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TONY ROGERSJournalist

With the recent cold weather and exces-sive rain, I was bound to get sick sooner or later. I was taking precautions, trying to stay healthy by being more active, and washing my hands. !ings we should be doing anyways, but sure enough, I came down with a high fever last !ursday. To make a long story short, my symptoms kept getting worse until I "nally decided to go to the hospital Saturday. !ere they told me what I had feared all along. I had indeed caught the famous H1N1, better

known as swine #u.Lovely.!at brings us to present day. As I sit here

in my dorm room typing this, I can tell you that swine #u is one of the most uncomfort-able diseases I’ve had the honor of catching. It’s painful, but not like that sharp pain that makes you yelp, but instead it’s a simmering pain that is accompanied with a short groan and a pounding pressure headache. Plus, the nauseous tendencies just keep com-ing in waves that seem to be unending. I am extremely sore when I’m not loopy from all the Motrin I’ve been taking.

Now that I have H1N1, it’s a matter of do-ing what I can to prevent others from getting

it too. For example, I’ve quarantined myself in my dorm, and I spray Lysol on all surfac-es outside with which I come into contact. !e fact that I’m in a suite with seven other people means there’s not much more I can do (or at least I’m not aware of).

I can always look on the bright side. Since I have a single room, I don’t have the same risk of spreading it to another roommate as I would if I were staying in Cha$ee or the Barnes Towers. Also, the fact that I share a bathroom with just three other people lim-its those that come into contact with the same things I do. So in a way, I can always stay optimistic, no matter what this #u bug can do to me.

A sign in the student health center shows how seriously they are treating the flu.

Swine

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Former U.S. Comptroller David Walker spoke to guests of the Brandt Foundation Monday in the Jordan Ballroom. His lecture “Day of Reckoning: America’s Fiscal Future” addressed issues such as taxes, social security and health care.

“For the "rst time in history, life for our children and grandchildren does not look better than it is for us,” he said. “!is is not acceptable. !is is not American.”

Walker was appointed by President Bill Clinton as Comptroller General of the United States and Head of the Government Accountability O%ce in 1998. For 10 years he served as the federal government’s chief auditor.

“In 1789, our founding fathers believed in thrift and prudence,” he said. “!e American Dream meant to have the opportunity to maximize God given abilities. !ey believed in giving a helping hand instead of a hand-out.”

He described the issue of taxes as taxation with-out representation.

“It’s easy to spend the money belonging to peo-ple not born yet,” he said. “If you want to be "scally responsible, you have to recognize there has to be more revenue coming in than you are spending. It’s called math.”

He suggested an automatic employee savings ac-count be held in a trust fund for future social secu-rity.

!e health care system was metaphorically com-pared to a mansion.

“It’s built on a sink hole of sand, the foundation is cracked, the plumbing leaks, and the roof needs repair,” he said. “We are "nancially under water, the

building is condemned, and the mortgage hasn’t been paid. And now they want to add a new wing to the building and use the same materials. You call that progress?”

He said the solution is involvement.“I agree we have to manage debt,” said Mitchell

Rindlisbaker, a sophomore business major from New Jersey. “I can’t say I want to be more politically involved, though.”

After the lecture there was a brief opportunity to ask questions. Walker declined to comment on state and local issues.

Back then they had a debtor’s prison,” he said. “Today we have a debtor’s pardon called bankrupt-cy. It is viewed by many as an exit strategy.”

State budget issues were addressed last week when majority leadership from the Idaho Senate and House met with Gov. C. L. “Butch” Otter and his sta$.

Majority Caucus Chair Russell Fulcher (R) said the preliminary revenue num-bers for September were higher than anticipated but not enough to change the overall picture.

“Higher education, public schools and health and wel-fare make up 81.5 percent of the state’s general fund bud-get,” he said. “Since the pas-sage of the "scal year 2009 budget, we have cut 17.8 per-cent of the general fund ap-propriations.”

University presidents and other agency directors have been given #exibility in choosing which areas will ex-perience the most cutbacks.

Fulcher said the Idaho state budget is experiencing a 23 percent decrease. “!at is a huge di$erence and ex-plains much when trying to describe the "scal pickle we are in.”

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David M. Walker, former U.S. government chief auditor, packed the Jordan ballroom as if our financial future depended on it.

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If you want to be fiscally responsible, you have to recognize there has to

be more revenue coming in than you are spending. It’s called math.- David Walker

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Wondering why the student government hasn’t yet implemented the chocolate milk in the drinking fountains policy? Have a question as to whether or not you’re eligible for a grade bailout in English 102? Student senate meets at 4 p.m. in the SUB forum.

Comedian Dave Attell performs

Along with special guest Kelly Pryce, Attell will perform at the Egyptian !eatre. !e show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tick-ets are $27.

Five Finger Death Punch to perform at !e Knitting Factory

!e heavy metal band hailing from Los Angeles will rock Boise alongside Shadows Fall, OTEP and 2 Cents. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $20.


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WASHINGTON - NASA smashed an SUV-sized

probe into the surface of the moon Friday morning, hoping

to discover a trove of ice hidden beneath the moon's south pole.But the 6,000-mile-an-hour colli-

sion - followed four minutes later by a probe carrying cameras and sensors

to pick up traces of water vapor - failed to kick up the expected miles-wide

cloud of lunar dust and ice crystals.Instead, it hit with a splat.

"Remarkably unremarkable," was the verdict of Dave Richardson, 33, a Navy engineer who brought his 6-year-old son to watch the live broadcast of the collision on a three-story-tall video screen at the Newseum in downtown Washington.

!ere was palpable disappointment among the crowd of 300 - which in-cluded NASA Administrator Charlie

Bolden - that came to the Newseum in hopes of witnessing a space-age

spectacle. !e sense of anticli-max was felt by space junkies

everywhere, who tuned into morning TV news shows or

logged onto the Internet to watch the 7:31 a.m.

EDT collision.Hours after the

impact - which showed up on

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s c r e e n as a fuzzy white "ash - NASA

scientists said they were at a loss to ex-plain why the expected plume of debris didn't materialize. Still, they weren't prepared to write o# the experiment as a failure.

"You don't know how these things are going to go," said Anthony Colaprete, the project scientist for the Lunar Crater Ob-serving and Sensing Satellite and princi-pal investigator at Ames Research Center. "We saw a crater and we saw a "ash, and something had to happen in between."

A day before, he had cautioned that results would not be immediate. "It will take at least a couple of days for the team to see what it got in the data and a couple of weeks to (discern) the amount of hydrogen-bearing compounds," Colaprete said.

!e aim of the $79 million mission is to see whether ice exists in shadowed cra-ters at the moon's poles. To do that, NASA sent two probes: an empty rocket hull in-tended to smash into the surface and kick up a cloud of dust, and a second to col-lect data from the plume before meeting its own demise.

!e hope was that sunlight would va-porize water ice hidden in the dirt cloud once the plume rose out of the shadows and above the rim of the Cabeus crater, which is believed to have the "highest hydrogen concentrations at the (lu-nar) south pole," according to NASA. Hydrogen often indicates the presence of water.

!e researchers had expected the force of the collision would create a crater 66 feet wide and 13 feet deep and blast about 350 metric tons of lunar dust into the air. !ey had hoped that amateur telescopes as small as 10 to 12 inches could see the blast.

NASA scientists could not explain

w h y a plume was not vis-ible. !ey spec-ulated that the de-bris could have blown sideways - instead of up-ward, which would have been easier to see - or that the lunar soil was too com-pressed to kick up much dust.

But Colaprete emphasized that the second probe's light-spectrum sensors worked $ne and that ana-lyzing the measurements should enable astronomers to determine whether there's water at or below the lunar surface. "We have the informa-tion, we just need to go back now and really sift through it," Colaprete said.

NASA itself trained several of its own "eyes" on the mission, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a satellite cir-cling the moon that was launched with LCROSS from Cape Canaveral on June 18 aboard an Atlas V rocket.

!e LCROSS is the latest in a series of moon missions that the global scien-ti$c community has undertaken re-cently, including the Chandrayaan-1 probe from India, which has built a strong case for the presence of water on the moon's surface.

"We're probing the moon to give up her deepest and darkest secrets," said NASA chief lunar scien-tist Michael Wargo.

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MARGARET REIMER Journalist

!e Boise Contemporary !eater will show-case “!e Pavilion” this weekend. !is play brings together the considerable talents

of Andrea Caban, Dwayne Blackaller and Hollis Welsh.

“It’s always scary and it’s always fun,” said Dwayne Blackaller, an ac-

tor in "!e Pavilion," in reference to acting.

“!e Pavilion” is a Pulitzer Prize nominated play that has been

compared to “Our Town.” It was also nominated for the

American !eater Critics’ Association Best New

Play Award.“You are

trying to

honor this person on a piece of paper,” said Hollis Welsh, an actress in “!e Pavilion.”

“!e Pavilion” is the story of Peter who returns to his hometown for his twenty-year high school reunion to mend things with Kari, his former "ame. !roughout the reunion Kari and Peter encounter many characters played by the Nar-rator who help them confront the past. Directed by Matthew Cameron Clark, the founder of Boise Contemporary !eater “!e Pavilion” is known for its humor and emotion.

“I resonated a lot with the script. It’s a story worth telling,” Welsh said.

Andrea Caban has "own in from New York City to play the Narrator. She #rst became involved with BCT when Matthew Cameron Clark came to New York to audition people for “God’s Ear” last season. Caban said she discovered that she liked Boise and BCT and has returned for the new season.

“I play 17 characters plus a montage. I did it for the challenge,” Caban said.

According to Blackaller, Boise is lucky

to be doing this kind of edgy contemporary work. Blackaller attended BSU as a creative writing major before relocating to Columbus, Ohio.

“It’s a job we are really lucky to have,” he said. “!is is a work by an amazing playwright.”

!e writer of “!e Pavilion,” Craig Wright, has also been recognized for penning an Emmy nominated episode of HBO’s “Six Feet Under.” He has written several plays and is currently working on “Dirty Sexy Money.”

Students can attend any perfor-mance at Boise Contemporary !eater for $12 when they pres-ent his or her student id. “!e Pavilion” will be running through November 7 at 8 p.m.

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BENJAMIN MACKJOURNALIST

Junior Jerome Edwards expected only a few students to attend the #rst Freedom Bowl Oct. 16, raising a marginal amount of money for the Women’s and Children’s Alliance.

Dozens of people showed up instead, rais-ing hundreds of dollars.

“It was a fun evening,” Edwards said. “Ev-eryone had a good time.”

Held in the Student Union Games Center, attendees were treated to glow in the dark bowling, billiards and pizza.

Nicole Bare, a sophomore majoring in graphic design, said she had a good time.

“!is is one of the funnest things I’ve done in a really long time,” Bare said, her voice barely audible over the pulsating music that served as a soundtrack to the evening. “It’s a great cause (to support).”

Senior Ryan Richard agreed with Bare. “I had a blast,” Richard said. “Bowl-

ing’s great and it was a good cause for us to support.”

Raising money for the Women’s and Children’s Alliance held a special signi#-cance for Edwards. From the time he was only six-years-old until he was 10, Edwards was sexu-ally abused.

Today, he sees abuse as a problem that isn’t getting enough attention.

“I think it’s a major problem,” Edwards said. “!e state of Idaho has focused attention on #ghting meth and not abuse. It’s important not to forget about the women and children. !is event was to bring awareness (to this).”

Edwards, who was baptized Oct. 17, said his faith played a big part in organizing

the event.Sophomore Matt Weinberg summed up the

evening in just #ve words. “I had a great time,” Weinberg said. “It was

really cool that BSU let Jerome put this on.”!ough the Freedom Bowl was

a success, Edwards said he has more fundrais-ers planned.

“!e next event will be a formal gala,” Ed-wards said. “It’ll be a red carpet a$air.”

Edwards said he plans to have a silent auction with dancing, a bachelor and bachelorette auction and ra%es at the event - a date and location are yet to be determined. He said all the proceeds would be donated to charity before the holi-days.

“We’re making sure that no kid will be with-out a Christmas,” Ed-wards said.

Located at 720 W. Washington St. in down-town Boise, the Women’s and Children’s Alliance

(WCA) provides emergency housing for wom-en and children who are victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. !e shelter is avail-able for up to 60 days. !ere is also a 24-hour domestic violence crisis line at (208) 343-7025 and rape crisis hotline at (208) 345-7273.

The state of Idaho has focused it’s attention on fighting meth and not abuse.

Students raise money for charitable cause at The Freedom Bowl

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redefines ‘emergency’

Journalist

Recently Boise State has been heavily promoting an emergency noti!cation sys-tem called Opt in.

According to its website, “the phone and text-based system allows the university to notify students, faculty and sta" when an emergency is taking place on or near cam-pus.”

#eoretically, the system sounds like a great way to keep people informed. How-ever, I have discovered a startling lack of

texts in situations certainly consider to be threatening.

#e evacuation of #e Tow-ers Residence Hall Nov. 1, 2008

is an example. Students were awakened by the !re alarm and

urgently evacuated to the Student Union Building. Later, students were in-

formed police had spotted a suspicious package outside the building and as pre-cautionary measure, relocated residents until they had ensured the package was not an explosive.

Bronco Student Updates in the following weeks claimed students received no noti-!cation because the threat was not legiti-mate.

“#e incident outside Towers was not an immediate threat to the safety or security of our campus community and did not im-pact classes… it was not a life-threatening

incident,” according to the Opt in Web site.If police had been positive the package

was not a bomb and was not in fact life threatening, they would not have evacu-ated the building. If the possibility of dan-ger was probable however, then all stu-dents should have been noti!ed of the thre at immediately.

Another example of this system strug-gling to keep students updated was the evacuation of the Micron Engineering Building Oct. 10, 2009. Police were noti!ed og a student spotted carrying a shotgun into the building. About 30-40 people were evacuated for close 90 minutes while po-lice searched for the suspect.

Results again were harmless. #e student claimed the gun was for a project and it did not appear to be operational. Regardless, students were once more not noti!ed of the possibility of a life threatening situation.

Boise State junior Bryan Lowman is also skeptical about the Opt in system.

“I think that it is advertised as a good idea and would provide some good information for students and sta",” Lowman said. “But I wonder what its purpose really is since I haven't been noti!ed of anything since I've opted in.”

If sightings of suspicious packages or students with unidenti!ed weapons are not reasons to utilize Opt in, then what ex-actly do they consider an emergency? #e system should be used to inform students immediately of any danger or suspicion of danger on campus. It should also be used to inform students the outcome of the threat. Waiting until after a gun has been shot or a bomb has gone o" to be deter-mined an emergency alters the message from a warning to a headline.

MIKE JOHNSONJournalist

For the !rst time, Boise State Uni-versity will be o"ering stu-

dents the opportunity to attend classes during

the break between fall and spring

semester.

#e intersession will o"er classes from wide a variety of colleges and departments, starting Dec. 21-23, before a break, and resuming Jan. 4-15.

#is intersession will provide a, “year-round cycle of educational opportunities,” according to BSU President Bob Kustra.

“#e new intersession program o"ers courses for academic explo-ration, experiential learning and personal enrichment. #is expand-ed delivery of our curriculum better

meets the needs of our stu-dents and re$ects the

desire to use our c l a s s r o o m

s p a c e more

e"ectively between semesters,” Kustra said.

Along with three-credit courses, one and two credit workshops will also be o"ered - a few online courses as well. According to Mark Wheeler, dean of Extended Studies, a three-credit intersession course will be similar to a full-time job.

t“Some classes lend themselves especially well to this sort of im-mersion,” Wheeler said, who rec-ommends that students interested in participating in intersession courses should be prepared to al-lot large blocks of time to class and homework.

#e university will be o"ering this intersession despite recent state funding

h o l d b a c k s . L i n d a

Urquidi, director of summer and intersession programs, insists that, like the summer session, this in-tersession will be self-supporting.

“If these classes don’t end up paying for themselves, intersession will be short-lived,” Urquidi said.

Urquidi maintains that the cost per credit of the intersession is slightly lower than the spring or fall semesters, and this intersession is less about making money and “more about Boise State being a

metropolitan

university, o"ering courses year-round in a variety of formats to meet the needs of its students and the public at large.”

Credits earned during the in-tersession will be counted toward the spring semester and will be of-fered at $236 per credit for under-graduates and $285 for graduate credits. Enrollment begins Oct. 26. A complete course listing is

available online.

BSU to offer intersession during winter break

The incident outside Towers was not an immediate

threat to the safety or security of our campus

community and did not impact classes…

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KIRK BELLEditor

Boise State men’s basketball bounced back to action Friday, Oct. 16 after jumping back into formal practices in preparation for the 2009-10 season. !e buzzword amongst the players is “chem-istry.”

Senior center Kurt Cunningham said that the matter of meshing is attributed to summer workouts where most of the athletes were attendance.

“!at was big for us this year, o"-sea-son workouts,” Cunningham said. “We got a lot of guys here in the summer and everybody is pretty dedicated and has gotten after it. I think that improvement will show on the court…We’re excited to get going.”

Cunningham was the second leading scorer for the Broncos last season with an average of 10.2 points per game and a team leading 67.3 #eld goal percentage. Despite producing on many levels dur-ing the 2008-09 campaign, he feels that some small improvements were neces-sary for this year. An attempt to improve his o"-hand shooting and his perimeter game were focus factors prior to tipping o" their season.

“I found out last year I could be suc-cessful playing my game. I’ll just contin-ue to do that,” Cunningham said.

BSU returns four senior starters; Cun-ningham, Anthony !omas, Ike Okoye and Paul Noonan.

!e Broncos’ top scorer last season,

Mark Sanchez, departed following grad-uation, leaving a void that other experi-enced athletes will have to #ll. Senior for-ward Ike Okoye joined BSU last season after transferring from the University of Wyoming. He averaged 19.3 minutes per game with a 52.9 #eld goal percentage during his junior year. By being able to stay with the same program for consecu-tive seasons for the #rst time, he feels a di"erence in team connection.

“I’m a little nervous. A little sad,” Okoye said. “It’s my last year of college. But I’m kind of excited to see what we can do. I’m pretty sure that when practice hits we’ll be getting after it and working hard. I’m really looking forward to the season.”

No stranger to the program, senior point guard Anthony !omas is poised to represent himself as an improved leader for the Broncos. He will #nish his #fth year with the team with a belief that there is a “gelling,” factor to this

year’s squad.“!is summer most of our team was

here,” !omas said. “I think that was a big thing for us. I think that’s one of the main things. Everybody worked hard during the summer and we gelled. We’ve got more team chemistry and synergy. As for this year, I’ve been excited since last year ended. I’m just looking to go out with a bang.”

!omas’ on-court presence hovers over Taco Bell Arena like a fog, averag-ing 30.3 minutes per game and the only Bronco to start all 32 games last season, averaged 9.5 points per game and pro-

vided an emotion engine for the squad.“I just think we’ve got a little bit more

knowledge and we’re actually more ath-letic,” !omas said. “I think we’re a little bit further than we were last year, which is a good thing. We just have got to get it rolling early.”

!omas pointed to the new junior col-lege transfers as key components to the 2009-10 roster. Junior forward Daequon Montreal transfers from the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls where he was able to keep a close eye on the BSU program. While with the Golden Eagles, Montreal averaged 15.9 points per game and 8.9 rebounds per game. !ough he doesn’t believe he is at par, he specu-lates he will be a component to BSU suc-cess this season.

“I think I can contribute right away but at the same time there is always room for improvement,” Montreal said. We’re just going to continue to work on it and we’ll see.”

!e chemistry bug bit Montreal along with the rest of the team. He saw imme-diate congruency upon joining the team over the summer.

“When you get in here and start play-ing, guys were getting along,” Montreal said. “!e guys pass the rock. In the locker room guys are talking, laughing, joking…!e chemistry is great. I’m really excited about the team.”

!e Broncos tip-o" for the #rst time against Wilamette University during an exhibition at Taco Bell Arena Nov. 3. !e game starts at 7:35 p.m. MT.

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Senior point guard Anthony Thomas evaluates the Idaho defense during last year’s game in Boise. Thomas enters the 2009-10 season as the Broncos’ most experienced athlete.

Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick scores against the Broncos during their 2007 game at Bronco Stadium.

Idaho building confidence, faces tough test against Nevada

KIRK BELLEditor

Seven games into the season, Idaho is bowl-eligible and atop the WAC. Next Saturday will bring a tough challenge for head coach Robb Akey’s squad as they prepare to face Nevada and preseason o"ensive WAC player of the year junior quarterback, Colin Kaepernick.

Heading into the big matchup, expect to see a lot of o"ense. Kaepernick leads a Wolfpack attack that features three players with over 450 yards rushing on the season. Each and has av-eraged 45 points per game over their last three contests.

!e danger starts with Kaepernick, who is a dual threat. He has run for 461 yards, including a 67-yard touchdown scamper, and has thrown for 1,109 yards with nine touchdowns and #ve interceptions on the campaign.

“!e guy’s very good. He’s their trigger man. He’s about 6 foot- 2 inches, runs a 4.2 forty and he’s got an arm. !ere’s more threats than some of the folks we’ve played. !ey’re going to make

some big plays,” Akey said of Kaepernick and the Wolfpack.

Akey emphasized it’s not all about Kaeper-nick when it comes to stopping Nevada.

“If you focus solely on him, there are two oth-er running backs that can hurt you, and if you focus on the running game, he can hurt you with his arm,” he said.

An Idaho team with a newfound con#-dence expects to be up to the task of stopping the Wolfpack.

“One of the things was getting the con#dence built up for this team. Winning against North-ern Illinois on the road and the Colorado State game played a big part in building up that con-#dence,” Akey said.

!e next three weeks will set the stage for what could be the best Idaho-Boise State game in recent history. If Idaho is able to get past Ne-vada, Louisiana Tech and Fresno State, they’ll roll into Boise looking to crush Boise State’s BCS dreams.

Game time for the Nevada game is 2:05 p.m. MT and will be on ESPN Gameplan and ESPN360.com.

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TRENT LOOTENSProducer

!ere won’t be any beach time for the Bron-cos during their trip to Honolulu this week-end.

Looking to end a two-game losing streak on the islands, No. 4 Boise State walks into a hos-tile environment against a Hawai’i team that has nothing to lose.

BSU’s last two trips to paradise have been anything but enjoyable.

During the 2007 season the Broncos went into Aloha Stadium ranked No. 17 against Colt Brennan and the No. 13 Warriors. Brennan torched the Broncos’ defensive secondary for "ve touchdowns and 495 yards. Hawai’i defeated the Broncos 39-27 to keep its Bowl Championship Series hopes alive.

Hawai’i "nished the 2007 season 12-0 and was invited to the Sugar Bowl against the Georgia Bulldogs where they lost 41-10 to Matthew Sta#ord and company.

Boise State senior fullback Richie Brockel was a sophomore at the time and recalls what happened that night.

“I don’t think we were ready for that atmo-sphere. !e stadium was packed and it was loud. We really wanted that game, but men-tally we weren’t ready,” Brockel said.

Exactly a month later, the Broncos trav-eled back to Honolulu to play in the Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl against East Carolina.

It was the same trip, and it ended with a similar result.

!e heavily favored Broncos were am-bushed by running back Chris Johnson, who ran for 223 yards on 28 carries. A last second "eld goal by East Carolina handed the Broncos their second loss on the islands in a month by a score of 41-38.

Now, after being consistently reminded of those losses for the last two years, the Broncos will make the trip back to Hawai’i to defend their ranking and their Western Athletic Con-ference title.

“I’ve never won a game in Hawaii, and frankly I don’t like this trip because of it,” Brockel said. “I’d really like to go over there my senior year and get a ‘W’ to put those emo-tions to rest that I have.”

Hawai’i has lost their last four games and is 0-3 in Western Athletic Conference play. !e Warriors are playing for pride, while the Bron-cos are playing for much more.

“!ey’ve got good fan support out there. It’s a tough place to play at with all the traveling and all the factors that go into an away game that hit you at one time,” junior wide receiv-er Austin Pettis said. “Mentally you’ve got to think past that and be bigger than that.”

BSU wants to use this game to take their play to a new level and show the nation their last two closely contested wins are behind them.

!e players hear all the negativity around the nation that they don’t belong in the same breath with schools like Florida, Texas, Ala-bama and USC.

A dominating performance this weekend against an aggressive Hawai’i team, which plays well at home, would be the statement the Broncos want to make.

“!at’s just another thing that helps us put

that chip on our shoulder,” Pettis said when asked about the view of BSU to the nation. “It’s in the back of everyone’s minds day in and day out, in practice and in games.”

!e Broncos travel to Hawaii !ursday to become accustomed with the di#erent atmo-sphere and to get settled after a long trip be-fore their game Saturday night at 9 p.m MT. It will be broadcast on KTVB channel 7.


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Broncos bring focus back toWACKIRK BELL

Editor

Boise State (6-0, 1-0 Western Athletic Conference) football jumped into the forefront of college athletics news with its groundbreaking No. 4 BCS ranking - the "rst time a non-BCS team has ever been ranked as high.

Results appeared after the media sat down with Broncos’ head coach Chris Petersen for their weekly interview. Pe-tersen didn’t even speculate. He com-mitted to stick to his guns. He vacated any predisposed delusions of grandeur and turned his focus to the next game.

BSU will travel to one of the most distracting venues in collegiate sports, the city of Honolulu, Hawai’i to face the Warriors(2-4, 0-3 WAC).

!ere is no doubt the ever present “swat team mentality,” reiterated by the BSU team, will apply upon reaching the islands with equal – if not even more so – than other venues they have come across this season.

“It will be a hard fought game in a tough place with a lot of distractions let alone the team that we’re playing,” Pe-tersen said. “After six games this will be a good test.”

A key factor to Hawai’i’s success could be from junior wide receiver, Greg Salas, who has compiled 791 yards, 42 recep-tions and "ve touchdowns through the Warriors’ "rst six games. Petersen’s Broncos claim a wide-out tandem that rivals some of the best in the country with junior wide receivers Titus Young and Austin Pettis – each with over 30 re-ceptions. Speculation of what the Bron-cos could do with a receiver like Salas with BSU sophomore quarterback Kel-len Moore is something fans might like to see.

“!ere are certain players who you think, ‘I wish I had that guy on our team.’ He’s (Salas) one of those guys,” Petersen said. “I think he’s a smart guy. He’s real-ly sure handed. He "nds lanes, creases and seams. I don’t know how fast he is but he always seems to break tackles.”

Another concern for the Broncos is the Warriors’ ability to get the ball around to multiple receivers - a result their pass-centric o#ensive scheme. Hawai’i’s sophomore quarterback, Bry-ant Moniz, completed 30 of 42 passes against the Idaho Vandals Saturday dur-ing his "rst start. He also passed for 360 yards and threw a touchdown to Salas. Despite the Warriors’ 23-35 loss, Moniz displayed glimpes of e$ciency that could bring some new wrinkles for the Broncos to iron out.

“I think he’s (Moniz) a good player. A really good player,” Petersen said “…He’s very relaxed. He’s calm. He’s an ac-curate thrower. He gets it out fast and he can scramble. !ere’s no question that he’ll get better. It’s amazing that he’s only played this one start or one and a half games.”

Applying focus to Moniz could be a large element in preparing to slowing down a proli"c passing o#ense. BSU has shown consistent defense, ranked No. 16 in the nation overall. !e Broncos recorded four sacks last week against Tulsa and displayed how they could get after the mobile and e$cient Tulsa quarterback in G.J. Kinne.

Putting pressure on Moniz could marginalize their ability to spread the ball around to multiple receivers with talent. !ree of which have accrued 30-plus receptions. Two of those receivers have "ve touchdowns on the season.

“We’re going to need a pass rush,” Petersen said. “!at’s one of the keys against Hawai’i. I think that the one thing that is di#erent about Hawai’i than in the past is they’re a little bit more diverse.”

!at diversity was shown against the Vandals in glimpse of the wildcat schemed o#ense. Senior quarterback, Inoke Funaki, has starting experience from last season and is known for his mobility. It could very well be the com-ponent, pending proper execution, that could give the Broncos some trouble.

!e Broncos meet Hawai’i Saturday Oct. 24 at 9 p.m. MT on KTVB.

Boise State’s defense smothers Hawai’i running back Leon Wright-Jackson during last year’s game in Boise.MARVIN LEE SCHWENK/THE ARBITER

I’ve never won a game in Hawai’i, and frankly

I DON’T LIKE THIS TRIP BECAUSE OF IT.-Richie Brockel

Chris Petersen, BSU’s head football coach, looks on as the Broncos take on the UC Davis Aggies Oct. 3. JOSH RASMUSSEN/THE ARBITER


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JOSH GAMBLEColumnist

Imagine one day you wake up and no one’s around. The streets are empty, save for the fires and wrecked vehicles. It’s as if the world has gone silent, but then you hear it.

“Braaaiiins…”It has begun.Everyone knows in his or her heart of

hearts that a zombie apocalypse is bound to happen sooner or later, the question is, which variety? There are three main variet-ies of zombie, although one most only con-sider two.

First we have the classic corpse zombie, or “Shamblers.” These unfortunate "undead" first limped into the American zeitgeist in George Romero's “Night of the Living Dead” (1960). The movie quickly became the first thing pictured when the word “zombie” is uttered. Reanimated corpses with rotting flesh and an insatiable appetite for brains, Romero zombies typically travel is large, slow-moving mobs. One or two of them are easy to take care of by removing or destroy-ing the head, or just walking away.

The real trouble starts when a lone human encounters a large mob of zombies. The trick to avoiding the undead shamblers is to keep moving. Humans are devoured and “zom-biefied” when they panic and allow them-selves to be cornered. Those slain by zom-bies instantly arise as a zombie themselves, usually due to some sort of evil radio signal or voodoo necromancy.

The best defense against the undead is a truck. Not a shot gun, not a flame thrower but a large, four-wheel-drive truck. Try laughing at Hummer owners now. The Hummer, with its high wheel base and small windows, is an ideal defense. Undead zombies are slow and stupid, and easily mowed down. Just be sure to have plenty of gas and food in the trunk. When all else fails, grab a shot gun and clear out a gas station to get supplies.

Zombie type two, known as Russo

Zombies, is the virus zombie, ala “28 Days Later” and “Resident Evil.” These are regular people infected by a virus that makes them want to kill everything in sight. Usually they can be stopped in the same manner in which you would stop an ordinary human. Bullets, bats and blades will all do the trick.

The difficulty with these zombies is they maintain speed and motor function, mak-ing them much more difficult to avoid. The biggest threat these zombies pose is that of mutation, such as the “Tanks,” “Smokers” and “Boomers” in the Xbox 360 game “Left 4 Dead.” They tend to be more comfortable in dark places, so those immune should avoid tunnels and caves. The virus is spread via body fluids, including blood and saliva, thus killing the infected is a perilous task at best. The best course of action is to gather survi-vors and either jump the quarantine zone or set up a fortified commune in the woods. Eventually the zombies will die of tissue de-generation or starvation - until then survi-vors must stay vigilant.

The third and often ignored variety of zombie is the brain control zombie. These are people with something implanted into their brain, usually a microchip or nanobot, that takes over and shuts down the thinking parts of the brain. These zombies are con-trolled by a master computer at a remote location and they do its bidding. Nanobot zombies are rare in pop culture, although brain control through hypnotism is a com-mon theme in television action and science fiction shows. Nanobots are the main theme in the novel “Prey” by Michael Crichton.

Scary, I know. But it can never happen, right? RIGHT?! Wrong. Check out cracked.com’s “5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocolypse Could Actually Happen.” Luckily, some students right here are BSU are here to help. BSU freshman and local zombie expert Joseph Davidson had the foresight to start “The Ultimate Zombie Survival Blog.”

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Zombies 101: An introductory course

JOHN ROMLEIN II Columnist

“Dispatch, I’m not going anywhere… I’m getting all kinds of (warning) lights, we need a replacement.”

!e driver of Route 8 (Chinden/Five-Mile) radioed that transmission to Val-leyRide dispatch as he took Unit 9708 out of service at the Towne Square Mall - the route’s western transfer station hub. !e unit’s failure resulted in a 23-min-ute wait for a replacement bus, during which a few impatient passengers opted instead to hail taxicabs.

Scenes like this have become com-monplace to those who regularly utilize ValleyRide bus services. According to a FY07 Q2 report, 12 heavy-duty buses and seven paratransit Access vans have either reached or surpassed their useful service lives. !e 9708 unit is among an active "eet of ten 35-seat Nova models originally commissioned in 1997, which are overdue for retirement. Yet the agen-cy lacks the necessary funding to stay current with operating and maintenance expenses.

“Most of our funding now comes from the city,” said the driver of Route 2 (Broadway), which has a stop along the eastern end of campus. “But the state wants more cars on the road to pay for their road projects.”

According to Valley Regional Transit (VRT), the parent operator of ValleyRide, organizers completed a six-year plan entitled, “Treasure Valley in Transit” in 2004 which “provides for a regional pub-lic transportation system (that) provides new routes in communities throughout the Valley, longer hours of service and more frequent service.”

However, the plan was passed without a solid funding source to pay for the im-plementation of the proposed services.

For the past three years, VRT o#cials

have petitioned state legislators to ap-prove a local option sales tax as a fund-ing source, only to be stonewalled in committee. !is past spring, an attempt to pass authority of a local option sales tax to cities and counties also failed - de-spite transportation being a hot-button issue prolonging the second-longest leg-islative session in state history.

Consequently, ValleyRide runs most bus routes from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and only half of its routes from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. !ere is no Sunday or holiday service. !is has proven to be too ine#cient for most Boise residents, who prefer to stick to his or her automobiles.

COURTESY/JOHN ROMLEIN II COURTESY/JOHN ROMLEIN II“I don't consider public transportation

in Boise a realistic choice for me,” said Boise State graduate Nathan !omas. “I leave for work before the $rst bus arrives in my area. I'd love to see transportation expand, but right now it doesn't provide enough options and "exibility.”

ValleyRide has slashed seven Boise routes over the past 11 years, with a union spat resulting in the loss of a one-mile stretch of Route 42 (Nampa Limited Stop) and City of Eagle budget cuts that nearly terminated Route 44 (Eagle-Mid-dleton-Star Express).

Human resources major Chris Scott is a frequent rider of the bus.

“I think the bus system is good for Boi-se, but as (the population) grows, they de$nitely need to improve it,” he said.

Yet with rising fuel costs and an eco-nomic downturn, ridership has in-creased. In response, VRT was awarded $8.5 million in economic stimulus mon-ey, which will be used to purchase 25 re-placement diesel/CNG buses, improve bus stop accessibility and improve real-time bus information.

Whether or not this will help Valley-Ride in the long run remains unknown.

ValleyRide suffers from low funding

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Since we print in full color now, we can have color on the Classifi eds page. Generally, we try to use the colors from the Arbiter Media logo, so I’ve made category tags in those three colors to use at your discretion. The orange may be a little garish. I don’t know yet.

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Today’s Birthday (10/22/09)Intuition says you need to take extra time getting ready. There’s nothing quite like showing up at a cocktail party in jeans and a T-shirt. If you’re the best-dressed person there, that’s fine. It’s your party.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19)Today is a 7 -You’ll never handle all of today’s opportunities. Choose well and take notes, as some oppor-tunities will repeat.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is a 7 - Take a moment to evaluate each opportunity that arises. Assess each one against your own logic. Await developments.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)Today is a 6 - Something you read recently provides ammunition for persuasion. Who are you persuad-ing?

Cancer (June 22-July 22)Today is a 6 - You have lots of choices today. Talk them over with a friend. Test them against your intuition, then go for the gold.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 7 - Since you face so many opportunities, you need to quickly choose among them. Follow your heart first, then your stomach.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is a 7 - Take a philosophical approach to a problem you’ve been working on. Normal strategies fall short of the desired goal.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 6 - The success will taste sweeter because you predicted it. Your wisdom gains respect now.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is a 5 - Do what you must to get others to agree. This requires imagination and skill. You have both.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is a 6 - Whatever you do, act like you really mean it. Don’t leave room for doubt. Others respect your decisiveness.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is a 7 - Go with the flow. The energy around you is filled with promise. Don’t expect everything to fall into place quickly.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 6 -- You fight any sort of restraint. Independent action seems to be the only thing you can manage now.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 6 - Use your imagination. It’s one of the best tools in the box. Polish the rough edges later.

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