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Honors to hold conference Substance use trends see shift

>MEGAN TALLEYThe Dakota Student

New research shows that North Dakota college students are drink-ing alcohol less and smoking mari-juana more. A study was conducted last year using approximately 4,000 students across North Dakota’s 11 public colleges.

The study was conducted by Jane Frisch in Jamestown, ND. The study showed that incidents of hav-ing fi ve or more drinks in one sitting dropped from almost 51 percent to about 48 percent, with student pot smoking rising slightly to 23.5 per-cent. The national rate is at about 31 percent, according to Frisch.

Frisch says students are having fewer drinks per week and drinking less often. She also said that almost 30 percent of students hadn’t had a drink in a month.

“Drug numbers are on the rise and have been for a few years now,” said Tracy Meidinger, Lieutenant with the University Police Depart-ment. Meidinger says drug arrests and offenses are way up. “I fear drug numbers [will continue] to go up,” added Meidinger.

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ILLEGAL Research shows decrease in alco-hol consumption, drug arrests increase.

TPS to bring speakers to campus

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The fi rst ND GLBTQA Con-ference at UND will take place April 30. The conference, which is organized and hosted by the UND Ten Percent Society, is the fi rst of its kind at UND and will bring nationally renowned speaker and equality activist Robyn Ochs and Kathy Fick, the director of Chris-tus Rex, and Dee Ann Duchane, a transfeminist, Trans-activist and LGBT recovery advocate from the Fargo/Moorhead area.

The conference, which will be held at Gamble Hall, will start at 8 a.m. with registration and check-in, then will feature an opening talk by Kathy Fick of UND Chris-tus Rex.

Following the opening speaker will be a workshop session, then, in the afternoon, the keynote speech will be given by Robyn Ochs. Ochs is an award-winning teacher, speaker and activist and is the edi-tor of Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World and other publi-cations.

After the keynote, two more workshop sessions will fi ll the af-ternoon, with the closing speech delivered by Dee Ann Du Shane, an active Transfeminist, Trans-activist and LGBT recovery advo-cate. Du Shane is involved with Tri State Transgender, Rainbow Recovery and the Pride Collective and Community Center.

The conference will wrap up with entertainment at Smith Hall.

For registration information, visit ndglbtaconference.com and fi ll out the registration form.

Students present research as part of academic program

After picking a topic and us-ing various research methods, projects spanning multiple se-mesters will yield fruit for stu-dents involved in the Honors Program.

The program is holding its 13th annual Honors Conference tomorrow from 9:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

In order to graduate from the program, students are required to complete a research-intensive proj-ect, complete with a thesis statement and original research.

“We are encouraging students to get involved in research during their undergraduate studies,” says Brian Schill, the program’s Undergraduate Research

Coordinator.The conference provides se-

niors with a platform to present their thesis and research fi ndings. This year 28 students will be pre-senting.

Students begin their prepara-tion for the project during their junior year and work closely with an advisor throughout the project’s duration. They create a

research question and must design experiments or

TOPIC LINE Support sought for GLBTQA event and changes to Stu. Gov. discussed

>BRANDI JEWETTThe Dakota Student

The Sorlie Bridge between Grand Forks and East Grand Forks sits at the wa-ter’s level as the Red River crested last Thursday afternoon at 49.6 feet (as pictured). The river’s highest point, reached in 1997, was 54.35 feet.

NATHAN TWERBERG > The Dakota Student

‘Graduate schools and employers like to see these kinds of things...

Brian Schillhonors professor, UND

During a brief meeting Sun-day, Student Senate approved one resolution and one bill.

The approved resolution re-quested Student Government’s support for the upcoming North Dakota GLBTQA Conference on April 30.

The resolution’s presenters said conference is the fi rst of its kind

at UND and if successful may become an annual event. There is also potential it may travel to other campuses.

The resolution received unani-mous approval.

Also approved was a bill laying out changes to the Student Gov-ernment by-laws.

One major change adds the stipulation that bills and resolu-tions must sit for a week in all sub-committees.

The bill’s presenter, Garrett Wedan, said the changes were made due to complaints from past senates regarding not having enough time

Student Organization Funding Agency (SOFA) chair Joshua Raynes appears at Senate to seek approval for several SOFA liaison positions.

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New alumni center to comeADDITION UND’s new building, funded by the Gorecki family, is set to be built by Sept. 1.

>LISA CASAREZThe Dakota Student

It has been fifteen years in the making, but the new UND Alumni center will start to be-come a reality very soon. The new Gorecki Alumni Center is set to start construction this year, ac-cording to Tim O’Keefe, CEO of the Alumni Association. “We are in the phase, and we plan to start in June.”

According to a UND press release, the site was approved last November and the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education gave approval for a site west of the Chester Fritz Auditorium. The long awaited building project will accommodate an over-due need for space for the Alumni Associa-tion as well as the closely related UND Foundation.

As of now, the Alumni Associ-ation does not hold events or gath-erings on campus, or sometimes not all due to “lack of facility.” O’ Keefe explains that between 1889 until now they haven’t had a building to meet their needs. “In 122 years, we have had alumni, [but] we have never had a place to call home.”

The namesake of the build-ing comes from Dorothy and Benedict Gorecki, who have do-nated $4 million as part of the $10.5 million for the building.

The Gorecki’s, from Milaca, Min-nesota, are founders of Gorecki Manufacturing. According to The Alumni Review, the Gorecki’s are “long-time supporters of the Uni-versity” and highlight the reason why they wanted to financially contribute to the new Alumni Center.

“It has more to do with fur-thering education,” said Benedict Gorecki. “The fact that the UND Alumni Association and UND Foundation connects alumni with each other and is the fundraising arm for the University really ap-pealed to us.” The Gorecki’s have also made previous contributions to the UND Foundation.

As for how the new building is going to affect current students, O’ Keefe says, “We certainly want the center to have full use; the whole campus because we look to students as future alumni.”

The first floor will contain meeting rooms and serve as a place to hold gatherings, while the second floor will provide suf-ficient office space for the UND Foundation and the Alumni As-sociation, who are currently sepa-rated between the J. Lloyd Stone house (a.k.a. Oxford house) and the Strinden Center on University Avenue.

“We are two separate organi-zations, but we work together,” says Milo Smith, Director of Communications for the Alumni Association.

“As of now we have zero in-teraction with the current student body,” says O’Keefe. “In addition to current students, faculty, staff and administration, the Gorecki Alumni Center will provide a

warm and welcoming home for alumni and friends, corporate visitors and prospective students and visitors.”

O’Keefe also highlighted how the building is aiming for LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). “Students associate a high level of standards with the University and we want to exemplify that with the construction of the building.” LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental De-sign which is a voluntary certifi-cation program that tests the en-ergy efficiency and environmental sensitivity of buildings.

According to the USGBC website, “LEED provides build-ing owners and operators a con-cise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building de-sign, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.”

UND press reveals how the center has finally become a real-ity as “legislation allowing for its construction has been in place since 1997. Fundraising for the project actively began in 2007. To date $7.3 million in commit-ments have been secured with the goal of raising $10.5 million.”

O’Keefe elaborates,” It is pro-jected to be a fourteen month phase, and the building is expected to be done September 1, 2012. “There will be a celebration upon the completion of the Gorecki Alumni Center during homecoming of the 2012-2013 academic year.

DS> Lisa Casarez is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at lisa.casarez.2@und.edu

The stigma of motherhoodRESEARCH Profes-sor Heather Terrell talks about some of society’s stereotypes of women.

>KATIE bACHmEIERThe Dakota Student

On Thursday, April 14, The College of Arts and Sci-ences Interdisciplinary Speaker Series welcomed speaker and UND psychology professor Heather Terrell on the topic of “Pregnancy and Motherhood: Stereotypes, Stigma, and So-cial Location” at 4 p.m. in the Chester Fritz Library.

The hour of insight allowed attendees to better understand and appreciate pregnancy and motherhood in the view of so-ciety.

The talk addressed common questions about how mother-hood is socially constructed. Terrell brought to the surface many socially structured views of how motherhood and preg-nancy is viewed by society, both positively and negatively.

She also illustrated to those who attended the judgments surrounding pregnancy and motherhood and how they spe-cifically reflect and correlate with matters of age, race and class.

Terrell also presented re-search on the relationship be-tween abortion and mental

health. Such topics are ones that many forget about when think-ing of pregnancy.

She said that it is very sel-dom that families or individuals seriously think about the mental health issues many women face when constructing judgments of pregnancy and motherhood.

Terrell also presented new research about judgments that are imposed upon women in re-lation to pregnancy and moth-erhood, specifically focusing on how the decisions women make about pregnancy and mother-hood are perceived by others, and how women may be stigma-tized for their childbearing deci-sions and experiences.

The College of Arts and Sci-ences Interdisciplinary Speaker Series invites many speakers throughout the campus staff and faculty to present on con-troversial and intriguing topics each semester.

Those who attended were able to look past such a com-mon subject —motherhood—and see it magnified to every detail, judgment and social ‘norm’, thereby allowing a new appreciation to take form.

The hope is that students and other attendees gain better understanding of what is going on in academia and to obtain a more balanced view of the world.

DS> Katie Bachmeier is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at katie.bachmeier@und.edu

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Isn’t is strange what gets coverage these days? Three wars and a nation in economic peril, and we are concen-trating on toes—well, to be fair to the critics, pink toes.

J. Crew recently published an [unknowingly] con-troversial advertisement where the company’s president, Jenna Lyons, is pictured with her fi ve year old son, play-ing on a Saturday afternoon. Under the photo of Jenna holding her sons freshly painted toes, there is a caption saying, “quality time: Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon.”

In response, the media decided to take on the per-sona of our inappropriate, overreactive uncle. You know, that one that makes all the uncomfortable and ignorant comments at Thanksgiving. The conservative media in particular dubbed the picture as “blatant propaganda cel-ebrating transgender children.” Really?

First off, this argument is completely overblown. Children at that age simply play; they are not being con-ditioned for anything. Some little girls like playing in the dirt, while some little boys will play with a Barbie no mat-ter how many times mom and dad try to replace her with a G.I. Joe. They are not making a political statement; they are just being kids.

More importantly, though, is what this “controversy” says about our cultural values. What is wrong with a little boy liking nail polish? Even if painting toenails isn’t a tra-ditional masculine practice, who really cares? Why does this bother us so much?

The 20th century ushered in an enormous amount of progress toward equality, and the 21st century is close on its heels in terms of speedy change. Despite these positive changes, the J. Crew ad is proof that there is much more to be done. When the media feels that a fi ve year old with pink nail polish is proof of a liberal agenda to destroy the nation’s value system, it is obvious that gendered norms are still very stifl ing. If a little boy cannot wear nail pol-ish, does that mean a little girl should not play catch? If it is deemed as too “girly” for a boy to play with the color pink with his mother, is it equally disturbing for a little girl to be interested in blue Tonka Trucks?

Even if the advertisement is crossing gender boundar-ies (and that is a big “even”), that should be taken as a positive, not a negative. Gendered norms are completely artifi cial and constraining, and their usefulness is wrapped up in maintaining a very conservative, harmful status quo. They are not something to help propel our society forward.

The J. Crew ad has received a lot of notice, and many of us want to speculate as to why. But at the end of the day, intellectualizing—although important—may be un-necessary in this situation. Because, come on people…it’s just nail polish!

DS ViewmeDiA Controversial advertisement makes our culture refl ect on its values.

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Recently the NBA commission-er David Stern fi ned Kobe Bryant $100,000 for using a homophobic slur.

While I do not support what Bry-ant said, do not agree, and am a part and an advocate of the LGBTQ com-munity, the fi ne shocked me.

Many LGBTQ organizations ap-plauded the fi ne and demanded an apology from Bryant. He did apolo-gize.

He is however, appealing the fi ne (honestly, I don’t blame him). Once he apologized, it seemed as though there were sighs of relief, as if, ho-mophobia was erased because Bryant apologized and got a fi ne.

$100,000 will do nothing (where does that money even go? To help the LGBTQ community? Probably not). My fi rst thought was that Stern fi ned him to make the NBA “look better” by trying to “combat” homophobia.

When in fact, fi nes will not make homophobia go away. It only sets up a situation in which people will fear saying that word because of the fi ne.

It doesn’t set up a situation in which people actually communicate how they feel when they hear that word.

In other words, the fear of the fi ne is why people won’t say the word, as opposed to discussing how it impacts them or actually doing something about homophobia.

How about the many players who have been accused of rape? Some of them are not fi ned as much as Bryant was. One example is Garrett Wittels, a baseball player who got a $10,000 bail for being accused of rape.

He also was cleared to go to prac-tice for his team and the court case is still pending.

He raped 17-year-old girls. Raped. He did not say an offensive word; he changed these girls’ lives forever.

Wouldn’t it be more productive

to have conversations about how one feels when they hear a word or phrase, instead of throwing fi nes at celebri-ties and/or sports fi gures and creating laws to not use certain words?

Ironically, while writing this arti-cle, I came across an article critiquing the constant onslaught against lan-guage called “From Redistribution to Recognition: A Left Critique of Mul-ticulturalism“ by Anis Shivani. Shi-vani discusses a similar argument I am proposing here, so I only thought it was appropriate to cite him in this article.

His argument and where I am go-ing is that politics have started to fo-

cus on language and other superfi cial and surface problems.

Talking about and focusing on language does not change or really challenge systematic oppressions. Ba-sically, it sets up a situation in which people feel this need to constantly not offend people without ever being told the reasons why.

There is a constant response of, “that’s offensive! Don’t say it!” Fol-lowed with a fi ne (in some situations) or an urged apology (as if that erases sexism, racism, homophobia and so on).

Supposedly, these fi nes and apol-ogies have become acceptable and only creates a growing internal re-sentment of the person who said the word or phrase.

A quote from Shivani’s article states, “Liberals, rather than chang-ing the economic conditions lead-ing to subjection of women and mi-norities (a project they gave up on a long time ago), sought to attack

some forms of speech, limiting it at times and abolishing it at others. Not economic reorganization but speech performance became the center of at-tention.”

As I was saying, the constant bombardment of language has be-come the central focus of Liberals.

Instead of doing something to actually change the systematic op-pression and economic situation of the oppressed, groups and individu-als are constantly calling out people for words they say.

Sure, what someone says may hurt me, but an apology does noth-ing beyond an individual level.

In fact, I feel more assertive and empowered when I tell someone what they said personally hurt me, as opposed to living off of assump-tions that people shouldn’t say cer-tain things because it may/may not be offensive to me.

An apology does not change the systematic oppression that sexism has created for being a woman. I’ve already accepted that our culture is sexist, why do I want to try to reform it?

I’d rather live in a world in which sexism (and other oppressions) don’t exist.

Do I have an answer on how to do that? Honestly, no.

However, as a Leftist, I’d much rather see real change occur instead of fi nes being slapped on celebrities or soft Liberal groups (such as the Human Rights Campaign) publicly demand an apology.

These types of actions take away energy from what is truly going on. It hides true oppressions and the reality of people’s lives.

As Shivani said and I am also arguing, speech and not offending people has become the center of at-tention for Liberals, instead of focus-ing on the reality of true oppression and economic disadvantages.

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‘...as a Leftist, I’d much rather see real change occur instead of fi nes...

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DS> Heather Jackson is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at heather.jackson@und.edu

05the Dakota Student tuesday april 19, 2011

College students are traditionally depicted as getting either too much or too little sleep. We can skip classes and sleep in until noon without risking the loss of a job or a paycheck, and the average student can utilize a multi-hour mid-afternoon break as naptime. Or, we pull all-nighters frantically pulling together projects, spewing words into final papers or cramming for exams.

Whether it is poor planning and procras-tination or an unusually heavy load of course-work that keeps you up into the wee hours of the night, there are many tricks that students use to stay awake. Downing coffee, pop, en-ergy drinks or other caffeinated beverages is al-ways a popular and effective choice. Listening to music, working in a well-lit area and taking periodic short breaks also help.

However, it is questionable whether pull-ing an all-nighter or even consistently getting too little sleep is a good choice, even if you are using the hours spent away from your bed in study. Sleep is an essential function for our body and mind, and by depriving ourselves of it, we can face dire consequences not only for our health, but ultimately our grades.

All-nighters have long been a staple of col-legiate life. In fact, more of us are getting by on less sleep than ever. A study by St. Lawrence University found that two-thirds of college students are pulling all-nighters each semester. However, these same students also had a low-er GPA on average then students who never pulled an all-nighter. Even if you are finishing one paper, presentation, or project effectively during your late night study session, the sleep you are losing can have long term effects on your performance as a student for the rest of the semester.

Even if you aren’t staying up all night, getting less sleep than you need can still have consequences. A study by the University of Pennsylvania outlined the risks for consistent sleep deprivation: study subjects who got only four or six hours of sleep a night were outper-formed by those who got 8 hours each night. Also, the people with less sleep did worse each day…the more days they racked up without enough sleep, the worse their performance got.

For a student, the consequences of not get-ting enough sleep can be grim. If a student stays up too late on a Sunday night to catch up on their homework from the weekend, they are setting themselves up for a less successful week. If they follow that night with more late nights and early mornings for the rest of the school week, they could be setting themselves up for failure for their Friday exam, for example.

There are even more serious consequences for the sleep-deprived. Beyond a notice-able drop in performance as a student, there are other, health-related concerns. Yawning through your 8:00am class isn’t the only con-sequence; lack of sleep can put you at risk for obesity, greater levels of stress, depression and even can put you at greater odds for car ac-cidents. It only takes a lapse of a few seconds behind the wheel to put yourself and others in great danger.

As students hurtle towards the end of the semester, it is important to carefully con-sider the importance of sleep in your life as a student. If success and reaching your full potential is your top priority, then getting an adequate amount of sleep should be your pri-ority, too.

Students’ need for good sleep

Liberal hesitance problematic

Late Saturday night, as I drove away from the train station after a failed attempt to secure a ticket for a trip, an incident which included various levels of misinfor-mation, I was struck by the state of the in-frastructure in this country. I was baffled as to why, in the age of the internet, in an industrialized coun-try (THE industrial-ized country) it felt like Kruschev’s Rus-sia. I wish I could say that this was an isolated incident, but it was not. The problem here wasn’t that I had a bad experience and wasted a lot of time, the problem is a problem of infrastructure, the vehicle that moves so-ciety.

Over the last decade I’ve seen a sub-stantial number of what, for lack of a better term, I’ll refer to as “Disaster Documen-taries.” These are the type of films that quasi-Leftist Liberals make about the sad state of the country (see: Michael Moore’s body of work, Food Inc., Super Size Me, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices, The Take, Gasland to name a few).

In every instance I was granted a fuller understanding of some specific problem this country is facing and furthermore how these problems are not the result of individual choices, but the result of the in-creasing corporatization of various sectors of society (the food system, the environ-ment, local commerce, the media, public

education, the health care system, etc.). I don’t disagree with the thrust of the films; what I disagree with are the conclusions and the film’s proposed “solutions,” or the lack thereof.

What’s endemic here is that filmmakers of this stripe, by and large, operate by the Liberal principle that “if people only knew what was going on, they’d change things.” Which leads to suggestions for “solutions”

like, “we just need to get together and work to make society better,” or worse, “write your con-gressman.”

As Slavoj Zizek notes, how we conceive of a problem is some-times part of the prob-lem. Social change can’t happen without a posi-

tive political program, some shared cause, what Walter Benjamin called a theological dimension. What these films illustrate is that what calls itself the Left has no solu-tions, no shared idea that people can orga-nize around. These films are the symptom of a larger problem.

What remains of the Left is waiting around for “the working class” or some other such entity to finally emerge and or-ganize and take back society from the rob-ber barons, all the while the society con-tinues to be stolen by corporations and the infrastructure crumbles.

Liberals don’t get a pass either; with their consistent lack of a backbone, the Democratic Party’s unwillingness to use power when they have it (see: Obama’s first two years as President with a control of both the House and the Senate), and their pathetic illusion that somehow we’ll

be able to compromise our way to a more just society has devastating effects on the country. I am by no means on the Right—I count myself as a Leftist—but at least the Right can get things done. They don’t wait around for permission to take power; they impose their ideas on society and let society deal with it. Liberals could take a page out of their playbook.

Taken as a whole, what these films il-luminate is that the glue that holds soci-ety together, that is, the social, as well as physical infrastructure is going, if not gone already in some places. The hard truth is that there isn’t some savior off in the dis-tance, biding his time to come and rescue us from the mess we’re in; there’s no Left waiting in the wings to rise up. As Zizek notes, there’s no guarantee that things will work out and one day the Left will win.

He points out that the light at the end of the tunnel is another train heading straight for us. There is over $800 billion tied up in student loans and few jobs to employ all these students. What happens when these loans go into default? They’re bankrupt proof. They will follow us for-ever. What if there’s no one left to bail us out.

The question to be asked, then, is not when will the Left coalesce, but rather, what happens if we don’t act? What if the fate of society rests with us and crumbling roads next to shiny new corporate build-ings is just a preview of how bad it will get? What if we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for?

>AAron wentzThe Dakota Student

My favorite line in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” I like it because it transcends the war and battlefield about which it was originally stated and is directly applicable to our dai-ly lives. Death comes for us all, and though death requires one to live first, is does not necessarily require one to live well.

I bring this up because Gerald E. “Jerry” Pokrzywinski died at the age of 74 on Thursday, March 31 after suffering a stroke. Although it had been in the news, I didn’t find out until last Wednesday night. Jerry, as he was affectionately known to those who knew him, ran Jerry’s Campus Barbershop in the basement of the Memo-rial Union. To say he was a barber is a dra-matic understatement of his position. He was The Barber. He was one of the longest employed service providers on this campus, having run his barbershop since 1959.

I described him once, in an article I wrote several years ago for the Dakota Stu-dent, as an institution. Looking back, it’s amazing to think that this man cut the hair of half the Presidents who had ever served UND. He’d cut the hair of Senators, movie stars, basketball heroes and hockey legends. In between he cut the hair of everybody else who wandered into his shop, people like myself who will be little remembered only several years after graduating.

He was there through Civil Rights, through the floods, the championships and everything else of note that has oc-curred at this University. I have never spo-

ken to a single person at UND who did not know of or think highly of him. It was always the same whenever his name came up, “Jerry? The barber? He’s one funny dude…” or some iteration thereof. Indeed he was funny. He was a storyteller of the greatest order, a king of the North Dakota conversation, and master of small talk. You couldn’t sit down in his barber chair with-out smiling, nor could you leave his shop without feeling better about your entire day. What made him The Barber was not simply his mastery of his craft of cutting hair and shaving necks (with the always enjoyable hot foam) but rather his ability to bring light and mirth to the people who entered his shop.

In his own small way, as the decades passed by, Jerry made this entire cam-pus a better place to be. Until recently he was as constant as the days of the week, and despite health issues that began tak-ing him from his beloved shop, he was still available by appointment for those who would have no other.

He was one of the first people I met at UND. He was a Sioux fan through and through, with championship plaques and other sports memorabilia adorning his green and white shop. He always made fun of my Bohemian ancestry and I always told him his shop stank of Jealousy.

Memories of my time with him, in their limited context, are remarkable be-cause of their uniform happiness. He was a great man.

UND is a little bit darker without

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him. The Union isn’t as warm without the smells of aftershave and shaving cream, and the happy sounds of clippers, vacuums and laughter that constantly trail down the Union hallways when he held court. It tears me up that I wasn’t at his funeral, that I had no idea until nearly two weeks later. That we will all miss something this im-portant is an inevitable consequence of liv-ing as well. Sometimes the people we care about are taken before we can adequately tell them how much we appreciate them and their existence.

I don’t doubt that these words will be little remembered, as I don’t pretend to think that my abilities are sufficient for

adequately honor-ing this man, but as Lincoln said, I cannot honor him any more than his noble life already has. He was one of the best people I’ve ever known. A man who managed to ac-complish one of the

greatest feats man is capable of: a life well lived. Yet, of all the qualities that can be ascribed to him, the one I will miss most is probably of the littlest consequence. More than just The Barber, he was a husband, father and all around wonderful person. Most importantly, to me at least, he was my friend. Jerry, UND will miss you, your family will miss you and I will miss you. Sleep well friend, until we meet again.

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DS> Aaron Wentz is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at aaron.wentz@und.edu

‘The hard truth is that there isn’t some savior off in the dis-tance...

Aaron Wentzcolumnist

‘He was there through Civil Rights, through the floods...

David Bartacolumnist

DS> David Barta is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at david.barta@und.edu DS> Emily Burkland is a columnist for The

Dakota Student. She can be reached at emily.burkland@und.edu

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There could be numerous fac-tors contributing to the decrease in drinking and the increase in smok-ing marijuana for North Dakota col-lege students. Nobody really knows the right answer, but assumptions can be made based upon personal experience. Alcohol education pro-grams have been flagged as a major contributor to the decreasing drink-ing numbers.

Frisch, who led the new study, says the decreased usage of alcohol is due to the educational efforts across college campuses.

Meidinger said he feels “educa-tional programs are working, but people aren’t taking as many risks. I think they are just doing more pre-planning to make their evening out a little safer.” Meidinger explained students plan ahead as to how they are getting from point A to point B before the night starts.

Meidinger also added that “most habits are already formed before they [students] get to the University. It’s not a habit they are picking up here.”

Melissa Leathers, second year law student, agrees, saying “things are changing in the high school set-ting.” Leathers discussed how she feels more students are starting to drink in high school.

With regard to the increase in marijuana usage, Leathers says, “I’m not surprised. People now aren’t afraid to talk about the fact that they do it.”

Leathers added that she feels the negative connotation with smoking

pot has relaxed and it’s more socially acceptable today than it used to be.

“People don’t put the stereotype with pot smoking like they used to. It’s almost more okay now to say you do it,” added Leathers.

Meidinger also discussed the many programs law enforcement has for alcohol use, but the lack of drug programs.

“We have a lot of programs focused on alcohol. Realistically, we have nothing specific targeting drugs.” However, Meidinger says they’re getting there. There is a Nar-cotics Task Force, which Meidinger says is always busy. This task force is made up of multiple agencies including state, local and federal groups.

The police department is also working to get more officers through the Drug Recognition Expert train-ing. Meidinger says “a Drug Recog-nition Expert is trained in detecting drug impaired people.” It’s a three week long training, which Meiding-er says is paying off.

Meidinger added that there are times when drugs are easier to get and times when it’s harder. This could play into the increase in usage of drugs as well.

Regardless of the cause of this shift in substance use, marijuana use can be harmful to individuals. This recent report by Frisch is shedding light on the substance abuse trends in North Dakota, and hopefully of-ficials can work to educate and keep students safe.

other methods to gather the date re-quired to answer it.

“Students in the biomedical and physical sciences conduct experi-ments in laboratories,” says Schill. He says non-science students in the humanities or social sciences will uti-lize focus groups or surveys to gather data.

Once their project is complete, students present them at the con-ference. Powerpoints and displays can be used by students during their presentation. Schill says getting these students involved in research is part of a national trend that has been growing for a decade.

“Graduate schools and employ-ers like to see these kinds of things,” he says. “It shows them the student can work independently.” Schill also says a majority of students enjoy the experience and describe it as an ex-tremely useful part of their under-graduate education. He welcomes all students to the conference to learn from others’ work.

“They see their peers are doing this and they can too,” he says. “It encourages them to get involved in research, either in the Honors Pro-gram or in their own departments.”

time read bills and resolutions thoroughly, to speak with con-stituents, research items necessary to understanding bills and resolu-tions, and bills and resolutions be-ing pushed through too quickly.

Previously, only bills requir-ing alloca-tions from the projects account were required to sit before be-ing brought to the floor.

Honor s Senator Ja-cob Winkles believed the change would only hinder Senate. He moved to strike it from the by-laws.

“These changes would slow the process down,” he said.

Greek Senator John Kappel disagreed with removing the sec-tion from the by-law update.

Instead of striking the chang-es, he suggested keeping them and modifying another part of the by-laws.

Currently, in order to bypass the one week waiting period, a three-fourths majority is needed.

“We could change the re-

quired three-fourths majority to a two-thirds majority.

Winkles’ amendment failedChanges made to the election

code were also included in the bill.

The election chair will now be appointed by the second sen-ate meeting of November and the elections committee will be ap-pointed at the final senate meet-

ing of the fall semester.

T h e s e changes were made to ac-commodate time-line is-sues faced by previous com-mittees.

The bill also contained several other changes, including the removal of a clause stating chairs can only serve on standing committees for three years.

Other items were also modi-fied to reflect the wording found in the Student Government Con-stitution.

Changes to the constitution were approved during the last stu-dent body election.

‘These changes would slow the process down.

Jacob Winkleshonors senator

culture&mediaDS > Inside: Gradspot.com’s Guide to Life After College, Women Into Science

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The UND Communications Program, along with the Grand Forks Herald, have invited entertainment journalist Carl Arrington to come and share his stories and experiences with superstars, including the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Ma-donna, the Beach Boys and Tina Turner at a public event at the Grand Forks Herald’s Community Room on Wednesday, April 20, at 7 p.m.

Ever since Arrington began an underground newspaper called The Buff alo Bill at his junior high school in 1965

(which he got suspended for), it was clear that he was going to grow up to be a rebellious, cu� ing edge writer. Originally from Utah, Arrington has lived all over the United States, as well as overseas in Lon-don. He a� ended Utah State University, where he worked on the newspaper staff with UND journalism professor Dr. Richard Schafer.

Arrington originally wanted to be a political writer, but after working at the press offi ce of a Wash-ington Congressman, he decided that political writing was too boring; he decided that he wanted to interview rock stars instead. One of his fi rst major interviews was with Madonna in 1984. He would also go on to write major profi les on musicians Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner, as well as writing the occasional piece on movie stars such as Carrie Fisher and Sylvester Stallone. His experi-ences not only involved meeting the stars but also spending time with them outside of the interview for a few days to get to know them personally.

While working at People magazine as an associate editor and San Francisco bureau chief, Arrington wrote two of the magazine’s top selling cover stories, one on Michael Jackson and the other on Ma-donna, which ended up selling more than fi ve million copies on newsstands. He has also been a rock critic and entertainment reporter for the New York Post, as well as Detroit Free Press. Arrington has been featured in publications such as Time, Rolling Stone, US Weekly, Men’s Life and TV Guide.

There were moments where Arrington had to go further than just interviewing and reporting ce-lebrities. On one occasion, he had to drag a drunk Ozzy Osbourne out of the fountain in front of the Ceasars’s Palace hotel in Las Vegas. He has also been invited on stage by the Beach Boys, and was one of the fi rst reporters to see KISS without their make-up. Always one to be innovative and daring in his work, Arrington once moved into an Alzheimer’s treatment center for a week to write a medical story on an innovative clinic in Arizona before much was known about the disease.

Expect to hear these stories and more at Wednesday’s event at the Grand Forks Herald’s Com-munity Room on Wednesday, April 20. Pizza will be served as well, making the event a must-a� end for anyone who has the night free, wants to enjoy some pizza and listen to some very entertaining stories from a big time entertainment journalist.

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DS> Matthew Roy is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at matthew.roy.2@und.edu

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GRADSPOT New release provides tips, strategies and insights for recent college grads.

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It’s all too common for recent college grads to emerge into the real world scratching their heads at the seemingly endless number of options before them. What kind of job should a recent college grad look for? Where should they live? What is a credit report and how can they make sure theirs is good? And is it really worth it to go to grad school?

These questions and more are answered in this year’s version of Gradspot.com’s Guide to Life Af-ter College. This book, written by David Klein, Chris Schonberger, Stuart Schultz and Tory Hoen (all recent college graduates) touches on many questions recent college grads and soon-to-be grads are like-ly to encounter in the real world. The topics range from the obvious (how much health insurance cover-age is necessary) to the surprising (how to travel abroad for free).

The book starts with a general overview of options and tips for the college grad who is just transi-tioning into the real world: how to stock a kitchen, how to date outside of a college environment, ideas for traveling abroad and how to make

Helping women excel in scienceSTeM New interest group will meet to dis-cuss support for females in male-dominated disci-plines.

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A new group has formed on campus to help women involved with science, and they’re looking for you! UND Women in Science will have their Inaugural meet-ing and Welcome on April 27 from 3:45-5:00 p.m. in the Me-morial Union Badlands Room. “This new student organization hopes to foster mentoring, com-munication and support between all levels of women active in the sciences. Please join us for our inaugural meeting for an intro-duction to our group and discus-sion about future activities. This

group is open to anyone in any major, undergraduate or graduate student,” says Victoria Maneev, the secretary for UND Women in Science.

Though women have been catching up in terms of doctor-ates earned in the biological and agricultural sciences, women in math and computer science still lag behind. But that doesn’t have to continue into perpetuity. Sup-porting women in science should be done by everyone. We need to help foster equal growth amongst all men and women by not hold-ing onto old-fashioned beliefs that women and “tough” disci-plines are separate by nature.

Trying to counteract the “Why So Few?” in STEM (sci-ence, technology, engingeering and mathematics) fields, UND

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the transition from college life a bit easier. After the basics are covered, the book segues into the working world and devotes three entire chapters to the subject: choosing a career, getting hired and working life. The second half of the book is devoted to housing, money (and the problems that go with it, such as credit card debt), cars and com-muting, health and grad school.

While the premise of the book may seem a bit gimmicky and the language the writers use may cause you to roll your eyes at times, the book essentially delivers what it promises: a guide to life after col-lege that covers the included topics with a depth that gives the reader a decent comprehension of how to deal with the challenges they’re fac-ing (or what’s in store for them in the near future). The book is also incredibly readable, as it makes the (probably correct) assumption that the information it presents is prob-ably new to most readers. While the section on credit card debt may not provide enough information to singlehandedly save a recent grad who’s already thousands of dollars in debt, it does provide plenty of information for the grad who has not yet acquired debt and would prefer not to. In addition, the book provides definitions for those con-fusing terms most grads aren’t go-ing to know (what exactly is gap insurance and do I really need it?).

Not all of the information is going to be useful to the every-day reader; the section on cars and commuting, for example, seems to push the idea of buying a brand new car over a used one, which isn’t exactly a feasible idea for most recently-graduated twentysome-things. Overall, though, this book gives a good overview of how to survive once you’re on your own. In addition, more information that didn’t make it into the book can be found at gradspot.com, and the book also provides additional re-sources (both printed and online) to give the reader a more in-depth look at the topics it covers.

The verdict? Gradspot.com’s Guide to Life After College is a handy guide to the real world that deserves a place on the bookshelves of recent grads or anyone who needs a little help with making informed decisions on important matters. Readers will more than likely find themselves reaching for this book again and again as new questions and challenges arise. It’ll save you countless phone calls to your parents while simply provid-ing information instead of pushing opinions. And that is a win-win situation for everyone.

DS> Megan Sevigny is the Features Editor for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at megan.sevigny@und.edu

sportstuesday april 19, 2011

>Inside: Biking for UND, the annual charity competition between NDSUDS

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vs. NDSU4/19 @ 1 p.m.Kraft Field

BSB WGLFT&FGWC ChampionshipsHouston, Tex.4/25-27 @ 8 a.m.

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SB@SDSU Twilight meetBrookings, SD4/25 All Day

This past weekend, the UND men’s and women’s track and field teams had split squads going to two different meets. Three indi-viduals went to Walnut, Califor-nia, running in the Mount San Antonio College Relays. The event is held annually and brings in high school, college and elite athletes from all over. This year was the 53rd relays and North Dakota would be represented. Running for UND included Josh LaBlanc,

UND track visits Iowa and CaliforniaSPRINT North Dakota sent athletes to two re-spective meets over the weekend.

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Lindsay Anderson and Emily Em-erson, who will compete against some great athletes.

LaBlanc, in his final year of competing, was in the 10,000 meters going after the UND school record. This past indoor season he was successful at break-ing the 3k and 5k record, so his chances seemed good at this one. In the university/open division, LaBlanc placed sixth in his sec-tion, clocking in at 30:05.24. Overall he placed 25th out of 68 runners. He bettered the old school record of 30:34 which was set in 1968.

Running a personal best in the 5,000 meters, Anderson finished with a time of 17:00.55. She fin-ished 14th overall out of 43 total runners. The winner of the race was from Sacramento State, who

finished in an impressive time of 16:43.

Emerson didn’t want to go all the way to California just for one race; she competed in two. Her first one produced great results. She was able to run a personal best in the 1500 meters with a time of 4:32.84. Emerson was in the fourth section with 11 other athletes. The race had eight sec-tions all together with a total of 126 athletes. In the 800 meters, Emerson finished with a 2:20.30, placing ninth in her section. Over-all it was a great double and she showed lots of guts competing in those two tough races.

On Friday and Saturday, UND athletes were in Iowa taking part in the Jim Duncan Invitational. The meet is held by Drake University, which also hosts the famous Drake

Relays. Several North Dakota ath-letes competed very well, posting some great results.

Friday was the night for the distance events, which were held under the lights. Last year it was a great night, but this past week-end rain was a major factor. Adam Stainiger competed in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, finishing with a time of 10:22.56. He was seventh overall out of 18 other runners. On the women’s side in the same race, Jordyn Dass took fourth with a time of 12:17.23.

Leading the way for the men on Saturday was Chris Stoks. He had a solid race in the 400, plac-ing fourth in a time of 49.97. He was also a part of the 4x100 relay team which placed fifth in 44.31.

The top finisher for the wom-en was Jessica Butler, who took

second in the 100 meter hurdles. She continued her impressive sea-son in the hurdles Saturday with a time of 14.80. She was only seven hundredths of a second out of first place.

In the 800 meters, two UND athletes had successful races. Fresh-man Jesse Fenstermacher placed eighth with a time of 1:55.21 while junior Tyler Rose placed ninth in 1:58.41. Kahla Erickson was the top female for UND in this race, finishing in 2:25.01

Next up for the track and field teams will be a trip to South Da-kota State. They will participate in the SDSU Twilight Meet, taking place on Monday, April 25th.

DS> Kyle Rosseau is the staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at kyle.rosseau@und.edu

The baseball season may still be young, but that doesn’t mean that the Minnesota Twins can rest on their laurels and expect to magi-cally jump to first in the AL Cen-tral. Even if the Twins are known for slow starts, I can’t ever remember them starting out this poorly and coming back to win the division. What’s most concerning for the Twins is that the Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Indians have raced out to scorching starts. If you think both starts are an aberration, think again. Both teams have stockpiled young talent over the past couple years and could very well take the division crown if Minnesota, Chi-cago and Detroit continue to skid.

Right now, the best news for the Twins is that Joe Mauer’s trip to the DL ended up being for a virus and not anything serious. On the other hand, there is plenty of bad news to

go around. Justin Morneau is still getting himself back into the swing of things and it could very well take him most of the season to get back to his pre-concussion play. What else should concern Twins fans at the moment? Well, how about Joe Nathan blowing two saves over the weekend followed by him getting demoted in favor of Matt Capps, who himself blew a save over the weekend and hasn’t exactly looked sharp thus far. Also, the lineup—the strong suit of the Twins—has gone ice cold over the first few of the sea-son.

The Twins can’t rely on pitch-ing like they did in the past. They’ve put together a talented lineup that on paper looks like one of the best in the majors. But with Delmon Young, Michael Cuddyer, Morneau and Danny Valencia struggling at the dish, it’s led to futile offensive numbers for Minnesota.

So how exactly are the Twins going to right the ship and get back in the hunt for the division title? First they need to get healthy. Once they get back T-Nish (new second basemen who is currently out with a broken fibula) and Mauer the of-fense should be fine, but until then guys like Jason Kubel, Young, Cud-

dyer, Morneau and Valencia are go-ing to have to pick up the slack.

As far as the pitching staff goes the Twins have serious question marks that can’t be answered within the organization. Carl Pavano is a solid starter who can give you seven to eight good innings a night but he isn’t a shutdown pitcher. Francisco Liriano is too inconsistent and often implodes when things aren’t going his way. Scott Baker, Brian Duen-sing and Nick Blackburn are often hit or miss on the mound, and none of them possess great stuff.

It’s likely at some point the Twins will call up top pitching pros-pect Kyle Gibson, but he fits into the Pavano mold.

What Minnesota really needs is an ace. They need a pitcher that can out and dominate every time he steps to the mound. Somebody that can stop a skid that the Twins are currently going through, and until they get one, they’ll continue to be ousted in the first round of the play-offs or possibly miss out entirely.

TRoUBLeD Minnesota Baseball can’t seem to find their swing as the new season begins.

>BRaNDoN BecKeRThe Dakota Student

DS> Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brandon.becker2@und.edu

TOPSY TURVEY TWINS Lonesome losses in Kansas City

The UND Softball team headed to Kansas City, Missouri for a round-robin tournament against Missouri-Kansas City and the Uni-versity of South Dakota last week. UND went winless in all four games, but three of the losses could of easily been turned into wins.

Game one—UND 3, USD 5UND opened play against the Coyotes in the UMKC Dakota’s

Round-Robin Tournament with a heartbreaking loss. After four straight wins against USD, dating back to last year, the streak was

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Women in Science is now on campus to help women and those who support women being in-volved with science connect with like-minded individuals interest-ed in increasing the equality all people deserve, including faculty or staff that would like to encour-age women in science fields.

Here is an excerpt from “Why So Few?,” a report made by the American Association of Univer-sity Women:

“Even girls and women who excel in mathematics often do not pursue STEM fields. In stud-ies of high mathematics achiev-ers, for example, women are more likely to secure degrees in the hu-manities, life sciences, and social sciences than in math, computer science, engineering or the physi-cal sciences; the reverse is true for men.”

Bias and stereotypes persist in the Sciences. Again, from “Why So Few?,” “women are shown as being used as lesser researchers in some ways; with the more the women “shares” herself, the better

she will do and advance. “Even individuals who espouse a belief of gender equity and equality may harbor implicit biases about gender and, hence, negative gen-der stereotypes about women and girls in science and math found that majorities of both women and men of all racial-ethnic groups hold a strong implicit as-sociation of male with science and female with liberal art.”

Support is important no mat-ter what field you are involved with. “When test administrators tell students that girls and boys are equally capable in math, the difference in performance disap-pears, illustrating the importance of the learning environment for encouraging girls’ achievement and interest in math.”

If you feel that women de-serve equal treatment with men in STEM fields, head off to the UND Women In Science meet-ing next Wednesday. For more information, contact undwis@gmail.com.

DS> Nicholas Gowan is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at nicholas.gowan@und.edu

Biking for UNDRACE Competition against NDSU on April 30 will raise money for the Newman Center.

>PATRiCk EvAnSThe Dakota StudentEveryone grab your bicy-

cle shorts and prepare to defeat NDSU! The 26th Annual UND-NDSU Newman Center Bike Race to Hillsboro will be taking place on April 30 and UND needs to show up NDSU in charitable donations. Last year, UND raised $85,000 in donations for the St Thomas Aqui-nas Newman Center, while NDSU only was able to raise $72,000 for St. Paul’s Newman Center. We also had fewer riders enter the race than NDSU did. It would be excellent if we could beat NDSU in both the amount of money raised for char-ity and the number of entrants in the race.

Sign-in for the 40-mile bicycle ride to Hillsboro will begin at 8

a.m. on Saturday the 30th at the Newman Center, with the start of the race at 9 a.m. The race will start at either the Newman Center or in Hillsboro. The race will always fol-low the wind, so the starting point depends upon which direction the wind is blowing on race day. Trans-portation is provided to the start location and back after the race. If you don’t have a bike, do not despair; bikes will be provided for participants without bikes. There will be free bike clinics the Thurs-day and Friday before the race from 2 p.m. until well into the eve-ning. Participants are also invited to a free spaghetti dinner the night before the race. Breakfast will be served before the race, with lunch afterwards.

Safety is paramount to the race and there will be trucks patrol-ling the race route to aid any rid-ers. Medical aid will be on hand in case any issues should arise. There will also be way stations every 10 miles with refreshments and snacks for the participants. All racers will receive T-shirts for participating in the event. All the participants are encouraged to collect from spon-sors, but if you are unable to find any there is a $20 fee to cover the cost of the meals, transportation, and other expenses.

The goal of the race is to en-courage community building and to raise the money needed to support the Newman Center. While these goals are commend-able, another goal for UND is to show NDSU we can beat them in charitable fund-raising. The win-ner of the race is not just the team with the fastest time, but will also take into consideration how much money each team raised. A little competition will help everyone in-volved and will help the Newman Center the most. Anyone interested in participating in the race should stop by the Newman Center or call them at 701-777-6850. Let’s show NDSU who the most charitable school is.

DS> Patrick Evans is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at patrick.evans@und.edu

shattered when USD scored five runs in the seventh inning to beat UND 5-3.

UND’s Emma Gronseth has been pitching well as of late. Gronseth’s last outing against Mayville State only surrendered one hit. Gronseth’s performance carried over to Saturday against the Coyotes. The UND pitcher completed six scoreless innings and only allowed one hit. Things started to unravel for the sopho-more in the seventh inning. With a 2-0 lead heading into the final inning, USD broke the shutout with a lead off home run then persisted to bat around the line-up scoring five runs to take a 5-2 lead. UND had a chance in the bottom of the seventh to start a rally of their own loaded the bases but only connecting for one run. The meltdown was heartbreaking but had to be short lived. UND continued their tournament by playing host UMKC just hours after.

Game two—UND 3, UMKC 4.

UMKC started off strong with a two run home run in the bottom of the second, and added one more run, an RBI single, in the fourth and then another RBI single in the sixth to take a 4-0 lead heading into the final inning. UMKC’s pitcher Anna Sokolik only allowed three hits against UND through six, but just hours earlier UND saw their pitcher blow a shutout in the sev-enth inning.

UND, hoping to be on the other side of a rally, was seeking some form of validation; hopeful-ly in the form of victory. UND’s Brittany Baker, having a stel-lar performance in both games, was clutch in the final inning when she had two ducks on the pond and hit a three run bomb, to break the shutout and bring UND within one run. Sokolik was relieved by Deanna Friese to attempt to save the game for UMKC. Friese struck out three UND batters in a row to earn the save.

Brittany Baker, the catcher for UND, had a spectacular first day of the tournament. She went 5-6 with two home runs and four RBIs.

On Sunday, UND had to play both teams again and once again were winless. UND lost a heat-breaker against USD again, loos-ing in close fashion 1-0. UND’s final game against UMKC was a devastating 4-0 lost.

UND’s record takes a hit with the four losses and is now 12-30. UND will resume Great West ac-tion on Wednesday against Uni-versity of South Dakota State in Brookings, SD.

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DS>Tadd Powers is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at tadd.powers@und.edu

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Cheer on UnD as they take on the nDSU Bison today at 1 p.m. on kraft Field!

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