The Arbiter September 15, 2014

September 15, 2014 Vol. 27 Issue 9

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Christine Kunewa Walker spoke at the conference. came from societal expectations and discouragement in various levels of their careers. Ochoa recognized as a manager, not all of her decisions would be popular and it was sometimes hard to do the right thing for the organization.

Women need to realize they have something to say, defend it and have the confidence to say it. —David Adler

Continuing the discussion concerning challenges women face in the work place, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Victoria Lipnic spoke about sexual discrimination and sexual harassment issues women have encountered and are still fighting.

Lipnic used the example of civil rights laws to show that “significant” laws like that take 20-25 years to develop and replace society’s norms.

“Every aspect of society plays a role in bringing fullness to what (laws) are designed for,” Lipnic said about legal battles related to

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Boise State’s second annual Women and Leadership Conference: What is Success? was more than just about leadership and success. For many women in attendance, the conference provided a call to find their voice and the courage to speak up.

In his closing remarks, David Adler, executive director of the Andrus Center, which hosted the conference, said once women find their voice, people will see a better Idaho and a better America.

“Women need to realize they have something to say, defend it and have the confidence to say it,” Adler said.

Barbara Morgan, conference chair and distinguished educator in residence at Boise State, said the conference involved many women setting an example of using their voice. However, many women still face diverse challenges including sexual discrimination, harassment and suppression of their voice in the work place.

For Morgan, the conference represents a continuing conversation about what success is and the importance of sometimes taking

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risks in speaking up or even challenging rules and laws of society.

As a teacher, Morgan feels risk is critical for learning.

Both male and female students at any level of education, need to take risks in asking questions they feel could be embarrassing, expressing their opinion and challenging assumptions.

Morgan acknowledged one current discussion is why, typically speaking, male students take more risks than female students.

The question is: Is it a man/ woman thing, or does society encourage different behaviors for the genders?

Two discussions revolved around those topics early into the three-day conference. Judith Freeman, awardwinning author, moderated the panel discussing women and the risks they take both professionally and socially.

The panel included Morgan , Ellen Ochoa director of the Johnson Space Center, Col. Sherrie McCandless, commander of the 124th Fighter Wing of the Idaho Air National Guard and Deanne Shulman, international consultation in fire and emergency management.

For these women, the primary risks they faced

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Women discuss success and leadership in conference

Women and men attended. sexual harassment.

Morgan hopes participants realize change takes time and the facilitation of discussion is one reason the conference is im-

portant. She also hopes men and women remove conscious or subconscious barriers in achieving their goals, and the sky really is no limit for success.

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NEWS

Crosswalk safety a growing concern at Boise State Sean Bunce

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Yet another accident occurred this week involving a bicycle and car on campus, bringing the total to three for the academic year. This time, like the others, the cyclist was at fault due to a lack of knowledge about the rules of the road.

An eye witness to the most recent accident, which occurred in front of the Lincoln Parking Garage, Don Telford believes there’s another solution to the problem.

“Police should be passing out tickets left and right,”

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Telford said. “I bet if they did, they wouldn’t have to write as many later on.”

He also feels this would cause cyclists to think twice before racing out into traffic.

“It’s so frequent, it seems you could chase your tail all day trying to write citations,” Gallas said.

These incidents have raised concern among law enforcement officers patrolling campus.

“I see a ton of near misses every day (driving on campus),” said Lt. Rob Gallas of the Boise Police Department. “At one point someone’s going to get hurt if they

don’t pay attention to the rules of the road.”

According to Title 49 of Idaho State Code, a person operating a bicycle or human-powered vehicle approaching a stop sign must slow down or stop if required before entering an intersection.

This law also applies to bicyclists as they enter a crosswalks at an intersection.

After slowing to a reasonable speed or stopping, the cyclist must yield the rightof-way to any vehicle in the intersection. The cyclist may continue through an intersection after determining

there is no hazard to their safety.

When traveling with traffic, cyclists must use proper turn signals to warn vehicles of an impending turn or stop. They must also travel at a safe distance behind motor vehicles to allow themselves a safe stopping distance.

Students aren’t doing this however, which is the problem, Gallas said. Instead, they race across campus, threatening the safety of themselves, others and the paint on motorists’ bumpers.

If a cyclist fails to exercise due caution, they

can be ticketed for failure to stop before entering a roadway. According to Gallas, there isn’t enough man power available to stop everyone who violates this law, although they will be cited if an accident occurs and be held responsible for any damages caused to either party.

Gallas recommends people exercise more caution when entering intersections, encouraging them to dismount from their bike and walk it across the crosswalk.

By doing this, the cyclist is then considered a pedestrian and allowed the right-

of-way.

Beyond the basic rules bicyclists are expected to follow, there’s an underlying concern for safety which the BPD and Campus Security wish to address.

“A lot of folks here aren’t wearing helmets, which increases the threat and likelihood of serious injury,” Gallas said. “The fact is, if you get hit by a car on a bike, you’re not going to fair well, typically.”

For more information about bicycle safety, visit Campus Security and Police Services on the Boise State website.

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The Greenspeed club at Boise State, is yet again attempting to break its own land speed record during Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats later this month.

Last year they reached 203 mph. In a few weeks the team anticipates going even faster, setting their sights on the record as the world’s fastest truck in the diesel engine category.

The record stands at 215.091 mph, which they hope to beat using three types of fuel, including vegetable oil, just to prove a point.

“We’re just using vegetable oil as proof of the concept,” said Dave Schenker, mechanical engineering student at Boise State and co-founder of the club. “It’s in its raw state, not even a fuel. Here we are beating petroleum at its own game.”

According to Schenker, their diesel engine has only been modified for power, which is a testament to the value vegetable oil has as a fuel source. When vegetable

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oil is heated to 175 degrees, it becomes the consistency of regular fuel, which can then be used with their diesel engine.

However, this isn’t the only fuel source they use.

They also run on diesel and a biodiesel, which they hope to start making on their own soon.

“Vegetable oil is not a good fuel for over the road use, which regular people use in their vehicles,” said Patrick Johnston, graduate of Boise State’s mechanical engineering program. “What we really advocate is biodiesel derived from algae.”

With a computer reading 70 points of contact on the truck between the chassis and engine, the team can see exactly how each fuel type works with the truck to choose the most efficient.

Along with the chance to break a new record every year, the Greenspeed club at Boise State offers it’s members a variety of opportunities across many fields, from photography to biology.

Kara Grant, a biology major at Boise State, accompanied the team to the Salt Flats last year. Her new

knowledge of bio-diesel fuel may put the team in a different set of record books.

“We’ll be making some fuel hopefully straight from scratch with algae from a pond or a culture source,” she said.

Bio-diesel is clean and renewable fuel source. According to Grant the process to make it from algae is simple, but expensive due to such low yields.

“Hopefully by next year we’ll be running on our own fuel and be done with vegetable oil runs,” Grant said.

The purpose of the Greenspeed club is to provide students with the opportunity to gain real life experience working in an interdisciplinary environment while designing, building and racing a vegetable oilpowered vehicle.

With help from Venture College, Greenspeed has also become a nonprofit organization which builds off the work already accomplished by the club in making motor sports more sustainable.

For more information, visit Greenspeed’s website greenspeed.me.

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BYU-Idaho unintentionally added to their underwater programs this summer after flash flooding covered portions of the eastern Idaho campus.

Portions of Twin Falls, Pocatello and Idaho Falls were also affected by microbursts that spurred flash floods.

Boise River sits mere meters from campus but even with being so close it poses little threat to Boise State.

Chances are slim that students will be encouraged to wear water wings to class.

“We don’t really have issues with flash flooding here per say,” said Rob Littrell, emergency management director.

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storms that caused BYUIdaho to flood are extremely rare for Idaho.

Even though Boise State is in a flood zone, there have been several preparations by the Capitol to defend campus and downtown from flood hazards.

After the 1996 Eighth Street fire the area was at a higher risk for flash flooding. Ada County built several proactive structures to help prevent future floods. Building walls and dams help guide waters during high run off times. Gulches and widened streams will also help control flood zones.

Ada County also developed two basin areas that are designed to catch and hold excess water.

Chris Blaine, undecided junior, isn’t worried about

flooding or other disasters on campus.

“I’m sure (the university) would have something that would be able to resolve the issue,” Blaine said. “I’m sure the students would come together and help out.”

Boise State has a plan for nearly any threat that could occur on campus, excluding sharknados and zombie outbreaks. The Emergency Operations Plan focuses on shooters, bomb threats, fires, hazardous spills, medical emergencies and natural gas leaks.

“If we ever had a disaster on campus it would start here (the emergency management office),” Littrell said. “All buildings have a plan.”

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while faculty and staff on campus worked to secure vital equipment and hazardous materials. If needed, those in endangered buildings would be asked to evacuate.

According to the emergency management website the basic goal in an emergency situation is to “save and protect the lives of students, faculty, staff, and the public.”

The last time Boise State was threatened by flood waters from Boise River was in May 2012 when waters threatened to level with the bank.

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The Shoe Tree: Students who marry one According to Rodgers, another nail two shoes—one of his, one of Boise State Campus Secuhers—to a tree on campus. rity has not regularly cited instances of Excellence Bell vandalism in the past.

In spite of the urinary tradition associated with the bell, the Excellence Bell does not undergo routine cleaning either.

“It’s not a weekly, or yearly, or even regularly scheduled cleaning. When it needs to be painted, it gets cleaned and painted. That need is determined by visual inspecEvery year Reed College holds the tion,” said Chris Wright, the Seventh Annual Nitrogen Day—aptly general maintenance mannamed because nitrogen is the seventh ager for Facilities Operations element of the periodic table. However and Maintenance. “If we have the holiday is mostly just an excuse for a complaint or something we the students to celebrate, eat food and deal with those maintenance recite haiku. issues on a case-by-case basis only.”

Ohio State University: According to Wright, Excellence Bell defacement is not a The night before the annual Ohio very common complaint.

State-Michigan game, Ohio State stu“I’ve never been told it’s excepdents jump into Mirror Lake. Keep in tionally stinky or anything. We mind this game usually takes place in spruce it up occasionally, but the November. rest of the time it’s just there and it gets used by students as an Excellence Bell, as it should be,” Wright said.

The Excellence Bell was donated by the Nampa School District in 1984 along with the one-room Opaline Schoolhouse, now located behind Bronco Stadium.

Richard Hart, the dean of the College of Education at that time, said that the joint donation represented a “historical tie between the future and the past of Idaho education,” accordNew students—and especially ing to a news release from June 1984. those hoping to be accepted— According to The Arbiter’s student are encouraged to rub the foot source, these kind of traditions are of a the statue of former universimply a part of the college experience. sity president Theodore Dwight “Those are the kind of experiences Woolsey. This is made more that make your college career memocomplicated by the tradition of rable. And as far as wild break-free exgraduating seniors peeing on periences go, it’s pretty tame,” she said. the foot.

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Stationed between the Communication Building and the Student Union Building is a familiar university landmark, an old-school bell with a plaque that reads: “If you have achieved excellence today, ring the bell!”

Ringing the Excellence Bell in commemoration of academic and sporting achievement is a longstanding tradition at Boise State.

Ironically, many a Boise State student has been cautioned to not do just that.

The familiar cry “don’t touch the Excellence Bell!” is indicative of another, far more vile tradition associated with the bell.

This student tradition is to pee on it.

“I peed on it one night when I was walking home with my friends,” an anonymous Engish major said. “We’d been drinking and they dared me. Every once in a while I see a kid ringing it and I feel bad but that’s why it’s important to wash your hands.”

While this particular tradition may be familiar to students, its origins and prevalence remain unknown.

According to university officials, campus authorities do not handle cases of Excellence Bell defacement from a security or a custodial standpoint on a regular basis.

“I don’t recall any incidents pertaining to the Excellence Bell,” said Rick

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On Sept. 18, the indie hiphop duo, Atmosphere, will grace the ears of Boise with their performance at the Knitting Factory at 7 p.m. Using producer Ant’s beats as weapons of mass communication, rapper Sean Michael Daley, otherwise know as Slug, has been telling stories of the world’s harsh reality for decades. Slug delivers a rhythmic message that encourages listeners to get up on their feet.

Atmosphere has already carved its name deep into the foundation of the hip-hop industry with a lengthy history of musical accolades and continues to make waves with their 2014 album, “Southsiders.” Many of us will have the pleasure of hearing their new album live this Thursday.

Some Boise State students are excited about the concert, including junior kinesiology major Eric Fisher.

“I’m pumped,” Fisher said.

“Slug keeps getting better and better, and ‘Southsiders’ live should be great.”

In a quick interview with The Arbiter, Slug had a lot to say about Atmosphere’s upcoming show and his own musical endeavors: The Arbiter: What is one thing the people of Boise can

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expect at your show?

Slug: I don’t really believe in setting expectations when it comes to art, so I guess the main thing that you can expect is that I will be there.

The Arbiter: In this album you seem to show that you have settled down a little bit from your usual work. How has this new feeling of domestication influenced the way you write and what you write about?

Slug: I don’t think it’s more or less difficult. For me writing is writing. It’s something I do. It’s not a chore. It’s not a pain in the ass. That remains the same when it’s time for me to escape from what’s on my mind, with whatever I’m juggling.

The difference, maybe ten years ago, I would go right to writing about my dramatic friends and my alcohol addiction and, you know, my worries about who my ex-girlfriend was sleeping with. But now those aren’t really things that are in my world anymore.

Now my escape is trying to escape from my kids screaming or my wife being disgusted with me because I wiped a booger on the bottom of the fucking drawer. The escape still feels the same, except now I am escaping from healthier things.

The Arbiter: I read an interview with you saying your

newer work is purposed partly for challenging young listeners to do something with themselves.

Do you feel as if you are responsible for getting some of the younger generation up on their feet?

Slug: I don’t know if I feel responsible, I just want to spread love. I don’t mean that in a hippie way, I mean that in an actual like loving way. I feel—regardless of what you are, a carpenter, a gardener, you know, a customer service person or whatever—it’s our responsibility to spread hope and love.

Human babies are so dependent on people. I think it shows us codependency, and we try to ignore that and prove to be independent. But if you look at the nature of ourselves, we are meant to be codependent on each other.

That is our strength, not our weakness.

The Arbiter: In “Arthur’s Song”, you talk about carving your way into the world and leaving your mark.

What type of mark do you hope to leave as your legacy?

Slug: I’m hoping I can influence people and want people to see that we were striving for making people think, even though a lot of our music isn’t very optimistic.

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Somewhere between their residence on paper and highdefinition transformation onto theater screens, novels often experience a surge in popularity. Novels like “Twilight,” “The Hunger Games,” “Harry Potter” and “Fifty Shades of Grey” all fall into this category of fad novels.

Novels like these popularized ones are often lumped into the spotlight by an overwhelming sense of hype before an impending film, not necessarily because of their literary prowess. Although, some novels, like “Harry Potter,” gain lasting popularity because of their communal appeal.

Teen services librarian at the Boise Public Library, Jen Wills, noted that most bestseller books or those that are circulated the most through Boise’s library system are those with “any sort of movie or TV show tie-in.” This currently includes “The Fault in our Stars” and “Orange is the New Black.”

Junior English and graphic design major Chelsea Mabbott has read a handful of these novels but avoids others because

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of the graphic content within them. She doesn’t feel strongly opposed to fad novels in the grand scheme of things.

“This is not saying that these are bad novels; they are just the ones that suddenly hit our population by storm in the past few years,” Mabbott said.

Mabbott felt that another large reason for fad novels’ surging popularity is the ease of comprehension that they offer.

“If I can consume three novels within a single day and not have to think any more than a frequent scoff at the ridiculousness of the content, then I find myself amused,” Mabbott said.

“Fad novels aren’t entirely a bad thing. People are reading, and that is good.”

Senior English major Michelle Telleria found that most fad novels offer readers “an escape into something forbidden that they can safely experience.”

Though, in some instances, these escapes are not accompanied, in Telleria’s eyes, by high quality or in-depth writing.

“Those people are not going to pick up Dickens,” Telleria said. “The language is too alien.”

Telleria explained that it is often the complexity and depth

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of renowned classics that scares readers off in the first place.

But, she also found that fad novels have much more access to promotion than the works of classical authors did when they were originally published.

“We don’t look at the writing,” Telleria said. “We go off someone else’s opinion of good.”

Current American culture often facilitates obsession through its varied amounts of advertising, connectivity online and product promotion.

Telleria believes that fad novels become fads through this facilitated obsession that comes with heightened promotion.

After such a surge in popularity, fad novels often fall into a dimmer spotlight, filled with an onslaught of critiques from onlookers. This can be seen of the “Twilight” fandom and “Fifty Shades of Grey.” “Fifty Shades of Gray” is, in fact, a “Twilight” fan-fiction. But, on the other hand, “Harry Potter” and “The Hunger Games” have yet to receive such negative backlash.

Telleria believes that this is because higher quality fiction can maintain popularity instead of falling victim to disdain.

“It’s kind of like 80s hairstyles,” Telleria explained.

“They were really popular until people realized they weren’t as cool as they thought. Really good fad novels don’t fall into that bad light.”

From a long-term perspec-

tive, Telleria feels that such backlash can be a learning experience where authors can work further on their characterization flaws or poor descriptions.

She also felt that badly written fad novels can give readers a chance to acknowledge bumps in the stories that they embrace.

“Every book is going to have a flaw,” Telleria said. “The danger is not noticing it in the end.”

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There are two photos hanging on the wall of Boise State’s director of track and field and cross country coach Corey Ihmels’ office: Betsy Saina and Lisa Uhl, his two most decorated athletes from his home at Iowa State.

After winning the NCAA title in the 10k this past summer, Emma Bates may have made her way onto her coach’s wall as well.

“I think we’re going to have to retire the cardinal and gold and put up some blue and orange,” Ihmels told The Arbiter back in July.

Bates, the most decorated athlete in Boise State history, enters her final season as a Bronco hungry to leave an even bigger mark on the record books.

More often than not, athletes become complacent after achieving their big goal.

Once they have nothing else to strive for, they lose track of the process and are satisfied with their careers.

For Bates, however, her NCAA championship has only increased her belief in Ihmels’ process and her confidence that she is one of the best runners at the national level.

“It’s a lot of pressure for sure but that’s what keeps you going,” Bates said. “It kind of feeds you. You build off of that and use it to your

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Bates was competitive on a national level her junior year, advantage going into every race.

“I know I can improve on my times and get my team to where we want to go. That’s what keeps me going.”

Ihmels also believes that having a title to her name will only benefit Bates.

“I think for Emma that was the one thing that was missing for her—actually winning that title and being the best in the country,” Ihmels said. “I think for her she sees it as a stepping stone.”

The next step: improving Bates’s confidence, a part of Ihmels’ process for training distance runners. His process has led him to become one of the most successful distance coaches in collegiate history.

His process is founded in patience—nothing great will ever come overnight.

The success of his athletes is based predominantly on sticking to a plan of hard work and doing things the right way.

“I think success breeds success,” Ihmels said. “I learned very early as a coach from one of my mentors to never hold back the women because they’re women.”

Bates is a fond practitioner of Ihmels’ process because, without it, she doesn’t believe she would be where she is at today.

As a senior at Elk River High School in Minnesota, Bates had modest personal bests—good enough to get her a shot at the collegiate level, but not Division I.

A connection with former Broncos coach Brad Wick, an Elk River native, brought her to Boise State.

From there, Bates has exceeded practically every expectation she set for herself.

“I definitely never imagined I would win a national title coming out of high school,” Bates said. “I didn’t even know I would be competing at the DI level, let alone competing well. So, it was just pretty surreal to go into the

season with a shot to win, and then to actually have it happen.”

Bates’ only focus as of now is on winning the NCAA title in cross country.

“I’m excited for what is in store this year,” Ihmels said. “But we go back to the process. We have to be patient and let the process take care of itself. “ The process has gotten her this far; who’s to say it won’t get her even farther.

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Boise State improves against the Huskies Nate Lowery

Sports & Rec Editor

Nearly every facet of the Boise State football team has seen improvement since their season opening loss to Ole Miss in Atlanta.

Saturday’s 38-21 win over UConn showed just how far the Broncos have come since they fell flat against the Rebels.

The win improved Boise State to 2-1 on the season.

Here are five areas that Bronco fans should keep an eye on.

1. The defense is the strongest in the MW: Not since 2010, Justin Wilcox’s last year in the City of Trees, has the Boise State defense looked this good.

The Broncos had their third straight game with two or more interceptions, one of which was returned

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by Donte Deayon. Linebacker Tanner Vallejo added a 31-yard fumble for a touchdown in the third quarter.

2. Jay Ajayi is human: It appears all those touches are finally starting to take a toll on Jay Ajayi.

Ajayi came into Saturday’s game averaging 229.5 yards of total offense per game—he exited Rentschler Field with 52 yards on 20 touches.

3. Grant Hedrick is finding his groove: After the utter embarrassment that was Ole Miss, quarterback Grant Hedrick is finally starting to get into the form many were expecting of him. Hedrick was smart with his decision making against the Huskies, and was a part of Boise State’s only three of-

fensive touchdowns of the game.

4. The Broncos can close a game: In two games thus far this season, Boise State has been outscored 42-7 in the fourth quarter. That trend finally came to a screeching halt against UConn. Boise State achieved a 14-0 shutout in the fourth quarter led by a huge interception

by Jonathan Moxely with 11:26 remaining in the game and the scoreboard reading 24-21 in favor of the Broncos.

5. Tight ends are finally a part of the offense: Tight ends Jake Roh and Holden Huff combined for 77 yards on five catches.

The Broncos’ best tight end from last season, Jake Hardee, finished the season with 73 yards on five receptions. Bryan Harsin’s goal was to get the tight ends more involved in the offense this season, and it appears his goal is beginning to become a reality.

09/15/2014