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Helping students save on gas Alternative transportation options encourage students to find new ways to get to class
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Boise State students are feeling the burn at the gas pump this spring. The cost of fuel continues to rise daily. As of March 28, the national average price for gas was $3.91 according to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report. In Idaho, drivers are spending $3.75 for a gallon of regular gas. That price has jumped over 40 cents per gallon over the past month. Nicole Kopczynski, sophomore communication major, is one of many students who has been affected by the recent spike in gas prices. “I can’t drive as much as I would like,” Kopczynski said.
“I have to utilize my car wisely.” Kopczynski has used Boise State transportation services in the past. “I used the shuttle service when I lived in the dorms last year,” she said. Kopczynski said she would begin using campus transportation again if gas prices reached $5, or she would use alternative modes of transportation such as biking. The Boise State University Transportation and Parking Services provides a variety of options for students seeking alternatives. The Boise State University Shuttle service is another option available to students and faculty. The shuttle operates from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through
Thursday and 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Fridays. It offers rides to students and faculty from the East Stadium Parking Lot to the other end of campus with various stops along the way. ValleyRide Transit is another option available to students. Students may take advantage of ValleyRide busses for free with a “BUS” sticker on their Bronco Card. Routes are available around Boise and also into Eagle, Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, Star and Middleton. Biking is another option that can help students save money at the pump. There are more than 1,000 parking spaces for bikes on campus, making it an accessible option for students.
Boise State Transportation also encourages students to carpool. According to JC Porter, assistant director of Boise State Transportation and Parking Services, there have been no changes made in transportation services because of the rise in gas prices. However, Porter has noticed a rise in the use of the alternative options his department offers compared to previous years because of the rise in gas prices. “In 2007, when gas prices hit $4, we did see a rise in the use of Valley Regional Transit,” Porter said. Student transportation is affected by the rise of gas prices but there is no extra student fee used to fund the
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Professor Chris Willson has been a Bronco for 12 years. He began as a student and is now teaching in the anthropology department. “For six weeks or so my students listen to me as ‘the guy in that suit,’ ” Willson said. “And then at one point they realize I’m not just ‘the guy in that suit’ but that I’m just a normal person.” Although Willson aims to create a professional and respectable atmosphere in his classes, he allows his students to get to know him better as the semester progresses. Outside the classroom, Willson has a wide range of interests including music, art and photography. “We all have are own colorful pasts. Long before I became a student and decided to teach what I do, I had interests in music and played in a number of bands,” Willson said. In Willson’s free time, he still enjoys playing music. “It’s a mix of rock and roll, ambient, experimental, sometimes classical music. I have a recording studio at home and I put out albums quite often. I’m kind of a one-man-band thing,” he said. Willson puts his music on a website, dysfunctionalmusic. com, where anyone can listen to and purchase his music. Half of all the proceeds from his music are given to charities. Willson is also a family man
with two children. He is the father to an 8-year-old and a 20-year-old. Willson came to Idaho from California in 1993. He started his journey as a Bronco in 2000 as a biology major. Like most students, he ended up changing his major. “I wanted to study plants, but I must have taken a class or a workshop in one of the introductory level courses that just really struck me as far more interesting and more applicable,” Willson said. “I think anthropology is fascinating because we use so much of the other sciences to support what we do as a social science.” Willson graduated from Boise State in 2004 with a degree in anthropology and got his masters in anthropology from University of Idaho in 2005. Willson came back to Boise State to continue the research he had started as a student and to continue his work with the Center of Applied Archeological Science (CAAS). He was hired at Boise State as an adjunct professor in spring of 2006 and became a lecture instructor in 2010. Willson’s students are his favorite part about being a professor. “There’s a diverse mix of students. We have students from all around the world, exchange students, we have students of all different ages and backgrounds and I think that makes it really interesting,” Willson said. “I feel like I have the opportunity to connect with a
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Chris Willson stands over tables of artifacts in the anthropology building. number of people.” Willson teaches upper- and lower-division courses in the anthropology department. He said his introductory classes are applicable to anthropology majors and students of other
majors as well. “A lot of students will not become anthropologists, but by the end of the course they figure out there’s a number of different ways in which they can approach problems and it
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Senior third baseman Tazz Weatherly, tags a University of Texas San Antonio base runner during a run-down in their March 23 game. The Broncos won 5-3.
Broncos take to the road for five games in Oregon Scott Thorton Arbiter Staff
The Boise State softball team hit the road over spring break for five games against Portland State and the nationally ranked Oregon Ducks. They played two games on Tuesday against Portland State, two on Wednesday and one on Thursday against Oregon. Senior Aubray Zell pitched a three hit shutout in game one against the Vikings as the Broncos won 4-0. Senior Christina Capobianco started the scoring
for the Broncos with a two run single in the top of the first inning, providing all the offense they would need. Sophomore Tara Glover also had two RBIs for the Broncos. The second game proved to be tougher as senior Allie Crump took to the circle to start with Zell getting a save in the same day as a win. Devon Bridges hit the go ahead home run in the sixth inning and threw out the tying run at the plate in eighth as the team won the game 3-2 in eight innings. The Broncos then moved
on for three games in two days against the No. 17/16 ranked Oregon Ducks. Zell took the complete game loss in game one 4-1, allowing four runs (three earned) on six hits. The Broncos scored first in the opening inning with an RBI single by Crump. Game two was a bit tougher for the Broncos as they lost, 14-6 in a five inning run rule game. Oregon scored eight runs in the first inning off of starter Kenzi Cole who was not helped by three errors by her defense. The Broncos tried to extend
the game in the top of the fifthinning, but were unable to do so. The road trip concluded with another loss on Thursday. This one being much tougher for them as they lost 6-4 in eight innings. Zell took another complete game loss allowing six runs on seven hits and just one walk. Oregon got two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on a two-out home run. The Ducks ended the game with another two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning. The team will take on
Idaho State on Wednesday in Pocatello before returning home for its first Mountain
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Muslim Brotherhood Protests in Florida to continue nominates candidate S A N F O R D , participants’ cheers. death of Martin, resiHe said it’s an which sparked infor Egyptian president FLA.—Local dents were joined by “American paradox ternational outcry. CAIRO—Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood announced late Saturday it had decided to nominate Khairat el-Shater, a member of its ruling Guidance Council and powerful business tycoon, to become Egypt’s next president. El-Shater’s candidacy was decided in a secret vote by the Guidance Council. The move is likely to cause further drama in the Egyptian political scene. The Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party already controls 47 percent of the country’s new Parliament and a majority of the 100-member Constituent Assembly, had pledged months ago it would not run its own candidate for president. Liberal political groups and others have complained that the Brotherhood, effectively outlawed during the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, is now putting itself in a position to wield unchallenged power. Mohamed Badei, the movement’s top official, announced el Shater’s nomination at a news conference. “Khairat el-Shater accepted the decision and filed his resignation as member of the
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Biggs, 69, came stumbling into town telling a wild tale. He’d been hiking last Monday when he spotted a mother bear and her cub a mere 40 feet away, so he decided to crouch down and watch them a while. Absorbed in his observations of the animals, he didn’t notice the mountain lion right behind him. The mountain lion went for his backpack and he fell to the ground. Then Biggs claims he wrestled with the cat, even striking it with a handy rock pick, but it wouldn’t give in. Until the mama
Lion and bear went at it for around 15 seconds, with Biggs watching until they seperated. The bear then calmly ambled back to her cub while the mountain lion ran. Then Biggs finally did the smart thing and headed back to civilization. He suffered some scratches and bites, but no severe wounds. The bites support the mountain lion part of his story, but the claim about the bear picking his side in this fight is still heavily questioned. According to USA Today, Biggs remains insistent the entire account is true.
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The Broncos have spoken. Boise State’s speech and debate team, the Talkin’ Broncos, has once again succeeded in making their name known beyond the borders of campus. Recently, the Talkin’ Broncos attended the Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament in Kansas where they placed fourth overall in speech and first overall in debate. Prior to the national competition, the Broncos also won the Spokane Falls/PKD Great West Regional Championship last month. The Broncos have now won the regional championship for 12 years in a row.
“It’s pretty obvious that Boise State in the northwest region is number one, we kill it every weekend,” sophomore Cassandra Sullivan said. Sullivan acts as the limited preparation speech captain for the team. She placed fourth in the nation for impromptu speaking in the tournament. This was one of the highest awards anyone on the team received. She also was a quarterfinalist in informative speaking and an octo-finalist in debate. Sullivan emphasized the team’s influence on Boise State’s academic reputation. “We’re representing the university all over the nation every other weekend, talking to other college universities … It’d be really great for the univer-
sity to …really recognize the precedent that we set for our school, academic standing, not just athletics, that we do give that credibility in the academic aspect,” Sullivan said. Sullivan remarked on how well the university exposes Talkin’ Broncos and its victories, yet she also would like to see students, professors and all of Boise State recognize the implications of the team’s academic representation. Sophomore Robin Jensen, majoring in communication and secondary education, believes promoting Talkin’ Broncos helps gain additional support. “We’re trying to get our name more out there in the community,” she said. Jensen also remarked the team’s awareness has improved in the last year, and this increase in aware-
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Once again, the Talkin’ Broncos brought home a plethora of awards and titles. ness “helps to give legitimacy to our program.” Jensen recently was a quarter-finalist in debate and a semi-finalist in informative speaking in the
National Comprehensive Tournament. Sullivan and Jensen along with members Lauren Bramwell, Sabonn Dammarell and team
President Joshua Watkins have earned positions in the next competition— the National Individual Events Tournament in San Marcos, Texas.
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because they’ve been one of my favorites since eighth grade,” festival-goer Kasey Elliot said. “It was really exciting to get to see them in their hometown. I’m from Michigan and everyone there loves them so all my friends were really jealous about it and it was awesome!” Beyond getting to enjoy her favorite band, Elliot loved the environment of Treefort. “Where I come from, if there’s anything like this, people are fighting, so it’s really nice and relaxing to see that everyone is having a good time and being friends with each other and just enjoying life and music and the atmosphere,” said Elliot, who lives in Idaho now. Like any event of this magnitude in Boise, there was a small but noticeable police presence. “Any time you bring a large number of people into a small confined area and you’re mixing alcohol and music the potential is there for things to become unruly and we just want to take every measure we can to avoid that,” Sgt. Cole Farmer said. The amiable quality of the event was impressive to fans and to law enforcement alike. Overall, the Treefort crowd was peaceful and law-abiding. “It’s been relatively calm, only a few alcohol-related issues, but not very many,” Farmer said on the last day of the event. “I think they (the planners of Treefort) would probably consider this a success.” “Boise is a nice place,” added Officer Ryan Buzzini who had also been patrolling over the weekend and admitted he was enjoying the music at the main stage. This was the general consensus of those who were new to the Boise music scene whether they were patrons or performers. The lead singer of Denver’s Snake Rattle Rattle Snake even sported an Atomic Mama tank top to show her support for the local band. “People from out of town just fell in love with Boise,” publicist Matt Dalley said. “I think we changed a lot of minds about what Boise has to offer.” This positive vibe that had artists and fans raving is another factor inspiring festival planners to organize the event for a second year. “We had a meeting on Monday (following the event) with all the staff and it got kind of emotional because we were all taken aback by the outpouring of support,” Lorona said. But the planners know they cannot just break even every year so expect to pay a little more for passes next year. In order to work out the little kinks, there will be a few more mouths to feed with the Treefort revenue. “We had a lot of volunteers who just poured their heart and soul into the festival,” Lorona said. “The first year you can kind of take advantage of that goodwill and the second a year I imagine a lot of these people are going to say … ‘that was a lot of work’ and want to get paid.” But have no fear, the goal is to keep Treefort affordable and worth every penny. After everyone recuperates from their sleep deprived, four-day, norest-for-the-wicked weekend the planners will meet once again to decide exactly what the future of Treefort will look like. “A lot of people have commented on how happy they were that at the festival there wasn’t a huge corporate presence,” Dalley said. “A lot of our sponsors and businesses we worked with were local and people responded really well to that.” “I would hate to over-expand and take on huge corporate sponsors … just for the sake of doing it,” Lorona said. As long as they can keep it real and make it profitable, Treefort should become an annual occurrence for Boise. Fans rejoice in the sounds of their favorite
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Talkdemonic performance
Portland, Ore.’s Talkdemonic is indeed a folktronic-hop diamond in an all-encompassing indie rough. The duo, comprised of percussionist Kevin O’Connor and viola player Lisa Molinaro, produce a heavily charged electronic sound, tinged with live drums, mouth organs and booming house textures. What was gathered from watching these two triphop wayfarers was that they were oriented around the blending of sounds and genres. Typically, a viola wouldn’t be caught dead at a rock show, but when pressed into the shoulder of Molinaro and plugged into a series of effect pedals, what is born is a medley of spacey, and at times deafening, lulls that truly get the people going. Through the haze of cigarette smoke and beer coozies, the band oscillated between Black Sabbath-like dissonance and cinematic, swooping violin phrases reminiscent of the “Requiem for a Dream” soundtrack. Their songs were thought-provoking and entertaining but very much grounded
in expert instrumentation. Molinaro’s presence on stage was remarkable to say the least. She was both a rock star and a band geek, head-banging and churning out trills in a way that bridged the gap between classical music and rock and roll. Accompanied by amazing multiinstrumentalist O’Connor, their phrasing, syncopation and on-stage banter made them one of the most interesting bands at the festival. All things considered, the band’s ability to nearly blow out the mains is unsurpassed, especially as a two-piece. What their albums fail to capture is their energy in a live setting that, in spite of the recordings provided on the Treefort website, shakes, rattles and rolls in the most raucous yet tender of ways. Coming off a massive bridge section, Molinaro leaned into the microphone, encapsulating the spirit of the weekend with a few choice words: “That felt really good, thanks.” For those in attendance that weekend, the feeling was mutual.
Sister Crayon Not much can be said about Sacramento, Calif.’s Sister Crayon besides, “Wow.” In one of the weekend’s most incredible performances, these Cali boppers combined the forces of in-your-face hip-hop aesthetics with a sexy, ethereal backdrop rich in multilayered synthesizer melodies and operatic vocals courtesy of lead singer Terra Lopez. Lopez, being the unstoppable feminine force that she is, is slight of frame but a true virtuoso when it comes to projecting her goosebump-inducing vocal styling. Capturing the ferocity of a rapper, her presence was both intense yet inviting as her smoky vocals seeped in through the inconsistencies of the concrete dance floor. The vibe inside the Linen Building that night was both intimate and frenzied as this quartet ran through its brief set. From the moment the first chord was struck at
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four-day music festival seems to have made a lasting impression on music lovers in Boise and beyond. Over the course of the weekend bands were asked questions regarding the vibe, atmosphere and functionality of Treefort Music Fest. See what they had to say:
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Arbiter: What was your impression of Treefort when you were first approached with the opportunity to play?
Dave Wood (Teens): I thought it was great. When I moved to Boise it was like there’s not much of a music scene and that’s what got us playing music in the first place. It was like, “Wow, everyone’s playing so safe.” There was no rock and roll going on. It was just rehashed Built to Spill kind of crap.
Amy Foote (Night Genes): I know nothing about Boise but I love music festivals because you get to see a bunch of people, see a bunch of friends, meet a bunch of people, drink a lot of beer. for me there’s no better way to spend my weekend than playing music and hanging out.
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Eric Ingersoll (Night Genes): In my lifetime, for me, it’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in Boise.
Arbiter: How do you think events such as Treefort affect the Boise music scene at large?
Amy (NG): It brings some legitimacy to the scene for sure. Even an inaugural festival can do really well if you have lots of people that are really excited about it.
Tom Newby (The Green Zoo): All the venues at the end of the night were at capacity on a Thursday night. That doesn’t happen on
Saturday nights. It just doesn’t happen here. That kind
of power in a music scene is tremendous.
David Macfadden-Elliott (NG): Hopefully connections get made and so that it spawns a million other projects to take place in days and months from now.
Dave(T): I don’t think it affects the Boise scene at all, period. There’s new music and there’s old music.
I don’t think people will come to this and be like, “Wow, I’m going to go start a I don’t
band.” That would be wonderful if they did because the scene needs more bands, but know.
I hope that the younger generation is kind of taking advantage of this and in like ten I can go check out when I’m an old guy and I’m not playing anymore. years there’s just some killer bands that
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Arbiter: Where do you see Treefort going in the future? Dave(T): I went out last night and saw some amazing bands and everyone was having a good time. It’s just what this city needs. We just got back from SXSW, which is (Treefort) times like 8,000, but in the future it could totally be something great like 35 Denton. The city needs more culture and the more culture the better.
Ricardo Osuna (TGZ): There’s a lot of room left to grow. They tried to focus the whole festival on one part of town so it’s all been in walking distance this year. There are quite a few
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bands at the inagural Treefort Music Fest
n performance 7:40, and until the house lights went up, the whiskey-tinged coupling of falsettos and crashing cymbals tugged at the heart strings of everyone in attendance. Each song resonated like a daydream on acid, complete with distorted vocals, stacked keyboards and throbbing bass. It was refreshing to see a group comfortable packing and utilizing an immense amount of gear during live shows, not to mention on tour. The trip-hop genre, exemplified greatly by Sister Crayon, seems to really be making an impression on the City of Trees. The experimentation and larger-than-life production is both inspiring and admittedly confusing. For such a small band, a performance like this—bold, ambitious and modest—is sure to make an impression on the Boise music scene, whether it be in musician circles or at the after party.
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dance to make that work.
Arbiter: How does Treefort compare to other shows and festivals that you have played in the past?
Dave (T): It’s like the tiny little fetus baby of SXSW; it might be aborted, it might not. This is like the experiment year. It’s a great fetus.
Connor (T): If it gains more interest and they realize that people are actually going to come then they can start to get some more good bands.
Of Montreal is here and that’s fucking aweI can’t wait for that show, but hopefully in the future they will be able to bring some more higher level bands. some.
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Arbiter: What worked well and what could be improved for next year? David (NG): There’s too many wristbands. I understand one for the artist and for restricted stuff but some of these are just redundant. That’s a real minor quibble though, obviously.
Dave (T): More free shows would be cool. 75 bucks, man? I’m a poor college student, I can’t afford that crap.
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Some do deserve priority registration Kelsey Crow Journalist
Honors students and athletes deserve priority registration for classes at Boise State. Students from both parties have a larger burden placed on them than the average student, therefore priority registration is necessary and fair compensation. Cameron Crow, a senior political science major and graduating member of the Honors College, agrees. “(Honors students) regularly sacrifice time, energy and other opportunities to succeed in their coursework beyond normal expectations,” he said. In order to join the Honors College, students must apply with “a 3.5 un-weighted high-school GPA, strong performance on ACT or SAT examinations, an application essay and a clear record of extra-curricular experiences, activities and achievements” before acceptance, according to the Honors College website. “We’ve made it clear that we’re committed to our education and are willing to be held to a higher standard,” said Nick London, a junior business major and member of the Honors College. Additionally, acceptance into the Honors College is not guaranteed indefinitely. Honors students must maintain a 3.25 GPA and fulfill specific Honors College curriculum requirements to graduate from the Honors College. The specific curriculum is nothing to be sneezed at, as it involves a minimum of 23 credits consisting of seminars, Honors versions of core classes and specialized upper-division classes. Also, Honors students are
not trying to destroy class availability for other students. There are only about 500 Honors students in a university of over 20,000—leaving plenty of registering room for other students. All this said, the Honors College is not a secret society. “Some people may think the Honors College is some elite, sheltered, exclusive organization pampered by the university administration, but this isn’t true,” Crow said. “The Honors College is open to applications from anyone willing to do what is necessary to excel in their classes.” Athletes are also deserving of priority registration to maintain their rigorous schedules. Darrious Hamilton, a freshman basketball player and marketing major, said his athletic schedule makes it hard to find classes. He dedicates a maximum of nine hours per day to basketball, and says his schedule would be terrible without priority registration which could potentially force him to miss classes or practices. Not only is being an athlete time consuming and physically exhausting, but it comes with a whole host of NCAA regulations—for prospective and continuing athletes. According to the athletic compliance websites, student athletes must maintain fulltime status, pass a certain percentage of classes, have certain GPA and SAT/ACT scores and meet certain checkpoints of progress for their degree. Honors students and athletes bear enough of a burden to deserve priority registration—especially considering their numbers are small in comparison to the total number of students.
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Blue Cross to begin bribing Idaho physicians in April Clay Prince, MD, is the Chief of Staff at Madison Memorial Hospital and the President of the Upper Snake River Medical Association. Blue Cross of Idaho, the largest health insurer in the state, has changed its contract with Idaho physicians to include an “incentive” – essentially a bribe – to prescribe generic medications to their patients. The change takes effect on April 1. Under the change, doctors will be paid for their services at one rate if a certain percentage of their prescriptions are generic, and at a lower rate if their prescriptions don’t meet that percentage. The change has been made in spite of concerns expressed by physicians, including myself, who see it as an inappropriate and unethical intrusion into the physician-patient relationship. Even physicians
like me, who already meet the Blue Cross generic threshold, are disturbed at this insurer’s desire to insert itself between them and their patients in the treatment decision process. Patients already have enough questions in their minds about why physicians recommend the treatments they do. These decisions are often complex in nature, and can be difficult to explain to patients in an understandable way. Patients simply don’t need to also be wondering whether the treatments their physicians advocate are financially motivated. Blue Cross is a “non-negotiating” insurer, which means that its physician contracts aren’t open for discussion. Their approach is, simply, “take it or leave it.” Those doctors who choose to leave it are left out of the Blue Cross
network, a consequence that would be fatal to many, if not most, physician practices in Idaho. The new contract, including the bribe, has no “opt-out” option for doctors who want to avoid any appearance of being influenced by money. Blue Cross, through this change, has placed all of its participating Idaho physicians in an extremely difficult position: either they continue to participate in the Blue Cross contract, including the new bribe, or stop seeing Blue Cross beneficiaries altogether and risk bankruptcy. Certainly, the policy makers at Blue Cross understand the inherent conflict of interest that their new contract introduces. Their decision to carry it out anyway clearly demonstrates that they simply do not care. They understand that the physicians who care for their beneficiaries
are essentially powerless to respond, which is why they haven’t sought input from Idaho physicians or their representative organizations on this major change. Of course, most physicians agree that prescribing generic drugs whenever possible is a good thing. No one is more dismayed than I am with the pharmaceutical companies’ ongoing fleecing of America, and nothing makes me happier than having the option, when appropriate, to prescribe a low-cost alternative that has the same, or nearly the same, benefit. Still, that option isn’t always available. Sometimes a brandname drug is clearly the best treatment, despite its cost. Those decisions must always be individualized, and no one can take the place of the patient’s physician in that process—
least of all an insurance company! That’s why physicians went to school all those years; their training qualifies them to help patients decide whether a treatment is worth its cost – as measured in risk, in pain, in suffering, in side effects, and, yes, in dollars. Responsible physicians already include the financial cost into the treatment equation for patients. There isn’t any reason for an insurer to insert itself in that process with inappropriate and unethical payment incentives. I, for one, don’t need, or want, to be bribed to do the right thing for my patients. Of course, one also tends to wonder: If an insurer can “incentivize” physicians to prescribe generic drugs, what’s to stop them from bribing physicians for other money-saving behaviors that they might find desirable? I’m sure
insurers would love to prevent me from ordering a few tests, diagnosing a few illnesses, requesting a few needed procedures, and so forth. The new Blue Cross payment policy represents a brand new approach to compensating physicians, and it sets an alarming precedent. It ought to be against the law, but, apparently, it isn’t. If this information bothers you like it bothers me, you may be able to help discourage this sort of thing from continuing. Contact your State Representatives at legislature.idaho.gov and share your concerns. If you are insured by Blue Cross through your work, share your concerns with your employer and ask them to shop for ethical insurers. You can also file a complaint with the Idaho Department of Insurance at www.doi.idaho.gov, or contact Blue Cross directly at 1-800-274-4018.
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Andrew Wing field is a senior majoring in psychology. Wednesday March 14, 2012 the finalized set of classes for Fall 2012 was uploaded to Broncoweb for all students to see and search. This was the day that I realized, despite my careful planning and attention to detail, I was going to be forced to spend more money and possibly have to extend my collegiate career at BSU one more
semester for one simple class. The class I speak of is PSYC 335, a class that has been offered the two previous Fall semesters, this Spring, and I am sure a number of Fall semesters before, but Broncoweb does not list that far back at this time. I realize that in the catalog the class is listed as “Fall, Spring, or Both” which means basically, “We’ll offer it when we damn well please.” How-
ever, when looking at the history of the class, I took into account that it had been offered in the Fall, and likely would be this coming Fall. Guess I was wrong. So, I did as every student should do, I emailed my advisor and asked her for help with my situation. MY advisor promptly emailed me back and informed me she did not know if the class would be added later. She rec-
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ommended I email the chair of the department. I was not upset at this request, and I did as she recommended. In that email, I stated that I was like every other college student and strapped for the money to pay for school. I pointed out that any solution, other than offering the class would cost more money that I do not have. In the response I got was the advice to take the class through the Independent Study in Idaho program. So, I am now stuck with having to pay the $325 to
register for ISI plus the $75 it takes to get your tests proctored on the BSU campus because a class that all Psychology majors must take, unless they are new to the school in Fall 2012 is not being offered. This happens to students of all majors, and I feel it is time we need to stand up, unite, and let the school know that this is NOT OK! We need to tell our leaders that just because the catalogs say a course can be offered whenever they want to offer it, does
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not mean that a required course should be. Am I alone in the fact that I have been either forced to pay for another semester at Boise State or forced to go out and take the class on my own time and still pay a fee I cannot afford? Am I alone in the fact that I am now going to have to spend more money that I do not have just to finish my education in a timely fashion? This is our university, we all pay tuition, we all support BSU; IT IS TIME FOR US TO BE HEARD.
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While you were gone
The No. 15 Bronco Gymnastics team defeated the No. 34 BYU Cougars in its final competition of the regular season Friday, March 23 at the Taco Bell Arena.
Boise State Gymnastics defeats Brigham Young on Senior Night, then prepares for NCAA Regionals
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1: Potvin-Green, Brittany (BSU) 9.925 2: Glass, Amy (BSU) 9.900 3: Eyre-Pickard, Natalie (BYU) 9.875
1: Glass, Amy (BSU) 9.925 2: Potvin-Green, Brittany (BSU) 9.900 3: Perkins, Ciera (BSU) 9.850, Morris, Kelsey (BSU) 9.850
1: Koval, Krysten (BYU) 9.900 2: Eyre-Pickard, Natalie (BYU) 9.875 3: Potvin-Green, Brittany (BSU) 9.825
1: Potvin-Green, Brittany (BSU) 9.950 2: Koval, Krysten (BYU) 9.900 3: Mann, Caitlin (BSU) 9.875, Otuafi, Amanda (BSU) 9.875
1: Potvin-Green, Brittany (BSU) 39.600 2: Willman, Raquel (BYU) 38.000
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Boise State’s No. 15 gymnastics team hosted No. 34 Brigham Young University Friday night, March 23, for its regular season finale and senior night at the Taco Bell Arena. The Broncos (10-4) earned the 17th-best team score in school history, topping the Cougars (510), 196.20-194.30. The Broncos won all four events as a team, making school history by scoring a regional qualifying score of 196.00. Junior Brittany Potvin-Green won the vault, floor exercise, and the all-around event. She felt confident about the team, and was proud the athletes scored more than 196 points. “This gives us great confidence for regional’s,” Potvin-Green said. Redshirt senior Amy
Glass won the bars event. Glass said the team has gone through some bumps and bruises, but worked through it and hit its peak at the right time. After the meet, the three Boise State seniors Chelsee Apple, Amy Glass and Lindsay Kazandjian were honored and enjoyed a nice applause and cheer from the fans. Potvin-Green set a new career-best in the allaround for the second week in a row, earning a 39.60 total and taking sole possession of the No. 2 alltime best scores spot in Boise State history. Potvin-Green said her teammates push her to do her best. “They are all amazing and they make me want to do my best,” said Potvin-Green. Apple earned a careerbest of 9.675 to place 10th in her final home meet as a Bronco. The se-
niors missed out on the regional’s last season and the entire team was determined not to let that happen again. Boise State takes one week off from competition before heading to the NCAA Regional Championships. “We have two weeks to practice and train our hardest for regionals. We are very competitive as a team, we don’t like losing. If we are on and confident we can get to nationals,” Glass said. The gymnastics team learned March 26 that it will be traveling to the Fayetteville South Central Regional to compete in the 2012 NCAA Gymnastics Regionals Saturday at the Barnhill Arena at 4 p.m. (ET). The 2012 regional selection is the fifth for the Boise State Broncos under current co-head coaches Neil Resnick and Tina Bird.
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Men’s tennis on the cusp of greatness John Engel Journalist
The Boise State men’s tennis team is good, not great. In one week’s time, the Broncos have learned how much potential they truly have and what a bright future is in store for Mountain West Conference play. Saturday, the Broncos (18-6, 1-0) defeated rival Fresno State 4-3, currently ranked 26th in the nation. Boise State increased its homecourt winning streak to 22 matches with wins over the Bulldogs and San Diego State earlier in the week. According to Boise State Head Coach Greg Patton, a coveted spot in the nation’s top 20 rankings is an obtainable goal. “This is our rival and they’re good,” Patton said. “They beat the eighth ranked team in the na-
tion and had a bunch of wins in the top 20. This our lotto in the sense that it’s our ticket to get into the door of the NCAA tournament.” In their matchup with the Bulldogs, the Broncos failed to overcome one of their toughest battles yet this season: earning the doubles point. Though Boise remained within striking distance in each of their contests, the Bulldogs were able to take two of three doubles matches. According to Patton, success in doubles matches is the one component his team is missing to be a contender in the NCAA Tournament. “We think we have to play bigger, but we just have to play smarter,” Patton said. “If we get the doubles point against anybody and I think we can beat anybody. The doubles teams have to give us that breather.”
Earlier in the week, the Broncos traveled to face the top program in the nation, University of Southern California, in their most difficult matchup of the season. The Trojans (19-0) easily handled Boise State with a 6-1 win, while Scott Sears earned the only point for the Broncos. Despite the drubbing by USC, however, the Broncos are confident that they will be moving into the upper echelon of teams in the weeks ahead. “We can go toe-to-toe with anyone, and we realize that we can easily win doubles matches, but then we squandered it away. Then, we were right there in three of the six singles matches,” Patton said. With conference play now underway, Boise State is heading into the most important matches of the season.
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The Boise State Track and Field team wrapped up its outdoor season-opening event on Saturday at Northwest Nazarene University. The mood was light after three days of rain, as the sun finally peaked out from behind the clouds, giving the athletes a beautiful warm day to compete in. Representatives from Treasure Valley Community College, College Of Idaho, Northwest Nazarene University, Idaho State University and Boise State showed up to display the talents. On Friday, the Lady Broncos earned a win on four out of five events. Sophomore Emma Bates won the 1500-meter title in 4:29.18, a career record for her. Senior Mele Vaisima won the hammer throw event with her outstanding heave of 183’-0”, (11-feet farther than second place).
Andrea Morones, sophomore, also broke her career record for the javelin, throwing 135’-7” to win that event, while senior Sasa Kampic and freshman Kristen Sowers placed second (132’-6”) and third (125’-2”) respectively, for complete Bronco domination of the event. In the long jump, sophomore Shannon Jacobs won the event with a jump of 17’-4.25”, followed closely by freshman Debra Johnson who had a career record jump of 17’-2”. The sole winner on the men’s side was senior Edidiong Essien who took the 200-meter dash with 22.39 seconds. Followed by Eric Capelle and Rolando Trammel, who took second and third, leading to the second event that the Broncos dominated that day. On Saturday in the hammer throw, Trevor Kraychir and Will Lohman brought first (188’-08”) and second (174’-08”) place finishes
home for the Broncos. Chase Sexton took home first place in both the shot-put (55’9.75”) and the discus throw (178’-11”), followed closely by Lohman, who got second place in each event. Manoah Wesson placed first in the Men’s 800m dash with 47.732. Justin Malnes won the 110m men’s hurdles for BSU with a time of 14.76. Freshman Debra Johnson won the women’s triple jump with a career setting jump of 40 feet. “I feel great. I was so happy. It’s a personal record today, it was the first time I went 40 feet,” Johnson said. Overall the Idaho Cup was a success for the Broncos, taking home first place in 14 of the 34 events. Next, the track and field teams go on the road to Provo, Utah for an April 7 meet against USC and BYU. They will continue on the road until they return home for the April 21 NNU Invitational in Nampa.
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The sports boys take on Pro Day John Garretson Online Sports Editor
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The date: March 22. The time: 11 a.m. The place: Caven-Williams Sports Complex. Boise State was hosting NFL Pro Day for a record-breaking 15 Bronco participants. Wyatt Martin, The Arbiter’s sports editor, and I had transformed from everyday journalists to professional scouts in the blink of an eye—well sort of. That’s if you count us trying to walk in with the 20-something NFL scouts, all credentialed out, in an intimidating fashion. As we entered the indoor practice facility, it seemed like every Bronco alumnus ever was there in attendance, most notably Austin Pettis of the St. Louis Rams and Brandyn Thompson, previously with the Washington Redskins. It looked more like a reunion
than a pro day, but the announcement that the vertical jump was starting up in 10 minutes meant game time. Wyatt and I, along with the plethora of scouts and media members, entered the crammed lobby to see the vertical jump, a key component in assessing potential players. I bet safety George Iloka was going to take the crown, but he insisted that wide receiver Tyler Shoemaker was going to record the best jump, after last year’s underclassmen Pro Day. The event had become that much more interesting. There were some highs, like safety Cedric Febis’s 36-inch vertical leap, and some lows, like safety Travis Stanaway’s 27-inch, but Shoemaker in the end took the cake with a 37-inch vertical. I promptly gave Wyatt the fist-bump of appreciation where it was due. Side note: all six of the
Broncos who partook in the NFL Combine did not participate in the vertical jump, broad jump, 40, or cone drills, so the Iloka pick was a mistake. The 40 was probably the most intense, with all of the scouts hovering at the end of the sprint with their stopwatches almost in the participant’s face. It was necessary for Wyatt and me to take out our phones and “assimilate� into the scouting culture to clock the times. It was as if you could guess each of the participant’s times without watching them run, but then yet again, the one that left everyone in awe was Shoemaker’s 4.4 unofficial 40 time. Now it was time for position drills, first up was the quarterback drill, also known as the “Where does Kellen Moore stack up against the other quarterbacks in the
draft� drill. And boy, did he show them who No. 11 is. Going 52-53 in passing with Shoemaker, tight end Kyle Efaw, and running back Doug Martin as his targets, Moore shined with Head Coach Chris Petersen orchestrating the drill. He even exemplified a bit of arm strength with a couple of 40-plus yarders to Shoemaker, with the best spiral west of the Mississippi. At the conclusion, the two biggest winners had to have been Moore and Shoemaker. I would say Moore moved himself from a seventh round pick to a middle of the fifth round pick. As for Shoemaker, someone who was going to be considered as an off-thestreet free agent, will more than likely be taken in the sixth or seventh round. Reporting on Boise State Pro Day, I’m John Garretson, signing off.
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Tyrone Crawford returns a fumble recovery for a touchdown against TCU.
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Jarrell Root rallies the team prior to the game against Air Force last fall.
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