BY ANNE KUNKEL CHRISTIANSON [email protected]Lindsay Jones, aorney for UMD employee Rod Raymond, released a leer to the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents on Monday requesting Raymond’s name be cleared of all “hearsay.” “Mr. Raymond seeks relief from the intentional actions and con- duct of several unnamed ocials and employees at the University of Minnesota-Duluth (sic), in con- nection to the manner in which they have commenced and con- ducted ongoing serial investiga- tions against him,” Jones wrote in his leer. In a separate press release received by the Statesman earlier this month, Jones said other UMD employees “took it upon them- selves as self-appointed vigilan- tes to seek to force Mr. Raymond to quit or cause the University to terminate his employment out of embarrassment.” Jones called these aempts a “public smear campaign with the malicious intent of undermining Mr. Raymond’s reputation in the community.” It is because of these alleged aempts that Jones is requesting a hearing to clear Raymond’s name. Jones claims these investiga- tions denied Raymond “due pro- cess in so far that their actions and conduct deprived him of his lib- erty interest in his good name and reputation in connection with his employment at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the broad- er community.” He also requested that if the board nds Raymond was denied due process, that he be rewarded back pay for his entire absence at UMD. Raymond went on unpaid leave by his own request in November 2011. “In addition, Mr. Raymond seeks his personnel record expunged of any unwarranted disciplinary action as determined by the outcome of the name clear- ing hearing based on the Board’s de novo review of the allega- tions asserted against him dur- ing the hearing,” Jones wrote in his request to the board. “Should the Board nd merit in any of the allegations that they bring against him, Mr. Raymond would accept the Board’s judgment as a nal.” If a hearing is allowed, it will be closed to the public along with maer discussed in the hearing, except for the board’s nal deci- sion and actions. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH THE S TATESMAN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 WWW.UMDSTATESMAN.COM see SASHA, A3 INDEX: News: A1 A4 | Opinion: A5 A6 | Sports: B1 B2 | Outdoors: B3 | Student Life: B4 B5 Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can target and dam- age any part of the human body. e disease triggers an imbal- ance in the immune system. When someone’s immune system is healthy, it produces antibod- ies that aack invasive cells that make a person sick. Having an autoimmune disease means that a person’s immune system can’t tell between good and bad cells. Anti- bodies will aack both healthy and sick cells, weakening the immune system even more. e cause of lupus is unknown, but according to the Lupus Foun- dation of America’s website, doc- tors say that it could be related to a person’s genes. While this theory hasn’t been proven, lupus does tend to appear within families. Lupus can live in someone’s body for years, however without a specic environmental trigger the disease may never surface. ese triggers include: -ultraviolet rays from the sun or uorescent bulbs -penicillin or other antibiotic drugs -a cold or viral illness -exhaustion -anything that causes stress to the body like surgery, physical harm, pregnancy or giving birth. It is possible to live a normal life with lupus, however today there is still no cure. Raymond’s attorney requests a name clearing hearing BY KATIE LOKOWICH [email protected]UMD student Alexandra “Sasha” McHale passed away at the age of 23 this past Saturday, due to complications of the autoimmune disease lupus. McHale was diag- nosed with lupus a lile over a year ago, and was hospitalized for two weeks before her passing. “We’re all going to miss her.” said Sarah Mertz, a UMD stu- dent and close friend to McHale. “She just was a really good friend, I don’t know anyone who met her who didn’t like her.” McHale was a h-year senior working toward a degree in Com- munication with a journalism minor. Before her time at UMD she aended Totino-Grace High School in Fridley, Minn., and played varsity basketball for three years. Others who were close to her mirror Mertz’s description of McHale as an outgoing, fun-lov- ing, genuine friend,whosepassing came unexpectedly to those close to her. Diagnosed over a year ago, McHale had to cut studying abroad in Australia short in 2011 aer becoming ill. “She just had an infectious laugh,” friend and classmate Oliv- ia Franti said. “She was a joker and she always knew how to make me laugh.” McHale is described as a person her friends could always count on. “We’re lucky to have known her,” Franti said. “I want people to know what a true genuine friend she was. ere’s a reason she touched all the lives she did.” No maer how long McHale was a part of someone’s life, those who knew her all said how lucky they were to have such great memories. “I felt really bad, really odd,” said UMD Communication pro- fessor Aaron Boyson. “I don’t want to pretend that I knew her well, but she was in my class; she was one of my students. It was like someone punched me in the gut. I had just spoken with her.” During her high school basket- ball career McHale wore No. 32, the same number her NBA BY MATT BUSCH [email protected]A video including two females, at least one of whom is a current University of Minnesota Duluth student, has surfaced on YouTube including what the administration is calling “unfortunate racist con- tent.” e video includes Caucasian females in black face makeup directing slurs toward the African- American community. e two women had quotes claiming to be from the “black hood,” needing some “fried (exple- tive deleted) chicken” and likening themselves to looking “like apes right now.” Both women in the video, Rachel Cooper and Jessica Heid, responded to the video. “We were doing facials and it happened to have been a brown facial mask,” Cooper said in an email. “We had to leave it on for 12 minutes. During that 12 min- utes, we horribly decided to make a video that we regret and are not happy about. is was made over a year ago.” Cooper continued her email in an apologetic manner. “I am saddened and sick to my stomach and sorry for anybody it oends. It was not mine or hers intention at all and we are embar- rassed about it. We understand we cannot do anything about it now but apologize and inform people we did not paint our faces or put that on to purposely make a video. It was something that just happened aer puing the facial cream on and we are so deeply sor- ry. is video does not dene our true selves at all.” Jessica Heid also replied to the video. “at video does not dene who we are… it was accidental… we did not intend to hurt anyone with it.” UMD REMEMBERS Sasha McHale UMD Students express regret over their racist video Lupus: what are the facts? ^ĂƐŚĂ DĐ,ĂůĞ ;ůĞŌͿ ĂŶĚ ĂŶĂ DĂĐŽŶĂůĚ ;ƌŝŐŚƚͿ ƉŽƐĞ ƚŽŐĞƚŚĞƌ ĨŽƌ Ă ƉŚŽƚŽ ^ĂƐŚĂ ƉĂƐƐĞĚ ĂǁĂLJ EŽǀ Ϯϰ ĚƵĞ ƚŽ ĐŽŵƉůŝĐĂƟŽŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ ůƵƉƵƐ DANA MACDONALD/SUBMITTED “Of course the destruction of Mr. Raymond’s good name and reputation in the community, as harmful as an injury as it is, does not equal in comparison to brutal murder by mob lynching. It was not my intent to draw that direct literal comparison,” said Jones in his statement Monday, Nov. 20. “e point that I sought to make is that due process is a key- stone and fundamental to the American way. Whether someone is accused of rape or stealing an apple, the due process guarantees of our federal and state constitutions, demand of us that we hold o from passing judgment on those who have been publicly accused of some wrong doing until they have received a fair opportunity to be heard,” Jones wrote. “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of the law. Mr. Raymond has a liberty interest in his good name and reputation in connection with his employment at UMD. is is the point that I sought to make.” Lawyer responds to lynching comments see RACIST VIDEO, A3
Lindsay Jones, a!orney for UMD employee Rod Raymond, released a le!er to the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents on Monday requesting Raymond’s name be cleared of all “hearsay.”
“Mr. Raymond seeks relief from the intentional actions and con-duct of several unnamed o"cials and employees at the University of Minnesota-Duluth (sic), in con-nection to the manner in which they have commenced and con-ducted ongoing serial investiga-tions against him,” Jones wrote in his le!er.
In a separate press release received by the Statesman earlier this month, Jones said other UMD employees “took it upon them-selves as self-appointed vigilan-tes to seek to force Mr. Raymond to quit or cause the University to terminate his employment out of embarrassment.”
Jones called these a!empts a “public smear campaign with the malicious intent of undermining Mr. Raymond’s reputation in the community.”
It is because of these alleged a!empts that Jones is requesting a hearing to clear Raymond’s name.
Jones claims these investiga-tions denied Raymond “due pro-cess in so far that their actions and
conduct deprived him of his lib-erty interest in his good name and reputation in connection with his employment at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the broad-er community.”
He also requested that if the board #nds Raymond was denied due process, that he be rewarded back pay for his entire absence at UMD. Raymond went on unpaid leave by his own request in November 2011.
“In addition, Mr. Raymond seeks his personnel record expunged of any unwarranted
disciplinary action as determined by the outcome of the name clear-ing hearing based on the Board’s de novo review of the allega-tions asserted against him dur-ing the hearing,” Jones wrote in his request to the board. “Should the Board #nd merit in any of the allegations that they bring against him, Mr. Raymond would accept the Board’s judgment as a #nal.”
If a hearing is allowed, it will be closed to the public along with ma!er discussed in the hearing, except for the board’s #nal deci-sion and actions.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH
THE STATESMANWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012WWW.UMDSTATESMAN.COM
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can target and dam-age any part of the human body.
$e disease triggers an imbal-ance in the immune system. When someone’s immune system is healthy, it produces antibod-ies that a!ack invasive cells that make a person sick. Having an autoimmune disease means that a person’s immune system can’t tell between good and bad cells. Anti-bodies will a!ack both healthy and sick cells, weakening the immune system even more.
$e cause of lupus is unknown, but according to the Lupus Foun-dation of America’s website, doc-tors say that it could be related to a person’s genes. While this theory hasn’t been proven, lupus does tend to appear within families.
Lupus can live in someone’s body for years, however without a speci#c environmental trigger the disease may never surface. $ese triggers include:
-ultraviolet rays from the sun or %uorescent bulbs
-penicillin or other antibiotic drugs
-a cold or viral illness-exhaustion-anything that causes stress to
the body like surgery, physical harm, pregnancy or giving birth.
It is possible to live a normal life with lupus, however today there is still no cure.
Raymond’s attorney requests a name clearing hearing
UMD student Alexandra “Sasha” McHale passed away at the age of 23 this past Saturday, due to complications of the autoimmune disease lupus. McHale was diag-nosed with lupus a li!le over a year ago, and was hospitalized for two weeks before her passing.
“We’re all going to miss her.” said Sarah Mertz, a UMD stu-dent and close friend to McHale. “She just was a really good friend, I don’t know anyone who met her
who didn’t like her.”McHale was a #&h-year senior
working toward a degree in Com-munication with a journalism minor. Before her time at UMD she a!ended Totino-Grace High School in Fridley, Minn., and played varsity basketball for three years.
Others who were close to her mirror Mertz’s description of McHale as an outgoing, fun-lov-ing, genuine friend,'whose'passing came unexpectedly to those close to her. Diagnosed over a year ago, McHale had to cut studying
abroad in Australia short in 2011 a&er becoming ill.
“She just had an infectious laugh,” friend and classmate Oliv-ia Franti said. “She was a joker and she always knew how to make me laugh.”
McHale is described as a person her friends could always count on.
“We’re lucky to have known her,” Franti said. “I want people to know what a true genuine friend she was. $ere’s a reason she touched all the lives she did.”
No ma!er how long McHale was a part of someone’s life, those who
knew her all said how lucky they were to have such great memories.
“I felt really bad, really odd,” said UMD Communication pro-fessor Aaron Boyson. “I don’t want to pretend that I knew her well, but she was in my class; she was one of my students. It was like someone punched me in the gut. I had just spoken with her.”
During her high school basket-ball career McHale wore No. 32, the same number her NBA
A video including two females, at least one of whom is a current University of Minnesota Duluth student, has surfaced on YouTube including what the administration is calling “unfortunate racist con-tent.”
$e video includes Caucasian females in black face makeup directing slurs toward the African-American community.
$e two women had quotes claiming to be from the “black hood,” needing some “fried (exple-tive deleted) chicken” and likening themselves to looking “like apes right now.”
Both women in the video, Rachel Cooper and Jessica Heid, responded to the video.
“We were doing facials and it happened to have been a brown facial mask,” Cooper said in an email. “We had to leave it on for 12 minutes. During that 12 min-
utes, we horribly decided to make a video that we regret and are not happy about. $is was made over a year ago.”
Cooper continued her email in an apologetic manner.
“I am saddened and sick to my stomach and sorry for anybody it o(ends. It was not mine or hers intention at all and we are embar-rassed about it. We understand we cannot do anything about it now but apologize and inform people we did not paint our faces or put that on to purposely make a video. It was something that just happened a&er pu!ing the facial cream on and we are so deeply sor-ry. $is video does not de#ne our true selves at all.”
Jessica Heid also replied to the video.
“$at video does not de#ne who we are… it was accidental… we did not intend to hurt anyone with it.”
UMD REMEMBERS Sasha McHale
UMD Students express regret over theirracist video
Lupus:
what
are the
facts?
DANA MACDONALD/SUBMITTED
“Of course the destruction of Mr. Raymond’s good name and reputation in the community, as harmful as an injury as it is, does not equal in comparison to brutal murder by mob lynching. It was not my intent to draw that direct literal comparison,” said Jones in his statement Monday, Nov. 20.
“$e point that I sought to make is that due process is a key-stone and fundamental to the American way. Whether someone is accused of rape or stealing an apple, the due process guarantees of our federal and state constitutions, demand of us that we hold o( from passing judgment on those who have been publicly accused of some wrong doing until they have received a fair opportunity to be heard,” Jones wrote. “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of the law. Mr. Raymond has a liberty interest in his good name and reputation in connection with his employment at UMD. $is is the point that I sought to make.”
Lawyer responds to
lynching comments
see RACIST VIDEO, A3
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Former Chancellor Kath-ryn Martin may have resigned from her top-ranking position at UMD a few short years ago, but her work with the university is not yet over.
Martin has been named a fel-low of the University of Worces-ter, Worcestershire, England, earlier this month. $e Worces-ter College of Fellows conferred the honor in recognition of Mar-tin’s work in se!ing up a rela-tionship with UW and UMD, through UMD’s Study in Eng-land program.
“I am deeply honored to receive this recognition,” said Martin in a UMD news release. “$e award in part recognizes the outstanding work of our faculty and the enthusiasm of our students for international opportunities.”
$e Study in England pro-gram is UMD’s longest-running study abroad program, starting back in the late 1980s. $e uni-
versity partnership in England was originally with the Univer-sity of Birmingham, but in 2010 di(ering interests prompted UMD administrators to seek out other universities with which to team up.
“$at’s when Chancellor Mar-tin, and some other people from UMD, went to England looking for other universities that would be good match with UMD,” said Lyndsey Andersen, associate director of UMD’s Study in Eng-land Program.
According to Andersen, Mar-tin and her colleagues liked the University of Worecster because of how similar the school was to UMD, both in size and popula-tion. U of W is located 135 miles northwest of London, and has a student population similar to UMD)around 10,000 stu-dents.
$e #rst Study in England Pro-gram to travel to Worcestershire happened during the 2011-12 school year. $ey are currently in their second year as partners with U of W.
“$e University of Worces-ter was very welcoming to us,” Andersen said. “It really is a won-derful relationship. We’re both mutually invested, and we see the bene#t for both universities.
Martin was conferred the fel-lowship at the award ceremonies held at Worcester Cathedral, Nov. 6 through Nov. 9.
Martin’s fellowship a(ords for further development in the relationship between UMD and UW, which is currently in its infancy. Fellows act as ambas-sadors between the schools, and are considered during political decisions within the relation-ship. $ey are invited to major events and meetings and main-tain correspondence in a diplo-matic capacity.
According to the news release, the fellowship grants Martin “the opportunity to use her experience and expertise regard-ing development opportunities and to help further the Universi-ty of Worcester’s e(ort to engage with higher education in North America.”
Each year one-third of the 16,000 units of blood that are col-lected in the northland are sup-plied by the high schools and col-leges.
A couple of weeks ago UMD hosted one of its 10-12 yearly blood drives. It was put on by Memorial Blood Centers. Memorial Blood Centers is a Minnesota-based nonpro#t organization, which pro-vides blood to 19 local hospitals.
One single donation can save up to three lives. Emily Erickson, col-lection specialist and #eld trainer who was working the drive, has not only collected blood but has also received it.
When Erickson was a senior in high school, she was in a head-on collision a block away from her home. She broke both her legs and an arm and had to be airli&ed to Regions Hospital in the Twin Cit-ies.
A&er the accident she received 42 units (pints) of blood and had to undergo 15 surgeries. $e aver-age woman has about 10 pints of blood in their body. $e doctors thought she would never walk again, but she proved them wrong.
With some help, just months a&er the accident, Erickson was able to walk at her graduation. Now she is able to walk completely on her own.
“Because of what I went through I knew I wanted to be involved in the medical #eld,” Erickson said. “It is my way to pay back those people who helped me. If it wasn’t for those 42 people that donated I wouldn’t be here.”
Erickson has worked with the Memorial Blood Foundation for three and a half years.
“It is not something that is man made,” Erickson said. “$ere is no substitute.”
Operation Supervisor Melissa Garre!, who was also working the drive, has donat-ed two gallons of blood on 16 separate occa-sions. She said she was inspired to d o n a t e blood
when her best friend was diag-nosed with sickle cell anemia.
“It is a gi& that can’t be dupli-cated,” Garre! said. “You can’t buy it in a store; it is not on the shelves. Without it a lot of people would lose their lives.”
Brenda Beard, head of the blood drive, said the majority of the donators preregistered for the event but they also accepted donors on a walk-in basis.
“We always have a real need for blood during the holidays due to extra travel, but we need it all the time,” Beard said.
Since the blood can only be used for a limited time a&er it is donat-ed, the need for blood is constant.
“Blood doesn’t last forever,” she said. “It has a shelf life similar to milk. A&er a short period of time it goes bad.”
Junior Kelsey Holthaus, Civil Engineering major, has donated blood on eight previous occasions, making this her ninth.
“It’s an easy way to give back,” Holthaus said. “You never know when it is going to be used but the need is always there.”
Sophomore Laura Levar, Com-munication Sciences and Disor-ders major, has only donated on one previous occasion and was inspired to give again when she heard that her one donation could save three lives.
“If I was in a position that I need-ed blood, I would always think about the person who took 40 min-utes out of their day to donate,” Levar said. “It can break or make someone’s life.”
Garre! said the drives that they have at UMD are usually success-ful. For this drive 47 units of blood were collected.
A&er the blood is donated it is transported to their lab in the Twin Cities, where it then under-goes numerous tests and is sepa-rated into di(erent parts. A&er it undergoes the processing it is shipped back up to hospitals and trauma centers in the northland.
$e next blood drive on campus will be $ursday, Dec. 6, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. outside of the Kirby Student Center.
Blood drive inspires many
Former Chancellor Martin named fellow of University of Worcester, England
Continued from A1SashaHall-of-Fame dad, Kevin McHale, wore while playing for the Bos-ton Celtics in the 1980s. Kevin McHale, who got his start play-ing basketball at Hibbing High School and the University of Min-nesota, is also a former execu-tive and coach of the Minnesota
Timberwolves and is the current head coach of the Houston Rock-ets.' Her well-known father made her death national news. $e Houston Rockets announced Monday that players will wear green armbands, Sasha’s favor-ite color, to honor their coach’s daughter. $e team will also be %ying to the Twin Cities on Wednesday to a!end her memo-rial service.
“She just had a spark,” Mertz
said. “Now we tell each other that we love each other, because you never know.”
Sasha McHale is survived by her parents, Lynn and Kevin, a sis-ter and three brothers.
For those who need support during this time, there is a regu-lar grief support group that meets from 4-5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Kirby 311. For more infor-mation contact Barb Titus at [email protected].
According to Heid, she has already been receiving threats and hate mail surrounding this video.
$e chancellor’s o"ce addressed this video on Nov. 15 in an email to the UMD campus community.
“We have seen the video; we abhor it,” Chancellor Lendley Black said in the email. “$is is unacceptable behavior for anyone, and we at UMD are extremely
unhappy to be associated with it in any way.”
$e video was posted early Wednesday morning under a new-ly created YouTube pro#le name of UMDHate. $e video is a repost and not from the original poster.
$e administration refused to comment any further beyond the Nov. 15 email that stated, “We take appropriate action in
instances like this… we can a"rm our disapproval of the video, and rea"rm our goal of providing an environment where students live, study, and learn from and about each other in an inclusive and supportive way. We hope that out of this distressing incident will at least come some broader under-standing and personal growth.”
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The Movement Starts Now The University of Minnesota Duluth Student Association (UMDSA) represents the student body to the administration, and serves as an advocate for each and every student at UMD. Our community has many members who are su!ering because of the insensitive and racist comments made by a current and former student in a video that was recently uploaded to YouTube. And yet this video represents only one incident among many that we know have marginalized large numbers of our campus community. This is completely unacceptable. The only thing that would be more unac-ceptable would be for UMDSA to do nothing more than make an o"cial statement. Beginning today, SA pledges to take new steps to actively support all of our students. An unwelcome environment for one, becomes an unwelcome environment for all. We will not insert ourselves where we are not invited, but if you are a student at UMD and you are frustrated, scared, or alienated we want to know how we can help. We will not stand by quietly any longer, and encourage all students to challenge us to represent you better. Sure, street signs and the DC food are important issues but they pale in comparison to real issues that students face every day.Please join us as we join the Diversity Commission at a public forum on Tuesday, December 4th at 4pm in the Ball-room. The movement starts now.
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I know it’s a bit early to be lusting a!er the semester’s end already, but I just cannot help it. Every time I "nish an assignment I count it as that much closer to being Christ-mas break. (I hope that because of this excitement, I will get my assignments done in a timely fashion.) But I have to admit that if I could fast forward these next three weeks#you bet I would.
Just think: no homework, studying or stressing over school for four glorious weeks. No taking the crowded DTA only to get back on four hours later to an equally crowded bus, no group projects, no tests. $at would be a good enough
Christmas present for me. In those four weeks, there
are so many possibilities as to what we can do. I can’t wait to run around in the snow like a
child and drink like an adult. I have to complain a bit that I will most likely not be able to watch even one ABC Family Christmas movie but hey, its not like I haven’t seen them all multiple times.
All we need to do is sur-vive these next three weeks of class and give "nals our best and then we’re free! ($at is, until the 20th of January.) $is $anksgiving weekend I got a small glimpse of what life is like when I don’t have commit most of the daylight to school work, and it was fantastic.
I’m sure some of you, like me, are looking forward to having the time to go to the gym again, to put makeup on and to actu-ally get ready for the day. Oth-ers might just be looking for-ward to sleeping in or staying up all hours of the night. We are so close, my friends. I wish you all luck in these next few weeks. Don’t give up!
Sometime last year, in the wake of the local issue surrounding the arrival of the Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), our univer-sity supported a campaign#the Unfair Campaign. It was mostly comprised of posters of faces underneath the bold title “You can’t see racism if you’re white.” $at the core of this anti-racism campaign was provocative is undeniable. In seeking to expose the privilege, the harshness of the word “white” gave way to anger at what felt like an accusation. $e backlash of this campaign was met with a defense from the school, which gave the poster series its support and refused to pull it. Yet, come 2012, all the vestiges of the old campaign have disappeared#clearly, this is because the work is "nished.
Whether or not the campaign was a good one (which is an issue that needs a whole newspaper issue by itself for debate), we can’t deny that it was put in place for a reason. Regardless of whether it was successful or had a valid point, the campaign was the spawn of a campus need for proactive anti-racism measures. $e main event to spur the Unfair Campaign seemed to be about the YWC on Constitution Day. For anyone confused about when that took place: it was about a year follow-ing a publicized racist exchange between a couple of UMD stu-dents on Facebook, a li%le bit a!er the episode with racial slurs at the hockey game, and a year before a video hit YouTube of two UMD students in blackface.
Here at the Statesman o&ce, we had a small discussion about the
recent incident with the video that was released online. We discussed how much of the issue deserves space, or should be explored; there’s an element of sensation-alism in the issue of discussing the (however ignorant) actions of two kids. Judging the extent of their crimes, or even whether they did anything punishable, seems a li%le useless. Even discussing the video seems unnecessary. A lot of the residue of their video seems to mostly involve a bloodbath in the YouTube comment section. $at’s not to deny that pu%ing out a racist video is a serious action, but con-versation about the role of two stu-dents might be too speci"c. $e focus now shouldn’t be
that two people exist on cam-pus who made bad decisions; I’m pre%y sure that’s less than break-ing news. $e issue should be that (yet another) incident of racism exists with a unique relationship to UMD. $is video isn’t some isolated incident. And the conse-quences of it aren’t things that can be dealt with by simply expelling a couple of students and making their futures a li%le bit tougher.$e video is another installment
in a strain of racial issues that have been present on campus. By itself, it’s something that can be ignored as stupidity. Together with this pa%ern of racism manifesting on campus, beyond just personal altercations, the problem becomes the atmosphere and culture that the school o'ers its students. $is is something that can’t be the fault of two kids, because frankly, the problem is a lot larger than them.
Coming from Plymouth (a neat li%le city in the suburbs of the Twin Cities), racism was talked about in schools, but not something so explicitly experienced "rsthand. I
went to FAIR school#an all-dis-trict middle school that drew from a(uent and poor neighborhoods, and pools of ethnicities, to create a seriously diverse mix. If I were to break down the demographics, I’d say half of the kids were black, the other half white, and then an impossible portion of (Asian, oth-er) scrunched somewhere inside. Racism was a topic so well covered there it became something like a mean fairy-tale#totally present, but de"nitely not in the bubble of our school.
Here at UMD, it’s dramatically di'erent. It makes me think I undervalued the cultural advan-tage I had from going to the schools I did. And the consistency of these racial problems makes me believe totally that the Duluth area, as a whole, isn’t in such a stable place in terms of racial climate. A couple of my friends had once ranted about an ethnic group in an explicitly racist way that seemed incredible to me. $e strangest thing might be that when I pointed it out, both were adamant that they weren’t at all racist. $e racism commi%ed here might be by people totally unaware of the reality of what they’re saying or by people who don’t know the boundaries of lev-ity.
If lack of understanding of rac-ism is such a recurring problem here on campus, it’s something that should be addressed. Luckily for us, if ignorance or awareness is a problem, school is a pre%y good combatant. But Band-Aid cures of running one campaign for a few months a!er one incident embarrassed the school won’t be enough. $ere needs to be a com-mi%ed e'ort to address that a lot of people here are behind on this issue. $is doesn’t mean that the Unfair Campaign needs to be rein-troduced#I think the consensus with that a'air is that the language was a li%le too clumsy to do much good. But the existence of that campaign proves that the school felt that there is a problem to be solved. While we could forget it before, the video at least serves to remind us that the problem still exists, and the school needs to address it; maybe a bit more ear-nestly than a few months of taping posters.
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In last week’s edition of $e Statesman, an article was published featuring a rather shocking state-ment from Lindsay Jones, Rod Ray-mond’s a%orney. Rod Raymond is currently UMD’s Fitness and Well-ness coordinator, and was inves-tigated in 2009 for sexual harass-ment a!er complaints were brought forward from multiple students. Recommendations were made for Raymond’s termination by both the O&ce of Equal Opportunity and by the Vice Chancellor of Student Life at the time, Randy Hyman. Despite these recommendations for imme-diate termination, Raymond still maintained his position at UMD with only light repercussions. Now, Raymond is facing another investi-gation.
In the featured article, Jones com-pares Raymond’s situation to the
1920 lynching of three black men in Duluth. For those who are unfa-miliar with this part of Duluth’s history, in 1920 six black men were accused of raping a teenage girl#a claim which has still, to this day, never been proven to be true. While being held in jail, awaiting trial, an angry mob of 10,000 people gath-ered in front of the prison, forced their way inside, and captured three of the men being held. $e mob pro-ceeded to lynch the three men from a streetlight, across the street from where the Clayton Jackson McGhie memorial stands downtown today.
For Jones to claim that Ray-mond’s situation is similar to the horri"c, terrifying death faced by these three men is more than just absurd#it’s o'ensive. Jones’ blatant exploitation of the tragic murder of these young men in an
a%empt to garner sympathy for his client is nothing short of sickening. Raymond is already pro"ting o' the site of this historical tragedy# he is a co-owner of Tycoons, which is located in what used to be the prison where the three men were held before they were lynched. Now his lawyer is exploiting that trag-edy in an a%empt to exonerate him. Raymond is privileged enough to have gone through due process a!er accusations were made against him in 2009, and now again in 2012. A!er accusations against Raymond surfaced, nobody broke through his wall, pulled him from his home and lynched him in the street. Nobody called for his trial to cease, and for his execution to be instigated. Ray-mond can not fathom the type of hate that these three men faced.
Raymond was accused of a
crime, both in 2009 and 2012, and each time has faced due process#being investigated by his employer, while maintaining his employment at UMD. Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie were accused of a crime, dragged from their prison cells, and lynched in the street by an angry mob of 10,000 people. $e UMD commu-nity is calling for Raymond’s ter-mination because the investigation produced evidence that Raymond has repeatedly proven that he is a threat to the safety and well-being of all students at UMD. Raymond is facing due process#something the three men lynched in 1920 never got the chance to have.
A! er going seven games with-out a win and failing to win a game against a WCHA opponent this season, the UMD men’s hockey team was desperate for a victory." e Bulldogs got that Friday
with a 2-1 win over St. Cloud at Amsoil Arena, but they su# ered a major setback in the second game of the series, falling 5-1.
With the split, UMD (3-7-2 overall, 1-5-2 WCHA) and St. Cloud (7-5-0 overall, 5-3-0 WCHA) both earned two points in the WHCA standings." e Bulldogs got o# to a slug-
gish start early Friday. St. Cloud freshman Kalle Kossila scored just over $ ve minutes into the game and UMD senior goalie Aaron Crandall was forced to make saves on several other St. Cloud scoring chances just to keep his team in the game.
“" ey got a lucky tip (on the goal),” Crandall said. “It’s always tough on a team’s psyche when
one goes in like that. But it’s always big to get out of the period down just one.”" e game’s momentum shi! -
ed by midway through the sec-ond, with UMD taking over the rest of the way. Freshman Tony Cameranesi, on a break-away, found the back of the net with his $ ! h goal of the sea-son to tie it up for the Bulldogs.In the third, senior defenseman Wade Bergman played the role of unlikely hero, ne% ing the game-winning goal by knocking in a rebound from the top of the le! circle.
“It came o# the goalie out to the slot, and I just saw it and tried get-ting it through tra& c, and thank-fully it went in,” Bergman said. “It feels awesome. We’ve been work-ing so hard for it.”
Crandall remained solid in net, guiding the Bulldogs to the win by stopping 27 of the 28 shots he faced. St. Cloud goalie Ryan Fara-gher stopped 27 of 29 shots on goal.
“It was one of those grind ‘em
out games,” head coach Sco% San-delin said a! er the game. “We had some power plays in the third and we capitalized.”" e Bulldogs again started slow
Saturday, but they could never regain momentum and the Hus-kies cruised to a 5-1 win.
St. Cloud captain Ben Hanows-ki put the Huskies ahead midway through the $ rst when he $ red one past Crandall from the edge of the right circle. Nic Dowd quickly made it 2-0, capitalizing on a turnover in the UMD zone." is time, it didn’t get any bet-
ter in the second period. Kos-sila scored his second goal of the series on a power play just over four minutes into the period. Less than two minutes later, Dowd put the Huskies up by four with his second goal of the game." e Bulldogs $ nally got on
the board with a Mike Seidel goal midway through the period. Freshman Andy Welinski set up the goal with an on-target to Seidel in front of the net.
But that was all the Bulldogs
could muster. Given a power play late in the third period, the Bull-dogs turned the puck over and St. Cloud’s Joey Holka scored on a 2-on-1 rush to make it 5-1, which ended up being the $ nal score.
“" ey played harder, and I knew it was coming,” Sandelin said. “" ey won all the ba% les, they were quicker, they executed be% er and that was the di# erence.”
Crandall, making consecutive starts in net for the $ rst time since the season-opening series against Ohio State, stopped 17 of 22 shots on net. Faragher, again starting for the Huskies, stopped 32 of 33.
“Last night was such a big win for us at home, and (tonight) we didn’t come out the way we should’ve,” Seidel said following the game. “We just didn’t come prepared, especially when you have a chance to take four points at home. We have to be prepared for it. " ere’s no excuse.”" e Bulldogs will continue
WCHA play, heading to Michigan Tech for a series next weekend. Volleyball
NCAA Central RegionalSt. Paul, Minn." ursday – Saturday
Despite a highly contested ba% le throughout, the UMD football team fell short in triple overtime Saturday, Nov. 17, against Missouri Western in NCAA Tournament competi-tion. In his $ nal game as a Bull-dog, quarterback Chase Vogler played stupendously, going 14-of-20 for 195 yards through the air, complemented nicely with 184 yards on the ground, accounting for 379 all-purpose yards. " e last play of the game, however, did not turn out in Vogler’s favor; while rolling out of the pocket during a two-point conversion a% empt, he stum-bled, ending the game and clos-ing out the season. " e Bulldogs had 603 yards of total o# ense, scored 55 points and throughout the a! ernoon handled a solid Missouri Western defense. " e o# ense moved the ball, but ulti-mately came up short at the end. " e Bulldogs $ nish the 2012 season at 10-2.
" e UMD women’s basketball team emerged as victors in the annual Bridge Ba% le with the University of Wisconsin Supe-rior. " e Bulldogs stung the Yel-lowjackets, 77-65, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Romano Gym. " e Bulldogs were led by sophomore guard Alyssa Kerkho# , who put up 21 points while 6-of-10 from the $ eld and 8-of-9 from the free throw line. Junior Katrina New-man contributed 14 points and freshman Taylor Meyer added 12 points. " e Bulldogs shot 49 percent from the $ eld, while the Yellowjackets converted on 34.5 percent. UWS started the game with a 6-0 run and the score remained within a few points for most of the $ rst half before UMD pulled ahead 40-32 at the break. " at lead grew in the second, with the Bulldogs never relenting. UMD is now 21-4 all-time against the cross-state rival.
" e $ nal chapters in the books of senior captains Sammie Her-taus and Kalli Lochner’s volley-ball collegiate careers are about to be complete. As the season draws to the end, the seniors are hoping to write a magical ending.
Hertaus, a native from New Prague, Minn., played as a se% er and outside hi% er at New Prague High School and participated in the Northern Lights Volley-ball Club for $ ve years. Hertaus joined the Bulldogs two years ago a! er transferring from Bemidji State. Hertaus originally started her collegiate career at Marque% e University.
“UMD was my original choice but I got the chance to play DI vol-leyball so I went to Marque% e,” said Hertaus. “Midway through the season our coach got $ red and things weren’t going well. Plus it was far away from home. I le! and $ nally ended up here. I couldn’t be any happier to play here.”
With nearly a full roster, head coach Jim Boos took the chance and added Hertaus to the roster.
“I’m glad we bought Sammie in,” said Boos, stating the di& cult
decision that was made to add Hertaus. “If you look now, she is one of our best servers and cer-tainly one of our best ball control-ler kids we have had. She passes so e& ciently for us and she has been a rock at right back. I think she’s one of the unsung heroes on this team. " e stats might not show it but she has made an impact for us. She de$ nitely deserves her moment in the limelight.”
For her career at UMD, the defensive specialist has posted 418 digs, 85 assists, 58 service aces and held a .961 passing per-centage. Hertaus was also named to the 2011 and 2012 NSIC All-Academic Teams.
Lochner hails from Cross Plains, Wis., and has been a mem-ber of the squad for all four years at UMD. Lochner was the start-ing middle blocker for Wisconsin Heights High School when her team won the Division III state championship and also played $ ve years for the Wisconsin Select Volleyball Club.
“I wasn’t really sure where I was going to school,” said Lochner. “I wanted volleyball to be part of my life and Boos gave me the oppor-tunity to play. I have been a part of this team for four years now
and I couldn’t ask for anything else.”
UMD is fortunate to have Lochner. According to Boos, the senior has played a big role on and o# the court.
“We knew Lochner was going to be an impact player for the pro-gram when she $ rst came in,” said Boos. “Ironically, her strength was blocking and her o# ense wasn’t very e# ective at $ rst. You look now and she’s third in our league in a% acking percentage and she is a main a% acker for us and has been nominated for many awards in the process. Along with that, she has been the team leader, a mother hen for us. She keeps our group in line and focused in what we’re doing.”
Lochner registered 563 kills with an a% ack percentage of .319 and 168 total blocks in 73 games for her four-year career. Lochner has many awards in her honor. She was named to the NSIC All-Academic team three times, the All-NSIC $ rst team twice and multiple all-tournament teams.
Together, Lochner and Her-taus have had a pre% y successful run as members of the University of Minnesota Duluth volleyball team. UMD ARCHIVES
Guiding a new team can be a heavy task, but head coach Ma! Bowen can’t complain with his team’s start to the 2012-13 season as the men’s basketball team " n-ished their non-conference por-tion locked at 500.
“I think our record is a good rela-tion of how we have started this season,” Bowen said. “We have had our share of good and bad games this year.”# e Bulldogs spent the # anks-
giving holiday in San Antonio playing in the St. Mary’s # anks-giving Classic and were challenged by two defensive savvy and ath-letic foes.
UMD handed Angelo State their " rst loss of the season, defeat-ing the Rams 71-68. But it didn’t come easy as UMD squeaked out the three-point win a$ er blowing a 12-point lead and the Bulldogs were held without a " eld goal for the last 7:08 of play.
Calahan Skogman iced the game with two free throws when the Rams pulled within one at 69-68. Bre! Ervin contributed down the stretch, hi! ing seven points from the line. # e team’s " nal 12 points were all from the charity stripe.
“We faced a lot of adversity,” said Bowen, talking about his team’s performance. “We were very hot in the " rst half. # en they came back and took the lead. But we didn’t let up and we were able to pull through. I’m proud of this group, this was a good win.”
However, UMD had a much bigger mountain to climb the fol-lowing day facing second-ranked Washburn.# e Ichabods were too much
as the Bulldogs only led once the entire night (76 seconds into the game when Jake Ho! enstine drained a three-pointer). A$ er trailing in the opening minute, the Ichabods took over, going on a 10-1 run and stretching the lead to 25 en route to an 86-61 victory over the Bulldogs.
“It was a good game for us early in the season to see how we com-pare to a very good team,” said Bowen. “(Washburn) is the sec-ond-ranked team in the nation and they went out and played well in all components. It was a good bench-mark for us to see where we are at.”
One thing the Bulldogs need to do to be successful is not turning the ball over. For the tournament, the Bulldogs turned the ball over 41 times, an average of 20.5 per game.
“We played two very good qual-ity teams defensively (this week-end) and they forced us into mis-takes,” said Bowen. “Overall, I’m pleased of how things are going. We need to apply what we learned in these games when we start play-ing in the NSIC.”
Now that the tough non-confer-ence schedule is over, UMD will have a chance to get Ma! Bowen’s " rst NSIC win as the head coach of the Bulldogs in the conference opener at St. Cloud State on Dec. 1.
With two goals in the " nal two minutes of regulation%includ-ing an empty-ne! er%the North Dakota women’s hockey team had all but sealed a victory Friday night in Grand Forks.# at was until UMD did the
unthinkable, scoring two goals in the " nal 14 seconds of the game to force overtime.# e Bulldogs ended up losing in
overtime, but it was a comeback for the ages.# e game was tied 1-1 much of
the way, but North Dakota broke through with a goal from Jose-phine Jakobsen with just 108 sec-onds to play. UMD pulled goalie Kayla Black, and Jakobsen again found the net for 3-1 lead.
UMD head coach Shannon Miller opted to again pull the goal-ie, and it paid o& . Jamie Kenyon notched a goal with 14 seconds to play, and Katie Wilson tied in spectacular fashion with just one second remaining in the game.
However, UMD’s excitement was short-lived. North Dakota’s Monique Lamoureux scored three minutes into overtime to turn the
Bulldogs’ excitement into frustra-tion.
UMD (5-8-1 overall, 4-7-1 WCHA) had a chance to rebound Saturday night, but North Dakota (9-5-0 overall, 8-4-0 WCHA) dominated en route to a 5-2 vic-tory. Wilson and Brienna Gilland-ers scored for the Bulldogs, but they couldn’t keep up with North Dakota, led by a Lamoureux hat trick.
Lamoureux and Wilson scored in " rst to take the game to the " rst intermission tied 1-1. # e game remained at that score until late in the second, when North Dakota started ra! ling o& goals.
Lamoureux scored the game’s next two goals, and twin sister Joc-elyne Lamoureux added another. Jakobsen quickly scored a fourth unanswered North Dakota goal.
Gillanders got the Bulldogs on the board again, scoring with " ve seconds remaining in the game, but there was no historic come-back for the Bulldogs this time, as North Dakota earned the sweep.
UMD will be in action again this weekend, taking on Bemidji State Saturday and Sunday on the road.
Since being thrown into rota-tion, the seniors have racked up an amazing 56-8 record. During the two-year stretch, the record has compiled a .857 winning per-centage, 13th best in nation out of 261 Division II teams. To no surprise, six of those losses came at the expense of Concordia and Southwest Minnesota State, both of which are ahead of the Bulldogs in that category.# at remarkable record was
" lled with uncertainty to start the season. # e team had gaping holes to " ll a$ er losing four starters. # at meant the Bulldogs had very li! le collegiate experience coming into the season, with a combined 11 freshmen and sophomores on the roster. Kate Lange needed an opposite hi! er to balance the a! ack and they were throwing in a brand-new se! er.
It didn’t hinder the Bulldogs. # e team got o& to a hot start
going 13-0. UMD clinched a share of the NSIC title and " nished the season perfect at home (15-0) for the eighth time in program history.
UMD made their " rst ever appearance in the NSIC Tourna-ment. # e tournament made a comeback with the conference expansion to 16 teams. Hoping to claim another accolade, the seniors and the Bulldogs were knocked out by eventual champions Southwest Minnesota State.
“I think the (NSIC) Tourna-ment was an excellent way to pre-pare,” said Hertaus. “It’s just like the NCAA Tournament and we are likely to play those teams in the region. It’s the same format, lose and go home or win and continue playing. Everything is on the line.”
# e loss might have stung but it provided a good warm-up as the Bulldogs (28-4 overall) were rewarded with a berth as the " $ h seed into the Central Region of the NCAA Tournament. # is year marked the 15th time in school history and the 11th straight appearance.# e only thing le$ for the seniors
is the NCAA Tournament. With only a limited amount of pages le$ , it’s only a ma! er of time before Hertaus and Lochner write a new book in their series.
A$ er their playing careers, Lochner will head back to the Madison area and look for a job while tying the knot and continue playing or coaching volleyball for fun. Hertaus is planning to go to
vet school and is currently waiting to hear back from the University of Minnesota. Her other options are to a! end grad school and possibly go out and travel the world.
But the two senior captains still have one thing on their mind: bring home UMD’s " rst national championship in volleyball. # e " rst step in their quest is a date with Central Missouri # ursday.
“# e ultimate goal is to win the championship,” said Lochner. “We weren’t happy with the way we played in the NSIC Tournament. All week in practice, our goal was to improve and work on the li! le things. But we are in for a ba! le; (the Jennies) are very similar to us.”
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Eat to run, or run to eat? With mashed potatoes, gravy, and carved turkey on their minds, runners partook in the Duluth Running Campany’s seventh annual Gobble Gallop races on an unseasonably warm ! anksgiving morning before " lling their stom-achs with ! anksgiving food.
“! e motivation is to run so you can eat so much pie later,” said 5k runner Lisa Berg of Duluth.! is year, 1,880 participants
ran in the 5k alone, according to mtecresults.com, and many more cheered on the sidelines.
Racers could choose from the Gobble Giddy Up! quarter mile kids’ run, the Tough Turkey one-mile sprint, the Gobble Gallop 5k, or the Gobble Gait two-mile walk.! e 5k started and " nished on
London Road, taking runners on a loop through downtown Duluth via Superior Street. ! e other rac-es took shorter variations of this route.
Duluth Running Company’s own John Heitzman and Katie McGee secured " rst place in the men and women’s divisions.
Heitzman, of Superior, was the " rst to cross the " nish line on London Road, doing so in 15 min-utes and 26 seconds.
Two minutes later, McGee led the way for the women in 17 min-utes and 48 seconds.
Her Duluth Running Co. teammate, former UMD runner Rachael Stack, followed her with a time of 18:12.
Stack ran side-by-side with her teammate, recent UMD runner Kyle Larson.! e two also ran the Chicago
Marathon together a month ago
and said the 5k was just training for longer races.
“It’s just another race,” Larson said. “Something to run.”
For others, the race was a fes-tive, family event.
Jan and Stan Burns, of Duluth, dressed in costume for the Gobble Gait.
Jan tied an orange garbage bag with a jack-o-lantern smiley face on it around her torso and Stan wore a gray sweatshirt with a red pi symbol displayed on the front.
Together, they were pumpkin pie.
Creative costumes were also displayed by ! anksgiving enthu-siast 5k runners.
Cousins, Ailee Larson, of Lut-sen, and Lisa Berg, of Duluth, with their friend Lensa Solomon, of Minneapolis, walked the 5k together, a# ached in a four-legged pair of black slacks.
“! anksgiving’s about work-ing together and family, so it took teamwork,” Larson said in refer-ence to walking in the pants.! e three practiced walking
together up and down a spiral staircase at their grandparents’ home the night before in prepara-tion for the race.
“It’s all about keeping a rhythm,” Berg said.
Along with pumpkin pie and four-legged slacks, many racers dressed as turkeys. ! ere was even a turkey drumstick costume.
One family banded together as the pilgrim crew.
Jay Fahl, of Eagan, wore a pil-grim out" t his aunt Marie Hoder had made for him and other fam-ily members that were racing.
Including Fahl, there were " ve pilgrims and a turkey in the fam-ily.
“Marie was feeling festive last
night, so she made us all cos-tumes,” Fahl said.
Fahl wore a tall, black-brimmed hat, a black shirt, and a wide, rounded white collar.
Hoder made most of the cos-tumes from scratch.
“We just threw all the black stu$ together out of the gear we had at home, I bought the hats online, and we cut these li# le collars out last night at the bowling alley,” she said.
Not only was the out" t fun for Fahl, but it also amused onlook-ers.
“! e support was great,” Fahl said about the race. “Every time someone said, ‘Go pilgrim!’ you knew who they were talking to.”! e family plans to dress as
pilgrims again next year, but to extend their out" ts to include black buckles on their shoes.
Gobble Gallop ties together family and friends in annual event
Upon arriving in Dublin, Ire-land, I was jet-lagged, tense, and just hoping I could !nd my bag-gage. "e excitement of coming to another country to study for a semester had been worn a li#le thin somewhere in between all of the waiting around in lines and the crabby airport security work-ers. I just wanted to get to my new apartment, shower, and sleep for 24 hours straight. Instead, my resident director, Eimear (rhymes with lemur) forced us to go shop-ping to get supplies and stay awake as long as possible so we could adjust our bodies to the time change.
Adjusting to the new time zone was the least of my worries though. "ere are many adjustments that have to take place when one stud-ies abroad. I basically had to start from square one. For the !rst few weeks on the new campus, I felt like a total freshman again. And let’s be honest, no one wants that. But a$er se#ling into somewhat of a routine, I realized that life here has quite a few similarities to back home coinciding with the many cultural di%erences.
I see a lot of similarities of home
life in my two Irish roommates. "ey are both freshman, or “!rst year” as they call it, and it reminds me of my days of newly found free-dom of college. Joe and Brian are discovering which microwavable food is be#er than the other and the realization that they can drink any night of the week. But a big di%erence between Irish life and American college life is the week-end habits of the students.
Instead of going out on the weekends, the majority of Irish students go home every single weekend. So although they are ge#ing freedom during the week, they get the joy of having their laundry done for them and meals cooked on the weekends. Because they go home on the weekends, the week nights are wilder than most back in the states. Mondays are the biggest nights to go out!
Changing my social outings from Fridays to Mondays does not sound like a big adjustment but it is just strange. My weekends are now !lled with quiet evenings catch-ing up on Net&ix (oh, re-watch the Arrested Development series for the !$h time? Check.) and explor-ing Dublin with a few trips to other countries mixed in.
Something that I really enjoy here in Ireland is the language.
You would be mistaken in think-ing that just because they speak English, you will have no problems understanding them. Just like how America has the Southern drawl, Boston and New York accents, and the Midwest (which I have been called out for many times. Sometimes people even think I am from Canada!), Ireland also has variations of accents. But not only do the accents throw you o% when conversing with the Irish, the words and phrases are di%er-ent too.
One huge phrase here is “What’s the craic?” (Pronounced like “crack”). "is refers to anything that’s fun, really. It can mean “What’s going on?” or “Is there anything cool happening?” You can also use it in terms of describ-ing a past event as in “"at was deadly craic!” You can imagine the confusion in hearing this phrase before you know what it means.
In general, life here is phe-nomenal. I have had such a great semester so far in learning about the Irish culture, meeting new people, and leading a more relaxed lifestyle. It will be great to come back and see my family and friends once again, but I am not looking forward to leaving this great island with its great people.
Turkey, winter squash, mashed potatoes, cubed stu'ng, cranber-ry sauce, rolls, corn, salad, celery and cream cheese, pumpkin pie, apple pie, blueberry pie, and tons of food on the table were not what made "anksgiving special for me this year. It was the love, warmth, and hospitality of my American host family that made this tradi-tional American holiday a memo-
rable one for me.As an international student
from Pakistan, "anksgiving break meant homesickness due to the long distance from my family and home. But thanks to Jodi Carl-son Grebinoski, Reference and Government Documents Librar-ian at UMD, who invited me to celebrate "anksgiving with her family in her hometown of Finlay-son, Minn., I was able to enjoy this traditional American holiday in an American home and learn about the American culture.
Having grown up in Pakistan,
my perception of "anksgiving was based on Hollywood movies which show this holiday as a time when all the family gets together to o%er thanks for blessings, create a li#le bit of drama, and of course celebrate by eating food-lots of food.
However, the experience with my host family not only gave me the chance to try certain foods for the !rst time, such as, the tradi-tional pumpkin pie, celery stu%ed with cream cheese, tasty stu'ng and cranberry sauce, it also taught me about the origins and traditions
of this American holiday, engage in a cross-cultural experience, see the world from a di%erent point-of-view, visit a Midwest small town, enjoy a hayride and most impor-tantly, to form lifelong friendships. My host family also took interest in learning about Pakistan-the cul-ture, traditions, social values and customs. We engaged in an inter-esting discussion and they had fun looking at the pictures of my fam-ily and hometown.
I am thankful to my American host family for sharing their cul-ture with me and le#ing me experi-
ence "anksgiving in a true Amer-ican spirit. "e most meaningful thing I learned is that despite all the di%erences, ordinary people everywhere are loving, peaceful, courteous and deserve respect.
I am proud to call "anksgiv-ing my favorite time of the year and I cannot wait to tell my fam-ily back home about the scrump-tious "anksgiving dinner I had and that I got to experience the American culture as shown in the movies!
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