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Adjuncts walk out in solidarity Sean Bunce

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A small group of adjunct professors participated on Feb. 25 in National Adjunct Walkout Day in the quad to protest the misuse of adjuncts in higher education.

Students and faculty demonstrated their support by wearing a red badge which read “A is for adjunct,” signing a petition, performing teach-ins to educate students about adjunct working conditions and walking out of their classroom.

While only a few professors walked out of class with their students, at least 10 professors and more than 30 students gathered outside of class to show solidarity.

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ulty Association, a group created by Dana Hathaway, adjunct philosophy professor, led the event.

“I feel like there’s a lot to do still and I really need the support of other faculty,” Hathaway said. “I think we have a lot to go on so far, meeting with union leaders, education people and the ACLU has given me a really good foundation to move forward.”

The adjunct faculty position is “permanently temporary,” according to the petition by the adjunct association. Adjuncts work based on a 10-15 week contract and don’t know if they’ll have classes the next term.

The future goals of the Faculty Association include the creating of more fulltime teaching positions and

representation of adjuncts on the faculty senate.

According to Hathaway, the group is currently focused on “just compensation and fair treatment.”

Hathaway explained that adjunct professors make up close to 50 percent of faculty at Boise State. They teach 50 percent of courses, but receive no benefits. The average wage for an adjunct teaching three courses for two semesters is only $17,000 total. “(The amount they make) is way too low,” said Jacob Smith, sophomore health science major. “Working part-time, I’m bringing in close to that amount and that’s a job with no degree— a job you can get in high school.”

Hathaway said the wage for lecturers in Idaho on a

rate of pay scale is $38,000.

For K-12 teachers it’s $36,000. This is if both have an advanced degree.

If adjunct faculty were paid at the same rate of pay as lecturers they would make $28,000 a year.

“That’s a 60 percent raise,” Hathaway said. “Even that number, $28,000 for a nearly full-time instructor, seems ridiculous.”

According to Jason Hudson, member of Idaho AFL-CIL which supports organized labor, the adjunct faculty model was created to allow people who work full-time in other professions to teach an occasional course.

Both Hudson and Hathaway believe this is far from what’s happening now.

“It was never intended for people who were full-time

educators to be stuck in that track,” Hudson said. “For educated people who work full-time in this profession, they deserve to be treated fairly and compensated fairly for their work. They deserve that fair treatment or the quality of our universities is going to suffer.”

In an interview with The Arbiter, President Bob Kustra explained that the use of more adjunct faculty has been a struggle for Boise State. This is due to the amount of state aid the university receives to deal with class sizes, the bottlenecking of courses and other expenses.

“I think the good news here at Boise State is that we have moved a substantial number of adjunct faculty into full-time lecturer positions,” Kustra said.

According to an email by Greg Hahn, associate vice president for communications and marketing, Boise State is working to convert as many adjuncts as “financially feasible” into fulltime lecturers. Since 2008 the number of full-time faculty lines has doubled from 72.5 to 147.4 in the fall of 2014.

Kustra explained that some of the difficulties Boise State has faced in the past 10 years while dealing with this issue is an 18 percent increase in enrollment as well as a decline of $1.1 million in state appropriation.

“That’s going to clearly affect, first of all, your ability to pay an adjunct whatever the going rate is (and) certainly to convert some of those adjuncts over to fulltime lecturers,” Kustra said.

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Student loan debt is easier to manage Eryn Shay Johnson Asst. News Editor

It’s no secret that the monster under the dorm room bed is student debt, but stamping out debt and repaying loans isn’t as scary as one might think.

According to Project on Student Debt, the class of 2013 at Boise State graduated with an average of $28,000 in loan debt. The average of all Idaho graduates in 2013 graduated with $26,000. Sixty-eight percent of graduates in Idaho graduated with student loan debt.

Maureen Sigler, associate director of Client Services in the Financial Aid and Scholarship Office, explained that students who take the time before graduation to plan for loan repayment do better than students who don’t prepare.

“I would encourage students to use two resources to understand (loan repayment),” Sigler said. “One is exit counseling. It pulls in the student’s actual loans and you can see with each of the repayment plans what it would look like. The second is to talk to us.”

Idaho’s numbers may seem are astronomical compared to other states. For others struggling to repay student loans, the task is easier to achieve with help from one of the four income-based repayment programs.

Income-based repayment, Pay As You Earn, incomecontingent repayment and income-sensitive repayment

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have different qualifications: graduate’s income, the borrowing date or the different types of loan.

While the four incomebased repayment programs sound similar there are key differences.

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graduates because both of these plans offer forgiveness after 20 years (240 payments) and incorporate a percentage of discretionary income, or the income graduates keep after paying bills and housing expenses into their plans.

According to Sigler, exit loan counseling is an invaluable tool for students that should be used throughout a student’s career and not just before graduation. Students can calculate which plan would be best for them as well as how to manage finances while repaying loans and other bills.

Of the different repayment plans, Sigler said Pay as You Earn is one of the more popular choices for Boise State students.

Graduates have to qualify every year for these repayment plans. There is no guarantee that students will be on the Pay as You Earn plan for 20 years. When forgiveness comes into play, whatever amount of debt is forgiven is then taxed as taxable income.

“What’s nice, though, is that for the years that you do qualify the payments are really achievable,” Sigler said.

Sigler encourages all students to plan ahead before graduating.

“The 20 minutes or so that it takes to do the loan counseling now could save you a lot of pain later,” Sigler said. “For every hour you spend planning now, you’ll save three hours of stress down the road.”

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When Aundrea Nattiel goes in for a session with her college adviser at Georgia State University, there are no secrets.

A detailed computer profile provides information about every class taken and every grade earned by Nattiel during her time at the school, as well as her academic history at the college she attended before transferring. If the junior sociology major withdraws from a class, forgets to take a prerequisite or doesn’t register for enough credit hours to keep her on track for graduation, her adviser receives an alert and summons Nattiel.

The high-level tracking and advising done by Georgia State is part of the university’s work to improve retention and graduation rates, prevent students from taking unnecessary classes, and ultimately lower college costs and student loan debt. Its progress has gained the school national attention. It was also one of the key factors

in state college leaders deciding to merge the university with Georgia Perimeter College, which has struggled in these same areas.

Using 10 years of collected data, Georgia State has developed intervention initiatives, including a robust advising program, to help its students stay on track. The work — headed

by Tim Renick, Georgia State’s vice president for enrollment services and student success, as well as vice provost — has become part of a national focus on improving college outcomes.

Recent data on college students are discouraging. Most students are not graduating on time, according to a report from Complete College America, and loan debt has skyrocketed to more than $1 trillion, exceeding auto and credit card debts. In this area, Georgia State has received awards from academic associations, and President Barack Obama lauded the school in November during the White House’s college opportunity summit.

Call it Big Brother for college students.

When Renick moved into the vice provost office six years ago, he realized there were deeper challenges for Georgia State’s students. The college has a nonwhite population of slightly more than 60 percent, and almost 60 percent of the college’s roughly 32,000 students receive federal needsbased Pell Grants, Renick said.

“We knew our approach had to be different because of our population,” he said.

In a recent piece in The New York Times, Renick noted that for students, particularly low-income students, there is a need to complete college expeditiously. If they run out of financial aid, “they’re dropping out and they’re dropping out with debt and no college degree,” he said. “We’re giving them at least a fighting chance.”

To better help students, Georgia State began using its collected historical data on grades and student outcomes to predict student performance in other classes. The data collection led to the use of a Webbased tracking system of more than 700 items that alerts advisers when students have gotten

off track. Last year, the system found that 2,000 students had signed up for the wrong classes.

Having the kind of intensive advising that Georgia State does can be a bit disconcerting at first, but it is generally appreciated.

To get these kinds of outcomes, Georgia State ramped up its advising staff, with each adviser responsible for about 300 students, down from almost 1,000 a couple of years ago.

Other colleges within the state are also working toward some form of advising and data analytics similar to Georgia State’s. The work is key to the state’s Complete College Georgia initiative, launched by Gov. Nathan Deal three years ago with the goal of increasing by 250,000 the number of college graduates in the state by 2020.

Georgia State’s intervention work has yielded tangible gains. Although state funding has declined and the number of economically disadvantaged students has increased, the college has seen a rise in its graduation rates for students who earned their degrees within six

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NATTIEL CHANGED HER MAJOR FIVE TIMES. years, including those for minority students. Ten years ago, Georgia State’s graduation rate hovered around 32 percent. It increased to almost 54 percent last year, approaching the national six-year rate of 59 percent reported by the National Center for Education Statistics.

The college also ranks among

the highest in the nation in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to black students.

“The major successes have not been with programs aimed at certain demographics,” said Renick, who has set a graduation goal of 60 percent. “It’s an issue of the problems, not people.”

Study Tip: Don’t forget to study for midterms Maria Shimel

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With midterms around the corner, finding a productive workplace to study can sometimes be the most difficult part.

When choosing a study location, it’s important to take a self-survey and know what study methods and locations

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work best for you.

In selecting a location, try to anticipate possible distractions—such as running into your friends—and avoid the locations that would be difficult to focus in. Determine which environment you study best in based off of your preferences, such as a super quiet corner of the library or a seat in the coffee shop with the buzz of discus-

sion going on around you.

I always preferred to have a dull TV show going on in the background—whatever works for you, make it happen.

There are many location options available on-campus, such as the Student Union Building, the library, the Quad, empty classrooms, tables in the Interactive Learning Center and so on.

Once you have picked out your favorite study spot, be sure to use it.

Schedule yourself some time each week and create a study plan such as 30 minutes of Spanish and 30 minutes of history.

By creating a plan and having a great place to carry it out consistently, you will be ready to rock midterms in no time.

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UPR mindset can improve student performance Christina Metzqer Staff Writer

Unconditional Positive Regard is a method of critique that builds up self-worth and positive regard for the self and others.

UPR is characterized by giving feedback with a positive comment first, addressing the action that requires improvement and finishing with another positive comment.

In order to maintain healthy relationships at work and school, students should learn and implement UPR in their everyday lives.

“I’ve had it used on me before. It has helped to build strong character,” said Desmond Hooks, staff member at the Student Union Building Games Center. “I do believe it works when it is used correctly.”

Students are regularly presented with situations that require dealing with others’ negative behavior. Not having the ability to maneuver through these occurrences in a healthy way leads to discon-

tentment, resentment or other negative feelings towards others.

Negativity was not always a bad thing, though. There was a point during human evolution where humans would use negativity in order to protect themselves from harm or danger. Now it is not so simple.

Mary Pritchard, psychology professor, explained that the negativity people experience in today’s society affects people in a different way.

“If something bad is happening now, usually it is caused by something that is

not going to kill you—it is social comparison, judgment, discrimination or even stereotyping,” Pritchard said. “It is something that is not threatening but still very emotionally scarring.”

According to the website, Simply Psychology, UPR was introduced by Dr. Carl Rogers in 1956. Rogers explained UPR as a valuable tool to restore self-worth and positive regard in others.

If the UPR user does not embrace the idea behind the theory, UPR will not work.

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criticism is paramount. It is especially helpful for students who struggle with challenging interactions involving difficult classmates, professors or roommates.

The opposite of UPR is Conditional Positive Regard, the idea that people are valued only if they can live up to the expectations set by others. It is necessary to keep in mind that kindness is more important than blaming or shaming.

Other students on-campus are using UPR to reduce harmful criticism while working with others “If I was looking at someone else’s program or coding, maybe I would criticize it but then also offer positive feedback as well,” said Brendon Tierney, computer science major.

According to Stephen Joseph, professor of psychology, health and social care at the University of Nottingham, U.K. and writer for “Psychology Today,” UPR is about respecting others enough to allow them to express their feelings, regardless of danger or dysfunction, and accept that they are doing their best.

The better we can relate to others, the better off we will all be. Instead of propagating negativity, students should think about how they respond to others’ behaviors and work to improve their own.

“From there, you can come from a place of understanding and compassion rather than blame and criticism,” Pritchard said. “The more you do that, the better you feel about yourself, the better you feel about your life and the easier it is to be a more positive person towards others.”

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Social media helps instigate unhealthy, unrealistic personas

Patty Bowen Culture Editor

It’s 2 a.m., Netflix is playing “Bob’s Burgers” and Facebook is 200 photos deep into a senior English major’s photo album, “High school was the high life.”

For many students, the use of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or other social media platforms, is a commonplace when considering initial ways to get to know a potential friend or partner.

Social media profiles hold an ample amount of an individual’s information which can be experienced by a number of outside parties, including fellow students, romantic interests or friends of friends.

According to Joseph Evans, second-degree seeking information technology management major, this creates a misunderstanding surrounding a student’s real personality. Students often brand themselves with social

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media to create personas that more accurately portray who they want to be, instead of who they are.

“You need to be careful where you’re getting the information from social media because it’s a branding issue,” Evans said.

“Even if you’re looking at multiple different sites on a different individual, you’re still not going to get a true picture because they’re going to portray themselves for one group differently than they will for another.”

According to psychology professor Mary Pritchard, the increased use of social media in student’s lives has resulted in a lack of real life social skills. Pritchard feels it can also contribute to power struggles within relationships that were started over social media or were heavily influenced by social media stalking. If a student is keeping a heavy eye on a profile, they are more likely to buy into that person’s social media persona.

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“The person who is doing the persona in some ways does have all the power. (This is) because if a student is buying into that persona and it’s not true then they are lying to you,” Pritchard said.

“On the other hand, you shouldn’t be stalking them in the first place.”

Evans agrees that students shouldn’t be “stalking” or overusing social media to get to know other students. He, however, feels, in some cases, using social media to check out someone before a date can help ensure they won’t be inherently dangerous.

“There is a certain amount of research you need to do to weed out the weirdos,” Evans said.

“If you dig any deeper than (15 to 20 minutes of research), it’s getting into that dangerously obsessive thing where you let a person take over your time, interests and personality.”

Pritchard said, because social media gives students a way to get to know a person before dating or

hanging out with them, students are more likely to change who they are to better match the other person.

“We usually don’t show our true colors on the first date or even the second date, but to the extent that you’re flat out lying or changing yourself to attract someone, you’re only hurting yourself,” Pritchard said. “At some point, the truth will come out, and then you’ve got a betrayal.”

In general, Pritchard feels that students should try to base their relationships off face-to-face interaction because it can help foster a healthier relationship.

“When you miss the face-to-face interaction, you miss all the nonverbal communication, which is 70 percent of our behavior, so you’re basically getting to know the 30 percent that’s left,” Pritchard said. “Do you really want to make your decision on 30 percent of a person?”

The movie “Fifty shades of Grey” is based on a 2011 novel by E.L. James and has caused various heated discussions and controversy over the years.

Despite the hype over the erotic nature of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” not even its sex scenes could save it from mediocrity.

The story revolves around Anastasia Steele, played by Dakota Johnson, who falls in love with Christian Grey, portrayed by Jamie Dornan.

It is later revealed that Grey is deeply involved in BDSM and wants Anastasia to be his submissive by signing an agreement.

The storyline unravels too conveniently. Coincidences tend to overlap to make the story keep going, creating occasional plot holes and illogical moments.

Although the cliché idea of a messed-up man being moved by a rather bland girl actually presents intrigue and potential, it is poorly executed and badly written. In addition to cheesy and easy to predict conversations, most lines

resemble terrible opening lines of pornographic videos.

The erotic scenes of the movie were less than exciting or arousing. While BDSM intercourse is supposed to be intense and sensual, details like music, camera angles and facial expressions tended to romanticize the moment, which made it inconsistent and off -putting.

Several of the erotic scenes left an uncomfortable feeling in my stomach because of their choppy nature. These erotic scenes were almost always in slow motion creating an uneven juxtaposition of the aggressive elements of BDSM. No one wants to see one single spank last for 20 seconds.

Overall, “Fifty shades of Grey” was an unfortunate and ridiculous mash-up of a cliché plotline and erotica that unsucessfully apologized for the poorly-written script.

If you want to squander two hours of your life on a suffocatingly corny movie with sex in it, be my guest, but you might have better things to do.

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Culture

Tell me one true story Story Story Night illustrates the art of storytelling Culture Editor

For Boise resident Hillary Bilinski, telling a story is all about deciding to tell a story and following through.

“I think for any type of subject, anybody has a story,” Bilinski said. “Literally anybody from the audience would be amazing.”

Boise residents and story enthusiasts, like Bilinski, gathered at El Korah Shrine on Feb. 23 to attend Story

Story Night, a monthly storytelling event that highlights the selected nonfiction stories of featured storytellers.

Story Story Night shapes a story-telling atmosphere where the mechanics and qualities of a story can be questioned. According to Jessica Holmes, master of ceremonies and co-creator of Story Story Night, featured storytellers are selected after sending an summary email of their story to

an overcrowded inbox. “(When I pick stories for Stories) I look for a surprising moment, like a turning point moment that I thought was unexpected, and that usually makes a

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good story,” Holmes said.

“If it’s surprising and it means something to that person and if it’s vulnerable, that’s all it takes.”

Holmes explained that the best stories are honest to the teller’s experience and unedited. Holmes feels this can be a struggle for

The reason there is so much humor in (storytelling) is because people’s lives are just funny. They’re naturally that way and they’re naturally deep, so when it comes together, it’s just perfect. I think (storytelling) is inherent. It’s in people’s souls.

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most unexperienced storytellers because most people have a built-in habit of editing themselves automatically.

“The reason there is so much humor in (storytelling) is because people’s lives are just funny. They’re naturally that way and they’re naturally deep, so when it comes together, it’s just perfect,” Holmes said. “ I think (storytelling) is inherent. It’s in people’s souls.”

According to featured storyteller Emily Witsil, storytelling is something done for the narrator. Witsil believes that a narrator can find solace in telling an otherwise personal story.

“I don’t think it’s about telling stories that people

can connect to. It’s about telling stories that you (as the narrator) connect to,” Witsil said. “It feels really good to talk about uncomfortable things in front of people who want to succeed.”

The next Story Story Night will be March 30 at El Korah Shrine at 7 p.m. and is themed “Say anything: Stories of Playing It Out.” To hear several years of stories, students can download the Story Story Night podcast at their website. “(Story Story Night) is the thing that I do that makes me feel like I’m connected to (the community),” Witsil said. “I think if people have that feeling of wanting to do that then they should do it.”

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Justin Kirkham Managing Editor

On most days, Treasure Valley resident A.C. Arment spends his days like any other average human: working, eating and sleeping. On other days, he puts on a green fur suit and becomes Camochi, the anthropomorphic animal hybrid.

“On any given day, I could be hit by a bus or just eat a few slices of pepperoni pizza, just like anyone else,” Arment said.

“Camochi is just a little part of me.”

Arment is part of the evergrowing furry fandom, a group, mainly consisting of Internet and convention interaction,

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which shares a common love for the anthropomorphic, whether it be dance, graphic design or even prose.

When making a fur suit or any piece of artwork, furries often draw inspiration from their fursonas, idealized, anthropomorphized versions of themselves.

Camochi has a biohazard sign on his back. According to Arment, this represents several years of bullying from his childhood years.

“I thought I was a plague and that I’d be better off dead,” Arment said. “But then I met wonderful people at conventions and made Camochi.”

In an article entitled “Furries

and the Limits of Species Identity Disorder,” Fiona ProbynRapsey of the University of Sydney cites a survey done at a furry convention, where researchers found that 46 percent of furry participants identified as less than 100 percent human.

Sophomore English major and member of the furry community Nicholas Walker found that, with many furries, identifying with animals is significantly easier than identifying with humans.

“It’s easier to communicate with animals that won’t talk back or scorn you,” Walker said.

Professor of psychology Matthew Genuchi stressed

the importance of finding an accepting community of likeminded people when battling negative emotional effects.

“It can provide you with possible avenues to form deep and meaningful relationships based on those shared interests,” Genuchi said.

According to Walker, the furry fandom offers this community and often helps members battle feelings of exclusion or social anxiety.

But, because the community is so accepting of all possible preferences, Walker finds furries garnering disdain from many.

“There are highbrowed types that really get into the art, but

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Camochi does tricks. there is also that one person that wants to see two dogs getting it on,” Walker said. “The latter brings out the stigma.”

Arment hopes that people can acknowledge the warm community fostered within the furry fandom instead of “those

two dark eggs that ruin the whole bunch.”

He continued to describe the ridiculousness of engaging in fur-related sex.

“I don’t want anyone getting their bodily juices on my $1,000 suit,” Arment said.

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Sports & rec

Blair Kerkhoff

The Kansas City Star Tribune News Service

Lon Kruger arrived at Kansas State from Silver Lake High in 1970 as a three-sport star.

He had turned down a baseball contract and was targeted by some colleges as a quarterback.

Instead, Kruger became the first recruit of new Wildcats men’s basketball coach Jack Hartman and spent his first college year in the same place as everybody in his class, on the freshman team.

First-year students in men’s basketball and football didn’t become eligible to complete until 1972, and Kruger recalls those days fondly.

“It was great for us,” said Kruger, who’s now the basketball coach at Oklahoma. “None of us were good enough to play.

As I think back on it, it really was a great bonus.”

That’s what supporters of the idea of freshman ineligibility, which has collected steam as a topic over the past few weeks at the power conference commissioner level, love to hear.

Sitting out of varsity competition to become acclimated to the rigors of college life un-

doubtedly has its advantages.

But many basketball coaches are not the same page as commissioners. They don’t want it.

“I think it would be awful,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.

Other coaches asked about this possibility recently have struck a similar chord. If this is about helping incoming students prepare for college, they say that’s already happening.

“One luxury we have with freshmen coming in, we get most coming in a summer and getting them acclimated on campus,” Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg said. “They’re in a couple of classes and figuring things out.

“I understand the argument about getting a year under your belt, but with the resources we have … kids can adapt quickly.”

Many interpret freshmen ineligibility as a college response to the NBA’s 19-year-old rule, the NBA Draft age limit that has become popularly known as “one-and-done”—one year in college and off to the NBA. The current system is seen by college coaches and commissioners as an unhealthy relationship with the NBA. In essence, colleges become a feeder system for the pros

at the expense of the college game and the athlete’s academic career.

One-and-done players are a miniscule percentage of freshman athletes across the college landscape, but they can make a huge impact. Kentucky won the 2012 national championship with three freshmen, led

by Anthony Davis, who were drafted.

The Wildcats have had 14 freshmen drafted since the age-limit rule was adopted by the NBA in time for the 2006 Draft.

Last week, Kentucky coach John Calipari wondered if the idea of freshman ineligibility was intended to help students “or are we worried about individual programs?”

The NBA and new commissioner Adam Silver have talked about a new age limit—20.

That would mean athletes spending at least two years in college, and colleges would love to see this change.

Self went through a list of questions that would have to be addressed if freshmen were ineligible. He thinks more prospects would choose to play internationally rather than come to college and sit out

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freshman Chandler Hutchison (No. 15) in the huddle. a year.

Would freshmen teams be revived? Is this for all sports?

Would scholarships have to be

added?

“I know that it worked for a period of time back in the ’60s, early 1970s,” Self said. “I don’t

see how in today’s climate that it would be good for our games and overall betterment of student athletes.”

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Greg Patton leads a team huddle.

Like father, like son

Boise State men’s tennis is a family affair for the Pattons Staff Writer

Greg Patton, father and head tennis coach, has the privilege of coaching his son, Garret Patton. Garrett is the only senior on the team.

As a child, Greg joked that he would be put up for adoption by his parents if he didn’t play sports.

As a father, he instilled a love for sports in Garrett and his daughter Chelsea, currently an assistant women’s tennis coach at Whitman College.

“I was involved so much in coaching junior tennis that I think I figured it out being a parent and a coach,” Greg

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said. “Being a parent, the most important thing was to have them fall in love with the game like I did.”

Garrett started playing tennis at the age of two, right at the Boise State Appleton Tennis Center. He learned the alphabet playing a game where his father tossed him tennis balls for every letter he got.

Growing up, Garrett watched the Boise State tennis team when current assistant coach Luke Shields—a role model for Garrett—was playing for the Broncos.

Being around his father as he coached collegiate athletes made Garrett realize early on that he could use tennis as a way to get scholarships into

schools.

“He pushed me into (tennis) but then I fell in love with it the better I got and the more I played,” Garrett said.

As a two-time Idaho State High School Singles champion and one of the top 20 high school players in the nation, Garrett considered Boise State, Cal, UC Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Montana State.

Despite wanting to coach

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his son at the collegiate level, Greg only recruited Garrett once—a meeting in Greg’s office where he told his son he wanted to coach him at the collegiate level.

When decision time came, Garrett informed his father would be playing at Boise State.

“He told me, ‘Dad, I think I made my mind up. I really like the guys on the team. I really

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He told me, ‘Dad, I think I made my mind up. I really like the guys on the team.

I really like the school. I really like the location, but the coach is so-so.’

—Greg Patton

like the school. I really like the location, but the coach is soso,’” Greg said.

Despite being the coach’s son, Garrett received no special treatment. At the start of his freshman year he had to earn his way and show the team he belonged.

“I think his freshman year the guys brutalized him for being the coach’s son,” Greg said.

Garrett distanced himself from his dad by not going in the same van to competitions.

When the team sat down for meals, Garrett would eat as far away as possible from his father. At home, the two had a deal that they would not talk about tennis unless Garrett had a question.

Garrett, now in the midst of the final stretch of his collegiate career, has grown to be-

come a team leader.

“He is the captain and the leader. We look up to him kind of as a role model,” junior Brian Foley said.

With only two months left in his collegiate career, Garrett believes he made the right choice in attending Boise State.

“Looking back I wouldn’t have done it any other way,” Garrett said. “I think it’s made me a better person and in the long run, it has strengthened my relationship with my father.”

For Greg, the opportunity has been one of the greatest experiences of his almost 40-year coaching career.

“I love watching him play,” Greg said. “We both wear different hats. I really don’t want it to end. I like the man he is becoming.”

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hoots & giggles

maze

Da riddles

hang man

1. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?

2. What is broken every time it’s spoken?

3. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

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Da riddles from monday 1. a lie 2. a fire 3. 11, “the alphabet”

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