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Potato Bowl events begin

This past Monday was the fi rst day of Grand Forks’ annual Potato Bowl week, which has the city buzzing with activities. The week, which ends Saturday eve-ning with the Potato Bowl football game, consists of many family-friendly events throughout Grand Forks and the UND campus.

Monday began with the commencement of the Hugo’s Potato Bowl Pete Hidden Medallion Contest. The contest ended the next day when Lee Hensrud of Grand Forks found the medallion in Riverside Park.

The Hugo’s Potato Bowl Golf Scrabble took place Tuesday at Valley Golf Course in East Grand Forks. It was open to anyone and the $95 entry fee included

green fees, dinner, a Potato Bowl gift and golf prizes. On Thursday, there were baked potato bars from

11 a.m.-1 p.m. at all Hugo’s locations and more chip giveaways at all Frandsen Bank and Trust locations. The world’s largest French Fry Feed, courtesy of the J.R. Simplot company, took place at University Park from 4:30 p.m. until dusk and was followed by fi re-works afterward. The event also featured food and soda stands, infl atable games for children, live music, a meet-and-greet with the UND Fighting Sioux football team, a potato picking contest for children, a french fry eating contest and a potato giveaway from Black Gold Farms.

>STAFF REPORTThe Dakota Student

UND’s Student Government hired one of their graduates, An-drew Frelich, to the new Student Government position of Offi ce Manager this school year.

After graduating from UND with a Bachelor of Arts in Bank-ing and Finance, Frelich began to work in the banking industry. He applied for this new position when he saw it on an external UND job listing and has returned to his alma mater to serve as Of-fi ce Manager of Student Govern-ment.

“It’s a perfect fi t for my skill set,” said Frelich.

Offi cially starting on Mon-day September 12, Frelich said he spent much of his time training with Memorial Union staff. In addition, he has attended com-mittee and Senate meetings to become better acquainted with Student Government as an orga-nization.

As the year continues he will participate in meetings, attend senate hearings, oversee the ad-ministration assistants and man-age the offi ce fi nancially.

“I’m here as a resource for Student Government to use and assist with whatever we need to

>KAITLIN BEZDICEKThe Dakota Student

OFFICE Andrew Frelich starts as fi rst fulltime of-fi ce manager for Student Government.

Stu Gov fi lls fulltime position

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LECTURE Heide Crawford of the Uni-veristy of Georgia speaks about vampires.

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do,” Frelich said, “I’ve been a student before and I know what student’s go though.”

Student Government Vice President Nate Elness has experi-enced a lot more freedom to carry out his role with Frelich on staff.

“He has allowed us to re-

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UND has recorded another all-time high number of enrolled students this fall.

According to University regis-trar Suzanne Anderson, the count stands at 14,697 students, which is up 3.5 percent (503 students).

The School of Engineering and Mines experienced the big-gest increase, growing by 7.2 percent, or 84 students. The College of Arts and Sciences also experienced a marked growth, at four percent. All in all, the total number of graduates is up 394 students, or 5 percent.

Vice President for Student Affairs Lori Reesor points to ef-forts to increase student retention as a key for the all-time high.

“Students recognize the ex-cellent quality of the teaching and learning environment at an

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The Dakota StudentExceptional UND, and continue to enroll here to meet their per-sonal and professional goals in higher education,” said Reesor in a statement. “Continued atten-tion by faculty and staff to advis-ing, support services and other efforts that contribute to student success have resulted in another record enrollment at UND this semester.”

“UND continues to be a great value to students and their fami-lies, as the University leverages state appropriations with other revenues to help build a better North Dakota through the North Dakota University System,” said UND President Robert O. Kel-ley.

The Graduate School expe-rienced positive growth as well, with a four-percent increase,

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ally focus on being better student leaders,” said Elness. “[We can] meet with more students to ad-dress issues and concerns.”

Being a UND alumnus him-

Andrew Frelich, UND alumnus, was hired as the Stu-dent Government’s offi ce manager this school year. Photo by Nathan Twerberg.

No, Dracula did not make a visit to campus.

Wednesday there was a lecture held in the Memorial Union Lecture Bowl on the top-ic of vampires.

Dr Heide Crawford, who currently teaches at the Univer-sity of Georgia, led the lecture. Crawford received her Ph. D in German Literature, with a focus in Gothic Literature.

The lecture was titled “From Folklore to Fiction: the Cultur-al-Historical Origins of the Lit-erary Vampire in 18th Century Europe.”

Crawford’s lecture focused on the classical vampire.

“There’s nothing spar-kly about the classic vampire,” Crawford said.

Crawford said that “horror stories thrive in times of social stress,” so she began by discuss-

ing the political environment in 18th century Europe; a time fi lled with turbulence and war.

During his time as Holy Ro-man Emperor, Charles VI took over central Europe.

After he had succeed at this, he was intrigued by the stories his men would come back with.

“Charles funded scientifi c ex-peditions to study local supersti-tions. The reports that came back to him were eventually brought to the poets of the west,” she said.

Crawford said that several sci-

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> produce: The Town Square Farmers Mar-ket will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. downtown.

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> event: A joint tailgating event sponsored by the city of Grand Forks and UND will start at 3 p.m. in the Alerus Center parking lot. Free food and drinks will be served until it runs out. The fi rst 1,000 students attending will receive a free T-shirt.

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BAGHDAD — Suicide bombers on Tuesday killed a leader of Sahwa, the Sunni Muslim militias that were backed by U.S. forces in Iraq, as well as three other people in an attack on a local govern-ment compound in Ramadi, the capital of mostly Sunni Anbar province.

Eighteen people were wounded in the assault, which bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq. A concerted drive by the Iraqi police and military has greatly weakened the Sunni extremist move-ment over the past two years, but it still manages to stage a dramatic attack on civilian targets every few weeks.

Tuesday’s assault began when insurgents detonated a car bomb 300 yards from the government complex. At the same time, two suicide bomb-ers blew themselves up at the gates of the compound, which houses the municipal council, the provincial governor and the police department. Po-lice were able to kill a third bomber before he could self-detonate.

The dead included Khaled Shantoukh, a leader of the Sahwa, which means “Awak-ening,” a movement U.S. forces supported to counter Sunni extremists in Iraq.

Last week, insurgents wearing the uniform of the Iraqi security forces — and thought to be linked to al-Qaida in Iraq — targeted a bus full of Shiite Muslim pil-grims in Anbar province, kill-ing 22.

The attacks again raise questions about the readiness and capability of Iraqi forces to control security less than four months from the fi nal withdrawal of U.S. troops un-der a 2008 security agreement between the Iraqi and Ameri-can administrations.

Iraqi police said 278 Iraq-is died in August from bomb-ings, snipers and targeted assassinations linked to the Sunni extremist movement, a rise of one-third over July. The increasing violence is likely to be taken as a further sign of gridlock in the Iraqi government, in particular the inability of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to name per-manent ministers for the key security posts 18 months after the elections.

WROCLAW, Poland — Con-sensus on a new fi nancial trans-action tax meant to curb market risk-taking remained elusive at a meeting of European Union fi -nance ministers on Saturday, lead-ing some to rekindle a push for it to be limited only to the euro-zone.

“I must confess that it’s not so evident to reach an agreement in Europe about that,” Belgian Fi-nance Minister Didier Reynders said at the end of the informal discussions in Wroclaw, Poland.

“If it’s not possible, we will maybe discuss only the eurozone.”

The idea of the tax, which has been around for years but gained steam with the global economic crisis, is being pushed by Germa-ny and France. But it is anathema to non-euro countries Britain and Sweden, among others.

Opponents argue that a levy limited only to Europe would drive business to other non-taxed foreign markets. They also question the effectiveness of a eurozone-wide tax, noting that it would not cover the London fi -nancial market, one of the conti-nent’s largest.

In Wroclaw, French Finance Minister Francois Baroin quipped that the tax was making progress if not in substance, than at least by being talked about.

“There is no consensus,” Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski, whose country currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, later

said. “No one expects this element to be a crucial one in our attempts to stabilize the situation.”

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, however, ex-pressed optimism that the British government could be negotiated with.

“You wouldn’t want to already pull back the front,” he said. “If I say right away that we’re going to do it in the euro area, then we don’t stand a chance.”

The EU’s market regulation commissioner, Michel Barnier, said that he would “in a few weeks” bring forward a proposal for a “broadly based fi nancial transaction tax” to kick-start an offi cial debate.

The banking sector was the broad focus of Saturday’s discus-sions, which ended a two-day meeting in Wroclaw and came after ministers debated the debt crisis that has been plaguing the eurozone.

Central bank presidents were present on Saturday, days after the European Central Bank, the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of Eng-land, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank joined forces to fl ood fi nancial markets with dollars to bolster confi dence.

“We are very closely united in purpose,” European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet said. “The decision might not be the same, but the unity of purpose is very important.”

The meeting also came in the same week as a credit downgrade for two of France’s leading banks over their exposure to Greek debt, but both Baroin and Reynders said it hadn’t been discussed.

The agenda did include dis-cussions about stress tests that had been carried out earlier this year on European banks and the status of fi nancial sector reforms, includ-ing a proposal to further regulate credit rating agencies.

BEIJING — At a glance, it is clear this is no run-of-the-mill farm: A 6-foot spiked fence hems the meticulously planted vegeta-bles and security guards control a cantilevered gate that glides open only to select cars.

“It is for offi cials only. They produce organic vegetables, pep-pers, onions, beans, caulifl owers, but they don’t sell to the public,” said Li Xiuqin, 68, a lifelong Shunyi village resident who lives directly across the street from the farm but has never been inside. “Ordinary people can’t go in there.”

Until May, a sign inside the gate identifi ed the property as the

Beijing Customs Administration Vegetable Base and Country Club. The placard was removed after a Chinese reporter sneaked inside and published a story about the farm producing organic food so clean the cucumbers could be eaten directly from the vine.

Elsewhere in the world, this might be something to boast about. Not in China. Organic gardening here is a hush-hush affair in which the cleanest, safest products are largely channeled to the rich and politically connected.

Many of the nation’s best food companies don’t promote or adver-tise. They don’t want the public to know that their limited supply is sent to Communist Party offi cials, dining halls reserved for top ath-letes, foreign diplomats and oth-ers in the elite classes. The general public, meanwhile, dines on foods that are increasingly tainted or less than healthful — meats laced with steroids, fi sh from ponds spiked with hormones to increase growth,

milk containing dangerous addi-tives such as melamine, which al-lows watered-down milk to pass protein-content tests.

“The offi cials don’t really care what the common people eat be-cause they and their family are get-ting a special supply of food,” said Gao Zhiyong, who worked for a state-run food company and wrote a book on the subject.

In China, the tegong, or special supply, is a holdover from the early years of Communist rule, when danwei, work units of state-owned enterprises, raised their own food and allocated it based on rank. “The leaders wanted to make sure they had enough to eat and that nobody poisoned their food,” Gao said.

In the 1950s, Soviet advisers helped the Chinese set up a food procurement department under the security apparatus to supply and inspect food for the leadership, according to a biography of Mao Zedong written by his personal physician. Lower levels of offi cial-dom were divided into 25 grada-tions of rank that determined the quantity and quality of rations.

In modern-day China, it is the degradation of the environment and a limited supply of healthful food that is fueling the parallel food system for the elite.

“We fl ash forward 50 years and we see the only elements of China society getting food that is reliable, safe and free of contaminants are those cadres who have access to the special food supply,” said Phelim Kine of the Hong Kong offi ce of Human Rights Watch.

In the capital, special supply farms are located near the airport,

home to wealthier expatriates and many international schools, and to the northwest, beyond the miasma of pollution emanating from the overcrowded, traffi c-choked cen-tral city.

In the western foothills, the ex-clusive Jushan farm fi rst developed to supply Mao’s private kitchen still operates under the auspices of the state-run Capital Agribusiness Group, providing food for national meetings. A state-owned compa-ny, the Beijing 2nd Commercial Bureau, says on its website that it “supplies national banquets and meetings, which have become the cradle of safe food in Beijing.”

The State Council, China’s highest administrative body, has its own supplier of delicacies, down to salted duck eggs.

“We have supplied them for al-most 20 years,” said a spokesman at the offi ces of Weishanhu Lotus Foods, in Shandong province. “Our product cannot be bought in an or-dinary supermarket as our volume of production is very little.”

The continued existence of the tegong, or special supply, is treated with secrecy because of public re-sentment over the privileges of the elite.

The customs department said it did not own the farm but had signed a 10-year lease to buy veg-etables.

“Because of this deal we were able to have a stable supply of vege-tables for the past years and we can pay for these items at much lower costs even when the price of food is rising so much nowadays,” customs spokeswoman Feng Lijing said.

Vegetables are grown behind the fence of the customs farm in Beijing, China for offi cials only.(Barbara Demick/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Fresh produce reserved for offi cials in ChinaSTATUS Gardens pro-ducing organic food kept away from public with security measures.

>BARBARA DEMINCKLos Angeles Times

Tax seeks to curb market risk-taking EUROPE Opponents say transaction tax would drive business to foreign markets.

>ALEXANDRA MAYER-HODAHL

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Sahwa leader, 3 others killed in suicide bomb attack

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Grand Forks and the Univer-sity of North Dakota campus truly contain a unique atmosphere—at least from my own experience. Be-ing my fi rst semester on campus, I have come to notice more and more the rather limited enforce-ment of underage drinking.

But do I oppose this? Not completely. Sure, breaking the law is a very serious offense and should not be taken lightly. But, drinking amongst our young generation is going to persist no matter what the Grand Forks Police Department or the University Police has to say about it.

This is because the threat of get-ting a Minor in Possession doesn’t seem to stop under-age drinkers from going out on a typical weekend and getting “shit-faced,” nor does it stop binge drinking, or the occasional trip to the emer-gency room. Decades ago, govern-ment offi cials probably assumed bumping the drinking age up to 21 would prevent all those issues—but in reality, things appear to have only progressed…downhill.

I fi nd it rather fascinating that the government would increase the drinking age, but not the military enlistment age. I’ve often heard the classic argument: “if you’re old enough to fi ght for your country, you should be old enough to drink a beer.” In truth, it’s a rather valid argument. Holding a beer in one’s hand seems a lot less offensive than a M-16. So what is the right age? Will we ever know? And what does all of this have to do with city of Grand Forks?

From what I’ve witnessed, overheard and been addressed about by countless UND faculty since my enrollment, has all led me to one conclusion—the GFPD

and UPD hold student safety as a bigger priority than meeting their ticket quotas. In simpler terms this means, in most cases, offi cers will fi rst tell you to skedaddle home and stay there before getting out their notepads. Tell me, what is wrong with that?

An unwritten policy such as this may not induce many students to stay home on a Friday night and pull out their chemistry home-work, but it just may push students to fi nd a safe place at the end of the night rather than driving while intoxicated, waking up in the park missing their wallets, or binge-drinking themselves into a coma.

Now, none of this isn’t to say neither cam-pus police nor GFPD do not effec-tively do their job. On big n igh t s—l ike the upcoming famous UND Halloween—students can be

sure to expect a heavy crackdown on checkpoints, patrols, party crashing, and issuing a truckload of minors.

UND also prevents on-campus drinking as best as possible by ban-ning alcohol on the premises, which in some way limits the readiness of legal drinkers to provide beer and liquor to minors.

As a transfer student, I saw an-other side of this issue in my previ-ous years. While attending a pri-vate university in the Twin Cities, resident advisors had the authority to stop intoxicated students and alert Public Safety for prosecution. Public Safety—the equivalent to UND’s “University Police”—had rights to test students’ blood al-cohol content, and enforce conse-quences such as requiring students to take an online alcohol safety course. And sometimes, if the situ-ation required it, the local police department would get involved.

Since my time here at UND, have I ever seen or heard of resident

advisors taking the issue to such an extreme? The answer is no, and quite frankly, I’m glad. This senti-ment is a result of watching the use-less attempts of RAs to harass stu-dents in residence hallways when many students simply wish to just shut the door, close the curtains, and sleep it off. These measures never prevented students from go-ing out the next weekend, but in-stead only pushed them over to the larger public universities where the drinking was heavier, getting home was far more risky and female stu-dents were much more prone to fall victim to a sexual crime.

So, are UND and Grand Forks foolish in allowing students to get away with more underage drink-ing than they should? I personally do not believe so. I only care that my fellow students get home safe. And should they decide to be non-compliant, police may do what is necessary.

Here at UND on a usual week-end, one can simply look out their window onto the lamp-lit streets and see patrol cars silently passing through the night. They do not of-ten stop when seeing large groups of freshman students walking down the sidewalk—but they drive slow, getting a feel for the atmosphere. When they pass a loud party, they do a couple of rounds before de-ciding whether they should break it up.

But when it fi nally does hap-pen, and enforcement steps in, most students get home safe, warm and happy into their XL twin dorm beds and fall asleep without a moment’s hesitation or a Minor in Possession. If this protocol saves a few lives—preventing students from meandering off to another shindig at the nearest fraternity, or hopping into a car with a slurring driver, then I say we, as a commu-nity, should all be thankful.

>ChRiSTEN FuRLONgThe Dakota Student

‘Holding a beer in one’s hand seems a lot less off ensive than a M-16.

Christen Furlongcolumnist

DS> Christen Furlong is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]

Underage drinking at UND

This weekend the city of Grand Forks is extending its hand to the university with a “Welcome Back” event at the Alerus Center. The event will feature free food and drinks, things any college student enjoys.

But to the city, the event is about more than free food, drinks and shirts.

City offi cials say they want you, the students, to know Grand Forks appreciates the fact you choose to attend UND and patronize the city’s local businesses.

That’s why they’re throwing this party and provid-ing you with food...they want to prove they are the best college town in America.

By coming to the tailgating event, they believe this is one of the greatest chances you will receive to get a better feeling for the community you live in for nine months out of the year.

On campus students are especially encouraged to go. Offi cials want you to feel like once you leave the sanctity of campus you are still in a community that is safe and inviting.

For many of you, your only interaction with the Grand Forks community may be your trips to a re-tail store or when you go out to eat at a familiar chain restaurant. Others may see the community when par-ticipating in the annual Big Event community service project.

The fact is Grand Forks has much more to offer than food, chain stores and fences to paint.

Plenty of community events and programs occur throughout the year, whether it is the current Potato Bowl celebration or community get-togethers like the county fair, auto racing, farmers markets, movies in the park or Rydell Benefi t Car and Bike show that hap-pened this past weekend.

Students shouldn’t feel like these events are strictly for those who have lived in the city all of their lives. You as students are considered part of the community and are welcome to attend these events and programs.

Grand Forks also has numerous outdoor areas avail-able to the public, complete with biking and walking trails, disc golf courses, butterfl y gardens, fruit picking areas and wide open spaces to play numerous sports. Get off campus and take advantage of these, before and after the snow falls.

Specialty shops and locally owned restaurants are also a staple of the community. Branch out from places like Target and Wal-Mart.

We at the Dakota Student believe you should take the city’s invitation to become more familiar with the Grand Forks community.

Take the time to explore the city through its events and businesses. You may fi nd something you like.

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There are currently fifteen states in America that have legal-ized marijuana for medicinal pur-poses. In November 2010 South Dakota did not approve the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. The highly watched California ballot for legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes was rejected in 2010. Some marijuana users in California went against the recre-ational legalization because they knew that it would become regu-lated.

I have talked with many people over the years about the legalization of marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes. Most people agree that it should be legalized medically because of all the differ-ent uses. Marijuana can be used for a number of things such as: nau-sea, vomiting, depression, bipolar disorder, migraines, depression, glaucoma, Alzheimer’s disease, al-cohol abuse and lack of appetite. Marijuana has also been known to relieve some symptoms of multiple sclerosis, AIDS, chemotherapy and spinal cord injuries. Also, there has never been a death directly caused by the use of marijuana, ever. Do I believe mari-juana is worse for someone than alcohol or tobacco? No, because marijuana has never been linked to caus-ing cancer like some people say it has. Tobacco and alcohol have both been linked to cancer. There is an average of 75,000 alco-hol related deaths per year, and an average of 443,000 deaths per year attributed to cigarettes. Hell, even caffeine results in 5,000 deaths per year. And what was the count of deaths per year due to marijuana? Oh, that’s right, zero. This past year I attended We Fest. We Fest is basically a four day concert that involves mass amounts of alcohol being consumed. The campground that I regularly visited had a guy passed out and was unresponsive and had to be taken to the hospi-tal. When he finally gained con-sciousness hours later, he tore off his wristband and said he is never doing that again. Can a person become addicted to alcohol? Yes, and someone can also become ad-dicted to tobacco as well. And yet there still is no proof of marijuana being addictive. Something seems terribly wrong here. If marijuana is not addictive, it can be used for a wide variety of medical purposes and has not been proven to harm one’s personal health, Then why is it not legalized and tobacco and al-cohol are?

The majority of my high school classmates have smoked marijuana. Granted, I only graduated with 69 students in my class, I know that over half have toked on a bowl, or puffed on a joint at some point. The people that smoked marijuana were not your stereotypical “hip-pie” kids. Most of the kids that I

I finally got a front row park-ing spot. I can now cross that off my list of things to do at college. I know that once I leave, the spot will be instantly taken. It’s almost like there are people in their rooms with binoculars, scanning the park-ing lot and giving commands on walkie-talkies once they see a spot. For the moment, I am only a little annoyed about having to park in other lots while living in U-Place, and I know that once that good old North Dakota winter comes around, well, yeah. That’s just go-ing to suck.

For students who have expe-rienced the amazing parking cir-cumstances we have here at UND, there is a thick smog of bitterness hanging in the air. They know that they are going to have to walk two blocks or so to get to their cars. They are also relieved that it’s not winter at the moment. For fresh-men and transfer students, I’m sure by now they realize that the parking system here on campus is ridiculous and needs to change.

I’m sorry, but there is no reason that anyone who is living in the far reaches of campus should have to park in lots that are not assigned

to their buildings. Living at U-Place, I have no problem parking on the street outside of the parking lot, but when I have to park in the Chester Fritz lot or at the apart-ments next to us, that’s when I get annoyed—even more so now that I’m walking on crutches. Honestly, it’s really not fair to anyone. I really feel bad for people who live in West and McVey who have to park out in the far corners of the Fritz.

People may read this and say, “Oh, who cares? Quit whin-ing,” and so on and so forth. Last year I can think of two times when my eyelids literally froze shut. The wind makes the eyes water, and the cold freezes the water. There was one time when I was walk-ing to class; the other was when I was going from West to my room-mate’s car in the Fritz. The univer-sity really needs to find some way to make parking easier for all stu-dents. When we all pay $150.00 for a parking pass, we better damn well be able to park in our lots.

I understand that the parking

office is currently undergoing some major changes. Hopefully this will bring about changes for the better. When a whole staff, except for two people, lose their jobs, you would think that changes are coming. It would be nice if maybe in the summer, the parking lots for the

residence halls were expand-ed. It would be nice, but we’ll see. Chances are, students will continue to have to walk two or three blocks to their cars in the dead of winter, hav-

ing their eyes frozen shut.Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe af-

ter enough complaints, somebody will do something. Maybe even this article will change something. Perhaps it would have been bet-ter to expand the Fritz parking lot instead of building a new Alumni Center. To me, and to others as well, it’s just not fair.

knew for a fact smoked were your typical students. Many of them re-ceived good grades and were always attentive and participating in class.

People often say that marijuana is a gateway drug. I am going to call bull shit on that, because if some-one smokes weed it does not mean that they are going to go straight to cocaine, then heroine and meth. Obviously, some early pot smokers have gone to these extremes, but that is because those drugs prob-ably intrigued them or there were other reasons for their experiment-ing with harder drugs. And it pisses me off that marijuana is listed by the United States government as a substance with a high potential for abuse. Although cocaine, which is one of the most addictive drugs known to the human race, is listed one level below marijuana because the government believes it is less likely to be abused. That is really upsetting because there are around 2,000 related cocaine deaths per year in the U.S., and how many for marijuana?

Now, of course, you can get ad-dicted to marijuana, but then again you can become addicted to video games, texting and even giving high-fives. Everyone can become addicted to anything; that is, if you

allow yourself to be. Un-doubtedly you can become an alcoholic by drinking an unsafe amount, then becom-ing chemically dependent on it. You can also

become addicted to cigarettes be-cause of the nicotine mixed into the final product. But can you become physically addicted to marijuana? No, marijuana is not physically ad-dicting, and it yet to be proved oth-erwise. The only proven way that you can be addicted to pot is the same way someone can be addicted to giving high-fives, mental addic-tion. Someone who is mentally ad-dicted tells himself or herself that they “need” this drug, to text or play so many hours of video games per day. So if someone is addicted to giving high-fives, are we going to put a nationwide ban on slap-ping hands, too?

Now, I do believe that mari-juana should be legalized for me-dicinal use because of the benefits it can produce to all types of con-ditions. But I do not believe pot should be legalized for recreational use because of the fact that the government will put a regulation on how many plants one can grow, and would cut down on the profit that the growers can make. Mari-juana is the number one cash crop in America and now if that is not reason enough to legalize and help the debt that our nation has, than I do not know what is.

The quickest way to get on the road to hating a person is to live with him.

Sure, you two are buddy-bud-dy now, but come two months later you will be at each other’s throats. Why? It’s the law of room-mates. Like the change of seasons or the Twins loosing in the first round of the playoffs, hating your roommate(s) is a fact of life.

Let’s discuss the five stages of roommate hell you are about to go through.

D e n i a l : “I don’t mind that Josh leaves a sock out oc-casionally. Hey, everyone’s not perfect!” Every-one loves his or her roommates on move-in day. In fact, you two will be best friends forever. Noth-ing like going to Wilkerson with the exact same person at the exact same time every day for some one-on-one bonding.

Anger: “I swear to god, if Ra-chel doesn’t pick up her dirty socks I will drown her fish.” Maybe do-ing everything together all the time doesn’t work. Maybe you can’t be BFFs. This is the stage where you start ignoring all her phone calls and start clamming “No, I didn’t get your text about you being stuck in Fargo. I thought you moved

out so I sold your textbooks.” In this stage, you will just fly off the handle over every little thing, and portray yourself as the “good guy.” While it is true that your room-mate is annoying, you contribute to an equal amount of mess to the room setting the stage for the next level.

Bargaining: “Well Eric, I’ll take out the trash if you find new homes for these 12 stray cats.” You admit to your flaws and try to compro-mise. The awkwardness that ensues will be palpable. How? Try to ex-

plain how your 9-day rage re-sulted in the loss of your r o o m m a t e ’s u n d e r w e a r drawer.

You will come up with the genius idea of a “task list,” a simple white-

board on your door that will de-scribe each roommate’s duties for the week. Something like taking out the trash or cleaning up dishes. Easy right? No.

Within a week of said list get-ting created, it will be just as easily ignored. Each roommate will be-gin to blame the other in a circular thought process (“well if you aren’t going to take out the trash, I am not going to do the dishes”). An-archy will once again take over and your one-dish-at-a-time system will resume.

Depression: “Dude, you think

you have problems? I have the worst roommate ever.” This is the longest of the five stages. You will play silly games like “stack the dishes in the sink,” and have rules like “if you top it, you take it,” for trash duties.

“Screw it. If he’s not going to do anything then neither should I. I’m just going to ignore them until they fix it themselves.”

This is one of the staples of college living. Have you ever been to someone’s apartment that is so disgustingly unkempt that you just wanted to leave in horror? Con-gratulations, you just became that guy.

Acceptance: “Hey dude, you wanna get a new place with me next year?” Sure you hate his guts, but it’s better than moving into Swanson with a complete stranger. You accept the fact that both of you are complete slobs and once again become the best of friends.

At this point you will either put the past behind you or let it eat you up inside so much that you will have another outburst of roommate wars. In either case, you’ll now know exactly what but-tons to push when the going gets rough.

Either that or you can get a single apartment. Your choice.

Parking at UND hassle>PATRiCk CAvANAugh

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Having a roommate: the five stages of grief and you>SEAN LEE

The Dakota Student

‘Within a week of said list being cre-ated it will be just as easily be ignored.

Sean Leecolumnist

DS> Sean Lee is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

>JADE JACObSONThe Dakota Student

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self, Frelich is very familiar with UND. He enjoys seeing many of his friends who, like him, have found employment at UND after graduating, as well as serving the friends who are still working to-wards their degree.

“It’s neat to have these interac-tions,” said Frelich.

Frelich is expected to relieve the executive positions from do-ing the fi nancial and offi ce work in Student Government and bring continuity to the organization over the years.

“Student government tran-sitions from year to year,” said Frelich. “I want to see everything run effi ciently and streamline things to get done faster and with fewer errors.”

Not only does Frelich manage

the offi ce work for executives, he also plays an important role in ad-vising and decision-making.

“I have used and will continue to use him as a sounding board for different ideas that I have,” said El-ness. “He has come to some meet-ings with executives to provide some new points of view and to understand some of the larger is-sues that we will be tackling this year.”

Frelich is ready to contribute his skills and enthusiasm to better-ing Student Government as well as serving the student body.

“I bring a lot of banking and fi nance knowledge,” said Frelich “I’m a life-long learner.”

“Andrew would love to meet with any student that may have a question about Student Govern-ment and really show them how to get involved within this organiza-tion,” said Elness.

By serving as offi ce manager,

Frelich hopes to gain experience in management involving money and fi nance. With his presence, Stu-dent Government envisions a more effi cient and unifi ed organization to serve their constituents best.

The creation of the offi ce man-ager position was not without con-troversy.

Last year, previous Student Body President Matt Bakke brought the fulltime offi ce manager position to Student Senate for ap-proval. The salary for the position is taken directly from the Student Government budget.

According to the bill the “start-ing salary range for the position will be between $31,000 and $32,000 annually to include 44% for fringe benefi ts (total range $44,640 to $46,080).” This money is taken off the top of the fee allocation Stu-dent Government receives before the funding is distributed into vari-ous accounts.

The process of creating and ap-proving the position was thick with debate. Opponents of the position believed the its salary shouldn’t be paid directly from the student fees allocated to Student Government.

Those in favor of the position maintained an offi ce manger would take work off the load of student leaders so they could concentrate on serving students.

Proponents also noted the po-sition would add a sense of conti-nuity in the between presidential administrations.

The executive team is positive last year’s senate made the right choice.

“I hope that students realize what a great opportunity we have in front of us because of this posi-tion,” Elness.

from 2,560 to 2,673 stu-dents.

This is good news for UND’s Strategic Plan, which states that graduate students will represent 20 percent of UND’s student body.

The graduate students currently make up only about 18 percent of the overall stu-dent body.

UND’s rival to the south experienced a loss in enroll-ment. NDSU’s overall enroll-ment checked in at 14,399, a decrease of 0.1 percent from last year.

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Today there will be a Sioux Booster luncheon at noon at the Alerus Center, plus more baked potato bars from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at all Hugo’s locations. The Hugo’s Potato Bowl 8K run and Tater Tot Trot will begin in Riverside Park in Grand Forks, with registration starting at 4 p.m. Entry fees are $20 for the 8K run and $10 for the Tater Tot Trot. Registration forms are available at http://potatobowl.org/hugos-8k-run-tater-tot-trot/

or by calling 218-773-3633.On Saturday the Grand Forks

Rotary Club will be hosting a pancake breakfast from 7:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. at Grand Forks Central high school, and the Sons of Nor-way will be hosting a potato pan-cake breakfast from 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at 1401 9th Avenue South in Grand Forks.

The Jaycee’s Potato Bowl pa-rade will begin at 10:30 a.m., start-ing behind the YMCA and going through Demers Avenue, then heading over the Red River into East Grand Forks and then con-tinuing into 4th St. NW and end-

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ing lot. At 2 p.m. there will be a tail-

gating party in the Alerus Center parking lot, plus the Northern Plains Potato Growers’ Associa-tion (NPPGA) will be providing a baked potato bar.

Another tailgating party will kick off at 3 p.m. with the city of Grand Forks hosting a booth in the Alerus Center parking lot. Free food and drinks will be given away while supplies last. The first 1,000 students showing up to the party area will receive a free T-shirt. Mu-sic for the event will be provided by the Downtown Horns, a rock band with a horn kick.

Potato Bowl week will end with the 46th Annual Potato Bowl football game, which will feature the UND Fighting Sioux taking on Black Hills State University from South Dakota. Kickoff will be at 6 p.m. at the Alerus Center.

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UND Social Work student club wins award

The UND Social Work club has won the prestigious Na-tional Phi Alpha Chapter Service Award. The award recog-nizes chapter achievement in fulfilling the core values of the Phi Alpha Honor Society and the social work profession.

“I’m so proud of our Club and all of the volunteer work they have provided in our community,” said Thomasine Heit-kamp, chair of the Social Work Department.

The Chapter Service Award comes with a plaque, a $500 check and national recognition at this year’s Council on Social Work Education Annual Program meeting in Atlanta, Geor-gia.

Hispanic Heritage Month events at UND

Hispanic Heritage Month will be celebrated on campus beginning this week until October 15.

The Latino Art Social will be on September 29 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Era Bell Thompson Multicultural Center will showcase cultural cuisine, regional art and music.

Latin Movie Night will be October 7 from 8-10:30 p.m. at Squires Dining Center. The film will be “Motorcycle Dia-ries.”

Additionally, the Organization of Latino Americans will hold meetings from 5-6 p.m. on October 6 and 13 at the Era Bell Thompson Multicultural Center to coordinate events, meet new people, and share values within the group.

Potato Bowl pancake breakfasts on Saturday

Two local groups will be hosting pancake feeds as part of the Potato Bowl festivities on Saturday, September 24.

The Grand Forks Rotary Club will host a pancake break-fast at Grand Forks Central High School from 7:30-10:30 a.m.

The Sons of Norway will also host a pancake breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at the Sons of Nor-way building. They are located at 1401 9th Avenue South in Grand Forks.

Last chance to see the Guillermo Guardia exhibit

The Third Street Gallery’s Guillermo Guardia exhibit will close on September 28. Guardia, a UND alumnus, uses his Peruvian heritage and global and social issues to influence and compliment the various ceramic styles he utilizes.

The Third Street Gallery is located on Kittson Avenue next to Rhombus Guys.

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Heide Crawford educated an audience about the cultural origins of vampires in 18th century Europe in the Me-morial Union lecture bowl Wednesday. Photo by Nathan Twerberg.

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entifi c minds spent much time de-bating the subject of vampires and whether or not they could actually exist.

This led to the publishing of a book by Michael Ranfi t titled On the Chewing and Smacking by the Dead in their Graves.

The folklore surrounding vam-pires followed several of the same elements, someone in a town would pass away, a body would be ex-humed, the body would look as if it were still alive, the body would be blamed for deaths following its death, and the town people would have to kill the vampire.

That the tales usually involved

male vampires, and they would al-ways attack only people they knew in life she said.

Der Vampir, by Heinrish August Ossenfelder was the fi rst occurrence of the literary vampire that is known today.

“Literary vampires had human seeming qualities such as a personal-ity, and a purpose,” Crawford said.

On the other hand, the vam-pires of classic central European folklore were, in essence, mindless wandering corpses.

Der Vampir was the fi rst occur-rence of the vampire, this trait was probably introduced to warn young girls about seduction during the time.

Lord Byron’s Dracula, in fact had nothing to do with Count Dracula (a.k.a.Vlad the Impaler), and in fact

it had almost no infl uence from the folklore vampire of central Europe except for the surname ‘Dracula’ which was taken from a military of-fi cer who had nothing to do with vampires in the fi rst place.

A popular focus on vampires led to many changes in burial proce-dures Crawford said.

She noted that they led to “call-ing to the body three times, having wakes, open casket viewings, and funeral homes, which were origi-nally called ‘asylums of questionable life.’”

In this way the popular cultural movement during the 18th Century led to real life changes.

DS> Cullen Donohue is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

culture&mediafriday september 23, 2011DS > Inside: Creative Writing Club, Global Visions

Film Series, GROUPLOVE album review

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Feel-good album is so-so

>MATThEw RoyThe Dakota Student

Despite the album’s title, Never Trust a Happy Song, GROUPLO-VE’s debut full-length had the po-tential to be the feel-good album of the year. The band’s brand of feel-good indie-pop brings up images of summer and all the great memories that go along with it. As a follow-up to the great introduction that was their self-titled EP, Never Trust a Happy Song is full of both high notes and disappointments, and while the band doesn’t quite live up to their potential, there is still some fun to be had.

The album opens with “Itchin’ on a Photograph,” a strong start that is one of GROUPLOVE’s best songs to date and one of the most energetic songs on the album. Sing-er Christian Zucconi’s vocals are the strong point here, and backup vocal-ist Hannah Hooper adds a unique dynamic. The song is everything that is great about GROUPLOVE, and this reviewer feels that GROU-PLOVE made a smart choice in starting the album and introducing new listeners to their music with this track.

GROUPLOVE’s energy stays strong on the tracks “Lovely Cup” and “Spun,” and a lot of this is

because of drummer Ryan Rabin, whose tight upbeat drumming provides a great backdrop for Zuc-coni’s vocals and acoustic guitar. On the track “Chloe,” bass player Sean Gadd replaces Zucconi on vocals and gives the track an oldschool 1950’s rock ‘n roll vibe. While Gadd’s vocals aren’t as strong as Zucconi’s, it’s a nice surprise in the middle of the album.

The album also includes “Colours” and “Naked Kids,” two of the strongest tracks from their self-titled EP, and they hold up nice-ly with these newer tracks, though “Colours” is still probably the best song the band has released.

If the album has one down-side, it’s that it too often falls victim to pop music clichés, and a lot of these happen to show their ugly head when Hooper is going solo. A perfect example of this is on the track “Tongue Tied.” The song starts out strong in a similar style to the album’s opener, but about half-way through Hooper breaks into a corny, auto-tuned “rap,” (using the term rap loosely). It’s the same cringe-worthy technique that is fea-tured in a large number of Top 40 pop songs, the kind that often leaves the listener wondering what the art-ist was thinking. There is a similar moment in “Naked Kids,” but it’s much less obnoxious than it is in “Tongue Tied.”

The album also has a lot of filler tracks, especially on the second half, which makes getting to the few good tracks on that half (like “Chloe”) a little more difficult.

GROUPLOVE’s debut full length Never Trust a Happy Song is a decent effort. When the album is

going strong it goes full force and it’s a fun listen, but there are mo-ments where they drop the ball, and when this happens the (mostly lyri-cally) shallow songs are hard to get through. While there are songs here that are worth listening to, Never Trust a Happy Song could have been a lot stronger; however, it also could have been a lot worse.

DS> Matthew Roy is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

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Zombies to mob downtownUNDEAD Music, games and reanimated corpses will swarm Town Square on October 1.

>MoLLy bURkEThe Dakota Student

This year’s Zombie Music Fest will take place on Saturday, Oc-tober 1. The North Valley Arts Council will transform downtown Grand Forks into a place “unsafe” for humans. The Fest is open to all ages and includes Halloween activities, games, a free french fry feed by J.R. Simplot and a beer gar-den. Participants are encouraged to come dressed as zombies and com-pete in a costume contest.

Last year’s costumes included fake teeth, jumpsuits, white pow-dered make-up and lots of blood.

Participants ranged from families to fraternity members who took part by dressing up and volunteer-ing at the festival. Zombie Fest even has a zombie make-up booth to help you get ready.

Zombie Fest will again take place at Town Square in downtown Grand Forks and is expected to be even better than last year. The cost is $10 for adults, $5 for military or students with IDs and free for kids 10 and under.

The North Valley Arts Council (NoVAC) was the 2011 recipient of the Governor’s Award for the Arts. NoVAC “supports and pro-motes arts and culture for the art-ists, art organizations and citizens of Greater Grand Forks.” NoVAC strives to raise awareness and ap-preciation for the arts. They believe that the economy and quality of life

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SKATTERMAN • Saturday, September 24 • Ages 21+ • The AquariumHAWTHORNE HEIGHTS • Saturday, October 1 • All Ages • The AquariumJAMES MCMURTRY • Sunday, October 2 • Ages 21+ • The AquariumTRAILER PARK BOYS • Monday, October 3 • All Ages • Fargo Theatre • SOLD OUTROOT CITY BAND feat. Heatbox • Thursday, October 6 • Ages 21+ • The AquariumMIKE POSNER • Tuesday, November 1 • All Ages • The Venue @ The Hub40oz. TO FREEDOM • Wednesday, November 9 • Ages 21+ • The AquariumLEON RUSSELL • Saturday, November 12 • All Ages • Belle Mehus Auditorium, Bismark, NDROY CLARK • Sunday, November 13 • All Ages • Fargo TheatreTECH N9NE • Tuesday, November 15 • All Ages • The Venue @ The HubWOOKIEFOOT w/ JON WAYNE • Friday, November 18 • Ages 21+ • The Venue @ The HubROSANNE CASH • Saturday, November 19 • All Ages • Fargo TheatreGEAR DADDIES • Friday, November 25 • Ages 21+ • The Venue @ The HubAWAY IN THE BASEMENT (A Church Basement Ladies Christmas) • Nov. 25-27 • 5 Shows • Fargo TheatreFIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH • Tuesday, December 13 • All Ages • The Venue @ The HubTHE NEW STANDARDS • Thursday, December 22 • All Ages • FM Community Theatre

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Thursday, September 22JEREMIH7PM Show • All AgesThe Venue @ The Hub

Friday, September 3032 BELOW10PM Show • Ages 21+The Venue @ The Hub

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Wednesday, October 12JO KOY as seen on CHELSEA LATELY8PM Show • Mature AudiencesFargo Theatre

Saturday, October 8GIRL TALK8PM Show • All AgesThe Venue @ The Hub

Sunday, October 16THE TEMPTATIONS7:30PM Show • All AgesFargo Theatre

Friday, October 21ANDRE NICKATINA8PM Show • All AgesThe Venue @ The Hub

Friday, October 28HAIRBALL9PM Doors • Ages 21+The Venue @ The Hub

Campus club pushes creativityMEETINGS Writing group allows students to practice their skills in a fun, friendly setting.

>NICHOLAS GOWANThe Dakota Student

If you enjoy writing, be it fi c-tion, non-fi ction or somewhere in between, UND’s Creative Writing Club is the place for you. Relatively new to the club scene on campus, the Creative Writing Club is already trying to make some waves. Formed in the fall se-mester of 2010, the group is lead by President Matt Gorley and Vice-President Breanna Billman. Gorley, a sophomore majoring in Psychology, ran the meeting with patience and care, while VP Bill-man took notes and directed the club as to what needed to be dis-cussed.

The group meets at 8 p.m. on Tuesday nights in the base-ment of Swanson Hall “We took a poll and that was the time that worked best for everyone,” Gor-ley explained. “It is a little late.” While late, most classes are over well before that time, so that al-lows as many students as possible to make the meetings.

Typically, a meeting starts with covering the business por-tion of the club: fi nances, fund-raising and discussing how goals are being met, among other offi -cial business. Following that, the club works on a writing prompt that is drawn from a hat. “They [are] a lot of fun; I like them.”

Billman said. Writing prompts are exercises that force writers to come up with text on the spot, al-lowing them to fl ex the creative writing muscles. These can be as short or long as the club members wish and are written in a period of 20 or so minutes. At the last meeting I attended, the prompt for the group was “Summarize a Modern Day Odyssey.” Every-thing from fl ash-fi ction to short stories to metered poems were written; the format used is up to the writer.

Although there were only six people in attendance at the last meeting, the group has over 20 members on their Facebook page and a handful signed up on the student involvement page. “Hopefully we will get bigger as the semester goes on,” Gorley said.

One up-coming event the group is excited for is Nanow-rimo. Nanowrimo, short for Na-tional Novel Writing Month, is a lot like it sounds. You are chal-lenged to write an entire 50,000-word novel during the month of November. More information can be found at http://www.nano-wrimo.org/, while support can

be found at the weekly Creative Writing Club meetings.

For those worried about an unstructured free-for-all, don’t worry; the Creative Writing Club is a lot of fun. “I think it is a very good group, and Matt is a great President.” Billman told me. “Our adviser, Kay Powell, and the other people involved are great. Setting up the club [last fall] was a bit of work; at times it became a choice between getting all the forms fi lled out and fi nish-ing homework. The homework would win.”

Tucked away in the basement of Swanson Hall, in Room 17, the Creative Writing Club is al-ways open to new members. Bill-man said the room “is a nice place and kind of secluded, but still open for people to come in.” If you are interested in joining, you can fi nd the club on Facebook by searching for UND Creative Writing Club; information can also be found on UND’s Student Involvement site.

DS> Nicholas Gowan is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

‘Global Visions’ to start soonMOVIES Thought-provoking fi lm series will resume its Wednesday showings.

>MEGAN SEVIGNYThe Dakota Student

It is once again time for the Global Visions Film Series! Spon-sored by the Anthropology Club and partially funded by SOFA (Student Organization Funding Association) of America, the Global Visions Film Series boasts a collection of award-winning independent fi lms pro-duced by fi lmmakers from all over the world. These fi lms are designed both to entertain and to promote deeper awareness of cultural issues.

This fall, the Global Visions Film series will be presenting six fi lms,

with one fi lm being shown approxi-mately every other Wednesday.

The fi rst fi lm of the series, “For Colored Girls,” will be shown on September 28. This movie is based on a Ntozake Shange play titled “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” which is in turn based on a collection of 20 poems about intense hardships that women, particularly women of color, sometimes have to face.

The second fi lm, “Night Catch-es Us,” will be shown on October 5. Set in 1976, the fi lm focuses on the return of former Black Panther Mar-cus to his Philadelphia neighborhood and the political and racial tension that he faces upon that return.

The next two fi lms, “Triage” and “Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders” cor-

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DS> Molly Burke is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]

FEST > From page 10

are invigorated by artists, cultural groups, and organizations. Benefits of supporting the arts and culture include challenging us to think dif-ferently, preserving our memory and knocking down geographic, racial and generational walls.

Other annual events NoVAC puts on include the Art & Wine Walk, Mayor’s Choice Artist Pro-gram and an Arts Awards and Auc-tion.

For information about other events put on by the North Valley Arts Council or to become a mem-ber, call 701-772-3710 or stop by 124 North 3rd Street, 2nd Floor, Grand Forks, ND 58203. NoVAC can also be reached by e-mail at [email protected].

FILM > From page 11

respond with the upcoming cam-pus event, “A Great Conversation with James Orbinski.” In 1999, Dr. Orbinski was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for Doctors Without Borders due to his work in medical humanitarianism. Dr. Orbinski will be speaking at the Chester Fritz au-ditorium at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26; the preceding and fol-lowing films deal with the Doctors Without Borders program.

“Triage” will be shown on Oc-tober 19. This film tells the story of a photojournalist who returns home after a dangerous assignment in Kurdistan. The psychological dis-tress of war on a photojournalist is evident throughout the film.

“Living in Emergency: Sto-ries of Doctors Without Borders,” which will be shown on November 2, tells the story of four volunteers with the Doctors Without Borders program. This movie focuses on the darker, grittier side of humanitarian work and reveals the struggles that such volunteers often face in war-torn countries.

“Biutiful,” the film that will be shown on November 11, tells the story of Uxbal, a single father who must take care of his children, as well as obtain legal documents to allow illegal immigrants to remain in Spain, all the while facing his im-

minent death.Finally, the last film of the se-

mester, “Fur,” will be shown on December 7. “Fur” tells the story of Diane Arbus, a lonely upper-class woman who is torn by a strange re-lationship with a neighbor suffering from hypertrichosis and an ordinary life with her husband, who is a pho-tographer. This bizarre relationship leads Diane into a strange world populated by those on the outskirts of society, which ultimately leads her to become one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth cen-tury.

Each film will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Lec-ture Bowl. The series is free and open to the public, but a suggested donation of $1 is encouraged. The Anthropology Club suggests that viewers come early to ensure a seat.

DS> Megan Sevigny is the Features editor for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]

sportsfriday september 23, 2011

> Inside: Mayweather: right or wrong? Men’s golf re-sults from Kansas Invitational, Vegas Olympics?DS

>scores &schedules

vs. Nebraska Omaha09/23 @ 7:00 p.m.@ Betty Engelstad Sioux Center

Volleyballvs. Manitoba09/23-24 @ 7 p.m.@ Ralph Engelstad Arena

WHKY

Bradley and Miller excited for future

>TImoTHY BogerThe Dakota Student

When you’re in your fourth season of Division I football up against a team picked to finish second in the Western Athletic Conference, it doesn’t hurt to have a little confidence.

No. 21 North Dakota (1-2), however, had more than that heading into last Saturday’s match-up at Fresno State. They had the assurance from head coach Chris Mussman that they could play with anybody. They had the experience of building a first half lead on Idaho the week before, even though it slipped away.

And they had Joey Brad-ley, the West Coast native and transfer from California’s Diablo Valley Community College who has taken the reigns as quarter-back of Mussman’s offense with a healthy amount of confidence and swagger. He and the Fighting

Sioux entered Bulldog Stadium as 28-point underdogs and left as a team that raised the bar for Fight-ing Sioux football even amidst a 27-22 loss.

“It kind of a proved the point that Coach Mussman said all along,” Bradley said. “If we play our game - play in and play out - then we can play with anybody in the country. Fresno State’s a pret-ty darn good team and we tried to prove that this Saturday.”

S t a t i s t i -cally, Bradley was a minor part of UND’s n e a r - u p s e t of Fresno State--12 of 25 for 107 yards. But he was that cool-headed, go-to guy leading the Sioux put together multiple long drives that set up three rushing touchdowns - all from halfback Jake Miller - and 253 rushing yards against a major Football Bowl Series (FBS) opponent.

“He’s got great confidence in the huddle,” said Miller. “When you’re in the huddle, you know he’s a team leader and he’s asser-

tive. Everybody follows suit with him.”

Just three games into his Di-vision I collegiate career, Bradley has already made an impression on his team and coaches, essen-tially cementing him into a po-sition that a few weeks ago was clouded with question.

Chalk that up to his comfort level and confidence, and he’d agree with you. “I just feel like I’m a confident person in gener-

al,” he said.The Is-

saquah, Wash. native knows it’s more than that, however. “The coaching and play-call-ing so far has put me in a good position

to make good plays.”Bradley’s most utilized weap-

on Saturday was Miller, the typi-cal secondary running back who took over for an injured Mitch Sutton in the first half. To say he had a career day would be putting it lightly. Miller, a sophomore from Bismarck, had 145 yards on 21 carries, including a 70-yard touchdown run that took the

wind out of Fresno State’s sails in the first quarter.

“All of the success last week I attribute to the offensive line, fullbacks and tight ends,” Miller said. “Without those guys there’d be no holes to run through. They did one heck of a job last week.”

North Dakota heads into this weekend’s Potato Bowl game against Division II Black Hills State ranked 21st in Division I-FCS in the coaches’ poll. But though they’re ranked for the first time as Division I newcom-ers that means nothing to a team looking for a more meaningful identity.

“It’s a great honor and it’s nice to get national recognition for the program but for right now we’re just focused on Black Hills State,” said Bradley.

In the near future, it looks like Bradley will lead the way to-wards that new identity. And he’s got his team behind him. “He’s done a heck of a job in these first few games and I’m really looking forward to what he can do in the future,” said Miller.

‘All of the success last week I attribute to the offensive line, fullbacks and tight ends.

Jake Millerrunning back

DS> Timothy Boger is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

UND Statistics

Rushing:

Jake Miller- 206 yds. 4 TD Mitch Sutton- 201 yds. 0 TDJer Garman- 32 yds. 0 TDJoey Bradley- 20 yds. 0 TD

Receiving: Greg Hardin- 138 yds. 1 TD R.J. McGill- 97 yds. 0 TDChris Anderson- 59 yds. 0 TDSeth Nichols- 35 yds. 0 TD

Passing:Rating% CMT-ATT

Joey Bradley- 98.5% 45-82 Brent Goska- -27.7% 1-3

Tackles:

Mitch Goertz- 21 Dan Hendrickson- 20Kenny Watkins- 10Justin Belotti-9Broc Bellmore-9Dominique Hawkins-9

Sacks:

Ross Brennamen- 4.0Mitch Goertz- 1.5

graphic by NATHAN TWerBerg > The Dakota Student

RB Jake Miller looks to continue great strides as season progresses.

Footballvs. Black Hills St.09/24 @ 6 p.m.@ Alerus Center

PoTATo BoWL UND will rely on speed and strength to beat Black Hills State.

14 SPORTS friday september 23, 2011

The Webster-Merriam dic-tionary defines perfect as being entirely without fault or defect: flawless. Sadly, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has destroyed any opportunity he had to achieve such status. By now the entire boxing commu-nity and avid fans are aware of the “dirty” left-right combina-tion that the Mayweather landed on Victor Ortiz. As a fan, I was disheartened to see such a classy athlete commit the classless act and as a me-d i a - a s s o c i -ate, it is my obligation to express the views of the UND com-munity.

Granted, Mayweather won the fight. He did exactly what he’s been trained to do for 16+ years, which is to jab and win. To un-derstand the situation, the two men that entered the ring were fundamentally conditioned to fight with the hope of gaining a KO victory.

The scene was set just before fight night as a rambunctious Mayweather—sticking his face into opponent Ortiz—marred their weigh-in. Obviously he was trying desperately to win the psy-chological battle before the open-ing bell clanged. The arguement can be made that Mayweather was trying to preserve his record and gain any type of leverage he could. Could Mayweather be frightened by a loss to someone other than Manny Pacquaio?

As the fight progressed through round’s 1-3, the bout had taken a huge favor toward the Mayweather campaign as his pre-dictable style of counter-punch and elusive defense baffled Or-tiz (although this is the tone and unmistakable characteristic of Floyd’s style). At the beginning of the fourth round, Floyd had been gathering steam while Ortiz had been showing a greater emphasis with his flurry-punches, knowing that he was losing on the score-card. Sadly, the frustration broke from Ortiz and resulted in a bla-tant head-butt.

The head-butt sparked mad-ness throughout the paper-view subscribing world as we, viewers, rabbled in disbelief for the unpro-fessional antics just witnessed. At the start of the childish shenani-gans, seasoned referee Joe Cortez never sent the fighters to their respective corners. This allowed Mayweather to pout (rightfully so) and stammer in a menacing brood.

Oddly enough, Cortez never grabbed Ortiz’s hand which en-abled him to embrace Mayweath-er with a kiss on the cheek. The

>JOel AdRiAnThe Dakota Student

42-0* The record that Floyd Mayweather Jr. produces might be blem-ished for history.

Protecting yourself : Boxingnation wanted a boxing match, but instead found no solace in the melodrama unfolding.

Finally, as Cortez announced the fight was to continue, he took his eyes off the fight. Ortiz—still reeling in embarrassment—tried to embrace Mayweather once more. The famed Mayweather gained more fame by launching a stunning left and deafening right onto the mug of Ortiz.

Please, spare me the phrase “protect yourself at all times.” The three parties involved do share blame for this atrocity. Ref Joe Cortez should have sent both fighters to their corners. He had lost control of the biggest box-ing match this season and seemed almost imcompetent at handling such a task.

Ortiz made the mistake of h e a d b u t t i n g M a y w e a t h e r and then apolo-gized. If it was i n t e n t i o n a l , why should Or-tiz even have to apologize? And lastly, Floyd Mayweather Jr. knew the exact

situation he was in. He saw Ortiz being punished on the scorecards, he saw Ortiz trying to apologize (unsuccessfully) and he under-stood the “protect yourself ” rule and could use it to validate his trickery.

The 4th round has given boxing itself an ugly black eye and could have potential ramifi-cations such as death of boxing as we know it.

A championship fight should consist of true integrity and pride. Sadly, Mayweather—being the most famous character in the ring—obliterated his chance to be a true gentleman and com-petitor.

The welterweight has lost his credentials among the most loyal of fans and is now being labeled as “cheap, dirty, and disgust-ing.” ESPN’s Dan Rafael recent-ly wrote, “If you’re upset with

‘A championship fight should consist of true integrity and pride.

Joel Adriansports sditor

anyone, be upset with Ortiz for breaking the rules intentionally, not for Mayweather’s perfectly legal blows.” Granted, he does make a valid point for Ortiz be-ing the offender for violating the rules, Mayweather had enough time to weigh out different sce-narios and how to continue this fight. The results of his conceived actions were malicious and just unsportsmanlike.

A true gentleman of the sport, or like, would have known that a fair and noble fight is the best way to win. A victory against an opponent that is somewhat con-fused or not-all-mentally-there is simply pathetic and does not bear the fruit of one’s labor.

To the viewers who still fol-low this dying sport, the culture will always be divided. And to be opinionless would be down-

16CHAMP > page

Floyd Mayweather Jr. might be perfect, but he lost the fan’s approval.

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right selfish on your part. No matter how much we bitch and gripe, Mayweather won the fight. On paper, he is per-fect, but to the fans, we now see an opportunistic, class-less. Ortiz does not deserve a re-match, for it was his own fault that as he head butted, kissed and hugged Mayweather; but Mayweather does need to acknowledge that he was wrong. Floyd Mayweather was on his way to another crisp, untainted victory until his impatience and maniacal hormones placed his hands on Ortiz’s chin.

The public will never see Mayweather in the same light, but he has one oppor-tunity to somewhat redeem himself. The stage I’m im-plying is the ever-tantalizing bout with Manny Pacquiao. The nation can only wait ringside for the future match, and maybe Mayweather can restore our respect if he does KO the Filipino.

DS> Joel Adrian is the Sports Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

CHAMP > From page 14

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The Fighting Sioux took part in the Kansas Invitational this past Monday and Tuesday. UND finished in eighth place out of 12 teams. The Sioux were com-ing off of a sixth and 10th place finish in their previous two tour-naments.

J u n i o r Alex Robb led all UND golfers in the two-day tour-nament. Robb finished with a 222 over three rounds. His best round came in the second when he shot even parwith a 72. The performance by Robb—a Chanhassen, Minn., native—was good enough to earn him in a 15th-place tie.

The field was packed close as was evidenced with senior Tyler

Men’s golf takes eighthKANSAS North Dakota finished in the lower half of their road trip to the Sunflower State.

>BRANdON BecKeRThe Dakota Student

Monda, who shot two strokes worse than Robb and finished 10 spots below him in the indi-vidual standings. Monda’s 224 was followed by teammates, Samuel Matthew (225), Nick Schaefer (237) and Mike Slo-minski (247). There was a three-way tie for first place at the end of the tournament.

Louisiana-Lafayette’s Chris Weninger, Missouri State’s Daily Young and South Dakota State’s David Smith all finished atop the leader board with a score of two-under 214.

It was a solid outing by the Sioux golfers against stiff competi-tion. There were plenty of tough schools at the tour-nament such as Missouri-Kansas City,

Kansas, Louisiana-Lafayette and Missouri State.

The top five teams finished 18 strokes or better than the rest of the field. Unfortunately, for UND, it fell in the bottom half of the standings where everyone

was semi close. The Sioux were just four strokes off from a tie for sixth place with Western Il-linois and South Dakota State.

Missouri-Kansas City won the tournament with a combined score of 871 (295-295-284) and were followed by Louisiana-Lafayette (876) and (878). Cal State-Fullerton and host Kansas rounded out the top five. The bottom four teams were Western Kentucky, Oral Roberts, Drake and Nebraska.

Next up for the Sioux is a week off before they head back out to Kansas. This time they will be taking part in the Kansas State Jim Colbert Invitational in Manhattan, Kan.

The fall season is coming to an end as the Sioux only have two more tournaments left in the first part of their season. UND’s final tournament of the fall will take place on October 24-25.

dS> Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

‘Junior Alex Robb led all UND golf-ers in the two-day tournament.

Brandon Beckerstaff writer

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— The Olympics in Sin City? It's a real long shot, so you probably shouldn't bet on it.

An anonymous group has as-pirations of bringing the 2020 Summer Games to Las Vegas, having sent an application let-ter Friday to the International Olympic Committee that was reportedly rejected because the last-minute proposal isn't en-dorsed by the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Bids are due to the IOC on Thursday, and the Colorado Springs-based USOC announced last week that it won't enter the fray for 2020 while it puts the finishing touches on a new rev-enue-sharing agreement with the IOC. Several other U.S. cities — Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York and Tul-sa, Okla. — had hopes of com-peting with Doha, Qatar; Istan-bul; Madrid; Rome; and Tokyo for an IOC vote that's scheduled for 2013.

Supporters of the privately funded Las Vegas bid — they propose building most Olympic venues in the suburb of Hender-son, Nev., — requested the IOC not require the USOC's blessing when a $150,000 application fee is due Sept. 15 but rather when the bid book is due Feb. 15. However, a May 23 memo-randum from the IOC states that bids "must be made by the (national Olympic committee) of the territory in which the ap-plicant city is situated."

USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky declined comment Monday about the Las Vegas bid, but he confirmed that "the U.S. will not submit a bid for 2020. ... We've had discussions with multiple cities. We've talk-ed to them all and made them aware we weren't bidding." The U.S. last hosted the Olympics

Olympics in Vegas; don’t place that betIOc The International Olymipic Committee de-bated whether or not to consider Sin City to host.

>BRIAN GOmezThe Gazette

with Salt Lake City in 2002, and it's undecided if there will be an American offering for the 2022 Winter Games _ Denver is a strong possibility.

In the letter to the IOC, Las Vegas leaders wrote that "from a geopolitical perspective, the United States has very good prospects for success with a bid." It continued, "We believe the USOC should use its judgment and reconsider its position over the next few days, so as to not deprive the people of the Unit-ed States of this opportunity at a time when the country badly needs the investment and jobs which the Olympic Games can provide."

The letter pitched Las Vegas as a logical choice for the Olym-pics, with "technical issues, such as the high capacity, low cost and ease of use of both air and ground transport," as well as the "most extensive resort hotel ac-commodations in the world." It says Las Vegas leans on the "depth of human experience and intellectual capital available to successfully orchestrate an effort of this magnitude," with confi-dence it "can gain the concur-rence of the USOC, given suf-ficient time, irrespective of the status of any legacy issues."

Rumors that the U.S. would bid for 2020 escalated last month, when the USOC sub-mitted documents to the IOC verifying compliance with Court of Arbitration for Sport stan-dards and World Anti-Doping Agency rules. That came after a news conference in South Africa in which IOC president Jacques Rogge essentially requested an American bid, saying that "if there is a good bid coming from the United States, we would be delighted."

Sandusky insists the USOC is "focused on our negotiations with the IOC and putting the best team possible on the field of play for London," where the 2012 Summer Games start in July. He said the USOC is "go-ing back and forth on propos-als" on revenue sharing with the IOC. "We're comfortable with the direction it's headed," he added, "and we're working on a solution."

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