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Hip Hop for Hope Celebrates Job-hunting Resources Available On and Off Campus Diversity Through Music Hannah Dillon Staff Writer
Even though spring seems to have missed the mark, graduation is right on time, and the job-hunting season is around the corner. The task of finding a job after graduation seems daunting, but many people both on and off campus are here to help.
These videos have a range of topics from resume writing to how to answer certain interview questions. Jason Klein of 1 Degree Hire, an online resource for job-seekers, also offers seven tips for the job hunt.
1. Klein suggested not stressing over finding the perfect job. Don’t worry about your whole life, just focus on the two to three
“Remember, every ‘no’ you hear from a prospective employer will ultimately bring you closer and closer to that ‘yes’ you covet.” —Jason Klein
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NDSU’s Hiop Hop Team hosted a successful event filled with over 10 artists and rappers. All donations were sent to charity.
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Hip Hop for Hope, a showcase presented by the NDSU Hip Hop Team, featured area rappers, singers, break dancers and a hip-hop performance from the team. The NDSU Hip Hop Team hosted this event to promote and celebrate diversity through music and dance. “It’s a great feeling being able to share your talent with other people and being able to connect with people through dance,” said Club President Victoria Dinampo, a junior majoring in apparel and textiles.“The Hip Hop Team has always been asked to perform in various events outside of campus. Our team has grown over the past couple of years, and I decided why not put up a show where people can watch us perform.” Dinampo said the members of the team are very versatile in their talents.
Not only did team members dance, but some also rapped and sang. Fargo hip-hop band D Mills & The Thrills opened up the night, followed by a performance by Lauren Johnson, a sophomore at MSUM. Johnson re-enacted the scene from the movie “Pitch Perfect” where character Becca sings “You’re Gonna Miss Me” by Lulu and the Lampshades, while tapping a beat with a cup to audition for the a cappella group. Denham McDermott, criminal justice major at NDSU, performed “One Night,” his song that has over 90,000 views on YouTube. LaLinda, Quint Terry and AnonMiskid performed a song they wrote together called “Scars.” John Narum, otherwise known as Inspire, fascinated the audience by performing intense yo-yo tricks to hip-hop beats. This NDSU student began practicing with a yo-yo at age 4, and he has professionally performed throughout the United States for nearly 10 years. The UND Hip Hop Crew was also
invited to perform, and the showcase ended with a dance battle between the UND and NDSU hip-hop teams. Afterward, DJ NOLA opened up the dance floor to anyone who was feeling the “spirit of hip hop.” Some audience members had the opportunity to showcase their own hiphop talents during a game that master of ceremonies Chuey Chu hosted with six audience volunteers, three men and three women. The men and women faced off in pairs for three different tasks. The first pair competed rapping lines from Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat” and “Too Many Daves.” The second pair competed in a freestyle dance-off, and the third pair competed in a dance-off where both opponents performed dance moves the other had to try to copy. The women contestants won free t-shirts by an audience cheer vote.
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Jill Wilkey, director of the Career Center, said that the best thing to do is to come in and talk with one of the Career Center’s five career advisors. These advisors can help students learn how to write resumes and what to say during interviews. Wilkey said that coming in and making an appointment is key because nobody has the same job search. “Everybody’s job search is like their finger print: no one else’s is exactly the same way,” Wilkey said. The Career Center can also teach students how to expand their job search horizons, customize, understand who they are and what they can offer, and how they can communicate both in writing and orally. Wilkey also suggested that people use the Career Center website as a tool. The website has a variety of different topics to help students, such as writing resumes and attending interviews. There are also about 20 different videos at about three to four minutes long.
years after graduation. You might not be doing exactly what you wanted, but the experience will be beneficial. “Every new experience, regardless of subject matter, is a good experience,” Klein said.
2. He also suggested not worrying about the money. Money is important, but new job candidates are like unknown stock. Develop your skills to become a more expensive piece of stock, and you’ll be worth more money, he said. 3. In today’s world, Klein said having a resume is not enough to land you a job. Having a portfolio or developing a digital brand through a blog can be very beneficial, and it gives future employers a chance to get to know you better. 4. Klein also said job seekers can’t rely solely on online job boards. job hunting continued on next page
Inductees to Tapestry of Diverse Talents Support Diversity at NDSU Lisa Marchand Staff Writer
Four individuals will be inducted tomorrow to the Memorial Union’s Tapestry of Diverse Talents for outstanding contributions that they have made to the University’s diversity. The Tapestry, which can be found on the upper level of the Union, is part of a program that “kindles the spirit to diversify diversity” on campus, according to the program’s website. New inductees are chosen once per semester by a small committee of students, staff and
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faculty that were previously chosen for the same honor. The four people selected this semester include associate professor Donald Warne, staff member Lisa Hauck, faculty member Betsy Birmingham and doctoral student Nimish Dharmadhikari. Stephanie Gramlow, graduate assistant for Service Learning and Civic Engagement, is responsible for coordinating the Tapestry of Diversity Program. “There’s so many great things that people are doing that often don’t get recognized,” Gramlow said, “and so this is a great way to just recognize them and to let
campus know what’s going on.” Warne’s diversity contributions focus on equality for Native Americans. He is also the director of NDSU’S Master of Public Health program. Hauck, a Safe Zone Ally, is also an advocate for cultural competency and is involved in campus training programs such as “Communicating across Cultures” and “Community of Respect.” Birmingham is an English professor and associate dean of the college of Arts, tapestry continued on page 3
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The Tapestry of Diverse Talents, featured upstairs in the Memorial Union, recognizes individuals who make contributions to the diversity at NDSU.
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Microsoft Office 365 Email and Calendaring Coming This Summer Logan Curti
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We currently have about two weeks left of school. Students, I’m sure it’s hard to open a book for you right now, let alone read an article. I’m sure your eyes are tired from words and your brain is tired of memorizing. To stay positive, start remembering what is so close to you and almost at your feet. Last week made a huge impact to us because it finally got warm. Now we’re all able to wear a tshirt and sandals to class. Feels good, am I right? I think our spirits finally came back; thank you sunshine and hello lakes, rivers, parks and FUN!
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Jobs posted online have been viewed by thousands of people. To get the jobs before they get put online, start networking with people in your business. 5. Speaking of networking, social media tools can be great for getting in contact with people in that company you’ve got your eye on. However, Klein said having inappropriate things on your social media sites can be off-putting to potential employers.
6. Klein reminds job seekers that there is still homework after graduation. Study up on the companies you want to apply for and look for certain challenges the company faces; you can suggest solutions for these challenges yourself, he said.
“Remember, every ‘no’ you hear from a prospective employer will ultimately bring you closer and closer to that ‘yes’ you covet,” Klein said. There are also three free videos on the 1 Degree Hire website to help job seekers in their efforts.
7. Lastly, Klein reminds recent graduates to not be discouraged by rejection. Everybody gets rejected, and you probably won’t get a job from your first interview.
For more information about the Career Center or 1 Degree Hire, visit http:// www.ndsu.edu/career/ or 1DegreeHire.com.
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hip hop continued... Dinampo hopes the Hip Hop Team will make the showcase an annual event in the future. She said the event was beneficial because of the support the team received, as well as the cause they supported. By attending Hip Hop for Hope, Dinampo said students served a dual purpose by supporting local artists and performers, as well as donating to a cause for chil-
dren in the community. Ticket sales for the event raised over $500 for Big Brothers Big Sisters program of Fargo-Moorhead. “I have lived in this area for about five years now, and the hip hop community in this area is not that big compared to where I used to live,” said Dinampo. “Hip Hop is not recognized as much. I want people to understand that hip hop is not
ulty and staff into the same system will significantly improve their ability to communicate with each other through tools including instant messaging, group video and voice chat and online document viewing and editing,” Rasche said. Rasche anticipates that the upgrade to Office 365 will take place in June. While the timeline is contingent on when Microsoft schedules the upgrade date, she noted that the NDSU IT Help Desk will be available to communicate with students throughout the transition. The second phase of the upgrade involves integrating the student instance of Office 365 with the staff/ faculty instance. All NDSU faculty and students will then be a part of the same email system. The integration of the two instances is projected to occur during the upcoming academic year. If you have any concerns or questions regarding the upgrade to Office 365, feel free to contact the NDSU IT Help Desk at 231-8685 or ndsu.helpdesk@ndsu.edu.
just a genre of music, but it is a culture and a lifestyle. She said the showcase accomplished this by promoting “positive youth development and empowerment.” The team feels they have grown as individuals and have expanded their horizons by learning new dance styles in addition to hip hop. The event was held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the MU Ballroom.
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The North Dakota University System has recently unveiled plans to upgrade the NDSU student email from Live to Office 365 over the summer of 2013. The Live email service will no longer be operational after September of 2013, according to Microsoft’s website. In response to this announcement, NDSU and hundreds of other institutions are upgrading from Live to Office 365. During the upgrade, all existing content in NDSU Live—including email messages, attachments, folders, contacts and calendar items—will be moved to the new system, according to a University press release. When the upgrade is complete, NDSU students will have two separate accounts: an Office 365 account for email and calendaring and a personal Microsoft account for SkyDrive. After the upgrade, students will be able to view and send email on the Web at www.outlook.com/ my.ndsu.edu, via Microsoft
Outlook software installed on a computer, or through an Exchange account configured on a mobile device. Email will continue to serve as the official communication channel through which NDSU will communicate with students regarding university business. Students will retain their current email username and password; however, they may need to reconfigure their Office 365 account on mobile devices and in Microsoft Outlook by reentering their username and password after the upgrade is complete. If students want to change their password, they must visit https:// account.live.com/ResetPassword.aspx. As stated in the University press release, NDSU and NDUS are not administrators on the new account, so both parties are unable to reset passwords under Office 365. Amber Rasche, the IT Communications Coordinator at NDSU, explained that the summer upgrade to Office 365 is the first step towards bringing students into the same email and calendar system as faculty and staff. “Bringing students, fac-
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2-year-old girl gets windpipe made from stem cells
Obama: U.S. Still Not Sure Who Used Chemical Weapons
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he’d consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad’s government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil war. At a White House news conference, the president also defended the FBI’s work in monitoring the activities in recent years of one of the men accused in the deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon two weeks ago. At a question and answer session that ranged from immigration legislation to recent intelligence cooperation with Russia, the president several times chided, criticized or dismissed his Republican critics. Asked about one senator who recently said national security protections have deteriorated since he became president, Obama said, Sen. Lindsey “Graham is not right on this issue, although I’m sure he generated some headlines.” Asked about Syria, the president said that while there is evidence that chemical weapons were used inside the country, “we don’t know when they were used, how they were used. We don’t know who used them. We don’t have a chain of custody that establishes” exactly what happened. If it can be established that the Syrian government used chemical weapons, he added, “we would have to rethink the range of options that are available to us.”
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CHICAGO (AP) — A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment. Hannah Warren has been unable to breathe, eat, drink or swallow on her own since she was born in South Korea in 2010. Until the operation at a central Illinois hospital, she had spent her entire life in a hospital in Seoul. Doctors there told her parents there was no hope and they expected her to die. The stem cells came from Hannah’s bone marrow, extracted with a special needle inserted into her hip bone. They were seeded in a lab onto a plastic scaffold, where it took less than a week for them to multiply and create a new windpipe. About the size of a 3-inch tube of penne pasta, it was implanted April 9 in a nine-hour procedure. Early signs indicate the windpipe is working, Hannah’s doctors announced Tuesday, although she is still on a ventilator. They believe she will eventually be able to live at home and lead a normal life. “We feel like she’s reborn,” said Hannah’s father, Darryl Warren.
Hannah Warren, 2, received a new windpipe made from her own stem cells in a landmark operation on April 9, 2013, at Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria, Ill.
Only about one in 50,000 children worldwide are born with the windpipe defect. The stem-cell technique has been used to make other body parts besides windpipes and holds promise for treating other birth defects and childhood diseases, her doctors said. The operation brought together an Italian surgeon based in Sweden who pioneered the technique, a pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria who met Hannah’s family while on a business trip to South Korea, and Hannah - born to a Newfoundland man and Korean woman who married after he moved to that country to teach English. Part of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, the Roman Catholic hospital considers the operation part of their mission to provide charity care, but also views it as a way to champion a type of stem-cell therapy that doesn’t involve human embryos, the surgeons said. The Catholic church opposes using stem cells derived from human embryos in research or treatment. Macchiarini has been
involved in 14 previous windpipe operations using patients’ own stem cells five using man-made scaffolds like Hannah’s but in adults; and nine using scaffolds made from cadaver windpipes, including one in a 10-year-old British boy. He said only one patient died, a 30-year-old man from Abingdon, Md., who had the operation in November 2011 to treat late-stage cancer of the windpipe. He died about four months later of uncertain causes, Macchiarini said. Similar methods have been used to grow bladders, urethras and last year a girl in Sweden got a lab-made vein using her own stem cells and a cadaver vein. Scientists hope to eventually use the method to create solid organs, including kidneys and livers, said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He said the operation on Hannah Warren “is really showing that the technique is workable.”
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tapestry continued... Humanities and Social Sciences. She has been very involved with the Advance FORWARD Leadership Program and several other gender equality efforts at NDSU. “I was incredibly honored by the nomination, humbled when I look at the list past winners, and encouraged to keep working for social justice on this campus and in the world,” Birmingham said. Dharmadhikari hails
from Sangamner, India, and is pursuing a doctorate in the Transportation and Logistics program. He is the current president of the Graduate Student Association and is dedicated to helping fellow international students assimilate to life in Fargo. He aims to also help establish a “Domestic-International students buddy program” sometime in the future, he said. “I am really grateful to all the love and warmth I
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“Obviously there are options to me that are on the shelf right now that we have not deployed,” he said, noting that he had asked Pentagon planners last year for additional possibilities. He declined to provide details. Obama responded with slight ridicule and humor when he was asked if he still had the political juice to push his agenda through Congress after an early second-term defeat on gun control legislation. “Golly, I might just as well pack up and go home,” he parried his questioner. Paraphrasing Mark Twain, he said, “Rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated at this point.” He expressed confidence that Congress would approve sweeping immigration legislation that he is seeking. He also renewed his call for lawmakers to replace across-the-board federal spending cuts. The administration favors a comprehensive plan to reduce deficits through targeted spending cuts and higher taxes. Asked about the FBI’s investigation into a possible terrorist threat posed in the past by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings who died in an escape attempt, the president said, “Based on what I’ve seen so far, the FBI performed its duties, the Department of Homeland Security did what it was supposed to be doing.” “But this is hard stuff,” he said of the work needed to ferret out security threats at home. He also said, “Russians have been very cooperative with us since the Boston bombing.”
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Time Isn’t of the Essence in Fiji But it Needs to be When Reporting the News Mike Liudahl
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Although the fall semester here at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji runs well into June, my opportunities to write for The Spectrum have come to a close. As students back in Fargo endured another harsh winter, I’ve been thankful for opportunity to try warming them up with my experiences from a much more forgiving climate. At this point, I’m only about half way through my stay in this small island nation and will get to spend some time traveling during the winter break here. I realize you would probably rather not hear any mention of winter, but it’s just around the corner for Fijians. This, of course, means nothing to the extreme weather survivors of NDSU, considering the temperature rarely ever dips much below 70 degrees here. I must admit that consistent atmospheric conditions offered by Fiji played a big role in my choosing it for study abroad, however, the journalistic challenge hasn’t disappointed either. Unlike subjects such as math, science or even business, principles of journalism are by no means universal from one area of the world to the next. The way I write for The Spectrum is noticeably different than the way I write for the Wansolwara, which is the USP campus paper. Wansolwara translates to English as “One Ocean, One People” and is distributed to satellite campuses in the other 12 partner island nations. The area of ocean encompassing all of them is larger than the landmass of the entire United States. Therefore, I need to be conscious of who will be reading what I write as it could be taken out of context in places such as Tonga, Papua New Guinea, or the Solomon Islands. For this reason, my cultural adaptation has definitely been easier than the ones I’m still making to the media styles used in this chunk of the world. After spending enough time in a distant country, one begins to fully recognize the things we take for granted. In particular for me, I have a new appreciation for how organized the NDSU Spectrum is compared to what I’ve experienced here. To be fair, however, it’s important to note that Fiji is a developing nation of just over 40 years, which means that most things are still a work in progress. As I mentioned in an earlier article, this requires patience and you must be willing to roll with whatever gets thrown at you. Only three strong in terms of faculty, the journalism/communication department has a tough task instilling an attitude in the students necessary for them to someday be an effective member of the country’s media. They are up against the concept of “Fiji time,”
which is an aspect of this culture that can’t be compatible with what it takes to be a respected news journalist. “Fiji time” basically means it’s okay to wait on getting something done until you feel like it or are forced to, and that approach is nowhere near a feasible one for news writing. Although I appreciate the slower pace of life here, “news” loses its “newness” no matter where you live if it isn’t reported in a reasonable amount of time. Despite being classified as a communication department, it’s been fascinating for me to witness how poor the overall communication is within it. With that said, it’s best to mention that being on the same page as everybody else isn’t often stressed as necessary in this culture. Not even asking plenty of questions can help you find out what you should have been told at the beginning of the semester. Confident that Fiji will eventually reestablish as a democracy, I still feel compelled to refer to it as more of a functional anarchy at this point. Who am I to judge, though? The people seem to be just as happy as Americans without the high level structure that we need in our lives. Outside of the flourishing tourism industry, nearly everything else appears to be stuck in time including desires by aspiring journalists to be on top of things. All in all, Fiji is a wonderful place to study abroad and I would encourage anybody who is interested to do whatever it takes to make it happen. One NDSU student broke the ice last year and two more of us took the plunge this year. Shivanjani Singh enthusiastically returned the favor in leaving the warmth of Fiji to become a Bison this semester. With somewhat of a precedent now set, it would be nice to see this become a trend and even grow. As an established insider at USP, I’m willing to field any questions from prospective students who would like to spend some time in a tropical paradise. Please email me at michael. liudahl@my.ndsu.edu and I will do my best to ignore “Fiji time” rules by responding before winter begins to set in here. Actually, since I’m a day ahead, I shouldn’t have a problem getting back to you in the same day. I know that doesn’t make any sense at all, but it humors me. Without further ado, I’d like to thank the studentoperated Spectrum for allowing me to contribute to its production in a variety of ways. Sometimes you can’t really know how well an organization is run until you become part of one that’s at the opposite end of the time efficiency spectrum. Writing for the paper here can be frustrating, but I love it for what it is and hope it can someday meet the standard that continually gets set by staff and writers developing their skills at NDSU.
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A Passion for Fashion Working Hard to Make it Big in the Fashion Scene Malorie Midtaune Contributing Writer
It is said that in order to successfully follow your dreams, three things are needed: determination, courage and heart. Emily Harris, a senior majoring in apparel studies and minoring in Spanish, has attained all three of those things in the pursuit of following her dreams as a fashion designer. With a little effort and hard work, Harris has proved that making your dreams come true is very possible. As a high school student, Harris realized that she had a passion for fashion after taking a sewing elective class. “It immediately sparked something. I thought, ‘this rocks!’ and I stuck with it,” Harris said. This love for fashion has lead Harris to create a few of her own designs to be modeled here at NDSU as well as throughout the community. One of these local stops was through the West Acre’s third annual “Passion for Green Fashion” event, in which local aspiring designers created items out of various recycled materials to be displayed and voted on at West Acre’s Mall. The event closed on April 28, with the winner receiving a $250 West Acres Mall Card. Along with her work in the “Passion for Green Fashion” event, Harris created a pair of pants to be modeled during the NDSU FABO Fashion Show on Wednesday, April 24. The pants took many
hours to make, but are a project that Harris is very proud of. Harris took the lead and modeled her pant creation for all to see at the show and was 1 of 16 NDSU students who created pieces for the event. Following the success of her recent creations, Harris is looking forward to the future and the opportunities that it will bring. This summer, Harris will be travelling to Los Angeles, CA to complete an internship with Bri Seeley, a former NDSU graduate, previously out of Seattle, who runs her own fashion line. “I will kind of be her little mini-me shadowing whatever she does. I think this will really help me get a good idea as to what I like,” Harris said. Bri Seeley has influenced Harris in many ways, including her hopes of continuing post-education abroad. Seeley completed her Master’s degree in fashion from Italy and has lead Harris with dreams of also completing a Master’s degree abroad in Spain, where she will be able to put her Spanish major to good use. During her sophomore year of college, Harris took a semester to study abroad in Granada, Spain, which is an experience that Harris does not regret. “It was so great. What really pushed me to go was talking to people who had already graduated and didn’t study abroad because that was one of the things
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they regretted. Anyone can absolutely do it,” Harris explained. Depending on what kind of jobs open up in apparel, Harris shared that she would love to travel abroad again following graduation. “I really want to get back as soon as I can, just because it’s the time. Someday I’ll get older and have kids so I won’t be able to do it,” Harris said. When it comes to fashion influences, Harris credits her grandmother for introducing her to the art of sewing by creating many pieces in elementary school. This love for sewing lead Harris to joining her first sewing class in high school and provided her with many supportive and influential figures. “Our sewing teacher was so supportive of all of us kids. That was really cool because her energy was just so fun and it really made you feel like you could do
something,” Harris said. Apart from her personal influences, Harris looks to designers such as Coco Chanel and Ralph Lauren for fashion inspiration. “I really like looking at younger designers who are trending and getting popular. I think they are really inspiring,” Harris said. Like many up-and-coming fashion designers, Harris has dreams of someday displaying pieces at famous fashion events like New York Fashion Week and L.A. Fashion Week. After meeting with Harris, it is evident that she has the determination, courage and heart needed to follow her dreams. Harris is a wonderful example as to what it takes to love what you do and do what you love. With so much passion and energy for fashion, Harris is one to look for in the future by taking the fashion world by storm.
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I started dating my girlfriend about three months ago and things are going really well between the two of us. We like spending time together and have a lot in common. She loves sports almost more than me, likes great music, has great comedic timing, and to top it all off, is beautiful. Basically, she’s my dream girl. I know this doesn’t exactly scream, “Houston we have a problem.” But, Houston, we have a SERIOUS problem. I want her to meet my parents. They’re going to be coming into town to move me out of my dorm in a week once finals are over, and I really want them to have the chance to meet this wonderful girl. I’m going to be moving into my first ever apartment and won’t be seeing my parents for a while after they’re here. So, I think this would be a good time to introduce them. I finally gathered up enough courage to ask her about this a couple of days ago, and she freaked out on me. I get that “meeting the parents” can be kind of overwhelming, but I didn’t think she would react like this. I guess, I just feel like if she can’t suck it up and meet my parents for even a half and hour, we probably should not be dating. I didn’t expect this to be the reason that we might break up, but it’s looking like that might be the case.Not sure if I should dump her or stick it out and wait for her to meet my parents another time. What should I do?
Thanks, Mr. Meet the Parents
Dear Mr. Meet the Parents, She sounds like a great girl, and clearly things with you guys have been going well. Honestly, it doesn’t sound like you guys have many other problems besides the one at hand, so I don’t know if breaking up with her is the best solution to your problem. It’s great that you want her to meet your parents—that just shows how much you care about her. It’s very sweet. But, it’s probably overwhelming to your lady because it ups the ante of your relationship. You might just see it as a casual introduction, but for her, it could mean much more than that. Girls have a tendency to over-analyze each and every part of relationships, so for your girlfriend, this could feel like a huge step. Heck, who knows? She might even think that you’re about to pop the question. So, here’s what I recommend: Ask her why she does not want to meet your parents. Be straightforward. Once she has answered, explain why it is important for her to meet your parents. If she is given a better understanding that you just want to casually introduce them, then it should be no problem. However, if she is still hesitant about “meeting the parents,” I would suggest that you hold off on this relationship milestone until she is ready. I personally would not end a relationship over this just yet. If you two have been dating for six months or a year and you still haven’t met one another’s families, I would then start reevaluate the relationship. But for now, just have fun with each other, and wait for the serious stuff until the time is right.
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Zach Braff Uses Eleventh Season Lineup Announced at Theatre B Kickstarter to Fund Follow-up to Garden State Jack Dura
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Well it worked so well for Rob Thomas and Veronica Mars, so why not try again and see what happens? If your lucky, lightning just might strike twice. Zach Braff sure hopes so. It was announced this week that Zach Braff (Scrubs) has created a Kickstarter campaign to fund his follow up to the 2004 sleeper- hit Garden State. Braff had a financing deal in place to make Wish I Was Here, but he wanted artistic control, so opted for the independent finance route. For those unfamiliar, according to the company’s website, Kickstarter is “a new way to fund creative projects.” First project creators be it film, music, video game etc. set a goal for how much money they want and a deadline for how long the project will stay open. Next, if people like a project, then they can donate money to it. Sounds simple enough, but as is usually the case, there is a catch. Projects must reach their funding goals by their deadline to receive any money. So why would anyone want to donate his or her own money so someone could create a project? The creator’s give out incentives depending on how much money someone donates. The best part of Kickstarter, especially in Braff’s case, is that creators keep 100 percent ownership of their work. From Braff’s page, Wish I Was Here is the story of Aidan Bloom (Played by Braff), a struggling actor, father and husband, who at 35 is still trying to find his identity. He and his wife are barely getting by financially
and when his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to homeschool them. Through teaching his kids about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn’t find. Incentives for donating to the movie range from a production diary detailing the process of making the movie for $10. A special one of a kind movie t-shirt for $40, actual production stills for $60, all the way up to being an actual cast member in the movie for $10,000. So no matter how much you want to donate, there is something to make it worthwhile. Braff got the idea to do the Kickstarter after fans donated over $5.7 Million to produce a Veronica Mars movie. The movie will be based on the short- lived cult television show of the same name that ran for three seasons and ended in 2007. Show creator Rob Thomas wrote the movie script to give the show some closure after cancellation, but was turned down by Warner Brothers. Instead he turned to Kickstarter, and fans of the show didn’t disappoint. For those interested who want to donate, the project will be open for 24 more days. To wrap everything up, Braff had the following to say. “I look at it like this: Come join this little club. Join for whatever you can. And then, together, this lil club’s gonna make a really cool movie, and you’ll have made it happen. If you’ve liked the stuff I’ve made so far, I know you’re going to love this.”
This fall will be very special indeed for Theatre B. The little Main Avenue theatre will celebrate its tenth anniversary and begin its eleventh season. With four splendidly different plays to showcase in its 2013-2014 season, Theatre B is sure to keep its fans coming back for more. Inaugurating the eleventh season is “Red,” a Tony Award-winning play by John Logan. Centered on the relationship between abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko and his fictional assistant Ken, “Red” asserts that lessons can be learned from both the teacher and the student. While its plot may seem a little ho-hum, its accolades prove “Red” is anything but. Nominated for seven Tony Awards in in 2010, this show snatched up six of its nominations – Best Play, Best
Featured Actor, Best Direction of a Play, Best Scenic Design of a Play, Best Lighting Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Play. For its 2013 holiday show, Theatre B is presenting “Scrooge Macbeth,” also known as “A Shakespearian Christmas.” Written by David MacGregor, this playwithin-a-play concerns the aftermath of a food poisoning outbreak that leaves only four actors able to go onstage. More mayhem erupts when one of the actors discovers the theatre’s questionable financial situation, which only puts more pressure on the four performers to pull off a standout show. This show will take the stage at Theatre B during the holiday season, running from Thanksgiving to Christmas. By the time February rolls around, Theatre B will be back with its first production of 2014: “Gruesome Playground Injuries” by Rajiv Joseph. Chronicling the 30-year
acclaimed shows come to life on a hometown stage, and if its track record is any indication, Theatre B can be expected to put on strong productions of these lauded plays. With a 15-member resident ensemble, Theatre B should have no trouble piecing together casts for these productions, especially since auditions are also open to the public. Scripts are available for checkout by email at info@theatreb.org. There is much in store for fans and Fargo-Moorhead residents this fall at Theatre B. If two Tony winners are not enough to draw anybody in, a hilarious holiday show and a play that defines adult theatre should be enough to attract audience. Another JACK an DURA | THE SPECTRUM
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Like “Red,” “Clybourne Park” is also a Tony winner, having nabbed the 2012 award for Best Play. It will be interesting to see these
season of laughter and tears is almost in sight at Theatre B, now ten years and ten seasons strong.
Four-part Serial Comes Together as One in “Waiting Gun” Jack Dura
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Something old has become something new with Wayne D. Overholser’s “The Waiting Gun.” This four-part serial, which originally ran in the October – November 1957 issues of Ranch Romances, has been strung together as an all-in-one story in 179 pages. Set in the rugged mesa country of Nevada, “The Waiting Gun” follows Bill Varney, a young cowhand on his father’s ranch. Forever at odds with his hated father Old Mike, Bill has told himself time after time that one day he will pack up and leave the outfit. His plans never come to fruition until the day he learns someone has arrived in town with intentions to
kill his father. Persuaded by his twin sister Vida, Bill puts off leaving the ranch and faces the man out for his father’s blood. This shootout sets the pace for the rest of the novel, as Bill is then besieged by angry ranchers, a hidden shooter, his sister’s twofaced fiancé, a sneaky shopkeeper, and a tangled mess of romance with the town’s milliner. Everyone, it seems, is out to kill Old Mike, who has no problem with that, just as long as Bill is around to clean up the mess and keep his ranch in the right hands. Bullets start to fly when Old Mike orders an enemy’s ranch burned, and after a failed attempt on his life, Bill finds himself right next to his father at the top of everybody’s hit list. A hidden shooter wounds Old Mike,
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and then the hunt is on for Bill to find the man responsible. Could it be shopkeeper Phil Nider, whose pristine exterior masks darker motives? Vida’s fiancé Turk stands to gain a wife and a ranch from the deaths of Old Mike and Bill, but the
Gilbert boys will also have their vengeance with the old man’s death for the burning of their ranch. Who shot Old Mike is the big mystery in this book,
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The Preponderance of 90s Kids Steven Strom A&E Editor
There’s a long-running joke on the Internet that kids who grew up in the 80s had a better childhood than those who grew up in the ‘90s. That’s thanks to shows cartoons like Transformers and He-Man, as well as the short-lived fad of actioncomedy like Ghostbusters, The Goonies and Monster Squad, which pervaded the era. The joke, in its most common form, is a collage of ‘80s childhood icons, including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the G.I. Joes and their like, in comparison to one image or another from something like Pokémon with a caption something like “Hey 90s kids, your childhood sucked.” So where does this sort of pop culture elitism come from? Obviously, much of it is nostalgia. Most “kid’s shows” in the ‘80s were invented with a singular purpose; they were created to sell toys. When you’re a kid, that’s an incredibly important part of your development. Toys and the stories both created for kids and by them have a massive impact on the development of the creative process (not to mention enforcing certain beliefs,
such as “acceptable” gender roles). Popular culture for ‘90s kids was a bit different. This was the advent of trans-media franchises, the explosion home console video game popularity, and the last, great comic book boom. The concept of “toys” became less and less important in the face of media that could no longer just be a passive participant in childhood memories, but required activity. Essentially, while kids were still being asked to make their own stories, there was an even greater demand for those stories already in place to stand on their own as creative works. That’s where much darker, more mature franchises like those produced in the early days of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel came in. Supposedly child-oriented sitcoms like Smart Guy and The Famous Jett Jackson dealt with issues of racism and sexuality, while science fiction/fantasy shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark dealt with death and danger amongst kids. Even shows like The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Hey Arnold, and Aaaah Real Monsters were allowed to experiment with surrealism in ways that would have never flown 10 years prior because studios were hungry to figure out ways to keep kids’ attention away from active
artistic media, such as video games. It’s quite possible that this has had an impact on our culture outside of art and media as well. The recent social civil war waging in the United States regarding issues of gender, sexuality and race could all be attributed -- at least in part -- to the much more mature and progressive narratives told in our childhood. Some of the best stuff from the supposedly superior ‘80s has even carried over through both eras and into the lives of children today. One of my favorite quotes from the Internet (unfortunately I forget who said it) has always been “I learned more about honor and self-sacrifice from Optimus Prime than I ever did from my own family.” It’s a perfect crystallization of the effect that media can have on us, both in our childhoods and throughout our lives. Who’s to say whether a character or person is “real” and “fiction” when all that really matters is the impact they have on our actions? For that matter, who’s to say which era is really better when it’s the lessons we take away from those years that really matter? Well, me, I suppose. I’m saying that the ‘90s were better.
waiting gun continued... but only to the characters. The reader knows exactly who pulled the trigger, as the story changes perspectives between Bill and the shooter. This became a little confusing at times, as the story ran fast and lacing together two sides of the same story was hurried work in a book as short as this. It would be no big sur-
prise to reveal that Bill Varney does clear the air and sort out the mess that his father stoked up after years of bad blood between the other ranchers. The shooter is found, his posse is punished (but not by the law), and everything works out for the best in the end. This Western is a fine piece of fiction worthy of an
episode of “Gunsmoke” or a movie with John Wayne, who probably could have played the cantankerous Old Mike Varney very nicely. “The Waiting Gun” is also the perfect length for whiling away an afternoon, and a prime example of Western fiction for anyone willing to give it a read.
EVE Online Gets a TV Series Steven Strom A&E Editor
EVE Online is often called “Spreadsheets in Space” by a large portion of the game playing community. That’s because the massively multiplayer spaceship simulator features an entirely player-driven economy simulation, which results in more than a few actual spreadsheets being used by major players. That’s important because EVE Online’s in-game currency has an ever-fluctuating exchange rate into real world money, meaning that losing fake money can be compared to losing actual funds. The whole thing is incredibly complex, and one of the favorite sayings among game journalists is “I love to hear about the stories in EVE Online, but I’ll never be able to actually play it.” Developer CCP must have taken note of this phenomenon, because at this year’s EVE Fanfest the Icelandic company announced
their plans to make a TV series based on the actions and stories of real players within the game. Baltasar Kormákur, director of the HBO pilot The Missionary and the upcoming Denzel Washington/ Mark Wahlberg vehicle 2 Guns, will helm the show. Speaking of HBO, CCP’s CEO Hilmar Veigar made some bold citations for the show’s inspiration, which includes both AMC’s Breaking Bad, as well as the aforementioned cable network’s television version of Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire. As I mentioned, the show is set to draw from real experiences from within EVE Online. If that’s the case, you can expect plenty of political and corporate intrigue, personal backstabbing, massive space fights and (though this is perhaps less likely) lots and lots of asteroid mining. The show doesn’t have an announced network or release date as of yet. In fact, during the Fanfest keynote, Veigar specifically asked players to submit their
own stories some time before the end of this month, which might imply that the show doesn’t even have any scripts set yet (though it’s possible that CCP already chose some of its favorite stories ahead of time and is only looking to the future). The tagline for the new series seemed to be “true stories from 20,000 years in the future,” which shows just how much the developer wants to highlight the “reality” and player-driven nature of its universal fiction. It will certainly be interesting to see what the folks behind a game that relies so heavily on the stories players make themselves dream up in a story driven medium. CCP definitely has a history of making ambitious promises a reality, along with well-edited and exciting game trailers. Perhaps a CG animated series using in-game assets, including the Carbon character creator could work? Whatever the case, I’m definitely intrigued to see what happens next.
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From Economic Windfall to Environmental Downfall
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North Dakota’s Delusional Fracking Fantasy By Nathan Stottler Opinion Editor
While pondering topics for this, my final column as The Spectrum’s Opinion Editor, it only seemed fitting that I choose one last environmental topic to examine. That said, I settled on a compound issue that is currently affecting families and communities all across the country, including a plethora of communities in Western North Dakota: Fracking. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the process of injecting massive amounts of sand, water, and chemicals into oil or natural gas wells and detonating the toxic mixture, which in turn fractures the geologic structures into which the well is drilled. This process, which occurs sometimes close to a mile below the earth’s surface, allows oil and gas trapped in layers of shale rock to be extracted in locations that were previously impossible to tap. This entire process raises myriad environmental concerns. From the massive amounts of water used to frack a single well – anywhere from 1-8 million gallons per frack,
and a well can be fracked up to 18 times – to the chemicals used to detonate underground – many of which are undisclosed to the public, legally kept safe as ‘industry secrets’ – the environmental dangers surrounding the process of hydraulic fracturing abound. Let’s begin with the chemicals that go into the well. See, some of
in an attempt to prevent any of the toxic fluids flowing through the pipe from escaping. The well pipe pierces the water table and then continues below the lower limit of the ground water, which would normally prevent any contamination in the ground water that people use for drinking. However, it has been found in
“It has been found in studies conducted by oil and gas companies that over a 30-year life span, over 50% of oil wells fail.” those chemicals – combined with the massive amounts of water that are pumped into the well – are removed after the fracking process. Those chemicals are pumped into giant, open-air pits directly adjacent to the drill site. Here, these deadly chemicals are left to evaporate into the atmosphere, or for wildlife to swim, and eventually die, in. The chemicals that are not pumped out of the well are left inside the earth, potentially to seep into aquifers that millions of people rely on for their source of freshwater. Then there is the issue of the well itself. Each well is composed of a steel pipe encased in concrete,
studies conducted by oil and gas companies that over a 30-year life span, over 50% of oil wells fail. The concrete surrounding the pipes will crack, crumble, erode, decompose – and thus allow methane and other chemicals to perforate the concrete and migrate upwards, into the formerly protected water table. The scariest part about this is that there is no solution to the problem. After a gas or oil well has been sealed, it needs to last forever – there is no way to completely plug the well because you cannot plug porous concrete – in order to protect the ground water. If 50% of all wells leak after only 30 years, it is only a matter of time until all
2.5 million abandoned oil and gas wells – not to mention the operating wells – are leaking methane into our nation’s water supply. These very activites are taking place as you read this article in Western North Dakota. The reason the oil boom out West has taken place so recently and not in ages past is because the oil there is trapped in the Bakken Formation – a geologic structure that holds oil in a way that conventional drilling cannot extract it. Through the advent of hydraulic fracturing, these fields have been opened up to exploration. So how are these things affecting North Dakotans? We hear every day about the booming population, the crime spikes, the lack of housing ‘out West.’ But we hear nothing of the environmental implications. Remember those tens of millions of gallons of freshwater being pumped into every single well? That water is coming from the Missouri River – to cite an article from a month or two ago, this is the source of freshwater for a good portion of North Dakota, and the backup water supply for our very own Fargo. The landscape of Western
Response to Benjamin Whalen Emily Driscoll
Contributing Writer
Because I can see that you hold strong in your beliefs that abortion is the “murder” of an unborn child, a human, then I think it is safe to say that arguing further on certain subjects is pointless if my objective is to sway you. Though I agree with nothing you have included in your letter, some of it is worth arguing for the sake of my reputation and invalid assumptions made about me. First, I would like to make it clear that I do not advocate for abortion in any way, shape or form. If I am an advocate for anything, it is prevention. Whether prevention means condoms, contraceptive pills, or abstinence for you personally, well, that is completely up to you as an individual with human rights. I do not consider abortion as a form of prevention. In your letter of rebuttal you point out that I am someone who thinks, “when in doubt, we should kill”. This entire concept is putting words in my mouth. I have no doubts in my be-
lief. If I am afraid of anything, it is strict restrictions being implemented on my health as someone who has the ability to get pregnant, and the intention to get pregnant at some point in my life. It is a risky process for the woman and sometimesprecautionary measures need to be taken in order to save the woman’s life if the pregnancy is considered moderately dangerous. If Personhood were to pass, the option to save a woman’s life may not even be there in emergencies. In the letter you have quoted that, “it should be immediately apparent that it is immoral to engage in sexual relations while still in high school, and therefore still unmarried.” Are you saying that two people that have been dating for two years are less “ready” to have sex than a married couple that hardly knows their spouse? According to USA Today, 48% of women made an arrangement to live together in an intimate relationship with their significant other before marriage while only a quarter of people waited until marriage. Who is to say that you have better morals because you choose to abstain from
sex before marriage? Other than the Ten Commandments, I don’t see where that is written as a rule. In a country where the average age that people lose their virginity is 16, I don’t think your argument is even remotely realistic or “fair.” In addition to that, if children are raised by their parents to abstain from sex it doesn’t mean they are necessarily going to follow that instruction. We’re brought up in a country that is socialized from media and our surroundings to accept sex and even feel pressured to participate in it. To abstain from sex when you’re in an intimate situation with someone you’re attracted to wouldn’t be “selfish” as you have said, it would simply be going with his or her instinct, or the way we’re socialized naturally and subconsciously from our surroundings. You have made the assumption that I have the mindset that “if something bad is going to happen anyway, why bother trying to stop it”? In my article I offered attainable solutions. Sex education is far more attainable and realistic than relying on abstinence alone, based on solid fact and re-
search. According to Advocates for Youth, based on several statistics, “no abstinence-only-until-marriage program has been shown to help teens delay the initiation of sex or to protect themselves when they do initiate sex.” You did make a couple of valid claims in your argument: that “eyes are for seeing” and “ear are for hearing”, but you’ve forgotten to mention one thing. Why do females have a clitoris? According to science.howstuffworks.com, “the clitoris is the only organ in the human body devoted solely to sensory pleasure”. This can be considered synonymous with the nerves in the head of a penis, which also only holds the purpose of pleasure and is not actually involved or necessary in the process of reproduction. Your argument that sex “factually” is only for reproductive purposes is disregarding those that people can be infertile, homosexual, etc., and is therefore disrespecting a large percentage of the population.
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North Dakota – a wild, untamed landscape of rugged hills and deep valleys – has been drastically changed by the oil industry. Hop on Google Earth and you can now see a fine grid of gas wells and access roads stretched across the entire landscape, completely fragmenting habitats for both plants and animals, and forever scarring the region. And furthermore, within the span of 30 years, over half of those wells will be leaking methane and othe chemicals into the water table, which may soon be the only (if frugal) supply of fresh water in Western North Dakota. And North Dakota, continuing along it’s greedy, disastrous route, turns a blind eye to the future that awaits its short-sighted decisions. Regulation needs to be brought to the oil and gas industry, and it needs to happen now. With states as liberal as New York and California having a difficult time keeping the energy industries out, it is doubtful that North Dakota will manage to turn the tables. Time will only tell. Nathan is a senior majoring in landscape architecture. Follow him on twitter @nwstottler.
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A Failure to Communicate The Right Place at the Right Time Reliance on Technology is Betraying Us How Fate and Competition Define Our Lives SUZY CAVALIER Contributing Writer
Today I came across a good pal of mine to find out his newly ex-girlfriend is now dating the person who he considered to be his best friend. It got me thinking and trying to understand how people react to each
jumble in life. If something goes wrong, the internet is the first chosen source of therapy. Though there are a lot of things to help, like online shopping or even looking up funny YouTube videos of the most heart wrenchingly adorable puppies falling down the stairs or burping in their slumbers. However, it can all potentially waste of a lot of time
“There are endless delights and simple pleasures out there in the world, but some are harder to find than just clicking a button.” other and how we handle things. A few things came to my mind with trying to figure out how things stick together or what makes them fall apart in a communicational sense these days. A huge block in my personal communication flaws knowingly comes from my use of the internet. I hate to point fingers at the media and technology, but it seems our eyes are beaten up online constantly with memes as well as inspirational quotes - even outside cyber world to help us with our troubles. We try to find our strengths in other peoples’ words, photos, and even actions are sought out for us to try to make sense of the entire mumble
because times fly by when we’re glued to a screen. What happened to healthy human interaction, to healthy human healing? The best, yet worst information comes from the media and the internet and they have definitely desensitized more people than I would like to accept. Our social system appears to have more flaws than before. Messages get misinterpreted and emotions get put through the shredder. And to make things more complicated and worse off, this is what destroys such natural beauty in life, and what people run to for emotional comfort and stability. Reliance on others and technology rather than us
as individuals has enveloped and wrapped itself around our fingers. As the most intelligent beings, supposedly, we should harness what we have as a human race instead of relying on technology to communicate and express ourselves. Try art, music, sitting down with someone face to face instead of texting, or even just calling someone or sitting down over coffee or a board game. It makes life’s moments more precious and worthwhile. It’s easy to send a text or FB message, challenge yourself and your fellow peers to a face off! There are many good things come from the internet and media when it comes to researching and informing ourselves, but doesn’t seem to nourishing to our actual intellect and souls. Instead of searching the internet for solace or triumphs dig around your physical environment and see what you can find to make you grin. There are endless delights and simple pleasures out there in the world, but some are harder to find than just clicking a button.
Amber Zolondek Contributing Writer
It has slowly come to me over the past year that college is one giant ring of competition. Not like the kind we see in high school, but more of a vicious level. One with career, love, money, or other topics we would consider as “grown up”. What hasn’t occurred to me was that perhaps this is just how it’s supposed to be. You move up a level of education, just as equally you move up a level of fierce fighting for what you hope to claim as yours. Whether it may be an interview, a contact, that position you have dreamt for, even just a first date with the lab partner you’ve been drooling over the past semester. Everything has its timing and its fight. We often forget that fate
plays a huge role in our lives as well. Whether you believe it or not, it is plausible there is a certain tilt of luck or chance that molds our serendipity. Some interpret it as religion while others believe it to be karma, but whatever you believe it to be, those on their toes have a slight heads up, so I suggest you be ready. The quote “Good things come to those who wait” has been more frequently changed to “Good things come to those who earn it” which makes more sense, but can be looked at in both lights. Sometimes things require the hard work and determination to achieve a status or goal, and other times we just have to wait it out for the right time. Opportunities have their window of time, and without respecting that occasion, you could rush or destroy the actual chance of success. While I’m neither super-
stitious nor paranoid about silly things like chance or bad luck, I truly believe every person I meet is meant to play a part in my life; big or small, there is no difference. It’s more based on the idea of how you interpret that and how you will treat them. However, whether it is a game of competition or just pure chance is up for your own personal rendition. Being at the right place at the right time is never a personal choice, given the idea that this slogan is based on a time window most consider as fortuity. But what you can do is take each moment with the idea and perspective that anything could happen, in which you may just have an opportunity of a lifetime on your hands. Amber is a freshman majoring in journalism and public relations.
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Another far-fetched claim you make in the letter is that a union between a man and a woman is the only moral context for sex. While my article had originally been about a legal matter, it has become a matter of opinion and personal beliefs in your letter of rebuttal. You claim abortion is murder, and that sex for anyone other than for a heterosexual marriage is immoral. These claims alone are enough to discredit your argument regarding a legal matter. You ask: when was I personally considered a human or when do I think life actually begins? Well, you could ask my parents that one I guess. I acknowledge that I could have been aborted, and there is a chance that my mother considered it at one point. This possibility does not frighten me or cause resentment towards
my parents. I am indifferent to the prospect of never having developed. I don’t think that I was predetermined to become a human being. My life as an embryo/ fetus easily could have been terminated without regret from anyone but maybe my mother herself, but it would have been her decision. As far as when life begins, my opinion, and what has been considered constitutional, is in the third trimester and when the fetus is viable outside of the womb. “I am sure Ms. Driscoll would not advocate the barbaric practice of tearing a full-term child limb from limb, yet she still advocates the destruction of a human person in the form of an embryo”. The comparison is simply invalid. In addition, you’re claiming that the embryo is a human being, which could be extensively
debated, and which is contradicted in the constitution of the United States. This is the opinion section of The Spectrum so stating your opinion as a fact is inappropriate. The obvious prospect your argument is lacking is that there is a strict separation between church and state that we should be upholding. If we forced this said “morality” that is usually based on a religion, on every citizen, then we wouldn’t be upholding our rights as citizens and the provisions of the constitution. If you want to say that it is immoral to have sex before marriage, hold that belief as your own and see what it does for you, but I have my own rights and beliefs that I choose to keep. Emily is a freshman majoring in French.
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Peters Bowls Perfect Game in NDSU’s Most Successful Season NDSU’s Memorial Union Doesn’t Feel That Way Colton Pool
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SAM HERDER Sports Editor
It’s no secret that the football team here on campus puts Bison Athletics on the map. Accompanied by the traditionally strong volleyball and superb cross-country programs, the fall season has many highs. But everyone this side of the Red River knows football is king at NDSU. Transitioning into winter (when the football team is typically still playing, but nonetheless) the men’s basketball team takes over the role as the top team on campus. The Bison Sports Arena is where all the chatter is at when the men are at home. With the wrestling program taking big strides over the last two years, fans have a lot to cheer about in the winter as well. And then comes spring. Where students take 50-degree weather has an excuse to sunbathe their paleness away and teachers seem to want summer just as bad as the kids sitting in the classroom. The campus feels schooled out and that energetic vibe is gone. But just like fall and winter, there is a lot to cheer about. In fact, spring is the most successful season for Bison sports. From baseball to softball to track and field to golf, a lot of success has been racked up this year and in past years. Too bad fans haven’t been able to witness this. Countless baseball games and softball games have been cancelled along with golf and track and field events. The North Dakota soil just isn’t cooperative with the playing surfaces. And that’s made the excitement of Bison Pride on campus diminish. Fans are left to read about the high levels of success these spring teams are having instead of actually being able to witness it. And what a spring for success it has been al-
Contributing Writer For the first time in the history of the Recreation and Outing Center located in the Memorial Union on NDSU’s campus, someone bowled a 300 – a perfect score. Adam Peters, a member of NDSU’s club bowling league, threw 19 strikes in a row a week and a half ago to get to that 300 mark. At the end of the night, Peters threw 28 strikes in three games for a series score of 796, which aren’t even personal bests. Despite his consistently high level of play, Peters is an advocate for anyone bowling. “No one takes advantage of the bowling lanes down here (in the Memorial Union),” Peters said. “It’s something easy to do on campus. You can get togeth-
ing to be doing as well,” Peters said. “You have to stay on top your game to bowl (competitively).” As a bowler, Peters has learned to conquer the mental barriers between him and a good game. Bowling can be a mentally draining sport, and Peters has learned to take things game by game to stay away from focusing on the past in order to win the tournaments that he has won. “It’s not a sprint by any means, it’s a grind-out marathon,” Peters said. “Baseball closer’s mentality is that you have to have short term memory loss. You have to take a bad game, learn from it, turn around and make it up and that’s what you have to do if you want to compete.” Just recently, Peters went to Moorhead, Minn. and won a major tournament. First Peters shot consistently
enough to get the first-seed bye for the final five of the tournament. Then he bowled remarkably to beat out the owner of West Acres Bowl in the championship in order to take home first place – and $1,500. “It was back-and-forth the whole way,” Peters said. “It came down to the 10 frame and I had to make my spare to win and I was able to do so.” Despite the money that he’s been able to cash in during his colorful bowling career, Peters has done it for the love of competition and sport. He believes that everyone should give it a try just simply for the fun of it. “[Bowling] can be fun and easy,” he said. “That’s the thing about bowling is that you can go out and have fun and do it forever.”
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Bison Lose High-scoring Game to Omaha Sam Herder Sports Editor
Omaha’s 10-run second inning against the NDSU baseball team Sunday in the fourth game of the series was too much for the Bison to overcome in a high-scoring 19-11 loss. NDSU was first on the scoreboard in the top of the second when Tim Colwell
reached on a fielding error that scored Nick Altavilla. But Omaha responded with a monstrous 10-run inning. Ryan Keele, who went threefor-six with a pair of home runs, launched his first of the game to lead off the inning. Down 10-1 early, the Bison produced a small four-run rally in the third, highlighted by a two-run homer by Kirk Kenneally. Omaha matched that rally with a four runs of its own in the bottom inning.
The NDSU bats stayed hot in the fourth. Altavilla laced a two-out double that scored Kyle Kleinendorst and Blake Turbak. Kenneally, then singled to score. Altavilla and John Skrbec later hit a two-run double that scored Keneally and Andy Wicklund. The Bison didn’t score again until the ninth inning when they were down 1910. Omaha added two runs in the fifth and three runs in the
sixth. Bison pitcher Trevor Jaunich dropped to 2-4 with the loss. Tyler Splichal was fivefor-six with four RBI and Clayton Taylor was four-forfive with five RBI for Omaha. Skrbec, Altavilla and Kenneally each recorded three RBI for NDSU. The Bison dropped to 17-17 overall and 5-5 in the Summit League.
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ready. Softball is tearing through the Summit League at 15-0. Whitney Johnson has been a gem on the mound and recently pitched her second nohitter of the year against South Dakota State in the Fargodome. The baseball team is sitting in the middle of the Summit League pack at 5-5, but early season struggles could be attributed to the lack of outdoor batting. The Anderson siblings have catapulted the golf programs immensely. Amy has led the women to the team’s first NCAA Regionals appearance. The Summit League Golfer of the Week Award may as well be renamed the Amy Anderson of the Week Award next year. And let’s not forget about the track and field programs. Each meet seems to bring a new school record being broken. Both the men and women have proven to be the individuals and team to beat in the Summit League. When you look at the three seasons of athletics, spring is the one that brings the best all-around success. Yet fans don’t have that “best-fan-basein-the-nation” mentality that they do for football games. Or they don’t show the interest like they do for basketball games. If there’s someone to point a finger at, it’s Mother Nature. It’s hard to stay connected with your campus teams when they’re never in town. But that’s no excuse for Bison fans to shrug off the most successful athletic season. Spring may not bring a national championship, but a few conference championships could very well be won. The women’s golf team already did so. Let’s do these Bison athletes a favor and head out to their games or events once the home games begin. Or show your support if you see the athletes walking around campus. They, too, have put Bison Athletics on the map.
er a group of friends, and it might not be good, you can go down and have fun.” Peters has been an enthusiast of bowling since he joined a bowling league when he was 10 years old. It was something his family loved to do, so Peters decided to join in. “It’s been in the family,” Peters said. “My dad bowls, my uncles bowl, my older cousins bowled [and] my brother bowls so it’s just a family ordeal.” Peters was a part of the NDSU club team that took a top-three finish at a tournament in Mankato, Minn. this past season and is on different leagues as well. Now in the club offseason, he does his best to get to the lanes two or three times a week just so that he can compete at a high level and continue repetition. “It’s like any sport; if you stop then you’re not go-
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Blake Turbak hits the ball during th NDSU Baseball team’s first home game at Newman Outdoor Field.
Bats Come Alive in Baseball’s Home Opener so those 10 hitters are consistently going to play for us as long as they’re healthy and continue to play well for us.” The Bison offense has gotten off to a slow start this season and the number of postponements has affected the hitters. “It’s just consistency,” Brown said. “Baseball is a game that you need to play every day and we just haven’t had a lot of outside reps. By the time we start feeling comfortable, we’re back indoors… so I’m really hoping this next month we start hitting like our bats are capable of and start scoring some runs because it takes a lot of pressure off our defense and our pitching staff.” A number of the younger pitchers got a chance to pitch against Winnipeg as the Bison used six pitchers throughout the night. Freshman Zach Mayo threw an impressive two and twothirds innings, striking out five in relief of starter Brian VanderWoude. Senor Simon Anderson worked an inning of relief being the bridge for closer
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The wait is finally over for the Bison baseball team as they returned to their home field Tuesday, defeating Winnipeg 7-6 at Newman Outdoor Field. The home opener was highlighted by Nick Altavilla and his pair of RBI’s off the bench as the Bison (18-17) squeaked out a one run victory in the 2013 home opener. The Bison came back from an early 1-0 deficit and were up 5-4 in the bottom of the sixth when Altavilla delivered a single up the middle that scored John Skrbec and Andy Wicklund. The Wicklund run became the eventual game winner as the Bison held off a late surge from Winnipeg in the 7th inning. “He (Altavilla) didn’t get many at-bats in the first part of the season and he’s really come a long way and is swinging the bat hot,” head coach Tod Brown said after the game. “I made one move
Kyle Kingsley, who earned the two-inning save and struck out four in the process. “He is a guy, as a head coach when he goes in, my nerves calm down a lot because he’s a strike thrower and he competes,” Brown said when mentioning the importance of Kingsley to the pitching staff. “Hopefully the last month of the season he can continue to do that.” The Bison are third in the Summit League standing with a record of 5-5 and have fourteen games left until the Summit League tournament. Hitting will be the key factor in the Bison’s success for the rest of the season. “Hitting is difficult,” Brown said. “These guys have gone through the wars, and ups and downs and I have started to see the progress in the number of at-bats they are getting and the quality at-bats they’re having. I feel we have a chance to get hot here down the stretch.” The Bison will host a four-game series against Oakland (11-27) starting at 6 p.m. Friday.
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The NDSU women’s golf team is headed to the NCAA West Regionals at Stanford Golf Course on May 9-11. The regional consists of 24 teams and six individuals will compete in the East, Central and West regionals. The top eight teams and
top two individuals not on advancing teams at each regional will move on to the national championship May 21-24 at the University of Georgia. This is the first team appearance for the Bison in the NCAA tournament. Senior Amy Anderson appeared individually the last three years. She shot 9-over-par
and tied for 17th as a freshman on the Stanford course. NDSU won its first conference title in program history at the Summit League championships April 22-24 in Keller, Texas. Anderson became the first threetime individual champion in Summit League history, winning by 11 shots a 7-over 223.
Homosexuality and Sports “The Sports Czar”
JOE KERLIN Staff Writer
“Sports are a mirror of our culture.” I ran by this quote my freshman year in college, and unlike most of the things I have learned at this school, the quote has bought beachfront property in my brain. This is mainly why I am never surprised when sporting events intertwine themselves seamlessly into our American culture. Two and a half weeks ago, bombs were set off in the middle of a marathon and the next day, people sought healing by reciting the national anthem in unison at a hockey game. In 2001, two sky scrapers collapsed in New York and the first professional game in the city after the tragedy, Mike Piazza crushed an eight inning go-ahead homerun for not only Mets fans, but for America. It has been proven time and time again that the impact sports have had on our culture. On Monday, we learned about a basketball player using the game he loves to escape from his own personal struggle with his sexuality. Jason Collins, formerly a member of the Washington Wizards, officially came out in a recent Sport Il-
lustrated article, becoming the first openly gay male professional athlete that is active in a major American sport. Reading Collins’ SI article, I can’t help but feel terrible for the guy who lived his masculine life hiding from who he really is. It’s eye opening to think about all the other people in this world that are battling with the same conundrum. Collins references the reason he wears the number 98 to represent what happened to a University of Wyoming student who was brutally beat to death because of his “taboo” sexuality. “I know that struggle,” writes Collins. “I’ve struggled with some insane logic. When I put on my jersey I was making a statement to myself, my family and my friends.” The story dominated the sports media this week, leading some to argue whether it was newsworthy because for most sports fans, they knew a player announcing his homosexuality was coming sooner than later. What stood out in the Collins story is the class and professional way of releasing his true identity to the public. Collins is a veteran basketball player who is extremely well liked in the NBA. Celtics coach Doc Rivers even called him “one of the best human beings I have ever coached.” Collins is not a flamboyant character who is in your face, he’s
just your average seven-footer who loves the game of basketball and will now be the face of openly gay athletes. And the truth is that it shouldn’t matter whether an athlete, your boss, a close friend or even a family member is gay. Homosexuality is becoming a way of life in America whether you like it or not, and here again is sports at the forefront, leading the charge for equality when it comes to sexual orientation. Whether this open-minded athlete movement comes into play politically remains to be seen. But, through the way the American public attaches themselves to these athletes, the likelihood that change will come increases. Bill Simmons put it best on his Monday podcast saying, “Sports is the toy store for America. That’s where we have our heroes and our villains; that’s where we have so much invested in these guys that we barely know. And the more that toy store reflects what life is like, I think the better off we are.” Simmons continued with that point when speaking about the Collins situation saying, “That’s why this is good.” Never underestimate the power of sports to the American way of life. They’re never afraid to make an impact socially and politically in America.
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