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NDSU welcomed Dr. George Wright, an African American scholar and presi-dent of Prairie View A&M University, when he came to speak to students and staff about his personal experi-ences and struggles with di-versity on Friday.

Dr. Wright began his speech by noting the impor-

tance of athletics to Prai-rie View A&M University, stressing that the reason he was at NDSU speaking was actually because of the football game, which took place the following evening. Wright then expressed his excitement at the interaction between Bison and Prairie View students and staff.

“As excited as I am about the game, just think about it; the game’s only going to last a few hours, but we [Wright and NDSU President Bres-ciani] have been interacting for the last few days, and our

students are going to be in-teracting here,” said Wright.

Getting to the heart of his speech, Wright began to talk about his own personal “odyssey,” or life story and experience with diversity.

“The reality is, given the age of those of us in this room, I suspect you all could do the same thing, and you could talk about changes you have seen occur in society over a period of time,” said Wright.

Wright considers himself to be a proponent of diver-sity in American society, and

feels America has always benefitted from diversity.

“To me, what really makes diversity important is that after you get beyond the distinctiveness, the unique-ness and so forth, I think it’s most important to show the commonality in all of us,” he said.

Before beginning his own story, Wright acknowledged the different kinds of diver-sity across the United States, encompassing both race and gender, adding that by be-ing at NDSU and sharing his story, he hoped to inspire the

Bison in attendance. He then began his own story.

“I am a person who per-sonally benefitted from all of the changes that occurred in American society in the 1960s and thereafter for African American people,” said Wright. “If you really think about it, what did I do that led to my benefitting from them? It’s very simple: I came along at the right time.”

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The Hotel Donaldson is putting on its seventh annual Bras on Broadway fund-raiser in late October, though fundraising for the event is

currently ongoing.Bras on Broadway raises

money for breast cancer pa-tients across North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. It will be held from 7-10 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Hotel Donald-son.

According to Karen Stoker, the owner of the Hotel Donaldson, Bras on

Broadway is the only fund-raiser allowed by the Ameri-can Cancer society to keep the money local.

The funds go towards purchasing gas cards and wigs for breast cancer pa-tients, though the bulk of that money goes towards gas cards.

“The average patient

commutes 140 miles to re-ceive cancer treatment,” said Alison Ottesen, general manager of the Hotel Don-aldson.

The event started in 2006 after a friend of Stoker’s saw a similar event in Montana. Bras on Broadway raised just over $13,000 during its first year. Last year, they

raised over $102,000.The event will promi-

nently feature both wearable and non-wearable bras that will be auctioned off as well as paintings, photographs, blown glass and other works of art.

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Dr. George Wright, an African American scholar and president of Prairie View A&M University, spoke about his experiences with diversity Friday at NDSU.

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Friends, family, and NDSU students mourn the loss of a fellow Bison this week.

Early Sunday morning, 18-year-old Colby Anderson was struck by Amtrak’s Em-pire Builder and killed on im-pact.

According to police re-ports, Anderson and three other friends were crossing the train tracks near 12th Avenue in North Fargo. Investigators believe that alcohol was in-volved in the incident. Charges for the person who potentially provided Anderson with alco-hol have not been ruled out at this point.

Anderson was a Fargo North graduate and a message was read to students at North High on Monday morning. The school had counselors available for students. In an interview with Valley News, Anderson’s former principal Andy Dahlen remembered An-derson as a great student with a good sense of humor and lots of friends.

Friends Ben Osman and Anthony Schnabel, both NDSU students, remember Anderson as a loving friend and someone who really cared about his family.

“He loved being with his dad, especially in his garage. They built a bond that was probably the strongest bond anybody could ever have be-tween two people,” Osman said in an interview with Val-ley News. “He loved his fam-ily more than I’ve ever known someone to love their family,” Schnabel added.

Many more are mourning Anderson. A Facebook post read:

“I’ve known him since he was in kindergarten, and my brother was one of his best friends. Over the years, he’s been around my house a lot and I’ve gotten to know him really well and I see him as a little brother. He was sweet and really easy to talk to. He loves vehicles of all sorts and spent a lot of time working on cars with his dad. He was his dad’s whole world. Him and his dad were so similar and were best friends. He was a really great kid. Everybody loves him. I walked into the Northport Hornbacher’s yesterday and ran into more people than you could imagine crying over the loss. He meant a lot to a lot of people.”

A memorial has been es-tablished at the site of the ac-cident.

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Three delegates from the Golden Key International Honor Society went to At-lanta, Ga. for the 2012 In-ternational Conference this summer.

Sarah Anderson, presi-dent of Golden Key, Bon-nie Cooperland, advisor, and Ranganathan Jasothan, vice president of finance, spent July 26-29 at the Summit Conference to discuss, share,

collaborate and celebrate the Golden Key Society.

The summit’s theme was “Stand Out. Stand Up. Stand Together.” Over 560 delegates came together to celebrate Golden Key’s 35th anniversary, Cooper said at the UND Induction.

The chapter was recog-nized as being a “Gold-lev-el” for the eighth year in a

row. NDSU, along with 26 other chapters, was awarded the Key Chapter Award.

“At the conference, at-tendees can share informa-tion about the chapter events and learn what is successful at other chapters,” Coop-erland said. “Members can network with other Golden Key members at NDSU and around the world.”

Golden Key International Honor Society was founded at the University of Georgia back in 1977. The NDSU chapter began in 1995.

The goal of the Golden Key is to help members with resumes, career planning, networking and leadership, according to the society’s website. The group also seeks to service the commu-nity.

Every fall the society sends out letters inviting stu-

dents in the top 15 percent of their classes to join.

“There are a variety of ways students can become involved with Golden Key,” Cooperland said, listing ser-vice projects, monthly meet-ings and other events as pos-sible activities.

The NDSU Golden Key chapter will serve at an up-coming project called Read for the Record.

At this event, members will participate in reading at the West Acres Mall from noon to 7 p.m. on Oct. 4.

“Involvement is the key to success,” Cooperland said in an address on April 24. To get students and members to participate as much as pos-sible will overall help us be a better community, both na-tionally and internationally, she said.

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“Involvement is the key to success.” Said Cooperland in an ad-dress on April 24th.

Morgan RichertContributing WriterThe NDSU Pride Net-

work was recognized with the Diversity Impact Award at a celebration for the orga-nization’s five-year anniver-sary Friday.

The Pride Network, founded in 2008, serves as an advocate for a safe, support-ive and inclusive environ-ment for lesbian, gay, bisex-ual, transgender and queer employees of NDSU.

Kristen Benson, chairperson of the Pride Net-work, is one of the co-found-ers of the organization.

“When I started here on 2007, we didn’t have any-thing for queer employees,” Benson said. “Unfortu-nately, people don’t always feel safe and comfortable in their work environments, and there wasn’t anywhere for employees to connect.”

The Vice President of Equity, Diversity and Global Outreach Evie Myers pre-sented the 2011-2012 NDSU Diversity Impact Award to the Pride Network.

The purpose of the award is to recognize individuals and groups who demonstrate a commitment to advancing diversity at NDSU, Myers said.

Benson said the organiza-tion is being honored for the work it has done on campus, which includes reviewing policies, working with dif-ferent offices, organizing community mixer events and

community outreach.NDSU President Dean

Bresciani spoke at the cele-bration and congratulated the Pride Network for building the University community.

“Everyone is welcome, everyone is supported, ev-eryone is encouraged,” Bres-ciani said. “One of the things I think puts NDSU on the national map is a sense of campus welcome and sup-port of the diversity of our community, and pride in that community.”

Because NDSU Provost Bruce Rafert could not attend the celebration, Myers read a personal message from him to those gathered at the event.

“I am aware of the im-pact that this organization… has brought to our campus,” Rafert said. “Your presence here reminds us all of the work that we should be do-ing to create a safe inclusive living, learning and working environment for all.”

Benson said she is proud of the visibility and support on campus the Pride Network has established during its five years at NDSU.

“I think it started a dia-logue,” she said. “There’s a

hard political climate right now in our larger culture around gay people, transgen-der people, relationships… So institutions shy away from talking about it. Our presence has really helped people to have a way to talk about how to support, how to be inclusive and how impor-tant a diverse campus is.”

Benson said the Pride Network does not only help people feel better about their work environment, but it also impacts the quality of work done at NDSU and the com-munity in general.

“When a faculty member feels valued, they’re more likely to be more engaged in the community and contrib-ute to larger outcomes, so it’s really something that benefits all of us,” she said.

The Pride Network pro-vides emotional and social support to employees, but it also plays a role in deter-mining policy. Recently, the Pride Network worked with the Office of Human Re-sources to develop a website that outlines what benefits are available to LGBTQ em-ployees at NDSU.

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There are multiple ways for students and community members to get involved with this fundraiser.

According to Stoker, one of the easiest ways to par-ticipate is to donate an old bra and $5 (or more) to the Hotel Donaldson to display during Bras on Broadway. For those who feel more ambitious, teams can sign up to fundraise for the event by gathering funds in any way imaginable and turning them in to the Hotel Donald-son.

Ottesen explained that there’s a bit of a competition going on among the teams, and the team who raises the most money will win a party at the Hotel Donaldson for up to 75 guests.

“This would be a great way as an organization or dorm floor to get involved

as a team,” Ottesen said. People can also donate

money without a bra by go-ing to the Bras on Broad-way website or by texting HEARTSDAY to 20222 to add a $10 donation to their phone bill.

Hotel Donaldson is also putting on an event called “Deck the Bras” in which members of the community are invited to decorate one of their old bras to help with the cause.

Glitter, sequins, feath-ers and other decorations will be provided and Rosie Sauvageau and Post Trau-matic Funk Syndrome will perform.

“It’s all-age friendly, gender neutral and a way for people to be a part of the event, even if they aren’t go-ing,” Stoker said.

Deck the Bras will be

held from 7-9 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Fargo Civic Center.

“If you catch it early enough - if you nip it in the bud, I like to say - the out-look and the outcome is re-ally, really great,” Stoker said. “There aren’t very many cancers where you can be that proactive and have an effect on your health.”

According to Stoker, one in eight women will develop breast cancer in their life-time.

Hotel Donaldson also has an event in February known as “Bros on Broad-way,” a similar fundraiser for prostate cancer.

Bras on Broadway is still accepting fundraising teams. For more informa-tion on how to sign up, do-nate, or about the event in general, visit http://www.brasonbroadway.com.

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Wright was 13 years old when the March on Wash-ington occurred in 1963.

He wasn’t in attendance when Martin Luther King spoke, instead, he was in Kentucky playing baseball.

He didn’t participate in any of the activity of the Civil Rights Movement, but he reaps the benefits.

“When I think about the changes I have benefit-ted from, I think about the white people, I think about the black people, I think about the American people involved in all of it,” he said.

Born into a racially segregated society in Lex-ington, Kentucky, Wright remembers being prohib-ited from going into the public library. Instead, Af-rican Americans had to go to a bookmobile that came around the neighborhood every two weeks. He also re-members being allowed into an amusement park only on Negro day, which occurred only twice each summer.

“I used to love when my mother said, ‘What do white folks do in bath-rooms that we don’t do?

They must do something dif-ferent, right? Since we can’t go in there,’” said Wright.

Wright also recalls living in a black community and working as a dishwasher for a white country club. He recalls noticing how much his mother did to make the best living she could for her children, and he recalls vow-ing to “make something” of himself.

Attending the University of Kentucky on a scholarship after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Wright now has a Ph.D from Duke University. He also wrote three books on race in Ken-tucky, one of which goes into depth about public lynching.

Wright then trav-elled Europe, doing research on diversity and race. His research brought him to concentration camps in Ger-many and Poland, as well as Vietnam, Singapore and Australia.

“Take your presi-dent, from Andrew John-son to Barack Obama, take whichever one you want, or take them all. Every one of those presidents have

been given the opportunity to apologize for slavery, to speak boldly about the in-justices that occurred in this country, and those injustices can be documented… The United States government, we are first world; Australia is not. We have refused to is-sue an apology like the Aus-tralian government did,” said Wright.

Wright said he thought he was a broad-minded person, but after see-ing the world he learned how narrow-minded he had been, especially when it came to food.

“Everything I think is, quote, “normal” is not normal for everyone,” he said.

Bringing his speech to a close, Wright left his au-dience with one last thought.

“I have benefitted from looking at the world through black eyes in a white world,” said Wright. “It dawned on me that all of us put too much emphasis on race.”

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Election Day 2012 is right around the corner. It is important to stay up-to-date on what has been go-ing on, considering the fact that many people within the NDSU community will vote on Nov. 6.

Since the Republican and Democratic National Con-ventions, both presidential candidates are on the trail to Election Day. Debates will begin Oct. 3 with the topic of domestic policy.

Recently, both presiden-tial candidates have focused on the campaign trail, pre-paring for the upcoming de-bates.

Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama were in-terviewed in a 60 Minutes special on Sept. 23. Viewers caught a glimpse of what is-sues will be brought up in the debates.

The first question Mitt Romney was asked during the interview was how his vision differs from President Obama’s. He stated that Pres-

ident Obama is “a nice guy who wants to do everything for everyone” and wants to create a “larger and larger government.”

Romney, on the other hand, said he wants a “small-er government.” He wants to focus the attention on the rebuilding of America’s strength by having a reform on Medicare and social secu-rity, having a balanced bud-get and setting tax reductions for the middle class, not the wealthy, he said. According to the Huffington Post, Rom-ney’s tax cut plan will have “tax rates fall by a fifth.”

President Obama saw Romney’s tax rate plan dif-ferently. President Obama’s Truth Team posted new ads last week blasting Romney’s plan, comparing Romney’s personal tax rate in 2011 of $13.7 million at 14.1 per-cent to a worker who makes $60,000 a year and has a tax rate of 15.5 percent.

Defending his plan, Rom-ney said that middle class workers were paying a “low rate” and the plan was “the right way to encourage eco-nomic growth, to get people to invest, to start businesses, to put people to work.”

The public is putting Obama under a microscope, scrutinizing whether or not his first term was enough to earn him another four years in office.

According to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey, Obama has a slight lead over Romney.

While Romney believes Obama has not made enough impact on the American peo-ple, Obama states that he has done enough. He said during the interview that his biggest accomplishments were sav-ing the auto industry, health care reform and creating more jobs.

“The problem we have was the hole was so deep when we got in it that we lost nine million jobs. We’ve cre-ated four point six,” Obama said.

Obama also emphasized the fact that the Jobs Bill has not passed yet. He said the Republican Congress is more focused on beating him rath-er than helping the country. He did, however, give them credit for doing work to help the Jobs Bill by helping the auto industry and creating a million jobs.

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Becoming creative and entrepreneurial small busi-ness owners must run in the family for Andrea Chang and Kristina Lau, or perhaps it runs in marriage.

Andrea and Kristina, rel-atives through marriage, are the owners of Bakeology, Fargo’s newest small busi-ness specializing in baking gourmet cupcakes and cakes at affordable prices.

Kristina’s sister-in-law and brother, Ashley and Jus-tin Morken, own Unglued Market in downtown Fargo, which is a small business featuring locally made art, crafts, clothing and jewelry.

Unglued, located at 408 North Broadway, is the main venue Bakeology chooses to sell their cupcakes. Custom-ers can shop, eat a gourmet cupcake and enjoy a hot cup of coffee, study in the back with the free wireless Inter-net access, all while support-ing two local businesses.

Bakeology’s initial plan was to collaborate with Un-glued in the same building. However, because most buildings downtown are very old and have very strict building codes, they were unable to find a permanent spot for their business to house a commercial kitchen.

Instead, Andrea and Kris-tina found a kitchen space to temporarily rent from in north Fargo where they do all of their baking and pro-duction. In the meantime, they are searching for their own location to continue keeping up with the growing demand.

“We’re hoping to expand and get our own storefront in the future,” Kristina said. “Our ideal situation would be to have a central baking location and then have dif-ferent satellite locations, like Unglued, that feature our cupcakes.”

Their gourmet and

beautifully crafted cup-cakes range in price from $2 - $3.50 per cupcake at Unglued, depending on the variety and whether or not they are gluten-free. Their cakes range in price from $22 - $56, depending on the size and they are also avail-able without gluten. Bakeol-ogy can take orders up to 48 hours in advance to ensure Andrea and Kristina enough production time to finish the order.

Andrea studied at The Culinary Institute of Amer-ica at Greystone in St. Hel-ena, Calif. and graduated in 2004. After finishing school, she focused on pastries that were allergy-free because many of her family members have food allergies.

Andrea and Kristina also thought Fargo-Moorhead’s selections of gluten and dairy-free dessert options were limited. Therefore,

they decided to make gluten-free baked goods available for those with food allergies all the time by featuring two new flavors of gluten-free cupcakes every week. At first they only started with one gluten-free flavor but had to expand to two be-cause of the high demand they’ve received from the F-M community.

“There really isn’t any-body who really fill the [glu-ten-free] niche, especially with cakes and cupcakes in Fargo,” Andrea mentioned. “There isn’t much out there, so we thought this would be nice to have.”

Kristina graduated from NDSU with a few degrees in apparel, retail merchan-dise and design, interna-tional studies and also a business minor. “I bring in the business-y aspect of it and [Andrea] brings in her culinary expertise,” Kristina

explained. “We can work to-gether to make sure that this is something that will actu-ally work … it’s a good bal-ance.”

During production, it is normal for Andrea and Kris-tina to stay up until 2 a.m. baking and decorating over eight-dozen cupcakes. “I feel like every time we bake something, we learn some-thing new and move our skills further along,” Andrea said.

Bakeology supplies Un-glued with four new cupcake flavors every week. This week’s cupcake flavors in-clude “The Elvis” (peanut butter banana), lemon drop, gluten-free pumpkin spice and gluten-free red velvet.

In the past, Bakeology has featured cupcakes in-cluding orange creamsicle, maple bacon, mint choco-late, salted chocolate cara-mel, apple streusel and chai.

“We have a lot of fun coming up with new flavors, and I think people are re-ally intrigued by the differ-ent things that we come up with,” Kristina said. “Re-search and development is definitely our favorite part.”

Kristina’s younger brother, who is “obsessed with bacon,” inspired the maple bacon cupcake flavor. “We’ve gotten a lot of orders with that flavor,” Kristina mentioned. “It definitely cre-ated the most buzz,” Andrea added.

Kristina explained that lot of their upcoming holi-day flavors are inspired by what you would generally find on the dinner table dur-ing Thanksgiving, such as a cranberry cupcake flavor for example.

“We both really love bak-ing with what’s in season; that really inspires us. We have a ton of things we’re

testing out for the holiday season -- but there won’t be a turkey cupcake,” Andrea giggled. “We won’t test the ‘savory’ for a while.”

Some of the upcom-ing flavors to expect for the holiday season include pe-can, cranberry walnut white chocolate, gingerbread and peppermint.

“This experience has brought us closer,” Kristina mentioned. “In the beginning we were just acquaintances who had a similar passion for baking and creating fun flavors of different things; now it’s made us even more like family.”

If you have a cupcake flavor idea, you can email [email protected]. For more information, you can like “Bakeology” on Facebook or visit their web-site at http://www.bakeol-ogy.us.

When the Bison football team hosted Prairie View A&M on Saturday, little did the students know that with the team, the A&M boys brought along a very impor-tant person-- funny, witty, real and often melodramatic orator Dr. George C. Wright. Wright was a guest speaker at NDSU on Friday, Sept. 21.

Speaking on the impor-tance of diversity in Ameri-can society, the president of Prairie View A&M Univer-sity shed light on the history of black people in American society. While it was no sur-prise to see a noted historian speak about black history in America, the messages he gave to the audience were unexpected.

He is one of those few courageous people who be-lieve in taking a stand rath-er than playing the blame game.

His extraordinary ora-tory skills were something to learn from and clubbed with his humorous perspectives. It made for a great lecture. He spoke with the humility of a church minister and yet had the energy of a rock gui-

tarist. The well-read author of

three books was not ashamed to speak of his modest up-bringings and explained how each tide he waded through in his life had made him the man he is today.

A firm believer in “total equality,” Dr. Wright feels it is our responsibility to work for the betterment of the so-ciety and make the future “easier for the generations to come.”

Born on the same day as W.E.B Du Bois, a famous African American writer and thinker, the 62-year-old feels he was lucky to be born at a time when American society was at a turning point.

He recalls how he was able to make it through col-lege at University of Ken-tucky, because some “he-roes” decided to take a stand for the black society. While he was praising Martin Lu-ther King Jr. and the like for their work in the Civil rights movement, he did not forget the good things he had to say about his best friends, who are white.

He discusses that often it is the minorities who keep the discrimination alive by thinking they are special, and only efforts form both ends of diversity can bridge the gap. Dr. Wright intends

for his perspective to be ap-plied universally and not just to the blacks and whites of America.

He was so proud and happy to see the harmony in diverse cultures evident on the NDSU campus and congratulated EDGO Vice President Evie Myers for her achievement in cultural inte-gration here at NDSU.

In his extensive travels around the globe, the hu-manist feels that we are too ethnocentric to recognize other cultures. This, he says, is a reason we are quick in branding and stereotyping.

However, he thinks of-tentimes people take curi-osity to be discrimination. Hence, people are afraid to approach minorities and ex-plore their culture.

While speaking to Dani-elle Ellis of Black Students Association at NDSU, he told her that non-black in-dividuals “will only un-derstand you when you welcome them in your com-munity.”

He thinks that groups like the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/ Ques-tioning (LGBTQ) group and other minority groups will often spark curiosity in the outsiders. This curiosity must not be met with hostili-ty if we are looking for peace

between the factions. Rather, it should be utilized as a chance to exhibit the positiv-ity of your group to them.

Upon being asked what

the difference is between de-segregation and integration, he said that, “integration is voluntary, where both sec-tions of society prefer to be

harmonious and at peace, while desegregation makes it sound like the union is forced on one or both the groups.”

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Kristina Lau and Andrea Chang are the owners of a new bakery, Bakeology, which features cupcakes that also cater to the gluten-free community. Their cupcakes are available at Unglued in down-town Fargo.

Prairie View A&M president George Wright spoke to the NDSU community last Friday. Wright discussed the importance of diversity in U.S. society, also touching on the diversity at NDSU.

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He Said: “No, they can-not. Somebody is going to get hurt, because of the lack of trust within the relationship. It doesn’t work for a number of reasons: they wouldn’t be responsible enough to have kids, the emotional stress placed on them would far outweigh the benefits and hu-man nature tells us that we should be loved by one per-son only and that will resur-face eventually,” Nick Con-ner, a freshman majoring in university studies, said.

She Said: “Yes, I think open relationships can work out. Granted they are not for everybody, but some people can make them work. An open relationship would al-low someone to continue to love their significant other while getting outside fulfill-ment. Many people seem to think they need a fantasy life with their “true love,” but I believe there is more than one true love out there for ev-eryone. So, instead of trying to find the all-around perfect soul mate, people should try to find someone whose com-pany they enjoy,” said Calla Price, a freshman majoring in zoology and pre-med, said.

Some call it cheating or swinging; others call it a biological predisposition. By definition, an open relation-ship is one in which both partners are allowed to see other people within limits that the couple sets up to-gether. These limits would include whom the other per-son is allowed to see, when or where he or she can see another person and how often he or she sees other people.

Whether it is because of culture, the media’s portrayal of relationships or a primal instinct, open relationships have become a fairly com-mon and highly controver-

sial topic. Men’s Fitness magazine states that open re-lationships can work well for some people, but from a bio-logical standpoint, humans are inclined to be jealous of a partner having another re-lationship.

It all comes down to a mutual agreement. Having this type of relationship pres-ents pros and cons for any couple -- even if both people agree to the arrangement. And some would rather not consider the possibility of sharing a significant other at all.

Welcome everyone with open arms

Making an open relation-ship work is not easy. If both partners do not wholeheart-edly want to try it, or if one continuously crosses the boundaries into off-limits territory (for example, seeing an ex-boyfriend or ex-girl-friend when asked not to), friction can form within that relationship. It is possible to find happiness though.

The key to a lasting open relationship is communica-tion. Women’s Health maga-zine reports that those cou-ples who stick to the set rules of their open relationships reported that they have actu-ally grown closer. This may be because they know each other’s expectations and can be honest about their actions.

Opening a can of wormsOn the other hand, open

relationships are not for ev-eryone. If one partner feels pressured into the arrange-ment (to make the other per-son happy, to avoid getting cheated on, etc.), in the long run it will not work out. Both people truly need to feel the same and want to have flings outside of the relationship.

Jealousy is another obvi-ous reason an open relation-ship may not end well. If one person cannot bear the thought of sharing a signifi-cant other, this type of ar-rangement is a definite no. Some people even believe that it is impossible to not feel pangs of jealousy when hearing someone they care about talk about seeing an-other person.

Overall, the most impor-tant factor in any relation-ship, open or not, is to com-municate. Talk to the other person and figure out their perspectives and ideas, and do not turn to outside sources to fix internal problems. Be-fore you consider any alter-native styles of relationships, make sure to get everything “out in the open.”

Next week’s question: “Is it necessary to ‘define

the relationship’ on Face-book?”

Have an answer? Include your name, major and year in school in an email to [email protected].

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Meghan BattestContributing Writer

Cutline: Cell phone usage in bathrooms has become more common, so make sure to disinfect your phone on a regular basis to avoid har-boring harmful germs.

Eat, sleep, exercise, work, study, socialize -- all are typical activities we per-form on a daily basis. But something we may not real-ize is how many infection-causing germs reside on the items used to complete many of those tasks. The following is a list of six items you use regularly but may not have thought to be infested by germs.

1. Remote control When completing household cleaning duties, typically the remote control gets over-looked. An effective method of cleaning the control-ler is swabbing the buttons with a Q-tip dipped in rub-bing alcohol. This also can work on gaming controllers and computer keyboards. 2. Purses and wallets While germs collect mostly on the outsides of women’s purses, they populate mostly on the inside of men’s wal-lets. Try to avoid setting your purse down on the dirty ground and the floors of bathrooms. As far as what inhabits the inside of wal-lets, keep in mind that your George Washingtons have been around.

According to Charles Gerba, microbiology pro-fessor at the University of Arizona, paper currency “pick up germs, viruses, and often trace amounts of illegal drugs,” whereas coins are not as germy be-cause the bacteria cannot survive as well on metal. 3. Cell phone Researches at the London School of Hygiene & Tropi-cal Medicine conducted a study on cell phone filth. They found that about 92

percent of phones had bac-teria all over their surfaces, while more specifically 16 percent contained the bac-teria E. coli, which comes from feces. Bacteria col-lected on your hands can travel to your phone and then to your face, so re-member to wash well after using the restroom and dis-infect your phone regularly. 4. Steering wheel Studies done by researchers at Queen Mary University in London have found that 700 harmful bacteria live in the interior of your car, while only 80 bacteria can be found on the average toilet seat. Vacuuming and wip-ing out your car’s interior and avoiding eating while

driving can help prevent the spread of vehicular bacteria. 5. Toothbrush It is difficult to hear that a cleaning device, especial-ly one used to clean your mouth, can harbor harmful germs. Kimberly Harms, DDS and consumer adviser for the American Dental As-sociation, shares tips about keeping your toothbrush clean: Keep it rinsed, keep it dry, keep it upright and keep it to yourself. Also, keeping it as far away from the bacte-ria-spraying toilet will help it remain relatively germ-free. 6. Gym clothes Because bacteria enjoy grow-ing in hot, damp conditions, your warm and sweaty gym

clothes provide the perfect breeding ground for germs. When you’ve finished your workout, try to change out of those clothes as soon as possible, and let your shoes air out before putting them away or wearing them again. Other items that may be filled with bacteria include shower curtains, restau-rant menus, handles on gas pumps, pens and pencils, dishrags, water fountains and shopping carts. Keep in mind that some germs are actually healthy for your immune system, but being aware of hidden germs will help pre-vent an unhealthy overdose of harmful bacteria.

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Opening for its tenth season on Sept. 21, Fargo’s Theatre B gave its audiences something new to enjoy in the form of “Good People.” Written by David Lindsay-Abaire, it tells the story of Margaret (Lori Horvik), a middle-aged, down-on-her-luck single mother.

We meet our main char-acter just as she is being fired from her job at the local dol-lar store in Southie, a Boston neighborhood. Margaret, now jobless, is barely able to pay the rent and is totally responsible for her mentally-handicapped adult daughter Joyce. After a fruitless job search, Margaret takes the advice of her friend Jean (Terri Egan, in a role incar-nate of Roseanne Barr) and goes to see their old friend Mike (Brian Fuder), who is now a successful doctor.

Like any reunion between old friends, it is a warm and friendly one. After the usual pleasantries, the scene takes a very uncomfortable turn. Margaret will not let past ac-tions from their childhood be. She also passive aggres-sively denounces Mike as a stereotypical moneybags doctor who forgot where he came from. Mike, on the oth-er hand, makes every other sentence extremely awkward and reluctantly invites Mar-garet to his birthday party to hit up his medical friends for a job.

During a night at bingo with Jean, their landlady Dottie (Pam Strait), and her former boss Stevie (Blaine Edwards), Margaret gets a call from Mike that the party is cancelled due to his daughter’s illness. Jean con-vinces Margaret that he is lying, and she goes anyway. Things really take turn for the worse here.

Margaret ends up meet-ing Mike’s young wife Ka-tie (Christine Hoper) at the nonexistent party and then it starts to get really uncom-fortable. Mike and Katie’s marital problems are laid bare. Mike and Margaret’s past relationship is revealed, as well as an enormous se-cret that Margaret has kept from Mike for over thirty years.

Every conceivable hu-man emotion is displayed between Mike, Katie and Margaret during her visit and it proved to be very painful to watch. Mike would blow his top, Margaret would make for the door and Katie would say something that would bring everyone back together, only to erupt in an-other fight three minutes lat-er. This scene was done very well by Horvik, Fuder and Hoper, but seemed very un-realistic and was extremely uncomfortable to watch.

Besides the awkward moments, plenty of comedy courses through this perfor-mance. Any scene with Jean and Dottie will not disap-point, as well as Margaret’s reminiscences about friends from Southie in the old days. Act One ends on perhaps the

funniest of all notes in this performance, but beware: profanity is used and to great comedic effect.

“Good People” is an ex-cellent performance despite the parts of Act Two where one just wants to scream, “Leave already!” The small stage and its relation to the seating make for a cozy set-ting, but the downside to this is the acoustics whenever loud noises arise. Also leav-ing something to be desired is the length of the play. Two and a half hours seems a little

long for our Southie heroine to find her way in the world after getting the boot from the dollar store. However, the ending is worth it all and subtly gives the reasoning for the title of the play.

“Good People” runs at Theatre B at 716 Main Ave-nue until Oct. 13. All perfor-mances are Thurs. through Sat. at 7:30 p.m., with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on Oct. 7. Tickets are $10 for students, $15 for seniors and $20 for adults.

LMFAO, Justin Beiber, Adele, Gotye and Eminem. All of them are big-time art-ists beloved world wide, but they are no matches for PSY.

It was recently an-nounced that Park Jae-Sang, better known as Korean Pop Superstar PSY, has entered the Guinness World Record Book. PSY’s song “Gang-nam Style” has become the most liked video in YouTube history. The song currently sits at 2,462,869 likes on YouTube and climbing. For a comparison, LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” sits in second with 1,578,502 likes, Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” comes in at third with 1,432,730 likes and finally, Justin Bieber’s “Baby” comes in with 1,330,860 likes.

This feat is all the more impressive when you con-sider that “Gangnam Style” has only been around since July 15. “Party Rock” has been available since March of last year and “Baby” has been around since February of 2010. In a year, there is no telling how high “Gangnam” can climb at its current rate.

“Gangnam Style” has been sweeping the nation. Just in the last couple of months, PSY has appeared on “Ellen,” the “Today Show,” “MTV’s Video Mu-sic Awards” and the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live.” The song also marks the first time a South Korean artist has topped the iTunes charts.

Though not quite as suc-

cessful, the sudden rise of PSY bears a resemblance to Rebecca Black Who’s “Fri-day” video took off over-night back in September of 2011. The video was viewed over 30 million times on YouTube in a week. Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert performed the song on Fal-lon’s Late Night Show, and the song was covered on the hit show “Glee.” Black her-self played the song on such stages as “Good Morning America” and the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”

Although “Gangnam Style” is the song to put PSY on the map in America, he didn’t just randomly show up over night. PSY has found some previous success in Korea. He has currently re-leased six albums, his debut titled PSY from the Psycho World released back in 2001. He has three top ten singles in Korea and two number ones. PSY has also won a multiple number of awards in Korea including Best Male Solo Artist, Songwriter of the year and a Best Album Award. All of PSY’s work can be found on iTunes for everyone’s lis-tening pleasure if anyone is curious to find out what else he has to offer.

Not only is “Gangnam Style” the first Korean song to top the iTunes charts; it marks one of the rare non-English speaking songs to find success in the U.S. With the prominence of YouTube and social media, it makes it easier for unknowns to become famous overnight. Whether that is a good thing is yet to be determined. One thing is for sure, The Guin-ness Book of World Records has a new entry, and his name is PSY.

Jason Koller, Sony’s vice president of hardware mar-keting, has stated that the company plans to continue support for the Playstation 3 console with first-party con-tent up to the year 2015.

“A lot of great content is coming,” Koller said. “And over the next 2-3 years, the PS3 has got an incredible lineup.”

In an interview with vid-eo game website Gamespot, Koller said, “We’re going to continue supporting the PS3 for the next few years. Absolutely. And we’re going to continue supporting it not only that long, but as long as there is a development spigot

that’s running hot. And I can tell you right now, the de-velopment spigot for PS3 is very hot. A lot of great games coming.”

This might seem like strange news to many. The long-rumored Playstation 4 and its Microsoft counterpart are rumored to be dropping sometime next year. Sony’s extended support for the Playstation 3 could hint that the next generation of con-soles is further out than has generally been anticipated.

However, it’s worth re-membering that support for the Playstation 2 extended long into the Playstation 3’s lifecycle. In fact, games are still released (albeit incred-ibly irregularly) for the older console. The wider install base of established hardware means a greater likelihood of sales for games than on a

newer system with fewer us-ers.

What’s more interesting is that the claim of first-par-ty support, or support from Sony’s own, internal studios. Long-term support for older consoles is usually handled by third-party developers, as they have less of a stake in moving new hardware. Sony, on the hand, will want to move as many Playsta-tion 4s (assuming that’s what the next system is actu-ally called) as possible very quickly. The best way to do that is with high quality first-party games that consumers will want to buy. If the devel-opers that would normally be handling content for the new system are spending their re-sources on the Playstation 3, they might not have the time or manpower to create titles for the next generation.

The recent announcement of the new model of Play-station 3 is also an oddity. Pushing a newer version of existing hardware won’t help to clear stock of the previous models as much as an outright price drop might. Sony’s de-sire to get more Playstation 3s into consumers hands this late in the game could also be an indicator that they’re not prepared to release their next console just yet.

With Microsoft’s follow-up to the Xbox 360 report-edly hitting snags in produc-tion, now would seem like the perfect time for Sony to step up and get the first, truly next-generation console out of the gate before their com-petitor.

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A seemingly innocuous comment in a television in-terview may have just leaked the release date for one of 2012’s most anticipated games.

IGN user Uzair Syed tipped off the video game news site to an interview on Fox Business with Jack Tretton, the CEO and presi-dent of Sony Computer En-tertainment America. Dur-ing the interview, Tretton was asked about the shift towards cheaper and free-to-play games in the industry. The CEO responded by talk-ing about the “Dust 514,” the upcoming, free-to-play Play-station 3 exclusive shooter from developer CCP.

“Dust 514” has been in both open and closed beta

for many months, but no release date for an official launch had been given. Until now, that is.

Tretton said, “We do have free-to-play games. A game called “Dust 514” is a full-blown first-person shooter available on Play-Station 3 that not only al-lows you to play against your friends on PS3, but also against people on the PC.” The interviewer then asked for clarification on whether the game was called “Dust” or “Dusk.” Tretton said that it was indeed Dust and that it would be “Coming out next month.”

This is far from the first time unreleased details have accidentally been released to the public during interviews with those in the video game industry. In fact, Sony in par-ticular, is notorious for being unable to keep secrets, so this hardly comes as a sur-

prise to anyone in the know. Except for CCP, possibly, which has given no hints as to when to expect their game to have its official release.

However, Tretton’s slip is our gain as we now have a possible release date for one of the biggest and most am-bitious Playstation 3 releases of this year. CCP has yet to comment on whether or not the Sony president’s asser-tion was correct.

Tretton also released some other interesting data about Sony during the in-terview. There are over 100 million Playstation Network accounts registered across the globe and of those, 44 million are in the United States alone. Meanwhile, the Playstation Vita has sold 2.2 million units worldwide while the Playstation 3 has shifted 63.9 million total with 21 million of those hav-ing been sold in the U.S.

A new art exhibition will be opening this weekend fea-turing the works of Sherry Lee Short.

The exhibition, titled Sherry Lee Short: Reflections from Solitude, will focus on Short’s drawings of wilder-ness landscapes inspired by her trips through North Da-kota and Minnesota.

The exhibit will be open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5 p.m. and will run from Sept. 28 to Nov. 11 at The Rourke Art Gallery, 423 4th St. S., Moorhead, Minn. There will

be an opening reception from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. on Sept. 28, as well as gallery talk by the artist at 2 p.m. on Sept. 30.

Short taught art, educa-tion and women’s studies at MSUM after receiving her Master of Fine Arts with Dis-tinction in 1988 at the Uni-versity of Georgia. She then left teaching in 1994 to join the Minnkota Health Proj-ect, helping victims of HIV/AIDS in rural portions of North Dakota and Minneso-ta. She has since returned to teaching and now serves as a professor of Minnesota State University’s Department of Art and Design as well as the Interim director of Women’s and Gender Studies.

Short is quoted in the ex-

hibit’s press release as stat-ing, “I find myself most in-terested in the smaller, more intimate aspects of the land-scape rather than the more iconic macrocosms. Clusters of rocks, an isolated tree in the open savanna, last sum-mer’s wildflowers gracing the winter’s snow—these are the places at which I pause and look.”

To that end, the exhibit will consist mostly of works done in earthen media such as graphite, charcoal and pastel that explore introspec-tive themes of simplicity and solitude.

Other opportunities to view the exhibit can be made by appointment by calling 218-236-8861.

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Sunday, Sept. 30The Stage @ Island Park7pm Doors • All Ages

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Monday, Oct. 8The Aquarium5pm Doors • All Ages

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KATHLEEN EDWARDS • Thursday, Oct. 4 • All Ages • Studio 222KATHLEEN MADIGAN • Friday, Oct. 5 • Mature Audiences • Fargo TheatreTEXAS HIPPIE COALITION • Friday, Oct. 5 • Ages 21+ • House Of Rock @ The HubJUDY COLLINS • Saturday, Oct. 6 • All Ages • Fargo TheatreKYLE KINANE • Friday, Oct. 12 • Mature Audiences • The Stage @ Island ParkBELLAMY BROTHERS • Sunday, Oct. 21 • All Ages • Fargo TheatreSYLVIA BROWNE • Friday, Nov. 2 • All Ages • Fargo TheatreBASSNECTAR • Friday, Nov. 2 • All Ages • The Venue @ The HubROSTER MCCABE/GENTLEMEN HALL • Saturday, Nov. 3 • All Ages • The AquariumTRAMPLED BY TURTLES • Wednesday, Nov. 7 • All Ages • The Venue @ The HubWOOKIEFOOT/JON WAYNE & THE PAIN • Saturday, Nov. 10 • Ages 21+ • The Venue @ The HubDAVID SEDARIS • Tuesday, Nov. 13 • All Ages • Fargo TheatreDETHKLOK • Tuesday, Nov. 13 • All Ages • The Venue @ The HubBRIAN POSEHN • Friday, Nov. 30 • Mature Audiences • Fargo TheatreTRAGICALLY HIP • Saturday, Dec. 1 • All Ages • Fargo TheatreZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA • Thursday, Dec. 6 • All Ages • Fargo Theatre

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So what’s the deal? Is Sony running into manufac-turing issues as well, or have the company big wigs been scared off of new hardware developments after the ex-cellent, yet poor selling Vita?

My money is on neither of those. What’s more likely is that the company is actu-ally remarking on what will be a token effort to support

the Playstation 3 during its successor’s lifecycle. If I had to take a guess, we’ll see the Playstation 4 announced next year during Sony’s E3 press conference with all the bells and whistles you would expect. The Playsta-tion 3 will still be support, of course, just as the quote says. However, that support will include only a smatter-

ing of games already in de-velopment released in a slow trickle over the next three years.

The world is ready for a new slew of game consoles, and Sony is primed to take the lead once again. How-ever, that doesn’t mean that their elder system will be abandoned completely. Not right away, anyway.

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I was watching a clip from SNL’s “Thursday Night Update” the other day, and there was a one-liner that re-ally stuck with me, and I just couldn’t pass up the opportu-nity to write about it. Though

the bit was primarily about making fun of the presiden-tial candidates, the character “Drunk Uncle” rambled for a bit about one of my favorite singers of all time. He said, “What happened to all the crooners, Seth? We used to have Frank Sinatra, and now all we have is Nicki Minaj!” He went on to describe the extent of Ms. Minaj’s hind-quarters, but that hardly fac-tors into this debate.

“Drunk Uncle” may have been ranting in an inebriated stupor, but I have honestly thought the same thing to myself many-a-time. What did happen to all the croon-ers? What happened to main-stream music in the last five, six, seven decades? What happened to our nightlife and our popular culture? Not only did we lose the croon-ers, we lost their entire way of life. We lost the upscale,

gentrified, classy night out on the town. Instead, we are stuck with the pickup-line-dropping, t-shirt-timing, jag bomb-slamming alternative.

I was fortunate enough to attend a Frank Sinatra trib-ute at the Ordway Perform-ing Arts Center in St. Paul last autumn with a couple of very good friends. As I sat there and enjoyed the amaz-ing music, the classy clothes and the incredible dancing, I happened upon a realization. Though today’s music brings us bumping beats, dirty danc-ing and filthy lyrics, the mu-sic of the Golden Age actu-ally had some similarities. Frank dearly loved to sing about women, love, and sex.

But Frank, unlike the swaggin’ gangstas of this day and age, had a beautiful way with words. He didn’t throw it out there for everyone to see what it was; he used clever metaphors and inferences to reference his own dirty deeds. Couple that with a lack of ex-cessive bling and baggy pants and the addition of vibrant, interactive, fun dancing, and you’ve got entertainment that actually entertains.

I wish I could dip back in time to the days of the “Rat Pack.” How I would love to step out of the door on a Fri-day night in a sharp suit, pick up my date in a black cab, and go to a dinner club for a per-formance, a few drinks and an evening of swing danc-ing to the likes of Frank and Bing and Dean. But even if I wanted to, I couldn’t – not in Fargo, at least. No, I’m stuck with debating whether or not tucking my shirt in will be seen as socially acceptable when I go out on the town. I can only imagine what Frank would have to say about that!

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The guitars crescendo, then howl to a decibel-crushing level. I feel the mu-sic course through my veins again and it feels amazing. After a drought of concert attending, I reveled in the opportunity to return to one of my favorite past-times. Last week, I had the plea-sure of seeing the grunge metal pioneers, The Melvins and the indie rock band Built to Spill play. The old adage “some things never really change” was definitely ap-plicable to the music scene.

Obviously, music is the reason to go to a show. But they are also a prime habitat for people watching, which provides added entertain-ment. Here I have compiled a handy-dandy list of the types of concert-goers I in-vented for your own conve-nience and fun!

The Festival goer aka “festie’s” natural habitat is obviously an outdoor music festival, because they just “love mother earth, man.” There are at least two fes-ties at every show, guaran-teed. The ‘festie’ is by far

the most entertaining of breeds, because they bring the outdoor festival indoors with hippie antics such as hula hooping, fire poi, glow sticks and glitter.

Be wary though, for the “festie” does not consider personal hygiene a priority! Beneath the nest of dread-locks festers the nauseating stink from no shampoo and being all-natural, brah. If the “festie” is cultured, you will probably smell her patchouli trail from across the room.

Contrary to the exciting antics of the festie, the “tall guy” has a penchant for ob-structing the perspective of the stage. He hovers well above the six feet mark and is seemingly oblivious to his height, thus evoking gri-maces from us of the normal height variety.

My boyfriend made the genius suggestion that ev-erybody who attends a con-cert (except for us of course) must be under 5” 2.’ Instead of a “must be this tall to ride roller coaster” sign, there will be one that says, “must be under this height to enter concert.” Problem solved. Sorry Shaq, no more death metal shows for you.

The next breed of con-cert-goer is even more grat-ing than the “tall guy,” be-cause not only might she get

in your way, she will make sure you hear about it. The “woo-girl” usually goes to a show because it’s the “hap-pening” thing to do that night or is in tote with her boyfriend (see the dude-bro) and does not actually know the band’s music.

Inevitably, the “woo-girl” decides the perfect time to scream to her friends about this really important thing that absolutely can’t wait until after the show! She can be heard whining about the corns and blisters she gets from wearing stilet-tos.

The “dude-bro” drags his “woo-girlfriend” there be-cause he heard that one re-ally epic song by the band. When the band finally plays said epic song, dude-bro will be yelling inane comments at the band and playing air gui-tar. Donning his popped col-lar and porcupine hair plugs, he will check sports scores on his smart phone through-out the show. “Dude-bro” will probably be slamming beers like it’s a drought and blow chunks in front of you on the way to your car after the show.

The “fan-boy” is the cousin of the dude-bro, but instead of being super amped about that one really epic song, the ‘fan-boy’ is

amped about the band’s en-tire discography! He will in-deed let you hear it by yell-ing the lyrics to every single song in your ear and yelling random factoids about the band between songs. “Fan-boy” probably runs a fan site out of his parents’ basement and has every bootleg ever made.

The “fan-boy” will cer-tainly butt heads with the “head-banger” (pun intend-ed). The “fan-boy” must vie with the “head-banger” for prime real-estate space right in front of the stage. The “head-banger” can be seen convulsing in a near seizure-like state. “Head-banger” is likely to end up trying to start a hardcore mosh pit, regardless of what genre of music the band plays.

Opposite the “head-banger,” the most timid, mild-mannered type at a show is the “silent head bob-ber.” This shy guy or gal’s feathers don’t get ruffled and peacefully co-exists amidst the throngs of odd people mingling together at a show.

Next time you are at a show, observe the prime habitat for people watching when different worlds col-lide.

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The biggest fitness craze for women around the work-out world right now is Zum-ba, the Latin inspired danc-ing that can burn up to 500 calories in one class. Started by Albert Perez in 1999, it wasn’t originally planned to go global and be the class every girl wants to attend at NDSU Wellness center, but it is the top, most attended class.

I attend Zumba on a weekly basis; it’s the best workout I could ask for, and I enjoy it at the same time. The big question a lot of people have is, what is it and why does everyone want to do it? There is a really easy answer to both of those questions. It is a dance and workout that uses every muscle in your body and works your abs and thighs tremendously. Now

why does everyone want to do it? Well, would you rather dance and have fun or run on a miserable treadmill for an hour?

Zumba can be done by anyone. You don’t need to be an amazing and graceful dancer or an extreme work-out fanatic. It is there for you to have fun and burn calories, no matter what your dancing abilities are, and the instruc-tor works with people of all skill levels. The Zumba pro-gram has eight different types of dancing, but the most com-mon one-- and the one of-fered at the NDSU wellness center-- is Zumba Fitness.

The dancing is the best part; moving around to up-beat music by using your hips and abs makes it a fun and ad-dictive class. Once you start attending Zumba and find a class you like,

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Pining for a Golden Age

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Zumba: Latin Inspired Dancing

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Working the thighs and abs through dance

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When you go abroad to study in a country that uses a totally different language and culture for over one semester, the first step that you will experience would be definitely a “disoriented period.” I, as a Korean ex-change student who will stay only this fall semester, ar-rived here on Aug. 13, 2012. It has been about a month since I settled down in Far-go.

While preparing for the exchange program, I was anticipating life in America a lot. I could not imagine how different life would be. However, just after I arrived in the U.S., I felt disoriented. I felt very nervous, weird

and puzzled. There was no one that I knew here. I would have to survive by myself!

After the “disoriented pe-riod,” you will be so stressed you’d experience a “new born baby stress syndrome.” Everyday you will feel over-whelmed and exhausted due to facing a serious language barrier at this point. You never understand what your friends are talking about, which makes you so sad and feel like an infant, as you don’t know what is happen-ing in the conversation.

I remember the first day that I met my suitemates and hung out with their friends outside Pavek hall. I was hardly able to understand anything, which made me so frustrated. Sometimes, due to the changed environment, I felt very sick; the food made me so sick during the second week of my stay in Fargo. I thought I was quite

accustomed to eating in an American way; however, one day I had a really serious stomach ache. My whole up-per body hurt a lot. I felt like I was almost dying. More-over, the dry weather with frequent, huge temperature differences caused me to get a serious sore throat.

The next period that you will experience can be called “Pirates of the Caribbean Pe-riod.” You will become like Jack Sparrow who is explor-ing the world; you come to be curious, interested and surprised by the brand new things that don’t exist in your country.

I tried s’mores, which I have only watched from one scene of “Sponge Bob Square Pants” and never tried in Korea. I saw the big, wild deer, which is rare to see in my country, while driving to the camp. I heard gunshots for hunting animals

and was curious and stunned by this “new” culture, the hunting that people do in the U.S.

The experience, so far throughout these periods, al-lowed me a chance to live as a foreigner who is away from the “mainstream” or “major-ity;” I am able to think in a different way, which will expand my tolerance toward the other people from differ-ent cultures. You will come to have a different perspec-tive toward society because you can compare your so-ciety to the new one, which then gives you a completely different insight to society.

Now, I just entered into the “Pirates of the Caribbean Period” and do not know what would be the next pe-riod after this. I am just an-ticipating!

Summer is a freshman majoring in marketing.

It’s a pretty fair assess-ment to say that I enjoy tell-ing stories. It’s why I write for The Spectrum’s opinion page, though to be honest, the money doesn’t hurt ei-ther. I’ve always enjoyed telling stories, whether it’s around a campfire trying to scare people, or just with a group of friends about the stupid things that I do from my day-to-day life, and for those that know me, there are quite a number of those stories.

I was recently told about a new event coming to the FM area this past week though that may give me a chance to reach a larger audience called The Tell. This recurring monthly event is for people to get together and tell stories all based around basic themes like Love, Ingenuity, and my personal favorite, ‘Whoops!’ stories (I’ve got a lot of those).

It’s a small fee to get in to the show - five dollars to be exact - but show up early and let them know that you have a story to tell for the evening. If your name is drawn - since they only pick 10 each night - you get 5

minutes to say your piece. I wouldn’t be afraid to come and see this simply for the rule that heckling isn’t al-lowed. This is just people like yourself, telling their stories to you, and vice-ver-sa if you’re brave.

They aren’t looking for standup people or for pol-ished acts, just for people telling stories. The “win-ner” of each night will ad-vance to the final in April for a grand prize that isn’t listed yet, but even if you’re not much of a storyteller and you just want to listen, it still sounds like some-thing fantastic to do with your time on a Tuesday eve-ning.

Either way, I’d encour-age all of you to visit at least one of The Tell events that are happening over the next several months. The first one, on October 2nd, (yeah, yeah, homecoming and what have you, but give it a shot) will have the subject of fear for all stories told that evening. Each one will be at Studio 222 on Broad-way starting at 7:00pm (po-tential tellers should arrive there by 6:30). I hope to see some familiar faces and maybe get my chance to tell you another story.

Stanley is a senior ma-joring in computer science.

The Stages of Being a Foreigner Story TimeThe different periods I experienced in a new world

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When I first accepted my position as Editor-in-Chief of The Spectrum I knew right away that my ultimate goal, among other things, was to give you a way to share your voice on this campus.

Promises that I give are more than just words; they are declarations of assur-ance, indications of achieve-ments and most importantly goals that without a doubt will be fulfilled.

From the very beginning of this year, my staff and I have embarked on a journey to find stories that concern you, follow events that inter-est you and represent cam-pus life by encompassing this publication with your student organizations.

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want to hear what you have to say, whether it is an issue concerning us, this campus, or in the community.

Letters to the Editor are a way for you to do this and it was created in order for you to become a part of us. I want you to know that we don’t take these letters for granted; we want to display your opinions.

I’ve decided that the best way to do this is by dedicat-ing a page simply for that reason. Opinions matter and your opinion can make a difference, remember that. Because even though some may or may not agree with you, your opinion can make a change, can help others interact and ultimately can impact this campus.

With that being said, here is the first installment to your Letters to the Editor.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORFrom the Editor’s DeskLinda VasquezEditor-in-Chief

I am writing this letter in regards to your article “Football Follies.” Although I really enjoyed reading your take on how the sport can control our lives, I disagree that we have taken the sport too close to heart.

Sometimes it’s a good thing to get lost in some-thing you have no control over. Every weekend, in my dorm, you will find my

friends and I lost in a world full of college and NFL foot-ball games. We cheer, we ar-gue, we laugh and cry about events that we have no say in, and we love it. It takes us away from reality and puts us into a seat where we watch superhuman athletes battle for a win that really has no effect on the outcome of our day. Although we feel this artificial joy and anger

for teams that don’t know we exist, those same teams give us something to get excited about the upcoming weekend.

Your article really got me to think why I spend two days a week watching foot-ball games. I found that it is a place to escape the stresses of the week with my friends. It is a distraction that we all happily let take us over

and we enjoy the temporary emotions that come with. If some of that emotion carries over to the rest of the week, I think to myself, ‘Maybe it’s a good thing.’

Sincerely,Logan Quinn

Logan is a freshman ma-joring in mechanical engi-neering.

To many, football has a much deeper meaning than just another source of enter-tainment. There is more to the game-day rush than just the glitz and glamour of uni-forms and grunting of brutes hurling themselves across the field. Football is an emo-tional game that connects players and fans alike.

Sports are an outlet for spectators to commonly support a team or player(s) in their effort towards vic-tory. Although it seems that some get overly caught up in the game, this is for various reasons. While some fans watch as a source of pure entertainment, many have a much deeper bond with the sport. After playing the sport for over seven years, it has

left a compelling impact in the way I view the sport as a whole. Whether it is live in a stadium or watching from the comfort of home, famil-iar images will bring anyone who has experienced a sport (that they enjoyed) back to the most satisfying memo-ries associated with it.

Starting in the glorious days of childhood, the idea of winning has been imple-mented as the main goal in any sort of competition. Most fans are solely con-cerned with the idea of their team winning, more than that of just playing a good game. But for the turnout of a game to affect rest of a spectator’s day, now that is power. Peo-ple are emotionally moved by the connection they feel

between the community of other fans, and fellow team they stand for. No matter how it’s looked at, fans play a crucial part in the success of a team.

When it comes to a high-action sport, some may say that the value of the sport is ‘strictly for entertainment,’ but realize that the love of the game fuels the fan train. Although after all, ‘life goes on,’ but nothing is richer than revisiting the time when the only care was playing the game.

Sincerely,Dylan Sullivan

Dylan is a freshman ma-joring in architecture.I am writing today to dis-

cuss my reaction to an article entitled ‘Breaking up with Facebook’ by author Tessa Torgeson. One cannot argue the fact that this is Face-book’s world and we are just living in it. Refusal to jump on the 21st century technol-ogy bandwagon (as hard as it is to admit) is no longer an option. The truth is, people who knew a time before Facebook think of it as a lazy, if not petty, attempt at keeping in touch, which is as far from the truth as a person can get. Social networking is the ‘new’ and until people stop caring about each other, it’s here to stay.

Facebook, like any new technology or fad, has come and sooner or later it will be it’s time to go. There will be some new social network to replace it that is better and fresher because, let’s face it, new technology becomes old technology faster than ever these days. But, and let me emphasize the but, in the fast paced world we live in, we need a fast paced way to keep in touch. Most people don’t have the time to keep in touch with those people we would have otherwise lost touch with or forgotten all about. I may not care that the girl I met at camp in 10th grade is ‘Going out tonight :)’ but the fact that I can still share or send things to my best friend that is going to school 400 miles away is something I definitely value.

The misconception that social networking detracts from face-to-face socializ-ing couldn’t be farther from the truth as well; if anything, it promotes physical en-

counters that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve seen a post saying ‘Su-per Bowl party at my house’ or ‘Anyone wanna do some-thing tonight?’ In all hon-esty, any time you’re bored, just head on over to Fae-book or Twitter and you’ll find something fun going on that you otherwise wouldn’t have heard about. Person-ally, even I am guilty of this – I will just post up a simple ‘Anyone wanna go fishing tonight?’ (because who re-ally uses the correct ‘want to?’) and in an hour I’m out on the water having a good time with five of my newest fishing partners. It’s hard to comprehend the fact that you would never have these en-counters without the readily available ‘friend finders’ we have today.

For those who choose to stray from the social net-working movement, almost all are back at it in no time at all. This is always bcause they realize that in removing themselves from the online lack of communication, they are actually removed from virtually all communication. Just remember, before you go deleting your Facebook profile, remind yourself just how it was you rekindled your long lost childhood friendship that was all but a forgotten high school mem-ory.

Sincerely,Logan M. Hanson

Logan is a freshman ma-joring in mechanical engi-neering.

I am writing in response to the article ‘Breaking up with Facebook’ in the Sept. 12, 2012 issue of The Spectrum. I found myself agreeing with the article on the subject of it taking away what it means to have a friendship, and felt the need to respond with my thoughts.

I felt that the writer of this article, Tessa Torgeson, hit the subject right on the nose when she said that Facebook causes ‘friendship fatigue.’ I often find myself disliking close friends the more often I see constant Facebook updates from them. It is akin to never having a break from hanging ut with someone – you just end up spending so much time around them that they start to get on your nerves.

Another thing is that people ‘friend’ other people they might hardly know, just because they receive from them a friend request. This is somewhat awkward, if not scary. What if that person is a stalker, or at least, not who they say they are? People are putting themselves at risk just because they do not want to offend someone on Facebook.

All in all, the article was very well written. Facebook has taken over social media and I am personally worried that ‘liking’ a status has be-come more important than calling someone to see how they are doing. Facebook is replacing becoming close with friends with who and which statuses a person likes. This has become a major problem with today’s society, in that we have placed more faith in technology than in talking face to face.

Sincerely,Zachary Vietz

Zachary is a freshman majoring in computer science.

In response to the adver-tisement of the Fargo Beer Festival in The Spectrum, it is rather inappropriate for a college newspaper. When alcohol and college are put into the same sentence, it spells trouble, so why should an event featuring alcohol be advertised in a college news-paper? It is not appropriate for our University newspa-per to advertise alcohol to a population in which a major-ity of them are minors.

Although alcohol is known for its relaxing, en-joyable effects, it also has numerous qualities that are dangerous to our bodies. Ac-cording to the Fresno Bee, a California newspaper, na-tionwide, alcohol is a fac-tor in the death of around 1800 college students each year. In a world already so ravaged by alcohol related problems, it is not logical or safe to increase awareness of alcohol among underage stu-dents through advertising.

As with most things, advertisement has a lasting effect, whether beneficial or dangerous. For example,

if you see an advertisement for a cute puppy, odds are that image will stick in your mind for a while, which may lead to you buying that pup-py – which could be an is-sue, if your wallet is running thin. Advertisement of alco-hol has the same effect, but it is slightly more dangerous when mixed with college students. For instance, the Robert Wood Johnson Foun-dation upholds that alcohol advertising creates problems of underage drinking and high-risk drinking in college settings.

Advertising a danger-ous object such as alcohol is especially risky in a college community. An advertise-ment for the Fargo Beer Fes-tival would be more appro-priate in a newspaper who’s main audience is not mostly made up of minors who are unfortunately known to make risky decisions.

Sincerely,Brandi Hunsicker

Brandi is a freshman majoring in nursing.

Although it’s a good idea on paper, the new bike sharing system is not a good idea for the Fargo-Moorhead area.

In hindsight, the bike shar-ing program seems like a good idea, but I beg to differ. From April through October, riding a bike is a great way to get from place to place, but what about the other half of the year? Let’s be honest; North Dakota is famous for oil fields and brutal winters. Why would one want to ride a bike around campus if they can take the bus or a car? On any given day during the win-ter, North Dakota could expe-rience below-zero weather. If one were to only use the bike system in the spring and sum-mer months, they would still have to pay for their pass in the winter months, costing them money. Now, instead of just paying for a tank of gas, they also have to pay for the bike-sharing pass.

Also, what happens when the bikes get stolen or broken? That’s just more money the city has to pay to or replace the bikes. This program may help save the earth, but it will cost everyone more money.

I do, however, see the ben-efit to the environment. I can’t help but think the benefit is only for the spring and sum-mer months. It seems to me, some people are overlooking the winter months, which is why the bike-sharing program would not be entirely ben-eficial to the Fargo-Moorhead area.

Sincerely,Nicole Bartling

Nicole is a freshman ma-joring in radiologic sciences.

The idea of having bikes on campus that students and faculty can make use of would be a wonderful idea in my book; not only because it saves time getting to and from class, but also because it would help with the physi-cal fitness aspect of student life.

Another reason why hav-ing the bikes would benefit the campus is that you could charge an annual fee to have a bike renter’s pass, just like the car parking passes. It could either be included in the early tuition, or, like the parking passes, as a separate charge.

The physical and so-cial side of this is that there

could be another club that you could have. Also, this is a very good way for people that do not have a chance to bring their bike to school with them to utilize the op-portunity to bike around and keep their physical fitness up.

Having bikes for rent on campus would be an addi-tional source of income, and it would also help kids to stay on time and keep their physical fitness on track.

Sincerely,Joey Halgrimson

Joey is a freshman major-ing in industrial engineering and management.

I picked up The Spec-trum this Thursday and read the article ‘Walking the Tightrope of Adulthood.’ As I do agree with many aspects of Tessa Torgeson’s article, I also have a few op-positions with a couple of the statements and points in the article.

First, a recession doesn’t have to hinder our college experience. Because of the recession, we are simply forced to be hard workers and be more driven. This is definitely not a negative,

considering it is only going to help us in the long run. If anything, it will force us to progress into adulthood faster, and the faster we transform, the less awkward transition time we will have to endure. Plus, because of the student loans, even low class people can go to col-lege, which is something that wasn’t so tangible a couple of decades ago.

Also, I oppose the point in the article that talks about how college is a time for experimentation. Experi-

mentation is acceptable, as long as it is legal and safe. With the previous paragraph talking about partying, it is implied that underage drink-ing is a necessity in order to continue on with the adult growing process. I think it is greatly inappropriate to assume that students should party in order to enhance their college experience.

Yes, the transition from adolescence to adulthood is a strange period, but we just have to take it as it is thrown at us. We need to embrace

new experiences without affecting our health and dig-nity as well as learning how to not break the bank in a stress-less manner.

Sincerely,Shantel Schraut

Shantel is a sophomore majoring in zoology and pre-medicine.

I am writing to you about the article in the latest edi-tion of The Spectrum titled ‘USDA declares drought di-saster in seven ND counties.’ This article is very agree-able, but then, at the same time, it is not.

The article states that since farmers are paying creditors for the crops that have not grown, this will be reflected in the increased food prices at grocery stores.

I do not think this is fair. It is not the average person’s fault that there is a drought, and now we have to pay ex-tra money for food. Money for the average is already an on-going problem as it is. Having to worry about increasing grocery prices is going to hurt sales for those certain foods.

Farmers know that there is a chance of droughts hap-pening when they make this

their career. Droughts are a horrible thing. For a drought to happen to such agricul-tural states is terrifying. AT the same time, do not punish the rest of the states due to Mother Nature.

Sincerely,Linnea Jacobson

Linnea is a freshman majoring in human development and family science.

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After a crushing 66-7 victory over a weak and winless Prairie View A&M Panther team, the Bison football team hits the road this weekend to take on the Panthers again. This time, however, is against the num-ber 14-ranked Panthers of Northern Iowa. The Panthers sit at a record of 1-3 overall, and 0-1 in the conference thus far, but don’t let that re-cord fool you.

The three losses for the Panthers this year have come from schools includ-ing University of Wiscon-sin, University of Iowa and Youngstown State. North-ern Iowa lost by just five to Wisconsin, 11 to Iowa and by seven last weekend in a shootout against the number three-ranked team in the nation, the Penguins of Youngstown State. The schedule for UNI definitely doesn’t get any easier when our number one-ranked Bi-son stampede into the UNI dome.

Much like our very own Fargodome, the UNI dome is known for its loud and proud 12th man, that of course be-ing the fans. You better be-lieve that after a tough loss against the Penguins last weekend, the last thing the number 14-ranked team in the nation wants is to fall to 1-4 overall, and a winless 0-2 in the Missouri Valley Conference. The dome will be rocking on Saturday in Cedar Falls, and Brock Jen-sen and the Bison offense will have to be ready to deal with the noise.

The Bison defense will have a much tougher assign-ment this weekend than they had last weekend. The Pan-thers offense, led by Quar-terback Sawyer Kollmorgen, is a high-flying offense that can score quickly. Kollmor-gen, a red shirt freshman, has begun his career with four straight games of over 200 yards passing, includ-

ing an impressive 333 yards and three touchdowns last week. UNI running back David Johnson has scored in all four games, including tying a Panthers record four touchdowns last weekend. The Bison defense has al-lowed just 14 points in three games this season, averaging under five points per game. The Panthers offense on the other hand is averaging over 32 points a game, including putting up an impressive 35 last weekend against a tough Youngstown State defense. There’s no way around it-- something will have to give on Saturday.

NDSU’s offense looked as sharp as ever last weekend scoring on every drive in the first half. Jensen and receiver Zach Vraa look to be in mid-season form together, as do running backs Sam Ojuri, John Crockett and the rest of the Bison offense. NDSU is averaging over 46 points a game in three contests this year, including blow-out wins of 52-0 over Robert Morris and 66-7 over Prairie View A&M. The Panthers’ defense, which gave up 42 points last weekend, is av-eraging less than 24 points a game this season. Just like the other side of the ball for both teams, something will have to give this weekend.

Other than Colorado State, this is the first real test for the Bison. Playing a con-ference rival and a nationally ranked UNI team, NDSU is in store for the toughest game on the schedule yet thus far. The UNI dome will be loud, proud and rockin’ come Saturday night, and the Bison will need to ex-ert a little more energy than they needed last weekend. In a battle between two of the top Missouri Valley Confer-ence teams, I can’t wait for Saturday night to come. I hope the UNI dome feels the stampede of the Herd com-ing their way, as this game promises to be a good one. I’ll be wearing my green and gold while enjoying a large pizza as I watch one of the biggest games of the year. As always, GO BISON!

The Minnesota Vikings are tied for first place in the NFC North division and the Green Bay Packers are tied for last. Wait, what?

I don’t think many Vi-kings fans expected to hear that even once this season. Granted, only three games have been played, but as fans of a disappointing team, we’ll take it.

The Vikes are sitting at 2-1 and were four points away from being 3-0. Yes, that loss to the Indianapolis Colts left us Vikings fans do-ing the usual: shaking their heads. But hey, we did as we always do and tuned in to the next week’s game. What

a pleasant, unexpected sur-prise: we beat the 49ers.

The Vikings put togeth-er one heck of a game and looked like a true football team against San Francisco. Quarterback Christian Pon-der showed off his athleti-cism and accuracy. Running back Adrian Peterson proved to everyone that he could eat his kneecap and still be an effective runner. Tight end Kyle Rudolph has developed into Ponder’s favorite target. And to top it all off, Minne-sota’s defense looked stingy against the run and improved in stopping the pass.

Now, there are plenty of games left. The sched-ule doesn’t get any easier, but fans should take a deep breath and take in the enjoy-ment of the great start. May-be the Vikes can continue their success and produce a winning season, but it is the

Minnesota Vikings we’re talking about, so no one real-ly knows what will happen. Not to mention, the team has a tough fan base to play for.

Yeah, I said it. We Vi-kings fans are ruthless. True, it has been season after sea-son of disappointment, but some fans just won’t give the team full credit, ever.

After the Vikings jumped out to a quick lead over the 49ers, Twitter exploded with support for the team, say-ing things like, “Vikings are looking legit this year!”

As the lead diminished, in came the tweets from the same people, who said things like, “And here comes the collapse!”

But wait-- the Vikes clamp down and put the game out of reach, and here come the “Skol Vikings!” tweets.

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of mistakes give San Fran a chance and the ridicules come up again on the home feed.

The Vikings end up win-ning, and all is dandy again in Minnesota, at least until next week when the bipolar fans hit the social networks when their team plays De-troit.

That is the life of a Vi-kings fan. I think we have all embraced the fact that our loyalty will never linger, no matter how many rants we go on about the team. It’s just the way we are.

But for right now, let us all just soak in the feeling of a winning record and a Pack-ers losing record. It really is a good feeling. It may not last long, so whenever you feel like an idiot this season for cheering for the Vikes, just remember: at least you’re not a replacement referee.

No one likes when you

beat a dead horse, but this is a peculiar case. The horse is still alive and running the NFL like a totalitarian gov-ernment. So, I say we keep beating it over and over until Roger Goodell is forced into submission. Now, before you call PETA, hear me out.

Over the past few weeks, and especially the past few days, we have been getting bombarded by the media’s obvious disgust with the NFL and the continuing saga that is the referee lockout.

The incompetence of the NFL replacement officials is becoming blatantly obvi-ous to everyone. But what is becoming even more of a problem is the way the NFL has reacted to everyone’s displeasure by not budging on the negotiation table.

Ten million dollars and Ed Hochuli’s monstrous bi-ceps are what stand in the way of experienced NFL officials from coming back to the stadiums on Sundays. It’s a number that doesn’t seem as large when one of your buddies majoring in accounting figures out that it’s only 3 cents that every U.S. citizen has to donate to get our real officials back. At this point, I don’t care what

it takes-- I want my old ze-bras back.

It is difficult to blame the replacement officials for everything that has gone wrong in the first three weeks, and we should show some sympathy. The situ-ation Goodell has unfairly put them in would be like us being forced to mediate the upcoming Presidential de-bate. We would simply lack the talent and proper prepa-ration to give a good, fan-friendly performance.

What boggles my mind is that Goodell is completely going against what he was striving for when he first took over: player’s safety. He has made leaps in today’s player safety by virtually

eliminating the hitting of the quarterback and abolishing headshots. But how can his rules be enforced with refer-ees pulled from Pop Warner fields?

Last Sunday, during the Raider/Steelers game, Oakland receiver Darius Heyward-Bey was nearly decapitated when he was hit by Steeler safety Ryan Mun-dy in the end zone. No flag was thrown by the officials as Heyward-Bey was carted off the field. This is a perfect example of a penalty the regular refs would not have missed in a million years. By not ending the

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Bison begin conference play against No. 14 ranked Panthers

Amy Anderson helped the NDSU women’s golf team move up two spots for a fourth place finish at the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational on Tuesday.

Anderson shot a 3-over-par 75 in the final round and

tied for third place at 6-over 222, nine shots back from the individual champion Abigail Laker of Arkansas State.

The Bison were tied for sixth place after the first two rounds Monday, shooting rounds of 320 and 314, but battled back Tuesday in the final round to move up two spots. NDSU shot a 312 in the final round and finished

at 946, one shot ahead of Oral Roberts. Kansas, the host of the tournament, won the 13-team event with a 906.

NDSU freshman Hailey Boner shot a season-low round of 77 on Tuesday and finished tied for 22nd with an overall score of 237. Junior Abby Knutson’s 243 was good for a 43rd place tie,

sophomore Sarah Storandt was close behind, tying for 45th with a 244, and junior Megan Swan tied for 65th with a 258.

The Bison will be in action again on Sunday and Monday at the South Da-kota State Invitational at the Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls, S.D.

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Bison fans, prepare your-selves for a heavy dose of NDSU Athletics this week-end. Eight different Bison squads will be in action and several important games for the Herd will take place.

The volleyball team is looking a Summit League win after dropping two in a row while the football team will begin their confer-ence play in a hostile envi-ronment. Both men’s and women’s cross-country and golf teams look to continue their successful starts to the season. The women’s soc-cer team will be in action at home as will the softball team, who will play their second fall game against an in-state rival.

Be sure to wear your green and gold this weekend and cheer on your Bison in

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Weekend of Events

referee lockout, Goodell is not only putting his play-ers back into danger, but he is hurting the image of the NFL, too.

The officiating in the Se-ahawk/Packer Monday night football game alone should be enough evidence that the NFL needs to end the referee lockout. In the words of Aar-on Rodgers, it was absolute “chaos.” I live in Fargo, and I heard Wisconsin let out a collective, “Da F*&#?!” fol-lowing the infamous simul-

taneous touchdown catch by Golden Tate.

It got so bad the announc-ers were even flabbergasted. When talking about the pen-alties after the game, Jon Gruden claimed, “Two of the worst calls in a football game I can remember.” The worst had happened right in front of our eyes: a decision by a replacement official af-fected who won and lost the game.

In the end, it’s tough to admit that we didn’t see this

coming. Sooner or later, a call late in the game was go-ing to be made by a ref who isn’t entirely sure what’s going on. Add the pressure from all the fans and the spotlight of Monday night and it’s easy to see how the stars aligned perfectly for disaster.

Football has become America’s game and if this referee problem isn’t figured out soon, it could change the landscape of the game as we know it.

Fantasy football is a major passion in my life. It makes football an even more interesting sport, it gives a friendly competition among my group of friends, and the ones that do the re-search normally do the best. I am a person that does my research for almost anything I do, and fantasy football is certainly not an exception. Although I have never won a league in my six years of participating in fantasy foot-ball, I have never had a team that was outside the top four at the end of the season in any of those leagues.

This is why I’m often asked by many of my friends for advice in fantasy football. I may not always be right, though. Fantasy football is often an unpredictable game in which a single injury can give fits to fantasy owners. As an owner, one has to be ready to take action in case anything unforeseen might happen to any one player, so here are some steps that not all experts will give and that can be taken to ensure a good finish for nearly any fantasy owner.

Do your researchSure, a fantasy owner

can look at a magazine and draft players based off of what the experts say. Then all they have to do is start players based on the experts’ projections. However, if you really want to have a good

team, put your own time in. I can’t imagine the research I’ve done, both before and during the season, to decide what I want to do with my fantasy roster. Small stats can make all the difference. For example, did you know that in Andre Johnson’s nine-year career, he has fin-ished in the top 12 in receiv-ing in only three seasons? This is why I didn’t draft him and why I’m confused on why most experts had him at number two on their draft charts. Granted, John-son might have an incredible season and prove me wrong, but it’s numbers like that can keep you from falling into the “expert” trap.

Watch the Waiver Wire to keep the bench stacked

This is probably the most important piece of advice I can give anyone. The teams that are most successful in the playoffs are usually the ones with the best pick-ups of the season. In the two leagues that I was a part of in 2010, both champions of those leagues made week one pick-ups (Michael Vick, Arian Foster) that killed me in the championship. Don’t be afraid to drop a strug-gling player that was pro-jected to do well in the be-ginning of the season for a player that is actually doing well as the real season goes on. This goes for any start-ers or bench players. Bench players have a huge impact on fantasy team if an injury (C.J. Spiller for me) means that a bench player becomes a starter (Darren McFadden for me).

Consistency trumps streaky

Kevin Ogletree certainly opened some eyes in the na-tional spotlight in the NFL’s opening game of the season. Not only did he catch eight passes for over 100 yards and two touchdowns, he also caught the attention of many fantasy owners. Many of those owners most likely went out and dropped some good players for Ogletree, only to get disappointed the past two weeks with medio-cre numbers. Sure, he scored over twenty points, but I can think of many more players that have scored week-to-week double digits and have the resumé to prove that they’ll continue this produc-tion. That’s why it’s good to favor a player like Reg-gie Wayne who has proven throughout his career that he’ll keep his numbers up. Wayne may not have won an owner the first week, but he’s done much better than Olgetree and most likely will continue to do so throughout the season.

That’s my advice. Keep in mind that fantasy foot-ball is not a science. There isn’t any formula or strategy that’s guaranteed to win. If there was, we would all be undefeated in all of our leagues. That doesn’t mean, however, that a decent finish isn’t out of reach. I’ve seen it again and again-- the people who put in the time and fol-low these steps, more often than not, will finish the sea-son with an excellent shot at his/her championship.

Fantasy Football AdviceColton Pool

Contributing Writer

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28Volleyball @ Oakland, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29Men’s Cross Country @ Stanford

Invitational, 12 p.m.Women’s Cross Country @ Stanford

Invitational, 12 p.m.Softball vs. North Dakota, 12 p.m.

Soccer vs. South Dakota State, 12 p.m.Volleyball @ Fort Wayne, 6 p.m.

Football @ Northern Iowa, 6:07 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30Men’s Golf @ South Dakota State

Invitational, 8:30 a.m.Women’s Golf @ South Dakota State

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