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Students participate in powwow ‘No Lumps, Thank You’ Annual Woodlands High Plains Powwow brings Native American culture to NDSU Page 3
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Alumni awards announced, to be presented Henry L. Bolley
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Marvin J. Miller Bachelor of Science 1971 Chemistry
Gilman Rud Bachelor of Science 1966 Agricultural Economics
Barry Batcheller Bachelor of Science 1977, honorary doctorate 2010 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Miller is currently the George and Winifred Clark Chair of the chemistry department at the University of Notre Dame. He has also produced 269 publications, presented 142 papers, has been invited to speak at 201 lectures and holds 22 patents. Additionally, he administered graduate research for over 70 students.
Rud served as commanding officer for the Blue Angels and two Navy ships, while additionally flying aerial combat missions during the Vietnam War. After his 28-year U.S. Navy career, he worked for McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Company, now called Boeing Company. He contributed to the creation of the F-18 Super Hornet, an advanced fighter of its time.
Batcheller holds more than 20 patents in the United States and has founded four companies. Of these, Batcheller contributed to the use of technology for agricultural and off-highway control systems for Phoenix International. Another startup company, Appareo Systems, LLC, produces electronic, mechanical and software products for aerospace, defense and transportation applications.
Heritage Award for Alumni Service
Horizon Award Anderson has been actively involved on the NDSU campus from being a student, faculty member, Development Foundation trustee, teammaker, and volunteer for the Aplha Gamma Rho Fraternity. Along with being a loyal bison fan, he also worked for the Greater North Dakota Association and served as president for the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce.
Schlecht moved upward rapidly at Clinical Supplies Management Inc., becoming president nine years after beginning at the company. Currently, she works at the National Community Pharmacists Assocation in Washington, D.C. and is a member of NDSU’s Pharmacy National Advisory Board.
Dale O. Anderson Bachelor of Science 1959, Master of Science 1960 Agricultural Mechanization, Agricultural Economics
Emma Heaton Co-News Editor This year’s recipients of the alumni awards, presented by the Alumni Association, will be honored in late April in the Fargodome. “The alumni awards celebration is a great event for students to take part in -- they are able to experience the best and the brightest who have graduated from NDSU,” Jakelle
Kristina L. (Boostrom) Schlecht Bachelor of Science 1997, Pharm.D. 1999 Pharmaceutical Sciences
Cornell, director of events and programs of the Alumni Association, said. “The event also provides a great opportunity for students to network with other students, faculty, staff, board members and community guests.” Recipients of the awards are chosen through a process involving alumni, campus leaders, deans and board members. The four awards that will be presented include the Alumni Achievement Award, the Henry L. Bolley Academic
Achievement Award, the Heritage Award for Alumni Science and the Horizon Award. The Alumni Achievement Award is presented to NDSU alumni who have shown significant distinction in their specific professional fields. This year’s award will be awarded to Barry Batcheller and Gilman Rud. The Academic Achievement Award recognizes alumni who have gained academic accomplishments by serving as instructors, researchers or
administrators. Marvin Miller will be presented with this award. Dale Anderson has been announced as the recipient for the Heritage Award for Alumni Service. He earned this recognition by providing volunteer service to the university. Additionally, the Horizon Award recognizes alumni of NDSU who have displayed outstanding performance in their professional careers or community service. The recip-
ient for this award has graduated from the university within the last 15 years. The award will be presented to Kristina Schlecht. “All of the honorees were at one point a student at NDSU -- to see what they have gone on to do is truly inspiring,” Cornell said. People who wish to attend the event must register beforehand at www.ndsualumni.com or by calling 231-6807.
Candidates struggle to build connections Matt Severns Spectrum Staff Student government executive candidates held a debate Thursday in the basement of the Memorial Union. The venue for this debate allowed any interested students to stop and listen to what the candidates had to say, but only a couple dozen students gathered specifically to hear the candidates speak. In recent years, student government has struggled to build a connection with students, while voter turnout and debate attendance during campaign seasons has remained low. Last year's candidates included in their platforms ways
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to reach out to the student body, and both parties this year are doing the same. "Engaging students with what student government does on a daily basis is one of the most complex issues that we're faced with," Luke Brodeur, student body presidential candidate, said. "Not only here at NDSU has voter turnout and turnout at debates been low, it's across all universities, and one of the reasons why I think it's like this is maybe because students come to the university for an education, and student government for them, they may not see it as a high priority," Mike Paolini, student body presidential candidate, said. "I see it as the highest priority, but they may not."
to them," Paolini said. To Paolini, the best way to reach out to students is spending time in the Union speaking with students, holding conversations in campus coffee shops and maintaining a platform oversight committee made up of students from both inside and outside of student government. To Brodeur, reaching out to students involves maintenance of the student government website and social media, serving on advisory boards and committees and attending as many campus events as possible. "Too often, student body presidents and vice presidents get caught up in the idea that they are strictly leading student government as an organ-
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Both tickets are spending time during campaign season attempting to engage as many students as possible. Throughout the past week, candidates have camped out at their booths in the Memorial Union and visited with student organizations across campus in an attempt to spread their messages. Nonetheless, getting students involved with student government is a platform issue both hope to carry with them beyond just the campaign season. "A big concern within student government is that we're not attracting students to come into our office, so one of the things Sydney and I will do is instead of waiting for them to come to us, we're going to go
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ization," Brodeur said. "We need to remember that we were elected by the student body, and that we were chosen to serve 14,500 students not simply the 60 that we see around the office every day." Brodeur admits that student government often spends time working on problems that don't necessarily impact every student, but he says that throughout the next year, if elected, he and his running mate will create change nearly every student will notice. "Whether you're interested in studying at a school somewhere across the nation next spring, attending rallies to learn the traditions and ways to get involved on campus, Story continued on page 2
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Contributing Writer The NDSU Extension Center’s most recent app, NDSU Heating Fuel Comparison, was released two weeks ago for the use of the general public to help compare the costs of heating fuels. According to Carl Pedersen, energy educator in the department of agricultural and biosystems engineering at NDSU, the idea of the app was to upgrade an extension publication called Fuel Cost Comparison” written in the early 2000s. Pedersen worked in collaboration with Kenneth Hellevang, professor in the department of agricultural and biosystems engineering, and Bob Bertsch, web technology specialist in agriculture communication, during the early production of the application. They reached out to Myriad Devices to aid in development. The NDSU Extension Service website explains that in addition to comparing the costs of heating fuels, the app also includes energy-saving tips to make your home more comfortable and healthy. Bertsch explains that the goals for the app are pretty simple. “We just want people to find it useful,” Bertsch said. “Hopefully those making decisions on which fuel to use for heating will be able to make a more informed decision because of the app.” The NDSU Extension Service has worked with Myriad Devices on two other apps: Disaster Recovery Log and Winter Survival Kit. “NDSU Heating Fuel Cost Comparison supports NDSU Extension Service’s educational mission in a new, exciting way,” Bertsch states, which is similar to apps created in the past. Being able to produce the app in-house and working with Myriad Devices on campus has allowed for the process of converting the publication to an electronic format to be efficient and low-cost. Adjustments will be made if the Extension Service sees fit as they receive input. The NDSU Heating Fuel Comparison app is available for download on Android and iOS devices.
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Luke Brodeur and Jace Beehler (left) and Mike Paolini and Sydney Hull (right) discuss and debate their platform issues before a crowd of a couple dozen students Thursday in the basement of the Memorial Union.
making improvements to our transportation problems or being part of any other program that we plan to implement, we have no doubt that students will see new opportunities arise that will benefit them directly over the
course of next year," Brodeur said. Paolini also acknowledges that student government's inner workings often go unnoticed by students. "That's why we created scholarships not based on academics but based on
Tri-college ROTC Celebrating another year of success Mike Liudahl News Reporter Cadets, instructors and staff of the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps’ Bison Battalion gathered at the Ramada Inn and Suites on Saturday for their annual military ball. Personal guests as well as parents of the cadets were also welcome to be part of the evening’s festivities, which included a banquet, awards ceremony and a dance. “The event is a traditional military dining out where we bring dates, have a good dinner, and give out awards to the top senior, junior, sophomore and freshman. Then we dance,” Lieutenant Colonel Santiago Bueno III said. “It’s also a time for the seniors who are graduating to be recognized in front their families and then kick off their shoes to have a good time.” NDSU is the host program for both Concordia College and Minnesota State University Moorhead, which currently consists of about 70 cadets. LTC Bueno, who is a professor of military science at NDSU, says that the Bison Battalion is considered small, yet they are the third highest rated in their brigade. Only Marquette University and the
University of Iowa are ranked above them. “We beat schools like Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas as well as the guys up north, UND, too, which is always nice,” Bueno said. “Our cadets did really well at our last summer camp where about 15 percent of all cadets nationally get a top rating, and we walked away with about 32 percent of our cadets getting a top rating.” On top of their competition successes the Bison Battalion has also been steadily growing in numbers. Its size has doubled since the 1990s, and 35 incoming freshman are currently signed up to join this fall. Bueno added that nearly 28 percent of the unit is made up of women cadets, some of who finished second in national team events last summer and are on track to finish on top in a couple different categories at the 2012 camp. The tri-college ROTC can boast of national individual accomplishment as well. Cadet Corey Arnold, a senior at MSUM who has served deployments to both Iraq and Kosovo as a National Guardsman, finished number 18 out of 6,556 cadets who participated in the 2011 summer camp. “I was around a lot of officers during my deployment to
Kosovo and seeing how they always try to push for better things and understand the big picture got me interested someday becoming one,” Arnold said. “Officers are there for the good of enlisted soldiers, and they make an impact on large groups of them.” Arnold, a native of Rutland, ND, was this year’s recipient of the American Legion Post No. 2 Saber Award. As this year’s top senior cadet, he was presented with a sword that is meant to be worn for occasions of ceremony such as weddings and formal dinners. This honor means that he is now the Bison Battalion’s nominee for the George C. Marshall award, which annually goes to the nation’s top cadet. “I was a Military Police officer and am a criminal justice major at MSUM,” said Arnold. “I’ve been going through the process of becoming a City of Fargo police officer. Joining – along with continuing on as member of the National Guard – is everything I’ve been looking forward to.” The winner of the President’s trophy, which is given to the top junior each year, was given to cadet Thomas Peterson.
Students evacuate Minard Hall The smoke detector – located on the second floor – Co-News Editor was activated due to construction taking place in the building according to Bill Vandal, Students and faculty were chief of university police. The forced to evacuate Minard smoke detector was located in Hall on Thursday afternoon the air duct system. “Sometimes dust will set it after fire alarms sounded.
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community service and leadership in positive image of student government," the community; that's why we created Paolini said. the international mentorship program. Student body elections will be held We hope that these platform ideas as April 3 and 4. well as many others will get them excited, and then hopefully they'll see a
Protecting identity on social networking websites
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Students and staff attend a presentation about the realities of online identity issues last week.
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Millions of people have a Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or some other social media profile these days. People use these sites to keep in contact and stay up to date with their friends and family as well as keep others up to speed. Social networking can also cause drama, job loss and a personal breach of security. Jeff Gimbel, a senior security analyst for the IT department at NDSU, held an informative presentation March 22 about “securing your social,” or keeping your identity safe on social networking sites. “That permanent record everyone talked about in high school? That permanent record is real,” Gimbel said during his presentation, highlighting how everything users do online is kept forever. Gimbel stresses that it is important to keep a clean and secure web presence. There have been several stories about people losing jobs over things that they have posted on Facebook, as well as about people losing their identities. Many Facebook profiles appear to be rather open, allowing anybody to see most of the user’s information, especially where he or she lives or goes to school. Gimbel suggests that students allow websites to do what is called secure browsing. Not all sites allow this, but some – like Facebook and
Twitter – do. According to Gimbel, secure browsing creates a pathway from your computer to the website you are trying to access through security certificates. If the certificates match, the information you put onto the website is encrypted if another program tries to look at it. It is important to look through your Facebook security settings closely, Gimbel says. While secure browsing can keep information safe, it can’t safeguard against everything. Stalking, or “creeping” as some call it, can be harmless. Keri Lenzmeier, a junior in radiologic sciences, says that it is easy to find yourself checking information on a friend’s profile, which can lead you to the profiles of other people you are not friends with. However, according to countless articles featured in the Daily Mail, USA Today and other news sources, it can turn deadly. “You don’t want people to creep up on you,” Justine Jarmin, a sophomore majoring in Human Development and Family Science said. Lauren Spillers, a freshman majoring in public relations and advertising who is active on four social networking sites, agrees with Jarmin. “All of your information is on there,” she said, going on to say how Internet security is important in order to protect your identity. Although Facebook’s security settings may be confusing and change often, Gimbel states that the Federal
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Communications Commission has gotten involved and changed how Facebook can update security settings. Regardless, he says it is a good idea to get acquainted with how the security settings work. Two major things Gimbel discussed were active sessions and limiting the audience for past posts. Active sessions can be accessed under the security tab in your Facebook account settings. This shows users where they have logged in to Facebook, and allows them to end suspicious sessions. For anybody whose account has been taken over by a spam bot, checking active sessions as well as changing your password will remedy that. Limiting the audience for past posts can be found in Facebook’s privacy settings. This tool helps you hide your past posts from certain people, which can be effective if you are starting to look for a job. However, Gimbel says another easy fix to this issue is to keep your profile cleaner in the first place. “It’s very hard to be taken seriously if someone can look a few years back and see pictures that reflect negatively on you,” he said. He suggests periodically searching yourself on Google and checking the photos you’ve been tagged in to make sure that no negative information can be found. “Social media is here to stay,” Gimbel stated at the end of his presentation, but presented many ways that he feels can help people keep their online identities clean and safe.
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STATE 15-year-old girl killed in wreck with fuel tanker GARRISON, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a 15-year-old Garrison girl was killed after a head-on crash with a fuel truck just east of the town. Troopers say Robyn Essler was driving on Highway 37 about 1.5 miles east of Garrison Friday afternoon when she crossed the center line. They say the truck driver, 49year-old Graling Steinwand, applied the brakes and turned right to avoid the collision but the car hit the truck. Accident-prone North Dakota deputy fired MANNING, N.D. (AP) — The sheriff in western North Dakota's Dunn County has fired a deputy who crashed patrol cars three times in a little more than a year. Sheriff Don Rockvoy says Leif Anderson was a good deputy but his driving history "got to be a liability issue." Anderson declined comment to The Dickinson Press.
New audit finds money wasted at Dickinson State BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An audit made public Friday provided new details of mismanagement at Dickinson State University, weeks after a separate investigation showed the school awarded degrees and certificates to almost 600 Chinese students who didn't qualify for them. The report detailed haphazard policies on charging student tuition and says Dickinson State forgave $2.9 million in tuition charges in one budget year alone. The sum equaled about one-fourth of the southwestern North Dakota school's annual tuition income.
With win in hand from La., Santorum eyes Wis. GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Another victory in hand but still badly trailing rival Mitt Romney, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum vowed to continue his campaign despite an increasingly steep climb to the nomination. Santorum, buoyed by Saturday's win in Louisiana's primary that boosted his spirit but did little to narrow the delegate gap, urged his supporters to stick with him even as much of the GOP establishment has coalesced around Romney's increasingly inevitable coronation. Even in the face of the political headwinds, the former Pennsylvania senator seemed unwilling to acknowledge it would take a dramatic change in momentum to deny Romney his turn as the GOP nominee. Police: 5 people found dead in San Francisco house SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco medical examiner
wheeled out the bodies of five people found dead Friday inside a home after what police said was a possible murder-suicide across the street from a private high school in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood. A woman with access to the house discovered three of the bodies and called police shortly before 8 a.m., according to police spokeswoman Cmdr. Lyn Tomioka. Drivers snatch 'snow globe' of cash on Md. highway HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — In a scene that one witness described as like a movie, dozens of motorists driving on a highway in Maryland stopped their cars to grab fistfuls from a "snow globe of cash" lost from an armored truck Friday morning. Attorney Heather Kelly said she was driving on Interstate 270 to her office in Frederick when she passed through the surreal scene about 35 miles northwest of Washington.
WORLD French police press besieged gunman to surrender TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building early Thursday in an effort to force the surrender of a gunman who boasted of bringing France "to its knees" with an alQaida-linked terror spree that killed seven people. Hundreds of heavily armed police, some in body armor, surrounded the five-story building in Toulouse where the 24-year-old suspect, Mohamed Merah, had been holed up since the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday. SKorea: NKorea moves longrange rocket to site SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has moved a rocket to a northwestern site in preparation for a launch next month, South Korean officials said Sunday, as Pyongyang pushes ahead with a plan that Washington calls a cover for testing longrange missiles.
President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myungbak urged North Korea to immediately stop its launch plans, warning in Seoul that they would deal sternly with any provocation. Obama said the move would jeopardize a deal in which the U.S. would ship food aid to the North in exchange for a nuclear freeze. African Union force to step up hunt for Kony ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) — The African Union says it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. The mission is to be launched in South Sudan on Saturday and will last until Kony is caught, United Nations and African Union officials said at a news conference in Uganda.
Campus hosts powwow Josie Tafelmeyer Spectrum Staff People of all ages from across the region – from Oklahoma to British Columbia – gathered together to take part in the 23rd Annual Woodlands and High Plains Powwow on Saturday hosted by NDSU at the Bison Sports Arena. Prairie Rose Seminole, chairperson for the powwow organizing committee, says the Woodlands and High Plains Powwow was one of the first powwows in the area when it began. “Powwows celebrate different things,” Seminole said. “Specifically, the Woodlands and High Plains Powwow is
about honoring our graduates from local colleges.” Seminole believes that powwows help break social barriers by combining a social and religious activity and presenting it to the public for all people to experience. Anna Sheppard, McNare Scholars Program coordinator for NDSU, has been a member of the powwow organizing committee for ten years. She participated in this event as a fancy shawl dancer when she was young and has been a part of the organizing committee since 2002. “I really feel strongly about having the powwow open to the public so they can come and experience our religion and take part in this social
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NDSU students Kelsey Peltier and Thomas Bluestone were head dancers in the powwow Saturday.
gathering,” Sheppard said. This year’s head male dancer was Thomas Bluestone, a junior majoring in criminal justice at NDSU and president of the Native American Student Association. The head female dancer was Kelsey Peltier, an NDSU sophomore majoring in psychology. Head dancers are nominated based on qualities of leadership, contribution to community and commitment to dance and are chosen by voters. “It’s an honor to be head dancer,” Peltier said, “because it meant that people saw all those attributes in me.” Peltier said she began dancing in powwows as soon as she was old enough to walk. This was her first time being chosen as head dancer, and she viewed even the privilege of being nominated as an honor. Peltier believes the most important aspect of the powwow tradition is the opportunity for dancers to perform for their families. “Dancing for your family is important and just knowing that you are dancing for people that mean so much to you,” she said. The event began with the Grand Entry at 1 p.m. The Grand Entry dance has different origins according to various traditions, but it begins all powwows today. It illustrates Native American cultural values of respect for elders and military veterans.
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A young participant joins in during the Annual Woodlands and High Plains Powwow Saturday.
Following the Grand Entry was a flag song, veteran’s song and an invocation of blessing given by the powwow’s spiritual leader, Clifford Canku. An intertribal dance invited all people in the arena to join in the dance. Dancers in all types of traditional regalia were represented
Without sandbagging, students look to other sources of volunteerism to give back Linda Vasquez Spectrum Staff
With the National Weather Service announcement of the Red River in Fargo having crested last week, the lack of sandbagging has students with mixed reactions and looking for other volunteer opportunities in the area. The Red River crested at 17.8 ft. Weible Hall resident assistant Alyssa Lipsiea, a junior majoring in management communication and advertising, says new residents will have to experience the tradition of participating in the sandbagging effort next year but that students are still getting the chance to volunteer in other ways. “Not sandbagging has been a welcome relief, but may come as a surprise to next year’s sophomore’s because they have never experienced it
before [however], volunteering in the halls is at higher levels than ever before,” Lipsiea said. “Students have made this year’s Bison Service Challenge between the halls a close race and have helped all over the Fargo area, including helping at nursing homes, child care centers, the zoo and through putting on volunteer events such as Cancer Awareness week.” For many years, students have been able to volunteer service hours at Sandbag Central and have been able to compete for top service hours during the year through the Bison Service Challenge. On Presidents’ Day last year 800 volunteers were present at Sandbag Central. Approximately 160 of those volunteers were NDSU students. The Bison football and volleyball teams and Greek life were also present. Greek Life Coordinator Courtney Barstad says sororities and fraternities are look-
ing for alternative ways to complete their required service hours. “The Greek community has known that they are instrumental in helping in volunteering on campus for sandbagging, so they are trying to look for different opportunities and alternatives to make sure that their members to the same amount of service,” Barstad said. Barstad also says she feels that not having to sandbag allows members in the Greek chapters to have fun looking for those other volunteer opportunities and focus on a full semester. “I do think, though, that the one piece students will miss out on is getting out into the community and doing that full experience of working with different people from the community that they may have never met before,” Barstad said. “I think the challenge is to continue the energy that’s always there in the spring, but
to maybe do that a different way and hope for the future that the norm we’ll come up with something fixed for the spring instead.” Carissa Button, a senior majoring in public relations and advertising, is much more relieved that homes in the area are safe, than relieved she doesn’t have to volunteer sandbagging. “It is relieving to know that home are safe and that volunteer efforts and energy can be used elsewhere this year,” Button said. The Bison Service Challenge was established in fall 2009 and awards four student groups each year. The groups are given a $500 grant from Dakota Medical Foundation each to donate to a charity of their choice. The 2010-2011 winners include: Kappa Alpha Theta, the Bison football team, Habitat for Humanity and Weible Hall.
in the exhibition and special dances. Men’s and women’s dances were characterized by traditional dress with distinct colors and items that represent various aspects of life such as wisdom, unity, strength, power, agility and healing. Following another Grand Entry at 7 p.m., the event concluded with a second inter-
tribal and exhibition dance and the retiring of colors at 9:30 p.m. This traditional powwow is sponsored by Concordia College, Minnesota State Community and Technical College, MSUM and NDSU. These four universities share resources to put on the event and rotate hosting it each year.
The American Diabetes Association raises awareness Erin Stegman Spectrum Staff The American Diabetes Association is raising awareness about stopping diabetes. A new page has been recently made available to ‘like’ on Facebook, and users have the opportunity to take a test to calculate their risk of diabetes directly on the page. According to the Facebook page, the American Diabetes Association is issuing “a one-day wake-up call” asking the American public to take the diabetes risk test to find out if they are at risk for developing Type 2 diabetes. Each awareness day will be held on the fourth Tuesday of the month, meaning that the next alert day will be held on March 27. Additionally, for every Diabetes risk test taken, The Boar’s Head manufacturer of premium delicatessen products is
planning on donating $5 to the American Diabetes Association. Boar’s Head will donate up to $50,000. The test consists of 10 questions and takes about two minutes to complete. In taking this short test, users can become more aware about your immediate risk and can take the steps necessary to stop the impending disease. The American Diabetes Association’s mission is to “prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. The organization hopes people can raise awareness by taking the test and spreading the word about stopping Type 2 diabetes. For more information about The American Diabetes Association, visit http://www.diabetes.org/ alert or visit the American Diabetes Association page on Facebook.
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Features Music helps inspire students’ creativity Songwriters Guild organization demonstrates diversity among musicians.
A visit to the ARC supplements academic advising Andrew Koch Staff Writer
Andrew Koch Staff Writer Music is a form of linguistic and vocal creativity. While some of us are not capable of singing well, or writing lyrics, we all have an appreciation for music. Here at NDSU, there is a music group organization that is passionate about performing their handcrafted lyrics to audiences all over the Fargo area. A group of talented musical prodigies called the Songwriters Guild. The Songwriters Guild began after former NDSU student Chase Burkhart assisted the group in booking spaces to perform. People found out about the formation of the Songwriters Guild and began to join. Currently, Emily Black, a sophomore majoring in piano performance, is the president of the Songwriters Guild. Jordan Thornberg, a senior majoring in Business Administration, also plays a major role in the organization. Eight to 12 members are solidly committed to the organization. A commitment where each member follows this slogan, “The NDSU Songwriters Guild is a student organization dedicated to the study and promotion of the art of songwriting.
Each member is a diverse musician. Thornberg explains that diversity is a great term to describe the organization as a whole. “We have musicians ranging from freshman to seniors. Each one is diverse, exploiting different styles of music within each individual performance,” Thornberg explained. Monthly meetings are also a big part of how the Songwriters Guild members share information with each other. Thornberg describes the contents of each meeting as a productive phase for the organization. “With our monthly meetings we offer a cooperative learning environment where we can all bounce ideas back and forth, give each other feedback on new songs and really get a sense of how others are going about the songwriting process,” Thornberg said. “We've kept in contact with members of established bands in the region, and eventually we'll have one of them join us for a meeting to put on a songwriting workshop.” Uniquely, each musician complements their vocal performances with different types of instruments. Currently, each showcase performed by the musicians is acoustic. This means that the performers showcase with acoustic gui-
tars, pianos, electric guitar and electric piano without the use of a microphone. For the Songwriters Guild, the Songwriters Showcase is featured once or twice every semester, and it offers each musician the opportunity to share off his or her lyrical and vocal talents to a large audience. Members of the Songwriters Guild have a shot at taking their musical abilities to a professional level some day. When asked the question whether or not he believes his own musical talents could take him to a high level someday, Thornberg replied with, “Ideally, being a famous musician would be great. Our group has a lot of talent and someday being famous could become a reality for some of us,” Thornberg confessed. Outside of being musicians each group member continues to be diverse with other things. Thornberg shares that in his free time he enjoys playing basketball, being with friends and playing catch. Thornberg also mentions that each other member enjoys many different hobbies outside of music. The Songwriters Guild would love for NDSU students to come check them out on stage. Their next large event will take place April 3 at the Bison Brevities Show. Musical ability and talent
will forever be engrained inside each member of the Songwriters Guild. Whether or not it takes them somewhere in life is not the major concern. Each member joined the organization because they love music, love writing their own music and enjoy sharing it with others. The Songwriters Guild will continue on to be the premiere spot for diverse musicians. More information about the Song Writers Guild can be attained by contacting President Emily Black at emily. black.music@hotmail.com, or Jordan Thornberg at jordan. r.thornberg@my.ndsu.edu. People can also “like” their new Facebook page to stay informed about upcoming events.
The end of the spring semester is upon us, and that means it is time to set up an appointment with your adviser. Strangely enough, many students at NDSU do not know enough about the academic advising process and how critical it is for their future at NDSU. Some students are still unsure who their academic advisor even is. The solution: the Advising Resource Center. Luckily NDSU has a place where students can stop by for one-on-one help before meeting with their academic advisor to select classes and talk about their future with the school. The Advising Resource Center is located on the main level of the Memorial Union in the Gunkelman Room, near the Student Activities Office and the MU Coffee Shop. Andrea Weber, ARC coordinator, says the mission of ARC is to supplement the academic advising needs of all students. Weber is confident that students should stop into the center before setting up an appointment with their own academic advisor because the ARC can answer all the general questions students may have about the advising process. Aside from answering questions on topics that may have
confused students about academic advising, The center also can help identify and connect students to the academic advisor within their major, help in understanding academic policies at NDSU, provide guidance on student academic tracks including how to add/change a major/minor and direct students to other academic resources across campus. Weber cannot stress enough on the importance of students meeting with their academic advisor in their field of study after getting assistance from the ARC. Weber states that academic advisors can make sure that students are taking the right classes to stay on track with their majors or minors, go over the academic policies at NDSU in greater depth, talk about the student’s futures at NDSU, and tell students so much more about their own field of study. Most importantly, academic advisers are always there to help. It is their job to assist students, and they enjoy seeing the future of their field learn and grow into accredited individuals. Advising week started last week, but there is still time to set up an appointment with the ARC and your own academic advisor to help better your future experiences at NDSU. The ARC is open from 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. You can set up an appointment or just stop on in.
Health Eating Talk sweet treats without harming your health 5 solutions to satisfying your sweet tooth Jessie Battest Contributing Writer
Every time I go to the dining center or out to a restaurant or even when eating in my own home, I find myself craving a sweet treat after my meals. It kills me not to go to the desserts section or check out the dessert menu, when in reality, it would be killing me if I actually ate dessert after every meal. I wanted to find a way to solve this little issue— to curb my sweet tooth without harming my health significantly. Here are the top five solutions that I came up with after searching the Internet for ideas and actually testing several sweet-tooth-satisfying methods based on what I found:
during the day; so maybe adding a little sugar or caramel syrup to it will help your body feel satisfied in the sugar department. Even waiting until after a meal to drink your daily slightly sugared coffee might work. If you’re not a coffee drinker, try combining other healthy foods with a small amount of sugar. For example, if my apple in itself is not enough to curb my craving, I’ll add a little drizzle of caramel syrup. Similarly, Josie Tafelmeyer | The Spectrum bananas and chocolate syrup Chewing gum may help curb your appetite immediately following a meal. complement each other, or whole-grain cereal or oatmeal lightly sprinkled with white or which other desserts lack. I brown sugar. 5. Confide in fruit. have found that eating an Fruit has sugar but those apple, banana, or peaches after 3. Indulge in dark chocosugars are completely natural, my main dish helps to satisfy late. so your body will not have to my craving for dessert. Health benefits, such as deal with the unhealthy effects being rich in antioxidants and of artificial sugar. Plus, fruit is 4. Combine foods. aiding in lowering blood preshigh in fiber and antioxidants, Many people drink coffee sure, are proven characteristics
of dark chocolate. However, eating it in moderation is still important. I recommend buying a bag of wrapped dark chocolates (I like Dove, Ghirardelli, or Hershey’s) and limiting myself to one piece a day—usually after my latest meal of the day so I’m not tempted to eat a larger serving of sugar before I go to bed. 2. Take a small piece. In the dining centers on campus, I look for the smallest piece of dessert I can find or split a piece with my roommate if I’m finding that my sweet tooth is too much to handle. In restaurants, split one dessert between everyone at the table—ask for separate plates and utensils, and divide the sugary goodness into smaller portions. When scooping up ice
cream at home, only take one to two round scoops, and try not to load on the toppings. If you do need to add something more, shoot for a spoonful of fruit topping. Enjoy these smaller servings slowly so you are not so tempted to go for seconds. 1. Chew gum. This method may not seem very reliable, but in all of my experiences, chewing on a piece of sugar-free mint gum immediately following my meal makes me forget about the chocolate brownie or ice cream that I was craving. I have also found that not sitting around after my meal— either getting up and doing the dishes or going for a walk or simply leaving the dining center or restaurant—helps me forget about my desire for dessert.
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‘No lumps’ in this exhibit
Bioware opts to modify ‘Mass Effect 3’ ending
Collection of bras aims to raise breast cancer awareness
Fan campaign pushes ending alterations. Steven Strom Staff Writer
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Bras are scattered across the walls of the Memorial Union Gallery, each depicting a unique concept.
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The Memorial Union Gallery is littered with bras -pictures of them, anyway. Meg Spielman-Peldo’s exhibit “no lumps, thank you; a bra anthologie” will remain up on the walls for another week, but it heads for another location at the end of the month. Spielman-Peldo put two bird nests together and made a wearable piece called “Breast Nest” about six years ago for the first Bras on Broadway. The next year she was photographing some of her creations, one of them another set of nests. This time around though, one was much smaller than the other. She laid some flowers around the punier one and aptly named the piece “Breast Enhancement.” “Everybody just loved them,” Spielman-Peldo explained. “I had so much fun doing them, and the concepts were endless.” It’s taken her four years to complete but the collection now holds 30 prints, and each picture shows distinct materials that illustrate a unique concept. One of them, titled “no lumps, thank you,” was made
with the intention of raising breast cancer awareness. The goal of the entire collection has been to make a book that can be used as a fundraising tool for charities across the country. She did a little online research about how to pitch concepts to publishers, and after scouring search results to learn how to write a query letter, she sent it off to a handful of publishers. She received a response just two days later, which shocked her considering she had never done this before. “It’s important to be able to laugh at ourselves and not take things too seriously, to look for the funnier things in life,” Speilman-Peldo said. She explained that while the collection is comprised of witty pieces that play around with slang terms, it’s not meant to downplay breast cancer efforts. She has a friend that recently underwent a double mastectomy, and has learned from area practitioners that cancer patients want to feel normal rather than focus on what they’ve lost. The collection leaves Fargo at the end of the week and won’t return until Oct. 17 at the Plains Art Museum, to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The book, also titled “no lumps, thank you; a bra anthologie,” is set for publication this July and should see a nationwide release in October.
"Mass Effect 3" has been out for a couple of weeks now. That's enough time for some people to have finally come to the conclusion of the five-year journey that was the Mass Effect trilogy. Half a decade of player driven choices, consequences and character interactions have all led up to this. Unfortunately, not everyone is happy with how things turned out. Specifically, some fans aren't happy with the final five-or-so minutes of this final entry of Commander Shepard's story. Those fans decided to try to do something about their distaste for the closing moments and have, very vocally and often less-than-politely, demanded that developer Bioware change the ending of "Mass Effect 3." It now seems that they may
Contributing Writer If you are suffering a withdrawal from “Harry Potter,” you’re in luck! “The Hunger Games” has just entered theaters and has certainly impressed. This movie is based on a series of novels made by Suzanne Collins. “The Hunger
Games” is a special event in a dystopian society where two people from twelve districts are randomly chosen to fight against each other in a freefor-all contest to the death. Since anything goes, the contestants can do whatever they want to bring about an end to the others. So be forewarned, some of the methods may be a bit too graphic for some people.
more on this in April. We're working hard to maintain the right balance between the artistic integrity of the original story while addressing the fan feedback we've received. This is in addition to our existing plan to continue providing new Mass Effect content and new full games, so rest assured that your journey in the Mass Effect universe can, and will, continue." I beat "Mass Effect 3" about a week after it was released. As what I can only describe as a die hard fan of the franchise, I feel that it's the best entry in the series by an order of magnitude. That being said, I wasn't as thoroughly satisfied with the final moments of the game as I would have liked to have been. Even then, I would never have dreamed of demanding that an artist or group of artists change their vision to satisfy my personal taste. This ending controversy does bring up an interesting point, however. Very rarely, if
ever, has any fan-base surrounding a game been large enough and involved enough to create such a stir surrounding a game's story. Certainly, there have been games with fantastic stories in the past but this is the first time that I can recall in which the fervor regarding it has reached such a level to invoke this kind of response. As much as I might disagree with how these fans are going about their seemingly entitled campaign to alter the game, I view it as a net positive in that it marks a serious milestone for the industry. Furthermore, it seems that Bioware isn't actually retconning the ending itself, but has rather chosen to expand upon it. That means little harm is done in terms of setting a precedent for altering one's material due to backlash. Players out there care about the Mass Effect franchise, its characters, its future and its plot. And that is a very good thing.
Diddy to start new music television channel Matt Paulsen Staff Writer Ever since Total Request Live ended its ten-year run back in 2008, MTV and music television has never been the same. MTV has instead decided to ditch the “M” in favor of reality shows like “Jersey Shore” and “16 and Pregnant.” It has been a long four years, but music is finally set to make its way back to television. It was recently announced that rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs has plans to launch a new television network called Revolt. The network will supposedly combine music, news and pop culture. It will bring back music videos and include live performances along with interviews. According to a YouTube video posted by Diddy him-
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actually be getting their way. "Since the game launched, the team has been poring over everything they can find about reactions to the game—industry press, forums, Facebook, and Twitter, just to name a few," BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka stated in a personal post on the developer's official forums. "The Mass Effect team, like other teams across the BioWare Label within EA, consists of passionate people who work hard for the love of creating experiences that excite and delight our fans. I'm honored to work with them because they have the courage and strength to respond to constructive feedback.” He went on to say, "To that end, Exec Producer Casey Hudson and the team are hard at work on a number of game content initiatives that will help answer the questions, providing more clarity for those seeking further closure to their journey. You'll hear
But besides that, this movie is filled with an enormous supply of factors that make this picture gold. Since the setting is all but dystopian, you will delighted with Collins’s description of a society of people who find the need to be covered in all the brightest colors they can find with the most bizarre styles of fashion. The makers of this movie really made Collin’s concept to come
self, his goal is “to make Revolt TV the number one name and home for music on television.” He goes on to say that Revolt is a place where “artists and their viewers can come together and engage with technology and social media. It’s a channel where new artists can share their work in the way it was meant to be: Raw, uncut, and uncensored.” Diddy will join Oprah Winfrey and Ryan Seacrest as celebrities starting up their own television networks within the past year or so. Winfrey launched OWN on Jan. 1, 2011. The network focuses on entertaining, informing and inspiring people to live their best lives through original programs, specials, original documentaries and movies. It sounds like the perfect station for those missing their daily Oprah fix, but unfortunately the station has
to life in amazing ways. This is certainly a movie with all crowds being in mind. Aspects of romance, action, horror, adventure and much more all come together for a real movie experience. If all of this isn’t enough for you, then you’ll be blown away from the incredible acting being done. You’ll actually find yourself believing that these people are actually stuck in this insane world fighting for their lives for your entertainment! But with all these good things being said, there
recently been known for pulling in weak ratings. This summer, Seacrest is getting into the television game with AXS (Access) TV. The channel, currently known as HDNET, will now be described as a live entertainment and lifestyle programming channel. Fans of HDNET will not have to worry though, because station mainstays including “HDNet Fights” and “Inside MMA” will make the jump to AXS as well as some other non-scripted series. No one knows how well Revolt will fare when it launches, but there is certainly an opening in the music television landscape. With MTV’s digression, VH1 airs music videos in the early morning hours, but reverts to airing reality during prime watching hours. That only leaves Fuse on the music television scene. Launched in 2003, the
channel offers live concerts and music videos, but for whatever reason hasn’t gained the popularity of its competitors. R evolt is set to launch toward the end of the year. If Diddy is successful, the move could potentially spark a comeback for music on television, which would be welcomed news for those individuals longing for a return of MTV’s glory days. In the words of Diddy himself, “Today is a big day. The Revolution will be televised. If you don’t know what I’m talking about your about to find out. This network will represent you, and this network will represent the soul of music that’s been missing for a long time. I will not stop until we’re on top. Revolt TV. The revolution will be televised. Lets GO!”
are some parts of the movie where it’s less than amazing. Even though it’s following the book very closely, the beginning leading up to the real action is a very long -- an hour in fact -- and sometimes dry process that will undoubtedly cause some to grow bored. The movie producers did a great job making sure that anyone who hasn’t even read the book can still easily enjoy the movie, so if you’re like me and haven’t read them (I know, I know, but I’m getting on it) you can read ahead for
spoilers. You should be able to easily get into the movie even if you never read the books, as mostly all little tidbits of information will be located in the movie for your bookless convenience. I’ll give this movie a definite A- for some great acting and an amazing storyline that usually keeps you on your toes, but sadly it comes with a sprig of dryness. I’d easily recommend this movie for anyone who’s a movie lover, an action junkie or just bored on a Friday night.
Lucky’s 13 for great food and pub setting Ryan Buetow Contributing Writer Located on 17th Avenue South and 43rd Street South down by the mall is Lucky’s 13 Pub. It is a nice sit-down restaurant with a bar running down the middle. The bar has brick walls and has a very friendly environment. Lucky’s 13 Pub recently came to Fargo in September and there are two other locations near the Twin Cities. The menu has a large variety of food including many different burgers. The pricing is a little higher than I prefer, but the quality of the food is worth it for a nice meal. I gave the double double burger a try,
which had two patties and was quite filling. The menu also has appetizers, sandwiches, pizza and more. When I went, the service was great and very helpful. That night local band Any Day Now was playing at Lucky’s, setting a great mood for all of the patrons. They have daily specials that include bingo along with live music on the weekends. Lucky’s is a great restaurant for a nicer meal. The location is a little out of the way, at least for those of us who don’t live in south Fargo. Recent graduate Nate Truex said, “I thought that it had a good atmosphere, the food was great and they had plenty of TVs but it didn’t overpower the relaxed feel of the restau-
rant.” They really do a great job of keeping a pub feel in a restaurant setting. In the words of graduate Scott Allen, “Do you know what else feels like a pub? A pub.” Recent graduate Brandon Hickcox says of Lucky’s, “It has great food selection, has a sit-down atmosphere, but still has a relaxing bar feel.” Lucky’s is great restaurant for a dinner-date every once in awhile. I wouldn’t rank it as one of my favorite places in town, but it wasn’t bad -- just a little more expensive but with good quality food. They have a decent selection of tap beers and the staff is extremely friendly. Overall, it’s a great place to have a nice meal or hang out with friends.
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Now that spring is here and leases need to be renewed, perhaps many romantic couples are deciding whether or not to move in with each other. If these couples had been deciding to live with one another only a few short years ago, they would have been at risk of possibly breaking North Dakota’s cohabitation law that made it illegal to live with your romantic partner. Now that topic has been brought up once more as the Fargo Forum’s website ran an Associated Press article stating that new research has found that cohabitation does not factor in whether or not romantic couples will get divorced. Interestingly, this article was littered across my Facebook homepage by some of my Facebook friends who were living with their significant other and were not married. They were trying to justify their living situations to the social networking world, stating things like “Look, everyone! Our relationship will actually get better by us living together!” And that is where neither the article nor my Facebook friends can be entirely correct. It’s human nature for us to want a clear-cut answer to almost anything. We now know that smoking has been proven to cause lung cancer. However, we cannot statically prove that living with your romantic partner before marriage will lead to divorce, and that is because of the diverse situations within each individual relationship. Every romantic relationship is different, which makes it rather impossible to pinpoint a reason why the relationship either flourished or floundered after getting married. One instance where cohabitation was unsuccessful dealt with a couple that I know who decided to move in together while they were engaged to be married. After a few months of living with each other, they eventually became married and we all thought their marriage would last forever. They had one child together and seemed to wear a façade that everything was OK. Unfortunately, they became divorced after only a few short years and have to continually work at sharing their child between one another. Another couple that I know who decided to bunk up together before they got married is happily enjoying their lives together even after they said “I do.” While living together, they dealt with problems before they headed to the altar. Instead of problems arising after they were married, they had to deal with their problems before they were married, which could have inevitably caused them to become a stronger couple in the end. Each relationship is entirely dynamic, and it is useless trying to identify why people get divorced. But in the meantime, perhaps people should just live by themselves. Jaime is a junior majoring in English education.
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The Facebook empire: Creating more than just status updates Joe Kerlin Contributing Writer I bet you all know the population of the world. I’m also willing to bet you know the population of China is over one million. But are you aware the size of your favorite social networking site? Facebook Newsroom reports, as of Dec. 31, 2011, Facebook has 845 million active users. Calculate the numbers and that’s a jaw dropping 12 percent of the world’s population, tripling the U.S. population, and pretty much a zillion times the population of Fargo. We have the ability to communicate with people we never thought possible, people from all walks of life. Communication can range from New York City to London, from Tokyo to the Middle East, all with the uncanny reliability via Facebook. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is achieving a modern, technologic Manifest Destiny with
his 500 billion dollar industry. Not bad for a socially awkward college dropout. Social networking allows us to connect with people worldwide through our fingertips, making the public more powerful than ever before. The more informed we are, the better society we can become. Small businesses use Facebook as an opportunity to get their name out, aspiring artists and writers use it to present their craft, President Obama uses it to campaign, and Facebook can also raise our awareness of evil, such as Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. CNBC interviewed Zuckerberg back in 2004 about his new website, “The Facebook.” While all of us were stuck in our reluctant Myspace phase, Zuckerberg was creating the next big thing. At the time, The Facebook had 100,000 users and was already well on its way to changing our lives forever. One lawsuit and a name change later, Facebook had CNBC wanting another inter-
view. Zuckerberg declined, inevitably causing CNBC to run a documentary in 2011 called “The Facebook Obsession.” The 42-minute show is an investigation of the rise of the most-visited website on the Internet. It documents several stories of people having their lives changed because of the social networking phenomenon and Facebook in particular. It begins with a feel good story about 21-year-old, Kari Tridel, in search of her biological mother. For TV’s sake, they follow her journey as she creates a Facebook group and eventually finds her mother. Putting the feel-good drama aside, we can see how resourceful social networking can be. Facebook can bring families together, Kari’s story is a prime example of this, and it’s similar to a friend of mine’s story as well. To protect her identity, let’s call her Betty. Betty lives with her single mother and has no siblings. Betty has only met her father
twice, both when she was young. She said she barely remembered what he looked like. Now, with the power of Facebook, Betty has been able to communicate with her father on a frequent basis, and he is now a significant part of her life. Even though the distance between them is from here to Texas, Betty says the relationship with her father is substantially better with Facebook. These stories are just the beginning of the potential power of Facebook. Information is being communicated faster than it ever has, putting Facebook at the epicenter of it all. Facebook has been nonchalantly creating and building relationship along the way. Zuckerberg owns a very influential piece of each and every one of us, and there’s no way of knowing where he’ll take us next. Joe is a sophomore majoring journalism.
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Thank you Jaime Jarmin. I wanted to commend you for providing a conduit for discussion of a very important matter with your well written, most recent opinion article. Well written except for one thing. Your real-life diner metaphor was superb but for a misplacement of the characters in it. The reason religious groups are rightfully very upset is because they are not only customers at that restaurant, but they are owners themselves of one in the same city (country). The reason they say their religious freedoms, protected under the constitution, are being violated is because by this new mandate, all restaurants (insurance providers) are required to offer bacon (contraception), and his is a kosher restaurant (an insurance provider who views certain medical practices unconscionable). The two simply aren’t compatible, but it gets worse. Under Obamacare, everyone in the nation is required to be insured and those who can’t afford it have their coverage paid for by someone else through taxes. This isn’t about contraception; this is about a power grab. The government is effectively saying that they will decide for religions what is right and wrong to believe. They’re not outlawing religion -- they’re making themselves a supreme overlord church, dictating to believers that regardless of any of their teachings, the teaching of the government supersedes it. Who’s denying the separation of church and state here? Amendment I: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” “…who’s right is it to say contraception should fall under religion?” I would say it’s the religion’s right to say what its own teachings are. (Quick little side note, it is perfectly religiously permissible, even in the Catholic Church to use the pill for non-contraceptive purposes, so your point is moot there.) Ignoring its rules and regulations, the bacon getting shoved down our throats by Obama’s administration isn’t even cooked, and like raw meat, will only make us sick as a nation. -Richard Aubol
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Baseball: America’s lost pastime Nathan Stottler Holland Lind Contributing Writers Spring, as always, denotes the beginning of baseball season. Dubbed “America’s pastime,” baseball seems to be loved by Americans of all ages, races and classes. It is the great game that brings us all together, whether on a neighborhood street, a local sandlot field, a high school ballpark, or in a major league stadium. In no other place than a ballpark can we find so accurate a cross-section of the melting pot that is today’s America. We flock to them, from early spring in Florida and Arizona for spring training, through the hot summer months at children’s tee ball games and church league softball, and into fall, as the World Series culminates six months of major league play. Professional sports, in the modern era of instant communication and unlimited access to information, have evolved
into a form that would be barely recognizable by their noble forbears. In past eras, children admired their idols, baseball’s stars, from a great distance. They followed the games in the newspapers and on the evening news, and replicated their greatest moments in neighborhood parks and fields. These days, we can order grand TV packages with every professional and college sporting event, costing us hundreds of dollars every year. Even if you don’t find yourself to be that dedicated, you can still watch most professional events on network or cable TV. You’re unable to catch the big game? Don’t worry, ESPN runs sports center on a seemingly continuous loop. Not near a TV? Not to fear, just hop on the Internet, and you will find all of the latest punditry in any number of sports on a multitude of websites. You don’t have a computer on hand? Simply browse the app store on your smart phone, and
you are sure to find more sports apps than you could possibly want to use. What could possibly be so wrong with this? Certainly the advancement of technology could not be a wholly bad thing. We can’t all be the ones with season tickets or luxury boxes at Target Field. Most of us, if we are lucky, will only get to see a few major league games in our lives -- depending mostly upon the degree of your dedication to the sport. With TV and Internet available to us wherever we go, we can now enjoy the sports we love most to the maximum extent! The argument is definitely compelling, but a closer look reveals the root causes of a flawed system. This heightened connection to the game has led to a heightened connection to the players themselves. Instead of being idols, role models and heroes, nowadays they all too often become little more than celebrities, as famous for their actions away from the game as in it. In addition, all of the TV
Ask Alysia Dear Alysia, Over spring break my boyfriend and I had a fight. We have been dating for about two months now and I told my boyfriend it was time for him to meet my parents. It wasn’t initially a problem because he agreed to go back home to Minnesota for a dinner. My mom spent a fair amount of time planning the day and getting dinner ready for him. My boyfriend told me he had to work the day before the dinner, so he wouldn’t be driving up with me. He told me he would he would leave in the morning the next day and make sure to make it on time for our plans. That day I waited for a phone call from him, but I never got one. I try getting in contact with him but there was no response. I figured his cell phone service was being interrupted on the drive up because it’s happened before, so I just waited for him to arrive. He never did. I was so upset and disappointed with him and completely embarrassed because my parents were anticipating meeting him. I didn’t hear from him for three days until I finally got back to Fargo. He called me to tell me that he had forgotten about the dinner and that he was sorry, but I think he is lying. What should I do? Sincerely, Upset Girlfriend Dear Upset Girlfriend, I sympathize with your situation because it is unfortunate that your boyfriend made a seriously bad impression on your parents. However, it is very difficult to give you clear advice without knowing his side of the story. All I can really say is for you to simply sit down and talk to him. At this point you are upset, but you have to be mature and have a conversation on the issue. Maybe he did forget and he isn’t lying or maybe he didn’t forget and just was too nervous to show up. The point is you won’t really know this information unless you talk to him. Of course you have a right to be bothered by his actions, but you must determine if it’s worth fighting over. Perhaps he has been making the effort to apologize because he truly is sorry and wants to make it up to you. Ask him to go to a dinner with your parents in Fargo instead of at home, if he does everything possible to make it happen that’s a sign that he cares about you and wants to show you he is a good guy. And if you do end up going to dinner with your parents, explain to them beforehand what happened, so that they don’t have his bad first impression on their conscience. Your best solution is to be upfront with your boyfriend, tell him how you feel and let him explain his feeling and reasoning. I’m sure once you start communicating, one way or another you’ll find out exactly what to do. Good luck! Alysia
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coverage, news media coverage and excessive punditry have led to a greater income for the teams themselves, allowing them to spend more and more money on their players. With salaries in Major League Baseball (the only professional sports league without a salary cap) now reaching $275 million (Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees is the highest paid athlete in the world), one cannot help but to wonder what the athletes of yesteryear would have thought of such a paycheck. What would Mickey Mantle or Hank Aaron have to say about $275 million? They would probably scoff, swear and kick up some agrilime in disgust. These men were true legends, heroes who played the game simply for the love of it. They were in touch with the romance of the sport, and they gave their all on the diamond in hopes of really being true heroes to those kids playing in dirt lots in neighborhoods across the country. They were representatives
of sportsmanship, fair play, hard work and dedication -not corporate sellouts with multi-million-dollar commercial endorsements. Beyond the athletes, the transformation that professional sports have undergone is changing the fans, too. Those children who once took to the streets to reenact their favorite moments from the greatest games ever played are now moving no further than their own living rooms, either reliving those moments in recorded format on their 60inch plasma screen TVs or diving into those moments themselves in the virtual world of video games. Instead of soaking up the sport by attending amateur baseball games at local venues, fans are getting their fill of baseball from their computer screens. The very essence of baseball, that romance that brings spectators back to their local stadium haunts season after season, has been stolen away. The rush of a fastball, the crack of a bat, the snap of the
ball hitting a glove are now no more than recreations on a TV screen, animations from a plastic, electric box. Therefore, this spring when baseball fever sets in, don’t hop on your Xbox, turn on ESPN or hop on the Internet to check fantasy stats. Call up your friends, meet up at a park, a backyard, or even the middle of a neighborhood street. Play some toss, maybe hit around a little bit. Then when summer gets into full swing, don’t get lost in the endless statistics and post-season predictions of the major leagues. Head to Newman Field and catch a Redhawks game, or better yet, snag some Twins tickets and head to Target Field. Get back to the roots of the game. Live for the swing of the bat, the line drive, and the slide into home. Bring back the kind of baseball that is the stuff of legends, sandlot style. Nathan is a junior majoring in landscape architecture; Holland is a junior majoring in apparel, retail merchandise and design.
Instant beauty guide: Pink lips galore
What you’ll need: Lip balm Pink lip liner Pink lipstick Lip-gloss (pink or clear shade) Linda Vasquez Features Editor The sun is out, the weather is great and that means it’s time to get playful with spring colors. Pink lips are a great way to incorporate the pastel colors of the spring ready to transition into the summer’s bright colors. The color pink is appropriate for any tone of skin and anyone can pull it off if done the right way. Keep in mind that the pink that you select should be in the lighter category of the spectrum of pink. For now, stay away from shades of magentas, fuschias and hot pinks. You can later use those shades as the sum-
mer gets closer. Step one Before beginning, make sure to clean lips off with makeup remover to ensure you start on a completely clean surface. Grab the lip balm and apply one coat to lips. The coat should only moisturize lips, not soak them, so be careful not to apply too much. Step two Once the lip balm has set in for about three minutes, grab the lip liner and apply it to the entire lips area. Make sure to also outline the outer rims of your lips. To accomplish this, start off by outlining the lips. Then take the lip liner and slowly fill in the top lip by starting from the center and working your way out on both sides. Do the
same for the bottom lip. This step will allow the lips to pick up the pink lipstick color without the natural color of your lips interfering with it. Step three Grab the pink lipstick and apply one full coat of it to lips. Apply the lipstick the same way the lip liner was applied so that the streaks are consistent. Then apply a second coat making sure each part of lips is covered. Step four Apply lip-gloss unto lips starting from the inner part of lips working your way out. To avoid excessive gloss, sweep the lip brush only on the bottom lip. Then rub lips together. Finally, take a napkin or towel to remove any excess
lipstick outside the perimeter of your lips. Your pink lips are now complete and ready to shine! Try making it your own by switching up the lipstick color or by replacing the pink shade that contains glitter in it. Also, try experimenting with both matte lipsticks and shine-gloss lipsticks to find out which one works best for you. Remember practice makes perfect! Have a unique beauty idea? Wondering how to do a nail design? Comments? Let us know at features@ndsuspectrum.com or join The Spectrum on Facebook!
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Meet-A-Bison: Nick Anderson Stephanie Stanislao Spectrum Staff
Travis Jones Sports Editor It’s time once again for my monthly top-five. With the weather warming up and the grass turning green, it’s quite evident that we’re going to actually get a spring in North Dakota and specifically Fargo. Spring fever has hit me harder than most, as the turn from cold weather to warm weather brings out my spring obsession: Golf. I anticipated writing this column later next month, but I won’t complain when I get to chase my ball around the course in March. Without any further waiting, I’m going to reveal to you the top-five courses in Fargo, and tell you where to go play your rounds this year. 5. Osgood Golf Course The newest nine-hole course in Fargo is a great choice for an intermediate nine-hole round. Osgood features a new clubhouse, restaurant and a beginner’s course to go along with one of the better driving ranges on any course in Fargo. It’s a par-36 that boasts a few challenging holes, but also has a couple that allows you to make up a few strokes as well. If you’re looking for nine holes with a decent amount of challenge in them, Osgood is the best place for you to play. The food isn’t bad either, and the beverages are always cold. 4. Maple River Golf Club It’s a bit of a jaunt from Fargo to Mapleton, but 16 miles west on Interstate-94 brings us to one of my favorite courses around. It’s a long, challenging course that can wear you out, so focus on being prepared to play this course is a must if you want to shoot a good score. It is 18 holes along I-94 and the Maple River, so the atmosphere is diverse depending on which side of the course you’re playing. It’s not an easy course, but if you want to play a competitive full round, Maple River is a must-try for any golfer. 3. Prairiewood Golf Course Prairiewood is a par-32, nine-hole course that, difficulty wise, isn’t very tough. I look to Prairiewood when I’m looking to hone in my game, but still want to be challenged on some par-threes. It does have a few places where a golfer can get into trouble, but is mostly forgiving throughout the course. Prairiewood is the ideal course for a day out with good friends. 2. Rose Creek Golf Course In the eyes of many, Rose Creek is the best course in Fargo. With the setting being in south Fargo and near a residential area, it gives you the feeling of an inner-city course. In my mind, it’s the most challenging 18 holes you’ll find in Fargo, but I think it’s a must for any serious, experienced golfer. 1. Edgewood Golf Course Located in north Fargo, this is, in my mind, the best allaround course in the F-M area. Edgewood, the only tree-lined public course in the area, is 18 holes of challenging golf, but it can be kind to bad shots at times, as it is fairly wide and has few places to steal your golf balls. It also is home to a medium-sized driving range. Edgewood is a must for golfers of all experience levels in Fargo.
There is nothing quite like sitting in the stands at a baseball diamond on a warm Friday afternoon, but Nick Anderson, senior Bison outfielder is sure that being out on the field is an even better spot. With his soft-spoken and calm demeanor, Anderson explained that he was a transfer student from Boone, Iowa, where he had grown up and played collegiate baseball for Des Moines Area Community College. When asked about his transition from DMACC to NDSU, Anderson explained that at first it was a difficult move, but because of great teammates, friends and the baseball coaching staff it has become much easier to be eight hours away from his family. Making decisions about academics can be tough; however, when speaking about why he chose to make the big move to become a Bison, after going through the recruiting process, he stated, “[NDSU] just felt like the right fit. The teachers are really helpful and want you to do your best and succeed academically. It’s the same with my advisors and coaches. NDSU is really supportive of its students.” When asked how long he had been playing baseball Anderson laughed and said, “Since I could walk.” He also remarked that his father played baseball and his mother played softball, so growing up the sport of baseball was a huge part of his life. Currently Anderson is listed as a university studies major,
but has expressed interest in working with youth and more specifically getting a degree in coaching. Anderson explained his reasons for wanting to coach, “My dad enjoys baseball. He loves working with people and helping them to be successful and it passed on to me. I want to do the same thing later on in my life. I want to teach and help kids with the knowledge I have and pass it on to them. I want to see them grow as athletes and as people.” Having been an NDSU student for nearly two years, Anderson also shared a few of his fondest memories from being a Bison. The first of which was the Bison football national championship game this January. Although he was unable to attend the game down in Frisco, he made sure to watch from his family’s home in Iowa. “Watching that game made me really proud to be a Bison,” Anderson exclaimed. Other fond memories include the baseball team’s successes in their conference last season as well as the time spent on road trips with teammates. When Anderson is not in class, on the practice field or on the road with the team he enjoys spending time with his friends and teammates. He is also a big video game enthusiast, calling himself a “video game junkie,” which is something he says most would not know about him. Another lesser known fact about Anderson is that he does not, “mind a chick flick every now and then.” It’s evident that Anderson has really taken in the role of being a part of the NDSU community, something that most people can relate to when looking at themselves.
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Nick Anderson moved from a small college in Iowa to NDSU, a move made easier by his participation in baseball.
Bison herd round-up Travis Jones Sports Editor Softball The NDSU women’s softball team kept their perfect Summit League record clean last weekend with a sweep of Oakland in Rochester, Michigan. North Dakota State (2211, 6-0 Summit) has now won eight games in a row, and will be coming to Fargo this Friday for their first home series of the season. NDSU won their first game on Friday 6-0 to open the three-game set. Christina Borek pushed across the first run in the second inning with a solo homerun. Krista Menke pitched seven shutout innings, giving up only four hits and striking out eight. Friday’s second game saw another strong pitching performance from the Bison and a solid offensive output, as NDSU won 5-1 over OU. Jamie Gay scored on a wild pitch to open the scoring, and the Bison pushed across two runs in both the fifth and sixth innings. Whitney Johnson (95) took the win for NDSU, as
she pitched a complete game giving up five hits, one run and she struck out nine. The Herd closed the series with a 6-0 win against the Golden Grizzlies on Saturday. The two teams were scoreless through the first three innings of the game before NDSU busted the doors open with a five-run fourth inning. Four of those runs came off of a Christina Borek grand slam after the Bison opened the inning with three-straight hits. Krista Menke (13-6) pitched seven scoreless innings and gave up just one hit on the night. Women’s Golf The women’s golf team traveled to Crystal River, Florida over the weekend for the Cincinnati Spring Invitational. Amy Anderson finished the three-round tournament in fourth after shooting rounds of 70, 74 and 75 for a total score of 219. Other lines for the Herd were as follows: Abby Knutson shot a 242, Rachel Roller a 244, Sarah Storandt a 250 and Megan Swan a 257. NDSU as a team finished 13th overall at the tournament.
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Sports NDSU’s Brost catches elusive All-American goal Jack Schroer Contributing Writer On Saturday, March 10, NDSU senior Leslie Brost lined up and took her turn at the pole vault during the 2012 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championship. She vaulted into the air, as she had done many times in her long career. This time, however, was more than just a successful vault. When she landed, Brost had earned the title of All-American. “I was really relieved because it’s been a goal of mine for a long time and it hadn’t happened yet,â€? Brost said about the honor. She added that she had been to nationals before; in fact, this was her fourth appearance. Brost vaulted 14 feet-3 Âź inches that day, claiming “Bâ€? qualifying status for the 2012 Olympic Trials. The significance of being an All-American, Brost said, is that it is something that she’ll always have as a reward for all of her training, even after her track career is over. Brost’s coach, Stevie Keller, was incredibly proud of her accomplishment, stating that he was very excited for her to receive the honor. “It’s been fun to watch her develop,â€? he said. Keller recalled that he watched Brost pole vault during her high school years and that she was
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Leslie Brost clears her mark during a meet earlier this season. Brost earned an All-American title after a 14-foot-3-1/4-inch vault at the Indoor Track and Field Championship this month.
an excellent athlete in those years, too. Brost is no stranger to big accomplishments. The vault that made her an All-American also set a school record. She won Nike’s National Meet as a high school senior, according to Keller. Brost’s track experience began in middle school. She and her friends went out for track to try something new.
She got into pole vaulting because of her gymnastics background. However, it was not an easy road to glory. Brost said that pole vaulting takes a long time to learn. “When young kids start vaulting, they want to jump high right away, and they need to understand that it’s a long process to develop a good jump,� she said. Brost’s knowledge stems from her
coach, who she cited as “the best coach I could ask for.� Keller said he gave several tips to Brost over the course of the season and her career. One notable thing he mentioned was that a pole vaulter needs to know when to switch to a different pole. Keller said most people do not realize that vaulters use more than one pole in competition. Keller credits Brost entirely
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for the All-American achievement, saying that in an individual sport like track and field, a coach cannot take much credit for something a player has done. Brost credits her coach for his calm coaching demeanor; both at meets and in practice. “It helps keep me calm when I’m competing,� she said. As for the future, Brost said
she is still trying to figure everything out. She currently plans to take the MCAT and apply to medical schools, but she would love to keep vaulting. “I’m just going to take every opportunity as it comes and hope that I’ll end up where I’m supposed to be after college.�
Positions to watch during spring practices Kyle Roth Staff Writer With the turn of another year into spring football practices come the graduation of players and the filling of roles, as new names throw their names into the arena in the quest to becoming the leaders of the 2012 Bison football team. With that emergence, and the challenge of replacing true leaders in players like Preston Evans and Paul Cornick, here are the top three areas to keep an eye on throughout spring drills and into the April 21st spring football scrimmage. 1. Wide Receivers Even if the position hadn't been ransacked by injury as the 2011 season rolled onward, the production of seniors Warren Holloway, Matt Veldman and D.J. McNorton was such a mainstay of the NDSU passing attack that all three seniors counted for the 14 receiving scores the team registered. As such, finding a new name to produce through the air is a must for the 2012 season. Junior Ryan Smith is the heir apparent to that role, as he finished second on the team in receiving yards but didn't find the endzone on offense during the season. Sophomores Zach Vraa and Trevor Gebhart will once again go through spring drills waiting for a productive season to be the result, as both have been hampered by injury through their two years on campus. With such an opening, don't be shocked if a true freshman finds his way into the mix come August. 2. Linebacker In this category it’s important to look specifically at the middle linebacker position. The contributions Preston Evans made in his three years locked in the mike spot were unquantifiable as Evans grew into his role as a leader, and helped to guide two of the best defenses in NDSU history his last two years with the program. The burden of that leadership likely falls to junior Grant Olson, but a bevy of underclassmen will also vie for major minutes at linebacker. With some eye-catching recruits hauled in the last two years, it'll be interesting to see if another Travis Beck emerges from the group as a dark-horse, two-deep candidate. 3. Corner Sophomore Christian Dudzik moving to safety opens up the side opposite superstar Marcus Williams, but there shouldn't be any drop off from last year's lockdown secondary unit despite the departure of John Pike and Dan Eaves. Three redshirt freshmen will vie for that other starting gig along with returning junior Brendin Pierre, and all four candidates have the kind of freakish athleticism that makes Williams such a gem. The position isn't in question so much as it is a goldmine for some true talent to emerge, and that's why the spot makes this list. One of the most refreshing things is that, for the first time in four years, the quarterback spot isn't on this list, as junior Brock Jensen is the closest thing to a lock the team has had in a while. Tight end, defensive end, punter, kicker and offensive guard are honorable mentions in this list, so if there's one thing to take away, it's that the 2012 spring ball season should be actionpacked.
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