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More students buy textbooks onlineCHANGE As text-book costs increase, students fi nd other alternatives to acquire books and save.

>KATIE BACHMEIERThe Dakota Student

As the second week of un-dergraduate courses comes to a close, many students have yet to purchase textbooks for their classes.

Some make the decision to go without a book and take the chance that the text won’t be utilized in the class. Others don’t want to spend $400 on one textbook.

“When textbook price in-creases are combined with an increase in tuition and fees over the same time period, this has caused the overall price of higher education to increase signifi cantly and has posed serious fi nancial problems for the students and parents who must meet these burgeoning costs,” said James Koch, a pro-fessor of economics at Old Do-minion University, V.A., in his Sept. 2006 analysis of textbook costs.

In order to beat the prices at the bookstore, students ex-plore other avenues of text-book purchasing to avoid some seemingly unnecessary compli-cations.

The option to search on-line for books allows for re-sources to be more available to

students than ever before. Within minutes, one can

download a text and have it synced and ready to read on an e-reader or laptop, erasing the initial frustra-tion of the bookstore calamities.

The growth of technology has enabled books of all sorts to be readily available at one’s fi ngertips within days, or even minutes. The ability to order books from online stores or purchase downloadable versions of text, , allows students to be in control of their book orders and preferences, rather than only having one source, such as the uni-versity book store.

Just as the bookstore offers a book rental option do sites like Amazon.com.

“You can rent for the mini-mum length, typically 30 days, and save up to 80 percent off the print list price. If you fi nd you need your textbook longer, you can extend your rental by as little as one day as many times as you want and just pay for the added days, says Ama-zon’s rental policy.

Students purchasing texts from online sites are able to carry many more books with them at a time without weighing down their back-packs.

Modern technology has made the previous hassle of carrying multiple books a thing of the past. Most e-readers also come with the option of taking notes as you read potentially replacing notebooks as well.

Ordering texts from popular discount websites has also become

>ROBB JEFFRIESThe Dakota Student

ALCOHOL Campus and national surveys reveal less students are indulging in the habit of excessive drinking.

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College binge drinking rates

UND students seem to be tapering off their wild partying, according to recent surveys.

In a survey of nearly 4,000 North Dakota stu-dents conducted last school year, about 48 percent said they had fi ve or more drinks in one sitting in the past two weeks.

In an Associated Press interview last July, Jane Vangsness Frisch, director of the North Da-kota Higher Education Consortium for Substance Abuse Prevention, stated this is the fi rst time that the binge drinking rate has been below 50 percent since 1994. She also said there has been a steady decline in binge drinking since 2003.

Staff and faculty have noticed a change on campus.

“It doesn’t seem like there are as many out of control students [compared to past years], par-ticularly at sporting events,” said Matt Ritter, a music department staff member. “There seems to be more activities available for students on cam-pus; more options are around so they don’t have

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>Is UND still a party school?

In 2009 the Princeton Review ranked UND as the No. 15 school for students that drink the most liquor and No. 18 among party schools. UND hasn’t made either list since that year.

Students take turns striking a car with a sledgehammer on the lawn of Phi Kappa Phi as part of fraternity re-cruitment week. Photo by Cullen Donohue

It’s hammer timeStudent organization gets back into swingDANCING Swing club students meet for the fi rst time in a year after bounc-ing from place to place.

>CULLEN DONOHUEThe Dakota Student

Tuesday night marked the fi rst meeting of the UND Swing Club in over a year.

The UND Swing Club has not met in over a year because, since its creation, it has been diffi cult to fi nd a meeting place.

“It’s a relief to fi nd somewhere to meet this year,” said senior John Neis, the club’s president and phys-ics major.

The event was marked with the smiles of many students aging from freshman to graduate students.

The club has found its home in several places across the campus including the Armory, the Load-ing Dock, the Memorial Ballroom, Smith Hall and even the Walsh Quad.

The UND Swing Club has

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World BriefFault lines found near Japanese nuclear power plant

TOKYO _ There are 14 potentially active fault lines in areas near the crisis-hit Fukush-ima No. 1 nuclear power plant and other nuclear-related facili-ties, the Japanese government has announced.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency announced the results of research undertaken by power utilities following the Great East Japan Earthquake.

The 14 faults discovered to be potentially active were pre-viously considered unlikely to cause earthquakes.

According to the research, a magnitude-7.6 earthquake could occur on the potentially active Hatakawa fault line in Fukushima Prefecture, the larg-est magnitude earthquake esti-mated.

The agency said the in-tensity of any quakes from the fault lines would not exceed the level the facilities were designed to withstand. It also said there were no problems with the fa-cilities’ quake resistance.

Five of the 14 fault lines are near Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 nuclear power plants.

The other nine are near Ja-pan Atomic Power Co.’s Tokai No. 2 power plant and the Ja-pan Atomic Energy Agency’s Tokai reprocessing plant in Iba-raki Prefecture.

Suicide attack kills at least 28 in west Bagh-dad

BAGHDAD _ At least 28 people were killed, including a member of parliament, and 37 others were wounded when a suicide attack targeted a major Sunni mosque in west Baghdad Sunday night.

The explosion was inside Um al-Qura mosque, the head-quarters of the Sunni endow-ment during the prayers of the last days of Ramadan, when at-tendance is up. Police confi rmed that children were among the casualties.

Khalid al-Fahdawi, a law-maker from the al-Wasat Co-alition (the Middle Coalition), was among the dead.

Police said the suicide bomber used explosives hidden under a splint and tried to be as close as possible to the head of the Sunni endowment, Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai, who was injured in the attack.

In a phone call with one of the Iraqi satellite channels after the attack, al-Samarrai accused al-Qaida of mounting the at-tack. No group claimed respon-sibility.

Migrants head north to Mexico, U.S.

TAPACHULA, Mexico–Unlike many of the migrants who pass through Mexico on the way to the United States, Adolfo Herrera isn’t hoping for a new life. He’s returning to an old one. He’s going home.

Herrera speaks street-worthy English, is a big fan of the Dallas Cowboys and has spent 25 of his 28 years in Texas. He was deported a year ago to his country of birth, Colombia, but felt like a foreigner.

“I don’t got family in Colombia. I don’t know nobody. I don’t want to live there,” Herrera said, speaking in a migrant shelter near the border with Guatemala.

“I’m going back to the United States. No doubt, buddy,” he said, listing the numerous relatives – from grandmother to brothers – who live near his home in Lewisville, north of Dallas and Fort Worth.

Two weeks ago, the Obama ad-ministration announced a dramatic change in U.S. policy, saying it would drop efforts to deport illegal immigrants who have no criminal records. Instead, Homeland Secu-rity Secretary Janet Napolitano said Aug. 18, her department will focus on the deportation of convicted criminals and those who might be a national security or public safety threat. Under the new policy, some 300,000 pending deportation cases will now be reviewed in U.S. immi-

Migrants cross the river between Guatemala and Mexico on July 2, 2011.

gration courts.That, however, does nothing for

those already deported, and many are among the migrants willing to take huge risks to get home again.

“I know it’s really dangerous but I have to do this for my children,” said Mary Luz Armendariz, a Hon-duran who was deported from Long Beach, Calif., recently after 18 years there.

Armendariz left her three chil-dren, all U.S. citizens, behind with friends, and the phone calls with them have been painful.

“They cry. ‘I miss you, Mom. I love you. Why don’t you come back?’ “ she said.

She spoke as she prepared to shinny up a ladder to the top of a freight train known as “La Bestia,” or The Beast, at a rail yard in Ar-riaga, a town in Chiapas state that is the southernmost point in Mexico’s rail system. The glow of a rail yard light fell on her face. A bandage wrapped her knee, strained from days of walking.

The migrant journey north has never been riskier. Some fall victim to gunslingers from organized crime groups who halt trains and abduct migrants for ransom. Scores of un-lucky ones end up in mass graves. Others are pressed into service as cartel triggermen to do battle with rival gangs. Some simply fall to the tracks off what many call the “trains of death.”

Still, they keep coming, many of them propelled by the desire to reunite with family and friends in lives they built in the United States.

Most migrants’ trips begin with a benign river crossing – a raft ex-cursion.

Along the Suchiate River that

HOME Deported indi-viduals head north after U.S. announces relaxed immigration policy.

>TIM JOHNSONMcClatchy Newspaper

delineates part of the border be-tween Mexico and Guatemala, some 100 rafts made of twin tractor inner tubes lashed to a wooden-slat platform carry passengers and con-traband cargo back and forth.

Passengers pay less than $2 to cross the river. Local, state and fed-eral police largely ignore _ or benefi t from _ the illegal trade. It is a free-for-all, a door left wide open.

“The only danger around here is that your raft pops a leak and you take a dip,” said a young rafter who would only give his name as Chu-cho.

After crossing the border, the fi rst stop for migrants is often Ar-riaga, a sleepy town on the Tehu-antepec Peninsula where Mexico is its narrowest. It is where they hop aboard La Bestia. Every other day or so, hundreds of migrants fl ock to the rail yard to clamber atop the metal boxcars and tanker wagons.

“With my experience now, I can make it to the border on my own,” said Juan P. Suazo, a 38-year-old Honduran who has made the jour-

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ney fi ve times. “Once you are at the border, you have to hook up with somebody who’s linked to Los Ze-tas. Otherwise you will fail.”

Suazo referred to the transna-tional crime gang that has spread from narcotics traffi cking to extor-tion, counterfeiting, kidnapping and migrant smuggling.

Suazo was eager to return to California, where he lived seven years, and perhaps take up his old job as a valet parking attendant in Beverly Hills.

“I would drive beautiful cars, Volvos, Mercedes Benzes, Lexus, BMWs. They paid me $14 an hour, and I’d get tips,” Suazo said.

Another migrant, Jorge Perez, a Guatemalan, discussed the multiple risks he faced as he headed illegally back to Minnesota, where he’d re-sided for years, long enough to chalk up two felony convictions. Then he cut a questioner short, tiring of the line of inquiry: “You’d do the same thing. If you were in my situation, you’d do it, too.”

Rebels hunt for hiding leader

TRIPOLI, Libya – Revolution-ary tourism was booming Tuesday in Moammar Gadhafi ’s former home and headquarters, where eu-phoric visitors honking horns and fi ring Kalashnikov rounds seemed unanimous on one point: The man who ran Libya for more than four decades must be captured or killed.

“We need to cut off the head of the snake,” said Ahmed Digin, a rebel standing guard at the sprawl-ing Bab al-Aziziya compound, now open to a public delirious with the unexpectedly rapid fall of Libya’s long-feared leader. “That is the only way to convince people

that there is no use in resisting the revolution.”

The rebels have in effect ended Gadhafi ’s lengthy rule. But fi nding him, insurgent leaders say, would quell remaining opposition and erase any doubt that Libya has em-barked on a new era.

Many suspect that Gadhafi is hiding in his hometown, Sirte, a loyalist enclave about 225 miles east of the capital. On Tuesday, the rebel leadership issued an ultima-tum: Anti-Gadhafi forces will give offi cials in Sirte until Saturday – after the three-day Eid al-Fitr holi-day marking the conclusion of the Muslim fasting month of Rama-dan – to surrender or face attack.

Ali Abdul Salaam Tarhouni, a representative of the rebels’ Tran-sitional National Council, told reporters that rebel leaders “have a good idea” where Gadhafi is.

“We don’t have any doubt that we will catch him,” said Tarhouni, who declined to provide additional details.

Libya’s interim leadership de-manded that neighboring Algeria repatriate members of Gadhafi ’s family who have fl ed there this week – among them his wife, daughter, two sons and grandchil-dren, including one reportedly born in the Sahara desert as the family made its way into exile. The rebels want to put family members on trial along with Gadhafi . The news that much of the ex-leader’s family had escaped focused peo-ple’s interest on the question: Where is Gadhafi ?

To many here, Sirte is the ob-vious answer.

“You know, they say the ele-phant always goes back to his home to die,” said Mohammed Hejazi, a rebel in a red beret at a beachside base that was once a private resort for the Gadhafi family.

Others speculate that Gadhafi may be in the southern desert town of Sabha, a location that could fa-cilitate escape to sub-Saharan Afri-ca, where Gadhafi cultivated robust

support. Additional possibilities include loyalist enclaves such as the city of Bani Walid, 95 miles southeast of Tripoli. Then there are those who believe Gadhafi re-mains in the capital, ensconced in a clandestine hiding place.

“I think he’s right here in Tripoli, maybe in a tunnel some-where,” ventured Digin, the rebel at Bab al-Aziziya, who was decked out in classic revolutionary garb: camoufl age fl ak vest, jeans, the de rigueur Kalashnikov and a black beret covering his stringy hair.

These are days of euphoria for many Libyans, despite the string of post-Gadhafi hardships, includ-ing severe shortages of running water, power and gasoline. Such problems and other pressing is-sues, including the proliferation of weapons here and the uncertain status of the future government, remained in the background for many cavorting about Gadhafi ’s former home turf.

REVOLUTION Libyan citizens are on a mission to capture fallen leader Moammar Gadhafi .

>PATRICK J. MCDONNELLLos Angeles Times

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For those that are new to cam-pus, you are holding in your hands one of the greatest assets this Uni-versity has to offer. I mean this not in the sense that the Dakota Stu-dent is a publication of extremely high quality or that it is the cut-ting edge of news reporting and intellectual discussion. I say this because the Dakota Student has existed for the past 129 years as an independently operated open fo-rum and voice for students—not a puppet of the University and not a moneymaking entity that exists to spin a profi t from student reader-ship. The Dakota Student is here for you. It always has been.

It’s no news that your stu-dent newspaper is hurting. It has been in a fi nancial defi cit for a few semes-ters now, and a big part of that hurt stems from the lost adver-tising dollars—much of which used to come from campus departments and organi-zations investing in their college publication by purchasing ad space to publicize events or to make themselves known. This advertis-ing support has almost completely disappeared since the development of the UND website event calen-dar. As such, the print edition of the paper has suffered, since lower ad lines means fewer pages, which means fewer articles and fewer writ-ers and fewer job opportunities for students. This spiraling effect has plagued college papers nationwide.

The Dakota Student, however, has stuck to its guns, and through

the stalwart fi nancial guidance of Sue Litzinger, it has maintained its commitment to offering students an open, clear voice. But more stu-dents need to use that voice. The print edition of the paper, which has seen a signifi cant reduction in copies printed and distributed, is hardly picked up. It is astonishing that on a campus of over 14,000 students, the paper goes unread. Granted, the content of the paper is available online, and we are ap-preciative of our online readers, but there are still far too many stu-dents that don’t read or take an in-terest in the paper at all. This needs to change.

One of your student paper’s slogans is “Join the Conversation.” Obviously, it is impossible for any-

one to join a conversation when they aren’t a part of it. In order to foster the kind of campus-wide discus-sions that the Dakota Stu-dent attempts to facilitate,

readers need to get involved. This means that instead of trashing the paper for x-columnist’s political views or disagreements about issues and leaving it at that, the affected reader should write in. Voice your disagreement or your support. The more conversation the paper stirs up, the better. Write a good letter, and another reader may respond, thus creating a discussion within the pages of the paper. This is what the Dakota Student is all about.

Because of its print schedule, the Dakota Student is not going to be the fi rst source of big news on campus. The paper’s editors do not work on an overnight publica-

tion schedule—they are full-time students, just like you. Therefore, what the editors and the paper strive for is student involvement and interaction. The paper needs not only readers, but also writers. The paper needs not only the big stories, but also the everyday ones. Your paper needs your stories—the ones that really matter.

To repeat: The paper is hurt-ing. Your paper is hurting. Only purpose can transcend the mon-etary, and only readership can strengthen the paper. And the DS is not alone—college papers all over the country are suffering fi -nancially and facing technological developments, which at the same time leads to production and ad-vertising obstacles, but just be-cause college papers everywhere are drowning doesn’t mean we have to watch it happen to ours. Be aware, get involved and encourage others to get involved—your student pa-per needs you now more than ever. Take a copy home to Mom and Dad. Show the rest of the world what is happening in our commu-nity, both on the large scale, and on the small scale.

As I said before, if you are new to this campus, you are holding one of the greatest assets our University has to offer. If you are a constant reader, either critical or otherwise, be reminded that the editors and writers appreciate you devoting your time and interest. It is you who make this paper work. But for those who shun the paper for petty, superfi cial reasons or simply pass it by: Take pride in your paper and help make it better. Don’t just join the conversation—strike it up.

>ALEX CAvANAughThe Dakota Student

‘Be aware, get in-volved and encour-age others to get in-vovled...

Alex Cavanaughcolumnist

DS> Alex Cavanaugh is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at alex.cavanaugh@my.und.edu

the Dakota Student:Join the conversation

It’s a brand new school year and the new Student Government members have a list of ideas to implement and grievances to address.

One grievance we at the Dakota Student hope they address soon is the maintenance of their website.

The site’s outdated “Bills” section makes researching the organization’s past decisions diffi cult and prevents students from becoming informed voters.

February 15, 2011 was the last time a bill was up-loaded to the site. Numerous bills, including one for nearly $45,000 that established Student Government’s full-time staff member position, are missing from the site.

As Student Government receives the money they spend from student fees, it should be their fi rst priority that students are aware of what they are spending our money on and how much of it they are spending.

Student Senate agendas also have a section on the site. The last time one was uploaded was two years ago. An agenda is available for viewing at the Student Gov-ernment offi ce, but it would be much more convenient to provide students with a digital copy they can access from home.

If all students were fortunate enough to have access to Student Government’s Blackboard site, they would fi nd a similar trend there.

The last folder containing materials (bills, attach-ments and agendas) for a Senate meeting is dated May 1. There is no folder for this past Sunday’s meeting or for any meetings prior to this Senate. This makes that research game very diffi cult if neither location has copies of bills readily available.

If you need copies of such materials after the offi ce closes you’re pretty much out of luck.

Besides maintaining their website, Student Govern-ment should also strive to keep students in the loop.

We’re sure many of you have no idea there was a Senate meeting held this past Sunday. Or that the loca-tion was changed from its normal haunt, the Red River Valley Room in the Memorial Union, to the North Da-kota Museum of Art.

Unless you were an invited guest (who was informed of the location), knew a senator, read the Marilyn Hag-gerty column in the Grand Forks Herald that morning, or happened to check out Student Government’s Face-book page for a notifi cation posted at 6:31 p.m. (the meeting started at 6 p.m.) then you probably wouldn’t of had a clue.

By addressing these issues, it is our hope that Stu-dent Government will put informing students about important issues and decisions as soon as possible in-stead of seven months after the fact.

05COMMENTARYthe Dakota Student

Being away from home for the first time, is a very scary experi-ence.For many freshman there is a feeling of anxiety. It may even be that you are from North Dakota, or it could be that you are from the farther reaches of the country. The point is you are all in the same boat. In some cases, you feel alone. Other times you may feel that col-lege is going to destroy you.

One of the first things I noticed when I came to this school is how friendly the people are. Everyone does a good job of making newcomers feel right at home. Very much unlike high school, never once did I feel out of place carrying a map or schedule. I remember walking to O’Kelly my first day last year. I didn’t even have to really ask for help. People just stopped and asked if I knew where I was going.

Not only are the students friendly, but, here at UND one can find some of the coolest (al-beit slightly crazy) teachers and professors in the country. One major piece of advice I can give is to build a good relationship with your teachers. They are here to help you, not scare you with the

title of “Doctor” or “Professor”. It’s surprising how many students here succeed because they get extra help or advice from their teachers.

Realizing school is going to challenge you is one of the most important tools to succeed here. Don’t get me wrong, I like to go and have fun as much as the rest of them, but understanding that academics come first is very impor-tant.

UND is definitely, in my opin-ion, one of the top schools in the Midwest. Having students that take the time to actually make freshmen feel welcome instead of

hazing them is a good reputa-tion to have. Like I said, I was one of those freshmen who were afraid of getting lost, or getting beat up by athletes. You just need

to hang in there and realize that ev-ery person here can and will help, to the best of their ability. This goes out not only to freshmen, but also to new students here in general. Hang in there, talk to your profes-sors, and study hard. Most impor-tantly, remember to have fun.

The United States is no stranger to homegrown terrorism. In April of 1995 Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Fed-eral Building in downtown Okla-homa City. For many Americans such a thing was unimaginable… that sort of stuff just didn’t hap-pen in America. It was an event that I personally experienced. My family lived in Oklahoma City at the time the bombing took place. For us, the destruction and feel-ing of loss was nearly unbearable. Because of my father’s job with the federal government we knew many people who lost their lives… many children who would grow up with-out uncles, aunts, fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters. It was a very real, if not entirely surreal, experi-ence for many people directly af-fected by the bombing.

It wasn’t until I was old-er, however, that I went back and looked at how the Oklahoma City bombing affected the country… the discussions and debates that it created. There was an unwillingness to label this particular incident as homegrown terrorism. Many news media outlets seemed to chalk it up to some out-of-touch anarchist who simply snapped. Yes, there were those few stories that tried to discuss some of the unknown quantities of McVeigh’s involve-ment with Waco, or his time in the

military, and create a discussion about how America would handle the issue of internal security as it related to homegrown terrorism; but those stories were few and far between.

September 11 happened and the word terrorism took on a whole new meaning. It became part of our national lexicon. Amer-ica had experienced international terrorism before when the World Trade Centers were bombed in the early 1990s, but never had Amer-ica, or the world, experienced anything like it did on that day. Many things came out of what happened on S e p t e m b e r 11, and not all them good.

O n e of the un-fortunate things to happen was how the government and media shaped the usage of the word ter-rorism and terrorist. Soon, the words were being applied in a way that singled-out people of Middle Eastern decent or ethnicity… Muslims also had the term un-fairly applied to them. Of course, not every Muslim, only those from the Middle East… it seems America is oblivious to the large Muslim population in the South-east Asian Pacific. We didn’t think about how we were using these

words. By using them in the man-ner that we did, and continue to do, we have made an indirect im-plication that all Middle Eastern-ers and Muslims are terrorists or have the potential to be terrorists.

I became acutely aware of this again this summer when a terrorist attacked downtown Oslo, Norway and a nearby political camp for youth. In the early stag-es of the reporting Western news agencies had “terrorist intelligence officials” on television speculat-ing as to who could be behind

the attack. Of course, the words al-Qae-da and Muslim radicals were being thrown out as possi-bilities. Soon, it was found out that the terrorist was

a Caucasian male who identified himself as a Christian, and sooner still the rhetoric began to change. The word “terrorist” was replaced with the word “attacker” and phrases such as “the terrorist at-tack on Oslo” became “the recent tragedy in Oslo.” This only rein-forces the notion that the words terrorist and terrorism conjure up very specific ideas about who can be those things. Why can’t a Caucasian, radical Christian be a terrorist too?

In this country the de-

bate around terrorism focuses on the radicalization of Muslim pop-ulations. When Congress holds committee testimony on terrorism, every expert who comes to testify is a specialist on the Middle East or Islam. This shows a very narrow way of thinking. We have allowed the experience of September 11 to beguile us into thinking that in or-der to be a terrorist you have to be Middle Eastern or Muslim. As the events in Norway prove, you do not have to be Middle Eastern or Mus-lim to be a terrorist. In America, the debate around terrorism needs to broaden its focus to include the radicalization of different elements of society, including Christians.

Several of my good friends here at UND are from Norway and several of them are from Oslo and were there when the terrorist attack took place. I was in contact with them over the week the attack happened and have spoken to a few of them about the incident since returning to UND. I have inquired as to how Norway reacted to the fact that the terrorist who perpetrated these attacks was a Caucasian, Christian. The look on their faces told it all. One of them went on to explain that the idea a terrorist had to fit a specific description was not something that existed in Norway… that the idea a Muslim person had a better chance of being a terrorist is absolutely ab-surd. Apparently, shortly after the attack took place a national issue

was again brought up in Norway: Whether or not to outlaw the pos-session and sale of guns altogether. I’d like to think that such a conver-sation would also take place here in the United States; but, as Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing and Columbine proved, there is little hope of a national conversation about anything that would cause us to critically examine our own social thought-processes ever hap-pening.

We need to think about the relationship between words and power and realize that, ultimately, words’ meanings are prescribed by us. We need to be mindful of the ways in which we use words to label – perhaps intentionally, per-haps not – those people that have committed wrongs. It’s easy to al-low subconscious prejudices to take over; it’s easy to say that “the other” is the problem. And, it’s easy to try and justify that with words. Often, we don’t want to see the truths that stare us in the face. I hate to be the one to have to break it to you: Not every Muslim or Middle Eastern is a terrorist and just as there are radicalized elements of Islam, there are radicalized elements of Christi-anity capable of committing all the same atrocities.

It’s one of those days. You are sitting in your

room bored to tears. Most of the school has gone home or out to the lake.

Your lame excuse for a roommate has been playing flight simulator all day (“it’s for training, dude”). The few remain-ing kids in your dorm are outside yelling at each other about the Sioux nickname de-bacle.

You need shenanigans. No, not go-outside-for-a-

walk-and-people-watch bull; I’m talking about real shenani-gans. All it takes is a quick text to your friends saying “Shenan-igans. Now” and you’re set.

Shenanigans are in a class of their own. No other activities (bowling, biking, walking, hik-ing and surfing) will do. It takes a little extra to take something that is a normal activity to a true shenanigan.

Go planking: Find an un-usual location and lay down with your arms at your side and keep your body as stiff as a board. Have your friend take

a picture of this awesome accom-plishment. Congratulations, you just planked!

For bonus points, plank in places you would never expect: Next to signs, near crowds and even on top of over-plankers. Aren’t you a cute little hipster?! Be sure to post your planks on the interwebs (there’s even a Grand Forks extreme planking Facebook group, just for you).

When you are sick of planking, try owling ( c r o u c h i n g slightly with both arms to your side) or batman-ing (hanging upside down

somewhere extreme). Start a flash mob: It doesn’t

have to be a formal, organized flash mob. Imagine the look on people’s faces when they see a group of five people looking up at the sky pointing at nothing in amazement, or the hilarity that ensues when random high-fives are given.

Give everyone in your group party hats and throw a surprise birthday party for an unsuspect-ing stranger, insisting that you call him Dan and sing him the birth-day song. Fun for everyone!

Pro tip: anything that involves pirates vs. ninjas is guaranteed to end up on the nightly news.

Play freshmen bingo: Sit out-side your favorite freshmen dorm and discover all the stereotypes. The first person to find five of the following wins: Girl wearing a lanyard around her neck; guy wearing high school sweatshirt; girl talking on the phone with her long-distance boyfriend; guy with a Jersey Shore haircut; a couple fighting over weekend plans; someone reading this article in the Dakota Student….

Pro tip: the same bingo game seems to work in the exact same way any time after midnight at Wal-Mart.

Play the hugging game: This one’s not for the faint of heart. As a group, take turns picking out a stranger that one group member must hug. The group member that has the longest overall hug wins. The hugging game works espe-cially well if the “victim” is either obscenely attractive, or can kill the hugger with a single punch. If you are feeling really rambunc-tious, play the hugging game with the rule that the hugger cannot talk to the person being hugged. Watch shenanigans ensue.

It takes just a little bit of thought, along with a solid group of friends to take your weekend experience to the next level.

No friends? There’s always Farmville.

Bored? Try shenanigans>SEAN LEE

The Dakota Student

‘Play the hugging game: This one’s not for the faint of heart.

Sean Leecolumnist

DS> Sea Lee is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at sean.lee@my.und.edu

‘UND is definitely, in my opinion, one of the top shools in the Midwest.

Patrick Cavanaughcolumnist

DS> Patrick Cavanaugh is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at patrick.cavanaugh@my.und.edu

>PATRiCk CAvANAughThe Dakota Student

New students

‘My family lived in Oklahoma City at the time the bomb-ing took place.

Jon Hamlinmanaging/opinion editor

America profiles with definition of terrorism>JON hAMLiN

The Dakota Student

DS> Jon Hamlin is the Managing/Opin-ion Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at jon.s.hamlinl@my.und.edu

06 NEWS friday september 02, 2011

to drink.”One such option for stu-

dents is Night Life @ UND. Started in the spring of 2006, Night Life @ UND offers stu-dents late night entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights, traditionally two of the biggest d r i n k i n g nights of the week.

“I have been in-volved with Night Life for the past three se-m e s t e r s , and I have definitely noticed an increase in students attending each se-mester,” said student Armando Mendoza.

“Just this weekend we were over capacity in the Loading Dock with over 400 students there to watch Geoff Keith’s performance,” she added.

Freshman psychology and biology major Amanda Sather is excited about some of the ac-tivities offered by UND.

“I want to try Zumba and yoga at the Wellness Center, and go to the football and hockey games,” she said. “I feel like there could be more, though, like in the residence halls. Our dorm doesn’t really

DRINK> From page 1 hold any events, and weekends

during the day are pretty un-eventful.”

In addition to on campus options, there have been more late-night and alcohol-free events for students to enjoy.

Junior aviation student Alec Davis turns to sports to occupy his time alcohol-free.

“I enjoy playing broomball and curling,” said the junior

c o m m e r -cial aviation major from Texas. “Or, in warmer weather, I like to golf and go disk-ing.”

As far as Grand Forks

goes, Davis feels that there are enough options for people to have fun without alcohol con-sumption.

“I’d say Grand Forks has about as many choices [for ac-tivities] as most other places with snowy weather,” said Da-vis. “It’s all what you make of it.”

For more information of what kind of events and ac-tivities UND has to offer, log on to http://und.edu/student-life/.

DS> Robb Jeffries is the News Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at robert.jeffries@my.und.edu.

‘I have defi nitely noticed an increase in students attend-ing each semester.

Armando Mendozastudent

CLUB > From page 7

two parts to its meetings. The club meets at the Wellness Center as a GX class between 9:00 PM and 10:00 PM on Tuesday Nights that any student can attend at no cost. These classes are designed to teach beginners the basics.

The second part of the meet-ing begins immediately follow-ing the class at 10:00 PM. The club has a social free-dance each week.

The social dance acts as both a great time to hang out and meet people, but also as a way to seek further instruction regarding east-coast swing dancing. The club will provide instruction for both beginning swing dancers

and those who have been dancing for years. Neis assured me that the “quality of instruction is to-tally worth the club’s fee.”

The UND Swing Club has a fee of $10.00 per semester, and includes access to all of the so-cial club meetings. The fi rst so-cial free-dance is free of charge as to allow potential members to test the water and see if they like the UND Swing Club environ-ment. “People of all skill levels are welcome and more than en-couraged to show up,” Neis said, “We are a very welcoming group and always looking to meet new people.” Neis explained that the UND Swing Club dances to both classic swing music and contem-porary swing music.

The instructors of the class, John Neis and senior chemistry

major Jessica Lamb, both seem knowledgeable about the subject.

During the meeting, they were neither afraid to slow down to help any students that were not able to understand a move, nor were they afraid of getting the students engaged and having fun.

On top of the chance to meet new people, the chance to learn how to dance and the chance to learn about a new style of music, the Swing Club is a great way to keep in shape.

For more information, the UND Swing Club has a page on both Facebook and UND’s Col-legiateLink site.

DS> Cullen Donohue is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at cullen.donohue@und.edu

Members of the UND Swing Dance Club practice their routines at the Wellness Center Tuesday night.

CULLEN DONOHUE> The Dakota Student

07NEWS the Dakota Student

I may or may not have spent most of my college tuition money on video games and energy drinks. So in my attempt to save some cash, I’ve gotten wise to the coupon craze.

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a popular option for students in recent years.

This option not only allows students to have more control over their total purchasing cost,

but allows students to check mul-tiple sites to get the best “gently used” text they can fi nd. Shopping around can save you hundreds of dollars a semester.

DS> Katie Bachmeier is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at katie.bachmeier@und.edu

Campus BriefsUND grad receives Fulbright scholarship

Andrew Tanem, a 2010 graduate of UND, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach English as a foreign language in South Korea.Tanem, from Hibbing, Minnesota, is one of more than 1,600 Americans who will travel abroad for the 2011-2012 academic year through the Fulbright program.Tanem’s area of study focuses on comparing potential Korean unifica-tion to the unification process of Germany.

Blackhawk helicopter to land on the UND Quad

A North Dakota Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter will land on the UND Quad as part of the Military Appreciation Day activities at the school.The helicopter will land at 8 a.m. just north of Carnegie Hall. The University requests that the public avoid this area until the engines of the helicopter have been shut down.Additionally, UND ROTC cadets will con-duct rappelling displays between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the Law School building, and from 11 a.m. to noon, President Kelley and senior leaders from the North Dakota National Guard will host an ice cream social in the Quad.

UPD informational sessions available

UPD is available to do presentations regarding crime prevention and alcohol or drug awareness for student organizations. These presentations are available until September 29. If your organization is interested, call UPD at 777-3491.

Student Involvement informational session next week

Involment@UND will be hosting a second informational session at the Student Involve-ment Office in the Memorial Union next Tuesday. The session will run from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. If you plan on attending, please RSVP at involvement.und.edu.

DeMers to be named MDWN Woman of the Year

Judy DeMers will be honored as the North Dakota Women’s Network Woman of the Year October 1 at the Alerus Center. DeMers retired last year as associate dean of student affairs and admissions at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She also served in the state House of Representatives from 1982 to 1992, and the state Senate from 1992 to 2000. Tickets to attend the ceremony will cost $40.

NDSU in violation of open records law

North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has found North Dakota State Univer-sity to have overestimated clerical costs to release email copies to a conservative radio host and blogger. Rob Port, a frequent critic of NDSU, appealed to Stenehjem when the university said Port would need to pay $2000 in fees to receive copies of emails sent to school president Dean Bresciani. NDSU officials told Stenehjem that Bresciani sends and receives about 200 emails a day, and that it would take lawyers and administrators nearly 80 hours to sort through them all. Stenehjem contains that NDSU could have saved time by giving Port the preview screens of Bresciani’s email.

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CHICAGO–Someth ing new at 140-year-old Elmhurst College made senior Ally Ver-tigan very proud when she learned of it.

A question on the under-graduate admission applica-tion for the 2012-13 school year asks: “Would you con-sider yourself a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community?”

The college is believed to be the first in the nation to ask about sexual orientation on its admission application.

The question is optional for potential Elmhurst stu-dents filling out the applica-tion. But officials at the private college say their goal in asking it is to increase diversity and give them a better understand-ing of LGBT students. Diver-sity, according to the officials, is an important mission of the school, which is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

“I’m so proud of my college. I think this is a great step con-textually, within the nation,” said Vertigan, who noted that she “identifies within the gay,

lesbian, bisexual, transgender community.”

Gary Rold, dean of admis-sions, said the college will get a better handle on what LGBT students want from their col-lege experience. He said stu-dents’ interests affect greatly what the college offers, includ-ing majors and extracurricular activities.

“Football players wouldn’t come here if we don’t have a football team,” he said. “This has greater emotional charge to it. But it’s in the same con-tinuum.”

Rold said the college began thinking about how to increase enrollment of LGBT students after they were approached by the school’s chapter of Straights and Gays for Equality, which wanted to have a college re-cruitment fair.

Shane Windmeyer, of Cam-pus Pride, a non-profit national organization for student lead-ers and campus groups working to create safer college environ-ments for LGBT students, said the college’s decision “sends a message of acceptance.”

Elmhurst students ques-tioned last week generally em-braced the college’s decision to ask the question.

“If it’s optional that’s all right,” said Lauren Grimm, a sophomore. “If it was man-datory, that would be ridicu-lous.”

Orientation inquiry put on applicationADMISSION Elmhurst College the first to put sexual orientation ques-tion on its application.

>ANNEMARIE MANNIONChicago Tribune

LOS ANGELES–The cost of education these days would make anyone squirm, but researchers say it’s worth it.

People with a bachelor’s degree make 84 percent more over a life-time than high school graduates. In 1999, the premium was 75 per-cent, according to a study released Friday.

Granted, the report comes from a university, specifically, George-town University’s Center on Edu-cation and the Workforce.

But the data is striking, espe-

cially amid the backdrop of in-creasing concerns about soaring school expenses.

On average, a doctoral degree-holder will earn $3.3 million over a lifetime, compared to $2.3 million for a college graduate and $1.3 mil-lion for those with a high school diploma.

People with less education in high-paying occupations can out-earn their counterparts with advanced degrees. But within the same industry, workers with more schooling usually land better pay-checks.

The gender and racial gap per-sists. To earn as much as their male

colleagues, women tend to need much higher degrees, even while working the same hours. Black and Latino master’s degree-holders don’t out-earn white college gradu-ates. But Asians with graduate de-grees out-earn all other races and ethnicities at the same educational level.

The Georgetown researchers have also estimated that 63 percent of American jobs will require some sort of postsecondary education or training by 2018. Currently, the U.S. is 10th globally in college de-gree attainment, with 41 percent of adults earning a bachelor’s degree.

>TIFFANY HSULos Angeles Times

Study finds grads make more

culture&mediafriday september 02, 2011DS> Inside: Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Movie Mania

It seems safe to say that most peo-ple have at some point in their life at least considered getting a piercing of some kind. From tame to wild, rela-tively safe to rel-atively risky, the variety of pierc-ings you can get is limited only by imagination. Once considered repre-sentative of punk culture, piercing has gained popular-ity and become more widely accepted than ever before.

I suppose the fi rst question the read-er may ask is, why would anyone want to shove a needle through his or her skin and insert some foreign object? Why are piercings so popular, anyway? What started the trend?

11TREND > page

Piercing: A Brief OverviewStory by Megan Sevigny

10 CULTURE&MEDIA friday september 02, 2011

Remake worth checking outDSMOVIE REVIEW

*****‘Rise of the Planet of

the Apes’

>NIChOLAS GOWANThe Dakota Student

Released last month, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, directed by Rupert Wyatt, continues the long Hollywood tradition of remak-ing films that were once popular with hopes of reaping the same monetary awards as the original. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the seventh film in the franchise and a remake of the 1972 film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, which it-self is the third sequel to the successful 1968 film Planet of the Apes.

James Fran-co (127 Hours, Howl) stars as Will Rodman, a scientist on a mission to cure his ailing father, played by John Lith-gow (Kinsey, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers), from Alzheimer’s disease. While one of the apes seems to respond well to an ex-perimental medication, its hu-man keepers do not understand its now consciousness-expanded mind. It is quickly gunned down at an important board meeting for Rodman.

The film presents a strong case for changing how animals are treated in our society. Caeser, the leader of the apes, played by the typecast Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong), has near-human intelligence passed on by his mother and is eventu-ally locked up with other apes in a place that is essentially a prison for unwanted primates. Abused by the keepers, they are treated as less than human, which, while they aren’t human, doesn’t mean that they should be given treat-ment that is harmful and causes pain. This abuse is what eventu-ally gives Caeser reason to “rise” and lead his primitive friends to rebel against the established rule and their mostly arrogant “mas-

ters.” This differs a bit from the film this reboots, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, where a disease wipes dogs and cats from the face of the earth, leading people to use apes as new subservient and trainable pets.

Though it is a remake of a movie that is a sequel itself, the creators of Rise of the Planet of the Apes made numerous mentions and shout-outs to the other films in the original franchise.

Caeser’s mother, nicknamed “Bright Eyes” in the film, shares a moniker with Charlton Heston’s character in the original Planet of the Apes, a name given to him by the ape Dr. Zira.

Other characters from the original that are given credence in the new film include the as-tronauts Dodge and Landon, the

actor who played Dr. Zaius and the ape Cor-nilla, whose name was created by c o m b i n i n g the afore-m e n t i o n e d Zira, and C o r n e l i u s .

Some famous quotes brought in from the original include “No!” and “It’s a madhouse! A mad-house!”

Clocking in at 105 minutes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes brings the Planet of the Apes franchise to a total of seven movies that, when combined, total nearly twelve hours in length, and that is with-out counting the two television series.

The film is definitely worth checking out. If you’re into ro-mantic sub-plots, there is a fe-male character who loves apes and also falls in love with Rod-man. If you’re into action, there are pretty good effects that won’t break your suspension of disbelief every few minutes.

‘The film presents a strong case for changing how ani-mals are treated...

Nicholas Gowanstaff writer

*www.TheDakotaStudent.com

Make sure to pick up a copy of the Dakota Student every Tuesday and Friday!

DS> Nicholas Gowan is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at nicholas.gowan@my.und.edu

B-movies to hit Fire Hall SCIFI Film series prom-ises to entertain the au-dience with flicks so bad that they’re good.

>MATThEW ROy AND MEGAN SEVIGNy

The Dakota Student

Starting on Friday September 2nd, The Greater Grand Forks Community Theater will begin their five week film festival Movie Mania at the Fire Hall, where movie fans will be able to enjoy a double feature, refreshments and some live pre-show madness for just $5. The Greater Grand Forks Community Theater describes these films as “so bad you’ll love them!” The festival will serve as a fundraiser for the Fire Hall’s new theater workshops.

Executive Director at the Fire Hall Kathy Coudle-King says the idea for the Movie Mania festival came from work she does

at an international music camp. “We do a unit on screenwriting,” she said. “The kids were shown The Blob and The Creature From the Black Lagoon. They got the humor and the cheesiness of the films.” Coudle-King is the new executive director at the Fire Hall and she wants to see the space used more than for just the five to seven shows that they put on each year. “There is a lot of time when the theater is dark,” she pointed out.

The schedule for the Movie Mania is as follows:

September 2 – The Last Man on Earth and Plan 9 from Outer Space

September 9 – Attack of the Giant Leeches and Wasp Woman

September 16 – Attack of the Pup-pet People and Teenage Zombies

September 23 – Gammera the Invincible and The Brain That

Wouldn’t Die

September 30 – Little Shop of Horrors and Night of the Living Dead

The films were picked based off of the criteria that the films were available in public domain. They are often “cult favorites.”

“The sci-fi films are much more entertaining to watch. There is a big difference in the films from now and then, and that’s not just including the spe-cial effects,” Coudle-King said. “The pacing is very different, the scenes are longer, and the camera angles are very different.”

“The science fiction films have the humor aspect that a lot of people enjoy. I don’t think showing dramas would work as well, because people get bored with the pacing. I don’t think that dramas would work as well,” she added.

12MANIA > page

11CULTURE&MEDIAthe Dakota Student

Get to Know Your Editors!

Name: Jon HamlinPosition: Managing Editor

Q: If you could meet any person from history, dead or alive, who would it be and why?

A: Oh man... (thinks about it for quite a while) I would meet Oscar Wilde and ask him to teach me how to be the world’s greatest smartass.

Q: Is there anything that you carry with you every day?

A: (laughs) My phone. I know it’s boring, but... the alternatives aren’t much better.

Q: What was your first thought when you woke up this morning?

A: If I had to be completely honest, the first thought that I had when I woke up this morning was, “Why does my room smell like a combination of rotten sunflower seeds and ass?”

Q: What is your least favorite color and why?

A: My least favorite color is white because it is not a color.

Q: Which actually came first, the chicken or the egg?

A: (gives me dirty look) I hate you. Um... why do you give me all of the philosophically-related ques-tions? I would have to say that what came first... Well, okay... It doesn’t make sense for the chicken to come first because female chickens cannot impregnate themselves and there are no male chickens in this philosophical quandary, so I’d have to say that the egg came first.

DS> Megan Sevigny is the Features editor for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at megan.sevigny@und.edu

Though many view piercing as something with modern ori-gins, piercing has been around for millennia. In fact, the 5300-year-old Otzi the Iceman, which is the oldest mummified body so far discovered, had an ear piercing that was several millimeters in di-ameter. Earrings dating to 2500 B.C. have been found in a grave site in the Sumerian city of Ur, home of the biblical Abraham. Several references to earrings and

TREND > From page 9 ear piercings can be found in the

Old Testament of the Christian bible.

Earrings were a sign of wealth for many tribal cultures. Ancient Egyptians often wore golden hoops in their ears. The Greeks often wore dangling earrings in the shape of birds or demigods, where the Romans preferred gemstones.

The Hindu goddess Lakshmi was purported to have both ear and nose piercings. The Hindu culture relates the left nostril to female reproduction, and as a

result it is common practice for Hindu women of childbearing age to wear a nose stud in that nostril.

Nose piercing was also prac-ticed by both Middle Eastern and Native American tribes, as well as the Australian Aborigines, and the ornate rings worn often signi-fied wealth. Sometimes the pierc-ing was just for adornment, and many of the most famous South American tribal cultures, includ-ing the Maya, Inca and Aztec, wore golden rings in the septum between their nostrils. Lip pierc-

ings were often common in the tribes of Africa and America.

As you can see, piercing has indeed been around for a long time. Now, moving on to more modern piercing history.

Earrings fell out of favor for European women for a major-ity of the last two millennia, as favored clothing styles and hairstyles tended to hide the ears from sight. Conversely, ear piercing came into vogue for men during this time. Notable men such as Shakespeare and Charles I of England, as well as common men, could be seen sporting a single earring. It was believed that piercing one ear improved long-distance sight, which led to the popularity of ear piercing in sailors. This is why pirates are of-ten portrayed as wearing a single golden hoop.

Piercing fell out of favor in Western culture and had become an uncommon practice by the early 1900s. However, the prac-tice of ear piercing was revived around the 1960s, and other forms of piercing gained popular-ity with the aforementioned rise of punk culture. By the 1990s, nose, eyebrow, lip, tongue, navel and genital piercings had gained popularity.

Many people today get pierc-ings in order to “express individu-ality.” Other people get piercings simply because they like the way they look. Piercings can often be used to express a certain tribal, ethnic or religious identity.

There are three basic types of piercing: soft tissue, cartilage and surface. Soft tissue piercings, the most common of the three types, usually go through a body part such as the earlobes, mouth or genitals. This type of piercing will usually heal relatively quickly.

The old practice of earlobe stretching, or gauging, has also regained popularity. In this prac-tice, earrings with thicker posts are inserted into the original piercing until it can comfortably accommodate them. This process

is repeated using larger and larger earrings until the wearer can in-sert plugs, sometimes several mil-limeters or even inches in diam-eter, into the original piercing.

Cartilage piercings include piercings found on the upper part of the ear and the nose. These piercings take longer to heal than soft tissue piercings, and while the skin may close over the hole if the jewelry is removed, the hole itself will remain. Cartilage doesn’t stretch the way elastic soft tissue does.

The term ‘surface piercing’ en-compasses a wide variety of pierc-ings located on the same plane of the body. Some examples are throat piercings, navel piercings, ‘corset piercings,’ which involve several hoops placed on the body with ribbon laced between them. Surface piercings also include eyebrow piercings, anti-eyebrow piercings (which are located par-allel to the eye along the top of the cheekbone) and any form of piercing located on the body which involves straight, shallow metal bars going under the sur-face of the skin. Surface piercings usually require extra care, some-times taking a year or longer to heal. They are also the most likely to “heal out,” or reject, a process in which the body sees the jew-elry as a foreign object and at-tempts to dislodge it.

For those interested in pierc-ings, special care should be taken to ensure that the piercing is done as safely as possible, utilizing correct piercing equipment and experienced, reputable piercing artists. It should be noted that certain workplaces do not allow visible body jewelry, so keep this in mind if you plan on working in a professional career. With a little advance research and care, pierc-ings can be worn and enjoyed by almost everyone.

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Tonight’s selections are The Last Man on Earth and Plan 9 from Outer Space.

The Last Man on Earth is a 1964 Italian film based on Rich-ard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend. The hero, Robert Morgan, spends his days hunting vampires and his nights hiding from them. Morgan is the last man on earth, the only human immune to the plague that has turned the rest of the world’s population into vam-pire-like creatures. A glimmer of hope occurs when he discovers a vaccine, but is it enough to save the world?

The second film of the night is the 1959 film Plan 9 from Outer Space, a low-budget horror film about aliens who attempt to annhilate life on earth by raising people from the dead as vampires and zombies.

This is the first year that the Fire Hall has held Movie Mania, and the Greater Grand Forks Community Theater invites their guests to come in costume. The audience member with the best costume will win a free pass to the rest of the series. The Movie Ma-nia begins at 9:30 p.m. Septem-ber 2 and goes on for four more weeks. The Fire Hall Theater is located at 412 2nd Ave. N. For more information on the Movie Mania, those interested can visit the Greater Grand Forks Com-munity Theater online at ggfct.com. Remember, “management is not responsible for nightmares!”

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DS> Matthew Roy is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at matthew.roy.2@my.und.edu. Megan Sevigny is the Features editor for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at megan.sevigny@my.und.edu

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Artwork for The Last Man on Earth and Plan 9 from Outer Space, two films that will be shown at the the Movie Mania film series, which will take place at the Fire Hall Theater on Friday nights at 9:30 p.m. A complete listing of the films to be shown can be accessed either on page 10 of the DS or at ggfct.com

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schedules UND Classic9/02-03 @ 7 p.m.Betty Engelstad Sioux Center

Volleyball Soccervs. UW-Green Bay9/02 @ 7 p.m.@ Green Bay, Wisc.

M&W CCUND Ron Pynn Invite 9/03 @ 9 a.m.Grand Forks, N.D.

The hand dealtOn May 24 of this year, I stopped gambling. It is a date that I treasure and hold in ahigher regard than any other date of the year. It is the day that marks the start of myjourney to a new life.For the last five years of my life, I have gambled almost everyday. My choice ofgambling happens to involve something that I love dearly, and that is sports. I firststarted betting on sports at the age of 17 and became immediately hooked. It quicklyreplaced poker as my choice of gambling, because it combined two things that Iloved: gambling and sports. Throw in the ability to do it over the internet, instantly

and impulsively it spells trouble.My friends had also started to bet on sports, which only increased my desire togamble due to the social aspect of it. I loved talking with friends about games thatnight and whom they were betting on. By the time I graduated high school I haddeveloped a gambling problem, but was far from ready to face it.

A lifestyle of self-destructionEntering my first year of college I was excited like every freshman is. I lived in thedorms my first year and it presented a newfound freedom that I thoroughly enjoyed.But I abused the freedom I had and became lazy with schoolwork. I resorted togambling to relieve my stresses, and mostly because it took my mind off of myresponsibilities. Instead of focusing on a speech that was due or a research paperthat I had to write, my focus was on who was playing that night and which teamI was going to bet on. Gambling served as an effective tool to help meprocrastinate.Despite my gambling problem, I was able to maintain solid grades over my first twoyears at UND. Last year, last semester in particularly, is when everything fell apart.My gambling had spiraled out of control. I knew I had a problem but I couldn’t stop.I chased the high that I got with placing a bet, the adrenaline that came with a winand a fantasy world where I would make a living off of gambling.School became less important. Class became optional—I would estimate I missedover 60 percent of my classes this past school year. My bank account wasdwindling; the lies I was telling started to pile up and my head felt like it was goingto explode. The only relief I found was in the next bet. The desperation I was feelingafter each loss grew deeper and deeper. I had jumped in a hole and kept digging. Iwas living a lifestyle of self-destruction. My worst enemy was the man that I saw inthe mirror each and every morning. DS> Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student.

He can be reached at brandon.becker@my.und.edu

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The road to recoverySeeing as things had hit rock bottom I decided to seek help at the UND CounselingCenter. At first, my commitment to stopping gambling was genuine, but it proved tobe frugal. Even though I failed to stop gambling I continued to see a counselor on aweekly basis. It was here where the groundwork of my recovery was laid, althoughat the time it didn’t feel that way. Eventually, I attended a Gamblers Anonymousmeeting in hopes that it would help me abstain from gambling. It didn’t.Even though I returned to gambling again I still attended meetings due torelationships that I had formed. It was in Gamblers Anonymous where I becameinformed of a gambling program called Gambler’s Choice in Fargo, which was donethrough Lutheran Social Services.I called to try and set up an appointment with the program directors, but was unableto reach them. Instead of leaving an email or a message I chose to continue togamble. Finally, after the semester had concluded I decided that I couldn’t keep onliving the way that I was. After seven years of gambling compulsively, I had made anarrangement with Gambler’s Choice to start treatment every Tuesday and Thursdaynight.

A life without gamblingTo say all my problems have up and vanished since I’ve stopped gambling wouldbe a blatant lie. It doesn’t quite work like that, but I have now begun the process ofdealing with my problems and responsibilities rather than gamble to avoid them.I have met a lot of great people in recovery and it is because of them that I haveabstained from gambling for a little over three months.My intentions for writing this article are to spread awareness about a problemthat has gone greatly underreported on our campus. As a society, it seems that wepay a greater attention to alcohol and drug abuse than to those that suffer from agambling addiction.Compulsive gambling is a silent addiction that can be extremely hard to detect,especially with computers and online gambling. For those that are currently battlinga gambling problem, I challenge you to go to the UND Counseling Center to get help.It was the first step for me and helped change my direction in life.

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You might have missed it, but this summer suffered a seismic shift in the world of collegiate hockey.

The athletic directors from North Dakota, Denver, Colora-do College, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha and Miami an-nounced in July that they would be joining forces. The five leaving the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) and one (Miami) leaving the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) will form the National Collegiate Hockey Conference -what some call a “super con-ference.” According to several sources, Western Michigan and Notre Dame are rumored to be possible additions to this confer-ence before all is said and done.

The conference is to begin play in the 2013-2014 season, co-inciding with the catalyst for all of this change–the beginning of the Big Ten Hockey Conference. The BTHC includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and the upstart Penn State.

The deci-sion of UND et al to blow up the WCHA and head else-where seems quick, and while we don’t know the exact time frame, there is reason to think that these teams rushed this decision within the last six to eight months. But with the land-scape of college hockey demand-ing that teams always look several years down the road, there prob-ably wasn’t much time to think.

Largely, this decision wasn’t made as a last resort, so to speak - it was made as a decision to burst through an open door.

What this new conference represents is an investment in college hockey’s future, and it represents an unprecedented shift in how college hockey operates.

The long-term goal of col-lege hockey’s powerhouses is to bring the sport into the main-stream media. Both the Big Ten and NCHC aims to accomplish that feat. Everything that sound-ed like just talk and hot air for the long-term future of college hockey is now one step closer to being possible.

This new conference will end

Men’s hockey to join NCHC conferenceCHANGES As UND is set to join a new league, old rivalries will slowly start to fade.

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up keeping the door open for big schools to start their own Divi-sion I programs down the road. It’s tough to imagine somebody like USC or Arizona State adding hockey, but then again, wasn’t it a bit of a surprise when Penn State announced their program?

Many schools have well-established club teams and deep pockets to make it work if the in-terest grows.

The possibilities for new rev-enue sources–which will perpetu-ate college hockey’s growth–ap-pear abundant. The Duluth News Tribune noted soon after the conference was announced that a television deal with Versus is in the mix for the NCHC (as well as for all of Division I). Versus is quickly becoming a viable and widespread cable sports network, and it’s impending re-branding to NBC Sports Network will likely help bring it into more and more homes every year. A deal to air games from this new conference would be a game changer–and nothing less.

The catch, of course, is that there are no guarantees. Even without Minnesota and Wiscon-sin, the WCHA was the safe and reliable option. The WCHA has been a success because of its re-gional popularity and regional rivalries.

The NCHC won’t always have that same luxury. These teams now can never look back, espe-cially not that the WCHA has moved on, inviting the remain-ing CCHA

teams to join them. It’s hard to say how, or even if, the relation-ships between the departing and the remaining WCHA teams will survive.

If you ask some people around the conference now, some feelings are going to be hurt for a long, long time. That is the un-fortunate sacrifice in all of this.

To be frank, nothing is for sure. The conference does not even have a commissioner, a logo, a staff, a conference tournament, or officials yet.

But for the National Colle-giate Hockey Conference the sky is the limit. And in the end, this new conference will open more doors than it closes. This new conference might be the start of something large - for all of col-lege hockey.

DS> Timothy Boger is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at timothy.boger@my.und.edu

‘The long-term goal of college hockey’s powerhouses is to bring the sport into mainstream media.

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mark the date. Single-game hockey tick-ets go on sale September 10th.

The UND soccer team recently traveled to Dekalb, Ill. to take on Western Michigan and Northern Illinois University. The Sioux dropped their match to WMU on Friday by a score of 0-3 but bounced back against NIU on Sunday with a pair of second-half goals by Rachael Loomis and Jaymie Jackson.

North Dakota will now travel to Wisconsin this weekend for matches against UW-Green Bay on Friday and finally Marquette on Sunday.

Veronika Zischka passes the ball in a match last season.

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#1- Green Bay Packers- The reigning champs kept their Super Bowl champion team intact this off-season, so you have to keep them as the favorites. They’ll have an X on their back all sea-son. They also won last year with-out their pro-bowl running back and a massive amount of players on the injured-reserve list. Every-body is healthy and frankly I can’t see why this group wouldn’t make another deep playoff run with the position-depth they attain.

Predictions- (13-3, NFC North Champs)- The Packers have a favorable schedule this year with a couple tough road games in Chicago, Atlanta and New York. For Green Bay, should be a walk in the park.

#2- New England Patriots- Last year with the best record in the NFL, there’s no doubt the Pats will continue their suc-cess this year. By adding Chad Ochocinco and Albert Haynes-worth, they grew stronger. Now Bill Bellichick needs to manage those proven head cases. But there’s no doubt that this team will be even more dynamic with these two key additions.

Predictions- (12-4, AFC East Champs)- The Patriots have a very tough schedule, which is probably the reason why I predict four losses this year. However, as playoff time approaches, their tough schedule will play to their favor.

#3- Philadelphia Eagles- “The Dream Team” has been the busiest team this off-season with superstar acquisitions on both sides of the ball. The Eagles locked up Michael Vick for a six year $100 million contract. This powerhouse offense adds WR Steve Smith, from NYG, giving Vick even more options than just Jeremy Maclin and DeSean Jackson. “The Dream Team” can possibly win its first Superbowl in franchise history.

Predictions- (12-4, NFC East Champs)- They have a few games against the weak NFC West, which won’t be challenging for this offensive powerhouse.

#4- Atlanta Falcons- The dirty birds are emerging from the best record in the NFC. Atlanta has everything it takes to do it again and more. Matt Ryan is one of the smartest and consis-tent quarterbacks in the league and has a dominant running back in Michael Turner. Ryan expects to use WR Roddy White for the electric-deep plays as well. DE Ray Edwards was acquired (from Vikings) to improve the pass rush--a much needed slot to fill. However the NFC South is one of the most diverse divisions in the league. Tampa Bay and New Orleans could potentially cause trouble for ATL.

Predictions- (13-3 NFC South Champs)- All of their tough games are at home this sea-son... Philly, GB, NO.

#5- Pittsburgh Steelers- (12-4)- Now that Big Ben and the rest of the Steelers have their issues in the rear view mirror, all focus is heading back to the Superbowl. Still with one of the most feared defenses in the league, Baltimore will test the annual steel-pow-erhouse for AFC North title, as always.

Predictions- (11-5, AFC North Champs)- It’s all very pos-sible that Pittsburgh could start the season 1-3, with away games in Baltimore, Indianapolis, and Houston in the first four weeks.

#6. Kansas City Chiefs- (10-6)- The most surprising team last year aims to make a deep playoff run on the backs of running back tandem of Jamaal Charles and Thomas Jones.

The duo led the NFL in rush-ing yards with 164.2 yards per game. This division is tricky con-sidering San Diego will contend for the AFC West title as well. San Diego had the best aerial of-fense last year while the Chiefs had the number one rush offense. I’ll take a run offense any day over a heavy pass set.

Prediction: (10-6 AFC West Champs)- History shows that running the ball is the most se-cure offense, which is why K.C. will repeat as AFC West Cham-pions.

#7. Houston Texans (6-10)- A golden opportunity lies in the AFC South with Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis being a question mark. Houston who ranked third in the NFL last year in total offense has so many threats on the offensive side of the ball; it’s hard to see them hav-ing a 6-10 year once again.

Predictions- (10-6 AFC South Champs)- A great sched-ule, plus offense, and some ad-ditions to the defense will have them barely sliding by Indy. Looks like there’s an underdog in the South and it’s not Houston.

#8. St. Louis Rams (8-8)- Somebody has to come out of the weak NFC West division, which is why the winner is the St. Louis Rams. A very young team was only one game of the playoffs with a rookie quarterback in Sam Bradford.

He’s older and a year wiser. With St. Louis giving him a promising WR in Mike Sims-Walker from Jacksonville, Brad-ford’s arm should get plenty of exercise.

Predictions- (9-7 NFC West Champs)- They have a tough eight weeks to start the season, playing Philly, New York, Balti-more, Washington, Green Bay, Dallas and New Orleans. From there on out, it’s all NFC West. This division is a toss-up because even eight wins could possibly win the division title. Since all the teams in the division typically play the same teams, no one re-ally gets an advantage.

DS> Tadd Powers is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at tadd.powers@my.und.edu

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