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Oil expert speaks on campusRESOURCES Harold Hamm, Forbes’ rated riches oilman in the United States, visits UND about the future of fossil fuel energy.
>ALLEE MEADThe Dakota Student
Last Friday, UND students had the opportunity to attend the “Conversation with Harold Hamm” and meet CEO of Continental Resources and the United States’ richest oilman, Oklahoma’s Harold Hamm, who has graced the cover of Forbes maga-zine on more than one occasion.
The youngest of 13 children, Hamm picked cotton with his father at age six and pumped gas. One of his classmates told him to look at his pas-sions, to which Hamm replied, “I’m pumping gas. What have I got to be passionate about?”
Bookstores tout rental system
It’s no secret that college can be ex-pensive. One of those major expenses is textbooks, which can often cost up to two hundred dollars for just one new book. While almost all teachers will require one or more textbooks for their courses, some students will fi nd that they never open the required books. In addition, sellback prices for textbooks are often much lower than the books initially cost.
This year, both the UND Bookstore and Dakota Textbook Company have started programs where students can rent textbooks for a semester. Derek Schuck-man, the store director for the UND Bookstore, says that “students save on av-erage 50% or more when renting a text-book versus purchasing it new.”
Students can fi nd similar savings at the Dakota Textbook Co. Troy Novak, the manager for the Dakota Textbook Co., says that students can save up to 55% over the book’s new retail price when renting. In addition, he says that they’ll sometimes try to help students save additional money on old editions or custom books.
Both the UND Bookstore and the Da-kota Textbook Co. stress that one of the values of renting books is saving money at the beginning of the year instead of pay-ing full price and then receiving a fraction of the cost when selling back the books at the end of the semester.
Students can also highlight and take notes in their rented books just as they can in their purchased books, because this falls within the category of normal wear and tear. According to Schuckman, the UND Bookstore has a same day service, mean-ing that students can obtain and return textbooks within the same day so they’re guaranteed to have their required materi-als by the time class starts.
One of the questions many students have about renting textbooks concerns ex-
actly what can be rented. According to Novak, starting spring semester, the Da-kota Textbook Co. will make renting an option for every textbook except course packs and books with disposable access codes.
Around 37% of textbooks could be rented from the UND Bookstore last fall. Schuckman said that next semester’s per-centage should be just over 40% and will be determined once the bookstore receives all course material information from the faculty. According to Schuckman, the UND Bookstore cannot rent old edition books, loose leaf books, books that are consumable (such as workbooks with per-forated pages), books that are not durable for multiple uses and course packs.
In addition, the UND Bookstore uti-lizes a program called Café Scribe. This program, according to Schuckman, “com-bines an ebook with a social network.” Using these ebooks, students can high-light, take notes, and network with peers
Students write for rights Lockhart wins Archives chess tournament
After a nearly three hour match last Thursday, Michael Lockhart emerged victorious and was named champion of the Archives Coffee House Chess Tournament. Lock-hart and his fi nal opponent, Aaron Wentz, played fi ve rounds each over the month. There were a total of 32 players in the tournament, which was held over the month of November, and which was organized by various students and employees of Archives Coffee House. Players included un-dergraduate and graduate students, staff and graduates.
Lockhart, or Res Ipsa, as he is known by his colleagues and friends, is a recent graduate of the UND School of Law.
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UND campus remembers Adam Baker
Adam Baker, 2003-04 Stu-dent Body President, passed away last Friday morning. Baker was in a coma since May, after he was injured outside a Minnesota bar.
Baker was working for Del-ta Airlines and was completing a Master’s degree in Aviation Management.
Baker’s Caring Bridge site posted Friday morning: “At ap-proximately 2 a.m. this morn-ing our world grew a good deal dimmer as the bright light that was Adam John Baker passed from this world to the next — peacefully and with Laurie by his side.” He was 32.
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Later in life, Hamm bought a truck and started a trucking company, but later he began to focus on crude oil, especially in the North Dakota-Montana Bakken region. According to a February 2, 2009 Forbes article, there are 80 drilling rigs and an esti-mated 3.6 billion barrels of oil in the Bakken area.
During the question-and-answer session, one student asked Hamm if his company participated in off-shore drilling and cited the recent BP spill. Hamm explained that off-shore drilling is usually used for natural gas. Continental Resources focuses
The month of December is internationally recognized as
Human Rights Month. Human rights are basic rights and free-doms that all individuals deserve and should be entitled. For many, this subject is detached, as it is not applicable to most of the de-mographic of students at UND. Two students are changing how our campus sees the world, one letter at a time.
Madisson Whitman and The-resa Rerick have been involved with an organization called Am-
“Out of bad things, good things sometimes happen.”—Harold Hamm, CEO, Continental Resources
The UND concert choir hosted the Madrigal Dinner last week-end, entertaining audiences in the Memorial Union Ballroom with great music and food. For the full story, see page 12.
KYLE SCHROEDER > The Dakota Student
CAMPAIGN Group pre-pares letters to national leaders, pursuading rec-ognition of human rights.
>KATIE BACHMEIERThe Dakota Student
nesty International for a little over a year. Amnesty Interna-tional is a world-wide non-gov-ernmental organization that aims “to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.” Whit-man and Rerick write letters from addresses provided by Amnesty International to free prisoners of social injustices.
“Letter writing really does have a lot of effect on a lot of governments,” Rerick said.
The students also work closely with anthropology professor, Dr. Marcia Mikulak, whose research includes human rights and more specifi cally that of individuals in
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World BriefChechan terror suspect arrested in Vienna
VIENNA, Austria—A 33-year-old Chechen man has been arrested in Vienna, Austria, by police acting on an interna-tional arrest warrant, the Austrian Interior Ministry said Saturday.
The man was seized at Vi-enna’s Schwechat airport on Wednesday on suspicions of help-ing to plan an attack on NATO facilities in Belgium, ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia told the German Press Agency dpa.
The suspect has been living in Austria under political asylum. He was apparently planning to take part in an action on Novem-ber 23, the day that authorities in Germany, Belgium and the Neth-erlands arrested a number of ter-rorist suspects, Gollia said.
Altogether, 11 suspects of Chechen background are accused of planning an attack in Belgium. The Chechen man was only ar-rested Wednesday by Austria when he returned via the Vienna airport, the ministry spokesman said.
The suspect will now likely be extradited to Belgium after pros-ecutors there submitted an extra-dition request, he added.
Classroom chaos leads to youth suicide
>YOMIURI SHIMBUNMCT Campus
EDUCATION Japanese school charts decline in discipline before death of bullying victim.
TOKYO—A dirty and disor-ganized classroom, verbal abuse directed at the teacher—signs of classroom chaos were increasingly apparent before a sixth-grade pri-mary school student in Gunma Prefecture in Japan took her own life, a school report has shown.
Akiko Uemura, who killed herself in October, apparently feeling isolated in the classroom, began eating her lunch alone as the classroom disruption escalat-ed, the report indicates.
Details on how discipline in the classroom broke down came to light as a third-party investiga-tion panel is to be launched this week to look into the relation-ship between bullying against the
12-year-old girl and her eventual death by suicide.
The report was compiled by municipal Niisato Higashi Pri-mary School in Kiryu and was submitted to the city board of education. It was disclosed by the prefectural board of education upon a request for information disclosure.
According to the report, a number of students began to get unruly and undermined order in Uemura’s class in April, the fi rst month of the school year.
In July, increasing numbers of students did not obey the seating arrangements set by their home-room teacher, and some students began to use abusive language against the teacher.
In late August, the classroom spiraled even further out of con-trol as some female students be-came even more rebellious and even made fun of the teacher for minor slips of the tongue.
In September, the classroom was reported to be untidy and
even fi lthy. Several students in the class complained to their former fi fth-grade homeroom teacher that they could not get proper lessons in their sixth-grade class-room.
Uemura began to eat lunch alone in late September. The homeroom teacher rearranged students’ desks to stop students from talking. However, as the teacher did not give the students any instructions for lunchtime, groups of friends began pushing their desks together to eat. Ue-mura remained alone at her soli-tary desk without anyone eating with her.
As the lunchtime disorder continued, the teacher rearranged students’ desks again on Oct. 14, but the situation did not change.
Two days before Uemura com-mitted suicide on Oct. 23, she ap-pealed to a teacher other than her homeroom teacher, crying over having to eat lunch alone.
When the school later inves-tigated the lunchtime situation,
two students expressed sympa-thy for Uemura. One said, “I felt sorry for her,” and the other said, “I thought I’d eat lunch together [with Uemura] the next day.” But some students said they did not care very much.
One parent said several stu-dents did not obey the home-room teacher’s instructions at all and that the teacher sometimes spent entire class periods trying to calm them.
“Students’ swearing in class was at its peak when Akiko-san [Uemura] began to eat lunch alone. I want the school to reveal everything [about the classroom situation] and shed light on the cause of her death,” the parent said.
Class observations and teach-er-parent talks were held at the school Wednesday. One parent said, “We’d like to know the ac-tual conditions at this school.” Another said that they wanted to be contacted by the school often, according to school sources.
Spanish air traffi c returning to normalPROTEST ATC’s stage mass strike, leaving airports, passengers stranded all over country.
MADRID, Spain—Spain’s air-space was reopened Saturday after a wildcat protest by air traffi c control-lers paralyzed airports, the Infrastruc-ture Ministry announced.
The unoffi cial work stoppage was estimated to have affected more than 600,000 passengers, thousands of whom spent the night at airports in Madrid, Barcelona and Majorca.
The airport authority AENA said controllers were returning to work all over country, and that fl ights would resume in the late afternoon Satur-day.
Trans-Atlantic fl ights, some of which had been diverted to Portugal, had already begun landing at Madrid airport.
Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba had said earlier that airspace would remain closed un-til Sunday. All airlines operating at Madrid airport cancelled their fl ights until 6 a.m. (5 a.m. GMT) on Sun-day.
The air controllers began return-ing to work after the government decreed a state of emergency to force them to resume their duties imme-diately.
Controllers who refused to do so faced being prosecuted for disobedi-ence under military law, Rubalcaba said.
The government Friday placed airports under military control after 70 percent of air traffi c controllers left their posts or did not show up for work, most of them claiming to be sick.
The state of emergency was de-clared for the fi rst time since Spain became a democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.
Air controllers who continued refusing to work risked facing arrest, immediate prosecution and lengthy prison sentences. The controllers were to remain under military law even after the protest was over.
AENA advised passengers to check with their airlines before go-ing to the airport. A total of 4,300 fl ights had been scheduled in Spain on Saturday.
Travel operator TUI cancelled all new departures from Germany in the afternoon so that aircraft and hotels in Spain were available to serve stranded customers. Another Eu-ropean holidays company, Thomas Cook, said the strike had stranded 3,500 of its customers in Spain.
Extra bus and train services were introduced for air passengers who had intended to take national fl ights during the long week-end, which extends into national holidays on Monday and Wednesday.
The wildcat action was seen as a protest by the controllers over a deci-sion on new working hours approved by the Spanish cabinet on Friday.
The air controllers have been in-volved for months in a wage dispute with the Transportation Ministry and AENA.
Greek police uncover hideout, nab terrorists
ATHENS—Greek coun-terterrorism police on Saturday raided a hideout in Athens be-longing to a terrorist group, con-fi scating a cache of guns and ex-plosives and arresting at least fi ve people, reports said.
Greek radio and television said three machine guns, seven handguns, grenades and 50 ki-lograms of explosive powder and 200 grams of TNT were discov-ered in a basement apartment in the Athens suburb of Nea Smyrni.
At least fi ve people were de-tained by police.
Police were conducting more searches in other locations around Athens and in the north-ern port city of Thessaloniki.
Offi cials said the weaponry found was similar to that used by left-wing guerrilla group Sect of Revolutionaries, which claimed responsibility for the slaying of Sokratis Giolas, an investigative journalist and an anti-terrorist police offi cer.
Giolas was shot dead in front of his pregnant wife on July 19 outside their Athens home.
The group has vowed to in-crease attacks on police, business people, prison guards and cor-rupt media, in addition to tour-ists.
The Sect of Revolutionaries fi rst emerged after the rioting over the death of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos, killed by a police bullet in December 2008.
>SINIKKA TARVAINENMCT Campus
Climate summit, deserted islandsENVIRONMENT Al-liance of Small Island States feels grunt of global warming effects.
CANCUN, Mexico—In the scrum of 9,000 negotiators gath-ered in Cancun to wrangle over a global climate treaty, Ronny Jumeau has no patience for dip-lomatic niceties.
“I won’t shut up,” said the pugnacious chief of the three-member delegation from Sey-chelles, an Indian Ocean ar-chipelago. “Even when we’re underwater, when the bubbles pop, you’ll hear us yelling.”
Jumeau is a member of the Alliance of Small Island States, AOSIS, a negotiating bloc of 43 nations already suffering the ill effects of climate change: longer droughts, bigger fl oods, stronger hurricanes and rising seas. The countries circle the globe from the Pacifi c to the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, and they are furious that the industrial na-tions—the big emitters of green-house gases—are not moving fast enough to ensure their survival.
As the 12-day summit moves into high gear this week, small is-land nations may be the noisiest critics, but they are hardly alone in their frustration that a legally binding agreement to reduce planet-heating pollutants has no chance to be concluded here.
Brazilian President Luiz Ina-cio Lula da Silva said Wednes-day that the Cancun talks “won’t result in anything” because no major leaders are attending.
Climate negotiations in Co-penhagen ended in acrimony last year, with 120 heads of state, including President Ba-rack Obama, in attendance. This year, except for a few leaders of smaller nations, ministers and diplomats are doing the talking.
Rather than raise hopes for a global treaty, Cancun delegates aim to make progress on a “bal-anced package” of side agree-ments. Among them: pacts on deforestation, which is responsi-ble for 15 percent of global car-bon dioxide emissions, and on the verifi cation of pledged emis-sion cuts, a thorny issue between China and the United States.
Vulnerable nations are counting on billions of dollars, promised by wealthy nations in Copenhagen, to rebuild wet-lands to absorb fl ooding and ris-ing tides, store fresh water dur-ing droughts, reinforce buildings to resist typhoons—and other-wise defend themselves against calamities they blame on climate change.
“But pledges mean nothing,” said Jumeau, who also serves as Seychelles’ ambassador to the United States. “Bring something that lands on the table with a clunk.”
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The end is upon us once again, and as we scramble to prepare for fi nal exams and projects, it is easy for us to overlook the journey we have nearly completed. Many students don’t realize the accomplishment and re-ward the end of the semester brings until winter break itself, and we often overlook those who make such pride and satisfaction possible—our professors.
Granted, we have all worked very hard to earn the respite of winter break, but working equally hard are our instructors, be they professors, GTA’s or lecturers. Each class of the semester is a journey for both students and instructors, but we don’t always give our teachers the credit they deserve. There may be those instructors that we fi nd diffi cult or overbearing—they are often the ones we learn the most from—but every student is certain to have had teachers that they respect and fi nd helpful, and they are the ones we must show our appreciation for.
It is a tradition at many universities and in most law schools to applaud professors at the end of the fi nal class before fi nals. At that moment, the professor thanks the class for their time and effort and wishes them well. This is the point where most classes gather their materi-als and leave, some lingering to thank the professor per-sonally, others rushing off to the library to prepare for a fi nal or to celebrate the end of the semester. The profes-sor, who has completed their lecturing duties, awaits the return of papers and exams and issues a grade. After that last day of class, the students and professor are separated and the classroom relationship has ended.
It is at this point that the students of many other universities and law schools applaud their professor, summing a successful and fruitful semester up with a unifi ed sign of respect and thanks—a round of applause. This is a simple gesture that takes little effort and is not beyond the student’s role in class.
While there are professors and instructors that don’t deserve it, there are many more that devote their lives to their courses, both in and outside of class, grading papers, reading and preparing for lectures and discuss-ing course content with students during offi ce hours. As students, we should show our appreciation for these teachers by giving them a solemn, brief round of ap-plause at the end of our fi nal classes of the term. This sign of appreciation will mean a lot to the instructors that sacrifi ced their lives this semester to their classes, and will improve the instructor-student relationship overall.
So, this week as the semester’s lectures come to a close, keep in mind that we can always be more appre-ciative, and take a moment to collectively applaud the individuals who make our university community the great place it is.
DS ViewProfessors Some schools make it a tra-dition to applaud at the end of term.
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How to fi nd joy in gift giving
If I think really hard, squeezing my eyes closed and focusing on noth-ing else, I think that I could remem-ber a time when I enjoyed Christmas shopping. Far from one of those people who think that the pressures to give gifts ru-ins Christmas, I believe that a thoughtful gift for someone you love refl ects a feeling of appreciation that is overlooked dur-ing most of the year.
My trouble, you see, is that I just really hate the process of shopping for the gifts. I’m in a pickle.
My sister has the opposite prob-lem. Everyone has that one person in their family whose gifts surpass all others. She is this person. As I’m writing this on my mom’s birthday (Happy Birthday Mom!), it seems
fi tting to use a story from her birth-day to demonstrate my point. My mother, a pistol of a woman, loves both books-on-tape and Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. In reality, she loves Colin Firth who happened to play Mr. Darcy. On one particular birthday, my mother asked for noth-
ing but books-on-tape.
I searched for the most i n t e r e s t i n g books I could fi nd, and voila! I gave her what she asked for. My sister, on the other hand, gave my mother
a glossy, 8x10, autographed photo of Colin Firth. You can imagine whose present was the favorite that year. I ask, how is anyone supposed to com-pete with that?
Somewhere along the way, I lost my sense of initiative, of adventure, and of pure gumption in regards to shopping for presents. For some, this dilemma demonstrates exactly what
is wrong with Christmas or other holidays: they have become a con-sumer holiday. People seem to just go out and buy gifts because they feel as though they have to.
Others equate their amount of love to money, which sometimes creates receivers-of-gifts who do the same and judge your affection by the worth of the gift. As many of you, I hate these aspects of the holiday sea-son. I hate the cheesy commercials and television segments aimed at tell-ing you what to buy for the people in your life.
Personally, I don’t think that buy-ing lip gloss for my friends, as the Macy’s commercial suggests, imparts all that much personal affection. “Ev-ery time you put your lip gloss on, remember that I appreciate having you in my life...?” I am not attempt-ing to criticize what others may buy; I just feel generic when I give generic gifts.
As cheesy as this sounds, I re-ally do wish that if I created all of
Time running out to see HP
For me it started as a gift and a boring summer day, for her it started as an idea written on the corner of a napkin at a restaurant. What do J.K. Rowling and I have in common? Harry Potter, of course.
Near the end of my sixth grade year, I received the fi rst Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Sorcer-er’s Stone,” as a gift from my step-mother which she bought from my school’s book fair (remember those?). I wasn’t totally hooked until after the fi rst chapter, but after that day I read the fi rst four books in a three week span culminating with the then newly released “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”
After that summer I was forever a Harry Potter fan. As the next three books were released, I was always one of the fi rst to get my copy and hole up in a quiet place to read as much as I could. Unfortunately for us, all of
the books have come and gone, but there is something else that we have to look forward to.
For those of you who haven’t heard, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1) the movie came out a couple of weeks ago in theaters. It is the fi rst half of a two-part se-ries fi nale. It is based on the sev-enth, and fi nal, novel that bares the same name. This particular book chronicles the fi nal attempts of Harry to take down Lord Voldemort.
Harry Potter fan or not, this is an event. The last Harry Potter movie that came to the theater, “Harry Pot-ter and the Half-Blood Prince,” be-came the 10th highest grossing fi lm of all-time. In fact, all six of the Har-ry Potter movies that have already been produced are in the top-26 or better grossing fi lms of all-time, and
it is the highest grossing franchise of all-time, more money than the “Star Wars” series and the James Bond col-lection. Everyone is going to see this movie and you don’t want to be left out.
The popularity of Harry Potter is slowly grow-ing beyond the readers and m o v i e g o e r s . The imaginary game of Quid-ditch, played throughout the novels, has now evolved into a real life game.
What started out as a dorm activity has now grown into an intercollegiate sport. The International Quidditch Association (yes, it is real) just had the Quidditch World Cup IV held in New York City (still not joking).
‘People seem to just go out and buy gifts because they feel as though they have to. Erin Barta
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‘...as time has gone on, the themes have gotten darker and more complex.
Kirby Graff columnist
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The Grand Fork Public Library has some upcoming changes. As a patron of the public library, I have been as active and attentive as I can toward the issue. The issue is building a new library with more facilities and resources and possibly giving it a new location.
Another point I heard was that the Grand Forks public library is the busi-est in the state, yet had the smallest site. A proposal for a new library would raise taxes for the citizens of Grand Forks. A great website to check out is www.speak-upforyourlibrary.com. This has options to express opinions, take a survey, and see dates of upcoming meetings about a po-tential new library.
I support the new library. Why? Be-cause we need a new one. The current li-brary is great, and I spend a lot of time there and I bring my daughter there. However, with new library trends such as the new libraries in Fargo and Minneapo-lis, I would love to see that change happen in Grand Forks.
There are proposals of locations as well. One idea is south of town. I dis-agree with this idea. First, it is way out of the way for many residents. Not every resident drives a car and one of the great reasons for the library to be in its location is that it is on the bus route and it is in a reasonable location. To put the library in a part of town that is growing with more housing and business development is not fair to people who live on the north end of town. This could result in the library being in a gated community of the south and I do not agree with that.
Another idea for a location is near the Wellness Center. While I agree with this idea more than the south end, I still do not fully support it. It is too close to the Chester Fritz and I believe having two li-braries close to each other is problematic. While not everyone are patrons of both, this location is not ideal because it is on campus and could become more of a li-brary for students, just as the Chester Fritz is.
The last idea of a location is the Leevers building on Washington St, near Demers Ave. I fully support this location. First, the building is already there! This would save on costs. The parking lot is huge and there would be ample street parking. The location is perfect because it is on a bus route and it is in a location that is busy and is in more of a centralized location. Why build a new building when there is a building not being used? Instead of wast-ing resources, a reasonable idea is to build onto what is already there.
Other ideas I have heard are the old Target building. This is not such a bad idea based on the fact that the building is already there, however I do not like the idea of a public library being attached to a mall. I have also read editorials of people who are opposed to a new library because of tax increases.
Regardless, I fully support a new li-brary. Public libraries are important for communities because they bring people to-gether and they provide so many resources for all kinds of people. Children are able to get their own library cards, learn re-
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It’s crunch time; you have four finals and two papers to write in a week and a half. Your mom keeps calling and asking you what you want for supper when you get home, and if you don’t answer, you have four voicemails to sit through. You and your roommate have stopped pre-tending and now openly exhibit your animosity for one another. People are having parties for ev-erything: ugly sweat-ers, a break from thankless jobs, the closing of the semes-ter and the completion of a 40-foot high beer can pyramid. Point being, you have a lot of stuff to attend to.
I am not here to tell you not to pan-ic. Of course you should panic! Are you frickin’ kidding me, that Chemistry final is worth 40% of your final grade! One mis-step and you could fail the test and then the class! And if you fail the class they’ll take away your scholarship! And if you don’t have a scholarship, how are you go-ing to pay for school!? You’re going to end up a frickin’ dropout loser. Please don’t ex-pect your grandmother to keep loving you; that’s just embarrassing.
I want to talk about your Christmas-Hanukkah-Atheist (I don’t participate in that blasted consumer culture)-Kwanza (jaysus, it’s really hard not to offend some-one) break. CHAK for short. This CHAK break, you should plan your time carefully. CHAK break is better than both spring
break and summer break, because you have no homework to not be doing that you should feel guilty about, and you aren’t ex-pected to get a job. You have three weeks of guilt-free time to spend however you like.
So how shall you spend it? Like me, me, ME! Follow my prescriptive sched-ule making method, and you cannot go wrong.
Spend the first part of CHAK break throwing a baby shower for your sister and her new baby, Brady. He’s so adorable, isn’t he!? She really likes the color green, so make sure to incorporate it with the standard blue for a boy. Now’s not the time to be questioning gender customs. People at baby
showers do not care about your liberal college hullabaloo! Smile and serve them cake, and then make out the back door and read your “Living Green” manifesto!
Make your dad give you your CHAK present early, because you already know what it is anyway, so you might as well try out your brand new copy of Civiliza-tion V ASAP. It’s a good idea to plan your meals ahead of time for your days of play, because it’s super annoying to have to cook spaghetti from scratch when you were just about to kill the last unit of the Aztec Em-pire. Montezuma is such a dick.
After your three-day Civ V binger, it’s time to tackle your reading list. It’s likely that you made it completely unrealistic, but it’s nice to think big. You should most defi-nitely have The Christmas Carol on there, because then when people discuss the mov-ies or the children’s version, you can pre-tentiously say, “Ya, it’s ok, but I’m not sure
it’s a very accurate portrayal of the Ghost of Christmas Past, and Dickens would not have wanted the high-tech Hollywood ef-fects” (even though he would, but psh, they don’t know that!). If you didn’t finish one of your readings for class or you felt like you read to quickly (which of course did not happen, you’re an English grad stu-dent, Jaysus), pack those in your luggage, reread them, and feel bad about how much better your final paper could’ve been. It’s what Jaysus would have wanted. Finally, add books to your list that you’ve always wanted to read but just haven’t had the time for. Life of Pi will be read someday.
The last thing you should do over CHAK break is come back to Grand Forks a little early. It gives you time to chill out before the upcoming semester. You can also hang out with friends and talk about all those books you read, and if you’re in the mood, you can talk about all those books you read while drinking beer. It’s pretty much the exact same as talking about all those books you read without drinking beer, except Cormac McCarthy becomes hiiiiiiii-larious, you revisit the same tired argument about Joseph Conrad over and over and you have a hangover the next day. It’s pretty awesome.
So, there you have it. A foolproof way to spend your CHAK break. You might come across a couple glitches if you don’t have a nephew named Brady or a dad who buys you computer games, but I trust that you’re clever enough to adjust sufficiently. If all else fails, read Harry Potter. It’s what Jaysus would have wanted.
>Erin LorDThe Dakota Student
Losing my UND hockey virginity
I’ve been a UND student for four years, but until this past Friday’s game against Saint Cloud State University, I had never attended a Sioux hockey game.
My best friend, Sara, sold me her tick-ets for the evening since her boyfriend was MIA doing something or another. I was pretty jazzed because Sara is one of those people who are fortunate enough to have season tickets not in the student section. Seeing as it was going to be my first Sioux hockey game, I didn’t know if I could han-dle the excitement and the overly zealous students.
Our (I obviously went with someone because who attends a hockey game alone, and that someone was my boyfriend, Ja-cob) seats were in the lower half of the lower bowl and one section over from the student section…just close enough for me to observe their strange chants and cus-toms without getting too involved.
The game was, meh, a game. It was more fun than watching it on television, probably because there are no commercial breaks and beer is grossly overcharged. My favorite part, to the dismay of my fanatical boyfriend, was people watching. I liked when the cameras scanned the crowd and focused on little kids dancing, old women raising beer and people painted in Sioux colors. My attention was only taken away from action on the ice when the little girl in front of us would blow air into her mother’s face and laugh hysterically.
Another interesting aspect of the game
(yes, I’m dissecting the Sioux hockey game’s crowd; I wasn’t swept away with excitement until the Sioux finally stopped being lazy skaters and began to score) was all of the cheers and chants. I felt like I had accidently stepped into a cult meet-ing…though, in a way, all sports are cult-like.
Everyone was yelling in unison and there was a lot of fist pumping and clap-ping. I tried to figure out what everything meant…what a siv was to be a little more precise. Unfortunately, I didn’t want to ask during the game and risk my boyfriend being forced to ignore my hockey naivety and me.
The very best part of the game, howev-er—the part that the world could learn from Sioux fans—was the interactions between Sioux fans and Sioux fans. We knew no one around us. The cou-ple behind us took turns shouting encouragement anytime Bob, the security guard, would head to the student section and motion for them to sit down.
The woman to our right made up little nicknames for the players, names that took the two first letters of each guy’s last name attached to some other random word. She was louder than the couple behind us, and I don’t believe that I ever heard her hus-band (male lover?) speak. And while we were all strangers at the start of the first period, high fives and handshakes were ex-changed by the final buzzer.
>Sara tEzELThe Dakota Student
If the world were a bit more like Sioux hockey fans, perhaps this place, these wars, would be a little more civil and by the end, we wouldn’t be exchanging land and body counts, but “fair fight” and respect. Sioux hockey fans show that when a large group of people has a little bit of common ground, like love of a sport, we can all be-come friends. Sure, assigning the idea to wars st a global level is a bit of a hyperbole, but the idea is simple: when two strangers find a bit of common ground, they can, briefly, set aside all differences and cel-ebrate their similarities.
It’s an idea that little kids understand too well. Throw two children on a play-ground who have never met, and by the
end of an hour, they’ll be best friends. Throw two Sioux fans into the REA who have nev-er met, and by the end of the game, they’ll be compli-menting each other on their Sioux ap-parel.
The hockey game taught me a lot about stepping out of my comfort zone and doing something out of the norm, and by the end of the game, I too was on my feet cheering and, in the words of Jersey Shore, fist pumping.
>HEatHEr jackSonThe Dakota Student
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Winter break housing crisisACCOMMODATIONS Some students aren’t sure where they’ll be liv-ing over the holidays.
>BRANDI JEWETTThe Dakota Student
A lack of guest housing this year has left some residence hall students in a bind when it comes to finding a place to stay in Grand Forks over winter break.
Due to a high resident capac-ity, Housing is unable to provide residence hall students with guest housing this year. In past years, students needing to stay in Grand Forks over break could sign up for guest housing. This allowed them to move into Brannon Hall for the break period and access two meals per day at Wilkerson Hall.
“We simply don’t have rooms to move people into Brannon,” explains Cindy Spencer, Director of Residence Life and Education Services.
According to Spencer, those already living in Brannon Hall are able to remain in their rooms for break. They still must sign up and pay the nightly fee to stay in the hall. She suggests students who are aware of their need to stay in the halls over winter break should con-tract to live in Brannon Hall to en-sure they will have break housing.
Students can sign up to stay late in their own rooms the nights of December 17 and 18, but must
be checked out by noon on De-cember 19. Residents can also sign up to arrive two days early, January 7 and 8. The charge is $24.35 per night and includes two meals. Stu-dents cannot split the costs and pay only for the room. Sign up for late departure and early arrival ends to-day.
Some residence hall students have been left with difficult choices between finding a place to stay for the break or going home and los-ing their current jobs. A number of students working in the Grand Forks retail sector have found themselves facing this decision due to company blackout dates.
Company blackout date poli-cies work similar to those used by travel agencies and airlines. These dates indicate a period of time in which employees cannot take time off, vacation or otherwise. This en-sures workers will be available for daily operation of stores. Retail company blackout dates, for ex-ample, usually coincide with busy shopping times, like Black Friday or before and after Christmas.
Residence hall student Nick Raden, a junior in the Interdisci-plinary Studies Program, works at Best Buy and is unable to go home for the holidays due to the compa-ny’s holiday blackout policy.
“It’s ridiculous that I have to find a place to stay just to work,” he declares. Raden said he and fel-low student employees informed management the residence halls were not providing guest housing this year and they had no place to stay for break.
“They told us to find a couch to sleep on or put in your two weeks,” he recounts.
Around a dozen student em-ployees at the company have been displaced by the residence hall clo-sure. According to Raden, some are quitting because they have no place to stay and want to go home and see family. He says these students are hoping to be rehired at the store after winter break is finished.
In Raden’s case, there aren’t too many options.
“I’d quit too, but I really need the money,” he discloses. “I just got a raise which means my time be-came a little more valuable.”
Raden says other employees are being extremely helpful, reaching out to those without a place to go. He has an offer from a fellow em-ployee to stay in an extra room in their apartment. He is very thank-ful for the generosity of his co-worker.
DS> Brandi Jewett is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]
Senators’ roles discussed MEETING Student Government discusses absences, apportion-ment and a door.
>BRANDI JEWETTThe Dakota Student
Evading impeachment at this Sunday’s Student Senate meeting, off-campus senators Ben Carlson and Brenden Jehlicka are allowed to keep their seats.
Both became eligible for the impeachment process when they reached the maximum number al-lowed for missed meetings. Accord-ing to the Student Government Con-stitution, senators are only allowed to have three unexcused absences and four excused absences. A two-thirds majority vote is required to remove a senator from office.
Jehlicka’s case was evaluated first. He had accumulated four unexcused absences. “I have excuses for them but I’m sure no one wants to hear them,” Jehlicka stated. “Excused or unexcused they were still absences.”
Senate voted nine to nine, allow-ing Jehlicka to retain his senate seat.
Carlson, who racked up five ex-cused absences, also made a plea.
“I realize it’s important to be here as much as possible,” he con-ceded. Carlson received 15 no votes and three yes votes, saving him from impeachment as well.
As both senators are now over the absence limit, they will have to undergo the impeachment process
again if they miss another meeting.Another topic quickly dividing
the room was the issue of senator re-apportionment. Each academic dis-trict is given its own senator. Specific housing populations are also desig-nated senators. Off-campus holds the most seats with eight, followed by the residence halls with two, and university apartments with one.
Art and Sciences Senator Eric Watne questioned the purpose of the Honors Senator position.
“I represent a school of about 2,800 students,” Watne pointed out. He compared this to the Honors Program whose participants pursu-ing only an honors degree he num-bered at 35.
Honors Senator Jacob Winkles refuted this number, claiming it to be much higher. The program’s 2009 brochure reports the “Honors Pro-gram serves about 500 students from majors across campus” but doesn’t list how many students exclusively study honors.
Off-Campus Senator Kylie Overson shared her understanding that honors students must report to the College of Arts and Sciences when applying for graduation. Some argued the program should be placed under that college instead of being considered a separate entity.
Adding to the discussion, Greek Senator John Kappel stated that the ROTC Program should receive a senator if the requirements are being based off of large programs.
“You have to be accepted into it just like other programs on campus,”
he offered.Vice President Grant Hauschild
attempted to quell some of the confusion by explaining how the language of the constitution affects what groups are considered eligible for their own senator representation.
“The constitution says ‘academic district’ while the words ‘college’ and ‘program’ are also used, complicating things,” he stated.
Senate voted to table the issue until next semester. Off-Campus Senator Sterling Wiggins moved to create an apportionment committee that would resolve the question and place their decision within the Stu-dent Government Constitution.
A select few senators felt the committee would not have enough time to resolve the issue. Others felt it wasn’t necessary.
“Isn’t there a way to informally resolve this?” inquired Off-Campus Senator Colten Larson. “I don’t have time to care about the honor thing,” he said in reference to his busy sched-ule. However, the creation of the committee passed and Wiggins was elected chair.
Senate also approved a bill al-locating $7,000 to the purchase of a new door to the Student Govern-ment Office. The current door has a broken latch, making it a safety hazard.
Tony Trimarco, Student Gov-ernment advisor and Director of the Memorial Union, explained there is no additional funding set aside in the Union’s budget for the improvement of tenant property and is the reason Student Government is footing the bill.
DS> Brandi Jewett is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]
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Harold Hamm Oklahoma Dia-betes Center in Oklahoma City. The Hamms have contributed $55 million so far, but he said this was just the “tip of the iceberg.” Hamm has also donated $1.8 mil-lion to the UTTC Cultural Arts Interpretive Center in Bismarck.
“We want to make a signifi-cant difference,” Hamm added.
Hamm told the crowded room that several characteristics defined good entrepreneurs: leadership, opportunity, passion and risk tol-erance. He told the students not
only to look for opportu-nities every-where but also to figure out how to hold onto them.
E n t r e -p reneur sh ip comes with many risks as
well, so entrepreneurs need to be comfortable with sticking their necks out and knowing they could fall. Hamm told his audience that he himself has fallen a few times and gave “dry holes” as an exam-ple.
“Look at yourself, look at your passion and follow your dreams,” Hamm said. “You have to believe in yourself.”
At the end of the meeting, UND President Robert Kelley, who, like Hamm, also grew up in the South, thanked Hamm for coming to campus. Kelley then presented Hamm with a gift that he would find “useful in the board room and would look good with a hard hat”—a UND sweatshirt.
own—it is as simple as typing in an internet address. Students who have an interest can simply visit amnesty.org and click the ‘get involved’ tab. From there, students can find a step by step process to voice their opinion and increase the betterment of human rights all over the world.
“[The website] makes it re-ally easy for students to get in-volved,” Rerick said, “More schools should get involved.”
Rerick and Whitman have been an instrumental part of increasing the knowledge of hu-man rights issues on the UND campus and increasing the peace throughout the world through Writing for Rights.
“We started Write for Rights here at UND because no other group was doing it,” Rerick said. The month of December is of-ten thought of as a time to give back to others, what better way to do just that than taking time to raise the standards for human rights.
on crude oil, so it does not drill off-shore.
Despite the tragedy of the oil spill, Harold Hamm said that sev-eral good things came out of the spill. BP accepted full responsibil-ity and set to make things right. The oil and gas industry also came together to contain and clean up the oil spill.
“Out of bad things,” Hamm said, “good things sometimes hap-pen.”
A chemi-cal engineer-ing student asked about alternative en-ergy sources such as wind or solar power, while another student asked about his company’s impact on the environment. Hamm said that he believed that these sources cannot yet compete with oil and gas. Gas-oline, he said, is the most efficient form of energy for vehicles right now and will be until alternative sources are better developed.
“I think it’s going to be a long time before those things become competitive,” he said.
Hamm also described his com-pany’s use of “zipper fractures” and “Eco-Pad drilling,” in which a large amount of oil is drilled from one location as opposed to sever-al places. North Dakota also has many regulations in place to pro-tect the environment, he added.
Two students asked Hamm about his civic responsibilities. Hamm replied that he contributes to all levels of education. He and his wife also helped to set up the
the Xukuru tribe which is indig-enous to the country of Brazil. Since last fall Rerick and Whit-man have taken into account this specific group of people when writing for the betterment of hu-man rights. The tribe’s ailments include governmental control of land that rightfully belongs to the tribe. They’ve also faced death threats on their leaders, some that have been executed.
“Amnesty International has a list of letters to write for the tribe,” Rerick said, “We write for the tribe because it is an impor-tant issue that we are aware of.”
On Friday, Dec 3, Whitman and Rerick conducted a meeting of letter writing entitled, “Write for Rights.” UND students were encouraged to stop by the Me-morial Union to write a letter for individuals that are affected by human rights issues.
Rerick and Whitman also educated participants on hu-man rights issues with a Power-Point that described situations of rights violations around the world, so individuals had a full grasp of the issue at hand and could make an educated deci-sion to write a letter. The event was co-sponsored by the UND Partnership for Student Cultural Engagement. Last December was the first year the event was held and was highly successful.
“It is a really educational ex-perience as well,” Rerick said, “Students aren’t just coming and blindly writing a letter.”
Writing a letter for the bet-terment of human rights issues can also be sought out on one’s
‘Look at yourself, look at your pas-sion and follow your dreams.
Harold HammCEO, Continental Resources
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and professors. Café Scribe is fully integrated onto Blackboard.
According to both Novak and Schuckman, the feedback from students and families who chose to rent textbooks has been very positive. Schuckman said that a major reason for this is that stu-dents are able to use financial aid to rent books through the UND Bookstore. Novak men-tioned that students can also buy the books for the original listing price should they decide that they want to keep them.
All in all, renting textbooks is an excellent way to save cash at the beginning of the year, though many students may not have uti-lized this option because they were confused about the process.
“Make sure to ask us if you’re confused,” said Novak. “We al-ways want to make sure our cus-tomers get the best local price.”
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Interdisciplinary courses open to upper classmen
>STAFF REPORTThe Dakota Student
Students from any discipline that need to fulfill their Essen-tial Studies “Capstone” require-ment have a few different options next semester. Three courses, The University (And Its Discon-tens) through Honors, Advanced Composition through English and Writing Across Disciplines through Humanities, will be of-fered this spring semester. These courses are open to all students in need of a Capstone course, and all three also fulfill the “A” special em-phasis, Advanced Composition.
HONORS 490: The Uni-versity (And Its Discontens) - 3 credits. T/R, 3:30-4:45 with Bri-an James Schill. “The Universi-ty” is a compact course designed to critique the American University from a variety of perspectives.
ENGLISH 408: Advanced Composition - 3 credits. T/R, 11-12:15 with Sheryl O’Donnell. Writing assignments are designed to provide opportunities for work both within and beyond students’ own field of study and research.
HUMANITIES 308: Writing Across Disciplines - 3 credits. M/W, 1-1:50 with Tami Carmi-chael. This course will provide students who have completed English 120 and have attained junior or senior level status with an upper-level, intense writing ex-perience that focuses on methods and strategies of writing in the: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Physical Sciences.
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A treaty landing on the table is being stalled, however, by fights over which countries should cut their emissions, by how much, and how to make sure that happens.
Jumeau, 52, is in the thick of the battle, rushing from negotiat-ing session to bilateral meeting and back again, past the manicured lawns, palm trees and turquoise pools of the 600-acre Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort, where the talks are taking place.
Gregarious and intensely on-message, the former newspaper editor and natural resources min-ister is an old hand, having navi-gated previous conferences in Bali; Poznan, Poland; Bonn, Germany; and Copenhagen. “If we don’t solve climate change, nothing else matters,” he said, “because many of us will be wiped off the face of the Earth.”
Between sessions, Jumeau plunges into the chaotic whirl of the scientists, activists, busi-ness executives and journalists at the conference. He holds forth at environmental seminars, sits for interviews with bloggers, updates his Facebook page and chats with students.
“I’ll talk to anyone,” he said. “I don’t care who they are as long as the word gets out.”
The negotiations “are demor-alizing,” he said. “You’re talking to people who refuse to listen. But then your Facebook friends say, ‘Way to go, Ronny. Give ‘em hell!’”
Seychelles, a group of about 150 islands, has fallen victim to the sort of “extreme weather events” that scientists have been documenting around the world
as the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rises, along with average global tem-peratures.
Drought has left the islands, which depend on tourism, fishing and tuna canning, with a 20-day supply of drinking water, Jumeau said. Desalination plants are run-ning at full capacity, but that means burning expensive fossil fuels, which contributes to global warming.
“The cost of producing food, drinking water and everything is going up, all because some peo-ple messed up the atmosphere,” Jumeau told a seminar on “Food Security and Human Rights in Small Island Developing States and the Arctic,” one of several hundred side events last week.
Island states, most of them in the tropics, are forging alli-ances with Greenlanders, Inuit and native Alaskans. “It’s simple,” Jumeau said. “As the poles melt, we drown.”
Since the Industrial Revolu-tion, rising carbon dioxide levels have trapped more heat in the at-mosphere, raising the average glob-al temperature about 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit), according to numerous scientific studies.
In the waning hours of last year’s talks, the United States, China and a few other large emit-ters drafted a non-binding three-page “accord” urging “deep cuts in global emissions” to keep the average rise in global temperature below 2 degrees centigrade (3.6 fahrenheit). As the atmosphere has warmed, the oceans have absorbed more heat, expanding their mass and driving a rise in sea levels and a bleaching of coral reefs around the globe.
Worldwide, about 1 billion
people rely on reefs for their live-lihoods and nutrition. Seychelles’ spectacular reefs, a draw for tour-ists, are also spawning grounds for fish.
A growing number of scientists say that warming should be held to 1.5 degrees centigrade to pre-vent widespread catastrophic con-sequences. Small island states and developing nations such as Ban-gladesh, convinced they will be in-undated if it gets any warmer than that, are demanding that Cancun negotiators commission a study on the effects of a 1.5-degree target.
“Our mantra is, ‘One-point-five to stay alive,’” Jumeau said.
But the move has been blocked by Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer.
“Our beaches are eroding and our reefs are collapsing,” Jumeau said. “I’m not talking about what climate change will do in the fu-ture. I’m talking about what it is doing right now.”
Seychelles’ government is plac-ing protective granite boulders along the coast. But “stronger waves are battering the beaches,” Jumeau said. “Much of the capital sits be-low sea level. We are in danger of losing our airport, our fishing port, our beaches, our hotels.”
With its thriving tourism, Sey-chelles doesn’t qualify for develop-ment aid given to poorer countries. “But we can’t afford the interest on international bank loans,” Jumeau said, adding that much of the money the World Bank and indus-trial nations plan to offer is in the form of loans.
“How is that fair?” he asked. “It is as if someone drives a car into your backyard, smashes the fence, crushes your garden and kills your plastic flamingo. Then he says, ‘I’ll give you a loan for messing up your yard, but you must pay me back.’”
my gifts, everyone would be okay with that. Well, I would first have to become proficient at making things for this to be a reality. How-ever, I think that many people, however wonderful they may be, would feel less than enthused if given a handmade gift in exchange for one that cost money.
I was on the fast track to hat-ing all Christmas presents when I happened upon the perfect gift for someone in my life. It was the sort of gift that you would want to give regardless of the occasion, commercial, or external pressure. I feel reinvigorated by the thought of giving this gift; I’m excited to wrap it up and attach a card, but most of all, I sincerely cannot wait to give it. And for the first time in a while, my excitement over find-ing and giving tokens of my ap-preciation outweighs the dread of having to find them.
This time of year can be dif-ficult; all the stressors of school combine with the pressures of the holidays. It’s really easy to forget the plain and simple realization that we are entitled to celebrate (or to refrain from doing so) in any manner we see fit. So, for oth-ers dissatisfied with the emphasis that commercial holidays convey, I encourage you to do your own thing. Make your presents. Bake your presents. Write your presents. Buy your presents. If nothing else, taking the time to remember why you ever loved this holiday to be-gin with. In doing so, there is al-ways the potential to recapture it.
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DS> Heather Jackson is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]
The Grand Forks Public Library has been loved by patrons for many years, but now the city is looking to build a new library to house the numerous technological advances.
sponsibility and check out books. People can check out DVDs for free, borrow books and use com-puter and Internet resources. There are also other resources for home-schoolers, people looking for jobs and research. The public library is an amazing space for a lot of great ideas to happen.
The public library is also a public space where alcohol and drugs are not involved and only good things can happen. There’s nothing more awesome than read-ing about new ideas, checking out a book for a research paper or reading a novel in some comfort-able chairs for a few hours.
I fully support a new library, however I feel it needs to be in a location that is accessible for all. Social economic class and trans-portation needs ought to be con-sidered. The old Leevers building is the best spot, I believe, and I hope this is that spot that will be chosen if the project contin-ues. If you are interested, please check for the Grand Forks Pub-lic Library updates on facebook, take the survey on the site I listed above and watch out for articles in the Herald. Public libraries are amazing social spaces and one of the last spaces that are free; let’s support it so this wonderful space can continue. The public library is also used by UND students—so please support the proposed changes and participate in the process!
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culture&mediatuesday december 7, 2010DS
On the night of December 2nd, the Empire Theater in downtown Grand Forks was bombarded with moustaches of all kinds. Spirits were high as
the month of Movember came to a close at the Movember Bash hosted by team Grand Morks and other local pubs and restaurants.
While people got their moustache photos by Lance Photography, mingled with the mustached men of Grand Forks and grabbed plates of food
and drinks, Emcee Spencer Dobson, a comedian originally from Grand Forks, introduced the fi rst musical act of the night. Amanda Panic, lead
singer and guitarist of Grand Forks local band June Panic’s Wife, graced the stage with her solo act. Accompanied by her Fender Stratocaster, she
belted heartfelt tunes to the audience and set the stage for a great night of live entertainment.
The following act was local comedian Bob Cheetah. Although it took a little while for the crowd to warm up to Cheetah, his act delivered laughs
with bits discussing marriage, divorce, smoking and how gang violence in Grand Forks is impossible considering it’s too cold in the winter to roll
down the window for a drive by.
A local band called The Hasties took the stage after Cheetah. The quartet, whose musical style could be categorized as indie folk rock, got the
audience’s hands clapping and feet tapping. The harmonies of the Link sisters worked hand in hand with the band’s light and energetic drumming,
guitar playing and bass work.
After The Hasties tore down their set, Emcee Spencer Dobson announced door prize winners and took some time to do his stand-up. Dobson’s
routine was well received by the audience and laughs were echoing throughout the theater. A particular crowd favorite was a statement he made
about the “marketing genius” of Applebees’ menu item Chicken Fried Chicken. Once Dobson had the crowd rolling in the isles he smoothly transi-
tioned back into emcee and handed out the awards of the night. The Movember awards ranged in many hilarious categories including the Tom Sell-
eck Award, The Lame-mo (worst moustache), Miss Movember, and Mr. Movember respectively. There was also a silent auction held throughout the
night and the winners were also announced at that time. Items included fi ne wines, nights out on the town courtesy of local restaurants and artwork.
Once the auction winners were announced, the fi nal band of the night brought the festivities to a close by getting the audience out of their seats
and dancing to some bluegrass. The North River Ramblers played their set of traditional bluegrass tunes, working in some fast paced tunes to get the
crowd’s heels kicking and some slower songs to bring them together in song. A highlight of their performance was their rendition of the song “Shav-
ing Cream” in which a friend of the band walked on stage with lather and a Sweeney Todd-esque razor blade and shaved the moustache of James
Fiest, lead singer and guitarist of the band, all while he and the band continued to play the song.
Movember started back in 2003 when several friends in Australia wanted to do something to raise awareness of men’s health. The idea of growing
moustaches started off as a joke but eventually turned into a driving force that spread nation wide. The whole point of Movember is to raise funds
and awareness for prostate and testicular cancer. Men shave their faces clean the night of October 31st and grow out their moustaches for the month
of November, raising funds from supporters to donate to the Movember cause. Whether it’s a moustache that’s in the spirit of Tom Selleck or John
Waters, every facial follicle brings a nation wide recognition to men’s health issues.
> Inside: New Hellogoodbye album review
I’m not a cartoon villain—
I’m promoting men’s health.>XAVIER PASTRANO
The Dakota Student
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Going a cappellaCONCERT Music group makes stop at Empire Arts Theater in Grand Forks.
>NIChOLAs GOwANThe Dakota Student
Do you love Holiday music but hate instruments? This evening, De-cember 7th, a cappella quartet Tonic Sol Fa will be performing at the Empire Arts Center on the North Dakota extension of their 2010 Holiday Tour. Performing predomi-nantly Christmas themed Holiday music; with tunes such as “On This Christmas Night”, “Ay, Ay, Ay It’s Christmas”, “Baby King” and “Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me”; they also perform classic oldies covers like Don Henley’s “Witchy Woman”, the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” and Chris Kinner’s “Land of 1,000 Dances”; and some of their original works like “Highway Patrol”, “That Old Pair of Jeans” and “Sail Away”.
Originating from the Minneap-olis-St. Paul area, they are a very pop-ular a cappella group. Their sound has been described by the New York Times as “A vocal kaleidoscope…unique to the human voice.” The group currently consists of Shawn Johnson (vocals), Mark McGowan (vocals), Greg Bannwarth (vocals) and Jared Dove (vocals). They have also recently released “Greatest Time of the Year” in a compact disc album that was primarily recorded on their 2008 Holiday Tour at Hoyt Sher-man Place, Des Moines, Iowa. The final track of that album, “We All Need Saving”, as described on their blog, says it “garnered countless compliments and requests for us to record, and we knew it had to be at the top of the list for the beginning of this year.”
Tonic Sol Fa is a highly awarded group. They have done corporate collaborations with Bose, Schwan’s,
General Mills, Blue Bunny and Herberger’s, among other corporate powers. They had an original work, “Snõ,” included on Wal-mart’s pop-ular Christmas video The 12 Dogs of Christmas. They have won an Emmy award in the Musical Com-position/Arrangement category for a song performed in a Toys for Tots Public Service Announcement. And they also have two Independent Grammy wins for Best Original Holiday Song and Best Original Pop Song. No strangers to politics, Tonic Sol Fa remains on the fence, hav-ing supported both Republican and Democratic events and former presi-dents. They have also appeared on national broadcasts of NBC’s Today Show and A Prairie Home Compan-ion with Garrison Keillor.
To get an understanding of their work, I think the song “Sail Away” says it best:
In America you’ll get food to eat / Won’t have to run through the jun-gle / And scuff up your feet / You’ll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day / It’s great to be an Ameri-can.
True pioneers of the American Dream, Tonic Sol Fa manages to glo-rify religion, consumption, obesity and alcoholism in the opening lyrics to just one of their songs. Imagine how well they can celebrate the birth of Jesus (Son of David, Son of God, Son of (wo)Man, Lamb of God, Im-manuel) with their lively vocal beats and rhythms.
If you arrive early enough, you won’t need to “scuff up your feet” when the show begins at 7:30 to-night. Wine, from my experience, isn’t always available at the Empire Art Center, so take Cab Crawler home if you plan to stop at Bonzer’s across the street after the show. Ticket prices are $22 and $25 for members and nonmembers, respectively.
Ds> Nicholas Gowan is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
Madrigals wow crowd
Band matures with ageMUsIC REVIEw Hel-logoodbye release new album that showcases their more serious side.
MUsIC & FEAsT UND Music department delivers fine dining and entertainment.
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>MATThEw ROyThe Dakota Student
The year is 1506, around Christmas time. The place is ye olde England. The king has called upon of festive feast to celebrate the season and has invited all the lordes and ladyes of ye olde England to join him for song and food. The court has been moved to modern North Dakota and the King has de-creed the feast open to the common folk in honour of the times. The Madrigal Dinner is a place of mer-
riment in the bleak North Dakotan winter. It is a toast to times past and future. It is a fantastic event full of amazing performances.
A madrigal is a kind of infor-mal performance. The idea is to have people entertain themselves instead of hiring musicians to play and sing while they eat. The lords and ladies would often sing songs themselves during dinner events and parties. Madrigal performanc-es became commonplace in Eng-land in the 16th century when the idea was brought from Italy. They became an integral part of the Christmas celebrations because the season had long, dark, cold nights in which the nobles wouldn’t have as many forms of entertainment. The songs would be written for
small singer groups and many are carols known today.
UND’s Music Department has tried their best to recreate this atmosphere when they put on their Madrigal Dinners. It is a form of dinner theater where the actors and singers are not there to solely entertain the guests but they get the audience to entertain themselves. What I mean can be exemplified by one of the first audience participation activities at the dinner, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” The kings had de-creed that a singing contest was to occur between all the tables in the feasting hall. Singers from the
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It’s been just a little over four years since Hellogoodbye released their debut full length Zombies!Aliens!Vampires!Dinousaurs!, a less than stellar follow up to their debut Hellogoodbye EP. Those four years were just long enough for the band to completely fall off of my radar, that is until they released Would It Kill You last month. Whatever the band was doing during those four years between these releases clearly worked. This album is a huge step up from their previous releases, showing a maturity that was lack-ing on their previous albums. Re-leased on the band’s own Wasted Summer Record label, this album is proof that bands might be better
off releasing their albums on their own.
On Would It Kill You, Hel-logoodbye puts aside the synthe-sizer- heavy sound of their previ-ous releases and focuses on a more conventional sound. They are still there but they take a back seat to the guitar, drums, and Forrest Kline’s vocals which are stronger than they have ever been.
On the opening track, “Find-ing Something to Do”, it’s instantly clear that Hellogoodbye are do-ing something different this time around. It’s a great way to open the album and introduce the more raw sound of the album while still being as catchy as ever. The album con-tinues to build through the tracks “Getting Old”, “When We First Met”, and “Betrayed By Bones” and then “You Sleep Alone” hits.
It’s one of the best songs on the al-bum featuring Kline’s frantic vocals backed by a frantic guitar riff that guarantees it will be stuck in your head for days to come.
Lyrically, Would It Kill You is what you would expect from Hellogoodbye, cutesy catchy love songs but there seems to be more substance to the words this time around. On “The Thoughts that Give Me the Creeps”, perhaps the best song on the album, starts out simple enough but the chorus hits a stride when Kline sings “Oh what if I never knew your name/Oh my God that’s insane/What if your love is not the same?/As it seems inside my brain/What if you’re not really in my sheets?/Just
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the thought gives me the creeps”. They’re straightforward and when mixed with the acoustics of
more conventional instruments. Some songs on the album work with some effects like “Betrayed By Bones,” but tracks like “Find-ing Something to Do” and “You Sleep Alone” show that the guys in Hellogoodbye are just as tal-ented, if not more, with their gui-tars and drums than they are with their synthesizers and keyboards. Would It Kill You is not only one of the biggest surprises I’ve heard in a long time, it is one of the best I’ve heard in a long time.
the song it works and comes off as one of the album’s strongest tracks.
On Would It Kill You, Hello-goodbye manages to make one of the most consistent albums I’ve heard in a long time. Every song on it is great, especially when you look at it compared to their previ-ous albums. Their sound has ma-tured and it’s served them well. It’s a fun, catchy album that can at times be thought provoking, at least more so than their previous releases. I’d have to say a lot of it is thanks to the band putting the electronics in the background and focusing on Kline’s vocals and DS> Matthew Roy is a staff writer for
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the feasting hall. Singers from the court join each table to tell them how to participate. When the song begins, everyone in the audience was generally self-conscious and didn’t put forth a full effort, but by the end of the song everyone was jumping up and down and singing (sometimes just scream-ing) as loud and as energetic as possible. This song broke the ice and the rest of the night everyone seemed to let their guard down and began to let themselves have fun.
The actors and singers were also phenomenal. They performed many songs that were incredibly complex and had some tonal ef-fects that flabbergasted me. I es-pecially liked the P.D.Q. Bach pieces. Emily Hogenson made a fantastic Jester. She made all her jokes seem to be improvised on the spot and was able to run with the unscripted audience participation. Some of the jokes were bad puns, but even though they would make the audience groan they were still funny. I believe the guests received more than their money’s worth for the event. The food smelled and looked delicious (although I didn’t
get to partake of any) and the concert was superb. The evening ended with traditional carols as the audience left into the snow. I know my hesitance at leaving was not because of a fear of the cold night, but because I wanted more.
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sportstuesday december 7, 2010
> Inside: the truth about the Vikings, Drake bites UND, WHKY vs BadgersDS
>scores &schedules WBB
UND @MSUMankato, MN12/10-11 @ 7 p.m.
WHKYUND @UMDDuluth, MN12/ 10-11 @7 p.m.
@ Kansas StateManhattan, KS12/8 @ 7 p.m.
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rIVALrY North Dakota bombarded the net, scor-ing nine goals in the two game home series.
Winter cleaning sweeps Huskies
Matt Frattin walked into the North Dakota locker room like always on Saturday, ready to put on the iconic white home jersey for the second night in a row and attempt to sweep the St. Cloud State Huskies after UND’s 3-1 victory Friday.
Only when he walked in, all he saw was black.
“This is my fourth year, and we’ve never worn the blacks at home,” said Frattin.
The 11,941 attendees at Ralph Engelstad Arena who prob-ably didn’t expect to see the alter-nate black uniforms also probably didn’t expect to see Frattin and the North Dakota team break out with five goals in the first period en route to a 6-2 dismantling of the Huskies, either.
“I guess we were all pretty jacked up, and it showed in the first period.”
Frattin, Friday’s second star and Saturday’s first, had five points (two goals, three assists) in North Dakota’s (11-5-2, 9-3-0 WCHA) sweep of conference foe St. Cloud State (5-9-2, 3-6-1 WCHA).
Typically, North Dakota has won this season with point shots that find the net, but this week-end saw UND score seven of their eight goals below the dots—an area that coach Dave Hakstol said the majority of quality scor-ing opportunities comes from.
“It’s fun to score pretty goals, but there aren’t many of those out there,” said Hakstol. “You have to get to some tough areas if you want to create scoring opportuni-ties regularly.”
Friday, it looked for a while like St. Cloud State was poised to right the ship on their tough start to the season, as the Huskies kept pace with North Dakota through two periods. Never phased, how-ever, UND’s veterans had other ideas.
“The older guys in our lineup really stepped forward,” coach Dave Hakstol said. UND was playing without two of their top scorers, Jason Gregoire and Brett Hextall, but Malone’s line, dubbed the “Pony Express,” took
charge.The Huskies drew first with a
goal from the team’s scoring lead-er, junior forward Drew LeBlanc.
But Frattin produced the equalizer just 18 seconds into the second period.
The forward scored his four-teenth goal in a familiar fashion: a snipe from the left circle that goalie Mike Lee had no chance on.
The play was started thanks to a clean draw off the faceoff by Malone, who went 29-11 on fa-ceoffs for the weekend. Malone made the clean pass to Frattin, who buried it.
Then Malone and company took command in the third. Ma-lone’s two goals were too much for the struggling Huskies, who dropped to 11th in the WCHA with 7 points.
Malone’s first goal was a for-tunate one. He took a feed from teammate Evan Trupp, streaked down the left slot and plugged the puck into the crease from below the red line when Lee had slipped out of position.
St. Cloud State’s Nic Dowd accidentally took the puck with him as he knocked the goal off its mooring.
Malone then scored at 15:04
of the 3rd when he gained a step on the Huskies defenders, then buried it five-hole on Lee.
“He’s a big body with some pretty good hands,” Hakstol said. “Driving it wide and taking it to the crease on the third goal was a really strong play.”
“He’s been getting chances, and it’s finally going in for him, which is good to see,” said Frat-tin.
UND fed off of the success of their top line on Friday. On Sat-urday, everybody chipped in.
Thirteen different UND play-ers had points, and a trio of rink rats—Derrick LaPoint, Brent Da-vidson, and Mario Lamoureux—all earned their first goals of the season.
Evan Trupp scored first, chip-ping in a feed from Frattin just five minutes into the game.
Only a few moments later, LaPoint got on the board off of another rush and a rebound that came off the pad of Huskies goal-tender Dan Dunn.
Brent Davidson,buried his own rebound on yet another rush to score only his third career goal to make it 3-0. The goal chased goalie Dan Dunn from the game, though he came back in the third to finish.
Frattin would score his fif-teenth goal and his first this sea-son from down low, and Corban Knight punctuated the dominant first period for North Dakota by taking a seeing-eye pass from Danny Kristo and depositing it into the wide open net.
From there, UND went into cruise control to squash any hope of a Huskies comeback.
SCSU’s Mitch MacMillan and Travis Novak provided the lone goals for the Huskies.
Lamoureux broke a 23-game streak without a goal, burying one top shelf in the third.
For Lamoureux and the rest of the North Dakota team, who close out the first half of their season next weekend in Mankato against the Mavericks, getting the sweep meant getting down to business, and that started with the attire.
“When we wear blacks, it’s all business. The boys know that it’s a must-win game. We’ve had some trouble completing the sweep at home so we knew tonight was crucial for us. It was definitely a message sent.”
Defenseman Jake Marto
Defenseman Dillon Simpson
Defenseman Chay Genoway Forward Mike Cichy
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16 SPORTS tuesday december 7, 2010
Saturday, Drake defeats UND 3-2
UND’s school-record 15-game
Playing host to the Wisconsin Badgers this weekend was not ini-tially fond on the North Dakota Women’s hockey team. However, playing the first of the two game series was anything auxilerating for UND. The de-ceiving score, a UND loss of 3-4, doesn’t justify the se-ries of events that took place at the Ralph En-gelstad Arena this Friday.
Badgers Hillary Knight and Meghan Duggan pounced on UND like a rabid rodent that is unaware of its woodland surround-ings by each scoring a pair of goals. The two cheeseheads gave a four goal lead until the final buzzer in the period.
The eigth ranked UND team came striving back in the second period as Grand Forks native Joc-elyne Lamoureux and teammate Jordan Slavin scored two goals, cutting into the Badger team lead. With a certain atmosphere of rushed anxiety, North Dakota crashed the net hard. With hopes of catching a slop goal, UND was hoping to have a bit of luck on their side.
With the Badgers still up 4-2 in the second period, hope was re-stored by forward Alyssa Wiebe. as she scored on a wrap around beating the Wisconsin goalie as the final seconds expired from the period. Unfortunately, the two teams were deadlocked in a tightly contested third period as both de-fenses proved impenetrable by ei-ther team.
North Dakota was outshot by the Badgers 28-13. Losing the number one ranking in the latest polls, the second ranked Badgers seemed to be hungry and try to make a statement amongst the na-
tion. However, the tenacity of UND
needs to be admired as they fought valiantly to try and reclaim vic-tory. As North Dakota lost the first game, Saturday was much differ-ent, however UND still suffered the loss.
Wisconsin used their mighty brooms as North Dakota was descimated by a second period flury of goals by the visiting Bad-gers. Jocelyne Lamoureux sparked
UND’s offen-sive siege early as she tallied her 14th goal of the season in the first period, which would be North Da-kota’s only of the game.
The wom-en suffered a terrible explosion, as the UND women were outshot 22-4 in the second period, thus giving up four even-strength goals in the process. The final nails in the UND coffin were the remaining two goals that were scored in the third period. Six different Badgers scored each of their goals in the rout. Monique Lamoureux-Kolls had the other goal in the losing bout for North Dakota.
All momentum seemed to be countered and sealed off as the Badgers were relentless and op-pressive throughout the weekend. However, UND will be seeking redemption by closing out their season with a tough road series against UMD. The defending na-tional champs already squared off with North Dakota earlier this year and tied in the series. The games will be played in the Duluth En-tertainment and Convention Cen-ter on December 10th and 11th at 7:07 p.m.
North Dakota falls to Badgers
>JOel AdRiAnThe Dakota Student
dS> Joel Adrian is the Sports Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
‘With a certain at-mosphere of rushed anxiety, North Da-kota crashed the net hard. Joel Adrian
sports editor
dAMAGeS UND was sadly swept last week-end at home against Wisconsin.
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Monique Lamoureux-Kolls handles the puck during last week’s series
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For only the fourth time in history, the Drake Bulldogs took on the North Dakota women’s basketball team for a Saturday afternoon battle at the Betty. It was a rematch from last year’s affair, when the Bulldogs edged UND 70-58 in a matchup held in Des Moines.
After dropping two of their first three games, the Bulldogs came into Saturday riding the momentum of a 3-game winning streak, led by reigning Missouri Valley Conference player of the week Kristin Turk.
The North Dakota women came in on a 3-game losing streak, most recently to Gonza-ga. In the first five games of the year, the team was led in scor-ing by a freshman, highlighting the developmental nature of this year’s squad.
Saturday’s result was an-other stum-bling block for the ladies, as 1,627 fans saw the re-building proj-ect continue, with UND falling by a score of 76-51. Turk led the Bulldogs with 21 points, as Drake shot a whopping 55% from 3-point land. “Drake is a good basketball team. They shot well from three-point range and exploited our weaknesses,” said UND head coach Gene Roe-buck. “We need to get better. We are a young team and I would say that we are in a definite rebuild-ing year.”
Drake’s Morgan Reid led all players with 13 rebounds, and the team shot nearly 90% from the free throw line. Drake placed
>DevOn ROehRichThe Dakota Student
SWiSheD North Dakota suffered Des Moines bite last Saturday night with a score of 51-76.
‘We are a young team and I would say that we are in a definite rebuilding year... Gene Roebuck
head coach
DS> Devon Roehrich is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
Drake bulldogs chomp down on UND basketballat least eight players in the scoring column for the fourth-straight contest and every active player scored for the Bulldogs for the second-straight game.
UND did have its moments though, and many different fac-es provided big-time efforts for Roebuck. Nay Mothershed had 8 steals, and the UND bench outscored Drake’s reserves 32-9, led by Sophomore Carly Roth-fusz’s 11.
“Some of our younger play-ers really stepped up today,” said Roebuck. “Carly Rothfusz had a nice game on the offensive end.”
But UND’s play of late has been of concern, as Saturday’s defeat was their third straight loss of 25 or more points. The starting backcourt did not score during the first 37 minutes, and North Dakota finished with 25 turnovers.
The Bulldogs raced out to a 17-6 advantage six minutes into the first half. By the 10:00 mark, Turk had hit back-to-back 3-pointers to push the lead to 29-10. Turk was 3-for-4 from the 3-point line to lead the pow-erful Bulldogs’ outside shooting
performance. “I’m proud of the team for this gutsy win,” said Drake head coach Amy Stephens. “To come out as sharp and mentally fo-
cused as we were was impressive. I like the way our team played today.”
UND, however, went just 5-for-20 from the 3-point line. Mallory Youngblut, who was shooting 1-for-15 from the field in her past two games, continued her personal slump as she fin-ished 0-for-5 from the 3-point line against Drake, and 0-for-7 from the field overall.
“Mallory’s pressing,” Roe-buck said. “She needs to under-stand that she’s a player other teams are going to want to shut down. She needs to step up and do the little things, like on the defensive end.”
With the future schedule only getting tougher, it is evi-dent something needs to happen to provide a spark for the young squad. “We’re probably going to shake things up,” Roebuck said. “I’m not big on change. But if the change is going to benefit our team, that’s what needs to hap-pen. We have some players who deserve more playing time.”
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Freshman forward Megan Lauck drives to the basket in last Saturday against the Drake Bulldogs.
The Women’s team will travel to Manhattan, Kan. to try and steal a win from the Kansas State Wildcats.
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If the saying is true that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, then it might be argued that it is better to have won a Superbowl many years ago and not returned to the big dance again than to have never won one at all. Un-fortunately for the Minnesota Vikings, they fall into the latter camp.
This past Sunday, they played a fellow team of perennial disap-pointment: the Buffalo Bills. While the Vi-kings have a rich and sto-ried history of losing Super-bowls in the ‘70s, losing NFC Cham-pionships after record-setting seasons and making terrible trades to the Dallas Cowboys, the Bills’ Super Bowl failures were much more compacted: in the early ‘90s, they lost four in a row. Whether it is more palatable to have lost four Super Bowls the way the Vikes did or four in a row like the Bills is debatable, but either way, both teams have earned their place in the Pantheon of Privation (a Pantheon that in-cludes such demiurges as the Cubs and Clippers).
Sportswriter Bill Simmons summed up Vikings fandom nicely before last year’s NFC Championship game (another disappointment) when he wrote, “Jets/Bills/Vikes/Browns fans expect to get punched, contort their faces into a giant wince, wait for a punch that never comes, say to themselves, ‘Cool, I’m not gonna get punched, it’s gonna be OK!’ ... and then they get clocked.” Seems spot-on to me.
I recall, at the tender age of nine, watching the ’98 Vikings face off against the Falcons at the end of that ill-fated season, full of hope, thinking this was the year they’d win it all, knowing that they had a history of losing but, being nine, not really un-derstanding the lengths to which the Vikes would go to fail. One Gary Anderson botched field goal later, and I realized what it was to be a Minnesota football fan.
Over a decade later, as I watched last year’s NFC Cham-pionship game, I felt a sense of impending doom, of something inevitably going wrong. I was optimistic, sure, but the little devil sat on my shoulder, whis-pering in my ear and reminding me that I was still cheering for the Vikings. Success was not an option. However, in the fourth quarter, the Big Purple orches-trated quite a would-be game-
winning drive; they were in field goal range, and I had convinced myself that victory was immi-nent. I had convinced myself that they could do it—they could re-ally do it! Like Simmons’ prover-bial fan, though, I had forgotten about the incoming slug, and af-ter a too-many-men-on-the-field call and a classic Favre intercep-tion, I felt the sting of a knock-out punch.
Now, the Vikes are in no position to vie for a Vince Lom-bardi trophy (who names a tro-phy after a Packer anyway?), but they’ve got their pride on the line, and they certainly haven’t been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs yet. The Bills, on the other hand, have had a bust of a season, and this game was no different. The Vikes routed poor Buffalo 38-14,
with another out s tanding performance from Adrian Sp e e d e r s o n and a passable T-Jack com-ing in after Favre’s early exit due to injury (thank
Jaysus for Sid the Kid Rice).I wasn’t drawn to this game,
though, because of the possibil-ity of a Vikings blowout. No, what brought me in were the similarities between these teams from Buffalo and Minnesota. Not many teams have a shared sense of loss like these two.
The MLB had the Cubs and Red Sox, but since Boston’s World Series win, the Cubs are just drifting out there on their own. Can you imagine what would happen if Minnesota or Buffalo won a Super Bowl? Who would the other go to for sol-ace? The Eagles? The Bengals? The Chargers? These teams, too, have histories of losing, but their inability to win just isn’t the same. Similarly, the Browns and Lions can pat each other on the back after a season and reminisce
about just how much they suck, but this style of losing (“style” meaning going winless or close-to season after season) is another beast. Being expected to fail is freeing in a way: if you end up having a good season, it’s a nice surprise. If you’re expected to compete at the top level, though, and continuously fail, you’re go-ing to have a pretty rough time coping with it.
Such is life as a Vikings fan, and, in another part of the coun-try, life in Buffalo. I can’t think of a cohesive way to close this all up, to make an uplifting or satisfying point about losing in such a way. All I can say is that Vikings and Bills fans have a lot in common; they’re both defined by failure. And yet we’ll keep cheering (most of us) for the Vikes, though we know they’ll disappoint.
It’s like the Dark Knight or something. They’ll keep losing because they know we can take it. I’d rather have losers in MN than see these losers playing in LA. What I guess I’m really say-ing is that misery loves company, and whenever the Vikes and Bills get together, there’s an almost-tangible sense of misery in the air, and maybe that’s something to be cherished.
>JOShua BRORByThe Dakota Student
MaNIC DEPRESSION A dashing former editor expresses his English words on the Vikings.
Misery loves company
DS> Josh Brorby is a foreign correspon-dent for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
‘...I felt an impend-ing sense of doom, of something going inevitably wrong...
Josh Brorbyforeign correspondent
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VIKINGS SCHEDULE
12/12 vs N.Y. Giants12 p.m.
12/20 vs Chicago Bears7:30 p.m.
12/26 @ Philly Eagles12 p.m.
01/02 @ Detroit Lions12 p.m.
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King James made his return to Cleveland for the first time, on Thursday night. After “De-cision 10,” a messy divorce that ended with James signing with the Miami Heat this off-season. LBJ took a lot of criticism for his elabo-rate free agent signing on National Tele-vision. After James said the words, “This fall, I am tak-ing my talents to South Beach” he went from the most loved person in Cleveland, to the most hated in a blink of an eye.
We can talk about how the “decision” could of been handled different, and James agrees with that, there’s no doubt about it. The only good thing that came about the elaborate “decision” was
the millions it raised for The Boys and Girls Club of America.
Thursday night was full of anticipation. The big question was, how was Cleveland going to welcome Lebron. Well the NBA doubled the on-court security for the game, if that was any indica-tion. The moment finally arrived when
Lebron came through the tunnel for the first time, in a packed arena of 20,000 hostile fans, screaming and holding hate signs for the one who once was
the King of the City. Le-bron didn’t look bothered at all. To make the fans even more livid, James pro-ceeded with his signature chalk throw
at center court that made his fa-mous “Witness” slogan for Nike, which originated in Cleveland. When James tossed chalk in front of Cleveland fans in Heat ap-parel, the arena lit up with boos, and cursing. Lebron made it clear to Cleveland that he was still the King.
King James played the best
game of the season that night. LBJ put up a season high of 38 points, draining almost everything he put up. Cleveland fans were silenced by the end of the game. LBJ and the Heat took it to Cleveland by a score of 118-90.
But honestly Cleveland what do you have to be upset about? LBJ gave you seven years of his career with you. He gave you five straight playoff appearances and back to back 60 win seasons in the last two years, along with 2-MVPs. And the King did it all by himself.
Lebron James didn’t fail Cleveland, Cleveland failed Le-bron. The fact that he devoted seven years, that included a con-tract extension, you didn’t give him any help! The Miami Heat moved around their salary cap, signed Chris Bosh, and extended Dwayne Wade’s contract just for Lebron. Dan Gilbert owner of the Cavaliers never spent the money to put together a supporting cast for LBJ. And Cleveland is upset at James? Ridiculous Cleveland.
Do you blame Lebron? You make your “Decision.”
>TaDD POweRSThe Dakota Student
DS> Tadd Powers is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
JeeRS Lebron James reappeared in his home state to play basketball, not to give apologies.
Temptations for the king
‘Lebron James didn’t fail Cleve-land, Cleveland failed Lebron.
Tadd Powersstaff writer
The proponents for the sport are currently in negotiations with the NCAA to become an official collegiate sport.
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SUDOKU!
DS> Kirby Graff is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
the Harry Potter series for ev-eryone. Harry Potter may seem to some a children’s or adoles-cent’s series, but that is not nec-essarily the case.
The first book may be ca-tered to the younger genera-tion, but as time has gone on the themes have gotten darker and more complex.
The afterlife, death, war, hate, love, sacrifice, happiness, friendship and truth are all wo-ven into the series in some way. It may not be “real” in the sense that this is a fiction novel, but all of the storylines are analo-gous to real world situations.
I sat in the first row for the last Harry Potter movie, “Har-ry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” for the midnight pre-miere, and I did the same for this movie.
I implore each and every one of my readers to try and see this movie.
It doesn’t have to be in the theaters (which is highly recom-mended) with me and countless others, but for something that could be one of the ten most popular films of all-time, it is worth watching for society’s sake.
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