DSInsideWeather report — page 2

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Jack Jablonski benefi t drive — page 6

Drunken noodle — page 8

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Men’s swim team makes waves — page 11

MBB wins road trip fi nale — page 12

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The smell of fresh pancakes wafted through the air in UND’s International Center last Sun-day morning during a pancake breakfast hosted by UND’s Anthropology Club.

The pancake breakfast took place from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. and featured three different types of pancakes: plain, blueberry, and choco-late chip. The blueberry and chocolate chip cakes featured ample amounts of extra filling. $5 bought a person an unlimited amount of pan-cakes, and an extra $1 earned them two pieces of bacon.

“The money goes to support the Global Vi-sions film series,” Anthropology Club President Tina Hansen-Martinez said. The club is a stu-dent organization made up of mostly anthro-pology majors and others who are interested in promoting diversity throughout the Grand Forks community.

The film series features award-winning inter-national films and American films that reveal the realities of the daily lives of many people from different cultures. “We hope to support diversity

on campus,” Hansen-Martinez said.The next film, “Boycott” will be shown

tomorrow, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Lecture Bowl. The event is free for any-one to attend but donations of at least $1 are suggested. The 2001 US film was directed by Clark Johnson. It stars Terrence Howard and Jef-frey Wright as African-Americans boycotting the public bus system in the 1950’s.

Other upcoming films include: “Precious” on Feb. 29, “The Courageous Heart of Irena Send-ler” on March 5, “Question One” on March 21, “Whaledreamers” on April 10, “Earth” on April 24, “TransAmerica” on May 2, and “The Lara-mie Project” on May 9.

Each month has a different theme for the films that will be shown. February is Black His-tory, March is all about women, April’s theme is environmental awareness and May’s are GLBT-related (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) films.

Global Visions is also partnering with the Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies for their presentation of “Question One.” They will be assisting in supporting the upcoming ex-hibit of the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s ex-hibit “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945” which will be set up in the Memorial Union from March 1-25. They are also collabo-

Not many students can claim to have more experience in stu-dent decision making than Student Government Executive Shane Ger-bert.

Serving the UND student body in the State Governmental Affairs position and all North Dakota universities with his involvement in the interschool organization North Dakota Student Association (NDSA), Gerbert hopes to advance his involvement by competing for the position of Student Represen-tative on the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education.

“Students should know I will do a dang good job if selected,” Gerbert said. “I have argued for

CAMPAIGN Student Government execu-tive nominated for student position.

CONSERVATION UND to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy consumption.

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Powered by GREEN, is the slo-gan that President Robert O. Kel-ley came up with to represent the Go Green efforts here on campus.

The Powered by GREEN cam-paign is a movement on campus to reduce energy use and save money while helping the environment.

“What we are doing is chang-ing culture,” Director of Facilities Management Larry Zitzow said. “We are in the process of trying to change peoples’ habits.”

The facilities department has began many different projects all over campus to save and reduce en-ergy usage and costs.

The projects they have worked on throughout the campaign so far have been costly. Money for the projects is available through two American Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act (ARRA) grants the cam-pus has received. Together, these grants total $2 million.

The ARRA was created in 2009 by the United States Con-gress in response to the early 2000s

Facilities projects making big impact

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recession. One of the requirements of the grants is that each project, or all projects combined must have a ten year return on the investments made. In order to receive the mon-ey from the grants, the facilities department needed to show that these returns would be made. With the grants received, the university does not have to pay back any of the money, and also did not have to match any of it. The money received by the university will be used to cut down on costs and save money in the future.

Projects in processThe facilities team has been

working on many projects across campus. New lighting fi xtures are among these projects. They have installed motion-activated light-ing in many different bathrooms and hallways. These lights turn on when they detect motion, and off when no one is around. The lights will conserve energy because they will no longer be on 24 hours a day.

There is approximately 76,000 square feet of bathrooms on cam-pus. Most of these bathrooms had their lights on all day every day. The new motion-activated lights will conserve energy and use 60 to 70 percent less energy than the previous lights. The new lights were installed in different buildings all over campus from the Hughes

Fine Arts Center to the Memorial Union.

The anticipated savings from the new bathroom motion-activat-ed lighting is $14,896 per year.

The motion-activated lights were also installed into many dif-ferent hallways in buildings around campus. Lights in hallways were seldom turned off, but with the new lights, they will be turned off when no one is around. O’Kelly Hall, Gillette Hall, Law school, Merrifi eld Hall, McCannel Hall, the Memorial Union, Medical Education Fargo campus, Streibel Hall, Corwin/Larimore Hall and Starcher Hall all had lights in-stalled in the hallways.

The savings anticipated from electrical savings with these hall-way lights are $12,814.

There has also been changes to outdoor lighting. Many of the outdoor lights have been changes from high-pressure sodium light-ing to induction lighting. Induc-tion lighting is a more natural white light. This will be replacing the orange glow that is common on most of the buildings around campus. Induction lights will use about 60 percent less energy than the high pressure sodium lights

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Pancake feed a � ipping success

JAYE MILLSPAUGHTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

New light switches with motion sensors stand to save the university thousands of dollars each year.

BREAKFAST All-you-can-eat buf-fet benefi ts Anthropology Club’s Global Visions fi lm series.

Gerbert bound for SBHE spot?

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students and know what the system can do for them and who the major players are. I have experience with the legislature and have the ability to bring all the key players together to answer to students’ wants.”

Shane Gerbert aims to bring students and legis-lators together to solve problems. Photo by Na-than Twerberg.

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rating with the Era Bell Johnson Multicultural Center and their new Interim Director, Melika Carter.

Other events that the UND Anthropology Club hosts through-out the year include lectures by Anthropology faculty members, a fun run every October to raise money, as well as sending students to conferences hosted by the American Anthropological Association. Founded in 1902, the AAA hosts their conferences all over the coun-try in places such as San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL. The con-ferences feature professionals from all over the world who work in Anthropology-related fields. Many of Anthropology club’s members work very hard outside of the club to advocate for human rights.

Another pancake breakfast will be held later this semester in April, so that Anthropology Club can raise enough money for next year too.

More information can be found by emailing at undanthroclub@gmail.com.

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use. Another good thing about

these induction lights is the life expectancy is anywhere from 10 to 20 years, which means the campus saves money because the bulbs do not need to be replaced as frequently.

The saving for this project are anticipated at $7,876.

“Changing the lighting in 4.1 million square feet to high ef-ficiency lighting is like unscrew-ing 18,000 100 watt light bulbs,” Zitzow said.

Another project that Facilities is working on is an experimental project involving the use of hand dryers instead of paper towels. New hand dryers are be-ing installed in Merrifield Hall and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

T h e s e are new high speed hand dryers that are projected to pay for them-selves in one year by reducing the amount normally spent on paper towels.

One of the big projects that Facilities is working on is the installation of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) sensors in several build-ings.

The CO2 is controlled by ventilation in buildings across campus. In the past, ventilation has been flowing at a constant level.

The new CO2 sensors will detect occupancy of the rooms and adjust the level of ventilation to that area.

When the occupancy is low, the sensors will decrease the ven-tilation and save energy and mon-ey. When occupancy increases so will the ventilation of that area.

“The CO2 sensors measure CO2 in the buildings and bring in outside air based on need,” Zitzow said.

These sensors are installed in

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all major academic buildings and all throughout the Chester Fritz Library.

The cost savings from the CO2 sensors are approximately $65,000.

These are just some of the many projects that Facilities is working on to conserve energy and save the university money.

Issues“One of the issues, is that no

one knows that we have made any of these changes,” Zitzow said.

Another issue that has been brought up is a concern for safety.

With the motion-activated lights, you may come upon a darkened hallway, but if you walk further into the hallway the lights should turn on automatically.

Even when the motion-acti-vated lights are off, there should be back up lights that are on. No h a l l w a y should be comple t e l y black.

F a c i l i -ties is hop-ing this new

lighting pattern will act as a de-terrent for criminal activity.

Facilities would like to have student input and feedback. “Students drive the direction in which we head,” Zitzow said. “This is your future. Your feed-back helps us understand what we need to do.”

More InformationOne way to find out infor-

mation is to attend a meeting of the Sustainability Counsel. This counsel is made up of 12 mem-bers appointed by President Kel-ley.

They meet every month and discuss different sustainability items. This group’s meetings are open to all students.

If you are interested in find-ing out more about the efforts to go green on campus contact Fa-cilities at 701-777-2591.

‘The cost savings from the CO2 sen-sors is approxi-mately $65,000.

Hannah Rosenthalstaff writer

Dear P. H. Honey Badger, Lent is starting this week. I think I’m going to give up Facebook or maybe

even pop. What are you going to give up?

ReLentless

Dear ReLentless,

The thought has never crossed my mind. We honey badgers are not a particularly religious group. We are usually much too busy trying to steal honey from bees and purge the Earth of the dreaded cobra to attend services.

But perhaps I could give Lent a try. However, giving up cobra just isn’t going to happen. I feel as though I would be

rather famished by the time the 40 days were up. I could give up peddling my wisdom to this campus, but then again who knows what sort of disaster would befall the university.

Perhaps I shall take the opportunity to please my mum and quit smoking. She’s been on my tail for years about leaving the so-called nasty habit behind. For the sake of earning some brownie points, that may be my best option. Ta-ta, my beloved pipe!

Affectionately,

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GOODWILL It is time for us to set aside our petty differences and be good neighbors to our rivals in mourning.

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This past weekend, I had the chance to go back home and see my family. It was really great to see them again, especially since we were celebrating both my dad and grandmother’s birthdays. For some reason, I couldn’t help but get the feeling that it would be a long time until I saw them again. It stuck with me all weekend and put a slight damper on my mood. But I just shrugged it off. I told myself that I would see them again soon, even with me mov-ing to Grand Forks for the summer.

I wanted to leave around two o’ clock in the afternoon, but you know how women can be (I hope that doesn’t get me slapped). So we left around 2:45 instead. For a brief moment, that sense of finality came back, but quickly disappeared. We packed up the car and took off, heading north on I-94. I was a little upset about leaving later than expected, but I soon realized how lucky we were.

Saint Cloud is roughly an hour south of Alexandria, Minn., our first check-point. The weather was hor-rible; as many of you know, there were two winter storms that came through the area. I believe that the fastest I was able to go was about

50mph (in a 70mph zone). I could only see the two cars in front of me, then nothing but white. Without a doubt, it was the worst conditions I have ever driven in. As cars were flying past us (idiots), I sarcastically stated that if they wanted to get into an accident, it was their fault for driving that way. As I said that, I found it odd that there was no on-coming traffic. Just as I was about to say something to my girlfriend, we saw the flashing lights.

We drove past the scene; lights material-izing through the heavy snow, tire marks across the median, a completely de-stroyed van, a crushed car and a long line of traffic. Looking

at the vehicles, we both knew that there was no way anyone could have come out of that wreck alive. Po-lice, fire-crew and paramedics were hard at work trying to separate two of the three cars that were involved in the accident. This is where the really odd part comes in. The acci-dent happened roughly a half-hour before we got to that point. Had we left when we wanted to, we may have been involved in the crash.

This accident I’m sure will hit home with several of us in North Dakota. All four individuals lost their lives when their car lost con-trol, went over the median and was hit head on by an SUV. Lau-ren Peterson, Jordan Playle, Megan

Sample and Danielle Renninger were freshmen at North Dakota State University. Three of the four were 18 years old, the other was 19. I understand that accidents happen all the time, and people do get hurt; but to be that close to something, to think that you could have been in-volved in something like that, it still clenches my heart.

Throughout the remainder of the five-hour drive, normally three-and-a-half, I could not get the image of the cars out of my head, seem-ingly welded together. And yet, to my utter astonishment, people were still flying past me. Needless to say, I had only a few choice words for those individuals.

How could anyone, in all hon-esty, be that stupid? How the hell can anyone think that they can drive 70mph when visibility is well under a quarter-mile? What can be that important that you have to risk your life and the lives of oth-ers on the road? Please, have some common sense, people. There is no reason at all to be speeding down the highway, even after seeing the wreck. That is just complete igno-rance, and those people should not be allowed to hold a driver’s license.

My heart and prayers go out to the families of the four who lost their lives. I wish that there were something more that I could have done. I venture to guess that I speak on behalf of the University of North Dakota when I say that we all send our thoughts and prayers to the families involved.

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‘This accident I’m sure will hit home with several of us in North Dakota.

Patrick Cavanaughcolumnist

Patrick Cavanaugh is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at patrick.cavana-

ugh@my.und.edu

Car accident: being con-scious of others on road

All clichés aside, tragedy has struck the state of North Dakota.

Lauren Peterson, Jordan Playle, Danielle Renninger and Megan Sample, North Dakota State University students, lost their lives in a horrible car crash on I-94 west of Alexandria, Minn. on Monday afternoon.

Peterson was unable to maintain control of her car through the adverse winter weather that caused numer-ous accidents across North Dakota and Minnesota. Her vehicle careened across the median and into on-coming traffic, colliding with an SUV.

As columnist Patrick Cavanaugh describes on the opposite side of this page, the scene left observers with little hope that any of the six people involved with the crash would leave that frozen road with their lives.

Thankfully, the sole occupants of both the SUV and another vehicle involved in the accident did not sustain life-threatening injuries.

The entire staff at the Dakota Student wishes to express their condolences to families, friends and class-mates of the four young women who met their demise much earlier than anyone could expect.

Proximity, school size, athletics and other variables have created a rivalry between the University of North Dakota and NDSU. Now is not the time to cling to such petty differences. UND, we must embrace our brothers and sisters in Fargo, and help them through this difficult time.

That said, this event does not only affect NDSU. Many of us have friends, family, or significant others in Fargo, where all four women were in school. A large portion of the UND population has roots in the Twin Cities area, where all four women hailed from.

We have seen what our student body can do in times of need, and the Dakota Student Editorial Board is optimistic that UND will once again rise to the oc-casion and prove to be able to be compassionate, con-tributing members of the North Dakota community.

With the winter sports playoff season around the corner, and Spring Break just beyond that, it now seems to be a fitting time to once again implore anyone travelling to exercise extreme caution.

This fresh round of snow (and a forecast for more to come) turns our streets and highways into linear ice rinks, severely inhibiting drivers’ ability to react to hazards. Taking the time to do the little things, like completely scraping off your window, properly main-taining your windshield wipers and planning in extra travel time, can literally save lives.

After all, the last thing we need is for tragedy to strike our campuses twice in one year.

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Professors should make better use of technologyTechnology is advancing ev-

ery day; it is a whirlwind of con-stant change and updates. A great technological tool developed for education is Blackboard, a type of software that specializes in course management for university stu-dents. Blackboard should be a tool every student is familiar with here at the University of North Dakota. However, there are rea-sons why some students are not.

Blackboard, as a software pro-gram, allows professors to post online quizzes, course material, PowerPoint presentations, videos, and even stimulate email com-munication between students. So wouldn’t you think professors are taking advantage of this compli-mentary service given to students and faculty by UND? I would; but, they’re not.

Not even half of my current professors have even set up a page for the courses on the site. Cours-es with consistent Blackboard updates allow me, as a student, to stay up-to-date on my course-work, get feedback on my grades and study for tests. I have access to past chapter material, handout copies, updated syllabi and email information for my classmates. The email feature alone is worth

its weight in gold since I have yet to find a student contact informa-tion database for UND outside of Blackboard.

Today’s students are fast-paced, continually multitasking and immersing themselves in jobs, extracurricular clubs and social-izing. They have laptops, iPads, phones, MP3 players and intense gaming systems. Using software like Blackboard is expected within our genera-tion. Black-board gives teachers the capability to inform stu-dents of class cancellations or due date changes. It also provides tools to assist the professor in sparking conver-sation between students through discussion boards and comment features. But, despite all these positive attributes, some profes-sors still refuse to use it.

This morning, I walked all the way across campus to find out my class was cancelled. My professor could have saved me a lot more time by posting that announce-ment on Blackboard or sending it by email.

I understand many professors

have been teaching long before the World Wide Web was even in-vented, which was in 1989. This was also the year—or close to the year—in which many UND students were born. We grew up with the Web, unlike many of our professors who have had to learn its capabilities at a later age.

Modern college students re-fuse to even consider an era where scholars were forced to look up

information from library shelves and spend hours typing pa-pers on a typewr i t e r. Yet, I guar-antee stu-dents from the 1970’s and 1980’s

would have jumped at the chance to use the WWW while in college, not to mention have a tool like Blackboard.

I’ve always been a huge advo-cate for books and preservation of physical publications. But there is no way I can deny how the Inter-net and Blackboard have positive-ly impacted both my high school and college careers through online research. Blackboard is an inte-gral aspect of language courses, ROTC programs and large lecture

classes because of limited time for instructors to pay particular atten-tion to each student. A professor, teaching a class of over 150, will not be able to meet with each of his students; Blackboard helps to bridge that gap.

Living in a residence without Internet access is inconceivable in this day and age. I can only imag-ine how difficult it would be to accomplish my work without it. Therefore, with the Internet being a necessity on college campuses, not only should professors learn to use Blackboard, they should implement it efficiently and con-sistently. Students are required to have Blackboard accounts and are required to check them often. Why aren’t professors expected to follow this rule as well?

Also, at what point do pro-fessors disregard technology and leave their students stranded, without access to material, lec-tures or announcements? Between all the classes I’m taking and jobs I’m employed with, I often forget what is due when and which class it is due for. I lose track of days, show up to the wrong classes and stay up for lengthy hours accom-plishing homework and studying for tests. Life would be a lot easier if I could actually use Blackboard from time to time.

Quite frankly, the only con-

sistent Blackboard users tend to be online professors who commu-nicate with their students solely through email and the software. At my previous university, Black-board was used heavily in many of my courses because teachers relied upon it as heavily as the students in order to keep on track. My ROTC detachment even used it as a way to provide military forms and protocol to the cadets. After having Blackboard take such an important role in my life there, making the transition to use Blackboard less and less, has been far from appealing.

Personally, I hope UND pro-fessors realize the importance of using the full potential of Web software to teach. Technology opens doors to education beyond our campus borders and links students together not only inside the classroom, but outside as well. Blackboard is that key to mak-ing education more effective and more applicable to today’s society. So, professors, if you are reading this and are not using Blackboard, please reconsider. Your students will thank you.

ChRISTEN FuRLONGTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

‘Not even half of my current professors have even set up a page for courses on the site.

Christen Furlongcolumnist

Christen Furlong is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can

be reached at christen.furlong@my.und.edu

Everyone has those friends that cannot be tagged in certain pictures on Facebook because of their major or some other reason. Is it neces-sarily a bad thing to un-tag them right away? Do you think future employers would rather see your true self, or a person who is hiding things to seem like a better pick for the job? I believe you should just be yourself and be tagged.

Obviously it is harder to hide those risqué photos of yourself now then it was, say, ten years ago. Today social networking has made it a difficult challenge to hide cer-tain aspects of your life that your employer may not appreciate. I can understand if you have a big scholarship that you cannot lose and you do not want that picture of you holding a beer on your pro-file. But I think some employers would appreciate an honest person by having those certain pictures or posts on your profile.

You can go ahead and try to hide or delete those posts and pho-tos, but if you show up hung over to work then they will probably think you are hiding other things about yourself. So why hide the true you and be honest?

People should understand that social networking is, well, social! They need to understand that the use of Facebook and Twitter are mainly to connect with friends. If you are the partying type, then more than likely you will have

drunken pictures of yourself in your friends’ album. Also it is un-fair that employers can use this against certain prospects because it may only show one side of a person. That same person who is passed out on someone’s car could also be his/her high school valedic-torian, have a very high grade point average in college or even be the most responsible and trustworthy person for hire.

What some employers should remember is that they were young once. They probably made similar decisions while they were your age, and should just stop and think if their judgment should be based on a few photos. Not everyone is go-ing to be that good kid who does not drink until they are 21. The reality is there are students who drink underage. If you show up either drunk or hung over to your job, that is obviously your own fault and you need to take respon-sibility for that. If you do drink, be smart, but also remember to allow yourself to be free and to not let certain jobs affect your social net-work reputation. My main point is to make sure to be yourself. I am not saying that you are wrong to hide those photos, but just remem-ber that you are allowed to have a social life and that certain jobs should not control that. So be free and just enjoy the time you have as a college student!

jADE jACOBSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Jade Jacobson is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be

reached at jade.jacobson@my.und.edu

Don’t tag that photo of me

Everybody has that one subject that they know an almost uncom-fortable amount about. You know, the one topic you could probably create a Wikipedia page on just from memory.

I know this kid who I swear knows everything possible about WWII. Once one of his buddies and I grabbed a book of WWII people from both the Ally and Axis powers and just started reading him names. He would re-spond with a short descrip-tion of what that person did. It was mystifying.

My topic of choice? Dinosaurs. I own the entire Walking with

Dinosaurs collection and have 50 plus action figures and other Ju-rassic Park memorabilia sitting in a Rubbermaid tub at my parents’ house. I have cookie-cutters. I even have a plastic mold that will cut a sandwich in the shape of two di-nosaurs while removing the crust at the same time.

Most of my art projects in high school revolved around the crea-tures. I love visiting museums, and fossil shops are a must for me.

Yep, I’m the person who cring-es whenever somebody mentions Brontosaurus. Why? Because the Brontosaurus is as real as a uni-corn. Look it up. The correct spe-cies name is Apatosaurus. I hope I didn’t uproot anyone’s childhood memories with that fun fact.

This dedication to (and often defense of ) dinosaur knowledge wasn’t the most socially acceptable thing when I was a kid though. My affinity with dinosaurs was a source

of entertain-ment for my peers grow-ing up.

Ask any-body who I went to school with, this girl was going to be a paleontolo-gist and dig up dinosaur

fossils when she grew up. I suppose people always thought I’d eventual-ly grow out of this seemingly child-ish interest and become a doctor or whatever else “smart” people go on to do.

My best friend from high school even once admitted to me that before we became buddies, she thought I was the biggest nerd ever because of the whole dinosaur obsession. Luckily she accepted me into her life despite my addiction to “Jurassic Park.”

Other people weren’t as open to the idea, and I endured my share of teasing for it as a kid.

Right before graduating high school, I ended up switching ma-jors from Geology to Communi-cation. I gave up my childhood dream for the reality that was go-ing to kick me in the face when I graduated with a degree and no job prospects. Luckily for me, I enjoy journalism as much as I love watching the T-Rex rip that guy off the toilet in “Jurassic Park.”

Everything changed when I got to college. When I arrived on cam-pus, I kept my obsession a secret from my new friends. As I grew closer to them, I started to open up about my interest in dinosaurs.

Instead of getting that “There she goes again with that dinosaur hooey” look my high school class-mates liked to throw me whenever I mentioned the prehistoric ani-mals, they thought it was cool and were genuinely interested in my decades-long fascination.

I was no longer that weird girl with the thing for dinosaurs. I was a normal person who happened to know a lot about the subject.

I realize now that dinosaurs are the purest form of my true self. If someone cannot accept my love of all things dinosaur, they in turn cannot accept me for who I truly am.

I believe this true for everyone with an odd fascination. Our in-terests define us, set us apart, make people want to talk to us and make us, well, interesting.

BRANDI jEWETTTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

‘When I arrived on campus, I kept my obsession a secret from my new friends.

Brandi JewettEditor-in-Chief

Brandi Jewett is the Editor-in-Chief for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at brandi.jewett.1@

my.und.edu

My own PostSecret: there is a little dino in my DNA

Friday February 24, 2012 6 |NEWS

Traditionally, NDSA nomi-nates three students from across the state for the position. Then the governor selects one of the nominees to serve as Student Rep-resentative for one academic year. So far, NDSA has only nominated two students. Gerbert is the only UND student and his competitor attends NDSU.

“I am optimistic about my chances,” Gerbert said. “I want to be fair to all campuses in North Dakota. By being from a larger school, I have an idea of the prob-lems larger schools face. I also understand smaller school needs with my experience in NDSA.”

Being a Student Representa-tive entails attending monthly State Board of Higher Education meetings, outreach to students and officials on the college cam-puses, and exercising full voting rights on the Board.

“The Student Representative

UND students sell T-shirts to benefit injured athlete

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CHaritY Students rais-ing money to help pay high school hockey player’s medical bills.

After a tragic hockey acci-dent, UND community mem-bers are helping one family pick up the pieces of their son’s life.

Students selling are selling T-shirts to raise money for Jack Jablonski, a 16-year-old sopho-more from Minnesota, who re-ceived a spinal cord injury dur-ing a hockey game on Dec. 30.

“We want to show UND cares about people outside of the Grand Forks community,” said Meredith Ward, a resident assis-tant in Noren Hall and coordi-nator of the UND Jack Jablonski fundraising efforts.

Jablonski was pursuing a loose puck when he was checked by another player. The check sent Jablonski headlong into the boards—leaving him two broken vertebrae and a severed spinal cord.

Since the accident, Jablonski

has been in physical therapy and can now pick up objects with his right thumb and index fingers.

His mother, Leslie Jablonski, keeps an online journal to ensure Jack’s friends and family are up-dated on his recovery status.

“He truly amazes us,” she writes about her son. “How he remains upbeat through all of this is simply incredible. He’s always smiling, always positive, always determined, and always gracious.”

UND connectionEven though the young man

plays for Benilde-St. Margarets High School in St. Louis Park, Minn.—five hours away from campus—UND students are taking up his cause.

Noren Hall will begin selling T-shirts in order to raise funds for the young hockey player. The origin of the fundraising cam-paign is a personal one.

“One of the members of my hall government went to high school with Jack,” Ward said. “It’s a cause that is near to his heart.”

Ward says she is chairing the initiative, but her hall govern-ment is behind her and provid-ing volunteers for the campaign.

The group will be selling

the T-shirts in the Memorial Union from Feb. 26 to March 2. They may expand their efforts to Wilkerson Hall if they get enough volunteers, Ward said.

The shirts will cost $10, with 100 percent of the proceeds go-ing to Jablonski’s family to help pay for medical expenses.

Ward says the print compa-ny, S&S Promotions, will also be donating four shirts to Jablon-ski’s family.

Benilde-St. Margarets has also expressed interest in the shirts, she said.

If the demand is large

enough, another order of T-shirts will be placed later in March.

“We are North Dakota and we are hockey fans,” Ward said. “We want his family to know that we’re with them.”

UND isn’t the only organi-zation helping out the Jablon-ski family. The Minnesota Wild hockey team and Panera Bread bakeries have both announced fundraising campaigns to help Jablonski—called “Jabby” by his friends and family.

A golf tournament and a music event called JabbyFest are

scheduled for later this year.How to helpIf you want to contribute to

the UND fundraising campaign, you can stop by the Memorial Union to buy a T-shirt. For more information email Ward at Mer-edith.Ward@my.und.edu.

Want to help but don’t want to buy a shirt? Make a donation online at http://www.jabby13.com.

Brandi Jewett is the Editor-in-Chief of The Dakota Student. She can be reached at brandi.jewett.1@

my.und.edu

UND students designed T-shirts (left) to sell. All proceeds from the shirt sales will be used by the family of Jack Jablonski (right) for medical expenses. Jablonski, 16, was injured during a Dec. 30 hockey game. T-shirt design submitted.

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GErBErt FROM PAGE [1] is the bridge between students and

the universities,” Gerbert said. “I would work with members of the board to look at different policies and the chancellor as he approves these policies.”

If selected for the position, Gerbert has certain issues he wants to tackle such as maximiz-ing results through efficiently run school systems.

“As students, we pay so much into the school system; we want the biggest bang for our buck,” Gerbert said. “I will get behind anything that increases efficiency and productivity.”

Gerbert wants to bring ef-ficiency to student fees as well. Essentially, there are two tiers to these fees. A portion goes direct-ly to one’s particular school and another portion goes to services used across the entire state such as Campus Connection.

“Some policies are set in stone but others can be changed,” Ger-bert said. “I want to do more with-out increasing fees on students.”

The State Board of Higher

Education is also in the process of selecting a new chancellor.

Gerbert says he would try to connect the chancellor to the spe-cific needs of North Dakota stu-dents which is especially critical if the chancellor comes from outside of the state.

“I would help the chancellor transition into his position,” Ger-bert said. “I want to give him the North Dakota student point of view and help him lead the Board in that direction.”

Gerbert says he is confident he has the experience and drive to fulfill the position.

“I have been active in the legis-lature and made connections with our representatives and senators. I also have met with our governor,” he said. “It’s all about networking and looking back at what you have done in the past and how you did it.”

Kaitlin Bezdicek is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be

reached at kaitlin.bezdicek@my.und.edu

Residence hall to host male beauty pageant

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While most beauty pageant participants are usually women, one residence hall is putting on a all-male pageant while raising money for charity at the same time.

Squires Hall will hold its 2nd annual Mr. Squires Pageant in the Memorial Union Loading Dock.

The pageant will feature a male representative from each of the campus’s residence halls.

The guys will compete in various categories including for-

mal wear, swimsuit and talent.All participants are also

learning a dance to perform for the audience.

The show starts at 6:30 p.m. and a free-will donation will be taken. Proceeds will be given to the Community Violence Inter-vention Center in Grand Forks.

The group has also been sell-ing Hershey’s Kiss roses to raise addition funds before the pag-eant.

Today is the last day to pur-chase the roses, sold at the Me-morial Union from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

CULTURE&MEDIA Friday February 24, 2012

Drunken Noodle reviewPage 8

“Some Nights” reviewPage 8

How do you begin to accept the fact that your son has died in the war? Or better yet, how do you come to terms with the fact that your husband was inadvertently the cause of his death?

For Kate Keller the answer is simple: You hold on to the fact that he’s simply just missing, not dead, missing.

In Arthur Miller’s 1947 play “All My Sons,” the death of their oldest son rips holes in Kate and Joe Keller’s life and relation-ship.

“The play explores the confl ict between social responsibility and moral materialism that culminates in a family’s tragic reck-oning,” said Director Kathleen McLennan.

Joe has come to terms with his son’s death while his wife holds on to a shred of hope that he’s still alive, even if he has been missing for three years.

Chris, their surviving son, falls in love with his brother’s fi ancée, Anne, and brings her home to tell his family of their plans to marry.

Joe is accepting of their plans and wishes them nothing but the best. Kate however, knows that if she accepts this marriage, it means accepting and facing the harsh reality that Larry is dead.

There is only one thing that can convince Kate that Larry isn’t coming back, and that lies in the note Anne received mo-ments before Larry went “missing.”

In this play, virtue is not measured in business terms or lim-ited to one’s family. The play is a challenge to the values that have been at the heart of American life since its beginnings, with one of those values being honesty. Joe needs to fi nd the strength within him to acknowledge his mistakes and own up to his past mistakes.

Dr. Jim Bayliss, a friend to the Keller family put it best when he said, “Everyone has a star, the star of one’s honesty”.

It isn’t until Kate’s brother drops by for a visit that every-one’s stories seem to fall apart. Lies are exposed and secrets are discovered that can destroy them all.

This performance is the third show of the season with return-ing artists Nick McConnell, Emily Elisabeth, and Daniella Lima, just to name a few.

“The cast enjoyed exploring the moral urgency of the charac-ters. They were able to create a middle class neighborhood that appears okay on the surface but where each of them has some sorrow or disappointment they have to live with,” McLennan said.

Chelsie Renee Pollert plays Kate Keller and guest artist, Darin Kerr, who is well known to local audi-ences, returns to Grand Forks and to UND to per-form the heartfelt patriarch role of Joe Keller.

“Darin has always been a joy to direct. He has a keen sense of the character and a wonderful sense of the arc of the story so is able to move from a strong, up-standing member of the community who is a wonderful boss, to a man stripped of everything that he loves,” McLennan said.

Performances of “All My Sons” began on Tuesday and will conclude tomorrow. Shows start at 7:30 p.m. in the Burtness Lab Theatre.

Tickets can be purchased at the door. Costs for adult tickets are $10 and tickets for students are $5.

‘All My Sons’ challenges traditional values

appears okay on the surface but where each of them has some sorrow or disappointment they have to live

Chelsie Renee Pollert plays Kate Keller and guest artist, Darin Kerr, who is well known to local audi-ences, returns to Grand Forks and to UND to per-form the heartfelt patriarch role of Joe Keller.

“Darin has always been a joy to direct. He has a keen sense of the character and a wonderful sense of the arc of the story so is able to move from a strong, up-standing member of the community who is a wonderful boss, to a man stripped of everything that he loves,”

Performances of “All My Sons” began on Tuesday and will conclude tomorrow. Shows start at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased at the door. Costs for adult tickets are $10 and tickets for students are $5.

Story by Emily Aasand

PHOTOS by Nathan Twerberg

Emily Aasand is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can

be reached at emily.aasand@my.und.edu

Friday February 24, 2012 8 |CULUTRE&MEDIA

*****FOODREVIEW

Drunken Noodle

Drunken Noodle delivers on Asian-style cuisine

The closure of Applebee’s last August left a gaping hole in the boardwalk area of East Grand Forks.

A new restaurant, Drunken Noodle, has since moved into the empty space and has begun serving up traditional Asian food dishes along with some Ameri-can favorites.

I ventured to the newest ad-dition to the EGF dining scene on President’s Day with my din-ner guest, Charlie Kreidelcamp (CK).

The first thing patrons will notice about the restaurant is how spacious it is. The walls aren’t cluttered with hundreds

of trinkets and the furniture is minimal. A stage is also included in the restaurant’s layout.

Adding to the ambience is dim lighting and what I would call “chill” music.

I had plenty of time to take this all in as the wait for a table was about 15 minutes.

I thought this was a bit odd for late evening on a Monday night, but the restaurant is still fairly new so I’m sure there are still plenty of people like me setting out to try it for the first time.

Deciding on food was pretty simple as the menu is only two pages long. It features a number of unique Chinese, Thai, Ital-ian and even American noodle dishes.

I selected the fried rice dish served with chicken. If you’re not a fan of white meat you can also get the dish with beef ($7). Included in the rice are eggs, car-rots, tomatoes, peas, red onion and green onion.

CK’s pick was more exotic

than mine, picking pad Thai with chicken ($7.50).

The dish is stir-fried rice noodles with eggs, sweet fish-based Thai sauce, bean sprouts and green onions and garnished with lime and peanut.

If you’re not feeling like Asian cuisine, Drunken Noodle also offers staples like macaroni and cheese or spaghetti and meatballs.

I can confidently say that we spent less time waiting for our food than we did waiting for a table.

Our server Ryan was very po-lite and prompt—the food came out in about 10 minutes.

The noodle dishes came in large portions on white ceramic plates, and tasted as good as they looked.

The inclusion of vegetables was a nice touch to the fried rice—taking normal fried rice from okay to delectable.

The chicken served with the rice was very juicy, but still thor-oughly cooked.

CK was also impressed by his order. Though the dish was not listed as spicy, it did include a slight kick-which he enjoyed.

If you want some beer or wine to accompany your dinner, the restaurant also has a full ser-vice bar.

The EGF Drunken Noodle is one of two in the state. The original Drunken Noodle is lo-cated in downtown Fargo.

Comparing menus, it’s easy to see the EGF location is meant to offer a more traditional din-ing experience than its southern

BRANDI JEWETTTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Food Type: Chinese, Thai, Italian and American. Location: 415 2nd Street Northwest, East Grand Forks, Minn. Price range: $4 to $20 for entrees.Service: Friendly and fast.

Picture courtesy of www.DrunkenNoodle.com

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Be sure to check out a packet from the

Student Government Office for the 2012-2013 Editor-in-Chief

position.

They’re due March 2.

Brandi Jewett is the Editor-in-Chief for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at brandi.jewett.1@

my.und.edu

counterpart. Menu items are cheaper in

Fargo, but the Noodle there is meant to be more of a hangout location rather than a date night destination.

Going out:To view its menu, find the

Drunken Noodle on Facebook or visit its website at http://www.drunkennoodle.com/.

fun. builds with new album

*****MUSICREVIEW

“Some Nights”

MATTHEW ROYTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

In 2009, when fun. released its debut album “Aim and Ig-nite” there was a lot of hype to live up to.

Fans of the recently split The Format were curious to hear what the now defunct band’s front man Nate Ruess’s new band would sound like and how it would hold up to The Format’s highly original indie pop style.

“Aim and Ignite” did not dis-appoint.

It was loud, fun (no pun intended) and was loaded with pop filled theatrics making it one of the most unique albums of that year.

Now fun. is back with “Some Nights.” The album builds on what made “Aim and Ignite” so intriguing now that the band members have proven them-selves.

The album opener “Some Nights (Intro)” shows that the band hasn’t dropped the the-atrics, opening with a hushed piano and the sound of applause accompanied by Ruess signing quietly. The song builds slowly

with a string ar-rangement.

It’s a nice two minute introduc-tion to the band, because if the lis-tener finds the track too theatri-cal and over the top, they may as well stop listening because that is the foundation of the band’s sound.

The title track “Some Nights” features Ruess lyrics covering fa-miliar territory from his Format days and near the end when he screams: FUN. [page 9]

“This is not for the folks back home/I’m sorry to leave mom I

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had to go/who the f**k wants to die alone/all dried up in the desert sun.”

It’s a nice injection of nostalgia from The Format’s debut where a lot of the songs dealt with Ruess wanting to get out of his Arizona hometown, putting that all behind him and moving on with his life.

The album’s main single “We Are Young” — despite being catchy

FUN. FROM PAGE[8] as hell—is a bit of wasted potential.

The entire song seems to build up to something, but it never quite ex-plodes.

It’s got all the workings of a great build up, from the marching quality of the drums to the song’s battle cry chorus “Tonight we are young/so let’s set the world on fi re/we can brighter than the sun,” the track surprisingly ends with Ruess singing quietly over a piano.

Overall, “Some Nights” is a very upbeat album.

During the song “Carry On,” Ruess sings:

“If you’re lost and alone/Or you’re sinking like a stone/Carry on/May you past be the sound/Of your feet on the ground/Carry on.”

These lyrics are probably the biggest improvement between “Aim and Ignite” and “Some Nights.”

The track “It Gets Better” con-tinues this trend of feel good pop songs and it’s reminiscent of some-thing from Hellogoodbye.

While Ruess may be the voice of

fun. and arguably the group’s most famous member, Andrew Dost is the band’s unsung hero.

Dost is credited with vocals, pi-ano, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, trumpet, fl ugelhorn, glockenspiel, drums and percussion. Without him the album would be very plain and the band wouldn’t have its sound.

Guitarist Jack Antonoff isn’t as prominent as the other two, but on tracks like “Stars” and “Carry On” he really shows off his skills.

When a band has such an origi-nal debut, it’s easy for them to suf-

fer from the sophomore slump, and fi nd themselves just recreating the same record only to fi nd that origi-nality factor is no longer there.

“Some Nights” is thankfully not one of those albums. The al-bum’s only real problem one, and it’s a minor one, is that the fi rst half defi nitely over shadows the second.

Other than that “Some Nights” is everything that a pop album should be.

The members of fun. from left to right: Andrew Dost, Nate Nuess and Jack Antonoff. Photo courtesy of www.blueindian.com.

Matthew Roy is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be

reached at matthew.roy.2@my.und.edu

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MBB survives tumultuous road trip Page 12

Congrats to Travis Brewster on being named the women’s BB coach!

Rivalry. That’s the first word that comes to everyone’s mind when you hear the Fighting Sioux are playing the Gophers in hockey.

The first period of Friday night’s game had no scoring but a handful of penalties, which

Season finale ends in Minnesota split

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PLaYOFF BOUnD The Fighting Sioux team comes home next week for the playoffs.

is to be expected when these two teams face-off against each other. Just like in men’s hockey, these two teams have a pretty strong hatred for each other.

The second period is where the first goal was finally scored, but it did not come from a UND player’s stick. The goal was scored by Minnesota’s Jen Schoullis on the power play early in the period. The Fighting Sioux couldn’t find the score-board at all in the second period with the exception of the pen-

vs. BSU: WCHA Playoffs2/24-26 2:37 @ p.m.Ralph Engelstad Arena

vs. Wichita State2/24-26@ Wichita, Kan.

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You’d have to be an upper-classman to remember when Brad Eidsness, not Aaron Dell, was the star in net for the Fighting Sioux.

But those memories all resur-faced for the senior netminder, who played both nights of last weekend’s series (a victory and tie) against Western Collegiate Hockey Associa-tion foe Michigan Tech at the Ralph Engelstad Arena. He did so in place of Dell, who is out indefinitely with an undisclosed injury.

Instead of the Eidsness that stumbled and eventually lost the starting job last season, the Eidsness of old emerged once again, solidly backstopping the Sioux in back-to-back nights. And while those accounted for Eidsness’ 99th and 100th career games, it was the first time he had played in consecutive games since the end of the 2009-2010 season, when he appeared in 41 games for the second straight year.

“I feel pretty good,” Eidsness said. “It’s been a long road back from last year, but I think I’ve cleared up some things.”

Eidsness earned every one of his 19 saves in a 4-2 victory Friday, stopping one-time shots from the slot and making important stops on loose pucks around the crease.

“He played amazing for us to-night,” Corban Knight said Friday. “I think we all knew coming in af-ter the week of practice that he was going to be stellar. We had a lot of confidence in him that he was shut the door back there, so we just knew

Eidsness emerges in Husky seriesREiGniTED UND goal-tender regains playing ability after time spent on the bench.

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we needed to do our job to help get that win.”

Knight and Carter Rowney each had a pair of goals to lift North Dakota to the victory.

Saturday, Eidsness played just as well, but UND could not complete the sweep, instead settling for an ugly 1-1 tie.

Eidsness, who made 23 saves Saturday, benefited from three shots that hit pipe instead of net—all in the first period.

“Sometimes the game just goes that way,” Eidsness said. “Maybe I had a horseshoe stuck on my rear end, but I’d like to think that I just didn’t give them anything else to shoot at.”

Positive spin on a dismal tieNorth Dakota whiffed on an

opportunity to gain sole posses-sion of fourth place in the WCHA standings and dropped to 14th in the Pairwise Rankings after Satur-day night’s tie.

Nevertheless, coach Dave Hak-stol had reasons to be more or less content with the outcome.

“It’s a good point for us at the end of the day,” Hakstol said. “Both teams worked real hard. We obvi-ously were not at our best, but we emptied the tank tonight.”

Knight scored a goal on a cen-tering feed that went in the net off of a Michigan Tech defenseman in the third; the Huskies responded three minutes later when Jordan Baker crashed the net and scored on a goal that rolled off of Eidsness’s shoulder, hit Baker in the chest and rolled in.

“You don’t want to come into a Saturday night with a chance to sweep and tie a game and give up that point,” said Knight. “But we have to keep positive here, especially at this time of the year. We got some holes in our game that we have to patch up right now but that’s what this week of practice is for.”

Getting luckyKnight scored three goals last

weekend. At least, officially.One goal was a loose puck that

Dillon Simpson shot off of Knight’s leg. Knight also had a quick one-timer on a 2-on-1 breakaway late in Friday’s game, but followed that up Saturday with his attempted centering pass caroming off of Carl Nielsen’s skate and into the net.

“I’d lie to you and tell you I meant to do that, but obviously that wasn’t true,” Knight said of his goal Saturday. “I’ll take it, but it’s one of the greasier ones, again, I’ve had.”

Another pair for RowneyRowney scored two goals Friday

for the third consecutive game and fourth time this season.

The suddenly-hot junior center scored a highlight reel goal in mak-ing a double move past two defend-ers and roofing a power play goal. Then he jammed in a loose puck on a 5-on-3 later in Friday’s second period.

“I don’t know what he’s doing or what he’s drinking, but I got to get on that,” Knight said. “He’s been amazing for us.”

But the hat trick tally eluded him yet again.

“The boys in the locker room are giving me a lot of heck on that one,” Rowney said. “I don’t know, I just keep working hard and maybe it’ll come one day.”

Up NextNorth Dakota (17-11-3, 13-10-

1 WCHA) travels to Denver to take on the Pioneers (18-10-4, 13-7-4 WCHA) in a Friday and Saturday match-up. Game times are set for Friday at 9:10 p.m. Central and Saturday at 8:07 p.m. Friday’s game will be televised nationally on NBC Sports Network, formerly Versus.

Timothy Boger is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can

be reached at timothy.boger@my.und.edu

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Defender Joe Gleason (20) watches as teammate Mario Lamoureux (9) battles for possession.

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Defender Derek Forbort tries to advance the puck against MTU.

Forward Michael Parks tries to elude a Huskie defender.

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The University of North Dako-ta men’s swimming and diving team competed in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Swimming and Diving Championships this week-end.

The tournament took place in Monterey Bay, California. Brigham Young won with a score of 625. Second place was given to Nevada-Las Vegas who finished with 603.5 points, Wyoming was third with 556, Hawaii finished fourth with 493.5, Cal State-Bakersfield was fifth with 463.5 and Air Force fin-ished sixth with 265.

Pacific finished seventh with a score of 238 and Seattle placed eighth with 227.5. North Da-kota finished ninth with 191 team

UND competes well in deep MPSF poolsHIERARCHY The men’s aquatic teams saw tough competition over the weekend.

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points. On the first day of the tourna-

ment, the Fighting Sioux made it’s Mountain Pacific Sports Federation debut with a pair of relay events.

“Overall, it was a good first day,” head coach Steve Parsons said. “We did walk away from tonight feeling like we could have swam faster. With a bit smarter racing, I think we’ll see our times dropping a bit.”

In the 200-meter medley relay, UND finished eighth, with the ‘A’ team consisting of sophomore Adam Gannon, freshman Austin Smith, sophomore Elliot Wilcox and freshman Cameron Hyde. The team clocked a season-best time of 1:31:20.

In the 800-meter freestyle relay, the Sioux finished sixth with a time of 6:39:51. The ‘A’ team consisted of Gannon, junior George Phil-bin, Wilcox and freshman Zachary Stettner.

“We had a strong first night,” Parsons said. “The medley relay started off real will with Adam final-ly under that 23-second barrier. We

still need to clean some things up on our relays. Some of the starts were a bit off. The 800 free relay was kind of the same. We had a great leadoff by Adam and then we followed that up with good swims by George, El-liot and Zach.”

After the second day of events, UND sat in seventh place with 90 points. Wyoming led the way with 243 points.

In the 400-meter medley relay, the freshman team consisted of Ja-cob Berry, Smith, sophomore David Flickinger and Hyde. They clocked in a season best time of 3:25:32.

Stettner finished 17th place in the 500 freestyle with a season best time of 4:31:80. Gannon placed 17th in the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:50:48. Adam Flick-inger finished 24th with a time of 1:56:82. Sophomore Elliot Wilcox placed 23rd in the 50 free with a time of 21:20.

In the first day of competition in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the divers got off to a great start. Fresh-man Andrew Germain led the Sioux with an eighth place finish with

a score of 275.40 on the 1-meter board.

“Andrew had a pretty good day, both in the prelims and the finals,” diving coach Brian Strom said.

“I am very happy with how he performed. Rick, on the other hand, had a tough day. I think nerves got to him a little bit maybe at the be-ginning, but he settled down and dove a lot better in the consolation finals. Tomorrow we hit the 3-meter where we hope to have some better performances,” Parsons said.

“This meet is a lot deeper with stronger divers than we have seen in past conference meets. Each of the top six divers tonight scored over 300, and that is a very good score. It was a good day, and we’ll just have to build from here.”

On the third day of the tour-nament for the swimmers, the Fighting Sioux sat in eighth place with 153 points. With 428 points, Brigham Young had moved into first place. UND tallied 11 top 25 finishes on the day.

Gannon led the Fighting Sioux in the 100 fly with a season-best time of 49.34 for 12th place. Class-mate Wilcox finished 13th with a time of 49.52 and sophomore Da-vid Flickinger placed 18th with a time of 50.42.

Philbin clocked in at 1:39.81 for 17th place and beat his pervious season best time.

In the 100 breast, Gannon re-corded UND’s individual top 10 finish of the night, touching at 56.63 for eighth place.

Three freshmen made it to the finals in the 100 back. Berry touched first with a time of 52.30 for eighth place; Ethan Shrader took 22nd with a career-best time of 53.80 and Hyde finished 24th with a personal-best time of 53.92.

North Dakota wrapped up the Friday night events with an eighth-place finish in the 200 free relay. The ‘A’ team of Wilcox, Gannon, sophomore Ian McKenzie and Hyde clocked in with a season-best time of 1:22.37.

Both of North Dakota’s divers finished in the top ten in the second day of competition in Colorado.

Junior Richard Eberle scored a

314.90 in the preliminaries and a 279.20 in the finals to place eighth.

“Richard was very solid in the afternoon,” Strom said. “Tonight, however, he started off hitting the board on his first dive, and then just tried to do too much on the next two dives. He was able to settle down and finish fine on the last three dives. Another good per-formance by him once he settled down.”

Germain took 10th with a career-high score of 298.95 in the finals and a preliminary mark of 244.80.

“Andrew went into the finals in 15th place and ended up in 10th,” Strom said. “He has a phenomenal second round. It may have been the best diving that I have seen him to and year, and what a great time to put it together. I’m very happy with his performance tonight.”

In the final day of competi-tion in Monterey Bay, Calif., North Dakota notched eight more top 25 finishes.

Flickinger finished eighth in the 200 fly with a season-best time of 1:50.93. Jacobson clocked in at 1:55.12 for 21st place.

“David swam very well for us tonight and it was exciting to see him compete in the championship finals group,” Parsons said.

In the 200 back, Jacobson clocked in with a season-best time of 1:52.86 for 21st place, followed by Berry in 22nd with a time of 1:54.74.

“Dan had a real nice morning swim in the 200 back, and I cannot say enough about how he respond-ed to the doubling up with the back and the fly this evening,” Parsons said. “It was great to see him move up in the back, but I think he just ran out of gas in the fly.”

UND wrapped up the meet with a ninth-place finish in the 400 free relay. The ‘A’ team of Gannon, Wilcox, Philbin and senior Ben Adams clocked in with season-best time of 3:02.96, cutting nearly a full four seconds off of their previ-ous time of 3:06.06.

“Overall, I think it was a good first outing for our team in this meet,” Parsons said. “I do think that our guys were a little surprised with how fast the meet was. Mov-ing forward, we need to do a bet-ter job in our morning swims. We aren’t happy with how we finished in the team standings and will have to do some work in order to move up next year.”

In the final day of competition for the divers, both Eberle and Ger-main finished in the top 15 on the platform.

“Both Richard and Andrew fin-ished with season best scores, and that’s a great thing for our team,” Strom said. “It was platform, and that’s’ something we don’t get on a lot because we don’t have one in Grand Forks and have to go to Win-nipeg, Canada, to train on. Overall, it was a very good meet for us.

“Now we just have to switch fo-cus and get ready to meet up with the women’s team for the meet in San Antonio on Monday.”

Namara Kibira is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at namara30@aol.com

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road TrIP The men’s basketball team re-turns to Grand Forks after a stressful series.

Mariah Holland is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at marholl99@hotmail.

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Long trip ends in UND victory

The Fighting Sioux men’s basketball team concluded a six-game road trip with a win over Longwood 67-59 this past Sat-urday. Sophomore Aaron Ander-son and senior Patrick Mitchell turned in impressive performanc-es combining for 37 points to lead the Sioux to victory.

On Saturday, Mitchell be-came just the second player in

UND history to score 1,000 points, record 500 rebounds and block 150 shots in a career. The other was Chris Gardener, whose career spanned from 1990 to ‘94. The senior reached the two blocks he needed and also poured in 18 points on 6-of-14 shooting. While Mitchell played a key role in the win it was Anderson who came up big for the Sioux.

With a minute and 32 sec-onds to play, Anderson, who finished with 19 points, sank a jumper from the baseline to give UND (12-14) a lead of five as the shot-clock expired. It was the third consecutive game that the sophomore has led the team in scoring and his strong play was a

large reason the Sioux were able to get past the Lancers for the second straight season.

Longwood (9-17) only dressed seven players and three starters played the entire game. Despite being shorthanded the Lancers got off to a strong start going on a 7-0 run, which would be answered by the Sioux with an 8-0 run; however, the home team would respond to UND’s run with a 10-2 spurt. The Sioux were able to close the half strong, as they rallied off six points over the final four minutes to tie the score at 28 going into the break.

“We had no pop to us in that first half,” UND head coach Bri-an Jones said. “So, we challenged our guys in the locker room and they responded. We set the tone early in the second half and were in control the whole way. They made a couple of runs, which they are capable of doing because of the way they shoot the ball, but our bench came up big for us and we made a couple of big shots down the stretch.”

The Sioux turned the 6-0 run they had going into half into an 11-0 run after they opened the second half with a five point spurt, which was capped by one of Mitchell’s four 3-pointers. Af-ter junior Jordan Allard sunk a free throw to extend the lead to 12, the Lancers came back behind Martiz Washington. Longwood scored 10 straight, the final eight points coming from Washington as he would go on to finish with 16 points.

In a game of runs the Sioux would answer back next on Mitchell’s fourth three pointer of the game, putting UND up 59-48 with just 6:09 to play. The Sioux were unable to build on the lead though, as they went cold from the field which allowed the Lancers one last run. Over a four-and-a-half minute stretch Long-wood put together an 8-0 run to pull within three, but Anderson’s jumper from the baseline put an end to the Lancers’ rally.

The Sioux finished 2-4 on the road trip but earned their first win away from the Betty Engel-stad Sioux Center in the process. Next up for UND is a home game tomorrow against Houston Baptist.

Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brandon.becker2@

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‘I think the only thing I would say was that we have to be a little smarter.

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alty side.Jocelyne Lamoureux made

the tying goal late in the third to give the Fighting Sioux a chance to hang on for a tie or even a win. A tie would’ve been good but a win would prove to be huge.

The goal was Lamoureux’s 200 career point in 105 total games. Her goal gave UND the energy and momentum they needed to push the game to overtime.

That’s where Josefine Ja-kobsen became the hero of the game with her power play goal

in overtime, sealing the win for the Fighting Sioux.

Saturday’s game is one the Fighting Sioux would like to forget. The Gophers got the scoring underway early in the game again with Sarah E r i c k s o n’s goal.

M o s t would think an early goal like that would dis-courage the other team, but UND seemed to bounce back.

Lamoureux recorded a pow-er play goal to pull the Fighting

Sioux back onto the scoreboard and tie the game.

The Gophers however, wouldn’t have it as Amanda Kessel, former Gopher Phil Kessel’s younger sister, scored

to give Min-nesota the momentum they needed to take the lead.

Erickson proved this by scoring her second goal of the game short-

ly after Kessel’s goal. The second ended with

the Gophers in the lead. They

added to their lead early in the third with a power play goal from Megan Bozek and UND was in a three goal deficit.

Minnesota finally ended their goal streak with one final goal tallied by Becky Kortum.

The Fighting Sioux did get one in return. The goal was scored by Jakobsen and was her second goal of the weekend.

Sadly, it was too little too late for UND to try and make a dramatic comeback as the Go-phers won the game 5-2.

“We competed, it was a good game I think just like yesterday, I think the only thing I would say was that we have to adjust and be a little smarter, our pen-alties were kind of ridiculous,”

head coach Brian Idalski said.“You know we got to take

ownership of that and we have to adjust to the way things were being called, and not let our emotions get the best of us in certain situations.”

The Fighting Sioux will take on Bemidji in the first round of playoffs this week-end, here at the Ralph Engels-tad Arena.

Friday and Saturday games start at 2:37 p.m., and Sunday also if necessary.