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WEEKLY EVENTS Scholarship Open House

Thursday, January 26 - Monday, February 6 Various locations and times.

If you’re looking into scholarships for the next academic year, visit the “Bronco Money Matters” tab on the Boise State Dean of Students website to find out when your College is hosting a scholarship open house. All majors are welcome at the open house on Monday Feb. 6 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the SMASH building, AAE location on the 1st floor.

Lunch Shift Bike Maintenance Class Wednesday, February 1

Cycle Learning Center, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, FREE On the first Wednesday of every month, the Cycle Learning Center hosts a lecture and practice session focussed on bike maintenance. No experience is required.

Storyfort & Death Rattle: Poetry & Fiction feat. Christian WInn Wednesday, February 1

MING Studios, 420 S 6th St., 7:45 - 9:30 PM, FREE Josh Booton, Jam Hale and Griffin Ray Birdsong will read their poetry, and Idaho's Fiction Laureate Christian Winn will read fiction. This event is promoted by Treefort Music Fest and Death Rattle Writers Festival.

Speaker Series: The Political Courage of the Artist Thursday, February 2

Student Union Building, Hatch Ballroom C, FREE with light refreshments Three Boise State professors, Jill Gill of the history department, Justin Vaughn of the political science department and Craig Peariso of the art history department will discuss the role of the artist and imagery in politics and political dissent.

Super Bowl

Sunday, February 5 Various Locations , 4:30 PM If you were hoping to leave the guacamole prep to someone else, check out local bars and restaurants’ Facebook event pages; many of them, including Suds Tavern, Payette Brewing Co. and Double Tap Pub, have special deals and parties planned for Super Bowl 51.

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Art Majors create vagina prints in protest, spread positivity

Linocut prints of vaginas and uteruses were made by Kailee Poetsch, graphic design and printmaking major, senior illustration and printmaking major Ameerah Bader and senior illustration major Alexandra Berry in the hopes of spreading a positive message to students. Photo courtesy Alexandra Berry.

Patty Bowen Editor-in-Chief Editor@stumedia.boisestate.edu The printmaking studio located in Campus School was warm and filled with laughter in the early afternoon of Wednesday, Jan. 25 while three art students began cutting the outlines of vaginas and uteruses in the linoleum of their linocut prints.

“The vagina represents a lot more than just sexual feelings and desire,” said Kailee Poetsch, graphic design and printmaking major and one of the students creating the outlines.

“In this instance it’s representing femininity and the human qualities of sympathy, acceptance, loving, receptivity and desire to absorb.”

Poetsch, senior illustration and printmaking major Ameerah Bader and senior illustration major Alexandra Berry decided to make the linocut stamps after seeing posters scattered across campus advertising the Nationalist club.

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“We didn’t want to condemn the people who put the (nationalist) message out. We wanted to uplift the people who were feeling segregated by that,” Bader said.

The three art students decided making and passing out the prints of vaginas and uteruses would be a positive way to spread self-love and female empowerment.

“We didn’t use text, we just used the symbol,” Bader said.

“We cut them in about 25 minutes. The text would have made it more difficult because you have to carve the text backwards.”

Bader, Berry and Poetsch had originally rushed to complete the blocks in order to “print on top of the nationalist posters,” but upon completing them, the students found that the posters “were all gone.”

“So we printed them on our own paper and gave them to people who walked by,” Bader said. “We went to the SUB and put them up in bathrooms and put them on the community board. We gave them to who ever noticed what we were do-

ing.”

According to Berry, the prints were geared towards the political climate of the previous week.

“It is anti-Trump art,” Berry said. “The posters inspired me to want to create (the prints), but they stemmed from the presidency and what has happened in the last year. The nationalist posters were just part of the equation.”

Both Berry and Bader hadn’t considered themselves political artists before this, but both felt the action was necessary after feeling threatened and unsafe by the posters.

“Doing these prints is probably going to start an array of political prints to be put out there,” Bader said. “I don’t want to do it, I want to do my own thing, but right now I can’t think straight with all this bullshit going on.”

Bader hopes that by handing out those prints, she will be making the vagina a political symbol.

“It’s a self love thing,” Bader said. “Why the fuck not?”

Nationalistic flyers spark backlash

Michael Paquin Culture Reporter Culture@stumedia.boisestate.edu

On Wednesday, Jan. 25 students and staff found flyers hung all over campus by a group calling itself the Boise State Nationalists . This posting attempted to reach out to individuals who had issues concerning an array of listed topics, including immigration, political correctness, globalism, Marxism/Leftism, male emasculation and degeneracy. The backlash the group faced was immediate, with variations of posters criticizing and satirizing the group’s beliefs appearing in place of the originals. The Boise State Nationalists declined The Arbiter’s requests for an interview, but responded with this form letter: “My national comrades, Thank you for your interest in this community! However due to the immediate and amazingly incorrect link to hatred and Nazi ideology by educators and local media, we’ve elected to postpone our initial meeting out of fear from retribution. This group is intended for citizens of the United States, and proud Broncos that not only disagree with the level of insanity that modern culture is seemingly forcing upon everyone, but vehemently oppose it; and are actively looking to associate with like-minded, patriots that only want to improve culture and society through proper, well-mannered and civilized behavior. If you are still interested in joining with people that have grown

disenfranchised by modern political correctness, please keep checking your inbox for further information.

Thank you again for your interest.”

Some students were upset with the advertisement’s message. “If they want to have a Republican club that’s ok, but if you’re going to be disrespectful to other people like that, I don’t think that’s something that should be on campus,” said Aryan Parthor, Geosciences major.

“Globalism” is a grievance that has been discussed in the past among the alt-right in outlets like Alex Jones’s Infowars and Breitbart, whose co-founder, Steve Bannon now serves as Senior Counsel and Chief Strategist to the President.

Male emasculation pertains to a dissatisfaction with shifting gender roles and a desire to place the genders back in the more traditional positions that

they occupied during up to the 1950s and 1960s. Members of the alt-right like white supremacist/nationalist leader Richard Spencer have attempted to support this position with derivative evolutionary pseudoscience designed to call to mind survival of the fittest principals.

In an interview with the Idaho Statesman the day the fliers were discovered, Department of History professor Dr. Leslie MadisonBrooks draw specific criticism to the use of the word “degeneracy.”

“What pushed me over the edge and made me send it up the flagpole was the use of the word ‘degeneracy.’

That’s a Nazi ideal,” MadsenBrooks said, in reference to the Third Reich’s use of the term in the context of its eugenics programs. “Ethnostates” and eugenics are advocated for by fringe members of the far alt-right, such as Spencer.

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NEWS Making the vagina political

Urban studies and community development major confirmed to begin Fall 2017

The proposed Urban Studies and Community Development Program has officially been approved by the State Board of Education, and will launch in Fall 2017.

The School of Public Service began creating this new program in Spring 2016, and it went in front of the State Board of Education for approval on Dec. 16, 2016. It will exist within the School of Public Service and aims to bring students an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities. The program will provide different perspec-

tives of urban life, including the politics, economics, culture and history behind it.

Assistant Professor in the School of Public Service, Amanda Ashley, has been one of the driving forces behind the establishment of the Urban Studies Program.

“It would be safe to say that hearing the State Board members all say ‘ay’ was probably the highlight of my year,” Ashley said.

According to Ashley, the idea for an Urban Studies Program resulted from the culmination of many different elements, such as providing multiple lenses in examining urban issues, looking at urban studies within the public service realm and having a stronger focus on cities in the Intermountain West.

“To really understand a place, you have to know the

economics, the culture, the politics, the history and the sociology behind the makeup,” Ashley said. “That is why it’s really important not to look at a city as a pure artifact, but as a living and breathing organism.”

The major will utilize other programs, such as the Idaho Policy Institute and the Center for History and Politics, to help students connect and gain more experience with local organizations, according to Ashley.

“It’s important to me and to the identity of the program that we’re not just integrated across the university, but that we’re integrated across the region and the state,” Ashley said.

Urbanization is occurring at an incredible rate, with 80 percent of the U.S. population currently living in urban areas, according to Ashley.

“A lot of the issues we’re facing in our own

country about transportation, economic activity, sustainability and climate change, are all urban conversations that we need to have,”Ashley said.

Ashley feels fortunate to provide students with hands-on experiences through utilizing the flourishing urban life right here in Boise.

“What happens to cities in China is related to what happens to cities in Idaho. We’re all interconnected, so we need a language, we need a knowledge base, we need an opportunity to study those different relationships and learn how to navigate them,” Ashley said.

Sophomore Jenna Shaw is one student who has confirmed enrollment in the program so far.

“I grew up in a city, and I’ve traveled all over the world ever since I was little. I’m excited to actually see how (cities) work, because they influence every-

thing,” Shaw said.

Shaw was thrilled upon finding out the program was approved, and has already taken some courses that will cross over. She plans to get her master’s in urban planning after finishing her bachelor’s.

“Urban studies is a really good foundation to urban planning, because it allows you to understand how cities work, how they function and the different factors that go into a city. Urban studies is the background and it will set me up well,” Shaw said.

Shaw’s passion for urban studies developed from two inspirational people in her life.

Her father is a civil engineer, so she feels urban planning is a unique way of following in his footsteps. Shaw also drew inspiration from Ashley.

“There are not a lot of teachers like her. It takes a certain kind of professor to really ignite

a spark in you,” Shaw said.

Moving forward in the vision of the School of Public Service, a new global studies program will be up for approval by the State Board in February.

Additionally, the Environmental Studies program is in the process of moving over to the School of Public Service.

“We’re really looking forward to the ways in which we can connect urban studies, environmental studies and global studies. There can be some really opportune overlap between how we study each other’s issues,” Ashley said.

According to Ashley, the process of recruiting students for the new program has just begun. They are working with the admissions office and recruiters to get the word out.

“I’ve switched majors so many times, but this finally feels right,” Shaw said.

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Taylor Munson News Reporter Taylormunson@u.boisestate.edu

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NEWS Three Boise State teams will travel abroad to compete for $1 million Hult Prize

After Spring 2017, Towers will be used as overflow space

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“This is a real strategic way for us to make sure that first year students in particular who want to live on campus over the next few years are able to live on campus.”

—Dean Kennedy, director of Housing and Residence Life

Ashley Herman Staff Writer News@stumedia.boisestate.edu

Team Dream members (from left to right), Steven Gabrielsen, Ethan Lopez, Ashleigh Anderson and Jessica Bottelberghe. (Photo courtesy of Kathleen Tuck, University Communications).

Taylor Munson News Reporter Taylormunson@u.boisestate.edu Three Boise State teams have been chosen to compete in the regional finals for the $1 million Hult Prize. The teams will be competing in London, Dubai and Shanghai in March.

The Hult Prize competition is the largest student competition in the world that focuses on social impact throughout the world. This year, each team will propose a business idea that addresses the global refugee crisis and is also impact-centered, marketdriven and profit-minded.

One of the three teams competing automatically advanced to the regional finals after winning the local Boise State competition held at Trailhead. The other two teams were chosen to advance after applying for the at-large bid.

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“Before, I didn’t know anything about (the refugee crisis), I just wanted to do the Hult Prize because it sounded cool. After you dive in, you realize it’s a huge issue,” said second-year MBA student Ashleigh Anderson.

Anderson is one of four team members on Team Dream. Their business idea is to create an online platform titled, “A Story to be Told”.

Through this site, they would share stories about refugees, and eventually compile the stories into a book which could be sold for profit.

Another MBA student and member of Team Dream, Jessica Bottelberghe, discovered through this project how varied refugees are throughout the world. “(Refugees) all have different backgrounds, struggles and pain points. We wanted to make sure they were being heard,” Bottelberghe said.

Team Dream will be competing in London and they

hope there is a future for their business so they can give a voice to refugees and tell their stories.

“It’s really eye-opening to hear all these other stories of people that have actually been through it,” said Steven Gabrielsen, MBA student and Team Dream member.

The other two teams competing are Project Recover and Team Cultivate.

Project Recover’s business idea is to create a site similar to Etsy.com, in which refugees can make and sell their own products and use the money for their basic needs.

Team Cultivate’s idea is to create a portable one-time toilet as a way to develop safety and privacy for refugees.

Each winning team from the five competitions in March will advance to the finals over the summer. The winning team will be announced in Fall 2017, and will receive the $1 million prize to initiate and imple-

ment their project.

Boise State MBA student Connor Sheldon competed in the Hult Prize competition last year, and then became the program director for the Hult Prize program this year. However, Sheldon was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Malaysia for one year, so Alex Suggs took over and is currently overseeing the program.

According to Suggs, funding has officially been secured to send these teams to compete in March. Suggs is excited teams from Boise State will be able to compete at this reputable competition while addressing important issues. “(The teams) all have the capabilities of getting far. It’s about having an idea, being able to paint a picture of why that idea is going to be successful and why you should have $1 million dedicated to that idea,” Suggs said.

Though previously thought to be closing, Towers Hall will be used as temporary overflow space in coming years if the number of firstyear students applying to live on campus exceeds the amount of space in the new Honors College and FirstYear Residence Hall, opening Fall 2017. As soon as a space becomes available elsewhere on campus, Boise State will transfer students in overflow to a permanent living space.

“Our priority is that first year students coming to campus have the opportunity to live on campus,” said Dean Kennedy, the Director of Housing and Residence Life.

“Our return rate to students living on campus is much higher as students are seeing the value of living on campus and being connected to the community.”

According to Kennedy, there has been an increase in the number of students applying for on-campus housing. If the demand is higher than anticipated, then it is possible that students would be living in Towers Hall for the 2017 to 2018 academic year.

The agreement between

Boise State and EdR, a developer and manager of collegiate housing, was signed about a year and a half ago.

EdR is paying of the construction for the new Honors College and First-Year Residence Hall and will receive most of the rent for the building, behaving akin to a landlord. Boise State will provide the building with RAs, faculty, residents and a living learning community.

The lease agreement will last for at least 50 years and then the building will be owned by Boise State. Part of the agreement is that Towers Hall will be repurposed for non-housing spaces.

Kennedy mentioned 70 years of research has shown that students living on campus their first year or second year have higher graduation rates, better retention rates, are more likely to graduate on time and have less debt.

Boise State will be keeping an eye on enrollment numbers and the population on campus when considering buying or building additional student housing in the future, according to Kennedy.

“This is a real strategic way for us to make sure that first year students in particular who want to live on campus over the next few years are able to live on campus,” Kennedy said.

Boise citizens gather to protest the revival of the Dakota Access Pipeline Patty Bowen Editor-in-Chief Editor@stumedia.boisestate.edu State Representative of District 19 Caleb Hansen addressed the shivering crowd swaying in the January air at the Resist: Stand against DAPL and KXL rally held in response to the revival of the pipeline on Saturday, Jan. 28 on the steps of the Idaho State Capitol Building.

He described the mood in Standing Rock, North Dakota on Dec. 4, 2016 when the Obama Administration announced construction of the Dakota Access pipeline had been halted.

“The joy in camp when it became known that the easement had been denied was incredible,” Hansen said. “It felt like some small success we had all been hungry for. Even with that success, we must move on, there is still work to be done, because that was not the end of the story.”

Hansen’s story continued after the executive orders

on Tuesday, Jan. 24 to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines.

Both pipelines have been under fire since their proposal because of the negative environmental impact spillage could have on their surrounding landscapes.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe accused the government of approving the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline without consulting with them first.

According to BBC News, more than 200 Native American tribes have pledged support to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s efforts to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline’s construction out of fear that it will contaminate their water supply and damage their sacred burial grounds.

Celia Espanola, speaker at the rally and member of Idaho Stands with Standing Rock, said the pipeline’s insulation affects the environmental health of the entire nation. However, there have been no reports to support this claim.

According to Energy Transport Partners—the

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For Standing Rock, for instance, the shared values would be that the ranchers care about the land and people of Standing Rock care about the land, but for different reasons and so we need to work together to find a solution that works for everybody,.”

— Senior interdisciplinary studies major Sammi Lowman Texas-based company building the pipeline—the Dakota Access Pipeline was proposed to address the growing number of freight trains shipping oil out of North Dakota, which have a higher risk of exploding than the pipeline would.

An enviromental assessment done by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, published in May 2016, concluded that the Dakota Access Pipeline would not pose a threat to any of the nine endangered or threated species living in the area the pipeline would run through.

Espanola emphasized the importance of spreading awareness as an effective tool to show support to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

“You have to make a difference,” Espanola said. “It’s time to take action now.

Last week was the deadline to sit on your asses.”

Espanola advised supporters to pull their money out of banks which are lending to Energy Transport Partners and put their money in local credit unions.

According to Defund DAPL’s website, some of those banks included U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America.

Senior interdisciplinary

studies major Sammi Lowman, who attended the rally, wrote several papers on Standing Rock last semester.

While doing her research, Lowman found that, in order to connect people to causes, we must “find shared values rather than just appealing to facts across the political spectrum.”

“For Standing Rock, for instance, the shared values would be that the ranchers care about the land and people of Standing Rock care about the land, but for different reasons and so we need to work together to find a solution that works for everybody,” Lowman said.

Lowman’s family is from North Dakota where she said “the whole countryside has been transformed because of the oil industry.”

“I don’t think it’s for the better and I don’t want to see that happen in Idaho,” she said.

Students who are interested in learning more about fracking and oil mining in Idaho can attend a hearing of House Bill 64 on Wednesday, Feb. 1 in West Wing 37 of the Idaho State Capitol Building at 1:30 p.m. The bill will discuss permits for drilling and well treatment in Idaho.

Around 200 people gathered at the Idaho State Capitol Building for the Resist: Stand against DAPL and KXL on Saturday, Jan. 28. (Photo courtesy Kelsey Crow)

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OPINION Urban Studies Program Will Start New Conversations for Boise The Boise State School of Public Service’s new Urban Studies and Community Development Program will be a great source of new discussions about the way we operate in a world that is largely urban.

While Boise State offers a variety of classes where discussions like these are held, the implementation of the Urban Studies and Community Development program will help offer a new perspective that shifts the focus towards how these conversations can be applied to the way we understand how urban environments operate on multiple levels.

Many of the other univerisites with Urban Studies programs are located in largely urban areas or major cities, such as San Francisco State, Columbia, University of Utah and University of Pennsylvania to name a few. While the City of Boise is not as populated as the cities in which these schools are located, that does not mean that an Urban Studies program at Boise State will not be as successful. This is all the more reason why Boise State needs a program like this. This program has the potential to attract a variety of students from all disciplines and create new ideas that will help with understanding and improving Boise as an urban environment.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the population of Boise was 214,237 as of 2013. As the most metropolitan area in Idaho, Boise is a growing urban community.

In comparison to larger cities, such as Los Angeles—which

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has a population of roughly 4 million—it will be interesting to see how this program approaches Boise’s urban culture.

Introducing Urban Studies and Community Development as a program, rather than just a class or two, will be great for Boise State. As the City of Boise, and its culture, continues to change, this program is a necessity that will complement these changes. Even though this program is offered through the School of Public Service, it will be beneficial that the program is going to offer courses that are interdisciplinary across majors like the Social Sciences—such as Criminal Justice, Political Science, Sociology or Psychology—and even Environmental and Economic Studies as well. It seems impossible to discuss Urban Studies in depth without the input of these disciplines because they offer a unique lens that will help in the way in which we understand urban environments.

For example, offering an interdisciplinary course with

Sociology and Environmental Studies would be an interesting class. A class like this could cover the way in which humans engage with an urban environment. Discussions of environmental justice and access to resources in cities or even sustaining a healthy environment would be great conversations to apply to the City of Boise.

Even discussing the impact urban areas have on the world— whether it is economically, environmentally or socially— would be a great conversation for students at Boise State to engage in. It will prepare them to be well-informed and benefical contributors to existing and growing urban communities.

The Urban Studies and Community Development courses are something that all students—regardless of their academic year—should have the opportunity to take.

Currently, Boise State offers an introductory foundational course titled “Cities of Tomorrow” that covers the with the evolving nature of urban envi-

ronments. Courses like these provide students with the ability to choose if they want to take an Urban Studies class without forcing it into their degree track. It would also show that taking these classes are strongly encouraged and the subject material is universal across all disciplines and majors.

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In Defense of Cosmopolitanism

Samuel Wonacott Staff Writer Editor@stumedia.boisestate.edu

Donald Trump rode to power on the promise of making America great again. His campaign trafficked in strident appeals to nativism and nationalism, and called for reversing America’s declining position in the world and punishing those supposedly responsible— China, political elites, Mexican immigrants and so on. He repeated the line “America first!” twice in his inauguration address and promised a politics based on “a total allegiance to the United States of America.”

By the end of his first week he had issued Executive Orders directing the construction of a wall along the country’s southern border, ratcheting up efforts to deport undocumented immigrants and temporarily banning refugees from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States (in the case of Syria, the ban exists indefinitely).

While Trump spent much of his campaign shamelessly stoking racial resentment and anxiety­—such as when he suggested a U.S. District judge’s Mexican heritage might bias him in the Trump University lawsuits he was presiding over—his inauguration address focused more on nationalism than ethnicity.

“We all bleed the same red blood of patriots,” Trump intoned, signaling a belief that national identity can transcend race and other identity markers. Although his rhetoric, at the height of its xenophobia, reveals an undercurrent of ethno-nationalism geared heavily toward whites, he clearly sees nationalism as a balm for healing a deeply divided country.

The sudden resurgence of nationalism hit close to home last Wednesday when the Boise State community awoke to find that a group calling itself the “Boise State Nationalist” had plastered campus with flyers inviting those who have a problem with — among other things — “immigration,” “male emasculation” and “degeneracy” to join them. The flyers were posted in violation of university policy. The perpetrartors were apparently emas-

culated to such a degree that they had to put them up in the dead of night. The flyers, which are strongly suggestive of National Socialism, were quickly removed by enterprising professors and students before the morning was over. The incident caused a stir both on and off campus as people realized that Trump’s nationalist drumbeating had percolated into the Treasure Valley.

Historically, nationalism has proven a powerful unifying force, often pulling together countries riven by internecine conflict. Nationalism most often manifests itself in a willingness to believe that one’s country can do no wrong. Nazi Germany may be the most recognizable case in point of virulent nationalism, but one can find examples from countless countries through the centuries, including in America.

After all, it was less than 20 years ago that George W. Bush whipped up nationalist fervor to invade Iraq, a country which posed no threat to the U.S. Because we are social creatures who desire community with others, nationalism often succeeds in bringing together people living under the same flag. But nationalism’s chief flaw is that it ignores our common humanity, relying on artificial borders to draw

morally artificial distinctions between us. As philosopher Martha Nussbaum asked in 1994 in the Boston Review, responding to the claims that only patriotism can bind a society together, “why should these values, which instruct us to join hands across boundaries of ethnicity and class and gender and race, lose steam when they get to the borders of the nation?” Nationalists take one aspect of who we are—our national identity—and define us wholly in that respect.

This question of how much moral weight to give national identity is not a modern one.

The ancient Greeks grappled with their own form of nationalism thousands of years ago.

The constitutive element of Greek nationalism wasn’t the nation-state but, rather, the city-state, the polis. The polis was a political community, a microcosm of the nation-states that stretch out over the globe today. Some Greek philosophers, resisting the pressure to pledge allegiance to a single city-state, disavowed parochial ties and pledged themselves, instead, to a cosmo-polis, a universal community, or, as it would later come to be called, cosmopolitanism. When asked where he came from, the Cynic philosopher Diogenes reportedly answered, “I am a citizen of the world.” For the Roman statesman Seneca, cosmopolitanism is grounded on what “is

truly great and truly common, in which we look neither to this corner nor to that, but measure the boundaries of our nation by the sun.”

Cosmopolitanism, properly formulated, doesn’t deny the importance of that which makes us unique. The aim is not to erase our identities, national or otherwise, but to situate them in a way that doesn’t undermine our common humanity. The cosmopolitans of antiquity didn’t demand that we ignore our fellow citizens; rather, they argued that our sympathies ought to extend beyond our local and national loyalties to people everywhere.

For nationalists, allegiance to country supersedes universal principles of justice. For cosmopolitans, the reverse is true.

In other words, to put this into an American context, morality doesn’t stop at El Paso.

For immigrants and refugees escaping failed states and conflict, America offers peace, relative economic security, and, most importantly, opportunity. Nationalism tells us to

overlook the plight of people born outside the U.S. based on nothing more than the accident of birth. A cosmopolitan perspective, on the other hand, recognizes the historically contingent nature of borders, the way they ebb and flow over time for largely arbitrary reasons. A cosmopolitan perspective demands that we treat all people with respect, because the recognition of human dignity—not just the dignity of American citizens—is an integral part of justice.

Nationalism offers a blinkered perspective on the world, one that won’t make America great again. Instead of a shining city on a hill, America will look more like a fortress, walled off from the world and suspicious of those outside. Now, more than ever, America needs to be embrace the cosmopolitan values of tolerance, and compassion toward humanity as a whole.

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Trump’s nationalism won’t make America Great Again

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FEATURE The trials of becoming a nurse

Students struggle with balancing self-care while enduring the intensive Boise State nursing program

Samantha Harting News Editor News@stumedia.boisestate.edu As senior nursing major Ian Capron remembered back to his days playing baseball in the Dominican Republic, he recalled a story in which he spoke with a young, Haitian immigrant on the street who had no legs.

“He proceeded to tell me his mom had cut his legs off, because she had come to grips that this was their lot in life—they were immigrants. They would not be able to move up the caste system in the Dominican Republic, and they would forever be beggars on the corner,” Capron said. “So this was a business move in her eyes, in the expense of her child’s legs.”

After becoming burned out on pursuing a professional baseball career, Capron was again reminded of the young boy, and decided he wanted to become a nurse so he could help others mentally, spiritually and physically.

“I’ve never felt more helpless than in that moment, because I could talk to him, and I could listen to him—and that’s very healing—but I couldn’t do anything to bring his legs back,” Capron said.

Though all nursing students decide to pursue their careers for different reasons, they likely have a deep rooted passion to help others in order to endure the schooling necessary to become certified. As Capron has found, self-care is a critical practice in this major, as there are many stressful components when obtaining this degree.

Through various methods of self-care, students can still enjoy

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the profession and live a healthy life.

“People in the program are up against a lot—it’s a mini med school,” Capron said. “There’s so much to learn in such a short amount of time.”

Teaching self-care As the nursing students take classes to learn how to support others, it is often hard for them to find time to care for themselves. “(Self-care) is not talked about much,” Capron said. “The

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promotion and self-care type of opportunities, they don’t hear it—it goes in one ear and out the other. They’re not different from the rest of us, because they’re busy and they’re very focused on what they need do,” Seigart said.

A bachelor of science and nursing is arguably one the most difficult bachelor’s degrees to pursue, according to Student Services Supervisor Jill Jenkins.

Students are encouraged to take time to relax, according to Faye Carlson undergraduate program coordinator for the

(Being denied) forced me to develop resiliency, to really choose to see situations not as failures, but as learning moments. I could learn more from being denied than I could from just having everything go my way.”

—Ian Capron, senior nursing major

only class that self-care was really spoken about—with any sort of conviction or like it really mattered at all—was an optional class: holistic nursing.”

Capron said there’s a distinct difference between students in his class who take time for themselves, and those who don’t.

“That is my number one encouragement to any aspiring nurse here: start taking care of yourself now so you develop those habits,” Capron said.

Associate Director of the Nursing Program, Dr. Denise Seigart, said there are many opportunities for wellness, they just might not be advertised enough. Nursing students tend to be high anxiety—with Type A personalities—and get caught up in their classes and exams, causing them to neglect selfcare, according to Seigart.

“As much as we present health

Nursing Program.

“They have fought so hard and worked so hard to get into the program, that they’re just very focused and they don’t give themselves the time,” Carlson said.

Applying for the program The nursing program at Boise State lasts five semesters, and students can apply after they have completed their first three semesters of prerequisite classes.

Admission is currently based solely off of a student’s grades in certain science classes required for the major—not their cumulative GPA—causing students to feel a lot of pressure to get perfect grades, according to Capron. 60 students are admitted each semester, creating a cohort which will go through classes together until graduation.

“The competitiveness that’s instilled in you as you prepare to apply to the program, I’ve noticed that doesn’t go away. It’s classmates competing against classmates basically,” Capron said. “That doesn’t foster the best unifying experience or comradery for everybody.”

When Capron first applied for the program, he had a high overall GPA but was denied.

“That was really demoralizing for me,” Capron said. “I really questioned, ‘Am I supposed to do this?’”

After taking a year-long gap to think about whether he still wanted to pursue this career, Capron applied again, and was accepted. “(Being denied) forced me to develop resiliency, to really choose to see situations not as failures, but as learning moments,” Capron said. “I could learn more from being denied than I could from just having everything go my way.”

Students who have families and kids don’t have time to be denied and then reapply, Capron said.

“Often those are the people who are least likely to ask for help, especially when they are accustomed to being the primary breadwinner,” Jenkins said.

Perpetual stress The stress for students is not over once they are admitted into the program, as they will then face a schedule of demanding classes to be completed in a short amount of time, as well as emotionally draining situations, according to Capron.

“We tell (students) what to register for. That, in itself, is stressful, because we give them

the schedule and then they have to schedule the rest of their lives around it,” Jenkins said.

For students with families and other jobs, scheduling is difficult, according to Jenkins.

“It’s a combination of having no control, and yet having to work within this very regimented program, because there just really isn’t any flexibility,” Jenkins said.

Students also face the emotional toll of working with patients for shifts often lasting longer than eight hours.

“We have to combat compassion fatigue—being so emotionally involved with people, but not necessarily having that reciprocated at all,” Capron said.

“There’s a lot of give, give, give, but if you’re not receiving as well, that’s where you come to find that nurses will develop a lot of mental disorders like anxiety, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.”

Despite the assiduous work ethic required to complete this major, Seigart said the program loses very few students once they have been admitted into the program.

“We have a very high retention rate. We also have highly motivated, very competitive people,” Seigart said. “We lose very few. Once you’re in, you’re in,” Seigart said.

Steps toward self-care Although the program is demanding, there are many techniques and resources available to help students.

“I’m really encouraging the students to see the Student Services as an advocate for them as a place to come when they’re stressed out so they

can get resources, and just know there’s someone there to listen to them,” Jenkins said.

There is a Student Center on the third floor of the Norco Building to study in, as well as have coffee and eat their meals.

“There’s no nurse alive, I don’t think, that eats three square meals a day—faculty or student,” Carlson said.

Proper nutrition, healthy sleeping patterns, limiting external work hours and not procrastinating are all ways to take care of oneself. The faculty and staff are very attentive to individual students’ needs, according to Seigart.

“When I talk to students, I tell them to pursue balance. It’s important to be a good student, it’s important to study hard and put

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Capron also advises students to not take on added stress of situations which are out of their control in the work environment.

“At the end of the day, if we can rest on the fact that we did our best, we’ll be able to leave with more gratitude and with more assurance that we’re impacting the world in a good way,” Capron said.

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Boise State librarian works to accommodate students with children and increase support for early literacy

Sophomore Theatre Major Kelly Barker visits Albertsons Library’s record room with her two children, seven-year old Lily and one-year-old Beverly. Photo by Brandon Rasmussen / The Arbiter

Brandon Rasmussen Culture Editor Culture@stumedia.boisestate.edu It was a busy day at Albertsons Library when Assistant Professor and Librarian Kelsey Keyes noticed a woman on one of the computers on the first floor. The student sat typing, splitting her concentration between the screen, a toddler in her lap and a baby-—who was babbling happily in the seat next to her.

“I came out to give her my business card and she saw me walking up,” Keyes said. Her past research in early literacy has dealt largely with parenting students like the one in front of her. “She had a look of sheer panic in her eyes. She kept saying ‘I’m so sorry, we’ll be gone soon. I just need to finish this paper and print it off.’”

According to Keyes, this situation is a common occurrence when it comes to students with dependent children. Though many of these parents shy away from bringing their children to the library based on their experiences with other students, Keyes has been vocal in her desire to make these students feel included.

On Jan. 11, Keyes became one of the 109 recipients of the PK12 Grant, awarded

by The Idaho STEM Action Center. Keyes hopes the funds from the grant will allow her to continue her mission in making Albertsons Library a more welcoming place for students with children and a more active proponent of early literacy in the Treasure Valley.

Though the recipients of the grant were recently announced, this initiative at Albertsons Library has been a project of

Keyes’ for the past year.

According to Tracy Bicknell-Holmes, the dean of Albertsons Library, Keyes first approached her with an idea to create a “family-friendly research room,” where students can let their children play while they type or print on the computer.

“If we had study rooms to spare, we would have done it right away,” said BicknellHolmes. “However, we have so many requests for space as it is.”

While space continues to be a consideration for the project, Keyes also put forward the idea of backpacks, which could be checked out by parents to entertain their kids while they work or check out books.

“The grant I received is specifically for STEM education, so each of the backpacks are going to be themed with some aspect of STEM education,”

Keyes said. “So maybe one backpack will have a LEGO kit in it and then a couple of books about dealing with early math literacy.”

Keyes went on to stress that while the early literacy aspect of the backpacks would be educational for the children checking them out, she emphasized they would also serve as a physical indicator that the library is a welcome place for the kids of students.

“It would be inviting for parents who aren’t sure if they can bring their children,” said Kelly Barker, a sophomore theatre arts major and mother of two young kids. “Oftentimes when I have to study and I have the kids, I go somewhere else. It is a little stressful—you want to be respectful, but at the same time, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.”

Both Keyes and Bicknell-

Holmes echoed this sentiment concerning the disruption of other students. Barker explained that while accommodations for parents would be nice, she understands the value of the library as a place where all students can come to quietly study.

“You should be respectful and quiet in the library, and you should teach your children to be respectful and quiet,” said Barker. “So it’s partially on the parent, but it’s also partially on the environment.”

As the library staff continues to look for solutions inside the library, Keyes and BicknellHolmes have also been working to increase their efforts off-campus as well. During the summer of 2016, Albertsons Library began participating in Literacy in the Park, a program where families from the Boise community can listen to a story

and pick out a book while food is made available from a nearby food truck.

As summer of 2017 approaches, Albertsons Library is hoping to build a roster of volunteers consisting of students and faculty to hold the event at multiple parks throughout the season.

According to BicknellHolmes, while this program helps kids keep from falling behind in the summer months, it also creates an opportunity for Albertsons Library to represent the university out in the community.

“If we don’t spend some time and attention on early literacy, how can we expect people to come to Boise State?” BicknellHolmes said. “We’d really like to be welcoming to people and play a role that’s more than just ‘We have books on the shelf.’”

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CULTURE Courage on a Canvas

“Political Courage of the Artist” speaking event explores the role of the artist in political dissent.

Michael Paquin Culture Reporter Culture@stumedia.boisestate.edu In April of 1937, Italian, Spanish and German fascists bombed the Basque city of Guernica. Pablo Picasso later depicted the event in his painting of the same name. There’s an urban legend that some time later, a member of the S.S. was walking through Picasso’s apartment when he noticed a picture of the painting and asked Pablo,

“Did you do this?” Picasso responded “No, you did.”

Now, as part of its ongoing speaker series surrounding the topic of “Civil Discourse on Politics and Art,” Boise State Student Union Fine Arts will be holding its next lecture about on “Political Courage of the Artist” on Thursday, Feb. 2, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. in the SUB’s Hatch Ballroom.

The series was organized to showcase the art of Bryan Anthony Moore, whose exhibition “National Mythstory” is on display

in the SUB’s Exhibition Room until Feb.19.

This set of lecturers— the third in the series­­— include Department of History Professor Jill Gill, Department of Art Professor Justin Vaughn and Craig Pearson studies the relationships between stereotypes and protest movements that occurred in the late 1960s. It will examine the role of the artist specifically as showing courage in political dissent. Boise State Art Curator Fonda Portales explained that traditionally art is subjective,

so it’s up to the viewer to take away from it whatever they interpret it to be. This is in contrast with Moore’s work, which includes an explanation about what he wanted to accomplish with his exhibit, along with a way it’s supposed to be interpreted.

“The reason we wanted to put on a speaker series around an art exhibition, which might seem a little strange, is because we live in an age in which art is seen as very subjective, and so it’s really only ‘my opinion’ about something that

matters, how I feel about something or how I react to something,” Portales said. To her, this makes it easier to dismiss the message of a given piece, even if it’s unpleasant. In his artists’ statement, Moore explains that the point of his exhibition is that American’s have been subject to a series of falsehoods about the founding of their country and its infancy years.

In a growing field of what critics call “revisionist history,” Moore examined history 2014 history textbook from Texas for his

inspiration.

The final leg of the speaker series will be on the religious practices of our many commander-inchiefs. Dr. Darrin Grinder and Dr. Steve Shaw, both instructors at Norwest Nazarene University and co-authors of the book “The Presidents and Their Faith” will speak on Thursday, Feb. 16 from 6 to 7 p.m. in the SUB’s Boyington Room.

BAM artist uses chromosome map to inspire upcoming exhibit Maxwell Peterson Copy Editor Culture@stumedia.boisestate.edu Many viewers of Geraldine Ondrizek’s work are haunted by a message they are unable to fully understand. Bleeding bars of color on the silk banners employed in her latest exhibit, “Chromosome Painting II”, reveal themselves as chromosomal markers— information coded in our DNA which connote genetic variation.

“Chromosome Painting II”, which will be exhibited at Boise Art Museum (BAM) from Saturday, Feb. 4 to June 4, is not the first instance of Ondrizek dabbling in a bit of mixed media. Ondrizek, a professor of art at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, has

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long been inspired by the cellular world. Through gazing deeper into the scientific realm, Ondrizek informs herself in order to make pieces that accurately present the intricacies of various issues.

According to Ondrizek, the pieces are modeled after synteny maps, a method of decoding genetic variation by injecting the chromosomes with phosphorescents. This turns the color of the chromosome into striped maps of the markers encoded in our DNA. “The different sizes of markers on the chromosome will indicate different qualities, Ondrizek said. “If you have this marker and this marker it will mean that you have the propensity for this kind of cancer, and brown

eyes or short stature.”

Ondrizek’s exhibits may first appear to be empirical explorations into the factual domain, but knowing the catalyst behind her work transforms the work

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kinds of diseases can be viewed in our chromosomes. From tragedy and research, Ondrizek has been motivated to examine art in a manner many artists never explore.

I’m not romanticizing science to the point that I’m making it up. I’m beautifying it for the sake of it.”

—Geraldine Ondrizek, artist

into a haunting reminder that much is uncontrollable.

“My own mother died of cancer, and I lost my first child to a genetic anomaly,” Ondrizek said.

Through her research, Ondrizek came to know that indicators marking propensities towards these

“The art world population doesn’t like to have science connected to it,” Ondrizek said. “Certainly, I want to show my art to (them), but I feel like they’re so less interested in that research aspect of the work.”

Ondrizek is looking to challenge that lack of in-

terest. Through competent scientific study and a profound artistic background, Ondrizek is looking to use her work to celebrate the vital ingredient she feels science is to art.

“Once you get into socio-political issues in genetics, you have to know some of the empirical evidence. People are making a lot of work about racial issues, for example, but they aren’t reading books necessarily about how that’s linked or how that operates.”

Research is part of what makes Ondrizek’s work romantically esoteric.

The scientific position of “Chromosome Painting II” is what initially intrigued Boise Art Museum Curator of Art Nicole Herden. She hopes that viewers will, “enjoy themselves while

using ambiguities and unanswered questions to fuel their continued inquiry.”

“I’m very interested in using empirical evidence and putting people in front of it. I’m not romanticizing science to the point that I’m making it up. I’m beautifying it for the sake of it,” Ondrizek said.

“This exhibition allows BAM to reach out to different audiences, while also staying current with contemporary discourse and art practices,” Herden said. “For example, science students will recognize the subject matter or content while art students will continue to grow by examining the methodology.”

Lunar New Year is Asia’s Christmas Father John Misty,

Boise State international students share their thoughts on family holiday

This Lunar New Year, many international students will be missing traditional home dishes like lou sang (pictured above). Photo by Coey Zhang / The Arbiter

Zoey Nguyen Staff Writer Culture@stumedia.boisestate.edu Although the Christmas season has passed, it is now time for Lunar (Chinese) New Year, widely celebrated by several Asian countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Although the celebration styles and food may vary, the purpose remains the same: to reunite and bond with family.

“The whole concept of Chinese New Year is for families to get together and get into a food coma. For us, getting money is like getting presents. It’s just like western Christmas,” said JuNny Foo, a senior psychology major from Malaysia.

Though details of celebrations vary from country to country, one of the things that they have in common is getting a red packet stuffed with

money. Some call it “ang pao,” some call it “li xi” or “lai see”.

The elderly put pocket money for younger people to spend or buy new clothes. It is supposed to give them good luck, fortune and prosperity.

“That is my favorite part, of course,” said Wankun Sirichotiyaku, a senior mechanical engineering major from Thailand.

He also said the holiday isn’t much of a celebration to him.

It’s more of a chance to catch up and spend quality time with his family.

“By late morning, when every family member arrives at the house, we hold a small ceremony to remember our ancestors. This day serves as a bonding time for everyone in the family, so we usually just stay at the grandparents’ house to talk and play games.”

The central stage of Lunar New Year is dedicated to two important things: food and tradition. Lots of cuisine carries intent towards good fortune and longevity.

“At the beginning, we eat lou sang,” Foo said. Lou sang is a large dish, consisting of various noodles, vegetables, meats and sauces. “It’s all very colorful, so we put our clean chopsticks in and mix it all together.

As we mix, we say something good, like ‘Let’s wish this year to be the best! Let’s win the jackpot! Let’s get married!’”

According to Coey Zhang, a senior accounting major from China, Chinese New Year dishes also carry the wish for luck.

“We eat fish so that the new year brings prosperity and long noodles for longevity,” said Zhang. “Dumplings are shaped like gold ingots, so we believe the more you eat them, the more money you make.

Also, mandarin oranges, because they sound like the word ‘lucky’ in Chinese by pronunciation.”

It is also customary in China to have Lion Dance performances. They are intended to chase away evil spirits and ghosts for the upcoming year.

The Lion costumes are traditionally in bright colors as well, to give the holiday a festive feel.

With Lunar New Year being a great part of many cultures, students are definitely hit with homesickness while studying abroad.

“I haven’t celebrated it for six years now,” Foo said. “Chinese New Year is when I’m most homesick. Just imagine yourself not celebrating Christmas for six years.”

For students like Zhang who have parents here in Boise to celebrate with, the celebration serves as a reminder of their heritage.

“Everything got simplified after we came to the U.S., since there are not a lot of Asians here. But my parents try to keep what they did in China,” she said. “Chinese New Year is a big day for for all the Chinese. For me, it is a great chance to meet all the relatives at once.”

“Pure Comedy”

Darby Ebeling Copy Editor DarbyEbeling@u.boisestate.edu Father John Misty’s new music video, for single “Pure Comedy”, released on Jan. 23 by Sub Pop records, begins with a television news broadcast audio clip and quickly becomes an almost-NSFW barrage of illustrated images of a history of humanity, clips from—among other things—the animal kingdom, a baseball game and President Trump’s inauguration. To say that this piece is a political statement would be a gross understatement but also somewhat of an unfair essentialization; the single appears to be an indictment of humanity overall.

“The comedy of man starts like this/Our brains are way too big for our mothers’ hips,” the song begins, suggesting, perhaps, that there are universal absurdities that exist within humanity.

While this music video is so left-leaning it’s almost laying down, the song ends on “I hate to say it, but each other’s all we got”, suggesting that there is a sense of selfawareness amongst the commentary.

I rate it half a Pepe the Frog meme; it’s wildly uncomfortable to watch this video, yet there seems to some substance to the satire. Also, Pepe makes a guest appearance.

“Pure Comedy,” the full-length album, is slated for release on April 7.

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SPORTS & REc Bronco Fitness Challenge works to help improve the health of its contestants Jordan Erb Staff Writer Sports@stumedia.boisestate.edu As the second semester heats up, the Boise State Recreation Center is helping a group of active Broncos stay in shape with its third annual Bronco Fitness Challenge, a seven week long program to help participants reach their health and wellness goals.

Abby McElligott, Fitness Coordinator at the Rec,

came up with the idea of a fitness-based contest. The premise was to set a baseline of participants overall health, then retest them after several weeks to determine the presence of any positive health improvements.

Among McElligott’s goals for the challenge are to see a rise in health and community involvement at the Rec Center. In a meeting last week, she spoke about the prospect of new members joining the Rec Center.

“We want to inform peo-

ple, we want to get them moving, and we want to introduce them to the Rec,” McElligott said.

The Bronco Fitness Challenge is composed of seven different categories, including body composition, agility, strength, core endurance, blood pressure, cardiovascular health and flexibility. The baselines of each of these components are determined through a series of tests, which will aid in placing participants into two different groups: Rec Regular or

Athlete.

In March, new tests will be taken and compared to the first, allowing for winners to be chosen on the basis of how much total change was made in their test scores.

One male and one female winner will be chosen from both levels; one person, with the largest overall improvement, will win the grand prize. Prizes consist of generous donations from the Rec Center catering to each of the winners’ wants and needs. This varies from

personal training sessions to free premium class passes.

Last year’s winner, JunNy Foo, chose five free personal training sessions as a prize for the amount of effort she put into the challenge.

Throughout the course of the 2016 competition, Foo focused on core endurance and more than doubled her planking time. Now, Foo sees the 2017 challenge as a way to stimulate personal development.

“My goal is simple: to be better (physically and men-

tally) than I was yesterday,” Foo said.

Regardless of whether students are part of the Bronco Fitness Challenge, McElligott hopes they feel comfortable using the Rec Center.

“What I want to see is people getting in here who maybe aren’t used to using the facility,” McElligott said.

“We just want new people, who are trying a New Year’s resolution that has to do with fitness. We want to get them in here, and make them feel comfortable.”

The Bronco Fitness Challenge is a seven week long program where students can test their body composition, agility, strength, core endurance, blood pressure, cardiovascular health and flexibility. Photo

by Taylor Lippman / The Arbiter

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Wolf Pack take down Broncos in battle for first place Rian Garcia Staff Writer Sports@stumedia.boisestate.edu Last Wednesday, the Broncos hosted the University of Nevada, Reno Men’s Basketball Team, with the winner taking sole possession of first place in the Mountain West Conference.

Nevada won with a final score of 76-57. Cameron Oliver finished with a double-double, 17 points and 14 rebounds.

Marcus Marshall finished with 18 points, and D.J. Fenner led the Wolf Pack in scoring with 21 points.

Nevada now sits alone atop the Mountain West Confer-

ence standings with an overall record of 18-4, 7-2 MWC. Boise is currently tied for second with Colorado State at 13-7 overall, 6-3 MWC. When asked what the team’s mindset was going into such a big game, freshman guard and marketing major, Justinian Jessup said, “I think the biggest thing is we’re just going to come out ready to fight, come out with an edge, and be ready to prove everybody wrong.”

With Nevada having arguably three of the best players in the Mountain West in their starting five with Jordan Caroline, Marshall and Oliver, it was going to be the Broncos’ toughest matchup of the season thus far.

“They’re shotmakers, they’re athletic, they’re strong, and they drive a hard bargain to anybody,” said Boise State Head Coach Leon Rice.

Though Boise State would open up the scoring on a threepointer from Justinian Jessup, Nevada quickly took over the game.

With nine minutes left in the first half, the Broncos retook the lead 22-21, but Nevada would, again, turn it around rather quickly.

It took a huge three-pointer from senior forward Nick Duncan to get the Broncos back on track after Nevada went on a 9-0 run in about three minutes of game time.

Down by five coming out of

halftime, junior guard Chandler Hutchison began to take over the game. He would lead the way for the Broncos, cutting the deficit to 52-49 with 9:35 remaining in the contest.

This would be as close as the game would get, as Nevada began to pull away, raining three pointers seemingly every time they came down court. With just over a minute to play, both teams took out their starters and the clock expired.

For the Broncos, Chandler Hutchison finished with 23 points, seven rebounds and five assists; no other Broncos scored more than eight points each.

Junior Guard Hutchison Chandler plays off against University of Nevada’s Men’s Bsketball game. Photo by Alec Foege / The Arbiter

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Broncos Basketball: Both Men’s and Women’s teams off to record starts Boise State Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams are looking to gain the number one spots in the Mountain West, with their quick starts to the season

Junior Guard for the Men’s Basketball team Chandler Hutchison drunks for two points against University of Nevada. Photo

by Alec Foege / The Arbiter

Rian Garcia Staff Writer Sports@stumedia.boisestate.edu

Women’s Basketball team Center Marijke Vanderschaaf goes for the jump shot. Photo

by Alec Foege / The Arbiter

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With half of the season already in the books, both the Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams are shooting for the number one spot in the Mountain West Conference.

Led by junior guard Chandler Hutchison, the Men’s Basketball team sits tied for second place in the Mountain West Conference with a 13-7 record overall, 6-3 MWC. The Men’s Basketball team also holds two impressive victories over teams that frequently attend the NCAA Tournament: Southern Methodist University and San Diego State University.

“Have we been perfect? No. But

we’ve got a young team that’s just battling their tail off. They’re fighting to get better. They’ve put themselves in a very meaningful game in late January, and that’s where we want to be,” said Head Coach Leon Rice prior to the game against Nevada on Wednesday, Jan. 25.

The Women’s Basketball team came out at the beginning of the season holding nothing back. Opening on an eight game winning streak, the Women’s Basketball team currently sits in fourth place of the Mountain West with a record of 15-5 overall, 5-4 MWC. The Women’s Basketball team has taken down both of the teams that played in the 2016 Women’s Mountain West Conference Championship Game: Colorado State and Fresno State.

Though both the Men’s Basketball

and the Women’s Basketball teams have opened the season with impressive starts, they both have long roads ahead. The Men’s Basketball team looks to move into the top spot in the conference with tough matchups against Nevada, New Mexico, Utah State and Fresno State remaining. The Women’s Basketball team is looking to climb in the rankings with back-to-back home games against Wyoming and Colorado State.

After both teams finished in third place of the Mountain West Conference a year ago, the successful starts to the season show how hard the teams are working for the future.

“That’s our goal,” said Justinian Jessup, freshman marketing major and guard for the Men’s Basketball team.

“We want Boise State to become the team to beat in the Mountain West.”

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