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WEEKLY EVENTS All the Way: Film Screening Wednesday, November 2
SUB Special Events Center, 7:00 PM Part of the Patriotic Choices program, this film screening will involve the topic of social justice in times of a divided America. The film is about President Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Act, and is sure to spark discussion about our current political situation.
Scott Dikkers Lecture Thursday, November 3
SUB Special Events Center, 7:00 PM, FREE How uncool; founder of The Onion, Scott Dikkers will be giving a talk in the SPEC. Seriously, though, he’ll be bringing some humor into the very serious political conversations we’ve been having this year, be there or don’t.
RED Shirt Friday Veteran’s Day Celebration Friday, November 4
Boise State Campus, All day RED here stands for “Remember Everyone Deployed,” and Red Shirt Friday is Boise State’s Veteran’s Day kickoff event. Wear a red shirt to remember those deployed.
Broncos Women’s Basketball vs. Alaska-Fairbanks Sunday, November 6
Taco Bell Arena, 2:00 PM, FREE with Student I.D., $6 otherwise After getting your extra hour of sleep, come out and support Broncos women’s basketball as they take on Alaska-Fairbanks in their season opener.
William Fitzsimmons with Laura Burhenn (of the Mynabirds) Sunday, November 6
The Olympic Venue, 1009 Main Street, $15, 21+ In the mood to hear some autumnal singer-songwriter crooning? Look no further; William Fitzsimmons and Laura Burhenn are sure to tear up the Olympic Venue stage in a very chill way.
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INSIDE: 11/01/16
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Patty Bowen
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OPINION EDITOR Andy Ridgeway
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NEWS EDITOR
Samantha Harting
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NEWS REPORTER
Natasha Williams
JARED LEWIS / THE ARBITER
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National Book Award Winner books it to campus : pg. 13
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 Ted Atwell
GRAPHIC DESIGNER JARED LEWIS / THE ARBITER
SAMANTHA MCGRAW / THE ARBITER
Nancy Flecha
Remembering Sierra “Simon” Bush: pg. 6
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NEWS Frank Church Conference offers political insight on campus Samantha Harting News Editor After months of watching a political mess unfold this election season, multiple speakers came to the 33rd annual Frank Church Conference on Friday, Oct. 28 to discuss politics and prose, as well as to offer insight into the inner workings of American politics. Some are saying America has witnessed the most unprecedented campaign in recent history due to the harsh rhetoric between the presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Multiple political professionals and politicians
shared their thoughts to discuss the root causes for how Clinton and Trump became the next possible leaders of the country. Though the incivility expressed throughout this election has seemed large in comparison to other years, the speakers discussed how it is rather a part of a historical pattern. Incivility: past and present Cornell Clayton, director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service at Washington State University, gave the opening address titled, “American Rage: Division and Anger in U.S. Politics.”
“As bad as our civil discourse is today, it has been worse—a lot worse—in the past,” Clayton said. Clayton explained how the election campaigns of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1800 also involved harsh language and reputation smearing. He also mentioned the threats Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt received when running for president, which were brutal by today’s standards. These times of incivility are often accompanied by other shifts in the nation. “All of these are periods that political scientists often associate with what we call critical election periods—
where you see tectonic shifts in party structures,” Clayton said. “These are also periods often associated with mass social movements and the enfranchisement of new
“estCongress is deadlocked. It’s not in the interof our country that we have a Congress
that can’t function. Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, you hope Congress can get some results for the country.”
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Americas.” The timing of these tense periods also speak to the notion that they are not the cause of political upheaval. “This is all to say that incivility is a symptom, and not a cause, of deep divisions in the body of politics—which makes sense,” Clayton said. “We get more passionate and we care a lot more about our politics.” Clayton said our elected officials are more polarized than they have been in over a century, according to a Princeton study. Lack of cooperation
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district—and Congressman Martin Frost—former Democratic member of the House of Representatives representing the 24th congressional district of Texas.
To speak about the need to reach across the aisle, Clayton’s address was followed by a panel discussion. Moderated by Congressman Larry LaRocco, this panel included Congressman Tom Davis— former Republican member of the House of Representatives representing Virginia’s 11th congressional
Davis and Frost wrote a book together in 2014 titled, “The Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis,” in which they both gave their views on how to improve the political sphere in the United States. “Congress is deadlocked. It’s not in the interest of our country that we have a Congress that can’t function,” Frost said “Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, you hope Congress can get some results for the country.” Frost gave an example of cooperation by recounting when President Lyndon Johnson became president in 1964, after Lincoln’s assassination. Frost said it was a high priority for Johnson to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but this required him to gather Republican votes. “Without that cooperation across party lines, the Civil Rights bill would never have been passed,” Frost said. “You have to ask yourself, ‘Could that happen today?’”
How we got here Frost said he’s been asked many times how the U.S. chose two such unfavorable candidates. “It was kind of a perfect storm; Trump figured out how to get all of this free media and he managed to sail along and the other people in his own party couldn’t compete with him,” Frost said. “Hillary’s only opponent—Bernie Sanders—was someone who’d been a Socialist all of his life and didn’t become a Democrat until the day he filed for office.” Davis said lack of voter participation in the primaries is also a factor. “November is nothing more than what we call a constitutional formality. The real race for these member is the primary election—that’s the one that counts,” Davis said. Though this is a vital part of election season, not everyone is able to vote. “Independents are the largest growing group in the American electorate, but they generally don’t participate in primaries—in some states they’re not allowed to,” Davis said. “They only get the choices the parties give them.” With the current presidential options, some people are opting to vote for alternatives. “The problem with the third-party candidate is that you can get a big vote, but it could be spread out evenly
After the Republican Party was formed in 1854, an elephant appeared in a political cartoon as a symbol for Republicans. After cartoonist Thomas Nast used the animal in an 1874 cartoon, with the label “the Republican vote,” it became the symbol for the whole Republican Party.
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Women in politics In five of the last six presidential elections, the Republican candidate has carried the vote of white female voters, Frost explained. This has changed, for the most part, with this election as many women are voting for Clinton.
Many other countries have elected women into positions of power, putting the United States behind, Frost said Davis, as well as Frost, explained women belong in politics. Davis said women make better candidates than men. “People don’t think women are as likely to be corrupt and they end up making better candidates,” Davis said. Women looking to go into
politics have an optimal time in front of them, according to Davis. With the turmoil the current candidates have created, America will be ready for a fresh start after November. “I think we’re going to survive this election just fine,” Davis said. The full conference can be viewed on Boise State University Television Production’s YouTube channel.
During Andrew Jackson’s 1828 presidential campaign, his opponents called him a jackass. Jackson embraced the term and it was used in his campaign posters. Thomas Nast, a political cartoonist, made the symbol popular in the 1870s and it came to represent the whole Democratic Party.
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across the country, and you wind up with zero electoral votes,” Frost said.
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NEWS
In memory of Sierra “Simon” Bush
Boise State student is remembered for their wit, perseverance and individuality Patty Bowen Editor-in-Chief Sitting in the kitchen of freshman gaming, interactive media and mobile technology major Samantha McGraw’s house for the first time, Sierra “Simon” Bush pulled out a pair of red chopsticks and began to eat their marshmallow filled bowl of cereal. “She ate everything with chopsticks,” McGraw said. According to McGraw, this was just one of the ways Bush put creative, fun energy into everything they did. Bush, a freshman engineering major, was found dead south of Idaho City at 7:46 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22, following their disappearance weeks before. According to Chief of the Boise Police Department, William Bones, the
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investigation surrounding the cause of death is still on-going. Bush was born on April 11, 1998, in Nampa, Idaho at the former Mercy Hospital. Bush was an active part of the Boise State community; they were members of the Honors College, the Bee Team and the Creative Writing Outlet Club. According to Mary Helen Green, Bush’s mother, Bush always had an active desire to learn. “Just before (Sierra) started Kindergarten, I came to pick her up one day, and they said she had burst into tears because she was upset that she hadn’t learned how to read yet and she was like 4-years-old,” Green said. “She was very anxious to start reading so they let her read the “Dick and Jane” books when she was like four.” Bush attended Discovery Elementary School and Chap-
arral Elementary School. Afterwards, she attended Meridian Middle School where Bush “wanted to do all the honors classes,” according to Green. “Sierra originally thought she would focus on art at Meridian Technical Charter High School because she loved art so much,” Green said. “But after she was there, she then told me ‘Mom, I think I want to do computer programming.’ Then when she had the electronics teacher she said, ‘I want to do electronics and engineering and that’s what I want to do.’” Bush had a strong desire to pursue both the arts and engineering. Before Bush’s death, Bush had talked with a Boise State career counselor about switching their major to English in order to pursue a career as an editor. According to Bush’s friend,
Evan Obeirne, Bush’s competing interests were a part of Bush’s constant desire to learn. “She wanted to study aerospace engineering, but that wasn’t her dream; she was just interested in it, which was the cool thing,” Obierne said. “She was interested in all of these things and then she would learn about them.” Obierne said even though Bush was a 4.0 student and could “do whatever they wanted,” Bush’s dream was to own a bookshop and live above it. Despite this dream, Bush continued to pursue engineering throughout high school. During Bush’s senior year, they interned with the Electrical Engineering Department at Boise State until they graduated and began college this spring. In August of 2015, Bush began a relationship that would
last for a year and several months with Lyra Bishop, a former student at Ohio State. The two met through an online chat group and had continued to talk for several years before deciding to date. “They told me they were polyamorous and they were explaining that to me, and I just had a moment where I thought ‘Oh god, I think I am too,’” Bishop said. “After that we started dating.” During their relationship, Bush shared several things with Bishop including several of Bush’s favorite books: “Six of Crows,” “Howl’s Moving Castle,” and “The Raven Cycle.” According to Bishop, Bush was a fan of comic books including the character Hawkeye. One day while at their local comic book store, Bishop found a “Hawkeye shirt
that just happened to be the right size and so I mailed that to them with a comic and a letter.” “I sent them the package with the shirt and when they were able to, they sent me back some rocks they found and a letter,” Bishop said. The couple co-wrote and edited stories together, occasionally video chatting when both of them had the chance. Bush was buried on Saturday, Oct. 29. Students who are interested in learning more about Bush can visit the Facebook page remembering Sierra/Simon Bush. “She was just a very kind and amazing person,” McGraw said. “Even when she was making fun of you, you felt honored and loved by it. It was like ‘Oh my gosh! She’s making fun of me! She loves me!’”
Parties discuss thoughts as local elections draw near ‘Adsdsdsd the Words’ refuses to compromise on human rights Health care, education, economic and federal lands reform create tension between parties With Election Day drawing near, both the Idaho Democratic and Republican parties are ramping up political activity in hopes of securing seats in the Idaho Legislature. While media attention rests on the national election, a great deal of power still rests with the state legislature—as shown by the 2015 decisions to allow concealed carry on campus and the continued struggle of the Add the Words campaign. The main issues at stake in this election, as stated by both parties, are healthcare, education, the economy and federal lands in Idaho. Both parties share concern for common issues, according to Idaho Democratic Chairman Bert Marley and Idaho Republican Party Executive Director David Johnston. Though they are interested in the same topics, their opinions differ on how to best handle them. One of those instances is education. Marley argued for providing adequate funding for higher education so as to give students and education relief from high expenses. However,
Johnston stated that innovation in classroom instruction is a higher priority than adjusting funding levels. The parties also differed on approaches to healthcare. The Republican side argued that increased premiums as a result of the Affordable Care Act— nicknamed Obamacare—was a main problem. Their solution is to push for repeal of the law. Democrats maintained that increasing access to the care itself through government aid, was more important than repealing the law. While healthcare and education were some of the issues both parties listed as important, there were some issues that were unique to each party. Johnston listed a number of socially conservative issues as being important. “Our basic Idaho values that a lot of Idahoans hold near and dear—whether that’s the second amendment, being prolife—are really important this election,” Johnston said. By contrast, Marley listed raising the minimum wage and curbing voter intimidation in some parts of the state as key platforms the Democratic Party is supporting in this election. “Raising the minimum wage
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People are sick and tired of business as usual no matter where it’s at. It’s definitely a year where people are getting engaged at an unprecedented level, because they want some change.” -Idaho Republican Party Executive Director David Johnston to a livable level is an issue. We’re very concerned about campaign workers intimidating voters in Northern Idaho. One of the things I think is so important is the right to be able to campaign, vote and express your opinions without fear of some sort of physical retaliation or intimidation,” Marley said. Perhaps the biggest issue both parties remained divided over was the handling of federal lands in Idaho. According to the Idaho Department of Lands, the federal government controls nearly two-thirds of the landmass in Idaho. Republican lawmakers argue those lands should be turned over to state and local governments, while Democrats maintain that those lands should remain under federal control. Marley was sharply opposed to giving federal lands to the state. “I don’t think the state of
HOUSE: 56 Republicans to 14 Democrats
Idaho has the capacity to take care of the federal lands. Look at fire suppression alone, what the federal government spends. It would have the potential of wiping out our state budget,” Marley said. “The other part of it is selling off some of those public lands so that they become private. Selling off land so we have money to manage the rest seems like a dangerous way to go. I think it’s important to Idahoans to keep our public lands public.” Johnston offered a different opinion on the issue. “The conversation isn’t about whether we are going to sell off our public lands to private ownership. The question is how can we best manage our lands so that we can be able to hunt, fish, recreate, but also be able to manage it in such a way that our land is actually usable in the future,” Johnston said. “If you compare how federal lands are being managed as opposed
to state, there isn’t any data that says state lands are not managed better than federal. Let us manage it so that we can do a better job.” The political structure of Idaho is mainly centered around the Republican Party. Democrats historically have had a hard time running against their Republican opponents in a number of congressional districts. Republicans hold a majority of 56 to 14 in the Idaho House and 28 to 7 in the Senate. Republican lawmakers usually represent most of the rural and suburban areas of the state, while Democrats hold influence in the large cities and population centers of Idaho. This year however, both parties have listed a number of races as being competitive in this election cycle, including Moscow, Lewiston, Sun Valley and Boise. Marley was cautiously optimistic about the prospect of Democrats gaining seats in the Idaho Legislature. “We have worked really hard; we’ve put organizers on the ground where we’ve never had organizers before. I’ll be really disappointed if we don’t make some gains,” Marley said. “There is a lot of enthusiasm especially among younger people
that I haven’t seen before. I’m excited because I think some issues have been raised that are important to young people and they got engaged, basically looking to help progressive candidates that are concerned about the same kind of issues they are.” Johnston argued that there was more energy on the Republican side. He stated that dissatisfaction with current Washington policies would drive a lot of people to the polls. “There is a lot of energy and momentum this election especially for Republicans, not only in the state but also the country. People are sick and tired of business as usual no matter where it’s at. It’s definitely a year where people are getting engaged at an unprecedented level, because they want some change,” Johnston said. Despite sharp differences in policy ideas, both parties agreed that becoming involved in the political process at any level is an important right and duty that American and Idaho citizens have. Students can vote on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 8.
SENATE: 28 Republicans to 7 Democrats TED ATWELL / THE ARBITER
Jacob Palmer Staff Writer
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OPINION
Unionize higher education
Graduate assistants, adjunct faculty and student-employees must stand together In August of this year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in a 3-1 decision that graduate students at private universities are employees with the right to unionize. The decision overturned a previous 2004 ruling, which determined that a student’s primary relationship to the university is educational, not economic. In the more recent ruling, the NLRB correctly recognized that the logic of their previous decision doesn’t make any sense. After all, economics determines whether students are eligible to receive an education from a private university. Students establish an economic relationship with the university before they enter into an educational relationship with the institution in question. Boise State, as a public university, wasn’t directly impacted by the ruling, but the NLRB’s decision speaks to the growing support for labor rights on college campuses across the country. In September, studentemployees at American University hosted a sit-in to protest Aramark’s decision to fire Amanda Ebanks, a law school student who had worked for the company for ten years. Earlier this month, the Association of Pennsylvania State Colleges and University Faculties, a higher education union, went on strike to
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Chicago & Midwest Regional Joint Board, Workers United protest against Aramark at the CMRJB Madison Aramark Protest.
Idaho law does not require employers to provide vacation working weekends and holidays protest a devastating lack of state funding. Over 100,000 professors, adjuncts and students from 14 different public universities took to the streets to challenge Pennsylvania’s Legislature, who conceded to many of their requests.
Universities—and campus foodservice providers—are like any other economic institution in that they have a financial incentive to keep operating costs as low as possible. This profitability is fantastic because it benefits students, who get
to enjoy new buildings and well-funded programs, but it’s also important to think about the people whose labor makes universities profitable in the first place. Without a small army of adjunct faculty, studentemployees and graduate as-
sistants, the day-to-day operations of any university in the country would instantly grind to a screeching halt. So why are these employees so often underpaid and underappreciated? Evaluated as individual workers, adjunct faculty, stu-
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dent-employees and graduate assistants are considered expendable; high turnover is generally considered the cost of doing business. Student and graduate student employment is designed to be temporary. Students are expected to graduate, after all. Adjunct positions are also temporary. No one can live on an adjunct professor’s salary for very long, especially if they’re trying to support a family. This isn’t a problem, from the university’s perspective. When an adjunct gets tired of working for next to nothing and quits, there are always two or three twenty-somethings with freshly-minted M.A. degrees and devastating amounts of student loan debt who are willing to fill the vacancy for a couple of semesters. The short-term nature of the employment leads employers to believe the work isn’t valuable because the workers performing it can be replaced. This is partly true: if the university decreased wages for studentemployees and adjunct faculty, there would probably still be a lot people willing to accept these positions. There’s always someone desperate enough to accept what they’re offered with no questions asked—which is precisely why collective bargaining is so important. It prevents a race to the bottom. Maintaining the university’s profitability is essential, but it has to be done in a way that protects the
most economically vulnerable employees—even when that employment is only intended to be temporary. Collective bargaining is the best way to strike a balance between the financial interests of the university and the collective wellbeing of university employees. John Schmitt, the Senior Economist at the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington, DC, published a policy paper examining the service industry and concluded that “in the 15 lowest-paying occupations, unionization raises wages about 15.5 percent. Unionization is also associated with a 26 percentage point greater likelihood of having health insurance.” In other words, collective bargaining would raise the standard of living for employees on campus and give adjunct faculty the leverage they need to push for the benefits they’re denied under the current system. Unfortunately, collective bargaining is a little complicated in Idaho, because Idaho is one of twentyfour “right-to-work” states. Right-to-work laws weaken participation in unions by outlawing compulsory union membership. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 6.8 percent of wage and salary workers in Idaho were members of a union in 2015. Obviously, the “right to work” label is a misnomer; the real goal of right-to-work laws is to strip unions of their funding mechanism (membership dues) by appealing to individualism and personal choice. By making union membership optional, Idaho jeopardizes the longterm economic stability of
its citizens by appealing to their short-term financial interest. Many Idahoans are perfectly content to go along with this, which is why Idaho lags behind other states when it comes to the issue of worker’s rights. Unlike many states with higher rates of union participation, Idaho law does not require employers to provide vacation, holiday, severance or sick pay. Employers are not required to provide employees with a discharge notice or reason for discharge, which makes it easy to get away with discrimination. In addition, Idaho law does not require employers to offer rest periods, breaks, lunch breaks, holidays, pay raises, fringe benefits or premium pay for working weekends and holidays. The general lack of protection for workers has eroded the economic stability of the middle class, contributing to the rise of conservative populism in the United States. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, for example, has repeatedly rallied his conservative base by promising to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Trump’s campaign and his promise to “Make America Great Again” are, in part, a nostalgic nod to a 1960s manufacturing economy. Naturally, this brand nostalgia appeals to Trump supporters. According to Ben Casselman of FiveThirtyEight, republicans and democrats “talk about manufacturing because of what it represents in the popular imagination: a source of stable, well-paying jobs, especially for people without a college degree.”
What Trump and his supporters fail to realize, however, is that there was nothing inherently prosperous or secure about the manufacturing industry. In terms of pay, benefits, harassment and discrimination, a job in the manufacturing industry is like a job in any other industry. When Trump says he’s going to bring back manufacturing jobs, he’s not talking about offering Americans the opportunity to perform sweatshop labor for 20 cents an hour. Casselman correctly notes that, when Trump (and Clinton) promise to protect manufacturing jobs, “they really mean a certain kind of job: well-paid, long-lasting, with opportunities for advancement. Those aren’t qualities associated with working on a factory floor; they’re qualities associated with being a member of a union.” There’s nothing that prevents employees from coming together to challenge Idaho’s status as a right-towork state—it’s simply illegal to force co-workers to opt-in and pay dues. The goal, then, should not be to resurrect industries that are gone and never coming back, but to unionize the industries that fuel the American economy: healthcare, the service sector and, perhaps most importantly, the education industry. Collective bargaining, while timeconsuming and incredibly difficult to organize, is the best way to promote longterm, economic stability for students and workers in Idaho.
Gendered language is a barrier to inclusivity Patty Bowen Editor-in-Chief Since their disappearance, The Arbiter has received several comments about the gender neutral pronouns used to update readers about Sierra “Simon” Bush. This is just another example of how far behind we are as a society in creating language that is gender inclusive. Our inability to feel comfortable with nongendered pronouns should not politicize the death of someone as important to the community as Bush was. We should strive to use gender neutral pronouns as the default in order to remove the stigma that assumes someone using gender neutral pronouns must be non-binary. Our use of pronouns only makes room for the singular “they” in moments of gender inclusivity, when “referring to people who don’t want to be called “he” or “she,’” according to the Washington Post article announcing singular “they” as the 2016 word of the year. This defeats the purpose of a gender neutral pronoun because it assumes an individual doesn’t want to be gendered. It generally makes readers think a per-
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mercifully, a flickering nature. -Maggie Nelson
son is transgender, gender fluid or simply falls somewhere on the spectrum other than male or female. This is problematic because questions of gender are personal, sensitive and should only be brought attention to if an individual wants them to be. To automatically gender an individual or to assign an individual a gender seems unfair to their right to not use gender as a way to find identity. In Maggie Nelson’s book of poetry “The Argonauts,” she argues that the idea of gender is unfair to the individual because it is a “fleeting spectrum” that is constantly changing. “It’s not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one’s sex. Gendered self consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.” And yet our language has built itself around genders making it difficult, if not impossible, to take away the presence of gender in our writing and speech. Gendered language should be treated like a colored
spectrum, where the default is not to assume a color—a gender—but to assume neutrality. If we took this approach with gender, we would be able to free ourselves of the pesky burden of constantly needing to know what someone’s gender is when it really shouldn’t matter. The argument surround the use of the singular “they” continues to be debated in academic circles because of it is still considered, by some people, grammatically incorrect and because it makes the singular or plural nature of a pronoun ambiguous. Unfortunately, embracing and using the singular “they” in contexts when gender is not a issue of contention is one of the easiest ways we can create a more gender inclusive campus. I urge students to replace “he,” “she” pronouns with “they.” I urge them to say “significant other” instead of “boyfriend” or “girlfriend.” We should not fall back on gender as one of our core identifiers. If we as a campus work harder to emphasize other identifying traits, we could move away from the politics we have created and stop perpetuating the gender binary.
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the worst gender wage gap in America, paying women less than 69 percent of what men earn. Women in Idaho are paid 73 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earn. Over a year, this amounts to a yearly wage gap of $11,605 between women and men working fulltime. To women like Stacie Dagres, a salary coach at Salary Coaching for Women, this large problem hasn’t changed over the years. “We haven’t really come a long way. The statistics are staying the same,” Dagres said. “We’re at the bottom—nothing to be proud about.” The gender wage gap has continued to widen in almost all fields, and the pushback from women
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demanding equal pay is beginning to rise. According to Dagres, the pay gap begins early on in a woman’s career. In order to remedy the issue, it is necessary to start at the root of the problem—negotiating a woman’s starting salary before she accepts the job. “Please be aware that you could be making a very big mistake—one that will have repercussions for the rest of your life, and follow you even into the last days of your retirement,” Dagres said. “What’s the mistake? Please don’t forget to negotiate your starting salary.” Female educators in America earn 78.6 percent of their male counterparts. Nationally, female educators earn approxi-
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mately $897 per week. This gap affects educators on all levels—including college professors—according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Despite a gap in faculty members’ wages across the United States, men and women working student jobs at universities do not currently have a wage gap based on gender. According to Debbie Kaylor, director of the Boise State Career Center, a student at Boise State—working a front desk position, for example—would be paid the same wage regardless of gender. “Five to seven years ago, the Career Center and Human Resources Department worked to develop a job classification system specifically for student
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ing,” the analysis states. According to the Idaho Department of Labor, Idaho’s economy has seen a 0.4 percent growth in careers in science, engineering, math and information technology. The push for women to go into STEM careers starts as early as high school, due to the growing demand for STEM graduates. At Boise State, the undergraduate enrollment of women in STEM degrees has remained fairly constant since 2012. Only 28 percent of the students who enrolled in those degrees were women, while the overwhelming majority were men. According to Joe Gallo, a freshman biology major, women should be free to choose any career they like, and not be pushed one way or the other. “Women should just do what they want; it’s none of our business to decide what they should be doing or pursuing,” Gallo said. Despite the growth and the increasing push for women to enter the STEM workforce, there remains a gap in pay in those careers nationally. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women in architecture and engineering careers earn only 82 percent of what men earn for the same job. Gallo, originally from Iowa, believes women should be paid the same as men in all work
places. “I didn’t know there was (a wage gap) since I just moved here,” Gallo said. “Where I work it’s equal and all other places should be too.” For students who identify as transgender or gender fluid, the size of their wage gap isn’t only determined by gender. According to a paper released from The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, transgender pay discrimination depends on the direction of the gender change. The paper explains that female-tomale (ftm) people don’t experience a change in pay nearly as commonly as male-to-female (mtf) people. The paper suggested that transgender men may even experience an increase in pay and acceptance in the workplace, while transgender women’s pay drops as much as a third. According to Kaylor, Boise State does not discriminate based on gender identity, but they do try to prepare each student for their individual needs. “As far as men, women and transgender students, I think the vent we take with career preparation—and I don’t think it’s so much career preparation as much as professional skills and the job search— but the vent we take is different,” Kaylor said. Though Boise State students are protected against discrimi-
nation for their gender identity and their sexual orientation, there is no statewide legislation protecting them from discrimination and unequal pay in Idaho. There is legislation in place protecting both race and gender, but only 12 cities in Idaho have non discrimination in place for the LGBT community. The Add the Words campaign is fighting to put state legislation into place to protect all people from the wage gap. According to Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln, chair of Add the Words Idaho, the goal this year is to inspire legislators. “It’s hard to measure the wage gap when hardworking Idahoans who may be gay or transgender don’t have a safe place to come forward,” Gaona-Lincoln said. “That’s our main goal this year, to deliver messages for those hardworking Idahoans, so that we are legislated not by religion but with due process.”
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jobs,” Kaylor said. “Along with the classification system was a pay grading system. We did that because we noticed inequities between departments.” Chelsea Kiene, the Center for American Progress’ senior media coordinator, agreed with Kaylor, but mentioned that the systems don’t protect against another gap on campus: federal aid. “Our experts don’t believe there is wage gap data on student jobs, but they are looking into it,” Kiene said. “However, we recently released an analysis that tracks the gender wage gap for federal aid recipients of every public and nonprofit four-year college in the United States.” For students beginning college, a man working a job on campus would be granted more federal aid after six years of working than a woman would in the same position after ten years, according to an analysis from the Center for American Progress, conducted in early September of 2016. However, the gap between genders varies depending on the acceptance rates at the school. “The gender wage gap is most pronounced at elite private nonprofit colleges, with men who received federal aid earning an average of $26 thousand more per year than women 10 years after enroll-
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The Boise State MFA Program focuses on degree tracks in fiction and poetry. This allows them to bring authors from around the world to come to Boise to read their work to the community. On Friday, Nov. 11, Robin Coste-Lewis will be featured as part of the MFA Reading Series. Lewis received her MFA from NYU’s program and she is a recent winner of the National Book Award for poetry. Thanks to the MFA Reading Series, students and other community members will have a chance to hear her read her poetry. After the reading, there will be a question and answer
portion as well as book signing. Professor Martin CorlessSmith, along with other staff members, helps to find the right authors to come to campus and share their work. Smith found Lewis coincidentally around a year ago when he went to Oregon to support a friend on a panel. The MFA Reading Series bringing in authors can take up to a year of communication. In the time that Smith was contacting Lewis, Lewis had won her National Book Award for poetry. Smith said “she became more famous and hard to get in contact with,” but he kept in touch to make sure Boise State students had a chance to hear her work. According to Smith, since
the MFA Reading Series looks to bring well established poets, it can be difficult to come up with the funds since they have limited resources. “Funding hasn’t increased in the 16 years I have been here. We used to have about eight authors a semester and now it is two to three a semester,” said Smith. The cost of travel and flights has increased a lot in the past 16 years, and since funding hasn’t changed to adapt to that, bringing in authors is costly. According to Smith, this wouldn’t be a problem for the MFA Reading Series if they only brought in local authors but “they love to hear and listen to different work of people of many different backgrounds,
cultures, and views,” said Smith. Smith also noted the MFA Reading Series is excited to bring in an author like Lewis while using these limited resources because it brings up many issues that deal with representing the historical evaluation of female and black identity. Smith believes that putting these types of themes into poetry can be a great learning experience for the community who attends and listens to the readings. Lewis’ reading will be held in the Ming Studios in Boise, which will open it up to other people in the community who typically wouldn’t attend a campus event.
Robin Coste Lewis is the author of “Voage of the Sable Venus” which won the 2016 National Book Award.
A live review of the Brand New show (spoiler alert: they slayed)
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Elise Adams Culture Reporter
Brand New played with Modern Baseball and The Front Bottoms at the Revolution House in Garden City on Friday, Oct 28.
The crowd was an iceberg; slowly, through intentioned pushing, concertgoers were able to make their way from the back of the crowd, through the middle of the shoving inferno of arms and legs, to the front, giving way to a view of the stage where Modern Baseball, The Front Bottoms and Brand New cast spells over their audience all night. Friday, Oct. 28 at the Revolution Concert House in Garden City, these three bands played as part of Brand New’s breakup tour. Emotions in the venue were high. Modern Baseball, always a crowd pleaser, started their set shortly after doors opened, and thanked everyone for
coming early to see them. During the song “Your Graduation” everyone seemed to agree that coming early was a good call — it was a huge hit. They ended their set with the downbeat tune “Just Another Face” from their album “Holy Ghost,” and the mood shifted to a more somber one. That changed, however, when The Front Bottoms started their set. They played some new songs, some old ones; it seemed like everyone in the crowd, jumping around and screaming, knew every word to the 2015 song “Cough it Out.” Throwbacks were an even bigger hit; everyone in the crowd seemed to put their hands up and shout in unison the lyrics to the 2013 hit “Twin Size Mattress.” During more upbeat songs, like “Skeleton” and “Funny
You Should Ask,” the back of the crowd rushed forward all at once, packing everyone in like sardines. Bouncers on the other side of the protective fence were constantly having to pull people out to safety. The mood changed, again, when Brand New started their set. While they were setting up, tying bouquets of flowers to their mic stands, the audience was actually vibrating with anticipation. Brand New started off with their most recent single, “I Am a Nightmare.” This got the crowd excited and singing along, without becoming too sentimental right away— they saved that for when they started playing their third studio album, and arguably their best, “The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me.” After playing a few more throwbacks, such as “Okay I
Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don’t,” they played the first track of their third album, “Sowing Season.” The jump-around kind of mood that song created didn’t last long — the rest of the album, punctuated by brief periods of half-hearted moshing, was undeniably sad. No one was complaining, though; those in attendance knew what they were walking into. At the end of the album playthrough, vocalist Jesse Lacey thanked everyone for coming, gave a shoutout to the touring bands, and a video montage played on the back wall of Brand New’s band members in their early years. At the end of the night, there wasn’t a single person in the house who would say these three bands didn’t absolutely kill it. This was, truly, a show for the ages.
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MFA Reading Series brings Robin Coste-Lewis to campus for poetry reading
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CoverGirl hires their first cover boy James Charles, a 17-year-old high school senior from Bethlehem, NY, was recently offered a beauty contract with cosmetics giant CoverGirl. He’s the first male model in the company’s 55-year history, and is making waves as a result. Judging by his online popularity, it’s no wonder why he was selected; a collection of makeup tutorials, selfies and quirky text posts have earned Charles nearly 780,000 followers on Instagram, and over 120,000 on YouTube. From special effects makeup of a halfscorched face to bright silver glitter eyebrows, Charles is a one-man army when it comes to unique and beautiful makeup looks. The teenager went viral earlier this year for retaking his senior pictures, and bringing his own ring light from home to ensure that his highlight would “pop.” The post on CoverGirl’s Facebook page announcing Charles as their new spokesperson received over 20,000 likes and was shared nearly 8,500 times. “I’m honestly so excited,” said Karly Workman, an English literature major at Boise State and fellow makeup enthusiast. “When I found out I
just stalked his Instagram like crazy. I’m pumped about it. I think it’s definitely a sign that the media is starting to become more accepting; it’s a step up and a step forward.” Men wearing makeup is by no means a new trend; according to Charlotte Tilbury, men in 18th century England were known to paint their faces white and redden their lips, and the earliest records of men wearing makeup are from Japan and China in 3000 BC. Still, men in cosmetics is something of a taboo, but has been on the rise in terms of social media popularity over the last several years. Makeup artists such as Manny Gutierrez, more commonly known as Manny Mua, have found success in posting makeup tutorials on YouTube and Instagram. In early March, cosmetics company Makeup Geek released an eyeshadow palette in collaboration with Gutierrez. Dehra McFaddan, a peer educator at the Gender Equity Center, is dedicated to gender equality and building a safe, inclusive environment at Boise State. “It’s super cool that CoverGirl was bold enough to make this statement,” she said. “I know a lot of companies are afraid to go against social norms, like gender roles.” Some believe, aside from being an interesting story, that
Charles’ induction to CoverGirl demonstrates a positive direction that society is moving in. “I think CoverGirl is a major figure in the makeup industry today, so I’d say it’s indicative of a cultural trend,” said Alyssa Milstead, a peer educator at the Gender Equity Center and member of the undergraduate English teaching program at Boise State. “The mainstream makeup industry showing that makeup isn’t a gendered thing is really powerful; they’re acknowledging that makeup can transcend the gender boundaries that we’re used to. We have a long way to go, but it’s exciting to see that CoverGirl is showing that there are people out there who identify as male and wear makeup.” In August of 2016, British makeup YouTuber Georgie Aldous faced online abuse after posting a video encouraging men to wear makeup. Trolls went so far as to get into arguments with his mother. “There’s such a huge stigma around men wearing makeup, and it is annoying,” said Aldous. Charles, before and after being signed by CoverGirl, has faced his fair share of online harassment. “The way the internet is, there will be people who don’t agree,” he said. “Those negative comments probably
make people not want to do it, because lots of people take that stuff very seriously, which is totally understandable. Online bullying has been a huge problem forever.” Still, Charles and other male
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makeup gurus won’t let haters get them down. “It’s amazing that this industry is going genderless,” said Charles. “It’s so important for everyone to feel included and welcome.”
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DEAD 8 FILM PRODUCTION CLUB FACEBOOK / COURTESY
Sitting at a circular table, bathed in warm light, 11 students gathered to pitch ideas for their film projects. Ideas began to mold into solid concepts as excitement boiled during the first meeting The Dead 8 Film Production Club had hosted in years. The Dead 8 Film Production Club is one of the oldest clubs at Boise State. Now led by President Will Tebo, the club gives students a place to practice creative filmmaking. The club was on a hiatus for about two years before its current revival, and is now open to students and community members of all experience levels. After the summer of 2014, Dead 8 disintegrated after they finished their last big film project of the summer. Tebo, a long-time member, has worked to bring the club back this semester. With the support of new faculty advisors, Professor Ryan Cannon and Professor Rulon Wood of the Department of Communication, the club’s involvement has
skyrocketed. Tebo was impressed with the amount of students Cannon and Wood brought in by promoting the club in their classes and by word of mouth. “These students got a bunch of their friends involved,” Wood said. Both advisors are excited to see what direction the club will go in because of how eager club members are to create. Currently, club members are working on production for one of the films they pitched during the first meeting of the group. During the meeting, some of the members discussed the jobs they would do on this project. According to Tebo, writing the script, composing audio and other production jobs are assigned on a volunteer basis. “A lot of it is just going to be, per project—who wants to be what—as long as they stick to doing it,” said Tebo. Generally, the club works on one project until it is completely finished. This helps to avoid “having the club fall apart” before moving on to the next film, Tebo said.
With the club making progress again, Tebo plans to lead the club to grow to a new standard. Dead 8 is going to be working on revamping its social media. “Dead Eight Productions” was the club’s YouTube channel from pre-hiatus years, but has not been updated in some time. As Tebo put it, “We’re definitely taking the club in a fresh direction,” so the club’s social media will surely be updated and changed. Tebo also noted even club’s name might be changed. Regardless which changes occur, Dead 8 exists “to provide a creative outlet for student filmmakers,” according to Tebo. The club provides a platform where students can expand their creative abilities through the production of a film. Dead 8 is always looking for more people to join in, no experience required. They meet every Friday at 2 p.m. in the Communication Building computer lab, room 114. Drop-ins are welcome.
Boise State Jazz Ensemble swings into Riverside Hotel for dancing event Elizabeth Finley Staff Writer Trumpets will wail and feet will shuffle as students and Boise community members step back into the 1920s on Friday, Nov. 11 to dance with the Boise State Jazz Ensemble. The dancing will begin at 7 p.m. This annual event has been running for four years, and will be held in the Sapphire Lounge at the Riverside Hotel. The swing dancing community has been growing the last three years in Boise due largely to Heirloom Dance Studio located downtown. “The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) initially had the idea four years ago but the big band kept it going,” said Alex Noppe, director of the Jazz Ensemble. “It gets the community and the students to work collaboratively.” To get the crowd moving, Sara Conners, a senior elementary education major, will be teaching a beginner lesson in swing dancing at the event. She normally teaches swing dancing every week at Heirloom Studios downtown. There is no need for a partner and beginners are highly encouraged to come. “We’ll be giving people building blocks they can use in social dancing,” Conners said. “A lot of our advanced dancers prefer to dance with beginners, because they can see what they need to
Sara Conners gives a swing dancing lesson at Camp Jitterbug 2016.
work on.” As for what music attendees will be dancing to, the Boise State Big Band has prepared about 30 songs, all based in the 30s, 40s and 50s eras. “We try and use authentic and original arrangements,” Noppe said. “Swing has been over since the 70s so we were shocked when we had to turn people away at the door last year.” There will be featured jazz vocalists from the jazz choir, but there will also be some instrumentalists who will be able to show off their vocal ability. According to Noppe, playing for dancers presents students with an opportunity to improve. “This is an experience music students will run into in a more professional environ-
ment,” Noppe said. “When you play for dancers it’s a little different because you have to keep a good groove going for them to dance to. It’s a little different than just reading a score.” While this event creates an opportunity for improvement for learners of both music and dance, the main goal of the evening is to simply have fun. “Swing dancing is a very personal listening and following experience,” Conners said. “I love being able to have a three minute conversation with someone without saying anything at all.” Students and community members are encouraged to buy their tickets early as this event does sell out. Tickets can be found at the Riverside Hotel website.
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Boise State film club makes comeback after two year hiatus
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Cross Country Wins MW Grace Norton Staff Writer The Boise State Men’s Cross Country team took the overall Mountain West Cross Country Championship at Falcon Crest Golf Club in Kuna, Friday, Oct. 28. Claiming the individual title for the men, junior Yusuke Uchikoshi completed the 8-kilometer course in 23:48.80 to win his first Bronco cross country race. “The men did a fantastic job of battling, especially in the last lap,” said Head Coach Corey Ihmels. “The team title came down to the last 400 meters. We had to battle down the stretch and we had two guys really step up in (Miler Haller) and (Rhys Park) that last little bit getting in front of those Colorado State guys.” Coach Ihmels went on to say “Yusuke and Mike (Mi-
chael Vennard) did a great job up front to put us in a position to get the team title. It’s an exciting thing for our guys to come together as a group and start to run together as a team, and it’s starting to show in the results.” While the Rams lead the majority of the race, the Broncos came back in the last kilometer to take the victory. Vennard finished right behind Uchikoshi at 24:00.70 in third place. In eighth and 12th place, Haller (24:13.70) and Park (24:24.30) finished ahead of a large pack of Colorado State runners, earning them secondteam All-MW honors. Chandler Austin came in 24:36.00 in 17th place for the Broncos. “I’m pretty excited to get this title,” Uchikoshi said. “This is my first title in the
United States, so I’m really happy about it. 4K to 6K was really tough on me, but the last kilometer I was trying to be patient and follow Colorado State. I decided that if I could follow the lead pack, I could make my move in the last 400 meters.” “He did a great job of staying patient and under control the whole way,” Ihmels said about Uchikoshi’s performance. “There were times in the race where I know he wanted to push and take the lead and he didn’t. That’s a tribute to his understanding of knowing how the race is going to go.” Since Boise State’s Men’s Cross Country team joined the conference in 2011, this is the first Mountain West title they’ve received. Ihmels was also awarded Mountain West Men’s Coach of the Year.
Boise State suffered its first loss against the Wyoming Cowboys
Evan Werner Sports & Rec Editor Boise State dropped 11 spots in the rankings on Sunday after their Saturday loss to Wyoming. Boise State, now 7-1, is second in the Mountain West conference with Wyoming, 6-2, having more wins within the conference. The game was tied in the 4th quarter 28-28, when quarterback Brett Rypien lost the ball giving Wyoming a safety and taking the lead 30-28, with a little over a minute left. ‘’We trust Brett, and they
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made a play,’’ said Boise State coach Bryan Harsin. “He’s trying to get the ball out. This is football, this is every week football and sometimes that ball bounces funny and it came out and they got the safety at a critical time in the game.’’ In order to succeed the Broncos need to start looking to play calls, as they come down the stretch of this season, they have been in too many close call games. The Broncos could have run the clock out and headed to overtime. Their decision to take a shot down field for a field
goal resulted in Wyoming’s saftey giving them a two point lead. Boise State also needs to be more consistant in the run game. It fell off in the second half of the game and has in previous games. Both Jeremy McNicholas and Alexander Mattison are great running backs, but they need to maintain their efforts throughout the whole game instead of only picking up yardage in one half of the game. Boise State comes home next week to play San Jose State and get back on track and put this close loss behind them.
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Boise State drops to No. 24 after loss to Wyoming
Riston Ramirez Sports & Rec Reporter
The 2013 college football season was the end of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) era and with that, 2014 gave birth to the College Football Playoffs (CFP). The BCS was created to determine a national champion. At the end of the BCS season, the top ranked team would be considered the national champion based on votes and there was no actual game. Often the BCS did determine a national champion, and also had controversial endings to the seasons. This was apparent in the 2003 season where Louisiana State Universty and University of Southern California shared the national championship. The College Football Playoffs were created to avoid this by having a clear winner in an actual national championship game. Sometimes
referred to as the “Plus-One System,” the CFP have one final game that is a national championship game. The Bowl Games
Today there are over 40 bowl games that teams play in, come the end of the season. Six of these bowls are highly regarded and are often referred to as the New Year’s Six. They are called this because they are mainly scheduled on the last Friday or Saturday of the year or on New Year’s Day. These Bowl Games are the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl and Peach Bowl. Three of these bowls are bound by contract to certain conference, meaning only certain teams can play in them. These bowls are the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Orange Bowl. The Rose Bowl is a bowl game for the number one team in
The selection committee ranks the teams based on conference championships won, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, comparison of results against common opponents and other factors.” -College Football Playoffs website.
the Pac-12 and the number one team in the Big Ten. The Sugar Bowl is a bowl game for the number one SEC team and the number one Big 12 team. The Orange Bowl is a bowl game for the number one ACC team and either the number two SEC team, number two Big Ten team, or Notre Dame—because they are independent. These bowl games are bound by contract to these conferences because they are known as the “Power Five.” “Power Five” meaning that the Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, ACC and Pac-12 are highly regarded, because they consist the best teams in col-
lege football. Generally these teams will be bigger, faster and stronger. Bowl’s Hosting the SemiFinals Two of the New Year’s Six bowl games must host the Semi-Finals every year. The bowls that host the semi-finals are on a three year rotation. The first year of playoffs was hosted by the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl. Last Year they were hosted by the Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl. This year, they will be hosted by the Fiesta Bowl and Peach Bowl.
The Semi-Finals
To determine who plays in the playoffs a selection committee determines the top four teams to play in the two bowl games. The number one seed will play the number four seed and the number two seed will play the number three seed. According to College Football Playoff’s website, “the selection committee ranks the teams based on conference championships won, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, comparison of results against common opponents and other factors.” Boise State
Since Boise State is not in a Power Five Conference they are in what is known as a Group of Five conference, commonly referred to as G5. The G5 consists of the Moun-
tain West, AAC, C-USA, Sun Belt Conference, and MAC. To play in a New Year’s Six bowl game this season, or any upcoming season for that matter, Boise State must be the highest ranked team out of not just the Mountain West, but the whole G5 Conference. Since the Cotton Bowl is not bound by contract and and not part of the playoffs this year it will host the top G5 team. The opponent for the top G5 team in the Cotton Bowl will be determined by the selection committee. When Boise State Athletic Director Curt Apsey was asked about the Broncos future and their potential spot in the Cotton Bowl, he said “If we don’t take care of our own business, none of that stuff matters.” He is soley focused on the team’s next game. Boise State will take on San Jose State on the Blue, Friday, Nov. 4. at 8:15 p.m.
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Boise State and the breaking down of playoffs and bowl games “
SPORTS & REc Grace Norton Staff Writer On Wednesday, Oct. 20, Boise State Tennis headed to the 2016 ITA Mountain Region Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 2016 team included Kyle Butters, Jack Heslin, Ryland McDermott, Morgan Stone, Pedro Platzeck and Greg Wischer. Wednesday included overall positive results from the team, 6-4 in singles and 1-1 in doubles. Butters defeated Weber State’s Cezary Walkusz 6-1,
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sets 6-4, 6-2. Sophomore, Greg Wischer joined the defeat in a tie breaker against Weber State’s Hou-En Chen 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6).However his loss to Denver’s Yannick James 6-3, 6-3 ended his run at the regional and moved him onto the consolation bracket. In a consolation match on Thursday, Wischer fell to Julien Evrard of Utah 6-4, 6-7 (4), 10-7. Pedro Platzeck also joined the winnings by defeating Utah State’s Dan Echeverry 6-4, 4-2 on Wednesday. Moving onto round 64,
I am so excited for Kyle and Jack for reaching the semis” -Head Coach Greg Patton
6-1 in round 128 and also Montana’s Alex Canellopoulos 6-3, 6-0 in round 64. These results moved him on to round 32. Thursday, Butter defeated Quentin Wacquez from Idaho State 4-6, 6-4, 6-0. However, he lost in a third set tiebreaker 5-7, 6-0, 7-6(3) against New Mexico State’s Christofer Goncalvas in the round of 16. Jack Heslin, competing at his first regional as a Bronco, won 6-0, 6-1 against University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s Peter Horauth and 6-4, 6-2 against Idaho State’s Sebastian Eden in the second round on Wednesday. The following day, Heslin was defeated by to Kai Wehnelt from Utah State 7-6 (5), 6-2 in the round of 32. Heslin played a consolation match Friday defeating Nevada’s Julien Evrard in two
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Platzeck lost to Felipe Fonseca of Idaho, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 leading him to also continue on in the consolation draw. Thursday Platzeck lost to Max Olson of Air Force 6-2, 6-3 in the consolation match. Ryland McDermott and Moran Stone both lost their round of single matches the first day. Stone was defeated by Richard Holberg of UNLV 6-4, 6-4 and McDermott lost 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 to Idaho’s Lucas Coutinho. Both also defeated their opponents in their consolations matches the following day. McDermott took his victory to Brighm Young University’s Derek Vincent in a tough third set tiebreak 6-2, 4-7, 10-7. Stone stole a pro-set tiebreaker in the third 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 over Nevada’s Sandro Lena.
Stone had two wins on Friday, followed by a fall to Denver’s Yannick James 7-5, 6-3. McDermott continued with two defeats against Utah’s Azat Hankuliyeu 4-6, 7-6 (5), 10-5 and Ruben Alberts of UNLV 6-1, 6-1. Saturday’s match for McDermott held a loss to Weber State’s Kris Van Wyk 6-4, 7-6(3) in the consolation draw’s round of 32. On Saturday, Butters and Heslin needed two more wins to qualify for Nationals in November in New York. They defeated NMSU’s Enrique Asmar and Sergi Espias 8-1 on Thursday and an 8-4 victory against BYU’s Aiden Corrazedo and Sam Tullis in round of 16 on Friday. Also, Saturday included a 6-3, 6-7 (3), 10-2 defeat in the semi-finals against New Mexico State’s Luis Flores and Christofer Goncalves. “I am so excited for Kyle and Jack for reaching the semis,” head coach Greg Patton said. “They have played very well together and now they are just two wins from the nationals. We have had some really good doubles teams come close to winning the regional in the past and these guys are just as good. They just have to keep talking, working together and carry the momentum from knocking off the 15thranked doubles team in the nation in the quarterfinals.” Unfortunately, Butters and Heslin fell to Alex Gasson and Yannick James from Denver 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday morning. However, they went 4-1 this week at regionals and are now 6-2 this fall. Next for Boise State is the Gopher Invitatinoal in Minneapolis, MN Nov. 4-6.
Boise State competed in the ITA Mountain Region Cahmpionships on Wednesday, Oct. 20.
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