The Arbiter September 15, 2014

September 15, 2014 Vol. 27 Issue 9

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Find out the real tradition students complete with the Excellence Bell.

The Arbiter conducts an interview with rapper Slug before his show at the Knitting Factory.

Cross country and track star Emma Bates prepares for her final season at Boise State.

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Women discuss success and leadership in conferenceAlx StickelNews Editor

Boise State’s second an-nual Women and Leader-ship Conference: What is Success? was more than just about leadership and suc-cess. For many women in attendance, the conference provided a call to find their voice and the courage to speak up.

In his closing remarks, David Adler, executive di-rector of the Andrus Center, which hosted the confer-ence, said once women find their voice, people will see a better Idaho and a better America.

“Women need to realize they have something to say, defend it and have the con-fidence to say it,” Adler said.

Barbara Morgan, confer-ence chair and distinguished educator in residence at Boise State, said the confer-ence involved many women setting an example of using their voice. However, many women still face diverse challenges including sexual discrimination, harassment and suppression of their voice in the work place.

For Morgan, the confer-ence represents a continu-ing conversation about what success is and the impor-tance of sometimes taking

risks in speaking up or even challenging rules and laws of society.

As a teacher, Morgan feels risk is critical for learning. Both male and female stu-dents at any level of educa-tion, need to take risks in asking questions they feel could be embarrassing, ex-pressing their opinion and challenging assumptions.

Morgan acknowledged one current discussion is why, typically speaking, male students take more risks than female students. The question is: Is it a man/woman thing, or does soci-ety encourage different be-haviors for the genders?

Two discussions revolved around those topics early into the three-day confer-ence. Judith Freeman, award-winning author, moderated the panel discussing women and the risks they take both professionally and socially. The panel included Morgan , Ellen Ochoa director of the Johnson Space Center, Col. Sherrie McCandless, com-mander of the 124th Fighter Wing of the Idaho Air Na-tional Guard and Deanne Shulman, international con-sultation in fire and emer-gency management.

For these women, the primary risks they faced

came from societal expecta-tions and discouragement in various levels of their careers. Ochoa recognized as a manager, not all of her decisions would be popular and it was sometimes hard to do the right thing for the organization.

Continuing the discussion concerning challenges wom-en face in the work place, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Victoria Lipnic spoke about sexual discrimination and sexual harassment issues women have encountered and are still fighting.

Lipnic used the example of civil rights laws to show that “significant” laws like that take 20-25 years to de-velop and replace society’s norms.

“Every aspect of soci-ety plays a role in bringing fullness to what (laws) are designed for,” Lipnic said about legal battles related to

sexual harassment.Morgan hopes partici-

pants realize change takes time and the facilitation of discussion is one rea-son the conference is im-

portant. She also hopes men and women remove conscious or subconscious barriers in achieving their goals, and the sky really is no limit for success.

Christine Kunewa Walker spoke at the conference.

Women and men attended.““—david adler

Women need to realize they have something to say, defend it and have the confidence to

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Crosswalk safety a growing concern at Boise StateSean BunceAsst. News Editor

Yet another accident oc-curred this week involving a bicycle and car on campus, bringing the total to three for the academic year. This time, like the others, the cyclist was at fault due to a lack of knowledge about the rules of the road.

An eye witness to the most recent accident, which oc-curred in front of the Lincoln Parking Garage, Don Telford believes there’s another solu-tion to the problem.

“Police should be passing out tickets left and right,”

Telford said. “I bet if they did, they wouldn’t have to write as many later on.”

He also feels this would cause cyclists to think twice before racing out into traffic.

“It’s so frequent, it seems you could chase your tail all day trying to write citations,” Gallas said.

These incidents have raised concern among law enforce-ment officers patrolling campus.

“I see a ton of near misses every day (driving on cam-pus),” said Lt. Rob Gallas of the Boise Police Depart-ment. “At one point some-one’s going to get hurt if they

don’t pay attention to the rules of the road.”

According to Title 49 of Idaho State Code, a per-son operating a bicycle or human-powered vehicle approaching a stop sign must slow down or stop if required before entering an intersection.

This law also applies to bi-cyclists as they enter a cross-walks at an intersection.

After slowing to a reason-able speed or stopping, the cyclist must yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection. The cyclist may continue through an inter-section after determining

there is no hazard to their safety.

When traveling with traf-fic, cyclists must use proper turn signals to warn vehicles of an impending turn or stop. They must also travel at a safe distance behind motor vehicles to allow themselves a safe stopping distance.

Students aren’t doing this however, which is the prob-lem, Gallas said. Instead, they race across campus, threatening the safety of themselves, others and the paint on motorists’ bum-pers.

If a cyclist fails to ex-ercise due caution, they

can be ticketed for failure to stop before entering a roadway. According to Gal-las, there isn’t enough man power available to stop ev-eryone who violates this law, although they will be cited if an accident occurs and be held responsible for any damages caused to either party.

Gallas recommends peo-ple exercise more caution when entering intersections, encouraging them to dis-mount from their bike and walk it across the crosswalk. By doing this, the cyclist is then considered a pedes-trian and allowed the right-

of-way.Beyond the basic rules

bicyclists are expected to follow, there’s an underlying concern for safety which the BPD and Campus Security wish to address.

“A lot of folks here aren’t wearing helmets, which in-creases the threat and like-lihood of serious injury,” Gallas said. “The fact is, if you get hit by a car on a bike, you’re not going to fair well, typically.”

For more information about bicycle safety, visit Campus Security and Police Services on the Boise State website.

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your fabulous selfGreenspeed races after another world recordSean BunceAsst. News Editor

The Greenspeed club at Boise State, is yet again at-tempting to break its own land speed record during Speed Week at the Bonn-eville Salt Flats later this month.

Last year they reached 203 mph. In a few weeks the team anticipates going even faster, setting their sights on the record as the world’s fast-est truck in the diesel engine category.

The record stands at 215.091 mph, which they hope to beat using three types of fuel, including vegetable oil, just to prove a point.

“We’re just using vegetable oil as proof of the concept,” said Dave Schenker, me-chanical engineering student at Boise State and co-found-er of the club. “It’s in its raw state, not even a fuel. Here we are beating petroleum at its own game.”

According to Schenker, their diesel engine has only been modified for power, which is a testament to the value vegetable oil has as a fuel source. When vegetable

oil is heated to 175 degrees, it becomes the consistency of regular fuel, which can then be used with their die-sel engine.

However, this isn’t the only fuel source they use. They also run on diesel and a biodiesel, which they hope to start making on their own soon.

“Vegetable oil is not a good fuel for over the road use, which regular people use in their vehicles,” said Patrick Johnston, graduate of Boise State’s mechanical engineering program. “What we really advocate is biodies-el derived from algae.”

With a computer reading 70 points of contact on the truck between the chassis and engine, the team can see exactly how each fuel type works with the truck to choose the most efficient.

Along with the chance to break a new record every year, the Greenspeed club at Boise State offers it’s mem-bers a variety of opportuni-ties across many fields, from photography to biology.

Kara Grant, a biology major at Boise State, ac-companied the team to the Salt Flats last year. Her new

knowledge of bio-diesel fuel may put the team in a differ-ent set of record books.

“We’ll be making some fuel hopefully straight from scratch with algae from a pond or a culture source,” she said.

Bio-diesel is clean and re-newable fuel source. Accord-ing to Grant the process to make it from algae is simple, but expensive due to such low yields.

“Hopefully by next year we’ll be running on our own fuel and be done with veg-etable oil runs,” Grant said.

The purpose of the Greenspeed club is to pro-vide students with the op-portunity to gain real life experience working in an in-terdisciplinary environment while designing, building and racing a vegetable oil-powered vehicle.

With help from Venture College, Greenspeed has also become a nonprofit organization which builds off the work already accom-plished by the club in mak-ing motor sports more sus-tainable.

For more information, visit Greenspeed’s website greenspeed.me.

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Flooding poses little threat to Boise StateEryn-Shay JohnsonAsst. News Editor

BYU-Idaho unintention-ally added to their underwa-ter programs this summer after flash flooding covered portions of the eastern Idaho campus.

Portions of Twin Falls, Po-catello and Idaho Falls were also affected by microbursts that spurred flash floods.

Boise River sits mere me-ters from campus but even with being so close it poses little threat to Boise State. Chances are slim that stu-dents will be encouraged to wear water wings to class.

“We don’t really have is-sues with flash flooding here per say,” said Rob Littrell, emergency management di-rector.

According to Littrell the

storms that caused BYU-Idaho to flood are extremely rare for Idaho.

Even though Boise State is in a flood zone, there have been several preparations by the Capitol to defend cam-pus and downtown from flood hazards.

After the 1996 Eighth Street fire the area was at a higher risk for flash flood-ing. Ada County built several proactive structures to help prevent future floods. Build-ing walls and dams help guide waters during high run off times. Gulches and widened streams will also help control flood zones. Ada County also developed two basin areas that are de-signed to catch and hold excess water.

Chris Blaine, undecided junior, isn’t worried about

flooding or other disasters on campus.

“I’m sure (the university) would have something that would be able to resolve the issue,” Blaine said. “I’m sure the students would come to-gether and help out.”

Boise State has a plan for nearly any threat that could occur on campus, exclud-ing sharknados and zombie outbreaks. The Emergency Operations Plan focuses on shooters, bomb threats, fires, hazardous spills, medical emergencies and natural gas leaks.

“If we ever had a disaster on campus it would start here (the emergency man-agement office),” Littrell said. “All buildings have a plan.”

Essentially students would be alerted to the problem

while faculty and staff on campus worked to secure vi-tal equipment and hazardous materials. If needed, those in endangered buildings would be asked to evacuate.

According to the emergen-cy management website the basic goal in an emergency situation is to “save and pro-tect the lives of students, fac-ulty, staff, and the public.”

The last time Boise State was threatened by flood wa-ters from Boise River was in May 2012 when waters threatened to level with the bank.

““—Rob Littrell

If we ever had a disaster on campus it would start here (the

emergency management office). All buildings have a plan.

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Katie MeikleManaging Editor

Stationed between the Communica-tion Building and the Student Union Building is a familiar university land-mark, an old-school bell with a plaque that reads: “If you have achieved excel-lence today, ring the bell!”

Ringing the Excellence Bell in com-memoration of academic and sporting achievement is a longstanding tradition at Boise State.

Ironically, many a Boise State student has been cautioned to not do just that.

The familiar cry “don’t touch the Excellence Bell!” is indica-tive of another, far more vile tradition associated with the bell.

This student tradition is to pee on it.

“I peed on it one night when I was walking home with my friends,” an anonymous Eng-ish major said. “We’d been

drinking and they dared me. Every once in a while I see a kid ringing it and I feel bad but that’s why it’s important to wash your hands.”

While this particular tradition may be familiar to students, its origins and prev-alence remain unknown.

According to university officials, cam-pus authorities do not handle cases of Excellence Bell defacement from a secu-rity or a custodial standpoint on a regu-lar basis.

“I don’t recall any incidents pertain-ing to the Excellence Bell,” said Rick

Rodgers, a dispatcher for the Boise Police Depart-ment. “And I’ve been here since 2002.”

According to Rodgers, Boise State Campus Secu-rity has not regularly cited instances of Excellence Bell vandalism in the past.

In spite of the urinary tradition associated with the bell, the Excellence Bell does not undergo routine cleaning either.

“It’s not a weekly, or year-ly, or even regularly sched-uled cleaning. When it needs to be painted, it gets cleaned and painted. That need is determined by visual inspec-tion,” said Chris Wright, the general maintenance man-ager for Facilities Operations and Maintenance. “If we have a complaint or something we deal with those maintenance issues on a case-by-case basis only.”

According to Wright, Excel-lence Bell defacement is not a very common complaint.

“I’ve never been told it’s excep-tionally stinky or anything. We spruce it up occasionally, but the rest of the time it’s just there and it gets used by students as an Excel-lence Bell, as it should be,” Wright said.

The Excellence Bell was donat-ed by the Nampa School District in 1984 along with the one-room Opaline Schoolhouse, now located behind Bronco Stadium.

Richard Hart, the dean of the Col-lege of Education at that time, said that the joint donation represented a “historical tie between the future and the past of Idaho education,” accord-ing to a news release from June 1984.

According to The Arbiter’s student source, these kind of traditions are simply a part of the college experience.

“Those are the kind of experiences that make your college career memo-rable. And as far as wild break-free ex-periences go, it’s pretty tame,” she said.

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MuRRAy STATE uNIvERSITy:The Shoe Tree: Students who marry one

another nail two shoes—one of his, one of hers—to a tree on campus.

Ohio State University:The night before the annual Ohio

State-Michigan game, Ohio State stu-dents jump into Mirror Lake. Keep in mind this game usually takes place in November.

Yale University:New students—and especially

those hoping to be accepted—are encouraged to rub the foot of a the statue of former univer-sity president Theodore Dwight Woolsey. This is made more complicated by the tradition of graduating seniors peeing on the foot.

Reed College:Every year Reed College holds the

Seventh Annual Nitrogen Day—aptly named because nitrogen is the seventh element of the periodic table. However the holiday is mostly just an excuse for the students to celebrate, eat food and recite haiku.

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Rap artist aims for positivityJustin DoeringStaff Writer

On Sept. 18, the indie hip-hop duo, Atmosphere, will grace the ears of Boise with their performance at the Knitting Factory at 7 p.m. Us-ing producer Ant’s beats as weapons of mass communi-cation, rapper Sean Michael Daley, otherwise know as Slug, has been telling stories of the world’s harsh reality for decades. Slug delivers a rhythmic message that en-courages listeners to get up on their feet.

Atmosphere has already carved its name deep into the foundation of the hip-hop in-dustry with a lengthy history of musical accolades and con-tinues to make waves with their 2014 album, “Southsid-ers.” Many of us will have the pleasure of hearing their new album live this Thursday.

Some Boise State students are excited about the concert, including junior kinesiology major Eric Fisher.

“I’m pumped,” Fisher said. “Slug keeps getting better and better, and ‘Southsiders’ live should be great.”

In a quick interview with The Arbiter, Slug had a lot to say about Atmosphere’s upcoming show and his own musical endeavors:

The Arbiter: What is one thing the people of Boise can

expect at your show?Slug: I don’t really believe

in setting expectations when it comes to art, so I guess the main thing that you can ex-pect is that I will be there.

The Arbiter: In this album you seem to show that you have settled down a little bit from your usual work. How has this new feeling of do-mestication influenced the way you write and what you write about?

Slug: I don’t think it’s more or less difficult. For me writ-ing is writing. It’s something I do. It’s not a chore. It’s not a pain in the ass. That remains the same when it’s time for me to escape from what’s on my mind, with whatever I’m juggling.

The difference, maybe ten years ago, I would go right to writing about my dramatic friends and my alcohol addic-tion and, you know, my wor-ries about who my ex-girl-friend was sleeping with. But now those aren’t really things that are in my world anymore.

Now my escape is trying to escape from my kids scream-ing or my wife being disgust-ed with me because I wiped a booger on the bottom of the fucking drawer. The es-cape still feels the same, ex-cept now I am escaping from healthier things.

The Arbiter: I read an in-terview with you saying your

newer work is purposed part-ly for challenging young lis-teners to do something with themselves.

Do you feel as if you are re-sponsible for getting some of the younger generation up on their feet?

Slug: I don’t know if I feel responsible, I just want to spread love. I don’t mean that in a hippie way, I mean that in an actual like loving way. I feel—regardless of what you are, a carpenter, a gardener, you know, a customer service person or whatever—it’s our responsibility to spread hope and love.

Human babies are so de-pendent on people. I think it shows us codependency, and we try to ignore that and prove to be independent. But if you look at the nature of ourselves, we are meant to be codependent on each other. That is our strength, not our weakness.

The Arbiter: In “Arthur’s Song”, you talk about carv-ing your way into the world and leaving your mark. What type of mark do you hope to leave as your lega-cy?

Slug: I’m hoping I can influence people and want people to see that we were striving for making people think, even though a lot of our music isn’t very opti-mistic.

A lot of my music is pret-ty gloomy and reminds people that they have problems. A lot of music likes to take your mind off your problems and es-cape your problems. But we make a certain type of music that reminds people that they have problems.

Within that, I try to in-still a sense of optimism inside there. That’s what we stand for: being able to be okay even when chal-lenged with so many ob-stacles.

““—Sean “Slug” Michael Daley

I feel—regardless of what you are, a car-penter, a gardener, you know, a customer

service person or whatever—it’s our responsibility to spread hope and love.

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Fad novels surge rise and fall in popularityJustin KirkhamCulture Editor

Somewhere between their residence on paper and high-definition transformation onto theater screens, novels often experience a surge in popu-larity. Novels like “Twilight,” “The Hunger Games,” “Harry Potter” and “Fifty Shades of Grey” all fall into this category of fad novels.

Novels like these popular-ized ones are often lumped into the spotlight by an overwhelm-ing sense of hype before an im-pending film, not necessarily because of their literary prow-ess. Although, some novels, like “Harry Potter,” gain last-ing popularity because of their communal appeal.

Teen services librarian at the Boise Public Library, Jen Wills, noted that most bestseller books or those that are circu-lated the most through Boise’s library system are those with “any sort of movie or TV show tie-in.” This currently includes “The Fault in our Stars” and “Orange is the New Black.”

Junior English and graphic design major Chelsea Mabbott has read a handful of these nov-els but avoids others because

of the graphic content within them. She doesn’t feel strongly opposed to fad novels in the grand scheme of things.

“This is not saying that these are bad novels; they are just the ones that suddenly hit our population by storm in the past few years,” Mabbott said.

Mabbott felt that another large reason for fad novels’ surging popularity is the ease of comprehension that they offer.

“If I can consume three nov-els within a single day and not have to think any more than a frequent scoff at the ridiculous-ness of the content, then I find myself amused,” Mabbott said. “Fad novels aren’t entirely a bad thing. People are reading, and that is good.”

Senior English major Mi-chelle Telleria found that most fad novels offer readers “an es-cape into something forbidden that they can safely experience.”

Though, in some instances, these escapes are not accompa-nied, in Telleria’s eyes, by high quality or in-depth writing.

“Those people are not go-ing to pick up Dickens,” Telle-ria said. “The language is too alien.”

Telleria explained that it is often the complexity and depth

of renowned classics that scares readers off in the first place. But, she also found that fad novels have much more access to promotion than the works of classical authors did when they were originally published.

“We don’t look at the writ-ing,” Telleria said. “We go off someone else’s opinion of good.”

Current American culture often facilitates obsession through its varied amounts of advertising, connectivity on-line and product promotion. Telleria believes that fad novels become fads through this fa-cilitated obsession that comes with heightened promotion.

After such a surge in popu-larity, fad novels often fall into a dimmer spotlight, filled with an onslaught of critiques from onlookers. This can be seen of the “Twilight” fandom and “Fifty Shades of Grey.” “Fifty Shades of Gray” is, in fact, a “Twilight” fan-fiction. But, on the other hand, “Harry Potter” and “The Hunger Games” have yet to receive such negative backlash.

Telleria believes that this is because higher quality fic-tion can maintain popular-ity instead of falling victim to disdain.

“It’s kind of like 80s hair-styles,” Telleria explained. “They were really popular until people realized they weren’t as cool as they thought. Really good fad novels don’t fall into that bad light.”

From a long-term perspec-

tive, Telleria feels that such backlash can be a learning expe-rience where authors can work further on their characteriza-tion flaws or poor descriptions. She also felt that badly written fad novels can give readers a chance to acknowledge bumps in the stories that they embrace.

“Every book is going to have a flaw,” Telleria said. “The dan-ger is not noticing it in the end.”

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Sports & rec

Nate LowerySports & Rec Editor

There are two photos hanging on the wall of Boi-se State’s director of track and field and cross country coach Corey Ihmels’ office: Betsy Saina and Lisa Uhl, his two most decorated athletes from his home at Iowa State.

After winning the NCAA title in the 10k this past summer, Emma Bates may have made her way onto her coach’s wall as well.

“I think we’re going to have to retire the cardinal and gold and put up some blue and orange,” Ihmels told The Arbiter back in July.

Bates, the most decorated athlete in Boise State his-tory, enters her final season as a Bronco hungry to leave an even bigger mark on the record books.

More often than not, ath-letes become complacent af-ter achieving their big goal. Once they have nothing else to strive for, they lose track of the process and are satis-fied with their careers.

For Bates, however, her NCAA championship has only increased her belief in Ihmels’ process and her confidence that she is one of the best runners at the na-tional level.

“It’s a lot of pressure for sure but that’s what keeps you going,” Bates said. “It kind of feeds you. You build off of that and use it to your

advantage going into every race.

“I know I can improve on my times and get my team to where we want to go. That’s what keeps me going.”

Ihmels also believes that having a title to her name will only benefit Bates.

“I think for Emma that was the one thing that was missing for her—actually winning that title and be-ing the best in the country,” Ihmels said. “I think for her she sees it as a stepping stone.”

The next step: improving Bates’s confi-dence, a part of Ihmels’ process for training dis-tance runners. His process has led him to become one of the most successful dis-tance coaches in collegiate history.

His process is founded in patience—nothing great will ever come overnight. The success of his athletes is based predominantly on sticking to a plan of hard work and doing things the right way.

“I think success breeds success,” Ihmels said. “I learned very early as a coach from one of my mentors to never hold back the women because they’re women.”

Bates is a fond practi-tioner of Ihmels’ process because, without it, she doesn’t believe she would be where she is at today.

As a senior at Elk River High School in Minnesota, Bates had modest personal bests—good enough to get her a shot at the collegiate level, but not Division I.

A connection with for-mer Broncos coach Brad Wick, an Elk River native, brought her to Boise State. From there, Bates has ex-ceeded practically every expectation she set for herself.

“I definitely never imag-ined I would win a na-tional title coming out of high school,” Bates said. “I didn’t even know I would be competing at the DI level, let alone competing well. So, it was just pret-ty surreal to go into the

season with a shot to win, and then to actually have it happen.”

Bates’ only focus as of now is on winning the NCAA title in cross country.

“I’m excited for what is in store this year,” Ihmels said. “But we go back to the process. We have to be patient and let the process take care of itself. “

The process has gotten her this far; who’s to say it won’t get her even farther.

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Bates was competitive on a national level her junior year,

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Boise State improves against the HuskiesNate LowerySports & Rec Editor

Nearly every facet of the Boise State football team has seen improvement since their season opening loss to Ole Miss in Atlanta. Saturday’s 38-21 win over UConn showed just how far the Broncos have come since they fell flat against the Rebels.

The win improved Boise State to 2-1 on the season. Here are five areas that Bronco fans should keep an eye on.

1. The defense is the strongest in the MW: Not since 2010, Justin Wilcox’s last year in the City of Trees, has the Boise State defense looked this good. The Broncos had their third straight game with two or more interceptions, one of which was returned

50 yards for a touchdown by Donte Deayon. Line-backer Tanner Vallejo add-ed a 31-yard fumble for a touchdown in the third quarter.

2. Jay Ajayi is human: It appears all those touch-es are finally starting to take a toll on Jay Ajayi. Ajayi came into Saturday’s game averaging 229.5 yards of total offense per game—he exited Rent-schler Field with 52 yards on 20 touches.

3. Grant Hedrick is finding his groove: After the utter embarrassment that was Ole Miss, quar-terback Grant Hedrick is finally starting to get into the form many were ex-pecting of him. Hedrick was smart with his deci-sion making against the Huskies, and was a part of Boise State’s only three of-

fensive touchdowns of the game.

4. The Broncos can close a game: In two games thus far this season, Boise State has been out-scored 42-7 in the fourth quarter. That trend finally came to a screeching halt against UConn. Boise State achieved a 14-0 shut-out in the fourth quarter led by a huge interception by Jonathan Moxely with 11:26 remaining in the game and the scoreboard reading 24-21 in favor of the Broncos.

5. Tight ends are final-ly a part of the offense: Tight ends Jake Roh and Holden Huff combined for 77 yards on five catches. The Broncos’ best tight end from last season, Jake Hardee, finished the sea-son with 73 yards on five receptions. Bryan Harsin’s goal was to get the tight ends more involved in the offense this season, and it appears his goal is begin-ning to become a reality.

Donte Deayon returns an Interception for a TD.

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