January 27th, 2022 | Volume 125 Issue 17
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Recap: RuPaul’s Drag Race Brayden Zenker Variety Editor
*Warning* The following article contains spoilers for RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 episode 3.
After two weeks apart the queens have finally been brought together. After the elimination of Daya Betty, the queens from the second premiere return to the werkroom where the other queens are waiting for them. As always, the
meeting of the queens was friendly, with some queens having known each other before the competition. As expected, while friendly, each group of queens think they are supreme queens, throwing some light shade. I’m looking at you Willow, youngest in the face, girl you savage. Before the remaining 12 queens find out this week’s challenge, RuPaul has a couple of
The Freedom to Vote Act Abigail Faulkner Opinion Editor
Voters’ rights have been in the headlines recently because of the controversial bills that have been before the Senate. Of these important hot-topic bills is the Freedom to Vote Act. It has recently come to my attention that now we are arguing as a society about voting. This time last year, I thought that we were talking about how more people should be voting. Furthermore, the last election had a record-breaking voter turnout. However, for a reason I suspect is more
announcements. The first announcement is, there are two more queens he is adding to the competition. Just like past queens put in this situation, everyone is visibly upset about the extra queens coming into the competition. Those are two more queens they have to compete against. After what seems like an eternity the two queens are finally revealed to be… Continued on Page 4
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malicious than it may seem, Republicans don’t want people to vote anymore. And that isn’t the stupidest, most antithetical, undemocratic thing I have ever heard.
The Freedom to Vote Act
The Freedom to Vote Act is a revised version of the For the People Act. The legislation is exactly as it sounds; it protects voters’ rights. Some of the key provisions of the act include early voting, mail-in voting, making the election day a holiday, voting rights restoration to those who were previously incarcerated, protections for
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NDSU Hack Club kicks off first meeting of the semester Wikimedia Commons | Photo Courtesy individuals with finance, among many disabilities, enhanced other important ballot and protection changes. record, redistricting reform, campaign Continued on Page 6
Bison Men Roll Over Tommies Mason Urban Staff Writer
A 15-0 First Half Run Ignites Bison Offense to Big Win The North Dakota State men’s basketball team won in blowout fashion Tuesday night, beating St. Thomas 77-56. The game was originally scheduled for Jan. 13 but was rescheduled due to the weather. It was a slow start for the Bison offense, however, they took the lead after a 15-0 run in the first half, with five threes from five different players. Maleeck HardenHayes, Tyree Eady, Sam Griesel, Jarius Cook, and Grant Nelson all got in on the action. That run jumpstarted the offense in a game where NDSU finished with 56 percent shooting from the field and 50 percent shooting from three.
NDSU’s defense was also stellar, holding St. Thomas to 33 percent shooting from the field and 27 percent from threepoint-range, way down from their season averages of 45 percent from the field and 39 percent from three. Rocky Kreuser led the way for the Herd, registering his sixth double-double of the season, scoring 17 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. Harden-
Hayes and Eady joined him in double figures, each scoring 12 points. With the win, NDSU’s record improves to 13-7 on the season and 5-3 in conference play. The Bison also remain in third place in the Summit League after the victory. Up next, the Bison head out on a twogame road trip where they will take on South Dakota on Thursday and conference
leader South Dakota State on Saturday. This upcoming road trip is a great opportunity for the Bison as South Dakota and South Dakota State boast the two longest winning streaks in the Summit League. The Coyotes are currently on a fivegame winning streak while the Jackrabbits are on an eightgame winning streak.
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Cybersecurity training is in demand across the workplace and the rate at which people are gaining necessary skills is falling short the importance of Anne Kesler Head News Editor
Did you know that roughly 30,000 cites were hacked daily in 2021? Or that every 39 seconds, there is a new attack somewhere on the web? According to techjury, it has become an issue that “eats deep into the very foundation of a business, crashing the party and costing millions and even billions of dollars in the process.” Usual steps cyber criminals take to breach a company or personal system may be a lot simpler than one would think. First, they need to find out as much information as possible about the person or business and their computer system, then identify a weakness and use that weakness to exploit the vulnerability of the person or business and get into their system. But, hacking isn’t all bad. Learning different code and
cybersecurity to combat cybercriminals is an important skill to have when entering the workplace…and really in any workplace. In fact, according to a Harvard Extension School report, learning cybersecurity is so needed that the demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals is growing faster than the rate at which people are gaining the necessary skills. That is why the NDSU Cybersecurity Student Association (CSA), or Hack Club, has been an organization at the university since the Fall of 2017. “Cybersecurity is still a relatively new field, and as such college programs that teach cybersecurity and teach it well are relatively few and far between,” said Jack Hance,one of the four officers of Hack Club. Continued on Page 3
