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The University of North Da-kota has broken an enrollment record for the fi rst time since 2004. With 14,194 students, en-rollment is up 7.8 percent which equates to 1022 students, accord-ing to Dr. Suzanne Anderson at the UND Registrar.

“I think we’re doing a better job of getting out the word that we have a lot of good programs at the University of North Dakota. More and more students are se-lecting the graduate program as a fi rst option. When the economy is not so good, people tend to go back to school,” said Dean J o s e p h Benoit. He also men-tioned that because of North Da-kota’s economy doing pretty well, North Dakota’s legislature actu-ally budgeted more money for higher education.

“We’re gratifi ed that our en-rollment numbers are up this year. Many people work very hard to recruit fi ne students to come to UND in every capacity including transfer students, undergraduate students, graduate students and even professional students,” said Robert Boyd, the Student Affairs Vice President. He also attributes UND’s online education program to the growth in enrollment.

“There has been a fi ve percent growth in freshman, but it was ex-pected. To better prepare for the surge in students, more sections of classes have been offered. The faculty to student ratio has actu-ally gone down for some of the larger courses due to more sec-tions being introduced,” said Dr. Alice Hoffert, the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Man-agement states. She also noted that there has been a 14 perecent

Monday, UND hosted the fi rst of three candidates applying for the position of Vice President of Student Affairs. Dr. Kimberly Barrett trav-eled from Montevallo, Alabama, to speak with students and staff mem-bers about her experiences as Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Montevallo.

She described the three char-acteristics that make a campus and community healthy: purposeful, car-ing and celebrative. She promoted ways to measure how well the uni-versity is doing in helping a student succeed and asked that UND show its caring for its students through its actions. Caring, she said, is key to ev-ery student’s success.

“If you are passionate and care about your subject and your stu-dents,” she said to the faculty, “you are more engaged.”

Thus, Barrett said, students will be encouraged to learn. She also ex-pressed that a school needs to reach all students and that everyone needs to speak up and help out those who cannot always help themselves.

>JASMINE JONESThe Dakota Student

ENROLLMENT UND sees over 14 thousand students this year, ex-ceeding all other years.

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They may wake you up at night, cause a disruption when you’re studying or be just plain annoying. Trains traveling in and out of the Grand Forks com-munity cause quite a ruckus, but recent actions may be changing how often we hear the blowing whistles.

In recent years federal laws have changed the required length and amount of whistles blown when entering and exiting a city or intersection. The required length of the train whistle is now longer and more frequent than in years past—which has created an irritant to those living near train

tracks or busy intersections that include train passageways. To ensure community members a quieter surrounding, Grand Forks city commissioners have teamed up with engineers and

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EPSCoR comes to Alerus

CANDIDATES Appli-cants met with students and staff, expressed pas-sions and goals.

Record breaking growth

>ALLEE MEADThe Dakota Student

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Grand Forks city commissioners in negotiations to develop quiet zones

UND held the 2010 state conference of the North Da-kota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Re-search (EPSCoR) this Wednes-day at the Alerus center.

The purpose of EPSCoR is to expand and enhance the research capability of scientists in states that traditionally have lacked strong university-based research efforts. Congress be-gan expanding EPSCoR in 1990. Today, EPSCoR is a collaboration of competitive merit-based programs at seven federal research and develop-ment agencies: the National Science Foundation; the Na-

tional Institutes of Health; the Departments of Defense, En-ergy, and Agriculture; the Na-tional Aeronautics and Space Administration; and the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency.

The conference consisted of break out sessions for fac-ulty ranging from Alternative Energy to Population Genet-ics. While students were able to share their research through poster presentations.

Dr. Robert Twilley was the keynote speaker. Twilley is the director of the Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute at Louisiana State University at Lafayette, and a professor with the Department of Oceanog-raphy and Coastal Science.

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UND worship options numerous

Religion has always been a hot topic in our society. While it can unify masses, it can also segregate, creating a division of beliefs and

people. But recently, religion has been at the fore-front of the news, specifi cally Christianity. From the recent Quran burning by the fundamental-ist Christian church in Gainesville, Florida to UND’s very own visit from evangelical preacher Tom Short. It is plain to see that all it takes is one individual in the public’s eye to sway the views and opinions of many people. While people like Tom Short and Terry Jones make it their mission to go out and educate people about their beliefs,

it is also important for others to educate them-selves. By taking the time to research and explore, one can fi nd multiple sides to religious beliefs and discover that what is being said on TV or on cam-pus may not actually be a truthful depiction of a certain religion. The UND Campus offers several outlets for those looking to fi nd answers and a re-ligious connection. 16CHURCH > page

>XAVIER PASTRANOThe Dakota Student

FAITH Campus religious groups offer various services, activities for students to strengthen Chris-tian community.

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> swimming: UND green will take on UND white in a home swim meet at the Hyslop pool at 4 p.m.

> concert: Acoustic guitarist Willy Porter will play songs from his latest album “How To Rob a Bank” at the Empire Arts Center as part of the Masters of Guitar Series. Tickets are $10 for students with an ID. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

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> festival: Zombie Music Fest at Town Square from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. with costume contest, multiple bands and free french fries. $5 admission fee.

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> hockey: UND Men’s hockey will take on Manitoba at 6:07 p.m. at the Ralph En-gelstad Arena.

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world news reportfriday october 1, 2010DS> Inside: Zombie fest comes to Grand Forks

World Brief Sifting through S. African history

>SHEERA FRENKELMcClatchy Newspapers

ANCESTRY Archeolo-ists unlock the secrets of South Africa’s past through fossils.

SWARTKRANS, South Afri-ca—When Morris Sutton picks a chipped, ordinary-looking rock from the soil, he’s the fi rst to touch the stone tool since an ancestor of man used it nearly 2 million years ago.

In his dim, cool cavern at the bottom of a 30-foot ladder, he feels the wonder of it, breathing in the loamy smell, peering through a win-dow deep into time.

Sutton, 47, an archaeologist, was a Memphis, Tenn., factory manager who grew tired of the fl at horizon of commerce and manufacturing and of laying off fellow employees.

So he quit to pursue his hobby: hunting for fossils and Stone Age tools. He went back to college to study archaeology and later moved to South Africa, where he is a postdoc-toral researcher with the Institute for Human Evolution at Witwatersrand University.

South Africa is a mecca for ar-chaeologists from around the world; its fossils cover an unbroken sweep of prehistoric time, from the fi rst smudge of life through the dinosaur era to early hominids and beyond. Some of the world’s most signifi -cant fossils were discovered here: the Taung child, Little Foot and, in April, a young male hominid, believed to be a new species, Australopithecus sediba, whose remains appear to be nearly 2 million years old.

“You can look at the latest forms of life and the fi rst evidence of life and all the way through the dinosaurs, all the way through the fi rst emergence of hominids and our ancestors, right through to today. There’s nowhere else in the world where you can fi nd that,” says Andrea Leenen, head of

the Paleontological Scientifi c Trust, a South Africa not-for-profi t organi-zation that sponsors paleontological research.

At Witwatersrand University, the fossil treasures include several eggs of a small dinosaur species, preserved just as they were hatching. Thou-sands more items sit on shelves and in boxes, not yet chipped out of their rock casings. It will take decades to process them.

Fossil hunters are famous for their egos, jostling for media atten-tion and research funds and holding sniffy debates about whose fi nd is the oldest or the closest ancestor of man.

The soft-spoken Sutton doesn’t fi t the stereotype of an Indiana Jones-style wunderkind, desperate to un-earth the oldest human ancestor. He calibrates his assertions cautiously as he clambers over a rough, dry land-scape pocked with caves.

He’s excavating at Swartkrans in the Sterkfontein Valley, pulling out specimens more than a million years old. He’s the kind of man who gets excited about an almost impercepti-ble layering of different-colored soils —deposits from different millenni-ums, windows into different times.

Yet he could dig here for years without fi nding that once-in-a-lifetime breakthrough—a missing link, a new species, evidence of early cooking. The hole might yield noth-ing new.

“Well,” he pauses hesitantly. “You don’t have to discover anything new. You can look at things from a different angle, bring a new perspec-tive.”

It’s now possible, for example, to analyze the microscopic residue of meat or plants left on stone tools nearly 2 million years old and learn what the tools were used for.

More than a third of the world’s hominid fossils were found in one small area at Sterkfontein. The stone tools here are from the era when hu-mankind’s predecessors and related primates were evolving, a million

years ago and more. Homo ergaster is one such predecessor, whereas Aus-tralopethicus robustus was a chunky, large-jawed branch on the same fam-ily tree that died out.

“This is a very important phase in humankind’s evolution. It’s like our adolescence,” Sutton says.

In past decades, scientists at Swartkrans turned up evidence of some of the earliest controlled use of fi re, as much as 1.5 million years ago. They found evidence that robustus coexisted with early humans. Scien-tists can only guess why they died out while the others continued to evolve.

Sutton gestures with quiet pride at an excavated area not much bigger than a double bed: That’s fi ve years’ digging there. He and his South Af-rican assistant, Andrew Phaswana, 35, scrape away the soil layer by layer, unearthing as many riddles as answers.

Phaswana sits in the sunshine, using tweezers to sort through a chunky pile that looks like break-fast cereal. It’s run-of-the-mill stuff: thousands of bones and teeth of tiny mouse-like rodents and chips of stone that went fl ying as the ancients fashioned their tools. He classifi es them and bags them up.

Like Sutton, Phaswana once had an unsatisfying job, as a gas station attendant. He loves the thrill of fi nd-ing huge, fl at robustus molars, prob-

ably used for grinding fi brous veg-etation such as roots.

“I like this job because I learn more every day. I learn where I come from and how the old peo-ple were behaving and how they were eating and how they used fi re,” Phaswana said. In the study of mankind’s ancestors and related species, blind alleys, contested the-ories and revisions are the norm. So Sutton is cautious about jump-ing to conclusions.

The fossils of burned bones found at Swartkrans don’t prove that man’s ancestors cooked their meat. Sutton would want clearer evidence, like bones that had been butchered as well as burned.

He’s also on the lookout for proof that robustus used stone tools. The earliest stone tools pre-date the earliest Homo species by several hundred thousand years.

“It could be that we haven’t found the earliest Homo yet. Or it could be that robustus were using tools,” he says.

Swartkrans contains at least three Stone Age-era deposits. Sut-ton needs funding to excavate the two older areas, which have both yielded hominid fossils.

“As an archaeologist, there’s a huge attraction that you are pick-ing up something like a stone tool that maybe some hominid dropped a million years ago.”

Morris Sutton with a collection of primitive stone tools.

Protecting negotiations in JerusalemCOMPROMISE U.S. envoy attempts to save Palestinian-Israeli peace talks from collapsing.

>ROBYN DIXONLos Angeles Times

JERUSALEM—Washington’s special Mideast envoy, former Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine, sped to Jerusalem Tuesday in an attempt to keep the U.S.-led Israeli-Palestinian talks from collapsing weeks after they began.

Israeli and Palestinian leaders re-committed themselves to the peace process even as they traded state-ments over the most recent crisis Tuesday. The two sides already have agreed to meet at a summit in Paris next month.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said that the crisis was caused by Israel’s renewed con-struction of Jewish West Bank settle-ments—communities built on land the Palestinians say is earmarked for their future state.

“Whoever decides to continue to build settlements and provide aid and protection to them decides to halt the negotiations,” Abbas said. He added that less than a day after he stood on the White House lawn and agreed to direct negotiations, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told reporters in Ramallah that the Palestinian Authority would “imme-diately cease and desist” all talks if Is-rael resumed its settlement building.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hoped that nego-tiations would continue, though he gave no indication that he was will-

ing to extend the 10-month settle-ment freeze that ended Sunday.

“I believe with a full heart that it is in our power to get to a frame-work agreement within a year, and to change the history of the Middle East,” he said.

Despite a strong Palestinian con-demnation, U.S. offi cials convinced Palestinians to allow time to reach a compromise.

“We want the Palestinians to stay in the direct negotiations and we want the Israelis to demonstrate that it is in the Palestinian interest to stay in these negotiations,” State Depart-ment spokesman P.J. Crowley said in Washington. “Are we frustrated? Of course, we’re frustrated. But we un-derstand that these are just very, very diffi cult (issues).”

Crowley said he hoped that moderate states in the Arab League

would grant the Palestinians ap-proval to continue the talks at a meeting set for Monday. He said Mitchell will be visiting the vari-ous capitals in advance of the Arab League meeting.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman appeared on a collision course of their own.

Netanyahu responded sharply to a speech by Lieberman on Tues-day that contradicted the offi cial Israeli position on the peace talks.

Lieberman surprised the U.N. General Assembly with his own plans for a temporary peace deal—including a draft proposal for an eventual population and territory swap.

The controversial plan would transfer Israel’s Arab population to a newly created Palestinian state.

Decide for yourself if recession is over

The recession is over. Or may-be not. Tracking the economy, and the course of the Great Re-cession, is more art than science. Look to these sites to sort things out, then decide for yourself.

—The global economy: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis organizes snapshots of the economy in charts that look by country, by indicators (employ-ment, production, and the like), and by gross domestic product. Of the eight major economies it lists by country, the St. Louis Fed says only Australia is in reces-sion, based on the latest numbers. http://go.philly.com/econtrack1

—It’s (semi)offi cial: A private research group is generally relied upon to declare—usually long af-ter the fact—that a recession has begun or ended. The National Bureau of Economic Research pronounced last week that the recession ended more than a year ago, but it added: “In determin-ing that a trough occurred in June 2009, the committee did not conclude that economic condi-tions since that month have been favorable or that the economy has returned to operating at normal capacity.” http://www.nber.org

—Buffett’s call: Warren Buf-fett, the “Oracle of Omaha,” made his own pronouncement later in the week, telling CNBC that “on any commonsense defi nition, the average American is below where he was before, or his family, in terms of real income, GDP. We’re still in a recession.” http://www.cnbc.com/id/39320992Hurricane Karl reportedly kills two in Mexico

CHICAGO—The remnants of Hurricane Karl drenched parts of southern Mexico with heavy rains, while Hurricane Igor churned in the Atlantic, heading for Bermuda, the National Hur-ricane Center said Saturday.

Karl, which weakened to a tropical depression late Friday, has killed two people and caused widespread property damage, ac-cording to a report from the As-sociated Press. The deaths—a 61-year-old woman and a 2-year-old girl—resulted from a landslide that buried a home in the town of Nexticapan, the report said.

Forecasters at the NHC still expected Karl to produce up to three inches of rain in some areas.

Karl had sustained winds of 115 miles an hour when it hit land about 10 miles northwest of Vera-cruz, Mexico, but its winds were down to 25 miles per hour Satur-day morning, the AP report said.

The storm knocked down trees, billboards and power poles in Veracruz, and local forecasters said the storm dumped 8 inches of rain in the city within the fi rst 90 min-utes of arriving, according to AP.

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The university is an environment devoted to education, scholarship and general inquisitiveness. The entire structure of the university refl ects this ideal; wonderful conferences are held here, authors come to visit, top academics do their research and students are given a medium to hone their intel-lectual skills.

Unfortunately, our Chester Fritz Library does not always follow in this tradition. From the time a student fi rst steps on campus, they hear the buzz about the problems with our library. After a year a two of work at the college, there is no doubt that we all have personally encountered the downfalls of the building and the way its run—an unfortunate event, considering that the Chester Fritz is supposed to be a fl agship library for the state.

First of all, the hours are, how shall we say, “grandmoth-erish.” Considering how many people at UND are looking for an on campus, it seemed that the library would be able to provide services for more hours in the day. In particular, the morning hours and, especially, the weekend hours are inconvenien, to say the least. Many students have 8:00 a.m. classes, and when the library only opens at 7:45 a.m., it’s dif-fi cult to print if necessary and still get to class on time. The weekend hours are lacking by far—the library closes at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, is open from only 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, and opens late on Sundays, at 1:00 p.m.

Anyone trying to get their homework done early on Friday so they can enjoy the rest of the weekend is out of luck. Saturday homework is basically not an option, unless your schedule is perfectly aligned with the very narrow open hours. And there’s been more than once when students were crunched for time on Sunday because of the late opening.

When the library is actually open, it seems that its not used to the best of its potential. There are not even close to enough study rooms; most project groups don’t even try to fi nd one at the Chester Fritz anymore. The space that could be utilized for more study rooms remains open, yet crammed with row and rows of desks that do not get used, because you have to be next to the wall to plug in your computer. Speaking of computers, for a generation that at least starts most of its research fi rst on the computer, why are there not more labs? It would be extremely helpful to have more labs stocked with more copiers and printers for the students’ use.

Finally, for a university that does such a fantastic job of bringing top intellectuals to campus, why doesn’t the library follow this trend? The city library job does a much better job of hosting events and bringing in authors/readers, and they’re not even part of a larger academic community. The Chester Fritz could become a central place for thinkers and academ-ics to gather; it could be more relevant on our campus.

Complaining for the sake of complaining isn’t cool, but we sincerely feel that our library isn’t all that accessible to its students and has so much potential that is left untapped. We should fi nd exceptional use for all of our buildings on campus, especially a building that is normally central to the university experience.

DS ViewLibrarY CF Library, a vital component of education, needs to live up to expectations.

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Dreams: deciding their weightLast night, I dreamed that I was

awarded the lead role in a production of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Musical. Celebrities such as Robert Downey Jr. and several of my childhood acquaintances, who mysteriously had not aged in the last ten-plus years, rounded out the rest of the cast.

Whether they are strange, frighten-ing, or embarrassing, dreams have been a part of human life since the beginning of time. From the beginning, dreams have been marveled at and studied carefully. Even today, some people claim dreams can predict the future, while others ar-gue they are merely a chain of random thoughts strung together by our incred-ibly effi cient brains.

Dreams have long been deemed sig-nifi cant. The ancient Greeks believed that dreams held messages from the gods. Freud claimed that our dreams were re-ally a refl ection of our deepest wishes. Even the Bible, especially the Old Tes-tament, contains many important refer-ences to dreams and their signifi cance. Seriously, Joseph was even rewarded very well for his dreams, but then again, who

wouldn’t have crazy dreams with that colorful coat? I can’t pretend that my dream about Benjamin Button: The Mu-sical really had anything more important to tell me than not to drink caffeine after 8:00pm, but it is interesting to consider that our brains continue working long after we shut our eyes each night.

In the interest of research, I asked my favorite psychology major to give me some input on dreams and their signifi cance. In layman’s terms, she lik-ened dreaming to being drunk; dreams are what happen when your mind is un-inhibited. Perhaps this is why Gilly’s is always packed by the end of a Saturday night.

Of course, there are many nights that I don’t remember any of my dreams at all. Although normal, this sometimes worries me. What could my brain pos-sibly be thinking about at night without my knowledge? The fact that I cannot always remember my dreams when I wake up in the morning makes me anx-ious; after all, what if I miss another great idea for a musical or another celebrity appearance?

Some of my dreams even require traveling, although only short distances. An avid sleepwalker, I have woken up

at night to discover myself folding blan-kets in my living room, or even stranger, dancing in the bathroom. I always won-der what kinds of dreams inspire such strange nightly behavior. I also curiously await the day when I wake up to discover that I have wandered into a completely foreign place, like a dumpster or the in-terstate.

My family and friends do not seem to share my interest in my dreams, but I can’t blame them. Who really wants to hear a long, incomprehensible string of random and unrealistic events that have little or no signifi cance to real life? Un-less, of course, the events in the dream involve elements that could foretell the future or reveal the innermost workings of one’s mind.

Yet, I still don’t buy into the idea that my dreams are anything but a source of oddities and entertainment. I, for one, am far more interested in real life. Be-sides, I need to focus on preparing for my audition for the lead role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Musical.

The quirks of rural NDI’ve lived in or near a large city for

my entire life. I’ve lived in the midst of professional sports stadiums, world class museums, and general suburban sprawl-topia. This summer, I took an internship in Bowman, ND, population 1,515. I was apprehensive about spending my summer in the absolute middle of no-where, but I decided to see what it was like. Since nearly half of all UND stu-dents are from other states, I thought I would shed some light on how life works in rural North Dakota. If you ever fi nd yourself in a small town in the roughrider state, heed my advice.

Learn to wave, and wave often. EV-ERYBODY in small town North Dakota waves to each other when they’re driving, walking, or riding their horse down the street. If you don’t wave back to some-body as they pass you on the highway, you’re going to be big news.

Pancake breakfasts are the greatest thing since sliced bread. Often staged to

benefi t charities, pancake breakfasts ask for a freewill donation (read: $5 per per-son if you’re a poor college student) to raise money for some cause.

In return for your oh-so-generous c o n t r i b u t i o n , you’ll be treated to an all-you-can eat spread of fl ap-jacks, sausage, eggs, orange juice, and coffee. And don’t expect Bis-quick and Sunny D either—these small town folks take pride in their cooking. You’re going to get made from scratch pancakes and I-was-still-a-pig-yesterday sausage links. These breakfasts are usually advertised on bulletin boards at the town grocery store. Keep your eye out for them, because when you’re a broke intern like I was, these are the only good meals you’ll be able to afford.

If you’re ever at a bar and you think it might be funny to play “Birthday Sex” by

Jermih on the jukebox, save your dollar. This will most certainly get you thrown out (trust me on this one).

In small town North Dakota, ad-dresses are absolutely useless. Most of

the people in town have lived there all of their lives and they all know each other. If you tell somebody you’re looking for “1424 8th Avenue,” the guy at the gas sta-tion is going to give you a funny look. If you ask how to

fi nd “John Larson’s house,” he’ll know exactly where to send you.

If you’re one of those hoighty-toi-ghty, guns-are-bad-mmkay types, don’t move to rural North Dakota. Guns are a way of life there. If you peek into the cab

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If today has arrived, then I am prob-ably anxiously awaiting my presentation at the 10th Annual Red River Women’s Stud-ies Conference. Although I have received pangs of terror every time I have encoun-tered a poster for the conference in the last few weeks, I have acknowledged that such an experience is a vital step in the stairway to the Ivory Tower of academia.

I write this only half seriously; I fully intend for a sizeable portion of my work experience to be applied and away from said tower; however, unless I want to be a starving anthropologist, working at an aca-demic institution would do me well.

However, even though the hiring pro-cess is three degrees and around ten years away and I don’t even know what my graduate research interests are, I am a little terrified. Further, the very thought of be-ing reviewed for tenure is rather fearsome, which I know is kind of ridiculous as the tenure system might not even be around fifteen years from now. Despite logic sug-gesting otherwise, I can’t help but worry a bit.

I suspect my anxiety stems from one Dr. Amy Bishop and her experience with the process. While the events I am about to discuss occurred over six months ago, I feel they are rather interesting and relevant to the discussion.

During an afternoon faculty meeting at the University of Alabama on February 12, 2010, Bishop opened fire on her col-leagues, wounding three and killing three more. Although she felt overqualified, Bishop had previously been denied tenure for what appears to be legitimate reasons; her colleagues and students declared her to be disconnected from reality.

Further, Bishop possessed a prior his-tory of violence. In 1986, Bishop shot and killed her brother, although this incident was initially determined to be an accident; however, in June 2010 she was charged with first degree murder. In 1993, Bishop and her husband were suspected of sending two pipe bombs to her supervisor at Chil-dren’s Hospital Boston; Bishop had previ-ously held a position there and the two had a dispute. Additionally, in 2002, Bishop punched a woman in the face at an IHoP while shouting “I am Dr. Amy Bishop.” I feel like these events should have been warning signs, and in all honesty, these occurrences probably should have affected her initial hiring.

No doubt exists that Bishop’s actions at that faculty meeting were extreme and tragic. Some doubt exists concerning her sanity, but her outlook is grim: if convict-ed, she could receive life in prison or the death penalty.

Bishop’s story was fueled by violent tendencies, but was also ignited by the im-portance she placed on remaining a mem-ber of academia. To think of academia in this way, surrounded by acts like those of Bishop, really is fear inspiring.

I so desperately want to think of aca-demia as a wonderful place filled with intel-lect, intelligent and provocative discourse, and learning, but I know that it can be a brutal world dominated by publish-or-per-ish ideologies. However, I also know that despite the stress and anxiety, the reward

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It seems like only yesterday this semes-ter was starting. I was on track and looking forward to my subsidized loan refund that would make it much easier to buy things that I want, like food and car repairs. In the blink of an eye six weeks have already passed, and amazingly enough, I have yet to receive my refund from Higher One.

How surprising it is to find out they’ve once again managed to delay my refund a month longer than was necessary before they were put in charge of disbursements.

Anyone who has read my column knows that I have never been in favor of this decision and have had consider-able issues with its implementat ion since it began. Higher One, of course, is the Del-aware bank that UND outsourced its disbursement operation too. Presumably this was to cut costs and become more efficient, but in three years of searching, I’ve found no informa-tion, data, or source that can verify this argument. So if falls to me to point out that even if it is true, UND can’t prove it, and since they can’t prove it, then it’s not really true.

But I’m not here to open old wounds. Having fought losing battles before, I do

not think it productive to reignite a battle over something that no one, at least in ad-ministration, wants changed. I’m going to take the high road and ignore the preda-tory fee structure that targets students, the fact that the UND Pride card is the only Debit Card that charges you like a credit card and with which you can overdraw your account, and most of all, I’m not go-ing to think about the fact that my alma mater gave my refund to a bank that is us-ing it to make more money off of us, and we had no choice in the matter.

I’m going to focus my attention on things that we can improve. Now that we’re in a relationship, it is up to us to make it as productive as possible. It is in this spirit

that I would ask Higher One why they don’t of-fer the option of receiv-ing the refund by paper check. When I log onto the website (using my social security number, which UND released to you) I can either choose to use my Pride Card or do an ACH transfer, but can’t request a paper check.

This seems strange to me, because in the services contract issued on 2/19/2008, wherein you accepted the terms and condi-tions as agreed upon by Higher One and UND, under “General Description” you agreed to, and I quote “….[to] disburse all Institution disbursements to Users. Student refunds will be made within the timelines dictated by all applicable laws, rules and

regulations, including the Higher Educa-tion Act under Federal Cash Management Rules. Users will have the option to receive the refunds deposited directly into the DDA, receive an electronic ACH transfer to a third party bank account or request a paper check (emphasis added).”

Now, I know through my sources that this is the binding service agreement to which both UND and Higher One must comply. However, I also know that there are two other documents (specifi-cally RFP#157-2007 and Higher One’s re-sponse to RFP#156-2007) that are incor-porated by reference into the contract and as legally binding as the service agreement in question. This is important because the remaining, legally binding, documents in question may change the services required by Higher One.

That being said, I ask again, why is it not possible to request a refund by paper check when you log in using your Higher One card, even though the service agree-ment specifically mandates that such an option be made available?

I’ve tried numerous times to receive my refund without giving Higher One any more information than is absolutely neces-sary and found it to be impossible to re-ceive my refund by paper check. Now I’m no lawyer, but by lacking such a simple option for students, it would appear that you are in breach of contract with UND. At the very least you are not providing the service that is expected of you.

Red River Women’s ConferenceThe Red River Women’s Studies Con-

ference is today. For more detailed infor-mation, check out the website (und.edu/dept.women. The conference is from 8:30a.m. to 5p.m. on the second floor of the Memorial Union at UND.

Since my first semester at UND (Fall 2007), I have either presented or attended the Red River Women’s Studies Confer-ence. Presenting in class and at confer-ences are activities I love to do, especially when I am presenting my own research. As an undergraduate, one of my majors was feminist, women, and queer studies, so the Women’s Studies conference is so obvious for me to participate in.

As a graduate student in counseling and a cognate in women studies, I find the conference equally important. Presenting and participating have been so rewarding in many ways. If I present, I can add the presentation to my curriculum vitae for future education and my career. In other ways, it is rewarding because I can educate others on my research and scholarship.

Attending other attendees’ sessions is also rewarding. Since gender and feminist issues are important to me, it is exciting to see other students and scholars in the area who do research with similar interests as me. Attending the conference also pre-pares one for future conferences they may want to present at. This may also open one’s horizon for their own interests and push their own research.

This year’s conference also has two international scholars, Professor Magda Michielsens who is director of the Wom-en’s Studies program and of the Center for Women’s Studies at the University of

Antwerp in Belgium and Margaret Ogrod-nick, an Associate Professor in the De-partment of Political Studies, from the University of Manitoba. These scholars are presenting some of their research and interests through speeches during the day.

This year is my third presentation with the RRWC. I am looking forward to pre-senting some research I did as an under-graduate this past spring semester. This year’s theme is global feminisms and the title of the conference is Feminism, Poli-tics, and the Limits of Diversity.

The research I am presenting is about global patriarchy and the male control of the female body. I have analyzed ads, laws, cultures, and reli-gion and the ways these constructions control women. I also analyzed journal articles, schol-arly websites and other sources.

The presenters are from the Red River Valley. While looking through the program, I found several presenters and panelists from several departments at UND. However, there were others from Moorhead State University, South Dakota State University, North Dakota State University, and many Grand Forks community members includ-ing religious leaders, city planning mem-bers and activists.

This year, there is also an exhibit of dif-ferent groups. Some of the groups include CVIC, United Church of Christ, Women’s Network, Breads for Life, UND Women’s Center, student groups such as Pro-Choice Voice and Ten Percent Society and many other community organizations and busi-nesses. There is also a book exhibit and

>HeatHer jackSonThe Dakota Student

signing of local authors. Students can attend for free (by a cer-

tain registration date) and there is a lunch provided. After a half hour break, Pro-vost, Paul LeBel will introduce Dr. Magda Michielsens. She will present for 45 min-utes.

Throughout the day, there are many chances of seeing great scholarship. How-ever, one attending has to make choices as to what panel they would like to attend, as many are occurring at the same time. There are also roundtable discussions on different issues and topics throughout the day. These also occur at the same time as other roundtables and panels. From per-

sonal experience, it is hard to make a deci-sion, as many of the panels and roundta-bles are of huge inter-est to me!

Attending a con-ference is a wonderful opportunity, especial-ly if one is thinking about graduate school

in the future. Since the Red River Wom-en’s Studies Conference is at UND, this makes attending easier. There will be a lot of amazing panels and roundtables.

Every time I attend a conference, I leave with a lot of great topics of future conversations, potential research issues and general curiosity. I invite students to attend the Red River Women’s Studies Conference this year and discover a lot of amazing scholars around the area. Univer-sity experiences are beyond just classes.

>MaDi WHitManThe Dakota Student

‘...it is exciting to see other students and scholars in the area who do research...

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Running for homecomingRACE The Wellness Center to put on the an-nual Family Fun walk/run.

>mEgAN SEvigNyThe Dakota StudentOn October 9, the Wellness

Center is hosting its annual UND Homecoming Run, the fifth since the Wellness Center opened in 2006. This event is open to students and community members of all ages and athletic abilities, and features both 10K and 5K races, as well as a Family Fun walk/run. Participants can register either online or by downloading the registration form. Those registering for the 5K and the 10K will be put in six age divisions. Registrations will be ac-cepted until 7:30 a.m. on October 9, but those who register on or before October 8 will receive a $5 discount on their registration fees.

On the day of the race, the doors will open at 7:00 a.m. All partici-

pants will receive a free water bottle. All races start at 7:45 a.m. in front of the Wellness Center, and the par-ticipants will follow predetermined courses that eventually loop back to the Wellness Center. The amount of time needed to complete the race de-pends upon both the course chosen and the participant’s abilities.

Prizes will be awarded to the top finishers in the 5K and the 10K. These will include both the top male and top female overall, as well as the top male and top female participants in each age division.

In addition to the chance to win prizes, the participants will also have the opportunity to get involved. They can opt to run solo or in groups, meet other members

of the community and test their own athletic abilities. This event is also great for those students who would like to participate in a competitive athletic event but don’t have time in their schedules to join intramural teams.

Those involved can also feel pride in the fact that they are promoting

wellness and helping some of their fellow students pay for school. Ac-cording to Andrew Miller, the Co-ordinator of RecSports and Special Events at the Wellness Center, the money raised during this event goes back to the students who work at the Wellness Center.

Miller explained that the stu-dents who receive this money don’t have to be majoring in fitness. The money benefits students studying subjects ranging from fitness to business to biology.

“The Wellness Center employs mostly students,” says Miller. “The money raised during the Home-coming Run goes to the students and helps them develop profession-ally.” The individuals use this mon-ey to attend conferences, enroll in programs, further their studies and become all-around better students.

Whether you’re a student, a par-ent, UND alumni or a Grand Forks citizen, the UND Homecoming Wellness Run is a great way to get involved with the school and have fun. For more information, regis-tration forms and race maps, log on to www.wellness.und.edu.

New fitness facilityplans for GF areaACTivE The Imagine Project has been initi-ated to replace Center Court Fitness Club.

>ColE AlliCkThe Dakota Student

Grand Forks community members can look forward to a new facility in the city. A proj-ect, called the Imagine Project, has been initiated to create a new wellness center to replace the Center Court Fitness Club facil-ity already established in the city.

Ideally, the project hopes to be completed by fall 2012.

Cam Tweten, General Man-ager of Center Court Fitness and major component of the Imagine project, shared some positive in-formation for UND students:

“UND students are going to benefit from this new facility as well. We plan to have volunteer and internship programs at the facility. Also, we are in the pro-cess of developing partnerships to provide more to the commu-nity.”

Although we at UND have a fine Wellness Center that we have access too, Tweten hinted that the two facilities could collaborate on different events for the commu-nity. With the YMCA already as a partner, there are many oppor-tunities for UND students to get involved with the community.

“It is important for UND and Grand Forks to share what they have to attract new people to the city and college. If we can combine our efforts and promote a healthy lifestyle, the city and UND can become a healthy en-vironment for everyone.”

This project is not altogether new. It began in 2007 when the Grand Forks Park District and Altru Health System contacted a national consulting firm, Al-ter-Care, to conduct a study on whether or not to build a facil-ity to replace the Center Court Fitness Club. This replacement would include medical services on-site.

The study returned to the

Pink out for breast cancerAWARENESS UND recognizing October through month long t-shirt fundraiser.

>kATiE BAChmEiERThe Dakota Student

The month of October typi-cally bring to mind images of chang-ing leaves, Halloween or carving a pumpkin. On a more serious note, October is also Breast Cancer Aware-ness Month. Throughout local retail and grocery stores in the country, one can find a vast array of items to purchase in which the proceeds go to breast cancer research. UND is doing its part too. Sioux Strong for Breast Cancer is UND’s way in mak-ing the community aware of a seri-ous disease.

In mid July, UND assistant head football coach, Mike Man-nausau approached UND student body president, Matt Bakke about creating some sort of fundraiser and awareness in the month of October commemorating breast cancer. The subject was especially personal— be-

ing that Mannausau’s wife is a breast cancer survivor.

Bakke agreed to Mannausau’s proposal, and the planning process began. In past years similar events have taken place on UND’s campus, but none at a scale as large as this. In 2009 a similar attempt to fundraise for breast cancer was organized with shirts sold at one athletic game. This year the bar is set high with new im-provements and ideas implemented.

“We wanted [the event] to be bigger this year,” Seinquis Slater, Student Government Event Coor-dinator said. “We are doing things completely different.”

The fundraiser invites individu-als to make a donation to the cause. If $5 is donated, the individual re-ceives a free bandana, and with a $10 donation, a Sioux Strong t-shirt is provided. Both include the breast cancer awareness color, pink. Dona-tions can be made at several events and locations on campus, includ-ing sporting events, in the Student Government Office located in the Memorial Union, by the sorority

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‘The money raised during the Home-coming Run goes to the students...

Andrew Millercoordinator, Wellness Center

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DS> Katie Bachmeier is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]

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From page 1increase in graduate students that have remained at the university, much of which has been in online students. “We’ve put a lot of ef-fort into potential online growth and that’s what we’re seeing hap-pening.”

At this time, UND plans to keep its modest admission stan-dards. Boyd m e n t i o n s “UND is the peoples insti-tution. This is a place that people in North Dako-ta can come and get a very fi ne educa-tion. If there is diffi culty accommodating all of UND students on campus, then the policy may be revisited.”

UND is also looking to ex-tend reciprocity to other states. As economic situations worsen, more students are going to the University of North Dakota.

With the increase in enroll-ment, the housing department has had to change slightly. There are less doubles as singles offered in the dormitories. There are 214 more students in campus housing this year in comparison to last. Five thousand students can be accommodated on campus, and in the residence halls and Uplace alone 3,200 is the assignable ca-pacity.

“We hired additional Resi-

dent Assitants for two wings, for space which was previously guest housing,” says Judy Sargent, Direc-tor of Residence Services.

One diffi cultly that the in-crease in students has brought up this year is transferring rooms. It is much more challenging due to a gender imbalance, because more women are in housing this year than their have been historically.

Dining services have also been affected by the u n i v e r s i t y ’s growth. “To-wards the be-ginning of the semester, we were feeding 7,600 students a day which is about 1,200 students more than last year,”

says Orlynn Rosaasen, director of Dining Services. As the semester has progressed, that number has decreased, which is typical. With more students to feed, lines were getting much longer this year. To combat long lines during weekend brunch, Wilkerson is now open two hours longer. Staffi ng patterns have been changed, and more stu-dents have been hired for each day.

This year, there are 6,000 more meals to prepare per week than last year. This could also be attrib-uted to the change in meal plans. In previous years, students had to choose the number of meals they wanted per week.

With the new system, many students have an unlimited num-ber of meals. “I think it’s been

more positive for students. Even though they’re eating more meals, they aren’t wasting as much food. We have noticed in our dish rooms there isn’t as much food coming back,” said Rosaasen.

And as many would expect, Financial Aid has been greatly im-pacted by the big rise in the student population this year. “In a general way, the increase in enrollment has impacted the fi nancial aid of-fi ce. Seventy-fi ve percent of UND students receive fi nancial aid,” says Robin Holden, director of the Stu-dent Financial Aid Offi ce.

As the number of students in-creases, less aid can be awarded. The recession has also impacted fi nancial aid; last year there was a drop in federal loans. Access to private loans has become restricted, and this is causing greater fi nancial hardship for many students. There is, however, a signifi cant increase in grant funding available from the government programs. However, one of the issues is that the grant funding goes to a smaller por-tion of students, only the needi-est students. “Last year we had about 2,300 students receive a Pell Grant...this year there are signifi -cantly less.”

While Benoit didn’t want to try and predict if UND will see a surge in numbers again next year, students and faculty who are proud of this institution likely hope the school’s prosperity will continue on—both in quality and quantity.

Burlington Northern, to look at creating quiet zones for the area.

“Conversation has gone on for quite a while,” City Commis-sioner Curt Kreun said. “Longer whistles have become an irri-tant.”

A study was conducted of which intersections and areas of Grand Forks were affected the most by the train whistles, in order for the quiet zones to be put into place. Making the quiet zones a reality, though, is no easy endeavor. The development and ultimate product is extremely expensive and the process time consuming.

“We are taking a look at the areas that are the least expensive and a few that are expensive,” Kreun said. “We just have to pick and choose the ones that are with-in a reasonable cost.”

To create quiet zones for every area of the com-munity and in t e r s e c t i on applicable, the entire project would cost approximately $10 million.

The city of Grand Forks does not at this time have that large of a budget for the quiet zone proj-ect. State grants were applied for and granted that will help lift the fi nancial burden from the city.

The UND campus will have the same quiet zone effect that the rest of the community has. No special arrangements are be-ing made at this time targeting residential areas near campus or intersections for the quiet zones. All areas of town are being looked at on the same level.

“UND is not being singled out,” as the only quiet zone loca-tion, Kruen said, “but accessibil-ity, traffi c, and hazards at intersec-tions.”

The project is still in the de-veloping stages and could take as long as ten years to be completely decided. Some quiet zones are al-ready in place in the downtown area of Grand Forks.

The ultimate deciding fac-tor of which quiet zones will be put in place next depends on the number of trains that go by a giv-en location each day and the cost that is associated with creating a

quiet zone for the area.

In the near future, the disturbance of train whistles will be a thing of the past, thanks to the city commis-sioner’s in-volvement and

state sponsored funds. “[We will] try to do the best

we can with what we have,” Kru-

DS> Jasmine Jones is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]

‘� is is the place that people...can come and get a very fi ne education.

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‘� e entire project would cost approxi-mately ten million dollars.

Katie Bachmeierstaff writer

culture&mediafriday october 1, 2010DS> Inside: The Zombie Music Fest crawls nigh

FALLFilm preview

story by Josh Brorby

This semester, you may find yourself riding shotgun with friends in the back. You may find yourself driving to another part of the world. You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile. You may find yourself in a beautiful theater with a beautiful date. You may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

Well, despite what David Byrne might have you think about letting the days go by or water flowing underground or really big suits, you probably drove yourself to the cinema to check out some of this fall’s most anticipated movies. Once in the nighttime, you might find yourself at one of the following:

The Social Network, dir. David Fincher (opens today). The facebook movie, as it has been called (and apparently pretty much is), has been receiving absolutely ridiculous amounts of critical praise, accolades and general positive what-have-you. Fincher is a pretty competent director, but whether he has screaming legions of A Hard Day’s Night fans or not is debatable; the cat knows what he’s doing, but he may not be “masterful” just quite yet. Or maybe I’m wrong (I look forward to checking this movie out as soon as possible); The Social Network is, after all, heralded as his masterwork, and for a nation full of facebook users, it should prove entertaining.

Let Me In, dir. Matt Reeves (opens today). This American remake of of a 2008 Swedish film (Let the Right One In, 2008) is helmed by the director of Cloverfield. This one is iffy; the fact that it’s a remake of a movie barely two years old is disconcerting. The original has already been lifted to the pantheon of classic vampire movies, so the source material should be strong enough to support the American version. The question is: will the new take on the film stand on its own two legs?

Jackass 3-D, dir. Jeff Tremaine (Oct. 15). Clearly, this one isn’t a new literarily-oriented piece of dramatic fiction geared toward an astute viewership. However, in the world of 3-D—something gimmicky and over-the-top and almost unnecessary—I can think of no better movie to produce. What

better reason is there for 3-D technology to exist than for a bunch of rich guys to make asses of themselves while flying off the screen in disgusting and unique ways? Really, this will probably be as or more entertaining than Avatar, no joke.

127 Hours, dir. Danny Boyle (Nov. 5). Boyle teams up with James Franco to tell the story of Aron Ralston, the cany-oneer who found himself trapped beneath a boulder (I wonder for how many hours?) and resorts to removing his own arm by some pretty rough means to escape. Boyle’s stuff is usually pretty strong; Franco is a handsome dude. Will probably be worth checking out.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, dir. David Yates (Nov. 19). It’s another Harry Potter movie! I really have nothing to say other than that I enjoyed the most recent HP romp and that this one will probably make tons of money.

Black Swan, dir. Darren Aronofsky (Dec. 1). Aronofsky, director of such famed films as Pi and Requiem for a Dream, returns for his first film after the critical success of The Wrestler. Again, he’s dealing with some pretty heavy stuff (it seems) in this thriller about rivalry and intrigue in the world of professional ballet. Natalie Portman is starring, sure to give a “pretty dec” performance.

True Grit, dir. Coen Bros. (Dec. 25). The Dude is back with the Coen Bros. playing a role once performed by The

Duke (in the famous Western of the same name). Whether they can all live up to Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn is a mystery, but with the Coens in control, it’s sure to at least be a competently-made, well-paced, wholly entertain-ing film in its own right.

This fall, you may be tempted to trade in your pencils for popcorn, and you may say to yourself, “This is not my beautiful textbook” as you toss it aside, and you may ask, “How do I get there [to the theater]?” And life will go on, so enjoy ‘em.

DS> Josh Brorby is the Features Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

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The word “zombie” and its definition strike up some serious debate. Some believe that a true zombie is a reanimated corpse that has come back from the grave. Others believe that it could simply be an individual infected with a rare disease that causes a fervent craving for human flesh. Some even classify a zombie as an individual who has not had their morning cup of coffee.

Whether they’re fast or slow, crave brains or blood, one thing is for certain, they love live music and free food. On Saturday Oc-tober 2nd, the Grand Forks town square will be getting a drastic make over. What was once an area used for farmers market gather-ings and relaxation will become a biohazard containment area for the recently zombified citizens of Grand Forks, North Dakota.

The North Valley Arts Coun-cil (NoVAC), J.R. Simplot, and HB Light and Sound will be hosting Grand Forks’ first annual Zombie Music Festival. Admis-sion is $5 for adults and free for children 10 and under. Starting at 4:00 p.m., the event will run until 10:00 p.m. and consist of many different activities and bands.

At 4:00, The Noblemen, a rock/punk band from Grand Forks, will take the stage. The Neckties, an alternative rock band also from Grand Forks, will per-form at 5:00. At 6:00, the rock cover band Dirty Phoenix will entertain the audience until the Zombie Costume Contest at 7:00. At 7:15, a hardcore screamo band from Bismarck called If I Ran The Zoo will melt faces with their, gut wrenching vocals, machine gun-esque drumming and wailing gui-tars. The headliner of the event, performing from 8:30 to 10:00, is none other than Aultimate Ozzy, “the world’s best Ozzy Osbourne tribute band” according to VH1.

Aside from the music, there will be plenty of other events for people to enjoy. For those who are

21 and over, a beer garden will be set up and run by Rhombus Guys Pizza. A zombie photo booth will be set up for those wishing to take home a memento of the occasion, a zombie make-up booth will be available for children and adults who want to “ghoul-up” for the event, Rock 30 Games will hold a “Left For Dead 2” Xbox 360 tournament, a zombie c o s t u m e contest will be held and prizes given away to the winners, the bands will have mer-chandise tables set up and NoVAC will be selling t-shirts designed for the event, and J.R. Simplot will provide a French fry feed to all the hungry zombies and human spec-tators.

Marie Strinden, executive di-rector of NoVAC, had this to say about the event. “When planning this event we were looking specifi-cally at college age students. We have a beer garden for those over 21, an Xbox tournament and good music…things that are geared to-

ward the college age. We wanted to get the university students downtown to participate in art, in this case, art being rock music and make-up.”

So, will this be the first of many zombie music event in Grand Forks? “It all depends on at-tendance and reception.” Strinden

said. “We hope to make a succe s s fu l event so we can repeat this next year. We’re t h i n k i n g long term and plan-ning ways to make it

bigger and better for years follow-ing.”

So whether you plan on throwing on some fake blood and doing your best zombie walk or just want to watch and enjoy some music and food, the Grand Forks Zombie Music Fest will be a great way to kick off the Halloween sea-son.

Bands swarm town squareFESTIVAL Zombie Music event set to arrive and draw in hundreds this Saturday.

>XAVIER PASTRAnoThe Dakota Student

DS> Xavier Pastrano is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

‘When planning this event we were looking specifically at college age stu-dents.

Marie StrindenNorth Valley Arts Council

Indie darlings on hot streak

>MATTHEW RoyThe Dakota Student

Deerhunter’s fourth full length, Halcyon Digest, opens with a rush of swelling guitars. While the opening track “Earth-quake” may not be the best on the album, it definitely sets the tone for what to expect for the remain-ing ten tracks. Lead singer Brad-ford Cox’s muffled and distorted vocals bring life to the albums mostly cryptic lyrics. At first lis-ten the meaning behind a lot of the songs might not jump out at the listener, but when the vocals accompany the music so well, the truth is it’s hard to care.

The second and third tracks “Don’t Cry” and “Revival” come like a one-two punch of fast paced (at least for this album) David Bowie style jams. The fourth track “Sailing” is when

the album fully develops. A five minute song features some of the most straightforward lyrics on the album, recalling feelings of alien-ation and loneliness. The sixties style vocals add a rawness to the already relatable lyrics.

As soon as “Memory Boy” kicks in, surprisingly upbeat, while lyrics suggest a broken home, it becomes clear that there are really two types of songs on Halcyon Di-gest. There are longer songs with their dreamy vocals and swelling guitars and then there are the shorter songs, reminiscent of the sixties British Invasion acts that would sound right at home in a Wes Anderson film, but they are all put together to create quite an astonishing album.

“Desire Lines” is the perfect example of how Deerhunter uses repetition to their advantage. At almost seven minutes the song re-calls the innocence of childhood, and features a finale of repetitious

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There are many activities for students to choose from on a Friday night. There is one more option this Friday night; singer/songwriter Willy Porter will be coming to Grand Forks to hold a concert on this Friday, Octo-ber 1st at the Empire. The tour is to promote his newest album, ‘How to Rob a Bank.’ For those who have not heard him, Willy’s music is inspired by classic folk, but he has been called “a genre-defying maverick” by Fretts Magazine. His songs are also witty and ironic. Most of them poke fun at some aspect of life

Guitarist to riff at EmpireLIVE MUSIC Genre-transcending musician Willy Porter prepares for show downtown.

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that we take for granted.The title song ‘How to Rob

a Bank’ teaches listeners the proper way to rob a bank, which doesn’t involve face masks or a get-away car. He sings, “You can’t walk in there brazen with an Uzi like Patty Hearst/ I’m gonna se-cure myself a seat on the board of directors first/ That’s how you rob a bank.” This song takes on the financial collapse of a couple years ago and turns what should be sung as the blues into an up-beat folk song. The lyrics are written so we can all joke and have a laugh, but they also have a deeper message.

The concert will start at 7:00 p.m. and is ten dollars for stu-dents with a valid ID. For tick-ets, call 701-777-4090.

DS> Patrick Evans is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

Hypnotist to enthrall tonightEnTERTAInMEnT Per-former Frederick Winters to entertain students at the Loading Dock.

On my twelfth birthday my parents had me call up all my friends for a road trip from dumpy ol’ Drayton, ND to the Chester Fritz Auditorium right here in Grand Forks. We were going to see a magician before getting some pizza. Now, I can hear you say, “But we have a hypnotist coming, not a magician!” Well, I’m afraid I’ll have to be the one to tell you they’re the same thing. Frederick Winters, who will be at the Memo-rial Union tonight, has been voted the 2010 Best Male Artist by Cam-pus Activities Magazine. It doesn’t matter if they’re magicians, hypno-tists or jugglers, they’re all simply artists (or more accurately actors in my opinion).

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Before I get to the present, we need to go down a long road to the past. This dark magician from my youth performed six, count ‘em six tricks over a two hour show. At five dollars a ticket, it was still cheap-er than a movie in 1996, but still nowhere near as entertaining as “Down Periscope.” The slow pace of the show was the first red flag; something was off a little. Another big sign I missed before even invit-ing my friends was the relative lack of advertising. If you look around on the page in front of you now, you’re likely to see a few ads and classifieds, along with this wall of text. Now, this man obviously was no David Copperfield (who coinci-dentally enough I had also seen as a child in the Chester Fritz) with the advertising panache to match his ego. No, this man was a preacher spreading the word of God sub-versively in the guise of a magi-cian. This man was the one who crushed his child under a draw-bridge in order to save a train of sinners. This man was as shady as

a politician who would drill under a national park for oil. This man chose a friend of mine to go up on stage for a trick over me, even though it was my birthday.

As much as I encourage every one of you readers to go see Fred-erick Winters at the Union to-night to cool the stresses brought on by another long week of classes, be wary. Lack of advertis-ing, check. His performances do look on the “excitable” end of the spectrum, so we’ll leave that to the side. His definition of hypnosis does raise some alarm, some poten-tial for subversive pandering. From his “flashy” website: “Did you ever get ‘glued’ to the TV set or com-puter screen? Did you ever day-dream? You suspended a certain amount of reality around you to be-come absorbed in a different men-tal world (though you didn’t black out or end up on Mars.) So EV-ERYONE gets hypnotized to some

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guitar riffs for close to two min-utes, but it never gets boring. The following track “Basement Scene” is probably the album’s most easily accessible songs, with lyrics that deal with the conflicting views of staying young and growing old. A close look at the lyrics and the song’s title will no doubt bring back memories for many people of sitting around in a basement with all your friends and think-ing about those that you have lost touch with.

Things get interesting on the track “Helicopter,” as it opens with a synthesizer one would ex-pect to hear on an MGMT song, and it is definitely the first of its kind on the album. The following track, “Fountain Stairs,” is prob-ably the most forgettable on the album. While it is in no way a bad song, there isn’t a whole lot that makes it stand out.

The album closes on a big note with “Coronado” and “He Would Have Laughed.” “Coro-

ALBUM > From page 10 nado” opens with a catchy piano

melody and eventually features, in true rock n’ roll fashion, a saxo-phone solo between the verses, it is a track that perfectly shows the timelessness of this band’s style. The final track, “He Would Have Laughed,” is the most musically diverse on the album. The song is dedicated to musician Jay Reatard ,who died earlier this year and dis-plays the closeness between him and the band with the constant repeating of the line “Where did my friends go.” It’s a seven minute track that brings an abrupt end to the album, maybe almost on pur-pose given that Reatard passed at the young age of 29.

With Halcyon Digest it’s easy to see why Deerhunter has been get-ting so much recognition over the past couple years. Whether you’re a diehard Deerhunter fan or a first time listener, Halcyon Digest is an album worth checking out. Expect to see and hear bigger things from these guys down the road.

DS> Matthew Roy is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

degree many times a day! When a hypnotist hypnotizes an indi-vidual, he is altering that person’s state of consciousness. When the mind relaxes, focusing only on the hypnotist’s voice, the subconscious mind becomes more alert while the conscious mind becomes more subdued.” This sounds to me like potential trouble; by simply being in the audience, you too will hope-fully be hypnotized by Mr. Win-ters, open and vulnerable to his “irrational suggestions.”

Rounding out a tour of shows across North Dakota (with May-ville catching the last act this com-ing Monday), I couldn’t imagine a preaching hypnotist would go by unnoticed over the last week without word getting out. Again, the show will be from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight at the Loading Dock in the Union.

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DS> Nicholas Gowan is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]


Lots going on this weekend: Zombie Music Fest (Saturday, 4 p.m.), Willy Porter at the Empire (Saturday, 7 p.m.), and hypnotist Frederick Winters at the Loading Dock (Friday, 9 p.m.)

sportsfriday october 1, 2010

>Inside: Football keys against USD, MN Vikings goals in their bye weekDS

>scores &schedules

UND @ USDVermillion, SD10/2 @2 p.m.

FootballUND vs Utah Valley10/2 @7 p.m.

SoccerUND vs MSUBronson Field10/3 @1 p.m.

VolleyballGreen/White Invite.10/1 @4 p.m.

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It’s hard to pick just one rea-son to be excited about the North Dakota hockey team right now.

Actually, it’s nearly impos-sible. This weekend, North Da-kota begins their last season un-der the universally-recognized (at least in the hockey world) Fight-ing Sioux nickname, something that has been the centerpiece of the school’s most prominent and successful sports team.

If that were the only story, this season would already be one for the ages.

But a gifted lineup, stuffed full of talent, speed, experience

and chemistry all add up to a team that many view as one of the top in the country.

The first preseason rankings reflect that. UND enters Sun-day’s exhibition game against Manitoba ranked number two in the country behind the defend-ing national champions, Boston College.

The Grand Forks Her-ald coaches’ poll, released We d n e s d a y, picks North Dakota to win the WCHA regular season title.

But Coach Dave Hakstol, speaking at the first media day of the season on Wednesday, said that he doesn’t like the polls, which have certainly placed some pressure on the team.

Nevertheless, there is plenty of excitement around the Ralph Engelstad Arena.

Hockey The men’s team has high hopes as the schedule is about to commence.

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“It’s exciting because of the time of the year that it is,” Hak-stol said.

Sunday’s 6:07 p.m. game against Manitoba has no bearing on the team’s record or ranking. Just like in previous years, Hak-stol said that the game will be

mostly about figuring out roles.

“ T h e r e are a couple different lev-els that we’re looking for. We want to start putting our systems

and our team game together in a game atmosphere. We’re in competition for roles and for that starting lineup as we go to Alaska.”

October’s schedule provides little breathing room to figure out lineups, that’s for sure.

UND will travel to play Alaska (ranked twelfth in the na-tion) and Alaska-Anchorage next weekend, and road trips to Bemi-dji State and No. 7 Maine loom ing the weeks following.

Unlike last year, UND doesn’t have the luxury of a home series against an unspectacular team like Merrimack or a weekend off like they did for Halloween weekend last year.

Actually, North Dakota doesn’t have a true weekend off until February. But to Hakstol, that’s a reason to be positive.

“It’s going to tell us a lot about where we’re at. To do that in a setting that has a bearing on

your season makes it a little more exciting.”

The players know that too.“My years here, I don’t think

I’ve ever seen a schedule this chal-lenging,” captain Chay Genoway said. “I think with an older group of guys, that’s good for us.”

Genoway, in his fifth year in the white-and-green, was granted a medical redshirt for last season after St. Cloud State’s Aaron Marvin—a captain for the Hus-kies now—checked him hard into the boards from behind.

The Hobey Baker candidate in 2008 was lost for the rest of the season with post-concussion symptoms.

Genoway is ready to start anew and this season allows him to do just that. “I think I want to have the same kind of goals that I did last year. I want to put last year behind myself. It’s a way to redo last year and start fresh.”

‘“My years here, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a schedule this challenging.”

Chay GenowayMen’s Hockey Captain

Both Hakstol and Geno-way are encouraged by the work put in this summer by the team, most of which actually stayed in Grand Forks.

Chay pointed out how im-portant it was to have nearly the entire team together.

“There were a lot of guys here this summer which has been dif-ferent in years past. It’s the last kick of the can for a lot of these guys, and we decided to have a lot of guys working out here this summer.”

Coach Hakstol said the fo-cus changes this weekend. “This is the time where we really start building a team, everything we’ve done up until now is based off of individual work and individual development.”

DS> Timothy Boger is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

Head Coach Dave Hakstol looks to lead UND to a suc-cessful season. North Dakota opens their home game against the University of Manitoba this Sunday.

The puck drops here as UND is set to open their season against Manitoba

UND paces for good results in SDSU

“Running like the wind” is an expression that only a select few can actually grasp first hand. Those select few athletes at our university, that can run through excruciating endeavors of moth-er nature, weather and terrain, make up UND’s Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Team. The Men and Women of UND

DISTANCe The North Dakota cross country teams prepare for up-coming Jackrabbits.

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week in and week out are running 5k through 8k races, and along with 70-200 athletes per race competing at a single time. This can be a long enduring season year in and year out for our run-ners in green. Its getting to-wards the end of the week and UND’s Cross Country team is prepar-ing for another race, this time at the South Dakota State Classic in Brookings, SD.

This year’s classic in South Dakota will feature 13 teams with

about 70-80 runners. This is good news, according to Head Coach Dick Clay. “It’ll be nice to have a smaller meet this week. Last week we had over 210 runners compet-

ing; it’s hard to work with your team-mates in such a big race be-cause you have the chance of loosing sight of them.” The SDSU Classic is also a flatter

course according to Coach Clay. “That can be a nice break in a long season.”

The Women’s side looks to be

pretty strong going into SDSU Classic as they have finished 1st in their first five races this season led by Junior Lindsay Anderson. And on the Men’s side, Josh LaBlanc looks to have another great finish.

Its getting towards the end of the season with only the race in South Dakota and in Fayetteville, Arkansas left before the Great West Conference Championship. Coach Clay is very excited to see how his players have improved so far, “The whole year we try to bridge the gap between our 1st and 2nd place runners.”

The Cross Country season isn’t really about who wins what race, but more on how the run-ners are improving throughout the

year. Since UND is not eligible for NCAA competition till 2012 the big race that Coach Clay and his runners are looking forward to is the Big West Conference Championship. “All of the prior races are preparing a team for the Conference Championships; they do not necessarily count for anything”

Teams from all over the Mid-West are attending this years South Dakota State Classic. Notable attendees will be Uni-versity of Minnesota, Minnesota State- Mankato and Minnesota Duluth.

‘The whole year we try to bridge the gap betwen out 1st and 2nd place runners.

Dick ClayHead coach

DS> Tadd Powers is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

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The fall weather is perfect, and there is a sense of urgency among the UND football team as practice starts. The aroma of pumpkin and candied apple scented candles are present on campus as the new fall season. The atmospheric conditions are perfect for football and a friendly tailgating brat with good friends. Unfortunately, UND travels to the Dakota Dome in Vermillion, South Dakota to take on outer state rivals USD Coyotes (#20 FCS).

The Coyotes are boasting a 2-2 record as they open their Great West Conference game against North Dakota. The 107 year history between the foes is just as old as some of the books in the Chester Fritz Library. North Dakota presently leads the series 59-28-5 overall. North Dakota certainly has found suc-cess against the gnarling Coy-otes, winning the last 13 of 14 games and are currently riding a four game winning streak.

However, this year seems to be different. Senior DB Chris Ankenbauer put it best by stating “every game we’ve had against them comes down to the wire.” This game is obviously the clos-est game to a rival North Da-kota. In essence this game could be played for pride and bragging rights of course.

Unfortunatley, USD boasts victories this season over North-western Oklahoma State and the forgettable Golden Gophers of Minnesota. Edging out the Big Ten school 41-38, USD will give North Dakota all it can handle.

Senior DL Ty Boyle stated “when you face a familiar pro-gram, you kind of have an expec-tation, we need to stop their ini-tial surge.” With South Dakota’s QB running like Philadelphia Eagle’s QB Michael Vick, Boyle stated, “to stop their QB, we need to have great pursuit and everyone to the football.”

According to head coach Chris Mussman, “We have to be sure we can make it a four quar-ter game.” With the home team anxious and hungry for UND, Mussman needs to be prepared

for the unexpected. “The Coyotes feed off of big plays…we need to make sure of our assignments.” The UND will need to be on high alert against the potent USD re-turn game, especially if this game comes down to the fi nal drive.

Offensively UND looks ex-plosive. With the discovery of QB Jake Landry and WR Greg Har-din, North Dakota expects USD to respect the pass and open up the running game. “We feel confi -dent about isolating and running around our edges,” stated Muss-man.

On the downside of this hype, UND RB Mitch Sutton has been listed by Mussman as “very doubt-ful” after suffering a concussion this season. This could be a major blow to the UND ground game, seeing how Sutton ran for 190 yards and 3 touchdowns last year against the Coyotes in UND’s homecoming game.

Senior OL Keith Queoff ad-dressed some of these issues. “We like to think of ourselves as a mixed offense.” The tenacious USD relishes size and speed on both their line fronts.

“We have to be physical with a team like USD. They play on the same surface we play on: We have good road crowd an overall a simi-lar environment,” stated Queoff.

The North Dakota squad will make the four hour quest down lonely I-29 en route to Vermillion, SD. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. in the infamous Dakotadome. Both teams will be looking to make a statement in their GWC opener.

DS> Joel Adrian is the Sports Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

Border battle and football

“Unfi nished Business” was the Minnesota Vikings mantra head-ing into the season after a disap-pointing loss to New Orleans left them short of a chance at a Super Bowl. Through three games, the Vikings sit at 1-2 and Brett Favre is showing his age on the fi eld.

Favre has already thrown six intercep-tions, which is semi-shocking considering he threw seven all of last season.

Right now, the Vikings sit in third place in the NFC North, two games back of the Chicago Bears and one behind the rival Green Bay Packers.

Will the Ol’ Gunslinger be able to rally the Vikes to another postseason birth? Or will they fall fl at in Favre’s fi nal season? I’ll let you be the judge of that.

Look at the schedule! (Woody Paige voice)

The Vikes have one of the toughest schedules in the NFL, if not the toughest. After their off week, they have a four game stretch that will make or break their season, starting with a trip to New York where they will face off

with the Jets. Then they will host Dallas, travel to Green Bay, and fi nish up at New England before they play the lowly Arizona Car-dinals.

After playing one of the weak-er schedules a year ago, this time around Minnesota will have to go through top-level competition to make the playoffs.

Yo, Adrian! (Rocky Balboa voice after he’s gone 15 gut-wrenching rounds with Apollo Creed)

Sorry, but I couldn’t resist throwing out a “Rocky” reference there. Now back to the Vikings

and their star running back Adrian Peter-son. AP is tear-ing up oppos-ing defenses to a tune of 5.6 yards per car-ry. He’s show-ing again that he is the best

back in the league when he doesn’t put the ball on the ground.

Minnesota is going to need more performances from AP like the one they got this past Sun-day against Detroit if they hope to do any serious damage this season. Brad Childress may have Hall of Fame QB behind center, but he needs to lean on AP who has a chance to make the Hall of Fame one day if he is able to stay healthy.

DEDICATION Football team tries to right the wrongs and stay optimis-tic about posteseason.

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And the verdict is…If you’re a die-hard Vikings

fan, you aren’t going to like what I’m about to say. The truth is that last season’s magical run is over. And so are No. 4’s days of being able to put a team on his back and lead them to victory.

With Percy Harvin banged up, Sidney Rice still out, and Bernard Berrian still playing like Bernard Berrian, teams are going to stack the box giving AP little room to run.

Rice is expected to return around Week seven or eight, and it isn’t as if he’ll be able to step right in and produce at the level he did a year ago.

So unless another receiver emerges, it’s going to be tough sledding for the Vikings these next four weeks as they play some of the NFL’s best teams. If Min-nesota is able to go 2-2 in this up-coming stretch, their season will still be alive, but anything worse may send Favre into retirement earlier than he anticipated when he decided to come back for an-other season.

DS> Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

COYOTES UND will try to beat USD for a con-secutive fi ve times this Saturday.

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Minnesota Vikings try to solve problems and prepare

‘� e Vikes have one of the tough-est schedules in the NFL, if not the toughest.

Brandon BeckerStaff writer


Date idea: Go to an athletic event this weekend

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The study returned to the Grand Forks Park District with results that allowed them to begin the Imagine project, however, the funds needed could not be met by membership fees alone. By part-nering with many organizations (mainly the YMCA), gathering do-nations and applying for grants, 27 million dollars were raised for the project.

By partnering with the YMCA, the Imagine Project benefi ts them

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DS> Katie Bachmeier is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]

as well. Twenty-three million dol-lars will be put towards the new facility to replace Center Court Fitness, and the remaining four million dollars will be used to up-date the YMCA facility. The good news about that is that one mem-bership will be good for either the Center Court Fitness Club or the YMCA.

For more information, visit the project website at www.imaginegf.

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DS> Cole Allick is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

is far greater: I think academia is a means for expression of a clear passion; such devotion and love for the work has been apparent in every professor from whom I have ever taken a course.

This reasoning is why I will brave grad school and the even-tual tenure system. And I hope that that passion won’t disappear should I be denied tenure. I hope that should such an action occur, I will recognize the reasoning if the denial is deserved, rather than pull a Bishop and fi ght it, fi guratively or literally, over ungrounded claims to the contrary.

That Bishop’s case mars the face of academia is unfortunate, but it offers a worthwhile glimpse into the Ivory Tower; the exposure of such competitiveness enables stu-dents like myself to approach the future with a healthy dose of real-ism. However, I hope the glance is not fi lled entirely with negativity; the academia I have experienced has been an incredible environ-ment uniquely designed for ideas and intellect to expand. While I do not think it is worth the price Bishop attempted to pay and I ac-cept that I may be a tad ignorant, I rely on my perception of academia to do things like present at con-ferences and therefore, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

of any pickup truck in a grain eleva-tor parking lot, there’s a 50% chance you’ll see a shotgun lying on the fl oor (which, as long as it’s not loaded, is totally legal). Everybody seems to own a gun, and some people own over 50.

Dogs in the suburbs live indoors and get regular baths. If you’re like me, you want to go pet and play with every dog you see. Don’t try this out in the country. Ranch dogs are kept around for the purpose of rounding up livestock. They live outside and are never bathed. They spend their days running around pastures, roll-ing in mud and manure, and getting eaten by ticks.

When the demolition derby comes to town, save the date. The der-by is the jewel of the county fair (and therefore the entire summer) and is an absolute riot. The contestants are local yokels who happen to own a welder and a 30 year-old Lincoln. As far as I can tell, the only rules for a derby car are: take out all the windows, slap

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From page 4 a ridiculous paint job on the thing, and wear a helmet. Bonus points are awarded to cars that are extremely loud and ones that have exhaust pipes coming through the hood.

North Dakota derbies are extra fun because of how frugal people are here. If you’re lucky, you’ll see a few cars that were completely destroyed in the previous year’s derby but, with hard work and a few cases of Old Milwaukee, were painstakingly un-crushed and transformed into some-thing that runs again.

If you follow all of these tips and tricks, you’ll have a much lower probability of being chased out of town. In all honesty, I really liked liv-ing in a tiny midwestern town. I’ve lived in cities all over the country, but people in small town North Da-kota are by far the friendliest, most helpful folks I’ve ever experienced. So to the town of Bowman, I thank you for hosting me, and I apolo-gize for spilling all of your secrets.

DS> Andy Kinnear is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]

And just so we’re on the same page, having my refund sent to me to my last known address 5-7 busi-ness days AFTER you have held my money for the federally man-dated maximum of 21 days is not the same thing as requesting that it be sent to me by paper check. The contract does not state that users will be sent paper checks, upon re-fusing to use Higher One debit ser-vices (because your fees are ridicu-lous) or the ACH transfer service (because I don’t want to give you my routing information), as a de-fault option. No, it says that “Users will have the option to…request a paper check,” and when I can’t sign into your website and receive my refund in this form, then you are not fulfi lling your part of the bar-gain. I know that this doesn’t make you any money and is more labor intensive than electronically trans-mitting my money to my bank,

but to be perfectly honest, I don’t really care.

If I trusted you, it might be dif-ferent, but I don’t trust you. I don’t trust you because you assess more fees than any other card provider in the region, everyone I know who has activated their PRIDE card has begun receiving junk promotional offers from affi liates of Bancorp Bank (the same bank that provides your banking services), and fi nally, because by the best of my knowl-edge, you have failed to provide a service you are contractually obli-gated to provide.

I’m willing to work with you Higher One, but you’ve got to take the fi rst step. How about providing my fellow students and me with the paper check option we want and deserve? If you can do that, than this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

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DS> Dave Barta is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

community in the Union, the Alerus Center and the Altru Cancer Center. This weekend they will be available for purchase at the Wom-en’s Studies presentations happening on campus.

“We have everything lined up,” Slater said. “We’re just looking for people’s support and donations.”

The proceeds from all donations made go to the Altru Cancer Center. Student Government has set a goal of fundraising $20,000 by the end of October to give to Altru. The money raised will go towards the early detec-tion of breast cancer in area women

by providing free mammograms at Altru.

“All donations stay in the Grand Forks community,” Slater said.

Special “Pink Out” events will also be occurring though out the month at UND home athletic games. A Facebook page titled Sioux Strong Pink Out: Breast Cancer Awareness 2010 includes all dates and times for designated “Pink Out” games. Guests are encouraged to make a donation and wear pink to observe October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The campaign will fi nish at the end of the month of October.

DS> Madi Whitman is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]

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The University of North Dako-ta has three churches affiliated with the campus. While the churches are different denominations, they are all tied to the common root of Christianity. The St. Thomas Aqui-nas Newman Center on campus is of Catholic denomination while Christus Rex and the Wittenberg Chapel are Lutheran. Although the latter two churches are of the Lutheran denomination, they both have different beliefs and repre-sent different faiths. Christus Rex belongs to the ELCA (Evangeli-cal Lutheran Church of America), while Wittenberg Chapel belongs to the LCMS (Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod). Another church not located directly on campus but one that has ties to the UND student body is Freedom Church, located downtown. The organizers of Freedom Church chose its name based on its non-denominational stand on religion.

So where do these churches stand and what do they have to offer? Each church answered these two questions, “What are their thoughts on the representation of Christianity in the recent media” and “What do they have to offer young Christians.”

Nathan Johnson, pastor of Freedom Church, stated, “It seems that the media has not painted a real positive image of Christianity. For whatever religion or faith that is being represented, it seems that a group is defined by their extremes. The important thing in Christian-ity is to represent Jesus Christ, and to do that, people need to approach each other with kindness and de-velop a personal relationship. As vessels, we need to be careful of how we share that in kindness.” When it comes to appealing to young Christians, Johnson stated, “Freedom Church desires to be authentic. We have a love for one another and for Jesus, so we are here for students who are looking for authenticity and are passion-ate about their faith.” Freedom Church is located at 8 N. 3rd St. in downtown Grand Forks. Worship services are Sundays at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and starting October

3rd, 6:30 p.m.Pastor Chad Brucklacher from

Christus Rex Lutheran church had this to share about the represen-tation of Christianity in the me-dia. “It seems that it’s the fringe Christian groups that are evoking people, but what’s important is that about 90 percent of Christians feel that those groups do not deal with their faith. The same can be applied to how we characterize the Muslim faith. The vast majority of Muslims are peaceful, but the me-dia puts extremist ideals on them. Whether Christian or Muslim, the media focusing on extremism is not representative of the vast ma-jority.”

When asked what Christus Rex had to offer students, Bruck-laher said, “Our primary way of practicing Christianity is through the ministry of social justice. We emphasize this through projects and events.” Brucklacher made ref-erence to the Love Feast, in which members of the church prepared and served a meal to the people of Grand Forks. “These activities are a big part of what we do,” he said. “We are a community gath-ered around sacraments and called to serve our neighbors and world.” Christus Rex has services Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Pastors and priests at Witten-berg Lutheran and the Newman Center were unavailable for inter-views, but have services at the fol-lowing times. The Newman Center has mass Monday through Thurs-day at 5:15 p.m., Friday at 12:10 p.m. Saturday at 4:30 p.m., and Sunday at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 am, and 5:15 p.m. The Wittenberg Lu-theran Chapel has service on Sun-days at 10:30 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.

In an interview with Tom Short for an earlier article in the Dakota Student, he stated that he goes to college campuses to preach because “college students are at a very important stage in their lives.” Naturally as human beings, we are impressionable, and after inter-viewing several campus churches, it seems that there are plenty of positive options.

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DS> Xavier Pastrano is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]

To emphasize this point, she used a famous quotation from a Ger-man preacher describing the hor-rors of WWII: “In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up be-cause I was a Protestant. Then they came for me—and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

Barrett then talked about the im-portance of a celebrative community, which values every person’s contribu-tions. To promote a positive charac-teristic such as diversity or volunteer-ism, the school must reward positive behavior.

In addition to describing what would make UND stronger, Barrett also discussed what the school is al-ready doing very well. The different programs, she said, “produce a liberal education for our students.” Wanting to ensure that no one confused the word “liberal” with its other, political connotation, Barrett defined a liberal education as one which is “liberating our students.”

Barrett then answered questions from the audience by drawing from her own experiences and observa-tions at other schools. She prescribed ways to promote the well-being of in-

ternational students, especially those who may encounter culture shock while attending UND. Barrett also advocated the idea of uniting UND with many organizations through-out Grand Forks and thus building stronger ties between school and community. All people who attend-ed Barrett’s open forum were given the address of a web site to complete a survey concerning first impressions of the candidate.

Each of the three candidates have the opportunity to host an open forum, where he or she will speak and later answer questions about his or her experiences at other schools and ideas to help UND grow and improve. After each session, refresh-ments will be available and people will have the chance to talk with the candidate on a more personal level.

The next candidate to visit UND is Associate Vice President for Campus Life and Auxiliary Services Dr. Steven Kent Erwin from Pitts-burg State University in Pittsburg, KS. The date for his open forum is set for Oct. 14, but dates and times are subject to change.

The third candidate is Associate Vice Provost for Student Success Dr. Lori Reesor from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS. The tentative date for her open forum is Oct. 18.

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DS> Allee Mead is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]

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