In a world dominated by so- cial media, people are able to con- nect with one another in an instant. People are able to share their ideas, their photos, and their thoughts and feelings. These outlets allow people to share their good news with family and friends. They also allow people to vent their frustra- tions and share their negative re- actions to events. The University of Jamestown has certainly been the target of dozens of negative posts and com- ments, ranging from students cur- rently enrolled at the University, to alumni that graduated decades ago. Both of these groups have had both positive and negative re- actions, spanning the spectrum of emotions. Both groups have also conveyed their emotions through social media. The change has struck a chord with all of those who consider the Jamestown College name to be the entirety of the Jimmie tradition. Statistically, this notion is higher in those Jimmies who are alumni, taining a quality educational pri- vate school environment. Thanks for thinking outside the box and keeping our future in mind during these ever-changing years of ad- vanced education.” These comments are an ex- tremely small sample of the so- cial media banter instigated by the name change. With such strong emotions flowing, finding a middle ground in the debate should prove difficult. Some in- dividuals, however, seem to have found some. William Swanson is a senior at the University of James- town, and has spent his entire college career here, as well as a lifelong resident of Jamestown. He reacted like many students and alumni, taking to Facebook to voice his opinion on the subject. He understands that the name change could help the university overall, but still has his own take on the subject: “I’ve spent my whole life in Jamestown where I have been used to Jamestown College my whole life, and spent three years Inside Volume 100 V V V V V V V V V V V o o o o o o o o o o o o ol l l l l l l l lu u u u u u u u u u um m m m m m me e e e e e e 1 1 1 1 1 10 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 Number 2 N O W welcome to September 6, 2013 years of The U of J After 130 years, Jamestown College became the Univer- sity of Jamestown on August 21, 2013. Editor in Chief Pe- ter Odney explored social media, and interviewd a current student and a young alum for initial reactions to this histor- ic rebranding of one of the oldest educational institutions in North Dakota. This is the second of a three part series. The following are comments left on the University of James- town Facebook page. “The name SERIOUSLY sucks! Jamestown College had tradition behind the name. UofJ? bleh. Jamestown College will NEED to remove the word tradi- tion from all of its signs and mar- keting with this change. With a new name, you lose ALL the old tradition. You start new. Don’t EVER advertise to the alumni about tradition moving forward. EVER. President Blah recently said that a name change was NOT in the works. What happened to that? A straight up lie or just pat- ting us on the head like ignorant little children?” “Congratulations! I love that my alma mater has moved forward to address the growing need for advanced degrees and still main- as a student. So, with the name being changed, to me it is still Jamestown College, not Universi- ty of Jamestown - that’s what I’ve grown up with and that’s where I have gotten almost all of my edu- cation. (There is) a sense of pride in a way.” When asked if residents of Jamestown took more issue with the name change because they had always known it as JC, rather than any other changes, he responded “I do think so. You know the saying, people resist change. Some issues are relevant - I’ve seen some alumni question where they should put on resumes that they graduated from, which I think makes sense. Do you put a Uni- versity that people haven’t heard of from outside the state because the name just changed, or do you put the name of the college that technically no longer exists? But, I do think the majority of it stems just from the fact that they always have known it as JC,” said Swan- son. While Swanson speaks from the perspective of a resident and current student, Caleb Grossman speaks as a transplant, and recent alum of the former Jamestown College. He is also an employee of the current University of James- town as the Student Advocacy Co- ordinator, and Resident Director of Kroeze Hall. From Facebook : Bad idea! August 21 at 5:33pm · Like · 1 : What was the point?? JC August 21 at 5:37pm · Like · 2 : Don’t like it one bit... August 21 at 8:03pm · Like · 1 : Dumb August 21 at 8:48pm via mobile · Like · 1 What do you think? Twitter , Facebook and social media have given UofJ skep - tics a big soapbox. UofJ of - will lead to greater prosper - ity , while many online com - menters lean toward keeping the JC legacy. #UofJ. Social media takes a few jabs at the rebranding See U of J on A2 whether they be recent graduates, or graduates who have long since moved on from the institution. On the other hand, many current stu- dents have taken an enthusiastic approach to the change, viewing it as an opportunity to be part of a After sifting through numer- ous comments on Facebook, and various Twitter accounts, a con- tinuous theme of displeasure is coming from a place of nostalgia. People are clinging on to the old “JC” that they know and love. Those on the side of change are they believe a renamed University of Jamestown could have. These vehement feelings on both sides of the issue have been published many times over via Facebook and Twitter. The following statement is a Tweet “Am I the only one that thinks the “University of Jamestown” may be the dumbest idea ever? #JC.” SUCCESS vs. Tradition PART TWO Syria becomes battle- ground as Senate ap- proves military action. “Am I the only one that thinks the “Univer- sity of Jamestown” may be the dumbest idea ever? #JC.” Jimmies fall to Valley City in Round One of Paint Bucket Battle 2013.
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In a world dominated by so-cial media, people are able to con-nect with one another in an instant. People are able to share their ideas, their photos, and their thoughts and feelings. These outlets allow people to share their good news with family and friends. They also allow people to vent their frustra-tions and share their negative re-actions to events.
The University of Jamestown has certainly been the target of dozens of negative posts and com-ments, ranging from students cur-rently enrolled at the University, to alumni that graduated decades ago. Both of these groups have had both positive and negative re-actions, spanning the spectrum of emotions. Both groups have also conveyed their emotions through social media.
The change has struck a chord with all of those who consider the Jamestown College name to be the entirety of the Jimmie tradition. Statistically, this notion is higher in those Jimmies who are alumni,
taining a quality educational pri-vate school environment. Thanks for thinking outside the box and keeping our future in mind during these ever-changing years of ad-vanced education.”
These comments are an ex-tremely small sample of the so-cial media banter instigated by the name change.
With such strong emotions f l o w i n g , f i n d i n g a middle ground in the debate should prove d i f f i c u l t . Some in-d i v i d u a l s , h o w e v e r , seem to have found some.
William Swanson is a senior at the Univers i ty of James-town, and
has spent his entire college career here, as well as a lifelong resident of Jamestown. He reacted like many students and alumni, taking to Facebook to voice his opinion on the subject. He understands that the name change could help the university overall, but still has his own take on the subject:
“I’ve spent my whole life in Jamestown where I have been used to Jamestown College my whole life, and spent three years
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The U of J After 130 years, Jamestown College became the Univer-sity of Jamestown on August 21, 2013. Editor in Chief Pe-ter Odney explored social media, and interviewd a current student and a young alum for initial reactions to this histor-ic rebranding of one of the oldest educational institutions in North Dakota. This is the second of a three part series.
The following are comments left on the University of James-town Facebook page.
“The name SERIOUSLY sucks! Jamestown College had tradition behind the name. UofJ? bleh. Jamestown College will NEED to remove the word tradi-tion from all of its signs and mar-keting with this change. With a new name, you lose ALL the old
tradition. You start new. Don’t EVER advertise to the alumni about tradition moving forward. EVER. President Blah recently said that a name change was NOT in the works. What happened to that? A straight up lie or just pat-ting us on the head like ignorant little children?”
“Congratulations! I love that my alma mater has moved forward to address the growing need for advanced degrees and still main-
as a student. So, with the name being changed, to me it is still Jamestown College, not Universi-ty of Jamestown - that’s what I’ve grown up with and that’s where I have gotten almost all of my edu-cation. (There is) a sense of pride in a way.”
When asked if residents of Jamestown took more issue with the name change because they had always known it as JC, rather than any other changes, he responded
“I do think so. You know the saying, people resist change. Some issues are relevant - I’ve seen some alumni question where they should put on resumes that they graduated from, which I think makes sense. Do you put a Uni-versity that people haven’t heard of from outside the state because the name just changed, or do you put the name of the college that technically no longer exists? But, I do think the majority of it stems just from the fact that they always have known it as JC,” said Swan-son.
While Swanson speaks from the perspective of a resident and current student, Caleb Grossman speaks as a transplant, and recent alum of the former Jamestown College. He is also an employee of the current University of James-town as the Student Advocacy Co-ordinator, and Resident Director of Kroeze Hall.
From Facebook
: Bad idea!August 21 at 5:33pm · Like · 1
: What was the point?? JC
August 21 at 5:37pm · Like · 2
: Don’t like it one bit...August 21 at 8:03pm · Like · 1
: DumbAugust 21 at 8:48pm via mobile · Like · 1
What do you think?Twitter, Facebook and social media have given UofJ skep-tics a big soapbox. UofJ of-ff
will lead to greater prosper-rrity, while many online com-menters lean toward keeping the JC legacy. #UofJ.
Social media takes a few jabs at the rebranding
See U of J on A2
whether they be recent graduates, or graduates who have long since moved on from the institution. On the other hand, many current stu-dents have taken an enthusiastic approach to the change, viewing it as an opportunity to be part of a
After sifting through numer-ous comments on Facebook, and various Twitter accounts, a con-tinuous theme of displeasure is coming from a place of nostalgia. People are clinging on to the old “JC” that they know and love. Those on the side of change are
they believe a renamed University of Jamestown could have.
These vehement feelings on both sides of the issue have been published many times over via Facebook and Twitter.
The following statement is a Tweet
“Am I the only one that thinks the “University of Jamestown” may be the dumbest idea ever? #JC.”
SUCCESS vs. Tradition
PART TWO
Syria becomes battle-ground as Senate ap-proves military action.
“Am I the only one that thinks the “Univer-sity of Jamestown” may be the dumbest idea ever? #JC.”
Jimmies fall to Valley City in Round One of Paint Bucket Battle 2013.
from page oneA2 FridaySeptember 6, 2013
Continued from A1
U of J: Grossman speaks on the name change
“I think in many ways the change makes sense. I think the expansion of pro-grams, and a new location in Fargo really did demand some kind of change. That being said...I do miss good ol’ JC,” said Grossman.
Grossman’s missing of “the old JC” stems from the emotional investments
he made as a student, but it quick to remember that a name change does not mean that the intrinsic values and pride in being a Jimmie change a bit.
“I have to remember though, that whether it’s Jamestown College or U of J, it’s the place and the experiences and the people that have that emotional connection more so than the
name.”As the ripple effect of
the name change continues to spread, social media will be sure to play a major role in the correspondence of these issues and opinions. Keep an eye on Twitter, and on Facebook as the story unfolds.
On Aug. 26, The Uni-versity of Jamestown opened its doors to the new physical therapy pro-gram in Fargo, N.D. This program currently has 36 students coming from the Midwest, some as far away as Chicago and Seattle.
This three-year pro-gram will allow them to get their doctorate in physical therapy. The knowledge-able professors and top quality facilities will pro-vide the valuable education needed to prepare them for their futures.
In May 2013, Kyle Blu-menshine graduated from Jamestown and was accept-ed into their physical ther-apy program shortly after.
His reason for applying to the program was his knowl-edge of the strong academic traditions that Jamestown possesses, along with their ability to run their programs smoothly and effectively.
“I looked at a lot of dif-ferent PT programs, and after reading about what Jamestown had to offer, I felt like it would be a per-fect fi t,” stated Blumen-shine.
The physical therapy professors are well-trained in this fi eld and have a wide range of expertise.
“They are all extremely knowledgeable in their sub-ject area and are willing to answer any questions we may have,” Blumenshine said.
In Blumenshine’s opin-
ion, one of the most inter-esting things they have been able to learn, after less than two weeks of classes, is how to read x-rays and understand them. They have also been able to do many hands-on learning experiences.
When asked if he liked having the program in Far-go instead of Jamestown, Blumenshine said “It’s nice because it allows us to have a lot of clinical opportuni-ties within the area.” Kyle is happy to still be connected with the Jamestown Com-munity as he expressed, “Once a Jimmie, always a Jimmie.”
Physical therapy program from a Jimmie perspective
University of Jamestown has been ranked as a “Best in the Midwest” college by The Princeton Review in its an-nual review of colleges and universities. The New York City-based education services company selected the Univer-sity as one of 153 institutions it recommends in its website feature “2014 Best Colleges: Region by Region.”
“Our recent distinction by Princeton Review as a “Best in the Midwest” institution reaf-fi rms our strong conviction that University of Jamestown is a remarkable value for a student and family’s return on their educational investment,” says Scott J. Goplin, Vice President of Enrollment Man-agement. “Further, it brings national attention to the quality of our programs and the high level of student satisfaction. Our unique Journey to Suc-cess educational approach pre-pares our students to directly enter the workforce or gradu-
ate school. This approach is key to the level of satisfaction we are experiencing from our students and their families, and it also shows in our average 99 percent placement rate for re-cent graduates.”
This is the 11th year of rankings by Princeton Review, and University of Jamestown (formerly Jamestown Col-lege) has made the list each year. The rankings are based on academic excellence with-in the region and the results of student surveys.
Detailed information about the Journey to Success or academic programs at Uni-versity of Jamestown can be found at www.jc.edu or by contacting the Offi ce of Ad-mission at 1-800-336-2554.
The schools named “re-gional best(s)” represent only about 25 percent of the na-tion’s 2,500 four-year schools. The Princeton Review survey for this project asks students to rate their own schools on
several issues — from the ac-cessibility of their professors to quality of the campus food — and answer questions about themselves, their fellow stu-dents, and their campus life.
Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s Senior VP/Publish-er, says “We’re pleased to rec-ommend University of James-town to users of our site as one of the best schools to earn their degree. We chose it and the other institutions we name as ‘regional best’ colleges mainly for their excellent academic programs. From several hun-dred schools in each region, we winnowed our list based on institutional data we collected directly from the schools, our visits to schools over the years, and the opinions of our staff, plus college counselors and advisors whose recommenda-tions we invite. We also take into account what students at the schools reported to us.”
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It was about 10 min-utes after the VMAs or the Video Music Awards ended that I was aware it had ended because I could not read anything on my twitter feed with-out reading the words VMA, Miley, Twerk Performance, and aw-ful mostly all being re-lated. I did not watch the VMA’s this year as Breaking Bad, Wilfred, and Goosebumps all had new seasons on Netflix, but I was thoroughly intrigued when I saw all the new memes and comments popping up all over my social media networks.
So after seeing Cyrus compared to Cyn-thia (Angelica’s Doll in the Rugrats) with her mostly chopped up hair, Robin Thicke dressed as Beetlejuice as Miley dances all over him, and last but not least the lava
lamp consistency of her thighs and buttocks in oddly formed spandex being compared to a va-riety of items, I had to see the video for myself. It started off interest-ingly enough with danc-ing stuffed animals and a steaming UFO on stage, and the fans were really into it.
When the door pops open however every-thing changed because it seemed that this was no joke, this was mankind’s first known and docu-mented interaction with an alien and it was be-ing filmed live! I jest of course, but it seemed to be just as to meet a mem-ber of a new species, be-cause that was what this performer looked like coming from this metal-lic ship. About 2 minutes in and 20 different dis-gusted crowd shots later I had to turn it off, so I feel sorry for those who happened to be watching the VMAs that evening
and had to sit through that entire performance just to move on. I have never seen so many ac-tors, musicians, and just plain famous people look away or just appear un-pleased at a performance at any awards show with live talent (talent be-ing used loosely here of course).
As I quickly exited out of the YouTube view-ing window I just sat for a few minutes to mull over all that my brain and soul had to wit-ness and I realized that the youth of the world coming up is starting to terrify me. It is no sur-prise that ever since the explosion of technology and media the world has taken a change, mostly for the better, but has become a much smaller place. There are very few people in our coun-try who don’t know who Miley Cyrus or Hannah Montana is just because it became a trend so huge
it was EVERYWHERE! You couldn’t go shop-ping, out to eat, or even watch most TV with-out having a reference or some kind of insight on what the daughter of famous one hit wonder Billy Ray Cyrus was up to. In her heyday, Mi-ley had a hit TV show, a sold out nationwide tour, movies, albums, and guest appearances out the wazoo, and ev-erybody wanted a piece of Miley Cyrus. As she went through her phas-es of figuring out who she wanted to be when she grew out of the teen girl persona, and into the world of hipster and west coast styles, drop-ping her old conserva-tive ways from her days of growing up in Tennes-see. Now she has turned into something that no-body can even put a la-bel on, which might have been her goal to make herself her own person, but it seems to have gone
out of control. She just overplayed the sexuality bit and it all started with a unicorn outfit and a vi-ral dance video sensation that the media could not get enough of, but much like Frankenstein’s ex-citement when his mon-ster came to life, all of that went out the window when it got up and killed him. In this way, I would have to say that Miley just killed her TV per-sonality with one single blow leaving everybody to say, “What just hap-pened?? Will it happen again? Should I even turn on the television for fear of ever seeing what I saw a second time?” Re-gardless of your personal spin on what went down this year at the Video Music Awards, one thing is clear: We need to stop putting young starlets in typecast roles on the Disney Channel until they turn 18 and then are let loose upon the world for the kids that grew up
with them to see what they will “become” when they leave start their own life in the real world. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about freedom of per-sonal expression. How-ever, there is a limit to what should be allowed to take place on our stag-es for the public eye, or else we’re all going to be succumbed to losing all touch with reality and just twerk until we drop. As for Cyrus, maybe she should find a new iden-tity, maybe she’s happy with how things are go-ing for her, but I can say with absolute confidence that if she is ever al-lowed to do another such performance, it will be a LONG time before I tune in to watch one.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — President Barack Obama is heading into the lion’s den of Rus-sia, confronting Syria’s key patron as well as for-eign leaders skeptical of his call for an internation-al military strike against Bashar Assad’s govern-ment.
Obama on Thursday begins a two-day visit to St. Petersburg for the Group of 20 economic summit, putting him in the same country as Edward Snowden for the first time since the American fugi-tive fled to Moscow ear-lier this year. Both Syria and Snowden have been sore points in an already strained U.S.-Russian re-lationship, fueling the no-tion that Obama and Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin just can’t get along.
The White House went out of its way to say Obama would not meet one-on-one with the Russian leader while in St. Petersburg. Instead, Obama will meet on the summit’s sidelines with the leaders of France, China and Japan.
Still struggling to per-suade dubious lawmakers at home on Syria, Obama in Russia will seek to win over world leaders reluc-tant to get drawn in to yet another U.S.-led sor-tie in a Mideast nation. Although Syria wasn’t formally on the agenda for the economy-focused summit, U.S. officials were resigned to the fact
that the bloody civil war there surely would over-whelm any talks about global economics, just as it did three months ago when many of the same leaders convened for a Group of 8 summit in Northern Ireland.
In June, it was weap-ons and ammunition Obama wanted leaders to send to struggling rebels fighting Assad’s regime. Obama’s far more daunt-ing goal now will be to persuade his counterparts to put their own militaries on the line.
In an ironic twist for Obama, the nation host-ing the summit is also the nation most forceful-ly obstructing Obama’s path to an international consensus. Russia has provided critical military and financial backing for Assad and has leveraged its veto power in the U.N. Security Council to keep a resolution condemning Syria from getting off the ground. At the same time, Obama has had little suc-cess enticing individual nations to join the effort.
Further complicating Obama’s efforts to pres-ent a united front is the raging debate in Congress over whether to approve a strike — a debate Obama invited when he abruptly decided Saturday to seek congressional approval amid deep concerns from both parties. Some law-makers view Obama as trying to preserve his own credibility after issuing an ultimatum to Assad last year against using
chemical weapons.“My credibility is
not on the line. The in-ternational community’s credibility is on the line,” Obama said Wednesday at news conference in Stockholm.
While insisting Obama has yet to prove his case, Putin appeared to temper his rhetoric slightly in a pre-summit interview with The As-sociated Press, saying he wouldn’t rule out backing a U.N. resolution if it can be proved Assad gassed his own people with chemical weapons, as the U.S. has alleged.
He also played down any personal tensions with Obama while ac-knowledging the pars-ing of the body language that’s become a geopo-litical parlor game every time the two leaders meet.
“President Obama hasn’t been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia,” Putin said. “And your humble servant hasn’t been elected by the peo-ple of Russia to be pleas-ant to someone either.”
Such an admission revealed a remarkable lowering of the bar from the summer of 2009 when Obama, on his last visit to Russia, trumpeted a “re-
Obama heads into the lion’s den in Russia
set” in relations between the former Cold War foes.
“This will not be easy,” Obama said in Moscow. “It’s hard to change habits that have been ingrained in our governments and our bu-reaucracies for decades.”
Indeed, it hasn’t been easy. The crisis in Syria joins a long list of con-tentious issues that have made cooperation be-tween the countries a try-ing endeavor, even though Obama points to success-es early in his presidency on nuclear stockpile re-duction and trading regu-lations. More recently,
the two have butted heads over missile defense, hu-man rights and other is-sues.
Obama will call at-tention to one such area of disagreement — gay rights — when he meets Friday in St. Petersburg with lesbian, gay, bisex-ual and transgender activ-ists.
The lead-up to Obama’s arrival at the G-20 was notable not for what he did, but for what he didn’t do: visit Moscow. The president had been set to go to the Russian capital for a face-to-face with Putin but dramatically abandoned those plans last month after Russia granted asy-lum to Snowden, flouting Obama’s requests that he be returned to the U.S. The former National Se-curity Agency systems analyst faces espionage
charges after absconding with a trove of documents detailing secret U.S. sur-veillance programs and leaking them to the me-dia.
“However people in the West look at Snowden, the Russians saw him as a defector,” said Steven Pi-fer, a former U.S. ambas-sador and Russia expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “And the rules of the game are, you don’t return defectors.”
After calling off the meeting with Putin, Obama decided instead to visit Sweden, where he met in Stockholm on Wednesday with Prime Minister Fredrik Rein-feldt and other Nordic leaders. On Thursday, be-fore a quick flight to St. Petersburg, Obama was to meet with King Carl XVI Gustaf at Sweden’s Royal Palace.
“This will not be easy. It’s hard to change habits that have been ingrained
in our governments and our bureaucracies for decades.”
President Barack Obama
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Dorm life can be ex-tremely disorganized, espe-cially when you’re just mov-ing in: ugly boxes taking up space, books scattered ev-erywhere, pencils nowhere to be found. Making things organized can seem like a huge pain, lots of time, and money; but here are a few easy and cheap DIY ideas to keep you organized without giving up any style.
First: Fabric covered shoe boxes. These are great for holding all kinds of things from school supplies to random knick-knacks or anything you want out of sight.
Things you need: Old shoe box, fabric in your choice of color (or 2 colors, coordinating or contrasting), spray adhesive or a glue stick, scissors, ruler, pencil, and white glue.
Step 1: Take the box of your choice and measure to determine how much fabric you will need for the base. Measure the bottom and sides and add a little extra (about an inch.) Cut the fabric.
Step 2: Put glue on the bottom of the box and place it in the center of the fabric piece. Use the pencil and ruler to draw a straight line extending from the long side of the shoe box. Cut along this line on all the corners.
Step 3: Bring the fabric up on the long sides of the box and glue down. Cut top corners so that fabric will fold over inside box. Glue. Repeat on other long side of
the box.Step 4: There will be
extra fabric. Glue the extra fabric to the short sides of the box.
Step 5: Take the fabric to cover the short ends. Bring up and over to inside of box. Glue.
Step 6: Use white glue on corners of box to keep fabric from fraying.
Step 7: Follow same steps for top of the box.
Optional: Add a cute bow, stickers, label (espe-cially nice if you plan to stack them), or any other decoration you can think of to the top and sides of the box.
Second: Clothespin wreath. These are a fun and stylish way to hold every-thing on your walls from pictures, to notes, to home-work.
Things you will need: cardboard, scissors, utility knife, hot glue gun, clothes-pins (number will depend on the desired size of the wreath), and paint colors of your choice.
Step 1: Take the card-board and cut it in the size of the wreath you want. Make a large cardboard “O”.
Step 2: Paint the card-board in the color of your choice.
Step 3: Paint all of the clothespins. (Can be the same or different color from your cardboard base.)
Step 4: Use the hot glue gun and glue the bottom of your clothespins all around the cardboard base with the clip side facing out so you can clip your items on later.
Step 5: Wait for wreath to fully dry. Hang. Then clip all over!
Optional: Cover clothes-pins with glitter, gems, or decorative tape instead of paint. Also, try painting the wreath to create designs.
Third: Tin can orga-nizers. These are perfect for holding all those extra pens and pencils you have floating around that you can never find when you need them.
Things you need: old tin can, paint, scrapbooking paper, craft glue, and other decorations (lace, ribbon, stickers, gems, glitter, duct tape, or anything you want).
Step 1: Make sure that your tin can is clean (remove all paper labels and glue).
Step 2: Begin to deco-rate the can by putting on your base, either by painting or gluing on paper.
Step 3: Add the rest of the decorations to the can.
Step 4: Wait for decora-tions to dry and fill.
Optional: Make several cans and glue together for more space or add a handle.
Have fun while mak-ing these. When in college, dorms are you home away from home. They should be a relaxing place to go after being in classes all day. Make your room you own, use your imagination! Happy crafting!
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A6 opinionObama vs. Syria
As I think about and write my keen and brilliant articles ev-ery other week for this esteemed publication, I often find myself debating what the best wordplay is for a situation that I should be talking about. For example: should I use sarcasm, vehe-ment and opinion-ated cha-risma, or reasoned, straight-forward d i s cus -sion to highlight the inepti-tudes and failures of the Obama admin-istration? I try to vary the pace with these kinds of writing styles.
When it comes to the situa-tion in Syria (the insane massa-cre of a megalomaniac upon his own people, including the hor-rific use of chemical weapons to slaughter rebel forces and inno-cent men, women, and children) there is no room for anything except sober reflection on what is the best response America can deliver in this dire situation. I do not often sympathize with Barack Obama, but I would not want to be the president and Commander-in-Chief in this situation. There are simply no good answers for handling this situation.
Recently, the president has made the unexpected announce-ment that he will push for mili-tary strikes against Syrian dicta-tor Bashar al-Assad, but that he will first seek the authorization of the United States Congress in order to follow through with his claim.
I’m afraid I must disagree with the president’s decision, even though I do not envy him and in fact respect (to a degree) his decision. The best answer for the United States’ response to this situation is, unfortunately, to do nothing. This is a terrible thing to say, especially for the humanitarian and moralist in me, but the fact is that the alter-natives to doing nothing are do-ing something potentially even worse.
We do not know how pow-erful the radical Islamic and al-Qaeda propaganda has infil-trated the rebel forces fighting against the Syrian regime, but we know that terrorist elements are involved. When we stood by while Hosni Mubarak was over-thrown in Egypt, this led simply to political power falling into the hands of the Muslim Brother-hood. When we intervened in Libya, fanatical extremists at-tacked our embassy in Beng-hazi. So can we really expect the result in Syria to be any different if the old regime, however aw-ful, is removed?
As far as humanitarian in-terests are concerned, a military strike is likely to also cause loss of innocent lives, either directly
by our missiles killing bystand-ers in the process of taking out government or military centers or indirectly by sparking the in-sane anger in the Assad regime that so commonly arises in dic-tators threatened in such a way. Our intervention may not even contribute to the saving of lives, much less allowing fanatical extremists and enemies of the United States to seize power in the void of a collapse of the Assad government.
There is another point. What if Syria retaliates against an American strike by attack-ing Israel, as they have already threatened to do at Tel Aviv? What if Russia intercedes? I’m the last person to advocate go-ing to the United Nations before we make any kind of action, but we should consider how key nations will react to our poten-tial strike. Many politicians and media pundits like to pretend that Russia is now a friend, or at least a benevolent member of the “grand world community.” (Ugh.) These claims are delu-sional fantasies and are down-right lies. Russia remains an adversary, if not a dangerous en-emy, and it regards the Assad re-gime as its little brother. Russia most likely is helping to stock the government in Syria with its terrible weapons. Therefore, could a military strike on our part not lead to a Russian coun-terattack on the rebel forces, on Israel, on our own military? (Last option highly unlikely, but with Israel as our greatest ally, the prospect of an angry Russia is still very frightening.)
I am afraid I have to stand with doing nothing in the Syr-ian civil war, not because that’s the right option (it isn’t), but because it is a better option than the alternatives I see coming out of any kind of strike. Also, the Obama administration does not entirely escape from guilt in this. The president should never have drawn a “line in the sand” un-less he intended to stand by his word. If he intended to stand by his word, he should have inter-vened the first time Assad used chemical weapons; this is not the first time. If he was serious now, he should recall Congress from their vacation immediately and get the authorization he seeks immediately. At this point, the ideal time to strike against Assad (if there ever was one) has passed. The only option I see for President Obama’s decisions at this time and his patience to wait for Congress to decide is a po-litical motive: by awaiting con-gressional approval for his plan, he shifts the responsibility and blame of intervention or nonin-tervention on Congress, which will get the heat if our decision (whatever it is) leads to an in-crease in the insane violence and extremism so prevalent recently in the turbulent changes sweep-ing across the Middle East.
Dan ArensColumnist
Jacob Strass
Well boys and girls, the best time of the year has started. No I’m not talking about football sea-son. It’s hunting season. That means it’s time to strap up your boots, paint your face, and fire some r o u n d s . G o o s e s e a s o n k i c k e d off on the 15th of Au-gust and ran until the 15th of Sep-t e m b e r ; unless you live by the Mis-souri River, then it closes on the 7th of September.
The best way to hunt for geese here in the Great White North is to go out, get in your truck, and start scouting. As of right now, I have been hunting the wheat fields since they are the only things cut at this point in the year. How-ever, when looking for geese, make sure you find a field that has more than 60 geese in it or you will have a really short morn-ing. Once you find a good field, mark it and come back in the morning. Set your decoys in the same spot as the geese were the evening before. Find the wind direction and turn your blinds to face the wind. You might do this because the geese are
too heavy to slow down enough to land without the wind working against them. I like to set my de-coys in a V. I do this be-cause there is always a lead bird in a flock and this is usually the formation in which they land. Now that you have your decoys out, make sure to put your field blind in with the decoys so that the geese are landing right on top of you. I my-self like my blind covered in the wheat and stuffed real heavily. I don’t want to give the goose any rea-son to circle over and not land. With your decoys out and your blind set up, how are you going to call your geese? What call should you use?
I’m a fan of the Pri-mos line of hunting calls; however, the call I would suggest for a beginner would be one of two spe-cific Primos calls. One call I would suggest is called the Primos Big Easy Goose Call and the other is called Primos Ca-nadian Goose Call. Both of these calls work really well. The Big Easy Goose Call is nice because it’s a flute call. This means it has the ability to send out a nice, long sound to the geese you are trying to pull in from far distances. The Canadian Goose Call, on the other hand, has the same design but has a flex-tone at the end. This puts
you in control of where you want the sound to be projected. A Flex-tone is a bendable end on the end of your call. I personally have the Canadian Goose Call by Primos.
Just like everything else in life, goose season is going to end; however, don’t you worry your lit-tle heart. A great tradition that still runs deep in the South has a great place to hunt doves here in the North. What I have learned from hunting here in the North for dove is that they love the cornfields. It gives them a great place to hide. The best way to hunt doves is to be up by the crack of dawn and find yourself a corn field that sits along a gravel road. The birds have to have grit in their gizzard to turn up the food they in-take. On the other side of the cornfield, it would be best to have a nice open wheat field. Early in the morning, these birds like to nest in the corn as the sun comes up, they fly across to eat on the wheat seeds that are lying on the ground. These birds also love power lines; some-times you will see tons of them sitting out on the wire. Later in the day, an average of 9 to 10 of these birds transition from the wheat to the gravel road. I say find yourself a buck-et sit, down behind some
tall grass, and blast these birds as they fly over. It’s a great way to get better at shooting other birds later in the season and these birds taste great. I myself like to use 7 ½ shot. For a little heavier, you should try out some 6 shot.
Remember to remind yourself when you’re out there and hunting to pay respect to the animal that has died to nourish your body. If you’re on some-one else’s property, respect their wishes and clean up. Every hunter needs to be safe and respectful. Keep your powder dry and your boots wet.
I’ll leave you with a prayer for your next hunt-ing adventure. May the Lord God make you an honorable hunter who re-spects fellow hunters, the animals, and all creation; May He keep safe you and all who share the field or the forest; May He make all hunters proud of their kill, generous with their meat, and thankful in all circumstances. May God bless you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Your newspaper, I read, welcomes letters from students, and also from the public which I presume means me.
Whether an institution of higher learning is to be called a university or just college straddles a fine line of precise meaning.
There is one (more) informal school of higher
learning that has more stu-dents and graduates than any other. That is called the college of hard knocks. Maybe it could be a called a school of harder learning. I am one of its graduates.
Right after my high school graduation in the spring of 1934 I enrolled in the CCC (the mighty Ci-vilian Conservation Corps, the tree army). The pay was a dollar a day and that
was the cash pay. We also gained weight-weight in muscles. That was a good fringe benefit.
We did, us young men, complain about having to work for a living. That was then. Now those of we enrolled who are still living brag about what we did. The parks we made and other constructive ac-complishments including millions of trees planted.
That is my legacy, a liv-ing legacy. That should be an encouraging idea to you young students when you try to comprehend and master difficult subjects. Ahead you will be able to do the constructive, con-structive accomplishments.
That will give you the chance to brag about what you did in life as your age approaches the century mark.
Letter to the Editor
news A7FridaySeptember 6, 2013
By Brooke PaulsonStaff Writer
Over the past few years, the Middle-Eastern country of Syria has been engaging in a precarious civil war result-ing in the deaths of thousands of civilians and children in their own homes and on their own streets. According to an ABC News article by Alisa Wiersema titled “Everything You Need to Know About the Syrian Civil War”, the confl ict began in 2011 after the Arab Springs activism began in nearby countries such as Egypt and Tunisia. Protestors of the Syrian gov-ernment, headed by Bashar al-Assad, began rebelling against authorities and voic-ing their opinions. The out-come of the protests was ugly. The civilians participat-ing in the movement were ei-ther killed or kidnapped and tortured by government of-fi cials in an attempt to quiet the protests and regain con-trol over the country.
In the past, the struggle for power in Syria has not posed as an international threat. However, mid-June
of this year marked the be-ginning of major problems in Syria after the use of chemi-cal weapons on civilians. President Barack Obama stated that they had crossed a “red line” by using such a dangerous form of weap-onry. On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were used in Syria to kill over 1,400 civilians, more than 400 of which were children. Chem-ical warfare has been consid-ered a threat to the safety of every nation and state. While most countries are respectful of the prohibition of chemi-cal weapons, others refuse to abide to such requests. The blame for the attacks is being focused on the Syrian gov-ernment and the mastermind behind the operation, Bashar al-Assad.
United Nations offi cials have investigated the scenes of the attacks with an agen-da to confi rm that chemical weapons were involved, not to determine who exactly was responsible. However, there is little doubt expressed that the governing powers of Syria are accountable for
the disaster. As chaos strikes Syria and its neighboring na-tions, the United States has been left with the choice of how to handle the problem. The main question is whether or not western nations should interfere with the chemical warfare. At fi rst, President Obama proposed creating an ally with United Nations to go to war with Syria. The United Nations turned down the offer, however, not want-ing to involve itself in a war.
On Friday, August 30, President Obama expressed his views on the matter. CNN writers Frederik Pleit-gen and Tom Cohen stated in their article, “‘War-Weary’ Obama Says Syria Chemical Attack Requires Response” that President Obama does not want to engage in a war with Syria, but he does be-lieve that the use of chemi-cal weapons deserves a rep-rimand of some sort. The president calls chemical warfare a “challenge to the world”, pushing other na-tions to see how much they can get away with. President Obama also claims that he
has no intention of taking a “boots on the ground” ap-proach of military action on Syria. After a day of mixed feelings towards the situa-tion, the president made a last minute decision to wait until he could get a vote from Congress on September 9th to plan his next move.
On Saturday, August 31st, the president stated that he wants the United States to take limited action against the Syrian government with the consent of the members of Congress. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed surprise at the president’s decision to wait on Congress to take action. Kerry wanted an immediate reaction to the chemical attack. Regardless, in his interview with ABC News, he stated that he was supportive of the president’s choice, and he was sure that Congress was going to vote to move forward with a mili-tary strike in Syria.
Since September 1st, a number of negotiations have been with the members of senate and the house. Ac-cording to CNN reporters
Matt Smith, Josh Levs, and Laura Smith-Spark, Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez and Tennessee Senator Bob Corker were able to negotiate a bill al-lowing 60 days of limited military action in Syria, with an additional 30 days just in case. This would not allow a boots on ground attack, and any actions would not be aimed at helping in the Syr-ian Civil War. The actions would simply be to punish the Syrian government for its use of chemical weapons. President Obama states that he does not want the U.S. to involve itself in Syria’s Civil War, but he does feel the need to react to their behav-ior. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, along with De-fense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, spoke with the Senate Foreign Affairs Com-mittee in an effort to con-vince them that passing the bill for 60 days of military action in Syria. Only about 43 members support the bill, while a majority of the Sen-
ate is still against it. On Wednesday morn-
ing, the discussion continued as John Kerry met with the House Foreign Affairs Com-mittee to discuss the issue at hand. Later in the day, the Senate Foreign Affairs Com-mittee announced that their 10-7 vote had authorized a military strike in Syria. This gives the president and his partners the initial victory that they were searching for. Everyone is now waiting in anticipation to see how the fi nal vote comes out. De-bates will continue until at least September 9th, when law-making members of the House and Senate will be re-turning to Washington D.C. As for right now, the con-gressional vote is unpredict-able and the United States’ reaction to the use of chemi-cal warfare is undecided.
Justice Department an-nounced its decision to not challenge state laws that legalize marijuana. The governors of Colorado and Washington were reas-sured by Attorney General Eric Holder that the depart-ment will not be interfering
with the voter’s decision to pass
the law that legalized mari-juana.
In spite of this deci-sion, marijuana remains illegal under the Federal Controlled Substance Act. Because of the act, the department will now be focusing on other drug
related issues such as pre-venting marijuana distri-bution to minors, drugged driving, drug-traffi cking by cartels, and forbidding the cultivation of marijua-na on public lands.
The Attorney General also told Washington and Colorado that the depart-ment will be working with
the states to form regula-tions that are reasonable with the federal priorities. If there are any repeated violations, the department also reserves the right to block the laws.
Medicinal marijuana dispensaries in some states have been subjected to raids from federal agents
because they were con-sidered too large or profi t-able. Prosecutors will still be looking at the size and profi tability of marijuana businesses and additional illegal activities must take place in order for them to take action.
The Justice Depart-ment also announced that
there is some leeway for banks to provide services to marijuana producers and sellers as long as they don’t violate any of the new guidelines.
The Jimmies huddle before taking the court James Romelfanger/ The Collegian
Larson leads women’s golf
By Thomas CookeSports Reporter
Larson leads Jimmie Women:
The University of James-town women’s golf team has some special returners this fall, but none could match the talent of Emily Larson.
At the home opener at Hillcrest Golf Course this past Wednesday, Emily Larson, a freshman from Anoka, Minn., showed that experience doesn’t count for everything as she took control of the meet, firing a stunning 79 to take first place,
leading her team to top place overall. Larson’s closest team- mate was Ashley Barnhart who fired 85 at the scorching Hill-crest course where tempera-tures cruised into the mid 90’s. The pair combined with Kaitlin Ost (86) to post a team score of 345, one stroke short of the school record.
Consistent Jimmies enough for third:
Five top 10 finishers would normally deem a success. As is the perfectly high standard that the Jamestown men’s golf team has set itself, this meet was deemed just average.
Freshman Trent Hagenson
led the Jimmies with a strong score of 72, closely followed by Justin Goldsberry, who finished second and fourth respectively. For the team event, Hagen-son and Goldsberry combined to post 303 which was good enough for third, around eight shots short of Coach Jensen’s pre-tournament expectation. Despite this setback, Coach Jensen piled confidence onto his “good” team, insisting that it was just one of those days. Mi-chael Strain, Kameron Hunter and Mitch Hagenson rounded out the top 5 Jimmie players.
What might have been? T-Mac By Grayson Leder
Sports Editor
There is a player in every generation who, when their career comes to an end, we ask our-selves “what might have been?” For me, this play-er is Tracy McGrady. I believe Tracy McGrady is the best player to nev-er make it out of the first round of the playoffs as the leader of his team. When thinking about T-Mac in his prime, I think about music; not your regular everyday music, but a combination of a symphony and dubstep. The smoothness of his movements as he danced around the best players in the world stood in direct
contrast to his devastat-ing ability to bring the thunder down on a rim, much like the contrast of symphony and dubstep. His fundamental effi-ciency was contrasted to his creativity. He is the only player I’ve ever seen use an alley-oop off the glass to himself as an attack move in a game! Looking at T-Mac’s game has been like look-ing at two different play-ers, possession by pos-session. While watching, I would ask myself, “Did that silky dancer from the play before become someone else as he ruth-lessly dunked on a poor NBA big man?” In the 2002-2003 season, T-Mac averaged 32 points,
6.5 rebounds, and 5.5 assists. These numbers very closely resemble the number one pick of the next draft, LeBron James. After the 2002-2003, the trouble came. Back spasms prema-turely ended the career of McGrady. We once again questioned if this was a different man in the same body. How was the spectacular T-Mac now the mediocre Tracy? Would it be the Jordan, Kobe, LeBron, T-Mac conversation? We’ll nev-er know.
Generally, 0-4 represents a poor start for any team. However, as all good coaches realize, numbers don’t deter-mine a season.
Despite three heavy losses and a close game this weekend, the Jimmie Women’s soccer team really could have been on the re-ceiving end of some results. The Jimmie ladies have kept all of their games close until the last portion where the op-position has taken advantage of poor defending and some early season nerves. Having lost their opening two games, the Jimmies looked to be on the up with some promising
play against (4-0) Morning-side (Iowa). However, some late goals by Morningside sealed the Jimmie’s fate in what should have been a close game. In the second game this past weekend, definite progress was made. The la-dies scored their first goals of the season courtesy of return-ing senior Hannah Langseth and freshman Elyse Stewart. The goals tied the game 2-2 against Concordia (Neb.), but an instant replay left the Jim-mies on the wrong end of the 3-2 score line.
Nicole Ladoucer has taken all four losses but is steadily improving with Tay-lor Bertsch deputizing for the injured Brook Winson. Kara Wahl continues to hold the
midfield together with Langs-eth leading the line for what looks like one of the strongest sides the Jimmies have built since their national tourna-ment success a decade ago. Like the men, currently un-der new head coach Tommy Nienhaus, thing take time to stick and the side takes time to gel under new ideas. When the first win hits the girls could start a streak and the season could be one to re-member.
They say patience is a vir-tue. Hopefully this is the case for Coach Becker’s ladies as they continue their season.
Alas, summer is almost over and autumn has reared its ugly head! Labor Day has past, school is in ses-sion, and college students have only begun to taste their professors’ wrath. It seems that only one thing can offer any consolation to the days spent pool-side in sandals, nursing a bottle of sun-screen and bever-ages including, but not limited to, orange soda. That’s right, football season has arrived and everyone is starting to feel the itch. You don’t even have to be a fan of football to feel the buzz. For all the fantasy players in this country, the hype has been strong for
Football fantasiesseveral weeks now. The last of the fantasy leagues have been formed, players draft-ed, and schedules set for the start of week one this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. with the Baltimore Ravens play-ing the Denver Broncos.
I was fortunate enough to land myself the very first pick of my league’s draft and I jumped right on the Adrian Peterson bandwag-on. San Francisco’s quarter-back Colin Kaepernick and running back Frank Gore, along with Tampa Bay’s wide receiver Vincent Jack-son and Dallas’ tight end Jason Witten also made it onto my starting lineup. My league commissioner added what is called a “flex posi-tion” to the roster as well. This allows owners to start
another quarterback, run-ning back, wide receiver, or tight end. I’ve decided to go with a double quarter-back roster and start Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning. However controversial that may be my only alterna-tive choice to fill the #2 QB position is Ben Roethlis-berger, who is being started by only 13% of his fantasy owners in week one.
Good luck and con-gratulations to all the fan-tasy owners and fans for making it to another year of NFL football! Let’s make it a good one.
Unfortunately, the first battle for the Paint Bucket this season did not end with a victory for the Jimmie foot-ball team. The Valley City State University Vikings capitalized on three first half turnovers en route to a 31-14 victory in front of a fantastic crowd on Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Jim-mie quarterback Beau Eriks-son had a solid day despite
fighting pressure from an aggressive Viking defensive line, throwing for 150 yards and a touchdown as well as rushing for 65 yards. The Jimmie running game also showed promise for this sea-son with big rushes by senior running back Steven Nelms, including a 9-yard punch for a score, and sophomore run-ning back D’Marco Smith adding effective rushes here and there. In the end the Vi-king’s calculated passing at-tack was what helped them
advance past the Jimmies. Viking quarterback Jonathon Santos threw for 194 yards, including 2 touchdown passes, and was lethal in the short-yardage passing game under pressure. Playing two opponents receiving votes in the national polls is no rea-son to worry for Jimmie fans. The 0-2 Jimmies travel to Moorhead, MN next to play NCAA Division III power-house Concordia-Moorhead on Saturday, September 7th.
By Grayson LederSports Editor
In front of the typical raucous crowd in the Han-sen Center, the Jimmies thrashed the Bluehawks 25-5, 25-19, and 25-16 behind an aggressive serve game with plenty of kills to boot. Becker led the charge with
a match high 12 kills and a Hit percentage of 63%. She also had 5 blocks, followed by a balanced attack of Jan-na Johnson, Alaina Brown, and Kaitlyn Bollingberg with 6, 5, and 5 respective-ly. Kaia Buck and Kelsey Deragisch did their distrib-uting duties as usual with
15 and 11 assists, respec-tively. Amanda Kramer led the defense with 17 digs. The Jimmies totaled 9 aces with Buck and Brown blast-ing away with 3 apiece. The Jimmies will be back in ac-tion this Saturday, hosting GPAC opponent Mt. Marty College at 2 PM.
