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February 2012
Volume 24
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Men’s and women’s tennis show Bronco pride in their wins.
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iPads now on campus
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Moving in together
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At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, the Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area sat under clear blue skies. The temperature hovered around 31 degrees Fahrenheit and 53 inches of snow lay on the summit. To the casual observer, the scene appeared idyllic, but the ski season has been anything but. Bogus Basin shattered its record for late-start dates when it opened on Jan. 19. Since then, the resort’s operators have been struggling to deal with an estimated $2 million in lost revenue. According to Alan Moore, vice president of finance, Bogus Basin has already lost over 50 percent of its skier visits for the
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year. The busiest times for the resort are the weeks before and during Christmas. This year, both weeks saw bare slopes and empty chairlifts. The resort has cut pay for full-time employees by 10 percent. The chief executive officer and chief financial officer are not being paid at all. Rachel Parsons, a junior geosciences major, teaches ski lessons at Bogus Basin. “Usually I do most of my work during Christmas break so that’s a whole month of work I didn’t get,” Parsons said. Parsons had planned some ski trips with friends, but was forced to scrap her plans and pay bills instead. Despite the disappointment, Parsons is upbeat. “Everyone on the mountain went without pay but every-
one made that sacrifice and now we’re working really hard to make it up,” Parsons said. “I can always go up there and find work which has been really nice. We’re all pretty stoked that we’re working now and hoping for a longer season.” Part of the reason Bogus Basin has had to be hard-nosed in dealing with losses is because it is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Being a nonprofit, the resort does not have money stored for a rainy day. “We are owned by the community and any money we make is plowed back into the mountain to provide better services and a better ski area for the public,” Moore said.
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This Thursday, Frank Warren, the creator of PostSecret, will spill the beans about his project at the Morrison Center. PostSecret is a community project that invites people to anonymously send in their deepest and darkest on a handmade postcard. The secrets are PostSecret: then published in books, Thursday Feb. 16 as well as online each Sun7 p.m. day. The postcards range from silly confessions to Morrison Center disclosures of abuse to shocking desires. $5 for BSU stuThe mutimedia event, PostSecret Live, sells out dents $10 for the quickly on many campuses public and is itself shrouded in secrecy. Warren asks everyone to turn off their cameras before he unveils secrets so juicy they were banned from the books, reveals his own secret and allows others to step up to the microphone and do the same. This public lecture is being presented by Student Programs Board. “We wanted to get an engaging speaker on campus that students can relate to and we came up with Frank Warren,” Student Programs Board Special Events Coordinator Julian Rodriguez said. The event took months to plan, but Rodriguez said it was worth all the effort because, for young people, getting things off their chests is a great way to express themselves. “Everyone has secrets that they’re aren’t proud of and PostSecret is a healthy way to get them out,” Rodriguez said. PostSecret.com has had over 500 million visitors, making it the largest ad-free blog in the world.
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Send a handmade postcard (4’ x 6’) with your secret to The Arbiter and we will publish the best ones in the issue following the event. Submissions will be accepted through Friday until 5 p.m.
Arbiter address: 1910 University Drive Boise ID 83725 mail stop 1335 Or drop it off in the box at the Student Media office Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
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Boise musician James Orr performed Saturday night at the Stueckle Sky Center Double R Ranch Room to promote his sophomore ablum, Tiny Love. Another local act, Uintahs, also played for the sharply dressed crowd.
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In spring of 2011, Boise State welcomed the new club, Boise International Student Video (BoVi) Festival. Ryan Morgan, a 22-year-old mass communication major and the president of BoVi, said the festival was created “to showcase the works of student filmmakers.”
The film festival is open to all students from grade school through college. Morgan explained that since this is the first time the festival is being offered, the date the film was created does not matter. The last day to submit films is March 15, but there is a $10 entrance fee for all films submitted after Wednesday. However, Morgan said it may be possible for exceptions to be
How to submit your film:
• Download the entry form (found on the communication department page on Broncoweb or on BoVi’s Facebook page). • Submit your video via DVD or URL.
• Send entry to: Professor Daehwan Cho Department of Communication 1910 University Drive Boise, ID 83725-1920
made for Boise State students. The festival itself takes place April 28 and 29 in the Student Union Building. Alex Weiss, a 24-year-old senior majoring in media production said BoVi is exciting because it’s a way to feature talent on campus. “Putting our classmates’ work out there for other people to see could really help grow the film program here at BSU,” Weiss said. BoVi’s Facebook page enCODY FINNEY/THE ARBITER courages students to join the Ryan Morgan, president of BoVi, encourages meetings every Monday at students to submit films for the festival in April. 9 p.m. The page describes the meetings as a great en- broadcasters or mass commu- production, because it can vironment of learning and nication majors, but is open to be a great experience for fucreativity, essential in good everyone. Weiss encourages ture careers such as business, all students, including those accounting and numerous filmmaking. BoVi is not exclusive to not already involved in media other fields. arbiteronline.com