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Soulful synth-pop, was the description Andrew Stensaas used to describe the Edmond Dantes band music style. With influ-ence from a variety of genres Stensaas and Ryan Peck came up with their own unique sound, and after about a year of play-ing together they’ve found their way into the Treefort lineup.

Stensaas, and Peck, a current biology professor at Boise State, had no clue who each other were when they started the band, but the fact they both like playing music and per-forming was enough to get Edmond Dantes off the ground.

“Boise Rock School (is where) we met, where I work,” Stensaas said. “We just kind of started a year ago, as a little bit of a fun thing and then we started writing some material. We just thought, this is pretty fun and it sounds pretty good and so we started playing shows in Boise and played a lot of shows last summer.”

Finding their music style came naturally, Stensaas said. Even though they’ve been subconsciously in-fluenced by other people, their sound is completely their own.

“As I got into my high school days I started lis-tening to a lot more mu-sic and Bill Withers had a huge influence on me, and all these jazzy soulful singers started to impact me,” Stensaas said. “(One) of the bands Ryan's been listening to lately is Hot Chip. They’re music is so impressive as far as just the synthesizes they use and the rhythms they use. He listens to Metric, and he likes them, and he has a ton of musical influence."

The future of Edmond Dantes includes hope-fully getting their songs on iTunes and they’re excited about what they’ll do in the future, including the Treefort Festival.

“As we’ve been playing around town, we talked to Eric Gilbert, he used to run sound for some of the shows at the back," Sten-saas said. " When he heard us, he’s pretty particular about who he has play at Treefort, he said (we) could play if we want. He gave us some time slots available, and we got to pick one within the time frames that he gave us and we picked Sunday.”

Even though Edmond Dantes has just been play-ing locally they keep the dream about making it big.

“Josh Gross wrote a re-view about us, and he was really nice. He said that

some of the music is sim-ple enough as just a duo that would be much bet-ter grasped if it was with a huge band,” Stensaas said. “It would be awesome to have that huge band and

play at some point in life at Madison Square Garden. That would be a fun spot, but I would be too scared right now. We’re years and years from anything like that.”

Being bald isn’t so bad

Emily Pehrson, an Ar-biter news writer wrote a preview for St. Baldrick’s Day and ultimately de-cided to shave her head for the cause. This is her first person account of the experience.

Two little girls, McK-ynna and Riley, were helped up onto the stage. Somewhat shyly, but giggling, they crowd-ed behind me. In turn each was handed a pair of scissors.

With a little help from the stylist McKenna, be-gan sawing through my hair. A moment later she was helped down from the stage, one of my long pigtails swinging from her hand. There was a smile on her face as she showed her trophy to her mom.

McKynna was diag-nosed with acute lym-phoblastic leukemia in 2006. Today, at the age of 9, she is in maintenance. That means that she is being given additional treatments in hope of pre-venting her cancer from returning.

I learned about the St. Balrick’s event when I was assigned to cover it for The Arbiter. My roommate offered me $100 if I would shave my head. At the time I just laughed. However the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I needed to do it.

No one gives children with cancer a choice in whether or not they want their hair to be gone. No one offers them money for the re-search of their disease when they lose their hair. Many of them aren’t even old enough to under-stand what is happening to them.

I had expected to feel a lot more nervous. Every-one around me had such strong emotional reac-tion when I had told them my plan.

My best friend who is getting married this sum-mer threatened to ban me from her wedding photos. My family started raising donations for me not to shave my head. People have been tripping over themselves to buy me hats and scarves.

However as I sat in that chair all I could do was smile. Staring through the elbows of the woman shaving my head I saw McKynna stuffing my hair into a plastic bag to be sent to Locks of Love, a charity that makes wigs for people who lose their hair due to chemotherapy treatments.

I don’t regret going bald. I am going to save a small fortune on hair care products. My head will be nice and cool this sum-mer. I started a new trend at the event by getting my freshly shaved head painted. And most impor-tantly of all I raised $500 for childhood cancer research.

I’ve never had a pony-tail that made me feel bet-ter than that.

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Shavees were sponsored by community members to help raise money for St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

Second annual St. Baldrick’s DayKyle McCallumStaff Writer

Friday’s weather was fan-tastic. Throngs of watchers and the hairless watched as the ceremony continued—two people at a time sat pa-tiently on a stage while two others meticulously shaved the heads of those seated

“Anybody who is shaving their head talk to friends and family, members of their community, going door to door, students go through their floors, asking for do-nations,” said Sundi Mus-nicki, the area coordinator of University Housing.

As a part of St. Baldrick’s Foundation, students orga-nized this event in order to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer re-search. Those who chose to have their heads shaved were sponsored by their com-munities; their loss in hair was matched by an increase in funding for St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

Men and women equally took part in the event; a mob

of soon-to-be-shaved stu-dents and community mem-bers gathered to the left of the stage ready to take part in the ceremonial shaving.

The spirits matched the weather. Students from the resident halls tossed foot-balls in the background, and students and adults donned t-shirts and shorts while their wintery skin met the sun for the first time in months. And, most im-portantly, the ceremony in-cluded a face-painting booth on picnic tables near the main stage.

The event commenced at three o’clock with the origi-nal goal set to $5,000. By four o’clock that afternoon; one hour into the event, that goal was met. “The to-tal amount of money raised for the event was $10,069” said Aubrie Gribble, a SRA at Chaffee Hall and primary

coordinator of the event.Though the shaving of

heads was the primary method of fundraising, students and coordinators alike found other ways to raise money.

“We’re helping out by sell-ing wristbands. They cost $1 and so far we’ve raised over $100,” said Emily Walker, a Freshman at Boise State University.

The event took a somber turn around 4:30 when Kar-en Ewing and her daughter took the stage.

“This is Rylee, and she is a cancer survivor,” said Ewing. Rylee is six-years-old. Though she is healthy now, Rylee’s path to recovery was an ardu-ous one. “After about a year and a half of treatment and two bone marrow transplants, a couple of rounds of radia-tion, regular chemo, Rylee is better now, so we’re all about

giving back with research and study, so that a few years from now the cure rate is even higher,” said Ewing.

According to St. Baldricks.org, national childhood can-cer research is the least funded of all cancer research receiv-ing just four percent of fed-eral cancer research funding. Raising money for research on childhood cancer becomes the responsibility of the com-munity when there is little help from the state.

“You just don’t hear a whole lot about it, and we haven’t heard a lot from Hol-lywood because it’s just too sad. Nobody wants to be the spokesperson for the sad,” said Ewing.

The second annual hosting of St Baldrick’s Day by Boise State students and staff was much more successful than expected. Twice the expected amount of money was raised, men, women and children alike shaved their heads for funding and awareness, and many were inspired to con-tinue the fight for funding and research for childhood cancer.

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“This is Rylee, and she is a cancer survivor,” said Ewing. “After about a year and a half of treatment and two bone marrow transplants, a couple of rounds of radiation, regular chemo, Rylee is better now, so we’re all about giving back...”

““—Karen ewing

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project will tem-porarily disrupt pedestrian access near the Broadway Avenue underpass on the south side of the Boise River. Pedestrians and bi-cyclists are urged to use caution and follow marked detours.

The Boise State Uni-versity Talkin’ Broncos are the 2013-2014 Pi Kappa Delta National Champions in speech and debate.

Boise State suc-cessfully defended its 2011-2012 national championship title and took first place overall at the 48th an-nual Pi Kappa Delta National Speech and Debate biennial tour-nament in St. Louis, Mo., March 13-16. The Talkin’ Broncos beat out 88 other schools from 36 states to win the tournament championship.

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stowed biennially to seven competitors with exemplary aca-demic records who demonstrate a history of community service and exceptional foren-sics success. Watkins also was awarded Top Student Paper in the student scholarship competition.

This win finishes up the Talkin’ Broncos regular season. Quali-fying squads continue on to the National Parliamentary De-bate Championship in Stockton, Calif., and the National Indi-vidual Event Tourna-ment in Hutchinson, Kansas. The Talkin’ Broncos are support-ed in part through the Jeker Family Trust. For more informa-tion about the Talkin’ Broncos, contact Manda Hicks, director of forensics at Boise State, at [email protected].

The Boise State University Founda-tion and Provost Mar-ty Schimpf are pleased to announce Jeanne Belfy, Darryl Butt and Anne Gregory as the 2013 University Foun-dation Scholar Award recipients.

Foundation Scholar Awards honor Boise State faculty members who have demon-strated ongoing com-mitment, expertise and accomplishments in teaching, research/creative activity or professionally related service.

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Professor Jeanne Belfy, Department of Music, has been dedicated to the art and science of teaching for more than 30 years.

Research and Cre-ative Activity Award: Professor Darryl Butt, Department of Ma-terials Science and Engineering, has es-tablished himself as a premier scholar with 220 publications and more than $10 million in external funding.

Service Award: Professor Anne Greg-ory, Department of Literacy, has been an active and formi-

dable advocate in establishing literacy programs in schools throughout Idaho.

The Boise State University Founda-tion will honor recipi-ents at a recognition luncheon in April and recipients will receive a $3,000 honorarium from the Foundation.

In addition, the Foundation has placed a display list-ing all recipients of the Foundation Scholar Awards since 1992 on the first floor of the Student Union Build-ing near the main staircase.

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the Centre for Creativ-ity and Innovation, it is available for $15 at the Bookstore, Bronco Shops and online at Amazon.com. A por-tion of the book pro-ceeds will go to schol-arships for Boise State students.

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At first glance, senior information tech-nology major Colin Smith looks like an average student at Boise State.

With slightly shaggy hair, colle-giate sweater and button up shirt, he blends in well with crowds of his peers.

Smith is unique though. He is creating the technology of the future.

As a student programmer and employee for the Office of Information Technol-ogy, Smith spends his time writing pro-gramming code for Boise State mobile software.

“I have been staff for about six months, prior to that, I was hired as an OIT stu-dent as well,” Smith said.

Long before enrolling at Boise State,

Smith had an active interest in high tech gadgets.

“I mean, I have always been into tech-nology, I like having shiny cool things,” Smith said.

Smith studied programming as a teenag-er, but did not see a future in technology.

“It’s always been an interest and like in high school, I was in the IT academy and stuff like that, but I never thought it

would be something I would pursue,” Smith said.

On April 2, the my.BoiseState mobile application will be available for download and Smith is proud to be part of the four person team that created it.

“We decided not to launch it on April Fools Day, for whatever reason,” Smith said.

The application will allow students eas-ier access to Boise State online accounts

through mobile devices with internet capability.

Smith and colleagues used experience gained working for Boise State to win the recent weekend-long Appathon held in the Iteractive Learning Center.

With the array of electronic devices and operating systems available, Smith and teammates needed an app with adaptability.

“It is really challenging to make some-thing that will work across all of the devic-es, we chose a toolset that does that for us,” Smith said.

Instead of writing code for each individu-al operating system, Smith and peers used a program that eliminates the need to do so.

“It uses web technology, so since all of these devices know how to handle the in-ternet, handle web pages and so forth, it is basically a web page that is designed to look like an app,” Smith said.

The app replaces expensive i>clicker de-vices in classrooms with a mobile app that can be used on smart phones and could potentially save students the cost of the clicker itself.

As the Appathon first place winner, the application has already grabbed the atten-tion of Boise State officials.

“There has been some interest from some people that are pretty high up at Boise State that were there at the Appathon presenta-tions,” Smith said.

“They saw it and really liked it, and have been asking my boss who orchestrated the Appathon, ‘when can we have it, when can we use it?’”

Though information technologies offers a wide variety of employment across the United States, Smith plans to stay at Boise State after graduating this spring.

“I am in a great spot right now, so I plan on, you know, staying here until I feel like I wanna leave,” Smith said.

“They take pretty good care of you as a university employee, so it’s honestly some-thing I didn’t expect to happen to me be-fore I had a diploma.”

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zanne Craig chronicles her adventures while studying abroad in Sweden.

Traveling gets expensive fast, es-pecially to tourist hotspots like Lapland.

Options for cheap places to stay are scarce in the remote northern re-gions of Scandinavia.

Luckily, the local chapter of Eras-mus needed someone to coordinate with the travel agency.

For ten hours of labor and a will-ingness to help count heads on bus-es, I got all my expenses paid.

All expenses and all additional ex-cursions were covered by the travel agency, Timetravels, so long as I could sell 20 tickets.

Those tickets sold themselves, with promotion I got another batch of 20 sold so I wouldn’t be managing our campus’ group by myself.

The most difficult part wasn’t even organizing the trip or transportation for 37 to Stockholm, it was in making sure I could miss a week of classes!

Two courses had mandatory lec-tures and one had a course start meeting.

Thankfully all the professors un-derstood that between Lapland and their classes, Lapland was going to win.

Depending on the student organi-zation at your institution, there may be similar opportunities for coordi-nation in exchange for a free trip.

Between the travel agency’s pro-motion and the local Erasmus chap-ter the trip leaders were able to swing travel expenses and a small food al-lowance.

Another option is to work directly with the travel agency.

Many agencies have student dis-count rates or student group rates, even if they aren’t posted on the website.

If you are able to sell a large enough batch of tickets the costs can be covered by the agency, even if it isn’t through a student organization and it’s just a matter of you convinc-ing all your friends to go.

Travel agency group rates and the potential for a free ticket make the slightly more expensive and touristy nature worth promoting.

This is especially true if you are the freebie, because as soon as the trip starts your responsibilities reduce to making yourself available to help the travel agency’s trip leaders.

The most I have done so far is check names off lists to make sure no one was forgotten.

Of course, this can become a little more stressful depending on the group and excursion.

Rumor has it the snowmobile ex-cursion can result in some pretty hefty injuries if students don’t pay attention.

The simple solution is to make sure students pay attention to in-structions and point out the ones goofing off to the tour leaders.

This not only prevents you from being the bad guy when they get booted from the activity, it keeps you from spending hours in a medi-cal center when you could be skiing or driving a dog-sled.

Potential injuries aside, the work required to promote a travel agency based excursion is minimal and the payout is potentially huge.

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Ross Burkhart, Ph.D., associate professor and co-director of the Cana-dian Studies Program, has roughly 100 students this semester and knows each of them by name.

“I prefer to learn their names because the class-room is a place for people,” Burkhart said. “Everyone has a story and I like to find out what it is.”

Burkhart grew up in Kingston, New York until he was 18 when, like many 18 year olds, he decided he wanted to see something new.

Burkhart received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.

Burkhart is very dedicat-ed to his family. He is hap-pily married and has a step son and grand nephew

who will soon be under his guardianship. In addition to his human family, Bur-khart maintains a house full of dogs and cats, with a total of 4 cats and 4 dogs.

Burkhart said as a child he used to request pizza and hamburgers for his birthday, and those have remained his favorites over the years, though his pallet has expanded somewhat.

This is Burkhart’s 16th

year at Boise State, during which he has won many awards, accolades and numerous golden Apple awards. He also has been selected for the Top Ten Scholar.

Burkhart has also re-ceived a Student Affairs Partner and recently re-ceived full professorship.

Burkhart maintains a positive attitude in and out of the classroom.

“My favorite thing about Boise State is the class-room,” Burkhart said.

“It’s a cliché to say there wouldn’t be a university without students, but sometimes we lose sight of that.”

Christopher Bower, a 21-year-old philosophy, social work and political science major in the hon-or’s college and former student of Burkhart’s, had only positive things to say about Burkhart.

“He’s one heck of a guy,” Bower said. “He is the epitome of what a profes-sor should be. He makes learning an experience.”

Bower highlighted how clear and concise Burkhart’s teaching methods are.

“He makes you learn; the way he can break down regression and make it like poetry,” Bower said.

Burkhart went into high-er education because of his passion for learning and research.

“It’s about teachers teaching and students

learning and teaching each other,” Burkhart said. “As I teach every class, I learn something new or different.”

Bower encourages other students to approach their professors and create re-lationships with them in order to enhance their education.

“Burkhart is the perfect exemplification of the ideal student/professor relationship that should be exercised,” Bower said. “Students are sometimes intimidated by professor-ship and we develop a dis-connect, it is important to reach out to professors in general.”

Burkhart explained why good educators are impor-tant to our society as well as why an education can be important in society.

“Education is a value in and of itself, it improves people and it allows us to be more a more civic peo-ple,” Burkhart said.

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Burkhart has taught at Boise State for 18 years.

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“That’s so gay ... That’s re-tarded.”

Phrases like these are the target of the University of Maryland’s Inclusive Lan-guage Campaign, launched this fall to remind students to be aware that their every-day language can be highly offensive.

The campaign hits home for Anthony Douglas, 20, who is bisexual and has a disability.

“I had a great conversa-tion on the bus the other day. A guy used the word re-tarded. I turned around and jokingly said, ‘Are you talk-ing about me?’” Douglas said. “It made him realize

the impact of what he said and he apologized saying he had no idea.”

The need for the cam-paign became apparent af-ter students complained in residence halls, said Amy Martin, associate director of resident life.

“Students were telling us about language that was problematic in the residence halls. ... Over the years we’ve had different in-cidents where students have been made to feel uncom-fortable by language that is written on dry erase boards or that they hear others talking about,” Martin said.

After teaming with the Office of Multicultural In-volvement and Commu-

nity Advocacy, the group decided on a campaign to promote conversation rather than point fingers, Martin said.

The solution group brain-stormed a list of phrases with a negative connota-tion, such as “That exam just raped me,” and “That’s so ghetto,” which can offend groups including sexual as-sault survivors and those coming from poverty.

The campaign brought brightly colored posters to the Adele H. Stamp Student Union, residence halls, li-braries and campus shuttles featuring the phrases and a reminder to think before you speak.

Residence hall discus-

sions have been encouraged through the use of YouID, peer conversation groups, in which students can discuss their unique identities, back-grounds and experiences for increased understanding.

“The role of the cam-paign is to create this space on campus for folks to read something and think about it, process it and make meaning of it. It’s really to pique students’ interest,” said James McShay, associ-ate director of MICA.

“I really think it’s helping students think twice about what they say,” said Easton Hall dormitory president, Joshua Desse, 19.

There is always a need for awareness, he said, be-

cause on campus there are students from all life experi-ences and circumstances.

The campaign is giving students the skills and cour-age to speak up when they hear something offensive, he said.

“From what I’ve heard, students in minority groups feel more accepted and welcome on campus, like somebody is looking out for them,” Desse said.

However, the campaign isn’t designed to be the lan-guage police on campus, McShay said.

“The goal or hope is not to call anyone out, per se. The goal is for people to think about their everyday lexicon. They can make de-cisions for themselves if this is something they continue to use,” McShay said, “but

the hope is they think about the origins of some of these terms and what’s oftentimes being connoted.”

“Most of the time when people use those words they don’t mean it in a negative light...but you should always be willing to apologize,” said dorm resident Malik Johnson-Williams, 18.

The primary outcome of the campaign has been a heightened sense of aware-ness among students, which Douglas said, makes all the difference.

“The more you let those words sink into your lan-guage, the more you per-petuate their acceptance in society, which is definitely not what we want,” Doug-las said. “It’s great to make people aware that you never know who you’re talking to.”

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Pony Village has a distinct nostalgic feel to their music. The Portland-based quintet uses that to their advantage, hacking into I-remember-when and The Good Old Days-type feelings with their magic-infused lyrics.

Pony VillageThe Red Room

2:20 p.m.If you’re a fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, there’s a

great chance you’ll like these guys. Very mellow, very in-die, very summer-y. Provided the sun is hot and the beer is cold, you’ll enjoy spending your late afternoon with El Ten Eleven.

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Now it’s time to end the day with the very relaxing Shigeto. It’s an organic way to spend your midnight hours and the perfect way to unwind from a fairly hectic day.

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With all the soul of the fiddle, the harmonica and stand-up bass, the classic sound of a guitar, the oddity of the ac-cordion and mandolin, and the smooth, story-teller qual-ity of singer Clinton Herrick’s voice, The Jackalope Saints sing of desert devils, lost women, and demons. Their songs burst with cowboy mythology and desert magic.

The Jackalope SaintsPengilly’s Saloon

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This five-piece band sounds a bit like The Strokes, mi-nus the lead singer who sounds a bit like Sameer Gadhia of Young the Giant. If you’ve forgotten what music is sup-posed to feel like, this east-coast band will certainly jog your memory.

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Psych-Folk five-piece band Hallowed Oak provides the perfect music to feel like a teenager on a road trip in a Wes Anderson movie. The plunk of the guitars and the whine of the violin help promote the hazy feeling of a long eve-ning drive in August.

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Shades is a local quartet playing spacey, dream-music. The floaty synths, grounding drums and mellow vocals make them a feel-good space-band.

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Lionsweb’s Facebook reads “let’s shake souls together” and that’s what she does—makes her audience feel con-nected to her and want to dance with her. Although she may seem delicate, her bold voice and magnetic personal-ity soon put misconceptions to rest.

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Treefort kicks off downtown on Thurs-day. But for those of us still stuck on campus for classes, the official kick-off to Treefort will take place at the Centennial Amphitheater behind the library and will feature three Treefort bands. One of those bands will be Nick Jaina, an artist from Portland.

While Jain’s a solo act he still keeps others in mind—his influences consist of artists like The Beatles, Tom Waits, Paul Simon, and REM.

His Chris Martin-like voice backed with peaceful and heartfelt folk music is extremely easy-going; so easy-go-ing, it’s hard to believe a man with such intensity created it.

According to Hush Re-cords, “He has run out of money, slept in his car, booked tours from the road, and sacrificed rela-tionships at home for the good of his art.”

Five of Jaina’s first six albums were produced by Hush Records, a label out of Portland. His first, however, titled Snakes and Umbrellas was pro-duced by Perilymph Records.

While his decade-long tenure with Hush has brought him success, his upcoming album, Prima-ry Perception, is going to be produced by Fluff and Gravy Records, also out of Portland.

According to Hush Records, Jaina is known to play two shows when on tour “one in the club they were booked, and one prior in the street to bring new fans into the club.”

As a man who plays ad-ditionally on the streets, Jaina has met many mu-sicians, some of which have ended up playing shows with him. How-ever, while he has played shows with many differ-ent musicians, he still seems to be a solo act.

For those of you go-ing to the Treefort Music Fest this weekend, look out for Nick Jaina on Thursday at 11 p.m. at Pengilly’s Saloon.

Nathan UpdikeStaff Writer

Solomon’s Hollow is a five-person jazz-influ-enced folk band is coming back to Boise from Port-land for this year’s Tree-fort Music Festival.

Nate Agenbroad, lead singer, guitar player and Boise State graduate, spoke to The Arbiter.

Solomon’s Hollow was formed in Boise by Agen-broad in 2008 after he graduated.

He moved to Portland for music but recently came back to Boise and was followed by fellow band member’s Angie Ste-vens (violin), Kyle Baas (upright bass), Mark Dou-bleday (cello) and Marcus Orton (percussion).

“We were geared more towards improv section when we were in Port-land, and it was fun and we had people to do it with, but eventually we got to a point where we couldn’t really push it any farther,” Agenbroad said. “So we really wanted to go back in the direction of mapping things out and

actually transcribing the arrangements.”

Agenbroad said that the band is jazz-influenced in their phrasing and also have a lot of swing feel in the rhythm, but it is not like a jazz standard.

He said they are trying to avoid writing music that sounds like jazz standards.

Since moving back to Boise in December of 2012, Agenbroad said he believes this is the best group of musicians he has been with.

“In the two months that we have been really work-ing hard and rehearsing,” Agenbroad said. “I feel that I have gotten farther with thias group of musi-cians than I got with mu-sicians that I have spent a lot more time with in the past.”

The band’s name was made up by Agenbroad a while back and has stuck now.

“It’s kind of a play on the biblical character Solo-mon,” he said. “We aren’t a Christian band, but some of that imagery I grew up with.”

As of now, Agenbroad

said Solomon’s Hollow does not have any more shows lined up after Tree-fort, but plan to be playing

over the summer.“This is kind of just

something to get the ball rolling for now,” he said.

Though described to be “a fictional place that happens to be also real” in their Treefort profile, Sol-

omon’s Hollow will really be playing Sunday March 24 at 8 p.m. at the Crux, an all-ages venue.

Solomon’s Hollow visits downtown

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Foxygen is, according to their website, “Sam France, Rado, and whoev-er the fuck else we think is glamorous.”

With an introduction like that, this band is kind of hard to ignore.

France, who is lead vo-calist, comes to us from Olympia, Wash. His part-ner in crime, Jonathan Rado from New York City, plays the guitar and keyboard.

Drawing their influenc-es from classic artists like The Beatles, The Kinks and David Bowie, Foxygen likes to put a modern twist on things.

Their sound can’t quite be defined.

They have been called everything from rock ‘n’ roll, to psychedelic, to al-ternative.

The truth is, they fit into all of those categories which is what makes them so unique.

The duo got their start after giving their home-made recording to pro-ducer Richard Swift after

his performance in NYC one night.

Swift liked it so much he called them back later that night, and the rest is history.

Since then, the duo has released two full-length

albums. Their first album, “Take the Kids Off Broad-way” which was released in 2012, features seven songs and includes a trib-ute to Swift.

Their latest album, re-leased in January of this

year, is titled “We Are the 21st Century Am-bassadors of Peace & Magic.” This LP has nine songs, featuring the song “Shuggie.”

With their collection of influences and modern

twist, this is definitely a band to watch and one you won’t want to miss at Tree-fort this year.

In addition to their per-formance at Treefort, keep your eyes and ears out for Foxygen’s performance as

part of Boise State’s offi-cial kickoff to Treefort.

Bands will be taking over the Centennial Am-phitheater on Thursday from noon to 4 p.m. with Foxygen performing at 3 p.m.

Who needs Oxygen when you have Foxygen?

Paige EaglestoneStaff Writer

“This is Forty,” a film staring Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, was shown on March 14 in the Special Events Center. The film received mediocre reviews by critics but was met with an endless stream of laughter from the audience.

The initial scene was very graphic, an awkward nude scene where the main char-acters, Debbie (Leslie Mann) and Pete (Paul Rudd), are en-gaging in sexual activity in a small shower.

Emily Benson, a sophomore pre-occupational therapy ma-jor, said, “It started out with the dirtiest scene in the movie.”

Although the scene was ex-plicit, the comedic timing was impeccable, switching from a serious intimate moment to an argument about age and the use of male enhancement medication. This shift, in dis-playing a serious moment to adding in bits of hilarity, set the tone for the rest of the movie.

Kara Stefani, a sophomore psychology major, said, “I thought it was hilarious. I was so into it the whole time.”

The characters live in a beau-tiful large house in California, have two cute little girls and are aging well. However, it is the subject matter, not the vi-sual imagery, which drives the plot. They have discussions about health, family, finance and relationships in general. While things may seem per-fect, everyday is a struggle on how to maintain and improve their lives.

Debbie is a type-A perfec-tionist who often has unrealis-tic expectations. She puts the family on many strict diets, en-forces exercise for herself and her husband and keeps every-one in check. This creates for a lot of friction between herself, her husband, her children and other family members.

Pete is the typical American man; he loves rock music, junk food and feels the need for freedom and expression. He is always attempting to make himself comfortable, but fails miserably due, in part, to his wife’s expectations.

There are many serious con-flicts expressed by these two characters. However, the man-ner in which they handle the situations they put themselves in is what is worth watching. They are honest making this film an engaging and reward-ing experience.

Students enjoyed “This is 40”

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One of underground hip-hop’s most forward-thinking artists, Brother Ali’s style is a mix of golden-age Rakim-style funk beats and politically relevant wordplay. Most fa-mous for his controversial single, “Uncle Sam Goddamn,” Ali is a hip-hop classicist with something to say.

Brother AliThe Reef

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Promoting his brand-new album, “Wondrous Bug-house,” Mr. Trevor Powers will once again unleash his brand of minimal psych-pop onto the town that raised him. Expect a cool light show to go with the spacey music.

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The band has a violin and a banjo, but it’s been said they rock out all the same. They’ve even spent several years in England, and have songs titles like “The Devil Loves You” (from their upcoming album).

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Playing even once at Treefort must be a daunting task, but for famous Boise upstart Built to Spill, it’s probably no sweat. That said, this will be their second setlist at the festival, and this time it’s all covers. Should be a heaping dose of fun.

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These blue-grass suit-and-tie wearing men have been together for eight years, and have worked with Sally Van Meter. They may be blue-grass, but they’re only “semi-traditional,” as their Facebook page says.

Henhouse Prowlers11 p.m.

As their name suggests, they started off by impressing au-diences with their karaoke act. The band is live and plays along with whoever happens to be singing; so instead of singing with a karaoke machine, the audience has the op-portunity to be the lead singer of a band.

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These Boise natives have been garnering fame since 2007, when one of their songs was put on a popular gam-ing website. They’ve played in many venues here in Boise, and have spoken about their excitement for the Treefort Music Festival.

Dedicated ServersThe Reef

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Hugely influential on all of indie with their DIY aesthet-ic and multi-genre musical attack, Camper is a more than welcome addition to Treefort. They just released a new al-bum this year, “La Costa Perdida,” so expect to hear brand new stuff as well as old favorites.

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Taylor BaumanStaff Writer

As the lights dimmed, and the orchestra filled the room with an opening drum-roll, the crowd hushed with anticipation.

“This is great,” whispered a bystander in the crowd.

March 14 was the opening night for Boise State’s musi-cal production “Thoroughly Modern Mille.”

The 1960’s musical was set in the 1920’s and was about a young gal, Millie Dillmount,

who left her southern ways to move to the Big Apple and start a new “modern” lifestyle, in which she encounters a new love, a new job and faces the danger of sex trafficking.

The vibrant cartoon back-drop of an old 1920s down-town city set the perfect tone for this lively musical. And the costumes were all types of glamorous for the men and women in the perfor-mance. Costume designer, Darrin Pufall, captured the 1920s through the women’s sequined dresses, feather caps,

gloves and the men’s rustic suits and brief cases.

Not only was the set out-standing, the performances by all actors in the musical were top-notch as well. Stand out vocals from actresses Tess Gregg, who played star Millie Dillmount, and Ni-cole Snelgrow, who played the role of Dorothy Brown, a young southern bell, were phenomenal.

The star men in the musi-cal, Alaggio Laurino, who played Jimmy Smith, Millie’s new love, and Robert Tom-

bari who played Trevor Gray-don, Millie’s boss, were also phenomenal.

All actors could not only act and sing they could also dance (including tap dance) as well.

One of the biggest hits of the show was Sasha Allen-Greives’ performance of Mrs. Meers. The comical Asian

landlord of the Pricilla Hotel for Young Actresses brought humor to the stage that the audience thoroughly enjoyed.

Mrs. Meers was no doubt one of the favorite roles in the performance and had the crowd laugh-ing each time she hit the stage.

Judging from the audience’s reactions after curtian-fall, “Thoroughly Modern Millie” was a great success.

The competant acting, singing, dancing and produc-tion as a whole were impres-sive and director, Richard Klautsch, did an excellent job from top to bottom.

Based on the 1967 movie, the stage version of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” played in The Morrison Center last weekend. JAKE ESSMAN/THE ARBITER

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Danielle AllsopStaff Writer

After taking a year off after high school to regain my stu-dious composure so I would do well in college, I had a men-tal breakdown. My depression had come back full force and my anxiety was out of con-trol. I was terrified of having a panic attack with my friends, the people who I should have been the most comfort-able around. I was afraid they would judge me and leave me because I was different

Though most of my friends didn’t leave, they wouldn’t come around as often. When they did, I would bail out of plans, make up excuses as to why I couldn’t do this or that. I lost out on a lot of fun times because I couldn’t get out of my funk.

It wasn’t until I lost my best friend that I just retracted into my room for almost a year without any kind of social in-teraction with people my age. While shopping with her one afternoon, I had a panic attack and had to leave the store. She said she understood and gave me a big hug and told me to call her if I needed anything. They were the words I need-ed to hear, ones that weren’t judgmental or two-faced. They seemed believable.

I haven’t talked to her since that day. She ignored my calls, ignored me on campus. She abandoned me when I needed her most—one of the worst feelings in the world. I didn’t have anyone to talk to because she was the only one who really knew what was going on.

One of the things that I ask of everyone is to be the shoul-der for someone, even a strang-er, because you never know if you’re the only one they have. It’s surprising how therapeutic it can be to have a crying ses-sion where all your emotions are released.

Though sometimes diffi-cult, don’t judge a person for the issue they are dealing with. It may seem minute compared to yours but it’s their struggle.

Lastly, be compassionate and communicate your feel-ings. If you’re unsure of how to handle a situation like mine, say so. Don’t abandon someone who is struggling because you’re afraid. Tell the person that you aren’t sure how to help them but you will do they best you can to help, even if it’s by bringing over a pint of Ben and Jerry’s’ Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream. Something is better than nothing.

Do race preferences help students?MCT Campus

Affirmative action, long one of America's most di-visive social issues, is about to grab headlines again. On Wednesday, the U.S. Su-preme Court will hear ar-guments in a challenge to a state university's use of race in selecting students.

In many ways, the legal is-sues in Fisher v. University of Texas are the same as those that came before the court in 1978 and 2003. But the broader affirmative action debate has changed since those cases were heard, and in ways that could point toward compromises that might win broad public sup-port. Since the late 1960s, the racial preference discus-sion has been dominated by fairness questions.

Proponents saw prefer-ences as a necessary way of ensuring that racial minori-ties enjoy equal opportunity in the real world and not just paper promises of fair treat-ment. Opponents saw pref-erences as reverse discrimi-nation, perpetuating racist habits under a new guise. But in recent years, scholars have started to do careful empiri-cal research on whether pref-erences actually help their intended recipients.

When the dispute shifts from "is it fair?" to "does it work?" thus changing the focus from ideology to evi-dence, open-minded people can make progress toward consensus. Much of this new research is on the idea of "mismatch" on what happens after a student is admitted to a school for which he or she is only marginally qualified. (It is common for colleges to accept black applicants with SAT scores several hundred points below those generally required for Asian or white applicants.)

In general, however, stud-ies have found that students tend to learn less if they are surrounded by peers with much stronger academic preparation. Some 40 per-cent of black students en-tering college, for example, say they expect to major in science or engineering. But when they get to schools where most of the other students are better prepared with much higher SAT scores and more rigorous

high school course work the chance of failure is high.

Although some racial preference recipients rise to the challenge and perform better than ever, research finds that most tend to be overwhelmed and move to easier majors. These are se-rious concerns. A raft of re-cent studies has found that students often fail to thrive if they are admitted to col-leges for which they're far less prepared than their fel-low students, and this holds true whether the preferences under which they were ad-mitted were based on race (as are most very large pref-erences) or any other factor.

Students admitted to schools under such pro-grams are 30 percent to 40 percent less likely to get sci-ence degrees; they are twice as likely to fail the bar exam after law school; and they are likely to have less social in-teraction across racial lines. These numbers are not com-paring preference recipients with their better-qualified peers; they are comparing preference students with otherwise similar students who go to very good but less elite schools where they are better matched. The mis-match hypothesis is contro-versial.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has issued two meticulously researched and reasoned reports express-ing great concern about mismatch problems, but university leaders utterly ignored the reports, and they reject the idea of mismatch out of hand. Race is such a sensitive subject on most campuses, and diversity via racial preferences is viewed as so sacred, that campus presi-dents will often embrace even the flimsiest rebuttals of peer-reviewed, carefully replicated mismatch research.

In our view, the evidence

is overwhelming that mis-matches often harm those they are trying to help. Many skeptics are simply resisting serious scrutiny of current practices on political or emo-tional grounds. Others legiti-mately point out that there are important questions that need closer study, such as whether academic support can offset the effect of prefer-ences, or whether the long-term advantages of an elite degree can offset mismatch troubles during college. But even if the current evidence is viewed as inconclusive, there's an easy step the Su-preme Court should consid-er: mandating transparency in university admissions sys-tems that have long been cloaked in secrecy. Current court doctrine requires that preferences not be harmful to any racial group.

Nearly all experts agree that Justice Anthony M. Ken-nedy is likely to write the de-cisive opinion in Fisher, and that he will be interested in putting more teeth into the court's high-sounding but so far unenforced principles curbing abuse of prefer-ences. A great way to do this would be a simple consumer protection measure, requir-ing that when a college or university uses a racial preference, it provides

applicants and admitted stu-dents with information about the outcomes of students whose qualifications are simi-lar to theirs. In many realms, it is taken for granted that con-sumers need good informa-tion: Home mortgages, cars and even cereal boxes come with extensive disclosures. It is hard to think of a major invest-ment, especially one of such crucial lifelong importance, in which the consumers (stu-dents and their families) have so little information available about what exactly they are getting.

Universities are ranked by outlets like U.S. News & World Report according to their prestige. But there is little information available that measures how schools actual-ly serve their students. In par-ticular, those admitted with far lower scores or grades than the majority of students at the school need to know whether, and by how much, attending a more elite school is likely to hurt their grades and class rank. They should be

able to gauge their chances of sticking with a tough major, graduating and passing licens-ing exams.

Under current practices, there is simply no way to tell how students' qualifications on entry affect their academic success, and so students are left to rely on those alluring national rankings. Requiring disclosures and transparency would empower students to make intelligent choices while still permitting colleges, at least for now, to continue of-fering large racial preferences. If the data tend to confirm that mismatched students fare poorly, then at least some students will shun preferences that are likely to land them out of their depth, and universi-ties will probably work harder than they do now to provide effective academic support to struggling students.

It would serve both skeptics and defenders of preferences to have the information need-ed to determine when, and how well, preference policies actually work.

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How do you feel about the changes to the intramural field?

“I guess you can say that I am okay with foot-ball using it, but them controlling who can be on it is a little unfair. I think it should be left to the students to use when-ever they want. I didn’t hear anything about this so I think this was a little unfair, but I don’t really know what would have happened if they did say it out loud.”

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“I know that athletics is trying to buy the intermu-ral field from Boise State. I think athletics could go elsewhere;I know they are trying to put another one by the Lincoln town-homes, which is going to be smaller and like a mil-lion dollars. I don’t think that it’s a good thing. I think we should have been consulted; we’re the ones who use it.”

“I think that kind of takes it from the students really and kind of puts it more into like BSU foot-ball—it’s like here you go, this is for you. I think if it doesn’t really change the use of it I don’t see it being that big of a deal, but if it turns into all athletics us-ing it and no one else, that can be a problem. I think it should be advertised more, talked about more.”

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Broncos buck into NCAA playCorey MorganStaff Writer

As I wrote earlier in the season, the Boise State men’s basketball team is very good. Their birth in the NCAA tournament goes to prove that.

Are they the 13-seed? Yes, but what’s important to take into consideration is their age and how quick these players have responded to Head Coach Leon Rice in changing this program around.

This gives the Boise com-munity more to follow than just what’s going on on the blue turf. It also marks the first-at-large bid in Boise State history for the Broncos.

It’s no longer just Chris Petersen as a public figure for Bronco athletics. The Boise community has also adopted Rice into that role as well.

But I digress, here’s my prediction for the Bron-cos on their journey in the NCAA tournament.

The Broncos’ first ob-stacle will come with tak-ing on La Salle in Dayton, Ohio. The La Salle Explor-ers are 21-9 this year and are also making their first NCAA appearance in the past 21-years.

While both teams run similar schemes, the Bron-cos should be able to come out with a comfortable win by heavily out-rebound-ing the Explorers and ad-vance to play No.4 seeded Kansas State.

Upset alert: the Boise State Broncos go on to upset the Kansas State Wildcats. How? By the 3-point ball. Sophomore guard Anthony Drmic and junior guard Jeff Elorriaga will combine for a total of 10 3-pointers.

The Broncos hoist a re-spectable .391 from beyond the arc (Ranked No.13 as a team in the nation).

But after the huge upset-win, the Broncos will finally meet their match against the No.5 seeded Wisconsin Badgers. Yikes.

The Broncos will end their season just short of making the sweet-16 in the NCAA Tournament. How many out there could have predicted that? Well, I won’t jump the gun quite yet on this prediction.

The rest of the NCAA better be on point, because the Broncos are going to make a serious run in the tournament next year.

Anthony Drmic and the rest of the Broncos will square off against the LaSalle Explorers Wednesday night in Dayton, Ohio.

Broncos nab first-ever NCAA at-large bidBrandon Walton Staff Writer

Bronco Nation, you can breathe now.

The Boise State men's basketball team is officially part of the madness this year as they received an at-large bid Sunday after-noon.

The Broncos were seed-ed 13th in the west region. The news ended several weeks of speculation on would they or wouldn't they be going to the NCAA tournament or as the col-lege basketball world calls it, being on the bubble.

They were continuously being put on several col-lege basketball analysts lists of the "last four in" and the "last four out."

After every game the Broncos' position would change according to the outcome of their games.

In fact, Boise State was predicted by most analysts to not be going to the tour-nament after their lacklus-ter performance in their loss to San Diego State in the opening round of the Mountain West tourna-ment.

But despite all of this the Broncos made it in and were in fact one of the very last teams selected.

This was evident by the fact that Boise State's first game is actually a play-in game to get into the main field of 64.

The play-in game is ac-tually a new concept that the NCAA added a few

years ago to expand the field to 68 teams. In order to work with the bracket they had to add these play-in games.

The Broncos are still very much a part of the NCAA tournament, they just have to play an extra game.

They will be facing an-other 13th seed in that same region and the win-ner of that game will be the official 13th seed of the west region

The winner will be join-ing the rest of the teams in the traditional 64 team bracket that the nation is familiar with.

The Broncos' first game will be on Wednesday night against the La Salle Explorers.

La Salle is out of the very competitive and per-haps the best mid major conference in college bas-ketball, the Atlantic 10.

Over the past few years the Atlantic 10 has been known for underdogs making very deep runs. Who can forget in 2010 both Butler and VCU made it to the Final Four.

La Salle and Boise State had very similar seasons as their records were nearly the same. They were 21-9 while Boise State was 21-10.

Both the Broncos and La Salle finished fifth in their respective confer-ences. La Salle will be led by senior Ramon Galloway and junior Tyreek Duren.

Galloway is averaging 17 points per game while Du-ren is averaging 15 ppg. In addition to those two play-ers, La Salle has two other players who are averaging in double digits.

The winner of this game will go on and face the number 4 seed in the region, the Kansas State Wildcats.

Kansas State had an ex-cellent season as they fin-ished 27-7 and 14-4 in the Big 12.

They finished second in the Big 12 and only no. 1 seed Kansas was better than them.

They have been a main-stay in the top 25 all year and are one of the favor-ites to come out of west region into the Final Four.

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The Kentucky Wildcats, who won the 2012 NCAA tournament last year, fell to Robert Morris 59-57 in the first round of the NIT tournament Tuesday night.

Selection Sunday down to a sciencemct campus

Ruben IbarraStaff Writer

Selection Sunday. A day where players, coaches and fans impa-tiently wait to see their teams’ respective schools names across the ESPN ticker.

If their favorite team is one of the 68 teams se-lected to the NCAA Tour-nament, they gain the op-portunity to compete for the ultimate goal, a national championship.

So who actually chooses who gets in and who doesn’t? Why do some teams get in with losing records and why are some left out with win-ning records?

The selection process is a complex system that uses complex formulas to determine who gets in. The entire process takes place over the course of the season.

A committee team gath-ers in Indianapolis and makes the 68 team bracket after meeting and reviewing scouting reports for each team up for a bid.

Each member is assigned multiple teams to cover throughout the year and they are responsible for studying them.

The easiest way for a team to get selected into the NCAA tournament is win their conference tourna-ment. That is called an au-

tomatic qualifier. There are 31 conferences in division I basketball so winning one’s conference saves fans, play-ers and coaches a whole lot of stress.

Each committee member must submit its 37 at-large teams and all members must eventually unanimously agree on all 37 teams.

Teams who were once to be considered an at large team can become an auto-matic qualifier by winning their conference tournament because the review process overlaps conference tourna-ment play leading up to se-lection Sunday.

The committee uses head to head matchups, common opponents and also what

is known as the RPI (rat-ing percentage index) to determine where each team should be seeded.

The RPI has three factors: the first is winning percent-age against division I op-ponents, this consists of 25 percent of the formula.

The second factor is op-ponent strength of schedule, which is the largest portion of the formula at 50 percent.

Lastly, opponents’ oppo-nent strength of schedule weighs out the last 25 per-cent of the formula.

All of these factors go into a greater calculation to determine an RPI score for each team.

The higher the score the more wins against quality

opponents the team most likely has increasing their chances to be selected.

There are flaws in the sys-tem that leaves some of the best programs out while let-ting smaller schools in.

A weaker conference can have their respective champion with a losing win-percentage and still be able to get an automatic qualifying spot.

Where as a team who is on the bubble gets left out be-cause they may be playing in a tougher conference against higher quality opponents.

Middle Tennessee is an example of not having a great resume as they only have one win over a team in the RPI top 100 accord-

ing to USA Today this sea-son, but still managed to receive an invitation into the tournament.

Had they been left off the ballot, they would’ve won more games than any other team in his-tory that did not make the tournament.

The current system has yet to fail us as each year the top team has always come out victorious.

While it works in the favor of a small school like Mid-dle Tennessee it just means one less spot for a big time program like the Kentucky Wildcats.

Similar to the BCS selec-tion process, attractiveness is a major factor.

A look at NCAA Round One games Tyler AbnerStaff Writer

March Madness is upon us once again with what might be one of the hardest brackets in recent memory.

Louisville seems to be the most attractive team to win the tournament to many ex-perts, such as Gary Parrish of CBS Sports and Seth Da-vis of Sports Illustrated.

But with two famous gi-ant-killing teams in the tour-nament, Butler and VCU, the field is wide-open. VCU made their famous run to

the Final Four in 2011 to face Butler, starting in the Round of 68.

The Rams became the first team in NCAA history to start in the round of 68 and make the Final Four.

Will a team from this year’s Round of 68 make a final four run? Chances are slim but there is some talent in the first round of four.

Tuesday, March 19 at 9:10 p.m. ET the game between Middle-Tennessee State University (28-5) out of the Sun Belt and St. Mary’s (27-6) out of the WCC is one

match-up that will go under the radar.

On paper, the Gales from St. Mary’s look to be the more attractive team.

However, what both teams failed to do dur-ing the season was tally up quality wins; instead, both teams tallied up numerous bad losses.

St. Mary’s virtually has a big goose egg in the qual-ity wins column. Their best win all season came against BYU twice.

Middle-Tennessee States’ résumé is not much bet-

ter but they do have a nice quality win against the Ole Miss Rebels (26-8) out of the SEC.

With both teams hearing it from the media that nei-ther one belongs in the tour-nament, viewers can expect to see everything left on the court between these two.

St. Mary’s should win this game to move on to the next round against Memphis (30-4) from Conference USA, another team with a very good record but lack-ing attractiveness.

Wednesday, March 20 at 9:10 p.m. ET is the open-ing tip between the second and more anticipated game

of the Round of 68 between Boise State (21-10) out of the MWC and La Salle (21-9) out of the A10.

These two teams are much more attractive tournament teams than their Round of 68 counterparts. Boise State and La Salle have more quality wins than bad losses this season.

According to many of the experts, this will be one of the more difficult early tour-nament games to decide on a winner.

On paper, Boise State seems to be the more attrac-tive of the two teams to win the game.

Both Drmic and Marks

are averaging over 16 points per game and the majority of the Broncos offense runs through these two.

On the other hand, La Salle has fire power of their own in Ramon Galloway and Tyreek Duren. Both are averaging over 15 points or more a game.

These two teams are very similar, loving to take pe-rimeter shots and many of them.

Depending on the play of Drmic and Marks, look for Boise State to win this match-up and move on to the next round to face Kansas State (27-7) out of the Big 12.

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