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DSInsideWait list troubles, page 3
Ochs: books vs. their movies, page 5
Becker: academy award nominees, page 6
Campus briefs, page 7
Navigating the Union info desk, page 10
Ethel plays the Art Museum, page 11
Men’s hoops bash Bobcats, page 13
Women’s hockey falls to Minnesota, page 15
Tuesday January 15, 2013Volume 130 | Issue 28
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UND splits Colorado College Page 13
MyGen heads to national festival Page 9
Sandstrom: preached away Page 4
Between the Memorial Union and the Chester Fritz Library lies a building that often goes unnoticed by students at UND.
However, for the students and faculty of the UND School of Law, that building — housing the Thor-modsgard Law Library and the law school — is the central hub for their educations.
This legislative cycle, the School of Law is requesting $12 million from the state of North Dakota to expand and enhance the four-classroom building that serves over 250 law students.
In preparation for the spring 2014 American Board Associa-tion re-accreditation site visit, the
Law school requests $12 million for renovationUPGRADE UND de-partment due for re-accreditation but are ill-equipped.
SARAH ERICKSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
With remnants of bitter cold and icy road conditions still evident throughout campus, the weekend appearance of Winter Storm Gan-dolf in Grand Forks marked the first storm of the new year.
ElIzAbETH ERICKSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
blIzzARD UND stu-dents have different opinions on the sever-ity of weekend storm.
Gandolf hits the ForksSo named by the National
Weather Service, Gandolf dropped several inches of snow on the Grand Forks community and surrounding area.
Despite receiving less than pre-dicted, the amount of snow seen by UND student Liesbeth Richards in her hometown of Los Angeles.
“This is probably the most snow I’ve ever seen,” Richards said. “I’ve seen snow, but never in a city so much, and I feel bad for all of those people that get stuck in their cars.”
Despite drastic temperature
drops from Thursday’s high of 48 degrees, perhaps the most intrigu-ing component of the storm was its name — Gandolf.
Starting this year, the National Weather Service began naming winter storms to raise awareness and promote easier communication about weather storms now and into the future.
Named after a character in Wil-liam Morris’ 1896 fantasy novel, The Well at the World’s End, Gan-
STORM [page 8]
Senators to attend legislative sessionCAPITOl Three UND Senators will attend session to speak about student fee increase.
KAITlIN bEzDICEKTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
Student Body President Logan Fletcher, Vice President Eric Watne and State Governmental Affairs Rep-resentative Shane Gerbert will be trav-eling to Bismarck this week to repre-sent student interests during the state legislative session.
Legislators will decide on Senate Bill 2003, which allocates state dollars to UND for the next two years.
“We will be there if they need any information or someone to speak on behalf of the bill,” Gerbert said. “We will support whatever is best for the students, while working with the state.”
Governor Jack Dalrymple re-leased a budget calling for over $300 million for UND, but the bill crafted by legislators is set for $243,616,414. This is an increase from the last ses-sion, which allocated just over $236 million to UND.
Funding for the School of Medi-cine and Health Sciences is not in-cluded in the previous amount. The bill allocates $55 million directly to that school.
If the bill passes in the Senate, it will be voted on in the House of Rep-resentatives later in the session.
Students could vote on feesState Senator Nicole Poolman is
reaching out to Student Government leadership to propose a direct student body vote when considering increas-ing student fees. Senators discussed adding this on the ticket when the general student body elections occur.
The language on the ballot would indicate the amount student fees would increase and the option to se-lect yes or no.
“Basically, right now if anything is increased, it comes to the Senate to decide,” President Fletcher said. There was a concern that when put to a vote by the student body, “the op-portunity for conversation would not be there,” he said.
“I would worry about misvoting,” Sen. Emma Meyer said. “It’s a heavy topic and I’m sure many students don’t even think about the idea.”
Sen. Adam Swigost favored giv-ing the students this opportunity, “If we can trust students to vote for our leaders at the national and state level, I think we should be able to vote on these issues as well,” he said.
Sen. Poolman has not released any specifics but wanted input from student leadership about the general concept.
SENATE [page 2]
UND splits Colorado College Page 13
The UND School of Law building was built in 1923 and now considered inadequate, risking the program of losing its accreditation. Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.
school is in need of more class-rooms, student space and techno-logical improvements.
“The ABA already told us our building is overall inadequate,” School of Law Dean Kathryn Rand said. “And that’s nothing new to us — we feel it every day. In recent years we have really been pushing up against the four walls of our fa-cilities.”
The School of Law was built in 1923 and originally contained both the law school and School of Commerce (now known as the College of Business and Public Ad-ministration).
The addition of the Thor-modsgard Law Library in 1973 was the most recent major expansion to the school.
In order to expand and better fit the needs of law students, the School of Law is hoping to build off the north side of the building towards University Avenue. Three additional classrooms, a state-of-
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A snowy view of University Avenue a day after Winter Storm Gandolf passed.
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“It’s a good idea but there’s a lot of logistics still,” Gerbert said.
Senate positions filledSenior Chantel Thompson was
approved to fill the open Off Campus Senator position. She is currently an administrative assistant in the Student
Government office and has served in an executive position in Greek Life.
School of Engineering and Mines Sen. Jacob Stutelberg was selected to serve as the Senate Pro Tempore, who
will run Senate meetings when Vice President Watne is unavailable to at-tend a meeting or is speaking on be-half of a bill.
Senate will not meet next Sunday
due to the extended weekend.SENATE FROM PAGE [1] Kaitlin Bezdicek is a staff writer for
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Spring wait lists stir up trouble for studentsCAPACITY Wait lists cause tension when professors force stu-dents to leave class.
It is likely that many UND students found themselves tacked on a wait list this semester and at-tended the first day of class in the hopes of making the roster. But many students found themselves turned away from classes this week due to wait-listed status.
This spring, sophomore Han-nah Swenson secured the top spot in the wait list for English 110. Thinking it wouldn’t be an issue to get an override, she attended the first day of class but wasn’t al-lowed to stay.
“[The professor] referred me to the English department’s office, saying I could maybe get an over-ride,” Swenson said. “The office told me they never do overrides for English 110 classes.”
Wait lists run rampant at uni-versities the size of UND and are designed to maintain small class capacity in addition to letting ex-tra students enroll if others drop.
A junior transfer student from the University of Minnesota, Em-ily Sather, was faced with three or four wait-listed courses and befell a similar experience to Swenson’s in English 125.
“The very first class I went to, the professor didn’t call my name during roll call, which I expected because I had been wait-listed,” Sather said.
What happened next was something she had not expected.
“I raised my hand to ask him about it and he told me that I couldn’t stay in the class,” she said. “Five people enrolled in the class weren’t even there and the class-room was less than half full.”
This experience shocked her, considering she held the No. 2 spot on the wait list.
The U of M requires wait-list-ed students to show up on the first day of class, Sather said. She felt frustrated that she was forced to leave her very first class at UND.
Despite the negative first im-pression, Sather had better luck in her other wait listed courses.
“The other classes I was wait listed for said it was no problem,” Sather said. “By the next day I was enrolled in them.”
Gabriel Kilzer, professor of Sociology 110 developed an easy system that is fair to wait-listed students hoping for enrollment in classes.
“My wait list policy is to let the process run its course, allow-ing students to be automatically added as others drop, and then make any decisions regarding overrides once the process is com-plete,” Kilzer said. “I will then add as many of the students left at the top of the wait list as possible through the override process, as-suming those students request an override.”
Unlike the professors Swen-son and Sather encountered in their English courses, Kilzer says
he prefers wait-listed students at-tend class on the first day of the semester so that he can speak with them and de-termine their commitment to the class.
“I will g e n e r a l l y give override preference to those who at-tend the first few classes because it is a good indicator that they are invested in
the class and are likely to partici-pate,” he said.
Acco rd -ing to Kilzer, the wait list process has flaws because students can request over-rides before the process is completed, defeating the purpose of the wait list
itself.“I have no problem adding
students through the override process if there is space avail-able in the class, but I also want to make sure that those who got themselves on the wait list early are given priority in order to hon-or the ‘first come first serve’ nature of course enrollment,” Kilzer said. “I have already had a few students get confused or frustrated that I would not add them through an override because the class and wait list were full.”
Some faculty members in vari-ous departments have little to no say in course enrollment or the fates of wait-listed students, as was
the case with Swenson and Sather. Dale Jacobson, a professor
within the English department does not feel he has a choice about how he completes the wait list process.
“We have a department policy for enrollment in Composition Courses,” Jacobson said. “Individ-ual instructors do not have their own policies. I really have nothing to do with enrollment.” ‘
I will generally give override preference to those who attend the first few classes ...
Gabriel KilzerSociology 110 professor
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COMMENTARY DSVIEWAccreditation
SCHOOL The UND School of Law needs to be updated and expanded by 2014 or consequences could ensue.
Tuesday January 15, 20134
I prefer not to attend church.I am not an atheist; I keep a bi-
ble in my dorm room and I thank God when I think of it, but I think it’s safe to say I’m a religious skeptic — especially when it comes to reli-gion of the organized sort.
And so, it is a rare occasion when I find myself sitting in a chapel pew. It is an even more rare occasion when I am actually fully awake and paying attention to the preacher’s sermon.
Now, before you blame my up-bringing or my parent’s church going habits for my heathen ways, allow me to speak in my family’s defense. In my childhood years, my parents carried me off to church, Sunday School and Wednesday night classes intended to help us memorize the bible, or at least key verses. What can I say? I guess I just never took to the whole affair.
To me, church seems to be a wasted hour (or 45 minutes if you’re lucky). And, every time I attend a service, I find myself listing off all the other things I could be do-ing that would be more beneficial, and probably more interesting, than listening to some old pastor in an oversized dress/robe deliver a re-hashed version of the same sermon on the story of Moses or Job or Lot that he probably heard his pastor give 50 years ago. Maybe if I actu-ally learned something, if there was some new information given out
during church, maybe then I would be more interested in attending.
But I don’t.And frankly, I’m not entirely cer-
tain how many people actually do.For many people, church seems
to be more of a ritual or a weekly obligation. They go because they don’t want the neighbors to talk. They go because their parents always told them they should. They go because if you get there early enough you can get free donuts.
For some people, attending church is a novel-ty. It’s something they partake in so rarely it seems like a trip to a distant country — complete with culture shock, strange customs and a foreign language.
For a few, church is a last des-perate cry for help, as if their atten-dance screams out: “See God? I got up at 9 a.m. I’m here! Do you love me now? Will you save me now? Do you care about me now?”
The funny thing is, I have a feel-ing God doesn’t care about where you make that last desperate cry, or where you find time to connect — whether it’s in the National Cathe-dral, the temples of Jerusalem or the crack house down the street.
Actually, I don’t think God re-ally cares much about most religious things: where we worship, what mo-tivates our acts of kindness or even if we eat a soggy wafer dunked in fer-menting juice once a week. I don’t think God cares if you believe he is the spirit of the universe or just an-other profit, let alone if you go to the big Catholic church across the road
or the Presbyterian church down the street. I don’t think angels sweep down and stop you from walking across the street if you haven’t looked both ways twice. I don’t think every thought and action of yours has al-ready been recorded in God’s diary. And I really don’t think God gives a
hoot about how you spend Sun-day morning.
And so I pre-fer not to attend church. I prefer not to waste my time insincerely sitting in a room surrounded by other people who only half-care about what’s
going on. Some people might, but it’s not for me.
Instead, I’ll reach out to friends for advice. I’ll take time to silently reflect when I need it. And when I need answers, I’ll go to class.
If talking to God and looking for angels works for you, go ahead.
If you find purpose and meaning in submitting to the will of Allah, do it.
If you rely on reading the Torah for wisdom and guidance, feel free to read all night.
If you need to speak in tongues and preach on street corners for ful-fillment, I’m not going to stand in your way.
And if you just need to believe that there’s something else out there and that this life isn’t a one-stop sta-tion, well that’s OK too.
But for myself, I prefer not to at-tend church.
Cutting out on church
CARRIE SANDSTROMTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
RELIGION Attending weekly services is not a requirement for believing in a higher power.
‘ And I really don’t think God gives a hoot about how you spend Sunday morning.
Carrie Sandstrommanaging/opinion editor
Carrie Sandstrom is the managing/opinion editor of The Dakota Student.
She can be reached at [email protected]
Christus Rex, a Lutheran campus center, holds services on Sundays and also hosts other events throughout the week. Photo taken by Keisuke Yoshimura.
UND may have a shiny new alumni center, com-plete with a special, eco-friendly star of approval, but its School of Law remains in desperate need of up-grade.
The only law school in the state, which resides right here on campus, has been termed “overall inad-equate” by the American Bar Association, according to School of Law Dean Kathryn Rand. We at the Dakota Student feel this is unacceptable.
The UND School of Law makes attending law school possible for many students who cannot afford to attend school out of state or for those who do not wish to. Those in the field of law are in even greater demand as the state grows and the population explodes in oil country. More people mean more crime, more civil suits and the need for more people knowledgeable in the field of law. And yet the only law school in the state has not been expanded since 1973.
UND law students undertake mountains of work, the pressure of passing both their classes and their bar exams and the additional challenges of competing with counterproductive facilities. The university is perpe-trating a gross injustice by letting its facilities impede student success. It is no surprise that the School of Law is at risk of losing its accreditation by the ABA: it is out of date and we have let it become that way.
We have become complacent. We have been too focused on other things — tuition price hikes, the loss of our school identity and the grim job market — but that is no excuse. The university has a duty to insure that those who invest their time, money and talent in attending school here have every possibility to succeed, both now and once they graduate. The top priority of school administration must be providing students with quality education, both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Sure, a fancy new alumni center may be a good way to draw in new students and impress the old ones, but it is no excuse for not providing quality education and resources. A state-of-the-art law school would at-tract students looking for a future and UND graduates would be impressed with the success of students com-ing from our law school.
The bottom line is that unless the necessary im-provements are made, North Dakota and UND will no longer have an accredited law school. UND will lose dedicated students, North Dakota will lose a valuable asset and students will lose a wonderful opportunity.
5|COMMENTARYTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
The past decade has seen many new movies that took vio-lence to a new extreme. Even TV shows stream images of violence that the average viewer has be-come more accustomed to.
The danger here is not solely based in the theories that these images spawn violent behavior, but also the message it sends about American culture.
Hollywood is not to blame for the violent films they create — they are simply reacting to the demands of pop culture.
The blame for an increas-ingly violent culture ultimately lies with the American people. We have become desensitized to graphic images of violence and sex to such an extent food on a restaurant menu generates a greater emotional response.
The mo-tive for in-creasingly vi-olent movies is to provoke some sort of reaction from the au-dience.
Unfortu-nately, that reaction lasts only a short time, leaving the viewer craving another adrena-line rush. Hollywood is only too eager to respond with even more explicit images to create a new adrenaline high and bring more viewers to the box office.
The results of this trend are movies like the Saw series and “Hostel,” created with the sole purpose of terrifying audience members with images of extreme gore and violence.
This type of movie is sick and worthless. The fact that ev-eryday Americans paid money to watch people being tortured for two hours is extremely dis-turbing and raises concerns as to what could come next in the cinema world.
I do not believe violent im-ages directly lead to violent be-havior in the viewing popula-tion.
I do believe violence in en-tertainment leads to a general increase in the levels of violence tolerated in society. We cannot exist as a society with such a low regard for life and humanity. By far, the majority of Ameri-cans greatly value life and have a healthy respect for order; but I find it distasteful and worrisome that violence seems to find itself embedded in all forms of enter-tainment.
Being bombarded by vio-
lence will inevitably result in negative consequences.
This is not to say that all cinema violence is bad. A film representing a historical event, such as war, can serve a purpose — “Saving Private Ryan” is a perfect example of a movie that uses realistic violence to repre-sent real life events.
The problem lies in movies whose only purpose is to give audience members a cheap thrill through excessive violence and sexual imagery.
The new movie “Gangster Squad” exemplifies the latter example. The entire purpose of the movie is to glorify the illegal gangster “shoot’em up” lifestyle and senseless sexual deviance, while paying little attention to accurate portrayal of history. While not as violent as many movies, the new movie “Hansel and Gretel” senselessly adds vio-lence to what was once a cher-ished fairy tale.
The answer to the violence problem is to stop watching vio-lent movies simply for the sake of watching violence. If the au-diences diminish to the point
where Hol-lywood is no longer m a k i n g money off such films, they will change their productions accordingly.
T h i s s o l u t i o n sounds good
on paper but is nearly impossi-ble in reality. Trying to convince a majority of the population to avoid violent films is destined to fail since the problem has quick-ly become one of first amend-ment rights.
Instead, a real impact can be made by parents who become in-volved in what their children are watching.
Teaching children about values for life early can create a long-term solution to the vio-lence problem and potentially change how people in Holly-wood think about film produc-tion.
We can’t ignore violence, as it is an inescapable part of life, but we can manage it in our dai-ly entertainment by recognizing senseless, violent imagery.
It is time to draw the line and realize the negative consequenc-es of continually being subjected to violent entertainment — the desensitization that inevitably only leads to more violence. We can restore American culture, but it starts with the individual realizing the pointlessness of ex-treme violence in entertainment.
Shooting up the ratings
ADAM CHRISTIANSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
VIOLENCE Blood and gore on screen have a negative impact on the rest of society.
‘We cannot exist as a society with such a low regard for life and humanity.
Adam Christiansonstaff writer
Adam Christianson is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can
be reached at [email protected]
What do “Harry Potter,” “The Hunger Games” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin But-ton” have in common? They are all examples of books that have been remade into movies. And, while I am a huge fan of movies, I am usually an even bigger fan of the books that inspire them.
It seems to me that whenever a movie comes out based on a book, the movie can never quite do it justice.
The three books I listed above are great examples of just that.
Take the Harry Potter series for example. According to g o o d r e a d s .com, each volume of the Potter se-ries received an average of 4.5 stars out of five. Their movies re-ceived scores ranging from 6.8 to 8.4 stars out of ten, according to rotten-tomatoes.com. If you calculate the percentages, you get about 90 percent approval for books, verses 84 percent maximum for movies.
The ratings speak for them-selves: movies never seem to do the written word justice.
Looking at the same websites, the trend continues for both “The Hunger Games” and “The
Curious Case of Benjamin But-ton.”
Books allow your imagina-tion to run wild and paint a pic-ture of how you believe the story line should appear. You are able to imagine a world entirely the way you wish.
I’ve discovered the wonderful world of magic alongside Harry, fought with the Dark Lord and even been engulfed in the trag-ic love story of Snape and Lily. I have volunteered as tribute with Katniss, survived the his-toric hunger games, helped fight alongside a forgotten district and even fell in love with Peeta. And I did it all through pure imagina-tion.
Have you ever been so im-mersed in a book you shut out the rest of the world and absorb yourself within the story? Hope-fully you have. If not, well, you’re
m i s s i n g out, my f r i e n d s . It’s a glori-ous feeling. You get so w r a p p e d up in the b o o k ’ s world you s c a r c e l y know what
to do with yourself when you turn the last page.
I seldom feel that way when I finish a movie.
Movie producers are talent-ed, no doubt. It takes great skill and knowledge to make a story come to life on screen. However, I cannot help but be far more impressed with the minds of au-thors. I am constantly in awe of the stories that spring from the minds of legends such as Fitzger-
ald, Hemingway, Dickens and Tolkien, along with recent icons like Rowling and Collins. These authors create a world entirely their own. They concoct stories that set standards for all future literary works. To me, that is more special than any cinema-tography achievement.
It is for these reasons why I choose to read a book before I view the film. Don’t get me wrong — I am all for a good flick. But by reading the book first, I can have my own view of the story and how it should be played out.
The movies that follow the books are generally very good, and for the most part they stay true to their story line. But I still feel a slight disappointment when the movies leave out a spe-cial part of the book or insert a new twist into the film.
Yes, I am aware of the con-cerns cinematic production com-panies face. I understand they don’t want to produce a movie that is four or five hours long so it can exactly mirror its paper-back counterpart. I get it, but I don’t like it.
In essence, a book can have a far greater impact than a movie. That feeling you get after finish-ing a great book is infinitely bet-ter than the satisfaction you get after viewing a kick butt movie. Call me crazy, but books have always been a greater source of learning for me, a greater trigger of imagination and a greater es-cape to a different world.
How could any movie com-pete with that?
Adaptations fail to compete
MARY OCHSTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
DISAPPOINTED Movies consistently struggle to live up to the images created by the words.
‘Yes, I am aware of the concerns cin-ematic production companies face.
Mary Ochsstaff writer
Mary Ochs is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be
reached at [email protected]
Many series— including Harry Potter, Twilight and Lord of the Rings — have been made into successful film enterprises. Photo courtesy of tanella.wordpress.com
Tuesday January 15, 2013 6 |COMMENTARY
The Academy Award nomi-nations were released last week, just as critical darling “Zero Dark Thirty” hit theatres na-tionwide. Although the film has a shot at winning, it is up against some tough competition. Here’s a look at what films may be tak-ing home the Academy Award for Best Picture.
“Zero Dark Thirty”The film, which depicts the
search for terrorist leader Osa-ma Bin Laden, has caused some controversy over its inclusion of graphic torture scenes. How-ever, after a long wait to see it, I can say the controversy has been overblown.
A lot of the discussion has been centered on whether the film was pro-torture or anti-tor-ture; however, I found the film did not display a bias in either direction.
The ac-curacy of the film has also come un-der scrutiny, but those who recog-nize that it is a movie and not a documentary will enjoy a glimpse of the search for the man who was charged with orchestrating the 9/11 attacks.
The movie picks up right af-ter the 9/11 attacks and covers the pursuit, the challenges expe-rienced by those involved and a lot of what went into the discov-ery of Bin Laden’s compound. The final half hour of the movie
is the raid on Bin Laden’s head-quarters. Director Kathryn Bi-gelow did not take any Holly-wood liberties in the climax of the film.
For those expecting a “Die Hard”-esque shoot out, you will be disappointed. Bigelow de-picted the raid on the compound as methodical and calculated. Outside of one of the helicop-ters crashing and having to be destroyed, there was no straying from the plan or any surprises that jeopardized the mission. Yet the intensity of the scene is still there, as Navy SEALS make their way into the compound. This is a movie every American should see at some point in their life — we won’t see another film as good as this when it comes to the hunt for Osama.
Although “Zero Dark Thir-ty” was praised by critics, it took a blow when Bigelow wasn’t even nominated for Best Director. Only three times has a film gone on to win Best Picture after its director did not get nominated for Best Director.
“Lincoln”This film provides a great
look at Abraham Lincoln’s quest to pass the 13th Amendment
and how C o n g r e s s operated at the time. Actor Dan-iel Day-Lewis does a fantastic job of por-traying the p r e s i d e n t , but the film lacked the
pizazz that you expect from a Best Picture winner.
Still, “Lincoln” is the favorite to take the crown — it’s a safe pick and not as controversial as “Zero Dark Thirty” or “Django Unchained.” Not many would take issue if it took home the prize, but it isn’t the type of flick that you tell everyone to run out
and see after you watch it.“Les Miserables”I haven’t had a chance to see
this yet, but it was good enough to snag a nomination. All I can say is it’s a high profile enough of a movie that has been received well, so it wouldn’t be shocking if “Les Miserables” came away a winner.
“Argo”Ben Affleck got snubbed by
the Academy for Best Director nominee, but his film did re-ceive a Best Picture nod. Like with “Zero Dark Thirty” and Bigelow, it doesn’t bode well for “Argo” to win since Affleck wasn’t nominated.
“Argo” is the story of the rescue attempt of six U.S. dip-lomats who are stuck in Tehran, Iran at the Canadian Embassy during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. If you enjoy a thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat, this one is for you.
“Argo” was a personal fa-
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vorite of mine this year, and it cracks my top five films of 2012. However, it’s hard to see it top-ping “Lincoln” or “Zero Dark Thirty.”
“Silver Linings Playbook”This is my sleeper pick to
win Best Picture. It has flown under the radar because it isn’t available in every theatre, but that should change in the near future. Bradley Cooper and Jen-nifer Lawrence both star in a romantic comedy-drama that is less than typical.
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The film tackles mental ill-ness head on. The struggle de-picted is a very real one a lot of us can relate to in some way or another. The acting is spot on and, for a film that is quite emo-tional at times, it is hilarious. I’ll be rooting for “Silver Linings Playbook” when the Oscars take place — you have to root for a good underdog story.
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Campus BriefsUND has skated into a national
spotlight. Freshman forward Rocco Grimaldi recently served as a mem-ber of Team USA at the 2013 World Junior Championship under-20 ice hockey tournament held in Ufa, Russia.
Grimaldi was also named player of the game during the USA’s 3-1 victory over Sweden.
Grimaldi’s UND record of 8 goals and 10 assists during his two seasons with the school, now also includes be-ing UND’s 12th player to bring home a gold medal from the World Junior Championship.
Grimaldi rejoined the line up during the Jan. 11-12 matches against Colorado College.
This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be accompa-nied by a community wide cel-ebration.
The event, which will take place Monday, will be held at the Empire Arts Center. The opening event of the day will be a Unity Walk, starting at 11 a.m. The walk will begin at Central
High School and conclude at the Empire Arts Center, where an MLK Jr. program will begin at noon. Refreshments will follow at 1 p.m.
The day will also involve two contests. One is an essay contest, in which participants of any age can enter 500-word-essays. The essays should “reflect an under-standing of and the meaning be-hind King’s legacy of teamwork, how King’s overall work has
influenced you and how you have used that to better serve the community,” according to a UND press release.
The second contest is geared towards younger participants; those ages 2-12 can submit en-tries for a coloring contest.
Entries for both contests are due today by mail and will be announced during Monday’s festivities.
UND players skates for USA Communitywide celebration to be held
House Representative Kylie Oversen, a Democrat legislator representing a district in Grand Forks, will turn 24 in February and is currently the youngest female state legislator in the na-tion.
Oversen’s district is in the heart of UND territory and comprises a very large number of students from the campus. Her age helps her relate to the resi-dents she represents.
“I’m young and open to new ideas,” she said in an interview with the Grand Forks Herald. “I don’t have a voting record and I
Youth adds vigor to N.D. House of Representatives
haven’t been bogged down with a lot of opinions yet.”
Joining Oversen is 21-year-old representative, Alex Looy-sen, a Republican legislator in Jamestown, who took a year off from his pre-med studies to represent his district. He was appointed to the House Hu-man Services and Political Sub-division committees.
Each legislature within the House and Senate is issued an iPad in the hopes that technol-ogy will increase the flow of in-formation and communication.
Tuesday January 15, 2013 8STORM FROM PAGE [1]dolf is one of many historical names chosen by the National Weather Ser-vice.
For junior Justin Jacobson, this came as a surprise. With a laugh, he quickly came to terms that maybe the whole storm was a joke.
“I don’t know how I feel about that,” Jacobson said. “I didn’t think too much of the storm and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, besides the huge snow drifts. After walking home after it rained, though, I found that my jacket was frozen.”
For some students, naming a storm takes away its credibility and the seriousness of hazardous winter conditions are overshadowed by the unique name.
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LAW FROM PAGE[1]the-art teaching courtroom, offices and multiuse spaces for interviews and extracurricular activities are pro-posed additions.
“Our main focus is student space,” Rand said. “Space for educa-tion, work, and study and student services are very much needed to bet-ter serve our students and to better serve our state.”
Robert Haider, a second-year transfer student, feels the pain of un-dersized classrooms.
“I came from a university that had really good facilities,” Haider said. “Here, it’s very crammed.”
Classes are scheduled from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., and between the two larger classrooms and two smaller classrooms, scheduling is a continual challenge. There is only one confer-ence room that is juggled between faculty, job recruiters and students.
Despite the limited space, the school strives to provide quality edu-cation. “We have really talented, im-pressive and ambitious students and our building needs to keep up with that,” Rand said.
The School of Law prides itself on effectively producing practiced
“At first I thought that the name was just a joke,” UND student Lexi Larson said. “It’s a storm so I don’t know if we can make a name out of it. It wasn’t as bad as I thought and I had just what I needed to go outside.”
On the other side of the spec-trum, some students see the name “Gandolf” as an easier way to take note of the storm.
“I don’t think it makes it any less serious,” Richards said. “It think it makes it easier to keep track of it.”
Whether it can be deemed a joke or not, Gandolf will certainly be re-membered as a rainy Thursday night that swiftly turned UND into a cam-pus-wide ice rink Friday morning. Students slipped, slid and fell to their morning classes.
Weekend plans quickly changed course, as many students were forced to stay indoors. Others bravely made
graduates who are prepared to serve clients in the public upon gradu-ation. “We are seeing more of our graduates open up solo practices or small firms,” Rand said.
With the oil boom, the demand for lawyers in North Dakota is high. “The influx of people means there’s an increase in family law, business law, criminal law and (those sec-tors) all need attorneys,” Director of Alumni and Public Relations Rob Carolin said.
The request for $12 million has support from across the university and state.
“We (Student Government) are drafting a resolution that says Stu-dent Government stands behind the law school renovation,” Law School Senator Casey Furey said.
“We are very grateful that (this renovation) has been given the prior-ity by the university, the State Board of Higher Education and by the gov-ernor that it has,” Rand said.
If approved for funding by the state legislature this session, the pro-posed addition will serve the needs of law students for decades to come.
the trek to the Ralph Engelstad Arena to stand in line for the evening’s hock-ey game.
“It was very frustrating because I
had plans to go home,” junior Aman-da Dufner said. “But I was expecting more, so I am slightly disappointed in the storm.”
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Union ServicesPage 10
ETHEL quartetPage 11
MYGENERATION
how a local production made it to the national stage by Jaye Millspaugh
THEATER UND actors prepare for national fes-tival with encore perfor-mance tomorrow.
Most people who attend live the-ater productions are instructed to turn off their cell phones. This will not happen at UND’s “My Genera-tion” musical, which will have an en-core performance at the Chester Fritz auditorium tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m.
The interactive musical’s main
theme is BYOT, which is an acronym for “bring your own technology.” Au-dience members are encouraged to leave their phones, laptops and tablets on so they can tweet and Facebook message the actors during the show.
“We’re even giving away an iPad Mini and all students who buy a ticket are automatically entered!” said cast member Daniella Lima, very excitedly.
Student tickets, which include en-trance into the iPad Mini giveaway, are $10 each according to a press release on UND’s website, and can be purchased by students attending any high school or college. Adult tickets are $20.
The first production of MyGen was performed at UND’s Burtness Theater in April 2012, but tomorrow’s show will serve as a fundraiser and warm-up for the cast and crew before their per-formance at the annual Kennedy Cen-ter American College Theatre Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska. The festival will run Jan. 20-25.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is located in Washing-ton D.C., but regional festivals take place in eight geographic regions across the country during January and Febru-
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Info Desk answers student questions
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‘I answer phone calls, I’ll look up information that people need.
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The Memorial Union’s Information Desk is a resource that some UND students over-look when they have common questions. Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.
New students at UND usu-ally have questions about how things on campus work. Luckily, they can get almost every ques-tion answered in one location.
The Information Desk at the Memorial Union serves as a cen-tral hub for students with ques-tions about UND. Students who work at the desk enjoy helping those who need it.
Freshman Rachel Hartshorn says working at the desk is a good job for new students at UND.
“It’s nice,” she said. “I’m able to do home-work while I work, and it’s a good on - c ampus job because I’m a fresh-man. It’s a good basic job.
“I an-swer phone calls, I’ll look up information that people need, I’ll transfer their calls,” she said. “That’s the thing that I get the most; you’ll get people who want to be trans-ferred to the bookstore or the Wellness (Center), so I’ll transfer them.”
While desk duty is mostly phone interactions with stu-dents, there’s more going on be-hind the scenes.
“Lost and found comes up here too, so we document every-thing and put it back in a safe. If people lose their student IDs, I will let them know,” Hartshorn said.
Sophomore building man-ager Dylan Berg says that the general public, in addition to students, stop by the desk for in-formation about UND.
“The info desk will have a lot of people who need to find, like: where Twamley is,” he said.
Berg is one of seven build-ing managers at the Union and has worked there since 2011. He says that the offices connected to the Information Desk employ “between 25 and 30 students” and that the Building Manager job is very flexible.
“(From) seven in the morn-ing to three in the afternoon, there’s six different people that work,” Berg said.
The Information Desk has a different purpose than the of-fices located next to it, such as Union Services. Berg said that office deals with physical things students might need — adding that they have a photo machine, offer newspapers, give change and send faxes.
“They bind senior projects, like dissertations and that stuff,” Berg said. “There’s so many things you don’t think of that we do.”
Hartshorn enjoys the inter-action she has with people at her job.
“I love people,” she said. “I just like being able to deal with people.”
Berg says that one aspect of his job that he enjoys is that his supervisors give employees fit-ting tasks and give extra respon-sibilities to those who can handle them.
“If they see that you shine in an area, they’ll give you more responsibility in that area,” he said. “It’s probably one of the best jobs on campus.”
At the desk, typical ques-tions, like where buildings are located, are mixed with some less than ordinary inquiries.
“I’ve had people call me to let them into b u i l d i n g s , like ‘Hey, can you let me into Ab-bott Hall?’” Berg said.
A l e x Westhoff re-
called one instance when the In-formation Desk came in handy for an out of state caller.
“Somebody down in Iowa, it must have been an old stu-dent, needed a phone number,” Westhoff said, “So they call and (ask): ‘Hey, could you Google the number for the Pizza Hut in Des Moines, Iowa?’ ‘I guess. It’s really not what we do here but alright.”
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A classical string quartet that’s anything but classical, ETHEL, performed a concert to a packed room at the North Da-kota Museum of Art on Sunday afternoon.
The eclectic audience con-sisted of people of all ages, from senior citizens to UND students.
“Our live shows are very in-formal and welcoming and we wanted our quartet to have a name that wouldn’t distract the audience from our music. Our name means absolutely noth-ing, which is very liberating,” said Artistic Director and Viola player Ralph Farris.
ETHEL consists of four members: Farris, Artistic Direc-tor and Cello player Dorothy Lawson, and violinists Kip Jones and Tema Watstein. ETHEL was founded by Farris and Lawson in 1998, with Jones and Watstein
joining them last summer.“We’ve come a long way
since 1998, but we’ve also kept close to our mission of celebrat-ing the music around us,” Farris said.
“I figure out a little bit more every month,” Jones said. “I love learning new music from Ralph
and Dorothy and their friends.”Although ETHEL has writ-
ten many of their own songs, they also love to play songs writ-ten by their friends and by local composers in New York City, where they’re based out of.
The first song they played was titled “To Whom It May
Concern: Thank You” and it was written by ETHEL’s friend Mark Stewart. The song’s title is a ref-erence to a quote that Stewart’s parents would say at the din-ner table every night, since his mother is agnostic.
Set to a backdrop of win-dows, white walls and a colorful
Kip Jones and Dorothy Lawson of ETHEL perform at the North Dakota Museum of Art Sunday. ETHEL’s latest album, “Heavy,” was released in 2012.
collection of paintings by UND art professor Todd Hebert, the theme of the whole concert was “Present Beauty.”
“Present Beauty is a study in the experience of beauty and how it comes to us, through sounds or moments or even si-lence,” Farris said.
The other songs they played were “Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector” by Terry Ri-ley, an original arrangement of four of Phillip Glass’ songs from the soundtrack to the 2002 Golden Globe-winning film “The Hours,” “Early That Sum-mer” by Julia Wolfe, “Wed” by David Lang, and “The Flag Proj-ect” by Huang Ruo.
“Early That Summer” is one of Farris’ favorite songs to play because of its intensity and ath-leticism.
“Wolfe grabs you by the throat and throttles you. It’s like you’re climbing on a mountain for 11 minutes,” Farris said.
Before playing the song, Watstein explained to the audi-ence that they often get asked if they ever play anything that’s not intense.
“This next piece answers that question with a resounding ‘no’,” Watstein said.
One side-effect of their in-tense playing style occurred when Lawson’s hair got caught in the top part of her cello and had to be untangled.
Their intense style of playing continued until the end of the show, when the quartet decided to play an extra song that wasn’t listed on the program.
Written by a Navajo compos-er with whom they’d worked in Arizona, the song “Possessed by Obscurity,” was very reminiscent of heavy metal music.
ETHEL has given back to high school students in the Na-vajo and Hopi Native American reservations in Arizona by pro-viding them with musical equip-ment, since most of them had never recorded their traditional songs before.
ETHEL has played many of these students’ songs while tour-ing around the US.
“We strive to look across the boundaries and to go where a string quartet has never gone be-fore,” Lawson said.
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their actual invitation in December, the cast and crew of MyGen has been working very hard to prepare.
“It took a while to get back into it,” cast member Tyler Rood said. “I just graduated in December so it’s like being in school again but I only have to focus on one thing.”
Fellow cast member Jackie O’Neil’s biggest struggle was get-ting back into physical shape for the show.
“Everyone lost weight while pre-paring for the original show in April. It’s been physically and emotionally draining, which is good, because I’ve never been able to connect with any-thing else like this,” O’Neil said.
O’Neil will be performing a modern dance routine with fel-low cast member Patrick Kloeckner while Lima sings “Gravity” by Sara Bareilles.
“Since we started rehearsing again, Patrick and I’s friendship is so much stronger than it was before, and it shows onstage,” said O’Neil.
Along with the rest of the cast, O’eil and Kloeckner will be portray-ing themselves. Each song, most of which are Top 40 hits from 2011 and early 2012, will be a link to per-
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ary of each year, according to the KCACTF’s website. UND is part of Region Five.
“Being invited to perform at the regional festival is such an honor,” said Department of Theatre Arts Chair Kathleen McLennan. “A rep-resentative for the KCACTF trav-els around the region — attending shows and critiquing them — and they decide who gets invited to per-form.”
Besides the performance of My-Gen, eight UND students have been nominated to compete for Irene Ryan acting scholarships. Nineteen of these regional scholarships are given, 16 of which are worth $500. Costumes from UND’s Fall 2012 production of Urinetown will be dis-played in a costume parade.
There will also be educational workshops, a musical theatre com-petition, displays of sets, lighting and costumes and auditions for summer theater companies.
Since fi nding out the show was being considered as one of the perfor-mances in August and then receiving
sonal stories and emotions from the cast members, so there’s no specifi c plot for the musical.
“I think a lot of people are scared of musicals — they can be so dif-ferent — but this is a musical that everyone can relate to,” said O’Neil.
Songs include “The Lazy Song” by Bruno Mars, “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga, “Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO and “Set Fire to the Rain” by Adele.
The cast includes: Tyler Rood, Abby Schoenborn, Jacqueline De-
Graff, Emily Wirkus, Philip Muehe, Casey Smith, Patrick Kloeckner, Jor-dan Wolfe, Brian Dempcy, Rachel Perry, Daniella Lima, Jackie O’Neil, Casey Paradies.
Other crew members include director Emily Cherry, musical di-rector Anne Christopherson, cho-reographer Ali Angelone, scenic and lighting designer Brad Reissig, costume designer Daphne Pankratz, technical director and sound de-signer Loren Liepold, stage manager Chelsie Pollert, assistant stage man-
agers Matt Dempsy, Nick McCon-nell and Emily Hogenson and video designer William Pankratz.
“Many of the actors are also crew members and I tear up when I think of how much work the cast and crew has put in and how far they’ve come,” said McLennan. “They’re all working together like a wonderful company.”
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Women’s basketball drops twoPage 14
Gophers sweep UNDPage 15
WBB Jan. 17@ E. Washington
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MHKY Jan. 18vs. MinnesotaSt. Paul, Minn.
MBB Jan. 17vs. E. WashingtonBetty Engelstad Arena
Men’s basketball beats MSUPage 13
For the first time in a green and white jersey, Mitch MacMillan scored a goal to help lift North Da-kota to a 5-3 victory over the Colo-rado College Tigers Saturday night at Ralph Engelstad Arena.
The junior transfer from St. Cloud State found himself in the opportune case to put forth his ef-forts.
“Coming here and getting the opportunity with those guys is something special,” MacMillan said. “I had quite a bit of opportu-nities and I kind of just shot it for once and didn’t try to pick a cor-ner or anything, and I guess it just worked out for me.”
After sitting out for the first half of the season at UND due to transfer eligibility regulations, MacMillan finally got his chance
UND splits with struggling Tigers
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FiRSTS Both Dan Sen-kbeil and Mitch Mac-Millan scored their first career goals Saturday.
A week of rivalries
UND junior guard Aaron Anderson (0) extends for two in Saturday’s win against the Montana State Bobcats. Anderson went 10-10 from the free throw line in the final minutes to cap off his 20-point performance.Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.
GUaRDS Jamal Webb, Troy Huff and Aaron Anderson each had at least 20 points Saturday.
Last week, the North Dakota men’s basketball team faced off against its two biggest rivals in the Big Sky Conference — Montana and Montana State.
The Betty Englestad Sioux Center was packed and alive as fans gathered to watch UND host the Montana Grizzlies last Thurs-day.
Coming off a road loss to We-ber State, the Green and White needed a win to strengthen their place in the conference. Ultimate-ly, the second-half effort of the Grizzlies was enough to push past UND, winning the game 77-62.
Defense was a key factor in Thursday night’s loss. Montana forward Mathias Ward scored a season-high 27 points against the stingy North Dakota shot-block-ing.
“You are not going to win many games, at home or away, if you allow the other team to shoot 50 percent from the floor,” UND coach Brian Jones said. “We
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played 20 solid minutes of basket-ball, but we did not come out with the same sense of urgency in the second half that we showed in the first.
The first half of play was for the most part in the favor of North Dakota. Montana’s Ward and UND’s Troy Huff each scored 15 points for their teams. After Montana began to close the gap, North Dakota went on a scoring spree that included a 3-pointer by Huff, to give the home team a 32-28 lead.
The Grizzlies came back out in the second half with a fire lit under them. UND played fran-tically, trying to close the gap as quickly as possible, but a 12-0 run by Montana put the Grizzlies up for the remainder of the game. Prior to that stretch, UND junior Jamal Webb tied the game at 38 points, but the Green and White would never close the gap to with-in eight points.
After falling to 1-4 in Big Sky play, North Dakota turned its at-tention to the other Montana school, the MSU Bobcats.
In the days leading up to Sat-urday’s game, many fans specu-lated if Montana State’s bus would even make it to Grand Forks with the impending winter storm. Coming from a road game in Colorado, the Bobcats undoubt-
edly ran into some poor travel conditions. Nevertheless, MSU’s bus pulled into Grand Forks in perfect condition with a group ready to face a struggling North Dakota team.
The Grizzlies exploited the Green and White’s weakness in defense and their ability to lose morale at a rapid pace. Know-ing those needed to be changed, North Dakota was not surprised when the scoreboard at the end of the MSU game showed UND had won 86-73.
North Dakota got a major boost from players Jamal Webb, Troy Huff and Aaron Anderson, as each scored at least 20 points. Webb had one of the best shoot-ing nights of his career, posting a career-high 23 points.
“I really liked the way we came out and responded to Thursday night’s loss,” Jones said. “This was a total team vic-tory.”
Webb definitely played a large role in helping his team take the win, shooting 10 for 19 from the field, including five three-point buckets. His mo-mentum pulled the team to 52.8 shooting percentage from the floor, a major stat that UND has been searching for the past few
on the ice.“He’s worked awful hard and
obviously he’s gone 400-plus days since he’s had a chance to score a goal, so good for him individual-ly,” coach Dave Hakstol said. “He’s had some good opportunities in his first four games. Hopefully a good sign for our team for things to come.”
Not only did MacMillan earn himself a spot in the lineup, but found himself playing alongside teammates Corban Knight and Danny Kristo, arguably a two of the top forwards in the NCAA.
“I know he’s a good player,” Hakstol said. “I know he’s worked very hard here to improve his body athletically and improve his condi-tioning. I think he did everything he possibly could, during the time he was sitting out, to make himself ready for a game opportunity and hopefully we’re seeing a good pro-gression to his game. I like his base-line game. I like his work ethic. It’s nice to see him get his first goal.”
But it wasn’t just MacMillan’s goal that sparked loud applause and celebratory cheers.
Sophomore forward Dan Sen-kbeil, known to his teammates as “Jim”, tipped in the game-winning
goal Saturday night as his presence in the slot above the crease allowed him to capture the victory for his team.
“It was pretty exciting,” Senk-beil said. “My eyes kind of lit up when the puck was in the crease and I just tried to pound it home.”
As a fourth-line player, Senk-beil may not see as much playing time as compared to others in the lineup, but what he accomplished Saturday was the result of persis-tence.
“Everybody was pretty ex-cited,” Hakstol said. “I think they
were excited to see the puck go in the net, number one; and when a guy shows up and works hard and does that game in and game out, guys are obviously cheering for good things to happen for him.
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North Dakota’s sophomore forward Mark MacMillan, in a diving effort, put a move on Colorado College goallie Joe Howe on Friday night to score the game-tying goal in the third period.
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games.For the second consecutive
game, Webb came away with seven assists, a major factor in the team’s win.
“Obviously, we got a big night from Jamal and a lot of his shots came within the flow of the of-fense, which is a key for him,” Jones said. “But all of our guards really shared the ball well and, when we do that, we get these kinds of results.”
UND took a strong stance in the opening half, leading by 13 points at most. The Green and White capitalized on the newly acquired momentum, going on a 11-0 tear that gave them a 25-12 lead. However, a sudden burst of shooting accuracy brought the Bobcats to within a basket of tying the game. Webb saw that erased with four three-pointers as North Dakota boasted a 42-33 lead at halftime.
MSU did not fall away in the second half, however. Bobcat se-nior Christian Moon brought his team back with four of his own three-point shots, eventually tying the game at 55. For the next three minutes, the lead passed between the two schools with no signs of a run happening for either team.
However, a foul on Anderson was enough for North Dakota to take the lead and keep it, ensuring the season-high crowd of 1,894 would see a win. UND senior Jor-dan Allard put the team up by five, and Anderson was a perfect 10-10 from the foul line in the decisive minutes, giving North Dakota an 86-73 victory and improving its Big Sky record to 2-4.
UND will play its next two games at home, beginning with a Thursday night matchup against Eastern Washington. Tipoff is set for 7:05 p.m., at the Betty Engels-tad Sioux Center.
North Dakota’s junior shooting guard Troy Huff (5) drives through traffic for a strong finish in the lane Sat-urday in the win against the Montana State Bobcats.
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Patrick Cavanaugh is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can
be reached at [email protected]
[KEISUKE YOSHIMURA] THEDAKOTASTUDENT Women stumble in Montana
LOSSES UND dropped two games last week to Montana and Mon-tana State.
MARIAH HOLLANDTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
The UND women’s basketball team had two road games this past week. Thursday they faced Mon-tana and Saturday against Montana State — both resulted in losses for the Green and White. Going into the first of the two games, UND was 7-6 overall and 2-2 in the Big Sky Conference.
The team traveled to Missoula, Mont. on Thursday evening for the first conference game against Montana. UND lost by a score of 77-45. Montana held the lead throughout both halves scoring 32 points in the first half and 45 points in the second combining for 77 points overall.
Two players for Montana stood out in the total points. Leading Montana was Katie Baker with 17 alongside fellow teammate Kenzie De Boer with 15 total points in the game.
UND was only able to score 14 points in the first half but in the
second they put up 31 to combine for 45 point total.
Lighting up the scoreboard for North Dakota was Cy’erra Mills who dropped 10 and was the only UND player to reach double fig-ures. Right behind Mills were Mia Loyd and Madi Buck for North Dakota with nine and eight points, respectively.
The win for Montana moved
the Grizzlies to 10-4 overall and 4-1 in the Big Sky.
UND dropped to 7-7 overall and 2-3 in the Big Sky. Following the loss, UND faced another con-ference rival on Sunday, Montana State in Bozeman, Mont.
North Dakota lost the game by a score of 64-49. Montana
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State outscored UND in both the first and second halves, scoring 34 points in the first and 30 in the second. Montana State was Rachel Semansky who scored 15 points. Following her were team-mates Kalli Durham with 14 and Latisha Adams with 12.
Leading in points for North Dakota was Madi Buck who scored 11 points with Nicole Smart right behind with 10. Mia Loyd had the team high in re-bounds at 11 total.
UND’s next game will be Thursday at 8 p.m., against East-ern Washington in Cheney, Wash. Following that game, UND will take on Portland State at 4 p.m., in Portland, Oreg.
Eastern Washington is com-ing off of a loss against Sacra-mento State with a record of 3-3 in the Big Sky and 7-8 overall.
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Mariah Holland is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be
reached at [email protected]
UND swept by undefeated GophersSHOTS North Dakota is the only team to out shoot the Gophers yet this season.
ElizAbETH ERicKSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
Despite becoming the first team this season to outshoot un-defeated Minnesota and playing in what is deemed a well-played game, the North Dakota women’s hockey team fell short of a victo-ry as it was swept by the Gophers.
With the Green and White trailing 5-0 by the middle of the third period Friday, they still managed to pull through with three goals.
“That is a complete hockey club and we knew that going in,” coach Brian Idalski said. “It is not that often that we got beat 6-3 and I think we played well.”
With four goals and two as-
sists, Amanda Kessel’s astonish-ing numbers put forth a strong effort for Minnesota while fresh-man Meghan Dufault’s two goals and an assist led North Dakota, resembling the last meeting be-tween the two teams.
“(Dufault) also had two goals in Grand Forks against the Go-phers,” Idalski said. “I like our club. We’ve got some kids that are coming along and getting better, but we are not a complete hockey club yet. I am encouraged with some of the things we are doing, though, and I still think we have some room for growth here down the stretch.”
Although Dufault’s impres-sive numbers added to North Da-kota’s total, it was all-world Min-nesota goaltender Noora Raty stood firm in between the pipes.
“Raty was great, but so were their defensemen,” Idalski said. “Raty gave up a few second chances and we just got out-mus-cled and the D-core just kind of cleans it away. They are a solid
team. Kessel was super dynamic and pretty much finished 75-per-cent of the chances they had.”
While North Dakota con-trolled the majority of the second period, an outstanding Gopher performance overshadowed what was built up by UND as they pulled through with a 6-3 victory.
Saturday night’s scoreboard looked exactly the same at the end of the game, but it was North Dakota that struck first.
At 1:59 of the first period, Jocelyne Lamoureux shot a one-timer from the face-off circle to give UND the early lead.
Instead of playing catch-up, North Dakota held the Gophers to a tied game until the middle of the third period with back and forth goals by both teams.
“We had the benefit of play-ing with the lead a little bit and playing tied today instead of try-ing to come from behind all game like yesterday,” Idalski said. “It was just a good hockey game all the way around.”
Being only the second time that Minnesota had trailed in a game all season, the Gophers re-membered the first time as it oc-curred in Grand Forks — but it didn’t last long then.
This time, the score remained at 1-0 until the second period when a power play goal by Min-nesota left the teams looking for an edge.
Just 34 seconds into the third
period, the Gophers claimed their first lead of the game, which would spark an eruption of goals.
With two additional goals from Minnesota and two for Michelle Karvinen of North Dakota, a 4-3 advantage for the Gophers remained, with time at a premium.
Amanda Kessel sealed a 6-3 Gopher victory yet again with two additional goals with just about a minute to go in Satur-day’s game.
After entering Friday night’s game to start the third period for the Green and White, goaltender Shelby Amsley-Benzie found her-self starting in the net Saturday and made 31 saves, despite the losing effort.
Minnesota’s perfect 22-0-0 record keeps it at steady in the No. 1 spot. Continuing from last season, the team’s 30 game win-ning streak has yet to be broken.
However, the Gophers have now allowed 18 goals in 22 games this season, and nine of them have come in the four games against UND.
North Dakota’s record falls to 13-9-0 overall and 8-4-0 in the WCHA as it looks to take on WCHA opponent, Wisconsin in its next match up Friday night at Ralph Engelstad Arena.
Elizabeth Erickson is the web editor for The Dakota Stu-
dent. She can be reached at [email protected]
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(It’s a) little extra special when it’s a game winner.”
With the clock ticking down and the Tigers still trailing 4-3, an empty net on one side of the ice prompted Danny Kristo to score an easy goal, his second of the night, to seal the victory.
But Friday night’s game didn’t yield the same result.
The last time Colorado College won a game, it was against North Dakota – six weeks ago. Ironically, the last time North Dakota experi-enced a loss, it came against the Ti-gers that same weekend.
Both teams came out to prove who was capable of taking back the win, after a heated match up the last time the two teams met.
After a checking from behind penalty and game misconduct left Colorado College short a skater, North Dakota found itself in the same position as freshman Drake Caggiula was taken out of the game with an undisclosed injury after the fi rst period.
“We went down to 10 forwards and had to rearrange things a little bit, but that’s part of the game,” Hakstol said. “It creates some chal-lenges; but quite honestly, we prob-ably had the most jump when we did get down to 10 forwards.”
After harnessing its momentum. North Dakota was able to tie the score at 3-3 early in the third period.
An all too familiar fi ght for the game winner was won by the Ti-gers, as their goal from the top of the crease marked the end of a streak, for both teams.
A split may not be the ideal claim for the weekend; but accord-ing to Hakstol, Saturday gave way to a more resolute hockey game.
“I just thought we were more determined tonight from top to bottom,” Hasktol said. “We weren’t great tonight, but we didn’t beat our-selves. We gave ourselves a chance and we stuck with it and it worked out in our favor.”
Alongside a loss and a win for North Dakota also came a snow-storm, but loyal fans were there to witness it all.
“Amazing — we came to the rink on Friday and the students were lined up a block long in the snow-storm and a blizzard,” Hakstol said. “It’s not just students, we’ve got peo-ple traveling form one, two, three, four hours away and fi nding a way to get here.
“It makes it worthwhile at the end of a Saturday night when you have a satisfying win and hopefully that’s a nice payoff for those people and their dedication.”
Elizabeth Erickson is the web editor of The Dakota Stu-
dent. She can be reached at [email protected]
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UND junior forward Mitch MacMillan (center) scored his fi rst career goal in a North Dakota jersey Saturday evening at Ralph Engelstad Arena. Photo by Nick Picha.