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point11 Rainy14 Hodgepodge15 In the plane’s
cabin, say17 New Year’s __18 Pennsylvania
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Boise State gets new furry studentsEryn Shay JohnsonAsst. News Editor
Every semester, Boise State welcomes prospective students to campus, but this year, those students might be more adorable than ever. These students aren’t in-coming freshmen or trans-fer students; they have fuzzy heads, wagging tails and big ol’ wet tongues.
“We just opened a new or-ganization on campus called Bronco Dogs for anyone interested in service dogs, hanging out with dogs or advocates of service dogs,” said Taylor Neher, one of the founders of the club.
Bronco Dogs is in the process of bringing service puppies in training to Boise State’s campus. So far, all of the handlers are students training the animals for gen-eral mobility, glycemic alert or PTSD comfort.
Neher’s student, Brava, is a five-month-old male gold-
en labradoodle just starting out his training. He attends all the classes Neher does, lives on campus with her and even does homework alongside the senior health sciences major. Brava is the first official Bronco Dog.
The puppy is training to become a glycemic alert dog. Neher, who has diabe-tes, says the dog is in scent training to help detect when her and others’ blood sugar is high or low.
Bronco Dogs is already growing with three other dogs and students training on campus.
MacKenzie Erhart, fresh-man health science major, and her pooch, Jinger, live on campus as well. Jinger is entering the final stages of her training.
“I’ve had Jinger since my senior year of high school,” Erhart said. “She’s being trained for PTSD and mo-bility. With PTSD, it helps just having the dog there.
They’ll do certain things like having the dog lean into you or face backwards so the dog can watch your back. You’ve seen the com-mercials; they can wake you up when you’re having night terrors.”
Erhart and Neher were connected with service dogs through Genesis Ser-vice Dogs, an Idaho-Based nonprofit organization. While Bronco Dogs is not affiliated with Genesis, the club has full support from Genesis to bring puppies to Boise State.
“Campus provides a re-ally unique opportunity for the dogs. Most of our (Genesis) dogs go to a wide range of ages. We have had dogs go off to college with their partner,” said Carissa Morgan, training coordina-tor with Genesis. “It’s really awesome for them to be in the collegiate environment, like going to the Boise State football games. It’s a really
good thing to expose them to when they are younger.”
According to Morgan, the student handlers who train the dogs earn just as many benefits as the dogs do.
“In my own experience, it
gives (the handler) so much self confidence to be able to go anywhere and have a dog with you,” Morgan said. “It really builds confidence and brings people out of their shell. It’s a huge growing ex-
perience.”Bronco Dogs is still in
its fledgling stages, but the group hopes to make an im-pact before three of the four founding members graduate this spring.
Boise State’s smoking policy is a dragSean BunceAsst. News Editor
A dog without teeth has no bite and neither does Boise State’s smoking policy.
According to policy #9110, Boise State applies a non-smoking mandate to all uni-versity properties, with the exception of e-cigarettes, which are permitted outdoors on campus. The purpose is to create a healthier campus to live, work and go to school.
If a student is caught smok-ing on campus, however, no violators will be fined.
“We are coming from a non-penalize policy, so we are trying to encourage com-pliance,” said Lauren Baines, health educator for Wellness Services.
On Jan. 28, members from Health Services, Campus Security and Police Services asked the student assembly for other options to prevent smoking on campus.
Currently, if an officer ap-proaches someone smok-ing on campus, by law they cannot ask for their ID. It is Boise State policy, however, that students must show their
student identification card to any law enforcement officer or faculty member on cam-pus if asked for it.
“They’ll say the choice of words that they want to say
and walk off. I can’t legally de-tain you because you haven’t really committed a crime,” said Frank Harper, security supervisor for Boise State. “The challenge is trying to educate you and get that message out, but it always becomes an entanglement between us and the smoker, which we don’t want.”
According to Harper, secu-rity officers can refer the per-son to the Board of Student Conduct or human resources if the person is an employee.
“If we don’t have informa-tion, if you’re not going to be cooperative with it, it’s very hard for us to enforce any-
thing,” Harper said.Although the Student As-
sembly suggested to set up smoking huts in areas around campus, no definite solution was decided upon.
Instead, Harper believes it’s up to students to decide whether or not they’d like a clean, smoke-free campus and encourage others to fol-low the rules.
“When we can all come together to enforce this, then everyone understands ‘Hey, I’m going to smoke, but I do need to move off-campus somewhere where it doesn’t affect anyone in the campus community.’” Harper said.
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When we can all come together to enforce this, then everyone understands ‘Hey, I’m going
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Senator critiques domestic violence in NFLNiels LesniewskiCQ-Roll CallTribune News Service
Sen. Richard Blumenthal isn’t convinced the National Football League is doing ev-erything possible to address domestic violence.
The Connecticut Demo-crat is particularly skeptical of the way the NFL plans to allocate $25 million over five years to back groups that fight domestic violence. Some of that money will come in the form of “promotional sup-port” to entities such as the National Domestic Violence Hotline, according to a letter to Blumenthal and Sen. Brian
Schatz, D-Hawaii, from Com-missioner Roger Goodell.
Aside from the dollar value seeming small compared to the NFL’s multibillion-dollar revenues, Blumenthal sounds dubious of the promotional elements, and he fired off a response letter to Goodell on Friday.
“Even at the current level of commitment, when it comes to clear terms for timing and action, the NFL has hedged and dodged. The letter im-plies that some of the $25 million would be used for promotional support, which may include public service announcements,” Blumenthal said. “These supposed ‘pub-
lic service’ ads may also be self-serving — promoting the NFL’s public image as much as raising awareness. Insofar as they raise public awareness, they are likely to substantially increase call volume to the ho-tline as well as requests for ser-vice without actually bolster-ing resources for local service providers that struggle every day to help survivors rebuild their lives.”
There is a significant addi-tional commitment for public service announcements from the League, Goodell wrote in his letter.
“During the past regular sea-son, the NFL donated its in-stitutional media time during
game broadcasts to run PSAs featuring celebrities, as well as current and former NFL players, that were produced in conjunction with the advocacy group NO MORE,” Goodell wrote, valuing the commit-ment at about $50 million, running through the Super Bowl.
Blumenthal’s response also highlights the potential for a legislative response.
“Regardless of financial commitment, the NFL so far has not articulated how it will ensure that its athletes are genuinely good role models to fans – a step that only the NFL can take towards truly shifting the culture,” he wrote.
“Taken in totality, I believe that the NFL’s handling of its response to public outcry over the league’s role in domestic violence is a clear indication of why additional oversight of professional sports leagues is
necessary. I plan to reintroduce the SPORTS Act to make sure that Congress and the public have the ability to periodically and formally review the ap-propriateness of the antitrust exemptions.”
Nearly 1 in 3 Americans say that a football player who has been found guilty of domestic violence should be permanently banned from playing in the NFL.
All Americans
Hispanic
White, non-Hispanic
Black, non-Hispanic
Ban the player for life
Allow the player to return after temporary suspension
Don’t know/Refused
Take no formal action against player
Source: publicreligion.orgGraphic: Greg Good, TNS
How should the NFL handle a player who has been found guilty of domestic violence?
NFL and domestic violence
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Students give feedback on food contractAlx StickelNews Editor
Boise State is due to re-bid its food service con-tract. This means efforts are being taken to gather student input on what they want to see changed re-garding their food options on campus come 2016.
Kim Thomas, chairper-son of the Food Service Advisory Board, has been reaching out to student organizations to gather in-put.
According to Thomas, students want to see veg-an, vegetarian and gluten free options, locally-grown food options, supplies and distributors, more meal
equivalency options (retail food options available as Boise River Café replace-ment meals) and more late night food availability op-tions.
Currently, Aramark is the current contract ven-dor who exclusively han-dles Boise State’s food op-tions.
Some student clubs who wish to use a food service vendor outside of Aramark can get an exemption from using Aramark catering if the cost of the outside ven-dor is less than $50.
Thomas said students would like to see the ex-emption be increased from $50 to $100.
With the food service
contract bid coming up, Thomas said Aramark may or may not re-bid.
Bids from other organi-zations will be considered.
Thomas also said that student feedback will be utilized throughout the bidding process.
“The team that will evaluate and score the bids has not yet been identi-fied by the Request For Proposal committee, but we intend to ensure that there is student voice rep-resented both in the scor-ing committee and also throughout the evaluation process to give feedback to the scoring team,” Thomas wrote in an email.
Thomas said students
can continue giving input by either contacting her directly or talking to As-sociated Students of Boise State University president Bryan Vlok, who is on the committee.
“Students can partici-pate in focus groups coor-dinated by the Residence Hall Association and the Student Assembly meeting with potential vendors,” Thomas said. “I know there have been at least a couple of vendors setting these up to solicit student feedback.”
By May, the bids with the best potential value will be identified, and ac-cording to Thomas, the bid is presently scheduled
to be awarded December 2015.
USDA considers freeing organic growers from promotion feesMichael DoyleMcClatchy WashingtonBureauTribune News Service
Organic farmers are fertilizing a proposal to broaden their exemption from paying industry fees that largely support con-ventional agriculture.
Hundreds of organic growers and their support-ers have urged the Agricul-ture Department to grant the broader fee exemption. The proposal would free more growers from the industry fees used to pro-mote the likes of almonds, beef and raisins, and would potentially cut some con-ventional agriculture ad-vertising budgets.
USDA officials are now giving all sides more time to comment on the pro-posed fee exemption.
“The organic produc-ers should be in control of their own money,” Laura Batcha, executive director and CEO of the Organic Trade Association, said in an interview Friday. “Or-ganic is distinctive and it has distinctive needs.”
More than 620 people have commented so far on the proposed broadening of the fee exemption, with many submitting form emails supporting the or-ganic growers.
Sacramento, California resident Richard Cuny echoed the views of many when he wrote Jan. 20 that
an exemption makes sense because “organic products are substantially different than conventional prod-ucts.”
The sentiments are not 100 percent unanimous, though, and opposition could grow through the ex-panded comment period, which now expires Feb. 17.
“As organic products re-ceive the benefit of promo-tional efforts generated by non-organic assessments, such an exemption would be entirely unfair to those that are being assessed,” Dennis Housepian, a Fres-no, California-based raisin industry official, declared in a public comment post-ed Thursday.
Currently, industry fees
fund 23 marketing orders and 22 research-and-pro-motion programs.
The fees support orga-nizations like the National Watermelon Promotion Board, and the money is behind well-known ad pitches like “Got Milk?” and “Cotton: The Fabric of Our Lives.”
The most recent farm bill, passed by Congress last year, included several marketing and promotion order provisions sought by organic growers.
One provision autho-rizes organic growers to propose establishing their own program devoted to promoting organic foods. Proponents are preparing to submit a formal propos-
al to the USDA in the next several months, setting the stage for an industry refer-endum for a $40 million-a-year research and promo-tion program.
“There is a tremendous groundswell of support for more research for organic,” Batcha said. “The research needs are enormous.”
But the industry that now spans more than 18,500 certified organic growers and businesses nationwide is not entirely unified.
“Our organic world is too large and diverse to have an organization work on our behalf,” Wenatchee, Wash.-based grower Roger Pepperl advised the Agriculture De-partment last month. “We
grow organic tree fruit and have nothing in common with organic cotton, organic beef and etc.”
A separate farm bill pro-vision expands the organic grower exemption from cur-rent marketing and promo-tion program fees.
Currently, organic pro-ducers are exempt from the fees only if 100 percent of their production was certi-fied organic.
The latest farm bill would expand that, once the Agri-culture Department writes the rules, to exempt produc-ers for the organically pro-duced portion of their crop, even if another portion is non-organic.
Staff writer Kate White contributed to this article.
Food options may change with the bid.
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New ValleyRide Bus Service to Boise State!Six daily round trips.
Boise State students, faculty and staff always ride ValleyRide buses at NO COST!
HARRIS RANCH Mill Station to Downtown Stops• WarmSprings&MillSpur
• Warm Springs & Wise
• Parkcenter&Bown
• Parkcenter & Pennsylvania
• Parkcenter&Mallard
• Broadway & University
• Idaho & 1st
• Zone2–Idaho&8th
Downtown to Mill Station Stops• Zone2–Idaho&8th
• Main & 1st
• Broadway & University
• Parkcenter&Mallard
• Parkcenter & Apple
• Parkcenter&Bown
• Warm Springs & Wise
• WarmSprings&Eckert
Stops in bold are time points.
• Half-hourPeakService• NoMid-dayService• NoWeekendService
Buses run from 6:30–8:25 a.m. and then again from 5–6:55 p.m.
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For more information, visit: valleryride.org • Or call 208-345-7433
This route travels between the Harris Ranch area and downtown Boise. It makes three round trips in the morning and three round trips in the afternoon.
New technology comes to Albertsons LibraryCheyene AustinStaff Writer
Lately, the Albertsons Library isn’t just for check-ing out books—it’s also for checking out the newest technology available to stu-dents.
As of Spring 2015, stu-dents at Boise State can print in 3-D, produce their own videos and use their computer without touching a button.
“I think the new technol-ogy will really help students gain skills and expand their knowledge,” said Amanda Baschnagel, junior theater
arts major.Students have access to
innovative devices such as Raspberry Pi, MaKey MaKey and Leap Motion. Students can learn how to use any of these devices with the help of the library’s Dis-cover by Doing workshops.
Use of the 3-D printer is being offered as a service on the Albertsons Library web-site. Students can submit a file, and the library will run it through their software to check for problems and cal-culate the approximate time until completion. When a project begins printing, the librarians will set up a web-
cam and send a tweet from the Boise State Library Twit-ter account, inviting people to watch. The 3-D printer can create gimbals, Legos, charms and even whistles.
“There’s so much that you can do with a 3-D printer that allows students to stretch their creative mus-cles and improve their tech-nical skills,” Baschnagel said.
According to librarian Deana Brown, students of any major will find practi-cal application for this new technology.
“You can use it whether you’re an engineering stu-dent and you need to figure
out how to model things, or if you’re an education stu-dent and you’re potentially going to go into a school and teach where this technology is available,” Brown said.
Students who aren’t inter-ested in 3-D printing might find other new technology more relevant to their inter-ests in computing, engineer-ing or circuitry.
Raspberry Pi kits are mi-crocomputers that can be used to explore computing and programming. For in-stance, they have been suc-cessfully coded to detect face positions on a webcam and generate pictures to
overlay on the image accord-ingly.
Another addition to the library is called MaKey MaKey, an invention kit that works on the conductivity of various objects and can be connected to the Internet. Using alligator clips, items like bananas and Play-Doh can be turned into control-lers and keyboards for a computer. Brown explained that it’s a good introduction to circuitry and allows stu-dents to use their imagina-tions.
“This is really great for little kids. Education stu-dents might want to use
this in their classrooms in the future,” Brown said.
Along with these, stu-dents can check out a sen-sor device called Leap Motion. Leap Motion was recently acquired by the library and the device can be used to surf the Web, draw and paint digitally and play use without clicking a button.
Discover by Doing work-shops will be held at Al-bertsons Library through March. Online registration is required. For questions, students can contact Amy Vecchione at [email protected].
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Anti-scrimination bill first
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Post-it Notes stuck to committee
chamber door, Bill rejected
Rallies for hearings held,
protests, 44 arrested
Bill proposed and printed
first time
Bill killed in committee
More arrests due to protests
Bill proposed to Senate, read once,
rejected
Add The Four Words,
Idaho organization formed
Hearings for Add The Words
held for first time
Patrick AdcockStaff Writer
One hundred and ninety individuals signed up to ver-bally testify last week as to why House Bill 2, common-ly referred to as “Add the Words,” should or should not pass.
Those in favor of the amendment had a total of 134 testimonies, and those opposing the bill had 54. Add the Words would change the current Idaho Human Rights Act to pro-tect individuals from be-ing discriminated based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Testimonies were heard from 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 26 until 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28. Despite the higher num-ber of in-favor testimony, the bill died by a 13-4 vote.Testimony for adding the words
Those who are for add-ing “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” to the existing Idaho Human Rights Act believe that it is both a moral and legal issue. Some moral views of those in favor of the bill include being treated the same as other citizens, a person’s gender identity and sexual orientation are not a choice, and people deserve to be judged based on their merit, performance and qualifica-tions rather than their pri-
vate lives.Legally, the argument for
adding the words mainly revolves around individuals not being legally protected if they are discriminated against in Idaho based on their gender identity and/or sexual orientation. This means that if discrimination happens because an indi-vidual identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, there is no legal protection for those individuals.
“Just last Saturday, I went out to get a beer in Meridian with my girlfriend and two other couples. After arriving at this local establishment, we were immediately fol-lowed to the dance floor by security,” Avery Lutthans, a transgender male from Nampa, testified. “This in-dividual began harassing my friend who was dancing with her wife and several other straight couples.
“Many couples were dancing, but the security guard did not leave the floor. Almost an hour be-fore closing, he turned on fluorescent lights signal-ing it was time to go…The many heterosexual couples that were still on the dance floor looked confused (and) headed to the dark side of the bar, not really sure why the lights were on. Music was still playing. It was not closing time. We left before we ever ordered the beer we came for. It was very, very
clear we were not welcome there.“
There were many religious organizations, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, who are in favor of adding the words.
Their stance is to pro-tect the rights of the LGBT community and learn to live together despite any moral disagreements.
“But we are suggesting a way forward in which those with different views on these complex issues can together seek solu-tions that will be fair to
everyone,” said D. Todd Christofferson, a gen-eral authority in the LDS church, told CNN.
Testimony against adding the words
Those not in favor of adding the words “gender identity” and “sexual orien-tation” to the existing Idaho Human Rights Act also have moral and legal issues with the bill. Morally, many of those against the legislation feel that sexual identity and orientation is a choice that people can make. Based on
this view, they feel that to deviate from being a het-erosexual is morally wrong. These beliefs typically stem from personal religious be-liefs.
“I believe that gender identity is strictly theologi-cal,” said a pastor from Twin Falls. “I believe we have referenced point of truth, which we must be honest with ourselves and in deal-ing with issues like this.
“As much as we love our fellow citizens, we cannot ignore the facts, the truth about humanity.”
Those opposing the leg-islation also have legal grounds for not allowing the words to be added. These typically include the assumption that there could be lawsuits over refusing to perform marriages of gay, lesbian or transgender indi-viduals.
The bill, however, does address this issue allowing exemptions for religious or-ganizations as pointed out by Representative Paulette Jordan (D) on Monday eve-ning during one of the testi-monial hearings.
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Bill defeated13-4
2006
2008
2010
2011
2012
Feb. 2014
Jan. 15, 2015
Jan. 26-28, 2015
Jan. 29, 2015
March. 2014
Anti-scrimination bill first
proposed to legislation,
rejected
Bill proposed to Senate, read once,
rejected
Post-it Notes stuck to committee
chamber door, Bill rejected
Rallies for hearings held,
protests, 44 arrested
Bill proposed and printed
first time
Bill killed in committee
More arrests due to protests
Bill proposed to Senate, read once,
rejected
Add The Four Words,
Idaho organization formed
Hearings for Add The Words
held for first time
Eryn Shay JohnsonAsst. News Editor
After 21 hours of testi-mony on House Bill 2, com-monly referred to as Add the Words, the Committee of State Affairs voted 13-4 along party lines to kill the bill be-fore it could reach the house floor.
“I was disappointed to hear (the verdict),” said Ashley Thomson, senior social work major, sociology minor. “It’s frustrating because (the op-position is) asking to have their beliefs recognized, but that’s what we’re asking, too.”
According to Thomson, her voice and others in her community will continue to suffer in silence.
“Discrimination every-where will continue to hap-pen,” Thomson said. “I will continue to experience it as a lesbian woman.”
Thomson has been in-volved with Add the Words for the last three years. She was one of the 44 who was ar-rested in the capital last year.
“(This bill) is very impor-tant to me,” Thomson said. “I face discrimination almost daily. It’s really hard for me to go out with my partner and not get harassed. I have a hard time thinking about renting housing. We have to have that conversation if we will act like friends, or bring boys, so we seem heterosex-ual–which we don’t because that’s not who we are. But
I want to be out, and I want people to know who I am and who my family is.”
Thomson testified before the committee Wednesday night, stating in her testimo-ny that she is not the type of person to ask for help, but in this case, she needed to.
The bill, which has been nine years in the making, is expected to return in the fu-ture.
Some of the representa-tives who voted to turn the bill away stated that they would be willing to hear a future, compromised version of bill.
Representative Ken An-drus (R), who voted to defeat the bill stated that a ‘yes’ vote to send the bill to the floor would infringe on religious freedoms.
“We have heard (the LGBT community) and I assure you we will address (this),” Andrus said during delibera-tion. “My heart goes out to you on how you’re living and the anxiety you feel. We will do something for you, but we have to address both sides.”
Over the last nine years, similar forms of House Bill 2 have been proposed, but all have been rejected before reaching the house or senate. This was the first year hear-ings were held. Only 18 states in the nation have passed a bill that covers sexual orien-tation and gender identity in anti-discrimination laws.
“I’m hoping that folks will
have an ‘ah-ha’ moment,” Representative Melissa Win-trow (D) told The Arbiter. “Unfortunately, it should be about the law and it should be rational and reasonable. This is not a new law. We are looking at the existing Hu-man Rights Act, we’re just adding four words: two ad-ditional identities, protected classes. People keep saying, “oh the law the way it’s writ-ten (we can’t change it).” What do you mean the way it’s written? We’ve had it for 46 years. It’s not about the way it’s written. It’s about those four words.”
During her campaign, Wintrow promised to vote in favor of Add the Words, rep-resenting the feelings of her district.
“I get it, my district gets it, there are a lot of people who get it,” Wintrow said. “The people in power don’t. That’s why voting is so important.”
Wintrow proposed to send the bill to the entire house before the bill was defeated in the committee.
“Today, I don’t want to think about what’s next. I think a lot of people in the community need to grieve. It was so devastating. After all that, nine years of work, all the testimony, the raw expe-rience, the sharing of suicide and death…” Wintrow said. “This is a human rights is-sue. It’s not about potholes and bridges; this is an issue of people’s lives.”
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Death becomes herLeonor VivancoChicago TribuneTribune News Service
An invite to a recent Twelfth Night Gala in Pitts-burgh had an unusual theme _ the 300th anniversary of the death of Louis XIV _ and an equally unorthodox dress code: funereal cocktail chic.
Funeral fashions? That might sound strange, or even morbid. But centuries ago it was a very real _ and sometimes very controver-sial _ thing, and its impact still reaches to runways and
clothing racks today.“Mourning dress had a
lasting influence on high fashion,” says Jessica Regan, an assistant curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. “The prevalence of all-black, fash-ionable mourning attire dur-ing the 19th century, which often was described as very becoming, paved the way for the increased use of black in ordinary fashion.”
What women wore to fu-nerals from about 1815 to 1915 is the subject of an ex-
hibit at the museum’s Anna Wintour Costume Center gallery. “Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourn-ing Attire” which ends Feb. 1, was the first fall exhibit the Costume Institute has held in seven years.
Initially, curators thought about doing an exhibit about the evolution of the black dress during that time period but instead opted to make mourning attire the focus to highlight “the intersection between fashion and rituals of bereavement,” Regan says.
Most of the pieces on display are part of the Cos-tume Institute’s permanent collection, while others are on loan. At auction, the museum purchased gowns worn by Queen Alexandra and Queen Victoria. When the Brooklyn Museum’s costume institute was trans-ferred a few years ago to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it acquired more ex-amples of mourning dresses, Regan says.
As with fashion today, the styles were subjective. What people wore back then to grieve _ particularly women _ was scrutinized.
“During the 19th century, mourning garments became increasingly aligned with fashionable dress, in terms of the silhouette, the cut of the garments and in some cases even the modes of embellishment,” Regan says. “Some women viewed overly fashionable mourning attire as ostentatious and incom-patible with a period of grief, preferring simple garments that merely followed the out-lines of fashion, while others chose garments that display all the exuberant details of high fashion.”
The expectations for men in mourning, however, were
not as elaborate. Because dark suits already were a sta-ple of their wardrobes, what they wore while grieving didn’t vary too much.
“A deep black band around his hat and black gloves would be considered a suf-ficient acknowledgment of a loss,” Regan says.
“Visitors are often struck first by the beauty of the ob-jects and are surprised by the extent to which they follow the details of high fashion,” Regan says. “Many people have lamented the fact that today there is no way to vis-ibly identify one’s self as a mourner.”
Mourning dress has influenced fashion, even today
Funeral Cocktail Chic style catches on.
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Mockingjay inspires social movements, revoltCheyene AustinStaff Writer
Since its release in Nov. 2014, themes of oppres-sion and revolt in “Mock-ingjay-Part 1” have reso-nated with viewers across the world and sparked real-life protests.
Sergio Romero, director of the multi-ethnic stud-ies program at Boise State, believes that the film has caught on because people are hungry for something that serves as a backing and influence for their cause.
“Mockingjay is filling a
void,” Romero said. “So-cial movements will draw from any source, including films.”
He continued to explain these social movements have moved uncannily far compared to other film-in-spired movements. This is because media tends not to frame social issues around an organized social re-sponse, but rather around individuals—a leader, a victim or a policy-maker.
One place the movie holds special meaning is in Thailand where a military coup seized power last year in May. This development
has not gone over well with Thai citizens.
Five students used the three-fingered District 12 salute during a speech given by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. They were arrested and forced to denounce their political activism.
Just a day later, three more students imitated the salute at a theater premier-ing the movie and were ar-rested by the military.
“Mockingjay-Part 1” and the gesture have been banned in Thailand since its premier in November.
“The three-fingered sa-
lute is representative of oppressed people who are resisting,” Romero said. “Gestures are adopted by groups because they affirm who they are.”
Much closer to home, many have drawn parallels between the scene when District 11 salutes Katniss and the situation in Fergu-son, Missouri. In both situ-ations, police responded with brutality to peaceful protests.
Katniss’s famous words, “If we burn, you burn with us,” have been adopted in their protests and were even written across the St.
Louis Arch.Despite the overwhelm-
ing embrace of the film, not everyone thinks draw-ing inspiration from the Hunger Games for a social movement is a good idea.
“I feel like people are just focusing on the heroic as-pect instead of what actu-ally happened,” said Draven David, a communication major. “The Hunger Games doesn’t have a happy end-ing whatsoever. If people are trying to follow the footsteps of that, I don’t think they realize what all actually happened. They’d be able to get what they
want, but it will come with very severe consequences.”
“Mockingjay-Part 1” has, nevertheless, given people the courage to stand up to corruption in their govern-ments. Mechanical engi-neering major Holly Adam finds this fascinating.
“It really just exhibits how media impacts soci-ety in general, like every movie essentially turns into a fashion or political statement,” Adam said. “I think it’s pretty interest-ing that ‘Mockingjay’ has taken a more serious route. It’s actually taking place in the world somewhere.”
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Snapchat snaps into action with Snapcash featureAugust McKernanAsst. Culture Editor
Repaying your friend for that coffee they bought you just got easier.
Snapchat recently revealed Snapcash, a peer-to-peer payment feature, which al-lows users to send and re-ceive money from friends with just a few taps. Square, a mobile payments process-ing company partenered with Snapcash, processes all financial transactions.
Users must be a U.S. citi-zen, 18 or older and own a Mastercard or Visa debit card in order to sign up for Snapcash. Sending money
through the app is simple. Enter chat, use a dollar sign to type the amount of money you want to send and then tap the green button to trans-fer it into a friend’s account.
Junior communication major Amber Knop began using Snapcash after seeing a promotion Snapchat sent to her phone.
“It’s a fast, easy way to send my friends money to pay them back for things they may have spotted me for,” Knop said. “Instead of having to go to the bank, take out money, and find my friend, the process only takes a few clicks and then I’m done.”
Though the easy process is appealing to some students, others approach Snapchat’s newest feature with more caution due to past trans-gressions.
After several lapses in se-curity, the Electronic Fron-tier Foundation gave Snap-chat just one star out of a possible six in their fourth annual “Who Has Got Your Back” report on companies’ privacy policies.
“Snapchat earns only one star in this year’s report, mak-ing it one of the lowest scor-ing companies we reviewed this year,” said the report. “It does not keep pace with industry competitors when
it comes to transparency around data requests, giving users notice when their data is sought by the government or requiring a warrant for user content. Snapchat also does not publicly oppose mass surveillance.”
Freshman CWI student Austin Amaro has made a conscious decision to avoid Snapcash and advises that others avoid the app, as well.
“I was always taught not to enter your financial informa-tion into cell phones because they’re not nearly as secure as everyone thinks,” Amaro said. “It seems sketchy es-pecially since Snapchat has been hacked in the past.”
Even Knop, an active Snapcash user, has her reser-vations about the feature.
“I haven’t run into any is-sues after using the service for a few months now,” Knop
said. “But I’m still cautious about checking to make sure everything in my account is in order, and I don’t over-use the service more than necessary.”
Snapchat receives 1/6 stars.
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Men’s lacrosse ready to attack seasonLeslie Boston-HydeCopy Editor
The Cavin-Willaims Center was alive with energy on Jan. 29 at 10 p.m., filled with hoots and hollers as the Boise State men’s lacrosse team warmed up for practice.
A new era has emerged for the Broncos with a new head coach and a team of 40 players ready for the challenges ahead.
“It’s almost a new breath of fresh air for the team, especially from ... the past couple years I’ve been here,” senior defenseman Nick Cherbero said.
The Broncos announced Jon Mundy as the new head coach in August 2014. Mundy cumulated three U.S. Lacrosse coach-ing awards over the course of his high school coach-
ing career. The team has enjoyed the new aspect he has brought to the team.
“He’s brought a lot of en-thusiasm and a lot of high-level knowledge,” junior attack Adam Smith said. “He really knows what he’s talking about.”
The team has also add-ed 25 freshmen to their roster. While some teams might be nervous to have so many young players, Mundy is enthusiastic. He is expecting three to four of the freshmen will be starters.
“A lot of these freshmen are game-ready right now,” Mundy said. “They came into the environment, they’re completely ready for this level and they’re growing.”
The team is returning many key players, including Chebero, Smith and sopho-
more attack Brian Scott.There have been many
victories in the pre-season. The Broncos defeated Montana State and fel-low conference team Utah State in the Gem State Tournament in October.
The team also traveled to California to compete in the UC Davis Tournament in November. The Broncos beat Santa Clara and Dia-blo Valley, tied to Domini-can University and lost to University of Berkeley.
Since the fall, the Bron-cos have practiced to get back into shape. Coach Mundy has been preparing the team for any offense or defense they might face this season.
“We’ve gone out of our way to prepare for anything that they’re going to come up against,” Mundy said.
While Boise State
ranked fourth in the Pa-cific Northwest Colle-giate Lacrosse League last year, the team has set their sights on winning the con-ference this season.
“Honestly, what we’ve been doing at practice ev-ery single night is going to take us there,” Smith said. “It just feels like it’s our chance to do it this time
and win our conference and make that trip down to nationals.”
The Broncos will open their season at Utah State on Feb. 14.
Softball charges into spring with new staffAli RobertsStaff Writer
When the Boise State softball team lost their head coach over the summer, there was a lot of uncertainty with the team.
In the wake of adversity the seniors had to become the coaches until Cindy Ball and the rest of the coaching staff were hired.
“It was a challenge. (The seniors) had to step up as leaders, but that has helped us a lot now because we are ready to go,” infielder Jor-dan Kreiger said. “We had
to start our practices on our own without coaches, so that was a big change. We got out here on the field the first day of class and it helped us with our leadership skills.”
The leadership of the older members of the team didn’t go unnoticed by Ball, who was officially hired just two weeks into the school year.
“I actually spoke to them as soon as I was announced,” Ball said. “I called each of the seniors and talked to them and they mentioned they were practicing. It just speaks volumes of what types of leaders they are.”
Ball spent the 2013-14 season at Cal State North-ridge, plus eight additional years as a DI coach. Assistant coach Taylor Smith was a championship player with the Washington Huskies, and assistant coach Nate Miller helped lead Dixie State to a third place finish last season.
“(We) came out (to Boise) for a fall tournament and I fell in love with the place right away,” Ball said. “The atmosphere and the culture and community, I mean there is nothing like it. No one else has this.”
With the new coaching staff in place, the Broncos will open their season Feb. 6 at the North Texas Tour-nament. While the season is just starting the team has al-ready set their sights on the MW Championships.
“The program that we have and what they’ve done in the past and have just been one series away from winning the MW,” Ball said. “I think with the experience we have from last year, and the new depth we have this year along with the dynamic pitching staff, we’re going to do some great things.”
The Broncos open their season Feb. 14
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Magical creatures and flying brooms don’t apply
Patty BowenCulture Editor
When students think of Quidditch, images fly-ing witches and wizards on brooms often form in their mind. However, this is not the modern Quidditch be-ing played across the nation.
Teams have been sepa-rating themselves from the Harry Potter cited themes of Quidditch to put an emphasis on the ath-letic aspect of the game. One of these teams is the Boise State Abraxans
Quidditch team.“People try to pull away
from Harry Potter referenc-es and mystical creature ref-erences. (Those references) often holds back the sport,” said Kim Couch, head coach of the Boise State Quidditch teams. “People often ask us if we’re a LARP-ing group. When you’re on the team, you understand because you’ve heard the question, ‘How do you fly?’ 50,000 times.”
According to Stew Dri-flot, beater captain of the Abraxans, players who join
the Quidditch team because of an interest in the sport are able to focus on the game instead of the fran-chise, making them better players.
“I don’t want to create an unfair perspective, but a lot of times, those people who don’t watch Harry Potter or know what it’s about, end up coming from other sports and being the star play-ers,” Driflot said. “When you look across the nation at strong teams, Texas for example, they don’t give a hoot about Harry Potter.”
According to Couch, the separation of Harry Potter and Quidditch becomes more noticeable when fans look at team names and mascots. Generally Couch found the more experi-enced a team becomes the less they want to be asso-ciated with J.K. Rowling’s fantasy novels.
“When teams start off with someone who hasn’t been in the Quidditch com-munity, (they want to have a magical creature mascot),” Couch said. “But if they start off with someone who
is already part of the Quid-ditch team, they don’t want to do that because they want to get away from the magical Harry Potter stuff.”
The Abraxans take this into consideration when they recruit new players. According to Couch, if an emphasis is put on either Harry Potter or the sport , it will deter students who would otherwise want to play.
“You have to know who you’re talking to. If you talk to someone interested in Harry Potter about the sports aspect, it might be uninteresting,” Couch said. “In the same way, if you talk to someone who’s into
sports about the Harry Pot-ter aspect, they’ll probably be uninterested.”
Many of the Abraxans’ recruits are old friends or family members who played other sports in high school but weren’t skilled enough or serious enough to play at a collegiate level.
That being said, Couch feels it is really important to pander to both audienc-es when putting together a Quidditch team.
“You’ve got to ease (both sides) into the middle be-cause we’re not a Harry Potter club (but we’re not completely disassoci-ated with Harry Potter),” Couch said.
Quidditch moves away from Harry Potter to embrace the sport
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Snitch bias plays a role in deciding a Quidditch matchPatty BowenCulture Editor
A man runs across the field, a lone sock hanging from the back of his pants, flipping and flying as he dodges the grabbing mo-tions of seekers from each team.
The use of a human snitch in Quidditch has created an unfair advantage in the majority of games that the Boise State Quidditch team has participated in. The catching of the snitch ends the game and adds a signifi-cant amount of points to the seeker’s team’s score.
“When the snitch is caught, it is 30 points, so it’s
not the game-changer, it is in the books,” said Stew Driflot, beater captain on the Boise State Abraxans Quidditch team. “But it still plays a de-cisive role in the game.”
According to Driflot, the conference the team plays in, the Northwest region, is relatively new, created in the summer of 2014. The oldest team in the United States is 10 years old. Boise State is the oldest program with three years under its belt.
This regional youth has created a logistical problem for older teams like Boise State playing newer teams. Other than Driflot, there are no ranked snitches in the Northwest area.
“Within snitches, there’s a ranking system. You can get trained with the United States Quidditch Associa-tion,” Driflot said. “There’s a training academy. It’s jok-ingly intense, and people can train specifically for their play style and body type.”
Under this ranking system, snitches can be gold, silver or bronze, depending on their ability level. According to head coach Kim Couch, training academies are dying out and being replaced with a more plausible method of ranking.
“This year, (to get ranked a snitch) needs to take three separate videos with differ-ent teams that play in differ-
ing styles so they can see (the snitch) playing against differ-ent seekers,” Couch said. “(It is also) so snitches can show their ability and then they can judge the snitch on that.”
Training academies are still held, but snitches are no longer ranked, despite the lack of video submissions that have been sent in for ranking thus far.
“Snitches have never need-ed certification for regular tournaments, because that would be a logistical night-mare. You’re more likely to get a spot at a tournament if you’re certified,” Couch said. “When it comes to regionals and World Cup, it makes a big difference.”
The difference in quality of snitch can make a big dif-ference in a game because increasingly more games can be determined by the 30-point grab.
“Within snitch range means that if the snitch was pulled by either team it would end the game, and (cause the puller’s team to) win,” Couch said. “Even if a team is 20 down, if the snitch is pulled that game is won by them.”
According to Driflot, a fair game can be hard for a snitch to provide because of the amount of bias while snitch-ing.
“There’s a lot of unfavor-able bias when snitching,”
Couch said. “If you hover towards the hoops longer or stay towards one side of the field (it can help decide who wins the game).”
This unfavorable bias can often help indicate who won a game, creating a system that focuses on snitch ability instead of player ability.
“It’s important to have good snitches because, if a snitch is caught within a minute then that’s it,” Couch said. “Sometimes, a snitch is caught and it’s pretty much which team got there first. That snitch is probably not going to snitch again, at least, not without more practice. That can make a big differ-ence in a team’s ranking.”
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