adult’s growth.

“Copenhagen” takes place over a series of days that shows the progression of

how relationships form and gives the viewer a beautiful look at the city of Copenhagen. Each of the three main characters—Effy, William and Jeremy—are relatively realistic, making the unravelling of their story easy to get into and ultimately enjoyable.

“Hitler’s Children”

Emily Pehrson, Editor-inChief In this documentary, Israeli filmmaker Chanoch Zeevi interviews descendents of high-ranking Nazi officials including Amon Goeth, Hans Frank, Hermann Goering and Hein-

rich Himmler. Interviewees discuss the experience of living in the shadow cast by the actions of the forebears.

The stories and reactions vary widely. Monika Goeth had no clue about her father’s crimes until meeting a survivor of his camp. Niklas Frank spent years travelling Germany speaking out against his father—an action which alienated him from much of his family who still try to deny his father’s Nazi involvement.

“Hitler’s Children,” released in April 2013, seems like such an obvious topic for a documentary, it’s sur-

prising no one has made it before. While Zeevi fails to take viewers anywhere unexpected, the subject matter is fascinating and everrelevant.

“Lilting”

Justin Kirkham, Managing Editor After his boyfriend, Kai, dies, Richard tries everything he can to connect with Kai’s mother, Junn, a Cambodian-Chinese woman “locked” in a nursing home.

Junn is isolated in a sea of English-speaking elderly people, and Richard struggles to find a way to connect with the one woman that

reminds him of his lost partner. Both are floundering in their own right, and both are alone.

Using silence as an emotional accent, “Lilting” lets its characters speak for themselves as Richard tries to come out on Kai’s behalf and Junn tries to accept her role in the English world that she never had to recognize before.

This film, though admittedly rather heavy, explores the different forms of loneliness that can encroach upon people of different ages, cultural backgrounds and identities.

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For more than glory

Club athletes pursue sports for the love of the game Leslie Boston-Hyde Copy Editor

Freshman Drew Punnett considered quitting hockey his senior year of high school while receiving offers to play DIII hockey at other colleges.

“It got to the point that I was playing for everybody besides me,” Punnett said.

Instead of attending a school that offered him a

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scholarship, Punnett paid $1,350 to join the Boise State hockey club. Even though he had to pay, Punnett was able to prove that he was playing hockey for himself.

“I’m glad I didn’t (quit), and I think club hockey allowed me to do that,” Punnett said.

“I’m going out there every day and it’s to have fun. There’s way less pressure, and I fell in love with the sport again.”

According to Jared Cox, assistant director of recreational sports, students join club sports for various reasons.

However, there are operating costs involved.

While the Rec Center tries to balance out the high budgets, student fees are necessary to cover the full cost of each club.

“They’re not recognized by the NCAA or athletics.

They’re under campus rec,” Cox said. “That’s why they do have to pay to play.”

Many positions are volunteer-based, including student officers and coaches.

“There’s a few (coaches) that get paid, but we’re talking $500 or a $1,000 a year, which at the end of the day is kind of considered a volunteer position,” Cox said. “(Coaches) want to build up

their resumes or they have the love of the sport, they want to make an impact with young people.”

Despite these costs, clubathletes believe there many benefits to playing club sports.

For freshman Kailey Warren, club volleyball has given her the opportunity to play but still focus on other areas of her life.

“I liked it because it’s less time consuming. It’s two practices a week and (we

travel for) tournaments, but besides that, it’s not going to control my life, ,” Warren said.

For junior and Justin Videen, returning from Saint Mary’s University to play for Boise State was worth the cost. He can play with the teammates he grew up with as well as play in front of his family.

“Realistically, no money could be as nice as playing in front of the people you love,” Videen said in an interview with The Arbiter in October.

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Sports & rec

The Rec Center gets students involved Ali Roberts Staff Writer

While Boise State might be known for the success of its football team, scholarship athletes are not the only students dedicated to sports.

Each year, dozens of students take to the fields, courts and rinks to compete in intramural and club athletics.

For students that want to participate in intramural or club sports, there are many options to choose from.

The Rec centers offers a wide array of sports to choose from.

From major sports like flag football to lesser known sports like slacklining, the Rec Center has something for everyone.

Most intramural and popular club sports are hosted through the Rec Center.

Sports teams that want to remain at the Rec have to follow several requirements “In the fall semester, (teams) have to reorganize the club for the year,” said Jared Cox assistant director of recreational sports.

“Clubs need to attend meetings, meet with me for the year, turn in a club officer list and become active on OrgSync.”

If clubs fail to meet these requirements, they will most likely be dropped. If the club still has remaining interest and active members, the club or sport will be moved over to Student Involvement Leadership Center and receive support there.

According to Luke Jones, director of campus recreation, the ebb and flow of

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involvement from year to year makes club sports hard to maintain.

“If you have a student that is really into it one year then they graduate and the next year no one carries it on,” Jones said. “That’s what was happening with some of our sports like dodge ball or with racquet ball or kickball.”

Students interested in keeping the club alive or restarting it after being dropped must contact the Student Involvement and Leadership Center.

From there, they must find a university faculty or staff advisor, register on OrgSync, create a constitution and elect officers for the club.

Club sports can also be moved from SILC back to the Rec Center. If a club can prove there is longevity to their sport and remain active, the Rec Center will support it as either a club or intramural sport.

The Rec Center requires consistent involvement in order to better plan their annual budget. Jones pointed to the Boise State Abraxans as an example of a club within SILC that has become successful.

“I know Quidditch has reached the point where they’ve got a pretty solid team and following,” Jones said. “I think they would like to make the jump from campus involvement over to being treated more like an actual club sport.”

To see what sports the Rec Center is offering or to get involved you can visit them or go to there website rec. boisestate.edu.

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$45,000

$250-500 Avg. club fees

amount recieved from rec center to be distributed by executive club sport council

tier 1 sports:

for students

belong to associations, larger rosters. clubs also recieve $ from sponserships, more $ to balance costs

parents, donations to help with costs

Lacrosse has Highest club fee:

$1,350

Hockey fee is 2nd highest

Coaches: If paid, make $500-$1000 per year. most volunteer

$2,000 1 hr. at century link arena:

$175

$80 60-70% tier 2 sports: of club sports have a coach

1 hr. at calvin williams

smaller rosters, less $

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hoots & giggles

march word search

Word List basketball championship foul

sweetsixteen bluedevils eliteeight

Da riddles

jayhawks tarheels brackets

finalfour ncaa wildcats

hang man

1. What’s black when you get it, Red when you use it, And white when you’re all through with it?

2. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?

3. Power enough to smash ships and crush roofs.

Yet it still must fear the sun.

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Da riddles from last time 1. An egg 2. a mountain 3. inkstand

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