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Taking a neutral stance

Boise State’s effort to decrease it’s impact on the environment Sean Bunce

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For many students, when a water bottle is tossed in the trash, it’s out of sight and out of mind.

To Nicole Digirolamo, senior elementary and special education major, environmentally conscious choices are second nature.

“It’s a hard thing to really take into account all the time, but it’s certainly something I think about when getting to campus,” Digirolamo said.

“When the weather’s right, I ride my bike and I recycle everything.”

According to Digirolamo, one’s carbon footprint is something everyone should pay attention to.

“I feel like most people have no idea about their effect on the environment or how things that they do every day will lead to effects in the future,” she said.

In 2007, President Kustra signed the Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which united Boise State with more than 400 universities in the goal of becoming climate neutral.

Boise State’s carbon footprint increases by three percent per year, according to the Boise State Greenhouse Gas Inventory executive summary from 2004 to 2008 .

This commitment set Boise State in motion to develop and initiate a plan to reduce this growth to zero.

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engineering professor, worked directly with President Kustra from 2007 to 2010 on monitoring and measuring sustainability efforts to better understand Boise State’s carbon footprint. According to Gardner, complete neutrality is unrealistic.

“I guess I disagree with some of the premise behind that. You can create a climate neutral campus by investing in a big wind farm or a big solar farm, but that’s really not our job,” Gardner said.

Instead he believes in educating students to become more conscious of their waste.

“I think (we should) figure out how to make the best use of the resources we have and then do education and research in the area that helps an entire society to become climate neutral together,” he said.

At the latest calculation, the university’s footprint is about 50,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. According to the Greenhouse Gas Inventory executive summary from 2004 to 2008, this equates to about 2.3 metric tons per person per year, which is among the lowest in the country.

The carbon footprint is calculated by measuring carbon output derived from electricity consumption, the burning of natural gas to heat campus buildings and water, university-sponsored travel and daily commuting by faculty and staff.

What is not included in carbon impact is what students

buy and eat on campus, what they throw away and the amount they commute.

“The carbon footprint of trash is ambivalent,” Gardner said. “Some of the stuff goes to a landfill, which our landfill harvests and it goes back into electricity, so how do you figure that out?”

Although it doesn’t correlate with Boise State’s overall carbon footprint, waste minimization is one of three actions taken to initiate the university’s commitment in 2007 along with increased public transportation accessibility and an energy-efficient campus building policy.

According to Barbara Beagles, director of environmental health, safety and sustainability, one of the ways in which Boise State began minimizing its waste in 2013 was by pairing recycling cans with trash cans throughout campus.

This has already made a significant impact. According to Beagles, between August of 2013 and August 2014, one ton less trash has been collected on campus. In addition, one ton more recycling has been diverted from landfills.

“The big thing for students is to be more diligent about their recycling practices,” Beagles said. “We’ve tried to do a good job of coupling or pairing recycling and trash containers on campus so students can easily make a decision when they get to where they’re going to throw something away.”

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NEWS Kate White Staff Writer

Once a place of worship, the University Christian Church is now a storage building.

The Boise State-owned University Christian Church may be undergoing demolition before the start of the fall 2015 semester, allowing for new student housing facilities to be constructed in its place.

In 2013 Boise State purchased the University Christian Church across the street from the Student Union Building and now officials are deciding what the building and four-acre lot will be used

for long term.

“This is a very important piece of property as we think about expansion. It is the future dead center of campus so deciding what to put there had to be strategic,” said Jared Everett, Boise State Executive director of real estate and business development.

According to Everett, Boise State likes the idea of putting the academic honors housing at its future epicenter because the honors college encompasses what Boise State is all about—student learning and the transformation that takes place in students attending the university.

Before the project begins,

there are still many decisions to make, however.

“Several private developers have submitted proposals and presentations for the suggested residential honors college but construction of this magnitude will go to the president and state board of education before a decision of this magnitude is made,” Everett said.

Boise State is planning to use private rather than public funds on the project. This means Boise State will need to come up with a layout for the building that satisfies the private businesses funding the project and the university officials. This

agreement has not yet been reached.

According to Andrew Finstuen, dean of the Honors College, the university has whittled down the list of developers and the university should be getting close to making their final decisions for the building.

Even though the project looks like it could be underway soon, Finstuen is careful not to plan the big move too quickly.

“I am cautious about saying that this building is happening because we haven’t had the official word. We will probably know in the spring,” Finstuen said.

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Course textbooks vary in necessity Patty Bowen

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Senior English major Jasmine Platt was surprised when looking over her required readings for this past semester: The textbook required for her English 278 class was a course-specific anthology of works compiled by her professor.

“Up until this semester, I haven’t had (a textbook) made specifically for a class,” Platt said.

While many students are required to purchase course-specific textbooks, some choose not to because they question the cost effectiveness of a textbook that can only be used once.

“So far I have not (bought the English 278 textbook) and I have not missed an assignment,” Platt said.

Heidi Naylor, Platt’s English 278 professor, feels that course-specific textbooks can be helpful for students who struggle with organization and aren’t privy to taking down page num-

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bers. The course-specific textbook goes in order of works covered by the class and focuses specifically and exclusively on course topics.

“The real reason we did this was because I could not find a real anthology to talk about this (the course content),” Naylor said.

Platt has also found noncourse specific textbooks provide more content than is needed for the course.

Norton anthologies are non-course specific textbooks required for many survey of literature classes.

“The Norton becomes more of a supplemental material and less of a teaching strategy. I think that Norton has far more than can be covered in a 3-credit semester,” Platt said.

There may be some value added by the extra material, however. Platt feels that Norton anthologies are worth the money because they provide a service beyond the scope of the class.

“The Norton you can get money back for, or keep it

because it has a ton of stuff you can use for later resources,” Platt said.

While non-course specific texts can often be resold, the Boise State BookStore won’t buy back coursespecific textbooks, putting students in an awkward position come the end of the semester.

Naylor, however, feels that this can be a positive outcome because it creates momentum for continued learning.

“I want them to have what we did in class continue to be relevant for them,” Naylor said. “My hope is that it will be.”

According to Platt, the problem with this idea is money.

In her case, Platt has found that she has been able to do fine in the class without buying the book at all.

“Most of the texts are available on public domain,” Platt said. “You just have to google it and it’s there from reputable sources.”

Despite a recent acquisition from a nearby funeral home, the holidays are alive and well at Boise State.

Prancer, a real life reindeer, is visiting from her home at Cloverdale Funeral Home. She will be making an appearance at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday for the lighting of the holiday tree.

Manager Troy Knutson said the funeral home has had a variety of animals, from deer to wallabies, for 20 years acquired by the previous owner, Tim Gibson. Prancer, the last of the reindeer herd Gibson raised, is domesticated and very friendly, even with children.

Students will have the opportunity to meet and take pictures with Prancer the reindeer near the decorated holiday tree.

The holiday tree is an attraction in itself, incorporating one mile of school spirited lights. The tree lighting will take place on Dec. 4 at 6 p.m. and will double as a fundraiser for The Idaho Foodbank.

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the holiday tree will be lit dec. 4.

Nearly 17,150 blue, orange and white bulbs are draped from a large blue spruce in the Quad. The tree is adorned with a large “B” at the top, and 9.1 amps of electricity will power the Boise State Holiday Tree.

“We have seven spools of lights with 35 strands each,” said Trent Reagan, electrical supervisor for facilities and maintenance. “These aren’t like the old Christmas lights; one can go out and it won’t affect the whole string.”

Five Boise State employees put in 200 man-hours over Thanksgiving Break to bring the tree to life.

Decorating took place over break for student’s safety.

“We don’t have a lift and it’s tough driving around when there are students walking around,” Reagan said.

Facilities and maintenance borrowed the lift from the athletics department.

This year, students will be able to see vertical stripes of colors when the switch is flipped.

“Last year, Buster Bronco flipped the switch to turn the lights on,” Reagan said.

“It’ll be a surprise of what Boise State celebrity will do it this year.”

Students are invited to kick off the holiday season with Bronco spirit with hot chocolate, live music and the spirit of the season.

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Busy work or valuable engagement?

Reading quizzes can encourage further analysis or waste student effort Culture Editor

While that Roman leader’s death date might be important somewhere along the early Western civilization timeline, the impact of his passing is arguably more vital to a student’s understanding of history.

Caesar’s assassination did, after all, open the way for the crumbling of the Roman Empire.

Whether they deal with organic compounds or musical tempos, reading quizzes are an integral part of many Boise State courses.

Some reading quizzes count for a significant percentage of students’ overall grades while others offer only smaller point portions.

For some students, these quizzes are more of a hassle

than a learning tool or assessment of engagement.

“Usually professors use reading quizzes to gauge where students are and to expound on portions of the reading material,” said Rebecka Seward, junior biology major. “So instead of glossing over Plato’s cave analogy, we dig into it.”

History professor Lynn Lubamersky uses primary source quizzes in her classes. In these reading quizzes, she asks students to apply book themes and ideas to historical documents and texts in a short answer format.

“Students learn much more from taking these quizzes than they would from reading a textbook and listening to lectures because they are not regurgitating facts,” Lubamersky

said. “They are interpreting the primary source evidence for themselves.”

Lubamersky offers several reading quizzes along with exams in all of her classes in order to maximize students’ engagement with reading material.

This helps her avoid the problems experienced by other courses in which students prepare solely for midterm and final exams.

Lubamersky found that this leads to far less longterm retention of the ideas and class material being taught and discussed.

“This leads students to engage with the material intensely only twice per semester,” Lubamersky said.

According to Lubamersky, reading quizzes allow her students to more fully explain their thought pro-

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cess. This in turn lets her evaluate her students and their engagement and understanding of the given material.

“Evaluating their work is my job as a professor,” Lubamersky said. “Not to use bubble sheets.”

In the vein of fact regur-

gitation, Seward found that some reading quizzes were far less effective than the overarchingly engaging ones that helped her digest class material.

“Some questions are very specific,” Seward said.

“They pull one word from a random paragraph and

expect you to remember it.”

Seward explained that short answer and essay questions offer more opportunities for students to understand class material.

“Anything other than that turns into busy work that doesn’t really help anyone,” Seward said.

New look, features come to Blackboard spring semester Sean Bunce

Asst. News Editor

Don’t panic.

When students return from Christmas break they’ll notice a different face of Blackboard. According to Jennifer Weddel, Blackboard technical support specialist, the changes will mostly be cosmetic.

“Honestly, I feel students are going to enjoy a cleaner look,” Weddel said. “It’s less

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cluttered, has less visual noise and students are going to find it more intuitive simply because all the extra stuff is kind of pushed away.”

After her department conducted a survey last spring, Weddel decided there needed to be a change. Feedback she received about the current Blackboard homepage was that it looked old and outdated and it was hard to navigate partially due to its

lack of aesthetic quality.

“We were on an older service pack and we eventually have to upgrade anyway, so we thought this is a good time to take that feedback, listen to students, listen to faculty and just say, ‘okay, it’s time for a new look and feel’,” she said.

The new version will have more white space, rounded buttons and most importantly, accessibility to students and faculty.

Currently when students go to view their grades, they only get to see what the professor puts in. With the upgrade, they’ll have the ability to sort and look at what’s been graded, what’s upcoming and what’s submitted but hasn’t been graded.

Faculty will see the biggest changes, however.

They will have the ability to see Blackboard from a student’s point of view, which

will allow them to build assignments and tests and preview what it will look like with a click of a button.

“That used to be a very difficult process for instructors,” Weddel said. “Hopefully faculty will latch on to that and it will improve the student experience because the faculty are now looking at the student experience.”

Another accessibility feature allows teachers to set up a test and allow a student to take

it on a different day than when it’s assigned, rather than the teacher creating a new test on Blackboard.

“We really wanted to make sure that when we changed the look and feel we did it well,” Weddel said.

“Really getting a feel for the new look and making sure it looked like Boise State and felt like Boise State was a little bit of a process, but it was well worth it in my opinion.”

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Whatever your password is, sharing it might strengthen your relationship.

By sharing your password you are creating a more trusting environment with your significant other. This ultimately leads to a stronger, happier relationship.

A recent study done by The Pew Research Center showed that individuals were more comfortable sharing passwords with significant others than they had been before.

In a survey of 2,000 individuals in committed relationships, 67 percent said they shared passwords to online accounts such as Netflix or Amazon with

their partners.

However, only 27 percent of couples will go so far as to have a joint email account.

My personal experience shows that sharing your password will strengthen your relationship and this mentality and practice is growing; after all if you want to spend the rest of your life with someone in marriage, shouldn’t you be able to trust them with your Gmail account password?

My boyfriend and I share

passwords for the Netflix account to our individual Facebook pages. Since we’ve swapped email passwords, there are no more secrets.

He can see all of my Victoria Secret coupon emails and I can check any of the 30 forwarded emails his dad sends him a day. Our relationship isn’t made up of checks and balances but, if one of us were ever curious about the other, the answer would only be a few clicks away.

Sharing passwords has also

made managing our mutual accounts more convenient.

Everything from the water bill to the Internet is managed online; if he needs to check when something is due, he can sign in and check and vice versa.

However, there are a few reasons not to share a password.

One reason could be that the relationship is too new.

If you still have emails from your ex-partner in your inbox, the temptation to see

how your last relationship worked could be too much for a new girlfriend or boyfriend. Also, do you really want someone you’ve only been seeing for a short time to have access to all your accounts, especially if they involve money?

Another reason not to share is because you are entitled to your own privacy.

If you pay your own bills you have earned a right to have a life of your own. You shouldn’t feel obligated to

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share your password with anyone, even if you are dating them. That said, if someone denies sharing a password, don’t assume it is because they are hiding something.

Lastly, if your significant other is constantly trying to check up on you, maybe you should keep your password to yourself until trust can be built. A relationship can’t survive without trust and sharing a password with someone is the ultimate sign of trust.

While no one should ever feel obligated to share passwords, the benefits range from easier finance access to stronger trust. Despite some negative sides to sharing passwords the strength built in relationships is worth it.

Do you share your passwords with your significant

Collette Eppes senior, communication

“I want to say it was about five years into the marriage that we shared banks accounts. Building trust doesn’t just occur. It takes time.”

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“My significant other knows my passwords because she has seen me type it. I don’t really care that she does. I’ve been dating her for a year and a half so I image that if it’d been earlier a lot more uncomfortable.

Tana Smugula postgraduate,

nursing

“It depends on how stable the relationship is. My husband and I share passwords but we’ve been in a relationship for a very long time and we’re married. It’s not like we keep a lot of secrets from each other.”

Zoe Clarke

Sophomore History and English

“I share almost everything but the key to my house and my bank account.”

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Clay Schoessler America prides itself in giving every person the opportunity to receive a quality postsecondary education. But is this really true? In this country, most students struggle to afford a college education.

What changes can be made to our system? As American citizens and tax payers, we hold the power to tell the government what to do and when to

Letter to the editor: Paying for college

do it. Well America, now is the time for post-secondary reform.

Having little money growing up made me think more consciously. By my freshman year in high school, I knew that my best chance to get a good quality education was by earning scholarships. Four years later, I had my college tuition paid for with several scholarships. However, most students are not this fortu-

nate. Every year, hundreds of students are driven into debt by the outrageous cost of attending a post-secondary institution.

Only a few years ago, a middle class family could afford college savings. Sadly, I know few people who are able to do this today.

According to the College Savings Foundation, 63 percent of parents count on their kids to carry the debt they acquire in college. These students in turn rely on help from the government, which then puts more burden on the taxpayer.

With outrageous government spending and a fail-

ing monetary system, it’s no wonder that our educational system has fallen through the cracks.

According to the U.S. National Debt Clock, fewer people are in the workforce today than in 2000. Each year the number of people and families on welfare increases.

According to USA Today, the average student debt in 2000 was $17,000 compared to a whopping $30,000 today.

These facts paint a very bleak picture for a once great nation based on the principles of self-sovereignty and democracy.

The solution to the problem of student debt cannot

be addressed from any one smaller perspective. The issue is multi-faceted and can only be successfully tackled by looking at the whole of our nation and asking the question of what do we, the people of this country, want for our children and our future? We need to invest in ourselves.

European countries invest in their future by paying for the student’s college through taxes.

Raising taxes is an ugly situation and nobody likes them.

They are tricky and Americans already feel like they’re paying through the nose in them, but as a young adult of

the lower class income bracket, I am able to realize that this is a possible solution.

I think we should institute a tax law to help pay for the cost of attendance at a post-secondary institution.

It’s hard enough to afford anything right now, but bear with me.

In my opinion, the opportunity to have an affordable and quality education should be the right of every citizen in our country.

We need to exercise our ability and our responsibility to seeing that our nation’s priorities are sustainable for the future of our people and our country.

Letter to the editor: “One nation, under God [yet] indivisible”?

Lindee Neumeier Sophomore Social Work

It has been ingrained into your brain and you may have never even considered why you say it. You memorized this recitation soon after you enrolled in public school, given that you started your education here in the United States. Know what it is? It’s the Pledge of Allegiance.

From a young age, you are told to stand up, put your right hand over your heart and recite the Pledge. It isn’t

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until later middle school or early high school when you start to really want to know why the Pledge is recited in school and what the words really mean.

First, we have: “I pledge allegiance,” which simply means that you are declaring that you are loyal to something, be it a person, place (country), or idea. Next: “to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands,” this pertains to our country and everything it stands for.

Then, we have: “one Nation,

under God, indivisible,” which implies that our indivisible nation is religious.

And lastly: “with liberty, and justice for all,” which means that we all have freedoms and that we are fair to all of our citizens. Overall, this seems like a good thing to teach our children at a young age.

However, there are five words which seem to be contradictory.

“One Nation, under God, indivisible” is a discerning (sic) phrase to me and any other American that identi-

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fies with being non-religious.

This is because to be “under God,” and to be “indivisible” don’t add up in our “one Nation.” Our current Pledge states that our one nation, our whole country, is “under God,”which isn’t true. If it isn’t true, why do we state this in our Pledge today?

Ken Lynn, an active Air Force member and Freedom From Religion Foundation member, explains that during the Red Scare of the 1950s, the whole nation was panicked about the spread of communism, which in its

definition is implied to be anti-religious as well as antifreedom.

The citizens of the United States as well as Congress decided that they had to make a large scale declaration of our nation being against communism. So, in 1954, Congress voted to add the words “under God” in our Pledge.

However, 60 years have gone by, and America is becoming less religiously affiliated.

In 2012, Pew Research claimed that, “The number of Americans who do not

identify with any religion also has grown in recent years; indeed, about one-fifth of the public overall – and a third of adults under age 30 – are religiously unaffiliated as of 2012”.

If this is the case, then why do we declare that our nation is religious as a whole? We need to correct our current pledge for it to be true. You can help do this by writing to your school districts, state legislature or even Congress.

We need to right this wrong for future generations of Americans.

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Are you man enough?

Gender studies program explores issues associated with mainstream identities Justin Kirkham Culture Editor

Barbie is feminine and Hercules is masculine. That’s how it has always been—at least, in mainstream media.

Many students equate gender studies with women’s rights and women’s studies.

While this is an important portion of gender studies, the discipline generally focuses on all predeterminations and traditions found encircling gender and how these boundaries are determined, represented and resisted.

Students enrolled in gender studies courses aim to explore these topics and their implications, children’s toys, individual identities, film representations and all.

The gender studies program

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tor of gender studies Reshmi Mukherjee, the gender studies minor encompasses interdisciplinary courses from a variety of departments across campus, as gender is an important portion of any and all interactions and studies.

“One reason why most people refuse to participate in discussions on gender studies is because they understand gender as something that concerns women only,” Mukherjee said. “Gender, it has to be understood, is about a certain performance of identity, and gendered roles and norms are intrinsically woven into and practiced in our daily lives.”

Gender Studies Club president and senior English major Madison Hansen explained that, despite the thoughts of many students, gender studies discussions are not focused on the defa-

mation of men and are not limited solely to the topic of women.

“Gender studies is about gender in general,” Hansen said. “Students who take a gender studies course or decide to go further by adding the minor or participating in club activities should expect to talk about all genders, as well as sexuality, race, nationality, class, ability, and any other category of social identity.”

Masculinity in mainstream media

Because gender is such an integral part of everyday discourse and social structure, Hansen believes it is important that students analyze the norms that surround them, both in their personal lives and within pop culture.

Within this realm of social identity, one of the club’s top-

ics of discussion is media’s representation of hyper-masculinity that it often pushes upon men and boys in the country.

“You don’t have to look very hard to see this kind of hyper-masculinization in pop culture,” Hansen said.

“It’s then perpetuated by news outlets and our own communities and many boys and men feel like they have to live up to it.”

Extreme “manly men” are characterized in appearance by swaths of rippling muscle, deep voices, wide stances and rugged charm.

Superheroes often lead the charge in this staple image, including Marvel’s Thor, Captain America, Hulk and multiple others. Even children’s toys like G.I. Joe action figures and Ken Barbie dolls maintain this image to some degree.

In personality, many men aim to emulate the same attitude that is perpetuated by this hyper-masculinization as described by Hansen. Their traits include “being dominant, tough, protective, individualistic and a winner at all costs.”

But, in many cases, this particular masculinity does not ring true with all men in all social situations. As shown in masculinity researcher Jackson Katz’s documentary “Tough Guise,” this image can lead to furthered violence and depression within the male population.

This stems from the need to align with the powerful image of men laid out by media and one’s potential frustration with not fitting into the hyper-masculine role.

Exploring issues of gender

Junior English major Chelsea Mabbott has never taken a gender studies class but has been interested in taking a course within the discipline because of her interest in masculinity representations and the overall gender roles defined by society.

“If you are a human being in this world you need to consider these things and understand how demeaning and damaging they really are,” Mabbott said.

Hansen found that her gender studies courses were some of the most intellectually stimulating classes that she has ever taken, mainly because of the breadth of discussion to be had within them. She encouraged all students considering exploring the gender studies minor to check out next semester’s course catalog.

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Say Ello to advertisement free media Patty Bowen

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With the recent creation and influx of student accounts on the new blogging platform, the website Ello has branded itself with the promise of not selling bloggers’ personal information to third parties or producing ads based on such information. The website’s premise is, “You are not a product.”

“Behind the scenes, (social media networks) employ armies of ad salesmen and data miners to record every move you make,” Ello explains on its “About Ello” page. “Data about you is then auctioned off to advertisers and data brokers.

You’re the product that’s being bought and sold.”

Ello compared to other social media sites

Ello’s premise is unique because social media and blogging sites use advertising as their main source of revenue.

Ello, on the other hand, is a USA public benefit corporation, which makes it illegal for the company to sell user information or ads. The site is instead supported by donations.

According to Leslie Koppenhafer, assistant marketing professor, a push for less advertisement would kill the source of revenue that allows bloggers to become monetarily successful for their craft.

“The unappealing part (of Ello) becomes that that’s how a lot of blogs have supported themselves,” Koppenhafer said. “A lot of people who have started off writing for blogs and turned it into careers have done so by providing advertising on the blog and that’s how they’re making their money.”

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However, Ello’s new direction of marketing could allow students who are wary about giving out their personal information to feel secure in trusting that their information won’t be leaked.

“They know they’re not going to immediately show up on their Facebook feeds or their Twitter or see the response of ‘Oh you searched for this on Google, so now we’re going to have a promoted advertisement for you,’” Koppenhafer said.

According to Koppenhafer, this could create a safer blogging community that allows for more freedom of creativity.

“For people who are con-

cerned about privacy, this will give them the opportunity to be more authentic in what they disclose,” Koppenhafer said. “I think it promotes honesty in the community.”

Making advertisements efficient

While Ello is creating an advertisement-free community, most social media websites are instead working on becoming more efficient with their use of advertisements.

“For the advertiser’s point of view, it becomes harder to break through the clutter.,” Koppenhafer said. “From the moment you wake up, you are hit, from the time you wake up

when you check your phone to the time you go to bed and watch TV with advertisements.”

This creates a consumercompany relationship that relies on individual algorithms that target consumers likes and dislikes based off of information that has been collected through their actions online.

“Facebook exists because it can sell ads, so it’s free to us, and if they’re going to sell ads they want to have something that’s targeted to you versus not targeted to you,” Koppenhafer said.

Our relationship with advertisement

The algorithms used on social media websites like Facebook can pinpoint products consumers are more likely to click on. According to Ashlee Jones, senior kinesiology major, students may be off put by the loads of ads streamed in front of them while using social media.

“I think (pinpointed advertisement on social media) is useful but it’s also annoying at the same time,” Jones said.

“That’s not what (social media) were meant for. They were meant for connecting people.”

Jones has found several good deals off of advertisements on social media sites, but still feels hesitant about trusting social

media as a link to online shopping.

According to Koppenhafer this media and advertisement connection creates a disconnected relationship between consumers and ads.

“We tend to zip through commercials, yet we’ll go to YouTube and intentionally seek out commercials at times. There’s some disconnect there,” Koppenhafer said.

“I think that the disconnect demonstrates that consumers aren’t opposed to commercials if they’re meaningful to them or if it’s a product that they want; they just don’t have a lot of tolerance for products that aren’t targeted towards them.”

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Jeremy Ioane prefers to avoid attention at all costs.

Even as the redshirt senior safety for the Boise State football team battled IgA nephropathy—an autoimmune kidney disease—for the past two years, fans, members of the media and even his teammates were clueless as to what the Hawaii native was going through.

While Ioane underwent chemotherapy in 2012, played several games with a catheter and spent his nights hooked up to a dialysis machine to flush the waste out of his bodies, teammates were still in the dark.

They just saw the normally quiet and reserved Ioane being himself.

“I don’t like to really talk much,” Ioane said. “I’m more of a keep to myself kind of guy. I didn’t want to talk to anybody about it.”

Ioane was diagnosed with

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the disease in 2012 during a random drug test. Head athletic trainer Jim Spooner noticed his urine was an abnormal color and had it tested. A kidney biopsy officially diagnosed Ioane with nephropathy.

Ioane has received an outpouring of support since he went public with his medical condition in an exclusive story with the Idaho Statesman last Wednesday. A fund set up in his name by Boise State has already raised over $24,000 as of Monday. The goal of the fund was $20,000.

Boise State will sell #10aneStrong t-shirts Saturday night to raise more money.

Ioane also received a $7,500 grant from the College Football Assistance fund.

“It’s crazy how Boise is so closely knit,” Ioane said. “Bronco Nation, everyone is there for one another. I don’t know how else to explain it. It’s unreal how people reach out to others and do what they can to help out in

any way possible.”

While overwhelmed by the support, Ioane would much rather the spotlight remain on his teammates.

When teammate Darren Lee tried to present the hammer to Ioane before senior night against Utah State, Ioane tried as hard as he could to decline.

“It was quite a surprise,” Ioane said. “(Darren) came up to me at my locker and said I earned it. I tried to deny it. I feel I’m getting more attention than I should.”

Ioane played two series against the Aggies and even made a tackle in what he describes as his “Rudy” moment.

While Ioane would prefer anonymity, head coach Bryan Harsin believes he’s more than deserving of the support.

“One of the reasons why Jeremy decided to tell his story is he’s done a lot for this program,” Harsin said. “We break it down every day on family. That goes beyond the building here.”

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Round two against Fresno State on deck Nate Lowery

Sports & Rec Editor

Everyone knows that a berth in the Fiesta Bowl is on this weekend when the Boise State football team (10-2, 7-1) tries to repeat their October victory over Fresno State (6-6, 5-3) in the MWC Championship.

The key for the Broncos,

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however, is just staying focused on this week. Head coach Bryan Harsin is aware players can check social media and the Internet to see the projections.

“Every player has (a phone). You can’t hide from that,” Harsin said. “Guys would be nuts if they’re not focused on Fresno State.”

Despite being known as a perennial conference pow-

er, Boise State has only won three outright conference championships in the past nine season—2006, 2008 and 2009.

With that, the Broncos hope to win their fourth this Saturday at Albertsons Stadium.

Harsin and the coaching staff are quick to point out that even though Boise State beat the Bulldogs ear-

lier in the season, they are going to be playing a much different team than the one they beat 37-27 on Oct. 17.

Fresno State quarterback Brian Burrell, who only had 127 yards passing against Broncos, agreed that past results mean nothing this weekend.

“It’s hard to beat a good team twice,” Burrell said at a recent Fresno State press

conference. “I consider us one of those.”

Defensive coordinator Marcel Yates agreed with Burrell’s statements.

“If you would have told me they are 6-6 (from watching film) I would have told you were lying to me,” Yates said.

Offensive coordinator Mike Sanford is ready for the challenge of creating a

gameplan for the Bulldogs for the second time this season. Especially after his response to the October win.

“Their defense presented quite a few problems (in October),” Sanford said.

“I’ve watched that tape. I didn’t come away quite as encouraged as I thought I would. We have a lot of motivation to play better.”

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The Recreation Center offers a large range of classes that one can take while on campus at Boise State.

One of these includes the Red Cross Certified CPR, first aid and an automatic external defibrillator class.

“We teach American Red Cross. It’s an adult CPR and AED and First Aid class; we basically cover those three topics, so CPR for adults,” said aquatics director Heidi Powell. “We don’t cover infant or child CPR in those classes but we do cover how to use an AED and also all first aid scenarios.”

The class is offered for $60 for members or students and $75 for nonmembers. The class size varies and can have a total of 10 people to a class.

Class sessions are about

half a day beginning at 8:30 a.m. and, depending on class size, the class ends around noon or later.

To pass the class students will need to learn the information of the class and be able to pass written and practical tests at the end of the course.

The course gives certification for two years following the completion of the course.

Powell believes these classes can be extremely beneficial to students.

“CPR classes here at the Rec are an awesome opportunity to get a certification,” Powell said. “Those are life skills that you can use anywhere.”

Participants need to pass a written test with at least an 80 percent.

“In addition to the written test they also have to do a skills test, so they are

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Recreation Center offers CPR training courses

Students go through CPR training with dummies. given a scenario and they have to perform the skills,” Powell said.

The classes are usually taught by BSU students

that have been certified in the Red Cross instructor course, along with Powell herself.

“Most valuable skills are

essentially how to save a life,” Powell said. “You can apply these skills anywhere you go ... Also just increasing the awareness of the

ability of being able to save someone’s life. If you know a little bit you can at least do something to save somebody’s life.”

Terra Chambers Staff Writer

Boise State wrestling head coach Greg Randall knows that the current freshmen on his team are going to struggle in competition during the infancy stage of the season.

That’s why they just need to dive right in.

“These young guys are scrappy guys who can go out and battle,” Randall said.

“They just need to train and look up to guys in the room who have stepped up.”

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on up the 30-man roster for the team this year.

With a majority of the team being young guys with little to no collegiate experience, they can expect struggles.

“The youth on the team are well-rounded and pretty athletic hard workers,” redshirt sophomore Austin Dewey said. “They are outworking guys and bringing their best to the table.”

The coaching staff is looking for the veterans on the team to step up and be the role models.

“It’s a lot of work, no

doubt,” redshirt junior Chris Castillo said.

“They need to take their lumps and learn from it.

They have to remember that hard work pays off.”

The ultimate goals for the team are to get back to being leaders in the PAC-12 conference and to be ranked in the top 25.

“PAC-12 champions and top 15 (national rankings) needs to be accomplished between here and there,” Randall said. “After being a champion, there is no such thing as second place. It also doesn’t take a lot of indi-

viduals to place top 10, just a few.”

The team is continuing to work on their weaknesses, build off their strengths and train for their next event.

“The young guys have to realize the future is now,” Randall said.

Boise State returns to action on Dec. 13 against Oregon State in the annual Border War. Matches are set to begin at 7 p.m. at Bronco Gym. The Beavers are currently ranked No. 17 in the nation according to USA Today/ NWCA Division I poll.

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Dewey headlocks an opponent.

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hoots & giggles

horoscopes Aries- With the holidays in full swing, you must make a sacrifice to Santa’s elves. Leave three pairs of socks on your window sill in order to free them from the November blues.

Taurus- Do you hate waiting in long lines but have things to get done? Fear not! All you have to do is sit at home today and tweet how wonderful it would be for someone to do your errands for you and that you “would love them forever.”

Gemini- As you travel home for the holidays, you will be forced to seek refuge in some roach motel.

There you will be visited by three dumb salesmen who will try and sell you knock off watches at a discount price.

You should probably just not travel this year.

Cancer- Are you tired of all of the holiday advertisements, Christmas music and the festive cheer? Offer up a gift to Crampus to fix these problems. Crampus will come to down and create havoc in your town as he destroys all holiday decorations.

Leo- The stars are calling upon you to

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make a change in your family’s holiday traditions. Instead of getting together to watch the Christmas Story, throw a wild Holiday rager complete with live reindeer. The police may be called in to stop you, but the stars will be pleased with you.

Virgo- Many people struggle with weight gain during the holiday season. Don’t be one of those people that worry about it, however. Just enjoy that turkey you are eating. In fact, add even more gravy to your holiday dinners. Fate will apprecite you with your honesty, and will magically send elves down to liposunction those added pounds right out of you as you sleep.

Libra- Try something bold this holiday season. Instead of getting your significant other jewelry or a dog, wrap yourself naked in wrapping paper and camp outside their window. While at first they may be scared, they’ll come around.

Scorpio- Don’t feel alone this time of year.

You don’t need another person to make you happy in life. Head down to the Bronco Shop and spend all of

your hard earned money on Boise State gear.

It will fill the void.

Sagittarius- The holiday season needs heroes. Dress up in a ridiculous outfit, complete with spandex of course, and travel downtown.

Stop everyone you see that tries to sing Christmas Carols. The world will thank you.

Capricorn-Think outside the box this holiday season. While many people it ham or turkey, it is time for someone to make fried aligator a thing. While people may judge you at first, they’ll come around.

Aquarius- The stars are saying that you will receive many useless gifts such as fruit cake.

Instead of throwing gifts like these away, use them as projectiles against all of those people that go to the gym on New Years Day. Pisces- The stars have decided you shall receive the greatest Christmas gift of all time. This year, you will find a Red Ryder BB gun, complete with a compass in the stock, in your stocking this year. Be very careful with this gift however, you may in fact shoot your eye.

tic tac toe 1. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?

2. What often falls at the North Pole but never gets hurt?

3.What do snowmen eat for breakfast?

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