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There's an epidemic affecting millions across North America and Europe: youth unemployment.

In the United States, the youth unemployment rate, ages 18-29, is 13 percent- that’s over 5 percent of the national average. In Canada, the youth unemployment rate, ages 15-24, was 14.1 percent in December 2012- around double the national average.

In Europe, the statistics are frightening. Across the continent, for ages 15 to 24, the unemployment rate is 24.4 percent. It is high-

er than 50 percent in Spain and Greece. More than every second young person can not find a job in those countries.

UMD graduates are no stranger to the job search out of college.

“I have applied for 50 jobs in my field since graduation,” said Alex Hill, a 2012 UMD grad.

However, the problem is not simply unemployment, but also underemployment. Recent college graduates are struggling to find suitable work.

“You really have to branch out, you need to realize that they (jobs) are more temporary than long term jobs,” said Hill.

UMD’s Career Services surveys graduating classes each year to see how students are doing in their job search after graduation. In a 2011 survey, 59 percent of graduates surveyed had a job relating to their field, while 21 percent had a job that didn’t relate at all.

“It’s the fact that 50 percent of college graduates either can’t get a job or are doing a job for which they would not have needed a college degree,” said Arianna Huffington, journalist and part owner of the Huffington Post, in a recent article. “And that’s not sustainable, that really goes right against the American Dream, which is based

on the assumption that you work hard, you play by the rules, and then you do well and even better than your parents.”

The skyrocketing costs of education and the lack of jobs for graduates, are leaving students heavily in debt. In 2011, the Institute for College Access & Success’ Project on Student Debt reported that the average debt was $26,600 for twothirds of US graduates.

That means students and recent graduates are losing on two fronts.

They are racking up debt to gain valuable skills for the job market.

However, they have found little in employment opportunities, exac-

erbating the problem. Since half of recent students are either out of work, or working in a job that doesn’t require a degree, it’s also affecting those who didn’t go to college.

As the New York Times reports, “This may be a waste of a college degree, but it also displaces the less-educated workers who would normally take these jobs.”

“It gets frustrating,” said Hill.

“But I just try to have faith that I will find a job.” *Anne Kunkel Christianson contributed to the reporting in this article.

UMD will attempt to break Guinness world record

UMD research changes Lincoln Park community

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On Saturday Feb. 9, thousands of people will converge at Malosky Stadium in an ambitious attempt to break a Guinness world record and raise money for those in need at the same time.

The UMD campus is poised to bring upwards of 9,000 people together to make snow angels— all for a good cause. The event is called “Make Your Mark” and is part of a fundraiser that will help bring clean water to the arid lands of Ethiopia.

The Duluth Rotary Club, along with students from the Proctor DECA club, are helping raise funds for Global Team For Local Initiatives, an organization that works with indigenous tribes to help them adapt to a changing world. The Proctor DECA club came up with the idea to break a world record to raise awareness.

“At first I thought this was crazy,” said Bob Sherman, Duluth Rotarian and UMD development officer.

“The more people started talking about it, the more fun it became,” Sherman said. “We realized that this would be the kind of thing that not only would families would want to do it, but so would college students and high school students.”

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For most people, a trip to the grocery store is an essential and mundane errand. But for the some residents of Lincoln Park in Duluth’s West End, getting to the grocery store is a hardship.

Their area is termed a food desert. UMD geography professor Adam Pine and extension professor John Bennett were able to shed light on the situation with their study, “Food Access in Duluth’s Lincoln Park/West End Neighborhood.”

The idea first started to grow after Bennett did retail market analysis for the community and heard concerns about the lack of a grocery store.

“It’s a question of economics and convenience,” said Pine.

“With no grocery store nearby, it becomes more difficult to get the food people need and want.”

The USDA defines a food desert as “a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store.” For Lincoln Park, the closest grocery store is over a mile away. As a community with a fairly low average household income, many people don’t have access to a vehicle for the trip.

Not having a grocery store nearby can negatively affect health, as well as the wallet. Josiah Gro-

ver, a UMD graduate from 2009, noticed this while performing site surveys with Pine and Bennett.

“I went to various grocery stores and took inventory of how much things cost and compared that average with that of convenience stores,” said Grover. “Our market basket was three apples, two oranges, a loaf of bread, skim milk, and cans of peaches and corn. The average grocery store price was $10 to $11, and the convenience store (was) $18. It blew me away.”

According to the study, the lack of grocery stores in the community has lead to a leakage factor of over $5 million each year—meaning that because Lincoln Park residents can’t get groceries where they live, their money is instead being spent at stores in other areas.

After receiving surveys back from 2,800 homes in Lincoln Park, Grover could see it was clear that people wanted change.

“About one-third of the surveys we got back had handwritten messages on them saying, ‘We see our neighbors walking home from the grocery store’—which is over a mile away—‘and we wish we could do something to help them,’” he said.

The results of the study were a catalyst for that change. Partly due to the evidence presented by their work, Fair Food Access (FFA)—a group made up of non-profit organizations like CHUM, Local Initiatives Support

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Students Elana Thompson and Tyler Rick dissect a dogfish shark on Feb. 5 in UMD’s Life Sciences building.

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Some wash up dead on the beaches of the East Coast, some are taken from wombs of pigs in slaughterhouses, and some are caught on UMD’s property. The UMD biology department has many ways to ensure all of their students have the opportunity to dissect.

“The fetal pigs come from slaughterhouses where they process pigs, and a fair number of them are pregnant at slaughter,” said Lyle Shannon, biology professor. “They can’t put fetal meat in meat products, so they sell them to biology supply houses, who sell them to universities for dissection.”

Dissection plays a major role in the biology department, but some students are concerned about the origins of animals used for dissection.

“If the animals we get are killed just for the purpose of dissecting them, I don’t know,” said Amanda Lecy, biology major. “I just wouldn’t be able to dissect them.”

Fortunately, that’s not the case.

The smallest critters used for dissection at UMD are insects caught on UMD’s lawns by sweeping nets or bought from biological supply houses. Ten preserved grass-

hoppers cost $6.25, three hissing cockroaches cost $28.95, and 25 termites cost $35.50. Preserved cats, on the other hand, are a different matter.

“We buy the cats from the biological supply houses, which get them from animal shelters where they have been euthanized,” said Lye Shannon.

A few times a semester a seal or a porpoise will arrive for students to dissect.

“It is really expensive to pay for shipping since they have to be shipped from the Marine Standing Network in Massachusetts packed in a giant cooler,” said Shannon. “The seals are either injured or have already died from injuries.”

Though something as odd a porpoise is welcomed to UMD for dissection, there are certain animals that are not allowed into the school. Exotic animals and endangered species like monkeys, hippos and pandas are normally off limits.

“But if an exotic animal dies at the zoo, you might be able to get permission to examine and dissect it,” said Timothy Craig, head of the biology department. “Usually when an animal dies in captivity you do an autopsy to determine why it died.”

The whole animal is not always needed for dissection. Sometimes

parts of animals are all one needs.

Sheep brains, eyes and kidneys are donated from slaughterhouses to use for dissection. UMD also partners with the Duluth Bow Hunters Association, who save and donate the hearts of dead deer to UMD. “We had 85 deer hearts given to us throughout the whole 2012 hunting season,” said biology professor Lyle Shannon.

Students at UMD also have the option to use a virtual dissection program to “dissect” animated grasshoppers. The program was designed to be used in conjunction with actual dissection. Some colleges are opting for dissection lessons being taught using only virtual dissection, but UMD isn’t making the switch quite yet. UMD believes that nothing replaces hands-on interaction when concerning dissection.

“A combination of both is very useful,” said Timothy Craig. “It’s not one or the other, and ideally you would use both together. You can learn something from simulations, but it is better to directly interact with things.”

Virtual dissection is easier to access, cleaner, and is less expensive animal dissection. But in the end, nothing replaces the benefits of hands on experience.

Last Wednesday, Jan. 30, a female UMD student was found with a bag of marijuana and a glass pipe. Around 8 p.m. that night, a Lake Superior Hall RA reported the smell of pot to police, who found the suspect in the hall’s third floor bathroom. She was cited for drug possession and drug paraphernalia.

Another student was also cited for drug possession on Thursday, Jan 31. She and another UMD female student were found smoking a hooka in their bedroom by a Goldfine RA and police. A coffee can of drugs and drug paraphernalia were also found in the room.

Around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1, UMD police responded to theft allegations. A female student reported her iPhone went missing while she was using the unisex bathroom on the library’s fourth floor. After leaving the bathroom, she realized she forgot her phone.

When she returned, another stu-

dent was in the restroom. She told police the student was male and looked suspicious, and that she thought she heard him using the phone. When confronted by her, he denied that he had the phone and quickly left. Police are currently looking through surveillance tapes to find the suspect.

On Sunday, Feb. 3, a female student reported to police that her vehicle had been damaged while it was parked near Stadium Apartments. Police arrived on the scene around 9:40 a.m. to find her vehicle’s windows broken and tires punctured. The suspect, the student’s ex-boyfriend, later admitted to causing the damage after being caught on surveillance tapes. Felony criminal damage to property charges are possible, along with tampering with a motor vehicle charges. So far, the victim has not pressed these charges. The Student Conduct Code Office is reviewing the suspect, who is also a UMD student.

Over the past week, two underage drinking citations were issued, along with four drug citations.

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The Make Your Mark organizers are hoping to top that, and bring the world record to Duluth.

Chancellor Lendley Black has issued a challenge to the surrounding Duluth colleges to see which school can bring the most students and staff to the event.

Attendees are encouraged to wear their school colors. The goal is to have at least one-third of the total students and faculty members attend.

UMD administrators were more than happy to bring this event to campus.

“It seemed to be a good fit with our interests,” said Black. “Our interests in being involved in the community and also our interest in being involved with an activity that really has an impact.”

Tickets for the event are $5 per person and $10 per family. The organizers are encouraging people to sign up online to help ease the task of admitting thousands of people into the stadium. To help encourage early registration, attendees that sign up online have

a chance to win a $1,000 prize that was donated by a Rotarian.

Abby Mlinar is the student liaison for the project as is in charge of rallying support from the students at UMD. “It’s nerve-wracking,” said Mlinar. “Think about 9,000 people. That’s a lot. Ultimately, it is about the fundraising. So as long as we reach that goal, we will all be happy.”

The ultimate goal is to raise $28,000 for Global Team For Local Initiatives. The money raised will be used to develop new water wells for the Hamar tribe in Ethiopia, as well as to provide well maintenance training. In addition, the money will go toward establishing better hygienic facilities to help keep the water clean.

“It’s a good opportunity to bring community members on campus and to have a celebration event for a good cause,” said Black. “If we can break the Guinness world record, that would be fun, but the real purpose is raising money.”

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Corporation (LISC), Community Action Duluth (CAD), and Healthy Duluth Area Coalition (HDAC)—was able to attain a $25,000 grant for community engagement work from State Farm Insurance.

“Professor Pine and I are very happy that what we’ve done has been of use and helpful to the community,” Bennett said. “We had two things we were interested in: one being academic research and getting people to know about food deserts, and two—what we’re most proud of—research being used to make a community a better place to live and do business. We’re very pleased.”

LISC and HDAC hired Pine and Bennett to do further analysis to find suitable solutions. So far, there are several different options on the table for Lincoln Park to think about: a community garden, a small grocery, a farmer’s market, bolstering transit access, providing nutritional education, and improving convenience stores.

Beyond those material fixes, FFA, Pine and Bennett believe the change needs to start within the people of the community.

“The issue with FFA is accessing food, but the community building and engagement is something that can stretch beyond that,” CHUM Community Organizer Matthew Traynor said.

FFA produces a newsletter and holds regular community meetings to address issues, build com-

munity, and teach skills for community engagement. Traynor says they don’t want to simply bring in a grocery store; they strive to establish a healthy, working community that can stand on its own.

“Our goal is to have the Fair Food Access be Lincoln Park resident-driven, not an agency-driven thing,” Traynor said. “We are there to assist and build capacity, but the issues, solutions, and future actions come from the community and not the agencies involved. We are really interested in long-term organizing, which means they will develop a community that is built for the long haul to create and sustain lasting change.”

Lincoln Park resident Cheryl Lockwood became interested in the issue after she participated in a door-to-door survey from FFA. She is hopeful for more tightly knit community like the one she remembers.

“When you grow up, you know all your neighbors,” Lockwood said. “Now that there’s so much mobility, to be effective, you have to be a community. The more a neighborhood is knit together, the more you can see its strengths and weaknesses. At the moment, those needs seem to be the greatest.”

After she and her husband began attending FFA meetings regularly, Lockwood made a discovery.

“Just by going to the meetings, I realized it’s not just about food— it’s about opening up options and nutrition,” she said. “At the last

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The new age of blogging: Tumblr The age of social media has never been more promising than right now. In the world of social networking, young people are finally getting the opportunity to be a part of something that used to be reserved only for those who had the skills and the purpose to create it: a blog. Previously, setting up a site could have taken a few weeks to perfect, but now it is simply accomplished by entering an email address and a valid password—and even better, it’s free.

Tumblr is a phenomenon that has surfaced as one of today’s top social networking sites, right next to Facebook and Twitter. According to Forbes Magazine, Tumblr’s tens of millions of registered users create about 120,000 new blogs every day, for a total of 86 million and counting—all of which produce some 18 billion page views per month. Although it has only be running for six years, Tumblr has already been valued at $800 million dollars. Founder and CEO, David Karp (get this: he’s only

26 years old), created Tumblr as a way for people to publicly express themselves. It is a place that consists entirely of blogs that range anywhere from fashion, to food, to cars, to celebrities—basically anything that people are interested in. Like Facebook, a Tumblr profile will consist of a newsfeed that will generate pictures, cartoons, memes, or whatever that its user is interested in. Viewers can “like” something on the newsfeed, and reblog it onto their own page.

Easy and friendly towards all ages, Tumblr is a source of inspiration and information. As a blogger myself, I started to wonder if easy sites like this will take away the uniqueness of creating a blog from scratch. Since it is so easily created now, anyone—even a 14-year-old middle school student—can take the title of “blogger.”

This question was stirred up last year when well known Singapore beauty guru and blogger,

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Xiaxue, made a comment on her blog which read: “For those who keep asking me, I do NOT have a Tumblr. I think people are misinterpreting what ‘blogging’ is.

Tumblr is simply an easier way to share pretty pictures.” Not being the first well known blogger to address this issue, professionals such as Xiaxue who do keep their own personal and licensed blogs are being grouped into the same

social media world also becomes a sly technique to advertise products and brands to users, but in a very sophisticated way. With my Tumblr feed throwing designer items in my face, I will eventually get tempted to go out and find this highly coveted Alexander Wang Rocco purse that’s been popping up all over blogs. With the influence of high-profile bloggers, particularly beauty gurus like Xiaxue and Chriselle Lim (C h r isel leI nc .), the advertising aspect definitely gives them an advantage. These powerhouse bloggers are still able to influence their followers in a way that is indirect but powerful.

And still, other people disagree with the idea that Tumblr is a lesser blog at all. They justify Tumblr by explaining that while it makes blogging more accessible, it doesn’t have that harsh commitment of traditional blogging: the content doesn’t necessarily need to be full of rich text, but can consist of simpler posts. Now, those

...anyone, even a 14-year-old middle school student, can take the title of a ‘blogger.’ category as amateurs. With status and a circle of connection, these bloggers are basically socialites in their communities.

But not all the power of these prominent bloggers is lost. Some of these authoritative bloggers are being paid to advertise various types of products on their websites and are sometimes sent free merchandise to do product reviews.

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who have always appreciated blogging, but didn’t have the time to create and maintain a page, can make their own easy blog on Tumblr and have that same social prestige as a blogger. There is no crime in establishing oneself on equal footing as a more established figure, but traditional bloggers who have invested a lot of their time into updating their blogs start to feel as if their work is being undermined.

There hasn’t been a direct and concrete answer to this question, but really, it’s impossible to stop it from even happening. The purpose of social media today is to make regular, everyday people like us feel more connected to more prominent figures. Twitter enables a normal teenage girl to befriend Nicki Minaj, and, in turn, she gets to read up-close and personal tweets from the celebrity herself.

As the manufacturer of a “faux” designer item knows, the exclusivity of any interest that appeals to everyday people can never last.

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Creating the winter wardrobe Defending the Unfair Campaign Having recently been a cofacilitator of a UMD University for Seniors class that focuses on white privilege in Duluth—in which we employed material from the Unfair Campaign—I was unpleasantly surprised by remarks made in the January 23 editorial by Brad Bedford. Mr. Bedford expressed dismay that UMD early on endorsed the Unfair Campaign, stating that its advertisements claimed: “White people can’t see racism.” Mr. Bedford made an illogical if not utterly fantastic leap from what the advertisements actually said: “It’s hard to see racism when you’re white.” “Hard to see” is clearly, for most of us, not “can’t see.”

It is hard to see small print for those with weak vision, but it is not impossible, since corrective lenses and other methods can strengthen vision. It is hard to run a marathon for those not in good physical condition, but not impossible, since numerous people who are in less than fine condition sufficiently prepare themselves to run marathons. It is often very difficult to pass certain strenuous, demanding academic course exams, but students can and do, with sufficient preparation.

And it is indeed difficult for those of us in the dominant cultural group—white people—to see how racism exists for those who are not white, who are not in the dominant group, and who are usually relegated to the fringes of society. But it is certainly possible for whites, here in Duluth as well

as elsewhere, to prepare to learn how such racism operates in our community. That is the message of the Unfair Campaign.

It may be hard for Mr. Bedford and others to get this message, but it is not impossible. It just takes some investigation, some study, and some attempt to learn. Isn’t that what being a student is all about?

Warren Howe

Waking up on the first day of the semester, to say I was unenthusiastic to get back at it would be a drastic understatement. It was frigid, and I had been praying to the snow day gods for mercy.

No such luck. After hitting the snooze button more times than I should have, I finally dragged myself from my warm, peaceful bed, put on my robe, and shuffled to my dresser. “What to wear?” I wondered to myself. I reached for a pair of the softest fleece sweatpants I had. But I forced myself to put them down, and I’ll tell you why I did.

I knew I didn’t really want to wear those sweatpants. I didn’t want to look frumpy and disheveled. Those sweatpants were just sort of a manifestation of the second semester slump. After a month of partial freedom, it can be hard to head back to school.

But I think it’s easier to come back feeling and looking confident than it is hiding in a pair of baggy sweatpants and a throwback. That’s why it’s important to just say “no” to those oversized sweats. Save them for a lazy Saturday when you plan to lay around your apartment watching Netflix all day and not go out in public.

I won’t disagree that sweatpants are warm and comfortable, but there are plenty of other great options that won’t make it look like you overslept and ran out the door in your pajamas. With the recent weather, it’s essential to dress in warm clothes. The secret to staying warm while looking stylish is layering and choosing fabrics strategically.

Lots of women let dresses get shoved to the back of their closets during the icy winter months. To

this, I say: how sad! Dresses are one of the greatest layering pieces and can be so comfortable. Throw on a long sleeved thermal t-shirt, leggings, a dress, a scarf, and you have it—warm and comfortable without looking like you’re on the high school football team.

Another great thing about layering is that it can be an outlet for creativity and self-expression.

Though it may seem like a pain to put on all those different layers, it’s a fun and intriguing way to mix things up. Pair patterned tights with a slimline skirt and thick wool sweater for a quirky-cute look. Guys can layer button down shirts with a crewneck or v-neck sweater on top for a polished look.

Winter is also a very accessory-friendly season. For Christmas, I got a retro, flapper-esque winter hat covered in sequins that I love to add on to outfits. There are innumerable options for scarves, as well. Wrap a bright or patterned one around you to add a happy pop of color. Kneehigh socks over tights are a delight, too.

For men and women alike, there’s always the option of lined jeans.

They’re warm and comfortable like sweats but look much more presentable. Corduroy is another great way to stay toasty without looking like a toad.

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about to step into those good ol’ sweats, think twice. Think of how nice you could look if you took a minute to layer yourself into a stylish outfit. It’s been proven that when we look better, we feel better. So leave your sweats at home—they’ll be waiting for you at the end of the day.

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Studies show that only thirty minutes of cardiovascular exercise (walking around in circles counts) drastically affects not only physical health, but mental health as well. This means that if you walk on a treadmill for only 30 minutes everyday, you can kick the blues away! Not to mention, you will probably see some physical changes as well.

Another great way to get happy is to get some exposure to natural sunlight—something that isn’t easy when five minutes outside can give you some serious frostbite.

If you can get outside without risking your physical well being, I suggest you do just that.

Personally, I think snowboarding is a good way to catch some rays while getting some physical activity in. But, if you’re not feeling up to it, just a few minutes outside can give you some serious happy benefits—something like walking a dog or shoveling.

For extreme cases, experts suggest light therapy, which involves sitting under a special florescent light for hours on end. But that just sounds plain boring.

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Let me start off by saying that I am not a big football fan; however, I still look forward to the Super Bowl every year. As an American, I willingly embrace any excuse to procrastinate on homework, get together with family and friends, and binge on snack food. The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49’ers battled in Super Bowl XLVII for the Vince Lombardi trophy last Sunday; however, after the first half ended it seemed doubtful that it would be much of a battle.

Personally, I was rooting for the Ravens because the 49’ers were predicted to win and I always love the underdog.

The Ravens were flying through the first half flawlessly. Joe Flacco was on fire, throwing three touchdown passes—so it’s no surprise that he was named MVP. The most exciting play throughout the game however was in the beginning of the third quarter when Jacoby Jones left the audience in awe after he accomplished a 109-yard kickoff return that even had me off my seat cheering.

The halftime show on the other hand did not have me cheering because it was very lackluster. I am not a supporter of Beyoncé and

I did not think that this was her best performance which is why it is a wonder to me how she received such strong reviews. She seemed nervous and somewhat uncomfortable when she sang “Crazy in Love”. Her performance could have been improved if Beyoncé had sung more of her newer songs instead of the overplayed hits that I couldn’t stand 10 years ago and still can’t stand to this day. The only thing that made the halftime show worthwhile was the impressive pyrotechnics displaying a flaming silhouette of Beyoncé.

Besides that, the show was disappointing and did not live up to the hype.

Contrary to the halftime show, the Super Bowl commercials did not disappoint. The Doritos commercials—“Fashionista Daddy” and “Goat 4 Sale”—were funny and entertaining as always. I look forward to the Dorito’s commercials the most every year because I love how it is a contest that anybody can enter and anybody can win. Usually, it is the average person that has the best ideas anyway so it was a smart move on Dorito’s part to get the public involved in the process because it creates more enthusiasm. The Coke Chase commercial also relied on public input to vote for the team that should

win the bottle of coke. This was my favorite commercial because it was a series of commercials spanning throughout the whole game and it was also amusing to see the funny ways the teams got delayed.

It is disappointing that many people view this commercial as racist because it portrayed an Arab man walking in the desert with a camel and the online voting site did not allow a vote for his character. In my opinion, sometimes people try too hard to look for racism in certain situations when it does not exist but then again I am not Arab so I look at this commercial differently.

Coke is a very respectable company that would never intentionally include racist innuendos or target a specific race.

Overall, the last half of Super Bowl XLVII was filled with excitement. The power outage gave the 49’ers the boost they needed to start making their slow comeback.

The last few minutes in the fourth quarter was a nail-biter that had me wondering if the 49’ers could actually beat the Ravens. Even though the 49’ers were within yards of reaching their dream they couldn’t keep the momentum going; however, the 49’ers proved that it’s not over, until it’s over.

Ever since I stepped foot on campus after winter break, I’ve noticed something—something looming through the halls. Heads hung and feet dragging. The feeling around campus is a little gloomy, I must say. Luckily, my fellow Americans, I have an answer as to why some of you are feeling blue.

It’s called SAD—which I love, because who doesn’t love puns— formally known as Seasonal Affective Disorder. It affects about 10 percent of Americans, according to an epidemiological study found by the New York Times in 2007.

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Denver’s late rally dooms Bulldogs

BY EVAN SMEGAL smega001@d.umn.edu

As they slowly filed out of the locker room on Saturday night, the faces of the UMD men’s hockey players showed one thing: shell shock.

“It happened so fast, words can’t describe it,” UMD goaltender Matt McNeely said after the loss.

“We had a lot of mistakes at the end, but we have to bear down in the third period. To say the least, we had this game won and let it get away.”

On the heels of a 3-0 loss Friday, UMD outplayed Denver for the better part of Saturday’s game and held a 3-1 edge with seven minutes remaining. That lead evaporated in a mere 101 seconds, as the Denver offense blasted three goals in that timeframe to stun the Bulldogs and their 6,600 fans at Amsoil Arena, 4-3.

UMD (10-13-3, 8-9-3 WCHA) squandered an opportunity this weekend to overtake the seventh spot in the WCHA standings after getting swept by the Pioneers.

It was the second time the Bulldogs have been swept this season and the first time at home since

Oct. 14-15, 2011 against Minnesota. Saturday’s game also marked the second time this year the Bulldogs lost a game after holding the lead going into the third.

UMD came out strong in the first period. Sophomore winger Caleb Herbert launched his sixth goal of the year past Denver goalie Juho Olkinuora from the left circle only 65 seconds into the opening period.

The Bulldogs tacked on two power play goals in the second period to put them up 2-0 and 3-1.

Tony Cameranesi found Austin Farley sitting alone on the right side of the crease, and Farley easily slid the puck into the back of the net for his ninth goal of the season.

At the 16:20 mark, Cameranesi blistered a one-timer past the diving Olkinuora. On a Denver turnover at the blue line, Farley dumped the puck off to Herbert along the left boards. Herbert centered it to Mike Seidel, who skated to the right side before going across ice to Cameranesi for the open goal.

The Bulldogs had a chance to put away Denver (15-8-4, 10-6-4 WCHA) with a man advantage and a two-man advantage for near-

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UMD’s Tony Cameranesi catches the Denver goalie out of position to put a goal on the scoreboard Saturday. The Bulldogs were swept by the Pioneers in the series.

ly a minute early in the third, but couldn’t capitalize.

“We played better for most of the game,” head coach Scott Sandelin said. “We had an opportunity to put the game away with the (power plays early in the third) but we couldn’t convert.”

The meltdown soon followed.

Denver narrowed the lead to 3-2 on Shawn Ostrow’s second tally of the night with 6:20 left, and Chris Knowlton knotted it up with 5:44 remaining. Nolan Zajac completed the rally with a power play goal, and the Pioneers had their first lead of the game with 4:39 on the clock and never looked back.

Resilient Bulldogs ultimately buried by No. 1 Gophers

BY KYLE FARRIS farri060@@d.umn.edu

Boasting a 10-game unbeaten streak and a share of second place in the WCHA, the Bulldogs squared off with top-ranked Minnesota over the weekend a muchimproved team from the one swept by the Gophers in early November. But you wouldn’t know that by looking at the box scores.

Unable to generate enough offense to counter Minnesota’s high-octane attack, UMD (13-103, 12-9-1 WCHA) watched the undefeated Gophers clinch the regular season WCHA title Friday and returned home empty-handed after a game-two loss Saturday.

The Gophers needed less than four minutes to start the scoring Friday, taking advantage of a short-handed breakaway to seize a 1-0 lead.

Minnesota would need no more offense, but that didn’t stop them from pouring it on in the second and third periods.

Standout winger Amanda Kessel doubled the Gopher lead midway through the second, and after a goal from teammate Sarah Davis early in the third period, Kessel extended the advantage to four by recording her nation-leading 36th goal of the season.

The Gophers tallied their fifth-

marker late in the third when Milica McMillen beat UMD goaltender Kayla Black, who turned away 17 of the 22 shots she faced on the night, to finish the scoring.

UMD managed to narrowly outshoot Minnesota, but defensive breakdowns and four empty trips on the power play were far too much for the Bulldogs to overcome in the 5-0 loss.

“We had some quality chances but just weren’t able to capitalize,” assistant coach Steve Macdonald said of the UMD offense, which couldn’t crack Minnesota’s topranked scoring defense in game one. “They have a great deal of depth and talent.”

The Bulldogs drew first blood against that defense Saturday— just the third time this season the Gophers had trailed—and tied the game at two apiece late in the third period, but couldn’t sustain their performance for 60 minutes in prolonging Minnesota’s NCAArecord 36-game winning streak.

It was senior winger Pernilla Winberg who started the scoring 10 minutes in, redirecting a strike from Jordan Krause through the pipes.

The early lead stood well into the second period, but a pair of Bulldog penalties set the table for two power-play goals from the Gophers in the middle frame.

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Minnesota’s offensive firepower was too much for the Bulldogs to handle, as UMD dropped its first series since November.

Down one and playing shorthanded with nearly six minutes gone by in the final period, UMD notched the equalizer when Jenna McParland squeezed one through Gopher goaltender Noora Räty’s glove side.

With its winning streak in jeopardy, Minnesota regained control just seconds later, landing the game-winner on a Kessel shot that slipped between Black’s legs and incited an offensive avalanche.

Less than two minutes after Kessel broke the tie, the Gophers received goals Rachael Bona and Meghan Lorence, and eventually added another with less than a

minute remaining to turn a oncetight contest into a lopsided 6-2 final line.

“I thought the team played with a great deal of energy,” Macdonald said. “Obviously, when you play the top team in the country, they are going to expose your weaknesses.”

Now in a three-way tie for third and two points out of the second seed in the conference, the No. 10 Bulldogs will return to Amsoil Arena this weekend looking to get back in the win column against Minnesota State-Mankato.

Men suffer another winless weekend

BY DANIEL BADHWA badhw001@d.umn.edu

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UMD’s struggles under first-year head coach Matt Bowen persisted over the weekend, with the team losing twice on the

“All we can do now is learn from this one,” defensemen Wade Bergman said. “We will definitely be correcting (how we finish games) for next week.”

The Bulldogs remain at Amsoil to host the 15th-ranked Minnesota State-Mankato this Friday and Saturday.

After picking up a win and a loss their last time out, the Bulldogs traveled to South Dakota and Nebraska last weekend in hopes of pulling closer to a winning record.

On Friday the Bulldogs squared off with Augustana in Sioux Falls, S.D., where the UMD men (5-15, 3-13 NSIC) were able to go into the locker room at the half with a onepoint lead after shooting a stellar 55 percent from the floor.

The men simply weren’t able to find the bottom of the net after the first half, making a mere 8-30 from the floor—cutting their field goal percentage by more than half from the first frame.

Even after nine lead changes,

Augustana went on to dominate the second half by a score of 35-19, leading to a final line of 67-52 favoring the Vikings.

Senior guard Jake Hottenstine scored 18 points for the Bulldogs and junior center Brett Ervin added 14, but they were the only UMD players who were able to score in the double digits.

Even though the Bulldogs were able to control the short-range game by outscoring the Vikings 30-20 in the paint, the team struggled mightily from beyond the arc, where they didn’t make a single bucket in 12 attempts throughout the game.

After falling to a record of 5-14 overall and 3-12 in conference play, the team was off to Wayne, Neb. to play the Wildcats in an attempt to Continued on B2

A day removed from a 9-0 defeat at the hands of St. Scholastica in the season opener Saturday, the UMD tennis team began conference play at home with a resounding 9-0 victory of its own. The Bulldogs (1-1, 1-0 NSIC) gave Bemidji State all they could handle and more Sunday, taking all six singles and each of the three doubles matches.

Freshmen Bailey Kolles, Delaney Dobbs and Katie Lincoln joined junior Kelsey Cunningham in notching straight-set wins, while sophomores Alyssa Brunelli and Kara Saemann each required three sets to put away the Beavers. Brunelli and Saemann, Kolles and Dobbs, and Cunningham and Lincoln broke into pairs to earn UMD’s three doubles.

The Bulldogs will hit the court again this weekend in Virginia, Minn. against Minnesota StateMoorhead and St. Cloud State.

Schedule A look at the week ahead for UMD Athletics.

All events are subject to change.

Men’s Hockey Minnesota State-Mankato Amsoil Arena Friday/Saturday, 7:07 p.m.

Women’s Hockey Minnesota State-Mankato Amsoil Arena Friday/Saturday, 3:07 p.m.

Men’s Basketball Upper Iowa Romano Gym Friday, 8 p.m.

Winona State Romano Gym Saturday, 6 p.m.

Women’s Basketball Upper Iowa Romano Gym Friday, 6 p.m.

Winona State Romano Gym Saturday, 4 p.m.

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Offensive woes plague sliding Bulldogs

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After a steady start to their 2012-13 campaign, the Bulldogs have now lost six in a row.

BY KYLE FARRIS farri060@d.umn.edu

Only once in their first 18 games did the UMD women’s basketball team fail to crack the 50-point mark. But the team fell short of that bar twice over the weekend

and now stands embroiled in its longest losing streak since Annette Wiles became head coach in 2008.

UMD’s intensifying offensive struggles were never more evident than in Friday’s 20-point loss to Augustana.

Able to muster just 43 points

against the second-place Vikings, the Bulldogs (10-10, 7-9 NSIC) settled for 3-pointers on one-third of their attempts and shot a paltry 32 percent from the field.

One major bright spot for the Bulldogs was the play of sophomore guard Danielle Flood from off the bench.

Flood buried all six 3-pointers she attempted and more than tripled her previous career high with 19 points.

The Bulldogs’ performance from the perimeter was not nearly enough to remain competitive with the Vikings, who turned in a dominant performance down low, outpacing the Bulldogs 36-14 in the paint in their 63-43 victory.

Compounding the Bulldogs’ struggles were 22 turnovers, off of which the Vikings dropped in 18 points.

Augustana faced its own difficulties on the offensive end, but led 28-19 at the break and used a 14-4 run early in the second half to put the game out of reach.

UMD men and women claim seven Border Battle records

BY KYLE FARRIS farri060@d.umn.edu

The Border Battle track and field meet at Wisconsin-Superior Saturday escalated into a battle with the record book for several UMD Bulldogs.

Eight Bulldogs earned top honors at Superior’s Lydia Thering Fieldhouse, including junior captain Cole Toepfer, who took the 800-meter run with an eventrecord mark of 1:58.39 and the mile with a time of 4:18.50.

UMD’s Alexandra Rudin made it a clean sweep for the Bulldogs in the mile by pacing the women with a meet-record clip of 5:13.83.

Rudin was joined in the top four

by Bulldogs Hannah Olson, Erica Seidenkranz and Alyssa Salava.

Also establishing meet records for the women’s squad were senior Kirsten Bjork in the 200-meter dash and sophomore Amelia Maher in the high jump, along with the team of Bjork, Maher, sophomore Tatum Garrity and junior Kate Hassing in the 4x400 relay. The quartet clocked in at 4:06.25.

Junior Kelsi Ring nailed down first place in the 60-meter hurdles and freshman Kaelyn Williams took the 3,000-meter run to round out the day for the women’s team.

Setting records on the men’s side

were junior Nathan Knop in the high jump, and the foursome of junior Daniel Badhwa and sophomores Scott Urban, Chris Wilson and Dan Nielsen in the distance medley with a mark of 10:36.33.

UMD’s Jake Nelson also earned top billing for his efforts in the 60-meter dash.

A portion of the women’s unit will resume action in Ames, Iowa, Thursday at the Iowa State Classic. The rest of the women’s squad will join the men in paying a visit to the College of St. Scholastica for the Lake Superior Challenge this weekend. The women will go off Friday night, with the men slated to compete Saturday.

Despite holding Augustana’s offensive attack 26 points below its season average, the Vikings led wire-to-wire and never allowed UMD to settle into a rhythm.

The Bulldogs failed once again to stop their now six-game losing skid the following night, but the club had plenty of reasons to be optimistic during much of Saturday’s tilt with Wayne State.

Although they were held without a bucket for the first four minutes of play, UMD eventually went on an 11-0 run midway through the frame to gain control of a first half dominated by both defenses.

The Wildcats managed a mere 15 points in the first 20 minutes on 28-percent shooting, and were kept off the scoreboard for the final 8:48 of the opening half.

While the Bulldogs didn’t fair considerably better offensively, the strong defensive showing was enough to stake UMD to a 20-15 halftime lead.

Junior forward Katrina Newman kick-started the second half

for the Bulldogs with a three-point play, and sophomore guard Alyssa Kerkhoff added a layup moments later to extend the cushion to 10.

That was when the Wildcat offense awoke, ripping off a 22-2 run spanning nine minutes to erase the UMD lead and open up a 12-point advantage of its own.

After their 15-point effort in the first half, the Wildcats racked up 47 points while shooting 55 percent from the floor.

Newman led UMD with 12 points and nine rebounds, and freshman center Abbie Whitney put in 11, but the Bulldogs never mounted a serious push.

Saturday’s 62-47 loss capped a forgettable road trip for the Bulldogs, who are now winless in their last six.

In danger of slipping below .500 for the first time this season, the team returns home this weekend for conference clashes with Upper Iowa and Winona State.

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salvage a .500 weekend.

The UMD men were able to shoot more consistently from the floor Saturday evening, making nearly 43 percent of their shots for the contest and 25 percent from 3-point distance.

Junior guard Peter Crawford connected on all five of his field goal attempts in the matchup to lead the team with 15 points—one away from tying his career high.

The Bulldogs held a short-lived advantage in the first frame, which was answered by an 11-3 Wayne State run to end the first half.

The teams headed into the locker room at the break with the Wildcats leading 31-24.

Wayne State pulled away from the Bulldogs in the second half, opening a lead that peak at 22.

With just under 2:30 left to play in the second frame, the Bulldogs mounted a surge, going on a 12-0 run to end the game. The Wildcat lead, however, just proved to be too much to overcome.

The 65-55 loss was the third of UMD’s four-game road trip and the eighth in the team’s last nine overall.

After two straight weekends away from home, the Bulldogs return to Romano Gymnasium this weekend to play Upper Iowa and Winona State.

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Kiteboarding offers thrills and chills

BY ERIC LEMKE lemke082@d.umn.edu

The same wind that plunged the recent wind chill factors far into the negative digits last week helped propel wind kiters across a frozen Lake Superior this past weekend.

RSOP’s annual Kiting Expo delighted onlookers near Washburn Wis., as members from UMD’s Kiting Club showcased their skills on the frozen Chequamegon Bay, an inlet of Lake Superior.

Kitingboarding is an adaptation of the popular summertime sport performed in open water. Using small kites that are strapped to the body for propulsion, the pilot is able to reach speeds of 25-30 mph on open snow. Kiting is usually done on lakes because of their large open areas, and pilots wear a snowboard or skis to glide across the snow. Once a person becomes proficient at piloting a kite, he or she can begin manipulating the winds to kiteboard in a terrain park setting.

Taylor Moore has been kiting on and off for the past three years and has attended the expo in the past.

“Those of us who are part of the Kiting Club get to go out on the lake and go kiting,” said Moore.

“It’s a time for us to just enjoy kiting.”

“You’re using the wind to propel you; it’s a lot of different things all together,” said Moore. “It’s thrill- Brisk winds propel a kiteboarder across Chequamegon Bay this past weekend. ing and exciting and challenging all in one.”

Although the temperatures nev“(In) the last two years, we Randy Carlson is the coordina- ity surge—and eventually brought the sport to RSOP. er topped out above the single dighaven’t seen good snow coverage. tor of kiteboarding for RSOP has “I first started kite boarding on its, local residents, including the It’s awful hard to hold your edge been leading the Kite Expo since Fish Lake,” Carlson said.

“I then Mayor of Washburn and his wife, against ice,” said Carlson. its inception. went to Hawaii to learn some of came out to give the sport a try.

Carlson coordinates a group of “My ambition was to get UMD the techniques.”

“The temps were a little cold, but UMD students who want to learn students who were interested in The Kite Expo is held each year once you get out and start moving the sport.

They can often be seen snow kiting to different locations,” on local frozen lakes.

It provides they weren’t bad at all,” said Carlon the softball fields on windy days Carlson said. “I always wanted to an opportunity for community son. flying kites, learning control techgo to Chequamegon Bay.” Consistent wind speeds on the nique and honing their skills.

Carlson first started kiteboard- members to come out and experience the sport as well as a way for lake and a six-inch base of snow Carrie Lang has only been kiteing in 2002, after learning about kiteboarding club members to get provided ideal conditions for this boarding a few times, but she can’t the sport in the late 1990s—durout and ride.

RSOP offers equipyear’s expo.

Conditions have not get over the rush of the sport. ing which time kiteboarding ment and instruction for people been ideal for the past two years “It’s hard to learn, at first, how to experienced a strong popularwanting to try it out. because of a lack of snow. pilot a kite,” Lang said. “But it’s so

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Lang was new to the sport last year when she decided she wanted to learn how to kiteboard.

“All of last year I couldn’t really do it,” Lang said. “This weekend I got it down and got on my board and actually go to go out.”

Like any sport, kiteboarding has a learning curve.

“It’s a lot of work but accomplishing it is so fun,” said Lang.

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Ginsberg. The Basement caught the attention of MTV, which contacted KUMD in November to see It used to be that radio and if the station would be interested television didn’t get along. See- in doing the show.

“They loved that we had an ing as how video killed the radio star sometime in the mid-eighties, album review and they liked the radio probably never quite got music we were playing,” Ginsberg over it. Well, not anymore. Fans of said. “We got an email from them KUMD can look forward to seeing asking if we wanted to host the their favorite college radio station show. We said, ‘Of course.’”

Now that the video is in the on their television sets in the near final stages of editing, the main future.

UMD’s radio show, The Base- thing left to do is create the top ten ment, is making its national debut countdown.

“I want to take input from othon mtvU’s College Radio Countdown. The countdown will air ers and ask them what we want on MTV’s sister channel Mar. 26 to be doing with this,” said Carlthrough Apr. 1, during which time son, whose job it is to settle on the music for the station. “I could put KUMD will be featured.

“It’s kind of like ‘the best of The together a top ten in five minutes, Basement’ on TV,” said Sam Gins- or we could really try to make it say berg, assistant marketing director something. What are we trying to represent with these songs?” at KUMD. In addition to the top ten music College Radio Countdown is an hour-long program that features countdown, KUMD will be subten music videos that are hand- mitting videos of local Duluth acts to picked by Most of the other videos be postvarious ed on college staare all in really nice m t v U ’s tions. places.... Ours starts out Tu m b l r “ We’ l l p a g e . do a top in an icehouse.

Nothing ten of the music that we select,” said Erik has been officially decided as to Carlson, music director at KUMD. which acts will appear on the site “It’s going to be a lot of stuff that’s yet.

Carlson said that a lot of the representative of Duluth and Minnesota, and things that our station videos they are using are going to be ones shot at live shows, a lot of has always been big fans of.”

The program will feature an which is music that MTV might introductory video that was put not have in its repertoire.

“It might seem like Duluth is together by the KUMD staff, and will represent what KUMD and really obscure, just up there, making a little splash,” Carlson said.

Duluth are all about.

“Most of the other videos (from “But really, we’re doing some pretty other colleges) are all in really nice big things up here. It will be good places, with palm trees and beach- to get the word out there, showing es,” Ginsberg said. “We decided to what Duluth is doing. It isn’t just go in an opposite direction. Ours this little town that’s up there and cold. There is some pretty serious starts out in an icehouse.”

The staff spent time shooting culture and a big music scene.”

As the airdate comes closing footage for the video in a mock studio inside an icehouse on Fish in, the KUMD staff is working to Lake, posing as a frozen-over make sure they are proper ambasLake Superior. “We were trying sadors for UMD and Duluth to encapsulate a lot of different music.

“They’re looking for stuff that aspects (of Duluth) in a minute,” they don’t know about yet,” Ginssaid Carlson.

KUMD has a stronger radio berg said. “Basically, it’s the people signal than most other college sta- that we go see on the weekends tions. This has a way of affecting that most people outside Duluth college music charts, according to don’t know about. “

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Rick McLean plays DJ while filming in the icehouse (top). Olivia Franti and Cloey Bagre-Walsh stand outside Ordean Court while filming (bottom).

Global cuisine making its way to UMD

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A table setting for the Malaysian meal in celebration of the Chinese New Year.

BY DAYAE KIM Kimx3318@d.umn.edu

Wong Chern Ping, a UMD junior from Malaysia, cooks traditional Malaysian food once a week in his apartment to share with his friends.

“I learned the traditional recipe from my mom before I came here,” Wong said. “Then I tried to make my own new recipe. Since I’m living in an apartment and I make my own food, I don’t get homesick that much. And I actually make a variety of food types, like Mexican, European (and) American, every other day.”

Wong said he couldn’t imagine living in the dorms and eating at the Dining Center everyday.

“Sometimes I feel like I am crazy,” Wong said, after he experimented mixing spaghetti and curry together—a dish he deemed a

successful combination of food styles.

“I think I just need time to adjust to different food, which is the same for everyone,” Wong said. “I would miss my home country food a lot if I lived in the dorms without any chance to cook it.”

According to the International Student Office (ISO), the number of international students has increased from 167 in 2000, to 312 in 2012. Of the 312, 97 are Chinese, 58 are Korean, 37 are Indian, and the remaining are from a variety of other countries.

The numbers have increased dramatically due, in part, to new programs being offered through the International Student Office.

50 out of the 58 Korean students at UMD came through the “1+3 program” that connects Seoul National University of Education and the University of Minnesota.

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Wong Chern Ping dishes up traditional Malaysian food he prepared.

Students who participate in the program spend their first year studying in Korea and then transfer to the U of M to complete their degree.

According to Trisha O’Keefe, an international student advisor, food, homesickness, and friends are the three biggest challenges most international students struggle with while at UMD. Changes have been made to the food options offered at UMD to help international students cope with being far from home.

According to ISO, 99 of the 182 undergraduate international students live on campus, as do 16 of the 120 graduate students. That means that many international students eat in the Dining Center for most of their meals.

“Last year’s DC was all about fast food, like hamburgers or pasta,” said Da Min Yoo, a sophomore

from Korea. “But ever since the ‘chef ’s action stage’ opened, professional cooks make the dishes and various different dishes have been shown.” The change started in May with new Dining Center manager, Lino Cardoso.

“Food is a thing that needs a lot of time to be changed,” Cardoso said.

Over the past few months there has been continuous contact between the Dining Center mangers and student groups to help suggest new ways to improve the options and the quality of food.

Student employees who worked over the summer, along with Multicultural Club members, were involved in a focus group that met regularly to talk about issues related to the Dining Center food.

“We’ve talked about various international menus we can try,” Cardoso said. “And our managers

decided to have more professional executive chefs next semester.”

The Dining Center’s food is more focused on an American cuisine, and students have complained that it is too sweet, too salty, or too tasteless.

For manager Cardoso, it is hard to keep a balance. About 3,000 students live in the dorms and eat at the Dining Center regularly.

That means that except for the 300 international students, about 2,700 are used to the style of the food served there.

“We are not done yet,” Cardoso said. “The DC’s purpose is not to make profit. It is a self-operating company; its (goal is) to provide good value to students and help them to eat healthy food.”

Student Life Editor / Kaitlin Lokowich / lokow003@d.umn.edu

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American Sign Language Club aims for change

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ASL club members signing “UMD I Love You, ASL I Love You” during their first meeting last year.

BY KATIE LOKOWICH Lokow003@d.umn.edu

Kendra Eisenschenk is a junior business management major with a passion for American Sign Language (ASL). In 2008, UMD started a deaf studies minor in the education department, and not long after, Eisenschenk started the first ASL Club on campus.

She was inspired to start the club after attending a Korean refugees summer camp program that, through song, dance, and other activities, helped the students counteract bullying and cliques.

While working at the day camp, Eisenschenk noticed a few of the deaf middle school students were left out of some activities because there was no one there to sign for them.

“In some way, shape, or form, we all have our own handicaps and disabilities,” Eisenschenk said.

“No matter how big or how small.”

Eisenschenk wasted no time in partnering with the Access For All group at UMD to create the Amer-

ican Sign Language Club.

“It’s a small demographic but there’s still interest,” Eisenschenk said.

The first time the club participated in the student activities fair, it collected over 250 emails to put in its alias. The club aims to create a safe environment for people with a passion for sign language and people who are interested in learning more about it.

“If you don’t know any sign language you should come, and if you’re fluent you should come,” Eisenschenk said. “What I realized from doing this is that there’s a large gap in skill level.”

Being fluent in American Sign Language is more difficult than most people think.

“People think, ‘Oh, you can learn sign language really easily, it’s just signs. A lot of them are obvious.’ But it’s not that easy,” Eisenschenk said. “People who get the deaf studies minor aren’t fluent, but they can still communicate with people.”

Club members can network,

learn, and teach each other.

“A lot of people come just to keep up on it,” Eisenschenk said.

“Because it’s like any other foreign language—if you don’t practice, you’ll lose it. It really does fade if you don’t keep up on it.”

The club is meant to bring about awareness of the Deaf culture and to expand the ability to communicate.

“People who are deaf or hard of hearing don’t see it as a disability,” Eisenschenk said. “They’re still able; it’s just they’re using a different language. That’s a really common misconception.”

Eisenschenk hopes to continue to get community members involved in the club, as well as club members involved in the community.

“I want to continue what we’ve been doing, but do it on a larger scale and have more people involved,” Eisenschenk said. “I think that’s every club’s dream, and I know it’s going to get there— it just takes time.”

Paranormal activity: who you gonna call?

BY BECCA LOCKWOOD lockw070@d.umn.edu

A cool breeze invades the room, a vase suddenly falls to the ground, and the bedroom door swings open and shut on its own. Who you gonna call? The Duluth Paranormal Society.

“People usually think we are a bunch of crazies,” said Andy Paszak, lead investigator of the Duluth Paranormal Society. “But we are here to help clients and provide them with steps to fix their problem.”

The Duluth Paranormal Society (DPS) investigates and validates paranormal activity in residential homes and businesses. Their main goal is to help clients determine whether or not an unusual activity they experience is connected to a paranormal entity. They conduct experiments throughout the duration of the investigation to try to debunk any paranormal claims the client has. More often than not, the group finds a natural reason for the

unusual occurrences.

“We want to prove paranormal activity by evidence,” said Joe Kangas, an experimental technician for the group.

The entire team currently includes 12 members—ranging from researchers who can access property history, to client relations specialists who act as supportive counselors, if needed. The team also includes technicians who deal with a variety of specialized equipment, like video cameras, audio recorders, temperature detectors and infrared lights.

“Each investigation is unique and needs its own special attention,” said Paszak.

According to Paszak, there is no such thing as a predictable night during an investigation.

After the client describes what kind of activity he or she is experiencing, the team visits and takes a tour of the property. Based on the described activity, the size of the location, and what the client needs, a date is set to inspect the

home. The DPS usually sends two to four members to conduct the research and selects equipment to be used specifically for that home.

Each investigator is then assigned various tasks and the equipment is strategically placed throughout the home.

Not only does the team investigate personal homes, but they also try to investigate well-known properties. When asked which public properties the group would be interested in investigating, the Gleensheen Mansion was on the list.

“It’s very difficult to get into a historical place,” said Paszak. “But we would love to get in.”

Gleensheen has been a place of interest for many paranormal societies; even groups from the Twin Cities area have tried to get permission to the historic home.

Although multiple inquiries have submitted to investigate, the Gleensheen board of trustees still won’t budge.

All recording devices—which

are a crucial part of the team’s equipment that help prove or debunk paranormal activity—are banned inside the mansion.

cific meeting place at the moment, the business is taking off, according to Kangas. A new webpage is up and running and has received

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Because they haven’t been able to access the historic home, the DPS focuses on other possibilities around the area, such as the William A. Irvin ship in Canal Park.

Though they don’t have a spe-

increased public attention through Facebook and advertisements.

So if there’s something strange in your neighborhood, don’t be afraid to call the Duluth Paranormal Society.

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UMD MUSIC Presents Upcoming Weber Music Hall Performances

Romance in Song Feb. 7, 2013 | 7:30 PM

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Performing songs from Romantic era composers, with scenes from Jerome Kern’s Showboat.

Feb. 10, 2013 | 7:30 PM Faculty Recital featuring Daniel W. Eaton, Tuba.

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Faculty Recital featuring Rachel Inselman, soprano; Delights Through the Decades, with Elsie Inselman, piano.

Feb. 11, 2013 | 7:30 PM

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