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NEWS

Benjamin Victor here for the long haul

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(It’s) not just a branding, but a feeling when you reach different points on campus,” Victor said. “Like, this is our Bronco.

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“I never really can step outside myself enough to say what’s my best,” he said.

“I’m really proud of Norman Borlaug (father of the green revolution) and Sarah Winnemucca (prominent female Paiute activist and educator) because of their placement.”

These two statues have gained him the most acclaim and now reside at the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol.

While at Boise State, Victor won’t rest on his laurels, however; he will supplement his work with art and sculpture classes in which students can come in and work on projects with him.

He also has ideas for multiple Bronco statues, which will bring a more cohesive feel to campus and its satellite locations around Boise.

—Benjamin Victor

Instead of creating a Bronco statue that looks like a reallife horse, he wants to work with the Bronco-head logo, making it come to life as a larger, 3D statue. “(It’s) not just a branding, but a feeling when you reach different points on campus,” Victor said. “Like, this is our Bronco.”

Barring the unforeseen, Victor plans to stay at Boise State for the long-haul. He hopes to add more of his large-scale works around campus, emulating the relationship Iowa State had with renowned sculptor, Christian Petersen. According to Victor, Petersen’s sculptures can be seen speckled across Iowa State University.

“They helped sponsor Christian Petersen and in turn, they now have a priceless collection of his works,” Victor said.

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After such an impressive career, you wouldn’t expect Boise State’s new Artist in Residence and Professor of the Practice to look so young.

Halfway through his thirties, artist Benjamin Victor is already in the same league as many artists he’s emulated since college.

“I love (Gian Lorenzo) Birnini’s work because I feel he didn’t just have accuracy, He had a lot of motion and emotion, too,” Victor said.

Birnini was an Italian artist and leading sculptor in the 1600s, credited for creating

the Baroque style of sculpture, which used simple or easily interpreted detail.

An example of this can be seen in Victor’s creation of the Steve Appleton Statue, which is located in front of the Micron Business and Economics building dedicated Sept. 4, 2014.

“He was a great speaker and also a leader, so I wanted that hand out,” Victor said. “He’s gesturing out toward you the viewer, with that open palm, like he’s there to help.”

He has also created more than 50 other large-scale statues around the country, which can be seen on an interactive map on his website

Victor uses tools of his trade.

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small chunks of manageable material. Color-coding helps create extra associations with the information so that you can recall it better. If you have planned ahead, start reviewing one chunk of flash cards per day, starting about two weeks before your test.

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NEWS

Sean Bunce

Asst. News Editor

Some say “Only real men wear pink”; now it’s expected of everybody.

October is the first ever Breast Cancer Awareness Month commemorated at Boise State and Lauren Albright, vice president of ASBSU and chief organizer, is excited about the events taking place throughout the month.

“You look at October and the NFL (National Football League) does breast cancer awareness and a lot of universities do it around the

nation,” she said. “It’s really cool and we’ve been wanting to do it here. We were finally able to do it this year.”

To start things off, Oct. 10 is a Pink Zumba Party. It will go from 5-7:30 p.m. at the Boise State Recreation Center. There will be two hours of zumba instruction, a pink costume contest and guest speakers at intermission. The event charges a $5 entry fee for everyone.

The many events taking place over a two-week period includes a Q & A panel, which will feature a breast cancer survivor, according to Albright.

“When I said that, I just got goosebumps,” Albright said. “I’m really excited. I think a lot of people will enjoy it.”

The culminating event is the Oct. 24 football game.

It’s expected that the student section be dressed in pink to support not only their team on the field, but also those who are affected by cancer. The rest of the crowd is encouraged to wear pink as well.

“It’s an ESPN (televised) game,” she said. “It will kind of put us on the map for doing something cool.”

Pink game-day T-shirts

sporting a “Buck Cancer” logo will be sold at the bookstore in both men’s and women’s sizes. A portion of the proceeds will go toward furthering cancer research at Boise State.

“Once I learned that we had breast cancer research on our campus done by students, I thought that’s absolutely amazing and why wouldn’t we want to fund it?” Albright said.

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NEWS

Expert laments lack of Constitution knowledge News Editor

Visiting professor Greg Weiner deplores Constitution Day; the significance of the document cannot be appreciated in a single day of observance.

Political science students Tori Haebe and Calvin Nichols were disappointed that so few students attended Constitution Day events at Boise State.

“Ninety-nine percent of BSU (students) could benefit from having a better understanding of what the Constitution is,”

Haebe said.

Haebe and Nichols said they think citizens confuse the Constitution with the Bill of Rights, confirming Weiner’s point about the importance of education on what the Constitution really says in the context of modern times.

To combat this culture, Weiner roused his audience to discuss the Constitution and understand the importance of “constitutional morale.”

For Weiner, the foundation of his Sept. 22 speech, rests on the idea of restoring the structure of the Consti-

tution.

By that, Weiner means preserving the spirit of the federalist laws on which the Constitution was founded; this could mean replacing some parts entirely.

“The Constitution is a political document in the noblest political sense,” Weiner said. “It belongs to

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the people in their deliberate capacity. We have the responsibility to converse in its vocabulary, to consider its constraints and to persist in its questions.”

Haebe and Nichols appreciate the flexibility of the Constitution, which shows its progressive nature, but also believe there has been

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Ninety-nine percent of BSU (students) could benefit from having a better understanding of what the Constitution is.

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a recent power shift in the government attributed to the blurring of the responsibilities of the three branches. This could lead to the Constitution losing its integrity and the relevance it once possessed.

“Those (Constitution) constraints consist foremost in its structure, and while the extent of the government’s powers may have irreversibly swelled, to borrow from the language of Federalist 31, ‘the structure of its institutions can be recovered,’” Weiner said. “That does not mean unthinking deference to the existing. It means due

regard for the enduring.”

Local elections are just around the corner. Go to arbiteronline.com for a link to the SSPA website where you can find out which candidates will be speaking on campus and when.

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Piracy circulates information Online torrenting offers media access to those that cannot afford it

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PIRACY 3 FINES FULL RIDE

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Asst. Culture Editor

Torrenting might seem like an initially black and white issue to most, but information on pirating still varies heavily and is a complex issue that students need to look at more closely, as it often houses potential positive effects from a global standpoint.

Pirating’s economic impact

Several different estimates for the economic impact of pirating have been made, including a $250 billion estimate made in the new proposal for Stop Online Piracy Act and a $58 billion estimate made by the Institute for Policy Innovation.

However, many economists question the validity of these claims because they fail to take into account whether or not

consumers who torrented products would have the money to buy said products.

Instead, the bigger picture should be analyzed.

Torrenting shouldn’t become accepted as something that everyone should do, but students should instead take a look at the flow of information that accompanies pirating.

According to the Business Software Alliance, the countries that have the highest rate of software downloaded illegally are countries with lower GDP per capita: Nigeria(83 percent), Libya (90 percent) and Zimbabwe(92 percent), compared to higher GDP per capita countries like United States(19 percent), Canada(27 percent) and Australia (23 percent).

This is saying that people who can afford to not torrent will often take the legal avenue and buy the product.

Affording mainstream media

The flow of information

Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media talks about this in a Forbes article.

“In my experience at O’Reilly, the losses due to piracy are far outweighed by the benefits of the free flow of information, which makes the world richer, and develops new markets for legitimate content,” O’Reilly said.

“Most of the people who are downloading unauthorized copies of O’Reilly books would never have paid us for them anyway; meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of others are buying content from us, many of them in countries that we were never able to do business with when our products were not available in digital form.”

What O’Reilly is saying is that not only has piracy given new information to people who wouldn’t have been able to access the information freely, it has also created pockets of areas where the market sector can gain revenue because free media online created fans in areas of the world that otherwise wouldn’t have known that those products existed.

Free advertisement

In a video, short story, novel and graphic novel author Neil Gaiman made for Open Rights Group,

he explained he felt that torrenting played a huge role in free advertisement.

Gaiman makes the comparison that many people borrow, lend and find about his work in ways that don’t give him revenue, but after they are introduced to him and become fans, they buy his work.

“No one who would have bought your book is not buying it because they can find it for free. What you’re actually doing is advertising, is reaching more people and is raising awareness,” Gaiman said.

This isn’t to say that students should download BitTorrent and have a crack at pirating for themselves. The idea is to keep an open mind about how torrenting affects us globally, and acknowledge that although torrenting may be a negative from a legal standpoint in the United States, it can have a positive outcome on the market globally.

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Following this train of thought Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft, makes the argument in an interview that those who pirate aren’t people who can buy the product. He explains that piracy isn’t really theft because a copy isn’t being stolen. So the question becomes: should we be stopping that flow of free copies of media products?

If the majority of piracy is coming from areas where the software cannot be afforded—meaning

the persons in question wouldn’t buy the software even if it was available to them—then the only thing happening is the spread of free information.

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The general consensus among entertainment creators is that digital is better. This can be seen in the slow and constant push for eBooks on tablet apps and the increasing availability of console and handheld games for immediate download. This hype for the electronic has translated to trading card games.

The orignial lure in trading cards to “collect them all” is sacrificed by moving these games to digital platforms. The tradeoff is that the trading card community becomes more widespread and accessible. Card game creators don’t necessarily market their new pixel-based games as replacements for the physical cards, but rather use both venues for gameplay to push and pull players from one to the other and back again.

Assistant manager at All About Games Malik Brown has overseen a lot of this constant tie between online and physical game platforms.

Malik explained that players can play Magic Online’s Challenge of the Planeswalkers, unlock codes and bring them into the store for physical rewards in the form of booster packs of cards.

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online code cards in physical booster packs. Players used to be able to transfer their physical cards online through these codes, but the company now focuses on enticing new players through the online game and pushing them to physical events.

“It gives them much easier access to the game,” Brown said.

“And then it encourages them to actually come down to the store with codes and events.”

In the long run, Brown stated that purchasing further unlockables and additional cards online as opposed to in their physical form is less wise.

“It’s the same price for a physical pack as a digital pack,” Brown said. “You’re basically paying for air.”

Sophomore at Berklee College considering both the performance and professional music majors, Sam Carlson, is a long time Magic the Gathering fan and has played in Magic tournaments. He doesn’t play the online game himself, but has friends that play it often.

Carlson explained that this emphasis on online platforms broadens the player base of games and helps their popularity, which he found to be one of the major appeals of the online versions of card games.

“I think they are doing this to convince otherwise unconvinced demographics that it

is convenient, easy, and cheap enough to play,” Carlson said.

He prefers the physical version of Magic because it entails the inherent nostalgia and normalcy that comes with playing with actual cards instead of a collection of online data, but he can understand the usefulness accompanying online platforms in terms of their ease of access.

Boise residents like Carlson don’t have as much of a problem finding tournaments and other people to play games like Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon with, especially with venues like All About Games and ABU Games offering weekly play times, practices and draft games.

But, according to Carlson, for those interested in these games in areas without such eager community members or for those just wanting to give the games a try without a huge investment, online platforms work out quite well.

Carlson plans on sticking with Magic in its original form instead of pursuing its Internet outlets.

“If Magic were discontinued as a real world trading card game I would probably stop playing, it just isn’t as satisfying to play strictly online,” Carlson said. “I mean, the game is 20 years old, I don’t think it’s going anywhere.”

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Culture

Theatre department unveils new production Patty Bowen

Asst. Culture Editor

It’s hard to find clever, thought-provoking entertainment these days. It’s even harder to find clever, thoughtprovoking entertainment on campus that students can access for free. The 2011 Broadway play “Seminar,” however, fits that description.

From Oct. 2 to 12, the Boise State Theatre Arts Department will be putting on its interpretation of this edgy drama at the Morrison Center. The play does a cunning job of mixing dark humor with discussions on sexism, class discrimination and racism. Several dialogues within “Seminar” break down the idea of pretentious youth who put their self-worth within their creative endeavors.

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“Seminar” and its provocative nature

“You’re talented, but you’ll never be great,” says Klautsch, playing character Douglas. “[You have to ask yourself] am I a fucking writer or am I a fucking piece of shit coward?”

“Seminar” is set in the present day and has been given a not-safe-for-children warning because of its foul language and brief nudity. According to Klautsch, the adult content is necessary because it makes the play more believable and the characters more relatable.

“You’d probably call it PG13. It is a play that depicts real life in New York City and the way people behave and the way people talk, and that’s a large part of what this play is,” Klautsch said. “My hope is that people will come to see it because the real truth of the play is in the thematic content of the play. What the play is really about is not the language or the nudity or anything like that.”

Klautsch points out that the swearing is important because it points out the difference between the four writers who are still optimistic about their writing and Lenard, the older writing teacher who is spiteful, disillusioned and bitter about the writing world.

Tombari will be a part of at Boise State before he graduates and heads off to graduate school. On the flip side, “Seminar” is the first experience theatre arts and secondary ed major David Kepner will have playing in a nonmusical as a lead actor. He finds the experience riveting.

“This is one of those experiences where it is a lifetime thing where you learn a lot, and it has been good,” Kepner said.

piring authors. He created his character over weeks of practice with the help of the play’s director, Gordon Reinhart.

“I’ve been creating Martin through the weeks we’ve been rehearsing, and just co-working with the other actors has been inspirational to me,” Kepner said. “If you come in super prepared, you have to be prepared to be destroyed because that’s not what the director may want.”

Portraying the The last scene is Kepner’s characters favorite because he enjoyed Going into “Seminar,” the banter delivered between BB14_OH_BSUArbiter_OHToday_sub_x1a.pdf 9/23/14 Kepner didn’t have an exact his character and1Klautsch’s idea of how he would act as character. “Seminar” has Martin, one of the four as- created an avenue in which

each actor gets one-on-one experience with Klautsch, which Kepner has found really helpful for building his character.

“This is one of the most fun plays I’ve ever worked on,” said Kayla Hanson, junior theatre arts major.

Hanson plays one of the four students within “Seminar.”

She feels that the dynamic of the relationship between the actors was critical in how the play turned out. “Everyone was already kind of friends beforehand, so its just feels like a big group of friends 8:45 AM collaborating on a project instead of all of us individually approaching it.”

A play to go out on

“I think this is a great show to go out on. It’s funny, it’s contemporary. It premiered on Broadway in 2007 so it’s written in the past five years, and its got a phenomenal script,” said Robert Tombari, senior theater arts major.

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“Seminar” centers around four aspiring authors and their writing mentor who all live in New York City. As the play unfolds, each character reveals the many layers of what it means to

be a writer and why someone would want to write in the first place. The characters struggle with the pressure to expand their authorial skills under the blaring criticism of their writing teacher, played by Richard Klautsch, chair of the theatre department. “Seminar” comments on and then destroys the notion that a writer needs to have extreme struggle and suffering within their personal experiences in order to write well.

Actors perform preview of Seminar.

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Sports & Rec Brandon Walton

Asst. Sports & Rec Editor

The Boise State gymnastics team is arguably the best sports program at the university right now after achieving a No. 19 ranking nationally last season.

Unfortunately for their opponents, the Broncos just got a whole lot better with a new group of newcomers.

The Broncos have just added four incoming freshmen, as well as one redshirt freshman who joined the program in spring to form arguably their best group of newcomers yet.

“To see what kind of col-

lege athletes these girls will develop into is going to be exciting,” co-head coach Tina Bird said.

The true freshmen include Abby Webb, Lianne Josbacher, Alex Esmerian and Ann Stockwell. Redshirt freshman Sandra Collantes joined the team in spring, but did not compete.

“I think all of them are going to make an impact for us this season,” Bird said.

“I think the upperclassmen will have to work extra hard to keep their spots.”

Each of the new recruits brings to the team their own unique talents and stories.

Webb is the only new-

comer with ties to the state of Idaho. She spent her high school years competing for the Palouse Empire club based in Moscow, Idaho.

“It was different, but I definitely loved competing for Idaho and I have loved it ever since,” Webb said. “It was a big reason why I chose to come to Boise State.”

Josbacher came from such a small gymnastics team that she didn’t know what being part of a team was like until she came to Boise State.

“I just want to help the team in any way possible because I have never been part of one before. I love them

so much,” Josbacher said.

“They are all like my older sisters to me.”

Esmerian brings her exceptional beam talent to the Broncos, an event not for the faint of heart.

“I have just always loved beam and it’s definitely my favorite event,” she said. “I don’t get scared by it and everyone says it’s the hardest event but for me it’s just fun.”

Stockwell gives the Broncos another all-around talent and can step in to support her teammates in any gymnastics event.

Finally, Collantes is a national champion for her home country of Peru and

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the fab five following practice would have competed last year for the Broncos had she not gotten injured.

“I am a little nervous because I had never stopped for this long,” Collantes said. “I am excited to be back and be able to help my team because I know they are great.”

One thing is for sure: the girls are all loving their new team and are happy they came to Boise State.

“I really love the whole community of Boise,” Stockwell said. “It really reminded me of my hometown. It feels like home to me.”

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Sports & rec

Ali Roberts Staff Writer

Slacklining at Boise State is one of the many new fads that has swept across campus. The self-proclaimed “slackers” take slacklining seriously.

Slacklining is similar to tight-rope walking, the main difference is these ropes can be set up anywhere between two trees.

The slackliners also attempt tricks.

Amateur or not, the slacklining club will welcome anyone to try it out.

The slacklining club cur-

rently meets on the rec field next to the Student Union Building every Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Roxanne Friedmann, a member of the slacklining club, prefers having the group meet in a high traffic area.

“The SUB is a really great area for that. Because of the high traffic next to it we get a lot of people,” Friedmann said. “We’re always really open to letting people try and come and hang out with us.”

Slacklining has been

around Boise State for almost a year now, but this is the first year as an official club.

The club’s motto is “Don’t slack off online, slack off on lines.”

They began meeting before the fall semester started and plan to continue meeting through the year.

The slackers will need more accommodations once winter is in full swing.

They will need to move indoors because the lines themselves need extremely strong supports.

The line has two tons of pressure when it is tight-

ened, and it cannot be tied to just anything or it will buckle under the weight.

They will continue meeting on the rec field until winter when they hope to get a setup in the Recreation Center here on campus.

Slacklining requires fitness and balance, as well as mental and physical strength.

“If there’s a lot of stuff on my mind I just set up a line and get on one; it’s just relaxing,” sophomore Alicia Combs said. “I’m not thinking about anything else that’s worrying me.”

The next star in the quarterback lineage of Boise State football will find himself in the Treasure Valley sooner than expected.

Brett Rypien, a four-star recruit and consensus top 14-ranked quarterback in the nation, according to the four major recruiting services, signed a financial aid agreement with the university on Tuesday.

The FAA will allow the Broncos to provide financial

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assistance to Rypien as he takes classes and participates in football practices at Boise State next spring.

Rypien is set to graduate from Shadle Park High School in Spokane, Washington and enroll at Boise State a semester early.

“Brett is a phenomenal quarterback, a great student and comes from a wonderful family,” Boise State head coach Bryan Harsin said in a press release from the athletic department. “He will be a great ambassador of Bronco football, and we are excited that we will

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—Bryan Harsin

have him on campus early so that he can begin to acclimate himself to Boise State and participate in spring practices.”

An FAA is different from the National Letter of Intent most recruits will sign on Feb. 5, 2015. An FAA is not binding on Rypien’s part; he may change his mind and sign with another university until he arrives at Boise State. Boise State however, must provide financial aid to Rypien when he arrives on campus.

Rypien led Shadle Park to an 11-2 season last year, and has passed for over 4,500 yards and 90 touchdowns in his career.

He is the nephew of Super Bowl XXVI MVP Mark Rypien.

The younger Rypien already broke Mark’s Greater Spokane League former record for 4,956 yards.

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MAXIMUS is an equal opportunity employer.

All offers of employment will be contingent upon a satisfactory drug test and background check.

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