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KIM KINGJournalist

“If I had it to do over again, I never would have approached them,” said Professor Charles M. Odahl, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of battery March 8."e incident began Feb.

10 when he saw two people smoking cigarettes in a parked car. According to Odahl, they were parked illegally and vio-lating Boise State’s smoke free campus policy.

“I could care less about smoking,” he said. “But I believe in following rules. My only mistake was tell-ing them to put out their damn cigarettes.”

He said they responded by yelling obscenities and the ar-gument escalated even more after he wrote down their li-cense plate number.

“"ey threatened to beat the sh** out of me,” he said. “"e lady came at me with the lit part of her cigarette facing me. I instinctively tried to swat the cigarette out of her hand so it wouldn’t burn me. I missed.”

Odahl said another student approached them and inter-vened. He then called the po-lice to report the incident and ask for protection.

“I was worried they might

try to carry out some of their threats of violence,” he said. “Unbeknownst to me, the young man and woman -- apparently fearing that they had gone too far in their re-actions -- rushed over to the police station.”

He said Boise Police of-#cer Paul Grabe took the re-port and 16 days later, Odahl was cited with battery. "e party initiating the report has chosen to remain unnamed and could not be reached for comment.

A public daily police log is available for inspection at the University Security Depart-ment that contains each re-ported incident and details. Local authorities say personal information is being withheld in this case to protect the con-#dentiality of the victim.

Ada County records state the unnamed party who has accused Odahl of striking her when he attempted to knock the cigarette out of her hand.

According to Odahl, he never touched her and there were witnesses present. He said he o$ered to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence.

After speaking with the prosecuting attorney March 8, he entered a plea of guilt

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REBECCA DE LEONJournalist

Is the recession over? Recent changes to the Boise State budget sug-gest that times are still economically di%cult.

According to Finance and Administration Vice Presi-dent, Stacy Pearson, Univer-sity President Bob Kustra sent a request to the State Board of Education (SBOE) Monday asking for a 7.9 percent de-crease in tuition for part-time and an 8.9 percent increase for full-time students."is means full-time stu-

dents will pay around $2,650 per semester while part-time students will pay $232 per credit. Twelve or more cred-its per semester will still be considered full time.

Why increase tuition for al-ready struggling college stu-dents? Administrators made di%cult #nancial decisions after state government fund-ing for universities was cut by $32.1 million for the 2011 #s-cal year, which begins July 1.

“I would argue this is a backward way of thinking,” said Kirk Bell [Copy editor's note: Is it okay to quote Arbi-ter sta$ in our news articles? -CM], a senior majoring in mass communications/jour-nalism. “Part-time students should have to carry the weight of that load and full-time students shown some grace by cushioning the cost a little by [part time students] committing more time and money in the #rst place. Doesn't seem like a #rm busi-ness model to me.”

Boise State alumna Sha-lee Franklin agrees. “What seems backwards to me is that if students are not able to attend school because it is too expensive, then how are they able to earn a suf-#cient salary and pay the taxes that are to be paid with a su%cient salary?" she said. "I think it would make sense to have the tuition lowered so that more people could go to school and earn more mon-ey. "en the state could have

a bigger budget for things, like tuition."

If the budget proposal is ap-proved by the SBOE on April 5, many BSU programs will lose a portion of their fund-ing from student fees. Health services will lose $2, the stu-dent union -- $1, student life -- $3, and alumni activities -- 50 cents.

Executive director of Cam-pus Recreation and Univer-sity Health Services, Jennifer Nigrini, says the loss is incon-venient because of the recent move to the new building.

“All in all we are looking at over $400,000 in new univer-sity health services expenses that will need to be covered by student fees and revenue from our services. It is not an opportune time to reduce our student fee money,” she said.

Nigrini worries that some of the services o$ered to students will be reduced or eliminated as a result of the new changes.

Some funding committees on campus are voluntarily

accepting less in fees. ASBSU is giving up $5 per student.

“Members on the com-mittee voluntarily took a cut because they can survive on a smaller amount of fund-ing and carry-over from last #scal year,” said Michael La-liberte, vice president for stu-dent a$airs.

Business manager of Stu-dent Life Financial Services, Sharon Huber, said carry-over estimates from last year are di%cult to determine at this point, but should be su%cient to cover ASBSU and other student organiza-tions receiving funding from the account.

According to Pearson, ra-dio station, KBSU, also vol-untarily gave up their $2 per student funding. ""e direc-tor of KBSU Radio had rec-ommended that their $2 fee be permanently eliminated and transferred to the Pulse to help with the Arbiter\Pulse budget," she said. ""e president thought this was a good suggestion."

KBSU will now rely on funding from private and fed-eral grants, donated services, administrative support and other contributors, according to their Web site.

Other programs will be a$ected if Kustra's recom-mendations are approved by the SBOE."e Student Lecture Se-

ries (SLS) will be temporarily eliminated from the universi-ty's repertoire of student-run programs. Established just two years ago, this program brought guest speakers to form a “series that is inclusive and representative of the en-tire Boise State student body,” according to University Com-munications representative, Frank Zang.

Matthew Eggleston, a se-nior majoring in health sci-ence, admits he has never at-tended a lecture, but that the program shouldn't be cut en-tirely. “I’ve seen it advertised in bulletins and &iers around campus,” he said. “I think it would be important for stu-

dents to go to in the future.”Lynn Humphrey, special

assistant to the vice president of student a$airs, said the decision was nothing against the SLS speci#cally because many programs had small cuts and it was simply a mat-ter of balancing funds.

“We looked at each indi-vidual student program, and the fund balance for SLS was considerably high,” she said. “But a number of student activity fees were reduced as well.”"e Distinguished Lecture

Series, which runs on dona-tions from corporate and pri-vate sponsors, will still bring guest speakers to Boise.

Although there are many budget cuts proposed for the next #scal year, Pear-son remains con#dent in the decisions. “We do hope that the students support this increase since it is fo-cused primarily on support-ing the instructional budget given the large decrease in state appropriations."

Changes in tuition, budget rock Boise State

SARAH MURPHYJournalist

Every day, hundreds of students &ock to the Boise River Café (BRC) to eat.

For students living on campus, a meal plan is required. "ey can choose plans

with varying amounts of

meals and &ex dollars (in-clude options).

For students who live o$ campus but still want dis-counted prices to the BRC, a commuter plan is available.

Without any type of meal plan, prices are $5.93, $8.01 and $10.24 for breakfast, lunch and dinner respec-tively according to the BRC

Web site.Although this may seem

high for open bu$ets, these prices are comparable to other places such as Golden Corral and Chuck-a-Rama.

“Prices are negotiated with Boise State clients and a market analysis is done,” said Carol Scott, University Dining Services

general manager.Scott said the hours of the

BRC are “based on feed back surveys from students.” "e hours of BRC are fairly

reasonable for most stu-dents throughout the week, although since freshman Hannah Dyar likes to sleep

Feast or famine?

I’ve lost my dignity and honor

The BRC

See ODHAL I page 2See BRC I page 2

Professor Charles M. Odahl was sentenced to one year probation in Ada County Court March 8.

KIM KING/THE ARBITER

MITCH ESPLIN/THE ARBITER Boise State students eat in the Boise River Café. The facility is open seven days a week.


March 22, 2010 ARBITERONLINE.COM NEWS2

REBECCA DE LEONJournalist

"e Joint Finance-Appro-priations Committee (JFAC) has an annual budget hear-ing for perhaps the most im-portant topic in politics: how to spend the public’s money. On Tuesday, they approved a budget that proposed cuts of more than $32 million from colleges and universi-ties statewide.

Now, it falls on Paul Head-lee’s shoulders to write up a bill that will need to be voted on by the Senate and the House of Representatives in order to get #nal approval from the governor. Once the governor approves it, the bill then becomes a law and the universities in Idaho will make do with the amount of funding they receive. "ere

is still no decision about how much each university will receive.

JFAC has a long budget process that spans an en-tire #scal year to #gure out how to disperse funding for all of Idaho’s institutions. "e process that has been developed over decades of re#nement is now a multi- planked format.

First, the “line-item” bud-geting process lists the dif-ferent items according to expenditure categories. For example, personnel costs and operating expenditures are categorized di$erently.

Second, incremental bud-geting focuses establishing a “base budget” from which they can build on. "ey consider the rate of

in&ation and builds pro-gram enhancements to

existing programs."ird, the program-based

process separates the di$er-ent programs “with empha-sis on goals and objectives by function,” according to the JFAC Web site.

Fourth, the process is performance-based. "e Legislative Budget Book de#nes performance mea-sures so they can be ap-plied equally among all the di$erent programs.

Di$erent institutions re-ceive more or less fund-ing depending on its ability to set goals and accomplish objectives.

Last, the Legislature uses a modi#ed zero-based bud-get system which originally started all funding decisions from point zero at the be-ginning of every #scal year. Now, it has been modi#ed to

developing one-time expen-diture policies and “devel-oping alternative options or levels of funding for accom-plishing a goal,” according to the Web site.

Although in-state tuition for BSU and the University of Idaho were the same in 2009, Boise State received considerably less state fund-ing than the University of Idaho. BSU received $136.4 million, a number that is sig-ni#cantly smaller than the $145.8 million the University of Idaho received. "e num-ber of students enrolled at BSU increased 2.3 percent from 1997 to 2007. "e Uni-versity of Idaho saw a 0.5 percent increase in enrolled students during that time. Currently, BSU has approxi-mately 6,900 more students than the University of Idaho.

Government cuts funding for higher education Will Boise State suffer?

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and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, suspended upon payment of a $250 #ne plus court fees. "e unsupervised probation period will end March 8, 2011. According to the terms of WHJM (withheld judgment), at that time, his record will be purged.

“It will be like it never hap-pened,” he said. “I will have an absolutely pure record. It was the quietest way out. I didn’t press charges against them because I am not in the business to harm students, especially not for a smoking argument. I didn’t want to embarrass the university.”

Former student, Kasey Reed, says she considers Odahl to be good natured, approachable and courteous, and understands his deci-sion not to pursue the matter in court.

“"e single court hearing which Professor Odahl did attend required him to miss a Latin class and disrupted his teaching schedule and academic obligations,” she said. “I can only imagine the chaos that a long court case would have in&icted, as well as the impact on his publi-cation deadlines. In an ideal world, we would all have the amount of time needed to defend ourselves in court and the resources to pay lawyers’ fees!”

According to Odahl, he has spent 35 years teach-ing and considers himself to be a Christian paci#st. He is a world renowned au-thor and teaches classical languages and ancient and medieval history.

“I plan to retire in De-cember,” he said. “I love my students, and they love me. I’ve never had an argument with students before, and right now I’m swamped with writing. I’m getting ready to publish my fourth book and I don’t have time to #ght this. I don’t want to face any reper-cussions or more threats.”

Glenda Baldner, his barber and friend for more than 16 years says he is incapable of committing the o$ense.

She said he lost movement in his right arm a few years ago when his tendon was severed and to her knowl-edge has not regained com-plete use of it, even after physical therapy.

“I was totally shocked when I heard about this,” she said. “He is kind of a cru-sader. When he sees some-thing that’s not right, he will say something. I can see him saying something to them about smoking, but there is absolutely no way he would ever hit anyone, especially a woman.”

Odahl says he has had numerous surgeries on his arm. His scar and lack of movement in his right arm serve as daily reminders of his disability.

“My arm would have locked up if I tried to hit someone,” he said. “I wouldn’t have been able to do it. It would have started to spasm.”

According to Odahl, he has lived an exciting life and has even been portrayed in the past as an "Indiana Jones" type of character.

“I’ve been taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists,” he said. “"at was epic. But my scholarly life has been dull in comparison. I’ve never smoked, never drank, and never did drugs. I got a tra%c ticket once, but that’s it.”

University administra-tors were contacted regard-ing Odahl’s case and pos-sible sanctions but declined to comment.

He said he apologizes to the students that were smok-ing for approaching them so harshly. He never expected their reaction.

“How could I take on two people?” he said. “I lost my dignity in the parking lot and lost my honor in court. I just want it to be over.”

ODHAL [News page 1]

BRC [News page 1]in on the weekends she said, “it would be nice (for the BRC) to be open a little after 2pm for lunch.” Dyar also said, “it would be nice if some of those (Bits & Bytes eateries) could be open on

the weekend.”Dyar usually eats at the

BRC “one to two times a day on a weekdays” and uses her &ex dollars, almost everyday, mostly on co$ee.”

Students with housing

meal plans don’t have their meals and &ex dollars rolled over to the next semester. "e commuter plan, on

the other hand, does roll over to the next semester for up to one year (double

check info).At the end of last semester,

“I had about 40 &ex dollars and 30 meals. "is both-ers me because I don’t use everything I’m paying for,” Dyar said.

BRC Alternatives


March 22, 2010 ARBITERONLINE.COM

OPINION3

You are not Irish

THE BUZZKILL

JOSH GAMBLEColumnist

Yes, I know Saint Patrick’s Day was on Wednesday, but I "gure that most of you are just now re-covering from your hang-overs, so this is a good time to com-plain. I stepped out my door Wednesday morning to a sea of green. (It should be noted that, unless you’re living on a yellow submarine, this is not okay.) #is was followed by a barrage of bad fake Irish brogue and cries of “top o' the marnin’” and “Where’s your green?” For the record, I enjoy celt-punk and shamrock cookies as much the next guy, but I’m not Irish and neither are most of you.

I call Saint Patrick’s Day, “Na-tional Pretend You’re Irish Day.” Most people use it as an excuse to buy better beer than they nor-mally would. When asked about Saint Patrick, many people tell a lovely fairy tale of the great Saint who drove the snakes from Ireland. In fact, I once spoke to someone who melded the story of Saint Patrick with the story of the Pied Piper. At least Saint Pat-rick was a real person. Slightly more informed people will say that he was a monster who killed o$ all the pagan leaders in Ire-land. #is isn’t quite true either.

Saint Patrick was one of the "rst Catholic missionaries to start integrating pagan beliefs into Catholicism instead of re-lying on coercion and genocide to “spread the good word.” He converted the pagans by doing things like superimposing the symbol of the sun god over the Christian cross, thereby creating what we call the Celtic cross. His methods were revolutionary for the time.

In Ireland, Saint Patrick’s Day is a quiet, reverent religious hol-iday. #e way we celebrate now was invented in the nineteenth century by east-coast Irish im-migrants who wanted to show that there were enough of them to become a political force to be reckoned with.

I’m all for celebrating the backs our country was built on and one’s personal ancestry, but during the month of March, people often claim “I’m a quar-ter Irish” or some other fraction. I’m sorry, but no. Most of you are no more Irish than I am a viking. You can have Irish ancestry, but unless you have living relatives that are immigrants or live in a tightly-knit community of Irish people, like the kind that exist in parts of Boston and New York, then you’re not Irish. You’re American.

Being American doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the festivities. Celtic mythology is fascinating, Irish accents are fun to imper-sonate and I hear Guinness is pretty tasty. Just remember what you’re celebrating next time you’re "nding your greenest out"t and warming up your sup-posedly Irish slang.

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HALEY ROBINSONJournalist

A common gripe about Boise State is its lack of stu-dent activities. Many stu-dents claim there are few things to do on campus and this is frequently pinned on the student organizations, which are often supported by student fees. In reality, the money that students pay is bringing in events, but the students aren't attending.

For example, the Student Programs Board (to which full-time undergrads con-tribute $6 in student fees) brings a di$erent movie to the Special Events Center (SPEC) every #ursday. #ere is no door charge for students and it only costs $1 for non-students to attend. On top of that, SPB brings in other events, such as the co-median Sabrina Jalees who is performing on March 24 at the SPEC. #e Campus Rail Jam Tour was yet another of many activities brought to students by the SPB. #is organization is designed to entertain students, and has

been regularly providing events such as these at little to no costs.

In addition to movies, comedians and concerts, there are also educational programs. #is month, the Women's Center and the Student Involvement and Leadership Center are put-ting on a Women's Leader-ship Conference. #e con-ference is designed to help women learn leadership skills and o$ers them an op-portunity to meet successful women and ask questions.

If students don't like the events that are happen-ing on campus, then they should take action to get involved instead of com-plaining to people without the ability to help. It is the students' money and they have a say in how to spend it. Many organizations are working as hard as they can to get students involved and would love to hear their feedback.

#e problems that many students commonly run into are lack of time, unwill-ingness to commute back

to campus or not knowing what events are actually go-ing on. Being a commuter campus makes it di%cult to have a more involved and extreme campus life. Ac-cording to the Boise State student demographic "g-ures of 2009, 44 percent of students are 25 or over. Ad-ditionally, after last year, only freshman students are

allowed to live in most of the dorms. #is creates a very limited population of students who are interested in such events and "nd it convenient to attend them.

#ere are events put on every week for students who are interested in being more involved. Many of these events are posted on the events calendar which can

be found by clicking the link on the main Boise State Web page. Maybe Boise State's campus life is less involved then surrounding colleges, but there are other out-side factors that impact the student turnout. For those who are discontent with the current events, perhaps it's time to make suggestions or support the current events.

Actually, there's a lot to do on campus

Alexa Nasland graphic design freshman

"Personally, I think it's pretty good."

"I think there's a lot of stu$ going on, but I don't know if a ton of people actually go."

"I think it's small. It needs to grow a little. #ere's a lot more po-tential for it. I think it's really waiting for a group of students to really push it farther."

"I've found myself in my dorm room too many times, just bored, sitting there with nothing to do."

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Editor:In response to the article written in the March 15 issue

of the Arbiter titled, "Boise State professor pleads guilty to battery against a student," I feel that it would be ridiculous if Dr. Odahl was charged with anything more than a slap on the wrist. I have been at BSU for almost four years and Dr. Odahl is one of the greatest professors I have ever had. His class played a very large part in why I’m a history major to-day. He made history fun and exciting and he was extremely helpful and friendly outside of the classroom.

As for the reason behind him getting into this confronta-tion with a student, I applaud him. He was only doing what a large majority of the students on this campus would love to do. Numerous times myself I have passed smokers on campus and reminded them that this is a smoke-free cam-pus and every time one of them tells me to “take a hike,” except in much harsher words. I would love to do what Dr. Odahl did and walk up and slap that cigarette right out of their hand.

Andrew Mitzel is a Boise State junior in history.

Odahl is a great professor

Editor:I was surprised to pick up a copy of the Arbiter on Monday

morning to "nd not one, not two, but three articles on JFAC’s (Idaho state legislature's Joint Finance-Appropriations Com-mittee) cuts to higher education. Two were opinions vehe-mently against the cuts, one with strong words criticizing JFAC, and the third was a news article covering student pro-tests to the cut. What was missing from Monday’s issue was the other point of view.

Now as a student, I am never happy about having to pay higher student fees. However, I would like to point out the other side of this issue. #e fact is that Boise State University, and the other Idaho universities for that matter, remain some of the most a$ordable in the western United States. Also, the state of Idaho has a constitutional requirement for a balanced budget. Simply put, the state cannot spend more money than it receives in revenue. Due to the struggling economy, rev-enues are down. #e fact is there just isn’t as much money to go around as there once was. Unlike the federal government, Idaho can’t just rack up a huge debt to keep everyone happy. Education makes up 64 percent of general fund appropria-tions. Higher education is the third biggest slice of the pie. #e simple fact is something has to be cut, and with higher education being the third biggest recipient of appropriated funds, needs to take its share of the cuts.

Furthermore, it seems our generation has a huge entitle-ment attitude. A college education is not free, and we as stu-dents should not simply demand somebody else foot the bill for us. Times are tough for everybody, and we as college stu-dents aren’t immune. So before rushing to judgment, consider the di%culties JFAC shouldered with setting the budget, and thank our elected o%cials for their time and commitment. Dustin Kamerman is a Boise State junior in political science.

Times are tough for JFAC

Students cheer for T-shirts during the campus Rail Jam snowboarding competition earlier this month.

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SPORTSMarch 22, 2010 ARBITERONLINE.COM

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Smith struggles in championship match, !nishes second in nation

Boise State junior Kirk Smith saw his dream season come to an abrupt end, Saturday night (March 20), as the unde-feated 184-pound No. 1 seed at the 2010 NCAA National Wrestling Championships fell in the title round to No. 6 Max Askren of Missouri, 10-3.

Smith entered the match with a perfect 28-0 record on the season after winning his #rst four matches at the na-tional tournament. Poised to join the most elite group in Boise State wrestling history, Smith came out aggressive. His title shot appeared to be over almost as quick as it be-gan, however, as a seven point #rst period by Askren put Smith in a huge hole early.

Smith took his #rst shot of the match just seconds after the opening whistle. Askren countered, scoring a two point take down just 00:30 into the match. Askren managed to ac-cumulate over a minute of riding time, scoring a two point near fall and a three point near fall to end the period.

Trailing 8-1 midway through the third Smith #nally scored a take down with just 1:10 remaining in regulation. He scrambled hard but the length of Askren never allowed Smith to get into his body again. Askren scored an escape and one point for riding advantage to extend his #nal lead to 10-3.

Smith’s runner-up #nish does earn him All-American honors for the second time in his career. He also wrestled to All-American honors in 2008 with an eighth-place #n-ish. And while he failed to join the short list of Boise State individual national champions, he did manage to record the best #nish by a 184-pound wrestler in school history. Cash Edwards previously had the best 184-pound national #nish for Boise State as he placed sixth in 2001.

Smith also joins teammate Adam Hall as one of just 19 Bronco wrestlers to ever earn All American status. In to-tal, Boise State has achieved All-American wrestling hon-ors 25 times. Smith is one of just #ve Bronco wrestlers to ever win multiple All-American honors, however. He joins Edwards (2000 and 2001), Larry Quisel (157 pounds – 1999 and 2000), Ben VomBaur (125 pounds – 2002 and 2003) and Kirk White (165 pounds – 1999 and 2000, 157 pounds – 2001).

Boise State fell just short of earning its’ highest team #n-ish at the national tournament as the Broncos concluded the weekend No. 11 (43.5 points) in the #nal team stand-ings. "e highest #nish Boise State has ever enjoyed at the NCAA Championships was 10th in 1999."is does mark the best NCAA #nish for Head Coach

Greg Randall, who had previously led the Broncos to 12th-place #nishes on two di$erent occasions (2003 and 2009).

Hall Finishes "ird, Earns All-American HonorsBoise State junior Adam Hall accomplished nearly all

of his preseason goals, Saturday morning, as he wrestled his way back through the 157-pound consolation bracket to earn a third-place #nish and All-American honors. Hall, who entered the tournament as a No. 2 seed, rebounded from a 5-2 quarter#nal upset to No. 7 Chase Pami of Cal Poly to earn All-American honors for the #rst time in his career.

“[Coming back] was huge because once my ultimate goal of winning a national championship was over for this year the next best thing was this,” Hall said Saturday night. “My coaches told me to #nish what I started. Coach [Chris] Owens told me last night, ‘hey, people will respect a guy that comes back to take third after losing like that’. I knew I had to do it.”

Hall entered Saturday’s competition needing to win back-to-back matches to claim the third-place title. He opened the day against No. 5 seed Steve Fittery of Ameri-can University who had been bumped from the 157-pound semi#nals the night before. Hall needed all three rounds to #nish o$ Fittery, as a two point near fall gave Hall the win by 6-4 decision.

With only one wrestler left in his way, Hall went to work. He would meet tournament long shot Justin Lister of Bing-hamton, who despite entering the tournament unseeded would make his way to the semi#nals before losing. Hall proved to be just too much for Lister, however, as he scored two take downs and a two point reversal en route to the 8-0 major decision win.

“My coaches joke with me after I won that All-Amer-ican qualifying match that it was a pretty big monkey o$ my back,” Hall said. “I told them it was more like a silver back gorilla because two years of losing in that round was rough.”

With his outstanding weekend, Hall joins an elite group in Boise State wrestling history as one of just 19 di$erent Broncos to ever earn All-American wrestling status. As a program, Boise State has earned All-American honors 25 times in all.

“What I have learned is that nothing else matters. If you have a great tournament here, who cares if you are unranked, unseeded and have a losing record. If you come here and have a great tournament, that’s what it is all about.”

Broncos rally to beat Harvard"e No. 71 ranked Boise State men’s tennis team earned

its’ second win at the 2010 Blue Gray Classic in Montgom-ery, Ala., Saturday evening (March 20), but nothing would come easy for the Broncos as it took all six singles matches against Harvard to #nally secure the 4-3 win.

After losing the doubles point to the Crimson, Boise State was behind the eight ball looking to win four of six singles matches in the dual. "e Broncos responded with wins at No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5. Vicente Joli earned the #rst Boise State win by beating Aba Omodele-Lucian, 6-4, 6-2 at No. 2. He was followed by Harry Skinner who took down Andy Nguyen, 6-4, 7-6, at No. 3. Alex Bothe evened the Broncos in the dual with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Joshua Tchan at No. 5.

With the three wins Boise State managed to even the dual score at 3-3, with just one singles match left to go. For-tunately for the Broncos, that match was No. 1 where No. 41 ranked James Meredith was playing. Meredith needed three sets to put Alexei Chijo$ away, but #nally prevailed with a 6-2, 6-7, 6-1 win.

Boise State improves to 8-6 overall this season (1-1 West-ern Athletic Conference), with a 2-1 record at the Blue Gray Classic. "e Broncos advanced to play in the consolation bracket on Sunday. Boise State will meet Penn State in the #nal day of competition. An update of results will be post-ed at arbiteronline.com.

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Replacing Kyle Wilson won’t be easy to accomplish, but someone has to do it if Boise State hopes to keep its defense clicking on all cylinders com-ing into next season.

As of now, there’s more than four cornerbacks on the BSU roster fully capable of being e$ective in game-type situations. "e problem is that there’s only one open-ing, which means some good players won’t be seeing much #eld time.

Senior cornerback, Jarell Gavins stepped up during some crucial games for the Broncos last season. Gavins, who played a large role in BSU’s 17-10 Fiesta Bowl vic-tory, looks to be in the driver's seat at this point because of the experience he gained last season. Staying competitive and using spring practices to better his technique is the only goal on Gavins’ mind right now.

“It made me wiser and helped me get more accus-tomed to the game,” Gavins said about playing in the Fi-esta Bowl. “From the young guys to the veterans, we’re all just competing. "ere’s no grudges between us. Whoever wins the starter spot is who-ever deserves it.”

Another notable corner-back who could work his way

into the mix this coming fall season, is junior Jamar Taylor. Taylor missed all of last season due to a torn meniscus and has used his down time wisely during rehab and focusing on becoming a better player.

Taylor had a productive year in 2008 when he got to see playing time as a true fresh-man. He had a lot of things going for him before the in-jury during fall camp last year, but Tayor feels he’s back to a hundred percent and should be able to compete for the starting job.

“It’s a friendly competition, but when it’s time to strap it up, there’s nothing friendly about it,” Taylor said. “We’ll talk about our mistakes and try to help each other out to get better on the #eld, but it’s never personal.”

Antwon Murray, a junior cornerback from Lakeland, Fla., has made big strides of late and could also move his way into the starting discus-sion before the end of spring camp. Murray admits it’s a #erce competition out there everyday and he understands what working hard will do for him if he continues to battle.

“Right now, I’m just learn-ing defense and becoming a smarter cornerback in every way possible and how to per-fect my craft,” Murray said. “I’m just going out there ev-eryday, focusing on myself and staying alive. I’m trying to

keep my head above water.”Secondary coach, Marcel

Yates loves seeing the heated competition among his group of players. He hopes the #re will continue through spring into summer on toward fall. "is passion insures the best player will get the job, but at the same time he’ll never feel completely safe, he’ll have to work just as hard everyday to keep the starting spot.

“Coach Yates tries to help out all the DB’s so we can get better,” Taylor said. “He’s smart and helps us with our

technique, our eyes, our for-mations and knowing who you’re going against. He teaches everyone really good fundamentals, all around. It’s important to know the basics before you get into major details.”"e competition for the

opening vacated by Wilson will only get more heated from here on, which will make it all the more interesting when the Broncos strap up for their #rst scrimmage on Wednesday, March 24 at 2:30 p.m. on the blue turf.

KIRK SMITH

KIRK BELLSports Editor

Boise State seniors were sent o$ in proper fashion Fri-day evening at Taco Bell Are-na for the gymnastics season #nale and senior night against the San Jose State Spartans."e No. 23 Broncos recog-

nized three seniors – Yvette Leizorek, Taylor Jacob and Raquel Turnbow – for their contributions to the team during their time spent as members of the BSU gymnas-tics squad.

BSU sent the seniors o$ with a season best team score of 196.550 – also marking the schools seventh best score in team history – and took home the regular season 2010 West-ern Athletic Conference title.

No. 36 SJSU posted a team score of 193.475.

BSU co-head coach Neil Resnick remarked he would have been surprised if they didn’t post their highest score to conclude their 2010 regular season stretch.

“Watching the whole week of practice, as steady as the kids were. Our #nal day of bar training I thought to my-self ‘we can’t miss.’ "ey’re just too solid and it’s just too put together. I kind of expected this.”

BSU’s night kicked o$ on the vault with a team score of 49.100 to SJSU’s 48.725, led by junior Hannah Redmon’s 9.925, good enough #rst place #nish in the event. Redmon’s vault marks the #fth 9.900 score or better this season.

She carried the No. 13 indi-vidual vault ranking entering the meet.

BSU claimed a share of third place on vault with freshman Brittany Potvin-Green and ju-nior Sarah Smith, who posted a 9.825. "ey shared the third place posting with SJSU’s Ka-tie Merritt. "e Spartans’ Lily Swann placed second with a score of 9.875."ree Broncos met or ex-

ceeded personal bests on their second rotation on the uneven parallel bars to post a team score of 49.325 to tie their third best score in pro-gram history. It is their best score on bars since 2001."e Broncos’ Redmon and

redshirt sophomore Amy Glass both posted 9.900 on bars; matching Glass’ per-

sonal best and marking a new personal record for Redmon.

“I’ve been working for it all season,” Redmon said. “"e coaches are in the gym jok-ing with me, ‘if you did that one in a meet it would have been a 9.90.’ It’s just excit-ing to get the score and do a good routine.”

“It was an event that we thought we could get better at,” Resnick said. “(Hannah) wanted to add a new skill and it’s a very unique skill that only she can do. Very few people in the country can do a skill like. She’s putting it together and it’s getting to be every time now.”

Leizorek posted a new career best on bars with a

Broncos post personal bests, win 2010 WAC regular season title

Junior cornerback Jamar Taylor will be in the mix for the lone open position in Boise State’s secondary.

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Boise State junior wrestler and No. 1 seed Kirk Smith grapples with Missouri’s Max Askren for the 184-point title Saturday night in Omaha, Neb. Smith fell to Askren 10-3 to void an unblemished record. Smith finished the season with a 28-1 record for the 2010 season. He and fellow junior Bronco Adam Hall finished with All-American honors. Hall wrestles at the 157-pound class and finished third at the 2010 NCAA National Wrestling Championships.

Go to arbiteronline.com to listen to Arbiter Sports Talk and Sports Talk with D-Vac. !ere will also be coverage of BSU softball's opening weekend, Lauren and the Court and spring football coverage.

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"e Bronco softball team showed a lot of heart but came up short on Friday (March 19), losing to the Minnesota Golden Gophers 3-2 on the #rst day of the

Springhill Suites Invitational at Mountain Cove Field.

In spite of a good show-ing by pitcher Allie Crump, solid defensive play from shortstop Jessi Hanna, and a belated last inning rally that put the team within one, the Gophers were able to hold o$

the Broncos to earn the vic-tory. Head coach Erin "orpe was frustrated by her team’s lackluster performance.

“I don’t think we did very well, our girls need to #nd that competitive drive and come out and compete,” "orpe said. “If we had come out and competed we would have won that game hands down.”"e game was a low scoring

pitchers duel. Both starters pitched complete games, but in the end Minnesota pitcher Lacey Middlesbrook proved too strong for the stunted Bronco o$ense. She allowed only one hit in seven innings, nearly throwing a shut out and keeping the Broncos scoreless for six innings--striking out six and giving up only two walks."e Minnesota defense, on

the other hand, did not show up. "ey gave up three errors which made life di%cult for the aggressive Gopher hurler, but in the end Middlesbrook was able to weather the storm and make up for her teammates mistakes with key strikeouts and good defen-sive play whenever the Bron-cos threatened."e Broncos stranded run-

ners in scoring position, and thus allowed the Gophers to steal a victory, giving Mid-dlesbrook her eleventh win of the season.

Allie Crump was the one bright spot in an otherwise dark game for the Broncos. "e Bronco pitcher at times struggled with accuracy and gave up some important hits, but all in all she kept her team in the game. By all logic, any pitcher who can throw a complete game and allow only three runs in the course of that game should be able to walk away with a win, but the o$ense let her down and re-warded her strong e$ort with her tenth loss of the season.

“Allie did a great job--two of the three runs were un-earned. She had one slip of an inning but she had some battles to #ght today and in the end she did a great job,” said "orpe.

Early on, Crump had a tough go of it, hitting a bat-ter and allowing a run to be scored on a wild pitch but she found her center as the game progressed, utilizing e$ective o$-speed pitches that kept the Gopher o$ense o$ balance. Crump also did a #ne job of managing the

game. "e Gophers threat-ened to score in the major-ity of the innings, but Crump showed resiliency by racking up #ve strikeouts, getting hit-ters to pop up and ground out while they were in scoring position, and kept the game close in hopes that eventu-ally the Bronco o$ense would wake up.

“We came out &at today, myself included,” Crump said. “If we had given up a couple less hits and a couple less errors it could have been a completely di$erent game.”

In the seventh inning the Bronco o$ense began to #nd themselves, surging forward with two runs. Finally show-ing the ability to capitalize on Gopher errors, the Broncos began to mount a comeback.

Kellie Caplan got on #rst with a walk and only one out, and then aggressively ad-vanced to third on a Gopher error. With players on #rst and third, the Broncos were in position for the #rst time to tie things up. Megan Harvey delivered in a pressure situa-tion and drove in an RBI. Har-vey rocketed a hard grounder to the left side of the #eld, forcing the Gopher defense to make a di%cult play as

Caplan barreled down from third to score. Trying to com-pensate for the hard hit, the Gopher defender attempted an o$-balance throw and an-other Gopher error ensued. Jessica Kraft took advantage of the wild throw by scoring all the way from #rst.

Suddenly it seemed the Broncos were in business. "e next batter, Laeha Hill, got a good pitch and hit a hard line drive into the mid-dle of the #eld.

For a &eeting second a base hit seemed to be immi-nent and a tie ball game ap-peared to be in the works, but Middlesbrook reached out and snagged the ball, end-ing the rally as quickly as it had started."e Broncos fell to Port-

land State Saturday (March 20) in the #rst game of a dou-ble header, 9-1. "e Broncos bounced back with an 11-0 shutout against Weber State later on in the day. BSU’s Aubray Zell carried the Bron-cos to victory with her #rst career shutout.

BSU played Weber State and Portland State on Sun-day. "e Arbiter will have coverage of the game in the online edition.

Softball grounded against Gophers, rebound during day two

KIRK BELLSports Editor

If one thing stands out about Boise State football, it is the culture that surrounds the program.

Team culture is a little dis-cussed but extremely impor-tant and sensitive aspect of performance. "e way play-ers and coaches act, react, practice and perform often can be measured by not only the outcome of the games but by the perspective of the stakeholders in the program."e Broncos buy into what

has been become a proven model of leadership and fam-ily set up by head coach Chris Petersen and his sta$.

“I think what’s obviously done here, it can’t get much better than 14-0,” defensive assistant coach Bob Gregory said. “I think there is a model of success here. I think Coach Petersen’s and sta$ has done a nice job of creating that success.”

With other regional pro-grams such as Oregon strug-gling to #nd positive aspects to draw on in the wake of quarterback Jeremiah Maso-li’s conviction of burglary, running back LaMichael James battery charges and athletic director and Mike Belotti abruptly announcing his departure from Oregon for a position with ESPN, the need for consistency within a program and a constant,

cultivating culture that fos-ters camaraderie within the ranks becomes ever more important.

Senior quarterback Mike Coughlin believes the culture of the Broncos to be as strong, especially the senior class, as it ever has been since joining the team in 2006.

“Since I’ve got here I think our class has been a lot more uni#ed than I’ve seen,” Coughlin said of the team. “We try to do a lot of stu$ together. I de#nitely think it shows on the #eld. We’re a bunch of brothers and more of a family than I think there’s been in the past. But I think it de#nitely helps us.”

Players and coaches have a di%cult time putting there #nger on a particular per-son who best represents the Broncos’ culture. Answers ranged from seniors Kevin Sapien, Jeron Johnson and Derrell Acrey – according to Coughlin – to the “CEO” of the Broncos in Petersen – ac-cording to Gregory.

Regardless of who the poster child for the program might be, one thing becomes clear. "e diversity of answers shows there are multiple can-didates for mentorship and familial interaction with mul-tiple players.

For many of the young players transitioning from a high school program to the collegiate realm can be a

stressful endeavor. For play-ers who have had time to ana-lyze the process through their freshman seasons, it is an easier transition than many would think.

“"e older guys are really good at getting us in right away and really just accept-ing everyone…"at was big for us as freshman,” sopho-more quarterback Joe South-wick said. “"ey like us and they want us to be good. "ey want us to get better.”

With new players starting to grasp what it means to be a Bronco and the culture they’ve to become a part of, a the &uid schema takes shape with a slightly changed team and multiple personalities to wade through.

“I think you start in the o$season…We need to see who’s going to buy into that culture,” assistant head coach/wide receivers coach Brent Pease said. “"en they can show that they’re trust-worthy and that kind of takes on to the #eld.”

With the pieces in place for a spring analysis of the foot-ball program, the Broncos will trek forward to continue establishing themselves as a model culture in the college football universe.

BSU’s holds it’s #rst spring scrimmage Wednesday, March 24 at Bronco Stadium.

Go online for the full article on football culture.

Football culture: The basis for success

9.850 to share a spot in third place with Jacob and Merrit.

BSU’s lowest event score came in their third rotation on the balance beam. BSU swept the top three spots in the event. Broncos’ sopho-more Lindsay Kazandjian #nished #rst with a score of 9.825. BSU junior Kelsey Lang and Jacob both posted 9.800 for a share of second place. Glass posted a 9.775 for a fourth-place #nish respectively.

BSU #nished the meet with their fourth ro-tation on the &oor exercise where the Broncos claimed the top three #nishers and two more personal best marks.

BSU freshman Hailey Gaspar tied for sec-ond with a score of 9.850 to mark a career best performance in the event. Leizorek per-formed on par with her career best to share the second place spot with Gaspar and SJSU’s Gabrielle Targosz.

“It was really nice tonight to compete on the &oor,” Leizorek said. “I really felt I nailed my &oor routine tonight. Everything just really &owed today.”

Redmon posted a 9.90 on the &oor – the #fth time this season with a 9.90 or better – to take #rst place. Redmon stated it wasn’t a matter of having con#dence in the event but more how well is she going to perform her routine.

“I know I’m going to land all these passes. I do this routine every day in the gym,” Redmon said. “With the adrenaline I’m not wor-ried. I’m just going to go out there and have fun because it’s a fun event.”"e Broncos continue to

the 2010 WAC Champion-ship meet March 27 in Ful-lerton, Calif.

“I don’t want us to under-estimate any of the other WAC teams because there’s a lot of really good teams out there,” Redmon said. “We don’t need to let anything go to our heads. We just need to stay focused on ourselves (and) just go out there and do our business.”

GYMNASTICS [Sports page 4]

BSU pitcher Allie Crump throws during the 2009 season. The Broncos lost 3-2 to Minnesota Friday and Saturday to Portland State, 9-1. BSU rebounded against Weber State in its second game Saturday with an 11-0 shutout.

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BSU junior Hannah Redmon performs her routine in the floor exercise Friday night at Taco Bell Arena.

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BY NANCY BLACK AND STEPHANIE CLEMENT

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Today’s birthday (3/22/10). The cosmos provide the challenge of intense work this year. To make the most of your opportunities, keep your purpose in mind with the help of a note on your mirror or a mantra on your tongue. Observe carefully before you criticize. Dream as big as you dare! To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easi-est day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- To-day is a 7 -- A female livens up the work environment with rude jokes about people in power. Try not to fall off your chair laughing. Remem-ber the punch line for later.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- To-day is a 7 -- The taskmaster is back! Never let it be said that you can’t get the work done. Let co-workers fend for themselves.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- To-day is a 6 -- Today you understand what someone’s been trying to tell you for the last few days. Sometimes distance allows you to perceive the level of caring.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Words truly matter today. What you say now could come back to haunt you. Stick to practical concerns if possible.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- You might take up a new area of study now. Someone needs to do the research, and it might as well be you.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- To-

day is a 6 -- Set the bar high where communication is concerned. Clarity is essential. Add persuasive language to clinch the deal.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Who said hard work can’t be fun? If you have someone to share the task, you can enjoy the sore muscles. Add good music, and a tea party later.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Ease into work. You don’t need to hit the ground run-ning. Take a moment to review and choose the best strategy. Caution wins over impulsiveness.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Try to get off the hot seat today. You’ve taken enough punishment. Use your talents to escape, or wave a magic wand and disappear.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- It’s Monday. Embrace your work, pay attention and save the dreamy mood for later. Persuade yourself that you’re in the right place.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Personal energy feeds on basic logic. What you see, in many ways, is what you get. No frills are necessary just now.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Dip into cash reserves for a creative purchase. Be sure you’ve shopped for a bargain, but also demand quality. It’s an investment.___(c) 2009, Tribune Media Services Inc.Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

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Boise State takes on Red Bull

SchlittentagANDY MCCUTCHEON

Special to The Arbiter

A sled building team from BSU was chosen to com-pete in Red Bull Schlittentag ("sledding day") on Snow-bowl Mountain in Missoula, Mont. on March 13. Andy Mccutcheon, a junior com-munication major, piloted the three person crew. Below is his adventure.

Friday morning came much too soon. I put o$ mak-ing "nal sled preparations the night before to go to the Cam-pus Rail Jam 2010 after-party. Not the best idea. Around 8:30 a.m. my co-pilot Taylor arrived at my house. We put on Muscle Hawk’s incredible "ve song album on surround sound, made some "nal ad-justments to our sled and "n-ished packing our gear. After plastering our craft with post-ers of Hanna Montana, #e Jonas Brothers and the cutest kitten anyone has ever seen, we were ready to o%cially kick o$ our Red Bull Schlit-tentag weekend.

We arrived at the Red Bull warehouse where the logis-tics crew was "nishing up loading all the equipment that would be accompanying us on our trip. Finally, around 11:30 a.m. we left the ware-house and were headed to Missoula. #e Chevy Silvera-do driven by Red Bull "eld marketing specialist, Jesse Murphey, soon became the

Chevy Partyrado as myself, Taylor, our third teammate, Bob, and Boise’s Student Brand Manager, Erica Gieg, got jiggy to tons of music.

Many hours and even more hilarious conversations later, we arrived in Missoula. We wasted no time hitting the town and getting dinner. Af-terwards, we "nally got to our destination for the evening: a

completely vacant hotel that was literally on Snowbowl Mountain. #e entire three story hotel was empty, except my our team and the Red Bull crew. Sweet.

#e next morning, Tay-lor, Bob and myself woke up much later than the Red Bull crew who actually had work to do. We milled around the mountain for awhile until the

time for the Schlittentag had "nally come. After executing a dry run inside of our hotel, we took our sled to the top of the course. It was here that we were able to hang out with all the other competitors and check out all the di$erent crafts that had been assem-bled. #ere was never a mo-ment when this event did not have a completely positive,

friendly and non-competitive vibe. It was amazing.

Before we knew it, we were on deck, mere seconds away from doing what we had come all the way to Missoula to do.

Our last minute prepara-tions included zip-tying a ‘lucky egg’ to the top of our craft; I promised our team that it would make it down the run alive.

After crawling into the craft, Bob, our o%cial push-er, wasted no time giving us an Olympic quality shove. It would be an understate-ment to say that our sled ran smooth.

We were exponentially gaining speed as we went down the course... and then came the jump… I closed my eyes, everything went silent… and then… the bad part.

When our sled hit the ground, it literally combust-ed. Our entire cardboard frame crumbled like a ginger-bread house.

We couldn’t even "nd the lucky egg. I’m pretty sure it was vaporized. Our crash was de"nitely a crowd-pleaser.

Despite the catastrophic "nish to our race, we had a fun-"lled afternoon watch-ing all the crazy crafts going down the hill.

Sunday morning, our team woke up quite haggard and hopped into the Partyrado to make our way back to Boise, reminiscing over our Schlit-tentag glory that almost was.

One lucky egg

COURTESY/ANDY MCCUTCHEON

#is peculiar, self-in&icted negative imagery is com-monplace for Xiu Xiu, a band that con"dently revels in the darker side of their existence.

Stewart formed the group in 2000 and has since released a slew of records to critical acclaim. Xiu Xiu is Stewart’s brainchild, with a cast of con-stantly revolving characters. His current touring band in-cludes multi-instrumentalist, Angela Seo, and percussion-ist, Ches Smith.

Arbiter: I want to start out with some questions about the new album. Why don’t you give me your take on it. Do you like the new re-cord?

Jamie Stewart (JS): Do I like the new record? I don’t listen to my records. I put as much e$ort into mak-ing them as I possibly can, then move on from there. #ough, I hope other people enjoy listening to them.

A: About the title of the new record, “Dear God, I Hate Myself” -- Is that meant to be taken literally? In other words, do you actually hate yourself?

JS: Um, sometimes... sometimes.

A: What about the song, “Chocolate Makes You Hap-py,” does chocolate help al-leviate those feelings of self-loathing?

JS: Yeah, sometimes. #e horrible irony to that is, very recently my Doctor informed me that I cannot eat choco-late anymore. It is leading to, interestingly, some breath-

ing problems. I feel a little bit de&ated because of that -- I can’t eat any chocolate right now, it sucks.

A: Does anything else make you happy?

JS: (Contemplates) Bird-watching.

A: Alright, let’s move on -- I’m curious about some of the lyrics on the new al-bum. Can you tell me about say, “Falkland Rd” or “House Sparrow?”

JS: Falkland Rd is a song about human tra%cking of young women from Napal into New Delhi. #ere’s a street in New Delhi called Falkland Rd that has a num-ber of brothels that kidnap young women from Nepal and force them to employ there. House sparrow, part of the song is about this obses-sive fear I have of serial kill-ers, and the other half of the song I’d probably rather not discuss.

A: #at’s "ne. I dig the cover you did of “Cumber-land Gap.” I would’ve never taken you for a bluegrass fan.

JS: Oh yeah totally. I don’t know if I’m such a bluegrass fan as much as I like, not nec-essarily music that predates bluegrass, but music from the same era. Well maybe not era, but yeah, I like old-time music a lot. Folk music, especially Appalachian folk music.

A: #at’s interesting, any recommendations o$ the top of your head?

JS: Dock Boggs I really totally love. Let’s see, there

are some others that I re-ally love, (pause) I’m just real tired at the moment, and my brain is…

A: Ok, well we can move on. I read that four of the new songs were primarily done on a Nintendo DS. How’d you come up with that idea?

JS: Angela, my band mate, showed me this program for it called the DS 10 that is both four track drum-machine and a two-track sequencer, and since I’ve been a teenager I’ve played with drum-machines and sequencers a lot. #ey’re a big part of the way that mu-sic makes sense to me. What I like about this, particularly the one on the DS, is that it’s extremely portable, and while incredibly easy to use, the sounds are actually really fantastic and it gives you a tremendous amount of &ex-ibility as far as being able to create your own sounds and how you create compositions on them. It’s a really, really excellent program.

A: Really? Cool, Do you play a lot of videogames or…

JS: A little bit, I’m not very good at them but I think they’re really interesting. I didn’t really play much as a kid at all. I play a little bit on tour, I think they’re fun. #ey’re culturally fascinating to me.

A: How so?JS: I guess just, the aes-

thetics are really wonderful. Especially a lot of the Mario based games, in how fantas-tical they look and how pecu-liar the characters are. Any-

thing that someone becomes completely obsessed with I think is really interesting.

A: I read that you lost your lawsuit against Rolling Stone last month. I’m familiar with the lawsuit, but can you tell me a little bit about why you felt you needed to sue these companies? Are you opposed to kids smoking?

JS: #ey had used our band name, along with sev-eral other band names, in a cigarette advertisement with-out asking any of the bands whether or not they could use the band names in this adver-tisement. I mean, I wouldn’t allow my band to be associ-ated with advertisement in any way, whatsoever, even if somebody asked me -- not for anything, for any product. And I certainly would not al-low a cigarette company to not ask if they could have my band associated with their product. Astoundingly we lost though, on the horrify-ing grounds of free speech, which totally makes sense considering the Supreme Court’s recent decision to grant corporate personhood. #ere is a terrible, terrible, miserably horrifying parallel somewhere.

A: Another question, I saw a recent photo of yours where (bandmate) Angela is spit-ting blood into your mouth. What’s that all about?

JS: (Laughs) I don’t know if I have an answer for that.

A: Well is there any sym-bolic meaning to it, or…

JS: I don’t know if there’s

any symbolism behind it at all. I think it is, maybe just a representation of what we "nd interesting, or who we are as people. I hope that doesn’t sound too extraordi-narily pretentious.

A: Not at all. How about the show, what can we expect at the Neurolux?

JS: #at’s probably dif-"cult for me to answer, but every night we try to play as hard as we can and put as much of our hearts into it as

we can. Hopefully we’ll be successful at doing it that night. I don’t think we’ve played Boise ever, so it will be good to play there.

A: Yeah, it’s a great place. Final question for you, will Xiu Xiu ever release a happy record?

JS: If life turns out that way for sure. #e point is to not be depressive, the point is to document what’s been happening in our lives and… it’s frequently di%cult.

Q&A The Arbiter talks to

Xiu Xiu about bird

watching, human

trafficking and suing Rolling Stone

The Red Bull Schlittentag took place March 13 in Missoula, Mont, where a team from BSU competed.

STEPHEN FOSTERJournalist

Adorning the cover of the new Xiu Xiu album is a black and white picture of singer/guitarist Jamie Stewart. Scrawled below his countenance are the words “Dear God, I Hate Myself.” !e California based experimental art rock band graces the Neurolux March 25.

Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo of Xiu XiuCOURTESY XIU XIU


March 22, 2010 ARBITERONLINE.COM CULTURE8

JENNIFER ORRMarketing Director

#ere are only a handful of bands that make it out of their hometown venues and start touring nationwide. Boise natives Finn Riggins and Re-VoLtReVoLt are two of them. Both groups perform at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) Music, Film and In-teractive Festival which takes place March 12 through 21 in Austin, Texas.

After "nishing up at SXSW, Finn Riggins tour continues on toward Florida reaching all the way up to New York. Meanwhile, ReVoLtReVoLt

heads west to San Diego, along the coast to Seattle. #is week we are reporting their travels from the road.

Eric Gilbert, singer/guitarist/keyboardist for Finn Riggins:

Well into the wee hours of Saturday morning, we still have one more full day and two more shows to play here in Austin for South by South-west (SXSW), but it's already been a crazy ride -- quite lit-erally too. We arrived in Aus-tin on Tuesday evening and drove straight to a boat land-ing on "Lake Austin," which is a river, and loaded our gear onto an old style double

decker riverboat (big wooden wheel paddle and every-thing). #ree other bands boarded (including our recent tourmate, Boy Eats Drum Ma-chine and a rad Austin band called Woodgrain), a couple of DJs and 200 plus party go-ers. We started playing soon after the boat headed down

river -- sights sailing by -- and the free drinks started being served. #is was a wild show and radical introduction to Austin.

#e following day, St. Pat-ty's Day, after registering for the festival, getting our wrist-bands and goody bags, we hustled up 6th St. to Waterloo Records. We boarded this see-through bus and embarked out into downtown for a live video interview and acoustic session. #e rest of the eve-ning was spent taking advan-tage of our wristband access to shows, free food and booze. We caught Visqeen and #e Walkmen at historic Stubb's BBQ for NPR's Showcase and then ran around catching up with friends and exploring the nooks and crannies of the festival.

#ursday morning, we packed up and sni$ed out a taco truck for some breakfast tacos -- a novel delicacy for us. #en we hustled downtown for our early set at the Nail/Distiller day party at Side Bar. Our friends World's Greatest Ghosts from Portland kicked the event o$ inside and then we played "rst on the outside stage to several friends and an abundance of sunshine. It

was actually a really fun set, even though the party hadn't really gotten started yet. We quickly loaded the van in tra%c and headed to Hous-ton for a rendezvous with a bunch of band friends and the Super Happy Fun Land SXSW Over&ow Fest.

I think the best way I can sum up the experience thus far is a sea of humanity, bands bands bands bands bands, sunshine, breakfast tacos, BBQ, Mardi Gras, party and friends (friends especial-ly) and most de"nitely super, happy and fun.

Chris Bock, singer/guitarist for ReVoLtReVoLt:

Hello, from ReVoLtReVoLt! We are currently on a spring tour that spans nine states during March and April.

We have cranked out 2600 miles on the Dodge Van, blew through two large bottles of Sriracha, and played eight shows thus far. Our tour be-gan with a kicko$ in Boise at the Neurolux on March 3 and a date at Grainey's Basement on March 6. Since then, we have played in Utah, Ariz., N.M., and Texas.

Our travels will take us back across N.M., Ariz., and up through Calif., Ore., and

Wash.We are currently in Austin,

taking in the SXSW Music Festival with our good friend Jennifer Orr. You will never see or hear as much live mu-sic in one place at one time. #e streets are packed with people and the air is "lled with song.

We only have March 19 and part of March 20 to take it in before heading to play the Mine Shaft in San Antonio on Saturday night.

#ere are so many great landscapes to take in and cool people to meet. When talking to people, they ask where we are from, and we tell them Idaho, they of course men-tion "POTATOES." We assure them that there is much more to our great state.

We talk about the wilder-ness, the way folks let you into tra%c, the good food, great artists in the Treasure Valley and of course we mention the live music scene that is cur-rently exploding in Boise.

We feel lucky to be a part of such a culturally diverse mu-sic scene here in Idaho.

To learn more about Finn Riggins and ReVoLtReVoLt, visit "nnriggins.com and re-voltrevoltmusic.com.

Finn Riggins and

ReVoLtReVoLt

Featuring:

COURTESY ERIC GILBERT

BACKSTAGE PASS:

COURTESY CHRIS BOCK

Eric, center, from the band Finn Riggins of Boise, walks with Eric and Jesse of the band Worlds Greatest Ghosts.

Revolt Revolt from Boise leave their mark on their journey to South by Southwest music festival.

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