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NEWS

Korean language study increases in popularity Larry Gordon

When Olivia Hernandez was a middle schooler in Oxnard, Calif., she became hooked on K-wave — the global phenomenon of South Korean pop music, television and culture. Inspired by the romantic series “My Lovely Sam Soon” and bands like Clazziquai, she taught herself the Korean alphabet and learned a few phrases.

This year, as a UCLA transfer student, Hernandez jumped at the chance to take an introductory Korean language class. She and other students are learning grammar basics and the honorifics used to address elders and bosses. As a sweetener, the class usually watches a Korean rock music video, which they once might have appreciated only for the melodies and production values.

“Now I understand what they are saying. Now it makes sense,” said Hernandez, a psychology major who wants to use her Korean language skills when she be-

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According to a recent national study, enrollment in Korean language courses at U.S. colleges and universities showed the largest percentage growth of any foreign language. The Modern Language Association reported that Korean language enrollment rose 45 percent from 2009 to 2013. Overall, language studies declined by 6.7 percent during that same period, and interest dropped in many popular ones, in-

cluding Spanish, French and German.

The number of students in Korean classes nationwide — 12,230 — is well below the most studied languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Arabic. Currently, just 154 colleges offer Korean, but that is 70 percent more than a decade ago.

“There’s no doubt that Korean popular culture in film and music has captivated the minds of young people,” said Rosemary Feal, executive

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She attributed the dip in overall foreign language studies to campus budget cutbacks and the pressure students feel to focus on career-oriented classes, such as science and business, at the expense of humanities. That decline has occurred, Feal said, even though “knowledge of a second language often is helpful in many positions and translates into increased salary.”

According to university officials and professors, some of the interest in Korean is coming from the children and grandchildren of Korean immigrants. But non-Koreans fascinated with contemporary culture are leading the trend.

Some were drawn by the K-pop dance moves of Psy in his 2012 international video hit “Gangnam Style” or by the English-subtitled TV series “Queen of Housewives.”

And some by the prospect of jobs at Korean corporations.

At UCLA, enrollment is up significantly in both in the beginners’ courses and in the so-called heritage classes tailored to Korean Americans who have some knowledge of the language but often don’t have the grammar skills. Professors report waiting lists at the start of the quarters for the classes.

(Most UCLA undergraduates must fulfill a graduation requirement for a year of language study or test out of it.)

Los Angeles “is a great place to study Korean,” said UCLA humanities dean David Schaberg, who is a Chinese language and literature scholar. Students can practice speaking with Korean American friends and visit Korean institutions, restaurants and stores in Koreatown and other parts of town, he said.

Learning sentence structure, diction and vocabulary, he said, also will help him in what he hopes will be a career in law.

In a recent beginning class

of about 45 students, a music video of the brother-and-sister K-pop duo Akdong Musician was used to ease into a grammar lesson.

Among the exercises were sentences with connective contrasts, which instructor Jae Eun Im wrote on the board and had the class repeat aloud.

They included Korean translations of “The food is cheap but it doesn’t taste good” (Eumsiki ssande masi eobseoyo) and “It is winter but it is not cold” (Gyeourinde an chuwoyo).

Non-Korean students say that learning the alphabet is relatively easy but mastering honorifics and pronouncing some consonants can be difficult.

Freshman Michelle King grew up in Salinas not knowing anyone of Korean heritage but became a fan of such K-pop as the boy band Super Junior and the group Big Bang.

“It was so enticing, so different from American pop culture,” she said.

Now majoring in linguistics and East Asian languages, she said she hopes to become fluent in Korean.

She and other members of a campus club of K-pop fans recently visited Koreatown. They shopped at a music store, ate at a Korean restaurant and sang at a karaoke club.

Although it’s still hard for her to read Korean lyrics fast enough, a more important lesson was reinforced: learning another language, she said, “breaks down barriers between people and teaches them to look beyond surface level.”

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NEWS

ASBSU pushes comprehensive immigration reform Patrick Adcock Staff Writer

The Associated Students of Boise State University is urging Idaho representatives to fight for comprehensive immigration reform through a resolution that was passed on April 2.

Comprehensive immigration reform focuses on changing the entire immigration system, not just one aspect of the process.

While the resolution does not propose or support any given immigration reform legislation in particular, it does call Idaho

Sen. Mike Crapo, Sen. Jim Risch, Rep. Raul Labrador and Rep. Mike Simpson to action to reform the current system.

According to Angel Hernandez, secretary of external affairs for ASBSU, Idaho in particular is unique when it comes to immigration issues due to its agricultural background.

“It is no secret that the majority of people in agriculture-related jobs are undocumented,” Hernandez said. “And we believe it’s a huge problem that needs to be addressed, and it’s time for the Idaho Delegation

and Congress to do something about it.”

Hernandez co-wrote the resolution with ASBSU President Bryan Vlok.

“We wanted to target (the resolution) specifically to (the senators and representatives) because they are responsible for representing Idaho in Congress,” Hernandez said.

Immigration issues can be very complex and controversial as they affect the economy, families and ultimately who can be a United States citizen. ASBSU feels confident supporting comprehensive immigra-

tion reform.

As a representative body, ASBSU is doing their best to represent and create equal opportunity for all students, including those who are marginalized.

“There are undocumented students that go to Boise State University, and undocumented students are among the most marginalized groups in society because they do not qualify for financial aid, and they cannot take out student loans at public institutions,” Hernandez said.

According to Hernandez, ASBSU seeks to represent

all students regardless of their immigration status, and proposing this resolution is one way the organization can represent a marginalized group.

For ASBSU, this resolution is about pursuing equality among all students.

The resolution stated, “All persons deserve equal access to employment, housing, education, public accommodation and legal protections.”

According to Hernandez, part of bringing equality to these individuals is pushing Idaho Congress to

provide a path to citizenship for undocumented individuals.

A path to citizenship is one specific aspect that ASBSU believes needs to be included in any future efforts to reform immigration in the United States.

“The entire executive council at ASBSU firmly stands behind the resolution because we believe that we need to change a broken immigration system in order to bring those people out of the shadows that contribute to our society, to our culture, to our economy.”

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Boise State encourages internships for students Kelsey Richards Staff Writer

Having an internship is no longer considered “going the extra mile” in professional experience, according to experts at Boise State.

Internships are now necessary to have on a resume if you want to significantly increase students’ chances of landing a career after graduation.

According to a study by Boise State’s Collegiate Employment Workforce Readiness Project, over 92 percent of Treasure Valley employers expect students to have experience when they graduate.

After surveying some students, most seem to feel that experience in their potential career field is important to receiving a job when they graduate.

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ternships.

“The benefits (of an internship) are numerous,” said Anne Evans, assistant director of internships at Boise State. “A degree is no longer enough.”

According to Evans, internships are a great way to earn academic credit, while also potentially earning money, networking and meeting professionals.

Senior mechanical engineering major Connor Davis has reaped all the benefits that an internship has to offer. He has been able to gain hands-on work experience in his field by interning with a local engineering firm. Davis will graduate this May and has been offered a full-time position with the company he has been interning with.

“The most valuable thing my internship gave me is the experience,” Davis said. “Having that experience has set me heads and

tails above a college graduate with a perfect GPA but no experience.”

Internships are available during all semesters and for all majors.

Evans believes summer internships are the most popular for students because they typically do not have much else going on and are able to devote more of their time to the internship.

Summer internships can start as early as May but have a registration deadline of June 26 of this year.

According to Evans, students should make sure that their potential internship is looking to provide a learning experience and somebody will oversee their work and experience and the majority of the internship opportunity should be related to their field.

“Boise is the perfect location for an internship,” Evans said.

Boise State isn’t much different from other universities when it comes to sexual assault occurrences, according to Annie Kerrick, Boise State’s director of Title IX. “Rape happens everywhere, unfortunately,” Kerrick said.

“We’re doing our best here to prevent it and to create a community where behaviors that lead to rape are not accepted.”

Kerrick said a “major” difference Boise State and some other institutions that have had major problems with sexual assault is that Boise State’s community members, administrators, faculty and staff care about the students.

“We’re not trying to cover up anything or deny that there is a problem. What we try to do is what is best for our students,” Kerrick said.

According to Kerrick, the numbers of reported sexual assault occurrences at Boise State are difficult to add up, but, on average, the Title IX office receives between seven and 10 rape reports a year.

“We have a lot more reports of behaviors that are on their way on the spectrum to becoming rape, but not what would be defined as rape,” Kerrick said. “We have an obligation and (we) believe really strongly in first and foremost preventing sexual assault from occurring, but also in responding to it in a way that is fair to all parties involved. But also, to make sure that our community is protected and safe from the behavior reoccurring.”

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Women’s Center and the Criminal Justice Department are screening of Kirby Dick’s film, “The Hunting Grounds.”

This documentary focuses on the lives of sexual assault survivors and their experiences at college.

The title comes from how these women perceived college campuses after their attacks.

The documentary shows how college administrators handled these assault cases.

“My goals for showing the movie (is) to bring awareness of the issue of sexual assault on campus,” Kerrick said. “But also, that we have this panel of campus experts available to talk about how Boise State’s response to sexual assault may be different to what people see in the movie.”

A panel discussion will follow the movie. The panel will include experts from Boise Police Department, Associated Students of Boise State University, University Medical and Counseling Services, the Women’s Center, University Security Services, Office of the Dean of Students and the Title

IX office.

While Boise State may be like any other college, it handles sexual assault cases with more grace than some of the institutions taking heat for failing to provide women their rights.

For Kate Stevens, program coordinator for the Women’s Center, the film couldn’t come at a better time.

“We try to provide resources throughout the year for students,” Stevens said, highlighting the center’s bystander training. “This time of year is better for students. While we give them this information during orientation, this time of year isn’t an overwhelming time for new information.”

According to Stevens, the Women’s Center generally gets more people to volunteer after a film or training is given.

Those looking to volunteer for the Women’s Center can visit the program’s office on the second floor of the Student Union Building above the Admissions Office.

The movie will be shown in the Lookout Room April 21 at 6 p.m.

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What’s in a name?

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Emily Pehrson Editor-in-Chief

Over the past few weeks, Treasure Valley Starbucks locations have swapped their permanent markers for printed stickers. With efficiency and speed in mind, personalized, handwritten names have been replaced with typed-out titles.

While some baristas are excited by the new mobile ordering options presented with digitized drink ordering, others are wary of the lack of personality that comes with a typed name.

“It’s all about really personalizing that Starbucks experience for our customers,” shift supervisor and soon-to-be freshman fine arts major Korey Combs said. “That’s what people are Instagramming and tweeting­ —the drink with their name on it.”

According to Dr. Richard Pines, psychiatrist at St. Alphonsus, this attention may be due to the high value American society places on the individual.

“In our society we want to be recognized as different—truly unique—from everyone else,” Pines said. “A name has a lot to do with that.

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from the crowd.”

Combs sees this in his work. When he is able to correctly spell a customer’s name, he found they usually become excited to the point of personal validation.

“Your name is one of the most important things about you. It’s your main descriptor,” Combs said. “It’s something that you live with and see all the time.”

On April 8, award-winning author Margaret Atwood gave a lecture at Boise State entitled “Expression and the Power of Words.” During her presentation, Atwood discussed the power that some names carry in literature and cultural subgroups.

“In many traditions you had a real name, known only to a few, and a youth name, the name you were generally known by,” Atwood said during her lecture. “Your youth name had no power over you, but your real name did.”

According to Atwood, names and titles have significant power, and have been recognized as such for centuries.

This importance has translated to coffee cups, making it difficult for baristas trying to scribble in a hurry.

“The focus on the individual can make people a little touchy about having their

name ‘mistreated,’” Pines said.

“People can feel like, if someone doesn’t get their name correct it’s a personal slight, like they didn’t care about them enough as a person.”

Combs has seen this in his work.

“Every once in a blue moon, I get a customer that is angry and just says, ‘Ugh, it’s fine.’” Combs said.

However, an unusual spelling can also be a chance to connect.

Barista and Borah High School senior Emily Phanmah believes names are one of the most important parts of the Starbucks customer experience.

By putting forth further effort to spell a customer’s name correctly, she is able to become better acquainted with an individual, rather than just another variation of “Jennifer.”

“It reminds people that they aren’t anonymous beings floating through our economy,” Phanmah said.

For Combs, reminding customers that they are important is integral to his job.

“Names make people feel like an individual within a group. That’s why Starbucks puts so much emphasis on them,” Combs said, laughing. “$2.50 of your $5 coffee is for the name.”

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Student Voices Larissa Eklund Senior Multidisciplinary Studies “Lots of people call me Larr-Asia. It’s Larissa, rhymes with Kissa. (Laughs) It doesn’t bother me much. I’m glad my parents gave me a seminormal name, not like some of these you hear today.”

Patrick Jones Sophomore Criminal Justice “My name is pretty easy, so you wouldn’t think it would get messed up very often but you wouldn’t believe how many people call me Pat-rick. Like it’s two words: Pat. Rick.

Where does that come from? Other than that, sometimes people call me nicknames I hate like Patty or Ricky.”

Lizbeth Macedo Sophomore Business Administration “Most people call me Elizabeth, or write it that way on my cup. I just think that Americans aren’t used to it, so they add the extra syallbles to it to make it feel more familiar.

I’m so used it. It doesn’t even phase me anymore—just correct and move on.”

Cody Akinboboye Senior Mathematics “People don’t even attempt (my last name), which is fine. I get it. What is most annoying is when people ask me what it means. I don’t know. What does Jones mean? Or a lot of people ask where my family is from. America.

We just didn’t change our name six generations ago when someone came over.”

Ginny Revsbane Senior English “Here in the States, my name used to get butchered. Everyone would say it with a hard ‘g.’ Gah. Gah. Quite vulgar. Since the first Harry Potter movie, it’s gotten quite a bit better though. Just one more reason to thank J.K. Rowling.”

Adrian Gonzales Freshman Undecied “People spell it Adrienne or Adriana, sometimes when I’m standing right in front of them. I’m all, ‘Yo, you see I’m a dude, right?” It gets really annoying.”

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Spring Fling changes, creates interactive music experience Patty Bowen Culture Editor

Rumors of fire dancers, giant carnival rides, food trucks and an interactive dance and music stage trickle from the mouths of several students interested in this year’s Spring Fling.

This year, the Student Involvement and Leadership Center focused on creating an interactive festival, highlighting the importance of the individual’s experience.

“We wanted to take Spring Fling and change it from the question of, ‘Who’s coming, What artist is coming?’ We want to make it your Spring Fling and make it about how you are coming,” said Hannah Barnett, senior marketing major and programming assistant at SILC. “We want to have something for everyone.”

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Unlike years previous, Spring Fling 2015 will focus on how music is perceived and interacted with. To do this, the Kalliope stage is coming to campus. This will be the first time the interactive dance stage, previously seen at Burning Man and Bonnaroo, will be brought to campus.

“Part of their thing about being interactive is that they don’t want you to just sit and watch this thing. They want you to interact with it,” Barnett said. “Their philosophy is: We want (students) to touch, and, if you break it, we didn’t build it strong enough.”

Students will be allowed to climb up and down in the sound booth and all over the stage, creating an environment of music interaction for the first time at a college campus. Along with it, one of Kalliope’s DJs will be making mixes of pre-requested songs from students. The festival will also include fire dancers,

three carnival rides and glowin-the-dark face painting.

Booking artists

Barnett said SILC decided not to book a headlining artist for Spring Fling this year because of how unreasonable the cost of popular artists can be.

“Booking one show will take an entire budget,” Barnett said. “The thing about booking a college show is that it’s a one-time performance. A lot of times, artists are booked for tours where they hit up 50 different places along the entire tour. (Venues) get discounted rates because of that.”

This can leave campuses like Boise State unable to obtain big name artists.

According to Barnett, Meghan Trainer was roughly $50,000 to book last year and is now between $150,000$500,000.

“That’s where we decided to make the change and cre-

ate an affordable, sustainable Spring Fling,” Barnett said.

“We wanted to make something that can be continued in the years to come without spending a huge amount of money on the artist that half the students don’t know and the other half don’t really care about.”

Food trucks

This year’s Spring Fling will also host several food trucks including B-Town Bistro, Brown Shuga Soul Food, Mosaic World Crepes and Tiki Teriyaki.

According to Katie Oteusa, senior psychology major and programming assistant at SILC, this could be the first step to getting food trucks on campus on a regular basis.

“We are paving the way for new things,” Oteusa said.

“Aramark was just like a beast that no one wanted to tackle, but I think with the direction we’re going right now, it will become more common to

have food trucks on-campus.”

Oteusa said that Aramark has been supportive of what SILC is doing with food trucks at Spring Fling and wants to remind students that they will need to bring cash or a card to be able to buy food from the food trucks.

The history and the perception

“Each year, (Spring Fling) changes just a little bit depending on what students want,” said Erin Mahn, campus programs coordinator at SILC. “It provides more opportunities for engagement and interaction as well as something that Boise State has never seen before.”

Spring Fling has been a 38year tradition, and according to Barnett, it was originally a barn dance.

Barnett feels the Spring Fling hasn’t been received as well as hoped over the last several years and hopes that this year, it could be what

changes students’ opinions.

“Let’s just have fun and celebrate the end of the year,” Barnett said. “Boise as a city brings in awesome concerts every weekend. We want to make Spring Fling something different and something that other campuses aren’t doing.

Let Boise State prove to you that this is worth your time.”

This year’s Spring Fling will be taking place Saturday, April 25 in the West Stadium Parking Lot from 7:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.

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Polydrug use, crossfading leads to possible dangers August McKernan Asst. Culture Editor

Polydrug use occurs when two or more drugs are used at the same time. Often, people use drugs in combination to either increase their intoxication or increase the effect of the first drug taken.

Freshman Sam Bradford, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, has observed a distinct interest in student polydrug use—particular the combination of marijuana and alcohol. However, students aren’t referring to it by its technical name. Instead, they call it “crossfaded” or “twisted.” “(Getting crossfaded) is popular among college students because weed and alcohol are two drugs that people don’t have a hard time getting their hands on,” he said. “It’s natural that people want to mix them. They’re both two things college students enjoy doing, so it makes sense that

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they want to combine them.”

For Bradford, the urge to mix drugs comes and goes in spurts.

“For a month, I’ll do it every weekend and then for three or four months, I won’t do it at all,” he said. “I think it depends on what’s going on in the rest of my life.”

The Effects

According to the NIH, Alcohol is a depressant. It slows down vital functions, resulting in slurred speech, unsteady movement, an inability to react quickly and reduction in one’s rational thinking.

Marijuana is a psychoactive drug.

“The effects of THC (the chemical responsible for most of marijuana’s psychological effects) are relaxation, mild euphoria, appetite stimulation, antiemetic effect and alteration of time perception,” said Troy Rohn, biology professor.

Since both drugs are so unique, it is unclear what the overall effects are if people use both together at the same time.

“Data show that the effects of THC and alcohol are additive, but not synergistic,” Rohn said.

A study published in “Drug and Alcohol Dependence” in 2001 researched the interaction of marijuana and alcohol.

“When subjects consumed ethanol, they detected marijuana effects more quickly, reported more episodes of euphoria and had higher plasma THC levels,” Scott Lukas wrote. “These data suggest that ethanol may increase the absorption of THC, resulting in an increase in the positive subjective mood effects of smoked marijuana and contributing to the popularity of this drug combination.”

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Culture The popularity of crossfading has led to a debate as to whether people should get high first or get drunk first.

Bradford prefers to smoke marijuana first because it’s the substance he enjoys more.

Possible Dangers

However, crossfading come with a wide host of possible health and safety issues.

“Because THC is antiemetic, it can make it more difficult for somebody to vomit,” Rohn said. “If a person drinks too much under these conditions, the body usually will vomit to void

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excess alcohol. But, if THC is on board, this may not occur, and the person may experience alcohol poisoning.

Finally, the effects of the two are unpredictable, but there are documented cases that ingestion of THC and alcohol may produce psychotic symptoms such as paranoia, anxiety and panic.”

Bradford has never seen someone experience alcohol poisoning as a result of their participation in crossfading.

However, he has seen people vomit 20 to 30 times as a result of their alcohol consumption.

“If you do drink too much and smoke, you’ll throw up a lot because drinking

makes you dizzy and smoking doesn’t help that,” Bradford said. “You’ll get the spins and you’ll just feel like you’re spinning in a circle, even if you’re just standing still.”

Standing still is generally recommended for those under the influence. Or, at the very least, avoiding driving entirely.

“The most dangerous ef-

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fect is on motor skills such as driving,” Rohn said.

“Using both in combination can cause serious deficits in motor skills, more so than each alone. In fact, the data don’t really suggest that THC alone significantly impairs driving skills like alcohol. But together, that’s a dangerous combination.”

Kenny Bramwell, chairman of the emergency department at St. Luke’s, sees at least one intoxicated person enter St. Luke’s emer-

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Crossfading is probably very slightly more dangerous than just alcohol but probably not significantly so. Alcohol is far more dangerous than marijuana.

—Kenny Bramwell

gency room every shift he works. “(Crossfading) is probably very slightly more dangerous than just alcohol by itself but probably not significantly so.” Bramwell said.

“Alcohol is far more dangerous than marijuana.”

The people Bramwell comes across have usually had an extreme amount of alcohol. He describes most as either unable to stand or unable to maintain an open airway and breathe on their own.

However, these symptoms are easy to avoid if educated.

“Well, probably the first piece of advice is don’t drink alcohol in excess because that’s by far a bigger problem with or without the marijuana,” Bramwell

said. “And then you need to understand how the marijuana affects your body in addition to the alcohol. So the thing that we talk to our patients about all the time is not combining alcohol with other sedatives.”

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Running toward happiness

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Kaylee Beasley found passion through training, Race to Robie Creek Kyle Moeller Staff Writer

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Emma Bates runs for personal, school best

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For most Boise State students, waking up and thinking about running 26.2 miles sounds like a nightmare. For junior communication major Kaylee Beasley, it was a day she had trained for.

Beasley had the goal of one day running a marathon.

Beasley’s roommate, Ashley Basura, was the first to take her on a run, and it did not start off well.

“We lived in Towers and ran down the Greenbelt toward the stadium,” Basura said.

“When she got under the first bridge, she just laid down and threw a fit. I left her and knew if I kept running, she would eventually get up and catch up to me, and she did.”

Training with each other was never easy. Basura ran regularly, around six miles a day. Every time she asked Beasley to come, she would yell at her because she remembered how horrible their first run together was.

Beasley hit a wall. It became apparent that she had to decide whether it was time to give up and settle, or to push further and harder.

“As you can imagine, the training got overly difficult,” Beasley said. “I wondered whether this was worth it and if I truly wanted to do this.”

Planning out a goal of running a marathon was the easy part for her, but taking the necessary steps and actually getting into the gym on a daily basis was the hard part.

“I was not used to working out this much or this often,

Beasley said. “It became strenuous on my body and made me regularly tired.”

Beasley lost 40 pounds in six months throughout her training and is in the best shape of her life. She also noticed her mood improve.

Beasley began training in July, 2013. By April, 2014 she was ready to run her first half marathon, the Lake Lowell Half Marathon in Nampa, Idaho. Beasley finished the race in 2:05:35.45.

“It was the hardest race of my life,” Beasley said. “At the end, I just collapsed.”

Basura was proud of how far her roommate had come since lying under the Broadway Bridge.

“I went to her first race and she cried the whole time,” Basura said. “It was hard and is something not most people could do but I was proud of her,” Beasley was not going to stop with this one race, however. She knew, in order to record faster times, she would have to alter her training and

Leslie Boston-Hyde try new things to become a better runner.

Last summer, she tried CrossFit, but the amount of muscle she put on made it harder to run, so she stuck with running primarily as a form of exercise.

Beasley runs around eight to ten miles a day, preferably outdoors. She loves to run on the trails near the military reserve with her boyfriend, John Ballantyne.

“We run and train together all the time,” Ballantyne said.

“I think it helps as she is able to have someone go through the trouble and the struggle with her.”

Since her first race at Lake Lowell, Beasley has run five half marathons and is currently training for the hardest marathon in the North West, the Race to Robie Creek.

“It is the most difficult marathon in the North West as most of the race is an uphill climb,” Beasley said.

However, this is all in preparation for her biggest and most important race yet, The Rock

n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego, California on May 31.

“This race is a qualifier for the Boston Marathon,” Beasley said. “My boyfriend and I chose to run this race because it is 2,000 feet lower in elevation so we figured it would help our times as I have to shave 25 minutes off my time in order to qualify.”

Beasley is quite nervous for her first marathon, but no matter what happens, she is happy with what she has accomplished so far.

“Not many people can say they have run a half marathon, let alone a marathon so I think that is pretty cool,” Beasley said.

Since that first run on the Greenbelt two years ago, Basura has seen a change in Beasley.

“I think physically she is more confident, and she is more confident in herself,” Basura said. “She has always been a happy, outgoing person but now, it shines and she brightens up a room when she walks in.”

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Every week The Arbiter sports staff will select a Bronco studentathlete for their athletic performances over the week. Selections will run on Monday, based off of the previous week, running from Sunday to Saturday.

One of the most successful student-athletes to compete for Boise State, redshirt senior Emma Bates continues to dominate the track.

On April 17, Bates added to her career of success during the women’s 1,500-meter race at the world’s largest track and field competition, the Mt. SAC Relays. She ran for 4:16.37, not only securing a personal record, but the school record as well.

This beat her previous personal best by 4.89 seconds.

Overall, Bates placed 11 in the race, beating 93 other collegiate athletes from across the nation who competed in the California meet.

The 1,500-meter record is not Bates’ only school record. She also holds the records in the 5,000-meter and

10,000-meter for outdoor track and the 5,000m, 3,000m and the mile in indoor track.

Bates also earned MW Track and Field Athlete of the Week on April 7 after claiming the 5,000m school record and MW record.

The 15:32.16 time has ranked her first in the West and second nationally in the 5,000-meter. Her current 5,000-meter time would qualify her for the NCAA West Regionals on May 29-31.

While Bates and the rest of the track & field team will have the rest of April off, they will be preparing for the Border Clash on May 1-2 in Boise.

Want to see the best up-and-coming athletes? Visit arbiteronline.com to see who else has been name Athlete of the Week.

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Men’s tennis looks for fourth straight MW title Kyle Moeller

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Garrett Patton serves a shot.

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Four-peat is not a phrase that is often spoken of in sports. This coming weekend, the Boise State men’s tennis team has that golden opportunity.

“Winning the Mountain West has been our goal since the beginning of the year,” senior Garrett Patton said.

“We definitely want to complete that goal, as going to the NCAAs would also be great.”

While that goal is quite obtainable and something within the Broncos’ grasp, this year is going to be a lot

more difficult than years past.

Boise State is 12-15 and 4-3 in conference season. It is the first losing season in head coach Greg Patton’s 20 years with the team.

However, the hardship has put them in a great position to obtain the Championship.

“What I did this year was schedule one of the toughest schedules in the country,” Greg said. “It’s been a rough road and it’s been bumpy. But I see an on-ramp that is really smooth.”

The conference championship is a tough task for any team, let alone for the threetime defending champions.

For the Broncos, their outcome will be determined by the hardships they dealt with all year.

“We’ve been through a lot of adversity this year,” junior Toby Mitchell said.

“We’ve been challenged, and I believe having a season as tough as we have had, we can go into conference winning three times in a row and use that experience against the other teams.”

This experience will be pivotal for the team. Not many teams have the experience of playing so far in the conference tournament nor winning it like the Broncos have.

The overwhelming key for the team is not their physical abilities but their mental mind set going in.

Greg believes the Broncos’ experience will help them play with no fear.

“Confidence in their game is key. We want them to play fearless. People who play with fear, they fail,” Greg said.

“This will be a hard road to walk for us. I think we can do it. We just need everyone healthy and it’s been a challenge. But challenges are good and we are excited.”

The MW Championships run April 22-26 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Brittney Liggins Staff Writer

The Boise State women’s tennis team is hoping a tough regular season schedule has prepared them for this week’s MW Championships.

Since the beginning of spring, the Boise State’s women’s tennis team has been building their confidence from match to match.

Over the season they had some tough losses, but they have learned and grown, which has increased their confidence as a team and individuals.

They have had a tough

schedule this year including a match against Alabama, a top ten team.

Head coach Beck Roghaar designed the schedule in order to prepare the team for the trials they would face in the postseason.

“Usually when you feel prepared, you feel confident,” Roghaar said. “When you feel confident, you play well, and when you play well you win.”

Going into the competition against Alabama, the team got an eye-opening experience.

Although they did not win the match, it made them realize that they could compete at a top ranked level.

Leading into the Mountain West Championships on April 22, the team isn’t worried about the competition.

“I don’t think we’re nervous,” senior Sammie Watson said. “I think we are ready to go out there and get what we deserve.”

The team is ready to be the most prepared team in the MW. They believe that they have trained hard and are equipped to do their finest work.

“Knowing we have all that hard work in our pockets, to have that pay off during conference with no regrets—we put the work in,” junior Bobbi

Oshiro said.

With the team being a close knit family, Oshiro would like to send Watson and Kaitlyn Brown—the teams’ two seniors—out victorious.

Watson has put together an impressive season in her final year in the orange and blue.

She is 24-4 on the season and has only one loss in conference play.

The team is ready to go out with a bang and leave anything out there on the court during conference.

They have been preparing for this moment since fall.

“We’re not done,” Roghaar said.

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