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Campus Memorials Remember Bison Who Have Passed Casey McCarty Co-News Editor
Around the North Dakota State campus are several memorials, often commemorating the lives of those who’ve died. The largest of memorial on campus is Memorial Union, of which is dedicated to “the men and women of the uniformed services who honorably and dutifully risk their lives to serve and protect this great nation and its ideals,” a plaque near the south entrance flag pole reads. The Fallen Bison memorial, near the Bentson Bunker Field House, is also dedicated to those in the NDSU community who have “ensured our freedom and heritage through their ultimate sacrifice.” Located around campus are several buildings and rooms within buildings named after people of the NDSU community, such as past presidents of the university like Minard and Loftsgard halls. A rock by the babbling brook is also dedicated to Orville Eidem, director of bands from 1970 until 1993 and founder of NDSU’s jazz program.
Tree Planting Ceremony
Another ongoing memorial project on campus is the Tree Planting Ceremony. Josh Fergel, student body vice president, said the Tree
Planting Ceremony has not been around for a long time. “I believe it was an old student government project that eventually started, so it’s student body vice president, it’s their job for the year. Obviously we work really closely with Student Affairs and even with RHA — we’ve been working really closely with RHA on the project — so it’s definitely not just me,” Fergel said. Fergel said that to be qualified for the Tree Planting Ceremony, a person would have to be a present NDSU student or be a very recent alumnus, saying that students who graduated in 2009 would not be considered as they graduated too long ago. Fergel also said that if families approve, then “this year will have five (trees being planted), unfortunately”. “It’s really an opportunity to memorialize students who have passed away,” Fergel said. “It’s something we’re really proud of.” Fergel said that distance and continuing education students also qualify for the honor of being memorialized should they pass as they are NDSU students. He also said that some of the trees being planted this year are due to DCE students who passed away. This year’s tree planting ceremony will occur on Friday, May 6.
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“It’s really an opportunity to memorialize students who have passed away. It’s something we’re really proud of.” – Josh Fergel, student body vice president CASEY MCCARTY | THE SPECTRUM
Students Only Likely Candidates For Commencement Speaker Ceremony typically features ‘student focus’ Jack Dura
Head News Editor
Hannan Aboubaker will likely not see Drake speak at her commencement ceremony in December. The senior in respiratory care started a Facebook campaign to land the rapper as commencement speaker at the 10 a.m. ceremony of graduation on Dec. 16. Several hundred Facebook users have expressed interest in the potential event. Timothy Alvarez, vice president for student affairs, said commencement speakers are traditionally students. “We try to stick with the student focus,” Alvarez said. “We really want it to be about students.” Commencement speakers are determined by a committee that receives student nominations from college faculty and deans. The committee reviews the nominees and selects a speaker, though alternates are chosen and some years have had multiple speakers, Alvarez said.
President Dean Bresciani and Provost Beth Ingram typically give commencement remarks as well. “It’s pretty short,” Alvarez said. Alvarez added he has been responsible for commencement speakers at other universities, and landing outside speakers can be a challenge. A small budget and finding someone who will likely speak for only travel expenses or otherwise can be difficult, Alvarez said. He added he “invited a lot of people” to speak for commencements, such as a former secretary of state, but “got turned down a lot too.” “I don’t know if it makes sense to spend a lot of money on a graduation speaker,” he said. “We could spend it on a lot of the other things. Those are my thoughts.” Aboubaker said North Dakota State could fund Drake’s appearance by canceling Aaron Carter’s April 29 concert and funneling that money toward Drake as
commencement speaker. “I just love Drake and if he were to actually come and speak at my commencement ceremony, I wouldn’t know what to do,” Aboubaker said. “I would probably die from excitement, right on the spot.” Alvarez said NDSU’s role as a student focused, land grant, research university gives it a certain amount of responsibility to retain its student focus at graduation. “For me, it’s helping students celebrate all of their work,” he said, but “I think we’d probably consider anything but if it gets away from being student focused or being some big celebrity, I’d hate for that to detract from the students.” Alvarez added he doesn’t know enough about Drake and said “it depends on the message.” “If he had a message related to education and challenging students to go out and make a difference, I suppose I wouldn’t mind hearing about it,” he said.
Two Stalking Cases At NDSU in 2016 Incidences low but rising, compared to 2015 rate
Amanda Johnson Staff Writer
There have been two reported stalking cases in 2016 so far at North Dakota State. In a 2011, Sexual Assault Prevention and Advocacy collected information and found that twenty-one percent of women and 16 percent of men experienced stalking behavior while a student at NDSU. The most prevalent types of stalking are receiving unwanted texts, phone calls and being followed. The National Stalking Awareness Month website, stalkingawarenessmonth. org, reported that “7.5 million people are stalked in one year in the United States” and that a “majority of stalking victims are stalked by someone they know.” Brooke Hubert, a sophomore studying university studies, said that she has “not witnessed it,
but that’s kinda the thing about stalking. You tend not to see it because they don’t make it obvious, mainly the person being stalked is affected.” NDSU defined stalking as “a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person’s safety or the safety of others; or suffer substantial emotional distress … course of conduct means two or more acts” in its 2015-2016 Annual Security Report, Personal Safety and Security. There was one reported case of stalking to University Police in 2013, zero in 2014, 2015 saw 4 cases and 2016 had 2 cases reported to University Police. A student on campus told The Spectrum that stalking “does exist on campus” and he would not join a group on campus “because one of the members had borderline stalked them and had made them feel uncomfortable.”
The student spoke on terms of anonymity for privacy and safety purposes. NSAM also reported that “about half of all victims of stalking indicated that they were stalked before the age of 25” and “78% of stalkers use more than one means of approach” to stalk a victim. Claire Cadwallader, a freshman studying university studies, said that “although she hasn’t seen much of it on campus that doesn’t mean students aren’t victims of cyber stalking.” NDSU also reported in its 2015-2016 Annual Security Report that in the case of a stalking incident the “institution will assess immediate safety needs of complainant, will assist complainant with contacting local police if complainant requests and complainant will be provided with contact information of local police… and will enforce anti-retaliation policy and take immediate and separate action against parties that retaliate against a person.”
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In A Nutshell fossils, natural selection and mutations prove evolution.” The Lutheran Student Fellowship is hosting Mortensen’s visit. Evolution is a widely accepted theory of descent from a common ancestor with modification over generations. Darwin proposed his theories on evolution in his 1859 book “On the Origin of Species.”
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NDSU Ranked No. 1 in State’s Best Value Colleges Study
Voters Choose Spencer & Anuj SB presidential winners pick up over 40 percent of vote in four-ticket race
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Anuj Teotia, front, hugs a supporter Thursday after finding out he and Spencer Moir, back center, won student body president.
Casey McCarty Co-News Editor
The 2016-17 student body president and vice president are Spencer Moir and Anuj Teotia. The final vote count left Moir and Teotia in the lead with 1,106 overall votes. Student court chief justice Matt Warsocki announced the winners of the 2016 student body election Thursday night. Four tickets ran in the election. Warsocki said 2,714 students completed ballots, up almost 1,000 votes from last year’s 1,734. “It’s just like all the work paid off,” Moir said after winning the election, adding, “I’m just thankful for everyone who … believed in Anuj and I and turned out to vote.” Moir said winning the
election is the culmination of hundreds of hours of work, six months of planning and 105 organization visits. “It seems student government’s in good hands and I look forward to seeing what happens,” Charles Steinberger, VP candidate of the Chuck & Chaka ticket, said. “We didn’t win, but we accomplished what we wanted to do, was to get people to vote, and we got people to vote.” Jacob Dailey and Mikayla Young echoed Steinberger’s message through a Facebook post on their campaign page. “Thank you for the overwhelming amount of support through this incredible opportunity whether it was through prayers, believing in us as individuals, sharing our vision for North Dakota State University, giving
your advice, constantly challenging us and the countless hours given up to be there for everything and anything,” the post read. “We truly could not have done this without you. “We did it! We reached our goal, we wanted this election to have an even better turnout than previous years.” Just under 13,500 students are officially enrolled at NDSU, putting voter turnout rates at about 20 percent. That number is up from last year’s 13 percent. Steinberger and his running mate Tyler Losinski placed fourth in overall votes with 184. Nick Evans and Calla Price placed third with 529. Dailey and Young placed second with 856. Deductions of 1.5 percent of total votes occurred when candidates violated election code. Moir
In The Spectrum’s April 7 story “Tom Bearson Investigation Still ‘Active, Ongoing,’” the wrong location was given as the last place where Bearson was seen alive. Bearson was last seen alive on the 800 block of 14th Street North.
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Student Body Elections Website Uses Comic Sans
Comic Sans, a popular font for printed materials like birthday cards and posters, found itself as the font for student body elections’ online voting. Designers generally consider the sans-serif, casual script typeface as unprofessional and inappropriate for business or professional online content. Election official Mathew Warsocki, also student court’s chief justice, said in an email, “I guess that’s just always what it has been; I’ve never attempted to change it.” Student body elections were Wednesday and Thursday.
Historian to Show How Evolution is False
Center For Writers to Host Workshop
Geology historian Terry Mortenson of Answers in Genesis will argue why scientist Charles Darwin’s evolutionist theories are false from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday in the Memorial Union Ballroom. A Listserv said Wednesday that Mortenson will showcase “some of the overwhelming scientific evidence from biology and paleontology that Darwin’s theory is false. He shows that evolutionists have used misleading arguments to convince us that the
The Undergraduate Center For Writers is set to offer a workshop on prewriting strategies from 1-2 p.m. Tuesday, April 19 in South Engineering 314. Consultant Mallory Hoch will present strategies for prewriting to help students begin writing. Attendees will be able to practices Hoch’s strategies during the workshop. Registration is required and can be found online at ndsu.edu/cfwriters/ workshops.
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and Teotia were found to be in violation of election code due to using social media on during election days. Evans and Price left their cage up too long. This resulted in a loss of 17 votes and eight votes, respectively. Professor X, the cat who ran as a write-in candidate for senator in the 2015 student body election, received 18 write-in votes. There were 5 instances where write-in candidates were elected with less than 10 votes, and there were 10 write-in senators. University Studies is the only college that has an open senatorial seat. “North Dakota State University will be in good hands,” Dailey and Young said. The Spectrum was unable to obtain comments from Evans and Price.
SmartAsset has ranked North Dakota State as No. 1 in the state in its second annual Best Value Colleges study. The university placed first last year, as well. The study analyzed average scholarships and grants, average starting salary, colleges tuition, student living costs and retention rate. NDSU’s average starting salary for graduates is $49,400, SmartAsset reported. The university’s retention stood at 80 percent, the study found. The University of North Dakota ranked No. 2 in the study, with Minot State University in third and Bismarck’s University of Mary at No. 4. NDSU graduates can expect to earn an average $3,400 more than UND graduates, SmartAsset found.
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‘1989’ Taylor Swift tour ends, closes door on successful album cycle
Andrew Fugleberg Staff Writer
October 27, 2014 — a day that will forever live on in the hearts of Taylor Swift fans as the momentous day when Taylor’s most recent album, “1989” came out and forever changed the pop game. Over the course of the album’s awards season run, it has accumulated over 72 nominations and several wins, including three Grammy’s, two Billboard music awards, two American Music Awards and four Video Music Awards. Swift now is taking a much-needed break from music after conquering pop for the last two years. When Taylor began her career as a country artist, she was immediately popular. Her relatable lyrics, innocently clear voice and girl-next-door feel all put her in the public spotlight. Her albums, “Taylor Swift” and “Fearless,” allowed the young artist to receive much critical acclaim. Now, nine years after she released her first album, Swift is one of the most internationally awarded artists of all time. She has nabbed an impressive 551 nominations and 254 wins over her career. This 26-year old songstress has more
nominations and wins than Beyoncé, Adele, and Michael Jackson. When her fifth studio album, “1989,” came out in late 2014, the album immediately smashed records and expectations, selling over one million copies in the first week. No other artist in recent history has been able to complete a feat like that. After the album came out, it made fans fall in love with her again as she fully transitioned into the pop genre, while even garnering praise from some of Swift’s harshest critics. The singles to promote the album were all eventually accompanied by jaw-dropping music videos that enhanced the musical experience and furthered the album’s acclaim. Swift had the brilliant South Korean director Joseph Kahn direct almost all the videos. Kahn was behind the camera giving instructions to make his vision come to life. Taylor dropped another music video off her album, finally sealing the door on “1989” for good. The “New Romantics” video was released exclusively on Apple Music and showcased a lot of footage from Swift’s global phenomena of a tour. This video acts seems to act as Taylor Swift’s thank you to fans and farewell to music for the time being.
Swift ends her “1989” album tour to prep for her next release.
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Women Will Save Modern Country Music
Positive messages, songs beyond love, heartbreak have the power to break bro country
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Jack Dura
Spectrum Staff
A few years ago, I saw Martina McBride live in concert. Her show was pretty small with only a couple thousand people outside. While its settings were small, the music was not, nor McBride’s voice. And frankly, the former is something current country music could use more of. Martina McBride is one of few country music singers I can appreciate in today’s market of increasing bro country. Bro country, a subgenre of country music highlighting stereotypical themes of recreation for rural, young, adult males, is a narrow and unimaginative style of music. There can only be so many songs about drinking beer, driving pickup trucks and womanizing. And there already are. This is why women will save country music. Women are quite underrepresented on the country charts today. As of April 4, two women were in the top 20 Hot Country
Songs tracked by Billboard: Carrie Underwood and Maren Morris. Now how will women save country music? Easy. They sing about things of substance. McBride, for instance, has a catalog of wide ranging themes in her music, which extends to social issues. Her songs have covered topics of child abuse, domestic violence, cancer and alcoholism, for example. Her 25-year career in music has had social relevance and positive messages in parts of all her albums. Maddie & Tae, a more recent artist, also offer a breath of fresh air. The duo has a definite mainstream sound but not mainstream content. In fact, their 2014 song “Girl in a Country Song” took a dig at bro country with a music video objectifying young men in skimpy outfits and lyrics jabbing bro country artists: “Being the girl in a country song, how in the world did it go so wrong? / Like all we’re good for is looking good for you and your friends on the weekend, nothing more.
“We need a little variety in country music themes. We need subject matter beyond trucks and girls and beer.” / We used to get a little respect, now we’re lucky if we even get to climb up in your truck, keep our mouth shut and ride along / and be the girl in a country song.” Frankly, Maddie & Tae are right. Nameless, passive, young women are objectified in countless country songs of today’s music. Take these lyrics from Luke Bryan’s “That’s My Kind of Night,” for example: “You’ve got that sun tan, skirt and boots / Waiting on you to look my way and scoot / Get your little hot stuff over here / girl, hand me another beer.” Bryan, however, takes “offense” to being labeled as bro country artist, as he said in an online interview. “I feel the initial term ‘bro-country’ was created to be kind of a little degrading to what’s popular, to what country artists are doing right now,” he said. “It’s frustrating because
whichever artists may or may not get labeled as that, they’re well beyond that. For people to call me the father of it, well, whatever. It just seems like a term that was invented to cheapen me as an artist.” OK, well, whatever, Luke. Country singer Merle Haggard, who died Wednesday, had a career spending decades and told The Forum last year today’s country artists “sound like a bunch of (crap) to me.” “They’re talking about screwing on a pickup tailgate and things of that nature. I don’t find no substance. I don’t find anything you can whistle and nobody even attempts to write a melody,” he said to The Forum. We need a little variety. We also need more women on country radio. That’s why we need Maren Morris to sing about her church.
We need Maddie & Tae to sing about fishing. We need Kasey Musgraves to sing about
following your arrow. And we need Martina McBride. Good Lord, does country music need her. FILE PHOTO | THE SPECTRUM
As of April 4, only two women were in Billboards top 20 Hot Country Songs.
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The Rourke Art Gallery Museum will show art from featured artists alongside music and short lectures on April 15
Night at the Rourke Museum
Moorhead museum invites students to enjoy art under the moonlight
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originally recorded by Normal Carl II. Schlemper’s drawings are a fantastic glimpse into another world. The final featured artist is Gordon Mortensen. A North Dakota native, Mortensen’s impressive woodcuts depict nature in splendid color and beautiful imagery. Each piece is meticulously crafted to appear as if it is a painting, but upon closer inspection it displays many disciplined details. Along with new artists, you can also take a peek at the Rourke’s ongoing
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Moorhead native whose exhibition, entitled “Escape to the Looney Bin,” features surrealist paintings of humans and animals alike. In a statement on the Rourke website, Kouba described her work as reflecting “socially and or psychologically significant events.” The next exhibition features the work of Zoey Schlemper, who brought fantasy into reality through her field-guide style artwork. The creatures she portrays are from the land of Koleo Gran and were
Editor’s Choice: Rock, Paper, Scissors Jack Hastings A&E Editor
The Fargo-Moorhead activities calendar begins to pick up the pace as we progress into spring. Although it may feel like the city is still in the slump of winter, take the opportunity to go out and experience what Fargo has to offer.
NDSU Baccalaureate Exhbition
The North Dakota State Visual Arts Department and Memorial Union Gallery are presenting the artwork of Baccalaureate graduating class of Spring 2016. The Baccalaureate exhibition showcases the work of talented visual arts undergraduate students. The artwork on display is the artist four years of education being applied
and investigated in an exhibition setting. NDSU’s 2016 Baccalaureate Exhibition begins Tuesday with a reception 5-7 p.m. and an artist talk at 5:30 p.m. The exhibit closes April 29.
KNDS Block Party
The 12th Annual Block Party featuring music by the Montreal-based psych pop outfit TOPS. TOPS are a lovely soft rock band that demonstrates expert pop craftsmanship in the studio as well as in the live setting. Also playing the event are Minneapolis rockers Frankie Teardrop and Grand Forks band Disappear Forever. The event will be held at the Aquarium on April 16. Doors open at 5 p.m. and music starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 and available at Orange Records in downtown Fargo. The
show is open to all ages.
FMVA Big Show
The Fargo-Moorhead Visual Artists will be bring their Big Show exhibition to the Hjemkomst Center, in Moorhead. The FMVA exhibit will feature the artwork of 60 local and regional artists. The show does not have a set theme and instead encourages an overall feeling of inclusiveness by displaying a wide variety of work. With artwork from both new and established artists, the exhibition serves as an excellent portrayal of local art. The FMVA Big Show exhibit opens on April 15 and runs until June 10 and will be held in the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County at the Hjemkomst Center. It is open to the public with paid museum admission.
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The Wolves of Barry Hall Bison Fund teaches business students investment skills
Rio Bergh
Features Editor
Students are infamous for not considering the factors when it comes to money, other than whether to put it in savings or checking. That isn’t the case for students in the Bison Fund. The Bison Fund is a Student Managed Investment Fund manages roughly $1.3 million of assets and makes investment decisions with the goal of growing the fund. The organization also received a donation from the Larson Foundation and now has the goal of growing that fund over the next five years with the goal of developing a self-sustaining scholarship. The organization offers a unique learning experience for those interested in business and finance. Students get to be an integral part of the process, since investment decisions are decided at the group level after discussing and analyzing the potential benefits of an investment. “It isn’t limited to business students; anyone who is interested can be a part of the organization. You can be a biology major, as long as long as you are interested, willing to work and learn,” said Jason Churchill, a grad student studying agribusiness and applied economics. He is also the president of the Bison Fund. Involvement offers an opportunity to learn about evaluating and analyzing companies to invest in, but it also offers an excellent opportunity for networking.
A financial analysis team consisting of four students involved with the Bison “I knew we were doing well compared to other student managed investment Fund recently competed funds, but I didn’t know we were doing as well as we are.” and won the regional CFA Institute Research – Jason Churchill, president of the Bison Fund Challenge, “and now they are getting asked to come to give us guidance, and it also students. Students interested interviews,” Churchill said. “Additionally, we are planning on revamping working on putting together offers an opportunity for Members from the Bison their website to display the in the Bison Fund can networking,” Churchill said. contact Churchill or an ‘industry advisory Fund take three trips per caliber of work they are Fariz Huseynov, assistant The Bison Fund is producing and to share their board,’ to connect the FM year — to Minneapolis, professor of finance and one way to showcase the finance community with analyses of companies with Chicago and New York adviser to the organization. talent of NDSU business the Bison Fund. They can a wider audience. — which serves as a great opportunity for learning and networking. “We were in New York recently,” Churchill said, “and one of the guys handed an executive the report he had done for the IRC competition. The executive took a look at it, and told him that they had just filled all of their summer internship positions, but that if he had any open, he would give it to him on the spot.” Seeing the competition in the Big Apple showed Churchill how well NDSU students stacked up against the national competition. Churchill attributed some of this to the access the organization has to twelve Bloomberg machines through NDSU, which allow access to the latest financial data on companies. “I realized how far ahead NDSU is compared to many other schools in that respect,” Churchill said. “Still, we aren’t at the top. There is always room for improvement. With a new Business Dean coming in, we are hopeful that they will recognize how much potential the Bison Fund has.” The organization has goals to become more FARIZ HUSEYNOV | PHOTO COURTESY visible in the F-M area and on a larger scale. They are (Left to right) Mike Wulff, Matt Gapp, Matt Wegner, Katie Eckelman recently won the regional IRC financial analysis competition.
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Cold War in Fortuna’s Corner
JACK DURA | THE SPECTRUM
The Fortuna Air Force Station’s five-story concrete radar tower will continue to stand long after demolition is completed at the base.
Jack Dura
Spectrum Staff
The Cold War had a big presence in North Dakota for a number of years with radar and defense facilities scattered from Finley to Minot to Nekoma. The U.S. Air Force operated these bases, including the sprawling Fortuna Air Force Station located on North Dakota Highway 5, west of Fortuna, N.D. The facility, opened in 1952, was a ground control intercept station
built to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified objects in airspace. Sitting on a highpoint on the North Dakota prairie, the base’s radar dishes were occasionally toppled by wind. As the Cold War progressed and technology evolved, so did the base’s mission. By 1979, the base was partly deactivated before compete deactivation in 1984. Since then, the base has been abandoned. The large facility included radar dishes and domes, officer housing including 45 houses
and some dormitories, a dining hall, nightclubs, a gymnasium, a motor pool and a bowling alley, among other structures. All sat idle for three decades before last summer when Divide County government began demolition on the base. At a rate of one building per day, the demo crew worked toward restoring the base to the prairie in a reclamation effort. Two buildings will remain standing: the fivestory, cement radar tower and one smaller building. Currently the radar tower is home to
communications equipment for wireless internet and mobile phone coverage for rural customers. These updates in technology come in contrast after the threestory computer the tower needed to operate its radar dish. After demolition is completed on the base, a project with a 2017 deadline, a plaque will commemorate the base and its defense mission during the Cold War. Other Cold War-era bases still stand in North Dakota. The Finley Air Force Station sits derelict
west of its namesake town, and is now a landfill for waste that will not decompose. The Minot Air Force Station, another GCI base, was sold to a developer and is now a housing complex. The Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Site near Cooperstown, N.D., offers tours and history of an area of intercontinental ballistic missile launch sites. The launch sites comprised a 6,500-square-mile area near the Grand Forks Air Force Base. The most impressive
of all military installations in North Dakota stands north of Nekoma, N.D.: The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, complete with missile silos and a concrete radar pyramid. The site at one time held 46 long- and short-range nuclear missiles before it closed in 1976 after four months of operation. A Hutterite colony purchased the site in 2012.
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THE SPECTRUM | FEATURES | MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
April Showers Bring …
Bedraggled
Students
Rain provides an excellent opportunity to prove you are impervious to the weather Rio Bergh
Features Editor
If your closet is a complete mess, now is the perfect time to clean out the old and make room for the new.
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KEYONA ELKINS | THE SPECTRUM
Spring Closet Cleaning
Tips to unclutter your wardrobe and refresh your style
Keyona Elkins
Contributing Writer
The Closet Cleanse
Pull everything (and I mean everything) out of your closet and dresser, and sort it into piles to keep, sell or donate. To decide what to do away with and what to hold onto, ask yourself these questions: Does it fit? Is it flattering? Do I actually wear it? If it’s damaged, am I really going to fix it in the near future? If my closet were a store, would I buy this today? If those answers lead you away from the keep pile, but an item feels too sentimental to part with, find or take a picture of you wearing it. If it’s still too special, store it away out of sight for a few months. If you find yourself searching for it later, keep it, but if you completely forget it exists, you can safely get rid of it.
The Long-Term Strategy
If you’re too indecisive to evaluate which pieces you should part with or just unsure of how often you actually wear them, put off your spring cleaning until next year … kind of. Turn everything in your closet the opposite direction so the hook of the hanger faces you. Whenever you wear something, return it to the closet with the hanger facing the normal way. After a year, get rid of everything that’s still on a backwards hanger. An alternative to the hanger strategy is the ribbon method. Simply tie a ribbon on the far right side of your closet rod and move items to the right of the ribbon after you wear them. This theory works well for your folded clothes too. Just stack things on the left side of the drawer and move them to the right after they’ve been worn.
What to do with the Castoffs
Apps and websites like Poshmark, thredUP and the Fargo/Moorhead Online Garage Sale Facebook group are useful for selling your used clothes. You can also take them to a consignment store like Plato’s Closet or Clothes Mentor. Whatever doesn’t sell can be donated to a thrift store or clothing drive, but never throw away clothes unless they are truly unwearable. If donated items don’t sell at thrift stores, they are often given to textile recyclers or sold to secondhand clothing vendors overseas, which extends a garment’s life longer than if you would have put it straight into a landfill. Having a clothing swap with friends is another environmentally friendly idea, although if your friends happen to have really great style, that might
not actually solve your overflowing closet issue.
Organize to Maximize Space
While space is a precious commodity in a tiny residence hall room or apartment, you’ll wear more of your pieces if you can clearly see them, so make sure they aren’t just packed into drawers. Sort your clothes by style so that all your options are easy to find when you’re looking for a certain skirt or jacket. You can also store away seasonal items like coats and shorts during their off season to give frequently worn items more space. Placing folded shirts upright instead of stacking them flat on top of each other makes seeing your choices and picking one out much easier, and investing in thin velvet hangers for your closet lets you fit in twice as many clothes.
Prevent Future Clutter and Shopper’s Regret If you want to build
a truly great wardrobe, you need to make smart purchases. As broke college students and frugal Midwesterners, we’re suckers for a good deal, but just because something is cheap doesn’t mean it’s a good buy. When shopping the clearance rack, pretend everything is full price; if you wouldn’t pay full price for it, don’t pick it up on sale. Although it’s also tempting to skip the dressing room and head straight to checkout, fit is the most important factor when choosing clothes, so make sure everything fits well before swiping your card. When you’re unsure whether or not to get something, always ask yourself these two questions: Do I love it? Do I need it? If your answer is yes to both, you can bet it will still be in the keep pile come next year.
I always hear so much about May flowers, but April showers on campus mean something else entirely. April showers mean dreary walks of drudgery between classes, dripping backpacks and soaked pant legs. They mean bleary mornings that require excessive amounts of coffee. They also result in a fascinating phenomenon that I have noticed on campus: slow walking. It’s almost as if students have a certain level of pride that must be maintained, a level of pride that cannot tolerate the demeaning act of running. I’ve experienced this myself — I found myself caught in a soaking rain without a rain jacket or umbrella, since I didn’t check the weather and left them at home. Did I run to class? Of course not. I walked leisurely, as if to say: “This? Is it raining? I hardly noticed.” Pride salvaged, I dripped into class and soggily sat through the lecture with complete indifference. On the outside. On the inside, I was squirming madly and regretting my lack of foresight. I feel like this phenomenon is intimately related to the students who wear shorts and t-shirts in the middle of winter. I am not one of those people, but I wonder about their thought process. I assume it goes something like this: “It isn’t that cold today. Better throw on the shorts to let everyone know it doesn’t affect me. I eat days like this for breakfast.” This is the intended effect, but I feel that the true inner thoughts of the person go more like this: “It may not be - 30, but this isn’t shorts weather. I severely regret my decision, but I can’t let anyone else know that. I don’t know what it is, but rain seems to bring out my slowest saunter. The water slowly creeping up my pant leg makes a convincing argument to speed things up a bit. But my pride is doing a pretty good job of keeping me slow. Gotta stay fly.
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Opinion
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
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Comic Sans Eye Attack Leaves NDSU in Rubble NDSU voters’ eyes left in pain after voting
Erik Jonasson II Opinion Editor
I have an official grievance, North Dakota State. I’m not mad; rather, I am more disappointed in your actions. You have gone truly too far this time. Honestly, you might not be able to win me back. No more though. Enough is enough. I cannot stand idly by on this controversial issue.
The campus needs a voice right now. I promise to take this duty seriously, and professionally. So NDSU, I voted last Thursday. As I hope many of my peers did as well. As I am for sure at this point, you are aware. The outcry has caused riots in multiple residence hall rooms, and the withdrawal of an estimated 5,000 students. I am of course talking about the Comic Sans controversy. It is reported that students’ eyes melted like the climax of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. Now honestly I thought NDSU had offered its worst offense with the public toilet teepee, which is too
“You see Comic Sans was modeled off of Hitler’s handwriting. Comic Sans is also what the OJ verdict was rumored to have been typed with.” thin for comfort I might add, but no, I was wrong. This offense is truly sinister. I must ask, who was in charge? What is to be held responsible? Now I see no better use of our First Amendment rights as to point out injustices when injustices happen. Instead of just ranting and raving I will write a letter, a letter that reflects the shared opinion of each and every man and woman here on campus:
To whom it may concern
Hello, I am a sophomore majoring in mechanical
engineering. In an unprecedented move I have decided to represent the entire NDSU student population, who I am for sure is just as upset as I am. I understand that introduction may have seemed a little hostile, and that is because this is, at the moment, an all-out war. Now look, I understand, you must not have known the bitter history that Comic Sans has with the rest of the world. Surely if you did you wouldn’t have committed such a horrid font-sin. You see, Comic Sans was modeled off of Hitler’s
handwriting. Comic Sans is also what the OJ verdict was rumored to have been typed with. As you see this is not a font that represents a student-focused, land grant, research university. No. Rather this font is permanently reserved for documents for the Church of Scientology, Trump briefs and, of course UND acceptance letters. Since the NDSU voting page is none of these, I question why it was there. I personally am at my wits end of what some people would say is my
sanity. I cannot, we cannot, handle the mental anguish that is Comic Sans. We can handle many things here, the winter, the wood chippers, but we can’t avoid this. So I will plead for mercy. I will plead for justice. I will plead for peace. We must, as a university, not repeat the deadly eye attack of April 6-7, 2016. We can together overcome. I sure hope that you have learned something, and I sure hope we will not see this next year. Thank you for your time, Erik Jonasson II / The Entire NDSU Student Body
Comic Sans Fan Says Leave Student Court Alone Wasting breath on font choices becomes banal bitchery
Benjamin Norman Spectrum Staff
There’s something to be said about the aesthetics of type — the clean curves of Arial, the classic feel of Georgia, the MLA-researchpaper-ness of Times New Roman, 12-point font. And oh, can we say something about the pure sensation of Comic Sans. The helter-skelter typeface evokes all the
emotions, even from the most stoic of Swedes. The emotion most commonly felt? Intense infuriation. Outrage roared again this spring as the one in five students who voted saw Comic Sans on the North Dakota State student body elections ballot. For whatever reason, people see Comic Sans and sheer hatred blinds their rational thought. The type’s (perceived) imperfections fire up the “fight” mode of usually reasonable individuals. “It’s hideous,” the apparently un-hideous human said. “I could write better with my left hand,” the amputee said.
“It looks like The Sims game,” the student said. “The student body elections ballot shouldn’t look like The Sims.” Prithee, oh wise sages, why not? The student court has a thankless job; the justices deserve to cut loose every once in a while. Lord knows they need it. These outstanding studentcitizens stay sharp on their rulebooks, including the Student Body Constitution and Student Government Code. Riveting reads, I’m sure. Lay off the justices, especially Chief Justice Mathew Warsocki. He’s fragile. Furthermore, the egregious claims that
Comic Sans “sucks” and is “unprofessional” are valuebased arguments. And, with any value argument, it’s dependent on your insignificant opinion. Next time you prepare to taint the world with spouting as hackneyed as font-hate, consider: Nothing matters, especially your taste in typefaces. Your subjective hatred toward this fun font is based on your feelings, not fact. If you clamor for data, chew on this: a 2010 Princeton University study suggested “ugly” fonts like Comic Sans led to better retention of content when compared to “cleaner” typefaces. More anecdotally, some people with dyslexia claim fonts like Comic Sans to be
easier to read. There is nothing inherently awful about Comic Sans. The typeface was made with the most altruistic of intentions. Released in 1994 to mimic the style of comic books, Comic Sans was going to be a hit with the kids. This unassuming font went 20th-century viral, though, and became a hit with everyone. People of all ages found joy with its casual, anything-goes style. Design puritans, with the copious amounts of free time they have, denounced the font. To be a cool and informed like these “professional” type prescriptivists, the general public began hating on the type, too.
These Helvetica hellions shamed Comic Sans fans into silence, ridiculing the fun font’s use in any situation. “When my children want to use a ‘fun font,’ at the very worst I’ll let them use Garamond,” one graphic designer sneered. “I have better tastes than all of you.” Enough. Comic Sans, like any font, is a presentation of language. It’s as superficial as you can get. Judging a text based on its visual performance is simply asinine. Instead of getting into a huff about the election font, perhaps our attention would be better directed at the 80 percent of the student body who did not vote this year.
Feminism is a Pseudoscience Feminism is based upon dogmatic principles that are considered self-evident
Matt Frohlich Staff Writer
I have come to the conclusion that feminism is a pseudoscience whose credibility is on par with other pseudosciences such as young earth creationism or geocentrism. Typically when people label something as pseudoscientific, it is just a cheap way of destroying somebody’s credibility so that their opinion should no longer be taken seriously. It is for this reason that I think it is important for me to establish what qualifies as pseudoscience so that I can explain why feminism is one. The 20th century philosopher Karl Popper created a fairly simple definition of pseudoscience that has gone on to become the accepted definition. Popper stated that in order for something to qualify as a legitimate
science, it must be falsifiable. The theory of gravity is a classic example of a legitimate science. Gravitational theory states that an attractive force known as gravity exists between all material objects. This could potentially be disproven, thus it qualifies as a legitimate science. Gravitational theory could be disproven by finding one example where this attractive force did not exist between material objects. If gravitational theory stated that an attractive force existed between all material objects, despite the existence of a known counterexample, then it would be pseudoscientific. All variations of American third-wave feminism have the following unifying characteristics: • The primary source of the world’s evil is the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, which is a series of social systems designed to benefit white heterosexual men at everyone else’s expense. • Behavioral differences between men and women (known as gender roles) have no basis in biology and instead are
“Simply put, the patriarchy is real because they say it is. Its existence is so self-evident that it is not even worth debating.” social constructs created by the patriarchy. • Promoting gender equality, especially through the elimination of gender roles, is synonymous with toppling the patriarchy and creating a utopia. Feminists promote the half-truth that feminism is a diverse ideology that allows for many conflicting viewpoints. In reality, feminism only allows for differing viewpoints so long as they are contained within these rigid confines. It is true that feminists have what they consider to be evidence that these three principles are true, but still the question remains: are they falsifiable? The short answer is that they are not, thus feminism is a pseudoscience. Feminists will entertain opposing viewpoints so long as they do not challenge their dogmatic principles. Feminists refuse to acknowledge all the evidence that indicates their dogmatic principles are
false. I understand it is difficult to prove that feminists consistently dismiss opposition in this manner, but in my experience this is the case. If you do not believe me, try debating a feminist. They typically cite character flaws of their opposition (whether real or imaginary) for why they do not even need to refute their opinions. If you are able to point this out to them, they will still come up with reasons for why your opinion is not worth acknowledging. Simply put, the patriarchy is real because they say it is. Its existence is so self-evident it is not even worth debating. It is frustrating to find yourself in this situation, but if you do, take comfort in the fact that they are proving my point that feminism is a pseudoscience.
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THE SPECTRUM | OPINION | MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
Panama Papers, Tax Havens,
Delaware, Oh My! Panama Papers make one North Dakota resident change opinion on the elite
Erik Jonasson II Opinion Editor
I would like to say, “Hey chap, look who would have thunk. We were all duped.” This followed by an amazing/fatherly pat on the back that would bring about a smile on your saddened and depressed face. The Panama Papers opened up our eyes to corruption within politics all around the world. It is hard to be surprised though. I mean come on; rich people want to be richer? Geez, next thing you are going to tell me is that peanut butter goes amazing with jam (strawberry jam of course; grape jelly is for imbeciles), or that college students enjoy drinking large quantities of alcohol on any given day of the week. You’re s¬–tting me. Well I try to grasp
the idea of the previous statements like a 4-year-old bewildered by the square piece not fitting into the round hole. I must seethe in anger. Taxes are important. Yes, they suck. Nobody really wants to pay for the blasted DMV, but hey, it’s our civic duty, comrades. It is through this necessary evil that we enjoy such luxuries as employees who hold sign at construction sites, and of course the wall being built around Justin Bieber. What this actually is, at its very root, is tax dodging. Granted, Americans have been rather sparse on this list, but I will provide a counter example. Look up 1209 North Orange Street, Delaware. In the off chance that you didn’t, I will fill you in. This address is the headquarters of more than 285,000 companies, including Google, American Airlines, CocaCola, Apple, GM and the list continues. This is tax evasion. Delaware offers very low taxes for business, which is why they have more Shell Companies than people. Like people who
didn’t wear deodorant in the ‘60s who avoided the Vietnam War, and people who are voting for Trump avoid books and learning in general, these companies are avoiding paying their fair share in taxes, like you and me. You, the average America, should be upset right now. Put down your fried butter on a stick, and listen here: We are being duped. Our national minimum wage is $7.25, we have bridges collapsing out from under us, and we have to deal with a healthcare system that is broken and overpriced. Yet anything other than the usual norm is casted as “progressive, liberal, Millennial, babies who are crying over everything.” Why don’t we go get jobs, we are all body-odor riddled hippies who haven’t worked a blasted day of our life. Make America Great Again, mom, there are too many Mexicans in my American stew, and my hands are not small thank you very much. Why not have these businesses actually pay their fair share? Your parents don’t file their
earnings in the Panama of the North (Delaware), so why can big giant companies? Look, maybe I have been a little rough on the rich. I get it, ya filthy rich people. I have been rude. I haven’t even thought about your needs. I can empathize, I have no idea how it feels, but being rich, but not being richer than your fat cat friends, it must be hard. You must feel like a teenage girl not being asked to prom. Gosh, how could we be so insensitive? I sympathize, and because of that I will dedicate the rest of my life to the progress of business friendly policy. Let’s make the minimum wage $4.00 and hour, take away workers’ rights and allow GE and other companies to finally not pay taxes at all. Ah, we have set it right, big business is our friend, and without them we are nothing. So come on brothers and sisters and lets sing in unison: “I see dollars of green, red deductions, too I see profits blooming for me and you And I think to myself What a wonderful tax haven?”
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Sports
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
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Brown Reaches Milestone in Doubleheader Bison bats come alive to secure head coach’s 200th win MATT SATHER | THE SPECTRUM
Pace Maier Sports Editor
The North Dakota State baseball team swept a weather-induced doubleheader Saturday against Indiana Purdue-Fort Wayne at Newman Outdoor Field, winning by scores of 7-1 and 18-6. The matchup featured the two bottom teams in the Summit League standings as the Bison had a conference record of 2-7, while the Mastodons’ came in with only one win in its first nine Summit league matchups. The Bison came into the game after a sloppy win over the Minot State Beavers earlier in the week, where they had to come from behind in order to secure the victory. Game one started with a bang for the Bison as they jumped to an early 2-0 lead off catcher Juan Gamez’s two RBI single in the second inning, which scored Jayse McLean and Mason Pierzchalski. The Bison bats didn’t cool down
as the team tallied five more over the remaining seven innings. IPFW had no answer to Bison pitching. Starter Zach Mayo and reliever Brian VanderWoude combined for seven strikeouts, giving up one run on 10 hits. Mayo got the win, his third of the season. The second game of the doubleheader saw more of a fight out of IPFW as they got on the board early with a lead-off solo home run by centerfielder Brandon Soat off of Bison starter Reed Pfannenstein. The lead would go back and forth over the next few innings until the seventh inning where the Mastodons would score four runs to take a 6-2 lead. The Bison continued to fight back in the game as they matched IPFW’s huge seventh inning with two runs of its own. Then, when the eighth inning came around, NDSU snatched the game right from under IPFW. The Herd put eight runs on the scoreboard behind Gamez’s three RBI. Chris Coles would
picked up his second win of the season for the Bison while Jake Weber (2-3) was marked with a loss for IPFW. With the win, NDSU head coach Tod Brown won his 200 career game, an accomplishment he said he really didn’t know about until last week. “It really is a credit to those guys out there — those teams back in 2012, 2013 and 2014 — those really good teams that made good runs. It’s a credit to them,” Brown said. Senior catcher Gamez, who had five RBI between the two games, had plenty of praise for his coach. “He’s been doing it for quite a few years,” Gamez said of his coach. “And this definitely won’t be his last, he’ll break a few more records, that’s for sure.” With the wins, NDSU improves to 4-7 in conference and get over .500 overall at 1413. The Bison will host the University of Mary on Tuesday and rival University of North Dakota on Wednesday.
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NDSU swept its doubleheader Saturday behind strong pitching and plenty of run support.
Zillmer Shoots for Olympic Trials Senior wrestling standout goes Greco
Karson Sorby Staff Writer
Fresh off a displeasing end to a fantastic career as a North Dakota State studentathlete, Hayden Zillmer isn’t ready to hang up the headgear quite yet. Wrapping up a winning collegiate career in midMarch, Zillmer finished high in the NDSU rankings with a season record of 32-6 and a career record of 10529, putting him at seventh place overall in the NDSU record books. Finishing things at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, Zillmer’s competitive spirit was in full force. He won his first match in the 184 bracket but dropped the next in second overtime. When an opportunity
arose just a few weeks later, though, Zillmer decided it was time to transfer his talents to Greco-Roman style wrestling. Making a last minute decision to compete at the Last Chance Olympic Trials Qualifier, it’s obvious that plenty of Zillmer’s game plan surrounds his natural talent. “I haven’t wrestled Greco in three years,” Zillmer said. “I decided I would wrestle last Tuesday, so I got to practice last Tuesday and Wednesday, then we kind of hopped in and wrestled on Friday. It was two practices in three years for Greco.” This isn’t Zillmer’s first time finding success in Greco style wrestling. He explained he spent two years at cadet level where he won Greco titles as well
as three years ago when he won the university-level Greco tournament. NDSU coach Roger Kish was still surprised at the level of skill Zillmer brought with such a little practice. “With the limited amount of training we’ve done in this style, it was really impressive to see what he’s capable of — especially on such a limited amount of training,” Kish said. “Just using his natural gifts and lifetime experience being able to go out and perform the way he did at such a high level is pretty phenomenal.” Wrestling at 187 pounds, Zillmer is roughly in the same group as he was for college. Though most would be shaking at the thought of a tryout that could make their lifelong dream come true,
Zillmer kept his cool. “It’s always been a goal of mine and a dream, so now I’m just trying to fulfill it,” Zillmer said. When prompted about nerves, he replied simply “No, I’m pretty good right now. Maybe when the time comes I’ll be a little nervous, but right now I’m feeling pretty confident.” Obviously a huge step for Zillmer personally, competing in an Olympic Trial such as this one also offers plenty to NDSU’s wrestling program. “It’s a pretty special, pretty unique thing to see these young men go out and have success after college,” said Coach Kish. “It really helps our college guys and our recruits. The coaches and wrestlers here know that the foundation is being built on this level and if
they choose, they’re gonna have opportunities to move on after college.” Along with Zillmer are two other NDSU grads, including Justin LaVelle (2013-2014) and Kallen Kleinschmidt (20112013) who, though they are all former Bison, are all training at different facilities. “It’s great, we talk to each other a lot. It’s pretty great that we have each other,” Zillmer said. The U.S. Olympic Team Trials will take place April 9th and 10th in Iowa City, Iowa. Nerves or not, this could be one of the biggest matches of Zillmer’s career — not that he’s worried. “I wanna win. That’s the biggest part,” Zillmer said. “The next step is just the beginning.”
THE SPECTRUM | SPORTS | MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
Former Gophers Head Coach Jerry Kill Adresses High School, NDSU Coaches at Clinic Friday
Taylor Kurth
Contributing Writer
Taylor Schloemer Staff Writer
Hundreds of high school football coaches descended on Fargo for the annual North Dakota State coaching clinic Friday. The event was headlined by keynote speaker, former head coach Jerry Kill. Kill was the former head coach at Southern Illinois University and Northern Illinois University, both in Division I-AA, before most recently coaching at the University of Minnesota. Under Kill, the Gophers would have a 29-29 record, reaching three bowl games in five years. Kill has been away from coaching since late October, when he resigned due to health reasons. Even in retirement, Kill still has a passion for football, and said he felt honored to be invited to Fargo, even if he doesn’t have the greatest memories of the Fargodome. “The opening of the Dome was against the (Pittsburgh State) Gorillas, and I was here (as offensive coordinator),” he said. The Bison, unsurprisingly, won that game 35-16 in 1993. Kill spoke to the coaches at the clinic about core values. “I’m hoping that coaches just take in a couple of nuggets that help them out,” Kill said. He would then say that he was fine if coaches did not do everything, he said. “I tell them don’t take it all back, keep doing what you do.” Those nuggets of information mainly had to do with fundamentals.
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Jerry Kill met with high school football coaches from across the region. Kill said while some teams have started teaching more, fundamentals are still the most important. “We are all into drawing circles up (on the blackboard), but you can have the best circles in the world, you better have some players who have good fundamentals and technique,” he added. Other than that, Kill wanted to talk about a balanced life, both on and off the field Since his retirement, Kill has seen the game from a different light. The step back has allowed him to step back from the chaos that comes with coaching. ”I have not been home
for Christmas in 30 years, with playoffs, bowl games, job change,” Kill said. He still misses the game though, and said he is still in contact with the coaches at Minnesota. “If I went back through the years, the best level to coach at is I-AA,” Kill said about his past. “The kids that you have, they have a chip on their shoulder. They are not entitled.” He also joked how he was happy to take in the players who didn’t make it to Division I. “I wouldn’t want to join the Big Ten, and the Big 12 didn’t want them either, so I guess that they have to say with me,” he said.
Kill also elaborated on a bigger issue: the role of the coach for a player. “Well, in this day in age, sometimes they are the father. I got a bunch of kids who had foster homes, broken homes. They are a teacher, their teaching life lesson,” Kill said. The bond between coach and player is the key for success. While everyone plays for the moment, that bond is the thing that last forever. “If you ask a guy who’s played, ‘Who is your most inspirational guy?’ Ninety percent will say the coach,” he said.
The North Dakota State men’s and women’s track team traveled to Lincoln, Neb. this weekend to compete in the Husker Spring Invite, performing well across the board. Women’s Senior Sierra Rosenau shattered her own school record in the javelin as she headlined a solid day for the ladies. Rosenau broke her own record by more than five feet, throwing 171-1. The toss was good enough for a second place finish and also puts her among the top 15 in the NCAA this year. Junior Katelyn Weimerskirch had a solid day, too. She took first in the hammer throw and the discus event while also recording a personal best in the shot put. In the hammer throw, she tossed a 192-5. In the discus, she won with a mark of 160-2. Her personal best toss in the shot put was 50-0, which was good enough for fourth in the meet and fourth alltime in NDSU history. Behind Weimerskirch in the hammer throw was sophomore Hannah Frost in second and freshman Maddy Nilles in fourth. The Bison did well in the pole vault, too, as junior Anna Benke and senior Brittany Stangl finished in second and third place respectively. In the 1500-meter race, the Bison again placed two in the top three. Freshman Kayla Huhnerkoch and junior Darian Winslow
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finished second and third, respectively. Men’s The men brought their erasers and pens this past weekend as they rewrote NDSU’s history books. The Bison men were particularly dominant in the throwing events, as they claimed four of the top six performers in the shot put, hammer throw and javelin. Junior Matti Mortimore took first in the javelin, adding 10 feet onto his own record, throwing for 248-8. That throw was the sixth farthest this year in the NCAA. Junior Alex Renner captured first in the shot put and broke his record for the second straight week in a row. He tossed a 61-07, which also placed him among the top 15 in the NCAA this year. Sophomore Payton Otterdahl broke his record for the second straight week by virtue of tossing a 179-3 in the discus. Junior Conrad Schwarzkopf won the hammer throw by throwing for a career-best 202-4. Senior Colin Paarmann claimed second place in the triple jump with a leap of 47-06.25. Sophomore Matt Bedard finished second in the 400-meter hurdles, running a season-best 53.16. Sophomore Jordan Warwick ran a personal best in the 400-meter dash that netted him a third place victory. He finished in 48.49 seconds. The Bison will travel to Southern California this week to compete in several meets over the weekend.
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THE SPECTRUM | NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
NDSU Softball Team
Scores Early, Often Bison are outscoring opponents, pitchers locking down
Brandon Brown Contributing Writer
The North Dakota State softball team makes it look easy, especially in the first few innings of recent games. The Bison (23-12, 5-0 Summit League) outscored Summit League opponent Indiana PurdueFort Wayne (10-28, 1-7 Summit League) 16-0 in a doubleheader Saturday at the Ellig Sports Complex in Fargo. In both games this weekend, the Bison scored all 16 runs in the first three innings of the contests. “Score early and often” is a motto the team has truly taken to heart. The Bison are destroying its opponents right out of the gate, outscoring them 75-16 in the first two innings of games this season. NDSU is second in the Summit League for runs scored, and No. 57 nationally in scoring. In the last five games, the Bison have scored eight or more runs in each of them. The parade of runs this weekend started in the second inning of the first game when Alyssa Reina hit a grand slam to give the Bison the 7-0 lead, and IPFW couldn’t get any sort of rally going.
In the second game Julia Luciano and Maritza Lopez-Portillo both singled in the first inning to give the Bison yet another early lead at 4-0. NDSU piled on four more runs in the next two innings to take control of the game for good. But all the credit can’t go to the hitters. The NDSU pitchers shut down the IPFW offense entirely. Jacquelyn Sertic and Kaitlyn Leddy threw backto-back one hitters against the Mastodons. This season as a sophomore Sertic has a low earned run average of 1.93 and is 16-5 on the year. And Leddy, a freshman, has been modestly successful on the mound this season for the Bison, with a record of 6-7. The Bison aren’t just stepping all over home plate; they are stepping over opponents, especially in the last 13 games. NDSU has won all but two of those games, including their last five. The last loss the team had was against Iowa State University on March 26. NDSU will play instate rival the University of North Dakota Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Ellig Sports Complex before heading to Brookings, S.D. for a three game weekend series.
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