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in with the new New chancellor to be named to north dakota university system Lisa Marchand

Head News Editor

The hunt for the North Dakota University System’s interim chancellor is nearly over. Two candidates remain for the position, but come June 2015, the position may no longer exist.

The job title was recently held by Hamid Shirvani, who received a vote of no confidence in June 2013.

After the rest of Shirvani’s interim chancellor contract was bought out for just over $800,000, the national search began for his replacement. Of the 11 people who applied, six were chosen as finalists, according to NDUS Director of Communications and Media Relations Linda Donlin.

The NDUS chancellor presides over all public colleges and universities in the state of North Dakota.

Among the many responsibilities of the official job description, they must create “a unifying vision and goals for the system,” “advocate, preserve and support inclusiveness and diversity” and “model and promote an entrepreneurial, innovative spirit.”

Donlin explained that on the November 2014 ballot, Measure 3 will propose the elimination of the 10-person ND Board of Higher Education and the interim chancellor position all together. In lieu of these spots,

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spots; they would then have to be approved by a long list of North Dakota officials. Section 1.4 states that each member’s contract would run four years, and they could be appointed for three terms in a row.

Beginning on July 1, 2015, there would be no guaranteed spot for the man who is elected Interim Chancellor on this new board. In fact, it is stated in the interim chancellor contract that they are not eligible for any re-election. However, Donlin explained they have the right to reconsider the contract if and when Measure 3 is approved.

In a statement released by NDUS on Sept. 6, three finalists had been selected after the North Dakota Board of Higher Education conducted video interviews with the six semi-finalists. Former Fargo Mayor Bruce Furness was one of the three, but he withdrew his candidacy less than a week later.

“While I do think I can create positive change within the system, I’ve decided that now is not a time when I am prepared to take on such a role,” Furness stated in a letter to the Board of Higher Education.

The other two who remain are Shane Goettle, a former North Dakota commerce commissioner and current public affairs director at Odney Advertising in Bismarck, as well as Larry C. Skogen, the president of

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ment is related to the timing of the measure and its possible enactment,” Donlin said. “Whoever gets appointed next week, they know that their job is probably done in June of 2015.”

If the measure is not approved, the ND Board of Higher Education will remain intact, and they will then conduct another national search. This time, though, it would be for a permanent chancellor.

Since Skogen is the current acting interim chancellor, he must split his time between BSC and the NDUS office. As for Goettle, he is not concerned that Skogen’s position as acting interim chancellor will hurt his chances at receiving the job title.

“It doesn’t make me nervous, because my sense is the board is fairly evaluating both of us. I think the process has been fair and the questions have been fair,” said Goettle in a phone interview on Sept. 20.

Should he be selected as NDUS’s newest interim chancellor, he stressed that his main goal is to shift the spotlight back onto the students.

“If we focus on students day in and day out, everything else falls into the place. How can we serve them better and how can we serve them more efficiently?” he said. “If we keep that focus, and keep students as our motivation, we’ll do a better job of building a high

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Chancellor • Overall leader of the North Dakota University System • Address the educational, training and service needs of the state • Support the delivery of high quality academic, research and training programs • Endorse diversity across the whole System • Gain the maximum benefit from the state’s investment in the System by engaging local, state and private partners

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College & University Presidents • Possess full authority over their school’s policies and budgets, in accordance with Board policies and guidelines • Responsible to the Chancellor, with whom they are allowed to develop the specific institution’s overall vision • Hired by the Board of Higher Education • Receive an annual evaluation by the Chancellor a three-person board of commissioners would be created to overlook all of the public universities in North Dakota, which includes NDSU. If it passes, the new interim chancellor would only receive a contract until June 2015, as opposed to Shirvani’s original three-year deal.

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Bismarck State College. Skogen is also filling the role as acting interim chancellor at the moment.

The two men are aware of the length of their potential contract, as well as the measure being proposed that would eliminate their position.

“They are well aware, and that is really the reason why the board decided not to go ahead and hire a permanent chancellor. That’s why it’s an interim position, and all the timing for the interim chancellor appoint-

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quality higher-ed system that moves our students into a bright future.”

Skogen was unable to be reached for an interview.

On Thursday, Sept. 26 the North Dakota Board of Higher Education will make their final decision, and NDUS will have a new interim chancellor.

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Courtland Miller and Alyssa Lipsiea take their thrones as 2012s Homecoming King and Queen during last year’s Homecoming Show.

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Blue Key Honor Society to Hold Homecoming Tryouts Lexus LaMotte Co-News Editor

Blue Key Honor Society will be holding its annual homecoming show auditions this Wednesday and Thursday, to showcase Bison pride and the organizations around campus.

Auditions will be held in the Memorial Union Arikara

Room from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The theme for this year’s homecoming show will be “Roam Home” featuring a young bison trying to find his way to NDSU. Tickets for the homecoming show will be $5 and all proceeds will benefit Pray For Gray, a North Dakota nonprofit brain tumor foundation.

“Organizations such as Bison dance team, Saddle

and Sirloin, Bison Ambassadors, and hip-hop team are auditioning for the show thus far. We typically have 7-9 acts perform for the show,” said Kayla Houchin, Co-Producer of the 2013 Blue Key Homecoming Show.

“The individuals in Blue Key will have spent many dedicated hours ensuring the success of this show. After

months of preparation, it will just be great to watch the entire evening unfold from start to finish. I’m hoping to see people from all walks of life at the show, as it is open to the community, but we all have one thing in common: our Bison pride and love for NDSU.” The homecoming show will also showcase the 2013 Homecoming Roy-

alty, organized by Campus Attractions, concluding the show with the crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen.

Tickets are available at the Memorial Union or through a member of Blue Key Honor Society Sept. 30 through Oct. 10.

The 37 Annual Blue Key Homecoming Show will be held Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m.

Organizations also have the opportunity to purchase an ad to be in the Homecoming Show program, which will range from $45 to $145, depending on the size of the ad.

For more information, contact Kayla Houchin at Kayla.Houchin.1@my.ndsu. edu or Jordyn Geisenhof at Jordyn.Geisenhof@ my.ndsu.edu.

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Panera Bread Rises at West Acres Mall Panera Bread, a bakerycafé, will open a new restaurant in Fargo on Monday, increasing the variety of dining and employment options available to Fargo residents.

Panera Bread announced in February that the company intended to open a bakery-café at the West Acres Shopping Center.

Panera Bread Fargo will be the chain’s first restaurant in North Dakota.

The bakery-café is located in the parking lot of West Acres, at the intersection of 13th Avenue South and 40th Street. Panera Bread has constructed a new building in the space that was formerly occupied by Chili’s Bar and Grill.

Panera Bread offers a wide variety of freshly baked goods, including bagels, bread, pastries and desserts. In addition, the bakery-café will serve sand-

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Moorhead reported earlier this month Panera is looking to hire over 50 employees for its Fargo location, including service and production associates, bakers and managers. A brief overview of several job search websites, including http://www. snagajob.com and http:// w w w. s i m p l y h i r e d . c o m , confirms that Panera Bread Fargo continues to seek new employees.

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The Panera Bread corporate office did not respond to phone calls or emails.

No contact information was available for the Fargo Panera location, so the company could not be reached for comment.

For more information about Panera Bread, visit the company’s website or follow @PaneraFansFargo on Twitter.

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For students in the LGBTQ community, having an ally is a vital resource.

“An ally can also be thought of as a member of a majority group who works to end oppression — in their personal and professional life — through support of and as an advocate for an oppressed group,” the NDSU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer and Questioning Programs website says.

LGBTQ Programs is working to help students, faculty and staff become allies and learn more about what it means to be one.

LGBTQ Programs does this by offering a variety of

training sessions throughout the semester.

These training sessions are called Safe Zone training. Safe Zone is symbolized by a pink triangle inside of a green circle. Anyone on campus displaying this symbol is a Safe Zone ally and is someone anyone in the LGBTQ community can reach out to, according to the LGBTQ Programs website.

There are three levels of Safe Zone training that can be taken in person or over Blackboard, and there is also training available if one would like to become a Safe Zone trainer.

The first level is about becoming an ally. This session focuses on basic information about sexual orientation, the coming out process and how to be an ally and a friend to someone in the LGBTQ community.

The second level focuses more in depth on gender identity and expression, as well as individuals who identify themselves as transgender.

The third and final training level works to further develop the participants’ comfort level and skills at being an ally. Allies are encouraged to be upstanders instead of just standing along on the sidelines.

There are a wide variety of training times available for those interested in becoming an ally. The first level one training session is 9 to 10:30 a.m. Sept. 30 in the Memorial Union Meadow Lark room.

All trainings must be taken in chronological order. Other training times can be accessed on the LGBTQ Programs website.

LGBTQ Programs puts on a variety of other events throughout the year, such as Coming Out Month, Transgender Day of Awareness and Day of Silence. They also host seminars, support groups and other activities.

For more information about NDSU LGBTQ Programs, Safe Zone, and other Safe Zone training times, visit ndsu.edu/lgbtq/.

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Panera Bread’s full menu can be accessed from the company’s website, http:// www.panerabread.com.

A unique aspect of the Fargo Panera Bread is that the food preparation areas will be open to the customer’s view. Bakery patrons will be able to watch the bakers as their baked goods are being made, according to the Panera Bread website.

Conner Scott, a junior majoring in public relations, has eaten at Panera Bread’s downtown Minneapolis location on a few occasions in the past. Scott said he enjoyed the food and the “coffee-shop atmosphere”, but cautioned that the portion sizes are small.

“They just don’t give you a whole lot of food,” Scott said. “It’s not a place you should go if you are really hungry. If you are in the mood for a light lunch, then go to Panera.”

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Brown Bag seminars are usually great opportunities for organizations of NDSU to show students how they are active and what others can do to become involved.

The Women’s Activist Organization is planning on doing exactly that.

Noon on Wednesday, Sept. 25 in the Memorial Union Arikara room, the WAO will be putting on “Feminist Students” to show what the organization’s missions are and to educate the public about feminism. “(WAO’s) purpose is to promote activism and equality on NDSU’s campus,” said Dena Wyum, senior lecturer for the Women and Gender Studies department of NDSU. “We strive to eliminate the misconceptions that people may have about feminism and inform students about why it is still necessary today.”

The Compass Program Foundation coordinates Brown Bag seminars, and arranges times and places for organizations to put on these events. This time, CPF planned things out with the Women and Gender Studies Program.

“Brown Bag seminars that CPF sponsor are a lot of the time in conjunction with other departments and organizations, as this one is,” CPF Executive Director Sue Andrews said. “(Director of Women and Gender Studies Ann Burnett) has really worked hard to get the Women and Gender Studies Program recognized at NDSU.”

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The student-run WAO, which was created last spring, wanted to take advantage of the chance to get the name of their relatively young organization out in the eye of the public.

“I think brown bag is important because it gives students and faculty a chance to learn new things on a variety of topics,” WAO public relations officer MeiLi Smith said. “Brown Bag seminars provide attendees with the opportunity for consciousness raising, as well as learning new skills for everyday life.”

Smith also said the WAO will be trying to educate others on campus about what feminism means to herself and her organization.

“The seminars are always different and interesting, providing students and faculty with new information that they may have never had the chance to learn otherwise,” she said.

Aside from showcasing to students the name of their group, the WAO is also striving to prove wrong some of the stereotypes of feminism.

“One of the main goals of the group at this point is to get the word out so

that other students who are interested in activism and equality know that there is a group they can join,” Wyum said. “The opportunity to be included on the Compass Program Foundation schedule of Brown Bags is an amazing opportunity to gain some attention for the organization.”

Those at the head of the NDSU Women and Gender Studies Program have been thrilled with the enthusiasm that students have shown through extra-curricular activities. It proves students are not only learning in the classroom, but outside of it as well.

Burnett has been excited to see some of the NDSU students show what they have learned by putting on a Brown Bag seminar. She said they have been applying what they have learned in the classroom, which can be one of the best ways to learn.

“You read about this stuff in books, but then when you’re with a group of people and you’re out in the community and you see this stuff you’re like ‘Oh wow, these things are really happening, this is really interesting,’” Burnett said. “It brings it home.”

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SECRETS OF OLD MAIN It may be hard to believe that a quaint log cabin is tucked away above our heads as we pass by Old Main on the way to our respective destinations during everyday campus life. Most people never know of its existence or importance, and many never will.

For the few who are savvy on the Lincoln Log Cabin room, they know it as a direct link to the past of the campus theatre program, as well as a quirky little site that is hidden away at the top of NDSU’s oldest building.

A little history Dating back over 90 years, the cabin room’s history begins with an enthusiastic theatre professor named Alfred Arvold, who wanted the attic space at the top of Old Main to serve a more useful purpose.

“Indeed, it would seem that this must have been the idea of the originator, Professor A. G. Arvold, when he planned the cabin, a room that would reproduce the plain [and] comfortable surroundings that could bring forth a character like Lincoln,” The Spectrum editor wrote in an article on the cabin that stole the headline of the Oct. 31, 1923 edition.

In the article, the editor described the intrigue surrounding the new addition to the campus, the ruggedness and craftsmanship of its interior and the role that this hideaway would play with the Little Country Theatre and community.

Founded in 1914, the Little Country Theatre was based out of Old Main’s second floor for decades. The Lincoln Log Cabin room served as an entertainment facility for not just the Little Country Theatre, but for Masonic and faculty events, among others.

In the 1923 article, The Spectrum editor described the recent use of the new room: “The log cabin new as it is has some history. Last week, nearly 300 Masons enjoyed a duck dinner in the cabin. Before that, the State Librarians met and lunched there. Just to one side of the cabin is a small kitchen and the place is ideal for gatherings and feeds. Many of the students are making use of it at present.”

Several notable names even visited the cabin room in its early years. Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football player and coach; actress Agnes Moorehead; and writer Carl Sandburg (who penned a biography on Abraham Lincoln) all visited the room during its glorious youth.

When Dr. Frederick Walsh overtook the theatre department 60 years ago, the Lincoln Log Cabin room’s social use began to diminish.

It became a set designing studio, a costuming space and graduate offices. By the early 1970s, it was a shadow of its former self.

Restoration to the rescue In the late 1960s, major renovation took place in Old Main, and the Little Country Theatre was moved to Askanase Hall, where it still resides. The space it had previously inhabited was then turned into the office spaces where the graduate school is today. Afterward, the only access to the room was from a rickety wooden fire escape on the outside of the building, which no doubt turned away some. Without the theatre department, the heart of its being, the log cabin room fell into disuse and was eventually sealed away and forgotten up in the attic of Old Main. So how did the room come to look like it does today?

“As far as I know, it was a group of donors that raised the money to have the log cabin done; I believe it’s a tribute to the Little Country Theatre that used to be here,” Stephanie Wawers, associate executive assistant to the president, said. Wawers currently takes care of reservations for the room.

Efforts to renovate the room started in 1985 when alumna June Dobervich and other Little Country Theatre alumni banded together and urged President Laurel Loftsgard to support a cleanup project to bring new life to the log cabin.

They arranged a committee and together fundraised over $80,000 for the restoration.

In order to do this, Dobervich created a list of over 1,200 people who had been involved with the theater during its 30-year period of use. Letters were mailed to everyone on it, encouraging them to donate. Many of them did.

By the early 1990s, the room was finished and dedicated in spring 1993 at a 50-year club reunion, no doubt a joyous event. Though the room was now restored to its former splendor, fire marshal code placed strict limitations on how many people could be in the room at a time.

With only one way in and out, only eight people are now allowed in the room simultaneously. For this reason, it is mainly used for small group meetings nowadays. “It can be used for small-group meetings, we get a couple a month,” she said. “The building is only open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and then locked, so no meetings can be held outside hours.”

Wawers said they do not get many student organizations inquiring about renting the space, probably due to the above facts. But technically, as long as there are eight or less people and the meeting takes place during regular hours, anyone can contact her to hold meetings there.

She also said that Prairie Public Television had interviewed several people up there for their upcoming documentary on the Little Country Theatre’s centennial season. This documentary will premiere on Feb. 11 in Askanase Auditorium.

As the oldest permanent building on campus, and one of the most iconic, Old Main seems a fitting place for one of campus’s best kept secrets. Remnants of what started out as a chapel and then was turned into the Little Country Theatre can still be seen only from inside its dusty recesses.

Standing there in the doorway, looking across the empty theater, one can still feel the excitement those young actors must have felt years ago as they stepped out of the cabin and onto the stage.

Having endured for nearly a century and maintaining many uses throughout the years, the Lincoln Log Cabin room boasts the title of quite possibly being the last original space on the entire NDSU campus from the 1920s.

When stepping into the room, a person is seeing it as it was when the 1923 Spectrum editor claimed, “As I left the room, I found myself unconsciously repeating the words that had caused me to come—and pass them on to you— ‘Have you seen the Lincoln Log Cabin? No? Well you must. It’s on the third floor of Main and you’re welcome to come up at any time.’”

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YOUR THREADS Holland Lind | Contributing Writer

Now that our campus is feeling the first touches of the cold season, a whole new array of clothing is being seen on campus.

We are putting away our shorts, tanks and sandals, and exchanging them for layers, scarves and sweaters for the fall season.

I find this transition to be the best part of the year, being able to mix and match my clothing with layers allows me to wear numerous outfits with few clothing pieces. However the most iconic fall item may very well be the leather jacket.

Aviators in the First World War, not for style but functionality, wore the first leather jackets. Soon after, motorcyclists picked up on the trend, distributed first by Harley Davidson. Eventually The Greaser subculture wore the leather jacket as a symbol of their “outside the law” lifestyle. Soon this rebellious trend spread into Punk, Mod and Gothic.

In present-day culture we see many types of leathers—colors, cuts, materials and styles are used to create someone’s perfect look. This classic look has spread through-

leather forever

Samantha Lane, a freshman studying art and elementary eduation, shows off her favorite way to wear leather.

Lucas Swanson, a junior studying apparel and textiles, is seen sporting leather in the Union.

Megan Babel, a senior studying public relations and advertising, is spotted wearing leather on campus.

out the world as a fashionable item for all types of people.

By the end of the 1980s, the leather jacket was being designed by Versace and Chanel. Designers including Saint Laurent, Rick Owens and Alexander McQueen are still continuing this.

Although silhouettes and textiles may have changed, many social groups and ages enjoy this fashionable item. I have seen it more and more on NDSU campus. Easily dressed up and perfect for casual wear. The students I talked to all mentioned their jacket as a favorite in their wardrobe, being perfect

for the season. It is vintage looking, durable and fashionable.

Who doesn’t adore a classic look?

Especially one that can help shield one from the cold just a little bit.

Keep looking good NDSU!

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If you have enrolled at Concordia College, MSUM or NDSU you’ve already selected an excellent educational institution. But Tri-College University can make that decision even better.

Tri-College University isn’t a place. It is a collaborative agreement that lets you take courses at any of the three institutions. You simply register at your home campus for a course not offered at your home campus and you pay no additional charges.

We all wear clothes (or at least I hope we all do). Clothes get dirty. Therefore, clothes need to be washed.

The equation is pretty simple.

Although this concept is easy to comprehend, there is one important aspect to doing laundry that is important to mention.

Doing laundry can get expensive.

Unless you live in a residence hall where laundry is included in your housing fees or have a landlord that does not require you to pay for water, paying for laundry can add up over the long run.

But with these helpful tips it does not have to.

Use less detergent. Laundry detergent in itself can be quite costly. Instead of using an entire cap-full of liquid or powder soap, try using only half or a quarter of the amount. Your clothes will still get clean.

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It can be easy to buy a smaller amount of detergent to get you through a few loads of laundry, because it is less expensive at the time. However, if you buy in bulk it can end up being less expensive over time, and you will have to shop for laundry detergent less frequently.

Wait to wash. Washing loads of clothes that don’t fill up the machine is a waste of money. Make sure to wait to do your laundry until you have a full load of clothes. You can do this by re-wearing pants, shorts and sweatshirts that can handle more wear than T-shirts and other tops.

Skip the dryer. A really easy way to save a buck or two is to hang-dry your clothing.

You can buy a drying rack at most stores like Target or Walmart for as cheap as $7. In addition to saving money, line-drying your clothes can also help keep your clothes looking like new.

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Nintendo’s Hiroshi Yamauchi Passes at 85 Steven Strom A&E Editor

Hiroshi Yamauchi was the grandson of Nintendo’s founder, and the third president of the company. He was also responsible for taking the company—then a small hanafuda playing card manufacturer—into the world of video games with the Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System). Without him, there would be no Nintendo as we know it today, and the home console market might look very different.

Last Thursday he died in hospital at the age of 85 due to complications from pneu-

monia. He leaves behind three children, and everyone who’s ever enjoyed a video game console.

Yamauchi had difficult origins. Growing up in Kyoto, Japan, he intended to study law or engineering after finishing preparatory school, but his plans were waylaid at the age of 12 by the ensuing conflict of World War II. Being too young to fight in the conflict, Yamauchi was sent to work in a military factory until the war ended in 1945. At this point he studied law at Waseda University, and later married Michiko Inaba.

While Yamauchi himself did not develop Nintendo’s early video game projects, he

was famously confident in them. He was responsible for bringing the then-fledgling Shigeru Miyamoto’s pet project Donkey Kong to the west. He was also responsible for creating the R&D teams, which would eventually develop the Famicom, as it was known in Japan, and the Game Boy predecessor, the Game and Watch.

Yamauchi continued to oversee development of every Nintendo console up to and including the GameCube. He stepped down from the role of president in 2002, but remained at the company in an advisory role until his death.

In 2008, at the height of the Wii and Nintendo DS’s popularity, Forbes revealed Ya-

mauchi as the richest man in Japan, with a net worth of about $7.8 billion. That number declined significantly in following years, but it remains a testament to just how influential his impact on world society had become.

Nintendo has had a rough time of late, with the Wii’s successor, the Wii U, failing to find traction in its primary markets, even as the 3DS remains the bestselling handheld on the market. Even with recent missteps, it’s important to remember the impact one man and his company had on nearly all our lives.

He will be missed.

Latest Celine Dion Single Erupts with Electronics Jack Dura

Staff Writer

Every singer has a signature song. For Celine Dion, it is “My Heart Will Go On,” her 1997 song of “Titanic” proportions.

Though it has been 16 years since this song established itself as a megahit, Dion has still kept at her career, releasing music in the English and French languages, racking up record sales and maintaining a Las Vegas residency for more than a decade.

Dion’s all-new English-language album, Loved Me Back to Life, is set to be released on Nov. 5, with its title track preceding it as a single. Released two weeks ago, “Loved Me Back to Life” brings Dion down a few new roads while staying in a couple old ruts.

Her new single has a few factors about

it that raise an eyebrow right away. For the consummate fans, this song is like a Christmas present. For everyone else who knows her for the “Titanic” love theme or just because of her name, this new single is somewhat difficult to digest.

It is hard to stick a genre on it, first of all.

An underlying repetition of “uh-uh-eye-uhuh-eye-eye” opens the first 30 seconds with an obvious orchestra and continues intermittently throughout. Then everything shuts off like a water faucet at 30 seconds. What follows is a mixture of strings and electronics before erupting into what could be classified as dubstep.

Dion is there the whole way with her powerful range of vocals on the chorus. It is here where the listener may begin to feel a little confused. Is there any emotional appeal in this song at all, or is this just an excuse to

show off Dion’s impressive vocals in song designed for wailing? Its lyrics seem a little lazy too, seeming to bolster the opinion that “Loved Me Back to Life” is meant for a vocal blowout rather than a song of a lover’s renewal.

“But you stood by my side/night after night, night after night/You loved me back to life, life/from the coma, the wait is over/You loved me back to life, life/from the coma, we’re lovers again tonight.”

Though this song marks a milestone in Dion’s career as her first English-language single in six years, it seems to have nothing singular about it. There is no opportunity to showcase instrumental talent here as the electronics pound and crush the strings in the chorus.

Dion shines, as is expected, but the lyrics can get lost in her drawing out of vowels.

She crams this song with vocals, leaving any instrumentals out in the cold. This song could also prove to be difficult to do live, just because the vocals are very demanding and Dion does not get a break.

While the coming album will doubtlessly be snatched up by fans, its first single does nothing to gain Dion any new listeners. With this, “Loved Me Back to Life” seems like a battle between Dion’s vocals and the electronics behind her. At this point in her career, Dion has all the hits she needs for a roundup of her repertoire, and it would be just fine if “Loved Me Back to Life” does not make the concert list. However, her Vegas residency will almost demand its inclusion, and only time will tell how far “Loved Me Back to Life” goes.

Kenny Rogers Calls on ‘Old Friend’ for New Duet Jack Dura

Staff Writer

Some singers just gel so well together that one duet is not enough. Such is the case with country singers Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, who announced this past week a new duet will precede Rogers’ forthcoming album as its first single.

“You Can’t Make Old Friends,” the pair’s first new duet since the 1990s, was released Sept. 16 on iTunes. This comes years after anything new as far as recording goes for Rogers and Parton’s partnership.

This new song is a slow-tempo ballad between two old pals, very fitting for Rogers and Parton, who have worked together on many projects in the past decades. Rogers made several appearances on Parton’s

two short-lived variety shows in the ’70s and ’80s, and they recorded a Christmas album in 1984 along with a television special to promote the record.

Their biggest success of all came with “Islands in the Stream,” their 1983 megahit that topped the pop and country charts.

“Real Love” in 1985 and “Love is Strange” in 1990 were also issued from the singers, with a joint tour in 1985 to support “Real Love.”

Other television and concert specials trickled out from Rogers and Parton over the years, such as appearances at Parton’s mountain theme park Dollywood and collaborations with other artists.

Separately, Rogers and Parton have had enormous careers, respectively racking up slews of hit songs, appearing in films and on

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television, and continuously recording new music.

Rogers’ chart toppers over the years have included “The Gambler,” “Lady, “Lucille,” and “She Believes in Me.” He became the oldest singer to have a number one song when his “Buy Me a Rose” hit the top in 2000, a record that has since been broken by Willie Nelson.

Parton’s signature hits include “9 to 5,” “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” and “I Will Always Love You,” which clinched the top spot twice, in 1974 and 1982, respectively. Tied with Reba McEntire for most country number ones for a woman, Parton’s career has spanned over 50 years, with no end in sight as she continues to record and tour.

Rogers’ new album, You Can’t Make Old Friends, is due out Oct. 8, and is his first ma-

jor release in seven years. Altogether, over 60 albums have been released in his 50-year career.

“You Can’t Make Old Friends” comes almost exactly 30 years after “Islands in the Stream” broke through, taking the singers to the top on two charts. It serves as a definite milestone in the collaborative career of two of country music’s legendary acts. With numerous past projects in many areas of entertainment, this latest release from Rogers and Parton summarizes their relationship very finely in a song that seems tailor-made for these old pros.

“You can’t make old friends/you can’t make old friends/It was you and me since way back when/and you can’t make old friends.”

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The PlayStation 4 is faster than the Xbox One. At least that’s what is being reported by Edge, based on reports from reliable sources within the game development industry.

“Multiple high-level game development sources have described the difference in performance between the consoles as ‘significant’ and ‘obvious’,” says an article on Edge’s website.

Specifically, memory read speeds on PlayStation 4 are around 40-50 percent faster than that of the Xbox One. Meanwhile, the ALU, or algorithmic logic unit, clocks in at about 50 percent speedier than Microsoft’s contender.

“One basic example we were given suggested that without optimization for either console, a platformagnostic development build can run at around 30FPS in 1920×1080 on PS4, but it’ll run at ‘20-something’ FPS in 1600×900 on Xbox One,” the article continues.

One very blatant developer sums the issue up, concluding that “‘Xbox One is weaker and it’s a pain to use its ESRAM.” This isn’t a huge surprise, considering the two companies’ track records.

Sony has traditionally been a hardware company, putting power and design over ease of use. Meanwhile, Microsoft made its millions in the software space, designing easy-to-understand user interfaces, and an architecture used by practically every software engineer on the planet.

However, the PlayStation 3 was built on the notoriously complicated “Cell” processor. That means, while the system is technically superior to the Xbox 360, it is a pain for third-party developers to

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Both systems are currently being updated, and will continue to do so well beyond launch. Microsoft is supposedly aware of the power gap between its system and the new PlayStation.

The main point of contention now seems to be Microsoft lagging behind with its graphics drivers.

One designer states the Microsoft’s Xbox One team “has been late on their drivers and that has been hurting them.” Another simply calls the drivers “horrible.”

Microsoft recently upped the clock speed of the Xbox’s processor, which has apparently helped—if only slightly.

One of the aforementioned, anonymous developer puts it, “Of course, something is better than nothing.”

Multi-platform games will probably continue looking more-or-less the same, as it is always easier and cheaper to develop for the lowest common denominator. However, in the long run this could once again mean better looking first-party games for Sony’s platform.

Whatever the future holds, the PlayStation 4 will almost definitely remain the most powerful console when it launches in North America on Nov. 15.

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This time, however, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are based on the X86 architecture—essentially making them very powerful personal computers, and almost identical to design for.

The change-up is rumored to have been the result of a more Western approach to design, than the traditionally Japanese philosophy.

Ken Kutaragi - often called the “Father of the PlayStation”—headed up design of the PlayStation 3, as well as its predecessors.

The PlayStation 4’s lead system architect, however, is American Mark Cerny.

Cerny has been a designer, programmer, and consultant on dozens of video games, dating as far back as the arcade days. He was a producer, as well as executive producer on the first three Crash Bandicoot games, which were seminal mascot platformers for the original PlayStation. He’s even acting as the director on one of the PlayStation 4’s launch titles—Knack.

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When things seem like they cannot get any worse, they do. This is the recurring theme of Ben Greenman’s recent novel “The Slippage,” a tale of a suburban couple and the secrets that lead to a landslide of trouble between them.

William and Louisa Day are a childless couple that share a quirky relationship and inhabit an even quirkier neighborhood. They each have their share of secrets, and though they are very cold on occasion, it is easy to see their love is a real one.

However, secrets spring up all throughout the novel, ones that William cannot confide in his wife. His life takes a dive early on in the novel when very sudden events catapult him into difficult situations.

Emma Wheeler, a woman William once shared a weekend tryst with, moves across the street with her husband. Pregnant and very keen on continuing their affair, Emma plays nice with

William before calling it quits. William is used like a yoyo, as his up-and-down emotions about Emma confuse his feelings about their affair.

It also does not help that William is fired from his office job for punching his boss. That, and the fact that he is spending more time than usual with another old flame and her son, a boy he wished was his own. As expected, this only leads to more misfortune, as William is cut off from his friend’s son following an accident.

On top of all of this, William is faced with his wife’s random request for him to build her a house. More confused than ever, he begins to spend an exorbitant amount of time with his childish brother-in-law Tom, whose penchant for young women, alcohol and car trouble is indeed a strong one.

Readers will enjoy any passages with Tom present, as his language and personal plotline are both major plusses in “The Slippage.”

His shallow, uncaring attitude is very potent but his obvious intelligence and familial compassion some-

what redeem him. Tom is a strong friend to William throughout “The Slippage” and knows more about William’s tailspin than he lets on.

Louisa also goes through a similar rough patch, as the reader later learns. She suffers through the reappearance of her brother in her life, William’s distance, and the new house she has planned for the two of them.

Fortunately for them, William and Louisa find a common ground in their despair after a sudden smoothness evens out their situations. While their stories are hard to swallow, their reunion has a lesson (abstract as it may be) that any reader can glean.

Life can throw curveballs, and everybody makes mistakes. Essential to everything, good or bad, is having someone to rely on and confide in to make it through whatever mess has been made. “The Slippage” explores how deep somebody can sink before realizing there was someone there all along to pull them out of their hole.

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Zombies: More Than A Scary Face

Society’s obsession with the zombie craze Cassandra Rohlfing Contributing Writer

Everywhere you turn your head today, there’s a common denominator in all forms of entertainment.

Zombies. Yup. You heard me.

Zombies, you know the living dead corpses that walk around mindlessly wanting “braaaaaaains.”

Whether you’re playing a first person shooter game where the only objective is to kill the undead, watching AMC’s biggest hit “The Walking Dead” or you’re viewing one of the numerous Hollywood representations of these walking corpses, they are seemingly everywhere.

There are even “Zombie 5Ks,” where people run their race while being chased by people who are pretending to be these zombies.

Over the past decade, between a third and a half of all zombie movies ever made have already released. Why is our society so consumed with the idea of zombies that everything from academics to entertainment to the federal government has been so willing to jump into this bandwagon?

There are many theories as to why people are obsessed with zombies. Some would argue that it’s a metaphor for communism, socialism or even consumerism.

Some theories even propose that they represent the sexuality of teenage boys. Don’t ask me how it can, because I didn’t bother to read that last theory, but it seems that if given the chance, one could connect zombies to just about anything.

One could say it’s because zombies are able to be applied everywhere and used under many different platforms. George A.

Romero films such as “Dawn of the Dead” and “Night of the Living Dead” showed zombies as a something to laugh at and showed them in a satirical light. Twenty-eight days later and 28 weeks later gave a much more frightening approach to what we know as zombies, a connection of sorts with terrorism and disease. The newest zombie movie “World War Z” brings the undead into our current reality as an environmental catastrophe.

Another could say society is so consumed with the idea of the living dead is because of how terrifying they are to us in general.

Another commonality of zombies is the universal knowledge of once you’ve been bit, you’ll inevitably turn into a zombie.

Even the most virulent pathogens, such as AIDS, encountered in the real world have infection rates below 50 percent.

Zombies thrive in popular culture during times of recession, epidemic and general unhappiness. Concerns of terrorism have been with us since 9/11, drug-resistant pandemics seem to always be popping upon to cause hysteria, like the H1N1 virus and the constant talk of the dangers of climate change. Zombies seem to be a perfect metaphor for all of these concerns.

The start of all this fascination with the apocalyptic end of the world can be traced to the potential for nuclear warfare during World War II. Our collective views of the future changed dramatically after the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mass destruction became a reality and the violence of people became all too real. There is no longer the positive outlook on life

like the centuries past, such as the Enlightenment or the Industrial Revolution.

People use fictional narratives not only to emotionally cope with the possibility of impending doom, but also even more importantly perhaps to work through the ethical and philosophical frameworks.

There is also that internal drive

for survival within every human, inherently endowed in us since the moment we were born. With that being said, many of us never tap into our “inner survivor” because of our current lives of certainty and comfort. The tale of zombies and wondering what steps would be taken to survive the “zombie apocalypse” reinforces that internal drive to survive with the comfort of not actually having to try to do it.

Zombies also pose unsettling questions about consciousness.

Zombies straddle with what we use to define ourselves as human with the idea of being alive and dead, driven both by will and automatism. They both remember by returning to familiar space and forget

by biting those they love. What’s more terrifying than the thought of somebody that you place so much trust in can turn into a malicious killing machine and you cannot do a single thing about it?

In this respect, zombies have stayed in our culture for as long as our anxieties about our self have.

We see in them what is already undead in us. They confront us with our own ways of being, and knowing that a little part of us is dead freaks us out. If we can confront it without having to directly do it, it makes society as a whole feel better.

I guess to sum it up, we fear zombies because they are reflections of ourselves and our friends, neighbors and relatives. They are not a foreign threat. They are people we know and trust turning into hostile creatures. Nightmare imagery of abandoned streets, cannibal hoards and barricaded homes are what fill our heads.

They are popular because we sense we are threatened with extinction and we all secretly know an alien invasion or artificial intelligence won’t be the case, but destruction caused to ourselves.

Zombies stand, as a metaphor for our social perceptions by bringing to life the saying, “the only thing we have to fear is ourselves.”

We suppress our fears of poverty and a downward spiral of society by indulging in the science-fiction genre that is the walking dead.

These slow-moving, but deadly creatures personify our anxieties. They let people talk about our present-day problems in the world without addressing them head on.

If someone were to ask people why they like zombies, they may not be entirely sure themselves.

Yet, it’s so obvious at the same time. We feel like, in one way or another, we’re all a little dead.

Cassandra is a junior majoring in journalism.

Disposable Fashion: A Growing Trend?

Amber Zolondek Staff Writer

As I left the Old Navy fitting room last weekend I was contemplating giving up shopping for a while.

Crazy for a girl, and even more so for someone who is studying apparel and textiles. However, there is reasoning, I promise. Trying on clothes all weekend was so exasperating and annoying, not because nothing fitted, but more so the quality did not seem to deliver.

Has our sense in fashion become so hungry that we throw value and worth out the window to obtain a

trend?

For instance, every store I visited last weekend, including but not limited to Old Navy, Forever 21, jcpenney, Gap and The Limited were places I had to just walk away from and simply tell myself not to settle. Unfortunately, with fall and winter fast approaching, we cannot always choose the most fashionable pieces, but rather something that is guaranteed to keep us warm and protected from the element.

Most pieces I was trying on required some sort of layer underneath to ensure other garments weren’t seen, which defeats the purpose of clothing in the first place. Sweater dresses were thinly made while pants and jeans have questionable material. Tops oddly constructed with unflattering di-

mensions and more expensive, worthy textiles substituted with cheap, quicker versions. Perhaps the idea of buying investment pieces as we get older is slowly making sense as I realize my closet will soon no longer be consisting of NDSU T-shirts and jeans, but rather dress pants, button-down shirts and blazers for the “real world.”

With that said, I don’t think disposable fashion is something we can see going away anytime soon. Trends change every day and so can people’s sense of their personal style. Why should peplum skirts and chevron print become a statement when everyone knows eventually it will be taken over by the classics again such as pencil skirts and more neutral prints? Perhaps it is a growing

trend to pay less and receive less, making the consumer ready to buy more, and that is where business tactic lies. The only way of truly knowing something is worth the hassle of dishing out the dough or scrimping on a quick trend is by the appearance of it on you and not of others on the runway.

The trick to understanding trends and fashion is essentially developing your own, or what most call style. While many struggle to obtain it in their younger years, don’t let bad outfits or “ugly days” deter you from simply making an effort. Just do what works for you, and stick with it.

Amber is a sophomore majoring in journalism and public relations.

Down Into the Dark: Top 5 Villains of All Time Caleb Werness

Contributing Writer

To follow up the top five superheroes, I decided that it is only fitting to look at the flip side. So I looked at the villains and ranked them, making a list of the top five. I took it account their success, characteristics and sheer villainy. So without further ado, I present my top five villains of all time.

No. 5 Loki

The story of the Asgardian that went bad: Loki. What makes a better villain than the scorned son of a Norse god?

Loki’s notoriety has grown dramatically with the release of the Avengers film last year. He started out making trouble in Asgard before he took his schemes to earth.

His trickery and manipulation of

magic has made Loki a formidable enemy for his brother, Thor, and many of earth’s heroes.

No. 4 Venom

If you were to take Spiderman and essentially make him a villain, you would have Venom.

The villain, Venom, has all the abilities of Spiderman such as wall climbing, web shooting, super strength and “spidey-sense.”

What makes Venom intimidating is that the suit he wears is actually a symbiotic alien that enhances the host’s strength. The alien was first attached to Spiderman and thus when it became attached to Eddie Brock who became Venom, he had all of Spiderman’s powers. Venom became one of Spidey’s most challenging foes as he was, in a sense, fighting himself.

No. 3 Doomsday

Doomsday makes the list because he is one of the only villains that had power equivalent to Superman. The hulking foe gained

his name after raining destruction upon Metropolis. He and Superman slug out a grueling battle in which eventually Superman rises victorious but at the cost of his own life. Doomsday is the only villain to have ever achieved true victory over the Man of Steel, placing him at number three on the list.

No. 2 Magneto

Nothing creates a good villain like the path of vengeance.

Yes, Magneto takes number two.

As a boy, he was placed in a Nazi concentration camp. This cultivated a grim view of humans in the young Magneto. He swore to protect the mutants at any cost. His ability to manipulate metal makes his an extraordinary villain. He can stop bullets and raze buildings to the ground. What makes Magneto such a good villain is that he started out more so as a tragic hero and eventually let his hate and lust for power consume him. The X-Men have their hands full with him.

No. 1 The Joker

Finally, we reach number one, of course the Joker. Gotham’s Clown Prince of Crime blends sinister satire with pure psychotics. The Joker has proven time and time again to be Batman’s most challenging rival. The Joker makes such a perfect villain because he is so dimensional. He can go from hilarious to crazy in a matter of seconds. Plus, you have to take into account his signature evil laugh.

Few villains ever gain a fraction of the fame that the Joker has gained. His villainous antics and unpredictability make the Joker, in my opinion, the greatest villain of all time. Remember, the joker is a wildcard.

Caleb is a sophomore majoring in English.

Those Who Stood for Miss America, Stood for Diversity Samantha Wickramasinghe Opinion Editor

When Nina Davuluri, representing her home state of New York, became 2014 Miss America, both ugly and remarkable things happened. Yes I am referring the blatant racist tweets that drew attention of both local and international media, but I am also referring to the progressive conversation that took place about race in America after Miss America’s historic victory. I also want to talk about the Americans who defended her and wished her all the best from their hearts and celebrated her achievement as a proof of diversity in America.

Significantly, Davuluri was the first American of an Indian decent to win the celebrated beauty pageant. With her stunning Bollywood dance and her remarkable comments on being “first and foremost an American” before anything else, Davuluri proved that American beauty can be in many shapes and many colors.

Apart from the blatantly racist comments made by certain individuals on twitter, that called Miss America being an Arab and a terrorist, some tweets endorsed a subtle sense of racism by sounding like opinions or bashing liberal viewpoints, as tweeted by the Fox News Host Todd Starnes.

toddstarnes@toddstarnes The liberal Miss America judges won’t say this - but Miss Kansas lost because she actually represented American values. #missamerica According to Starnes, Miss Kansas was “a gun-toting, deerhunting, military veteran” and “was America’s choice.” I agree with Starnes when he said Miss Kansas represented American values but to say that Miss Kansas lost because she “actually” represented American values is not an opinion, but making a subtle racist comment and a narrowing down of American values. I would have understood if Starnes’ opinion had said that he thought Miss Kansas should be the winner. But his original comment suggests that the winner did not represent “actual” American values, or her American values were not as “American” as Miss Kansas’ American values.

However, the majority congratulated Miss America with positive and uplifting messages that bashed racist tweets. A majority who stood up with Miss America included Stephanie Weyrauch at the Washington State University at St. Louis tweeted-

Stephanie WeyrauchTheSteph21 Congrats to Miss NY on becoming Miss America!

Good to see diversity on the stage and representing this great nation! #MissAmerica We all can have different perceptions on beauty and not all of us are followers of beauty pageants. But we should be grateful to those who stood up with Miss America in this contest. Her victory is significant and we need continue the healthy conversation of what defines American values and what defines beauty and diversity.

Samantha is a senior majoring in Journalism What are your views on Miss America’s victory? Join the conversation on Twitter. #MissAmerica. Follow NDSU Spectrum on Twitter @NDSUSpectrum

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Take Your Cigarettes Off Campus Nathan Stottler Spectrum Staff

The smoking debate is as old as most of the people reading this newspaper.

We grew up with anti-smoking counseling sessions in elementary school, we participated in DARE in middle school, and by the time we got to high school, we had the lowest smoking rates of any generation in the 20th century.

My freshman year, the students passed a resolution to ban smoking on campus. It was a landmark move for the student body, especially in a state with a tendency to eschew regulation. However, that resolution is not a legal act, meaning that no punishment is handed down to those who are caught in violation of the resolution.

Because the resolution fails to punish violators of the smoking ban, the temptation to smoke on campus is much greater. Though smoking on campus has declined greatly since the passing of the

resolution, I still come upon violators at least a couple of times per week.

Like I said, the debate is older than I am, so it sickens me that I have to sit here on my soapbox and lecture people about secondhand smoke. Regulating the areas where people can smoke is not infringement on the rights of those who smoke; it is upholding the rights of those who do not smoke.

I do not want to hear how inconvenient it is for you to walk off campus to ‘enjoy’ a cigarette.

I do not want to hear that ‘it’s not a big deal, man.’ I do not care. You have a right to smoke cigarettes, yes indeed. You have a right to inhale poisonous fumes from a stick full of dried leaves and tar and nicotine. You have a right to give yourself cancer, drain your bank account, and yellow your teeth.

And you know what, I’d fight for your right to do so – that’s what America is about.

But you lose that right when it infringes upon the rights of other Americans to a healthy body and a long life. See, we didn’t choose to inhale poisonous fumes from $5-apack cancer sticks. We didn’t de-

cide to get addicted to something that will eventually give us cancer, blind us, put holes in our throats, and kill us.

So we shouldn’t have to deal with that. We shouldn’t have to put up with cancer and death just because you went and got addicted to cigarettes and are too lazy to walk off campus to smoke them.

The students of North Dakota State voted to keep cigarettes off their campus. And no, you won’t get arrested for smoking them here, but have a little respect.

Don’t stand on the west side of University at the corner of Administration Ave. and smoke your death sticks. I walk past there every day, as do hundreds of other kids who just want to go to school and not get cancer in the attempt.

Walk across the street. Down the block. Somewhere where you aren’t killing everyone around you.

Nathan is a senior majoring in landscape architecture. Follow him on twitter @nwstottler.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Litter. No one likes it and many people pick it up as they come across it. I do. Which brings me to something I noticed spring semester and intended to question; I am doing that now. Businesses and organizations that willfully “litter” their messages should be stopped. No doubt many on campus have noticed these (literally) grass-roots campaigns, little oblong pieces of colored paper strewn about the floors, sidewalks and grassy areas. The idea is you pick them up and read whatever message the litterers care to make.

Christian groups seem the biggest offenders, radical right-wing groups a close second. Like the ranting and raving proselytizer near the MU entry last week (so ably taken to task by Nathan Stottler in his column last week) you can make the “freedom of speech” argument in their defense. However, it is one thing to exercise your First Amendment right, quite another to deface an entire campus repeatedly. Why they have gotten away with this for so long is a mystery to me; it is not like you cannot identify and notify/prosecute the offenders. They put their contact information right on the paper graffiti they are throwing down! It needs to STOP! Michael Black NDSU Student, University Studies

LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: As an NDSU alum, I still read The Spectrum when I can and every fall I get nostalgic about being back in Fargo, getting ready to play soccer, renew my old friendships, etc. The five years I was in school were without question some of the best years of my life. As I enter my 40s, I still have a special place in my heart for NDSU and Fargo.

It was with great interest that I read Suzy’s column about her recommendations about how to get through the semester. The most important thing students should take from the article is something I wish I had those five years at NDSU. The one I regret I have is not taking the time to truly relish my college experience. I had a ton of incredible experiences, but most were swept under the table as just another class. Just another party, or just another wild night. I never really stopped and appreciated what I was experiencing. Now that I am married and have a daughter, I’ve realized how important it is to take the time and live in the present. A lot of times when I was a student, I was constantly looking ahead. Ahead towards the next football game, to the next semester, to the next big social event. I rarely lived in the present, and as such, feel like most of my memories lack the details that I now make sure I create while I enter my 40s.

For example, my daughter just turned six and was learning how to ride a bike. I was very keen to take the entire experience in, because I realized how important this event was. I can tell you what the weather was, what she was wearing, her smile and laughter as she figured out how to keep the bike up by continuing to pedal. Her hair fluttering in the wind as she pedaled. It was a very deep experience, but only because I was living in that moment, living in the present.

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By contrast, I know I would have much deeper memories had I lived more in the present. I still vividly remember when I was a first year architecture student and walking across the CF parking lot at 5 a.m. during finals week. I was returning from the architecture building back to Stockbridge Hall. In the past five days, I had managed to get about six hours of sleep the whole week. The only thing I remember from the entire week is that walk and what I kept telling myself. “Once you get your studio desk, things will be much better. Just a few more months and then you can get your desk and things will be better.”

I now look back and realize Suzy really nailed the importance of living in the present. Those five years absolutely flew by, but I wouldn’t trade them for anything. I still have a litany of great stories that I still share with friends and which make laugh out loud when I recall them. I just wish someone had told me what Suzy told your Spectrum readers: “Make sure you make time to actually breathe and smile once in a while. School is such a small part of our lives that before we blink, half the year or half of your degree is already done. Enjoy it while you can, and spend time with those that make you grin.

You never know what moments you might miss while you’re getting too far ahead of yourself. Always make time for your enjoyment as well as others’. And always remember to BREATHE.» This is quite possibly the best advice I never had—but I hope some of The Spectrum readers take her words to heart and truly appreciate and relish these years. Before you know it, you›ll be married, have a few kids, a full-time job and a house mortgage.

Keep up the great work, Karl Ness NDSU Graduate, Class of 1995

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Defender Tori Veth (22) fights for posession during the Bison’s 1-0 vicotry over Colorado State on Friday night.

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Walczak Scores Lone Goal, Bison Shut Out Rams Pace Maier

Contributing Writer

If you shut out a team in any sport it’s always a good feeling. The NDSU women’s soccer team had that exact feeling on Friday night. The Bison (4-5) beat the Colorado State Rams (1-4-1) 1-0 on a beautiful, but chilly night.

This was the first match of the Doublewood Inn Classic Tournament for both teams. It was a very even match until Bison junior Tristyn Walczak scored the only goal of the contest at the 43rd minute mark. Bison freshman Lauren Miller recorded the assist.

Miller had a great free kick from the outside of the box and Walczak had a beautiful header to give the Bison the lead and they never looked back.

This year is the first year that Colorado State has had a soccer program and they haven’t had the success they wished. The Rams had only two less shots on goal than the Bison’s 11. Bison sophomore Sierra Bonham stopped the Rams goal shots for the full 90 minutes. Bonham had five total saves, recording her second shutout of the year, and her overall record moves to 3-4.

The Bison had six off sides that very cer-

tainly could’ve hurt them in a big way. After the game Bison head coach, Mark Cook, stated, “the off sides are just mental things and we have to be more aware of that”.

NDSU played Eastern Washington on Sunday for the final match of the tournament. Check Thursday’s issue for the game recap.

Bison Volleyball Suffers Loss to Jayhawks Taylor Kurth

Contributing Writer

The NDSU volleyball team suffered a loss at the hands of the Kansas Jayhawks on Friday. The Bison traveled to Lawrence, Kan. for the Kansas Volleyball Invitational that took place over the weekend. For the

first game, the Bison were matched up with the home Jayhawks. The Jayhawks defended their turf by beating the Bison in straight sets. The scores of those sets were 25-18, 2514, and 25-18. Sophomore Jenni Fassbender and freshman Monica Claxton were standouts. Fassbender hit .308 and notched six of her season high 14 kills in the first set while Claxton had 31 assists to go along with five

My Apology to BisoNation Sam Herder Sports Editor

Dear BisoNation, I wrote a column a few weeks ago before the Kansas State game that I had zero fear of being wrong.

The words I wrote stated firmly that if the Bison upset the Wildcats, the national coverage of NDSU would fizzle out after a couple days.

I went on to say that if fans expect the Bison to be a topic on ESPN’s “College GameDay”, they will be deeply saddened down the road.

Well, oops.

Not only was the Bison football team talked about exclusively on GameDay on Saturday, but the highly-popular show that draws in over 5 million views per hour broadcasted in downtown Fargo.

Yep, I was wrong. I was more wrong than Tim Brewster not recruiting Marcus Williams. More wrong than the Vikes picking Christian Ponder number 12 overall.

More wrong than Billy Madison’s rant on “The Puppy Who Lost His Way”. And may God have mercy on my soul.

BisoNation continues to change the landscape of its football team. Everything from filling the Gopher’s and Frisco’s stadiums to jam packing the tailgating lots and selling out Bison home games quicker than Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball music video reaching 1 million YouTube views. BisoNation continues to wow us all.

I should have realized you can’t put

anything past these fans. If any FCS school could land the main source of college football Saturdays on the “Worldwide Leader of Sports”, it is NDSU. I guarantee the main draw for Fargo when GameDay was discussing its next location was NDSU’s growing reputation of a die-hard fan base that supports their team to the ends of the Earth.

The cast raved about how Fargo and NDSU is as hot a spot for college football as any other place in the country. The fans are just as rowdy here as they are in Michigan, Alabama or Texas, just in an obvious smaller size.

So yes, I apologize BisoNation. I apologize for thinking this football team won’t expand its national exposure. I thought the label of an FCS program would send NDSU back to the ESPN3 games and possibly return to ESPN2 for the semi-final and championship game.

I thought NDSU would be put on the back burner. A school everyone recognized but didn’t feel the need to talk about. But the incredible game-winning drive at K-State with an incredible turnout of Bison fans to witness it made this school and city eyepopping enough to bring the likes of Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Tom Rinaldi to visit.

BisoNation proved the naysayers wrong Saturday and put on quite a show for the nation to see.

Yeah, I was once a naysayer to BisoNation, and now I’m writing an apologetic column.

Sincerely, Sorry Sam

digs.

Kansas was in control for the majority of all three sets. The Bison grabbed the opening point due to a service error but they never led after that point in the first set. Kansas took the second set by using a 16-6 run to open the floodgates and take the lead to 20-11 after being tied at five. The third and clinching set’s first seven points were all

scored by the Jayhawks, and they led wire to wire.

NDSU moved to 0-10 on the year, while Kansas moves to 8-3 on the year. The Bison still have 15 games left to right the ship and improve on their year.

Good Publicity for NDSU Joe Kerlin

Sports Writer

The fantasy season is here so like many of you, the smack talk has been flying around like crazy in my fantasy circles.

Whose team sucks, which team got killed by the injury bug and why Trent Richardson is going to turn his fantasy season around now that he’s on the Colts. All of these conversations are great and I’m all for getting made fun of because my fantasy team’s collapse is nearing every waning quarter, but recently another topic has made its way into my conversations. The question that has been floating around with some of my close friends has been how have the Bison won two-straight FCS championships (and are well on their way to a third) without any NFL talent?

Most would say football is a team sport and the most talented players don’t automatically make their team better like they would in basketball or croquet. The only problem with that statement is that it’s not true. Yes, football is a team sport, but how often can momentum be shifted, especially in FCS football, by one star player making a big play? The young Bison defense was littered with stars in both 2011 and 2012 championship games, and Brock Jensen showed flashes of greatness in last season’s title game. The problem is great players at the FCS level don’t always translate to great talent in the NFL. At least that’s what you would think is the problem.

I believe it might be the lack of exposure the past two seasons, but now as you all know, the Bison are the darling of college football. Its official, North Dakota State football is on the map and the players are

getting the recognition they finally deserve.

The recent increase of national exposure of the football team may be helping the draft stock of several borderline NFL players on the team. And no one is wreaking the benefits more than the quarterback.

Skepticism of Jensen’s talent has been a subject of debate in Fargo in past seasons, but it’s now clear that he will be remembered as one of the greats next to Jeff Bentrim and Steve Walker. Scroll through any list of draft prospects for 2014 and you won’t see Jensen’s name (at least for now).

It’s hard to believe that will stay the same as the draft approaches next spring. A team will take a chance on a quarterback who was a state champion in high school and won multiple rings in college.

Winning has been a gift God has touched Jensen with and it’s unfathomable to think a NFL GM won’t take at least a flyer on number 16. Worries about his arm strength and accuracy have been fair and well-deserved, although, some of the factors that may draw some attention away from his flaws is his athletic ability. Throw in his understanding of the “pro style” offense and his unique ability to take care of the ball and he’s starting to look like a nice backup quarterback.

In theory, Jensen is competent quarterback. But a transition to the NFL is a giant leap for a FCS quarterback to take, but nothing too crazy to steer away all 32 NFL GMs. According to the latest version of CBS Sports 2014 NFL Draft Prospects list, offensive tackle Billy Turner is ranked 18th among offensive tackles and is the only Bison player listed as a prospect. Don’t be surprised if this changes, especially after the Bison raise their third FCS Championship trophy and all the good publicity that comes with it.

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Fargo Brings It for ‘GameDay’ Sam Herder | Sports Editor

Mary Pearson knew this was something she could not miss. Pearson, a 1971 graduate of NDSU who hadn’t been back to Fargo for 40 years, made her return on a historical day for the city Saturday.

ESPN’s “College GameDay” came to downtown Fargo for a national audience to see the defending back-to-back FCS national champions NDSU Bison and their notoriously-known wild fans. It was quite a change of scene for Pearson.

“Downtown is just totally different,” Pearson, originally from Bismarck, N.D., said. “Campus is bigger but I can still found all the dorms. It’s exciting to be back.”

Mary and her husband, Bob, began their trip Sept. 9 from their town of Lake Oswego, Ore. They stopped at various places like Yellowstone National Park and Mt. Rushmore before coming to Fargo. Needless to say, the “GameDay” crowd was the most impressive site.

“This is wonderful,” Bob, who experienced his first visit to Fargo, said. “We are having a lovely time.”

Thousands upon thousands of other Bison fans could agree with Mary and Bob. Painted in gold, the streets of Broadway and the roofs, balconies and windows were stacked with Bison faithful. Along with the traditional “GameDay” signs, banners, posters and golden streams filled the downtown area.

It was unlike anything a “GameDay” set has ever seen.

On-air talent Kirk Herbstreit even went as far as to say that Fargo has set the bar.

“This is awesome,” 13-year-old Joey Hughes said. “I just love ESPN and my dad and I always watch College GameDay in the morning.”

Joey, and his 9-year old brother, Jacob, headed downtown from their house two blocks away at 5 a.m. with their mother.

Jacob had a pretty simple answer for his experience, “this is cool.”

The Hughes brothers and fellow Bison fans were in top notch “GameDay” form, brandishing humorous signs for the nation to see that ranged from hassling reporter Sam Ponder’s husband, to poking fun at rivals like UND, Montana State and even Kansas State.

And to go to where this all began, the Kansas State upset on Aug. 30 put NDSU on the map as a candidate to host “GameDay.” “We wouldn’t be here, I can promise you that,” senior coordinating producer Lee Fitting said at a Friday press conference on what would have happened if the Bison had fumbled on their game-winning drive.

The 24-21win no doubt catapulted the national recognition for NDSU. “Week one, of all the games that stood out that week, there was a shock that went across the college football world when [NDSU won],” Herbstreit said.

And after much discussion, the “GameDay” crew chose Fargo for their spot. The city in the vast plains of North Dakota even beat out Times Square.

“I’ve done this for 24 years, we’ve taken this show everywhere,” host Chris Fowler said Friday. “And I’ve never seen anything like this interest in a ‘GameDay’ appearance.”

The interest proved its worth as BisoNation backed up its claim to be some of the loudest fans in the nation.

“The fans here are as crazy and passionate and as informed as anywhere,” Fowler said.

With the iconic Fargo Theater in the background, the “GameDay” guys raved about the atmosphere they were a part of. And for Bison fans, that is just what they wanted to hear. A handful of fans camped out overnight to get into the pit right off the stage set. The lack of sleep didn’t diminish the high energy.

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“This is mind-blowing,” NDSU student Vireak Chhoun said. “The atmosphere is just something you wouldn’t expect out of Fargo, North Dakota. It’s such a surreal thing that “ESPN GameDay” is actually here.”

Chhoun came downtown at 2:30 a.m. to beat the rush. Even then, he said, the streets were beginning to fill and the energy did not fizzle out.

NDSU all-American cornerback Marcus Williams said “That’s crazy” after the Bison’s 51-0 victory over Delaware State that Bison fans set up shop by the set so early.

“You just give all the thanks to those guys,” Williams said. “We have the best fans in the nation. They travel with us. They do everything with us and ‘College GameDay’ was really a big thank you from us to them, so they could experience this and see how it is to be like the other big schools you see on TV.” Running back John Crockett echoed his teammate’s statement.

“For them to be so dedicated and make an appearance [at ‘GameDay’] and then come here to watch us play, they give us the winning edge,” Crockett said. “Without those people, we wouldn’t be where we are. And that’s why I love being a part of BisoNation.”

The “GameDay” crew had sentimental words of praise about Fargo and its people. They had all heard of the strong passion and of course the “North Dakota nice” that North Dakota folks take a strong deal of pride in. But that didn’t stop them from being blown away by the culture. “[NDSU cornerback from Florida] Brendin Pierre, who I think said one of the kindest things anyone could ever say about a town or city,” ESPN reporter Tom Rinaldi said. “He said he took a visit here and more than anywhere else he’d ever been, the warmth of the people convinced him this is the place he wanted to be. If that doesn’t say something about the quality of a city and its people, I don’t know what does. It’s been an overwhelmingly positive week for me.”

Fowler said the overall vibe surrounding the city and their football team is immense.

“I think that the passionate support of the people and the atmosphere that the Fargodome imposes on visitors is something that gets your attention,” he said. “When you look at the videos, they’re all over YouTube about the entrance, and how tough it is to play and how crazy their fans

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are and how supportive they are.”

BisoNation no doubt impressed the entire college football world with the environment they created for “GameDay.” So much that they got their school trending nationwide on Twitter.

And when Lee Corso ended the show by walking out of the Fargo Theater on a red carpet with a baby Bison while dawning Thundar’s mascot head, one Bison fan summed up the experience as the herd of gold made their way back to the Fargodome for some tailgating: “This is the best day of my life!”

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NDSU Dominates Delaware State Sam Herder Sports Editor

The NDSU football team had all kinds of firsts on Saturday. ESPN “College GameDay” made their first trip to North Dakota to host a rowdy downtown Fargo crowd. The Bison took the excitement generated from the show and translated it onto the field by setting three new records in a dominating 51-0 win over the Delaware State Hornets in front of 18,995 fans.

Head coach Craig Bohl passed Rocky Hager for NDSU career wins with 92, Brock Jensen’s 538 completions moved him to the top of NDSU’s career completions list and Marcus Williams tied the FCS record of interceptions returned for touchdowns with six.

“It’s a collective effort,” Bohl said. “It’s a great program we have here and quite frankly in the midst of everything, I know it’s been brought up but I really haven’t focused on (breaking the wins record). I think

it’s a compliment to a whole lot of people.”

Williams’ return for a touchdown was the last of three NDSU touchdowns scored in the first quarter. Jensen hit Ryan Smith and Zach Vraa through the air for scores before Williams stepped in front of a fade route and returned it 33 yards to the house to make the score 20-0.

“As soon as he picked it off, I said ‘peace, he’s out of here, six points.’” Bohl said.

Williams had the same mindset.

“I knew I was scoring the whole way,” Williams said on his 20th career interception. “When I caught it, I saw nothing but green and I saw the quarterback and I knew if I just make him miss, the endzone was right there.”

Just like his head coach, Williams had zero focus on the record.

“I didn’t even know there was a record for one,” Williams said. “But it’s a big accomplishment. I’m more of a team player so I just give a lot of thanks to my teammates and coaches.”

John Crockett added a score early in the

second quarter before Jensen engineered an 11-play, 81-yard drive that set the completions record with a third-and-10 pass to Smith. The drive ended with another first of the day as Cooper Wahlo hauled in his first career receiving touchdown from 22 yards out.

“Freshman year, you just kind of keep your head above water,” Jensen said. “The growth of the quarterback… there’s always room to grow. It’s been fun to just to feel the improvement over the years and I give all the credit to my teammates and coaching staff, putting me in good positions to have success. It’s been fun to be a part of.”

With a commanding 34-0 lead, backup quarterback Carson Wentz put together a 5-play, 58-yard drive that resulted in a 4-yard touchdown run by Derrick Lang.

With most of the starters enjoying the second half from the sidelines, the backups stacked on 10 more points in the closing half. Wentz hit tight end Kevin Vaadeland on a play-action strike for four yards and backup kicker Tom Barneson booted in a 27-yard

field goal to finalize the score at 51-0.

The game was another dominating performance by the Bison. NDSU outgained the Hornets 548 to 189. Delaware State only managed 34 yards rushing compared to the Bison’s 305.

“Our offensive line is unstoppable,” Crockett said. “They come out and they just make it all happen for us. And being able to come out and just, with all the hoopla going on, be able to throw some punches out there felt really good.”

The Bison will need to pack a bigger punch as they have their hands full with the Missouri Valley Football Conference schedule beginning with a visit to rival South Dakota State on Saturday.

“We come to play for every game, it doesn’t matter who’s on the schedule,” Crockett said. “Our conference is one of the best conferences in the nation. And we like to think we’re one of the best teams so we’re ready to go.”

Bison Lose Two on the Road Corrie Dunshee

Contributing Writer

The NDSU volleyball team lost both of its matches on Saturday in the Kansas Volleyball Invitational to Notre Dame and Georgia.

On Saturday morning, the Bison took the first set from Notre Dame 25-21 before

dropping the next three 25-20, 25-20, and 25-12. NDSU freshman outside hitter Jenni Fassbender hit a season high 16 kills, freshman Emily Minnick hit 12 kills and senior Ariel Listebarger took in 18 digs.

In their first set win, NDSU posted a .310 attack percentage, but would only hit a .170 to Notre Dame’s .308. Jeni Houser and three other Notre Dame players posted double-

digit kills in the match against NDSU. Later in the afternoon, in NDSU’s match against Georgia, the Bison would be swept in three sets 25-14, 25-20 and 25-13. This would be the Bison’s first matchup in school history against an SEC opponent.

The NDSU offense struggled in this matchup, as they only hit .101. Fassbender and Emily Miron, a freshman middle block-

er, each came away with 8 kills for NDSU. NDSU did hold a 10-6 lead in the second set, but lost the lead after a 5-0 run by Georgia. Lauren Teknipp led the way for Georgia with 12 kills and 3 blocks in the match.

NDSU is now 0-12 on the season. They will be back in action on Saturday to take on South Dakota State in the Summit League opener at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse.

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THE SPECTRUM | NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | THURS, SEPT. 19, 2013