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MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2019

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INSIDE

Rademacher and Vollmer have won the race

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SPORTS

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A&E

Phoebe Ellis

Head News Editor

On April 4, 2019, the results of the student body election were in, declaring North Dakota State’s newest student body president and vice president, Mason Rademacher and Joseph Vollmer.

Immediately after hearing the results, Rademacher and Vollmer gave each other a celebratory hug and took to the mic to thank everyone who had helped them achieve their new positions.

Rademacher and Vollmer expressed a feeling of excitement for what’s already happened and how far they’ve come, as well as a “surreal” feeling of understanding that it’s time to get to work.

Both of them said they hope for a strong transition from the current administration to their own. “I don’t know what I don’t know,” Rademacher said. “I’m hoping to absorb information like a sponge,” speaking on learning from the current student body president and vice president, Chase Grindberg and Marisa Pacella.

One challenge the incoming administration is facing is a lack of student senators, with only 10 of the 33 senator positions currently filled going into next year.

“We don’t know what it is,” Rademacher said in regard to filling senate seats. “We may need to start looking at new opportunities and structural changes.”

Vollmer said he is excited to approach the challenge of logistics and behind the scenes work and to “get the ball rolling.”

As the first issues to be addressed upon coming back from the summer, Rademacher said he is looking forward to revising the finance code to ensure it’s “fair and equitable for tier two organizations.”

Vollmer is ready to begin their career prep portion of their platform and “bring more business leaders to campus.”

Both Rademacher and Vollmer extend “a big thank you to all who voted.”

Rademacher said he wanted to remind students that the student government office is always open and that it belongs to all students. Student government is “happy to talk to any student, and there are no issues too small.”

Vollmer encouraged any student with any interest in joining student government to at least attend a meeting and consider applying to student senate or one of the various commissions.

Rademacher and Vollmer look forward to working with students.

Interview: Styx’s James ‘J.Y.’ Young keeps eyes trained on Three teams in each category took home a cash prize Meghan Arbegast the stars

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Announcing the Winners: Innovation Challenge Contributing Writer

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The 10th annual Innovation Challenge brought out students from many academic disciplines.

Since January, students have been preparing and presenting their ideas as they competed for cash prizes.

The final presentations were given March 28, and the awards ceremony for the winners took place April 2.

The first-place winners of the social impact track were Myles Duval, Ryder Belgarde, Peyton Beehler and Samuel Beatty.

The members’ main focus was to reduce carbon emissions by incorporating wind energy into urban environments. They crafted a wind turbine that has a new design, allowing for the turbines to be placed within urban areas.

“We designed it to be omnidirectional and versatile, capable of being mounted on the sides and tops of buildings, allowing it to be integrated into urban environments,” Beatty said. “We wanted to find a way to reduce areas like Fargo’s reliance on fossil fuels, and after finding that solar panels aren’t viable in areas like this, we started looking for alternatives. We noticed that several areas around campus receive large amounts of wind and thought that small localized wind turbines could be the answer.”

Accepting the flaws in their

design and fixing them was one of the challenges the four students faced along the way.

“I will probably compete in the Innovation Challenge again, although I don’t have any specific projects in mind at the moment,” Beatty said.

“I also may enter again. Either with an upgraded turbine or another innovative idea,” Duval said.

The team said they b e l i e v e that the Innovation Challenge will help t h e m succeed in the future in their engineering VIDEOPLAST.COM career paths. “The Innovation Challenge was good practice for working in groups to find a solution to a problem, something incredibly common in engineering,” Beatty said.

The first-place winner of the graduate research track was Logeeshan Velmanickam, who worked on a technique that can be used to detect cancer early using DNA as a biomarker.

Velmanickam made sure to mention Dharmakeerthi Nawarathna, an assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering. Nawarathna helped

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him with his research. Together they faced the challenge of proving that their method of research was the best technique compared to other methods of cancer detection.

Though Velmanickam said he has been researching this procedure for a couple years now, he really started to brainstorm the method in January for the Innovation Challenge. His work is still not over, however, as Velmanickam a n d Nawarathna are working on creating a device that can d e t e c t c a n c e r through blood tests.

GRAPHIC COURTESY When asked what advice he would give to students who aren’t sure if their ideas would make an impact, Velmanickam said, “No idea is a bad idea. Just go for it, and as you work, you’ll gain more experience.”

Velmanickam said he believes winning the Innovation Challenge will help him get a job because employers are always looking for someone who can apply innovation into their work. He said he hopes to one day start his own company.

In the entrepreneurship track, the first-place winners were Kristian Rue and Matthew Solem.

They were unable to be reached for an interview, but the pair created new software that can send a receipt directly to a customer’s phone, thus getting rid of the need for printed receipts.

The Innovation Challenge is hosted by the NDSU Research and Technology Park, which gives students the opportunity to work in teams and come up with ideas that can either turn into businesses or lead to future research.

Within the competition, students can choose to compete in one track throughout the semester. The social impact track is for projects that stand to make improvements in community, region or even world issues. The graduate research track is specified for graduate students that want to compete with an innovation that is related to their research or thesis they are working on. All the other products or services students work on that aren’t related to research fall under the entrepreneurship track.

All first through third-place winners of each track received a cash prize for their projects in the final round. First place received $3,000, second place received $2,000 and third place received $1,000.

With the end of this year’s Innovation Challenge, students can start to think ahead to next year about what they’ll bring to the table.

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Student Health Service explains fees Though students notice fee changes, they aren’t really paying more

The procedure room is one of the good qualities the Student Health Service offers.

Head News Editor

While students have begun to notice the changes in how they pay for services provided through the North Dakota State Student Health Service, not much has changed, and yet it seems like everything has.

The biggest change made at Student Health Service is they now file insurance claims for students, a process that students originally had to do themselves.

This change came after the Student Health Service received a high volume of requests by students and parents of students expressing frustration with having to file a claim independent of the health services, according to Patricia Dirk, director of Student Health Service.

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Bike share

The Great Rides Bike Share launched over the weekend, once again giving free access to bicycles for NDSU students.

The staff of Great Rides, along with parent company Great Northern Bicycle Co., have set up “the more than 100 bikes at 11 stations in downtown Fargo and the North Dakota State University campus,” the Forum reported.

NDSU students that enroll in the program are allowed unlimited 30-minute rides, thanks to an allocation of student fees.

Since starting in 2015, Great Rides said they have tracked over 400,000 rides.

According to the Forum, “They have also been honored nationally with “Most Rides Per Bike Per

The Student Health Service anyway we can reduce cost,” Dirk for their procedures. sees about 50-100 people daily, and said.

For everything that students as of this semester, those people The $50 student fee that every receive, the prices at the Student will pay for their visit Health Service remain depending on what competitive: it’s the services they receive. second lowest of Students can still public institutions in walk into the clinic the region, and the anytime, but every only one with lower procedure that’s done rates is St. Cloud State. now comes with a Students can expect price tag that used to certified medical go to the student’s equipment, certified - PATRICIA DIRK, DIRECTOR OF THE staff and a quality account, but now the claim is filed for STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE stop for services to be the student to their provided. insurance company.

These spaces Some of the most include a biological expensive procedures lab, a lab to find test include X-rays and some lab tests, student pays along with their results, mental health services, a and a contributor to this is the tuition goes largely to overhead procedure room and a therapeutic constantly rising cost of health fees like upkeep of the clinic and bath area among other things. care, according to Dirk. employee salaries, which leaves With all this going for the “We’re constantly looking at students and their insurance to pay Student Health Service, “It seems

every 3-5 years there will be a student fee increase, though we would decrease the fees if we could,” Dirk said.

Another thing the Student Health Service gets their claim to fame for is their patient centric focus, as opposed to a productivity model.

This means that if students come in for one problem, but along the way doctors discover a different problem, they don’t send them home — they deal with it then and there.

For students who have questions about the billing process, they can find information about billing, insurance and the student emergency fund on the Student Health Service website.

“This is a campus of caring, reaching out,” Dirk said.

Day” four years in a row. Last season, they averaged 3.3 rides per bike per day.”

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“We’re constantly looking at anyway we can reduce cost.”

NDSU faculty members honored

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Two NDSU professors have won an award for their work in distance education.

Mari Borr, associate professor of teacher education, and Gary Goreham, professor of sociology, were recognized with the 2019 Faculty Excellence Awards by the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance.

“Borr was instrumental in gaining a grant to provide distance students with cameras to video their student teaching sessions, allowing for more engagement and feedback from their instructors,” as reported by NDSU News.

According to NDSU News,

“Goreham helped form the online program in the early 2000s, a n d then

and mentor to faculty.”

The awards included a $2,000 cash award.

Roof repair

After a winter of heavy snow, a Catholic church in Moorhead has started to rebuild.

The roof over the kitchen and social hall of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church collapsed Sunday, March 10 due to an accumulation of snow.

The repairs started April 1, and “parishioners may be able to return to the church for worship as early as June, but the parish center likely won’t be ready until late fall,” parish administrator Swede Stelzer said in an email to The Forum.

In A Nutshell continued as a teacher and adviser to students

A new study published in “Scientific Advances” has produced some interesting findings regarding whether cats can recognize their own names.

The researchers from Tokyo, Japan did not determine that cats understand the human concept of a name, but showed “that at least some cats can distinguish their names from other words,” according to Gizmodo.com.

Atsuko Saito led the study, and her and her team observed 78 cats in Japanese households and at a cat cafe, which is a themed coffee shop with multiple cats living in shared space.

“Saito and her colleagues set up four different experiments in which either the owner or a researcher uttered a string of four different words in the presence of a cat, followed by the cat’s own name,” according to Gizmodo.com.

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A night of sex

Annual Sex Expo graces the Memorial Union Ryan Nix

Co-News Editor

Upon entering the Great Plains Ballroom, visitors received condoms, lubricant and education from the booths at the annual Sex Positivity Expo. The event was hosted April 4 by North Dakota State’s own Women’s Activist Organization.

“Here we’re creating a safe place for people to discuss some information about sex, gender, anything they might not know about,” WAO president Alexis Lohman said. “It’s doing nobody any favors to have sex be such a taboo topic in our society.”

“The idea is to open up a dialogue about sex, sexuality, gender, mental health because all of those, in some ways, are inter-related,” Lohman said. The event’s purpose is not to push people to have sex; according to Lohman, it’s about opening up a dialogue about the subject.

Lohman said there is a split amongst attendees when it comes to comfort level when it comes to this kind of communication. “I’ll say, ‘Free condom?’ and half the people will come over interested and the other half get really offended and walk away,” Lohman said.

This divide is due to the fact that the event takes place in a liberal part of a conservative state, according to Lohman.

“My hope is that the people who are offended will come over and talk to me about why they’re offended so that we can come to a consensus and understanding,” Lohman said.

Planned Parenthood is no stranger to this divide. Multiple bills have been introduced to restrict abortion, including one that would make a common second term abortion illegal.

The bill passed the U.S. Senate March 29.

James Darville, a Planned Parenthood grassroots organizer and NDSU alumnus, said he has seen movement on both sides of the issue in Fargo. “We are seeing a lot of people backing us more,” Darville said. The bills have brought with them more opposition, according to Darville.

Darville said he has also seen a lot of people in support of the bills. “Their voice is a little stronger than our voice,” Darville said.

Despite this divide, Darville said he finds a lot of support at this event. “There’s a huge community here, especially a huge feminist community at NDSU,” Darville said.

“We get a lot of foot traffic at these events and even when we just table on campus in general,” Darville said. Planned Parenthood tables at NDSU about once a month.

Darville said the booths do get backlash, but it’s usually tame. “It’s usually just mean stares, which I can handle,” he said.

When it comes to sexual education, Darville stressed its importance. “I think sex education, in general, is super important,” Darville said, “especially comprehensive sexual education in high school.”

This type of education would make sure students learned their rights, how consent works and how the human body operates, according to Darville.

The Expo was not just about safe sex, however. There were also student and community activist groups represented, as well as adult stores like Romantix.

Dena Halverson, assistant manager of Romantix, explained that the booth had testable products, including lubricants, and prizes that attendees could win by answering a trivia question.

The booth got a good reception, according to Halverson.

“Christopher (the manager of Romantix) and I are very eccentric people, so we tend to pull in crowds, and we tend to get good responses,” Halverson said.

The booth did not have anything for sale, but did have information about sex and the store. “We are here to not only educate people on sex and the type of things there are for sex, but also just to educate people on our store,” Halverson said.

“We’ve had a few people who are a little bit nervous.

Obviously, sex makes some people nervous,” Halverson said. Some people blushed and were hesitant about entering the drawing, according to Halverson.

“Even getting information out is a great way to start. You know, this expo is supposed to be sex-positive,” Halverson said. “People need to understand that sex is positive. Whether you’re doing it heterosexual, homosexual, it doesn’t matter.”

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David Archuleta brings passion, smiles to Fargo Between his powerful voice and hilarious pronunciations of ‘bison,’ Archuleta thrills audience

David Archuleta’s voice echoed as he belted out ballads.

Miranda Stambler Spectrum Staff

If you grew up watching “American Idol,” then you most likely know of runnerup David Archuleta from season 7. He was the teen heartthrob of the season known for his charismatic smile. Now, he is finding his passion in music once again with his latest album “Postcards in The Sky.” On April 4, Archuleta visited North Dakota for the first time as part of his 2019 North American Tour at the Sanctuary Events Center in downtown Fargo.

Every North Dakotan

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in attendance laughed as Archuleta did not understand what a bison was and kept trying to understand how to say it correctly.

This was one of the more adorable concerts I’ve ever been to. Between his smile, dancing and the swinging of his feet when he sat on the wooden stool, there was a sweetness to his performances.

Because many people in the crowd knew him from his start on “American Idol,” he explained how crazy it was to go from the show to releasing music.

After placing second in America’s singing competition, he took a

couple years off to become a missionary. Many screamed in praise for his mission completion, and later the crowd would bow their heads as he sang “You Say”

by Lauren Daigle.

For years people were wondering where he went in the music industry, and when he came back after his mission he thought about quitting music because of how intense and controlling it felt.

He used to be shy and barely spoke, but now he found “how powerful it can be — to speak,” Archuleta said. The song that inspired the album, “Postcards in The Sky” speaks out to those

Use falconry to take out robots in ‘Falcon Age’

Who would have thought falcons would be humanity’s greatest asset?

Nathan Wetrosky Contributing Writer

Falconry is a form of sport hunting where the hunter uses a trained hawk to take down prey. Normally this prey consists of other birds, small mammals and other equally sized animals. But what about an army of invading robots?

Created by Outerloop Games and coming out April 9 for PlayStation 4, “Falcon Age” is a first-person actionadventure game where the player takes on the role of a falcon hunter named Ara. As Ara, you must hunt to survive and fight an army of robots that have decimated your world, and along the way, regain her people’s lost culture.

The adventure starts off with Ara in jail, awaiting her fate.

There, she befriends a young falcon, and they eventually escape together.

Afterward, they join a resistance movement against the robotic overlords to take back their home.

Out in the big world, there are quite a few things that Ara and her new pet falcon can do to make something of themselves.

Bond with your bird companion

In “Falcon Age,” you have the options to name, pet, feed, teach and dress up your falcon in a variety of ways.

Hunt

Numerous animals populate and roam the land. These can be hunted for crucial materials and food.

Craft falcon snacks

Just like Ara, the falcon needs to eat too. Feed your falcon to buff, heal and strengthen it for the trials ahead.

Accessorizing your falcon friend

There are many options to customize your falcon to look fantastic. There are also other options to increase your fantastic falcon’s effectiveness in combat.

Fight robots

Use a stun baton alongside your falcon to destroy enemy robots.

Dedicated pet button

This feature is simply here to provide some amusing emotes to increase your falcon’s self-esteem.

“Falcon Age” comes out April 9 for PlayStation 4. If you want to take back land from a hostile invader while using a predatory bird to complete that mission, then “Falcon Age” is for you.

who feel that their words don’t matter.

The best part of the show was hearing the gasps among the crowd as Archuleta ended the show without singing his most well-known and hit song from his first album, “Crush.”

After singing a mashup of his song “Seasons” and the song “Happier”

by Marshmello featuring Bastille, he thanked the crowd and skipped off stage.

Every person in the audience became mad and chanted “Crush” until he ran back on stage to fulfill the fans’ request. The bass thumped as he danced back and forth, touching each fan’s hand

and singing along with the crowd.

Once Archuleta opened the stage with his song “Falling Stars,” there were passionate screams from the fangirls in the crowd.

He then transitioned into his older album with “A Little Too Not Over You.” The whole night was Archuleta introducing his new singles and albums while also including his roots to not disappoint his long-time fans.

When Archuleta sang ballads, he showed off the pureness of his voice that he has always been known for. It was so pure that it seemed as though he was

lip-syncing.

When he broke out the stool to sit down and slow the music, everyone became excited to feel the goosebumps spread as he sang, filling the crowd with smiles. Once he started singing “Shallow” from the movie “A Star Is Born,” every person in the crowd started singing along.

“I’m ready, I’m ready for a change. I’m not afraid to lose and leave it all behind,” Archuleta sang. His lyrics for “I’m ready” relate to any person dealing with a change, especially for those in college with the many changes, so his voice spoke to those in the audience.

Gaming News: New ‘Borderlands’ and maybe ‘Zelda’

The week in gaming Max Borman Staff Writer

Every week something happens in the gaming industry. Sometimes way too much happens for people to keep track of.

The most important bits of news from the industry are nicely put in this rundown.

New ‘Zelda’?

Monolith Soft, the studio that helped make “The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild,” is hiring for a new Zelda project. The more Legend of Zelda, the better. They are looking for technical artists, programmers and a project manager to help work on this new project.

So, get those resumes ready and move to Japan to be part of the next big game in the beloved franchise.

Goodbye, Notch

A new update to everyone’s favorite block building game “Minecraft” removes any mention of the original creator, Markus Perrson, who often goes by Notch. This is mostly due to his very controversial Twitter presence.

He is still credited as the creator in the credits, but all mention of him on the splash screen has been removed.

‘Borderlands 3’

One of the best — and the original — looter shooter series is finally getting a new installment. “Borderlands 3” is technically the fourth iteration in the series, unless you count “Tales from the Borderlands,” and was announced at the gaming culture convention PAX East.

The game boasts over 1 billion different guns, which is very much in line with the ethos of the franchise, and many unique enemies.

The developers also showed off the return of most of the vault hunters from every other installment.

A gameplay trailer was also released, and it shows a large variety of environments and four new vault hunters.

There are four editions available for preorder, including the $250 “Diamond Loot collector’s edition.”

While it has not been confirmed by the makers of the game, Gearbox, according to Microsoft, the game will support cross platform co-op. This means players can interact with those on different systems.

The game will also be an Epic Games Store exclusive for the PC until April 2020

and officially launches Sept.

13 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

New ‘Call of Duty’ map

“Call of Duty Black Ops 4” is getting a new Blackout map, which is their version of a battle royale mode. The new map designed after the island of Alcatraz.

Tight corridors will cut you off from society, and zombies roam the prison.

Good luck.

‘Cyberpunk 2077’

CD Projekt Red, the creators of the wildly popular “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,” has some new details about another highly anticipated futuristic game of theirs.

Apparently, “Cyberpunk 2077” will adapt to the player. The story will adapt to every choice the player makes, and the only time you will see a failure screen is if you die.

More news will be coming to E3 2019, as CD Projekt Red has said this will be the most important E3 for them the company.

That about covers all the important news that came out last week. Every week is different, however, and some more interesting than the last, so be on the lookout for next week’s rundown.

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Review: Matthew Gray Gubler’s ‘Rumple Buttercup’

What we all can learn from a little green monster who hides under a banana peel Laura Ellen Brandjord A&E Editor

Matthew Gray Gubler is best known for his 15-year role as BAU genius Dr. Spencer Reid on the CBS series “Criminal Minds.”

He has a much longer list of artistic accomplishments, however, recently adding children’s book author and illustrator to the list.

Gubler’s Randomhouse debut “Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging and Being Yourself” stars a self-conscious green monster of the same name. You’ll be surprised how much you identify with him.

As described on the back of the book, “Rumple Buttercup has five crooked teeth, three strands of hair, green skin and his left foot is slightly bigger than his right. He is weird.”

The lonely little monster lives in a sewer drain next to a garbage can, the contents of which he uses to furnish his home.

He is so desperate to have friends that he even creates one out of an amalgamation of discarded candy and names him Candy Corn Carl. He also is known to close his eyes and pretend he is part of the conversations happening above.

Even adults can sympathize with the feeling of being too weird or hesitating to start conversations with new people for fear of judgement.

There is one day a year that Rumple is comfortable venturing above ground during the day, and it is his favorite day of the year: the annual pajama jam cotton candy pancake parade. All that was required was the perfect disguise, a banana peel on his head.

Unfortunately, this year there is no banana peel to be found. Just when the situation looks the most helpless, the townspeople step in to show Rumple that he really isn’t that different after all, and he is definitely not scary.

Even though Gubler created this book with children in mind, it has just as much to remind us “grown-ups” and is a heartwarming read.

The actor’s Randomhouse debut is a charming, quirky tale for all ages.

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Khalid releases sophomore album ‘Free Spirit’ This funky album is far from a flop

Khalid is the greatest thing to happen to this world.

Brittany Hofmann Staff Writer

On the seventh day, God created Khalid and blessed him with the voice of an angel.

Khalid’s sophomore album, “Free Spirit,” is a combination of ‘80s one-hit wonders and true R&B, and this is the general theme throughout the whole album with a few outliers.

Before the album was released, Khalid teased a couple singles, which did a wonderful

job at letting us dip our toes into the “Free Spirit” water.

The first thing I noticed about “Free Spirit” when I sat down to listen to it was that it had 17 songs, which was pleasantly surprising.

As soon as I heard the first song on the album, “Intro,” I went searching for tickets.

“Free Spirit” is an album to dance to and I wish to experience an entire stadium moving and grooving to the same tunes of the angelic vocals and

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funky beats.

‘Don’t Pretend’

Of the entire record, it’s nearly impossible to pick a favorite, but “Don’t Pretend” is at the top of my list.

“Don’t Pretend” is a collaboration with fellow R&B artist SAFE. The beat is undeniably delicious and impossible to keep still to.

‘Paradise’

“Paradise” brings the funk and shows the true angelic spirit of Khalid’s voice.

Khalid croons away as he sings about being better but falling prey to unhealthy habits.

“I don’t stop the more we pray / All your wrongs from yesterday / Smokin’ Himalayan Haze / Won’t wash all your sins away.”

‘Hundred’

“Hundred” gave way to the hint at ‘80s hits with its psychedelic guitar reminiscent of Guns N’ Roses’ “Paradise City” or “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”

The song is darker

than the rest of the upbeat album, and Khalid calls out his deadbeat friends who don’t care about him when he needs them most.

The song takes a turn after the bridge and ends in the most beautiful way with monotonous vocals and a heavy beat.

‘Self’

As soon as “Self” started, I thought to myself, “Hell yeah.”

The intro is similar to that of Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” but if

“Sicko Mode” had a more laidback, younger sibling.

‘Heaven’

Wow. This song left me speechless.

There are three ways to listen to a record start to finish to get the full experience: 1. In the dark with noise-cancelling headphones, where it’s just you and the music.

2. Live, in the flesh.

3. Through good, old-fashioned vinyl.

The rise of vinyl records allows us to hear the music in its raw

format.

For “Free Spirit,” I chose the first option, and when I was listening to “Heaven,” I had an out-of-body experience.

The music only slightly overshadows the vocals, but not in a bad way.

The song shows the versatility of Khalid’s artistry and vocal range.

From beginning to end, “Free Spirit” is an experience and will be bringing in several accolades once award season comes around again.

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Adorable pups compete for treats

Annual NDSU Pre-Vet Dog Show had a crowd of people and dogs Miranda Stambler Features Editor

Tail wagging, barking and happy smiles filled Sheppard Arena April 6. The NDSU Pre-Veterinary Medicine Club hosted their annual dog show, with the theme of “Tropical Pawridise.”

Any dog was welcome to join, and there was quite the variety: from a large Golden Retriever tail wagging its way in a vacation luau outfit to a small Cavalier King Charles Spaniel wearing an inner tube floaty around its waist.

There were multiple competition types to accompany all trained skills: obedience,

tricks, agility, jumps and costumes. Those who participated in any of the rounds were able to win treats, ribbons, trophies, toys and much more.

People who competed with their canine pets ranged in age from children to the elderly, so everyone was able to participate and enjoy spending time with their pets.

While some were more trained than others, sometimes a dog would run off and not care about what they were being told to do while others were patiently waiting for commands by their companion.

The day was filled with laughs and applause for each pet pal. Each dog loved making friends with other humans and dogs.

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Learn how to give your food some flavor Ruby Redekopp Contributing Writer

Learning how to use spices and herbs is one of the most groundbreaking discoveries an aspiring chef can make. If you’re a college student looking to improve your cooking repertoire, you can benefit from understanding how to find, select and use a variety of spices and herbs.

First, you need to know where and how to look for spices and herbs. Some smaller grocery stores do not sell many options in this category. ALDI, for example, sells only a limited array in its dry goods section.

Additionally, some less common spices and herbs may only be available at higher-end grocery stores. For the widest selection,

you may want to explore one of the many international grocery stores in Fargo.

If you are starting with an empty cabinet, acquiring a supply of spices and herbs can be expensive.

To reduce the cost burden, you can gradually build up your pantry with the most common spices and herbs over a period of several months or even years.

Purchase one or two spices or herbs each month and integrate them into your cooking. This practice also gives you a focused opportunity to learn how to use each one.

You can also save money by buying generic equivalents rather than name brands, such as McCormick. Walmart usually offers a good mix of low-cost and premium brand items if you want to see your options.

If you happen to travel near an Amish store, you can often find high-quality spices in bulk quantities at very reasonable prices.

Once you’ve identified a strategy for finding spices and herbs, you need to decide which ones to purchase. The ingredient lists of most recipes call for only a core group of common spices and herbs, so you don’t need to go crazy and purchase several dozen.

So, which spices and herbs should you buy first? Real Simple magazine’s “Basic Spice Checklist” instructs young cooks to look for “bay leaves, black peppercorns, cayenne pepper, chili powder, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, cream of tartar, ground cumin, curry powder, ground ginger, kosher salt, whole nutmeg, dried oregano, paprika, crushed red pepper, dried rosemary, sesame

seeds, dried thyme and vanilla extract.”

Each person’s food preferences are different, though, so let your favorite recipes guide you.

The final step in understanding the wide world of spices and herbs is learning how to use them on your own. While you can almost always find a recipe that tells you exactly which spice to use and how much, it can be fun to experiment with different options and amounts to create something unique and personal.

Still, if you are not familiar with the precise taste of each spice and herb in your cabinet, it can be daunting to determine which spices blend together best.

If that’s you, Bethany Moncel of The Spruce Eats laid out a few suggestions for common combinations.

Herbs de Provence Lavender, fennel, basil and thyme.

Italian seasoning Basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme, garlic and red pepper.

The Paleo food blog Real Simple Good also offers some tips for mixing and matching.

Poultry seasoning Thyme, rosemary, sage, marjoram, ground pepper, celery seed and nutmeg.

Ranch seasoning Parsley, chives, dill weed, garlic powder, onion flakes, onion powder, sea salt and ground pepper.

Taco seasoning Chili powder, garlic powder, paprika, cumin, onion powder, sea salt, ground pepper, cayenne and oregano.

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DUNBAR HALL, ‘IT STINKS’ How a dull and dangerous building hinders our Midwestern research university and its students Leif Jonasson Spectrum Staff

Dunbar Hall is an unsafe eyesore. The university doesn’t want to showcase it, the state hasn’t been able to pay for it for the last two decades, no private investors want to invest because of the lack of chemistry companies in the area and no one in their right minds would want to work or study in it.

Simply put, Dunbar Hall is a burden to the chemistry department here at North Dakota State for both students and staff. Furthermore, it is a hindrance to the potential of the state economy. Dunbar is gross, it smells, the bathrooms are outdated and it has been cited as a potential fire hazard for years.

And this isn’t a uniquely NDSU problem; there are buildings like Dunbar Hall all across this country.

The problem that NDSU and many universities face is ugly, cheap buildings that are doomed for a wrecking ball rather than reverence because of the time period they were built in. That is a big problem for the future of higher education, which needs to find a way to replace these buildings to remain competitive, especially Midwestern research universities that don’t have billion-dollar endowments.

The question we should be asking now is what value do we put on the brick and mortar campus experience?

How does that impact local economies and what is the future for NDSU and universities like it?

Ellingson put it this way when talking about the bathrooms, “I can’t just fix the plumbing.”

Updating a bathroom’s plumbing requires bringing the rest of the bathroom up to code, which is set globally and sometimes nationally.

Ensuring the plumbing works would require Ellingson to add fixtures, add a fire suppressant system and add bathrooms on every floor that code calls for. This would drastically increase the bill, and for a building that may be seeing a wrecking ball soon, be a poor investment.

“We don’t have the capital … You’re at the mercy of the state,” Ellingson said. His words are right. Right now, the state is deciding whether t h e y want t o

far as funding. Why do we have this issue though? Why is Dunbar falling apart where buildings like Old Main and South Engineering are still standing the same as ever?

We will never have another Old Main

Old Main, the building that currently holds the president’s office, is a year younger than the state of North Dakota; construction on the building started in 1891.

50% of a budget for a new building.

During Dunbar’s construction there was also something else happening, a boom in university population.

“The majority of our buildings are in the 50-75 (years) old range … the number of projects outstripped the resources, so you found people building the most utilitarian, minimalist building,” Bresciani said, which is why Dunbar Hall will be torn down instead of being maintained.

This means the lifespan of buildings is shorter for newer buildings, but what about our newest buildings?

“There has to be the mindset from students as well as

Deferred maintenance

I sat down with Michael Ellingson, the director of Facilities Maintenance here at NDSU. For casual observers, it is easy to walk into a building and complain, but Ellingson has to balance those complaints with a lot of politics and, more importantly, the budget he is allocated from the state.

Talking with him it became apparent that Dunbar isn’t an easy fix.

Dunbar is a problem that is decades old.

“There are a lot of things in Dunbar that are at their finite life,” Ellingson said. He told me that a building, especially Dunbar which is tasked with chemical storage and ventilation of chemicals, is particularly hard on the HVAC systems. In short, the system needs replacing.

“For 20 years we’ve had metallic dust particles blowing out of the ventilation, covering our labs,” said Gregory Cook, professor and chair of the chemistry department. He told me about how he has to deal with this ventilation system by sweeping up that dust multiple times a week.

Walking through Dunbar Hall with Cook, it became apparent that Dunbar Hall is a major problem. In 2014, a Forum letter to the editor titled, “Funding for Dunbar Hall a no-brainer,” argued that “a case can be made that conditions in Dunbar pose health and fire dangers.”

In 2017, almost exactly three years after that letter, the chemistry department lost an entire lab to fire.

Cook told me they lost an eighth of their space for research in Dunbar for their department, and today, that lab remains vacant and unused.

Dunbar in particular has had issues due to the changing of chemistry over time. To put it simply, Dunbar wasn’t built for chemistry today. In the words of NDSU President Dean Bresciani, “It’s literally held together by duct tape and bayling wire.”

Fixing these problems isn’t so easy though. Updating the ventilation system would require fixing everything that isn’t up to code. In Dunbar, it seems like everything is not up to code.

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fund a bond to invest in both Dunbar Hall and Harris Hall.

House Majority Leader Chet Pollert, R-Carrington, suggested to cut the amount of money invested by the state by nearly 20% for Dunbar Hall, going from the approved $51.2 million to $40 million. He also proposed axing the $54 million investment for Harris Hall.

That is Ellingson’s job, which is difficult to say the least when he has to worry about replacing a building that everyone who has experienced it agrees needs serious attention.

Ellingson told me in a walkthrough that he gets roughly 50 calls a day for maintenance. “I can’t even count how many times I’ve been in Dunbar,” he said.

He also has to make sure buildings keep water out and are habitable, no matter what happens at the state legislature.

So, Dunbar needs replacing. It may get replaced, and less might be offered through the state as

I n comparison, Dunbar’s construction started in 1963. Which begs the question, why is Dunbar being torn down while Old Main remains standing and will for the foreseeable future?

“We will never have another building built like Old Main,” said Mike Tonder, the State Board of Higher Education director of facilities planning. When comparing an old building like Old Main to a newer building like Dunbar, it is important to understand that at the turn of the 20th century, roughly 80% of a building’s budget went to structural components, which have longer lifespans than mechanical systems.

Now, however, mechanical systems that have a much, much shorter lifespan make up roughly

administration that we want to champion some of our historical buildings on campus,” said Mason Rademacher, the executive commissioner of Student Affairs for student government and student body president-elect.

Rademacher has had Dunbar on his mind for some time, as he works in advocating for Dunbar Hall at the state legislature.

During the student government president-vice president debate, Rademacher said, “Now’s the time to address the worst building on a college campus in North Dakota.”

That is saying a lot. Dunbar is bad, but is it the worst?

“It stinks,” Cook said. He explained many issues, including air quality, smells he can’t find the source of and even having to move staff out of Dunbar over health concerns.

“The only way to get out is to jump out of third-story windows,” Cook said. He also said there are many concerns about the safety of

some research areas, and in short, “We hope there’s never a fire.”

This concern over safety doesn’t stop Cook from worrying about the future of higher education’s campuses though, saying that he hates to see buildings torn down.

In Dunbar’s case though, there doesn’t seem to be an option.

“It is inhibiting both research and graduate education,” Cook said. He told me that although there have been requests to either build on to or replace Dunbar for over 20 years and over his entire career as chair of the department, there just hasn’t been a solution yet.

The future of brick and mortar

I asked everyone I sat down with the following question, what will NDSU look like in 100 years?

The answers I got varied, but many followed the same path.

“I don’t know what higher education will look like in 100 years,” Rademacher said. He told me that he sees two possibilities: one where higher education is more online, and another where brick and mortar is still valued.

“I think that in terms of soft skill development, that the brick and mortar ‘butts in seats’ model is very important to student development,” he said, pointing to his experience in student government and the connection to history that students get when they interact with the infrastructure on campus.

“That is what companies are looking for,” President Bresciani said. He also noted that he learned more from interacting on campus and from talking to his peers over materials than just reading a book.

“I have a hunch that as we have evolved in the last 1000 years, we will evolve in the next 100,” Tonder said, telling me that he sees a future where students may be studying in inflatable buildings with virtual reality headsets on.

When asked if students appreciate the connection to history that they have now, Tonder said, “I don’t know what the answer to that is.” He pointed to having to listen and having to adjust to the times.

Who knows, I guess?

To me, the infrastructure a university can offer is fundamentally one of the most valuable things to a student and the region it is in. Being reminded that thousands have walked in your paths, that much greater struggles have occurred beforehand is important for human development.

“For every $1 spent on higher education by the state, NDSU puts $7 back in the state economy,” President Bresciani said, also noting that NDSU was at once a throwaway idea. The state offered up a prison or an agricultural college to either Bismarck or Fargo. The rest is history.

As that plan has progressed, we can see Fargo as one of the faster growing cities in the country, with NDSU being in the top 100 for research universities.

I pulled Cook aside and asked him about what his college will look like in 10 years, or when he is planning on potentially retiring.

“I think we can better serve the state and region if we have the proper facilities to do research in.”

Cook said that after the Dunbar fire, their graduate numbers took a hit, falling from the 60s down into the 50s. At the moment, the potential is there for the chemistry department and potentially attracting new industry, but it needs a catalyst first, and that is funding.

To the state, the solution to generating more revenue and investing in North Dakota seems pretty simple — fund Dunbar Hall.

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‘Darty’ season preparation What you need to know before attending a darty

A ‘darty’ can be defined as a daytime party.

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Jacob Elwell

Make sure you know people so you can socialize a little easier.

but just throw it in your backpack.

It will come in handy later.

We’re getting to the point in the year where students are going to start “dartying.” A “darty” can be defined simply as a daytime party.

The thing that distinguishes a darty from a party is the fact that they take place outside and during the day.

Since the weather is finally getting somewhat tolerable, you’re going to find a lot of darties this spring. For those who haven’t been to a darty before, this article will be helpful for you. It’s important to be prepared for events like these and understand the do’s and don’ts of a darty.

You can’t bank on people supplying you with beer, especially if there’s a game of beer darts happening.

Bring enough beer so you don’t run out, that way you can have the maximum amount of fun without letting the buzz come down.

If you have an extra beer, sell it to someone. That sounds weird, but if a drunk person who is out of beer wants another one, they will pay anything for it. Charge them like $5 for one, and you’ll likely get a purchase and a profit.

There’s nothing worse than running out of beer at a darty, so don’t make that mistake.

People get crazy at darties and seek attention if they get too drunk.

I have seen guys jump off a roof

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Do go with people you know

This should be self-explanatory.

There’s nothing worse than showing up to a darty and not knowing anyone.

You can meet people, but they won’t remember your name after an hour, and you’ll have nothing more than a drunken conversation.

Don’t show up without beer

Do bring a bottle of water

You’re going to get sweaty, and you’ll want some water.

Drinking too much beer can get you dehydrated, so it’s important to cancel it out with one of Earth’s greatest gifts.

You won’t think you’ll need it,

Don’t jump off the roof

group of people wearing them. The question is do you want to join them or not?

Being a sports fanatic, I always make sure I have a clean basketball jersey ready to throw on at all

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t’s important to be prepared for events like these and understand the do’s and don’ts of a darty.

at a darty. They do this because they know everyone is going to go crazy and clap their hands.

Don’t be that idiot. A broken arm or leg isn’t worth a brief applause from a sea of random people.

Do have a jersey ready

A darty isn’t necessarily jersey themed, but there will be a select

times.

Don’t walk miles to a darty

Make sure if you are walking that the darty is a mile or less away from your place. If you have to walk three miles back home after, that’s going to be a terrible walk.

You might just have to call an Uber at that point, and every college student knows those aren’t cheap.

Save yourself time and money by attending a darty within the vicinity of where you live.

Do bring a pair of shades

It’s going to be bright out, and you don’t want to be squinting the entire time. Besides, everyone looks good in sunglasses.

It’s just an all-out win if you wear sunglasses to a darty, and a fat “L” if you don’t.

Don’t bring a dead Juul

Make sure you charge that baby before walking out the door. There’s nothing worse than fiending for a “nic buzz” only to find out your Juul is dead.

If that happens, then you have to play the moocher that asks someone if they can use theirs.

Don’t be that person, just make sure it’s charged, for all of us.

Well, that’s pretty much it. For all of you that have never been to a darty before, hopefully I prepared you to an extent. If you do all the do’s and don’t do all of the don’ts, you’re going to have a great time.

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Protected: racial profiling in the media We need to stop with the racial stereotypes in the media Maryam Bukhari Contributing Writer

Although deeper subject matters are difficult to talk about, it is important to bring attention to these topics to encourage growth within our society.

One of the issues that I could never wrap my head around is the way media chooses to represent race.

In a communication class I am taking, we discussed a term called “Mean World Syndrome,” devised by the communication professor George Gerbner.

According to Gerbner and Mean World Syndrome, people’s perception of information is more extreme than reality. An example of this would be even though the crime rate has decreased, Americans believe it has increased.

This might be in part because of seeing it in media more often.

Thinking from this perspective may hinder a person’s ability to

fully enjoy their lives. On the other hand, it can allow us to be aware and possibly take safety precautions.

This method of perception is primarily negative because our assumptions tend to prevent our learning and growth by our warped reality. The way Mean World Syndrome applies to race through the media is through the way reporters and journalists present race or religion on the news.

Notice the number of times a black or Muslim person commits a crime they are labeled as violent or terrorists, but a white person committing a similar crime usually requires further investigation.

The outcome of crimes from people of color makes people

of minority need to

groups

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themselves, as if being of the same ethnic

background or religious affiliation as the criminal means that all people from the same background are violent.

It seems to only be related to the individual when a white person has committed a crime though. “Is it mental health related? and “Are the games and television shows or movies too violent for the public?” seem to be common questions asked.

A n o t h e r example would be the over or underrepresentation of black people as criminals versus officers. According to Travis L. Dixon, who is an African American studies scholar and communication professor, black people are represented six times more often as criminals than officers on local news programs. White people

are more likely to be presented as officers (69%) than the actual employment statistic (59%).

In comparison to black people, white people are twice as likely to appear as victims (43%) than in actual crime reports (13%). Why is it that there are these preconceived notions when it comes to minorities? Why are all people not held to the same standard? Why do certain groups get a racial pass, even when committing the same exact crime? Why is it viewed as if a white person’s life is ruined, even though they were responsible for committing the actions that they did?

Unfortunately, this applies to positive actions too. There are many examples of black men helping the community, yet having their criminal records from the past irrelevantly brought up. The takeaway from this article is to think a little deeper and try to understand other perspectives.

Spring sweet tooth cure Let me help you find warm weather sweets to eat Jacob Elwell Opinion Editor

As the weather gets warmer, our attitudes and feelings change dramatically. We become happier, slightly less stressed, more or less motivated and so on.

If you’re like me, your diet changes a little bit too.

You become more attracted to sugary substances like fruit, soda and sweets.

Because it was nearly 60 degrees Saturday, I think it’s necessary to talk about places you can get some great made-for-spring desserts.

I won’t be listing places everyone has tried like Cold Stone, Cherry Berry or Dairy Queen. Rather, these will be small businesses that have amazing treats for us sweet-tooths.

Gigi’s Cupcakes

This place hires expert cupcake makers. They have so many unique kinds of cupcakes, and they are massive as well.

One of my favorites is the “Double Stuff.” It’s made with dark chocolate cake and is stuffed with cream inside. On the top is their special cookies and cream

buttercream icing topped with Oreo cookie pieces. It’s absolutely insane.

At Gigi’s, they have a flavor catered to everyone’s taste buds. They give you the cupcakes in a nice box, making them easy to store away and eat the next day if you want to.

I will say, they aren’t the cheapest, but if you have room to splurge on some good sweets one night, give Gigi’s a shot.

become rich.

Their cookies are amazing too. They also serve ice cream, milk, cookie cakes and cookie sandwiches. They have many different types of cookies, my favorite being the peanut butter chip.

Like every dessert place, it’s a little pricey, especially if you order for delivery.

Give yourself the true college experience and try this place.

A lot of college students know about this place, but there are also a handful that don’t. Insomnia Cookies is a chain of bakeries that specializes in making and delivering warm cookies.

Yes, they do deliver, until 3 a.m. as a matter of fact.

I’m obsessed with the way Insomnia Cookies came to be. A college student like us, Seth Berkowitz was just sitting in his dorm room one night and thought of the idea. He began baking and delivering cookies from his dorm room to students on campus late at night, and the concept grew from there.

Their first retail store opened in 2004. As of 2017, there are over 100 locations.

All it takes is a simple idea that people will love to

This place just opened in the West Acres Mall. It’s a new Thai-style hibachi ice cream and bubble tea shop.

Hibachi ice cream is also known as rolled ice cream, so for those of you from Minneapolis that have tried Wonders Ice Cream, this place is similar.

Ice Point is owned by Yun Chen, a native of China who settled in Fargo about 10 years ago after hopping around the country learning different styles of sushi and Asian cuisine.

He opened his first restaurant, Samurai Japanese Restaurant, in Fargo in 2011.

He also owns Izumi Sushi and Hibachi restaurants in Fargo.

I haven’t tried this place, but I love trying new things.

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Cinnamon Roll Co.

If you’re spending a day at the mall, swing through this place after Ice Point.

Cinnamon Roll Co. is responsible for that amazing scent that passes through your nostrils when you step into the mall.

Let me just say, it lives up to the hype. Their cinnamon rolls are to die for, and they’re really not that expensive. You can get a pretty good-sized cinnamon or caramel roll for under $5, which they could easily sell for more and still make

money.

They also have these things called “roll bites,” which are just bites of tiny, individual pieces of cinnamon rolls. Those are good too, and they’re the same price as a large roll.

It’s not often you find a relatively cheap dessert place that will overwhelm your taste buds and not put a dent in your wallet.

These are just a few places that I have actually tried (except Ice Point) and cross my mind when I think of treats. However, there are

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plenty more places in the Fargo-Moorhead area that will satisfy your sweet tooth.

Here are some other notable mentions:

Legacy Sweets: Located off 13th Avenue South

Kones Kreamery: Off 45th Street South

Scoop N Dough Candy Co: On Roberts Alley Tea and Crepe Fargo:

Found off North Broadway

The Silver Lining Creamery: Also off North Broadway

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Bison trample Mastodons in weekend series Darkness can’t stop the Bison from lighting up the Mastodons

Weather and darkness proved to be troublesome for weekend baseball.

Thomas Evanella Staff Writer

In a week in which Murphy’s Law seemed to curse the North Dakota State baseball team, everything went right on the diamond.

The Bison steamrolled Purdue Fort Wayne en route to a series win over the Mastodons.

At almost every turn, the weekend was a logistical nightmare for NDSU. The difficulties began this past Monday, when it was announced that the series was being moved from Fargo to Fort Wayne, Indiana. The series was intended to be the Bison’s home opener, but the snow on Newman Outdoor Field had the last laugh.

The relocation was just the first of a series of

headaches for the Bison.

Once they took the field, however, matters turned to picking up key conference victories.

NDSU couldn’t have hoped for a better start to that endeavor, trouncing the Mastodons in the first game of the series Friday.

The Bison hung 17 runs on Purdue Fort Wayne, scoring in all but the fourth and fifth innings for a 17-8 win.

The onslaught started with a leadoff double from Bennett Hostetler in the first inning. First baseman Brock Anderson drove Hostetler in two at-bats later. A single from Carter Thompson brought in Anderson, then a double from Charley Hesse gave NDSU a 4-0 lead.

The Mastodons attempted to claw back into the game, but NDSU always had a response. Opening

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up a 7-1 lead in the top of the third inning, the victory seemed secure. Within two innings, Purdue Fort Wayne slashed the deficit to one as Bison starter Zach Smith was tagged for 10 hits.

Smith was lifted after 4 1-3 innings, but Jake Malec bailed out his starter in the top of the sixth with a 3-run home run. The home run was the second of Malec’s collegiate career and provided the decisive blow in the game.

Hesse and Jack Simonsen led the Bison with three hits and two RBIs each. Parker Harm notched his third win of the year in relief of Smith, and Gabe Pilla pitched a scoreless ninth.

The runs didn’t stop there. The Bison won the second half of Friday’s doubleheader 5-4, though it took two days to do so.

Because the first game lasted four hours, the second wasn’t able to begin until 3:30 p.m. Intended to start at 3 p.m., the half-hour delay resulted in the game being suspended due to darkness shortly after 7 p.m.

The Mastodons got out on the front foot, plating three runs in the third inning.

Again though, the Bison were able to respond and tied the game in the top of the fifth with a single from Anderson.

Neither side could break the deadlock until Anderson came to the plate with one out in the top of the ninth inning. Anderson laced a single in the left-centerfield gap, scoring Malec and giving NDSU a one-run lead. The Bison left the bases loaded at the end of the ninth.

After a six-inning, nine-

strikeout outing from Max Loven, Hunter Koep moved from the batter’s box to the pitcher’s mound. Koep pitched two straight 1-2-3 innings, but ran into trouble in the bottom of the ninth.

Mastodons’ first baseman Travis Upp hit a double to tie the game. Koep was able to limit the damage, but the game was called before extra innings could begin.

The game was set to resume 3 p.m. Saturday, but because the Mastodons’ softball team was playing a game on the adjacent field, play couldn’t begin until roughly 4:45 p.m. The Bison made quick work of the extra innings, with Simonsen driving in the winning run with an 11th inning double.

Game three also became a two-day affair. Again, the Bison scored early and often, highlighted by a

bases loaded double off the bat of Peter Brookshaw in the fourth inning. Another double from Hesse drove in two more runs in the following inning, giving NDSU a 7-0 lead.

Darkness once again foiled the Bison. The game was suspended at the end of the fifth inning with NDSU well on its way to a sweep.

The game was set to resume after press time Sunday.

The two wins moved the Bison’s record to 5-6 in Summit League play, while the Mastodons are still in search of their first conference win.

NDSU travels to Minnesota Tuesday before a weekend series at South Dakota State. If all goes to plan, NDSU’s home opener will take place April 16 against Valley City State.

Bison Softball close out season opening road swing Offense hits stride as NDSU turns for home

NDSU will play at home for the first time this season next weekend.

Taylor Schloemer Sports Editor

Momentum is the name of the game currently for the North Dakota State softball team. With the opening of the newly renovated and named Tharaldson Park coming next week, the Bison come home on a hot streak. With three wins out on the West Coast in two days, the Bison sit on a 17game win streak.

NDSU opened play at the Seattle Round-Robin with a doubleheader with the hosts Seattle University.

The Bison jumped all

over the hosts in the third, with Maddie Hansen and Sam Koehn each knocking in tworun singles either side of Vanessa Anderson bringing home a run after being hit by a pitch.

A five-run cushion was more than enough for KK Leddy in the pitcher’s circle. The junior improved to 15-6 on the season after allowing one run on seven hits and a walk.

Leddy also struck out four Red Hawks on the afternoon.

Koehn added more runs in the seventh, bringing home two

more with a triple before coming in to score herself off the bat of Montana DeCamp to bring the game to the final score of 8-1. The Bison combined for a season-high 14 hits in the contest.

Game two started off with a similar pattern. Hansen and Anderson combined to bring in three runs in the first inning to give pitcher Paige Vargas room to work. DeCamp then opened the second frame with a solo home run before Hansen cleared the fence with a three-run home run, her team-leading eighth of

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the season.

Seattle got to Vargas in the third inning, putting up five runs.

Kara O’Byrne came on to relieve Vargas and got the third out of the inning.

The freshman pitcher got some run support in the sixth and seventh when Lauren Reimers and Cara Beatty hit solo home runs to push the score to 9-6.

The runs were well needed as O’Byrne worked into a twoout jam in the ninth.

Consecutive doubles and an intentional walk brought the winning run

to the plate for the Red Hawks, but O’Byrne forced a groundout to pick up the save in the Bison’s 9-7 victory.

A change of opposition was not enough to stop the Bison’s offensive surge during the weekend.

Against Santa Clara, the bats kept connecting to power NDSU to a 9-1 win in five innings.

NDSU scored in each of the first three frames.

Stephanie Soriano got the scoring started in the first, bringing in Katie Shoultz with a double.

In the second, DeCamp hit her

second home run of the weekend, this time a two-run shot. Shoultz then crossed the plate for the second time in as many innings off a sacrifice fly from Hansen.

Anderson put up another two runs in the third with her second home run of the weekend to push the score to 6-1.

It was another one run allowed on seven hits outing for Leddy, who struck out seven on 100 pitches on the afternoon.

NDSU put the game to bed with three runs in the fifth.

DeCamp knocked in two more runners with a bases-loaded single. That paved the way for Beaver Creek, Minnesota native Avery Wysong to collect her first collegiate RBI with a single to end the game.

NDSU improved to 27-11 on the season, all away from home.

The Bison will open play at Tharaldson Park Saturday with a doubleheader against South Dakota State.

NDSU are 6-0 in the Summit League heading into the three-game set with the Jacks.

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Players to watch during Bison spring football Coach Entz first look at replacing 25 seniors

Ty Brooks (28) will likely be the head of the Bison backfield next season.

Taylor Schloemer Sports Editor

After successfully taking their seventh national championship in eight years, the North Dakota State football team spring practices have come with some major question marks.

The turnover in personnel has been well documented, with Matt Entz having the first task as head coach of replacing the largest senior class in program history.

Key positional battles have broken out in the spring to see who will be on the two-man depth chart come Target Field. While the Bison historically play cards close to the chest on close battles, here is what to expect come the close of

spring football.

Quarterback

Perhaps the biggest decision Entz and passing game coordinator Randy Hedberg will make before the start of the season will be naming the successor to the most successful FCS quarterback of all-time.

The favorite to replace Easton Stick is a guy who could touch his record.

Trey Lance showed flashes in two cameo appearances, taking advantage of the new redshirt rule that allowed redshirted players to play in up to four games.

Now with a year of the system under his belt, it feels like Lance is the next man up. He certainly looked the part of a Bison quarterback last year, both on the ground and in the air.

But Lance faces stiff competition from a bit of a wild card. Zeb Noland, a transfer from Iowa State, has also seen time with the starters in the spring. It is hard to imagine transferring from a Big 12 school to the FCS and not winning the starting job. One item in Noland’s arsenal that will aid him is his touch on the deep ball.

Also, in the competition is Holden Hotchkiss. Stick’s backup last season should not be discounted. Though in action last year, it seemed like Lance had the better of Hotchkiss.

Running back

NDSU enters the spring with six running backs on the roster. Replacing a pair of brutally efficient backs won’t be that difficult of a

Bison T&F find success in Nebraska

NDSU finish second behind the Big Ten Cornhuskers Ian Longtin Staff Writer

It was a beautiful day for a track meet on Saturday, as both of NDSU’s men’s and women’s teams competed in Lincoln, Nebraska. Last year’s Husker Spring Invitational was cancelled due to weather, so the warmth was more than welcome.

Many members of the Herd were able to make themselves stand out. For starters, thrower Akealy Moton obliterated the school record in the shot put.

Moton surpassed Courtney Pasiowitz’s record by well over 2 feet. The 56-08.75 throw moved Moton to No. 3 in the nation this season and easily won the event.

Kristoffer Thomsen found similar success on the men’s side, winning the shot put event with a 62-11.25 throw, which moved him to No. 14 on the NCAA performance list this year.

Payton Otterdahl, a national champion, extended the program’s discus record for the third consecutive meet.

Otterdahl’s 206-6 throw won the event and moved up to second in the nation this season.

Amanda Anderson also won the discus on the women’s side with a personal-best of 177-11.

The Herd was also able to dominate in the javelin, as Brendan Artley and Benji Phillips finished first and second, with Ty Ogren coming in fourth with a career best throw of 194-10.

In the women’s javelin, No. 15-ranked Kari Wolfe finished second with a throw of 169-5, the second best of her career. Clearly the Bison throwers were not to be trifled with Saturday.

On the triple jump side of things, Bailey

DeMar won the event for the women, and Kelle’Mon Hinton set a personal best with a 49-10.00 jump, good enough for third for the men. Hinton was also able to finish third in the long jump.

Klara Lyon cleared a height of 13-00.25 in the pole vault, an outdoor personal best that placed her second in the meet. Noah Shafer also set a new personal best, clearing a height of 16-02.00, good enough for third in the men’s pole vault.

The runners were also able to find success on Saturday.

The Bison men nearly swept the podium in the 400-meter hurdles, as Connor Wendel led a Bison 1-34 with teammates Josh Knutson and Ryan Enerson following.

Paige Harris, a junior from Plentywood, Montana, ran a personal best 56.43 in the 400-meter dash, which was good enough for second in the event. Jacob Richter also ran a personal best on the men’s side. Richter’s 47.90 run was good enough for fourth in the 400m, just edging out Nebraska’s Bryce Barrett by .02.

Senior J.T. Butler finished second in the 200-meter dash, with a career best 20.94 run, finishing just .01 behind event-winner Mason Hericks.

Despite all the new personal bests, both the men and women finished second in the team totals. The men finished 103 points back from Nebraska, with the women coming in 41 points behind the Husker women.

Next up, the men and women will both head to Minneapolis for the Minnesota Spring Open April 12 and 13.

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task. Expect a committee of some sort coming out of spring camp.

Ty Brooks and Seth Wilson already have shown their potential over the last two years. Likely joining them in the backfield is Adam Cofield, who should see an expanded role from clean-up duty last year, and Saybein Clark. The redshirt freshman played in four games last year and averaged 6.5 yards per carry.

Dimitri Williams will be in his senior campaign as well.

Wide receiver

The wide receiver room is going to be a lot younger this year with just one senior. But it will be the young guys in the lead. The Bison as of late have been a two-wideout team, and there is no reason to suspect

that Christian Watson and Phoenix Sproles won’t be the Bison’s combination.

Behind those two, however, it is a bit messy.

None of the other eight receivers have caught a pass at NDSU, opening up the possibility that Williams makes the switch to the outside. The running back has seen plenty of time split out wide in his time at NDSU.

Safety

Robbie Grimsley had a very successful career at NDSU, and now the Bison must worry about the back end of the defense. James Hendricks is expected to be the quarterback of the Bison defense, but who resides with him is still in question.

It is a battle of the sophomores for the strong

safety position. Michael Tutsie had two interceptions last season in 12 games while James Kaczor registered nine tackles also in 12 appearances.

Linebacker

Jabril Cox is the centerpiece of the linebacking corps, but the Bison must replace two starters. Jaxon Brown, Jackson Hankey and Aaron Mercadel are likely candidates to win the starting gig.

Depth is once again a strong suit at the position, with 12 linebackers on the roster. Breakout candidates at the position include redshirt freshman Mark Stumpf and Jasir Cox, Jabril’s younger brother.

Terrible Fantasy Advice Offseason edition

Browns, Bell and Brown Philip Atneosen Staff Writer

I know what you’re all thinking: the NFL regular season doesn’t start for another 150 days, so why is this clown talking about fantasy football already? The answer is because of the offseason. Every major sport has an offseason, and players move around every year.

While the actual football season might be over, fantasy football is still going on and it never stops. These are the biggest changes to think about going into next year’s draft.

Odell Beckham Jr., Cleveland Browns One of the biggest trades of the offseason thus far has been the blockbuster Odell Beckham Jr. trade. The New York Giants traded him to Cleveland for safety Jabrill Peppers, a first-round pick and a third-round pick. Peppers is a talented up-and-coming safety, but the general consensus is that the Giants lost this trade.

On the New York side of the ball, Evan Engram and Sterling Shepard get an immediate boost in target share. The Giants also brought in Golden Tate, but Tate plays primarily from the slot, so a majority of the downfield targets are up for grabs.

On the Cleveland side of the ball, I think it hurts the fantasy value of all members, with the exception of Baker Mayfield. Jarvis Landry will have a lot of pressure taken off him, but that’s never affected him in the past. He’s nearly always been the primary receiver, and he’s never had fewer than 80 receptions in a season.

Antonio Brown, Oakland Raiders Brown’s wishes were fulfilled when the Steelers traded him to Oakland. The Steelers had few options, and they had to settle for a third-rounder and a fifth-rounder for their star receiver.

At the age of 30, AB led the league in touchdowns last season with 15. There’s no doubt that his value took a hit when he got traded. Oakland’s offense is much worse than Pittsburgh’s, and he’s entering a new offense with a new quarterback. That being said, he’s still one of the best receivers in the game.

A realistic stat line for him next season could be 95 receptions, 1150 yards and 8 touchdowns. If he’s available in the second round next draft, I would consider him, but I wouldn’t reach for him with my first-round

pick.

Le’Veon Bell, New York Jets Brown wasn’t the only one that got what he wanted this offseason. The Jets signed Le’Veon Bell to a 4-year deal worth $52.5 million.

He refused to play last season due to a contract dispute. I think Bell is going to get a reality check in New York. He’s had the privilege of running behind the Steelers’ offensive line for his entire career.

Pittsburgh’s offensive line has been among the league’s best for half a decade.

Bell’s running style is very patient; he waits for the offensive line to make holes.

That running style combined with the Jets offensive line is a disaster waiting to happen.

I’m not saying that Bell’s going to be bad, but I think he’s going to get a rude awakening. Similar to Brown, I would think about him in the second round and pass in the first.

Other Mark Ingram signed a 3-year deal with the Ravens worth $15 million. This was one of the best landing spots for the former Heisman winner. The Ravens made it clear last season that they want to run the ball. If Ingram gets the majority of the workload, he could be a 1,000-yard rusher again.

Jared Cook signed a 2-year contract with the Saints. The Saints are a much better team than the Raiders, but they also have a lot of mouths to feed. I expect fewer receptions for Cook next season, but he could score seven or more touchdowns for the first time in his career.

Jordan Howard was traded to the Eagles for a potential fifth-round pick. He might as well have been traded for a sleeve of saltine crackers. I’m really not thrilled with Howard’s fantasy potential next season. In the past few seasons, the Eagles have used a committee with as many as four different running backs at once. Howard’s inability to catch the football will hold him back in this offense.

Tevin Coleman signed in San Francisco for 2 years and $8.5 million. With Coleman, Jerick McKinnon and Matt Breida on the roster, the depth chart at the position is a little murky. I’m going to choose to follow the money and assume that McKinnon’s $30 million contract trumps the Coleman signing. Coleman’s role in San Francisco is only a little better than his typical role in Atlanta for the time being.

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