DSInsideCalendar, page 2.

New student leaders appointed, page 2.

Christianson: Free speech, page 3

Ochs: Sleep equals success, page 4

Classifieds, page 6

Jaycees Potato Bowl Parade, page 6

Hendrickson breaks passing record, page 7

Soccer tops Jackrabbits, page 7

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Football edges out Portland StatePage 7

Happy Patriot Day from the Dakota Student!

For over two decades, the French Fry Feed, part of the an-nual week-long Potato Bowl event, has been drawing crowds up to 10 thousand people from Grand Forks and the surrounding area to Uni-versity Park.

On Thursday, as live music sounded throughout the park, event staff served free French fries to people as children played in the inflatable games. Attendees could meet many of UND’s athletes.

“People really enjoy this event,” said Todd Phelps, the 2012 Potato Bowl chairman. “They see all of these people and are willing to wait almost 45 minutes just for some fries.”

This year, about 3,750 pounds

Pounds and pounds of potatoes

The crowd watches on during the fry eating competition. Joshua Robistow ate nearly 1.2 pounds of fries in three minutes, winning the competition. He was awarded four tickets to the Potato Bowl football game and a $100 Hugo’s gift card.

FESTIVAL All-you-can-eat event draws a crowd of thousands to University Park.

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of potatoes were served to an esti-mated three to five thousand peo-ple. Last year, the feed set an event record by serving 5,010 pounds of potatoes. The event had been expected to break that record this year, but wasn’t able to because of light rain.

Joining the Potato BowlWhen Gregg Halverson of

Black Gold Farms was chairman of the Potato Bowl many years ago, he decided that something spectacular had to be added — something new that would add to the spirit of the community.

With that, the French Fry Feed was born.

With such a large feat, the Potato Bowl committee decided to partner with the J.R. Simplot Company.

As one of the largest privately held food and agriculture business-es in the nation, Simplot had the resources needed to help with this community event.

“The French Fry Feed was defi-nitely started with humble means,” Todd Phelps said.

The idea of free french fries courtesy of Simplot was a huge hit among Potato Bowl week attend-ees. Therefore, it became an annual event.

French Fry CompetitionThis year, 15 people competed

to see if they could be the one to consume the most fries and be crowned the winner of the French

fry eating contest.The participants have three

minutes to consume as many

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The UND women’s soccer club fell to its in-state rival North Dakota State University by a score of 3-0 on Sunday afternoon.

An NDSU vs. UND matchup is always a contest highlighted on the schedule, and one that can draw a crowd regardless of the sport.

The match set a UND women’s soccer attendance record with more than 500 fans in attendance at Bronson Field near Ralph Engelstad arena in Grand Forks.

North Dakota had the majority of the scoring chances in the contest, and seven early attempts were stopped as Bison keeper Sierra Bonham held her ground.

Twenty-two minutes into the match NDSU’s Holly Christian capital-ized on a loose ball in traffic that came after a Bison corner kick to tally the first goal of the contest.

That same score stood until 12 minutes into the second half, when a UND defensive miscommunication on a ball headed towards the net resulted in a second Bison goal.

The final goal came with under 13 minutes left as NDSU’s Brooklyn Dyce put home a rebound off of a Kristi Hestdalen save to seal the win for the Bison.

UND outshot the Bison 18-8 in the match. One-third of those North Dakota shots came off of the pink-heeled cleat of freshman forward Sam Harris, who saw increased playing time due to a leg injury sustained by Megan Anderson during UND’s win over South Dakota State Friday eve-ning.

The strong UND defense limited the Bison to only six shots on goal, with Hestdalen stopping three of those attempts.

North Dakota’s next contest will take place against Western Illinois on Sunday, Sept. 16 at 11 a.m.

Soccer shutout by instate rival NDSU

Brian Gendreau is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brian.gendreau@my.und.edu

BRIAN GENDREAuTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Controversy — again

[KEISuKE YOSHIMuRA] THEDAKOTASTUDENT

Sidewalks, scripture and Short — Tom Short, that is.

For the past several years, cam-pus evangelist Tom Short has vis-ited the UND campus to spread his views about the scripture and God.

“We think that he brings beau-tiful truths to campus in a very dy-namic way,” H2O president Jona-than Butz said.

H2O is the campus organiza-tion responsible for bringing Short back year after year to talk about what the Bible says through an evangelical approach, which in-volves bringing the scripture to the people.

“I think it’s a successful day if I sense people have gathered and listened,” Short said. “How people respond to the word of God is be-tween them and God, I just try to faithfully and accurately communi-cate [it].”

Across the street from sidewalks covered with chalked promotions for Short’s on-campus appearances, stands Christus Rex, the ELCA Lu-

CARRIE SANDSTROMTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

DEBATE Evangelist Tom Short returns to cam-pus, reigniting campus theological debate.

theran Campus Center, and its sign declaring, “We disagree with Tom Short.”

“We disagree with the way he handles the conversation,” Christus Rex pastor Chad Brucklacher said, referencing Short’s more direct tactics and literal interpretations of the scrip-ture.

Other issues that bystanders have taken with Short’s message, according to Butz, include his stance on issues affecting LGBTQA students, who have protested Short in the past. Stu-dents have also taken poorly to Shorts stance on pre-marital sex and other activities common on campus.

“The thing is, Tom definitely gets conversation flowing around cam-pus,” Christus Rex student intern Brian Viall said. “I think people like and want to talk. Some agree with Tom, others are challenged, some even feel threatened and offended, but it’s important to keep your cool and continue to be intentional and civil in that conversation no matter what a person’s views are.”

For the past two years, President Robert Kelley acknowledged the con-troversy that Short’s visits have caused through a campus wide email. In the emails, Kelley encouraged students and staff to respect, if not Short’s posi-tions, his first amendment rights.

“He doesn’t just come here to argue with students,” Butz said. “He comes here to talk to them about

what the Bible says.”Sitting on a stool on the side-

walk and surrounded by a group of students, Short wears a buttoned-up shirt, blue jeans and glasses, balancing a Bible on one knee as he fields ques-tions from those around him. Asked whether he believed that Christians were the only ones who felt God in their heart, he drew on his experiences for answers.

“I’ve traveled around the world and when I go to various countries where these other religions are pre-dominant … they see a fundamental difference,” Short replied. “Muslims don’t say God comes to live in you. Hindus don’t say God comes to live in you. Jews don’t say God comes to live within you. Christians say that.”

Disputes, according to Butz, re-sult due to Short’s willingness to an-swer students questions, regardless of what they are. However, Short says that he’s not surprised by disagree-ment.

“I expect it,” Short said. “The message of Christ is a direct opposite to what is being taught in our univer-sities, which is a message of human-ism … So I expect on the university that people will react to my message and that [some] will reject it.”

Carrie Sandstrom is the Assistant Editor of The Dakota Student. She can be reached at carrie.sand-

strom@my.und.edu

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[EVENT] “The Science of Art”: Free and open to the public one-day symposium with panels with artist duo The Oakes Twins and professor of optical sciences Charles Falco. Events begin at 5 p.m. at the North Dakota Museum of Art.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

[EVENT] Financial Football: One-day educational computer game tournament hosted by Financial Wellness office. Door prizes and free pizza available. Preliminary games held at the Memorial Union by the food court at 11:30 a.m.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

[EVENT] Good People: Comedic play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire held at the Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre, about a newly unemployed single mother in Boston. Tickets are $15, or $12 for students, seniors and military with identification.

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french fries as they can. The fries still left on the plate are then weighed to determine the winner.

The contest began last year and became a crowd favorite.

“We just started the french fry eating contest and it got a great reaction,” Potato Bowl Chairman Todd Phelps said. “The people re-ally enjoy it.”

Last year’s winner, Jay Gjest-vang, finished in second place.

“I already ate a lot so that prob-ably hindered my chances at win-ning,” Gjestvang said. “There were a lot of people here and it’s defi-nitely a fun event to come to.”

The winner was Grand Forks Air Force Base native, Joshua Rob-istow. He earned four tickets to the Potato Bowl football game and a $100 Hugo’s gift card

Robistow consumed nearly 1.2 pounds of fries in three minutes.

“This was my second year do-ing this so I wanted to come back to try harder and have fun at this great community event,” Robistow said.

Night-time EntertainmentAt dusk, the crowd migrated

over to Memorial Stadium to hear the Pride of the North marching band fill the cool night air with music.

The first 500 families to enter the stadium received a coupon for free potatoes at any Hugo’s location and children were greeted with free glowsticks.

Fireworks then lit up the sky as the crowd enjoyed the show put on by Rydell Motors.

The future of Potato Bowl week holds high expectations, Phelps said.

“We would like to continue each year with adding something new to keep Potato Bowl week fun and exciting,” Phelps said. “It’s a great thing for the potato industry, UND athletics and the commu-

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Elizabeth Erickson is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can

be reached at elizabeth.e.erickson@my.und.edu

University Program Council, Student Senate and University Sen-ate welcomed new faces into leader-ship roles during this Sunday’s Senate meeting.

The University Program Council

approved three new students.Cody Dessellier was approved for

the Diversity Coordinator.“Diversity is an area I haven’t

been able to work in before and I am really looking forward to this oppor-tunity,” Dessellier said.

Cassie Landbord was approved for the Cinema Coordinator posi-tion.

A Marketing Associate, unable to attend the meeting, was also ap-proved.

Student Senate approved five stu-dents to fill open Senate positions.

Jennifer Vetter, Karl Johnson,

and Emma Meyer were approved for the Off-campus Senate positions.

“It’s hard to get students living off-campus involved with the univer-sity because they aren’t on campus all the time,” Vetter said. “I really want to work with these students.”

“I can bring a lot of new ideas to represent the off-campus popu-lation,” Johnson said. “Parking is a problem for many of these students and I think that needs to be ad-dressed.”

Molly Bucker was approved for the College of Nursing Senator po-sition, and Brian Tschosik filled the

Honors Program Senator position.“I would like to see a better con-

nection between students and Stu-dent Government,” Tschosik said.

State Governmental Affairs Ex-ecutive Shane Gerbert was approved for an University Senate position.

“I am an attend-able guy who will be at every meeting,” Gerbert said. “I am trusted by the faculty and look forward to perpetuate the stu-dent voice more.”

UPC, Senates fill student leader vacanciesAPPOINTMENTS Stu-dent government ap-proves candidates for empty positions.

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

reached at kaitlin.bezdicek@my.und.edu

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REMEMBRANCE Recalling the Ameri-can tragedy that devastated our country 11 years ago.

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College campuses across the nation take pride in their ability to let ideas flow freely from the minds of students and the surrounding communities. The entire idea of higher education is to expand the minds and perspectives of people willing to listen. This amazing society of learners has blessed us with the ability to spread our ideas and let others be heard, even if we do not like what we may hear.

With this system of free speech comes the question that inevitably results, when have we gone too far?

In the 21st century, American col-leges and universities are the virtual nexus of intellectual thought and, with so many doors waiting to be opened, they have often chosen to invite controversial speakers onto their property. Controversy is a good thing to have on a campus be-cause it means that students are engaged in thinking about the current issues that matter to them. It can, however, become a destructive force that does more damage than good if taken too far.

The students at UND are no ex-ception to this observation. The public speakers invited to UND are some of the best and brightest and encourage students to broaden their horizons to

limitless boundaries. With these public speakers come ideas we may not all agree with, but with that frustration comes the motivation to learn and gain valuable ex-perience.

Even at UND, we can occasionally walk the line of what is socially accept-able and what is socially unacceptable. Recently, we had a visit from Tom Short, a local minister that takes a special inter-est in arguing with students over funda-mental religious beliefs and values. His methods have often become very aggres-sive toward students who stop to question him about his reasoning. When this hap-pens, usually one of three things happen: the student leaves the argument smiling, yelling or in tears.

When something very personal, like our religion, is assaulted in public, should we consider it a broadening experience or one with a much more negative impact?

UND is not alone in dealing with this touchy issue. In 2007, Columbia University invited the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to speak on campus. During his speech he made very anti–American remarks and denied the existence of the Holocaust.

Those remarks sparked national out-rage and insulted many of the students who attended his speech. The ideas Ah-madinejad brought to Columbia are in

stark contrast to every value we hold as a nation and lit up a controversy that still occasionally rears its head.

The reality of our situation is that we live in a society that values free speech over everything else. The consideration of various viewpoints can be a liberating experience from which we gain further insight into our continually developing world, especially for those experiencing independence for the first time.

Does that include a shouting match with a person who claims you will end up in hell because of who you are as a hu-man being? It’s a shocking and unsettling experience to many people who have been unfortunate enough to get on Tom Short’s bad side.

How should we deal with this prob-lem? The whole purpose behind higher education is to spread new and contrast-ing ideas, not to limit them. There is a price to pay for having the ability to speak freely, but I do not believe it is socially acceptable for an individual to verbally assault students in public based on their religious beliefs. It is one thing to expand ideas and inspire; it is another thing to re-press and discourage beliefs.

ADAM CHRISTIANSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Adam Christianson is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at adam.christianson@

my.und.edu

Tom Short pushes free speech to a breaking point

Lutheran church, Christus Rex shares its opinion about UND guest speaker Tom Short. Short is a travelling Evangelist who visited UND last week, raising attention due to his religious ideals and public controversy.

[KEISUKE YOSHIMURA] THEDAKOTASTUDENT

Today is an important day in our nation’s history. It is a day of mourning, a day to celebrate and a day to remember as the turning point of modern patriotism.

Celebration may seem an inappropriate word to associ-ate with Sept. 11, but it is indeed a day to celebrate the love, tradition and loyalty we Americans feel for our country.

Last year, the university honored this day with a Black-hawk helicopter landing on the quad and special ceremo-nies surrounding the American flag before the Memorial Union. Because last year was the 10th anniversary of 9/11, there were more celebrations than you shall see this year, and for us, this is somewhat disappointing.

We can still remember where we were the moment we saw the morning news reporting the disaster — we still remember the feeling, the awe and the sadness that spread amongst the citizens on that day. We remember the strength it took to bond as a nation in order to solidify ourselves, not as individuals, but as members of a broad and diverse community.

9/11 is a day to be remembered; forgetting would be a tragedy in itself. Today, we salute the men and women who survived, the firefighters who saved and the volunteers who continued to clear ground zero months after the Twin Towers fell.

Today, families are mourning for lost loved-ones, New Yorkers are gazing at a wider sky and heroes are being hon-ored.

We must remember, especially with the upcoming elec-tion, that no matter how diverse our political views or how different our skin color, we are all Americans; we are one.

Remembering is the theme of this column, and it is an important theme. To forget this tragedy would be like forgetting our own history and how we came to be here — how America came to be here. It was a very painful period in all of our lives; building and growing from that pain was how our nation came together as a whole to forgive and survive.

And with remembering comes learning, for we can only learn from our mistakes. We hold safety as a higher pri-ority. We are more careful in how we travel and how we live. We value our friends and family more than ever before because we know how fast we can lose them. We pride the men and women of public safety and armed forces as modern-day heroes.

Although it is not the 10-year anniversary and helicop-ters won’t be landing on UND property, that doesn’t mean the day is any less memorable.

Take a moment out of your busy schedule to remem-ber: pause for a moment of silence, call your loved ones and tell them you love them because today is a day for love and celebration — not for tragedy, but for how we, America, overcame that tragedy.

On September 5, I received an email from the UND President re-garding the visit of Tom Short.

Tom Short is an evangelical pastor who travels from campuses around the United States, preaching his be-liefs. Short has visited UND for the past several years. The student group, H2O, invited him.

Short is a hateful person. He preaches against LGBTQA individu-als by using the Bible. He’s not far from advocating the killing of LG-BTQA people. He’s not worth listen-

ing to and he’s extremely shaming of LGBTQA people, Atheists and many others. He claims to have “counseled” several people away from being les-bian, gay or bisexual.

Yet, organizations such as the American Psychological Association and the American Counseling Associ-ation deem such counseling methods to be unethical for any human being.

My problem with the UND email is that they allowed the student group, H2O to invite Short to come to campus…again. They [UND]

based their decision on the freedom of speech. They also acknowledge that some people agree and disagree with Short’s views.

The freedom of speech guise is a cop-out. I remember a couple of years ago when someone spray-painted swastikas somewhere on campus and UND officials came out and spoke against it. They’ve also spoken against other issues that are hateful to other groups of people. I’m sure some

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people were okay with the swas-tikas, but UND didn’t claim Freedom of Speech on that issue.

Now, granted someone could agree that spray-painting is dif-ferent than speaking, of course. Regardless, I am trying to prove a point.

Would UND allow a stu-dent group to invite a Klu Klux Klan member and send an email to the UND community using the guise of freedom of speech? Probably not. Why allow Short to come on campus, spewing hate about a certain group of people and claiming to “reform” them?

UND has come out in the past about supporting LGBTQA people. In fact, they were part of the Lavender Graduation Party this past spring to support LG-BTQA folks and allies graduat-ing from UND. Yet, they allow Short to come on campus. What does this say about UND? Either people support LGBTQA stu-dents or they don’t. There’s no middle ground.

It’s beyond shameful that UND allowed this guy to come on campus. He makes a lot of people unsafe and he’s not worth anyone’s time.

Heather Jackson

First-year Public Health graduate student

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“Yeah, I have this English

class at 8 a.m., and it just kills me every time.”

“Oh my gosh, I totally un-derstand, my professor for my 8 a.m. philosophy class just drones on and on; I swear I fall asleep almost every day.”

Sound familiar? If so, there’s a good chance you’re accumulat-ing sleep-debt.

Sleep-debt is the lack of sleep you have built over a spe-cific period of time. Most col-lege students need about eight hours of sleep a night or more. How many are you getting? The fact of the matter is, folks, you cannot perform at your optimal standards if your body is fight-ing the urge to snooze.

A fairly recent Gallup poll stated that 78 percent of young adults said they wished they got more sleep during the week. An-other study found that chronic sleep debt not only damages your immune system but can also cause frequent illnesses. Here in “Nodak Nation,” we need the healthiest immune sys-tems possible; the weather gets nasty outside.

We have all complained be-fore. After eating a big meal or sitting in a quiet car, we feel tired and just want to sleep. Or, we’re so bored that we nod off.

However, that big meal or long car ride has absolutely nothing to do with drowsiness. Think about it: your sleep habits in the past week have caused your body to accumulate sleep-debt, and has slowed down enough to give in to odd sleep patterns. Sleep-debt causes you to drift off and sleep — during class.

Now the question on your mind is: “Hell, I know I am not get-ting enough sleep, but how am I supposed to fix it?”

Don’t worry, folks, I have some food for thought. It’s col-lege, right? College is the time for freedom, the time for choices and the time to decide what’s best for you. Take my advice; if you know you love to stay up late and crash around 2 a.m., then don’t enroll in an 8 a.m. class!

There are other sections and other classes available for a rea-son. There is no point in par-taking in an education system if all you do is snooze through the lecture.

If you aren’t hitting the sheets till 2 a.m., and you have an early class, chances are you

aren’t getting the necessary eight hours of sleep your body needs.

We all told ourselves that we wouldn’t get that “freshman 15” when we arrived, that we would begin fresh and be the person we’ve always wanted to be. Give yourself the opportunity to

make those h e a l t h y choices.

U N D is ranked No. 3 in the nation’s healthy col-leges. Let’s keep that r a n k i n g and make a choice that

not only involves exercise and diet, but good sleeping habits.

We all want to open Black-board at the end of fall semester and see a bunch of “A’s” staring back at us — who wouldn’t? There are ways to make this eas-ier, people!

Some of you might be read-ing this article and think: “Hey, I definitely get enough sleep; I’m in the sack about nine hours a night. It doesn’t help me though, some things are so boring that I fall asleep anyway.”

Wrong, if you are falling asleep it means you still are in sleep-debt. The only way to fix the issue is by continually get-ting more sleep than normal

each night until you no longer feel the urge to fall asleep dur-ing class.

I know schedules are tight and everyone wants to balance social life and school, or even have a job thrown into the mix. But, it is possible to balance all those things and still get the necessary amount of sleep in one night.

Make a schedule, organize it and within that schedule, pro-vide allotted times for studying, exercising and eating. Be sure to include at least eight solid hours of sleep. Organize your social life around these necessities. If you want to be a healthy college student, this is your recipe for success.

College is the time to experi-ment and find out what you like; to each his own. I recommend trying to better your lifestyle by making healthy choices. You can quote me on this: I think you’ll find it easier to stay healthy, get better grades and be an all around happier person.

Who knows, maybe at the end of the semester you will see some of those long desired “A’s.” Give yourself some time at night to dream about ‘em!

Happy snoozing, everyone.

MARY OChsTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

‘You cannot perform to your optimal stan-dards if your body is fighting the urge to snooze.

Mary Ochscolumnist

Mary Ochs is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at mary.ochs@my.und.

edu

Sleep equals academic success

It’s not enough to have a “good” resume and its not enough to have “good” experience, whether it be through an internship or even rel-evant coursework. More times than not, an employer will look at your Facebook profile — they can and will — and base their decision off what they see posted.

While a picture of yourself at a bar enjoying a beer or a margarita may seem innocent enough, an employer will use but one word to de-scribe it: un-professional.

As much as I hope that employ-ers would ignore how employees or potential employees maintain their Facebook pages, it’s a hope that goes unfulfilled.

During your college career you will need to make a change on how you keep and display your Facebook page to others, especially if you’re in-volved in a professional internship or hoping to land a job with a successful company.

My first tip is to set your page to “private.” But even though it’s the simplest thing to do, it still isn’t enough. If your page is set to “pri-vate” and you still have a suggestive picture set as your profile photo, it’s reason enough for an employer to

decline your application.This doesn’t mean you have to

post a picture of yourself wearing a business suit. But barroom pictures will have to go, and girls, please put away the duck faces and the cleavage.

Gentlemen, no one wants to see the shirtless picture you take in the mirror with your smartphone. Post a picture your mother would be proud of.

One of the biggest things one has to worry about when dealing with Facebook are “friends.” I prom-

ise, they don’t care what they post on your page. Do your best to try keeping your page free from “hackers,” be-cause the last thing an em-ployer wants to see is a sta-tus that reads,

“I just farted so hard that it made the CD player skip.” This issue can easily be solved by signing out of the site af-ter every use, or by never letting your friends on your computer.

Another thing your “friends” may do is tag you in pictures and posts. Personally, I’ve gotten in trou-ble with internships because of pic-tures I never posted but was tagged in by others.

This wasn’t because I was doing anything suggestive in the picture; it was because a friend took the picture and wrote a suggestible slogan below it. In the privacy settings, you can ad-just your account so that as soon as you’re tagged in a post or picture, you

can approve the activity. Approved tags will be visible on your page, and denied ones will never see the light of day.

Also, if you post a status or pic-ture that you want a select few to see, you can place friends in certain lists, and anything posted to that list will only be visible to those particular members.

If you want to post something about your job or internship, then place your co-workers in a special list and post directly to them. If you want to talk about how hung-over you are — and I’d hope you wouldn’t — then you can post it into that list of friends.

When graduating and progress-ing into the adult world, your Face-book profile will have more of a fac-tor into your life than you’d like it to. It’s just the nature of the beast.

You’re left with the option of segregating your page to a business side and personal side, or you can go in a different direction and create a new page strictly for employers and co-workers.

Creating a new page would be the simplest option, because you can add a link for your Facebook or Twit-ter to your resume. It shows employ-ers that you understand the profes-sional side of social media.

While in college, students will blossom into the professional people they want to be. I’d suggest that they also have their social media page make the transition.

‘Your Facebook pro-file will have more of a factor in your life than you’d like it to.

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A double vision by double minds

CULTURE&MEDiA Tuesday February 14, 2012

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Have you seen double when you were drunk? Have you seen double when you were not drunk? This concept of double vision is brought up in twins Ryan and Trevor Oakes art ex-hibit at the North Dakota Mu-seum of Art.

Double vision is something you see all day long no matter what your level of intoxication, due to the fact that you have two eyes. You see the image pro-jected from your dominant eye while your brain suppresses the other, so you usually only per-ceive one image at a time.

This concept was the “jumping off point we de-veloped our body of artwork around,” said one of the twin artists, Trevor Oakes. The twins found that you can control this “binocular splitting” at will.

Take your fi nger and point it directly forward in your line of sight. Now stare at it un-til you become conscious of

your fi nger splitting into two im-ages. They should become trans-parent. One eye registers on the foreground and one on the back-ground. This is what happens when you are viewing the world binocularly. The Oakes Twins’ concept for their work of art was to take this double vision and use the double to trace the world.

The twins have been looking at different perceptions of the world together since the age of three. Trevor recalls one of his fi rst expe-riences with thinking about per-ception in a family car ride he had in the very early morning light just before dawn. “The sun was just

popping up on the horizon, the sky was a bright orange, but not too bright that you couldn’t look at it. I noticed I could see the colors when I turned my head with my peripheral vision, but I couldn’t see behind my head,” Trevor said.

Young Trevor shared this in-sight with his twin brother Ryan and from then on they continued developing their knowledge of ways to perceive images and light.

The Oakes Twins attended the art school Cooper Union in New York City, where they developed their artistic talent and made two conceptual breakthroughs.

The fi rst was more of a recov-ery of long-lost knowledge that dates back as far back as the Re-naissance thinkers. Most represen-tations in our daily lives envision us as gazing into the world as if through a fl at window — in fact we actually experience the world as if we were at the center of a giant perceptual sphere.

The second breakthrough was that the twins fi gured out a way of rendering the world before them onto a curved sheet of paper — tracing the world onto that page freehand as if by way of a camera obscura or camera lucida projec-tion (optical aids used as drawing devices for artists). However, they didn’t use any equipment whatso-

ever, other than their own binocu-lar vision.

“The drawings typically take three weeks to a month,” Trevor said. “If you moved your head at all, stuff would stop lining up, so we realized you would need to hold the paper really still and keep your head in relation to it.”

This is how the idea to con-struct a concave easel came about. “We used supplies from our cous-in’s metal shop for our third proto-type,” Trevor said.

The Oakes Twins exhibition was brought to the N.D. Museum of Art to complement physicists Charles Falco’s lecture “The Sci-ence of Optics, The History of Art.” Also, it goes along with New Yorker staff writer, Lawrence We-schler’s discussion entitled “Sci-ence and Art As parallel and Di-

vergent Ways of Knowing.”The twins’ artwork has a

lot to do with the processes and observations of thinking about the physics of light and how light comes into the eye.

“We are combining science with art in this exhibit,” said Sue Fink director of education at the museum. “It’s exciting that we can cross those barri-ers.”

The exhibit includes various examples of their artwork on concave canvases, as well as dif-ferent paintings and sculptures. There sculptures include a bowl made of matchsticks and three sculptures made entirely of pipe cleaner. All of their artwork has to do with perspective.

“A lot of the time people say to us that they have never seen anything like it before,” Ryan Oakes said “Getting people’s feedback and seeing their reac-tions is my favorite part.”

The artwork helps people perceive objects and landscapes in a new way.

“Artists just want to see the world in a better way,” said Fink.

That is what the twins at-tempted by creating a more accurate interpretation of how our eyes perceive the image of the world in front of us.

The North Dakota Mu-seum of Art is holding The Sci-ence of Art symposium starting at 5 p.m. today, which includes a Q & A session with The Oakes Twins. For more infor-mation visit www.ndmoa.com or call at (701) 777-4195.

Background photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.

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A double vision by double minds

Katie Fletcher is the Feature Edi-tor for The Dakota Student.

She can be reached at kate-lyn.fl etcher@my.und.edu

Twin artists Ryan and Trevor Oakes developed a spe-cial easel to help them remain immobile while drawing their artwork on concave canvases. Photo courtesy of artslant.com.

The Oakes Twins Exhibit showcased a variety of art-work including sculptures made from pipe cleaners. Photos by Katie Fletcher.

Twin artists Ryan and Trevor Oakes developed a spe-

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On Saturday, 115 floats involved in the 48th annual Jaycees Potato Bowl Parade made their way down DeMers Ave., starting at the YMCA and ending across the Sorlie Bridge and into East Grand Forks.

From 10:30 a.m., until the pa-rade ended a bit over an hour-and-a-half later, people walking along-side the floats tossed candy out to the crowd; kids carrying plastic bags picked up every bit of it in a five-foot radius around themselves; a local car-diologist who plays bassoon in the city band hurried down the sidewalk, instrument and sheet music in hand.

Several marching bands, some of them with cheerleaders, marched past. One of the bands was from Crookston; out in front of the band, a horizontal line of people carried white cards with glittery red letters that to-gether spelled out “CROOKSTON.”

The KEM Shriners’ dual-steering wheel cars drove past, moving from side to side along the parade path. Written on the doors on both sides were two lines: “No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a crippled child,” and “We spend $100,000 a day on helping hospitalized children.”

One of the floats had a defini-tion of potato hand-written in black marker on a white poster. Another had the names of potatoes in other languages.

Because it was an election year, there were a larger number of political floats than average, according to Sar-ah E. McKenzie, the state and local chapter president of the Jaycee’s, one of the people in charge of organizing the parade.

Local residents, either by them-selves or with their friends or family, lined up along the whole path — in-cluding the bridge — to watch the floats go by and spend some time away from routine.

“It’s a nice break,” Tammy Gul-berg said. Gulberg, 50, has lived in the Grand Forks area her entire life; for as long as she can remember, she’s gone to the Potato Bowl parade.

She wasn’t looking out for any floats in particular this year, she said; she was just “taking it all in.” She waved to Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s car as it drove past.

Standing at around 5-foot-4-inches tall, she’s got wavy, close-cropped brunette hair with blond streaks and gray specks and is sport-ing a pink sweater that reads “UND Sioux.” She’s never been in the parade herself, though her daughter Sarah had been in the parade one year when she was on the high school cheerlead-ing team.

Gulberg waved again, this time at the kids sitting on the float for St. Mi-

chael’s catholic school. Gulberg goes to church there.

“Most of those kids could be my grandchildren,” she muses.

Across the bridge, 52-year-old Kelly Wagner straddles her bicycle, leaning on the handlebars for sup-port. She’s dressed in all-black sports gear; the only hint of vibrancy is the light-colored shirt that pokes out be-neath the bottom of her jacket.

“My family says I need to re-lax,” Wagner said. Mid-sentence, she reached up and brushed a stray few hairs out of her face. The hairs flew right back, and she let them stay there.

Wagner works at a local law firm as a paralegal, a job she’s held for the past 15 years. She rides bike occasion-ally, “for exercise.”

One of her friends was in a float with her niece and nephew. It had al-ready passed, and now she was biding her time, watching the floats pass, ac-cepting the odd flyer and coupon that was handed to her.

Some of them, like coupons to the Sbarro on-campus, she passed off to someone nearby. She looked over the flyers for a moment before fold-ing them up neatly and stuffing them into her pockets.

Like Gulberg, she grew up in North Dakota, but moved to Ha-

waii when her husband, who was in the Army, was stationed there. When he got out of active duty, they moved back to North Dakota, where he en-listed in the National Guard. They’ve lived in the state ever since.

This is the first time in years that Wagner has gone to the parade. She just felt like doing it, she said.

The last float drove by. Behind it was a trail of vehicles — regular traf-fic. Behind the traffic were mostly empty sidewalks, the crowd having already dispersed.

“I guess it’s over,” Wagner said. She turned her bike around and ped-aled away down the concrete path behind her.

Crowd relaxes at potato paradeCELEBRATION People lined the streets of Grand Forks in honor of the potato.

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A blue fox marches in the Jaycee’s Potato Bowl Pa-rade on Saturday. This was the 48th year the pa-rade has been held.

SPORTS Tuesday, September 11, 2012

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With freshman Taryn Mac-millan leading the way and scor-ing the first goal of the game, UND was able to defeat the South Dakota State Jackrabbits 3-1 on Friday at Bronson Field.

MacMillan scored 26 min-utes into the game, with senior captain Sheri Stapf getting the assist.

The next goal for North Dakota was scored unassisted by sophomore Juliette Austin, giving North Dakota a two goal lead. That was also Austin’s first career goal.

“I thought it was pretty ex-citing. I hope it’s not the last one,” Austin said.

Those were the only goals scored in the first half of the game. The second half began with an SDSU goal. That goal was scored by Stacy Guijarro, with the assist going to Christa Nyblom.

UND was up 2-1 when sophomore Megan Anderson

scored her second goal of the season. Senior Rhaya Ballon gained the assist.

That was Anderson’s seventh point of the season, which cur-rently leads the team. Ander-son’s goal put North Dakota up 3-1, which would be the final score of the game.

N o r t h D a k o t a i m p r o v e d to 2-2-1 while SDSU dropped to 1-4-1.

“The game went pretty well. It was nice to get a result against a good team,” UND coach Kris-ten Gay said.

The final shots were in favor of SDSU 18-15.

Goalkeeper Kristi Hestdalen came up with some big saves on two SDSU breakaways to keep North Dakota in the lead.

“It went really amazing,” Hestdalen said. “Big improve-ment from last weekend. Last weekend we had the same situ-ation, but we let up and tied. This game we won.”

Hestdalen had 13 saves in the second half to combine

for a total of 15, with one goal against. North Dakota was able to hold onto the lead despite a hard fought effort from SDSU.

“When we settled down, we played really good. When we

put them un-der pressure they couldn’t handle it.” Austin said.

S o p h o -more Megan A n d e r s o n did leave in the second half of the game due to

injury. “She was playing well, huge

loss, but people on the bench need to step up,” Gay said.

UND’s defense had another strong game to help seal the win. “They played fantastic, holding on in the second half. Best game so far this season.” Gay said.

North Dakota’s next game will be Sunday, Sept. 16 at 11 a.m., as the green and white take on Western Illinois at Bronson Field.

UND succeeds in first Big Sky test

Last Saturday, UND proved that they have what it takes to play Division I football, as they routed Portland State University (PSU) 45-37 at the Alerus Cen-ter.

Saturday’s matchup in the beginning looked to be in PSU’s favor. After going three and out for the first drive, UND was forced to punt the ball. Portland State opened their drive on their own 35 yard line. Their first play stunned fans, as PSU’s freshman quarterback Kieran McDonagh threw a 65 yard touchdown pass to Viking receiver Justin Mona-han.

The Vikings attempted a two-point conversion, but were stopped five yards short by North Dakota’s defense.

Following the kickoff, UND came onto the field determined to show a better outing. Almost a copy of PSU’s touchdown play, UND quarterback Marcus Hen-drickson threw a 66 yard touch-down pass to junior receiver Greg Hardin. The noise that followed

was unbelievable as North Da-kota scored the point after, going up 7-6.

Statistically, the odds were in PSU’s favor. By the end of the game, the Vikings had rushed 38 times with a net gain of 214 yards, compared to UND’s 107 yards on 35 carries. McDonagh threw for 301 yards — only sev-en yards more than Hendrickson, who had 294.

The deciding factor in North Dakota’s win was their defense. McDonagh threw two intercep-tions. One of which resulted in a UND field goal was picked by linebacker Dominique Bennett. The other, by linebacker Cor-dero Finley, resulted in a 34 yard touchdown pass to freshman re-ceiver Jameer Jackson.

Hendrickson had a record game. Assuming the starting role, after Braden Hanson was injured against South Dakota Mines, Hendrickson threw six touchdowns, tying the school record set by Corey Colehour in 1966 (Kelby Klosterman tied the record in 2001). Of Hendrick-son’s six touchdown passes, three were sent to junior receiver Greg Hardin, who also had a standout game. Hardin had six catches and 109 yards on the night. Five of Hendrickson’s touchdowns came in the first half, giving UND a 16 point advantage at halftime

(35-24).The game wasn’t over for

PSU. In the fourth quarter, the Vikings scored two field goals and a touchdown (PSU’s Alex Toureen), putting them in a dan-gerously close position to UND. With the score at 45-37 and just over two minutes on the clock, PSU needed a strong outing from their defense to recover the ball.

Ultimately, UND chose to kill the clock, earning their first victory against a Big Sky oppo-nent.

North Dakota head coach Chris Mussman was pleased with the result, calling the game very special. “This was our first im-pression. Tonight’s game is what we’re putting on film for the rest of the teams to see. We kept up the pressure and showed them North Dakota football.”

UND plays their first game on the road next Saturday as they travel to southern California to take on the San Diego State Az-tecs. This will be the first time this season that North Dakota plays a FBS Division I school. The Aztecs (1-1) are coming off a 42-7 win over Army. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m.

VICTORY North Da-kota topped Portland State in a thrilling 45-37 win in Grand Forks.

PATRICK CAVANAUGHTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Patrick Cavanaugh is the Sports Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at patrick.cava-

naugh@my.und.edu

North Dakota claims win against JackrabbitsRISING UND added another win to their re-cord as they trumped South Dakota 3-1.

MARIAH HOLLANDTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Mariah Holland is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can

be reached at mariah.holland@my.und.edu

UND forward Rhaya Ballon dukes out SDSU defender Katie McNeary.

The team celebrates after a 3-1 victory against the Jackrabbits.

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North Dakota’s defense brought their A-game against the Portland State Vikings.

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UND receiver R.J. McGill catches one of Marcus Hen-drickson’s six touchdown passes.

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‘When we put them under pressure, they couldn’t han-dle it.

Juliette AustinUND women’s soccer player

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