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Campaign continues to raise sexual violence awarenessGenevieve LingCOMM 273Courtesy
It’s On Us is a cultural movement aimed at fun-damentally shifting the way society views sexual assault; it is a rallying cry inviting everyone to step up and realize that the solu-tion begins with them.
Boise State is inviting students to come forward and take that pledge.
“Taking the pledge is a commitment to take a stand against sexual assault. It says that you support the safety and respect of your fellow students and will work towards a consent culture at your university,” It’s On Us Coordinator Hailey Weatherby said in an email.
As a campus, Boise State has run many initiatives to increase awareness about sexual assault and working to shift responsibility on the victim to the commu-nity.
One in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted in college. Only 13 percent of rape survivors
report assault, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Still today, sexual assaults remain one of the most un-derreported crimes.
“Nationally, sexual as-saults are very underreport-ed to campus authorities. I don’t doubt that our insti-tution is different than any other nationally so we’ve done a lot of work to really try and educate bystanders as well as educate students about resources,” said Adri-ane Bang, associate direc-tor of the Women’s Center. “There isn’t culturally a lot of support for people who experience sexual assault.”
ASBSU has joined forces with many offices and or-ganizations on campus to assist the victims of sexual assault.
Victims of sexual assault might be surprised that the legality involved when re-porting the crime can be as minimal or as substantial as they would like.
“The reporting process in the past has required survi-vors to tell and retell their stories, which can be trau-matic and uncomfortable,”
Weatherby said. “Boise State has revised their pro-cess so victims only have to tell their story once and the rest of the legal necessities happen without the need for victims to relive the sit-uation again and again.”
Confidentiality can be important to some victims,
and this can be made pos-sible as well.
“Folks who come to our area are given confidential-ity so they don’t have to re-port anything,” Bang said. “What is said here, stays here.”
ASBSU has provided Boise State with the re-
sources necessary to spread the information; now they believe it’s up to the stu-dent body to take action.
ASBSU is hosting a film screening and panel dis-cussion for “The Hunting Ground” on April 21 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. in the Look-out Room.
The screening is done in association with Novem-ber’s Its On Us campaign.
To learn more about It’s On Us on a campus level, visit asbsu.boises-tate.edu. To learn more about the campaign as a nationwide initiative, visit ItsOnUs.org.
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Today is the perfect op-portunity to talk about my favorite study method—flashcards!
When making flash cards, be sure to break down the in-formation into small segments so it’s only one concept/defi-
nition/idea per card.Use your resources and
color code the different units of the book so that each stack of flashcards is naturally broken into sev-eral chunks of knowledge. Color-coding is great be-cause it gives you another form of association to recall information with when you are taking a test.
When you study the flashcards, start early and start with only a small portion. Each day, re-view the material you’ve already learned and add a fresh chunk of cards to the pile—this way, by the time you reach test time, you can easily recall all the infor-mation in your mountain of flash cards because you
have practiced it over and over.
When you are done with your flashcards, be sure to label them with the date, test and subject and store them safely for the semes-ter. This way, when it’s time to start reviewing for your cumulative final exam, all the flash cards are already made.
Study Tip: Use color-coded flashcards to improve retention
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Boise State provides legal advice to studentsPatrick AdcockStaff Writer
For 30 years, Margaret Lezamiz and John Schroeder have been giving legal advice to students at Boise State.
Lezamiz and Schroeder advise students on legal is-sues. In the past they have aided with landlord and tenant issues and criminal charges.
Both have been practicing law together since 1981. Ac-cording to Lezamiz, it is this experience that makes them such a valuable resource for students.
The program is run through the Dean of Stu-dents and funded by the As-sociated Students of Boise State.
According to Lezamiz, le-gal matters can be very com-
plex and confusing, making it important for students to know their rights and know how to act in a particular situation.
Part of the reason Leza-miz chooses to renew her firm’s contract with the uni-versity each year is because she thinks it’s important that legal council is available to everyone.
Currently, provided fund-ing allows for Lezamiz and Schroeder to meet with stu-dents two days a week.
Since Lezamiz and Schro-eder have worked in the area for such a long time they have a vast knowledge of the resources accessible to stu-dents.
According to Lezamiz, be-ing available twice a week allows for sufficient avail-ability for students, as many
situations require multiple visits. When students make return visits that is when Lezamiz and Schroeder are able to provide the best ser-vice, especially in criminal cases.
“You can’t do it less than two days a week,” Lezamiz said.
During the ASBSU elec-tion forums held last month newly elected presidential candidate Brian Garretson said that he would continue to fund the service for stu-dents.
“We already put in the budget for next year and I don’t see it going away in the future,” Garretson said. “Though costly, it’s certainly necessary.”
ASBSU’s plan is to contin-ue providing legal services to students twice a week.
Students may benefit from living on-campusMicaela SmithCOMM 273Courtesy
As housing turnover ap-proaches, incoming Boise State freshmen have to de-cide whether to live on or off campus.
Although some students may have mixed percep-tions of on-campus living, Dean Kennedy, director of Housing and Residence Life, said students who live on campus for their first year have a clear advantage.
Students who stay on campus for their first year have higher retention rates and higher GPAs accord-
ing to a 2004 study on student success by Marcia Belcheir, Boise State’s as-sociate director of Institu-tional Research.
Still, not everyone pre-fers on-campus living.
“I didn’t really find any-thing good about living on campus to be honest,” said Katlyn Barkell, sophomore with an undecided major.
Barkell moved from on to off-campus housing in the middle of her fresh-man year. This was due to other students who either excluded her or accused her of stealing and her sub-sequent frustration with housing for being unable
to act.When she attempted to
resolve the matter, hous-ing administration officials were unable to change her living situation or assist in resolving conflicts with these students.
Barkell finally termi-nated her contract with housing and moved into a sorority. After that, she said she found college to be a much more positive experience.
For her, off-campus liv-ing actually allowed her to become more involved.
“I finally got to hang out with college students instead of staying in my
dorm,” Barkell said.On the other hand, An-
sley Bricker, freshman French and secondary education major, has expe-rienced no problems with housing administration. Her time living on cam-pus has been extremely re-warding, which she credits to saving time and conve-nience.
“Living on campus has given me the opportunity to hang out with the peo-ple I have met,” she said. “It’s so much easier to be social.”
Discounting administra-tion concerns, many stu-dents find cost breakdown
to be a factor in their deci-sion to live either on or off campus.
According to University Housing, freshmen who live on campus can expect to spend $6,327 for their cheapest option for the nine-month school year. This pricing includes all utilities, Internet, cable, as well as a required meal plan at 10 or 12 meals per week.
In contrast, off-campus living comes to an average of $6,219 per person for nine months, according to 11 student participants surveyed on the Quad.
This breaks down to $415 in rent, $74 in utili-ties (including Internet) and $202 in food per month.
Not including transpor-tation costs such as gaso-line, car insurance and car maintenance.
Off-campus living can also present the added challenge of balancing a schedule on top of class commitments for things like grocery shopping, cooking and commuting.
Kennedy firmly believes that the simplification of living on campus is part of what makes on-campus housing a great deal; stu-dents don’t have to worry as much about food, and transportation.
“You may get that sticker shock when you look at the initial prices, but it really covers everything in terms of what students need to be successful,” Kennedy said.
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Citizens welcome proposals for simpler financial aid formJanel DavisThe Atlanta Journal- ConstitutionTribune News Service
For many students the road to college begins before they ever set foot on a cam-pus, with filling out a form–a long one.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, FAFSA, determines how much finan-cial aid (grants, loans, work study) a student can receive.
Many states and colleges also use it to determine how much state aid, like HOPE scholarships, and institution-al aid to award. The FAFSA is also imperative for parents and students to determine how much of their own mon-ey they will have to provide and which colleges they can afford.
With all that at stake, Washington lawmakers and President Barack Obama want to revamp and sim-plify the form, making the task less arduous for parents and students, and hopefully spurring more of them to complete it. But some states and colleges warn that re-moving too many questions from the form will make it
harder to determine which students really need financial help.
Currently the FAFSA has 108 questions. The form can be filled out online, but can still be tough to complete, particularly for first-gener-ation college students and parents, with complicated and repetitive questions.
According to a study by NerdScholar, the higher education arm of the finan-cial literacy site NerdWallet, about $2.9 billion in federal grant dollars went unused in 2013 because 47 percent of high school graduates didn’t fill out the FAFSA.
Earlier this year Obama proposed cutting 30 ques-tions from the form. A con-gressional contingent led by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., wants to cut it all the way down to two questions: What is your family size? What was your household income two years ago?
About 40 to 50 percent of the roughly 300 seniors at Clarkston High School in Decatur complete a FAFSA form. “We don’t make all seniors file, but those going to college, those undecided
about their college choice, those interested in HOPE (awards) are encouraged to file,” said Clarkston’s head counselor, Gayle McNair.
For her students and their parents, it’s not so much the gathering of information that is difficult, it’s the questions, McNair said. “Sometimes the (questions) seem repeti-tive and they have to make sure they answer the ques-tions appropriately.”
The Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Depart-ment of Education share data to ensure the accuracy of information on FAFSA forms.
About one-third of FAF-SA forms are selected for verification each year by colleges and universities, as required by the federal edu-cation department. Lying on the financial aid form is pun-ishable by up to five years in jail and fines up to $20,000.
Glenda Shivers and her daughter Shakirah, 17, turned out at a FAFSA help session at Banneker High School in College Park held by the Georgia Student Fi-nance Commission. With her third child hitting col-
lege age, Shivers has had so much experience with the FAFSA that she spent much of her time helping other stu-dents complete their forms. “There are many students that don’t have the parents and resources to help them with this form. They are the first in their families to go to college and they’ve never done this before,” she said, so any efforts to streamline the form are welcome.
Like Shivers, the Georgia Association of Student Fi-nancial Aid Administrators supports simplifying the form.
“It’s the main process for applying for financial
aid and needs to be eas-ily understood,” said Susan Smith, the association’s president and financial aid administrator at the University of North Geor-gia. But the simplification
needs to be done carefully. Too much cutting will make it hard to differenti-ate between students who are truly in need and those who look needy on paper, Smith said.
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Letter to the editor: Students should pay attention to foodSara SaucedoFreshman
Food. It’s everywhere, it is what keeps us going, after all, it is substantial to life.
However, it is becoming the exact opposite, and is leading us to diminish our own lives with each and ev-ery bite. The food in today’s day and age is not what is keeping us going through-out our lives, it is what’s stopping us in our tracks.
Food is the growing com-ponent of heart failure, can-cer, and obesity. Our nation, our world and society itself is eating itself to death.
We as American citizens
eat unhealthier each and every day. We continue to eat whatever is the cheap-est and fastest food we can get our hands on. Food is the developmental cause of one of the biggest problems today, our nation’s health. I don’t mean our economy, welfare, or the well being of the nation; I mean our citi-zens’ physical health.
With all the new processed packaged goods hitting shelves cheaper and cheaper each day, it can be easy to overlook the nutritional val-ues they hold. As a nation, we stand together as the unhealthiest in the world. When speaking to foreign
students they all seem to have the assumption Ameri-cans are fat and lazy.
Now many may be quick to be offended but let’s face it, they’re right! Our obesity rates are continuously ris-ing, processed, genetically modified food sales are ris-ing, and physical outdoor ac-tivity in youth and adults is declining.
Diet is not the only thing hold our country back, technology is keeping chil-dren indoors on their Ipads, X-box, etc, rather than run-ning around playing hide-and-go-seek or tag, as we did not so long ago. Ameri-cans no longer have the time
to linger over the newspaper and eat a home-cooked nu-tritious meal, but rather grab something on the way to work and eat it in the car or while checking emails.
We only have ourselves to blame, the choices we make not only affect ourselves but the generations to come. More and more kids prefer a Pop-Tart for breakfast, rath-er than a bowl of Cheerios or fresh fruit. Advertisements are constantly being thrown in our faces to buy this food; stating, it’s cheaper and faster!
We need to take it upon ourselves to halt this mon-strosity before it gets fur-
ther out of hand, and we turn the fictitious characters from Wall-E into a reality.
According to the CDC, 78.6 million adults and 12.7 million children have obesi-ty and the numbers contin-ue to rise. With a nutritious diet and daily exercise, this crisis can be brought to a standstill.
With the proper educa-tion provided in schools of all ages, we can begin to shape the generations of what is the proper food to eat and what is not. We can encourage children to go outside and play on a regu-lar basis.
As adults, we can make
the effort to wake up earlier and cook ourselves a proper meal, or spend those few extra dollars on fresh fruit rather than bags of chips. Looking out for our health as individuals, we will be changing the health of our nation as a whole.
Living a healthy lifestyle is vital to living a prosper-ous life, over 200 studies show those who eat healthy and exercise more often are prone to live a happier life. So let’s skip the drive through, make better deci-sions when it comes to food, and truly shape the world for the better, one bite at a time.
The Capital, AnnapolisTribune News Service
The federal government can’t pass a budget and scrapes by with continuing resolutions. Maryland’s poli-ticians aren’t that irrespon-sible, but often have slugfests over the state budget—as on Monday, when the General Assembly and the governor ended the legislative session in an impasse over a sliver of the upcoming spending.
But such complications are nothing next to those loaded onto the average American taxpayer, who has until midnight Wednesday to either submit his income tax returns or file for an ex-tension. The majority of Americans don’t push up against the “Tax Day” dead-line. But they’re hardly the
only ones who resent a sys-tem that long ago became too complex for the major-ity of people to tackle with-out professional help, either from software or flesh-and-blood tax preparers.
Indeed, the system is too complex for the IRS. The agency, which has had its budget sliced by Congress, has been warning people this year they can expect long waits—and perhaps a hang-up—if they try to get through to a human being at IRS offices.
The National Taxpayer Advocate estimates Ameri-cans annually spend 6.1 bil-lion hours—the equivalent of 152.5 million 40-hour workweek s—attempting to comply with the Internal Revenue Code’s require-ments. The National Tax-payers Union Foundation,
a conservative group, esti-mates that compliance with the federal income tax cost the economy $234 billion in lost productivity last year.
The IRS didn’t write the tax code. The 2,700 pages, supplemented by 70,000 pages of regulations and case law, are the result of a century of attempted social engineering and institutional corruption—the granting of tax breaks to groups that made big campaign contri-butions and shelled out for sharp lobbyists. The only way to fix the tax code at this point would be to hit delete and start from scratch. Few in Washington, in either party, have the nerve for that.
It’s enough to make you envy the citizens of the Unit-ed Kingdom. Last month the chancellor of the exche-quer (equivalent to the U.S.
secretary of the treasury) announced that annual tax returns will be phased out in five years. The government will consolidate all the tax af-fairs of its citizens into a sin-gle digital account they’ll be able to monitor. Taxpayers won’t have to collect receipts and documents through-out the year. The objective: reduce the average citizen’s annual tax-related dealings with the government to a 10-minute formality.
There are many reasons this might not work here, ranging from America’s size to its addiction to tax de-ductions to its general mis-trust of government. But is anyone even thinking about similar streamlining here? Or are we so rich we can fork over an extra $234 billion a year to perpetuate an unholy mess of a tax system?
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Opinion
White male privilege extends problemsGabrielle BoliouBenjamin ChafetzStaff Writers
Discussing key ideas such as morality and versus legal-ity and other touchy subjects is the object of this column. The ideas discussed within belong to the authors alone and do not represent the viewpoint of The Arbiter.
White men should no longer have to atone for the racism and sexism at-tributed to their ancestors.
If you claim to be against racism and sexism, and then insist that white men should be punished be-cause of historical crimes committed, you are foster-ing the racism and sexism you claim to oppose.
“White male privilege” constitutes that a white man has more opportuni-ties compared to women, or men of a different race.
A couple weeks ago, we engaged students in a dis-cussion on controversial topics with the hope of encouraging critical think-ing. The topic that day was initially focused on wom-en’s rights but expanded to cover sexism and racism.
One participant, whom
we’ll call Jen, insisted that she is a passionate de-fender of human rights: ardently anti-sexism and ardently anti-racism. She understands the nearly insurmountable nature of such a goal and ex-plained that, for now, she will settle for creating awareness.
Later, she said what she really wants is for white men to atone for their an-cestors’ guilt.
No one is denying that white men have done some awful things in the past. But without going into the historical fallacy of laying all of humanity’s crimes on one subset, can we talk about the sheer hypocrisy of claiming to fight against racism and sexism in one breath, and then make such a racist and sexist statement?
“White male privilege” is a phrase thrown around carelessly. But is it rais-ing awareness or fostering hate? We say the latter. Are we a society that believes racism can only occur against African Americans, Native-Americans, etc.? Some people say if a subset
of the human race is the majority and in power, it is not racist to persecute that subset. That is asinine.
Racism is making a judgement call based sole-ly on a person’s descent or color of skin. If a statement based on skin color made against any other race is racism, but a statement based on skin color made against a white person is not, that arbitrary line is in fact the definition of rac-ism.
The louder you yell that white men are evil, the more you widen the gap between whites and every other color of skin.
Pitting one race or one sex against the other further perpetuates the dissension of human-ity. Society should seek to eradicate this notion.
“I don’t think that they’ve changed very much. The wealthy are with the wealthy, the middle class is waning and there’s a huge class of poor. If you want to better yourself, you have to work three times as hard to change the class that you sit in.”
Heather GentryGeosciencesSophomore
“The one that’s most applicable to me would be white privilege. Just being able to turn on the TV and have your race represented in almost every area you look and (in) positions of leadership.”
Tarl Smith Criminal JusticeSenior
“It’s definitely there. I just don’t think that people see it still. They think, ‘We’re so far past this idea of white privilege,’ and we’re not. It’s still there. I just don’t think people see it unless you mention it to them.”
Olivia Miller CommunicationSenior
“Men earn more money than women on av-erage in the same jobs ... African Americans are jailed longer for the same crimes. It’s mostly been a male-dominated society since the begin-ning. There are very few societies around the world dominated by women but not very many.”
Ricardo NunezCriminal JusticeJunior
What systems of privilege do you think exist in
society today?
STUDENT VOICES: The
“Right” Side
This column is part two of a two-part series exploring soci-
ety’s responses to uncontrollable circumstance.
Culture
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Students explore creativity in all majorsPatty BowenCulture Editor
Creative writing, graphic design, dance and music theory are generally seen as creative majors for creative students. However, Chelsie Snow, owner of Bricolage and instructor of Creative Bootcamp, an 8-week pro-gram highlighting how to wield creativity, believes all majors are creative majors.
According to Karen Bubb, public arts manager for Boise City Department of Arts & History, creativity is “to cre-ate something new that has meaning.” This is something she believes is vitally impor-tant for her students to adopt and understand.
“Culturally what often happens is people identify creativity as having an artis-tic skill or ability,” Bubb said. “We divide ourselves into the ‘I am creative’ or ‘I’m not cre-ative’ groups, and the tragedy of that is it shuts down this whole arena of possibility.”
When Bubb is teaching classes, she shows students how to reconnect with their potential avenues of creativ-ity. Bubb feels this can be done most effectively by looking at mundane aspects of life from different angles or by combining topics from different disciplines to create something entirely new.
“You can be creative in any field,” Bubb said. “Our value in those fields correlates to how we can be more inter-esting and can effect how can we take an existing system and recognize that things have shifted and how can we approach that in a different way. It’s about recognizing that you can approach your job in a way that considers the human interaction in a way that has never been con-sidered before.”Creativity in everyday life
In her Creative Bootcamp, Snow teaches that incorpo-rating creativity effectively
into life can be difficult be-cause creativity needs to be fostered. Snow explained creativity is like a muscle in the body because it needs to be worked out in the right ways.
“(Creativity) is a part of you that is sort of hidden away,” Snow said. “It is more visible in some people than in others—it is something that can be cultivated in you.”
Snow acknowledged that, although creative endeavors come easier to some people, everyone has the ability to create. Because of this, Snow believes everyone has the ability to live a creative life.
“People equate with art-istry being an artist,” Snow said. “I don’t agree with that. Creativity is present in everything we do. We just don’t acknowledge ourselves for it.”Being more creative
Because there is creativity in everything that is expe-rienced, Snow explained it
is important for students to feed themselves media that will help foster their creative spirit. According to Snow, just like how a body can’t grow muscle if it is being fed junk food, creativity cannot grow in a student if that stu-dent isn’t taking in new ideas that can help foster insight.
Another part of this is making sure interactions with other people’s creations don’t hinder a student’s abil-ity to make their own.
“There are things that ex-ist in the world right now, like the Internet, that can be so great for our creativ-ity, but end up stifling it because of this aspirational stuff that feels like ‘I could never do that,’ and it ends up being paralyzing for me,” Snow said.
According to Snow, anoth-er thing that can hinder the ability of a creative student is their desire to be “precious.”
“‘Not being precious’ means don’t be a perfec-tionist and don’t feel like
you have to hold onto ev-erything,” Snow said. “I do this thing where I feel like if I make something I feel like I have to keep it or it has be worth something for some-one or have some intrinsic value.”
Snow feels it is pertinent that students get away from being “precious” and instead allow themselves just to cre-ate. Instead of asking “what is it for; what does it do,” Snow suggests letting the creative side of a student’s brain take over and built whatever first comes to mind.Working through past experiences
Building freely without judgement gives students a space to work through the re-sistance they feel to specific mediums of creation.
“A lot of what we resist was written in experiences that happened at the wrong time—when someone made an off-handed comment or some kind of a rejection or
negative experience that re-ally attached to that activity,” Snow said.
Because of this, Snow stressed the importance of working through negative feelings toward creation in order to build new things.
“I want students to recog-nize their own creative value and to recognize that it’s okay to bring that passion that you feel towards the things you do professionally,” Bubb said. “Oftentimes it’s kind of beat out of us that what you have a passion for is not where you’re going to end up get-ting a job. If you have a pas-sion for something, you’re going to be more effective at that and more valuable.”
Students interested in learning more about creativ-ity and how they can incor-porate creativity into their lives can sign up for Snow’s 8-week Creative Bootcamp on the Bricolage website. Honors students can sign up for Bubb’s class on creativity in business for Fall 2015.
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EDM fans battle culture perceptionsKyle MoellerStaff Writer
“Hi, I’m looking for Mol-ly. I’ve been searching ev-erywhere and I can’t seem to find … Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly.”
Molly is not your aver-age blonde hair, blue-eyed girl. Instead it is the street name for MDMA or ec-stasy—a drug commonly associated with Electronic Dance Music.
This, in part, has fueled the negative perception of EDM.
“The way EDM shows are marketed are some-times trashy and inappro-priate, especially depend-ing on where the event is held,” said Kaylee Beasley,
a junior who has been lis-tening to EDM for years.
EDM has often been as-sociated with drugs and alcohol —a reputation which continues to this day. In particular, people associate the genre with ecstasy, Molly, acid and mushrooms because of the hallucinogenic nature of the drugs.
According to BillBoard.com, one of the leading causes of death at EDM festivals is methylone, which has been found in traces of bath salts and in-creasingly in the partygo-ers’ choice of drug, Molly.
These drugs are often used to cultivate and in-crease the sensory de-tails of one’s experience
at a show. The lights, the music, the bass, the atmo-sphere, and so much more are heightened by the drugs inception.
“EDM shows are highly misunderstood,” Beasley said. “People who do not go to shows think that ev-eryone just goes to them and does a bunch of drugs and alcohol just to get re-ally fucking up, and that’s not the case.”
However, one can enjoy the music without ingest-ing these drugs.
“I do not think that EDM has this negative per-ception about it,” Beasley said. “I think the culture that surrounds it is simply misunderstood.”
While the culture is misunderstood, it is not the first time a genre or artist has been viewed negatively.
“EDM is not the only instigator of drugs and al-cohol,” said Denton Wil-liamson, an enthusiast who has been to EDM festivals all over the west coast. “It has this negative percep-tion about it because it is new and has not been completely accepted by the public.
“Elvis Presley, Jimi Hen-drix and The Beatles all had a negative perception when they came around because they were new as well.”
According to William-son, what people don’t al-ways realize is this culture can represent something entirely different.
“People do not see or understand the culture be-cause they have never put themselves in the position to experience it for what it is,” Williamson said.
Mai ItoStaff Writer
For those who have used the swimming pool at the Rec Center, the two hu-man-looking mannequins sitting on a bench near the pool may have been a mystery.
“(The use of the doll is) probably not a com-mon practice,” said Heidi Powell, coordinator of Pool and Aquatics. “It’s just something fun. Since we have the mannequins for training, might as well have them out for display.”
The mannequins are used by the lifeguards for training. After throwing them into the swimming
pool, they sink in the wa-ter, absorb its weight and then get retrieved by the lifeguards.
Each mannequin has its own name, too. While both of their faces are identical, one has a name tag show-ing “Rescue Randy” and the other one is called “Emergency Eric.”
“They are really hard to move, but it’s part of our job,” said Stephanie O’
Malley, head lifeguard at the Rec Center. “Some-times we practice with each other, but sometimes that’s hard if you can’t get down there quick enough, we don’t want anyone to actually drown.”
Although rescuing other lifeguards is a more com-monly practiced method of training, the lifeguards seem to enjoy having the mannequins around.
“We try really hard to maintain an extremely safe environment, and, because our lifeguards have been training every two weeks, we’re really good at catch-ing things before anything goes wrong. We are such a small facility that we can monitor everyone really closely, so usually we can see things that would be a problematic incident and stop it before it happens.”
Lifeguards are supposed to rescue others within 30 seconds to a minute, which is the average time a per-son can hold their breath. With the help of manne-quins, lifeguards are able to maintain the safety of the swimming pool.
Rec mannequins intrigue student swimmers
““—Heidi Powell
It’s just something fun. Since we have the mannequins for training, might as
well have them out for display.
FANS LISTEN TO EDM AT COACHELLA.
RESCUE RANDY ON DISPLAY AT THE POOL.
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Sports & Rec
‘Air France’ takes off for men’s golfBrittney LigginsStaff Writer
Junior Logan France has reached the top of Boise State men’s golf lineup, and he doesn’t plan on that changing anytime soon.
“I want to win,” France said. “I haven’t accomplished that yet. I want to keep working hard the next couple weeks and try and get that win.”
Nicknamed “Air France” by the team, the Tuscon na-tive had a potential future in baseball. He made the full-time switch to golf during his senior year of high school.
Since both baseball’s and golf ’s signing periods were during the summer, he de-cided to play golf based on the friends he had at the time. He was recruited to Boise State after playing in the Junior Americans Cup down in Colorado.
Head coach Dan Potter believes France’s experiences as a baseball player helps him
bring a competitive edge to golf.
“He brings an all-around athlete to golf,” Potter said. “He’s a competitor and that’s one of his strengths.”
France has improved his scores each season he has been a Bronco. He averaged 75.58 strokes as a freshman, 74.93 strokes as a sopho-more and 73.33 strokes dur-ing the fall season of his ju-nior year.
He was the top Bronco at the Desert Shootout and The Goodwin in Palo Alto, California.
He finished the Desert Shootout 7-under and tied for 10th. His performance earned him MW Men’s Golfer of the Week honors.
“He does everything right from a coaches standpoint,” Potter said, “Logan has a pretty distinguished kind of style that he plays and he plays within himself and sticks to his strengths.”
France attributes much of
his success this season to his improvements with putting.
“The weeks that I’ve played good, my putting had been much better” France said. “It helped me save some key strokes. I started shooting some bet-
ter scores. It showed me when I work hard in some areas, I improve.”
Potter said he has seen an immense amount of improvement in France’s game over the past year, primarily in putting.
“I’ve definitely seen im-provements,” Potter said. “The better you get at golf, the harder it is to get bet-ter. Your skills can change a little bit. More than that, it’s learning how to manage what you do well.
He’s learned that about himself.”
Boise State returns to action at the Ping Cougar Classic in Provo, Utah on April 24.
The tournament will be hosted by BYU.
4 fishing holes students shouldn’t skip this springBrandon WaltonAsst. Sports & Rec Editor
Spring is officially here, and many avid fisherman are chomping at the bit to head out to the lakes and reel some in.
It’s important to take a break from studying and grab a fishing pole, lures, pack a cooler and check out these local hot spots.Lake Lowell
Lake Lowell, located just
outside of Nampa, is only about 45 minutes away from campus and has a plethora of fish to catch.
Those who decide to fish at Lowell can look forward to fish like perch, bluegill, crappie and catfish. Its big-gest attraction however, is largemouth and small-mouth bass.
Due to Lowell’s shallow waters students should easily walk out with a nice haul.
Lucky Peak Reservoir
If students are looking for a challenge, Lucky Peak Reservoir, just a few miles east of Boise, is the answer. Due to its sparsity of fish, it can be difficult for stu-dents to come away with anything.
If fishermen are patient enough, they can still walk away with a winner. The reservoir offers Kokanee salmon, rainbow trout
and even some trophy-size smallmouth bass.
Arrowrock Reservoir, located just upstream from the park, is another prime location.C.J. Strike Reservoir
Only a few miles outside of Mountain Home, C.J. Strike Reservoir is defi-nitely worth the trip.
C.J. Strike Reservoir of-fers the most diversity of any other place on this list. Those who head there can
hook anything from bass, trout, perch, crappie, blue-gill, catfish, sturgeon, carp and more.
The reservoir is one of the largest in southwest Idaho and provides suf-ficient space for everyone.Bruneau Dunes
Bruneau Dunes is an-other location that is well worth the drive.
It is in fact just a few miles east of C.J. Strike Reservoir. So fishermen
can hit both of them if they decide to head that way.
There won’t be a short-age of action at Bruneau Dunes. The fish are known to be active—it can be like fishing in a barrel.
The reservoir offers largemouth bass and blue-gill. While fishermen can keep bluegill, there are catch-and-release rules for bass.
However one can still snap a new profile photo if they are able to land one of those notorious trophy-size bass.
France tees off with his driver.
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Sports & rec
No more one-and-done
Boise State honors QB legendNate LowerySports & Rec Editor
As Boise State is in the midst of its biggest quar-terback competition since 2008, it was only fitting to honored the man who won that 2008 competition.
Kellen Moore—along-side his parents, wife Julie and eight-month-old son Kyler—was recognized in front of 10,072 fans before the annual Blue and Or-ange Spring Game with a video tribute. He was also presented with a framed No. 11 jersey by head coach Bryan Harsin.
Harsin was Moore’s of-fensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for his freshman through redshirt junior seasons.
The tribute took place at 5:11 p.m. The first quarter of the scrimmage lasted 11 minutes. The scrimmage occurred on April 11 also.
“It’s always a cool oppor-
tunity,” Moore said. “It’s nice that it works with a lot of guys coming back this weekend. You get to see a lot of the guys that helped make it happen. Coach Harsin is obviously a big part of what I’ve been able to accomplish. I thank him a lot.”
Harsin added how im-portant it was for fans to brave the adverse weather to honor not only Moore, but the other former Bron-co greats in attendance.
“It was great for them to be out there for Kellen and our former players that were back,” Harsin said. “I thought that was special. To have (Moore) out there to recognize him was spe-cial.”
As Moore watched the video tribute play on the jumbotron—highlighting some of the biggest mo-ments of his career, as well as plenty of his record 142 career touchdowns and
some of his college football record 50 wins—he found it hard to pick one moment from his career that stood out.
“Obviously there were a lot of great moments. We got to play in a lot of big games. Hopefully we put Boise State in a different place than they were in the past,” Moore said.
Moore’s No. 11 jersey was not retired, but he was still honored to be recog-nized by his alma mater.
Former quarterback Jim McMillian (1972-74) re-mains the only player in Boise State history to have his jersey retired.
Moore has yet to see much practice from the current four quarterbacks (redshirt sophomores Ryan Finley, and Thomas Stu-art, redshirt freshman Alex Ogle and true freshman Brett Rypien) competing for the starting job. He said, however, that this was just
the start.“It’s a long process and it’s
only in phase one,” Moore said. “It’s what you do with it over the next couple of months that has the bigger indication than spring ball.”
Offensive coordinator Eliah Drinkwitz added that Moore’s precedent sets an example for every Boise State quarterback.
“I think (leadership) is very important—you’re asking the quarterback to be an extension of the coaching staff,” Drinkwitz said. “Coach Harsin has coached a lot of great quar-terbacks. One of them just got (recognized) tonight.”
Moore is currently a back-up quarterback with the Detroit Lions, the team that signed him after he went undrafted in the 2012 NFL Draft. Moore resigned with the Lions in March.
The two-year deal is worth $1.825 million with a $640,000 signing bonus.
Walton’s Wisdom is a twice weekly sports column written by assistant sports editor and self-proclaimed sports wizard Brandon Walton.
Dear NBA,After seeing a plethora
of freshmen declare for the draft in the last few weeks, I a implore you to revoke the one and done rule.
Ever since you imple-mented the rule that bas-ketball players must be one year removed from high school in order to enter the NBA draft, you haven’t pre-vented players from leaving early.
This year alone, fresh-men Karl-Anthony Towns, Devin Booker, Trey Lyles, Jahlil Okafor, Justice Win-slow, Stanley Johnson and D’Angelo Russell have al-ready declared they are leaving to enter your draft.
This rule is sucking the life out of college basket-ball for coaches, teams and, more importantly, the fans.
These players are making a joke of their universities and its fans.
Do you really think when Towns and Okafor signed with Kentucky and Duke
respectively, they had any intention of graduating?
No, of course not. They saw it as a means to an end, just a step they are forced to take to get to the NBA. They knew after one year they were going to be sure-fire lottery picks.
Fans are getting sick and tired of seeing these great college athletes leave after one year.
It is giving them a false sense of hope.
Players provide excite-ment for a fan base only for them to fade away after one season.
This is hurting the college basketball as a whole.
It has left the NCAA with no stars, and each year they have to start over with the hope of finding new ones.
All this rule does is push back the inevitable.
Let the players who don’t want to go to college go di-rectly to the draft.
It has worked out for stars in your league like Lebron James, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett.
This rule is only hurt-ing the sport and pre-venting you from getting earlier stars.
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horoscopes
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da riddles
Aries- The space you live and work in is important. To have or-der in your life, make sure you are creating order in the environ-ment you place your-self in. Inbalnce will only cause chaos in your daily life.
Taurus- Have fun. Life is difficult. There are going to be days that suck. This is why it is so key to your men-tal well-being that you can find a chance to enjoy the little things. Whether it be reading a book in the sun or taking 15 minutes to enjoy your coffee, find some way to create peace in your life.
Gemini- Never un-derestimate the power of reading. Do what you can to read a book today. It doesn’t have to be a 500 page nov-el, just take the time to immerse yourself in another word. You will be a better person for it, and the world will be better because of it.
Cancer- Your energy levels are at an all-time high today. Utilize this burst of energy to ac-complish tasks in your life. Get ahead of the tasks on your today list. Putting them off until your energy levels
are low will only cause more trouble for you.
Leo- Keeping a notebook can be a very useful item. Jot-ting down occasional thoughts and feelings so you can go back to them can help your mindset. Your produc-tivity will increase and you will be able to find more peace in your life.
Virgo- Take the time to send a message to a friend today. It can be a text, a call or even a letter. Just do some-thing to show some-one else that they have someone thinking about it. Their confi-dence will be boosted, and you will feel a rush of energy.
Libra- Opportunities are opening up for you left and right, you just need to notice them. Make sure your aware-ness is at an all-time high so you don’t miss out on everything hap-pening in your life.
Scorpio- You are confused right now. There are several op-tions clouding your vision right now. Take the time to think through each option so that you can make the best decision for yourself.
Sagittarius- Your mind needs travel. Your current environ-ment is not serving your goals and ambi-tions. Travel will give you a nice break from everything. You will re-turn to your normal life revitalized and ready to accomplish any-thing.
Capricorn-You need a distraction in your life. Distractions nor-mally take your focus away from the things that are important, but right now you can’t put your focus on the right things. Your thoughts are consuming you and you require a break.
Aquarius- A casual relationship is about to become something more. If there is an op-portunity for a deep conversation, take it. It is the gateway you need right now to take the next step in your life.
Pisces- Share your ideas with the world. Your creative and imaginative levels are at an all-time high and they need to be shared. Don’t let your ideas go to waste. Share them so that those around you can benefit.
1. Many have heard me, but nobody has seen me, and I will not speak back until spoken to.What am I?
2. The doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How long before you run out of pills?
3. In what year did Christmas and New Year’s fall on the same year?
Da riddles from thursday 1. A nose 2. A KANGAROO 3. aN ANCHOR