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Protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, throw tear gas canisters back at police officers during riots following the shooting of Michael Brown.
Coming home to chaos
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tudents all over campus are preparing to return home for Thanksgiving break. For most students this will be a peaceful return to family, food and, for many, football. However, most students do not have to worry about going home to a situation like the one happening in Ferguson.. Senior Corey Tabb Jr. and Fresh-
man Robert Barnes are both from Ferguson and plan to return home over break. They both agree the Ferguson they are returning to is nothing like the one they knew growing up. “Everything was different,” Tabb said when describing what he saw during his last visit home. “No one was outside, everything was shut down. Stores I was used to seeing, and going to, were closed.” Barnes describes a similar feeling of desolation in his town. He went as far as to say that if someone were to go there and walk around, one could almost convince themselves that
nothing ever happened, until they saw the buildings. “The same street that I would take walking to and from school looks like a tornado hit it,” Barnes said. “The Taco Bells have boards on the windows; Papa Johns has scorch marks on the back from when they tried to burn it down and the Quik Trip, literally, was ablaze. It’s weird to have all these memories of places that no longer are as they once were.” Barnes said the six-hour drive does not stop him from feeling the effects of the situation going on in his home town.
“On one hand, I’m happy being up here furthering my education, but, on the other hand, I feel like I am running away,” Barnes said. All of this destruction and chaos has been the result of the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in early August. Barnes said he knew Brown. “He was a kid that I used to play basketball with every once in a while,” Barnes said. “He was passive. He was always joking. He was a big guy, above six-foot. He looked scary, but when you talked to him that notion was quickly dismissed.” Barnes recalls the day he found
out that Brown was shot. “It was surreal,” Barnes said. “I didn’t connect it. I woke up, my younger cousin woke up me up and said, ‘Mike’s been shot,” and you know, I didn’t think it was the same Mike that we hooped with. But we pulled up a picture of us on Instagram from the day before and, sure enough, it was him.” He never expected his friend to die, or for his death to turn into what it has become.
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Duel in Duluth
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Junior safety Bryce Enyard runs in an interception for a touchdown in Saturday’s 31-14 win against Washburn.
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Minnesota Duluth (11-0) built a championship reputation playing physical, hard-nosed football, much like the Northwest (10-1). The two programs have used that mentality to win four of the last six Division II national championships. The two have faced each other four times total, all of which were in the playoffs, as the series is tied at two apiece. Sitting atop the national rankings again, Duluth continues to play with that mentality.
“I think they are the best football team we’ve seen, right there with Pitt this year, top to bottom,” Head Coach Adam Dorrel said. “ … Their turnover margin is phenomenal. They’ve only turned it over six times this year. They’re a big, strong, blue-collar football team that likes to run the football, stop the run and throw some play action in there.” The two met in the first round of the playoffs last season and the Bearcats were victorious, winning 4521. This time around, Dorrel knows his team will have a tall order trying to stop Duluth’s run game. The Bulldogs are seventh in the nation at rushing the ball, averaging more than 304 yards per game. “They are patient,” Dorrel said. “They are good with two or three yards
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… I don’t want to use the word vanilla – they’re not vanilla at all. They’re just really good at what they do, and they do it each week and they know what they’re doing.” Not only do the Bulldogs have junior running back Logan Lauters, who averages more than 115 yards rushing per game, they have to face yet another dual threat quarterback. Sophomore quarterback Drew Bauer averages more than 71 yards rushing per game, to go with his 174 yards passing. “As far as that goes, we’re really relying on our front seven as far as just containing the quarterback and stopping the run,” senior cornerback Travis Manning said.
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With the semester winding down, the search for a dean of the Melvin D. and Valorie G. Booth College of Business and Professional Studies College continues. This year’s search for a new dean began in late August after new provost Timothy Mottet wanted to get an upstart on the search. “He asked to meet with me in late August and wanted to request that I serve as the chair of the search committee,” Chair of the Business Department Steve Ludwig said. “At the time we met, we talked about the process and what we were hoping to do in terms of coming up with a pool of applicants that would be suitable applicants for this spot, and trying to do something different that what we have done in the past, because we have been through a couple of different searches.” The search committee for a new dean is different than it has been in the past. One mjor change is that four of the nine committee members are from the Booth College. “It is a really well represented committee, it highly represents the departments that are going to be underneath the dean’s leadership and other important groups on campus that will interact with the dean’s position on a fairly regular basis,” Ludwig said. “The committee was composed, and we were given a charge of developing and making sure we had the right job description.”
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While the search for the dean continued, the committee is looking for an individual that will be well-rounded. “We received applications until the middle of October, and then at that point the committee began the process of reviewing those applications,” Ludwig said. “We have a process where we look at all the application material. We went through a process of narrowing down from that pool, to a group of candidates that we all felt comfortable with.” At this point, the committee has narrowed the search to five candidates to conduct phone and Skype interviews. “We are kind of in the process of finishing up that,” Ludwig said. “We will be identifying ... at the Provost’s direction, somewhere between two or three candidates that we can bring to campus, and we’re hoping to get that completed so we can have candidates on campus before Christmas break.” Once the Provost’s office designates the criteria and job description is created, the Human Resource office takes over. Even though students do not always know department deans personally, Lugwig discussed the importance of the position. “When we look at what the dean is doing, they probably aren’t interacting with students on a daily basis, but they are providing the mechanisms, the faculty support, the faculty resources, to make sure the college is well represented,” Ludwig said. “I think it will have an impact, but it may not be a direct impact.”