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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- A raccoon has ended a North Dakota team’s bid for a fourth consecutive regional championship in high school wrestling. The Carrington High School team was pulled from Saturday's tournament when officials discovered the athletes had been exposed to a live raccoon.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -Authorities in North Dakota say a man who had just been convicted of two felonies for allegedly molesting a young girl pulled a gun in a courtroom. Adams County Sheriff Eugene Molbert said Vicente Chacano pointed the 9mm pistol at an assistant attorney general who had prosecuted the case.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota Girl Scout council’s decision to sell some of its camps has so upset one Scout that she and others in her troop plan to sit out the big annual cookie sale that starts Saturday. Kim Zaiman, who leads a troop of 12 girls in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood, said Thursday her 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, will sit out the sale along with some other troop members.

NATIONAL NEW YORK (AP) -- When members of Congress met recently to discuss revitalizing passenger trains in the United States, they chose Grand Central Terminal, a majestic hub of New York’s vaunted mass transit system. From a balcony above the main concourse, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told lawmakers he rides the subway every day and called high-speed passenger rail “the track to the future.”

WASHINGTON (AP) -Sarah Palin says the Obama administration must tell Americans what it knows about who will be Egypt’s next leader. In a Christian Broadcasting Network interview released Saturday, the 2008 vice presidential candidate says the administration should level with the American people on what it knows about the Egyptian crisis.

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(AP) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak a good friend and U.S. ally, and he urged the Obama administration to move cautiously as turmoil continued to shake that nation's government.

WORLD TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -Tunisia’s interior minister on Sunday suspended all activities of the country’s former ruling party amid the most serious protests since the country’s autocratic ruler fled into exile. Fahrat Rajhi suspended all meetings of the Democratic Constitutional Rally, known as the RCD, and ordered all party offices or meeting places it owns closed and intends to seek its dissolution, a ministry statement said.

BERN, Switzerland (AP) -Police in Italy, Switzerland and France searched on Sunday for 6-year-old twin girls who disappeared after their father died in an apparent suicide. The body of Matthias Kaspar Schepp, 43, a Canadian-born resident of Switzerland, was found by a railway station near the southern Italian port city Bari shortly before 11 p.m. on Thursday, according to Swiss police in the canton (state) of Vaud.

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SquirrelMail retires this semester CHELSEY THRONSON Co-News Editor

The elimination process of SquirrelMail will gradually take place throughout the course of the semester.

Groups of students will randomly be chosen and emailed with instructions to deactivate their SquirrelMail and switch over to NDSU Live.

According to Communications Coordinator for Informational Technology Services (ITS) Cloy Tobola, students are already beginning to receive their emails that their SquirrelMail accounts will be deactivating.

The first group of randomly selected students was notified by email last Monday and will be receiving one more reminder email.

Students who receive these emails have a brief grace period before their SquirrelMail accounts get deactivated.

The next group of students was notified this Monday and the same protocol will apply to them. This cycle will continue until everyone is switched over to NDSU Live.

Tobola encourages students to call ITS with any questions they have about the switch, as this might be a confusing time.

“The help desk is getting calls with questions,” Tobola said. “Feel free to call the help

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desk, that’s why we’re there; to help people out.”

Tobola said the server used for SquirrelMail, IMAP, is being retired. The switch is scheduled to be complete by the time final exams roll around.

The reason ITS is making the switch in staggered groups instead of all at once is because the IMAP server is several

years old and they do not want to overload the system and risk a crash.

“I think it’s going to be a good move, change is always tough but this will be a change for the better,” Tobola said. “I think students are going to like the new features in live.”

According to a press release from ITS, Chief IT Security Officer Theresa Semmens is

confident that the switch will be well received.

“The NDSU Live service has been very well-received by students and provides a great improvement over the simple interface in SquirrelMail,” Semmens said. “The move to NDSU Live will provide real benefits for students.”

According to the ITS press release, the switch is simple

and allows students to pull in mail from other email accounts. In addition to the simplicity, students will be able to keep all of the emails saved from SquirrelMail and pick up right where they left off on NDSU Live.

For further instructions about the switch, go to www.ndsu.edu/its/ndsu-live.

Celebrating agriculture Career Fair KATERINA VORONOVA News Reporter

This year’s Little International (Little “I”) contest will be taking place the weekend of Feb. 11 and 12. It will be the 85th largest annual, studentsponsored event at NDSU. Events will take place starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, and will conclude with a dance in the chips at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday.

This year’s theme is “proof that the legacy lives on.”

The showmanship categories of the event are beef, dairy, sheep, swine and horse.

Other activities include ham curing and public speaking competitions. The group will also be announcing this year’s agriculturist of the year.

The contest will feature events such as crop and animal judging.

According to an official NDSU statement, events of the Little “I” competition will be taking place at both the Shepperd Arena and Bison Sports Arena.

The Little “I” contest, which is planned by the Saddle and Sirloin Club, is an organization intended to get students interested in animal husbandry. The Little “I” contest has been taking place since 1922.

“The Little International is a production filled with pride and a sense of tradition that will continue for many years to come,” Manager Mitchell Becker said in a press release.

During Little “I,” the crowning of the queen and two princesses will also take place.

Candidates are selected form the student body and serve as liaisons of the Saddle and Sirloin Club during some of the main events.

Quynn Larson was selected

to be this year’s queen, while Katie Carlson and Sarah Schaible were voted to be this year’s princesses.

Another major event in the Little “I” contest is the award ceremony for agriculturist of the year. The banquet will take place 6 p.m. Friday in the Fargo Civic Center. According to an official NDSU statement, Paul Berg, Bert Moore and Russ Danielson will all be receiving the award.

Berg was born and raised in North Dakota, attended NDSU and has a degree in animal husbandry. He has also received a master’s and doctoral degree in animal science and has worked as a farmer.

He has taught animal science at NDSU, as well as coached judging teams.

Moore was born and raised in

Iowa and has also lived in Nebraska. He taught various classes at NDSU, including meat animal evaluation, livestock selection, breeds of livestock, feeds and feeding, and sheep and horse production.

He is currently the secretary and treasurer of the American Shorthorn Association in Omaha, Nebraska.

Danielson grew up in North Dakota and has a degree in animal husbandry from NDSU. Danielson taught courses in introduction to animal science, meat animal production, livestock evaluation, beef cattle pedigrees and beef production. He was also the faculty advisor for the NDSU Judging Club and the Saddle and Sirloin Club. Danielson retired from NDSU in 2010.

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Whether students are freshmen still undecided or seniors gearing up for graduation, those looking for professional employment opportunities will have the chance to attend the NDSU Career Fair tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Fargodome.

More than 120 employers will be at the event, searching for students to fill their positions for internships, co-ops or full time employment opportunities.

Even if students are not looking for employment at this time, Director of the Career Center Jill Wilkey recommended that students still attend and begin to make connections.

Wilkey expressed the importance of networking and exploration at any stage of a student’s education.

“Although it is hard to track how many students gain employment from attending the fair, many will make their first contact with future employers, possibly even as freshman,” Wilkey said.

This year’s fair is already setting record attendance by employers.

Each company will be looking to fill a number of different positions for all majors from locations all over the Midwest and beyond. There will also be many new employers that have never attended an NDSU fair before. According to Wilkey, a great way to sift through all 120 companies is to attend an employer presen-

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tation. At the career fair, students will have the opportunity to sit in on presentations about certain companies, giving them a full overview of the companies they will have the opportunity to meet with.

Wilkey also stressed that business casual or professional wear is recommended for the event.

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Although it is hard to track how many students gain employment from attending the fair, many will make their first contact with future employers.

-Jill Wilkey “Even if you are just exploring, dress appropriately,” said Wilkey.

Students attending may also want to bring copies of their resume. The Career Center is offering a drop-in resume critique today from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. or by appointment.

No resume critiques will be accepted after today. Wilkey recommended using Optimal Resume Software to help students build a strong resume for employers to review.

For more information about the fair, tips on appropriate dress, and a list of employers attending this year’s career fair, visit the Career Center’s website at http://www.ndsu.edu/career/.

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While many students at NDSU dread the cold snow of winter, for a select few, it is the time of year their student organization waits for.

This fall, students Brian Kaeter, a freshman majoring in management, and Ben Koenig, a freshman majoring in accounting, put their determination and passion for cross-country skiing together to form a new organization at NDSU, the Nordic Ski Club.

The co-presidents of the club

had both skied in high school on competitive teams, and said they wanted a way to continue cross-country skiing while in college with others that enjoyed the sport as well.

“We’re both pretty passionate about it,” Kaeter said.

The group skis together every Tuesday at Viking Ship Park in Moorhead and on Saturdays at Edgewood Golf Course in Fargo. Occasionally the club travels to other locations on the weekends as well, such as the Rainbow Resort in Waubun, Minn., which offers a more “hilly” terrain, according to Koenig.

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Skiing is a good workout to do in the winter to stay in good shape and it’s a lot of fun. You can do it for the rest of your life.

–Ben Koenig, CoPresident of the Nordic Ski Club

Outside of their ski outings, the club meets every Thursday at the Wellness Center to condition on exercise bikes or by running laps.

According to the co-presidents, while the number of skiers at each outing varies, approximately ten people usually ski with the group.

In their first season together, the Nordic Ski Club participated in one race -- the Edgewood Winter Blast -- which was held in January at Edgewood Golf Course.

However, Kaeter and Koenig said they are looking to participate in more races in

the 2011-2012 season.

“We’re getting more competitive,” Kaeter said. “We’re scheduling races for next year, and have five or six lined up.”

While the ambitions of the group are growing, the group said they are also looking to grow in number as well.

After the Nordic Ski Club formed in October, the two presidents put up posters to advertise their club, and the group’s events are now listed on the NDSU event calendar on the university’s website.

The club is looking for both experienced skiers as well as those with little or no experi-

ence.

“If you don’t have any experience you can just come hang out with us ... You can rent skis a couple of times and just see if it’s right for you,” Kaeter said.

For more information about the Nordic Ski Club and their events, students can reach the co-presidents Brian Kaeter at Brian.Kaeter@ndsu.edu and Ben Koenig at Benjamin.Koenig@ndsu.edu.

“Skiing is a good workout to do in the winter to stay in good shape and it’s a lot of fun,” Koenig said. “You can do it for the rest of your life.”

Man tied to slain ND family Train derailment, fire forces Ohio held by immigration From the Associated Press

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A Somali man with a history of violent crime has been interviewed as “a person of interest” in the deaths of his daughter's mother and three others and is being held by U.S. immigration officials, authorities said Thursday.

Omar Mohamed Kalmio, 26, is the father of an infant girl found alive last week in the Minot apartment of 19year-old Sabrina Zephier, who was found dead Friday, Minot Police Chief Jeff Balentine told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Sabrina Zephier’s mother, Jolene Zephier, 38; brother, Dillon Zephier, 13; and Jolene Zephier’s boyfriend, Jeremy Longie, 22, were found slain in nearby mobile home less than an hour later.

“We have interviewed (Kalmio), and he is a person of interest,” Balentine said.

Shawn Neudauer, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Kalmio was arrested Tuesday in Minot for failing to abide by the terms of supervised release stemming from an assault charge. He declined to give details, citing privacy issues.

Minnesota court records show Kalmio was convicted in 2006 of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, a felony, and sentenced to one year and one day in prison with credit for 143 days served.

Kalmio and a group of other Somali men attacked a man in Minneapolis in January 2006, and Kalmio stabbed him three times in the back with a knife, according to a criminal complaint in the case.

The victim also was stabbed in the face and shoulder and suffered a collapsed lung and concussion.

That same year, Kalmio was

convicted of theft and ordered to pay a fine. Court records show he lived in the Twin Cities suburb of Eagan when the crimes happened.

Minneapolis police said they have had no contact with Kalmio since 2006.

Kalmio had been ordered to report to immigration officials in Grand Forks last August but failed to do so, Neudauer said.

Kalmio, who was being held Thursday in the Grand Forks jail, has been in the custody of immigration agents before.

ICE issued a statement saying Kalmio was released from custody in May 2010 as a result of rules stemming from a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

That decision required a court review before immigrants convicted of certain crimes could be deported, a process that had been automatic before. The decision also said criminals with no country

to accept them couldn’t be jailed indefinitely.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991.

ICE officials would not comment on whether they tried and failed to deport Kalmio, citing privacy rules.

Balentine said police intend to interview Kalmio again. He said Kalmio had been living in Minot but had been working in the northwest North Dakota city of Williston.

The Zephiers were members of South Dakota’s Yankton Sioux Tribe. Officials have said they and Longie died after being shot. Their bodies were sent to Bismarck on Monday for autopsies, and police are waiting for the results, Balentine said.

He would not comment on a possible motive for the slayings.

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ARCADIA, Ohio (AP) -- A freight train carrying volatile chemicals derailed about 50 miles south of Toledo Sunday morning, causing at least 15 tanker cars to catch fire and explode and forcing evacuations of nearby homes, a fire official said. No injuries have been reported.

Capt. Jim Breyman of the Arcadia Fire Department said the call came in at about 2:15 a.m., and estimates 15 to 18 tanker cars carrying ethanol derailed.

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whether to send in crews to put out the blaze or to wait for it to burn out, he said. A primary concern was that one end of a string of seven chemical-filled cars was near the fire and could not be moved but had not vented or burned, creating the possibility of a chain reaction if it were to explode.

The burning cars, scattered on either side of the tracks, had been separated from most of the rest of the train.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was testing waterways in the area Sunday morning to see if there was any contamination, but Breyman said he expected most of the fuel to be burned up in the blaze.

An initial concern was that the derailment and explosions happened next to a fertilizer plant, and Breyman said it was fortunate the fire didn't spread there.

“I’ve been a fireman for almost 30 years now and I’ve seen a lot, never seen anything like this,” Breyman said. “It was beyond words.”

The train was headed from Chicago to North Carolina with 62 cars loaded with ethanol, and preliminary information indicated about half those cars derailed, Norfolk Southern spokesman Rudy Husband said. He said he had no information on what caused the derailment.

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NDSU offers DUI prevention advice Planning ahead is a good alternative to facing consequences son said.

With life endangerment Spectrum Staff being the primary concern, often the financial and profesNewfound attention is being sional implications are overpaid to DUI enforcement, as looked. reports of DUIs and alcoholrelated incidents seem to be flourishing. The past month has seen everyone from pastors to bus drivers, and even a Oftentimes, people former Fargo TV anchor arthink of their rested on suspicion of DUI. In reaction, the Fargo Police choice to drive as a Department dispatched the decision that Fargo Regional DUI Task impacts themselves.

Force to saturate the Southeast region of Fargo over the I guess I would say to really consider weekend.

While a reactionary ap- that this risk goes proach helps deter future inci- far beyond the self; dents, some at NDSU prefer to take preventative measures it affects others as while they have the opportu- well. nity.

-Erika Beseler Erika Beseler Thompson, Thompson assistant director for alcohol and other drug prevention “There are many ramificaprograms, thinks that drinktions for someone cited for ing and driving is a risk that drinking and driving, not the many do not fully consider least of which include employand that planning ahead can ment applications.” Beseler prevent financial, professional Thompson said. and conscientious issues from According to a study rearising. leased in 2010 by the presi“Oftentimes, people think of dent’s council on alcohol and their choice to drive as a deciother drugs, of the 270 resion that impacts themselves. I sponding NDSU-graduate emguess I would say to really ployers surveyed, 21.4 percent consider that this risk goes far would not hire a person with a beyond the self; it affects othDUI on his or her record, 36 ers as well,” Beseler ThompMATT SEVERNS

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percent would treat DUI incidents on a case by case basis and 50 percent would not hire a person with a felony, which in North Dakota would be a result of a fifth offense.

In order to avoid complications, the simplest thing to do is simply not drink and drive.

If, however, drinking is going to be central to a night out, there are ways to avoid unnecessary endangerment.

“Plan before you go out.

Choose a designated driver at the beginning of the night.

Don’t pick the person who drinks the least because often that judgment is impaired,” Beseler Thompson said.

Additionally, simply not getting into a car with someone who has been drinking, calling someone who hasn't been drinking or taking advantage of the herd hauler program are good ways to avoid potentially endangering someone’s life or future.

The herd hauler allows NDSU students to access safe transportation at reduced costs during the hours MATBUS isn’t running.

"I've never once met a person who has paid for a cab and regretted it. I have met people who regretted drinking and Photo Courtesy of Facebook driving," Beseler Thompson With the dangers associated with drinking and driving almost incomprehensible, said.

NDSU officials urge students to avoid getting behind the wheel while tipsy.

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Appropriate socks for business LINDA VASQUEZ Features Editor

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Rapper B.o.B is nominated for Woodie of the Year at the 2011 mtvU Woodie Awards.

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LINDA VASQUEZ Features Editor

A few days ago the nominees for the 2011 MTVU Woodie Awards (WA) were announced.

One of my favorite things about the WAs is that the nominees are usually emerging artists who are not commonly known.

Once honored, they then become more popular and sometimes even enter the mainstream.

But what really are the WAs? Well first, MTVU is a division of MTV Networks that produces a 24-hour television channel.

According to MTV.com, MTVU is available on more than “750 college and university campuses across the United States, as well as several digital cable packages.“ MTVU provides a more target alternative to MTV, especially to college-age viewers, and broadcasts exclusive content dedicated to aspects of college life (including music, news and on-campus events).

The music played on the channel is primarily indie rock, pop punk and hip-hop of underground and emerging artists.

The WAs featire an annual award show that honors these artists and recognizes the music voted best by college students.

Past winners have included Death Cab for Cutie, 30 Seconds to Mars, Paramore, Green Day and Kings of Leon.

Woodie of the Year, Breaking Woodie, Best Video Woodie, Performing Woodie, Left Field Woodie and College Radio Woodie are all award categories.

This year, some music artists we might already know are up for nomination.

Both B.o.B’s “Airplanes” and Wiz Khalifa’s “Black & Yellow” are up for Woodie of the Year.

This award honors the artist who made the biggest splash on the college music scene in 2010.

Kanye West is up for Left Field Woodie.

According to MTV.com, this award goes to the artist that resists classification. “They came out of left field, and we’re still not sure what section of our favorite jams playlist to put them in,” MTV.com noted.

Although MTV throws a spotlight on the underground sounds that are making the most noise on college campuses across America, we, the college students, choose who wins.

Voting will be available on Woodies.MTV.com until March 1.

The sixth-annual MTVU WAs will air live for the first time ever midnight, March 16 on MTV, MTV2 and MTVU.

Socks; who cares, right?

Well guys, when going out into the business world, socks are an important factor that can either help or hinder your appearance.

If you are looking your best, you know that it is often the details that make all the difference.

Socks are details of an outfit commonly neglected and overlooked, so here are some quick tips on the fundamentals to pairing socks to that perfect business outfit.

First and foremost, let it be known that there are three types of socks: casual, athletic and dress.

Casual socks come in cotton and wool, and are available in a wide variety of colors, patterns and thicknesses.

The best time to use these is on a regular basis when wearing jeans, sweats or pajamas.

Athletic socks are usually cotton and are available in white, gray and black.

They also come low-cut so that when sneakers are being worn, the socks are almost invisible.

Now these socks are not simply meant to be worn during intense athletic workouts, but according to Esquire Magazine, they also should be worn "while wearing any type of shorts, such as khaki or jean."

Dress socks are usually made from silk, cashmere, fine cotton or wool, and normally are long enough to stay up on

the calves.

This brings me to my next point: Dress socks are meant only to be worn with business attire.

But how do you know what color is the most appropriate?

According to GQ.com, "when wearing dress shoes, the fashion rule is to blend the color of the socks with the suit color or pants."

The reason you want to match sock color to the dress pants being worn is because you want the outfit to visually flow from top to bottom.

If socks are matched with the shoes instead, then people’s eyes will stop at the end of the pants because the pants and shoes seem separate.

When the socks match your pants, you let the flow of vision all the way down to the sole of the shoe.

For example, a navy suit and brown shoes should be worn with navy socks rather than brown socks.

Similarly, a charcoal suit and black shoes appears more stylish with dark gray socks.

When wearing lighter suits, make sure the socks are darker than the suit, but a shade or so lighter than the shoes.

Never (and I emphasize never), wear white socks with dress shoes. Not only is it unprofessional, but also it fails to flatter.

If wearing dress socks with a tie, make sure the socks extend over the calves.

This prevents people from seeing your bare leg when seated; it doesn't leave a good

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One of the biggest fashion mistakes for men is wearing white socks when sporting business attire.

impression when socks are constantly being pulled up the legs.

Silk socks with a slight luster complement tuxedos and other fine formal wear and thicker wool dress socks are more appropriate for heavier winter wear.

So next time the need for business attire presents uncertainty, remember that for formal wear, match socks to pants and match sock texture to the rest of the outfit.

Finally, keep the white athletic socks for the gym; you want to impress, not look unflattering.

Make a date unique ALYSIA LARSON Contributing Writer

LINDA VASQUEZ Features Editor

Everyone at some point in his or her life wants to make a date memorable.

Many people get stuck when they try to plan a date that is not part of the norm, so here is how to make a date a bit more special.

According to Ehow.com, when planning a more unique date, “you need to be able to think outside of the box [and] get creative.”

When the person that is being taken out on a date is someone you know very well, it will be easier to figure out what to do because it limits your range of ideas.

For example, if dating someone who doesn’t like animals, do not go to the zoo.

If dating someone who does not like overly showy gestures, then do not go to a sports game and get on the big screen.

A lot of the planning for a unique date starts with knowing your date.

Once you have that figured out, try to start thinking outside of the box.

If you really want to go to a movie, perhaps instead act out the movie together and film it to watch later on.

Links2love.com states that the key to making a date unique is “by making it memorable.”

If this is a first date, try something different and try spinning off ideas that are already there.

Take a walk in the park and take along a one-time use camera.

Throughout the date, use it up and take turns taking pictures of each other, as well as together.

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Be open to change and know that the most unique ideas happen when you are simply with that special someone.

Then for the next date, develop the pictures together, look at them and pick a picture to exchange with one another.

Once both of you have chosen the pictures, write on the back of them and share the memento.

This way, your date will think of you every time they see it and remember the unique experience.

Maybe the girl or guy in art class is whom you are taking out on a date for the first time.

If so, go purchase huge sheets of paper, pens, charcoal, crayons and watercolors prior to the date.

Then take your date to an art museum, art gallery or art festival.

Look at the artwork and then go home and try to recreate a favorite piece.

Once dry, exchange artwork with one another. This will be a special reminder of the unique date.

Want extra points?

Guys: Give her flowers and bring a special one for her mother.

Also, be on time and do not honk the horn for her to come out, but actually walk up to the door to get her.

Girls: Be engaging, appreciative, do not play dumb, and try complimenting him on what he is wearing. Men often go through a lot of trouble to look good, but rarely get as many compliments as women do.

Remember that when planning a date, nothing usually happens as perfectly as you think it will.

Be open to change and know that the most unique ideas happen when you are simply with that special someone.

When you’re with someone special, even the most horrible mistakes can make a date more meaningful.

Just breathe and have fun.

Neon trend to explode in spring JAIME JARMIN Spectrum Staff

Make a “flashy” statement this spring by wearing bright neon colors.

Neon colors are booming on the runways for many big name designers’ spring 2011 collections.

Designers who have revamped this color trend in their collections include Jason Wu, Versace, Nina Ricci and Burberry Prorsum.

The January issue of Vogue magazine states, “spring has a new lease on light: bright neons that illuminate the room.”

You are sure to “illuminate the room” while wearing this hot new trend to classes this upcoming spring.

Although this shift is fabulous on the runway, what is the best way to pull it off without looking like a construction worker?

This is where smart pairing comes in handy.

Try coordinating bright neons with darker-colored clothing.

This will cause the neon colors to pop even more, without looking like your wearing a bright stop sign.

Instead, others are bound to “stop” and check out your fabulous outfit.

Feeling really adventurous?

Try experimenting with these stunning colors by wearing a neon dress.

Many designers’ collections have recently included electrifying dresses featuring headto-toe neon.

According to Elle magazine online, “Designers looked to acid tones for their spring collections, from electric yellow to fluorescent orange. Not just for the thrill seeker, these neon colors work wonders as gowns and ladylike skirts as well.”

Not the type to wear “ladylike skirts” and dresses?

There is a solution: try out neon accessories.

Brighten up an existing wardrobe by adding accessories, such as neon belts, purses or jewelry.

Voguemagazine.com states that there was a “collection of patent bags in neon lime or turquoise” designed by Burberry Prorsum.

Items like these are sure to wow those around you and electrify attire.

Some of the shades that look fantastic this spring include lime green, hot pink, turquoise, bright orange and highlighter yellow.

Now that spring is creeping up around the corner, be prepared to meet it with some funky neon clothing and accessories.

You are bound to “shed some light” around campus.

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Top 5 music websites

CATE EKEGREN Spectrum Staff

It’s easy to get stuck in a radio rut! Here are the top five websites where you can listen to and discover new music online.

5. iTunes You don’t have to download the iTunes program in order to take advantage of their online store. The pros? Music is listed alphabetically and by genre making it very easy to find similar sounding artists.

The store is very organized and keeps information simple and concise. The cons? Only a sample of each song is available for listening.

4. AOL Music Very similar to the MTV and Vh1 websites, AOL music features the latest in music news, artist bios, photos, etc. The pros? My favorite things about this website are the links to other great music sites and the “Listening Party.” There you can listen to a selection of full CDs. It’s nice having CDs picked out for you to listen to and the majority of the time, the whole CD is better than a particular single. The cons?

This website definitely requires a lot of navigating around.

3. Pandora With the ability to create a free account, Pandora is one of the most popular internet radio websites. The pros? You can have multiple playlists.

Type in an artist or a song name and a new station will be created playing only music with similar qualities. Pandora is one of the best websites I have found that introduces you to new music. You can give each song a thumbs up or down, which refines each of your stations even further. The cons? Although the music plays continuously, you are only allotted so many hours per month on your account.

The limit is quite high, however if you listen to Pandora for hours on end each day it is easy to reach. There are also advertisement breaks every so often.

2. Jango Jango is very similar to Pandora. Users are able to create a free account that saves all musical preferences. The pros? Multiple playlists, the ability to rate songs and finding new songs and artists are all great qualities. What separates Jango from Pandora is the user’s ability to browse the website, bios, photos and more, all while still listening.

The cons? Advertisements are still the number one way to provide a free web service.

1. Grooveshark With the largest music selection available and the ability to listen to what you want, not what the website wants, makes Grooveshark by far my favorite website to listen to music online for free. The pros? You can have multiple playlists of your own or view other user’s playlists or preset playlists. Users can create a free account to save all preferences and search easily for songs, artists and albums. Advertisements are only seen on the sidebar instead of interrupting your listening experience. This is a great website to use when you want to listen to specific songs on demand without buying them. The cons? The music on Grooveshark is available because users upload their music libraries. When users all upload the same CD onto Grooveshark, you get multiple copies of each song you have to see when you search.

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Thief River Falls natives Little Winter brings Fargo a unique new sound.

Almost all in the family MICHAEL WEILER Contributing Writer

Rebellion has always happened quietly in Thief River Falls, Minn. The biggest act of rebellion, and maybe the most important, is to get out of town. Where the known nickname of the Mayor Steve Nordhagen is “Beaver,” getting out for this fact alone seems almost necessary. With a population of 8,472, it’s not completely po-dunk, but it is very close.

Small towns can have strange effects on music. And for Little Winter, it was no different. With nothing better to do in Thief River Falls, what does one do to pass the time?

Starting a garage band is one option.

“We were always getting complaints from the neighbors and they would call the cops complaining that we were too loud and they couldn’t hear their television,” Kris Adamson said. “They would call my parents and my parents were cool about it and defend us and tell them to turn up the volume because that’s what they did.”

It was then that Little Winter rebelled like all bands do, and got out of town. One by one, they slowly made their way to Fargo.

Though they are definitely a “band” in everything they do, Adamson and band mate

Ryan Weiss seem to be the heart and soul of the group.

They both formed the group approximately six years ago.

That’s when the other Adamson family members came into the group. Ben Adamson plays bass and sings while Calli Adamson sings, plays cello and keyboard.

“We all kind of contribute in different ways. Calli sings and writes, Ryan writes, I write,” said.

Stunningly soft-spoken yet playful, they all listen to each other talk and never really interrupt each other when the other is speaking, which lets everyone describe their music and what it means to them.

“I don’t listen to as much

music as I probably should,” Kris explained. “We spent a lot of time in the beginning playing a lot of those battle-ofthe-bands-type shows from Crookston to Mockingbird.

We would either win them or lose them.”

“I guess we just could not please everybody,” Weiss said.

And pleasing everyone is not really necessary when the chemistry is strong. It’s more than blood, its something almost unspoken. The audience hears it drift in and out of their lyrics and three-part harmonies. It is like when they talk, never stepping on each other; clear, concise and softspoken, but so very effective.

With influences ranging

from Death Cab to older folk music to their parent’s band, “The Reflections,” who were quite popular in the Thief River Falls area, Little Winter is a quiet force to be reckoned with.

And like their music, Little Winter is currently crafting and creating their album the way they want to. Slowly and methodically they trudge, not hurrying for anyone or for any reason.

Little Winter opens for Dann K, Black Casket and Shane Maland at the Red Raven Saturday, Feb. 26. It is an all-ages show, music starts at 7 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the cover is $5.

Big screen review: "True Grit" STEVEN STROM Contributing Writer

In the 1969 film adaptation of Charles Portis’ novel of the same name, John Wayne’s performance as Rooster Cogburn would win him his first and only academy award. The film quickly went on to become one of the most celebrated westerns in United States cinema.

Critical darlings Joel and Ethan Coen, who wrote and directed the film, as well as their all-star cast, had a lot to live up to with their remake of the classic and they were completely aware of this fact going into production.

The film opens with a somber and depressingly clinical narration by Mattie Ross recounting the murder of her father by Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), one her father’s hired hands, when she was only 14 years old. The true story then begins with the teenager Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) out in search of a man with “true grit” to kill, or otherwise bring to justice, her father’s killer.

She enlists help of U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), described to her as the meanest and most pitiless of lawmen. The duo begrudgingly accepts the aid of a Texas Ranger by the name of LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) who has been tracking Tom Chaney since he murdered a U.S. senator. The three finally begin their hunt for Chaney, who has been rumored to have fallen in with a gang of outlaws in Native American territory.

"True Grit" is a film that lives and dies on its performances. Bridges, who had the most to prove in filling John Wayne’s near-mythic shoes, proves that he is every bit the actor that Wayne ever was. As the gruff and nearly unintelligible Marshal Cogburn, he displays a kind of father-like dishonorableness. In recent years, the anti-hero character has been put on a pedestal. We are told to revere the action heroes who murder wantonly and joke about the destruction they leave behind.

Rooster Cogburn is a drunk, a degenerate and most importantly, a normal human being who does things that no regular person should even consider doing. Watching him proceed to drink, fight and kill the way that he does evokes the feeling of when a child first discovers their own father is not invincible and omnipotent.

At times, you almost feel ashamed for liking Cogburn as much as you do as he drops endearing one-liners and makes a fool of himself while simultaneously saving the day.

Bridges conveys this with all the skill and loose likability that anyone could have asked for and more.

Surprisingly, however, it is actually Steinfeld’s portrayal of the young Mattie Ross that will endear most moviegoers.

I have often taken issue with the portrayal of children in cinema, as more often than not they are not children, but adults written small. Steinfeld and the Coen Brothers seemed to be acutely aware of this as Mattie Ross’ cold and calculating nature takes this cliché to the extreme. However, almost heartbreakingly, this is the person that Mattie has been forced to become.

Young Steinfeld’s performance completely steals the show from the previous, and this will hopefully lead to a long and active career for the

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True Grit an action-packed movie that is both suspenseful and fun to watch.

actress.

"True Grit’s" tale of revenge is nothing new, but the way it is conveyed to the viewer carries so much heft and weight

as to completely make us forget about that. The film nearly forces the audience to demand justice in a lawless world.

Most importantly, it invokes a

pre-"Unforgiven" era when a western could just be fun.

"True Grit" is a true joy of a film.

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Opinion

Death of Saturday morning

RYLEE NELSON Opinion Editor

Lately I have been wondering if Bugs is on some island somewhere. Maybe Daffy and the crew are off enjoying an early retirement. I am wondering if Tom may have finally gotten the best of Jerry. Either way it’s time for them to come back.

I have memories as a little boy waking up at 9 a.m. with my big brother and watching Wile E. Coyote try his latest hopeless scheme on Road Runner. Other times, we would watch Elmer Fudd try to catch the “waskly wabbit.”

Now, mostly movie-inspired spin-offs control Saturday morning. It’s a real tragedy.

Instead of the hilarious predicaments of our favorite, poorly animated comrades, we have the latest version of Power Rangers. The cartoons of the present make it obvious that there is more money spent on animation production than on actual script and substance.

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The cartoons of the present make it obvious that there is more money spent on animation production than on actual script and substance.

Now some of you may be pulling the maturity card and say that this is a child's topic, but I will be the first to admit that if they brought back the old cartoons, I would make it a point to wake up early and schedule a little “Bugs Time” into my Saturday morning.

In fact, I was watching TV on a Saturday morning a few months ago and to my extreme surprise and joy, an episode of “Tom and Jerry” came on. At that very moment, a truckload of childhood nostalgia hit me like a ton of bricks. I continued to enjoy watching Jerry escape before Daffy Duck trotted across the screen and brought gut-wrenching laughter for the next ten minutes. For that window of time, I hoped that I had found what I had been wishing for, ever since those childhood memories. But abruptly after Daffy exited, the announcer informed the viewers that this was simply a quick flashback and a “special feature.” I was heart-broken.

Now, in conversation with my roommate, I realized that a major reason for the transition is the meeting of a demand in the market: bigger and better computer graphics.

However, he also brought up something that I had not thought of. Maybe the move to the “new way of cartoons” is a move to political correctness.

While considering this, I remembered that there was quite a bit of violence. How many times did I see Wile E. Coyote ardently trying to break Road Runner’s neck with an anvil, dynamite or his latest rocket invention. I remember seeing Bugs Bunny in a dress and wig trying to fiendishly seduce Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck getting uncharacteristically drunk, Sylvester

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Drink local. Drink warm.

SARAH CHAMPA Contributing Writer

We are all cranky and cold; a quality coffee café that cares can make a huge difference in our lives. So I say drink local and ignore big businesses.

Local coffee shops prove that quality, creativity and relationships can last. We deserve the very best in these subzero temperatures.

First of all, if you doubt my expertise on the subject, just know this past summer I worked at a local coffee shop in a decent-sized town; a town large enough to house chain and local coffee shops competitively. At this cute place, I was indoctrinated about coffee shop ethics from my bosses who had a real passion for the

java.

Now that you know I am legitimate, I don’t like to name names, but Starbucks, Caribou, Dunn Brothers and many more don’t emphasize and execute quality like local coffee houses can. In these chains, ingredients are pre-planned for each shop. This makes it impossible for the storeowners to control the quality of ingredients to better become one with their lattes, cappuccinos and so on. Local shops have the opportunity to buy what they want from wherever they want. They can buy six-dollar per gallon organic milk, make their own chocolate syrup and painstakingly French press their coffee for all we know.

This is because they love quality and want to stand out from

the monotony of industry. It is a truly beautiful thing.

When I worked as a barista this summer, I was encouraged to create new drinks and tantalize the customers with my concoctions. Because of this, the work did not drone; it inspired me to become a better barista. I created a latte with huckleberry and hazelnut flavors. I cleverly titled it Huckleberry Hazelnut Latte and asked people to try it. I am happy to say that the new drink became a constant on the menu. You cannot do such things at chain coffee shops.

The recipes are strict and predesigned for the employees. So if you want the tried and true as well as innovative techniques, go local.

The most comforting aspect

of a coffee shop experience is joke). Now, I don’t mean to the relationship factor. No one say that all big coffee industries employ less happy people, but I just know that it is more of a possibility due to how systematic and wateredSo if you want the down big businesses have become. tried and true as I hope this has given you well as innovative “drink for thought.” If anytechniques, go thing, I want to inspire you to search for quality and care. local.

The best way to arrive at qualwants to walk into a coffee ity and care is to shop local. It shop and see a grumpy barista may cost more, but isn’t it behind the counter; a coffee worth it? We live in the arctic house should be a place of Fargo, ND; we deserve the warmth and welcome. I was best coffee. trained in barista-ship to make friends with the locals Sarah is a senior majoring in flowing on through. I was even University Studies. trained to use a Southern accent because if anything is hospitable, it is the South (that’s a

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Bringing back the blue JAIME JARMIN Spectrum Staff

The Fargo Forum got me thinking: How would people survive if blue laws were reenacted in North Dakota?

I’m sure all of the compulsive shoppers out there would be extremely upset by this act of legislation and quite possibly all of the procrastinating shoppers as well. But maybe if we decided to put the kibosh on shopping for unnecessary items on Sundays, people would be less materialistic and closer to their families.

Blue laws were in effect in North Dakota until the early 90s. These laws stated that

anyone wanting to shop for anything other than gas or convenience store items, among other things, was out of luck. Stores that were open 24 hours were generally forced to close at midnight on Saturday and would not be able to be open the following day until a certain time on Sunday, or in some cases, not at all.

Having the option of shopping on Sundays does help stimulate the economy, but does it help stimulate our ability to interact with our families, or dare I say, our faith.

I can’t help but notice the plethora of vehicles filled with enthusiastic shoppers waiting outside places like West Acres to open at noon. Then I ask

myself, would they be as enthusiastic to spend time with their family or spend time at church -- if they go to church, that is?

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It’s time some people start worshipping the Almighty God instead of the Almighty Dollar.

It’s ironic that those who are in church tend to bolt out as soon as they can, just to be the first in line when the doors open at Fleet Farm. I have seen this firsthand, I might

add. It’s time some people start worshipping the Almighty God instead of the Almighty Dollar.

When I used to work at a small-town gas station, I would hear a lot of the older gentlemen talk about the “good ol’ days” when the town would be quiet and peaceful on a Sunday. I often imagine how Fargo would look if there weren’t shoppers causing traffic-jams and road rage along the major routes on these “days of rest.”

I guess back in the “good ol’ days” it was a luxury to go over to Minnesota or Montana to shop on a Sunday. One gentleman told me that in North Dakota some items would be

covered by tarps in the stores that weren’t allowed to be sold in accordance with the blue laws.

Our society seems so obsessed with the buck and shopping, but it’s hard not to be when the best sales are usually on the weekends. It’s a little disheartening to think that people go out of their way to purchase a flat screen television that they just need for their family room.

How about instead of shopping and spending money for their family room, they actually spend time with their families in their family room?

Jaime is a sophomore majoring in English.

A little positivity is good JESSE SCHUER Contributing Writer

I feel like I’ve been very negative lately. I’ve pointed at flaws in technology, Google, left-handed awareness and social networking. For those of you who have been loyal to my articles, I hope to uplift your spirits that I so thoughtlessly destroyed. In doing this, I hope to enlighten you as to how some of the “disadvan-

tages” of living in the 21st century that experts seem to inform you on are statically speaking, simply wrong.

For starters, lets address health care. It has gotten better! I’m not here to argue your politics on “Obamacare” or address any flaws in insurance or paying for it. That’s a whole new ball game; but the simple fact is, healthcare is better. By and large, our medical procedures have grown beyond what people were dreaming of 100 years ago. From polio to TB to small pox, some of the deadliest and most damaging diseases of our time have become so uncommon that a majority of us don’t even have vaccines for these diseases as humans have almost completely wiped the species off

the planet. Environmentalist might argue that genocide of a species is bad, but I don’t see any problems with a polio-free world.

Second, as hard as it is to believe with shows like “Jersey Shore” on the air, humanity is getting smarter. College is more affordable than it has ever been with financial aid paying more than a billion dollars to students to allow them to pursue college. Almost 60 percent of graduating high school students go on to college; a whopping increase from 1970’s 30 percent graduating classes.

For further evidence, lets take a gander at IQ scores. For those of you who doubt that simply going to college makes you smarter (which statistics

claim does), 100 is the average score of IQ tests. However, as populations consistently score higher on IQ tests, we have to then re-work the scoring so 100 is average again. So, while IQ scores may appear to be similar from one generation to the next, the scores have to be constantly adjusted back down to 100 because children are doing better and better on the test. And finally, to lend some goodwill to my major and my criminal justice teacher, lets state once and for all that crime rates, since 1996, have been steadily dropping (except for cyber crime for obvious reasons). Violent crimes have received the largest drop, seeing a huge decline of 13 percent. That may not seem like a lot, but from a national

perspective, it is enormous. 13 percent of our population is roughly 40,558,508, so roughly that many people have been spared a violent crime during the last 14 years. I think we can all agree that’s a number to be proud of.

Yes, the world could be better, and in fact that’s the main driving force for us to be at this university. We want to improve the world. Maybe you’re just after more money.

Either way, the world is still on its way toward improvement, so we can all be a little happier.

Jesse is a freshman majoring in criminal justice.

Debt: A hidden enemy tion. Instead of trying to find money to pay these bills, they Contributing Writer continue to spend and fight about spending while a typical As Congress fights over the family makes a budget and best way to handle Obaonly spends what they can afmacare, something that has ford. If you can barely make never happened in the history of our nation is on the verge of taking place; the United States. may default on its national debt. Basically, while Now instead of the left and the right are in an- doing what a norother one of their fights, the mal American fambills have come due and we don’t have the money. That’s ily would do if they right, the United States has a were in the same $14 trillion credit card bill and situation, Congress they can’t make their monthly is working in the payment.

Now instead of doing what a opposite direction. normal American family ends meet, you do not go buy would do if they were in the a brand new Cadillac. The same situation, Congress is federal government, on the working in the opposite direcother hand, does not underBRANDON REBER

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stand this concept. They make a yearly budget that is forever growing and if they cannot afford some unnecessary things, they just charge it. Every year, they take out more and more credit to pay for what they cannot afford.

It is not just limited to the federal level however, as more and more states are complaining about mounting debt and a lack of funds. North Dakota is a rarity in that it has a budget surplus, and that can be largely attributed to the oil fields out west. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 44 states will spend more than they earn this year. California is $25 billion in the red, Illinois is out $15 billion, and New York is $9 billion in debt and growing.

This showcases that a large

government policy is not and cannot be the answer for the United States. As bureaucracy continues to grow ever more expansive and expensive, the economy, and thus the American people, will continue to suffer. Governments make their money from the people and as more and more money is needed to pay off these huge debts, more and more money (taxes) is going to be required from the American people. As our elected officials can continually spend however and whenever they please, the average American family will have less and less to spend on what they please. We, the people, are the ones getting the short end of a big spending stick.

Now this is a call to both sides of the aisle as both De-

mocrats and Republicans are guilty of this unnecessary spending. Instead of arguing about spending too much to overhaul health insurance or spending too much on the war, they need to sit down like a family would and figure out what they need to spend money on (groceries, house payment, infrastructure, national defense) and what they need to rethink and truly overhaul (new TV, new car, social security, pork projects). It is also a call to all the voters out there. We have to do our homework and make sure we’re casting votes for those with the people’s (not the bureaucracy’s) best interest in mind.

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Study Break Rylan Wolfe Puzzles Editor

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across 1. Prepares some fruit 6. Aids for treasure hunters 10. Trinidad or Tobago 14. Plant growth hormone 15. Eyeball 16. Strip sign 17. Jerk

31. Risky 35. Flee 36. Missile guidance technology 41. MADD member 42. Needlework?

43. Caught on the ranch 46. Disease transmitted by lice 50. 14 pounds, in Britain 51. Sheath 54. Summer hrs. in N.Y.C. 55. Commit to a course of action, or the first words of 20- and 36-across 59. Eastern queen 60. "One more thing ..."

61. Something to remember, with "the" 62. Combines 63. Cloverleaf feature 64. ___-ski 65. "Hey, you!"

66. Ending with bi- or tri67. Butchers' offerings

18. Ancestry record 19. ___mind 20. Chew the fat 23. Mess up 24. Consumes 25. Backspace 27. Modernize, as a factory 30. Riot

Down 1. Left-lane interstate driver

2. Trick-taking game 3. Urge 4. V.I.P.'s wheels 5. Nasal mucus 6. Closet eaters 7. Come to terms 8. Commoners 9. Fortuneteller 10. "Psst!" follower, perhaps 11. Like property under a court order 12. Courting chair 13. Chemistry ending 21. Tornado Alley city 22. Always, in verse 26. State tree of Massachusetts 28. "___ Town" 29. I 32. Figure on a hill 33. Rx watchdog 34. Young newt 36. Slow highwayman 37. Shuts up 38. Cousin of a mink 39. Rob ___ (drink with Scotch) 40. Elephant herd?

41. ___ Butterworth's 44. Join the military 45. Math operator represented by nabla symbol 47. Famous flight, A.D. 622 48. Online newsgroup system 49. Job woe 51. Actress Webb or Sevigny 52. Greek moralist 53. Subway map points 56. Soft powder 57. Prayer leader 58. Be slack-jawed 59. Ja Rule's genre

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Previous puzzle’s solution

“The Packers winning the Superbowl.”

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<< Saturday from Page 6 the cat smoking a mouthful cigarettes, and provocative female characters such as Betty Boop or Jessica Rabbit bask in their grip on the male cartoon population.

Upon reflection, maybe for morality’s sake, it is a good thing that an emphasis on computer graphics has replaced the controversial crazy antics of the “good ol’ days.”

However, maybe the lack of

animation and the length to which reality was distorted provided some sort of disconnect in our mind. This could cause what we saw to not be as influential as today’s more realistic, say, video games.

Whatever the case may be, all I know is that I miss those cartoons. I think we should bring them back. We don’t need to abandon morality to do so either. With a little selec-

tion and discretion, we can revitalize the Saturday morning. I bet that if we did, lucky charms and fruity pebbles would make a dramatic comeback. Everyone knows that nothing goes better with a bowl full of milk and cereal than a coyote, a roadrunner and a stick of dynamite.

“Commercials.”

Rylee is a junior majoring in communications.

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Someone is watching you

DEREK GAFFNEY Staff Writer

There’s a new Big Brother in town, and it’s called LikeALittle.com. No, it isn’t some Orwellian government agency spying on us day in and day out. It’s us. It’s your friends and classmates, and they are constantly watching you. The LikeALittle website is a relatively new website which seems to be inspired by the “Missed Connections” section of Craigslist. Your peers at NDSU are using it to try to get to know you.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, these websites are essentially personal ads for someone who saw someone attractive, has no idea who they are and wants to get to know them better.

Take this example from last Friday, “At Union Dining Center: Female, Brown hair. I saw you today wearing a white north face vest. You have gorgeous blue eyes and a smile that makes me laugh. I would love to get to know you better! ;).”

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The hope is that the girl will check LikeALittle and message the original poster to get together and talk. Of course, meeting your crush through the Internet on an anonymous website does seem far-fetched, but apparently it does happen.

I’ve recognized at least three of my co-workers on the site and have told them they have some random person ogling them from afar, pining for a little interaction. To my knowledge, none of them have responded to their stalker, but that doesn’t mean they won’t.

I would highly recommend trying this website out, if only to see if you need to be locking your door and shutting your curtains at night. But if you do post something for your crush to see, for the love of all that is holy, at least put enough info in the person’s description so the person you’re creeping on can recognize his or herself.

Take this post from Saturday, “At the R dining center: Male, Brown hair. You were eating with lots of friends and all I could think was 'please look at me' :).” Come on, that could be literally hundreds of people. You’ll never get a response from the actual guy; you have to put some effort into it.

Also, if you post about someone in detail, at least get the facts right. Unlike this post, “At Wellness Center: Male, Brown hair. You work behind

the rec desk, I think you just started this semester. You look so hott when you wear your glasses, but you seem kinda stuck up! Maybe you can teach me how to rock climb because it seems like that's your specialty ;).”

Obviously this person is talking about me, but I don’t work behind the Rec Desk, I work at the Front Desk. I also don’t wear glasses, or rock climb for that matter. And for crying out loud, I’ve worked there for three years. This is a classic rookie mistake, and you’ll never find love if you can’t even describe the correct person.

All in all, I love this website because it shows the true nature of our species. We are a bunch of narcissistic egomaniacs that think any vague positive reference made by anyone could be about us. Not to mention we are constantly judging each other without even knowing each other, based solely on appearance. When we are allowed to speak anonymously, our true selves can come out, and I truly believe that this website shows that we’re all just a bunch of shallow, creepy stalkers.

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Road woes continue for Bison RYAN NELSON Contributing Writer

DANIEL GUNDERSON Sports Editor

If you think I have been heard enough from this week, you are right. Lucky for me, I am the editor of this section so deal with it. Also, Greek organizations, it is called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So everything I say in this article is my opinion. Just keep reading and you will get that point.

The Super Bowl is here and gone and Packer fans can rejoice. You guys destroyed the only hope that ESPN had of making a story out of the game. Ben Roethlisberger was suspended for the first four games of the year. If he leads his team to victory, the mothership (sorry Dan Patrick, I had to borrow it) has a month’s worth of stories that can lead off another pointless Sportscenter. How great is Big Ben? Big Ben and his rise from the bottom to the top.

Yeah, I know. It makes me want to puke as much as seeing that NDSU is adding another frat. Seriously, if anything, downsizing is the direction we need to be taking in that department. Like a complete and entire downsizing.

But, I digress.

If anything, the Super Bowl is the ultimate climax to sports. After you have downed that final beverage and at the last helping of beanies and weenies, you realize tomorrow is going to be a day without football. What are you suppose to do until the NFL starts again? It is time for the cure to the Super Bowl hangover.

See, the sports year begins in March, when the 300 plus basketball teams that have been busting their butts are downsized to 68. March Madness is three weeks of college basketball heaven. You can add the fact that Opening Day for Major League baseball is crammed in there. Throw in some meaningless hockey in June and another Celtics versus Lakers NBA championship series, and we hit July, the dog days of summer. By this time, the Twins will be making a run at the Central Division title, making us all hope for a World Series run.

Spoiler alert, no matter what happens we will play the Yankees and we will lose. This will cause me to chuck a remote through a wall and stare at it for the next eight months thinking, “I really need to fix that before we check out of this apartment.”

So, now here we are again, in August and college football is

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Senior Michael Tveidt goes up for the one handed runner against Southern Utah Jan. 28 at the Bison Sports Arena. Tveidt and the Bison split this week's road games against Centenary and Oral Roberts.

After a thrilling weekend beating Southern Utah and UMKC the Bison men’s basketball team, showing new life, was back in action on the road trying to keep the momentum rolling.

At only 3-8 on the road, including five straight losses, it was not an easy task.

However, starting their road trip with 0-24 Centenary, the Bison had little to worry about in game one of the weekend.

Grabbing the lead at the 15:41 mark of the first half, the Bison did not look back, holding the lead throughout for the 83-63 win.

The young guns Marshall Bjorklund and Taylor Braun led the Bison to the win.

Freshman Bjorklund led the team with 22 points while redshirt freshman Braun added his first career double-double with 18 points and a careerhigh 10 rebounds.

The Bison had three other players in double figures including Michael Tveidt, Eric Carlson and Mike Felt.

The Gents were led by Maxx Nakwaasah with 17 points and six rebounds, but were dominated on the glass, grab-

bing only 19 rebounds to NDSU’s 40. Centenary also turned the ball over 15 times to NDSU’s 11, with the Bison only recording one turnover in the second half. Centenary will move to Division III in all sports next year.

The Bison then turned their attention to Oral Roberts, a team only one game ahead of them in the Summit League, with standings at 7-5.

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They currently sit in seventh place in the conference, a game behind rival South Dakota State.

The Bison got the best of the Golden Eagles earlier this year, finishing with an 80-74 score.

The Bison surged to an 11-3 lead right out of the gates and finished an impressive first half up 44-34, shooting 63 percent from the floor.

However, the Bison could not finish, missing six of their first seven shots from the field at the start of the second half en route to an 81-73 loss.

The Golden Eagles grabbed their final lead of the game at the 6:55 mark and went on an 11-2 run from there to pick up the win. The Bison were outrebounded 27-9 and shot just 31 percent from the floor in the second half during the eight-point loss.

Tveidt finished with 19 and Carlson added 15 to lead the Bison. Bjorklund also chipped in with nine points and eight rebounds.

The Golden Eagles had four players in double figures, including 18 a piece for Damen Bell-Holter, Roderick Pearson and Warren Niles.

Dominique Morrison added 14 points for the Eagles, who improved to 11-14 overall, 8-5 in the Summit League.

With the win, ORU head coach Scott Sutton broke the school record for career wins with 215.

The Bison fall to 12-11 overall, 6-7 in the Summit League.

They currently sit in seventh place in the conference, a game behind rival South Dakota State. With only five games remaining on the schedule, the Bison will take on Western Illinois and Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis at the Bison Sports Arena this week.

Hoping for a strong finish TRAVIS JONES Contributing Writer

It is really hard to believe, but the Bison men’s basketball team is heading into its last five games of the regular season.

The Herd will be hosting two of its last three home games this week, as the Leathernecks from Western Illinois come to town on Thursday, and Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis will make the trip to Fargo on Saturday.

Western Illinois (7-16, 2-10) will be looking to take the season sweep against NDSU, as they were able to beat the Bison 67-62 earlier in the season.

The Leathernecks are lead in scoring by senior guard Matt Lander, who averages 16.5 points per game, and is the Leathernecks’ main offensive threat.

Lander is one of only two Leathernecks who averages in double figures, as scoring has been a problem for them all

year.

IUPUI (15-10, 9-3) is another team that the Bison dropped a close contest to earlier in the year, but that game was at Indianapolis in the Jungle, an extremely tough place to play.

The Jags are lead in scoring by junior guard Alex Young.

Young averages 20 points and 6.9 boards per game, both of which are team highs.

The Jags second leading scorer, Leroy Nobles, averages 16.9 points per game.

NDSU (12-11, 6-7) is looking to make a late surge in the Summit League standings.

After a tough loss to Oral Roberts, the Bison will once again look for a little home cooking to help them out.

Michael Tveidt continues to lead the Bison in scoring, as he is the team leader with 15.2 points per game.

Eric Carlson has continued his recent scoring streak as he has bumped his average up to double figures with 11.6 points per game.

As stated earlier, the Herd will take on Western Illinois 7 p.m. Thursday at the Bison Sports Arena. Saturday will be a double-header with the women starting at 5 p.m. and the men’s game at approximately 7:30 p.m. Both men’s and women’s games are once again at the BSA.

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Bjorklund (42) puts up a good fight in the paint to put the ball back up for two points against (team unknown) on (date unknown).

I want to be like Mike JUSTIN TELLINGHUISEN Contributing Writer

Last week, I wrote about my officiating career. This week, I want to pay homage to the man who makes my officiat-

ing career possible. This is going to sound like an outlandish statement, but if you are any sort of fan of college football you have seen him before.

Remember back when Vince Young beat USC in the national championship? He was there. How about college football kick-off weekend featuring Boise State and Virginia Tech? Or let me go a little ways back to Boise State’s statue of liberty play to win the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.

Yeah, he happened to be there too.

I’m saving the best for last because we all watched the National Championship game between Oregon and Auburn this year right? Yeah, he was there too. Did I mention he was an official for all these games?

None of us officials are perfect, as I mentioned last week, but Mike Cannon is as close as they come. Originally from Campbell, Minn., Mike started officiating in 1979 when he was 20 years old while he was attending North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton.

He then transferred to Minnesota State University Moorhead and lived in the Fargo-Moorhead area after graduation.

Officiating is only his parttime job.

He serves as the vice president of Citizens bank in Hutchinson, Minn. for his fulltime job. He has three children, two of whom attend NDSU. He became a member of the old North Central Conference, officiating many Bison basketball and football games.

He remained a member

until 2000, when the Big Ten conference came calling.

As an official in the Big Ten, he has officiated eight bowl games, including the Cotton bowl, the Rose bowl, the Orange bowl, the Fiesta bowl and two national championships.

He currently serves as a field judge on most of his officiating crews and is working his way toward becoming a head referee. He currently gets a few games a year as the white hat.

Officiating is not a one-day per week job though.

He runs five days every week to keep up with the

speedsters on the football field, reads his rulebooks regularly and studies for exams. Yes, there are exams on the rules.

He attends an annual clinic, has to travel on Fridays for Saturday games, has a meeting with his officiating crew Friday nights, another pregame meeting before the game and then the game itself.

Add all of this to the hours of meticulous game film review and you get one of the best officials in any game today.

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Junior Leslie Brost pole vaulting. Brost set a new NDSU and Bison Sports Arena record of 13 feet 11 1/4 inches in the pole vault at the Bison Open on Saturday, Feb. 5.

<< Lesson from Page 8 about to kick off. While this is exciting, it is also equally frustrating. You should realize that Texas Christian winning against a mid-level major conference team like Oregon State will mean nothing in the end. No one in the football bowl subdivision likes things to be fair. At least NDSU gives you hope that they can win a title in a fairer setting. Of

course, if you count the refs we had in that Eastern Washington game as fair, then we might as well join the FBS. Finally, it is the first weekend in September and the NFL is kicking off again. New storylines will be written and teams will battle for the ultimate trophy in the ultimate sport. That is, of course, if they are actually playing foot-

ball next September. If this is the case, stock up on the Advil because we are in for the world’s longest Super Bowl hangover.

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Packers win NFL Super Bowl From the Associated Press

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Junior Christine (Bruins) Schmaltz finishes up a race at the Bison Sports Arena on Saturday, Feb 5.

DALLAS, Texas – The Green Bay Packers' won their first Super Bowl title in 14 years at the hands of Aaron Rodgers, who completed 24-of39 passes for 304 yards and three touchdowns to lead a 3125 victory over Pittsburgh.

Quarterback Rodgers, playing in his maiden Super Bowl, helped secure the victory with an eight-yard touchdown pass to receiver Greg Jennings with just under 12 minutes left in the fourth quarter.

"It is a dream come true," Rodgers said. "It is what I dreamed about as a little kid watching Joe Montana and Steve Young and we just won the Super Bowl."

The eventual winning drive started with a Steelers' fumble on the first play of the final quarter as Green Bay was able to convert three Pittsburgh turnovers into touchdowns at Cowboys Stadium.

"It feels awesome," said Green Bay's Mike McCarthy, who won his first Super Bowl in his fifth season as head coach. "It is great to bring the Lombardi Trophy back to Green Bay." Rodgers, who was named the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl 45, connected with Jennings in the end zone to make it 28-17.

Not only did Rodgers win the MVP in his first try but he earned 83,000 dollars in bonus money that goes to each member of the winning team.

Jennings finished with four catches for 64 yards and two touchdowns while teammate

Jordy Nelson had a game-high 140 yards receiving for the Packers who captured their fourth Super Bowl title and first since Super Bowl 32 when they beat the New England Patriots 35-21.

"Wow, wow, wow. It's a great day to be great, baby," Jennings said. "It was a corner route. They dropped me and let me run free the play before.

They dropped me on another corner route and we came back to it and scored on that play."

Kicker Mason Crosby put the finishing touches on the win for Green Bay with a 23yard field goal with 2:07 remaining in the fourth quarter.

The game between two of the league's most storied franchises lived up to its billing.

Rodgers won the battle of the star quarterbacks as Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger got off to a shaky start. Roethlisberger threw two interceptions in the first half that the Packers converted into touchdowns.

Rodgers threaded the needle on a couple of game-changing plays, including a touchdown strike to open the scoring in the first quarter when he and Nelson hooked up for a 29-yard score.

Roethlisberger was no slouch, completing 25-of-40 passes for 263 yards and two touchdowns. But he couldn't escape the damage caused by the early interceptions.

Packers safety Nick Collins intercepted a soft pass from Roethlisberger and returned it 37 yards for a touchdown to give Green Bay a 14-0 lead with 3:34 left in the first quarter.

Roethlisberger regrouped

after the second one and tried to rally the troops.

He engineered a seven-play, 77-yard drive down the field before hitting receiver Hines Ward for the touchdown to cut the Packers lead to 21-10 with 47 seconds left in the first half.

"We are not into moral victories," Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said. "It (turnovers) was a factor in the game. We came here to win a football game and we didn't do that and Green Bay did and we congratulate them."

The game was expected to be the most watched event in US television history. Even US President Barack Obama got into the spirit by hosting a lavish Super Bowl party for about a 100 VIPs and dignitaries at the White House.

The Steelers were missing injured rookie centre Maurkice Pouncey. Pouncey was helped off the field during Pittsburgh?s opening drive against the New York Jets in the AFC championship game with a fractured bone in his foot and a sprained ankle.

The Packers were not without injury problems. Star cornerback Charles Woodson injured his collarbone in the first half and did not return and Green Bay veteran receiver Donald Driver, who caught a 46-yard pass early in the game, injured his ankle.

"We've been a team that has overcome adversity all year," Jennings said. "Now our captain goes down. It was emotional in the locker room. Our No. 1 receiver goes down and more emotions are flying in the locker room but we find a way to bottle it up and exert it on the field."

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