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a crime of rationBRC fed up with cup theft, p. 6
NEWS:Student groups mix it up with Diversity Week, p. 6
OPINION:The bad news: students are under-informed citizens, p. 8
SPORTS:Big growth spurt for men’s basketball,p. 15
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NEWS
unpaid internships can cause misleading experiencesJustin DoeringStaff Writer
Unpaid internships are a growing phenomenon amongst college students eager to gain an edge in a competitive job market, but legal worries are on the rise regarding the value of these internships and companies’ uses of intern labor.
Nancy J. Leppink, deputy administrator of U.S. De-partment of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division in 2012, addressed this in an inter-view with The New York Times.
“If you’re a for-profit em-ployer, there aren’t going to be many circumstances where you can have an un-
paid intern and still be in compliance with the (mini-mum wage) law,” she said.
Federal officials like Lep-pink at the U.S. Department of Labor have set up criteria for companies to follow to ensure that internships do not violate minimum wage laws and illegally exploit free labor. Amongst these criteria are that the intern-ship experience is purposed for the benefit of the intern, the intern does not replace regular employees, the em-ployer providing the train-ing receives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern and that the internship is similar to train-ing that would be given in an educational environment.
Internships that fail to meet all of these criteria are exploitations of labor and against the law.
On the other hand, when companies are in compliance with the law, they can benefit from an intern’s “up-to-date skills and fresh perspectives of interns,” said Martin Orr, chair and internship coor-dinator of the sociology de-partment.
According to Orr, the ideal purpose of unpaid intern-ships, is a symbiotic relation-ship but that isn’t the situa-tion in every case.
“I was hoping to learn about my future career and make connections but in-stead learned how to change ink in the copier and (get)
people’s coffee orders. I was promised by my boss that I would be taught Internet marketing and given proj-ects to do, but it never hap-pened,” said Sarah Stone, a junior speech-language pathology major who was formerly a marketing intern. “I was basically a free office assistant. I made no connec-tions and in the end decided to change my major.”
In some cases like Stone’s, the benefits of an unpaid internship are near non-existent. Students at Boise State with unpaid internship credit aren’t even working for free–they’re paying to be there. Students pay around $240 for each internship credit received.
A primary objective with unpaid internships is creat-ing a valuable advantage in a world where the doors to opportunity are only getting harder to open.
However, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, in 2013 only 37 percent of graduating students with un-paid internships received job offers within a year of gradu-ation, standing a minuscule 1.8 percent above the stu-dents who had no intern-ships at all.
“I made no connections,” Stone said. “I decided I didn’t want to be part of that (unpaid internships) and do not see experiences like that helping me in the future.”
Additional InfoPercentage 2013 college graduates who received job offers, grouped by internship experience: Paid internship: 63.1%Unpaid internship:37.0%No internship: 35.2%
NACE 2013 Student Survey
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NEWS
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Trademarked cups stolen from BRCZoey NguyenStaff Writer
This fall, Boise River Cafe purchased a new set of cups featuring the Bronco logo, since the ones from last year have been slowly dis-appearing. Ironically, BRC’s attempt to replace missing tableware failed as the new cups have also started go-ing missing in even bigger numbers.
According to the staff ’s report, there have been ap-proximately 1,000 cups missing since the new cups were purchased which has caused frustration for Boise State Dining Services.
“We were running out of cups since last year,” said for-mer BRC supervisor Alexis Finnin. “People would of-ten walk out of the cafeteria
with a cup or even an entire dish in their hands. We even had one student stealing a whole bag of food, cooking it and then selling it. And since we are not allowed to go through students’ bags, there was nothing we could do. There can be up to 300 students at rush hour, so no one can really see our be-longings disappearing.”
If the problem develops further, the BRC will have to make financial compro-mises in order to carry out their services without going over the budget.
“They (students) don’t realize that this is a vicious cycle,” said an anonymous student who works part-time as a BRC employee. “Students steal cups, so our costs and labor are being cut down. Then, that gives us
no raise; we get irritated as well, so our service gets bad and that makes students un-happy. The cycle just keeps going.”
The BRC staff do not find the thefts at all amusing but rather irritating.
“From a student’s per-spective, they probably think that it won’t hurt us much. But the way we see it, it’s just disrespectful,” the anonymous staff member said. “If we just learn how to respect each other even with just small gestures like putting the tables back after moving or cleaning after themselves, it would be so much better. Please respect the food we serve and the people who serve the food.”
Finnin suggested that the majority of students who come to the BRC are fresh-
men who are obligated to get a meal plan, which means they have no incen-tive to care about their din-
ing habits.“If they just had more
common courtesy and let us provide the fine dining
experience, it would be so much easier and, honestly, we would like them more as well,” Finnin said.
community leadership panel hosted as part of diversity WeekBenton SmithStaff Writer
Boise State has hosted Di-versity Week since ASBSU first approved it in 2005. This year Diversity Week is Nov. 3-7.
On Friday, Nov. 7, one of the events will be a commu-nity leadership panel hosted by Boise State University Pride Alliance and Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union of Idaho.
The panel includes state and community leaders such as politician Nicole LeFa-vour who will discuss the history of LGBTQ rights
within Idaho and the prog-ress the community has made to date.
The panel will cite state-wide examples of progress and will also highlight efforts made throughout the Trea-sure Valley in the LGBTQ fight for equality. Students are invited to attend and to share their ideas and con-
cerns as well as to ask the panel members questions or to voice concerns that they may have for the future.
The panel is a chance for students to see the LGBTQ movement through mul-tiple perspectives. Landon Browning, president of Boise State University Pride Alliance, described how the
discussion would go.“It will be interesting,”
Browning said. “It will be a great panel. I’m sure we’ll have a perspective of the legislative stuff and then we’ll have a perspective on the community and finally a perspective of the history of it all.”
The panel will be in the Student Union Building in the Bishop Barnwell Room from 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 7 and is free for students to attend. For more information visit womenscenter.boisestate.edu or look up Boise State University Pride Alliance on Facebook.
Stolen bronco cups are found around campus.
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It will be interesting. I’m sure we’ll have a perspective of the legislative stuff and then we’ll have a perspective on the community and final-ly a perspective of the history of it all.
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NEWS
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Students volunteer at Zoo BoiseBenton SmithStaff Writer
Whether it’s mandated, to pad a resumé or just for the greater good, students often feel the need to find com-munity volunteer opportu-nities: a search that has led some students to Zoo Boise.
“I needed community ser-vice hours for medical school applications and I wanted to do something I was actually interested in rather than do-ing it because I had to,” said Emilee Milborn, sophomore health science major.
There have always been ways to donate money to the zoo, but for those interested in doing more, volunteer opportunities are available through the zoo’s volunteer program.
Bethany Poythress, a ju-nior international business major, has been volunteering for two years.
“It actually started with
cat videos,” Poythress said. “I thought, ‘I really like ani-mals.’ So I got online and saw that Zoo Boise was looking for volunteers.”
Volunteers help to care for the animals and are also in charge of educating the pub-lic both about the animals and conservation projects that Zoo Boise has going on around the world.
“The thing I love most about volunteering at the zoo is being able to educate the public; it’s a big part of what we do,” Milborn said.
Volunteers oversee a num-ber of programs that help to raise money. The zoo offers Special Encounter activities such as sloth bear feeding and giraffe feeding which cost $3 and are led by vol-unteers. All the money these activities earn goes to the zoo’s conservation fund.
“During the sloth bear feeding, the bear slurps the food up, and you explain to
the kids what is going to hap-pen,” Poythress said. “But they get this live recognition in their eyes; I love seeing them learn.”
In 2007, Zoo Boise be-came the first zoo in the country to include a con-servation fee in the price of admission. The 50 cents added to every ticket goes to projects around the world ranging from com-munity-based conservation to international wildlife conservation.
Each visitor to Zoo Boise gets to vote for one of three projects they would like to see carried out with a token given to them at the front gate. Over $1.4 million dol-lars have been raised for these projects to date.
Students wanting to visit Zoo Boise or to volunteer can call 208-608-7746 or visit their web page at www.zooboise.org for more in-formation.
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Local news should play a large role in student livesPatty BowenAsst. Culture Editor
Despite what seemed like a bustling voter center on cam-pus, voter turnout in Idaho was at a low last Tuesday with a 20 percent voter turnout rate. While this doesn’t come as a shocker, it does confirm the already growing issue that students and Idaho residents don’t care about local politics and issues.
“You can’t make people read stuff they are not interested in and we’re all still interested consumers of whatever we’re interested in whether it’s prod-ucts at the store or news,” said Bill Manny, local news editor for the Idaho Statesman.
Manny feels that local news outlets need to do a better job marketing themselves to stu-dents and touching on topics
that students will find inter-esting. Although this may be partly true, students hold indi-vidual blame for not taking the time to be interested in politics.
As students of a university, it only makes sense that we would be jumping at every opportunity to understand a larger part of the complex networks of information that will allow us to become better voters.
Megan Fromm, assistant professor of communication, feels that although students have multiple influences bat-tling for their time, keeping up with the news is worth the struggle.
“You do have to pick your priorities, for students who don’t live here who send ab-sentee ballots somewhere else, I still think it’s important to understand what’s going on in
the state if only because of ed-ucation policies, budget and learning who’s in the gover-nor’s mansion,” Fromm said.
Despite the logic of Fromm’s statement, Manny has found through experience that most students won’t be interested in local news and big picture current events un-til they are much older.
“What we’ve learned over years is until you are out of school, have a job, are paying taxes, have kids in schools, buy a house, and start paying prop-erty tax that’s when they get most interested in traditional old fashion news,” Manny said.
Manny’s experience pres-ents a problem in students’ thought process. Local elec-tions and news play a large hand in the economics of stu-dents’ lives.
“It will directly affect stu-
dents. It will affect how much tuition they pay, it will affect work study, it will affect the de-gree programs that are offered,”
Fromm said. “I mean it really does trickle down to students.”
This considered, it is im-portant that individual stu-
dents takes into account how important reading local news and actively participating in it can be.
WOULD YOU VOTEFOR A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE?
Yes, I would vote for a 3rd party candidate because the main two aren’t always perfect and sometimes the third party candidate is the candidate that shares the same beliefs as me.
Brant Havro Junior Business/Marketing
I would vote for a third party if what they believe is what I believe.
Tyler Gilbert Freshman Mechanical Engineering
I would absolutely, espe-cially in Idaho. If their ideals match up with what I believe I would 100% support them.
Travis GunnJuniorBusiness
No because in my opinion it would be a waste of a vote since they don’t have enough funding and don’t have a good chance of winning.
Alma Romero Sophmore Radiology
Yes because I don’t think the two parties don’t always work and it shows that those two parties are not always perfect which in this case I would vote for the third party.
Marcus LodmanFreshmanComputer Science
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Culture
11/06/2014 Pg 9
Students trust Netflix like a friendPatty BowenAsst. Culture Editor
It’s 2 a.m. before the mid-term that has been causing landslides in your stomach. All your Facebook friends are offline and you’ve ex-hausted your stash of snack foods. But, as you savor your last moments of free-dom before succumbing to your academic career, you experience a cutting be-trayal as your Netflix Inter-net tab recites “You’ve been watching for 4 hours. Do you want to continue?”
Many students have ex-perienced the shame that comes with binge-watch-ing hours of TV on Netf-lix. This means that these same students have also taken part in the inherent relationship that one forges with their Netflix queue and recommendation list.
Netflix Instant Play has become a staple part of the student lifestyle. The service allows viewers to watch a variety of movies and television shows at the click of a mouse.
“Everybody has Netflix and anybody who doesn’t is a second class citizen,” said Noah Selis, sophomore philosophy major. “Netflix lulled me in and seduced my hours away.”
The popularity of Netf-lix that Selis comments on may be causing a change in the relationship that stu-dents have with visual me-dia.
“There are a lot of movies and TV shows I wouldn’t
have even known existed if it weren’t for Netflix,” Mi-randa Gregary, freshman psychology major, said.
Selis feels that Netflix has also provided the means that have brought him to several movies that he nor-mally wouldn’t appreciate.
“I trusted Netflix,” Selis said. “Netflix has this rat-ing system and I developed such a relationship with
Netflix that I was like, ‘I trust you, tell me what I want.’”
However, the rating sys-tem has also let him down several times and led to an inevitable moment of dis-trust by recommending “Click” (2006).
“The foundations of the relationship I had (with Netflix) were shaken a cou-ple of times,” Selis said.
The recommendation system and the fairly sub-stantial selection of visual media that Netflix offers gives students a higher chance of watching me-dia that is familiar to their friends, creating a common vocabulary of movies and TV shows.
“(Netflix) provides such easy use. It’s like, ‘Oh, you haven’t seen this thing I’m
super passionate about? It’s on Netflix, go watch it,’” Se-lis said.
Selis feels that a lot of shows on Netflix like “Or-ange is the New Black” would not have gained the popularity they currently have if they weren’t offered for instant viewing on Netf-lix. The convenience factor facilitates an exponential increase in show popular-
ity. This creates a system in which students are more likely to like a show simply because they can access it on Netflix.
“We have all these me-dium to experience cinema and Netflix is just another one, and if volumes of peo-ple are experiencing it, then it is more likely that people will give a shit about it,” Se-lis said.
Netflix may create an entirely new relationship between viewers and visual media
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Gamers shell out extra funds for downloadable contentJustin KirkhamCulture Editor
The price tags on electron-ic stores’ video game racks are no longer fully accurate. Games that cost $60 on their initial purchase might include further microtransactions within their interface, causing students to shell out added funds for pixelated rabbit out-fits, new racing courses set in Hyrule and bonus storyline content.
This downloadable content is optional for players but can sometimes be essential in fin-ishing out a game’s in-depth plot or accessing new ways to play a game with differ-ent characters. This means that, in order to visit all facets within a game, gamers might have to spend an additional $40, depending on the down-load costs.
Other games like “League of Legends” have hundreds of purchasable DLC. In order to buy everything, including champions and their custom outfits, players would have to spend over $1,000.
“For any game I’ve played, I’ve purchased at least one piece of DLC,” said freelance graphic designer and avid
gamer Tru Griggs.Despite the fact that he has
purchased so much added content, Griggs is still able to manage his finances as a young adult by slowly accu-mulating DLC.
“I might spend five or ten bucks after one paycheck,” Griggs said. “And then next time I’ll buy the other pieces of DLC.”
According to Griggs, not all pieces of DLC are worth spending money on. In terms of the two major pieces of DLC for “Fallout 3,” Griggs said that spending $20 on each was ultimately worth-while. He compared the amount of content provided within them to that of a “World of Warcraft” expan-sion, where enough lore and quests are added to keep play-ers busy for hours on end.
On the other hand, Griggs felt that vanity purchases like new hats for characters in “Team Fortress 2” were not worth their price tags.
“Unless you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I need to have that Spi-derman suit for this one guy,’ they really aren’t worth it,” Griggs said.
Junior linguistics major Maxwell Jahner has pur-
chased quite a bit of DLC over his years of gaming. He found that Nintendo’s “Mario Kart 8” is doing a particularly good job in marketing worth-while DLC at an understand-able cost.
“This is the first time I’ve ever felt like I was getting an extraordinary amount of val-ue for my dollar,” Jahner said. “$11.99 for six new charac-ters, eight new vehicles, 16 new tracks and eight new colors for both Yoshi and Shy Guy? I’ve paid a lot more for a lot less.”
Griggs explained that, when purchasing DLC, gam-ers need to watch out for cases where creators pur-posefully leave things out of games to siphon extra money from players.
In addition, Griggs also felt that consumers should watch out for “disclocked DLC,” where players have to pay ex-tra money to unlock content already written into the code of a game at purchase. He explained that this often hap-pens with fighting games like “Marvel vs. Capcom 3.”
“Wait a year for the ulti-mate edition with everything unlocked, buy it for $60, and there you go,” Griggs said.
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Get down to these sick beatsJustin KirkhamCulture Editor
Taylor Swift traded her acoustic guitar for drums and trumpets—and she’s not looking back.
Released last Monday, Swift’s newest album, “1989,” sports pop music with small doses of electronic beats, computer sound effects, heavy bass lines and some sort of rapping and chant-ing combination reminiscent of Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night” bridge.
These new sounds work well for Swift, creating an album superior to all of her previous work.
With each new album, Swift aims to capture her own musical evolution and this time she’s grown exponen-tially. The newly minted art-ist is no longer skirting the in-credibly blurry line between country and pop, as “1989” is officially categorized as pop.
The strongest example of this genre shift is “Bad Blood.” Its chorus utilizes sparse in-
struments and focuses on drum beats and vocals. In former albums, Swift avidly utilized guitar or piano tracks to create a bed of sound for her vocals, but in this album she reined it all in to create a new sound.
In her Yahoo Livestream to release “Shake it Off,” Swift mentioned that, while work-ing on and thinking about her new album, she listened to 80s pop music.
Drawing from those songs as a main source of inspira-tion for her new sound, some of Swift’s new tracks might make listeners think they are watching the opening se-quence of a 1980s film. It’s not a bad thing.
Swift loves time. Or rather, she loves dictating time and day in her songs. She man-ages to slip in the same sort of time-oriented exposition into “I Wish You Would,” with the lines “Two a.m., in your car, windows down, you pass my street, the memories start.”
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The album houses several songs with these same tech-niques—“Wonderland” in particular—branding them as potential singles and inevi-table top hits.
Ultimately, “1989” is a tes-tament to Swift’s growth as an artist. She’s taken her token qualities as a musician and tied them to intricate, instru-mental creations, working each song into its own vein of artistic quality.
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Men’s basketball preps for swan song season for Drmic, MarksNate LowerySports & Rec Editor
Boise State’s journey into the MW began with the ar-rival of two highly touted recruits for the men’s basket-ball program—head coach Leon Rice’s first recruiting class.
Those two recruits, An-thony Drmic and Derrick Marks, enter their final sea-son as Broncos and hope to leave a mark on a school that is predominantly known for its football program.
“It’s been such a long journey,” Rice said. “These guys—we’ve had a relation-ship with for five years. They were with us for the first year into the Mountain West. We threw these guys into the fire as freshmen.
“I just hope these guys have the senior year they’ve earned.”
Drmic and Marks enter this season ranked seventh and ninth, respectively, in scoring in program history.
Drmic, who has led the Broncos in scoring each of the previous three seasons, was selected to the preseason All-MW team.
“Freshman year in the Mountain West, Derrick and I were playing a lot of minutes,” Drmic said. “It was tough, but it was a great experience and it helped us the following year.”
The impact Drmic and Marks have had on the stat sheet pale in comparison to their impact on the program and community for Rice.
Both were heavy contrib-utors to the 2012-13 team that earned an at-large spot in the NCAA Tournament and have been outstand-ing ambassadors for Boise State.
“Their legacy is to build this program,” Rice said. “They’ve been tremen-dous ambassadors. Both will be in the top five scor-ers in school history, but they don’t care about those things.”
Even with the duo leav-ing after this season, Rice is excited about the coming seasons due to the example both Drmic and Marks have set.
“They care about team-mates, winning and the community,” Rice said. “As a coach that’s what you want.”
Anthony DrmicTeam scoring total in 2014 season
Drmic/Marks: 30 ppg
Rest of team: 45.4
Total: 76.2 points
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Weaver takes the reins for women’s basketballBrandon WaltonAsst. Sports & Rec Editor
Only the MW Tourna-ment stood between the Boise State women’s basket-ball team and a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Despite the best efforts of guard Deanna Weaver, the Broncos were eliminated in the opening round after a 61-56 loss to Wyoming.
“I feel we were pretty mo-tivated in the offseason,” Weaver said. “We didn’t fin-ish this past season well. We definitely made a lot of goals for us to accomplish this year.”
Weaver is expecting big
things from this year’s expe-rienced and talented team.
“This year, with everyone back, we can finish first and win the Mountain West,” Weaver said. “One of our goals is to also make it to the NCAA tournament. I feel we have the chance to do that and that’s what we are ex-pecting to do.”
Weaver will be the leader on offense for this year’s team and could be one of the best players in the confer-ence as well.
“I thought Deanna should be the preseason player of the year, but I don’t get a vote,” head coach Gordy Presnell said.
Weaver transferred from Oregon in January of 2012 and wasn’t able to make her Bronco debut until Dec. 29 against Cal State Fullerton last season due to NCAA transfer rules.
She didn’t let missed time stop her. She went on to be-come the Mountain West Newcomer of the Year and a first team All-MW selection.
She is grateful she gets to play with the team for the entire season.
“This year will be different starting from game one. I am looking forward to that a lot,” Weaver said. “It will make a big difference. I feel like it will help me a lot more and
I will have a lot more con-fidence playing these pre-season games and getting a better feel for it.”
In addition Weaver has been one of the most dedi-cated players for the program in recent memory and has set the bar high for her fellow teammates.
“She has helped changed the culture in terms of her commitment to strength, conditioning, and nutrition,” Presnell said.
Weaver will look to finish her final season with a bang and leave her mark on the program.
“She is extremely athletic and is going to leave here
maybe one of the most deco-rated players in the history of our program,” Presnell said.
The Broncos will open their season against North-
west Nazarene in an exhibi-tion game at Taco Bell Arena on Nov. 7.
Tip-off is set for 5:30 p.m. MST.
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Rice, Broncos to reach new heights in 2014-15
experienced women’s team can write their own history
Nate LowerySports & Rec Editor
Defense and physicality spelled disappointment for the Boise State men’s basketball team last season. This prompt-ed head coach Leon Rice to add plenty of size to this year’s roster.
The Broncos return three starters and five other letter-winners to a team that is picked to finish second in the MW by members of the media.
Anthony Drmic, Derrick Marks and Mikey Thompson
return to lead a Boise State of-fense that should have no prob-lem scoring. What this team added, is a lot more height and athleticism.
Senior Robert Heyer and sophomore James Webb III will both debut for the Bron-cos this season after redshirt-ing last year. Heyer, a Division II transfer, will add a defensive presence while the 6-foot-nine-inch Webb III brings plenty of big play potential.
What Boise State also adds, is three newcomers that stand 6 feet 10 inches or taller. The
group is led by 6-foot-11-inch junior center David Wacker, who Rice believes could start immediately.
Redshirt junior Montigo Alford, a transfer from College of Southern Idaho, is, in Rice’s words, the most athletic player.
The Broncos filled plenty of needs and weaknesses this sea-son, and the additions should drive the Broncos back into the NCAA Tournament.Prediction: 25-5, 2nd in MW, NCAA Tournament bid
Brandon WaltonAsst. Sports & Rec Editor
Last season the Boise State women’s basketball team fin-ished tied for third and had a disappointing end to an injury-ridden season.
This year the Broncos are picked to finish second in the Mountain West. However, they could do even better than that.
Not only does the team re-turn everyone from last year’s team, they have added a few key additions to the fold.
Purdue transfer Camille
Redmon adds some height to the team at 6 foot 4 inch. Pair-ing Redmon with junior center Miquelle Askew gives Boise State more options in the post.
In the back-court the Bron-cos will be led by the reigning MW Freshman of the Year point guard Yaiza Rodriguez Ortego and senior guard Dean-na Weaver, the reigning MW Newcomer of the Year.
The Broncos are expect-ing to get back junior forward Lexie Der sometime in January and with Der back in the lineup the Broncos will be a hard team to stop.
Boise State has talent and depth on their roster. They can go 12 players deep with returning letterwinners in sophomore guard Tonishia Childress, junior forward Kay-la Reinhart, sophomore twin guards Brooke and Brittney Pahukoa, and the returning se-nior forward Kinzi Poteet.
Barring injuries, expect the best season in school history for Boise State.Prediction:Boise State 27-2, 1st in MW, NCAA Tournament bid
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da riddles
Aries- While you have struggled to find happiness over the past several weeks, fear not! This week, things are going to take a turn for the bet-ter. Start by making the duck face in every situ-ation possible. Yeah, sure, it’ll look a little weird at first, but you’ll be happy!
Taurus- Your worry about your body im-age should no longer be on your radar. Every person looks beautiful eating a pizza so go ahead and give it a try! Plus, people love to eat pizza, so you might just gain quite a few friends.
Gemini- It is the time to try something daring. Put on one of those wing suits from the Red Bull commer-cials, drive to the top of Bogus Basin, and take a jump off a ski lift tower. You will only be able to fly if you play the song “Higher” by Creed.
Cancer- Listen up, Sally! Do you want to know the secret to life and finding true hap-piness? Well you’ve come to the right place. In order to be happy all you have to do is erect a shrine to the great Kevin Bacon. Play the Footloose soundtrack
to prove your devotion.
Leo- Romance is in the stars for you, Leo. Go up to the first girl you see, and ask her on a date. You need to be specific though! For this to all work out in your favor, tell her: “The proof is in the ta-cos.”
Virgo- Studying is so overrated. Instead of spending hours on the fourth floor of the library cycling through Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Just put your head face first into a book and call out your parents name. The rest will take care of itself.
Libra- Today will be a struggle, but don’t you worry for a sec-ond. You have to have the rough days to en-joy the good days. To-morrow, you will wake up in the mansion of famed pop singer Prince with a plate of pancakes waiting for your consumption.
Scorpio- Is all you want in the world for someone to bring you some food? Well fear not, your dreams will come true. All you have to do in order to get a plate of warm cinna-mon rolls delivered to your house is to tap your heels three times, and call someone and
ask for cinnamon rolls.
Sagittarius- Many people across the world struggle with finding a good series to binge watch on Netflix. You, however, will never spend hours searching. Close your eyes for five seconds, and the spirit of Netf-lix will point you in the right direction.
C a p r i c o r n - Yo u r life will never be dull if you will yourself to do something drastic. Break your Halloween costume from 12 years ago and proudly wear it around campus. While others drudge through the daily campus grind, you’ll be a cowboy.
Aquarius- The stars are saying it’s time to start experimenting with different sauces at Chick-fil-A. While the routine Polynesian sauce has treated you well in the past, the oth-er sauces are starting to get a little jealous. Don’t start an uprising.
Pisces- The world needs groundbreak-ing people like Neil Armstrong and Robert McNamara who aren’t afraid to take a stand. Despite sexist com-mercials, grab yourself a can of Dr. Pepper 10 and drink away. I promise you’ll go down in history textbooks.
If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
What comes down but never goes up?
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
da riddles from last week- 1. a stamp 2. meat 3. onion 4, lunch & dinner
