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UHSA, CHUM partnership UMD focuses on O’Neil Apartments goes

MMAD

Motion capture studio combines diverse disciplines

BY MAKAILA MILLER Staff Reporter

The Steve O’Neil Apartments last week, located on West Fourth Street. The apartments are dedicated to Duluth residents who have faced homelessness. MELISSA PETERSON/STATESMAN

UMD’s Honor Student Association has reached out to the community in a new manner this year. With the hopes of impacting the hunger issues in Duluth, the UMD Student Association has connected with the CHUM. CHUM is a Duluth organization affiliated with helping the homeless and hunger concerns throughout the city.

It began in 1973 and has worked with meeting the basic needs of low-income families.

Lee Stuart, executive director of CHUM, refrains from using the word homeless as an adjective to describe a person.

“A person is not homeless; they are a person who has faced homelessness,” Stuart said. “This organization is dedicated to helping families who have faced homelessness meet their basic needs and get back up on their feet.”

Over the summer, UMD’s Honor Student Association requested a partnership with CHUM. Ryan Goei, Honors Program director, knew Stuart

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from previous volunteer experiences ing months. that Honors has had with CHUM. Currently, the CHUM website has The Honors Program requires a cer- a link that allows the public to donate tain amount of volunteer money to the site to purinvolvement for students, chase furniture and other and many have chosen to necessities to complete the The students, collaborate with CHUM apartments. Students in the in the past.

Honors Student Associathough, wanted “The students, though, something different. tion are fundraising to help. wanted something difTheir aim is to raise an We wanted to make amount of $10,000 by Dec. ferent,” Goei said. “We wanted to make some- something our thing. 15. All funds will go to the thing our thing.”

Steve O’Neil Apartments.

-Ryan Goei on UHSA’s When the Honors StuCampaigning began two dent Association con- collaboration with CHUM weeks ago and $2,000 has tacted CHUM, Stuart been raised. Kevin Hughes, had the perfect project in president of Honors, feels mind. optimistic that the goal is CHUM is in the process of build- achievable. ing the Steve O’Neil Apartments, a “We’ve done so much in just a week complex dedicated to Duluth residents and a half,” Hughes said. “I think we who are, or have been, homeless for can do it.” an extended period of time. CHUM There is talk of the Honors Student invited honors students to help with the Association holding a bake sale in project, where they will spend a great Kirby in the next few weeks. However, portion of their volunteer hours fur- Hughes, Stuart and Goei all stress that nishing the apartments, working the the program could use campus-wide grounds of the apartments, and helping see O’NEIL, A3 the residents move in during the com-

A poet who knows it

What does Gollum, “Avatar,” “The Avengers,” MIT and UMD all have in common? A motion-capture studio.

The Motion and Media Across Disciplines lab is a 3D motioncapture and high-definition video production studio near the Ven Den that provides interdisciplinary collaboration and research opportunities for the professors of UMD, as well as their students.

Equipped with 12 Icon motioncapture cameras, three high-definition video cameras, a green screen infinity wall and a sound studio, the MMAD lab serves as a space for those interested in animation, acting, exercise science, theatre, audio recording and computer science to come together.

Not often do people come across this unusual overlap of life science and art in the focus of a studio according to Lisa Fitzpatrick, director of the MMAD lab and Viz lab.

Fitzpatrick served as the main initiator of the studio.

Fitzpatrick mainly focuses her work on keeping ahead of new emerging technology and future trends, along with considering how people can collaborate to make things happen.

“The MMAD lab is a research space enabling people from different disciplines to come together to solve problems and create beautiful work,” Fitzpatrick said.

In 2011 Fitzpatrick, along with a team of five other UMD professors, was awarded a Research Infrastructure Investment Initiative grant from the University of Minnesota to create the motion capture lab that see MMAD, A3

laboration between artists. Once a piece is uploaded, others can contribute to and build on it, either by editing someone’s writing, animating someone’s drawing, adding different filters to a photograph or remixing someone’s song. The original versions stay along with the new, and everyone gets credit.

BY MAKAILA MILLER “It’s an outlet where people can be creative and Staff Reporter work with others and bounce ideas for projects off each other,” Welch said.

In January, UMD senior Erin Welch will receive a Welch jotted down her poem in five minutes to check for $300 signed by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt. go along with an illustration titled “The Mountain Two years ago Erin Welch, graphic design major, Wept.” submitted a 19-word poem to HitRecord, an online “The website is a fun way for people to feel comproduction company directed by Joseph Gordon- fortable to get their stuff out there and seen by a big Levitt. HitRecord is driven solely by the love of cre- community of like-minded people who won’t judge or ating art. Welch thought nothing of it. Two months criticize them,” Welch said. “It’s an open place where ago, she received a notification that her poem was you can send stuff out and someone can tweak it and published in “Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 3,” you can see the progress.” a small book of art and short stories that was released After the artists have finished tossing ideas back on Nov. 3. and forth, the teamwork begins to build up to a final In 2010, Gordon-Levitt created the HitRecord product. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and 13 others act as website as a place where anyone could create an curators who pull together different collaborations Erin Welch poses with the book her poem is account and submit their work, whether it’s music, and decide which ones to publish and produce in published in. Welch’s poem was selected by illustrations, books, short films or photographs.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt. ALEX GANEEV/STATESMAN The main purpose of the website is to promote colsee WELCH, A3

UMD senior’s poem was published in a book produced by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and 13 others

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n On Wednesday at 8:52 a.m., a UMDPD officer responded to a security alarm going off at 1035 Kirby Drive. Upon arrival, the officer concluded that it was a false alarm. n At 11:33 a.m., a report of theft came into the UMDPD. An officer responded to 513 Niagara Court and filed a report. n An officer responded to a report of property damage on the corner of University Drive and West St. Marie Street at 3 p.m. The officer did not find the damager, but filed it as a matter of record. n At 4:21 p.m., an officer responded to a report of a vehicle on fire at 416 Library Drive. The call was canceled 13 minutes later, extinguishing the threat. n A report of a drug incident at 1322 Maplewood Court prompted multiple officers to respond. A student was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia. n Between 8:25 p.m. and 9:06 p.m., officers pulled over five different vehicles in routine traffic stops. All five drivers were reprimanded and then released. n At 11:06 p.m., a traffic stop on the 1200 block of London Road led to the driver being cited for driving after revocation. n A report of a drug incident at 1220 Maplewood Court once again prompted multiple officers to respond at 11:37 p.m. A student was cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. n On Thursday at 9:36 a.m., an officer responded to a parking problem on Brainerd Avenue and East Buffalo Street. Parking citations were issued. n One minute later, an officer responded to another parking problem on Norton Street and Waverly Avenue. A parking citation was issued. n An officer responded to a report of possible suspicious activity at 416 Library Drive at 3:16 p.m.

The officer checked the area but was unable to locate anything of note. n At 9:52 p.m., an officer responded to a report of students causing a disturbance at 513 Niagara Court. The students were reprimanded and released. n At 11:06 p.m., an officer responded to a report of suspicious activity at 618 Oakland Circle. Three

students were cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. n On Friday, officers responded to a psychological-difficulty call on the first block of West College Street at 8:54 a.m. The person was assisted and transported to the hospital. n At 10:54 a.m., an officer once again responded to a security alarm at 1035 Kirby Drive. The officer ruled that it was a false alarm and proceeded to contact UMD electricians. n A theft was reported to the UMDPD at 1:55 p.m. The theft, which occurred at 1049 University Drive, was filed as a report. n At 2:29 p.m., an officer responded to a vehicle caught on an embankment on the 1500 block of Woodland Avenue. The officer obtained the driver’s information and advised the driver on their previous and future courses of action. n At 9:07 p.m. an officer responded to a report of suspicious activity on West College Street and University Drive. Two students were cited for underage consumption. A DWI arrest is pending, and a vehicle was towed.

n On Saturday at 1 a.m., an officer responded to another report of suspicious activity, this time at 618 Oakland Circle. Three students were cited for underage consumption. n Later that morning, at 2:07 a.m., a driver was cited for failing to yield on the 1300 block of Maplewood Court. n At 9:39 a.m., a report of a computer hacking came into the UMDPD. A report was filed. n On Sunday at 2:22 a.m., an officer removed an object from the driving lane near West College Street and University Drive. This was filed as a matter of record. n At 11:24 a.m., an officer assisted another agency with a person with a gun call on the 600 block of East Fourth Street. n On Tuesday at 12:51 a.m., an officer responded to a disturbance call at 1135 Junction Ave. Two students were cited for underage consumption. n At 2:04 a.m., an officer responded to a fight on the 100 block of North 19th Avenue East. The fighters were advised, but no arrests were made.

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Above: Motion-sensing cameras line the top of the studio.

Below Left: Lizzie Siemers waves the bat covered in motion sensors.

Below Right: A representation of a ballet dancer, captured using 12 motion-sensing cameras.

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involvement.

“The institutional partnership will exist between Honors and CHUM, but that doesn’t mean other UMD students can’t participate,” Stuart said.

Besides fundraising, moving people in and buying furniture, the Honors Student Association plans on involving itself on a deeper level with the Steve O’Neil Apartments.

“We want the students to become a constant in the lives of the residents,” Lee said.

The Honors Student Association will reach out to the residents of the apartments and offer assistance in their daily lives. The students will specifically target the youth.

“This whole organization is really about the children,” Lee said.

The plan is for honors students to volunteer as mentors, tutors or playmates to the youth of the Steve O’Neil Apartments.

“The goal is for the students to connect with the community on a more

interactive level,” Goei said.

The different activities that the honors students participate in will vary depending on the ages of children living in the apartments.

“The idea is that one student could be assigned to one child and stay with that child for their entire college career,” Goei said. “If we give the kids someone to look up to, I think we substantially improve their lives.”

The collaboration between CHUM and Honors is still in the beginning process, as is the Steve O’Neil Apartments. CHUM is currently selecting families that qualify for residency.

The final complex will have a total of 44 apartments, and 10 have been furnished so far. The honors program is busy fundraising and spreading the word.

If students would like to buy products for the Steve O’Neil Apartments, contact CHUM or the UHSA for more details.

doubles as the first video studio at UMD to provide an area for future research.

Bob Feyen and Pete Willemsen from SCSE, Tom Isbell and Joellyn Rock from SFA, and Morris Levy from CEHSP all worked with Fitzpatrick to develop the MMAD lab. Construction of the MMAD lab began last fall and finished in September.

“We are basically finished, but we will continue to make it the best it can be,” Fitzpatrick said as she waved a calibrating tool in front of the infrared cameras, allowing them to sense different markers and pick up motion.

Once the cameras were calibrated, Logan Sales, a graduate student in computer science, walked in front of the cameras holding a baseball bat bearing infrared markers. The markers are placed on specific joints of a certain individual, and they look similar to pingpong balls.

The motion cameras capture the reflection of the markers and the movement of the individual. As Sales swung the bat, a small stick figure of the bat swinging back and forth appeared on a computer screen, mimicking the motions made by Sales.

When people step in front of the cameras with markers placed on their joints, the cameras collect data of their motions to create 3D stick figures, which were then used for animation.

A prime example of the interdisciplinary opportunities the MMAD lab presents lies in exercise science professor Morris Levy’s ballet study to analyze the basic movements of dancers and compare statistics taken from the beginning and the end of the semester to see progress made and areas for improvement.

Each dancer wears a suit with markers on it so the cameras can track and recreate their motion, and force plates on the floor act as large scales used to analyze the dancer’s weight distribution.

Sales, who has been training with and learning about motion capture since August, serves as the technician. Levy conducts the research and decides what data to analyze, while ballet professor Laila White of SFA figures out what movements the dancer should make.

Computer science, exercise science and ballet all join together to understand movements of the human body and how to improve a dancer’s abilities.

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CDs, collections of small books or even the television show “HitRecord.”

Though Welch’s motivation to submit her work comes from her passion for what she does instead of recognition for her accomplishments, she was proud to hear her poem was published in a small short-story book with work from 82 other contributors.

“I felt awesome,” Welch said. “It’s a great feeling to know people appreciate what you have done.”

To Welch, as well as many others, submitting work can be intimidating because everyone has their own opin-

ion on what is good and sometimes critics can tear pieces apart.

“You have to just keep doing it and throw yourself out there,” Welch said.

“The worst someone can say is no, and then you just keep going and maybe the next person will say yes. Don’t be discouraged.”

Even though it is nerve-wracking for someone to throw their work out there for others to see, Welch maintains that it is important to do and comes with a sense of accomplishment. More importantly, it allows people to share what they love with others.

The Mountain Wept The mountain wept to feel the saltiness of the sea, the place he could gaze upon but never be.

-Erin Welch

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UMDPD releases 2014 Security and Fire Report Sexual assault up, alcohol violations down in annual report

BY SAM STROM News Editor

Seven instances of rape were reported to UMD Campus Safety and Security in 2013, up from four cases in both 2012 and 2011.

In the 2014 Annual Security and Fire Report for UMD, it was reported that there were seven on-campus rapes in 2013, including five in oncampus residences.

Four different categories of sexual offenses are now being measured at UMD, which is new to this year’s report. These categories are rape, fondling, incest and statutory rape.

In addition to the four categories of sexual offenses, other new categories include stalking, domestic violence and dating violence. There were two instances of stalking reported to UMD in 2013, and zero instances of either domestic violence or dating violence.

In addition to the increased rapes reported to UMD, there was an increase in burglaries on campus.

Five were reported in 2013, compared to three in 2012. Of the five burglaries, only one happened in an on-campus residence.

Just one aggravated assault was reported on-campus in 2013, a drop from two reported in 2012.

Both liquor and drug violations dropped from 2012 to 2013. In 2012, 260 liquor violation arrests were made, 190 of which occurred on campus. In 2013, 167 arrests were made, 115 of which were oncampus.

In 2012, 51 drug-related arrests were made on-campus, compared to 49 in 2013.

No hate crimes were reported on campus in 2013. In 2012, a hate crime involving the harassment and intimidation of a person with a disability occurred in a residence hall, and the harassment and intimidation of a student’s race occurred on campus.

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WORK HARD TO GO NOWHERE

BY APRILL EMIG Student Life Editor

“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.”

“Hard work pays off.”

“Everyone has a chance at the American Dream.”

These are commonly held beliefs in the United States. The idea is that anyone can achieve success, no matter how low they start.

But it isn’t true.

I have tried very hard not to be bitter about this.

Sometimes, though, I can’t help but feel jaded.

When I was growing up, I had to watch my step father work 60 hours a week doing manual labor and still fail to put food on the table.

Isn’t this hard work? I wondered.

When I would visit my friends homes, I would look around at everything they had. A four bedroom house for four people? It seemed like a mansion compared to the two bedroom apartment my six person family was living in.

The thing that really stood out to me at their homes was the food. They would sit down to

dinner every night as a family, eating a homecooked meal with quality groceries. We got most of our food from the local food shelf.

Eventually I would ask these friends what their parents did, trying to get a better understanding of what we were doing wrong. I never did find the answer.

Of course, none of this dissuaded me of the illusion that if I only worked hard I would succeed.

So I went to college. I started out at a community college, going online full-time so that I could work full-time to support myself.

I’m working hard, I thought. Soon I will be rewarded.

I wasn’t. I had to keep working hard, moving four hours away from home and into my own apartment at age 19. I worked over 50 hours a week while taking 15-credit semesters. When other college students complained about being busy, I thought they meant they were busy like me.

I quickly realized they weren’t. I felt completely alone in my struggle, unable to explain the pressure of being a first-time college student paying her own way through college.

I knew I would have to work hard to make a better life for myself, but no one ever told me just how hard it would be. No one told me that I would get to a point where I would rather drop out of college and just commit to working because it would become nearly impossible to pay my rent and bills and keep up my GPA. No one told me because so few people experience it. And those who do are too busy to speak out.

I share this story not for pity and certainly not to gloat, but to show that working hard is rarely the answer. We don’t all have a shot at the American dream. Some of us get sucked into generations of

poverty that are impossible to break out of.

And, like CHUM and the UMD Honors Program know, many of us will face homelessness.

Not because we didn’t work hard enough, but because the system failed us. Our society likes to think that those who face homelessness do so because of a mistake they made. “It’s because they drank their money away,” we say. This allows us to distance ourselves from the truth of the matter: you can work harder than anyone else and still become a victim of homelessness.

We don’t want to believe this truth because then we have to face our own roles in perpetuating the system. We have to face the fact that we stand on other’s backs to raise ourselves higher. We rely on cheap labor for higher profit margins while looking down at the homeless people cluttering our pristine streets, begging for change. If we don’t see them as people we don’t have to feel guilt or responsibility.

If we pretend they are less than human we don’t have to help them.

But I challenge us to change these beliefs. Look at the woman on the street and see her story. See a woman who struggled to raise children while working three part-time jobs, eventually losing them to people with more education than she could ever hope to receive. See the man as a father with inadequate medical insurance who eventually had to be hospitalized and was forced out of his home when he couldn’t pay the bills. See the child as one who hasn’t even had a chance to make something of herself, because she was held back three grades after missing too much school because her parents could no longer afford a car.

See them all as the people they really are. Be willing to hear their stories and consider changing your own.

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BLUESTONE:

BY SATYA PUTUMBAKA Opinion Editor

Early this year, amidst some housing conflicts, I was looking into moving out of my current place and into somewhere else. Without a place in mind, I created a little mental checklist of all the things a prospective new place should be: near to school, clean with little up-keep, no bugs, nice bathroom. The immediate answer to this was of course, BlueStone Lofts.

BlueStone has all the qualities I wanted, and even added a bit more.

It’s impersonal, cold, and super slick. Given the way I was trying to construct my senior year, it seemed like a good option — a place I could go back to without any worries about a flooded basement or a jammed door lock. And its cold, vaguely sterile atmosphere made me believe it wouldn’t have as much of a bug problem as, say, a cozy but slightly dilapidated house from the ‘70s.

I can’t imagine that I was alone in feeling the appeal of BlueStone.

Although they’ve made clear that they’re not built for students, and invite all sorts of tenants, it’s clear that UMD students are being courted for BlueStone. Bluestone is a mere ten-

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minute walk to the UMD campus.

The walk is short enough if you take the roads — and it’s made even shorter if you take the paved pathway UMD set up. The fact that the flats come pre-furnished is only another plus for students, many of whom only intend to stay in Duluth for four years and welcome the idea of not having to transport or buy — and later sell — more furniture.

But then, BlueStone’s flagrantly missing the most important factor for most students: a reasonable price.

The prices that they offer even for their cheapest apartments amount to nearly seven hundred dollars per month. This is the main reason why I didn’t live there. There’s only so much to expect from BlueStone. Bluestone’s commerciality isn’t downplayed. It’s advertised as luxury apartments, built with various amenities to make living there as easy as possible. It’s clearly made to be upscale, and is within its right to be so. But the fact remains that whatever they are, they’re not the most advantageous options for students, unless they don’t have to worry about costs.

It’s already been argued that the costs of BlueStone are too much for most students, and considering where they’re located, I would say that they

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should try harder to be a more viable option for us. But with BlueStone prospering as it is, and with the plans to build more in that area, there’s also the question of what kind of space they’re adding to the community.

The impersonality that I joked would create a stable living space seems to be leaking a little beyond its doors.

Bluestone Lofts is already in a prime location and they’re only building that up. The shops that are popping up around the area are creating a cute little center square. They’ve brought a new Starbucks and a Qdoba close to UMD campus, plus a couple other businesses, and are planning to add more in the coming years.

About a year ago, while talking with an old Statesman reporter Kim Hyatt, the BlueStone developer Mark Lambert said a distinctive line: “We’re really not building a Dinkytown.

We’re building a BlueStone.”

With BlueStone’s phase one completed, that statement sounds all the more true. But maybe it shouldn’t be. Dinkytown is distinctive not just for creating a center square and marketplace, but for the variety it offers. It has both chains and unique businesses, and the very look of it is anything but homogenized. Variety and uniqueness give Dinkytown the

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charm it has, and Bluestone simply doesn’t capture that. The Starbucks and Qdoba (and upcoming Jimmy Johns), though no doubt personalized through the workers, simply can’t give the area any charm, let alone a Duluth charm — they’re simply too slick, too commercial. There’s just no space for any Duluthian vibe or personality, even with the woodbased artwork in the Starbucks.

The downside of BlueStone and the center it’s creating is the insulation surrounding it. Like BlueStone itself, which prides itself on being an apartment that would make ever leaving the building unnecessary (save for school), it’s creating an easy system that will give people everything they need within a small radius. Drinks? There’s the Tavern.

Coffee? Starbucks. Fast food? Qdoba.

The environment they’re creating is efficient and good for running errands, but it’s still not for living in.

The stores that will open its doors here will have a pretty builtin consumer base: all the students that can walk there in less than ten minutes. Because these stores will have such an advantage, it seems important that we all consider what kind of community we’re building so close to the school.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Sports Editor / Nicole Brodzik / brodz006@d.umn.edu

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FOOTBALL

Just one more win

BY JIMMY GILLIGAN Statesman Correspondent

Defenseman Andy Welinksi and netminder Kasimir Kaskisuo helped UMD continue their efforts with scoring from the blue line and having solid goaltending to back them up. MATT CHRISTIANS/ SUBMITTED

Positive trends Men’s hockey breaks bad habits, builds on good ones

BY NICOLE BRODZIK Sports Editor

Friday night games and matchups at St. Cloud State University were two things that didn’t go in UMD’s favor. However, this weekend that changed.

The Bulldogs (6-4-0, 4-2-0 NCHC) haven’t exactly been successful in St. Cloud. In fact, they haven’t won a game at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center since the 2006-07 season, when current NHL players Alex Stalock, Mason Raymond, Matt Niskanen and Jason Garrison were still suiting up in the Bulldog sweater. Last weekend, they turned a new leaf and took home an overtime victory Friday night and a 3-1 win on Saturday.

Slow starts have been an issue for the Bulldogs this season, but UMD shrugged that stigma off by coming out with quick goals on both Friday and Saturday. The Bulldogs lost all three previous series openers, but knew they needed to turn things around in order to build a successful record. With the pair of wins last weekend, the Bulldogs now take over the No. 1 spot

in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and sit at No. 17 in the national poll.

Two major positive trends have continued for the Bulldogs through the weekend as well.

UP NEXT: No. 1 University of Minnesota DATE: November 14-15 LOCATION: Nov. 14 at Mariucci Arena (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Nov. 15 at AMSOIL Arena (Duluth, Minnesota) LAST TIME AROUND: The Bulldogs last took on Minnesota at the Ice Breaker Tournament in Notre Dame this October. The Gophers came away from that game with a 4-3 victory, but UMD made a valiant comeback effort thanks to goals from Toninato and Welinski.

Defenseman Carson Soucy and Willie Raskob have also been scoring as of late.

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The first being the ability to get scoring from the blue line. UMD’s top minuteeater on the back end, junior Andy Welinski, added a fourth goal to his season total on Friday to tie the game.

It then took forward Cal Decowski only two minutes of extra time to notch the overtime tally to win it for see MEN’S HOCKEY, B2

CROSS COUNTRY

UMD’S UPSIDE: After a weekend of much quicker starts and goal scoring coming from all angles, expect to see a much more competitive showing early from UMD. Kaskisuo allowed a few quick goals in the early matchup with Minnesota, his worst statistical game of the season and his first game as a Bulldog.

He’s steadily improved since that first game and fans should expect a solid showing from the Vantaa, Finland, native.

MINNESOTA’S UPSIDE: They’re the No. 1 team in the country for a reason.

Sam Warning scored less than 30 seconds into their last game against Notre Dame in a series where they allowed only two goals and scored nine. They’ve lost only one game this season, but the good news for UMD is that it was to the team they just swept on the road: St. Cloud State University.

The UMD Bulldogs are in a familiar place.

For the third time in seven years they enter the final game of Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference play with a chance to go undefeated. A win this weekend has many implications for UMD —most notably a playoff berth.

The stakes are high for Saturday’s tilt against (1-9) Minot State University, as they were in Saturday’s 53-35 win over the University of Mary on UMD’s senior day.

This year’s seniors played an important role in the game, as they have in countless others since they arrived on campus in 2010.

“We owe a lot to that group,” head coach Curt Wiese said. “It’s tough to see those guys at the end of their careers right now. We’re a younger football team, (and) this senior group has held this team together.”

It was an emotional final NSIC home game for the seniors, but their focus was on the road ahead.

“It goes quick; I feel like I just came here yesterday,” senior receiver Zach Zweifel said.

“It’s overwhelming, but we just hope to keep it going.”

“Hopefully this isn’t our last time here at Malosky; hopefully we get another chance here in the playoffs,” senior linebacker Gavin Grady said.

Grady recorded the second interception of his collegiate career in Saturday’s win.

An undefeated regular season would give UMD NSIC north division title honors, as well as a share of the overall NSIC title. At press time, the Bulldogs were ranked No. 3 in the Super Region Three rankings; if they maintain this position, they would face the sixth-seeded team at Malosky stadium in the first round of the NCAA division II football playoffs.

While the highly coveted top two seeds earn a first-round bye and a second-round home game, UMD would likely need a loss from above to move up in the rankings; a result of their comparatively weaker opponents.

Since the remaining seven teams only have one loss, a Bulldog loss against a one-win team would seriously jeopardize their playoff chances. In short, if they win, they’re in.

The Bulldogs got one game closer to the playoffs in Saturday’s victory over the University of Mary, although four second-half touchdowns threatened their perfect record. Mary’s offense threw the ball 52 times, avoiding UMD’s rush defense almost entirely. The Bulldogs allowed a season-high 35 points.

Inheriting an increased role in the backfield, sophomore Beau Bofferding turned his opportunity into four rushing touchdowns, while Logan Lauters paved the way with his sixth 100-yard rushing game of the season.

“We feel comfortable with whoever we’re putting in the backfield, and we’re confident in them,” Zweifel said.

UMD’s senior class has significant playoff experience; since 2010, the Bulldogs have a 7-3 record in the playoffs. They were freshman during the 2010 national championship season — a season in which UMD went undefeated in NSIC play.

“We saw what it took to become a championship team (in 2010), and that’s what were trying to do this year,” Grady said. “I’d love to be in Kansas City at the end of the year, holding up that trophy.”

But first, they need to come out of Saturday’s regular season finale at Minot State University with a win. see photo gallery on B2

Women, men eye Regional meet

BY NICOLE BRODZIK Sports Editor

The men’s team kept together throughout the race to end the meet with a spread that Coach Nisius was content with. UMD ATHLETICS/ SUBMITTED

WOMEN’S: Coming in as the returning Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference champions, the women’s cross country team returned to the championship meet as favorites last weekend. They return top runners Samantha Rivard, who earned NSIC Athlete of the Week honors four times this season, and Breanna Colbenson, who were both influential for the team’s success last year.

This year the Bulldogs put up another impressive effort, but a tiebreaker ruling left them just short of returning home with a championship. UMD and Augustana College ended the meet with exactly 48 points, but because Augustana’s individual times for their first, second and fifth place runners were higher than the Bulldogs in those same positions, they were awarded the 2014 NSIC Cross Country Championship. see CROSS COUNTRY, B2

All-American Samantha Rivard came in fourth out of 117 runners last week at the NSIC Championship meet. UMD ATHLETICS/ SUBMITTED

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Bulldogs close season with nail-biter

BY JAKE PRZYTARSKI Statesman Correspondent

An incredible regular season came to an end this week as the Bulldogs took to the road for their final three regular season games. With the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament beginning this week at home against the University of Sioux Falls, it was crucial that the Bulldogs finish strong in hopes of carrying the momentum generated in this historic regular season into the postseason.

Their first match of the week took place on Tuesday in St. Paul against rival Concordia-St. Paul, which looked to be their toughest challenge of the three on paper. However, it would be their final match of the regular season against Southwest Minnesota State that provided a nail-biting finish.

On their trip to St. Paul, the Bulldogs exhibited all the intangibles you look for in a championship caliber team, especially resiliency. Faced with a first-set loss, the Bulldogs were able to regroup and beat ConcordiaSt. Paul in four consecutive sets, a regular-season sweep. First Team AllNSIC players Julie Rainey and Ashley Hinsch fully lived up to their status by providing support in digs (22) and assists (59) respectively, as they’ve been doing all season.

“Ashley is one of the best — if not the best — setters in the country,” Rainey wrote in an email. “She has so much passion for the game and always comes to play. She is a great teammate and a friend.”

The Bulldogs were back in action on Friday taking on NSIC opponent Sioux Falls. Resiliency wasn’t necesSetter Ashley Hinsch had 59 assists against rival Concordia-St. Paul last week. sary in this match as the Bulldogs cruised to a straight-set victory. EveryShe will look to help her team in the postseason coming up. UMD ATHLETICS/ thing seemed to go right Friday as four SUBMITTED

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Despite coming just short of their ultimate goal, UMD’s key runners came out with solid times, enough to earn Rivard, Colbenson and freshman Emi Trost All-NSIC first-team honors. In a race between 117 runners from 15 different schools, Rivard came in at number four, while Colbenson and Trost finished seventh and eighth respectively.

MEN’S: While the women have been running with their strongest competition at the head of the pack, the men’s leading runner is stuck sitting on the sidelines. Senior Dan Nielsen was unable to participate last

Saturday due to an injury. Thought Nielsen was out, head coach Paul Nisius said he was satisfied with the way his group performed.

Out of the 12 teams competing, the Bulldogs ranked fifth. With five of those runners being freshman, Nisius sees a bright future for his team.

Junior Mitch Fisher was UMD’s top runner, coming in at 24 out of 109 runners. UMD also had runners finish in the top 40 at the meet in freshman Grant Pulver (30), freshman Cody Sedbrook (32), freshman Blake Anderson (36), junior Drew Johnson (39) and freshman Josh Peterson (40).

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to keep the spread, or the final times between his runners, short, and was happy to see multiple Bulldogs cross the finish line in quick succession.

They will jump from running 8,000 to 10,000 meters at Regionals, and that small spread will again be a vital part of their successes.

-Up next for both the men’s and women’s teams are the NCAA Division II Regionals in Wayne, Nebraska, on Nov. 22. The women look to take home a second regional championship after winning the program’s first this time last year.

players reached double-digit kills in the match. Hinsch would go on to lead the team in assists with 46.

Although the victory seemed to come with little resistance, Rainey wants to make sure no one is underestimating them.

“They serve pretty tough and, when in system, (they) have hitters that can really terminate the ball,” Rainey wrote. “We need to do our best to get them out of system and continue to put on the pressure.”

Following their lightly-contested match Friday, the Bulldogs needed all the resiliency they could muster as they took on Southwest Minnesota State.

For only the second time all season, the Bulldogs were taken to the fifth set, but were able to come out with the win. Things started slow for the Bulldogs as they lost the first set in convincing fashion, but tenacity helped keep them in the match and lead to a tight victory. Rainey acknowledges this tenacity, and is happy with how the regular season ended.

“Yes, I think we found a way to win when things weren’t really working for us,” Rainey wrote. “It was great to finish our season on a win and go undefeated in conference play” With the regular season in the rearview mirror and NSIC tournament play rapidly approaching, the Bulldogs will need to buckle down and come together like they’ve been doing all season long. Carrying a 22-match win streak into the tournament, a target is surely on the backs of the No. 2 ranked Bulldogs.

“I think teams would really like to get a win against us at this point in the season,” Rainey wrote. “Everyone just wants to get a win. Everyone in (the) postseason comes to play, and I think it will be a really competitive postseason.”

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the Bulldogs. Last weekend, Welinski added a pair of goals against the Miami RedHawks while fellow defenseman Carson Soucy and Willie Raskob each scored a goal of their own as well.

The other positive trend that continued last weekend was the continued stellar play of freshman goaltender Kasimir Kaskisuo. He’s spent the last seven games between the pipes for the Bulldogs and is currently boasting a 2.14 goals against average in that stretch. This weekend, he made a combined 60 saves for the Bulldogs and looks poised to remain UMD’s starter.

Football’s senior day win photos

UMD scored 53 points on senior day in their ninthstraight victory this season. MELISSA PETERSON/STATESMAN

Captain Aaron Roth is one of 13 rostered seniors on this year’s team and helped his team to a senior day victory in their last home game of the regular season. MELISSA PETERSON/STATESMAN

Freshman tight end Keynon Phillips helped UMD stay on top of UMary on Saturday. MELISSA PETERSON/ STATESMAN

STUDENT LIFE

BREAKING THE SILENCE Student Life Editor / Aprill Emig / emigx005@d.umn.edu

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014

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UMD senior Marissa Murdy photographs survivors of sexual assault

BY APRILL EMIG Student Life Editor

Photographer Marissa Murdy. ALEX GANEEV/STATESMAN

Every two minutes someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. Every year there are approximately 237,868 victims of sexual violence. These statistics are from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, and they paint a stark picture of sexual assault in our country. But they don’t tell a story.

So Marissa Murdy grabbed her Canon 5D II and searched for survivors willing to be part of her photo series. She wanted to share their stories.

A senior at UMD, Murdy is also a survivor of sexual assault and she refused to be just another statistic.

“I am a local fine art photographer looking to start a series about survivors of sexual abuse (sex trafficking, incest, rape, molestation, etc.),” read the Craigslist ad Murdy posted for Duluth and Minneapolis. “I am interested in listening to your story.”

Murdy wasn’t sure what to expect from this Craigslist posting, which included a desire to photograph survivors in their home and Murdy’s interest in nude photography.

“I always wanted to do a photo series on it, but I never knew how,” Murdy said. “I don’t want everyone to feel like a victim. I don’t want people to look at it the wrong way. But this summer I decided I just need start it.”

Aside from Craigslist, Murdy contacted The Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse, the North Central Widows Program and her friends.

The first woman who contacted her lived in the cities and saw the Craigslist ad. Murdy arranged to meet her for coffee so they could get to know each other before any photos were taken.

“When I first met her, she asked, ‘Why should I trust you?’ and I was so taken aback by it. I felt like I had to come up with all these reasons.

“But she’s right. They’re putting so much trust in me to make sure that these don’t get out anywhere and that they’re displayed in an appropriate way,” Murdy said.

This nerve-wracking first meeting was how Murdy realized the importance of establishing trust with the survivors she worked with. She made sure to meet the participants in a public place and let them control the environment.

“First, I would tell my story to them and I would let them know that they could tell me as much of their story as they wanted,” Murdy said. “Some were very detailed and others were vague. But when two survivors talk about it on a personal level, it helps create trust.”

During the initial meeting, Murdy and the participant would plan a time to meet for the photo shoot.

“Some of the photos we planned out specifically. I wanted it to be a collaboration between me and the survivors,” she said.

The first woman Murdy met with (who wishes to remain anonymous) wanted to be photographed in her art studio. She is a painter who used to be a nude model.

“She was telling me about these old modeling poses she used to do. Her favorite was the warrior pose. She put her arms up and threw her head back and said, ‘I’m a warrior, not just a survivor.’ It was very powerful,” Murdy said.

Survivors of sexual assault posed in their homes for Murdy’s senior show. MARISSA MURDY/ SUBMITTED

Our Experiences: Surviving Sexual Assault Photo series by Marissa Murdy In the Tweed from Nov. 11 to Nov. 23 Initially, others were not as comfortable with being photographed while nude.

“I wanted them to be in control of how they photographed and what they wore. I did not want to put anyone in an uncomfortable situation where they had to be nude because that can trigger things,” Murdy said.

But she was surprised to find that nearly all of the survivors ended up posing nude.

Murdy said she was biased to take nude photographs because she’s been doing so for nearly four years now.

“I started photographing nudes because I wanted to de-sexualize the body,” Murdy said. “I like when the subject looks at the viewer — it’s very confrontational. I like that confrontation and taking away the male gaze.”

This is why Murdy thought it was especially important to do nude photos with the survivors of sexual assault. She wanted to create an environment where the women were in control of their bodies after so much harm had been done to them.

“The body becomes a battlefield of illusionary control,” Murdy’s artist statement says. “On the surface we can see eating disorders, cutting, substance abuse, underneath all that is the silence of feeling less worthy and the anger wrapped up in that silence.”

Murdy eventually compiled photos from 11 survivors to put in her senior show titled “Our Experiences: Surviving Sexual Assault.”

Murdy wants to make sure the message of her series is one of strength, not victimhood. see PHOTOS, B5

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Student Life Editor / Aprill Emig / emigx005@d.umn.edu

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Senior Spotlight: Nicki Whelan

What is your year and major?

I am a Senior with a Double Major in Instrumental Education on tuba and a B.A. in voice.

What pieces will you be playing?

My recital is both vocal and tuba, so I will be singing and playing a lot of different pieces. For the vocal portion, I have a Franz Schubert set of songs, a French set of songs, and a Samuel Barber set of songs. I will also be doing a duet with another vocalist, Regan Walsh. The tuba portion will be featuring pieces by Antonio Capuzzi, Marcel Marteau and Ralph Vaughn Williams.

What is your favorite piece of music to play (in general or from your recital repertoire)?

My favorite piece to play on the tuba would have to be the “Andante and Rondo” by Antonio Capuzzi. I have worked on this piece so much, and it is something I am proud to say I can play. I always like playing this piece the most. On the vocal side, “Nocturne” by Samuel Barber is my alltime favorite. It has some complicated rhythmic stuff and a weird key that I very much enjoy.

Nicki Whelan soprano and tuba - with Jacqueline Holstrom piano

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What would you like people to know about your recital?

A recital like this has not really happened before. There are not many tuba players who are also sopranos in this world that decide to perform a recital on both instruments. It is something unique that everyone should see.

What is one piece of advice you have for incoming music students?

I would have to say it would be to get the most out of your time here at UMD. Music classes can take up a lot of your time, but still try to find some time to try new things and meet people from other majors. You may discover something that you never knew you liked.

BY APRILL EMIG Student Life Editor

Album Review: Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault puts on play about trauma

BY TAYLOR JENSEN Student Life Reporter

The play “Fired Up: Survivor Stories of Trauma, HOPE and Change” is coming to UMD Wednesday. .

Written by Cordela Anderson, the play focuses on stories of child sexual abuse. All stories are based on the real stories of the five actors in the play according to Yvonne Cournoyer, the prevention program manager at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

“The cast is made up of a number of people who are survivors who wanted to use the stories for prevention,” Cournoyer said.

Cournoyer talked about how “Fired Up” is a great opportunity to look at a serious situation through the arts. She also talked about how this helps victims share their stories and how hearing these stories could encourage members on how to help if someone approaches them with their own story.

“I think this play is important because, statistically, child abuse affects a lot of people,” Cournoyer said.

Cournoyer would like to add that the actors in this play do not want to use their stories as a way to gain sympathy for what they went through.

Instead, they do it to help get people involved.

“You can literally do anything,” Cournoyer said. “This play could help you tell your own story, it might encourage you to talk to elected officials or even just talking about the play with your family and friends.”

The play has been performed in numerous Minnesota universities and colleges over the past few weeks, including: St. Cloud State, Minnesota State Mankato, Gustavus Adolphus, Minnesota Rochester and St. Thomas. Its last stop will be at UMD. Hosted by WRAC, “Fired up” will be held in the Kirby Ballroom from 6:30-8 pm.

Marianne Neba, a WRAC intern, has been in charge of hosting the play for students. She

thinks “Fired Up” will be important for students to see.

“It makes students aware of the trauma people face with sexual abuse and abuse in general,” Neba said. “It helps give them the knowledge they need.”

FIRED UP: Survivor Stories of Trauma, Hope and Change Wednesday, Nov. 12 6:30 p.m.

Kirby Ballroom Cost: Free

Hozier | “Hozier”

BY DAN DODGE Statesman Music Correspondent

Debut albums hold a lot of weight in a musician’s career.

Sure, you have the chops to make an EP, but can you make a full length LP and keep our attention the entire time? After releasing a couple extended plays, Irish musician Andrew Hozier-Byrne (a.k.a. Hozier) is venturing into the full album territory with his self-titled debut album featuring hit singles such as “Take Me To Church” and “From Eden.” How does the self-title hold up?

Hozier kicks off with the lead single “Take Me to Church,” a powerful gospel anthem that is clearly the pillar of the album.

It’s driven by Hoizier’s vocals, singing about “deathless death” and “worship in the bedroom,” with verses being broken up by a heartbroken “amen” here and there. Following up a song like this is tough, but Hozier doesn’t miss a step with the next few tracks on the album. “Someone New” features a really fun and catchy chorus that exemplifies his blues chops, but still exemplifies Hozier’s impeccable lyrics in the verses (“There’s an art to life’s distractions / Somehow escape the burning way / The art of scraping through”).

After the first 5 songs, the energy takes a noticeable dip.

After the track “Sedated” a listener will stop and think “that’s exactly how I feel right now.” That’s not necessarily a bad thing, however.

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“I speak to these reflections because I am a survivor,” Murdy said. “Despite these feelings, I see us as strong individuals and want to portray all survivors in that light and never silent.”

In addition to the photos, each survivor shared her story on a handwritten note which will hang next to their photos.

“It’s just so personal. When I read them and it’s handwritten, I feel the pain and shame that comes with their story,” Murdy said. “People see the numbers and the stats of sexual assault, but seeing how it actually affected them, their body and their relationships is really important.”

This is why Murdy’s series will not end here. She wants to travel throughout the country, gathering more stories from a wider variety of people.

“I hope to get more men in the future because it’s not just a women’s issue,” Murdy said.

But until then, she will share the 11 photos she took this year.

They will hang in the Tweed until Nov. 23. Murdy hopes the photos will open a discussion about sexual assault in our country and eventually lead to change.

“The stories told are the ultimate truth; they show the flaws of the legal system, the devastating after effects, the struggles of speaking out and the vulnerability of seeing the abuser,” reads Murdy’s artist statement.

“Each survivor has a unique story, but as a whole we see the change that needs to happen.”

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The warm tones on the slower tracks Hozier chooses are definitely sobering. There’s a fine line between a slow song and a boring song, and Hozier never crosses over to the boring side.

As with most debut albums, the first handful of tracks are stellar and the rest lack that special something. Gone are the big choruses, replaced by more sentimental, folky/bluesy-sounding slow tracks like “Work Song” and “Like Real People Do.” The energy from the beginning of the album makes a brief comeback with “It Will Come Back” and “Foreigner’s God” before the album finishes off with the quietly beautiful “Cherry Wine.” Birds tweet in the background, painting a picture of Hozier serenading us underneath a tree in meadow of flowers.

It’s a pleasant picture indeed. Overall, Hozier’s debut album is a winner, not really suffering from the dip in energy in the middle of the album, and definitely promises good things to come from this new artist.

RECOMMENDED TRACKS Take Me to Church, Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene, Jackie and Wilson, Someone New, Cherry Wine, From Eden SOUNDS LIKE Vance Joy, George Ezra, Half Moon Run, a cozy fire on a cold winter night

CARIBOU Our Love FLYING LOTUS You’re Dead!

KINDNESS Otherness KING TUFF Black Moon Spell PIANOS BECOME TEETH Keep You

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Duluth?

Wednesday, November 12 “Fired Up”

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in the Ballroom “Fired Up” is a play put together by the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault. These are the Survivor Stories of Trauma, Hope and Change Cost: Free

Thursday, November 13 Minnesota, Alcohol and Blue Laws 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. in Weber Music Hall Panel discussion Cost: Free

Saturday, November 15 Fall Drag Show

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. in the Ballroom Enjoy performances by Drag Kings and Queens from the campus and community.

Cost: $5

Monday, November 17 Art Enrichment Workshop

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. in KSC 268 Come and join Susan Meyer in Art Enrichment Group for students, staff, faculty and community members who are victims/survivors of intimate partner violence, family violence and PTSD — regardless of creative experience or ability — who wish to use art as a healing tool in a safe setting.

Cost: Free

Tuesday, November 18 Sustainability Fair

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in The Rafters Join us for UMD’s annual Sustainability Fair Wednesday, Nov. 18, in the Kirby Rafters.

A variety of student and community organizations will be in attendance to showcase their efforts in sustainability and ways that you can get involved! We encourage students, staff and faculty to attend the fair and to learn about how sustainability is coming to life on campus and throughout the Duluth community. There will also be free pumpkin bars and apple cider — make sure to BYOM (Bring your own mug)!

Cost: Free

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