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The Independent Student Voice of Boise State Since 1933
Volume 22
First Issue
F R E E
OCTOBER 05, 2009
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ROTC
HOMECOMING
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HOMECOMING MADNESS!!! Game recap, page 5
out k of c Che s issue e r ’ day for mo s r . Thu biter age r r A e The TC cov RO
The Clothesline project
The Women’s Center promotes artistic function on campus
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Boise State Baptisms Generation Church hosts religious event
GLENN LANDBERG/THE ARBITER PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY LINDSEY WARD/THE ARBITER
ROTC: First ride on powerful
$6 million Blackhawk ANDREW FORD
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Journalist
t was the part of the trip I was most excited for, but it still didn’t seem real. I was strapped into my four-point harness, my ear plugs were in and my writing pad was pushed firmly up against my stomach and the seatbelt. Below me was nothing but the water of Lucky Peak Reservoir. Still, it didn’t seem real. The water of Lucky Peak Reservoir was hundreds of feet below me, but it still didn’t feel real. With my seat belt holding me firmly up in my seat and my ear plugs blocking out any chance of dialogue between myself and the cadets, it felt like I just as easily could have been watching a PBS documentary on climate changes in southern Idaho. While I shifted my stares
until I saw that other Helicopter that I realized I really was up there. There was no VHS to rewind, no DVD to put back in its case to end this spectaculary unique showing of Boise. One cadet said that if you have any layers, anything, put ‘em on. It gets cold up there. He was right. The combination of the altitude and the fast spinning rotors makes for a surreal windy and cold experience. After the flight one cadet explained how the experience went. GLENN LANDBERG/THE ARBITER “It’s kinda like having your A member of ROTC looks out the window of a National hand out the window at sevGuard Blackhawk helicopter as it flies just east of Boise. enty five,” he said. That seemed about right unfrom the pilot to the colo- as I thought about the con- til another cadet refined the nel to the Idaho scenery, I sequences of spinning rotor explanation. thought about what they blades on my frame, I looked “Yeah, only your whole body told us before myself and the over and saw another heli- is outside.” cadets boarded. copter. Another Blackhawk “If we crash, don’t leave until chopping way at the freezing, See page 6 for further the rotor blades stop.” choppy morning air. ROTC coverage Finally, it became real. Just For some reason, it wasn’t
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ROTC members march toward deadly Blackhawk helicopters before the day’s training.
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