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NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | FOR THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
Veterans Day Brings Petition of Perceived
Injustices Against Military Students
Workers resign over ‘lip service’ from university, registrar’s accusations
Jack Dura
Head News Editor
North Dakota State’s Military and Veterans Services has no employees except for an interim worker. Four employees from the office and one National Guard education officer resigned or were asked to leave following months of perceived injustices toward NDSU’s military and veteran population. On Veterans Day, three military students wrote a petition letter to President Dean Bresciani and Provost Beth Ingram, citing “inequities, injustices and mismanagement” against NDSU’s military and veteran students. Tom Webb, a Marine combat veteran and one of the petition’s writers, worked his last day in the office Friday after tendering his resignation. “I don’t feel veterans are being treated fairly on campus,” he said. “I want a resolution for the population.” That resolution includes hiring a full-time certifying official, a fulltime veteran services coordinator and providing a gathering space for the 450 students identifying as military members and veterans at NDSU.
“Ultimately, it was the search process for the coordinator’s position coupled with the cumulative actions of Registrar Rhonda Kitch that resulted in the impetus to address not only the enduring issues, but also what has become an increasingly intolerant environment that is ignorant of military and veteran challenges, needs and culture.” -Change.org petition
Certifying official
Webb said some problems stem back to May when former certifying official Kaarin Remmich went on maternity leave. Remmich’s duties were vital for students receiving their monthly stipends. “The basis of her job was to certify the students and get that certification to the VA so the VA would be able to pay the students based on the program of the GI Bill they’re using,” Webb said. Many military students are under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, Webb said, and receive a $1,100 monthly stipend. Remmich worked at Military and Veterans Services for seven years and was instrumental in programming as well as other duties above and beyond her job, Webb said. “She cared so much; she was helping out while she was having her baby,” he said. Eventually, Remmich left in August after accepting another job elsewhere. Webb said Registration and Records treated Remmich poorly. “I would see her crying a lot,” he said, adding, “They just kept on changing the title to make her sound more important but then loading more stuff on top of her without any more pay or any more benefit.”
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“Over the years, the office has been largely ignored and has, at best, been an afterthought.” -Change.org petition Search process
Calie Lindseth, a National Guard education officer, applied for Remmich’s position following Remmich’s departure. Lindseth had “an unmatched wealth of knowledge regarding all the benefit programs, access and reporting software, campus and community partners and NDSU military and veteran students,” the Change.org petition said. Lindseth, who Webb said utilized NDSU office space because of an unofficial agreement between the National Guard and Remmich, wasn’t chosen as the certifying official. Instead, Registrar Rhonda Kitch was brought in to manage the office. Kitch dissolved Remmich’s unofficial agreement on Nov. 9, Webb said, and asked Lindseth to leave campus. However, Lindseth’s duties will still bring her back to campus occasionally. Bison Connection associate Mike Paolini was tapped as interim certifying official. Work study students had to train Paolini, which proved difficult, Webb said. Meanwhile, Kitch, the petition said, “has evidenced in word and deed that she does not understand, or care to understand, the importance of honor, integrity, trust or leadership to the military and veteran community.”
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Webb said the registrar put forth accusations of berating, bullying, blaming, intimidating, swearing and noncompliance but refused to give examples or complaints to Webb, the office’s highest ranking employee at the time, early last week. “I felt that it wasn’t fair that she would say these things and would not give any kind of an example of what happened and just say it happened and then starts moving on from something else,” Webb said. He resigned out of a “conscience thing.” “You tell me that I’m doing these things and that I’m allowing these things to happen while I’m there, but then you won’t give me any example of what happened so I can fix the problem,” Webb said. “I feel I can’t trust you. So that’s why I left.” Webb said the registrar’s office has been monitoring Military and Veterans Services since Monday. An interview with Kitch was denied; Sadie Rudolph, NDSU’s media relations coordinator, redirected questions to Provost Ingram.
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Military and Veterans Services works in Ceres 211, above Registration and Records and adjacent to the Counseling Center. It’s an awkward placement, Webb said. “If you have students that think the counselors are watching them walk into the vets office like they have a problem, it makes it hard for some students to come into our office,” he said. Since he started working at the office in June 2013, Webb said Military and Veterans Services has pushed for a veterans space on campus, larger
Student senate closes the curtain on Spring Blast 2015 concert
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NDSU’s Military and Veterans Services office has one interim worker as of Monday following the resignations of several employees this and last week.
“Registrar Rhonda Kitch ... has evidenced in word and deed that she does not understand, or care to understand, the importance of honor, integrity, trust or leadership to the military and veteran community.” -Change.org petition than what the Ceres Hall office can accommodate. Webb said he would like to see a space that can accommodate large numbers of military and veteran students as a gathering space. Webb said the push for a space was met with “lip service” from the university for over two years. “We don’t want special treatment,” he said. “We want a space to thrive.”
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Webb and military students Colin Larrabee and Christopher Eggen sent their letter to Bresciani, Ingram, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple and
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all state legislators. “When we were forced in a corner, we kinda felt like we had to fight back, and we may have gone a little overboard, but we had to get some kind of satisfaction,” Webb said. The letter was successful in securing a meeting Friday among Webb, Larrabee, Ingram, equal opportunity specialist Lois Christianson and emergency management associate professor Carol Cwiak. Webb said the hour-long meeting “really felt positive” but is “ongoing.” Ingram said they “had a long meeting and useful discussion and outlined some next steps that I would take,” including setting up meetings for the personnel concerns surrounding Kitch and including Timothy Alvarez, vice president of student affairs, in the process. Meanwhile, “Services will continue as they always have,” Ingram said, adding, “We have taken the first step, having conversations and making sure we talk to the right people and reassure people that we are concerned and committed to the veteran population on campus.” For Webb, who said none of his actions are retaliation, the situation is all about service to military and veteran students on campus. “All I want is a peaceful resolution,” he said.
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Student Senate Closes Curtain on Spring Concert Low revenue, student turnout make concert ‘not financially possible’ Casey McCarty Co-News Editor
Student government will not be funding a 2015 Spring Blast concert. At the Nov. 8 meeting of North Dakota State’s student senate, student senate officials voted against funding a spring concert for campus. In years past, student senate has voted to
contribute upwards of $75,000 of reserve funding from student fees to fund a concert. The decision was “pretty much entirely financial,” said Mason Wenzel, assistant executive commissioner of finance. The concert was “not having returns we expected from the past few years, most specifically not enough students and thus not enough revenue to
Timeflies performed for Spring Blast 2014.
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make it a long term and sustainable project,” Wenzel added. The funding that would have been allocated for the spring concert is not being allocated to a different event, as student government would not have had enough money to fund an event this size without hitting its budget floor for this year. “We truly expected to hold the event, but
unfortunately we came to the conclusion that it was not financially possible this year,” Wenzel said. However, the show will go on. This year, the funding from student senate will be absent; however, a spring concert is still in the works. Kalley Norr, Campus Attractions concerts coordinator, said usually, “Student government cuts the check for the main artist
and then we spend our money to pull off the show in general. That covers Fargodome cost and other things.” Norr added Campus Attractions pays back into the funding supplied by student government. Campus Attractions has acquired funding of its own which is set aside for funding springtime events, such as a spring concert.
A concert will still be had, but it will not be held at the Fargodome as it has been in years past. The Fargodome costs about $30,000 to rent. Norr was unable to disclose who a prospective headline artist would be for the impending concert “We’re looking to have something on campus so that we can spend more on a fun artist,” Norr said.
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Students take in Timeflies’ performance at NDSU’s Spring Blast 2014 at the Fargodome.
Student Government’s Office of Finance Reaches Limit of Funding Student orgs’ contingency requests still accepted until reserve funding depletes Michaela Thompson Contributing Writer
Student government’s office of finance has reached its funding limit for student organizations. In a Nov. 12 Listserv to North Dakota State students, commissioners said they will no longer be funding practices, equipment, materials or any other non-event requests for student organizations. Commissioners Jay Homan and Mason Wenzel said due to overbudgeting in the 2014-15 school year and a large number
of contingency requests for funding, student government is now limiting funding requests. Homan and Wenzel are responsible for divvying up and distributing the $3.8 million student activity fee to the student organizations that apply and meet the financial guidelines for funding. Once depleted, a reserve amount of funding is available to turn to. This year, due to some larger projects from previous years, student government is not able to keep up with requests and has had to cut down.
“We have reserve funding that we can draw from every year. There is a minimum amount that needs to be kept in this reserve each year, and unfortunately this year we have reached that limit.” - Mason Wenzel, assistant commissioner of finance Wenzel, assistant commissioner of finance, said, “We have reserve funding that we can draw from every year. There is a minimum amount that needs
to be kept in this reserve each year, and unfortunately this year we have reached that limit.” Not having those reserve funds available this year has
left few choices ending in budget cuts. Last year a large portion of the funding was put towards larger projects including upkeep around campus and takedown and installment of the Great Rides Bike Share stations. “We need to do some adjusting and move our funding around this year to allow for more sustainability and more efficiency,” Wenzel said. Wenzel added this is normal and that every year the office goes over its budget and needs to draw upon the reserve funds to allocate for invested
projects. For this year, once funding has been depleted, the office will cease any further funding. The office of finance’s email said temporary organization requests for funding and other special projects will still be funded as usual. The email also said the remaining funds are on a first come, first serve basis. “Any funding you have already been allocated or any funding you have already been approved for is still available for reimbursement,” the email said.
No Classes Doesn’t Mean Closed Campus Holidays, class breaks create different hours for main campus buildings Amanda Johnson Staff Writer
The last holiday before winter break is a less than a week away for North Dakota State. But just because Thanksgiving is a holiday doesn’t mean NDSU is closed for four days. While no classes are held, many buildings are still open, changing their hours around the holidays and days with no classes,
such as the Dec. 19-Jan. 10 break between fall and spring semesters. Hours are different in buildings, with some not even open for the day or even a couple days. Dining centers are not an exception to these closings and different hours over campus breaks and closings. NDSU’s three dining centers will close Nov. 2628, with only the Residence Dining Center open 4-8 p.m. Nov. 29. During the students’
break between semesters in December and January, all dining centers will be closed. The RDC will open 4-8 p.m. Jan. 10, with all dining centers returning to regular hours the next day. The NDSU Library is typically closed when NDSU’s campus closes. Chris Martin, head of access services, said the library is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. During the winter and
The NDSU Library only closes on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s.
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spring breaks, the library is open 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m., he added, with exceptions to those hours listed on the library’s webpage. The library will close on Nov. 26 and 28 and again Dec. 19, 20, 25-27. The library will be fully staffed and if students want to see if the library is open and what the hours are they can always check the up-todate main library website. Martin said, “In cases of weather emergencies where we may have to close
unexpectedly, we will try to post a news update on the library’s homepage.” The Memorial Union will also close on Nov. 26 and 28. However, during Thanksgiving week, the MU will be open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. During students’ winter semester break, the MU will be closed every Saturday and Sunday. On Dec. 24, the Union will be open until noon, and
will be closed Dec. 25. On New Year’s Eve the Union will be open until 4 p.m. and will be closed on Jan. 1-3. On Jan. 10, the union will be open from 3-7 p.m. as students are returning to campus for classes the next day. On official holidays, student are able to park in any lot with or without a parking pass. However, if the university is still open and it is a class break, all parking regulations still apply.
The Memorial Union’s building hours vary from holidays to class breaks.
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In A Nutshell Erin Anderson Staff Writer
Baccalaureate exhibition displayed in MU
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Although NDUS was hesitant, President Dean Bresciani still plans on achieving 18,000 students enrolled at NDSU by 2018.
Bresciani Outlines 18,000 Students in Letter to the Editor
NDSU President cites student retention, math emporium, other examples in response to NDUS chancellor’s comments Jack Dura
Head News Editor
Despite a balking from the North Dakota University System chancellor, Dean Bresciani still believes 18,000 students at North Dakota State is possible. In a Nov. 12 letter to The Forum, the president outlined specific details of his desire to achieve 18,000 students enrolled at NDSU by 2018. He emphasized student retention rates, increasing graduate student enrollment and requesting approval for additional housing, among other plans. Overall, Bresciani clarified his plans for an extra 3,500 students enrolled at NDSU in three years. “The overwhelming message from civic leaders, business leaders and individual citizens around the state is that North Dakota needs all of our two-year, four-year and research universities to educate and graduate more students. Our state’s current job vacancies of 20,000 positions, most of which call for a college education, is estimated to double if not triple by 2020,” Bresciani wrote. “At North Dakota State University, we’ve heard
the message loud and clear and will do our part by raising enrollment to 18,000 students over the next five years.” Retention is a driving force behind Bresciani’s plan. The president wrote he hopes to implement initiatives “to help more students succeed,” such as the NDSU Library’s math emporium which opened this fall. “Based on extensive analysis of math courses that typically stall students’ success, the emporium helps students master areas that have been stumbling blocks,” Bresciani wrote. Bresciani also wrote about implementing “early warning mechanisms” for identifying students “head toward academic roadblocks.” The president also emphasized campus housing, citing that the university turns away 600 sophomores who desire to live on campus. This contradicted what Rian Nostrum, the director of residence life, said last spring. “I’ve never contacted an upperclass student (from the waiting list) and said, ‘Sorry, we don’t have housing,’” he said. “We’ve always emptied the waitlist.” Nostrom added if a student waits long enough,
s/he will be placed. “We will be requesting approval for additional housing capacity to accommodate their needs,” Bresciani wrote, adding that NDSU is not seeking state funding for funding, a fact NDUS chancellor Mark Hagerott cited in an interview with The Forum. Bresciani also wrote about increasing graduate student enrollment. “Graduate students are in many ways easier to absorb, as they tend to use fewer campus accommodations,” the president wrote. “More important, business leaders have called on us to produce more such students to meet the state’s needs, particularly in engineering and science fields that require masters or doctoral preparation.” Third and finally, Bresciani noted in his letter that the university will “accept responsibility” for more undergraduates seeking NDSU’s “particular educational experience.” Despite 18,000 being a record enrollment number for the university, Bresciani wrote that 18,000 is still a small number for a public research university. “This size will maintain our student-focused approach and will not trigger new requests for state-funded buildings,” he wrote.
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Fargo man sentenced for stealing car with sleeping child
The Forum reported a Fargo man has been sentenced for charges of stealing a car in late June with a 3-year-old boy inside. Ali Abdiaziz Hashi was sentenced to 38 more days in prison. The vehicle was a van that had been parked in front of the Asian American Market on Main Avenue while the van’s driver was inside. “The parents were very worried — it traumatized
them,” The Forum reported Cass County prosecutor Cherie Clark said at Hashi’s sentencing hearing Monday in Cass County District Court. “They were worried the child had been kidnapped.” Hashi was drunk while driving off with the van. He is also is not an American citizen and is subject to deportation. He will have two years of supervised probation.
Campbell won’t run for ND governor Monday morning, North Dakota State Sen. Tom Campbell announced he will not be running in the state’s 2016 race for governor, KFGO reported Campbell was first elected to the North Dakota Senate in 2012. He is a farmer and businessman. “I just didn’t want to split the Republican Party at this time,” Campbell said following a press conference at a Bismarck hotel, WDAY reported. After Gov. Jack Dalrymple announced that he would not seek re-election, Rep. Rick Becker of Bismarck said he would be running in the gubernatorial race. Other members running for governor include attorney general Wayne Stenehjem, treasurer Kelly Schmidt and businessman Doug Burgum. On the Democratic side, former agriculture commissioner Sarah Vogel will be running.
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North Dakota State’s visual arts department will present the artwork of the fall 2015 baccalaureate graduating class until Dec. 12 in the Memorial Union Gallery, NDSU reported. An artistic talk will take place at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. The event is free and open to the public. The NDSU visual arts baccalaureate program encourages its members to explore all aspects of art. “The artwork created by this senior class definitely adds to the contemporary discussion about place, value, beauty and individuality. The students have developed thoughtful and often very personal approaches to their body of work,” said Anthony Faris, Memorial Union Gallery coordinator. The students highlighted are Nathan Bailey, Taressa Bartholomew, Kristen Bouwens, Becky Kelly, Sadie Kolke, Jayce Kraviec, Bailey Monson and Grace Olson. The gallery is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday.
Oct. 17 loss against the University of South Dakota, has recently accepted an invitation to play in the Reese’s Senior Bowl, WDAY reported. The Reese’s Senior Bowl features the country’s best senior players and top NFL Draft prospects. It compares to all-star games seen throughout the sports industry. Players are put into two teams: North and South. The teams are chosen based on location of home school. Wentz is the first quarterback to officially accept his invitation, WDAY reported. Wentz has a record of 19-3 for NDSU. He has helped the Bison win their fourth consecutive Football Championship Subdivision title. The Reese’s Senior Bowl will be played on Jan. 30 in Mobile, Ala.
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Pumpkins are the mascot for the fall season. Think about it; we carve them, we use them to flavor lattes and we create about a million recipes that are centered on them. Unsurprisingly, the go-to place for finding these delicious recipes is Pinterest; I must have at least seven different recipes pinned that I’d like to try. It took a while to decide on which recipe to make this week, but I ended up choosing a recipe for tasty-looking pumpkin cream cheese bread roll. It was a little more challenging than some of the other recipes I’ve tried, but definitely worth the work in the end. Here’s how to make it:
Cake ingredients:
3 eggs 1 cup sugar 2/3 cup canned pumpkin
1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 3/4 cup flour Powdered sugar for dusting
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8 oz. cream cheese 4 tbsp. butter 1 cup powdered sugar 1 tsp vanilla 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 2. Beat together the eggs and sugar until combined. 3. As you mix, slowly add the remaining cake ingredients until completely combined. 4. Line a cookie sheet, cake pan, or jelly roll pan with wax paper. Grease both the pan and the wax paper with cooking spray. 5. Pour the cake batter onto the wax paper — use a spatula to spread it evenly onto the pan. 6. Put the pan in the oven for about 15
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minutes, or until you can stick a toothpick in the cake and take it out clean. 7. As the cake is baking, mix together all of the filling ingredients until smooth. You may need to add some more powdered sugar for sweetness. 8. Before the cake is done baking, lay out a clean dish towel on a flat surface and dust with powdered sugar. 9. When the cake is done, let it cool for only a couple of minutes and then flip it over onto the dish towel. 10. Slowly remove the wax paper from the cake and spread on the cream cheese filling. Make sure to cover the entire cake evenly. 11. Very slowly, so the cake doesn’t tear (like mine did) start rolling the bread inside the towel. As you continue, you can eventually remove the towel. 12. When you have the bread all rolled up, let it chill it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours, cut, serve and enjoy!
Dear Kelsey, I have been thinking about cutting my hair short for quite some time. I know you recently cut yours, and I was wondering if you think it is a good idea. Sincerely,
Short Hair Don’t Care – Anonymous Dear Short Hair, Going short is always a good idea, especially when you have enough to donate it to a charity like Locks for Love. There are so many advantages to going short, and many of the disadvantages you have heard are most likely false.
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It’s different. Not “different” in the Minnesota polite way meaning it’s ugly. It is unique. I tried to ask girls on campus what they liked about their short hair but I couldn’t. I walked all around the Union and was not able to find a single girl with her hair above her shoulders let alone her ears. So, if you opt for a pixie cut, I guarantee you will stand out.
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Your facial features become more pronounced when you don’t have hair distracting from them. Your eyes look bigger, your nose smaller, your cheekbones higher and your jaw line sharper.
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What makes short hair so attractive is that it shows off your confidence. It tells people, “I don’t need hair down to my ass to be and feel sexy.” Because of you and your stunning short hair, people are changing the way the define beauty.
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- You do not need a certain face type to pull off a pixie cut. - Short hair will not make your face look fat. - Short hair does not make a girl a lesbian. - To follow that up, “No, it does not bug me that my boyfriend has longer hair than me.” - Not just old ladies and chemo patients have short hair. Every time I cut my hair short, I find out who my real friends are. Inevitably someone will say, “I liked you better with long hair,” as though hair can change a personality. Or, more common someone who clearly does not know how the world works will ask, “So, are you a lesbian now?” because hair defines someone’s sexuality, right? If you humor that person with, “No, I am not a lesbian now,” they will undoubtedly respond, “Then you might want to start wearing more make up and tighter fitting clothes …” … “And you might want to shut the hell up,” you will think. But instead, raise a strong middle finger and walk away because you know that short hair will make you a classy broad no matter what you do or say. Own your new do,
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Paris Muslims in response to this. A person’s religion does not make them dangerous, or in any way responsible for or related to what has happened; we are all still fellow human beings, and we need to remember that. Hatred isn’t the right response to hatred. Fear and hatred are the goal of extremism. I really do not know what to think. But maybe it’s best to ignore the terrorists themselves and whatever they thought they were standing for in a supreme act of indecency and disregard for humanity. Maybe it is best to think of the ones who gave their own lives to help others, the ones who risked their lives to help, the ones who continue to give what they can to help in any way and the ones we have lost. On some of the bridges of Paris, there are countless love locks, some with the railings so full that they look as if they are built out of the locks themselves. And each one is a testament to a promise, to a hope, to something beautiful. My memories of Paris are of a city of beauty, of light, of love, of hope. Maybe while we cry for the past few days, we can hope for the future; we can put a lock on a bridge and throw away the key and we can love each other. Rio Bergh is an NDSU student studying abroad in Europe. In his A Bison Abroad column, Rio gives his first-hand account of what it is like living in Europe as a student from Fargo. His column is published every Thursday.
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A bridge full of love locks near the Notre Dame Cathedral.
I find it hard to believe just a few short weeks ago I was in Paris. I thought of nothing more than the beauty of the city, the sights, the sounds, the smells, the food and the light. It feels unreal to look now at videos and live feeds of destruction, of terror and of sorrow. I am left not really knowing what to think, what to say and, now, what to write. I have no insightful analysis, no words that can make anything better, but I offer you some rambling thoughts on this topic because at the moment I can think of little else. I am struggling to accept that there are people in the world who can remove empathy from their lives, who can stop looking at other human beings as human. I find it hard to accept that there are people in the world who want to spread fear and hatred. I find it hard that innocent people are sacrificed to the hatred of a few. I find it hard that lives just like mine were unfairly ended. I find it hard that innocent people can die, and that we often don’t hear about it, maybe because it happened in an area torn by war. But whether the deaths dealt by terrorism are in Paris or Beirut or elsewhere, it doesn’t change that hatred is at the root. I am afraid there will be an increase in unfounded fear of and hatred towards
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Pride and “Sounds of the Gridiron” NDSU’s Gold Star Marching Band plays specialty show Jack Hastings Staff Writer
The band will play fan favorites and show standards along with other pieces they have learned throughout this season. Bison fans will be able to hear the favorite songs to cheer and yell, too. As well as representing NDSU athletics, the GSMB also represents this university as a whole. The band itself comprises of
175 students in 63 different majors, most of which are not pursuing an education in music. The majors are just as diverse as the students themselves. The GSMB is a symbol of NDSU’s pride and school spirit. Take part in the festivities of “Sounds of the Gridiron” and let the band show you what it means to be an NDSU Bison.
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the talent of the musicians, placing them on a platform to earn the recognition they deserve. The band is set to march and perform its 2015 Bison pregame show. In addition, the band will also be performing select pieces from its acclaimed football halftime shows, including Bruno Mars, ‘80s hairband and patriotic tunes.
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Come revel in the anticipation, thrill and frenzy of the blaring brass, striking percussion and fancy footwork of North Dakota State’s Gold Star Marching Band. On Sunday, the GSMB will be performing its annual Sounds of the
Gridiron show. The performance is free and open to the public and will take place 2 p.m. in the Fargodome. What is normally part of the background of typical football games is being brought to the forefront of the stage. The GSMB will be the in the center of the spotlight as part of a show meant to highlight
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The Rules of the Game Kehinde Wiley and art in society Christian Weber Contributing Writer
Art is a powerful social tool. Kehinde Wiley, an American painter and sculptor, uses his work to emphasize the prejudices that permeate Western art, in hopes of influencing the way we evaluate artistic quality. Wiley reinterprets wellknown masterpieces by replacing their mostly white subjects with contemporary black counterparts. He celebrates cultural sensibilities that are often ignored or disdained by traditionalists, specifically those who treasure the works of the Renaissance and Romantic periods. “If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world,” Wiley said in an interview with CBS News. “What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.” Wiley’s work has
enjoyed a groundswell of popularity among both critics and collectors. Many of his paintings have sold for over a half million dollars each. His admirers consider his artwork an instrument of social change. Indeed, Wiley’s work has some important social implications. By replacing the powerful, white subjects of European masterworks with people of color, Wiley overturns centuries of primarily white artistic excellence. He infiltrates the established artistic canon and uses it to celebrate the nuances of a historically oppressed group. Wiley’s work affects how and why we appreciate works of art. Many of his detractors decry his lack of commitment to historical accuracy. However, Wiley’s work encourages its viewers to reimagine, not merely remember, historical events, and to celebrate the fact that, today, people of color are more likely to hold and keep positions of power. This social relevance adds to the importance of his work. Additionally, Wiley has an extraordinary artistic talent: the aesthetic
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Wiley’s paintings, among them this interpretation of “Three Graces” by Botticelli, are interesting and provocative. At the same time, they promote inclusivity and artistic liberty. quality of his work is indisputable. It eliminates the distinction between
“high” culture and “low” culture while exemplifying traditional artistic methods.
By defying artistic norms, Kehinde Wiley changes the way we think
about artistic quality. Perhaps the canon needs an update.
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Review: Amy Christine Parker’s ‘Gated’ Fiction novel focuses on dark undertones of cult community BOOK REVIEW
Caleb Laude
Contributing Writer
Some people find cults fascinating. Charismatic leaders saying all the right things, downtrodden people and bizarre forms of complete control grab some by the imagination and refuse to let go. They are worlds in which the majority of people, especially students at North Dakota State, never have the opportunity to interact with. “Gated” by Amy Christine Parker gives readers a chance to experience the fear and control that comes with living in a cult. She does so through a young adult fictional piece. “Gated” is about a teen girl named Lyla and her family who live in a gated off abandoned suburb known informally as the Community. Other than Lyla and her mom and dad, the Community is occupied by a hundred or so followers of a man who
goes by the name Pioneer. Pioneer discovered Lyla’s family during a low point after their daughter disappeared after 9/11. Eventually they grow to trust Pioneer and move to the Community. There they began preparing for the end of the world, which Pioneer believed was put into motion with the 9/11 attacks. When the novel begins, Lyla has lived in the Community for around ten years. Lyla is 15 and angsty, and begins to rebel in ways that readers will likely find harmless. She and her friends do stuff like go to Wal-Mart and read People magazine, hardly anything rebellious. Yet as readers quickly realize, Pioneer believes anything that is not complete obedience is rebellion. Anyone who enjoys a good thriller should like “Gated.” However, the novel does take its time to get exciting. As a reader with prior knowledge about cults, and possessing a smidgen of common
“Anyone who enjoys a good thriller should like ‘Gated.’ However, the novel does take its time to get exciting.” sense, it was easy to see how Pioneer is controlling members of the community. Readers will know when Pioneer tells a lie and will have to watch Lyla and his other followers believe the lie as truth. Frankly, Parker makes us sit and watch this go on for a little too long. At times one gets the feeling she may be stalling to get to the good stuff. When “Gated” gets juicy, it is impossible to put down. Parker makes one care about what happens to the characters and when the Community starts to unravel, one cannot look away. “Gated” is a victim of its time when turning young adult novels, especially ones with plucky female protagonists living in dystopian environments, into movies is a lucrative business.
Still, the idea that Parker wrote “Gated” just to sell the movie rights seems a little unlikely. Yet through the descriptions and overall tone, which both feel ripped straight from “The Hunger Games” the idea seems possible. With the long winter break coming up soon anyone in need of a fun thriller to read would not be wrong to pick “Gated.” It is a quick, easy read which grabs one and does not let go, even with a slow stretch in the beginning. Cults are freaky and are a rare subject to see covered in a young adult novel. There is a little violence, but not any more than one would find in any of this novel’s peers. “Gated” is packed with tension throughout, making it a worthwhile read.
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“Gated,” like many other young adult fiction thrillers, runs the risk of exploitation by Hollywood filmmakers.
Editor’s choice: Back in Action Tessa Beck A&E Editor
As promised, the FargoMoorhead events calendar has revitalized itself in a hurried fashion. Detailed below are only a fraction of the entertainment options for a full weekend.
Cropped
After a year’s hiatus, the graphic design competition Cropped is back. From 6:30-9 p.m. Thursday, head over to Drekker Brewing
Company to watch the four designers go head-to-head in a timed, themed design project, judged by the participating audience. The artists will be given select stock photos and fonts and 25 minutes to create work worthy of public commentary. Prizes will be awarded to the chosen winner. Cropped is a free event, unless you’re tempted by a craft beer from the local brewery.
Kevin Hart
Actor and comedian
Kevin Hart brings his WHAT NOW? TOUR to Fargo. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Friday in the Fargodome. Hart’s stop in Fargo is notable considering the variety of national and international venues he’s performed, including Madison Square Garden and London’s O2 Arena. The show contains mature content, and tickets are still available, starting at $38.
Stretch Out
Maybe physical activity via incessant dancing is more your style on a Friday night. Head to the Nestor from 9 p.m. to close for Stretch Out, a multi-manned lineup with a ton of house music. This event boasts some of the region’s best house DJs, including Woody McBride, Baktatr, Guy Jean and a duo performance from Casey Borchert and DJ Uptempo. Cover is $5 before 10 p.m., $10 after.
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Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m., Folkways is hosting a popup waffle shop in downtown Fargo. The purpose is to illustrate the demand for brunch options, while simultaneously teaching the process of opening a restaurant. Folkways is a locally founded organization that works to enhance the prosperity of Fargo through
TBD Comedy
The jokesters are back Saturday at 8 p.m. in Askanase Hall for the last time this fall. Saturday’s show will run on a half-n-half format, with the first half hour being short-form pieces, then transitioning to long-form improve for the remainder of the performance. It’s free of charge and open to all students.
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Professors, You Are Doing It Wrong Papers and how they affect the integrity of a grade
Meghan Pegel Spectrum Staff
Lecture, study and evaluations from tests and quizzes are the necessities in higher education settings. With hard work that the professors pour into their informational presentations, and the sweat and tears that their respective students compromise to retain said information, feng shui is balanced and all is good in the world of education. But then the evil forces
of overwhelmingly intense paper assignments barge in with their negative energy, and, suddenly, the integrity of the whole grading system is hindered. To put it bluntly, papers are a great way for professors to be able to slack off at their job, whether intentional or not. Students are assigned to do extensive outside research that some guy theorized years ago, think about it, write about it and be graded on it. Throughout this whole process, professors are only needed and expected for that very last grading part, the part that determines whether our vocabulary and sentence structures are worthy enough. Think about it. Grading papers is controversially
“That’s like purchasing the deluxe car wash but being expected to apply the soap yourself.” relative, no matter how you look at it. Portions of a paper may lose points for one educator who feels it needs more detail when his or her colleague may think it is thorough enough. We learn how to properly write papers in middle school and gain the experience in high school. And true, it is expected of us in higher education to put that in practice with purpose — to prove we aren’t robots who simply remember facts but rather can comprehend and apply knowledge. I understand essays. I even understand minor 2-3 page papers and
comprehension reading evaluations. But anything over 20 percent of your cumulative grade for a paper is absurd. Really it is simple laziness. Your job is not to tell us to look at words on a computer screen and word vomit multiple pages for you to contemplate worthiness. That’s like purchasing the deluxe car wash but being expected to apply the soap yourself. With all due respect college educators, I could do this task alone in the confines of my own home and have the same amount
of intellectual growth. In discussing our course paper in the aftermath of the harsh grading the general class received with our annotated bibliographies (accounting for a whopping 11 percent of our final grade), one of my professors recently enlightened my class that we “don’t write enough papers in this major.” (Side note: Are annotated bibliographies really practiced in college? For a grade? I can’t even.) Despite maintaining anonymity, I hate calling people out (especially those who will be determining about 40 percent of my cumulative grade with this god-forsaken paper), but you are very wrong. We have essays and small term papers
throughout almost every course to grade our application capabilities with a reasonable grade percentage associated. This may seem like a rather ironic argument, a writer for the college newspaper opposing the high grading allocation of course papers, but it is something to be disputed. Now if you please excuse me, I have to type up a rough draft for one of my classmates to review and edit, for it is worth over 6 percent of my cumulative grade. Do you agree, or do you think I’m crazy? Professors, would you like a retaliatory argument? Send a letter to the editor at editor@ ndsuspectrum.com to voice your opinion.
Holiday Packaging, Terrorists Attacking Questioning the American public’s methods of activism Meghan Battest Staff Writer
Before the attacks in Paris, people across the United States were talking about Starbucks replacing their decorative holiday cups with plain red ones. After the attacks, people are talking about how other issues in the world, like the bombing in Beirut, do not get enough press coverage. I am sure most people do not see the two headlines as interconnected, but they show a value system of what it takes to outrage the American public. All of a sudden, people are peeved that others are filtering their Facebook profile pictures with the French flag but not asking the government to take action or bring to light other world issues. Meanwhile, millions of people are drinking out of red Starbucks cups today with no satanic incidences. Can you see my point? I am tired. Tired of it taking a massive tragedy to make people care that large problems surround our world. Tired of people taking a stance against red freaking coffee cups as a way to feel they are taking a stand against a crumbling society. Tired of media covering such menial things as the aforementioned coffee cups. Tired of the “look
“It incenses me to think that now, after such a tragedy, people are finally saying, ‘Hey, cover the bombing in Lebanon!’ when five days before they were fine discussing the loosening values of Starbucks.” at me” mentality we, as a culture, take on every issue. Newspaper conglomerates and media outlets are gatekeepers, but the issues they report also reflect the cultural values we hold as a nation. It incenses me to think that now, after such a tragedy, people are finally saying, “Hey, cover the bombing in Lebanon!” when five days before they were fine discussing the loosening values of Starbucks. If you seriously think that it is Starbucks’ values that are loosening, here are some world issues we blissfully ignore: • The Super Bowl is the single largest incidence of human trafficking in the world, according to The Huffington Post. On top of this, the U.S. State Department reports that nearly 27 million people are living in forced labor or sex slavery around the globe. • In 2013, the Center for Disease Control totaled the number of suicide deaths to 41,149 in the U.S. alone.
• 578,424 people were homeless across the United States in January 2014. About 216,000 of these were families. 49,933 were veterans, according to data collected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. • A child dies every 10 seconds due to illnesses, poor immunity and starvation due to hunger, says a 2013 BBC article. So now that I have thrown a bunch of statistics at you, what will we do? The answer is nothing. And this is the real kicker. We change our profile pictures to the French flag; we share articles over Facebook and post long rants about how the greater issues are being ignored. We write opinion articles in The Spectrum about media literacy and our cultural ignorance. We grow beards and dump buckets of water over our heads. But in a few weeks, these heavy thoughts will subside so that we can focus our attention again on easier topics. Topics that serve no
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purpose except to distract us from bettering the greater world. We are all tired and at a loss about how to take action. So we take a strong stance on social media and then forget about it, feeling our duty is done. But even if you do not
donate socks to the local homeless shelter or become a volunteer in a mental health unit, stay aware. Keep the real issues at the forefront of your mind. What we as a society begin to value is what will be covered in the news and may inspire a movement
toward the greater good. By all means, please support France. Because to support France is to support humanity, and supporting humanity should be a goal for which we strive even when we are not in the wake of a massive tragedy.
Club Sports Develop New Officer Position Each team elects designated Student Government lobbyist
Jon Lipp
Staff Writer
Dear readers, I am afraid the news I bring you today may not be terribly timely. I
am assuming that you, like all students, devote considerable time and energy to keeping upto-date on activities surrounding student government. For the small fraction that are not keenly aware of recent developments, it appears that club sports have developed a more efficient means of petitioning the student senate for increased allocations from your student activity fee.
My old associate, one Senator Underwood, passed word of this new trend along to me. “It appears that the club sports have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the $30,000 cap on student fee dollars imposed by student government. But, seeing as the existing officers have to occasionally play a sport to validate the organization, they have struggled to find adequate time to repeatedly share this viewpoint with student
representatives. “So now they’re sending in officers whose sole purpose is to wring every dollar they can out of us.” I was shocked. It seemed incredible to me that organizations receive enough money each year to pay for my entire college education, and somehow manage to be unhappy with it. In order to learn more, I tracked down one of these up-and-coming lobbyists and got his side of the story. “You gotta understand
why we’re all at NDSU in the first place,” he started as his forked tongue flicked in and out of his mouth. “Everyone knows the primary purpose of a college education is to compete in sporting events with other schools at the expense of time in class or studying. And if the only way we can fund that is by pretending our highly-demanding teams are actually open to all
available students, so be it.” As the young man vanished in a puff of sulfur, I was struck by a sudden epiphany. The real issue is not that club sports care too much about the allocation of the Student Activity Fee, but rather that the average student knows so little and cares even less. Maybe I’ve got a shot at getting you all to pay for my schooling anyway… Sarcastically Yours, Papa Jon
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Greg Hardy Won, Women Everywhere Lost Everyone, including the victim, knew he would get away with it
Erik Jonasson II Staff Writer
If you abuse anyone, there should be consequences. If you abuse someone half of your size, then you should possibly be expecting some jail time. If you abuse a woman when you are an NFL player, you should be banned for life. You are a bad man, Greg Hardy. We are in the midst of the NFL season. Sundays
have become an important cornerstone of beer and laziness. The NFL is an American addiction. We try to forget that the players are terrible and that cheering only buttresses the domestic violence, rape and numerous other crimes. But like junkies, we continue to watch every Sunday, religiously. Greg Hardy is part of that addiction. No one cares if the Dallas Cowboys defensive end beat his now ex-girlfriend, Nicole Holder; they only care if he gets a sack next week. “He’s one of the real leaders on this team … motivating or pushing any part of the football team” said Jerry Jones, the owner, president and general manager of the Cowboys.
The problem with Greg Hardy is that he is pushing more than just the football team. This 6’4’’, 280-pound man viciously beat Holder on May 13, 2014. Hardy was arrested the assault. For this Greg Hardy got a 10-game ban. This was later reduced to just four games. For reference in how “serious” the NFL takes misbehavior, a player who tests positive for marijuana is also required to serve a 10-game ban. That isn’t the only upsetting part of this case. Hardy was originally sentenced to an 18-month probation in which he appealed, requesting a trial by jury. Holder failed to show up for the hearing, which meant that all of his
Greg Hardy was given a 10-game ban for assaulting his girlfriend, which was later reduced to just four games. He now plays for the Dallas Cowboys.
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The fans have a great amount of power. The NFL made $9 billion last year. Whatever your intentions, by watching, you are supporting the criminal circus that is the NFL. I sit on the couch with all of my buddies. We have spent the past few hours in a haze. We haven’t showered yet and we smell. There is a half full bag of chips and bowl of salsa on the coffee table. We are locked on our phones. “Wow AJ for the TD!” “Whoa look at OBJ! He has 3 TDs!” The game comes back on. AP breaks off a huge run. We all scream and shout. We don’t think of the pictures. We don’t think of the child abuse. We don’t think about Adrian Peterson’s ten kids by an
estimate of ten women. We don’t think of that. All we think about are fantasy points. We think of stats and the numbers on the scoreboard. We think about anything other than those pictures. Those pictures are unpleasant. But Adrian Peterson running for 20plus on 3rd-and-4 is art. “Just had to say I express my regret 4 what happened in past and I‘m Dedicated to being the best person & teammate that I can be… but mostly I am Grateful 4 the opportunity to play in NFL #GodBlessHookyStreet,” Greg Hardy tweeted about the police photos. There’s something wrong with that.
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charges ended up being dropped. “It doesn’t matter … Nothing is going to happen to him anyways” claimed Holder. For all of this misconduct, Greg Hardy is now playing for the Cowboys. He has also gained the respect and admiration of Jones. “He certainly has the kinds of skills and impact that we want to look to the future with the Cowboys,” Jones said. And Hardy isn’t hurting financial, either. He is making $11.3 million dollars to play a game this year. He is only part of the problem. You, me and every NFL fan out there is the problem, as well.
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Small Senior Class, Big Dreams Wentz will have the toughest time walking onto the field against Missouri State Pace Maier Sports Editor
After the dramatic 29-27 win over Illinois State in last season’s NCAA Division I Football Championship title game, Bison fans anticipated Carson Wentz’s senior year would be something special. With his football strengths getting noticed by the higher powers in the NFL, he needed to stay healthy, play better football than he had his previous year and win football games. This season didn’t start off well, but the loss happened early enough in the year that the green and gold could bounce back.
Wentz and the team teed-off on North Dakota State’s next three opponents and squeezed out a threepoint win on homecoming against a tough University of Northern Iowa team. The team was rolling, until it wasn’t. A week later, the Bison had a hiccup and lost to University of South Dakota. Wentz suffered the worst loss of the game. He broke a bone in his throwing wrist, throwing the season in limbo. Freshman quarterback Easton Stick has righted the ship and that unsettling feeling fans felt the week Wentz went down has passed, but it may come back just before 2:30 p.m. kickoff Saturday.
Counting today, three days from now 14 North Dakota State studentathletes will run out of the inflatable Bison helmet for their last regular season game. “They were the first group that really went down to Frisco and sat in the stands and saw a championship team,” head coach Chris Klieman said. “In 2011, a lot of those guys were on scout team and did a phenomenal job and really developed and worked their way through as a developmental player to get an opportunity to play. “Some of them have played for four years and some of them have played just a year or two, and they’re really special to
me because that was really my first class as well, all those kids were red-shirted during my first year, and I obviously wouldn’t be in the position that I am (now) without those guys.” Luke Albers, Darius Anderson, Andrew Bonnet, Jordan Champion, Jedre Cyr, Joe Haeg, Jeremy Kelly, Ben LeCompte, Nate Moody, Brock Russell, Brian Schaetz, CJ Smith and Zach Vraa. The thought of these 13 student-athletes graduating and moving on to the next part of their lives is bittersweet. The 14th senior alphabetically on the team, Wentz, will probably have the hardest time walking out on the Gate City Bank
Field with screaming his name because he won’t be in uniform for the regular season finale for NDSU. “I know it’ll be a difficult game for Carson,” Klieman said, comparing Wentz’s situation to Grant Olson’s in 2013. “The likelihood of (Wentz) playing probably isn’t very good, so it’ll be a difficult day, but he needs to be honored because he’s been a huge part of what we’ve done.” No one knows what his thoughts are going to be when the Dome’s lights go down. Maybe he’ll be thinking about his injury, and if it didn’t happen, what could’ve been. Maybe he’ll be thinking
Over the past four seasons, NDSU has a 52-4 record including 27-3 in MVFC play and 30-2 inside the Fargodome.
about all the late nights with Easton Stick in the film room, and teaching the redshirt freshman how to read Missouri Valley Football Conference defenses. Or maybe Wentz won’t be thinking anything; maybe he’ll just be in the moment and trying to soak up all the energy that will be filled in that stadium. Whatever his thoughts may be, Wentz and the 13 seniors have been apart of 52 wins over the past four years. So, maybe his final thoughts as he reaches midfield inside the Fargodome will be, “This senior class may be the small, but damn, we are good.”
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Missouri Top 5 Moments for This Year’s Senior Class StateKarson Sorby NDSU Quick Hits Pace Maier Sports Editor
• Eighth meeting between the two MVFC teams • NDSU leads the series 5-2. The Bison have won four straight • NDSU is 2-1 inside the Fargodome against the Bears • Last season against MSU, Carson Wentz threw a school-record five touchdowns • NDSU (8-2, 6-1 MVFC), MSU (1-9, 0-7) • NDSU on fourgame winning streak, MSU on eight-game losing streak • On Saturday, MSU will take on its fourthstraight ranked opponent • MSU hasn’t beat a ranked opponent since 2013 • MSU has won five of its last nine seasonending games • MSU junior linebacker Dylan Cole leads MVFC and is second nationally in tackles (13.8) • Freshman kicker Cam Pedersen leads Bison in scoring • NDSU 33.9 points/ game • MSU 10.8 points/ game
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As North Dakota State approaches the final regular season home game of the season, we acknowledge the 14 senior Bison who will play their last regular season game inside the Fargodome. With an overall record from the past four years of 52-4, this squad has seen the same amount of losses as they have championships. 5. Although we know them for their success on the field, these studentathletes work just as hard in the classroom. Carson Wentz, Zach Vraa, Chase Morlock and Greg Menard were selected to the Academic All-District
team in recognition of their outstanding grades. With a 4.0 GPA in health and physical education, Wentz sets a positive example in football and in his school work. While also competing in each game as well as daily practices, Vraa keeps a 3.56 GPA, Morlock a 3.80 GPA and Menard a 3.90 GPA. 4. With this season’s success, punter Ben LeCompte has put up impressive numbers, including 213 career punts, 9,499 punting yards and a punting average of 44.60 (which puts him at third on the NCAA FCS career punting leader board). Taking over his sophomore year in 2013, LeCompte was named to the MVFC
Honor Roll (also receiving this honor last year as a junior). Among other honors, LeCompte was also named the 2014 College Football Performance.com FCS Punter of the Year. 3. Finding success throughout his entire career, Joe Haeg will be greatly missed by the Bison next year. After starting in 29 of 30 games his freshman and sophomore year at right tackle, Haeg made the switch to left tackle without missing a beat. He started in every game of his junior season and received an All-America first team selection. On Nov. 4, Haeg was the first lineman to be added to the STATS FCS Offensive Player of the Year watch list since 2010.
This season, Haeg has also received Offensive Lineman of the Week by the Missouri Valley Football Conference twice. 2. Prior to a broken wrist against University of South Dakota, senior quarterback Wentz started out the season strong, beginning the season with 16 touchdown passes before sustaining the injury. Wentz also successfully broke the school record for 143 passing attempts without an interception before being picked off in the game against University of Northern Iowa. Along with endless touchdown passes and hundreds upon hundreds of yards, Wentz
has been a key player who will be greatly missed next year.
1. In his sixth year with the Herd, Vraa has had a record breaking final season. With at least one pass caught in 50 of 53 career games, it’s no wonder Vraa is in all the record books. Leading the NDSU career receiving yards board with 2,853 yards and NDSU’s career receiving touchdown board with 26, Vraa has been a key player this season, as well as in seasons past. Vraa also leads NDSU career receptions with 185 and is looking to continue breaking records in both the regular and postseason.
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THE SPECTRUM | SPORTS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015
Summit League Volleyball: It Comes Down toL LThis F O O T B A PIC F O O T B A L L P I C K E M S No. 4-seeded Bison volleyball has momentum on its side F O O T B A L L P I C K E M CONNOR CONNOR
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BROWN UNO, has a 2-0 season favorite Staffmajoring in journalism. teams, six make it to theBROWN TheSophomore Bison won 3-0 and Contributing advantage over the Bison. in journalism. conference tournament. carried the momentum over Fortunately for the Contributing writer BRANDON University of Denver, to its next match against Bison student-athletes, the writer majoringFreshman the regular season majoring in IUPUI on BROWN Senior Night. 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New Rules for a New Year in College Basketball Over 30 new rules to better game flow and consistency COLUMN
Connor Dunn Spectrum Staff
College basketball is back, people. Can I get an amen? The march to March is on, and the North Dakota State men’s basketball team has already started its conquest to reign on top of the Summit League once again. Teams around the nation got their season underway last Friday, and with this new year comes some pretty significant changes to the way college basketball will look and be played. The NCAA men’s basketball rules committee made over 30 rule changes
during the offseason to “increase the pace of play, reduce the number of stoppages and provide better balance between offense and defense,” according to a press release by the rules committee. Some of the modifications are insignificant formalities, while others might have a major impact on the way coaches will strategize their defenses or how the players will play the game. The most noticeable change the average basketball fan might see is the shot clock being reduced from 35 seconds to 30 seconds. For a team like the Bison that has the tendency to slow the pace of the game on offense, it might only mean someone
will have to make a play five seconds earlier than normal. But the change might come into play more during the end of games, when the five-second reduction might create a possession or two that wouldn’t have existed last year. Teams might also be more willing to apply full-court pressure to use up some of the shot clock in the backcourt. The other more noticeable change will probably have the most impact on the game, and it comes in the form of plenty of whistles. The NCAA sent out a mandate emphasizing a strict enforcement of hand checks and physicality to better facilitate an offensive player’s freedom of movement. Sound familiar?
It should because the NCAA emphasized the same exact thing two years ago at the beginning of the 2013 season in an effort to gain consistency of the physicality and get more scoring. The emphasis worked in theory, especially for the first few weeks, but its implantation by the referees dropped significantly once conference play began. However, this year garnered a mandate by the NCAA, which is much more than just the point of emphasis two years ago. Consistency from day one to the NCAA Tournament is expected now from the NCAA, and we’ll just have to see if the calls stick a few months down the road. Timeouts were a big topic that the committee
addressed with a few changes designed to keep the game moving. Anytime a 30-second timeout is called within 30 seconds of a media timeout, the timeout becomes a media timeout. Finally gone are the back-to-back timeouts that seemed so unnecessary. Another welcomed change to the rules is the elimination of live-ball timeouts called by coaches. Only players can call them, which allows referees to focus on the players. It also takes away the ambiguity on situations of what happened first, the player in a corner threw the ball away or the coach on the opposite side of the court called for a timeout to another referee. Also, a timeout does not reset the 10-second backcourt count, so a bad
press-break from good defensive pressure can’t be bailed out by a timeout. Finally, referees can penalize players for faking being fouled when the referees are at the monitor reviewing a flagrant foul. Soccer’s working hard to expunge embellishment out of their game. No need to even give it a chance to run rampant in college basketball. These rule changes, along with the minor others not mentioned, might take some time for players, coaches, referees and fans to get used to, but all in all, if consistently enforced, they should mold better games for the future. Oh, and players can dunk during pregame and halftime because why not.
Short Bench Poses Problem for Bison NDSU plays Thursday and Sunday at Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse before road trip
Brandon Brown Contributing Writer
Sophomore guard Brooke Yaggie is averaging 35.5 minutes, and 3.5 assists in two games this season.
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North Dakota State women’s basketball team is coming off a 1-1 opening weekend and looked impressive in both games. The Bison fell to a New Mexico State team that’s coming off a NCAA tournament appearance last season before blowing out the College of Saint Mary by 20 points two days later. Even with a solid performance in both of those games, one problem showed its head: lack of depth. If this team plans on making any sort of noise in the Summit League this year, they are going to need to get a few players healthy.
This short bench will lead to more games like the one that took place on Friday night. NDSU has a roster talented enough to keep the game against the Aggies competitive, only losing by 10. Only when (or if) this team can get a solid rotation going will it do some damage come league play. In the loss to NMSU, the Bison played a near perfect game. They had better stats in nearly every category,and shot a better percentage from inside and outside the arc as well as from the free throw line. The one outlier with the stats was turnovers. Entering halftime, NDSU had a six-point lead on the Aggies, and it
appeared that there was an upset on the horizon. NDSU was only able to play seven women throughout the entire game due to various injuries, while NMSU was able to play 10. This led to the Aggies pressing the short-handed Bison in the second half, which led to increase in turnovers (23) by NDSU because they just didn’t have any gas in the tank. Aggies took advantage and jumped out to an eventual insurmountable lead. Four Bison played more than 15 minutes with two playing at least 20 minutes. NMSU had only one player above 15 minutes and they played 17.
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THE SPECTRUM | NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015
CONNOR DUNN Spectrum Staff
PACE MAIER
Sports Editor
BEN NORMAN
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BRANDON BROWN
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KARSON SORBY
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ERICA NITSCHKE
GUEST PICKER
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William & Mary at Richmond
Missouri at NDSU
#21 Memphis At #22 Temple
#19 UCLA Bruins at #10 Utah
#13 Michigan State Packers At at #3 Ohio State Vikings
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Cowboys at Dolphins
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#25 Wisconsin over #18 Northwestern
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Penn State over #14 Michigan
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Penn State over #14 Michigan
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Boston College over #4 Notre Dame
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Captain America over Iron Man
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The Return of Adrian Peterson Vikings running back is having a bounce-back year after lost season
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Taylor Kurth Staff Writer
Head coach Mike Zimmer made this comment back in May when trading Adrian Peterson was a hotbutton topic: “Adrian, he’s really got two choices. He can either play for us or he can not play. He’s not going to play for anybody else. That’s just the way it’s going to be.” Due to contract disputes, wavering confidence in loyalty on both sides and Peterson’s 15-game suspension for disciplining his child, the relationship seemed estranged. For the majority of the
off-season, many thought the Minnesota Vikings would trade its star running back, but the Vikings brass weathered the controversies and quietly held onto to the best running back the franchise has ever known. Fast-forward seven months and the Vikings find themselves with the fifth best record in all of football at 7-2 and lead the NFC North by a game over the Green Bay Packers. And who’s leading the league in rushing after 10 weeks with 961 yards? It’s Peterson. After a forgettable first game against the San Francisco 49ers (10 carries, 31 yards), Peterson has averaged 116 yards a game on a healthy dose of 23
carries a game. In games where the Vikings have gotten Peterson 19 or more carries, they are 7-0. In games where Peterson carries less than 19? They are 0-2. For the year, he is averaging 21.7 carries. Only twice in Peterson’s career has he averaged at least 21 carries. First, in 2008 when he led the league in rushing with 1,760 yards and drug the Vikings to the playoffs and in 2012 when he led the NFL in rushing again with 2,097 yards and, again, drug the Vikings to the playoffs. The Vikings have only been to the playoffs three times in Peterson’s career. The year that they made the playoffs and he didn’t
average 21 carries? 2009, he averaged 19.7 carries and had Brett Favre handing him the ball. There is a strong correlation between Peterson’s success and the Vikings success. Peterson is the engine, transmission and the accelerator in this grindit-out offense. There were many rumblings that Peterson was nearing the end of his career due to the apparent allergenic attack on running backs at the age of 30. The last time that a 30-year-old running back led the league in rushing was in 2004. Curtis Martin did it for the New York Jets when he rushed for 1,697 yards. History has been unkind to backs once they reach that age threshold.
Ladaninan Tomlinson was universally regarded as the best running back of the 2000-10 decade, yet he never ran for more than 1,000 yards after turning 30-years-old. What Peterson is doing is rare, but should we be surprised? What Peterson has done his whole career has been rare. He was the second fastest running back to reach 11,000 yards in regards to games played. When many thought that he would never fully recover from a torn ACL and MCL, he returned to play nine months later, ran for 2,097 yards and won the NFL Most Valuable Player — an award that was the first won by a running back since 2006 and only the third in
the 12 years that preceded. During November, it looks as if Peterson is starting to find his tempo. He’s rushed for 431 yards on 75 carries in three games and seemed much more comfortable and patient behind a makeshift O-line that’s missing its two best starters (right tackle Phil Loadholt and center John Sullivan). The Vikings are in the midst of a dazzling and surprising season right now, and they will go as far as Peterson’s legs will take them. After nine games in 2012 when Peterson rushed for 2,097 yards he had accumulated 957 yards rushing. This year, after nine games, he’s at 961.
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