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an outbreak of mass shootings throughout the country. He stresses that this is not the case; shootings are much less frequent than other forms of violence. He feels the majority of violence happens when people aren’t aware of it. The number one problem over the years has been selfinduced harm or violence in the home, where only one offender and one victim are involved. Mass shootings have been mostly associated with targeted violence, however. Furthermore, most incidents occur at the victim’s home where they are alone and vulnerable. This, according to Deisinger, isn’t the perception most people have about targeted violence. “In terms of violent crimes, most campuses are safe,” Deisinger said. Even so, it helps to be aware. Although it is impossible to profile someone who may potentially cause harm to others, there are signs to watch for. Deisinger uses the phrase “pathway to violence” to describe an individual’s actions leading up to an incident.
Deisinger addresses targeted violence on campus When an individual’s mood becomes drastically different than usual, Deisinger said that is when a person
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ers by mapping out the event. “This doesn’t mean everyone who thinks about violence will do it,” Deis-
“I’d rather be inconvenienced and be wrong than have someone notice something and not report it,” Gallas said.
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Although Boise was ranked by Liveability.com as one of the best places to live, history has shown that even the most beautiful places can be disgraced by a single incident of violence. In light of the recent shooting tragedy in Santa Barbara in which six students were killed, Gene Deisinger, a behavior threat assessment, management specialist and clinical psychologist, was asked to speak about the nature and process of targeted violence in higher institutions at Boise State. Most of his speech revolved around the difficulties of profiling. “The human mind has evolved to profile,” Deisinger said. This can be misleading. According to Deisinger, the mind does two things when first meeting another person: first, it categorizes the interaction based on past experience. Then, it assigns meaning, deciding whether or not the situation threatens the individuals well-being or survival. “The good news is those heuristics work fairly well some of the time,” Deisinger said. “The bad news is they don’t work very well much of the time.” In Deisinger’s opinion, many believe there has been
This doesn’t mean everyone who thinks about violence will do it. These are usually people that someone has expressed their concerns about previously.
is most susceptible to hurting themselves or others. “Oftentimes, it’s pretty clear the person’s state of crises,” he said. Usually these people will express their ideas of violence to friends or co-workers. They will go beyond just thinking about harming oth-
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inger said. “These are usually people that someone has expressed their concerns about previously.” In any instance in which a potentially violent situation may take place, Boise Police Department lieutenant Rob Gallas urges students and faculty to report what they see.
In his opinion, the Boise community is safe because people are willing to act. “We’re not doing this alone,” Gallas said. Most instances in which law enforcement officers catch someone in the act of a crime, he says, are when a
bystander is paying attention and reports it. In cases in which students are already on campus when an incident occurs, Gallas strongly recommends opting-in to Bronco Alert. This resource will either send you a text or email depending on preference if something serious takes place on campus. Students who want to opt-in can do so by clicking the link on their Bronco web home page. The entire sign-up process takes less than two minutes. Gallas also recommends students and faculty take a more active approach by imagining their actions in these situations. “If you’ve already thought it through, you’re going to respond that way,” Gallas said. For additional information, go to http://emergencymanagement.boisestate.edu/ emergency_procedures/.
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Campuses confront sexual violence Eryn Shay Johnson Asst. News Editor
College campuses across the nation are taking a stand against sexual assault and rape. Activists such as Caroline Heldman, the associate professor of politics at Occidental College, are front and center leading the cause. “Every college that’s residential and co-ed across the United States—all of them—have a problem. Every single one of them,” Heldman said during her presentation at the Andrus Center on June 12. “If your campus says it doesn’t have a problem—it does.” Heldman specializes in presidency, gender, media and race in the American context. She is active in the new campus antirape movement, co-founding End Rape on Campus (EROC) and Faculty Against Rape (FAR). Heldman works with survivors and activists in
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the United States to hold their institutions accountable. “The sexual assault movement has been well under way for well over a century,” said Heldman. During her presentation, she claimed that the current generation is experiencing another movement against sexual assault, sexual violence and rape. According to a report put out by The White House, nearly one in five women have been or will be raped in their lifetime, and that rape is more common in young people and more prevalent amongst college students. The report and Heldman attribute college age being high risk due to the college environment of partying, drinking and using drugs. Most attackers are serial offenders, meaning that they will commit more than one rape, averaging six rapes each. Most rapes on college campuses are
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committed by a small number of repeat offenders. Citing national statistics, Heldman said, “If you are a man on a college campus you are more likely to be a victim of rape than a perpetrator.” Heldman and the White House report note that the issue doesn’t lie with the victims but their assailants. A trend among certain institutions and universities is to encourage victims to stay quiet. This is referred to as “institutional betrayal.” “What happens is, oftentimes rape and sexual assault survivors will come forward and the institution will end up re-traumatizing them,” Heldman said. “So, what do they experience? Survivors come forward and the common stories we hear are [the survivors] were told that it is ‘no big deal,’ they need to ‘get over it,’ and they’re discouraged from reporting claims both with the college and with local law enforcement. “Some [survivors] will be told by administration, ‘Well, you know it would be really expensive if you went to report to the police.’” One form of institutional betrayal is allowing the assailant to remain enrolled at the institution, creating a Title IX case. “I honestly think that the institution should do its best to protect the student—including the victim,” said Nathan Cook, sophomore psychology
major. “Rape is not only illegal, it’s immoral. I believe if [the rapist] was a student on campus then he should be banned off school grounds and should be expelled.” Boise State is currently facing a lawsuit for mishandling a sexual assault case in 2013. Two women are suing the school with the help of lawyer Gloria Allred. Read more about this case at Arbiteronline.com. Boise State’s Women’s Center has broken ground on helping victims and providing support and resources. “The Women’s Center offers no-cost, confidential support for students of all genders,” said Adriane Bang, a violence prevention and support coordinator for the Women’s Center. “We are a safe space to process emotions, and we can provide support in reporting to police or the university or accessing community resources.” Bang stressed the importance of educational efforts undertaken by the university on an individual level. “Education about the dynamics of sexual violence as well the importance of bystander intervention is key to ensuring sexual violence becomes less common,” Bang said. Starting Fall 2014 all incoming students will be required to complete an online educational module, coinciding with a national effort to ensure campuses are increasingly able to recognize situations where no consent is given and preparing them to intervene.
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Bookstore donates funds Eryn Shay Johnson Asst. News Editor
For the last 15 years, the Bronco Shop and Boise State bookstore have been funneling money back to students, according to Mike Reed, the Boise State Bookstore director. The Bronco Shop focuses sales on apparel and Boise State merchandise. The Boise State bookstore caters more specifically to students, offering apparel, textbooks and school supplies. Each of the five Bronco Shop locations in Meridian, Twin Falls, Boise and the campus bookstore, located in the Student Union Building, boast “Your purchases fund scholarships.” “We’ve been giving back to the university for years,” said Reed. “This year we gave back $600,000; last year, we gave back $600,000.” Over the course of the last five years, the bookstore has returned $3.65 million dollars to the student body in scholarships and endowments. Funds for the scholarships usually come from Bronco gear. Sales of products with
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the Boise State logo or athletic Bronco help the return tremendously. “That fund is mostly driven by the sale of our insignia product,” Reed said. “If we have a good year in the athletic program, everyone is on board and that is where most of the money comes from.” The money goes where it is needed, as determined by the university and financial aid services. “Financial aid will come to us and say, ‘Where we really need that is with the Presidential and Dean’s scholarships,’” Reed said. “They’ll give a presentation on [why], then the board votes. That recommendation moves up to the vice president and president.” The Bookstore Advisory Board meets once a month to determine where the donation will go to best aid the university. While the money isn’t reserved for these two scholarships, it is not uncommon for a majority of the donation to fuel the Presidential and Dean’s scholarships. These two scholarship programs are merit-based and used to recruit new stu-
dents to Boise State. In an email Renee Rehder, senior associated director of Enrollment Services and Scholarships, said, “The Presidential Scholarship is a two-year $5,000 per year award. The Dean’s Scholarship is a two-year $3,000 per year award. Each year, we take the total amount of funds available and divide it amongst our Presidential and Dean’s scholarships. The way the funds are divided depends on the strength of the application pool and the total dollar amount of funds available.” The two scholarships this year will benefit a large majority of incoming Idaho residential students and Idaho transfer students. While purchases fund scholarships, they also fund and sustain programs. The Capitol Scholars program is also bookstore funded. It offers a need-based scholarship to Idaho juniors in the top 10 percent of their high school class who plan to attend Boise State. The bookstore contributes to a $500 one-time text-book scholarship to help these students.
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Eryn Shay Johnson Asst. News Editor
Starbucks in the Albertsons Library has undergone remodeling this summer. Students returning to campus may be shocked to see that the entrance to Starbucks has moved. The door is no longer inside the library but in the library’s atrium. “The thought was to help traffic flow and give Starbucks more flexibility in
terms of operating hours and other potential uses for that space, [allowing for] opportunities to use that vestibule area for other [events],” said Mary Aagard, head of Access Services for Albertsons Library. The library and Dining Services hope that the relocation will benefit students wanting to go to Starbucks. “By moving the door we can explore utilizing the door that is currently an
emergency exit. During busy times, utilizing both doors can help remove congestion and improve flow for customers,” said Boise State Student Union director Brent Delong. The project budget was $11,500 and funded by the Student Union budget. They also receive a commission from Starbucks. Students are excited for the change. “I think it’ll be easier now,”
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New door opens for campus coffee lovers The new Starbucks door allows students easier access. said Shannon Rowe, a senior marketing major and bi-weekly Starbucks patron.
“Not that there have been major disruptions, but I know a lot of students go to
the library just for coffee.” Construction started July 11 and was finalized July 18.
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Course combines disciplines Alx Stickel News Editor
Over the summer, students in Intensive Semester Learning Experience (ISLE) 397, a 6-credit intensive interdisciplinary arts and humanities course, have been going out into the community and gathering information to create a Wiki site, Idaho Latinopedia. This Wiki will serve Boise State and the greater community as a means of exploring Latino culture in Boise: from its history to present citizens and from restaurants to community resources.
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Erin Gerry, a Spanish major pursuing her second bachelor’s degree, said she really appreciated the guest speakers who spoke during the first several weeks of the course. Gerry said one particular guest speaker, Rosaura Conley-Estrada, debunked stereotypes about Latino women. Conley-Estrada provided data showing Latino women only have one more child on average than white women in America, proving that the perception of Latino women having a lot of kids is incorrect. “I appreciated the education piece,” Gerry said. “I
like to listen and get other people’s views and opinions.” Alicia Garza, who is teaching the course, said the idea for this class came to her while she was teaching one of her Mexican-American culture courses. Fellow professor Leslie Madsen-Brooks had taught a similar course. Garza has been excited about teaching this class, despite it being one she has never taught before. Arts and Humanities Institute director Nick Miller is also excited about Garza’s course and other intense interdisciplinary courses. The goal of these courses is
to “cross-fertilize” science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines with arts and humanities disciplines. Miller said the courses being interdisciplinary and having a servicelearning componentprovide the experience employers are looking for. Creating and teaching these courses has been a work-in-progress. One of the challenges has been recruiting students and making the course truly interdisciplinary. “Things that are innovative require a lot of change,” Miller said. “[We’re] trying to make a 22,000 student university feel small. We are changing the dynamic of anonymity to a more intimate experience.”
Through this ISLE course, Gerry connected with people she has interviewed while gathering information. In her work as a counselor, Gerry has encountered language barriers. She decided to take a few Spanish courses, but realized she wanted to learn more about the culture as well. ISLE has given her the opportunity to do so. Gerry interviewed one of her co-workers, who works as a school teacher, and got his sociological perspective on being respected in the community. With his master’s degree in administration, and dressing a particular way to conceal his tattoos, Steven Escobedo has found people treat him differently than when they see him in what he calls his “thug per-
sona”: his tank top, tattoos and crooked hat. Gerry is looking forward to how the Wiki page will turn out with experiences like these capturing the essence of Latino culture in Boise. For Gerry, the more she knows about Latino culture, the better. Gerry said this course has been very informative for her and is unlike any other course she has ever taken. More courses like these will be available in the fall and spring semesters, with the fall course being ISLE 297.
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Boise Music Festival draws crowds for local talent and headliners alike Katie Meikle
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Saturday morning, 10 a.m.: the sun beats down as the first eager festival-goers swarm Expo Idaho. The grounds are a dizzying swirl of color and noise. Giddy children scream from the Hayworth Family Carnival. Girls in bikinis with crowns of daisies in their hair line up for air-brush tattoos and Pronto Pups. The smell of barbecue mutton legs and fried donuts wafts down the fairway. In every direction, throngs
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of ecstatic groupies gather to hear some local band or artist you had never heard of before today. At Main Stage, earnest fans stake out spots with picnic blankets and camping chairs in anticipation of the day’s biggest acts. “We’re here to see Train tonight,” said festival-attendee Sami Rice, a Meridian high-school student, making herself at home on an open patch of grass. The San Francisco-based rock band headlining the festival was due to perform at 8:15 that evening. “We’ll be here all day,”
Rice said. This is Boise Music Festival 2014: seven stages, over 50 acts, and more than 80,000 fans. Boise Music Festival (BMF) is an event organized by Townsquare Media, which owns and operates six local radio stations including pop music station, 103.5 KISS FM. Townsquare Media also organizes live events throughout the greater Boise area. “Boise Music Festival is one of the live events that we produce from scratch, in-
house,” said Monchai Pungaew, the Marketing Director for Townsquare Media Boise. According to Pungaew, big-name national acts like Train draw fans from all over the Northwest and attract sponsorships to help cover the cost of the festival. Part of what makes BMF unique, however, is the exposure it provides for local artists. “The Boise Music Festival is a great place for these upand-coming talents to showcase their passion in front of 80,000 or more fans,” Pun-
gaew told the Arbiter. “For these performers, there’s nothing better than jamming in front of a live crowd.” This is BMF’s fifth year running. Over the course of the single-day event, dozens of local acts performed on six different stages themed by musical genre, including the EDM and Acoustic Stage. This year, the Main Stage featured an eclectic mix of nationally acclaimed performances, from the nostalgic Sir Mix-a-Lot to new indie sensation Fitz and the Tan-
trums. “I don’t think you can beat MC Hammer,” said Chance Stewart, a festival-goer studying marketing at Boise State. “This year’s line up is pretty good though. It’s a solid mix.” MC Hammer, best known for the song “U Can’t Touch This,” graced the BMF stage back in 2011. Of course, the festival has a different draw for everyone. “Train, rides, and Pronto Pups,” said Sydney Fuentes, a Boise State senior studying communication. “That’s what I came here for.”
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Summer TV thrives online Justin Kirkham Culture Editor
With warm summer days comes the sun high in the sky, short shorts, flip flops, and a stark lack of television. But, with a constant surge toward online forms of video entertainment and opportunities for television catch-up, this summer television drought has become significantly less noticeable. Anime enthusiast and Kuna High School senior Rebecca Kadel dreads the summer television drought but has found several ways
to find more episodes and seasons to watch during the normal seasonal slump in cable television. “During the summer I usually re-watch my favorite series over again,” she said. With the large amount of television available on online platforms at any point in time, Kadel is usually able to watch more online than she would be able to when keeping up with a show on cable. “I normally watch multiple episodes from a series a day, but on cable there will sometimes only be one episode per week,” said Kadel.
Junior English literature major Andrea Batten uses summer to catch up on shows that she can’t fit into her schedule during the busy school year. “I rely on Hulu and Netflix to get those,” she said. Batten added, “I gave up on cable about a year ago and have relied only on Netflix and Hulu ever since.” Beyond Netflix and Hulu, there are multiple free platforms through which budgeting students can stay caught up on their television. “I am a bit of a nerd, so I really enjoy Crunchyroll
for free anime,” Batten explained. Both Batten and Kadel find that with so much television available on online platforms, it is hard to sense the usual lack of summertime television. “If you’re caught up in a series, you still have to wait like everyone else,” said Kadel, who found that, eventually, one can run into a summertime slump if they watch copious amounts of television on multiple platforms. “If there is a drought, I don’t even watch enough TV to notice,” Batten concluded.
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“The Book of Mormon” musical is performed.
Mormonism parodied in musical theater
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“The Book of Mormon” is coming to the Morrison Center in July of next year, to the delight of many theatergoers and the suspicion of those that hold the Latter Day Saint religion close to their hearts. For those less familiar with the production, this satirical musical is not based on the book of scripture that many of the Boise Mormon population place great importance upon. It is rather a full-on performance that plays with the intricacies of Mormonism, specifically missionaries, in a songand-dance-filled storyline. Whether it comes across as harmlessly playful or pointedly hurtful is up to the audience members. The play follows the plight of a pair of missionaries stationed in Uganda. It pokes fun at multiple aspects of Mormonism, including “turning off ” homosexual feelings, wearing sacred undergarments, and working with unknowledgeable mission partners. The production, as de-
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scribed by junior New York University computer science major Sara Linsley is “immensely vulgar and offensive, but in a way that makes every single person in the audience laugh.” Linsley stood in line for five hours to get discounted standing room tickets to see the play in New York City. She hoped the play would help her understand Mormonism more but instead came away feeling further confused. She was, however, thoroughly entertained and plans on seeing it again. “I think it’s all in good fun,” said Linsley. “It’s not exactly politically correct, but it wouldn’t be a comedy if it were.” Active member of the LDS faith and junior equine studies student at the College of Southern Idaho Shayla French has not seen the play but is not as enchanted by the idea of the production or its sound track as Linsley. “It’s pretty harsh to poke at something someone believes in,” she said. “‘The Book of Mormon’ is a satire,” explained Linsley, “but it does have a lot of things that even very re-
ligious people can relate to.” She continued to describe one of the main characters, Arnold, and his struggle to do what is morally correct without having a solid piece of scripture to back himself up every time. Linsley warned against watching the play with a critical eye. She encouraged potential viewers to instead enjoy the play and not worry about the extreme intricacies. “It’s from the creators of South Park, not Romeo and Juliet,” she commented. In the larger scheme of things, French thinks that the production gives members of the Mormon faith an opportunity to shed light on their religion. “This play has given the LDS members a chance to reach out and correct the wrong ideas that may be construed by media,” French said. However, French gave a nod to the fact that the play is, in fact, cemented in fiction. “And that’s all it is; a story,” she said. “It doesn’t portray how every mission is in any way.”
Though French has held that she probably wouldn’t go to see the play, Linsley encouraged those interested
in the play to listen to the sound track on Spotify. “I’ve seen a lot of artsy, offBroadway plays in my time,”
she said. “‘The Book of Mormon’ made me laugh and cry in ways that the other plays couldn’t.”
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Students explore Guatemalan life
Assistant culture editor Patty Bowen discusses her adventures during her summer abroad Patty Bowen
Asst. Culture Editor
We’ve been walking for the last three hours among the mountains of Guatemala as the sun rises over the small villages below, bringing up memories of the small children we saw digging in trash, and the houses made out of what looked like leftover wood and slabs of concrete. As we pass the seven crosses that the trail is named after and enter into the rain forest, a cloud of fog consumes the sky. Trees with ages too old to be known linger in our path giving way to scenery more beautiful than the Garden of Eden. The anecdote above comes from a recent trip made to
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Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; a city that is ridden with Spanish schools. There is no acceptance process for any of these schools because all the lessons are one-on-one with native Spanish speakers who will focus on your linguistic needs. Each school provides students with a host family within days of receiving the request. They’ll even provide a ride from the airport if given a day’s notice. The exchange rate from quetzals to American dollars ends up making living expenses, eating out, shopping, and traveling around Guatemala extremely cheap for the foreign traveler. In fact, it’s so cheap that at some points you find yourself buying multiple
things you don’t need within minutes as you repeat to yourself “But shit, it’s only 7Q (or around 99 cents)!” “I love it!” says recent University of Texas graduate, Cally Hibbs. Hibbs is currently attending La Paz, a Spanish school in Quetzaltenango that focuses on the culture and history of Quetzaltenango. Because almost all Spanish schools in Quetzaltenango offer the same one-on-one ffive hours of schooling per day, a student can easily get the exact experience they desire as long as they know what area they want to study. Each school focuses on a different topic of learning. Proyecto Linguistico Quetzalteco (PLQ), for example, focuses more on tradi-
tional culture and customs of the villages of Guatemala. “[When founding PLQ] a strong emphasis was placed on education about the social and political realities of Guatemala and of Central America in general,” employee at Proyecto Linguistico Quetzalteco, Tiana Carrasquillo said. “Even today, a portion of tuition is donated to Guatemalan human rights organizations.” In addition to their classes in Quetzaltenango, the school also provides a special program for students more interested in traditional village life called La Escuela de la Montaña. “La Escuela de la Montaña is unique in offering students the opportunity to live in Gua-
temala’s mountainous coffee plantation region while sharing daily life with the people of the surrounding communities,” Carrasquillo explained. The experience can be an eye-opening one as many of the living standards in Guatemalan cities are varied, allowing for a student to understand more of what the life in a developing country is like. “Language is … more than a way of communication but also a different form of thought,” says Federico Velasquez Pacheco, the founder of Celas Maya, another Spanish school in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Pacheco explains that when you learn a language from a native speaker, you’ll be able
to understand the country better. Unlike the isolation that other study abroad programs give you within a university, every day in Quetzaltenango you’re confronted with the issues of a developing country, giving you a personal look into the lives of undocumented immigrants and the starving impoverished, as well as life alongside of strong political and police corruption. “If you’ve got everything you need in life it is hard to have real empathy for other people in life,” Hibbs said. “It is important to have an idea that everything is connected; being down here with all this corruption reminded you that you can fix and change things for the better.”
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“It hurt a lot. I still deal with it today.” -Marisa Howard
Howard overcomes injury Nate Lowery
Sports & Rec Editor
While her teammates were running the streets and trails of Boise, redshirt junior Marisa Howard spent her winter in the last place she wanted– the pool. Following a successful 2013 cross country season, Howard entered her winter post-season break excited about the possibilities of the upcoming track season. While visiting her parents in mid-January earlier this year, Howard began to notice pain in her knee while running. After consulting with the team train-
er, Howard took several days off to avoid further injury. After returning to Boise, several days turned to 10 days, and 10 days turned to six weeks. Over those six weeks, Howard had two MRIs, consulted with two doctors and two physical therapists, and received two cortisone shots, all the while trying to remain confident she would be able to compete again. “I was crying every week, it was so awful,” Howard said. To remain in shape, Howard cross-trained re-
lentlessly, pool running and lap swimming for one to two hours every day. Her coach, Corey Ihmels, who dealt with his own set of injuries in his running career empathized with Howard and the frustrations of not being able to do something she loved. “I tell (everyone) when they’re injured, ‘When you drive down the street and see someone running, do you want to get out and punch them in the face?’” Ihmels said. “I don’t want them to go through the things that I’ve gone through.”
With six weeks of treatment and still no improvement, Howard elected to start running again in March in order to not lose her entire outdoor season. “At first it hurt a lot, I still deal with it today,” Howard said. “To this day we still have no clue what was wrong.” Despite the pain Howard felt, she continued to train with the goal of qualifying for the national championships – regardless of the setback from her injury. “I think on my side there was a lot of doubt but everyone else kept reassur-
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ing me it would work out,” Howard said. The confidence from those around her carried Howard through the season, giving her a victory in the steeplechase at the MWC Championships and a runner-up finish in the 5,000-meter. The NCAA steeplechase final played out perfectly for Howard. A controlled pace early on in the race slowly strung out the competitors, which put Howard in fifth place with 500 meters to go. Going over the water pit with 150 meters remaining, Howard was able to pass Rachel Johnson and Rachel Sorna to take second place -- a feat she never could have thought was imaginable.
“I tried to get to the finish line as fast as I could,” Howard said. “Afterwards, talking to a lot of people, they said ‘Look at where you came from.’ It was so surreal to get there after not running for six weeks.” Her second place finish has only added to Howard and Ihmels’ excitement for the future. With both her and NCAA Champion Emma Bates returning for their senior seasons, expectations are high for the Broncos’ cross country team. In Howard’s case, she now has the confidence and belief that she can be an elite runner. With this confidence, she hopes she can qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Smallwood returns home Brandon Walton
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There is really no place like home; just ask LeBron James. That was the feeling Sunny Smallwood had when she joined the Boise State Broncos’ women’s basketball program as its newest associate head coach. “Boise is just a great city and I loved going to school here,” Smallwood said. “I’m excited to work with this great group of people that I have had the chance to meet and believe so much in.” Smallwood grew up in
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Boise, playing basketball at Boise High School and then later for Boise State. “There are a lot of alums out there that would dream of coming back and working at their alma mater,” Smallwood said. She most recently was the associate head coach at the University of Nebraska, where she led that program to multiple NCAA sweet 16 appearances. “Nebraska wasn’t a bigtime program when I got there, but me, along with all the other coaches, were able to turn it around and build something really great,”
Smallwood said. “I believe the same thing about Boise State. To me there are no limits of what we might be able to do if we put our nose to the grindstone.” During the course of her career, Smallwood has specialized in two distinct areas: recruiting and defense. In fact, Smallwood personally recruited former WNBA player Lindsey Moore. Boise State is hoping for more of the same. “She has reorganized our recruiting. Now that we have a person like her we are hoping to steal some recruits from the big guys,” head
coach Gordy Presnell said. “Our recruiting has already jumped in terms of who we are talking to, and the respect that she commands around the country will allow us to get into some really good players’ homes.” Smallwood will take over the defense that at times has struggled in recent years. “Defense is an area where we have had a hard time for a number of years,” Presnell said. “I’m hoping with her that we become one of the top defensive teams in our conference.” This wasn’t the first time the Broncos had tried to
“She is one of the top coaches in the whole country” -Gordy Presnell add Smallwood to the coaching staff. “We tried before to get her because she is one of the top coaches in the whole country,” Presnell said. “We have always focused on her and she was always at the top of our list, and she is going to be a great addition to our program and hopefully get us to a different level.” In addition to recruiting and revamping the defense, Smallwood has already started to get to know and work with her players. “I like that she has been really involved with us and is getting to know us now, in-
stead of just waiting till practice starts,” junior forward Lexie Der said. “She is very open and that helps us to get to know her as well.” Boise State is happy to have her back and is hoping she makes an immediate impact. “I am excited because she seems to be very outgoing, funky, fun, and obviously a great coach,” Der said. “She has a good career behind her and I feel she will fit very well here and will bring something else that will help our coaches and ourselves benefit in new ways.”
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Golf transitions to Potter Potter’s Accomplishments Nate Lowery
Sports & Rec Editor
Coaching transitions can offer a mixed bag for both the athletes and the coaching staff. On the one hand, a new perspective is brought to a program. The new coach can provide a team with a burst of energy to break up the normal routine. On the other hand, that normal routine is a system the athletes have become accustomed to— they’re comfortable with what they have been doing and can be resistant to change. Dan Potter, a north Idaho
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native and former Washington assistant, is making the returning members from last year’s golf team his top priority so as to avoid an awkward coaching transition. “The guys currently on the team are my first priority,” Potter said while speaking to members of the local media during his first day on the job. “They’re in a unique situation with a coaching transition. I was in one when I was in college, so I know that they can be somewhat uncomfortable.” The likelihood of an uncomfortable transition decreased when Potter was
informed that Ryan Hietala would be returning as an assistant coach for the upcoming season. Hietala has spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach for the Broncos after competing on the PGA Tour. “(It) was a huge relief,” Potter said. “I’ve known Ryan a little bit. I know that he’s passionate about the program going forward. Him wanting to stay here was awesome news.” Although Potter’s priority is to make the transition from Burton as seamless as possible, he’s not ready to write this season off at all.
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• Coached two individuals at Washington to No.1 Position in World Amateur Golf Rankings (Chris Williams and Cheng-Tsung Pan) • Helped coach Huskies to two top-16 finishes at NCAA Championships • Huskies ranked as high as sixth nationally according to Golfstat in 2013 • Huskies signed nation’s eighth best recruiting class nationally in 2013 • 2014 Pac-12 runners-up as a team “I’m very optimistic for this season,” Potter said. “We have some great tour-
naments on the schedule.” The Broncos hope they will be able to improve upon
last season’s last place finish in the MWC while under the direction of Potter.
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Banter 07/23/2014
Aries (March 21- April 19):
All of your standard food options have become poison. Seek out alternative food sources such as copy paper, grass from the intramural field, and wood chips from the flower beds. Garnish your feast with a collection of pond scum, children’s tears, and your college hopes and dreams.
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Taurus (April 20-May 20):
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Today you and Vladimir Putin will be united as one spirit. Go about your day as you normally would. To benefit fully from your spiritual connection, you must be shirtless at all times, riding a large, ferocious Russian bear named Boris. If your fellow students object to your spiritual journey, immediately enter their place of residence and forcibly subdue them while ignoring the protests of their neighbors.
Gemini (May 21-June 20):
Today that bowl of Lucky Charms you ate turns out to be the opposite of lucky. All day long you will have Adam Sandler following you around and narrating your life as seven different characters. Happy Gilmore is not one of those characters.
Cancer (June 21-July 22):
The universe has decided that those nights of lonely nerdiness must be remedied. Don your cape, dramatically strap on your lightsaber, pack your Pokemon cards, and head out to the quad. Announce yourself with memorable one line quotes. When someone responds in kind, you will have found your true love.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
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That math test you spent all night studying for doesn’t go well. It’s time to make like Frozen and just let it go. Time to drop out of school and work downtown under the name of Indigo.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
To reap your daily karma benefits, you must dwell in irony for the day. To prepare yourself, listen to a random folk song that is at least seven years old and forage for outfits in the donation pile at the local Youth Ranch. During the day, roll your eyes when anyone mentions anything that happened in the last five years.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
That dream you had last night about being abducted by aliens turns out to be reality. The only way to escape their ship is to eat the magic beans and slide down the corn stalk back to your boring life working in a cubicle.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Your early high school years are calling. Spend the day using sexual double entendres, shopping at Hollister and yelling “Burnnnnnnn!” every time your professors make a statement. Finish off your day watching the first season of Family Guy while viewing random female profiles on MySpace.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22):
Your attempts to get a tan this summer will be futile. Instead of your skin turning into a tan color, you just begin to turn green and grow larger. All of your clothes will be torn to shreds and you will be forced to do all of your shopping at a back alley Wal-Mart.
Capricorn (Dec. 23-Jan. 19):
Unbeknownst to you, your health is rapidly declining. To halt this decline, you must ingest 16 gallons of Mountain Dew into your body during a 24 hour period. Video games, wrestling matches and cheesy action movies are allowed during this time, although bathroom breaks are prohibited.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
You will come across a large bag of money today. Instead of spending it on food for your friends and family, you decide to spend it all at Hollister in order to “swag ‘yoself out.” Because of this, you lose all of your friends and live a lonely life in your bachelor pad. Well played.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20):
Today, all of those years of listening to Drake will finally catch up to you. While sitting in class, you will suddenly break into tears about your former high school love. All of your classmates will laugh and judge you and you will be forced to move to Alaska and live out of an abandoned school bus. Fear not; Drake will be there to cry alongside you as he whispers sweet-nothings into your ear.
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