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through Dec. 6 is generating cards and supplies to boost the morale of North Dakota soldiers stationed in Afghan-istan over the holidays.

Veterans Upward Bound, Trio and the Equity and Di-versity center at NDSU ini-tiated the campaign after learning that the 818 unit of the North Dakota Army Na-tional Guard is not currently

receiving correspondence from friends or family.

The men are deployed in a year long full-combat mis-sion to do route clearance and protect the local popula-tion.

The soldiers have nick-named their unit “The Bison” to reflect the roots of their home state. Many are NDSU alumni from the engineer-ing department and a few are current students.

It is important for NDSU to reach out to members of its community and let them know their sacrifice is appre-ciated and there are people

who care about them, Jeri Vaudrin, NDSU’s Veterans Upward Bound project coor-dinator, said.

“How do you mentally prepare yourself to be in a war zone and keeping your-self alive, and keeping your buddies alive, and trying to help the citizenry when you are not getting any reaffir-mation that you have value while you are over there?” Vaudrin said.

Vaudrin contacted Aida Martinez-Freeman, the assis-tant director of Trio, to plan how NDSU could support the soldiers.

Tables were set up in the Memorial Union and mail-boxes were passed around the residence halls to collect letters and cards from the NDSU community. The stu-dents have been signing them “Bison Nation.”

“We’ve been almost in tears looking at the details, the time and the words,” Martinez-Freeman said. “It’s been absolutely amazing.”

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A Native American stu-dent panel discussion ad-dressed some major con-cerns of culture, influences on education and student

life on campus as an event to honor Native American Heritage Month.

The panel consisted of Thomas Bluestone, president of the Native American As-sociation on campus; Audra Stonefish, graduate student at NDSU; Derek Stonefish, brother of Audra Stone-fish and graduate student at

NDSU; and Iman Moore, student at NDSU.

They each commented on their life on campus since attending NDSU. The questions centered on tribal schools versus nontribal schools, student life and looking at the differences of culture on and off NDSU.

Tribal colleges and high

schools are in many ways different than nontribal col-leges and high schools.

“Attending a tribal col-lege and then going to NDSU for graduate studies was a culture shock,” Audra Stonefish said. “Going to a tribal college has an atmo-sphere where everyone is tight knit.”

Native American students at NDSU may be feeling the same way. “Bigger schools are more diverse. There is less common ground with others,” she said.

NDSU has around 200 Native American students on campus. Bluestone would like to see that change.

“Native Americans have

the highest dropout rate,” Bluestone said. “[We] have a responsibility to break that stigma by finishing school.”

Derek Stonefish offered new ideas to help

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The newly constructed Commodity Trading Room and Financial Laboratory at Barry Hall focus on teaching students concepts of agribusi-ness.

The realm of agribusiness and concepts of commodities involve trading, managing logistics, managing facilities and managing risk, as it per-tains to agriculture, William Wilson said.

Commodities deal with energy, agriculture and min-erals, to name a few, said Wilson, a university distin-guished professor of agribusi-ness and applied economics. The CTR will focus on agri-culture and agribusiness.

Wilson said that the amount of risk in agribusi-ness has quadrupled over the last 20 years. Transaction sizes are getting bigger and prices are greater than ever before.

“We’re trying to manage that risk so we don’t have as much variability in returns and profits,” Wilson said.

In the CTR there are 32 workstations. 12 of them are considered live Bloomberg terminals while 20 are live DTN terminals. Bloomberg is common in the financial world while DTN is used in the commodities markets.

Many universities around the nation are integrating trading rooms into their cur-riculum. The CTR is based off of a similar one at Tulane

University in New Orleans, according to a press release.

These terminals contain live market information and state of the art technology, Wilson said, which is better than anything else you’d be able to find on campus.

At the moment, the CTR is only for student use and is currently being used in two classes and next spring it will be used in three classes. It will function as a labora-tory to go along with lecture classes, much like a science lecture and lab course.

Wilson said that compa-nies have expressed inter-est in using the room for employee outreach training programs, and that the CTR was already used for two one-week sessions for for-eign grain buyers and that there was a positive response from that.

“I think it’s another mes-sage of the university that we’re trying to be state of the art in terms of our bring-ing technology and training to the students in this field,” Wilson said.

He also said that employ-ers are looking for graduates who have better training with these types of technologies and that the CTR helps with that.

The CTR will have a grand opening in the spring of 2013.

For more information about the CTR, visit http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/agecon/news-1/commodity-trading-room-report/view.

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Morgan RichertContributing Writer

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Bison Nation Writes Letters to Unit 818NDSU Community Sends Support to Bison Troops in Afghanistan

Changing Diversity on CampusNative American Student Panel Discusses Life at NDSU

New Commodity Trading Room at NDSUFinancial Laboratory Educates on Agribusiness

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NDSU students craft cards of thanks for North Dakota Army National Guard to brighten their holidays away from home. Veterans Upward Bound, Trio and Equity Diversity Center are collecting cards and supplies in Ceres 335 to send to troops by Dec. 6.

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Iman Moore discusses her experience of being a Native American student at NDSU at the Native American Student panel discussion Thursday.

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Bison Catholic held an event on Wednesday that gathered so many students that the event was moved into the Memorial Union Plains Room to hold them all.

Originally slated for the smaller Prairie Room, Friar Robert Spitzer’s “Creation’s Case for God” presentation drew an audience of mixed beliefs and interests.

“Every oscillating uni-verse...every single, solitary one of them has a begin-

ning,” Spitzer said. Spitzer is a well-known

speaker with a long list of achievements and degrees. He has published five books, won the Catholic Press As-sociations Award for best book in faith and science, and was President of Gon-zaga University from 1998 to 2009. He holds fives de-grees including a doctorate from the Catholic University of America in philosophy. Spitzer has also founded sev-en major national institutes including the Magis Center of Reason and Faith, which he serves as President.

The overall arching theme of Spitzer’s discus-

sion was the beginning of the Universe. In the begin-ning, there was nothing, but “we know that when it was nothing, it couldn’t have moved itself into something, because it’s nothing, and nothing can only do noth-ing,” Spitzer said.

Spitzer took questions from the large crowd, and the event lasted until nearly an hour later than scheduled as students took their turn asking questions.

Many questions were asked, including why peo-ple gravitate towards reli-gion and whether Spitzer could make a case for the young world, to which he

responded no. “There are 27 sets of data” confirming that about 13.7 billion years ago the world began, so the evi-dence is very strong against a young world, Spitzer said.

Spitzer discussed what science cannot do. Science cannot do anything without observation, and thus “can not disprove a transcendent theology,” he said. Science is inductive, so scientists can-not know “everything about everything,” which, Spitzer said, means science must be open to new discoveries.

Mentioning many Begin-ning theories, both disproved and still plausible, he dis-cussed how every plausible

theory up until now has led to the idea that all universes must have a beginning. As long as the universe has a Hubble expansion greater than zero—and they must—then they will have a begin-ning, no matter what the physics of the universe are.

Spitzer concluded that there are two theories thus far to explain how the earth began: a complex multi-verse system or a transcen-dent being.

“Some creative force” began the universe, Spitzer said, and it had to be “really, really smart.”

Presentation on Creation Draws Large CrowdEmilee RuhlandStaff Writer

The NDSU Staff Sen-ate will host its first Vendor Show just in time for Black Friday to provide students with an opportunity to show-case their creativity and craft.

“We like to call the Ven-dor Show an extravaganza,” said Vicki Miller, assistant director of event services. “It provides an opportunity

for direct sales business for individuals with a unique hand craft to sell their cre-ations.”

People will be able to walk among a multitude of individual booths, each selling something different. Miller feels that in addition to the showcasing aspect of the Vendor Show, it also provides NDSU students, staff and faculty with a great shopping opportunity.

“It’s a unique experience and something most people

have never participated in before,” Miller said. “It of-fers students the chance to be out on an evening and do something new. It gives them a break from studying or reg-ular evening events.”

Miller encourages stu-dents, staff and faculty to attend, adding that the event is only four hours long, so there is plenty of evening left after the Vendor Show.

According to Miller, in-dividuals set up their own tables and bring their own

material, and details for the show have been in progress for a while.

Currently, there are 10 NDSU students registered to display their work in the show. The proceeds from the table rental fees go to the NDSU Staff Senate scholar-ship fund, which is offered to NDSU students in the spring.

Miller hopes the event will be a success, and plans to host a show during spring semester as well.

“It would be a great op-

portunity for everyone to be together in a great and col-laborative environment,” she said. “It also gives the student vendors an oppor-tunity to interact and show what they make and create. You can find unique gifts, it’s festive, a holiday venue, and will be a fun time.”

The Vendor Show will take place from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday in the Me-morial Union.

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The goal is to collect as much as possible from the campus community. Cards, letters and donated items will be accepted at Ceres 335 un-til Dec. 6. The coordinators hope this batch will be the first of many.

The holidays are the hard-est time to be deployed, Calie Craddock, a veteran and ju-nior majoring in political science, said. She has been deployed twice and said if a soldier does not have support from family or friends, these family-oriented holidays are even lonelier.

“[NDSU] can come in and fill that void and there

is never going to be that thought, ‘Well everyone else got mail, but I didn’t get any-thing this Christmas,’” Crad-dock said.

Even with Facebook and Skype, having physical reaffirmation is extremely important Craddock said. Having something to hold and keep with you makes the long days go by faster.

These letters and care packages will provide com-fort when the soldiers are having down days, Vaudrin said.

“You need something to sustain you and it’s that sup-port from back home that lets

them know no matter what happens it’s okay,” Vaudrin said. “We’re going to be there.”

A community can forget to constantly acknowledge its troops in this busy fast-paced world Craddock said. This modern war is unlike the WWII generation, where a large portion of the popu-lation was oversees for only three years of active combat. It was easier then for entire nation to rally around the troops because whole com-munities were impacted.

Today’s war has lasted 12 years and the soldiers vol-unteer, they are not drafted. Craddock said the National Guard deploys many units. This means that individuals from various towns are ship-ping out, not large groups from a base where there is already a support system.

Support for soldiers needs to be reinvented to a local level Craddock said. Com-munities need to take care of their individual soldiers.

This campaign is NDSU’s chance to take care of its sol-diers, the coordinators said.

“What is our role as NDSU, Bison Nation, to show love for other Bison?” Martinez-Freeman said. “We must stop for a moment and think of another person. Be grateful for what we have and show a little care for oth-er Bison that are out there.”

Craddock, Martinez-Freeman and Vaudrin are hoping for more donations than they can send at this time. They want to send more letters in the spring to 818 and also to two other units that will be shipping out this year.

freshmen have less of a culture shock when attending a new school of 15,000 plus students.

“We need to have a centralized place to meet, eat food, laugh and share struggles,” he said. “Chil-dren need to know we have seen the same things they have, let them know it can be overcome and it can be sup-ported.”

Derek and Bluestone both suggest having a centralized place for Native American students to unify and identify together as a culture. “We need a way not to separate [from the rest of NDSU] but to support,” Derek said.

The panel discussed ideas of how to get students more involved right away to help them build healthier relation-ships and better their chances of finishing school.

“Instead of sending emails to get people to come, we need to know where peo-ple are at,” Audra said.

Derek added, “[We need to] ease into diversification. The boundaries need to be eased out of and eased into diversification on campus.”

One audience member asked what NDSU students could be doing to help Native American freshmen coming in.

Moore replied, “Just be friendly. Invite them out for coffee. People just need a friend. We love good food and humor. We don’t’ want to cut others out, we just need to see a home away from home,” said Moore.

Bluestone quoted Presi-dent Barack Obama, saying, “We are moving forward. Keeping it progressive.”

November is Native American Heritage Month. For more information on events NDSU has sched-uled to celebrate the Na-tive American culture, visit www.ndsu.edu/multicultural or www.ndsu.edu/news/view/article/15802.

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1.Who is your style icon? Ian Somerhalder

2. How do you decide what to wear in the morning?

I color coordinate and accent my style with flair depending on the outfit.

3. What are your style staples? I would say dark navy blue jeans with black

dress shoes would be my fit.

4. What's your favorite classic piece? (jeans, cardigans, etc.)

A jet black button up that fits my body.

5. What decade do you draw the most fashion inspiration from?

Modern day styles.

6. What's the best thing about your style? It compliments my skin tone and my personality.

7. What trend is your favorite at the moment? Dress shoes and jeans. 8. Where do you like to shop? H&M and Express.

9. What's the easiest accessory to make an out fit fashionable?

Wrist and neckwear to compliment the daily attire.

10. Why do you dress the way you do? Because my personality is represented by

what I wear.

There are two kinds of people in the world -- those who complain and those who resolve. We must be proud because NDSU has the latter ones.

A group of young, knowl-edgeable and dedicated stu-dents headed to Chicago to attend the American Model United Nations Convention yesterday. These students are a delegation representing NDSU Model United Na-tions Organization.

The organization started its chapter at NDSU in 2008. Ever since, NDSU has sent two delegations each year to the AMUN Convention and the Arrowhead Conference. The AMUN Convention in Chicago attracts about 40

delegations from various schools in the United States and is the second-most pres-tigious convention in the country.

The NDSU chapter of the organization has close to 20 members and is open to people from all majors. Jared Finkelson, a senior in Business Administration, is the president of this organi-zation.

“The aim of Model UN is to involve youth in the world politics, to let them come up with solutions for world problems,” Finkelson said.

Model UN is parallel to the United Nations, not an affront to it. It works up so-lutions for various countries of the world and the students lobby to get support from other delegations at the con-vention. The approved solu-tions or policies are often forwarded to the UN and the

countries they are made for.NDSU Model UN has se-

lected Ireland as their coun-try of interest this semester. They have come up with some novel solutions for the problems in the political and social structure of the coun-try.

“Ireland was one of the wealthiest countries of the world, but since 2008 the rapid economic expansion has come to a halt” Pedro Maia Safatle, a junior major-ing in history and the vice president of this organiza-tion, said.

This delegation has ex-tensively studied the reasons for Ireland’s sudden econom-ic crisis and presented their possible solutions on Sunday in Chicago. The 12-member delegation is made up of six committees with two mem-bers on each and has been funded by student govern-

ment for this trip.As an open organization,

NDSU Model UN is perfect-ly described by Safatle as an “open, liberal and multi-perspective organization that does not necessarily need you to be a Political Science major, but just have a deter-mination to change the world for good.”

In fact, Safatle believes that the more diversity they have in the organization, the better perspectives they can present for their cause.

He believes it is a good opportunity for students to come out of their shells and put in their two cents in the global change.

The delegates met for the last time to go over quick specifics last Thursday in the Memorial Union and they plan to return victorious from Chicago tomorrow.

It is often exclaimed that women are much more emo-tional, caring beings than men or that men are better than women at math and sci-ence. Psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa sums up the work of the University of Cam-bridge’s Simon Baron-Co-hen in an article published in a 2008 issue of “Psychology Today,” reinforcing the truth behind those exclamations.

Kanazawa states that men have a tendency to think sys-tematically and mechanical-ly, meaning their brains are better equipped to analyze how things work, explore

various rules that control a procedure, and construct new systems.

Kanazawa continues by noting that females have “empathizing tendencies” and use “mentalistic think-ing,” which is the process of understanding and connect-ing with people on a deep emotional level.

Women can properly identify and respond to oth-ers’ thoughts and feelings and are able to judge char-acter and predict behavior much more efficiently than their male counterparts.

Author Chad Eastham compares guys’ brains to waffles and girls’ brains to spaghetti in his guide to understanding gender dif-ferences entitled “Guys Are

Waffles, Girls Are Spaghet-ti.” He stresses that waffle-brains compartmentalize ev-ery aspect of their lives and, therefore, only focus on one box at a time.

With this perspective, the opinion that guys are better drivers than girls may hold some truth, building on the idea that guys’ brains are constructed to focus only on the “driving box,” while girls’ brains allow them to drive, talk, listen to the ra-dio, and check their makeup in the mirror all at the same time.

Instead of creating a sep-arate compartment for each part of their lives, spaghetti-heads connect every aspect to every detail, attaching food to relationships to mu-

sic to hobbies to feelings and so on.

This easy-to-read and humorous tale of gender differentiation is highly rec-ommended to those looking for some insight into gender-related “brain development, social habits, differences in emotions, and relationship building skills.”

I challenge you to figure out how your brain influenc-es your individual behaviors and personality traits. By doing so, you will be able to recognize the significant role that your brain plays in every facet of your life and continue to keep it strong and healthy as you age.

Aliba Kalema

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Brain Games, Part 3 The Differences Between Male and Female Brains

Chapter 4 Part II: Lurking and Looking

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HEALTH TALK

“Mr. Simpson met a friend whom he had not seen for many years. The friend said, “I married, shortly after I last saw you, someone you never knew. And this,” presenting a young girl, “is my daughter. Her name is the same as her mother’s.” Mr. Simpson patted the child on the head and said, “I am glad to meet you, Margaret.” How did he know the child’s name was Margaret?”

Last Week’s Brain Game Question:

The friend whom Mr. Simpson met was a woman, not a man! And her name is Margaret. A third brain game can be found at the end of this article, and its answer will be in the upcoming issue published after Thanksgiving break.

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Mr. Grace made a large batch of apple cider. He kept several barrels for himself and wished to divide the remainder between his two neighbors.

He had three jugs: an eight-gallon, a five-gallon and a three-gallon. The surplus apple cider just filled the eight-gallon jug.

How could the beverage be poured, using all three receptacles and no other measuring device, so that there would be four gallons in the eight-gallon and four gallons in the five-gallon jug?

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had left and the time was just perfect. The call went through a series of beeps, rings and clicks before con-necting. It was a personal phone, but when it belongs

to the Internal Liaison Offi-cer of the National Security Agency, nothing was per-sonal. It was a STU-III/CT phone that was very widely used by the NSA these days and worked across all conti-nents. Jim was impatient but the police officer in him told him to not be foolish. When Officer Martin Rodriguez answered the phone, he said, “1 p.m.” and hung up.

Martin knew exactly who was calling and instinctively thought it could be trouble. Fort Meade was not the place for long conversations any-ways. Jim Hernandez knew that the two words meant the rendezvous time at their usual meeting place.

It was a shady gay bar in downtown Manhattan. Al-though 1 p.m. was an odd time to be at a bar, even in the Big Apple, it was a gay bar after all, no one would notice anything unusual with two men catching up over a couple drinks.

Jim drove home but kept his ears on the scanner for any new information. When he reached his house, Ed had already made himself at home. In fact, Ed had gone ahead to exploit his host’s hospitality and poured him-self a shot of Cristal, the costliest thing he could find in Jim’s bar. This irritated the sergeant but he let it pass. He went off to sleep, but before

that, he faxed his precinct a request for half a day’s leave the next day.

The next morning, Jim went about his day’s routine and was out of the office by 12:30 p.m. He was very close to the rendezvous point but he had to run home and check on Ed before the meet-ing. Ed was verga on the champagne (as they would say in Latin America) by the time Jim reached home and had passed out on the bath-room floor. Jim would attend to this guerro later.

The bar was surprising-ly crowded and extremely noisy during mid-afternoon, and Jim wasn’t complaining. This was a perfect setting for such meetings. Martin ar-rived on time, as expected of an ex-marine and NSA offi-cial who had been in service for 15 years and counting. Wasting no time in greet-ings, the men got down to business.

Jim gave a background

on Eduardo, mentioning how he was an undocumented im-migrant who had married an American citizen, but their marriage was not yet on pa-per as Ed didn’t really have any papers other than the fake documents he had used to open checking account in a small Credit Society in Brooklyn.

He then informed Martin about his brother’s murder by the eMe and what Edu-ardo did in retribution. All this was conveyed in explicit details as they were sure no one in a gay bar would be in-terested in their talks. Also, because they were seated at their regular seats in the far corner of the restaurant where no one can spot them immediately, they were clos-est to the back exit, just in case.

He was very clear when he mentioned to Martin that he would not let this man go to jail. It was Martin’s job now to make sure of that.

Martin’s mind was already at work. The NSA had a very powerful covert operations unit that needed some mus-cle flexing.

But this needed the best men at work, especially af-ter the public outcry against ECHELON in 2006 it was near impossible to carry out any internal covert ops with-out a lot of paper trail. The Defense ministry and other suits in Washington wanted the job done in too much light.

Martin knew his ways though; he knew the NSA did not like the light. Their men worked in darkness. Besides, this was a personal favor. He left the bar exactly 20 minutes after getting in and headed to his car. Fort Meade was 20 hours away.

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Concordia College The-

atre put the breath of life into the fairy tale characters everyone knows and loves in its recent production of “Into the Woods.” Literally a storybook through song, this charming musical had some-thing new around every turn. The cast shined throughout the three-hour performance, enthralling and entertaining the whole way. In essence, “Into the Woods” was a de-light, plain and simple.

The backbone of this production was the cast, and watching them was a real treat. While some were not as likable as others, a few of them were simply lovable. The baker (Jason Bell) and his wife (Hannah Wehlage) were the plucky protagonists who one could not help but admire.

Childless and cursed by a wickedly funny witch (Col-

lette Hagen, a real gem), the courageous couple sets off over Act One to collect four items the witch has asked of them to lift the curse of “a barren family tree.” Their search leads them to meet other fairy tale favorites who have all entered the woods at night for various reasons.

Jack (of beanstalk glo-ry) is on his way to market to sell his milk-white cow, which happens to be one of the items the witch has re-quested of the humble bak-ers. Red Riding Hood (Tif-fany Sieu) runs across the path of the pair on her way to Granny’s, her cape cov-eted by the couple as well. A golden slipper from the elusive Cinderella (Devan Luth) is also required of the baker and his wife, as is hair (“gold as the corn!”).

Besides the bakery couple and the people they pursue, a few others of fairy tale fame factor in as well. Cinderella’s parents, step-mother, and stepsisters all add to the plot, as do the two

brother princes in search of Cinderella and Rapunzel.

By the end of Act One, the baker and his wife have met the witch’s demands and have their child, while ev-eryone else is happy as well. The princes have caught up with the pearly-voiced princesses, and the witch is transformed to her youthful self (the powerful Liz Rahn) upon combining the items gathered by the bakers. All is well at the end of the first act…or is it?

As it turns out, the witch has been rendered powerless from her transformation, and the pair of princes are as nar-cissistic as they are woman-izing. Jack has angered the wife of the giant he slayed, and she now roams the land, yearning for revenge. One by one, characters meet their respective ends, and it was hard to not feel a blow from losing them.

The only character whose death was well-received was that of the flamboyant and superfluous narrator (Jona-

than Wells). In all honesty, this was a character that should have been done away with when the baker killed Red Riding Hood’s wolf early on in Act One.

On the other hand, the death of the baker’s wife was hard to take. She was an adorable character who was easy to love. That all went downhill after she stuck it to Cinderella’s prince behind a boulder in the scene before her death. This just simply was not believable; the bak-er’s wife loved the baker and only the baker. She would not throw all that away for a moment of pleasure in a rock pile with a prissy prince! This was the one and only disappointment of this per-formance.

That aside, the plot and performance were simply gorgeous. The story was sad and spritely at times, and fortunately came full circle in the end. The songs sparkled as well, thanks to the voices singing them. Our fairy tale friends solved

some of their problems and learned to live with the ones left over, something unlike the storybooks and more like real life. Congratulations to Concordia College Theatre; this fairy tale performance was a dream come true.

“Into the Woods” ran at Concordia College Theatre from Nov. 8 to 11 and 14 to 16. A fund for victims of Hurricane Sandy took place after the show, where the theatre agreed to match $1,000 in donations.

It seems that Sony Bend, the studio behind the Play-station Vita launch title Un-charted: Golden Abyss, is working on their next game for Sony’s latest handheld.

The news comes to us thanks to a job listing for the developer listed on Gamasu-tra. The listing reads as fol-lows.

“Bend Studio[,] the cre-ators of Sony’s flagship Vita title Uncharted[:] Golden Abyss is currently looking for the entertainment indus-tries [sic] top artistic talent to help us create AAA con-tent for Sony’s powerful new hardware,” the listing reads. “We just scratched the sur-face on what the Vita can do with Uncharted[:] Golden

Abyss and expect to push the platform even further with our future projects.”

Bend was originally known as Eidetic back in the era of the original Playsta-tion. The company was best known for the first few Sy-phon Filter games and Bubsy 3D. They were purchased by Sony outright in 2001, and have been working almost exclusively on handheld games ever since.

The developer has made two Syphon Filter games -- Dark Mirror and Logan’s Shadow -- for the Playstation Portable (Sony’s last hand-held before the Vita). The games received high critical praise, but word on a third portable game in the fran-chise has been light.

After the release of Lo-gan’s Shadow, the company went on to make Resistance:

Retribution in 2009 and, of course, Uncharted: Golden Abyss in 2012.

Theories as to what the new Vita game could be have already begun to circulate.

Rumors have been float-ing around concerning a pos-sible new Syphon Filter game since the developer hinted at it in 2009. That being said, a new Uncharted game seems more likely, as that franchise is much more popular than Syphon Filter ever was. Add to that the fact that Naughty Dog, the creators of Unchart-ed, are working on a brand new intellectual property rather than a continuation of their series, and it seems much more likely.

There is also the possi-bility of a new Resistance game. Insomniac, the cre-ators of that franchise, have already stated that they are

done making Resistance games, leaving the series wide open. That being said, Resistance: Burning Skies -- the last Resistance game, which was developed by Nihilistic -- (and was, as it happens, a Vita game) was a critical and commercial flop. Any hope that Sony will con-tinue to back Resistance is slim at best.

Finally, it’s possible that this is a new intellec-tual property from Bend, or they could be working on a franchise that they’ve never touched before. Given the developer’s past and Sony’s desire to bring PS3 gamers over to the Vita, this seems like the least likely course.

We’ll likely find out more as development of this new game continues.

The Marvel NOW! Re-boot continues to roll out with new number ones of popular series. Last week, Matt Fraction’s new family oriented take on the Fantastic Four began with the newly rebranded Fantastic Four #1. So how does his Incredibles inspired take on the franchise begin?

Well, it’s hard to say…The Fantastic Four – that

is, Reed Richards, Sue and Johnny Storm and Ben “The Thing” Grimm – is a team best used in stories related to each of its members. This first issue, however, seems

more like a prelude to such a tale. It brings audiences up to speed on where each of the four (and the children enrolled in the organizations Future Foundation) are after the closing moments of Jona-thon Hickman’s previous run. That means we’re subjected to a lot of quick cuts between the characters, giving us only a few moments to compre-hend their individual situa-tions before jumping to the next. This has the dual effect of not explaining much for new readers, and introducing very little material for those coming off of the last volume.

All of this is wrapped up in what is clearly a set-up for what’s to come.

Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic himself, has decid-

ed to take the Four, their chil-dren and the students of the Future Foundation on a field trip through time and space for a year. That’s an inter-esting concept, and one that has been much talked about ahead of the run’s premiere. However, we don’t see any of that here. Instead, we get glimpses of The Thing getting into a yelling contest with what can only be described as hoodlums, and Reed keeping a worrisome secret from the rest of the team.

As for the book’s art, I really can’t say that I’m fan of Mark Bagley’s work. It’s somehow simple and car-toonish in its design, while also messy and overcompli-cated in its execution. The overabundance of hatch-

ing and simple, stock faces leaves the eye unable to seize on anything in particular, and results in a book that is, visu-ally, simply unremarkable.

And that single word just about sums up Fantastic Four #1 -- unremarkable.

It’s not that this is a bad first issue; it just feels like on substance. While some sto-ries can feel like necessary evils to reach a satisfying conclusion, this feels more like a necessary distraction. It’s harmless, but hardly ex-citing.

This is the expository set-up that will hopefully pay off in upcoming issues of Fantas-tic Four, and FF #1 later this month.

College students are in a unique position.

Many media outlets like to say that the dedi-cated gaming handhelds are “dead” because they have been replaced by zero calo-rie gaming on smartphones and tablets. That’s because most of those reporters ex-ist in constantly busy, al-ways on-the-move where if they’re not plugged in at HQ, they’re on the way to their next story. There’s no time in the games journalism industry to play larger, deep-er experiences on the go.

That’s not the case for college students, however. The life of a college student is filled with long, drawn-out schedule gaps in need of filling. That time is often utilized for studying or do-ing homework in the Memo-rial Union or outside of your next class. But what do you do when you have nothing else to do (or, more probably, when you don’t feel like do-ing it)?

That’s where handhelds can come in. iOS games like Angry Birds can help pass some time, but even-tually they’re either over, or the player realizes that they haven’t really subject-ed themselves to anything meaningful.

Games like Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation on the Playstation Vita contain doz-ens of hours of content, and tell stories worth hearing and remembering. Liberation, in particular, is a story about a black woman moving through a fictionalized ver-sion of 1700s Louisiana. The story contends with politics, gender roles, racism and, of

course, slavery.Games have moved be-

yond simple score chasing and now rival movies and often even novels in terms of storytelling. In fact, the vid-eo game industry has been consistently topping Holly-wood year after year in terms of sales numbers. And there are reasons for that.

Beyond that, most hand-helds these days are actu-ally designed to be carried through crowds of like-minded gamers.

The Nintendo 3DS gath-ers data from any other near-by handheld and uses it for asynchronous multiplayer games like a Find Mii and Puzzle Swap. Meanwhile, the Vita can use that same kind of data to find gamers playing the same games and letting them know that they can play multiplayer togeth-er just by being nearby.

Sure, dedicated hand-helds have their share of is-sues. Their games are often much more expensive, and, while the quality of the game is often much greater, there are generally fewer of them. Sony has tried to remedy this by introducing Playstation Mobile to its store. Mobile brings the kind of cheap, bite-sized games found on the iPhone like Super Crate Box to a console with actual buttons for greater control. However, the service still has a long way to go in terms of variety.

That being said, hand-held gaming is still a great way to plug the gaps in class schedules or bus rides to and from campus. If you’re look-ing for some way to spend your time that’s a little more substantive than Cut the Rope or Fruit Ninja, it may be time to look into handheld gaming. You might like what you find.

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I wrote two weeks ago on the role of students in the election, and their role in so-ciety as a whole. In writing that article, it occurred to me that the role of students I spoke of – the role of carry-ing society forward through the centuries, and serving as the cutting edge of societal progress – may not be a role the public any longer per-ceives.

How exactly do people view college students these days? And I must make the ‘college’ distinction here, for in my eyes, high school students are very much shep-herded through a rigid cur-

riculum by their instructors for the purpose of preparing them sufficiently for college-style learning, which embod-ies a combination of rigid curriculum and open-ended exploration and research-based learning.

It seems to me that our modern culture looks upon ‘college’ as primarily a step to greater personal success. Ask any student why they are in college, or any gradu-ate why they went to col-lege, and they will tell you it was to get an education. Ask them why they got the education, and they will tell you that they needed it to get a good career.

And what do they want that career for? Why, they want to make money of course. Some more, some less. Some want a stable job that they enjoy doing. Most-ly everyone want’s a career that won’t cause their life to be constantly disrupted. A majority of the people you talk to simply want to get their degree, snag a job, and settle down. And attaining a college degree is simply a step in the process, where the degree is a tool they can use to achieve their own ends.

But higher education has certainly not always been this way. The foundations of modern science and phi-losophy were laid down in Greece hundreds of years before the coming of Christ, by men who sought knowl-edge simply for the sake of it. In the middle ages, Ara-bic culture set scholars upon a pedestal above all but the greatest rulers. Men devoted their entire lives to studying

in the many branches of sci-ence, engineering, medicine and sociology.

A small group of intel-lectuals carried the torch of knowledge through the Dark Ages in Europe, where they suffered persecution at the hands of the Church for pur-suing any knowledge that the Bible did not give them. As the enlightenment set in, and knowledge became a covetable product in Europe, scholars again began seeking wisdom simply for the hav-ing, and for improving the condition of their fellow hu-man.

With the exception of those dark ages, the wise have always been the front-runners in society. And though for many thousands of years, being a scholar was an occupation in its own right, these wise people be-gan putting their knowledge to work, to improve societies around the world. And it was always the learned that ex-celled in their field, that led the unlearned, that advanced society through the many ages of progress.

And when the unlearned saw this, that the learned led a life much to be desired, they themselves began to de-sire more knowledge, to be able to advance themselves in society. And here we find the transformation – where the scholar ceased to exist for the sake of knowledge and society, and became in-terested in self-advancement.

And that is where we find ourselves today, with ‘schol-ar’ being a much watered-down term. Can any college student consider themselves a scholar? Those ancient in-stitutions whose educational forms our universities are modeled today – your Ox-fords and Cambridges and Harvards – their students were originally all consid-ered scholars. Are all stu-dents at universities such as our beloved North Dakota State then to be considered scholars as well?

Sadly, I do not believe that to be the case. So many students these days are only here for a degree, that slip of paper that will win them the job that helps them earn enough money for the hous-es and toys and things they hope to make their life won-derful for years to come. The number of actual scholars seems to have dwindled sig-nificantly.

Yet, there are those dedi-cated few who trudge on, en-veloped in their studies sim-ply for their love of learning. I was honored with the op-portunity to participate in the NDSU Scholars Program as a freshman and sophomore. Unfortunately, those pesky degree-attaining classes have gotten in my way the last two years, and I was forced to discontinue my participation in the Scholars Program.

Yet those three semesters of studying simply for the sake of studying will forever stick in my memory as some of the greatest experiences in my college career. I recently re-connected with some of my old Scholars classmates over dinner and drinks, and I was delighted to learn that they are all still studying away – I must admit it made me incredibly jealous that I can no longer find the time to participate.

So you are sitting there, shaking your head at me. Here I am, deriding those degree-getting students, and yet I have turned into one myself. This, of course, was because my practical in-stincts overtook my desires. We can’t all be scholars for life, you know. Our won-derful professors, who have dedicated their lives to study and learning and passing on their ever-expanding bodies of knowledge, are to be en-vied! That they should have the joy of forever learning on a level that I do not, oh how I wish to be them.

And, in a college of nearly 15,000 undergradu-ate students, I would as-sume there must be at least one more student like me. One who wishes to study for studying’s sake, but has been forced to take a more practi-cal approach to their educa-tion. It is to those scholars who I must say, to coin an old adage, where there is a will, there is a way.

There is no reason you cannot take your current studies to the next level. You have no doubt cho-sen a major that you enjoy greatly, so in your classes, there is always an opportu-nity to advance your studies. Even though you have cho-sen classes that are geared towards a practical degree, immersing yourself in your learning and pushing your papers, projects and class participation to a new level is always, always an option.

And so, in an academic world flooded with so many degree-chasers that the true scholars among us are nearly impossible to pick out (could you choose a Scholars Pro-gram student from a crowd?), there is still a small group of dedicated learners, as there has been through the many ages of man, carrying the torch of knowledge forward. And though there is nothing wrong with getting a degree and settling down (heavens knows, not everyone is cut out for the scholarly life), don’t forget those who live for learning. It is to them we owe credit for the progress of our human society.

Nathan is a senior major-ing in landscape architec-ture. Follow him on twitter @nwstottler.

I am a Grinch when it comes to pop culture. I only wish I could steal all of pop culture’s garbage and put it in the landfill never to see daylight again. Maybe a bet-ter term for me would be a pop culture hermit, because a majority of the time I have no idea what is going on, while the rest of the time I need therapy just to block out the distress such things cause me.

I admit I sometimes live under a proverbial rock when it comes to pop cul-ture. For years I attributed this phenomenon to not hav-ing the luxury of cable TV, but I think it’s a deeper-root-ed problem.

I was at a hockey game with my parents and sister a few weeks ago when my ears were bombarded with strange techno sounds and nearly the entire sold-out arena erupted into a strange dance. Well, everyone ex-cept for my dad, the senior citizens, and of course, me. I stared at my mom quiz-zically. My mom is hipper than I am and well versed in pop-culture. She explained the whole “Gangnam Style” song and dance phenomenon to me.

I swear every few years, some one-hit wonder feels it’s their sole purpose in life to make a song with comput-er generated beats, some sort of “catchy” chorus on loop, and a corresponding dance

that even those such as me with two left feet could fig-ure out. A song destined to live among the hallowed air-waves of arenas and wedding dance halls and sweaty base-ment keggers. Quad City DJs, anyone? They wrote the notoriously overplayed, overrated song “C’Mon ‘N Ride it (The Train). Does Los del Rio ring any bells? They wrote the “Macarena.” I realize this is aging myself, because today’s freshmen were just emerging from the womb the time this classic ditty came out.

My point in this diatribe is that I do not get the “Gang-nam Style” song, dance, or most of pop culture for that matter. It’s like reheating old leftovers. Unless it’s chili, it just really does not get bet-ter with time. It’s stale and moldy just like pop culture. I know that metaphor is not very poetic, but I am run-ning on sleep deprivation and pure annoyance and dis-taste for the “Gangnam-like” things of the world.

But wait! I have another case in point of my pop cul-ture idiocy. A group of co-workers graciously invited me to go to see the final movie of the “Twilight” saga on opening night. While I was flattered at being invit-ed, I politely declined. I bit my tongue from launching into a diatribe of how much I despise “Twilight” and think Edward is a stalker creep-oid rather than a dreamboat. Dude, Bella should totally get a restraining order. Sorry, that’s my cynicism talking I suppose... or, my ripe old age of 26. Perhaps it’s both. Perhaps I really am woefully

out of touch with my “gen-eration.”

Exhibit C: Last spring, I kept seeing this whole “YOLO” acronym thing pop up all over the inter-webs. I had to use my dear, dear pal Google to illuminate this strange term to me. Much to my dismay, I found out YOLO was an acronym for: “You only live once.”

I am a magnet; I collect what I want and repel all of the garbage, which is a ma-jority of pop culture. I real-ize that this may make me sound like a snob of some sort. As though I sit in café’s all day sipping on America-nos with my horn rimmed glasses discussing the slight differences between existen-tialism and absurdism. Wait-- was that a conversation I had last week? Am I in fact, what I had feared? A snot who sits in some ivory aca-demic tower debating high art versus low art?

Nah, I am no better or no worse than any other Gang-nam dancing, twilight lov-ing, Entertainment weekly subscriber. I have my guilty pleasures. I watch “House Hunters” every night on HGTV. My 16th Birth-day Cake was Harry Potter themed. I like what I like. In most cases it just so happens to be completely absurd, dorky, or too depressing for pop culture.

Well, time to go back into hiding deep within the lair of my old-fashioned, nostalgia tinged time trap.

Tessa is a senior major-ing in English.

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In the last couple months I have struggled to find out what the big deal is with Bi-son Pride and its feeling of being a huge family. Coming from a town that isn’t very full of pride about anything other than its lakes and great fishing and hunting, the con-cept of such immense pride is entirely new to me. Little did I know that a one credit class that I decided to try out would show me a lot more than how to do eight-to-fives and have me give up over half my weekends and week nights to practice and perform.

Tonight has consisted of a marching band banquet where awards were given out and the graduating stu-dents gave their speeches

for their last year in the Gold Star Marching band. Get-ting my hair all done nicely, throwing on a dress that I probably would never wear (considering my daily outfit choices include jeans and thermals or flannels), and dolling my face up and hope it’s not overkill of make-up, I had no clue what the night had in store.

The beginning of the semester was pretty rough getting used to the insane schedule of being a Gold Star Marching Band mem-ber, and it’s still something to get used to with work and a full time status in school. In seeing all the la-dies glammed up and the fel-las in suits and ties looking sharper than I have ever seen them, with anxious faces of everyone in anticipation of who would get the hand-me-down of section tradition, or if you’re not in marching band, you wouldn’t under-

stand the traditions, but bear with me.

I sit there in impatience to intercept the food so gen-erously slaved over by TBS. Being in such a group, I never realized until tonight how much fun it has been, even though the work has been a ridiculous amount for one credit. I gave up a ton of hours at work to muddle around on a football field try-ing to figure out formations for the next performance at a Bison football game.

Listening to the soon-to-be graduates made me think about how stubborn I have been and what a terrible at-titude I have had through-out the season, but also that I wouldn’t trade any of the memories made even over one measly semester. I think about how many friends I have made, how we all stuck together marching in dis-gusting weather, how much we had each other’s backs

the mornings after a Turf night, which took place the night before a game day, which usually starts at 6 a.m.

I sit before my computer, extremely humbled and tail-tucked for how little I saw before me. I am in awe of the family I have found, the life-long bonds of friendship and pride, of having the oppor-tunity to be a Bison, and be a part of such a great school and great football team. I am grateful to be part of such a group that works so in-sanely hard with the utmost determination and no matter what, leaving the end of the day with some kind of smile across our faces.

Little did I know or no-tice that such a group has probably been the largest influence I have had so far being a Bison.

Suzy is a junior majoring in journalism.

To the Editor:

BBC News reported in July of 2001 that it had be-come possible for a woman to have a child with just two eggs--no sperm was neces-sary. So, I guess there is a societal power on (the natu-ral) earth that can give two women the ability to pro-duce children. More gener-ally, I would ask if you be-lieve that if a married man became infertile, he should divorce his wife? If the an-swer is “no” than you have introduced a spectrum of morality beyond your black-and-white paradigm.

This would make, I be-lieve, something like same-sex marriage “morally permissible.” I believe one could argue that you can tolerate something that is morally permissible. In gen-eral, I believe Benjamin’s notion of good and evil is a bit askew. I would put forth

a better dichotomy, where “good” is defined as that which is manifestly advan-tageous (and giving people the right to marry, adopt and contribute to the economy seems advantageous), and “bad” is defined as that which is manifestly disad-vantageous.

This would involve a more practical spectrum that wouldn’t depend on tran-scendental knowledge of purpose and end. Instead, we could say that a cold is bad, but not evil--which is weird to say. I encourage people persuaded by Benja-min’s argument to consider this difference between the practicality good and bad vs. good and evil.

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Every four years we have the presidential elec-tion along with all of the individual elections for sen-ate and other offices in each state. Now, with the election, my TV commercials are full of the candidates for election and why or why not I should vote for that individual. The commercials tend to be pret-ty crazy and non-stop in the end of October and begin-ning of November until the election is over.

Then, instantaneously, my TV is flooded with new commercials, all about Christmas and the holiday season. The commercials this year have left me won-dering, whatever happened to the holiday Thanksgiving and the Thanksgiving com-mercials?

I learned and was in-formed of everything I could about each candidate throughout most of Novem-ber just from the TV com-mercials, but once the elec-tion was done we all skipped to Christmas instantly. No one ever really makes a big emphasis on recognizing Thanksgiving; it is a very im-portant holiday that deserves a little more recognition.

I love Christmas - it is my favorite holiday - but we’re missing out on being excited for a holiday of thanks and given time to enjoy family and friends. It seems that it

can always be the little things that go unnoticed sometimes, like being thankful for one another and being generous towards each other without being reminded to.

Thanksgiving gives us a time to remember those little things to be thankful for one another and to be generous towards each other. But like I said before, the little things sometimes go unnoticed when we’re not reminded of them. Everyone is always very excited and cannot wait for Christmas, and every-one - including broadcasting companies - tend to spend little time on Thanksgiving and instantly skips to the big part of the holiday season, which is Christmas.

Thanksgiving was always like a preparation for me on the holiday season - it is the first time in a while that I see everyone in my family to-gether. It is a reminder for me to have a giving spirit in the holiday season with Christ-mas gifts and to be thankful for everyone and everything I have during the Christmas season.

Now if only the TV com-panies would realize this, everyone could celebrate Thanksgiving for all of No-vember and gain the traits of being thankful and generous towards others. It could easi-ly happen, because everyone would be reminded of it for a couple of weeks instead of just one day, on the holiday of Thanksgiving.

Tiffany is a freshman ma-joring in political science and pre-law.

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The Summit League Vol-leyball Championships were held this weekend right here on campus. These games are always filled with intensity, so you certainly got a treat if you decided to watch at the BBF. You may have even got-ten lucky enough to sit by one of the Bison volleyball play-ers during these games.

Oh, did I forget to mention that NDSU didn’t make the four-team playoffs? The pro-gram that has made it to the NCAA tournament the last two years and three times out of the last four years did not make the playoffs. The pro-gram that was picked to fin-ish atop the Summit League again this year did not make the playoffs. The program that is hosting the playoffs did not make the playoffs.

That is not good, folks.Bison volleyball has de-

veloped a winning tradition. Former head coach Erich Hinterstocker, although con-sidered a very strict coach, formed winners out of his re-cruits. He developed his play-ers with a winning attitude.

In a strange sequence of events, Hinterstocker left his role as head coach in the middle of the 2010 season. Assistant coach Kari Thomp-son took over the interim role and finished the year 9-2 with a conference championship and NCAA tournament ap-pearance.

Thompson was named the head coach beginning the 2011 season and again saw success. She was named Summit League Coach of the Year, won the conference title and made the NCAA tourna-ment.

Coach Thompson ap-peared to be the heir apparent of Hinterstocker in continu-ing his winning ways. The one thing many fans didn’t seem to realize was this: Thompson was winning with Hinterstocker’s recruits.

Call me Negative Nancy, but it was true. You want proof? Look at this season.

This year’s struggling Bison squad was glued together by the performances of seniors Brynn Joki and Megan Lam-bertson. Recruited by whom? Erich Hinterstocker.

Two other seniors, Cath-erine Yager and Andrea Hen-ning, also contributed greatly to the team, but the chiroprac-tor bills for Joki and Lambert-son was overwhelming with how much they were carrying this team on their back.

These two kept the Bison in every match with ferocious kills, because when they came to NDSU, they were taught to be winners by Hinterstocker. The supporting cast this year was simply not good enough to compete consistently in the Summit League. Scattered with freshmen and sopho-mores, these players have yet to be developed, thus result-ing in a lackluster and disap-pointing year.

That development is in the hands of coach Thomp-son and her staff. These are her recruits. Next year’s team will be the sole work of Thompson without any aid from Hinterstocker recruits. If the Bison want to get back on track, developing these young players in the offsea-son will be key.

Thompson may not bring the intensified tactics that Hinterstocker did, but she does need to bring his men-tality to develop the players into winners. So far, she has not done so.

Am I saying coach Thompson is not fit for this job? No. Am I calling her recruiting weak? Not even close. A coach can get all the big-time recruits they want, but if you cannot develop that player into a college athlete, it doesn’t matter.

Kari Thompson no doubt has some work to do. Not reaching the playoffs this year, especially when host-ing it on campus, will be a dark cloud following this team around until next year. If Thompson can’t get her team to be contenders again, she just may find herself in the hot seat.

A seat even worse than the one she was sitting in while watching the Summit League tournament this weekend.

Disappointing Volleyball Season Draws Questions for Head Coach

“Herd’s Hunches”

SAM HERDERSports Editor

Bison Beat Down No. 24 Boise StateSam HerderSports Editor

The NDSU wrestling team did not flinch one bit when No. 24 Boise State strolled into the Bison Sports Arena for a Friday night dual. The Bison handled the Broncos, getting six match victories and a convincing 24-15 win.

NDSU had upset on their mind from the very open-ing match, when redshirt freshman Hayden Zillmer pulled an upset of his own over No. 20 George Ivanov in the 157-pound division. Zillmer, making his Bison debut, scored a takedown on Ivanov with only three sec-ond remaining in the third period to force overtime. Two scoreless sudden death overtimes and a pair of es-

capes by both wrestlers lat-er, Zillmer finally got an 8-7 victory with the advantage in riding time.

Zillmer’s victory sparked the Bison squad and NDSU’s No. 8 Steven Monk kept the spark alive with a 7-2 deci-sion in the 165-pound divi-sion.

Boise State took a 7-6 lead after winning the 174 and 184-pound divisions. That didn’t last long for the Broncos.

NDSU senior Kallen Kleinschmidt regained the lead for the Bison with a thrilling 11-9 victory at 197 pounds. Kleinschmidt scored a takedown with 0:45 remaining to gain his first and final lead of the match.

The Broncos again took back the lead with a win in the heavyweight division, going up 11-9.

That was when the No.

7-ranked Trent Sprenkle re-ignited the spark for NDSU. Sprenkle was up big in his 125-pound match when he got a final takedown on his opponent and turned it into a momentum changing pin with 0:48 remaining.

“He did what he was ex-pected to do and that’s what he ask of him,” Bison head coach Roger Kish said on Sprenkle’s pin.

The pin put NDSU up 16-11, a lead they did not surrender.

Josh Rodriguez won by forfeit at 133 pounds to ex-tend the lead to 21-11.

Senior Mark Erickson sealed the Bison win with a huge 5-1 match victory at 141 pounds, making the score 24-11.

“(Erickson) went out and he wrestled a smart match,” Kish said. “He wrestled hard and did what he had to do to

really seal the deal for us at the end of the dual.”

In the final match of the night, senior Joe Garner wrestled hard against Boise State’s No. 2 ranked Jason Chamberlin, but fell 2-9. Despite losing the last match of the night, the Bison still rolled to a 24-15 win.

“We have a lot to learn and we have a lot to do bet-ter at,” Kish said. “We didn’t wrestle our best out there but we still beat a ranked team in the country. I think that’s going to give our guys a lot of confidence.”

NDSU will host the Bi-son Quad on Saturday. The Bison will face No. 1 Min-nesota, Eastern Michigan University and Itasca Com-munity College at the Bison Sports Arena. Matches are set to begin at 1 p.m.

Yasser Shaikh | The SpectrumFreshman Hayden Zillmer won a 2OT victory at 157 lbs. over No. 20 George Ivanov of Boise State to spark an upset for the Bison wrestling team.

WRESTLING

Women Fall to Northern IowaWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Yasser Shaikh | The SpectrumSohpomore Jaime Kirk (24) Works the Panther defense during a 66-50 loss on Saturday.

Corrie DunsheeContributing Writer

Danielle DeGagne and Katie Birkel came out strong for the Bison women’s bas-

ketball team against UNI on Saturday, but the Bison were unable to pull out a win, re-sulting in a 66-50 loss at the Bison Sports Arena Satur-day.

DeGagne and Birkel

scored 12 points each for the Bison. With 6 points from Birkel early on to start the game, the Bison would take an 8-4 lead over UNI, but would soon lose it after a 14-0 run by the Panthers.

After an added 8-0 run from UNI a few minutes later, the Panthers would lead the Bi-son 31-18 at the end of the half.

Soon into the second half, freshman forward Hol-ly Johnson would score 4 points along with a 3-point shot from Hannah Linz to help the Bison pull within a 34-29 deficit. However, this would be the closest the women would get to regain-ing the lead. Senior guard Jacqui Kalin for UNI led the team with 26 points, 17 of which came in the second half.

With the loss, the Bison fall to 2-2 on the season, while UNI goes to 2-1. The women will be back in ac-tion Tuesday and Thursday when they will travel to the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout. The Shootout will be in Anchorage, Alaska, where the Bison will play the host Alaska-Anchorage at 11 p.m. Tuesday.“�e Sports Czar”

JOE KERLINSta� Writer

Unmasking Unreal Expectations

The Bison football team has been on one mission this season: to return to Frisco. With Saturday’s win in Nor-mal, Ill., the team took one step closer in completing their ultimate goal. Locking up their second MVFC title in as many years and secur-ing the number one seed in the FCS playoffs, the Bison have successfully paved the road to Frisco to come through the heart of Fargo.

It was an emotional regu-lar season for the Bison who fended off early controver-

sy spiraling around Fargo. Throughout the season more questions have surfaced ex-posing more pessimistic views towards the Bison ball club. Specifically, questions about the performance of our quarterback.

History tells us that the play of your quarterback is usually going to gage how well your season will pan out. As cliché as it may sound, it’s the truth. Jensen played well last year and led us to a championship. This year Jensen has been putting us in position to win games, but fans still yearn for more from the second year starter.

It has been an up-and-down season for the junior

who had high expectations coming into this season. After a stellar sophomore season leading the Bison to a National Championship, the lack of progression in his play has been disgruntling for impatient Bison fans, in-cluding myself.

The frustration fans have towards our quarterback has been well documented this season and has even stirred up a sense of unease from us at the Spectrum. Two weeks ago, Sam wrote a column second-guessing the progression of Jensen and he was right, Jensen hasn’t been making the plays with the frequency we are used to seeing the versatile QB

make.But I feel as fans in gen-

eral, we have put a spotlight on Jensen this year and have all expected him to be some-thing he is not. The students, the city and the media have put Jensen on the pedestal and have expected unrealis-tic things from the kid. We want him to make some dra-matic leap from good to great without realizing how rare it actually is for a quarterback to play at an elite level. Only a handful of player in the history of the FCS have been able to dominate the way we expect Jensen to. He is what he is and by putting his play under a microscope we have been able to pick apart every

aspect of his game unfairly. This time last year Jen-

sen had thrown for 1,994 yards with a 69 completion percentage. Through eleven games this year Jensen has thrown for 1,935 yards with a 62 completion percent-age but has thrown for more TDs. The similarity in the stat column further explains the ceiling Jensen’s game has. The problem people is that last year, with all of the talent around him, he hit the ceiling early leaving the Bison faithful craving more this season. As I explained in a column before the season started, the Bison lost a lot on offense from last season. Looking back, I think we

took for granted the play of Matt Veldman and Warren Holloway and their ability to get separation from DB’s, making young Jensen’s job a lot easier. Those open re-ceivers haven’t been there at all for Jensen this season, forcing him to throw into tighter window, ultimately leading to more interception.

With hopes of another deep run in the playoffs this year, the jury is still out on Jensen becoming that great quarterback we all aspire him to be. In the meantime, let the road to Frisco offi-cially begin.

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Bison Men Run Away With a WinMEN’S BASKETBALL

Colton PoolContributing Writer

The NDSU men’s basket-ball team looked to come-back from their loss to No. 1 Indiana by getting a win against the Mayville State Comets on Saturday at the Bison Activities Center. The Bison outhustled the Comets on both sides of the court and got a convincing 73-40 win.

It took a while for the Bison to get warmed up in the first half, as they turned the ball over on their first two possessions. However, NDSU’s hustle on defense kept them in the game. In the first half alone, the Bison forced the Comets into ten turnovers. NDSU also had four blocks in the first half, and made it tough for the Comet’s to shoot the whole game.

NDSU limited MSU to only f15 points for most of the first half. At the same time, the Bison made some plays on offense as well. NDSU played with an in-side-out style and had 16 points within the paint in the first 20 minutes of play. This gave Bison like junior guard Mike Felt good opportuni-ties coming off the bench. He went 2-5 from beyond the arc and had nine points in the first half.

It wasn’t until MSU start-ed to surge a good come-back. Momentum changed at around the 2:00 mark when the Comets’ offense turned up the tempo and it paid off for them in the last minute. MSU’s Austin Emerson got fouled on a made three point shot. Then, after Emerson missed the foul shot, Dexter Elliot fought the ball away from junior Taylor Braun and got the put back. The

first half ended with the Bi-son up 33-20.

The Bison had much more control after halftime. Bison were in the bonus only five minutes into the second half, helping them get an even larger lead. On offense, NDSU looked to get the ball inside early and often, and it worked well for them. As a team, the Bison just made too many plays too many plays for Comets to get any-thing going.

NDSU’s bench was phe-nomenal with both Felt and forward Chris Kading end-ing the game with 15 points apiece. With about 10 min-utes left in the game and the game out of reach for the Comets, the Bison started to put more bench players in that finished the game out. At the final buzzer, the Bison finished with a 33 point ad-vantage at 73-40.

The Bison are 2-1 going

into the Progressive Legends Classic in Pittsburg, Penn-sylvania. They are scheduled to go against Youngstown State on Monday, Duquesne on Tuesday, and James Mad-ison on Wednesday.

FOOTBALL

NDSU Defeats No. 11 Illinois State in Season FinaleSam HerderSports Editor

The road to Frisco will stay in Fargo again this year.

After some first half troubles, the No. 1 ranked NDSU football team surged for 24 unanswered points in the second half against No. 11 Illinois State in a 38-20 win to close out the regular season. The victory gives the Bison the outright Missouri Valley Conference champi-onship and a probable top seed in the FCS playoffs.

The Redbirds showed early on that they would not fall easily to the top team in the country, jumping out to

a quick 10-0 lead in the first quarter. Led by star quar-terback Matt Brown, the ISU offense looked to have NDSU’s number, racking up 129 total yards in the open-ing quarter.

Meanwhile, the Bison offense could not shake off their struggles, producing no effective drives to answer back. NDSU did find an an-swer in their All-American cornerback Marcus Wil-liams though. Following a 33-yard ISU field goal, Wil-liams busted open a 98-yard kickoff return to put the first points on the board for the Bison with 1:25 remaining in the first quarter.

The NDSU offense final-ly got something going on

their next drive, sparked by two big plays from running backs Sam Ojuri and John Crockett, who both finished over 100 yards rushing. The Bison run game began to find holes and proved to be the winning factor in this game.

Ojuri got it going when he found a hole and sprinted 47 yards to the ISU 5-yard line. On the next play, Crockett made a nice bounce outside and dove in for the score and just like that, the Bison went up 14-10 five minutes into the second quarter.

But the Bison defense struggled to contain Brown, who drove the Redbird of-fense down the field and scored on a play action keep-

er and ISU went into the half up 17-10.

The Redbirds got a 47-yard field goal to open the second half. Down 20-14, the NDSU offense ignited.

Thanks to a newly es-tablished running game and a stiffening defense, the Bi-son poured out 24 points to shock ISU. It started on a fourth-and-1 on the next drive. Ojuri received an op-tion pitch and was brought down 32 yards later. The Bi-son got a 29-yard field goal from Adam Keller later in the drive to cut the lead to 20-17.

After a huge Cole Jirik sack on third down, the Bi-son again marched down the field on the ground. Quarter-

back Brock Jensen capped off the drive with a 1-yard touchdown run and NDSU took a 24-20 lead and never looked back.

Jirik came up with an-other sack on third down and this time, the ball was coughed up and recovered by Mike Hardie. On the next play, Jensen took a shot to receiver Ryan Smith and connected for 39 yards to the 7-yard line. Jensen then rushed for his second touch-down, this one from 4 yards out with 9:52 remaining.

The Redbirds were un-able to overcome the huge momentum swing, going three-and-out on their next possession.

NDSU reached the

scoreboard one more time, punishing ISU with a stout run game. The Bison went 9 plays and 73 yards on the ground with runs from Ojuri and Crockett. Ojuri finished out the drive with a 1-yard touchdown run to put the final score at 38-20 and returning the conference championship back to Fargo.

The Bison finished their season with a 10-1 record and 7-1 in conference play.

The FCS playoff bracket selection was held Sunday afternoon, past press time.

Check GoBison.com for playoff matchups.

Yasser Shaikh | The SpectrumFreshman Chris Kadig (34) goes in for a basket against Mayville State on Saturday

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