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New Student Government Cabinet Takes Office Sunday Casey McCarty
Meet the 2017-18 SG Cabinet
Landon Holmquist
Job: Executive Commissioner of Finance Responsibilities: Chairs the Finance Advisory Board which oversees the distribution of the student activity fee, serves as a member of the Student Fee Advisory Board, which oversees fee increases, serves on the board of directors of Great Rides Bike Share. Stipend: $3,750 per semester Email: landon.holmquist@ndus.edu Hometown: West Fargo, North Dakota Major: Finance
Lauren McNaughton
Job: Executive Commissioner of the Congress of Student Organizations Responsibilities: Oversees CSO guidelines, university policies and university procedures and informs student organizations of them. The position also helps approve new student organizations and helps all student organizations on campus be successful. Stipend: $2,500 per semester Email: lauren.mcnaughton@ndus.edu Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota Major: Psychology
Zach Sanger
Job: Assistant Commissioner of Finance Responsibilities: Works with Tier II organizations for funding requests and reimbursements, serves as the secretary of the Finance Commission and the Finance Advisory Board who also relays documents and minutes to student senate. Stipend: $2,500 per semester Email: zachary.sanger@ndus.edu Hometown: Rochester, Minnesota Major: Electrical Engineering, Pre-Med
Chase Grindberg
Job: Executive Commissioner of External Affairs Responsibilities: Develops relationships with state lawmakers to improve higher education, attends State Board of Higher Education and Interim Higher Education Funding Committee meetings, testifies on NDSU’s behalf when needed, serves as NDSU’s head delegate to the North Dakota Student Association. Stipend: $2,500 per semester Email: chase.grindberg@ndus.edu Hometown: Fargo, North Dakota Major: Crop and Weed Sciences
Monica Murray
Job: Executive Commissioner of Public Relations Responsibilities: Upkeeps internal and external relationships on behalf of NDSU’s student government with students, student media, administration, the Fargo-Moorhead community and in student government. Stipend: $2,500 per semester Email: monica.k.murray@ndus.edu Hometown: Rochester, Minnesota Major: Marketing
Marisa Pacella
Job: Administrative Assistant Responsibilities: Takes minutes at student senate meetings, distributes minutes and agendas to senators and the student body and orders office supplies for the student government office. Stipend: $1,875 per semester Email: marisa.pacella@ndus.edu Hometown: West Fargo, North Dakota Major: Hospitality and Tourism Management
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Marisa Mathews
Job: Executive Commissioner of Technology Responsibilities: Serves on the Technology Fee Advisory Committee and the IT Council to ensure proper usage of the student technology fee, sends listserv emails and manages digital signage for student government. Stipend: $2,500 per semester Email: marisa.mathews@ndus.edu Hometown: Mission Viejo, California Major: Sociology
Michael Russell
Job: Executive Commissioner of Academic and Student Affairs Responsibilities: Addresses concerns of the student body and advises university committees on students’ views, responds appropriately to concerns relating to academic and student affairs, appoints students to campus committees. Stipend: $2,500 per semester Email: michael.j.russell@ndus.edu Hometown: Fargo, North Dakota Major: Industrial Engineering and Management
Lauren Algyer
Job: Assistant Commissioner of the Congress of Student Organizations Responsibilities: Oversees CSO guidelines, university policies and university procedures and informs student organizations of them. The position also helps approve new student organizations and helps all student organizations on campus be successful. Stipend: $1,250 per semester Email: lauren.algyer@ndus.edu Hometown: Prior Lake, Minnesota Major: Political Science, Pre-Law
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Pecking Permitted: Chickens to be Owned in Fargo Ordinance will allow homeowners to keep chickens Amanda Johnson Staff Writer
Fargo residents are able to obtain a permit that would allow them to own up to four chickens on any premises with an enclosed chicken coop and chicken run, enclosed outside yard for chickens. The permit application “must be a scaled diagram that indicates the location of any chicken coop and chicken and the approximate size and distance from adjoining structures and property lines,” the amendment draft published Feb. 2 said. The amendments clear up conflicts between city codes regarding regulation of chicken coops, chickens and bans roosters due to noise. West Fargo Pioneer reported “current laws are contradictory, with one part of the law allowing backyard coops and another part relegating them to agricultural zoning.” On Monday, Fargo city commissioners unanimously agreed a permit is required
for chicken owners and the number of chickens would be capped and coops will have to follow certain standards. There is a recommended fee of $15 to $20, which will be brought to the next city commission, WFP reported. Cass-Clay Food Commission was formed in 2015 to study urban
The January 2016 meeting was to give a baseline understanding of the issue and how other cities across the United States are doing and at the time no action was being taken regarding urban chickens. “Every person who owns, controls, keeps, maintains, or harbors chickens must keep them confined at all
“Slaughter and breeding of chickens on any premises within the city is prohibited,” the ordinance draft said. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS | PHOTO COURTESY
agriculture issues, such as the contradictory conflicts regarding chickens and chicken coops. The Cass-Clay Food Commission met in January 2016 and discussed “Urban Chicken Education” and “Urban Chicken Blueprint” along with a public discussion and a commission discussion.
times in a chicken coop and chicken run and may not allow the chickens to run at large,” the draft ordinance from Feb. 2 said. Chicken coops and runs are not allowed in the front yard or in any part of a home or garage and need to be setback three feet from adjacent premises. “Slaughter and breeding
Chicken coops will soon be regulated to have up to four chickens in Fargo, provided owners have a permit. of chickens on any premises within the city is prohibited,” the ordinance draft said. The ordinance draft sets standards on chicken coops and their allowable size per chicken. The required permit
will allow city officials to regulate and monitor the amount of chickens located in Fargo and allows the city to talk to the owners if there are complaints about odor or noise. Some Fargo residents currently own chickens,
but the amount of chickens has previously not been regulated along with the living conditions of the chickens.
Bismarck, West Fargo are ND’s Safest Cities Fargo ranks eighth safest Katherine Kessel Contributing Writer
North Dakota has a reputation as a safe state, with low crime rates throughout its cities. But there are a few whose level of safety exceeds others. The National Council for Home Safety and Security announced its annual ranking of Safest Cities in North Dakota Report for 2017. At the top was Bismarck, followed by West Fargo, Wahpeton, Valley City and Jamestown.
Statistics and crime rate information were published on the site alarms.org. The safest cities rankings were determined from analysis of the FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics from the previous year, with the term ‘cities’ referring to populations of 5,000 and more. Addressed in the report
were both violent and property crime numbers compared to total populations within each community. The average city in North Dakota has a population of 36,429 and experienced three violent crimes per 1,000 people and 27 property crimes per 1,000 people in 2016.
At the top was Bismarck, followed by West Fargo, Wahpeton, Valley City and Jamestown.
Bismarck, the second largest city in North Dakota and home to the state capital, saw 1.47 violent crimes and 13.04 property crimes per 1,000 people in 2016. The population of the Bismarck is slightly over 70,000. North Dakota State University student and Bismarck native Jenny Hanson described her hometown as “a nice community (whose citizens) care a lot about the community.” Though Hanson was not surprised by the results and
feels comfortable about her safety in Bismarck, she said that the oil boom changed the dynamics of the community. “You used to be able to leave your car unlocked in parking lots and not have to worry about anything being stolen. Now we just have to remember to lock our doors,” Hanson said. Near to NDSU’s campus, West Fargo made number two on the list. With a smaller population around 33,000, the community experienced 1.5 violent crimes and 15.31 property crimes per 1,000 residents
in 2016. As stated on the city of West Fargo’s website, the West Fargo Police Department has a mission to enhance the quality of life for all of its citizens and accomplishes this through strategies to address the causes of crime and social disorder. Fargo received the ranking as the 8th safest city in North Dakota, behind Dickinson and Grand Forks.
Students Take Over Teaching Students creating e-lessons for future students
Phoebe Ellis Co-News Editor
An organizational behavioral management course has been challenged with creating e-lessons to be taught in the coming school year. The intent behind these e-lessons is to create supplemental material for a course that will soon have more students than previous years with the same amount of teaching time as previous classes. The solution is to have current students create e-lessons. The students tasked to create e-lessons are Jon Pacella, a senior in business management, Jack Brainard, a senior in management, Sam Verbeke, a senior in finance, Katie Stuhlmueller, a senior in management, and Adam Russell, a senior in business
management. The upcoming class will have 60 students, with half taught one day and the other half another day, with all students then using the e-lessons to supplement class time. The students who are creating these e-lessons said creating e-lessons has been hard and time consuming, their material aims to be relatable and interesting. Some of the group members had chapters with different steps outlined to be used as a guideline for their e-lessons. Others were more philosophical texts “making it more difficult to get to the concrete ideas,” Russell said. Some texts were lengthy being as long as 300 pages, where teachable lessons were pulled and formatted into a PowerPoint lecture with voice over, Stumeller said.
To ensure students are learning, the e-lessons come with a podcast and a retention check.
come,” Pacella said, also stating that if these e-lessons create a lasting impact there may be a new model going forward. The group mentioned that Peterson wants to change the way teachers are teaching and become more efficient in how they teach. Stuhlmueller said this is “a unique project, it’s important because we never would have experienced it without this class.” The group said they know what it is like to be in student’s shoes. They said they provide a different tone than a professor, a little humor, which faculty are more detached from students’ wants and needs, FILE PHOTO | THE SPECTRUM and that students understand better how to split up work. Jon Pacella is one of five students creating e-lessons for future students. Russell said the accessibility towards Textbooks are not retention check. focus on students during students intends to draw common in the current Tim O. Peterson, the their time in the classroom students in. course. The students course’s management and with their teacher. Brainard said he believes making the e-lessons each marketing professor, wanted This is the first time the faculty will be skeptical. read a separate text and to separate material that something like this is He said they’ll think summarized it into lessons, didn’t necessarily need happening and Peterson nobody else can teach but keeping the no textbook to be covered inside the decided to put his students these lessons can serve format of the course. classroom to put more focus to the test, taking an interest as a new way of teaching To ensure students are on complex ideas within the in the project. aspects of courses and can learning, the e-lessons classroom, this split allows “People will be hearing build credibility over time. come with a podcast and a smaller class sizes and more our voices for years to
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Class Project Promotes Philanthropy Proceeds to benefit VA Medical Center Rollie Dethloff
Contributing Writer
Students in the leadership in organizations course led by Tim O. Peterson are working to raise funds for a cause to complete a class project, which provides tangible value to a nonprofit organization. The students are working to fund the purchase of activity bags for children of patients at the VA Medical Center on Elm Street in Fargo. The bags will be delivered Monday. Junior Jason Guo said he has had a lot of boxes
sitting at his house for about three weeks now and he is excited to prepare the bags. Guo said he hopes “these bags will make someone’s life better.” “We wanted to find stuff that was more durable than other items to last longer, as some of these children will go home and not have anything except for that one toy,” Guo said. He also looks forward to delivering the bags and mentions the course’s contact at the VMC is getting in touch with the hospital’s directors to meet with students from the organization during
Monday’s drop-off. Guo’s team, FACTR, in the course has put on five different fundraisers throughout the semester. He said the fundraising process is “very exciting” and has been the best part of the process thus far. “It’s been a collaborative
effort and we’re learning a very valuable transferable skill,” Guo said. “The community feedback has also been amazing,” Torey Rohloff, a senior who is also in the six-member FACTR group, said. “They’re willing to donate to a cause that helps
“We wanted to find stuff that was more durable than other items to last longer, as some of these children will go home and not have anything except for that one toy,” Jason Guo
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veterans and children and it’s amazing.” “It’s a double whammy,” Guo said. By Monday, FACTR hopes to have raised $4,000. At press time, they group was $700 short of that goal and had three fundraisers left in the week. One, an art show which will be held Monday and Tuesday in the Barry Hall Atrium and feature artwork from local Fargo-Moorhead artists chosen by a FACTR member, Guo said. The event is open to the public with all proceeds go to help the cause. Guests can donate and receive a raffle
ticket based on how many times they’d like to vote for their favorite artwork. The first day will be the preliminary round and the second day will be the finals. FACTR also sent letters to North Dakota lawmakers to raise awareness for their cause. Guo said their support has been invaluable in this fundraising process. Rohloff said it has been an honor to work with and support the VMC. “They gave us a direction and a goal and they’ve been supportive throughout the entire process,” Rolloff said.
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Hike a Little Further, Climb a Little Higher Nightlife, hiking and views of mysterious islands at Ibiza
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Ibiza is known for its pristine sandy beaches and hopping nightlife.
Paige Meskan
Contributing Writer
I hopped on Skyscanner, plugged in the dates and patiently waited for results to generate. Boom. Ibiza, Spain, showed up at the top of the list for cheapest flights. Ibiza is one of the Balearic Islands known for its beautiful sandy beaches and hopping nightlife. While the night scene isn’t generally my thing, the idea of exploring an island was enticing. Some people may advise you to go visit the island during the peak season of
the summer months when everything is open and the island is buzzing with people. However, visiting during the off-season in the winter and spring months has its benefits: cheaper flights, cheaper lodging and an island almost completely to yourself. The nice thing about Europe and traveling is every destination is a stone’s throw away. Ryanair offers cheap flights to countless destinations, making a weekend trip very affordable. While Ryanair makes flights affordable, my broke college self still has to be smart about where my money goes.
Whether I like it or not, some cities are simply more expensive to visit. That’s why tools like Skyscanner can be handy when it comes to searching for cheap flights, as they find the cheapest flights to countless destinations. Courtesy of Skyscanner, I found myself on a plane to Ibiza with a weekend of exploration ahead of me. While most visitors spend their days relaxing by the pool or hitting up the dance clubs during their stay, my companions and I had a different agenda: see Es Vedrà. Es Vedrà is a mysterious island located just off the
coast of Ibiza. The island holds many myths and legends, from the strong magnetic forces that disorient anyone who dares pass by, to being home to the sirens and sea-nymphs from Homer’s Odyssey. To some, it’s also thought to be the tip of Atlantis. While scientists may argue whether any of this is true, there is no denying there is something eerie, yet beautiful about this island. Getting to the other side of Ibiza to see Es Vedrà proved challenging. A bus, taxi and a short hike later, we finally made it. We started down the path to a cliff, and before long
a breathtaking view of Es Vedrà greeted us. The best place to view Es Vedrà, however, is from the Torre del Pirata, the highest watchtower on the coast of Ibiza. With no marked or official trail, it is up to the adventurer to find a route up the mountain. The climb to the tower is not an easy one, nor is it for those who fear heights. The view from the top? Worth it. The adrenaline rushing through your veins, the voice in your head screaming at you to be careful, the beads of sweat running down your face: all
worth it. Looking out onto Es Vedrà might be one of the most breathtaking views I have ever seen. All the stress and setbacks getting there disappeared. Sitting on the top of the mountain by the Torre, I was content. I counted my lucky stars that I got to see something so amazing. I couldn’t help but to think about Ferris Bueller’s famous words: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” The next adventure you take don’t forget to stop and take it all in.
BISON Budaquest ABROAD
Pronunciation challenge: Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért
Ryan Kockelman Contributing Writer
This week marked the beginning of our spring/ Easter break, and it has been much needed. This past Saturday, I traveled with my friends from Australia, Spain and Puerto Rico to the port city of Genova overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. I’ve only ever been to an ocean one time (not counting the times I’ve flown over them) and it was astounding to look and see nothing but water and the shadowy figures of freighters taking off into the unknown. Afterward, my roommate invited me to spend the week with him at his home in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest is one of the most fascinating cities I have seen. Having once been the capital of a major empire, the entire city is full of historical remnants. Budapest has castles and other structures dating back to the 14th century, as well
as remnants and ruins of buildings built during the Soviet eras. Bullet holes still remain in the wall of the Parliament building from the 1956 rebellion. Statues and monuments of historical leaders and politicians litter the streets, a majority of them depicted on horseback in reference to their days as horse lords and genealogy tracking back to Attila the Hun. I am very fortunate to be in the country with a native as well because the Hungarian language is incredibly difficult to pick up. When spoken, it sounds like a mixture of German and Russian, but it is spoken much softer. While the language is difficult, the Hungarians have all been very kind, very soft spoken and very quiet, which is quite the change from Italy. While I don’t think hiding eggs is common, I’m interested to celebrate the resurrection of Christ in another culture.
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Turrets and blue skies at castle Buda in Budapest, Hungary.
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BISON On Friends, Growth and Confidence ABROAD Living far from home lends a new perspective on life
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Being far away in a beautiful land adds a little perspective on life.
Madison Hapka Contributing Writer
There’s something about living across the world that grants me this sense of accomplishment. Rather than visiting a new country and enjoying the typical tourist aspects of it, I decided it would be more significant to move to a new country and get a taste of the details the average tourist doesn’t have the opportunity of experiencing. To genuinely get a feel for a country and what
it has to offer requires spending an extensive amount of time in that place. The only way to live the legitimate lifestyle is to place yourself in a semipermanent position. In doing so, my state of mind has developed in incredible ways. Self-growth is something I never truly put into perspective, until now. It is a component of life someone can fantasize about as much as they want, but it is only when you put your intentions into action that you feel a sense of real progress.
I’ve always had this fantasy of being able to look in the mirror and feel confident with the reflection, confident with the type of person that I am. Although, I still have a long way to go (there is always room for growth), I can say I have reached the point of satisfaction. Being away from my mom (who does more for me than I could ever express gratitude for), my friends (who I previously relied on for a sense of happiness) and the city I grew up in has allowed me to make myself happy
without the assistance of any of the previously mentioned factors. Needless to say, living in Australia does play a role in my consistent state of happiness. In many instances, when you ask someone why they’re making the decision to leave home their response is to “meet new people.” Although the friends you grow up with will always hold a special place in your heart, it is truly soul nourishing to meet new friends. It is lovely to find people who share your values and
people who are searching for similar thrilling moments in life. Being as adventurous, spontaneous and adrenaline seeking as I am, finding friends who share these aspirations is exciting. Being able develop friendships with people from places in the world so far away from home gives you a new perspective on what the entirety of the world truly has to offer. I’ve been in Australia for just under two months, and I already know how hard saying goodbye will be. I’m excited for the new
friendships I still have yet to build in the upcoming months and I’m beyond thankful for the existing ones I have built so far. Class has been chaotic this past week with papers and assignments due. I can’t complain though, considering I have the privilege of continuing my studies in this beautiful country and this weekend I stayed at the Sunshine Coast, spending Saturday with a surfboard and the waves. Plus, a challenge is always beneficial to personal progress.
Thoughts from Campus Buildings | Nose Prints on the Windowpane Blues If these walls could talk — well, they can Rio Bergh
Features Editor
I have a bad case of the blues. In fact, every building on campus does, so I guess I speak for us all. But I suppose I should mention why I have the blues: there are nose prints all over my windowpanes. All those funny little creatures are back again,
running through our doors at all hours of the day and night. They looked so excited last week when they were leaving. “Easter,” they would say, beaming. Now they’re trudging around like someone shot the Easter bunny over holiday. All they do is stare out our windows (hence the nose prints). And sigh. They sigh a lot. They’re fascinating
creatures, even if I’ll never understand them. They migrate here in the fall, and they’re all excited and optimistic for some reason. Then they hit a low point somewhere in November before a slight uptick in optimism in December, when they migrate away again. Then, smack in the middle of the coldest part of the year, they come back
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and are full of energy. They make no sense. They should be hibernating in a cozy corner with a book and a blanket, but instead they brave an icy wasteland, with smiles that I assume must be frozen in place. Maybe they are grimaces instead, but it’s hard to tell. And then: springtime. They mope. They whine. They stare out my windows like they would rather be
somewhere, anywhere else. I feel like I have a terrible infestation of fleas. Antsy fleas. Tragically, their blues are contagious, and now I have a bad case. I’m all congested with a bunch of irritable creatures. Nose prints on the windowpane blues, I call it. The day is warm and sunny, with bright blue skies and fluffy white
clouds. Birds sing in the trees, just beginning to bud. Squirrels romp. Noses smear my windowpanes. All throughout campus, the curious creatures heave a sigh. “Just three more weeks ‘til summer,” one said, “but I think I’ll probably die.”
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Lee (with her painting, ‘When I try to be Holy’) wanted to use fun, delicious foods to connect to a broader audience, including non-Christians, about her experience with God.
The Sweet, Sweet Taste of Happiness Artist and baccalaureate student Yeseul Lee translates her spiritual experience into food Paige Johnson A&E Editor
Yeseul Lee’s paintings are hard to look at without your mouth watering. Buttery popcorn, fizzling pop, delicious donuts and creamy smooth milk are painted in realistic clarity, causing your stomach to rumble in anticipation. But there’s a bigger aspect to her baccalaureate project than just food. “I think my original purpose was to share Christianity in a more playful way, in new ways,” Lee said. “I wanted to approach in a more playful way and a broader audience where non-Christians could like the paintings and would feel attracted to the paintings … I don’t want to neglect any audience through my paintings. And food, I feel like a lot of people can relate to. I was like, ‘I’ll just use food and let’s see how this goes.’” Lee’s project included four massive oil paintings, each featuring a model (her roommate) with food — ranging from milk to
popcorn — erupting from her head. Taking inspiration from contemporary and pop art, Lee worked diligently to explain her experience with Christianity to her audience. It’s hard to believe this was not Lee’s first project. “It was supposed to be like a semester-long project, but when I had my second to the last critiques with my professors, I realized I didn’t really like the project that I was working on,” she said. “So, I changed my project last minute. All of these paintings were done within two weeks. It was a lot of painting in two weeks!” Her original project was connected to her first-semester project. Graduating visual arts students are expected to complete two semesters of baccalaureate classes. In her first project, Lee was working on converting people’s testimonies about their faith and God into paintings. She had nearly finished her five paintings when she realized she wanted to take a different approach to her original idea.
The inspiration for the project came from an unusual place. “I really, really like drinking pop,” Lee said, laughing. “My roommate and I always talk about it. One time, she was driving home and I was like, ‘I really want Sprite.’ We were just imagining when you open a pop can and you make that noise like kshhhh. We were just imagining it and it was making us so happy. And so, I was like, that would be a really cool way to describe what joy feels like. That’s where I started.” She decided to experiment and see if she could connect her spiritual experience and feelings about God to food in painting. Lee composed the images of her roommate and food in Photoshop before expanding to the canvas. “Really, I think food was our first language for everyone,” she explained. “You taste it, you feel it, you remember those tastes and when you taste something, you remember where you were and who
you were with and all those emotions. I tend to use food in my paintings a lot because it has been my first language. And people, they have to eat.” Despite only having two weeks to finish the
or college), but she’s excited to continue to learn about understanding people and their backgrounds. Lee doesn’t plan on adding to the original four photos, but she wants to continue to use food as
“I think food was our first language for everyone. You taste it, you feel it, you remember those tastes and when you taste something, you remember where you were and who you were with an all those emotions.” – Yeseul Lee, NDSU art student
project, Lee is very satisfied with the final project and hopes to continue with the style and direction as she continues her art career. After graduation, Lee will continue at NDSU as a graduate student in education. She hasn’t decided where she wants to teach (whether kindergarten through senior high school
subjects in her artwork. “Even though it’s an ending project, our final project as seniors, I think it’s a good start for me,” she explained. “Where, ‘Oh, yeah, this is the direction I would like to explore more as I’m graduating and trying to be an independent artist.’ And so, as like my professors pushed me to
think outside of the box, I think I am going in that direction but I want to push myself more.” But in the present, Lee just hopes that people continue to enjoy her paintings. “I hope that (the audience will) be able to connect to the feelings that I was putting into my paintings,” she said. “Whether that was astonishment toward God or this constant joy that I have or peace and satisfaction that I’ve experienced through my spiritual experience. I would hope to communicate that to my audience. They could simply just see the paintings and like them, too. That’s my hope: that they like the paintings.” Lee’s paintings are currently on display in the Memorial Union Gallery as part of the 2017 Spring Baccalaureate Exhibition. Her work, in addition to six other art students’ works, will be on display until April 27. To see more of Lee’s work, visit her website.
Anne of Red Netflix and Your Sofa The familiar tale of a orphaned heroine becomes bingeable very soon Andrew Fugleberg Contributing Writer
Netflix has been a forward-thinking streaming service, bringing several original shows or adaptations to the screen to the delight of binge watchers. One of the newest shows coming to Netflix is “Anne,” an interpretation of the book “Anne of Green Gables” written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Netflix recently released the trailer for their upcoming series, appearing on Netflix May 12. The plot centers around Anne Shirley, an unwanted orphan girl living in Canada in the late 1890s. The young girl deals with feelings of being unloved and unwanted while
struggling to fit in with those around her at home and in school. Throughout her entire childhood, Anne was tossed around abusive homes with strangers until she lands in the home of aged siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. School is rough at first, with several of Anne’s classmates openly stating their disgust in the “dirty trash” that is the orphan girl. Eventually, Anne meets Diana, a courageous and loyal friend that she begins to rely on. Anne is not a typical children’s book heroine, however. With her wildly imaginative spirit and brash, feminist demeanor, she stands up for what she believes in and doesn’t care who gets in her way. Some of the most
memorable moments from the trailer include her saying, “Girls can do anything a boy can do, and more” and her hitting a boy who makes the mistake of pulling her hair. The setting, lighting and mood of the series give viewers a sort of “indie” vibe, with the kind of camera work that makes the viewer believe we’re going to see a realistic, coming-of-age type series. The shots seem whimsical and dramatic all at different times, giving an interesting angle to Anne’s story. However, this series hasn’t been without controversy. Since the series was aired and promoted in Canada before coming to Netflix, there are two different promotional posters that have been
used. The Canadian poster is a good representation of the series, showing Anne as realistically as possible with her bright red hair, prominent freckles and bags under her eyes. The Netflix poster has the exact same image of the titular character but photoshopped to look younger, smoother and less like the heroine several know and love. Many say that photoshopping a little girl’s image is damaging to the message of the series and is completely unacceptable. Despite promotional mishaps, when the series WIKIMEDIA COMMONS | PHOTO COURTESY drops on the last day of finals week, several NDSU ‘Anne of Green Gables’ has been interpreted since its students are sure to turn in publication in 1908, including this image from the 1985 and “visit Green Gables” Canadian mini-series by the same title. On May 12, Netflix like the tagline promotes. adds their own spin on the classic book.
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2017 baccalaureate student Katilin Ridl explores violence against women in fairytale photos KAITLIN RIDL | PHOTO COURTESY
Ridl’s 2017 Spring Baccalaureate exhibition explores violence of women through photographic interpretations of fairytales.
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Once upon a time, there was a girl, her camera and fairytales. For her baccalaureate exhibition, art student Kaitlin Ridl used her emphasis in photography and her love of books to convey a serious message: violence against women. At first, the images are hard to interpret. The princesses we’re used to seeing in beautiful dresses, singing and running into the sunset with their princes are left defeated, broken, a husk of what they used to be. “I really wanted to bring attention to the relationship between women and violence,” Ridl said. “Because, as much as we don’t want it to be around, it’s there. But, a lot of time
it feels like it’s hidden. Well, that was the same way with these stories. The women and violence part of the stories was hidden. So, I wanted to bring that to light and kind of make a statement with it and
not okay.” Looking for patterns of violence against women, Ridl chose five commonly known fairly tales to photograph: Snow White, the Little Mermaid, Goldilocks and the Three
“I really wanted to bring attention to the relationship between women and violence. Because, as much as we don’t want it to be around, it’s there.” – Kaitlin Ridl, NDSU art student
really let people know that, yes, this is here. This is something that’s been going on for hundreds of years and we need to pay attention to it because it’s
Bears, Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella. Both the protagonists and villains of the stories are represented. “It didn’t really matter
to me whether the character was the villain or the protagonist,” Ridl explained. “It just mattered that they were a woman and something was happening to this woman, whether it be in penance for something they did or something that was trying to destroy their future.” Ridl originally began her studies in painting. But after transferring to NDSU from Bismarck State College, Ridl discovered photography. For her senior project, Ridl chose to use photography rather than painting as her medium. “I chose to do photographs because I wanted to keep a realistic element within the images while still portraying this very fantastical feel with them,” she said. “And I wanted people to see that this happens to real people. While you can paint people, it’s not necessarily always going to be realistic. You’re not going to get, ‘Oh, that’s somebody. Somebody I could know.’” Another side to this experience was Ridl’s choice to cover the models faces. This, according to Ridl, leaves them open to interpretation by the audience, allowing them to place their own friends or family in the places of the women they see in the
photographs. Ridl’s always been interested in books, saying she’s “loved reading since I was really little and it’s always kind of made my imagination go wild.” When building the idea for her senior project, Ridl used her love of books as the basis for her project. However, at the beginning of the semester, Ridl also went on a trip that influenced her senior project. “I got to go on a research project with some theatre students and some women and gender studies students on women’s role in the oil field,” Ridl said. “I actually like just listening to all of them talk about the things they were passionate about, like feminism and all these types of things. It really just kind of caught my attention and I realized that a lot of my opinions kind of fell in line with them. I really wanted to bring a voice to women and help them, you know, have a voice in bringing to light these really serious issues that shouldn’t be happening anymore.” So far, people have been reacting to Ridl’s project the way she hoped: with a little confusion, then recognition. “Especially on Tuesday, during the opening, I saw the reactions of people and I was like, ‘Yes, this
is what I wanted,’” Ridl said. “I saw people looking at the photographs, being like OK, what’s going on here. Reading the little text box next to it and being like, Oh, something’s clicking. I could see them really engage with the photographs and that made me really excited.” Ridl will be graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in painting and photography this spring. Right now, her plans postgraduation include researching graduate schools to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree. But that’s not all. “I plan on continuing the series,” she said excitedly. “I really got into it, I’m not sure if I’m going to go in the same direction or if I’m going to try and twist it around, but I really, really am involved and really passionate about this idea so I want to see how far I can take it.” Kaitlin Ridl’s work, along with the other six baccalaureate students, can be seen in the Memorial Union Gallery as part of the 2017 Spring Baccalaureate exhibition. Their works can be seen from now until April 27, 2017. To learn more about Ridl’s work, visit her website: kaitlinridlart. wixsite.com/kailtinridl.
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Ridl chose five popular fairytales as her inspiration: Goldilocks and the Three Bears (pictured here), The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood.
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Ridl chose to portray both villains and protagonists in her photo series, saying “it just mattered they were women and something was happening to this woman.”
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Ridl has always been interested in fairytales. For her senior project, she chose to combine this interest with her passion for women’s rights.
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Waste Busters was Never Meant to Stop Food Waste NDSU produces food waste at an average of .17 lbs per student per visit Erik Jonasson II Opinion Editor
North Dakota State has a responsibility to lead the state. We are a center of some of the greatest minds in the state of North Dakota. If changes are to happen in this state, we must have a part in it. As a nation and as a state we have an issue. We need to find a better way to deal with our food waste. At NDSU, there is a program called Waste Busters that monitors the waste NDSU dining centers produce. For two days, students and staff volunteer to shed light on the waste that is produced in our dining centers. “I’ve seen whole burgers come back,” Nelson Isaacson, a senior in mechanical engineering, said. He, along with fellow students, volunteers to weigh out the food thrown away. “It’s like some people just grab their food (from the line) and come right here and hand it to me,” Isaacson remarked. “It’s not
produce about .17 lbs of food waste per visit. If you went to school for 150 days and only ate on the weekdays three times a day, about 76.5 lbs per NDSU student of food waste is produced a year. That is simply not sustainable and don’t expect Waste Busters to solve the problem. “It’s a lot of work to staff,” Jen Kacere, Assistant Director for Leadership Development, said in an interview. She oversees Waste Busters and detailed the numbers behind the program. I asked if this (Waste Busters) was eventually being planned as full time. “Ultimately we track four days during each semester,” Kacere said. I guess the name made me think something else happened. Busters didn’t prepare me for the fate of the food. “It’s thrown out.” Roxanne England, LRD Associate Director said. Don’t mistake Waste Busters as a solution to our problem. This is not a sustainable program. Rather it is the first step of many that need to come.
Don’t mistake Waste Busters as a solution to our problem. This is not a sustainable program. Rather it is the first step of many that need to come.
that great.” This waste piles up over time. From fall of 2016, there was a total of 695.7 lbs and 593.73 lbs for Oct. 4-5 and Nov. 15-16. For the time that I was visiting it was about the same (April 11-12), we produced 623.44 lbs. Considering over that twoday stretch 3,735 students ate there, that means on average NDSU students
Kacere stressed education. “How do we educate students on eating what they take?” Kacere said. Which is true. In some cases, students don’t think of food waste as a problem. It is a vital step to educate about food waste as an issue. Where a rhetoric of stiff party lines and finger pointing gets us nowhere,
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Liquid waste from the dining center.
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education gets results. This is a problem and the numbers and facts don’t lie. At the moment, dining is trying their hardest to combat the issues of food waste. From making sure that food is reused if not eaten, for instance using leftover chicken on the salad bar or putting leftovers on the line as a second option. This still doesn’t stop the problem. Don’t mistake it. Food waste is a serious problem for our university, our state, our country and our world. Food unable to decompose naturally
The Waste Busters pledge, as seen at the Residence Dining Center. But why don’t we compost? Compost is an important part of Without the culture of sustainability not being agriculture. Providing a part of student’s everyday life, nothing can be important nutrients for the soil. We have composting changed. classes, why not involve our dining center’s waste? What about using food waste as animal feed? Or produces methane. A gas recycling centers can take any number of solutions? 20 times worse than carbon food waste (no animal Again, this requires a dioxide as a greenhouse products), although this commitment that our gas. NDSU contributes to is only available in the society is going to need to this problem, as does the warmer times of the year. demand. rest of our state. It is up to the university. Perhaps we don’t care I talked to a person at When is NDSU going to though. Perhaps we don’t the solid waste department make it a priority? care about global warming. of the City of Fargo. Without the culture of Perhaps we don’t care that According to them, the sustainability being a part the last decade was the dumpsters at all Fargo of student’s everyday life, hottest on record. nothing can be changed. Perhaps we don’t care Without the necessary about facts. The thing facilities, NDSU will have about global warming and to continue to waste or will environmental issues is have to make an investment they do not care whether into sustainability we agree with the numbers ourselves. or not. “There is a financial NDSU students, it is our commitment,” Kacere said, time to give a damn and unable to comment on the look to possible solutions. university’s ability to make This is an issue we can that commitment of course. either lead in or an issue we Lying the responsibly on can continue to contribute educating the students to. further.
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Emily Glynn volunteered for Waste Busters.
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Food waste getting thrown in the trash.
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NDSU students who ultimately produce waste.
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THE SPECTRUM | OPINION | THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017
A Dope Conversation about Pot Unofficial holiday helps the Herd blaze it Erik Jonasson II Opinion Editor
Pot, marijuana, guanga, kush and The Devil’s Lettuce. Some would eat it for dinner in the form of a brownie. Some still would melt the leaves away and blow torch the oil. Some of you are high right now. Yeah, Billy. I’m talking to you right now. Put down the bong and get back to your homework (thanks John Oliver for this bit). So pot is illegal. For any student caught with it on campus it is grounds for expulsion, and as far as the federal government is concerned it is as bad as meth and heroin. Basically, be smart, folks.
I am talking to a huge audience when I state this. According to recent Gallup poll about 1 out of 8 adults in America smoke pot (13 percent) and that study also stated that 43 percent of adults have tried it. Basically, to find a person under the influence of marijuana at any given time do this test. Look to your right, now to your left, and you’re high again Billy. Legalization is our country’s ultimate goal. Look, a pot addiction looks a lot different than a meth addiction. For a meth addiction, you have a broken family and you probably have no teeth. You may or may not be wearing a wife-beater and you have red sores all over your face.
A pot addiction, well, you eat Cheetos really fast. Either way, it is illegal, but for how long can we keep up the charade that it is bad for us? How long can we pretend that pot is a gateway drug when The National Institute of on Drug Abuse claims, “These findings are consistent with the idea of marijuana as a ‘gateway drug.’ However, the majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, ‘harder’ substances.” Marijuana isn’t bad, but we have been taught that it is. Still though be careful on this un official holiday. Happy 4/20 North Dakota State. As they say, roll up and get back to work Billy.
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Marijuana.
Trump’s Administration Suspends H-1B Work Visas My take on how it affects all immigrants, including myself Abdullah Almosalami Contributing Writer
On April 3rd, Trump’s administration suspended the processing of H-1B petitions — work visas for immigrants — for what some expect to be as long as six months. If a company here decides that the best person for the job happens to not be born here, and they are willing to sponsor them, the government now says, “No.” I know this is Trump, but, I still must ask. How on earth does that make any sense? Is it not hard enough already? Isn’t the process
already exhaustingly tedious? If I, as an international student, tried to apply for a job right after graduation in the U.S. with everything going for me my chances are about as good as me landing a job on Mars. And that was before Trump. Now, the USCIS (the immigration sector of government) said it is doing this suspension to “be able to process longpending petitions,” but you know what might be a more reasonable solution that doesn’t have to impact domestic and foreign companies so drastically? Not making it so unnecessarily hard in the
first place. Yes, it is no secret companies here, even major ones, rely on foreign workers. According to myvisajobs. com, companies like IBM, Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services sponsor well over 10,000 H-1B workers and rely on the constant inflow of these workers to fill their ranks. Why so many? Are these companies just a bunch of immigrant-loving hipsters? No; they just want what’s best for the job, whoever fills that position within reasonable limits. On top of that, the supply of workers domestically is often less than the demand of the market, especially in the
tech industry. So why not look abroad? Oh well. Too late. Guess we’ll just have to deal with the shortages
idea that immigrants steal your jobs. That the Chinese and the Indians and the whole gang come in and
This is all part of the idea immigrants steal your jobs. now, isn’t that right Trump? Stepping away from pure facts for a moment, here’s something I’d like to say. This isn’t about administrative issues or encouraging some lazy Americans to get up off their asses and work. This is all part of the
take what they want from whoever they want, and poor old Americans are left unemployed. Darn scoundrels. It’s not possible that maybe they are more qualified for the job or negotiate better for it? And it’s nonsense that companies
put the best people in their positions, regardless of who, what, where, how? And let’s just forget that just over a few centuries ago, these very thieves who stole jobs for a living were your very ancestors who built this nation from the ground up. Nobody likes history anyway, am I right? Forget the idea that competing with foreign workers pushes Americans to work harder, just like any kind of competition that brings out the fittest of the litter. Let’s just continue to lose logic and sense in policy under Trump. Make America forget again.
Talking Shop Between the President and the Talk Shop How our president and our media just can’t get along SATIRE
Grant Gloe Staff Writer
You ever feel like the world is just a bunch of yelling? Seems like every time I turn around there’s someone telling you how Trump is evil and then Trump telling you the media is evil. Whether it’s Trump getting comfortable with this whole bombing thing, Spicer making the classic mistake of talking about Hitler or Obama gathering info to the crackle of
reheated Hawaiian pizza, every day seems more politically charged than the last. It’s kind of a good thing. People are getting informed. However, it often feels like people are getting very vocal about things to no avail. How do I put this? It feels kind of like a toddler fight club. OK, I hear you, but bear with me. First off, neither side is right in a toddler fight club and there are no winners. Neither side likes what the other is doing, but
Sure the teacher may come up once in a while to scold one of our toddler tough guys for hanging out with the creepy Russian kid.
there is just this ineffable, singular determination to show the other who’s boss despite neither really being able to change the situation. They square each other up on the playground, make sure the girls are watching even though girls are gross and wrestle like a slightly too heavy sack of potatoes leaned against a slightly less heavy sack of potatoes. They both walk away feeling like they sure showed the other one to the affirmation of their friend group, let’s call it a party, who tells them the other totally had it coming. The fun part? They’re gonna do it again tomorrow, and this time they’re really gonna learn. Sure, the teacher may come up once in a while to scold one of our toddler tough guys for hanging out with the creepy Russian kid,
but when the law goes lax it’s back to cats and dogs. Now at this point, you may be asking, “Who is this guy to comment on our president’s media relations?” Well, my last article reviewed fast food, so that’s not completely unjustified. To me, it just seems like an unproductive back and forth where everyone is angry and it’s becoming less and less clear why. Kind of like an episode of “The Real Housewives of Wherever the Hell” but less about that skank, Katrina, who rubbed against my man at the club and more to do with the hearts and minds of the American people. I just think it’s interesting we live in a day and age with this kind of back and forth between the press and the president.
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Trump in one of his more serene states. Alas poor Yorick.
April Showers Bring ... Homework Dead and Finals Weeks are fast approaching — are you ready? Cierra Steffensen Contributing Writer
Spring is here and student procrastination is in full swing. Living in Fargo has made us all prone to the cold, so as soon as temperatures hit the 50s it’s beer darts, roller blades and T-shirts for the win. We can’t help ourselves. The sun is a college student’s kryptonite.
Nothing beats feeling the rays soak into your skin and the weight of sunglasses resting on the bridge of your nose. So why is it professors decide now is the time to assign a five-page paper and two exams within a twoweek span. You know we aren’t focusing on school at this point. Hell, I would guess you aren’t all too focused on class lessons either. We can’t help it. The sunshiny weather is too
Because I can assure you, as the temperatures climb higher morale is at an all-time low. intoxicating. It seems as though the end of spring semester is a time to make up all of the points you could have given us throughout the semester but just didn’t work into the lesson plan. Spring break does not
help the issue at all. We all think the short break will leave us refreshed and ready to begin learning again but it does the exact opposite. We don’t want to restart classes only to have another break a couple weeks later. With finals right around
the corner, why is it you feel the need to pile on the extra work? Why do those three points require a three-page paper with an annotated bibliography? We already had midterms, what is this? Three-quarters term? Are you hoping we will fail so you can see our resentful face again next semester? Do you want a good review? All the extra work will not get you five stars on rate my professor. When
will we receive that review sheet that you are supposed to leave the room for? Trust me, it’s not going to be pretty. I understand that you are paid (by us) to teach us, but is the excessive spring homework necessary? Because I can assure you, as the temperatures climb higher morale is at an alltime low.
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The Bison bats were hot late in games against Fort Wayne.
Bison Bring Out Brooms Against Ft. Wayne Mastodons NDSU uses late-game dramatics to sweep Summit League opponent Cody Tusler Staff Writer
North Dakota State welcomed visiting Fort Wayne with a series sweep over the weekend. Friday night saw the Bison rally back in the bottom of the eighth. Trailing by one, NDSU scored three runs to take a 6-4 lead. With the Bison down 4-3 entering the inning, Ben Petersen and Logan Busch hit consecutive one-out singles to give the Bison runners on first and second. JT Core hit an RBI single to right and advancing to second on a throwing error, allowing Busch to advance to third.
Matt Elenspeter hit a sacrifice fly to center, allowing Busch to score giving NDSU a 5-4 lead. Jake Malec, pinch running for Core, then scored on a Mastodon wild pitch for the third run of the inning. Core led the Bison in hitting, going 3-for-4 with an RBI. Elsenpeter and Alec Abercrombie each drove in two runs. Left-handed reliever Chris Choles earned the win after allowing no earned runs on three hits with three strikeouts and two walks in three innings of relief. Right-handed closer Kevin Folman closed the game for his Summit League-high sixth save of the season. “When you are at home, you got to win games like
that,” Core said after the game. “Coach was talking about that in the huddle over there and we had to come out and do what we were supposed to do. And I think we came out and did it.” If the Bison were up for late heroics on Friday, Saturday was even later. The Bison would this time need 11 innings to knock of the Dons. With the score tied 1-1, entering the bottom of the 11th, Mason Pierzchalski led-off the inning with a double. Malec entered the game to pinch run for Pierzchalski, before a ground out, intentional walk and a fly out brought Elsenpeter to the plate.
Elsenpeter hit a 1-2 pitch into right field, allowing Malec to score from second to win the game for the Bison in a 2-1 walk-off. Pierzchalski, Elsenpeter and Petersen each recorded two hits to lead the Bison offensively. Folman earned the win on the mound after giving up zero runs on one hit with three strikeouts and one walk in three innings of relief. Right-handed starter Reed Pfannenstein pitched eight innings, allowing just one run on seven hits with two strikeouts and three walks. He also forced a season-best four double plays in the contest. The Bison finished the series sweep in a 12-2
victory in seven innings. NDSU bats were hot, with the Bison getting a season high 17 hits. Petersen led NDSU at the plate, matching his seasonhigh with three hits to go with a double, home run, three runs scored and two RBIs. Core added three hits and recorded two doubles. Drew Fearing added two more hits, two runs scored, two RBIs and two walks. Right-hander Jordan Harms earned the victory allowing two runs on six hits with three strikeouts and four walks in 5 1/3 innings pitched. The Bison scored five runs in the seventh to end the game. Danny Palmiscno crossed home
plate on a wild pitch to open the scoring in the inning. Pierzchalski hit an infield single to score Abercrombie. Busch hit a two-run single to right field, scoring Pierzchalski and Fearing. Pinch-hitter Tucker Rohde tallied the final run of the game for NDSU after he plated Petersen on a single to right field. After the game on Sunday, head coach Tom Brown had this to say. “Right now we are back to ground zero,” Brown said. “We got swept by ORU, we sweep at home and now we’ve won some series in a row. That’s how good teams move up in the standings.”
Busy West Coast Weekend for Track Goes Swimmingly Four meets in four days in LA, teams now host home event Taylor Schloemer Sports Editor
The long weekend for the North Dakota State track & field teams was spent under the sun in the Los Angeles area. The Bison sent competitors to four different meets in one of the busiest weekends of the year. The marquee event for the Bison on the weekend was the Beach Invitational hosted by Long Beach State. The javelin went as expected for the Bison. Matti Mortimore took his fourth win in four events with a throw of 252-0, beating the runner-up by over 25 feet. Mortimore slipped to No. 2 in the nation this week to Ioannis Kyriazis of Texas A&M. It was a good weekend for junior Landon Jochim. Jochim took a second-place finish in the 400m with a quick sprint of 47.84. He was then back on the track
anchoring the 4x400 relay. His unofficial split of 46.6 closed out the victory for the Bison. Alex Renner was just as productive. The senior thrower won the shot put at Long Beach with a toss of 62-05.00 on Saturday. He then took the 30-minute drive to the Mt. SAC Relays to throw the same distance. The second toss was good enough for second place, behind only national No. 1 Mostafa Hassan from Colorado State. That came two days after taking second in the hammer throw at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate. The throw of 201-0 was beaten by teammate Steffan Stroh. The junior won the event with a throw of 203-2. Meanwhile, Brant Gilbertson may have put himself in a position for the NCAA Regional Preliminary Rounds. The junior clocked a time of 8:58.16 in the 3000m steeplechase. The time put him fourth all-time for
NDSU and two seconds inside the nine-minute mark that has been the cutoff in prior years. For the women, the weekend saw a pair of records broken. Thursday’s Pacific Coast Intercollegiate was the location of the first record. Katelyn Weimerskirch extended her own hammer throw record. Her toss of 203-10 took home first place in the event. The senior added another title in the discus with a 171-3 mark. Meanwhile, at the same event, Lauren Gietzen put herself in a position to qualify for the NCAA Regional Prelims. The junior pole-vaulter cleared 13-03.75, putting her in a tie for second place in Bison history. Fast forward to Friday at the Beach Invitational, and the mark was pushed further again. Weimerskirch added another 10 inches to the record, winning the event and moving to No. 17
in the nation. Alyssa Olin joined Weimerskirch in pushing records out. The junior threw five feet further than her earlier mark and set the school record with a 174-5 mark. The sophomore finished second, nine feet behind winner and national No. 1 Rebekah Wales of LSU. At the Mt. SAC Relays, Taylor Janssen moved into the national top-10 in the steeplechase. The senior won her section with a time of 10:10.14 to move to No. 9 in the nation and No. 3 in NDSU history. Janssen was named Summit League Women’s Track and Field Athlete of the Week for the performance. Morgan Milbrath was the top collegiate finisher in the 400m at the Beach Invitational. Her time of 53.22 moves the senior into the top-25 in the nation. Fellow Bison Alexis Woods set her own
personal best in the event, moving to No. 7 in NDSU history with a time of 54.29. The duo then paired up with Amy Andrushko and Rose Jackson to win the 4x400m relay. The winning time of 3:36.35 pushed the group to
No. 6 all-time for NDSU. The Bison will return to Fargo this weekend for the Lyle Hokanson Classic. The meet will take place Friday and Saturday at the Schlanser Track Complex.
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Sliding Bison Drop Two of Three to USD Coyotes
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Jacquelyn Sertic had strong performances from the mound, but it was not enough for the Herd to overcome USD. the first inning put the Bison doubleheader. limiting the Herd to only ahead. Jacqueline Sertic went three hits and striking Thomas Evanella The Bison batted around toe-to-toe with Coyotes’ out three batters with an Staff Writer the order in the second pitcher Rachel Cue in efficient 95 pitches. North Dakota State’s inning and Stavrou’s two Friday’s second game. The Before hosting USD, softball team dropped four singles scored three runs. Bison were unable to find the Bison made a Tuesday of their last seven games, Her double in the sixth a way to score off of Cue. trip to Grand Forks to take including two of three to inning drove in leftfielder USD scored the game’s on in state rivals North Summit League combatants Stephanie Soriano to cap off only run in the fourth Dakota. Behind Sertic’s 15 South Dakota this past a 2-3 day at the dish. inning on shortstop Shelby strikeouts, the Herd clipped week. Vanessa Anderson also Keil’s run-scoring double. the Fighting Hawks, 3-1. NDSU opened with a chipped in two RBIs. The double spoiled what NDSU scored two early 8-0 throttling of South Her bases loaded walk in was otherwise another runs in the second inning Dakota in the first half of a the fifth inning led to the sensational performance to boost their cause. Julia doubleheader on Friday. mercy rule being instituted, from Sertic, but the Bison’s Luciano drove in a run on The dominant pitching concluding the first of hapless offense was not able an RBI single and Dani continued for the Bison, as Friday’s two games. to score any runs to support Renner reached on an error KK Leddy surrendered just The run scoring dried her. later in the inning to plate three hits in the shutout. up for the Bison in the The Bison managed only Luciano. A scoring onslaught remaining two games of four hits in the defeat. The two runs were buoyed Leddy’s gem, the three-game set with South Dakota stifled enough for Sertic, who spearheaded by second the Coyotes, however. the Bison once again on dazzled once again. Sertic baseman Zoe Stavrou’s four USD blanked the Herd 1-0 Saturday, downing NDSU hurled a complete game, RBIs. Her sacrifice fly in in the second half of the 7-0. Cue one-upped herself, and along with her 15
strikeouts, allowed only three hits and no walks. Renner laced a run scoring single in the sixth inning to tack on a crucial insurance run. Her two hits and two RBI led the Bison. At the midway point in the conference schedule, NDSU faces an uphill climb if they are to clinch their sixth consecutive regular season championship. The two losses to South Dakota marked the second time this season NDSU has lost a series in Summit League play, something the Herd have not done since 2010. To put it into perspective, four schools, which are no longer in the conference, were Summit League members in 2010,
Oakland, Centenary, Southern Utah and Missouri-Kansas City. Especially concerning is that the two series losses have both taken place at home. The Bison have lost four home games this season, something they have not done since 2012. Still, with Sertic’s elite pitching, NDSU will still be frontrunners for the Summit League title, so long as their hitting can provide her and Leddy with enough run support. After the USD series, the Bison sit at 5-4 in conference play, third in the standings. The field is chasing No. 1 Western Illinois, whom they’ll face this upcoming weekend.
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