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WEEKLY EVENTS Discovery Opportunities for On-Campus Amenities Monday, Jan. 9 - Friday, Jan. 13

Albertsons Library/Campus Recreation, 8:00 - 5:00 PM, FREE If you are a new to campus or are interested in learning more about campus life, Albertsons Library will be hosting a Discover event from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout the first week of classes, and Campus Recreation will be offering its premium fitness classes for free throughout the first week of classes. If you have been curious about these services but are worried about cost or time commitment, this is an opportunity to learn more.

Bronco Biker Invitational Tuesday, Jan. 10

Cycle Learning Center, 4:00 - 5:00 PM, FREE If you have questions about your bike or were hoping to purchase one, the Cycle Learning Center can provide you with answers and a free water bottle at its informational gathering.

Coffee and Conversation Kick-Off Wednesday, Jan. 11

Student Diversity Center, Student Union Building, 3:30 - 5:00 PM, FREE Sponsored by International Student Services, this weekly meetup features free coffee and conversation with students from across campus.

Comedy Night - Upright Citizens Brigade Wednesday, Jan.11

Boise State Special Events Center, 7:00 - 9:00 PMFREE w/ Student I.D., $10 otherwise. This is a free comedy and improv night performed by Upright Citizens Brigade. The brigade was founded by Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh, and this show promises to be high-energy.

MLK Living Legacy

Poster Making, March and Rally Monday, Jan. 16 SUB Jordan Ballroom and Idaho State Capitol Steps, 9:00 - 12:00 PM While making posters, students and community members can sign up for other volunteer opportunities in the Boise community. The march will take place in memory of America’s Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the rally will feature student and community voices.

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NEWS Changes coming to university foundations classes New interim director seeks feedback from students to improve unfavorable classes

University foundations classes are under review after unfavorable feedback from students. Photo by Jared Lewis / The Arbiter.

Jacob Palmer Investigative/Enterprise Reporter JacobPalmer@u.boisestate.edu New students can expect changes to Boise State’s University Foundations classes in the upcoming semester. John Bieter, the new interim director of the Foundational Studies Program, is heading up the changes after the Foundational Studies Program received negative feedback and complaints from a number of students.

Bieter has spent the past few months engaging with students around campus and seeking feedback regarding the Foundational Studies Program, which includes UF classes.

While there aren’t any specific new policies in place yet, part of the general goals for Beiter and his staff will be changing the program into a system that helps students take advantage of all the resources available to them at college. This includes introducing incoming students

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to all of the available departments and activities Boise State has to offer and helping them integrate into the college environment.

According to its official website, the goal of the Foundational Studies Program is “challenging students within to think critically, write and speak well, sharpen their ethical reasoning and explore a diversity of viewpoints and cultures.”

However, the classes required under the Foundational Studies Program have come under criticism. Many students have objected to the required nature of the UF classes, finding these classes, especially UF 100, aren’t relevant to their major or goals in college. One of those students is Erika Neuffer, junior pre nursing major.

“I took (UF100) online and I didn’t like the way it was structured. It seemed like a lot of unnecessary reading,” Neuffer said.

Neuffer was supportive of new plans to help change the first university foundations

courses to a course that connected students to the different departments of the university, but also expressed scepticism on how the changes would help students who had already decided on a major.

Another student who was supportive of the suggested changes to UF classes was L.J. McKenzie, a junior biology

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me,” McKenzie said.

These objections have not fallen on deaf ears, as Bieter listed tying the UF courses closer to other core classes—such as English and disciplinary lens courses—as one of the biggest goals he and his staff are facing.

Bieter stated he didn’t want students to view all these courses as separate things to check off a

“You’ve ‘won the lottery.’ 6 percent of the world gets a university degree and you have a potenitally winning lottery ticket if you play it.””

--Interim Director of Foundational Studies John Bieter major, who stated the changes remind him of an honors prep class he took.

“It would be good to broaden the perspective of students a bit more and show them all the different departments. Honors 198 was a prep course where we talked about majors, so if the whole university had something like that it would be helpful because that class helped

to-do list, but rather a continual path of learning.

“Students struggle with how (UF classes) fit into their majors. When you think of the foundational studies courses, which make up over a quarter of every degree, instead of thinking about it as whole series of courses, think of it as one long course,” Bieter said.

“What we want to build is a

connective piece—from UF 100, to UF 200, to the DLs, to finishing foundations—so students can see how this sequence builds and how there are activities and experiences that allow them to develop in their major and beyond their major.”

Another common objection students have had with the UF classes is the varying level of quality, assistance and workloads between different classes and instructors.

“Some have had great professors, and some have had exactly the opposite,” Bieter said. “We are working on campus with all the departments to have more participation and greater faculty involvement. We are confident that two things will come out of that: a higher level of consistent quality instruction across the board, and greater involvement by the faculty in reviewing classes and making suggestions.”

While there are some ideas being worked on, such as a new passport system which could

help students think of possible majors by taking them around campus to preview all the different departments, many specific suggestions for changes are still in the works as Bieter and his staff continue to research and get feedback.

All of these upcoming changes are being pursued with the intention of helping students take advantage of the opportunity they’ve been given through college, according to Bieter.

“Those courses can orient you to the university you’re attending and the beautiful city we’re connected to,” Bieter said.

“It can give you the experience of really trying to understand that you ‘won the lottery.’ 6 percent of the world gets a university degree and you have a potentially winning lottery ticket if you play it. I want students to really frame that and understand the incredible opportunity they’ve been given.”

Inauguration raises questions of democracy’s popularity, as well as Trump’s

The nation is currently preparing for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday, Jan. 20 when he will officially become the 45th President of the United States.

Discussion concerning who will be attending and performing at the upcoming ceremony has sparked some controversy. Guests are using the inauguration as a platform to take a political stance against Trump.

“What’s unique this year is the high level of focus on the protestors—the size of the group of people who are likely to protest, their level of organization and the intensity of the opposition to the soonto-be Trump presidency,” said Associate Political Science Professor Justin Vaughn.

Gatherings such as the Women’s March on Idaho— Saturday, Jan. 21 at 10 a.m. at the Idaho State Capitol—are being planned to create a platform for people to voice their opinions in opposition of Trump’s campaign and presidency.

Attendees Though it has been traditional for former presidents to attend the ceremony, this year has seen more hesitancy.

As of Thursday, Jan. 5, former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have announced they will be attending, according to Dan Merica and Theodore Schleifer’s CNN article. Hillary Clinton has also said she

will be in attendance.

The former Presidents’ announcements to be present at the inauguration was not certain until recently, as seen in Brian Naylor’s NPR article on Tuesday, Jan. 3.

“That was shocking to me,” Vaughn said. “Even if (former presidents) don’t like Donald Trump—even if they’re nervous about some of his policy positions or don’t approve of his way of communicating— he’s still the elected President of the United States.”

Celebrating the boycott of an American tradition might not warrant the celebration it has received, according to Vaughn. He encouraged people to think about the event as something bigger than the person being elected.

“The Office of the Presidency is an institution that exists apart from Donald Trump the person,” Vaughn said.

History professor Eldon

Hattervig said this kind of response to the inauguration is significant.

“If we’re going to have a democracy, we have to respect the traditions we have. I applaud the fact these former presidents are going to be there,” Hattervig said. “Even

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cide whether they will participate in the event.

Among the acts are The Rockettes, who have been receiving attention because some dancers have chosen not to perform. The dancers have experienced pressure through emails from the

“If the Trump Administration avoids major scandal, if it is not totally antagonistic to the press and has a series of even modest policy successes, then you’re going to see a very different situation. I wouldn’t be surprised if at the end of a year like that, he was up to half of the country approving.””

-Associate Political Science Professor Justin Vaughn if they may not agree with him, they’re showing up and demonstrating they support democracy.”

Performers Along with guests, performers have also had to de-

union to take part, despite some of them not approving of Trump’s rhetoric, according to Katie Roger’s New York Times article.

“Every choice you make, there’s a political implication,” Vaughn said. “If you lend your name or your talent to a par-

ticular event, you are—in at least a minimal way—kind of tacitly endorsing whatever that event is about, or whatever it means.”

Vaughn also said it would be unfair to say if the dancers perform, it means they endorse everything Trump’s campaign has done. Rather, it could mean other things such as they support a peaceful transition of power, they respect the American political system or they are an entertainer who’s been paid to dance.

Policies and popularity As Trump takes office, he seemingly has a low approval rating, according to recent Gallup Polls.

“Being popular is helpful, but it’s not determinative,” Vaughn said.

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portant to note, change can happen quickly, and being popular is not the only thing a president needs.

“Trump’s lack of popularity for this first year doesn’t necessarily have to really mean very much,” Vaughn said. “His party controls Congress—the judiciary is pretty conservative right now—he ought to be able to string up a series of wins if he and the Congressional Republicans decide what they want to do is focus on all the areas of their common interest.”

As Trump begins to make executive decisions and policy choices, his favorability has the potential to increase, according to Vaughn.

“If the Trump Administration avoids major scandal, if it is not totally antagonistic to the press and has a series of even modest policy successes, then you’re going to see a very different situation,” Vaughn said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if at the end of a year like that, he was up to half of the country approving.”

Alternatively, Vaughn said Trump’s success could be hindered by conflict, improper use of Twitter and new revelations about Russian relations.

Overall, Americans will be left waiting until actions are taken once Trump is president, and people can see what policies will be enacted.

“President Obama is setting a good example right now,” Hattervig said. “He obviously does not agree with Trump’s policies, and he has some very real concerns about Trump’s qualifications for presidency, but he understands that the electorate has spoken through the electoral college.”

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NEWS An eventful spring; 12 events students can attend Spring 2017 As Boise State kicks off a new year, students can check out these fun and educational events going on throughout the semester.

Comedy Night with Upright Citizens Brigade Wednesday, Jan. 11, 7 to 9 p.m.

Head to the Special Events Center for a night of laughter with comedy and improvisation featuring the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB). The show is free for students and $10 for non-students.

The UCB was founded by Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh.

It has become home to some of the biggest stars in comedy today, from TV shows like “Saturday Night Live” and “Comedy Central” to films such as “Bridesmaids”, “The Hangover”, and “The Heat”.

UCB has performers in the writing rooms of “Key and Peele”, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, “Inside Amy Schumer” and many more.

Involvement Fair Thursday, Jan. 12, 2 to 5 p.m.

Come out to the Involvement Fair to learn about the latest involvement opportunities on and off campus.

Student organizations, local non-profit agencies and other campus groups will be present.

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Involvement and Leadership Center and the Boise State Service-Learning Program. It is free and open to all Boise State students.

Blockbuster Movie: “The Accountant” Thursday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m.

Students are invited to this free movie being hosted in the Simplot Ballroom. The Student Involvement Center will screen the blockbuster hit, The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck. This is free for students with their Bronco ID and $1 for non-students.

There will also be two other movies this semester in February and March, which will be announced at a later time.

Dueling Pianos Thursday, Jan. 26, 6 to 8 p.m.

Come to the Simplot Ballroom for a hilarious duo of dueling piano performers as they lead an interactive show.

Dinner is included.

Students can buy tickets in advance at the Student Union Building Info Desk for $3, or at the door for $5. Non-students can buy tickets in advance for $8 or at the door for $10.

Service Saturday Saturday, Feb. 4 Students will meet in the Student Union Building dining area. The project and time are still to be determined. An update will be posted with information at getinvolved.boisestate.edu Flappers and Dappers Friday, Feb. 10, 9 p.m. to

midnight The Simplot Ballroom will be transformed into a grand Jazz Age scene, featuring a live big band, dancing, casino games, free food and door prizes. Come dressed up in your most dapper attire for a costume contest and photo booth. This event is free and open to all Boise State students.

Paint Nite Thursday, Feb. 16, 6:30 p.m.

Art Party Boise’s professional artists will teach students how to paint step by step, regardless of skill level. All supplies are provided, and it will take place in the Lookout Room in the Student Union Building.

Laser Tag Night First week of March, Time TBA This free event will take place in the REC as teams compete against each other in a laser tag competition. The competition will be in the evening, and will consist of sixminute rounds between teams of six people. A bracket system will be used to determine the winning team.

Motivational Speaker (TBA) Thursday, March 16, Time TBA A motivational speaker will be brought to campus to speak about a certain subject in the Special Events Center. More details about the speaker and subject matter will be released soon.

Top Chef Competition Late March or early April, Time TBA Join other students in the Boise River Cafe to compete against one another in a cooking challenge. Teams of two will be recruited to compete against one another for prizes.

All supplies and ingredients will be provided. A call for competitors will be sent out closer to the event, and slots will be filled on a first-comefirst-served basis. A panel of students will be the taste testers and decide the winners.

consist of live music, food components and lots of activities. This event will take place right before dead week as a way for students to celebrate before the end of the year.

For more information,

updates on these events and other events visit getinvolved. boisestate.edu or follow @getinvolvedbsu on social media.

March Madness bracket challenge and watch party Monday, April 3, Time TBA Students can participate in the March Madness bracket challenge by submitting the teams they think will be most successful in the championship.

Those who are most accurate in the challenge will win prizes. A watch party for the final game will take place in the Student Union on Monday, April 3.

Spring Fling Saturday, April 22, Time TBA This year’s spring fling will

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$32 million in bonding approved for new Fine Arts Building; ground will be broken this spring Taylor Munson News Reporter Taylormunson@u.boisestate.edu

A few weeks ago, the State Board of Education approved $32 million in bonds for funding of the new Fine Arts Building, ensuring that ground will be broken this spring.

This new building is a $42 million project, which has been considered a top priority of the University this school year. Now that the bonds have been approved, the building only has $2 million in private donations left to raise.

The recent approval of $32 million in bonds has allowed the project to begin its next steps.

“The University issues bonds to receive the cash to build the Fine Arts building and the debt is repaid over

30 years, much like a mortgage,” said Vice President of Finance and Administration Stacy Pearson.

According to Pearson, the next step for the building is to get bids for construction.

Once a bid is chosen, and contracts are signed, construction can begin. This process is run by the State Division of Public Works.

With $32 million in approved bonds, $3 million in private donations and $5 million in the State Permanent Building fund, the project is $2 million away from its goal.

“We need to raise a minimum $5 million in (private donations). If we can raise more, we’ll be able to bond less,” said Vice President of University Advancement Laura Simic.

The $5 million from the State Permanent Building fund will help start up the project and complete the

planning. Private donations for the building will cover other expenses for the building.

A roadblock for the funding has also come up due to the rising costs of construction in the Treasure Valley.

“Our private fundraising continues to go well but the construction costs have increased fairly significantly,” said Development Director of Arts and Science Jim Ogle.

According to Ogle, the reason for this growing cost of construction is due to the amount of construction already happening in the Downtown Boise area.

“Our timeline is relatively short because we plan on breaking ground in this building this spring, and then finishing in 2019,” Simic said.

Ground will be broken in the spring whether or not all of the money has been raised, according to Simic.

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OPINION The Tunnel of Oppression: where critical thinking goes

The Tunnel’s emphasis on spectatorship shifts the conversation away from workable solutions, to a one-size-fits-all “awaren Andy Ridgeway Former Opinion Editor SierraWilliams659@u.boisestate.edu

Last semester, I wrote two articles about the Tunnel of Oppression. The first highlighted the Tunnel as an example of failed political activism. I argued the Tunnel is a misguided, self-congratulatory form of tourism that stifles anti-racism efforts by inviting white students to passively consume the experiences of marginalized subjects. The Tunnel’s emphasis on spectatorship shifts the conversation away from direct action and workable solutions, towards a one-size-fits-all “awareness-raising” strategy. The ambiguitiy of this strategy fails to produce any type of closure and suggests that the responsibilty of change is left to some third party. In short, Tunnel organizers naively believe that if they keep doing exactly what they’ve been doing for the last twenty-five years, eventually someone, somewhere, will finally get around to addressing issues like racism and economic inequality.

In my second article, I responded to Brook Putra’s claim that the Tunnel is a teaching tool and not a strategy for liberation by comparing the Tunnel to the “Hell Houses” some evangelical sects use to scare their children away from homosexuality and abortion.

Structurally speaking, the Tunnel of Oppression is no different from any other attempt to scare or shock people into accepting a particular point of view. The Tunnel’s decision to employ trauma, in lieu of rational argumentation, puts it in the same camp as many political strategies most progressive liberals find distasteful, like the “active shooter simulation” pro-gun advocates tried to host at the University of Texas in 2016, or the graphic depictions of aborted fetuses that grace our campus quad every year.

The purpose of these articles was to pressure the Tunnel’s student-organizers to articulate a clear and coherent defense of their methodology. Political activism strategies at Boise State are often designed to be aimless “awareness raising” campaigns, with the intent to point out problems without actually doing anything to disrupt the issue being discussed. The Tunnel of Oppression is not the only project conforming to this political paradigm —the “It’s On Us” campaign and the Clothesline Project certainly fall into this category—but it is the most visible. Its popularity with students and faculty alike ensure the Tunnel of Oppression sets the standard for what activism at Boise State should look like, which is why the Tunnel should be subjected to rigorous methodological critique.

In addition, while campaigns like “It’s On Us” are functionally useless, they’re also relatively benign. The Tunnel of Oppression, on the other hand, is trauma porn for white people. It actively thwarts anti-racism efforts and functions as a stand-in for effective political activism. Worst of all, its methodology ironically undermines the progressive left’s arguments about the importance of safe spaces. Why bother when the people who claim we need safe spaces are going out of their way to host simulations designed to

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shock and traumatize other students?

Unfortunately, the Tunnel’s student-organizers shirked from the opportunity to engage in a critical dialogue about what they’re doing and why they do it. The Tunnel’s faculty advisors reached out to me and made the relatively persuasive argument that the Tunnel is a community-building activity, but I was the only student present during that meeting. With the exception of Putra, whose article didn’t address any of my original concerns, the vast majority of the Tunnel’s student-organizers retreated into the comfort of their collective echo chamber. Like the pundits who confidently predicted a Clinton victory without bothering to explain how she’d help the working class, student organizers are so dogmatic in their attachment to the Tunnel they don’t feel the need to explain who it helps or how.

If Tunnel organizers can’t articulate a coherent defense of the Tunnel’s methodology, it’s because the Tunnel’s methodology is indefensible. The Multicultural Student Services Center should use the time and money it currently spends teaching students how to simulate oppression and use it to train students how to achieve structural reform in the real world. We don’t need trite melodrama; we need activists, lobbyists and legislators working to dismantle the political and economic structures that perpetuate inequality. Likewise, we don’t need white tourists consuming the trauma of Tunnel; we need white anti-racists who are actively committed to challenging the rise of white nationalism in the United States. The Tunnel of Oppression, as both a pedagogical approach and a strategy of liberation, is morally bankrupt, politically counterproductive and completely out of line with the demands of the current situation.

If Tunnel organizers are going to insist on 25 more years of the same political strategy, the least they can do is structure their political performance to emphasize rational argumentation instead of shock and trauma. L.M. Bogad, an associate professor of Theatre and Dance at UC Davis and experienced anti-globalization activist, provides several alternative models in his recent book Tactical Performance: On the Theory and Practice of Serious Play. It’s a must-read for artists and activists interested in using theater to challenge oppressive social situations. The book explores, in fascinating detail, how activists have historically fused performance art with direct action to initiate structural reform and achieve real change. Bogad stresses the importance of humor, creativity, unpredictability and tactical intelligence to create captivating theatrical performances that radically challenge the balance of power. Unfor-

tunately, these are the very qualities the Tunnel of Oppression—as a cliché, repetitive, predictable and unintelligent challenge to the status quo—currently lacks.

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FEATURE

A SHOT AT TRANSPARENCY Robust reporting system may be in causation with increase in violations

Patty Bowen Editor-in-Chief Editor@stumedia.boisestate.edu Members of Boise State Campus Security met with the Boise Police Department on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, to negotiate the terms of a new contract outlining the framework that provides Boise State with a constant police presence on the Boise State campus.

This contract continues the service the Boise Police Department has provided the University with since 2004.

The contract went into effect Jan. 1.

Although the contract provides almost identical benefits to those provided in previous years, other changes have been taking place at Boise State Campus Security that are reflected in our Campus Crime Logs. Those changes including a new approach to recording illegal activities and an expansion in where an effort to make crime on campus more transparent to students.

More robust reporting system From 2014 to 2016, there was an increase from about 460 accounts of alcohol violation to about 640 accounts of alcohol violations recorded on the Campus Crime Logs, the tables showing crimes committed on campus in a given year. According to Elliot Cox, Security Analyst at Boise State Campus Security, this increase is most likely in correlation with a more robust report-

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ing system implemented by Cox over the last two years to improve transparency on the Campus Crime Logs.

In 2014, the Boise State Campus Security made the decision to begin consistantly recording incidents of intoxication inside the campus—areas on campus that exclude University Dr—for “informational purposes,” according to Cox. Being drunk inside the University isn’t a legal offense; it is a violation of Boise State’s policies.

For this reason, in years past Campus Security hadn’t necessarily reported these incidents.

“We want to make sure we’re as transparent as possible,” Cox said.

Including these incidents on the Campus Crime Logs may have caused the spike in alcohol violations over the past two years. Cox also believes the spike could be in reference to the inclusion of crimes taking place in the expansion zone in Fall 2015.

According to Cox, the expansion zone refers to the neighborhoods surrounding campus where the university plans to expand.

Transparency on campus Over the summer, Campus Security made an interactive crime log map to illustrate the locations where illegal activities are taking place. According to Robert Gallas, Boise Police Department Lieutenant, it is important to note that crimes on the Campus Crime Log are not necessarily crimes that have been charged.

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pus Security has increased the number of ways students can report crimes, including using text to report and incident using Rave Guardian, a mobile app that allows students to report crimes or contact police officers through their phone.

“What I’ve noticed over the past couple of years is letting the campus know what needs to be reported and how to report things has had the impact of increasing reporting which can often mean increased statistics,” Cox said.

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crimes reported to them.

Cox said this ensures that the data on the Campus Crime Logs matches the incidents on campus. Information regarding incidents on campus must be reported to the U.S. Department of Education because of the Clery Act, a consumer protection law requiring all universities that receive funding to share information about crimes on their campus and their efforts to improve those crimes. Prospective students can use the information collected to compare crime statistics from universities across the nation.

The most recent year visible for students to look at data is

We have to take the facts and put them in a crime box based on what is in them. That box doesn’t change for us down at Boise State; however, we have to be aware that an assault might not be the same under Idaho code as it is under the Clery Act.” -Robert Gallas, Boise Police Department Lieutenant, campus with the Security and Fire Safety Report, a report comparing the last three “years’ worth of Clery Act statistics as well as fire statistics for fires that occurred on campus in student housing,” according to Cox. “That’s once a year, but we don’t want to make people wait a year to find out a tally of all the crimes,” Cox said. “That’s why we have the Campus Crime Log that has to be updated once every two business days.”

Campus Security also contacts other departments around campus at the end of the year to collect data about

2014. According to the U.S. Department of Education, in 2014 Boise State had the highest number of drug and liquor violations of any Idaho college with 18.36 alcohol violations per 1,000 students. Cox said this could be due to the close relationship between University Housing and Campus Security.

According to Gallas, the Clery Act can be the cause of some confusion concerning how crimes are recorded; crimes are labelled differently under Boise Police Department codes and under the Clery Act distinctions.

“We are presented with a set of facts and we have to put them into a box that most appropriately describes what the facts are: do these facts encompass a rape, sexual assault, minor consumption of alcohol, battery or assault?” Gallas said. “So, we have to take the facts and put them in a crime box based on what is in them.

That box doesn’t change for us down at Boise State; however, we have to be aware that an assault might not be the same under Idaho code as it is under the Clery Act.” The contract According to Matt Wilde, General Counsel at Boise State, Idaho is in a minority of states that doesn’t have “the express authority for the creation of university law agencies.”

“Idaho las does not address the subject of university law agencies,” Wilde said. “The fact that state law is silent on the subject is enough grounds for us to not create one.”

Because Campus Security is not a law enforcement agency, members of Campus Security do not have the same law enforcement tools as members of the Boise Police Department, and contact police officers “when they think arrest is warranted,” according to Wilde.

At universities across the nation, there isn’t a set procedure for dealing with crime. Universities in states that give express authority to the creation of university law agencies, like University of Oregon, generally have a police department on campus, Wilde said.

During the negotiations, it was agreed that the Boise Police Department would provide the campus with six uniformed Boise Police Department officers, one lieutenant and four administrators on a rotation schedule to watch over the campus. This mirrors the previous contract. According to Wilde, during the negotiations, there was talk of adding a detective to the members of the Boise Police Department dedicated to campus, but the decision was decided against.

“The Boise Police stand prepared to send additional officers from their citywide police force to support the two or three that are on campus,” Wilde said. ”That’s the benefit of the contract.”

In total the contract costs Boise State roughly $1.2 million a year and will need to be revisited in 2019, when it can be renewed for another two years.

Boise State also pays an extra $60 per hour for additional police services when they are needed. On-campus events like concerts require more than the already assigned police on campus.

“When we (add police officers) generally that is an overtime status for police officers,” Gallas said. “That rate goes to reimburse the city for calling in those police officers.”

Students can find out more about how to report crimes or look up crime statistics at Campus Security’s website.

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CULTURE Matt Mudd’s Mediocre Mutants

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Michael Paquin Culture Reporter michaelpaquin@u.boisestate.edu For anyone looking for a new series to binge on, Boise State student Matt Mudd, social sciences, secondary eduction and communications major, might be able to save the day. Imagine a group of second-rate superheroes with worthless powers protecting the city of Boise. This is Mudd’s newest endeavor, “Reject-Men,” a satirical web series about team-of-superheroes movies á la “X-Men” that is slated for release on Jan. 10.

The inception of “Reject-Men” was in 2014, when Mudd submitted it as a short about a group of mutants rejected from Prof. X’s school to the i48, a film festival challenging competitors to write and produce a film in only 48 hours.

His project was a finalist and last year he decided to expand it into a series, with principal photography taking place August through November.

He allotted an element of creative control to his actors, with some being given a brief description of their characters

and other smaller roles being created by the actors altogether—allowing them to create their own costumes and powers from scratch.

For Mudd, the filming of “Reject-Men” was a first. Although he’s written, produced, directed and acted in many movies—including zombie comedy “Project 13” and its sequel “Project 14 and a Mafioso movie, “A Flush of Hearts”—through his production company Clear As Mudd Films, this is his first web series. It’s also his first project that takes place in Boise.

“We tried to put a lot of Boise landmarks in it like the Capitol, the train depot, Freak Alley, so people watching it got that Boise vibe, because a lot of our films aren’t really set in Boise but we film them here so we have to kind of keep that out. This time we just decided to make it easy on ourselves and set it in Boise,” Mudd said. He remarked that Boise seemed like an appropriate setting for a show about a group of would-be superheroes.

Senior English major Jake Arasim, who plays “MagNEATO” a super villain that can only control rubber, says there

were 20 or more people that participated in the making of “Reject-Men” to play its large cast of characters and their alter-egos. These include GillThe Human Sunburn, who has an extreme sensitivity to sun exposure, Carl- The Guru, whose mind-reading powers are seemingly imaginary, Jacob- Torch Guy, who can project fire but isn’t resistant to the effects of doing so and Amanda- Biscuit Girl, who can launch gravy at will.

Although Clear As Mudd Films has only produced one season, Mudd, who has been producing films since 2009, intends to make two more seasons, and will consider making more seasons after that, depending on the viewership.

Season two will come in January 2018 and season three will come out in January 2019.

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CULTURE Coding the sunlight

Boise State professor merges arts and programming in exploration of color

“ANA20140908144139 (Meanwhile in Iceland 2)” hangs in the Engineering Building and is valued at $2000. Photo by Brandon Rasmussen / The Arbiter.

Brandon Rasmussen Culture Editor Culture@stumedia.boisestate.edu Soft sunlight poured into the lobby of the Engineering Building as Programming Professor Donald Winiecki led the way across the hall and toward the top of the stairs on the third floor. Mounted on the wall facing the stairwell and the towering windows was a large painting, created by Winiecki himself. After watching the morning sunbeams bounce off the canvas for a moment, he gestured toward it.

“When sunlight comes into the room, and hits it just right, it lights up,” Winiecki said. “It’s almost iridescent. A completely different painting with light.”

On the painting, unusual blends of color serve as a backdrop for stark lines gliding across the canvas. These patterns were created through ANA, a computer program developed by Winiecki to imitate his creative process when choosing and blending color.

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hang on the walls of Winiecki’s office, the Engineering building and several other buildings throughout campus.

University Arts Curator Fonda Portales has given special attention to interdisciplinary arts projects like ANA. According to Portales, Winiecki’s artwork exemplifies the belief that creativity abounds in all fields of study.

“Engineers are incredibly creative, both visually and spatially,” Portales said. “Culture tends to relate creativity strictly with the visual arts. That’s why we encourage these projects­— to change that perception.”

According to Winiecki, these paintings created through ANA are the product of both artistic and technical thinking.

He first began to combine the two concepts three decades ago, when he got a job as a technical illustrator, producing drawings for instruction manuals and training guides.

“I never had any training in art, but I always had skill,” Winiecki said. “I started thinking about devices in three-dimensional ways in my head. I could rotate them around, disassemble them and then draw them.”

After moving on to further his education in sociology and instructional technology, Winiecki made his return to art at Boise State, when he began taking painting courses from Painting Professor Dan Scott.

Through these classes, Winiecki began to face the challenge of creating his own style of art. Calling upon his prior realms of expertise, he found himself pondering the idea of a creative obstacle.

“Way back in my social science education, I learned that the way you study things that are familiar to you is to somehow strangify them,” Winiecki said. “When you want to innovate in art, you put something in the way, so you don’t fall into old habits.”

After some consideration, he decided programming would be his obstacle. To Winiecki, putting the creative process into terms that a computer can understand was an exciting challenge, one that led to the creation of ANA. The pieces created so far by ANA are the program’s interpretation of Winiecki’s exploration of colors in the sky. The lines that dart across the merging haze of different tones shift and scatter the surrounding colors, like the sunlight.

“Skies vary. There’s not just blue,” Winiecki said. “There’s all kinds of blues and whites and greens and yellows as you get closer to the horizon. And on cloudy days there’s an awful lot of green in the clouds if you just spend some time to let your eyes adjust.”

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Run the Jewels suprise-release “Run the Jewels 3” three weeks early

Darby Ebeling Copy Editor DarbyEbeling@u.boisestate.edu Though physical copies of “Run the Jewels 3” will not be released until Friday, Jan. 13, Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike and El-P self-released their album to streaming platforms three weeks before it was scheduled, and it appears that fans have appreciated this gift. Six of the album’s 14 tracks already have over a million plays each on Spotify, after having been released there on Dec. 25, 2016.

“Run the Jewels 3” has been described as a call to revolt or revolution, and with tracks like “2100”— which features artist BOOTS—it is easy to understand why. “How long until the hate that we hold/ Lead us to another Holocaust?” the track begins, invoking a self-reflection that is ubiquitous throughout the album. Using the

royal “we” in this track, Killer Mike and El-P count themselves in the number of Americans who are experiencing—and causing— political and humanitarian turmoil. Simultaneously, they bring the listener into the narrative, imploring a unified resistance. “And I refuse to kill another human being/In the name of a government,” Killer Mike raps in “2100,” ostensibly challenging the listener to critically analyze their own part in the impending dangers of the future.

This album’s focus on anxieties is not limited to those about the world’s bleak future, rather it also touches on more personal worries about death in the artists’ pasts and futures.

“Thursday in the Danger Room”—featuring artist Kamasi Washington—discusses the death of friends and the general fleeting tone of life, and El-P wonders “‘Cause some of my friends ain’t survived/ That’s the release, but in

much bigger pieces, I’m living on limited time/ Like how do you look in the eyes of a friend and not cry when you know that they’re dying?”

The album, lyrically creative as listeners have come to expect of Run the Jewels, closes with a track reminiscent of many historical revolutionaries’ mindsets.

“I heard the revolution coming/You should spread the news,” Killer Mike raps in ”A Report to the Shareholders/Kill Your Masters,” a track which at multiple points repeats the phrase “kill your masters” several times, sounding almost like a refrain at a protest. The track itself is clearly is a call to arms, and reinforces the revolutionary tone of “Run the Jewels 3” overall.

If you find yourself a worried member of the global community in 2017, “Run the Jewels 3” is a readily available set of anthems for your path to revolt.

“Jackie” intrigues, challenges audiences Michael Paquin Culture Reporter michaelpaquin@u.boisestate.edu Add one more entry to the historical biopic genre. The American public has been given doses of Hopkins’s Nixon, Kinnear’s JFK, DiCaprio’s Hoover and Nicholson’s Hoffa, but for an era so often depicted in film, we had sparsely anything on poor Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who finally now has her own film.

Always an elusive figure in U.S. history, Jackie O., who died in 1994, left a trail of rumors about compulsive spending, drunkenness and a strange compartmentalization that left her the legacy of an aloof elitist in a pillbox hat that few Americans ever really knew. “Jackie” confronts them all head on.

Natalie Portman’s performance can best be summed up by her delicate treatment of Jackie’s hard-to-place accent.

I can guarantee you at least a few people in the theatre rolled their eyes when Portman aka Jackie spoke. Reminiscent of someone doing a poor English accent, it even came off as kind of obnoxious sometimes, but that’s not what made it bad, that’s what made it so good.

A couple of quick video clips later you’ll learn that’s what she actually sounded like— Bostonian, a touch of vaguely English, and some Old Money in New England.

Similar to many biopics “Jackie” is told through a frame narrative. Quick definition: a frame narrative is literary/film device in which a story within the story allows the plot to

move around in less othrodox fashions (i.e. the most common one—a charachter recounting different spects of a story to a listener, usually a journalist or biographer).

I have mixed feelings about frame narratives in film. Sure, you can definitely make the argument they allow for more creative control. Who wants to watch a biopic in linear fashion anymore? What is this, Patton? But there’s a caveat— sometimes you’ll end up with loose ends when you’ve got a film that bounces off time periods like ski moguls. Are we ever going to get to see Jackie’s reaction to Oswald’s assassination? A scene with Peter

Score-wise, there are a lot of directions this film could’ve taken, and I’m relieved I didn’t have to hear a bunch of period-authentic billboard hits. Like its treatment of its characters, “Jackie” handles its soundtrack responsibly, reassuring me that there are in fact, movies still made by adults.

“Jackie” goes for a haunting motif, best exemplified by a particularly low-point type of scene, in which we see a Ms. Kennedy wandering around the executive residence and ballroom of the White House in drunken stupor, dressing up for imaginary parties that she’ll no longer be attend-

“beNatalie Portman’s performance can best summed up by her delicate treatment of Jackie’s hard-to-place accent.”

Sarsgaard—who, by the way, seems to be slowly morphing into Kiefer Sutherland—as Bobby Kennedy teases us that we’re in store for that, but Alas! it never comes. C’est la vie I guess. Small oversights aside though, Jackie never makes the mistake of biting off more than it can chew. The amount of territory it covers is fairly narrow, so much so that it almost really exists in that realm of films that can barely be considered biopics at all. The assassination and its aftermath are the prime targets of Jackie.

At a relatively lean hour and forty minutes, “Jackie” never runs the risk of overstaying its welcome (I’m looking at you, “Boyhood”).

ing as first lady, all the while listening to a vinyl recording from the then-recent musical “Camelot.” At this point, the viewer is probably wondering, “Exactly how dark do they intend to make this?”

So the verdict? Jackie succeeds at nearly everything it attempts. Everyone brings a compassionate, human performance and the film is constantly aware of its context.

No scene feels like an orphan, or in poor taste, and most importantly, it’s careful never to dump any momentum. You might even walk away now feeling like you know Jackie O. Or that you didn’t know her at all.

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SPORTS & REc Boise State disappointing in 31-12 loss to Baylor in Motel 6 Cactus Bowl

In front of 33,328 fans at Chase Field for the Motel 6 Cactus Bowl on Dec. 27, the Baylor Bears did not look like a team that lost their last six straight games. The opposite could be said about the Boise State Broncos who did not look at all like their bowl-game selves in the 31-12 upset loss.

This was the first time Boise State hadn’t led in a game at any point since their 31-24 loss to New Mexico Nov. 14.

Baylor started off strong.

Their opening touchdown put Boise State behind in a bowl game for the first time since the end of the 2013 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, a 38-23 loss to Oregon State. Boise State had gone 129:07 without trailing in a bowl game until that Baylor score, according to Ali FauntLeRoy, communication manager of the Fiesta Bowl.

On the other side of the ball, Boise State failed to score on its first possession/touch Tuesday night for the first time in its past six bowl games. The Broncos had scored on their opening possession in five straight bowl games, from 2011 to 2015.

“I thought both sides came out ready to play. But we didn’t think that Baylor was not going to come out there and show up.

We thought we’d come out and play as well, which we did early on,” said Head Coach Bryan Harsin post-game.

Boise State entered its 15th consecutive bowl appearance, but fell to 11-6 all-time in bowl games. The Broncos are 14-6 against Power Five teams since 2006.

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The Broncos didn’t have trouble moving the ball throughout the game, but the real problem was punching the ball in while in the red zone.

For the second straight game, the Broncos struggled to find the end zone. In their four trips to the red zone in the Cactus Bowl, Boise State did not score one touchdown.

“When you’re playing a team, it doesn’t matter who you’re playing, you’re trying to score points when you get in the red zone. We didn’t do that.

The field goals, they’re only going to last so long. You’ve got to find ways to get six points

KD anyone one-on-one with him, we think it’s a win for us,” said Baylor Quarterback Zach Smith.

With many seniors playing their last game, junior Tailback Jeremy McNichols announced he will forgo his senior year and enter the NFL draft.

“I feel like I’ve done everything I wanted to do at Boise State,” McNichols said during Cactus Bowl media day in Phoenix. “I won a championship freshman year, won a couple bowl games, met a lot of great people in Boise, and got great coaches behind me.”

McNichols finished his ju-

“I thought both sides came out ready to play. But we didn’t think that Baylor was not going to come out there and show up. We thought we’d come out and play as well, which we did early on,”

-Head Coach Bryan Harsin

on the board, and we didn’t do that tonight,” said Harsin.

Baylor’s offense which was built around speed, was the second team this season to eclipse 500 yards on offense against the Broncos, with their total of 515 behind only Washington State’s 520 on Sept. 10.

Baylor wide receiver, KD Cannon, caught 14 passes for 226 yards and two touchdowns, becoming the first opposing receiver to reach the 200-yard mark against the Broncos since Arizona State’s Gerrell Robinson had 241 receiving yards at the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas on Dec. 22, 2011.

“They were giving us some one-on-one coverage. With

nior season with 1,709 yards rushing and 23 touchdowns.

Other notable Broncos to play their final game include Thomas Sperbeck and Jonathan Moxey.

Boise State finished the season 10-3 and failed to make it to the Mountain West Championship.

Boise State’s 31-12 loss to Baylor in the Motel 6 Cactus Bowl dropped the Broncos to 21-13 all-time in postseason games. This includes Division II and I-AA NCAA Tournament games.

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Idaho beats Colorado State in famous Idaho Potato Bowl Evan Werner Sports & Rec Editor Sports@stumedia.boisestate.edu Idaho’s victory over Colorado State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl reiterates something Idaho Vandals Quarterback Matt Linehan has been saying about his team.

“We belong in FBS, period!”

Linehan said in a radio interview with ESPN. That is exactly how the Vandals played in their 61-50 bowl game win against Colorado State at Albertsons Stadium on Dec. 22.

Linehan was 21 of 31 for 381 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions. He also rushed for another touchdown.

Linehan, who apologized to University President Chuck Staben for his former comments in the postgame press conference, still reveled in the season-ending win.

“No matter what was said to begin the year, all these guys (the whole team) believed we could get to this point,” Linehan said. “We spent so much time dealing with adversity and tough losses. We were just tired of losing.”

Idaho (9-4) matched its highest victory total since moving to FBS in 1996.

During this game Idaho and Colorado State broke the Potato Bowl scoring record set in 2009 in Idaho’s 43-42 victory over Bowling Green. The 84 points in the second half are also the most combined points in a half in any bowl game, breaking the record of 76 set

by Tulsa and Virginia Tech last year in the first half of the Independence Bowl.

“I couldn’t be more proud of

our players,” coach Paul Petrino said. “They were focused on winning the football game and that helped them come out and play well early. They were told there were a bunch of things they weren’t supposed to be able to do, but they did it anyway.”

Colorado State (7-6) finished with a bowl loss for the second straight year.

The Rams’ Quarterback Nick Stevens had a record-setting bowl game performance.

He tied two records—touchdowns accounted for with five, touchdown passes with five— and set the passing yards records with 445. He finished 21 of 36 with two interceptions.

Stevens did all he could, but it wasn’t enough to stop the 6150 loss to Idaho.

The Vandals will look to exit FBS with a bang and claim only their second conference title since moving up in 1996.

Idaho’s last conference championship came in 1998 in the Big West.

The Idaho Vandals prove they deserve to be in FBS after victory in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Photos

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SPORTS & REc Three Bronco Sports to keep your eye on this Spring 2017 Rylan Kobre Sports & Rec Reporter RylanKobre@u.boisestate.edu The finish to 2016 left a sour taste in Bronco fans’ mouths: a 31-12 loss to Baylor in the Cactus Bowl. But rest assured, here are three Boise State sports to keep an eye on this spring.

Women’s Basketball on pace to make some noise in the Mountain West.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Boise State Women’s Basketball started their season 12-3, with one of those losses coming to 11th ranked University of Washington, but the pace they are on is something to watch.

Despite losses in their last two games, the Broncos bring

an energetic brand of basketball to Taco Bell Arena. Boise State is 13th in the nation in three-point field goals made in 14 games, and 11th in threepoint field goals made per game with nine.

“When it’s a close game, our kids rise up and make plays,” Head Coach Gordy Presnell said following a win at Washington State on Dec. 4. “Our defense overall is much, much improved over last year.”

The Broncos are paced by Senior Guard Brooke Pahuokoa who is averaging 14.2 points, and 4.2 rebounds per game and Senior Guard Yaiza Rodriguez who is currently 11th in the nation for total assists with 100 in 14 games (7.1 per game).

Boise State looks to get back on track at home next Saturday

at 2 p.m. against Fresno State.

Men’s Basketball surprising the Mountain West It was supposed to be a rebuilding year, but now Boise State Men’s Basketball is in first place in the Mountain West Conference and has won seven straight games.

After losing Anthony Drmic to graduation and James Webb III to the NBA, the Broncos were projected to heavily rely on junior Forward Chandler Hutchison and sophomore Point Guard Paris Austin, but so far, the Broncos have gotten contributions from all around.

“The coaches are holding us to a high standard this year and they never let up. We’re just focusing on each game, one by one as they come,” senior Nick

Duncan said following the win against University of Nevada Las Vegas on Jan. 4 Duncan has helped get the Broncos off to a hot start but the improvement of Chandler Hutchison has also been clear.

Hutchison is averaging 18.7 points per game and 8.6 rebounds per game compared to his 6.8 points and 4.1 rebounds a game in 2015.

“He’s going out being that Derrick Marks we need,” Duncan said.

The Broncos were able to continue the winning streak with a win over San Diego State on Saturday, 78-66. Boise State has now won four of their last five against the Aztecs.

“We knew we had to have the resolve to battle them for 40 minutes, because it wasn’t going to be won in the first five

or 10 minutes. It was going to be won over 40 minutes,” Rice said postgame. “That’s what we focused on, and that’s what our guys did. They could have dropped their heads, shown some panic, but they didn’t.”

Women’s Swimming and Diving looks to improve from last season Jeremy Kipp enters his second season as the Women’s Swimming and Diving coach and the Broncos have gotten off to a fast start. A first place finish at Fresno State’s Bulldog Invitational along with a strong showing at the Adamson Invite at Texas A&M has the program in a good spot heading into the new year.

Senior Brittney Aoyama leads the Broncos into the wa-

ter after receiving her ninth career Mountain West Swimmer of the Week award back in November. The senior also set the Boise State record for the 100 Fly with a 52.04.

“Brittany continues to have an excellent senior year,” Kipp said following splitting a dual meet with UCLA and Kansas over the weekend. “I was surprised, to be honest, because she had worked really hard over the camp, but she just keeps getting faster. It’s been really fun to watch her take it to a new level.”

Boise State heads to Moscow for an in-state rivalry with the University of Idaho on Jan. 13 and 14.

(Left photo) Men’s BasketballJunior Guard Chandler Hutchison attempts to score. (Right photo) Women’s Swimming and Diving starts off their season strong. Photos by Alec Foege & Abe Copeland / The Arbiter.

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