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Editor’s note
eDItor’s note: ArbIter InternshIPs on bronco JobsJustin KirkhamEditor-in-Chief
According to Student Me-dia leadership from years past, The Arbiter used to be one of the leading providers of on-campus internships at the uni-versity. As of late, we haven’t offered many internships to the student body. But, this coming semester, we are add-ing more members to the stu-dent media family with lead reporters and columnists.
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Racial justice stand-in brings discussion to Boise StatePatrick AdcockNews Editor
Students braved frigid tem-peratures as the Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy Com-mittee at Boise State held a stand-in for racial justice in the quad on Wednesday, Decem-ber. 2.
Students wore signs stating “I am human,” in reference to the Memphis Sanitation strike of 1968 when protestors wore signs which read, “I am a man.”
According to Milaun Dan-clar, ASBSU ethics officer and chair of the Martin Luther King Jr. Living Legacy Com-mittee, the stand-in was an ef-fort meant to show support for those affected by the bombings in Paris and Lebanon, as well as the racially charged events at the University of Missouri and Yale University.
“We kept it as standing for racial justice because we fig-ured that was the commonal-ity between all of these events,” Danclar said.
According to Brian Gar-
retson, ASBSU president, the stand-in, as well as other events on campus such as a town hall meeting about living in a post-Ferguson world and the Tun-nel of Oppression have started the discussion about race at Boise State.
“The whole point of these movements is to have the con-versation. It’s important that we’re in this college environ-ment,” Garretson said. “We’re trying to encourage different views and ideas to all come together, and create a safe envi-ronment where students have the opportunity to voice their thoughts is really important. The conversation is the most important part.”
A study published in the American Educational Re-search Journal by Robert E. Slavin and Nancy A. Madden echos the importance of stu-dent involvment in these dis-cussions.
“Put simply, the practices that most consistently affect in-terracial attitudes and behavior are those that directly involve
students, as opposed to teach-ers, and more specifically struc-ture black-white interaction,” the study states.
Garretson said the timing of these events has contributed to their success in engaging stu-dents.Climate at Boise state
“We’re not in the same cli-mate as Mizzou (University of Missouri), Yale, UC Santa Barbara or anything like that,” Danclar said. “We don’t have the same climate. It’s not bla-tant racism that takes place on our campus—at least not that I can speak of.”
Danclar said the issues fac-ing Boise State involve a lack of knowledge and reliance on ste-reotypes. For Danclar, people assumed she was an athelete.
Danclar experienced these stereotypes her freshman year at Boise State from both stu-dents and faculty members.
One of Danclar’s professors accused her of plagiarism her freshman year and assumed she was an athlete.
“It was really shocking. I
didn’t know how to respond,” Danclar said. “I had to stay after class, and we were going over the parts (of the essay) the professor had questions on. Around three o’clock she interrupted me and said ‘I don’t want to make you late for prac-tice.’”
Danclar identified the inci-dent as a micro-aggression—constant reminders of differ-ences in a non-positive light.
“A lot of people don’t under-stand the effects of micro-ag-gressions,” Danclar said. “Their intent isn’t to harm usually. You can intend not to harm, but that doesn’t mean you won’t.”
Danclar described these micro-aggressions as paper cuts. One or two are not a big deal, but hundreds of them can cause a lot of pain.
N’nadii Alexander, president of the Afro-Black Student Alli-ance, said she has also experi-enced these micro-aggressions as a student of color at Boise State.
Alexander had a similar ex-perience at Boise State and
agreed people often assume she is here on an athletic schol-arship, or because of affirmative action rather than the academic scholarship she received.
“I didn’t even know what af-firmative action was until I got here,” Alexander said. “It’s irri-tating people feel like affirma-tive action is the only way, or the main way, (black students) get into college.”Response
Garretson and ASBSU Vice President, Nick Propp, both agree the discussion about race at Boise State has been met with a positive response from students.
“It’s just different at Boise State. We’re fortunate enough that we’re having a different conversation,” Garretson said. “But it’s good to know that we can support our peers across the country.”
Propp emphasized how these events are important in bringing awareness to students and allow them to make their way into the conversation and
show their support.During the Racial Justice
Stand-in, however, a comment was made on the event’s Face-book page.
“Students who fear for their lives at Yale and Missouri? Are you kidding me? Do you people not keep up with cur-rent issues? Those “issues” are so wrought with fraudulent behavior from the whiny ass students its pathetic, black privileged rich students crying about a non existent problem, based on a poo swastika and an unproven alleged racial slur from a passing pickup truck.”
The comment was not made by a Boise State student how-ever.
Still, organizations like MLK Living Legacy Committee, Multicultural Student Services, ASBSU, and the Afro-Black Student Alliance continue to partner together and hold events to advocate for equal-ity and continue the conversa-tion about race on Boise State’s campus.
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The Broadway Avenue Bridge over the Boise River will be closed from January to sometime during fall for extensive construction.
The project, conducted by the Idaho Transportation Department will replace the bridge and improve Broad-way Avenue from Univer-sity Drive to Front Street in terms of wider sidewalks and extra lanes.
According to ITD project manager Mark Campbell, major projects like this come with large-scale gridlock.
“It’s going to be a big mess for traffic,” Campbell said.
He said the overall devel-opment shouldn’t be too disorderly due to signal tim-ing, lane reassignments and backup route plans.
In order to move the proj-ect ahead without many complications, as well as hav-ing a non-standard transpor-tation design for the bridge, the City of Boise hired Byron Folwell in 2013 as a design consultant and advocate for the previously mentioned objectives.
Folwell, an architect from Studio Maelstrom, agreed with the ITD’s arrangement that the bridge should be fully closed for nine months instead of a partial closure of 18 months.
“It’s going to be a painful, messy situation no matter what,” Folwell said.
According to Folwell, the original mockup of the com-pleted bridge had a design similar to other ITD designs such as derivative art.
Folwell agreed with the fact that “the city didn’t want to have a standard Idaho
transportation highway bridge on Broadway and then have art applied to it.”
He advocated placing sec-tions of the public art bud-get in order to influence the overall design.
Traffic will be detoured moving southbound from Front Street and north-bound from Beacon Street into the Parkcenter Boule-vard Bridge.
“We’re going to have some people observing what hap-pens when this detour gets implemented,” Campbell said.
Campbell said this project has been in the works since late 2011.
He added the ITD pro-posed the design plans to the public in February of 2013, after surveying issues on the bridge. Inspections conduct-ed by the ITD formulated concerns arising from the overpass.
ITD posters at the Boise State open house explain the Broadway Bridge is more than 50 years old, does not meet today’s safe road stan-dards and can no longer ac-commodate the current high volume of vehicles, pedestri-ans and bicyclists.
“It’s high time it’s replaced. The travel lanes neck down from both directions so it’s a chokepoint,” said associ-ate director of Architectural and Engineering Services at Boise State, Dave Cooper. “Especially on game day, the sidewalk on there is so nar-row on both sides of bridge. It’s really a hazard. There’s barely enough room for two people walking.”
Six open houses and six public workshops have been shown over a course of three years in order to constitute
interest in the project as well as addressing issues as-sociated with the project. Businesses, neighborhood associations, community members and school officials gave their impressions of the different concepts.
Posters at the Boise State open house on Dec. 3, showed that the finished bridge will be widened to three lanes in each direction and have three eighteen-foot wide platforms on each side, bicycle lanes and ten-foot-wide sidewalks on the deck. The structure will also have a curved railing with integrat-ed night lighting.
For a more appropriate connection with University Dr. and Front St., there will be wider sidewalks on ei-ther side of Broadway Ave., new pavement between the two roads, bicycle lanes with painted buffer zones will be added on both sides of the roadway and a free-running right-turn will be added on Front St. from southbound Broadway Ave.
Pedestrians and bicyclists on the Greenbelt will have a better approach moving to and from the bridge. Ramps will be added at all four cor-ners of the bridge, as well as stairs on all but the south-west corner.
Boise State had concerns over pedestrian and bike safety around Christ Chapel located near the bridge.
Cooper said, “We con-vinced them (ITD) that rather than trying to fit both ramp and stairs in, we’re re-routing the ramp and doing away with the stairs.”
“It’ll probably be a better overall solution,” Cooper added.
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Patrick AdcockNews Editor
Freshman engineering major Wade Wilson, whose name has been changed for his protec-tion, is no different from most students at Boise State—ex-cept for his source of income.
Wilson doesn’t have a tradi-tional job; instead, he supple-ments his income by selling his prescription for Adderall to other students.
Wilson was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder at the age of 15 and saw an opportu-nity to make some extra cash when he arrived at Boise State.the BlaCk maRket
“I get 60 pills a month and I only take about five or eight,” Wilson said.
This leaves 52 to 55 pills for Wilson to sell. Wilson sells each pill for about $5 and doubles the price during midterms and finals.
“I only sell to people I know, so I don’t see too much of a risk,” Wilson said. “I make sure people aren’t drinking on it and that they’re using it to study. I don’t sell to people I don’t know unless they’ve taken it before.”
By selling to a small market of students he knows, Wilson may be lowering the risks in-volved with selling prescription medication, but not eliminat-ing them.
Under Idaho law, individuals in possession of a controlled substance like Adderall can face hefty fines as well as time in jail for selling.
Wilson described a close call he had while selling to a friend in the library. After the ex-change, a police officer turned the corner, missing Wilson by a matter of seconds.
For Wilson and his friends, the risk involved is worth the reward.issues of oveR pResCRiBing
According to Vincent Serio, director of medical services at Boise State, this situation is a product of doctors overpre-scribing.
“We’re definitely overpre-scribing (drugs like Adderall). Part of that is due to societal pressures for people to succeed. There are a lot of things that demand attention nowadays and it’s hard for people to fully cope with that. So, medication is seen as the answer.”
Serio explained these medi-cations were originally given to children in school who had difficulty concentrating, but now they are being used to treat similar issues within adults.
Serio said, in any given popu-lation of individuals, about two percent are predicted to have attention-deficit disorders. However, these numbers do not match with the number of individuals who are diagnosed with these disorders.
This is an issue Boise State Health Services has tried to combat with specific training associated with disorders like ADD and ADHD.
According to Serio, the pro-cess to receive these drugs at Health Services is more in-tensive than at other medical providers. The process involves several tests and can take hours to complete.
Serio believes their screening practices, as well as staff train-ing, has decreased the number of students unnecessarily being prescribed Adderall through Health Services.
However, most medical providers do not utilize extra screening, making it easier for
individuals without these dis-orders to be prescribed these medications.effeCts
“When you look at studies of stimulant medications in terms of school performance (these medications) don’t im-prove performance,” Serio said. “It doesn’t make you smarter, it doesn’t increase your IQ, it doesn’t increase your test scores—it just makes it a little smoother for people to com-plete tasks.”
Serio said these drugs acti-vate norepinephrine and dopa-mine within in the brain. The chemical signals work together to make the user more alert and give the sensation of pleasure or reward.
Wilson described the feeling as “magical.”
“You take it and you want to do your homework. That’s why so many people like it, because they can do double the work in the same time,” Wilson said. “Coffee just keeps you awake, it doesn’t give you the motivation that Adderall does.”
However, these drugs come with the possibility of adverse side effects.
“The three main concerns that we would have with stimu-lant medications are depen-dence and abuse, triggering a fatal arrhythmia—which is an abnormal heart rhythm—and elevation in blood pressure,” Serio said. “Other side effects include weight loss because of appetite suppression and some people become anxious on the medication.”
Wilson has witnessed some of these side effects—such as abuse and addiction—with those he sells to.
“I have a couple of friends
who take it more than I do,” Wilson said. “Personally, I don’t take it everyday because I don’t like how my personality is (on it) or how it makes me feel.”
Wilson said other friends of his have developed poor eating habits and experienced dramat-ic weight loss as a result of tak-ing Adderall, or are unable to focus while on the medication.DisCussion on ‘smaRt DRugs’
The illicit use of prescription stimulants like Adderall among college students is no secret. Some individuals within the academic community are advo-cating for their use at colleges around the country.
Anjan Chatterjee, neuro-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, and Nita Farah-any, professor of philosophy at Duke University, both argued in favor of a motion to allow college students to use ‘smart drugs’ like Adderall in an “Intel-ligence Squared” debate.
Chatterjee and Farahany argued students should be al-lowed to choose, take risks and make informed decisions about their health.
The opposition—Eric Ra-cine, director of neuroethics research at the Institut de re-cherches cliniques de Montré-al, affiliated with the University of Montreal, and Nicole Vin-cent, professor of philosophy at Georgia State University—built their argument around an arms race of medication in education and the negative side effects of these drugs.
The result of the debate was overwhelmingly in favor of col-lege students being allowed to use ‘smart drugs.’ But just how much influence that argument has in the real world remains to be seen.
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Grassroots group aims to lower rising college tuitionStudents sell and use drugs to get ahead in schoolShelly BohorquezAsst. News Editor
Another semester gone, another $3,500 spent on in-state tuition by Idaho resident students. In the last 10 years, the price for one semester at Boise State has gone up over one thou-sand dollars and steadily increases each year.
Stop Tuition Hikes is a grassroots operation formed earlier this year, working toward getting a bill on the Idaho ballot for November 2016 that would prevent increases in tuition through a $1.50 in-crease in cigarette tax.
“We send the fewest kids to college,” said Bill Mo-ran, founder of Stop Tu-ition Hikes. “Five out of 10 kids do not go to college, largely due to cost. Anoth-er four out of 10 drop out some way through because they can’t afford it.”
According to the Stop Tuition Hikes website, raising the cigarette tax could increase the num-ber of students going to college and decrease the amount of debt they are leaving school with.
“Idaho won’t have that terrible distinction where only one out of 10 high school kids gets a college degree,” Moran said.
The tax could also sig-nificantly lower the num-ber of smokers within the state.
“Statistically, the group that stops smoking the most when you raise ciga-rette taxes is kids,” Moran said.
According to Moran, this plan would reduce
the number of teenagers who smoke cigarettes by about 12,000. Additional-ly, 9,500 adults would stop smoking.
Cole Harper started vol-unteering for Stop Tuition Hikes as part of his Univer-sity Foundations 200 class, and has been gathering signatures on campus and promoting the petition through word-of-mouth.
“It started out as some-thing for the class, but it is something I have a little bit of a passion toward,” Harper said.
According to Harper, the stigma surrounding taxes is one of their main ob-stacles.
“It is Idaho and every time you talk about raising taxes, people start getting worried. But I think he has a great opportunity to help out,” Harper said. “Obvi-ously, the main goal would be for the legislation to pass, but at the very least, getting on the ballot next fall can show that democ-racy can work.”
Making the ballot is a main goal, as it would raise awareness about the rise in tuition. Moran believes this is very possible.
“After we get the 47,623 signatures, it goes on the ballot,” Moran said. “Peo-ple get to vote on it on Nov. 8, 2016, if we get the signatures. At that point it sort of becomes a free-for-all.”
Moran said he foresees opposition from retailers, particularly Stinker Sta-tions, which he says have a strong presence within the state.
“One concern they’ll
raise that I don’t think has much validity is that if we raise our cigarette tax, ev-erybody is going to go the reservations to buy ciga-rettes instead,” Moran said.
According to Moran, res-ervations would not gain as much revenue if they kept their cigarette tax low, as if they rose the tax pro-portionally. So economi-cally, it makes sense for them to.
The prospective tax would be a significant raise, but public polls sug-gest this specific amount is more appealing to people than a lower tax raise. The tax is also less high than it seems when put into con-text of our neighboring states.
“It seems high because we haven’t raised it in for-ever. The normal cost of cigarettes in the region is about $6.50 a pack. This would just take it to the regional norm,” Moran said. “Cutting your grass doesn’t seem like a big deal—when you haven’t cut your grass for 50 years, it seems like a much bigger deal.”
Raising awareness about the existence of their movement is the primary challenge due to the lack of funding through a grass-roots movement.
“The primary difficulty is just time,” Moran said. “I kind of feel like this is something that has to hap-pen now, because if you have two more years of students who are accumu-lating massive amounts of debt, I don’t really think that’s an acceptable out-come.”
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Opinion
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Like that page, attend that event: Social media activism is more than slacktivismPatricia BowenManaging Editor
Walking through the cold hallways of the Stu-dent Union Building one Saturday morning, several students scroll through their Facebook feeds while Moxie Java’s espresso ma-chine screams. The major-ity of the posts in the sea of mundane updates or cries for political change are claimed by profile pictures in their original colors—the French flag overlapped profile picture obsession of the social media platform has died off.
“I don’t think anyone who looked at my page would have thought any differently about me be-cause I changed my Face-book profile picture,” said Andrew Gase, second year geoscience graduate stu-dent.
According to Gase, the effect of posting or advo-cating over social media seems “negligible.”
“I don’t feel like me do-ing anything through so-cial media has an effect because I don’t feel like it affects me,” said Alex Mill-er, third year geoscience graduate student.
Social media activism trends—French flag pro-file pictures and posting political statuses—can be easy to throw under the bus because they don’t seem have the lasting im-pact past activism did. Regardless, social media activism is a gateway into
more stringent activism as long as students recog-nize to have lasting effect, it must be paired with leg-work.
“To try to compare peo-ple changing their profile picture to the March on Washington in 1963 is just apples and oranges,” said Mary Rohlfing, commu-nication professor. “We don’t know how all of this is going to work yet. People showing that they care—that’s where we start.”
2012 University of Idaho graduate, Sean Foster, used Facebook to organize The Rally for Solidarity with Refugees in Idaho on Nov. 21.
“Social media makes it a lot easier for more people to get involved,” Foster said. “Before social me-dia, you couldn’t build any movement or momentum around people who aren’t going to show up.”
Foster explained social media activism has become trendy—bringing new people into the political environment who wouldn’t otherwise have interest.
“If people want to go out on a Saturday and be seen at a place—I’d rather have them there to be trendy than not be there,” Foster said. “If people want to go to a Black Lives Matter event just because it’s on people’s tongue, well, at least they are going.”
Social media users who take part in activism on their prefered platform have recieved several de-
rogatory nicknames like “slacktivists.” Foster stated this criticism isn’t deserved because social media has already started to make ac-tivism accessable and will continue to do so.
“Social media gets a lot of flack for not getting treated with the serious-ness of other things, but when you have a billion people using a service, the potential it has for the fu-ture is democratizing a na-tion,” Foster said.
According to IVN, 18 percent of social media us-ers took social or political action because of some-thing they ingested on a social media platform. 60 percent of social media us-ers expressed their beliefs through online channels—emailing government offi-cials or signing online pe-titions—because of what they read on social media platforms.
Last year, more than 25 million people changed their profile pictures to have the rainbow flag to support gay marriage. Dane Snow, president of the Pride Alliance, stated these flag icons had a huge impact on showing the solidarity of the nation for LGBT individuals.
“Being able to actually see support can do won-ders for emotional health when it comes to children and teens who think they’re alone—suicide rates are extremely high for LGBT+ youth,” Snow said. “You will probably meet people
who say people should do more than change their profile picture, but there is no denying the benefit of making your support vis-ible.”
Foster stated political posts regarding other top-ics can cause social media users who are otherwise uncomfortable stating their opinion on a political issue to feel safe doing so.
“When people feel alien-ated and see solidarity ex-pressed, it changes their self-perception, and their
confidence and worth,” Foster said.
Gase stated, although Facebook activism doesn’t have an effect on his politi-cal beliefs, he does under-stand its appeal as a tool to orchestrate events that cre-ate social change.
“I saw my friend was go-ing to an event to protest in Chicago, and I noticed they used Facebook to cre-ate an event to get the pro-test going,” Gase said.
In order to become more involved, students should
pay attention to what ral-lies and petitions corre-spond with the pages they like on Facebook and other social media platforms. But, getting off the couch and taking the next step of involvement is necessary in making social change stick.
“Social media is relevant for activism, but I don’t know if just changing your profile picture counts,” Gase said. “Using it as a way to network and coor-dinate activism does.”
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Student Voices:
Joe Mendosa, Junior, political science and philosophy “It can, but people have to get orga-nized. Without organization, it just turns into a bunch of people who don’t know how to protest trying to. Social media can skew the story. It can be used if its used the right way.”
Alexis Thiry, Junior, health science “Yes, because it spread way faster and it reaches all over. Anyone can see it.”
Laura Briseno, Freshman, radiology major “I think so. Since they bring attention to it, more people are aware of it. Then, more people would join a cause, and then it would escalate.”
Do you think social media activism can create change?
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nursing faculty unites community to advocate for peruvian sheepherdersAlivia WachsmuthStaff Writer
In the hills between Emmett and New Meadows, Idaho, eight Peruvian sheepherd-ers tend to a flock of 2,000 sheep, thousands of miles from their home.
Betzi Quiroz, clinical assistant professor in the College of Health Sciences School of Nursing at Boise State, has been working with Peruvian sheepherders in Idaho for more than 20 years.
Quiroz’s father worked as a sheepherder in Idaho for years before bringing his family to live in the U.S. permanently. Every weekend after their move, Quiroz and her family would travel to bring homemade food to the herders and to keep them company.
After being hired by the School of Nursing in 2012, Quiroz designed a community and population health nursing lab where students learn about how culture, occupation and life-style can impact an individual’s health needs. Now, Quiroz has passed on her passion for the care of these men to students at Boise State and other members of the community.
“I felt that there was something I could
share with them (sheepherders),” Quiroz said.The men who herd sheep for Soulen Live-
stock Company of Emmett come to Idaho on temporary H2A work visas and three year contracts to herd sheep over a 500 mile radius between Emmett and New Meadows. Two weeks out of the year, the men meet at a ranch in Litha, just outside of Emmett to recharge before going out into the fields again.
The sheepherders work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to protect the sheep and lambs from coyotes, bears and other preda-tors. The herders utilize tents in the summer and metal wagons in the winter, sleeping with the sheep when necessary.
Many of the men send the majority of their $750 monthly paycheck to their families in Peru. The money they make herding sheep for three years is much better than what they can make at a similar job in their hometowns, and their paychecks often support their children’s schooling. Some men pause their own educa-tion for three years, save their paychecks and return home to finish their college degrees.
“The amount of money is almost triple the amount of money they would get in Peru,” Quiroz said. “It certainly makes a difference.
They know they make a calculated risk and sacrifice.”
Loneliness is the most challenging aspect of the job. According to the herders, their dogs are their companions and most valued friends. When the herders’ camp can be easily reached, a foreman brings food and supplies for the sheep, dogs and men.
The nursing students in Quiroz’s lab teach the herders techniques and skills to maintain their health during their time in Idaho. This semester, the students educated the men on nutrition and hand-washing, and introduced them to tennis ball massages and other exer-cises.
Quiroz also brings homemade food, since the men eat many canned and processed food items during their time in Idaho, which in-creases their risk of developing diabetes. Not only does the meal provide an example of the food the men should be preparing for them-selves, it allows for relationships to develop outside of the project.
“I utilize food as a medium to allow for building of trust amongst the students who are seeing and meeting these individuals for the first time, and also as a way for the herd-
ers to talk about something so dear to their heart,” Quiroz said. “It’s that homecooked meal that reminds you of your mom or grand-ma, all of those things that give you that sense of comfort of being home even when you are away from home.”
Students involved in the community and population health lab have not only found the lab to be educational and useful, but also ful-filling.
Christy Broam, registered nurse at Allied Care Givers, participated in the lab in the fall of 2014. After she completed the lab, Broam continued to visit the herders on her own.
“I think the nursing students that have been allowed to be in this clinical are truly the blessed few,” said Broam. “I don’t know about the following semesters—but my semester—you could clearly see that we made a differ-ence and changed lives. I think it’s important. It broadens your perspective for sure. They teach me as much as I hopefully taught them.”
Senior nursing majors Elaina Hilton and Jil-lian Vaughan’s first interaction with the herd-ers took place near McCall, where they as-sessed the herders’ culture, health and needs. Afterwards, they developed exercises and
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nursing faculty unites community to advocate for peruvian sheepherdersers to talk about something so dear to their heart,” Quiroz said. “It’s that homecooked meal that reminds you of your mom or grand-ma, all of those things that give you that sense of comfort of being home even when you are away from home.”
Students involved in the community and population health lab have not only found the lab to be educational and useful, but also ful-filling.
Christy Broam, registered nurse at Allied Care Givers, participated in the lab in the fall of 2014. After she completed the lab, Broam continued to visit the herders on her own.
“I think the nursing students that have been allowed to be in this clinical are truly the blessed few,” said Broam. “I don’t know about the following semesters—but my semester—you could clearly see that we made a differ-ence and changed lives. I think it’s important. It broadens your perspective for sure. They teach me as much as I hopefully taught them.”
Senior nursing majors Elaina Hilton and Jil-lian Vaughan’s first interaction with the herd-ers took place near McCall, where they as-sessed the herders’ culture, health and needs. Afterwards, they developed exercises and
short lectures for herders and presented them in Spanish at the ranch.
“I did know a little bit about the culture before,” Vaughan said. “They’re very loving, family oriented cultures, so to think about them being separated from their homes and isolated out here, it seems so important to just come and see them.”
The nursing students recognize the impor-tance of their lab on a small and large scale.
“There are a lot of needs in this community right here, but if you look at the bigger pic-ture, and just how foreign workers are treated and how few regulations there are to protect them,” said Vaughan. “If you think about our past programs like the Bracero Program, we just don’t have a good history with treating our foreign workers very well and protecting them in any way.”
Quiroz’s goal of cultural immersion and increased awareness has taken hold in her nursing students who now recognize the lack of human rights these workers experience in Idaho.
“This is a perfect example with their living conditions, their wages, their food and their medical access,” Hilton said. “I had no idea
these living conditions existed in my own backyard.”
Nursing students have created an organi-zation in response to their experiences with the herders called Boise’s Association for the Advancement of Herders (BAAH), with Quiroz’s advising. All students interested in community service and cultural immersion are encouraged to join.
Quiroz has incorporated other parts of the university and community into her project. The Construction Management Club and Pre-Veterinary Club on campus have both of-fered their advice and services to the herders and their dogs. The Boise State Rec Center loaned mannequins and masks for CPR les-sons for the herders who have to rely on each other in emergency situations.
Nampa and Kuna Seventh Day Adventist Churches and Hands of Hope Northwest have donated first aid supplies to the herders who have no medical access during the time they are not at the ranch. Lowe’s Boise location donated construction supplies and paint to renovate the paper-thin wagons.
Clothing donations have been made by Fit-Mania. Analytical Laboratories Inc provided
testing for E. coli and other bacteria in the herders’ water sources. Dental care supplies have been donated by Alan Walker of All Sea-son Dental as well as Henry Schein, a distribu-tor of medical, dental and veterinary supplies.
Other organizations have donated items for a silent auction where proceeds were used to meet the herders’ health related needs, while other agencies have contributed by offering free animal checkups, handmade fleece quilts and pillowcases, donated mattresses and sleeping bags and holiday goody bags.
Quiroz’s goal is to inspire her students and the community to learn about other cultures while providing service to vulnerable popula-tions. She chooses to help these people sim-ply because she can.
“(The sheepherders are) an underserved population that is there needing someone to advocate for them, so why not me? I think I have the position, the knowledge, and the ability to give them a voice,” said Quiroz. “Nursing is about caring for others and if I don’t do it, somebody else will, but fortu-nately for them and myself, I get to have the pleasure of being part of this as often as I can. It’s truly gratifying.”
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Find finals relief amongst holiday, winter eventsPatrick AdcockNews Editor
Hundreds of students gathered in the frigid 14 de-gree weather on Dec. 4 to watch the annual campus tree lighting.
The event was full of holi-day cheer and Bronco spirit. Appearances were made by Buster Bronco, the universi-ty choir, Bronco cheerlead-ers and even a reindeer.
Students were able to catch a break from the cold by visiting the complimen-tary hot chocolate stand.
Shortly after 6 p.m. Buster Bronco took the stage and the countdown began to light the massive tree in the center of the quad.
Buster flipped the large switch and the night lit up with orange and blue lights anouncing the arival of the holiday season.
The Finals Relief events page on the Student In-volvement and Leadership Center website is full of oth-er events for stressed and ex-hausted students to attend. The events students can find online are as follows:pajama paRty RaDio takeoveR Friday 12/11, from 7 P.M. - Midnight in the Student Union Game Center: Free with Student ID.late night BReakfast
Sun., Dec. 12/13, from 9 - 11 P.M. in the Student
Union dining area: Need a valid student ID.liBRaRy CRam snaCks, Cof-fee & aCtivities
From Sunday 12/13 – Wednesday 12/16, Starting at 10 P.M. in the Albertsons Library.fRee massages
From Monday 12/14 - Thursday 12/17, from 11 A.M. – 2 P.M. in the Student Union Atrium.puppy love theRapy & seRviCe Dog pRogRam
From Monday 12/14 – Thursday 12/17, from 11 A.M. – 2 P.M. in the Student Union Atrium: Dogs will visit these residence halls from 6-8 P.M.: Monday 12/14 – Towers Residence Hall Lobby; Tuesday 12/15 – Suites Clearwater Com-munity Center; Wednesday 12/16 – Chaffee & Keiser Residence Halls.CeleBRation station
From Monday 12/14 – Thursday 12/17, from 11 A.M. – 2 P.M. in the Student Union Atrium.upCyCle oRnament WoRk-shop
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neuromorphic engineering has promising futureCheyene AustinAsst. Culture Editor
Whether it’s autonomous robotics, computer science or biomedical technology, neu-romorphic engineering has its hand in the future of every field.
Kurtis Cantley, assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, is the principle investigator of the Cantley Re-search Group, which studies neuromorphic architectures and nano-systems.
According to Cantley, neu-romorphic engineering has been around since the late 1980s, but interest has only recently taken off due to prog-
ress from the neuroscience community in understanding how the brain works and new electronic device technologies such as memristors and resis-tive random access memories.
Neuromorphic engineering has application across many fields, including prosthetics and treatment of neurological diseases.
“One of the ultimate things we want to do is to have the ability for our circuits to com-municate bi-directionally with neurons in the brain,” Cantley said. “This would open up many avenues for not only understanding how the brain works, but also being able to diagnose or even treat condi-tions and neurological disor-
ders such as epilepsy, depres-sion, PTSD or even replace lost functionality due to trau-matic brain injury.”
Another area of study neu-romorphic engineering affects is the development of autono-mous robots—machines that can perform tasks without human interference. This in-cludes self-driving vehicles, ro-bots that perform missions in space, machines that conduct inspections in factories and even autonomous weapons and drones used in military combat.
“We are working to build circuits that exhibit the same complex behaviors as neurons and synapses in the brain,” Cantley said. “The goal is to
eventually develop power-efficient intelligent comput-ers that can integrate large amounts of complex environ-mental information—from hundreds or thousands of dif-ferent sensors, for example—and pilot vehicles or robots autonomously.”
Cantley said there is sub-stantial progress in having digital computers do useful things like driving cars and detecting anomalies in data streams. However, he ex-plained it takes a lot of energy to do these things if the system isn’t designed for it, so build-ing custom hardware—which is what the Cantley Research Group is working on now—will eventually reduce energy
consumption of those sys-tems.
Many people, including freshman business major Na-tilee Shaffer, wonder about ar-tificial intelligence and if, one day, humans and robots will coexist.
“Artificial intelligence is both helpful and scary. Com-puters can do things we can’t more efficiently. But it’s also scary because there can be glitches,” Shaffer said. “You can hack into computerized things. If we put all our trust in artificial intelligence, things can go wrong and it might not be a good thing, especially with self-driving cars.”
Cantley’s research isn’t fo-cused on fulfilling this vision,
but he doesn’t rule out this scenario in the world’s future.
“I think in the long term computers will be able to think just like humans and in-teract with us as well,” Cantley said. “Hopefully we can find ways to make this happen in a positive, symbiotic manner, more like TARS from ‘Inter-stellar’ and less like the HAL 9000 from ‘2000: A Space Odyssey.’”
In the short term, however, Cantley believes cell phones and computers will have chips that learn people’s habits, understand commands and commonly-used phrases and help humans to be more pro-ductive overall.
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Learn about the history of albertsons LibraryBrittany LindstromCulture Edtior
The final, frantic dash to the end of the semester is here, and Monday, Dec. 7 marked the start of Albert-sons Library’s two weeks of non-stop finals action. While students prepare to occupy the facility 24 hours a day, few students may take the time to con-sider the history behind their temporary lodging.
2014 marked Albertsons Library’s 50th anniversary in its current—yet ever-changing—facilities. From its simple beginnings as a shared library in St. Mar-garet’s School, Albertsons Library has been aiding Boise’s students for over 120 years.humBle Beginnings
Founded by the Epis-copal Diocese of Idaho, St. Margaret’s School for Women—located in the Northend of Boise—was the first home of Boise Junior College in 1932.
Long before the founding of Boise Junior College, St. Margaret’s School main-tained its own library facil-ity, which was established in 1892.
According to The Arbi-ter article “The 1929 Stock Market Crash Spawns Boi-se’s First College,” written by Shelly Horton in 2011, Boise Junior College was founded in reaction to the 1929 market crash, which left many parents unable to send their children out of the Boise area for higher education.
St. Margaret’s served both student populations and the library shared its collection and 30 seats until the fledgling college moved into the newly con-structed Administration Building in 1940. Accord-ing to Horton’s article, students also frequented Boise’s Carnegie Public Li-brary—now Boise Public Library—for their studies.
With the move, Boise Junior College was able to enjoy its own space as well as its own library. The Ad-
ministration Building was a multipurpose facility, complete with classrooms, the first student union lo-cation and the first itera-tion of the College Library. Located in the east wing of the Administration Build-ing, the library was able to seat 104 students and con-tained 4,500 books.WoRlD WaR ii Book Boom
Boise Junior College saw a tremendous boom in at-tendance following the conclusion of World War II. By 1946, the student population grew by 250 percent and the library re-ceived a bonus to its bud-get to accommodate war veterans acclimating to student life.
In 1955, the Administra-tion Building sacrificed a chemistry lab in order to expand the library’s us-able space. 1960 saw the library’s collection expand to over 20,000 items, and the growing collection and student body desperately needed a larger space.
A bond to construct a
new building for the ex-panding library was origi-nally shot down by Boise’s citizens in 1961. Vigilance payed off, and an $800,000 bond was granted in No-vember of 1962 for the new building.
Completed in the spring of 1964, this new build-ing housed the library on its first floor—complete with separate rooms dedi-cated to typing papers and smoking—while English, speech, and art classes were conducted on the second floor.age of expansion
A scant four years later, the library was in dire need of another expansion. In 1965, Boise Junior Col-lege had been promoted to Boise College—renamed Boise State College in 1969—and began to of-fer four-year baccalaureate degrees.
The dizzying boom in both student population and catalogue item count continued. In 1968, the library received a federal
grant to take over the sec-ond floor of the building. The State of Idaho also granted the much-needed funds for building expan-sion—adding $2 million in funding from the Per-manent Building Fund.
This expansion, com-pleted between 1970 and 1972 elevated the facility to its current four floors and added a picturesque fountain in front of the building. This fountain was removed at a later date. At this time, the library’s collection had grown to over 112,000 items and added the rare books and map collections. Two years later, Boise State College would become Boise State University.a neW name
A final expansion, com-pleted in 1995, not only patched more space onto the front of the library, it also renamed the facility in honor of the expansion’s largest donator. In 1990, Albertsons Inc. announced it was donating $6 million
to the library for building expansion. Once again, the State of Idaho offered funding, bringing the total cost to $10 million.
Terry Madden, associate professor and librarian, re-calls a rogue visitor during construction.
“I came to work one Saturday morning and, while I was on the Refer-ence Desk, I noticed we had a chipmunk popping around.” Madden said. “Several of our student employees took turns try-ing to catch him. It took about and hour and a half, but they finally managed to relocate him to the great outdoors.”
Today, Albertsons Li-brary includes more than 678,000 books as well as periodicals, the Maker Lab, Special Collections, databases and a Starbucks. Over the years and count-less expansions, the library has been there to serve students and help them achieve their academic best.
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Students can make large impact for local businessesBrittany LindstromCulture Editor
Quietly wedged between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is Small Business Saturday. As the title sug-gests, Small Business Sat-urday is largely focused on helping support small and local businesses who are of-ten overlooked during the holiday season for larger, shinier, big-ticket purchases offered by retail companies.
Students may be surprised to learn that Small Business Saturday was not founded in 2010 by a coalition of small business owners, but Amer-
ican Express OPEN—a unit of the credit card company which focuses on aiding smaller companies. Accord-ing to their official website, Small Business Saturday generated approximately $14.3 billion nationwide at independent stores in 2014.
While the official Small Business Saturday has al-ready come and gone, stu-dents can still find plenty of deals in person and on-line. Shopping locally has numerous benefits for local communities. These ben-efits include bolstering the local economy, generating
more jobs and is kinder to the environment by reduc-ing the amount of fossil fu-els used to ship from big box online retailers.
Local businesses and in-dependent artists can, at times, be difficult to find. Operating a smaller busi-ness often translates into having very little funding for advertising and market outreach. Aside from going door-to-door and visiting every shop in Downtown Boise, students can search online to get a feel for where they want to shop.
Think Boise First is a lo-
cal organization whose priority is finding and con-necting local businesses in Boise and the Garden City area together. Students can read up about local business news and events on their Facebook page, or utilize their official website to find local shops by name or what they sell.
Students have probably seen their bright orange logo on the backs of ve-hicles, sides of bicycles and hanging on store windows. This sticker, when placed on a store, serves as a visual guide to which locations in the Boise area are mem-bers.
For example, students searching for new or used books can visit Rediscov-ered Books on 8th Street, while students in need of lo-cally-crafted art and quirky Idaho-themed gifts may want to consider visiting Bricolage in the eco district of downtown.
With finals approach-ing, students may be a little pressed for time and unable to escape their studies long enough to visit a brick and
mortar store. Etsy, the on-line market for handmade goods and vintage items, might be the least likely can-didate for students looking to support local businesses. Yet, thanks to Etsy’s search functionality, this indepen-dent giant allows treasure hunters to search for inde-pendent sellers located in a specific area.
Students can peruse stores such as The Dapper Jackalope which focuses on quirky illustrations and col-
oring books for children of all ages, or Purr Body for lo-cally crafted bath and body products.
Regardless of where a stu-dent chooses to shop, they can feel good knowing their purchases go to directly support Boise’s economy by helping business own-ers and independent cre-ators stay stable. Plus, stu-dents can look amazing and thoughtful when their loved one opens up that perfect gift.
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Key stretch coming up before Broncos enter conference playRylan KobreAsst. Sports & Rec Editor
After a 100-36 demolition of division III opponent Wil-lamette University at Taco Bell Arena on Wednesday night, Leon Rice has his 4-4 Broncos heading into a key stretch before hitting confer-ence play on Jan. 2, against Colorado State.
The Broncos have five games before they take on the Rams, and all five should be close ones. Boise State will play at University of Portland (West Coast Conference, 4-4), and then will be home for their final four against Loyola Marymount Univer-sity (West Coast Conference, 4-3), No. 15 University of Or-egon (Pac-12, 6-0), Bradley University (Missouri Valley Conference, 1-7) and lastly UC Davis (Big West, 4-2).
The five game stretch is crucial for a team looking to gain some momentum after dropping three of their first four losses to AP top 25 op-ponents. A 5-0 record in the next five games would put the Broncos in a prime position heading into conference play, but head coach Leon Rice knows the challenges that lie ahead.
“We’ve got a tough stretch after Portland with Loyola, who’s playing a lot better. They took Oregon State down to the wire the other night and then you’ve got Or-egon, who is probably playing better than anybody in the Pac-12,” Rice said. “This pre-season is shaping up to be one of toughest we’ve ever had.”
Rice knows if the 2015-16 Broncos want to punch their ticket to the NCAA tourna-
ment, they need to pull out the film and statistics that got them to the big dance the pre-vious year. Last season, Boise State ranked 28th in the na-tion in scoring defense, allow-ing just 60 points per game.
The first eight games of this year have told a much different story. The Broncos are 110th in the country in scoring defense, allowing 67.6 points per game. That includes Wednesday night’s game, where Boise State al-lowed 36 points they tied for third fewest points allowed in program history this was a step in the right direction.
Unfortunately, that 110 ranking sounds pretty low compared to the teams rank-ing in field goal percentage defense. The Broncos are 196th in the nation, letting teams shoot 43.1 percent against them.
Part of the problem has been an unknown identity among the roster. Rice has constantly plugged guys in and out of the starting lineup, and players like Chandler Hutchison have seen 34 min-utes in one game and then only 14 in the next.
Early on in last season’s campaign, Rice went with a plethora of guys before trim-ming down the rotation in conference play. On the 2014-
15 squad, Rice had specific role guys off the bench who were willing to come into the game and take a charge. For example, Rob Heyer—who was always willing to put his body on the line—and Jake Ness had one of the biggest plays of the season last year coming off the bench and tak-ing a charge against Colorado State. That play resulted in a technical foul from Colorado State head coach Larry Eu-stachy and gave Boise State a huge conference win, 82-78.
Boise State made these type of plays last season to get themselves a 28th ranked scoring defense, a Mountain West Championship and a NCAA tournament berth.
The year before, in 2013-14, Boise State finished fourth in the Mountain West, 21-13 overall and was left out of the NCAA tournament. The Broncos finished the season ranked 145th in scor-ing defense and allowed 69 points a game.
“We’re probably a C+ mov-ing up,” Rice said about the defense. “I think we are get-ting better. I’ve seen that at practice and it doesn’t always translate right away. Eventual-ly, we’re going to show up and start becoming a pretty good defensive basketball team.”
*After Saturday’s matchup with Portland, the Broncoswill head home for five games that last until January 5th
*A key ingredient to wins since 2011-12 has been assists.When the Broncos have at least 15 assists in a game,they are 37-1 since 2011-12
*The 64-point victory over Willamette on Wed. was the second largest margin of victory in school history.The largest margin of victory came on Jan. 5, 2013over Walla Wall where the Broncos won by 67 points.
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Double headers: Behind the scheduling conflictsJohn JansenStaff Writer
In sports, doublehead-ers are usually a rare treat for fans. They are always offering promotions and the consecutive games sat-isfy the public’s growing sports appetite. While the fans certainly love to see them, doubleheaders can be a scheduling nightmare. Normally, they are used to make up for postponed games or scheduling con-flicts, but they are rarely planned due to the fact that it is simply very hard to accommodate every-body comfortably.
This was the case for the Broncos Nov. 13, when scheduling conflicts with a concert forced them to play their game against Cal State Fullerton at the old Bronco Gym.
“It was brutal,” said Boise State Associate Ath-letic Director Max Corbet. “But, that’s conference policy. It’s really by de-sign and they prefer not to play double headers, but sometimes, at least once or twice a year, it happens and you make the best of it.”
This year, the Broncos’ basketball program sched-ule lists two same-venue doubleheaders at Taco Bell arena on Nov. 6 and Nov. 16. This is earlier than the past basketball schedules at Taco Bell Arena. Nor-mally, doubleheaders are scheduled later in the sea-son when the arena knows all the dates of the upcom-ing games and can sched-ule around it.
“Normally the plan is can you schedule those later in the season,” said Corbett. “The conference is re-ally rigid. During the pre-season, everybody’s trying to make their schedule and also that’s when the Taco Bell Arena is most busy. They’re either going to be able to get teams to play on a certain day and they can only come at this time; and we can’t just get anything else scheduled. The build-ing knows come January, February and March, the dates of the games and they’re able to schedule around them easier. It’s the early part of the sea-son when they don’t know because they’re trying to scramble and get sched-uled games.”
Same—venue double headers are great oppor-tunities for promotions and building your brand. Boise State has had issues with policy conflicts that include reserve seating at mens’ games but not wo-mens’, meaning fans must move to a new seat in be-tween games and one pro-gam is broadcasted while the other is left out in the cold.
“Logistically, for us, we don’t want to do it because even if it’s tight, you come in and see the women’s game, and then you have to move for the next one and that’s a pain,” Corbet said.
When creating sched-ules with teams of college athletes, it is not likely you will be able to have the perfect schedule Every team must make the best of the schedule they are
able to get. Doubleheaders are scheduled as a result of conflicting availabil-ity. While Boise State has done a great job handling their schedules, the pro-cess never gets less stress-ful.
“It seems like we’re our own worst enemies some-times,” said Corbett. “You have schedules, and for example, you don’t want to play Wednesdays but we have to sometimes. And Thursdays are tied with road trips, so athletes start missing too much class, there can be are a lot of variables.”
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don’t hate your weight during the new yearTiffany PooleStaff Writer
‘Tis the season—every-one is hungry. And during the holidays, just like deco-rations, food presentations are everywhere. For some, the food may be the best part of holidays— all of the cookies, pies pastries, holi-day drinks—the delicious list can go on and on for the sugary wonderland.
It is important for stu-dents to have everything they want to eat during the holidays, making it com-mon for students to diet be-
fore going home for the cel-ebration. That is because they know they will gain weight while eating all that junk, so they are trying to even out their bodies’ ap-pearance for the aftermath.
Director of sports nutri-tion, Hilary Horton-Brown, believes it is still possible to eat grandma’s favorite pie, and still maintain a healthy weight and mentality.
“Something I always tell my athletes is to always grab a healthy alternative for the things you are will-ing to have an alternative for, like a healthy kind of
cookie,” Horton-Brown said. “If you don’t have any-thing at all, you will end up cheating and then you’ll get upset with yourself by the time it is January first.”
But just because there are unhealthy treats around, doesn’t mean students should avoid them com-pletely. “We are going to have favorites and there are some favorites you just can-not make healthy. But I be-lieve in eating those things and fully enjoying them without beating yourself up over it,” Horton-Brown said.
“So, I would just say be easy on yourself for eating those foods, but be very aware of eating them in moderation. Try to have some power foods, like fruits and vegetables add-ed to everything with few treats in between.”
During the holidays, there is a loss of time for physical activity. The gym can fall to the bottom of the list and is usually pushed on to the next day’s to do list in order to achieve oth-er tasks. The process is re-peated over and over. Start a trend with the family of
a holiday physical activity, like the Turkey Day 5K or even a pushup competition with your siblings.
“If you are active, you can’t afford to go through bad diet for a couple of weeks. Your perfor-mance will show and you will definitely feel it,” Horton-Brown said. “Picture intervals, or a 30 to 45 minute workout, to maintain the quick pace for a timely, yet effective workout. Do it in front of your favorite TV show;
this does not require gym machines. It can be done with friends with some re-ally good music. Create habits now, and respect the process to build habits that you will stick with.”
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