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A look back at Bronco athletics last fall.

The Theatre Majors Association presents their spring show.

Mike Posner head-lined this year’s Spring Fling.

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The dancers on the Student Union Building (SUB) patio stopped and let out a warbling yell as they shook their water-bottle maracas. The women wore turquoise and black, the men red and black. Both wore large headdresses of peacock feathers. The steady drum-

beat continued to pound; the dancers began again.

The Organización de Estu-diantes Latino-Americanos (OELA) and the Bilingual Education Student Organi-zation put together a part-celebration, part-educational experience on Thursday, May 2. The event featured Mexican food, maraca-making, face-painting, a chili-eating contest

and Aztec dancing.Although the event was

meant to be a fun celebration, it was also an educational and awareness-raising event.

“They try to have it to pro-mote cultural awareness,” said OELA secretary and sopho-more political science major Alejandra Mejia.

Mejia went on to say she liked how students get to learn

more about Cinco de Mayo and what it actually is.

“Many people have the idea it’s Mexico’s Independence Day, but it isn’t,” Mejia said. “In Mexico it’s the Battle of Puebla. The Mexicans fought against the French. Mexico won against the odds.”

This battle occurred on May 5, 1862.

Sophomore criminal jus-

tice major, Mariah Leland, who attended the event both this year and last, said she enjoyed it.

“I grew up in Texas and we always celebrated Cinco de Mayo,” she said.

Leland went on to say the celebration was im-proved upon, with better and more varied activities from last year.

Cinco de Mayo celebrated

Deancers took to the Student Union Building patio on Thursday, May 2 to celebrate Cinco De Mayo.

Cinco De Mayo celebration mixed culture and learning. A cultural celebration took place on the SUB patio.

Campus security pushes for camera surveillanceRyan ThorneStaff Writer

The recent bombings in Boston have proven how valuable security cameras can be to law enforcement. Using footage obtained from nearby cameras, lo-cal and federal police forces were able to iden-tify the brothers allegedly responsible for planting and detonating the explo-sives at the finish line of the marathon.

As a former FBI mem-ber, Boise State executive director of campus secu-rity Jon Uda understands how tools like video surveillance can aid law enforcement.

Uda and colleagues have recently taken steps to in-stall surveillance cameras campus wide in an attempt to prevent and prosecute crimes and prevent com-

mon illegal activity like bike theft.

Forced to deal with an annually shrinking budget, Uda must rely on grants since a centralized closed circuit television (CCTV) system could cost the uni-versity thousands of dol-lars it doesn’t have.

CCTV surveillance al-lows multiple camera feeds to be viewed in a single location by security personnel.

It is commonly used among security pro-fessionals and law enforcement.

“I am a huge proponent of CCTV,” Uda said. “If I had a million dollars, I would have installed cam-eras two years ago.”

Boise State’s campus is unique for its lack of video cameras, compared to oth-er state schools like Idaho State University which

has nearly 400, according to Uda.

Currently, a third party group is being selected by Boise State security offi-cials to conduct an evalu-ation of campus security efforts and Uda hopes their findings will indicate a need for an integrated camera network.

Without a recommen-dation from an indepen-dent third party, Uda will not be able to obtain grant money necessary for a school wide CCTV system.

Cameras conduct sur-veillance near cash reg-isters and campus busi-nesses, but most outdoor areas are are not monitored via CCTV.

“We do have cameras, most are in cash collection areas, but they are inside of buildings,” said Rob Lit-trell, Boise State Emergen-

cy Planner and Analyst.Though cameras may

aid authorities and pre-vent theft, ASBSU Presi-dent Ryan Gregg thinks most students would not like to be monitored.

“What was reported back to the (ASBSU) senate is that students on campus have sort of a certain level of privacy they expect and students weren’t comfortable hav-ing cameras everywhere,” Gregg said.

Gregg said he feels the effectiveness of camera surveillance should be studied before any serious changes are made.

With the population size of student residents on campus increasing each year, Gregg sees illegal ac-tivity decreasing.

“I tend to think that as we have more students on campus, that it actually would deter crime,” Gregg said. “If you are a crimi-nal, you don’t want to be caught, you want to do your crime when there are few people around.”

Lack of security cameras in high traffic areas like the Lincoln Parking Garage have created difficulty for police trying to solve the recent arson crimes in-volving burning trash cans and the destruction of two student vehicles.

Freshman health promo-tions major Taylor Lance understands the need for cameras covering out-door high traffic areas on campus but stressed that school officials should re-strict additional surveil-lance to those areas.

“I think the quad and big areas like that would be fine,” Lance said.

Students like civil engi-neer major Randy Hamil-ton feel criminals will only be deterred by enhanced security measures if they are in plain sight.

“If they’re visible, and they are made aware that there are new cameras then maybe,” Hamilton said. “But if people don’t know you added 20 cam-eras then they are going to do the same stuff.”

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Trial campus shuttle to run until May 16

The Department of Transportation and Parking Ser-vices is conducting a two-week trial of a new shuttle bus route that will service south cam-pus along Belmont Street and Boise Avenue starting fall 2013. The pilot shuttle bus service will run through May 16.

The new shut-tle route makes a loop, starting from the Yanke Family Research Park on Parkcenter Boule-vard and heading west on Beacon Street, then taking Denver Avenue to Belmont Street, and continuing west via Lincoln Avenue to Boise Avenue, all

the way to Capitol Boulevard. The re-turn trip heads east back to campus on University Drive.

This two-week trial will be used to pilot the route and determine appro-priate bus stop lo-cations and shuttle timing. When fall semester begins, this route will add an extra stop and continue north to 301 Capitol Blvd., the new Boise State University property in downtown Boise, then turn around.

The new bus shuttle service starts at 8 a.m., run-ning every 20 min-utes until 5 p.m. The shuttle bus is white and seats 14 passengers.

Attend the Lusk Street area master plan open house

The City of Boise is developing a mas-ter plan for the Lusk Street Area, near Ann Morrison Park, and is inviting the public to attend the second open house to learn and pro-vide comments on what has been ac-complished to date, review the draft plan and provide input on the master plan.

The meeting will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednes-day, May 8, in the Boise City Housing

and Community De-velopment office at 1025 S. Capitol Blvd.

Boise State Uni-versity owns proper-ty in the Lusk Street neighborhood. In-terested staff and students are invited to attend the open house and provide feedback on the draft master plan.

Questions about the meeting can be addressed to Jenifer Tomlinson, associate comprehensive plan-ner for the City of Boise, at 384-3836

or [email protected]. For those unable to at-tend the meeting, materials will be posted on the web at pds.cityofboise.org/p l a n n i n g / c o m p /lusk-street-master-plan.

Questions regard-ing Boise State in the Lusk Street Area can be directed to Jared Everett, interim asso-ciate vice president for campus planning and facilities, at 426-2090 or [email protected].

Chinese Club is activeThe Chinese Club

has been active this spring in present-ing Chinese culture, language and history throughout the Trea-sure Valley.

On March 14, Mag-gie Ooi, president, and Tori O’Neal, vice president, paid a visit to The Village Charter School in Boise.

In addition to learn-ing about Chinese language, history, tra-ditional clothing and food, the students got to try their hand at using chopsticks after watching a short demonstration.

More recently, the club continued its work with area schools by participat-ing in South Junior High’s International Night on March 12. In addition to arrang-ing for Chinese danc-ers and music perfor-mances, the Chinese Club set up a China table as one of the “countries” students could visit.

The Chinese Club is wrapping up the semester by men-toring an student whose senior project is making a Chinese character book.

Criminal justice organization honoredCriminal justice

students in Boise State University’s chap-ter (Delta Psi Chi) of Lambda Alpha Epsilon—a national student and profes-sional criminal justice organization—took home a number of individual and group awards at the annual

national conference held concurrently in Philadelphia, April 21 to 27.

Students from Boise State competed in several categories: academic (criminal law, corrections, juve-nile justice and police management), crime scene investigation,

physical agility, and firearms. Additionally, there are specific train-ing opportunities and special speakers.

Boise State’s chap-ter (Delta Psi Chi) of Lambda Alpha Epsi-lon is open to any stu-dent on campus who is interested in the field of criminal justice.

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Jessica AdamsonStaff Writer

Last month, freshman La-ray Stoffels and four friends were heading to dinner from their dorms on the fifth floor of Towers Hall. The five of them got in the elevator, as usual, and descended toward the first floor. What happened next was not usual.

“We got like halfway be-tween the fifth floor and the fourth floor and like it just stopped, it just completely stopped,” Stoffels said.

Realizing that the elevator was stuck, Stoffels and her friends pressed the call but-ton and were assured mainte-nance personnel were on the way to get them out. Stoffel and the others on the elevator remained calm and waited to be rescued.

“One of the girls on the elevator had gotten stuck in Towers before and it took like ten minutes and they got her out, so we didn’t think it was that big of a deal,” Stoffels said.

Maintenance arrived and after trying several dif-ferent methods to fix the problem, they discovered there was no way to safely get the girls out due to their location between floors; Boise Fire Department had to be called.

“We waited longer and the fire department came and they had to pry it open with all their tools and then they just pulled us all out,” Stoffels said. “We were in there for like an hour and a half, hour and forty minutes.”

After the students were safely out of the elevator, the cause of the malfunction was revealed to be a broken second brake. Since then, the elevator has been fixed and seems to be operating normally.

While incidents such as this one are out of the ordinary, they do still occur. Since July of 2012 the office of Facilities, Operations and Maintenance has recorded 119 service calls for elevators on campus, ac-cording to Suzanne Seigneur, communications and out-reach coordinator for Campus Planning and Facilities.

Boise State has 84 eleva-tors currently in operation, all of which require regular inspections and maintenance to keep them in compli-ance with state and federal safety standards. According to Seigneur, that task is con-tracted to ThyssenKrupp Elevator (TKE).

“Safety is our number one job and part of the reason we contract out is so that we’re hiring an expert, who is a cer-tified technician, who comes in and takes a look at all the elevators,” Seigneur said.

Those 84 elevators keep a TKE technician busy working nearly full-time for the univer-sity. Each elevator is placed on an inspection schedule based on how heavily it’s used.

Elevators with high usage, such as those in the Education building, are inspected weekly. Elevators in buildings with medium usage—Liberal Arts, for example—are inspected monthly. Elevators that re-ceive little use are inspected bi-

monthly, such as the ones in the Extended Studies Center.

According to Seigneur, inspections involve a top to bottom inspection of the el-evator car, including operator controls inside the elevator, emergency lights, the car door opening device, landing alignment, door sequencing, brakes, all fluid levels, and many other parts.

“We do our maintenance according to state and federal standards. Every elevator is also pulled off-line and thor-oughly inspected every five years,” Seigneur said. “There are some times when an eleva-tor needs to be replaced, typi-cally when parts no longer can be obtained readily.”

The elevators in the Admin-istration Building will soon be replaced, during the end of May and beginning of June, Seigneur also said.

Boise State spends $64,500 per year on the standard main-tenance contract for all eleva-tors on campus, with funds from the Facilities annual operating budget. The depart-ments where the elevators are located also contribute funds towards elevator main-tenance. Any unexpected service calls, such as remov-ing an individual from a stuck elevator or repairing a broken elevator, are not included in the budget.

With all the inspections, maintenance and funding el-evators receive, why does the office of Facilities, Operations and Maintenance still receive an average of ten service calls a month? According to Sei-gneur, most elevator malfunc-

tions are caused by users.“Facilities doesn’t experi-

ence many mechanical issues with the elevators,” Seigneur said. “Most of the incidences when they do have them are human-caused. It’s most often a case of the elevator doors out of alignment. Most of the time this happens when individuals see the door clos-ing and are quick to push the door back or obstruct the door with a hand or foot.”

Seigneur recommended that riders instead press the door open button to stop the door from closing. Pranks, such as placing a coin in the track of the elevator doors, can prevent doors from open-ing properly. Overloading the elevators with too many people could also potentially cause breakdowns.

In 2000, Rice University administration threatened fines for students causing malfunctions by jumping up and down while the elevators were in motion, according to the Rice Thresher student newspaper. Similarly childish behavior could also cause el-evators to stall at Boise State.

For those few unlucky stu-dents who do get stuck in el-evators on campus, the ordeal usually isn’t too traumatic. As Laray Stoffels pointed out, she hasn’t exclusively switched to stairs.

“Nothing really happened. We didn’t go crashing down or anything, so it wasn’t that scary,” Stoffels said. “Every time I get in that elevator it kind of freaks me out but I’m not going to avoid elevators completely.”

Elevated concerns

Bronco Abroad: Popular ways to remember the journey

Last year’s Breaking News Editor Suzanne Craig chronicles her adventures abroad while studying in Sweden.

Studying abroad is a great experience in itself, but hav-ing something to remember it with is equally important. For one, it lets you remember and even keep in touch with all those friends you made. For another, it gives you something material to wave in your little sister’s face to make her jealous.

Some of the most popular are various methods of journ-aling. There’s the physical op-tion, useful for those artistic types who can keep sketches next to the appropriate pas-sages. It also makes for a scrap-book type of memoranda, with ticket stubs and receipts.

The tech option is a blog. This is an easy way to keep up with all those “keep in touch, send us postcards” requests too. Going broke due to post-age is not a particularly story-worthy way to go. There are tons of options, but one of the easiest is Google’s Blogger, pretty intuitive and included in a standard Google account. Being able to include pictures is a big bonus on this method.

Both of these are ways to capture the whole experience, with as much attention to daily life as you want. There are also a few more unique options for keeping track of travels.

One is a map. The one I use is pretty basic, just country outlines and a few major cities. The lack of details makes it easy to read any notations made, in-dicating cities traveled to and a brief blurb on the whys.

Another way, which requires someone back home cooper-ating, is postcards. Landscape shots are all well and good when you have a spectacular camera and enthusiasm for photography, but for cheap-camera owners, postcards are better. Save the photos for people you meet and truly unique shots.

Most places which sell post-cards also sell the appropri-ate postage. Just make sure to indicate you are mailing it to America, because sometimes that has different postage than another European country. Writing out trip details gives the opportunity to record the amusing tidbits often forgotten by the time you get to a com-puter or to your journal.

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The elevators in the Education Building are some of the busiest on campus. This also means the are serviced more often than others. Patrick Sweeney/tHe arBiter

Who is responsible for campus elevator maintenance?if you are stuck in an eleVator on campus:

1) don’t panicModern elevators are

engineered in such a way that it is almost im-possible for the car to plummet to the bottom of the elevator shaft, so there’s no need to worry about that happening.

Elevators are also not airtight so there is no possibility of running out of air. Take deep breaths if you begin to feel claustrophobic

2) push the emer-gency call button

This will connect you to campus dispatch. They will contact main-tenance to come and get you out.

3) be patientDepending on how

severely the elevator is stuck, it may take some time to get you and the other passengers out.

4) do not try and get out on your own

The elevator could unexpectedly move or you could fall down the shaft and be severely in-jured. The safest place for you to be is inside the elevator car.

Information courtesy of the Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation www.eesf.org.



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Boise State has a rather large—and growing—interna-tional student population. The International Student Services Department is challenging all domestic students across campus to step outside of their comfort zones, and meet some new and friendly faces.

DARIA Daria Ursol was only

15-years-old when she jour-neyed from Muldova (which is tucked between the Ukraine and Romania) to Wenatchee, Wash., completely by herself. She spent a year in Washing-ton with an exchange family, then traveled back to Muldova to finish high school.

In 2010, Ursol had found her way back to Wenatchee and attended a small commu-nity college. Two years later, she transferred to Boise State to pursue a degree in Multi-Ethnic Studies with a minor in Spanish. She didn’t know a soul in Idaho when she picked Boise State, but she was award-ed a great scholarship and would still be fairly close to her friends in Washington.

Ursol has an almost unno-ticeable accent. Though she said her accent was very strong when she first came to Amer-ica, she says she has worked very hard to increase her vo-cabulary. She said that when she first came to America as an exchange student, the hardest language barrier for her was slang. She would come home with some edgy words, and ask her host family what they meant. Her host family was al-ways shocked at the words she was bringing home, and she was always shocked to find out what they meant.

Ursol made the decision to pursue her education in the states because American soci-ety fits more closely with her own personal beliefs than did Muldova society, which she describes as still very conserva-tive. There are more opportu-

nities for people here, and she likes the fact that we are an in-dividualistic society, compared to the collectivist society from which she came.

“I feel very fortunate being here. I consider myself very lucky. I would definitely rec-ommend BSU to any interna-tional student,” Ursol said.

AZIZ Aziz Alfaleh is another inter-

national student at Boise State a long way from home. He is a sophomore studying informa-tion technology management. Home for Alfelah is Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and his country is footing the bill for his educa-tion. He has been in America since January 2011.

The largest challenge he’s faced since being in America is dealing with what he calls “the tiny cultural differences.”

For example, Alfaleh, with his friendly smile, has easily made friends in class. But there have been times when he runs into a friend outside of class, and they barely give him a nod. At first he was offended, he later came to realize it is part of American individualist society. w In Saudi Arabia, that would be considered very rude.

Because of all of the unrest in the Middle East, Alfaleh has unfortunately been the target of unwarranted stares and a few nasty comments. He said people here are not used to for-eigners. When the bombings at the Boston Marathon hap-pened, he said he prayed for it not to be someone from the Middle East. But for the most part, his experience here has been positive.

Alfelah is also well-spoken. He said he felt very confident about his ability to speak Eng-lish when he came to America.

“When it comes to language I feel more American than most Americans,” Alfelah said.

Alfelah made an interesting observation about how we handle our money as Ameri-cans. He described it as being money-driven. The example he used was from a time when

he had given a fellow classmate a ride home. The classmate had told Alfelah to pull over at a gas station; that he wanted to put a few dollars of gasoline into his car for him. Alfelah laughed and said, “No, you don’t have to do that! I am just giving you a ride because I am a nice person. You don’t have to buy my gas.”

Both Ursol and Alfelah miss their families and see them very little. Ursol got to go home last summer, but it had been a year and a half since she had seen them at that point. The opportunity for her fam-ily to come to visit her here in America is slim at best.

“It’s easy for me to come and go, because I have an educa-tional visa, but it’s more com-plicated for them,” Ursol said.

BLENDING IN AND MAK-ING FRIENDS

It isn’t always easy fitting in and making new friends. It’s not even easy for people born in America.

“You can’t walk up to

someone and say, ‘Can we be friends?’ It’s just not done that way,” said Christy Babcock, associate director of Interna-tional Student Services.

Language barriers are often a problem. “The challenge can come from two different sides or both sides at once,” Babcock said, whether it’s an interna-tional student who doesn’t feel comfortable yet expressing themselves in English, or a do-mestic student who isn’t used to conversing with someone from another country.

Together with Multi-Cultur-al Student Services, it shares a couple of lounges designed to bring people from every na-tionality and culture together. The space is meant to be a comforting place where stu-dents can hang out, study, and have group meetings. Every-one is welcome, but the center has had trouble gaining the in-terest of domestic students.

Babcock says the center holds a variety of events, but because they are marked as “being held by the internation-

al student services” and “being held at the diversity center,” domestic students don’t think they are welcome. That has been a huge marketing chal-lenge for them.

Domestic students often get involved with the center for service learning credits. For example, The World Cup of Tea Program partners domes-tic students with international students, and credits are avail-able. Babcock says that once they get involved, they tend to stay involved.

Also, many Christian-based groups tend to be eager to get involved, and Babcock said they just have to make sure their intentions are not to re-cruit new church members.

Coffee and Conversation is a group that meets every Wednesday from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Student Diversity Center

For international students, it’s a chance to hang out, vent frustrations, and make connec-tions. It is informal and com-fortable, with people sitting

around, eating and chatting.Coffee and Conversation

typically draws between 30 to 50 students. One of the hard-est challenges Babcock faces is trying to immerse interna-tional students with domestic students in a social setting. Sometimes, it’s a cultural prob-lem in and of itself.

“You really see that with the Middle Eastern Students; they really stick together. You only have a few that really try to im-merse themselves,” Babcock said. Presently, Boise State is attended by 430 Middle East-ern students. That number has doubled in the last two years.

Babcock said she would like to challenge all domestic stu-dents—to step outside their comfort zone, and openly wel-come international students.

“This is a way to learn about the world without leaving your home town,” Babcock said. You are making a new friend, learning about the world, and making someone feel wel-come; something Babcock de-scribes as win/win.

Boise State stirs the melting pot of culture

The International Student Services Department challanges students to step outside their comfort zones. CODY FINNEY/THE ARBITER



Arts & Entertainment

Mike Posner headlined this year’s Spring Fling, which took place on Saturday, May 4 at the Taco Bell Arena.

Spring Fling draws a younger crowd Paige EaglestoneStaff Writer

Spring Fling, the concert series Boise State has made an annual occurrence, headlined with Mike Pos-ner on Saturday, May 4.

Posner, following in the wake of Lupe Fiasco and Flo Rida, targeted a much younger demographic than his predecessors.

Boise State’s Taco Bell Arena was scattered with high school students, young children with their guardians, dorm residing freshmen and a few linger-ing upperclassmen, most of whom do not possess vehicular transportation,

thus leaving Boise State’s campus parking lots, pretty bare.

So what is the draw for most of these minors?

Surprisingly, not Pos-ner himself, but a range of other reasons.

“It sounded like fun, nothing better to do,” said Tanner Wollen, a sopho-more supply chain manage-ment major.

Wollen’s friend, Hayden Laabs, a freshman crimi-nal justice major said, “I hate Mike Posner. I came with my best friend, who’s a year older than me, who made me come to this school, so that’s why I came”

Kayla Tucker, a fresh-man business and human relations major, said she had actually never heard of Mike Posner.

Tucker said, “I came be-cause my boyfriend’s in town from Spokane and it would be something fun to do with him.”

Tucker continued, “All of Mike Posner’s really popular songs that I know, I didn’t even know that he sang them.”

Posner, known for the hits “Cooler Than Me” and “Please Don’t Go,” topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2010. Recently, he has been working behind the scenes, writing and producing hits

such as Justin Bieber’s re-cent single “Boyfriend.”

Posner’s opening acts Aylen and The Good Husbands were quite the draw themselves, receiv-ing positive reactions from the audience.

“Good Husbands was the act we were looking forward to. They’re a good act, they have a lot of fun,” said Tanner.

“Good Husbands was better than Mike Posner,” said Laabs.

However, there was more buzz concerning seating than the quality of the mu-sic, with tension regarding Bowl and Floor seating.

“Everyone was paying

more attention to not be-ing able to get on the floor,” Tucker said.

There was a great deal of confusion concerning the price of floor seats. It was suggested many times that the free stu-dent tickets meant that students were not granted the luxury of getting close to the performers, since they only possessed the bowl ticket.

Those students who brought along paying guests, were given one floor ticket and one bowl ticket, thus instilling con-fusion and conflict over the location of seating both couples and groups

separately instead of together.

Many were told that preference was only given to those who bought their tickets early and floor seat-ing was sold out.

However, there was plen-ty of room left on the floor, not to mention the influx of seats available overhead.

This year’s Spring Fling was sponsored by Get-Involved, hosted by DJs Lucky and Huggie of 103.3 KISSFM and advertised by both Chili’s and the Ram off of Broadway.

However, the turnout of Boise State students, main-ly upperclassmen, was still sorely lacking.

Spring Fling starts slowRyan HoffmanStaff Writer

The announcement of the lineup of Boise State’s 36th An-nual Spring Fling concert was initially nothing to be hugely excited about. Headliner Mike Posner has amassed a few Billboard hits with “Please Don’t Go” and “Cooler Than Me”, but that was nearly three years ago, and his newest single “Looks Like Sex” isn’t all that impressive, either. Still, there was hope that support-ing acts The Good Husbands

and Aylen would bring a little more pizzazz to the proceed-ings, and maybe even Posner himself would surprise with his showmanship.

That notion was almost erased Saturday night, when all three acts played to a mostly un-dersold, unappreciative crowd. Openers The Good Husbands somewhat impressed with their technical rapping skills and covers of popular songs (“No Diggity”, anyone?), but their shtick soon got redun-dant and the crowd slowly lost interest. Second act DJ

Aylen was slightly better, mix-ing some popular house tunes and radio hits with more un-derground fare, but again, after an hour and fifteen minutes of nonstop buildups and drops, it became tiring.

Finally, when Mike Posner hit the stage, the crowd raved up for quite a lot of his set, but the show itself was vastly disappointing. Posner, his DJ and a live drummer were the only people on stage, making the concept of a “live” concert with backing instrumenta-tion (guitars, bass, orchestral

elements, etc.) a sorely missed opportunity. The misogynist lyrics didn’t help either: the chorus of “Looks Like Sex” simply states “she looks like sex, sex, sex, sex”.

From the time The Good Husbands took the stage to the end of Posner’s cool guy act, at least 70 percent of the audience was texting on their cell phones or just talking to each other, paying no mind to the music going on in front of them. One could chalk this up to the fleeting attention spans of young adults these days, but I would argue that a great per-formance commands the ut-most awareness of the artist(s) on stage.

If the university wants people to come out to next year’s Fling, they need to a.) get a more respected, estab-lished artist to perform and/or b.) raise awareness of the event tenfold.

The amount of space not filled up by sweaty bodies in the Taco Bell Arena was almost laughable. Heck, this student reviewer would even be willing to pay $10 to see someone like Justin Timberlake or Miguel (OK, maybe not artists of that large of a stature, but you get the idea).

In the meantime, Saturday’s events were a mediocre display of theatrics that never really took off.

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Ammon RaineyStaff Writer

“I think we have faculty that are talented and very competitive,” Vice President of Research Mark Rudin said. “I feel confident that we’ll continue to be competi-tive in that area, just because of the talent level of our fac-ulty.”

Professor Julie Oxford of the Biological Sciences De-partment is one of many re-searchers working to prove Vice President Rudin cor-rect.

Professor Oxford is the director of the Boise State University chapter of the Idaho Idea Network for Bio-medical Research Excellence (INBRE). It is a statewide program that involves all of the colleges and universities in the state. The National Institutes of Health funds this program and the various stakeholders from around the state get together every five years to write a renewal for their grants.

The program professor Oxford oversees involves multiple research projects.

“We are looking at the causes of arthritis,” Oxford explained, “and hoping we can find out information that would contribute to a cure or a treatment or prevention. We also… look at normal development... primarily the development of the skeleton. But we also have interest in development of the eyes and development of the ears. Some of the conditions some individuals experience have a whole constellation of symp-toms that include the heart, the eyes, the ears and joints. So we’re trying to under-stand how one very small but specific mutation in a gene can impact all of these differ-ent systems.”

Sequestration brought a bit of a kink at the end of the current five-year funding pe-riod. Oxford’s program has an annual budget of approxi-mately $800,000. Suddenly,

funds for this program were cut by about $81,000 for the period starting April 1 of this year and ending March 31, 2014.

“NIH gave us about a month notice,” Oxford said. “They told us they would cut our budget by ten per-cent and their question to us was how are we going to still carry out our program. And so we had to submit a new budget and justify the cuts.”

This was going to be a very difficult process. “We have many, many people hired on this grant. So I think it’s one thing if someone tells you they’re going to cut your budget by ten percent and you can reduce the amount of spending… on supplies. But it’s (another) thing when

you’re talking about people’s jobs. So it was, I think, a little painful.”

For many of the peo-ple hired on this grant, the danger was a pos-sibility of losing their career.

“We didn’t know what to do exactly,” Oxford said. “Whether we should just shorten our year by 1.2 months, so kind of cut across the board, or should we look at the program and cut deep-ly into one area.”

The latter would mean someone would have to lose his or her job.

“This grant that has been going on for so long is so lean at this point,” Oxford added. “There just was no fat to trim.”

The grant also funds a sum-mer undergraduate research

fellows program in which undergraduate students are able to work in research labs for ten weeks. The number of students awarded this oppor-tunity will be reduced from ten to nine.

Oxford spoke on the gen-eral effect this situation has on morale.

“If these researchers that are working full-time… ded-icated to whatever research question it is they’re focus-ing on… I believe that they can’t do their best work if they feel this looming risk of losing their jobs,” Oxford said. This worry can “lessen the attention they might have had to focusing on a question about cancer or a question about arthritis.”

One of the worst effects might be this stress motivates people to give up on research.

“I have heard from different faculty mem-

bers… that they are quite discouraged because grant applications have become so much more competitive,” Ox-ford said. “Even a very high quality grant application, great research ideas, might not get funded.”

Oxford emphasized the amount of hard work and en-ergy it takes to put a grant proposal together. She then explained that some professors begin to wonder if it’s really even worth it.

“They do work really hard,” she said. “It’s ok if… it pays off, but when you work so hard and you have nothing to show, it’s kind of hard.”

Oxford mentioned that some faculty members have told her they are considering putting more of their energy into other areas of academia and away

from research.“One of the professors in-

dicated that they would just spend more time teaching… Another faculty member came to me and said, ‘I think maybe I should start moving into ad-ministration.’ Less research, more administration, because research is kind of demoraliz-ing people.”

But Oxford sees another side to it as well. “On the flip-side, I think… it motivates us because we have to scramble. We have to be writing that many more grant applications,” she said.

While she feels this may detract from time that could be spent in the lab, there is an advantage to putting out more grant applications. The more grants applied for, the better the chances of making up some of the deficits caused by se-questration.

According to Oxford, the situation is “raising the aware-ness that we really need to get high-quality grant applica-tions out on a regular basis, rapidly, to keep our research programs going.”

Building the ability to rap-idly produce high-quality grant applications likely serves the interests of researchers even when there is no sequester.

It is this dedication to dig-ging deep and doing what it takes to keep research alive that helped Oxford reduce her pro-gram’s deficit. But she couldn’t have done it without help.

Both the Dean of the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences Tony Roark and Vice President Ru-din were involved in the pro-cess. “We were looking at a deficit of about $60,000 and I proposed that we split this and they were very willing to help out.”

The Biomolecular Research Center, which administers the grant, also has some funds that are not from federal grants. Professor Oxford said they were able to draw off of that for a short term fix. Even though her program wasn’t completely unscathed, Oxford acknowl-edges support from Boise State. “We trimmed a little bit, but Boise State kind of stepped up to the plate and took over some of those costs. So we’re ok, I think.”

Despite the fact they are still missing around $30,000, Oxford is staying hopeful and working hard to find whatever funding options that are avail-able.

“Because this program starts in April, we’re really at just the beginning of the year. So what we can do is in the meantime apply for more grants… and if one of those grants comes through with a similar mission, then we could end that year early and start the new project just a little bit earlier… we can make it work,” Oxford said.

While sequestration is mak-ing research more difficult, Oxford doesn’t think it will get in the way of the university achieving its research goals.

“I’m always concerned about grant funding continuing to come in, but it has been so far,” Oxford said. “I know that it is tough, but it’s been tough be-fore. We’ve seen these levels be-fore… and I’m optimistic that we’re just at a low point and we’ll see it oscillate back up to better, more favorable research funding.”

She called the sequestration a hiccup. “Boise State is still growing as a research univer-sity,” she said.

Oxford demonstrates that it is a dedication to finding solu-tions to tough problems that has made this possible and it is that same dedication that will carry research at Boise State through these hard times into the future. After all, finding solutions to tough problems is what researchers do.

Optimism during sequestrationProfessor Julie Oxford deals with department cuts

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—Julie Oxford

This grant that has been going on for so long is so lean at this point. There just

was no fat to trim.“

No one said it would be easy. But it is, perhaps, too soon to know all the various ways in which reduced government funding will affect the various operations at an institution like Boise State. The sequestration has managed to spread a lot of doubt, uncertainty and fear. However, researchers at Boise State are showing they have the drive to move forward in the face of uncertainty.

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With Idaho’s vast riv-ers and mountainous areas there is much to be explored. The Out-door Program has ad-ventures to fancy most outdoor enthusiast. The activities offered in the outdoor program range from backpacking to re-laxing in the hot springs and at an unbelievably affordable price.

“Student’s need to be aware of this program and how good a deal it is,” said Nick London, a senior and backpack trip leader for the program.

“This program is a venue on campus where gear and guide is offered at 30 percent of actual cost out of BSU through a private company,” said London.

The Outdoor Program has been offering out-door services since 1973 as a club and has always been student-driven and student-led. Over the years various programs and services, such as an equipment rental opera-tion, have been added to enhance the outdoor program.

“We do roughly about 100 programs a year.

Some old standards are intro to climbing, intro to caving and rafting because this is a rafting area,” said Greg Hawkins, Assis-tant Director Outdoor Programs.

In 2002 the program moved into the newly constructed Student Recreation Center and started a small bicycle repair service. In 2004

a new climbing gym opened and in 2011 a new stand-alone bicycle shop, the Cycle Learning Center (CLC) opened.

All the growth and en-hancement of the pro-gram is to benefit the university population in an exciting way. The Outdoor Program is unique and is unlike tra-ditional sports in many ways. Men and women of all abilities can come out on trips.

“These are lifetime activities and there is usually a low bar-rier to entrance or par-

ticipation and you can choose your level that you want to participate,” Hawkins said.

There is no competi-tion during these activi-ties and it’s pure recre-ation in a safe learning atmosphere.

Participants can be-gin lifelong recreation involvement and friend-ships through these ad-ventures.

“It’s pretty cool be-cause we will go to the river and there will be a professor, a doctor, a couple students, a stay at home mom and they are all in the same activity socializing together and would never cross paths normally,” said Hawkins.

Students especially like the community aspect.

“It’s a great place to find like-minded people and a great place to meet people interested in the same thing as you,” said Megan Hull, a junior and a student leader in the

program.Students can become

trip leaders with hands on training and get paid.

“They [students] go through interview pro-cess, an eight day wilder-ness orientation assess-ment course, they take a wilderness first aid class and then they have to shadow trip leaders for a semester, they then do eight day training in say raft guide if that is what they are interested in. Once these steps are complete, they can be eligible to be an assistant trip leader and then trip leader,” said Hawkins.

Leadership isn’t taken lightly and the leaders guide groups with safety and fun in mind.

“Trips are lead by com-petent leaders capable of taking care of individu-als,” said London.

The last adventures of the semester are in-troduction to kayak-ing and finals relief hot springs or rafting down class II and III whitewa-ter rapids on the Main Payette River.

The trip leaders urge interested persons to come to the climbing gym or the outdoor pro-gram and talk to them.

Whitewater rafting is just one of the outdoor activities the Outdoor Program takes on during the school year. Photo courtesy outdoor Program

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““—Greg Hawkins

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Michael Steen Staff Writer

The Boise State men’s golf team headed down to Las Vegas for the Mountain West conference champion-ships, hosted by UNLV at the par-71, 7,144-yard Catalina Course OMNI Tuscon Na-tional in Tuscon, Ariz.

The three round tourna-ment featured 18 holes each day for the nine schools in the Mountain West.

The Broncos spring tour-nament season has been one of their best semesters in recent history that included a T-4 at the Sacramento State Collegiate, and a 5th

place finish at the Cougar

Classic hosted by BYU last weekend.

Traveling for the Broncos to the Mountain West Cham-pionships were seniors T.K. Kim, Clayton Kosanovich, redshirt senior Charlie Maru-siak, redshirt junior Jordan Skyles, and true freshman Lo-gan France.

Leading the way in the first round for the Broncos was Kim, as he fired an even-par 71, putting him in a tie for fourth place and five shots back of the leader, New Mex-ico’s Victor Perez. Kim leads the team in scoring average and has placed in the top 25 in 10 tournaments for the Broncos this season.

The Broncos sat in sev-

enth place after day one, and trailed by 18 shots to the fifth ranked team in the nation, the New Mexico Lobos.

Senior Charlie Marusiak fired an opening round 4-over par 75 to put himself in a tie for 21st.

Trailing Marusiak by a single stroke, was fellow se-nior Clayton K o s a n o v i c h who opened up his confer-ence tourna-ment with a 5-over par 76, putting him-self just one shot back of the top 25.

Rounding out the scoring for the Broncos on day one was the team’s second leading scorer, redshirt junior Jordan Skyles, who fired a 7-over par 78.

Skyles was followed by freshman Logan

France with an 8-over par 79. Following

Friday’s open-ing rounds, the Broncos hoped to make a charge on

Saturday to put them into posi-tion for Sunday.

The Broncos improved on

their first round team score of 16-over par 300, with a 14-over par 298. It would

n o t

prove to be enough to make a substantial move however, as the Broncos posted the second highest score of the day, as they dropped into solo eighth place, 35 shots behind leaders New Mexico and San Diego State at 5-under par.

Led once again by Senior T.K. Kim, Kim was the only Bronco to score under par for the day, as he fired a 2-under par 69 as he moved into a three way tie for fourth place, one shot behind New Mexi-co’s Gavin Green, San Diego State’s Riccardo Michelini, and UNLV’s Kevin Penner.

Redshirt junior Jordan Skyles improved from his day one score, as he bounced back with a 3-over par 75, bringing his two day total to 10-over par.

Senior Charlie Marusiak struggled on day two, as he shot a 6-over par 77.

Fellow senior Clayton Kosanovich and freshman Logan France trailed closely behind, both firing a 7-over par 78.

With one day remaining, the Broncos’ best chance to be represented at Nationals is by individual, T.K. Kim.

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This past fall, Bronco ath-letics was a series of ups and downs.

Headed into August/Sep-tember, there were some ma-jor questions about the Boise State football team. Will this young of a team be success-ful? How will they win without Kellen Moore? Will Joe South-wick be able to compete?

Ultimately, the football team had a very successful year, go-

ing 11-2 in what many called a “rebuilding year.” The team responded in all the right ways for a very young team.

The surprise of the team was Joe Southwick and his sec-ond half of the season perfor-mance; becoming one of the most efficient quarterbacks in all of football.

While football was roll-ing, the Boise State women’s volleyball had a very “roller coaster-like” season. The Bron-cos were very streaky but still found ways to win matches.

Overall, the Broncos fin-ished 17-15; ending up fifthw in the Mountain West. The season was highlighted by some marque wins and some tough, heart-breaking losses. The two-standout players for the Broncos were Alyssa Gam-mel and Liz Harden.

Gammel will return next year to help try to make the Broncos’ 2013 campaign a bet-ter one.

Liz Harden, unfortunately, graduated and will be moving. Harden was one of the great-

est volleyball players to play for Boise State.

The Boise State women’s basketball team had a rough season. Lead by Lauren Len-hardt, the Broncos were a relatively young team and were hurt by injuries of starting play-ers throughout the majority of the season.

The Broncos finished the season at 11-19 while strug-gling greatly in the Mountain West. Lenhardt was a force to be reckoned with through-out the season, finishing

5th overall in scoring in the Mountain West.

Like Harden, Lenhardt fin-ished her career as one of the greatest Bronco to ever play in her respected sport.

The greatest surprise of the year was the Boise State men’s basketball team.

Led by Derrick Marks and Anthony Drmic, the Broncos became one of the most excit-ing teams to watch in basket-ball with their high-octane, efficient offense. The 3-point scoring was huge for the Bron-

cos; becoming one of the best teams in the country for shoot-ing long range.

The men’s basketball team rose above all expectations and reached the NCAA National Tournament for the first time in Boise State history.

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Angie ChristiaensStaff Writer

The Boise State softball team (22-24-1, 6-7 MW) felt the power behind their bats as they tromped UNLV on the road this past weekend, win-ning both games,15-6 and 9-7.

The Broncos started their se-ries against the Rebels on Fri-day when Boise State’s offense caught fire right away and

continued to steamroll over UNLV for a victory. Through aggressive base running and a home run to left field from Mackenzie Whyte, the Bron-cos took a 5-0 lead in the top of the first inning.

Coming into the bottom, UNLV batted well to shorten the Boise State lead by run-ning in four for four to make the score 5-4. In the second inning, the Rebels made a nice

double play to keep the Bron-cos scoreless and added two runs off three hits to take the lead at 6-5.

However, the Broncos wouldn’t let UNLV keep that lead for long as they hit three runs in the next inning, two runs in the fourth with a nice homer from Sarah Barnes to left field.

Winning pitcher Lela Work threw an excellent game to

keep the Rebels scoreless for the remainder innings. This gave the Broncos the oppor-tunity to prove their bat-heavy attitude that day.

The Broncos certainly did with their offensive power adding three more runs in the fifth inning and two more to end the seventh inning. Pow-erful batter, Devon Bridges, contributed two major home runs near the end of the game,

tacking onto her record as leader of Boise State’s all-time home runs.

Boise State trounced the Rebels with a final score of 15-6.

Continuing into the series, the Broncos came out with the same offensive firepower and ran in five runs off six hits at the top of the first. UNLV decided to make it a game and came back to hit three runs off two

hits to make it 5-3.However, the Boise State of-

fense came to work in the top of the sixth inning with four runs off three hits with the help of a home run to left field from Makenna Weir taking a major lead at 9-6.

The Rebels made one last stand at a comeback, with a run in the bottom seventh, but the Broncos clinched the vic-tory at 9-7.

Broncos eliminate the Rebel YellThe Broncos showcased a solid outing in Las Vegas this past weekend, as they prepare to host the Nevada Wolfpack this weekend in another MW series.

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