the arbiter 8.25.2014
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The August 25 issue of the Boise State student-run newspaper, The Arbiter.TRANSCRIPT
I n d e p e n d e n t S t u d e n t V o I c e o f B o I S e S t a t e S I n c e 1 9 3 3
Students and clubs will connect at the
Get (In)volved fair
Students create nonprofit organization to bring clean water
to people in Guatemala
Get athletic director Mark coyle’s take on the future of
Boise State athletics
August 25, 2014Vol. 27 Issue 3
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students give back with clean water project
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get (in)volved at the club fair
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A different path for Ajayi
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Students get leadershaped
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Kustra addressed university
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A new way to fish
Boise State rebrands athletics and appearance, news 4
Blackboard survey reflects concerns, news 6
new WoW expansion marketing toward busy people, culture 14
Boise State creates hashtag directory, culture 15
an interview with coyle, Sports & Rec 18
new basketball recruits join team, Sports & Rec, 21
check out your weekly horoscope divined in-house by the Arbiter staff, Bronco Banter 23
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Sean BunceAsst. News Editor
Nike is known for its swoosh; the University of Oregon is renowned for their
giant “O” and flashy uni-forms; Texas is known for its signature Hook ‘em Horns. While Boise State has its sig-nature blue turf and Bronco head logo, it is still compet-
ing with universities across the country to market itself not only in athletics, but also as an educational institution.
For Boise State, this com-petitive edge comes with a
hefty price tag.Recently, a large steel “B”
was constructed behind the Administration Building on campus. It is hard to miss when driving by. Its cost: $40,000.
Another giant “B” can be seen attached to the side of the Stueckle Sky Center; its overall cost was $27,000.
Although funds for these projects come from facilities that are paid for by student tuition fees, there are also other entities that help to cover costs, including a por-tion of Boise State’s budget from the state.
“We’re going to use this money anyway,” said Greg Hahn, associate vice presi-dent of Communications and Marketing. “Why not turn the back of the Admin-istration Building into some-thing more than a parking lot?”
In deciding what monu-ment to place in that par-ticular location, the school board had many options to pick from, including a fountain or multiple horse statues. Ultimately, it set-tled on the “B” because of its recent adoption as the academic logo.
Last year Boise State ad-
opted the large Gotham-font “B” logo to replace the diamond design that repre-sented the academic side of Boise State.
“What we needed was a logo that stuck out,” Hahn said. “That was not the case with the old logo.”
One campus logo that is already popular—as Hahn hopes the “B” will become—is the Bronco head which represents the Athletic De-partment, made famous by the Boise State football program.
“A logo is like a mark of origin,” Hahn said. “I think of it like the swoosh of Nike.”
He believes that universi-ties are catching up to corpo-rations in a sense.
“They figured it out a while ago,” he said. “We’re getting more sophisticated in the way that we present ourselves graphically.”
In a recent deal in which Albertsons, LLC acquired naming rights to Boise State’s football stadium, the university was designated to receive $12.5 million dollars over a 15-year period.
Hahn says the purpose of the deal is to associate Alb-ertsons with the Boise State Bronco logo.
Ford, the official truck of the Broncos, also has a lucra-tive deal with Boise State for this reason.
“The value of the Bronco head is really important to the budget of Boise State,” Hahn said.
Most money earned from sponsorship goes into ath-letics. Merchandise sales fea-turing Boise State logos are often used to fund student scholarships.
The “B” has started to gen-erate revenue of its own, but is far more versatile in its application than the Bronco head.
Student organizations and departments are allowed to change the “B” around to fit their individual needs, but must follow the brand guide-lines posted on the Boise State website.
Students may notice walk-ing around campus that many logos from past de-signs are still up. This is so that the re-branding remains as cost-effective as possible. As repairs are needed, cam-pus logos will be updated accordingly. Because Boise State has a replace-as-need-ed policy, the exact date and total cost of the change over is unknown.
“What’s nice about evolv-ing slowly as we have is that you don’t have to tear everything down at once,” Hahn said.
Boise State rebrands logo to leave its markFreshmen Kaelynn Aceves and Leighann Majors pose with the “B”.
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Alx StickelNews Editor
President Bob Kustra’s State of the University Ad-dress on Aug. 20 set sights high for student and univer-sity success in both the near and distant future.
Kustra addressed univer-sity reorganization and inno-vation by discussing changes to better prepare students for the job market. Relevant edu-cation experiences and the introduction of a new college were announced.
These academic announce-ments revolve around Kus-tra’s common thread of the address, that “a modern uni-versity must work across lines and divisions and disciplines to stay relevant, to deliver quality in today’s world.”
“The challenge in today’s world is whether we’re pro-viding all the tools necessary for the long-term success of our graduates,” Kustra said.
Kustra began his speech in the Morrison Center with positive statistics about stu-
dent body growth and gradu-ation numbers. Kustra said Boise State saw more than 70 percent growth in the num-ber of graduates in less than 15 years. To better serve this growing number of students, the university must undergo academic changes.
These changes will come in different areas and will be a strong focus for the upcom-ing academic year.
The School of Public Service and the College of Health Sciences will experi-ence changes with the inten-tion of better preparing stu-dents for the workforce.
Toward the end of his speech, Kustra also an-nounced the plan for the College of Innovation and Design to better facilitate transdisciplinary efforts.
“It is all about getting rid of the walls to better innovate and serve students, the mar-ketplace and our varied part-ners,” Kustra said to close his address. “Let this spirit and now reality of Innova-tion and Design become
the hallmark of Boise State University.”
The College of Innovation and Design is planned to be presented to the State Board of Education this fall and is intended to foster a structure for these transdisciplinary courses, research, and pro-grams. Kustra described it as a “natural progression of trends in higher education” and the marketplace.
Another change the uni-versity will see involves the College of Health Sciences now having three schools: the School of Nursing, the School of Social Work and the School of Allied Health and Prevention. Dean Tim Dunnagan led these efforts. The College of Health Sci-ences will also have a section of University Health Services.
This reorganization, along with continuing partnerships with health care community partners such as Saint Al-phonsus and Saint Luke’s, will hopefully help students have a diverse range of knowledge to give better care in their re-
spective professions.On the topic of health, Kus-
tra also made a big announce-ment concerning “the largest grant in Boise State history.”
Julia Oxford, biological sci-ences professor, and her team secured a $10 million federal grant to build a Center for Biomedical Research. The
center will boost cell research concerning heart disease and strokes, increase understand-ing of ligament damage and more, according to Kustra.
Kustra addresses future growth and advancement
President Kustra delivered his address on August 20.
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Sean BunceAsst. News Editor
In an effort to enhance learning management sys-tems at Boise State such as Blackboard Learn, faculty and staff from a variety of campus organizations met a year ago to help bring a more consistent user expe-rience to students using the Boise State website. Black-board was the main focus of the survey.
This survey was conduct-ed to assess the attitudes and preferences of students, instructors, course design-ers and staff participants towards learning manage-
ment systems. Most re-sponses to the survey came in April 2014, survey results were published in June.
Blackboard is a resource used mostly by students to check grades, participate in discussions and as a source of information on their classes.
“Yes, we were really look-ing for more detail on the Blackboard side but we didn’t want to give the im-pression that we were mov-ing to something else,” said Drew Jossis, technical sup-port specialist for Black-board. “We didn’t want to create a sense of panic.”
A new Blackboard inter-
face will initiate in spring 2015 and will change ac-cording to comments made by respondents.
Of the 492 responses to the survey, 40 percent fo-cused negatively on the user interface; the most com-mon response being that Blackboard is too cluttered or crowded.
Another 30 percent of comments received were about teachers’ use of Blackboard as an instruc-tional tool. Teachers are often inconsistent with updates which hinders stu-dents more than it helps them.
Hannah Barnett, a senior
at Boise State, has firsthand experience with this incon-sistency.
“A lot of professors don’t keep it updated, or change dates or make the effort to use it as a reference,” Barnett said. “That’s when it becomes more of a hin-drance.”
This, according to Jossis, is an error which can’t be fixed with new technology. Teachers will need to learn to work with Blackboard. Otherwise, he recom-mends asking the teacher to update information more quickly.
Twenty percent of the comments focused on bugs
users experience while working with Blackboard Learn and other systems.
“I hate to say it, but it’s the nature of the beast,” Jos-sis said. “It’s software”
Survey reflects Blackboard strugglesBlackboard survey notes
1. When searching for ways to solve technical problems, “research on my own” was the first choice among student respondents to the survey. Instructors are more likely to call or meet tech help people, while students prefer trial and error when solving problems. 2. the average score of Bb reliability is 2.5 (out of 3) and the average score of Bb support resource is 2.22 (out of 3). There were no significant differ-ences among respondent groups.
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Jillana FinneganAssoc. Director of Advising and AcademicEnhancement
It’s that time again—school’s beginning and you need to figure out how to balance classes, home-work, hobbies and social time. Effective time man-agement is essential to get all of your obligations met and have time for things that are just for fun. Here are some tips to help you manage everything on
your plate:- Make time to manage
time: Time management does not just happen. Ev-ery day— or at least once a week— sit down and plan out your tasks, as-signments and free time.
- Get a day planner: Use the day planner. Ev-ery day. The BroncoShop has inexpensive plan-ners, or use the Google calendar linked to your BroncoMail.
- Put first things first: When making your sched-
ule, write in your non-ne-gotiable obligations (class, work, etc.) first. Next come your flexible com-mitments (homework, so-cial time, etc.) and finally your negotiable items (errands, etc.) last. In the example to the right, the blue items were all filled in first, then the orange and finally, the rest were filled in to the spare time in white.
- See your semester at a glance: Take the syllabus from each class and write
down all assignment due dates and test days in your planner and on a large wall calendar that shows the whole year.
- Balance is important: Plan time for things that rejuvenate you, such as social time or important hobbies. Getting enough sleep is critical for a good memory and doing well on tests, so make a plan to get at least seven hours a night.
- Write everything down and prioritize: Once a week make a to-do list and write in your planner when you will complete the tasks on that list. Try to have five to eight items on your list and prioritize which need to be complet-
ed first.- Set deadlines: Give
yourself specific goals and tasks. Don’t just put “write paper” in your planner. In-stead, be more specific: “write pg. 1 on Monday, pg. 2 on Wednesday, and
edit/finish on Friday.”Looking for more help
with time management? We offer a study skill workshop that focuses on just that. Visit us at aae.boisestate.edu/work-shops/ to sign up today.
academic success tip: time Management
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NEWS
It is the policy of Boise State University to comply with all federal, state and local authorities requiring nondiscrimination, including but not limited to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Executive Orders 12898 (Environmental Justice) and 13166 (Limited Eng-lish Proficiency). The University does not exclude from participation in any programs, deny the benefits of any services, or subject any individual to discrimination
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Sean BunceAsst. News Editor
For Refik Sadikovic, the journey getting to Boise was anything but a pleasant stroll through the park.
Sadikovic was first a citi-zen of Bosnia. After being wounded in war, battling starvation and moving be-tween refugee camps for several months, he finally made his way across the bor-der and into Austria. Even-tually Sadikovic made it to the United States and Boise in 2000.
Like many refugees who come to Boise, Sadikovic
hardly spoke English.“It was hard for me,” Sa-
dikovic said. “I couldn’t speak English. I didn’t have time to really learn and I was too old to go to high school.”
According to the Idaho Office for Refugees, approx-imately 686 refugees and immigrants arrived in Boise from 20 different countries in 2012 alone. The majority of these refugees come from South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Central Asia and Africa.
By the time refugees – a large majority of which are women and children– make their way to the United
States and eventually to Ida-ho, they’ve been stripped of all they know.
Once in Idaho, their fight isn’t over. Every refugee carries a personal story of persecution, escape and sur-vival.
To help these individu-als adapt to their new way of life, many organizations are in place around Boise such as Boise State Refugee Alliance, co-created by Sa-dikovic and his wife to help refugees enroll in school.
“It’s important to en-courage refugees to pursue higher education,” Sadikovic said. “If we don’t, I’m sure
they won’t do very well.”For many who come to
Boise as refugees, the tran-sition can be difficult. False expectations, trouble learn-ing English and a lack of knowledge about the oppor-tunities available can make this process more difficult.
“They (refugees) would like to go to school and get educated,” Sadikovic said. “The opportunity may be there but they don’t know about it.”
Sadikovic explained that after a year in the United States most refugees will have full citizenship. At this point enrolling in school is
an easy process unless the individual has lost their doc-umentation.
After 13 years in the Unit-ed States Sadikovic consid-ers himself successful, some-thing he never thought he could be after all he’s gone through.
“I know it’s not easy. Be-cause of my experience I know how to help,” Sadikov-
ic said.In an effort to help stu-
dents and others get in-volved, Boise State currently maintains a website with a list of interpreters. If some-one wishes to volunteer in-terpreting services, they can do so at boiseinterpreters.com.
More information can be found idahorefugees.org.
Refugees transition into student life
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Sean BunceAsst. News Editor
This fall health care re-form, also known as the Af-fordable Care Act, enacted on March 23, 2010, will ef-fect changes at Boise State.
This act will have both positive and negative im-pacts on the Boise State stu-dent body.
The summary of health care reform, provided by Ascension Benefits and In-surance Solutions, is located on the Boise State Health Services home page. It states that students with the Stu-dent Health Insurance Plan will likely see a “significant”
increase in the cost of their plans.
According to John Griffiths, the business man-ager for Campus Recreation and Health Services, this is because of a lack of utiliza-tion by students of Boise State’s health care services.
Although Boise State must conform with health care re-form, it is not part of the free market like health insurance companies. The demograph-ic for SHIP is primarily full-time students.
“It’s not really a level play-ing field,” Griffiths said.
SHIP isn’t as bad as other plans in the market, accord-ing to Marika Butler, the
insurance and billing coor-dinator at Boise State. Part of Butler’s job description is to help students find plans that fit their financial situation.
“The initial in-network deductible is $150, then in-surance will pay 80 percent up to $1,000,” Butler said. “Then, a new deductible of $4,500 will start.”
This system ensures that all visits will be covered up to the initial $1,000, with the deductible being waived for every visit.
According to Butler, pre-miums will be $1,254 each semester for SHIP this year, which is an increase of $200 from 2013.
This is mostly due to health care reform and other things, such as unlimited counsel-ing, medical visits and flu shots. Health Services treats most student afflictions be-sides surgeries and extreme emergencies, in which case students are encouraged to visit other health care pro-viders.
Students with alternate insurance policies, exclud-ing Medicaid and Medicare, are also accepted by Health Services with payments de-pendent on their insurance company rates.
“We strongly encour-age everyone who accesses Health Services checks with
their insurance carrier prior to their appointment to make sure Health Services is in-network with their plan,” Butler said.
Those without student in-surance will also experience differences in coverage due to health care reform, but will need to speak with their individual health care pro-vider for details.
Students who waive SHIP will need insurance compat-ible with the new health care act by the beginning of the school year to be accepted. Not having health insur-ance is prohibited by Boise State as well as the individual mandate of the Affordable
Care Act, which states that every U.S. citizen must have qualifying health insurance coverage beginning 2014 or pay a fine based on a per-centage of that individual’s income.
Affordable Care Act leads to changes in SHIP
SHIP INFO
for more information on what is included in the SHIP plan visit the Health Services’ website.
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STUDENTS NURTURE CLEAN WATER PROJECTFEATURE
12Patty BowenAsst. Culture Editor
Passion lingers in Dallas Crum’s eyes as he explains the plans he and his three friends have for Vivid Roots. Vivid Roots is an apparel company which uses its profits to provide clean water to rural areas in Guatemala. Through their sales of t-shirts and stickers, the nonprofit lets consumers have a direct hand in providing clean water to communities in rural areas of Guatemala.
“Our goal is to make it easy for everyone to make a dif-ference. Just live life to its absolute fullest . . . We want to do good, but we want everyone to do be able to do it. You don’t have to join the PeaceCorp to make a difference,” said Crum, a business entrepreneurship major.
Vivid Roots was conceptualized a little over a year ago when four friends—University of Idaho’s marketing and finance major Trever Bostrom and geology major Dylan Carlson, and Boise State’s international business major Con-nor Kingsbury and Dallas Crum—returned from a hiking trip together. The trek left them with a sense of empower-ment that they wanted to spread to their peers.
“We wanted to share it (and find) some way to give back,” Crum said.
While searching for a cause the four student team found that around the globe 800 million people lack clean water
resulting in 3.4 million people dying from waterborne illnesses annually. In Guate-
mala
alone more than 150 million children are affected daily by parasites that reside in un-sanitary water, causing many of these children to carry approximately 1,000 different kinds of parasites at any given time. Most commonly these parasites cause de-hydration, but in more serious cases they can cause blindness.
The team of four were put in contact with Allen Asbar, a leading member of the Ford Collins Colorado Rotary, and eventu-ally the rotary club in Guatemala. At this point the team decided that they would need to visit Guatemala in order to find where to start their first water project, and what kind of water project would be most effective for Guatemala.
“It costs a lot of money to send people down there … If we want to start this company, we need to see the need,” Crum said.
The group decided to participate in the University of Idaho’s business competition “View” and got first place in
social ventures.
According to Bostrom, “This got us halfway to Guatemala.”
The other half came from Boise State Venture College, which granted the Vivid Roots team $4,400 to complete the funding for their trip.
Bostrom, Carlson, Crum and Kingsbury headed down to Guate-mala in late May 2014 for one week. Using the rural village of Chiquimula as their base, the four traveled to five other villages, starting early every morning and finishing as the sun set.
Inspecting the water sanitation systems at schools, the group found that some rural schools had Internet before they had clean water.
“They never had access to clean wa-ter before,” Bostrom explained. “Ever since they have gotten it, attendance and grades have gone up. Students enjoyed going to school because it is a better environment. They would come to school solely for water.”
Vivid Roots has been partnering with Water for the Americas and a Guatemala rotary club.
“We want to do it right and it takes a lot of time,” Carlson said. “The sustainability part is more difficult but more important.”
Students can preorder Vivid Roots t-shirts and stickers online right now with water bottles and hats in the making.
“You don’t have to strap yourself to a tree to make a differ-ence,” Bostrom said “Let’s change the world together.”
STUDENTS NURTURE CLEAN WATER PROJECT
Vivid Roots will need to sell at least 2,500 t-shirts to fund their first water project in chiquimula, Guatemala. Water projects in Guatemala vary in price, but the Vivid Roots team has projections showing the price will range from $10,000-35,000.
Guatemalan communi-ties have groups of vil-lages who are in charge of water upkeep. these groups are called water committees and usu-ally range from 10-30 people.
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Roughly five million people in Guatemala do not have access to clean water. that is more than 1/3 the population of the entire country.
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Justin KirkhamCulture Editor
With its impending Nov. 13 release date just over the horizon, the newest “World of Warcraft” expansion, “Warlords of Draenor,” is becoming increasingly sought after by some Az-eroth gamers and dreaded by others.
Game designers are tar-geting busier players, in-cluding students consumed with classes and work, with their new content and in-game buffs to get them through current quest lines, along with preorder bonus-es to get returning and new players on their feet.
Among the steps Blizzard is taking to help focus their massively multiplayer on-line role-playing game on busier individuals are level 90 boosts. This allows those who purchase the new ex-pansion, or the boost itself from the in-game store, to instantly level any character to the current max level.
Sophomore English writ-ing major Samantha Schwas-inger believes that the level 90 boosts are a good way to entice new players wanting
to jump right into the new “Warlords of Draenor” con-tent without having to put in significant hours to level a character first.
She also found that the boosts help encourage old players that have since quit playing the game and want to come back to the game without having to play catch up. This happened with one of her older friends.
“Since he has a full-time job, he was able to avoid po-tentially weeks of questing, grinding, and raiding, and could complete max-level content with me in only a week or two,” she said.
Schwasinger felt that students playing “World of Warcraft” are especially able to jump back into the action, specifically if they participated in the World of Warcraft franchise in its earliest stages back in junior and senior high school and had quit upon getting busy with school. The new ex-pansion and the route Bliz-zard is taking with it allows these students to come back to the new content without having to spend the time they originally tried to save by quitting the game level-
ing and cultivating a char-acter.
Some old players of the game feel that Blizzard is taking the MMO in a far-too-casual direction. For-mer “World of Warcraft” player and full-time mother Danita Espindula agrees with this viewpoint.
“They are catering to ca-suals,” Espindula said. “Ca-suals play maybe once or twice a month, but still pay that full subscription . . . It’s nothing like the WoW I grew up with, but they have made a game for people with jobs, kids, and school, a game that lets you feel ac-complished with minimal effort because that is all the effort they have time for.”
Some players feel like the buffs, small stat or collec-tion boosts for their char-acters, like the “Gaze of the Black Prince” make the game easier to play. This buff in particular helps play-ers more quickly finish a leg-endary quest line to obtain a powerful cloak.
“These buffs definitely get lazy players motivated and provide hardcore players with the means to quickly gear up an [alternate charac-
ter],” Schwasinger said.Schwasinger approves of
the changes being made to the game in terms of how
much easier it is for her to accomplish things within the MMO without having to take too much time out
of her school schedule.“It makes it easier for me
to succeed in the game,” she concluded.
Blizzard targets busy gamers with new expansion
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Katie MeikleManaging Editor
This fall, Boise State will be more social media-savvy than ever before.
In July, the Office of Com-munications and Marketing implemented a Boise State hashtag directory on its de-partment website.
According to Leigh Ann Dufurrena, a digital and so-cial media communications specialist, the hashtag direc-tory is part of an effort by
the university to improve its social media outreach. The university’s social media hub can be found at social.boisestate.edu.
“Hashtags on our direc-tory are more than taglines, marketing slogans or catch-phrases. They are search terms for aggregating ser-vices, plug-ins and widgets and to pull in data from social networking sites,” Dufurrena said in an email.
While #BroncoNation is a popular hashtag for Boise
State athletics, it is notice-ably missing from the offi-cial hashtag directory.
According to Dufurrena, this is because #BroncoNa-tion is used by many sports teams with the Bronco
mascot.“The hashtags must be
unique in order to aggre-gate the data wanted, or too much data would be fed through the stream that isn’t relevant,” Dufurrena said.
In the digital age it has becoming increasingly im-portant for universities like Boise State to explore so-cial media outlets to engage with their communities.
“I am sure that the di-rectory will grow with an abundance of hashtags, but I think it’s important for social media users to know that the #BoiseS-tate hashtag is official, and is the one to use for consistency and power-ful brand messaging,”
Dufurrena said.According to Dufurrena,
the #BoiseState tag was shared in 15.1 thousand tweets in the month of July alone, with 133 thousand retweets and a 17.29 mil-lion tweet reach.
“That’s 17 million people on Twitter who potentially saw #BoiseState,” Dufur-rena said. “Using one of-ficial hashtag for all things Boise State makes our pres-ence stronger and our voice bigger.”
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Patty BowenAsst. Culture Editor
The Boise State Leader-shape seminar is hard to explain without sounding rather cult-like, explained McAlister James Mallory, sophomore and attendant of Boise State’s 2014 session of Leadershape.
The program offers a unique opportunity for a life-changing experience through several different seminars teaching students how to think about com-munity empowerment, self-realization, and personal vi-
sion of the world.“Leadershape was cer-
tainly one of the best univer-sity organizations I person-ally have had the pleasure of experiencing,” said James Moretto, sophomore film and media productions ma-jor. “It was very introspec-tive ... It helped me discover myself a bit more, helped me realize what exactly I do and don’t value.”
Leadershape was origi-nally created by Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity in 1986 in order to improve leadership on campus and has since spread to eighty
colleges.Leadershape has the abil-
ity to help students facili-tate thoughts and bring out the truest version of their vision for the world in the future. The program focuses on the individual while cre-ating a community around self-development and ac-ceptance.
“The individuals I inter-acted with, and the shared intimate moments will stay with me forever ... it forced us to work together, strug-gle together and ultimately become a cohesive and supportive community,”
Moretto said.The program is complete-
ly cost free, including meals, room and board and up to 10 hours of seminar a day for one week. Leadershape pushes students to look dif-ferently at the opportunities they have ahead of them through reflection and team building activities.
“What Leadershape did for me is it gave me the con-fidence to go beyond what I think possible for myself
to accomplish and see that anything is possible if you have a little faith behind what you are doing,” said Nick Propp, senior biology and dental studies major.
To apply for Leadershape, a student just needs to wait until the application opens up in the spring on the Student Involvement and Leadership Center’s page on Boise State’s official website.
“I would encourage any-one and everyone who is
interested in becoming self-aware and an overall better human being to attend,” said Elena Macover, junior marketing major. “Lead-ershape helped me iden-tify and solidify my values. This has empowered me to be the honest, integral and self-respecting individual that I have always known I could be!”
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With classes, assignments, work and other responsibili-ties continually bogging stu-dents down; it’s easy for in-dividuals to dismiss the idea of joining a club or organiza-tion because of a lack of time or inability to get in contact with a club.
The Get (IN)volved Fair alleviates this problem, offer-ing a window of time for stu-dents to come speak directly with club leaders instead of investigating meeting times online or fussing with email.
The fair takes place twice a year, at the beginning of each semester. This fall, the fair is open from 5 to 8 p.m. on September 3 on the Student Union Building’s patio.
According to the Get (IN)volved website, each year “members of more than 50 student organizations and campus departments will be available to share with you a little bit about what they do.”
Coordinator at the Stu-dent Involvement & Lead-ership Center, Ashlie Baty, explained that club and
student involvement with the fair is increasing each semester.
“We’re looking to show-case over 60 organizations this year, and expecting a few hundred students to come out to the event,” she said.
This is the maximum amount of organizations that the space can hold, allowing as many different clubs as possible to present them-selves to interested students.
“The fair provides an op-portunity to ask questions and meet student lead-ers face-to-face in a setting that most likely wouldn’t have otherwise happened,” Baty said.
The Get (IN)volved Fair sports a laid-back atmo-sphere, in which students can come and go as they please within the time frame, participating in club-led games, snacking on free ice cream and conversing in lawn chairs in the summer sun. A few of the organiza-tion-led activities include Jenga with the Students Helping Integrate Future Transfers, a scrimmage led by the Abraxans Quidditch
team and a showcase by the Karate Club.
Additionally, the fair offers a great place for clubs and or-ganizations to make connec-tions not only with prospec-tive members, but also with each other.
“I love when students leave their table for a few minutes and visit another table and exchange informa-tion with each other about their clubs, great ideas for fu-ture partnerships, how they can collaborate on projects,” Baty said.
Baty felt that the fair of-fers a perfect opportunity for students even slightly considering joining a club or organization to scope out their options. She em-phasized that students might find themselves interested in a club they wouldn’t have otherwise thought to join.
“Last spring, the S’mores Club participated in the fair for the first time, and fin-ished with over 40 interested students looking for more information about upcom-ing S’mores Club events,” she said.
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Since being hired in 2011, Executive Director of Athlet-ics Mark Coyle has continued the strong tradition of Boise State athletics, while laying the foundation for future suc-cess. Coyle sat down with The Arbiter to discuss the latest movements in the Athletic Department, as well as college athletics on a national level.
Arbiter: Originally you got your bachelor’s in Eng-lish before getting your master’s in teaching. How did you end up in athletic administration?
Coyle: Well I did my un-
dergrad at Drake University. I also played football there and truthfully, I wanted to be an English teacher, coach and athletic director at the high school level. When I went to Florida State to get my master’s, I kind of fell into the athletic administra-tion side. Knock on wood, I moved myself up that way.
Arbiter: Was it one of your goals to try and make the public more aware and not be seen as just a football school?
Coyle: Obviously, we talk about this a lot of the time, you need football in order to be a successful program. It doesn’t matter — wherever
you are, having football be-ing successful is such a key part because it drives so much of your revenue with the ticket sales and revenue.
I was very fortunate work-ing at Kentucky and Min-nesota where those were broad-based programs, and when I had the chance to interview for this job with Bob Kustra, I talked to him about how I wanted to have a broad-based pro-gram, where a young man or young woman has Boise State written across their chest and they’re competing for this program.
I want to make sure we do a great job of giving them a great experience. Having a broad-based program is defi-nitely important to us.
Arbiter: What are some of the major goals you have set for the Boise State Ath-letic Department in the near future?
Coyle: Again, I think we just want to represent this
place in the right way. We take great pride in that. The Bronco Nation has been so good to us. We talk all the time that this program is bigger than any one person. It’s about our student ath-letes, our history, our tradi-tion; we just want to make sure we continue to serve as a positive window for this university.
When our student-athletes are on ESPN and they’re on the radio, FOX sports, CBS sports whatever — when people see Boise State across the country, we want to make sure they see it in the right way.
Arbiter: For now it looks like conference realignment is going to quiet down for a bit. Do you see Boise State potentially moving to a Power 5 conference some-time down the road?
Coyle: That’s a hard ques-tion to answer. I don’t think conference realignment will ever settle. I think, obvi-
ously with the Power 5 and the NCAA government structure and some of the dialogue that’s going on at that level, I wouldn’t be sur-prised if you hear tomorrow if someone did this or some-one did that with conference realignment.
I think the key for us is we have to continue to grow and do what we’re doing. What I mean by that is, aca-demically, 72% of our stu-dent-athletes are at a 3.0 or higher. We’re doing things the right way academically. Athletically are we compet-ing at a high level, yes. We just have to continue what we’re doing and the univer-sity has to continue to grow and continue to expand. Those all help us if we de-cide to switch conferences, but we’re very happy with the MWC. We just need to keep on doing what we’re doing.
Arbiter: When you were hired, you said one of the
first things you did was make a list of potential replace-ments for Chris Petersen. Do you have a list for Leon Rice now?
Coyle: (Laughs) I have a list for all of our coaches. Obviously, Leon and I have talked a lot and I think it’s a great compliment. It shows you that what he’s doing here is the right thing. Mak-ing the NCAA tournament was awesome, but what I’m most proud of is our bas-ketball team keeps having a higher and higher grade point average. I think we’ve had our highest GPAs and APR the last two years with that program. That’s awe-some. That’s what I get ex-cited about. Leon is doing things the right way, and ob-viously Coach Petersen was doing things the right way. I can promise you Coach Har-sin will be doing things the right way. That’s part of the process of doing things in this business.
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Arbiter: A lot has changed for a program that’s enjoyed, for the most part, a lot of con-sistency. Is that just the nature of college athletics today?
Coyle: Boise State has such a great tradition and a lot of history. Obviously a lot of people know about that foot-ball program with it being so dominant over such a long pe-riod of time. One of the things I learned when I got here and when I was interviewing for the job was they have a lot of success in a lot of different sports.
In the two and a half years I’ve been here; the gymnastics program has been in the top 25; our wrestling program has had a lot of success, our swim-ming and diving programs have won 4 out of 5 cham-pionships; men’s tennis has won three straight conference championships and they’ve
been to post-season play. Sometimes I don’t think the public realizes that we’ve had a lot of success across many of our sports. Our track and field program, our women just finished 8th in the country. I think Boise State has such a solid foundation that it helps with that consistency moving forward.
Arbiter: The past few years, we’ve seen a decrease in ticket sales at now Albertsons Sta-dium. How much does that worry you?
Coyle: I think it’s a big concern across the country. In fact, I read an article this morning that West Virginia is down season tickets, Michi-gan is down season tickets, Ohio State is down – so it’s not just a Boise State issue. I think it’s a changing demographic and the students are such a big thing in what we do.
When we have 5,000 stu-dents in that stadium, that throws so much energy in that stadium, and that’s the future. How we kind of look at is, how can we engage our students and get them involved when you all graduate and still want to be a part of our program?
Arbiter: As Boise State grows a larger alumni base, is it the goal to keep those alumni engaged in the athletic program?
Coyle: A lot of times, ath-letics is kind of the elastic band between the alumni. When students graduate from Boise State, they’re here, they go to the football games and their classes and then they go move on. Now you’re get-ting your first job and doing some of those things, and you sometimes lose connection with your institution, but the one thing that keeps you con-
nected with your institution, in my mind, is athletics. Oh wait, the Broncos are on TV, they’ve got the football game or whatever it may be.
We’ve worked closely with the alumni association. We’re excited with the new build-ing that’s going in right across the street from the football stadium. We need to develop strong partnerships with them
to keep them engaged.Arbiter: It’s been Bronco
Stadium for 43 years. Think anyone’s going to have trouble calling it Albertsons Stadium now?
Coyle: (Laughs) I’m sure there is going to be some sort of transition. Albertsons has had a long-standing relation-ship with this institution, with the library that they contrib-
uted to on campus. We feel very fortunate to be in this situation. Albertsons is a lot like Boise State: kind of roll up your sleeves, work hard, very proud. We’re excited about the relationship. We’re going to start putting up the Albert-sons Stadium signs here very shortly to make the conver-sion to Albertsons Stadium.
Coyle oversees all athletic programs at Boise State.
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Bow fishing reels in adventurous participantsBrandon WaltonAsst. Sports & Rec Editor
Fishing with a pole may soon go out of style as people are now fishing with a bow.
“It’s real popular and ev-eryone that does it can’t believe how fun it is,” said Mark Carson, Idaho Fish and Game district conserva-tion officer.
So what is bow fishing exactly?
To bow fish, grab a bow of any kind and attach a reel and a fishing line to the end of it. The arrows are at-
tached to the end of the line, allowing you to reel the fish like you would with a nor-mal fishing pole.
“Bow fishing is definitely something I would like to try,” junior sociology major Scott Fitzgerald said. “I love to fish, and to shoot my bow and it looks challenging and badass.”
Bow fishing can be done from the shoreline or a boat.
“I like fishing out of a boat because you have more mobility and can cover the water better,” Carson said. “But I have shot thousands
of carp from the bank, so it can certainly be done there as well.”
The spring and summer months are the best time to go bow fishing.
“In the springtime (the carp) come up to the shal-low waters to spawn and they will all be up in the water that is less then a foot deep,” Carson said.
While there are some for-mal training classes avail-able, Carson says that stu-dents interested in learning to bow fish will most likely learn best by doing.
Carson recommends shooting often and if you are missing a lot aim lower as the water makes the fish seem higher then they really are.
While bow fishing has indeed caught on, it seems that it has a way to go before
it replaces the time-tested way of catching a fish.
“While I’d like to try bow fishing, I will most likely continue to fish with my pole and reel,” Fitzgerald said.
Carson highly recom-mends bow fishing for all
avid outdoor enthusiasts: hunters and fishers alike.
“I would do it all the time if I could and I would do it over any other form of fishing or hunting,” Car-son said. “It’s just so much fun.
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Brandon WaltonAsst. Sports & Rec Editor
It is no secret the Boise State men’s basketball team struggled and ultimately had a disappointing season last year.
With the loss of both Ryan Watkins and Thomas Bro-pleh, those struggles could increase exponentially. Head coach Leon Rice has taken notice.
“We lost our best leaders,” Rice said over the summer.
To address this Rice has re-cently made some key addi-tions to the men’s basketball program.
The new players include transfers Montigo Alford from the College of South-ern Idaho and Kevin Allen from Pratt Community Col-lege in Kansas.
The three freshmen in-clude Zach Haney from Houston, Texas, David Wacker from Converse, Tex-as, and Chandler Hutchison from Mission Viego, Cali-
fornia.Even though the Broncos
are returning with a lot tal-ent, such as Derrick Marks and Anthony Drmic, Rice expects it to be a brand new team.
“We got five new guys and it’s amazing how much the landscape and the visual of a team can change with them,” Rice said. “With five new guys, it changes the chem-istry, dynamic, and the look of our team and it’s going to be a different team in a lot of ways.”
Last season the Broncos struggled against other teams due to their lack of size. That was something that Rice looked for when recruiting players to join the team.
With Allen, 6’-10”, Haney, 6’-11”, Wacker, 6’-9”, and Hutchison 6’-5”, the Broncos have indeed added size to their roster.
“I feel we now have Moun-tain West size and more Mountain West athleticism,” Rice said. “We have added size, but I don’t feel we com-promised our skill level.”
Rice is always concerned on how well new players will adapt to the program.
“Hopefully it doesn’t take as long for these new guys to play well with the others,” Rice said. “I feel these guys are a great fit to the team.”
Time will tell if that is the case. The Broncos open their season in November.
Rice adds height to roster
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With five new guys, it changes the chemis-try, dynamic, and the look of our team and it’s going to be a different team in a lot of ways.
Rice is 77-54 at Boise State.
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Brandon WaltonAsst. Sports & Rec Editor
In another life Boise State junior running back Jay Ajayi could have been a star on the soccer field instead of being one on the blue.
Ajayi is one of college football’s most elite running backs and the star of the Boi-se State football team. Last season he ran for 1,425 yards and 18 touchdowns. He is on the Doak Walker and Max-well Award watch lists, given to college football’s best run-ning back and college player, respectively. But did you know he could have been another type of football star?
“I love football, but soc-cer is right there up with it,” Ajayi said.
Ajayi could have easily instead been a soccer player for the Nigerian national soccer team.
Before Ajayi moved to the United States from London, he was an avid soccer player with dreams of turning pro-fessional.
“My dad at the time knew a lot of guys on the Nigerian national team,” Ajayi said. “Also, one of my coaches in
my club team was one of the coaches on the national team and told me if I was serious about trying out, I should talk to him—so I had some opportunities.”
When his dad got a job as an information technologist, Ajayi and his family moved to Texas. It was there, at the age of eight years old, that he picked up the game of foot-ball.
“I went to a practice with one of my classmates and they mistook me for one of their team players,” Ajayi said. “They called me over and I grabbed a football, ran the ball.”
It was official: he was hooked.
“It made me watch the great backs like Marshall Faulk and Emmett Smith,” Ajayi said. “How they ran the ball with so much passion. It made me love the game even more and I have been a run-ning back ever since.”
With soccer opportunities back home and football op-portunities in the US, Ajayi and his family had a decision to make.
In the end, Ajayi and his family felt that the US was
the best place for them to be and would provide them the best opportunities.
“I had made a lot of friends and I have kind of built a new life here,” Ajayi said. “I wasn’t ready to make a huge life change and go back. I just felt that playing football would end up being the right path for me.”
The result of the decision not only turned Ajayi into a star, but turned his entire family into big football fans.
“My whole family is into football now,” Ajayi said. “They love what I am doing now.”
With what appears to be a promising football career ahead of him, Ajayi seems to have made the right choice. He couldn’t be happier with his decision all those years ago.
“I am in a great college whose fans are super pas-sionate about their team,” Ajayi said. “I am living the dream in playing college football at the highest level at one of the greatest colleges in America and I have no re-grets at all. What more could I ask for.”
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Aries (March 21- April 19):Today you have the ability to see the ghosts of great past rappers, Aries. Try not to get bogged down by the Biggie vs. 2Pac debate, which may leave you feeling confused and needing some California love. Infuse your su-pernatural experience with a carefully tailored Spotify playlist and reach deep into the ether.
Taurus (April 20-May 20):Your day has been a long one. End it with rest and relaxation by brewing a cup of warm tea. Mix your tea with vodka and watch the sunset while seated on the bronze eagle that tops the Idaho State Capitol.
Gemini (May 21-June 20):Today you are a talk show host. You must yell at everyone you see, especially those people that are engaged in conversation, talking on their phones or listening to music. Make sure that your words are unintelligible, derogatory and that all statements are at least partially false.
Cancer (June 21-July 22):The universe has noticed your disrespect for nature. Reconnect with your animal roots by urinating on each lamppost on university property. Remember to carefully sniff your targets before marking them and show your teeth if anyone questions your activities.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):Liberate your inner “gangsta”. End every sentence today with “izzle,” wear pants that are at least three sizes too large and wrap your teeth in tin foil, the latter of which will also help keep the government out of your head, with its many plots of international terrorism.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):Your day will bomb harder than The Lone Ranger on opening weekend. To heal your damaged karma, you must go on a vision quest with a native spiritual leader. Travel into the land of Alabama until you find the wolf spirit, local moonshiners and racists, not necessarily in that order.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):You just aren’t very good looking. The universe is troubled by your existence. Dark days are ahead. Prepare as follows: dig a nine foot hole into the ground, buy whole, canned chickens in bulk and begin to wear crocs regularly. This will solve everything.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):The stars have decided that doing laundry is no longer a necessity. Drive your washer and dryer up to Table Rock and kick them off the edge. At first, your friends will question why you smell, but eventually they will come around and join your move-ment. You will be the greatest trendsetter in all of history.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22):Your experiences with money will be ex-tremely negative today. Avoid all fast food restaurants and grocery stores as a sign of good faith to the stars. When hunger strikes, contemplate running out to the foothills and eating wild berries.
Capricorn (Dec. 23-Jan. 19):Your alcoholism is rapidly spiraling out of control. As in Archer, the cure may simply be one or many more drinks. Make your-self a gallon of bloody mary mix and sit down to a Top Gun marathon.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):If you do not do as listed, all your dark and twisted fantasies will come true at your next family gathering. To prevent this you must strip naked and lie on the banks of the Boise River as a sign of your honesty and purity. You must also cover your body in bread crumbs.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20):Today, as you stand on the edge of tomor-row, you will be thrown into a time loop, forced to relive your day over and over again until you successfully achieve your ultimate, world-changing goal: snagging that hard to get parking spot on a univer-sity side street.
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