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Michigan Avenue closed for Lincoln Garage Addition Michigan Avenue at Belmont Street is now closed to through traffic because of the extension of the Lincoln Parking Garage. The road will be closed until August when the garage addition is completed.

If you’re a walker, the sidewalk will be open on the east side of Michigan Avenue from University Drive to Beacon Street.

Closed streets include: Michigan Avenue between University Drive and Belmont Street, Belmont Street between Michigan Avenue and Vermont Avenue.

After being called to a house fire Saturday afternoon, police have reported a dead body found inside a home near Beacon Street and Lincoln Avenue, a block from the Lincoln Parking Garage.

The Sigma Chi fraternity house is adjacent to the home where the body was found.

Tim Ganley, a 20-year-old sophomore kinesiology and biomechanics major, lives in the Sigma Chi house and woke up Saturday morning smelling smoke. There were numerous police and fire trucks outside his neighbor’s home.

Ganley said a couple in their late 20s lived in the home. The couple made a good impression when they first moved in about a month and a half ago, but it went downhill from there.

The couple was frequently arguing and “always yelling,” he said. In the last month, he estimated police had visited the home about five different instances.

Ganley didn’t know if they were formally engaged or married, but they were “definitely together.”

He saw a body bag leave the home Saturday afternoon and was told by police it was female.

Ganley said the male’s car had been gone the last two days. “(It is) surprising to know that this can happen to anyone really,” he said. “(It is) shocking that it was right next door.”

The Ada County Coroner now has the body.

No details about the woman’s identity or cause of death have been released.

According to Boise Police representative Lynn Hightower, the situation is now a death investigation and she doesn’t expect updates this weekend.

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The Boise Police and Fire Departments maintain a barricade on the street where the house containing the body was located Saturday afternoon. Neighbors to the couple stated they witnessed arguments and police intervention because of the altercations. The investigation is being addressed as a death, according to BPD representative Lynn Hightower.

Engineering students construct a bridge for regional competition Stephanie Casanova Journalist

People usually fill a suitcase with clothes before a flight. Six Civil Engineering students will be packing bolts and bridge pieces into theirs this month.

The Civil Engineer Club will compete in a regional steel bridge competition at this year’s Pacific Northwest Conference March 31 at the University of Alaska Anchorage. It’s one of 18 regional conferences held by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

The trip was funded partially by the Civil Engineering Club and the Mechanical Engineering Club and with the help of an ASBSU grant of $3,854.32.

Six crafty students have planned and designed a steel bridge with the help of two of mechanical engineering students.

“We made some initial assumptions on size of pieces and lengths of pieces and what not and after doing the calculations they all end up working so that’s always an upper,” said Mike

Slegers, a 21-year-old senior Civil Engineering major from Nampa.

“The bridge puts you in different situations that you don’t get put into in the classroom ... it’s a good test of knowledge.”

The competition requires the bridge to have a weight capacity of 2,500 pounds.

The bridge weighs about 250 pounds total, with pieces weighing about eight pounds each. The team will be taking these pieces in 50-pound bundles as their luggage.

According to team president Caleb Fisher, a 23-year-old senior Civil Engineering major from Boise, six people are the optimal number for design work, construction, display and technical paper presentation.

“It’s a lot (of work) for six people, but it’s just enough that everybody’s involved with pretty much everything,” Fisher said.

Most of the team attended last year’s conference, but they were unable to complete a bridge by the deadline.

Instead, they observed other schools’ performances and learned what worked and what

didn’t. This year, the team contributed an average of 18 hours each week to the project.

All the preparation and welding Saturdays comes to a peak the day of the competition.

The bridges are judged on six categories: display, construction speed, lightness, stiffness, construction economy and structural efficiency. There is also a winner for overall performance. Along with the regulations given to them, the team had its own goals.

“We wanted to make it light and we wanted to make it easily constructable,” Slegers said.

Designing the bridge was the most difficult and time consuming part of the project. The students had to go back and check their math often so that when it came to building their parts, they wouldn’t have to backtrack.

“I hope to bring back a trophy of some sort,” Slegers said.

An award ceremony will be held April 2. The top three teams of each regional conference are invited to the national Student Steel Bridge Competition on May 20, held this year at Texas A&M University.

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(Above) Will Johnson tightens down a bolt that helps hold a few of the segments together. (Near Left) Mike Slegers lines up segments of the bridge for a weight test with a few of the other people working on the project. (Far left) Paul Derr grinds down a weld on the top of a section of the bridge.

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Man with headaches has knife in skull Kimberley O’Bryan Journalist

A Chinese man, Li Fuyan, had been seeing doctors for the last four years to treat headaches and breathing difficulties.

“As time passed, I used injections to kill the pain in my head and ears,” Fuyan told reporters.

No one could figure out the cause of his ailments until an xray turned up a badly corroded 10 centimeter blade lodged in his skull.

The man had no idea how the blade had penetrated his skull

except to say that he’d tangled with a knife-wielding robber four years before. He had perceived no wound at the time and was quite surprised to learn the cause of his ailments.

Doctors in southern China successfully removed the knife that, through sheer luck, had not hit the carotid artery or any nerves. They could find no entrance wound and could not be certain how the knife had entered Fuyan’s skull.

Filing a false police report could result in big jail time Sherry Horton Journalist

A woman who claimed she had been raped under the Capitol Boulevard bridge in October 2010, recanted the report. Whether or not she was charged for filing the false report is unknown.

However, this incident is a warning to others who may be thinking of doing the same thing.

Filing any type of false police report is a misdemeanor in Idaho.

Depending upon the situation the charges could be upgraded to a felony, which could result in fines and jail time.

Plus, a person could also have civil charges filed against them, too.

The result is that many law enforcement agencies become involved in obtaining evidence, assailant descriptions, and other crucial information that will assist police and investigators in apprehending the perpetrator of the crime.

What is the legal definition?

Idaho Statutes and Codes can be found on the Internet to explain Idaho law. Law 18-5413 pertains to filing a false report and can be read in its entirety here.

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if false information about an action or about a person is given to any police officer, government agency or any person licensed to practice social work, psychology or counseling.

Repercussions for filing a false report If an individual files a false police report that their vehicle was stolen so the insurance company would pay off the car loan, when in fact the vehicle was ditched, not only did the person commit the offense of filing a false police report, but also picked up an additional charge of insurance fraud or hindering a secured creditor.

If the false report resulted in someone obtaining control of property that was not theirs, they could also be charged with theft by deception. If someone signed an affidavit under oath in connection with filing the false report, they could be further charged with criminal perjury or tampering with a governmental record.

It’s easy to see how filing a false report can quickly spiral out of control and result in a variety of criminal charges.

There can also be civil consequences to filing a false police report. If a false complaint is filed against another person, which resulted in them being arrested and/or losing their jobs, the filing person can be held financially liable for defamation suit at the same time.

Filing a false police report is never the best solution: doing so can have long-term financial and criminal consequences.

What to do if a police report needs to be amended If a person files a police report and later learns that information provided was incorrect, they should contact the originating agency as quickly as possible to correct the mistake. The longer it takes to correct the mistake, the more it will look like a deception occurred on purpose.

To protect yourself it’s best to stick with “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

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United States should focus on its own people, not international squabbles Recently, the community has taken to the streets with signs and fists protesting the bill Idaho Superintendent Tom Luna proposed to sweep Idaho’s education system. Police officers accompany the groups, and they experience virtually no nay-sayers.

Conversely, in the Middle East, citizens are taking to the streets demanding freedom, and are met with gunfire and expert snipers.

The New York Times reported on its website Feb. 26 on the growing oppression in Libya: “A bold play by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to prove that he was firmly in control of Libya appeared to backfire as foreign journalists he invited to the capital discovered blocks of the city in open defiance. Witnesses described snipers and antiaircraft guns firing at unarmed civilians, and security forces were removing the dead and wounded from streets and hospitals, apparently in an effort to hide the mounting toll.”

Libya may very well be headed to civil war, according to political experts. The question posed for us is: to what extent should the United States be involved?

As a country, we have been accused of neocolonialism for our uninvited involvement in

foreign affairs during the past few years. There are some in our society who say that because the United States is a world superpower, we need to take it upon ourselves to police the world.

Where does this sense of entitlement and superiority come from, exactly?

Every U.S. president has dealt with difficult decisions concerning foreign affairs. President Ronald Reagan faced affairs in Lebanon, George H. W. Bush dealt with Iraq and Somalia, Bill Clinton took on wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, and when George W. Bush entered his presidency, he was pressured to handle the uproars in Darfur. Now that President Barack Obama inherited two wars upon entering the presidency, he is feeling pressure to intervene in other countries’ civil transactions.

Gary Bass, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton, said, “If you go in early, so that you save the maximum number of human lives, people accuse you of overreacting. If you go in late, so no one really accuses you of overreacting, you will leave a lot of dead bodies.”

So what’s a nation’s president to do?

Egypt and Tunisia were able to topple their leaders without

the help of American military.

Even when they were cut off from communication with the rest of the world and some citizens were losing their lives, the countries’ people came out victorious. And they were able to do it without our help; in fact, they didn’t even ask us for help.

On Feb. 26, the United Nations Security Council (the group that is actually appointed to be the police of the world) unanimously imposed an arms embargo for all nations wishing to sell arms to the Libyan government, and even prohibited travel for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and his family, disallowing them to leave the country.

Not selling arms to the Libyan government to use against its people is the best thing we as a nation can do right now.

Using our troops, our “boys,” to run in and force democracy down other countries’ throats not only looks bad for our diplomacy, but should go against our moral codes. We need to let other countries handle their own affairs. We have enough to deal with on our own turf.

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The taxpayers’ choice Eva Hart Journalist Congress is in the process of viewing two different bills concerning abortion; the HR 3 and the HR 217 bills. These are two of the smartest bills the Republican Party has ever conceived.

The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HR 3) states that no funds authorized by federal law shall be expended for health benefits of abortion.

HR 3 would ban all MediCare or MediCaid money from being used to pay for abortions. The Hyde Amendment already bans federal funding of abortions, but must be reauthorized each year

to stay in effect. The HR 3 bill looks to make the ban permanent and strengthen it.

The Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (HR 217) ensures that organizations, including Planned Parenthood, do not receive federal dollars under the Title X federal family planning assistance program.

The limitations proposed by these bills would not apply to abortions performed for pregnancies which resulted from rape or incest, or if the pregnant female in danger of death unless an abortion is performed.

Outside of these limitations, women should not get support from the government to fund their abortions.

Jessie Johnson, a freshman in

nursing, is hoping to see both of these bills pass.

“I think abortion is wrong.

It’s not the baby’s fault you got pregnant and don’t want to keep it,” Johnson said. “I don’t think my taxpaying dollars should go toward something I believe is murder.”

The National Abortion And Reproductive Action League claims that women should be able to make their own reproductive choices.

In reality, the reproductive choice women should make is to not have sex if they are not ready for the possible consequences, or at least to use an effective form of birth control.

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Bills look to limit federal support for abortions

decisions these people make.

All of the costs of the procedure should go directly to the women having the abortion. The Government Accountability Office report shows the Planned Parenthood abortion business reported spending more than $650 million in federal funds over a seven-year period.

Our tax money may not be used to directly abort babies but our taxes buy and maintain the office, pay for the counseling that leads to the abortion and hire the personnel that will be helping with the abortion procedure. How do people not realize that funding these things is the same as funding an abortion itself?

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Brent Tafoya doesn’t want his money funding offices that perform the abortion procedure.

“I do not believe it is my, nor any tax payers’, obligation to bail out every ignorant, irresponsible kid who decides to have unprotected and unsafe sex,” Tafoya said. “How are we ‘helping people’ when we take personal responsibility away from them?”

Abortion is all about making choices. It’s the right of the public to make the choice to not pay taxes toward what they believe is wrong.

If the female in need of an abortion was mature enough to have sex and mature enough to make the decision to not keep the child she should be mature enough to pay for it on her own.

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Tweet that inspired this week’s column: mitchcoffman Erik Simpson says teachers and visitors are put at risk by not being able to carry firearms on campus.

Rep. Erik Simpson, R-Idaho Falls, proposed a measure that would allow students, faculty and staff of Idaho public universities and community colleges to carry concealed weapons around campus, so long as they have a proper permit.

The legislation, approved by the House State Affairs Committee last Thursday, would allow for concealed weaponry anywhere on campus, except in undergraduate residence halls.

Simpson says the bill would make Idaho higher-ed institutions safer because guns in backpacks are a deterrent for “bad guys.”

Encouraging people to bring guns to school is ridiculous. Its passing won’t make colleges safer, and will most definitely cause students and faculty unnecessary stress -- like we don’t already have enough to worry about. If Simpson is really concerned that guns are illegally making their way onto Idaho campuses, he should propose a bill to mandate metal detectors at the doors.

There are people out there who think they must have a weapon on them at all times -- just in case. They feel safe knowing that every time they leave the house they are ready to shoot anyone who draws on them or others. They are prepared for the very worst.

That’s no way to live.

Anne Frank, a young girl who had witnessed the worst kind of evil on earth, wrote in her famous diary, “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

Her powerful words outshine any ideas Simpson has of curbing gun violence with guns.

Anne Frank’s words withstood the holocaust and can help us today.

Wouldn’t it be better to go about our business and believe the best of those around us?

This country would quickly become an ugly place if every citizen felt the need to live life on the defensive. If everyone walked around waiting for tragedy to strike, it would be impossible to see the good in anyone.

The best way to protect society from violence is to create a culture where individuals feel safe.

We should all be taught to see the best in others -- even those whose less than desirable attributes are dominant.

Paranoid individuals’ right to bear arms shouldn’t infringe on the rights of others. Students and staff have the right to learn in a gunfree zone.

Simpson aims (pun intended) to impede gun violence by encouraging people to carry their guns around. It’s a futile, illogical endeavor. He’s speaking on behalf of many students and professors who prefer to not own guns at all.

Arming students at college campuses is not going to end gun violence, in fact, it will feed the ignorance that ignites hatred and fear. College is about learning and participating in “reasoned discourse.” It should be a place where people can expect to have their ideas challenged by those of others, without being threatened.

Here’s the deal. People with legitimate concealed weapons permits can become as deranged as any homicidal sociopath toting illegal firearms. Easier access to guns at school will only increase the likelihood of tragedy.

This logic behind this legislation is beyond flawed. It’s moronic.

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Men’s basketball solidifies No. 2 seed for WAC Tournament

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Senior La’Shard Anderson attempts a floater over a Spartan defender Saturday. The Broncos enter the WAC Tournament seeded second after a win against San Jose State, 66-51.

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ing from the bench, to give the men their seventh-consecutive win.

Senior point guard La’Shard Anderson was Boise State’s leading scorer on the evening with 18 points. Senior Paul Noonan ended with 12 points and Daequon Montreal ended with a seven points and nine rebounds.

In a sloppy game which saw both teams struggle to find rhythm, the Broncos were unable to find an answer for SJSU’s Adrian Oliver, who finished with 30 of the Spartans’ 51 points.

Eventually, Boise State was able to tighten its defense, not allowing any other Spartan to score more than 11 points.

“I do like the way we’re playing,” Rice said. “We’re playing with great energy and great enthusiasm. My goal was for these seniors to have a great legacy. They’ve put themselves in a really good position for this tournament.”

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n Boise State’s final game of the regular season, the men showed the hometown crowd at Taco Bell Arena why they’re headed into this week’s WAC Tournament as the No. 2 team in the conference.

The Broncos held San Jose State to 51 points on 29 percent shooting, a team that put up 101 on Boise in their last meeting.

“This game’s big because we always talk about going into the (WAC) tournament confident and on a winning-streak,” junior guard Wes Perryman said. “We feel good about our team, about ourselves and we’re just ready to let it rip when we get there.”

Perryman was the Broncos player of the game, finishing with 11 points, nine of which came from behind the arc.

“Wes really carried us a lot in that first half. He had some great energy for us and really did a nice job defensively,” head coach Lean Rice said.

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This game’s big because we always talk about going into the (WAC) tournament confident and on a winning-streak. We feel good about our team, about ourselves and we’re just ready to let it rip when we get there.

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grasp, the Broncos will get two first round bye’s in next week’s WAC Tournament.

BSU will travel to Las Vegas Friday to face either the No. 3, No. 6, or No. 7 seed team in one of the semifinal games. The game will air on ESPN2 at 7 p.m.

The men also realize they’ve reached the point of no return in their season. The WAC Tournament is single elimination, meaning you lose one game and your season is finished.

For Boise State to reach the big dance, it will need to win the conference tournament.

If the Broncos don’t win the WAC Tournament, it’s possible they might recieve an invitation to either the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) or the College Basketball Invitational (CBI).

“Any game can be our last game from here on,” Anderson said. “We don’t want to stop playing, we’re going to continue to work hard and do what we can to win.

Mentally, I think we’re ready. Everybody seems to be focused and excited to go into the WAC Tournament.”

Boise State finished the regular season with a 19-11 overall record, and a 10-6 conference record. Rice also finished with the best record of any first-year head coach in school history.

Zell and company dominate home softball series Ty Hawkins Journalist

The weather may have been ugly Saturday, but the dominance displayed this weekend by the softball team was an absolute thing of beauty.

The Broncos (8-8) held down the fort, going 2-0 on Saturday and 4-0 over the weekend at the Second Annual Springfield Suites Inn Invitational.

“I feel like we’re progressing great,” coach Erin Thorpe said.

“We’ve really tried to form a team to be tough at home and I think we showed that this weekend.”

In the first game against the Redhawks, the Broncos hit a school record six home runs. Junior Kellie Caplin and sophomore Holly Burke appeared to be taking batting practice as both players hit back-to-back home runs early in the game.

Boise State used those early dingers to build a nice cushion and then exploded in the fourth inning for nine runs that essentially broke Seattle’s back. The homers gave it the 14-1 victory, with junior Allie Crump picking up the win on the mound.

Southern Utah proved to be better than it was Friday, but that still couldn’t stop the Broncos and record-setting junior pitcher Aubray Zell.

Following Friday’s stunning no-hitter, Zell was tough again on the mound, allowing just six hits and no runs on the way to her second victory of the weekend with a 2-0 shutout of the Thunderbirds.

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Men’s tennis crushes Utah, USU John Garretson Journalist

“It’s like that one song, ‘you get knocked down and you get back up again’ and that’s kind of what our mantra has been.”

Head coach Greg Patton’s nostalgic reference to the hit ‘90s song, “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba, was on key as the No. 47 Boise State men’s tennis team (5-8, 0-0 Western Athletic Conference) opened up its 2011 season with a 7-0 win against the No. 66 Utah Utes (5-5 overall) at the BOAS Indoor Tennis Center Saturday.

The morning commenced with the doubles matches, in which freshman Andy Bettles and sophomore Fillip Pogostkin gave the Broncos an early advantage with a win in the No. 2 doubles match, an 8-5 victory over Matt Crowley and Devin Lane. International athletes and team leaders, sophomore Damien Hume and junior Scott Sears, cruised in their No. 1 match, as the two gelled together in their 8-4 win.

“Damien is so solid and I kind of go for the bigger things, bigger shots,” Sears said. “We really are a perfect mix.”

The Broncos were close in going for the clean sweep in the doubles, but sophomore Michael Gilliand and junior Eric Sheldon fell one-point short in their 7-7 tiebreaker, in which Utah’s Gino Octa and Dmytro Mamedov were able to gain the edge for an 8-7 victory.

That loss did not impede on the Broncos rampage as the men headed into the singles matches. Sears was the first one to walk away with a victory for the No. 3 match, winning 6-3, 6-1 against Lane. Joining Sears in the win column was junior Freddy Walsh with a 6-2, 6-2 victory at No. 6. Bettles cruised to a 6-4, 6-4 win at No. 4, Hume rolled in a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 1, and freshman Nathan Sereke fought for a 6-1, 7-6 victory at No. 5.

Finishing off the afternoon was Pogosktin, who prevailed in the most emotional match of the day, a 7-6, 7-6 win over Mamedov that capped off the undefeated match for the

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Sophomore Filipp Pogostkin won his first singles match against Utah with ease last Saturday at the BOAS Indoor Tennis Complex.

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Gymnastics senior night brings out emotions and records Genevieve Nutting Journalist

It was an emotional evening full of inspiring firsts and unforgettable lasts.

Arms outstretched in exchanges of hugs accompanied by tears as five gymnastics seniors bid farewell during their final home meet as Broncos at the Taco Bell Arena Friday.

“We’ve got some great seniors out there this season. They’ve worked so hard and they’ve added so much to this season,” co-head coach Neil Resnick said.

“I’m recruiting all the seniors as coaches though, I don’t want them to ever leave Boise.”

It was a meet they will forever remember as the Broncos claimed their victory over 2010 Western Athletic Conference Champions, Southern Utah.

With a final score of 195.925194.650, the Boise State gymnasts brought their season to 10-3 and 4-0 in the Western Athletic

Conference.

“I just wanted to have a really good time and just enjoy my last time in this building,” senior Kelsey Lang said. “I knew we were going to beat them just because last year at WAC they only beat us by .1 and we know that we’ve done the work all season and we just have a really good group of girls this year. I’ve come in with these girls and I just can’t imagine leaving.”

The Thunderbirds as a team won beam and floor, but junior Amy Glass captured the individual beam title with a score of 9.900 followed by SUU senior Ariel Lamb, scoring 9.875.

This was Glass’ sixth title on beam this season, a new school record. Glass also set a school record by winning her eighth all-around title this season after a personal best of 39.500.

“We’re really excited, a little sad, but we try to save the emotions for after the meet,” senior Redmon said. “It’s really cool to get out here on senior night and

have one of my best performances ever.”

The Broncos won bars and vault with Hailey Gaspar winning the vault title, scoring 9.875, followed by senior Hannah Redmon with a score of 9.850. Redmon and Glass tied for the bar title with a score of 9.925, a lifetime-best for both.

On floor, Glass tied for the title with Thunderbirds’ senior Shannon Coughlin, scoring an impressive 9.875.

“I think once you get into the 9.9’s and above the 39.4 for all-around, it’s hard to improve because it’s so hard to improve it and get those minor changes to get the higher scores,” Glass said. “So to just improve the littlest bit, it felt really good tonight. This year we’re on a roll.”

“At the end of the day, I feel as a coach there’s more to this than a score,” Resnick said. “There’s personal victories, personal stories, and the kids are happy.”

BSU heads to Sacramento, Calif., on March 13, facing Sacramento State and UC Davis as BSU competes in its final WAC meet of the season.

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Freshman shortstop Mackenzie Whyte applies the tag at second base during the top of the third inning. BSU went on to demolish the Redhawks 14-1 at Mountain Cove Softball Field.

Men’s tennis crushes USU [Sports page 4]

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It was a sigh of relief for Boise State, who came off a 4-1 victory over Penn State earlier on in the week, to play at home in front of loud and supporting fans. The Broncos returned home for the first time since Jan. 17, a punishing five-week road trip in which they only had three wins compared to eight losses.

“We looked at coming at home as a new season for us. There is no team who can do really well out on the road for 5 straight weeks. Almost every team we played was in the top 20s or 30s,” Patton said.

Hume was able to credit his success in his singles match to the intensity of the fans.

“I got it (the passion) from the fans.

I was down eight break points to love, and I just stuck to my game and the fans gave me the passion,” Hume said.

The day wasn’t over for the Broncos, as they only completed the first leg of the double header, defeating the Utah State Aggies 6-1 for their first WAC win at the Boise Racquet and Swim Club.

The Broncos continue their home stretch against Brigham Young University March 5 at the Appleton Tennis Courts.

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Senior Kelsey Lang leaps skillfully across the balance beam Friday night at the Taco Bell Arena against Southern Utah. The Broncos came out on top with a final score of 195.925.

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Freshman Devon Bridges hit a solo home run to give the Broncos a little insurance.

Bridges was the seventh different BSU player to homer that afternoon.

Zell, a junior from Danville, Calif., threw her first collegiate no-hitter, as well as the first-ever for Boise State’s young softball program, crushing the Thunderbirds 12-0.

“I didn’t want to think about it. I didn’t want to jinx it,” Zell said. “It definitely wasn’t possible without some great defensive plays.”

Friday’s strong performance from the veteran right-hander comes as no surprise to Thorpe.

“We’ve known she’s had that potential in her, it was just a matter of time before the results came out,” Thorpe said. “It was the first game for her at home and she was

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fired up, all of the cards fell right.”

With the 4-0 sweep this weekend, the Broncos move their overall win-streak total to six.

“It’s really been great to see some of the freshmen step up the way we expected them to,” Thorpe said. “We’re one of those teams that need to work our way into our confidence and our feeling on the field, this was a great breakout weekend for us.”

The streaking Broncos return to the diamond on the road where they will play in the Santa Clara Bronco Classic against Albany University, University of California Davis and University of Santa Clara.

Western Athletic Conference play begins Friday, March 25 when the Broncos host the Utah State University Aggies at Mountain Cove Softball Field.

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Paul Frommer, Ph.D., (left) explains how each word in the Na’vi language has its own true meaning.

Ghotpu ‘Iv jatlh tlhIngan ghom

Translation: People who speak Klingon meet Tony Rogers Journalist

Ne nume lì’fya ‘aw zene tìng mikyun. (To learn the language, one must listen.)

Marc Okrand, Ph.D., and Paul Frommer, Ph.D., creators of the Klingon and Na’vi languages, held a casual discussion about the created languages Thursday in the Simplot Ballroom. The talk was sponsored by the Boise State Linguists Association (BSLA), a new club composed of linguistics majors on campus.

Okrand is credited with the creation of seven languages, a majority of which were used in the immensely popular Star Trek Franchise. Frommer is the mastermind behind the Na’vi languge used in Avatar, an acclaimed picture by James Cameron.

The discussion was held to give examples of jobs linguistics majors can hold after graduation. Michal Temkin Martinez, Ph.D., associate professor in the English department and moderator of the evening, mentioned linguistic jobs aren’t that common, but they do exist.

In fact, the story behind how these two linguistics professors got their start seems like something out of Hollywood itself.

By sheer coincidence, Okrand’s friend had been hired to work on an upcoming Star Trek film and the crew was in a time of desperation. One scene in particular had already been shot in English, but the director decided it would sound better if the language being spoken was Vulcan.

The producers had been in contact with a professor at UCLA, but that person was never around

when they were needed. Okrand mentioned he had the same qualifications, and in no time, he had the job.

“They told me they planned to re-dub over the voices of the actors, and they needed someone to make a language that could be made from the movements of their mouth, but sound completely different, so I said I could do it. My associate asked her boss, and she said meet me after lunch. The rest is history,” Okrand said.

By customizing a language using the movements of one’s mouth, Okrand set the stage for a cultural explosion, detonated by his invention of Klingon shortly after. Frommer, on the other hand, credited luck with his job.

But his experiences with language creation were a little different than Okrand’s. He had nothing to start from save for a series of words that Director James Cameron had made up off the top of his head.

“I had to create an alien language, something that no one had ever heard anything like before, and yet still cater to things such as character, backstory and culture to make the language sound convincing,” Frommer said.

It goes to show that making a language is no easy feat, and many things are dependent on how a language forms.

The Na’vi language, for instance, had a counting problem that didn’t fit the setting.

“The Na’vi have four fingers on each hand, which made me think that they probably do not have a decimal system, an octal one,” Frommer said. “So, they count up to eight, and then nine translates to ‘eight plus one’, 10 translates to ‘eight plus two’ and so on.”

Both linguists pointed out another thing that happens to many languages in their infancy: revisions.

“Many revisions to the language happened on set, when an actor or actress botches a line I give them, but still sounds good enough to include,” Okrand said, referring to a certain incident where a prefix in the alien language was altered because of an actor’s mistake.

A side effect of the creation of a language is the culture that can be created. Klingon has grabbed a huge audience around the world, and the dedication people put into preserving and expanding the language is enough to surprise even the creators.

“It’s amazing to hear a person more fluent than me, which isn’t bad at all,” Okrand announced, followed by laughter from the audience.

Many students were pleased with the discussion, including Ron Hurrle, a junior English major with an emphasis in linguistics.

“I thought the talk was fascinating,” Hurrle said.

“Both Paul Frommer and Marc Okrand took it to heart when they were working on their respective languages. Everything they had to say about their processes while creating the languages was simply captivating.”

Still others were impressed with the information they were able to take away from the talk. One such person was Talyn Brumley, a senior English major with an emphasis in technical communication.

“The number one thing I took away is that language is completely a social construct. We can create it for real cultures or for imaginary ones, and we even build cultures around the people who learn to speak the imaginary languages. That was pretty cool to learn,” Brumley said.

I shaved my head the other day, and I’m going to sell it around campus. That’s right: lush, long golden locks recently sheared from the noggin of this guy to be distributed into the hands of my adoring fans.

What? It worked for Justin Bieber, so it will work for me, right? No? This is the second time the kid has made a mention in the Pop!Shots but there happens to be a lot about him that I find ridiculous. The hair he used to flip relentlessly has now been chopped off and sold for more than $40,000. Next time I’m at Sports Clips, I’m not going to let those devious girls sweep up my old hair. I’m swiping it. I could use 40 grand.

Not only is that more money than each of us diligent college students will make in the next year, but the kid got it for going to the barber shop. Now his beloved fans will be able to have his hair displayed in…wait, what the hell do they do with someone else’s hair? Do they tape it into their colorful little notebooks next to the montage o’ Bieber? Or do they hang it in their trophy cases? Maybe the hair would be a great birthday gift, or the main ingredient in a douchecake. I would really like to know what these “consumers” do with their purchase when it arrives, all spruced up and signed by The Bieb.

My second thought is: who’s buying this? His prime fan base consists of pre-teen girls, and the last time I checked most who fit that description don’t have thousands of dollars to toss out for a hairy collectible. That suggests that adults are not only buying his hair, but possibly even worse -- listening to his music.

Now that his hair is all gone, he’s moved on to accessories. Now the shoes from his old high school will be sold on Ebay.com. I thought he was a musician, not a professional garage-salesman. I’m sure his shirts, action figures and recently relinquished blankie will soon follow, selling for a sum total of “way too much.” I’ve found my new calling in life. I’m going to get famous, buy a lot of random stuff, sign it and then sell it for a ton of money.

OK, OK. I will say that both of these sales were for a good cause. The funds raised from his hair went to an animal rescue foundation, The Gentle Barn Foundation, and the shoes will buy a new broadcasting and communications studio at his old school. These are pretty honorable donations to make, so for that I finally have something to salute you for, little man.

But selling your hair and old shoes? Aren’t there less gross ways to raise money, especially with all that fame and fortune? Think about it.

I’ll take your shot for you this week, young’n. You just go sell your junk drawer and use the money to solve world hunger.

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