MONDAY | JANUARY14, 2013 | SERVING NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1896 | VOL 116 ISSUE 29 The Spectrum WWW.NDSUSPECTRUM.COM 1-3 4 5 6,7 8,9 ‘Figurative Encounters’ Opens at Rourke Gallery Page 5 New Editors’ Corner in Opinion: Improving NDSU INDEX News Features A&E Opinion Sports ALSO INSIDE NEXT ISSUE Students Buck Textbook Trend Alternative Textbook Sources Draw Student Business Track and Field Teams Dominate Men’s and Women’s Teams Sweep Bison Classic Page 3 Page 9 YASSER SHAIKAH | THE SPECTRUM Ross Collins of the com- munication department has recently been recognized as one of the top 50 journalism instructors of 2012. The purpose of this rec- ognition is “to recognize the accomplishments of top-tier journalism and communi- cations professors across the country,” according to jouralismdegree.org. Collins feels humbled by being recognized as one of the Top 50 Journalism Pro- fessors of 2012. Earning the recognition was a group ef- fort involving the Web Pro- gram Steering Committee, he said. “[The steering commit- tee] is pretty innovative. There’s nothing really like it anywhere else,” Col- lins said. “But I’m not ex- actly sure how they found out about me, because the award has no nomination process that I’m aware of.” Collins feels his website, www.rossfcollins.com, may have caught the attention of the committee in charge of the award. “It’s hand-coded HTML,” he said. “I used it for years for class manage- ment, until the university bought Blackboard a few years ago. I now think that had I tried to make my site into a class management tool and sell it to industry, I could have retired rich. Darn.” Delighted at seeing NDSU’s communications department recognized na- tionally, Collins thinks the award highlights the ways NDSU is growing in stature. “We were getting really tired of being known only for the movie ‘Fargo,’” he said. Collins graduated from MSUM with a bachelor’s degree before moving to earn a Master’s degree in cultural history from the University of Warwick. From there, he went on to earn his doctorate in jour- nalism history from the University of Cambridge. “As a researcher, I’m a journalism historian, but I started out in journalism, moved to public relations, and now teach in commu- nications,” Collins said. “That’s a challenge because mass media is changing so dramatically, and so quick- ly, that professors have a hard time keeping up. I think being a communica- tions professor helps me to understand the changing world of media better than those who consume media without thinking about it. It’s important to think about how the media influences our view of ourselves and the world around us.” Collins has been teach- ing since 1985. He taught for MSUM for three years and UND for one year be- fore starting at NDSU in 1993, where he turned his focus to the changing media and convergence to online journalism. “The major in new me- dia and web design began last year,” Collins said. Collins continued on page 3 NDSU Information Tech- nology Services recently up- graded a former computer clus- ter on campus to a classroom training facility. The Mac computer cluster in IACC 150D was moved to Minard 336 to make the up- grade possible. “The reason for starting this in Minard Hall is because the most requests for these equip- ments come from the English and communications depart- ments, and we wanted these accessible to them first,” Stotz said. IT Instructional Services Manager Nancy Lilleberg and her team initiated the move, rec- ognizing the need for technol- ogy in classrooms. She, along with Classroom Technology Manager Melissa Stotz, decided the instruction delivery needed to be upgraded. The upgraded classroom in the IACC will house modern equipments like SmartBoard and Smart Panels, which will help teachers deliver lectures using PowerPoint slides in a more efficient manner. The new SmartPanels, which are already in use in most classrooms around campus, come with a stylus pen. This enables teachers to edit or write on the board while using their slides at the same time. These panels work with the interac- tive white boards called Smart- Boards. “The aim is to give teachers a chance to practice the use of these technologies before they enter the classrooms,” Lilleberg said. It will also be accessible to students who wish to practice presentation deliveries for their classes. The new classroom will have 20 Windows machines and instructor equipment. The new classrooms and the computer cluster in Minard 336 opened on the first day of spring classes. The SmartBoard purchase is a result of the SU Impact grant of $44,000 offered by the De- velopment Foundation to the ITS. One other technology be- ing introduced to classrooms is the Tegrity Lecture Capture, which allows teachers to record lectures and post the videos to BlackBoard. Teachers can prac- tice using Tegrity in the upgrad- ed facility in IACC 150D. Ross Collins Named Among Top Journalism Professors Digital Teaching ITS Brings New Classroom Technology to Campus e new Smart Panels in use across campus come with a stylus, which the lecturers use to edit on-screen data. Kelsi Novitsky Staff Writer Yasser Shaika Staff Writer MATAYA ARMSTRONG | THE SPECTRUM Ross Collins, a professor in the communication department, has been recognized as one of the top 50 journalism instructors of 2012. Minard Hall Renovation Project Nears Completion Relocated Departments Express Excitement to Occupy New Addition MATAYA ARMSTRONG | THE SPECTRUM e Minard Renovation Project is slated to be complete by this summer. e building is expected to be fully operational for the Fall 2013 semester. Josie Eyers Head-News Editor Two years behind sched- ule, the Minard Renovation Project is slated to be com- plete this summer. “The north addition is near completion,” Mark Dahl, associate director of construction, said. Construction began in the fall of 2009 on the three- phase project, which includ- ed two additions to the north and west sides of the build- ing and renovations to the building’s interior. A partial collapse of the building’s north wall in December 2009 during construction added significant complica- tions and additional time to the project. NDSU requested over $4.8 million of additional funding due to the collapse, according to a 2012 project status summary. All parties involved with the project conducted “sig- nificant forensic analysis” to investigate the cause of the collapse, but “determination has not happened yet,” Dahl said. About 11 months was spent conducting the foren- sic analysis, and this extra time was one of the more significant roadblocks to construction, Dahl said. Analysis of the soil con- ditions and time allotted to redesign the north addition also took a toll on the ex- tended project completion date. Another challenge to the construction was accommo- dating the students and fac- ulty who still needed access to the building, Dahl said. The renovation project has not only caused chal- lenges for the construction crews. Minard continued on page 3
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Ross Collins of the com-munication department has recently been recognized as one of the top 50 journalism instructors of 2012.
The purpose of this rec-ognition is “to recognize the accomplishments of top-tier journalism and communi-cations professors across the country,” according to jouralismdegree.org.
Collins feels humbled by being recognized as one of the Top 50 Journalism Pro-fessors of 2012. Earning the recognition was a group ef-fort involving the Web Pro-gram Steering Committee, he said.
“[The steering commit-tee] is pretty innovative.
There’s nothing really like it anywhere else,” Col-lins said. “But I’m not ex-actly sure how they found out about me, because the award has no nomination process that I’m aware of.”
Collins feels his website, www.rossfcollins.com, may have caught the attention of the committee in charge of the award.
“It’s hand-coded HTML,” he said. “I used it for years for class manage-ment, until the university bought Blackboard a few years ago. I now think that had I tried to make my site into a class management tool and sell it to industry, I could have retired rich. Darn.”
Delighted at seeing NDSU’s communications department recognized na-tionally, Collins thinks the
award highlights the ways NDSU is growing in stature.
“We were getting really tired of being known only for the movie ‘Fargo,’” he said.
Collins graduated from MSUM with a bachelor’s degree before moving to earn a Master’s degree in cultural history from the University of Warwick. From there, he went on to earn his doctorate in jour-nalism history from the University of Cambridge.
“As a researcher, I’m a journalism historian, but I started out in journalism, moved to public relations, and now teach in commu-nications,” Collins said. “That’s a challenge because mass media is changing so dramatically, and so quick-ly, that professors have a hard time keeping up. I
think being a communica-tions professor helps me to understand the changing world of media better than those who consume media without thinking about it. It’s important to think about how the media influences our view of ourselves and the world around us.”
Collins has been teach-ing since 1985. He taught for MSUM for three years and UND for one year be-fore starting at NDSU in 1993, where he turned his focus to the changing media and convergence to online journalism.
“The major in new me-dia and web design began last year,” Collins said.
Collins continued on page 3
NDSU Information Tech-nology Services recently up-graded a former computer clus-ter on campus to a classroom training facility.
The Mac computer cluster in IACC 150D was moved to Minard 336 to make the up-grade possible.
“The reason for starting this in Minard Hall is because the most requests for these equip-ments come from the English and communications depart-ments, and we wanted these accessible to them first,” Stotz said.
IT Instructional Services Manager Nancy Lilleberg and her team initiated the move, rec-ognizing the need for technol-ogy in classrooms. She, along with Classroom Technology Manager Melissa Stotz, decided the instruction delivery needed to be upgraded.
The upgraded classroom in the IACC will house modern equipments like SmartBoard and Smart Panels, which will help teachers deliver lectures using PowerPoint slides in a more efficient manner.
The new SmartPanels, which are already in use in most classrooms around campus, come with a stylus pen. This enables teachers to edit or write on the board while using their slides at the same time. These panels work with the interac-tive white boards called Smart-Boards.
“The aim is to give teachers a chance to practice the use of these technologies before they enter the classrooms,” Lilleberg said.
It will also be accessible to students who wish to practice presentation deliveries for their classes. The new classroom will have 20 Windows machines and instructor equipment. The new classrooms and the computer cluster in Minard 336 opened on the first day of spring classes.
The SmartBoard purchase is a result of the SU Impact grant of $44,000 offered by the De-velopment Foundation to the ITS.
One other technology be-ing introduced to classrooms is the Tegrity Lecture Capture, which allows teachers to record lectures and post the videos to BlackBoard. Teachers can prac-tice using Tegrity in the upgrad-ed facility in IACC 150D.
Ross Collins Named Among Top Journalism Professors
Digital TeachingITS Brings New Classroom Technology to Campus
The new Smart Panels in use across campus come with a stylus, which the lecturers use to edit on-screen data.
Kelsi NovitskyStaff Writer
Yasser ShaikaStaff Writer
MATAYA ARMSTRONG | THE SPECTRUM
Ross Collins, a professor in the communication department, has been recognized as one of the top 50 journalism instructors of 2012.
Minard Hall Renovation Project Nears CompletionRelocated Departments Express Excitement to Occupy New Addition
MATAYA ARMSTRONG | THE SPECTRUM
The Minard Renovation Project is slated to be complete by this summer. The building is expected to be fully operational for the Fall 2013 semester.
Josie EyersHead-News Editor
Two years behind sched-ule, the Minard Renovation Project is slated to be com-plete this summer.
“The north addition is near completion,” Mark Dahl, associate director of construction, said.
Construction began in the fall of 2009 on the three-phase project, which includ-ed two additions to the north
and west sides of the build-ing and renovations to the building’s interior. A partial collapse of the building’s north wall in December 2009 during construction added significant complica-tions and additional time to the project.
NDSU requested over $4.8 million of additional funding due to the collapse, according to a 2012 project status summary.
All parties involved with
the project conducted “sig-nificant forensic analysis” to investigate the cause of the collapse, but “determination has not happened yet,” Dahl said.
About 11 months was spent conducting the foren-sic analysis, and this extra time was one of the more significant roadblocks to construction, Dahl said.
Analysis of the soil con-ditions and time allotted to redesign the north addition
also took a toll on the ex-tended project completion date.
Another challenge to the construction was accommo-dating the students and fac-ulty who still needed access to the building, Dahl said.
The renovation project has not only caused chal-lenges for the construction crews.
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President Barack Obama and Afghan President Ha-mid Karzai met Friday to discuss bringing down the curtain in the long Afghan war. As U.S. involvement in one war against the ter-ror movement draws down, there's increasing talk about using force to stop al-Qaida affiliates elsewhere in the world, notably in Mali, Ye-men and Somalia. A look at the al-Qaida presence in all four countries:
AFGHANISTANU.S. officials say al-
Qaida now has fewer than 100 fighters left in Af-
ghanistan. Instead, the main enemy is the Taliban, the terror movement's Afghan allies who threaten the U.S.-backed government. The U.S. hopes that after 2014, the Afghan govern-ment can deal with the Taliban — politically and militarily — while a small American counterterrorism force goes after hardcore al-Qaida remnants. Obama and Karzai must agree on how many Americans will remain as part of the coun-terterror force and to train and equip Afghan forces. If all that works, U.S. officials believe al-Qaida will be un-able to revive its presence
Maghreb and other groups that share al-Qaida’s goals. Security experts warn they are carving out their own territory in northern Mali from where they can plot terror attacks in Africa and Europe. The militants, es-timated at about 1,000, in-clude recruits from other countries and are well-armed and funded.
Despite training from U.S. and other Western ad-visers, the Mali army has been ineffective in fighting the militants. The French military arrived in Mali on Friday to help the army, a day after the militants won the strategic town of Konna
airliner using a new, so-phisticated explosive to be hidden in the bomber’s un-derwear, and a plot to send mail bombs on planes to the U.S. hidden in the toner car-tridges of computer print-ers.
In response, the U.S. has stepped up its drone war, carrying out 42 airstrikes last year — four in one week last month — against al-Qaida militants in Ye-men, according to statistics gathered by the Long War Journal.
SOMALIAThe Islamist extremist
rebels of al-Shabab, who are allied to al-Qaida,
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missed flu-shot day at the office last fall? And all those "get vaccinated" ads? A scramble for shots is un-der way as late-comers seek protection from a miserable flu strain already spreading through much of the coun-try.
Federal health officials said Friday that there is still some flu vaccine available and it's not too late to ben-efit from it. But people may have to call around to find a clinic with shots still on the shelf, or wait a few days for a new shipment.
"We're hearing of spot shortages," said Dr. Thom-as Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Some questions and an-swers about flu vaccines:
Q: Are we running out of vaccine?
A: It's January - we shouldn't have a lot left. The traditional time to get vac-cinated is in the fall, so that
people are protected before influenza starts spreading.
Indeed, manufactur-ers already have shipped nearly 130 million doses to doctors' offices, drugstores and wholesalers, out of the 135 million doses they had planned to make for this year's flu season. At least 112 million have been used so far.
The nation's largest manufacturer, Sanofi Pas-teur, said Friday that it still has supplies of two spe-cialty vaccines, a high-dose shot for seniors, and an un-der-the-skin shot for certain adults, available for imme-diate shipment. But it also is working to eke out a lim-ited supply of its traditional shots - some doses that it initially hadn't packaged into syringes, said spokes-man Michael Szumera. They should be available late this month.
And MedImmune, the maker of the nasal spray vaccine FluMist, said it has 620,000 extra doses avail-able.
Q: Can't they just make more?
A: No. Flu vaccine is complicated to brew, with supplies for each winter made months in advance and at the numbers ex-pected to sell. Although health officials recommend a yearly flu vaccination for nearly everybody, last year 52 percent of children and just 39 percent of adults were immunized. Most years, leftover doses have to be thrown out.
Q: Should I still hunt for a vaccine?
A: It does take two weeks for full protection to kick in. Still, health of-ficials say it's a good idea to be vaccinated even this late, especially for older people, young children and anyone with medical conditions such as heart or lung dis-eases that put them at high risk of dangerous flu com-plications. Flu season does tend to be worst in January and February, but it can run through March.
Q: I heard that a new flu strain is spreading. Does the vaccine really work?
A: Flu strains constantly evolve, the reason that peo-
ple need an updated vaccine every year. But the CDC says this year's is a good match to the types that are circulating, including a new kind of the tough H3N2 strain. That family tends to be harsher than other flu types - and health of-ficials warned last fall that it was coming, and meant this winter would likely be tougher than last year's flu season, the mildest on re-cord.
Q: But don't some peo-ple get vaccinated and still get sick?
A: Flu vaccine never is 100 percent effective, and unfortunately it tends to protect younger people bet-ter than older ones. But the CDC released a study Fri-day showing that so far this year, the vaccine appears 62 percent effective, meaning it's working about as well as it has in past flu seasons.
While that may strike some people as low, Frie-den said it's the best protec-tion available. "It's a glass 62 percent full," he said. "It's well worth the effort."
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Al-Qaida Presence in Mali, Yemen and AfghanistanAP World NewsThe Associated Press
in the country.MALIMali once enjoyed a
reputation as one of West Africa’s most stable de-mocracies with more than 90 percent of its 15 million people practicing a mod-erate form of Islam. That changed in April 2012, when Islamist extremists took over the main cities in the country’s north amid disarray following a mili-tary coup and began enforc-ing strict Shariah law.
The extremists include al-Qaida in the Islamic
in central Mali.YEMENIn the past few years,
al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the group’s branch in Yemen is known, has been bolstering its op-erations in the Middle East nation after key Saudi op-eratives fled there follow-ing a major crackdown in Saudi Arabia. The franchise has been blamed for direct-ing a string of unsuccess-ful bomb plots on U.S. soil from its hideouts.
Those included a foiled plan to down a U.S.-bound
have lost considerable ground in Somalia. The United Nations-backed government now controls the capital, Mogadishu, and all major cities, although the rebels still carry out ter-rorist bombings.
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“It capped a goal I’d set at least five years ago, to of-fer a program aimed at pre-paring students for a mass media career in the digital age. It’s an interdisciplinary program, and challenging, but I think it could set a stan-dard for what students need to know in the future.”
Collins feels the most rewarding part of teaching is seeing student journalists who are passionate about their field.
“[They are] the kind of people who will get good jobs in a really fun and ex-citing field,” he said.
Encouraging students to look more closely at social media, Collins emphasizes the abundance of citizen journalism through twitter, facebook, tumblr, and other social networking sites.
“Maybe what you learn the most about current events comes from social media, from blogs, or from
citizen journalists who could be where profession-als could not,” Collins said. “What does that mean to our understanding of America and the world? No one is sure, but everyone needs to stop and think about how these changes will affect them. For students, write well and understand the power of visual images. No matter what the future holds, these skills will be needed.”
Collins contined from page 1
Two sophomore students, Matt Otto and Shelby Krier, buy books at the bookstore located at the Memorial Union.
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Students Find Alternative Ways to Purchase Textbooks
The NDSU Bookstore was packed with students buying books for spring se-mester during the first week back from break.
Textboks have become a major market in sales, with university bookstores making $10.38 billion in the fiscal year 2010-11, the National Association of College Store wrote in the article, “Higher Education Retail Market Fact and Fig-ures, 2012.”
“Average sales for U.S. college stores were $7.7 mil-lion in 2010-11,” the NACS reported. Individual students spent an average of $449 on both new ($306) and used ($143) course materials in the store or its online site, the NACS wrote.
Students have found al-ternative ways to buy text-books.
BigWords.com and
BookFinder.com are popular websites for comparing pric-es for new, used and rented textbooks.
Many textbook renters require the purchaser to pay for shipping one way and then send you the tags and
shipping container to return the books when the semester is over.
Some books that cannot be found anywhere online may have been produced by NDSU itself.
“…All the revenue brought in by the bookstore goes back into the Univer-sity,” the NDSU Bookstore said in its online statements. “[The Bookstore] receives no state funding.”
Students can still find alternative means to pur-chasing a book produced by NDSU by networking with other students in their major that may have already taken the course. Sometimes, a classmate can offer the best deal.
There is also a textbook exchange on the NDSU Facebook page.
“The page allows NDSU students to help out each
other by exchanging books on campus without having to pay shipping costs,” said Joanna Heppner, a math ma-jor at NDSU. “It is students helping students.”
“It is also nice to know that the books you are look-ing for from students have already been used for cours-es taken by NDSU students, so there is no confusion,” Heppner said.
Also, many teachers al-low students to use older textbook editions in class. Older editions are often less expensive.
There are several local places near campus that buy-back and sell books as well. They work specifically with the college to ensure that the books they sell and buy back are coursework that is for the current NDSU semester.
Morgan RichertContributing Writer
The many academic de-partments whose offices were displaced during con-struction have had a difficult time adjusting to less-condu-cive work environments.
The emergency manage-ment, sociology, modern language, English, history, religion and communication departments were temporar-ily moved from Minard to various buildings on cam-pus.
The communication de-partment was relocated to a big, open room in Ehly and uses cubicles for individual offices. They are scheduled to occupy the third floor of the new north addition of Minard.
Mark Meister, chair of the communication depart-ment, said the department is “incredibly excited” to move back to Minard.
“This is beginning our third year occupying this space,” he said. “Having a space that is conducive to our teaching and research is highly anticipated.”
The communication de-partment has not been out-spoken about the difficulties they have encountered in Ehly, Meister said.
“It’s been difficult for not only the staff but for the students,” he said. “To our credit, we’ve sort of just toughed it out.”
Meister expressed the impact the Minard project has had on the rest of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
“The AHSS serves the most students on campus,” he said. “There’s been no greater impact of the Minard Renovation Project than that of the AHSS.”
Daniel Klenow, head of the emergency management
department, expressed simi-lar frustration with his de-partment’s relocation.
“It’s been a problem,” Klenow said. “It’s been very stressful.”
Departments that have been relocated can expect to move back into Minard either this spring or summer, Dahl said.
“We’ve started to move in on the first and second floors of the north addition – that’s the psychology de-partment,” Dahl said. “The third and fourth floors will be completed in the next month.”
Moving crews will most likely take advantage of spring break to move some departments.
“We’re working with departments to get moving schedules,” he said. “This will be a process going throughout the whole semes-ter.”
It is an August after-noon in Fargo, ND, and only the slightest breeze blows through the hot and humid air. With the start of a new school year the NDSU cam-pus is buzzing with excite-ment. Students shuffle in and out of the NDSU Book-store and make their way through the south doors of the Memorial Union, pass-ing booths for different orga-nizations and services. Upon exiting the Union, some of the students hurry about their business, searching for another air-conditioned building, in which they can escape the heat, while oth-ers stumble upon a booth that piques their interest. At one stand, a group of young people are giving out freezie-pops in exchange for completing a survey. Each of the young people work-ing at the booth smiles and introduces themselves to the flock of students, which are quickly taking the survey so they can receive their cold freezie-pop. As soon as stu-dents receive their frozen treats they seem to vacate the booth just as fast as they had arrived, and the next batch of kids make their way up to the booth.
Kelsey Kaufman is one of these individuals working the booth, and it is her first day on the job. Kaufman is a missionary for Focus, the Fellowship of Catholic Uni-
versity Students, and has begun her journey in Fargo, North Dakota. As a mission-ary on a college campus, Kaufman is responsible for inviting students to visit St. Paul’s Newman Center to be-come involved in the activi-ties that they sponsor, Bible studies and to help college students grow in their faith. Explaining how her first day on the job went, Kaufman said, “I experienced a lot of rejection, but some people were excited to fill out the surveys.” Although she ex-pressed that being rejected by students was a challenge, she spoke more about how being rejected by her “sup-port team” was an even big-ger letdown.
“To be rejected by stu-dents is not nearly as hard for me, as to be rejected by people who I ask to join my support team. Because those are people to whom I’m say-ing, ‘Hey, I’m doing this, would you like to support me in my campus mission?’ And they say, ‘No.’ I feel like they don’t want to sup-port me or think I’m awful. When students reject me, I try not take it personally, but tell myself that they’re just not ready for the gospel right now,” said Kaufman.
When asked what a “sup-port team” is, Kaufman ex-plained that it is a group of people from her hometown that make monthly donations to her, so that she is able to be a missionary. “I don’t ac-tually get paid by Focus, but fundraise my entire salary,”
Kaufman said. She then explained that
the individuals who help support her financially are called her “mission part-ners,” who in turn help make up her “support team.” Kaufman’s job as a mission-ary comes with its ups and downs, and through conver-sation with Kaufman, it was clear that there are several challenges that most do not recognize. Besides fundrais-ing their entire salaries, the goal of missionaries is to be readily available to students, which means at all hours…day or night. Most people would find these long and
sporadic hours to be a deal breaker, and for Kaufman, being available at the re-quest of students has been a big test.
“We [missionaries] like to pride ourselves on radi-cal availability to students, being available for students 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Trying to maintain my own life has been really hard, and the things that I like to do—reading, scrapbooking, crocheting and baking—I find it really hard to find the time to do all those things regularly. They’ve become more of a treasure when I have time to do them,
which is fun because I enjoy them that much more. But, I would like to have them become more regular in my life, and have more time for myself rather than just al-ways having to give my time to other people.”
Besides having to give her time whenever others are in need, Kaufman is also eight hours away from her family in Sauk City, Wisconsin, which she also addressed as an obstacle to the missionary lifestyle. “It’s really hard. Actually, last week they just put my dog down, and I couldn’t be there for that. I’ve always been close to my family. I went to school 30 minutes from where I grew up, and my parents have always just been around.”
Before coming to Fargo, Kaufman explained that she had never really given much thought to the city of Fargo, or the state of North Dakota. “I was so excited about the mission that I didn’t care where I was sent. I remem-ber they asked me a couple days before we found out our assignments, ‘Where do you want to go?’ And I re-member saying, they might as well send me to North Dakota, ‘cause everybody keeps crying about North Dakota and how awful it is. And then they sent me there. They didn’t even know that I said that, which is kind of funny, but I’ve loved the transition to Fargo. I’m from a small town, and Fargo, al-though is a big city, still has
that small town feel. The people here are really won-derful,” Kaufman said.
Despite the challenges that Kaufman has been fac-ing during last year as a missionary, she has still maintained a remarkably high level of positivity about her situation. Kaufman ex-plained how her experience working for Focus has been rewarding in the sense that she has been able to learn how to live on her own and to pay bills by herself. “It’s actually been really good for me to become more inde-pendent as a young woman, and if I want to have a fam-ily some day, I’d like to have my own life started before that happens. I’m learning what it means to pay my own bills and to do all these things on my own without my mom and dad sending me reminders.”
Among many of the up-sides to being a missionary, Kaufman shared why her ex-perience as a Focus mission-ary has been so rewarding, saying, “Definitely watching the transformations. Every day of my life I’m walking hand-in-hand with young women towards the Lord, and it’s just so rewarding because it’s completely him doing the work and not me. I am just walking with them, and I’m also transformed. Watching young women come to the Lord and get set on fire for the gospel is the most rewarding thing that I can imagine. I don’t ever want this to end.”
Losing weight most of-ten scores the number one spot on Americans’ New Year’s resolutions lists, and according to statisticbrain.com, getting organized and spending less money fall right behind in spots two and three. However, of the 45 percent who are ha-bitual resolution-makers, only eight percent actually succeed in achieving said resolution. Modifying your goals for 2013 can help in-crease your rate of success while maintaining their healthy impact on your life throughout the year. Here are six simplified resolu-tions that aren’t easy to give up on:
#1: Get full nights of sleep.
Turn off the technology at a reasonable time and make sure to get the recom-mended seven to nine hours of sleep each night. Harvard researchers suggest that “the artificial light [coming from electronic devices] tends to suppress the sleep-pro-moting hormone known as melatonin.”
#2: Drink plenty of water.
Eight glasses is all you need every day, so make drinking them fun and easy. Buy a new water bottle or colorful water glasses to help you remember to hy-drate. If plain water just isn’t your cup of tea, add a lemon slice or several mint leaves to boost the flavor. Gulping eight glasses of water daily will not only prep your cells and your muscles for exer-cise, but will cleanse your system and even increase
your metabolism.#3: Be a smart con-
sumer.
This resolution envelops proper nutrition as well as appropriate spending habits. You know that eating fruits and vegetables is healthy, but if you do not particularly care for their taste, consum-ing them can be difficult. Modify your goal to eat smart by practicing using smaller plates and eating in a relaxed environment.
#4: Take a break—with coffee!
Many research studies have shown that one to four cups of coffee per day can reduce your risk of acquir-ing memory-loss diseases such as Alzheimer’s (Men’s Fitness magazine). How-ever, steer clear of added syrups and sugary sweeten-ers as much as possible to reduce calorie intake.
#5: Turn off the tube.
The New York Daily News reports that Ameri-cans watch more than 34 hours of live television and an additional three to six hours of recorded programs each week. Watching this much television can lead to weight gain, mental health deficiencies and even de-pression, according to a study done by researchers in the UK.
#6: Reduce your alcohol intake.
Medical experts at Web-MD.com have found that drinking too much alcohol can “increase your risk for heart disease and stroke, raise blood pressure, con-tribute to obesity and in-crease levels of fats” in your bloodstream.
Winning national champi-onships has been a decades-old tradition for the NDSU football program, but that doesn’t mean a few similari-ties between title game expe-riences of the past and present don’t still exist. Although the hype and intensity surround-ing it is bigger than ever, some elements of the many former Bison championship years continue to linger on.
When NDSU won its first Division II crown in 1965, it was played in Texas, and only about 200 miles west from where they did battle just a few days ago in Frisco. Abilene was the site that year, where a new 15,500-seat sta-dium awaited the Bison and their opponent Grambling State, which was coached by Eddie Robinson. Robinson eventually became the all-time Division I leader in wins. Current NDSU lead man Craig Bohl recently won the 2012 Eddie Robinson award that is annually presented to the top FCS level head coach.
Much like Frisco over the last two years, Abilene was touted as a great host for the 1965 Pecan Bowl. Despite only about 120 fans making the journey south that Decem-ber, the team and cheerlead-ers were overwhelmed by the welcoming attitude directed toward them.
“We were treated like roy-alty,” said cheerleader Karen Sjue, in a December 15, 1965 Spectrum report. “The peo-ple down there couldn’t do enough for us. Every morning they called to make certain we had plenty to do that day, and the owners of the various res-taurants wouldn’t let us pay one check.”
NDSU was defeated in a return trip to the Pecan bowl in 1967 and was voted by the Associated Press to play in it again the following year. There, its national cham-
pion status was regained via a victory over the Indians of Arkansas State at the new host city of Arlington, Texas. Once again, the team from 1,100 miles north took down the one that could drive to the game in only a fraction of the time that the Bison contin-gency could. Do you see the pattern that had already begun to take form way back then?
Although heading south in December had become very good for them, the Bison went west in 1969 to cap off the first of three different back-to-back championship runs. The Camellia Bowl, based in Sacramento, California, was the venue for an NDSU 30-3 spanking of Montana. The fan base had grown considerably, but making this trip presented new challenges for those who wanted to attend the game.
“Transportation-wise we can go anywhere quickly to-day and over the last twenty years, but back in ‘67, ‘68 and ‘69 you didn’t just jump on an airplane and go,” said 1968 and 1969 defensive end Al Fabricius. “I bet we didn’t have 2,500 fans in California as compared to 17,000 down in Frisco. They were as ex-tremely loyal as they are to-day, but only about 10 percent the size.”
The west coast hosts couldn’t keep up with the proud people of Texas in a number of ways. They may have been matched in the size of the stadium; however, the playing surface was prep-level at best. After getting the opportunity to walk on the pristine FC Dallas field before this year’s game it’s difficult to imagine how lawnmowers were not used in preparation of the 1969 title tilt.
“We complained because the grass was three inches high to stop the rushing game,” said Fabricius. “We would call it an underscored high school stadium as it was very plain-Jane for college use.”
NDSU would remain com-
petitive throughout the ‘70s, but wouldn’t get back to their championship winning ways until the ‘80s, which would prove to be an even more suc-cessful decade than the ‘60s. Throwing in a 1990 title on top of that, five more national championships would be won during this era. Like before, there was no better place to begin this incredible run in 1983 than the state of Texas. The Bison entourage was directed five hundred miles further south this time around as well as in 1985 to the city of McAllen where the Palm Bowl was contested.
With media attention of Bison football becoming in-tensified in a more modern era, people outside of the Fargo region were able to hear about and even experience the excitement it brought. Unlike the ‘60s, the national champi-onship games were broadcast on TV. You of course can now see them all in the comfort of your own home, but getting to view just that deciding final game was a real treat for those of us throughout the tri-state area who truly cared.
Opportunities to see the game live without investing a considerable amount of time and money on travel meant that perhaps not as many fans would consider showing up for more that grand Texas rolling out of the red carpet. However, the overall interest in the team’s successes would spread and spill over into the 1986, 1988 and 1990 Palm Bowls that NDSU would win in Florence, Alabama. Those three Division II titles remain a close second to the four that were garnered inside the Lone Star State for more than twen-ty years.
In spite of another lengthy national championship drought, the decision was eventually made to make the Division one jump. Immedi-ate success wasn’t necessarily expected, but Craig Bohl and his staff quickly set the bar high, by beating the reigning
national champ Montana at Missoula in his first game as head coach. It then seemed inevitable for the program to become a national power once again, but there was one piece to the puzzle yet missing.
Now I ask you, “Where is the best place in the coun-try for Bison football to begin another period dominance?” It’s by no means a guess if your answer to that question is “Texas.” Almost right on cue, the Bison nearly made it to Frisco after the FCS cham-pionship game was moved back there in 2010. The in-centive to show up at Frisco in 2011 was obviously more than enough, and going back to see the friendly locals be-came even more of a priority in 2012.
Ever since the first cham-pionship in 1965, the people of Texas have unexpectedly taken us in with open arms, even when we could barely muster up a triple digit num-ber of fans. The way I see it, we owed them some payback and BisoNation responded in a manner unexpected by them as well.
As a member of the KNDS broadcast team for this year’s championship game against Sam Houston State, I can hon-estly say that Texas hospital-ity appears to be quite a bit the same it was 47 years ago for NDSU and its fans. It’s not like we were getting handed free food wherever went, but it was all tasty and served with a smile. Whenever we needed extra service or simply just a few questions answered, they were all willing to step up and more than oblige our requests.
Getting treated better than any human should, while our team beats the snot out of theirs, probably can’t be done anywhere else, so here’s a ten gallon hat off to them. Push-ing the herd at least 1,100 miles straight south every winter has proven again and again over time as the best way for the Bison football family to cash in big.
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It’s really no surprise that Warner Bros. decided to make an all new set of mov-ies based on the predecessor to The Lord of the Rings. After all, that particular film trilogy is just about the big-gest cultural touchstone in movie history since Star Wars (and, perhaps to a less-er degree, The Matrix).
Growing up, I was a huge fan of the Rankin/Bass ani-mated version of The Hob-bit which, in my opinion, continues to hold up to this day. So I knew that a film version of The Hobbit could work, despite my trepida-tions about a not-very-long children’s novel being split up into a trilogy just like its more mature successors.
After watching The Hob-bit: An Unexpected Journey, however, I know now that I should have kept a bit more of my initial skepticism handy so as to avoid the disappointment I ultimately felt.
An Unexpected Journey tells the beginning of the story of Bilbo Baggins, the uncle briefly featured at the start and conclusion of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It turns out that uncle Bilbo had a few adventures of his own back in his day involv-ing a band of dwarves, his
initial encounter with Gan-dalf the Grey and a dragon named Smaug.
What is interesting about Peter Jackson’s interpreta-tion of The Hobbit is that because there wasn’t nearly enough content from the ba-sic source material to justify a trilogy, the director and co-writer decided to pad out the saga with story elements from The Silmarillion. The Silmarillion, if you don’t know, is a sort of prequel/mythology primer for the Lord of the Rings universe.
The effect this added content has on the film is mixed. On the one hand, it’s interesting to see some of the more obscure and less-er-told stories of this world actually make it onto the big screen. On the other hand, none of the events plucked from The Silmarillion were meant to be part of the plot of The Hobbit in the first place. The end result is that you’re given a movie that does very little in advanc-ing the overall plot (Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarves trying to retake a mountain from the dragon Smaug) but somehow still manages to feel overstuffed with “busy-work” content.
Bilbo and his band travel from one location to the next, encountering one hazard after the other with little-to-no rhyme or reason to connect them. They just
continuously fall into danger and fall out of it again over and over until the filmmak-ers decide that they’ve justi-fied the movie’s 169-minute runtime and pluck and end-ing seemingly out of thin air.
It certainly doesn’t help that the movie suffers from the same disease that has plagued most of George Lucas’ films for the past de-cade: overused CGI.
The special effects in The Hobbit are much im-proved over the previous films, but it seems as though 90 percent of the movie is a cartoon. Essentially, it is a cartoon, and until modern computer graphics can to-tally mimic reality, I’m go-ing to continue to feel about as much tension for the CGI characters’ plights as I do for Daffy Duck.
At the very least, I can report that Ian McKellan as Gandalf, Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Andy Serkis as Gollum are all at the top of their game. I get a real sense that these actors believe that they’re in something truly special, playing roles that really matter (though, to be fair, Andy Serkis always provides that kind of perfor-mance).
I really wanted to like The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. It’s just too bad that my disappointment wasn’t unexpected at all.
Those of you that think Fargo could do with a little more Swedish metal in its music scene will not be left disappointed this May when Opeth comes to the Venue at the Hub.
By introducing acoustic instrumentation and multi-directional sounds to their more traditional death metal roots, the progressive metal band from Stockholm has carved itself a unique niche in the music scene. With songs that can last in excess of 10 minutes apiece, it’s clear that not even Opeth is always, absolutely sure what direction they want to take their tracks.
Opeth’s stop in Fargo is part of their latest North American tour to promote their new album.
“Heritage,” the band’s tenth and latest full-length album, was something of a creative departure for Opeth, featuring a kind of sound that was new and dif-
ferent even for them. Since it was released in 2011, the album has been met with favorable reviews and cur-rently holds a 71 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic. Dom Lawson, a reviewer for The Guardian, was very taken with “Heri-tage.”
“The Swedes’ 10th al-bum, Heritage, is a brave, melancholic and often beau-tiful heavy rock record that revels in the warm, analogue tones and shimmering mel-lotrons of the pre-punk 70s while still exuding a sense of wonder at new ideas.”
Not everyone has been happy with Opeth’s new di-rection, however. Drowned in Sound’s review was very critical of Mikael Akerfeldt – the band’s leader singer, guitarist and songwriter – and his recent creative deci-sions.
“Åkerfeldt should be praised for breaking free of an often repetitive genre – there’s nothing wrong with radical reinvention. But this departure didn’t need to be
quite so lacklustre.”Akerfeldt seems to be
happy -- or at least satisfied -- with his choices, however.
“This album is not really an ‘extreme metal’ type of record, I suppose, but it is ‘extreme’ in a different way,” Åkerfeldt said in a press release. “It’s intense in a different way. It felt right for us to do a record like this right now. It feels like a little bit of rejuvenation with Heritage. We found a new sound we’d like to explore a little further. We just have to see where it takes us.”
Regardless of how you feel about Opeth’s recent sounds, the band is headed to Fargo for anyone that cares to give it a listen.
The concert begins at 8 p.m. on May 14 at the Venue at the Hub. Tickets are on sale now at Jade Presents, Sickies Garage and Tick-ets300 for $23, and can be purchased for $25 on the day of the show.
If ever you are ever in the library actually using a book (heaven forbid!) to research or write a paper, do not accidentally pick up The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia of Existing Information in 27 Excruci-ating Volumes. Do not let its fake authenticity confuse you. It is not a real encyclo-pedia. It will not help you get that “A” or “B” your grade hinges on. On the other hand, if you happen to wander into your local li-brary looking for something to amuse yourself with (oth-er than a DVD or CD), then golly-gee-whiz, is this the book you!
This so-called encyclo-pedia was put together by the same people that bring you the popular website and newspaper “The Onion,” self-proclaimed as “Amer-ica’s Finest News Source.” Many of you may be famil-iar with this website, which has gained national and even international attention due to cases of confusion as to the legitimacy of the ar-ticles. The list of occasions when third parties have mistaken news from “The Onion” is fairly long, and includes third parties such as The Fox Nation, MSNBC and various foreign organi-zations.
“The Onion Book of Known Knowledge” is writ-ten in the style of a modern encyclopedia, with alpha-betical entries on everything from Arby’s (“A”) to Aal-borg (“Z”). And, yes, Aal-borg was rolled in at the end with the Zs. This just proves the utter ridiculousness of
this book. Each entry has been
written with care to ensure that there is nearly no truth to it. Many of these entries are filled with poignant po-litical satire, such as the en-try for “Columbine Shoot-ing,” which is mostly a rant about the No Child Left Be-hind Act.
However, the real fun in this book is finding all of the sneaky bits in it. For example, in the introduction on page XI, there is a very small caption at the bot-tom (the sort one normally skips over) which reads, “It should be mentioned that the original encyclopedia manuscript the Onion had been working on…was de-stroyed in a fire three days before publication, and the entire volume…was franti-cally written by the two sur-viving editors in less than 48 hours.” There are also miscellaneous references to
a lost love named Caroline, and an ongoing story that flips between entries using the novel’s annotations, pre-senting a sort of puzzle for the reader.
This is not the staff of The Onion’s first book. Among their other works are Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from Amer-ica’s Finest News Source and Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth, as well as many vol-umes of their archives.
Some entries in the book may be flagrant or offensive, so take heed, and remember that nothing is to be taken seriously. Even the book’s entry on “satire” pokes fun at the book itself. Despite how authentic it may look at a glance, remember that The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is not to be tak-en seriously—although it is seriously funny.
Throughout this month and the next, the artwork of local artist Jessica Matson-Fluto is being featured in its own art exhibit at the Rourke Art Gallery in Moorhead.
The exhibit, titled Figu-rative Encounters, show-cases the artist’s interpreta-tions of human forms across multiple media. The figura-tive forms range from the abstracted to the realistic and are meant to make the viewer ponder over the na-ture of human beings.
The artist’s paintings use broad, bold brushstrokes with often subdued, mono-chromatic color palettes. The more abstract pieces tend to convey a sense of un-settling loneliness with their often blue hues and dark, undefined shapes standing out against the background. Meanwhile, her more real-istic pieces feature harder lines and stark corners lend-ing an almost sculpture-like quality to the human forms. These pieces feel as though they are meant to provide a harshly solid and mundane moment of the subject’s life frozen in time.
A press release regarding Matson-Fluto’s exhibit goes into detail separating the art-ist’s two design choices.
“In the more realistic works, Matson-Fluto ac-tively pursues the individ-ual’s presence, portraying a glimpse of the subject’s per-sonality or thoughts through form, light and color choic-es. The more abstract works utilize inanimate objects to depict a humanistic essence and personality or are cre-ated primarily from the art-ist’s subconscious mind and internal dialogues. These dreamlike images interpret Matson-Fluto’s own jour-ney of self-discovery and continued pursuit into the intuitive mind.”
Matson-Fluto herself is actually an assistant draw-ing professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead. It was at that same univer-sity that she original studied painting, only to finish her training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alongside Bruce Samuelson, Dan Miller, William Scott Noel, Sydney Goodman and Vincent Desiderio and others. Her work is continu-ally featured in private and public collections across the Midwest as well as nation-
wide.Matson-Fluto continues
to be an active part of the local art community, and continues to participate in studies and workshops na-tionwide.
The artist draws her in-spiration from a variety of ethereal sources.
“I am often inspired by an emotion, a feeling, a dream, a thought or a form that I feel the need to cap-ture or interpret,” Matson-Fluto said on her website. “Other times, my love of the materials is enough to start the creation process. The untouched canvas, the slip-pery, tactile paint pushed across a surface, and the softness of the charcoal marks can inspire a piece without any initial intent.”
The exhibit has already opened and will run from now until February 24. The exhibit can be viewed from 1 to 5 p.m. from Friday to Sunday of each week, or by special appointment by call-ing 218-236-8861.
It is worth noting that while the Rourke Museum requires a $5 admission for adults, the art gallery sec-tion is free of charge.
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I spoke last week about the success of the Bison football team, and the future possibilities that success brings. After two successive seasons of dominating FCS football, there will undoubt-edly be whispers of FBS contention. After all, what other FCS team can brag of our record against the big
leaguers? Kansas, Minneso-ta and Colorado State have all fallen before the Herd – who is to say we couldn’t trample a few more FBS teams while we are at it?
Yet, as things always are in our day and age, the move from FCS to FBS is much more complicated than saying, “Hey, we’re really good, we beat some of you guys, can we be in your league now?” Though success would be the logical factor determining subdivi-sion placement, more often than not the primary player in the equation is – you guessed it – money.
Studies done on re-cent FBS converts such as Western Kentucky show that a school can expect an increase of expenses that ranges around $3-4 million per year. Most of this comes from the additional scholar-ships, coaches, and support staff needed to make the move. FBS schools are re-quired to give out 85 schol-arships, while FCS schools currently only give out 63. And, keep in mind that to stay in compliance with Ti-tle IX, the number of wom-en’s scholarships also needs to be increased.
There are benefits, of course, to offset this. In-creased success often means increased attendance at games. And being in an FBS conference would bring NDSU Football to a much more extensive television market – increasing both ex-posure and revenue. And, if the Bison can maintain their success at an FBS level, that continued success will, in turn, breed more exposure and more revenue.
You will notice, howev-er, that much of the available revenue increases rest their chances heavily on NDSU continuing its success. See, NDSU fans, though fantas-tic when the team is win-ning, are no Green Bay Packers fans. Those Packer fans, nutty as they are, will sell out Lambeau Field each and every home game, no matter their team’s perfor-mance. In week 17, Pack-ers are 3-12, playing a gar-bage game against a shoo-in
playoff team in the freezing cold, and you can bet that Lambeau will be no less full than it was last week in a playoff game against their division-rival Vikings.
NDSU, on the other hand, cannot boast that kind of fan support. Much like many of my Viking-fan friends, NDSU fans are quite fair-weather. We have had no problem pack-ing the Fargodome game in and game out these last two seasons, but how were things before that? I worked at the Bison Ticket Office my freshman year, and I re-member stacks and stacks of tickets – student tickets and general admission alike – sitting in the ticket office, unsold, undistributed, un-claimed. And why? Because our team was mediocre at best.
And even though we have had success recently, a move into the FBS would present much greater chal-lenges to that success. Though we have beat a number of FBS teams re-cently – even some in BCS conferences – they have admittedly been in the low-er tier of the FBS. Would NDSU be able to continue generating fan support for a few years until we could catch up with the best of our competition?
There are two more con-siderations for moving to the FBS. The NCAA requires that any school intending to move up must show an average game attendance of 15,000+ for two consecu-tive seasons. This one we definitely have in the bag. The other is that any school making the move must first receive an invite from an established FBS conference. We cannot simply push our way into the FBS – we have to be recognized as high-level talent and viable television market by a con-ference already operating in the FBS.
Odds are that an invite would come our way from a conference such as the Mountain West (with teams such as Boise State, Wyo-ming, Colorado State and Utah State) or the Western Athletic Conference (Idaho, Louisiana Tech, New Mexi-co State). Both of these are BCS non-automatic qualify-ing conferences; therefore, any team making it to a BCS bowl game needs to have finished above No. 16 in the BCS rankings, and ahead of at least one BCS Confer-ence champion – i.e., North-ern Illinois (MAC) finishing ahead of Louisville (Big East) this year, thus qualify-ing for a BCS berth (Orange Bowl).
Could NDSU make the jump? In all honesty, I think we have the potential to do so. It would take some luck, a great amount of skill by our administration, and a huge increase in support by our fans, but we could do it. Should we attempt it? Are the risks too many? Well, I’ll leave that one for you to decide.
Nathan is a senior ma-joring in landscape archi-tecture. Follow him on twit-ter @nwstottler.
From texting to tweet-ing and Facebook mes-saging to e-mail, so many forms of communication in our day and age are done on a screen. People need to have conversation with each other; from the first letters to the telegram to the computer screen, we have constantly been sending messages to each other. Communication is vital to our world today.
Our technology has al-lowed for connection within seconds all over the world. Without it I wouldn’t be in contact with some overseas friends, and for that reason I love it. But at the same time, I see so many flaws with our way of communi-cation. How true can a con-versation be if we think over each word we send? And in today’s world, sending a simple “K” can be taken so many ways.
I do not have a problem with texting, I just believe
we need to think over the repercussions it has on our friendships. For example, too many important subjects are discussed over texting. I have heard of many couples and friends having argu-ments over text. Why do we
choose to do this? Texting is great for quick messages but if you are having an in-depth conversation, do you really want to limit it to 120 characters?
When people talk face-to-face, one is able to read emotions and say the first thing on one’s mind; some-times we should probably think a little longer on what we say, but at least we stay true. I am guilty of over ana-lyzing texts, and thinking too long on what I should say back. Are we really get-
ting to know someone if we only message them on Facebook? When we talk verbally to one another we can better understand what the other person is try to say with the correct emotional connection.
However, while tex-ting you can never be 100 percent positive on how the person is saying each word. Let’s analyze a tex-ting example. If you are in a conversation and some-one sends “alright…sounds good.” We can take this so many ways; either they are happy with a plan being made or they may not be happy with the plan due to their lake of exclamations or smiley faces. For these rea-sons, we can look at a text that is meant to be a happy emotion, but take it as an unhappy one, causing a riff in the understanding of the communication.
Another point is the quality of conversation and being our true selves in our messaging. I am guilty of this as well; when I speak, I make numerous mistakes in what I say, however that is who I am. While messaging, I may remove or add things
to conversation that are not true to my character, but is what I think would please the reader.
Personally if I look at all my texts, I write differently to an assortment of people. Why is this? That is why calling is my go-to; while calling people I say what is on my mind and don’t over-analyze my words, creat-ing a rich conversation that is more worthwhile, in my opinion. As for my faraway friends, I enjoy using Skype to catch up with them, be-cause messaging them on Facebook isn’t the same as laughing with them about old jokes and memories.
I enjoy texting and find it useful in its own way, how-ever, I love being able to speak with my voice. Con-sider your next conversa-tions and think back on old ones. Make sure you are be-ing your real self and having a connection with someone while you communicate, however that may be to you.
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As we all know and are constantly reminded, it is a new semester halfway through the year. There are a few things I feel many forget when it comes to being a de-cent human being and a good student towards your teachers and fellow classmates. Before you read on, I don’t want this article to sound like a lecture but it just might be to some. Continue with caution.
I know it is winter now and there’s snow on the ground with a light sprinkle of ice, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be people still biking along the sidewalks or people walk-ing, as I hope you know. Last semester there was a lot of angst when it came to bikers, long boarders and pedestrians that can be avoided with a bit of understanding and respect on the sidewalks and in gen-eral. So keep in mind how you
want to be treated! It doesn’t seem like that big of a deal but to most students it is. And P.S., don’t walk while texting, you look slightly like you’re drunk and can cause a few good laughs if you run into a pole or a tree.
As well as on the side-walk/street, respect seems to waver in classrooms. Teach-ers deserve all the respect you can give them. They took a huge chunk out of their lives to teach you what they know. Some may not be great at it, but they try his or her hardest to educate who they can with what they know. I know that as the end of class nears, your hands and feet get a little fidg-ety and you want to start put-ting your things away before the teacher is done with their lecture or lesson. Stop! Don’t even think about it!
People in your class are still paying attention and it is extremely rude and disrupts your teacher and fellow stu-dents who pay to be there. I don’t care if your mom and dad are floating your bills.
A lot of students are older or have jobs that don’t have such a money cushion. By the way, thank your parents every day if they pay your tuition and take them out to dinner next time.
Technology; where do I begin? Put your phones away, you can live without it for an hour. The world will not end, believe it or not! As many have experienced, people have their computers out with Facebook spanned across the screen as well as Pinter-est, shopping sites and so on. There is a time and place for that, and class isn’t where it’s at. You can waste your time as well as others’ outside of class where people don’t pay to
be there and learn something other than your shopping style and how much money you spend on an article of cloth-ing.
As students, maybe you can take something from my little rant that can save so much tension and will im-press your teachers with your undivided attention in class. We pay enough in tuition we should get something out of it other than a degree and a mediocre experience. Respect goes a long way. We learned it when we were kids. We’re in college now, let’s start show-ing it.
Suzy is a junior majoring in journalism.
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Paper. 20 pounds of plain, white, copy paper. Merry Christmas, Shannon! Hope you love your gift. Your gift of 20 pounds of paper. 20 pounds of it. Pa-per.
Santa put his practicality hat on this year when keep-ing me in mind. Along with my 10 reams of copy paper, I got a desk organizer, books and a couple of other things I could use for school. There were no new gadgets or toys. Nothing that wowed me. I guess this is growing up.
I remember the Christ-mas after my older sister’s first semester of college. I had gotten a new iPod, all the clothes I wanted and lots of new movies. She got a handheld vacuum and some
cash.Now I’m in her boat. I
had a slight moment of panic over break when I realized I was no longer 13 years old and Christmas is no longer a magical time filled with gifts containing everything I could ever dream of having. I’m almost 19. Christmas means paper now.
My best friend, just one year older than me, is turn-ing 20 this year. Over break we were talking about birth-days and I realized that he’ll be 20 in less than six months. It’s just another birthday, but it shocked me to realize we’re getting this old.
Despite Santa’s mes-sage and Connor’s looming birthday, I am still strug-gling to accept the fact that I’m growing up. Of course it’s inevitable-- but I just don’t want to! Truth is, I’m nervous about all the things that come with growing up. I’m going to need a credit
card and I’ll have to actually do my taxes and eventually have a big girl job.
I don’t know the first thing about all that grown up junk. It never really oc-curred to me that I’d have to. My parents have taken such good care of me that I’ve never seriously thought of having to take care of myself (I think that’s the definition of a first world problem).
But the day is com-ing sooner than I thought. Spring breaks will cease to exist and summer will only mean a change in the weath-er. It’s weird to think that kind of life even exists when all we’ve ever known is the school year.
Since there really is nothing I can do about it, I face my future with shaking knees and, thanks to Santa, a lot of paper. I mean a lot of paper.
Shannon is a freshman majoring in journalism.
To the Editor:
Someone once said, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” As people attempt to justify LGBTQ relations, they often seem to be responding to arguments that media propaganda has conditioned them to refute, rather than specifically ad-dress what has actually been said. In attempting to respond to the points in my letter, Ms. Fischbach failed to address any of the argu-ments directly, but instead responded to arguments I never made. I want encour-age Ms. Fischbach and all readers to be more attentive while reading, and respond directly to what is said. Al-low me to clarify the points she addresses:
First, my position is that all relations other than the natural heterosexual (les-bian, gay, transgender, bi-sexual, and queer) are un-natural. To put my argument succinctly, the human mind can see that reproductive or-gans are for reproducing—it is the only activity that can explain their structure (just like seeing explains the structure of the eyes)—hence, to use them in any way contrary to their natu-ral purpose of reproduction is to act outside the natural order, i.e. unnaturally.
Second, Ms. Fischbach’s use of animal behavior as the measuring stick of hu-man ethics is clearly flawed. If animal behavior can be used as a justification of hu-man action, then all sorts of bizarre human behavior is acceptable, e.g., spouses eating each other, parents
eating children (since some animals do these things), etc. Does anyone need sci-entific evidence know that such actions are unnatural for a human being? Any tru-ly reasonable person should see this comparison with an-imals is not valid. Animals do not have reason, but man does. He is therefore mor-ally culpable for his actions while animals are not.
With regards to an infer-tile couple, Ms. Fischbach attempts to equate them with homosexual couples since neither case produces children. This would be like equating a cat with an infertile orange tree for the simple reason that both do not produce oranges! They are radically different cases with respect to their ability to produce oranges. The or-ange tree has a natural abil-ity that is impeded (other-wise, why call it infertile?), while the cat has absolutely no ability to produce orang-es (we don’t call a cat that doesn’t produce oranges in-fertile!). Similarly, simply because both the infertile couple and the homosexual couple do not produce chil-dren, it is invalid to equate them—the infertile couple has a natural power that is impeded (which does not in-validate their marriage), but the homosexual couple has no natural power (thus there cannot be a so called “mar-riage”).
Moreover, the successful generation of children can-not be what makes hetero-sexual unions natural. Take a dandelion for example: it sends out numerous seeds for the sole purpose of gen-erating new dandelions. Not
all the seeds produce a dan-delion, but this in no way changes the fact that each of the seeds is for the sake of generating another dande-lion plant. In the same way, even if children do not result from the heterosexual use of the reproductive organs, this does not change the fact that the purpose of the reproduc-tive organs is reproducing. It is completely different to use a bad reproductive organ in a good way and to use a good reproductive organ in a bad way. Thus again, my position is that an act which seeks to use these organs in a way contrary to their natu-ral purpose—i.e. homosexu-al acts—are unnatural acts.
Finally, Ms. Fischbach accuses me of claiming that homosexual relationships are fabricated by society. She seems to be referring to ho-mosexual attractions, while I was referring to homo-sexual unions (which some people call “marriages”). The argument in my letter refuted the idea that hetero-sexual attractions are a soci-etal custom. Even if there is some biological factor that influences LGBTQ inclina-tions, it does not mean that they or the actions which flow from them are good. For example, some people have a biological tendency toward alcoholism, but this in no way would justify their engaging in alcoholic behavior. Hence, the prem-ise that all things biological in nature are good is clearly false. Not all loves are love in Truth.
Benjamin Whalen Senior, Mechanical En-
gineering
Paper for ChristmasSo this is Growing Up
SHANNON SUERContributing Writer
I think after eight won-derful years here at NDSU (that’s right, freshman class of 2005 here) that I have a lit-tle bit of perspective on how things work on our campus, or at least, I’d like to think I have a bit of perspective. As my time here at this univer-sity comes to a close, there is one thing that I’ve always strived for, which is to leave the university better than when I arrived.
A lot of things have changed since I started here: The Memorial Union has nearly tripled in size, Minard decided to collapse, I’ve said goodbye to two different ad-visors who both retired (I’m now on my 3rd), I’ve been witness to the change from the Student Organization Tracking System to Black-board to OrgSync and the total mess of getting rid of squirrel mail, but in all of my years, one thing has re-mained constant, and that is Campus Connection.
When I was a freshman, I was told by my department specifically that, “these two seniors will help you get started.” Little did I know that those two seniors had already helped a couple hundred other freshmen and were sick of the new program. They handed me a username and a password on a card, clasped me on the shoulder and said, “Good luck!” and then left me to my own devices muttering something thereafter about “…you’re going to need it.”
After what can only be termed as “fiddling” with the brand new program for the better part of four hours, I had registered for my
classes, which back then, meant adding a class to your registry and then registering for it because if you tried to add a whole bunch back then and just one of them failed to register, your entire list of class registrations failed.
During this time I had
also figured out how to change the language back to English from Japanese, but that’s another adventure that I don’t like to recount on. It was a rough and com-pletely overcomplicated sys-tem that I couldn’t see how it did anyone any amount of good, but people assured me that it was better than what they had last year, something called Alfie.
As time went on Campus Connection improved slight-ly-- you can now register for a slate of classes and it’ll fail your registration from the ones that you can’t be in for various reasons and it will now actually tell you why it can’t register you for that class, but still more prob-lems remain.
For instance, the on-line payment system, called Touchnet. It doesn’t al-low payment through VISA cards. If you are, for some reason, singling out one of the top five credit card com-panies in the nation, perhaps you have a problem. This problem is also compounded on by the fact that US Bank, for which we have a handy branch right across the way from Bison Connection in our Memorial Union, issues
VISA cards for their credit and debit cards.
Now I may be wrong on how the money is spent here, but with approximately 14,000 students each hav-ing fees capping at 12 cred-its, we get a grand total of roughly $2,268,000 annu-ally going towards the Con-nectND Fee. I understand that some of this money is going towards salaries and state employees that take care of this statewide reg-istration system, and I bear them no ill will, I simply de-spise the program that they have chosen to work with.
My most grievous com-plaint however has to be with the fact that this gran-diose program has problems with basic arithmetic. I’ve been told by camps sources that I have built up a rather large number of credits over my time here at NDSU; however, my unofficial tran-script seems to be telling me something different. Now if we are getting our infor-mation from supposedly the same system, and it’s telling me that I have a completely different number of credits, that’s simply a basic failure of arithmetic, and if you’re a computer program that can’t do basic arithmetic, I think it’s time that we take you out back and re-enact the end of Old Yeller.
Campus connection needs to die. I don’t care if we shoot it, drive it off a cliff, watch in burn in a hor-rendous fire or simply stab it to death like a blonde in a really bad horror flick, but something has to be done to replace this. We have rough-ly two million dollars a year to work with and I would hope that other solutions out there exist.
Stanley is a senior ma-joring in computer science.
Campus Connection Needs to Die
“If you’re a computer program that can’t do basic arithmetic, I think it’s time that we take you out back and re-enact the end of Old Yeller.”
STANLEY KWIECIENContributing Writer
LETTERTO THE EDITOR
BISON BITS
Bison Bits: What is your New Year’s resolution?
Jamie SamuelSenior
Business Management
Hayden SpaethJunior
Business and Theater
Jaime JarminSenior
English Education
Edwin KingJunior
Business Administration
Kyle CornellSophomore
Business Administration
Dustlyn KaineFreshman
Accounting“Not to swear so
much.”“Work harder and do
work.”“To read more for
fun.”“Stay focused, work harder and make everyone know
me in a positive way.”
“Get all B’s.” “Continue getting good grades and live life.”
You can trace it all the way back to March 9th, 2012. The 21-19 Minnesota Timberwolves were hover-ing around the Western Con-ference playoff picture with half of the shortened season left to play. Looking to make their move, the T-Wolves knew their game against the Lakers that night was go-ing to be an important one. Things looked grim early on when just hours before game time; Kevin Love elected to sit out claiming his back spasms were too much for him to bear. Who would have guessed hours later, that would have been the least of the teams worries?
With 16 seconds left in the game Kobe Bryant drove along the baseline, rookie sensation Ricky Rubio at-tempted to cutoff Bryant’s drive, Rubio’s knee buckled, he curled up on the floor as
hearts sunk across Wolves nation. No one saw the streak of bad luck that was about to ensue.
We’ve seen the pain and agony before. Just over three months for Rubio’s injury, Vikings star running back Adrian “Purple Jesus” Pe-terson had suffered a similar injury in Washington. (Ironi-cally enough, the same field that crippled both RGIII and Chris Clemons during the NFL divisional playoff round two weekends ago.)
The T-wolves didn’t just lose their point guard that night; they lost their facilita-tor, their swagger, their flare, and their overall identity.
After that fateful night in Minneapolis, it was all downhill for the T-wolves. They won five more games the rest of the season and the once playoff contenders turned into lottery pick own-ers. Remember when How I Met Your Mother decided to have legendary womanizer Barney Stinson start dating and then the show got pro-gressively sloppy, boring
and overall worse? Yeah, that was the 2012 Minnesota Timberwolves in a nutshell.
But like in any other sports, there’s always next season. Something Minne-sota sports fans have grown disturbingly accustom to be-lieving in.
Over the offseason the T-wolves stayed thoroughly active in free agency. Along with former Minnesota draft pick and Portland Trail-blazer Brandon Roy, the team made a splash signing former swingman Andrei Kirilenko and fellow Rus-sian Alexy Schved.
Although the Russian-duo has been hotter than Kirilenko wife, the T-wolves currently sit at .500 (through Friday, January 10th) and are underachieving as a team.
A team full of role play-ers that were signed to com-plement Love and Rubio has found themselves struggling to tread water in the deep Western Conference. Rubio has been a shell of himself since coming back from the injury in December showing
signs that we will never see the Rubio of old.
Kevin Love started the season in street clothes and as of last week is back on the injury list. Love has only played in 18 games this sea-son putting up a pedestrian 18.3 points per game. And it’s not like he will be on the floor anytime soon to lead this team like his con-tract says he should. Love is going to be out for another 8-10 weeks with a broken hand. The bad luck has con-tinued.
A team that once had high hopes for the season is slowly watching their chances to make the playoffs crumble.
It’s a lost season for the T-wolves. But like true pro-fessionals, they will con-tinue to push on with their leader crippled by bad luck and fragile extremities.
Yes, the injury list ex-tends further than Love but none of them have meant more. But don’t get too de-pressed Minnesota sports fans; Hockey is back!
Fort Wayne cruised by the NDSU women’s basket-ball team Thursday night, 65-58, with a sound second half performance.
NDSU falls to 5-11 (1-3 Summit League) in what is continuing to be a disheart-ening season for the Bison.
Plagued by injuries, and
lack of first half scoring, NDSU has not won a game on the road this season, go-ing 0-7.
Despite the below-aver-age record, the Bison con-tinue to have an outstand-ing performance out of one player every game, but get-ting the whole team on the same page for an entire con-test seems unattainable.
Freshman Marena Whit-tle put up 13 points and
pulled down 10 boards as she recorded her second double-double of the season.
Dani DeGagne led the Bison with 16 points and Katie Birkel added 11.
After capturing a 39-35 lead on Whittle’s three-pointer, Fort Wayne went on a 21-2 run to pull ahead 56-41.
Fueling Fort Wayne’s surge was Amanda Hyde, who scored a game high 22
points, including going 9 of 10 from the free throw line.
NDSU cut the deficit to five points on three occa-sions down the stretch, the last at 63-58 with 32-sec-onds left on a pair of free throws by Whittle, but could never regain the lead.
The Bison held a 35-28 rebounding advantage, but had 12 turnovers compared to nine for IPFW.
It isn’t easy being a Vi-kings fan.
If any of the purple and gold supporters haven’t real-ized this yet, then bless their soul. It’s tough. Whenever excitement is building, the inevitable reality of disap-pointment, that really should be expected, comes crashing through the heart of the pur-ple pride.
For fans, it was another tough final game to watch. First round of the playoffs against rival Green Bay, a team the Vikes beat a week earlier to secure a playoff spot, and a thumping many analysts predicted occurred.
The Purple Pride had some Purple Confidence go-ing into the game at Lam-beau. Hey, I thought the Vikes could put together a competitive game too. But then the typical blow to the stomach occurred. Christian Ponder becomes inactive the day of the game and in comes backup Joe Webb, whose name has been chanted and tweeted all throughout the season.
After a promising open-ing series that had fans feel-ing good about their confi-dence, the Packers shut down Adrian Peterson and hassled Webb into a pitiful passing attack and cruised to an easy 24-10 win.
Fans were left with anoth-er bitter loss to chew on the whole offseason. But, they can hold in that bitterness for another month, because there is still some excitement out there for fans. And that is Peterson’s quest for the MVP award, which will be announced Feb. 4.
The argument for who deserves this award between Peterson and Peyton Man-ning has been out there for months now, and will only get stronger in this next month. In my opinion, there should be zero argument. It’s simple: AP deserves the MVP award.
And yes, my argument may be considered swayed
because I am a Vikings fans, but let’s look at this realisti-cally.
What AP has done this year is nothing short of un-believable. His 2,097 yards rushing, just short of the NFL record, coming off a brutal ACL tear less than one year ago is something no athlete has accomplished before.
Manning on the opposite argument side, has come off a neck surgery, got traded to a different team, and that team is the hottest in the league right now.
Both have pretty good campaigns.
But, if we’re talking about a true MVP, a MVP to his team and to the league, Pe-terson is that guy. He took a team with an average defense and a sometimes-nonexistent passing game, and put it on his back. Even with nine guys in the box, Peterson was unstoppable. He singlehand-edly brought the Vikings to the playoffs.
Manning has produced some magic as well in Den-ver. But his magic act is something a parent hires for their son’s ninth birthday while Peterson was doing his own Houdini act every single week.
Manning took a team that reached the second round of the playoffs in 2011, and has made them a legit Superbowl contender. Peterson took a team in the rebuilding pro-cess, 3-13 in 2011, and cata-pulted them into the playoffs.
Manning entered a play-off contending team as the missing piece of the puzzle at the QB position. The Vi-kings puzzle turned out to be two pieces: a picture of Pe-terson and a picture of Percy Harvin. And when Harvin went down with an injury, it was up to Peterson to carry the team, and that is exactly what he did. He performed as the Most Valuable Player in the NFL.
The voting may come down to this: Manning and his potentially long play-off run vs. Peterson and his team’s quick exit from the playoffs, a loss that has left Vikings fans with another bitter offseason.
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
The NDSU wrestling team performed well over the weekend at the Virginia Duals. The Bison defeated Arizona State 22-19 but then fell to No. 9 Central Michigan 31-10 on Friday and then defeated No. 25 Old Dominion 27-15, Bing-hamton 30-12 while losing 22-20 to Boise State.
The Bison are 5-6 on the season and got wins from Trent Sprenkle, Josh Rodri-guez, Mark Erickson, Joe Garner, and Steve Monk to defeat the Arizona State Sun Devils for the first round matchup. The No. 6-ranked Sprenkle won by a techni-cal fall over Ares Carpio to start the matchup off, Ro-
driguez and Erickson fol-lowed up with a pair of ma-jor decisions at 133 and 141 pounds, equally.
Joe Garner earned a 7-6 overtime decision at 149 pounds to give the Bi-son a perfect 16-0 lead through four matches. The Bison then forfeited at 157 pounds, but a pin by No. 6 Steven Monk at 165 pounds was enough to secure the Bison a dual victory before dropping their final four matches.
The win gave the Bison a tough meeting with No. 9-ranked and top-seeded Central Michigan in the quarterfinals of the 16-team tournament. Sprenkle started the dual with a 2-1 decision over Christian Cul-linan. Cullinan is the na-
tion’s No. 8-ranked wrestler at 125 pounds. The Cen-tral Michigan Chippewas earned wins in seven of the remaining nine matches for a 31-10 victory.
Steven Monk posted an 11-1 decision over Mike Ot-tinger at 165 pounds, and Bison senior Kallen Klein-schmidt won by 8-1 deci-sion over Jackson Lewis at 197 pounds.
In the tournament finale against Old Dominion, the Bison won six out of the ten matches, pulling off wins in the final five weight classes to come from behind for the win.
The Bison return to ac-tion with a dual at No. 7 University of Missouri on Saturday.
WRESTLING
NDSU Place 7th at Virginia DualsPace MaierContributing Writer
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The NDSU men’s bas-ketball team improved to a 5-0 Summit League record after fighting off a scrappy Fort Wayne squad for a 67-55 victory Thursday night.
“A little dicey there at times,” NDSU head coach Saul Phillips said. “But it was a good, competitive game. They came at us hard and they were very physical. They did everything they needed to do to put them in position to win, and we did everything we needed to do to win.”
The Mastodons threw different defensive looks at the Bison and knocked down timely long range shots in a back-and-forth first half that saw NDSU go into the half with a 37-32 lead.
“We didn’t do a good job of closing out (on the shoot-ers),” TrayVonn Wright said. “Even the ones that were
contested, they shot the ball really well.”
Looking to put the game away early in the second half, NDSU went on a 13-2 run in the first six minutes. But Fort Wayne’s Luis Ja-cobo, who finished with a game high 21 points, helped the Mastodons chip the mar-gin down with his hot hand outside the three point line.
The Bison offense strug-gled against a trapping press during the run, turning the ball over which helped the Mastodon’s cut the deficit to 57-54 after a three consecu-tive three-pointers.
“When you hit ten three’s in a game, you have a good chance to win,” Phil-lips said.
But on the ensuing pos-session, Lawrence Alexan-der found Wright under the basket and lobbed a perfect alley-oop that got the crowd on their feet.
Feeding on the crowd’s energy, the Bison offense
began to figure out the press and Taylor Braun sprung open and slammed home a two-hander but was called for a technical for doing a supposed chin-up on the rim.
“I didn’t think I did any-thing, but it is what it is,” Braun said.
Fort Wayne made only one of the two free throws and the Bison held a 61-55 lead with 3:00 remaining.
“When they put that press on and started turning the ball over, we did a good job of taking a deep breath,” Braun said. “We just relaxed and began to make the open
pass.”With the crowd noise el-
evating, NDSU’s stingy de-fense forced For Wayne into bad shots and then knocked down free throws on the of-fensive end to pull off the dramatic 67-55 win.
“That’s the stuff you live for,” Braun said. “That’s
college basketball and you want games like that.”
The Bison, (14-3, 5-0 Summit) defeated Oakland at home Saturday, check Thursday’s issue for a full game recap.
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NDSU Outlasts Fort WayneSam HerderSports Editor
CUTLINE
MenMarking the inaugural
opening of the new Shelly Ellig Indoor Track and Field Facility on the campus of NDSU, the Bison men’s track and field team turned out strong results in the Bison Classic Friday and Saturday. Placing a 91-53 score, NDSU came out to be the victors against the Uni-versity of Manitoba. Due to winter weather conditions and travel concerns, South Dakota State had to with-draw from the competition.
In the 200 meter dash, senior Lee Dhein took first with a time of 22.96 seconds. In the long jump, Dhein took first again with a jump of 21-08.75.
The throwing events of the Classic turned out great results, as well. Casey Orgon took the weight throw with a mark of 59-08.25. This would put Orgon at the top of the NDSU all-time list. Brandt Berghuis went on to win the shot put event with a mark of 51-00.25, ranking just outside the shot put top 10 list. In the weight throw event, Trevor Berner placed second, Blake Elsen placed third, and Berghuis place fourth. All three are junior college transfers.
Berner’s toss ranks him fifth on the all-time list at NDSU, while Elsen’s per-sonal best toss in the weight throw of 57-03.75 ranks him eighth.
In the heptathlon, the event would be dominated by junior Andy Lillejord who scored 5,400 points for the win. In six of the seven events, Lillejord took the top mark.
Senior Matt Tetzlaff ob-tained his second straight
Bison Classic victory in the 60 meter hurdles on Satur-day with a time of 8.10 sec-onds. Placing second behind Tetzlaff was sophomore Parker McKittrick with a time of 8.45 seconds. In the special 40-yard dash event, McKittrick placed third with a time of 4.85 seconds.
The 800 meter event was taken by senior Travis Fitzke, who finished with a rime of 1:55.13, more than three seconds ahead of other competitors. The mile was won by junior Alec Espe-land, finishing with a time of 4:23.77.
With a mark of 43-09.75, the triple jump was taken by freshman Colin Paarmann, who also took second in the long jump behind Dhein.
Freshman Pres Harris won the 400 meter dash with a time of 51.04. The 4x400 meter relay was won by the unattached team of Harris, Cody Pelowski, Matt Jen-nings, and Dalton Herding with a time of 3:28.83.
WomenThe women track and
field team performed just as well at the Bison Classic by defeating Minnesota 81-65 and the University of Mani-toba 98-45.
In the shot put event, ju-nior Emily Lesser took first with a personal best mark of 48-10.75, which ranks second all-time at NDSU. If Lesser was an attached competitor, she would have been ranked number 33 in the nation for the shot put event. Senior Katie Johnson posted her personal best, as well, with a mark of 47-11.75, putting her in second behind Lesser. This throw places Johnson fourth on the all-time list.
In the weight throw event, Lesser would win it
with a mark of 56-02.50.Senior Faith Kruchowski
finished second in the 800 meter with a time of 2:13.14, while sophomore Paige Stratioti finished closely be-hind with a time of 2:13.66. With the event being run on a 200-meter flat track, Kruchowski and Stratioti are nationally ranked number 12 and 13 with their converted times this season.
Running the 200 me-ter with a time of 24.80 seconds, junior Antoinette Goodman’s converted time of 24.42 would be ranked in the NCAA as the 32nd fast-est time this year. Goodman would also place second in the long jump at 19-00.00.
In the 60 meter hurdles, senior Deborah John ties 44th in the nation this season with her first place finish of 8.61 seconds.
Taking first place in the mile was redshirt freshman Brecca Wahlund, recently out of cross country, with a time of 5:04.31.
In her second collegiate meet, freshman Lexy Bos-chee would win the high jump for the second time with a height of 5-08.00.
Taking the 400 meter with a time of 57.57 was Ashley Tingelstad, while the 600 meter was taken by Ashlynn Simon with a time of 1:34.99.
Finishing third in the 3,000 meter would be Hei-di Peterson with a time of 10:01.36, while Abbi Aspen-gren took fourth with a time of 10:04.40.
Both men and women will be back in action on January 18-19, when they participate in the Jack John-son Classic at the University of Minnesota.
Track and Field Perform Well in Bison Classic
JEGANAATH GIRI THE SPECTRUM
Corrie DunsheeContributing Writer
Alece Espeland finished first in 1 mile race in 4.22 time at the Bison Classic Friday and Saturday
