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NEWS

Some students feel bpd PRESENCE IS TOO High.

College drinking becomes a learning experience Alx Stickel News Editor

For a lot of students, the party lifestyle is as high of a priority as their education, but sometimes, partying infringes on learning with a Minor In Consumption or Minor In Possession charge from Boise Police Department.

Last October, Associated Students of Boise State University approached President Bob Kustra and Dean of Students Chris Wuthrich regarding a problem with BPD: the need to learn and party was experiencing some tension to the point of deterring potential students from attending Boise State.

“What’s shocking to me is this being a part of conversation that students are having when choosing Boise State over something else, that to

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me is like ‘Man, why is that their deciding factor when they’re coming to Boise State?” ASBSU president Bryan Vlok said.

The Problem: Recurring partying infringes on education

According to Vlok BPD has developed a reputation for cracking down on partiers, thanks to the Yik Yak app. This reputation has spread to neighboring states.

“I think a lot of younger students have this idea of what college should be, based on the media, based on different things they see in the movies and such, and so when they hear of what happens here surrounding Boise State, it’s probably a little like, ‘Oh, that’s not what I expect my college career to be,’” Vlok said.

Boise State walks a fine

line between encouraging students learning from their mistakes (in this case an MIC or MIP) and accepting responsibility for the consequences of their illegal actions.

“I’m not asking (BPD) not to do their job, but I think that there’s a way about doing it,” Vlok said.

“I think that’s one thing that the university is trying to say to them too. ‘Let’s work together on this and make this a learning moment for students instead of punishing them and giving them a $500 ticket.’”

Wuthrich said he believes that, as an institution, Boise State does not advocate for massive enforcement efforts.

“We don’t use terms like ‘zero-tolerance’ and ‘crackdown.’ Those aren’t terms that we use at Boise State,”

Wuthrich said. “We talk about our shared values, we talk about student success, student engagement, student safety and bystander intervention. All of those things are positive terms and positive terminology to get students to consider their choices and then make healthy choices about the behavior.”

Boise Police are stuck playing the role of the bad guy. In an email from BPD, Deputy Chief William Bones stated: “Campus safety and security is a priority for the department and a foundation for any successful learning environment. The police services available to the campus are outlined in the contract between the department and the university as approved by the state board of education.

The department is committed to the positive relationships developed between officers, students, campus organizations and university leadership. That cooperation keeps the Boise State campus safe, welcoming and inclusive and ensures the campus and the city will continue to thrive in a mutually supportive environment.”

A solution: take a time out and think about actions

Some students feel Boise Police are just out to get them, while others fail to learn from their mistakes. In order to combat this, associate vice president for Communications and Marketing Greg Hahn said Boise State has collaborated with Boise Police in offering a pilot program addressing first arrests

for MIPs. Hahn explained, starting this month, students who are 18-20 years old living on-campus can opt to do an education program rather than the criminal process if they’re arrested for their first MIP. “I think both Boise Police and the campus are kind of excited about it because they think that level of intervention is going to do a lot more anyway,” Hahn said.

“It forces you to think about it. To me it’s about confronting the problem. You’ve run into this situation; when you go through the education process you think about it more. You get a misdemeanor slapped on you and you go pick up trash or whatever, that’s not doing you any good necessarily. It’s a deterrent but it’s not a deterrent and a corrective action.”

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NEWS

Quad policy incites controversy Alx Stickel News Editor

Last semester, controversial and disruptive speech in the Quad was the hot topic among the student body. As a result, the Office of the Dean of Students is looking at ways of addressing student concerns while still preserving the freedom of speech.

This semester, Dean of Students Chris Wuthrich hopes to have an updated policy on speech in the Quad.

“Speech issues are always evolving, and so the

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next generation of the policy will put more responsibility on the student group or the person doing the speaking and to engage in speech and do things that are productive, less destructive. Right now the current policy, in my view, is kind of all about what the university will do to monitor things,” Wuthrich said.

Images of aborted fetuses and religious advocates damning some students to hell have students questioning whether or not free speech should be a privilege to anyone wishing to

put their message out in the Quad.

In a December student assembly meeting, some students expressed the idea that this kind of speech should be regulated so as not to disrupt the learning environment.

According to Wuthrich, that is not the goal of the university.

“What we want to do as a school is we just want to be there and available and have an environment that invites free speech,” Wuthrich said. “We don’t want to be viewed as the group or the organization

that restricts or controls speech. We don’t want to be impeding speech until the policy is being looked at from that perspective.”

On the other side, Wuthrich hopes that more controversial topics will be discussed as a result of the policy updates.

The intent is for Wuthrich and Student Affairs to have less direct involvement with people who speak on campus and be able to trust that they will responsibly deliver their message.

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Free speech comes with a price. that ... controversial topics probably will be debated more and that’s a good thing,” Wuthrich said.

Once the policy has

been drafted, the Office of the Dean of Students will seek feedback and input from student leaders before finalizing the updates.

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NEWS

Republicans withdraw abortion bill Renee Schoof William Douglas

House Republican leaders, faced with an uprising within their ranks over a controversial abortion bill, pulled it Wednesday evening before it was scheduled for a vote Thursday to coincide with the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., and Rep. Jackie Walorski, RInd., had led a group of Republican lawmakers who disagreed with part of a bill that would ban most abortions at 20 weeks or later. Ellmers and Walorski on Tuesday officially withdrew their support for the bill. House Republican leaders scrambled to address the concerns of the two lawmakers and a group of other Republicans. Late Wednesday night, they replaced the bill with one that would end federal funding for abortions.

Walorski late Tuesday said on Facebook she would vote for the 20-week ban, and Ellmers did the same Wednesday evening after receiving criticism from the bill’s supporters at home.

The bill, called the PainCapable Unborn Child Protection Act, would ban most abortions at 20 weeks or later.

Whether a fetus feels pain at that stage is not a settled medical question. It would make exceptions when it is necessary to save the mother’s life or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, as long as it has been reported to police.

The House had been scheduled to vote on the measure Thursday, when abortion opponents plan to march in

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Washington to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

Ellmers’ sudden reversal appeared intended to calm a storm of concerns over her surprise opposition. She was part of a largely party-line vote for a similar bill that the House passed in 2013 but that never got a vote in the Senate, then controlled by the Democrats.

With Republicans now in charge, a Senate vote is likely.

Ellmers declined to respond to questions on Wednesday.

Her spokeswoman, Blair Ellis, said the congresswoman’s concerns were over the mandatory reporting requirements in

the bill.

Politico earlier reported that Ellmers and five other Republican congresswomen said that the rape exception in the bill was too narrow because it only would apply to women who filed police reports. According to statistics from the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, more than two-thirds of sexual assaults go unreported.

The National Journal reported that Ellmers also said last week that the vote didn’t play to younger voters.

Nathan Gonzales, editor and publisher of the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political report, said the disagreement over provisions in the abortion bill reflect an evolution within

the Republican Party.

“You have a Republican Party that’s been hounded by Democrats on abortion over the last few years,” Gonzales said. “And the Republican caucus has changed over the last few years. There are more women.”

Gonzales also noted that because Republicans enjoy the largest majority—246 seats— they’ve had in 65 years, some lawmakers might feel free to express themselves more or vote their conscience without hurting the party.

The news that Ellmers withdrew her support from the bill infuriated an anti-abortion group in North Carolina. The North Carolina Values Coali-

tion posted an article on the front of its website with the headline: “Rep. Ellmers Betrays the Pro-Life Community.”

“We think the message here is she’s trying to derail a major pro-life victory, and the worst part is, we don’t know why she’d try to derail it,” Tami Fitzgerald, the executive director of the North Carolina Values Coalition, said Wednesday.

“Either she is for protecting unborn babies at the point where they can feel pain or she is not.”

Fitzgerald said that members of the coalition had been calling Ellmers’ offices to complain.

But others said that there

was no division on abortion in the party.

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., a confidante of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday that “there’s unanimity” within the House Republican conference on abortion. But he added that “the bill was tweaked, I don’t think purposely, in a way that raised some concerns.”

“We had a discussion about that this morning,” he added.

“I think our leadership is busy trying to find common ground. I’m sure that discussion involves some outside pro-life groups as well. I think we’ll get to the same place, but if people have concerns, we ought to stop and listen.”

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NEWS

Sleep paralysis is nothing to fear Sean Bunce

Asst. News Editor

You wake up to a sound in your house, but are unable to move. You feel a pressure on your chest or a presence in the room.

A feeling of terror runs up your spine as you lay there helpless.

After a few seconds the sensation goes away; you regain the use of your arm and switch on the light, searching around the room for the nearest weapon to fend off the intruder.

Commonly called the

“witch in the room,” sleep paralysis takes place when the mind enters the rapid eye movement, or REM, stage of sleep. For a brief moment, the brain is alert, but the body is still in a relaxed state.

“I would say normally when it’s happening it’s when I’m having a bad dream and I wake up and try to reach for the light to turn it on, and I can’t because I just feel like I’m stuck,” said Jason Anderson, senior political science major.

According to Pennie

Seibert, psychology professor at Boise State, sleep paralysis usually affects teenagers and young adults, but it can happen to anyone. Because it is a rare occurrence, people who experience sleep paralysis are often frightened, unable to fall back asleep.

“When you have something like that happen, it’s like ‘Well, better leave the light on dimmed for the rest of the night,’” Anderson said. “I would say there’s different levels of it.

Sometimes it feels like I can move my arm, then some-

times I’m just completely paralyzed. It almost feels like there’s someone in the room holding me down.”

Seibert explained that sleep paralysis is often caused by stress or the use of sleep medication, which interferes with the stages of sleep. She believes sleep paralysis is often more common in students because of this, and that many students don’t get enough sleep.

“Any time we’re under stress, we’re more likely to have more sleep disturbances,” Seibert said. “The more you go about your

world and don’t get enough sleep, the more it adds up to create all sorts of problems.”

According to Seibert, sleep paralysis isn’t something students need to be afraid of when it does occur. It doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the person mentally and they shouldn’t be afraid that something terrible is going to happen.

Instead, they should think about what may be the underlying cause.

“Students need to pay attention to what set it off.

Were they taking a particular kind of medication or did they have a particular kind of stress during the day?” Seibert said. “If you can try to figure out the target, what’s making it more prevalent, then you can work backwards to try to make sure you resolve (the issue) and make sure it doesn’t happen as much.”

Anderson thinks the experience might be heightened by watching scary movies such as “Paranormal Activity.”

“If you’ve never seen movies like that then you’re like ‘this is nothing,’ but then you see movies like that, and you kind of wonder like ‘uh oh, is there something going on with me now?’” Anderson said.

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feature

First on the agenda: Already bills are starting to trickle in.

Here are some to keep an eye on:

House Bill 1 aimed to designate the Idaho Giant Salamander as Idaho’s official state amphibian.

This bill was rejected by a 10-6 vote.

The bill was first introduced five years ago by now 14-yearold Ilah Hickman.

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House Bill 2 intends to add the words to stop discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identification.

The first testimony hearings will begin Monday, Jan. 26 at 8 a.m.

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Idaho Legislature 101 Gov. Butch Otter to focus on education, infrastructure, health insurance and same-sex marriage Eryn Shay Johnson Asst. News Editor

Gov. Butch Otter and Idaho’s state congress are back in action with the kick off of Idaho’s legislative session Jan. 12.

In the State of the State and Budget Address, Otter put forth the most important things the legislature should focus on this year: education, infrastructure, health insurance and same-sex marriage.

According to Otter these are issues that the legislature needs to act “not in careless haste but with all appropriate dispatch.”

Education

The theme of Otter’s address this year was “Idaho learns.”

“We learned the value of being more frugal and accountable with taxpayer resources during the Great Recession,” Otter said. “We learned the value of preparation and consensus building during our discussions concerning transportation funding. We

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learned the value of process and inclusion during our efforts to improve education.

And we have learned that even the best intentions and plans must be carried out with equal attention to detail and public perceptions from our contract experience with the Idaho Education Network.”

In his third term, Otter is hoping to make significant changes in education using the last eight years of experience as a starting point.

“The kind and quality of courses and the level of instruction provided by the IEN truly is staggering,” Otter said.

“I believe its value is beyond question.”

The goal from this session is rebidding the contracts involved in the IEN and recommending that the legislation and State Board of Education find a way to fully fund the IEN by 2016.

What this means

Otter is looking to add more money to the education bud-

get this year. The legislature will be focusing on expanding K to Career, successfully creating the Idaho Education Network wi-fi program in public schools and finalizing the Idaho Teacher Career Ladder incentive.

Infrastructure “The biggest of the big-ticket items in our infrastructure inventory is our long-term, multibillion-dollar investment in Idaho’s roads and bridges,” Otter said. “And if Idaho learns means anything at all, it’s time for us to address that elephant in the room.”

According to Otter, the improvement will be better for Idaho businesses and bringing business into the state.

“We know that after education, investing in infrastructure is among the smartest, most cost-effective and frankly essential uses of taxpayer dollars to promote the public’s general welfare and sustain economic growth,” Otter said.

To achieve the growth and expansion in education and infrastructure, expect some changes to be made to Idaho taxation.

According to Otter, this will take Idaho’s tax system from its current “hodgepodge of taxing authorities” to “one of the best in the nation.”

What this means

Expect more road work this summer and the coming months should infrastructure bills pass in addition to road work already in progress, such as the Broadway overpass.

Healthcare Otter hopes to solidify the Idaho healthcare marketplace, Your Health Idaho.

“After some initial trials, Idaho now is successfully running its own insurance exchange cheaper, more efficiently, with less staff and with better service than the national system that over-promised and profoundly under-delivered,” Otter said. “The marketplace

is the key to how Idaho is advancing our goal of making healthcare more affordable and accessible for all Idahoans.”

What this means

Otter is proud of how well Your Health Idaho is doing, but there are always improvements that can be made. This year, the legislature will continue to make Your Health Idaho a tool to be used by young and old. It will be used to ensure that all Idahoans can and will be covered with health insurance, but most specifically Idaho health insurance not federal Affordable Care Act insurance.

Same-Sex Marriage The hot topic back this session is same-sex marriage and the proposed bill Add the Words Otter will use this session to overturn the decision made in October 2014 legalizing same-sex marriage in Idaho.

His stance is that it violates the

state constitution. The 2006 amendment defines marriage between a man and woman as the only “domestic legal union” recognized in Idaho.

The Supreme Court is currently reviewing Otter’s appeal.

“I will continue to do all that I can to uphold my oath and defend our Idaho Constitution,” he said.

What this means

On his own time this session, Otter will look to appeal the decision allowing samesex couples to marry in Idaho in hopes of getting it overturned.

Make sure to pick upcoming issues of The Arbiter for further coverage of the lesgislative session.

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Culture

Green by default

Students can extend Boise’s green standing with example, communication and education

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Green trends and reminders are everywhere, from metal water bottles decorated with planet stickers to burlap grocery sacks adorned with leaves and hearts. But, for busy students like Katie Dymock, environmental conscious living is not the highest priority.

“I’m aware that it is superduper trendy right now, but (green living) is not something I go out of my way to do,” said senior graphic design major Dymock. “It’s kind of a pain in the butt to live a green life. It’s like dieting; it takes focus I do not possess.”

Despite her lack of drive toward active participation within the green movement, Dymock did notice, at least for Boise residents, being environmentally friendly is made fairly easy and rather effective.

She has noticed ample, labeled recycling bins around campus, as well as green alternatives for everyday items.

Dymock often collects and utilizes recycled notepads for her design sketches.

“It’s not all shoved down my throat, which is nice,” Dymock said.

Associate professor in the Economics Department and director of the environmen-

tal studies program Scott Lowe explained, as a whole, Boise is in a much better situation compared to other budding cities or sprawling urban areas.

“We’re already going in the right direction,” Lowe said. “Idaho’s power relies mostly on hydroelectric and geothermal sources. Most of our heating and cooling is already energy efficient.”

According to Lowe, this energy setting is a great base plate for further improvement.

He found, even with advanced energy resources, Boise State students can find ways to improve their environmental impact, even if their efforts are small.

“I try to carpool and not drive as much,” freshman undeclared major Katie Swofford said. “I also only print things if I really need them.”

Lowe suggested that students start small and making increasingly larger changes.

They can begin by recycling all possible waste or choosing food items without excess wrapping. This can be expanded upon by eating only from reusable dishes or aiming for local plant-based meals to reduce the fossil fuel waste that comes with excessive transportation or meat production.

He stressed that students be conscious of where their

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0 products come from. Low fuel costs might not reflect the “green” identity of a new, supposedly innovative battery or package of factoryprocessed food.

Dymock prefers to contribute her own green efforts whenever it is most convenient or easiest for her to remember. She explained, upon occasion, she doesn’t contribute as much as she would like.

“Thats what the holy green crusaders are for,” Dymock

said. “They’re there to make up for the rest of us slackers.”

According to Lowe, change cannot come from a handful of environmental warriors.

Education is key to bringing change and inspiring ripples of small lifestyle tweaks.

“There is no individual solution,” Lowe said. “It all comes from encouraging others. It might seem like a drop in the bucket, but 20,000 drops fills it up.”

Lowe continued to explain that 20,000 students could

each recycle a single piece of paper and make a huge difference. They could, in turn, each inspire one friend and one family member to do the same, tripling the effect of their actions.

“It’s about communication,” Lowe said.

He explained, instead of focusing on large-scale projects, though they are useful in their own veins, students should make educating their peers about the ease of green living a higher priority. Stu-

dents should, in his opinion, focus on spreading the word and contributing to the movement, even minimally, instead of waiting for largescale projects to make immediate changes.

Lowe stressed that, if Boise can live similarly to other cities while still mainly making use of green energy, so can other cities.

“It’s an indicator that we all can do this and that life isn’t all that much different,” Lowe said.

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JUMP construction site hints at leaps of progress Patty Bowen Culture Editor

For any student who commutes to and from campus, the JUMP advertisement sign hanging next to the freeway exit on Front Street has created an everyday enigma.

The estimated date of completion for Jack’s Urban Meeting Place has been moved back several times, and it is currently set to Fall 2015. Despite the ambiguous nature of the construction site and sign, JUMP is coming along just fine.

“The JUMP project is really unique, there’s nothing like it out there so it is really hard to convey what it is,” said Kathy O’Neill, community engagement director at the JUMP project. “The JUMP is a place, but more importantly a thing; a live infusion of environment, experiences and surprises that are all designed to perk new interests.”

According to O’Neill, JUMP will be a multipurpose public space that will be used for public events, including concerts and outdoor movie screenings and private events including fundraisers and weddings.

Digital and recreational creation will also be encouraged in several of the spaces.

These spaces will include several studios used specifically for different activities including dance, cooking and multimedia technology.

“These studios have sensitive equipment and will need to be watched over,” said David Standerford, marketing coordinator and graphic designer at the

JUMP project.

According to Standerford, each of these studios will probably require some sort of membership in order to use, but will provide a large number of resources that otherwise might not be available for students and community members.

Funds for construction were provided solely by the J.R. Simplot Company.

Standerford acknowledged, though, once the six-floor building is done, JUMP will need to be sustainable on its own. Once built, JUMP’s funding will come from organizations renting out different rooms and areas of the building.

Despite the glossy regal appearance of JUMP, general admission to any of the lobbies or sculpture garden will be free. This sculpture garden will be an outdoor meeting place on the roof of the fifth floor, equipped with a fireplace, grill and kitchen for community activities. From the sculpture garden, visitors will be able to ride a five-story long slide down to the front entrance of the facility.

According to O’Niell, the idea for the slide came from the Belgian artist Carsten Holler, who is known for his many installations of corkscrewing, tubular metal slides.

“The conceptual basis for his work focused on this idea of paradigm shifting,” O’Niell said. “He had discovered that the anticipation that can be associated with taking a deep, dark plunge into a slide can be a risk taking opportunity, but it can also build self-confi-

dence and self-esteem.”

Scattered around the facility, 55 antique tractors will pay tribute to Jack Richard Simplot, who is the namesake of JUMP. “Many years ago, J.R. Simplot was planning on building an antique agricultural museum and purchased 110 antique tractors, and steam engines,” O’Neill said.

“JUMP really originated in the idea to tell people how we got to where we are today.”

J.R. Simplot was unable to complete his education.

According to O’Neill, the JUMP project creates an opportunity for underprivileged kids to get the education he never got through creation and risk-taking.

“Risk taking is really part of what we’re doing here. Its just a natural part of the process and failures you have are just part of that learning opportunity,” O’Neil said.

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Sports & Rec

Ali Roberts Staff Writer

Halfway through their season, diving into the MW championship, the Boise State swimming team took down Wyoming with a score of 189.5-110.5.

With the win the Bronco were also able to avenge their loss they suffered to the same team last season.

“I feel like we definitely see them as one of our main rivals, especially since they are in the same conference as us,” junior Sam Wicks said.

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“It’s promising seeing how well we did today.”

Wicks played a major role in beating Wyoming, by taking first in the 200 yard freestyle relay, the 100 yard backstroke, the 100 yard freestyle and the 200 yard individual medley.

This victory made for the team’s 17th consecutive home victory over the past four years.

“We only host three or four meets a season,” head coach Kristin Hill said. “We bring in some good teams.

We beat Utah in October,

and Wyoming beat us last year. To be able to win here by so much was a good accomplishment.”

The meet also served as the team’s senior night. The Broncos recognized their seniors Emily Blasko, Jessica Bottelberghe, Nikki Cannon, Heather Harper, Sydney Johansen and Erin Kohlbeck.

The seniors have all been instrumental in the recent success of the program, that included a MW championship last season.

The team has shown massive improvements over the

season after facing some of the best teams in the nation.

“We were fast in November in the Texas Invitational,” Hill said. “I say that we are on our way to being much better than that in three-and-a-half weeks at our championships.

This is the best team we’ve had as a program.”

With the season more than half over, the championship meet is more in focus than ever before.

“We won by a lot, and I think the score reflects our strength as a team,” Hill said.

“This is a dual meet setting,

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Swimming glides past Wyoming Broncos won 189.5-110.5. and we have some great strength, but I think we’re even better in a championship setting.”

The next home meet will be against Nevada at the Boise West YMCA on Saturday Jan. 31.

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Leslie Boston-Hyde Copy Editor

They say there is no place like home. For women’s assistant tennis coach Kristian Widen, this saying couldn’t be more true.

Widen wasn’t the only one happy to be back at his alma matter.

“We’re fortunate and have been super excited at the thought of having him back, and since he’s been here, it’s been everything we hoped,” head coach Beck Roghaar said.

Widen has an impressive resume on and off the court. He competed for Boise State from 1992-95, claiming four letter-

man awards and is a two-time All-Big Sky honoree. The Broncos won three consecutive Big Sky Conference titles (199395) and saw the program’s first two appearances in the NCAA National Tournament in 1994 and 1995.

After his collegiate success as an athlete, Widen began his 19 year coaching career. After leaving Boise State in 1999, he returned to his native country, Sweden, for 10 years. There he gained experience in club tennis as a private instructor, private coach and head coach.

Widen returned to Boise in 2009 and focused on junior programs at the Moorgat Tennis Ranch. Although he en-

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joyed coaching juniors, Widen was ready to transition back to the collegiate level.

“The level is a little bit different,” Widen said. “You’re still developing players but at a higher level.”

Widen returned to Boise State on Jan. 1 this year. He was excited to see how much the university had grown since he left 20 years ago.

“The whole university has just grown, and the Athletic Department is so much more professional than it was 20 years ago,” Widen said. “That was a big part of me making the decision to come back.”

Roghaar has already seen a difference since Widen re-

joined the coaching staff.

“I think in terms of what we try to have our program embody. I think Kristian’s values align perfectly with those,” Roghaar said. “He brings a lot of great knowledge to the game at the highest levels. He develops players, character counts with him, academics count.”

With the two coaches ready to take on the program as a team, they want to focus on recruiting the best players from around the world. Within a few years, they want to see both Boise State tennis teams in the top 25 in the nation.

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A tale as old as time

The Beauty and the Beast event has become quite the tradition since its inception in 2003 Brandon Walton Asst. Sports Editor

Instead of yellow ball gowns and furry hunchbacks, Boise State’s Beauty and the Beast instead sports gymnastics and wrestling meets.

These teams competed side by side in the Taco Bell Arena last Friday.

“It’s nice to be on the same floor as the wrestlers, to have that unity between the teams,” co-head gymnastics coach Tina Bird said. “It’s just so much fun, it just draws all types of

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people who want to go to an entertaining event.”

This 13th installment of the event saw the gymnastics team get their first win of the season over Southern Utah. In the process, the team set a new school record score in the month of January with 196.725.

For seniors, like Ciera Perkins, this was their last chance to compete in this one-of-a-kind event.

“It’s really sad but also really exciting,” Perkins said.

“This is how I wanted to end it: with the best team I could ever ask for.”

Perkins and fellow senior Kelsey Morris were glad to be a part of this unique event during their time at Boise State.

“Beauty and the Beast was my favorite event,” Morris said. “It was bittersweet that it was my last time, just thinking about it now is very emotional for me.”

On the other side of the mat, the wrestling team dropped a 20-18 loss to Arizona State.

Despite the loss, head coach Greg Randall and his team still enjoyed their

time at the event.

“I know my guys really liked it,” Randall said.

“They like having that big time crowd to perform in front of.”

A crowd of 2,846 people piled into Taco Bell Arena to witness the event.

“It’s pretty big time,” senior Steven Hernandez said. “It’s fun, cool and when we get that big crowd going it’s very exciting.”

Beauty and the Beast started 14 years ago when past athletic director Gene Bleymaier was tired of going back and forth between

the gymnastics meet at Taco Bell Arena and the wrestling meet going on at the same time at Bronco Gym. Bleymaier asked if an event could be created where both the gymnastics and the wrestling team could be competing at the same place at the same time. His request was granted, the following year Beauty and the Beast was born.

The first ever Beauty and the Beast was so popular with fans, athletes and boosters that it quickly be-

came a tradition.

Boise State was the first university in the country to implement an event like this. Over the years a plethora of other universities have followed suit, making this distinctive event part of their athletic traditions.

Many athletes that participated in the event, like freshman Geordan Martinez, are already marking it on their calenders for next year.

“It definitely lived up to the expectations and the reputation,” Martinez said.

“I can’t wait for next year.”

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Alford provides spark

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It wasn’t that long ago when the Boise State men’s basketball season was on the verge of disaster. The Broncos had lost four games in a row and started MW play 0-3. Boise State needed a spark to light the fire.

They got one in redshirt junior guard Montigo Alford.

“The losses we had were not bad losses,” Alford said.

“It was just the little things that we had to change, in the last few practices we have been more dialed in and as a result we have played a lot better.”

It was in those practices that Alford strived to be better for his team.

“I have been putting extra reps in and after practice to prepare for opportunities to help my other teammates out,” Alford said.

The Broncos are now the winners of four straight matches and are back in the

thick of the MW standings, just two games back from first. The team couldn’t have done it without Alford’s dedication.

“By putting him in, he speeds us up,” head coach Leon Rice said. “We want

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to be a team that can run and score. When we get him out there, he can go by guys. He is a one-man press break.”

While Alford doesn’t dominate the stat sheet every night, he has become

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a vital part of the Broncos’ success this season.

Alford had a career game in Boise State’s 86-36 mauling of San Jose State Jan. 21 where he secured 14 points and was the co-leader in assists with four.

“That was a big step for him,” Rice said. “He is a guy that is going to give us things that we are going to need in the future as we play these hotly contested MW games.”

Alford has been one of the go-to guys coming off the bench all season long, al-

ways providing crucial plays at vital moments.

“If you look back earlier in the season, going back to November, he has helped us win some games there too,” Rice said.

The Broncos will look to continue their winning streak when they host second place Colorado State tomorrow Jan. 27 at 9 p.m.

“We just have to continue to get better,” Alford said.

“We want to continue to build that chemistry as we continue on in the season.”

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