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Students get a dose of school spirit before the first home game with a color fight on the Intermural Field.
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Seas of blue and orangeclad fans flooded onto campus as the weather began to get warmer on Saturday afternoon. Grills fired up, frosty drinks cracked open and tents pitched along University Drive as visitors prepared for the first home game of the season. Amidst the waves of Bronco blue and vivid orange, students dressed in white filtered through the throngs of people and made their way to the
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lect at the four booths set up on the field and started grabbing the individually wrapped packs of color, tearing them open and tossing them at the nearest person. As the crowd grew, the excitement spread as quickly as the color across the pristine white shirts. As more color filled the air and field, the more homogenized the population became—evolving from a group of students into a body of orange and blue people who were nearly indiscernible from each other. “I thought the color fight was really well planned,” said
Professor, his family experience dorm life Ryan Thorne
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intramural field for a brand new event: Boise State’s first color fight. The white-shirted students began collecting on the field around 11:30 a.m., playfully picking up handfuls of the blue and orange chalk and tossing it at their friends to watch the color stick to the white in sporadic patterns. The University Pulse DJed the event, playing tunes to give the color-throwers something to dance to as they bombed each other with the powdery substance. More students began to col-
Scott Roark gets up every morning and goes about his routine like working people often do. Eating breakfast with his children, checking his e-mail and drinking coffee. He then heads out the front door and leaves his apartment building in Morrison Hall, a dormitory at Boise State. Roark is one of five faculty members living in the various dormitories housing Living Learning Community (LLC) program members. Created in 2004, the LLC program places instructors in housing among roughly 24 students in each of the five programs designed to integrate both learning and living within the area of study each group of participating students has chosen. The five LLC communities where faculty resides include, Arts and Humanities, the College of Business and Economics (COBE), Engineering, Health Professions, and Continuing Scholars: Second Year Students. In Roark’s case, his students chose to study through the COBE course. Roark applied for the program this summer with the express permission of his wife who championed the idea. They decided it would be a great experience for themselves and their four children, ages four through nine, who have only lived in traditional suburban areas. Roark is not billed for housing as long as he fulfills the
obligations set forth in his contract to teach the COBE LLC course. Roark’s students engage in community service projects geared toward business, and are responsible for the inception, marketing and day-to-day operation of Dawson’s 4.0 Coffee Shop located on the first floor of the Micron Business and Economics building. The LLC program offers a chance at greater success for first year students, boasting 50 students on the Dean’s list for fall term last year. Admission for students requires submission of a housing application online, a deposit
and fee, as well as the inclusion of a written essay and resume outlining previous work and life experience. Only first year students are eligible for admission to the program, though in subsequent years they may become teaching aides or join the Community Scholars and Global Village programs that allow a wider range of membership. Students must apply at least a month in advance to ensure the four week application review can be completed before the commencement of fall term. When asked what it’s like
Caitlin Kreyche, junior majoring in mathematics secondary education. “There was more than enough color for everyone, and it made the Miami game more memorable than other football games I’ve been to. I had tons of fun splattering friends and strangers with color.” Smatterings of blue and orange coated the students until the only white showing was the white of teeth as the students laughed at each other’s new pseudo-Avatar face paint. The University Pulse kept the energy high, occasion-
ally beckoning the students to gather into a crowd and counting down for a group throw. The result culminated in handfuls of the powder being released into the air at once in an explosion of color, cheers and the peculiar distinctive odor of the chalk. “It was a huge success and everyone had a blast,” junior accounting and finance major Jared Campasino said. “It was a great way to bring the BSU students together and bring out school spirit before the football game. I hope to see it again next year.”
living in the dorms with a large number of freshman students, Roark said it has been a smooth transition from suburbia. He recently attempted to thank those students above and below his second floor dormitory apartment for keeping the peace, a gesture he states might have come off as sarcastic. “I went upstairs after the first week of classes, I wanted to like, see some of the guys up there and say, hey I appreciate the courtesy you guys have shown, but no one was there, just an RA, and he said he would pass it along,” said Roark. “At first he thought I was being facetious. In all honesty, I have not been disrupted, disturbed at all, I mean these are freshman young men, and you expect them to be a little wild.” Roark’s living space differs
from the regular dorm layout. “We live in the A suite and what they did is, they blew it out, you know, just gutted it. Its basically a three bedroom apartment, with two bathrooms, a kitchen, its totally different than anything else you would see in the dorm, it’s like how normal people live, not students,” Roark said. He enjoys his situation and understands he must get some funny looks from students when entering and exiting the Morrison Hall dorms at all hours. “I doubt everyone in Morrison knows what is going on,” Roark said. Roark and colleagues hope the program will continue to foster better students and prepare them for further education and jobs in the modern workforce.
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Scott Roark and his family pose outside their new home, Morrison Hall. arbiteronline.com