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NEWS
Kate White Staff Writer
Idaho high schools are hungry for STEM teachers. Boise State’s IDoTeach program aims to satisfy those pangs by allowing its students to graduate in four years with both a STEM degree and a certification to teach secondary education. “Every year, we receive frantic emails from principals in rural school districts that cannot find math and science teachers,” said Jan Smith, IDoTeach master teacher. “When they started the program, that was the reason – there is a high need for math and science teachers.” In its initial semester, there were 20 students enrolled in the program. Now in its third year, the program is instructing 105 Boise State students.
“Many of the classes in IDoTeach take the place of electives so students can do most of it in four years,” Smith said. Unique to the IDoTeach program is the hands-on experience students get in real classrooms in the first semester of the program. This allows STEM students to immediately determine if teaching is something they would be interested in as a career. There are no prerequisites to take the first two introductory classes. Students wishing to continue with the program must apply and be accepted into the program. To be accepted, students must pass the Praxis 1 exam, maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 in their major courses with a minimum 3.0 GPA in the STEM education courses and go through an interview.
Rhen Zohner, a junior pre-med major, was getting prepared to drop his teaching certification because the time demand was too high. He switched to the IDoTeach program from the traditional certification route and has been pleased with the change. “It’s really awesome because if you want to see what teaching is like, you can student teach from the beginning instead of waiting until the last year only to realize you don’t like it,” Zohner said. According to Zohner, the IDoTeach program cuts down the amount of credits needed for teaching certification from 50 to 30. “I appreciate the previous programs but this is a more efficient way to become a teacher in a world that needs efficiency, and it is a good way to get people that are passionate about
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Jan Smith is a master teacher for IDoteach. what they do to teach,” Zohner said. He suggested that IDoTeach is even worth completing for STEM students with plans for other careers in STEM fields. “This program is so feasible in credits that it makes a great back-up. Getting into medical school sometimes takes two or three years af-
ter you get your bachelor’s degree so it’s good to know that I will have a job when I graduate,” he said. Linda Clark, superintendent of West Ada School District, explained that the number of engineering and technology courses being offered in schools is expanding and will require a steady need for STEM
teachers in the future. She is confident that the IDoTeach program is an effective means for training the teachers that continue to be needed. “I believe the program is very sound and will significantly expand the preparation of STEM teachers who come through it into our classrooms,” Clark said.
Boise State bucks cancer with research
Jorcyk said. Jorcyk has been researching at Boise State for the last 17 years and started working with OSM 14 years ago. She said the progress she’s made couldn’t have been done without the help from her team. Her greatest discovery while researching OSM was confirming her hypothesis in 2012. “(We) confirmed in a living model animal, using a mouse model for human breast cancer, and showed that OSM is really important for breast cancer metastasis,” Jorcyk said. “When we actually confirmed our hypothesis in a mouse, that was huge.” Jorcyk’s and other professors’ research is making big
waves when it comes to changing the world of cancer research. Currently, professors are studying different ways to treat cancer more effectively, develop techniques for early cancer detection, develop better drugs and examine the make up of cancer DNA. “I think that’s so cool (Boise State) is one step closer to curing cancer,” said Mareesa Rule, freshman business and marketing major. Rule thinks the research being done is more than just a good thing. “It’s beyond a good thing,” Rule said. “Curing something that affects so many people, that’s amazing.”
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Boise State professor Cheryl Jorcyk is fighting cancer one step at a time. Jorcyk doesn’t have cancer herself–she’s researching it. This professor of biological sciences is focusing on breast cancer research in her lab this October. “People don’t die from having a tumor in their breasts because you can usually remove that surgically,” Jorcyk said. “But those cells in the tumor can break free and metasta-
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size through the blood stream or the lymphatic system and spread to some other place in the body, like the lungs, the liver, the brain or the bone.” The spread of these tumor cells is what kills people. According to Jorcyk, her research takes a deeper look at why these cells are so damaging. Jorcyk and her team study one protein in particular. The protein, oncostatin m or OSM, is made by the immune system naturally and helps with inflammation. But a surplus of OSM can be deadly.
There are two ways to develop a surplus of OSM in the system. The first, according to Jorcyk, is too much OSM in the system caused by immune cells attacking a tumor. In this process the tumor reprograms the immune cells and helps the
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tumor metastasize. “In some cases the tumor cell can make the OSM themselves, and then in response to that protein being outside the cell and being in that tumor environment, the tumor cells start taking on characteristics that allow them to metastasize,”
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With every step she has taken in her career, Dana Hathaway has worked to improve the lives of others. The next step she takes, however, may leave her outside the front doors of Boise State. Founder of a new organization on campus, Students Against Sweatshops, Hathaway plans to establish a union for adjunct faculty. This is a movement which has already started across the country. In universities in Washington D.C., Virgin-
ia and Minnesota, adjunct professors are unionizing to help overcome an exploitation of professor labor. Hathaway is in her first semester at Boise State. Even so, it’s hard to imagine her being around for another after being so outspoken. “It’s scary because yeah, you might lose your job, but
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what else do you do?” she said. “Do you just continue with it?” According to collegefactual.com, the average percentage of adjunct faculty in the U.S. is 48 percent. At Boise State, it’s 46 percent. These workers receive low pay, no benefits and don’t know what classes they’re
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teaching until a few weeks before the semester begins—if they get any at all. In this way, Hathaway feels adjuncts are treated as contingent, disposable employees. At Boise State, adjunct faculty receive $2,800 per course for the semester, which works out to just over $20,000 if they teach one course two semesters in a year. Tenured Boise State faculty, however, make $65,000 to $70,000 each year and full-time lecturers make $38,000. “We oftentimes talk about labor exploitation in various fields and various countries around the world,” Hathaway said. “Of course, the adjunct problem, as it’s been referred to, isn’t on the same scale as something like a mining camp or a forest sweatshop in Thailand, but it’s certainly something that needs to be addressed and it’s being addressed with this movement.”
The explanation
In an article published by the Boise Weekly in February of this year, Martin Schimpf, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Boise State, said the university hires adjuncts as a way to keep higher education accessible and deal with a growing student population. “As we grow, we’ve brought on more adjuncts,” Schimpf said in the article. “That’s one of the benefits of living in a metropolitan area. We can hire those folks to open up a new section of a class ... Adjuncts are the
most economical way that we can add faculty for our students with the money we are given.” Although it’s not required for an adjunct professor to have a Ph.D, master’s degree or even a teaching certificate, many do according to Hathaway. She believes adjunct faculty lack a voice at Boise State. “It’s not from lack of work, there’s courses to be taught, it’s not from lack of a degree... it’s really not a lack of experience either,” she said. “There are adjuncts that have been here for ten plus years teaching at the parttime level and many of us teach at the just below fulltime level.” She feels adjuncts are kept below full-time so the administration can avoid paying them a better wage and benefits, also to deny them the added job security that comes with tenure. Susan Shadle, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, said full-time or tenured faculty often have more responsibilities. They make decisions about curriculum, programs they’re responsible for and the experiences students will have. This includes engaging students in internships, undergraduate research, mentoring students and steering them towards their careers. “I think there are certain things we need to do as a community and that’s challenging for adjunct faculty to do because we’re not paying them to be a part of the community,” Shadle said. Hathaway explained that adjuncts aren’t allowed to teach more than 11 credits
per semester; she teaches 10 ½ now. She believes there are enough courses to go around that every adjunct professor can potentially teach 12 credits. However, this wouldn’t bode well for the university financially. “If I were to be hired as a full-time lecturer, teaching one and a half more credits, my pay would double,” she said. This would make it possible for her to receive benefits such as health and dental insurance for her as well as her two kids. It would even allow her to contribute towards a retirement fund.
The goal
What Hathaway hopes to accomplish by starting this union is to create awareness. “I don’t think students, here especially, are aware that many of their professors qualify for food stamps,” she said. “I think if you go to college and you strive hard and you get a good job and you work nearly full time, you shouldn’t qualify for food stamps.” This added awareness is also meant for faculty who don’t know this movement is happening. To her, the uncertainty of whether or not she’ll have a job next semester is an uncomfortable position to be in; it affects the quality of education she can give. “I love being a teacher. I love it,” Hathaway said. “The thing is (this movement) is not just about us adjuncts being dissatisfied with our pay or the conditions under which we work with no benefits and no guarantee of classes next term.”
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NEWS Shelly Bohorquez Staff Writer
Ben Duran, a senior political science major, is affected by SAD, or seasonal affective disorder every year. “To feel suffocated by the gray clouds, to feel my vitality drained from me until I see the sun again, these things are hard enough without knowing that those I care about most are also suffering,” Duran wrote in an email to The Arbiter. “Mood swings, fatigue, and an undercurrent of depression and anxiety paint my experience with SAD.” Duran is not alone in his
struggle. SAD affects 5 to 13 percent of the nation’s population according to the Bates College Health Center. It is most prevalent between the ages of 18 and 30 and is diagnosed the same way as depression. Changes in dopamine, serotonin, as well as melatonin levels are all implicated in a diagnosis of SAD. People with SAD suffer harsh symptoms of depression, insomnia and a lack of appetite. Fortunately for Duran as well as others who have been diagnosed with SAD, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Located on the second
floor of the Norco Building by the check-in office to University Health Services is a light box that mimics outdoor light. “Boise gets hit pretty hard every winter with an inversion that blocks the sun for weeks at a time,” Duran wrote. “Getting exposed to a light box just makes these feelings slip away.” Even though she is not diagnosed with SAD, Leila Issa, a freshman psychology major, can feel the effects of the darker weather on her mood. “It makes me not feel good and I can’t focus if I’m not feeling good,” Issa said.
Health Services also provides literature on the function of light boxes so students can read up on the benefits and the science behind phototherapy. “I think this is a good time of year to consider using one; with the time changes and the days getting shorter, we don’t see as much daylight,” said Dr. Karla West, director of Counseling Services. According to West, Counseling Services decided to put a light box in the waiting room this last year in order for students to become more familiar with the concept of phototherapy. Counseling Services also
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Nostalgic characters bring Nintendo success
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Fireball flinging plumbers dash after angry mushrooms and swirling shells, while a green tunic-clad hero battles for golden fragments of legendary power. In the same universe, young heroes capture elemental monsters in red and white orbs and a pink ball of air and gusto swallows enemies whole. All of these iconic characters, their quirks in tow, make up the basis for Nintendo’s continuing success. “It’s silly to say out loud, but when I think of Nintendo, I typically think of plain and simple fun,” said linguistics junior Maxwell Jahner. “Fun and an incredible amount of polish.” Jahner explained that, in contrast with other first-
person-shooter-centered console games, Nintendo tends to lean toward character-driven content. Whether it is “Mario Golf,” “Super Mario Sunshine” or a standard Mario platformer game, Nintendo draws appeal from its cast of lovable characters while still making their games superior to other takes on platformers or other Mario monopolies. Jahner’s favorite Nintendo character is Kirby. “He’s well-suited to a variety of different games given that his primary trait is he’s an adorable blank slate,” Jahner said. “He can be a swordsman, a ninja or a ball of yarn and it all suits him equally well.” With the recent release of “Super Smash Bros” for the 3DS and the forthcoming release of the Wii U version
of the new “Smash Bros,” many gamers are jumping to Nintendo’s newest consoles with their favorite heroes. In addition, Pokémon’s newest installments are remakes of old games, meaning old content and adventures will be revamped and recreated with new graphics in the form of “Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby.” Umpqua Community College mathematics junior Jeremiah Fallin plans to purchase one of the Hoenn region remakes. “I know that I have bought every new Pokémon game that has come out because of nostalgia, and, in my opinion, some of them have been good and some have been not as good,” Fallin said. Fallin explained that while some argue that Nintendo is
for children, there are many facets within the company’s games that appeal to a variety of age groups. This is why he was recently hooked into the Fire Emblem series, just as many children are lulled into Mario party games. Jahner acknowledged that Nintendo does tend to aim its initial appeal to younger audiences, allowing these gamers plenty of time to forge strong connections with Link and Pikachu until they are primed for “Call of Duty.” “Those of us who carry nostalgia for Nintendo’s pantheon of memorable characters did not develop such feelings in a moment, but over many years of repeated positive encounters,” Jahner said. “Someone just jumping into gaming today
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Briana Cornwall For the handful of cyclists that have been struck by motorized vehicles this semester, Boise State may not feel too bike-friendly. But signs around campus indicate otherwise, regardless of intermittent collisions. Cycle Learning Center (CLC) coordinator Brian Ohlen explained campuses are designated bikefriendly by an external organization, the League of American Bicyclists. Campuses have to apply for the title. According to Ohlen, Boise State applied in 2011 and the title lasts through 2015. “It’s pretty rigorous,” Ohlen said about the application. He explained that it addresses what the League of American Bicyclists call the Five E’s: engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation. According to the league’s website, engineering means “creating safe and convenient places to ride and park,” and enforcement means “ensuring safe roads for all users.” Boise State’s implementation of new bike racks, covered parking, bike lanes and sharrows help meet these requirements. Bicycle programs supervisor Stephen Ritter explained that sharrows are arrows without the stem painted on the road which indicate to motorists and cyclists that it’s
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Bike racks make campus accessible to cyclists. safe for cyclists to take the lane. “Those are on campus on Theatre Lane and Brady Street,” he said. Education means “giving people of all ages and abilities the skills and confidence to ride,” the League of American Bicyclists explains, and encouragement means “creating a strong bike culture that welcomes and celebrates bicycling.” Services offered by the CLC offer educational and encouraging experiences for campus cyclists. “The Cycle Learning Center is a campusbased service focused on developing healthy and sustainable lifestyles by promoting the use of bicycles and multi-modal transportation options,” The CLC’s website states. “The CLC strives to create a hands-on learning
environment that empowers campus users to explore sustainable transportation through educational programming, retail sales and services.” The last “E” is evaluation, or, as the league’s website describes, “planning for bicycling as a safe and viable transportation option.” Boise State’s “Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Master Plan” details campus efforts to implement the infrastructure necessary to meet this requirement. Marketing junior Will Driml commutes to campus via his bicycle. He feels Boise State is, overall, bike-friendly. “The only problem is between the SUB and Lincoln because people just drive through there,” he said. He explained he has to be extra careful in this area but otherwise
has an easy enough time traversing campus. According to Ritter, the application to a bikefriendly campus doesn’t directly take into consideration vehicle-bicycle collisions. Instead, it indirectly addresses this threat to cyclists “through education systems and structure … and anything we do to reduce the probability of things like that happening,” he said. The Arbiter asked Ritter why collision statistics aren’t required by the application. “All I can think of is that those numbers would be, for one, easy to skew,” he said. “And for two, you would have to do them per capita to get a real representation so my guess is just that it would be hard to set the parameters like that for that survey.”
Walton’s Movie World: Gone Girl Brandon Walton
Asst. Sports & Rec Editor
The first real Oscar contender has emerged. “Gone Girl” is directed by David Fincher, who is arguably today’s best director with such classics as “Fight Club”(1999) and “Seven”(1995) under his belt, and stars Ben Affleck, who has been on a roll with recent films such as “The Town” (2010) and “Argo” (2012). “Gone Girl” is the story of the disappearance of Amy Dunne— played by Rosamund Pike—and the subsequent investigation that centers on her husband Nick Dunne, played by Affleck. The less information you know about this film, the better it will be. The acting in this film is incredible. Just on casting alone, this movie automatically gets a passing grade. Affleck continues to show why he is one of the best actors in the business today with another truly great performance. Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry give great surprise performances in supporting roles in which both step out of their usual comedic zone. The person who steals the show and gives the best performance in the film is Pike. Pike, who before this film was perhaps best known for “Wrath of the Titans”(2012) gives an unbelievable performance in the film and she should be one of the front
runners come Oscar season. Don’t be surprised if all the actors in this film are up for Oscar gold come February. “Gone Girl” accurately depicts how we use and are used by the media. The film will make you question if what we really see on television is the truth and give you an insight on what individuals given special attention in the media must go through and feel. It makes you realize how we as a society, for the most part, blindly rush to make judgments on people and issues, without knowing the full story. “Gone Girl” has a very realistic and dark unapologetic tone which works great for the film, keeping you interested from start to finish. The movie keeps you on the edge of your seat as you feel like you’re part of the investigation trying to piece everything together. It makes you constantly question your stance as every scene brings a new twist and turn until the end, which will leave you speechless. This film ultimately makes an impact on your thoughts and when it’s over you will find yourself unable to move as you will still be sitting there trying to fully digest what you have just seen. “Gone Girl” is one of the best movies of the year and one that needs to be seen in theaters.
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Much like renting a house together for the first time, students should think twice before joining a fantasy football league with their best friend. The idea may seem great at the time, but tensions always arise when someone starts to lose. “No one likes to lose, but everyone wants to make fun of the guy who did lose,” said Jeremy Hudson, sophomore business major. “I’ve definitely had some friends who have gotten into it over trash talk. But we’re all bros. They’re pissed off for a few days and then the next week starts and they forget all about it.” Hudson mostly plays with friends from high school. For him it’s a way of staying connected. “We’ve all had spats but we’ve never had anything that went beyond that,” he said. “I think if fantasy football can ruin your friendship
permanently, you’re probably not that good of friends.” In some leagues, however, even the strongest bonds of friendship are tested. “I think it’s more likely that friendships will be ruined (by fantasy football) if money is involved,” said Trent Waters, senior English major. “I know I’ve lost a friend like that. People get really serious when there’s money on the line.” According to him, these leagues are much more competitive. “Even if it’s only $5 or $10 no one wants to get ripped off—especially if you earned it by winning or you feel like someone is cheating,” he said. Cheating usually occurs if two players collaborate against the rest of the league. One player realizes he can’t come back from a crummy season and decides to trade his best players to another fantasy owner. “I’ve never had any trou-
ble other than that. It’s fun to compete but it’s nothing to get upset over,” he said. Relationships aren’t always threatened when fantasy football is introduced. Veronica Vanzeipel, fifth grade teacher, has been playing fantasy football with her husband the last three years. “We actually are unique in that we weren’t actually interested in football, either of us, until we both started becoming interested at the same time so we learned it together,” she said. “That’s why we joined (a league) together.” Vanzeipel’s at the top of her league and although some minor trash-talking occurs between her and her husband, she claims their relationship is still as strong as ever. “I think it brings us together not so much that I feel closer because of it, but I know that if only one of us were doing it we would have to spend more time apart,” Vanzeipel said.
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Boise State’s Cycle Learning Center hosts a Bike Corral at every home football game. They tape off an area just for fans to park their bikes. During the games, people can leave their bikes there and feel secure knowing that their bikes are in a safe, monitored place. “There is a lot of other bike parking around the stadium, but we are there,” said Phil Hobbs, Cycle Learning Center employee. “It’s corralled off. We’ve got people there the entire time. We’re watching the bikes basically. It’s pretty handy.” Employees working the Bike Corral get there about four hours before the game starts, and are there for an
hour after the game ends. If people don’t get their bikes in that time, the bikes end up back at the Cycle Learning Center. “We’ve been doing it for at least two or three years and we’ve only ever had maybe three to five bikes that haven’t been picked up and ended up back here,” Hobbs said. The Bike Corral is something that a lot of students don’t know about. Boise State freshman Kailee Heikkila states that the Bike Corral can be very beneficial to students, and that she will be using it at the next home game. “I don’t trust my lock, and with BSU games there are a lot more people because it is a locally known team,” Heikkila said. “There’s always a question in the back of my mind if my bike is go-
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The Cycle LEarning Center is located across from the SUB. ing to be there when I walk out because I’ve known a couple people who have had their bikes stolen this year.” The Bike Corral is completely free. Students who
ride their bikes to home games can drop them off and know that their bike will be safe. “People don’t have to worry about having to lock
(their bikes) up all over the city and stuff like that,” said Brant Habra, Cycle Learning Center employee. “It promotes people to ride their bikes here. I think it’s
great; we get people to ride their bikes.” The Cycle Learning Center will be continuing to have these services for the remainder of the season.
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Over the course of a collegiate season there are certain games that mean more than others. Marquee matchups are those that, as an athlete and a fan, you can’t help but circle on your calendar. In some cases, these games have a lasting significance long after the final horn is blown. Boise State vs. Idaho is one of those games. The Boise State men’s
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hockey club is set to face off against the University of Idaho men’s hockey club in the fourth annual Black and Blue rivalry game at CenturyLink Arena on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. All proceeds of the event go to Metro Meals on Wheels, a local nonprofit which supplies meals to the elderly in Ada County. The event allows players to benefit their community while also competing in such a storied instate rivalry. Together the clubs have raised around $60,000 in the past three
years. Fans and alumni can experience a top-notch premier hockey game live in the heart of the Treasure Valley. Boise State is coming off one of its best seasons to date following their 20132014 campaign. The Broncos finished last season ranked seventh out of 44 teams in the western region of the American Collegiate Hockey Association and hope to continue the trend this year. This season the Broncos are currently 7-1 while the
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Boise STate played U of I in last year’s face off. Vandals are 0-2. Free tickets are available for Boise State students and staff, while supplies
last, at the Boise State Recreation Center. The public can purchase tickets at CenturyLink
Arena for $20 on the day of the event, or in advance by calling (208) 9721819.
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Grant HEdrick runs the ball against BYU.
Glory days renewed Brandon Walton
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Fans were taken back to the glory days of Boise State football Friday night, the days of Kellen Moore and company when the Bronco offense was virtually unstoppable. The Broncos put up a whopping 55 points, the most on the season, against BYU in the win and showed Bronco nation that they still have a highly potent offense. The Broncos had 637 yards of total offense, the second most on the season thus far. ‘Things are starting to click more because we have more guys involved,” offensive coordinator Mike Sanford said. “We’re in more of a rhythm because more people are touching the ball and that’s the biggest difference.” The Broncos had nine players with a reception and six players carry the ball in the victory. With the injury to Matt Miller, Boise State needed the other players to step up in a big way—and
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they have. The biggest one has been sophomore wide receiver Thomas Sperbeck who had a game and career high six catches for 148 yards and a touchdown. “He is taking advantage of his opportunities,” head coach Bryan Harsin said. “He is showing some consistency at that position and if you get the ball to him, he is going to have a great chance of making a play.” Speaking of career highs, senior quarterback Grant Hedrick threw for a careerhigh 410 yards and accounted for five touchdowns. His 439 total yards are the sixth most in school history. With his performance over the last three games, the Air Force game seems like a distant memory for everyone except Hedrick. “I knew that wasn’t my best performance and I knew I had to prove that to myself,” Hedrick said. “This was personal for me.” Finally, junior running back Jay Ajayi is living up to his self-proclaimed nickname “The Jay Train” as the
running back steamrolled to 118 yards on the ground and two touchdowns. “Jay is running the ball well,” Hedrick said. “It seems when he is running well, things are rolling for us offensively.” So, what has been the key to this offensive turnaround for the Broncos? “The preparation that we have been putting in at practice,” Ajayi said. “We are having the best practices we have had in a long time.” Another factor for the Broncos has been the lack of turnovers. The Broncos have only turned the ball over twice in their last two games. “When we take care of the football, we have a great chance of winning,” Harsin said. The Broncos will now have a week off before they start the final month of the season with aspirations of finally bringing an outright Mountain West championship to The Blue. “We are going to do everything we can to make it a November to remember,” Sanford said.
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