NDSU Spectrum | Jan. 21, 2016

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016

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NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | FOR THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE

Subzero Temps Sweep the Region

Subzero temperatures have gripped the region over the last week. Windchills reached 37 degrees below zero in Fargo last weekend, the National Weather Service reported, with 43 below zero windchill at Grand Forks and 48 below zero windchill at Langdon, N.D. The Weather Channel has forecasted a high of 31 degrees for Fargo on Saturday.

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No Major Problem Being Undecided Testing the waters, exploring options help undecided majors select studies

Jack Dura

Head News Editor

Dietetics or apparel studies?

This was the life-altering decision Mikayla Hahn faced. After interviewing and finding housing at Los Angeles’ Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, the Bottineau, N.D., native scrapped her plans and came to North Dakota State for its dietetics program.

And then switched to apparel studies this semester.

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“I realized if I really like fashion and love fashion like I do, then I’ll find a job I like,” the senior said.

For students like Hahn, being undecided or switching majors allows for exploration and testing the waters of various vocations.

It’s the kind of position where Carolyn Schnell is there to help.

“There are students that have several things they’re looking at as possibilities, so at this point in time, they’re going to try some things out before they actually commit,” said Schnell, associate dean of university

NDSU Alumnus, Kilbourne Group founder Doug Burgum running for governor

studies, “and there are students that really have no idea when they coming in and are going to try a lot of things and looking for some guidance as far as what that might be.”

Here to help

The path of an undecided major at NDSU is full of trying programs and possible majors.

Schnell said undecided majors, or undeclared majors as she prefers, are assigned an adviser based on their section of UNIV 189 with a focus of establishing a

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good relationship.

“When it comes time to register for classes, they’ve already established that relationship with their adviser, and it’s a comfortable working relationship,” Schnell said.

Undecided majors work at advancing their general education credits and trying out possible majors in their early semesters at NDSU. “If they take (a program) and it’s not interesting, it’s good,” Schnell said.

“They’ve ruled it out.”

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Study Abroad Students May Discover $300 User Fee Students studying abroad respond with shrug when asked if they mind new fee Casey McCarty Co-News Editor

Student senate representatives have given their nod of approval to an increase in study abroad fees by a 13-5 vote. Three senators abstained from the vote.

The senate resolution, a nonbinding piece of legislation, stated an increase of $300 would be added to the current program costs students studying abroad pay.

The Jan. 17 student senate meeting minutes state the intended purpose of the fee is to allow the

study abroad office to be fully staffed, as well as to allow the office to grow and be gathered so it would not have to continue to ask for money.

The Study Abroad program receives its funding from an allocated budget, and it does not receive any grants nor work

with the diversity office.

Previously, no student user fee had existed, though a $150 application fee does exist for the purposes of marketing and promotional materials for Study Abroad.

Study Abroad has postponed asking for this fee increase so as to not put off students from studying

abroad.

Study Abroad did look for other means of funding first, but wanted to ask student senate sooner rather than later so as to have billing fully planned out for those studying abroad this semester.

Students presently studying abroad are aware

that they may be charged with this $300 fee.

In discussion, student senator Kim Ellwein said $300 is not much in terms of studying abroad, and showed support for the fee.

The Spectrum was unable to obtain a statement from the study abroad office at press time.

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Study abroad students may face a $300 user fee in addition to their program cost in order to fund a full staff in the study abroad office.

UNDECIDED MAJOR | FROM FRONT She added that students should look at majors they may want to take from the time they arrive at school, though. “There are a lot of people that really are not ready to declare at the point in time that they come. They’re ready for college but there’s so much to choose from once they get here that they’ve never been exposed to before.”

Schnell has seen students similar to Hahn, who declare a major, “then decide it wasn’t for them,

come back and start the process over again and discover a new major.”

By a student’s second year, Schnell said she likes to seem them “honing some of those decisions ... so that they’re not going to be out of sequence in a particular area.”

Above all, a student’s comfort with their career path is key.

Students have chosen to leave school for careers in the military, at a two-year institution or to return years later. Schnell said that’s OK. “I think that’s a valid decision on the part of a

“I realized if I really like fashion and love fashion like I do, then I’ll find a job I like.”

- Mikayla Hahn, senior in apparel studies student,” she said. “They may learn more about themselves ... they may decide they don’t have the motivation at this point in time. ... I’m supportive of the students finding where they are and where they want to go.”

Up and down

While NDSU’s enrollment has trended upward since fall 2011, the number of undecided majors has come down.

Four percent of the student body, or 487 students, is undecided, as found by the office of university studies.

Less than five years ago, 705 students were undecided majors when NDSU had 11,911 undergraduates.

“I think that with job placement having gotten tighter, I think a lot of students are being pressured to find something early as opposed to spend time exploring,” Schnell said.

Colin Rucker, a sophomore in accounting, found his major in high school classes.

He said he liked the “business feel” of accounting, among other draws to the career, though he looked at IT positions and other business programs, too.

Schnell added NDSU is somewhat unique by allowing students to GABBY HARTZE | THE SPECTRUM remain undecided in Colin Rucker, a sophomore in accounting, knew his career path their major, as opposed in high school with help from a “really good teacher.” to other universities

where students cannot be undecided or cannot declare a major until their junior year.

“When they come in, the goal is to give them a comfortable jumpstart on college so when they declare a major, they know what they’re doing.

It’s a matter of ‘Let’s get you acclimated to the institution,’” she said.

Passion, purpose

Sophomore Katherine McFee is a dietetics major as Hahn was, but her reasons for choosing the major are different from Hahn’s focus on its job opportunities.

A vegetarian looking into veganism, McFee said her choice of major followed more educative reasons after doing personal research.

She said she did look into English and communication programs in her early semesters at NDSU, but she plans to graduate in dietetics in 2018 or ‘19.

“If I’m a registered dietician sometime in the future, I could help educate people on veganism and stuff like that,” McFee said.

Schnell said her office doesn’t limit students time-wise to finding a career path, adding, “I tell students, however, careers are 40 years long, so it’s really important to find something you enjoy doing.”

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NDSU Alumnus Doug Burgum Running for Governor Kilbourne Group founder, chairman touts heritage, tech savvy

Jack Dura

Head News Editor

A standing ovation from a few hundred people greeted Doug Burgum as he entered the spotlights at The Stage at Island Park Thursday.

The Kilbourne Group founder and chairman and North Dakota State alumnus formally announced his Republican campaign for North Dakota governor, citing his experience and expertise in running various software and business ventures like Great Plains Software, a company Burgum sold to Microsoft in 2001 for $1.1 billion.

Burgum also touted his “skills that are uniquely relevant to this point in time� where technology and innovation are evolving, such as storage, gigabit internet, sensors and JACK DURA | THE SPECTRUM mobility. He also likened a Doug Burgum announces his candidacy for North Dakota governor who doesn’t adapt governor Jan. 14 at The Stage at Island Park.

to improving technologies to driving straight on a curving road. “The world is taking a sharp turn driven by these technologies,� Burgum said.

Burgum, a native of Arthur, N.D., grew up on a farm and received a degree in university studies from NDSU in 1978 and a master’s in business administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1980. He was 1976-77 student body president as well as a cheerleader.

In his announcement, Burgum emphasized his decision to stay in North Dakota and grow a business after joining Great Plains Software in 1983. “I don’t know who can believe more in the power of what North Dakota can do than I can,� he said, discussing the “encouragement, commitment and

community� of employees and friends he made at Great Plains Software at a time when North Dakota’s young people were leaving the state for jobs elsewhere.

Burgum also highlighted his family heritage in the state, from his great-grandparents who doctored at Fort Lincoln to his mother, Katherine Kilbourne Burgum, who was dean of NDSU’s College of Human Development and Education from 1972 to 1980.

NDSU’s Family Life Center is named in honor of Katherine Kilbourne Burgum.

Burgum said he doesn’t “want to be a politician,� or one who “demeans� and divides others with different ideas.

He said he plans to run as a Republican at the state convention April 1-3 at Fargo’s Scheels

Arena and also at the state primary election June 14 in Bismarck.

Burgum said his decision to participate beyond the convention is not “out of any disrespect� for the process or election coordinators but to make himself available to voters outside of Fargo’s region on the extreme eastern edge of the state. “I don’t have any expectations that I will win the convention,� he said.

North Dakota attorney general Wayne Stenehjem and Rep. Rick Becker (R-Bismarck) are the only other Republicans on the ballot for November.

Sarah Vogel, former state agricultural commissioner, is the only Democrat considering a run at governor.

Burgum finished his announcement with his only campaign promise thus far: to ski at all four of North Dakota’s downhill ski resorts.

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The proceeds will also go toward state of the art medical equipment, research and education. The Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals is an international nonprofit that is dedicated to helping children by raising awareness for 170 children’s hospitals throughout North America, with Sanford Children’s Hospital being the only

hospital in North Dakota to participate.

If you missed the Cares for Kids Dine to Donate event there is still the Cares for Kids 16th annual radiothon that will be taking place Jan. 28 and 29 on Y94 (93.7 FM) and on Froggy 99.9 (99.9 FM).

The fair will include booths to share information about ways to volunteer and work in the FargoMoorhead area.

Nonprofits from the F-M community will be available share what service opportunities are available for students. There will be representatives from about 50 nonprofits.

Volunteer activities that students can involve with include anything from teaching cooking and craft classes to volunteering in hospitals. Some internships are also available.

In A Nutshell Collaborative includes a comprehensive case management platform for advising and tutoring that will include a predictive analytics component that looks at how students are performing in their classes.

The comprehensive case management platform for the Student Success Collaborative includes 10 years of data from NDSU undergraduate students to identify success markers that can predict on-time graduation for every major.

The collaborative will be launched in early May with a small group of academic

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NDSU Joins Student Success Collaborative

North Dakota State has recently become a member of the Student Success Collaborative, a division of the Education Advisory Board, Provost Beth Ingram said in a Listserv.

EAB is a research firm that developed the Student Success Collaborative as a way to help improve graduation rates. The Student Success

advisers. All of campus will be able to access the platform in September.

Fargo Hosts Fifth Annual Cares for Kids Dine to Donate

The fifth annual Cares for Kids Dine to Donate event took place on Tuesday.

Participating Fargo area restaurants teamed together on Tuesday to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network at Sanford Children’s Hospitals.

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Ausländerin in Berlin Tessa Beck

Contributing Writer

After two years editing and contributing to this lovely university paper, a semester abroad didn’t feel like enough of a deterrent to keep my byline out of the regular rotation.

So I write from Berlin, for both myself as a personal check-in and equally for potentially interested readers. In semesters past, the “Bison Abroad” column has served a variety of roles depending upon who’s authoring the section.

I have struggled to decide how the pieces should be angled. Based on my short two weeks of study abroad experience, I can’t say I feel qualified to offer advice on the topic. And a purely anecdotal approach might prove boorish. But bear with me nonetheless, as I dissect the emotional tornado of my first 14 days in Germany.

For starters, I am Fargo-born – rooted

in the Midwest for my first 21 years of life.

Despite light travel in the U.S. and a brief stint in Europe, my lifestyle has remained stationary. This was turned completely on its head in the time following Christmas, when I found myself in NYC and eventually departing for Berlin.

I am confident this type of lifestyle jostling is exactly what I needed; that does not however, mean it’s necessarily simple.

Transitioning from reading about and longing for these locations, to then having them at your fingertips — at the expense of typical, personal comforts — as a complex emotional experience.

And Berlin is undoubtedly a complex city. During pre-departure discussions with both peers and advisors, students are commonly advised not to approach the study abroad experience with expectations.

This is important advice, but not completely possible.

From my perspective, the choosing of a location for study abroad harbors its own

baseline level of expectations. Each city will provide a specific opportunity, and it depends on what the student wants from their experience in order to make the final decision.

Berlin has shown itself to be a multifaceted, diverse and wickedly exciting city.

But it is also unromantic in many ways, with a sense of exclusivity for newcomers.

The capital city is spread out and not architecturally constructed in a vertical manner, opposite of the hyper-romantic New York or Paris. Structures often take on a clinical, postwar energy.

Berlin’s vivid history creates idiosyncrasies worthwhile of a permanent stay – the challenge is getting acclimated to where the surprises can cater to, rather than stifle, the experience.

Berlin, I love you, but I would also like to discover the unlit, basement club three floors down, two doors in, with a doorbell, knocking code and sign language sequence to get in. Not that I know of this

place specifically, but I can’t say I would be surprised.

But when you win, you win big. Berlin makes you earn your place, then heartily rewards the diligence. Think all-night dance party at the historic Lido, on the Spree, accompanied by cheap German beer and Bowie tunes.

Through all the highs and lows, I have pinpointed one specific flaw within my approach to studying abroad. Policing my emotions is a trait not specific to my German experience, but has proven more problematic since moving here.

Especially in the first few days, the internal battle between how I thought I should feel, and how I actually felt created more distress than the original disconnect.

If I can offer any advice, it would be to allow yourself to analyze your emotions in a gentle way, and to take it a day at a time.

You aren’t an un-adaptable, shitty American. You’re probably just jetlagged.

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Once a hot party scene, Prenzlauer Berg has since settled into an ideal residential neighborhood, still centrally located within Berlin.

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The Kunst-Werke Institute houses multiple, one-time-only exhibitions in its stark, but beautiful, Mitte location. Pictured: detail of Batia Suter’s photo collage for her show titled “Sea of Ice.”

Shadows of Schafer

The Schafer, N.D., jailhouse served the former McKenzie County seat from 1910 to 1941.

Jack Dura

Spectrum Staff

Not much is left of Schafer, N.D., except for a few scattered outbuildings and a dirt road. The ghost town, the former McKenzie County seat, has its place in North Dakota history as the jail where Charles Bannon, the last person lynched in the state, was seized and later hanged off a bridge.

North Dakota and Dakota Territory have 11 documented lynchings since 1882. Bannon’s death in 1931 came after a series of written confessions to killing six members of the Haven family in winter 1930. In an argument with Daniel Haven, Bannon allegedly “accidentally” shot the 18-year-old and later shot to death the other

five family members out of fear, he said in his confession. Bannon, 22, had been a farmhand on the Havens’ farm.

He allegedly buried the bodies in various spots, including hiding 2-month-old Mary Haven’s corpse in a straw pile. Bannon also reportedly dismembered Lulia Haven because she was too heavy to carry.

Bannon’s father joined him on the farm soon after the killings. They worked the Havens’ farm until the fall when Bannon began selling the family’s crops and property, attracting scrutiny. Meanwhile, his father had gone to Oregon where Bannon had said the Havens went, and later wrote a letter to his son telling him to “do what is right.”

Later that month, grand larceny charges landed Bannon in jail. County authorities

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discovered the Haven murders. Bannon confessed in writing to his involvement in the killings, which be blamed on a “stranger.”

Bannon later solely confessed to the murders. Authorities extradited his father to North Dakota on murder complicity accusations. Bannon wrote a final confession in January 1931, alleging he acted alone in the murders, claiming he killed the Havens out of self-defense and fear.

On the night of Jan. 28-29, 1931, Bannon, his father, a deputy sheriff and another inmate were present in the Schafer jail when 80 masked, armed men rolled up in 15 cars.

They battered down the jail’s front door, overpowered the deputy and took his keys before escorting him away from the jail.

After nearly giving up at trying to break

down Bannon’s cell door, the mob placed a noose around Charles Bannon’s neck and dragged him away.

The mob drove to the Haven farm where the caretaker chased them off the property.

The men then drove to a new bridge over Cherry Creek near the jail. Bannon was dropped over the side of the bridge, snapping his neck. The mob dispersed. None of its members were identified or arrested.

The town of Schafer suffered following Bannon’s illegal execution. The county seat moved to Watford City in 1940. Many of Schafer’s buildings were moved there.

Today the Schafer’s silent stone jailhouse is nearly all that remains, surrounded by oil activity and the grim shadow of the ghost town’s short history.

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FARGO FASHION Keyona Elkins

Contributing Writer

Oliver Cabell is a new fashion brand creating designer quality travel bags for a fraction of the price, giving big names like Prada, Chanel and Louis Vuitton a run for their money.

And they’re not cutting any corners to keep costs down either. Founder Scott Gabrielson explained that the company’s pricing model is based on reducing the amount of markups a product goes through to keep costs down and implementing an honest profit margin to give customers a fair price.

On a visit to a factory in China, Gabrielson observed travel bags being made cheaply and then sold at huge markups.

“We saw workers making $6 a day, and these products were being made for less than $100 and selling down the road for $1,200,” he said.

This observation sparked his curiosity and eventually led him to create a brand that handles sourcing and pricing differently.

With most traditional fashion brands, there is a multiplier effect that raises product cost, adding more markups with each step.

Sourcing agents, contracted factories, store rent, advertising and a markup by retailers all add to costs for traditional luxury brands.

Oliver Cabell is taking a simpler approach.

“We decided to design everything in house. We work directly with our factories, and we’re going to sell directly to the consumer,” Gabrielson said.

They are also relying solely on word-ofmouth and press to spread brand awareness instead of putting money into marketing and advertising, which can make up 15-20 percent of large fashion brands’ costs.

Eliminating these markups allows Oliver Cabell to give their customers a high quality product without the designer price tag.

While other high-end accessory brands keep their sourcing and pricing secretive and mysterious, Oliver Cabell chooses to be honest and transparent with consumers, letting them know exactly what costs went into each product.

These unusual winter temperatures can be explained with science

Features Editor

North Dakota is an odd, varying state, to say the least. We have a record low temperature of -60 degrees Fahrenheit and record high of 121. This may sound like a meteorology lecture to you, but I swear it is interesting.

Though it may not feel like it now, this winter has been unseasonably warm in Fargo. I have found myself wondering why.

To quench my thirst for further knowledge, I hit the books, or Internet in this case, and learned of the term El Niño.

I also found that my understanding of the weather is incredibly limited.

After talking with North Dakota Assistant State Climatologist Daryl Ritchison I learned that probably 90 percent of Midwesterners have heard of the expression. I was in the minority.

Maybe you are, too, so here’s a crash course.

El Niño is the warming of the Equatorial Pacific area and changes in the wind patterns that distribute heat.

The term translates to “the Christ Child.”

Oliver Cabell

“Our goal is to hopefully represent that well from the beginning, and then other industries and companies and brands start to realize the same and follow suit,” Gabrielson said. “It doesn’t really matter what industry you’re looking at. When consumers can get closer to the product, it really doesn’t hurt anyone.”

The Oliver Cabell team found that by using a markup of 2.25, they could give their customers a minimal price while making sure their business was sustainable in the long term. So instead of paying over $1,000 for a bag that cost $100 to make, its customers will be paying around $225. That way, travelers get to have a superior product without using up their entire vacation budget.

Oliver Cabell’s debut product line will consist of gender neutral carry-on bags, backpacks, totes and other travel essentials targeted toward millennials. They use a combination of high quality leather and canvas. The canvas makes the bags lighter and more durable, while giving them an aesthetic that is distinct from all-leather designs. The bags, which are designed in Europe, are minimalistic and timeless. They are inspired by a mixture of influences from streetwear to traditional luxury. In the future, the Oliver Cabell team plans to expand into a wider variety of products including those geared specifically towards men or women such as handbags.

The bags are currently in production in Italy, but they will be available for purchase at www.olivercabell.com in March. The company is using a referral system to spread the word and give customers early access to their products. Interested customers can now sign up for emails, and those who have referred at least one other person will get a preview of the product line before it is available for sale.

Those who have referred three friends will get exclusive early access to the products for a few weeks in March before KEYONA ELKINS | THE SPECTRUM the website goes live to the public. When it Scott Gabrielson, founder of Oliver Cabell, explains how his company differs from traditional does, buying designer accessories will go from being purely aspirational to brilliantly luxury brands. attainable.

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It got the name because it is around Christmas time that we experience the most noticeable temperature change. The temperatures only have to be 0.5 degrees Celsius above average to be considered as El Niño winter.

When people hear El Niño they think, “‘Oh, the winter will be warmer.’ This is not always true,” said Ritchison. Though the winter as a whole will be above average, it won’t be every day.

“Stronger [warmer] winters like these are more rare,” said Ritchison. Some days we will see 4 to 5 degrees above average.

This may not seem like much, but you know you are from the Midwest when you get excited about a few measly degrees warmer.

But brace yourself because winter is not over yet. “Odds are at some point in February we will have an arctic blast,” Ritchison said.

Though El Niño means above average temperatures, it does not mean above average amounts of precipitation. In fact, it usually means “around average or below average precipitation,” Ritchison said, which would help hamper the spring floods.

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A Guide to Shakespearefest February celebrations includes theatre, food and music Jack Hastings A & E Editor

The 2016 Fargo Winter Arts Festival is celebrating the renowned work and life of William Shakespeare.

Shakespearefest will be a monthlong artistic outpouring of music, drama, film, art, food and more. The entire month of February is filled with events to honor the timeless work of the Bard.

ShakespeareFest Kick-off Event

4 p.m. Saturday, Fargo Theatre This free event starts the month long Shakespeare festivities off with a bang.

With both adults and kids in mind, there is something for everyone, whether it is meeting Shakespeare himself or watching some of the screened short films.

Romeo & Juliet x3

7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Festival Concert Hall Playing magnificent music inspired by the Bard’s classic romance, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony is presenting Romeo & Juliet in three versions. Each different musical take on the beloved story complement each other for a cohesive auditory experience.

NDSU College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences events

Throughout the duration

of Shakespearefest, NDSU’s College of AHSS will host a variety of seminars and talks, ranging in topics from racism, adapting Shakespeare’s work and Shakespeare’s influence around the world. These events are free and open to the public.

ShakesBeer Fest Happy Hour

5-7 p.m. every Thursday in February At various local brewing companies throughout the month, enjoy the music of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony with locally brewed beer. With featured brews every Thursday, one can expect many a Shakespeare pun and good old communal fun.

Equivocation

February 5 – February 28, Theatre B In this play written by Bill Cain, an ensemble of six players inhabits more than forty other characters.

“Equivocation” tells the story of Shakespeare as he is commissioned by the king to rewrite the history of the gunpowder plot in this comedic political thriller. Tickets are available through the Theatre B website.

Hamlet

2 p.m. Feb. 7, Downtown Fargo Public Library Watch the most critically acclaimed and award-winning take of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” on film as part of the

Fargo Public Library’s Shakespeare on Film series.

Along with the movie screening and free popcorn, film historians Tony McRae and Matt Olien will discuss the adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

I Hate Hamlet

February 12 - 21, The Stage at Island Park Paul Rudnik’s play, “I Hate Hamlet,” follows the trials and tribulations of a television actor Andrew Rally when he moves to New York City and is offered the chance to play Hamlet, whom he hates.

Rally then encounters the ghost of the famous Hamlet actor John Barrymore making for a very interesting dynamic and conflict. Tickets are available at the FMCT website.

The second half of the event pairs excerpts of Shakespeare’s written work from his plays and sonnets with a nine movement cello solo. Tickets are available at the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony website.

Romeo & Juliet

7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 - 27, March 2 - 5, Askanase Auditorium The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is reimagined by Theatre NDSU. The tale of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet find love in the

midst of a familial vendetta that only complicates their potential future together.

Tickets are available of Theatre NDSU’s website.

For more information and a full schedule of events, visit winterartsfest. org.

Shakespeare Sampler B

2 p.m., Feb. 20, Theatre

The 16 young members of the FM Homeschool Shakespeareans will be performing a series of vignettes from a variety of Shakespeare’s work, including “The Merchant of Venice,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Twelfth Night.”

Shakespeare Up Close

2 p.m. Feb. 21, Bluestem Center for the Arts In this collaboration between the FargoMoorhead Symphony and Theatre B, one is able to listen to the music of Shakespeare’s time.

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Shakespeare is the featured artist of the 2016 Winter Art’s Shakespearefest

Call for Submissions for ‘Spring Thaw’ Acclaimed magazine seeks writing and artwork Jack Hastings A & E Editor

The “Spring Thaw” literary magazine is now accepting submissions for its 2016 issue. The magazine is based from Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids, MN. Spring Thaw is currently seeking fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short plays, photography and artwork to publish in the upcoming issue. For any writers or artists looking to have their work acknowledged and appreciated, this is a significant opportunity.

“We accept submissions of pretty much any kind, we will look at anything. In the past we have accepted poetry, fiction, nonfiction, moving essays that we feel people will be interested in, along with photography and art work,” says “Spring Thaw” faculty advisor Lisa Marcis.

“Spring Thaw” was established in the ‘70s and has thrived as a compilation literary and artistic work for over 30 years. From what began as a small community journal, it has grown into a widely read and appreciated outpouring of creative work.

“Students who attend Itasca Community College are the ones that form the editorial board every year. They put together the magazine, read all the submissions and discuss what we are looking for,” Marcis says of the submission process. “We select what pieces will be published and the students

do all the work of laying it out, designing the magazine and getting it sent to a publisher.”

The approach behind “Spring Thaw” is very liberating, boasting a by the students, for the student attitude.

“Spring Thaw” showcases to work of young and unknown writers and artists. The literary magazine serves as a stepping stone to help aid motivated writers get their names out there to gain recognition and open themselves to potential future opportunities. Its intention is to be outlet for writers looking to be published but may not know where to start.

“I think it’s important to have a place that celebrates the work that students are doing and the community members as well. It really brings them together,” Marcis says.

The call for submissions is open to the public as well. Along with students, members of the community have the chance to have their work published and open to greater viewing platform.

All written submissions, photography, scanned artwork and questions can be directed to Marcis at lisa. marcis@itascacc.edu or by phone at 322-2439.

Include your name and contact information along with the name of the work being submitted.

Attach your work to the email without your name to aid in the blind judging process. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 5.

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Spring Thaw’s 2015 issue celebrated the artistic and literary achievements of students and the public.

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Exploring Romeo and Juliet through Music Hundred year old tale of star-crossed lovers relevant through symphonic stylings PREVIEW

Andrew Fugleberg Contributing Writer

The work of William Shakespeare has inspired thousands of works from movies, books and even symphonic composures.

North Dakota State’s Festival Concert Hall will host a rendition of “Romeo and Juliet” at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday and also 2 p.m.

Sunday.

“Romeo & Juliet ...

Three Versions” will also feature actors from Theatre B performing small pieces of Shakespeare’s famous play in-between the musical numbers.

Three of the pieces being performed at this concert have been performed before across

the world. Two pieces were composed by Russian composers, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, who display the richly romantic side of Romeo and Juliet’s story with modern and thematic tones appearing in Prokofiev’s later work.

The third piece, written

by Leonard Bernstein, includes West Side Story’s symphonic dances with a Latin infused electronic dancing flare to change the pace of the concert.

This night at the symphony will also be premiering a work entitled “Heart’s Ease” commissioned for the string players in the FargoMoorhead Symphony Orchestra. The piece was composed by local Daniel Breedon, a composition professor at Concordia

College who plays violin in the symphony orchestra.

The piece is entitled “Heart’s Ease” for two different reasons. First, there was a song with the exact same title that was extremely popular in Shakespeare’s time (For this same reason, there might be a symphonic arrangement entitled “Blank Space” hundreds of years in the future).

Second, the song refers to a critical point in the play where Juliet’s “dead” body is found by the wedding party. Romeo, incredibly distraught by the presumed loss of his lover, is on the verge of completely losing it.

So, to prevent a total breakdown, Romeo asks the band to play “Heart’s Ease,” a relaxing tune that

he hopes will remind him about all the good life has to offer. Hopefully symphony-goers will listen to this song without thinking that the person they love the most is dead.

This weekend of concerts kicks-off the exciting month long Shakespearefest 2016, a celebration including plays, trivia contests and ShakesBeer happy hours for everyone over the age of 21.

Tickets for this Romeo and Juliet concert are $25 - $35 for adults and $10 - $15 for high school and college students.

Student rush tickets are available (accompanied by a student ID) for only $5 starting an hour before the performance.

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Mountains and Grandpas This weekend brings movies full of action, horror and comedy Andrew Fugleberg Contributing Writer

Hollywood is bringing out the big guns this week, debuting several large budget movies. North Dakota State’s Campus Attractions is following suit, showing fan-favorites, too. These titles are sure not to disappoint in the fields of action, horror and comedy.

Everest

“Everest,” playing in the Memorial Union at 7:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, is an adventurous biographical thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

This movie, detailing the tragic events of the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster, focuses on the real life struggles faced by climbers.

Getting to the summit is the easy part; getting down proves to be much harder.

Unsurprisingly, frozen fingers and numb toes are the norm in this film (common themes for NDSU students). Moviegoers can expect to see the struggle required to climb Earth’s tallest mountain while being immersed in the jarring cold.

The 5th Wave

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Schedule of events for Romeo & Juliet in 3 Versions.

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Destruction and mayhem collide in this pulse pounding thriller set in the modern day. This film, premiering Friday, follows Cassie (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she fights extraterrestrials while trying to save her younger brother.

The aliens, simply known at the “others,” eradicate the human population in a series of deadly waves. Even though this movie is based on a book by Rick Yancey, even

the most casual movie fan will be able to follow along with this exciting action installment.

The Boy

This supernatural horror flick, releasing also on Friday, preys on moviegoers’ fear of creepy looking dolls. When an American girl named Greta takes a posh job as a nanny in a remote village of United Kingdom, she thinks everything will go smoothly.

Unfortunately, things do not go as planned when the boy Greta was supposed to be in charge of died several years prior.

Greta is hired to take care of a life-sized male porcelain doll that comes with a specific set of cryptic rules. Instructions like, “Don’t cover his face,” “Never leave him alone” and “Clean the traps” all set the stage for a disturbing tale of a spirit haunting a doll that gets very upset when the rules are broken.

Dirty Grandpa

Zac Efron and Robert De Niro combine forces in this much anticipated comedy. The duo travel to Venice Beach, Florida during Spring Break, a week before Jason Kelly’s (Efron) wedding, much to Jason’s chagrin.

Jason is tricked into the week long endeavor by his grandfather, Dick Kelly (De Niro) after the death of his wife. Partying, sex, drugs, alcohol and Aubrey Plaza are thrown into the mix on this crazy typical spring break comedy. Flick fanatics can look out for crazy antics, physical comedy and enough loud music to make your R.A. complain in this highly anticipated film.

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College, Minimum Wage and Poverty: A Love Story

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Raising Minimum Wage isn’t Sole Solution There are limitations to how much the minimum wage can fight poverty

Surviving on the edge of financial security

“Welcome to college in the 21st century, where it is almost as hard as your most challenging class to stay afloat financially.”

Erik Jonasson II Opinion Editor

College is a time for learning. A time for growing. A time for crunching numbers and making that loaf of bread last for the rest of the week.

Welcome to college in the 21st century, where it is almost as hard as your most difficult class to stay afloat financially.

Yes, the minimum wage is shit. And yes, we have a reason to complain.

We are not asking for handouts. That would be counter-intuitive. College is supposed to teach us vital lessons. These lessons include rolling passed-out friends over on their sides and balancing finances.

I guess I am crazy in thinking the education is the most important part of our lives, though.

Let’s look at some numbers. In the year 1980 a Private Nonprofit Four-Year College cost about $10,438.

While here in 2015 that price has increased, to the now average cost of $32,405 (according to College Board).

Let’s now do some math. We find the percentage change between $10,438 and $32,405 to be approximated at 210.45 percent.

Let’s find the other side of this story. We have jobs, not great jobs most of the

time, but jobs nonetheless.

Minimum wage. It smells of shoddy business owners, terrible working conditions and even worst turnover rates.

So let’s again compare 1980 and 2015. So in 1980 the minimum wage was $3.10 (according to the US Department of Labor).

Now more recently (2015) the minimum wage is $7.25. Using the same math that got us the percentage change, we can find that the minimum wage has increased by 133.87 percent.

So here is the kicker.

If we were to apply the increase in cost of college to the minimum wage it would then be around $9.62.

We are easily working harder, for less percentage of pay, for more college debt and less available time for studying.

Now the important thing to remember here is that this is ignoring states with higher minimum wages (Washington, California, and Washington D.C.), and of course we are ignoring taxes. After tax, minimum wages around Fargo is around $5.

That is a lot of numbers, math and ranting. What does this mean; why should you care?

We should care because this is our future.

We should care because we have to choose between being employed, or choosing poverty and

focusing solely on school.

For too long we have allowed the minimum wage to stagnate. The national minimum wage hasn’t been raised since 2009.

We have allowed people to sling insults at others, without looking at the numbers. We, the people who are working minimum wage jobs, have expenses.

For me, the expense is trying to get a better education.

America is not the first in education. We are slipping, and I think one aspect we need to change is how we treat the upand-coming people of this nation.

You have a right to have as much time as you need for school. You are paying for it literally with your life (i.e. debt). Yes we all need to learn lessons, and that is fine. We are adults, we can handle some stress, but constant fear of going below $0 is not fair.

I hope that things will change. I hope that future generations look back at this time and wonder how we did it. We will overcome I hope, and maybe we will someday payback our debt to society back.

Or maybe we will become more accustom to moving back in with our parents after college, and maybe we will be complacent with the minimum wage. The choice is ultimately ours.

“While I think it is important to have government measures safeguarding against poverty, I do not think raising the minimum wage is necessarily an effective one.”

Matt Frohlich Staff Writer

We, especially poor college kids, ask the same question at some point in our lives: why doesn’t the government print off a bunch of money and distribute it to everyone?

This idea is a seemingly rational solution to a lot of the world’s problems.

It takes money to buy things. If everyone has money, then everyone can buy things. There would be no more poor people; everyone would be rich. It is the perfect solution to ending poverty.

The problem with this viewpoint is that it omits critical variables. In particular, it ignores the fact that scarcity forms the basis of all economic activity. Printing off more money would not eliminate scarcity.

While most of us learn this as kids, this kind of reasoning has a tendency to reemerge in adulthood. This time however, the question changes to: why don’t we raise the minimum wage to above poverty levels?

While I think it is important to have government measures safeguarding against poverty, I do not think raising the minimum wage is necessarily an effective one.

Using basic economics,

one should realize that raising the minimum wage would lower the demand for unskilled workers.

There is a point where raising the minimum too much would drastically increase unemployment for unskilled workers.

Employers would simply find ways to get by with fewer employees. So raising the minimum wage could potentially have the opposite of its intended effect: instead of fighting poverty, it would increase it.

Some employers may not be able to get by with fewer employees. This would put them in the difficult position of either declaring bankruptcy or hiring sub-minimum wage employees on the black market.

Unless you are a drug dealer, being hired on the black market is not usually a desirable thing. Such employees can miss out on numerous government benefits, such as workers’ compensation, social security and so on.

Also problematic is that black market employees may not be able to list their work experience when applying for non-black market jobs. The longer you are employed on the black market, the harder it is to get out of the situation.

This is the same situation

many illegal immigrants find themselves in.

I am not trying to sound pessimistic because there are some effective ways of fighting poverty.

Our progressive income tax system is probably one of the greatest anti-poverty measures ever introduced.

For those of you who do not do your taxes yet, those with lower incomes are charged a lower income tax rate. For now I am ignoring the fact that the super-rich have found loopholes that allow them to pay fewer taxes than everyone else.

Basically, any government provided benefit is a way of combating poverty without suffering the deleterious effects of raising the minimum wage. Such benefits include: housing assistance, tuition waivers, healthcare, unemployment and food stamps — among many others.

I am not opposed to the idea of government provided benefits. In fact I think they are a normal part of any functioning economy.

I do think it is important to have a minimum wage.

Just understand that it has its limitations, and in many instances there are more effective ways of combating poverty.

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The Happiness Project Review: Part 1 My Personal Review and Application of The Happiness Project REVIEW

Cierra Steffensen Staff Writer

Recently I acquired and began reading a book called The Happiness Project written by Gretchen Rubin in hopes to find a new and improved happiness in my life.

Although I haven’t read much, from what I have read so far I do believe that if we are capable of focusing our energy on finding what we need in

order to obtain a happier spirit, we will, indeed, become happier people.

This woman also runs a blog about her life in general and has many findings on what affects a person’s attitude.

Now this book is based on months of change instead of changing everything all at once. This process makes sense because discovering happiness is a process not some switch that you can flip on and off whenever you so choose.

However, your mindset

does play a very large part in finding a new happiness.

The introduction to the book states obvious changes to your daily life that will soon lead to a happier way of living. Things like waking up in the morning and getting a good breakfast or, possibly taking time to get in some physical exercise or meditation if you so choose.

The release of endorphins early in the day will automatically brighten your mind and body. Even something as simple as

“Even something as simple as stretching can cause a quaint bounce in your step leading to a lift in your day.” stretching can cause a quaint bounce in your step leading to a lift in your day.

Set aside time to do things you used to love about your day but tell yourself that you don’t have time anymore.

Growing up and become

proper “adults” puts a real damper on our days and we tend to forget that we can make time for ourselves.

We can make time to do something full of art and love in order to better our minds. We just, first, need to find what that thing may be.

Throughout the process of my own happiness project and analyzing each monthly chapter I hope to find a new happiness that maybe has gone missing or perhaps I didn’t even know I had.

I hope to find a new twinkle in my soul since the one I had, as a child seems to have dimmed considerably. I hope that by following along with my discoveries each week you, too, are able to create a happier you.

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THE SPECTRUM | Opinion | THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016

North Dakota Not Diverse? OK Then.

Tell that to every ethnicity from Europe and beyond who settled here

Jack Dura

Spectrum Staff

A road trip this summer showed me something I hadn’t thought of before.

Returning from Theodore Roosevelt National Park on Highway 2, my friends and I happened upon a replica monument to America’s first mosque — in northwestern North Dakota.

Now that was unexpected.

A little research after coming home confirmed America’s first building established as a mosque was built in 1929 east of Ross, N.D. Wow. I’ve heard how North Dakota is not “diverse” with its population of more than 90 percent white people, as ABC News reported in March based on U.S. Census data.

North Dakota, the network found, is one of the “whitest” states in the U.S. and for that reason, is one of the “least diverse.”

Now hold the phone.

Are we defining diversity as skin color or does it go deeper than that?

Surely the latter. Diversity, in its simplest terms, is the similarities and differences people have. So limiting the term to skin color or race is surely a shallow measurement.

Diversity extends to age, language, socioeconomic background, physicality, appearance, mental health, gender identity, sexual orientation and all around life experience. It’s everything you are.

Skin color is superficial.

We’re all different.

We all offer diverse perspectives.

As for North Dakota, I reject that our state is not diverse. Maybe not by ABC News’ standards.

Look at the state’s

history. North Dakota Studies found that “all the European and some Middle Eastern ethnic groups came to North Dakota. The variety of immigrant groups was phenomenal.”

Poles in Warsaw. Czechs in New Hradec. Lebanese Syrians in Ross. Jews in Marmarth and Devils Lake. African-Americans in Alexander and Driscoll.

Hollanders in Belfield.

Japanese in Williston.

Germans from Russia wrought iron cross grave markers for their Sioux neighbors in south central North Dakota.

Russian, Ukrainian and Greek settlers used the same house of worship in a

church west of Killdeer for decades.

A black woman was one of Fargo’s most affluent residents in the city’s early years.

North Dakota’s pioneers pulsed with true diversity derived from life experiences and wide ranging backgrounds. And as their descendants, we carry that heritage with us.

There are plenty of people who would lump all of North Dakota’s white population as one and call the state not diverse. These are probably the same people who would look past the state’s history and all the ethnicities and stories of those who came here to the

northern prairie.

What counts are the qualities of a person, not the quantity of a people.

North Dakota’s diversity is all around us.

It’s in the cemeteries of iron crosses wrought by Germans from Russia in Hague and Zeeland. It’s in the offerings at Medicine Rock, the oracle near Elgin visited by Hidatsas for hundreds of years.

It’s in 150,000 flowers in the International Peace Garden north of Dunseith, celebrating peace along the world’s longest unfortified boundary.

And in the minarets of a mosque near Ross, North Dakota.

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Descendants of Lebanese Syrian immigrants in northwestern North Dakota built this replica monument in 2005 to commemorate America’s first mosque, built in 1929 east of Ross, N.D.

Hardy Selivanow’s headstone in Korsun Cemetery in rural Dunn The grave of Bessie Carry the Moccasin, a Sioux woman County, N.D., is marked with Greek and who died in 1911, is marked with a wrought iron cross Cyrillic inscriptions memorializing made by a German from Russia in Porcupine, N.D. the Russian settler.

Gender Roles Cannot be Eliminated without Embracing Transhumanism Breaking down the walls of gender roles will lead to transhumanism

Matt Frohlich Staff Writer

Whether feminists realize it or not, their values condone and even encourage transhumanism.

American thirdwave feminists want to completely eliminate gender roles in the name of promoting gender equality. They are trying to accomplish this by changing social expectations regarding sex and gender; however, there are three primary forms of biological inequality that

cannot be eliminated via socialization: • Women have a biological monopoly on reproduction in that they can become pregnant.

• Men and women have different physical capabilities.

• Men and women have different behavioral patterns. Note that this contradicts feminist gender theory, which posits all gender roles are purely social constructs.

I consider feminist gender theory to be pseudoscience.

Transhumanism can be used to eliminate all of these inequalities. To a certain extent it is already being used in this manner.

Birth control, abortion and transgenderism are primitive forms of transhumanism that are

“This sounds like science fiction, but it may become possible sooner than people realize. Once it does, it will be difficult to justify why men and women are even necessary to perpetuate the human race.” condoned by feminists as a way of overcoming biology in the name of promoting gender equality.

The female monopoly on reproduction could be eliminated via several avenues. Artificial wombs could be used to produce children outside the human body, or men could be biologically altered to become pregnant.

This sounds like science fiction, but it may become possible sooner than people realize. Once it does, it will be difficult to justify why

men and women are even necessary to perpetuate the human race.

Differences in physical capabilities will become irrelevant within our lifetimes. Artificial limbs are expected to surpass human limbs in functionality by 2030. It may become inevitable that people will start surgically removing their limbs and replacing them with prostheses.

Our society has been using transhumanism my entire life to dampen the

behavioral differences between men and women. This is largely an unintended consequence of placing two different groups of people in the same educational system and expecting equal results.

For example, adolescent boys have behaviors that are not compliant with our education system, so we have responded by prescribing them medications that suppress hyperactivity.

This is a mild form of behavior modification.

Gender reassignment surgery is a more drastic way of altering behavior.

Currently, gender reassignment surgery is expensive; however, this price will go down. It will also become more effective. If it is covered by government funded

healthcare as feminists want, then people may be changing their sex/gender on a regular basis. Gender roles may be impossible to define at this point.

If you are opposed to utilizing transhumanism in these ways, then you are allowing biological inequalities to remain between men and women.

You in effect are imposing gender roles and are at odds with American third-wave feminism.

Remember, bodily freedom is one of the primary goals of feminism.

If you are a feminist, but are opposed to transhumanism, then you should go back and reevaluate your beliefs.

Feminism is not a harmless ideology; it has some serious implications.

Gym Rats Should Welcome Novice Exercisers

Using the New Year as motivation should not be viewed as a negative

Meghan Battest Staff Writer

With the New Year come New Year’s Resolutions — chiefly gymrelated ones made by those hoping to have a healthier year.

Following closely behind these are current gym enthusiasts bemoaning the jam-packed Wallman Wellness Center and the amateur newcomers. Of these two groups, the latter

is easily more annoying.

As a person who works out at the Wellness yearround, I have seen the influx of exercisers first hand. I agree that it is a bummer to get to the gym and find no open treadmills.

But what I find even more disheartening is how unwelcoming students who exercise often can be toward fitness novices.

Yes, you come here every day and you know proper gym etiquette.

Yes, you are accustomed

“Shame on you if you do not want those benefits for everyone though, especially if they are willing to earn them.” to whipping through your workout and not waiting for a rack or machine to open up.

But these facts do not entitle you to an empty gym or any sort of preference.

We all pay exactly the same wellness fees.

Without the subsidies from every other student at this university, you would be paying premium prices for the nice facilities and equipment you enjoy in relative peace throughout the rest of the year.

So, good for you, if

you are an avid gym-goer, generally this means that you have lower stress levels, better physical and mental health, and a more positive self-image. Shame on you if you do not want those benefits for everyone though, especially if they are willing to earn them.

For some reason we can all easily agree that obesity, heart disease and high blood pressure are problems; yet, when people decide to do

something about them and it requires us to exercise a little patience, we no longer see their working out as beneficial. How dismaying.

If what it takes is the start of a new year for people to find the motivation to go to the gym, then so be it.

Even if just one person sticks to the routine and improves his or her health, that should be worth the slight annoyance that a busy Wellness Center causes.

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Young Bison Guards Looking for Buckets First-year struggles are evident, but improvement is on its way Pace Maier Sports Editor

Khy Kabellis and Malik Clements have had a whirlwind of a season so far with the men’s basketball team.

Through the first 19 games, North Dakota State has played a Big Ten team in its second game of the 2015-2016 season. And then a Big 12 squad 16 days later, which resulted in a 20-point loss. The team even took a stroll down Bourbon Street in New Orleans. NDSU experienced a four-game winning streak

in the month of December and suffered a back-toback losing streak against Summit League opponents.

“It’s crazy just seeing parts of the country like I’ve never seen before,” Kabellis, a true freshman said. “It’s just a great experience especially being able to be with great guys and play basketball.”

But those long travels haven’t helped Kabellis and Clements knock down three-pointers for the Bison.

Clements is shooting 28.8 percent from beyond the arc, and hasn’t made two or more three-point shots since the game against

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, nearly a month ago.

In his last 11 games, Clements has made just eight of out his 29 threepoint attempts.

“That’s leading to nothing that the defense is doing,” the true sophomore said. “I think its just me on myself, and when my shot isn’t falling I think that I need to be more aggressive and take the ball to basket and draw fouls.”

But in his last four games he’s seen limited minutes, seeing the court only 5.5 minutes per game.

It’s a different story with

Kabellis.

In his last four games, he’s played 30 minutes or more, including a game against University of South Dakota where he was on the court for 40 minutes.

Poor shooting is also obvious in his game.

Kabellis is shooting 28.8 percent from the threepoint line this season and struggled in his first 14 games wearing the Bison uniform, making nine out of 42 three point shots (21.4 percent).

Since being thrown into the starting lineup, though,

the California kid has made 10 of his 24 three-point attempts in the last five games.

“I feel comfortable with it,” Kabellis said about his role and game play. “I’m just going to do whatever the team needs me to do and try and do it to the best of my abilities.”

And Kabellis and Clements are doing their best in the season of first’s for the both of them.

First shot made, first turnover, first foul committed, for example.

And with a few

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Freshman Khy Kabellis has played 30 minutes or more in his last four games.

departures from the team, the younger student-athletes are showing signs of improvement.

But with Carlin Dupree leaving the team, the two young guards (Kabellis and Clements), who are trying to adjust to the game need to make the next step up the student-athlete three-point shooting ladder.

Because even though NDSU is on a two-game winning streak, its next three games are on the road, and Kabellis and Clements are shooting 31 percent (24 for 77) combined in away gyms this season.

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Sophomore Malik Clements has made eight out of 29 three-point attempts in the last 11 games.

Fresh Faces and Familiar Foes

Brady and Manning will face off against each other for most likely the last time

Taylor Kurth Staff Writer

The quarterback still reigns supreme in the NFL, and on Sunday four of the most recognized quarterbacks will try to stake their claim in Super Bowl 50.

Tom Brady and Peyton Manning will meet for the 17th time in their illustrious careers. Manning and Brady have been almost as synonymous as peanut butter and jelly. This will be the fifth time that they have met in the playoffs and the fourth in the AFC Conference Championship game.

This year is different.

No longer is Peyton Manning a surgical engineer for an air strike offense while a putrid defense holds him back.

Manning was statistically the worst quarterback in the NFL this year. He threw at least one interception in every game he started this year, save for his lone playoff game. He

somehow finished second in interceptions despite missing the final seven games of the year. He has lost any resemblance of mobility he may have had and has become a sitting duck in many instances when he is unable to find an initial look down the field.

With all that being said, Manning has done the most important thing in his last 1.5 games: he has won.

Manning engineered two straight late comeback wins against the San Diego Chargers and Pittsburg Steelers.

If he can protect the ball, then he can lean on a stout and suffocating defense.

Tom Brady was on his way to having the best year of his career at the ripe age of 38 until his offensive skill players started getting hurt at a rate of once a week.

He lost his starting wide receivers Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola, starting tight end Rob Gronkowski and starting running back LeGarette Blount all in consecutive

“Manning and Brady have been almost as synonymous as peanut butter and jelly.” weeks. There were tough times in Foxborough that saw the Patriots somehow lose four out of its final six games.

However, it looks like the skies are beginning to open for the Patriots as they welcomed back Edelman and Gronkowski for its opening match up against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Gronkowski picked up over 80 yards and two touchdowns in his sleep, and all Edelman did was catch 10 balls for 100 yards and seven first downs.

The quarterbacks of these teams are 2-2 against each other in the Conference Championship, and this will probably be the last time we see these two titans square against each other.

On the other side of the bracket, two quarterbacks who had only won one playoff game combined

prior to this past weekend will play in both of their first conference championships. Cam Newton who is expected to win his first NFL Most Valuable Player award for his superb year will face off against Carson Palmer, who has had a career renaissance thanks to Bruce Arians’ air raid attack.

Palmer had a career year for the Arizona Cardinals, winning 14 games in the regular season.

On his way to throwing for the most passing yards of his career, Palmer also throw the least amount of interceptions he has ever thrown in a year where he started at least seven games. Just four and a half years ago, it seemed as if Palmer’s career was left for dead when he all but retired from Cincinnati because he just did not want to play.

He then had two forgettable

years with the Oakland Raiders.

Then, Arians came calling and since, when he has been healthy, he has been on a tear. He has been given a disposal of weapons including three 800-yard receivers (Michael Floyd, Larry Fitzgerald, John Brown) and two 1,000 yard receivers (Fitzgerald, Brown), as well as third round draft pick rookie running back out of University of Northern Iowa, David Johnson.

The likely MVP Cam Newton is fresh off of his second career playoff win, and it looks as if this is only the beginning for Mr. Dab. Newton took his games to new heights this year behind an infectious swagger and exuberant joy as he rifled touchdown passes to wide receivers you would expect to see on a team that is not 15-1.

Newton played the entire year without his number one option from last year Kelvin Benjamin who tore

his ACL in training camp.

Benjamin was a 1,000 yard receiver his rookie year.

Instead, Newton threw 10 touchdowns to Ted Ginn, which is all the more improbable when you consider that Ginn had 11 career receiving touchdowns at the end of August. He threw five more to rookie receiver Devin Funchess and four to undrafted free agent Corey Brown.

Newton’s prowess in the running game hasn’t even been discussed as he orchestrated the number two rushing attack in the NFL and ran for 630 yards and 10 touchdowns. The defense that plays behind him is pretty good as well as they had three All-Pro defenders.

Two quarterbacks in each of their first conference championship games and two quarterbacks in their 10th (Brady) and 6th (Manning) conference championships.

A perfect unison between old and new.

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Top 5:

Spring Season Sneak Peek Karson Sorby Staff Writer

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“If we can do this now, we know we can go so much faster, jump so much farther and throw so much farther for the rest of the year,” Teschuk said.

Records Broken at Bison Classic

Teschuk, Schwarzkopf among winners on Saturday at Shelly Ellig Sports Facility

Maggie Crippen Staff Writer

Even casual Bison fans recognize the name Erin Teschuk.

But only the super fans recognize — and correctly pronounce — the name Conrad Schwarzkopf.

Both were winners while competing against South Dakota State, University of North Dakota, University Saint Mary’s, Minnesota State University Moorhead and Manitoba on Saturday at the Bison Classic at the Shelly Ellig Indoor Track & Field Facility.

But only one of them broke a North Dakota State record.

That was junior thrower Schwarzkopf.

The big man from Bismarck won the weight throw event with a throw of 64 feet, 6 inches. This mark ranks him among the top 30 in the United States. The throw also earned Schwarzkopf his first Summit League Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week award Tuesday.

“We are obviously coming off Christmas break, so there’s a little bit of rust here and there,” NDSU assistant coach Justin St. Clair said. “It’s about competing, and that’s all it really comes down to.”

Facility records were also broken by senior Colin Paarmann, who won the triple jump with a personal best of 48 feet, 6.75 inches, and NDSU assistant coach and Olympic qualifier Trevor Barry tied his own facility record of 7 feet, 4.5 inches.

Other male track and field athletes to finish on top for NDSU were sophomore Jonah Warwick, who won the 1000-meter with a time of 2:33.22.

Kevin Drotts, a sophomore pole-vaulter, set his indoor-best at 15 feet, 1.5 inches.

Other sophomores, Landon Jochim, Brant Gilbertson and Matt Bedard helped the Bison team.

Jochim took secondplace in the 200-meter dash, Gilbertson finished second in the mile race and Bedard placed third in the

400-meter dash.

“Hopefully by the time conference comes around or maybe nationals, all the competitive nerves are out of the way and we are ready to go,” St. Clair said about NDSU’s upcoming season goals.

On the women’s side, Bison senior Erin Teschuk won the mile with a time of 4:37.49.

Contributing to Teschuk’s success was teammate Maddie Van Beek. Quickly, Van Beek led the pack in the mile, and slowly pulled away with Teschuk right on her tail.

This was all planned, on lap five out of eight Van Beek stepped off the track and did not finish the race.

The sole purpose of her entering was to pace teammate Teschuk.

“I think it’s just about getting a really hard effort to start off the season,” Teschuk said of one of the first meets of the season.

“It’s a building point and from there just keep getting faster.”

NDSU sophomore Courtney Pasiowitz took

first place in both throwing events, the shot put and the weight throw, setting a personal best of nearly two feet in the shot put, throwing it 51 feet, 6.5 inches.

Other Bison winners were junior Amy Andrushko, junior Melissa Kitching and sophomore Alexis Woods. Andrushko won the 800-meter with a time of 2:11.03, Kitching won the 600-meter with a time of 1:32.95 and Woods also took first in the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.46.

“This was a good test to see where we are at,” assistant coach Andrew Carlson said of the runners.

Both the men and women’s track and field teams will compete Saturday in Brookings at South Dakota State’s Jim Emmerich Alumni Invitational.

“If we can do this now, we know we can go so much faster, jump so much farther and throw so much farther for the rest of the year,” Teschuk said.

As we begin 2016’s spring semester and our slow transition into the warmer half of the year, the spring sports teams look to heat things up as well.

Here are my top five spring story lines.

5. To start out its spring season, the North Dakota State baseball team will host multiple camps to get into the swing of things.

Beginning its games in February, the team has multiple match ups as they begin play. Similar to the baseball team, the NDSU softball team is also hosting a winter clinic before its season begins. The softball team will begin its games in early February in Austin, Texas competing in the University of Texas Tournament.

4. As the NDSU men’s basketball team eases into the spring section of its season, the competition gets more serious. With a record of 13-6, the team looks to make big moves heading into the Summit League Tournament (held in early March). In the past two years, the Bison have broken into the NCAA Tournament. Looking to do this again, the team is aiming to finish the regular season with plenty of success.

NDSU’s women’s basketball team also continues to push through to finish out its season with hopes for success in the Summit League Tournament. With a losing record of 5-14, the girls hope to improve its record to finish out the season on a high note and perhaps

higher playoff seed.

3. Beginning its spring competition on Feb. 22, both the men’s and women’s golf teams become increasingly more committed to its practices.

With solid performances before the winter break, both teams have its eyes on the prize — the Summit League Championship in April and May. 2. The NDSU track and field Twitter account tweeted recently that the top five shot putters in the history of indoor track and field are currently on the team, Alex Renner, Payton Otterdahl, Brandt Berghuls, Steffan Stroh and Conrad Schwarzkopf. The women’s team also boasts plenty of talent in the shot put category with sophomore Courtney Pasiowitz, recording a new personal record, as well as Katelyn Weimerskirch, who missed her personal record by a half of an inch at the Bison Classic on Saturday.

1. Finally, one spring athlete in particular has had a spectacular year already.

Entering into the spring season of her senior year, Erin Teschuk already has a 26th place finish in the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships last fall. At the Bison Classic Saturday, Teschuk completed an NCAAleading mile time of 4:34.77. While this isn’t her overall personal record, beginning the outdoor season at such a good spot is bound to put her in a good place for this season.

Teschuk was recently named Summit League Athlete of the Week for the fifth time in her career and also holds seven school records (four of which are indoor).

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Maggie Crippen Staff Writer

We have all heard the phrase “give credit where credit is due,” and I think it is time to give some credit to the men behind the scenes: the sports information directors and multimedia interns.

They are responsible for all the information about Bison athletics, which we love to absorb, and are working nearly around-theclock to spread the word about North Dakota State’s student-athletes.

Learning their names is simple: there are three Ryan’s, a Wes, a Jeff and a Brett. These are the six that I interact with and who help me in my sports writing and journalist responsibilities. I’m sure there are others, but I would like to talk about the ones I know, and know me.

Ryan Nelson is the

multimedia coordinator, which basically means he runs everything that Bison athletics as a community puts on any media. Gobison.com is a work of Nelson’s, and from perusing through other university’s websites, gobison.com is the most organized, entertaining and useful athletic website I’ve worked with.

Nelson also works with Brett Rorie, whose title is a multimedia intern. Together they take and create the videos, both previews and highlight reels, of most of the Bison meets, games and tournaments. Not only are these videos repeatedly shared throughout Facebook communities, there is a NDSU Athletics YouTube channel that is an archive of all the videos.

The other two Ryan’s are Ryan Perreault and Ryan Anderson. Perreault is the director of athletic communications, and also

is in charge of the football team’s press conferences, and handling the press box at games. Anderson, along with Wes Offerman and Jeff Schwartz, are collectively in charge of the rest of the sports information for other Bison athletic teams.

Ryan Anderson takes care of women’s golf: he runs the Twitter account, writes articles about the tournaments and publishes all the recent accomplishments on gobison.com. These guys work hard to keep the outside world updated, and it comes in handy to students, faculty and fans.

It’s always nice to watch videos of the football team winning championships, or Kory Brown after making a double-double at Scheels Arena.

But don’t forget where they came from; they’re from the hardworking men in the green polos and khakis.

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Women’s Basketball

Practices Patience

Short-handed squad still searching for first Summit League win COLUMN

Connor Dunn Spectrum Staff

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Freshman Kennedy Childers takes possession of the ball while junior Emily Spier looks on.

When former Penn State assistant coach Maren Walseth took over the program two years ago, it was expected the Bison wouldn’t be making any runs to the NCAA tournament in the first few years. It takes time to build a program as a new head coach and instill new philosophies while recruiting for the future.

For a team that went 6-24 in 2013-2014, an 1118 record with a 7-9 mark in Summit League play was seen as an improvement for Walseth’s first year.

Turn the page to this year, and the team is still looking for its first Summit League win halfway through the season.

That might seem alarming to those not paying attention to the NDSU women’s program, but let’s pump the breaks on that train and play some defense for this year’s team.

A few weeks back, South Dakota State came to Fargo in a game many people might have written off, with the Jackrabbits being preseason favorites to return to the NCAA Tournament for the Summit League.

In a game of runs, the Jackrabbits were only up by four points at half.

The Bison responded out of the break to tied it up

just before SDSU went on another run. NDSU again answered the run to come within one point with seven minutes left in the game.

SDSU then finished the game on a 19-2 run, and the final score wasn’t entirely predictive of the full game the Bison played.

Two weeks later, the Bison took the University of South Dakota, a team sitting atop the conference standings, to doubleovertime in the Benson Bunker Fieldhouse last week, losing 96-94. NDSU held a 93-88 lead with less than three minutes left in the second overtime, but couldn’t hold on late.

Following its narrow victory, the Coyotes went into Frost Arena to play the perennial power and preseason favorite South Dakota State and came out with the win.

Quality losses aren’t going to get a team anywhere in the conference standings, but for the Bison to play the Jackrabbits tough and compete with the Coyotes for 50 minutes finishing with only five players in the game, it goes to show this team hasn’t given up on the season or second-year head coach Maren Walseth.

That’s the problem this year’s Bison women have faced the entire season, starting with seven healthy players to begin the year.

That number has fluctuated to nine for a few games, but it’s dwindled back to

seven since the start of conference play.

Frankly, it’s hard to play and compete for a full 40 minutes at the Division I level with only seven players.

As long as the five are healthy, the Bison have stuck with the same starters for the majority of the games this season, and all five of those starters are averaging between 29 and 35 minutes per game.

For sophomore guards Taylor Thunstedt and Brooke Yaggie, that number has ballooned since conference play started to 38 and 37 minutes per game, respectively.

Thunstedt played every single minute of the games against USD and SDSU. The Bison have already locked down seven recruits for next season, but none of those girls can be of much help to Walseth’s team this year.

However, NDSU has the perfect opportunities to get their first win in conference play this season, as Western Illinois and Indiana University-Fort Wayne come to the Benson Bunker Fieldhouse on Thursday and Saturday.

IPFW is also looking for their first win of the conference season, and Western Illinois only conference road win was a narrow defeat of the Mastodons 78-74 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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