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October 30, 2014 Vol. 27 Issue 22
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Don’t answer the doorit might be Christmas, p. 6
Nightmare on The Blue:scary moments in Bronco history, p. 13
Global ghoulies:frightening folklore from around the world, p. 11
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pets: no tricks just treats, please Bite me: Dept. of defense vs zombie invasion
Boise’s real witches of east end
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Prevent your pets from getting spooked this HalloweenBri CornwallCopy Editor
The doorbell ringing isn’t necessarily the spookiest Halloween sound, but your pets may beg to differ.
Kendall Schreiner, a repre-sentative for the Idaho Hu-mane Society at the Petsmart on Milwaukee Street, urges students to make a special effort to ensure their pets feel safe as neighborhood kids make rounds asking for candy.
Whether you’re taking your dogs out on Halloween or staying in, Schreiner of-fered some tips for keeping them safe.
“Set them up with a chew toy in a comfy room. Get them some exercise before-hand,” she said. “If you’re
going to be out walking your dog at night, make sure they have the same reflection gear you’d want your children to have.”
Boise State kinesiology instructor Laura Petranek has two mutts. This year, she might be taking extra precau-tions to make her dogs feel safe because she won’t be home for the holiday.
“The stressor for them would be the ringing of the doorbell,” she said.
Since she lives in a trick-or-treat-prevalent neigh-borhood, she is a little con-cerned about how her dogs will react to the doorbell ringing while she’s gone.
Larger fears for pets in-clude urban myths suggest-ing that during Halloween, black cats fall prey to the
sacrificial rituals of obscure, cult-like groups. While Sch-reiner hasn’t heard any first-hand accounts confirming miscreants torturing black cats, she strongly encourages students to keep their cats in-side on Halloween night.
“(Rumors) are definitely a good excuse as any, whether it’s a wives’ tale or not,” Sch-reiner said. “I’ve heard of people stealing black cats, taking them home or out of their neighborhood. That’s our concern on that—they’re getting taken away from their home environ-ment.
“You want to keep them inside and preoccupied. Black cats are a giant attrac-tion on Halloween,” she said.
Halloween isn’t much of a concern for electrical and
computer engineering junior Zac Nickle, since his three cats are inside cats anyway.
“One of them freaks out really heavily, so we make sure she has confined spaces
like closets and drawers,” Nickle said. “The other ones are pretty low maintenance so they just will normally hang out and watch.”
For more suggestions on
ways to keep your pets safe this Halloween, go to the Idaho Humane Society’s website for a comprehensive list at idahohumanesociety.org.
Students keep Halloween tastefulShelly BohorquezStaff Writer
With the thrill of ano-nymity that comes with dressing up on Halloween, students are reminded to proceed with caution and be respectful of other cultures.
Campus Security and the Boise Police Department will have their normal crew looking out suspicious be-havior.
Richard Rogers of the Boise Police Department suggests that students be smart and practice good taste on Halloween night.
“Dressing up like the prowler is a way to get in trouble,” Rogers said. “It’s not funny.”
Dressing like the prowl-er will likely get students stopped and questioned.
Keeping that in mind, some students feel the highly awaited festivities should be celebrated re-spectfully. One of the most problematic practices of Halloween is cultural ap-propriation which is the adoption or theft of icons, rituals and aesthetic stan-dards from one culture by another.
“Being reduced to a cos-tume that somebody puts on for a night, gets drunk, has fun and then takes off and forgets—that’s ter-rible,” said Andrew Geske, student support coordina-tor for Multicultural Stu-dent Services. “The people who embody that culture have to live it every day and it never goes away, but those attitudes stay with them forever.”
Cultural appropria-
tion runs rampant when it comes to costumes. Al-though it can be tempting to throw on an Indian chief headdress or Pocahontas dress, some believe it’s in-appropriate.
Annaliese Armstrong, a junior social work major, is not a fan of cultural appro-priation on Halloween.
“To so blatantly use peo-ple’s culture as something funny or something to be joked about, something to be torn apart by only using parts of it, like using only the feathers and maybe the face paint and then add-ing a short skirt. Rather than embracing the cul-ture—it’s using somebody else’s beliefs as a prop,” Armstrong said.
According to Geske, us-ing meaningful artifacts from one culture as a prop for a costume on Hallow-een night takes away the significance of that particu-lar artifact.
However, Geske did have some advice for the people who are still brainstorming costume ideas.
“You can dress as people from another culture with-out being completely of-fensive. If you want to dress as Jay-Z and Beyoncé, OK; they’ve worn some pretty iconic outfits together. Get somebody to wear those outfits with you but don’t paint your face brown or black,” Geske said.
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To so blatantly use people’s culture as something funny or something to be joked about, something to be torn apart by only using parts of it, like using only the feathers and maybe the face paint and then adding a short skirt, rather than embracing the culture—it’s using somebody else’s beliefs as a prop.
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Boise State—and the federal govern-ment—prepare for zombie outbreakEryn-Shay JohnsonAsst. News Writer
Your heart throbs in your ears; muffling moans of the undead creep through their pounding on the walls of your shelter. You hear the wood creak; defenses start to break down and you cling to your only weapon and your loved ones as you wait for the horde to overtake you.
When the walls come down, your last thought—I wish I had prepared for this—runs through your head.
If that actually happened, what would you do?
“I have Type 1 diabetes. I always say I’ll just become a zombie because I’m going to die anyway,” said Nichole Di Dio, an MBA student. “If I had a plan, I would probably head to whatever insulin pro-ducing rDNA facility there is and hopefully there are still people there creating the medicine.”
While battling her way to this facility, Di Dio plans to fight her way without firepower.
“No guns, because it would
make too much noise—nothing that would have to be charged,” Di Dio said. “I would have to look for a fire axe, definitely an axe. That would be my weapon of choice; an axe if I could find one.”
Di Dio takes comfort in the unlikelihood of a mutated zombie attack.
If it did, however, the United States government has a plan in place to fight the undead.
“I could potentially see an outbreak of some disease, but I don’t think people would ac-tually die and then come back. I don’t think that’s a possible thing—or at least not come back the way they’re shown in the movies,” Di Dio said.
Counter-Zombie Domi-nance, referred to as CON-PLAN 8888, was not de-signed as a joke. It is a disaster response plan.
“A zombie outbreak can af-fect thousands of individual healthy humans in a span of minutes,” CONPLAN states.
The CONPLAN was cre-ated by the Department of Defense as a training tool, covering a wide range of pos-
sible scenarios from slow-moving movie-like zombie to space zombies. The plan lists a strategy for the military in the event of a zombie apocalypse.
“It’s important to note that zombies are not cog-nizant life-forms. As such, they cannot be deterred or reasoned with in any way,” CONPLAN states.
The plan is separated into five phases.
Phase One: DeterPhase Two: SeizePhase Three: DominatePhase Four: StabilizePhase Five: Restore Civil
AuthorityCONPLAN was designed
as a training exercise; the Pen-tagon does not believe a zom-bie apocalypse would happen, but maintains that there is value to the plan nonetheless. The remainder of the plan is still under construction and will continue to change.
“We posted this plan be-cause we feel it is a very enjoy-able way to train new planners and boost retention of critical knowledge,” states the CON-PLAN disclaimer.
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Christmas creeps in on HalloweenLeslie Boston-HydeStaff Writer
Enter a Walmart and you can find all things Hallow-een, from candy to pumpkins. Look four aisles over and you’ll see Christmas trees, ornaments and good ol’ Saint Nicholas.
Deemed “Christmas creep-ing,” many major retailers cash into the holiday spirit of Christmas earlier each year. Due to economic demand, some stores set up Christmas displays as early as late August to early September.
The strategy has paid off: Black Friday sales have dou-bled and Thanksgiving sales have almost quadrupled in online revenue since 2008, according to Statista.
Lauren Latham, soph-omore biology major, feels that it’s odd to see Christmas retail before Halloween.
“I think it’s a lot too early,” Latham said. “They’re making more and more about mer-chandise every single year.”
Latham isn’t alone. Accord-ing to a study conducted by RichRelevance, a large retail-
er personalization resource, 71 percent of the 1,000 study participants are either “an-noyed” or “very annoyed” by Christmas creeping.
“I think it’s always been commercialized, but it’s getting worse every year,” Latham said.
Matt Chance, freshman criminal justice major, has mixed feelings about Christ-mas creeping.
“I like it, but at times I don’t because it’s hard to get gifts. I think they’re too overpriced when they come out too ear-ly,” Chance said.
While big name retailers like Walmart and Costco in-flated large snowmen over Labor Day weekend, some lo-cal Treasure Valley businesses refuse to join the Christmas creeping trend.
According to Art Gregory, communications and market-ing director at Zamzows, the company doesn’t believe in rushing the season.
“Jim Zamzow calls it over solicitation. This is like when you sign up for somebody’s email updates and they send you two or three email up-dates every day,” Gregory said.
“Not only that, but between Thanksgiving and Christmas, you’ve got a month right there. (There’s) plenty of time to buy anything you need for Christmas.”
Zamzows won’t start selling Christmas merchandise until Black Friday.
“Philosophically, it’s just a little early to be buying Christmas things,” Greg-ory said. “Each store has their own strategy for do-ing things. In many cases, certain businesses (have) up to 80 percent of their annual sales made during Christmas.”
Although it may seem odd to trick-or-treat while prepar-ing to deck the halls, the op-tion to shop early for Christ-mas can be a good thing for some.
“There’s only so much time that people have, par-ticularly during the holiday season when it gets busy. As a student, winter final exams are right before Christmas,” Gregory said. “If you had a little extra time to do your shopping, would that be such a bad thing? The answer is probably no.”
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Reaction to Zomance film review
Opal WitherspoonThis last Thursday
night (Oct. 16), I went to the wonderful Boise Ida-ho Film Festival where they showed a lineup of short films and a wonder-
ful movie called “Chip and Bernie’s Zomance.” I must say, I was deeply saddened to read the re-view that your newspaper published online about the film. I felt that the review was uncalled for
and insulting to a funny film that the audience was laughing at when the actors first got on screen.
Mr. Murena was kind enough to do a Q&A with the audience and then he also gave out DVDs to the audience. He was a most pleasant man and there was a little boy in the audience that absolutely loved his film and past work. I saw Mr. Murena take a photo with the child and talk about old
movies with him before and after the film for a long time. You should have seen that dear little boy’s smiling face.
The film was most en-joyable and it never once made fun of homosexual-ity or having a disability. The film embraced both of those subjects, making a main character a hero who was both homosexu-al and having a disability. I feel the reviewer did not understand filmmaking
at all; if he was a fan of Abbott and Costello, he could see the brilliance behind this film. The physical comedy, one-lin-ers and storyline was the best in that days’ lineup.
I have to say that I will not be reading your ar-ticles again after a shame-less attack on such a won-derful film. Will it win an Academy Award? No, but it won my heart and the rest of the audience be-sides your writer of that
cruel article. I am ashamed to be a
loyal fan of your website when you give zero care to the work that is shown in our state. Mr. Murena mentioned how sweet the people of Boise are and I hope he does not read your review after how much he enjoyed our town. I hope my words do not come across as too harsh, but I could not hold my tongue after reading the review.
"Honestly, I have no idea yet. It's probably gonna be a telletubby." - Renee Perez, freshman engineering major.
"I'm dressing up as StarLord because he's a super chill guy. I'm actually going to make his mask." - Jake Dudley, junior accounting major.
"Flint Lockwood from 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.' Because, why not?" - Benjamin Broderick, junior anthropology major.
"A cow with a gag that says ‘Got free speech?’ to make a mockery of the ag gag bill that was passed.” - Lauren Bramwell, senior communication major.
"A nurse because scrubs are super comfortable.” - Baylee Proctor, senior music educa-tion and flute performance major.
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The economics of tricks and treatsPatty BowenAsst. Culture Editor
Just behind Christmas, Halloween is the largest grossing holiday, annually averaging $6.9 billion spent by Americans celebrating all things spooky.
Despite what would seem to be common sense, there isn’t a direct correlation be-tween the increase in con-sumer money spent and an increase in seasonal jobs in Boise.
According to Neil Palmer, employee at Halloween Express in Boise, a lot of the hiring process for Hal-loween stores stems from connections.
“Basically, everyone here is either related or knows each other by friends,” Palmer said.
Palmer claims that every-one who works in The Hal-loween Express already has a full-time job and is here “to help out the shop.”
This trend is also evident in the Idaho State Historical Society’s Halloween-themed event “Frightened Felons” held annually. Amber Bei-erle, visitor services coor-dinator for the Old Idaho Penitentiary, explained that the two-day event is put on by only existing staff and vol-unteers.
“We rely heavily on volun-teers,” Beierle said.
This fact might change in the future, however. The success and sheer volume of people who attend the event has caused the Idaho His-torical Society to discuss ex-
panding “Frightened Felons” into a week-long event. This change would require hiring additional staff.
“If we want to increase anything we will have to hire people seasonally be-cause you can’t depend on volunteers to do more than the two days. We’re really stretching it as it is,” Beierle said.Income brought in
Although “Frightened Felons” is only open for two nights, it brings in roughly 1,250 people and between $17,000 and $30,000 per year, accounting for 10 per-cent of the penitentiary’s profits yearly.
The month of October is the busiest month for the penitentiary.
“There’s no doubt there’s a direct correlation with peo-ple wanting to do something creepy, spooky or routinely listed at the most haunted place in Boise,” Beierle said. “Just yesterday (the Peniten-tiary) was listed as the most haunted place in Idaho.”
The Halloween season also allows Idaho farmer Jim Lowee to branch out in business.
Lowee is owner of the Farmstead Festival Corn Maze and Pumpkin Festival. He said that the corn maze and related attractions create a way for farmers to get into agro-tourism.
“The majority of farmers (who decide to create corn mazes) are looking for a way to diversify because farming is risky, and running a corn maze is risky,” Lowee said. “If
one is down then maybe the other is up.”
According to Lowee, the designed field brings in more profit as a corn maze than it would if it were just har-vested as feed corn for cattle; however, the corn maze re-quires an exorbitant amount of time to create.
“Its a lot more of a time in-vestment to get the return on investment,” Lowee said.
Investment for profit works out well for Hallow-een stores like Halloween Express. According to Palm-
er, by Halloween, the store has usually been cleaned out of merchandise by custom-ers.
“We’re going to sell pretty much everything. Another five days and it will look real-ly bare in here,” Palmer said.
After Halloween, when the majority of the merchan-dise has been sold, the stores selves and remaining mer-chandise are put into a stor-age unit in Idaho until used the next year along with new shipments. Halloween Ex-press identical to every.
The average customer at Halloween Express spends around $75 per trip, how-ever Palmer feels that this it “doesn’t take much to spend $100.”Not just a children’s holiday
Part of the explanation for these hefty receipts comes from the heavy price tags attached to adult costumes which are about $20 more than children’s costumes on average. Palmers said that adult females often spend
the most on Halloween.“The store is about half
costumes for woman,” Palm-er said.
Beierle also found that the customers most interested in “Frightened Felons” were adults as well.
“We have looked hard at making it an adult-only event, number one because it’s more profitable,” Beierle said. “We make more money. We sell out. We don’t have to worry about more advertis-ing dollars to get people to come in.”
All across America people shell out big for the thrills and spooks of Halloween
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$2 billion on candy
$300 million on costumes for pets
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Haunts bring paranormal investigationsPatty BowenAsst. Culture Editor
Although most Boise State students may primarily think of the prowler as the quin-tessence of spooky, there is a plethora of paranormal activ-ity going on behind closed doors in Boise.
According to Marie Cuff, executive director of the International Paranormal Reporting Group, there have been several different paranormal activities this year in Boise which have led to a number of local investigations.
“The more well-known would be the Old Idaho Peni-
tentiary, the Egyptian The-ater, Hannifin’s Cigar Shop, the Boise Little Theater and of course, the Communica-tion Building on the Boise State University campus,” Cuff said.
According to Cuff, many of these visits come in the form of small noises like “foot-steps, voices, shadows, music playing.”
These signs can often go unnoticed during the day-time because buildings have more foot traffic and noise while the sun is up. This is why Cuff feels that people link spirits to the night time.
“If a location is really haunt-ed, it will be just as haunted
during the day as it is at night. It just may be more notice-able at night when things are quieter,” Cuff said.
Out of their 615 recorded cases, the International Para-normal Reporting Group has investigated the Idaho Penitentiary twice in 2014. During their investigation on March 22, volunteers report-ed seeing shadow play, being touched and viewing full fig-ure apparitions.
Things heated up during their second visit on June 20.
During their most recent visit, members got video of a chain rattling back and forth and of several loud bangs being made on the large
metal door that led to the execution room.
“I think there’s definitely some spirits [in Boise], more along the river and the cem-eteries,” said Darby Kenyon, sophomore environmental studies major.
Kenyon feels that Morris Hill Cemetery is particularly haunted, as well as the sev-enth floor of the Towers Hall.
“We had a ghost there last year… Almost everyone on our floor experienced the ghost because this girl jumped out a window a few years ago and committed sui-cide,” Kenyon said.
Kenyon would often hear the sound of someone on
the roof though there isn’t roof access and sounds re-sembling someone using a staircase.
Students interested in
learning about more para-normal events or more in-vestigation by the Interna-tional Paranormal Reporting Group, can visit their website.
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STUDENT DEALSunusual monsters from around the globe
JorogumoJorogumo, also knows
as the “whore spider,” is a creature derived from Japa-nese folklore. According to the legend, Jorogumo is a spider that is gains the power to turn into a beau-tiful woman when it turns 400 years old.
Jorogumo then uses its beauty and singing voice to seduce men. As soon as men fall for her, she wraps them up in a spider web
and devours them as her next meal.
“I think it’s interesting that stories like that have become a popular motive and exist in almost every culture,” said Nils Kofoed,
biology major. “Like, in Native American culture, they also have a deer wom-an, who would seduce men into sleeping with them and trample them to death afterwards.”
El SilbonEl Silbon, or “the man
who whistles”, is a tall, skin-ny man with physical defor-mities and a bag on his back. The Venezuelan legend says that, after a failed hunting trip, a spoiled boy killed his father and ate his organs instead. His mother and grandfather punished him by making their dogs bite off his ankles and forcing him carry his father’s bones for the rest of his life.
One version of the story tells that El Silbon crashes parties and kills those who are indulging. Be careful at that Halloween party!
Kelly Larkin, a sophomore
radiology major felt a little bit disturbed at this mythical figure. “That is so intense. It is definitely more intimidat-ing than usual monsters,” Larkin said.
Zoey NguyenStaff Writer
PopobawaPopobawa, which means
“bat wing” in Swahili, is an evil spirit from the Tanza-nian island of Pemba that has shape-shifting abili-ties. It has the ability to change between human and an animal but is usu-ally a bat, as the name suggests. The Popobawa is a nocturnal monster that doesn’t discriminate
against its victims, attack-ing women, men and even children. It is believed that it likes to take form of a one eyed bat who has tendencies to anally rape adults, often while they sleep.
Joseph Willert, a fresh-man studying physics thinks that although it’s a pretty scary creature, Popobawa is interesting because it’s different and captures “actual human fears and emotions.”
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Boise witches use spells to heal, nurtureJustin KirkhamCulture Editor
With green face paint, prosthetic noses, rusty caul-drons and black hats, those dressing as witches this year will be instantly recognizable as classic Halloween villains. Amidst the inevitable hoard of Elsa and Spiderman cos-tumes, witches will be right at home on the sidewalks of Boise this Halloween night.
But the real witches of Boise are quite different in mannerism and appearance. While the stereotypical witches might traverse the streets and stores of Boise during a certain season of the
year, other witches reside in Boise and practice their craft on a daily basis.
“People think that we are uneducated and always think of us as old devil worship-pers,” said Woventear, leader of the Treasure Valley Witch-es Gathering and owner of the magically inclined store, Bella’s Grove. “The word witch means healer, and that’s what we do. We heal the Earth, people, animals and plants.”
Woventear doesn’t la-bel herself as Wiccan and doesn’t believe in some of the main teachings of the Wicca faith. She instead calls herself a shamanistic witch
and pagan.“Wicca as a religion is
fairly young, and I would say that I am older than the Wiccan religion,” Woventear said.
She stressed that her main goals as a witch are to nur-ture the earth, live green and honor the nature gods and goddesses that she holds dear.
“We are one with the uni-verse,” Woventear said. “We are all the elements: water, fire, earth and air. We try to partner with them as much as possible.”
Comparing her faith to the community work of Christi-anity, Woventear explained
that her group raises money to help pay the rent of those in need and cares for trou-bled pets in the Treasure Val-ley area. Just like many other religious groups, Woventear has set up a food bank and lending library for members of her community in the Treasure Valley.
Woventear believes in the ability to facilitate the change in energy around a person. This means, in basic terms, the usage of spells, manifestations and visions.
“As long as you follow the rules and the laws of the uni-verse and accept responsibil-ity for what you do, then you should be able to do whatev-er you like,” Woventear said.
According to Woventear, this might include spells, hexes and curses based on the belief system of individ-ual witches.
Past Boise State business major and current College of Western Idaho education major, Ryan Emry, didn’t realize that witches did, in fact, live in Boise. Upon first hearing the term “witch”, he thought of costumed Hal-loween witches.
“I have heard of Wic-cans and pagans, but don’t know much about their practices,” Emry said. “If I were to guess, they are very connected with nature and use spells and rituals for praying and spiritual pur-poses.”
Emry’s assumptions aren’t too far off, though the belief systems of most witches are much more complex than a general assumption might shape them to be.
Woventear personally teaches a variety of topics to her groups and classes,
including the different me-chanics of spell work, the laws of the universe and quantum physics, and the concept of nonlinear time.
“You can be a witch and not Wiccan, and you can be Wiccan and not a witch. It’s very extensive,” Woventear said.
Woventear’s apprentices practice meditation.
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nightmares every Boise State football fan wants to forget
Nate LowerySports & Rec Editor
Despite the current suc-cesses of the Broncos pro-grams and the passage of time these moments in Boise State athletics his-tory still leave fans with a twinge of fear.1984 Governor’s Trophy
While few Boise State fans pay any attention to the formal rivalry with Ida-ho today, the Vandals can still hold onto the 1984 matchup between the two schools.
With the Broncos lead-ing the all-time series 8-4-1, Boise State seemed assured to continue that streak on The Blue.
However, Idaho would end up achieving a shutout over the Broncos 37-0 in what still stands as one of the worst home losses in Boise State history. Brotzman missed two
Score-wise, this isn’t the
worst loss in Boise State history, but it’s hard to ar-gue that this was not the most devastating defeat the Broncos have suffered this century.
On the verge of their second straight BCS berth, and third in five years, the Broncos seemed poised to beat Nevada. Instead, Colin Kaepernick led the Wolf Pack from a 17-point deficit at halftime for an overtime win. Boise State kicker Kyle Brotzman missed a field goal at the end of regulation, and then another one in overtime.
The Broncos fell from their No. 3 national rank-ing down to No. 11 and were relegated to the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl. Since then, Boise State has never been ranked higher than No. 5 nationally.Goodale’s turn
Then freshman kicker Dan Goodale built off of Brotzman’s nightmare the following season. With the Broncos ranked fifth in the nation and in the conver-sation for going to a BCS bowl, a showdown against TCU seemed like the next
step in a dream season.The Horned Frogs’
quarterback Casey Pachall was able to outduel Kellen Moore with five touch-downs to Moore’s two.
Third-string running back Drew Wright fumbled the ball with the Broncos in scoring position, allow-ing Pachall to drive TCU downfield and go up 36-35 with 55 seconds left.
Moore managed to get the Broncos in scoring position, but Goodale’s 39-yard field goal attempt sailed right as time ex-pired.
The loss was Boise State’s first on The Blue in 35 games and Moore’s only loss in Boise. December 2013
Last December is a month Boise State fans likely wish to forget.
On Dec. 6, long time football coach Chris Pe-tersen, the driving force behind the Broncos’ rise to the national level, quietly left Boise to take the head coach position at the Uni-versity of Washington.
In Petersen’s absence, in-terim coach Bob Gregory led the Broncos to Hawaii for the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.
There, starting quarter-back Joe Southwick was sent home in disgrace af-ter alledgedly urinating off of a hotel balcony. From there, Boise State’s trip to Hawaii spiraled down-ward.
Ball control issues led to a 38-23 Oregon State route that dropped the Broncos to 8-5 to finish the season.
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Bronco Roundup
Broncos have future rival in Fresno State
Women’s VolleyballThe Boise State women’s
volleyball team dropped two games during the past week-end’s road trip.
The Broncos were first swept by Colorado State on Oct. 23 and then lost a
3-2 match to Wyoming on Oct. 25.
Colorado State is unde-feated in conference play this season.
The two losses dropped the Broncos to tied for sixth with Air Force and Utah State in the MW.
The Lowery Lowdown is a comprehensive sports column written by Sports & Rec editor Nate Lowery.
Last Friday’s contest against BYU proved why the Cougars are Boise State’s chief rival in football.
The Broncos could poten-tially see another rival forming to the south in Colorado State.
With the restructured MW ending Boise State’s annual series against historic rivals Fresno State and Nevada and the Idaho rivalry being dead since 2010, Bronco fans are deprived of the breadth of tra-dition schools such as Notre Dame and Alabama have in rivalry match ups.
Since Jim McElwain, Nick Saban’s former offensive co-ordinator at Alabama during two of the Crimson Tide’s na-tional championship seasons, took over as the head coach in Fort Collins, the Rams have seen rapid growth in the program.
Since 2012, Colorado State has improved with each pass-ing season. Currently, the Rams are 7-1 and just on the outskirts of a Top 25 rank-
ing. If Boise State loses at all this season, and the Rams continue their five-game win streak, the Broncos will fold to Colorado State for the sec-ond annual MW Conference Championship Game.
McElwain’s SEC swag-ger, coupled with an annual matchup between the two schools, could see the Boise State-Colorado State games turn into a regular skirmish.
Despite only five games against BYU, Boise State was able to develop a rivalry with the Cougars for two reasons: geographic proximity and equal level of talent.
Boise State and Colorado State share both of those ele-ments as well.
Only 11 hours of asphalt separate the two campuses. McElwain has steadily in-creased the Ram’s appeal to recruits as well, increasing the talent level.
Albertsons Stadium was able to draw a crowd of 34,910 fans for this year’s showdown between the schools earlier this year. Ex-pect that number to be higher in 2016.
Women’s GolfWomen’s golf was able to
end their fall season in a dra-matic fashion.
While in Hawaii at the Rainbow Wahine Invitation-al, the team finished second overall.
Broncos Genevieve Ling and Samantha Martin fin-ished third and fourth as in-dividuals respectively.
The team will now take a four month break before re-turning to action at the Juli Inkster Spartan Invitational on Feb. 23.
Swimming and DivingBoise State’s swimming
and diving teams are on the road to a repeat of their MW Championship continues with a trip to Corvallis, Or-egon on Halloween night.
The Broncos will attempt to beat Pac-12 foe Oregon State to extend their streak of wins over the Pac-12.
Boise State defeated Utah, 156.5-143.5 earlier this month on Oct. 8.
Men’s TennisBoise State’s men’s tennis
team will continue their fall season with a trip down to Las Vegas this coming weekend.
The team will be competing in the Larry Easley Memorial Classic in a tuneup meet for
the USTA/ITA National In-door Championships.
The tournament will run from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2.
Boise State had no trouble dispatching the Rebels earlier this month at the ITA Moun-tain Regional.
Women’s SoccerAfter spending the past
month struggling in the MW, head coach Jim Thom-as was finally able to get the team back on track this past weekend.
The Broncos shut out both Nevada and UNLV in 2-0 wins on Oct. 24 and 26.
With those wins, Boise State sits in sixth place in the MW heading into their final game against Utah State on Halloween night.
If the Broncos can notch a win over the Aggies, Boise State would qualify for the MW Championship Tour-nament to be held in San Diego, Nov. 4-8.
Boise State athletics enters the final stretch of the fall season
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horoscopes
tic tac toe
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Aries- Today is the day to find love. Turn to the person that you sit next to in class and repeat these words: “Would you like to have some of the spaghetti I stuffed in my pocket?”
Taurus- You will fi-nally give in and break your oath to live a healthier life. Start first by visiting your nearest Panda Ex-press and asking for orange chicken, noth-ing more. Your sacri-fice to the stars will be duly noted, result-ing in future riches.
Gemini- Despite your best efforts to be a well-rounded per-son, you are stretch-ing yourself too thin. The best course of action you can take is to follow around one person for the rest of the week. Don’t let them get more than five feet away from you.
Cancer- The stars are in your favor to-day. Do you have some sort of test to-day? Yes? Perfect! Forget everything you did to study for the test. Instead, go in and write the first word you think of.
Leo- It’s time to put an end to your abra-
sive personality. In-stead of arguing and becoming frustrated with someone, give them a hug. While they are distracted by your sudden dis-play of affection, put a “kick me” sign on their back.
Virgo- You are go-ing to break down into tears today. It could be from watch-ing the latest episode of “The Bachelor,” or maybe because you didn’t get to sit next to your crush in class. Get over it and grab some tissues.
Libra- Despite feel-ing shy, today you will be overcome by a bout of bravery. Put your big boy pants on and attempt to steal the “B” in front of the Admin Build-ing. Your “friends” will try to stop you, but you must have faith in yourself.
Scorpio- Your pro-crastination and fear of professing your love finally catches up to you. Instead of taking charge of your life, you watch help-lessly as that random person in the SUB swoops in and steals your bae.
Sagittarius- You will struggle to com-
municate with people today. While others are able to carry out eloquent conversa-tions, you will be reverted to nothing more than a bum-bling mess that wan-ders out on the Blue and moo—all night long.
Capricorn- Is all of the money that you spend on cosmetics and hair products re-ally worth it, I mean re-ally? Instead of wast-ing time and money on your appearance, forgo showering for a week to revitalize your body.
Aquarius- Nature is calling: Are you going to answer the call? It is time for you to walk out on civilized life and go on a three-day vision quest out in the middle of the woods. Once you reach Reno, you may return to civilized life.
Pisces- Childhood dreams are a great way to live. Ditch that big boy suit and those shiny shoes and get back into that Spider-man onesie you still have in your closet. At first people will stare, but eventually they will join you and revo-lutionize the world. Welcome to the new age.
Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
What goes in the water brown and comes out red?
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