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French fever: The doctor goes back to class Shelly Bohorquez Staff Writer

Sharon Westbrook completed her medical residency in 2000 and practiced medicine until January of 2015, when she left her job as an MD to become a French major at Boise State.

It takes over 10 years to become a medical doctor. After an undergraduate degree, medical school and years of residency, most people are confident they will be practicing medicine until they retire. That’s what Westbrook thought too, but, in the fall of 2013, she began exploring a passion for language that had always been in the back of her head.

“I did both for a couple of years until this past January when I decided that 15 years in medicine was enough and that I just wanted to pursue the French full time,” Westbrook said. “I think that with my medical career, I

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kind of came to the end of it.

Not for any bad reason, just to pursue something else.

Did I ever think I would do that? No.” Westbrook has considered translating between patients, as well as translating medical documents in order to join both of her interests. For now though, she’s enjoying learning, teaching and spreading her passion for French where she can.

“I’m not exactly sure what I want to do when I’m finished with the degree…I’ve thought about maybe combining both the areas and doing something medical in French,” Westbrook said.

Studying at Boise State

Benoît Leclercq, lecturer of French, has known Westbrook since last year. “(Westbrook) led me to understand that she was thinking about actually becoming a French major, and I was wondering how that would work

with her job,” Leclercq said.

“And that’s when she told me that she was thinking about quitting her job and really just dedicating herself to French and trying to do something with French, which I had never heard of.”

According to Leclercq, Westbrook’s preparation, dedication and enthusiasm shows in class. Westbrook is considered a sophomore for her French major but is taking senior-level French literature classes.

“The fact that she was able to jump from French 201 to French 420 is somewhat unheard of,” Leclercq said.

Leclercq said Westbrook is one of the most impressive students he has ever seen.

“I think sometimes it’s following what you love but also, it’s not so absurd,” Leclercq said. “We value some professions so much more than others. If you’re an engineer or a doctor, people will say that you’re set up for life with what

you’re going to do, but maybe you discover something else better.”

Education and Family

Westbrook studied at several branches of Louisiana State University, finishing her undergrad, medical school and residency in Louisiana’s diverse atmosphere. After opening up a private practice there for two years, she moved to Boise in 2002 with her husband and two children where she continued to practice medicine with Primary Health.

Although Westbrook no longer works as a doctor, she continues do volunteer medical work a couple of times each month at the Canyon County Community Clinic in Caldwell, where she has been volunteering for the past five years.

According to Westbrook, her early planning for retirement and financial management has allowed her to be

financially secure and pursue French. Westbrook’s husband, Jim Guyton, works fulltime as a dentist and loves his job. Westbrook has been able to spend more time with her family since quitting her job and therefore knows that it was the right decision.

“We’ve had to change our spending lifestyle a little bit but it’s been totally worth it,” Westbrook said.

La Petite École de Français

Westbrook’s husband speaks fluent French, and they practice at home. Westbrook also tries to teach her children French, however, French is not offered as a language course in most elementary schools. After signing her son up for Spanish classes at Washington Elementary School, her son wondered why he couldn’t learn French in school as well as home.

That observation led Westbrook to develop “La Petite

École de Français,” the new, non-profit French class available as of January 2015 for students at Washington Elementary School.

“It’s fun to work with the kids. They have no barriers; they’re just open and they’re little sponges,” Westbrook said. “Their accents are very good ... they say what they hear. It’s exciting to see them being able to learn and use the French. Even in just the few weeks that we’ve been doing the class, they’re able to express themselves in complete sentences.”

Working with Jason Herbeck, associate professor of French and French section head, Westbrook was able to create “La Petite École de Français.” She and Herbeck teach 30 students ranging from kindergarten to sixth grade on Friday mornings at the school. Westbrook hopes to expand the French class to more elementary schools.

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NEWS Stephanie Labastida Staff Writer

For students who want to pursue multiple areas of study with a specific experience in mind, a traditional degree track may not do the trick. This is where the interdisciplinary studies program comes in.

The difference between a traditional major and the interdisciplinary studies program is the fact that interdisciplinary studies relies on a specific focus. Majoring and minoring follow general, already established coursework.

As someone who had led the Interdisciplinary Studies Program as the director since its beginning, Daryl Jones has seen how students have benefited from the program. Having Boise State offer such a program

allows undergraduate and graduate students to look into combining different elements of different majors to create something entirely new, specific and oriented towards their individual interests.

“One student combined courses from physics, mechanical engineering and music in order to pursue an interest in electronic music,” Jones said. “Another student combined course work from kinesiology, mechanical engineering and materials science in order to pursue an interest in biomechanical engineering.”

Iva Stojkovska, a senior in the program, studies biology, chemistry and psychology to study the subject of neuropsychology. Each subject covers a whole spectrum of information, but through the program, she

takes elements of each to study her exact focus.

Stojkovska said that the program allowed her to pursue her dreams. Instead of settling for a pre-established major, she can tie together different subjects to gain a precise understanding.

“I don’t have to give up on what I wanted to do,” Stojkovska said.

Students can’t start out pursing an interdisciplinary route when they enter Boise State. One of the program’s requirements is for a student to have 30 credits under their belt. Interdisciplinary studies is something they may consider after their first year of college.

“You need to be looking at this as something you’re very intentionally pursuing,” said Annal Frenz, head of the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary

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Interdisciplinary Studies offers opportunities for students

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Studies Program.

According to Frenz, students must undergo a process, which involves creating their own individual degree plan and forming a faculty committee to advise them.

Each of the advisors, coming from the disciplines needed for the student’s goals, decide along with them what classes must be taken in order to fulfill the established

educational goals.

For students interested in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, more information may be found on the program’s page at http://coas. boisestate.edu.

Study Tip: Take the time to take care of yourself during finals week Maria Shimel Courtesy

During the last few weeks of the semester, students often push themselves to their physical and emotional limits.

This is just a reminder to all the worn-out learners out there—don’t forget to take care of yourself.

Remember to eat balanced and nutritious meals to keep your energy up. Drink tons of water. A hydrated body is a happy one. Also, remember to get plenty of sleep.

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winks during this stressful time, practice a tried-andtrue method such as meditation before bed. This is useful for de-stressing and slowing down your breathing and heart rate.

Following routines such as washing your face and brushing your teeth every night at the same time will cue your body to start winding down.

Another good tip for sleeping well is to exercise regularly. This will help keep you strong and energetic during the day and can assist in burning excess energy and stress so you sleep soundly at bedtime.

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NEWS Matt Pearce

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The University of Virginia student at the center of a discredited Rolling Stone rape story was not to blame when a “systemic” failure of journalism led the magazine to publish her unverified account of the alleged attack, the authors of an outside investigation into the story said Monday.

“This failure was not the subject or source’s fault as a matter of journalism,” Columbia University Journalism School dean Steve Coll, who co-authored the report, said at a news conference in New York. “It was a product of failed methodology. ... We disagree with any suggestion that this was Jackie’s fault,” referring to the student, who was only identified by her first name.

The public dissection of the independent report came as criticism against Rolling Stone mounted, with the fraternity accused in the story announcing Monday it would pursue “all available legal action.”

Rolling Stone on Sunday night retracted and apolo-

gized for the November cover story as soon as the Columbia report was released. The Columbia team reiterated Monday that it found deep flaws in the reporting and editing of the woman’s narrative of her allegedly being gang raped at a University of Virginia fraternity.

“The report by Columbia University’s School of Journalism demonstrates the reckless nature in which Rolling Stone researched and failed to verify facts in its article,” Stephen Scipione, president of the Virginia Alpha chapter of that fraternity, said in a statement provided to the Los Angeles Times. “This type of reporting serves as a sad example of a serious decline of journalistic standards.”

Questions about the authenticity of the rape story had emerged almost immediately after publication, although the school took the accusations seriously and brought in the police. In the end, neither police investigators nor the Columbia University report found evidence that such a rape happened at the fraternity.

“The abject failure of accountability in journalism

that led to Rolling Stone’s ‘A Rape on Campus’ article has done untold damage to the University of Virginia and our Commonwealth as a whole,” Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said in a Monday statement. “This false account has been an unnecessary and dangerous distraction from real efforts to combat sexual violence on our college campuses.”

After retracting the rape story, the magazine removed it from its website and replaced it with the 12,644word independent review by Columbia.

The review, which also found serious lapses in basic journalistic procedure, had been requested by Rolling Stone in December as doubts grew.

Coll said the report’s authors hoped to construct a “case study” that would be useful for journalists, journalism students and the public “to see exactly how the editorial process broke down.”

He said that breakdown was not the result of the account Jackie gave, but of the magazine’s “failed methodology” in not confirming its basic accuracy.

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Rolling Stone’s failure ‘systematic’; fraternity vows legal action

Steve Coll helped to produce the report.

Sheila Coronel, a dean of academic affairs at Columbia University and a co-author of the report, said the Columbia team decided not to fully identify the student known as Jackie even though her allegations of a gang rape could not be proved.

An attorney for Jackie declined to comment Monday.

Jackie did not cooperate with either the police investigation or the Columbia review into the Rolling Stone story.

Although Rolling Stone’s systemic breakdowns in verification and attribution marked one of the ugliest blemishes in the magazine’s sometimes storied history, Rolling Stone’s publisher had no plans to fire any of the editors or the writer involved with the story, a spokeswoman said.

Through that spokeswoman, Rolling Stone’s publisher, Jann S. Wenner, and its man-

aging editor, Will Dana, declined requests for interviews with the Los Angeles Times on Monday.

In an interview with The New York Times on Sunday, Wenner had called Jackie “a really expert fabulist storyteller,” adding that he was not trying to blame Jackie, “but obviously there is something here that is untruthful, and something sits at her doorstep.”

The Columbia report’s authors found no instances of fabrication or lying on the part of Rolling Stone.

Rather than blame a single person for the story’s failure—such as the author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely—the Columbia authors instead detailed a systemic breakdown of journalism at Rolling Stone.

“The failure encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-check-

ing,” wrote the Columbia authors—deans Coronel, Coll and Derek Kravitz, a postgraduate research scholar at the journalism school.

“The magazine set aside or rationalized as unnecessary essential practices of reporting that, if pursued, would likely have led the magazine’s editors to reconsider publishing Jackie’s narrative so prominently, if at all.”

Through a spokeswoman, Erdely declined an interview request Sunday evening, but she apologized in a statement after the Columbia report was published, calling the last few months “among the most painful of my life.”

She apologized “to Rolling Stone’s readers, to my Rolling Stone editors and colleagues, to the UVA community, and to any victims of sexual assault who may feel fearful as a result of my article.”

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opinion

Are you going to the Spring Fling celebration?

“No because I don’t know what that is. I’ve not even heard of it.”

Clara Zhang Business Major Major

“I want to but I can’t due to my busy schedule that day. ” Molli Blea Physical Therapy Major Junior

“I’m not going because I didn’t know it was even going on, but it sounds fun. ” Sam Fortner Fine Arts Major Freshman

Letter to the Editor: Spring Fling Madison Hansen English Major Senior

I have to admit that in the past, most of the largescale events on campus just haven’t been appealing to me. Even as a freshman who lived on campus—the exact kind of student who most of these events seem to be catered toward—the big concerts with well-known artists, Spring Fling among them, simply weren’t events I wanted to go to.

It concerned me that so much money was being devoted to something that only some students would

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enjoy, and I’m willing to bet that the majority of students share my concerns. But this year’s Spring Fling is something that I am actually excited to attend.

As a student programming assistant at the Student Involvement and Leadership Center who has been helping to plan Spring Fling this year, I know I might seem like a biased reviewer.

But just ask any of my friends and coworkers—if I don’t think something is working, including something that our office is doing, I’m not afraid to call it out.

The reason I applied for this

student job was because of my interest in making a difference on-campus by providing the kinds of opportunities that meet the needs of the diverse student body at Boise State.

That means bringing programs that have a practical purpose while still being unique, that are cost-effective while still making a big impact and that reach the students who aren’t usually welcomed by mainstream university initiatives while still being engaging for everyone. I truly believe that our student staff has put in the hard work to make

Spring Fling embody all of those values.

You might have heard by now that Spring Fling 2015 is going to be really different from past years, and that’s not just buzz. The biggest change is that instead of contracting a big-name artist, we’re bringing in a DJ who can play the music that you request.

In my opinion, that’s far more interesting, costeffective and intentionally thoughtful than a traditional concert. Musicians who are popular enough to have mass appeal across campus are simply too expensive for

“I’m not. The biggest reason is because I haven’t even heard of it.”

Kaleo Nawahine Civil Engineering Major Junior

us to continue to afford, and musicians who we can afford aren’t popular enough to satisfy a majority of Boise State students.

It’s just not fair that so much money that comes from students is put toward one costly spectacle that only a small fraction of students will be excited about.

And there are a lot of opportunities to see great concerts here in Boise, so we want Spring Fling to be more than just a concert.

On top of the interactive music and light show, expect to see new attractions like fair rides, aerial dancers and food trucks. Our goal is to make sure that there’s something for everyone, and that it’s impossible to be underwhelmed at the event.

I believe that this year’s Spring Fling is going to appeal to more students and make an important and bold move towards a more sustainable end of the school year event.

It’s very important to me that all programs, Spring Fling among them, are based on what students are asking for. Feedback from past years has been our main context for planning, and I hope that you attend Spring Fling 2015 not just to enjoy the event, but so you can provide feedback that will help us to continuously improve.

Students like you and me matter, and I think that this Spring Fling is a good start towards valuing the voices of students who aren’t always heard.

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opinion Letter to the editor: Child Support Melissa Wintrow Melissa Wintrow is a state representative for Idaho District 19.

She also teaches at Boise State as an adjunct professor. Prior to her work as a legislator, Wintrow worked at Boise State as the assistant director for residence education.

Child support is essential for thousands of Idaho’s children.

Unfortunately, some parents refuse to pay child support.

And the Idaho legislature is entrusted to protect children by ensuring that child support is paid by the responsible party.

However, House GOP members shirked their responsibility to Idaho’s children and parents by voting down SB1067, which updates the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UISFA), enacted by all states in the mid-1990s as a part of welfare reform.

Holding “deadbeat” parents accountable for child support payments was a major reason for welfare reform as it is a major cause of child poverty rates.

My GOP colleagues have chosen to dismantle almost 20 years of programs and services designed to help eliminate poverty and hold people accountable for their actions.

In the waning hours of the last day of session, House GOP members voted down SB1067 for multiple reasons including irrational fears and their hatred of the federal government, but cloaked in “protecting” Idaho’s sovereignty. GOP legislators exploited political paranoia to advance their partisan values while ignoring 400,000 parents and children who rely on child support to buy groceries and keep their lights on.

Simply put, they claimed that Idaho’s state sovereignty was under threat because

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of this child support legislation. They claimed that the federal government is holding Idaho’s children hostage.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Once again, my colleagues are putting their own ideology ahead of the needs of Idaho citizens, and they are holding all of us hostage to their narrow beliefs.

SB1067 is simple. It’s about collecting child support checks or garnishing wages from parents who refuse to support their kids. It is does not open a door to enforcing laws from other countries; it does not uphold Sharia law; it does not require us to support any law that goes against Idaho or U.S. law. It is merely a way to enforce child support orders in the most effective and efficient way.

As a former Women’s Center director who worked with hundreds of single parents struggling to collect child support, this is one more example from this GOP dominated legislature that has used paranoia and fiction to damage Idaho’s families.

If we do not come into compliance within the next

60 days, our state will lose $46 million in federal funding and potentially 160 jobs. We, also, lose access to federal databases and tools to collect on all child support orders. And let’s be clear, those databases are essential in locating “deadbeat” parents and getting an accurate picture of a parent’s wages to assess financial responsibility.

By voting down SB1067, my GOP friends are putting the financial burden on Idaho taxpayers instead of the responsible parents. Currently, Idaho is the only state in the country to refuse to update UIFSA. As our Lt. Governor noted in a recent interview, “This is a little bit of a problem.” While I appreciate the the Lt. Governor’s attempt to shield his GOP colleagues from this colossal error, his comment is the understatement of the session.

This outdated approach to state governance continues to isolate Idaho and inhibits our economic growth. A little more common sense, rational decision-making, inclusive policies and trust would go a long way to make our state more livable.

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The unfairness of equality Gabrielle Boliou Benjamin Chafetz Staff Writers

Discussing key ideas such as morality versus legality and other touchy subjects is the object of this column. The ideas discussed within belong to the authors alone and do not represent the viewpoint of The Arbiter.

“Socialism is equality at the expense of freedom,” sophomore biochemistry major Matt Lawson told us.

He’s correct.

There are actually two types of equality: equality of opportunity and equality of outcome.

Who is making sacrifices for those equal outcomes to become reality?

Consider the classic group project model where students are rewarded based on the combined effort of the participants, no matter how much work is individually done. This is an equality-ofoutcome model.

What about a system in which every student has the opportunity to work as hard as they want, and then are re-

warded based on individual effort? This is an equality-ofopportunity model.

Several students interviewed came to the nearunanimous conclusion that group projects in which participants are rewarded for individual effort are inherently better than group projects in which everyone receives the same grade no matter what.

There are some people today who talk about how horrible capitalism is and tout the wonders of socialism.

Why? We argue that socialism is just as unfair (if not more so). In a capitalist society, your earnings and opportunities are merit-based. In a socialist society, your merit is not a factor. The unfairness of this system is that you can’t increase your reward by increasing your effort.

Several of our interviewees pointed out that the best group projects require a strong authority figure. Socialism requires a dictator to function properly. Socialistic systems sacrifice freedom in exchange for equality of outcome, which is dictated by an authority.

Equality of outcome also discourages innovation and hard work. You get the same reward for doing as little work as the lowest common denominator. Why bother to excel if just don’t have to?

Like Lawson said, equality is the opposite of freedom.

If you start sacrificing your freedoms for equality, you are willingly accepting the dominance of an authority that supposedly knows how to run your life better than you do.

Remember group projects? What incentivizes effort in the first place? The grade to be earned. In the real world, money is that incentive.

Some people argue that one person having more money than another is unfair.

Rather, money is the key to fairness. When you earn money based on how hard you work, rather than based on how hard the group works, you are incentivized to work harder, trusting that you will be fairly rewarded.

Money rewarded for individual effort is the answer to the problem of socialism.

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The measurement of a soul

‘The Second Circle: Anastasis’grapples with issues of regret, hope, love and loss Patty Bowen Culture Editor

The scene opens on a beautiful woman dancing alone while surrounded by pairs of lovers who are dancing in perfect harmony. Each pair continues to dance without touching their partner while fog rises consuming the moving figures and alienating the woman.

The woman in this scene is Antoinette, a character in “The Second Circle: Anastasis,” a play written and directed by students and performed by the Theater Major Association.

The play circles around the life of Abigail, a young woman hired to work as the secretary for a business that legally represents heaven and hell.

Throughout the play, Abigail tries to unravel the mystery of her father’s death while the au-

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dience watches Antoinette try to get over her separation with Abigail’s father.

“How do you guys even measure a soul?” said Abigail who is played by Amanda Boschnagel, senior theatre arts major and dance minor.

Themes within the play

According to Tess Gregg Worstell, senior theatre arts major, who plays Antoinette, “The Second Circle: Anastasis” is filled with lessons about coping with grief and understanding relationships. “(The play) is about love, loss and forgiveness,” Worstell said. “(It asks) what you will do to ensure someone’s happiness and what sacrifices need to be made in order to do that.”

Alaggio Laurino, senior art history and fine arts major, and playwright of “The Second Circle: Anastasis,” feels that the play is about the “na-

ture of hope versus regret.”

According to Laurino, the play—which is the second part of a play co-written by Laurino and Wade Crossman in 2013—was originally going to focus on Antoinette’s bitter struggles.

However, after Laurino decided to focus on Abigail, the play became about juxtaposing regret with hope, love and fate.

“That is a concept that fascinates me,” Laurino said. “The whole play is about trying to battle (our mortality) and looking into the future of what could be, and addressing the issue of hope—our want to despair.”

Making of the script

The decision to base the play on Abigail was suggested to Laurino by Worstell.

“I read all the very rough drafts that people haven’t seen, being so familiar with

the play and seeing what it is now, sometimes it’s hard to separate what in my mind it was going to be and what it is,” Worstell said.

According to Worstell, having the playwright as a resource to cite while practicing for performances has helped the actors understand the desired projection of the play and how scenes were originally intended to be acted out.

“I believe everything fictional that we write is essentially autobiographical,” Laurino said.

“All the pain that the characters go through, all the questioning their fate they do is essentially a reflection of my own life experiences, and I am limited by my own experiences of my own life.”

Production of the play

According to Erin Lootens, choreographer for the play, making Wor-

stell’s vision into a reality was challenging at times because the Theatre Major Association had trouble finding the funding to supply a plethora of resources for the production.

“This is the first time the play is being put on so we don’t have any references to things being put on in a production previously,” Looten said. “Finding what is still going to represent this world—a grandiose world, that is bigger than us—without going above and beyond what we can afford was a little bit of a struggle.”

To be able to accurately costume the characters without dipping too far into their budget, Looten and John Hanson, costumer of the play, pulled from actor’s personal wardrobes

and borrowed costumes from the Idaho Dance Theatre.

“It’s a beautiful story,” Worstell said. “You fall in love with these characters, you want the best for them.

You don’t know if they’re going to get it.”

If you go...

Where: Danny Petersen theater inside the Morrison Center When: April 23-25 at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free to the public

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Culture

Meaning, importance of #Meninism questioned Staff Writer

“What if I wanted to make my own sandwich? #Meninism.”

Students that have spent a significant amount of time on social media have likely seen the meninism hashtag, perhaps accompanied by a statement such as the one above.

Some students think meninism is a joke, while others believe it’s a valid movement doing important work.

Even among those who rally behind the cause, there is disagreement about what meninism actually means:

satirizing feminists, satirizing men who feel oppressed or a platform for people who genuinely support men’s rights.

Many students, such as Evan Tegley, sophomore musical performance major, believe that meninism shouldn’t be taken seriously.

“I think meninism is a joke more than anything, ” Tegley said. “I don’t believe any man is truly oppressed by being a man. There can be other outliers that can contribute to oppression, but being a man is not one of them.”

While this opinion seems to resonate as a response to meninism across social me-

dia, there are those who see the need for a men’s rights movement.

“Just like feminism, the extremes can be harmful. Many take a joking side to these issues, but I believe that it should be an actual movement. Both feminism and meninism should be taken seriously in our society,” said Monica Bendeck, sopho-

more English major.

Jeremy Harper, adjunct professor in the Foundational Studies Program, has an extensive background in gender studies. He explained that, as a joke, meninism has a silencing effect on real gender issues. Further, when it isn’t used a joke, its silencing effect becomes explicit in the way that it shuts down en-

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gaging conversations.

One issue he mentioned is the disproportionate prison sentencing for men of color, but the form of meninism as it is now is doing nothing to solve this problem or the current systems of oppression shown amongst genders.

Some students, such as Bendeck, agree that there could be societal benefits to a men’s social movement.

She gave the example that men are subjected to unrealistic expectations in modern day culture, just like women.

“The ideal man has sixpack abs, plays sports and doesn’t express emotion, es-

pecially by crying,” she said.

Unfortunately, as Harper sees it, many of these aforementioned problems are being ignored and buried under the satire of meninism in its current social media placement.

“It seems that the humor is often the ridiculing of traditional feminist claims—that they are ludicrous,” Harper said. “Meninism is strange to me because it was hard for me to figure out to what extent it was serious and to what extent it was satire. It was like the same joke was being laughed at by two very different groups of people for different reasons.”

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Culture

Eargasm guaranteed: 5 podcasts to explore August McKernan Asst. Culture Editor

Headphones are everywhere. Hanging from necks, slung in backpacks and tangled beyond repair at the bottom of drawers.

Mostly, we use them to listen to music. But a growing number of people are using them to listen to podcasts.

A May 2013 Pew Research Center poll shows that the podcast user base has greatly expanded in the past couple of years.

Around 27 percent of Internet users ages 18 and older have downloaded or listened to podcasts, up from 21 percent in May 2010 and 7 percent in 2006.

Due to the growing popularity of podcasts, it can sometimes be hard to wade through the auditory weeds to find quality options. Here are a few.

Welcome to Night Vale

“Welcome to Night Vale” is a bimonthly podcast, presented as a radio show for the fictional town of Night Vale.

It features local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky and dark hooded figures with unknowable powers.

This podcast offers a surreal look into this small, nightmarish desert town.

It also features a romantic subplot between Cecil, “Welcome To Night Vale’s” radio host, and Carlos, a newcomer scientist hellbent on understanding the often terrifying disturbances common in Night Vale. Try not to listen alone or the terror could stop your heart.

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TED Radio Hour

NPR and TED teamed up to create the “TED Radio Hour.” Each show is centered on a common theme and based on talks given on the world-renowned TED stage.

Listen to “TED Radio Hour” explore fascinating ideas, innovative inventions and new ways of thinking and creating.

A particularly fascinating episode to check out is “How We Love.” It aired April 2014 and explored what factors bring people together.

The GameOverGreggy Show

If you have ever wondered whether or not a hot dog should be considered a sandwich, “The GameOverGreggy Show” is for you.

Every Friday, four best friends—Greg, Colin, Nick and Tim—get together to talk about nerdy, comical, gross or thought-provoking things.

Each podcaster brings a topic to the table, and then, they go.

Once called “GameOverGreggy” on Youtube, these four guys recently left their jobs at IGN to rebrand and rechristen their channel “Kinda Funny.”

Be sure to look out for more quality content now that they are currently financially supported by fans through Patreon, a crowdfunding platform.

pop culture scrutiny.

Full of goodhearted fluffy celebrity gossip, this is a great podcast to listen to while doing laundry.

Working

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a hospice nurse, a Google coder or Stephen Colbert?

Self-described as “a podcast about what people do all day,” “Working” details the minutia of people’s jobs, how they got there and how they spend their days.

Former Slate Editor-inChief David Plotz interviews average Americans with interesting jobs about their workday. From “How Does A Hospice Nurse Work?” to “How Does A Porn Star Work?” this podcast really leaves no rock, no job unturned or unexplored.

And, if you happen to be a Stephen Colbert fan, or even curious about his life, Plotz managed to score an interview with the enigma.

Podcasts

Psychobabble with Tyler Oakley and Korey Kuhl

It’s not just crazy talk—it’s psychobabble. “Psychobabble with Tyler Oakley and Korey Kuhl” is YouTube star Tyler Oakley’s debut podcast.

Each week, he and his best friend Korey deliver half an hour of unfiltered gossip and design by ted atwell/the arbiter

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Sports & rec

Swim club experiences fast growth Ali Roberts Staff Writer

The Boise State swim club has come onto the scene with a bang.

Within the first semester of being reinstated as a club, the team has traveled to Utah for a swim meet, gained a total of 18 members on their roster and will have the opportunity to host the first ever MW Invitational Swim Meet.

Club president, freshman Sean Kierce, took on starting a team to even out a rivalry with some of his friends at Western Washing-

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ton University.

“I took it as a challenge and went, ‘Alright, let’s see what we can actually do.’”

Kierce said. “Then I realized we didn’t even have a team for guys here at Boise State.

I was already coaching and teaching a few people how to swim.”

The new club welcomes those swimmers who are already experienced veterans of the sport or have never been swimming a day in their lives before.

The club works with both types of swimmers equally to promote an atmosphere of family and a close-knit

community.

First-time swimmer and freshman Alyssa Bistline has experienced this first hand.

“I didn’t think that I could learn to swim so well so fast, because I didn’t even know how to swim but just with everyone there supporting you and all the workouts, I actually caught on,” Bistline said. “I didn’t think it would be that fun, but everybody is swimming and talking to each other during workouts.

I just love how we feel kind of like a family.”

The club plans to continue it’s growth into next year.

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roster of at least 30 swimmers and will be recruiting at the Bronco Venture Orientations this summer.

Swim club currently practices on Mondays at 8:30 -10:00 p.m. and on Thursdays 7:30-9 p.m. and wel-

comes anyone that is interested in joining regardless of experience or history with the sport.

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Drmic back for last ride Nate Lowery

Sports & Rec Editor

Boise State’s odds of returning to March Madness just got a lot higher.

The MW announced last week that senior forward Anthony Drmic has been granted a medical hardship waiver and will have a fifth year of eligibility for the Boise State men’s basketball team.

Drmic underwent reconstructive ankle surgery on Jan. 15 after playing in only seven games.

Drmic has dealt with ankle injuries over the past year.

After injuring his back in the seventh game of the season, he decided it was within his best interest to get surgery on his ankle.

“I was playing at like 50 percent. I felt like it was a disservice to the team and myself to be playing like that,” Drmic said. “It was a bit disappointing not being able to play. It was

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amazing to watch some of the guys go out there, the way they improved every day, every game.”

In order to be granted a medical hardship waiver, a player must play in less than 30 percent of the games in a season, not appear in the second half of the season and be unable to return for the season.

Because Drmic played in only seven of Boise State’s 34 games (20.5 percent) and underwent surgery, he met all of the criteria.

Drmic said that he is moving along in the recovery process, but it has been much slower than he ever imagined. He will take four weeks off in summer in order to return to his native country, Australia. He hopes to improve as a leader going into next season.

“I know that’s what the team needs; they need someone to be that leader,” Drmic said. “Hopefully I can come in, lead the pack and see what happens.”

Head coach Leon Rice believes Drmic—a threetime All-MW selection—is likely to be a leading candidate for MW Player of the Year. He was selected as a Preseason All-MW first team by the media prior to the 2014-15 season.

“Now you’ve probably got the Mountain West Preseason Player of the Year coming back,” Rice said. “We lost the Mountain Player of the Year with Derrick (Marks). Now we’ve got Anthony coming in next year.”

Drmic currently sits at seventh on Boise State’s career scoring list with 1,528. He is 416 points shy of Tanoka Beard’s school record of 1,944 points (1989-93).

“You’ve got that experience, toughness—all the things Anthony brings,” Rice said. “He’s probably going to be the all-time leading scorer at the school because of it.”

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International athletes diversify Boise State Leslie Boston-Hyde Copy Editor

Negative experience on the Spanish club tennis circuit after high school drove freshman Arianna Paules Aldrey to consider the university route.

Paules Aldrey talked with her parents about attending a university in the United States. Her parents wanted her to focus on earning a degree.

Once she saw the high academic level of Boise State and how close-knit the team was, she signed on to become a Bronco.

“This is a safe place. The girls were really nice and like a family to me, so that was the deciding factor,” Paules Aldrey said.

Paules Aldrey is one of the 31 international studentathletes currently competing across 14 sports at Boise State.

Many coaches and athletes feel the experience at Boise State is improved because of the high amount of international athletes in the athletic department.

The appeal

Assistant men’s basektball coach and Australian native John Rillie was highly involved in the Australian basketball world for 16 years, competing professionally and coaching youth.

Rillie has often seen international schools put an emphasis on either academics or athletics, especially in college. In many countries, athletes have to choose between playing professional or receiving higher education.

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“The U.S. is probably the only country in the world that has a great system that utilizes both athletics and academics at the same time,” Rillie said.

This can make attending a U.S. university appealing for a prospective international student-athlete.

“That’s the trend with international student-athletes,” Rillie said. “They see the value (in education) where once upon a time, you could say a lot of those kids came over to enhance their professional chances in the athletic form.”

Recruiting process

Having connections can help recruit athletes from a different country. While he played tennis from 20012005 at Boise State, women’s tennis head coach Beck Roghaar bonded with many of the international studentathletes on his team.

After they graduated, Roghaar stayed in touch with his former international teammates. They inform him of top players and players who may be interested in playing for an American college.

“That’s how you find out about a lot of them is through networking,” Roghaar said. “The Internet is an amazing tool now as well.”

Coaches can contact players from another country via email, text messaging, phone calls, Skype and other forms of communication.

Both Roghaar and Rillie find this extremely helpful in the recruiting process.

“The way you can communicate these days really makes it pretty simple or a

whole lot easier than say 20 years ago,” Rillie said.

Multiple benefits

The Boise State men’s basketball team currently has three Australian natives on the roster: sophomore Nick Duncan and seniors Anthony Drmic and Igor Hadziomerovic. The No. 25 ranked team traveled to the NCAA DI National Tournament this year.

“As you can see, the success that we’ve had at Boise State—some of that’s been due to international kids,” Rille.

Athletic ability is not the only benefit that Roghaar and Rillie have seen from international studentathletes.

Both coaches have seen the eye-opening experience that both international and American student-athletes have and the life-long friendships that are formed.

“We all kind of get sheltered in our own little universe from time to time,” Rillie said. “There’s cultural things and life lessons that if we had a locker room full of American guys, you wouldn’t know any different.”

While it was difficult for Paules Aldrey to leave her family in Spain, she has found a family at Boise State. She believes this experience has brought the team even closer and compete better.

“Since we are not in our homes and we are not even close, I think we bring the meaning of family even more because we don’t have anything more than the team and the coaching staff,” Paules Aldrey said.

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Kelsey Morris caps Bronco career Brandon Walton

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let class and they kicked me out because I was tumbling around too much,” Morris said. “They told my parents to put me in gymnastics class and they did.”

Shortly after, Morris enrolled in the Leading Edge Gymnastics Academy in Everett, Washington, only a few miles away from her hometown of Snohomish, Washington.

It was where she would spend her entire club career.

From there, she would make connections with future Boise State gymnasts.

“I knew a couple girls on the team from club experiences

and I had been with Neil (cohead coach Neil Resnick) before,” Morris said. “I knew this would be such a good fit for me because I trusted him as a coach and knew all the great athletes that he had produced.”

Over the course of her career, Morris has accumulated 13 all-around titles—eight this season. Her career total is the third most in school history.

“She has just been so valuable to this team over the years and has really carried us at times with her consistent excellent scores,” Resnick said.

“She has made up most of our routines over the years, and we wouldn’t be where we are without her.”

In addition, she has the highest uneven bars score at nationals in school history with a 9.85. She won three Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference Specialist of the Week awards this season, fin-

ished with 29 career event wins, had back-to-back nationals appearances and was the co-captain of this year’s team.

“She has been an awesome leader and has really led the team to greatness during her time here,” senior Ciera Perkins said. “She is strong in everything she does, and in and out of the gym she has been a phenomenal gymnast.”

Morris, upon sticking the final routine of her career, looked at Resnick and then her parents.

“As soon as I saw my mom and my dad’s faces in the stand, I lost it,” Morris said.

“It was just such a cool experience to have them there for my last competition.”

She finished 26th overall in the all-around with a score of 39.075 “I was really happy with the way I performed,” Morris said. “My main goal was to go in there and hit all four of my

events. That is what I did and I walked away with no regrets.”

With her gymnastics career in the books, Morris is looking to turn her attention to other things.

She has plans on becoming a pediatric nurse and joining Cirque Du Soleil in the future.

“Both of them are going to take a lot of pursuing,” Morris said. “I am going to have to put in some work physically and mentally these next couple months to see what can happen.”

No matter what she does next, Morris will be an athlete the Boise State gymnastics program won’t soon forget.

“I am really thankful for all the things that I was able to achieve,” Morris said. “I know I wouldn’t have been able to achieve them without all the teammates, training staff and coaches I have had through the years. I am just so grateful for everyone here.”

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There she was, getting ready for the final routine of her career. Boise State senior gymnast Kelsey Morris was only seconds away from doing her vault routine at the NCAA Nationals on April 17.

“Right before I was getting ready to salute I was trying to push all those thoughts out of my head,” Morris said. “I was thinking ‘I have to make the last one worth it.”’

She ran down the mat, bounced off the vault, soared high through the air and stuck

the landing. It was the perfect end to one of the most prolific gymnastics to ever set foot in the Boise State program.

“It is so humbling as an athlete because you see how many people come out and show their love for the sport,” Morris said. “Having all those people there who appreciate the sport and all the high caliber teams was the perfect way to go out of the sport.”

Morris’ journey to becoming one of the all-time greats at Boise State began nearly 20 years earlier, when at the age of three, she enrolled in gymnastics.

“I was actually in a bal-

Morris acknowledges the crowd at senior night.

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