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“Innovate at Boise State,” proclaims the university’s latest TV ad. The members of the student club Greenspeed are doing just that.

Greenspeed hopes to build the world’s fastest vegetable oil powered truck and race it at the Bonneville Speed Week in Utah next year.

The group wants to raise awareness about veg-etable oil as a viable fuel alternative.

The club was founded by Dave Schenker, a non-tradi-tional student and mechani-cal engineering major.

“It’s been a dream of mine for the last 10 years,” Schen-ker said. “I’ve been involved in diesel performance for a long time so it’s right after I got a diesel pickup for work, thinking that I would run it on vegetable oil, and then I found out how easy it is to

hot-rod them.”Modifying his truck got

him interested in going to Boise State and pursuing an engineering degree, after he realized there was so much more to the engine than what was on the surface. He wanted to learn more.

For almost two years Schenker couldn’t get any other students interested in his idea to build a vegetable oil powered vehicle to drive at the annual Bonneville rac-ing event.

Finally, he got an enthu-siastic response from me-chanical engineering stu-dent Jozey Mitcham, who comes from a racing family. After that it seemed like ev-erybody came together at once, according to Schenker. There are now eight group members: seven engineering students and one recently graduated engineer.

“There’s definitely passion, a lot of passion,” said Adrian

Rothenbuhler, an electrical engineering major.

Right now they’re still planning, looking for spon-sors so they can get all the parts they need, including the vehicle itself. They hope to get their fuel from Univer-sity Dining Services.

“They’ve shown some pre-liminary interest in wanting to work with us and provide us their used cooking oil that we can filter, test and what-not,” Schenker said.

So why use vegetable oil?“We’re called Greenspeed

for a reason,” Rothenbuhler said. “It should be something green, something sustain-able … I think that if we can use something that would be thrown away anyway, and we can use it one more time,

I think that really makes it green.”

There are a lot of miscon-ceptions about vegetable oil fuel, Schenker and Rothen-buhler say. A lot of people think that trucks don’t run as well on vegetable oil or that it is bad for the vehicle. In fact, if the fuel is prepared right and a diesel engine is used, vegetable oil can be better for the vehicle than petro-leum diesel.

The goal is to have the truck built and ready to race by next year’s Speed Week in August.

An optimistic estimate for completing the vehicle is three to five months.

“Hopefully it will never be completed, hopefully it will become a program here at

BSU,” Schenker said.There is a similar group

at The Ohio State University that builds and races electric cars. They’ve built three of them in the past eight years or so. This program now draws engineers to The Ohio State from all over the world.

The group hasn't figured out what color they'll paint the truck yet. Green and white or blue and orange?

“It would be really cool if we could do a paint job like the Bronco truck at the foot-ball game,” Rothenbuhler said. “But then again, it’s called Greenspeed.”

To learn more about Greenspeed and what they need to complete their project, visit their website, http://greenspeed.me.

Student club planS to build, race vegetable oil powered truck

Adrian Rothenbuhler and Dave Schenker, mechanical engineering majors, plan to build a vegetable-oil powered truck. "The ultimate goal of this club is to change public perception of alternative fuels for the better," Schenker said.

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MARiNA HuNlEYJournalist

A political action com-mittee (PAC) bannered im-ages of President Obama with Hitler’s famous mus-tache in attempt to pro-mote impeaching Obama in the Quad.

The LaRouche PAC hopes to start a project that will create jobs through new light rail, nuclear reactors and new cities. The rep-resentatives of the group declined to be identified asked, “Are you ready for hyper-inflation?”

The group, who talked to prospective members yards away from the 9/11 memorial, tried to gain membership of students to spread word of the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), a bill they would like to pass in Congress.

Jacob Sternberg, a fresh-man English education ma-jor from Boise, argued with the group.

“I asked why they had a Hitler mustache on Obama and what that had to do with anything. I don’t un-derstand why they would Photoshop it the way they did.”

A group representative said Obama is killing peo-ple and the economy by lowering funding for Medi-care and Medicaid.

Sternberg was angry that the group was recruiting in front of the 9/11 memorial.

“It’s a vessel to attract at-tention,” he said.

For information, visit their website, http://La-RouchePAC.com.

with Greenspeed founder dave schenker

Dave Schenker, the founder of Greenspeed, is a non-traditional mechani-cal engineering major. Be-fore coming to Boise State, Schenker worked in indus-try for some time. Before he started this group, he modi-fied his own truck to run on vegetable oil.

Arbiter: What made you interested in doing the project?Schenker: I can’t really

say that there’s one thing. It grew over the last 10 years, something like that. I spent a lot of time working on my truck, being involved in the diesel performance world. I get a lot of enjoyment out of building things, designing things. Eventually I would like to have my own engi-neering firm and so this is giving me the opportunity to really explore and practice that kind of thing.

Arbiter: You modified your own truck to run on vegetable oil. How similar will this process be?Schenker: The conver-

sion is fairly simple. It really doesn’t take much. It’s just a matter of plumbing and put-ting in some pumps and stuff like that. It’s pretty basic. The challenge of this project is going to be squeezing every last bit of power out of the vehicle and working within the design constraints of the competition.

Arbiter: Why vegetable oil, instead of another type of biofuel?Schenker: Well, vegetable

oil has many sources, and they’re all very renewable, very fast reproducing, espe-cially something like algae that can reproduce at an ex-ponential rate. You can get a lot of fuel in a little bit of space.

Arbiter: Was it easy to get other students involved in the project or was it difficult? What was the reaction when you shared the idea with others?Schenker: For the first

year and a half or so there was no response. I’d bring it up in all my classes any time I had to give a presen-tation … and nobody was really interested. But all of a sudden it seemed like every-body kind of came together at once and was pretty inter-ested in it.

Arbiter: So your primary interest with the project is the racing and not so much for general use?Schenker: The ultimate

goal of this club is to change public perception of alter-

native fuels for the better. To help them understand that vegetable oil as a fuel is completely viable. And so hopefully by competing head to head against a petro-leum diesel vehicle, showing them that wow, you don’t lose power, it works.

Arbiter: How much fur-ther do you have to go with the project?Schenker: We’re seeking

funding now … That’s go-ing to continue throughout the program. We’re aggres-sively doing that right now. As soon as we find a place (to work) and a vehicle, then we can start tearing apart the vehicle and there’s going to be a lot of internal modifica-tions and stuff like that.

aSbSu 101: student legislation, step by stepEDiNA MACiC

Journalist

Here is the Associated Stu-dents of Boise State Univer-sity (ASBSU) take on the bill process for student govern-ment.

Seven members of the sen-ate start the process of legis-lation.

The bill is then passed down to one of the seven committees, then back to senate for a final vote.

The Accountability Bill, written by Mark Gehrke, sen-ator at-large, is the only bill

pending. Gehrke said he ex-pects the bill will be passed because it shows students how much work ASBSU ac-complishes.

the Seven Step proceSS:1. Research and NetworkASBSU listens to students’

issues and concerns to see if possible legislation could fix the problem. This can be as simple as creating a project on campus to get students involved or any idea that will concern a big group of people.

2. DraftingTo draft the legislation it-

self does not mean typing it up. The Senate checks all of the government values and documents to evaluate what the bill's budget will cost.

3. Introducing the legisla-tion

Before the bill can even be voted on, it must be read. The first reading takes place by ASBSU President Stephen Heleker. Fifteen minutes is allowed to introduce the bill to the senate. Questions are taken from the senators and debate and discussion are

followed by the questions or concerns.

4. Kicking the legislationDepending on the type of

bill, it is then passed on to one of the seven committees.

Once the committee meets they have the option to pro-pose amendments to the bill and then let the senate know of their recommendations.

5. Second ReadingIn the first reading ASBSU

or senators introduce the bill, then the second reading consists of senators getting together after the legisla-tion went through one of the

committees. Here they raise questions or concerns about the amendments that were purposed from the commit-tee. This is followed by, once again, debate and discussion.

6. To veto or not to vetoThis is a third reading

which concludes all the questions, concerns, amend-ments or changes to the bill that were made in the process and makes it into the hands of the president. The ASBSU president then decides if he should sign the legislation or veto it.

7. Last stop: Administra-tion

If the president signs the legislation, one last stop is made before the bill can be active. It needs to pass through the administrative outlets depending on what the bill may be about. If the bill is concerning a club or program, the administrative outlet would be advisers and the academic department it falls under. To keep in mind, anytime during the process of a legislation the bill can be kicked off.

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Ignore rednecks, honor America

Jana HoffmanColumnist

Tweet that inspired this week’s column: timbray Problem isn't

some ignorant redneck burning a book. Problem is rewarding

his stupidity with attention.

The anniversary of 9/11 isn't a day to fo-cus on the acts of those inflamed by hatred and ignorance. It is a day to recognize that the great many blessings Americans enjoy should never be taken for granted.

Sept. 11 is this generation’s JFK assassi-nation. The question “where were you on 9/11?” conjures strong emotion. America lost 2,819 of her brothers and sisters that day. She lost 343 fire fighters and paramed-ics. More than half of surviving families were left to recover without the remains of their loved ones.

The memory of 9/11 is soiled by a media that focuses on heinous acts committed by a few. The truth is that the United States is comprised of people who give out of their hearts and want the best for this country. Sept. 11 is a recognized National Day of Ser-vice -- a day Americans can join together and give back to their communities. We can heal this country through service and volun-teerism.

The current political climate easily dis-tracts U.S. citizens from the fact that, over-all, America is generous nation. A recent study reveals that when it comes to giving time and money, the U.S. ranks near the top. The study also found that the happier that people are, the more likely they are to give. American charity is driven by a sense of well-being -- not dollars and cents.

Americans are inundated with news of the ugliness around the world. The fact is that it's difficult to focus on the good when the bad is so disturbingly ugly. Americans get reprieve from work schedules by means of national holidays, but they don’t get vaca-tions from the media. Talking heads read lines intended to boost ratings, and it’s the nasty news that sells. Sept. 11 is a day to shut the television off; it's a day to remember.

On 9/11, I woke up to the sound of the phone ringing. My mom didn’t say hello.

“Turn on the T.V.,” she said.The picture on the screen looked like a

shot from a movie trailer. I didn't under-stand what I was looking at.

“We’re under attack,” she said.At that moment I felt something I’d never

felt in my 18 years. I felt unsure of my coun-try’s national security.

I drove to work with the radio blaring voic-es reporting the news as it was coming in. I knew as much as they did.

When I arrived at the elementary school where I tutored, televisions were on in every room. An uneasy quiet pervaded the hall-ways. No one could verbalize the confusion and pain we all felt. What would become of America?

Sept.11 has reminded Americans that this country is not invincible. It has ex-posed places of ingratitude within our lives. Americans across the nation remember 9/11 by giving back. Americans honor 9/11 victims and their survivors when they live the antithesis of the attackers. Every time an American steps up to help a neighbor or gives to a charitable cause, it diminishes the hateful intent of the 9/11 attackers. It is this charitable spirit that heals a nation. On 9/11, news of good deeds should be shouted from the roof tops -- news of anything else should be ignored.

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Dehypnotized from religionPresentation challenges students to think

Tony madonnaJournalist

"People bound by chains are stuck in a cave. These people can only see forward because of the bindings. Their light comes from a fire, far behind them. Between the people and the fire, there is a road on which are beings projecting their shadows in front of the people. The shad-ows are the only knowledge the people have of the world. They do not know or question why or what else is beyond their cave. But, one person frees himself of the chains, ventures outside of the cave where the sun illuminates the outside world."

This passage from "The Republic of Plato" paralleled the ideas discussed in the presentation "Dehypnotiz-ing Yourself from Religious Socialization" by former-LDS Bishop Dan Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald is the freed per-son; the one who woke up from his religious dogma, his one-sided view of morals and meaning of life, to find and consider other possibilities.

Like the freed prisoner in the cave and Fitzgerald, we all must wake up from our artificial, manipulated re-alities and realize the mor-als, meaning and purpose of one's life can come from many different avenues.

The Student Secular Al-liance (SSA) strives to pro-mote this type of thinking on campus.

"Most of what we are pro-moting is an environment on campus where there can be critical discussion of reli-gion and irreligion," Herbie Pollard, vice president of SSA said. "We want to cre-ate an environment where students feel comfortable to talk about their past reli-gious experiences and even what their current religious experience is."

The critical examination of religious beliefs and consid-eration of other possibilities, which don't necessarily lead into a religion, is mind open-ing. Whether dedicated to a

religion, agnosticism, athe-ism or something in the mid-dle (such as secularism), one should be able to recognize validity in the alternatives.

This does not necessar-ily mean changing a belief system, but instead trying to understand and accept how people shape their own beliefs.

"(We need to) step outside of ourselves and consider other possibilities and other ways of looking at things," Fitzgerald said. "Continue to seek out open forums where the sharing of different ideas can happen in a safe environ-ment where everyone's opin-ions can be considered with fair-minded critical think-ing and by doing so we can all walk away having more insight than we did with our own belief system."

The socialization of any belief system manipulates people to see only one way to believe, like the prisoners in Plato's cave. The prisoners in the cave cannot see more than the projected shadows on the wall. They are social-ized to see and believe only those shadows to be true. This socialization can take place within a religion just as easily as it can outside re-ligion.

The dichotomy of the two extremes in the socialization of religion, Fitzgerald ex-plained, creates a fear within the followers. These two ex-tremes lead people to believe they must follow the dogma of their religion or lose ev-erything they care for, includ-ing loved ones, morals and the meaning and purpose of life. However, those things do not have to be found in one particular medium. Many people find them in different forms -- both religious and non-religious.

Our culture today has a "gang" mentality -- everyone must have a group. When people ask, "What do you believe?" most answer de-finitively whether they take part in religious dogma or not. People answer that they are Christian, or Catholic,

or atheist, or Baptist, or ag-nostic and in defining their "religion," they portray more of what they don't believe in rather than in what they actu-ally believe.

When I hear "atheist" for example, I conclude to one whom does not believe in a higher power. Conversely, when "catholic" is said I con-clude to one who does not believe in evolution.

Instead of blurting out what we don't believe in, engage in "proactive efforts to focus on being assertive about what (you) do believe in," Fitzger-ald said.

Do not categorize individu-

als into a branch of religious beliefs or a sector of non-re-ligious beliefs. Be open to all possibilities and incorporate beliefs no matter the origin of the idea. When a contra-dictory belief invades, do not immediately eradicate it. Understand its philosophy and accept the value it has to others, and if it suits you, em-brace it.

Do not be the socialized prisoner of Plato's cave. Be the freed prisoner seeking alternatives to his former be-lief system. Create your own dogma and accept the dogma in which others find value.

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For those who re-member Boise State's first Fiesta Bowl win

against Oklahoma, the name Legedu Naanee may ring a bell. These days, Naanee is with the San Diego Char-gers, and is starting at Wide Receiver tonight on Monday Night Football against the Kansas City Chiefs. I talked with Naanee and asked him about Boise State’s win over Virginia Tech, and starting

his first game in the NFL.

Justin Dalme: Did you watch the Virginia Tech game on Monday Night?

Legedu Naanee: Yeah, it was a good game. I thought the whole time that Boise would win the game. They just showed how tough they were, fighting through those penalties, the turnovers, and then still at the end, go-ing down on that last drive and scoring. It just showed how tough they are to me.

JD: What was your reac-tion to Boise State winning this big game?

LN: I wasn’t surprised or anything. I was just happy for those guys.

JD: How does it feel to have started this by be-ing on the 2006-07 Fiesta

Bowl team?LN: It feels good. It feels

good to see that they are keeping it going, and its growing. Around the coun-try, not only fans and stuff like that, but people that are in the (NFL), and are team-mates, are watching them, and respecting them.

JD: You have any predic-tions for the Broncos this year?

LN: I think they are go-ing to go undefeated. The toughest games are going to be those teams that normal-ly aren’t all that good, and kinda sneak up on them. But I think that they will go undefeated and hopefully win the big game.

JD: Are there any similari-ties between this team, and the 2006 team that won the Fiesta Bowl?

LN: Yes, I would say that the similarities I see are, for one, their returning a lot of returners, so not a lot of guys are coming in and fill-ing in spots. Another simi-larity is that the team has been together a few years, so the team knows how to gel together, and they have been through a whole bunch of game situations and stuff like that together. The whole team is very ex-perienced.

JD: What sets apart Boise

State and their coaches, be-ing able to get the best out of their players, and to pre-pare them for the NFL.

LN: I would just say the detail that they put in, as far as when they install plays and situations they are get-ting ready for, they just pay attention to the details. They make sure they coach the details, and when you get to this level (NFL), that’s something that is stressed, and a lot of guys through college haven’t had to fo-cus on the little things, and I think that’s what sets them apart.

JD: It looks like you are going to be starting Mon-day Night. How does it feel to get the start, underneath the lights?

LN: I’m just excited. In three years, I have been kinda learning, and play-ing situationally and stuff like that. I am excited to play such a big game Monday Night.

JD: What are you doing to get ready for Kansas City?

LN: Nothing out of the norm. Just watching film, studying what they do, and just focusing on what we do, play execution. You know it’s the first game, it’s a lot harder to see and tell what exactly they are going to do as far as blitzes and cover-

ages, so we have to be sharp with what we do.

JD: How does it feel to be a part of the San Diego of-fense, with Philip Rivers, and knowing that you he can stretch the field and get the ball to you deep.

LN: It’s awesome. Not only is the scheme set up to stretch the field, but they have so many weapons around me that, they can’t really focus on one thing or another, so everybody is go-ing to get their opportunity to make plays.

JD: You had a touchdown in the preseason. Can Bron-co fans expect to see you in the endzone Monday Night?

LN: Hopefully. I will defi-nitely have a lot more op-portunities, playing a whole game, so it’s looking good.

Former Bronco earns respect in NFL

trent lootensSports Editor

Suddenly, No. 3 Boise State’s stunning 33-30 win against Virginia Tech doesn’t look so impressive.

The Hokies (0-2), who played James Madison on Sat-urday, five days after losing to the Broncos, lost 21-16. The loss booted the Hokies out of the Top 25 in both ma-jor polls. Thanks, VT. Sincerely, BSU.

After losing to an FCS team (JM), which is equivalent to the old Division II, the Hokies smashed Boise State’s hopes of playing for the BCS National Championship. Now, more things need to go BSU’s way than ever if it has any chance of playing for the title.

No. 4 Texas Christian (2-0) needs to lose, and that doesn’t appear to be happening anytime soon. The Horned Frogs opened up with a win

against Oregon State 30-21 and then went on to ham-mer Tennessee Tech 62-7 last week. Granted, TNTU is an FCS school, so the win won’t help the Horned Frogs’ case nationally, but this seems eerily similar to 2009 for the Broncos.

If you’ve forgotten, TCU was behind BSU in the polls last season, too, but ended up jumping the Broncos as the season continued thanks to a better strength of schedule in the Mountain West Conference. No. 4 TCU and No. 14 Utah (2-0) are the only MWC teams currently in the AP Top 25.

BSU needs Western Athletic Conference teams like Fresno State, Nevada and Hawai’i to win a lot of games and break into the polls. Nevada

(2-0) has its pistol offense firing on all cylinders and de-feated MWC foe Colorado State 51-6 on Saturday.

FSU (1-0) won its first game at home against Big East Conference up-and-comer Cincinnati 28-14. Hawai’i (1-1) lost its first home game 49-36 to Southern California, but battled back last weekend to defeat Army 31-28 on the road.

BSU fans hate to say it because they’ve been let down so many times, but WAC teams have to come through for the Broncos. The WAC needs just as many teams as the MWC consistently ranked in the Top 25 if BSU wants to stay in front of TCU.

Having VT turn its season around and win the Atlantic Coast Conference would help immensely, too.

Boise State has to win every game convincingly. That means no lackluster performances like it had last year on the road at Tulsa and Loui-

siana Tech. To put it simply, the Broncos have to crush every team on their schedule starting with Wyoming (1-1) this Saturday in Laramie, Wyo. The Cowboys de-feated Southern Utah 28-20 at home then got blown out by No.6 Texas 34-7. BSU needs to beat Wyoming by the same amount or more to stay cemented in the Top 5.

If the Broncos get by Wyoming it will set up the show-down Boise State has been waiting for when Oregon State (0-1) comes to Boise, Idaho on Sept. 25. OSU lost a hard-fought battle to TCU early in the season, but hosts Louisville (1-1) this week in a must-win for the Beavers.

Also, there’s been serious speculation that if BSU gets past Wyoming ESPN’s College Gameday will be on BSU’s campus for the BSU-OSU game. This would look great for BSU and would give them a platform to state its case for a national championship.

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The Boise Women’s soccer team had heartbreaking loss-es in the Governor’s Cup, but are ready to rebound in its first home game of the season against Seattle University.

The Broncos had two shut-out losses in their games against Utah Valley and Ida-ho State.

“I don’t think with the speed and the talent that we have, that we should ever be shutout,” head coach Steve Lucas said.

However, the Broncos are learning from their losses by practicing with diligence in order to improve their execu-tion in future games.

“We are working on team chemistry and coming to-gether, having pride in what we do, and having heart when we play on the field,” sophomore Lauren Hickok said.

Any sports team that wish-es to play in peak form must have an unparalleled con-

nection between players. Currently, the girls have great chemistry off the field, but are working toward improv-ing their communication during the games.

The Broncos are putting in long hours of preparation for their first home game of the season.

“Basically watching film has showed us what we need to work on. Most of that is be-ing able to be connected on the field. We have great team chemistry off the field, but we need to bring that chemistry onto the field,” senior Shan-non Saxton said.

Despite the difficult shut-out losses, Lix Ruiz and Lauren Hickok were named All-Tournament team for the Governor’s Cup because of their distinguished perfor-mances.

According to an excited Hickok, “It feels great! It’s re-ally exciting, but the whole team also played well.”

The Broncos will be facing Seattle University this week-end. This will be their third

encounter with the Red-hawks and after two previous losses.The team is eager for a win.

“We know they are going to be a good team and we have the ability to be a good team, so we’re just getting ready to play a game like any other,” Lucas said.

After three consecutive weekends of away games, the team is more than ready for its first home game.

“I’m very excited and I think it’s going to be really good for us to finally be home and be able to play at our own field, have our fans, and hear our families,” Saxton said.

The Broncos have had a de-manding schedule that has required extra effort on the part of the players to keep up with homework and main-tain a high level of intensity in each game.

According to Shannon Saxton, “Trying to balance school and sports is difficult. But hopefully we will be able to get adjust because we have barely any home games.”

On the rebound

Wyatt martinArbiter Journalist

If you’ve been to the Student Recreation Center here on campus then you’ve probably seen those sweaty beasts in their glass cages down at the end of the basketball courts. The ones with the goofy safety glasses, wear more arm bands than Allen Iverson. These gentlemen (and ladies) are racquetball players, and if you think their sport is lame or for old professors you just might want to give it a try.

When I saw racquetball on the club sports list I was im-mediately intrigued. I don’t know of a sport that I’ve actu-ally been around more, yet I know so little about. My first step was to find someone with some background and knowl-edge for the sport who would be willing to fill me in and give me some pointers. So I decid-ed to head for the source, rac-quetball club president and founder Sean Campbell.

After sitting down with Sean I learned that his passion for racquetball came by accident.

“I didn’t know what it was, I

didn’t even know what to call it,” Campbell recalled after seeing the courts down at the Rec. “After looking through all the KIN-ACT classes, the only opening left was for racquet-ball.”

And so his story began. He fell in love with the game and was constantly looking for new and better competition. This is what sparked his idea to get involved and start up a new club.

The last attempt to start up a racquetball club back in 2001 fell flat on its face with only four members joining. The club’s resurgence is mainly at-tributed to Sean’s open door policy, “We want to get a net-work of players that can get to-gether, practice, and have fun, no matter their skill level.”

“I want to bring rac-quetball back, it’s not as popular as it once was,” Campbell said.

This dip in popularity can be traced back to the changes (mainly the increase in rac-quet size) that occurred with the game in the late 1990s.

“When they raised the speed of the game the eye in-

juries increased, and the pop-ularity went down,” said Joe Fuson, club coach and rac-quetball enthusiast. But with the advances in light-weight, high impact eye protection, many old injuries are being avoided.

“We had two world cham-pions for 10 years running out of Spokane and Boise. Boise used to be a Mecca of racquet-ball in the '90s,” Fuson said.

I challenged Campbell and club secretary Jesse Beumeler to a friendly game (bad idea on my part). After going over a few rules and guidelines, it was time for the moment of truth. The first thing that I noticed when stepping into court is that this is a very loud sport. The next thing I discov-ered after getting hit in the back of the head with the ball, was that the game tends to move rather fast. We played a rotating three man game to 21 points, and I learned why you shouldn’t challenge the club president and secretary.

Final score 21-19-1 (I had the one point).

Thanks for taking it easy guys.

After last week's disappointments, Broncos look forward

New club making racquet at BSU

the Boise state women's soccer team hopes to rebound from tough road losses.jOSh RASMuSSEN/ThE ARBITER

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Lance MooreJournalist

The season finale of Boi-se's summer social hot spot, Alive After Five, came to its season's conclusion Sept. 5.

Every Wednesday throughout the summer, continuing through early August in the center of The Grove, local and na-tional musicians come out for a night of music and festivities.

There is a broad range of musicians who perform for this occasion, highlighted best by Chad dryden, the marketing and promotions director at the Boise Record Exchange.

“It is a nice mixture of the known and the unknown,”

he said. “It is a good way to get exposed to the new bands and talent that come from all walks of life in order to have the opportunity to have their music heard.”

Through the chatter of youth and elderly, with spontaneous dancing and embracing, the mixture of the enjoyment of company and music ignited much of the smiles that could be wit-nessed in the crowd.

“It’s been great," said Jeff Peterson, drummer for per-forming band Roster MC-cabe. "We love Boise, first of all, as well as seeing the mix-ture of both the younger and older generation enjoying our music.”

Accompanying the vibran-cy of the aura presented by

the loud hum of people and music was a large number of Boise State students sporting the respected orange and blue.

Ryan Shaw, guitarist for the night's acoustic show with the band Soul Serene, said, “our first gig as a group was actually at BSU in the Student Union Building. The students bring such a great atmosphere and have con-tinued to do so tonight.”

now that this year's fes-tivities have ended, Boise residents will have to wait until next summer to en-joy the musical endow-ments presented by Alive After Five, and to ingest the summer tradition of some tunes, refreshments and companionship.

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Hoi PolloiHashtags

& hacksKarey HoKe

Columnist

Perhaps you’ve all heard of a little thing called twit-ter. If you place a "#" in front of a word or phrase, it's called a hashtag. twitter defines a hashtag as similar to other web tags -- it helps sorts tweets into categories.

one of the lat-est trending hashtags is "#firstworldproblems."

I thought this might be re-ferring to the recession, the fact that several businesses are collapsing, the rising obesity rate in the U.S., the number of drunken driving accidents and dUIs, etcetera.

I was sadly mistaken. twit-terfolk are using this hashtag in situations such as, “#First-WorldProblems my iPhone didn't arrive today like it was supposed to,” or, “I have four televisions that are on in my home and not onE oF thEM IS on thE F---InG Foot-BAll GAME! #FirstWorld-Problems.”

one of my personal favorites is, “There's something wrong with the world when you're otherwise too busy to tweet. #firstworldproblems.”

May I digress on this for a moment? This tweet, to me, sums up what’s wrong with our generation. When twitter, Facebook or any other type of social media devours your life to the point where if you’re not checking it, you feel as though something is wrong with the world, something most defi-nitely is wrong with you. true, our generation is known for technological advances (the entire Apple line, anyone?). But when the Internet be-comes more important than real flesh-and-blood relation-ships, one should consider twitFaceSpace rehab.

Back to the hashtag issue; these are obviously huge cri-ses. nevermind that a fire in Colorado just destroyed more than 160 homes, @french-maidrobot’s bag of chips was mostly crumbs. terry Jones threatened to insult an en-tire religion by burning its holy Book, but the real crisis is @skzuniga doesn’t like her breakfast taco stuffed too full.

obviously, real world is-sues are insignificant com-pared to the all-consum-ing issues of everyday life -- therefore, they’re considered #firstworldproblems.

If I could create a witty hashtag and make it a trend, mine would have to be something along the lines of #mockage.

We’re adults now. We are in college and taking our first steps in to the real world. This is the time where we find real jobs and what we do starts to matter. If you want to be taken seriously, present yourself in a more mature, respectable manner in the Internet.

Alive After Five dies, for now

Drew Preiner, singer and guitarist for roster Mccabe, sings at alive after Five. MITCh ESPLIN/ThE ARBITER

The Swede Life

Help! I'm turning

into a Swede!BenjaMin MacK

Columnist

It’s no secret that tourists, exchange students and expa-triates alike enjoy poking fun at the culture they’ve adopt-ed. heck, get enough of us in one room and it’s practically a sport.

let’s face it: Swedes are strange. But then again, so is every culture to a certain extent.

The habits I’m about to list are precisely what make Sweden what it is. While some may think the country is about as sensical as put-ting yogurt on toast (a staple of Swedish breakfasts), let me assure you it’s a fantastic place. But still...

1. Julmust and Påskmust are the same drink, but Swedes insist on calling it dif-ferent names. Furthermore, they find it annoying when Americans call it by its true name: soda.

2. It’s an insult to show up late for lunch, but it’s perfect-ly okay to cancel five minutes

before without any explana-tion other than “I have to cancel.”

3. Swedes always find an occasion to eat herring, a fish that tastes like an unholy crossbreed between trout and pickled beets.

4. Swedes are bizarrely pa-triotic about their strawber-ries. Purchase Polish straw-berries and you’re just asking for trouble.

5. Swedes commonly prefer “tiga ut nagon.” This roughly translates to “giving the si-lent treatment.” It’s a passive-aggressive technique they've somehow come to think of as a polite method of conflict avoidance, but makes others want to clothesline the near-est Vandals fan.

6. Swedes suck and chew on the almost entirely meat-less leg of a crayfish, eerily reminiscent of a dog gnaw-ing on a bone, at a thoroughly confusing event called a cray-fish party.

7. Swedes think everyone from a state west of the Mis-sissippi is a cowboy, and that your knowledge of football, pickup trucks and country music is unparalleled.

When one spends enough time in another culture, as-similation into that culture is inevitable. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve found myself already picking up on a few Swedish habits -- like hav-ing a “fika” (afternoon coffee drink for no apparent reason) just about every day, prefer-ring my “sandwiches” to be open-faced or finding ice hockey mildly interesting.

Perhaps I better be care-ful, or I’ll end up turning into a Swede. If that happens, I know I’ll never be able to leave an IKEA again.

Benjamin Mack is a 20-year-old journalism major from Portland, Ore. studying in Växjö, Sweden. You can fol-low his adventures online at arbiteronline.com.

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