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The NDSU basketball team made school history with an upset win in the second round of the NCAA Tournament against the No. 20-ranked Oklahoma Sooners Thursday at Spokane Veterans Arena in Spokane, Wash. The Bison won 80-75 in overtime before falling to San Diego State 63-44 on Saturday.

ANOTHER STEP FORWARD Going into the men’s NCAA Tournament, many analysts claimed that somewhere in the bracket a No. 12 seed would have the best chance to pull out an upset over its No. 5-seeded opponent. With NDSU given a No. 12 seed with its automatic berth, many people — even President Barack Obama — designated the Bison to be that surprise team.

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ut Bison head coach Saul Phillips didn’t think much of those guesses before playing No. 5-seeded and No. 20-ranked Oklahoma.

“Here’s the funny thing: I would like to know how many people that picked us have actually seen us play.

I mean come on,” Phillips said the night before playing OU. “I didn’t see some of those guys, Obama was not at any of our games — I would have known that one. He didn’t make his way to Fargo to see us play.”

But that didn’t mean Phillips and his team didn’t love the attention.

“Listen, we get so many chances to have this stage, right?

I mean, let’s face it, we do,” Phillips said. “I’m going to enjoy it. This is great.”

This same enthusiasm, even after San Diego State beat NDSU 63-44 in the third round Saturday, is what caught the eye of people all across the country when NDSU pulled off the predicted upset in overtime 80-75 Saturday in Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Wash.

National news outlets like ESPN, CBS Sports and TNT weren’t just talking about NDSU’s top-ranked field goal percentage in the country.

They were talking about the tenacity of the Bison squad to cap off a 5-1 run in the last 31 seconds of the game just to get the game to overtime.

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People also seemed to love the band of characters that were driven into the national spotlight with the upset win.

Media from around the country loved the Bison personality.

One media member even asked Phillips during a press conference if he would apply for the member’s covered team if there were ever an opening.

Players like Bison junior guard Lawrence Alexander didn’t get much media love before their first tournament game in five years.

But that changed when he dropped a career-high 28 points, including a game-tying 3-pointer with 12 seconds left in regulation, against the Sooners.

And if he didn’t get their attention right away, he definitely got it during the postgame press conference.

“Actually, the play was drawn up for Taylor (Braun),” Alexander said after the OU win. “It was supposed to be a quick (isolation), but coming out of the huddle I told him if you don’t have anything, I’ll be right there in the right wing.

And he just gave me the bounce pass and I took the shot.”

“And what did you say when it was in the air?” senior guard Taylor Braun replied.

“Buckets,” Alexander said with a laugh.

Phillips may have caught national laughter with some of his postgame comments, but he tugged on their hearts as he broke down after losing to SDSU.

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“It’s only the greatest professional week of my life,” Phillips said while fighting back tears. “I got to watch a group of guys that deserved it, who wanted it so bad and made it a priority in their life and did everything I asked them to do. This season? Wow. Let’s just say this: It’s why I do what I do.”

While it wasn’t quite like Frisco, Texas, when about 14,000 Bison fans followed their football team to their thirdstraight FCS championship, NDSU still saw a considerablesized crowd follow them all the way to Spokane for the tournament.

They wanted to see their team, which as the national media quickly found out, didn’t consist of highly touted recruits coming out of high school. People learned how the Summit League Player of the Year, Taylor Braun, was a few days away from going to a Division II school. They also found out about the determination that each Bison had to show how worthy they were of more Division I looks.

“I think you can count the number of offers we four (Braun, Alexander, Bison sophomore guard Kory Brown) have on our two hands really,” Bison center Marshall Bjorklund said. “I know myself, I only had two offers, and so it was a pretty simple decision for myself. I wanted a good agricultural school, which is kind of uncommon, but just the

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NDSU now collects all fees from campus parking tickets. Outstanding parking tickets are connected to students’ Campus Connection accounts.

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School Getting Larger Share of Citation Fines

City of Fargo no longer collects and adjudicates NDSU parking tickets Josh Francis Staff Writer

NDSU is getting a bigger chunk of parking fine revenues after the school took over the entire ticketing process from the City of Fargo.

The change means students, staff and faculty who receive a parking ticket have their fines levied on their campus connection accounts.

“In the past, NDSU had an agreement with the City of Fargo whereas they would adjudicate and collect all parking fines,” said Peter Zimmerman, the associate director of facilities operations.

The school took over collecting tickets in July, Zimmerman said. The school now

collects all of the revenue from a ticket; prior to that they paid Fargo a fee of $2.50 for every $20 ticket it wrote, or 12.5 percent.

While the city did not write the tickets in the past, the city handled the collections and adjudication process. Now the school is responsible for both. The change is subtle but instead of a blue city of Fargo ticket, the tickets are green and have “NDSU” on them.

Zimmerman said no additional staff was needed when they took over the process.

From July 1 to Jan. 31, 7,404 parking tickets were written on campus. The gross revenue for that period was about $150,000, about $18,000 more than what they would have grossed if Fargo still wrote the tickets.

Zimmerman said the most common parking offense is no parking permit/parking in the wrong lot. Those offenses accounted for a total of 74 percent of tickets written.

All parking tickets cost a car owner $20, unless the violation is for parking in a handicap space without a proper placard, which costs $100.

Zimmerman said an ad hoc committee

made up of students, staff and faculty was formed to handle appeals.

Appeals have to be filed within five days of the issue date.

Those who receive tickets on campus can pay online or visit the Bison Connection counter in the Memorial Union. Bison Connection manager Wendy McCrory said the addition of parking tickets doesn’t make her staff’s job any harder.

The parking and transportation division adds the citation charges to the accounts itself.

“It certainly has not overwhelmed us at all,” McCrory said. “In fact, it gives us an opportunity to work with students who may have questions or other account issues.”

Penalties for not paying off tickets are steep. While the school does not escalate the cost of a ticket based on the number of citations someone has received, failure to pay can have serious consequences, especially for students.

Penalties include: financial holds, barring graduation, withholding transcripts, barring

from class registration and restrictions from getting housing. Visitors who receive tickets and don’t pay up may have their tickets sent to a collection agency.

DID YOU KNOW? From July 1, 2013 to Jan. 2014 one vehicle was cited 26 times, which totals about $520 in fines.

Cars will not be towed for having multiple outstanding tickets, but they can be towed for even a single offense if the vehicle is illegally parked in a driveway, in a lot during snow clearing or if the vehicle is restricting emergency access.

NDSU Archives Reopens at New Location Tens of thousands of resources available free to the public Lisa Marchand

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The NDSU Archives holds tens of thousands of resources highlighting the history of NDSU and North Dakota.

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“I think that we need to keep (the archives) for future generations. We’re kind of the caretakers of this, and if it’s not there in the future, people will forget what their past is.” — John Halberg, Archives associate in the Skills and Technology Center, Hal-

and added security, they now have a tem-

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A large portion of North Dakota and NDSU’s unique history is once again available to the public.

The NDSU Archives reopened Monday at its new location, the West Building at 3551 7th Ave. N. in Fargo.

For no charge, guests can view more than 23,000 books and microfilm reels that cover the development of North Dakota and NDSU. There are also approximately 700,000 photographs as well as university yearbooks from 1907 to 1980.

“I think that we need to keep (the archives) for future generations,” Archives associate John Halberg said. “We’re kind of the caretakers of this, and if it’s not there in the future, people will forget what their past is. To me, it’s important to understand our culture, our heritage, to know where we came from.”

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They also took on the NDSU Library’s collection of rare books, including one written in old English that was published in 1625.

Halberg said that traffic tends to fluctuate depending on whether students are doing an assignment that requires archival material, which is usually for history or architecture classes. The Archives are meticulously organized and documented, but there is always an employee there to assist researchers in finding material.

“That’s what we’re here for,” Halberg said, “to make it all easier for our researchers.”

The general public is also welcome to explore the Archives. Halberg said that the public is typically researching historic buildings that they are renovating or are inquiring about Cass County’s probate files that they keep on record.

The Archives are open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the summer.

NDSU Archives photographs can be accessed digitally on Flickr, Historypin and Digital Horizons. For more information and links to their pages, visit their website at library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/.

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3-D Printing Available to NDSU Architecture Students Technology may expand to other majors Tessa Beck Staff Writer

NDSU’s Technology Fee Advisory Committee provided a $15,000 grant to install the MakerBot Replicator 2 printers, and there are plans to expand the technology further in the near future. Five printers are located at Renaissance Hall and one at Klai Hall.

Currently, architecture and landscape architecture students are permitted to use the technology, but plans are being coordinated with the library through the NDSU Impact grant to make the equipment available to all students.

With the addition of 3-D printers, students can now bring their designs to life in plastic. The material used to create the printed designs is a biodegradable thermoplastic filament called polylactic acid, which is derived from corn. The scrap materials could be composted, but instead researchers are

NDSU is keeping up with the times, as their latest technology edition includes six printers with three-dimensional production capabilities.

working towards recycling the leftovers into new filament — greatly reducing costs. Additional testing will be done to increase material varieties to enhance the strength of the product created from the printers.

Models are submitted

to the printer through a Secure Digital card, and from there layers of filament are applied as thin as the width of a single sheet of paper.

The printer heats the polylactic acid to 450 degrees, yet re-solidifies quickly and releases no fumes. The

cost of a MakerBot runs at $2,300, and the price of a single scroll of polylactic acid is $25 — which will last through about a month of printing.

3-D printing allows students to create molds that were previously unachiev-

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able by traditional woodshop and laser cutting methods.

“There’s obstacles in the woodshop,” said fifth-year architecture student Casey Cotcamp.

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tecture computer specialist Ben Bernard added: “Something that can’t be made in the shop is easily accessible through 3-D printing. It’s often referred to as a ‘rapid prototyping tool.’ If I have a design idea, I can complete it that day and know what’s working and what isn’t. That way I can be onto my next idea regarding that design.”

Bernard stressed the benefits this technology could hold for students of all majors.

“There’s lots of opportunities for students,” he said, “such as entrepreneurs who want to design a product and wish to print a prototype.”

Working with innovative technology will prepare students for a more successful future, as demonstrated by recent NDSU graduate John Schneider, who recently opened Fargo 3-D Printing after using the technology at NDSU. “People will be able to find inspiration and use it more as a tool to complete what they’re trying to portray as visual artists,” Cotcamp said.

International Programs Office Expands Realignment of focus to help students on and off campus Adam Farhat Staff Writer

The office of international programs at NDSU has some major changes arriving to help better focus attention on students, both on and off campus.

The global outreach department will debut soon in Putnam Hall, which will focus rigorously on globalization and international activity. This will allow NDSU to collaborate and develop

immensely with other departments around the world.

In the past, global outreach was a branch of the international programs office, working side-by-side with the study abroad office and international foreign exchange student support office. However, with international activity becoming more extensive, the imperativeness of a separate department for the exact matter became prominent.

“This realignment and creation of this new department is going to open more opportunities for students, faculty and staff,” NDSU global outreach department director Lisa Hauck said.

“I’m very excited to see where these opportunities take us.”

Alicia Kauffman, director of international student and study abroad services, said this will not only help the global activity that NDSU focuses on intensively, but will also allow the office to have a better focus on students.

“This change will open up more areas of collaboration with other student service offices at NDSU,” Kauffman said.

The expansion of student service has marked NDSU as a university with a focal point of globalization, which is important not only to the existence of the university, but also to the attention the university receives around the nation and the world.

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Lt. Gregory Stone of the NDSU Police, Amy Melquist and her husband Officer Murray Ridler of the NDSU Police attended a Spaghetti Feed benefitting retired NDSU police officer Jim Brun on March 14 at the Alumni Center.

Brun and his family, who lost their home in a fire Jan. 8, received approximately $2,500 from the event. He was part of the local police force for 20 years before retiring in May 2013.

Freezathon Brings in More Than $10,000 for Nokomis Fraternity and sorority team together for cause Benjamin Norman Staff Writer

Those who put together Freezathon tried to put smiles on a lot of faces before NDSU students took off for spring break.

“I just don’t know what we’d do without them,” director of Nokomis Child Care Centers of the Villages Jane Greminger said. “They are fabulous to us; every year they go out and they stand out in the cold. They are so positive about it and have so much endurance.”

Members of Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Delta endured the elements, including lows under 20 degrees, for Nokomis Child Care Centers earlier this month.

The fraternity and sorority held their annual Freezathon the week of March 9.

More than $10,388 will be bestowed to the centers — a total that does not include the 40-plus pounds of change that has yet to be totaled.

The Freezathon included an around-the-clock staff of money-collectors on the corner of University Drive and 12th Ave. N, near the Loaf ‘N Jug, along with a group of collectors stationed at the Memorial Union during select hours. Generous patrons dug into their pockets to contribute to the drive.

The brothers and sisters, along with a $4,000 match from the Dakota Medical Foundation, raised $10,388.

Kyle Dillon, a senior studying construction management and chair of Alpha Tau Omega’s health and wellness committee, did not mind his shifts outside. In fact, March 13 saw the high in Fargo peak at 58 degrees, when Dillon was campaigning.

“I got my pick of the litter,” Dillon said, “While a lot of new guys get stuck with the late-night shifts, I did my share of the latenight shifts.”

Members of both the fraternity and sorority noted that the after-hours shifts are not as bad as they seem.

Dillon’s favorite part of the Freezathon, however, is the kids.

“Sometimes the Nokomis kids will come out here and spend the hour — that’s

always a treat to see those kids and hang out with them,” Dillon said. “I just enjoy hanging out with my brothers and sisters of Kappa Delta.”

Keenan Hemming, a junior studying construction management and philanthropy chair for Alpha Tau Omega, agrees.

“I think the best part is just being out there and seeing people donate money and trying to raise money for the kids,” Hemming said.

“We appreciate them and everything they do,” Greminger said. “Their passion, their desire to help this community and help these children… The support really does help (children) achieve more. ATO and Kappa Delta have been fundamental in this.”

The money raised goes to funding the centers, which provides a quality place for children who are in need of physical and emotional support. Greminger said scholarships are also offered via these donations.

“They are just fantastic, wonderful folk. We are just so grateful for their support,” Greminger said. “We love them. We love them and thank them from the bottom of our hearts.”

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Garret Thoma, on his second day of work, prepares silverware arrangements for customers.

Peoples Organic

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Peoples Organic serves coffee, wine and homemade fresh pastries.

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here can a person get some organic, vegan, gluten-free grub around this town? The answer is just beyond Interstate 94. Peoples Organic is a newly opened restaurant in south Fargo with many vegan and gluten-free options.

Peoples Organic is a franchise with four locations in the Midwest, including Fargo.

Sometimes franchises can be a little cut and copy, but Peoples Organic has plenty of options, each with their own flair.

Prior to ordering, you’re given the option

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of sparkling or flat water to accompany your meal, which is something I’ve never experienced before. They also have a great wine, coffee and full bar with many beers on tap.

I ordered the Munich, which was a bison brat with sauerkraut, mustard and bread, with coleslaw on the side. It was satisfying, flavorful and only $11. Unfortunately, I became annoyed with this meal, because each item was placed on the plate separately leaving it up to me to put the pieces together. For some this may be too disorienting a task to handle.

At the end of my meal, I felt very defeated and discouraged when I received the bill and spotted a $4 charge for the coleslaw

I ordered on the side. On the menu, it listed “coleslaw or chips” below the entrée items, without pricing. This usually implies that they come with the meal. To my surprise, I was wrong. My hope is that they rearrange their menu to prevent other customers from feeling the deception I felt.

It is, for the most part, over $10-$15 for lunch, which is sometimes not affordable for the average college student. My meal and dessert ran slightly over $20. If I had coffee instead of water, it would have been even more.

My greatest disappointment of all was probably the location. My view from where I was sitting was Hardee’s, Taco John’s, ho-

tels and a flat landscape. Peoples Organic just doesn’t seem to fit among these national chains and developing suburbia.

The coffee and wine bar may not be as appealing to suburban families as it is to the downtown and young folk of north and central Fargo and Moorhead where the college kids are hanging out. With any luck, the organic food-seeking person of the F-M area will discover new realms they’ve never been.

touch up before the hunt.

When the stands are out over the winter, the straps will absorb water, freeze and expand. In the spring, it is essential that the straps are checked to ensure that they held up the stand and that they haven’t ripped or become too tight. If the straps show even the slightest sign of ripping, they need to be replaced, because they hold down the stand, and most importantly, they hold the hunter’s life.

After checking the straps of the stand, also check the ratchets that tie down the straps. If they are showing any signs of rust, spray them down with WD-40 or replace them. Ratchets are key to holding down the straps and keeping them tight. If they are to give out, the stand will fall off the tree.

For the hunters that take the stands down every year, they need to make sure

they didn’t lose anything important for their stand, especially the pins that hold the stand together.

Once they have all the pins, it is important to check the ratchets and the straps.

Even though they are not left out year-round, they will still go through abuse being up for a few weeks. Like stated before, check for any tears in the straps and spray down the ratchets to help them operate smoothly and prevent rust.

In the fall, hunters should go out before their hunt to make sure nothing happened to their stand over the summer. A simple inspection of the stand and straps to make sure they are not loose or torn is all that is necessary.

Besides inspecting the equipment for the tree stand, hunters need to be safely secured in the deer stand by wearing a safety

harness to keep them from falling to the ground. Most stands are about 16 feet from the ground, so a fall from that height could be fatal.

Stands could give out in the middle of a hunt, so it is always better to pay attention to detail and play it safe rather than sorry.

Whether the deer stand is left out all year or just put up, it is vital that proper precautionary measures are taken into account. Always check and double check the gear, because hunters may never know if something broke before it is too late.

Even if the stand is taken down every year, examine the equipment, because it may have been damaged from transporting it. After inspecting the straps before the hunt, the last things hunters must do to ensure safety and a good hunt is to wear the harness and have fun.

Never Too Early for Deer Stand Safety

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Contributing Writer

Once hunters are done with their deer hunt, whether it is in November or December, it is their job to take care of their deer stand. Some hunters may choose to leave their stands up all year, and others take them down right after their season ends.

Some hunters choose to leave their stands up all year because of the convenience of not having to set it up and take it down. Others just do it because they believe the deer will be used to seeing it and not be startled by the stand.

If the hunter has his or her deer stand out in the field year-round, it is very important to check the straps and the quality of the stand after every spring and in the fall for a little

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What are your plans for your summer break? See far off places? Earn money for school? Why not do both! Come to Dillingham Alaska and work at our shore side salmon processing plant.

Jobs run from mid June to the end of July or into August. Pay rate starts at $8.07/hour with overtime at $12.105 after 8 hours/day and after 40 regular hours/week. When in full swing processing shifts are approx. 16 hours/day. Room & board are provided. Laundry is done once a week! Dorm style housing has 3 to a room so bring some friends. Airfare from Seattle to Dillingham is provided. Return airfare conditional on completion of season.

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Residents of Skid Row sleep on top of a makeshift cot using shopping carts and plastic pallets in the streets of Los Angeles.

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The Los Angeles air consistently drafted in, as the van’s windows were kept open due to the immaculate visuals, decadent aromas and glaring heat from the sun’s rays.

Within a couple of miles, the scenery drastically changed. The sidewalks became congested with makeshift tents, shopping carts and people sprawled out all over the landscape.

There was no evidence of anywhere not being disheveled or unkempt for about three-square blocks.

The sight and smell of marijuana, crack, tobacco and alcohol was ruthless in its manner and destructive to those under its influences.

The streets starkly resembled everything expected for an area called Skid Row, but that is exactly the label that needs to be abolished in order to reach out to the people who truly just want someone to listen to them.

Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone has experienced tailored calamities and unprecedented distraught in their life. Everyone needs someone to just open up to. Every once and a while a need for embrace-

ment even occurs.

Everyone needs love.

The residents of Skid Row are no different.

The sound of a piano from an aged boom box playing slow jazz broke up thoughts of the scenery previously branded in minds. It transformed these people from walking labels into breathing beings, with thoughts and preferences.

The mesmerizing piano played in a faux pas manner with relation to the people present.

These are not labeled objects, but actual people seeking love, sometimes in ways incredibly detrimental to themselves and people around them.

Nonetheless, they are still human beings.

Kenneth Wilder began to speak in a tone, which brought encouragement with every word. He eagerly wanted to share that “we all have our time machines, to go into time is to reminisce, to go into the future is our dreams.”

His voice would rise in volume as his passion engulfed him, he dreamed to see others overcome what he had been able to overcome after being an alcoholic and on the streets for about two years.

He would clasp his hands together as he elatedly

shared his life story and ambitions.

He continually reaches out to others to share encouragement and wise words instilled by his loving grandmother.

Wilder remembers her saying that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

With that thought tightly nestled against his heart, he goes around sharing the gospel, and eventually wants to start his own Christian rehab service to help people overcome the minor set backs in their own lives.

It just goes to show that hope can be established by just listening.

Sometimes more love can be expressed in fewer words and instead, just incorporating a deluge of action.

It does not take much to encourage someone to change the way they are living if they can grasp onto the hope and compassion that is presented to them.

David was a soft-spoken gentleman with eyes that shared a story. His eyes betrayed where he tarried and brought to light a burden in which he silently faced.

He stood tall on the Santa Monica Pier strumming away on his ukulele, and the voice that followed those tired eyes could not even be

described as anything short of immaculate.

It pierced the silence of the proximity of where he stood, but all stopped to listen to the story that he gratefully conveyed.

This man had seen many hard times and carried many stories that were branded to his heart.

He wrote a song about where he had been, and when he sang, the emotion behind it screamed out at anyone willing to listen.

He was grateful to share a tiny bit of his life as his voice faded into the sunset of the ocean’s sky.

Everyone has a story; it is as simple as that.

Just remember the biggest blessing that may ever be done for another human being is just taking time to listen to what they have to say.

As a student of NDSU, take a look around you and see how you can affect the Fargo community by just listening to someone.

Pavek is writing a twopart series looking at poverty in society. He will publish the second feature on the homeless in the FargoMoorhead area later this spring.

Horn Showcases MU Gallery

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Alysa Horn works as a gallery attendant for the Memorial Union Art Gallery.

Jack Dura

Staff Writer

As a gallery attendant for the Memorial Union Art Gallery, sophomore Alysa Horn has a couple of plusses that go along with her work. The landscape architecture major started at the gallery last May, nearly a year ago now, and the exposure to wide-ranging creativity is one of the things she likes best.

“My favorite thing is being exposed to different forms of art,” Horn said.

“Art isn’t only 2-D; it’s ceramics, it’s mixed media, and seeing how other people express their opinions and ideas is great.”

Preparing and curating all of the art are mainly what attendants’ duties entail, though it does depend on the week. Installing a show involves working closely with the artist and constructing the gallery in the most presentable way, something that Horn says factors nicely in with her vocation.

“When we set up a show, you kind of want to think

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about how people will feel about the space, and so landscape architecture is similar to that because when you’re designing a space, you’re also considering how the user will feel in the space you designed.”

When not installing new shows, attendants maintain the gallery and introduce the new work to visitors. Horn spends three days a week at the Art Gallery — about eight hours total — and is only ever on campus for her job, as her classes for landscape architecture take her

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to downtown Fargo, and she resides in Niskanen Hall.

Horn does like to point out that through student government appropriating the Art Gallery, student fees have paid for many of the permanent pieces that the gallery showcases and stores.

“Millions of dollars of art are in our back vault, and I have the key to those,” Horn said, adding, “The art is essentially (the students’), because they’ve paid for it.”

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Campus jobs not only provide a great opportunity for students to earn money and experience — just working with other students can be a great experience in and of itself, as junior Tyler Gapinski has found.

The criminal justice major works about 20 to 30 hours in the Memorial Union at the Rec and Outing Center and as a building manager. He originally applied because he was already in the Union often.

“I was in the Union quite a bit obviously as a student, so I always saw people running around, and I was in other organizations like LeaderQuest, where I kind of met some people that happened to be associated with right here,” he said.

“It’s just those contacts you make, that probably had a lot to do with it, but it’s convenient and there’s just so many great people working here.”

Compared to previous positions, including being a deliveryman for Pepsi, Gapinski said that working with other people his age really makes a change in the workplace atmosphere.

“I think maybe one of the most rewarding (things) is friendships you gain and learning how to work with others,” Gapinski said.

“It’s a little different, (because) usually past jobs I never worked with people that are all my own age, as weird as that may sound.

You wouldn’t really think so, but it’s kind of different, just working with friends in general — it’s cool.”

Gapinski is also an officer candidate for the Marine Corps, so after he hopefully passes his training this summer and graduates in spring of 2015, he will go into active duty as an officer in the Marines. He said he hopes to eventually go into federal criminal justice.

Although his current jobs seem worlds away from that career path, he said that the leadership component of being a building manager will definitely help. But he also said that working with a diverse group of students from around the world in both jobs is great experience.

“It’s not like wherever I go in life there’s just going to be a bunch of white males from Minnesota — it’s going to be all different kinds of people,” he said.

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The NDSU Library drew the attention of students and the public as a jazz band played by the front desk on March 12.

The band included a pianist, a bass guitarist, a saxophone player and a drummer.

FM Opera Co-Produces Its First World Premiere Jack Dura

Staff Writer

This weekend marks something of a first for the Fargo-Moorhead Opera. In the company’s 40-plus-year history, it has never had a world premiere production. This Friday, March 28, the F-M Opera will premiere the co-production of two one-act operas that executive director David Hamilton knew would be just right for Fargo. This comes about after Hamilton’s search to bring something new to the F-M Opera.

“We can’t keep doing the same 20 operas over and over again and expect the company to grow,” he said. “There’s a lot of new, especially American opera being written right now.”

A trip to New York two years ago brought him to the concert reading of “Buried Alive” and “Embedded.” Their size, stories, musicality and accessibility proved perfect for the F-M Opera, and Hamilton was hooked.

These one-act operas were commissioned by the American Lyric Theater for the Poe Project, which came about on the bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1809 birth. The Poe Project put forth this question to the operas’ composers and librettists: What would Edgar Allan Poe have written if he were alive today? “Buried Alive” and “Embedded” are the answers to that question, as they stay in the veins of two of Poe’s creepier tales but within contemporary boundaries. “‘Buried Alive’ is what it sounds like,”

Hamilton said. “A guy wakes up in a mortuary. Is he dead, is he not? Is his wife plotting against him? We just don’t really know. ‘Embedded’ is about a news anchor, a Meredith Vieira-type who sees herself being shoved aside by the pretty, young thing coming in.”

Following a disastrous day on the set, a package on her doorstep sends the news anchor on a chase after what could be the biggest scoop of her career. A terrorist she was once embedded with helps guide the news anchor back into Manhattan via the cell phone GPS in the package, and Hamilton admitted that this opera was the one that grabbed his attention at the concert reading.

In contrast to “The Merry Widow,” the earlier production in the F-M Opera’s ’13’14 season, “Buried Alive” and “Embedded” feature a much smaller cast — just six — but its music is written for chamber orchestra.

Two of the performers, Christopher Burchett and Caroline Worra, have been with the production since its inception, with their roles written explicitly for them. Respectively, they portray the man who is buried alive and the woman who was embedded with the terrorist.

Conducting this production’s music is Kostis Protopapas, artistic director for the Tulsa Opera. Also on hand for the Fargo world premiere will be the operas’ two composers and two librettists. Since this show is co-produced with the Fort Worth Opera and American Lyric Theater, the collaborative effort has allowed for the companies to spread out the expenses and performances.

The two one-act operas together in a double-bill production, “Buried Alive” and “Embedded,” have rehearsals that take place in the Black Building on Broadway in Fargo

“On Monday, after our show’s over, the whole thing gets packed into a truck and goes to Fort Worth,” Hamilton said. “This is the first time we’ve been able to co-produce on a national level…We’re able to bring a very high-quality product to the stage here.”

World premiere productions are something of a rarity here in Fargo — though we have had two other theatre productions premier here since November. Hamilton points to a few reasons to attend this premiere, and recommends it to students especially.

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“Why would you not come? Cool story, cool music, cutting-edge, brand-new, nobody’s heard it before — and it’s here in Fargo. Why would you not come? Besides, students all get in for five bucks, so it’s less than the price of your latte.”

“Buried Alive” and “Embedded” are presented at 7:30 p.m. on Mar. 28 and at 2 p.m. on Mar. 30 at Festival Concert Hall. Tickets range from $40 to $80 and student admission is $5 at the door. Call 701-239-4558 for box office information.

‘Fowl Play’ Finds Success in Silliness Jack Dura

Staff Writer

For two hours and twelve dollars, Harwood Prairie Playhouse’s farce “Fowl Play” is a production worth an attendee’s time and money. Sure, it’s not the best play there is and it’s not the funniest farce out there, but it eats up two hours with enough laughs and cracks that will keep anybody entertained.

A brainchild of West Fargo playwright David Lassig, “Fowl Play” finds bank teller Doug (Lassig) in a sticky situation when he tell his boss Phil (Rick Mangahas) that he can’t come in to work the weekend as his wife is in labor. This little lie comes after scores of similar stories of Doug’s “wife” coming down with ailments ranging from pneumonia to tuberculosis.

All Doug wants is a weekend to go goose

hunting with his best friend Eric (Jim Donat), but his story is put to the test when Phil shows up to ascertain that all is well. Enlisting the help of Eric and a community theater contact, Doug hastens to keep straight the four “pregnant wives” that show up to aid and abet him in making his boss believe his story.

This play fulfills every feature of a farce, as its laugh-out-loud scenarios, identity mix-ups and plethora of doors round out the equation. Laughs abound as right when Doug thinks he has his ducks in a row, another “pregnant wife” shows up to help. The multitude of accomplices on hand prompts him to explain them to his boss as his wife, his sister, his mistress, his wife’s aunt and his mother-in-law. Whew!

While this show features plenty of humor, it does have a couple little love stories and a bit of a twist at the end, but mainly

“Fowl Play” is structured for laughs. Many of these come in the form of Edna (Mark Seeba), Eric’s grandmother and the first volunteer to be Doug’s “pregnant wife.”

Secretly stashed in the cabin’s guest bedroom during much of Phil’s visit to the cabin, Edna does break out a couple times to tussle with a few characters, most notably one of the community theater members who pushes her a little too far, prompting Edna to threaten, “If you don’t stop callin’ me old, you’re gonna find out how badass crrrazy I can be!” shaking her jowls furiously.

Seeba is not the only cast member doing a gender swap in this show, as Lassig, Donat and Justin Watson all don a dress and a belly bump at some point in this play. While good for a laugh, the gender swap did lose some of its luster near the end of the show, and Watson’s role as the second community theater volunteer to appear on the scene as a

“pregnant wife” seemed superfluous.

Another character worth mentioning in addition to Seeba is Kari Holman’s Julia, Doug’s mother and a catalyst for the truth in Act Two. Her shock at learning of her son’s “wife” and expectant child is great for laughs, and her disapproving scowls while shaking a finger and a glass of vodka is gold.

As the 30th anniversary production for Harwood Prairie Playhouse, “Fowl Play” not only marked a milestone for the company, but also Lassig, as it is his 11th show and fourth script with the troupe. “Fowl Play” serves its audiences as good for a laugh and a harbinger of the season yet to come: spring.

“Fowl Play” concludes this weekend with 7:30 p.m. performances from Mar. 27 to 29 and a 2 p.m. performance on Mar. 29 at Bonanzaville’s Dawson Hall. Tickets are $12 and are available by phone at 701-2986807.

‘Momo’ Republished, Still Relevant After 25 Years Linda Norland

Contributing Writer

After 25 years, this little-known classic has finally been republished for American readers. “Momo,” written by Michael Ende (famous for “The Neverending Story”), was rereleased to celebrate its 40th anniversary last year. Although this all-ages novel has not received as much acclaim as others, its timeless modern parable is still as relevant as it was when it was first published in 1973.

The story focuses on the life of an orphan girl named Momo, who lives in an old amphitheater on the outskirts of a quaint Italian town, presumably in the ‘70s. The villagers work together to take care of Momo so she does not have to return to an orphanage, but soon they find that they need her as much as she needs them. Momo has a special gift — she is able to listen in such a way that it brings out people’s true feelings.

But when the gray men come and slowly steal all her friend’s spare time, Momo must use this gift and the help of the mysterious

Master Hora and his magic turtle to save the city. Complete with riddles, vivid imagery and intricate symbolism, this novel about a child proves a powerful read for audiences all ages.

While this tale is obviously fantasy, Ende does an incredible job of using imaginary circumstance to poignantly highlight problems with modern life. Though the Timesaving Bank and the dreaded gray men are not real (thank goodness), the way the people in the city act as their time is stolen captures modern life at its worst. This is one of those rare

books that makes the reader think — even makes them question their life, perhaps.

McSweeney’s McMullens published this most recent edition, translated from the original German by Lucas Zwirner and complete with not-so-great illustrations by Marcel Dzama. That was the one drawback of this book — it seemed as though the illustrator had not even read it. But no matter what edition they come across, readers will be forever haunted by the powerful messages of Ende’s story and its brave little heroine.

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On the Sea of Life, Ride the Friend-Ship

People need a little help from their friends Colton Pool

Spectrum Staff

I have a lot of stuff going on in my life right now.

As of right now, I am taking 18 credit hours here at NDSU — of which I currently have a 3.66 grade point average. I’m also managing three part-time jobs, all of which I feel like I am thriving at. Not to mention keeping my girlfriend happy, or at least trying my best to.

But that’s just what people know about me.

What most people don’t know is that my grandfather recently suffered from a stroke — which easily could have killed him — and he’s still recovering. Most people also don’t know that this was the man who slaved through blood, sweat and tears in hours upon hours of labor, with only the dreams of sending his kids and grandkids to college.

A lot of people also don’t know that my grandma broke her backbone not too long after and was rushed to the hospital for surgery. Luckily, she’s still alive and kicking like she has been for the past 80 years.

What even fewer people know is that with my commitments to my jobs and classes, I haven’t even had the chance to visit these people who have given so much for me. I’ve just been trying to meet deadlines

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here at The Spectrum and be a role model of consistency along the way.

And no one has known until now how awful I feel about all of it.

But I’m not writing all of this to draw pity or to even make you feel bad at all. I’m looking to relate to you.

I know that I’m not the only one in the world who has felt pain or the fear of losing a loved one. But this is exactly why I tell my story, because I know that with the pleasures of everyday life come the hardships as well.

And I couldn’t even begin to describe how I would cope if I didn’t get by with a little help from my friends.

During my time here at NDSU I have met some fantastic people. Specifically my roommate is probably one of the greatest

Modern Media Mayhem How media runs the well dry Caleb Werness Opinion Editor

It seems to happen all the time.

A riveting news story breaks and the eyes of the entire country are on it. In a vain attempt for viewership, news networks stream that one particular story continually with no significant updates. They end up filling their time slots with more speculation than actual news.

The modern media scene has become more competitive within the last ten years than it has in its entire existence. Social media and Internet news sites have become the go-to of society for local and world news updates. For every big story, there are hundreds of media sites trying to cover it.

Because of this conundrum, news media has strayed from reporting news and giving updates regarding ongoing stories to adding filler with so-called “experts” and speculation.

A recent example would be the whole fiasco regarding the Malaysian plane disappearance. Anyone who has happened to catch a glimpse of the news in the last two weeks has more than likely viewed this story.

A plane traveling from Malaysia unexplainably went missing. Experts are baffled and there is no new evidence to offer insight as to what happened. You would think that

people I know. I’ve had the honor of getting to know him and develop a bond with him that is unlike any other that I’ve had with another person. We’re basically those two annoying friends that can just look at each other and know what the other is thinking, all while irritating the surrounding people with the curiosity to figure out what is being thought about in the first place.

Has he directly helped me through my tough times with my family, school work and jobs? Not a bit. I don’t think he even knew of my issues until now. But what he has done is show me great deals of love and support, no matter what situation I’ve been in.

In the end, these are the people who help you through the tough times and make

friendship so important.

Along with my other close friends and girlfriend, he has been my rock. They’ve been my foundation for me to keep me up even in the darkest of times.

For example, one morning, after staying up late studying and working on homework, I woke up after a mere two hours of sleep and with a grumpy edge to me. And what does Caleb do when he sees that? He races out of bed, gets to our kitchen and makes me a great breakfast to come out to after I got dressed.

If that’s not going above and beyond, I don’t know what is.

This may come from family, friends, coworkers or even from some artificial intelligence on your phone that tells you to take the right turns when you’re driving. Just make sure that those who rally around you aren’t forgotten.

Remember, the best way to have friends is to be a friend. Once you have those connections established — or maybe you already do — continue to nurture them so that eventually you can have those people to support and care for when they need it most.

Likewise, those relationships will most likely come to benefit you as well.

I would be in a world of hurt without my friends around me, and I try my best to make sure that love is reciprocated and doesn’t go unrecognized.

And trust me; you want that kind of relationship as well so that you aren’t alone when even the worst circumstances might make it seem so.

Because after all, what’s life if you don’t have people to share it with?

Colton is a sophomore majoring in journalism.

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would be case closed until the network had something substantial to report about new updates.

This, however, has not been the case.

Many news networks have been bleeding this story dry. With no real updates to report, the news stations have managed to fill their time with every possible speculation as to what happened. Experts upon experts have been interviewed to offer, “what they think happened.”

I believe it is the job of those who report the news to report on stories and then proceed to give relevant update to that story. If

“News media has strayed from reporting news and giving updates regarding ongoing stories to adding filler with so-called ‘experts’ and speculation.”

there is nothing new to report, don’t waste people’s time with spectacular allegations. It is the job of the news to report fact and to report news, not to run the well dry with every detail from a particular story.

The news is not intended to be exciting.

The news can be exciting, but it is intended first and foremost to be fact-based and live up to its name: news.

Caleb is a sophomore majoring in English.

FDA launches rules on antibiotic use in animals Alyssa Langaas

Contributing Writer

The usage of antibiotics in animal agriculture has been an ongoing debate for a long time.

On Dec. 11, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration made a motion to change the way farmers use antibiotics in food-producing animals in the United States by voluntarily asking companies to change the access of the drugs from over-the-counter to veterinary use.

Antibiotics are and will be mainly used in animal production for disease prevention.

James Pettigrew, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois’ Department of Animal Sciences commented in AgriNews on the recent motion. “(The FDA wants to implement) no use of medically important antibiotics in foodproducing animals for production purposes, such as growth promotion and improvement of feed efficiency,” Pettigrew said.

Not only could this new rule increase veterinarian responsibility, but it could also lead to more paperwork and pressure to make decisions regarding antibiotic usage.

This could lead to issues that involve veterinarians being watched more closely for how they distribute medicine.

Antibiotic use in livestock and poultry production is already under strict regulation overseen by the FDA. The new rules will put a greater responsibility on veterinarians to oversee medically important antibiotics in food-producing animals.

Limited access to antibiotics could also put farmers at a greater risk of being unable to treat a disease that’s spreading among their livestock quickly.

Besides limited access to antibiotics, increased costs would be associated with the new rule.

Increased food costs will pass onto consumers and could lead to unhappy customers, or maybe people would appreciate less antibiotic usage and pay the extra price. It’s hard to know until the rule actually starts to take effect, and that’s not for another three years.

People need to remember antibiotic usage is required in order to fully treat a sick livestock animal, and studies show that a majority of antibiotics are sold to the livestock industry. It takes more antibiotics to treat a 2,500-pound prize bull than a newborn baby with the same infection. So, obviously the livestock industry will use more.

The view of antibiotic use will remain skeptical if people say farmers are using antibiotics to pump up their herd and increase their gain. This view is one of the many that can negatively influence how livestock production is viewed.

Alyssa is a senior majoring in public relations and advertising/agriculture communications.

Throwback Jerseys or Jerseys to Throw Out?

You love them or you hate them, there is no in between.

Over the last few years, various National Football League teams have exchanged their current jerseys for “throwback” jerseys. These oc-

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teams with a proud legacy and a lengthy history to never forget where you came from. If you’re a Bears fan, you can’t forget, because Bears fans are always stuck in 1985.

But in all seriousness, I do appreciate what throwback jerseys represent though I appall their look. It will only be fitting though when say 50 years down the road teams bring out the jerseys they wear now down as throwbacks. The young people may feel distain while I get nostalgic. In the end, the love of the game is all that matters.

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jerseys.

The Denver Broncos also like to break out their awful throwbacks every now and again. The fault lies not so much in the jerseys themselves but the rather socks. I don’t claim to be a fashion guru, but even I would never go near the yellow and brown vertically striped socks.

It pains me to see my Green Bay Packers strutting out in their navy blue and gold throwback jerseys. The green and yellow gets traded for something that resembles a Norte Dame knock off.

I understand that throwback jerseys are not for the purpose of winning any bestdressed awards. They serve as a reminder to

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currences usually come up when a team is playing one of the teams in their division.

The jerseys often have a sporty, retro look from simple colors with a basic design to a mad collection of stripes. Throwback jerseys are a tribute to the team’s history; they bring a certain nostalgic remembrance of the team’s past.

Some throwback jerseys can be tolerated; however, most team’s jerseys are, simply put, an eye sore. The jerseys that immediately come to mind when thinking of hideous throwbacks are the “bumblebee” jerseys of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Remarks depicted as prejudice

Paul Ryan and Racism

Josh Majeski

Contributing Writer

Recently Wisconsin Senator Paul Ryan made some comments that have drawn some fire for supposedly being racist. Though not harmless, I believe these remarks are justified and have been revealing of some unfortunate truths in our society.

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discussing a “tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work.”

His tone is certainly not gentle, but it isn’t as malevolent as it has been made out to be. It doesn’t directly mention any particular race, but does say that the problem is found especially in the inner city.

There is truth in acknowledging the disparity in wealth concerning minorities and those of the lower class demographics, of whom typically live in

urban areas. However, despite those factors, it does not make Ryan’s comments racist. He does not imply that the statements refer to any group in particular, but instead across the board, all ethnicities are following this trend.

The fact that some people are automatically accusing Ryan of racism shows something about their character as well. If, when Ryan’s critics hear something about lazy unemployed men, their first reaction is assuming that he is talking about a specific ethnic group, who is the racist?

Maybe they’re not rac-

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Response to ‘U.S. Should Maintain Distance from Crimean Conflict’ In The Spectrum, on March 13, an article appeared

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It’s unfortunate, really, that instead of agreeing to address a real issue, critics decided to single out a group and declare them the victims of prejudice of a man. These critics took Ryan’s intentions that were twisted to portray a skewed interpretation, a move simply done to have common enemy to accuse.

Josh is a sophomore majoring in criminal justice.

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NDSU wrestler Steven Monk took third place at this year’s NCAA Wrestling Championships Saturday in Oklahoma City.

Monk Takes Third Nationally With Stellar Pin Four Bison compete in NCAA Wrestling Championships Pace Maier

Contributing Writer

Call it a comeback. Call it impossible.

Some may even call it the icing on the cake, because NDSU senior wrestler Steven Monk did the unthinkable.

Monk, the No. 4 seed in the NCAA Wrestling Championships, found himself down 6-2 in the third period of the thirdplace match. At the five-minute, 26-second mark, the 165-pound wrestler from Wausau, Wisc. pinned No. 3 seed Nicholas Sulzer of Virginia to claim the victory.

Throwing up his hands, hearing the crowd roar and smiling to victory, Monk walked out of the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City on Saturday with a tour-

nament record of 5-1.

That capped off an illustrious career for Monk.

Monk has the second-most victories in NDSU wrestling history with 134, and he became the highest NCAA Championships finisher in Bison history after his third-place finish.

He is the second All-American in NDSU’s Division 1 era and the eighth wrestler in program history.

Monk’s journey at the NCAA Championships started with a 7-4 decision over unseeded Casey Kent (19-8) of the University of Pennsylvania. Monk pinned both his opponents in the second and third session, and headed into the semifinals where he was defeated by No. 1 seed David Taylor of Penn State. Taylor finished his senior year with his second NCAA title and a 34-0 season.

Monk’s last match before the third-place match was against No. 11 seed Turtogtokh Luvsandorj of The Citadel. Monk won with a 5-3 decision.

NDSU Men’s Basketball Falls Short to San Diego State University Aztecs control pace, look on to Sweet 16 Colton Pool

Spectrum Staff

The NDSU men’s basketball team defied the odds once, but couldn’t capture the Spokane magic for yet another upset.

After defeating the No. 5-ranked Oklahoma Sooners Thursday, the No. 12-seeded Bison went up against No. 4-seeded San Diego State Saturday.

Behind Xavier Thames’s 30 points and five assists, the Aztecs overcame the Bison 63-44 in the third round of the NCAA Tournament in Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Wash.

“I got to watch a group of guys that deserved it, who wanted it so bad and made it a priority in their life and did everything I asked them to do,” Bison head coach Saul Phillips said. “This season? Wow.” The Aztecs, whose 56.6 points allowed per game ranked second-best in the nation, held the Bison to limited opportunities.

NDSU mustered up a mere 21 points in the second half and didn’t score a field goal in the last 6:30 of the game.

NDSU got many good looks at the basket, but couldn’t convert on their chances.

The Bison’s top-ranked offense for efficiency was bogged down to 31.9 percent shooting and 18.2 percent from 3-point range.

Bison guard Taylor Braun, who averaged over 18 points per game this season, was held down to five points.

“For me personally, I felt like I missed a

bunch of shots that I normally knock down,” Braun said. “That’s disappointing for me, just being on this stage and not being able to perform like I know I’m capable of.”

NDSU’s offense was led by sophomore Kory Brown, who tied his career-high of 13 points. No other Bison had more than eight points in the contest.

Dwayne Polee II and Thames were the only two in double-digit scoring for SDSU, as Polee II ended his night with 15 points.

But with Thames taking the reins of the offense, no one else needed to be overly effective for the Aztecs to take care of business and make their way to Sweet 16.

“Let’s put it this way,” Phillips said, “he was accountable for half their points, so would I do something different? Yeah, because this one didn’t work.”

The Bison kept themselves up to pace with SDSU, even leading by five with 6:11 left in the first half, but the Aztecs went off on a 15-3 run that gave them a 30-23 lead at halftime. The run was capped off by a 3-pointer from Polee II, 30 seconds before halftime.

“I’m motivated for each and every game,” Thames said. “I’m always ready to play. It was a big game for us to get to the Sweet 16. So, it was a good team win for us; we came out and played good defense on a great offensive team, so I’m just glad we got the win.”

From that point, the Aztecs shot 50 percent in the second half. That efficiency equated to SDSU outscoring the Bison 3321 in the second frame.

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Monk wasn’t the only Bison wrestler at the tournament.

NDSU improved nine spots this year from last year. Finishing with 20.5 points, which put the team 21st in the standings.

Kurtis Julson, Evan Knutson and Hayden Zillmer all made appearances in the NCAA Wrestling Championships. For sophomore 174-pounder Zillmer and junior 184-pounder Julson, this was their first time being under the big lights of the NCAA Wrestling Tournament.

Julson raised some eyebrows as he upset No. 8 seed Timothy Dudley of Nebraska in a 3-2 decision in the second round of the 184-pound consolation bracket. However, Julson lost to No. 15 seed Ryan Loder of Northern Iowa on a 3-0 decision, eliminating him from the NCAA Championships.

Julson finished his junior year with a 23-13 record.

Knutson was eliminated from the tournament after he was pinned in the first period of his pigtail wrestle back match against

Ohio State’s Nick Tavanello at 285 pounds.

Zillmer also exited the tournament early after losing to Cal State-Bakersfield’s Byrce Hammond in a 9-2 decision at the 174-pound wrestle back first round.

Zillmer improved his record tremendously from his freshman year. In 20112012, Zillmer competed unattached as a redshirt, achieved a 21-5 record, but last season he finished 11-9 and this season he posted a 27-8 record.

Tying his win total from last season, Knutson looks to pass 17 wins for the first time in his next season with the Bison.

Even though these three wrestlers didn’t have the success that their leader Monk did, they will look to get back to the NCAA Wrestling Championships next season.

Monk had a phenomenal career at NDSU, but here are some quick stats about Monk’s last season in a Bison singlet. One of the most impressive season records you will ever see at 36-2, with 14 pins, six tech falls and two major decisions.

Why NDSU’s Basketball Win is Bigger Than Football’s Win Contexts, Ranks of Opponents are Key Colton Pool

Spectrum Staff

This year has been quite the year for NDSU athletics.

In their very first game of the season, the Bison football team traveled down to Manhattan, Kansas, and pulled out a thrilling 24-21 victory over the defending Big 12 champion Kansas State Wildcats.

But months later, the NDSU’s men’s basketball team brought onto themselves all kinds of national attention when they went and upset No. 5-seeded and No. 20-ranked Oklahoma 80-75 in overtime in Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Wash., in the second round of the men’s NCAA Tournament.

With the situations of the games and the weight that comes with those victories, the basketball win is and should be considered as more impactful for the respective program and NDSU Athletics as a whole.

I want to preface my argument with a little clarifier: If a person could possibly compare two teams that are of the same school but of different sports, the football team is a better squad overall. However, both teams mirror each other in various ways: both were chock full of senior players and both had these national-headline grabbing, upset wins.

But, the basketball win over OU was bigger for what the win directly translated to.

The football win over KSU was the season opener in a regular season nonconference game. The win over OU was not only against a nationally ranked opponent, the game was in the postseason tournament that the only the best teams in the country play in.

As far as bringing in attention, the football team takes the cake. Immediately, both teams brought in the same amount of attention from national media outlets like ESPN. However, the football team wins in this category with two words — “College Gameday.”

The ESPN program brought all kinds of attention to NDSU and the city of Fargo.

Despite the event that could be attributed to the success of NDSU football and the victory over KSU, I still think the basketball win holds more weight.

The media attention from the basketball win was nothing to shake a stick at. CBS Sports went as far as to say NDSU should be considered America’s team because of their grit yet love for the game that NDSU head coach Saul Phillips and his team showed en route to the win over OU. An ESPN.com reporter even approached me and the rest of NDSU student media in Spokane to find more out about Phillips because national media were finally getting a taste for his enthusiasm, which is paralleled by no one involved with NCAA basketball bar none.

NDSU football had already beaten FBS schools before, so the win over the Wildcats shouldn’t have been that surprising, espe-

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NDSU’S National Recognition Event on South Padre Island

Mid-major label will harm Bison athletics into the future

Sam Herder Sports Editor

T w o y e a r s ago, during spring break in Panama C i t y Beach, Fla., the responses my group of friends and I got when we told fellow spring breakers we’re from NDSU could be summed up three ways.

1.) “Oh, that kinda sucks.”

2.) “What do you guys even do up there?”

3.) “Ohhhh, I betcha you’re enjoying this weather then, eh?”

Fast forward two spring breaks later in South Padre Island, Texas, and the responses were a complete 180. Ranging from “I saw you guys on ESPN!” to “You guys are bada**” to even “Yeah, you guys kicked the crap out of us.”

Since 2011, the national awareness of NDSU has increased dramatically. And it’s a special thing to be a part of.

Three straight football national championships has turned this school into a love affection with ESPN, and an NCAA Tournament appearance in men’s basketball had media outlets calling the Bison “America’s team.” Even Obama got off his crapper and picked NDSU to beat Oklahoma.

And when the Bison did upset the No. 5 Sooners, NDSU became a staple nationally and a legend in South Padre.

More than 75 NDSU stu-

Joe Kerlin Staff Writer

Bison students fly the NDSU’s flag this spring break in Panama City Beach, Fla.

dents were in south Texas.

We felt like kings. There was a spot on the beach where students gathered and raised their school’s flag.

Some schools in attendance were Minnesota, Kansas, Kansas State and Oklahoma.

The NDSU flag flying high drew plenty of looks.

Two years ago, those students would not have cared what the letters NDSU stood for. Last week, they were sick of seeing them.

And before I go on too long of a tangent about my spring break trip, I’d like to get my point across: having our school flag recognized and respected is symbolic of how far NDSU athletics has come in the last two years.

This school year has taken NDSU, Fargo and

COMPARISON from page 10 cially for those who were familiar with the team before that fateful game in August.

The basketball team, on the other hand, had only beaten Notre Dame and Delaware as considerable upsets, and the Irish didn’t even make the NCAA Tournament. And despite being picked by many people, including President Barack Obama, to be a team to pull out an upset win, the national eye had no clue what this NDSU basketball squad was about.

They didn’t know how good the team was until the Bison went into halftime against the Sooners with a seven-point lead at. They didn’t know how confident NDSU was until Lawrence Alexander called out “Buckets” while cashing a gametying three-pointer like he was lighting it up in a street ball game. They didn’t know how deep the team was until freshman Carlin Dupree records his only two minutes of the game in overtime and puts up four points that gave

The Mid-Major Crisis Plague

the Bison the final push they needed to win. And they didn’t know the character of this team until Phillips walked up to the select Bison section in the arena, yelled at the top of his lungs and put up his Bison horns.

“I expect great things out of this program in the future. It’s hard to think about the future at this exact moment,” Phillips said after the loss to San Diego State on Saturday.

“We’re going to build, we’re going to get better, we’re going to have better facilities, we’re going to work harder.”

But most importantly for the team, the win gave the basketball program a stepping stone for years to come — one that NDSU football already would have had with their third-straight FCS title. Did the KSU win give the football team a boost for years to come? Obviously, yes. But I don’t believe the step up was as big that NDSU basketball took that dramatic night in Spokane.

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North Dakota to new heights. The win over Kansas State in football, “College GameDay” coming to Fargo and the upset over Oklahoma has brought this region positive recognition.

NDSU students in Texas got even more to cheer about when we watched Steven Monk get third place at the NCAA Wrestling Championships on Saturday. Monk and the wrestling team now join the “winning on ESPN” party.

The Bison faithful have a lot to brag about. Each year brings more recognition to the school and athletic programs. This year especially has NDSU feeling on top of the world.

But the reality is this can go two ways. Either NDSU

begins as a national storyline school that is defying the odds of building an athletic program in North Dakota that competes nationally every year. Or Bison fans humble themselves after they realize this year was the glory year and it’s back to mid-major, Midwestern pride of competition.

NDSU has the opportunity to build off this year’s national recognition. Becoming a better-known college for recruits and raking in money gives this school a chance to keep building as a Division I school.

But as of now, let everyone associated with NDSU brag. There were plenty of students doing that last week in Texas.

BASKETBALL from page 10 “You’ve got to compete for 40 minutes,” SDSU head coach Steve Fisher said.

“We have been a team that’s done that for the most part. We have not had a lot of lulls during games. And that allows you to have a chance to be good, and we’re good.”

The Bison are also normally aggressive on the boards, but SDSU took that facet of the game away as well. The Aztecs outrebounded NDSU 38-27 while securing 10 more defensive boards.

Simply put, the Aztecs managed to take away the things the Bison did best.

“They were being pretty physical down there,” Bison forward Marshall Bjorklund said. “They had some guys with some length, but I guess there’s a few times that they would push me out a little ways, but it seemed like for most of our guys we were getting some looks on

the block, especially in the second half.”

SDSU moves on to play the winner of Arizona and Gonzaga in the fourth round of the NCAA Tournament in Anaheim, Calif.

“It’s a blessing to get back to the Sweet 16 and also to play in Anaheim with a group of guys that I love playing with,” Thames said.

“They’re all my brothers, so I’m just happy we got the win tonight, and we’re going to the Sweet 16.”

Despite the loss, the Bison walked away from March Madness with their first NCAA Tournament win in school history. Phillips said the run — though it didn’t end the way that the Bison wanted it to — was something to be proud of.

“We lost to a great team,” he said. “My group leaves here champions. And I’ll miss coaching them as a group, desperately.”

O n M o n d a y, the NDSU Bison sent a picture into the social media world claiming more notches on its belt than Lindsay Lohan. You may have seen the picture floating around the Twittersphere and Facebook listing NDSU athletics accomplishments in the past 200 days.

The picture included every football accolade from a magical 2013 season and the record-breaking performances by the men’s basketball and women’s track and field team. It even included the wrestling team’s success along with ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast from Fargo. Over the past 200 days, NDSU has experienced levels of success other mid-major schools can only dream about. So why not gloat, right?

The one factor that continues to annoy me is that NDSU is losing sight of what it actually is — a midmajor college that is used as a stepping stone for any coach seeking more glory and most importantly, more money outside our beloved city of Fargo.

Success at NDSU is fun.

The community gets behind these athletes and supports the coach as if he or she was sent here to rocket NDSU into the elite class of college athletics. The problem is when we have to wait for the other shoe to drop. And that other shoe is the coach leaving town for bigger and brighter lights.

After the recent success of the men’s basketball team, NDSU fans have been anticipating the shoe to drop at any moment. Speculation about men’s head basketball coach Saul Phillips leav-

ing the NDSU program has gained more traction by the day since the coach ran over to the section of Bison fans during the NCAA Tournament, flashing his horns after his team upset Oklahoma.

As fans of NDSU, we have seen this scenario play out more than we care to admit. The history of coaches leaving NDSU dates as far back as Darrel Mudra. Mudra left the NDSU program after the 1965 season to coach at Arizona. More recently, Craig Bohl left along with 24 seniors and took more money to coach a program that can barely keep its head above the water at the University of Wyoming.

This epidemic has many causes, whether it’s money or level of play. The fundamental problem is that NDSU isn’t a destination job like the University of Minnesota or University of Nebraska. Bison fans need to realize this before it’s too late, and another coaching departure crushes their hearts that pump green and gold blood.

Unfortunately, the only plausible way for the NDSU athletic department to avoid this is if they hit the lottery. Amy Ruley and Bucky Maughan were successful enough to take on new challenge elsewhere, but they stayed until retirement. So I guess if you want to be optimistic, there is still hope head football coach Chris Klieman proves his genius and stays at NDSU or whoever coach Phillips’ predecessor is becomes a “lifer” at NDSU. But optimism can lead a fan down a road of utter despair. Just ask any Minnesota Twins fan.

If Coach Phillips decides to stay, I say great. But if he leaves, I couldn’t blame him one bit. NDSU is a mid-major program that is currently on a fantastic run of success.

The question is how long can the success be sustainable while constantly having talented recruiters and coaches plucked and taken away by the schools with real storied programs?

TOURNAMENT from page 1 community, the coaching staff and it was a pretty simple decision for me.”

The kind of community Bjorklund found was the same that shown through on the national stage last weekend. Now, as six seniors leave the program, the Bison will continue to look for improvement in the future.

“Everything I do up to now, everything I’ll ever do… is because of the seniors,” Kory Brown said

after the SDSU loss. “My first real practice or working out over the summer I had to guard (Braun). You know how tough that was? I had to chase Mike (Felt) around off screens, I had to learn how to work with Marshall.

I never really had a big man to play off of. Guys like (senior forward TrayVonn Wright) taught me how to finish. Everything I do from here on out, I’ve been doing is because of the seniors.”

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