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Getting students off campus and having some fun is the goal of the “Welcome Back” event being held this weekend.

The city of Grand Forks is host-ing a tailgating event this Saturday in the parking lot of the Alerus Center prior to the Potato Bowl.

The event will begin at 3 p.m. and run until the game starts.

“We want students to know there is a community outside of the campus,” said Pete Haga, commu-nity/government relations offi cer for the city.

Traditional tailgating food will be served free of charge to univer-sity students and their families.

“People can eat until we run out of food,” Haga said.

The fi rst 1,000 students stop-ping by the event will receive a free T-shirt. Musical entertainment will also be provided. The Downtown Horns will play for students at-tending the event. According to the bands website, their music is “rock and roll with a horn kick.”

Students are encouraged to use the free shuttle bus service supplied for home football game to reach the Alerus Center. The buses leave from the Chester Fritz Auditorium parking lot and travel to the Alerus Center and then back to campus.

The city has been working closely with UND Student Gov-ernment to promote the event. So far the project has been completely funded by the city. Haga doesn’t expect have to ask Student Govern-ment for money.

“That would be like inviting them to a party and telling them they have to pay for the pizza,” he said.

The event will help student connect to the town they live in

>BRANDI JEWETTThe Dakota Student

COMMUNITY Grand Forks prepares to wel-come back students with free food and fun.

OUTREACH “PowerON” program gets kids inter-ested in science at benefi t car and bike show.

>BRANDI JEWETTThe Dakota Student

>ETHAN LEE AND JAYE MILLSPAUGH

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LAW Senate talks about directions from SBoHE to continue using the logo and nickname.

Senate discusses logo, SCFC

Engineers spark interest in science

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Hundreds packed into the Rydell Auto Center for benefi t car and bike show Sunday afternoon.

Among the dozens of cars,

bikes and exhibits spread through-out the dealership, UND engineer-ing students set up tables featuring science displays.

“You need to get kids interest-ed in science starting when they’re 4 to 6-year-old,” said Harry Fielen, a student volunteer with the Pow-erON! Program.

PowerON! is an outreach pro-gram sponsored by the School of Engineering and mines that brings science and technology to middle

This week at the Student Sen-ate meeting: Sept. 18, quite a bit was covered by the senators.

One of the bigger issues tack-led by the Senate was the Fighting Sioux name and logo.

“The president of the State Board of Higher Education had directed UND to keep using the nickname and logo in accordance with the state law until the end of the [2011-2012] year,” said Gov-ernment Affairs Commissioner Shane Gerbert.

The nickname and logo will continue to being used as is until the next academic year when it will be put back into review.

Gerbert also spoke to Student Senate about a North Dakota State Senate bill for a study of student fees in all of North Dakota’s higher

schools. The program uses every oppor-

tunity it receives to spark kids in-terest in science, presenting at nu-merous public events Fielen said.

One of the displays the group set up was a Reuben’s Tube. To create a Reuben’s Tube, students drilled a row of holes along the

education institutions. An approval of the bill was passed.

The Chair of the Student Communications Funding Com-mittee (SCFC), Trevor Warzecha, clarifi ed what SCFC does.

Formerly known as the Board of Student Publications (BOSP), the committee funds media around campus, including print, radio and television that are targeted towards students.

Warzecha spoke about fi ve stu-dent positions that are available on the SCFC board this year: four publication liaison positions and one vice chair position.

Transportation was also dis-cussed. Since more students have started riding the city buses, Stu-dent Senate has decided to invest more time and money into the bus system.

Senate Public Relations Coor-dinator Carter Hill spoke of send-ing 80 UND students to Minot to help out with the fl ood relief ef-forts. The plan is to leave on a bus at 5:30 am on Saturday, Sept. 24. Volunteers will remove damaged

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Scores of women hit the pavement after gathering for house chants behind the Memorial Union Sunday Evening. The gathering was part of sorority recruitment activities, which ended Sunday. Photo by Nathan Twerberg.

Ready to run

DSInside>Potato Bowl Events, page 7.

>Profi le of Kim Ruit, Med. School Advisor, page 6.> Student volunteers needed, page 7.

>Campus Briefs, page 6.

Visitors observe the Reuben’s Tube at one of PowerOn!’s display tables at the Rydell Ben-efi t Car and Bike Show.

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> event: Heide Crawford from the Univer-sity of Georgia will give a lecture titled “From Folkllore to Fiction: The Cultural and Historical Origins of the Literary Vampire in 18th-Cen-tury Germany” from 4-5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Lecture Bowl.

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> biking: The UND cycling club will host an alley cat race. Beginning in front of the Memorial Union, the race will be similar to a scavenger hunt on bikes. The cost is $5 and the race begins at 6 p.m.

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during their time at school Stu-dent Body Vice President Kylie Oversen said.

She wants the connection between the city and the univer-sity students to expand beyond the joint City Council/Student Senate meetings that have been held for the past few year.

The idea for this event was produced from these meetings.

“We have been talking about it for years,” she said. “It was time we followed through with it.”

Events like this have been done in the past, said Haga but it’s the time the city start doing them again.

The city wants students to know they think Grand Forks is the best college town in the country according to its web-site.

Haga and Oversen want stu-dents be aware that the city ap-preciates them.

The pair, along with Kevin Dean, chief information of-fi cer for the city, wants to see the event grow into an annual

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“I want this to be something students look forward to going to every year,” Dean said.

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BREGA, Libya—When Moammar Gadhafi ’s loyalists fl ed this sprawling refi nery and petrochemical complex in late August, shortly after Tripoli fell, they left behind lethal “forget-me-nots” for the revolutionaries who unseated him.

There were 40,000 mines, both anti-personnel and anti-tank. A minefi eld still surrounds the town, and 6,000 mines were planted on what had been a popular beach. The grounds are littered with shells fi lled with explosives, plant offi cials said.

Russian-supplied Grad rockets were stacked by the thousands inside the methanol plant, still in their wooden cases, at a location that loyalists no doubt assumed NATO aircraft wouldn’t bomb. Grads, which have a range of 25 miles, had been launched from Brega in banks of 40, with devastating impact on the forces trying to overthrow Gadhafi , offi cials of the national oil company said.

The refi nery and liquid gas plant, a component of the Sirte Oil Co.— named for Gadhafi ’s hometown farther west on Libya’s main coastal road —is now the only business in town because the departing forces destroyed both other sources of income.

“They erased all the small businesses. They killed all the livestock,” Ali Tarhouni, the rebels’ minister of fi nance and oil, said during a tour of the facility.

But the story of Brega isn’t what was destroyed but what was saved.Tarhouni, who has a Ph.D. from Michigan State University, said that

less than 10 percent of the refi nery’s facilities were damaged during the fi ve months of warfare. Elsewhere, he said, the damage was less than 15 percent. He credits the country’s oil sector workers with saving what is Libya’s major source of income.

While foreign workers largely fl ed Libya after NATO began enforcing its no-fl y zone, and rebels and Gadhafi loyalists fought pitched battles, Libyan staff stayed on the job, occupying key installations 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in a move to discourage wanton destruction.

“The untold story of the revolution was the courage of the people who work in the oil sector,” Tarhouni said. “We have engineers who had no cover, no protection. They ventured into the desert, they protected the oil fi elds.” He added that the risks they took “will make this industry rebound, and rebound a lot faster.”

The Brega complex, built by Esso in the 1960s, includes an oil refi n-ery, a gas plant that produces liquid natural gas and a petrochemical sector built in the 1970s that produces methanol, urea and ammonia. It provides gasoline to serve the region as far as Benghazi. In peacetime, it exports

about 20,000 barrels of oil a day, said Salleh Abdali, a Tarhouni deputy.Gadhafi ’s forces destroyed at least four oil storage tanks, plant offi cials said, and many of the others were in need of substantial maintenance. NATO bombed the complex’s clubhouse, a communications tower and other facilities after plant employees tipped the alliance that they were be-ing used to store weapons, Tarhouni said.

Rebel forces had the luck to capture the colonel in Gadhafi ’s army who’d supervised the mining, together with his map of where the mines had been placed. Security personnel are now removing them, though the plant’s managers appealed to Tarhouni for more military protection and assistance. No foreign mine-clearing organizations are on the scene —or had been requested.

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CAIRO, Egypt _ Pro-de-mocracy protesters in Yemen continued to push for Presi-dent Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign Saturday, despite over-night violence that left a sol-dier dead and 11 wounded.

Yemeni government troops opened fi re overnight near an anti-government protest camp in the capital Sana’a, injuring 11 protesters, local media re-ported Saturday.

One of the wounded pro-testers was in a critical con-dition, the Mareb Press news website reported.

The state-run Yemeni tele-vision said the fi ghting in the Yemeni capital also left one soldier loyal to Saleh dead.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni opposition said pro-Saleh sup-porters fi red mortar rounds overnight at the home of prominent opposition tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar.

The incidents took place a day after thousands of Yemenis renewed calls for Saleh’s resig-nation.

Saleh is still in Saudi Ara-bia, where he has been recover-ing from injuries sustained in a June attack on his presidential compound.

Earlier last week, he autho-rized one of his aides to hold talks with the opposition in an effort to put an end to the cri-sis that has gripped the coun-try since late January.

In April, the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council proposed a plan designed to end Yemen’s crisis, which al-most brought the country to the brink of a civil war. Saleh has agreed in the past to the proposal, but has backed out before the deal could be signed.

The Yemeni opposition not only wishes to see Saleh resign, but is demanding the departure of his entire politi-cal team.

On Friday, a Western dip-lomat told the German Press Agency dpa that Saleh would not return to the country from Saudi Arabia, where he is stay-ing, and will transfer powers to the vice president within 10 days.

The diplomat, who has close contacts to Saudi offi -cials, added that Saleh would remain in Riyadh, where he is recovering from injuries he sustained in an attack on his palace early June.

Renewed violence in Yemen as more call for Saleh to resign

ENERGY Gadhafi forces destoy sources of income for Libyan citizens before fl eeing from villages, leav-ing only refi neries and gas plants intact.

>ROY GUTMANMcClatchy Newspapers

Oil workers save energy business in Libya

When Libyan revolutionaries conquered Brega in late August, they discovered thousands of Grad rockets left behind by Gadhafi loyalists. (Roy Gutman/MCT)

TOKYO — The Japanese gov-ernment plans to send an engineer-ing unit of the Ground Self-Defense Force to South Sudan to help build infrastructure as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the new African country, government sources have revealed.

Consideration of the specifi cs of GSDF activities in South Sudan is al-ready under way, and plans are being drawn up to dispatch a fact-fi nding team there by the end of the month, the sources said Friday.

Preparations are being made for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to announce Japan’s readiness to send GSDF members to South Sudan in his scheduled address at the U.N.

General Assembly and during talks with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Noda’s trip to the United States starting Tuesday, they said.

The engineering unit will likely comprise about 300 members, ac-cording to the sources. They will help improve that country’s infra-structure, including building and repairing roads and bridges.

The unit could be sent to South Sudan as early as within this year, ac-cording to the sources.

If the dispatch is realized, it would be the second time for Japan to participate in U.N. peacekeeping operations under a Democratic Party of Japan-led administration, follow-ing the ongoing Self-Defense Forces relief operations in earthquake-struck Haiti that began in February 2010.

South Sudan separated and be-came independent from Sudan on July 9 this year, but years of civil war have severely damaged the country.

During a meeting with then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Aug. 8, Ban strongly urged Japan to send

a GSDF engineering unit to the war-ravaged country.

At that time, however, the SDF was busy with rescue and relief ef-forts following the Great East Japan Earthquake, and Kan’s grip on power was precarious.

In addition, security conditions in the newly born African country were shrouded in uncertainty.

Predominant opinion in the Defense Ministry opposed sending GSDF members to South Sudan. As a result, the government only con-fi rmed plans to send a fact-fi nding team to that country in early Septem-ber to examine the security situation in and around South Sudan’s new capital of Ramciel, in preparation for possibly sending GSDF command personnel there.

By Sept. 9, the GSDF had with-drawn from March 11 disaster-hit regions, except for Fukushima Pre-fecture, and became more fl exible in the deployment of its personnel.

The United Nations also re-ported that security conditions in

Sudan to receive help from JapanENGINEERING Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force to head will help rebuild infrastructure.

South Sudan had largely stabilized, the sources said.

The government has therefore decided that sending GSDF mem-bers to South Sudan at this stage will not violate the country’s fi ve principles governing participation in U.N.-sponsored peacekeeping activi-ties, which include the strict political neutrality of GSDF troops.

Some within the government feel the prime minister should use his visit to the United States as his diplomatic debut, and show Japan’s readiness to repay the world for its assistance in the wake of the March earthquake and tsunami disaster.

A fi nal government decision on whether to send a GSDF engineer-ing unit to South Sudan will be made by studying the reports of the fact-fi nding team, the sources said.

One government source stressed that sending GSDF personnel to South Sudan will “provide an excel-lent chance to demonstrate Japan’s presence in the international com-munity.

>THE YOMIURI SHIMBUNThe Dakota Student

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letter Policy

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Letter to the Editor:Do the Right Thing Because it

is the Right Thing to Do.Thank you to Kaitin Bezdiecek

and Caitlin Wildeman from the Dakota Student for calling atten-tion to the impact of tobacco use and issues of compliance with the tobacco-free campus policy on the UND campus.

A student recently mentioned a parallel between smoking on cam-pus and littering. He said he follows the tobacco free policy and avoids littering because he cares about his campus and wants a clean environ-ment for him-self and others, not because he is worried about getting busted by the police. UND’s tobacco - f re e policy states, “It is the re-sponsibility of all members of the campus community, includ-ing visitors, to observe the policy”. This is just one of many policies we are asked to follow to help protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of our campus community and enhance our quality of life. The tobacco-free policy is part of “The UND Code of Student Life” and it is a policy that all students, fac-ulty and staff are expected to fol-low. The same processes that are in place to address violations of other policies can and should be used to address violations of the tobacco-free campus policy. Violations can be reported to the UND Safety Offi ce at 777.3341. However, we shouldn’t need tobacco police to force us to do what is right; we

should do what is right because we care about our campus community and it is the right thing to do.

UND became tobacco-free in October of 2007 to help protect the health and safety of the campus community. The President’s Cabi-net, Dean’s Council, Student Sen-ate, University Senate, Staff Senate, and many other groups endorsed this effort. This policy is part of the university’s broader efforts to make healthy, easy choices to support academic and personal success. A task group of UND students, fac-ulty, staff and community mem-

bers developed the policy and another task group is in the process of be-ing organized to look at how we can help enhance aware-ness, encour-age compliance and promote

quit options. We welcome ideas and participation from the campus community. If you have questions, comments or would like to volun-teer to be part of the task group, you are invited to e-mail und.healthwellnessresources@email.und.edu or call 701.777.2097

Healthy UND and the Health and Wellness Unit have been ac-tively involved in expanding quit tobacco support and policies that reduce tobacco use and exposure to second hand smoke for the past ten years, with support from Grand Forks Public Health and the North Dakota Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control. We are not involved in policy compliance, but we work to enhance awareness

of the policy. We have a variety of videos, print materials and other tools, as well as information about quit options, available at www.to-baccofreeund.edu.

Tobacco is extremely addictive and it can be very diffi cult to quit without support. The campus and community work together to pro-vide a comprehensive array of quit tobacco options to support those who are ready. The Health & Well-ness Unit provides a confi dential, non-judgmental, welcoming place for those who want to quit. Free quit kits are available at the Health and Wellness Resource Offi ce on the main fl oor of the Memorial Union. Students can make an ap-pointment for a tobacco cessation appointment at Student Health Services (777.4500). Benefi tted faculty and staff have excellent in-surance coverage for tobacco ces-sation. The ND Quitline (1.800.QUIT. NOW) and Quitnet (www.quitnet.com) programs are also here to help with free telephone support and medications.

Tobacco use rates at UND and in North Dakota have gone down signifi cantly over the past 10 years, as has exposure to second hand smoke, thanks to comprehensive programs and tobacco-free poli-cies, but there is still work to be done. Tobacco is still the leading preventable cause of death, with 443,000 deaths per year in the United States, including 49,400 deaths from second hand smoke.

Submitted by Laurie Betting, Associate Vice President for Health and Wellness and Jane Croeker, Health and Wellness Promotion Director

‘Th e tobacco-free policy is part of “Th e UND Code of Student Life”...

J. Croeker & L. Betting Health and Wellness

Letter: Tobacco-free UND

Amidst the hustle-and-bustle of school and students’ busy schedules, it’s easy to pass up volunteer opportunities. It’s also easy to go an entire week without even hearing about some volunteer opportunities. That’s not the case with this coming weekends trip to Minot. The Student Government is sending a bus of UND students to Minot to help with the fl ood relief efforts that are ongoing there. Many students seem to have taken notice of the Student Government’s call for volunteers and Minot State University is all the happier for it.

Many of us remember the devastation that Minot experi-enced this summer when waters in the area rose high enough to fl ood the city. It’s an experience that anyone living in North Dakota the last two springs is defi nitely familiar with. North Dakotans have responded with all the usual neighborly kind-ness that is so characteristic for the Midwest. However, the cleanup and relief efforts are nowhere near over and MSU specifi cally asked the UND student body to send students to help with relief efforts to “win the fi ght against this fl ood.”

The bus leaves UND Sept. 25, at 5:30 a.m. and returns to Grand Forks the same evening at 10 p.m. If you are won-dering exactly what you would be doing in Minot if you made the decision to join the group heading there, no need; the Dakota Student Editorial Board has you covered. Bring your muscles, as a recent press release said that students will be removing drywall, fl ooring and clearing out the insides of water-damaged homes. Also important to note is that all meals, transportation, gloves, masks and other items required to do the volunteer work will be provided for volunteers that day.

We hope that the campus community will respond strongly to this call for volunteers. Every indication so far is that the UND community will respond strongly. Members of the Dakota Student Editorial Board have seen many students peering at some of the posters the Student Government offi ce have posted all around campus. We have also had conversa-tions with some people who have said that they are going. As previously stated, all indicators point to a strong UND community response.

And this is good. All of us here at UND have had to go through the experience of fi ghting a fl ood. Some of us may never had to directly fi ght a fl ood, but all of us have known someone who, at one point or another, has been in a fi ght to save their house from rising waters. And any of us that have driven up and down I-29 over Spring Break are more than familiar with the fl ooding that takes place in the spring. Remember these moments, remember how it was when you were sandbagging until your hands hurt so bad your fi ngers began curling up on themselves and then remember how much better you would have felt having as much help as you could possibly get. So, don’t let our neighbors in Minot go without, especially considering that by Oct. 1 most of the volunteer forces will be out of the city. Put on your work boots and hop on that bus!

05COMMENTARYthe Dakota Student

In one of the most recent is-sues of North Dakota State Uni-versity’s student newspaper “The Spectrum,” an opinion column, titled “NDSU vs. UND: the great debate,” was published in which the writer, Amanda Breen, dis-cussed her transition from UND to NDSU, remarking that she was pleased with her transfer and was settling in nicely.

Let me be the first to say that I wholeheartedly believe in find-ing a school that fits. I think feel-ing at home at one’s university is important to academic success, and I understand that the college expe-rience is a subjective one in which an individual is bound to like or dislike an institution for a variety of reasons, both sensible and arbi-trary. I should also state that I hold no animosity toward NDSU; that is, while I am very much content with my UND experience, I can understand transferring schools, in general, for numerous reasons.

That being said, my initial thoughts when reading Breen’s col-umn were “What nonsense! What a load of shit!” She writes that, in terms of UND, she “just [wasn’t] feeling it up there.” While that is

fair, as I did comment above that there are subtleties that will influ-ence how a student engages with his or her university, the reasons she lists as contributing to her lack of “feeling it” at UND and subse-quent attraction to NDSU struck me as ridiculous.

Let’s make a list.“First off, everyone at NDSU is

so friendly!”And people at UND aren’t?! I

understand that not everyone has a good residence hall experience, and that making friends is in-deed difficult, but come on. This is North Dakota. The vast majority of people here at least try at “North Dakota nice.” I would guess that the f r i e n d l i n e s s factor is pretty similar at both institutions. We can probably attribute this one to the subjective experience.

“I felt forgotten by my adviser at UND, but here at NDSU my advisor has gone above and be-yond.”

Again, the subjective experi-ence. I have not one, but two ad-

visors, and they are both fantastic. For them, going “above and be-yond” is standard behavior. This is not a good reason to position one university over another. It’s unfor-tunate that her advisor at UND didn’t meet her standards, but it isn’t difficult to switch advisors. I’m sure NDSU has its fair share of inadequate advisors, too.

“My dorm last year was cold and basement like; this year I feel much more comfortable and at ease in Niskanen.”

This is why students have an option to switch rooms and/or dorms. This is also a luck-o f - the -draw situa-tion. I’m sure NDSU also has “cold and basement like” dorms. But

hey, comfort is important. I’ll let this one slide.

Finally, “My classes last year averaged around 250 students at UND, so I really enjoy the more individual attention available here at NDSU.”

What does she expect as a freshman? Almost every student who takes an introductory course

is bound to have 100+ students in the class. This goes for most univer-sities. However, of all of the courses I’ve taken, only a handful has had more than 100 students. Most have had 10 to 20, and I receive a lot of individual attention. I think this component of education is impor-tant, and I don’t want to downplay Breen’s unsatisfactory experience, but the “here at NDSU” part really irritates me, because it implies that UND doesn’t offer this to students, which is false.

“It makes a difference when the teachers make an effort to know their students.”

Burn! Which UND was she at? Of all of the statements, this one aggravates me the most. As I have noted multiple times, the college experience is one that is unique to every individual, but Breen’s has been totally different from mine, and the implication that all pro-fessors at UND do not concern themselves with their students as opposed to NDSU’s professors who apparently do is completely absurd. I’m sure NDSU’s profes-sors are great, and I’m not being sarcastic. The thing is, UND’s professors are great, too, and I’m peeved that a supposed UND in-sider is portraying us this way to another university. I have numer-

ous professors who know me pretty well and are invested in my future. In fact, perhaps my favorite attri-bute of UND is its professors, who are clearly passionate about what they’re doing and are willing to in-volve undergrads in their research. My professors know me; they greet me in the hallways and are genu-inely interested in how I’m doing, what my plans are and how they can help. For Breen to write that the instructors here don’t make an effort to know their students is not only incorrect but also very insult-ing.

It’s unfortunate that Breen feels the way she feels about UND, be-cause my experience with this great institution has been strikingly dif-ferent. I’m pleased she’s found a place that she feels will foster her academic growth and contribute to her intellectual development, but the reasons given for her prefer-ence for NDSU over UND aren’t particularly valid, because they ap-ply to NDSU just as much as they apply to UND, if they’re even rel-evant at all.

>MADi whiTMANThe Dakota Student

‘It’s unfortuante that Breen feels the way she feels about UND...

Madi Whitmancolumnist

DS> Madi Whitman is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at madisson.whitman@gmail.com.

NDSU vs. UND: there is no ‘great debate’

We as Americans have the con-stitutional right to change people’s ideas and opinions. We as Ameri-cans have the protected opportu-nity to do something, to make a difference, however small that may be. We as college students live in a community and climate in which this means something, and where we can get the resources and man-power to do something with these rights.

Our rights of free speech and to peacefully protest could quite possibly be the most important rights we have. So why, then, do we not take advantage of it more often? There has to be something about something that really pisses you off. You must have an idea about how s o m e t h i n g could be done better. You couldn’t possi-bly have gone through life without having one ground-breaking idea, or the initiative to go out and make your opinion known. Do you believe in some-thing? Tell someone. You might be surprised by the result.

The generation that we live in is passing through a rough patch in the history of the US and the world, and people are going out and protesting it. These people are going out there; they’re sick and they’re tired of what they see

in their political climate. Do you agree with them? Do something to show it. Disagree with them? Do something in counter-protest. Don’t give a crap for either side of the argument? You must feel strongly about some topic, go out there and make it known! Just do something!

The majority of the population is far too complacent for my lik-ing, and complacency is extremely dangerous. You, right now, are in a nation that allows you the abil-ity and the protected right to do something about anything. Many people without that right would and do kill for it; sadly, many people with that right do nothing with it.

Talk to your friends about your opinions, or, if you’re feeling

especially ad-venturous, talk about it in your classes if the oppor tun i t y arises. Express your opinion! Buy yourself a soap box, put it out on Uni-versity Ave,

and scream out your frustrations! Your one little protest or discussion can be the pebble that rolls into the rock. The rock could be the one that hits the boulder. The boulder could be the thing to create an ava-lanche.

‘You must have an idea about how something could be done better.

Caitlin Wildemancolumnist

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DS> Caitlin Wildeman is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at caitlin.wildeman@my.und.edu

There are two main staples of TV, drama and comedy. As much as I enjoy drama, most of the shows I watch are comedies. As I say, I would rather laugh than cry. Below are 11 comedies that are airing today, includ-ing my pick for best current comedy.

Nu m b e r s 11 and 10. South Park and 30 Rock. These are my “flip the channel” shows. I used to watch South Park regularly, and it was especially good Seasons 7-11. However, as time has gone by I have found the episodes to be more stale and less fun.

As for 30 Rock, I have found it abrasive. I never thoroughly en-joyed Tina Fey, and I think drama better suits a very talented Alec Baldwin. Even though it has won many accolades, 30 Rock doesn’t seem to have the water cooler buzz of The Office or Community.

Numbers 9 and 8. Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory. The “not enough time” shows. I follow quite a number of comedies, and with law school and numerous jobs I just don’t have the time in a day to watch these. Both of these shows make me laugh, but for some reason they don’t have the staying power of the shows in front it.

Number 7. Curb Your Enthusi-asm. The “I don’t watch it enough”

show. I have watched probably five episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and laughed every time. However, this show has lurked in the back-ground for many years. It is on HBO, and a majority of my readers can’t access it. I feel that Larry Da-

vid and crew lean toward an older genera-tion that grew up on Seinfeld; a generation that I am not apart of.

Number 6. The League. The “niche” show. I am

in five fantasy football leagues and last year I wrote a fantasy football column. I enjoy the premise that fantasy football can be a driving point in the series. Plus, every league needs a Taco to survive.

Numbers 5 and 4. The Of-fice and How I Met Your Mother. The “old favorite” shows. Dur-ing my senior year of high school and freshman year of college, The Office was my favorite show. The ridiculous Michael and the great love story that is Jim and Pam kept me engaged and laughing. Along the way, some of the story has got-ten too familiar, but I still enjoy it every week. (Plus, Jim and Pam’s wedding episode and Michael’s fi-nal episode are wonderful.)

How I Met Your Mother was my favorite show during my soph-omore and junior years at UND. The first two seasons provide much laughter, and “Mary the Paralegal” is still my favorite episode. How-

ever, the people who watch this show are now asking “When are we really going to meet the mother? It is going on 7 seasons!”

Numbers 3 and 2. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Com-munity. The “super close but with some deficiencies” shows. I love both of these shows, but they have not kept up to speed with Parks and Rec. Always Sunny had an up and down last season (while the premiere for the newest season last week involved Fat Mac, things are looking up). Community is hilari-ous and extremely clever, but the ratings are low and it feels like a cult hit in waiting.

Number 1. Parks and Rec. Right now this is the best comedy on TV. The first season is very rough, but season 2 was really good, and the writers just threw a no-hit-ter for season 3. Every episode was funny, had depth, and was unique. If you want one reason to watch this show, Ron Frickin’ Swanson! (But don’t forget Aziz Ansari, a married couple that has succeeded where the Office has failed in April and Andy, and of course Pawnee).

Right now Parks and Rec is in my pantheon of favorite comedies. With the new season starting this week, along with most of the other shows in the near future, it will prove to be a laugh filled time at home. Let’s hope I can laugh my way through heaps of homework along the way.

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‘As much as I enjoy dramas, most of the shows I watch are comedies.

Kirby Graffcolumnist

DS> Kirby Graff is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at kirby.graff@gmail.com

My favorite TV comedies Try to care

06 NEWS tuesday september 20, 2011

Ever consider a Pre-Health Program at UND? If so, you may be familiar with advisor Kim Ruit, the advisor for all 595 students this school year declaring interest in one of nine Pre-Health Programs.

Ruit’s role as Health Science Advisor is to advise Pre-Health Pro-gram students in the fields of Medi-cine, Optometry, Physician Assis-tant, Dentistry, Chiropractic, Pharmacy, Veterinarian, Podiatry, and Mortuary from freshman to senior year. Given part-time hours yet with a huge responsi-bility, Ruit advises students on what classes to take, iterates the importance of keeping a clean records and a high GPA, checks if the appropriate credits have been taken, participates in UND Open Houses, and handles letters of recommendation.

Kim Ruit has held the position of Health Science Advisor since 1998. She began working ten hours per week but her hours gradually evolved into twenty-six hours per week based on need.

“They called me up and asked if I’d be interested in doing this,” said Ruit. “The bulk of responsibility is meeting with people.”

Pre-Health Science programs are not an actual major at UND. A student’s primary advisor is a faculty member in that student’s particular major. Ruit is listed as a secondary advisor.

“There isn’t a Pre-Med major,” said Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Harmon Abra-hamson. “Students have to choose a program to major in.”

The need for an academic advi-sor to specialize in Pre-Health Pro-grams is very apparent due to the specialization of the courses. “If she weren’t in the position all the faculty advisors in various positions would [advise],” said Abrahamson.

“The bottom line is I have 595 students, 26 hours a week, 9 months a year,” said Ruit.

One person advising 595 de-clared Pre-Health Program students sounds like a monstrous task. The number is somewhat inflated. Ruit expects that by spring there will be

Advisor manages almost 600 studentsOVERLOAD Pre-Health program advisor guides hundreds of student on a part-time schedule.

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only 495 students who stick with Pre-Health Programs. Most of these students choose Pre-Med and Ruit expects about 50 juniors to actually apply for medical school and 30 to be admitted. There are much fewer students applying for Dentistry and Optometry schools and often other Pre-Health Program students have to transfer from UND before even applying to graduate schools.

Of the 595 students under Pre-Health Programs, 188 are freshman. There are some very basic classes that freshman have to take including Bi-ology 150-151 with labs, Math 103, and Chemistry 121-122 without needing personal advising. Need-

less to say, these classes often weed out many students and Ruit doesn’t begin individual advisement until students are at sophomore status. In compensation, Ruit offers many group sessions and advisement ma-terial online for students.

Junior Biology Major and Pre-Medicine Student Natalie Bittner recalled having group advisement instead of one on one advisement as a freshman, and found it frustrat-ing.

“I found that it’s easier to get ad-visement as I go further along,” said

Bittner. “[Ruit] is really knowledge-able of the classes we need to take.”

Is having one advisor for 9 differ-ent Pre-Health Programs, for such a large amount of students sufficient?

“We could use another advisor,” said Bittner. “She deals with a lot of students.”

Senior Justin Berger started go-ing to advising his sophomore year and now is pursuing Pre-Optom-etry. Despite the large amount of students Ruit handles, Berger has re-ceived the tools he needs to prepare to enter Optometry School.

“Ruit is full of resources for pre-paring for admission for tests wheth-er the MCATT, DAT, or OAT,” said Berger. “I’ve never had a problem getting an appointment.”

“Pre-health is not a major,” said Berger. “She is a secondary advisor so I don’t see a problem with her ad-vising that many people.”

Because Ruit helps so many ad-visees, students are must take the ini-tiative in their advisement process.

“It forces students to plan ahead,” said Ruit. “They can’t stop in and see me whenever they want and everybody waits until registra-tion time…I book out a week in advance.”

There has not been much talk about changing the way advisement for Pre-Health Program’s operates, but Ruit takes everything in stride.

“I’m busy,” said Ruit. “So far things are working well.”

DS> Kaitlin Bezdicek is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at kaitlin.bezdicek@my.und.edu

‘Ruit is full of re-sources for prepar-ing for admission for tests.

Justin Bergersenior, pre-optometry

Campus BriefsUND awarded grant for culture center in Shanghai

UND has been granted $100,000 from the U.S. State De-partment for an American Culture Center in Shanghai, Chi-na.

The award was announced by Kathleen Tiemann, project director and dean of the UND College of Arts and Sciences.

“This project is a wonderful opportunity to extend the many positive relationships that have already been established between Shanghai and Grand Forks,” Tiemann said. “We have a great deal to learn from each other in the days to come.”

The Center will be housed on the campus of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. It will present a wide array of scholarly and cultural programs.

Anthropologist wins award at international sympo-sium

Frank Cuozzo, professor of biological anthropology, and his colleague, Michelle Sauther (University of Colorado-Boulder), recently one the award for the best poster presenta-tion at the International Symposium on Dental Morphology in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. The conference took place August 24-27.

Cuozzo and Sauther, both of whom have done extensive research on ring-tailed lemurs, won a cash prize for their pre-sentation “Toothcomb Function and Use In Wild Ring-Tailed Lemurs: Implications for the Evolution of the Prosimian Toothcomb.”

Students needed for accreditation committees

UND will be going through a regional accreditation pro-cess over the next 3 years. UND is looking for 10-15 students who are interested in sitting on various committees to discern whether or not the University is upholding certain standards and meeting all necessary requirements.

Committees will analyze our school’s mission, integrity, re-sources and planning, and academic programs.

Interested students should contact Student Body President Kylie Oversen at stugovpresident@und.edu.

UND Women’s Center programs start October 3rd

UND Women’s Center will display the North Dakota Clothesline Project October 3-7 in the Memorial Union Ball-room. The Clothesline Project features decorated T-shirts rep-resenting stories told by survivors of interpersonal violence.

The “Take Back the Night Rally,” which will be in the Memorial Union Ballroom October 6 and 7 p.m. The keynote speaker at the rally will be John Clune an attorney with the Victim Justice Law Firm. Clune was the attorney that repre-sented the victim in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case. After Clune speaks, a march will take place on University Avenue to give survivors, friends and family members a unified voice.

For more information, call the UND Women’s Center at 701-777-4300.

Annual Safety Lighting Tour next week

The 2011 Annual Safety Lighting Tour has been scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on September 27. The tour will identify areas of campus that are safety concerns for those who travel the campus after dark. The tour group will meet in the Wilkerson Main Lounge at 7:30 p.m., and will run until 9:30 p.m. Pizza will be served in Wilkerson 55 at the conclusion of the tour. All students are welcome to attend.

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This year’s flooding in Minot has devastated thousands of homes this summer. UND Student Gov-ernment is asking students to join in the relief efforts on September 25th.

Student Government has ar-ranged for a bus to take students volunteers to Minot to help re-move water-damaged drywall and flooring from homes affected by the flood. The bus will leave at 5:30 a.m. and return to UND at 10:00 p.m. the same day.

“Minot State University’s stu-dent government asked us to send volunteers to work along side their students to win the fight against the flood,” said Carter Hill, UND Student Government’s Public Rela-tions Coordinator.

Hill said that over 50 students are already planning on making the trip, but there is room for more. Food, tools, and other supplies will all be supplied on site.

“I’m going,” said Hill. “It means a lot to me because it means so much more to them. To see the devastation and damage, and to be able to help those affect by the flood, it means so much.”

Many flood relief organizations will be leaving Minot on October 1, leaving a large amount of work to be done.

“I know a lot of people in Mi-not,” said Shane Gerbert, one of the many students planning on participating in the efforts. “I want to help them however I can.”

According to North Dakota National Guard Major General David Sprynczynatyk, flooding in North Dakota has caused over $500 million in damages, with nearly $200 million of that occur-ring in the Mouse River area. This estimate includes $92 million in aid to victims. The total cost does not include the cost of repairing private property, which Sprynzcyn-atyk said would be much more.

“What we’re experiencing is, literally, nothing short of incredible and phenomenal,” Sprynczynatyk said to the state legislature’s Budget Section this summer. “This is truly an incredible event.”

Over 12,000 people have been evacuated from their homes due to the flooding. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in the process of erect-ing temporary housing in the Mi-not area. $12 million will be used to build a 300 home neighborhood just northeast of Minot, and a 600-unit neighborhood on the south-east end of town.

If you have any questions re-garding the event, please contact Hill at carter.hill.2@und.edu. Additionally, donations can be made on the American Red Cross, Mid-Dakota Chapter website, mi-notredcross.org.

DS> Robb Jeffries is the news editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at Robert.Jeffries@my.und.edu

GOODWILL UND stu-dents to travel to Minot to help with flood relief efforts.

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Helping Minotmaterials from homes so they

will not be deemed condemned next spring. In addition to vol-unteer efforts, Student Govern-ment will soon launch a t-shirt sale campaign; each t-shirt will cost $20.

Student Government Presi-dent Kylie Oversen addressed the need for more involvement in Student Government. “We want there to be a way for all students to be involved in Student Govern-ment without holding a leadership position,” said Oversen. A group has been formed, Student Work-ing Advisory Group (SWAG), to achieve this cause. SWAG’s goal is to be a more casual format for stu-dents to get involved as opposed to sitting on a board with par-liamentary procedure. “We want joining SWAG to feel like you are joining a club like Sioux Crew,” said Oversen, with the exception that it is student government fo-cused. The focus groups will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, but member attendance is expected only once per week.

Guest speaker Andre Thom asked the Student Senate for the Emerging Leaders (EL) name

DS> Jaye Millspaugh and Ethan Lee are staff writers for The Dakota Stu-dent. Jaye can be reached at jaye.millspaugh.2@und.edu. Ethan can be reached at ethan.lee@my.und.edu

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and marketing material, which includes their logo. The Student Senate unanimously approved the decision and a bill is to be drafted this week.

Senator Kevin Peters spoke about the possibility of putting yield signs on the backs of the UND campus shuttles and about getting UND-branded license plates for alumni to put on their vehicles. The yield signs on the buses will allow for them to merge back into traffic quicker and with less hassle. The license plates are meant to be a novelty item.

Peters also mentioned that about 500 students attended the free showing of Super 8 in the

Memorial Union as part of UND’s Nightlife event. Local radio sta-tion Z94 will be helping to adver-tise Nightlife events. Student Sen-ate is also encouraging professors to attend Nightlife events as a way to promote interaction with their students and to get to know them better outside the classroom.

A funding bill for Nightlife was tabled for next week’s meet-ing.

State Governmental Affairs Commission Shane Gerbert gives his report during Sunday’s meeting.

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Potato Bowl EventsTuesday, September 20thHugo’s Potato Bowl Golf Scrabble – Open to any-one, call 218-773-3633 to register Time: Registration: 12:00 noon Tee Time: 1:00 PM Location: Valley Golf Course, East Grand Forks, MN Fees: $95 entry fee includes: green fees, cart, din-ner, Potato Bowl gift, & golf prizes

Wednesday, September 21stChip Giveaway – Columbia Mall

Thursday, September 22ndBaked Potato Bar, served 11 AM – 1 PM (Hugos)Chip Giveaway – Frandsen Bank & TrustFrench Fry Feed Time: 4:30 PM – dusk Location: University Park Activities: World’s Largest French Fry Feed, Food & Soda Stands, Large, Inflatable Games, Live MusicMeet the Sioux Athletes, Potato Picking Contest (for children) and French Fry Eating Contest.Fireworks – Memorial Stadium

Friday, September 23rdSioux Booster Luncheon – Noon – Alerus CenterBaked Potato Bar, served 11 AM – 1 PM (all Hu-go’s locations)Hugo’s Potato Bowl 8K Run & Tater Tot Trot – Begins in Riverside Park in Grand Forks. Registra-tion begins at 4 PM. 8K entry fee is $18 before Sept. 8th ($20 after Sept. 8th) and $8 for Tater Tot Trot before Sept. 8th ($10 after Sept. 8th).

Saturday, September 24thJaycees Potato Bowl Parade – 10:30 AM – The route starts behind the YMCA and goes to Demers Avenue and heads east over the river into East Grand Forks, MN and then continues to 4th Street NW and ends in the Riverwalk Centre parking lot.Tailgating Party & NPPGA Potato Associates Baked Potato Bar – 2:00 PM at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks.46th Annual Potato Bowl Footbal Game – ND Fight Sioux vs Black Hills State – Kick off is at 6 PM at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks.

08 NEWS tuesday september 20, 2011

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length of a pipe – which is sealed at both ends. One seal is attached to a small speaker and the other to a propane tank. The pipe is fi lled with the gas and the gas leaking from the top of the pipe is lit.

When kids pushed keys on the piano attached to the speaker, the fl ames would alter to mimic the sound wave.

“The fi re draws them in,” said Joe Slaughter, a senior in the chemical engineering program.

Slaughter and Ben Gerdes, another chemical engineering senior, were operating a vacuum pump, placing a marshmallow in a container and removing air from it.

Observers watched the marsh-mallow expand.

“It’s going to pop!” said one onlooker.

The marshmallow grew to about the size of a fi st. Once air returned to container, it shrunk below its former size.

Other displays included changing fl ower petal colors with food coloring and determining why some pop cans fl oat and some don’t (diet pop fl oats because it contains artifi cial sweetener).

Car and bike showBesides visiting the Pow-

erOn! area, visitors could wander through rows and rows of cars and motorcycles.

Cars ranged from the earliest models of the 1900s to brand new

sports cars. Camaros, Studebakers and

Fairlanes were among the cars representing the classic side while models like new Corvettes and a blinged out Buick complete with rims added a modern edge.

Visitors could also meander through the dealership’s mechanic shops and sneak a peek at unfi n-ished street rods.

Motorcycles were also an at-traction at the show. A special mo-torcycle display featuring military memorabilia was set up in honor of those who have served America in times of war and peace.

Fun for a causeInfl atable games were avail-

able for kids to play on and the drumline from Grand Forks Cen-tral played for the crowd.

The event was held to benefi t the Community Violence Inter-vention Center.

The center works toward building a violence-free commu-nity in Grand Forks.

CVIC offers shelter to victims of abuse. Other services such as counseling, court advocacy and group treatment for abusers.

How to helpCouldn’t attend the car show

today and still want to help CVIC? Visit their “Support Us” page on their website to donate.

For more information or to do-nate head to: www.cviconline.org.

Dozens of cars lined the parking lot and showroom fl oors of the Rydell GM Auto Center in Grand Forks. All photos by Na-than Twerberg.

A PowerOn! volunteer shows kids the effects of food coloring on fl ower petals when absorbed through the plant’s stem.

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

culture&mediatuesday september 20, 2011DS> Inside: IAS Conference, advice from P.H. Honey Badger,

new exhibits at the art museum and cooking with Cullen!

Almost every-one at some point in their

life has said to themselves, “I want travel and see the world.”

What better time to get out and see the world than during one’s college

experience? The University of North Dakota’s Study Abroad program hopes to make that happen for UND students by incorporating their learning experi-ences with the once-in-a-lifetime op-portunities that going abroad and

studying in a different country can offer.

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Graphic courtesy of sherwin-williams.com and constellationav.com.

Story by Matthew Roy

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IAS meets on UND campusCONFERENCE Inter-national Anchoritic Soci-ety discussed medieval literature last weekend.

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Over this last weekend, the In-ternational Anchoritic Society con-vened at UND for their 2011 Con-ference. The goals of this society are, according to the conference’s website, “to support and promote the study of medieval anchoritism and other forms of religious reclu-sion in the Middle Ages.” The IA has been meeting bi-annually since its formation in 1996 and has con-vened in international locations such as Wales, Ireland, Vienna and Japan, but this is their first spon-sored conference held in the US.

Grand Forks was chosen as the conference’s location due to UND’s own Michelle Sauer, who co-founded the IAS and serves as the Vice President.

But what exactly is an ancho-rite? An anchorite is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “a person who has withdrawn or secluded himself from the world; usually one who has done so for religious reasons, a recluse, a her-mit.” Medieval anchorites would often allow themselves to be walled into small cells in their local vil-lage churches and spend the rest of their lives in this state. Hearing the Mass, partaking in the Eucharist and receiving food and other ne-cessities could be achieved through a small hole in the wall that faced the sanctuary. In this state, they could devote their lives to prayer, contemplation and the develop-ment of wisdom. Many of them also wrote, and it is these writings that the IAS studies.

On Friday evening, Dr. Mi-

chael G. Sargent, who is from Queens College, CUNY, gave the Keynote Address. Sargent is pres-ently working on a critical edition of Walter Hilton’s “Scale of Per-fection.” Broken up into two vol-umes, “Scale 1” was written quite a while before “Scale 2,” which was written as a kind of response to the questions readers brought up about “Scale 1.”

“I think the ‘Scale’ would have been written as early as the early 1370s. The original weighs fifty pounds! I think it was written to be read infrequently... or to read one chapter a day throughout the year,” Sargent said. “Every version of every manuscript is different. There are around sixty complete manuscripts written of ‘Canter-bury Tales,’ while there are roughly forty of Hilton’s ‘Scales,’ with a number of them written in Latin. It was one of the first books written in Great Britain to become popular in Continental Europe.”

Like many early texts written, there are discrepancies between each. “Scale 1 is not organized; Hilton didn’t think out where most of his discussion will take place,” Sargent explained to the audience. “The chapter numbers vary, and like ‘Canterbury Tales,’ their order isn’t known.”

The 2011 International An-choritic Society Conference, which

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Students who have attended UND for a few years are probably already familiar with the Study Abroad program, specifically their work with the American College of Norway. What some students may not realize is that UND’s Study Abroad program works with many more countries and colleges worldwide than just Norway. For example, there are a total of nine other European countries that the UND Study Abroad program af-filiates with and many others on different continents, including Af-rica and Asia.

While each Study Abroad pro-gram has specific requirements that differ from program to pro-gram, a quick scan of their page on the UND website should let anyone interested know what pre-requisites they have to meet in or-der to study abroad. There is also helpful information on their page regarding scholarship and financial aid available to students who are worried that studying abroad may break the bank. Students interested in studying abroad can even read profiles of students that have done it in the past, allowing them to get a first-hand experience from a fel-low student.

I had the chance to talk to two students who went abroad for the summer semester and they had some very good advice to students who are interested in studying abroad. Gary Tuazon, who studied in China this past summer, says

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the best advice that he can give to students interested in studying in a country that speaks a different lan-guage is to “learn as much of the language as you can before you go. It makes life a lot easier.” Tuazon described the experience as “amaz-ing.” “Being there and meeting all the people… there is so much that you can learn from them that you wouldn’t be able to learn if you weren’t there,” he added.

Rachel Smerer, who did an internship in India this last sum-mer, gives this advice when trying to select a study abroad program. “Think hard about what you want out of the experience before choos-ing a program.” Smerer chose to do an internship because she wanted “a full immersion” experience. “Don’t let money stop you from going,” she added. “I did that for too many years. But do be smart about as-serting program costs. It shouldn’t cost you too much to go for a few months, so be wary of programs that ask for large amounts of mon-ey.”

UND’s Study Abroad program offers a wide variety of study abroad programs that all students should at least take the time to check out, and their page on the UND web-site offers a comprehensive step by step guide on how to chose and sign up for a program. It’s worth the time to check out and it could lead to an experience that you will never forget.

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New exhibits grace NDMOA

The North Dakota Museum of Art hosted a reception on Saturday night for two new exhibits featuring the work of Margaret Wall-Romana and Lucinda Mason. Both of the artists’ work can be characterized as a mixture of abstract and roman-tic art inspired by nature, natural forms and colors. From there, how-ever, their work differs greatly.

Margaret Wall-Romana moved to Minneapolis from the San Fran-cisco Bay area six years ago. She has a BA from the University of Cali-fornia, Davis, and an MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago. Wall-Romana’s works are displayed in collections from London to Man-hattan and San Franciso. Accord-ing the San Francisco Chronicle, “Wall-Romana practices an almost Ruskinian realism, combined with modernist techniques that make illusionism look like mere seduc-tion.”

Wall-Romana’s exhibit at UND is titled “Taking Time,” which re-fers to the time it takes to absorb the complexity of her work. It is common for viewers to picture Wall-Romana’s work and begin to put themselves in her shoes, enact-ing her painting process. Viewers also end up examining her work for more than a “quick glance.” At first, Wall-Romana’s paintings may seem simple but after closer inspec-tion they will become layered and dimensional.

According to Christopher At-kins from The Minneapolis Insti-

tute of Arts, “[her] paintings employ complex configurations of scale and perspective that shift from photo-precise still lifes to vast atmospher-ic distances. Approaching Wall-Romana’s paintings, view-ers can experi-ence a terrible boundlessness that carries their eyes and minds beyond reality.”

The other exhibit features the work of Lucinda Ma-son. Mason, who was born in Vermont, received her BA in Studio Art and Eng-lish Literature from Benning-ton College and her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concor-dia University. Her work has been displayed in New York, Montreal and Toronto, as well as in sev-eral venues in Vermont, including the Supreme Court. Mason loves to paint, travel and teach art, and she was a writer for Art New England magazine before she died in 2007 at age 33. Mason’s collection at UND is titled “Superconducting Super-colloid Series” and features some of the final works that she created be-fore her death. The paintings were inspired by astronomical phenom-ena like star nurseries and nebula. However, they also include features from the natural world such as gar-

dens. A friend of Mason, Maggie Neale, said that, while working, Mason asked herself questions like, “What does space look like inside

the nucleus of an atom? Can one paint immeasur-able space? Can one paint the es-sential makeup of energy?”

R e b e c c a T h o m p s o n , a freshman at UND, works in the art museum as part of her work-study. Al-though Thomp-son is not an art major, she still enjoys com-ing to work and viewing the dif-ferent exhibits. “It’s always in-teresting to see something new when I come in,” Thompson said.

She also said that her favorite of the two col-lections was Lu-cinda Mason’s “Superconduct-ing Supercolloid Series.” “I enjoy

the abstract art of her collection,” Thompson said.

The exhibits will be on display at the ND Museum of Art until October 23. Museum hours are 9-5 Monday through Friday and 1-5 on Saturday and Sunday. For more information on the museum and its exhibits, visit www.ndmoa.com.

>MoLLy BURkEThe Dakota Student

DS> Molly Burke is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at molly.burke@my.und.edu

ART Museum hosts the works of two artists who use similar themes in their artwork.

ANDREA DICkASoN > The Dakota Student

Cullen-ary Artswith Cullen Donohue

After a couple years of eating some of the food from the dining centers, some students grow tired of the menu options that are presented with them. A specialty bar provides more op-tions, but it too repeats itself week in and week out. My goal is to expand the students of the University of North Dakota’s dining experience by searching out and detailing the recipes that students across campus have created.

Today I will be describing a recipe for chocolate chicken, served with caramel apples and a mozzarella broccoli combina-tion.

A personal favorite of mine, this dish can be prepared at Ter-race Dining Hall during extended lunch. To prepare the choc-olate chicken, order a chicken strip basket. The chicken strip basket is plated with fresh fries and two pieces of fried chicken tenders. Once this arrives, drizzle some chocolate from the ice cream stand over the top of the chicken and fries. Top with sprinkles. The chocolate chicken is prepared.

The caramel apples are created by cutting up an apple from the fruit basket and drizzling caramel over the top of them. Nuts are also recommended to give the apples some more flavor.

The broccoli is a bit more complicated. When the main food line provides steamed broccoli, plate some up. Go to the salad bar and grab both bell peppers and mozzarella cheese. Mix the steamed vegetables, bell peppers and cheese. This part of the dish must be heated to melt the cheese and cook the peppers. Heat it for 30 seconds in the microwave. The addition of a pinch of lemon herb seasoning finishes the dish off well.

When I was first approached with this recipe, I was skepti-cal. Chocolate and chicken did not sound like they would go well together. After further review, the sweet flavor of the choco-late pairs well with the salt present in the fried chicken. The fries, when plated with both chocolate chicken and caramel apples, have the same effect.

The caramel apples were a classic choice and they provide a fruit group to the meal. These go well with the starch and the protein brought by the chocolate chicken and fries.

The broccoli was a bold choice, since I did not know if the flavors would go well with the sweet and salty combinations present throughout the rest of the dish. The peppers were able to provide a bit of kick to the broccoli, making it stand out and work with the meal rather than allowing it to be lost in the shuf-fle. This side provides both a vegetable and a dairy product to the plate.

The meal worked well as a whole with the small spices in the vegetables and the sweet and salty flavors provided throughout the rest of the dish. It was extremely simple to prepare, with the exception of the mixing involved with the vegetables.

If you have created any recipes and would like to submit them to us, please send them to cullen.donohue@my.und.edu.

CULLEN DoNoHUE > The Dakota Student

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sportstuesday september 20, 2011

> Inside: Woody Greeno XC results, UND Volleyball crowned Chilly Fillmore Invitational championsDS

>scores &schedules

vs. Nebraska Omaha9/23 @ 7 p.m.@ Betty Engelstad Sioux Center

Volleyballvs. Black Hills State9/24 @ 6 p.m.@ Alerus Center

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UND soccer closes weekend with winBRONSON Sioux drop one to Nebraska Omaha but rebound against Montana Grizzlies.

>JOel ADRIANThe Dakota Student

Last Friday, UND soccer hosted their first home match on Bronson Field for the first time in 27 days. Sadly, the Sioux slipped against Nebraska Omaha as the 283 fans

watched helplessly. After striking first to attain a 1-0 lead, the Sioux allowed two unanswered goals to lose the match 2-1. Junior Rhaya Ballon struck her third goal against the Mavericks in the 30th minute of the bout. After a few clever dribbles, senior Rachel Loomis passed the ball to Ballon deep in enemy territory for the com-bined score. Loomis accumulated her third assist and team-leading ninth point of the season. Shortly after, UNO forward Sarah Nordstrom found the net for her initial goal of the season,

causing the game to be deadlocked at one score apiece. Maverick Danielle Archuletta gave the visiting team the lead for good as she intercepted a pass from UND midfielder Kristi Hestdalen and booted the ball past Sioux goal-keeper Hilary Jackson. UNO goal-keeper Katelyn Tschida proved to be a stonewall as she made five saves. UND’s Loomis led the Sioux in shots with seven while Ballon amassed five of her own. This past Sunday, on a cloudy and calm day, the Sioux returned to Bronson field to take on the Big Sky

Montana Grizzlies. The cloudy day proved to be North Dakota’s as the team rebounded nicely by claiming a 2-1 come-from-behind victory. The Grizzlies took the lead as In-dea Watne booted a corner kick to Paytyn Wheeler who struck UND’s net in the 28th minute. Before halftime, North Dakota replied with a late goal in the 40th minute as sophomore Francie Piché delivered after coming off the bench. Loomis picked up her fourth assist and 10th point of the year. North Dakota out-shot the Griz-zlies in the first half 11-6 and contin-

ued the relentless attack in the sec-ond half. In the 70th minute, Ballon drove to the net to earn her fourth goal this year and 11th of the year. UND goaltender Alex Ciaccio dealt with the Montana attack in stunning fashion by making seven saves in her inaugural Sioux start. The Sioux now improve to 3-5-1 and 2-1 on Bronson Field.

DS> Joel Adrian is the Sports Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at joel.adrian@my.und.edu

Bulldogs escape opportunistic UNDFBS North Dakota foot-ball almost amounted to an improbable upset against Fresno State.

>TImOTHY BOgeRThe Dakota Student

Saturday night was nearly a monumental one for the Fighting Sioux football program. Explosive performances from running back Jake Miller and quar-terback Joey Bradley were almost enough to topple the Fresno State

Bulldogs on their home turf. UND led 22-21 early in the fourth quarter but a late Fresno State (1-2) touch-down squashed the upset hopes in a 27-22 defeat of North Dakota (1-2) Saturday night at Bulldog Stadium. Saturday night’s matchup—UND’s second straight against a Football Bowl Series opponent—didn’t start out the way North Da-kota would have liked. Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr, the brother of former first overall NFL draft pick David Carr, hooked up with wide-out Jalen Saunders for two touch-downs of 86 and 52 yards to go up

14-0 before the Sioux could gain any traction. But Fresno State, who had defeat-ed Great West Football Conference opponents handily in the past—Cal Poly 38-17 a year ago and UC Davis 51-0 in 2009—would not be able to pull away from the Sioux. Instead, on the ensuing drive, Jake Miller’s 70-yard run stunned the 27,542 in attendance and pulled the Sioux to 14-6. A Zeb Miller 49-yard field goal, the longest of his career, would bring the score to 14-9. But, a special teams breakdown lead to an easy drive and

another touchdown for the Bulldogs which made it 21-9 at the half. Last week, UND led Idaho—a Western Athletic Conference (WAC) member like Fresno State—14-10 at the half but came out flat en route to a 44-14 loss. This week, North Dakota captured the momentum against all odds with a big run from Jake Miller and a deep pass from Bradley to wide receiver Greg Har-din. Miller punched it in from five yards out to make it a one-possession game. And remarkably the defense stepped up to keep the Sioux in the

fight. Fresno State was held to just 3 yards on their two drives in the third quarter. With a strong de-fense, Fresno State’s stall allowed UND’s offense to take the lead with a 13 play, 67-yard drive that was capped off by another Jake Miller touchdown. The Fighting Sioux took that lead into the fourth quarter, but not very far. The Bulldogs did their best to avoid being on the losing side of history as they marched down for a touchdown of their own, a one-

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vs. Manitoba9/23-24 @ 7:07 p.m.@ Ralph Engelstad Arena

Football

Defender Candace Ulmen dribbles the ball away from Nebraska Omaha.

Ulmen kicks simultaneously for a loose ball.

Caitlyn Haring defends against a Maverick forward.

Sheri Stapf strikes a header in the nebraska Omaha match.

photos by ANDReA DICKASON > The Dakota Student

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SUDOKU

Sioux cross country saw results all over the board in Nebraska this weekend.Both the men and women’s teams ran in the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Cross-Country Invitational at Pio-neer Park in Lincoln, Nebraska on Saturday. The men placed 11 of 28 teams and the women placed ninth out of 25. It was a much different race than the five-team race that UND partic-ipated in 2009. Both the men and women’s teams took fourth place in 2009. Schools as big as Air Force -- the team taking first in the men’s event and as small as Highland Community College (KS) partici-pated in this year’s event, the 22nd annual Woody Greeno Invitational.Host Nebraska took first place in

the women’s event. Senior Tyler Rose led Sioux run-ners on the men’s side, placing 38th out of 187 runners in the team standings with a 26:25.92 in the eight-kilometer course. Freshman Nicholas Lindstrom was 18 seconds behind Rose with a 26:44.02. The men finished with 331 points, just one point shy of John-son County Community College (KS). Also finishing for the Sioux: sophomore James Dean (68th, 26:59.12); sophomore Kyle Econo-my (84th, 27:16.22); freshman Na-than Peterson (87th, 27:21.92) and sophomore Ross Nelson (125th, 28:16.47). Air Force’s Jim Walmsley took medalist honors in the event with a 24:15.27. Air Force had four run-ners finish in the top ten.The women finished slightly bet-ter, finishing 9th thanks to winning a tiebreaker with 10th place Fort Hays State (KS). Emily Emerson, a senior, cracked the top 25 as she placed 25th (22:50.28). The women had six other fin-

ishers Saturday: freshman Erin Wysocki (45th, 23:17.28), fresh-man Jessica Lynch (75th, 24:02.78), freshman Jessica Lindsay (76th, 24:04.93), senior Meghan Enabnit (82nd, 24:13.03), sophomore Kah-la Erickson (85th, 24:21.98) and senior Katherine Enabnit (86th, 24:23.18). Aliphine Tuliamu of Wichita State took first place in the women’s event overall with a 21:08.93, 17 seconds faster than all other finishers. Both the men and women have two South Dakota races left before the Great West Conference Cham-pionships at the end of October. Both will be in action October 1st at the South Dakota State Classic in Brookings as well as at the Tim Young Invitational on the 15th before UND hosts this year’s con-ference championship in Grand Forks.

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

UND runs fast at GreenoPIONEER PARK North Dakota’s Emerson and Rose lead teams to high results.

>TImOThy BOgERThe Dakota Student

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Major League Baseball has a significant problem on its hands. No, it’s not the declining atten-dance numbers, long games or lack of offense. Nope, it’s none of those. Baseball’s biggest problem right now is that everybody quits caring as soon as the NFL season starts up. This has been a problem that has been growing with each pass-ing year and won’t go away. It’s time for Bud Selig and the MLB to acknowledge it and make changes. The steroid era is out the door along with the awe of the home-run ball. Fans no longer are amused by seeing a home run like they used to be. Nor does going to the ball-park and seeing a game that is now dominated by pitching amuse them. Baseball is failing in a month when it used to be so exciting: Sep-tember.

September is a time when pen-nant races are around and when fans finally get to see the payoff of a 162-game schedule. The only problem is that it doesn’t appear fans are sticking around to see the payoffs anymore. When a Tedy Bruschi-Chad Ochocinco feud is getting more attention than a pennant race, you know that the NFL is the king. The NFL has been the king for a while, but it always seemed to al-low baseball to come in and get its glory every fall. That isn’t happen-ing anymore. Sports radio is littered with NFL talk, because that’s what people want to hear. National col-umnists are focusing on the NFL, because that’s what people want to read about. ESPN might as well be called the NFL Network 2.0. It’s not as if ESPN ignores base-ball; they don’t. It’s that the major-ity of the discourse that goes on in its shows revolves around the NFL. Will baseball ever be able to es-cape the NFL’s ever growing shad-ow? No. Not unless Commissioner Selig is willing to make some sig-nificant changes to make the game more enjoyable. We live in a world where we want everything fast,

faster and fastest. Baseball is slow, methodical and boring at times. This is why Selig and Co. need to revamp some of the rules to speed up the game. No more trips to the mound for the manager unless it is injury related. If a pitcher is getting shelled, take him out. When a quarterback is having a rough day in the NFL, you don’t see the head coach come out to the huddle and give him a pep talk. Baseball is becoming too slow for up-and-coming generations that are used to things being fast. It takes patience to sit and watch a nine-inning baseball game, which runs similar in length to a football game. Despite the similarity in length, you would be hard pressed to find somebody willing to watch back-to-back baseball games, but when it comes to football, there are individuals who watch the noon games, afternoon games and then the nightcap. Even despite growing drama in the race for the wild card between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays, the national attention is largely devoted to college football and the NFL. Baseball has been pushed up against the ropes and hasn’t fought back.Instead, baseball has ignored ways to make the game more entertain-ing for fans. Take the example of instant replay. Almost every sport employs it, but for some reason baseball has continuously fought against it. And what about that ridiculous-ly long 162-game schedule that is followed by an incredibly short postseason? That makes absolutely no sense. If I’m going to invest in following a team and have to en-dure the marathon that the season is, I don’t want to see my team get knocked out in a five-game series, where a team could get hot for a few days and advance. MLB is more about protecting the traditions of the game than ad-vancing the enjoyment of the game for the fans. How else could you explain that there is only one wild card winner in each league? There are 30 teams in the MLB, yet only 12 make the playoffs. That seems like a fair number if you don’t take into consideration that the wild card “race” is rarely a race. The past five seasons, the wild card has been decided by five or more games. Increasing interest in September has to be baseball’s top priority go-ing forward, because as of now, the NFL is all that matters in the minds of the majority of sports fans. No-body’s talking about the Rays-Red Sox race right now outside of the fan bases involved. Instead, they’re focused on their fantasy team and the status of Arian Foster’s ham-string. Baseball has a problem on its hands. There’s nothing worse than being irrelevant as a sports league and that’s the direction that Amer-ica’s pastime is headed if changes aren’t made.

DS>Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brandon.becker2@my.und.edu

POPULARITY Baseball loses interest in Sept. as Pennant races heats up to football physicality.

MLB succumbs to NFL

>BRAnDOn BeckeRThe Dakota Student

UND serves first in Filmore Invite>nAmARA kIBIRA

The Dakota Student

This weekend the Fighting Sioux volleyball team traveled to Nacogdoches, Texas to play in the Chilly Fillmore’s SFA Invitation-al. The team ended the tourna-ment 3-0 to take the tournament title. The Sioux defeated Rice University 3-2 in the first game. Senior outside hitter Annika Smed contributed to the game with multiple kills including a kill that gave UND the advan-tage in the fourth set. Sophomore middle blocker Ronni Munkeby’s final kill led UND to a final score of 25-23. “I loved the toughness that the team showed tonight,” said Head Coach Ashley Hardee said. “We didn’t get rattled, even when we were down. We kept our compo-sure, and that was key in getting that victory tonight.” UND finished with a season-high .317 attack percentage with 70 kills. The Sioux held Rice to a .231 hitting percentage and 53

kills. The Sioux also tallied eight aces. Senior hitter Devin Trefz had 18 kills on 40 swings. Freshman hitter Felicia Ulrich finished with a career high of 14 kills. On defense, senior defensive specialist Taylor Bohannon came out with 18 digs while Tia Russell had 6 digs. Annika Smed had 16 kills and 10 digs throughout the night. Smed is also now a part of UND’s elite 1,000 Kill Club. This means she is one of seven Sioux to break the century mark both in digs and kills during their career.“Felicia had an unbelievable night, as did Ronni,” Hardee said. “Lisa Parlich had a bit of an injury to start the match, so we moved Ronnie into the middle. Both of those girls did a phenom-enal job stepping in.” On Saturday, UND defeat-ed Stephen F. Austin State Uni-versity during their second game of the tournament. The Sioux

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won in four games. “It was a full team effort on both sides of the ball,” head coach Ashley Hardeesaid. “We were aggressive blocking, dig-ging, and serving, and we put up some nice kill numbers as well. All around it was a great match.” Once again the leaders of the game were the Sioux’s strong hitters. Annika Smed finished with 10 kills and 15 digs. Devin Trefz came out with 15 kills and a pair of aces, Ronni Munkeby pulled off a season-high of 13 kills on 27 swings and a season-best nine block assists. Felicia Ulrich had 17 kills and four blocks. Red shirt freshman setter Nik-ki Husfeldt had 48 assists and 13

digs.“Ronni and Felicia really shined for us again on both offense and defense today,” Hardee said. “As I said yesterday, they’ve really stepped up their game here in Texas.” The defensive leader of the game was Taylor Bohannon who registered a team and career high of 18 digs. “Taylor and Nikki did a great job tonight on serve receive, the entire team did,” Hardee said. “Our ability to dig the ball out was one of the key factors in set-ting us apart. And then Nikki’s ability to really spread the ball around gave a lot of players swings.” During the third game on Sat-urday, UND took home the tour-nament title after beating Sam Houston State in four games. “It was a great weekend for us,” head coach Ashley Hardee-

said. “We set out with a goal to win the tournament, and we did just that. We’re inching closer towards conference play, and an-other tournament title will help give us the momentum we need to start the schedule off strong.” Freshman Felicia Ulrich was named to the all-tournament team. Ulrich finished the week-end with 40 kills and 43.5 points total. Sophomore middle blocker Ronni Munkeby was voted the tournament MVP. Overall she had 35 kills, 17 blocks, and 43.5 points. The Sioux will be back to Grand Forks in two weeks to face Nebraska Omaha. The game will be at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center at 7 p.m.

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

wrapped up Sunday, offered many different opportunities for fans of Medieval Literature to come together and discuss their favorite anchorites. Some of the topics covered include: “Wurchen other reden, other beon i bonen’: Courtly Sources for Early English Anchoritism,” by the So-ciety’s President Susannah Chewn-ing, “Margins of Space and Time in Hagiography of Middle Byzantine Greece,” by UND’s own William Caraher, “Adverbial Connectors as Topic-shift Markers in Genres Relat-ed to Middle English Mystical Writ-ings,” by Asian Representative Fu-miko Yoshikawa, Hiroshima Shudo University, and “Transcending Sex and Attaining Equality through Spirituality: Virginity and Symbolic Spaces in Hali Meiohad and Ancere Wisse,” by Chelsea Alexander, West-ern Michigan University. On Sun-day, attendees went on a conference

trip around the Red River Valley, visiting the Maple River Vineyard and the Hjemkomst Center, among other places.

Another important topic brought up at the Anchoritic Conference was the subject of anchoresses, or female anchorites. Chewning added, “There were five times more women then men who become anchorites. In a way, it was an early form of libera-tion for these women.”

The International Anchoritic Society is hosted at Swansea Univer-sity. More information on the IAS, including upcoming events and de-tails on the society’s members, can be found on their website at swansea.ac.uk/arts/research/anchoriticsociety.

IAS > From page 10

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

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

yard run from Bulldog Robbie Rouse. Bradley was able to orchestrate a final UND drive, taking the Sioux from their own 18 to the Bulldogs’ 42, but they’d get no further. A pair of incomplete passes brought up a 4th-and-15 from the 42, and with 3:22 left UND elected to punt. The defense was unable to make the stop they desperately needed to pull off the shocker, and Fresno St. ran out the clock to send UND home without what would have

been a huge win.Bradley, a sophomore junior college transfer, finished 12 of 25 for 105 yards. The big story was UND’s run-ning game, which had a huge 232-yard performance, in no small part thanks to Jake Miller. Miller took over most of the carries after start-ing halfback Mitch Sutton left with a first half injury. Miller finished with 21 carries for 150 yards and all three Sioux touchdowns.

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

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