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It’s spring and change is in the air; that includes changes for Fac-ulty Senate. As old members step down and new ones come up to take their places, let’s ask ourselves, who exactly are these members and what do they do?

The senate is a body of people who represent the Boise State fac-ulty. They have legislative authori-ty for the faculty and this year alone they’ve made decisions regarding: standing by the Idaho State Uni-versity Faculty Senate in its time of need, forming a new constitution and voting on teacher salaries.

The senate members are a very busy crew, spending hours unpaid working on faculty business. So why do they do it?

Many senators said joining the senate is an excellent way to get the feel of Boise State’s political cli-mate and meet like-minded people. Others have mixed reviews about their time on the senate. Associate Professor Anthony Marker of in-structional and performance tech-nology, acknowledges the down-sides to the job.

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Boise State’s campus graces Boise with its beauty, but a walk across the quad in 1932 would be over the airport runway, and 10 years before would have been a soggy marshland.

Boise Junior College first opened in the North End in 1932 at St. Mar-garet’s Hall, formerly a prep school for girls.

The idea for a junior college in Boise began with several studies to verify whether Boise had enough students interested in attending a lo-cal college. At that time, Boise had the largest population in the state but did not have its own college even though less populated cities did.

Due to the economic upheaval with the 1929 stock market crash, parents could not afford to send their children to the other colleges in the state due to the distance and boarding requirements. So, Bishop Middleton Barnwell decided to open St. Marga-ret’s prep school for girls as a two-year college in 1932. The new Boise Junior College was born.

St. Margaret’s Hall was a Gothic three-story brick structure built in 1892 by the Episcopal Church and had operated as a women’s prepara-tion school for 40 years. The library contained about 2,000 books but seating was limited to 30 students. Students also utilized the Carnegie Library that was located a few blocks west.

There were 78 students and 15 faculty members when the college opened in the fall with Bishop Mid-dleton Barnwell as the president. The $73 tuition per semester included various fees for labs, registration and equipment damages. Students were required to take 15 credits per semes-ter.

The first college constitution was patterned after the document used by Boise High School. The melody for the school song came from Cor-nell University and the school colors,

royal navy and orange, were chosen because no other school in the region had that color combination.

According to Glen Barret’s book, the class president, Kenneth Rob-ertson, said that students knew of the horrible colors of teams they had played. Cast-off uniforms were used by the football team for the four games that were played in fall 1933. The Bronco name was selected by a student vote.

The college newspaper was called The Roundup and published its first paper in October of 1933. The Les Boise yearbook was published the following year and continued until

1978 when yearbook publication was suspended.

In 1934, a board of directors was es-tablished after the Episcopal Church ended its affiliation with the school.

The school operated at this site until 1939 when St. Luke’s Hospital authorities decided that St. Marga-ret’s Hall would be the perfect facility for their new nurses training program. The college student population had also increased enough to cause over-crowding and Barnwell sought to re-locate the campus elsewhere where there would be room for future ex-pansion.

Several sites were considered such

as the Fort Boise area off Fort Street but federal authorities would not sell the land as they planned to build there. Another area considered was the old Veteran’s Home located on State Street, but the city had plans to create a park at that location. Another suggested site was east of the Union Pacific Depot through the Riden-baugh family but that fell through as well.

Eugene Chaffee, the history and physical education supervisor, sug-gested the college take over the space left by the Varney Airline when

1929 stock market crash spawns Boise’s first college

Students of Boise Junior College pose outside St. Margaret’s Hall in the North End Sept. 6, 1932.

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United Airlines bought out that company.

The airport subsequently moved to its present location shortly after the Varney sale.

After the decision had been made to move Boise Junior Col-lege to the old airfield taxpayers approved a $260,000 bond in November 1939. The construc-tion of the Administration build-ing began immediately and when completed, this building housed all of the classrooms, the library, labs, administrative offices and a large room for the student union. The large hangar east of the Ad-min building was converted into

the gym which was used for 15 years, until a new facility was built. Following the construction of the Oliver Haga Administra-tion building, Works Projects Administration money was used to build the heat plant.

Additional buildings such as the Music Building, now known as the Hemingway Building, opened in 1941.

As the college grew, the col-lege name changed to reflect this growth; Boise College in 1965 as a four-year school with bacca-laureate degrees attainable, Boise State College in 1969, and finally Boise State University in 1974.

The Construction Manage-ment Association (CMA) Fri-day will host the recreation of the windmill project inspired by William Kamkwamba’s book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

The goal of the project is not only to bring competi-tion between students but to understand the importance of the book and the effort Kam-kwamba put toward providing electricity to his community in Africa.

The book talks about Kam-kwamba’s plan to build a wind-mill that could bring his com-munity the electricity no one could afford.

The CMA will build one windmill and each team will replicate Kamkwamba’s original windmill in Malawi, Africa with materials provided.

Each team must use their lim-ited resources efficiently.

The event will begin with a safety talk followed by teams deciding on the design of their windmill.

Students will be protected with hard hats, gloves, vests and closed-toe shoes.

Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a non-profit humanitar-ian organization that takes on sustainable engineering proj-ects, will also be a part of the project by assisting the teams with any problems they may have.

“I think the CMA does a lot of cool projects and this will be useful. I’m all about the wind-mills,” said Caitlin Beausoleil, 22-year-old communications major from Idaho Falls.

The recreation of the wind-mill is tomorrow in the quad.

To sign up for participation contact David Copperman at DavidCopperman@u.boises-tate.edu

Students hammer out windmill competition

The Associated Students of Boise State University (ASBSU) Election Board delayed cam-paigning from Monday to Tues-day because the verification pro-cess took longer than expected because there were “... so many students interested in running this year.”

This year 15 students are run-

ning for six positions. Last year’s Spring election consisted of 20 candidates.

“I don’t think it affected cam-paigning overall,” said Gus Voss, 20-year-old, junior political sci-ence major from Boise, running for Assembly Speaker. “It actually ended up working in my benefit.”

Though campaigning was pushed back, election dates haven’t changed. Elections will still be next week, April 13 and 14.

ASBSU campaigning delayed a day

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boring and intensely stressful,” Marker said.

Marker also acknowledges going into the meetings with an open mind can be benefi-cial.

“I’ve found other faculty who have forced me to recon-sider my own assumptions and positions on issues.”

Associate Professor of chemistry and bio-chemistry and President of the Faculty

Senate, Owen MacDougal said some of his reasons for joining were to to be involved with students, student gov-ernment and enhancement to the learning environment. A charismatic and dedicated president, MacDougal will step down in April after four years of service, easing into the new role of past-president, an adviser to the current president.

William Kamkwamba works on his now historic wind-mill in Malawi, Africa from a hodge podge of materials. Construction Management Association students will be preparing windmills as part of a competition Friday on campus.

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No current foreign policy consider-ation has attracted more attention and controversy than the military inter-vention in Libya. Some people think we’re doing too much, some think we’re doing too little, and some think we shouldn’t be involved at all. I think the decision to join an international coalition to intervene in Libya was the correct choice.

As U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen men-tioned in Boise Monday, the post-Cold War world is full of constant change and uncertainty. Mullen said if someone had predicted to him three months ago that the U.S. military would be involved in Libya and Japan, he would have thought they were cra-zy. Yet, look where we are today.

This rapid change is what U.S. President Barack Obama and his staff have been scrambling to address and formulate positions on. The “Arab Spring,” as the Middle Eastern demo-cratic movements are being termed, is one particularly erratic example.

Obama’s main reason for interven-ing in Libya was to avoid a drastic international tragedy. When Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi reached the outskirts of the rebel strong-hold, Benghazi, and made threats to hunt down his opponents “house by house” and “inch by inch,” the inter-national community decided enough was enough. Qaddafi’s intentions were made even clearer when he added he would “fight until the last drop of blood” and was willing to die as a mar-tyr. No doubt he would have followed through.

With the support of the United Na-tions Security Council, NATO and the Arab League, a coalition of 10 countries led by France, imposed a no-fly-zone on Libya. That means they destroyed Libya’s anti-aircraft weap-onry and began policing the country’s airspace so that Qaddafi could not use his planes to strafe and bomb rebels. The coalition has now expanded to 17 countries and is currently shifting leadership of the operation to NATO.

America’s role in the intervention is vital to the coalition’s mission. The United States has several unique ca-pabilities that other coalition’s mem-bers are lacking, mainly surveilling, communication jamming, and air refueling technologies. Without U.S. support, there might have been no intervention at all.

The domestic political implications of this conflict are large. This is a risky gamble for Obama. A successful mis-sion could build him a lot of support, but if the military gets bogged down and clear objectives are not achieved, it could be political suicide. No one wants Libya to turn into another Iraq.

Obama is doing the right thing by supporting and participating in the Libya intervention. He realizes that al-lowing Qaddafi to murder thousands of civilians could have potentially hijacked the Arab Spring and shown other dictators that extreme violence is a viable option. Moreover, the Unit-ed States is cooperating with other countries and not taking a leading role. This is a smart and pragmatic position for the U.S. since we are heavily in-vested in two other wars in the region.

Though joining the coalition inter-vening in Libya was the right decision, Obama must be very careful to court public approval and not over-commit our already very committed military resources.

Funding reductions, inequalities unfair

to Boise StateTyler KirKham

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Boise State students should be out-raged. For every $3 the University of Idaho receives for each full-time equiv-alent (FTE) student from the state, Boise State gets $2.

According to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, Boise State may be the highest funded state university, with $137 million for fiscal year 2010, but it’s the lowest funded when weighed for FTE enrollment, re-ceiving $2,422 per FTE student, com-pared to the $3,593 the University of Idaho gets. Of the $377.6 million ap-propriated for higher education for fis-cal year 2011, the University of Idaho will receive $125.7 million, according to the Idaho Legislative Fiscal Report. Boise State will get only $300,000 more, for a total of $126 million.

“I’ve lived here my entire life. The fact that U of I gets more funding is astounding,” said Hailey Hyde, a soph-omore biology major. “I’d like to take a look at where the legislators gradu-ated.”

Boise State enrolled 19,129 students this spring, compared to University of Idaho’s enrollment of 11,710 students (both numbers mix part-time and full-time students). It is completely unreasonable -- almost fraudulent -- to expect that $300,000 is enough for the difference of almost 8,000 students.

“No university is overfunded,” said Stephen Heleker at his March 16 press

conference. “We must see equitable funding for Boise State students.”

This lack of funding is hurting Boise State’s growth. A law -- the Enroll-ment Workload Adjustment Act -- was meant to adjust the level of funding to the state’s four-year colleges and universities based on changes in their enrollment numbers. But Boise State’s growth has outpaced the EWA pro-gram, which hasn’t been funded since 2007. This lack of funding has cost Boise State $10.3 million this year. It’s another unfair burden placed on BSU students.

This huge difference in funding isn’t limited to Boise State, nor is it a recent trend. Idaho State University is the second largest university in Idaho, with 12,173 students enrolled this spring, and the second lowest funding per FTE student ($2,592). And Boise State has been the least funded univer-sity per student since 2006.

There is no easy solution to funding. Even with EWA funds, Boise State has been growing faster than the program is able to handle. A long-term solu-tion would be to change the funding model, but that would take years of concentrated effort and student and community support.

“(Boise State’s) growth is sustain-able with workload adjustment,” said Heleker, but “we will run out of ways to get around the issue. Our next step is to make sure every student at Boise State and in Idaho knows about funding.”

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Social networking sites not playgrounds for kidsChrisTine riTChie

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Facebook has broadened its horizons tremendously since it began in 2004 by inviting everyone to register for an account.

What started as a site that required a university email address is now open to anyone interested in broadcasting his or her daily life.

Well, almost anyone. Those under the age of 13 are “ineligible” to sign-up, as the site will kindly tell someone who attempts a 1999 birth date registration. That same person will then be barred from signing up again with a different birth date. It turns out Facebook is se-rious about keeping the world’s youth offline.

In their Privacy Policy, Facebook im-plores those younger than 13 to refrain from registering an account, or even providing any personal information to the site.

If a youth’s information is known to the site, they will immediately remove it by deleting the account. In fact, Face-book kicks off around 20,000 underage users every day.

The site’s main concern, of course, is limiting the risk of online preda-tors using Facebook information as a means to meet and harass youth. How-ever, monitoring who’s telling the truth about their age and who’s not is nearly impossible.

It seems the social networking site is fighting a lost cause.

Gage Sorensen, freshman English major, thinks it would be impossible to find disguised youth.

“It’s not hard to lie about your birth-day. There is no way they could ever prove anything,” Sorensen said.

Yet the question remains: how young is too young to be on social networking sites?

Those who are 13 years old and younger should be paying more at-tention in school and socializing with people in real life, not hiding behind computer screens or fraternizing with complete strangers.

Banning minors from the Internet is the only way to stop online predators, besides a mass mental change in our society, but this completely unrealistic. So in the meantime, it is appropriate to evaluate how parents are handling what their children are doing online.

Parents should play a vital role in educating their kids about the won-ders and dangers of being online. Some parents may not want to seem too con-trolling of their kids, or would rather they learn the harm of the Internet firsthand. However, it is not a mom’s job or a dad’s job to be so passive in the raising of their children.

It’s silly, parents will barely have “the talk” about sex with their kids but won’t sit down for a few minutes to tell them they shouldn’t talk to strange people online.

They need to take the initiative and teach their children how to use the In-ternet -- especially sites such as Face-book and Myspace -- appropriately.

Sorensen believes talking with kids is only the first step.

“I believe in educating children on things and then allowing them to ex-periment. After all, there’s no way for me to completely keep them from do-ing it, so instead of making it a huge fight, why not just educate them on how it works?” he said.

Parents need to help Facebook with this battle starting at home. Avoiding the Internet altogether really is impos-sible, and not very realistic. It’s time for parents to steer their pre-teens to-ward understanding and using the Web smartly. And kudos to the giant social networking site for drawing the line somewhere.

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Boise’s own Treasure Valley Roller Girls skate feverishly under the house lights of Qwest Arena.

Roller derby, formerly known as the profes-sional wrestling of the skating world, has estab-lished itself as an international phenomena and subculture around the globe.

It is essentially a race to the front of the pack. During bouts, skaters are divided into jammers and blockers. The jammers score points by navigating through the blockers and distanc-ing themselves from the group while blockers concentrate on not letting others pass. Points are awarded after the initial pass is made and as more revolutions are made around the track.

The Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, otherwise known as the WFTDA, is the all see-ing eye of the roller derby world.

Boise adopted the sport slightly later than most of the country but has managed to build a stable team over the years thanks to skaters such as co-president and lead jammer Casey “Dawn of the Shred” Langenbach and other founding members.

A Craigslist ad in 2006 helped form four home teams such as Cell Block B, The B-Town Battalion, The Derailers, and the Devil’s Dar-lings. However, sustaining these initial teams proved quite the challenge as the shift from

four separate groups would dwindle to a team called Treasure Valley Roller Girls, with an A team and a B team.

After moving from Santa Rosa, Calif., Dawn of the Shred, or “Shred,” landed in Boise where she would meet her neighbor and roller girl, Rachelle “Skid & Nancy” Thomas. Shred heard of roller derby in a magazine and upon meet-ing Skid, went on to become one of the most prominent skaters in town.

“For me it’s always something I wanted to do,” Shred said. “Where I lived at the time they didn’t have roller derby, but when I moved to Boise, my neighbor let me borrow her skates and Dawn of the Shred was born.”

As a kid, Shred was known to be pretty speedy on those four wheels of hers, and being geared toward a more under-ground lifestyle made roller derby an obvious choice. Between mak-ing costumes, hamming it up after a good jam and acting like maniac, Shred has really found her

place in the sports world.“If baseball is the perfect game, then roller

derby is the perfect sport,” said Shred.Shred recalls her first bout against the Devil’s

Darlings as one of her finer moments in roller derby. A run-in with the team’s best blocker left Shred on her back and barely able to breathe.

“I was jamming and basically she came in front of me, turned, put her shoulder into my solar plexus, lifted me off the ground and I fell flat on my back,” Shred said. “All these whistles went off so I crawled back to my bench but it turned out that the jam wasn’t over. So the other jammer kept going around and scor-ing all these points while I died on the side of the track.”

Amidst the drama and the ferocity of roller girls is the importance of their

nicknames. These can be self-proclaimed or attributed to a

skater by fellow team mem-bers, although the latter

isn’t always desired.“One of the

most dangerous things is to let

the team name you,” said Roller Girls coach Dave “Yippy Skippy” Rencher about establish-ing an identity on and off the track.

A misconception about rollers girls is that they are the dregs of society. When people hear of women dressed up in outlandish get ups and flying around a skating rink at danger-ous speeds, what may come to mind is drug-induced, frenzied, violence.

“Most of the women in this league have at least a bachelor’s and several have master’s de-grees. They’re almost all professionals in some facet of society,” Shred said. “Your nurse might be a roller girl.”

For up-and-coming fresh meat, a good atti-tude and willingness to learn is enough to take the first step, but a physical toughness and ac-celerated skating abilities are what grants skat-ers access onto the team.

Passing skills are one of the most crucial parts of the drafting process and include the ability to skate on one foot, block, stop, fall and scrimmage. Other than acquiring the skill set, those wanting to be a part of the team are re-quired to make at least two, two-hour practices a week. Skaters aren’t required to have any pre-vious experience with skating and there is al-ways the option to borrow any necessary gear.

“Everybody looks like shit when they first get here and put on roller skates. Don’t be em-barrassed, and don’t be scared. We’re really nice and we’ll teach you what you need to know,” Shred said.

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The next bout for the Treasure Valley Roller Girls is their season home opener at the Qwest Arena April 9 against the Southern Oregon Roller Girls and the Salt Lake City Shakers. Kids seats are $4. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the action starts at 7 p.m. sharp. Advance tickets are available for $10 and can be found at the Record Exchange.

The women of Boise’s Derby Girls practice getting their fight on at a practice rink in downtown Boise. They train for two hours a day twice a week to be able to defeat fellow femme fatales in the intense roller derby battles. Roller derby women come from many different kinds of professions.

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Over the last 70 years, in the world of DC Comics, there have been four differ-ent versions of the super fast superhero know as The Flash. Now a fifth Flash has made appearances at Boise State in the last two Beat Coach Pete Scholarship Runs. The Ar-biter recently unmasked the hero and we are revealing his identity: junior athletic train-ing major Thomas Freeman.

It all started one Halloween when Freeman decided that he wanted to dress up as the famous comic book character.

“They didn’t have any regu-lar, normal human sized cos-tumes,” Freeman said. And like a real-life superhero, Free-man ripped the child-sized Flash costume the first time he tried to put it on.

The costume was modified and Freeman suited up as his superhero alter ego to race Coach Pete two years in a row. Although he will not be able to race this year -- after all, The Flash still has crime fight-ing responsibilities -- Free-man hopes one of his friends will carry the torch. Super-man? Green Lantern?

Even though he is known for his superhuman speed, The Flash doesn’t run from the camera. Freeman was of-ten stopped for photos and was happy to oblige.

“You only live once so you might as well make that last-ing impression,” Freeman advised.

In fact, Freeman hopes he has inspired others, if not to dress up as superheroes, to go out and have a great time for a great cause.

“The more people you can bring out there, the more fun you can have with it,” Freeman said. “It’s all for a good cause and whether you beat Pete or not, you’re raising money for scholarships.”

The man behind the mask calls for superhero gathering

Thomas “Flash Gordon” Freeman, a Boise State junior majoring in athletic train-ing, has sported Flash’s attire to race in the annual Beat Pete fun run.

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Butler’s two-year run in the NCAA Tournament was noth-ing short of ridiculous for several reasons.

Not only did the Bulldogs play in two national champion-ship during that stretch, they beat some very good teams to get there with limited resources avail-able to them.

Coming from a small confer-ence, and playing in a stadium which was once part of the great-est basketball history of all time sets Butler apart. This year’s But-ler team were true underdogs. The 2009-10 Bulldogs were sup-posed to be tournament sleepers and many picked them to go deep. Tthe 2010-11 team was picked by many to be eliminated in the first round by Old Dominion.

The sad part about the whole story is even though Butler did

make unprecedented history by defining the odds not once, but twice, the Bulldogs never won the tournament. Butler came painfully close in the 2010 cham-pionship, losing to Duke 61-59. Don’t forget the Bulldogs had a chance to tie the Blue Devils late when Gordon Hayward missed a contested fade-away shot from on the baseline that nearly went in. Hayward also narrowly missed a half-court shot that would have won the game right before

the buzzer sounded.2011 was supposed to be dif-

ferent. A majority of people thought Butler had a much better chance at defeating Connecticut. When Butler completely failed to show up in the second half, the Huskies took control and became the aggressors. The Bulldogs had absolutely nothing inside and couldn’t make a three-point shot to save their lives. Shelvin Mack and Matt Howard went cold and the rest of the beleaguered

team followed.How will Butler be remem-

bered? It will be a great story to tell your children if you live in In-diana or if you are a Butler alum. Other than that, the Bulldogs will be remembered for having two prime chances to slay Goliath, but couldn’t get it done. In fact, it was much worse of an effort the second time around.

Will Brad Stevens stay after losing again in the champion-ship? Stevens seems to love

Butler and doesn’t like getting caught up in big time basketball. He reminds many of Boise State head coach Chris Petersen. Both young coaches who try and keep their teams focused and ground-ed with so much pressure and doubt surrounding them. With that said, Stevens will stay at But-ler for now. If he can’t continue the success he’s experienced to this point, Stevens will bounce. The same could easily be said about Petersen.

Patton confident nearing final leg of tennis season

brittney JohnsonAssistant Sports Editor

With Boise State moving to the Mountain West Conference next year, all the teams are looking to leave one last parting gift with the Western Athletic Conference schools, a gift in the form of big conference wins.

BSU men’s tennis is no differ-ent and is setting itself up to do so at home this year since it hosts the WAC Championships.

The Broncos (13-10, 1-1) have had a grueling season thus far, play-ing nationally ranked teams on a weekly basis. With this weekend off the Broncos are preparing for their biggest matches yet. They will play No. 56 Hawai’i, No. 44 Fresno State and No. 9 Stanford all in one competitive weekend in California April 14-16.

“This is like Independence Day, it’s so big because it’s the third part of our season. We have a big time to push up in the rankings and maybe insure ourselves a spot in the NCAA (Championships). So everything does matter. Before it mattered if we were getting better, now it matters because we’ve got to have results,” head coach Greg Patton said.

With two WAC schools on the schedule in two weeks the Broncos are looking to put the earlier WAC loss to Idaho behind them and con-centrate on seeding for the WAC Tournament, which the Broncos host April 29 through May 1.

“I’ve never had it here. I’ve seen all the pictures, it’s going to be pret-ty fun,” sophomore Phillip Pogost-kin said. Hopefully everyone can come out and support and hope-fully the weather is going to be nice. I suppose we haven’t lost the WAC here at home, so we’re not going to

be the first ones to do that.”This week Pogostkin was named

WAC Men’s Tennis Player of the Week, marking the third time for a Boise State men’s tennis player.

“It’s always nice to get something like that and to be respected. It was a little unexpected. I’m not doing so well on my season, but I came out and did what I could and got the honor,” Pogostkin said.

Pogostkin has been playing No. 3 doubles with freshman Andy Bet-tles and No. 2 doubles all season. Bettles and Pogostkin are riding a 10-match win-streak in doubles, and with two big singles wins this past weekend, Pogostkin improves to 14-14 on the season.

“It (WAC Player of the Week) affirms what Pogo’s capable of and we’ve put him kind of high and we threw him to the dogs and now he’s got to survive being in the dog house,” Patton said.

Pogostkin hasn’t been the only impressive performer as of late. Freshman Andy Bettles, who is just

18 years old, has won 23 of his past 24 matches to help to Broncos late in the season.

“He’s been a great player as a junior playing No. 1 and No. 2 in England. But the thing that’s help-ing him is he loves the team and the team loves him. Everyday he’s get-ting quality practice, everyday he’s getting quality matches and it’s only natural that his talent is going to flourish and blossom,” Patton said of the rising Bronco star.

With Pogostkin and Bettles fir-ing on all cylinders and a ranked doubles team of Scott Sears and Damian Hume, a singles national ranking for Hume, the Broncos are poised to make one final run at the WAC title, something that Hawai’i has kept on the islands for three years.

“We know we can beat anyone in the nation, but we’ve shown we can lose to anyone in the nation, which is a really bad thing. We know we can win and that’s the important thing,” Pogostkin said.

Damian Hume came to Boise State as the most decorated junior college players in the country from 2009-10 at Collin College in Texas.

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The No. 57 ranked Boise State Women’s tennis team has been on roll as of late, winning its last three matches and looking to make a serious run at a back-to-to back Western Athletic Conference Championships.

But before BSU looks too far ahead, it will focus on the final three remaining matches to close out the regular season and then prepare to put the final icing on the cake of the season’s ultimate goal, a WAC Championship.

“Every match is important for us in our preparation for a WAC Championship,” head coach Beck Roghaar said. “If we are going to win the WAC, this is where it’s go-ing to happen for us, the work has been put in, it’s time to see who’s been doing it and who hasn’t.”

The Broncos last loss was almost a month ago to the racquets of Southern Methodist University in Las Vegas on March 13. Since that minor setback, it’s been smooth sailing as the Broncos beat the Uni-versity of Oregon before destroy-ing San Jose State University and Montana State University this past weekend.

This weekend, the Broncos (13-6), will wrap up WAC play on the road as they head to Reno, Nev., to square off in a double-header with University of Nevada-Reno Wolf Pack (5-9, 1-1 ) and the New Mexico State Aggies (9-5, 1-1)

The WAC conference records of UNR and NMSU may not be as glaring as the conference leading Broncos (3-0), but Roghaar be-lieves that doesn’t matter and BSU

needs to be focused on the task at hand, which are this weekend’s matches.

“These are two quality WAC op-ponents, I don’t think were looking past these teams at all,” Roghaar said. “Our sole thought right now is getting ready for New Mexico State on Saturday, after that we’ll prepare for UNR on Sunday.”

The Broncos regular season finale will be Sunday, April 24 as they host the University of Hawai’i Warriors.

Not only will the Broncos have to remain focused on the courts in the weeks that follow, but they will also have to continue to take care of business in the classroom, as prepa-ration for final exams will weigh

on the minds of the athletes across BSU’s campus.

“We just need to keep practicing hard, and continue to support the team,” sophomore Marlena Piet-zuch said. “Some people have ex-ams and we need to help keep each other motivated.”

If indeed the Broncos can pick up wins this weekend and defeat Hawai’i when they return home, they will have positioned them-selves for a No. 1 seed in WAC Tournament.

“Every team we play is good, I like our chances (of repeating) and we’ve been playing well, but that’s why you play the game, to see who’s going to step out there and get it done,” Roghaar said.

Boise State senior Stephanie Jasper defeated San Jose State’s Chau Truong 6-1, 6-3 April 2.

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The Boise State women’s soft-ball team had a successful seven day road trip with a .500 winning percentage, finishing its final road game with a 5-3 win Sunday at Saint Mary’s.

The Broncos had a five-run lead going into the seventh in-ning, when the game took an in-teresting turn. In the final inning the Gael’s hit a two-run home run off the left field foul pole to trim BSU’s lead to two. However, sophomore Lela Work retired the next two batters to cement the win for the Broncos.

“We had that 5-0 lead which kind of gave us some cushion room and we were pretty confi-dent going into the seventh in-ning,” freshman Devon Bridges said. “Once they got some run-ners on, you’re a little ansi, but just try to stay calm and have faith in our pitcher, who was Lela at the time. She was able to pull through for us.”

The team is coming off a seven day road trip, but this was not the first time the women had experi-enced a series of away games. In fact, the first three weeks of their season was spent on the road.

“I think at this point they are kind of used to it. We haven’t had that seven day trip yet this year, but I think they do a pretty good job of managing it as they go. But we definitely do need to regroup and focus on what our goal is so that it can help push us forward and concentrate throughout the rest of the season,” head coach Erin Thorpe said.

These goals are made that much more possible by the strengths of the offense in its aggressive bat-ting style and communication between players.

“Offensively all of our girls know that they can be successful at any point in time,” Thorpe said. “I feel extremely confident with the nine girls that we put on the lineup every game. I know that at any point if someone is having a bad day, somebody else is going to be able to pick them up. So the

confidence factor with the offen-sive lineup is probably the biggest strength of the lineup.”

The Broncos have experienced big scoring innings this year be-cause of the momentum they gain when they start an inning off well.

“We all really get along and when we are playing, if one per-son hits or gets a home run, the next person just wants to do that. We say hitting is contagious, so once things get started we all do it, it just keeps going,” sophomore Holly Bourke said.

The relationships between the team is also a large contributing factor to the success the Broncos have had has thus far.

“For all of us, at least for me being new to the team, I think that we have really good chem-istry and that everybody kind of knows each others strengths and weaknesses,” Bridges said. “If you know someone makes an error or doesn’t have a good at bat, we are able to pick them up and kind of have that kind of chemistry going on.”

The Broncos will host Louisi-ana Tech April 8 and 9 at Moun-tain Cove Softball Field. The game plan for the team is to hone in on the individual abilities of the players, in order to refine their skills and focus on moving for-ward. The home crowd will also play a major contributing factor in the confidence of the team.

“We love being at home. We love the atmosphere. We love the announcing crew, the games that they do and the music that they play. It is a nice atmosphere for us so we get that extra kick of energy by playing at home,” Thorpe said.

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Holly Bourke celebrates with teammates after scoring a run. The Boise State softball team swept the three-game series with the Wolf Pack March 25-26.

““—Head coach, Erin Thorpe

Offensively all of our girls know that they can be successful at any point in time. I feel extremely con-fident with the nine girls that we put on the lineup every game. I know that at any point if someone is having a bad day, somebody else is going to be able to pick them up. So the confidence factor with the offensive lineup is probably the biggest strength of the lineup.

REMAINING SOFTBALL SCHEDULE

April8 Louisiana Tech

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Looking into the futureMen’s basketball brings in new

recruits, prepares for Mountain West

wyatt MartinJournalist

Heading into last season, few had much hope for a Boise State basketball team that appeared to be in rebuilding mode. With a new coaching staff, a new system and seven seniors, most didn’t have the Broncos making out of the first round of the Western Athletic Confer-ence tournament.

Luckily it didn’t appear that any of the Broncos were paying attention to their preseason critics. Finishing second in the WAC, missing the NCAA tournament by one game, and winning two games in

the College Basketball Invitational post-season tournament, gave Bronco Nation faith in a team to root for past the month of December.

Boise State saw impressive perfor-mances by some of its freshman players towards the end of their campaign last season. Head coach Leon Rice will be hoping to build upon those performanc-es during this offseason. With another year in this system, players like Jeff Elor-riaga, Thomas Bropleh and Ryan Wat-kins should have the tools to become key players for Rice’s Broncos next season.

Shooting guard Jeff Elorriaga found his rhythm from behind the arc late in the season. Helping the Broncos not only

with his ability to make big shots, but coming up with key defensive plays at pivotal points in games as well.

Guard/forward Thomas Bropleh was able to step up and hit key shots for Boise State, along with helping in the rebound-ing category. Forward Ryan Watkins also helped the Broncos inside with his length and ability to hit shots with soft touch from mid-range. Wes Perryman and Tre Nichols will anchor the Broncos backcourt as seniors next season, and will most likely share time at point guard.

While the Broncos will surely miss the seven seniors that will be leaving this year, they’re hoping that some of their incom-ing recruits will be able to make up some

of the slack. Power Forward Darrious Hamilton, a three-star recruit out of San Antonio, Texas, headlines Rice’s 2011 re-cruiting class. At 6’8” 230 pounds, Ham-ilton will have a chance to get on the floor in a hurry to fill a Boise State front court that lacks size and depth.

The Broncos will also welcome a pair of international players from the Aus-tralian Institute of Sports, in Canberra, Australia.

Shooting guard Igor Hadziomerovic and small forward Anthony Drmic will bring their talents to the north-ern hemisphere, and suit up for Boise State next season.

As Boise State makes its move into one

of the premier basketball conferences in the West next season, it will need these young players and recruits to step into big shoes in a hurry.

Playing against tournament teams like San Diego State and University of Nevada Las Vegas will force the Bron-cos to sink or swim against superior competition.

Coach Rice will need to find leader-ship on a team that will be lacking upper-classmen with only three seniors and no juniors. But with second-year players like Elorriaga, Bropleh and Watkins, Boise State will have the tools to win next sea-son no matter what conference they’re playing in.

Returning BroncosWes Perryman

PG/SG RSr 6’1” 180 - Boston, Mass. (Monroe College)

Tre NicholsPG/SG Sr 5’11” 168 - Killeen, Texas (McLennan CC/ Texas

State)

Drew WilleySG Sr 6’7” 215 - McKenzie

River, Ore. (Oregon)

Jeff Elorriaga SG So 6’2” 180 - Portland, Ore.

Thomas Bropleh SG/SF So 6’5” 203 - Denver,

Colo.

G.A. Hill PG RSo 5’9” 150 - Arkansas

Pass, Texas

Ryan Watkins PF So 6’8” 247 - Canyon Coun-

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Isaac Oeltjen PF So 7’0” 224 Welch, Minn.

Sam Hicks PF RSo 6’9” 248 - Redding,

Calif.

Incoming RecruitsDarrious Hamilton

PF 6’8” 230San Antonio, Texas

Michael Thompson PG 6’1” 160 - Las Vegas, Nev.

Igor Hadziomerovic SG 6’4” 190 - Canbera, Aus-tralia (Australian Institute of

Sports)

Joe Hanstad SG 6’3” 190 - Dickinson, N.D.

Derrick Marks SG 6’2” 175 - Plainfield, Ill.

Anthony Drmic SF 6’5” 195 - Canbera, Australia

(Australian Institute of Sports)

Alan Williams C 6’7” 260 - Phoenix, Ariz.

Kenny Buckner C 6’9” 245 - Twin Falls, Idaho (College of Southern Idaho)

Freshman Ryan Watkins looks to score over an Evans-ville defender during the second round of the CBI Tournament March 21 at Taco Bell Arena.

Junior Westly Perryman will be one of Boise State’s strongest leaders as a senior in the 2011-12 season. Perryman averaged 6.1 PPG and 2.6 RPG in 2010-11.

*Basketball recruiting not completely finalized.

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