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The April 24, 2012 issue of the Dakota Student.TRANSCRIPT
DSInsideWeather report — page 2
Aviation career fair — page 3
Whitman: TV needs more science — page 5
Wildeman: imgur a distraction — page 5
Battle of the bands — page 10
Roadhouse Cafe reviewed — page 12
Distance runners place well — page 14
Softball falls to South Dakota — page 15
Tuesday April 24, 2012Volume 129 | Issue 47
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Wacipi Powwow Page 9
Furlong: Beware IP rights Page 4
Hakstol signed through 2017-18 Page 13
Everything was against Delta Tau Delta’s Deltona volleyball tournament. Rain, over schedul-ing and a noise ordinance fought against them, but Delta Tau Del-ta found success in UND’s love for philanthropy.This weekend’s event was Delta
Tau Delta’s 24th annual tourna-ment. Teams of five are pitted head to head in a double elimination tournament.
“We didn’t expect the 32 teams we got to sign up this year,” said Landon Bahl, the fraternity’s philanthropy chair. “It’s been a great turn out.” Of the 32 teams, about half of them were non-greek teams.
The fraternity on the corner of Columbia Road and University Avenue was the host of inflatable games, food and a free-will dona-tion car wash. Friday night the band Alleles performed, but their set was brought to an early end by the University Police Department. “Next year we’re going to try to get a noise permit,” Bahl said.
Delta Tau Delta’s philanthropy, donating all of its profits to American Red Cross for flood relief speaks out to the community as a whole. The 2011 flood affected more than 40 counties and cities, 15,000 homes were displaced and thousands of people were affected.
The tournament was played all weekend, despite North Dako-ta’s cold snap. “We braved the cold on Friday, and the cold and rain on Saturday,” Bahl said.
The cold wasn’t Delta Tau Delta’s major concern though. A number of events, including the Big Event, littered this weekend’s schedule. “We realized schedul-ing was going to be an issue,”
Students serve up flood aid
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TOURNAMENT Greek organizations host an-nual volleyball event to benefit Red Cross.
BALL [page 6] Competitors battle for the traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the tournament. Photo by William Gustafson.
Queer conference educates
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RIGHTS Grand Forks hosts weekend-long GLBTQA conference.
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Time-Out Week ends
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Hundreds help out communityDONATE Dozens of student organizations represented in Grand Forks area Big Event.
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A dreary, damp Satur-day brightened when nearly 1,000 UND students flooded
the Grand Forks area perform-ing service in the community through the annual Big Event.
By 9 a.m., a line leading into the Wellness Center snaked through the front as students checked in, grabbed a T-shirt, ate their breakfast, and got the supplies and directions to the project they were assigned.
The Undergraduate Medi-cal Association (UMA) created
a team of students and went to two service sites. First, they did yard work at a house and then traveled to a ranch where they cleared land to be used for a horse therapy center.
“It was a great day to go out and show the community that UND cares,” said UMA student
BIG [page 7]
Senate fails bylaw change
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ELECTIONS Bill called for banning members of the media from serving on committee.
SENATE [page 2]
Student Senate voted Sun-day on three bills pertaining to election proceedings.
The first two bills, for set-ting online polling times and for keeping more detailed records of ballots, were passed unani-mously.
In a rare occurrence, sena-tors voted to fail the third bill, intended to ban media-affiliated student from serving on the elec-tions committee.
At present, senate guidelines ban campaign-affiliated students from serving on the committee.
Senate bill 1213-04 was written in response to a situation between a student and the com-mittee in March.
On March 7, a committee member called the Dakota Stu-dent with election results soon
after they were released. This turned into a mistaken claim that the member had leaked in-formation.
“For clarification, this isn’t a situation about leaking informa-tion,” Student Body President Logan Fletcher said. “At the time the candidates were being notified, this person was on the phone with the Dakota Student instead of doing the job of an election committee member.”
Some senators felt that this one isolated situation didn’t jus-tify for the entire banning of all media-affiliated students.
“I feel like this is an attack on one person because of one circumstance,” Senator Kristin Emmons said. “Just because you are on the media, doesn’t make you biased or unqualified to be on the committee.”
Even if there ever were a leak, any student on the commit-tee could do so, Emmons said. Robb Jeffries, editor-in-chief for the Dakota Student, was present at the senate meetings to offer a
A free, public conference dedi-cated to discussing lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, gender-identity questioning, asexual and GLBTQA ally issues was held from 8 p.m. Friday to 1 p.m. Sunday at Gamble Hall.
The second annual North Da-kota GLBTQA conference, spon-sored by a variety of student and non-student organizations, was focused primarily on promoting unity among GLBTQA individu-als in North Dakota.
The theme for this year’s con-ference was “It’s Time.”
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[MOVIES] Banff Mountain Film Festival, Chester Fritz Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10 with a student ID.
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[CLASS] Korean Cooking in the Cu-linary Corner, 6:30 p.m., Wellness Center, $2.
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[LECTURE] Audrey Johnson of the University of South Carolina-Sumter speaks about Virginia Woolf and women historians at 4 p.m., East Asia Room, Chester Fritz Library.
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defense for the inclusion of me-dia affiliates
“Members of the media are ex-pected to be unbiased, and I believe that quality is what is needed on the elections committee,” Jeffries said.
Senator Jacob Osterman sug-gested that, instead of excluding
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Armed with resumes and dressed in their professional best, hundreds of atmospheric science students attended their annual ca-reer fair Friday.
The career fair, located in Clif-ford Hall, is part of a two-day con-ference hosted by the Student Avia-tion Management Association.
“This conference provides a huge networking opportunity for students,” said John McEwen, promotional coordinator for the conference. “It’s great for getting to know people and making those important professional connec-tions early.”
More than 15 companies from all corners of the country were rep-resented at this year’s fair.
McEwen said that even though the annual conference and career fair are marketed for aviation ma-jors, any student is welcome to come.
The conference also brought in 10 speakers to give information on the aviation career field. The
Aviation career fair helps students take off
speakers held diverse backgrounds, including Greg Cayon, a former Air Force One pilot, and Charlie Booker, a pilot and safety program manager for the Coca-Cola Com-pany.
SAMA students have spent the entire school year working on the conference, according to McEwen.
Putting on the conference is part of the student organization’s mission to promote professional-ism and camaraderie for aviation at the collegiate level.
Funding for the conference was secured through outside vendors and Student Government, which allocated $3,100 in a bill passed by Student Senate on April 15.
In addition to planning this event, the 30-member group also hosted a kid’s day. Elementary school-aged children were invited out to the Grand Forks Interna-tional Airport and learn about avia-tion. They also received the chance to become a pilot for a day, flying remote-controlled planes around the property.
The group also plans visits to airports around the country and hosts a charity golf tournament.
More information about SAMA can be found at sama.aero.und.edu.
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CONFERENCE Student organization heads networking, informa-tional conference.
Brandi Jewett is the News/Feature Editor for The Dakota Student.
She can be reached at [email protected]
The only North Dakota-born candidate for UND’s Vice President of University and Public Affairs made a stop on campus April 10 and 11.
Pete Haga, the current Community/Governmental Relations Officer for the City of Grand Forks, met with students, faculty, staff and administrators to answer ques-tions and discuss the responsibilities of the position during his visit.
Haga has served in his current position since 2002. In that role, he coordinates communication strategy for the city and serves as liaison with governmental enti-ties.
His responsibilities include manag-ing the City of Grand Forks’ legislative program; coordinating legislative priority development and policy adoption; com-municating priorities to internal and ex-ternal audiences including City Council, residents and legislators.
He also serves as liaison to the offices and staff of the North Dakota governor and North Dakota’s congressional delega-tion; provides professional advisory and administrative assistance to the Mayor of Grand Forks; coordinates communication efforts between city, government and various constituencies; and manages the City of Grand Forks’ Public Information Center and overall communication efforts.
Haga’s prior position was Communications Specialist with the City of Grand Forks, from 1997 to 2002.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in History, University of Minnesota in 1994.
The final in a series of three Vice President of University and Public Affairs candidates will visit campus this week.
Derek Hall will be on campus Thursday and Friday. A community forum will be held at 3:15 p.m. Thursday in the Burtness Theatre. The forum will be moderated by Merrill
Piepkorn of North Dakota Public Radio. A reception will follow starting at 4 p.m. in the theatre lobby.
Hall serves as the Vice President for University and & External Affairs at Jack-sonville University in Jacksonville, Fla. since May 2008.
There he is responsible for overseeing media relations, publications, web, events, marketing, branding, advertising, insti-tutional research, legislative relations and community relations.
Prior to holding this position, he served as Interim Vice President of Enrollment Management at Jacksonville University, November 2007 to April 2008; Associate Vice President of University Marketing & Communications, Jacksonville University,
June 2006-November 2007; Associate Vice President of College Marketing & Commu-nications, Utah Valley University, April 2005 to May 2006; Director of College Marketing & Communications, Utah Valley University, July 1994 to April 2005; Assistant Director of College Relations, Utah Valley University, January 1989 to July 1994.
Hall earned a doctorate in Education Leadership & Policy at University of Utah in 2006, a master’s degree in Mass Communications Theory at Brigham Young University, in 1997 and a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations at Brigham Young University in 1989.
Vice Presidential applicants visit campusGrand Forks communications officer vies for new University and Public Affairs post.
Jacksonville University VP to hold com-munity forum Thursday afternoon.
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Above: Haga, photo submitted. Right: Hall, photo courtesy of facebook.com.
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I recently deleted my Facebook. I’ve attempted to do so many times before, yet the lure of the website has always pulled me back. This time, I deleted my Facebook profile due to a lecture I attended in my computer sci-ence course. The guest lecturer, a PhD in Computer Science from Pakistan, emphasized the lack of rights users of Facebook agree to each time they log into the system.
I decided to look into the terms of agreement Facebook has outlined on their site to better understand my rights as a Facebook user.
Facebook claims user privacy is of their utmost concern, and while they are consistently updating their privacy set-tings, it is not privacy I was worried about when I chose to delete my profile. It was the surrender of my intellectual property rights I agreed to every time I signed in.
While Facebook has an entire section dedicated to what you can and cannot do on their website, the Facebook Corp. itself has little infor-mation on what it can and cannot do with your intellectual property.
Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities outlines how it can use your information to the ben-efit of the corporation, and you, as a user, have absolutely no say in how. Facebook states, “You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP Li-cense).” Your information is vulner-able to all Facebook officials who wish
to use your profile for any reason the corporation deems appropriate.
The only way to void yourself from this agreement is by deleting your IP content or by deleting your entire Facebook account. All of the information I had downloaded onto the Facebook server is now mine once again and is not subject to the Face-book terms of agreement.
When “deactivating” your ac-count, Facebook maintains your con-tent within their system in case the user chooses to reactivate. The deac-tivated material goes into Facebook’s equivalent of Microsoft’s “recycle bin” and is stored there for the time being.
If the user wishes to permanently delete their content without having
to wait for the set period, they can submit a request to Face-book’s adminis-tration. Once this request has been submit-ted, Facebook will delete your profile and the entire process will be irrevers-
ible. If the user chooses to come back to the site in the future, they will be required to create a completely new profile.
Facebook itself can be a minor threat in comparison to other users of the site. Other people can assume fake identities and “friend” you under false pretenses in order to gain person-al information, photos and other in-tellectual property you have published within your profile or the profiles of your friends.
This issue becomes more threat-ening when you or your friends have your privacy settings set to a mini-mum which allow just about any user to access your information or tagged images.
Every time you sign into Face-
book, you are relinquishing your IP rights in addition to relinquishing your rights among your peers. By copy writing images, it will deter other users from trying to claim the image as their own.
In accordance with the issue of plagiarism, Facebook states, “You [the user] will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else’s rights or oth-erwise violates the law.” But the cor-poration cannot monitor the validity of every profile within its system, and this is especially true with content. Therefore it is up to the users to main-tain integrity with their content and personal information.
Facebook threatens those who dis-regard copy write laws by dismantling their profile and barring all or some of their site to that user. Unless someone steps up and informs the corporation of illegal content, the plagiarism will most likely go unnoticed.
In order to keep Facebook from becoming a haven for pirated content, users should keep the terms of agree-ment in mind when uploading pho-tos, videos, and text to the site. While Facebook continues to dominate mainstream social media, it is becom-ing more and more of a risk for those who wish to keep their intellectual property private and secure.
I recommend attempting a trial deactivation of your Facebook profile, and sticking to social media sites such as Twitter, which limits content to 160 characters, or LinkedIn, the pro-fessional social medium dedicated to making connections in the corporate world.
You, too, might discover the truth behind your rights in social media. Be careful with your intellectual property. It should be yours, and yours alone.
ChRISTEN fURLONGTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
Christen Furlong is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can
be reached at [email protected]
‘Every time you log into Facebook, you are relinquishing your IP rights.
Christen Furlongcolumnist
Signing away your rights
Recently, voting on Measure 4 — the measure pertaining to the use of the Fighting Sioux logo and nickname — was moved from April to June. The Da-kota Student Editorial Board was disappointed to hear about this as it means that an overwhelming majority of students will not be in Grand Forks to participate in voting on a measure that has such profound implica-tions for this campus community.
But, we’d like to inform the student body that early voting takes place on May 4. In this instance, early vot-ing amounts to obtaining an absentee ballot and turn-ing it in to the county election board. Students may obtain an absentee ballot by going to the Grand Forks County Commissioner Office; although, the location for the May 4 voting may be relocated.
When the issue of the Fighting Sioux logo and nickname went to the North Dakota Supreme Court, the presiding justices decided to defer on the matter and sent case to a popular vote. And while many across the state of North Dakota are heralding the decision of the NDSC as the right one, we believe that the wrong decision was made.
There is plenty of alum across the state that are more than happy to throw their hat into the ring and there are plenty more across the state whose only con-nection to the nickname is declaring it as heritage, simply because they’ve lived in North Dakota for their entire life. But these people, these North Dakotan men and women are not the ones who should be voting on this measure.
The student body at UND has toiled with this is-sue for almost a decade, but the most recent develop-ments involved in the issue being put to a popular vote are something that every student who has been here the last three years has been a part of.
We, the students, are the ones who experienced the bloodletting, the offensive discourse, the stress and fractures that this issue has caused within the UND community. If anyone should be voting on Measure 4 it is us, the student body at UND, for we are the ones to who this issue hits closest to home.
The Dakota Student Editorial Board is not advo-cating that go and vote a certain way. We see our role as one of a call to action. We simply want students to be aware that they have the opportunity to play a role in the outcome.
So go and tick whatever box your personal beliefs and opinion drive your hands toward, we could care less. Just be aware that there is an opportunity here for the student body to finally own and account for the is-sue that has so affected our campus community.
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While browsing the internet recently, I found a video of Bill Nye dancing to his theme song. Whatever happened to Bill Nye? I remember growing up with PBS as one of my five channels and watching “Bill Nye the Science Guy” after school. The science Bill taught was uncontroversial and fun. Some checking reveals that the show ran from 1993 to 1998 across 100 episodes. Each episode had a special song about the content of that episode, from dinosaurs to sound to evolution to deserts. Bill covered it all, and he did it with flair.
Apparently Bill is still around and doing science things, but I think we lost track of him after the show ended. I think we lost track of a lot of popular science. I could be wrong, but it seems as though science is not as cool as it used to be. We do not seem to be as excited as we once were about space, and this is reflected in the ending of NASA’s shuttle program.
Almost half a century after the moon landing seems like it should be an exhilarating time in space exploration, but here we are with major NASA bud-
get cuts and downsizing. I realize that we have an endless supply of problems on solid ground, but does that mean discovery should be compromised? In response to the NASA budget cuts, Neil de-Grasse Tyson has said that under-funding the administration is the “day we stopped dreaming,” but I think it has been a while since we have dreamed.
Do we still care about sci-ence? I don’t know that we do. I am, of course, g e n e r a l i z -ing, but I don’t think we do to the extent that we did. Granted, I do not watch PBS children’s programming, but I cannot think of a “Bill Nye the Science Guy” equivalent on the air.
I cannot think of a television program geared toward youth that can tackle topics like evolu-tion without igniting significant controversy, and I think it comes from an anti-science culture. We do not want to confront ideas and information that will force us to evaluate ideas from dif-
ferent spheres, like science and religion, so we ignore the issue or dance around it to the point where we cannot say anything, and it is to our detriment.
I spoke with several scientists recently about this issue, and one commented that we want the best in technology and the highest level of scholarship to be backing
our medical t r e a t m e n t , but we have no interest in how it func-tions or the foundational k n ow l e d g e required to make it hap-pen.
We want vaccines, but we do not want to acknowledge the biological pro-cesses at work that inform how vaccines are made.
This is all incredibly unfor-tunate, because science is really cool, and it never ceases to blow my mind. I get chills watching “Symphony of Science” videos on YouTube because I’m so amazed at how the world operates. I love Carl Sagan videos because his ex-citement and passion radiate off the screen. Science is awesome, but we don’t seem to integrate
it into our public discourse as much as we used to. The Dis-covery Channel does not really discuss discoveries; lately, it has been more about strange jobs. The Learning Channel is not about learning. Apparently some sort of “science channel” exists, but I do not think it comes with basic cable.
Speaking of cable, I cannot think of many scientists who appear on late night television anymore. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the only scientist who comes to mind, and I do not know that I would refer to him as popular. Carl Sagan and Richard Feyn-man are no longer with us, and, as discussed previously, Bill Nye is sort of off-the-map. Would we even watch if scientists such as these were to appear on a talk show? Perhaps, but I do not think they would receive as much attention as they may have earlier in our history.
I heard another scientist re-mark that the decline of popular science started after the moon landing and the end of the space race, and while I have not been around that long, I suppose I can see it.
She also noted that she per-ceived the beginning of the end to have been initiated by Rich-
ard Nixon attempting to appeal to a religious group, and that ever since, politics have been entrenched in these ongoing debates about what kinds of sci-ence are appropriate to teach in schools and what deserves federal funding. I cannot back up her claims, but I think she makes a point.
The infusion of politics into science and vice versa, have not been particularly beneficial to general science. I think we see this in the lack of programming like “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” along with a general ignorance of current events in science.
Science is more accessible than ever, but we seem less in-terested in the process and more focused on the end result. We are interested in what we might find in space, to a certain extent, but not as interested in what it takes to get us there, which is just as important.
NASA says it has not lost its vision, which I believe. I do not think scientists have stopped dreaming, but I think we, the American public, have, and I do not know what to do about it.
MADI WhITMANTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
Madi Whitman is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at madisson.whitman@
my.und.edu
‘I could be wrong, but it seems as though science is not as cool as it used to be.
Madi Whitmancolumnist
Television: loss of science in today’s programs
On April 12, UND Admin-istrator Michael Moore respond-ed to my letter to the editor in which I expressed the need to protect students’ intellectual property.
Moore’s letter defended the University policy, saying that UND already has an existing policy governing IP rights that “was developed in coordination with the State Board of Higher Education’s policy.”
The problem is not that the University lacks a policy regu-lating intellectual property; the problem is that the policy does not have students as its top priority. The University is not merely stifling students’ creativ-ity and innovation: they have codified it.
Students in every academic program create what is con-sidered ‘intellectual property,’ which could be anything from a medical breakthrough, new invention, song, website or any-thing else falling under the Uni-versity’s vague definition of IP.
The University policy as-serts claim on any IP developed as a result of a student “utilizing UND’s facilities, laboratories or other resources,” or “was created under the direction of any fac-ulty member” employed by the University.
So, if a student reaches out to a professor for guidance re-garding an idea for a new busi-ness, creates a new invention for a class project or discovers a medical breakthrough during personal research and testing at
one of the school’s laboratories, the University may take claim on the IP and seize the majority of the resulting profits.
Does this seem “right” or “fair” after the student has al-ready paid thousands of dollars in tuition and fees for that ac-cess?
Students have paid their debt to the college and rightfully de-serve the subsequent benefits of their investment, hard work and dedication.
The University policy deters students from seeking the kind of assistance from professors that is critical to their intellectual growth. I’m not trying to sound anti-administration, but it is clear that this policy does not exist for the benefit of students.
On our campus, we have benevolent professors warning students about what they should and should not discuss in class and eventually submit for assess-ment.
University administrators may be blissfully unaware of these occurrences, but students will tell you that they happen nonetheless.
Students need to be pro-tected and if I am elected, I will introduce a bill protecting stu-dent intellectual property. Our students deserve it.
John Mitzel
District 42 House Candidate
The phrase, “So, I was on imgur today…” has become an opener that I’ve grown used to hearing. It all started with one friend spout-ing about the funny or provoking pictures that he saw on this nefari-ous website earlier that day. Soon, it became two friends, and suddenly it’s an epidemic.
Imgur, if you have not experienced it, is a website that declares itself “the simple image sharer.” Peo-ple post vari-ous pictures on the website, usually something to do with cats or fun-nies, and other people comment or caption the picture. The site has a rating system, with which registered users may “upvote” or “downvote” both the pictures as well as their captions/comments, and the high-est ranked pictures and captions are at the top of their respective pages.
Imgur, as a website, is ridicu-lously addicting. I was never a per-son that could sit on Facebook for hours and just kill time, but imgur has effectively brought my produc-tivity level near the zero mark. Part of my problem is the presence of so much wit in one place. These peo-ple are hilarious, and the pictures that are voted to the top are hardly ever disappointments.
The users of the site call them-
selves imgurians and, just to warn you, they love kittens. But, these fluff-loving fanatics aren’t just there for adorable and hilarious pictures, they’re also a strange kind of sup-port group. Various people with different disabilities and illnesses have posted pictures of themselves, putting a face to the ailment. Invari-ably, the users of imgur hop on the
picture and post consid-erate and up-lifting com-ments; if you want your faith in hu-manity to be restored, it’s a good place to go.
I n s i d e jokes are
also rampant throughout the site, though it doesn’t take long for a new user to get into the loop (es-pecially if they play “Skyrim” and “Minecraft”). What the website has become is a virtual community; it is there for the mutual goal of laughs and kinship.
With such an aura about the site, members are not only retained in large numbers, but also bring in plenty of friends. I’ve never surfed a site with buddies for fun before imgur came about, but now I can honestly say that I have sat down with a number of people around a laptop, pulled up the site and plenty of laughs have ensued.
Imgur is growing rapidly, with new users popping up constantly, and more computer screens at the University of North Dakota are
glowing with the site’s dark back-ground. While imgur itself isn’t a bad thing by any means (how could something so full of joy and furry animals be bad?) its effects can be a problem. Two-hour study sessions at various coffee shops have too often turned into two-hour imgur browsing sessions.
Imgur is slowly taking over the free time of students and profession-als alike, soaking up the attention of people in much the same way that Facebook has during its reign. It’s too easy to get caught up in the feel-good vibes that come from the site and abandon all motivation for productivity.
The site is tough to leave be-cause it can invariably make just about anyone smile. A few rough days have been easily remedied by some late night imgur, but a few good study days have also been lost because of it. Anything therapeutic can turn into a catalyst for stress if used improperly, so it’s important to exercise moderation or, perhaps, more accurately: self-control. With imgur, Facebook, Tumblr, 9gag or any other site, it’ll be there later.
Do some work now, and take a break later to look at some great pic-tures, but don’t let your break turn into three hours of browsing. Espe-cially with finals right around the corner for those of us here at UND.
We need to close the Facebook and imgur for a bit and actually study, because there isn’t much time to make-up those surfing hours.
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Bahl said. “We just worked around organizations and teams that had conflicts. And we had the most teams sign up in the past few years.”
Bahl attributes the success of the event, despite the myriad conflicts to the community’s excitement to get behind something bigger than themselves.
“This is one of those annual things, and they wanted to be a part of it,” Bahl said. “No matter what else was going on this weekend.”
Delta Tau Delta chose flood re-lief as a their non-profit because so many people locally and statewide were affected by it, including many of the house’s alumni.
The fraternity’s fundraising goal was $5,000 but they only were able to raise about half of what they
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dance.The team Served Hott won the
tournament and earned the Deltona Beach traveling trophy. A Bad Team took second and Ball Stuffers placed third.
All three teams earned gift cards from local establishments such as Green Mill, Ruby Tuesday’s, Com-plete Nutrition and Deeks Pizza.
“The community’s been great,” Bahl said. “It’s definitely great that people get so excited every year.”
Kappa Alpha Theta co-hosted the event with Delta Tau Delta. In conjunction with the volleyball tournament, the sorority held a car wash to help raise funds.
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Above: a player strikes a shot during Friday’s portion of the tournament. Below: the crowd looks on the weekend’s games. Right: A volley is lobbed over the defender.
Photos by Willam Gustafson
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Zach Selzler. “They definitely needed our help, and our time at the ranch furthered their ability to start up their business.”
Some groups, such as Stu-dents Today, Leaders Forever (STLF) were sent to projects to help the city overall. Working with the East Grand Forks Parks and Recreation department, these students cleaned up gar-bage around the river.
“We aren’t just some college kids who only care about go-ing out and having a good time, we care about the community around us,” said Jon Rylander, a volunteer with STLF. “The fact that we donated our Saturday morning to help the community was an absolute shock to some of the staff.”
Other students, such as first-time participant Rachel Hoffert, signed up for the Big Event with a group of friends. After weeding a garden and raking a yard for an elderly couple, the homeowner gave cookies and lemonade to the volunteers while sharing her wisdom and stories.
“I had a great experience helping out, especially know-ing that it would have taken the woman a very long time to clean her garden,” Hoffert said. “We were able to do it in just a couple hours. She was extremely thankful and her face always lit up when she spoke with us.”
While many students had a rewarding experience, Big Event organizers were also very pleased with the day.
“The Big Event went fantas-tically,” said Kaylee Scheer, the Big Event’s Sponsorship Chair. “Everything ran smoothly and it was great to see everyone come together to serve the communi-ty. The rain even held off until the afternoon.”
In her position, Scheer worked with various local busi-nesses to gain support for the event through monetary dona-tions to cover costs of the day or give coupons to Big Event par-ticipants.
“A lot of businesses are excit-ed to see students give back and are willing to make it possible through their support,” Scheer said. “The mayor even attends because he is so excited to see students getting involved.”
In the past, the Big Event has received great feedback from the organizations and houses helped. Scheer viewed many job requests that came back with emails of appreciation of the event speak-ing of past students who have re-ally made a difference.
In looking towards next year, the key is to continue recruiting students to get involved.
“There are still students who don’t know what the Big Event is,” Scheer said. “We are always looking for new ways to get the word out and help students get involved.”
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Above: Students pack the Wellness Center lobby to check in before the Big Event.
Right: Volunteers Jesse Joiner (middle) and Eliza-beth Erickson pick out work gloves before cleaning up parks in East Grand Forks.
Photos by Cullen Donohue.
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The conference’s committee chose to focus on four goals: to learn, to connect, to engage, and to be proud.
The committee included Nathan Twerberg, chair; Maddie Lott, volun-teer organizer; Sarah Mullins, enter-tainment organizer; Trevor Warzecha, funding manager; Jorja Petersen, pro-grammer; Tanner Schuh, advertising manager; Colleen Maki, sponsorship organizer and Dillon Finger, facilities manager.
This year’s events began on Fri-day with a showing of “Legalize Gay,” a documentary film about GLBTQA activists.
Following the film, there was a breaking the silence discussion at Christus Rex.
Anne Hodson, a transgender ed-ucator and activist living in Minneap-olis, opened the conference Saturday with a speech about issues relating to gender identity, sexual orientation and equal rights.
Keynote speaker Kate Bornstein, a novelist and performance artist, spoke about gender and how it im-pacts social interactions.
“Gender determines our identi-ties, gender determines who we are allowed to love and gender deter-mines how much power we have in the world,” Bornstein said.
She also spoke about intersec-tionality, the study of how your race, age, class, etc., interact in influencing a person’s status in a community.
Natalie Klueg, a book author and speaker who has worked with GLBTQA students at the University
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ing speech on Sunday.There were also five workshop
sessions, with four workshops per ses-sion, scattered throughout Saturday and Sunday morning.
The workshops included discus-sions on how the Bible interprets ho-mosexuality, how to prevent domestic violence among homosexual couples and how to make college Greek chap-ters more GLBTQA friendly.
Speakers at the workshops in-cluded Klueg, Warzecha, North Da-kota District 44 Congressman Joshua Boschee (D-Fargo) and UND gradu-ate Heather Jackson.
“My favorite part was the work-shop about the struggle for gay men to not look too feminine,“ said Binesh Mohav, a Bemidji State University student. “The speaker had his own perspective, and the stuff he talked about related to my own experiences and opened up new perspectives.”
Starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, a separate, paid event took place in the Howard Johnson Ballroom at the Clarion Inn in Grand Forks.
The event featured a dinner with breakfast food, including French toast and scrambled eggs; live music by local musicians The Sob Sisters and Eden Parker and a drag show starring Janessa Jaye Champagne, former Miss Gay 90s, Victoria Gotti and UND’s own Amy Rae Summers.
The evening ended with a dance party that lasted until around mid-night.
Jaye Millspaugh is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at jaye.millspaugh.2@
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Above: Victoria Gotti performs in the evening drag show at the How-ard Johnson Ball-room ath the Clar-ion Inn during the NDGLBTQA confer-ence.
Left: UND’s Amy Rae Summers per-forms.
Photos by Nathan Twerberg.
CULTURE&MEDIA Tuesday April 24, 2012
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Culture, tradition highlighted during Time-Out WeekKNOWLEDGE Ameri-can Indian lifestyle and issues explored during annual event.
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The UND campus is taking time out this week to acknowl-edge the American Indian cul-ture of the upper Midwest.
This week, designated as Time-Out Week, featured doz-ens of events meant to educate the public about American In-dian traditions, lifestyle and
issues surrounding their com-munities.
The 42nd Time-Out Week was organized by the UND In-dian Association.
The week kicked off Mon-day morning with an opening ceremony. Multiple events oc-curred each day, leading up to the Grand Entry of the Wacipi Powwow Friday night.
Events ranged from a cook-ing class about preparing tra-ditional North Dakota Tribes North Star Council to a presen-tation regarding the abuse of elders in Indian Country.
The Wacipi continued into the weekend, ending Sunday with the announcement of the competition’s winners.
Although he is here at the University of North Dakota, Damian Webster’s heart is with the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.
An event during Time-Out week featured a lec-ture about the Haudenosaunee and Seneca culture.
The Haudenosaunee and Seneca cultures al-ways give thanks for things in their lives — big and small.
Those things that we so often take for granted in everyday life can be translated to have greater meanings within various cultures.
“We are so thankful for our mother, the earth,” Webster said. “She provides for all of us every day.”
Most everyone grows their own tobacco and other crops within the earth and the medicines provide healing.
As for their character, they take only what they need, leaving the rest for others who might have a need in the future.
“The trees have done so much and seen so much,” Webster said. “They give us the air we breathe.”
The maple tree is the leader as Haudenosaunee and Seneca cultures harvest the sap from the maple tree each year.
As for the winds, there is said to be two sets of twins — the North and East, and the South and West.
In the winter, the North and the East winds bring a blanket of snow and put nature to sleep. When it comes time to wake up in the spring, the South and the West winds pull that thick, white blanket off.
Whatever the season, the stars will always shine in the sky to guide and show the way.
Haudenosaunee and Seneca culture lecture
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and they dancedGenerations gathered together this weekend for the largest
cultural event in Grand Forks — the Wacipi Powwow. The Wacipi (pronounced wah-chee-pee), meaning “they
dance” in the Dakota language, brought hundreds of par-ticipants from tribes across the upper Midwest to the Hyslop Sports Center.
Participants turned the center’s arena into a kaleidoscope of color, sporting hand-crafted regalia with intricate designs and patterns.
Outfi ts were tailored specifi cally to the dance event its wearer was partaking in that day. Fancy feather dancers — whose dance style originated in old war dancing — wore elaborate back bustles and yokes while those competing in jingle dancing wore dresses adorned with chewing tobacco lids rolled into cones.
The air was fi lled with singing, drums and the tinging of jingle dresses.
During the celebration’s Grand Entry, veterans led in the group of participants and guests like UND’s First Lady Marcia Kelley, Vice President of Student Affairs Lori Reesor and 2011-2012 Student Body Vice President Kylie Oversen.
A young man takes to arena to compete for fi rst place in the category of Grass Dancing. Photos by Keisuke Yoshimura.
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Great music filled the load-ing dock on Saturday night as seven hopeful bands competed to win the Battle of the Bands put on by University Program-ming Council.
While some bands have been practicing together for years, talent is an appar-ent quality in Past Your Dad as they found out about the competition and formed their band just two weeks ago.
“We knew about Battle of the Bands and decided that we really had to play because of
our love of music,” said David Ellingson, a singer and guitarist for Past Your Dad.
Those interested in compet-ing were required by UPC to sign up prior to the contest.
UPC is a standing commit-tee of Student Government that brings in entertainment acts, educational speakers, show films and put on competitions like the Battle of the Bands.
Music fans like UND fresh-man Tiffany Goulet stopped by to listen to the bands, regard-less of their genre, and were im-pressed with the local acts.
“I had to come see Battle of the Bands because I love music,” she said. “Some bands are doing cool tricks and there’s just a huge variety of music to hear!”
There was a type of music for everyone. Each band had a half-hour to showcase their unique talents in the competition.
The winning band of rock-
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COMPETITION Uni-versity Programming Council hosts contest for student bands.
ers consisted of Ellingson, Der-rick Parsons as drummer, Derek Roecler on guitar and Bradey Restad on bass.
The sec-ond place winner was the band F r e b e r e , f o l l o w e d by The Re-sistance in third.
O t h e r bands com-peting in-cluded: Pa-per Money, Rainbow Coalition and Harvey Avenue.
“There were some bands that gave us a tough competi-tion,” drummer Parsons said. “I thought we had a good chance, but you never know because there are some great bands here.”
With a set list from Elling-son to work off of, the band just
Past Your Dad snags top prize in battlehad to practice together with their newly formed group.
After warming up and get-ting familiar with the venue,
Past Your Dad was a hit with the crowd as scores of students filled the floor and moved to the music.
E n t e r -taining the crowd was a
significant factor in the competi-tion as they would be the ones voting for the winner of Battle of the Bands.
Even as the winners of the $500 prize, Past Your Dad isn’t in it for the money — just sim-ply a love of music.
“The money is nice, but we’re here for many other rea-
sons,” Parsons said. “This just gives us the opportunity to build up our band.”
The band plans to use the winnings to buy new mics to keep their band going strong.
The future of Past Your Dad is still being decided.
“We haven’t really thought about where we will go after this,” Parsons said. “It really depends on how we can work together and improve, but I think we’ve got some real tal-ent.”
Wherever they go, Past Your Dad will continue to keep their music alive and their fans cheering.
“We’re really just in this for fun,” Parsons said. “When there’s an opportunity, we’ll play.”
‘We knew about the Battle of the Bands and decided that we had to play.
David Ellingsonsinger/guitarist
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Clearance Two-Toes, bet-ter known as Ryan McMahon, shared his comedy last Thurs-day, a type he calls calls Indian Vaudeville.
As a comedian, actor and writer, McMahon isn’t afraid to speak his mind.
“I just love telling jokes and meeting new people in different places,” McMahon said.
His “slacker style” way of speaking and dressing is serv-ing to destroy Indian stereotypes and create a down to earth com-edy routine.
The audience roared as they are engaged in many of McMa-hons jokes.
“I decided to wear my ‘town clothes’ tonight,” McMahon said. “The ones we only wear for a wedding or court.”
Whatever he wears, it is ap-parent that McMahon does not look like many of his native rela-tives, which is just another way
of breaking down stereotypes. With a highly original style,
the audience is captivated in hearing the perspective of an Aboriginal/Native American co-median.
“I’ve been trying some new things,” McMahon said. “Our world is changing and we are smarter than ever now.”
McMahon was featured in his first television special with CBC in 2010 and just finished another taping for a 2011 Com-edy Festival.
He also entertains audiences on a sketch comedy hit and on CBC’s Radio One flagship series.
McMahon also releases pod-casts on his website, ryanmcma-honcomedy.com., and comdey apps for Windows and Macitosh computers.
The rhythm of drums and powerful singing filled the Loading Dock last Wednes-day as individuals from various tribes gave a demonstration of a traditional mini powwow.
Led by BJ Rainbow, former president of the UND Indian Association, the event show-cased dances that would appear during the Wacipi Powwow .
The various dances included a flag song, women’s fancy, and
When Chase Iron Eyes created lastrealindians.com, all he had was a vision and determination.
With an undergrad degree from UND and a law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Iron Eyes is a dedicated attorney, writer and speaker.
The point of the site is to share real and ac-curate perspectives written by highly credentialed, indigenous people.
He chose to call his website “Last Real Indians” because it made people call into question the idea that there is or isn’t a real Indian, and even ques-tion the definition of “real.”
“This created controversy,” Iron Eyes said. “People had a problem with many aspects.”
The first articles that were written and put on the site received over 10,000 hits on a blog in just
two months — and would continue to grow.This is just one way the media can have an im-
pact on how things are interpreted.According to Iron Eyes, back on the reserva-
tion, they don’t call their means of acquiring infor-mation the media, they call it relatives.
“There’s nothing quite like sitting down with someone and just talking,” Iron eyes said. “We are left in a different place with the new media.”
To the surprise of many, Last Real Indians is exceeding much of what bigger companies are ac-complishing.
“We really don’t realize the power of the me-dia,” Iron Eyes said. “We need to keep our sto-ries alive, but still remember the traditional media with the universe — the stars, the wind, the waters and each other.”
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Indian Studies student Pearl Walker recites poetry about elder abuse during Time-Out Week’s Open Mic event. Photo by Nathan Twerberg.
many others. Although the singing sounds
similar for each song, there are slight differences in mood.
“When they told us to listen for the differences you could re-ally hear them,” senior Kayla Skjervheim said. “It’s interest-ing how those subtle tones can change the entire meaning of the dance.”
Just to the side of the active dancers is a powerful drum that
is surrounded by singers. This drum truly brings the
experience to life as it is the heart of the people.
Dressed in brightly colored clothing with intricate beading and long feathers, demonstra-tors invited audience members to jump in and attempt a dance.
“It was neat to see the au-dience interaction and to watch them learn the dance,” Skjervheim said.
Even without words, the songs and dances that are per-formed create a powerful feel-ing that can be experienced by everyone.
Located in the Badlands Room of the Memorial Union, an exhibit examining the use of American Indian imagery in commercial and athletic areas was on display during Time-Out Week. The exhibit, created by Richard Plass, documents what he feels are inappropriate stereotypes of American Indian people and their culture.Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.
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Cafe does breakfast right
There are only a few times a day that the Road-house Café is filled to the brim with people.
The first time is for breakfast, when regulars and stranger alike pack into the small diner for the res-taurant’s signature menu items like a Trucker Spe-cial — hashbrowns buried under diced bacon, ham, sausage, cheese, green peppers, onions, mushrooms, and two eggs — or for something more simple like a Roadhouse Breakfast, featuring two eggs, breakfast meat, choice of potato and toast.
The other time is when the city’s bars close and their inhabitants spill out onto the sidewalk by the dozens. Some go home to sleep off their stupor and others brave a car ride to the outskirts of Grand Forks for a late-night meal.
Open 24-hours a day, seven days a week, the café welcomes customers at times when traditional res-taurants are closed or just opening for the day.
In my opinion, the best time for visiting the Roadhouse Café in the middle of the night on the weekend.
The people are more interesting, the wait staff is snarkier and the food is delicious no matter what your state of sobriety may be.
This is the type of journey you don’t embark on for food (consider it more of a bonus) but rather for the experience. A room full of intoxicated individu-als is much more fun and more unpredictable than the usual dinner crowd you may share a restaurant with while eating.
If you are one of those dinner crowd folks who want a fine dining experience whenever you go out, regardless of the time, then I suggest you just go home at 2 a.m.
Eating at any restaurant after bar-close in Grand Forks is an adventure that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Rules change after midnight in the service industry, so be kind to your server. Chances are he or she will probably see some pretty gnarly stuff by the end of the night.
The Roadhouse is usually packed with custom-ers and wait staff may have their work cut out for them when it comes to running back and forth to your table. Don’t expect your water glass to instantly refilled once it goes empty. Just sit back and enjoy the show your neighbor in the booth next to you may be putting on for everyone.
If you are able to fight your way through the throngs of bar-goers and night owls, you’ll be re-warded with the Roadhouse Café’s extensive late-night menu.
On a recent outing, I ordered the No. 5 breakfast, similar to the Roadhouse Breakfast but sans meat. I chose America fries to supplement my scrambled eggs and wheat toast because I know they are hand-cut and not shipped in from a food service company.
A favorite of the after-party crowd and something I could never even fathom having enough room in my stomach for is the Ribsticker. This artery-clog-ging beast of a breakfast plate is composed of deep-fried American fries layered with diced bacon, ham, sausage and cheese. The dish is topped off with a generous helping of sausage gravy.
Another popular selection is the 18-Wheeler. This breakfast offers you two pancakes, bacon, sau-sage links and your choice of potato.
A word to the wise: if you’re not that hungry don’t select this one. The pancakes are not like the dime-sized ones you get at other restaurants. These flapjacks are much more robust, comparable to hub-caps in size.
If you don’t feel like stopping your heart after one visit, the other late night favorites include the usual burgers, chicken strips and appetizer fare.
French fries and gravy is by far the most popular starter plate among night owls, but the cheddar nug-gets are a close second.
However, for the Roadhouse Café’s best, my rec-ommendation is to stick to the breakfast menu.
Unless you make a trip during the daylight hours that is. Then feel free to stop in for its daily specials like homemade meatloaf, turkey dinners and a North Dakota staple, beef macaroni hotdish.
The café also offers homemade soups and bak-ery items including bread pudding, caramel rolls and many kids of pie.
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Amidst the winds of change in college hockey — new con-ferences, new rivals and an expanding footprint — UND made clear a message of sta-bility for its storied program Thursday.
Athletic Director Brian Faison announced that Dave Hakstol agreed to a six year contract extension, keeping Hakstol behind the bench through at least the 2017-18 season.
The Grand Forks Herald reported that the deal includes a base salary of $300,000 plus incentives. The contract also includes roughly $260,000 to be split among assistant coach-es Cary Eades and Dane Jack-son.
“We have one of the elite hockey programs in the coun-try and maintaining that high level of competitive and aca-demic success was central to the contract process,” Faison said in a statement.
“Coach H a k s t o l ’s teams have been suc-cessful on the ice, in the class-room and in serving the com-munity. I wanted to make cer-tain we kept continuity and stability in these ever-chang-ing and challenging times.”
If there’s one word to de-scribe Hakstol’s tenure at North Dakota since taking over in 2004, it might be “con-tinuity.” The former player, captain and assistant coach has yet to miss the NCAA tourna-ment in eight seasons, and five of his eight teams have reached the Frozen Four, though he has yet to win a national champi-onship. Hakstol has amassed a 213-106-30 record and has 12 NCAA tournament victories, second only to Boston Col-lege (19) during the last eight years.
National title number eight has proved elusive to Hakstol to this point, but in extending him Faison (and ultimately the university community) has be-stowed on the two time Mac-Naughton champion a vote of confidence that he’ll be the
Six more years for Hakstol at UNDGUARANTEED Fighting Sioux hockey main-tains coach for near future campaigns.
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one to bring home title number eight.
Keeping Hakstol in the pic-ture long-term sends ripples through the program, most no-tably in the area of recruiting. Any uncertainty about who is behind the bench proves det-rimental to luring potential recruits for two or three years down the road. “Within college sports,” Hakstol said, “a lot of it is about recruiting and stability within. That plan is a big factor. I think with this, certainly it’s a vote of confidence but more importantly it gives us that sta-bility as we move forward and look to the future.”
Hakstol played at North Dakota from 1989 to 1992, serving as captain for his last two seasons. The former de-fenseman played five seasons in the IHL for the Indiana Ice and the Minnesota Moose, then moved on to coaching. He be-gan as a midseason replacement head coach for the Sioux City Musketeers of the USHL in 1996 and stayed on as coach and general manager until get-ting the opportunity to return to Grand Forks as an assistant under Dean Blais in 2000.
Blais’ departure in 2004 turned the reins over to Hak-stol, whose successes as head coach are only exceeded by his appreciation for his job and his program.
“I don’t know how you put that into per-spective or into words. To have the opportunity to come to work in this build-ing, on this campus and
within this program every day is a pretty special opportunity. The people that we have in and around our program make it real special,” Hakstol said.
Hakstol ultimately knows, however, that with the high profile of UND hockey comes high expectations. So despite the extension, it’s clear Hakstol won’t change his urgency for producing quality teams year in and year out.
“Our fans take it to a whole new level in terms of the impor-tance of what we do day in and day out. We try to be mindful of that and respectful of that and really work hard to make all of those people proud of our program, and we do on a daily basis,” Hakstol said.
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‘To have the opportu-nity to work...within this program every-day is a pretty special opportunity.
David Hakstolhead coach
vs. Valley City St.4/25 @ 1 p.m.Grand Forks, N.D.
BSB MGLFAmerican Sky Conference Championship4/29-5/01 @ 8 a.m.North Stonington, Conn.
Six more years for Hakstol at UND
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UND track and field
The University of North Dakota men’s and women’s track and field teams were in action over the week-end. UND sent split squads to two different meets this past weekend. Along with the Mt. SAC Relays, the Sioux also were represented at the Carleton Relays in Northfield, Minn.
Mt. SAC RelaysSeniors Emily Emerson and
Lindsay Anderson turned in strong performances for UND’s women’s team on Friday. Emerson took sixth out of 15 runners in her section of the 800 meters, turning in a time of 2 minutes, 11.99 seconds. She finished 59th overall out of 91 total runners in the event. Anderson turned in a time of 16 minutes, 59.01 seconds in the 5,000-meters, which was good enough to land her 16th place out of the 32-person race.
Sioux runners excite fans at meetsDISTANCE Runners hold their ground at invitational relays in Minnesota and Calif.
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On the men’s side of things it was sophomore Jesse Fenstermacher who turned in a strong performance for the Sioux. He ran the 800-meters in a time of 1 minute, 52.15 sec-onds that was good enough to land him fourth in his 10-runner section. Overall he took 52nd out of the 85 runners in the race.
Carleton RelaysSophomore Kyle Economy
captured UND’s lone event title of the day as he ran the 10k race in 32 minutes, 56.89 seconds. Sophomore teammate Ross Nelson also turned in a strong performance as he clocked in with a time of 33 minutes, 34.12 seconds, which was good enough to land him third place. UND placed two top runners in the top six of the 5,000-meters, senior Adam Stainiger and freshman Mark Harries took fifth and sixth, respectively.
Juniors Bryant Halvorson and Matthew McCreary turned in nice performances in their respective events. Halvorson finished second in the long jump with a leap of 22 feet, 3 inches and McCreary took third in the 400-meter hurdles, posting a time of 56.38 seconds.
Sophomores Savana Weller and Jenna Gillson each won event titles
for the Sioux on the women’s side. Gillson took the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 63.83 seconds and Weller won the 800-meters with a time of 2 minutes, 19.90 seconds. UND finished with three runners in the top five in the 800-meters as freshmen Anna Gessell and Emily Feyereisen finished third and fourth, respectively.
Freshman Carolyn Shabb had a good day finishing second in the 100-meter dash, recording a time of 13.49 seconds. She also took third in the 200-meter dash as she crossed the finish line with a time of 27.55 seconds.
Mikaela Hirst, a senior, came in third place in the long jump with a leap of 16 feet, 2 1/2 inches. In the high jump, freshman Ashley Fedie finished third by clearing 4 feet, 9 inches.
The Sioux finished in second place in the 4X400 and 4X800 re-lays. Next up for UND is some time off before heading out to North Da-kota State on May 4.
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The Great West Conference Championships is where the women’s tennis team was this past weekend. The event was held in Harlingen, Texas. The Fighting Sioux faced Chicago State in the quarterfinals of the tournament on Saturday morning.
Six members of the team com-peted in the singles and doubles competition. The Sioux were the higher seed in the competition, ranked fourth, with Chicago State being ranked fifth.
In the number one singles position for UND was Stephanie Petsis. She was placed against Chi-cago State’s Karyn Emerelda, who she eventually lost to 6-2, 2-1.
In the number two singles spot was Stephanie Biehn who lost her match to Lina Tejoprayitno 6-1, 6-1. Third in singles was Sarah Stejskal, she faced Lia Tejoprayit-no and was also defeated 6-1, 6-1.
The Sioux couldn’t catch a break with the fourth singles match either. Megan Sween for the Sioux faced Ruta Grinvalde; she lost the match 6-3, 6-3.
UND was able to tally one win with the number five singles match. Mindy Lawrence for the Sioux defeated Mysta Townsell of Chicago State 6-0, 6-4. Lawrence was the only UND player to record a victory and gave the team some hope for the rest of the day.
The final singles match was number six on the list. This match was between UND’s Lindsey Vie-gut and Chicago State’s Mia Town-sell. Townsell got the better of the first set, winning it 6-4, but the match was never concluded and the second set was recorded as 3-2.
The doubles portion did not go well for UND either. The num-ber one doubles team of Petsis and Biehn for the Sioux was defeated 8-4.
The second match for doubles was the same score; 8-4 in favor of Chicago State who defeated the Sioux pair of Stejskal and Sween.
The third and last match for Sioux doubles was Lawrence and Viegut. Their match was never fin-ished but the score was in favor of Chicago State 6-5.
Chicago State recorded the
overall final victory with a score of 4-1. This defeat is the first time that the Sioux have not advanced to the tournament final since join-ing the conference. UND had been runners up the last two years at the championships.
Chicago State advanced to the semifinals while the Sioux dropped to the lower bracket. Chicago State competed against the number one seed, the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
The Sioux faced California State University, Bakersfield on Sunday in the fifth place match. Chicago State lost to the number one seed NJIT and fell to the third place match where they faced Tex-as-Pan American.
NJIT went on to the champi-onship match against Seattle Uni-versity who was the number two seed. The third place, fifth place and championship matches took place on Sunday, and there are no further results at this time.
This tournament was the end of the tennis season for UND. Hopefully they will have better results in the tournament next sea-son.
UND tennis falls at tourneyHEARTBREAk North Dakota fails to surpass Chicago St. at Great West Championship.
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UND’s early season struggles continued last weekend in New-ark, dropping three of four games to New Jersey Tech.
The weekend got off to a rocky start, as four errors handcuffed Ben Clark’s otherwise strong day on the mound in a 7-5 loss.
RBI singles from Riley Beck and Kyle Bollander in the second and third innings gave UND an early 3-0 lead, but that quickly unraveled. Clark allowed just one earned run on seven hits through 6 1/3 innings Friday, but five un-earned runs — including four in a wild fourth inning — doomed the
freshman to his third loss of the season (0-3).
An errant throw on a fielder’s choice set the table for disaster, as a double and a home run follow-ing the error gave the Highlanders a 5-3 win.
The Sioux pushed across runs in their next two at bats, including Jeff Campbell’s game-tying home run in the sixth. But two more Highlander runs in the seventh, assisted by another Sioux error, broke the tie for good.
NJIT broke another late-in-ning tie in the nightcap Friday, as a three run outburst in the eighth gave the Highlanders a 5-2 victory. NJIT jumped out to a 2-0 lead on pitcher Andrew Thome (1-5) in the third, but UND knotted the game up in the fifth, manufactur-ing a pair of runs with hits from Sam Alt, Beck and Kris Kwak.
That tie was broken in the eighth, as Thome gave up an RBI double to Highlanders’ center
fielder Ed Charlton. NJIT added one more in the inning to round out the scoring.
“Ben Clark was great in the opener and Andrew Thome pitched wonderful in game two,” said head coach Jeff D o d s o n , “but their guys pitched well too and we just struck out too many times to get anything go-ing offen-sively.”
UND suffered a wild 8-7 de-feat Saturday afternoon but came back to earn a doubleheader split with a 6-3 win in the nightcap.
Four Sioux runs in the top of the seventh inning appeared to give UND a comfortable lead in game one. Back-to-back RBI dou-
North Dakota gains one, drops threeCOLD Sioux baseball manage to not get swept by New Jersey Institute of Technology.
bles from Kwak and Follis broke a 3-3 tie. Zach Trygstad also drove in Follis in that four-run seventh.
But the Highlander bats caught fire in the home half of the sev-enth. Tyler Ruemmele had cruised
through six innings but couldn’t re-cord an out in the sev-enth. After allowing the inning’s first three hit-ters to reach, Brock John-son came in
to attempt to shut down NJIT but had no such luck. Johnson retired the first two men he faced but ended up yielding a game-winning, bases-clearing double to Tom Bouck.
“The way we have been losing games these last three weeks can’t really be explained,” Dodson said.
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“There is nothing you can really do except go out and keep fight-ing.”
UND bounced back in the nightcap, never trailing in a 6-3 victory.
Tyler Follis and Alex Twenge both had three hits, and Campbell pitched a complete game, only yielding three runs and seven hits to earn his second victory.
Five Highlander errors pro-vided myriad opportunities for the Sioux, who finally nailed down their first Great West vic-tory of the season (1-11). The win also pushed their overall record to 5-28.
The Sioux begin a fifteen-game home stand Wednesday with a doubleheader with Valley City State. Game times are set for 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. at Kraft Field.
The Fighting Sioux softball team traveled to South Dakota on Saturday and then went south to Omaha, Nebraska to play a total of four games. In South Dakota, the Coyotes beat the Sioux 5-4 in the first game.
After a windy start to the first game in the double-header, both teams ended the game of a com-bined total nine runs. The Coyotes held the Sioux scoreless until the fourth inning.
Junior utility Kenna Olson cut the lead to one when she hit her fifth homerun of the season. Over-all, Olsen had one double and one homer, which increased her season average to .421.
South Dakota finished the fifth inning with only one hit to maintain their three run lead. The
Coyotes bite UND softballSioux pushed hard in the sixth in-ning, marking two runs from Erica Denney, which wasn’t enough for a Sioux victory.
“When the opposing team wins and has more runs than hits, that means we didn’t do our job on defense,” head coach Eric Oakley said. “Two errors were the differ-ence.”
North Dakota held the Coy-otes to a scoreless game until the fifth inning. Senior first basemen Erica Younan exploded in the fifth inning with a grand slam to bring all the runners home. UND was then in the lead. After a throw-ing error and a stolen base, Katie Dinning put South Dakota on the board with a single.
USD came back in the sixth in-ning gaining two runs, making the score of the game now 4-3. In the final inning of the game, each team scored two runs making the final score 6-5. Younan and sophomore shortstop Carylan Chewning con-cluded the victory with their hits.
“Our offense did enough in game two to save our defense,” Oakley said. “Credit to Erica You-nan for a big hit.”
The Fighting Sioux softball team left South Dakota after the split, and headed to Omaha, Ne-braska for another double-header this weekend. The results of the game have not yet been reported.
Earlier this week, Senior Kenna Olsen and junior pitcher Michelle Frank were named the Great West Conference players of the week.
The softball team will take on Green Bay this Thursday in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The game will start at 2 p.m.
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‘The way we have been losing games these last three weeks can’t really be explained.
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