The Arbiter 10.16.2014

October 16, 2014 Vol. 27 Issue 18

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NEWS

Asst. News Editor

If you Google-searched his name, you might find hundreds, if not thousands, of photos he’s taken.

In 1990, Glenn Smith was a photographer for the Associated Press. He now works as a photographer for the Idaho Steelheads. He lives in the alley around the corner from the 15th Street overpass.

On Saturday, Oct. 10, he and other alley occupants were issued a warning by the Boise Police Department to vacate this area otherwise they would receive a citation or handcuffs.

Smith thinks this is ridiculous.

“You can’t solve the home-

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less problem just by saying, ‘You can’t be here.’ They’re gonna go somewhere,” he said.

“I see the city’s side of it. It’s a horrible eyesore (although) it has looked a lot worse than it does now.”

According to Smith, staying at one of the three homeless shelters nearby is out of the question if someone wants to find a job and no longer be homeless.

“They are very dictatorial.

You have to check in at 4 and if you’re trying to work you have to be in by 8,” Smith said. “Occasionally they will allow you, if you’re working, to come in at different times.”

Smith feels the guidelines for staying at shelters in Boise are overly stringent, which is why many choose to stay un-

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You can’t solve the homeless problem just by saying, ‘You can’t be here.’ They’re gonna go somewhere.

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der the overpass.

According to him, there are a few people like himself who work and a few that are job hunting.

“For the most part, (for) most of these people, it’s become a way of life. They sit out here and drink all day. That’s the sad truth of it,” he said.

He pointed at a recycling bin, which he said is usually 90 percent alcohol-related cans.

“This is the biggest concentration of alcoholics you’ll ever find in your life,” he said.

On Sunday, Oct. 11, a group of no more than eight citizens stood under the 15th Street overpass. The rally was in response to the warnings issued the previous morning.

“I think this is an unimaginable situation,” said Barbara Kemp, a community member involved in the protest.

She held a sign that read “provide housing not handcuffs.”

Kemp believes the homeless issue is something which Boise could have found a solution to already, but didn’t. In-

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Boise uses tickets to deal with homeless

Homeless man protests from behind sign. stead, the city’s response was to hand out tickets to these individuals.

“We need a housing first (solution) for our chronically homeless,” she said. “It takes time and isn’t the easiest (solution) in the world but it’s far less expensive, and the city knows that.”

Kemp referred to the study conducted in 2007 which was titled “Boise’s 10 Year Plan to Reduce and Prevent Chronic Homelessness.”

In this study, it’s estimated that services for one person who is experiencing chronic homelessness in Boise during a one-year period ranges

from $40,000 to $85,000.

This includes case management, police, incarceration, paramedics, fire department, emergency room, hospital care and shelter services.

The cost of providing housing or supportive services, however, is estimated to be $25,000 to $35,000 per year.

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If you ever suffer from test anxiety; here are a few tips that can help you face your exams cool as a cucumber!

First off, study the material for the class thoroughly—if you have prepared a study schedule and have been reviewing material for a while, you can avoid the stress of feeling like you are cramming.

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By knowing the class subject up and down, you can go into the testing room with confidence that you will not forget anything at the last moment.

If you are testing in an unfamiliar room (like it’s your first time at the Online Testing Center), it is absolutely OK to pop over before the exam runs to check things out.

What does the room look like? What is the process of checking in? Do you know

all the policies of the Testing Center like the “no cell phone” rule, etc.? By answering these questions, you can take away some of the things that you would otherwise be worrying about and reduce your stress.

On the test day, remember to avoid sugar and caffeine that could get your heart thumping, and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate with good old H­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­2O. Bring earplugs, extra pen-

cils (#2 if you are taking a Scantron test) and pens so you know you are prepared for broken lead or ink running out. Also, remember to show up for the exam early if possible and take a few moments to get situated and calm down before the test begins.

After the exam is completed, no matter what your grade, you should absolutely reward yourself for surviving the test!

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NEWS

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UF 100 classes go into the beyond with science fiction

Some UF 100 classes use sci-fi books.

Ali Roberts Staff Writer

Professors Petros Panaou and Mac Test lead their class into the future with the science fiction genre-based UF 100 class that has students

look critically at how technology today can affect the future.

The UF 100 class, “Nightmare SFs and Visions: Exploring Science Fiction and the Role of Science in our Lives,” is new to Boise State

this year.

Panaou and Test believe that the class will be able to continue in the future. They are applying the class to get a grant; they plan to spread to other colleges in the United States because of how relevant the subject matter is to current students.

The Boise State website describes the UF 100 class as “drawing on the skills and habits of mind that are essential for 21st century life and work.”

The newness of the class is not with out its drawbacks.

“My UF 100 class is not too bad, but the class itself seems a little unorganized,”

freshman Dylan Cook said.

“I feel that way because I never know what is due or when because the teachers all seem to have different schedules.”

This class, taps into the advantage of some students being actively intrigued and interested in the genre and the material.

“But it’s not just a personal story, it’s about humanity, like saving the world or determining the future of the human race. It does all that based on real science and technology,” Panaou said.

According to IMBD, out of the top ten highest grossing movies of all time, six fall

into the science fiction genre.

“The big hits, blockbusters, are all sci-fi,” Test said.

“And I guess for us as teachers, it allows us to ask these really big questions about society, about politics, about religion, about the individual versus the state.”

UF 100 students will also think critically about the future for their final assignment.

They will write about a day in the year 2100 in some sort of creative fashion. The students will be asked to consider everything from what a futuristic family will look like to what kind of car they will drive to if we will still

even be human.

When asked what he hopes to get out of the class, Smith said, “I’m hoping to get some knowledge or idea of what the future might be like based on representations in movies and other fiction works out of the class.”

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NEWS Patty Bowen

Asst. Culture Editor

Students without cars will soon be able to say goodbye to slow public transportation.

The Downtown Boise Circulator project is still in the works. Community outreach groups finished their public forums on Sept. 1011. The circulator is planned to run northwest to southeast from Main to State Streets covering 1st to 16th Streets, Front and Myrtle covering Broadway to 15th, as well as northeast to southwest from 5th to 11th Streets with varying street coverage lengths.

The exact frequency and location of stops has not yet been decided. According to Vince Trimboli, community relations supervisor, and James J. Pardy, assistant city engineer, the circulator will have to be in the form of a bus, trolley or streetcar

to make the large number of stops that will be required .

“The two general modes are rubber tire or fixed guideway. So, that could be basically any kind of rubber tire vehicle or it could be a fixed rail,” Pardy said. “Circulators are much slower speed and more frequent stops, so we had to define (those parameters) a little bit.”

Public outreach studies put together by Trimboli and Pardy showed that fixed rail is the most popular among the Boise public with 54 percent of people preferring that option and only 26 percent preferring the rubber tire bus option.

The money for the circulator comes from the Federal Transit Administration’s grant award in 2011 which gave the city $375K. After several public outreach forums, it was noted how important a transportation route in west Boise would be, and an extra $125K was

given to the project by the Capitol City Development Corporation and Boise City.

The circulator is part of a three-step plan to improve public transportation in Boise and the surrounding area. “(We want) to create some sort of system that goes from Canyon County to Ada County—a high capacity system,” Trimboli said.

“Then, there is . . . the potential for bus rapid transit on State Street and then the third piece of that is a circulator in downtown Boise.”

The high cost of the project requires collaboration with other cities. Ada County and Canyon County will be involved in the project.

“There’s a lot of work that has to be done and there’s no way that the little city of Boise can go do that on their own,” Pardy said. “That is going to take cooperation from Boise city, Meridian, Nampa and Caldwell. That’s a much bigger scope and vision. We

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Possible circulator opens new routes to downtown

the circulator will stop near the capitol. don’t have the resources to do that (right now) and it is going to take collaborative effort.”

According to Amber Salcedo, junior mechanical engineering major, the circulator will provide a useful avenue by which students can experience downtown without the hassle of slow public transportation or

Students can prevent flu infections with vaccinations Staff Writer

Many people are panicking over Ebola in the U.S., however, a larger, more prevalent threat looms.

Influenza is a preventable disease that kills more than 30,000 people a year in the U.S. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, less than half of Americans got a flu vaccine last year.

According to Vincent Serio, director of University Health Services, the flu is more than a little infection.

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“I don’t think most people understand exactly what the flu is. They think it’s just a cold, a bad cold,” Serio said. “It usually gives you symptoms that can last for seven to 10 days and lay you flat in bed.”

For a student, seven to 10 days away from school and work can be devastating for grades and income. Some try to tough out the illness and carry on with their daily activities, which can lead to the spread of the infection.

According to Serio, 200 million influenza viruses are expelled from one sneeze, and

it only takes six particles to become infected.

According to Nichole Lasich, clinical instructor for the Department of Community and Environmental Health, not only are people protecting themselves from getting sick by getting vaccinated, they are also

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protecting others. This concept is called herd immunity.

“The more people who get vaccinated, the less likely people within your community are to get the virus,” Lasich said.

Sometimes, myths stop people from getting the shot.

“I don’t necessarily believe in

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The more people who get vaccinated, the less likely people within our community are to get the virus.

—Nichole Lasich

parking.

“I think (the circulator creates) a great opportunity for those living on campus to get downtown without having to wait for a bus. It could save a lot of time,” Salcedo said.

Salcedo would prefer a trolley because she feels that mode of travel would be distinct from the rest of

the road, and create a staple form of public transportation that would be on time even during traffic.

A date hasn’t been released yet for the implementation of the circulator to Boise streets. Students can add their input for the project or view the suggested routes for the circulator on the city of Boise’s website.

getting shots just because I feel like it’s infecting you even more to getting the flu,” said Morgan Harris, a psychology student.

Serio says this is a common misconception.

“It’s impossible. It doesn’t work that way. The vaccine is an inactivated virus, so it takes out the part that makes you sick, but leaves the part that lets you build up immunity,” Serio said.

Sometimes people feel tired, sore in the area of injection or develop a small fever after getting the shot. These symptoms last for a day or two.

Often, though, students don’t think getting vaccinated

is pressing.

Daniel Aguilar, a pre-med student, says he will most likely not get vaccinated this year.

“Honestly, I just don’t know.

I just never really think about getting it,” Aguilar said.

Serio encourages everyone to get vaccinated. There are many options for students, both on- and off-campus.

Health Services are now providing flu vaccinations. Students with SHIP can get it for free. Other insurance companies can vary on cost coverage.

Full, out-of-pocket cost is $25.

“Do you want to tough through (the flu) and miss school, or get a simple shot?”

Serio said.

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NEWS Alx Stickel News Editor

The American Red Cross Club at Boise State University is hosting its secondever blood drive at Boise State, but with a twist.

The blood drive will have two competitive points: colleges within the university will compete against each other to see which one can donate the most pints of blood and which students have the best Halloween costumes.

The College of Business is already ready to compete.

Other colleges could include Health Sciences, Arts

and Sciences, Education, and Engineering.

The Red Cross Club formed last year and had their first blood drive on campus this past September. Club member Morgan Gonzalez, senior health science major, said he thinks the competitive element will be fun and hopes it will encourage more donations.

Last month, 25 pints were donated at Boise State. Other colleges in Idaho average around 100 pints per drive.

Gonzalez said he thinks more students are willing to donate but believe some obstacles are time and location.

Club member Hannah Weaver, junior pre-med major, said she also thinks students may think their donation may not make much difference, even though it does.

“They really are helping,” Weaver said. “They may not think one pint is much, but blood is always needed.”

Gonzalez said the Red Cross Club’s goal for this October blood drive is to increase received donations by 10 percent; that means three more people need to donate to raise the total number of pints to 28.

The process of donating takes a half hour to an hour,

depending on how many volunteers are on staff, how long it takes students to answer the health questionnaire and how many students sign up in advance for appointments rather than just walking in, although walk-ins are welcome.

The Red Cross Club hopes to hold three blood drives per semester, each with a new theme and competitive element. By hosting these blood drives, Gonzalez and Weaver hope to not only raise donations for the Red Cross, but to gain leadership experience and other relevant skills like project management.

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NEWS

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Missing student policy updated america’s Heritage Please join us at the 31st annual

Eryn-Shay Johnson Asst. News Editor

Until recently, Boise State’s missing student policy focused on students living on campus, leaving out the majority of students. A new update for this policy filled in the gaps.

Prior to the update, the missing student policy was neatly tucked in Boise State’s annual security report. When the policy wording changed to cover all students, it was adopted into the policy manual, making it more applicable to campus and not just fulfilling a requirement from the Clery Act. “The big difference is that this applies to all students versus the Clery Act requires that we have a policy for housing students only,” said Tana Monroe, manager and threat assessment and security analyst for Campus Security and Police Services. “We’re just expanding it to make it applicable to everybody rather than just housing students.”

While Boise State doesn’t regularly deal with missing students, the changes in wording makes it easier for campus security to deal with off-campus missing student cases. While campus security is physically confined to campus, there are still measures they can take to assist in locating students who live off campus.

According to Monroe, campus security does an investigation on the missing student, checking in with roommates and friends and then tracking student ID card use. If a student has used their card for meals or to access the Recreation Center, Boise State can track it.

“There’s different places where your identity is on your card. You’re able to check into

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different places. We check those to see if the cards had been used,” Monroe said.

Campus Security and Police Services updated this policy to reflect current procedures for issuing emergency notifications. “(Updating this policy) is something we always do if missing students comes up anyway, so it’s not anything different from what we’ve done in the past. (The policy) just talks about it now,” Monroe said.

Mostly, campus security deals with welfare check-ins.

“We get calls for welfare checks and usually it’s just the parents are concerned because they haven’t heard from their student in a day to a week or so,” Monroe said. “They’ll just

call and say ‘I haven’t heard from my student. Can you go check on them?’ We’ll do a welfare check and say, ‘Hey, call your mom.’”

Monroe has been with Campus Security and Police Security for five years. In her time, there hasn’t been a missing student case that wasn’t resolved.

Boise State’s campus security give themselves up to 24 hours to find and contact a suspected missing student. If contact cannot be made, emergency contacts are called and the city police get involved.

In all off-campus cases, BPD is called in to do a welfare check. Campus security is, for the most part, confined to campus.

Frank cHurcH conFerence october 19-20, 2014 in the Boise State University Simplot Ballroom

Historian Douglas Brinkley will keynote the conference sunday, october 19th at 7:30 pm, address is open to Public, Free.

Brinkley is the author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America; and the forthcoming Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Conservation Movement.

Daytime sessions: open to Public, Free Monday, October 20th at 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Opening Address: U.S. Chief of the Forest Service, Tom Tidwell Panel Discussions: 9:30 – 11:30 am, 2:00 – 5:00 pm Simplot Ballroom

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luncHeon session: registration required Monday, October 20th at 12:00 – 1:30 pm Luncheon Address: Representative Mike Simpson Hatch Ballroom

Dinner session: registration required Monday, October 20th at 6:00 – 9:00 pm Honoring Governor Cecil Andrus with the Frank and Bethine Church Award for Public Service Stueckle Sky Center Double R Ranch Club Room

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opinion

Rethinking

Columbus Day

Eryn-Shay Johnson Asst. News Editor

In 1492, the transatlantic slave trade was born. We celebrated the founder of this lucrative business on Monday, Oct. 13.

Wait­, what?

“It appears to me that the people are ingenious and would be good servants,” Christopher Columbus noted on Oct. 11, 1492.

Monday was Columbus Day, a day for honoring Columbus and his accomplishment of “discovering” America, but I

definitely didn’t learn about the transatlantic slave trade in grade school.

Columbus Day should not be celebrated and if we do continue to celebrate it, the name should be changed.

A lot of horrible things happened when Columbus came to America. There was rape, mutilation, sex slavery, genocide and war.

Why I really hate Columbus Day, why I think we shouldn’t celebrate it, is because before returning to Spain, Columbus abducted 500 people and took them back to his homeland.

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Carter Allison, freshman English major “I enjoy it as a holiday but I don’t think Columbus is all people really need him to be. Everyone says he discovered America, but he didn’t. He was like the second person. He did a bunch of bad things to people.”

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Jessika Solleder, freshman political science major

Three hundred people survived the trip and transatlantic slave trade was born.

Americans celebrate this holiday without knowing the whole story. We’ve all celebrated, observed and recognized Columbus Day, but we don’t celebrate the slavery part of it.

We shouldn’t celebrate the discoveries of a slave trader and mass murderer.

America decided to honor Columbus with his own federal holiday in the 1930s. Columbus is regarded as an American hero, lumped into the same category as Martin Luther

King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Men who advocated for change, for prosperity and the value of American life share the same honor as the founder of the transatlantic slave trade.

Slowly, individuals and larger entities are combating the celebration of Columbus Day. For example, the city of Seattle celebrates Indigenous People’s Day and it’s about time the rest of the nation follows suit.

Steven Leekity, freshman computer science and electrical engineering major and president of Boise State’s Intertribal

Native Council, is hoping that will be the case. On Oct. 13, the Intertribal Native Council erected a teepee on the Quad and passed out information about the less positive aspects of Columbus Day. “I went to a public school when I was a little kid. They just told us that Columbus found this place and that he discovered America but they didn’t know what he did to start it,” Leekity said. “In a way he did start (America) but it caused a lot of domino effect, a lot of negativity going down to the indigenous people.”

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT COLUMBUS DAY?

“I feel like it’s kind of a tragedy how it’s been taught to children, how Columbus is kind of revered as someone who should be well-respected when really he was an immoral person.”

Darby Kenyon, sophomore

environmental

science major

“I think some people really think Co l u m b u s Day is important and other people just blow it off. It’s weird because Native Americans view Columbus Day as that whole expedition coming into their land and taking over everything. So coming from that sense it’s hard to respect Columbus Day.”

“Students need to remember that Columbus came here and started a war of negative things,” Leekity said. “The main thing is that Columbus started a chain that we still see today.”

Leekity hopes that his club will be able to spread a sense of Native American culture and community. Columbus Day doesn’t do them any favors.

Leekity suggested that Indigenous People’s Day is a more fitting name for the holiday.

“It’s to remember that we, Native Americans, are still here today,” Leekity said.

Matt Bruender, junior computer science major “I don’t really feel anything about it. I mean, it is a holiday, guy turned out to be kind of a jerk but in some aspects we do have to have to pay our respects to him; he did come here and do all that business and if it wasn’t for that none of this would have ever happened. I’m pretty neutral about it. I think it’s one of those holidays that people have just in the back of their minds and no one really celebrates that much.”

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Culture

Movie Review: Dracula Untold anemic at best Emily Pehrson

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Editor-in-Chief

Dracula Untold’s plot falls flat.

The idea for this movie is an interesting one. In “Dracula Untold,” the infamous 15th century prince Vlad the Impaler gets a human makeover. Rather than paranoid bloodlust, Vlad is a benevolent ruler who turns to violence and eventually vampirism to protect his people. Director Gary Shore was certainly channelling “300” more than Bram Stoker, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Now, who doesn’t love a damaged bad boy with a heart of gold and rippling abs?

If I were to rate this movie on casting, I would give

it a 7.5/10.

Luke Evans has the right brooding demeanor to embody the re-imagined Vlad the Impaler. Likewise, Sarah Gadon, who plays his wife Mirena is reminiscent of a Tolkien elf—an ethereal beauty with just enough cleavage to ensure there’s eye candy for everyone.

But that’s where the magic ends.

Vlad is given a three-day trial run with dark powers given to him by an ancient evil—which grants him the chance to save his country and his family from the invading Ottoman Empire. The only catch: if he drinks human blood, he’ll become the monster for eternity.

However, in those three days lie plot holes so large that Vlad could fly his army of a million of bats through them. Three nights to save my family and my country, you say? Better spend two of them doing virtually nothing.

Vlad’s fall is, of course, inevitable and predictable.

The story bridges viewers to that severely lacking moment, and the viewer is left feeling that there are several scenes missing. In a movie that barely breaks 90 minutes, there was certainly room for them. Instead, it seems the budget was blown on CGI bats instead of plot development and continuity.

In the end, “Dracula Untold” feels like an extended

trailer for whatever mediocre sequel will come next.

With a plot this lacking, this is one bandwagon everyone should feel empowered to skip.

overall rating :

3.5/10

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Years of revision bring humanity to work of Boise authors Culture Editor

A stroke of genius can lead to the birth of a novel, but its immediate completion and quick perfection takes much more time and effort.

Masterful pieces of fiction and prose cannot be summoned in perfect form in one sitting. Many preliminary or introductory writers focus on the first drafts of a written work, but, as seen in the work of published Boiseans, revision is central to any successful piece of literature.

Consecutive drafts take up most of the creative process, in which writers dig further into their characters

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than they originally thought possible, while creating a relatable and believable world for them to live in.

After at least four solid drafts, senior English major Michelle Telleria’s novel was recently picked up for publication by Resilient Publishing in September.

The book, titled “Pretenses,” follows the tale of a ballerina employed in an opera house in the 1800s, though the story runs far deeper than a general synopsis would suggest.

“I am a bit of a perfectionist and I cannot count how many times I have revised, added, and completely cut out things in my book during those three years,” Tel-

leria said.

Telleria explained that her high school English teacher’s 100-page novel assignment and constant support is the reason she stuck to the extensive and rightfully long revision process that made her book publishable.

“My first draft, to put it bluntly, was complete crap,” Telleria said. “It had little to no flow to it, paper cut-out characters, clunky dialogue,

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and really no emotion.”

Over the course of her writing career, Telleria has found that characters often fall to the wayside in terms of depth and personality in a first draft. It is often difficult to put the essence of something or someone on a page on the first try. It takes much more exploration and revision to recreate humanity.

Boise State writing professor and author of “Down

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Justin Kirkham

If you’re lucky, you make something that is absolutely true, even truer than life lived, which is too chaotic to see clearly.

—Ryan Blacketter

in the River” Ryan Blacketter went through serious and devoted revision for his novel. He spent five hours every day for four years writing draft after draft of his novel before it was finally published in January of this year.

“The more drafts you write, the more convincing the fictional world is, the more precise the sensory and character description,” Blacketter said. “Eventually, the experience of writing becomes a rich pleasure that you want to get lost in every day.”

Blacketter also believes that inserting believable humanity into characters is integral to a successful final

draft. Writers just have to be willing to work past the dull monotony of a first draft before they are lulled into the trance of writing.

He described this process of the first draft as “A miserable process that a writer has to endure, for a year or more, simply to arrive at zero.” Once a writer has completed this, they can move on to constructing humanity in their characters and setting.

“If you’re lucky, you make something that is absolutely true, even truer than life lived, which is too chaotic to see clearly,” Blacketter said.

“That’s how a book can be something holy and spiritual, even eternal.”

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“True Blood” and “Weeds” writer Chris Offutt, New York Times best-seller essayist Leslie Jamison and former Guggenheim fellow Denis Johnson can all boast having read at Boise State’s MFA reading series.

According to writer and professor in the creative writing MFA program Mitch Wieland, “literary superstars” who visit Boise for the series often ask to come back.

Johnson, author of the acclaimed works “Jesus’ Son” and “Tree of Smoke,” is coming back to Boise for more than the reading series—he is set to teach a course in the MFA program spring 2014.

While Boise State attracts big-name writers to Boise, aside from a select few read-

ings, the series tends to attract “poor [student] turnouts,” according to Wieland.

The series itself constructs no barriers to student attendance, which is free of charge, ensuring students’ opportunity to personally interact with readers through question and answer sessions and immediate proximity.

“The series is first and foremost for Boise State students,” Wieland said. He guessed that when turnout is low, it’s usually due to “other events in town that night, or our promotion didn’t reach them [students].”

Considering the acclaim of the visiting readers, it seems as if students should be flocking to these readings.

Greta Gardner, a transfer sophomore and English major with a creative writing emphasis, doesn’t see a reason why people interested in

fiction wouldn’t attend.

“What better way is there to learn or be inspired than by someone who is known for their work? Wouldn’t anyone want to be inspired by that?” Gardner said.

Gardner also believes that attending fiction reading events should be required for students in fiction writing courses.

For undergraduate creative writing students, opportunities of inspiration can seem hard to come by.

But in attending readings, as Wieland emphasized, burgeoning writers have a rare opportunity to interact with professional authors in a close, intimate setting.

Readings are typically followed by question and answer sessions, which allows undergrads to strike up casual conversation with famous

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MFA series allows students to engage contemporary authors

Cody-Rose Clevidence presents their writing. writers.

“Undergrads (at Boise State) can really model their educations after MFA stu-

Public artwork illustrates history Kelsey Jacobs Staff Writer

Downtown Boise is flourishing with different forms of public art. Walking through the streets, people can view statues done in different mediums: large murals covering entire alleyways, showy water features and so much more.

Karen Bubb, Boise’s public arts manager since 1998, is an artist herself who understands the importance of public art, especially in a city like Boise. She said that Boise’s public art collection has grown from five to over

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200 pieces since she started the job.

“We have a lot of work that is about our environment, cultural history, and that’s really place-specific.

I anticipate those things will continue because those things really reflect the values of who we are as Boise,” Bubb said.

Most public art projects have some historical or environmental inspiration.

“Grove Street Illuminated and Boise Canal,” created by Amy Westover in 2001 on 9th street, represents Boise’s underground canal pipe and is a historical landmark.

The large metal sculpture shows the viewer the importance of water with photos.

At night, it is illuminated with green neon lights that light up the plaza.

Just by walking around Boise and looking at the art, the community can learn a lot about the history of Boise and what the community cares about. Bubb also mentioned a new plan to redesign the front of City Hall Plaza, to be built in 2016.

“City Hall Plaza is a significant project where we are redoing the entire front of City Hall and that will be the physical space as well as

art. It will set the tone for the center of our city and it will be very specific to Boise,” Bubb said.

“River of Trees,” located on 9th Street between Idaho and Bannock Street is a sculpture of bronze leaves and cast iron tree grates etched into the sidewalk.

Created in 1999 by Judith Caldwell, it was inspired by the Boise River and highlights the nickname of Boise, “City of Trees.”

Another popular work of art is the “Homage to the Pedestrian,” created by Patrick Zentz. Located in the Grove Plaza on 8th Street

dents,” Wieland said. In the writing world, careers are established in communities.

This community is, to some

extent, available right here in Boise.

Visit the MFA website for the reading series’ schedule.

between Main and Front Street are light fixtures that brighten the sidewalk. The fixtures are equipped with motion sensors that, when triggered, play a short symphony meant to portray the sounds of pedestrians.

Avid downtown visitor John Lemmings enjoys walking down Freak Alley, another one of Boise’s most popular forms of public art, after a night at the bars.

“Freak Alley is always new and exciting. I’m always curious as to what artists will come up with next. Every mural is unique in its own way and it’s super rad,” Lemings said.

People who are interested in Boise’s public art scene can check out the Boise City

Department of Arts and History’s website, www.boiseartsandhistory.org, and take the public art tour. The website divides the city into sections and then pinpoints on a map where all public displays of art are located.

By clicking on a point, it allows the user to see a picture of the art, a description and the exact location.

Art to check out

• “Grove Street Illuminated and Boise Canal” • “River of Trees” • “Homage to the Pedestrian”

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Culture Patty Bowen

Asst. Culture Editor

Observant students have probably noticed “gluten free” tags popping up on the back of packaging at grocery stores and on menus at high end restaurants over the last half decade.

Gluten intolerance means a persons is sensitive to the protein molecules in wheat, called gluten.

“No one on this planet can digest gluten,” said Clint Pedersen, owner of Jake’s Gluten Free Market.

Although the claim sounds outrageous and is not medically accurate, it shows one extreme on American opinion

of gluten intolerance. A glutenfree diet requires a change in dietary traditions that have long stood in American culture and forces the gluten intolerantee to heavily modify American recipes if they want to continue to eat them.

According to Carol Scott, general manager of the Boise River Cafe, the number of students who have needed to ask for specialized meals because of celiac or gluten intolerance has sky rocketed in the last several years.

“There are probably 25-50 students this year. Just two years ago it was about five,” Scott said.

Students who have gluten

intolerance will have to meet with Scott or another Boise River Cafe staff member to set up guidelines for the meals they need and make a habit of calling the BRC several hours in advance, letting staff members know a celiac student will be eating there.

“We meet with the students or parents and highlight the options,” Scott said.

Gluten intolerance and celiac disease were drawn into the public focus in the United States when the Italian doctor Alessio Fasano moved to the United States and recognized that there were very few cases of celiac disease, as well as very low levels of awareness for the

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condition. In 1996 he wrote an article called “Where Have All The American Celiac’s Gone,” which begs the question: if Celiac is commonly diagnosed in Europe, why doesn’t anyone seem to have it here?

Despite the lack of cases, Dr. Joseph A. Murray did a study on blood taken in the 1950s from young people and then did the same test on the blood of youth from the 1990s and found that American youth were five times more likely to have gluten intolerance now than they were 60 years ago.

Pedersen thinks this is because of the increase in the gluten proteins in wheat products like bread and some crackers.

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Chex promotes gluten-free products.

“The government and corporations in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s started hybridizing wheat to increase the gluten,” Pedersen said.

According to Pedersen this increases calories without increasing nutrition which low-

ers the price of food across the board.

Although there are no trustworthy sources saying we are all gluten intolerant, it does warn us of one thing: although it seems like a health trend, gluten intolerance is here to stay.

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Sports & rec Nate Lowery

Sports & Rec Editor

The Boise State football team will be without the services and leadership of one of their best players for the remainder of the season.

Senior wide receiver Matt Miller underwent surgery on Monday to repair ligament damage in his left leg ,head coach Bryan Harsin announced on Sunday. “(It was a) very tough decision on him because he wants to play,” Harsin said.

“If it was up to him, he would do everything he could do to play. It’s not the best decision, however. We want to get him healed up.”

Miller originally sustained the injury against LouisianaLafayette on Sept. 20 and was unable to finish the game in

a 28-14 loss to Air Force on Sept. 27.

Miller also sat out Boise State’s 51-46 win over Nevada.

Miller is the team’s leader in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns with 461 yards and three touchdowns.

He is the career leader in receptions at Boise State with 244. His 3,049 career receiving yards is just 15 yards shy of Titus Young’s school record of 3,063.

Ever humble, Miller’s focus was never on breaking records. The only record that mattered to him were wins and losses.

“Nothing has changed for me,” Miller said after grabbing the career receptions mark in a win over Colorado State. “I am just glad that we were able to get out of here

with a win tonight.”

“We probably care about (the record),” Harsin added.

“He probably doesn’t.”

Offensive coordinator Mike Sanford was quick to speak on Miller’s toughness and humility.

“Matt Miller is one of the toughest human beings I’ve ever been around in this game,” Sanford said. “I’ve been very impressed with him in every way—just his leadership, his toughness.

He’s what you want in terms of a blue-collar leader.”

Replacing Miller’s on-field production and leadership — he is a team captain, after all — is impossible. However, Boise State has several players they can turn to for support.

Wide receivers Chaz Anderson and Thomas Sperbeck have combined for 15 recep-

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Matt Miller sidelined for remainder of season

Miller playing against Louisiana-Lafayette tions and 247 yards—a large majority of which was accomplished with Miller on the sideline. Tight end Jake Roh has also become more in-

volved in the offensive game plan with each week. True freshman Jeremy McNichols hauled in four receptions for 54 yards against Nevada.

“Everybody’s elevated their game,” Harsin said. “The one thing I told the team, it’s not like Thomas Sperbeck has to come in and be Matt Miller.”

Women’s rugby team formed at Boise State Ali Roberts Staff Writer

The stereotype of rugby being a predominantly male sport is being shattered by the Boise State women’s rugby club. “(Rugby is) probably one of the few sports out there where there are no differences — same size field, same size ball,” nursing major and club member Mackenzie Talbutt said. “We go for 80 minutes, and it’s a nonstop 80 minutes.”

The physical demand is not to be scoffed at, either.

The game requires high amounts of endurance and

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the ability to bounce back after taking a hit.

“You have to be really tough because you’re tackling each other without pads and without helmets.

You’re constantly running,” athletic training major and club member Alex Howard said. “There are no breaks so you have to be in really good shape and really tough. You just have to get up and keep playing if you fall down.”

Rugby gear in itself is fairly simple; including only modest padding—based on player choice—and cleats.

The women have just hit the field this season and have been practicing since Sept.

15. They will be open their season on Nov. 8 against Idaho.

The game will be played in the sevens format, which is the same format used in the Olympics. Both teams have seven players instead of a full 15 on the field. This makes for a quicker-paced game.

Head coach Bret Johnson—a Boise State alumnus—believes that the team can grow to become a strong program that will become an established part of Boise State’s club sports program.

“We’ve got to put in a lot of ground work right now which can always be kind of tough when you are starting

a program,” Johnson said.

“You have to start at the bottom and a lot of hard work has to go into it. We hope through the women we have

and the women we recruit we will be able to take the program to a very high level.”

The team is currently recruiting for new mem-

bers. No prior experience is needed to join. They can be contacted at boisestatewomensrugby@gmail. com.

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Women’s golf finishes second Nate Lowery

Sports & Rec Editor

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For the Boise State women’s golf team, the momentum continues to roll.

The Broncos opened their season with a 13th place showing at the Ptarmigan Ram Classic on Sept. 8, and have since improved each tournament, culminating in a second place finish as a team at last week’s Price’s Give Em’ Five Invitational hosted by New Mexico State.

“I think right before our last tournament, it gives us a confidence boost that we can play well in the next one,” junior Samantha Martin said, following her share of the individual title.

Martin began the final round of the tournament tied for eighth but moved up to a three-way tie for first with a 9-under-63 in the final round. Her final score was 10-under-par.

Martin’s 9-under-par final

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round was enough to set the course record at the New Mexico State University Golf Course as well as the school record. Her win gave Martin her third career tournament victory, also a Boise State record.

During the final round, Martin did not know where she stood on the scoreboard, something she feels helped propel her to the win.

“If I knew where I was, I’d be thinking about it throughout the whole round and it would affect the way I played,” Martin said. “Towards the end of the round I found out I was tied for first.

It was really exciting.”

Martin’s performances in New Mexico helped lead the Broncos to a school record of 3-under-285 in the second round of the tournament, as well as shooting under par in the third round.

Head coach Nicole Bird was surprised at the team’s ability to remain consistent

throughout the tournament and go under-par as a team.

“I don’t know if anyone ever thought it was possible,” Bird said. “To do it and then to back it up with another under-par round and shoot under-par overall was a major breakthrough.”

The Broncos finished second to Idaho, but were able to score lower than schools such as New Mexico State, Washington State and BYU, as well as MW foes Nevada and Wyoming.

“It came down to everybody working really hard,” Bird said. “We had 42 birdies and three eagles. We had our share of bogeys. (The team) stayed true to our focus of making birdies.”

Boise State has only one tournament remaining in their fall season before taking a four-month break.

The Broncos will travel to Honolulu for the Rainbow Wahine Invitational starting Oct. 21.

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Sports & rec

Brandon Walton

Asst. Sports & Rec Editor

With senior wide receiver Matt Miller hampered by injury the last few games, the Boise State Broncos had to find a new weapon. That weapon appears to be true freshman running back Jeremy McNichols.

“It’s time to get him on the field,” Boise State head coach Bryan Harsin said.

Before the season started the Broncos were really high on McNichols’ performance in practice and were deciding whether or not to red-

shirt him for the season.

Initially, he was redshirted as the Broncos already had depth at the running back position.

But the coaching staff decided McNichols’ talent was just too much to pass up on and burned McNichols redshirt right before the Nevada game.

Despite his redshirt, McNichols traveled with the team to Atlanta for the team’s season opener against Ole Miss.

“He was on the scout team and made a jump cut that made three guys fall down,”

Harsin said. “We were like, we should probably play him.

“It was his decision and his family’s decisions.”

In the Nevada game, McNichols had quite the debut for the Bronco with four receptions for 54 yards and an impressive run for 28 yards in Boise State’s 51-46 win over the Wolf Pack.

His 82 yards from scrimmage were the most by a Bronco not named Ajayi or Miller this season.

“He is a good football player,” Harsin said. “We have felt like that all season long.”

Now that Miller is gone for the season, McNichols will be looked upon even more by the Broncos.

“With Matt out we need a guy that’s going to create some production and we think he can create that for us,” Harsin said.

McNichols will not only be a new receiving target for senior quarterback Grant Hedrick but is expected to take the load off of junior running back Jay Ajayi who has been getting the ball close to 30 times a game.

“We do want to get him

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McNichols is tackled by Nevada. more involved,” Harsin said.

McNichols will get his next chance to shine when the Broncos host Fresno State

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The Boise State men’s and women’s cross country teams will be traveling to Madison, Wisconsin this weekend to compete in the Wisconsin adidas Invitational.

Last season, head coach Corey Ihmels told The Arbiter that, in hindsight, he wished he had taken the teams to the Wisconsin Invitational as opposed to the Pre-Nationals meet that falls on the same weekend.

This time around, Ihmels made the change to go to Wisconsin. This is the first time that either team will compete at this tournament.

Despite roughly 20 ranked teams competing, associate coach Travis Hartke feels both teams are ready for the challenge.

“This tournament is a good step mentally for the team, as they are gaining confidence,” Hartke said.

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Not much has changed training-wise for both teams.

The only difference is both teams have been doing a little more training at race pace with the atmosphere being set to resemble the pace of a race.

Senior Tessa Murray feels the women’s team is excited to go to the tournament and feels this will give them a look at what they need to improve on and where they stand before Western Regionals and Nationals.

“The team has had a solid training block,” Murray said.

Freshman Andrew Rafla feels the men’s team is getting stronger and feels the training is building the team and making the team better.

Rafla is using the experience of the older members of the team to help him deal with the pre-race jitters that he feels leading up to big events.

“Working with the team has built confidence in me

and the team,” Rafla said.

This will be the last event that the teams will compete in before the MW Championships on Oct. 31.

From there, the team will travel to Palo Alto, California for the Western Regionals on Nov. 14 and the qualifying meet for the NCAA Championships in Terra Haute, Indiana on Nov. 22.

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