According to a new study conducted by the University of Maryland, researchers found that many college students are showing similar signs and symptoms as drug and alcohol addiction in relation to stu-dent’s uses of cell phones, the Internet, and social media sites. Researchers found that nearly four in every five students who were challenged with omitting technology from their daily lives for a full 24 hours had significant mental and physical anxiety, as well as signs of agita-tion, confusion and seclusion.

Approximately 1,000 stu-dents attending universities from 12 campuses in 10 coun-tries were interviewed for the study. The study concluded that

these students were unwillingly able to abstain or limit their use of electronics for one full day.

Students who were inter-viewed for the Maryland study were asked to blog about their experiences from detaching themselves from the digital world, and the students com-piled over 100,000 words in their responses about their frustrations from not being able to use technology. The responses discussed the aggra-vation and isolation they felt when they weren’t able to con-nect with other people. Stu-dents who had the most trou-ble were those who were most closely connected to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.

After the study, students admitted having some type of addiction to modern technol-ogy, such as laptops, social networking, television, mobile

phones, and the like. Some students attending

Michigan Technological Uni-versity were interviewed and asked how they would react to giving up technology for 24 hours. One student responded, “I think it’s easy to say I could give it up, but as soon as I ac-tually had to, I wouldn’t be able to make it through the day without con-necting to the outside world at least once.” Another student said, “I don’t think it’s an addiction, it’s just a change in how the world connects with each other. I could probably give it up for a day, but not for a long time.” Another student said, “Tech-nology is the only way I stay connected with my friends and fam-

ily while I’m in school. I need to text, Facebook, and Twitter. If I didn’t have these things, I couldn’t stay connected.”

It’s hard to say whether the effects of increased technol-ogy use is hurting students’ education and overall well be-ing. Although the American Psychiatric Association does

not recognize the use of tech-nology by students to be an addiction or disorder, it’s still in question whether or not it causes enough of a hindrance to daily life to be considered a problem for students and the future of our education.

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LODeJanuary 24, 2012

Read about the history of Good Will Farm, formerly an orphanage, currently a treatment center for emotionally neglected adolescents

Satirical comedian Bo Burnham comes to Tech for Winter Carnival. Tickets are on sale now!

Check out our review of five of the most important events that happened in 2011

Nordic skiing teams head to Minnesota once more to participate in Central Super Tour

On January 14 Ali Haidar became the 25th basketball player at Michigan Tech to score 1,000 points

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global campus: Technology addiction

jeSSIcA Kennedy

Lode Writer

Photo by Alex Mager

due to the mining opera-tions of Houghton and Ke-weenaw, the numbers of deaths in the mines increased drastically around the turn of the twentieth century. Around this time, the number of fami-lies had significantly increased since the initial settling of the area. The deaths of miners working underground resulted in fatherless children and wid-owed mothers were unable to support their families. Report-edly, some families were not able to support their children even with a working father.

Reverend F. A. Holtzhausen founded the “Boys’ Industrial School” in 1899 to accom-modate the growing numbers of homeless children. despite the gender-specific name, the original mission statement of the organization shows that both boys and girls were wel-come. In 1901, the association was granted a charter by the State Securities and commis-sions Board. The charter would eventually create the “Good Will Farm”. The purpose of the charter is written as,

“To provide a temporary home for underprivileged boys and girls in which they could

live happily and normally and develop character that would prepare them for useful, loyal citizenship.”

The Good Will Farm helped fill the social service void cre-ated by the small amounts of state funding the Upper Pen-insula received. To this day, the Good Will Farm relies on volunteers and personal dona-tions, many of which have his-torically come from the Good-ell family.

early information on the Good Will Farm was de-stroyed when a fire devastated the children’s home in Oc-tober 1917. Though all 38 of the children, mostly infants, living in the house at the time were saved, $15,000 in dam-ages was done. Immediately after the fire, children were housed in nearby farmhouses and the Houghton detention center, and some were even returned to their families. In-terestingly enough, a major-ity of the children staying at the Good Will Farm were not actually orphans or homeless, but rather children of “unfor-tunate parents” who were in temporary need of housing for them. Looking after the best interests of the children of the Good Will Farm was the main concern of the community in this case. even one of Michi-

gan Tech’s Fraternities, Sigma Rho, helped by recovering furniture from the burning farmhouse. It was estimated that the students saved around $1,000 worth of the Good Will Farm’s furniture.

It was not until May 2, 1921 that the Good Will Farm purchased a new home from the Goodell Family, which is where the organization is still located today. This house and

its two acres of sur-rounding property are within the boundaries of the Tech campus on MacInnes drive be-hind Wadsworth Hall.

The Good Will Farm continued to operate as an orphanage until 1970 when the need for a residential facil-ity for adolescents be-came greater than the need for a facility for impoverished min-ing children. during this time, the Board of Trustees changed the function of the

Good Will Farm to a “treat-ment facility for emotionally neglected adolescents.” now, the Houghton-based agency offers programs and housing for 11-17 year olds and en-courages youth to reach their full potential.

Since 1899, the Good Will Farm has been home to over 4,000 children. Though chang-ing slightly in function over the years, it has always kept

the welfare of children as its first priority. Another feature of the association that has not changed over the decades is their reliance on volunteering. One way volunteers can help is by becoming part of the popu-lar Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Since it is located so close to campus, the Good Will Farm is an ideal place for students looking to become involved with the community.

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Lode Writer

3Michigan Tech Lode news Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Unusual weather causes worryHeikki Lunta, the famous

“Snow God” of the copper country, seemed to be sleep-ing until recently. Anyone who has been in the Hough-ton community for more than a few years (or semesters) will tell you that temperatures in december, january and Feb-ruary are consistently below freezing. In the weeks lead-ing up to the start of the new semester, however, tempera-tures were unusually warm. Limited amounts of snow fell and temperatures were in the upper 30’s and close to 40 F some days. This is not charac-teristic of a january in the Up-per Peninsula.

When students came back from winter break, some swore they saw grass on the Walker lawn. This sight caused them to wonder, “How will we have enough snow on campus to build snow statues if I can see grass?” Lack of snow causes a lack of ice buildup, meaning the broomball season could be in jeopardy too. What are the factors that cause such chang-es in weather patterns?

dr. Simon carn, a volca-nologist in the department of Geological and Mining engi-neering and Sciences here on campus, is not only interested in the physical aspects of vol-canos, but also atmospheric affects they have on the earth’s weather and seasons. dr. carn teaches Ge2640, Atmospheric Observations and Meteorol-ogy, where he and his stu-dents study cloud formation, precipitation types and wind and weather patterns, includ-ing the role that Lake Superior plays on our region’s weather.

Late november through january is usually when we get the most lake effect snow from Lake Superior. Because much of the big lake is still

open water, the cold air is able to reach the water’s surface, causing the thick, blowing snow we see in a typical cop-per country blizzard. Accord-ing to carn, large amounts of both cold and warm air nor-mally sit over north America. This year, the pool of cold air is further north, less widespread, and fluctuating over the con-tinent causing more warm air to be present in and around our area. These air masses are called the north Atlantic Os-cillation and, because of their vast coverage and fluctuation, the Upper Peninsula will most

likely experience more periods of above-average temperatures this season like those in the beginning of january. As far as theories of global warming go, carn says we could eventually see shorter winters, but this change will be gradual and ap-pear over a matter of decades.

If the warm weather had persisted for more than a few days, (and thank Heikki Lunta it didn’t!) how would it have affected the traditions that are Winter carnival and broom-

ball at Michigan Tech? In 1940, Winter carnival

was postponed until Febru-ary due to a lack of snow. The change became permanent and we now hold the four-day event in February every year. Snow is always expected in the copper country and many who aren’t big fans of the fluffy white stuff will say there is enough on campus and that we don’t need any-more. Whether you like it or not, and most suggest that you try to get used to it, it’s going to keep coming. Kaitlin Lear-mont, a second-year student,

welcomes the snow. “It’s called Winter carnival for a rea-son,” she said. “A year without enough snow would be dis-appointing to everyone who loves carnival.” Because snow is central to every activity that happens on campus from the moment students return from break to the all-nighter and final judging stages of that weekend in February, it is cru-cial that snow is on the ground and that there is lots of it.

Over the years, students

have become resourceful about their snow supply for statues. If not enough snow falls directly on their statue site, students will bring truck-loads of snow from other loca-tions to build statues with. If limited amounts of snow fall across the region, however, this trick will cease to be affec-tive. Statues and snow supply aren’t the only things students worry about while preparing for carnival, though.

Moving snow is one thing, but moving ice? It would be impossible to bring in sheets of ice to play broomball on.

How would the 20 year old tradition fare if the conditions outside were to take a dra-matic turn towards weather that we’re more accustomed to seeing in April?

“Broomball has never had an entire season cancelled due to warm weather,” says Brian Hackett, Broomball chair of the 2012 season. “However, broomball cancels games if weather deteriorates the ice to a point where playing broom-ball will damage the ice and

prevent additional games from being played.” Many students returning from break, curious-ly sneaking peeks at the rinks, were skeptical that the season would start on time because of the condition they were in. “A cancelled season is simply not an option for any year because of broomball’s popu-larity among players and fans alike,” said Hackett. Broom-ball’s popularity is consistently high; this year, the Michigan Tech winter sport boasts 24 different conferences, each with 10 teams. If it were to be cancelled, the number of dis-appointed players and fans, for that matter, would be in the hundreds.

Winter carnival and broom-ball are looked forward to not only by students, but by com-munity members as well. Tak-ing a walk to look at the stat-ues which are works of art is an annual outing for families in the area. Most of the time, warm weather is welcomed, but not when the success of a beloved celebration is on the line. Imagine President Mroz having to announce that Win-ter carnival will not be held because of uncooperative weather. cancelled because it’s too cold? no big deal. no one wants to suffer from hy-pothermia and/or frostbite. Winter carnival cancelled because it’s too warm? If this ever becomes a reality, the only reasonable conclusion is that Heikki Lunta has some-thing against Michigan Tech.

For more information about Winter carnival activities, dates and times, visit (www.mtu.edu/carnival/). To check up on broomball teams, stats, and to see future game sched-ules, visit (www.broomball.mtu.edu/). Interested in me-teorology? dr. Simon carn can be reached by email at (scarn@mtu.edu). you can also view his website at (www.volcarno.com).

KATeLyn WAARA

Lode Writer

Photo by Katelyn Waara

4 Michigan Tech LodenewsTuesday, January 24, 2012

The Society of Hispanic Pro-fessional engineers (SHPe) is a student organization dedicat-ed to promoting the Hispanic and Latino culture on campus, providing Hispanic and Latino students with professional and personal opportunities, as well as leadership experiences you can’t get from a classroom.

If you have not heard of this particular organization be-fore, you may be more familiar with their largest on-campus event, Gala Latina. each year, SHPe organizes and puts on Michigan Tech’s only live Latin dance. The gala is a for-mal event where a 12 member Latin band performs live for the night. In addition, sev-eral dance instructors come to Michigan Tech a few days early and give dance lessons so students will be well prepared for the event. The night of the gala, the instructors also do a small performance of their dancing skills. Throughout the night, dances such as Salsa, Merengue and Bachata are to be found. Also, the instructors lead Rueda de casino, a more structured dance that every-one can participate in.

SHPe’s second largest event is the national conference. each member of SHPe is sent to the conference at least one time throughout his or her college career. The conference is composed of people of the Hispanic and Latino culture

with successful careers as well as college students. This event gives the members of SHPe a chance not only to network and get jobs, but also to gain confidence in their abilities. SHPe’s president Uziel Men-dez said, “I met people there that were doing big things.” Mendez said that meeting professionals who came from a similar background and cul-ture as himself helped him be-lieve that he could do anything if he tried hard enough. “I had always heard that before, but after I saw the success of oth-ers at the conference, I finally believed it.”

In addition to these ma-jor events, SHPe participates in smaller activities such as volunteering on Make a dif-ference day, participating in Parade of nations, and attend-ing K-day and the Involvement Fair. Although some organiza-tions view these events as sim-ple mandatory matters to help increase their membership, SHPe views them as valuable leadership and communica-tion experience.

This, however, is not all SHPe does. This semester, SHPe is working with the cen-ter for diversity and Inclusion to put on a cesar chavez Ban-quet. This event will be held on Monday, March 26.

SHPe is also developing a plan to implement pre-college outreach for Hispanic and La-tino students in elementary and middle schools. If every-thing works out, they hope to join with Hispanic and Latino students from other colleges

in Michigan and travel around the Lower Peninsula. They plan to have activities that teach younger children more about math and science, as well as bring the message that they have many opportunities before them.

If you are interested in join-ing SHPe, don’t worry about being Hispanic or an engineer. All the organization asks is that you want to learn more about and help spread the Hispanic and Latino culture. Furthermore, Mendez said that all Michigan Tech stu-dents should consider joining at least one student organiza-tion. each year, the Under-graduate Student Government is given money to distribute to student organizations, so in a sense you’re paying to be in student organizations anyhow. He also said, “When you’re in grade school and even college classes, there’s always a par-ent or teacher looking over your shoulder, but student or-ganizations give you a chance to do something for yourself.” Mendez said that for him per-sonally, SHPe has made a tre-mendous difference in his life by helping him find new goals and opportunities. “I could have discovered all of those without SHPe, but they helped me find it faster.”

For more information, please visit SHPe’s websites (https://www.involvement.mtu.edu/or-ganization/society-of-hispan-ic-professional-engineers) and (http://www.diversitycenter.mtu.edu/shpe/).

KRySTen cOOPeR

news editor

Student Orgs:Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

The Sigma Rho frater-nity is currently offering a $500 scholarship to an ex-ceptional undergraduate student. For the last two semesters, Sigma Rho has held the highest GPA of all fraternities on campus, and we are looking to pro-mote academic excellence throughout the Michigan Tech community.

Applications will be available in the Wadsworth dinning Hall between 4-6pm on the following dates: 1/24,1/25,1/30 and 1/31. An electronic copy of the application can also be found at: (http://bit.ly/xkuwon).

These applications can be submitted to our mailbox in MUB 106, or by email to (BeBoldBeProudSchol-arship@gmail.com). Any questions can be submitted to this same email address, or you can contact Max Pace at (734) 658-4117.

Scholarship Opportunity

Be bold. Be proud.

5Michigan Tech Lode news Tuesday, January 24, 2012

shelterbox helps provide hope after natural disasters

Imagine that a disaster has struck your community, and you are left with nothing. your house has been flooded or torn to pieces by a tornado. you have no food, no blanket and no roof over your head. Grocery stores and supply stores are unavailable. What do you do?

natural and man-made di-sasters cause chaos and dis-ruption all over the world. ShelterBox, founded in 2001, provides portable refuge to victims of such disasters. Houghton native Andrew Benda, a fourth-year cultural and communication major at Michigan Tech, says that Shel-terBox supplies disaster vic-tims with a tent and life-saving supplies, including blankets, water-storage and filtration equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit and a children’s activity pack.

Benda became involved with

the organization last spring after attending a Rotary Inter-national conference. “In May, I had the opportunity to go to new Orleans and network and workshop with thousands

of other people and hundreds of organizations from around the globe,” said Benda. “While I was there, I learned about ShelterBox.” Benda had pre-viously heard of ShelterBox

and the work they do, but he didn’t really know the details. “I loved what I saw from the organization,” said Benda, “and after I returned from new Orleans, I knew I wanted to be involved. That’s when I decided to become a Shelter-Box representative.” As a rep-resentative, Benda talks twice a month to organizations such as Rotary about ShelterBox’s mission.

ShelterBox has already helped over 100,000 fami-lies in over 75 countries, but their assistance isn’t possible without the help of others.

On campus, as well as in the community, Benda says that everyone has the opportunity to do good. “The cost is pretty low –- anywhere from $50 to $500 helps make such a large difference. you can donate, volunteer or organize events to help fundraise. There’s al-ways something you can be doing to help.”

Benda is a member of Mich-igan Tech’s Rotaract club, an affiliate of Rotary Interna-tional, which is dedicated to public service. He hopes to use this club as a means to raise funds for ShelterBox and he plans to organize an event during Winter carnival.

To learn more about Shel-terBox, visit their Web site at (http://www.ShelterBox.org). Benda can be reached by email at (asbenda@mtu.edu) or by phone at 906-281-1142

AMBeR VOGHT

news Writer

Left: ShelterBoxes being delivered in Bangledesh

Photo courtesy of Rotary International

Photo courtesy of www.koldsmoke.com

6 Michigan Tech LodePuLseTuesday, January 24, 2012

Metal Gear Solid HD reviewIt seems pretty safe to say,

at this point, that video game publishers have no prob-lem essentially selling the same game multiple times, in the form of remakes and ports to modern systems. On some level one would al-most expect the Metal Gear series to be immune to this trend. After all, series direc-tor Hideo Kojima is some-what infamous among fans for mocking fans for wanting more sequels in his games. Yet, the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, featuring ports of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid

3: Snake Eater, and Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, is a thing.

The HD Collection is just that, a collection of those three games on a single disc, for PS3 and Xbox 360. The games are ports, not en-hanced remakes: they look and play pretty much the same way they did on the PS2 and the PSP. However, the graphics are updated to take advantage of the PS3’s HD and widescreen capabil-ities. Thus, while the games have PS2 and PSP textures, they are very nice-looking and sharp PS2 and PSP tex-

tures. The widescreen sup-port is also a very nice touch for the PS2 games; since they originally had no widescreen support, and the games would go into a “letterbox” widescreen every cutscene, trying to play the games on a widescreen TV often meant having a big black border around the action.

In addition, many of the features from the special editions from Sons of Liber-ty and Snake Eater are pres-ent in the HD collection. Sons of Liberty has the Boss Survival, VR Missions, and Snake Tales from its special edition, and Snake Eater has the Theater mode as well as the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake games for the MSX2. How-ever, the Secret Theater and Snake vs. Monkey modes are missing. Peace Walker doesn’t include any new con-tent, per se, but the PS3 ver-sion of the collection allows transfer of save data between the PS3 and PSP versions of the game. Finally, all three games (not counting the MSX2 games) have Achieve-ment/Trophy support.

Now, since these games are mostly straight ports, they’re not likely going to change the mind of anyone who’s already made theirs up. People who hated the games the first time around should probably skip this, and fans who are willing to pay again for essentially the same games should find ev-erything just as they remem-bered. On the other hand, for those who missed the games the first time around but still want to try it out, this is the perfect package (and, since it’s available on two platforms, it now has a wider possible audience).

Ultimately, the HD Collec-

tion really doesn’t try to do very much. This is not meant as an indictment: the prod-uct knows what its narrow focus is (HD ports of PS2 and PSP games) and does it well. Still, the missing fea-tures from Snake Eater hurt a bit. Furthermore, people who own the original games and are content with play-ing them as-is have no real reason to get this collection. Ultimately, the collection is nice, but it might have been interesting to see a bit more.

NICK BLECHA

Pulse Editor

Final Grade:

B-

Metal Gear series

timeline(Bold entries are included in the HD Collection)

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2, 2004)

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (PSP, 2006)

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (PSP, 2010)

Metal Gear (MSX2, 1987)

Metal Gear 2: Sol-id Snake (MSX2, 1990)

Metal Gear Solid (PS1, 1998)

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2, 2001)

Winter Carnival is fast approaching, and with that comes some of our favorite traditional shows. In two weeks we will be crowning the new Winter Carnival Queen 2012. Our new queen

will reign over many of the Winter Carnival activities, and get the opportunity to ride the Zamboni during the first intermission of a hockey game. But before a queen can be crowned, she needs your support; by coming out to the Winter Carnival Queen Coronation on Feburary 4th at 7 pm in the Rozsa. Tickets are now available, and cost $10 dollars.

The following week there

is the always outrageous and funny Stage Revue competition. Teams applied back in November and the final 8 were chosen after they each auditioned and were scored by a group of judges. Each team had to create a funny skit that incorporated our Winter Carnival theme. Now the final 8 will be performing Thursday February 9th at 7 pm in the Rozsa. This year

there will only be one show in the evening and tickets are going fast. These two shows are very key to who could win Winter Carnival, considering the winning team receives a hefty amount of Winter Carnival points and that can be a big game changer.

If you purchase both the Queens Coronation tickets and the Stage Revue competition tickets at the

same time, you will save 5 dollars. You will get two shows for $15 dollars. Hurry now and purchase your ticket to some of the greatest shows during Winter Carnival 2012. Tickets can be purchased online at www.rozsa.tickets.mtu.edu or can be purchased at the SDC box office during operating hours. Hope to see you there!

7Michigan Tech Lode PuLse Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Satirical comedian Bo Burnham comes to Tech for Winter Carnival

This year’s Winter Carnival is approaching fast, and with it comes cynical comedian Bo Burnham. The Student Entertainment Board has invited Burnham to fire off his humorous songs and wit at Michigan Tech on February 11 9:00 PM at the Rosza.

Burnham got his start with a single video he uploaded to YouTube. “My Whole Family (Thinks I’m Gay)” became a rapid success, as did his following videos, especially among college students. According to his website, he began performing at colleges,

clubs and theaters, and soon caught the eyes and ears of Comedy Central. In 2008, when Burnham was only 18 years old, he became the youngest comedian in the network’s history to record a Comedy Central special. In 2011 MTV officially gave the green light to film a pilot for a show written by Burnham. The show is called, “Zach Stone is Gonna be Famous” and is about a boy who hires a camera crew to film him in order to gain notoriety.

His comedic style is satirical and, according to a Boston Globe interview his music’s lyrics initially shocked his parents. Nevertheless, his talent has impressed them both and, since his debut on the Internet,

Burnham’s style has become well loved by both his mother’s friends and his sister’s college friends. More information, videos, and his personal (and amusing) blog can be found on his website www.boburnham.com.

Tickets are $25 for the public, $20 for Michigan Tech students.

Please note that this performance

may contain explicit content not suitable for

children.

Stage Review and Queens tickets on sale now

MANDY BARBUL-COUCH

Lode Writer

ABIGAIL DILLON

Lode Writer

Bo Burnham Press Photo

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10 Michigan Tech LodeOpiniOnTuesday, January 24, 2012

The GOP and voter apathy

Down with SOPA

Let’s log on to the inter-net. Most homepages fea-ture Google, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Bing. What happens when those page get censored? You are unable to search your search engines, your tweets are re-moved, and the worst…Wiki-pedia removes your ability to search in English. Last Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 sites such as Wikipe-dia, Google, Craigslist, Red-dit, along with 100,000+ oth-

ers blocked their websites with information about the Act that was making its way through congress. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, was introduced by Texan Republican Lamar Smith. SOPA, along with its Senate-bound relative, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), is meant to prevent stolen copyrighted material from becoming available on the Internet, most notably from foreign sites. Although a noble goal, the broad language dictated within this act caused citi-zens across the country to oppose it; especially those who understand the how search engines and similar

sites may be affected if these Acts were to pass.

As the use of technology has evolved so has the con-cept of globalization that goes along with it. Through globalization countries are able to share just about ev-erything. Due to the con-nections between countries forged by globalization, it is also much easier to post and download illegal copies of copyrighted material from various countries across the globe. This creates the per-ception that anyone could begin singing “Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me”, becom-ing a modern era, cyber-pirate. Piracy has become a

huge issue, especially within Hollywood. People often find movies, music, or other copyrighted material from foreign or domestic sites and choose to download it illegally. This creates a huge financial loss for those asso-ciated with the downloaded material by denying profit to anyone associated with the production of the mate-rial. SOPA creates a solution to this problem of piracy by giving the government tools to block websites that may make copyrighted material available for download. But many now question this act, dubbing it broad, unneces-sary, and huge propagator of

censorship. Through the creation of

SOPA the government in-tends to stop piracy, but fails to see the long-term effects on our society. SOPA would make content makers, such as Warner Bros., Dream-works, 20th Century Fox, etc. have a huge amount of power over what Americans can or cannot see. SOPA would essentially create a list, similar to those in 50’s used to condemn possible communist sympathizers, making certain videos or sites un-viewable due to possible copyright infringe-ment. SOPA also makes your

GIAnnA GOMEz-MAYO

Lode Writer

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As the pace of classes picks up and the warm glow of the holiday break is blasted away by sub-zero temperatures on campus, the drama of the upcoming 2012 Presidential Election is in full swing. Like an episode of “Survivor” with suits, Republican contes-tants spar weekly on the tele-vision. Grievances are aired, scandals are uncovered, and people are voted off. If you’ve been too bored or disgusted to watch, the can-didates have dropped one by one, each as unmemo-rable as the next. There was a guy who sold pizza, the staple gay-bashing cow-boy, and some lady who’s given us pages of ridiculous

quotes to laugh at when we should be doing homework. Obama’s ultimate opponent will undoubtedly be one of the current front-runners, Mitt Romney or newt Gin-grich. Although still in the running, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum really just don’t have a chance. Ron Paul is like the crazy old man that lived in your neighborhood whose house you’d circum-vent for blocks because you were afraid he’d come out on the porch and begin an in co-herent tirade about freedom, liberty, and the legalization of heroine. Rick Santorum, apart from reminding one strongly of Amanda Byne’s self-righteous character in “Easy A”, has been out of the running every since the unfortunate Urban Diction-ary entry of his name was written. Otherwise, his love

for sweater vests is certainly alienating many Americans.

So now it’s newt and Mitt, which just sounds like a bad 70s detective drama. They certainly haven’t had an easy go of it. Romney has had to defend his religion, the use of illegal labor, and his flip-flopping on issues. Gingrich meanwhile has tried to steer debates toward criticism of Obama, but tends to get side-tracked blaming the mainstream, liberal media for bringing up drama in his past. Like all good hipsters, Gingrich prefers indie me-dia sources, unknown sing-er-songwriters, and vegan sandwiches.

What has Obama been do-ing while his rivals are bick-ering? Raising millions for his campaign and basking in a sinking unemployment rate for the most part.

Indisputably, the Repub-lican contenders are in for a tough fight. As some sec-tors of the economy improve and they get bogged down in personal attacks, it seems less and less likely that the Obamas will be packing up their U-Haul any time soon.

As usual, I’ve noticed an absence of political de-bate among students. For some reason, my Introduc-tion to Biotechnology class never offers me the chance to voice my concerns over Obama’s weakening stance on torture. Although in a conservation class, a hint of a debate was sparked as en-vironmentalism was being discussed. It involved a brief disagreement between a kid with thick-framed glasses and a flannel shirt and a girl in ROTC. He blamed most problems on corpora-

tions, apparently all of them. Then, we looked at pictures of dinosaurs and conversa-tion was shelved for the day. It’s not like I want intense debate at every turn, but voting is sort of an impor-tant obligation. I think it’s important our universities foster the debate. Or maybe we should all just write-in Colbert in november. I still haven’t figured out which is funnier: Colbert’s satire or Michele Bachman’s values.

In any event, I planned to stay in tune with the upcom-ing debates, more for enter-tainment rather than being able to make an informed decision. Where else can you watch some guy who’s been married three times and has allegedly had mul-tiple affairs be a promoter of family values?

ELIJAH HAInES

Lode Writer

11Michigan Tech Lode OpiniOn Tuesday, January 24, 2012

SOPA Continued from page 10A review of 2011As we move into the year 2012, it’s appropriate to reflect

on some of the changes that have happened over the course of the past year. 2011 was a tumultuous year, with many im-portant events abounding. Let’s take a look at some of the five most important events over the past year.

5. The Assassination of Osama bin Laden. The long-time leader of the terror group Al Qaeda and the mastermind of the 9/11 Attacks, bin Laden had been a long elusive figure for the United States government in the execution of the War on Terror. On May 1, the Obama Administration gave the go-ahead for the execution of a ground-raid by navy SEAL Team Six on bin-Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Paki-stan. The operation was successful, resulting in his death on May 2, 2011.

4. The Death of Kim Jong-il. The long-time leader of the north Korea, Kim Jong-il, passed away on December 17, 2011. north Korea has been a thorn in the side of American

fo re i g n policy makers, with one of the largest militaries in the world, as well as a developing nuclear power. The death has left a vacuum in leadership of the small country, leaving doubt as to what the future of the country will be. In the interim, his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, who is in his 20’s, has succeeded him.

3. The 2011 Wisconsin Protests. Upwards of 100,000 protestors took to the streets of Madison, Wisc., to protest restrictions on the ability of public labor unions to collectively bargain in negotiations. Dur-ing these protests, 14 Democratic Wisconsin State Senators crossed the border into the Illinois to delay the passage of the bill. The protests marked a resurgence for labor unions in the United States, which recently have lost significance in American politics

2. The Arab Spring. 2011 saw large changes in the Middle East, with the fall of governments in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. In particular, the fall of the Hosni Mubarak regime in Egypt and the death of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya have led to uncertainty in the region. Additional developments in the region of the course of the year included unrest in Syria, continued speculation on Iran’s nuclear ambi-tions, and the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

1. 2011 Tohuku Earth-quake/Fukushima nu-clear Disaster. On March 11, an earthquake, mea-suring 9.0 on the Richter scale, struck the Pacific Rim with devastating

consequences for Japan. The earthquake caused mass destruction across the country, and also caused a tsunami which laid waste to the shore of the island country. The devastation that the event caused was compounded by the fact that many of Japan’s nuclear power plants, most notably Fukushima, were ad-versely affected by the tsunami caused by the earthquake. Level 7 meltdowns occurred at three of Fukushima’s reactors, which led to an mass evacuation for a 20 mile radius around the plant. The entire disaster resulted in 15,844 confirmed deaths, with many more missing. The World Bank estimates that the disaster caused $235 billion dollars of damage, making it the most expen-sive natural disaster ever recorded.

online files at risk, by pos-sibly removing smaller sites that you may use to upload your pictures and videos online. Apart from the risks to your digital files, many question whether SOPA is even necessary at all. All of us have logged into YouTube one day to watch a video then the next it’s gone due to copyright infringement issues. Isn’t allowing a web-site to police itself for copy-righted material as YouTube does enough, providing that the website does a good job of preventing illegal material from surfacing?

Since the viralization of

anti-SOPA protests, many have begun to see the unnec-essary conflicts that could arise if this act were to pass. Since the blackout, there have been 10,000,000 signa-tures on petitions to protest the acts, 3,000,000 emails sent to various Senators and Representatives as well as lobbyists who support the bill, 98 Congress Members who publicly oppose SOPA, and 19 Senators who publicly oppose PIPA. Votes on both SOPA and PIPA have been postponed indefinitely, until there is wider agreement on a solution to the problem of online piracy.

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LUKE GUBLO

Opinion Editor

This weekend the skiing Huskies head back to Min-nesota for the second week-end in a row. This week it will also be the Central Su-per Tour competition.

The Huskies had a strong finish in Minneapolis last weekend. Several of the ski-ers had very competitive finishes.

Topping the men’s team was Jesse Smith. Smith fin-ished in 20th place in the men’s 10k classic race. His time was 23:42. Just behind Smith was Mikko Harju finishing 26th with a time of 23:57. Sondre Sandvik finished 32nd with a time of 24:19. In total, the men’s team had seven racers in the top 50 for the classic race.

For the Women’s team, Malin Erickson finished on top with a 24th place finish in a time of 19:11 for the 5k classic. Lynn Duijndam and Sarah Daniels had a back to back finish. They placed 29th and 30th with times of 19:20 and 19:21. The wom-en’s team also had a total of seven racers in the top 50 at the Minneapolis race.

For the race in St. Paul, MN this weekend, the Hus-kies will be looking at the possibility of good snow conditions this week. It will warm up slightly mid week but then temperatures will fall back to the mid 20’s for the weekend. This should allow the racers to have a good snowpack for the race.

The Huskies have had several strong finishes this

month since getting back from Christmas Break. With 14 top 50 finishers last week-end and Alice Falander’s top finish at the Hilltop Invite, there is some depth to the teams this season. Any racer has the possibility of finish-ing strong making the Hus-kies a team to pay attention to going later in the season. After this weekend’s race, the Huskies will come back home to the CCSA Champi-onships. That will the start of the end of season compe-titions where strong finishes will be key.

Support your Huskies this weekend as they take on another weekends racing at the Central Super Tour in St. Paul, MN on Saturday and Sunday.

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Skiing teams head back to Minnesota for Central Super Tour

14Husky skiiers who placed in the top-50 at the Mayor’s Challenge Super Tour in Minnesota on Saturday. The Huskies will remain in Minnesota as they prep for the freestlye race this weekend.

Bynumbersthe#

Overall wins by the hockey Huskies this season. They continue their victory search this weekend when they take on Minnesota-Duluth in more WCHA action.

2 Weeks until men’s

tennis makes their 2012 debut.

They kick off the season with a home

match against UW- Greenbay February 3.

9Regular season games left for Husky basketball, including five home games. Husky basketball is on the road this weekend but returns homeFeb. 2.

37 Game home streak

women’s basketball had

before falling to Ferrris State 68-65

on Thursday. The women came back to

win on Saturday against Grand Valley State

11JACOB SHULER

Lode Writer

Photo courtesy of Michigan Tech

Women’s basketball had their 37 game winning streak snapped this past Thursday, as Ferris State remains the only team in the GLIAC beat the former no. 19 Huskies in a close 65-68 decision. Satur-day night fared better for the Huskies as they rebounded on Grand Valley State in a deafen-ing 69-48 final.

The Huskies only tastes of

defeat in the GLIAC came on December 18 and 19 when the Huskies dropped a 56-71 final at Ferris State and then went on to a 40-66 loss at Grand Val-ley State the next day.

The series was revisited this past week, starting with Ferris State last Thursday.

Play started even, with both teams looking for some oppor-tunity to pull ahead. The Hus-kies took their chance late in the first half when a 3-pointer from sophomore Michelle Gaedke sealed in an eight-point lead for the Huskies over their

visitors. That eight-point lead was their largest advantage of the game.

Ferris State attempted to close the gap before the end of the first half, but the Hus-kies managed to thwart each attempt, leaving the first half with a 33-28 advantage.

Ferris State came into the second half focused on taking back the lead and achieved an advantage with power shoot-ing at 58 percent, raising them to a 14-point advantage over the struggling Huskies.

Junior Sam Hoyt lead the

Huskies attack on Ferris State, starting with a 3-pointer that sparked a flurry of lay ups and three-pointers from the rest of the Huskies, bringing the game to a 65-68 score.

The clock would run out be-fore the Huskies were able to gain the advantage, handing them their third GLIAC loss of the season.

With time to regroup before their next challenge, the Hus-kies prepared for Saturday’s game against the only other team who found a way past the Huskies this season.

Grand Val-ley State came to Houghton carrying a 6-4 GLIAC record. Hungry for a win af-ter the close loss on Thursday, the Hus-kies came out strong and took over the lead 12 minutes into the game; with only 6:40 remaining in the first period, the lead became per-manent. Still lead-ing at halftime with a 33-23 advantage, the Huskies ended the game with a 69-48 win, giving them a 7-3 conference record—second in the GLIAC behind Ferris State.

Senior Lynn Giesler and Hoyt both ended the game with 18 points apiece contributing to the win.

The Huskies now take a week off but will continue GLIAC play Friday when they travel to Northwood.

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Women’s basketball splits at home

JORDAN ERICkSON

Sports Editor

Junior Sam Hoyt breaks through Ferris State defense last Thursday. The Huskies went on to drop the game in a 65-68 final. The loss was the Husky’s first home loss since January 2, 2010, ending their 37 game win streak at home Photo by Ben Wittbrodt

Fillion joins as newest Hockey Husky

Many hockey fans have noticed the addition of a no. 5 to the lineup as Justin Fillion became the newest player to don a Husky’s jer-sey.

The Prince George, Brit-ish Columbia native comes to the Huskies after spend-ing the past three seasons in the BCHL. Fillion spent the first two and a half seasons playing for his hometown team, the Prince George Spruce kings then trans-ferred to the Victoria Griz-zleys for the last third of the 2010-11 season.

Fillion totaled 30 goals and 93 assists for 123 points in 178 games. The sports and fitness management major has appeared in three games for the Huskies so far, first appearing at the Great Lakes Invitational over win-ter break. The defender has one goal under his belt so far.

JORDAN ERICkSON

Sports Editor

Junior Ali Haidar became the 25th basketball Husky to score 1,000 points January 14 when he added 32 points to the Husky’s 77-71 loss to Saginaw Valley State. The double-digit points were enough to lift Hai-dar to 1,002 career points.

The Windsor, Ontario native became the second Husky this season to reach the 1,000 point mark, senior Mike Hojacki currently boasts 1,169 points, placing him at 15th in school records.

“Scoring 1,000 points is quite

an honor for Ali to reach so early in his career,” said head coach kevin Luke. “This was a also team effort not only for Ali, but to have two players

on the same team with 1,000 points.”

Before Hojacki and Haidar, the last Husky to reach 1,000 career points was Tim Strom, who ended his career in 2008 with 1,116.

Since reaching 1,000 points, Haidar has added another 28 points to his stats. The 6’7, 240 lb forward is currently averag-ing 18.4 points per game.

Haidar and the rest of the Huskies continue their season this Thursday when they travel to Northwood.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Jan 28-29 at Central Super TourFeb 11-12 CCSA ChampionshipFeb 17-18 NCAA Cent. Reg. Champ.

Jan. 19 vs Ferris State65-68 LJan 21 vs Grand Valley St. 1 p.m.

Jan 26 at Northwood 6 p.m.Jan 28 at Hillsdale 1 p.m.

Jan 19 vs Ferris State 67-54 WJan 21 vs Grand Valley St. 50-64 LJan 26 at Northwood 6 p.m.Jan 28 at Hillsdale 3 p.m.

Visit gliac.org for full standings

QUICK LOOK

HOCKEYJan. 13-14 vs Uaa 6-2,6-4 WJan. 21 vs NMU 2-5 LJan 27-28 at UMD 8:07 ET Feb 3-4 at MSU 8:37, 8:07 ET

11-11-1 overall, 8-7-1 WCHA • Takes on no. • Will not return home until January 13 when they take on Alaska- • 8-5-1 overall • Freshman David Johnstone scored both of the Husky’s goals this past

weekend against NMU •

•Lost first home game since January 2010 this past week • Ranked 2nd in the GLIAC with a 7-3 conference record • Next home game Feb. 2 • 12-4 overall•

• First home meet Feb. 11-12 • Currently in Minnesota for the sec-ond weekend of their tournament • Huskies Challenge is one of two

home races, but was cancelled •

•Went 1-1 in home play last week • Two players with over 1,000 points in their careers •7-3 in GLIAC play and 9-8 overall•

NORDIC SKIING

Men’s basketball hits the road

After two home games, the Huskies will hit the road this week for two games. One will be against the Northwood Timberwolves and the second against the Hillsdale Chargers.

In their recent games this week, the Huskies were able to pull off a win against the Ferris State Bulldogs but lost to the Grand Valley Lakers.

The game against the Bull-dogs proved to be a very close game. The Bulldogs pulled off a lead of 11 points during the first half. Playing catch up, the Huskies were able to whittle down the lead and eventually pull of a 67-54 win.

In another close game, the Lakers were able to edge off a win. The Lakers led the game by as much as 19 points with five minutes left in the game. The Huskies were able to gain some ground on them but were unsuccessful in the end with the end score being 64-50.

This week, the Huskies first game will be against the Timberwolves on Thursday. The Timberwolves have had a very successful season this year holding the number three spot in the North Division of the GLIAC just behind the Huskies. This season, the Tim-berwolves have had two play-ers average over 15 points per

game. One, Bobby Lewis, is a 6-3 senior from Saginaw, MI. He also led scoring last sea-son with an average just shy of 15 pints per game. Also a high scorer for the team, An-drew VanDierenDonck, a 6-6 junior from Wyandotte, MI has played in all 28 games last season. He had a season high scoring game against Ashland totaling 27 points.

On Saturday, the Huskies will play against the Chargers. The Chargers currently lead the South Division of the GLIAC with a record of 9-1. Leading the Chargers scoring this sea-son is Brad Guinane. Guinane has averaged 14 points per game. He also leads the team with 107 rebounds this season.

The Chargers and the Tim-berwolves will provide the Huskies with two tough games this week. Both will force the Huskies to keep ahead in the rebound department which is an area where they have struggled in their losses. keep-ing the other teams rebounds to a minimum will allow the Huskies to control the ball and keep the game at their pace. This will allow them to win both games and advance in the North Division Standings of the GLIAC.

This week’s games will be at 8:00p.m. on Thursday against the Timberwolves and at 3:00p.m. against the Chargers on Saturday.

JACOB SHULER

Lode Writer

Haidar Joins 1,000 point club

JORDAN ERICkSON

Sports Editor

Photo by Ben Wittbrodt

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AtHlete of tHe WeekDAviD JoHnstone

David Jonstone’s efforts against the Northern Michi-gan Wildcat’s were the only goals that kept the Huskies in the game. Johnstone notched two goals Saturday night less than two minutes apart, and came close to a third min-utes later, and those would be the only points for the Huskies in the game. Both of the freshman forward’s goals

were assisted by fellow first-year, Blake Pietila. Both goals scored on the power play brought Johnstone up to six goals this season, adding to 10 assists to put him at 16 points this season, placing him at fourth on the team in conference points.

Before coming to the Hus-kies, Johnstone spent the 2009-10 and 2010-11 season playing for the Indiana Ice of the USHL where he racked up 78 points in 105 games over two seasons.

Johstone joined brother Jacob Johnstone, another forward for the hockey Hus-kies, on the team this season. Johnstone and the rest of the hockey Huskies are back in play this weekend as they travel to Minnesota-Duluth for more WCHA action.

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