September 14, 2009

FOOTBALLCHARLES KESLER

PERSON OF INTEREST

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BY MATTHEW DELEON GUERREROJournalist

The American Founding Initiative

(AFI) will team together with acclaimed conserva-

tive commentator and writer, Charles Kesler, to kick off their

inaugural event on Sept. 15.Kesler’s discussion, “The Future

of Limited Government,” will be-gin at 6 p.m. in the J.R. and Esther Simplot Ballroom in Boise State Student Union Building.

Scott Yenor, political science professor at Boise State and direc-tor of the AFI, chose Kesler as the Initiatives first speaker because, “Kesler is the editor of the best book review in the country, the Claremont Review of Books and his recent works on the nature of progressivism are not only deep and powerful, but

also relevant to many of the policy controversies defining the Obama Administration.”

Kesler serves as a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy and is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California.

This is the first of several events sponsored by the AFI, which plans on involving a diverse selection of prominent speakers talking with students to “ensure intellectual diversity on im-portant issues of the day,” said Yenor. “The hope is that it will provide a vibrant environment for debating the nature of lib-erty and the institutions necessary to sustain it.”

AFI aims to teach the principles of limited government, constitutionalism, and classical liberalism to the university community, according to its Web site.

The AFI plans to “bring in voices discussing constitution-alism and classical liberalism to celebrate Constitution Day and President’s Day. We also plan on holding debates each semester,” Yenor said.

The AFI will hold a debate on the nature of the health care system Oct. 26 and a President’s Day speech, tentatively scheduled for February 2010, according to Yenor.

For information about Kesler’s speech or AFI, visit afi.boisestate.edu.

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Broncos break away for season’s

FIRST SHUTOUTBY KIRK BELL

Editor

Amidst a whiteout at Bronco Stadium Sat-urday night, the Boise State football presence was felt in the form of a walloping of the Uni-versity of Miami (Ohio) Redhawks to the tune of 48-0.

BSU struggled to get things going on their first series. They were shut out in three plays but rebounded with their next drive which re-sulted in a six play, 92 yard push with the help of sophomore quarterback Kellen Moore and junior wide receiver Austin Pettis.

The tandem connected twice on the drive; the first for 65 yards and the second for a 17 yard score through the air.

The Broncos receiving corps made its move early. Each of the starting wide receivers -- ju-nior Titus Young, sophomore Tyler Shoemak-er and Pettis scored before the finish of the first half. Moore said he was glad to see each front receiver contribute early in the game.

“It’s something that’s going to help us down the road,” Moore said, “and I think all three guys made some big plays today and got the opportunities they we’re waiting for.”

Moore threw for one more touchdown to Young who made a double move on the Red-hawks defender, broke away and cradle in a bomb from Moore for a 54 yard touchdown.

Moore would finish the night in three quar-ters. He completed 16 on 26 attempts passing, four touchdowns, one interception and a 307 yard through the air.

The touchdowns were the first for Young in almost a year. He last scored on Oct. 1, 2008 against Louisiana Tech at Bronco Stadium.

“You can definitely tell that he is … cher-ishing it more,” Pettis said. “Especially after getting a whole year off you have a lot of time to think. He definitely came in with a differ-ent mentality. You can tell he’s working a lot harder in practice too and you can see him getting better … You can definitely tell that he is more about the team this year and I think that’s helping his overall game a lot.”

Young finished with six receptions, 114 yards and two touchdowns. Pettis had with four receptions, 115 yards and one touch-down. They combined for to 229 of the Bron-cos’ 314 total passing yards.

The BSU running game picked up a second consecutive 100-plus-yard performance led by junior running back D.J. Harper who had 89 total yards -- averaging 6.7 yards per carry. Harper had one touchdown on the first offen-sive drive of the third quarter to put the Bron-cos ahead 27-0.

BSU finished with 127 total rushing yards.The fourth quarter would see two more

touchdowns from the Broncos by the dual

offensive and defensive threat, sophomore Doug Martin. The nickel back/running back recorded four tackles to accompany his fourth quarter scores finishing the night with 28 yards rushing.

The Broncos defense recorded four in-terceptions and allowed only 194 offensive yards. It shut down the running attack for a second consecutive week, allowing 1.5 ypc for Miami (Ohio) on 26 attempts.

“That’s the key to our defense is to stop the rushing game and to make them pass,” Boise State junior safety Jeron Johnson said. “We have a pretty good secondary. We can hold our own in the passing game. If we can stop that run we can be pretty good.”

Johnson, freshmen linebackers J.C. Percy and Tommy Smith and sophomore George Iloka recorded one interception each.

On a lower note, Broncos junior kicker/punter Kyle Brotzman ended his PAT streak just before the end of the second half. Brotz-man had 118 consecutive successful kicks fol-lowing a touchdown since Oct. 15, 2006. He does, however, now hold the current record with the successful second score PAT.

BSU opens their in-conference play Friday, Sept. 18 against the Fresno State Bulldogs. FSU is 1-1 this season with a close loss to Wis-consin earlier Saturday 34-31. Kickoff is 6:00 p.m. PT at Fresno, Cal.

See photos from the Boise State versus Miami (Ohio) game in Bronco Stadium at arbiteronline.com

BSU sophomore quarterback Kellen Moore drops back on one of 26 attempts Friday night against the Miami (Ohio) Redhawks. Moore completed 16 passes for 307 passing yards and four touchdowns at Bronco Stadium. The Broncos beat the Redhawks 48-0.

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BY JENNIFER SPENCERJournalist

As a four-year-old girl, the mother of Ben Chon, presi-dent of the Idaho Korean As-sociation (IKA), was evacu-ated from communist North Korea during the Korean War. !e Chinese-born U.S. Ma-rine responsible for her sal-vation is one of many diverse war veterans honored as part of Friday night’s perfor-mance of “!e healing drum of Korea.”

!anks partly to the e"orts of the IKA, BSU Korean Stu-dent Association (KSA) and the Cultural Center, world-renowned Korean percussion group, Sinmyoung, captivated audiences at the SUB Special Events Center (SPEC) for two performances Sept. 11.

Sinmyoung performs sam-ulnori, a Korean art form consisting of four percussion instruments. Traditionally performed in Korean farm-ing villages, samulnori, trans-lated as “to play four things,” combines percussion, acro-batics and dance. Formally used to relieve the stress and physical pain caused by agri-cultural labor, today samul-nori encourages individuals and promotes national pride.

“It has traditionally been performed to calm and uplift the souls of the dead. !ere-fore, samulnori is the healing drum of Korea and we hope that it will ful#ll its purpose in the states as well,” said Su-san Tanaka, vice president of the KSA.

As the event began, the re-verberation of several drums echoed from the lobby of the

SPEC. Soon dozens of smil-ing and colorfully dressed Korean men and women of all ages #lled the aisle, with Janggus, two-sided drums, slung around their shoul-ders. More than 400 audience members began clapping as the performers circled the stage. !e chief member of Sinmyoung cheerfully twirled and banged a small golden gong called a k’kwaenggwari at center stage as the light shimmered o" his turquoise and silver glittered Sinmyo-ung attire.

After their performance, the thunderous applause died down to allow introduc-tions by Susan Tanaka and OkHee Chang, vice president of the IKA. To commemorate Sept. 11, the women publicly recognize war veterans and call for a moment of silence.

Each performance con-tained a theme: Festival, Beating, Circle of Janggu, Regulation, Awaking Spirit and Entertainment. !e #rst performance consisted of all four instruments, each representing an element of weather. !e silver gong Jing represented wind; rain was signi#ed by the hourglass shaped janggu. !e barrel drum buk symbolized clouds and the k’kwaenggwari ap-propriately re$ected thunder and lighting.

Each percussionist swiveled his head in unison to $utter the long white ribbon jutting out from the black and white ru%ed headdress. !e sharp sounding k’kwaenggwari resonated above the surpris-ingly melodic yet frenzied drumming. One member performed acrobatic mid-air

kicks. At one point, a ribbon was thrown into the mesmer-ized audience but retracted like a boomerang.

Large barrel drums char-acterized the next per-formance, complete with moments of gentle drum echoes and vocally intense, frenzied pounding. Franti-cally played janggus made up the third routine, while the large barrel drums mixed with buks to produce the dis-tinct cavernous sound of the fourth performance.

!e #fth performance united the four instruments and Korean vocals in a fever-ish pace much like ritualistic jungle drums.

After a standing ovation from the crowd, Sinmyoung’s leader gave his thanks be-fore engaging the crowd in a chant of ‘U-S-A’ as he sang in Korean and called for volun-teers. Several audience mem-bers, mostly small children, clambered onstage to pound the large barrel drums. !e beginning drum troupe soon joined everyone onstage and the evening concluded with a blend of boisterous drum-ming and dancing.

“I just think that it’s really admirable that this ‘small’ facet of Korea’s extensive history and culture has been kept alive through all the years,” Tanaka said.

Sinmyoung has performed more than 1,500 times since their formation in 1990. !ey have several Korean and in-ternational accolades.

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BY TRENT LOOTENSProducer

Boise State’s o!ense came out sluggish Saturday night against the University of Miami (Ohio) Redhawks. But thanks to big plays through the air, it was able to put points on the board.

Broncos’ sophomore quarterback Kellen Moore was his usual self, passing for 307 yards and going 16-of-26 passing on the night. Juniors Titus Young and Austin Pettis, accompa-nied by sophomore Tyler Shoemaker, made huge plays in the receiving game, allowing the Broncos to use multiple pack-ages o!ensively and relentlessly attack Miami (Ohio). "row-ing four touchdown passes to three di!erent receivers made it di#cult for Miami (Ohio) to judge where the ball was going.

“All three really got into the mix. It’s nice to spread it around and give them all chances,” Moore said. “It really spreads out the $eld and forces the defense to cover everyone. It’s some-thing that’s going to help us down the road. All three guys made some big plays today and got the opportunities they we’re waiting for.”

Pettis led all receivers with 115 yards and four grabs. Pet-tis ignited the Broncos’ o!ense with a 65-yard reception early in the $rst quarter but was not able to outrun the Redhawks’ secondary and was taken down inside Miami’s 15 yard line.

“It was just a naked play action and he was coming across the $eld,” Moore said. “We caught Miami o! guard there a little getting too close to the run and Austin popped out and found a crease.”

Pettis later pulled in a touchdown when he caught a 17-yard pass from Moore to put the Broncos up 7-0 early in the $rst quarter.

Titus Young dug into the action big time, $nally having the breakout game he’s wanted. Young made it look easy all night with big play after big play. He fell short of being the game’s leading receiver by one yard, eventually pilling up 114 yards on six receptions. His two touchdowns energized the Broncos, which continuously attacked Miami’s defense with its air-raid styled o!ense.

Young’s momentum grabbing 25-yard touch-down reception right before halftime was just what the Broncos needed after an o!ensively stale $rst half.

“He’s an extremely explosive player and it’s

good to see him in space with the ball in his hands because he’s one of those guys where if you miss a tackle or take a bad angle he’s going to make you pay,” Boise State head coach Chris Petersen said.

Petersen was happy with the progress receiver Tyler Shoemaker made from last week to Satur-day. Shoemaker was Moore’s go-to guy in crucial situations of the game. Shoemaker, a crowd favorite, pulled in three catches for 55 yards and made his $rst touchdown reception of the year on a 15-yard strike from Moore late in the $rst quarter.

“He is a good player and he’s exactly what we need there with Austin and Titus,” Petersen said. “We have three very good players there.”

Having the passing game %owing the way it was Saturday night was a major step in the right direction for the Broncos, who will need all of that production and more next week against a strong Fresno State team.

“I think it just opens up the of-fense even more. "ere’s only so much you can do to guard it,” Pet-tis said. “Oregon did a good job of it last week but you can only do that for so long…It’s impres-sive to see us go out there and still have a good attitude and be able to make plays for our team.”

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Boise State freshman forward Erica Parks looks on during play. Parks scored one of four goals Friday evening against Arkansas – Pine Blu!, recording the Broncos’ first shutout of the 2009 season 4-0.

Broncos junior wide receiver Titus Young dives for his first of two touchdowns Saturday against the University of Miami (Ohio). Young accumulated 114 receiv-ing yards on six receptions against the Redhawks. BSU beat Miami (Ohio) 48-0.

BY BRENDAN SHERRYJournalist

"e Boise State women’s Soccer team kicked o! its portion of the Holiday Inn Classic against the University of Arkansas Pine Blu!, Friday with a 4-0 victory.

"e Broncos charged to an early 1-0 lead when junior forward Shannon Saxton streaked ahead of the defense and scored on a pass from fresh-man mid$elder Maureen Fitzgerald for an early lead in the opening minutes of the match. "e Bron-cos proved the quick goal wasn’t a %uke as they con-trolled the ball throughout the match piling up three more scores.

"e Broncos were con-tinually able to penetrate the Lion defense through ball control $ring 13 shots in the $rst period and 17 in the second. "e hustle showed by the Bronco of-fense proved to be an im-portant part in controlling the ball and the Broncos limited the Lions to only one shot.

“We worked really hard on being the $rst to the ball and on possession,” junior mid$elder Chey-enne Jones said.

"e Broncos were able to take advantage of a sluggish Pine Blu! team in the $rst half when sophomore mid$elder Jayne Murray $red in her $rst of two goals on a pass from freshman forward Erica Parks in the 33rd minute.

When the Broncos started the second half, the

team didn’t let the two goal advantage to become a distraction. Instead the team showed more inten-sity by continuing to control the ball and advance the pressure to o!ensive side of the pitch.

“I think once we picked up in the second half and played faster with our one-two touch passes things got better,” said Jones. “"e $rst half seemed a little sluggish.”

"e Broncos’ increase in intensity in the sec-ond half surged as the team was able to score its other two goals, the $rst coming o! of a penalty kick from Erica Parks in the 55th minute and Murray’s second goal in the 70th minute. As the Broncos amassed points in the second half, they were able to work in nine substitutes which provided quality playing experience for some.

"e home victory Fri-day brought the Bron-cos’ winning percent-age above .500 for the season and with three more matches at the Boas complex before

they take the road again, the team hopes they can compile a few more wins with the hometown sup-port.

“Having the fans is always nice, I feel like having them helps,” Murray said.

"e Broncos hope to use the home crowd to its advantage and continue to improve in the upcom-ing weeks before heading to the Wyoming Tourna-ment held Sept. 25-27.

Women’s soccer dominates at home

“I think once we picked up in the second half and played faster with our one-two touch pass-es things got better,” said Jones. “The first half seemed a little sluggish.”

PHOTO BY JOSH RASMUSSEN/THE ARBITER

PHOTO BY NIK BJUSTROM/THE ARBITER

Go to arbiteronline.com for coverage of Boise State’s match against Northern Colorodo.

See the Sept. 17 issue of The Arbiter for a profile of BSU’s freshman forward Erica Parks.

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BY BENJAMIN MACKJournalist

!omas Freeman has seen "rsthand what videogames can do to a person.

“I have a friend who plays WoW (World of Warcraft), and last year his social life was com-pletely di#erent,” Freeman, a junior majoring in athletic train-ing, said. “He would pass on hanging out with his friends to play WoW.”

It’s no secret that college stu-dents love to play videogames, and Boise State students are no exception. From Halo 3 to Super Mario, students will play just about any game. And while the physical and social e#ects are

well known, studies show that playing videogames can have a negative impact on grades.

According to a 2007 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, "rst-year students who had a videogame system in their dorm room stud-ied 40 minutes less each day on average. !ose 40 minutes of lost study time translated into "rst-semester grades that were 0.241 points lower on the 4.0 grade scale. !e study’s authors said they were not trying to prove anything about videogames.

A study used time-use diaries to evaluate how much time 210 students spent sleeping, study-ing, attending class and pursu-ing other activities. !e study was conducted four times at

Berea College in Kentucky dur-ing the "rst semester in 2000 and 2001.

!e study found that students who had a videogame console in their room did not exhibit dif-ferent levels of class attendance, partying, study e$ciency or paid employment -- all factors that also could a#ect grades. !ere was however, a substantial drop in time spent studying. !is means that the lower grades of students who had a videogame console can be attributed to the fact these students studied less, the study concluded.

Another study by research-ers at the University of Michi-gan and University of Texas found that students who play videogames spent 30 percent

less time reading and 34 per-cent less time doing homework. !e study was published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Ado-lescent Medicine. Interestingly, the study found playing videog-ames had a greater in%uence on the study habits of females than males. !e study concluded that the "ndings signify videogame play can be a distraction from school-related activities, but it may or may not have negative impact on grades.

Freeman isn’t surprised. His friend’s grades, he said, have su#ered because of his gaming.

“I know some of his classes have dropped and he failed a class or two because he wouldn’t show up,” Freeman said. “It was sad.”

Videogame sales have in-creased by 58 percent since 2000, and is now a $9.5 billion industry, meaning experts be-lieve students are spending even more time playing videogames.

For some, playing video games can have certain advantages. New York University is o#ering a class this fall on the popular game “Guitar Hero.” Never mind the $50,000 annual tuition, it’s a weekly honors seminar that o#ers credit towards a degree. Boise State o#ers no such class.

Overall, Freeman feels that videogames can be a negative in%uence on students.

“It’s kinda crazy how people can get so addicted to videog-ames,” he said.

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BY BENJAMIN MACKJournalist

Bringing education technology into the 21st century is like entering a rowboat in the America’s Cup yacht races.

Even the most skilled, highly motivated, nimble vision-aries will "nd rough sailing where state government cof-fers are in distress, entrepreneurs struggle to "nd startup money and cheap, %ashy distractions often get in the way of real advances.

So those 10-pound textbooks – considered old-school clutter by some in the emerging electronic publish-ing world – are likely to be stashed in backpacks and on dorm room desks for years to come, collecting nothing but dust.

!ey are cumbersome, to be sure. !ey can overwhelm the human backbone and the desktop bookshelf. !ey succumb readily to elements like spilled milk, puppy teeth and memory lapses.

Like telephone books, they are often outdated before they reach a reader. !ey are "nite sources, with no hy-perlinks or built-in extensions or easy upgrades. And as any college student knows, they’re often expensive with little resale value.

Kelli Grant of SmartMoney.com says for cash-strapped students, textbooks can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

“It’s very easy to spend $700, $800, $900 on textbooks, especially with certain majors. One science textbook alone can cost $200,” Grant said.

Last year, the National Association of College Stores reported more than $5 billion in sales of textbooks and course materials. Association spokesman Charles Schmidt says electronic textbooks currently represent two to three percent of total textbook sales. But he says that is expected to reach 10 to 15 percent by 2012.

Electronic textbooks, also known as etextbooks, of-fer convenience, new options and sometimes a much lower cost.

“!ere really are several advantages to etextbooks,” said

Gabrielle Zucker, spokeswoman for CourseSmart LLC, one of the nation’s largest etextbook distributors. “Most etextbooks are 50 percent cheaper on average than a tra-ditional textbook, and allow anytime, anywhere access.”

Accessibility, long thought an issue with etextbooks, now makes them a much more ideal option, Zucker said. According to the Educause Center for Applied Research, 80.5 percent of college students in 2007 owned a laptop, with a whopping 90.8 percent of those living on campus owning one.

Boise State sends out almost all of its mailings and mes-sages to students electronically via BroncoWeb, meaning computer access is essentially required.

!omas Freeman, a junior at Boise State thinks, overall, etextbooks are a good idea.

“Obviously they’re cheaper, and it still goes over the same information,” Freeman said. “Everything’s elec-tronic nowadays anyways.”

Jenna Hix, a sophomore majoring in Psychology, agrees.

“I think it’s a great idea,” Hix said. But, she added, students should also have an option

whether to use an etextbook or have a physical copy. “I think they should o#er both, since some students

learn better by having an actual book in front of them,” Hix said.

Sales of etextbooks have surged in recent years, with CourseSmart reporting a 600 percent increase in pro"t from 2007 to 2008. According to Zucker, hundreds of thousands of students now purchase etextbooks from CourseSmart, which boasts a digital library of more than 7,000 titles.

Technology for etextbooks has also improved in re-cent years. According to Zucker, students can now highlight, type notes and even copy and paste material using an etextbook.

“I think it’s really important that students have a choice,” Zucker said. “In short, etextbooks are another option, though some students will always prefer tradi-tional textbooks.”

Still, etextbooks have a long way to go before they be-come the primary choice of students.

“It’s safe to say that paper, printed texts continue to be the bulk of the demand,” said Elio DiStaola, spokesman for the Follett Higher Education Group. “But we’re seeing more of those texts available in the electronic format. Our bookstores are preparing for that shift to accelerate. We have to assume that it will.”

Freeman admitted that although he supports the idea, he had never personally bought one.

“I think they should advertise it more,” Freeman said. “I haven’t really heard a lot about them.”

Still, the future of etextbooks seems bright.“You’re saving trees (when you purchase an etextbook),”

Zucker said. “!is is a trend that will continue to grow in popularity. Sales will continue to grow as we continue to become a more tech-savvy society.”

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A benefit, rough-cut screening of “Person of Interest,” a movie written and produced by Boise State University adjunct English instructor Jason Reuben Appleman, will be held Wednesday, Sept. 16. Proceeds from the event will help pay

to finish the film.

BY SHANNON MORGANEditor-in-Chief

Jason Appleman was inspired to write “Person of Interest” after pondering what might happen when his older brother was deployed to Iraq.

“It came from knowing my brother was going to war, and wondering what would happen when he came back,” Appleman said. “It also came from a love of street !lms -- the everyman !lm where the Un-known Soldier in urban American is very similar to the Unknown Soldier in the tombs,” Appleman said.

Appleman collaborated with lo-cal award-winning !lmmaker Gregory Bayne, who directed “Person of Interest.”

Bayne worked as a cinematographer and editor on the !lm “Out of the Blue” about the BSU foot-ball team’s Fiesta Bowl win.

Appleman, an award winning screenwriter, poet and novelist, also stars in “Person of Interest.” He por-trays Terrance Dyer, a veteran of the war in Iraq, a self-proclaimed American Patriot and seasoned combat !ghter.

In the !lm, Apple-man’s character grap-ples with symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder and para-noia. According to the movie’s Web site, Dyer is convinced the fed-eral government is setting him up as the fall guy in a terrorist attack on American soil.

Appleman and Bayne interviewed vet-erans of the war in Iraq in preparation for the movie. "ey were interested in por-traying one man’s experience of the war and how his life was changed.

“"ese people, no matter what they do … they give their life for their country,” Bayne said. “Even if they come back in one piece.”

According to a post by Appleman and Bayne on the Web site fundable.com, “Person of Interest,” “explores the land-scape of one man’s sense of betrayal by his father, by his God, by the country he has laid his life on the line for, and which has o#ered him back only super!cial handouts in return.”

Terrance Dyer says in a line from the

movie, “You come back to nothing.” Dyer said. “Not to the loved ones who wrote you. Not to the jobs. Not to the ideas you had to begin with at twenty or thirty. You come back to waiting. But mostly you wait for another war. Every next con$ict is right around the corner.”

Bayne and Appleman have kept a tight lid on the project. Few people outside the cast and crew have seen the !lm.

Tony Shlangen, co-founder and chief operating o%cer of Wirestone, a spon-sor of the bene!t screening Wednesday, has seen the !lm. “I especially enjoyed watching the lead character battle his in-ternal con$icts,” he said.

Bayne said the !lm aims to capture the mood of one man and of an era.

“When we sat down to collaborate for this, it was less about the (Bush) admin-

istration, or anything that went on, it was about the heaviness that sat on us all. We (America) were at-tacked and (were all of a sudden) at war, and we hadn’t been at war in a long time. For me, it was about the heavi-ness,” Bayne said.

Issues of class divi-sion and how the me-dia in$uences culture are also woven into the !lm.

“It’s about this char-acter and how he’s in-ternalized these things … us going to war, all the things that hap-pened in that era, the media, all of it,” Bayne said. “It does sort of

ride this interesting wave between this character and the overall feeling during this time.”

“Person of Interest” was !lmed in Boise and Seattle. "e cast and crew for the !lm were all recruited from Boise.

“"e actors … everyone that worked on this is local. It’s very small, and literally made with no money at all,” Bayne said.

Bayne and Appleman took the !lm as far as they could with a “red-lined” bud-get and have organized a bene!t screen-ing of the !lm to !nish production.

“We’re fundraising; we have to !n-ish the !lm now. We’ve done everything we’ve done for free and now we have hard costs that we have to take care of,” Bayne said.

A bene!t screening of the in-progress !lm will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Egyptian "eatre. Tickets are $8.

“I’m Terrance Dyer, honorable discharge from the United States Army July 17, 2006. I’ve loved my country above God when I as foolish ... above man when I was ill ... in dreams, I loved my coun-try as if it was the dream itself, and waking were a tyranny.” - - “Person of Interest”

Go to arbiteronline.com and download Shan-non Morgan’s podcast show “On the Flipside”

to hear an interview with Jason Appleman and Gregory Bayne about “Person of Interest.”

Go to arbiteronline.com to see a

trailer of the movie “Person of Interest.”

“It came from knowing my brother was going to war, and wondering what would happen when he came back.”

Jason Applemen

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BY MARGARET REIMERJournalist

!e Volunteer Expo in the Jordan Ballroom Wednesday was designed to get students involved in the community. Booths were set up featuring information on the many non-pro"t organizations in Boise with sign-up sheets available for volunteers.

!e volunteer organizations present were arranged into categories of Youth and Edu-

cation, Heathcare, Environment and other.

!e organizations included Mothers against Drunk Driving, a.l.p.h.a., Snake River Alliance, Girl Scouts of America, Boise Urban Garden School and the Agency for New Americans.

Sam Martin, a nursing major at Boise State, said she had experi-ence volunteering in the past and wanted to continue her commu-nity involvement.

Holly Ziegenfuss, said she vis-ited several booths and planned on volunteering with 4-H Youth

or Agency for New Americans. Addie Hoverson, psychology

major, said she was thinking of volunteering at !e Idaho Bo-tanical Garden after attending.

At the booth devoted to !e Agency for New Americans Lisa Barrett, a social work major, recruited volunteers. She vol-unteers herself at the agency, helping acclimatize refugees to life in Boise. Lisa’s current fam-ily is from Afghanistan but she has also helped people from Iraq, Burundi and Rwanda as they learn English, attempt to

"nd jobs and simply learn how to go grocery shopping in their new community.

BUGS, !e Boise Urban Gar-den School, was started by a schoolteacher in 2003 to teach children and their families or-ganic gardening. Volunteers and teachers work together to teach sustainability, science, compost-ing and healthy cooking.

On the other side of the Jordan Ballroom, stood Liz Woodru#, a lobbyist and community or-ganizer working for !e Snake River Alliance.

!e Snake River Alliance is an environmental watchdog group founded thirty years ago to stop the injection of nuclear waste into the aquifer. !e Snake River Alliance is working to pass an Idaho Energy Plan that would expand renewable energy and promote energy e$ciency.

!e group works closely with Boise State student volunteers to help raise environmental aware-ness, according to Woodru#.

Volunteer Expo connects students to the community

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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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BY ABDUSSALAM KHAMIS

Guest Opinion

Since I came to this coun-try, people have persistently asked me whether I will stay in the United States of Amer-ica after I graduate or if later on I prefer to return back to where I came from. Honestly, I do not know the right answer for those people’s curiosity nor am I de!nitely aware of which answer they expect me to respond with. Yet that has raised such an essential point which all African students who study in the United States or other developed countries ought to consider and think about deeply.

Every year our mother land, Africa, loses tens of thou-sands of educated people ei-ther by staying wherever they pursue their education or by migrating to western coun-tries seeking a better life than what African countries could o"er them.

#e big loser in this pro-cess, however, is the hope of enhancing the life of the ancient continent. And even-tually the phenomenon of migration abandons Africa with a situation full of dis-eases, inequality, corrup-tion, poor education systems and so on. In Africa, ordinary

people like me have a wide-spread custom of blaming the political leaders for the backward current situation in their countries.

On the other hand, the po-litical leaders accuse outside forces of preventing the con-tinent from going forward and being in a better place. In my views, the brains’ mi-gration is the number one reason for all the problems which Africa has.

Indeed the !rst step to be in the right track, in terms of helping Africa out, is return-ing the educated people to their African countries.

Tayeb Salih, a Sudanese author, in his well-known story, “Season of Migration to the North,” (published in 1969) seems in some points encouraging young Africans to migrate to the northern countries, Britain in his case. His story describes Britain a heaven in the earth and it would be “cooler” living there than Africa. With all my respect to his opinion, I do strongly believe that the sea-son of migration to the south has come more than any time before, for the future of Af-rica and people who need us at this time to assist them to get rid of the poverty and dis-eases, to build schools and hospitals and to ultimately

make their and our lives much better.

It just does not make sense. #e wealthiest land in the globe with the highest per-centage of natural resources has more than sixty percent

of its countries that are virtu-ally reliant on foreign aids to feed their people.

Despite the reality that ag-riculture shall be the princi-pal career of half of Africa’s residents, hunger kills enor-mous numbers of newborn African children every single year. In Africa, they are Lack-ing in public services and infrastructure, and in the worst cases, there is di$culty of o"ering even clean water. All these issues are the reality on the ground over there, in addition to corrupted politi-cians who for instance spend millions of dollars in Europe and South Asia for vaca-tions. Sadly they dispose all the life sources in Africa on their behalf.

All these signi!cant prob-lems bond with each other. De!nitely we can’t solve

one of them without deal-ing with the others. #ereby these problems cannot be altered themselves without motivation of change which would not be done without educated people’s involve-ment. And indeed our con-sultation and experiences as African educated are needed widely there.

We as African students who have the chance of a life time to go abroad and be in touch with the diversity of cultures and di"erent perspectives of life, it is remarkably our des-tiny to carry all what we have learned and other principles of life that we have observed to our mother land and work as hard as possible to reach the ultimate objectives of de-velopment: the life aspects of African people.

We can do that if we just

free ourselves of sel!shness, and looking beyond of what we assume that we deserve of comfortable lives after a long journey of seeking education in the western universities. Right now, we have to start thinking of what can we give to our continent, instead of wasting time thinking of what Africa could provide us. We could contribute and share our knowledge with our peo-ple, with our tribes, where we came from and start the jour-ney to the south.

Abdussalam Khamis is a graduate student at Boise State University.

Ruth Emily Zickau of the writing center assisted with this article as a language assistant.

Season of migration to the south

A street corner in Eastleigh, a Somali-dominated neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. Families say that scores of eth-nic Somalis have been recruited from Eastleigh by al Shabaab, an Islamist group that’s called for jihad in Somalia.

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