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IDoTeach program makes teach STEM easier

Boise State bucks cancer with research

Kate WhiteStaff Writer

Idaho high schools are hungry for STEM teachers.

Boise State’s IDoTeach program aims to satisfy those pangs by allowing its students to graduate in four years with both a STEM degree and a certification to teach secondary educa-tion.

“Every year, we receive frantic emails from princi-pals in rural school districts that cannot find math and science teachers,” said Jan Smith, IDoTeach master teacher. “When they start-ed the program, that was the reason – there is a high need for math and science teachers.”

In its initial semester, there were 20 students enrolled in the program. Now in its third year, the program is instructing 105 Boise State students.

“Many of the classes in IDoTeach take the place of electives so students can do most of it in four years,” Smith said.

Unique to the IDoTeach program is the hands-on experience students get in real classrooms in the first semester of the program. This allows STEM students to immediately determine if teaching is something they would be interested in as a career.

There are no prerequi-sites to take the first two introductory classes. Stu-dents wishing to continue with the program must ap-ply and be accepted into the program. To be ac-cepted, students must pass the Praxis 1 exam, main-tain a minimum cumula-tive GPA of 2.75 in their major courses with a mini-mum 3.0 GPA in the STEM education courses and go through an interview.

Rhen Zohner, a junior pre-med major, was getting prepared to drop his teach-ing certification because the time demand was too high. He switched to the IDoTeach program from the traditional certification route and has been pleased with the change.

“It’s really awesome be-cause if you want to see what teaching is like, you can student teach from the beginning instead of wait-ing until the last year only to realize you don’t like it,” Zohner said.

According to Zohner, the IDoTeach program cuts down the amount of credits needed for teaching certifi-cation from 50 to 30.

“I appreciate the previ-ous programs but this is a more efficient way to be-come a teacher in a world that needs efficiency, and it is a good way to get people that are passionate about

what they do to teach,” Zohner said.

He suggested that IDoTe-ach is even worth complet-ing for STEM students with plans for other careers in STEM fields.

“This program is so feasi-ble in credits that it makes a great back-up. Getting into medical school sometimes takes two or three years af-

ter you get your bachelor’s degree so it’s good to know that I will have a job when I graduate,” he said.

Linda Clark, superinten-dent of West Ada School District, explained that the number of engineering and technology courses being offered in schools is ex-panding and will require a steady need for STEM

teachers in the future. She is confident that the IDoTe-ach program is an effec-tive means for training the teachers that continue to be needed.

“I believe the program is very sound and will signifi-cantly expand the prepara-tion of STEM teachers who come through it into our classrooms,” Clark said.

Eryn-Shay JohnsonAsst. News Editor

Boise State professor Cheryl Jorcyk is fighting cancer one step at a time. Jorcyk doesn’t have cancer herself–she’s re-searching it.

This professor of biological sciences is focusing on breast cancer research in her lab this October.

“People don’t die from hav-ing a tumor in their breasts be-cause you can usually remove that surgically,” Jorcyk said. “But those cells in the tumor can break free and metasta-

size through the blood stream or the lymphatic system and spread to some other place in the body, like the lungs, the liver, the brain or the bone.”

The spread of these tumor cells is what kills people.

According to Jorcyk, her re-search takes a deeper look at why these cells are so damag-ing.

Jorcyk and her team study one protein in particular. The protein, oncostatin m or OSM, is made by the immune sys-tem naturally and helps with inflammation. But a surplus of OSM can be deadly.

There are two ways to de-velop a surplus of OSM in the system.

The first, according to Jor-cyk, is too much OSM in the system caused by immune cells attacking a tumor. In this process the tumor reprograms the immune cells and helps the

tumor metastasize.“In some cases the tumor

cell can make the OSM them-selves, and then in response to that protein being outside the cell and being in that tumor environment, the tumor cells start taking on characteristics that allow them to metastasize,”

Jorcyk said.Jorcyk has been researching

at Boise State for the last 17 years and started working with OSM 14 years ago. She said the progress she’s made couldn’t have been done without the help from her team.

Her greatest discovery while researching OSM was con-firming her hypothesis in 2012.

“(We) confirmed in a living model animal, using a mouse model for human breast can-cer, and showed that OSM is really important for breast cancer metastasis,” Jorcyk said. “When we actually confirmed our hypothesis in a mouse, that was huge.”

Jorcyk’s and other profes-sors’ research is making big

waves when it comes to chang-ing the world of cancer re-search.

Currently, professors are studying different ways to treat cancer more effectively, devel-op techniques for early cancer detection, develop better drugs and examine the make up of cancer DNA.

“I think that’s so cool (Boise State) is one step closer to cur-ing cancer,” said Mareesa Rule, freshman business and market-ing major.

Rule thinks the research be-ing done is more than just a good thing.

“It’s beyond a good thing,” Rule said. “Curing something that affects so many people, that’s amazing.”

Jan Smith is a master teacher for IDoteach.

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(We) confirmed in a living model animal, using a mouse model for human breast cancer, and showed that OSM is really important for breast cancer metastasis.

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Boise State adjuncts attempt to unionizeSean BunceAsst. News Editor

With every step she has taken in her career, Dana Hathaway has worked to improve the lives of oth-ers. The next step she takes, however, may leave her outside the front doors of Boise State.

Founder of a new organi-zation on campus, Students Against Sweatshops, Ha-thaway plans to establish a union for adjunct faculty.

This is a movement which has already started across the country. In universities in Washington D.C., Virgin-

ia and Minnesota, adjunct professors are unionizing to help overcome an exploita-tion of professor labor.

Hathaway is in her first se-mester at Boise State. Even so, it’s hard to imagine her being around for another af-ter being so outspoken.

“It’s scary because yeah, you might lose your job, but

what else do you do?” she said. “Do you just continue with it?”

According to collegefactu-al.com, the average percent-age of adjunct faculty in the U.S. is 48 percent. At Boise State, it’s 46 percent.

These workers receive low pay, no benefits and don’t know what classes they’re

teaching until a few weeks before the semester be-gins—if they get any at all. In this way, Hathaway feels adjuncts are treated as con-tingent, disposable employ-ees.

At Boise State, adjunct faculty receive $2,800 per course for the semester, which works out to just over $20,000 if they teach one course two semesters in a year.

Tenured Boise State fac-ulty, however, make $65,000 to $70,000 each year and full-time lecturers make $38,000.

“We oftentimes talk about labor exploitation in vari-ous fields and various coun-tries around the world,” Hathaway said. “Of course, the adjunct problem, as it’s been referred to, isn’t on the same scale as something like a mining camp or a forest sweatshop in Thailand, but it’s certainly something that needs to be addressed and it’s being addressed with this movement.”The explanation

In an article published by the Boise Weekly in Feb-ruary of this year, Martin Schimpf, provost and vice president of academic af-fairs at Boise State, said the university hires adjuncts as a way to keep higher edu-cation accessible and deal with a growing student population.

“As we grow, we’ve brought on more adjuncts,” Schimpf said in the article. “That’s one of the benefits of living in a metropolitan area. We can hire those folks to open up a new section of a class ... Adjuncts are the

most economical way that we can add faculty for our students with the money we are given.”

Although it’s not required for an adjunct professor to have a Ph.D, master’s degree or even a teaching certifi-cate, many do according to Hathaway.

She believes adjunct facul-ty lack a voice at Boise State.

“It’s not from lack of work, there’s courses to be taught, it’s not from lack of a de-gree... it’s really not a lack of experience either,” she said. “There are adjuncts that have been here for ten plus years teaching at the part-time level and many of us teach at the just below full-time level.”

She feels adjuncts are kept below full-time so the ad-ministration can avoid pay-ing them a better wage and benefits, also to deny them the added job security that comes with tenure.

Susan Shadle, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, said full-time or tenured faculty often have more responsibilities. They make decisions about cur-riculum, programs they’re responsible for and the experiences students will have. This includes engaging students in internships, un-dergraduate research, men-toring students and steering them towards their careers.

“I think there are certain things we need to do as a community and that’s chal-lenging for adjunct faculty to do because we’re not paying them to be a part of the com-munity,” Shadle said.

Hathaway explained that adjuncts aren’t allowed to teach more than 11 credits

per semester; she teaches 10 ½ now. She believes there are enough courses to go around that every adjunct professor can potentially teach 12 credits. However, this wouldn’t bode well for the university financially.

“If I were to be hired as a full-time lecturer, teaching one and a half more credits, my pay would double,” she said.

This would make it pos-sible for her to receive bene-fits such as health and dental insurance for her as well as her two kids. It would even allow her to contribute to-wards a retirement fund.The goal

What Hathaway hopes to accomplish by starting this union is to create awareness.

“I don’t think students, here especially, are aware that many of their professors qualify for food stamps,” she said. “I think if you go to col-lege and you strive hard and you get a good job and you work nearly full time, you shouldn’t qualify for food stamps.”

This added awareness is also meant for faculty who don’t know this movement is happening.

To her, the uncertainty of whether or not she’ll have a job next semester is an un-comfortable position to be in; it affects the quality of education she can give.

“I love being a teacher. I love it,” Hathaway said. “The thing is (this movement) is not just about us adjuncts being dissatisfied with our pay or the conditions un-der which we work with no benefits and no guarantee of classes next term.”

““—Dana Hathaway

I don’t think students, here espe-cially, are aware that many of their professors qualify for food stamps.

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Counseling Services reach out to SAD studentsShelly BohorquezStaff Writer

Ben Duran, a senior politi-cal science major, is affected by SAD, or seasonal affective disorder every year.

“To feel suffocated by the gray clouds, to feel my vital-ity drained from me until I see the sun again, these things are hard enough with-out knowing that those I care about most are also suf-fering,” Duran wrote in an email to The Arbiter. “Mood swings, fatigue, and an un-dercurrent of depression and anxiety paint my experience with SAD.”

Duran is not alone in his

struggle. SAD affects 5 to 13 percent of the nation’s popu-lation according to the Bates College Health Center.

It is most prevalent be-tween the ages of 18 and 30 and is diagnosed the same way as depression. Changes in dopamine, serotonin, as well as melatonin levels are all implicated in a diagnosis of SAD.

People with SAD suffer harsh symptoms of depres-sion, insomnia and a lack of appetite. Fortunately for Duran as well as others who have been diagnosed with SAD, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Located on the second

floor of the Norco Build-ing by the check-in office to University Health Services is a light box that mimics out-door light.

“Boise gets hit pretty hard every winter with an inver-sion that blocks the sun for weeks at a time,” Duran wrote. “Getting exposed to a light box just makes these feelings slip away.”

Even though she is not diagnosed with SAD, Leila Issa, a freshman psychology major, can feel the effects of the darker weather on her mood.

“It makes me not feel good and I can’t focus if I’m not feeling good,” Issa said.

Health Services also provides literature on the function of light boxes so students can read up on the benefits and the science be-hind phototherapy.

“I think this is a good time of year to consider using one; with the time changes and the days getting shorter, we don’t see as much daylight,” said Dr. Karla West, director of Counseling Services.

According to West, Coun-seling Services decided to put a light box in the waiting room this last year in order for students to become more familiar with the concept of phototherapy.

Counseling Services also

keeps a light box in its Oasis Room, which is a relaxation room that students can re-quest to use. Counseling Ser-

vices has been using these lights for years and are happy to accommodate requests from students to use one.

light boxes are available in Norco.

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Nostalgic characters briNg NiNteNdo success

Justin KirkhamCulture Editor

Fireball flinging plumbers dash after angry mushrooms and swirling shells, while a green tunic-clad hero battles for golden fragments of leg-endary power. In the same universe, young heroes cap-ture elemental monsters in red and white orbs and a pink ball of air and gusto swallows enemies whole.

All of these iconic char-acters, their quirks in tow, make up the basis for Nin-tendo’s continuing success.

“It’s silly to say out loud, but when I think of Nin-tendo, I typically think of plain and simple fun,” said linguistics junior Maxwell Jahner. “Fun and an incred-ible amount of polish.”

Jahner explained that, in contrast with other first-

person-shooter-centered console games, Ninten-do tends to lean toward character-driven content. Whether it is “Mario Golf,” “Super Mario Sunshine” or a standard Mario platformer game, Nintendo draws ap-peal from its cast of lovable characters while still mak-ing their games superior to other takes on platformers or other Mario monopolies.

Jahner’s favorite Ninten-do character is Kirby.

“He’s well-suited to a vari-ety of different games given that his primary trait is he’s an adorable blank slate,” Jahner said. “He can be a swordsman, a ninja or a ball of yarn and it all suits him equally well.”

With the recent release of “Super Smash Bros” for the 3DS and the forthcoming release of the Wii U version

of the new “Smash Bros,” many gamers are jumping to Nintendo’s newest consoles with their favorite heroes.

In addition, Pokémon’s newest installments are re-makes of old games, mean-ing old content and adven-tures will be revamped and recreated with new graphics in the form of “Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby.” Umpqua Communi-ty College mathematics ju-nior Jeremiah Fallin plans to purchase one of the Hoenn region remakes.

“I know that I have bought every new Pokémon game that has come out be-cause of nostalgia, and, in my opinion, some of them have been good and some have been not as good,” Fal-lin said.

Fallin explained that while some argue that Nintendo is

for children, there are many facets within the company’s games that appeal to a va-riety of age groups. This is why he was recently hooked into the Fire Emblem se-ries, just as many children are lulled into Mario party games.

Jahner acknowledged that Nintendo does tend to aim its initial appeal to younger audiences, allowing these gamers plenty of time to forge strong connections with Link and Pikachu until they are primed for “Call of Duty.”

“Those of us who carry nostalgia for Nintendo’s pantheon of memorable characters did not develop such feelings in a moment, but over many years of re-peated positive encounters,” Jahner said. “Someone just jumping into gaming today

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Boise State considered bike-friendlyBriana CornwallCopy Editor

For the handful of cyclists that have been struck by motorized ve-hicles this semester, Boise State may not feel too bike-friendly. But signs around campus indicate otherwise, regardless of intermittent collisions.

Cycle Learning Center (CLC) coordinator Brian Ohlen explained campus-es are designated bike-friendly by an external organization, the League of American Bicyclists. Campuses have to apply for the title.

According to Ohlen, Boise State applied in 2011 and the title lasts through 2015.

“It’s pretty rigorous,” Ohlen said about the ap-plication.

He explained that it ad-dresses what the League of American Bicyclists call the Five E’s: engineer-ing, education, encour-agement, enforcement and evaluation.

According to the league’s website, engi-neering means “creat-ing safe and convenient places to ride and park,” and enforcement means “ensuring safe roads for all users.” Boise State’s implementation of new bike racks, covered park-ing, bike lanes and shar-rows help meet these requirements.

Bicycle programs su-pervisor Stephen Ritter explained that sharrows are arrows without the stem painted on the road which indicate to motor-ists and cyclists that it’s

safe for cyclists to take the lane.

“Those are on cam-pus on Theatre Lane and Brady Street,” he said.

Education means “giv-ing people of all ages and abilities the skills and confidence to ride,” the League of American Bi-cyclists explains, and en-couragement means “cre-ating a strong bike culture that welcomes and cel-ebrates bicycling.”

Services offered by the CLC offer educational and encouraging experi-ences for campus cyclists.

“The Cycle Learn-ing Center is a campus-based service focused on developing healthy and sustainable lifestyles by promoting the use of bi-cycles and multi-modal transportation options,” The CLC’s website states. “The CLC strives to cre-ate a hands-on learning

environment that em-powers campus users to explore sustainable trans-portation through edu-cational programming, retail sales and services.”

The last “E” is evalu-ation, or, as the league’s website describes, “plan-ning for bicycling as a safe and viable transportation option.” Boise State’s “Bi-cycle and Pedestrian Safe-ty Master Plan” details campus efforts to imple-ment the infrastructure necessary to meet this re-quirement.

Marketing junior Will Driml commutes to cam-pus via his bicycle. He feels Boise State is, over-all, bike-friendly.

“The only problem is between the SUB and Lincoln because people just drive through there,” he said. He explained he has to be extra careful in this area but otherwise

has an easy enough time traversing campus.

According to Ritter, the application to a bike-friendly campus doesn’t directly take into consid-eration vehicle-bicycle collisions.

Instead, it indirectly ad-dresses this threat to cy-clists “through education systems and structure … and anything we do to reduce the probability of things like that happen-ing,” he said.

The Arbiter asked Rit-ter why collision statistics aren’t required by the ap-plication.

“All I can think of is that those numbers would be, for one, easy to skew,” he said. “And for two, you would have to do them per capita to get a real rep-resentation so my guess is just that it would be hard to set the parameters like that for that survey.”

Walton’s Movie World: Gone GirlBrandon WaltonAsst. Sports & Rec Editor

The first real Oscar contender has emerged.

“Gone Girl” is directed by Da-vid Fincher, who is arguably to-day’s best director with such clas-sics as “Fight Club”(1999) and “Seven”(1995) under his belt, and stars Ben Affleck, who has been on a roll with recent films such as “The Town” (2010) and “Argo” (2012).

“Gone Girl” is the story of the disappearance of Amy Dunne—played by Rosamund Pike—and the subsequent investigation that centers on her husband Nick Dunne, played by Affleck. The less information you know about this film, the better it will be.

The acting in this film is in-credible. Just on casting alone, this movie automatically gets a passing grade. Affleck continues to show why he is one of the best actors in the business today with another truly great performance. Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry give great surprise per-formances in supporting roles in which both step out of their usual comedic zone.

The person who steals the show and gives the best perfor-mance in the film is Pike. Pike, who before this film was perhaps best known for “Wrath of the Titans”(2012) gives an unbeliev-able performance in the film and she should be one of the front

runners come Oscar season. Don’t be surprised if all the

actors in this film are up for Os-car gold come February.

“Gone Girl” accurately de-picts how we use and are used by the media. The film will make you question if what we really see on television is the truth and give you an insight on what indi-viduals given special attention in the media must go through and feel. It makes you realize how we as a society, for the most part, blindly rush to make judgments on people and issues, without knowing the full story.

“Gone Girl” has a very realis-tic and dark unapologetic tone which works great for the film, keeping you interested from start to finish. The movie keeps you on the edge of your seat as you feel like you’re part of the investigation trying to piece ev-erything together. It makes you constantly question your stance as every scene brings a new twist and turn until the end, which will leave you speechless.

This film ultimately makes an impact on your thoughts and when it’s over you will find yourself unable to move as you will still be sitting there trying to fully digest what you have just seen.

“Gone Girl” is one of the best movies of the year and one that needs to be seen in theaters.10/10

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Fantasy football could spell trouble for relationshipsSean BunceAsst. News Editor

Much like renting a house together for the first time, students should think twice before joining a fan-tasy football league with their best friend.

The idea may seem great at the time, but tensions al-ways arise when someone starts to lose.

“No one likes to lose, but everyone wants to make fun of the guy who did lose,” said Jeremy Hud-son, sophomore business major. “I’ve definitely had some friends who have got-ten into it over trash talk. But we’re all bros. They’re pissed off for a few days and then the next week starts and they forget all about it.”

Hudson mostly plays with friends from high school. For him it’s a way of staying connected.

“We’ve all had spats but we’ve never had anything that went beyond that,” he said. “I think if fantasy foot-ball can ruin your friendship

permanently, you’re proba-bly not that good of friends.”

In some leagues, how-ever, even the strongest bonds of friendship are tested.

“I think it’s more likely that friendships will be ru-ined (by fantasy football) if money is involved,” said Trent Waters, senior Eng-lish major. “I know I’ve lost a friend like that. People get really serious when there’s money on the line.”

According to him, these leagues are much more competitive.

“Even if it’s only $5 or $10 no one wants to get ripped off—especially if you earned it by winning or you feel like someone is cheating,” he said.

Cheating usually oc-curs if two players col-laborate against the rest of the league. One player realizes he can’t come back from a crummy season and decides to trade his best players to another fantasy owner.

“I’ve never had any trou-

ble other than that. It’s fun to compete but it’s nothing to get upset over,” he said.

Relationships aren’t al-ways threatened when fan-tasy football is introduced.

Veronica Vanzeipel, fifth grade teacher, has been playing fantasy football with her husband the last three years.

“We actually are unique in that we weren’t actually interested in football, either of us, until we both started becoming interested at the same time so we learned it together,” she said. “That’s why we joined (a league) together.”

Vanzeipel’s at the top of her league and although some minor trash-talking occurs between her and her husband, she claims their relationship is still as strong as ever.

“I think it brings us to-gether not so much that I feel closer because of it, but I know that if only one of us were doing it we would have to spend more time apart,” Vanzeipel said.

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Bike Corral hosted at home football gamesAddie GlickStaff Writer

Boise State’s Cycle Learning Center hosts a Bike Corral at every home football game. They tape off an area just for fans to park their bikes. During the games, people can leave their bikes there and feel secure knowing that their bikes are in a safe, moni-tored place.

“There is a lot of other bike parking around the stadium, but we are there,” said Phil Hobbs, Cycle Learning Center employee. “It’s corralled off. We’ve got people there the entire time. We’re watching the bikes basically. It’s pretty handy.”

Employees working the Bike Corral get there about four hours before the game starts, and are there for an

hour after the game ends. If people don’t get their bikes in that time, the bikes end up back at the Cycle Learn-ing Center.

“We’ve been doing it for at least two or three years and we’ve only ever had maybe three to five bikes that haven’t been picked up and ended up back here,” Hobbs said.

The Bike Corral is some-thing that a lot of stu-dents don’t know about. Boise State freshman Kai-lee Heikkila states that the Bike Corral can be very beneficial to students, and that she will be using it at the next home game.

“I don’t trust my lock, and with BSU games there are a lot more people because it is a locally known team,” Heikkila said. “There’s al-ways a question in the back of my mind if my bike is go-

ing to be there when I walk out because I’ve known a couple people who have had their bikes stolen this year.”

The Bike Corral is com-pletely free. Students who

ride their bikes to home games can drop them off and know that their bike will be safe.

“People don’t have to worry about having to lock

(their bikes) up all over the city and stuff like that,” said Brant Habra, Cycle Learn-ing Center employee. “It promotes people to ride their bikes here. I think it’s

great; we get people to ride their bikes.”

The Cycle Learning Cen-ter will be continuing to have these services for the remainder of the season.

Rivalry more than a gameFructoso BasalduaComm 273

Over the course of a col-legiate season there are certain games that mean more than others.

Marquee matchups are those that, as an ath-lete and a fan, you can’t help but circle on your calendar.

In some cases, these games have a lasting signif-icance long after the final horn is blown. Boise State vs. Idaho is one of those games.

The Boise State men’s

hockey club is set to face off against the University of Idaho men’s hockey club in the fourth annual Black and Blue rivalry game at CenturyLink Arena on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. All proceeds of the event go to Metro Meals on Wheels, a local nonprofit which sup-plies meals to the elderly in Ada County.

The event allows players to benefit their commu-nity while also compet-ing in such a storied in-state rivalry. Together the clubs have raised around $60,000 in the past three

years.Fans and alumni can ex-

perience a top-notch pre-mier hockey game live in the heart of the Treasure Valley.

Boise State is coming off one of its best seasons to date following their 2013-2014 campaign.

The Broncos finished last season ranked seventh out of 44 teams in the west-ern region of the American Collegiate Hockey Associ-ation and hope to continue the trend this year.

This season the Broncos are currently 7-1 while the

Vandals are 0-2.Free tickets are available

for Boise State students and staff, while supplies

last, at the Boise State Rec-reation Center.

The public can purchase tickets at CenturyLink

Arena for $20 on the day of the event, or in advance by calling (208) 972-1819.

The Cycle LEarning Center is located across from the SUB.

Boise STate played U of I in last year’s face off.

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Fans were taken back to the glory days of Boise State football Friday night, the days of Kellen Moore and company when the Bronco offense was virtually unstop-pable.

The Broncos put up a whopping 55 points, the most on the season, against BYU in the win and showed Bronco nation that they still have a highly potent offense.

The Broncos had 637 yards of total offense, the second most on the season thus far.

‘Things are starting to click more because we have more guys involved,” offensive co-ordinator Mike Sanford said. “We’re in more of a rhythm because more people are touching the ball and that’s the biggest difference.”

The Broncos had nine players with a reception and six players carry the ball in the victory.

With the injury to Matt Miller, Boise State need-ed the other players to step up in a big way—and

they have.The biggest one has been

sophomore wide receiver Thomas Sperbeck who had a game and career high six catches for 148 yards and a touchdown.

“He is taking advantage of his opportunities,” head coach Bryan Harsin said. “He is showing some consis-tency at that position and if you get the ball to him, he is going to have a great chance of making a play.”

Speaking of career highs, senior quarterback Grant Hedrick threw for a career- high 410 yards and account-ed for five touchdowns.

His 439 total yards are the sixth most in school history.

With his performance over the last three games, the Air Force game seems like a dis-tant memory for everyone except Hedrick.

“I knew that wasn’t my best performance and I knew I had to prove that to myself,” Hedrick said. “This was per-sonal for me.”

Finally, junior running back Jay Ajayi is living up to his self-proclaimed nick-name “The Jay Train” as the

running back steamrolled to 118 yards on the ground and two touchdowns.

“Jay is running the ball well,” Hedrick said. “It seems when he is running well, things are rolling for us of-fensively.”

So, what has been the key to this offensive turnaround for the Broncos?

“The preparation that we have been putting in at practice,” Ajayi said. “We are having the best practices we have had in a long time.”

Another factor for the Broncos has been the lack of turnovers. The Broncos have only turned the ball over twice in their last two games.

“When we take care of the football, we have a great chance of winning,” Harsin said.

The Broncos will now have a week off before they start the final month of the season with aspirations of finally bringing an outright Moun-tain West championship to The Blue.

“We are going to do ev-erything we can to make it a November to remember,” Sanford said.

Grant HEdrick runs the ball against BYU.

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