DSInsideDueling columns: Gun control, page 5

Gaspardo: Under 21 fun, page 5

Campus briefs, page 6

Music review: Fiction Family, page 8

Classifieds, page 9

St. Cloud St. steals three points, page 10

Women cagers split homestand, page 10

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NASA astronaut visits UND aerospace SPACE Former scien-tist for NASA delivers speech to UND stu-dents Friday.

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“In 45 minutes you’re seeing a sunrise and the next 45 min-utes you’re seeing a sunset,” Ma-rio Runco said.

A NASA astronaut and sci-entist, Runco gave a presenta-tion at 10 a.m., Friday in Clif-ford Hall about his experiences at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Mario Runco’s presentation, titled “Observations of Planet Earth,” centered around his per-sonal observations and beliefs as

a seven-year veteran of NASA’s astronaut program and current researcher at the same complex, where NASA’s mission control center is located.

“The first thing I need to do is get you into space,” Runco said. “I myself did that with At-lantis in 1991 and Endeavour in 1993 and 1996.”

The space craft on which he traveled flew at such high rates of speed that the crew circled the earth once every 90 minutes.

Sunrises and sunsets are only the beginning of the sights Runco and other astronauts have the opportunity to enjoy. Posi-tioned above a majority of the atmosphere, astronauts can see the aurora borealis — Northern Lights — below them.

Mario Runco gave a presentation in Clifford Hall titled, “Observations of Planet Earth” Friday morning.

Senate to support state bill

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Greek recruitment sparks in spring

AMNESTy N.D. House bill would protect stu-dents in drug, alcohol medical emergencies.

Students drop like flies in calcDEFEAT Math 146 shows some of the highest fail rates in 100 level courses at UND.

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Nikki Vink, a junior at UND has taken it three times. The third time wasn’t a charm.

culus is a requirement for all busi-ness, aviation and pre-health stu-dents. According to the recently released UND fall 2012 grade distribution, the course had a pass rate of just above 31 percent last semester — and nearly half of the students who enrolled in the class dropped or withdrew from it.

As stated in the UND aca-demic catalog, the course is “a non-rigorous introduction to differen-tial and integral calculus.” Topics

include limits, continuity, differen-tiation and integration techniques, and applications.

“A majority of the people tak-ing Applied Calculus aren’t math or science majors,” sophomore Zach Selzler, a biology and pre-health major said. “They focus more on the classes that are a part of their major, so they don’t expect calculus to take as much time and

“I’ve attempted to take it ... with three different professors, and each time I’ve had to drop it,” Vink said. “It’s definitely not what I ex-pected out of a 100 level class.”

Vink is an airport management major. As part of the pre-business requirements for her major, she has to complete Math 146, Ap-plied Calculus. It's the one class she needs to complete her general studies.

Vink isn’t alone. Applied Cal- MATH [page 3]

UND’s fraternities and sororities are gearing up for their spring re-cruitment weeks. Students of all backgrounds are able to visit Greek houses and participate in events from barbecues to basketball tour-naments.

For more about their efforts, turn to page 7.

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Senators passed a motion to sup-port the Student Government Execu-tive Team in lobbying efforts for State House Bill 1412. The bill increases amnesty to individuals who comply with medical professionals and law enforcement in alcohol or drug con-sumption medical emergencies.

“This type of legislation literally saves lives,” Sen. Jennifer Vetter said.

Current law protects only five in-dividuals who are involved in a medi-cal emergency. This bill would extend protection to any cooperating indi-vidual. It also would include amnesty from drug-related emergencies which is not incorporated in current law. In addition, the bill prohibits university systems from punishing students in-volved in these situations.

“We’re not promoting drinking,” said Shane Gerbert, State Govern-mental Affairs Representative. “Peo-ple are afraid to call in when some-thing goes wrong, and we don’t want

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students to have to worry about this.”

Senate passed this motion with a 7-6 vote, but the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education is advocating against it. The board is concerned that universities may lose the ability to follow up with students in alco-hol emergency situations through counseling or therapy.

“To me it comes down to the rehabilitation aspect of the uni-versity,” Sen. Brett Johnson said. “I am in favor of helping all stu-dents but this infringes on the university’s ability to take care of students.”

Senators also passed a bill to temporarily reallocate the duties

of the Student Communications Funding Committee. The com-mittee has been unable to call quorum for a meeting because the necessary student membership has not fulfilled. In Senate Bill 1213-29, senators delegated all the work to the Student Organization Funding Agency’s Judicial Com-mittee. It also created an ad hoc committee to hire the 2013-14 Dakota Student editor-in-chief.

The bill passed with an over-whelming majority.

Sen. Alan Oberg introduced Senate Bill 1213-30, which allo-cated up to $40 for each senator ($920 total) to spend on material to connect with their constitu-ents. The money was appropriated from the student fees account and all expenses must be reported.

“This is something we’ve al-

ways done but by oversight we never got it done this year,” Oberg said. “The premise is to use a little funding to get your name out there to your constitu-ents so they can get a hold of you if needed.”

Other senators agreed.“This will be very helpful,

especially to have a business card when you are at a student orga-nization or just around campus so students can get a hold of us when the need to,” Vetter said.

The spending measure passed unanimously.

Next week, Senate will meet at 1 p.m. instead 6 p.m., because of the NFL Super Bowl.

effort as it does.”Mathematics department chair-

man Joel Iiams credits this to the unique nature of studying math.

“Many classes don’t build off one another,” he said. “It’s possible to write a paper the night before or cram for an exam. But with math, it builds off of itself.”

If students don’t understand in-troductory concepts of calculus or the algebra, they gradually fall behind until the concepts become too hard to understand, Iiams said. The longer you put it off, the worst your under-standing becomes.

According to Professor Jessica Snyder — one of two instructors for the course last semester — Ap-plied Calculus isn’t meant to be taken lightly, even though it’s a 100-level class.

“Any calculus class should never be considered an easy class,” Snyder said. “It’s just the nature of the sub-ject. You can be great with algebra, but not at the calculus part. It’s just a matter of practice.”

In comparison with UND, North Dakota State University takes

a different approach to this course. Instead of being three times a week as a three-credit course, NDSU offers Math 146 as a four-credit course that meets four times a week.

However, comparing NDSU and UND’s Math 146 is like com-paring apples to oranges, according to Iiams. At NDSU, students take both Math 146 and Math 147.

“ Y o u wouldn’t take our Math 146 and try to take NDSU’s Math 147,” Iiams said. “Their 146 covers differ-ent material such as more mathematical modeling for biology. We don’t do that because we don’t have a vet program (like NDSU does).”

However, students and faculty members have found merit in meet-ing for Applied Calculus as often as NDSU. Sophomore Sarah Caton thinks math courses should be four days a week, if not five.

“It’s the kind of thing that’s hard

to retain when you take a day off from looking at it,” Caton said.

Snyder agrees.“As an instructor, I would love to

meet five days a week,” she said. “The more I can be there to teach and help, the better. However, it’s a lot harder for students to fit a four-credit class into their schedules.

“Personally, I think smaller classes are better. It’s helpful for me when I know my students better, and for my students to know me better. If we could offer more sections, (Applied Cal-culus) would be better.

Unfortunately, you need the lecture bowl format because classes always fill up.”

Historically, Applied Calculus did have smaller class sizes. However, when the aviation school started re-quiring its students to take a calculus class for re-accreditation purposes, the class sizes were forced to increase. Now, Applied Calculus can reach as

many as 200 students per section. With smaller class sizes, it’s eas-

ier for students to ask questions in class, get human feedback on their homework and understand the ma-terial. However, when there are so many students that need to take the course, the math department doesn’t have the resources to offer more and smaller classes.

“We’ve been running over capac-ity for a couple of years now,” Iiams said. “It affects pretty much every-thing (in the math department). Ev-ery single office we have is filled with faculty. We can’t hire new instructors because we don’t have the room.”

Those much-needed smaller class sizes are unattainable for now, he said. If the department had the re-sources, the changes would be made.

For now, many students opt to take Applied Calculus at Lake Region State College on the Grand Forks Air Force Base, where class sizes are capped at 20 students.

“About 90 percent of our stu-dents in Applied Calculus are from UND,” LRSC base director John Cowger said. “Students react very positively to the smaller class sizes we offer.”

Another option for students

concerned about Applied Calculus is taking it during the summer, when classes tend to be about 25 students.

Tanner Miller, a sophomore ac-counting major, is currently enrolled in the class.

“Math isn’t my forte, so it’s been a bit rough so far,” he said. “I’ve gone in to the tutoring center though, and that has helped a lot.”

There are many resources on campus that can help students suc-ceed in the course. The Math Learn-ing Center in Witmer Hall offers tu-toring around the clock from Sunday to Friday nights. The Student Success Center has math tutors scheduled five days a week. Residence halls have math tutoring every Sunday, Mon-day, Tuesday and Thursday night.

For Snyder, the key to passing Applied Calculus is thoroughly un-derstanding the problems assigned as homework.

“There’s a big correlation be-tween test scores and how much homework was done,” Snyder said. “It’s just a matter of practice, practice, practice.”

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Runco credits the opportunities he was presented by NASA to good fortune and hard work.

“I never thought myself as ex-ceptional, I just felt very fortunate,” Runco said. “I believed in the op-portunities people told me I would have. I feel I’ve done some excep-tional things because I’ve had the opportunity to further the knowl-edge of mankind.”

He says there is still plenty of knowledge out there for discovery.

“I think there’s life beyond the universe,” Runco said. “We think we’re the be all and end all, but we’re just another speck of dust out there. We’ve been to the moon, so the question is: where do we go next?”

According to Runco, Mars is the first choice. A mission to Mars would require two times the $14 billion-per-year budget NASA al-ready receives.

He says it’s up to our genera-tion to make it happen, and that aerospace students at UND have a special advantage.

“I didn’t go to school here, but I wish I had,” he said.

Some students are already grasping their opportunity.

“Several of our students have applied for the astronaut program,” said Michael Gaffey, professor of space studies.

Runco’s presentation was a hit amongst Gaffey’s students.

“It was a nice overview of NASA and (Runco’s) activities in space,” said UND senior Ethan Vande Wall. “It was interesting to hear about the direction in which he thinks NASA should go.”

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I don’t care whether you’re Bud-dhist or Jewish. I don’t care whether you are Lutheran or Catholic. I sim-ply feel that it is important for people to believe in something.

I am Catholic. I was raised in a Catholic family and went to a Catho-lic grade school and high school. My religion is part of who I am, and I am not afraid to express it. Whether you are a devoted member of a church or you simply have a desire to learn more about your faith, I believe it is important to have one.

There are so many reasons why having a religion can benefit a per-son’s life. Having a faith or belief in something simply gives us a reason to live. When we have faith in a high-er power, we tend to become better people. We want to do good in the world, make an impact and positively influence others.

Take Catholicism for example: Catholics believe that it is impor-tant to always strive for heaven. We are told to treat others the way Jesus would, to have faith and do good works in the world. While the “Jesus and heaven” factor might not hold steady for other religions, the same basic concept still stands. Faith teach-es us to be the best possible version of ourselves.

It’s hard to believe that a higher power even exists some days. When

tragedies such as 9/11, Columbine, genocide and war occur more and more frequently, we sometimes won-der if there is any type of god watch-ing over us. But to me, I have no doubt that there is.

Circumstances like that are not a punishment or a consequence from a higher power. Situations like those occur because we, as humans, let pride, jealously or hatred get the best of us. They are completely pre-ventable and are caused by a mis-understanding our life’s pur-pose.

Some days, it makes me sad that organized religion has so many negative connotat ions. I am some-times concerned about the amount of rules and reg-ulations that a religion poses on an individual as well. I feel that having such strict regulations turns some away from the faith.

That shouldn’t be the case — one should not turn away from some-thing they believe in simply because of “rules.”

Religion should not be guided by strict regulatory standards; it should be enough to have a faith and believe in something. Having that belief will naturally enforce people to be bet-ter and do good works. I believe that having a faith and whole-heatedly be-lieving in it is more important than simply going through the motions.

Growing up, I saw a lot of empty gestures. People were raised in the faith; it was just what they knew.

They never bothered to question it or challenge it. People simply did what they were told, and made their reli-gion a routine.

Church became just a Sunday morning habit that they felt obligat-ed to fulfill. That isn’t how it should be. Religion should be something that you feel compelled toward. You should have the desire to live in your faith and be a committed member of your religion. I believe that is the best

way for us to grow as people.

When we can choose our faith, when we can choose what to believe and we can choose how to live out our lives, we are better people. These compo-nents are what

motivate us to live our lives with pur-pose.

In this day in age, it is so im-portant for us to have something to live for. Whether this means we are devoted members of a church or we simply believe in a higher power, we need to have a reason behind our be-liefs. I think this is what motivates us to live our lives with good intent. Re-ligion and faith form our conscience and help us to understand what is right and wrong.

No matter what you believe in, no matter what your faith is; the important component is simply that you believe.

According to a poll titled “The Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism,” 73 percent of Americans say they are religious. Photo courtesy of prayingmentis.blogspot.com.

Facing the world with faith

‘When we have faith in a higher power, we tend to become bet-ter people.

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BELIEF Having faith in a higher power, regard-less of religion, can lead people to live better lives.

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In the fall semester, 72 percent of students en-rolled in Math 146, Applied Calculus, did not pass, either withdrawing or receiving a D or F. It doesn’t take a math major to know that having a pass rate of less than 50 percent is a bad sign in any course.

The class, which has one of the higher levels of failure on campus, is on the list of required courses for students majoring in business, aviation or pre-health. These students, pursuing majors that do not rely on the regular application of calculus theories, are gathered together in lecture bowl classes with as many as 200 students.

It is absolutely unreasonable for a 100-level course to prevent otherwise qualified students from graduating with a degree in their desired field. Not only does this hinder students by making their time at UND much more difficult, but it also hinders UND in its mission to provide quality education to those who are enrolled. Students who aren’t finding success on our campus will simply seek their educa-tion elsewhere — such as taking the same course at Lake Region State College.

Additionally, college is expensive enough. Stu-dents don’t have the time or the money to spend on extra classes that won’t be useful to them in the long-run. Such requirements are as absurd as requiring an English major to take biology.

There is no benefit in taking classes for the sake of taking classes.

If UND truly wants to do a service to the stu-dents enrolled in classes here, it will do away with these cumbersome requirements.

Instead, the university should work to ensure that students are equipped with the practical skills needed to succeed in their respective fields.

If a business major needs to be able to calculate the risks and benefits of a specific business venture, there should be a class that incorporates those skills into its curriculum.

If aviation majors need to be able to calculate the influence of wind on their flight patterns, there should be a class that teaches those types of skills specifically.

And if college is — as we think it should be — a place for students to get the education they need to be successful, than administrators should do their best to see that diligent students are able to graduate and move on.

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A common saying for those who are pro-firearms is, “guns don’t kill people, peo-ple kill people.” While it is indeed true a person has to ultimately pull the trigger, it would be much more difficult to execute the killings of multiple individuals if guns were taken out of the equation, or the gun in question wasn’t a semi-automatic rifle that is capable of firing 45 rounds in a minute.

On Dec. 14, 2012 a mentally ill indi-vidual broke into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and killed 20 chil-dren and six adults. It was a tragedy, and no amount of words can describe how sadden-ing it was and continues to be.

Shortly after the shootings took place, social media erupted with a debate over gun control. President Barack Obama’s initial remarks after the tragedy called for action. Since then, the gun control has been po-liticized without real discussion about the safety of human beings.

Should gun control be implemented? Absolutely.

It should have been implemented long ago. This isn’t some liberal agenda stuffed down my throat by the media; this is look-ing at the facts and realizing that guns are a large factor in the problem of gun violence.

Washington Post writer Ezra Klein wrote an article titled “Twelve facts about guns and mass shoot-ings in the United States” the day the Sandy Hook shoot-ings took place. In it he discussed two par-ticularly interesting findings.

First, states with stricter gun control laws have fewer deaths from gun-related violence, as concluded by economist Richard Florida. Florida looked at a number of factors in his research. High-er populations, more stress, more mental ill-ness and more immigrants were all variables he looked at, yet none of them correlated with more deaths from gun violence. But Florida did find a suggestive correlation in states with tougher laws on guns and gun-related deaths.

Second, more guns tend to mean more homicide, according to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. The number of gun-related homicides during 2011 in the United States compared to other industrial-ized countries.

According to gunpolicy.org, the U.S. had 11,101 gun homicides, second only to

our neighbors in Mexico where there were 11,309. Turkey ranked third in gun homi-cides with only 535. Canada had a mere 173 gun homicides, according to gunpolicy.org.

I also compared civilian gun ownership between the U.S. and Canada.

Per 100 people, there are 88.2 firearms owned privately in America compared to 23.2 in Canada. Correlation doesn’t nec-essarily mean causation, but the evidence does point to guns playing a large role in the problem of gun violence.

Another issue to consider when discuss-ing guns is the Second Amendment right to bear arms. All I ask is for you to use logic when considering this topic.

Yes, if you take the text at face value, it does say we have the right to bear arms; but should I be allowed to possess a machine gun?

According to the Constitution, I should — if the document is interpreted without any consideration for the time when it was passed. When the Second Amendment was passed in 1791, the most common gun used was a musket. A trained solider was capable of firing off four rounds per minute and had to re-load after each shot, according to a piece done by infographicsonly.com on the evolution of guns.

In 2012, the most common gun used was a semi-automatic. It is capable of shoot-ing off 41 more rounds per minute than a musket. Do you honestly believe the writers and backers of the amendment were think-ing of how advanced guns would become 222 years later?

Most laws aren’t enacted with the cir-cumstance 200 years later in mind. Gener-ally, we do what is best for us at the present

time, which is why it is beyond stupid for us to routinely cite the Sec-ond Amendment as if it were passed yesterday.

Gun control is nec-essary in this day and age because firearms have advanced to a point where we need to be protected from our-selves.

This isn’t just about mass shootings. This is about changing our culture and how it views weapons — particularly guns.

Becoming less obsessed with guns and the right to own one will be beneficial for future generations.

Maybe I’m crazy, but I would feel much safer living in a world where hunting was done at maximum with a rifle that had to be manually re-load and where an aver-age citizen couldn’t possess something that could theoretically shoot me 45 times in 60 seconds.

But I’m probably just crazy. I know the National Rifle Association would think so.

Growing up, I lived near a large city where there was plenty for people under the age of 21 to do. Until I moved to Grand Forks, I never realized how much I took

advantage of the many opportunities for my high school-self within driv-ing distance.

After living here a year and a half, I still have difficulty finding things to do. Although Grand Forks has plenty for the above-21 crowd, when it comes to college kids under that age, there isn’t much to do.

I believe it is the lack of things for people in the 18-20 range that has led UND to be one of the big-gest binge drinking schools in the country. If there were more alterna-

tives to drinking, more kids would stay out of trouble.

One of my favorite parts about living in a big city was that there were many clubs for people to go to. Although Grand Forks has many bars/clubs downtown, none of them have 18-plus nights. If Grand Forks were to open a primarily 18-plus club, college kids would be able to take advantage of it. Additionally, it would provide an alternative to drinking and could also be used for other things — local bands could

play there or guest DJ’s, such as Pau-ly D, could be brought in.

Another thing that my friends and I did back home was laser tag — no matter how old you are, ev-eryone loves a good game of laser tag. We would go to a place called Pinz where, they not only had laser tag, but also a bowling alley and a giant arcade. Having something like Pinz in Grand Forks would provide students with something to do as an alternative to drinking.

Local places could also plan

more activities geared at the sub-21 crowd. Local coffee shops could put on open mic nights for stu-dents, the clubs downtown could have 18-plus nights and many other things could be done.

If students had more fun al-ternatives to drinking, drinking on campus would be less of a problem.

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The argument is not difficult — the only obstacle is pounding reality into the minds of individuals who refuse to acknowl-edge facts.

Legislators are using recent shootings to push through more anti-gun legislation.

There is irony in the fact that our own government is working to disarm its own citizens, while the Obama administration recently gave Mexican drug cartels weapons, which were used to murder both Mexican and American citizens.

The only thing an-ti-gun laws accomplish is to disarm law-abiding citizens; but law-abiding citizens are not the cause of gun violence. Almost all of the firearms used in violent crimes are sto-len or are bought on the black market.

One of the most foolish pieces of legisla-tion is the assault weapons ban. It was tried before and was a complete failure.

In fact, the term “assault weapon” used by the media is fictitious outside of the mili-tary. Civilian firearms may sometimes look like their military counterparts, but are in fact totally different items.

Another claim is that limiting magazine capacities and ammunition will lessen the problem of gun violence. That, again, is to-tally ridiculous. Anyone can spend a couple of minutes and learn to reload very quickly. In the past, when a shooter was limited by magazine size, he/she just brought multiple firearms, providing the same results.

The belief is that more guns result in more crime and violence. The facts could not be more contradictory. Take Chicago for example: The city has been labeled “the gun-free city” due to its extremely harsh gun control laws. Yet it is the most crime-ridden, gun-violent city in the nation. Thirty years of statistics prove that more guns mean less crime nationwide.

Great Britain, with one-fifth the popula-tion of the US, enacted a gun ban, which has only resulted in the U.K. having nearly twice the incidences of violent crime than in America.

Example after example shows that anti-gun policies bring about more violence. Take Mumbai, India in 2008. Ten gunmen killed over 150 people and wounded over 300 in an attack that shut down the city for three days. The Indian police were ineffective and with no one left in India with guns, the civil-ian population was completely helpless.

Firearms are illegal in India, but that did not matter to the gunmen. A nation that is “gun-free” is really a nation that tells poten-tial attackers they will not meet opposition until police forces arrive.

The entire idea of a gun-free zone is laughable, if not for the danger they pose to citizens who find themselves within one. Gun-free zones are no more than target-rich environments for the criminally insane. When a madman sees a sign banning guns from a school, he knows that there will be hundreds of unarmed persons to attack. Anyone who denies this is denying reality.

Last summer, James Holmes walked into an Aurora, Colo., movie theater and killed 12 and wounded 58. Holmes deliberately chose that theater because of the sign on the door banning guns from the facility. There

were multiple the-aters, both larger and closer to his home that he could have chosen; but those theaters allowed guns.

Yet another case of the insanity of gun-free zones is the very recent Sandy Hook Elementary

School shooting. Adam Lanza killed his mother at home before entering the school and killing 25 more people, the majority of them young children. Did Lanza heed the “gun-free zone” laws there? No, and now an-other 26 innocent people are dead because no one was able to defend themselves.

The only way to prevent massacre is to get rid of gun-free zones.

Starting in 2008, some school districts allowed their teachers to conceal and carry. Since then, there has not been a single inci-dent at those school districts involving either a shooter or an accidental firearm discharge. Teachers do not need to be SWAT trained to conceal and carry; they just need to be able to defend themselves and their students in the event of an emergency. Two states, Kan-sas and Utah, currently allow permit holders to carry firearms on school grounds.

Every shooting in the U.S. with more than four casualties has occurred in a gun-free zone where police responded instead of an armed citizen. The average number of ca-sualties in a shooting where police respond-ed is 14. When an armed citizen responded, the average was 2.5 casualties.

There are only 700,000 police officers in this country who can only respond after an incident has occurred. There are more than 80 million legal gun owners in the U.S. and through conceal and carry permits, they can prevent crimes.

As George Washington said, “A free peo-ple ought to be armed.”

After all, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

BORED Students lack quality opportunities to have fun without breaking the law.

Sam Gaspardo is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be

reached at sam.gaspardo@my.und.edu

Dueling opinions: the role of gun regulation

‘This is about chang-ing our culture and how it views weapons, particularly guns.

Brandon Beckerstaff writer

‘The only way to pre-vent massacres is to get rid of gun free zones.

Adam Christiansonstaff writer

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at adam.christianson@my.und.edu

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BRANDON BECKERTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

PRO The framers of the con-stitution did not foresee the modern development of guns.

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CON Gun regulation does not reduce the number of gun related deaths and crimes.

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Campus BriefsNew human rights

blog launchedThe UND Center for Hu-

man Rights and Genocide Studies recently launched a blog by a former CHRGS intern “devoted to local and international human rights is-sues … especially with region-al implications,” according to a UND press release.

The Northern Plains Hu-man Rights Blog, ran by Clarinda Solberg, also is set to cover “international issues that have local resonance.”

“I really appreciated the opportunity to work on hu-man rights as a CHRGS in-tern, and I wanted to continue to do something with the cen-ter,” Solberg told UND. “At the same time, I was excited about covering local issues and personalities with a hu-man rights theme.”

Solberg, now the youth programming coordinator for a community college in St. Cloud, Minn., graduated from UND last spring with a degree in international stud-ies, focusing on African stud-ies.

According to CHRGS Director Gregory Gordon, the blog is an opportunity to spark discussion among UND students.

“We have people from all over the world living in this region,” Gordon said. “What happens overseas often im-pacts them, and we will now have a forum to discuss those issues.”

Hultberg series scheduled for Feb. 7

As part of a 25-year-old lectureship series, four UND women alumni are scheduled to share their professional ex-periences starting at 7 p.m. on Feb. 7 at the Gransberg Com-munity Room in the Gorecki Alumni Center.

This year’s speakers for the Hultberg Lectureship Se-ries include Shawn Deisz, a

certifi ed public accountant; Jules Korba, a senior business partner for Target Corp.; Terri Zimmerman, the chief operat-ing offi cer and chief fi nancial offi cer for Packet Digital, LLC and Amanda Bentow, a com-munity relations offi cer for UND.

All four are residents of North Dakota and Minnesota who graduated from UND between 1980 and 2007.

The event also includes classroom visitations during the day, and a panel discussion entitled “Why You Should Write Your Future in Pencil.”

Ward wins study abroad scholarship

The UND Gilman Schol-arship was recently awarded to Cole Ward, a junior majoring in criminal justice and sociol-ogy.

The Gilman Scholarship Program funds awards to un-dergraduate students looking to study abroad in their re-spective fi elds. The funding for the program is bestowed by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the U.S. Department of State.

Ward, a native of Sisse-ton, S.D., will be studying the french language and culture in Caen, France.

As part of the scholarship, he is required to complete a follow-up project upon his return. Ward plans to spread the word across his hometown and Native American reser-vation to encourage young people like himself to apply for the Gilman Scholarship in the future.

“I will be doing my follow-up project back home because of the high Native American population,” Ward said. “It’s not that often that someone from Sisseton, S.D., let alone the reservation, leaves the state or goes to a different country, so I want to show them that the possibilities for them are endless.”

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also served as co-directors of the play.

They wanted to direct and perform this play because of its edgy, contemporary and clever humor. They had originally wanted to perform it on the main stage, but the Firehall The-ater’s board of directors thought it would be too edgy for that au-dience, which is why they used it for the Late Night Series in-stead.

T h e Late Night Series is t a r g e t e d t o w a r d c o l l e g e s t u d e n t s and young professionals, rather than fami-lies. “God of Carnage” features a large amount of cursing in its dialogue as well as alcohol refer-ences.

“Patrick and I were talking and we asked Kathy (Coudle-King, director of the Firehall Theater) if we could perform and direct it ourselves instead of hiring a director, and she said we could,” said Borkenhagen.

All of the actors were very excited to begin preparing for “God of Carnage.”

“I hadn’t even finished read-ing the script and I immediately said yes,” said Thomas. “My favorite parts are when I talk

The Firehall Theater, locat-ed near Central High School in downtown Grand Forks, is con-tinuing its late night series with its rendition of the Tony Award-winning play “God of Carnage.”

The hour-long play, written by Yazmina Reza, tells the story of two 11-year-old boys who get into a fight at school, where one of them has some of his teeth knocked out by the other. The parents of the two children meet at one of their houses to discuss the situation and try to settle it, but instead end up getting drunk and arguing — much like the children they’re defending.

Originally written in French and premiered in 2006, the play was later translated into English for performances in London and New York.

“It’s a slow start, which makes it easier to get into char-acter,” said actress Natasha Thomas, who starred as Veron-ica. “I just start out irritated and then get angrier and angrier.”

The play features a small cast of only four Grand Forks-based actors. Daniel Dutot and Therese Borkenhagen play the parts of Alan and Annette and Patrick Pearson and Thomas are Michael and Veronica.

Thomas and Pearson are both UND graduates and Borkenhagen, who is originally from Norway, is a graduate stu-dent in UND’s English depart-ment. Pearson and Borkenhagen

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about Kinshasa and punch my husband.”

Pearson says he enjoyed the part when Thomas (Veronica) punches him, as well as An-nette’s famous scene when she vomits all over the coffee table and Veronica’s prized art books. Annette also throws Allen’s cell phone into the water in the vase on the table as a result of

her anger to-ward him for c o n s t a n t l y talking on it instead of paying atten-tion to her.

“ T h e vomit scene was the most technical. We tested a lot

of substances to use as vomit and ended up going with apple-sauce. We used apple juice as the rum,” Pearson said.

According to Coudle-King, Pearson and Borkenhagen have been preparing to perform “God of Carnage” since Oc-tober 2012. The low-budget, actor-driven play didn’t require much production or technology.

Borkenhagen says she got so into her character at times that she sometimes missed her cues during rehearsal.

“All of us were focusing be-fore going on stage and throw-ing out random lines in conver-sation outside of rehearsal,” said

Pearson.Coudle-King saw the play

on Broadway in New York City before rehearsal began.

“I love how you tend to pull for different characters as it goes along. I pulled for Veronica first because she seems so nice and then Michael, but never for Al-len, although he’s not so bad at the end,” Coudle-King said. “You see it and you think that you’ve never acted as angry and crazy as them, but you totally have.”

Despite only attracting an audience of around 15 people for their first show — about half of the amount that the small theater can seat — those who attended enjoyed it.

“My favorite part was when they puked,” said Grand Forks resident Tony Cooper after the play ended. “The performance was excellent and very funny when it was supposed to be.”

The next performance of “God of Carnage” will take place on Friday and Saturday at 9:30 p.m. in the Firehall The-ater. Tickets are $18 and chil-dren are not allowed to attend.

“The show is just one big, destructive scene. It’s something for people who don’t normally go to live theater shows, for them to get acquainted,” said Borkenhagen. “It’s definitely one of my favorite contempo-rary plays.”

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Greek organizations, such as Pi Beta Phi, are active in their communities and hold events to benefit them.

Greek traditions give UND students characterGREEK Sororities re-cruiting this semester look to donate via philanthropies.

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Greek Life has been a part of UND student life since 1908, giv-ing those that join a unique op-portunity to get involved on cam-pus and be apart of organizations that focus on a greater good.

“The first Greek-lettered fra-ternities at UND were Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Theta,” Coordina-tor for Fraternity and Sorority Life Alyssa Walker said. “Phi Delta Theta began as the Varsity Bach-elor’s Club student organization in 1902. It built the first chapter house on campus and eventually became Phi Delta Theta in 1913.”

Sigma Chi started as the Bun-gloo Club in 1904 and received its charter to become part of the Sigma Chi National Fraternity in 1908.

“The first sororities on cam-

pus were Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Phi in 1911,” Walker said. “Alpha Phi started as the Phi Kap-pa Chi club, which was a group of women interested in the true spirit of fellowship.”

Today, UND is home to 12 fraternities and six sororities. Greek Life history on campus is rich and, for the alumni that come to visit, full of memories and tra-ditions that have been passed down for many generations.

An alumnus of UND’s Kappa Alpha Theta, Walker was already very familiar with the Greek sys-tem when she graduated from UND in May of 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in business ad-ministration and marketing. For the past year and a half, she has worked to strengthen the ties be-

tween the Greek community and the university.

“It is so thrilling to get the opportunity to work for a univer-sity that I truly love and a Greek community which so many of my most cherished memories are asso-ciated,” Walker said.

This semester, Greek life has many events to look forward to. Spring Recruitment kicked off with a Meet and Greet event Jan. 28, which could add more students to the total number of Greek students, amounting to nine percent of UND’s student body at the end of last semester.

“In total, there are about 1,050 members of fraternities and sororities at UND,” Walker said.

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‘It’s something for people who don’t normally go to live theater shows.

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Fiction Family’s sophomore album “Fiction Family Reunion” combines a down-home style of guitar with hard rock infl uences. Photo courtesy of Big Hassle Media.

Fiction Family’s ‘Reunion’ impresses

Fiction Family’s songs seem to range from the “sit back and relax” sound to the “jam out on one of those long, boring drives home” type of music.

The band is the cross-genre collaboration between Switch-foot frontman Jon Foreman and Nickel Creek guitarist Sean Wat-kins. The band’s sophomore al-bum, “Fiction Family Reunion,” is available today.

Fiction Family has a song for every mood, and “crosses ef-

fortlessly between sunny, upbeat rock and full folk flavor, with plenty of country twang jams in between,” according to a Big Hassle Media press release.

The press release also men-tions Watkins’ “Damaged” fea-tures the first full-on electric solo of the guitarist’s Grammy Award-winning career. While this sound is much different than “Reunion’s” other songs, it still retains that down-home twang-type sound.

Fiction Family’s lyrics are catchy and, more often than not, something I would find myself

trying to sing along to without even knowing what they were actually singing. Embarrassing, but we’ve all done it.

Apart from the electric gui-

tar differences in “Damaged,” the beginning of “God-Badge” sounds like the start of a lullaby, and the calming melodies of the whole song could make it so.

The lyrics, though, are what make this song interesting and unique. They’re short, sweet,

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Alpha Chi Omega is one of two sororities participating in recruitment this spring.

and, cheesy as it may sound, make you think about what the band is actually trying to say and the meanings that are hidden in these songs.

Unlike many pop acts on the Billboard charts these days, Fic-tion Family seems to actually put some effort into their lyrics and what they’re singing.

As appealing as Foreman’s voice is, it’s hard to decide which is better — that or the music styling of Watkins.

In some ways, the band sounds like one out of some small podunk town that got lucky and made it big, especially during

“Just Rob Me.” They have a fun sound about them, and the mu-sic will make you smile.

Fiction Family began collab-oration in 2005 and has a nota-bly different sound to it than ei-ther Switchfoot or Nickel Creek. Whatever it is they’re doing, it works.

Fiction Family’s down home, barn dance sounds will definite-ly take over the speakers of my car the next time I have to drive back home. Maybe eventually I’ll even learn the lyrics.

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Alpha Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi are the sororities recruit-ing this spring. For any women interested in Greek life and so-rorities, the week will be full of exciting events and opportunities to learn about the chapters and their history.

As for fraternities, all 12 are participating and each chapter has a list of events for the week that are open to men on campus interested in joining a chapter. Spring recruitment is free of any fees.

“Anyone who is a student at UND can participate in recruit-ment,” Walker said. “It doesn’t matter if you are a fi rst-year fresh-man or a super-senior, all students are welcome and encouraged to participate.”

All of the houses will host their annual philanthropies this semester as well. A philanthropy is an event used to raise money for a special cause. Each house is unique in what cause it supports. For example, Delta Gamma hosts various events every year to raise money for Grand Forks’ School for the Blind.

Events range from all types of feeds — ice cream, grilled cheese, pancake, spaghetti and nacho — to softball tournaments, boot hockey tournaments and even camp-outs.

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Women’s hockey sweepsPage 11

Men’s basketball wins a squeakerPage 12

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North Dakota outworked by St. Cloud

UND sophomore forward Michael Parks leaves the ice during Friday night’s 3-1 loss to the Huskies. Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.

OFFENSE UND struggles to put pucks in the net as the four game win-less streak continues.

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After what seemed to be its worst performance all season in a 3-1 loss Friday evening to St. Cloud State, all North Dakota needed to do Saturday was play a better hockey game.

Saturday night, North Dakota managed 15 shots on net in the opening period alone — five times the shots it had in Friday night’s flat first period.

Despite outplaying the Huskies for the majority of the game, the Green and White were forced to skate away with a 2-2 tie.

“It definitely stings,” senior forward Danny Kristo said. “I thought we deserved a better out-come. I thought we outplayed them all three periods. That’s just the way it goes sometimes, but this one definitely hurts.”

Kristo found himself among a

rearrangement of lines — a state-ment of trying something new to try and create a spark of momen-tum for the team. Although he re-mained alongside top forward Cor-ban Knight, the new set of skaters were forced to construct chemistry.

“It’s definitely different,” Kris-to said. “We play such a unique style — so fast and can really take defensemen wide. I’m not sure if it’s going to stay or not, but I thought we were good tonight. I thought we played hard. With a little adjustment, I went to the left side, but I think we’re just a bounce away right now.

“Obviously (Friday) night was unacceptable. I wish we played like we did tonight. On this next stretch, we pretty much have to play desperate hockey.”

But UND coach Dave Hak-stol looked past the adjustments and instead saw an increase in the team’s overall effort.

“The biggest chance was our intensity and effort for the entire 65 minutes,” Hakstol said. “And if you play the game that hard, re-gardless of what line combos or ‘D’ pairs are — if you play that hard night in and night out, you’re go-

ing to win the majority of hockey games that we play.”

Although a victory was closely anticipated, the Huskies came back Saturday, ready to take it all.

The first strike came early in the game as St. Cloud’s Ben Ha-nowski sniped a goal from the corner after a bounce off the end wall past UND goaltender Clarke Saunders to claim the early lead.

North Dakota responded, shorthanded, as a rush down the ice allowed Knight to steal the puck from behind the net and send a pass to Kristo at the top of the crease. While skating down the slot, Kristo put in an easy goal for North Dakota at 5:02 to tie the teams, 1-1.

“I think if you look at our game last night, we couldn’t break the puck out. We couldn’t estab-lish the forecheck, couldn’t catch a pass, make a pass,” Kristo said. “Kind of were on our heels tonight. I think it was kind of the opposite. I thought we were taking it to them and outshot them all three periods, but I just thought that was the dif-ference. We just played our game.”

Homestand ends in split

North Dakota junior guard Madi Buck (13) rained 16 points on Northern Arizona Saturday in Grand Forks. Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.

DRaW North Dakota comes a way with a loss and a win to end its homestand.

The North Dakota women’s basketball team split games with two conference opponents this past Thursday and Saturday in Grand Forks. UND lost the first at the hands of Sacramento State and won the second against Northern Arizona.

The team has had struggles in the conference this season, but players have been stepping up throughout the year and under-classman Emily Evers has really started to step up recently.

UND’s first game of the week was Thursday night against Sacra-mento State. Evers got the game going as she won the opening tip — allowing North Dakota to claim the lead on the scoreboard.

Evers also led the scoring for UND with 18 points with team-mate Megan Lauck right behind her, tallying 16 total points.

Sacramento came back with full pressure on UND’s offense which hindered North Dakota at times throughout the game. There were quite a few players for UND who made three-point shots to help the scoring continue, but Sac-ramento State was on North Da-kota’s heels. Sacramento was able to get the lead going into halftime, but UND came back scoring seven straight points in the first four min-utes.

The scoring went back and

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forth between the two teams through-out the last ten minutes of the game. UND managed to stay close in the last few minutes, but Sacramento se-cured the last two points before time ran out. Sacramento State beat UND 79-77 and dropped UND’s record to 2-7 in the Big Sky and 7-11 overall.

“We did a pretty good job up until about the last about 10 sec-onds. We got a little frantic out there

and things, but that happens,” said UND coach Travis Brewster. “To have a chance to get ourselves back in the ball game to go to OT — you know what, that’s great. But again, we’ve got to be ready to roll.”

Northern ArizonaNorth Dakota’s game against

Northern Arizona had better results

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UND topples Husky womenSWEEP North Dakota plays strong behind a big weekend from the Lamoureux twins.

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Moving one step closer in the race to claim home ice in the WCHA playoffs, the North Dako-ta women’s hockey team succeeded in claiming all four points in last weekend’s sweep over the St. Cloud State Huskies.

A blowout 6-2 victory Friday night paved the way for an easy 3-0 shutout over the Huskies in a successful series for the Green and White.

“Huge points out there for us to get every weekend,” UND coach Brian Idalski said. “We talk about the playoff atmosphere and that we need to win a lot of hockey games down the stretch. We did a solid job — especially in the third period — of being disciplined, get-ting pucks deep and being good on the breakout. It was good to see the club buying into that.”

Recently being named the team’s starting goaltender, fresh-man Shelby Amsley-Benzie earned her second career shutout on Sat-urday after a stellar performance in the previous series.

“I thought she played extreme-ly well,” Idalski said. “We didn't

necessarily come out with a lot of hop. I thought St. Cloud State had a couple great opportunities off of some turnovers early and Shelby may go unnoticed overall, but she kept us in there until we got our legs going and we were able to play with the lead.

“Great confidence booster for her and you can see that the team is really starting to gel in front of her and has confidence in her back there. It is all coming together.”

Meghan Dufault scored UND’s first goal of the game near the end of the first period Saturday night, shooting at a wide-open net at 15 minutes 34 seconds assisted by Jocelyne Lamoureux.

Jocelyne Lamoureux would ex-tend the team’s lead in the second period with a shorthanded goal, in addition to a power play goal by Josefine Jakobsen in the third.

“Special teams has been fantas-tic here the past few weeks,” Idalski said. “That is a great sign down the stretch.”

Friday night, Monique Lamou-reux erased a nine-game scoreless streak en route to a hat trick, in-cluding her 100th collegiate goal.

After opening scoring early in the first on a power play opportu-nity, Monique Lamoureux tailed two more goals to her total, in ad-dition to an assist, for a four-point game.

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The UND men’s basketball team ended its west coast trip with a two-game split after falling to Sacramento State 67-58 Thurs-day night and narrowly beating Northern Arizona 81-79 Saturday afternoon.

A second-half surge by the Hornets pushed them past UND as Sacramento State proved itself against the Green and White.

At halftime, the score was tied at 30-30; however, a hot second half helped Sacramento State out-score North Dakota 37 to 28 to

garner its fourth conference win of the season. Headed into Thursday night’s game in Sacramento, UND came off two great offensive perfor-mances but couldn’t find a way to extend that to the West Coast.

The Hornets bested North Da-kota in the field — making 45.5 percent of their attempts while UND struggled to score, shooting just 37.3 percent. Sac State also net-ted 50 percent of its three-point at-tempts while the Green and White shot just 36 percent from behind the arc.

Junior guard Troy Huff was a bright spot in an otherwise dismal evening. Huff had 24 points on the night while junior guard Aaron An-derson contributed 14 points to the effort. In the sluggish offensive per-formance, no other North Dakota players reached double figures. Huff also led UND in rebounds after

pulling nine down off of the boards while senior center Mitch Wilmer contributed five. Junior guard Jamal Webb had three steals and dished out three assists in UND’s fizzled of-fensive attack.

Weekend barn-burnerNorth Dakota was able to sal-

vage its voyage to the western reach-es of the Big Sky Conference with a close win over Northern Arizona University thanks in part to a season best performance by Huff.

With just three seconds remain-ing in regulation, Huff had a dra-matic rebound and basket off of a missed jumper by sophomore guard Lenny Antwi that gave UND the lead, with not enough time remain-ing for the Lumberjacks to answer back.

“It was an amazing game,” said Huff on his dramatic end to the game. “We definitely needed this

one for the split on the road, and it was a squeak but we’ll take it any way we can get it.”

Huff had a season high 26 points as he helped the Green and White overcome a major 22-point deficit in the first half. NAU started off the first half too hot for UND to handle as Lumberjack senior Gabe Rogers led his squad to a 34-12 lead in the first 10 minutes of the game before going on to score 35. Showing a lot of heart, North Dakota kicked its of-fensive game into gear for a strong 24-13 run to close out the first half.

That performance carried into the second half as UND outshot the Lumberjacks in the field 63 to 42.9 percent while several UND play-ers turned in big offensive games. Junior guard Josh Schuler had 13 points while Mitch Wilmer added 10, to ensure that UND’s offensive woes wouldn’t carry into the game

from Thursday night at Sacra-mento State.

With the split games, North Dakota saw its record and Big Sky Conference contention remain at the same mark after last week’s results. At 5-5 in the Sky (8-11 overall), UND is seated in fourth place behind Montana (9-0), We-ber State (8-1) and Montana State (5-4) and is just one of four teams at or above the .500 mark in the conference.

Weber State will visit Grand Forks on Jan. 31 for a matchup that will be a must win for UND if it wants to remain a contender in the conference. Opening tip against the Wildcats is slated for 7 p.m., Thursday.

UND loses one, squeaks out anotherRECORD North Dako-ta sits at fourth in the Big Sky after its road trip out west.

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But it wasn’t finished yet. After failing to earn any points Friday night to continue his highly re-garded point streak, Knight’s drive on Saturday paved an opportunity for success.

On a five-on-four advantage, UND kept the puck in its offen-sive zone for the entirety of a St. Cloud penalty — wearing down the Huskies’ defense. North Dakota capitalized on what would become Knight’s 12th goal of the season as he handled the puck at the top of the circle and shot a clean shot past St. Cloud goaltender Ryan Faragher to steal the lead.

With a one-goal deficit separat-ing it from a chance to claim all four points from the series, St. Cloud pushed ahead for a shot at a victory.

A delayed penalty on UND re-sulted in an extra skater for the Hus-kies. Despite several opportunities to touch the puck, North Dakota instead witnessed Hanowski score his second goal of the night, tying the teams once again.

As the clock ran down, the teams were sent to overtime — only to end in a brutal tie.

“Several different feelings,” Hakstol said. “We’re disappointed to come out of the weekend with one point — yet in terms of our team, and our team play and the performance and effort that we put out there tonight — I think we feel good about that. But to come away with one point, it’s hard to feel good about anything.”

Sitting atop the WCHA stand-ings, St. Cloud’s persistence proved to be a difficult adversity for North Dakota to overcome. In the remain-ing weeks, UND will face some of its top opponents in hopes of be-coming a better hockey team.

“The reality of the stretch is we play good teams week in and week out,” Hakstol said. “Our schedule is very difficult. That’s going to make us better. It’s going to stress us, and it’s going to make points harder to come by, but it will make us bet-ter. We became a better team this weekend, but we didn’t walk away with the number of points that we wanted.”

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Twin sister Jocelyne Lamoueux also collected a standout perfor-mance in the form of one goal and three assists, earning her 253 career points and moving within 10 points of the WCHA’s all-time leading point scorer.

However, the team’s focus was still on limiting each opponent’s op-

portunities and constructing strong special teams.

“The power play has been very good here the last couple of weeks and they were the same,” Idal-ski said. “The penalty-kill was also good, I don't know if it was as sharp as last weekend, though, as I think there was times when we were a little bit sloppy. We again, though, are giving them way too many op-portunities. Giving them three five-on-three opportunities is a little bit ridiculous and it needs to be better.”

While St. Cloud was able to capitalize on a few chances, UND’s defensive block on the net put up a solid performance.

Michelle Karvinen and Sam LaShomb also put pucks to the net while multiple others clanked off the pipe to give UND an evident edge in outshooting the Huskies.

But a victory was all that was needed for North Dakota in a tough road battle for crucial points.

“I thought for being on the road, we accomplished what we wanted to do to have a good start and play with the lead,” Idalski said. “We were able to do that tonight and get a tough win on the road.”

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than Thursday’s game. Madi Buck was a big factor for the Green and White, dropping 16 on the Lum-berjacks. Fellow teammates Megan Lauck and Nicole Smart followed Buck — each with 11 points in the contest.

The game started out with UND scoring early and continu-ing to rack up points throughout the game. North Dakota looked to be more confident as they pushed

through to score and keep the pres-sure on the Lumberjacks the whole game. UND went into halftime with a commanding 41-17 lead.

The second half started out slow for UND. Northern Arizona started a comeback with a stron-ger looking second half, but UND kept the lead throughout the rest of the game.

Every player on North Da-kota’s roster that saw playing time registered at least one point. UND ended up taking the game 70-50 along with its third conference win

of the season, moving its record to 3-7 in the Big Sky and 8-11 over-all.

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Thursday at Weber State in Og-den, Utah before they take on Ida-ho State on Saturday in Pocatello, Idaho.

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