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March 16, 2015 Vol. 27 Issue 52
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Boise Stateabandons SHIP
Affordable Care Act sends students shopping, p.4
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20 McDonald’sfreebies
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25 Word ending forenzymes
26 Outcome27 Multi-day event
featuring rainbowflags
31 Alaskan native32 Forever and a day33 Opposite of NNE36 Campus official37 Willy with a
chocolate factory39 Indian spiced tea40 Kazakhstan,
once: Abbr.41 For the lady42 Prankster’s
favorite month43 Ride with wooden
horses46 Scramble, as a
secret message49 Dawn goddess50 Old AT&T rival51 Fruit-flavored
hard candies55 Part of Q.E.D.56 “You hurt?” reply,
hopefully57 Really bad
turnout60 Feel concern61 Luigi’s “Bye!”62 Conclude63 “Faster __ a
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dance hit10 “For shame!”11 “Shame __!”12 Two-time Best
Actress Oscarwinner Streep
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abbr.22 Popular jeans23 “Jeepers!”24 Black Friday deals28 Many a punch
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cookware33 Doesn’t lose
sleep over34 New Orleans
footballer35 Oscar who
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periodic table43 Like lava44 Colorful little
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52 Parisian gal pal53 Linguist Chomsky54 Gossip columnist
Barrett58 Michelle Obama
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That SHIP has sailedShelly BohorquezStaff Writer
Boise State will no lon-ger be offering Student Health Insurance Plans as of the Fall 2015 semester.
After a State Board of Education meeting on Feb. 19, it was decided that the original policy requiring universities to offer a stu-dent health insurance plan would be amended.
While full-time stu-dents are still required to provide proof of health insurance, they must now seek and purchase it on their own.
Universities can still provide a health insurance plan to students, but Boise State has opted out of pro-viding this service.
“There was a consor-tium that Boise State was part of, and there was kind of an overwhelming vote to say, ‘We don’t want to continue with this con-tract as far as offering this plan,’ and so therefore that
plan dissolved,” said Tara Brooks, assistant director of Patient and Business Services.
According to Brooks, there has been a notable trend in the rising cost of SHIP—more students waived out of SHIP. With students not paying into SHIP remaining students end up paying more.
There are currently about 2,500 students en-rolled in SHIP that will need to find a new health insurance plan for the fall.
“I think it’s a mere busi-ness decision on Boise State’s half,” said Domi-nick Carlyle, a sophomore sociology major. “Essen-tially what the Affordable Care Act does is make it so that they can’t skimp out on certain requirements being met for health insur-ance, so it’s going to cost the university a lot more money.”
According to Brooks, Health Services will be working with Your Health
Idaho and local health in-surance brokers to assist students in finding health insurance.
While students no lon-ger have to worry about the countless emails at the beginning of the semester reminding them to waive out of SHIP, all full-time students must provide proof of health insurance coverage in compliance with Affordable Care Act compliant policy.
According to the SBOE meeting’s archives, students who are found not having in-surance while enrolled at an institution will be ineligible for full-time enrollment in future terms until insurance is obtained and proof of that insurance is provided.
“We certainly had stu-dents that were unhappy that the university re-quired them to be enrolled in the SHIP, and I’m sure that there will be students who are going to be unhap-py now that it’s removed,” Brooks said. “I think that
the balance is just trying to make sure that everybody has resources available to them.”
Brooks said that Health Services will invite stu-dents to campus and ask questions. They can get
information on and have assistance in finding insur-ance coverage that’s best for their individual situa-tions.
“The university should provide health insurance, especially when they’re
requiring it,” said Faris Aldosary, a senior finance major. “But when I look at the price tag I say, ‘You know, it’s not that worth it.’ I don’t think it’s suitable for students at all since it’s a state college.”
Housing fair gets pushed back another yearStephanie LabastidaStaff Writer
The housing fair began as an idea at the end of last se-mester, but Boise State has pushed the execution back. While a set date for the fair has not been announced, it’s expected to debut around this time next year.
Angeline Jacobs, junior biology major, felt posi-
tively toward the idea of the fair.
“It’d be nice, especially for new people coming in, because a lot of people don’t know where to live,” Jacobs said.
At the fair, students can expect a gathering of all the housing agencies close to campus—within a 5 to 7 mile radius—as well as rep-resentatives from Housing
and Residence life.The fair, while certainly
open to all students, would have a particular intended
audience—first-year stu-dents and transfer students.
The fair will allow stu-dents to compare the dif-
ferent housing options on campus and nearby after they have been carefully selected.
Leslie Webb, associate vice president for Student Affairs, described in an email how formal partner-ships must be established with the housing agencies that would be attending.
Webb wrote the goal is for the university to en-dorse businesses aligned with these expectations.
In short, according to
Webb, the university would only want to endorse prop-erties that are conducive to students progressing in their studies and achieving their goals.
“We want to make sure we’re doing the right area for students,” said ASBSU president Bryan Vlok.
Once the formalities are established, the fair is expected to be held every spring, unless another date would be better to benefit attending students.
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Research erupts in ChileSean BunceAsst. News Editor
An unexpected phone call awoke Jeffrey Johnson, assistant professor in the Department ofGeoscienc-es, the morning of March 3.
Villarrica, a volcano in Southern Chile which Johnson has been studying for the past decade, was erupting.
“I got out of my bed-room and was able to look through the trees and see a column, called a fire foun-tain, about 1,000 feet high
at that point,” Johnson said. “(There were) big, red incandescent blocks of lava flows coursing down the volcano at all sides.”
Johnson studies earth-quakes and sound waves produced by volcanoes as they erupt. The sound waves, called infrasound, are special low frequency sounds that volcanoes produce.
Johnson is in Chile to research and teach. On March 7, 16 Boise State and four Chilean students arrived to take a geophys-ics field class co-offered by
Johnson and assistant pro-fessor Brittany Brand.
Among these students is Alex Miller, student pur-suing his master’s in geo-physics.
“Two months ago, we were planning to go to the top and string up cameras over the active lava lake. We’re definitely not doing that anymore,” Miller said.
He and the other stu-dents will now set up seis-mic and infrasound equip-ment around the base of Villarrica in order to help with Johnson’s study of the volcano.
“When the volcano erupts it is releasing en-ergy, that energy is mainly focused on a narrow fre-quency band below the audible spectrum for hu-mans.” Miller said. “We normally hear 20 and above Hertz, most of the energy that the volcano produced during the erup-tion was below our audible senses.”
For most of the volca-noes Johnson studies, the trend is the same; each one is active and erupting dai-ly, but they don’t change very much. Villarrica of-fered Johnson a chance to study something many researches will never get a chance to.
With Johnson’s infra-sound equipment he was able to record a mud-flow called a lahar.
“They’re pretty danger-ous. This one took out a couple bridges, it wasn’t that big but the exciting thing was that for the first time we were able to re-cord the passage of this mud-flow. That’s a novel piece of science that came out of the study.
“In a nutshell, it’s an op-portunity to study an en-tire eruption sequence,” Johnson said. “This has become a laboratory for me, where I see a volcano start from quiet and then progress to something dif-ferent.”
According to Miller, this volcano used to follow a distinct pattern of letting off pressure by periodically releasing gasses, a process referred to by researchers as degassing.
“What is interesting is
what has changed in the volcano to all of the sud-den stop that kind of ef-fusive eruption, where it’s kind of degassing continu-ously,” Miller said. “(Now we want to see) what made that end and what made the pressure build up so extensively to where it erupted the way it did.”
Until then, Johnson’s re-search continues.
“The volcano is not yet back to sleep, although for the last week it’s been very calm,” Johnson said. “More than likely in the months to come, more activity will occur. What we will be able to do, myself and my colleagues in Chile, is understand how the sys-tem charges itself as gas accumulates and it releases that gas.”
Johnson poses in front of Villarrica.
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Abortion politics ensnares human-trafficking billMaria RecioTribune News Service
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, promised in January when the Republicans took back the majority that they would do things different-ly, allowing amendments from both sides and generally oper-ating in a bipartisan fashion.
So when the Senate began debate this week on his seem-ingly non-controversial, bipar-tisan legislation to combat hu-man trafficking, the Texan was expecting it to easily clear the chamber.
Instead, his bill, the Jus-tice for Victims of Trafficking
Act became a lightning rod as Democrats suddenly did an about-face, closed ranks and accused Republicans of sneaking in an anti-abortion provision. Republicans an-grily denied it and accused the Democrats of failing to read the bill, which had been posted for two months.
The result, in what was sup-posed to be a new era of coop-eration, has been more grid-lock, with some sharp, personal accusations thrown in.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., filed a procedural vote that is expect-ed to take place Tuesday that he hopes will break the stalemate.
“That’s really what I find so baffling is what has been a uniquely bipartisan effort has now turned into a partisan filibuster, and I, frankly, am perplexed by that,” Cornyn said Thursday. “Maybe we’ll have some folks come out and explain why they’re filibuster-ing this bill they voted for in the Judiciary Committee. We got a unanimous vote in the Judi-ciary Committee.”
Cornyn, a former Texas Supreme Court judge, had worked closely with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a former prosecutor, to develop the bill. Supported by 13 Democratic co-sponsors and 18 Republi-
cans in addition to Cornyn, the bill would encourage law en-forcement to pursue traffickers, who usually exploit underage girls, and create a $30 million fund to help victims from fines imposed on traffickers.
The bill was unanimously approved by the Senate Judi-ciary Committee in February and was poised for quick Sen-ate approval.
“All of a sudden, at the 11th hour, there’s an objection,” said Cornyn.
On the second day of Sen-ate consideration, Democrats realized that the bill included a provision known as the Hyde Amendment stating that none
of the funds in the bill could be used for abortions. The pro-vision is a mainstay of all ap-propriations bills dating back to 1976 and specifies that tax-payer monies cannot be used for abortions.
While Republicans pointed out that the language had been in the bill since it was in-troduced in January, incensed Democrats said that Repub-lican aides had deceived their Democratic counterparts. Furthermore, they said it ex-panded the Hyde Amendment by extending it to fines, not taxpayer funding, and to a five-year authorization instead of a yearly appropriation bill.
“I tell you something, there is one advantage to being around here a long time,” said four-term Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who is retiring next year. “You have the sense of what used to be decent around here when your word was your word and your bond was your bond.”
Democrats contended that Republicans told them in emails that the bill was un-changed from one last year—that did not include the Hyde language—except for minor fixes.
For their part, Republicans ridiculed Democrats for not having read the bill, which is only 68 pages long.
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Justin KirkhamManaging EditorAlx StickelNews Editor
In the middle of program cuts and department closures, other areas of the university are expanding—including the Col-lege of Innovation and Design. Anthony Ellertson, the current head of the Gaming, Interactive Media and Mobile Program, aims to offer a unique major at Boise State—one he hopes will be profitable in terms of employment.
“We have to think about the return on investment, which is where our program fits in,” El-lertson said. “We are commit-
ted to staying on the leading edge of software development for interactive media.”Individual employability
The GIMM program, a four-year transdisciplinary major, will offer students multiple spe-cial courses including those on animation, app and web devel-opment, augmented reality and virtual reality. This fall, interac-tive programming and digital tools classes will be available to students.
Ellertson stressed that this sort of instruction is vital in the current technological land-scape of Boise. Students in the program will be prepared spe-
cifically for jobs in this chang-ing field, a main focus of the College of Innovation and De-sign as a whole.
The College of Innovation and Design aims to fill this role, just as other STEM programs.
“It’s not just that we did it so that people could make big money, but that they could make money here in Boise,” Bob Kustra, president of Boise State, told The Arbiter in Feb-ruary. “When you take Micron, HP and somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 software engineering firms who cry crocodile tears that we are not producing enough computer science engineers—clearly you don’t need to be a rocket scien-
tist to see that’s where you need to be churning out students.”
According to Kustra, these programs should be unique to Boise State. Students will not come specifically to the univer-sity for a program that they can enroll in elsewhere. Instead, fo-cused and applicable programs can attract more students while “churning out” specialized employees.
Ellertson said GIMM stu-dents will become specialized for many of the top demand IT jobs in the current field: mobile, web and game development.Marketing the arts and humanities
For some, this sort of high
specialization is not as good as it may sound.
Leslie Madsen-Brooks, asso-ciate professor in the recently resized Department of History, does not disapprove of the Col-lege of Innovation of Design. But, like others, she has her reservations about growth sur-rounding the cuts in her own department. She cited an arti-cle from IEEE Spectrum, “The STEM Crisis is a Myth,” that recounts the overemphasis on employment-oriented STEM programs.
“There are far more people graduating with STEM degrees than there are jobs for them,” Madsen-Brooks said. “We aren’t giving them magic em-
ployment juice.”Dean of the College of In-
novation and Design Gordon Jones said he’s excited about the opportunity to lead the college in addressing the need for a more transdisciplinary experience.
“I think a lot of universities are recognizing that academic specialization is putting up
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designwalls or barriers between de-partments that make it more difficult for interdisciplinary collaboration to occur,” Jones said. “And that requires faculty to be even more intentional if we are going to collaborate. “
Madsen-Brooks explained that students should, instead of honing in on job capabili-ties, focus on gaining pertinent
skills for a range of possible employment opportunities, in-cluding research, writing, criti-cal thinking and group work. These are the main aims of the Department of History within its coursework.
“You still have to certify that STEM majors can write and communicate,” Madsen-Brooks said. “That’s where the humanities and social sciences come in.”
According to Madsen-Brooks, the College of Innova-tion and Design is a solid col-lection of programs, but she sees some overlap within its coursework. Specifically, the proposed Center for Human-Environment Systems offers
students similar explorations that the Department of History already covers.
Madsen-Brooks hopes that the core programs of the hu-manities will still be able to market themselves as impor-tant programs with these new developments.A transdisciplinary movement
The GIMM major is a 48-credit, transdisciplinary program. Ellertson aims to have GIMM students pursue double majors to gain these background communication skills that Madsen-Brooks described.
“There’s a risk if you don’t start from a learning platform
that you’re really giving some-body a skill set but not the agil-ity of thought to know over a lifetime how to evolve your thinking,” Jones said.
Ellertson and Madsen-Brooks applied this philoso-phy to their own career paths. Ellertson graduated with a degree in rhetoric and profes-sional communication, while Madsen-Brooks has a master’s degree in poetry.
“You’re not your major, and we need to stop treating college like you’re preparing for a single job,” Madsen-Brooks said.
Because of her background in poetry, Madsen-Brooks has been able to write herself into any position she aims for. This
background in the core human-ities creates a language for dif-ferent disciplines to collaborate.
“The humanities have some of the most important things to say to STEM,” Ellertson said. “GIMM is an effort to bring humanity into technology and start that discussion.”
Jones believes that this con-versation is the route higher education should pursue.
“All boats rise when every-body focuses on this, as uni-versities—as industries, as gov-ernment, as education at the secondary and primary level,” Jones said. “I do see a lot of in-terest in education for trying to bridge disciplinary boundaries, and I think it is going to be for
the benefit of the country if we all get on board.”
But, despite this focus, pro-grams will still be weighed based on their potential revenue and employability factor, which may make the GIMM program more pref-erable than core humanity programs in the face of statis-tics and numbers.
Kustra is hopeful that this will not be the case.
“I’m pretty confident that the liberal arts degree will not go away,” Kustra said. “But there are less people seeking liberal arts degrees because of all the negative stories from employers that want more specific skills.”
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Professor-student dynamic confuses classroom relations Egipcia MercadoStaff Writer
Student and teacher friendships are a tricky terri-tory to navigate. This dynam-ic complicates relationships in and out of the classroom.
For Desiree Brunette, pro-fessor in the Sociology De-partment, the line between professionalism and friend-ship begins to blur when relationships established in the classroom become more social and move off-campus.
“When my kids were younger, I would have for-mer students babysit my kids and they were kind of exposed to my home life and my personal life,” Bru-nette said. “They had taken a course, we bonded on some level and just maintained contact.”
According to Brunette, it’s difficult for teachers to man-age when and where to es-tablish a friendlier demeanor with students.
“At this age the lines are a little bit blurrier on what’s appropriate and what’s not,” Brunette said. “This genera-tion has kind of the expecta-tion that it’s more of a level playing field, and while we have to maintain a level of professionalism, it’s impor-tant to meet our students where they’re at.”
Regardless of the dynamic between students and teach-ers, Brunette still has to wor-ry about keeping a profes-sional line established within her own student friendships. For her, student-focused in-vestment shifts from just be-ing a mentor to a friend.
“It’s important for my stu-
dents to relate to me on a level that a little deeper than just an instructor,” said Bru-nette “I want them to feel that I can relate to them and they can relate to me.”
In communication profes-sor’s Jonathon Lundy’s case, occasionally the transforma-tion from student to friend is reversed. With this comes the cementing of boundaries in a professional environ-ment.
“I’ve had students that I’ve known prior to being my students and that’s kind of weird,” Lundy said. “I’m pret-ty good with shutting that off and being professional like, ‘Alright, for this semester, we’re teacher and student, and not like, ‘We’re not go-ing to go and have beers after class or whatever.’”
Teachers usually strive to build respect and trust with their students. But establish-ing how friendly they are
with their students varies from teacher to teacher.
“I always like to establish a professional relationship first so people take you se-riously,” Lundy said. “You can always start out with tight screws and then loosen them, but you can’t start out with loose screws and tight-en them down the road.”
Not every student is in-terested in befriending their professor. However, like Jackie Griesemer, a senior in communications, believes that having a friendlier dy-namic with her teachers is actually beneficial to her learning experience.
“I feel like if a teacher can do a good balance be-tween creating a friendship relationship with their stu-dents and being serious at the same time, the student can learn more and want to come to class more,” Gries-emer said.
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‘Blurred Lines’ verdict blurs artistic linesGreg KotChicago TribuneTribune News Service
There’s a reason the vast majority of musical infringe-ment cases in the music world don’t end up in front of a jury.
Count Robin Thicke among those artists who likely wonder what in the world he got himself into af-ter a Los Angeles federal jury ruled this week that he and his songwriting partners owe Marvin Gaye’s family $7.3 million. The jury found that Thicke’s 2013 hit “Blurred Lines,” written with Pharrell Williams and the rapper T.I., copied parts of Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.”
It’s one of the largest dam-age awards in a music copy-right case, and it follows embarrassing testimony in which Thicke acknowledged that he was high on drugs and alcohol while record-ing the track, and that he claimed a songwriting credit even though Williams wrote and produced the track.
“The biggest hit of my career was written by somebody else and I was jealous and wanted credit,” Thicke testi-fied. “I felt it was a little white lie that didn’t hurt his career but boosted mine.”
In response, Williams gave the spoken equivalent of a shrug: “This is what happens every day in our industry.”
Indeed it does. As Picasso once said, “Good artists bor-row, great artists steal,” and pop culture has been built on the foundation of what has come before. Anyone who says otherwise — any-one who makes a claim to complete originality — is either lying or an idiot. In a sense, just about any song you could name is a pastiche of ideas that preceded it, an homage more than a revolu-tionary, never-before-heard work. Even as renowned a songwriter as Bob Dylan has been accused with some credibility of plagiarizing lyrics. Scholars noted the similarity of lyrics on Dylan’s 2006 “Modern Times” al-
bum to those of a Civil War-era poet, Henry Timrod.
In the same way, Williams didn’t deny that “Blurred Lines” owed something to “Got to Give It Up,” and ex-pressed his deep admiration for Gaye’s music. But he said just because his track evoked a personal hero’s track doesn’t mean he copied it. “Feel, not infringement,” he insisted.
Now he, Thicke and T.I. are on the hook for millions of dollars because of how eight jurors interpreted the arcane essence of copyright law, and parsed the crucial dif-ference between an idea and the expression of that idea. The music analysis included breakdowns of four-note passages and comparisons of bass lines. Such sometimes microscopic judgments by citizens without a deep mu-sical background make one wonder how many songs, hits or otherwise, would withstand similar scrutiny.
The jury’s ruling likely will be appealed, which
should only add to the legal bills piled up in the case al-ready. The financial burden isn’t particularly onerous to deep-pocketed clients such as Williams and Thicke, but there are also costs to be paid related to public perception and credibility.
Some legal experts warn that the ruling could open the door to more infringe-ment lawsuits, serious and otherwise, and could pos-sibly have a chilling effect in how artists pay “tribute” to their influences. But that’s not likely to happen. In-fringement lawsuits have been filed against major art-ists in the past and resulted in
substantial payouts (George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord,” found to “subconsciously” plagiarize “He’s So Fine,” and the Isley Brothers claim against Michael Bolton over their “Love is a Wonderful Thing” are among the most famous). But the music-making boundaries didn’t really shift.
The only legal game-changer arrived in 1991 when a federal court ruled that rapper Biz Markie’s “Alone Again” stole copy-righted material from Gil-bert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again (Naturally).” The rap-per’s label was ordered to pull all copies of his “I Need
a Haircut” album from the market for the sin of lifting three words and a snippet of music from O’Sullivan’s hit. The ruling not only de-railed the rapper’s career, it required record companies to clear all musical samples before releasing any sample-based music and raised the price of such samples to a level that most rap producers couldn’t afford.
The “Blurred Lines” ruling won’t shift the business that drastically. But artists with big hits facing a big-bucks infringement lawsuit are probably going to be a little less eager to have their day in court.
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Centered on the journey of a young American man searching to find his grand-father in Denmark, “Copen-hagen” is a brilliant decon-struction of the young adult romance genre. Through cleverly based commentary and age gaps, “Copenhagen” is able to comment on the common misconception that romantic relationships are the only strong forces that can shape a young adult’s growth.
“Copenhagen” takes place over a series of days that shows the progression of
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In this documentary, Is-raeli filmmaker Chanoch Zeevi interviews descen-dents of high-ranking Nazi officials including Amon Goeth, Hans Frank, Her-mann Goering and Hein-
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The stories and reactions vary widely. Monika Goeth had no clue about her fa-ther’s crimes until meeting a survivor of his camp. Niklas Frank spent years travel-ling Germany speaking out against his father—an ac-tion which alienated him from much of his family who still try to deny his fa-ther’s Nazi involvement.
“Hitler’s Children,” re-leased in April 2013, seems like such an obvious topic for a documentary, it’s sur-
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After his boyfriend, Kai, dies, Richard tries every-thing he can to connect with Kai’s mother, Junn, a Cam-bodian-Chinese woman “locked” in a nursing home. Junn is isolated in a sea of English-speaking elderly people, and Richard strug-gles to find a way to connect with the one woman that
reminds him of his lost part-ner. Both are floundering in their own right, and both are alone.
Using silence as an emo-tional accent, “Lilting” lets its characters speak for themselves as Richard tries to come out on Kai’s behalf and Junn tries to accept her role in the English world that she never had to recognize before.
This film, though admit-tedly rather heavy, explores the different forms of loneli-ness that can encroach upon people of different ages, cultural backgrounds and identities.
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For more than gloryLeslie Boston-HydeCopy Editor
Freshman Drew Punnett considered quitting hockey his senior year of high school while receiving offers to play DIII hockey at other colleges.
“It got to the point that I was playing for everybody be-sides me,” Punnett said.
Instead of attending a school that offered him a
scholarship, Punnett paid $1,350 to join the Boise State hockey club. Even though he had to pay, Punnett was able to prove that he was playing hockey for himself.
“I’m glad I didn’t (quit), and I think club hockey allowed me to do that,” Punnett said. “I’m going out there every day and it’s to have fun. There’s way less pressure, and I fell in love with the sport again.”
According to Jared Cox, as-sistant director of recreational sports, students join club sports for various reasons. However, there are operating costs involved.
While the Rec Center tries to balance out the high bud-gets, student fees are neces-sary to cover the full cost of each club.
“They’re not recognized by the NCAA or athletics.
They’re under campus rec,” Cox said. “That’s why they do have to pay to play.”
Many positions are volun-teer-based, including student officers and coaches.
“There’s a few (coaches) that get paid, but we’re talk-ing $500 or a $1,000 a year, which at the end of the day is kind of considered a vol-unteer position,” Cox said. “(Coaches) want to build up
their resumes or they have the love of the sport, they want to make an impact with young people.”
Despite these costs, club-athletes believe there many benefits to playing club sports.
For freshman Kailey War-ren, club volleyball has given her the opportunity to play but still focus on other areas of her life.
“I liked it because it’s less time consuming. It’s two practices a week and (we
travel for) tournaments, but besides that, it’s not going to control my life, ,” Warren said.
For junior and Justin Vi-deen, returning from Saint Mary’s University to play for Boise State was worth the cost. He can play with the teammates he grew up with as well as play in front of his family.
“Realistically, no money could be as nice as playing in front of the people you love,” Videen said in an interview with The Arbiter in October.
Club athletes pursue sports for the love of the game
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The Rec Center gets students involvedAli RobertsStaff Writer
While Boise State might be known for the success of its football team, scholarship athletes are not the only stu-dents dedicated to sports.
Each year, dozens of stu-dents take to the fields, courts and rinks to compete in intramural and club ath-letics.
For students that want to participate in intramural or club sports, there are many options to choose from.
The Rec centers offers a wide array of sports to choose from.
From major sports like flag football to lesser known sports like slacklining, the Rec Center has something for everyone.
Most intramural and pop-ular club sports are hosted through the Rec Center. Sports teams that want to re-main at the Rec have to fol-low several requirements
“In the fall semester, (teams) have to reorganize the club for the year,” said Jared Cox assistant direc-tor of recreational sports. “Clubs need to attend meet-ings, meet with me for the year, turn in a club officer list and become active on Org-Sync.”
If clubs fail to meet these requirements, they will most likely be dropped. If the club still has remaining interest and active members, the club or sport will be moved over to Student Involvement Leadership Center and re-ceive support there.
According to Luke Jones, director of campus recre-ation, the ebb and flow of
involvement from year to year makes club sports hard to maintain.
“If you have a student that is really into it one year then they graduate and the next year no one carries it on,” Jones said. “That’s what was happening with some of our sports like dodge ball or with racquet ball or kick-ball.”
Students interested in keeping the club alive or restarting it after being dropped must contact the Student Involvement and Leadership Center.
From there, they must find a university faculty or staff advisor, register on OrgSync, create a constitution and elect officers for the club.
Club sports can also be moved from SILC back to the Rec Center. If a club can prove there is longevity to their sport and remain ac-tive, the Rec Center will support it as either a club or intramural sport.
The Rec Center requires consistent involvement in order to better plan their an-nual budget. Jones pointed to the Boise State Abraxans as an example of a club with-in SILC that has become successful.
“I know Quidditch has reached the point where they’ve got a pretty solid team and following,” Jones said. “I think they would like to make the jump from campus involvement over to being treated more like an actual club sport.”
To see what sports the Rec Center is offering or to get involved you can visit them or go to there website rec.boisestate.edu.
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