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Chick-fil-A has arrived, but not everyone's happy Vegan-led student group protests 'factory farming'

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Q&A with a vegan

Suzanne craig Journalist

On the grand opening of Chick-fil-A, many students were standing in line to try and get the free meals offered to the first 100 customers, but there was a gorup of students led by Eric Schuler, a 21 year old economics and accountancy major, using this widely publicized event to get their own point across.

Protesting factory farming and the heavily industrialized meat industry, Schuler said the grand opening of Chick-fil-a was chosen because of the huge publicity surrounding the event and the chance to reach more students.

“We want to be moving towards something more sustainable, and Chick-fil-A is not that direction. But we were not targeting that specific organization, because I wasn’t able to do any in depth research on them, and they’re not doing anything different from anything else,” said Schuler.

As the organizer for the event, Schuler said there was a bigger interest than the eight people who showed up, but classes came first for students.

On the other hand, some students said a fast food joint’s grand opening might not be the best place to prove a point about unsustainable farming practices.

“If the protest is for all of chicken-dom, then they should focus it on all of chicken-dom, not just Chickfil-A,” Joelene Kronz, 18 year old freshman biology major from Anchorage, Alaska, said.

“Eric’s a good friend of mine and I support what

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Kelsey Bulkeley, a 20-year-old Biology major from Boise tries Chick-fil-A (chicken nuggets) for the first time with her mom, Sandy, Tuesday night in the SUB. he’s protesting, but I don’t think Chick-fil-A is the best place to have that kind of protest, it doesn’t project the right image I think,” Scott Lee, a 22 year old senior with a major in chemistry from Montana.

Along with holding signs and being dressed in costumes of chickens, the group passed out flyers entitled “What’s Our Beef with Chicken?” containing information about the environmental and economic impact of industrialized farming.

The information said that between 1982 and 2002, the total number of farms fell 61 percent while the number of factory farms went up 234 percent. On the environmental portion of the fact sheet, it said more than half of the United States’ corn and soybean production goes to feed livestock rather than people. The fact sheets were made up of quotes from an essay that is available at http://factoryfarmtaxprotest.org.

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Schuler said after being inside the SUB for a few minutes, the group was asked to leave.

“We were disappointed to get kicked out of the SUB so quickly. I had reviewed the policy beforehand, and I knew they had every right to ask us to move outside.

But we weren’t disrupting anything; we were standing silently off to one side and holding signs,” Schuler said.

Some of the other protestors included Lisa Young, an alumni from 2010 who graduated with a degree in chemistry, and Stephen Crowley, PhD, assistant professor of philosophy.

“Every time the university decides who gets to provide food in the Student Union Building, it is making choices that send a message to the whole university.

I think they could have made a different choice, a better choice, by pursuing a local, greener business,” Crowley said.

“The chicken is delicious. It didn’t feel fake and is definitely better than McDonalds'.

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“The menu is a lot smaller, I would like to see the breakfast menu added. Breakfast is definitely the best.”

“The chicken nuggets are definitely my favorite item on the menu, the chicken is much juicier,” he said.

“I’ve had it (spicy chicken sandwich) twice in the past two days because I love it so much.”

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It's not Chick-fil-A, but here's how-to make a CCFS GABRIElLE BRANDINI Journalist

Chick-fil-A can admittedly make some good sandwiches but they're only available after a half-hour wait in line, not available at all on Sundays and will probably now contribute significantly to the freshman-15 phenomenon at Boise State.

I'm trying to figure out an easy and healthy alternative to the Chick-fil-A classic, so after a few minutes of brainstorming I have figured out how I could use the stuff in my fridge to make a chicken sandwich to rival the Georgiabased chicken sandwich corporation.

A friend who works at Chickfil-A explained the process of making their sandwiches.

His instructions were mostly confusing and complicated and they required a few prepackaged mystery ingredients and fast-food equipment.

I then considered using a homemade recipe that is said to closely resemble the original Chick-fil-A sandwich but it requires a deep fryer and a bajillion bottles of oil for a really big batch of sandwiches, which isn't really practical for college students who probably don't own a deep-fryer or have five people to feed.

So, the sandwich might not be an exact replica of the Chick-Fil-A, but it's simple and still pretty tasty. I call it the "Chic-Filet," which translates to "Classy Chicken Fillet Sandwich."

Making the sandwich is pretty straightforward. First,

pull out that chicken breast and "butterfly" it, or slice it horizontally in half and leave a small part in the middle and flatten it. You want to try and make a flat burger shape with the meat. If you want a visual explanation of butterflying chicken breasts, visit http://tinyurl.com/butterflychicken.

Next, put on a ton of tarragon and cilantro on the chicken, and then salt and pepper to taste. This is where a lot of the flavor comes in, so there's never too much. Then, get three shallow dishes, put half a cup of flour in one, a beaten egg in the next one, and the panko flakes in the last one, forming an assembly line to bread the chicken patty.

Coat the patty in the flour and then egg and then the panko. Heat up a pan of

about one inch of oil on medium-high heat. Put the breaded chicken patty in and let it cook on one side until it turns golden brown (and not any darker than that, when it's dark brown it becomes really gross) and then flip it with the tongs until the other side is golden brown. Drain it on a napkincovered plate, and you're done with the chicken.

Take your bread slices and stick them in a toaster, preferably using a bagel setting to toast one side.

Butter the bread, slap the chicken on, stick a couple of pickles on top and you've got your very own chicken sandwich. It's perfect for a lazy Sunday, while the Chick-fil-A beast slumbers.

VIDEO Visit Arbiteronline.com for ingredients and a how-to video on making the "Classy Chicken filet sandwich."

Eric Schuler is a 21-year-old vegan from Meridian, double majoring in economics and accountancy.

What is the difference between a vegan and a vegetarian?

Schuler: Vegans abstain from all animal products whatsoever, so, whereas some vegetarians will eat fish, they're called pescetarians, they'll drink milk and eat eggs, vegans don't do any of that. Also, it depends on how strict you are, but if you're technically a vegan, you carry that into products you buy that aren't food, like leather and chapstick, which is one of the weird ones, apparently they use lamb fat in most of them.

Why did you become a vegan?

Schuler: Well, for me specifically I did it for ethical reasons, I took a philosophy class and I read this article by Peter Singer.

But the better answer that is less esoteric is that you can either do it for health reasons or because you're an environmentalist and support sustainability.

The problem with animal products is that they require so much more energy. It didn't make sense to me at first, but when you think about it a lot of the energy that comes from soybeans has to go to sustaining the chickens life rather than growing the chicken.

How long have you been a vegan?

Schuler: It'll be two years in January, so I guess 21 months.

Was it a sudden idea to become a vegan? Or did it take a while?

Schuler: As I said, it was in a philosophy class and read this article called "All Animals are Equal" by Peter Singer and Tom Regan. I went and talked to my professor afterward because I was really struggling with it, because I couldn't see how to get around his argument. And my professor said that he didn't know, but he got around it by having his own chickens and cows so he'd know they were treated well.

For anyone interested in becoming a vegan, are there any resources you would recommend?

Schuler: Yeah, like I said, the best book for those interested in the health part of it is "The China Study" by Doctor T. Collin Campbell and Thomas Campbell, even though it's dense, since they are talking about all this scientific research and it's written by a scientist.

Interview compiled by Arbiter journalist Suzanne Craig.

Edited for brevity. To read the complete interview visit: http://Arbiteronline.com.

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Spell check, texting hinder critical thinking

Technology is draining our writing skills Christine Ritchie Journalist

The Internet is one great, big playground. People have the freedom to express whatever they wish, in whichever manner they desire. Even something as simple as a Facebook status can be filled with grammatical mistakes and spelling errors galore.

People use instant messaging, send texts and e-mail using text lingo. They pay no attention to the way words are spelled because this is all done at lightning speed. This mindlessness is all fine and dandy with new technologies providing people with fun ways to interact. However, these small and seemingly insignificant oversights have large effects on peoples’ capabilities to write well.

If anyone were to look at a typical day's posts on Facebook, they would see many people confusing "their," "there," and "they’re." "It’s" and "its" are also commonly misused, along with "to" and "too."

It’s enough to make anyone who respects great writing go crazy.

For some, this could be simple laziness -- knowing the correct word but not caring about grammar. Or it could be they do not realize the importance of having a difference between writing and socializing.

People should take writing seriously. It is one way to express our language. Literature, textbooks and journalism among other things, wouldn’t exist without it. Peoples' abilities to think critically are at stake if they do not know how to write. Virtually every job requires writing capabilities..

Boise State’s Writing Center is one of the oldest in the nation and helps students with essays and papers. Senior English major April Watts has worked at the Writing Center for two years. She said that people will never be

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Too much technology can cause students to lose valuable writing comprehension skills. held accountable for their errors because of spell check.

“You can tell which students rely on spell check,” Watts said.

“They’ll say, ‘Oh, spell check didn’t catch that.’”

People shouldn’t be so dependent on what Microsoft Word "thinks" should be the correct way to spell a word or how to phrase a sentence.

All that does is allow for people to make mistakes but never learn from them.

People should not rely on a software program to write for them. Actual human thought is much better.

According to the new Writing Center director and English professor Clyde Moneyhun, Ph.D., says Watts and other tutors at the center like to take an approach that teaches people rather than just corrects them.

“We care a lot. We want to empower students,” Moneyhun

said. “We look at the error and see it as a teachable moment.”

Moneyhun acknowledges new technologies have an effect on the way we write and that they may be damaging what we like about formal writing. Though he does understand that writing isn’t always the priority for some students.

Many of the students who seek out the Writing Center have come from tough backgrounds regarding writing, according to Moneyhun. They haven’t had praise for writing so they decide they are bad at it. As a result, these students tend to adopt the "just get it over with" mentality.

It's too bad this attitude is around -- no one should be made to feel bad about his or her writing abilities.

They should be taught to understand the importance of this amazing tool. It should be universally understood that it’s not

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Savvy Girl’s horribly misguided adventures Reading the Savvy Girl’s horribly misguided adventures has officially become unbearable after the recent “Guide to: Falling head over heels and damaging neither.” It genuinely make me sick that there are impressionable young people on campus reading this train wreck and even worse -- taking its awful advice.

In that column, author Sherika Martinez proclaimed herself to be "a skeptic of love," "arguable masochistic,” a "general Love Grinch," and "wondering if love really does exist."

Ironically, the article ends with Martinez’s saying, “We’ve only just met, yet it seems like it’s been forever.” Really? They’ve only just met but this “self-proclaimed skeptic” and “Love Grinch” is already experiencing the emotions of love and is “falling for someone?”

True skeptics don’t fall in love quickly or easily. But I’ll pretend that (by some mira-

cle) a true skeptic did fall in love after having just someone. In this case, it’s their own fault for rolling the dice too soon and ending up “burned, lied to and used.” The definition of insanity is doing something over and over and expecting different results. Perhaps it’s time to stop blaming others for a self-inflicted wound.

Ms. Martinez did make one valid point in the article. It was immediately after she spewed some ridiculous vomit about people who are truly in love don’t always just have sex with each other forever. (The only person who would genuinely believe this crap is either A: a cheater themselves or B: someone who has never truly loved and been loved in return.) The valid point she did eventually make was that every individual defines love differently based on a variety of reasons. Accurate. She should stick with that and stay

professional to insert slang or text speech into essays.

Writing is vital and this medium of expression should be both beautiful and clear.

Ultimately, people are relying too much on technology to think for them. Moneyhun has noticed students using "u" instead of "you" in essays and wondered why they thought it was acceptable.

It’s time to separate quick, fun socializing from academic and creative writing. Students should make an attempt to actually learn when the red squiggly line appears in their papers.

Perhaps students could start out by writing papers by hand.

They should read essays out loud and listen for punctuation. Small steps can make a big difference not only now in English classes but also in the future.

It is time to be responsible for how we express ourselves.

away from morality, which clearly eludes her.

From experience, I know what good and bad relationships feel like and nothing about either is even remotely similar to the “excitement and terror one would associate with playing a game of Russian Roulette” if both parties have any common sense. Feeling “burned, lied to and used” happens when someone falls in love so quickly that they don't fully understand the other person and how they define love.

So if the goal of this Saucy Misadventures article is sex, please keep it at sex and stop talking about love or relationships. I appreciate my (and Sherika Martinez’s) freedom of speech but I’m done watching print space in a city wide newspaper be filled with garbage about falling in love with every John (or Jane) that our resident sex columnist meets and then whining about how awful it hurts when the inevitable happens. (But don’t worry -the life-healing effects of masturbation and gay friends fixes everything if that does happen!) Quit the shock-value writing and stick to something worth reading, please.

Darren Howard is a sophomore and kinesiology major.

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Hey, you know what's funny? Black people! So is rape, incidentally. I know this because I'm a white guy, it's in our genes. It just gets a bro down when those humorless femi-nazis and black people are so intolerant and bigoted toward my comedy gold. I mean, I knew a black guy once, so it's cool, right? Plus, I know some chicks. How can I be sexist if I know some chicks? Everybody just needs to chillax and go bang some drunk floozies.

See? That's funny.

Except, you know, it's not. Sometimes people make off-color or inappropriate jokes. It happens. More often than not, people get offended and speak up. Then the jokers claim “lighten up, it's funny” or “either everything is funny or nothing is.”

However, these people are dicks.

Here's a fact about the U.S.: white, straight men have held the power in this country since the beginning. Right now that's changing but it hasn't completely changed. Historically, we white folk have been a little rude to non-white folks. In the case of African-Americans, electing a black president and having a few successful black entertainers doesn't erase 200 years of slavery and oppression. Black stereotypes are still a sore spot for many people and a white man saying the slur affectionately known as “the N-word” is like rubbing salt in a wound. Don't counter with “my best friend or significant other is black, so I can say it.” If that person is OK with the use of slurs, then good for them. It's still not any less racist in other contexts. You might as well be gloating about it.

But rape, rape is hilarious. What could be funnier than violently forcing your libido on an unwilling and probably unconscious victim? A man making light of a traumatic and life-altering experience (that is inflicted on one in every six women) is Dane Cook-quality material, right there. Actually, the rate is likely considerably higher as the Department of Justice estimates only 18 percent of rapes are ever reported. And for the record, taking advantage of a drunk woman (á la every Judd Apatow movie ever) counts as rape.

Therefore, it has a place in the annals of perfect comedy.

Now it's rhetorical question time!

Would you tell a dead baby joke at an infant's funeral? Would you joke about cancer in front of someone undergoing chemotherapy?

That's the kind of trauma we're dealing with when talking about rape. It comes with PTSD in many cases and flashbacks to the event. By sharing that comedic gem you thought of in the shower on Tuesday, you could reopen some extremely painful wounds. By telling an upset rape survivor to lighten up, get over it or any number of other pithy platitudes, (alliteration -- now that's good comedy) you're then rinsing your mouth out with lemon juice and spitting into said wound.

A good rule of thumb is that if you wouldn't feel comfortable sharing your razor wit with a stranger who would be the butt of the joke -- because of race, gender, sexual orientation or otherwise -- shut up. Don't say offensive things in public, because you will offend someone.

It's not about being “politically correct,” it's about not being a dick.

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BSU, Idaho clash at the Kibbie Petersen sees no reason to play rivalry game in Moscow Trent Lootens Sports Editor

BOISE, Idaho -- Boise State head coach Chris Petersen is so serious about his Broncos being focused for Idaho that he wouldn’t allow the players to speak to the media this week.

Petersen voiced his opinion on the rivalry and made it clear that he sees no reason for BSU to ever travel to Moscow, Idaho again after Friday.

“There’s more Idaho alumni down here than anywhere else in the whole state,” Petersen said. “We’ve got a big stadium. If it’s a game everybody wants to see, let’s let everybody see it right here where all the seats are.”

BSU (8-0, 4-0 Western Athletic Conference) has been heavily criticized for voicing its dislike for playing the Vandals (4-5, 1-3 WAC) home-and-home.

The idea of not having the game played in Moscow again has put the in-state rivalry in serious doubt heading forward.

Bad Blood Idaho’s 12-game winning-streak against BSU from 1982-93 put an unforgettable sour taste in Boise State’s mouth. That span was a painful time for Bronco fans, but if BSU defeats Idaho on Friday the Broncos will tie Idaho’s streak at 12 consecutive wins in the series. Boise State hasn’t lost to Idaho since a 36-35 overtime loss in 1998.

“I think it’s important to those kids.

We always educate them just on the history of Boise State football,” Petersen said. “I think it’s always important and interesting for those guys to see just the history of things that have gone on around here.”

Don't count out the dome Idaho has lost its last two games by a combined score of 108-27 and another bowl appearance for the Vandals looks gloomy at best.

Essentially, this game is everything for Idaho and the Kibbie Dome will represent Idaho’s desperateness on Friday.

“Noise always is a factor, even if guys don’t mention it. It’s something that we

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practice every week with it," Petersen said. "If you don’t it could have a tremendous effect on you.”

Luckily for the Broncos, they have the indoor Caven-Williams Sports Complex to practice in for games that will be played indoors. Boise State feels this is crucial when preparing for the hostility of a sold out Kibbie Dome.

This could get deep The Vandals have practically abandoned their run game as of late, as it ranks No. 116 in the nation.

To try and level the ground unproductiveness, Idaho has gone to the air.

Idaho ranks No. 4 in the nation in passing yards, averaging 330 passing yards per game.

Petersen said Idaho is a vertical team led by the powerful arm of senior quarterback Nathan Enderle and that the Vandals have an ideal amount of deep-threat weapons to compliment him.

History of the BSU-Idaho rivalry BOISE STATE-IDAHO THE SERIES Date Loc. W/L Score Sept. 11, 1971 A W 42-14 Nov. 25, 1972 H L 21-22 Sept. 15, 1973 A W 47-24 Nov. 23, 1974 H W 53-29 Oct. 11, 1975 A T 31-31 Sept. 11, 1976 H L 9-16 Nov. 19, 1977 A W 44-14 Nov. 4, 1978 H W 48-10 Oct. 13, 1979 A W 41-17 Oct. 11, 1980 H W 44-21 Nov. 21, 1981 A W 45-43 Oct. 30, 1982 H L 17-24 Nov. 19, 1983 A L 24-45 Nov. 17, 1984 H L 0-37 Nov. 23, 1985 A L 27-44 Nov. 22, 1986 H L 14-21 Nov. 21, 1987 A L 34-40 Nov. 19, 1988 H L 20-26 Nov. 18, 1989 A L 21-26 Nov. 17, 1990 H L 14-21 Nov. 23, 1991 A L 24-28 Nov. 21, 1992 H L 16-62 Nov. 20, 1993 H L 16-49 Nov. 19, 1994 H W 27-24 Nov. 18, 1995 A L 13-33 Nov. 23, 1996 H L 19-64 Nov. 22, 1997 A W 30-23 (OT) Nov. 21, 1998 H L 35-36 (OT) Nov. 20, 1999 A W 45-14 Nov. 18, 2000 H W 66-24 Sept. 29, 2001 A W 45-13 Aug. 31, 2002 H W 38-21 Sept. 13, 2003 A W 24-10 Sept. 4, 2004 H W 65-7 Nov. 19, 2005 H W 70-35 Oct. 21, 2006 A W 42-26 Nov. 17, 2007 H W 58-14 Nov. 15, 2008 A W 45-10 Nov. 14, 2009 H W 63-25 TOTAL 21-17-1

What Broncos need to jump the Horned Frogs in BCS Trent Lootens Sports Editor

No. 14 Utah to lose at Notre Dame. Utah is TCU’s marquee win. A Utah loss would likely drop the Utes out of the Top 25, therefore lowering TCU’s strength-of-schedule.

No. 25 Texas A&M to win at Baylor. TCU has gotten a lot of credit for defeating the Bears 4510 earlier in the season.

Baylor lost badly at Oklahoma State last week and fell out of the Top 25. An A&M win would

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BSU cornerbacks verses Idaho wide receivers. Idaho’s receivers are tall, fast and capable of making big plays. Vandal sophomore wide receiver Justin Veltung has eight touchdowns

keep Baylor out for good.

No. 20 Virginia Tech needs to continue winning and become Atlantic Coast Conference champions. VT is BSU’s signature win. What’s good for the Hokies is great for the Broncos.

No. 21 Nevada has to win at Fresno State.

BSU’s chances of jumping TCU will dwindle dramatically if the Broncos don’t play a ranked Nevada team on Nov. 26.

Boise State needs to obliterate every remaining team on its schedule, starting this week at Idaho.

on only 20 receptions for 453 yards and averages more than 22 yards per catch.

Junior quarterback Kellen Moore will be battling more than Idaho’s defense on Friday.

BSU’s offense will have to overcome the deafening noise echoing inside the Kibbie Dome. This hasn’t been a problem for Boise State in recent trips to Moscow, but it’s always a factor. Petersen feels the Broncos are ready for it. BSU is no stranger to unfriendly environments.

Akey desires in-state melee to continue the 'right way'

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Managing Editor BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho Vandals fans have one day circled on their calendar every football season. That will be no more after Boise State and Idaho lock horns for potentially the last time Friday in Moscow, Idaho. Following a 40 year stretch of annual disdain between alumni, students and athletes, the two teams fail to see the rivalry progress with no future scheduled games slotted between the Broncos and Vandals.

Idaho coach Robb Akey is a purist in thought when it comes to the rivalry.

Tradition trumps any preconceived notion that neither team is a good fit for the other with the Broncos entering the college football elite, and Idaho still struggling to find its feet.

“You do know how I feel,” Akey said.

“I think the rival games are one of the

great things about college football.

The rival games and the bowl games are two of the things that make college football great ... It’s got to be played the right way from both schools.”

The right way, according to Akey, is a home-and-home meeting every year between the schools to keep it alive. Discussion of playing the game just in Boise due to the financial benefits of more fans in the stands has been an important talking point. The extra ticket revenue would go a long way to fulfill the Broncos' need to expand to keep up with the college football landscape, something BSU Athletic Director Gene Bleymaier has not kept to himself.

The back and forth between the two schools during rivalry week is just part of the festivities. Fan hatred can only be carried so far until it must be settled on the field.

Akey has been impressed with the BSU defensive line. After a brutal beating last weekend by Nevada (6317), the Vandals hope to bounce back with better pass protection.

“That’s one of the things I think has really helped their team grow as they have over the last little bit was what they’ve done on defense,” Akey said. “ ... The speed of the back end ... I think it’s a damn good defense.”

The Vandals are among the worst in the country for sacks allowed, giving up 32 over the period of nine games this season. Senior quarterback Nathan Enderle has bore the brunt of the wrath of opposing defenses. Also as a senior, Enderle has taken on a more mental role with the team as a more focused leader.

“He’s a tremendous player,” Akey said. “He’s trying to make a push and make a difference right now.”

Enderle has averaged 22.11 completions per game this season with 278.44 yards passing per game. Despite the Vandals’ struggles this season, Enderle is a bright spot for Idaho going into the battle for the Governor’s Cup.

What the ESPN 'experts' are saying Robert Smith (ESPN analyst)

“Virginia Tech was a different team and obviously lost to James Madison five days later, so you can’t forget that. If you go back to that Fiesta Bowl game between TCU and Boise State, TCU to me looks like they choked in that ball game. I don’t think they showed up in a way what I would’ve expected. I see TCU being a more balanced team. I look at Boise State, I had the opportunity to call the game against Louisiana Tech a couple weeks ago, I think this team can be had, especially with their run defense.”

Pat Forde (ESPN columnist)

“Your (Boise State) defense held the nation's No. 1 passing offense (Hawai’i) a whopping 244 yards below its season average. Your defense pitched a shutout for three quarters against a team averaging 39 points a game. Your defense made the nation's No. 2 receiver basically disappear, holding him to two catches for 10 yards.”

Brad Edwards (ESPN BCS guru)

“They (TCU) have enough of a lead on Boise (State) right now. I think it’s going to be difficult for Boise to pull even with TCU in the computers and because of that I don’t think Boise has any chance of passing TCU in the BCS, unless they can jump back over them (TCU) in the polls. Anything outside of a 50-point demolition of Nevada and maybe Virginia Tech running the table and winning the ACC, I really can’t see that happening.”

BCS Rankings Rank Team Average

1. Oregon - .9638 2. Auburn - .9611 3. TCU - .9259 4. Boise State - .8662 5. LSU - .8170 6. Stanford - .7454 7. Wisconsin - .7349 8. Nebraska - .7298 9. Ohio State - .6613 10. Oklahoma State - .6211

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“I like what I see, I like the intensity. We’re going out, we’re playing hard and we’re giving everything we got on the floor," senior forward Robert Arnold said.

Arnold and the Boise State Broncos won their last exhibition game of the season against the Adams State Grizzlies 8372, Tuesday night at Taco Bell Arena. It was BSU's last exhibition game before its home regular season opener Saturday.

All wasn’t pretty for the Broncos, who came out playing raw in the first half, committing simple mistakes and lacking command of the ball.

BSU trailed by as much as 10 points with Adams State taking advantage of a lack-luster BSU performance before Boise State turned things around.

“That was good for us because we didn’t get down on ourselves we just played through it and we knew that they were going to come out and be scrappy so we just prepared for that,” senior guard La’Shard Anderson said.

It was Anderson and Arnold who revitalized the Broncos and the 2,006 fans in the arena from a 28-38 deficit. The seniors

sparked a 16-4 scoring rampage before taking a 44-42 lead at half time.

“They come in and they want to play well. It’s a division I game and they got a chip on their shoulder and they have stuff to prove. They’re a wellcoached team and they can kind of just let it fly,” head coach Leon Rice said.

Boise State continued the scoring trend into the second half. Steals and free throws were the key ingredients for the Broncos' victory. Boise State totaled 19 takeaways and shot a 66.7 percent from the free throw line.

“Pretty much we knew they

were going to be scrappy so we expected that they were going to have some runs. We just had to play through it,” Anderson said.

Anderson had 24 points, four assists, three steals and went six for six from the free-throw line. His counterpart, Arnold, finished with 21 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks. Senior forward Daequon Montreal had 11 points, 11 rebounds and redshirt junior guard Westly Perryman totaled 11 points, two assists and six steals.

Even though they came away with a win, the Broncos still have a fair amount to improve on for their season opener

against Western State.

"I think that if you can work through that (the deficit) you learn a lot what gets you there and what puts you in the hole.

You’d like a lot of time to dissect this film with them. You don’t have a ton of time, but there’s a lot of things they can take from this, learn from this,” head coach Leon Rice said. “The thing I’d like to see is just keep getting better at executing our offense. Our offense has to do some catch up because we’ve been really emphasizing our defense.”

The Broncos tip off against Western State at 5 p.m. at Taco Bell Arena.

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War Stories Lauren Hooker Journalist

Death was a looming possibility Troy Wainscott used to face on a daily basis during his military service in Iraq.

In the sweltering heat of the Iraqi desert, roadside bombs, enemy assaults and consistent mortar attacks were routine. After a while, explosions weren’t even something to bat an eyelash at.

“Where I was, they mortared us everyday. It varied, sometimes they’d only hit you with one or two, sometimes 13 or 14,” Wainscott said with a shrug. “You never knew where they were gonna hit. You kinda get used to it in the end, where it doesn’t even faze you anymore.”

Part desert, part vegetation, the Iraqi landscape is covered in a six- to eight-inch layer of baby-powder fine dirt called moondust. With soldiers kicking it up, the wind and other disturbances create a 24/7 dust cloud.

“When it rains in Iraq -and it does -- the monsoons come and it pours and pours and pours,” said Wainscott,

who graduated from Boise State in summer 2010. “That moondust turns to muck. So if you can imagine having your whole living area covered in eight inches of wet baby powder and you have to work in it. You can imagine what that’s like.”

To combat the mess, soldiers laid down a layer of crushed rock to create a less messy surface on which to work. A typical workday varied depending on the day and assignment.

“There was task force neighborhood. If you blow things up, you clean them up,” Wainscott said.

Troops also ventured into anti-American areas where they tried to win over the hearts of the people by doing things for them.

Convoy security was another task which entailed sitting in the back of a Humvee for 10 to 12 hours. Land mines and road bombs were a huge danger. During three separate instances in a 10-hour period, Wainscott and the other members of the convoy had to deal with land mines, bombs attached to dogs and explosives rigged to the

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Troy Wainscott, a recent Boise State graduate, risked his life while serving in the American military to save others before earning his degree. backs of guardrails.

“I was shaking more violently than I ever have in my life,” Wainscott said.

Even though they were in a compromising place, soldiers still tried to lead a somewhat normal life while overseas.

After long days of work, they returned to base and played football, watched movies and took showers to get clean. They used phone calls and e-mails to keep in touch with family and friends back home.

“We stayed in contact,” said Cody Mandigo, a sophomore at North Dakota State University who has been friends with Wainscott since second grade. “He’s very self motivated, friendly and an all around good guy.”

Wainscott was only 18 years old when he was deployed to Iraq.

“It was very stressful,” said Karen Wainscott, Troy's mother. “You hear something on the news about a bomb and you

wonder if it’s his unit. Day by day, you wonder.”

Facing the challenges and threats was no small feat but is worth it when representing our country. After 11 and a half months in Iraq, Wainscott returned home to friends and family.

“You have to grow up in a hurry,” he said. “There’s no ‘I’m just a kid’ over there.

People’s lives are on the line.

We’re in a warzone. You grow up overnight.”

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