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NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | FOR THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
TUITION FOR VARIOUS COLLEGES NDSU Tuition Rates & Fees For Full Time Undergraduate Students 2015 -2016
BASE TUITION RATES $ 3,381.00 $ 3,787.00 $ 9,028.00 $ 281.75
ND Residents MN Residents Other Non-Resident DCE & COOP per credit rate Full-time North Dakota residents pay $3,381.00 for base tuition and full-time Minnesota residents receive reciprocity, paying $3,787.00 for base tuition.
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Fact Sheet: 2016 Spring Tuition Tuition, fees and overall costs at NDSU
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Cost
In the spring 2016 semester, full-time students who are North Dakota residents will be paying $3,381 in base tuition, full-time Minnesotan students will be paying $3,787 in base tuition and full-time nonresident students will be paying $9,028. All students are also required to pay mandatory student fees, regardless of the benefits gained from paying the fees. For the spring 2016 semester, every student will pay $607.86 in mandatory student fees.
Where tuition goes
Tuition is not tracked for specific destinations at the university, said Bruce Bollinger, NDSU
$ 4,498.00 $ 5,038.00 $ 12,009.50 $ 374.83
ND Residents MN Residents Other Non-Resident DCE & COOP per credit rate
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Casey McCarty Xiaoxi Wang pays $23,000 per semester as an international pharmacy student. The Jinan, China, native said she took a scholarship offer for North Dakota State’s “great pharmacy programs.” “I have sometimes between $12,000 to $18,000 tuition per semester,” Wang said. Wang is one of thousands of NDSU students paying tuition this month for the spring 2016 semester. Spring semester tuition is due Wednesday.
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“The revenue comes in ... to one big pot. We determine the budgets and all the various operations of the universities, and so the tuition is comprised of a percentage of that budget along with the state.” - Bruce Bollinger, NDSU vice president for finance and administration vice president for finance and administration. Instead, tuition is accumulated into a general pool of money that is then distributed to fund university operations. Bollinger said that both North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s office as well as the NDUS office have an indirect goal of NDSU being funded 60 percent by state funding and 40 percent by tuition funding. The 2014-15 NDSU annual budget showed about $124 million was funded by the general state fund and about $115 million was funded by tuition payments, leaving 28 percent of the school’s overall budget being state funded and 26 percent of the school’s overall budget being funded by tuition. The rest of the budget is funded by sources such as grants and contracts. From these two sources of funding, the money is pooled and distributed to fund NDSU. “The revenue comes in ... to one big pot. We determine the budgets and all the various operations of the universities, and so the tuition is comprised of a percentage of that budget along
with the state,” Bollinger said. “We don’t keep track of how much of that budget is tuition and how much of that is state because it’s going for the overall purpose and mission of the school.” Bollinger also said the state does not hold NDSU accountable to know which part of funding was contributed by state funding and which part was tuition-funded.
Where fees go
There are eight different fees that make up the aggregate funding from student fees. These fees are the student activity fee, the union bond fee, the career services fee, the technology fee, the health/wellness fee, the library fee, the North Dakota Student Association fee and the ConnectND fee. Bollinger said “most of the fees are for a specific purpose ... the wellness center is 100 percent funded by the fee that is associated to support that.” Student fees are controlled by the student fee advisory board, which is chaired by student body president Eric McDaniel. McDaniel said though student government has the majority of the votes on the SFAB, the only fee that student government directly oversees is the student activity fee. Jay Homan, student government executive commissioner of finance, said, “We only monitor and track and disperse the student activities fee, so that’s about $4 million, just less than that ... $3.8 million of student activity fee that we allocate to our Tier I and Tier II organizations.” McDaniel also said that the student activity fee has to go to something benefitting students and gives services to students.
$ 3,541.50 $ 3,966.50 $ 9,456.00 $ 295.13
ND Residents MN Residents Other Non-Resident DCE & COOP per credit rate
ENGINEERING
$ 3,720.50 $ 4,167.00 $ 9,934.50 $ 310.04
ND Residents MN Residents Other Non-Resident DCE & COOP per credit rate
NURSING
$ 3,915.00 $ 4,385.00 $ 10,452.50 $ 326.25
ND Residents MN Residents Other Non-Resident DCE & COOP per credit rate
PHARMACY
$ 6,672.00 $ 7,100.50 $ 17,814.00 $ 556.00
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ADDITIONAL
FEES
Activity Fee Union Bond Career Services Technology Fee Health/Wellness Fee Library Fee ND Student Association ConnectND Free Total Per Credit Base Rate Total
$ 12.64 $ 3.85 $ 1.83 $ 8.44 $ 15.05 $ 3.32 $ 0.03 $ 5.50 $ 50.66 $ 607.86
15% Gratuity will be added to the bookstore for students who wish to buy any of the supplies needed to actually pass classes.
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Athletics Requests 35 Percent Increase in Student Fees Tier I Organization met with storm of questions at Friday open forum Maughan said he would bring Monday to a followup forum, along with athletics’ contingency plan should SFAB reject their proposal. The same participant called a proposed priority points system “a gross misuse” of student fees in funding ticket priorities for graduated students instead of using student fees for current or future students. “This does not promote that,” the participant said. Maughan discussed the priority points system for graduates who would like season or single-game tickets. “We think there should be a benefit for our students when they’re paying and helping us through the athletic department. They start accruing those priority points ahead of time,” Maughan said. “Our proposal is that if we can go ahead and get this threeyear commitment and raise this up that you will start getting priority points for the total amount of money that you’ve paid when you’re a student here.” “We’d like to have you jump if you ever decide to come back, because you paid tuition, you did that,” Maughan responded to the participant’s criticism. “You’re such an important part of our relationship and our atmosphere, that’s why
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Students attending an open forum Friday regarding proposed student fee increases had criticism and questions for NDSU athletics. The Tier I organization requested a 35.5 percent increase in student fees from $4.70 per credit to $6.37 per credit over the next three years. Todd Phelps, athletics deputy director, and Jack Maughan, senior associate athletic director for development, presented their PowerPoint outlining the needs for increased student fees for athletics. Their reasons given include “to be more competitive with comparable universities, and to maintain the success that we have had recently.” The open forum was one of four scheduled between Thursday and Monday for student input on increased fee proposals regulated by the Student Fee Advisory Board. Athletics’ proposal was met with over 25 minutes of questions and comments from forum participants. One male attendee pointed out his concerns about NDSU athletics’ budget breakdown, which
we threw that in there.” Other attendees also criticized athletics’ proposal, ranging from a 2014 five-year plan for student fees for athletics to waitlisted students for football tickets. Conner Swanson, who served on the 2014 SFAB, questioned why Phelps and Maughan were requesting a fee increase when athletics and other organizations received an increase for a five-year plan two years ago.
“What has changed and why are you back two years later and not five?” Swanson asked. “I’d have to go back and take a look at (that fee increase) and get back to you,” Phelps said. Phelps and Maughan’s presentation focused heavily on a slide detailing a comparison of student fees funding university athletics in which NDSU students paid significantly less than other universities’ in funding athletic budgets.
NDSU students fund 7 percent of NDSU athletics’ budget, or $1.4 million. Phelps and Maughan said they would like that number to double to “just shy of $3 million,” or around $2.9 million, mainly to help with cost of travel. “We’re very proud of the success we’re having but then not trying to put it all on the students and tuition and the university,” Maughan said. “We’re doing a lot of external things that most universities
our size and even larger ones are doing.” Phelps and Maughan said they will return to Monday’s noon forum in the Century Theater with requested information, including travel and budget breakdowns and athletics’ contingency plan. “What’s to say (this plan) is not gonna work again and you’re gonna be back in front of us again every year asking for more money?” Swanson asked.
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Students currently fund 7 percent of NDSU Athletics’ budget, or $1.4 million.
Project to Expand RDC to Begin in March West Dining Center also set for project within next five years to dine with the students they want to dine with ... We really find (lunch and dinner are) the only time they can catch time together.” Plans to expand NDSU’s dining centers have been “in the works ... the last four years,” Harwood said, adding the UDC was an early priority with increased lines and just 300 seats. Traffic from the STEM building has also increased demand at the UDC, Harwood said. The increased seating also brings a few opportunities like offering more food cooked to order. “Students are wanting fresher food, definitely, and also there are more dietary needs that need to be met for students,” Harwood said. The West Dining Center is also set to undergo an expansion in the next five years. The 400-seat dining center located near the high rise residence halls offers a late night option for dining in staying open until 10:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday. West also sees
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Another North Dakota State dining center is poised to grow. A project to expand the Residence Dining Center eastward onto the green space near South Weible will break ground in March. Tentatively, the project will be completed by January 2017. The RDC’s expansion comes months after the Union Dining Center grew by 90 seats in another expansion project that also added a conference room to the Memorial Union’s Upper Level. Michael Harwood, assistant dean of student life, said the RDC expansion will add 200 seats to NDSU’s largest dining center, which now seats 425. Expanding the RDC will alleviate rushes of students at peak mealtimes and offer more space as the only dining center open on weekends. “We are serving over about 1,000 students for lunch,” Harwood said, adding, “we want students
The RDC expansion will add 200 seats to NDSU’s largest dining center. campus’s dining center ahead, planning ahead,” increased lines at lunch and Harwood said. “parallels” President Dean dinnertime. The RDC expansion Harwood added dining Bresciani’s plan to grow east toward South Weible services serves over 7,000 enrollment to 18,000 will take out current green meals a day at its three students by 2018, though it space, and Harwood said dining centers. is not directly in line with it. he has heard no grumblings about losing lawn. The plan to expand “We’re always thinking
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“There didn’t seem to be any concern at this point,” he said. “I don’t see a whole lot of students out in that space in the spring and fall ... They use the volleyball court more than that green space.”
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NDSU Grad Student Earns Forbes Rank
Bone technology lands Andrew Dalman on ‘30 Under 30’ Casey McCarty Co-News Editor
From mechanical engineering to Forbes magazine, Andrew Dalman has a knack for hard work. Forbes recognized the graduate student for his work with manufacturing and engineering industry, particularly for his work in bone technology. The magazine’s “30 Under 30” listing, showcases young entrepreneurs and leaders. Dalman joined Bison Microventure as an undergraduate in spring 2012. The goal of his team with Bison Microventure was to develop a new type of dental implant to mount into the lower mantel of one’s jaw and to determine how well various types of implants interact with the lower mantle. Dalman’s interest in bone technology can be derived from wanting to recreate the experience of implanting something in a human mandible.
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Andrew Dalman joined Bison Microventure in spring 2012 as an undergraduate to help develop a new dental implant.
Dalman is the CEO of Advanced Bone Technology, his startup company. The latest work Dalman has done with Advanced Bone Technology is creating a patented composition that can be 3-D printed to create bone structure. Originally the technology started as an expansion project off of his Bison Microventure work, Dalman and team realized that the project was bigger than they originally thought. “This was not simply some little sub-project anymore. ... The application of the technology was not exclusive in anyway to our specific application,” Dalman said. Advanced Bone Technology’s work has a lot of practical applications too. Presently, companies and institutions, when developing a medical device or performing types of training, testing and clinical trial, often use
“If you can get some large percent of your bad ideas out of the way or refined into this one better idea, it really reduces the amount of late stage testing you need to do in order to achieve the same or better result.” - Andrew Dalman, graduate student cadavers before testing on living people. Cadavers are often messy, expensive, inconsistent between different cadavers and provide a multitude of administrative roadblocks that can slow down a business. What Advanced Bone Technology’s product does is allow companies to refine their work with bones to bone technology and bypass most of the need for cadavers by working with artificial bones. “If you can get some large percent of your bad ideas out of the way or
refined into this one better idea, it really reduces the amount of late stage testing you need to do to in order to achieve the same or better result,” Dalman said. Dalman’s work also assists cultures that are sensitive to the treatment of the dead in medical research, and also in preventing animal testing. Looking ahead, Dalman’s company is now incorporated in the state of North Dakota. Dalman aims to bring his company’s product to the market and ultimately develop his team into a small or medium sized business.
Reopening Event Planned for Library Entrance Renovations, first in decades, come at time of increased enrollment Hailey Colbrunn Contributing Writer
With the start of a new semester comes a new entrance to the main library of North Dakota State. After a year of processing, planning and construction, the library’s entrance has been improved to accommodate mobility concerns and to be a more inspiring space to students and staff. NDSU Libraries has an intricate history full of replacement and renovation. Campus’s original library was built in 1905. It was named Carnegie Library, now known as Putnam Hall. A new, modern library was constructed in 1950 after the university was
urged to adjust to the increasing number of students. In the 1970s, the university required even more space and a large addition to the building created the infrastructure students recognize today. “We are really aware that as enrollment grows, we are going to see more bodies in this building, and we’re trying to think ahead about spaces and how to make those available to students in the future,” said Bridget Burke, dean of libraries. Annual fall term enrollment data reported a steady increase in student enrollment with 2014 marking the highest enrollment number in NDSU history at 14,747
students. Along with the renovations, students are equipped with new spaces and furniture. “Seeing that mix of furniture, we can see the support for quiet, independent study and also group study,” Burke said. The library offers a group study area in the basement along with numerous individual study rooms. Burke said the number of individual study rooms checked out in 2015 reached 9,904, an increase of 420 from the previous year. “We seem to be meeting some real needs that students have by having a range of study spaces available,” Burke said. Students have noticed
the changes. “I think library renovations are long overdue because the basis of an outstanding university like NDSU should always focus on academics first,” said Mariah Bartholomay, a graduate student in the sociology department. Other construction projects on campus completed to provide improved spaces include campus’s new STEM building, the renovation of collaborative work areas in the Quentin Burdick Building and renovations to the Union Dining Center. The Libraries will be hosting a grand reopening for its entrance at 2 p.m. Friday.
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Renovations to the library entrance were completed in late fall. A reopening event will celebrate the renovations Friday.
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Project Linus
From 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Friday, Project Linus will take place in the Memorial Union’s Lower Level. Project Linus is a nonprofit that provides handmade blankets to children in need.
The project is free to attend and materials will be supplied to make tie blankets. Along with supplies being provided, there will be free food and a surprise guest speaker. The blankets made will stay local by going to children in need in the Fargo-Moorhead area.
The new Sanford Medical Center is nearing completion and is on track for opening in summer 2017 as crews finish up the interior construction, The Forum reported. The project cost $494 million, and Sanford’s construction project manager told the The Forum that “at any given time, 400 to 425 workers
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are on site … 1.6 million worker hours have gone into the project.” The new hospital will have room for 380 beds and will feature private patient rooms in the 11-story, 1 million square foot facility located on the south side of I-94 at the intersection of Veterans Boulevard and 51st street in Fargo. Paul Richard, Sanford’s
president, told The Forum “from our perspective, this is what Fargo-Moorhead and the region we serve needs.”
Coffee with a Cop
Fargo Police are continuing a program started in 2015, where every last Wednesday of the month they would sit down with community members. This month the informal
meeting will take place at McDonald’s off of Main Avenue in Fargo from 9-9:30 a.m. The Fargo Police Department and community members will be able to come together in a neutral space to discuss community issues. McDonalds will provide coffee as cops and citizens discuss community issues.
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Empowering Girls Worldwide Secor-Turner and friends work to end stigmas Kelsey Dirks Features Editor
Molly Secor-Turner has spent the majority of her life serving others. The North Dakota State associate professor started service as a teenage girl, looking to make a difference. Her mother introduced her to mission work in hospitals and schools in Kenya, Africa and the rest is history. When Secor-Turner returned to Kenya in 2012, she asked what were some of the greatest challenges students faced. Her research found that girls couldn’t always go to school when they had their period. In 2013, Secor-Turner and five of her friends founded the non-profit For the Good Period. For the Good Period works to educate girls on menstruation and provide washable reusable pads. Their greatest fundraising event, Pints and Pads will take place again sometime in March at the Fargo Brewery. The first year they distributed close to 3,000 pads and 1,000 pairs of underwear. In
Molly Secor-Turner is not only a mother of three but also an associate professor and founder of the non-profit For the Good Period.
doing so, For the Good Period was able to inform girls on the importance of safe sex, HIV prevention and staying in school. “There is no simple solution,” Secor-Turner said. Trying to minimize displacement of local pad suppliers takes time. “It’s a complex place and space to work in,” Secor-Turner said. Though the results are not immediate, Secor-Turner finds it incredibly rewarding. Going out and saying, “Hey! Women have periods. We should talk about periods,” is not effective. But talking about pads is a great way to talk about women in a respectful way. In this way we can say, “the lives of women and their reproductive health and they way their bodies work isn’t shameful. It’s part of life,” Secor-Turner said. “Talking about the worth and value of girls is a really awesome part that is related to pads. “When we don’t talk about periods and women, we marginalize women because we don’t talk about a significant part of their life”.
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One pad pack can last the girls five to six years.
A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing One black male explains what it’s liked to be feared
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This story is the second in a series of features on black students discussing race, identity and microaggression. For part one, visit “No, You Cannot Touch My Hair.” Each year at the Gold Star Marching Band’s banquet, section leaders honor members with a host of lighthearted awards. Just a few of these are based on a Biblical idiom: a wolf in sheep’s clothing, sheep in wolf’s clothing, sheep in sheep’s clothing or wolf in wolf’s clothing. Drum major DeJon Allen said he was surprised when he was awarded the “sheep in wolf’s clothing” this fall. The awards are meant as a compliment and a joke, and Allen said he took it as such. Still, he found the experience a little strange. “At home, I’m a big teddy bear,” he said. Back home in Kansas City, Missouri, the 6 foot 2 inch tall, 260-pound black student with shoulder-length dreadlocks fits right in. In Fargo, Allen says his experience has been very different. Allen, a senior, transferred to North Dakota State after two years at a community college in Missouri. Fargo gave him his first experience with the state, as well as living in a predominately white community. He said he could tell other students seemed to be afraid of him almost as soon as he got to campus. Living in Pavek Hall, he remembers attending his first floor meeting and watching as other students gravitated away. “I guess it’s just one of those things where since I don’t look like everybody else, they just assume I’m not personable,” he said. Now, the white friends he has admit they initially avoided him out of fear. “It was because I was big and black and had ‘locks,” he said. “There’s a lot scarier people, especially where I’m from, than I am,” Allen said. “So having people fear me here is different, I suppose.” In his first few months on campus, Allen said he experienced extreme
isolation. Without any friends, he had few people to turn to with problems or to vent. “I had to call my mother, talk to my roommate — who 75 percent of the time didn’t even get it because he was white so that didn’t help — or just figure it out on my own,” he said. That isolation strongly impacted his first semester. “It was definitely depressing,” he said. “Especially since I’m a big familyoriented person.”
Impact on young, black males
Beginning college can add new stressors to any young adult’s life. For black students, who are often first generation college students or come from low-income communities, finding support in the new environment can be a real challenge. Allen said it initially almost felt easier to take on the role of the “big, scary black guy.” “I didn’t want to be bothered anyway,” he said. “I’m just trying to get my education.” He said this fear also gave him his first taste of power. At home, the only thing that gave him any power was his size and education. Here, he holds some power just for the color of his skin. White students fear him or assume he’s like the African Americans they see on TV — often violent. “That ain’t who I am,” he said. “So the real me just kind of came out anyway because I’m just not a scary person.” Many of the friends he has now were either forced into situations in which they had to interact or simply became curious and decided to reach out. Allen said he’s grateful for the people who took a chance and talked to him. “I think for young people just the isolation is almost so much pressure,” he said. As a transfer student, Allen arrived in Fargo as a junior. He said he couldn’t imagine what it would have been like to move to campus at just 18 years old. “I figure if that also happens to (freshmen), they just fall into the role,” he said. “It’s a lot easier for them because, you know, for the first time they’re away from parents, they’re in an unknown situation, and, again, it’s just
Living in Fargo has been senior DeJon Allen’s first experience in a predominately white community. safer to be what people think you are in order to avoid being bothered.”
Maintaining a sense of identity
Allen struggled to find a community of his own. He said the small population of black students here often represents an extreme, pop culture version of black culture. From appearance (saggy jeans and trendy haircuts) to taste in music (primarily R&B and hip hop) to their general interactions with others (“louder than necessary conversations, aggressive natures”), Allen said NDSU’s black community is willing to conform to stereotypes portrayed by the media. For Allen and others who do not fit typical stereotypes of a young black male, the need to conform to the black community’s mold can mess with their sense of identity. “Sometimes it’s like I’m not black enough for black people, and I ain’t white enough for white people. “For white people, it’s like I’m way too black to even try to befriend or they fear me or something or just assume that I’m like what they see on TV, and that’s not it at all,” Allan said. “Then trying to befriend black people who are basically what white people
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fear they’re going to be is not even worth it either because I’m not even really close.” He said he thinks being isolated within a white community can cause some black students to overcompensate in an attempt to maintain a connection with black culture. “Being up here where there’s nothing else other than the few black friends or the small black community that NDSU has, like sure, even if you are an individual, you kind of conform just because its some kind of familiar to you,” he said. Allen said he’s not the only one who’s struggled to adjust to the community. “Freshmen I know and I’ve spoken to have kind of conformed or like had a hard time trying to fit in with the AfricanAmerican community and just period with the NDSU culture,” he said. He said he wish someone in those first few months would have just introduced themselves. “I would rather people would have asked me,” he said. “You know, just took a shot in the dark and try to talk to me versus assuming that I was a mean guy. “If I just changed my skin and my hair color, I feel like everything else would flip. It’s amazing what it does to people because it really is the smallest thing. It’s just a skin color, and it’s just my hair color.”
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Sullys Hill’s Story
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The climb up Sullys Hill leads to a lookout with a panoramic view of the Spirit Lake Reservation.
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A massive, monstrous lake is not the only natural curiosity at Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota. Sullys Hills National Game Preserve, a wildlife refuge and nature center, is a jewel of Mother Nature. Three landscapes meet at this former national park established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. It was decommissioned to a national game preserve in 1921, owing to its remoteness. In 1909, a Department of the Interior
report found that Sullys Hills National Park had no good road access, no buildings, no budget and no improvements. The national park also lacked staff, though a Fort Totten boarding school employee “was keeping an eye on� Sullys Hill. The park lay two miles away from the closest riverboat landing. The park also suffered from low visitation — about 250 people annually. The history of the Sullys Hill area alone is far-reaching. The refuge lies on the Spirit Lake Reservation, established in 1867 by treaty and headquartered at the town of Fort Totten, N.D. Fort Totten, the former military post and boarding school, still stands, built from local brick in 1868. The fort is now a
state historic site. Sullys Hill offers a variety of wildlife, ranging from bison to elk to 270 bird species. The refuge offers hiking, including a steep trek up Sullys Hill to a lookout point over the lake, forest and grassland. The game preserve totals 1,674 acres. Sullys Hill’s geology is also an interesting story. A south-moving glacier moving across eastern North Dakota ran over an aquifer pressurized by a layer of permafrost. The advancing glacier increased the aquifer’s water pressure, leaving no room for water to escape but up. The water’s upward movement forced materials into the path of the glacier, pushing the materials
south. After the materials moved away, a depression was left under the glacier, and an ice-thrusting event occurred, creating Sullys Hill and other moraine hills from the material the glacier scooped up. Sullys Hill is specifically comprised of brecciated shale and glacial sediment from Devils Lake’s main bay. The prominent hill sits at about 1,740 feet above sea level. Sullys Hill is one of several hills in a series of ice-shoved ridges along the closed basin that is Devils Lake, a natural lake with no natural outlet that has grown seven times in volume since 1993.
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Celebrities Upset Oscars White Like Mayonnaise Hollywood reacts to lack of diversity in Oscar nods Andrew Fugleberg Contributing Writer
Controversy surrounded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences release of the 2016 Oscar nominations. Despite the excitement surrounding this critical moment during awards season, several people were miffed that the Academy nominated only white actors and actresses in the leading and supporting categories for the second year in a row. This instance has sparked heated debate about the racism seemingly prevalent in Hollywood and the nominating committee. Several stars have already announced that they would be boycotting the ceremony due to the lack of diversity. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, both filmmaker Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith announced on social media they would not be attending the ceremony, taking place Feb. 28. Spike wrote his tirade in a message on Instagram, announcing that he means no disrespect to the Academy or anyone
“40 white actors in 2 years and no flava at all. We can’t act?! WTF!!,” – Filmmaker Spike Lee involved in the Oscars ceremony. Soon after, he implored, “How is it possible for the 2nd consecutive year all 20 contenders under the actor category are white?” Spike then questioned, “40 white actors in 2 years and no flava at all. We can’t act?! WTF!!” The legendary Whoopi Goldberg also spoke her mind while she was hosting “The View.” Contrary to what Spike and Jada have done, she feels that a boycott would not be productive since Chris Rock, a famous black comedian, is hosting. Goldberg stated that she’s “pissed off” this conversation only comes up once a year and then forgotten the other eleven months. From her perspective, it is not the nominators who are to blame; she thinks that movies with people of
color are not made because the money never comes. Goldberg stated that the real fight is inside the executive offices of Hollywood. Even the president of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, expressed her disappointment at the lack of diversity. She said in an official statement that the Academy will be taking “dramatic steps” to recruit new members that aren’t out-of-touch, old, white men. Isaacs stated she understands the critical concerns facing the nonwhite community while appreciating the input she has received in how to solve the diversification problem. As the Oscars draw closer, more celebrity drama is definitely inevitable. Perhaps more celebrities will boycott the ceremony out of anger, but it is expected that more filmmakers and actors will give their two cents. EMILY BEAMAN | THE SPECTRUM
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Bridging the Gap Between Technology, Nature NDSU “Hysterical Sublime” exhibit comes to a close Jack Hastings A&E Editor
The Memorial Union Gallery, in partnership with the Department of Visual Arts, is displaying student artists in an exhibit entitled “Hysterical Sublime.” The exhibit, which has been running since December 17, comes to a close this upcoming Thursday. It showcases photography and digital media students’ work. A closing reception will be hosted at the Memorial Union Gallery to recognize the excellent and thoughtful work of North Dakota State’s student artists. The closing reception will take place from 5p.m. to 7 p.m., with an artist talk at 5:15 p.m. The NDSU Visual Arts advanced photography and digital media program artists were tasked with exploring how we interpret, access and digest information. “Each of the artists here are interpreting data in very interesting ways, oftennonlinear ways, but they do it in a very sophisticated and compelling way that tells a deeper story,” says Anthony Faris, Memorial Union Gallery coordinator and curator of collections. The work can be viewed at face value, but the joy and experience comes from the underlying messages each piece of art conveys. When encapsulated
with any of the work, an exchange of information with the viewer takes place giving the exhibit a surreal interactive quality. In this way, the student artists accomplish their goal by inspiring further information to be transferred between viewer and art. “These have that sort of interactive quality to it; they are interacting with places, spaces, people and information,” Faris said, “in a way that we are trying to figure out a way a person can relate to those inanimate things.” The “Hysterical Sublime” exhibit as a whole has a fantastical quality to it. By transferring information that is otherwise intangible and invisible to the viewer to visual form, the world we are constantly interacting in has another facet to it that is brought to light. In an age where technology is increasingly prevalent, it is refreshing to see such inspiration drawn from it. “Hysterical Sublime” beautifully demonstrates the dynamic relationship and contrast between technology and nature. “There is an order to nature, but it’s sort of beyond our ability to really understand how nature is organized, so nature is considered the sublime. Hysterical sublime is like looking at our information age,” Faris said.
“Each of the artists here are interpreting data in very interesting ways, often-nonlinear ways, but they do it in a very sophisticated and compelling way that tells a deeper story.” – Anthony Faris, Memorial Union Gallery coordinator and curator of collections.
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Memorial Union Gallery’s “Hysterical Sublime” closing reception is this Thursday. “We try to make some sense out of it but we really can’t.” The Hysterical Sublime exhibition features the artwork of the following student
artists: Josh Barduson, Batbold Battseren, Emily Beaman, Shelby Biffert, Ty Bloom, Chelsea Burgan, Hillary Ehlen, Laura Gish, Ana Guttromson, Derek Hatzenbuhler, Logan
Macrae, Taylor Markel, Elli Minette, Nathan Mulske, Grace Olson, Nicholas Reitan, Samantha Schmoker, Kiley Smith, Jenna Thorson, Christopher
Tomkinson and Christopher White. The digital media and advanced photography faculty include Peter Atwood and Meghan Kirkwood.
Rosey’s Grilled Cheese Bistro New downtown restaurant doesn’t disappoint REVIEW
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Cozy, inexpensive, and the perfect place to get a grilled cheese, Rosey’s Grilled Cheese Bistro was as delicious as hoped. While making a good grilled cheese doesn’t seem like much of a process, much less necessary to a restaurant, Rosey’s is more than your mom’s grilled cheese (although they have that, too). As a new downtown restaurant operating as a pop up downtown, I will admit I was initially wary. There is no established website and the only information I could find about the mysterious bistro was in vague articles from “The Forum” and other news sites. After driving around Fargo for a few minutes, I finally found the alley leading to the restaurant. While the location wasn’t easy to find, it was beautiful to look at: Rosey’s is located in the old D’Vine building, in Robert’s Alley. The brick facade gives the new business an air of antiquity. Upon entering the business I was greeted
with the smiling faces of a few employees, warm candlelight and the divine smell of fresh grilled cheese. The bistro offers two seating arrangements: immediately when you enter the restaurant and upstairs. While I opted for upstairs, I can say the downstairs area provides you with a perfect view of the grill and the chefs making your meal. Upstairs was just as cozy and inviting. The tables are small, so large parties may not be a good idea; however, this seating arrangement provides intimate space. The roughhewn wood walls, candles placed tastefully on the tables, and sounds of chatter, laughter and stovetop cooking made the small space seemed less cramped and more friendly. Rosey’s is still a growing business, so the menu isn’t extensive. From the five available options, I chose the classic grilled cheese with a side of tomato soup as a dipping as well as the Snobby Frenchman sandwich. The classic grilled cheese was brilliant. It was cooked to the peak of gooeyness. Served on butter crusted white bread with American cheese,
it truly is a classic fit for all foodies from the adventurous to picky. The tomato soup was a nice compliment and added flavor to the sandwich. The Snobby Frenchman, served on butter crusted white bread with brie cheese, caramelized apples, and glazed pecans didn’t disappoint either. The apples added a sweet tang and the glazed pecans some crunch and flavor. Along with the sandwiches, I tried Rosey’s housemade fresh fruit sodas in raspberry and lemongrass. While the drink didn’t have much flavor it did have some zing and was a great refreshment in accompaniment to the meal. I would highly recommend taking the opportunity to try the newest Downtown Fargo restaurant. As a college student, the inexpensive menu, quality of food, and home-cooked nature of the meals was wonderful. If you can’t dine in, Rosey’s offers grilled cheese to go! I certainly plan on taking advantage of the dining, and the take out service, again.
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The water crisis in Flint is really a water crisis across the nation.
Flint’s Drinking Water and Our Decaying Infrastructure The infrastructure of this nation is crumbing We are talking about a part of our infrastructure that we depend on, and we trust with our lives.
Erik Jonasson II Opinion Editor
One-in-five of Los Angeles water pipes was installed before 1931. The Flint water crisis is something of an enigma. The fact of the matter is that Flint, Michigan, is a possibility for every city in this nation. As a nation we have ignored time and time again our aging infrastructure. I am not saying that Flint is deserving by any means, but did we, as a nation, know this was coming. “You ‘betcha.’” We literally have bridges collapsing under us in this nation. We must hear these thundering collapses of metal and concrete as a wake-up-call. Bridges are really easy
to see. A bridge, a sidewalk, a road, we use these everyday. We see cracks, we see rust, we see decay; I am scared to think of what we can’t see. We can’t see our water pipes. We can’t see our sewer systems. We are talking about a part of our infrastructure that we depend on, and we trust with our lives. We obviously don’t want feces in our water, which could kill us. Secondly we probably would be happy without lead in our water, which again, could kill us. Blind to this issue we are though. You will not live to see a Presidential Candidate use infrastructure as their campaign slogan. No more, “Jeb!” No more “Hope.” Why not “Safe Drinking Water,” why not “Bridges up to safety codes.” Because no matter where your political affiliation
is, nothing has seemed to change. Flint is in a hole right now. At this moment this city is among the poorest in the nation. Not only are 41 percent of Flint’s inhabitants living under the poverty line, but they also live in a city, in the developed world, with poisonous water to drink and bathe in. This is injustice. This is inhuman. This is a tragedy. And Los Angeles? The city is looking at having to spend over $1 billion on fixing their water system. Not only is LA looking to have to fix all of this within the next ten years, but also they are going to have to double the amount of pipe they replace annually, and triple the annual amount spent on replacing pipes. Our water crisis in Flint is really a water crisis
across this nation. Forget all of the mumbojumbo of the presidential campaigns. Talk is nothing. We need to do something about this. We need actual progress here. For a comparison, think of a Navy F-35C; the price tag is $337,000,000. That means that if we
were to forget about money, and use Navy F-35Cs as currency, it would take about three and a half to pay to fix LA’s entire water crisis. Think about how many Navy F-35Cs it would take to fix Flint. We have ignored this long enough; we
the taxpayers want safe drinking water; we want safe bridges. Our infrastructure is important. Enough is enough. Future generations depend on us making the right decision. This is the time we make that decision.
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Glorifying Busy Talk to your friends, don’t have a competition with them Meghan Battest Staff Writer
“So, after I get done with my first job at 7 a.m., I have a study group and then four classes and then my second job starts so I probably won’t have time to eat and then tonight I have two meetings with different organizations and then a major paper to write plus two exams to cram for.” I had only asked, “How are you?” Somehow, it has become the norm to list off your to-dos instead of your true feelings, and to crush yourself under the weight of your own obligations to stay constantly moving. And after four years of college, I have grown tired of people name-dropping
their busyness. People have begun taking every free moment in a conversation to insert how they are taking 21 credits and working 4 jobs while being the president of an organization and co-chair on a committee in another organization. These mundane facts come across like a contest, yet, no matter how much someone boasts about his or her upcoming schedule, it does not change the reality that the majority of college students are just as busy. Everyone has a thousand things going on at once and is attempting to balance school and having a life while somehow making money and trying not to dwell on the fact that student loans are looming. So, when a friend asks how
“Everyone has a thousand things going on at once and is attempting to balance school and a life while somehow making money and trying not to dwell on looming student loans.” you are doing, they are not asking what you have to do this week or to find out how much busier you seem than they do. What they do care about is how you are handling your stress and how you feel about your day, your week or your life. Our culture continues to glorify “busy” as another way to be better than someone else. If you cannot be prettier, be busier. But when we focus on filling our lives, we miss out on
being present and wind up drained. Check your priorities. If all of those tasks and jobs and organizations are fulfilling to you, then you should have no reason to complain about how busy you are. If they are not and you simply use them as social currency, maybe you should rethink your life as it is now and begin focusing on the things that really matter.
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Student Government
Inspired By Star Wars
Local Satirist Stockpiles Articles about Mass Shootings
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Group renames itself First Order, plans to build ultimate weapon
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Paul Subart Staff Writer
North Dakota State student government recently made shocking changes to its own constitution and is taking on a new role in the lives of students. Wooed by the recent release of the latest Star Wars episode, student government has renamed itself the First Order and plans to build an ultimate weapon of its own. The members of the once “honorable” institution found themselves sitting in the comfortable red reclining chairs of Fargo Theatre on a five-dollar movie night. “Most people found the film to be an entertaining tale of good versus evil; we really only enjoyed the evil parts, and found ourselves sympathizing with the dark side,” said Nikki Borstad, student government’s
public relations executive. “Oppression is clearly working for the First Order in the movie, so we would like to bring that same level of despair to our student body.” Ongoing and future plans are in the works. “Clearly the student senate was having none of our new plans so we as an exec team dissolved the senate and implemented a dictatorship,” said external affairs executive Jacob Dailey. “Currently we plan on using student fees to build an ultimate weapon, but we can’t think of anything more nefarious than the Aquatic Center, which is already being built.” Rumors have been heard that student fee increases without any purpose, and removing the ‘unlimited’ meal plan to better oppress the rowdy and hopeful freshmen are on the way. Current student body president Eric McDaniel will be assuming the role of student body dictator and Sith Lord, while his padawan Josh Fergel will do his bidding. “I’m really excited to be a Sith apprentice,”
“Eric and Josh betrayed me, and also what else am I supposed to do with this green and gold lightsaber?” – Dean Bresciani, Jedi leader. said Fergel, “I’m already designing my mask, it will be a cross between my two favorite Star Wars characters C-3PO and Jar Jar Binks.” Student government plans to start hanging Red banners all around campus and will require incoming students to take a mandatory midichlorian test along with the current ACT. Bike Share will be scrapped in the spring and replaced with TIE Fighter Share. “Alas, it doesn’t have a nice ring to it,” Sith Lord McDaniel said. “We encourage the average student to get out, stretch their legs, and participate in some recreational rebellion obliteration with this new program,” said Fergel “It’s a very costly program, and it wasn’t really thought out well, but they make really fun noises as you zip by
and blow up rebels. Ten out of ten, would recommend.” Student leaders had strong feelings toward those who may oppose the New Order. “Anybody who has a high enough midichlorian count that will not conform to our ways will be exiled to the edge of the known universe where no intelligent life exists (UND Fighting Hawks),” Borstad said. Hope remains however; a small band of rebel fighters have rallied around their Jedi leader President Dean Bresciani. “Eric and Josh betrayed me, and also what else am I supposed to do with this green and gold lightsaber?” said Bresciani. “ Ever since we kicked the fencing team off campus, I have been using this thing for party tricks and to spread butter on my morning six slices of whole wheat toast.”
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Amanda Wagar Staff Writer
Previously on Saving Grace: When Connor jumps onto the ledge of a bridge, Grace realizes that the day she fell was never a dream. “I...” It wasn’t a dream. “I remember. I remember the fall.” But that did not make sense, how could she have possibly fell from such a height and still be here… “You aren’t dead,” Connor supplied, watching her intently from where he stood, leaning against the ledge. His knuckles were white, as if in anticipation. “There is no way I could have survived that fall,” she murmured, shaking her head, walking way from him, her head in her hands as her shoulders shook. She could not get the images of the water out of her head now. Maybe it would have been better if she had never remembered in the first place. “And … and if it was not a dream, none of this can be real! You … you are not real.” “I am here Grace,” he reached forward to place
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a hand on her shoulder, “I am real.” But he couldn’t possibly be here, not him. Where was her mother? Where. Where was the big city? I’m dead, she thought with wide eyes, I’m dead and this is my own version of hell, my punishment for wanting to end my life before it was my time. She was in his arms before she realized when he had even moved closer, his chin resting on the top of her head, swaying with her slowly side to side, humming a familiar tune under his breath, the tune she used to hum when she was feeling lonely. “What is this?” she whispered, unsure whether she was asking about this world or his comfort. “A second chance.” He paused for a moment, pulling back and staring at her with that same concerned look that he had used before, when it looked like he was searching for something inside of her, only now, he had seemed to find it. “Grace, this place … it is not what you think it is. We need to get you back home before things get worse.”
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“What do you mean?” How would she even get home? If she was not dead then this … this must be all some creation of her mind. “Piper was only the first,” he responded with a sigh, averting his eyes from her. “If you don’t do something soon then...” “Then what? Spit it out Connor.” The moment he was starting to give her actual answers was when he went back to his vague self! If it was so important, why didn’t he tell her? “I can’t tell you that,” he admitted with downcast eyes, his hands spread out before him in some kind of sign of defeat. He looked terrible, his shoulders slumped and his head bowed, his bangs hanging over his face. It was as if he carried the whole world on his shoulders, but he could do nothing to save it from itself. “Then tell me what I can do,” she murmured, “help me wake up.” He raised his head to look at her with eyes that were endless pools of blue, wise beyond his years. “You already know what you need to do, Grace,” he told her. “Paint.”
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“Given the United States’ impressive track record last year… I’m pretty sure I’ve made a wise choice.”
Jon Lipp
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Dear readers, Hello my friends. I come before you today in hopes that I can help you understand a bit more about my line of work. While my preferred course of action is to put off writing my articles until the last-minute adrenaline rush drives me to be productive, some of my fellow artists take a different approach. I sat down with Saul Tubart, a ruggedly handsome Crop and Weed Sciences major, to get the lowdown on his preferred method. “While I don’t always plan as far ahead as this,” Tubart explained, “I took advantage of winter break to crank out a few articles satirizing acts of gun violence against multiple people. “Given the United States’ impressive track record last year, and the incredible apathy toward actually changing any aspect of our laws or culture, I’m pretty sure I’ve made a wise choice.” Although we disagree on most things, Saul definitely had a point on this one. ShootingTracker.com’s Gun Violence Archive logged an astounding 330 mass shooting incidents in 2015. Nearly one per day.
Given the fact that our benevolent overlords at The Spectrum only require one article per week, Saul appears to have discovered a wonderful shortcut at work. He further added: “Numbers like this have me convinced that America is completely unwilling to meaningfully address the issue. As such, I am quite certain that these articles will just be part of a cacophony of outrage that dies out within a few days. This allows time for the populace to return to their preferred lack of concern before the 24/7 news media raises tensions by reporting on the next spree. “But hey, at least I get paid!” At this time, reports indicate that President Obama is planning to take the issue of gun control into his own hands through executive action. While this seems to be the only way to circumvent the NRA’s ludicrous influence over Congress, it is unclear if he can enact any meaningful changes unilaterally. But what are a few more mass shootings in the meantime? Sarcastically Yours, Papa Jon
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Bison Women Win First Summit League Contest Three Bison score 18-plus, NDSU defeats IPFW Pace Maier Sports Editor
Marena Whittle, Taylor Thunstedt and Brook Yaggie combined to score 77 of the Bison’s 94 points in the team’s first Summit League victory over Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne on Saturday. The Bison (6-15, 1-7) won 94-85. Whittle matched her career-high for points with 33 and recorded her 10th double-double of the season
with her 18 rebounds. She was three rebounds and three assists short of earning career-highs in both those two categories. Whittle went 11-for-18 from the floor and 9-for-11 from the charity stripe. “I was defiantly feeling my outside shot today,” Whittle said. Yaggie, a sophomore recorded a new career-high with her 25 points at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse. “I’ve been struggling shooting it a little bit
recently, but I’ve gone to attacking; I mean it feels great, but the win feels better,” Yaggie said. NDSU outscored IPFW (4-16, 0-7) in the final three quarters, overcoming 19 turnovers. The Mastodons took the early 21-16 lead after the first quarter, but the Bison shot 50 percent from the floor to keep themselves in the game. NDSU went 31-for-36 on the free throw line, and Yaggie finished 12-for-12
as IPFW was fouling late in the fourth quarter to try and claw its way back into the game. It was a back-and-forth game throughout the second half, but NDSU pulled away in the fourth quarter leading by 10 points with just under four minutes to play. “It was earned,” Walseth said about the Bison’s victory. “Our players have worked very hard; they’ve come to the gym for a long time, focused, giving great effort, so this was a earned
and well deserved win.” The Bison were outscored 30-6 on bench points, but Walseth said it was good to have Megan Gamble back who hasn’t played in a few games due to an injury. Walseth said she told Gamble before the game that she was going to limit her minutes between 10-12, and she played 13 minutes dishing out four assists. “I don’t think she was happy with me,” Walseth said about telling Gamble
she was going to play limited minutes. “But she understood where we were going, and I’m very proud of her for her four assists to one turnover. That’s difficult to do not playing live completion in over a month.” This season after a win, NDSU has won its next game. The Bison will look to do that 4:30 p.m. Saturday against University of South Dakota in Vermillion.
WIU Scores 36 in Fourth Quarter to Beat Bison
Second half woes keep women’s team from first conference win JOSEPH RAVITS | THE SPECTRUM
The Leathernecks outscored the Bison 63-44 in the second half and scored 36 points in the final quarter to secure the win.
Pace Maier Sports Editor
So close, yet so far away. The North Dakota State (5-15, 0-7 Summit League) women’s basketball team watched its seven-point lead collapse in the second half as Western Illinois University (11-8, 4-2 Summit League) prevailed 94-82 Thursday night at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse. The Leathernecks outscored the Bison 63-44 in the second half and scored 36 points in the final quarter to secure the win. “That fourth quarter was absolutely ridiculous and embarrassing,” NDSU guard Taylor Thunstedt said after the game, which was the 10th annual Katherine Burgum Classic. “That’s not us; we are a lot better team than we showed, especially that second half.” Thunstedt hit a twopointer to put the Bison up 42-31 early in the third quarter, and then Brianna Jones went 2-for-2 from the free throw line to give NDSU a 44-31 lead. It was the team’s largest lead of the night. Things went
downhill from there. The scare of the night came with 2:56 left in the third quarter when NDSU’s Kennedy Childers went down holding her right knee and limped off the floor. Childers returned in the middle of the fourth quarter, but the nightmare had begun. WIU’s Emily Clemens made a layup to pull the Leathernecks within nine points, and Michelle Maher knocked home three of her 16 points to cut the Bison’s lead to 44-38. Maher hit another threepointer late in the third quarter, and WIU found itself down 56-52. And with 1:23 left in the third quarter, the Leathernecks pulled ahead 58-57 after Clemens banged home a three-pointer. The Leatherneck sophomore finished with a game-high 27 points. NDSU and WIU were tied at 58-all heading into the fourth quarter. The Bison led 60-58 with nine minutes to go, but the Leathernecks responded to tie the game at 60. The purple and gold then took off on a 10-0 run. Thunstedt was at a loss of words when asked about
the late third and fourth quarter meltdown. “I don’t know what happened,” she said. WIU outscored the Bison 34-22 over the last eight minutes of the game, and Thundstedt’s 23 points weren’t good enough to lock down NDSU’s first Summit League win. “I thought we were the aggressors and very much in control, playing very confidently the first half. And I thought we came out at the beginning of the third quarter very much the same,” NDSU head coach Maren Walseth said. “They went to a press ... we totally changed; we were very passive and tried to attack that and we didn’t have as much patience on the offense end.” Emily Spier and Marena Whittle finished with double-doubles for NDSU. Spier had 17 points and 12 rebounds as Whittle tallied 16 points and hauled in 14 rebounds. The Bison will have a quick turn around, hosting Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne 2 p.m. Saturday. The Mastodons are also seeking its first Summit League win. So close, yet so far away.
The North Dakota State (5-15, 0-7 Summit League) women’s basketball team watched its seven-point lead collapse in the second half as Western Illinois University (11-8, 4-2 Summit League) prevailed 94-82 Thursday night at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse. The Leathernecks outscored the Bison 63-44 in the second half and scored 36 points in the final quarter to secure the win. “That fourth quarter was absolutely ridiculous and embarrassing,” NDSU guard Taylor Thunstedt said after the game, which was the 10th annual Katherine Burgum Classic. “That’s not us; we are a lot better team than we showed, especially that second half.” Thunstedt hit a twopointer to put the Bison up 42-31 early in the third quarter, and then Brianna Jones went 2-for-2 from the free throw line to give NDSU a 44-31 lead. It was the team’s largest lead of the night. Things went downhill from there. The scare of the night came with 2:56 left in the third quarter when NDSU’s Kennedy Childers went down holding her right knee
and limped off the floor. Childers returned in the middle of the fourth quarter, but the nightmare had begun. WIU’s Emily Clemens made a layup to pull the Leathernecks within nine points, and Michelle Maher knocked home three of her 16 points to cut the Bison’s lead to 44-38. Maher hit another threepointer late in the third quarter, and WIU found itself down 56-52. And with 1:23 left in the third quarter, the Leathernecks pulled ahead 58-57 after Clemens banged home a three-pointer. The Leatherneck sophomore finished with a game-high 27 points. NDSU and WIU were tied at 58-all heading into the fourth quarter. The Bison led 60-58 with nine minutes to go, but the Leathernecks responded to tie the game at 60. The purple and gold then took off on a 10-0 run. Thunstedt was at a loss of words when asked about the late third and fourth quarter meltdown. “I don’t know what happened,” she said. WIU outscored the Bison 34-22 over the last
eight minutes of the game, and Thundstedt’s 23 points weren’t good enough to lock down NDSU’s first Summit League win. “I thought we were the aggressors and very much in control, playing very confidently the first half. And I thought we came out at the beginning of the third quarter very much the same,” NDSU head coach Maren Walseth said. “They went to a press ... we totally changed; we were very passive and tried to attack that and we didn’t have as much patience on the offense end.” Emily Spier and Marena Whittle finished with double-doubles for NDSU. Spier had 17 points and 12 rebounds as Whittle tallied 16 points and hauled in 14 rebounds. The Bison will have a quick turn around, hosting Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne 2 p.m. Saturday. The Mastodons are also seeking its first Summit League win. Emily Spier and Marena Whittle finished with double-doubles for NDSU. Spier had 17 points and 12 rebounds as Whittle tallied 16 points and hauled in 14 rebounds.
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THE SPECTRUM | SPORTS | MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016
Our Very Own
Paul Miller
NDSU men’s basketball’s diamond in the rough Maggie Crippen Staff Writer
There are over 1.5 million people in the United States with the first name Paul, and over 1.3 million people who have the last name Miller. To be more specific, there are approximately 6,400 people who have a first name Paul and last name Miller, but there’s only one who wears the number 2 jersey and steadily maintains a 43 percent three-point field goal percentage at North Dakota State. “His shooting is unbelievable with ballin-hand,” teammate Kory Brown said about Miller, even comparing him to an old teammate. “Being able to create a shot beyond the arc reminds me a little bit of (Lawrence Alexander), and I think he taught Paul a little bit of that.” But it hasn’t always been that way. Miller’s story is one of hard work and determination, and in many ways is still being written. “Paul didn’t come to us very highly recruited out of high school,” men’s basketball head coach Dave Richman said about Miller earlier this fall about when the program first contacted him. “Miller proves that recruiting is not an exact science,” he continued, “We
“If he keeps growing mentally just like the way he already is ... I can see him definitely being a leader.” – Kory Brown, senior starter are very excited to have him here for the next three years.” Miller is a sophomore accounting major from Waukesha, Wisconsin. “I came to NDSU because I loved the coaching staff. On my visit I just really clicked with all the players here,” Miller said. His freshman year, Miller averaged 6.7 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. So far this season he averages 16.8 points per game paired with 5.2 rebounds per game. His season high came in one of the earlier games of the season against North Carolina A&T, where he scored 27 points and went 8-for-9 from the free throw line. Miller averages 1.8 assists per game and 0.9 steals per game. “I need to continue to play aggressive.” Miller, a sophomore, said. Although not a serious goal setter, Miller said he does have a couple ideas in mind. “I try to just do whatever I can to help our team get back to the NCAA tournament,” he said. This leader on the floor
is certainly getting his opportunities, and averages 35.0 minutes per game, with a season high of 39 minutes at Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne. “If he keeps growing mentally just like the way he already is, and picking up his teammates like he is, I can see him definitely being a leader in the future,” teammate and senior starter Kory Brown said of Miller. Miller seems cool and calm most of the time on the court. But digging a little deeper, he has some pretty extreme superstitions in his pre-game routine. “I’m very superstitious,” he laughed. “I have to wear the same stuff, and do the same warm-up routine. “I shoot a right handed lay-up, a left handed lay-up, a floater and then a three and switch lines. I have to do it before every game.” Miller and the rest of the Bison travel to Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis Sunday and return home for the second half of their conference schedule Thursday, Feb. 4 against Oral Roberts.
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Paul Miller averaged 18.5 points per game over NDSU’s last two road games.
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THE SPECTRUM | NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016
NDSU Defeats Air Force for Second Big 12 Victory Pace Maier
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Sports Editor
Zillmer time
Hayden Zillmer recorded his eighth pin of the season Friday
After winning Friday, Zillmer recorded his 98th career victory.
Karson Sorby Staff Writer
Aiming to leave his mark on North Dakota State wrestling, senior Hayden Zillmer is working hard to fulfill his duties as both a student and an athlete. Coming off of a Big 12 Wrestler of the Week award earlier this month, the Crosby, Minn., native currently possesses a dual winning streak of 21 consecutive matches. Ranked seventh nationally in the 184-weight class, Zillmer is a large contributor to the team’s success as not only a wrestler, but also a leader. “His overall demeanor is what you look for in a kid,” Bison wrestling head coach Roger Kish said. “He’s just the definition of hard work and everything that goes into being successful. You can’t praise him enough.” Following two recent matches on the road in
which Zillmer recorded two pins, he recognized that he and the team as a whole have room to improve. With a current record of 23-3, Zillmer said he realizes things get more difficult as the long, grueling season drags out. “The hardest part is just the middle of the season having to grind it out,” Zillmer said. With only five regular season matches remaining, winning is key. If anyone has faith in Zillmer, it’s Kish. “(Zillmer) is one of those guys who hates losing more than he likes winning,” Kish said. “When you put him on the mat, he’s going to do anything he has to do to win; not only because he likes winning, but because he hates losing.” Though Zillmer is known throughout the wrestling community for his work on the mat, he is also deserving of credit for his
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“(Zillmer) is one of those guys who hates losing more than he likes winning.” – Roger Kish, head coach hard work off the mat. While Zillmer is pinning opponents, cutting weight and battling through practices, he also devotes time to studying. The health and physical education major has a 4.0 GPA. “What makes him stand out is some success on the mat and that much more in the classroom as well,” Kish said about Zillmer’s studies. Due to the time commitments that wrestling presents, Zillmer said he is grateful for the opportunities he has received as a student-athlete at NDSU. “It’s given me the opportunity to go to college and compete without having
to get a job,” he explained. “Hopefully, after school it will continue to give me plenty of opportunities with coaching.” While successful so far, Zillmer said he’s focused on the future. “Team-wise, hopefully we can win a few more duels,” he said. “Individually, hopefully I can win the conference and win a national title.” And Zillmer should have no problem keeping up his winning ways if he sticks to his usual thought process. “I think it’s more mental than anything,” Zillmer said. “Just preparing myself for each match and knowing that good things will come.”
North Dakota State beat Air Force Academy 2314 Friday at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse after Grant Nehring stole the momentum back for the Bison. Nehring, a sophomore, defeated Alex Lopouchanski 9-2 to help NDSU win its fourth of last five matches and has only wrestled a few matches at his new 165-weight class. After Nehring beat his opponent, who was 7-0 in duals before Friday, NDSU’s Blake Thompson won on a 5-3 decision at the 174-pound weight class and then Hayden Zillmer pinned his opponent in 2:52. “A record is only a record,” Nehring said about his opponents record. “It doesn’t really matter what he comes in at its what he brought (Friday), and tonight I wanted to bring more then he had.” And the Bison (2-4, 2-0 Big 12) had a 20-10 lead over the Falcons (5-3, 0-2 Big 12). With the win Zillmer is undefeated in duals this season (6-0), and the sixthranked nationally wrestler recorded his eighth pin of the season. Even though the Bison were ahead, the Falcons weren’t going to stop wrestling. NDSU’s Logan Paxton lost to Parker Hines on a 12-4 decision at the 197-weight class, and the score was 20-14 in favor of the Bison.
However, Ben Tynan sealed the deal for NDSU after he beat Marcus Malecek on a 4-1 decision at the 285-weight class, improving his season dual record to 5-1. No. 16-ranked Josh Rodriguez added another win to his impressive 26-7 record this season after beating out Drew Romero on a 18-2 technical fall, which was the first match to be played. Air Force rattled off two match wins after to take the 7-5 lead; NDSU sophomore Clay Ream took the lead back after a 2-0 decision over his opponent. Before Friday NDSU was just 1-4 in duals, but head coach Roger Kish hopes the momentum after this dual win will continue. “From top to bottom every guy that stepped out onto the mat had a good match and good effort out there,” Kish said. “We can see them getting better every time they step on the mat and that’s what we want.” The Bison earned its second Big 12 win, and Kish said even though his team undefeated in conference play NDSU would like to be 6-0 overall. “Of course we could ask for a better start,” Kish said about NDSU’s record. “(But) Our guys are starting to make the appropriate adjustments at the right time and position themselves in the match and have a high opportunity to win matches.” The Bison host University of Wyoming at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse.
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