NDSU Spectrum | April 10 2017

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Not Her Last Le cture Professor perseveres despite terminal diagnosis

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Even after her diagnosis of stage IV cancer, Amy Taggart plans to continue her work at NDSU.

Rio Bergh

Features Editor

Pushing through the pain and other pithy phrases about striving in the face of adversity usually apply to athletics, not academics.

But sometimes that distinction doesn’t matter.

Amy Taggart, a professor in NDSU’s English department, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012, and after a temporary reprieve, found out in late 2016 that the cancer had spread to her spine.

“The cancer filled up my vertebrae, and eventually seven of them broke, and are likely still

broken to some degree right now,” Taggart noted.

“Although the pain is more manageable, after a brief stint in a brace that made me look like Wonder Woman, and since the doctors injected some sort of cement to stabilize my vertebrae.”

Although Taggart’s cancer is terminal, the exact timeframe is an unknown.

“When my treatments initially weren’t working, my doctor told me I had months to years, which was sobering, to say the least,” Taggart said, “but now that treatment is going a bit better, it looks like I might be closer to the normal range of three to four years, but the truth is, it really

depends on. Some people live for 10 years, 15 years.

“I’m living day by day,” Taggart said. “I’m not dying tomorrow, but it’s out there somewhere. And it does change things — my first job is living now. I’d like to be doing my ‘second job’ at the university a bit more, but I’m doing what I can at the moment.”

Perseverance, dedication

Last semester, during the initial stages of discovering her illness had returned and pursuing treatment, Taggart continued to fill her role on campus.

“Amy’s dedication to her students is amazing,” Sam Hamernick, a senior

in English, said. “Even with everything she was going through, even with a broken back, she showed up to class every day to teach us last semester.”

However, Taggart’s impact isn’t limited to the classroom. Advising and mentoring has a significant impact on her students.

“I have so much to say, but it’s hard to put into words how great Amy is — she basically changed my career path and got me into the community doing the work I do. I owe most of my success to her,” Hamernick noted.

Taggart’s work also filters out into the community. She incorporated the New American Consortium for Wellness and Empowerment into the curriculum for one of her writing classes. Students interviewed community members who arrived in the area as refugees, and helped develop a package of stories and information about corporate giving and volunteering by area businesses.

“Amy is a creative and passionate woman — working with her and her husband Mark is a wonderful experience for me personally, and for the Consortium,” Darci Asche, director of development for the New American Consortium, said.

In addition to her work teaching, Taggart has been instrumental in developing programs in the English department.

“Amy was a central voice in developing the major, the writing programs and the doctoral program.

In part due to her work, the writing program and its assessment just won our campus’s award for program assessment,” Betsy Birmingham, professor and chair of the English

department, said.

To the future

Disruptions, transitions

While illness disrupts the stability of daily life, it also brings with it opportunities for transition and change.

Taggart directed NDSU’s first year writing program for five years, before her first experience with cancer disrupted her work in the position.

“It was a bit of an existential crisis for a while — if I wasn’t a writing program administrator, what was my role in the institution?” Taggart said.

“And so I had to find a new pathway, but it was generative since I started doing general education work at NDSU and got involved with a bunch of people around campus.”

This work eventually led to Taggart becoming the Associate Director of the Office of Teaching and Learning. As part of her work there, she also wrote a National Science Foundation grant, which got funded at $2.6 million to help train faculty in the STEM disciplines to become better teachers.

Existential crisis or not, the work Taggart did while directing first-year writing isn’t taken for granted, especially by the current director of first-year writing.

“The job is manageable and enjoyable largely because of the work she did before me in that role,” Lisa Arnold, a professor in the English department, said.

“She exemplifies the field’s vision of a practitionerscholar, someone who is as committed to research as to teaching and administration — a difficult balance to uphold. It’s wonderful to have her as a colleague, and she’s a big part of why I came to NDSU,” Arnold noted.

Taggart isn’t currently teaching while her treatment is more intensive, but she continues to work on nomination letters, dissertations and work she can complete without being physically present all of the time. She still maintains a presence on campus, and can’t seem to resist doing things for other people.

“In the same situation, I probably wouldn’t be working, and yet here she has been, without skipping a beat, really. That is admirable,” Tony Albright, a grad student in the English department, said.

Taggart is known as being eternally optimistic, and incredibly levelheaded.

“You can be enraged about something — politics, students or anything else — and Amy will listen, and then she’ll say ‘is this maybe where they are coming from?’ or ‘is this another way of looking at it?’” Verena Theile, English professor and director of graduate studies, said.

“She brings that perspective into every meeting, and really, it’s invaluable to have someone grounded and who looks at things from every side like that,” Theile said, “and I think it helps to approach what she’s going through now in that manner.”

“I don’t want to let the diagnosis rule everything — I have kids to live for, a husband to live for, a job to live for — and I want to squeeze out what I can. I’m fortunate to be a cup twothirds full kind of person,” Taggart said with a smile.

Taggart is currently receiving chemotherapy, and hopes to resume teaching in the fall and continue filling her roles at NDSU as long as possible.

ND First Lady, Panel and FBI Talk Opioid Epidemic Event focuses on problems, education on heroin and prescription drugs Casey McCarty Head News Editor

The Fargo Police Department responded to over 10 opioid-causing deaths and more than 60 overdoses due to the same type of drugs in the past year, the first lady of North Dakota Kathryn Burgum told an audience Friday.

Burgum was speaking to the crowd of Chasing the Dragon, an opium-based drug awareness seminar put on by the North Dakota State Criminal Justice Club.

A 15-year-removed former alcohol addict herself, Burgum was a featured speaker at the event who presented background information and initiatives pertaining to raising awareness about

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addiction. The event also featured a documentarystyle film created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Chasing the Dragon, and a discussion panel afterward.

Burgum said the problem of opioid addiction hit close to home for her. Her niece was a high school hockey goalie who hurt her knee and started using pain medications to help herself.

She then became addicted.

“Addiction can no longer be described as a character flaw or a moral defect,” Burgum said, adding if our society changes its stigma toward addiction by treating it more like a disease and less like a criminal then people wouldn’t choose to ruin lives or drink themselves to death anymore.

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She added there needs to be more treatment options other than jail or prison and more options for those in jail or prison.

Burgum said 78 people

not getting treatment.

Finally, Burgum announced an opioid treatment program will open in Fargo later this month and there will be

“Anybody can become an addict. It can be as simple as getting a sports injury, being prescribed painkillers and it going from there.” - Kathy Hotakainen, outreach coordinator for the FBI

die every day in the United States due to an overdose from prescription or opioid drugs and 80 percent of people at the national level with an opioid addiction are

Mason Wenzel and Katie Mastel win student body presidential election

three total in the state of North Dakota.

Film

Kathy Hotakainen, a community outreach specialist for the Federal

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Bureau of Investigation based out of Minneapolis, presented the film and the epidemic of opioid drugs.

“This is an epidemic that law enforcement cannot arrest our way out of,” Hotakainen said. “Anybody can become an addict. It can be as simple as getting a sports injury, being prescribed painkillers and it going from there.”

She said the FBI is getting involved in this epidemic because numerous amounts of the large crimes the FBI are fighting are in some way involved with opium addictions.

Panelists

The panel consisted of U.S. Attorney of North Dakota Chris Myers, Executive Director of the North Dakota Board of Pharmacy Mark Hardy,

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NDSU Police and Safety Officer and member of the NDSU President’s Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs Lt. Adam Walter, Matt Christensen, the officer in charge of the Fargo Police Department Narcotics Unit, Marvis Doster, a registered addiction nurse and Jeff Harper, a Drug Enforcement Agency resident who oversees operations in the state of North Dakota.

Medical aspects

Harper talked about the dangers of the opioid drug epidemic in the FargoMoorhead, specifically with the increasing prevalence of lethal drugs fentanyl and carfentanil.

“You should be scared.

You should all be very, very scared,” Harper said.

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A common theme between Chasing the Dragon and remarks at the panel were how jail or prison time for some opioid users actually helped them get clean and saved their lives.

Prevention

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North Dakota’s First Lady, Kathryn Burgum, is a former alcohol addict. She spoke about the struggles and stigma of addiction. lethal dose of fentanyl and carfentanil as the size of grains of salt. He added carfentanil is a tranquilizer used to take down elephants and that these two drugs are different from the rest because users can get hooked very fast, very quick and can be killed in one dose.

Hardy said a rollout of naloxone, also known by its brand name of Narcan which is used to reverse the effects of a narcotic overdose, is intended to

save as many lives as possible. He said Narcan can reverse the effects of a carfentanil overdose, though the drug is so potent that Narcan may not be able to save a person in time.

Doster said the problems existing are a lack of access to treatments and, though opioids have an appropriate use in some instances, they were designed to treat endof-life kinds of pain and not headaches or menstrual cramps.

Hardy said currently,

doctors do overprescribe opioids, but working with the DEA to allow North Dakota pharmacies to take back prescription drugs will help cut down on addiction.

“More is not better and stronger is not better,” Doster said.

Legal aspects

Harper said he has seen an increase in opioid related overdoses and deaths in the previous two or three years. He added that though marijuana is still illegal at the federal level, he still

concentrates his people on methamphetamine and other hard drugs.

“Our end goal isn’t to put users in jail again and again,” Christensen said.

Christensen said his job is to work with people to climb up a source of supply and hold the people at the top accountable. He added he investigates all drugs but opioids took up a lot of his time and effort last year, with 15 federal indictments specifically related to opioids.

Walter, Myers, Burgum, Hotakainen and Harper all expressed the importance of education to prevent the spread of opioid addiction.

Myers said curbing the opioid epidemic starts with changing how our culture views marijuana and other drugs.

“Knowledge is key folks,” Harper said.

Walter said though much of law enforcement is reactionary in nature, he and his officers have had to be proactive with the opioid epidemic. Currently, the UPSO assigns an officer to each residence hall to educate students on the problems of alcohol and drugs. The UPSO also serves on the PCAOD, of which has a mission to ensure the success of students.

“Anyone in this room has the ability and opportunity to make a difference,” Myers said. He added talking to young people and informing them of the harm is a good way to prevent them from starting to use opioids.

Resources

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office, the Fargo Police Department and the West

Fargo Police Department all have prescription drug take-back programs where individuals can drop off excess prescription drugs they may have.

Community Medical Services, located at 901 28th Street, Fargo, North Dakota, is an opioid treatment program. The program’s phone number is 701-858-1801.

Anyone with information they wish to report regarding opioid drugs can contact the UPSO at 701231-8998 or by texting a tip to 701-526-6006. The same can be done for the FPD by calling 701-241-5777 or texting a tip to 701-7308888.

A complete set of resources for North Dakota can be found at https://prevention.nd.gov/ stopoverdose and for Minnesota at http://www. mnprc.org/resources/ prevention-resources/topics/ opioids/.

Editor’s Note: Resources listed are for nonemergency services. If you or anyone you know is experiencing an emergency related to opioid drugs, please do not hesitate to call 9-1-1. North Dakota is a Good Samaritan state, such that up to three people including the person needing help will not be in legal trouble for ingestion or possession of illegal drugs if medical help is sought out.

Lone Ticket Wins Student Body Presidential Election Twenty-four senators elected as well Phoebe Ellis Co-News Editor

Mason Wenzel and Katie Mastel walked away as winners of the student body election Thursday night, garnering 89.6 percent of all votes. The duo will be the 2017-18 North Dakota State student body president and vice president, respectively.

Although being the sole ticket on the ballot, they won the student body election with 1,017 votes in their favor.

“I’m happy that we get to move into actually getting to work,” Wenzel said shortly after the announcement he won, speaking in reference to the lack of campaigning their future holds. “We plan on getting to work tomorrow.”

The future for Wenzel and Mastel focuses on covering all aspects of their three-pillared platform and getting as much done as efficiently as possible.

Wenzel said he was very happy to have won the election, and stated he

planned to take the night off to relax. Mastel shared the positive sentiment and said she was happy to have had the experience.

“I’m really excited to start working with the senators right away,” Mastel said.

Mastel is focused on allowing the senators to take charge of their own projects that they deem important, in addition to accomplishing every aspect of the platform the duo ran on.

“I feel great right now ...

I’m excited to get started,” Mastel said. She added she was going to send out emails to plan “meeting upon meetings” for the next week.

Wenzel and Mastel have plans for the upcoming year, such as changing the general education requirements to use free online textbooks as their course materials, starting programs like coffee after class and including scantrons in student fees.

The duo plans to hit the ground running and would like to reach out to determined and passionate individuals to join their team

and further their efforts.

Senate settled

seats

A total of 24 senatorial candidates were elected this year, of which 10 were newly elected and 14 were re-elected.

New senators include: Jerrod MacDonald and Jamal Omar from the College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources; Elijah Gill and Fatima Shittu from the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Ashley Honl from the College of Business; Ben Miller from the College of Engineering; Mdfaisal Kabir from Graduate Studies; Alyssa Emmons from the College of Human Development and Education; Courtney Hagen from the College of Health Professions; and Brady Jochim from the College of Science and Math.

Seven elected candidates (Omar, Gill, Shittu, Miller, Kabir, Hagen and Jochim) were elected with fewer than 20 votes cast in their name.

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Chief Student Court Justice Thomas Fyffe announced the winner of this year’s student body election.

Domestic Student Healthcare Premiums to Increase Change comes with decreasing premiums for foreign students Phoebe Ellis Co-News Editor

Domestic student healthcare premiums are on the rise for the coming school year, an increase of $1,364. International students will also see a decrease in their premiums.

Richard Rothaus, the North Dakota University System’s vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, detailed some of the process that concluded in this decision.

The rise in premiums can be connected to two things: the price of premiums paid by international students and the Affordable Care Act, Rothaus said.

International students are required to purchase

a healthcare plan while domestic students are not and because of the ACA most students below the age of 26 do not purchase the student healthcare plan because they remain on their parent’s insurance plans.

Four percent (1,993 students) across the state of North Dakota purchase a healthcare plan. Rothaus said 359 of those are domestic students.

Before the ACA, the majority of students purchased healthcare through the university system, which meant lower premiums.

Additionally, there have been complaints from the international student body asking why their premiums remain high.

After discussion, deliberation and

The rise in premiums can be connected to two things, the price of premiums paid by international students and the Affordable Care Act, Richard Rothaus, North Dakota University System’s vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, said. talking with the insurance provider for the NDUS system, Rothaus and other administrators concluded that the best approach was to lower international students premiums and raise the premiums of domestic students.

Although the raise in premiums is a shock to some domestic students, to receive the same care through an

insurance provider outside of the university system would cost between $10,000 and $15,000.

Rothaus said between the three insurance companies reached out to, none could match or beat the premiums offered to domestic students, which are already offered to NDUS students.

Rothaus also said when he sent an email explaining

the change, the majority of the replies he received were more students being surprised at the fact that healthcare was offered and few about the actual price change.

Along with the increase in premiums for domestic students, Rothaus said he does not expect any students to revoke their use of the healthcare offered through the NDUS. With the new presidency, there may be some questions as to how the healthcare system will work on a national level and how that will impact not only this insurance coverage but also that offered by the ACA. In recent weeks, President Trump and Congress have been trying to revoke the ACA in

favor of another system of nationwide healthcare.

Because the details of such a healthcare plan are uncertain, so is the future of student healthcare in regards to insurance coverage. Depending on what the verdict on that turns out to be, there may be a sudden increase in student enrollment in insurance through their educational institute, but is still impossible to predict, Rothaus said.

Rothaus said a concern of his is the 25-yearold students will soon be responsible for their own health insurance. He wants to get the word out that insurance through their educational institute is possible despite high premiums.

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NDSU, UND Catholics To Race in Late April Annual bike race is large fundraiser for Newman Centers

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bisonCatholic members race in a decades long annual race against the University of North Dakota.

Katherine Kessel Contributing Writer

The Newman Centers of North Dakota State and the University of North Dakota are set to host their annual Bike, Race, & Ride on April 27 through April 29.

The race will pit contestants representing the NDSU St. Paul’s Newman Center against those representing the UND St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center.

Proceeds from the entry-fee and rider

sponsorships will benefit each university’s respective Newman Center.

Riders will begin the 25-mile race in Hillsboro, travel on County Highway 13 to Caledonia and then back to Hillsboro.

The route this year is unique as it allows riders from NDSU and UND to ride together when previously the two had different routes.

The winning school will be based on multiple factors, including the total riders from each team who finish, the number of riders

from each school with times in the top ten and which school raises the most funds.

Riders from NDSU are asked to fundraise $200 or pay a $50 registration fee, all to benefit St. Paul’s Newman Center.

While the actual race will take place on Saturday, bike tune-ups and a spaghetti dinner will take place the day before.

Following the race on Saturday will be brats and a street dance.

The race began in 1986, when the pastor at the

UND St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center thought of a bike race as “friendly competition” between the UND and NDSU and as a way for the students to raise money and give back to their Newman Centers.

UND was the initial winner of the race, earning both a faster time and raising a larger amount of money.

However, the competition has been fierce, with goals increasing each year.

Tara Splonskowski, a staff associate at the Newman Center and former

student who participated in the race, said the goal of the bike race is to, “bring the community together, have some friendly competition with (our) compadres, the UND Newman Center, and raise $100,000 for the next year of ministry at NDSU.” Splonskowski, who works to coordinate the event, spoke of the community of Hillsboro as being excited to play host for the event and of wanting their high school students who are entering college to see a faith community coming together to have fun and

support a good cause.

St. Paul’s Newman Center is a non-profit organization that services the student population of NDSU. In addition to Catholic Campus ministry, the Newman Center sponsors a variety of events for students, such as the weekly “Buckluck,” an opportunity for students to receive a home-cooked meal in exchange for a small donation, snacks for students in the Newman center building, retreats, conferences, speakers and more.

In A Nutshell Amanda Johnson Staff Writer

Girl Scout empowerment

North Dakota State University students Abby Erickstad, Brenna Hanson, Dan Marlette, John Boylan, Kayla Thompson, Morgan Root and Mitch Friedman organized a leadership seminar two weekends ago for over 35 Girl Scouts and 12 adults.

“The main purpose of the event was to empower young girls and teach them they have the potential to become leader,” Erickstad said in a press release.

The girls rotated through six different stations that emphasized different leadership skills.

The event also provided the NDSU students with an opportunity to learn about their own leadership skills through leading the event for the Girl Scouts.

Protest near NDSU

A nonprofit known as he Physicians Committee gathered near NDSU to protest medical procedure being practiced on live animals.

Protesters gathered at the corner of 12th Ave. N. and North University Drive

on Thursday to protest the school’s Advanced Trauma Life Support training which includes inserting tubes and needles into live pigs’ chests, killing them.

The national protest group argues that the animal usage is detrimental to students and they are offering to replace the live pigs with “TraumaMan,” a simulation system.

calories than sitting in the tub and lounging about shaping the bubbles into a beard for your rubber duck burned as many calories as a half-hour walk, the Star Tribune reported.

The study included 12 men. Loughborough University is continuing to investigate the caloric impact and healing power of heat.

Thursday evening power was restored to 558 customers in North Fargo after a squirrel caused an outage.

The Cass County Electric official twitter tweeted, “Power has been restored.

Outage was caused by a squirrel.”

The outage occurred around 7:45 p.m. on Thursday night and was made official through the Cass County Electric twitter page.

Cass County Electric has released no further details about the incident at this time.

Water samples taken by scientists in Iowa showed that levels of neonicotinoid chemicals remained constant despite treatment, BBC News reported.

Neonicotinoids are the most common insecticide in the world.

The effect on human health is not known and further studies are necessary.

Water samples taken from the University of Iowa treatment plant removed barely any of the three main neonic chemicals. Water samples taken from the Iowa City treatment facility removed at least 85 percent of the neonic chemicals.

“The Environmental Protection Agency regulates contaminants in water but as of now, neonics are not considered a threat,” BBC news reported.

Squirrel causes outage

Hot tub diet

Researchers from Loughborough University set out to study the comparison of soaking in a hot tub to exercise.

Researchers found cycling burned more

Tap water insecticide

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BISON ABROAD Ryan Kockelman Contributing Writer

This week’s midterms were a rude awakening for most of the international students.

Despite the fun and travel we get to do here, we still have school to do. As fun as the semester has been so far, it would be devastating for it to become a waste by the end because we didn’t pass the classes.

For me, I had less and less time to study because my family flew all the way from the states to visit me. And I don’t mean like two or three of them. Both parents, one brother, a cousin, two aunts, an uncle and my grandmother all made the flight across the pond to spend a week in Italy.

Needless to say, it was a great time, even though it was very stressful at times.

Being the only one with any (albeit, very limited) knowledge of the Italian language, I had to do all of

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the talking in restaurants and stores and do all of the explaining.

On the first day they arrived, the pope spoke in a city outside of Milan called Monza and we were all able to go see him. He spoke incredibly slowly, which meant I could understand 45 percent of what he said as opposed to the regular 30 percent.

We all got to see the touristy things in Milan, like the Duomo, the Sforza castle and all that good stuff.

Even luckier than that, my aunt snagged tickets for us to see the Last Supper painting, which was amazing to behold.

We traveled to Lake Como and to Verona. The weather was absolutely perfect for travel, which was quite the blessing. This week has been cloudy and rainy, which I suppose is perfect for test taking. The weekend will bring spring break, and that will be worth the wait.

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A family of monolingualists means lots o’ translating.

American Tradition: The Cult of Monolingualism Professor Maylath delivers ominous message at 56th lectureship Benjamin Norman Spectrum Staff

History had its eyes on North Dakota State’s prestigious Faculty Lectureship on Thursday night.

“You see, it was a hundred years ago this year that numerous state governments in the United States did their best to try to make their citizens ignorant of all other languages besides English, and the event that started that movement happened exactly one hundred years ago today,” Bruce Maylath said, an NDSU English professor and the 2017 lectureship award recipient.

On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany, entering the U.S. into WWI. Exactly a century later, on a night in which the U.S. fired 59 missiles at a Syrian airfield, Maylath discussed the dangers of standardizing monolingualism in the U.S to more than 100 students

and faculty at Century Theater.

“What followed (the century since) is a history that almost no one today is aware of, because Americans became so afraid to talk about it,” Maylath said. “So let’s talk.”

Ubiquitous English Maylath graciously gave his speech in English, which may seem like a given in Fargo, North Dakota. English, though, is a newcomer to the region.

“Here along the border of North Dakota and Minnesota, Dakota was the main language just five generations ago, and Norsk, or Norwegian, was commonly heard on the streets of Fargo just three generations ago,” Maylath said.

Before WWI, a third of all Minnesota schools taught primarily in German, Maylath said. “This statistic does not include the ones that taught primarily in Norwegian or Polish.”

That all changed soon after America joined the

war.

A “pathological” mindset settled into the cultural norm: English is the language of Americans; anything else isn’t.

Extermination of languages began extending past the eradicating of Native American languages, which were often beat out of Indian children at boarding schools. German families and cities Anglicized their names, and school administration banned any foreign language instruction before the ninth grade.

“The last I checked, Kansas still has that law in place,” Maylath said.

English became the default language of the nation, and later, the world.

With this privilege, native speakers haven’t had a need to learn a second language, much less respect other tongues.

That causes problems.

Monolingualism is “undermining the effectiveness of professionals in this country,” Maylath said.

“It leads to dismissiveness

of other languages.”

Even accented English is discredited — Think: students complaining about not understanding non-native professors. It’s their fault they haven’t perfected our hodgepodge of a language, not ours for failing to empathize and trying to understand their attempts.

Benefits of bilingualism Not only is anecdotal evidence ample regarding the positives of learning another language.

“Just type ‘advantages of bilingualism’ into the Google Scholar search engine, and you’ll get back over 35,000 results of studies revealing the benefits,” Maylath said.

From fighting dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease to strengthening decisionmaking functions, scientific studies repeatedly show learning another language betters cognitive activity.

“Do you see why I call the cult of monolingualism pathological?”

Maylath asked. “It’s detrimental to our physical and mental

health.”

Schools, and the population at large, continue to delay in capitalizing on this information.

Maylath cited research that indicates a mere 15 percent of U.S. elementary schools offer foreign language programs; middle schools are rapidly losing their world language classes and the largest shortage of qualified K-12 teachers in a subject area is language or bilingual teachers.

It’s no wonder only a fifth of the U.S. population reports having knowledge of more than one language — which pales to the twothirds of Europeans who claim to be at least bilingual.

Haunting parallels Perhaps most concerning about monolingualism, beyond the cultural and economic barriers it creates, is its many forms.

It ranges from passive scorn of a dialect (of which none are linguistically better than another) to using language as rationale for violence.

During WWI, Minnesota Gov. Joseph Burnquist used hyper-nationalist propaganda to strike fear into his constituents to get reelected 1918. One poster showed the tarring and feathering of Minnesota Germans.

Last fall, a white woman from Coon Rapids, Minnesota, assaulted a Somali woman with a beer mug because she wasn’t speaking English.

“Tar and feathers must not have been available,” Maylath said, calling for the audience to not condone either discrete or blatant monolingualism.

“Americans’ Englishonly attitude is closely tied to America’s periodic waves of fears of immigrants, and I don’t have to tell you that we are currently smack in the middle of one of those waves right now,” Maylath said. “ … You see, if you limit yourself to a single language, you don’t even know what you’re missing, much less what you’re doing to others.”

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Future of the Dining Centers Upcoming changes for the Residence Dining

Emma Hawley

Contributing Writer

Every day for Roxanne England, a registered dietician at the North Dakota State University Dining Center, is different.

She holds many responsibilities and her opinion is sought after for determining what food will be provided to all three dining halls. Those who seek out England’s knowledge will start to see the dining center from a new perspective.

Even though the first few years at college allow students to eat whatever and whenever they want, England believes the NDSU dining centers provide students with many options to eat healthy.

England said the dining services “strive to be more in line with what’s trending while also providing the most nutritious options to students who may want to eat a healthier diet,” and many improvements have been made in the dining centers to steer students toward more balanced diets.

With the expected expansion on the Residence Dining Center, students will have even more choices when it comes to healthy eating.

“The addition to the RDC will have multiple hot food lines with different options: one with a regular dinner and others that may offer healthier meals,” England said. With the larger space, England agrees that the Residence Dining Center is sure to become even more

“The addition to the RDC will have multiple hot food lines with different options: one with a regular dinner and others that may offer healthier meals.” - Roxanne England, registered dietician at the North Dakota State University Dining Center popular than it already is.

The dining center web page contains nutritional information for all meals, which makes choosing an appropriate amount of food less challenging for students.

Aside from attempts to help with quantity control, England stated there have also been great improvements to the

diversity of food offered at NDSU. Over the past few years, many additions to the salad bar have made it easy to cook up anything when one prefers something other than what’s offered for dinner.

England said students in the dietetics program this year have been working to develop recipes for a cookbook that was released

a couple of weeks ago. The book features recipes for dishes students can easily make on the grill. The book can be found in all dining centers and, in addition, the Memorial Union Dining Center advertises a weekly recipe, which is visible when students walk through the doors.

Regardless of where students stand on the health spectrum, England recommends following some Myplate tips to building a healthy meal.

She says choosemyplate. gov is a great resource for students who want easy-tofollow rules of thumb when it comes to healthy eating habits. A few examples are: 1) Enjoy your food, but eat less 2) Use a smaller plate 3) Include whole grains and 4) Satisfy your sweet tooth

in a healthy way.

It’s clear that England and the dining centers have put a lot of work into providing students with healthy and tasty food. With an unlimited meal plan, students can either abuse their power of indulging in endless treats or appreciate the easy access they have to fresh fruits and vegetables.

For those who would like advice from England or have any questions regarding nutrition at the dining centers, she can be contacted at roxanne. england@ndsu.edu.

The NDSU dining center nutritional information can be found by going to ndsu. edu/dining/menu, selecting a dining center and then clicking on the red apple above the desired meal.

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Review: Shakey Graves’ Adds Modern Beats to Americana Genre with ‘And the War Came’ Musician blends banjo, guitar and gravely vocals to make an overall satisfying debut album Paige Johnson A&E Editor

Americana musician Shakey Graves was one of those artists I stumbled upon accidentally while listening to an artist radio on Spotify.

His unique blend of folk, country and bluegrass (all components of the Americana genre) makes his debut 2014 album, “And the War Came,” an entirely satisfying musical experience.

The album begins with a short (seven seconds long) message that sounds filtered through an old-timey record player. This aspect of the album crops up in other songs, especially “Family and Genus” further into the album.

Another feature of the album is his multiple collaborations with the indie folk musician, Esmé Patterson. Three songs on the album, “Dearly Departed,” “Big Time Nashville Star” and “Call It

Heaven,” feature Patterson.

Patterson’s more feminine, more lilting voice compliments Shakey Graves’s gravely vocals.

The two singers compliment each other, leaving no wonder as to why they decided to collaborate so heavily on the album.

“And the War Came” fluctuates between more somber tones, like in “Only Son,” to a more upbeat sound like in “Big Time Nashville Star” and “Hard Wired.” The songs are reminiscent of Hozier or Florence Welch, walking the line between surreal, slightly odd lyrics but excellent instrumentals and vocals.

Among my favorite songs from the album are “Hard Wired,” “Pansy Waltz” and “If Not For You.” “Hard Wired” begins a little strangely, with something or someone making clacking noises before Shakey Graves begins to sing. The drumbeat makes “Hard Wired” a song to tap your

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Americana musician Shakey Graves (pictured here) exemplifies his genre by using banjo, guitar and his gravelly vocals. feet to, while you hum banjo and guitar, increasing a complicated relationship much like the others: slow along with the lyrics. As the the elements of the song as between the singer and and rhythmic, with one song progresses, the drums the track goes on. an unknown other. As the instrument dominating are combined with some “Hard Wired” describes name of the song suggests, as others slowly start to despite this unknown other enter into the song. Then going out and trying new the song begins to ramp things, they and the vocalist up, specifically with harsh are “hard wired” to be electric guitar breaking together. Inevitably, they through the slower beats end up together, despite the efforts of one or the other to characteristic of most of “And the War Came.” sever the relationship.

“Pansy Waltz” starts Shakey Graves comes with a slow, melodic waltzy in rather late into the tune. The song ebbs and song, taking cues from flows with its instrumentals the indie influences with and lyrics. Guitars, banjo indistinguishable lyrics. and drums with cymbals The song starts to pick up give it its beat, and Shakey from there, relying heavily Graves drawn-out lyrics and melancholy tunes make on loud guitar and steady drums. In my opinion, the it sound like a traditional best part of the song is in waltz one would hear in a the end, when the messy, dance hall. loud music of the beginning The song follows the vocalist describing the toxic starts to sort itself out.

Overall, Shakey Graves’s relationship between him excellent blending of and another person, saying the genres that make up “I fixed the screen / raised Americana music make the barn / but still you call his one and only album a me from the moon / every must-listen.

His music is single afternoon / tell me all especially wonderful for about the astronauts you’ve studying, as even his slow come to love / and how the songs pack a lot of punch. earth looks from above / PAIGE JOHNSON| THE SPECTRUM

‘And the War Came’ is the debut album of Shakey Graves, and features ‘Hard Wired,’ ‘Pansy Waltz’ and ‘If Not For You.’

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New Slang, New Songs, Same Bands 2017 Bluestem Concert Series announces summer lineup, includes The Shins, Tony Bennett

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Paige Johnson A&E Editor

On Tuesday, the Bluestem Center for the Arts in Moorhead, Minnesota, announced their 2017 summer concert series line-up.

Topping off the event on May 21 is the band The Shins, who started off their music career with a bang with the 2001 hit “New Slang.”

Following The Shins is the big band, showtunes and jazz singer Tony Bennett, who, in recent years, has been accompanying pop star Lady Gaga. Tony Bennett will be performing at Bluestem on June 1.

On June 17, rock groups Everclear, Fastball and Vertical Horizon will take

the Bluestem Amphitheater Stage.

Fargo-based singer and guitarist Jonny Lang and his guest Billy Guy will perform on June 18.

Then the concert series takes a brief hiatus. For three weeks in July, the Trollwood Performing Arts School will be performing their 2017 mainstage musical, Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” Trollwood is located at the Bluestem and has been a staple in the community since their debut in 1978 with the musical, “The Wizard of Oz.” Pop Evil and a to-beannounced guest will be the first to continue the summer series after Trollwood’s performance.

Following Pop Evil will be rock legends Pat Benatar with Neil Giraldo and Rick

Springfield. Pat Benatar’s major hits include “We Belong,” “Heartbreaker” and “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” Meanwhile, Rick Springfield is the singer behind the 1981 hit, “Jessie’s Girl.”

The Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra takes the stage next when their 2017 Symphony Rocks concert takes place on Aug. 17. This year, the F-M symphony’s concert is entitled “Let’s Go Crazy: Legends of Rock.”

The symphony will be performing music by the deceased music legends Prince, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen. They will also have a musical tribute to the past actress, Carrie Fisher.

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, whose

music repertoire includes “December, 1963” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” will perform on August 29, followed by the return of Bonnie Raitt to Fargo.

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit will perform on September 5, then country artist Kenny Rogers will take the stage as a stop on his farewell tour with guest, Linda Davis, on Sept. 21.

Modest Mouse, the indie rock band known for their 2004 hit “Float On,” will return to Fargo on Sept. 26.

Finally, closing the summer concert series will be the alternative rock band The Pixies, who will be making their debut local appearance on Oct. 12.

“You can tell there’s love for this venue that a couple of these acts want to come

back,” Jade Nielson, the present of Jade Presents (that puts on the Bluestem Summer Concert Series) said in an interview with “The Forum.”

Tickets are currently on sale for The Shins, Tony Bennett, Jonny Lang and Buddy Guy and Everclear.

To purchase tickets for these shows, visit the Jade Presents website, jadepresents.com.

For more information about each band and the Bluestem Summer Concert Series, visit the Bluestem Amphitheater website, bluestemamphitheater.org, or call (866) 300-8300.

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The Shins | May 21 Tony Bennett | June 1 Everclear, Vertical Horizon & Fastball | June

17 Jonny Lang & Buddy Guy | June 18 Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” Trollwood Performing Arts School | July 14, 15, 18-22, 25-29 Pop Evil & TBA guest | Aug. 6 Pat Benatar with Neil Giraldo & Rick Springfield | Aug. 9 Symphony Rocks, FargoMoorhead Symphony Orchestra | Aug. 17 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons | Aug. 29 Bonnie Raitt & The Indigo Girls | Sept. 1 Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit | Sept. 5 Kenny Rogers & Linda Davis | Sept. 21 Modest Mouse | Sept. 26 The Pixies | Oct. 12

Review: ‘13 Reasons Why’ a New Netflix Hit Netflix’s original series brings emotion, drama, tackles important issues Andrew Fugleberg Contributing Writer

When “13 Reasons Why” dropped on March 31, hundreds of students and adults binge-watched the show, some finishing the whole season in a single sitting.

Finishing the show that quickly wasn’t hard for many, being immediately hooked by such an interesting concept for a story.

The show is based on the 2007 young adult book by the same title.

The story follows a high school junior named Hannah who commits suicide and leaves 13 tapes giving the reasons for her passing. Each tape focuses on a different person who contributed to the untimely death of the young teen.

The protagonist of the show is Clay, a friend and coworker of Hannah who

seems like an innocent bystander in the whole situation. As Clay listens to each of the tapes in order, he slowly uncovers the awful things his classmates did to Hannah that pushed her over the edge.

The show is very emotional and addresses important issues for people of all ages, particularly mental illness and bullying.

The show tackles these issues head on, without romanticizing any aspects of the depressing reality that affects many high schoolers.

Diversity was one of the strongest points of this series, having equal gender representation, LGBT characters, an Asian lead and Hispanic characters (while of course having straight white protagonists). The book the show is based on didn’t have any orientation or heritage descriptions of the characters, so it was nice to see a wide range of representation.

Adding a lot of content not in the books was a great decision. Characters were more fleshed out and more impactful moments were added to play with the viewer’s emotions.

However, despite the several positive aspects of the show, it dragged during the middle episodes.

Unfortunately, at times it seemed like the showrunners were stretching to add enough details to fill the 13-hour run. One episode per tape sounds like a great idea from the get-go, but in actuality, not every tape is important enough for a full hour of television.

The last episode is the most heart-wrenching and adrenaline-pumping, making the long and winding lead worth the wait.

The last hour even set ups the potential for a second season, leaving the audience waiting to see if anything more turns up in the future for this show.

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The new Netflix original series ’13 Reasons Why’ is the story of teenage Hannah, who commits suicide but leaves 13 tapes for the 13 people who caused her to take her own life.

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A Student Election and Comic Sans, why NDSU? Voting portal still has Comic Sans and that is not okay Erik Jonasson II Opinion Editor

If I could erase Comic Sans I would. That way it could never hurt another person ever.

Another election cycle

cartoonish font everyone has seen at least once in an inappropriate spot.

The one spot I was hoping would be safe was the election circle. But you know what, I was incorrect.

If I was Mason, I would just not accept the win

If you don’t know, Comic Sans is the grade-schoollooking, lazy, cartoonish font everyone has seen at least once in an inappropriate spot.

has come and left North Dakota State. That doesn’t mean controversy over voting didn’t happen.

Look, I gave a damn. I voted. I took the necessary minute or two out of my day to vote for the next student body president and vice president.

I wasn’t greeted with pleasant images of democracy. I wasn’t met with a nice NDSU background. No, I was met

by Comic Sans.

If you don’t know, Comic Sans is the gradeschool-looking, lazy,

because to win through a portal that uses Comic Sans, is that really winning?

This isn’t new. No, I have complained about this for the past two years.

I don’t know who we need to go to yet or who we need to tag in a post but I will not rest until I have the ability, no the opportunity, to squash this opposition to the eyes of all NDSU students, past, present and future. It should no longer be subjected on the NDSU students that choose to participate in our community. We should no

Comic Sans is the Internet Explorer of fonts. longer accept a childish portal, for we are better than this grade school excuse for a font.

Looks matter. Consider the saying dress for success or dress for the occasion.

Comic Sans, has its place.

For instance, as a satire font or the font for a preschool room. I don’t want the occasion of voting to be

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Comic Sans, has its place. For instance, as a satire font or the font for a preschool room. I don’t want the occasion of voting to be included in that list though.

included in that list though.

Voting is important.

NDSU I am not asking for much. Please change the font. I will help, want to be even more student-focused?

Allow me to pick a much more appropriate sans serif font, could I suggest Helvetica?

Hell-thcare Reform: Here We Go Again I’ll never understand why we can’t just do it on our own

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Grant Gloe Staff Writer

As a journalist, I feel it is my responsibility to talk about healthcare. We botched it guys. It’s bad.

Hospitals at the moment have a monopoly on your body. Do you need a surgery? They’ve got you in their clutches. What’s your alternative? Go to “Organs and More Coroner Store” (coroner instead of the corner, that’s a little organ humor for ya) and get a liver on discount. Sure it’s missing an artery, but you’re pretty sure you have one just like it at home you can sew on nobody will ever know. Ya, know.

You’re gonna get that

You couldn’t afford the surgery and decided to die with your feet in the sand, holding a poorly mixed ethnic drink and surrounded by retirees in those baggy Hawaiian shirts.

I’d rather have crippling medical debt than being the guy who has to figure out how to get me out of crippling medical debt.

Luckily, I think I’ve come up with a solution. You see, I think we’ve lost sight of our roots as a nation: capitalism.

surgery because there’s no competition. Therefore, I recommend legalizing black market organs.

Sure, it’ll be scary at first.

The operating table doubles as a dinner table and the incision on your abdomen will scar in the shape of your surgeon’s signature.

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You also choose to ignore the smell of alcohol on his breath and that he called the new liver an “Armenian cut.”

But hey, it’s cheaper than a plane ticket to Florida, which was your original plan since you couldn’t afford the surgery and decided to die with your feet in the sand holding a poorly mixed ethnic drink and surrounded by retirees in those baggy Hawaiian shirts.

The fact of the matter is these days, the only thing we leave our loved ones when we die is the bill.

We keep proposing one bum plan after the other with the assurance that this one is better than the last one. Yet, all of a sudden, everyone who hated the last one thinks it was great and the new one is a mistake.

People our healthcare plans have become Bond movies. You want government to be run like a business? Well, I seem to be the only one trying to do it.

It’s shady, it’s irresponsible and it’s probably illegal, but that sounds like the big business check list to me.

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Some would want a professional, but the professionals cost a lot of money.

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Pepsi and Their Controversy in Advertisement Pepsi’s trivialization of the Black Lives Matter movement Cierra Steffensen Contributing Writer

Pepsi released a commercial on Tuesday that spiked conversation about its trivialization of the significance and urgency of current social issues.

While the company was attempting to send a message of love and peace, they instead made less of the important protesting that has spiked in numbers since the election of President Trump.

The now pulled commercial featured reality TV star and model Kendall Jenner. While it had a promising start, the video took a quick turn for the worse. Not only does the message not include direct meaning, it makes light of

We don’t join simply because someone nods us over. We don’t carry signs that have no adherent message. protesting, features a white privileged lead and acts as though police brutality can be fixed with a can of carbonated liquid sugar.

“Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly, we missed the mark, and we apologize,” Pepsi wrote in a statement released Wednesday. “We did not intend to make light of any serious issue. We are removing the content and halting any further rollout.

We also apologize for putting Kendall Jenner in this position.”

Clearly, you did miss your mark Pepsi.

Protesting is not full of happy-go-lucky, beautiful, smiling people. Protesting is led by people who are angry about what this nation has become. Peace, love and unity are something to fight for. Yes, there are peaceful protests, but even so, the representation in this video is nowhere near similar to the real protests happening

around the world.

The apology to Kendall Jenner is nice but sadly misplaced. She is a consenting adult who decided to participate in this advertisement. She may not have been involved with Pepsi’s creative team but she still got paid to promote what was essentially white privilege.

How about releasing an apology to all of the activists and, most of all, the movement that appeared unimportant in the ad?

We don’t join simply because someone nods us over. We don’t carry signs that have no adherent message. But most of all, a globally advertised fizzy drink definitely isn’t cause for an uproar of cheering and happy endings.

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Pepsi recently released a controversial advertisement.

Military Action Against Syria Long Overdue With an estimated half a million dead and a country in a civil war, we strike Nasruden Mohamed Contributing Writer

It has been six years and the world is still silent.

What began as a peaceful protest in the spring of 2011 has turned into the greatest humanitarian crisis in the 21st century.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed since the start of the civil war, and millions of Syrians have fled the country.

Much of the blame can be attributed to one individual: Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad Assad has been in office for 17 years and was preceded by his father, who was president for nearly 30 years. From doctor to dictator, Assad has fundamentally transformed his country into an incorrigible nation.

If the world is fully aware of the atrocities Assad has committed, why are we all collectively watching?

Will the rest of the world react if Assad carries out a chemical attack?

Unfortunately, no.

In August 2013, roughly 1,000 Syrians died in a chemical attack that was perpetrated by Assad.

Fast forward a few years and Assad is once again accused of using chemical weapons. By using weapons of mass destruction, Assad

Thursday the U.S. launched a military strike on Syria ... after six long, strenuous years.

It is estimated that half a million Syrians have died due to the civil war.

Thousands have died while attempting to flee to other

If the world is fully aware of the atrocities Assad has committed, why are we all collectively watching? Will the rest of the world react if Assad carries out a chemical attack? has boastfully committed war crimes while simultaneously showing how much of a nefarious scumbag he is.

In both instances, the United States has sought to punish Assad for his actions. In 2013, Obama’s ineffectual “red line” forbade the use of chemical weapons. Obama ultimately failed to take military action against Assad and his troops. President Trump has condemned Assad’s use of chemical weapons and on

countries.

I encourage everyone to learn more about the ongoing crisis in Syria and read about the stories of innocent civilians like five-year-old Omar Daqneesh. There are several organizations such as the American Refugee Committee and the Islamic Relief USA that you can contact to provide muchneeded assistance to Syrians.

Assad, it is only a matter of time.

Letter to the Editor | Response to ‘Fantastic Magicians and Where to Find Them’ The author Grant Gloe missed many of the performance venues in which a Magician can earn a very good living. Trades shows pay very well but the public does not have access.

Private corporate shows doing team building with

magic. Just about every cruise ship has a magician on board. Privates parties for very well to do people and well known people. It would have been nice to see information sources listed as are required in a college or university level

paper. But being that this an opinion piece I guess that is not required. He really does not understand the world of magic and magicians.

But he knows how to insult them.

John Iacono

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Jon Gruden Visits Fargo Former NFL coach drops in on NDSU coaching clinic Cody Tusler Staff Writer

This past Friday, North Dakota State’s football coach’s clinic took place with keynote speaker coach Jon Gruden. Gruden spoke at a press conference before he watched the Bison’s football practice and then spoke at the coach’s clinic.

Gruden, who has one Super Bowl ring as the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002, is known now for is commentary on ESPN Monday Night Football.

Sean McDonough and Lisa Salters for MNF join him in the booth, while also hosting Gruden’s QB Camp on ESPN. Before the 2006 season,

many of the coaching staff for Tampa left for other coaching positions and Gruden had a hard time looking for a new linebackers coach. At the time, Tampa had Hall of Famer Derrick Brooks on the team.

Defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin suggested Gus Bradley out of North Dakota State. The following year, Todd Wash went to Tampa to be the defensive quality to coach and then defensive line coach the following year. He also came out of North Dakota State. Gruden said the two best coaches he hired came out of NDSU. “I don’t like their offense here, I love it.” Gruden said.

“The way they huddle. The way they run the football.

The way they play and the

effort they play with.” This was in response to when he was asked about if his meeting with Carson Wentz made him went to come to NDSU and Fargo.

Gruden said he believes

program,” Gruden said.

“This is a five-star operation.”

When asked what about NDSU makes their skills transfer to the NFL level, Gruden said, “That they are

“I don’t like their offense here, I love it. The way they huddle. The way they run the football. The way they play and the effort they play with.” - Jon Gruden

with the success players have had out of NDSU, they have opened the doors for coaches to take a second look at other NDSU players.

“This is not a good program, it’s a great

here and they are finishers. A lot of them come here as red shirt freshmen. They have been in the same program with the same coaches. They get some reps. Reputation is the mother of learning I

always say.”

Gruden continued to say they come out of here polished and are versatile guys. He would give praise to Joe Haeg, noting how last year’s graduate can play both guard and tackle.

Gruden also noted he’s smart and they do a lot of things at the line of scrimmage.

“This style of football is not for everybody,” Gruden said. “This is a real commitment.”

The top thing Gruden was excited for talking with the NDSU coaching staff was to congratulate them.

“I’m here to support them,” Gruden said. “I’m here to acknowledge them as good as they are in their field. I just really want to compliment them.”

Gruden said a lot what he

learned in football was some of the greatest lessons he has learned in life. Things like work ethic, mental toughness and sportsmanship.

When asked about his coaching philosophy, Gruden simply said, “Do whatever it takes to win.” He learned that in his time with Oakland from Al Davis who is known for his famous line “Just win baby.”

Gruden spoke on finding a way to adapt to whatever issues they had, any type of change from the rules, the coaches, the roster, injuries and players holding out.

“Find a way to adapt and be consistent and be relentless and do whatever you got to do to win,” Gruden said. “Compete man.”

Softball Drop Home Opening Saturday Pair IUPUI best Bison on Ellig return Taylor Schloemer Sports Editor

For the first time in 2017, the North Dakota State softball team got to play at the Ellig Sports Complex in Fargo.

Despite the comforts of home, the Bison struggled against the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Jaguars. The Jags controlled game one and came back in game two on Saturday. It was a 3-1 and 11-9 wins for the visiting team.

The Bison’s ace Jacquelyn Sertic took the mound and pitched well.

The only issue was the Jaguar’s batters were better on this occasion.

“IUPUI just played better today,” Bison head coach Darren Mueller said after the games.

Sertic was roughed up early, surrendering a two-run home run to third baseman Taylor Chitwood in the first inning. Chitwood’s fourth of the season put the Bison in a hole they could not climb out of.

Keeping the Bison in the hole was IUPUI starting pitcher Erica Tharp. The sophomore was on for the Jags, as NDSU quickly learned.

NDSU got a solo base runner in the first two innings, but could muster nothing more. The Bison

did not have the luxury of having a single base runner in the next two frames.

“We were swinging at bad pitches,” Mueller said.

“She did not get many strikeouts, but that didn’t mean much.”

While the bats failed to catch fire, Sertic managed to regain her form and keep the Jaguar hitters at bay.

She amassed six strikeouts through the opening five innings.

The Bison’s breakthrough came in bottom of the fifth, getting two hits off Tharp. Julia Luciano opened the inning with ground ball single.

Following a sacrifice bunt by Tabby Heinz, Luciano came on home on a Madyson Camacho double.

It was the freshman’s third RBI on the season and the Bison were back in touching distance.

Touching distance until the first pitch in the top of the sixth.

Roni Patterson restored the two-run lead, taking Sertic out of the park.

Nickole Finch took over on the mound for Tharp for the bottom half of the inning.

Finch did not surrender a hit in two innings to compile the save.

For game two, the Bison sent KK Leddy to the mound, who, like Sertic in game one, was roughed up in the first.

The first four Jaguar

batters reached base and two runs scored before Leddy worked out of the bases loaded situation.

But in the top of the first, the Bison bats came alive.

With Finch on the mound, Stephanie Soriano took the second pitch over the right center wall. It was the first collegiate home run for the freshman.

Two batters later, sophomore Vanessa Anderson hit her team’s leading eighth home run to the same spot as Soriano.

Madyson Camacho and Zoe Stavrou each knocked in a run in the second to extend the lead. The situation called for Tharp to come out of the bullpen to pitch to Anderson.

Anderson saw one pitch before figuring out Tharp. The ball sailed over the centerfield fence for Anderson’s second home run of the game. It was the sophomore’s second multihome run game this season, stretching the lead to 6-2.

A pair of runs for the Jaguars in the third and another pair in the fifth tied the game and set up a grandstand finish.

The Bison looked to be the ones to tilt the game in the bottom of the sixth. A pair of one-out hits by Soriano and Camacho followed by a walk by Anderson loaded the bases for Bre Beatty. The right fielder popped a high fly in foul territory that was caught to end the threat.

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NDSU paid for leaving the bases loaded in the seventh and final frame.

Sertic, who replaced Leddy in the third, allowed six of the first seven batters on base.

A Patterson line down the left field line plated two, as did Mandy Dallas’ line drive up the middle. By the end of the seventh, IUPUI led 11-6.

NDSU attempted a comeback with just three outs remaining.

Montana DeCamp had a leadoff double and scored, along with Julia Luciano, on Tabby Heinz’s double.

The lead was cut to two on Soriano’s second home run of the day. The solo shot made Soriano the 16th player to have a multi-home run game, tying the school record.

“We know that Steph has power, it was good to see her get home runs,” Mueller said.

It was not enough as

Sertic took her second loss of the day, dropping to 1117. NDSU’s record is now 15-23 (3-2 Summit League).

Game three of the series was Sunday afternoon.

The team will travel to Grand Forks on Tuesday to take on UND before returning back to the Ellig Sport Complex for a threegame set against South Dakota on Friday and Saturday.

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THE SPECTRUM | SPORTS | MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2017

Streaking Bison Open Home Season with Three Wins Lind, Phannenstein Clip Jackrabbits after trouncing of MSU

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Reed Phannenstein delivers a pitch Saturday against SDSU.

Thomas Evanella Staff Writer

Newman Outdoor Field hosted its first games of the season this past week.

The North Dakota State Bison baseball team beat Minot State 7-4 in the home opener. The Herd returned to action against South Dakota State for a weekend Summit League series.

The Beavers stretched out an early three-run lead Wednesday. The Bison rallied back for four runs in the seventh inning to take the lead for good.

Against the Jackrabbits, two dazzling pitching performances lifted the Bison. Senior Luke Lind and Reed Phannenstein toed the rubber and were virtually unhittable in the Herd’s two 4-1 victories against the border rival on Friday and Saturday.

Under the lights on Friday night, the Bison rode Lind’s masterful performance.

Freshman Bennett Hostetler added a three-hit night to the win.

This season, Lind has moved from the bullpen to a starting pitching role, a move that has worked out well for Tod Brown’s side.

The visitors proved to be no match for the Eden Prairie native, who allowed only three runners to reach base, in the form of two walks and a sole hit across seven innings. The hurler threw strikes early and often. Lind continually was getting ahead of batters en

route to a career-high eight singled up the middle in did make one error at the hot to 14-16 overall. The two strikeouts. The only run he the second inning to open corner. conference wins saw them conceded was a result of the scoring. Peterson then Choles recorded the final rise to a second place tie a sacrifice fly in the fifth corked a triple in the left out of the visitor’s half of the with the Jackrabbits for inning. centerfield gap between two eighth inning and redshirt second place in the Summit At the plate, the Bison converging fielders to drive junior Kevin Folman picked League. did not have a flashy night, in a run in the third. Mason up his fifth save of the The Bison will continue but they capitalized on Pierzchalski’s sacrifice fly in season. their homestand this week opposing pitcher Brady the following at bat drove The Herd locked horns with a midweek visit from Stover’s mistakes. Stover Peterson home. with the Jackrabbits for the University of Minnesota. walked in two runs in the Tucker Rohde made the a final time on Sunday Following the game Tuesday second inning and allowed most of his start at third afternoon. is a weekend series with centerfielder Ben Peterson base, hitting two singles in The three triumphs Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne. to score on a wild pitch in his four at bats, however he boosted NDSU’s record NDSU twice faced the the third inning. Hostetler scorched a double in the following at bat, leading to Stover’s being lifted from the contest.

Lind was relieved by Chris Choles, who recorded the final six outs to earn his second save of the season.

Lind’s record improved to 3-3 on the season and his eight K’s added to his Summit League leading total of 47.

The Jackrabbits were undone once again by the Bison’s strong pitching in Saturday’s matinee. This time, the Bison were led by Reed Phannenstein’s right arm.

The senior has righted the ship after losing five of his first six starts this season.

Against the Jackrabbits, he matched Lind’s strikeout total of eight across sevenand-two-thirds innings of work. Phannenstein scattered merely five hits and his lone mistake of the night was Matt Johnson’s solo home run in the fourth inning.

The dinger proved to be of no consequence, however. Catcher Danny Palmiscno drove on one of the Bison’s four runs in Saturday’s win.

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THE SPECTRUM | NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2017

Bison Throw into the Record Books Throwers dominate in Nebraska Taylor Schloemer Sports Editor

North Dakota State track and field teams have been known lately for the excellent throwing squads.

This weekend at the Husker Spring Invite in Nebraska it was once again the case.

On the men’s side, one of the best throwers in school history was at it again. Alex Renner pushed his school record in the shot put a bit further. His toss of 63-00.25 won the event and vaulted him up to No. 7 in the nation this year.

Renner finished second in the hammer throw. His mark of 204-1 was only beaten by teammate Steffan Stroh. The junior won the

event with at final throw of 204-5. The pair were just two of the five Bison that cracked the top six of the event.

Matti Mortimore made it three wins out of three meets in the javelin. While the No. 1 man in the nation could not better his school record, his 252-11 mark comfortably won the event.

Senior Conrad Schwarzkopf took home second place in the shot with a throw of 57-06.25.

For the women, the story was about the same.

Katelyn Weimerskirch re-wrote the NDSU record book in the hammer throw.

Her toss of 199-2 broke the school record set in 2013.

That distance also places her No. 24 in the nation for the

hammer.

The Bison were not done in the event, sweeping the top six. Amy Herrington earned runner-up honors.

The freshman threw for 1861, which is the seventh best in school history.

Elsewhere, Alyssa Olin was also searching for a school record. Four straight personal best throws in the javelin was not quite enough to capture the record. The junior won the event with a 169-3, second best for the all-time list.

Maddy Nilles, coming off a third-place performance in the hammer, went two better in the discus. The sophomore won with a throw of 173-9.

The throw also put her in the top-30 in the nation, as well and No. 2 in NDSU history.

Joining her near the top of the NDSU discus record book was Bailey Retzlaff.

The redshirt freshman’s mark of 158-9 placed her No. 4 on the list.

Maggie Schwarzkopf took home second place in the shot put. The throw of 48-07.25 was good enough for No. 10 in the Bison record book.

It was also a good

showing in the pole vault, where the Bison finished 2-3-4. Anna Benke, Klara Lyon and Lauren Gietzen cleared 12-11.75, 12-08 and 12-04 respectively.

On the track, it was a quieter day for the Bison.

Landon Jochim clocked a 47.22 in the 400m to take home third place. The time put him fourth all-time in NDSU history.

Gabby Grommesh had a pair of personal bests, finishing fourth in the 100m with a time of 12.10 and 200m time of 25.12 for fifth place.

Both teams will head out to California for a multitude of meets over the next week.

The Bison will return to Fargo April 21-22 for the Lyle Hokanson Classic and the Team Nodak Multis.

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