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WEEKLY EVENTS Oktoberfest Open House st The History Department Wednesday, October 12

Albertsons Library, Room 192, 11:00 - 3:00 PM, FREE If you have ever wanted to learn more about the History Department, here is your chance to ask questions and learn about all of its related programs! There will also be free German-themed snacks.

Sanghee Park - Understanding Public Sector Debt Friday, October 14

Education Building Room 110, 12:00 - 2:00 PM, FREE As part of the Patriotic Choices Brown Bag lecture series, Sanghee Park will be presenting on “Understanding Public Sector Debt: Financial Vicious Circle under the Soft Budget Constraint.” If you are looking to be more informed about the economy, this is probably an event you should attend.

Homecoming Saturday, October 15

Coming at you from every corral in every little blue and orange corner of Boise is Homecoming weekend. If you’re into it, join the festivities at the parade, which will be taking place on University Drive in the morning, before the Broncos take on the Colorado State Rams at 8:15 p.m. at Albertsons Stadium. If such things are not your vibe, there will also be a Lip Sync Battle on Tuesday, Oct. 11, Trivia Night on Wednesday, Oct. 12 and many other activities throughout the week, a full list of which can be found at homecoming.boisestate.edu. If you’d prefer to just stay at you’ still coming home, aren’t ya?). home all week, we totally support you (and you’re

Gear Sale at the Rec Saturday, October 15

Campus Recreation, 9:00 - 11:00 AM Some used outdoor gear will be available for sale at Campus Recreation. If you’ve been looking to stock up or update your gear, this is a great opportunity to get a great deal while interacting with the Boise State community.

Bronco Softball vs. Eastern Oregon Sunday, October 16

Donna Larsen Park, 12:00 PM, FREE with Student ID, $6 otherwise If you’re looking to enjoy some Fall Ball, here is your chance! Bronco Softball faces off against Eastern Oregon at noon on Sunday.

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EVENTS

INSIDE: 10/11/16

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Patty Bowen

editor@stumedia.boisestate.edu

OPINION EDITOR Andy Ridgeway

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NEWS EDITOR

Samantha Harting

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NEWS REPORTER

PATTY BOWEN / THE ARBITER

Natasha Williams

EXCHANGE glances with new exhibit: pg. 14

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CULTURE EDITOR

Brandon Rasmussen

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CULTURE REPORTER Elise Adams

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SPORTS EDITOR Evan Werner

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SPORTS REPORTER Riston Ramirez

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DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGER Jared Lewis

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COPY EDITORS Darby Ebeling Tori Ward

DESIGN MANAGER

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Boise State beats New Mexico 49-21 : pg. 17

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NEWS

The Testing Center is up and running in new location The new Testing Center, located in room 213 of the Simplot Micron Advising and Success Hub (SMASH) Building, has been serving students since the start of the school year.

In previous years, the center was divided into the Online Testing Center and the University Testing Center. The change in location allowed the creation of one testing center for placement, vender and academic BlackBoard testing. With the addition of new technology, the new Testing Center also offers more security for testers.

“This is a brand new space with 100 computers that combines resources for the two types of tests the center works on,” said the Operations Manager of the Testing Center Maria Shimel.

The center also has a new security system with 32 security cameras and a 360-degree view of the testing center; this ensures proctors and Testing Center staff can prevent acts of academic dishonesty.

“We are never going to erase academic dishonesty 100 percent, but we have cut it down to the core,” said Student Proctor Shiann Johns, a first year environmental history graduate student.

The security monitors for these cameras are in the employee room, attached to the Testing Center. Having the 360-degree view allows employees to zoom as close as they need to monitor people’s computers as well as anything in their desk space. Although they had cameras in the last center, the new cameras are “helpful to have additional

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“We have had 700 testers a day this week.

We’ve never turned away any testers.”

-Operations Manager of the Testing Center, Maria Shimel

angles and monitor students closer,” Johns said.

According to Johns, the security procedures of a proctor haven’t changed much, except for the new phone policy. The new cellphone rule requires test takers to put their phones in a locked box before entering the Testing Center. Johns has been working in the Testing Center and both previous testing centers for four and a half years.

When student proctors see an act of cheating or academic dishonesty, such as a student reaching in their bag for their phone, these cameras allow them to confirm what they’ve seen. The process of stopping the dishonesty starts with a proctor noticing an action that may be wrong. They then see if another proctor was a witness to the same action. From there, they can analyze the footage on the cameras to confirm if they witnessed someone cheating.

As the Testing Center has evolved over the years, procedures have become more efficient and effective for students and student proctors, according to Shimel.

“Some people aren’t aware of previous rules or regulations,” Shimel said. “The only changes are cellphones and the no food or drink policy. Any changes were made to better the testing for students and protect all the testers.”

Sophomore teaching education major Tia Luthy recently went into the new center to

take a test for one of her classes.

“It was a bit weird having to put my phone away, but it’s understandable because phones are always going off,” Luthy said. “I made an appointment to go take a BlackBoard test, and even though I never experienced the first Testing Center, it was very easy to check in and the center was very nice and new. It made my test a little more comfortable to know things went smoothly.”

So far this semester, check-in time for testers has been about 15 minutes. The check-in room is now separate from the actual testing room, which makes it quieter for the testers so they have no distractions.

“We have had 700 testers a day this week,” Shimel said.

“We’ve never turned away any testers.”

Once people are aware of the new testing policies, it will speed up the check-in process.

Although walk-ins are accepted, making appointments ahead of time will help the testing experience go more smoothly.

Once the Testing Center notices crowd patterns, they can alternate changes to adjust to the new location change. These changes include the amount of staff working certain days as well as which area of the center will need more staff on busy days.

“We have our first year to perfect our practices,” Shimel said.

The Testing Center has 100 computers and 32 security cameras.

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Chloe Nolan Staff Writer

New solar charging station will be completed this week Update on missing

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student Sierra Bush

The new solar-powered charging station, pictured above, will be open sometime this week.

Taylor Munson Staff Writer The construction of a brand new solar charging station, to be located in front of the Albertsons’ Library steps, will be completed this week. The design, created by Trent Reagan and Barbara Beagles, is unlike other structures on campus.

Each year, members of Campus Operations and the General Counsel staff submit ideas to the Employee Design Initiative, a contest looking at projects that could enrich the campus. Once a winner has been chosen, previously reserved funds are used to bring the project to life. The 2016 winning project was the solar charging station, submitted

by Trent Reagan and Barbara Beagles.

While construction of this new feature has been underway since early May, materials for the project were collected years ago.

“There was a round building that sat right over here (pointing to campus map) on Bronco Circle called the Applied Tech

Building, and it came down a couple years ago,” Beagles said.

Materials from this building were recycled to be used in the new solar station.

“We salvaged several of those beams out of the Applied Tech Building and that is what the countertop and the privacy panel are made out of for the solar charging station,” Beagles said.

The solar panels on top of the charging station will collect energy from the sun throughout the day and generate power for the charging station, according to Beagles.

In addition to being able to charge students’ phones and computers, the station will also provide information about events and activities around campus.

“It’s going to have some monitors for student advertisements, so it’s just a win all the way around for students and the campus,” Reagan said.

According to Beagles, these monitors will offer a new way to view sporting events, such as football games.

“I really like the TV screen.

Instead of wasting paper on posters and banners, everything can just be shown on the screen,” said junior communication major Vanessa Ventresco.

According to Reagan and Beagles, the inspiration for this new charging station originally came from the solar-powered picnic table, which now sits by the Boise State University Engineering Complex.

“I think we will see a lot more people using the space at once than we did with the table concept,” Beagles said.

The new design of the solar charging station is meant to resemble a countertop in a restaurant, according to Beagles.

“The thing that we like about this new charging station concept is that it may encourage people to sit there and charge next to a total stranger,” Beagles said.

Reagan and Beagles also made a point of ensuring the charging station was accessible for everyone. After careful planning, the new station will be wheelchair accessible.

“There’s a lower table so they

can roll right up to it, and there will be power for them as well,” Reagan said This new solar charging station is paving the way for an even greener community here at Boise State, according to both Reagan and Beagles.

“We are trying to become more in line with the student culture, which is greener as time goes by,” Reagan said.

The hope from both Reagan and Beagles is this will spark excitement among students.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of hype and buzz that there’s this new feature added to campus,” Beagles said. “It should spur some social interaction.”

Depending on the success of this charging station, according to Beagles, the goal is to continue adding more of them to campus.

“Any time that we’re adding these sustainable features to campus, that’s kind of the mantra moving forward,” Beagles said.

Brandon Rasmussen Culture Editor Freshman engineering major Sierra Bush, known to friends and peers on campus as “Simon,” is missing. Simon was declared missing two weeks ago after Simon’s father became concerned when he hadn’t seen them since Saturday, Sept. 24.

Simon is five feet and six inches tall, weighs 123 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes.

Currently, Simon’s family believes Simon was abducted from their home, seeing as Simon’s car never left the house.

Boise police have assured Simon’s family and the community they are doing all they can to find Simon and bring them home.

However, they are not disclosing many more details of the case at this time.

In the meantime, a group of Simon’s friends and family have begun mobilizing their own efforts in spreading the word. Their Facebook group, Find Sierra Bush, has over 800 members and serves as a way to share new information and keep everyone updated. The group also organizes flyer-hanging activities.

Danielle Hollis, a close friend of Simon’s, is one of the many people leading the search among loved ones and friends.

“We’re mainly looking to get the word out,” Hollis said. “No one here wants to give up this search.”

Police are asking anyone who may know anything about Simon to please contact the authorities at (208) 377-6790.

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NEWS

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Boise State researcher works toward a new future in graphite and atomic power

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Jacob Palmer Staff Writer Out on the plains of Eastern Idaho, there is a small town named Arco with only about 1,000 residents. It became the first town in the world to be lit solely by nuclear power in 1955.

Decades later, researchers at Boise State are looking into technology that advances the way we use nuclear power. One of those advancements is a new form of graphite which can be used in nuclear reactors. The graphite would be the housing for reactors, which like most reactors, uses nuclear fission of uranium to produce electricity.

One of the researchers working on the new graphite is Karthik Chinnathambi, re-

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search engineer and manager at the Boise State Center for Materials Characterization, whose studies in graphite materials could be used in a new generation of gas cooled nuclear reactors.

“In nuclear reactors, the neutrons released from the splitting of uranium atoms collide with other atoms producing a lot of energy,” Chinnathambi said. “These neutrons can travel really fast, but when slowed down, they can more easily hit other atoms. You want to slow them down so that the other uranium atoms can absorb the neutrons and undergo fission.”

While nuclear energy can have enormous benefits, many people are still wary of nuclear energy, citing concerns with nuclear proliferation, nuclear

waste and the possibility of a meltdown.

Around campus, students expressed a mix of concern and curiosity about nuclear power.

One of those students was Kat Edgin, a junior business major.

“I think (nuclear power) is interesting, but it’s also like playing with fire. When you think of nuclear, you think of things such as bombs. So it’s okay to explore it, but only for research. There might be some better alternatives that we should start with,” Edgin said.

According to Edgin, some students associate the image of nuclear power with risks. This is because most people think of Gen II nuclear reactors when they think of nuclear power.

Gen II reactors are water cooled and were built up until the 1990s. However, new reactors like Gen IV, are safer, more efficient and capable of producing valuable chemical resources, according to Chinnathambi. “(Gen IV reactors) are going to be much more efficient,” Chinnathambi said. “(Leading scientists) are hoping they will be more than 50 percent efficient in converting heat to energy. Gen II reactors are closer to 20 percent. Gen IV reactors will be gas cooled as opposed to the traditional water cooled reactors.”

Chinnathambi said the operations of the new Gen IV reactors can get hotter than Gen II reactors. The older models operate at a temperature

around 300 degrees Celsius, while the newer models will be able to operate at 1000 degrees Celsius.

“Since we have 1000 degrees Celsius temperatures, that heat can also be used to generate hydrogen and gasified coal, so we can have not only a power plant, but also a chemical plant next to that to produce both power and hydrogen. That hydrogen can be used for purposes such as hydrogen fuel cells for cars and the gasified coal can be used in combustion to create even more energy with less pollutants,” Chinnathambi said.

Chinnathambi also listed benefits such as less nuclear waste produced, safe containment of hazardous material in a

worst case scenario and no capability for nuclear weapons to be produced in the new plants.

While the research is still underway, the creation of Gen IV reactors could have big implications for the future of energy production.

Annamarie Morehead, a senior political science major, expressed cautious optimism for nuclear power.

“If it is properly maintained, it can be a good source, but it has to be properly maintained,” Morehead said. “There are entire cities built around the nuclear economy. While nuclear energy can be scary, it also has a wide range of benefits for the environment since it is a low waste alternative.”

As the deadline for voter registration approaches, students assess their options Natasha Williams News Reporter The deadline to register to vote for the 2016 election is fast approaching.

All registration forms must be postmarked by Friday, Oct. 14 to students’ county clerk’s office.

The presidential candidates are expected to be the main focus of the ballot, but other local candidates will be on the ballot as well. According to the Pew Research Center, low youth turnout at the polls can make it difficult for student voices to be heard.

For many Boise State

students like Kiera Buell, a freshman business major, this election is the first time they are able to help shape their government.

According to Buell, students across Boise State— including herself—just don’t know who they are going to vote for, and are deterred from the polls because they don’t like their choices of candidates.

“At this point it’s kind of like picking the lesser of two evils, because I don’t really fully support either of them. I don’t really like a lot of what both of them have done, but I don’t know,” Buell said. “Look-

ing at both of them, a lot of people that I talk to honestly don’t even know who to vote for.”

Associate Professor of Political Science, Jeffrey Lyons, agreed with Buell.

According to him, young people generally stay away from the polls and he doesn’t expect it to change any time soon.

“For young folks (voting is) really important. Politicians are going to listen to people who show up and vote,” Lyons said. “Young folks on average are just a little more apathetic toward politics. (They’re) pretty much always the

lowest to register among any age group.”

Locally, other positions of government will also be on the ballot on election day. According to junior psychology major, Zach Harbauer, voting for local office is just as important on election day as voting for the president.

“I think local politics are incredibly important, because that’s where we are actually impacted the most– it is what our state representatives and senators do,” Harbauer said.

According to Harbauer, if students aren’t affiliated with the majority party in

their state of residence, it can be hard to get their voices heard.

“My friends and I are more left of center, so we feel like we have less of an impact,” Harbauer said.

Although the main focus of the ballot on election day will be the presidential nominations, Associate Professor of Political Science, Steve Utych, said it’s important to consider the vice presidential candidates for office as well when casting the ballot.

“The vice presidential selection matters,” Utych said. “You don’t want to pick someone completely

unqualified. I think most people—whether they like Tim Kaine or not—they agree if he had to take over running the presidency he could do it. The same is true of Mike Pence.”

To vote, students must be a U.S. citizen and at least 18-years-old. According to sos.idaho.gov as of Sept. 1, 220,783 people were registered to vote in Ada County alone.

You can register to vote at your polling place in Idaho, or you can download a form online from idahovotes.gov.

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OPINION

Editor’s response to Campus cowboys Andy Ridgeway Opinion Editor

In his letter to the editor, Michael Roberts accuses gun control advocates of subjective bias resulting from a lack of technical expertise. He’s partly right: the image in the article was misinformation. Unfortunately, Roberts fails to recognize that his claim to objectivity is compromised by a tangible conflict of interest that undermines his entire argument. According to the official website for the Idaho Sheriff ’s Association, “the eight-hour minimum training required for an E-CWL license can be satisfied through the NRA inside the home.”

Imagine that! America’s largest and most profitable pro-gun lobby also supervises the eight-hour safety course gun-owners are required to take if they want an E-CWL. The NRA even makes house calls! Gun lobbyists fail to recognize the political and economic conflict of interest at the heart of their beloved eight-hour safety certification course.

It’s always ironic to hear pro-gun advocates calling for transparency and objectivity. If pro-gun advocates are interested in providing people with objective information about firearms, why has the National Rifle Association (NRA) spent the last fifteen years lobbying to prevent the Center for Disease Control (CDC) from

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40 casualties 231 active shooter incidents in

26 states

20 incidents in 2014 20 incidents in 2015

4 law enforcement officers killed 10 law enforcement officers wounded

92 killed, 139 wounded

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3 unarmed security guards wounded

shooters were killed by law enforcement

***From an analysis of 20 active shooter incidents in both 2014 and 2015 done by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2015

launching a comprehensive study of gun violence?

Roberts’ notion of what constitutes an objective source has been compromised by the efforts of organizations like the NRA, which protect their claim to neutrality by actively suppressing scientific studies on the effects of gun violence. The NRA might promote technical expertise—like the ability to distinguish a bullet from a cartridge—but it doesn’t promote transparency or objectivity.

In fact, organizations like the NRA actively muddy the water by conflating this technical expertise with moral authority and good judgement. Gun advocates seem to think that if someone knows how to

use a gun, they’re somehow morally qualified to try their hand at defusing an active shooter situation. Sadly, an E-CWL does not guarantee good judgement; the absence of a criminal record is not a convincing reason to trust a person’s ability to make life-or-death decisions in a tense active shooter situation.

This is not a question of “good guys” versus “bad guys” so much as a question of well-trained experts versus well-intentioned amateurs. Encouraging ECWL holders to respond to an active shooter situation is like sending the captain of the debate team into a hostage negotiation or asking a chemistry student to disarm a ticking

bomb. Our society has experts who train for years to defuse active shooter situations; they’re called “first responders” for a reason.

The idea that an E-CWL holder can leap into an active shooter situation after eight hours of at-home NRA training is naïve.

In a 2014 report published by the Police Executive Research Forum, Professor Pete Blair of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center (ALERRT) recommends a strategy of “avoid, deny, defend.” Instead of engaging an active shooter in a “wild west” type shootout, bystanders should clear the area. If they’re not able to escape to get off campus, ALERRT recom-

mends bystanders barricade themselves in a closet or classroom and block the door with furniture. If these first two options are unavailable or unsuccessful, ALERRT recommends self-defense—but there are numerous ways bystanders can employ selfdefense tactics without engaging in an exchange of bullets. ALERRT, for example, teaches bystanders to position themselves behind doors to take active shooters unaware. If the active shooter is in a closed space, like a classroom, they also recommend coordinating with other bystanders to rush the attacker as a group.

These recommendations emphasize the importance of taking the active shoot-

er by surprise, a tactic that is always going to be more effective than engaging in a long, drawn out shootout or trying to draw the shooter’s fire.

That said, ALERRT’s recommendations make it clear that defense should be a last resort. According to Professor Blair, the average response time to an active shooter situation is three minutes. The best thing to do during those three minutes is to evacuate people from the area, find a classroom and barricade the door, or tend to the wounded until first responders arrive. None of that sounds particularly heroic, but the last thing first responders need is for students with eight hours of at-home training to engage active shooters in a gunfight. Besides, an active shooter situation shouldn’t be interpreted as an opportunity to be a hero.

I don’t have a problem with licensed carriers bringing their guns to school, but it worries me that they think of themselves as “campus cowboys.” It indicates how out of touch they are with reality and how utterly unqualified they are to usurp the role of the first responder.

E-CWL holders have the right to bring their guns to school, but they should leave the cowboy fantasies at home. We don’t need students masquerading as John Wayne.

Brooke Putra Tunnel of Oppression Director 2016 Member of the Shoshone-Paiute and Chippewa-Cree Tribes This is a response to the well-written opinion piece on the Tunnel of Oppression last week. This article brought us together—our staff and students organizers—to sit and look at the goals of our project. What became clear to us is that the goals of Tunnel of Oppression are very different from the goals of USAS. We also realize, however, that this is not easily apparent by just walking through the 30-minute theatrical experience of Tunnel of Oppression.

I volunteered for Tunnel for three years. I got involved with this project because it presented an opportunity for underrepresented students to express their lived realities and experiences of systemic oppression. Tunnel is not merely a mirrored reflection of the oppression we face; we see enough of that in the media and experience it in our daily lives. Tunnel is an opportunity for members of under-represented groups to have their voices and experiences validated.

The Tunnel of Oppression serves different objectives on different levels. It is intended to introduce people to the systemic nature of oppression and its impact on both dominant and nondominant groups

and it also serves to help student organizers find empowerment in telling their stories.

Those who have gone through Tunnel are encouraged to give us feedback through surveys and written notes. Many who have gone through Tunnel have written or expressed that they have never thought about their own participation in the system of oppression and, had they not gone through the Tunnel, they probably wouldn’t have thought about it much. Tunnel participants and volunteers construct an evolving project that meets the needs of the students who organize it, which means that Tunnel is different every year.

Tunnel is an educational experience where volunteers and participants go through 8-9 weeks of training on power, privilege and oppression, not only for themselves but to look at these issues in the system as a whole. This year they will be given faculty advisors along with support staff from Multicultural Student Services that help them go deeper into their theater topics.

Tunnel of Oppression also partners with Counseling Education and licensed counselors to help staff and participants process their experience.

Tunnel has also worked with Foundational Studies and Service Learning to help students participating get credit. Not everyone will

The Tunnel of Oppression is hosted biannually by the Multicultural Student Services experience Tunnel in the same way so reactions are varied, as they should be.

For some people the experience might not register until much later, and for others it is powerful and intense as soon as they experience it, so to assume that it has to look or feel a certain way ignores the diverse backgrounds of everyone experiencing Tunnel.

Tunnel is organized by students who are largely from marginalized groups and speak to on the oppression they have faced.

The article seems to as-

sume that Tunnel is produced only for students from dominant groups, it completely leaves out the impact to under-represented students.

Tunnel is not a one size fits all project meant to solve all the problems around systematic oppression, nor does it claim to be. This campus and this country needs much more than just one or two programs to make social change. We need underrepresented voices to be validated and heard, we need a cultural shift, we need everyone to par-

ticipate in making these changes in order for social justice to prevail. To assume that Tunnel educates the privileged at the expense of the oppressed is it to discount the work of and impact to under-represented students.

In this case, the article seems to be guilty of the very thing it attempts to critique. We do not claim to be experts of oppression, nor do we think we are beyond critique. Tunnel of Oppression has dealt with its share of critique each year. It is because of this that we constantly

seek feedback and encourage people to be part of the planning and organizing group. If the author did not know this, perhaps it is because they did not reach out to us to find out more.

If you would like to get a better understanding of Tunnel of Oppression, I encourage anyone to attend training meetings every Thursday leading up to Tunnel from 12p.m.-1p.m. in the Student Diversity Center. Tunnel of Oppression will be held Nov 1112, 2016 in the Simplot Ballroom in the Student Union Building.

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MULTI CULTURAL STUDENT SERVICES / COURTESY

Letter to the editor: response to The Tunnel of Oppression reinforces privilege at the expense of the oppressed

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The death of a colle

The renaming of the Steven Nelson Memorial Fund begs question

Patty Bowen Editor-in-Chief Standing up from her seat and opening the large brown door across from her desk, Cara Walker, senior director of annual giving at University Advancement, moved swiftly across the hall to a medium-sized room filled with sectioned off desks and headsets. After a moment, Walker explained this room, where the Phoneathon takes place, was where former Boise State employee Steven Nelson worked. “(Steven) really inspired (his

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employees) to think about (asking for donations) from that bigger philanthropic perspective,” Walker said. “(He believed) you’re not just calling people and asking them to give money; you’re changing the world.”

Nelson worked in University Advancement from January to April 2016, until his death on April 30. Nelson died of cardiac arrest after he was stripped and robbed by four men in Canyon County. He had responded to a fake ad on Craigslist soliciting sex with another man.

Last week, the LGBT Emergency fund was renamed the Steven Nelson Memorial Fund, in honor of Nelson. The fund is a $400 grant students can apply for in cases where their parents cut off their finances after coming out as homosexual, transexual or bisexual.

Since the funeral on May 14, several Boise State community members have been frustrated by the University’s treatment of Nelson’s death. These members said Boise State’s administration did not express support of the LGBT community, despite his death being linked to his identity as a gay male.

The U.S. Attorney’s office is currently investigating the crime and determining whether or not it will be

considered a hate crime.

In his honor According to Walker, Nelson was extremely passionate about getting students the help they needed to get through their education. During his time working with University Advancement, Nelson ran the Phoneathon when it was collecting funds for the Emergency Fund, a $400 grant—similar to the Steven Nelson Memorial Fund—that students can apply for to help them get through financially difficult times.

“He so firmly believed that— $400 may not seem like a ton of money—even that little bit of a helping hand would help students get over that hump and get through their education,” Walker said. “It was really inspirational to listen to him.”

Walker felt that renaming the LGBT Emergency Fund after Nelson would be the perfect way to memorialize him, because according to her, Nelson felt strongly about the impact education had on a student’s life.

“Steven felt extraordinarily passionate about education, particularly higher education,” Walker said. “He always credited the education he got in college as a life changer, and he firmly believed that education changes life.”

According to Heidi Owen, President of the Pride Alliance,

money for the Steven Nelson Memorial Fund was collected at PrideFest and from several other organizations, including The Balcony, which had a benefit night for the fund last Spring.

Currently only one student can apply for the Steven Nelson Memorial Fund per semester.

Owen is working to with University Advancement make the fund an endowment that any number of students could apply for and receive.

The outcry surrounding his death According to Adriane Bang, director of the Gender Equity Center, several members of the community were frustrated by how Nelson’s death was addressed by the university.

“We had students and community members that felt like his identity as a gay man was not acknowledged,” Bang said. “Folks I heard from were primarily folks who didn’t know him, but felt that (his death) was very much connected to identity and why aren’t we talking about identity.”

According to Mark Zuckerman, a Boise State employee whose name has been changed to protect his identy, Nelson’s death took place weeks before the Orlando shooting when the LGBT community was already grieving. Zuckerman explained having more “communication from the President’s Office spe-

ns of university solidarity cifically would have been valuable” in making members of the LGBT community feel safe and valuable.

“As a member of the LGBT community, I think there are challenges with how the university addressed (his identity)—feeling like that identity is valuable on this campus,” Zuckerman said. “We promote messages of diversity and caring and it’s a part of our shared values as an institution to have respect, responsibility and trustworthiness among the community.”

Zuckerman said the lack of acknowledgement on the university’s part, “from an employee’s perspective, didn’t feel like enough.” He stated that the silence was “a stance.”

“To hear that that was an important enough issue by the president would have held an enormous amount of weight— especially within the context of Orlando laid on top of it,” Zuckerman said. “There were just a lot of feelings of inadequacy and no validity (within the LGBT community).”

According to Boise State President Bob Kustra, there wasn’t enough information out at the time of his death to know if it was in the President’s Office “province to explain Nelson’s personal sexual preference.”

Following Nelson’s death, Kustra sent the Ada County Sheriff Kieran Donahue a letter expressing his gratitude for the

way he had handled investigating Nelson’s death.

Bang stated that since the incident, Vice President of Student Affairs Leslie Webb, has begun creating a community form for feedback to improve the university’s response when “tragic things happen.”

“When there are tragic things that happen across the globe that impact our students, how should the institution respond?” Bang said. “I think our community— at least from my experience when it is in our own community—there will be a particular course of action and I think there is a desire to hear more feedback from the campus community.”

The pending nature of the crime All four offenders, Jayson Woods, Kelly Schneider, Daniel Henkel and Kevin Tracy, have court dates set up for later in the year. Currently they have all been charged with first-degree murder and robbery.

According to Wendy Olsen U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho, the details the U.S. Attorney’s office is discussing while deciding whether to charge all four assailants with a hate crime cannot be discussed until the case is over. She stated the office is keeping the four court dates in mind.

“Typically there are elements of the offense that we have to

prove are jurisdictional elements and often times those take a bit longer,” Olsen said. “When dealing with the the Matthew Shepard Act, which is the statute that we are looking at, there are just a number of investigative and procedural steps that we have to work through.”

Several members on campus, including Owen and Zuckerman, believe Nelson’s death was a hate crime.

“When you intentionally lure someone using online listings for soliciting sex, and lead them to a space where they are then attacked, my very strong assumption was that, yes, this was a hate crime,” Zuckerman said. “While I know that people target others for a multitude of reasons, it just seems like the circumstances here would lend itself to being a hate crime.”

According to Bang, police officers at the time were targeting vulnerable parties, not just parties in the LGBT community.

“My understanding is that police didn’t believe this was tied to identity and rather that these folks were targeting people who were vulnerable and trusting online, and not just people identifying in the LGBT community,” Bang

said. “I think there could have been more transparency and had people’s concerns addressed in a more public way.”

In an interview with the Idaho Statesman, Donahue explained that the police department is currently trying to find more information regarding the other victims.

“There’s a reason they’re preying on these people. The secrecy

of the underground black market of the Internet, and let’s say it’s a man who’s going to have sex with another man and yet he’s married and has kids. If they beat him up and rob him, he’s probably not going to report that, for family reasons, professional reasons,” Donahue said to The Statesman.

Details of the investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s Office

decision will be released as more information is discovered.

Students can apply for the Steven Nelson Memorial Fund on the Dean of Student’s website.

“When we’re having these conversations, especially in an educational environment that’s critical to people’s growth, it’s a great opportunity to get people to think more critically about how what you say or don’t say does matter and it does have an influence,” Zuckerman said.

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“As a member of the LGBT community, I think there are challenges with how the university addressed (his identity)—feeling like that identity is valuable on this campus. We promote messages of diversity and caring and it’s a part of our shared values as an institution to have respect, responsibility and trustworthiness among the community.”

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CULTURE A discussion on David Brooks Boise State festival showcases DAVID BROOKS FACEBOOK / COURTESY

Our Culture Editor Brandon explains his feelings on this years campus read

Brandon Rasmussen Culture Editor Following New York Times Columnist David Brooks’ long anticipated appearance at Boise State, there was to be a panel discussion on Tuesday, Oct. 4. There weren’t many details available, but the idea was a group of “campus experts” were to take some stage presumably at the Student Union Building and fill our impressionable student minds with valuable insights and intense discussion.

However, for whatever reason, that panel discussion was cancelled. And now, it’s up to Amateur Reporter and Subpar Student Brandon Rasmussen to fill the void. I’m no expert by any means, but maybe my thoughts on the whole thing might make someone furious that I missed the point entirely.

At least that would be something.

I was first introduced to Brooks through the Campus Read for this year, “The Road to Character,” when I decided to review it for The Arbiter. For those who missed it, I essentially concluded that although I found his argument to be rather broad and presumptuous, I thought the book excelled in

what I assumed was its purpose— to generate discussion.

I was not particularly enjoying myself, flipping through the pages of that orange-covered book. But now that I’ve read it, I can’t seem to shut up about it.

I suppose that means I wasn’t fond of Brooks’ answer, but I do think he asked the right question; how do we develop moral character? What is the value of a personal moral code?

According to “The Road to Character,” we have no business coming up with these things on our own. Brooks insisted we must submit to some higher power, whether it be a philosophy, God or something else we can commit to in an act of deep devotion.

I went into the Brooks event with a preconception that his address would be an expansion of his ideas from the book.

Because of my naiveté, I was thrown for a loop when Brooks seemed to simply discard one of the core arguments of his book in an off-handed comment.

“I’ve come to think since writing the book that it’s a little too individualistic,” Brooks said. “We all need redemptive assistance from outside, partly from confronting your own weakness, but also partly from the ability to create intense, intimate bonds.”

The chief impression I walked away with that night was somewhere between publishing the book and coming to little ol’ Boise, Brooks had seemingly decided devotion to a higher cause could more or less be replaced or matched by deep, rewarding and intimate relationships with other people. I’m fine with this. I find it to be a more defensible position, for the most part.

It does raise some more questions, though. Pure devotion seemed to synergize better with the hyper-awareness of personal shortcomings— or “sin,” as Brooks called it.

In personal relationships, self-awareness is helpful, but focusing on why you don’t deserve the relationship in the first place usually doesn’t lend itself very well to a healthy dynamic. At least, not in my experience.

Now here, at the end of my word limit for this column, all I can really say for sure is that this whole David Brooks thing has been good for me. After weeks of shaking my fists at that silly humanoid figure on the cover of “The Road to Character,” I’ll find it within myself to admit that maybe it taught me something after all.

A panel would have been nice, though.

student films from around the world Brandon Rasmussen Culture Editor For many students, watching videos from around the world is a part of daily life.

To celebrate the art of video making, the Boise Student International Video Festival (BoVi) is taking place again this year on Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 at the Special Events Center in the Student Union Building. The festival accepts short student films from all around the world and showcases them in a admissionfree and two-day event.

According to Dorothy Gregg, senior communication major and president of BoVi, films have been accepted from a large variety of countries this year.

“Student submissions included two people from Idaho and several from many other states,” said Gregg.

“We received submissions from other countries as well, including Slovakia, Thailand, Serbia, South Korea, France,

Spain, Macedonia, India, Canada, Finland, Brazil and England.”

The submissions are initially screened by the BoVi staff, who then send off the best candidates to three judges, who are all either filmmakers themselves or academics who have studied filmmaking.

All the films are required to be 20 minutes or shorter in length, which means participating filmmakers have a limited amount of time to make a good impression.

“Short films are great, because they’re usually low budget, cheaply made and quickly produced,” said mechanical engineering major Patrick Ames, who expressed interest in the event. “Despite these limitations, there is so much you can get across. You can show people on the other side of the world and what they’re creating.”

Freshman Hailey Voth shared interest in experienc-

ing cultures through these films.

“It could be a good opportunity to educate people about all these other places,” said Voth. “Seeing other cultures can help get rid of ‘us versus them’ kinds of thinking.”

During both days of the festival, there will be a featured guest speaker at 6 p.m. Thursday’s will be Ryan Cannon, a cinema and digital media professor at Boise State. Friday’s will be Sonya Rosario, a producer, director and film maker from the Boise area.

The festival will also have winning submissions, which are chosen by the judges and will be announced at the event.

“I don’t want to give away a winner of the festival so I won’t tell my favorite,” said Gregg. “But I was impressed with the high quality of the submissions.”

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CULTURE Patty Bowen Editor-in-Chief A mannequin sporting Supergirl briefs and a colorful cape stands in the warm light of the Gallery One of the Visual Arts Center.

Several pieces of art, including this one, are featured in Boise State’s installment of EXCHANGE, an art exhibit featuring the work of six Idaho State University visual arts MFA students, currently located in the Liberal Arts Building.

While the work of Idaho State University students is featured at Boise State, a gallery exhibit with the work of eight Boise State visual arts MFA students will be showing on the Idaho State University campus.

“There’s only three MFA programs in Idaho. It’s good to do things like this once in awhile and support each other,” said Anna Matejcek, third year visual arts MFA student.

“When they were coming to drop off their work, we were talking about coordinating another one with the University of Idaho as well. We’re hoping we can do things to invigorate the art of Idaho.”

Jacob Banholzer, first year visual arts MFA student, is a former Idaho State University student. He contacted their MFA program and began setting up the collaboration.

According to Matejcek, the “ultimate goal” is to “meet more people and have more people view your art.”

“It’s all about that community with art,” Matejcek said.

“Meeting people and making those connections—it has been my experience that it has been a supportive community.”

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Idaho State University, Matejcek and Banholzer hope to set up a pop-up show at the end of the semester so Boise State students can see their work as well. “(Pop-ups) are almost a celebration,” Matejcek said. “You go there, see the art and get to interact with people and discuss. With any sort of art opening, there’s a similar feel where there’s a lot of interaction and discussion. There’s this sort of community that grows from that that community members respond to.”

Banholzer said a pop-up show held late last February— featuring the work of the Art Department—had great attendance. Matejcek explained that some students might prefer pop-up shows because they give viewers the opportunity to connect with the artists and have a social experience while viewing the art.

According to Banholzer, even though there was no theme to the EXCHANGE exhibit, a lot of the pieces overlap in content. He explained that a lot of the Boise State visual arts MFA students “touched on boundaries, ecology, identity, biology.”

“We tend to have similar elements and common ideas threads that sort of overlap— connections between reality and human nature,” Matejcek said. “I wondered if that’s because we all gravitated here and we’re all working together or if it’s just serendipitous.”

Students can visit the EXCHANGE exhibit in Gallery One of the Visual Arts Center located in the Liberal Arts Building. The EXCHANGE exhibit will be on display until Wednesday, Oct. 26.

Rebecca Merkley, Idaho State University fine arts MFA student, created Social Expectations, the found object and mixed media sculpture seen above.

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EXCHANGE art exhibit features work of Idaho State University students

OcTUBAfest returns to Boise State

Cute is What We Aim For is aiming for Boise

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Department of Music puts on concert to feature tuba and euphonium players

Else Adams Culture Reporter Tuba and euphonium players perform in all-low brass ensemble at OcTUBAfest 2014

Brandon Rasmussen Culture Editor Deep tones and sounds of rustling sheet music fill the practice rooms in the Morrison Center as Boise State tuba and euphonium players prepare for OcTUBAfest, an annual concert meant to showcase these two low brass instruments.

This year, OcTUBAfest will fall on Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. The concert will feature several ensemble pieces, as well as a few solos interspersed throughout the program.

According to Euphonium and Trombone Professor Sarah Paradis, the concert creates a unique opportunity for low brass players to show off their skills to Boise.

“We want to encourage students to get out there and play

for the community, and this is an opportunity to do that,” Paradis said.

Though the majority of participants are students, there will be a few professional players from the community taking part as well. In addition, any audience members who play either tuba or euphonium will be invited to play with the ensemble at the end.

“We’re hoping to get about 30 to 40 tuba and euphonium players up there at the end,” said Paradis. “The sound of a low brass ensemble is really incredible. Listening to it feels like a warm pillow.”

Included among the songs being performed this year are “Power” by John Stevens and a special rendition of “Beer Barrel Polka,” which is something of a staple for the program.

Though many familiar elements are returning from

years past, according to senior tuba performance major Daniel Becerra, Boise State’s music department is hoping to bring a few new things to the table.

“We’re kind of revamping it,” Becerra said. “We’re pushing the expectations of what people expect a tuba to do.”

According to Becerra, the Department of Music was unable to put on OcTUBAfest in 2015, due to scheduling conflicts. Now that it’s back up and running, students and faculty involved with the program expressed determination to put on a show worth remembering.

“We can compete with instruments like the violin and the cello,” said Becerra. “The point of OcTUBAfest is to show people that the tuba and euphonium can do so much more than they think.”

Cute is What We Aim For, a power pop band from Buffalo, New York, will be hitting the Neurolux Thursday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 online and $16 at the door.

This show is one stop on their 10-year anniversary tour celebrating the release of their debut album, “The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch”, which in 2006

debuted at #75 on the Billbord 200, and includes the hit single “The Curse of Curves.”

The album beat out Panic! At the Disco’s “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out”, which placed at #112.

In the tour announcement, made over the group’s official Instagram page, lead vocalist Shaant Hacikyan gave “eternal thanks” to fans, on behalf of guitarist Jeff Czum and drummer Tom Falcone. The tour’s Australian leg sold out, and only after it ended was

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the United States tour announced.

Since their formation in 2005, the group has undergone several line-up changes.

Three original members will be performing in this tour, plus bassist Seth Van Dusen, who joined two years ago.

The anniversary tour marks their first activity since 2014, when they released some new songs on Soundcloud and performed at Vans Warped Tour.

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Intramural Sports work to improve overall standards Evan Werner Sports & Rec Editor

Boise State Intramural Sports is working to improve all aspects of its program from refereeing to playing fields, after a 20 percent increase in the program over the last year.

Brandon Ohr, a graduate assistant for the Rec center, continues to improve intramural sports, getting both the volleyball and basketball tournaments in the Bronco gymnasium last year.

Other Rec activities that are partnered with Athletics’ include Yoga on The Blue and the Toilet Bowl, which is a flag football tournament at Albertsons Stadium. The Rec center

has a contract with athletics allowing them to use these locations for these specific events.

When the Rec center wants to use an Athletics’ location for an event they are offered to rent out the location at a discounted price, but are not allowed to just reserve and use it.

Currently the training platform in place is a three day model that includes two hours of classroom learning and two hours of on-field training.

During these classroom sessions, Ohr, teaches students about rules, situations and other occurrences that may occur in in-game situations.

During on-field training, Ohr encouraged students to bring their teams out for scrim-

mages to help the referees prepare for the season, teams who do this get 50 percent off of the league entry fee.

“We had about four teams show up for the scrimmages.

They were all given the 50 percent discount and that really helped us prepare for the upcoming season,” Ohr said.

Max Pearce, a senior at Boise State, was critical of referees during his time playing Intramural sports.

“They need more training, I understand that it is all subjective calls in the moment, but if I am paying for this league, I expect to get proper officiating.”

Training referees for intramural sports is difficult because of the lack of funding that they

receive.

Ohr believes if his position changes from a two year graduate position to a full-time position — it would be easier to establish change — giving him more time to get things done.

“If this was a full-time job, I would love to start a credited Kin-Act class allowing students to learn how to ref while earning credits toward their degrees. This would allow a lot more time for training.”

Ohr said, “The only funding we get for the Rec center are entry fees, small funding from the school and a $60 fee that is deducted from students tuition to allow them to use the Rec center and other amenities offered by the Rec.”

Another problem Ohr and the Rec center face is their limited space to play intramural games on campus.

While the Rec does have the Rec turf field, they can only hold one game on that field due to its size, and are forced to play two other games on the Intramural Field behind the Student Union Building.

When Athletics shared the Intramural Field with the Rec center they took care of the field, but after Athletics recently built a new field for training, Facilities Operations and Maintenance (F.O.A.M) takes care of the field according to Ohr. Unfortunately, there are pot holes, dirt spots and uncut

grass, which can lead to player injury and needs to be tended to immediately if play is to continue on this field.

The Rec center and F.O.A.M are working together to fix this problem.

In the campus’ 10 Year Master Plan, there are locations in place for new Rec fields, but that is still a ways down the road.

“Everyone needs to be prepared and ready for the situations that can occur on and off the field. Accountability develops a better product,” Ohr said.

Registrations for 7 on 7 Soccer, 3 on 3 Basketball and 6 on 6 volleyball are still open and the Rec welcomes all participants.

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Boise State bucks New Mexico

Offense powers team past New Mexico for 5-0 start

Boise State football proved too much for New Mexico to handle. On Friday night the Broncos beat down the Lobos 49-21.

Boise State was fueled by quarterback Brett Rypien, throwing for five touchdowns and 391 yards, in the blowout in New Mexico.

The Broncos continued their undefeated season starting the game off with seven consecutive touchdown drives.

Thomas Sperbeck and Cedrick Wilson showed why

they are a great receiving tandem for the Broncos posting a combined 18 catches for 365 yards and five touchdowns.

Wilson had nine catches for 167 yards and three touchdowns, while Sperbeck had nine receptions for 198 yards and two scores. ‘’A lot of it is a man-on-man matchup and once you get past that one man, there’s a lot of open field, so there’s a lot of run-after-catch opportunities,” Sperbeck said. ‘’They were trying to stop Jeremy (McNichols) a lot so they let us work one-on-one on the outside. And I get kind of happy,” Wilson said.

New Mexico does run an option offense leaving the Lobos quarterback Lamar Jordan to a whopping four completions for 39 yards.

Other than only scoring on their second possession, the Lobos didn’t reach the end zone until midway through the fourth quarter.

The Broncos didn’t want to feel the same way they did last time playing New Mexico.

“A lot of guys didn’t really like how the Lobos celebrated last year so I think it was kind of a chip on our shoulder from last year,’’ Wilson said.

Boise State gets to play at home in their next two

games, competing against Colorado State on Oct. 15 and BYU on Oct. 20.

Now that Houston has lost to Navy this past weekend, Oct. 8, Boise State’s chances of making a New Years Six Bowl are now in sight.

“Navy goes up 43-33 on Houston safety with 5:39 remaining. Boise State is biggest benefactor as far as Group of five New Years six bowl,” tweeted by Brett McMurphy of ESPN. The Boise State Broncos are currently ranked 15th in the AP and Coaches poll.

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SPORTS & REc

Boise State Volleyball Sweeps Air Force and Utah State

Boise State with Rypien Riston Ramirez Sports & Rec Reporter

Despite being defeated

by Nevada on Oct. 1, the Boise State Volleyball team headed to Colorado with confidence. They played Air Force on Oct. 4, pulling through with a win.

In the tightly contested match, Boise State won three straight to get the sweep with end scores of 25-23, 25-19, 25-22 on the road in Colorado.

“I am pleased with the way the team responded after Saturday’s loss,” said head coach Shawn Garus.

The sweep however did not come easy, the match

saw 19 ties and 10 lead changes as both teams battled for the win. 36 of Boise State’s 47 kills came from junior Sierra Nobley, senior Maddy O’Donnell and sophomore Sabryn Roberts. It wasn’t just them though, the sweep was a true team effort.

“We had several players step up tonight when Air Force attempted to rally” said Garus.

Nobely, O’Donnell, and Roberts came up big on offense for the team, but the blocks throughout the match were just as impressive.

Nobley perhaps had the biggest night having “a team-high 16 kills while

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hitting 26.8 percent. She also added one assist, one kill, two block assists

and just missed her 12th double-double with nine digs” Bronco Sports reported.

“This was a big win for us against a good Air Force team, every road win is going to be huge in league this year” said Garu.

This win allowed Boise State to improve to 12-6 overall and 3-2 in Mountain West play.

This new found momentum was carried into the weekend as Boise State hosted Utah State.

The sweep against

Air Force did not come easy, nor did the sweep come easy against Utah State. The Broncos won all three sets with two sets going into extra points.

27-25, 27-25, 25-23 were the final scores of the sets.

Over all three sets, there were 34 ties and 18 lead changes.

Once again it was Nobley who had one of the biggest nights with 20 kills placing her 3rd all time in team history with 1,247 kills.

Both matches against Air Force and Utah State

were close and came down to just a couple points.

“I am proud of the way the team played today in close sets, that is something we’ve been working on a lot” said Garus.

Garus said that it is important that the team doesn’t overlook opponents because he believes “everyone in the Mountain West is good.”

The Broncos are now 13-6 overall and 4-2 in the Mountain West.

Boise State will once again match up with Utah State Nov. 3 and will finish up their fall schedule on Nov. 22 against Air Force here in Boise.

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This was a big win for us against a good Air Force team, every road win is going to be huge in league this year. ” -Head Coach of the Boise State Volleyball team Shawn Garus

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