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Community garage sale hits Halenbeck Ryan Fitzgerald STAFF WRITER

SANAM TAMANG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The World’s Largest Garage Sale was put on by Townsquare Media. About 100 sellers participated on Saturday and attracted customers with their variety of wares.

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People were swarming like an F5 tornado for the sixth annual ‘World’s Largest Garage Sale’ at the Field House put on by Townsquare Media.

Townsquare Media is the third-largest owner of radio stations in the USA with 312, including six in the St. Cloud Area in WWJO (98.1 FM) KMXK (94.9 FM), KLZZ (103.7 FM), KZRV (96.7 FM), WJON (1240 AM) and KXSS (1390 AM).

Vicky Prom-Becker is the live events manager and senior account manager for Townsqaure Media, and has been running this event for the six years it has been taking place.

To make the name of the event ‘The Worlds Largest Garage Sale’ is quite a bold statement, but it might not be too far-fetched as people stood shoulder-toshoulder trying to navigate

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Bangladesh Cultural Night took place in Atwood Ballroom on Saturday night. It was the last cultural night for this year.

They decided ‘Mela’ to be the name of this year’s cultural cafe, because it represents the festivals of Bangladesh in Bengali language.

The night started with listening to Bangladesh National Anthem, when everyone present stood up. After that, there was a fashion show where participants showed Bengali traditional clothing. owned by the students themselves, where they had brought from home,” Secretary of the Bangladesh Student Association, and dancer Lily Vue said.

Basically, the fashion show depicts the types of attire men and women wear in we call Saris, and Shalware Kameez. They can be either casual or formal, depending on the intricate detailed design and matePRAVIN DANGOL / VISUALS EDITOR

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Prom-Becker said there’s space for 140 sellers, but due to some taking more than one space, they try and keep it to 100 sellers. Each seller must pay a fee for the space they have.

“They have to sign up with us ahead of time to reserve their space because we always sell out, usually a month prior to the event,” Prom-Becker said. “The fee is not much, so they do have to pay a small fee to participate.”

Townsquare Media runs the event around the same time each year and it seems to draw in more and more people on a yearly basis. By

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Bangladesh culture night Ivana Sreckovic

Visitors look at the edible artwork on display. See page 4 for the story.

throughout the Field House.

“It is just a fun name and we like to think it’s the worlds largest garage sale,” Prom-Becker said of the event. “We have over 100 sellers each year, and some sellers take up more than

dancer of Bangladesh Cultural Night Irina Nishat said. “For guys, in the fashion show they wore Kurta or Fatua. That is the attire that they would normally wear during religious and cultural occasions.”

What they didn’t show during fashion show is men wearing lungi as casual wear.

President of Bangladesh Student Association Taif Munsur showed shirt-pant or suits on formal occasions combination, which he wore during his speech.

After watching fashion show, there was a short speech made by Dr. Wanda Overland, where she welcomed everyone to the festival of Bangladesh. She introduced Bangladesh Student Association as “…the group of phenomenal students. They are already great individuals, but also great students in the classroom; and they are engaged to St. Cloud community as well,” Overland said.

This organization has existed for more gladesh Cultural night they are organizing.

This year’s Bangladesh Cultural Night had entertainment along with the educational part.

A few presentations showed why Bangladeshi people consider Feb. 21 the glory of language. ternational Modern Language Day. It promotes multicultural diversity around the world, since in 1952 on that day was a movement in Bangladesh. It wasn’t about the country, it wasn’t about any possession, and it wasn’t about any other thing. It was just about the language,” host, singer and

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SCSU honors 2013-2014 retirees eventually she took on the role

being a GMW at night is that she has to learn to sleep throughout the day.

Janet Gross

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“I enjoy what I do, but at

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“Hard worker, positive attitude, great teacher, and just an overall great person to be around,” are some of the things Janet Gross’s coworkers say they will miss about her.

Janet Gross and her husband Herb have been married and have owned a cleaning service together for 45 years.

They have cleaned places such as Herberger’s and Wells Fargo in downtown St. Cloud. She has been a general maintenance worker at SCSU for 14 the Miller Center with her coworker Larry Vilinski.

“She is a fantastic and dedicated her anymore,” Vilinski said.

She later moved on to Centenworked alongside Michelle Merchant, who took her husband’s position when he retired earlier this January.

“Janet has been a wonderful teacher, I have learned so much from her. She sets the bar pretty high, between her and husband they will leave

“I have never worked beside her, but she has a big heart and is well liked by everybody,” Renee Voigt said.

When she is not cleaning, Janet and her husband like to volunteer at the VA and take residents to church, help out at their church, and go to their grandchildren’s activities.

“The great thing about Janet and her husband is that they have never missed any of their grandchildren’s activities, and I think the grandchildren will really remember that. It is going to be a sad day to see her go,” Michelle Merchant said.

Gross said she has really enjoyed doing her job, but she is just about 65 and it is time for her to enjoy life and thing she plans to do once she retries is make a trip to Virginia, because she and her husband are expecting to have a grandson coming on the way.

Gross also said she would like to leave the staff and students with the advice to enjoy what you do and be happy.

Although she loves cleaning, Janet mentioned that a challenge she faced

“’Who is the easiest professor that you think I can get an A in?’ That was one of the funniest things a student had asked English Department Barbara Gammon said. Funny interactions with students are going to be one of the few things Barbara will miss once she retires this year.

Gammon has been the of-

years. Some of her duties as students with their schedule, dents should register for, keeping track of the department meetings, and many more tasks. manager here at SCSU, Gammon attended a community college for a year. There she did a secretary program. When she became involved with the English, department she found herself taking on more roles and

that I have to say no to people, and tell people what they can or cannot do,” Gammon said.

Once she retires, she says she plans to travel. “I do not really know yet what I will be doing once I retire. It will be very different to wake up and not have to come to work,” Gammon said.

Although Gammon will miss her coworkers and students, she says it is time for her to retire because of health reasons and the work load got to be too much. Gammon said she will miss the people and challenge of the job, but she won’t miss the pressure of it.

One thing she says has changed since she has been here is that she believes students do not have a strong work ethic and respect for staff like in 1971.

Gammon said one thing she will miss about SCSU is getting to interact with different people and learning their cultures.

Library attracts patrons with festival Patty Petty STAFF WRITER

Sushi, peapods, celery strings and fudge. Those were just a few of the ingreThe festival started four years ago as an event in a series to celebrate the 10th year of the Miller Center, according to Angela Wortham, Library Technician/ Circulation Supervisor and chairperson of the festival committee.

“I’ve always enjoyed the concept, the playfulness of it, and the creativity of it,” Wortham said, adding, “The woman who was chair last year is on maternity leave this year, so I stepped in to do what I could.”

“The event was so well received that we’ve kept doing it ever since. In a “There are edible book festivals technically on April 1, Edible Book Day. I think it ties in to April Fools’s Day and playing with your food.”

“It’s an opportunity for libraries to engage their patrons and be playful, to show that we are not a dry, dusty place. We don’t just walk around saying, ‘shush’.” ors that were not eligible for voting. Anyone who was passing by was encouraged tries recognized with a prize.

Nick Ringsmuth, a PSEO student, had seen the signs in the Miller Center for a couple of days advertising the event. Ringsmuth voted for ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ , which was made of sushi. “I read it as a kid and thought it was very cool,” he said.

While giving a tour to incoming students, Damarius Cruz, a senior who is majoring in recreation and sports management, put in a vote. While he enjoyed an ‘Oliver Twist’-inspired display made of olives in the shape of the letter and a bread twist, it was a display example of previous work. “I was kind of hungry walking by. I voted for ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’. It was very creative.”

Roxanne Backowski came up with the idea of ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ the day before. “The penguins were most tedious. They are cute but frustrating,” Backowski said. She found the idea on Pinterest. “It was an appetizer using olives, carrots and cream cheese held together by a toothpick. I couldn’t use a toothpick because it’s not edible and the cream cheese didn’t work well, so I used frosting,” she said. The penguins had to be arranged to lean casually against their igloo made of snack cakes in order to stay upright after awhile. which she used fruits and vegetables to chronicle the journey. “I was cutting the celery and needed a way to attach the cocoon to the branch and then I thought of the celery string.” She deployed the celery strings in a sewing needle and at-

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tached the peapod cocoons to the pretzel branches.

Other entries included fudge shaped into the word “Super” to honor the Judy Blume book about a mischievous little brother, ‘Superfudge’, and a group of Peeps nestled onto branches of pretzels to represent ‘The Thornbirds’. ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ and ‘Harry Potter’ were also represented. ond place entry. In third place was Hannah Topp-Schefers’s ‘The Thorn Birds’.

Although the cake is sometimes eaten at other festivals, they have much shorter display times. Wortham said, “One of the entries was made from sushi and I’m not sure who would want to be eating those after sitting out for eight hours or so.” would like to participate. There is a registration deadline of the day before the event.

SCSU hosts breakfast for faculty Ryan Fitzgerald STAFF WRITER

The aroma of the assortment of quiches, fruit and breads was a small gesture for the faculty and staff of SCSU to show their appreciation for donations on behalf of students.

The faculty and staff gratitude breakfast has been going on for a number of Most students are always strapped for cash to pay for their college education, so the faculty and staff are encouraged to look at what’s important and how they can help further the careers of students. help students is through a scholarship fund, but any funds are welcome, including general department funds. foundation. His main focus is to work with the Presidents Club and Faculty and Staff Giving Campaign. the opportunity came to give back, he jumped on it.

“I’m a Husky and this is my chance to give back as well as to help students campaign and I see myself running this in the future.

“Actually, we are hoping to expand this foundation to make it more bigger and grander. Hopefully by doing that we’ll see more participation as well.”

The Faculty and Staff Giving Campaign is designed to encourage members of faculty and staff to go above and beyond the realms of teaching. The gratitude breakfast is a gesture of appreciation that the campaign is able to show.

One of the main parts behind the campaign this year was the use of online

videos of the students’ stories looking for help or divulging their appreciation for donations given. The faculty and staff were then able to see video montages through email provided by the campaign.

“The video really drove the campaign this year,” Asphodel said. “We were able to use those videos and send them so the donators were able to see the stories.”

Vice President of University Advancement Matthew Andrew runs the foundation and has the fortune of reaching out to faculty and staff to ask for their “Each and every year we reach out to faculty and staff to ask for their charitable support to provide scholarships and other support for our students and St. Cloud State,” Andrew said. “At the conclusion of the drive this breakfast is a small way for us to say thank you to those who have contributed to the fund.”

Having joined the foundation last August, Andrew was pleased with the turnout and was grateful for all the support that the faculty and staff have shown this year.

The focus was really on the students and each person who gave a donation was sent an email saying thank you for the gift, an invite to the gratitude breakfast, and a photo of one of the students.

“We wanted to make sure that the faculty and staff who gave to the students got their message of appreciation,” Andrew said. “I think what we strive for is solidarity and we are all joined together.

“I think that happens in both the work that we do but also in this gesture we make. Weather someone has given $5 or $500 we appreciate and thank everybody who gives donations.”

Faculty and staff can have a certain amount of money taken from their payroll checks each period or can make one donation anytime they want. portance of helping students in any way.

“We don’t care where the money goes as long as it’s important to the faculty and staff to help students,” Andrew said. “We appreciate the smallest and largest of gestures the same way.”

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Marsha Shoemaker BIO BY PATTY PETTY

from a party-school image and the 1988 Homecoming ri-

Shoemaker said.

Shoemaker has been able to do this through some mem-

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last newspaper job was editorial page editor at the St. Cloud began dealing with media relations and writing stories for

the Alnwick alums to write in their recollections of their

the years, we added event planning, writing in collaboration

ries about how the study abroad program had change their lives forever, how they had a new appreciation for different

When Shoemaker started, the reputation of SCSU would come back and ask about our party-school reputation, which is not out there like it was- the 1988 so-called However, with some resilience and effort, that began to

Shoemaker even met a story participant at a family holi-

young woman who wrote in about how she had gone to Alnwick and met a young man who lived in Alnwick, a na-

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Shoemaker is retiring this year, and is planning to do some

remodeling and she looks forward to spending time with her

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Julie Andrzejewski BIO BY PATTY PETTY

most important accomplishments, for Sharon and Karen, and for the future of others who

Julie Andrzejewski has been known as an activist and advocate on campus throughout her 42 years on campus. She began at SCSU in the fall of 1971 and Professor Sudie Hofmann had many professors who showed up in the classroom in suit coats and gray hair, some with

and at the cutting edge of what issues are important. She is a genius at developing curricudiscrimination.

Hofmann said.

minor addresses social and environmental justice issues related to race, gender, class disabil-

things Andrzejewski has challenged throughout her career at the university. Lee LaDue of -

less full-time faculty. She cited more work for full-time staff and part-time pay with no ben-

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matic brain injury that left her unable to communicate her choices initially.

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continue her activism.

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Fall 2013 athletics referendum: A closer look at the issue Ryan Fitzgerald, Vicki Ikeogu, Ivana Sreckovic

TEAM STORY

Money and athletics are like peanut butter and jelly. Seeming to go hand in hand, issues surrounding both of these concerns came to a head during the fall 2013 semester. With athletics placing a referendum on the ballot to increase student credit fees designated toward athletics, issues surrounding the Student Government election and the validity of the results coupled with the growing concern over the athletic program brought to light a heated debate over funding.

Student Government SCSU athletics sought to place two issues on the fall 2013 Student Government elections ballot. Proposed to the governing body, members of the senate agreed to put forth a referendum to be considered by the student association.

In Bill 001, students were asked to de-

SCSU Athletic Funding *SCSU currently has an $8.6

* SCSU’s athletic budget *Athletics current budget is

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up to 12 credits per semester

cide if they were to maintain student athletic fees or face program cuts. This two-part bill asked students if the fees should remain constant for the Department of Athletics and if there should be an expiration date–or sunset clause–for this.

“This referendum was to maintain the $1.38 increase from two years ago,” said fall 2013 Elections Chair Courto Downing.

“This referendum was designed to put the Athletics fees at the fee ceiling outlined by MnSCU.” The athletics referendum was not designed to increase the percentage of students’ fees per credit. According to Downing, it was only designed to maintain the increase outlined in previous years and to place it at the maximum allowed by MnSCU. “If athletics didn’t get the increase, it would have meant they would have been $1.38 short of their fee ceiling per credit,” Downing said.

With the polls opening on Monday, Nov. 18, Downing said issues immediately began concerning the athletics referenda.

Election process According to the Student Constitution, any person or organization can propose a referendum to be placed to a vote in front of the student body. The constitution states, “The purpose of a referendum is to solicit an accurate opinion from the Student Association on a particular question.”

Once a referendum secures its position on the ballot, students are asked to vote on it. Every referendum needs to make what by the constitution is reached if the issues receives the majority of votes from students and has the necessary minimum of 8 percent voter turnout.

Elections start on a Monday morning and end on Wednesday afternoon.

Once the polls are closed, the Elections Committee Chair and the Chief Justice sort through the votes and certify that election results are accurate. Reporting them to the president of the university, University Communications, and the vice president of Student Life and Development–the adviser for Student Government–the results are then read aloud at the next Student Government meeting.

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paigning,” Downing said.

Tabling for most of the day in Atwood at their polling station, Downing said athletes began approaching people voting at the tables and telling them how to vote.

“A couple times I asked athletes to stop,” Downing said.

According to the Elections Committee bylaws in the SCSU Student Constitution, campaigning for a referendum or a candidate is strictly prohibited within 50 feet of a polling station.

Downing alleged athletes were violating this, suggesting that some even went so far as to lean over voters and make sure they were voting in a desired way.

“Athletes were told they were going to lose scholarships if the referendum didn’t pass,” Downing said. “The way the Athletics Department was saying this was essentially extortion.”

With noticing what Downing describes as inappropriate behavior among student athletes, she and Chief Justice Devon Bowker began the process of certifying the election when the elections were closed Wednesday afternoon.

“Devon and I talked about what to do Athletics,” she said.

Citing that in past years if a candidate had done something similar they can and have been removed from the ballot, Downing said she and Bowker struggled with the ideas of invalidating the votes toward the athletics referendum.

“We kept going back and forth. I mean for one thing they did get the needed 8 per-

Athletics. They are a very large and vocal group and neither of us wanted to take that on,” she said.

However, Downing said the way Athletics went about securing the necessary 8 percent quorum did not sit right with her.

Discussing the pros and cons of invalidating the referendum for nearly three hours, Downing said she and Bowker came to the conclusion that the athletics referendum campaigning violated the constitution and therefore needed to be invalidated.

Problems with invalidation According to Downing, invalidating the athletics referendum became a very contested thing to do.

“Immediately Thursday morning, Wanda [Overland, Vice President of Student Life and Development] found Eric [Petersen, President of Student Government] and let Eric know the results were invalidated.

Eric and Wanda told me if I announced the election results, as I had decided [to do], there was the potential to be removed from my position,” Downing said.

Explaining what she had witnessed over the past few days while polls were opened, Downing believed she had enough evidence to come to the decision she did.

“I thought they trusted me enough to not need dates and times [of campaigning violations],” she said.

In a separate interview, Petersen recalled the discussion differently.

“The decision was made to invalidate the elections without any written documentation,” Petersen said. p.m. Thursday, an hour and a half prior to the results being read at the Student Government meeting, Petersen said Overland, Downing, and himself had a meeting to discuss the issues surrounding the elections.

“There was no way we were going to read the results,” Petersen said. “We wanted to make sure they were accurate.”

Elections Committee issues According to Petersen, the Elections Committee had excluded him from the process of overseeing the elections.

“The president is supposed to serve as he said. “They are to oversee everything, but they are not involved in any of the processes at all.”

Petersen said Downing believed he should not be involved in the elections process, and said he believed her.

Seeking advice from Overland, the adviser to Student Government, Petersen said Overland told him the president is suppose to take a more active role in the elections process.

Delaying the results of the election for one week, Petersen, Overland, Downing, and Bowker were in talks as to what to do.

Election results “I think there was some general confusion,” Overland said. “We wanted to make sure things were happening appropriately.

Maybe there was some sort of misunderstanding.”

Working on trying to resolve the issues surrounding the election, Downing said she felt threatened to reverse her decision.

“Friday morning Wanda told me it was what I wanted, that I didn’t want Athletics to raise their fees,” Downing said.

Stating Overland told her that her and Bowker’s involvement with the University Program Board had caused them to have some sort of animosity toward Athletics, Downing said she felt like she was attacked.

“It became really dark. I left the meeting in tears,” Downing said. “I asked them if it was okay to have students feel extorted.

I told Eric and Wanda I would not be announcing the results. I just didn’t feel comfortable doing it.”

“I met with a lot of different people,

with the advisor, UComm (University Communications). We were going through the date the question,” Petersen said.

While Overland stated she didn’t recall

Questions

1. Should the Athletic line Fee remain constant in order to maintain programs in the

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Should Athletics be required to renew the

the meeting with Downing or Petersen surrounding the issues, she said the Elections Committee had no grounds to invalidate the results.

Overland said.

All it would have taken for an investigation into the matter was one complaint from a student; however, Overland said there was none.

Rumors surrounding the election had circulated. According to Downing, University Communications had leaked the results to the Athletics Department prior to them being read before the senate.

“Because of that, there was a lot of disciplinary action,” current Chief Justice Devin Smith said.

With Downing subsequently terminated from her appointed positions in Student Government the following Monday, Student Government saw a massive turn-around in positions. With Chief Justice Bowker resigning, Downing terminated, and the senate polarized over the contentious issue, the election results were read in on the following Thursday, one week after they were originally supposed to be read. With 77 percent of voters agreeing to maintain fees for Athletics and 47 percent stating there should not be a sunset clause for Athletics, the referendum passed with quorum reached at 9.4 percent.

However, since the resignation of Chief Justice Bowker, the only one with the authority to certify the results, the fall 2013

The fall 2013 Student Government remester.

“The Judicial Council was undergoing a lot of reorganization,” Smith said.

With the chief justice resigning, the poproper way to go about certifying the results.

“We didn’t have current operating docuple of weeks of the spring 2014 semester orientating the new justices to their positions, Smith and his justices worked on tackling the issue of the elections. the Feb. 27 meeting. The athletics referenstudents. www.universitychronicle.net

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Greek organizations focus on philanthropy Samantha McIntosh ASST. MARQUEE EDITOR

Delta Phi Epsilon and Tau Kappa Epsilon members stood outside in the Atwood Mall all day, for several days at a time. They weren’t playing a practical joke, though, they were raising money for a charity organization for the ‘Seesaw-a-thon’ event. The ‘Seesaw-a-thon’ is one of philanthropic events that SCSU Greek Life organizes during the school year.

Philanthropy has been an important aspect for Greek organizations, including the fraternities and sororities at SCSU. Tau Kappa Epsilon president Kevin Gysberg described SCSU’s Greek organizations as service-and-communityoriented organizations. Gysberg emphasized the importance of philanthropy to Greek life and Tau Kappa Epsilon.

“We’re all value-based organizations,” Gysberg said.

“By doing philanthropy, we’re embodying the values of our fathers and sharing it with our members to become better men,” Gysberg said. Each SCSU Greek organization has three charity organizations that they raise funds for every year.”

Delta Phi Epsilon’s ‘Seesaw-a-thon’ is for their Higher Education Foundation that, Delta Phi Epsilon member Mandy Dopp says, provides scholarships and leadership opportunities for undergraduate women.

Their other two causes are the National Association for Anorexia Nervosa and other Associated Disorders (ANAD) and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Tau Kappa Epsilon’s charities include the American Red Cross and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Gysberg said.

Kayla Coronella, the philanthropy chair of Delta Phi Epsilon, said their philanthropic events are important to herself and fellow sorority members. “A reason why [sorori-

ty members] sign up to be in a sorority is to do these events,” Coronella said. “These events are really important to not only me, but our sisters.”

Gysberg said philanthropy serves to better the world.

“We’re trying to create a better world. We live in an individualistic society. Greek life gives us an opportunity to have a collectivist communal mindset,” he said.

This sense of community is created by their 24-hour events like the ‘Seesaw-a-thon’. Delta Phi Epsilon hosted the ‘Seesaw-a-thon’ event from 8 a.m. April 7 until 8 p.m.

April 9 in the Atwood mall. For 60 hours, members of the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority and the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity raised money for the Higher Education Foundation, and people got to ride on a seesaw that a couple members of Tau Kappa Epsilon constructed the night before the fundraiser.

With 30-degree temperatures, the ‘Seesaw-a-thon’ had better weather conditions for students staying outside overnight than the ‘Freeze-a-thon’ that was hosted by fraternity Phi Kappa Tau in February. Alex Skluzacek, philanthropy chair of Tau Kappa Epsilon, said that what he loves about doing the ‘Seesaw-athon’ is “freezing and having a blast.”

Sorority member Dopp explained that the Greek organizations do the events overnight to show people that they are dedicated to philanthropy.

These events also connect the Greek organizations to the SCSU community, and also change the formed perceptions in people’s minds. In regards to these events, Coronella says that the community “sees the organizations for who they really are.” Coronella also talked about how she enjoys seeing people’s reactions to their events because “People don’t picture Greek societies doing philanthropy and community service,” Coronella said.

Kwasheen Kari White has been the assistant director of Greek life for the past academic year, and has advised different Greek organizations around the country. When asked about SCSU Greek life, White said, “What people see of the Greek system here is what a lot of people would like to see.

There’s a lot less issues and problems than what you see of Greek organizations around the country.” White also said that in the time he has worked at SCSU he hasn’t received any police reports about SCSU Greek Life students, which is contrary to what he has been used to at other schools.

Volunteering is important to Greek Life, and on top of organizing events for their national charities, Coronella said Delta Phi Epsilon members are required to do a minimum number of hours of community service, and this is completely separate from their philanthropic work. Coronella said a woman in their sorority once volunteered for 500 hours in a semester.

White said, “Everything is student driven,” about the planning that the Greek organizations do. About advising the Greek organizations, White called himself a net. “A net

control them to get back into focus,” White said.

Greek organization members are kept busy, with several different committee meetings each week, Gysberg and Skluzacek said. Not to mention that academics are very important to the Greek organizations. Coronella says her sorority has library hours and an academic chair. Sorority members Dopp, Megan Johnson, Gysberg and Skluzacek also mentioned that one of their main priorities for the rest of this

Coronella mentioned that every Greek house is vastly different, and every girl is different. Coronella talked about how people’s perceptions of Greek organizations are incorrect because they come from stereotypes in movies and television. But events like the ‘Seesaw-a-thon’ are really important, Coronella said, in bringing awareness to their causes.

Coronella said the sorority women learn leadership skills from the events, and in regards to the sorority, Coronella said, “They care about things other than getting dressed up and wearing pearls.”

Prescription drug usage on the rise in St. Cloud Vicki Ikeogu EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

With the latest news coverage focusing on illicit drugs like marijuana and its attempt to become legalized across the country, many are more concerned with the current legal drugs available on the market.

“The numbers are increasing for prescriptions; some are intentional and some are not,” St. Cloud Hospital liaison for Recovery Plus Steve Lanz said.

“We frequently get students from St. Cloud State University who end up in the hospital as a result of it. Sometimes it’s an overdose, sometimes its unintentional. There are a variety of scenarios,” he said. ner, RN and Family Nurse Practitioner Cindy Sandberg said the trend for prescription drug abuse would probably see an uptick. week. It is abused regularly. And we do see a big incidence of combined drug abuse,” Sandberg said.

Medical issues surrounding prescription drugs While prescription drugs are considered safe when properly prescribed to a patient, they take a dangerous turn when others use them.

“We take prescription drugs for granted,” your individual make and build, he said. By giving them to others, those drugs can cause adverse side effects, Hoeschen said.

“People are introduced to opiates [and other drugs] through legitimate prescriptions,” Lanz said. “Some people have a real wisdom teeth removal or knee surgery, many patients are often prescribed pain-relieving medication. However, for some, it doesn’t stop there.

“Our main concern is about opiates and the process of dependence. You build a tolerance to the medication and the only way you get the same feeling is by taking more. Oftentimes you can take too much,” Lanz said.

Even though prescription drugs are considered more popular, according to Lanz and Sandberg, they are considered an easy gateway drug for the common street drug heroin.

“Heroin is cheaper and just as good for money as prescription drugs,” Lanz said.

With statistics from the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Drug Abuse Trends report from Jan. 2014, studies have shown an increase in heroin and other opiate abuse rates.

Hospital emergency department visits for heroin have tripled from 2004 through 2011—up from 1,189 to 3,493—and for narcotic pain relievers, more than double the emergency room visits—up from 1,940 to 4,836—within that time frame.

Popular pain relieving narcotics prescribed were hydrocodone with acetaminophen and oxycodone with acetaminophen.

Twin Cities, this trend is also seen locally in St. Cloud.

According to Interim Associate Director of Health Promotion and Marketing Jeff Allerson, prescription drug usage among SCSU students is not accurately documented.

With an annual health survey administered by the University of Minnesota, Allerson said there is currently not a category to among college students and drug usage can be seen as alarming.

“Between 1993 and 2005 the proportion of college students abusing prescription drugs such as opiates has risen 330 percent,” Allerson said.

What concerns Allerson the most is the lack of awareness people have about the harmful side effects of using drugs not prescribed to you.

“Taking prescriptions not prescribed to you can lead to severe health problems and poor academic performance,” he said.

Combating prescription drug abuse Hospitals have a strict way of policing ac“I have an interview process,” Lanz said.

“I try to differentiate between necessary and abuse and addiction, especially here in a hospital setting. We don’t want people to be in pain; however, we are well aware that people exaggerate. And the emergency room is very good at screening,” he said.

In addition to this, hospitals like the St. Cloud Hospital have partnered up with local pharmacists in the Minnesota Prescription Monitoring Program. This program, according to Sandberg, allows access to authorized personnel to a database which shows all prescriptions prescribed to patients. Doctors and pharmacists can use this information to tell if a person is “doctor or pharmacy shopping” for medication or if they are using a legitimate prescription.

Withdrawal from opiates is very uncomfortable; however, it is not life-threatening, Lanz said.

“But once people begin to feel sickness, they think, ‘I feel like I’m better off using than recovering,’” he said. days. But it depends. They know they get sick.

And you get really uncomfortable, with some describing it as ‘bone-wracking pain,’” Sandberg said.

However, Sandberg said withdrawal from opiates may be painful, but unlike alcohol, withdrawals are non-life threatening.

What is concerning to both Lanz and Sandberg is the amount of people seen each year in St. Cloud with addictions to opiates and prescription drugs.

“We have come to a point where we as a society have a really lax attitude when it comes to drug use. We have come to see prescription drugs as a normal social thing,” Sandberg said.

Legality issues and getting drugs off the street “We know the problem is out there. To tell how large is a guess,” Interim Director of Public Safety Jennifer Furan Super said.

“It is a bit hard to track. But we do see cases every year in calls for service,” she said.

While Furan Super said marijuana is the most commonly abused drug at SCSU, there have been cases of abuse stemming from Adderall and oxytocin.

“From the research I have read, typically

their parents’ home or buying it from a dealer, which is the most common,” Furan Super said.

“It is a trend we see. It is here to stay. And it is growing,” she said.

“Anything that is a pain reliever is widely

home searches, Hoeschen said the prescription drug business has become a fast and highly illegal way of making money.

This is why Furan Super and Hoeschen teamed up to host SCSU’s Drug Take Back Day on Thursday.

Partnering with the St. Cloud Police Department, Public Safety hosted the event in their parking lot, hoping to get drugs off the streets and disposed of safely.

“As people are getting ready to move out and as students are getting ready to pack up et,” Furan Super said. The take back day is designed to get those drugs off the street and properly disposed of.

With a no-questions-asked policy, Public Safety and the St. Cloud Police aimed at securing more drugs from students. According to Hoeschen, last year’s take back day brought in approximately 70 pounds of drugs, mostly from faculty members with unused prescription drugs. This year, they had hoped to double the poundage.

“Typically, people don’t use all of pain pills. So we will take them back and keep them out of the wrong hands,” Hoeschen said.

“It’s an opportunity to make a safe and healthy decision to dispose of drugs without questions asked,” Furan Super said.

“There are a lot of drugs out there that

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French student studies international management STAFF WRITER

Maxime Cadoret is a senior student coming from Brittany, France, and pursuing his future career in international marketing.

He came to the U.S. thanks to the exchange program of his university, which offers spending one semester in St. Cloud, Maine or North Carolina. He couldn’t choose his placement when he was applying for this program, but he likes what has been chosen for him. ed to spend some time studying here so he can experience American college life and living on campus.

“You have everything on campus. It is like a little town,” Cadoret said. “In France, it is completely different. My university is very close to the city center. You have couple of buildings, and when you live in them, you are out of the university. There is no campus.”

What he notices about the country itself is this: when he came here there was a notion of patriotism. An American are involved in student team for any sport, there is no national anthem. Because it is something that is reserved for national team,” Cadoret said.

What is also different here, but Cadoret likes it, is the fact that Americans worship leaders, entrepreneurs, engineers, and businessmen. “Successful people in general,” Cadoret said. On the other hand, because of the will for equality, people would see what others do, but they would criticize them, whether they worked really hard to be on certain position or not.

“If you see someone that has a lot of mony, whatever the reason is, some people can be even jealous. I think that we have a society and system that tries to erase social inequalities,” Cadoret said. “When you see someone has a lot of money, someone might say that that is bad, because someone else doesn’t even have 10 percent of that income.”

Cadoret thinks that French people are very proud of their culture, their language and their food. There are many stereotypes about French people. Some of them Cadoret considers false, but one of those that he considers to

be truth is French people not wanting to speak any other language except French. That is probably related to them being proud of their language.

“If you as a foreign person go in France and meet someone at the street that speaks something else except French, you are very lucky,” Cadoret said. “They don’t want to talk in English, but many of them know only the basics. “That is why it sounds really fancy, if you say in France that you speak some foreign language really well,” Cadoret said. high school. After that, Cadoret started his international for an internship and he chose England and improved his English.

“When I got there, I couldn’t even introduce myself properly in English to my landlord. I couldn’t even say something like this: ‘Hello, I am Maxime. We’ve been in touch via email and I am the French guy who is staying here for two months’,” Cadoret said. “I was nervous, but I was really bad in talking in English.”

Also, in some point you can choose second language as well, and most French people choose Spanish before German. “I tried to improve my Spanish, because my girlfriend is Mexican,” Cadoret said.

“Her family is in Mexico where she is right and I met her when she was on an exchange program at my University, where she spent six months.” After that, she spent few months in Geneva, Switzerland, where she will come back to the job she used to do before. Cadoret sees the possibility for future living and working in the same place.

France. I am searching that in Geneva, because my girlfriend will go back there as well,” Cadoret said. “I’ve been in Geneva actually, one week to see her. And it is a very beautiful place. It’s very quiet and people are more respectful and polite, in comparison to Paris. That’s why I would rather go to Geneva to work.”

Before coming here for his exchange program, his previthey can value his degree. But many companies in the U.S. don’t like to hire foreign students because of Visa issues, and because of Visa issues, Cadoret decided instead to spend zerland instead.

Because he is studying international management,

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“some people think that our diploma is more valuable outside of France,” Cadoret said. That would be one more reason for not staying in his home country after graduating.

in New York City, Cadoret didn’t experience cultural shock.

“When you go somewhere, you always know a bit about the culture you are going into. And with America, with movies and everything, you know a lot,” Cadoret said.

Budgets cuts to affect student technology EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

With the academic year winding down and budget season wrapping up, members of the Technology Fee Committee presented their proposed budget to Student Government at Thursday’s meeting.

“We really hope most of it won’t be a big surprise.”

With a PowerPoint presentation, Watzky and her committee explained some of the issues they came across while preparing their budget.

With MnSCU capping student fees at 3 percent, technology funding only received 1 percent of this, according to Watzky. Technology fees were able to be raised $0.38 per credit for the This is still fairly low compared to other MnSCU schools, Watzky said. With other schools paying anywhere from $8 to $10 per credit for technology, Watzky said SCSU charges rather low fees for their students’ technology needs.

However, Watzky said due to budget cuts and a major overhaul of the current budget, overall university budget.

In order to offset budget cuts faced university wide, the Tech Fee Committee decided to implement some changes, hoping to save money and come in under budget. nently,” Watzky said. “This is both necessary and strategic.” a bad idea to take these out due to the amount of work that needs to be done to maintain them.

“Based on lab statistics, where the computers will be pulled will not affect students,” Watzky said.

Along with the cuts to technology fee funded computer labs, Watzky said SCSU would have to reduce the staff at HuskyTech by 38 percent as of July 1.

“Most of those student workers cut will be the ones in labs on campus, with the exception of the Miller Center and the roaming/satellite station in Atwood,” Watzky said.

However, those empty labs would be re-purposed, Watzky said. With the new trend toward bring your own device (BYOD) labs, labs would be catered to students with their own laptops and other mobile devices.

With data showing 88.2 percent of students own a laptop, Watzky said this aspect could be considered harsh and will affect a lot of students. But the Technology Fee Committee said they will be working closely with the deans and schools to transform the former labs into learning spaces, as soon as this summer.

Technology Fee also discussed other changes to SCSU’s technology, including the potential of switching email services to the Cloud.

Watzky outlined the potential for SCSU to switch to becoming either a Google campus or

“If we were sponsored, this would save $30,000. It would also modernize the campus. It’s basically a win-win,” Watzky said.

While this switchover still remains a possibility, what is for certain in the proposed budget will be eliminating funding for study rooms in the library.

With technology fee funding the equipment currently, Watzky and her committee will be switching over funding to the Miller Center, at the encouragement of the dean of the library.

HuskyTech will still be responsible for servicing the equipment, but it will no longer be funded by student technology fee dollars.

In addition, students will no longer be funding digital signage around campus, networking, e-classrooms, and servers and storage.

“I don’t think students should just be paying for these expenses,” Watzky said.

After the reallocation of these technology needs to the university, Technology Fee would be

A major investment would have to be new infrastructure and Internet bandwith, Watzky said. Our current infrastructure is very old and would need to be updated in order to support the new shift toward laptops and other mobile devices used on campus.

Other cuts could have been made to the budget; however, Watzky said they had chosen not to. Cuts could have included eliminating the myHuskyNet portal, cutting the $8 printing fee allotment to students at the beginning of each semester, and cutting technology fee dollars from Ritchse Auditorium. But these so far have not been cut or placed in the budget to be cut.

With the end of the presentation, the Technology Fee Committee said they had trimmed

“How is this transition going to be?” Dixie Johnson asked “Our statistics say it shouldn’t be an issue, but it will bring strong political and emotional reactions,” Watzky said. “But it really depends on how you look at it.”

Chair Alex Bryson asked how much would be saved by removing old computers from use.

“We are constantly having to service them. And we have found a connection between cutting computers and cutting labor,” Watzky said.

“Can you explain the Google campus?” Dixie Johnson asked.

“The biggest thing is the data will not be housed in the university, but in the Cloud,” Technology Fee Committee member Brady Nielsen said.

Stating the University of Minnesota-Duluth had adopted the system, Nielsen said it worked very well there.

Sen. Shirley Aurand Weisman asked where the tech support would come from if the switch was made.

Nielsen said HuskyTech would still be able to service the issues, since the only real change would be the switching of the email accounts to Gmail. of the year.

Sale Continued from Page 1 running it the same time every year people have come to expect it, so it grows in that form.

Being that Townsquare Media owns six radio stations in the area, advertising the event was not an issue, and they did some other forms of advertising through other mediums.

Even people from Minneapolis and St. Paul came up for the event and heard about it through people they know in the St. Cloud area.

“This is the third year I have made the trip to St. Cloud for this garage sale,” Matthew Kroiss, a Shoreview native said. “I have quite a few friends in St. Cloud, so they told me Prom-Becker noticed that this year was a far better turnout than previous years and was gleaming with joy as she was greeting the masses of people coming in.

The event comes with a $1 cost to get into, but it is worth the admission fee because “This year seems to be bigger than other years because I think people were sick of being cooped up all winter,” she said. “Since we’ve been doing it the same year I think people are expecting it.”

“People look forward to this because of the variety of sellers we get and people are looking for bargains,” she said.

As the event continues to grow each year in what may not actually be the world’s largest

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Halenbeck hosts 5K run to celebrate Earth Day

NADIA KAMIL / ASST. VISUALS EDITOR

The 5K run on April 19th began promptly at 6:30 p.m. Everyone was invited to join.

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Participants waiting at the start line of the 5K dressed up in celebration of Earth Day.

Bangladesh Night

“For me, and for many of us, Bangladesh night is actually more than just a night. It kind

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time in the season when all of us can come together to celebrate our culture, celebrate our

dancer of Bangladesh Cultural night, Md S Iqbal, said.

“It doesn’t matter where you are in the world; celebration is a crucial event for social gathering and sharing happiness. That’s what we were trying to share with the SCSU and the community,” Vue said.

Iqbal stated that Bengali people loved their language so much that they were willing to die for it.

They used videos to show their culture and the way of celebrating spring festival in Bangladesh. “It’s all about celebration. Women are wearing yellow saris; everybody is out having a great time,” Iqbal said.

Karima Khan was in charge for the presentation of biography of Bangladesh. “What are these cultural nights all about? Well, cultural nights represent cultures and tradition of a country. The country we are representing tonight is Bangladesh, so welcome to my country, Bangladesh,” Khan said.

Bangladesh, country located in South Asia, is 1.5 times smaller than the entire state of Minnesota, but the population of Bangladesh is about 31 times bigger than population of Minnesota, which makes it the eigth most populated country in the world.

Munsur stated that their organization counts very few members and said that there were many challenges they had to go through on their way to accomplishing this night.

Not everything went smoothly while organizing this event. There was a lot of organizing, note taking, regulating, and delegating throughout the whole semester, but the event nitely a rewarding challenge, especially with the fact that I had less than 15 people to work with,” Vue said.

Other issue was limited time to organize this event. The bad thing was that they were organizing the event while they had many other things to deal with in their academic life.

“We are all uni students so it included the pressures of our daily hectic lives in university,

along with Islam as the biggest religion in this country, constituting more than 90 percent of the whole population.

Accompanied with pictures, the biggest attractions and important people of Bangladesh were shown in this presentation.

“I know for the fact that Bangladesh is a very beautiful place, and very elegant,” Nishat concluded after the presentation of her country.

On the entertainment part we could see few performances along with their modern or popular music in Bangladesh, and we could see their traditional clothing once again.

Both Vue and Nishat were part of fashion show and performances as well. “The dances

food.”

“The main point of Bangladesh Night 2014 is to celebrate the culture of Bangladesh

Taif Munsur, the President of Bangladesh Student Association, gave a speech at the end of the night, thanking everyone for coming and welcoming them to try the traditional food of Bangladesh.

60. After-bath powder 61. Curved molding 62. Mammary gland of bovids 63. Vesicle

from school. We had to work with our budget and make a night that represented Bangladesh culture through our performances, presentations, food and clothing,” Nishat said. “In a sense we did represented well, but it could have been improved. We did pull the night within a week, so the results were good in terms of that.”

“I really want to thank each and every member, faculty, friends, and families who helped made it possible. I also want to thank SCSU for allowing students of color to feel welcomed and be able to share their cultural backgrounds here on campus. It’s the challenges that enced such a beautiful culture and people,” Vue said.

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Nishat said.

“This entire week was pulled together in entire week, so I am very proud that we succeeded in the end,” Munsur said.

“This night was possible because everyone shared the same goal in delivering their best,”

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Growing up really sucks Quote of the Week Kirsten Kaufman OPINIONS EDITOR

When I was younger I could not wait to grow up. I wanted to be an adult like my parents more than anything. I remember telling my mom all about how I couldn’t wait to get a job, get my own car, move out, and live on my own.

I thought that being an adult was the greatest thing in the world. But being an adult is nothing like I expected.

At times it is fun.

Staying up all night, drinking with my friends and hanging out is nothing I would trade to be a little kid again, but there are few things that really keep me going.

Waking up at 6 a.m. to

work, spending $300 on car insurance, and having to balance going to classes, working, sleeping, and friends is all very exhausting, not to mention not having any money on top of everything. I always thought that being an adult would be so much easier than being 10 years old. Now I know that I was very wrong.

Now it’s not hard being 40 years old. Odds are, if you’re 40, you have a solid job with decent pay, you live in a house, and you’re not worrying about how you’re going to pay your bills. I’m talking start off on your own.

Graduating high school and moving to college you’re away from your family and you have a lot more freedom. But then you have to focus on getting a minimum wage paying job only to hope it’s enough for rent and food, and if it’s not, you can only turn to

your parents for money.

college I had no problem asking my mom for money because I lived in the dorms and didn’t have to worry about paying rent every month. This year I live in a bug house paying anywhere from $300 to $400 for rent, depending on how high our mid-month is. To put it in perspective, in the month of February there was normal rent, which was $290, and then an extra $130 per person for heating and water and natural gas. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know many 20-year-olds who can afford to pay $420 a month for rent plus car insurance, and tuition, and books, and food…

Personally, I’ve never wanted to go back to being 17 more in my life than I do now. I miss not having to worry about things and having a low-paying job but not caring because I didn’t

have monthly bills.

When talking to my mom about things, she said that everyone goes though the same thing and it was just as hard for her, but things were so different 30 years ago.

You didn’t have to sell both of your kidneys and your liver to make it in the world like you do now. And it doesn’t help how expensive going to college can be. SCSU is cheap compared to a lot of other schools I looked at but $14,000 a year is still quite overwhelming.

Honestly, I’d love nothing more than to go back to high school and see my friends every day and not have to constantly worry about or what I want to do with my life. High schoolers don’t know just how easy they have it, but they talk of nothing else than growing up and moving on. Let me tell you, I’ve done it, and it’s been one of the most stressful things in my whole life.

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Letter to the editor

Reproductive rights for women has been a controversial issue in the United States for years.

Since the passing of Roe v.

Wade forty-one years ago, there have been many steps forward and backward to improve women’s access to contraceptives, abortion, and health check-ups.

Being a woman myself, I see that all of these abilities are very important to have as an option, even if I may never use all of the facilities available to me. While much of the news focuses on the negatives, I want to talk about the positives that I have seen within my friend’s workplace at a drugstore located in Saint Cloud. In less than nine months my friend has seen Plan B become an overthe-counter product. Anyone who purchases Plan B does

not have to provide an ID, therefore giving more women access to an emergency contraceptive.

Since the Affordable Care Act has passed and started taking place at the beginning of January 2014, she has seen almost all women have no copay for their birth control prescription. This means that women who choose to take birth control and have enrolled in insurance that fully covers the prescription are able to plan their reproductive decisions with next to no cost.

Recently, Take Action went on the shelf at drugstores. Purchase of this emergency contraceptive does not need an ID either, and it is cheaper than Plan B, giving women more options!

And when you are a college student and you are on a tight

budget, a cheaper option is vital. What makes me even happier to see is the change in attitudes that pharmacists that work at drugstores now have.

Pharmacists are more than willing to talk to women about their reproductive health and what options may be the best for them. No longer should a woman have to pick up her birth control or a Plan B pill while getting the judgy eyes from a pharmacist.

Needless to say, these negative, unapproachable attitudes still exist, but they are becoming less and less apparent. This is a new era for reproductive health, and while we may have taken a few steps back, I hope we keep taking far more steps forward.

SCSU Student Bao Lee

“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer

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Not good at goodbyes

Andrew Gnirk STAFF WRITER

As I get ready to say goodbye to college, I think about all of the people and things I have said goodbye to along the way.

The posters from my freshman dorm that were recycled last fall. I believe they were of Bob Marley and a Quentin Tarantino movie (hooray for college kid stereotypes I will never live down).

I got a very nice Xbox 360 my sophomore year, but the Xbox One made it outdated less than two years later.

The best show I’ve ever seen, ‘Breaking Bad’, saw its The futon I thought was oh-so-cool and comfortable somewhere.

I tried to be a vegetarian and gave up on it eight months later.

Several careers I

considered, I now know are not for me after gaining actual life experience.

Three cars from my college years are now either in a junkyard or sold to a used car dealer.

The current Robin from the ‘Batman’ comics kicked the bucket.

The Electric Fetus, a store I began avidly buying from when I began college, is now sadly closing.

I worked six different jobs and ended up leaving them all.

Each job had friends at it that I barely see anymore (or never do).

I have only one friend I’ve made in college that I still speak to on a weekly basis. He currently lives in Washington.

Most of these endings were not accompanied with a formal goodbye.

I didn’t say goodbye to most of the friends or former coworkers I’ve lost contact with. I obviously didn’t say goodbye to Walter White or Damian Wayne.

Goodbyes never get easier.

I still have two more classes to take in the fall, but I am student at SCSU at the end of this semester. will happen next in my life.

Up until this point, there was always more school to give me

something to do.

I am lucky that I am engaged and have an adopted dog named Bella to give my life some direction. I would be very lost without those two.

I’ve never been very good at goodbyes. As a child and teenager, I often avoided relatives when they were about to leave after a holiday or birthday celebration.

It wasn’t due to disinterest.

It was due to not wanting to say goodbye.

I just felt like I couldn’t do it. I knew I wouldn’t be seeing them again for several months at least, and it hurt. I felt like if I could avoid saying goodbye, then I wouldn’t have to confront my feelings about the situation.

But I have to say goodbye have gained much from you.

And most of my frustrations with you were at least half my fault. I’m sorry I didn’t own up to my share of the blame.

I’ve learned even more from the college experience than I have from the classes I took. I’ve met some incredible people and gathered some very valuable life lessons, both from my victories and mistakes.

When I look back on my college years, I won’t remember the stress, headaches, or lack of sleep. I’ll remember that I was there.

SCSU students speak out: E-cigarettes, yay or nay?

We asked SCSU students their thoughts on whether or not St. Cloud State should ban smoking e-cigarettes on campus along with the current ban already in place for smoking normal cigarettes. (Photo courtesy of http://electronic-cigarette-review.biz) “If there is no second hand smoke it should not be included in a ban, especially since some people are actually using to try to stop smoking real cigarettes.”- Student Benjamin Kath “I personally don’t like it but I don’t really think there should be a ban on e-cigs or smoking in general on campus. I completely understand no smoking in building for obvious reasons but I think that teachers should be able to post signs if they so please. Basically I don’t like it but it shouldn’t be illegal to do on campus.” - Student Jake Fredendall

“There is no research either way yet determining whether e-cigs are harmful or not. It may be years until we know the impact of them, good or bad. I believe establishing a place e-cigs can be smoked, whether it is indoor or outdoors should be allowed as long as no one else’s health is put in danger. The problem with e-cigs is not enough is known about the long terms effects to say whether they’re dangerous or safe.” - Student Shirely AurandWeisman

“I don’t think they should be banned. I don’t smoke but I do think that people are somewhat trying to better their health by switching to e-cigs and there isn’t any second hand smoke so it doesn’t affect anyone around them in an unhealthy way.” - Student Marissa DiOrio

“People mainly use them to quit or to satisfy needs that have otherwise been banned on campus. Banning e-cigs is too far, we are already inconveniencing and singling out a part of the campus community.” - Student Allesson Stensing

odor. The only reason this has been called into question is based on the ignorance of others. It is y no means anything like cigarettes apart from the trace amounts of nicotine.” - Student Mike Grewatz

“I don’t think they should be banned because there are no harmful side effects to the second hand smoke, which is what non-smokers are afraid of. E-cigs don’t contain any tobacco.

“They don’t cause litter, so there is not the issue of pollution. I only would be for banning them if they are proven to cause harm to people who would breathe it second-hand.” - Student Chelsea VanLoon

oppressing the already frustrated campus community of avid smokers, and smokers who are trying to quit by using e-cigs.” - Student Danielle Stevens

“They need not ban them and do the proper research before making the decision to ban them.

They do not harm anyone! I use one and I ask my teachers if they are okay with me using one in Student Ryan Fitzgerald

“Studies are sparse on the actual effects that e-cigs have. There is little regulation in the production of the product as well, which leaves little guarantee what you’re inhaling has not been contaminated with foreign substances. Furthermore, the main pitch for e-cigs is to cut down on smoking, which there is little data to back up as well. That said, I don’t care that it’s banned. I’m not particularly broken up about the issue either way.” - Student Holden Page

“We have no concrete understanding of what the long-term adverse effects of using an e-cig are on a person’s health. We do know there are less toxic chemicals in e-cigs in comparison to cigarettes. Health professionals speculate the effects are less harmful than cigarettes, and the little evidence we have supports this claim. However, there is a disturbing lack of regulation on these products. We don’t know if “second-hand vapor” is harmful. It’s immoral to ban something simply because it’s mysterious and makes people uncomfortable. Banning them is taking a potentially powerful tool for getting people off cigarettes away from the student body simply out of ignorance. It would be hypocritical of us to ban alternatives to smoking without any evidence to support such a decision.” - Student John Stensing

to ban them. Land of innocent until proven guilty right? I see the issues, but until lasting no reason to place them in the ban.” - Student Jeremiah Graves

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Slow down, college isn’t that bad this semester has been, as she is taking 26 credits on top of working a full-time

Joseph Dombeck COPY EDITOR

After listening to other students’ course schedule plans for next semester over the last couple of weeks, I’m getting the impression that people want to get out of here as soon as possible.

way more exciting ways to shorten my life expectancy than not sleeping and working myself to death in school.

So instead of killing ourselves to make sure we graduate within a magical four-year window, let’s slow down and take advantage of the buffer-into-adulthood that is college life. You don’t have to take 17 or 18 credits space your classes out over

and enter the workforce in record times.

One of my friends, who is trying to cram two semesters’ worth of classes into one loaded semester next fall so she can graduate early, says that she has been in school for 16 years already, and now it’s time to get a real common argument, we need to remember that 16 years is nothing compared to the 40 or so years we will spend working day in and day out after graduation.

We have the rest of our lives to settle down, complain, and be angry and frustrated with our careers. Why not relax the relatively short time we have here? Another friend complained to me (with dark baggy circles under

years.

Besides reducing your stress levels and having a positive impact on your health, spacing out your workload gives you more time to beef up your resume with extracurriculars. In today’s uncertain market,

has over 250) while you still can. Anything will do, even Chess Club, as long as it is something beyond attending classes. This will show potential employers that you are a well-rounded individual and passionate enough about certain activities to get involved and make a real difference.

Being a college student the connections it gives you outside the academy. For example, some companies only give internships to currently-enrolled college searching after graduation, you may run into the dilemma of not being able to and not being able to get that experience without landing a an internship as a student will help solve this problem by giving you the muchneeded experience that most businesses require.

Besides these practical

doesn’t guarantee someone are much more interested in people who have been involved in various activities and have had the time to work their way through school than those who simply tried to get the highest grades they could in the shortest amount of time possible.

Take advantage of the opportunities the university and organizations (SCSU

plain fun. There’s a reason why so many older adults say college was the best time of their lives and wish they could go back. If they tell your time as a student, listen to them. Don’t be in such a hurry to grow up. After all, whether you take seven, eight, or nine semesters to graduate, the scary and unforgiving black hole that waiting for you when you do.

Three tips to max out college

Jason Tham GUEST WRITER

About two and a half years ago, I wrote my arguably “last entry for the Chronicle” as I was graduating with my bachelor’s degree from SCSU. I called the piece “Graduation Giveaway” because I thought I had some expertise opinion in helping college students succeed in college. Sure as planned, the piece received some rather positive responses from the community and friends, and I was overwhelmed as new college students – mostly international students – started referring to me as the go-to person for pointers to resources on campus.

Yet, as I found my way back to grad school in the fall of 2012, I began to see school in a whole new light. In my original 5-tipsto-college-success article, I urged college students to make the most of their college resources, from going to cultural nights, to trying to live on campus, to buying their professors coffee. I saw college as the one-time experience that all of us should treasure.

However, grad school has given me a different kind of lemon altogether.

So, I feel compelled to share my thoughts here – Chronicle – before I walk down that aisle again next week, this time with two master’s degrees.

While most of what you

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heavily to graduate student life, I think they are still relevant to college students of any level (since I hang around undergraduate

students quite a bit, too).

Try taking classes with the “hard” professors. I have always strived to stay on top of my grades and found my way into classes I knew I would succeed in. But hey, life outside college doesn’t always give us options we’ll like to choose. Thus, the college classroom is the perfect place to challenge oneself tough teachers. Use some of your elective quotas to sign up for a class that’s out of your range — something that takes you out of your comfort zone and puts you into player’s mode. Take a class on statistics, take one in philosophy, try radiologic technology. And if you’re in the mass communications department, try Professor Przytula and his Mass Media and Society course.

What I’ve learned from taking hard classes with hard professors is that I am pushed beyond my limits, and that helps bring me to new heights in my professional development.

Know your technology.

Know what you can do with your smartphone besides making calls, Snapchatting, and taking society and its generation today are blessed with cutting-edge innovations and technologies that means in the 21st century.

As you prepare yourself to graduate college and enter the competitive market of labor and intelligence, being literate in new media and being adaptive to change will put you in a better position for hire. In your free time (i.e. Wednesday nights and the mornings after Saturday), check out some tech blogs and the technology section in newspapers like New York Times and USA Today to read about startups, the Internet, enterprise, and gadgets. Chances are, you will be asked to learn about these things in your future

Collaborate with others as much as you can. Just as Taylor Swift and Boys like Girls sing, two is better than one. Human beings coexist to ensure sustainability of life. It didn’t take long for me to realize that we rely on one another to succeed in school. Our friends, teachers, and colleagues are invaluable resources to our academic endeavors. Working with others has opened my eyes and ears to things I have never experienced in my own life and expanded my social horizon. Besides, as an English and mass found working with folks from other disciplines fascinating. They challenge my philosophy, work ethic, and overall views of life.

So, try working in pairs or in teams whenever possible to get the most of a collaborative experience.

Nonetheless, one advice that I remain faithful to is going above and beyond in all undertakings. Don’t to get by in your work.

Find that passion that burns inside of you and that motivates you to do well, and use that energy to excel in your crafts. Going above and beyond may open up new opportunities that you may not otherwise encounter should you stay within the parameters of your responsibilities.

Having said these things, I am ready to move advice useful in your career, whether you’re a soon-tobe graduate or secondsemester freshman.

I wish you, faithful readers, all the very best in your pursuit of knowledge, wisdom, virtue and profound happiness through your interactions with people and information, as well as your own thoughts.

Good luck on your summer.

Words can’t describe my college chapter

Ryan Fitzgerald STAFF WRITER

The real world is calling and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous, not only about employment, but also life in general.

Wait… I get to graduate?

It is hard to believe that in a little over a week I will be walking down the aisle and shaking President Potter’s hand after my name is called. I won’t go into too much detail, but I have been through some dark and tragic times, and overcoming those obstacles wasn’t easy by any stretch of the imagination.

But my time at the University Chronicle gave me ample and unforgettable hands-on experience that will suit me in the professional ranks. Moreover, the friends and lifelong bonds that were created is something nobody can take away from me.

I don’t think it has hit me that I will no longer be part of the Chronicle, and when it does, there might be some manly tears that trickle down my cheek. It might happen when I have to turn in my

key to the newsroom.

Knowing that I don’t have anytime access to the newsroom where I probably spent 80 percent of my time when I was attending SCSU will be a heartbreaking moment.

If it hadn’t been for the Chronicle I don’t know if I would’ve been able to achieve as much as I would’ve liked because it taught me accountability, leadership, communication skills, valuable experience, dedication and an abundance of things that would take up an entire page to list.

It’s going to be a sad day when I won’t see my name appear in the Chronicle, as I have written 166 stories for the wonderful studentran newspaper in my two years at SCSU, which averages to 2.98 stories an issue.

I came to the Chronicle as

it were the most important story I was writing, no matter the context.

It was easy to see that the Chronicle was taking over my life, and I was okay with that because I live to write and seek the truth

but I thought that everyone would be writing about sports.

To my surprise, the sports section was in hiatus and they were desperately looking for a sports

down due to personal reasons, and after two months of getting in the right frame of mind I came back as a staff writer and have been here ever since.

I had the opportunity to get

people in power or anybody that is making a difference.

People always asked me, “Why are you missing so much class?”

My answer was always because I have a story to cover. I would say my allegiance was to my craft and not to my classes.

Some may say that’s foolish,

SCSU. Personally, I was taken aback by the lack of sports coverage and writers at that time, but I knew I was ready to be in a leadership role. I was the sports editor at my community college for one-anda-half years prior to coming to SCSU. It was a lot more work than I anticipated, and I quickly immersed myself into writing a minimum of four stories a week because I had no sports writers.

It was tough, but exactly what I wanted and needed to better master my craft.

that next shot of sports in my veins to get me going, but I am leaving the Chronicle a better all-

no regrets about that decision and it was reinforced when an ESPN writer told me he did the same thing when he was in college at Minnesota State.

He told me as long as you have a 3.0 GPA, employers won’t really give you a hard time. They want to see experience rather than straight A’s , but I want to say that school is

pass the torch and give someone else the valuable experience that I had. And Jeremiah Graves, current sports editor, was already in training and there was no way I was going to get in the way of taking it from him.

I had my time and it ran its course, plus I was working 40 hours a week, so I couldn’t put my all into the publication like I had before. I continued to write at least two stories a week for sports and most weeks one story for either news or marquee.

People say that newsprint is dying, and those who think that are foolish. It is, however, changing, but the fact is people will always want to grab a paper and sit in their chair and read it.

There is no doubt in my mind I made the right decision in

imagined.

I have Mike Vadnie, former advisor to the Chronicle, to thank for that because he told me I should get into news-writing as well as sports because I had a knack for telling stories. So not only can I write about sports, but I can write about anything and everything.

Not to toot my own horn, but the work I did for the Chronicle was a lot and was always to the highest statue. I always approached each story the same and treated it as if

it is, because I was getting paid. second, and that seemed to work out because I will be graduating with a 3.3 GPA. Jobs nowadays want someone with experience and dedication, so I took it upon myself to make

to not make it my life—I wanted

weekly basis took some creativity and I am so thankful that Jun-Kai Teoh (Editor-in-Chief) and Molly Willms (Managing Editor) at that time gave me the chance to prove myself.

Not only did I become a better writer, but my creativity of putting pages together in InDesign was improving each and every week.

I had previous experience at my community college, but that was only a monthly publication.

experience as I could get.

I came to SCSU in January of 2012 with aspirations of being the sports editor for the Chronicle, but never thought it would happen as fast as it did. I knew I had potential,

publication was a vast change, and I went from the minor leagues to the professional leagues and was ready to hit a grand slam.

I remained sports editor until March 2013 when I had to step

and I wouldn’t have done it any other way.

The Chronicle will continue to grow under the leadership of current Editor-in-Chief Vicki Ikeogu, who has a knack for getting the best out of everybody.

I want to thank everybody who I am very fortunate to have had the college experience I have had, and most of that is because of the University Chronicle.

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From left: Josh Danderand, James Pool, Dante Allen and Matt Wiest of Moonlight perform at the Atwood Ballroom on April 24. (Not pictured: drummer Aaron Gates)

22nd annual Battle of the Unsigned Bands Matt Rieger MARQUEE EDITOR

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was Ben Jammin’, who decided to not participate in the music part but instead be one of

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Celebration of music & records

‘Fun-raiser’ for students Alec Kasper

Matt Rieger

dard drink in comparison to drinks served -

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

MARQUEE EDITOR

Wrapping up spring semester, students who attended this year’s Husky Palooza came to relax and relieve stress before en-

Record Store Day is a cultural holiday happening once a year on the third Saturing vinyl records, local music, and local

Memorial Center last Thursday, one could have heard chattering and laughter, smelled freshly baked mini donuts, and seen the many SCSU students lined up waiting for

release very limited amounts of special re-

“It’s basically like a mini carnival on campus,” Tayler Bengtson, coordinator of

classics, or a rarities bootleg from that artlimited realized human skull thumb drive Stacks of records line the shelves at the Electric Fetus.

dents made their way around to the differ-

a gummi worm as a hook, plastic eggs that weren’t claimed were left split open on the Just around the corner near Caribou Coffee, students were lined up to experidown in the massager, the top came down with a plastic covering inside to prevent students from getting wet, and then water sprayed out giving students a brief opportuBrianna Carey, a second-year student at SCSU, said, after stepping out of the aqua massager, that the massagers were refresh-

Palooza was put on by the Department of Student Involvement with help from the ployees were very busy bustling around the

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The event brought a lot of people together, UChoose set up tables for students to try

sary of a very large folk music anthology

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Genre-spanning local bands perform on Monday Night Live

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Local artists showcased in Atwood Gallery Samantha McIntosh ASST. MARQUEE EDITOR

Student and community artists are featured at the Atwood Gallery. Located between the Alumni Room and the Atwood Theatre, the Atwood Gallery is open and free to the public who want to see a variety of art.

The University Program Board Visual Arts Committee is in charge of the planning and installation of the Atwood Gallery. The committee is spearheaded by UPB graduate advisor Mary Kokula and arts coordinator and graphic design major Matt Palmer. in funding for the gallery, and due to budget cuts, they can no longer give stipends to the artists they showcase in the gallery. ing awareness of the gallery, because since its renovation, it is no longer centrally loKokula says the gallery has been successful in getting greater attendance to their show receptions and that they have had more people come to their receptions than they had when the gallery was in its previous location.

Kokula said the gallery puts on two to three shows per semester. She said their vision at the beginning of the year was to get more student artists in the gallery, though its

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a theme.

The gallery has had a variety of shows this year, though, and they have collaboratsed with other organizations as well. In time for Halloween, the gallery had a show titled ‘Children of the Cloud’. Palmer said they featured “spooky”-related art from students and the community, and the gallery paired with the Atwood Theatre to show a couple of horror movies the same night.

Last November the gallery featured SCSU alum Alex Ames’s exhibit ‘Paths to the Future’, a series of photographs that featured the history of the south side of St. Cloud, and intertwined those images with future images of the neighborhood and SCSU. The William Lindgren Asian Art Collection, a collection of art and artifacts gathered by former SCSU faculty member William Lindgren, was another exhibit displayed this year.

The gallery also collaborated with the sociology and art departments for the Annual Conference on the Social Conditions of Immigrant Workers and Families in Minnesota. Kokula said an art professor had students design posters for the conference, and they were all displayed in the gallery. Kokula said the reception was very successful, gathering over 75 people. Kokula said that collaboration helps bring in more people to the gallery.

Currently the gallery is displaying art from all over Atwood.

Palmer is very passionate about the visual arts committee. A third-year student, Palmer has been on the visual arts committhe purpose of the gallery is to focus on student and local artwork, but hopefully more towards student artwork. Palmer said he sees the difference he makes in other people’s lives, particularly art students. “A lot of students haven’t had their art been shown before, so it means a lot to them,” Palmer said.

Kokula spoke about the importance of the Atwood gallery to SCSU. “The arts are an important part of the human experience and the student experience and becoming a well-rounded person, and that needs to be emphasized,” Kokula said.

The visual arts committee is already planning for the next school year. Palmer said they are planning on having a Confucius exhibit, and they are talking to a local artist about doing an exhibit of their work as well.

Who headlines for St. Cloud State University?

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On April 11, rapper Ludacris entertained the University of Minnesota – Duluth students at the AMSOIL Arena in Duluth. UMD’s Kirby Program Board scheduled the rapper along with special guests TWO-9 and DJ Sidereal. Pre-sale tickets went on sale before Feb. 27; two tickets per student were available at $15 a ticket.

The last headliner to perform at SCSU was Ne-Yo back in 2008. So what is preventing another great headliner from perform-

ing for SCSU students? Budget.

“The University Program Board (UPB) used to do a lot of big concerts like Ne-Yo, Evanessence, and Simple Plan,” said Chris Trankel, president of UPB. “We kept not making back enough money off these concerts, so what happened is the Fee Allocations Committee froze that account.”

The Fee Allocations Committee had a concert reserve fund that UPB could use, separate from student fees that originated from tuition. UPB would propose a concert to the committee and charge students a tick-

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Samantha McIntosh

got him the job. In regards to his hosting

ASST. MARQUEE EDITOR

From bluegrass to electro funk soul jam, every genre is represented on Monday Night Live. Produced and simulcast from UTVS and KVSC, Monday Night Live is a weekly show where local Minnesota music acts perform live from KVSC’s studios in Stewart Hall. As the 2013-14 season of MNL is coming to a close, MNL booking agent James Tollefson, a.k.a “Dr. Beard”, and spring semester MNL host Ryan Japs and the fun that comes with working on the show.

Tollefson, who is also the music director for KVSC, has been the booking agent for MNL the past three years. Tollefson said that Minnesota has an incredibly diverse and talented music scene. “MNL is a great place that showcases the greatest talents the community has to offer,” he said. dents is that MNL showcases musicians that SCSU students don’t have the opportunity to see perform in St. Cloud if they are under 21. SCSU students who can’t go out to the bars to watch these acts can watch UTVS or listen to KVSC to discover new music, and it doesn’t cost them a dime.

As booking agent, most of the work Tollefson does for MNL is in the planning for the show. To discover new local music, Tollefson said he goes to at least one show a week, and he also discovers quality local music from reviewing music for KVSC. Once Monday night arrives, most of Tollefson’s work is done and he can relax and enjoy the show. Tollefson says that getting to hang out with acts that perform is the payoff for all of the planning for the show.

KVSC Production Director Ryan Japs has been the host for the past semester of MNL, taking over for previous host KVSC Programming Director Trevor Klopp. Japs already had television experience anchoring for UTVS News, and his interest in MNL

but he’s now getting into the groove of it.

Between hearing great music and getting free pizza, Japs says he loves hosting MNL. MNL has also been a learning experience for Japs, from audio production to learning how to be radio- and TV-ready for the show.

Japs also enjoys getting to meet the view [during the show] you barely scratch the surface,” Japs said.

Japs said that what he found surprising about meeting all of the acts this semester was that they are all normal people.

As far as the highlights of the season goes, Japs and Tollefson both agreed that Night Phoenix, formerly known as Roster McCabe, was one of their favorite performances. Tollefson described their sound as “electro funk soul jam.”

Tollefson’s other favorite performances from the year were from psychedelic band Panther Ray and roots duo The Lowest Pair, which Tollefson said was his high point of the year. He said that the duo of The Lowest Pair compliment each other well and have great harmonies.

Japs enjoyed The Beavers, an all-female bluegrass group that Japs said were hilarious. Japs also enjoyed May North, a bluegrass group that recently played MNL that Japs said “brought all [his] emotions together.”

Japs said that MNL is enjoyable while either listening to the radio, using the theatre of the mind, or watching it on TV, where you can experience moments that wouldn’t be possible listening to the radio. For instance, Japs said that when jam band Space Monster performed, a friend of the band dressed up in a neon yellow gorilla suit and danced on camera.

Japs spoke about the appreciation that local acts and MNL has for each other. “They thank us, but we thank them,” he said.

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fund, said Trankel. The concert reserve no longer exists, requiring UPB to rely solely on their student fee budget.

The student fee budget nearly four years ago was well over $300,000. Due to declining enrollment numbers, fee ceiling caps and budget cuts, UPB is down to a $182,000 Trankel. UPB expects to see an even lower budget next year.

“Part of the problem is we can’t just do a concert and use all of our funds and then not program anything else. We (UPB) still have our Atwood After Dark, Late Skates,

and other big events scattered throughout the year,” Trankel said.

A certain amount of dollars paid per credit count towards a student activity fee.

From that student activity fee, it goes to all the director-managed areas, which are divided up and controlled by the Fee Allocations Committee through Student Government. Because students already pay a student fee, UPB is not allowed to charge a ticket fee for performances.

According to Trankel, UPB has been looking into creating a special activities fee

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REVIEWS

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Ryan Hanenburg STAFF WRITER

Throughout this semester quite a few games have been released, and I’ve had the good fortune to review some of them. Some were good, some were bad, and some were just demos that were released as a full game to make a quick buck. Most review websites will re5. ‘Tales of Symphonia Chronicles -

4. ‘Broken Age

3. ‘inFamous: Second Son The protagonist Raiden is a cyborg in ‘Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’.

South Park: The Stick of Truth’- This game is the new standard that TV- and

1. ‘Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance walls in true ‘Metal Gear’ fashion and this game does the near impossible task of making

‘Broken Age’ protagonist Vella is dressed for the Maiden’s Feast.

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also reminiscent of ‘Sesame Street’.

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shows, and it makes for a great show.

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‘Avenue Q’ deals with issues such as racism, homosexuality, and the meaning of life in a humorous way.

Two of the lead characters, Princeton and Kate Monster, were played by Thomas Gittens and Madilyn Wegener, respectively.

Molly McAlister played ‘Lucy the Slut’ SCSU’s production of ‘Avenue Q’.

‘Avenue Q’ consisted of several choreographed musical numbers woven into the story.

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The Electric Fetus of St. Cloud, open for 27 years, will close on May 23.

Records Continued from Page 13 area, and helping customers with other gifts.

The bill for the Record Store Day lineup featured local St. Cloud acts as well as a couple from Minneapolis: Rearranging the Furniture (MPLS), Ucis, Pussytoes (St. Cloud), Left in the Lurch (St. Cloud), Tiger Blue (MPLS), Oblivian (St. CLoud), and Pabst Blue Rebellion (St. CLoud).

In-between sets of live music, DJ Christian Fritz was one of the ones and twos spinning various Record Store Day 7” releases.

Many of these 7” releases came in colored vinyl.

The Fetus had an even better year from last year with total numbers over $17,000 in vinyl sold.

Employee John Leach spoke of the hectic day in a very positive light. He said that this year’s set of music was really tight.

Every band came in, set up and played in the time they were given. He said the day not as tight, there were some delays and bands ended up playing past the time that was set up for bands to play.

I asked Leach what Record Store Day meant to him. He said it was really great that everyone could share in the experience.

Record Store Day has a great sense of community.

Leach said that Record Store Day relies on independent record stores to hold the events on that day. With the closure of the Electric Fetus coming on May 23 and the future of a proper record store in question, Record Store Day may be absent from St. Cloud in the near future.

PRAVIN DANGOL / VISUALS EDITOR

Freshly made mini donuts attracts a long line at Husky Palooza.

Husky Palooza Continued from Page 13 ematics major, said he’s not too worried massagers.

“It gets people out of their rooms and apartments, and brings people together,” Vang said. “It’s one of the best ways to meet new people and get involved on campus.”

About 10 students, including Vang, stood shoulder to shoulder at the oxygen bar. “[Husky Palooza] is a great experience and it’s free,” Vang said.

Students should attend the events on campus to have some fun, he said.

More students were on Atwood’s main

level, but Husky Palooza expanded upstairs into the Atwood Ballroom where Battle of the Unsigned Bands was held, along with laser tag and the obstacle courses. Rootbeer free, and as long as students had their red wristband they could participate in the offered recreational activities.

“So far so good,” Bengtson said. “The donut line was longer than expected, but that’s okay.”

Bengtson said that the event had a good turnout. body because the stressful time,” Bengtson said. Students deserve to take a break, and Husky Palooza is a great way to blow off steam and relax, she said.

“It’s a great time to celebrate St. Cloud,” she said.

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An oxygen bar was featured as an attraction along with massages and mini

Food distracts from small space at Greek Cravings Alec Kasper CONTRIBUTING WRITER MATT RIEGER / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Record Store Day is celebrated annually on the third Sunday of April.

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Vinyl records are celebrated along with local music on Record Store Day.

Headline Continued from Page 14 that would provide an extra cushion that would allow for more small-scale concerts.

Venues and negotiating ticket sales, along pen on college campuses. According to Tommy Balicky, associate director of DCI, they would have to bring a very inexpensive act to break even.

ing out the probability of how many tickets you’re going to sell, student tickets versus public tickets, the cost of the band and trying to break even,” said Balicky.

Attendance goals are set depending on the venue and band. Typical venues on campus include Hallenbeck Hall and the Atwood Ballroom. Because of current practice, students are not charged to attend these events.

If the UPB budget continues to be cut and current practices remain, SCSU will put headliner performances on hold.

Whether you are calling in an order or stopping downtown for lunch, Greek Cravings has a welcoming staff serving up great food.

During the end of the semester, it’s not always easy to get out and enjoy a sit-down dinner. However, projects and homework needed a break and I wanted a decent place that I’ve never been to before. I didn’t want fancy or high maintenance, but I wanted good food at a good price.

Downtown on 5th Avenue South, next to Electric Fetus, I’ve heard good reviews about Greek Cravings, and a decent gyro is always welcome. Plus, parking isn’t much of a problem if you’re headed to Greek Cravings. Public parking is right across the street. busier times of the day and the restaurant isn’t far from SCSU, so walking might be easier.

Since it was around 6 p.m., I called in my order ahead of time, thinking I would beat the line, but the employee who answered the phone said that food would be “You’re late,” he said jokingly when I other customers, and he handed me two gyro combos—which includes plenty of seasoned fries and fountain drinks—and rang me up on their touchscreen register.

The register is a nice modern addition to the restaurant, and it includes tip options.

About 10 people were in the restaurant when I arrived, and even though there was only one cook running the line, the small If the place met capacity, though, I don’t think I’d want to eat in. The restaurant is small and it wouldn’t be hard to bump elbows with others if there were too many hungry customers. Thankfully, calling in orders isn’t an issue, and Greek Cravings’ website is easy to navigate for online orders.

Despite the smaller restaurant, the food, the staff and the overall cleanliness of the restaurant was really appreciated.

Greek Cravings’ line is set up as a buildyour-own with toppings neatly separated, not tossed around and blended together. It left the counter tops grease-free and kept an organized appearance. The whole restaurant was organized. The beverage station was orderly and the tables didn’t stack on top of each other. This helped separate the dining area with the service line, giving the restaurant a more comfortable atmosphere.

Finally unwrapping the food, I noticed the gyro was kept together with deli paper and topped with cucumber sauce, tomatoes and onion. Accompanying the gyro were some of the best seasoned fries I’ve ever eaten and a fountain drink. The gyro was well-prepared and had just enough toppings on it so the tomatoes weren’t falling out, or overpowered by the onions. Overall, the gyro was well-prepared, simple and tasty.

The gyro combo is $5.99 before tax, and in my opinion, well worth it.

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As playoff beards grow, so does class

Jeremiah Graves SPORTS EDITOR

In the beginning, there was the Islanders, a team that had its go around the play-

off carousel, but one particular playoff, which ended with the hoisting of The Cup, literally stands out from the rest. While the U.S. hockey community will never forget the year 1980 after earning The Gold against insurmountable odds, there’s a little more that that year has to offer.

And the effects can clearly, and not so clearly, be seen today.

They’re lush. They’re ravishing. They’re primed with maiden tail, combs, brushes, waxes, and oils. They’re groomed to the minimum, while their sex appeal grows to the maximum. They are the playoff beards.

That’s right. The 1980 New York Islanders, being superstitious, as many hockey players are, have been credited with igniting one of, in my personal opinion, sports great-

est unwritten traditions. Hockey fans of previous generations most surely remember Calgary’s Lanny McDonald’s beard/muzzy combo, which could’ve had a reality show that served more purpose to the world than that of a Kardashian.

Once the Islanders’ reign of dominance ceased, so did the playoff beard. But in 1995, thankfully, they were manifested back from the depths of the human bodies that belonged to the New Jersey Devils. Since that glorious occasion in 1995, where the Devils went on to hoist The Cup, the tradition grew on the NHL and hasn’t been cut since.

Even Lord Stanley himself sported a credible face warmer. Coincidence? I think not.

The recent effects of the NHL’s playoff beard participation has spread immensely,

participants. Now I’m not claiming the NHL is responsible for such masculinity appearing suddenly across the globe, but maybe it’s simple things like this that make this sport something special.

What other sport inadvertently promotes unity amongst teammates and rivals in such an unwritten fashion? What other sport celebrates such a tradition that goes back over four decades, without a franchise

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Coletto shows signs of bright future Football and

hockey teams show off season successes

Ryan Fitzgerald STAFF WRITER

This year football and hockey had exceptional

Alyssa Coletto blocks the plate and tags out the runner in their series against Northern State University.

Jeremiah Graves SPORTS EDITOR

In the midst of a dangerous NSIC conference, the SCSU softball team knew there would be adversity standing in their

way this season. But for a team that spotted six freshmen in the starting lineup weekly, with only two seniors among the 2014 roster, a 14-28-1 record shows signs of young talent, a never-say-die attitude, and a bright future.

While many positions in sports are demanding, the wear and tear on the players crouched behind the plate requires a durability, focus, and leadership quality that many would argue tops the list of grueling sports positions.

SCSU called on a freshman to take over all the arduous duties that come with strapping on the gear and being involved in every defensive play, and after posting a solid freshman season, Alyssa Coletto seems to have all the tools of a top-tier backstop.

“We put Alyssa in a very competitive and demanding spot right at catcher as a freshman,” head softball coach Paula year catchers in the league as it is a very demanding position.”

While the uneducated sports fan would be dismayed at seeing a .204 batting averhitter with only 12 strikeouts through 108 at bats, which is the lowest among SCSU hitters with over 100 plate appearances.

Another factor the average fan would miss is Coletto’s .301 on-base-percentage, which portant than a BA in the long run.

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scrimmage was a way for fans to interact with the student-athletes.

The SCSU football team came off its most successful season in school history, setting records for most games played and most wins in a season with a 12-2 record before losing 59-21 to Northwest Mission II playoffs.

The Bearcats ran over the Huskies throughout the course of the afternoon. Northwest Missouri State rushed for a total of 296 yards for the game, along with seven rushing touchdowns.

“It was a tough day for our 16 seniors, but we can’t let loss affect us anymore, and I think we have moved on,” head coach for SCSU football Scott Underwood said. “We always enjoy doing the youth clinics and it’s good for our kids to give back.”

It was a little different feel for then-starting

year collegiate career as SCSU’s all-time passing yardage leader.

Klaphake is used to playing the spring scrimmage, but will have a little different view. And not having a helmet in hand on the sidelines is something he has to adjust to. He has become part of the SCSU football coaching staff as a graduate assistant.

Having thought about playing professionally for a short time, but with his only solid offer coming from an overseas league, he decided to stay here and get into coaching.

“I thought about it, but honestly I wanted to get into coaching as soon as possible. I’ve wanted to be “The odds of me playing pro ball, or playing in the

and this just feels right.

“The opportunity came up and I had no hesitation in taking the job and I had a great experience here as a player. I wanted to give back to the program that helped me out so much. I also wanted to learn the coaching side of the game,” Klaphake said.

The men’s hockey team had another exciting season, winning the inaugural NCHC league, being ranked among the nation’s top 10 teams throughout the entire season, and advancing to its third NCAA Regional title game since 2010 before losing 4-0 to Minnesota.

This marks the second straight season that SCSU has claimed its conference title and played in a NCAA regional championship game. The wave a Division I school in hockey, and had no conference titles or NCAA wins through 2009.

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salty taste in their mouths.

“We were pretty bitter and we really haven’t gotten over that loss yet,” upcoming senior defenseman for the men’s hockey team Andrew Prochno said.

“But this event is for the kids and it’s good to see all the support that we get.”

On a breezy and windy day, April 26, saw a lot of children with smiles on their faces as they were able to participate in youth football clinics, autobles and trampolines in the Husky Pay Lot. Photo opportunities that were available were with players, coaches, the Penrose Cup and Blizand coaches were available for autographs.

This was in conjunction with Celebrate! St. Cloud State Week. This was the last week of the newly integrated series of four weeks that took the place of homecoming.

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Men’s golf heads to NCAA SuperRegional

Derek Saar STAFF WRITER

The SCSU men’s golf team punched their ticket to the NCAA Division II Central Super Regional by winning the NSIC tournament by a whopping 30 strokes.

SCSU has now won two straight conference titles after cordia-St. Paul and Minnesota State-Mankato tied for second place with a cumulative team score of 920.

“We took a big lead from the fall tournament and just wanted to play steady in the spring and we ended up extend-

the second year in a row (winning the NSIC tournament),” Head Coach Judi Larkin said.

The Huskies were led by junior Tyler Koivisto’s con-

earning the individual NSIC title. Seniors Charlie West and Devin Holmes tied for third as well, shooting seven over par for the three rounds of the tournament.

“I was just able to play my game and play well,” Koivisto said of his individual conference title. “More importantly not only was I able to play good golf, but so did Charlie (West) and Devin (Holmes) and all the other guys on the

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The SCSU men’s golf team captured their second straight NSIC championship this season led by junior Tyler Koivisto, the NSIC individual champion, posting rounds of 73-73-73 at the Tiburon Golf Club.

team.”

Holmes, Koivisto and West are the Huskies’ catalyst heading into regionals, according to Larkin. naments and been NSIC player of the week, but all three of them are pivotal,” Larkin said.

The Huskies entered the NSIC Tournament on a roll, winning their previous two tournaments at Quarry Oaks and Upper Iowa. “Especially with the fact that we haven’t been playing outside much, anytime as a northern school that we can walk down and win both those tournaments is great,” Larkin said. the central region. As is the case in sports like golf, being lohave had success this spring despite their limited amount of playing time outdoors and on the course. When Larkin was asked if practicing indoors will have an effect on her team heading into regionals, she responded with, “I hope not,”

followed by laughter.

“We’ve played so well practicing inside this spring, but hopefully getting outside this week will help us,” Larkin said.

“We haven’t placed that well in the regionals recently, but I think this group has a different mindset going into regionals.”

“We just need to play our game and not worry about that the competition will be a bit better with some southern teams there.”

berth in eight years. At a minimum, the top three teams at the end of play, along with two players who are not a part of one of the top three teams will advance to the NCAA TourThe Huskies will head to Eureka, Mo., just outside of St.

Athletic genes forever boil in the blood of Charlie Lindgren “It (SCSU) was one of my favorite schools growing up,” Lindgren said. “I’m only an hour-and-a-half away and I went to a few games growing up.”

what the program was doing and it’s on the rise,” he said.

“The campus was beautiful and the new renovations to the rink were nice. It is just a phenomenal spot.”

Knowing that he would be the backup to Ryan Fargaher, Lindgren took the opportunity to play at SCSU in hopes that he would get to show what he can do. He calls his style tage.

“When I was a little younger I was a little more crazy and the older I became I think I became a little more traditional,” he said. “Whatever it takes to stop the puck is what’s important and I may switch styles to do that.”

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Ryan Fitzgerald STAFF WRITER

Athletics has always been a part of next season’s projected starting men’s goaltender Charlie Lindgren, and hockey runs deep within the veins of the rising star.

name was called in SCSU’s second game of the season against Bemidji.

start off as a goalie but rather a player. It wasn’t until the age positions in sports.

“My dad was a goalie at the University of Michigan so I decided to give it a try,” Lindgren said. “I fell in love with it when I started going and have loved it ever since.”

Lindgren’s father, Bob Lindgren, has been Lindgren’s role model since he can remember and has been instrumental in his development as a goaltender and a young man. look up to,” he said.

The blood runs deep in the talent pool in the Lindgren family with his younger brother Andrew Lindgren, who is the starting goalie for Eagan and coming off a berth at the State Tournament. His youngest brother Ryan plays for Shattuck-St. Mary’s and has committed to play for the University of Minnesota.

“With an excess of both natural talent and strength, Lindgren possesses a powerful stride that gets him down the ice alarmingly fast for such a hulking skater. That said, we hesitate to call him ‘explosive’. Instead, Lindgren grits his teeth and simply makes things happen all over the ice with force of will. With a hell of a shot and maturity far ahead of his years, Lindgren has the strength to make forwards regret crossing him and the ability to keep the puck away from them on retrievals,” an evaluator at OTB Elite said of the young phenom who will be joining Don Lucia and the maroon and gold.

Having a niche for competition and stopping the puck, Lindgren knew he made the right decision in continuing his

bit, I’m not going to lie, but once you get in there everything started to settle down.”

“I think the USHL really helped prepare me for the college level and I thought I was pretty ready coming into the season,” he said.

Lindgren keeps himself more than occupied in the offseason with crazy workout regiments taking up a lot of his time so he can hone in on his craft.

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With Ryan Faragher taking off for the NHL, Charlie Lindgren looks to be the favorite to take charge of blue paint for the Huskies next season.

where he played for coach Randy Schmitz, Lindgren participated in the State Hockey Tournament in his sophomore and junior year.

After his junior year Lindgren decided to go play in the USHL with the Sioux Falls Stampede. He was named USA wins and posting a 2.80 GAA and a .900 save percentage.

SCSU. After a stellar season between the pipes, Lindgren was looking at multiple schools and he decided to attend SCSU and join the riding powerhouse men’s hockey team.

and gets his morning workout in Edina. After that he goes and skates with his goalie coach, Dave Rogalski, in St. Louis Park three times a week.

Lindgren said. “I work for my parents in May so I stay pretty busy.”

With Faragher departing for the NHL and foregoing his senior season, it’s logical to think that Lindgren will take over the reins between the iron, but said he can’t go in thinking the job is automatically his.

“I have to earn it and I think I have a great opportunity,” he said. “I’m really excited for the opportunity and am already looking forward to next year.”

This somewhat quiet Lakeville, Minn. native thinks his major will be business and marketing, but the sky is the limit for the talented goaltender who has been blessed with talented genes.

Fighting Carp take All Saints trophy in wet affair for the St. Cloud Rugby community,” Senior Reid Larson said.

Saturday consisted of a round-robin type of schedule where each team played two games, while Sunday featured a bracket-style schedule in which the men’s and women’s college champions were crowned.

“We got about 30 teams to come out and play this year,” Larson said. “That’s down from the usual 60 we get, but that’s expected because of last year. We lost some reputation because of that.”

Saturday Alec Clark STAFF WRITER

It’s only probably the biggest local tournament you’ve never heard of.

Yes, this past weekend was the annual All Saints Rugby Tournament held at Selke Field. Unfortunately, last year the All Saints Tournament had to be suspended due to the never-ending winter.

Despite this year’s seemingly never-ending winter the tournament went on, and while the number of teams participating this year was down, teams still came out and provided a great weekend of rugby.

“It’s our biggest event of the year. It really was too bad that we had to cancel it last year. It brings in a lot of money

SCSU men’s rugby team the Fighting Carp and women’s rugby team the Black Widows both split their games Saturday.

The Carp were initially supposed to play Mankato in nent North Dakota State not showing up, the Carp had to expected to win,” Larson said.

“It was a tough battle. There wasn’t a lot of room on went on to say.

The Carp were able to get their split, though, as they

for the shutout.

“It was a lot of fun getting that.”

The Carp out-hustled the UND team, as well as taking advantage of some confusion on the part of the UND squad.

UND took a penalty, and Larson yelled “ball, ball” to call for it.

“They didn’t expect us to play it that fast,” Larson explained. “We had the numbers. I ran the ball at them trying to trick them to think I was going to make the pass.”

It worked for Larson as he took it all the way for the tribe to run the score up on UND. The Black Widows split their games on the day as well, The Widows got their win on the day against a depleted St. Thomas squad.

Perhaps the best St. Cloud team on the day was the local St. Cloud men’s Feeder team.

NDSU team, as well as the Bockspring team. The Feeders were bowling over players left and right, as they ran their

championship game Saturday as they played the St. Paul Pigs squad.

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way into SCSU’s campus, Bartha and Youth Shelter Supply stress the importance of safety when riding, offering different training sessions to help the rookies adapt.

“We’ve got a lot of longboarders out there; we also have a lot of longboarders that don’t know how to control their boards, and it becomes a potential hazard to other people on sidewalks,” Bartha said.

“We don’t want people to get hurt, so we are trying to put together a fun event, but also an educational opportunity like we do with our boating program and our outdoor program.”

“We do free skateboard lessons and that kind of stuff in the park,” Thienes explained.

“I think in the fall what will be our event is

Jeremiah Graves SPORTS EDITOR

The Youth Shelter Supply, Outdoor Endeavors, and boarders of all varieties took advantage of Friday’s beautiful weather as they partook in the inaugural Campus Cruz.

In the efforts to gather skaters of all kinds, SCSU’s Outdoor Endeavors and Youth Shelter Supply partnered up by offering a social outing that included a scavenger hunt, barbecue, and mini-comp.

Mike Thienes, co-owner of the Youth Shelter Supply, and Ivan Bartha, Coordinator for Experiential Programs at Outdoor Endeavors, were instrumental in getting this event rolling.

“We were brainstorming with Ivan some ideas,” Thienes said of how the event started. “Those guys renting longboards and us being on campus and longboards and skateboards are a big part of our business.

We just wanted to have something as it got warm out, as a kind of get-together.”

“The Youth Shelter Supply has been an anchor in the community for 15 years, and now that they’re on campus since they’ve moved their retail store, we’ve wanted to ties to partner up,” Bartha explained. “That creates more opportunities for our students, and we just strive to do something different.”

Having the Youth Shelter Supply on board was pivotal in the success of this event, Bartha mentioned, having a positive impact that started with the construction of a skate plaza in St. Cloud that set the mold for communities nationwide.

“The Youth Shelter Supply made the magic happen with the skate plaza at St. Cloud, which is now an example for communities across the country about success in creating local opportunities for people to skate,” Bartha said. to estimate how many people will attend, and what kind of activities to include. But as over 60 participants rallied together for the inaugural Campus Cruz, keeping things simple paid dividends in its success and ability to determine future improvements that’ll establish the gathering as an annual event. what to expect,” Thienes explained. “We just wanted to keep it simple… have a scav-

and that kind of stuff so like you could come out and I can show you how it’s done.”

While some members of the general public hold a derogatory connotation next to the term “skater,” Bartha expressed his hopes that the Campus Cruz would demonstrate the respectful nature amongst boarders within the community.

“There has also been a lot adversarial relationships between public places and skaters,” Bartha said. “What we’re trying to do is build unity amongst our community, showing them that there are a lot of boarders out there in our community that are responsible and respectful and aren’t damaging public property. We thought a great way to do that was to create an event where everybody was involved.”

With the warmer weather (eventually) on the horizon, the Cruz offered opportunities for both the Youth Shelter Supply and Outdoor Endeavors to showcase their diverse sets of equipment and service offerings.

“It’s great to get the students down here checking out our facilities, and checking out Youth Shelter Supply,” Student Manager Zak Aubol said. “We are a lot more diverse than people think… we’ve got skateboards, ter sports.”

Boarders of all ages took advantage of the Campus Cruz, participating in a scavenger hunt for envelopes containing gift cards, a barbecue, and mini-comp events.

enger hunt, prizes, and barbecue.”

Participants in the scavenger hunt comcapsulated gift cards for merchandise from Youth Shelter Supply, according to Bartha.

“We’d like to take this event and assess it, see how it goes, and then potentially take it up campus next fall and do a welcome

Ryan Fitzgerald STAFF WRITER

Having an in-state powerhouse in the Minnesota Golden Gophers, who won 62 games in a row, winning is a tradition in the self-acclaimed “State of Hockey.”

The past four seasons the SCSU women’s hockey team has found winning to be as hard as avoiding icebergs on the Titanic.

Head coach Jeff Giesen knew his career at SCSU was on the line this season, and when SCSU Athletic Director Heather Weems decided not to renew Giesen’s contract, he was not surprised.

“It’s been an ongoing process, and I’ve been talking with Heather (Weems) about it regularly for the last month-anda-half,” Giesen said. “I was hoping to keep coaching, but at the end of the day, there were not enough wins.”

For the 2013-14 season, SCSU went 3-21-4 in the WCHA and 4-25-7 overall. It was a rough eight years for Giesen, as he compiled a 53-148-25 WCHA record and went 79-178-35 overall.

“The biggest thing to me is that we need to put our student athletes in the best situation to be successful in all aspects of life, including athletics,” Weems said. “He’s done a wonderful job here, is committed and looked out for their welfare.

“We’re just going in a different direction.”

Having had a gut feeling that he would be on his way out after this season, Giesen said he addressed his team before Weems did. Moreover, he claimed he communicated with alumni and sent emails to the team’s recruits notifying them there will be a new coach next season.

“I have no ill will. I needed to win more games with the program and I didn’t get that done,” he said. “That’s how you’re judged at this level.

“I can talk about all the great things with these kids and in the program, but people look at wins and losses. I’m not naive enough to think they should keep me because off that other stuff. We needed to get some results.”

All the coaches at SCSU are part of the faculty union and the contracts are stipulated and the most typical con-

event,” Bartha said. “We’re even talking about getting together some instructional clinics for people that buy longboards.”

The population of boarders amongst the SCSU community seems to have grown exponentially over the past four years, especially in the longboard department. While the fad or activity has seemingly swept its

tract for head coaches is four years. Certain occasions allow for two-year or six-year contracts.

“Any renewal is a tough decision and we have to keep our goals and perspectives in line,” Weems said. “Jeff is a wonderful person and has done a lot of great things at this university.”

The last four seasons were not kind to Giesen or the women’s hockey team, who had a 13-94-7 record over that span and a dismal 1-33-1 record in 2010-11, a program worst.

“I really liked ‘Goose’ and I always thought he had our best interests in mind,” SCSU junior Audrey Hanmer said.

“It’s going to be a different change to have a new coach.

“I’m not saying it’s good or bad, but it will shake things up and we’ll see what some different dynamics from a new coach will have and how the team reacts.”

Julie Friend was a big sign in the 2012-13 season as a freshman and saw ample time between the pipes. Granted, Giesen had a reputation of rotating starting goalies the past few seasons, but Friend was the unlisted No. 1 goaltender.

“It was a great experience,” she said of playing for Giesen. “He pushed me in ways that I didn’t know I could get pushed to get better and had our best interests at hand all the time.

“It’s frustrating that we didn’t get the wins we wanted...

‘Goose’ had the determination to win, but we, as players, need to grow and be more mentally prepared to do that next season. We’re doing our spring training and working on what we can control now.”

With only three wins in his last season as head coach, Giesen wasn’t the only one to blame. The overall team ishing last in the nation in scoring offense (1.33 goals-pergame), 29th in scoring defense (3.08), 30th in penalty killing (78.9 percent), and 32nd on the power play (8.8 percent).

The scoring and winning dwindled on a four-year basis 2.46 goals per game and 15 wins per season. The last four Pezon (sixth, 2006-10), Felicia Nelson (seventh, 2007-10) and Megan McCarthy (10th, 2005-08). with 126 points in their careers at SCSU. In the last four seasons, Alex Nelson (21st, 2009-2012) was the only player to eclipse the 50-point mark for points and has been the team leader for that span with 53 points.

Compare that to three players from this year’s Minnesota Gophers team who had over 50 points and one player Bona (61 points), Kelly Terry (54 points) and Sarah Davis (49 points).

“I had some pretty great players and whoever takes over

Outdoor Endeavors and Youth Shelter Supply seemed to have built a mutual respect, as well as a similar client base, especially since the Y.S.S.’s recent relocation to the edge of campus.

“Youth Shelter Supply is dealing with a cliental that is our students, so we should be partnering up with them and we should be doing events like this,” Bartha said. “St. Cloud State is part of this community and we need to do community events.”

After the successful reception of the inaugural Campus Cruz, and what seems like Outdoor Endeavors and Youth Shelter Supply, boarders and crossover athletes have good reason to be excited for future events.

After eight seasons on the women’s hockey bench as head coach, Jeff Giesen and SCSU will part ways before the 2014-15 season.

the program is going to be in a pretty good situation,” Giesen said. “We bottomed out (1-33-1 in 2010-11), but I think things are going in the right direction.

“We had 15 one-goal games, and we went 1-10-4 in those games,” Giesen said. “If we win half those, we might be having a different conversation.”

Giesen’s roots at SCSU run deep, as he got his undergraduate and master’s degree from the university. He was also the assistant coach for SCSU under Jason Lesterberg three seasons prior to taking over as head coach.

The SCSU assistant coach has one year remaining on his two-year contract, and his wife, Shera Fetter, has the possible opportunity for a one-year renewal.

A national search is underway for replacing Giesen, and it will be a busy summer for Weems.

“There will be an opportunity to extend her (Shera) for a year after we go through a search for that permanent position this summer,” Weems said. “I really appreciate what Giesen did for this university and I know he loved what the program was all about.”

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Demo Days at the Brooks Center preps Huskies for 2015

Jeremiah Graves SPORTS EDITOR

While the school year winds down, the women’s hockey team is gearing up, looking forward to next year and the equipment needed to improve on their 2014 campaign.

With essentially every powerhouse hockey brand coming to the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center, the players took advantage ted by representatives of Bauer, Vaughn, Reebok, CCM, and Easton.

Pieces of equipment available for the players to demo included gloves, pants/breezers, and of course, sticks and skates.

“The players get to try on skates and try out some new sticks,” SCSU Hockey Equipment Manager Jeremiah Minkel said. “It’s a great chance for them to see what they’re most comfortable with.”

Coming along with Bauer were their two new skate models, the Bauer Supreme MX3s and the new edition Bauer Vapor.

Like many Minnesota hockey players, Bauer has been the go-to skates for most of their careers, goup on the frozen ponds. That case is true for senior forward Abby Ness, a product of one of Minnesota’s hotbeds for hockey, Roseau, boot to be a continuous comfort.

“It was great to get the Bauer reps in here,” senior forward Abby Ness said. “They do a great job with our new skates, and it’s great to try out the new models to see what we like.”

“I’ve worn Bauer since I was little,” she said. “I’ve liked them throughout the years so I’ve always

stuck with them.”

With plenty of different quality options in the skates department, such as Graf, CCM, and Reebok on top of Bauer, the ability to get different reps in from each company gives the opportunity for maximum customizations. With the ability to personalize their skates, it offers more comfort and longevity of the skates for each player.

“Skates are a really personal item,” Minkel explained. “At St. Cloud we’ve always let kids pick out what they want for skates.”

While the mass amounts of customization may seem arbitrary to the average hockey fan, there are nothing but positives that come from getting equipment tailored to individual needs for top performance. When it comes to sticks, which style of curve they want on their blades, and the lie in which their blade lays on the ice makes all the difference in performance.

Even after the players select their stick, personalization can be seen in the way they tape their twigs, everything from how and what they use to tape their handles, shafts, and the style they tape their blades.

One position in all of sports that offers possibly the most customization options is the goaltender. For most, color seems to be the only thing that keepers change about their pads, but there is much more available to tailor within the construction of the pad that goes unnoticed. Non-obvious customization options such as leather straps versus buckles, thigh rolls, knee rolls, amount of padding between the knees and ice, how they want the boot cut in the pad, and what types of breaks they want in the pad are all factors necessary in a goaltender’s success and comfort.

SCSU goaltender Julie Friend found Vaughn to suit her needs since high school, and will continue to go with what has worked for the 2014-15 season.

“I’m going with the V5s next year,” Friend said. “I really like the feel of them. I’ve been wearing V4s since freshman year and I like that the V5s feel similar.”

With today’s technology in de-

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with their new Bauer skates on Friday afternoon.

signing pads, the break-in time has dropped considerably over the past decade, and come essentially game ready after shipment.

“With the way everything is made nowadays it only takes about three to four practices [to break them in],” Friend explained.

Due to CCM discontinuing the skate model that Friend wore this previous season, she will be making the adjustment to the Reebok 20ks this season. Another change in the goaltending world will be seen on junior goaltender Katie Fitzgerald as she makes the switch from her Bauer One90s to Vaughn’s Diamond Stitch pads.

“I’m actually going to be switching over to Vaughn next year,” junior goaltender Fitzgerald said. “The Vaughn reps were great, very helpful, and I just needed a change.

“I’m going with the diamond stitch Vaughn pad, get that oldschool look. They’ve got a lot of personality and a lot of custom ability.”

The wear and tear on goalie equipment also had an effect on Fitzgerald’s change over to Vaughn as her Bauer glove started showing signs of age. well, but my glove got torn up a lot over the past two seasons,” Fitzgerald said. “I played a one-piece pad last year, and I felt I should go back to the knee-break style... it’s got a softer feel.”

With the hybrid style that Friend plays, the knee roll contours well to the lateral movement she makes throughout the game. With Fitzgerald’s history with Vaughn, vantage of the softer feel than the In the occurrence that equipment malfunctions or doesn’t arin the relationships they have with each company to set things right.

“If something breaks, the companies are really good about helping us work with the product,” Minkel said. “They do a great job

face, but the fact of the matter is those six strands exist, unlike his grotesque counterpart Malkin. He continues to give no effort to the great tradition and quite honestly should be

Continued from Page 17 of unwillingness?

Yeah, there’s a tournament some golfers attend that utilizes hickory clubs, mashies, and hitched up knickers in honor of the game’s tradition. Yes, there is the Jackie Robinson tradition of all players wearing No. 42 in honor of the man himself, and in no way is a beard more important than the evil Robinson had to overcome, but it’s still scripted.

This is something that to a commoner holds no intrinsic value, but for anyone who’s laced up the skates, played on any athletic team, or even been a parent of an athlete, this is the thing that will be remembered. The feel of camaraderie, the moments in the locker room, buying into a superstition with 20 other guys on a quest to raise Lord Stanley’s Cup. thereof, to grow any form of carpet across their face, there is still one simple fact that can be grasped: they’re trying.

Now I know Crosby has taken a lot of heat over his… quesI’m not a fan of the guy, but what I can applaud him for is effort. The kid can win a Cup with six strands of hair on his

Fighting Carp Continued from Page 19 It was a far cry from the Feeders’ two previous games in which they absolutely dominated.

The Feeders and Pigs played a very even match, but ultimately the Pigs took the game and the men’s league trophy.

Sunday Sunday was wet. Sunday was cold. Sunday sucked.

But the cold and rain didn’t stop the Carp from bringing the All Saints Men’s college tro-

“But Jeremiah, they don’t serve any purpose.” You go ahead and tell that to the second coming of Chewbacca [2013 Brent Burns] and the $23,000 worth of hair that he donated to charity this past fall. Even amongst the college scenes, hockey players continue letting the hair and beards applaud. Once their seasons commence, those beautiful waves of perfection are clipped and donated to Locks of Love, or at least so in the case of the 2012-13 SCSU men’s hockey team.

While our generation continues to resort back to what we classify as the “Old-Time Hockey” days, it’s evident that our game’s history is cherished through the state of hockey In a world that seems to be obsessed with change, the NHL has set a comforting amount of pride in the past.

While we may not rock Modano’s CCM Tacks, although I’m sure if they came out in a new-school throwback edition they’d sell out in seconds, the core of the NHL and hockey players alike are all grasping to the times of then.

The beards lead to the single greatest tradition in hockey, and arguably in sports, period: the NHL handshake. Leave

2011.

Yes, indeed weather was bad. A lot of teams didn’t show up for the second day either.

“There was lightning, and a lot of teams called to say they weren’t going to play,” senior back Reid Larson explained. “We had to delay some games; in total there were about 15 games played today.”

15 games was way down from the expected 30 games, due to about half the teams calling off. “The rain, the cold and everything, it was bad. I think if it was a nice day, it would have been a lot better,” Larson said. timely lighting on the day. against St. Thomas was a muddy affair. Larson said passing, running and the mud made

taking care of us.”

While they know what the future holds for them in terms of personal equipment, there is still one lingering uncertainty: who is going to be behind them on the bench as head coach? Regardless of the open position, Friend said the team is hard at work in the offseason, worrying about “things they can control,” she said.

“We need to get better as a team and we’re great supports of one another on the ice and in the weight room during spring training,” Friend said. “We will adjust to a new coach when the decision is made, but right now we’re just focused on getting more wins next year and how we control that as individuals and as a team.”

With the change coming as the new coach steps in, there will at least be a sense of comfort for the players: playing the game they love in the gear that’s tailored to each of them, personally bringing some familiarity back to the ice.

it to the “barbarians” to bring class to the professional sports world, lining up after every postseason series, wiping slates clean, and swallowing egos, telling opponents “congratulations” or “good game.”

This restoration of tradition into professional athletics is yet to be countered by any other athletic organization, which is reminded every season LeBron looses a title, an MLB team disappears into a clubhouse, or NFL players/ coaches snub one another. While yes, there have been a few encounters through the NHL line, going back to Marty Broduer refusing to shake Sean Avery’s hand (with good reason) or Crosby celebrating too long to shake the hand of Mr. Perfect (Nick Lidstrom), there’s a reason we remember those moments. They don’t happen often.

There’s no rule requiring them to stand out there as another team celebrates victory at their demise. No PR reptheir locker stall. They stand and congratulate their bearded opponents out of pure respect for their opponents, their organization, and most importantly, the game.

While we watch our favorite teams, players, and coaches fall by the wayside as they get eliminated this postseason, hockey fans can take pride in knowing that, while our game may be rough, it may be the most classy professional team sport in the world.

“A classic mud rugby game,” Larson said.

“It was a lot of fun though.”

The game was called just after the Carp made a rush to the endzone as they used the “We almost didn’t score, but we got the ball down just in time,” Larson said. “Then we saw the lighting, and the game got called, so yeah, that was conveniently-timed lightning.”

The Carp went on to play Bemidji State

The Carp came into the game expecting to win, but dug themselves into a 10-0 hole in Then the sides switched.

“We kept the ball in our hands, and didn’t turn it over as much either. We also had the

wind at our backs, so that was a big help as well,” Larson said. “We were going against it

deep in our end.”

The Carp got their two tries, made an extra kick and took the game by a score of 12-10, as well as taking the All Saints trophy home.

The women’s side of the game was less eventful for the Black Widows, the women’s team at St Cloud. The Widows won their one game on the day, but weren’t in the winners bracket and didn’t get to play for the trophy.

The women’s trophy ended up going to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.

So despite the rain, and cold, it was a great day of rugby for the teams that did show up Sunday. This was especially true for the Fighting Carp, as they brought home the biggest college rugby trophy in the Midwest.

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NFL draft 2014 Still “Boston Strong” one year later

Ryan Fitzgerald STAFF WRITER

The NFL and Roger Goodell thought it would be a good idea to move the draft to a week later than normal.

I still have not decided if that is a good thing or bad thing, but one thing I do know is that I am cringing with anticipation and I’m sure all the other millions of football fanatics are feeling the same way.

This is a very deep draft in all facets of the game, from quarterbacks to wide receivers to defensive players.

The only drop-off is that the running back class is very limited, and the once-prominent position has seen a decline in the past few seasons.

Not knowing what’s going to happen is killing me, and come May 8, I’ll be sitting in front of a big screen TV yelling and screaming because I think I am the greatest drafter, as I’m sure many other people think about themselves.

The idea of getting together with friends or relatives to watch the draft has become a tradition, and I never miss it for anything. To show how serious I am about the NFL draft, I usually work from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Thursday, and I took it off just to watch the draft.

Houston, at No. 1, isn’t set on Jadeveon Clowney. I still think the Texans would go with a more sure thing sure thing could also be tackle Greg Robinson. But imagine Khalil Mack, the outside linebacker from the UniAmerican Conference player (Eric Fisher, Central Michigan, by Kansas City last year) as the top pick in the NFL draft?

Jacksonville is the most logical spot for the loser of the No. 1 pick derby between Clowney and Mack. General Manager David Caldwell and coach Gus Bradley want a pass-rusher, badly.

St. Louis no doubt will take an offensive tackle at the No. 2 spot. I’m betting it’ll be Greg Robinson out of Auburn, but wouldn’t be surprised if they took Jake Matthews from Texas A&M. Minnesota: this is a very tough spot in the draft for any team because at No. 8 there’s a lot of pressure to play into what fans want, and that isn’t always available. I’m betting that the Vikings will take Blake Bortles with their pick, but if I were making this pick I’d go with Manziel (doubtful he’ll be there), but the backup plan would be Teddy Bridgewater. Yes, there has been a lot of speculation that he won’t pan out because god forbid he had a bad pro day. Big deal! He’ll probably be the best available quarterback left, and I think he has far more potential than Bortles. But that would be if I were taking a quarterback at that spot. My wish for the Vikings at this spot would be to take C.J. Mosely, inside linebacker from Alabama. But that probably won’t happen even though newly acquired coach Mike Zimmer is a defensive guru.

If General Manager Rick Speilman won’t let that happen, the Vikings need a solid defensive player and can get a quality prospect like Tom Savage, A.J. McCarron or Zach Mettenberger in the second round. But if Johnny Football is there I wouldn’t bat an eyelash and I’d snag him seconds into the pick.

Detroit taking a tight end? I doubt it, but North Carolina tight end Eric Ebron, the clear top player at the position in this year’s draft, was asked by one team he visited recently who he thought would pick him. “Detroit,’’ he said.

Arizona is sweet on a couple of quarterbacks, Derek round possibilities. With coach Bruce Arians’s love of the deep ball, McCarron in round two seems a bit of a reach.

I will say this about McCarron: He doesn’t have a great deep arm by any standard, but he’s an accurate deep-ball thrower when he does air it out.

Pittsburgh likes Odell Beckham and Brandin Cooks at wide receiver, and one or both should be there at No. to replenish the position after losing two receivers in free agency in two years. (I’d go corner if I were General Manager Kevin Colbert.)

Tampa Bay is partial to, among others, Texas A&M wide receiver Mike Evans at No. 7. I’ve watched a lot of Johnny Manziel, and I’ll say this about Evans: supremely talented, extremely hot-headed. He’d better cure his imHot guys right now: Ohio State linebacker Ryan Shazier, Notre Dame tackle/guard Zack Martin, Boise State defensive end Demarcus Lawrence. Cold guys right now: Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, UCLA linebacker Anthony Barr, Alabama tackle Cyrus Kouandjio.

If Michigan tackle Taylor Lewan gets past Detroit Steelers (15th), I doubt sincerely Baltimore would pass on him.

Oakland? Clueless there. Sorry, Black Hole people.

The Raiders seem like a logical place for Johnny Manziel, but Oakland hasn’t exactly been the bastion of quarterback wisdom in this century.

This year reminds me of 2011. In fact, GMs should learn from that year. Check out the quarterbacks picked in the top 100 that year: 1. Cam Newton, Carolina 8. Jake Locker, Tennessee 10. Blaine Gabbert, Jacksonville 12. Christian Ponder, Minnesota 35. Andy Dalton, Cincinnati 36. Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco 74. Ryan Mallett, New England My point: Don’t put the pressure on Teddy Bridgewater or Blake Bortles by picking them so high. Pick a surer pool in the second round. Or third.

Just as in 2012, when the Seahawks (Russell Wilson, 73rd overall pick) and the Eagles (Nick Foles (88th)) picked quarterbacks at the right time, teams could do the same this year.

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Eritrean-born American citizen, won the 118th Boston marathon. That doesn’t seem American since 1980 to win the Boston Marathon. 34 years without an American winner.

One would think that a Marathon in one of the more prominent American cities would be won by more Americans, but that is not the case here. race, there’s something more important than winners or losers. The 2014 Marathon came one year after the 2013 Marathon in which two Chechen brothers, Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted two bombs.

Bombs which killed people and left more scared.

Often it takes disaster to bring people together. Whether it’s by man, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C., or the elements, like Hurricane Katrina in the southeast United States in 2005.

Like New York and New Orleans, though, the people of Boston were able to come together, and once again sports provided an avenue of relief for them.

In 2001 it arguably became the Yankees season as they went to the World Series, but ultimately lost in a thrilling seven-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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to glory in 2009 as they defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in six games.

In New Orleans, the Saints did not get back to prominence as fast as the Yankees, but the Saints ultimately provided more to the New Orleans people.

The Mercedes-Benz Superdome, the Saints stadium, was used as a shelter of last resort for people unable to evacuate before the hurricane hit. The number of people who sought refuge in the Superdome was estimated to be between 15,000 and 20,000 people.

While not as extreme as 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina, the Boston Marathon bombings hit on a deeply personal level.

Marathons are often seen as positive events. People run to feel good, stay healthy, prove something to themselves, or even for a charitable cause.

Generally, the only person holding someone back is himself or herself. They think, “That’s too far.” I know I do. Additionally, at around the 20-mile mark the body will start to burn stored fat for more energy. Essentially, a person’s body will start to “eat” itself.

People don’t often think that another person will be their enemy during a marathon.

Yet that’s how it was last year as the two brothers planted two bombs toward the end ple while wounding 264 more, 14 of which required amputations of limbs.

The aftermath and the ensuing manhunt left the people of not only Boston, but the whole country, wondering “who?” and “why?” It was much like the aftermath of 9/11, but on a smaller scale. out information almost as it happens, we waited with bated breath as information regarding the manhunt of the Tsarnaev brothers was released to the media.

It didn’t last long though, as Tamerlan was shot in Watertown, Mass. and brought to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, while Dzhokar was found hiding in a boat just outside the designated Watertown

search zone.

The support from the local professional sports teams, the Bruins, Celtics, Red Sox and Patriots, was overwhelming. The Bruins and Celtics were gearing up for their playoff runs, where they used the moniker

spirit.

Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz may have said it best as he gave the people of Boston hope that the teams of Boston

game at Fenway Park after the bombing, Ortiz spoke to the crowd before the game, stating: “This is our ****** city, and no one is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong.”

The Celtics didn’t fare well as they lost to the New York Knicks in six games in the

tough-fought seven-game series against the Toronto Maple Leafs, steamrolled their way

game win over the New York Rangers and a four-game sweep over Pittsburgh.

It wasn’t the Bruins’ year, though, as they were defeated by the Chicago Blackhawks in a heartbreaking game six that saw the Bruins give up the tying goal and the winning goal in a 17-second span with less than two minutes left in game three.

The Boston Strong spirit did not die with the Bruins, though, as the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals in six games to win the World Series.

The New England Patriots also made it far, but lost to the record-setting Denver Broncos in the AFC championship game in a battle of high-powered offenses.

On the one-year anniversary of the bombing, the Boston Strong attitude still stands strong. The Bruins are the No. 1 seed in the NHL, and just as Ortiz said, “Nobody is going to dictate our freedom,” the Marathon happened.

In the tribute to the victims of the bombing last year, a delegation walked the

line to reclaim it, and as Vice President Joe

Donald Sterling axed from NBA

Ryan Fitzgerald STAFF WRITER

Adam Silver is only three months into his new title as NBA Commissioner, as he took over for David Stern, who was the previous Commissioner for 30 years and commissioners in North America.

Silver had to make a monumental decision that could change the face of the NBA and where it’s heading. Racism has no part in any sport, especially basketball, where 80 percent of players are black.

Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, was given a lifetime ban from the owner looks bleak.

Silver threw Thor’s hammer down on Sterling and is using the bylaws and NBA constitution to overthrow Sterling, forcing him to sell the Clippers. To do so, Silver would need a three-fourths approval vote from the 30 NBA owners, which calculates to 23 owners.

In his publicly held press conference on April 29, Silver said he doesn’t have any

concerns and knows he’ll get the majority vote that will force Sterling to sell the Clippers. tion are that the man whose voice is on the recordings ... is Mr. Sterling and that the hateful feelings are those of Mr. Sterling. The views expressed by Mr. Sterling are deeply disturbing and alarming,” Silver said during a news conference Tuesday. “As for Mr. Sterling’s ownership interest in the Clippers, I will urge the board of governors to force a sale of the team and will do everything in my power to ensure that happens.” lease the recordings in which Sterling’s voice is clearly heard as he his voicing his opinion and views on black people. He does say some racist comments.

V. Stiviano allegedly recorded the call that lasted about an hour, and Sterling was verbally upset about some issues that he had with Stiviano. One was that she was posing with too many black people on her Instagram and bringing and sitting next to black people at Clipper games.

Her motives are unclear and people still don’t know why she recorded the conversation, but there are many people in the NBA and even across the nation that are happy she did.

In 2003 the Housing Rights Center and 19 tenants of an apartment complex against him for discrimination. The tenants accused Sterling of preferring not to rent to Hispanics because they “smoke, drink and just hang around the building,” or to African-Americans because they “smell and attract vermin.” Who did Sterling prefer for

tenants? He preferred Korean-Americans, according to the lawsuit, because they “will live in whatever conditions he gives them and still pay the rent without complaint.”

That was public record. And that was 11 years ago.

Sterling eventually settled that and othages and legal fees, but the NBA allowed Sterling to continue owning the Clippers.

It’s not only the NBA that allowed Donald Sterling to be Donald Sterling, though.

Six years after that 2003 discrimination lawsuit, former Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor, an all-time great player, sued Sterling for age and racial discrimination. Although Baylor later dropped the race charges, and Sterling beat the rest of the case in a jury trial, we heard from Baylor in 2009 that Sterling imagined “a southern plantation-type structure” for the team, which he wanted “composed of ‘poor black boys from the South’ and a white head coach.”

Sterling bought the Clippers in 1981

Diego, Calif., to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1985. According to Forbes Magazine, the

No. 18 out 30 NBA teams.

It was nice to see Silver come down ure and there’s no way you can make comments like he did and still be owner of an NBA franchise. The only thing that may cause concern and leave question is what if a player or coach were to make remarks like Sterling? Would they be banned for life? It’s a slippery slope, but the right decision was made.

Women’s basketball recruiting update Daniel Papp STAFF WRITER

It may only be April, but the college basketball game is a 24/7 affair and I felt it was high time that I get an update on what’s going on with women’s basketball. That being said, I sat down with Head Coach Lori Fish to talk about the four new recruits joining the Husky program this coming season.

Two point guards were recruited. The Wis., and the second was Mackenzie Uter from Howard Lake Waverly-Winsted.

Lauren Novak was the third guard in the recruiting class and is a long 5’11” graduate of Eau Claire Memorial High School in Wisconsin. The recruiting class is rounded out by the 5’10” forward Amanda Christianson from Alexandria, Minn.

Christianson led the Cardinals in scoring with 17.4 points per game in her senior season en route to a 15-6 overall record.

The Cardinals started the section 8AAA playoffs with a 51-46 win over Detroit Lakes before falling 47-66 to the eventual section champion Fergus Falls.

When asked about Christianson, Fish said, “She has size. She’s about a 5’10’’ perimeter player. She can shoot the ball extremely well, has great range and is a very smart basketball player... we think that she can stretch the defense but yet she’s strong good free throw shooter.”

Fish also expressed her excitement about what Christianson’s length can do for the ball club defensively, saying, “When we have to guard a longer perimeter player that

can knock down threes, she (Christianson) can get out and bother people kind of like Carley does for us on the defensive end.”

Thomas joins the Huskies after a highly impressive senior year for the Golden Eagles, leading them to a 13-10 record in 2013-14. Thomas is a 5’5’’ point guard who averaged 19 PPG along with 5.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 3.3 steals a game. She shot the free throw line, and 30 percent from beyond the arc.

Interestingly, though, it’s Thomas’ facilitating skills that caught the eye of Coach Fish the most.

“She is one of the best high school passers I’ve ever seen,” she said. “What I really like about her is that she likes to look up

now. In the game against New RichlandH-E-G, she tore her ACL and is still working on recovering. “Yesterday she had her reconstructive knee surgery, and so right now we’re just working on her rehabbing and getting healthy and not really worrying about what’s next. We just want her to be healthy,” Fish said.

Averaging 11 points per game as a senior, Novak led the Old Abes to a 16-6

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School in the WIAA Regionals. Offensively speaking, Fish says that Lauren is a slasher with good athletic ability, which allows her to get to the hole. But what really drew her to Novak was her passion for the game.

“She’s extremely dedicated,” Fish said.

“I liked her energy. We think (she) will bring just this positivity that we really like about her and her love for the game.”

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team, Fish isn’t worried. “I think these four

Uter ended her senior season one game shy of the state title match. They lost to New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva, who was led by the newest Minnesota Golden Gopher, Carlie Wagner.

Despite the end to the year, Uter’s experience will certainly help her to adapt to the college game. “She’s obviously gone up against some great talent, and Carlie’s a tremendous player and they’ve got a nice team all around. But that’s what I like about Mackenzie; she’s played a lot of basketball and they’ve come out of a tough section but she never backed down from anybody,” Fish said.

However, that is not the focus right

“This group of players that we had here this year has been the most enjoyable to coach.

They’re so dedicated and so committed that, from a coaching standpoint, they take a lot of pressure off me because I’m not having to motivate them. As a coach, that is the nicest thing you can ask for from your team because then I can spend more time preparing. I think these four are going to

to grow, because we have 15 or 16 people that are committed to one goal... it makes coaching them very special.”

There is certainly a lot of exciting basketball ahead at SCSU. I personally cannot wait!