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Dieseth fines reach all-time high Lauren Maze
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Fines for residents of Dieseth Hall are already almost five times higher than The current cost per resident, excluding individual floor fines, is $20.23, with over two months of school remaining in the academic year. This number is well above the fines of 2010, residents were fined $12.60 for Students who have lived in Dieseth before agree that this year the damage and attitude toward the building is much different. “Although I lived on a different floor last year, I feel like the conditions are definitely worse,” Shari Huber (‘13) said. “It seems that most people know that the dorms are outdated and therefore don’t respect things in the dorms.” The overall building fine is to pay for damages to the building, such as several damaged drinking fountains, false fire alarms, cleaning of spills and stolen signs. While sign stealing this year has been a large problem all over campus, missing Dieseth signs alone have amounted to $2700 in cost and only $500 worth of those signs have been returned. There
to the upcoming remodel process set for this summer. “Stealing signs is just such an unnecessary thing to do and it’s very expensive,” Director of Residence Life Kris Franzen said. “The signs are new and are not part of the remodel process, and I don’t think students are aware of that, so they think, ‘if I steal a sign, it’s not going to matter.’” In addition to the entire building fine, there are also additional fines that vary by floor. Currently, third and first floors have the highest floor fines, which owe an additional $9.43 and $8.56, respectively. These additional costs are damages to a drinking fountain. Similar to the new signs, the drinking fountains are also not part of the remodel process. “The water fountains are not part of the remodel, so the same units will stay in,” Franzen said. “Everything [the students] seem to have targeted are not on the list to be replaced.” Residence Life hopes the upcoming remodel process will defer students from damaging the building and stealing signs. Dieseth continued on page 10
Women and Gender Studies hosts new series Megan Creasey
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The discussion panel after the recent performance of “The Vagina Monologues” and the upcoming
conversation series called “Spotlight on Sex and Gender,” hosted by the Women & Gender Studies department. The series will feature three events each semester for three years. The aim of the series, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Communication Studies Thomas Johnson says, is “to bring faculty, students and community members together to consider and discuss key questions relating to sex and gender.” performance panel after “The Vagina
crowd. old daughters,” Johnson said. “To have them in the crowd along with faculty and
Associate Professor of Dance Jane Hawley, who is spearheading the spotlight series, says dialogue is imperative in overcoming prejudices and misconceptions regarding sexual orientation and gender. “When we don’t know how to talk about something, a lot of damage can be done,” Hawley said. Johnson discussed the importance of picking apart problematic representations that are often accepted as normal. “Oftentimes we accept things at face value and say, ‘That’s just how it is. This is just how men are and this is just how women are,’” Johnson said. “We need to rupture that and get people starting to question that idea.” The screening and discussion of “Miss Representation” on March 28 will offer the Luther and Decorah community a look at the way women and girls are represented in the media, especially in regard to politics. Sex and Gender continued on page 10
Upcoming vote on revised honor code Melissa Erickson
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Students may soon be asked to vote on a revised Honor Code that is being proposed by Luther’s Student Life committee. This proposal comes at the end of a three year process that began with a gradual revision of the student handbook, according to Vice President and Dean for Student Life Ann Highum. “Last spring we got pretty serious about getting [the Honor Code] revised so that we could make it clearer and more transparent to students, so that we could have more agreement between the faculty and the student versions and so that we could somehow better address education of students about the Honor Code,” Highum said. Major changes proposed include expanding the Honor Council from 6 to 12 students, including an anonymity clause in the Honor Code and establishing an Honor Council Educational Committee. Students will have the opportunity to run for the 12 Honor Council positions as part of the general elections later this spring. One goal of the anonymity clause is that
have the option of remaining anonymous throughout the review process of a complaint. “Right now I think that a lot of students are afraid of ratting out someone who’s going to know it’s them, and with this new anonymity piece it’s going to allow students to promote academic integrity and also protect themselves,” Student Senate President Jonathan Grieder (‘12) said. students would no longer sign a copy of the Honor “Faculty members will be encouraged to put [the code] on tests so that students will get a more constant reminder of it so that you don’t do it once when you come in and then not think about it anymore,” Highum said. Also aimed at improving Honor Code awareness is the proposed Educational Committee that would be composed of six students. Honor Code continued on page 10
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Promoting eco-justice from South Africa to Decorah Josh Hoffman
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Kristi Holmberg (‘12) recently participated in the Youth for Eco-Justice Conference in South Africa and is now implementing the eco-justice principles she learned abroad in the Luther and Decorah communities. “I was among 28 people from 22 countries that went to Durban, South Africa during ... the United Nations Convention on Climate Change,” Holmberg said. Youth for Eco-Justice is a training program for young change-makers in churches, faith-based organizations and networks worldwide organized by the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation. Youth for Eco-Justice conference, and one of two Americans at the conference. “Eco-justice is a concept that emerged out of two decades of moral deliberation in the World Council of Churches,” Professor of Religion Jim MartinSchramm said. “It attempts to unite social ethical of moral concern. The ethic of ecological justice is normally discussed in relationship to four moral norms: The focus of Holmberg’s training was to learn about the connection between socio-economic and environmental injustice in the context of global climate change. “As sea levels rise, droughts worsen and climate patterns become more unpredictable and intense due to the earth’s increasing temperature,” Holmberg said. “Climate change has had a disproportionate impact on
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Justice isn’t just us. Kristi Holmberg (‘12) marches in the Global Day of Action protest in Durban, South Africa. the world’s most vulnerable people – the poor, women, children, people of color. Eco-justice is a vision for a sustainable and just future for all people.” At the conference Holmberg heard personal accounts from other participants about how climate change is affecting their home context and their visions for a sustainable future. In addition, the conference attendees worked with the interfaith community in Durban to “We joined a group who presented 200,000 petitions to Desmond Tutu and the president of the U.N. conference at an interfaith rally,” Holmberg said. “The petition advocated for fairness, justice and consideration for the world’s most vulnerable people in international negotiations.” The conference goers also marched alongside 20,000 other demonstrators through the streets of Durban on the Global Day of Action. Now at Luther, Holmberg is bringing this training and expertise to the Luther and Decorah communities. “In South Africa it was pressed upon me that the voice of youth is important in this peace and justice issue,” Holmberg said. “I realized that we as students because the decisions that are being made by our elected people sitting in convention centers.” Holmberg is currently collaborating with global concerns and other student groups, faculty/staff and people in the community to organize a Climate Justice
Campaign leading up to Earth Day, on April 22. “I hope my project will help the Luther community understand why we have a wind turbine, why recycling isn’t enough and why we need to take personal and national responsibility for the problem,” Holmberg said. The campaign will intersect with Luther’s annual Peace Week. This year’s theme is “The Future We Want.” The Global Concerns Group will host many events in the weeks leading up to Earth Day, and on April 22 the campaign will conclude with a communitywide Earth Day celebration. Holmberg’s campaign will also intersect with the Earth Day Network’s “Mobilize U” campaign, an international movement of youth advocating for a sustainable future at Rio+20. “Kristi’s project will educate people that climate vulnerable people experience,” Assistant Professor of Sociology Brett Johnson said. “It will inspire people to make a difference.” faculty/staff and community members to get involved with eco-justice. “My hope is that this project will be an opportunity for Luther students like me to practice civic engagement, envision a sustainable and just future and cultivate a thoughtful, humble, but passionate collective voice in response to this issue,” Holmberg said.
Towers’ Rave raises money for Sylvia fund John Freude
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Flashing lights, pumped up jams and cookies are the only way to describe what took place in Brunsdale. The combined efforts of Towers’ residence staff and Paigaam promoted the Towers’ Rave to raise money for the Sylvia Nabukeera Memorial Scholarship Fund. Sylvia Gift Nabukeera (‘10) was born and raised in Uganda. Sylvia returned to East Africa in June 2011, where she was murdered on June 24, 2011. “I personally have known Sylvia since high school in India (Mahindra United World College of India),” Ufra Mir (‘11), director of Paigaam – an organization dedicated to the promotion of the values and principles of peacekeeping, said. “After the shocking incident of her death in June, when I started to accept the reality, I decided to do something more sustainable that would keep her legacy alive while making a positive change in many other lives.” During the preparations for the Rave, one of the RAs on the committee
recommended donating proceeds to the Sylvia fund. “We had never charged a fee for the Rave in the past, but when we were asked to do it for the Sylvia fund we were happy to do it,” Samuel Ward (‘13), one of the RAs in charge of the event, said. The collaborating groups also did a promotional night in the cafeteria last Thursday when the Eklipse dance team did a flashmob and dedicated their performance to Sylvia and Paigaam’s initiative. “I am very grateful to Reslife and Eklipse for this collaborative effort; this is what we and other organizations on campus need today,” Mir said. “We hope to do a few workshops including nonviolence, mediation, conflict resolution, facilitation, etc. with RAs, students and other organization leaders before the end of this semester.” John Freude/Chips The efforts of all the groups paid off Music to my ears. Patrick Hussey (‘12) (front) and Rahul Patle (‘13) (back) DJ at the Rave. Friday March 9 when students danced to the sounds of DJs Mahool (Rahul Patle it out,” Mackenzie Pierson (‘12) said. homemade cookies and mocktails. (‘13)) and Patrick Hussey (‘12). With neon body paint and glow sticks Campus groups plan to continue “I had heard about the Rave in the caf illuminating the lounge-turned-dance collaborating to organize more events on Thursday and wanted to come check floor, students rocked out while enjoying like the Rave in the future.
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Spanning two afternoons, a night and a morning, Herman Melville’s classic American story of a white whale rang throughout Valders Concourse during the Moby-Dick Marathon reading. The event set sail at 4 p.m. on
served. Grayson live-tweeted the reading using the hashtag #mdmlc (Moby-Dick Marathon Luther College). The event also received press coverage from local and state newspapers, television and radio stations. “This has been something I have wanted to do for a long time,” Grayson said. “Because the novel is an epic, it really lends itself to marathon readings. I wanted people to explore and enjoy it.” Grayson was the only one to stay for the entire 22 hours, but several students stayed between 10 and 20 hours to hear about the “whiteness of the whale.” Audience attendance was as high as 30 at one time, including a crowd of 26 people at 2:30 a.m. “The marathon’s success is about the students,” Grayson
an event with enthusiasm, hard work, creativity and generosity and, as a result, they transformed the reading of an intimidating novel into a celebration of literature and community.” Brett Steelman (‘14) was one student who volunteered to read at 3:00 a.m. “It was something I felt would be an interesting college experience,” Steelman said. “I wanted to savor the moment. 20 years from now, I can look back and say ‘I endured Moby-Dick.’” Steelman credits Grayson for energizing the students to complete the lengthy novel. “His zeal toward what he enjoys bleeds into the classroom,” Steelman said.
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following afternoon. 22 Luther students, two professors and two Decorah community members, many in costume, volunteered to read the 135 chapter novel. The reading concluded in 22 hours and 28 minutes, nearly three hours ahead of the projected keep the ship a-sail. The event was hosted by English 354: American Novel, taught by English Erik Grayson. Nautical-themed
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“It stood out to us very clearly that [Thammavong’s
Staff Writer and chemistry departments which inhabit the labs work] fit the criteria the best,” Carlson said.
A new mural in Sampson Hoffland Laboratories puts the labs’ activites into an environmental and local context is being dedicated this week. Renowned and freelance artist Bounnak Thammavong, a resident of Iowa City, created the mural, which is titled “Chain Reaction.” “‘Chain Reaction’ is an abstract representation of an amino acid, the beginning of life itself,” Thammavong said of his work. “Visual references remind views of the geography of Luther College, including the limestone bluffs, fast flowing streams and wooded hillsides, and in that way bring natural elements into an austere building.” Thammavong’s work, located on the large walls in the atrium of the
along with the unique features of northeast Iowa into a “visual symphony.” “On one side of that molecular form (the amino acid) are references to biology and the land, life being formed,” Art Gallery Coordinator David Kamm said. “On the other side you see that plant-like forms are being suggested.” Thammavong used steel, Douglas fir and oriented strand board as his materials. “In this illustrative allegory,” Thammavong said. “The artist presents the central figure of the ‘amino’ as if it were conducting a biological symphony of flora and fauna through the use of steel, wood and paint in various forms and textures.” Thammavong also created the Luther Chemistry Periodic Table sign that hangs on the stairwell leading up to the chemistry floor. The artwork’s inception stems from when the laboratories were first constructed. Donations allowed the college to set aside money for a project such as this. In 2009, a committee formed to find art that best fit the building that included Kamm and Associate Professor of Biology Scott Carlson. “From that, we went through a process of setting up a formal search where we advertised in different art venues,” Carlson said. “We developed a call for a commissioned work that told about Luther’s science program and that had chemistry and biology relevance to it. We also talked about the topography of Decorah.” Thammavong was one of seven artists from across the nation who answered this call.
The committee had the option of using different artists for each section of the building that would use artwork, and chose Thammavong for them all: the second floor wall, the third floor wall and the stairwell. “[The stairwell] wasn’t part of the original proposal but came up as an adjunct proposal,” Kamm said. “And the invitation was extended to [Thammavong] to do that as well so that all three areas would be somewhat compatible.” Thammavong became familiar with the Decorah area when he created the “River Horizon Archway” along the Trout Run Trail to the fish hatchery. The artwork that is currently in Sampson Hoffland was installed in October and January after a year of work. The final components will be added at the upcoming dedication ceremony: two metal-sculpted trout, acknowledging the fish’s significance in northeast Iowa. The ceremony will be held in Sampson Hoffland on Thursday, March 15, at 2:30 p.m. and is open to the community.
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Professor emeritus pens poetry book A gathering of her past students,
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“People are hungry to hear good words,” Professor Emeritus Carol Gilbertson said as she introduced her recently published chapbook “From a Distance, Dancing” during a reading on Thursday, March 8.
poetry attended the reading held in the “A poem has to have something Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall. unexpected, something surprising,” This is the first published collection Gilbertson said. of poems for the award-winning poet, One of her particularly thoughtas Gilbertson was given the honor provoking poems, “Jury Duty,” of being selected as a finalist in includes interesting occurrences she Fishing Line Press’ Open Chapbook experienced while running errands. Competition. Other inspiration After twenty-five comes from the years of writing natural world, like poetry, some poems “Nightrising,” in over 10 years in the which the prairies making, Gilbertson’s of North Dakota chapbook was are enveloped by published in darkness. December of 2011. “I really like When she reads a connecting with the -Carol Gilbertson audiences when I poem like “Sailing” that rings with read,” Gilbertson creativity and clarity, said. “I like that the listener may be surprised to hear poetry can speak to all kinds of people. that her poems can take twenty to fifty I like to make a human connection. I versions to perfect. like when something painful can be Gilbertson gives student writers made into something beautiful.” hope, saying, “I usually remember an Gilbertson comes from a family that image that I want to capture, and I appreciates the expression of words, don’t know where the poem is going to language and the human experience. go when I start. Poets will write every Her husband, Professor of English single day, even if they have nothing to Mark Muggli, influences her writing, write about.” working as her editor. Many of Gilbertson’s poems are “We have faculty that has a wide
“I like when something painful can be made into something beautiful.”
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Professor Emeritus Gilbertson
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The cover of Gilbertson’s book of poetry
range of interests and the work they teach,” Muggli said. “She is a healthy testimony to what literary and language study ought to be.” Other communities will be able to appreciate Gilbertson’s poetry when she reads her works at Wartburg, Augustana and Waldorf Colleges later this year.
Local band Chasing Shade pursues indie fame Margaret Yapp
Harris’ voice is surprisingly soulful, and he knows
Staff Writer how to use falsetto. Beenk and Cigrand back him up,
Friday, March 9, SAC Spotlight brought the Iowa City band Chasing Shade to Marty’s. The band is made up of three University of Iowa seniors: Griffen Harris, Elliott Beenk and Tim Cigrand. “We loved the fact that they’re local and making a name for themselves,” SAC Spotlight Co-chair Erika Lord said. “They are a really great band for Luther students to see.” Harris, Beenk and Cigrand all grew up in Iowa: Dubuque, De Witt and Cascade, respectively. Chasing Shade is not your typical college rock band. They are small, but the three members create a sound that digs deeper than the usual Iowa City rock group. “I think we identify as indie folk rock,” Harris said.
all while very deliberately plucking out notes on their instruments. Throughout the show at Marty’s the three would occasionally glance at each other and let out small smiles when they knew they had hit something especially beautiful. Usually these moments happened after a particularly clear note from Harris, a haunting solo from Beenk, or a sly joke from any of the three. The future of Chasing Shade is exciting. Harris and Cigrand will graduate after this year, and Beenk will stay one more year to earn his masters degree. “Then we leave Iowa City,” Beenk said. “We will move to Colorado, or California, or Europe, or anywhere ... just somewhere we can grow and expand as musicians.” In the more recent future, however, the band plans
on doing a bicycle powered tour this summer during RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa). They will bike to every location and power all of their equipment with the energy they generate through biking. Chasing Shade tries to be environmentally conscious with everything that they do. The band recently led the “greening” of a music festival called Camp Euphoria. Elliott is currently involved in a competition to be America’s next eco-star, and at the time of the show in Marty’s was ranked second in the nation. Chasing Shade is a musical force in Iowa City, and is on their way to conquering the rest of the Midwest. “We’re going to chase the dream,” Harris said. Check out Chasing Shade on Facebook, chasingshade. bandcamp.com, and on Twitter @chasingshade. Their debut album “Pen to Paper” is available on their website.
we dig jazz drumming.” They sound very different live than they do on their debut album “Pen to Paper,” which they released early this year. This only adds to their diversity as musicians. “Every one of our shows can be completely different,” Cigrand said. “We can play an acoustic set in a coffee shop one night, and rock out the next.” hints of funk and jazz that made the songs interesting. The most striking element of Chasing Shade’s music, however, is the lyrics. Harris is the lead singer, but all three members contribute their voices to sing about success, failure, life lessons and relationships. Written by Harris, the lyrics are beyond “college band” material. The words move past clichés and overused metaphors, and into the elite realm of some Morning Jacket. As well as being the lead singer, Harris also drums and plays the acoustic guitar. Beenk handles the electric guitar and banjo, while Cigrand plays bass and piano. All three played in jazz bands growing up, and it is obvious that their passion for music was embedded in them from a young age.
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Please don’t stop the music. Lead singer and guitarist Elliott Beenk jamming during his Marty’s show.
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Living the simple life Abby Benson (‘10) and Chris Rogers (‘11) chat about globe-trotting, organic farming and Hell’s Backbone Charlie Parrish
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Chris Rogers
Walk this way. Benson strolls through a Thai market. “Man, it’s hard to look at these pictures. It makes me want to go back there,” Abby Benson says, as she looks with boyfriend Chris Rogers at photos of canyons and cliffs, exotic foreign cuisine and Thai children. Since Rogers’ graduation, the two Luther alums have lived in Boulder, Utah and taken a seven-week trip to Thailand, also making stops in Cambodia and Laos. “Part of my life plan is to spend my young twenties doing a variety of things and seeing different places,” Rogers said. The couple spent a season working in Boulder, Utah – population 180 – working at Hell’s Backbone Grill, an award-winning restaurant that uses only organic, locally produced, regionally and seasonally appropriate food. They grow many of their own vegetables and fruits in their two gardens and on their 6-acre farm. “We really loved it out there, maybe mostly for the outdoor opportunities that we were able to explore,” Benson said. “It’s an awesome national park land and canyon country. We did a lot of hiking, and that was really cool.” Benson worked as a waitress and Rogers as a cook, but both were able to do some work on the farm, as well. They were also able to explore the rugged mountainous terrain of the area.
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Luther pals. Emily Kittleson (‘11), Adam Kruse (‘11), Eric Sievers (‘10), Pieter Ver Steeg (‘10) and Elsa McCargar (‘11) visited Benson and Rogers in Utah.
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America the beautiful. Alums Chris Rogers and Abby Benson hiked and explored Utah’s rugged terrain. “The landscape in Utah is mind-blowing,” Rogers said. “I am so happy I was able to explore some of those places.” Hell’s Backbone is open seasonally from mid-March to November, so when the season finished, Rogers and Benson decided to take a trip to Thailand. “Traveling in Thailand is really cheap,” Benson said. “You can really get by on a shoestring there.” They stayed part of the time with a friend, James Feinstein (‘12), who is currently teaching English there, and backpacked through the country for the rest of the time. “I never went abroad at Luther, but it was cool to do it on our own,” Rogers said. “I loved our time with James, staying with his host family and hearing his stories of living in Thailand for the year. It was really cool to experience another part of the world that closely.” Now, the two have returned to this side of the globe and are visiting family and preparing themselves for a season of organic farming in Pennsylvania, building on some of the things they learned in Utah. “We are both admitted foodies,” Rogers said. “We get really excited about growing, cooking and eating good food. We are both a little bit mesmerized by the lives of vegetables and plants in general. It’s sort of magical, the amount of variety and weird things that plants can do.“ Living simply and being connected to the food they eat is a priority for both Benson and Rogers. They are both subscribers to the local, sustainable, real food movement. “It’s so fun when you grow food yourself and you can say ‘I put that little seed in the ground,’ and then it grows up and means so much more than something that you bought from the grocery store,” Benson said. “It opens up a lot of possibilities for more cooking and preserving.” This obsession with food comes in part from their time at Luther as environmental studies majors. “Food was a topic of discussion in environmental studies classes intermittently, and I was definitely exposed to ideas through that and showings of movies like ‘Dirt’ and ‘Food, Inc.,’” Rogers said. “The thing that really got me interested in food was working for sustainability as a student worker.”
Both Rogers and Benson talk about Luther as a great learning and growing experience but are still considering their options when it comes to long-term careers. “What does an environmental studies major really prepare me for?” Benson said. “When I chose it, I didn’t really have a particular job in mind. Being at Luther really let me study a lot of different things and let me learn more about environmental issues, whether it be about food or something else. It got me excited about the local food scene and wanting to grow food.” The two have a passion for food, the environment, new experiences and meeting new people. They are living out life in a way that is true to themselves and their moral sensibilities, steeped in simple, clean living.
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Street food. Chris Rogers receives rice from a Buddhist monk on the streets of Thailand.
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The wonders of the human body Sarah King
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Students are awarded many unique opportunities during their time here at Luther. One especially rare experience is the cadaver lab tours given by the biology department. Luther is one of few undergraduate schools to offer a human dissection course. Assistant Professor of Biology in 1997. Stevens believes that most people who take the tour will leave impressed with the wonder of examining the human body. “What people remember is holding a human brain or holding a human heart,” Stevens said. “They remember feeling the Achilles tendon...that stays with you.” In the class as well as the tours, Stevens and her students
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Ready to go. Students prepare to take the tour.
conduct themselves professionally and respectfully. “We handle this lab in two ways,” Stevens said. “One rule is complete respect for the donors and for everybody in the lab. The second thing is just to learn as much as possible.” Valarie Fyfe (‘12), a biology and chemistry double major, led one of the tours. She explained the personal relationship students in the lab form with the body donors throughout the semester. “We were given their ages – they’re both 74 – and how
memorial for them, and it was very emotional.” According to Stevens, few people feel faint or get sick during the tours. Most people touring the labs are hungry for knowledge about their own bodies. “A lot of students who go on the tours have come to Luther with the idea of taking this course, and they want to see what it’s like,” Stevens said. “I certainly encourage that.” The tours are not limited to students considering a science major. In fact, many attendees are faculty and staff members. “Quite a few staff members have attended dissection past, the admissions staff and the development staff have participated in these tours. Anyone on campus is welcome.” Fyfe believes that with a curious attitude and willingness to learn, anyone can enjoy the tours. “If you just go in there with the attitude, ‘I want to learn as much as I can in this experience,’ you almost forget what it is and get intrigued by how everything works,” Fyfe said.
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on many basic Christian tenants, such as our call to stewardship and celebrating the full humanity of Jesus Christ,” Micale said. Micale was approached by Assistant Professor of Dance Amanda Hamp who hoped that she would present her research at an international dance conference workshop in Puebla, Mexico. “Her multi-faceted approach to her questions and to her current project’s subject of holism is exciting,” Hamp said.
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Dance Calli Micale (‘13) is double majoring in theatre/dance and religion. The inspiration for her research began in Professor of Religion Jim Martin-Schramm’s Christian Ethics class. “I was looking at body-soul dualism in Christianity and how maintaining a dualistic theology m i g h t impede
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Research through dance. Micale uses movement to deconstruct body-soul dualism.
Since then, Micale has been looking at new ways to deconstruct soul-body using movement practices. “I reworked my research to be more inclusive of all ways of life and being,” Micale said. “I began to be more conscious of the compartmentalization of body and soul in the world, and the hierarchy it creates.” 8 to present at the workshop. She is also looking at presenting a short dance piece at the research symposium. Micale also recognizes that her research
In his research, Frei looks at how Facebook and other social media are used as communications tool and how they relate to, interact with and impact organizational crisis communications. Frei spent 10-20 hours a week this past summer at his hometown library in Madison, Wis. He worked closely with Professor of Management Tim Schweizer. “During that time researching, I compiled information from a multitude of sources including books, journals, newspaper articles, video interviews and lectures,” Frei said. The culmination of Frei’s project, a accepted by the Marketing Management Association for a presentation at the spring conference in Chicago. Frei has also submitted his work for Luther’s Spring Research Symposium. Having spent time in Washington D.C. during the spring of 2011, Frei Communications during the Japanese nuclear disaster. “This experience of using Facebook and other social media as a communications tool sparked my interest in what is a communications,” Frei said.
“I once was told that when a person does research it becomes something they live with,” Micale said. “Connections to the ideas or concepts are continually being made and the work can progress
Business Ross Frei (‘12), management and environmental studies double major, found inspiration for his research on Facebook.
Chemistry Chemistry major Eric Eitrheim (‘12) has been working on a chemistry research project with Associate Professor of Chemistry Brad Chamberlain. The project involves using reactants derived from corn to create polymers (plastics) that are biodegradable. yet but the hopes would be that it would
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Science rules. Eitrheim uses this bromination apparatus in his biodegradable polymer research project. be a plastic that would have commercial viability, or in other words, a high softening point so it could be microwave/ dishwasher safe, etc,” Eitrheim said. Eitrheim spent last summer on campus conducting research, and that research has continued throughout this year. “Dr. Chamberlain has been working with biopolymers for years,” Eitrheim said. “He came up with a new idea to make a corn-based polymer using organic synthesis techniques and received a grant to pursue the research.” The project is funded for two years and involves funding two researching assistants each summer, according to Eitrheim. Unable to return this summer for research, Eitrheim expresses satisfaction with the research team. “Dr. Chamberlain was exceedingly helpful in getting our competency up to organic synthesis par so we could perform the experimentation we needed to get the project moving,” Eitrheim said. “If we got stuck, he was more than willing to help.”
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March 15, 2012
Our Take: Staff Editorial
On KONY 2012
In the last few years, the prevalence of web activism has grown exponentially. Facebook statuses are co-opted in support of causes, and
injustices around the globe. A perfect example of this is the Kony 2012 movement that exploded on the web last week, starting with a viral video that hit 71 million views in only 5 days.
organize their real-world actions. This is where the growing Kony 2012 movement falls short, at least right now, with the exception of ‘Cover materials on the night of April 20. However, at the time of this writing, to commit to purchasing a $20 press kit and distribute it.
accomplishing. The opening frame of the KONY 2012 video posits that
awareness for issues like this, and the internet is a powerful tool with
step. We would encourage you to take that next step, even if that step is no more than educating yourself more on the issue, those involved, and the actions/goals of the organizations many have hitched their wagons to. In that, maybe that next step is donating to organizations like UNICEF, Kiva,
activist than posting feel-good statuses and tweeting for the less fortunate. A perfect example of effective web-activism comes from the Egyptian revolutionaries last spring. In that case, citizen journalism – common citizens using social media like Twitter to get information out of tightly controlled areas – worked perfectly, uniting people to bring about change.
than a 30-minute video can explain. The producers of the Kony video
Tastes great, less filling Ethan Groothuis (’13)
The funny thing about goals or New Year’s resolutions is that you usually choose something that is impossible to achieve. Spring break is as good a time as any to reassess the horrible goals you have made for the year. A few years ago, my resolution was to be nicer to people. How can you judge that? By the amount of times I say hello to random strangers? Keeping that in mind, I decided to choose something more empirical and achievable this year: I want to look like Ryan Gosling. Some of you might be saying to yourself, “I have seen ‘Crazy, Stupid Love’ and that goal is entirely unobtainable.” Obviously I mean ‘Remember the Titans’ Ryan Gosling (yes he is The main focus of this goal is to actually get back into shape, a concept that has been lost on
who don’t know me, I have been mistaken for a starving artist before, and as much as I wish it was due to my Euro-trash attire, it is because of how scrawny and near death I appear. I have been known to be winded walking from my bed to the microwave to nuke another package of pizza rolls. I am the poster child for why natural selection is no longer a valid theory for the human species. So naturally, I have been spending most of my free time in Legends. Some of the people who end up working out at the same time as me astound me. I choose to bike most of the time, and two elderly ladies like to do the same thing, usually at the same time I do. However, these women must just embody they press on at a speed I could only dream of
achieving. Not only that, they never break a sweat. As I cower, avoiding eye contact with perfume artists could only dream of producing, I still feel oddly better than before I started. In fact, despite the cliché, my overall mood has only improved since I have started. something that is healthy for me. Maybe it is because I am taking the excess time in my day and doing something productive with it instead of playing video games or scrolling through page upon page of unfunny Luther memes. Or maybe it is because deep down both men and women are jealous of Beyoncé’s toned thighs. Whatever the reason, it stems from creating a seemingly stupid goal several months ago, and being crazy enough to follow through.
Editorial: Michael Crowe (‘13)
Honor Code changes could deny rights
In the recently proposed amendments to the Luther Honor Code, those who accuse another student of academic dishonesty would be granted total anonymity. This brings to mind the 6th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right … to be confronted with the witnesses against him ...” This proposed anonymity is designed to encourage students with knowledge of unsavory conduct to come forward, but Regardless of how uncomfortable someone may feel, they should still stand behind their words. Granted, a potential Honor Code violation is not exactly a criminal case, but in the Luther justice system, it seems a close equivalent. The possible consequences (probation, suspension, or expulsion) are certainly grave enough to warrant due process, and the right that not reporting a potential violation is a violation in itself. We may waive some rights by enrolling at this private
amendments will meet in the student body. Chips ran a story in our Dec. 8 issue on the campus opinion
Life Committee surveyed our community. To quote: “The survey, which was emailed to all Luther students and faculty, revealed that 67 percent of faculty members and 87 percent of students who responded believe that the Honor Code is effective, while 33 percent of faculty members and 13 percent of students who responded think that it should be reformed.” According to their data, the general consensus was that these changes are unnecessary. The proposed amendments are available online. Also, forums on these proposed amendments are scheduled at 6:25 p.m. on March 27 and April 3 in Mott/Borlaug. Perhaps these are the questions that should be answered in those discussions, or at the least the deeper reasoning behind them explained. Far be it from me to call myself an expert on the intricacies amendments should be opposed across the board. What I will say though, is that our Honor Code is an important aspect of the community we have here, and a perfect example of the large amount of trust placed in students. students lose this right to confront their accuser.
Wondering what the Luther Notts are up to this week? Of course you are! For more, check out this week’s True Brits online. lutherchips.com/ opinions
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Opinion
March 15, 2012
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by Mark Z. Muggli, Professor of English It was going to be a long full weekend of Chicago Shakespeare immersion. I knew there was some theater available and that both new Shakespeare movies were playing. I had even mentally drafted the opening line of my subsequent Chips article:
anyone. Boy: I was really surprised. I had no idea Shakespeare could be funny. “The Tempest” The number of lines and the small number of characters-
weekend gave me some ho-hum live theater performances and
smallest plays. Reducing it to three characters and an hour might
Shakespeare plays [i.e., Coriolanus]. It turned out not to be: “Anonymous,” the comic espionage thriller focused on the Shakespeare authorship question, is showing at only one theater in North America – in Calgary, about a great play, is now playing in only thirteen U.S. cities, including Minneapolis. If only I had driven north instead of east! So I was stuck using my three-day-weekend to attend live performances of four Shakespeare plays that are among my least favorite (probably mostly because of over-exposure). Irony: It turned out to be a marvelous weekend that demonstrated once
Here, in order of preference: “The Taming of the Shrew” about the gender wars would be a good choice for a “Shakespeare For the Schools” series. Even with considerable cutting and good-feeling pitches for mutuality in marriage, the play still felt mostly like the subjugation of a woman of spirit. But the audience was engaged and it was worth being there just to hear this short conversation between an awkward-looking teenage boy and a sophisticated-looking older woman who looked like she might be his aunt:
glance of sadness at the rich life we leave behind when we awake into our daily rational selves. As Caliban says so poignantly in “The Tempest,” “When I waked, I cried to dream again.” Romeo and Juliet The original “Romeo and Juliet” requires nearly twenty production be that is done by four inexperienced, barely out-ofcollege male actors? Fabulous, it turns out. The production was
repeatedly act out, sometimes with puppets, sometimes with masks and sometimes with elaborate props used on a stage-
expression and liberation by clandestinely performing Romeo and Juliet (Ok, the irony is nice: millions of kids every year suffer
relationships: daughter abandoning father for love, brother This was a Tempest all about loss and power, and Prospero carried a huge battle axe to prove it. A reductive version of the play, then, but magically inventive set, props and acting. “Midsummer Night’s Dream” This was an extravagant production that took that title word “Dream” seriously. A cigar-smoking Freud look-alike introduced the play, transformed himself into a spritish, bald Puck with large female breasts and prominent male genitalia, and led us into the phantasmagoric netherworld where our desires and anxieties play themselves out with full abandon. The play ended in an
because the slight, doe-eyed young man playing Juliet gets to passionately kiss his Romeo).
and as sword, poison and prayer book. Conclusion: Although the other three performances had some interesting special-effects, this spare “Romeo and Juliet” proved once again that theater is, essentially, actors embodying words. And when the words are one needs to feel alive again.
been a long time since “A MND” has brought me near laughing tears (when Thisbe, played by a very masculine black male, sang when the aggressive Amazon Queen Hippolyta notices the actor Bottom and recalls at some deep subliminal level her alter-ego
Editorial: Melissa Erickson (‘12)
The missing Paideia experience
“Any transfer students who feel that
Before I get another “oh my gosh,
close textual reading, practice in writing academic arguments, the development of library research skills and strong discussion skills are not barred from taking [Paideia]. Indeed I think they would be welcomed as long as they take the courses immediately upon transfer.” This quote from Professor of History and Paideia Program Director Jackie Chips. Unfortunately, this open policy was not my experience upon transferring to Luther at the beginning of my sophomore year.
whenever someone learns I never took Paideia, let me say this: I wish I could have. When I asked my admissions counselor (who, I should add, no longer works here) if I could take Paideia as a sophomore, told that professors wished to protect
mixed in. Apparently my extra year of life experience could have tainted the impressionable younger minds.
Par for the Norse
Instead, I completed two summer courses through a community college that were to serve in its place. These classes were both online and offered minimal opportunity for discussion or professor feedback. There was also no research component to my English Composition grumblings about lately in light of Paideia research paper season. First-years, let me tell you two things: jealous. Needless to say, I was in for a shock I sill remember Professor Kate Narveson kindly teaching me how to use JSTOR because her Shakespeare class was the journal article in a paper.
lesson taught in Paideia that all other Luther students learned and I was missing but I do feel that not being allowed to continually worked at overcoming during the past three years. discussion through my Enlgish major and other elective courses, but I missed having that introductory experience was doing before taking on upper-level courses. Paideia program are ready to welcome older transfer students into their classrooms, and hope this is a policy that they will maintain.
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The remodeled building will also make it easier to tell what has been damaged and charge students accordingly. “We know we’re starting with a mostly clean slate next year, so it will be much easier to tell what was there previously and what wasn’t,” Towers Area Coordinator Myles Coulter said. “I’m really just hoping that if it’s new and looks nice, people will put more effort into trying to keep it that way.” For Dieseth and any residence hall on campus,
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Residence Life wants students to try to stop others from taking or damaging property and to return items that have been stolen so the entire hall does not have to be charged. “We try to give students the opportunity to bring stuff back and not have to charge them,” Franzen said. “We don’t like to have to do damage charges in residence life; it’s the part of the job we don’t want to have to do, but ultimately that responsibility is ours.” If students do see or hear of any damage, they should report the damage to Residence Life or to Campus Security.
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One of the committee’s main tasks will be working within first-year advising groups to share their thoughts on what the honor code is, how it operates and what it means to them. “One of the things we found out through this whole [revision] process is that students didn’t know necessarily what the honor code meant, what academic integrity is and what it means to be in an institution that claims that academic integrity is very important,” Assistant Dean of Student Life Jane Hildebrand said. “Hearing what that is from another
student, people might listen a little more carefully.” The Educational Committee can also hold open forums and conduct poster campaigns to raise general Honor Code awareness and understanding. The proposed Honor Code must first pass two votes by Student Senate in which twothirds of Senate must approve the revisions in order for it to continue in the amendment process. It will then go to a vote by the full student body. If a majority of voting students vote in favor of accepting the revisions, the new Honor Code will then be instated. Student Senate will hold open forums at 6:25 p.m. on March 27 and April 3 in the Mott/Borlaug room of the
Union where students will be able to review the proposed changes to the Honor Code. Senate will conduct their votes on the changes at these meetings. If the changes pass each vote, the student body will then vote on the changes April 4 and 5. “I think that over the years [the Honor Code] has maybe become shoved to the background, and this is the kind of place that it shouldn’t be. It should be in the foreground,” Highum said. “Having an Honor Code is an important thing for a college like Luther. We all have that obligation to the community to both watch out for one another and also to challenge one another as students.”
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“One of the reasons we chose this film is that March is Women’s History Month,” Johnson said. “This film looks at portrayals and representations of women and girls throughout history as well as today.” Most will not be surprised to learn that women often recieve a poor portrayal in the media, but Hawley says it’s shocking how much Americans do not notice it, due to it being so integrated into certain expectations. “Once your eyes are opened, you see it everywhere, and you start to see it on multiple levels,” Hawley said. While the documentary is about how women are portrayed, Johnson says feminism and gender issues should not only be women’s concerns. “If you recognize inequalities in how people are treated, that’s a feminist perspective,” Johnson said. The program has already prompted students to think about the problems. Hawley was pleased with the ideas generated in “The Vagina Monologues” discussion. Students gave the panel an idea for incorporating dialogue about sexuality and gender roles into the first-year orientation experience. “[Students] said, ‘Sex education in high school sucks,’” Hawley said. The hope is that orientation discussions would send the message to students, “It’s
safe and healthy to talk about different sexual orientations and gender,’ and [it would] give them ways to do that in a healthy way,” Hawley said. The department is brainstorming other ways to encourage dialogue about sex and gender on campus, such as videotaping causal conversations around campus for the website, examining ways Decorah High School is confronting issues and incorporating different departments in the conversation series. Both Hawley and Johnson hope the series will not only generate conversations among students, but also inspire changes in action. “We want them to be coming and thinking about what’s going on, but we also want to do something to ultimately erase inequalities,” Johnson said. Hawley has faith in Luther students’ openness to talk about these issues, which used to be more taboo. “This generation of students is ready to take action,” Hawley said. “They’re about connection and change and making a better society.”
“Miss Representation” Wednesday, March 28 7:00 p.m. Olin 102
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The whiteness of the whale at the darkness of the night. Quincy Voris (‘12) reads at approximately 2:00 a.m.
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Lydia Svendson (‘13), who also participated in the reading, thought the message in MobyDick could be applied to everyone, not just English majors. “It’s not just a book about whales, it’s about what length people will go to avoid the obvious truth,” Svendson said. “When the words outlive the author, that is what makes it a classic.” David Dowling, lecturer of English at the University of Iowa
and author of “Chasing the White Whale,” felt that the event was historic for Luther College. to take place in Iowa. There is pride in that,” Dowling said, whose novel was sold at the event. “The marathon reading mirrors the novel itself, it mirrors the struggles in the book and has its own highs and lows.” Dowling believes the event could have even more success in the future. “Events like this have a snowball effect,” Dowling said. “People really get into it.”
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Sports
March 15, 2012
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Baseball aims for conference run Brandon Boles
Staff Writer
The Luther College baseball team’s season is officially under way after this past weekend’s double-header at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn. against ConcordiaMoorhead. The Norse fell in both games, 3-5 and 1-8. The team enters the season with high confidence to make a potential run for the IIAC Conference title. New Head Coach Alex Smith, who has been with the Luther baseball program the last 12 years, has an experienced team returning after a 24-19 year, with a 13-11 conference record. “On paper we have quite a bit of depth this year,” Smith said. “It’s very exciting.” The Norse return a few allconference performers in the infield with third baseman Ryan Bahnemann (‘12) and Chris Reynolds (‘12) to anchor a solid infield lineup. Reynolds mentioned that the infielders have worked hard on their defense early on in the year. “We work on the fundamentals a lot in order to be the sharpest team we can be defensively,” Reynolds said. “The focus is on getting a manageable short-hop to make fielding as easy as possible.” The outfield is a solid group led by Mitch Obey (‘12). While most of the practices early on are indoors, making it difficult to work on fly balls, Obey said the team has still been working hard to improve their defensive skills.
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Perfect pitch. Pitching captain Augie Lindmark (‘12) hopes to lead from the mound this season. “We’ve learned some new footwork and working with that, which is key,” Obey said. “We’re very excited about what we can do this season.” What could be the key for the Norse is a solid pitching staff to lead the way. Augie Lindmark (‘12) returns as an all-conference performer in 2011. “I believe we are going to be very effective on the hill this year,” Lindmark said. Along with returning their top five pitchers from last season, Coach Smith also said some talented young arms will add to an already deep lineup of pitchers.
“On paper that is definitely our strength this year,” Smith said. “Returning pitching depth and bringing in depth is a bonus to have.” As for the offense, the Norse hit a .284 average last season. The team is hoping to imrove that the average. “We haven’t found a day yet where everyone has been on at the same time, but we’ll get there,” Obey said. “When that happens, we’ll be pretty good.” Despite a new head coach, other turnover in the coaching staff hasn’t occurred, making the transition easy for the team.
“It’s been really smooth, and I actually think practices have been more efficient,” Lindmark said. “So far, Coach [Smith] has done a great job.” As for goals of the upcoming season, making a run at the conference title is big for the program this year. “We want to win the conference tournament to leave no doubt regarding our spot in regionals, and we plan on doing just that,” Reynolds said. The team will travel to Tucson, Arizona for spring break, where they will play 10 games in seven days.
Basketball players honored by IIAC sports information
The Iowa Conference announced that Dane Larson (‘12) and John Androus (‘14) were named to the 2011-12
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Dane Larson (‘12) dribbles vs. Central.
All-Conference Team and that Tyler Wedemeier (‘13) was named the Defensive Player of the Year. Larson was a first-team honoree. Last year, he was named the league’s Most Valuable Player. Larson finished the 2011-12 campaign fifth in the league in scoring (14.9 points per game) and sixth in assists (3.13 per game). He completed his career scoring 1,251 points that ranks eighth on Luther’s all-time scoring list. His 227 career assists ranks fifth. Androus was a second team honoree. He led the IIAC for field goal shooting percentage (57.7), while scoring 11.8 points and collecting 7.0 rebounds per game. He was also listed among the top15 players for assists per game dishing out nearly two per contest. Wedemeier averaged 10.2 points, 7.9 rebounds, 2.69 blocks and shot 53.2 percent from the field in 16 Iowa Conference games. He led the league in blocks per game, is ranked second in defensive rebounds (6.13 per game), third in total rebounds (7.9 per game) and fifth in field-goal percentage. Wedemeier ranks 19th in Division III in blocked shots (2.3 per game) through games played Feb. 26. Three times this season
he was credited with five blocks, one shy of his single game career record of six against Concordia University, during a first round game of the NCAA III National Tournament last season. Wedemeier is the second consecutive Luther player to be named the IIAC’s top defensive player. Last season Jacy Dillahunty (‘11) was presented this award. The IIAC also announced that Taylor Johnson (‘14) of the Luther Women’s Basketball team has been named to the 2011-12 All-Conference Team as a second -team selection. Johnson, who led the Norse in scoring with 371 points and rebounding with 198, was credited with seven doubledoubles this season. She ranked fifth in the IIAC in scoring posting an average of 14.3 points per game and ranked sixth in rebounds collecting 7.4 per contest. Her shooting percentage of 43.7 ranked 10th and her free throw shooting percentage of 74.3 ranked 15th. Johnson, who just completed her second season in a Norse uniform, has scored 648 points and collected 466 rebounds for her career.
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the National Hockey League recently announced a collaborative scholarship program, one of the long term goals of which is to help popularize the sport of hockey throughout traditionally black colleges across the country. The unique partnership has been created as an outgrowth of the NHL’s Hockey is for Everyone (HIFE) initiative, the league’s main youth development program. “The emergence of a partnership such as this between the National Hockey League and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund provides an opportunity for African-American youth to expand their horizons and participate in a sport that has not been historically embraced," President & CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. said. “This not only serves as an opportunity for more engagement with the sport of hockey, but it is also a pathway to higher education.” For a sport such as hockey which has one of the most prohibitively high costs of participation at the youth and amateur levels, this initiative is a positive attempt to provide new opporutunities for youth within a sport which is historically lacking in racial diversity. “There was a time when golf was not a big sport in the African-American community, but then there was Tiger Woods,” Taylor said. “On our campuses we currently don’t have hockey leagues. We don’t have even an intramural hockey league. We’re working on it and this initiative is the beginning of that. We should not as a community be limited to basketball and football.” If the initiative proves successful, the NHL could see more African-Americans on team rosters in the future. Currently, Canadians of African descent outnumber Americans by a ratio of 4:1.
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Norse compete at national level Stephanie Drewes (‘12) and Dalen Dirth (‘12) qualify for
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Men’s Tennis
staff Writer
After having made B-Cuts at the team’s Falcon Invite, she’s gearing up for her upcoming three heats of swimming: the 100 IM, the 100
faster, you have more to give at the end of your races instead of being
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Men’s Swimming
Perfect timing. Stephanie Drewes (‘12) checks her time at the University of Minnesota. Training Regime Usual practices involve at least two hours of swimming, as well as morning workouts alternating between lifting, circuits and more
“I’m mostly thinking: it’s my got nothing to lose, so just go for
move from one event to another during practice is hard because I have to re-focus myself and
As far as the competition goes, recuperation, Drewes will be well-rested and ready for the
you time to rest, both mentally and
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To combat the nerves, Drewes will give her mind and body time to
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In preparation for the 2012 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships in Indianapolis, Stephanie Drewes
mostly just trying to stay calm, but
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said that she will get a good warmup and a chance to go to the “ready room,” where she will make lastminute adjustments to her goggles, cap and take time to shake out the
“My goal at the beginning of the year was to place in the top 16, and now my goal is to place in the top 8 in the 100 breast sure how many girls have made All-American for [Coach] Lance [Huber], but that would mean Track Success While Drewes is still preparing for her nationals debut, Track and Field member Dalen Dirth (‘12)
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Despite this intensity, part of the process included resting up before
Upcoming schedule:
Women’s Swimming competing at Nationals, I worked on mostly technique things for
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training so I could be fresh and healthy going into the meet,” Dirth
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“I felt pretty good going in Dirth, during his fourth year of qualifying, I could only improve Indoor Track & Field National Championships on March 9-10 had to go out and lay down my American honors in the heptathlon, which consists of seven events: 60m dash, long jump, shot put, high jump, 60m high hurdles, pole
According to Dirth, through his work at Luther, he’s been improving more and more, having
this honor, he remembers the
outdoor nationals in the decathlon
“The sessions are very busy and I have a lot of events to train for
American honors, he gives much of the credit to those intense training sessions that were part of
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Congratulations. Dalen Dirth (‘12) after a pole vault.
“Physically the training has been pretty hard over the last couple weeks, but even harder
couldn’t have done it without all the support from family, friends give a lot of credit to [Coach] Jeff Wettach, as he has basically got
Check our next issue for coverage of Norse wrestling at Nationals.