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5 keys to the U.S. economy to watch in 2015Kevin G. HallMcClatchy WashingtonBureauMCT Wire Service

Ask five economists what they expect for 2015 and youre likely to get scores of answers. Dont fret: Weve narrowed it down to five pivotal issues that will decide just how strong the U.S. economy grows this year.

Interest ratesSometime this year the Fed

is likely to raise rates, which

will ripple through all sorts of lending.

By the middle of the year, we expect the unemploy-ment rate will be closing in on 5.5 percent and the inflation rate will be between 1.5 per-cent and 1.75 percent but on the rise, said Chris Varvares, senior managing director of Macroeconomic Advisers in St. Louis.

The Fed meets eight times a year, and the most likely time frame for a rate hike is its fourth meeting, set for June, Varvares said, though it could raise rates by a quarter of a percentage point in any or all of the four meetings that will come after.

The expansion has seemed

to be so tentative, even fragile, that you have to be at least a little concerned about what the response will be to rising rates, said Varvares. If the rise in rates were to slow the increase in home prices or knock down the stock market, then it would be a negative for consumer spending. And thats pretty much the foundation of eco-nomic growth.

Oil pricesThe drop in oil prices has

been akin to a massive and

welcome tax break for con-sumers. The AAA Motor Club estimates Americans spent $14 billion less on fuel last year than they did in 2013.

It would not be surprising for U.S. consumers to save $50 to $75 billion on gasoline in 2015 if prices remain low, said Michael Green, a AAA spokes-man.

But there are risks for the economy in the plummeting prices. For one, energy com-panies are almost certain to cut back their drilling plans, with impacts on hiring and equip-ment coming quickly.

I fear the recent plunge in oil prices will prove most damag-ing to the economy in the near-term as capital spending bud-gets are scaled back, said Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Char-lotte, N.C. The benefits from lower gasoline prices will take longer to show up.

That will have a negative ef-fect on the nations gross do-mestic product, he suggested.

Thats because the five larg-est energy-producing states Texas, North Dakota, Okla-homa, New Mexico and Colo-rado accounted for about 25 percent of the growth in GDP last year. Their outsized contributions to growth will slow; the rise in consumer spending from lower gasoline prices will offset some of that but not all.

HousingThe U.S. economy is firing

again on most cylinders ex-cept housing.

The 5.12 million home sales reported by the National As-

sociation of Realtors in No-vember were 3.8 percent below a year earlier, and tight credit makes it difficult for many Americans to get mortgages.

Thats one of the things that have held back the recovery so far, said Gus Faucher, senior economist at Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services.

Faucher anticipates a grad-ual increase in the number of single-family home starts, signaling an intent to build a new house, in 2015, to about 725,000 for the year, up from the 646,000 starts that had been recorded for 2014 through October.

I dont think were going to get a boom in homebuilding, he said. But certainly there is room for gradual improve-ment.

Household formationThis is a fancy way of re-

ferring to people moving in together, as couples or room-mates, and forming new households. After the Great Recession, many young people

remained living in their par-ents homes or crowded into apartments together.

I expect household forma-tion to substantively pick up in 2015 as millennials break away from their parents and strike out on their own, said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moodys Analytics in West Chester, Pa.

Global eventsEvents in faraway places mat-

ter, but theyre unlikely to de-rail the U.S. recovery. Thats be-cause exports account for only 13 percent of the economy. In fact, slower growth abroad may, in a perverse way, benefit the U.S. economy.

Yes, its a vulnerability, but a limited vulnerability, said Nariman Behravesh, the chief economist for IHS Global Insight in Cambridge, Mass. Weakness in the rest of the world can be good news for the U.S. It could lower commodity prices even further, helping to keep inflation and interest rates low.

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Winter Break cut short at Boise StateLeslie Boston-HydeCopy Editor

With winter comes shorter days and, for Boise State, it now means a shorter break.

This year Boise State had its shortest winter break in 10 years, lasting only three weeks instead of four.

While the change may have seemed sudden to students, the Calendar Committee has been discussing it for a few years.

I think whats always driv-ing the calendar changes is trying to keep the university as productive as possible, le-veraging our resources and

our facilities to the extent that we can, said Mark Wheeler, Dean of extended studies and former member of the Calen-der Committee.

The committee presented the Alternative Academic Calendar Committee Report to the Faculty Senate back in December of 2011. The report explored the possibility of the university adapting a year-round calendar.

According to Wheeler, a year-round calendar would require faculty and students to attend a summer semester.

In the end, the institution decided not to go down this continuum, to year-round,

Wheeler said. I do think it started the discussion about, What can we do to make the campus be more productive year-round without necessar-ily going to the point of requir-ing students or faculty to par-ticipate in summer?

Instead, the university cut a week of winter break to extend summer session.

I think there is a feeling that moving a week from winter break to the summer expanse, that (the) week would better be utilized, Wheeler said.

Since winter break was only three weeks, students did not have the opportunity to take intersession classes.

According to Wheeler, ap-proximately 800 students en-

rolled in intersession courses in previous years. Fall and spring semesters have over 20,000 students while sum-mer sessions tend to see 8,000 to 9,000 students.

Due to the higher attendance of summer sessions, Extended Studies hopes to make up for the finances lost from the lack of intersession this year.

Summer session will now be 14 weeks, according to Wheeler this will allow stu-dents to work longer during the summer and take more classes, as well as allowing fac-ulty to spend more time con-ducting research.

For sophomore Abby Fili-

cetti, health science major, the shortened winter break means more opportunities during the summer.

I think its easier to work in the summer if its longer , Filcetti said. I do more stuff in the summer like traveling.

Other students, like fifth-year biology major Tara Low-ery, were not so pleased with the change.

I dont think it gives you time to spend with your fam-ily, to have vacation and have a break from school thats needed to debrief before you jump back into it, Lowery said. Summer break is already long.

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I think there is a feeling that moving a week from winter break to the summer

expanse, that (the) week would better be utilized.

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Bird is the word: $10,000 grant sends Robinson to AlaskaSean BunceAsst. News Editor

In 2013, the Peregrine Fund began collaborating on a research project with Boise State to help increase a general understanding about the gyr-falcon and how its affected by climate change.

Bryce Robinson, a gradu-ate student from Boise States raptor biology program, was awarded a $10,000 grant to support research for his mas-ters thesis on gyrfalcons in Alaska, along with co-author David Anderson, a recent grad-uate of the program.

Robinsons thesis is titled, Gyrfalcon diet during the

nestling period on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska.

The study uses motion acti-vated cameras placed in gyrfal-con nests, which allows Robin-son to start developing a data set for the future implications of climate change and its effect on the gyrfalcon diet during mating season.

We are beginning to re-search the gyrfalcon now so that we better understand these relationships and how changes are and will be impacting the gyrfalcon, Robinson said. My research is focused on the diet during the most trying time for gyrfalcon populationsthe chick rearing period.

He will be looking to better

understand what gyrfalcons use for food during this time and how any fluctuations in the populations of these species will impact the gyrfalcons abil-ity to reproduce.

The gyrfalcon isnt federally or state listed as endangered. However, it depends heavily on one source of food during its mating seasona bird called the ptarmigan.

It also lives in a system where climate change is already hav-ing an impact, which means it stands to be sensitive to the changes that are happening on the Seward Peninsula.

According to Robinson, theres an advancement of snow melt dates, increases in

winter and spring precipita-tion, increased shrubification and an advancement of the tree-line.

The gyrfalcons range is re-stricted to high latitude, tree-less tundra, Robinson said. As such, it faces habitat loss caused by climatic changes.

The grant is through the Ep-pley Foundation for Research and will go toward funding lo-gistical expenses.

Conducting field work in the Arctic is extremely chal-lenging and costly, mainly be-cause of the access issues, Rob-inson said. Theres relatively no one up there and theres not many roads, so when youre studying a species thats spread

over a wide geographic area in low concentrations its difficult to obtain the sample sizes you would need to do what you want to do.

Last year Robinson was in Alaska from May until August, scouting nests and setting up cameras. He expects to be there during the same time this year.

Im kind of a general bird nerd and apart from the gyr-falcon, which is a species that very few people get to see oncelet alone mul-tiple times in a year or even in their lifetime, western Alaska is just a great place to be if youre into birds in general, Robinson said.

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Boise State strives to resolve students needsAlx StickelNews Editor

In the spirit of New Years resolutions, provost Martin Schimpf said Boise State has resolved to focus on the follow-ing:Hire a new founding dean for School of Public Service.

The state of Idaho and the State Board of Education have tasked Boise State with lead-ing education in public policy. Now, with new resources and restructuring for the School of Public Service, that can happen more effectively. The school just needs a dean.

This person has to be a real good collaborator, has to be able to reach out to a range of disciplines from political sci-ence to economics, commu-nity planners that can build this Ph.D. program and create flexibility in it for not just build-ing the basic understanding of policy issues but also allowing students to focus on one of a broad range of areas around policy, Shimpf said.Continue developing the College of Innova-tion and Design.

One area includes incorpo-rating Bridge to Career into the college. The goal of Bridge to Career is to help students fill

in the gaps in their education and experience so they can be-come employed in their cho-sen career field.

Schimpf provided the exam-ple that graduating scientists or engineers have very good skills in the discipline and can do very well when put on a proj-ect, however employers also need them to lead and commu-nicate better.

Over the break, Gordon Jones was hired as dean of the College of Innovation and Design. Jones developed the Harvard Innovation Lab, a program where students work on team-based projects and get connected with the commu-nity, both of which are goals of

the college.Offer a revamped lead-ership certificate.

After seeking proposals for programs to be offered within the College of Innovation and Design, Schimpf said a few fac-ulty members came forward with the idea and proposal of a leadership certificate that would be easily accessible for students across a variety of dis-ciplines.

Schimpf thinks the cer-tificate will look good on a students resume and show employers who are interested in leadership skills that Boise State students are getting train-ing in that area.

Expand online pro-grams.

New online degrees offered include radiological sciences, general studies and social work. Students will have better access and flexibility when working around other commitments such as work and family.Utilize a new degree tracker.

Last year Boise States four-year degree programs were developed for all degrees and incorporated into this system. With this information, the new tool will keep an eye on students who might get off their graduation time line track.

Responses:

Below, see what students want the univesity to ad-dress. The question: What should Boise State resolve to ad-dress this year?

More places to get food at night. The closest one to us is Chaffee Hall, because were in Lincoln, so

when its freezing cold and 10 p.m. at night you have to trek all the way.

- Alyssa Raisis, first year geology graduate student

Maybe in the Boise River Cafe ... I dont like the food sometimes. I think it should be more fresh.

- Fernando Martinez, freshman, business major

Id say more outdoor programs, more things like fishing, skiing, stuff like that. Thats stuff I like to do. If they do that stuff it would put (Boise State) in the

books better.- Tucker Jockam, freshman, nursing major

I second that (Alyssa Raisis) and I also think that food

around campus, the meal replacement option should be greater.

I know weve done some work in that regard but a lot of times its

still kind of sub-par in terms of quantity compared to what you

get here at the Boise River Cafe.

- Daniel Ryan, sophomore, health science studies

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Patty BowenCulture Editor

The word Canada often evokes the image of a mountie riding a moose into the woods, drinking maple syrup and get-ting ready for a game of hock-ey.

Although some students may think of their neighbors to the north in stereotypical terms like these, the Canadian studies minor offers a differ-ent illustration of the country to students exploring North American relations, politics and bipartisanship.

Its like a well-kept secret, said Norman Weinstein, pro-fessor in the Canadian studies minor. (Canadian studies) want to bring an awareness of what Canada is to students who often see it as a suburb of this country.

How to apply Canadian studies to your academic ca-reer

Weinstein explained that students usually stumble upon the Canadian studies minor and continue taking its classes if their first experience with it was good.

This is exactly what hap-pened to senior political sci-ence major, Taylor Kaserman. She wanted a minor, and found that Canadian studies was something she enjoyed after taking a class. Kaserman feels that Canadian studies classes connect students personally to a broad understanding of what Canada is both culturally and politically.

The class was more about open discussion: this is how things are in Canada, this is how art is portrayed in Can-ada, this is how music comes

out in Canada, why do think that is compared to American culture? Kaserman said. Our own experiences came into play when we were in class and in the discussion.

This made the minor enjoy-able for Kaserman. She feels that the minor can be a no-brainer for students who are already studying in a field that is connected to the minor. The Canadian studies minor offers credit for specific classes in the fields of anthropology, French and political science.

Thats why I liked it. Its a good, broad minor, Kaserman said.

How Canadian studies cre-ates a greater understanding of our North American poli-tics

According to Weinstein, the minor also creates a better understanding of how North

The police force of Toronto is larger in populat ion than the ent ire army of Canada.

The bear cub residing in the London Zoo that A.A. Milne based Winnie-the-Pooh was exported

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America works as a whole. This makes the minor pertinent for students who want to get into politics or work in a field that connects the countries.

Canada is our neigh-bor, Weinstein said. (Be-ing a Canadian studies minor) deepens students crit-ical thinking about the foreign country closest to their state border.

Weinstein feels that this con-nection is extremely impor-tant now because of the ratifi-cation of The North American Fair Trade Agreement, a trilat-eral trade agreement between Canada, The United States and Mexico, several years ago and its creation of a greater un-derstanding of North America and its interests.

Were moving away from thinking of something called American studies and more

towards North American studies, Weinstein said. Im always encouraging students to think in terms of North America as one economic po-litical unit to analyze and inter-act with.

Differences in political terms between Canada and the United States

Weinstein feels that the stark contrast in how the United States and Canada have car-ried out relations with Cuba over the last century creates a prime example of how Canada operates on a more liberal po-litical level than the United States.

Ironically, Weinstein ad-mits that as America becomes more liberal under President Obamas administration, Canada becomes more con-servative under the Prime Minister Stephen Harpers

administrationSo here is this funny com-

plex dance that Id say up to the 20th century there was no question that across the board Canada was the more liberal country, Weinstein said. In the 21st century were getting this weird reversal.

Weinstein explained that understanding this dance of liberalism and conservatism between the two neighboring countries can be important to understanding bipartisanship as a whole.

To be very conservative in Canada is not the same thing as being very conservative in the United States, Weinstein said. Canada presents this case study of how the terms liberal and conservative take on different means.

In the past, Boise State Ca-nadian studies minors have

used their knowledge of Ca-nadian politics and geography to work with the Canadian government or go to graduate school in Canada.

For students who are in-terested in being a Canadian studies minor but dont have the class space this semes-ter, Weinstein recommends checking out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Canada.

I begin my courses with a travel book. Whats really wonderful about the DK Eye-witness travel book is that it gives you a feel for the whole country to the point that, if you were going to take a coast to coast north to south trip, this would give you a sense of how to plan it, Weinstein said. This is ultimately where I go with my courses; I would like someone to leave my course and go to Canada.

Canadian studies classes:CANSTD 301 Investigating Cana-

da: A Preliminary Survey

CANSTD 302 Controversial Is-sues in Contemporary Canada

ANTH 307 Indians of North America

ANTH 312 Prehistory of North America

FRENCH 202 Intermediate French II

FRENCH 485 The Francophone World Today

POLIS 327 Canadian Politics

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Donut let the new location scare youPatty BowenCulture Editor

Eating locally just got a lit-tle easier with Guru Donuts and Boise Fry Companys belated opening of their new downtown location.

On Jan. 9, both Boise Fry Company and Guru Donuts had a soft unannounced opening of their restaurants with plans of a grand open-ing in the upcoming weeks. The soft opening was several weeks behind the originally

estimated opening date in early December.

Its like a wedding. You always need an extra week to plan, said Angel Moran, co-owner of Guru Donuts.

According to Moran, the renovation took longer than expected. The new location was a historic building and therefore required more steps to ensure it was being treated with the utmost care.

The whole philosophy behind (the Boise Fry Com-panys) business is to take

things back to their original roots, Moran said. We did all the little details that en-hanced the historic building instead of just covering it up.

Both Moran and Matt Gilkerson, Marketing Man-ager of Boise Fry Company, feel that, although the reno-vations took longer than they had thought, the experi-ence was like archaeology and proved to make the lo-cation more suitable for the two restaurants.

Although both restaurants

will be making few changes to their original menus, Boi-se Fry Company and Guru Donuts plan to use the larger space as a way to expand on the menus they already have.

(The Guru Donut menu) changes and tweaks every-day. We spontaneously make it on the fly because we like it to stay creative, Moran said. I empower our staff to play and see what they come up with.

Before this permanent location, Moran explained that it was not possible for Guru Donuts to explore and experience as many different donut flavors as it wanted to. For example, she is hoping to start looking into making donuts with potato as a main ingredient.

Today there are a lot of places that use mash pota-toes as a base, Moran said. I hope to then play with a gluten-free flour.

Boise Fry Company will also be working on expand-ing their line of natural house sodas with new flavors like apple pie and mojito.

This collaboration is an unusual thing to happen. In-stead of competing with each other youre enhancing each other, said Moran. As far as I know, other than a food court, in Boise you dont re-ally have a place where you can see two businesses side by side.

Moran and Gilkerson agree that this collaboration will help create a venue for more community involve-

ment within Boise. That being said, Gilkerson feels the real reason these two restaurants will work so well together is because of their common philosophy.

Its not about the burger, its not about the donut, Gilkerson said. Were not reinventing the food. Were just taking it and doing it how we want and think it should be done. It was really great to find that Guru had such a similar philosophy.

The Guru Donut and Boise Fry Company collabo-ration is located on 204 N. Capitol Blvd.

You dont have to sit down, you dont have to have a fork, you dont have to have a napkin, although we do recommend it, said Moran.

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Local Events to look forward to in spring semesterPatty Bowen Culture Editor

Arts and Humanities Institutes The Idea of Nature public lecture series

The lecture series will focus on interdisciplinary answers to big picture ques-tions with three main topic each addressed in one of these lectures:

Feb. 18: The Wolf Trap: Entering the Woods through Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar, a John L. Loeb professor of folklore and mythology at Harvard University.

March 19: Nature: From

Howling Wilderness to the Call of the Wild by David Lowenthal, professor emeri-tus of the Department of Ge-ography at University Col-lege London.

April 23: The Nature of a Spacious Life by Rebecca Kneale Gould, senior lectur-er in environmental studies.Family of Woman Film Festival, Feb. 24-25

For the first time, films from the annual Family of Woman Film Festival will be brought to Boise State for the enjoyment of students. Both films will be shown at the Special Events Center on campus for free.

Former astronauts, Bar-bara Morgan and Anousheh Ansari, will speak at the screening of Sepideh on Feb. 25. Sepideh is a documentary detailing the struggle an Iranian girl faces while trying to become an astronaut.

Nigerian human rights ac-tivist Hafsat Abiola and film-maker Joanna Lipper will appear at the screening of The Supreme Price on Feb. 27. The Supreme Price is a documentary focused on the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and the push for more woman to become in-volved in politics in Nigeria.TreeForts Hackfort

March 25-29For students who want

the TreeFort experience but want none of the price, HackFort creates a unique opportunity to learn and be part of the festival. HackFort will focus on supercomput-ers, big data, software de-sign and app development. HackFort panels will be held at Boise State locations and will be free for students.Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Mar-garet Atwood, April 8

Canadian writer Marga-ret Atwood known for The Handmaids Tale, Cats Eye, Alias Grace and The

Blind Assassin will be visit-ing Boise State. Atwoods lecture will be part of the Distinguished Lecture Series which is presented by Boise

States Honors College.For more information of

events, visit Events.Boises-tate.edu or News.Boisestate.edu/updates

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5x5 Reading Series starts season, finds new homePatty BowenCulture Editor

To read or not to read, that is the question, thought no one at the Boise Contemporary Theaters 5x5 Reading Series ever.

The string of dramatic play readings gives Boise residents the unique expe-rience of hearing contem-porary plays from up-and-coming playwrights. The readings are somewhat personal because of the talkbacks which include au-dience feedback and ques-tions.

Unlike in previous sea-

sons, the 21 season of 5x5 Reading Series will offer two readings of each con-temporary play because of the added location at the Nampas Flying M. Helene Peterson, managing direc-tor at the BCT, feels that this will not only increase the audiences abilities to attend but will create an op-portunity for playwrights to get more feedback on their work.

As our audience grows, and as Boise grows, we wanted to expand the 5x5 and also give (plays) a sec-ond opportunity in front of an audience to assist the

playwrights in their pro-cess, Peterson said.

This seasons first reading will be New Eden by Boise playwright and Boise State 2007 theatre arts graduate, Heidi Kraay. According to Kraay, this Montana-based drama is filled with themes of survival, desperation and primitivism.

New Eden is about a man who is at the end of his rope, who hears a call from God to start a new paradise on earth and decides to fol-low it, Kraay said. (New Eden deals with ideas of ) what we do for what we be-lieve, and if hope is some-thing we can find inside of ourselves or if it is an out-

side force.Kraay feels that New

Eden creates threads of thought that can be eas-ily relatable for college students who have thought more deeply about their place within society.

Trying to figure out what you believe and what you feel in life (is impor-tant to New Eden), Kraay said. A lot of these charac-ters feel isolated. The world is against them and they have to overcome that; I think that those are things that we all deal with.

Despite this relatability of plot, a large part of the

inspiration for New Eden spawned into existence due to personal experi-ences and people within Kraays life.

(The inspiration) comes from monsters Ive known in my life, or in myself, and my relationship with try-ing to figure out things I believe or dont believe, Kraay said. What the rea-sons are, and how to find empathy with people that I dont know if Id want to find empathy with.

Kraays 5x5 reading will be held Jan. 12 at the BCT at 7p.m. and Jan. 13 at the Nampa Flying M at 7p.m.

Heidi Kraay

Trying to figure out what you believe and what you feel in life (is important to New Eden). A lot of these characters feel isolated. The world is against them and they have to overcome that; I think that those are things that we all deal with.

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New year, new fitnessLeslie Boston-HydeCopy Editor

Countless students charge into the new year with a resolution to change, many of which are related to fitness.

According to Abby McEl-ligott, fitness programs co-ordinator at the Rec Center, January tends to be the busi-est month at the gym.

However, as weeks turn into months, many people become discouraged by the lack of results on the scale.

I think the world of fit-ness can be incredibly overwhelming, McElligott said. I think that if youre just starting out, heading straight onto the weight floor is probably going to

be really intimidating, and that experience might scare people away.

The Rec Center offers many options for those who want to kick off the new year by being healthier.Personal Training

There are three options for personal trainingin-dividual, buddy, and small group. Costs range from $22 to $28 for individual training, depending on the number of sessions pur-chased. Trainers provide in-dividualized exercise plans for people to meet personal goals. There will be seven personal trainers available in the spring.

(Its) a great place to go with really knowledgeable staff that can get (people)

more comfortable with go-ing to the weight floor, to the rock wall, to the fitness classes on their own, McEl-ligott said.Group Exercise

The Rec Center has a large variety of free, drop-in exercise classes.

I think that group exer-cise is probably the best place to start, McElligott said. The classes are built so that theyre applicable to people of all fitness levels.

Classes range in genre from Zumba and yoga to cy-cling and aqua fit, giving fit-ness fans a plethora of pos-sibilities. By joining a group exercise class, a newcomer can build relationships with fellow classmates and find social support for exercise.

Faculty can also take ad-vantage of group exercise. Last semester, a group of faculty members partici-pated in Lift, a lifting class, during their lunch break.

Theyre totally friends, and its really cute to see. Theyve created that social support and that bond, McElligott said.

According to McElligott, setting realistic goals can help keep people motivated at the gym and eventually lead to the healthier lifestyle that many resolve to on New Years.

If fitness is the first goal, its starting slow. I just need to get in the gym twice a week, as opposed to focus-ing on the number on the scale, McElligott said.

Bryan Harsin: The Hero Broncos Needed

Lowery Lowdown is a Boise-centered column written by Sports & Rec Editor Nate Lowery.

Rumor has it Boise State head football coach Bryan Har-sin has a cape hidden in his of-fice at the Bleimeyer Football Complex. If so, it would explain many things.

After previous head coach Chris Petersen took Boise State to new heights with a 92-12 record over eight seasons and two Fiesta Bowl wins, many doubted the Broncos ability to be a contender on the national level.

Attendance ratings were down, fan interest was at an all-time low and an air of compla-cency wafted around the newly constructed football complex.

In his departure however, Petersen announced his move to Washington and the Pac-12 would be the catalyst Boise State needed to return to the high level of play the Broncos were accustomed to.

Two days later when Harsin was formally announced as the Petersens replacement at Boise State, the Broncos ascen-

sion into the national spotlight would continue.

While many praised Harsin for doing things the Boise way and predicted him to run the program like his former mentor Petersen, Harsin in-stead did the opposite.

Harsin jumped straight into the community. Whether it be talking with students in the dining hall, posing for photos with fans on the Blue or allow-ing tours into the Bleimeyer Football Complex, Bronco Na-tion became invested in their new coach.

The same went for the players.

Harsin let the players express themselves in ways Petersen hadnt. The social media bans were lifted and players celebrat-ed the wins.

In turn, the Broncos re-turned to Glendale, Arizona and won the programs third Fiesta Bowl.

Excitement for the Boise State brand is only rising. Just as the 2006 season was a step-ping stone to national stardom, 2014 will be a stepping stone to even more success in Boise.

How to achieve your New Years fitness resolutions

A group fitness class works out.

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This route travels between the Harris Ranch area and downtown Boise. It makes three round trips in the morning and three round trips in the afternoon.

What you missed over breakBrandon WaltonAsst. Sports Editor

FootballIn case students have been

living under a rock the past few weeks, the Broncos won their third Fiesta Bowl in nine years. Boise State defeated Arizona 38-30 in a dramatic fashion and capped off one of the most remarkable seasons in school history.

First year head coach Bry-an Harsin was able to take the reigns from former head coach Chris Petersen and re-turn the program to national prominence.Mens basketball

The break hasnt been too kind to the Broncos as they are currently on a four game slide. Even worse, have start-ed 0-3 in a very competitive MW conference.

The schedule doesnt get any easier for them. Tough games against UNLV and New Mexico still loom on the horizon. The one posi-tive note for the Broncos is the play of senior guard Derrick Marks who has aver-aged 18.3 points over the last three games. Boise State will be back in action when they host UNLV on Tuesday.Womens basketball

The womens team, on the

other hand, has won five out of their last six. The Broncos were on a five game winning streak until their most recent lost to Wyoming. They are 3-1 in MW play, including a marquee victory over the pre-dicted preseason conference champion Colorado State.

Boise State has been led by senior guard Deanna Weaver who is averaging 14 points a game. The Broncos will look to get back to their winning ways when they visit UNLV on Wednesday.Wrestling

Its been a tough start to the season for the wrestling team. The Broncos got run

out of their own building in a 31-3 loss to conference foe Oregon State. They followed up with a mediocre finish at the Reno Tournament of Champions. Boise State finished in 17th place. The Broncos did rebound, how-ever, with a 32-15 win over Northern Colorado.

A surprise this season has been the performance of true freshman Geordan Martinez who is ranked in the top ten at 141. Boise State will con-tinue their road trip when they visit South Dakota State on Jan. 16.Swimming and Diving

The Broncos placed first at the USD Relay meet in San Diego. However, Boise State suffered their first dual loss of the season, 158-141 to Denver. The swimming team has been anchored by the one-two punch of sopho-

more Brittany Aoyama and junior Sam Wicks. On the diving side, its been sopho-more Jordan Marthens lead-ing the charge. The Broncos will look to get back to their winning ways when they host Wyoming on Jan. 24.

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hoots & giggles

multiplayer dot game

dot game rulesPlayers take turns to join two adjacent dots with a horizontal or vertical line. If a player completes the last side of a

box they initial that box and then draw another line. When all the boxes have been completed the winner is the player

who has initialled the most boxes.

fun facts january recipes1. 63 percent of Idaho is public land. Shoshone Falls (212 feet), near Twin Falls, drops 52 feet further than Niagara Falls.

2. Theodor Geisel was caught drinking gin as a Dartmouth under-grad and forced to resign from the college humor magazine, so he started contributing under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss.

3. Tupac never won a Grammy, he actually recieved more awards after death.

How To Make A Blueberry Brain Boost Smoothie

Ingredients: 1 cup of fresh-pressed apple juice, 1 ripe banana, 1 1/2 cups of frozen blueberries, 1/2 raspberries, 1/4 cup of walnuts.Directions:Combine the apple juice and banana in a blender. Add

the blueberries, raspberries, and walnuts. Blend until smooth.