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An account of the 2013 Boston Marathon through Rachael Bickerton’s eyes John Garretson Sports Editor
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abit is something Rachael Bickerton holds true to her heart. For the Director of Trademark and Licensing at Boise State, there was an imminent need to break her unhealthy habit of smoking, especially when she moved to Boise five years ago. The London, England native took a different approach to nix the nicotine habit: by starting another habit in long-distance running. “I decided I would start running every time I craved a cigarette,” Bickerton said. “I would run for seven minutes because it takes seven minutes to smoke a
cigarette in my head.” This running routine began to build and build for Bickerton, as she started with the basics of the Treasure Valley running events, with the Beat Coach Pete race in 2009, to the upper echelon races with The Race to Robie Creek a year later. Bickerton’s craving for longdistance running expanded beyond the Gem State and into the national running realm, as she signed up for her first Boston Marathon four years ago. From 2009 to 2013, Bickerton had competed in one Boston Marathon and had four other marathons under her belt. The 2013 Boston Marathon was set to be her sixth marathon.
However, just days before taking off out of the Boise Airport, this year’s marathon felt a bit different for Bickerton. Whether it was the tough training conditions from the inversion this winter or the inability to commit to training, Bickerton did not have her routine pragmatic running attitude toward this year’s marathon. “I said to myself, ‘this is my last Boston. I’m done,’” Bickerton said. “My mindset was very different this time around.” After landing in Logan International Airport Friday afternoon, the vibrant, warm weather coupled with her group of 20+ runners (with more than a handful coming from Boise) set the foun-
dation for a relaxing weekend for Bickerton in Boston. Before she knew it, Monday morning crept up on her, greeted by New England’s icy touch at the starting line in Hopkinton, Mass. As the tens of thousands road runners took off with the firing of the official’s starting pistol, Bickerton was her habitual self off the line, ignoring the crowds of 500,000+ along with the screaming and cheering from the sidelines throughout the 26.2 milelong course. It was toward the end of the race where the unsettling feeling hit Bickerton, that same feeling she felt while back in Boise before the marathon. “One of my friends that I was
running with, I ran the first 10 miles with her and she’s much faster than me,” Bickerton said. “After 10 miles I said, ‘Go ahead.’ She ran slower than she wanted and finished 20 seconds ahead of me.” While it was strange for Bickerton, she was able to get through the last leg of the marathon through her husband’s magnified cheering despite the drowning crowd noise. Bickerton’s final time of three hours, 25 minutes and two seconds was her second best marathon time. There wasn’t much time for celebration, as the sea of smiles and hugs gravely changed within the span of an hour.
Running from danger Bickerton had just finished going through the factory line of Gatorade tables, medal hand-offs and bag distributions at the finish line when one friend in the group insisted on leaving due to the chilly coastal winds. Two blocks from the race site, the group heard a deafening bang.
“You felt the bomb as it reverberated,” Bickerton said. “We didn’t smell anything at the time. Everyone around just stopped.” It must be a Patriot’s Day cannon, the group said. Minutes later, a second bang was heard, louder than the initial explosion. The answer was made clear
as the group, who was rapidly heading toward their hotel nearby, was greeted with a surreal sight. “Three different things were going on at the hotel,” Bickerton said. “Right of the hotel had runners coming from the family meeting area. The hotel was still operating as normal in the center but toward the left
people were running away and crying from the explosion.” The day’s events had grimly transposed within a blink of an eye. Bickerton, who was in New York City on 9/11 and witnessed the second plane crash into the World Trade Center, knew she was in the middle of a major security threat. And
as she anxiously waited in a Westin Hotel elevator to get to her friend’s hotel room, Bickerton had an unreal personal moment. “I said to myself “well if I die now, I’ll just die’,” Bickerton said. “So I might as well just be safe with my friends. Whatever’s going to happen, will happen.”
After the blasts The first initial hour after the explosion, friends and running mates all congregated in Bickerton’s friend’s hotel room, awaiting answers from the chaos outside the Westin’s walls. The flashing lights of the ambulance brigade down the corner from their hotel room juxtaposed the clear Boston night sky, adding to
the hypnagogic effect parlayed from the afternoon’s catastrophic events. In a much-needed relief, Bickerton and her group found out the Westin was the safest place in Boston to be as the emergency press conference was being held there. Even though they were protected in a Fort Knox-like fashion with the countless
number of armed officials, it was time for Bickerton and her husband to head to their hotel in Cambridge to catch their early-morning flight back to Boise. The chaos only continued for the two, as the connecting flight in Chicago, an American Airlines flight occupied with a handful of marathon runners, was brought back to
the runway at Logan. The reason? Two Middle Eastern men were escorted off their flight, as they made some of the runners uncomfortable on board with their Farsi dialogue. “I felt sorry for the two gentlemen profiled but there were nervous runners on the plane,”
Bickerton said. And to top it off, Bickerton’s luggage did not make it to the baggage claim late Tuesday night in Boise. “I just burst into tears,” Bickerton said. “I just wanted to be home.”
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Zone discussions Dependent child tuition focus on MOOCs fee waiver approved
Are massive open online courses (MOOCs) the future of higher education? University instructors and administrators, or anyone interested in the future of higher education, are invited to attend a Live with The Zone discussion at 1:30 p.m. April 26 in PAAW, Room 123. What are MOOCs? How
do they contribute to the learning process? Is higher education more accessible through the use of this technology? The Panel Discussion will include Dale Pike, Ross Perkins and MOOC students. Live with The Zone is a series of talks between you and the experts about technology at Boise State.
World Trade Day comes to Boise State
World Trade Day 2013 takes place April 30-May 1, bringing together leading experts on foreign trade. World Trade Day is the largest event held in Idaho each year dedicated to helping companies expand international sales. The event kicks off on the afternoon of April 30 with the annual golf outing at Shadow Valley Golf Course. Seminars on May 1 feature acclaimed speakers and experts from around the globe providing insight on a variety of international business topics. Boise State’s College of Business and Economics and the TechHelp program join with the Idaho District Export Council to present the event. Internships, and even jobs, often re-
sult from professional exchanges at World Trade Day, and many of the companies involved go on to engage the university and participate in Boise State programs. The Keynote Address will be delivered by Kevin Kolevar, senior director of International Government Affairs & Public Policy, Dow Chemical. Kolevar was a senior policy advisor to the Secretary of Energy on security and technology issues, spent more than 10 years as U.S. Senate staff, served as chief of staff to the Deputy Secretary of Energy, supported and advised the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on policy, regulatory and legislative matters as well as departmental program management, and more.
Boise State’s Board of Trustees, the Idaho State Board of Education, has approved the pilot dependent tuition fee waiver benefit as an ongoing benefit for eligible Boise State faculty and staff. The dependent tuition fee waiver benefits for FY14 will be
unchanged from those offered in the two-year pilot program. The eligibility rules will no longer require that the dependent child live with the employee for at least half the year; however, if they do not and are not otherwise qualified for tax exemption per IRS rules,
the tuition waiver will be taxable to the employee. Updated Dependent Child Tuition Fee Waiver forms and policy guidelines are available on the Human Resource Services website. The deadline for all summer fee waivers is May 8.
Boise State congratulates 17 ‘Accomplished Under 40’ The Idaho Business Review has announced its 2013 Accomplished Under 40 honorees, and 17 of them are Boise State alumni or employees. Each year, the Idaho Business Review recognizes 40 local business and professional leaders who have achieved success before the age of 40. This year, 129 people were nomi-
nated. Each honoree is profiled in a special supplement with a photo and biography. The 2013 Accomplished Under 40 magazine will be published with the June 14 issue of Idaho Business Review. Presented by the Boise State University College of Business and Economics, the event—networking reception, dinner and
awards ceremony —will be held at the Knitting Factory on June 13. Previous Accomplished Under 40 recipients scored the applicants on a 1-to5 scale in four categories: professional accomplishments, leadership skills, community involvement and long-term goals. The 40 with the highest total scores are this year’s honorees.
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Even with a large number of new faces on the team this year, the Talkin’ Broncos were able to beat out their competition for the national championship.
The Talkin’ Broncos’ recipe for success Kyle McCallum Staff Writer
The Boise State’s Talkin’ Broncos have won the National Title for the past two consecutive championships. Though the Speech and Debate Team has had much success, students get much more from the program than just winning. “In five years when most people are asked about college they will answer ‘I went to Boise State University.’ In five years when someone asks me where I went to college I will answer ‘I did forensics at Boise State University,’” said Howie Long, a three-year-member of the Speech and Debate Team. “It’s not where you went to college necessarily; it’s what you did in college,” Long said. The Pi Kappa Delta Speech
and Debate National Championship is a biennial eventmeaning it occurs every two years. The Talkin’ Broncos Team that won the championship three years ago does not have the benefit of continuity—few of the members that won that year are with the team now. “We went into this year knowing that we are graduating ten people, we also had eight people coming in. All the seniors knew that we had to prepare the incoming freshman for the next four years,” said Josh Watkins, a senior at Boise State. Speech and Debate tournaments can be grueling; students spend three to five days in different cities and compete in many different categories of debates and speeches that can
last for hours. “In speech and debate everything has a rhythm, you don’t want to push yourself too hard—you match your practice to your performance,” said Manda Hicks, the director of Forensics at Boise State. This season, of the seven events the Talkin’ Broncos have competed in they have won six; including the Pi Kappa Delta Speech and Debate National Championship. The victory was a cumulative effort by the entire Boise State Team, there were twenty-four events total and Boise State‘s score was the highest of all. In any event, preparation is key. “Monica Cutler told me every night that she practiced in front of the mirror for an hour for two speeches; a half hour each and the speeches are ten
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good to hear the issues seen from the other side of the fence. So for this edition, I went to the Financial Aid Office and the Registrar’s Office to find out what issues they see the most and what solutions they have in mind. Diana Fairchild, interim director of financial aid, listed off the issues which
should be a high priority for students; student To-Dos and SAP (satisfactory academic progress) appeals. “This time of year we have a lot of things going on, we’re still awarding aid for this current academic year, we are processing aid for summer school and we’re awarding aid for next academic year,”
minutes so she would do both speeches three times so she can watch her facial expressions, her body movement, and to make sure she doesn’t have those nervous twitches, and Monica has the results to prove that,” Long said in regards to his fellow competitor. Before each event, 20-60 hours of preparation are required in order to properly compete. Many students compete in eight or more events. “I practiced mine for a half hour each night, so there’s a serious time commitment going into this. Plus, you have to stay up on the news and all your topics from the war in Syria to the drones flying overhead domestically,” Long said. Though consecutive championships speak for themselves, the one clear thing
about Boise State’s Speech and Debate Team is what students get beyond the awards and the accolades. “Speech and Debate has helped me in my social life, also, if it weren’t for Speech and Debate I feel like I would struggle a lot more with my course-work,” said freshman Fred Swanstrum. There is plenty to be learnt from the Speech and Debate program, students extract the most they can from the Talkin’ Broncos. “Speech and Debate have absolutely been a huge foundation for my college experience. For example, I’m going to graduate school in London and I don’t believe that I would have gotten in if I didn’t have the skills instilled from Speech and Debate, like how to effec-
tively communicate or how to organize thoughts. The things I learned from speech and debate bleed into my other classes,” Watkins said. Students are able to reap a number of rewards from involvement in speech and debate. These students can use the experience as an extra resume boost and can use the speaking skills for the rest of their lives. “Forensics gives you that extra, it gives you memories, if you don’t get involved in something in college you’re not going to get those memories,” Long said. The students who are a part of this program have all made one thing clear: that Speech and Debate has defined their college experience for the better.
Fairchild said. “At the same time in awarding aid for next year, this is the time of year where they put information out on the student sites for financial aid verification.” Fairchild said verification is sort of like the IRS auditing you. It’s not that you’ve done anything wrong, but a certain number of applications are selected for verification all the time. As a result students have to submit particular documents that verify portions of what they have submitted on their FAFSA. According to Fairchild,
she considers the lines at the financial aid office a good thing because they mean students are reading their emails and taking care of their to-dos. “One of my big pushes is if you’re a student on campus right now and you have to-do items, take care of those before you leave for the summer, so that your financial aid goes smoothly in August,” Fairchild said. “It’s all the students that don’t, that cause problems for us in August. It’s that delay.” Fairchild went on to explain where SAP falls into all
of this. She said students in jeopardy of falling below the SAP standards should have received notice and it’s critical to address those issues. “We sent out letters to those students that we know it’s going to be mathematically impossible for them to meet the SAP conditions, alerting them that if they want to attend summer school they need to submit an appeal,” Fairchild said. “They can submit an appeal now before we’re completely backed up in August (to avoid delays).”
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Israel’s top military intelligence analyst said Tuesday that the Syrian regime used lethal chemical weapons last month against opposition forces and criticized the international community for failing to act on evidence that “red lines” had been crossed in Syria. But Secretary of State John Kerry quickly distanced the United States from the assertion, saying that he had spoken Tuesday morning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that “he was not in a position to confirm” the public Israeli allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria. “The information I have at this point does not confirm it to me in a way that I would be comfortable commenting on it as a fact,” said Kerry, who was in Brussels for a NATO conference. “But obviously, whatever allegations are made have to be thoroughly investigated, and it is appropriate to chase this one down and find out what’s going on, no question about it.” U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who left Israel for Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday, made no pub-
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lic comment on the allegation, but his spokesman, George Little, indicated that the United States was not yet convinced. “The United States continues to assess reports of chemical weapons use in Syria,” he said. “The use of such weapons would be entirely unacceptable.” Determining whether the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in its two-year war against rebel forces could be critical to whether the United States becomes engaged militarily in the battle there. President Barack Obama has called such use a “red line” that would force the United States to act, though precisely what U.S. action would follow has not been spelled out. Rebel forces, hoping such action would include lethal military aid for their movement, have since August accused the government of President Bashar Assad of using chemical weapons at least half a dozen times in Damascus and Aleppo, but those incidents have not been confirmed. In March, both sides accused one another of using the weapons in Aleppo, and the Assad government called for an international investigation. A United
their website helps explain some of it, but it’s important to know what wait listing was designed for. “Wait listing is designed not necessarily to give a student the perfect schedule they want, but to give them the classes they need,” Wilkins said. Wilkins also listed commencement as another big question they get and ex-
claimed it had no odor. Sarin is odorless. Israeli officials said that they had passed along their intelligence findings to the United States, Great Britain and “other allies” more then two weeks ago. “Everyone who is watching Syria closely knows what has happened there,” said an Israeli intelligence officer based along the country’s northern border with Syria who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly. “We have also made sure to share our findings in real time so that in (the) future no one can tell us, ‘We didn’t know, we didn’t see,’ and use that excuse.” Brun was harsh in his criticism of the international community, which he accused of failing to act. “The response of the world on this issue reflects the same trend of limited influence and a predisposition not to intervene,” he told the conference. “The developments are certainly worrying ones: First, the fact that chemical weapons have been used without any ... (international) response is a very worrying development and could certainly signal that such a thing is legitimate.”
dents near Damascus and Aleppo on March 19. He said that photographs of victims with foam coming out of their mouths and contracted pupils were signs of sarin use. An Israeli intelligence officer who reports to Brun added later that additional satellite images and witness testimony had been used to “conclusively determine” that a nerve agent had been used in the attacks. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, said that Israel
close ties to the government. “There’s a huge arsenal of chemical weapons in Syria. Our assessment is that the regime has used and is using chemical weapons.” Last week, the British and French governments sent a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon, saying that they believed there was credible evidence that Syria had used chemical weapons since December in or near the cities of Homs, Aleppo and Damascus. But despite those assessments, skeptics abound.
Rami Abdurrahman, who runs the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks casualties on both sides of the conflict, said that there was still no evidence confirming chemical weapons use. He noted that in the March attack in Aleppo, his group had recorded 26 dead, including Syrian government soldiers. Other analysts note that rebel claims of chemical weapons have stemmed from the government’s use of incendiary cluster bombs, some of which contain phosphorous and create flames that are difficult to extinguish and smoke that can be particularly harmful when inhaled. A Syrian doctor in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma said he treated victims of what some people said was a chemical attack March 24 in the nearby suburb of Adra—one of the locations Brun cited for a March 19 attack. The symptoms he described—contracted pupils and runny eyes—are consistent with sarin exposure, but he said witnesses offered conflicting reports about the chemical itself, with some of the people he treated claiming it had a foul odor, while others
plained what the financial aid office can help with. “Our office is responsible for clearing graduates (for graduation), but we’re not advisors,” Wilkins said. “The hope is that a student has worked with their academic department really closely and met the requirements and then our office is the one that signs off on it.” Wilkins said they have special evaluators that are there to help. “For those (graduation) questions we have evalua-
tors that are here Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and we have an evaluator assigned to each college,” Wilkins said. “We really encourage students to come in and ask for them, they are available all day and they are happy to go over the academic advisement report to help students figure out where they’re at.” The most important advice Wilkins offers is for students to read the emails from the registrar’s office and come in with questions.
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Nations team is waiting in Cyprus to conduct the investigation, but so far the Assad government has not granted it permission to enter Syria. Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, chief of research for Israeli military intelligence, told a security conference in Tel Aviv that there was strong evidence that a lethal chemical weapon, likely the nerve gas sarin, had been used in inci-
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was investigating “nearly half a dozen possible incidents” but that its most conclusive findings were over attacks in the Damascus suburbs of Jobar, Adra and Ataibeh. “To the best of our understanding, there was use of lethal chemical weapons. Which chemical weapons? Probably sarin,” Brun told the Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli think tank with
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Shades of Black performers and attendees packed the Simplot Ballroom on Saturday to celebrate diversity.
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Students and community members packed into the Simplot Ballroom as a few Shades of Black performers showed off their freestyle moves to “Can’t Hold Us.” Cheers and applause welcomed the start of Shades of Black’s third showcase at Boise State celebrating racial, gendered and sexuality diversity. According to their Facebook page, Shades of Black is a showcase celebrating “dimensions of the black experience.” Sponsored by the MLK Committee and hosted by Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, this year’s show had audience members laughing at comic Alan Williams’ current celebrity jabs, providing call backs and claps to dance numbers and feeling moved
by spoken word topics of society’s current condition. Salama Muzaliwa, freshman nursing major, was one of these spoken word performers. Muzaliwa recited her poetic piece “I am beauty,” inspired by her own struggle. “I’ve had trouble with beauty so I thought I’d write a piece to celebrate the beauty in a woman,” Muzaliwa said. “The poem really explains it all: A woman who’s strong and who perseveres and is resilient. It’s not in her physical features; it’s inside of her.” With nine new performers including a few Boise State student performances, this show was unique. Shades of Black creator Kwapi Vengesay said no two shows are ever the same. Vengesay created Shades of Black while he and Williams were students at Uni-
versity of Idaho. Vengesay said the show gained so much popularity, it now tours the pacific northwest and has plans of expanding. “It’s one of those organic shows where you just kind of go with the flow of it,” Vengesay said. “It’s gonna go where it wants to go. I think when you put limitations on things you stunt it, so you just continue working on making it better and expanding and that’s all you can do.” Students said they enjoyed this show, and hope it continues to return to Boise State. Senior Jenafer Crofts, sociology major, said she particularly enjoyed the spoken word performances, including Muzaliwa’s. “I also really loved the other gal who did the one about child abuse,” Crofts said. “I stood up for that one as a standing ovation because
anyone who is that brave enough to put their story or even someone else’s story into something like that I think is emotional and moving and fantastic.” The show closed with the performers, members of Delta Sigma Phi, Vengesay, Williams and audience members getting up on stage and all improving to the “Cupid Shuffle,” an engaging way to close the show emphasizing togetherness and making people feel loved and beautiful. Crofts said she loved how the show was not just about celebrating black culture, and by emphasizing the inclusion of women and the LGBQT community, this particular show is helping society progress. “I think it was nice to see solidarity as far as coming together no matter what your ethnicity is,” Crofts said. “Raising awareness
that there’s also a group of people who are being oppressed still, like for the LGBQT community to be recognized at things like this is amazing and to make them feel welcome I think is a step to progress and that’s what we’re always shooting for.”
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Sprout Film Festival hits Egyptian Theater Cher Wada Koenig Staff Writer
For the third year in a row the ARC Idaho is hosting the Sprout Film Festival on May 3-4 at the Egyptian Theater. The ARC is a nonprofit agency which serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Their purpose is to assist people with disabilities to achieve greater independence in life. The upcoming short films feature people with developmental disabilities, cover a wide variety of topics and invoke many emotions among viewers. Nicole Young, senior communication major, has been
involved with the planning of the film festival and saw it for the first time last year. She added she’ll be going again this year and hopes to see more students there. “The overall theme is the most powerful,” Young said. “Because as a culture I think that we have a tendency to put people with disabilities in a certain category and we sometimes forget to celebrate what their abilities are because we’re focused on what their disability is. From the very beginning of what we know is wrong with them, whether they have Down Syndrome, ADHD or whatever.” Young explained how the films help put a positive spin
on how people view individuals with disabilities. She said the films leave viewers with a greater understanding of the abilities of all people. “My biggest hope for the Sprout festival is to encourage the awareness that it is about the abilities versus the disabilities,” Young said. Nicole Lang, director of ARC Idaho, said the Sprout Film Festival started many years ago in New York City. She said there’s a program called Sprout there which started this project called make a movie. “So people with intellectual and developmental disabilities would go to this camp, learn how to make a movie and they started making their
own films,” Lang said. “The executive director of Sprout, Anthony Di Salvo, then turned it into this film festival, which they do annually.” Lang explained how Di Salvo eventually started a traveling film festival, which is how ARC Idaho got involved. Now the films are coming to Idaho annually, she offered a preview of this year’s shows. “One of the really exciting films that we have, which could end up being a little controversial, is a short film done by ESPN,” Lang said. “A gentleman who has Down Syndrome is a mixed martial arts fighter, so there’s a documentary about him. We have a couple of animated films, one is actually in French, so
there’s subtitles, but it’s a little girl who’s telling the story of her brother who has autism. We also have a couple of films that are not documentaries but just short films and both of the actors, the stars, in the films have Down Syndrome.” Lang said they haven’t made much profit from these films yet, but when they do all the money will go back into programs for the people they assist. They said they eventually hope to be able to help people with disabilities here in Idaho, to make their own movies for the Sprout Film Festival. For more information about this event or the ARC visit their website.
Story Story Late Night gets KiNK-y Mallory Barker Staff Writer
a more adult audience and pull some juicy stories from participants. According to Late Night’s website, the evening will be “shameless.” The not-so-family-friendly topics such as religion, drugs, sex and politics are welcome in this stimulating adult environment. Each evening will begin with a host telling a scandalous story, lasting about 20 minutes long.
Things are starting to get risque at the Visual Arts Center with this spring’s Story Story Late Night series, KiNK. Story Story Late Night is a live story telling experience which is open to ages 21 and older. The original Story Story Night is open to all ages and usually maintains a PG to PG-13 theme, but the Late Night tries to bring in See Story story I page 6 The Arbiter
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Performers take the stage at Story Story Late Night to tell their tales.
Tasha Adams is a senior graduating in May. Like Nicole Reither, she is also terrified of all things graduation—failing a class, walking at the ceremony, not finding a job after receiving her degree. “The undaunted undergrads” is an account of working through last-semester fears and getting the most out of the college experience. My announcements are sent and I am passing all my classes. I have (almost) survived my last semester of college and In less than three weeks, I will have to pack into the Taco Bell arena with all the other graduates and walk the line. I am terrified. I don’t want to and the only reason I am is because I have friends who have told me I will regret it if I don’t. I know it is such a large ceremony that the only people who will pay attention when my name is called will be the people who are there for me. But I feel like vomiting when I think about walking on stage in front of that many people. While all my fellow graduating friends are deciding on what pretty dress they want to wear on May 18, all I can think about is the shoes I am least likely to fall in. I am seriously considering just wearing jeans and my Toms; practical, comfortable, low-risk. Beyond that, I am mentally preparing for the end of my college career. I am excited for my post-college life free of tests, assignments or late nights cranking out last minute papers. But I am more excited about actually having my degree, and part of that excitement comes from the purely symbolic act of donning my cap and gown to walk the line. So even though commencement is causing me anxiety now, I am hoping I will be so amped on the fact that I will be a college graduate that I can get through the ceremony without my knees giving out. Honestly, it will be about 11.7 seconds of my life spent as the center of attention and when it is over, I will push through all the other graduates to join my family in the Student Union Building. By the way, in case you didn’t know in lieu of meeting up with family on the intermural field, each college will have a designated area in the SUB. The Jordan Ballroom will host the Graduate College, Arts and Sciences & Business and Economics and the Simplot Ballroom will host the Colleges of Education, Engineering, Health Sciences & Social Sciences and Public Affairs. I will smile, take deep breaths and possibly cry tears of joy knowing that I conquered college, despite all the roadblocks that happened along the way. And unless all my nightmares about falling or tripping come true, I will come out unscathed and proud—proud of working my butt off for the last four years, proud of passing my classes, proud of not overdosing on caffeine. arbiteronline.com
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Try it with
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An outdoor drink a day keeps the finals stress away Arts and Entertainment Editor
This “Try it with Tabby” is for the 21+ crowd. While spring officially sprung just over a month ago, the Boise weather is finally following suit and giving us some beautiful, warm and sunny days, the type of days which draw crowds out from their winter hibernation and into the world of outdoor drinking. Because nothing says spring like a cold cocktail on a warm day. For this week’s “Try it with Tabby” I took it upon myself to find the best outdoor patios and a drink for every day of the week. So here it is, enjoy the spring weather, drink up, but don’t forget: drink responsibly.
The Reef
Mondays beg us to either rewind a day to Sunday fun-day or hit the fast forward button to Monday. Nothing gets you over the Monday blues quite like a cold beer on the patio of Lucky 13, a pizza place located between the foothills and the Boise River. The weekends fill up this spacious wooden patio, so Monday is the perfect day to make your way to SE Boise and beat the crowds.
Tuesday
Bardenay
I’m a huge fan of the Bloody Mary. After much taste testing, I have decided my favorite one in town comes from Bardenay and is the Basil Bloody Mary. This is the perfect location and cocktail to finish up a trip to the Saturday Capitol City Public Market.
Wednesday Lucky 13
Home
If you’re anything like me, sometimes the best nights are the ones spent at home with a nice glass of merlot (or, to be honest, a nice box of merlot). Luckily, I have a back deck with a view of the foothills and mountains. Even if you don’t have the view, enjoy home, a tall glass of wine, and a quiet night in your own back yard.
Saturday
Tabitha Bower
Monday
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Arguably my favorite tiki-themed rooftop bar in Boise, the Reef is the perfect place to be on a Wednesday. Grab their signature margarita and let your imagination set you on a beach get-away for the time being. It gets hot, so try to snag a table with a thatched umbrella. Also, make sure to get there during happy hour.
Sunday
Papa Joe’s
You ever have one of those bars where, before you have a chance to order, the bartender brings you your drink? Well, that is Papa Joe’s for me every Sunday. With two-dollar mimosas, Bloody Marys and Screwdrivers, it can’t be beat. Enough said.
Thursday
Ben’s Crow Inn
Barbacoa
The rooftop bar is opening this week at Barbacoa. Looking out over the Parkcenter Pond, this intricately and colorfully decorated bar is nothing short of beautiful. Refresh with a Casablanca, a lemon grass and kaffir lime leaf infused vodka cocktail. And don’t miss the bathrooms at Barbacoa; they are nothing short of a work of art.
This is one of my favorite hidden gems in Boise, on the way to Lucky Peak on Warm Springs. The outdoor patio plays host to a sand pit and Tonka trucks, and the atmosphere is half biker-bar and half mountain bike stop off. A PBR is the perfect drink to accompany the jukebox playing oldschool country. Don’t miss the bucket of steamed clams.
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A Night of Discovery
Nathan Updike Staff Writer
Students found entertainment at the Discovery Center last Wednesday as part of the Discovery Center Night put on by the Student Involvement and Leadership Center. The Discovery Center, which holds over 200 exhibits, combines science, math and technology. The night began as students entered the Discovery Center, walking through the building getting to test and see all of the different exhibits within. As the night progressed, local band Last King Outlaw set up to play. An announcement was made over the intercom
inviting anyone interested to join in on an interactive lab class. The class was put on by Henry Charlier, Ph.D., a professor at Boise State. “Some people tend to like dipping cookies in milk, I like dipping my saltines in liquid nitrogen,” Charlier said. He then dipped his crackers into a bucket of liquid nitrogen and ate them. While he chewed, he blew the smoke-like vapor from the nitrogen out of his nostrils, generating laughter throughout the crowd. The presentation featured various experiments which were performed by Charlier and his assistant. Toward the end of Char-
Story Story Night [A&E page 5] The evening will then open up to patrons who have stories to tell relating to the provocative theme. At this point, names will be drawn from a container and the randomly chosen individual will be asked to come on stage and tell a true, unprepared story. All stories must be related to the topic and have a beginning, middle and end. Story Story Late-Nights The Arbiter
will be held on the last Monday of each month in the spring and summer of 2013 at the Visual Arts Collective, a 21-and-over venue located at 3638 Osage Street in Garden City’s arts district. The season begins Monday, April 29 with Late Night Art Director, Emma Arnold, as host and local musician Dan Costello. Arnold said she encourages
lier’s show, one of the workers announced once Charlier was done, they would be making their own liquid nitrogen-made ice cream for everyone to eat. This brought a smile and look of excitement to most of the audience’s faces. Participants were even offered the chance to help create liquid nitrogen-made ice cream of their own. During Charlier’s show, Last King Outlaw began to play. Their laid-back reggae music set a relaxing mood for people to walk through the Discovery Center and experience all of the various exhibits. When talking about the purpose of this event,
Sydney Schaub, a junior majoring in marketing and is also a part of the team which helped put the event together said it is reach out to students. “To reach out to an audience that might not always come out to events like this and to bring students off campus to an event that’s completely free to them,” Schaub said. “It’s turned out really well.” Sophomore Alex Scherrer, majoring in finance and accounting, said he was attracted to the event for the price, or lack thereof. “Well, the fact that it was free and also because I get extra credit for writing about some of the exhibits,” Scherrer said. “There’s some cool things here.”
Boise State students and other members of the community to attend Story Story Late Night and gain the experience she has gained. “I often hear people say, ‘I don’t have a story, then within two or three questions you always find out something incredible about that person,’” Arnold said. “I think everyone has an incredible story and they just don’t realize it until they find their theme.” Former featured host Joc-
elyn Robertson explained how Story Story Night has impacted her life. “I got up on stage and made 400 people laugh, it was fun to have strangers respond and be on your side and want to know about your story,” Robertson said. “I’ve never had that feeling before.” Incentives in the form of topic related prizes will be given out to some participants that choose to tell their uninhibited stories.
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KiNK begins at 8 p.m., but the doors open at 7 p.m. Admission is $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Jessica Holmes, the driving force, is the co-founder of Story Story Night and expressed how the program has touched her life. “It’s such an amazing thing that everyday people have just by living their lives and telling their stories,” Holmes said. “It’s so beautiful.” For more information,
visit the Story Story night’s website.
Quick Facts:
•Story Story Late Night will occur on the last Monday of every month starting on Monday 29 at the Visual Arts Collective. • Must be 21 or over to attend. •Admission is $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Come prepared to “talk dirty!” arbiteronline.com
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Junior Bryce Bergevin hands the baton over to junior Tyler Rackleff during the 4x400 relay at the “Clash at the Border” meet Saturday afternoon.
Clash at the Border
Corey Morgan Staff Writer
The Boise State Track and Field team headed into last weekend’s “Clash at the Border” meet looking to establish some strong momentum while trying to defeat rivals around the Idaho border. The Broncos performed very well in the meet, winning 11-events and setting
several school/personal records. One who stood out the most was performance of senior Destiny Gammage, junior Mackenzie Flannigan, senior Taryn Campos and redshirt senior Heather Pilcher in the women’s 400-meter relay as they set a school record of 45.49 seconds; also setting the fastest women’s 400-meter relay in the state of Idaho.
Campos also went on to set her personal record, along with the third best in school history, in the 200-meter race with a time of 23.85 seconds. Flannigan also shattered her personal record with a time of 11.77 seconds in the 100-meter race. The Broncos hope to ride this momentum into their next meet and the upcoming Mountain West Conference
championship trials. “Everyone’s just ready for conference,” said junior Andrea Morones. While a lot of the attention was on the women’s 400-meter relay team, Junior Bobby Mueller was out-competing many other Divison-1 athletes. While on the surface this wouldn’t seem out of the ordinary, it’s unique due to the fact that Mueller runs
on the Boise State Track and Field club team. “If you’re on a club sport, you can pretty much run at any open meet. We don’t get to run at Mountain West championships or anything like that, but we get to run all other open races,” Mueller said. Muller runs the 110 and 400-meter hurdles. “It’s always fun when you beat the D1 guys when you’re on club team,” added Mueller. Another bright standout was redshirt freshman Danny Verdieck. “Yesterday and today was
my first ever decathlon, it went well. In the future I definitely know I can go faster,” said Verdieck. Verdieck decided to redshirt his first year due to his lack of experience in the decathlon; this being his first year he trained for it. Verdieck also competed in the 1500-meter race as his last event for the first time in his career and was able to f inish on top. Next weekend, May 4, the Broncos will partake in their final meet of the season at the Oregon Twilight before the Mountain West Conference Championship trials.
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Running with reality
Two weeks have passed from the horrific events in Boston yet Bickerton still struggles emotionally in reflecting on her recent marathon memory. “There’s survivor guilt, I feel upset and I cry at random moments,” Bickerton said. “Then I go, ‘Why should I be crying?’ I still have all my limbs; I still have all my loved ones back in Boise. I’m in a safe place.” In what has offered a bit of closure, Bickerton kept tabs on the manhunt of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the bombing terrorists. “These guys took away a great memory,” Bickerton said. ”I finished with my second fast time ever and I can’t look at my medal.” She also continues to talk to friends about the unpleasant incident. “It’s cathartic to talk about be-
cause your emotions change each day,” Bickerton said. “I’m different how I treat my friends. I tell them I love them much more, hugging people more and relishing in my friendships.” Despite what had occured, Bickerton’s addiction couldn’t be curbed from a sole dark memory, despite her previous proclamation of never running the marathon again. It’s just not in Bickerton’s new-founded racing blood to let such a tragedy get in the way of her personal finish line. “I already booked my hotel last Saturday night for next year’s Boston Marathon,” Bickerton said with a smile. “I can’t have that be my last marathon event.”
Did you know? The Idaho Transportation Department is designing plans to replace the Broadway Avenue Bridge over the Boise River. Construction is anticipated to begin next winter.
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Broncos blast past Rams for two wins Angie Christiaens Staff Writer
The sweltering Boise sun seemed to boost the Boise State softball team (21-23-1, 5-6 MW) as they hosted the Colorado State Rams this past weekend at Dona Larsen Park. The Broncos competed incredibly well winning both games, 3-2 and 5-2. On Friday both teams started off slowly offensively with no runs from either team keeping the score 0-0 throughout seven innings and sending the game into extra innings. Starting pitcher Rebecca Patton threw 96 strikes of 141 pitches and kept the Rams scoreless until the top of the eighth inning. Colorado State then scored two runs off three hits to make the score 2-0. The Broncos, however, did not back down on their home turf.
Heading into the ninth inning, pitcher Kenzie Cole relieved Patton and kept the Rams with no runs and no hits opening the door for the Broncos to take the lead. Freshman Rose Saenz stepped up to the plate to single to left field and Brittany McCray was walked to have two on base for the Broncos. Up to bat, Jordan Kreiger reached on a throwing error by the Ram’s first baseman as Saenz advanced to third and scored on the error taking the exciting win for Boise State 3-2 over Colorado State. “We’ve been focusing on our swings, making sure we get at contact point,” Saenz said in preparation for Colorado State. Resting overnight, the Broncos took the field on Saturday with hopes of another victory.
Broncos come up short at draft Michael Steen Staff Writer
The 2013 NFL Draft kicked off on Thursday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City with hundreds of former college football players looking to make their lifelong dreams come true. Coming off a year that saw a record six Boise State players drafted, including two firstrounders, Boise State had five players on the board for the 2013 draft trying to make it in the league. In a relatively weaker crop of players, the group of former Broncos was led by cornerback
Jamar Taylor. Taylor was also joined by sixth-year running back D.J. Harper, defensive back Jerrell Gavins, linebacker Tommy Smith, and defensive tackle Mike Atkinson. Taylor impressed scouts at both the NFL Combine and Boise State’s pro day, as he posted a blistering 40-time of 4.39. A physical power and productive starter for Boise State, Taylor was selected by the Miami Dolphins with the 54th overall pick in the draft and the 22nd pick in the second round. With the pick, Taylor became the second highest drafted defensive back in Boise State’s
The Broncos caught fire through their bats in the bottom of the third when they scored five runs off six hits. Kreiger, first up to bat, hit her first homerun of her season to left center to start it off. “It (the homerun) was great. It’s been good to be able to finally pull through for the team and we needed this win really bad so, it was nice. It felt good,” said Kreiger. Glover, Bourke and Bridges loaded the bases when Glover scored on passed ball to make the score 2-0. Bourke made it to home plate off a fielding error and Bridges soon followed her from a single by Makenna Weir. Whyte also made it home after being walked earlier in the inning to extend the lead over the Rams 5-0. “We tried to tell them (the players) today that we need history, as Kyle Wilson went 29th overall to the New York Jets in 2010. The lone offensive player of the group, running back D.J. Harper, endured several setbacks in his Boise State career, suffering two season ending knee injuries in 2009 and 2010. Medical redshirts allowed Harper to get those seasons back as he closed out his senior year with 1,137 yards, 15 touchdowns, and a 5.0 yard average per carry. Slotted as the 21st best available running back, Harper joined the ranks of many Broncos before him, as an undrafted free agent. Linebacker Tommy Smith emerged as a consistent player his senior year, finishing with 61 tackles on the season, good for third most for the Broncos. Working out for the Atlanta Falcons in the weeks leading
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Women’s softball take action against the CSU Rams at Dona Larsen Park. to have the mentality that it’s still a 0-0 ballgame,” said Head Coach Erin Thorpe. “We cannot assume anything. We cannot get comfortable. We need to go out there and just continue and to fight the whole game.” Heading to the top of the fourth, the Rams started connecting scoring two runs off three hits to make the score 5-2. Pitcher Cole again took
the mound, this time for Lela Work, and threw three quick outs both in the fifth and sixth inning to keep the score at 5-2 for the Broncos. In the bottom of the sixth, Boise State had one runner on base due to a walk, but couldn’t score and headed into the seventh to end the game early. “I think we just caught on to their first pitcher a little quicker than we caught onto
their pitcher yesterday,” Thorpe said. “We did a nice job of adjusting quickly this game to put runs on the board quickly…I think it’s just one of those things where we’re constantly working to be the first to adjust.” The women head to Las Vegas next weekend to take on another Mountain West conference foe in the UNLV Rebels from Friday through Sunday.
up to the draft, Smith looked to have his name called, but also fell to the realms of free agency. Former Bronco cornerback Jerrell Gavins also went undrafted over the weekend, as he hoped a stellar senior year might catapult his draft stock following a season ending injury mid-way through his junior year. It was not the case however, and Gavins will wait out free agency as well. Rounding out the group of NFL hopefuls from Boise State was defensive tackle Mike Atkinson. An ACL tear against San Diego State last season ended his season short as his draft stock
plummeted, dropping him to the list of undrafted free agents as he continues to recover from his injury. Following the major success of the 2012 NFL draft for for-
mer Boise State players, 2013 provided the least amount of Broncos drafted since the 2010 draft, as the NFL hopefuls will try and get picked up during free agency.
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