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THEDAKOTASTUDENT StuGov candidates appeal away

DSinside Becker: Spring Break in GFpage 5

Polar Plungepage 9

Christianson: course evaluations page 4

Men’s hoops wins on roadpage 13

Seniors say goodbyepage 13

Women sweep Mankatopage 14

UND falls to Eastern Wash.page 14

Roller Derby girlspage 9

Senate takes a stance on Shirvani

LAWSUIT Candidate appeals lead to one ticket taking legal ac-tion against another.

Offi cials attempt alcohol reformCHANGE UND and the city jointly plan to subdue the presence of alcohol in society.

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MAJORITY Senate takes a vote of no confi dence in Chan-cellor Shirvani.

Retired couple rents out movies

FLICKS Retirement has brought about new adventures in business for Grand Forks pair.


A UND student rents a movie from the DVD of ND box in the Memorial Union. Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.

After receiving multiple student requests, three bright red DVD rent-

al machines appeared on campus this past fall semester, thanks to someone who didn’t see retirement as a time to stop working.

The machines are the result of a contract between UND and DVD of ND, a company run by Richard Homstad, who retired last year after 28 years in manufacturing.

The contract, managed by Din-ing Services, is intended to allow stu-

dents to rent DVD’s with the swipe of a credit card without having to leave campus. Machines are located across from Student Involvement in the Memorial Union, on the main fl oor of Wilkerson and in the Com-munity Center in the UND Hous-ing Offi ce. According to Director of Dining Services Orlynn Rosaasen, work on the contract began in Au-gust of 2011 when UND sent out a request for proposal. That’s where Homstad comes in.

“We decided to go into this business as a retirement adventure and it has been very interesting and educational for us,” Jan Homstad, Richard’s wife said. “As in any new business there is a learning curve, but everyone at UND has been very sup-portive.”

Richard Homstad was interest-ed in keeping busy after retirement and had attended a few webinars on DVD rental machines. He decided he would like to start up his own rental business — but only if he could get the machines on campus.

“It’s a large student body and

MOVIES page 7

UND and Grand Forks are looking to make some changes to how residents view and handle al-cohol in the community.

Due to the upward trend in drinking found by UND Health and Wellness, campus and city leaders are now discussing differ-ent reforms in order to help curb binge drinking and educate stu-dents and residents on the harmful

ALCOHOL page 7

APPEALS page 3

SHIRVANI page 2

As the fi nal debate for student body president and vice president began with opening statements, two chairs sat empty and a post went up on the “Dorner and Bahl for UND Student Body President and Vice President” Facebook page.

“Dorner / Bahl supporters: In light of recent events, Landon and I will NOT be participating in to-day's debate,” the post read. “We believe the debates have become ineffective in benefi ting our cam-paign. Please go and ask questions of the other tickets and feel free to ask us anything in person if you have questions.”

Presidental candidate Alex Dorner and vice presidental can-didate Landon Bahl sat in the au-dience, but ticket’s absence in the debate is just the tip of an iceberg in the saga that has resulted in multiple appeals and a mounting

lawsuit.BeginningsBacktrack to Feb. 4, the date

a photo of vice presidental candi-date Michael Buhl in high school wearing a University of Minnesota sweatshirt was uploaded to both the Butz-Buhl campaign page and the Dorner-Bahl page with the caption, “Butz and Buhl claim to be Sioux fans…Don’t believe the Buhl!! Vote Dorner&Bahl.”

On Feb. 14, presidential can-didate David Butz and Buhl fi led

the fi rst appeal against Dorner and Bahl’s executive ticket.

“Originally we followed the direction given to us by the elec-tions committee,” Butz said. “And we did so because we didn’t want a spam war on the Internet when it comes to social media.”

In the appeal form fi led with the election’s committee, the ticket stated, “While we understand that this seems like a harmless post on a social media page, however the election code clearly reads that

campaigns will not target one an-other.”

Two days later, two more ap-peals were fi led, this time from the Jen Vetter-Shawn Wagner ticket.

One, fi led against both the Butz-Buhl ticket and the Dorner-Bahl ticket, was in regard to the use of the Fighting Sioux nick-name and logo. In the appeal

Two chairs remain empty at the fi nal Student Government debate Friday when candidates Alex Dorner and Landon Bahl declined to participate.

UND Student Senators joined the North Dakota Student Asso-ciation and several other North Da-kota higher education institutions in a 9-5-1 vote of no confi dence for NDSU Chancellor Hamid Shirvani on Sunday.

“The repercussions of keeping Chancellor Shirvani in his current position will have detrimental ef-fects on this university and other universities in this system,” Sen. Ja-cob Gapp said. “He will effectively destroy the university system in the state of North Dakota.”

UND senior Lonnie Jossart spoke in support of the chancellor.

“If you have a problem with the chancellor, it’s probably a problem you have with the State Board of Higher Education,” Jossart said. “The policies he is speaking for are from the board and Chancellor Shirvani is that tool of implementa-tion.”

President Logan Fletcher said he doesn’t think the chancellor’s new policies are what students, leg-islators and administrators take is-sue with.

“I approve of the policies and I am continually more supportive of the Pathways to Student Success,” Fletcher said. “We don’t have a problem with the message but how that message is communicated.”

When Shirvani started working with the State Board eight months ago, Fletcher said expected he would learn about North Dakota culture and develop a positive re-lationship with the state. Fletcher asked the Senate, “Do we think that the relationships are bad enough that they can’t be recovered?”

The resolution cited situations such as students having misleading interactions with the chancellor and the fi ring and resignation of system employees.

Sen. Emma Meyer questioned the validity of the proof.

“From what I’ve gathered, peo-

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ple don’t like his leadership tactics and I don’t know if after being in offi ce for only seven months how much change he can make,” she said. “He’s got dif-ferent views and I think this is all a lot of hearsay.”

Residence Hall Senators Brett Johnson and Joe Kalka spoke to con-stituents at an Association of Resi-dence Halls meeting.

The members also felt this deci-sion was being made on hearsay; but after receiving more information, “the vote of no confi dence is what they

SHIRVANI FROM PAGE 1 prefer,” Kalka said.

Throughout the process, decision makers have struggled with develop-ing concrete evidence of disrespectful actions by the chancellor but Sen. Ja-cob Gapp attributed this to fear.

“It’s not necessarily hearsay be-cause if they actually come out and say what’s happened they will be fi red — gone,” Gapp said. “There is an en-vironment of fear that is built within the system’s offi ce.”

He noted Shirvani gained the authority to fi re university presidents and doesn’t allow people to bring con-cerns to the State Board without go-ing through the chancellor fi rst.

Sen. Jennifer Vetter, who was the lone abstination said she has wit-nessed some of these situations that senators’ cited.

She once experienced the chan-cellor yelling down the hall from his offi ce at an employee.

“It’s that kind of environment that is very toxic,” Vetter said.

After over an hour of discussion and amendments, the senate took a vote to pass the no-confi dence resolu-tion.

This resolution will be taken to the State Board of Higher Education meeting on Thursday.

Later in their meeting, senators

unanimously voted to support a busi-ness founded by UND Entrepreneur-ship students called Mister Bus.

The bus company offers a week-end bus route from campus and the surrounding area to downtown Grand Forks. The company was approved by the city and now needs departmental support from the university to adver-tise with the UND logo.

“We support them and are allow-ing them to use our logo while we are not a proprietor of the business or involved in the operations of the company either,” Vice President Eric Watne said. “This supports the safety of students by transporting them to

places they actually want to go to.”Watne ensured that the university

is free from any liability due to acci-dents and other situations that could happen on the routes. All liability would be placed on Mister Bus.

“I think it is great to advance safe-ty of students, especially in transpor-tation,” Sen. Joe Kalka said. “Having a relationship with entrepreneurial students is something student govern-ment should get behind.”

Kaitlin Bezdicek is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be

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form fi led, Vetter stated, “In one of the fi rst emails we (all candidates) received from Jacob Gapp, Elections Committee Chair, we were instructed to not use the Fighting Sioux Logo/Nickname during any part of our campaign.”

The second appeal was directed only at the Dorner-Bahl ticket and included two parts. The fi rst was in regard to a post on the Vetter-Wagner campaign Facebook page on Jan 25 from Dorner, which read, “Why would you support a ‘Watch Party’ for a HOME game when student tickets are still available? The REA is two blocks away, student tickets are cheap, and it’s the nicest hockey arena in the world. Don’t you think a “Watch Party” for an AWAY game would make more sense? You aren’t going to UNITE UND by encouraging students not to go to hockey games.” The post came after Vetter commented on a UPC post about a hockey watch party saying “I wish I could be there.”

The appeal characterized the post as “mudslinging,” and, according to Vetter, made the Vetter-Wagner ticket appear “anti-athletic” and the equivalent of writing rude comments on a physical poster hanging on a wall somewhere.

The second complaint brought about in the appeal dealt with Dorner’s Twitter account. In the appeal, Vetter states that Dorner’s account includes multiple nega-tive, attacking tweets aimed at harming the Vetter-Wagner ticket. She references one tweet in particular, which appeared Feb. 12. The tweet from Dorner read, “I’m the best candidate for UND Student Body President because I’m not in Student Government and I’m not part of that clique.”

According to the appeal, candidates were emailed instructions that stated, “Don’t attack other campaigns. Malicious attacks on other campaigns will not be tolerated by the committee.”

In a response letter to the appeals, Dorner began by stating he “didn’t even know of (the elections information sheets) existence and the included rules.”

The letter continues with, “Yes, I did post that on Jen Vetter’s page because she clearly supported something that I felt was a terrible idea and discouraged students from attending a large event on campus.”

As for the complaint regarding his Twit-ter account, Dorner said he does not think he was in the wrong.

“I believe my personal Twitter is allowed to have my own thoughts,” Dorner said in the response letter. “I’ve never directly called out Jen Vetter. … My tweet simply says I am the best because I am different. It doesn’t say that the Student Government clique is a bad group of people or anything along those lines.”

ProcessOnce an appeal has been fi led, which

must occur within two days of the incident according to the Code of Student Govern-ment Elections, a process must be followed in seeking some sort of resolution.

“I understand that (the election process) is diffi cult,” elections committee advisor Aaron Flynn said. “Candidates are given the code from the minute they sign up, and they have every right to use the tools given to them in the election process.

“It’s a very serious role to be president and vice president.”

According to the code, once an ap-peal has been submitted, the accused ticket is informed of the appeal and a hearing is scheduled for the next regular committee meeting, unless the issue is time sensitive. At the meeting, both the complainant and the accused have an opportunity to plead their case and provide the committee with evidence. After hearing both sides, the elec-tion committee deliberates and renders an

appropriate sanction before notifying each party of the outcome.

On Feb. 21, the elections committee met to discuss the appeals.

Of the four initial complaints — the photo of Buhl in a Minnesota sweatshirt, use of the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo, and the two complaints regarding social media usage — brought against the Dorner-Bahl ticket, only one — the com-plaint lodged by the Butz-Buhl ticket — was deemed valid.

The Dorner-Bahl ticket was found to have committed a minor offense. Butz and Buhl tried to rescind their complaint during the committee hearing. The fi nal ruling of the appeal was that the post should be “re-moved from any place where it may be post-ed,” according to an email with the appeal results sent to Dorner and Bahl from Gapp.

“We tried to rescind it because we re-alized it wasn’t really that big of a deal and (Dorner and Bahl) really had nothing to do with it,” Butz said.

The Butz-Buhl ticket received a minor offense for their use of the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo, while the Dorner-Bahl ticket was given “no fault” on the appeal because they had not received the memo that was sent to the candidates containing information about usage of the Fighting Sioux logo and nickname. The committee cautioned the Dorner-Bahl ticket about nickname usage in the future.

When asked why he thought only one of the four complaints brought against his ticket was found valid, Bahl simply com-mented, “they were honestly terrible ap-peals.”

EndorsementOn Tuesday, the NoDak Nation Face-

book page released an endorsement of the Dorner-Bahl ticket. The paperwork submit-ted to Student Government in an offi cial showing of support. It was signed by No-Dak Nation president Tyler McAllister and two other executive members.

On Thursday, presidential candidate Nick Creamer submitted an appeal. Accord-ing to Creamer, he did so after hearing from multiple individuals who belong to NoDak Nation who did not agree with the endorse-ment and had not been given an opportuni-ty to vote on who the organization’s support would go.

“The Dorner-Bahl campaign has been touting a fraudulent endorsement from the organization ‘NoDak Nation’ by falsely representing the views of this organization’s members,” Creamer wrote in the appeal. “‘NoDak Nation’ has also been promoting the campaign from their Facebook page and Twitter account, falsely implying that its members as a unifi ed body support the Dorner-Bahl campaign...

“The Dorner-Bahl campaign is fraudu-lently speaking on behalf of 3,000 students, ironically stealing their voice while cam-paigning for the honor to be their voice.”

In the appeal, Creamer states the No-Dak Nation endorsement for Dorner and Bahl violates an article of the Code of Stu-dent Government Elections, which prohib-its “attempting to infl uence the outcome of the election by means of harassment, in-timidation, bribery or fraud,” and a section of the same article which forbids “attempt-ing to mislead or obstruct the Committee,

Committee chair, appeals board or judicial branch in the performance of their duties.”

Both of the offenses are categorized as “egregious offenses” in the Code of Student Government Elections, which are punish-able by a fi ne of no less that $100, restitution and or any non-monetary penalty deemed appropriate including possible candidate or ticket disqualifi cation.”

“NoDak Nation has 3,000 members,” Vetter said, who agrees with Creamer on the appeal. “They are such a large group and they didn’t meet and vote on endorsing (Dorner and Bahl) — three members did.”

In a response letter to the appeal re-garding the NoDak Nation endorsement the Dorner-Bahl campaign said, “We were not privy to the discussions and decision-making process regarding NoDak Nation’s endorsement of our campaign.”

“In receiving the endorsement, we rea-sonably relied on the information that the endorsement came through the proper avenues and channels for such an endorse-ment,” Dorner and Bahl said in the re-sponse. “We did not receive any evidence or inklings that the endorsement could have possibly been faulty (although we as a cam-paign, do not believe it is.) We appreciate the endorsement and believe that it is valid … Therefore, since we reasonably relied on the information presented to us from No-Dak Nation, there is clearly no intent to commit fraud or mislead anyone.”

According to NoDak Nation president Tyler McAllister, the decision to endorse the Dorner-Bahl ticket was made by the organi-zation’s executive members and a leadership team within the group, adding that the same kind of system exists in many other organi-zations as well.

McAllister said he did not see his friend-ship with the candidates as a confl ict of in-terest.

“People use their resources to their ad-vantage,” McAllister said. “I think we’re beating a dead horse with the whole No-Dak Nation thing … They can get nitpicky about all this shit, and we’ll keep going with them.”

Second waveThursday night, after the second presi-

dential debate, four more appeals were fi led by the Vetter-Wagner campaign.

One appeal was in regard to a meet-ing at the Nursing Student Association on Wednesday. In the appeal, fi led by Vetter, Bahl is accused of identifying himself as a member of Student Senate.

“Landon is not and never has been on Student Senate,” the appeal reads. “This blatant lie makes him out to be more in-volved and experienced in student govern-ment than he is.”

In a response to the appeal, the Dorner-Bahl ticket characterizes the claim as “he said, she said” and request additional sup-port for Vetter’s claim.

“Landon believes he never said that and we have certainly not been trying to stretch our association with student government to strengthen our campaign by any means,” the Dorner-Bahl ticket said in the response. “Landon has been saying that he has sat in

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APPEALS FROM PAGE 1

NoDak Nation has 3,000 members. � ey are such a large group and they didn’t meet and vote on endorsing

(Dorner and Bahl) — three members did.Jen Vetter

presidential candidate

Feb. 4A photo of Michael Buhl in a Min-

nesota sweatshirt is posted on the Butz-Buhl Facebook.

Feb. 14First appeal is fi led against execu-tive ticket candidates Alex Dorner

and Landon Bahl by David Butz and Landon Buhl.

Feb. 16The Vetter-Wagner ticket fi les two appeals, one against Dorner-Bahl

and Butz-Buhl for use of the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo, one against

Dorner-Bahl for a Facebook post.

Feb. 21The fi rst appeals hearing took place. Dorner and Bahl were found at fault

for uploading the photo of Buhl. Butz and Bulh were found at fault for use of the Fighting Sioux nick-

name and logo.

Feb. 26

Feb. 25Candidates met with the Nursing

Student Association. It is at this meeting that Vetter alledges Bahl identifi ed himself as a member of

Student Senate.

Feb. 28The second candidate forum was

held in the Wilkerson Dining Center. Presidential candidate Nick Creamer fi led an appeal against Dorner-Bahl for the NoDak Nation endorsement.

The Vetter-Wagner ticket fi led four appeals against the Dorner-Bahl

campaign. One for the Nursing Stu-dent Association meeting, one for a

comment made during the evening’s debate and two for Twitter usage.

The fi rst candidate forum was held in the Memorial Union Loading Dock.

NoDak Nation endorsed the Dorner-Bahl ticket on social media.

March 1Dorner and Bahl speak with legal

counsel regarding a defamation of character suit they plan to fi le against

Vetter and Wagner. The fi nal candi-date forum is held in the River Valley

room of the Memorial Union; the Dorner-Bahl ticket watches from the audience, opting not to participate.

March 4The second appeals hearing is held.

March 6Election Day.

COMMENTARY DSVIEWDrinking

RESPONSIBILITY Learning how to con-sume alcohol safely is an important part of the transition to college.

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Popping the evaluation bubble

By the time a student graduates from UND, he or she will more than likely have filled in thousands of tiny bubbles to answer various test ques-tions. The time taken to fill in all of those bubbles will total several days and often represents a college stu-dent’s entire academic career. Of those many thousands of bubbles, a sizeable percentage will be made up of course evaluation sheets.

Course evaluation sheets are an-noying. Not just because every course prompts students to fill them out; they are irritating because of their useless-ness in providing adequate feedback to professors and the lack of results produced from each evaluation.

Not every department or course conducts business the same way, so why should there be a one-size-fits-all evaluation form? The form that is currently used is not totally worthless, but it is not tailored to provide the feedback that students of varying de-partments want to express or that will result in noticeable change.

There really should be different evaluation forms designed to accu-rately represent each department. A course evaluation for a music class is going to contain different informa-tion than an evaluation for an engi-neering class. Would Psychology 111 have exactly the same evaluation crite-ria as statistics?

Obviously, the extraordinarily general questions asked on the stan-dard evaluation form can apply to most classes. However, I feel that the

questions are often too general. A ma-jority of dissatisfactory replies tell the professor something is wrong, but not specifically where the problem lies. True, there is a spot on the back to answer the question “What practical changes to the course could you sug-gest?” But that is only a small para-graph and leaves much to be desired.

Often, if I am dissatisfied with a course, the writing portion on the back is not adequate to provide use-ful feedback to the professor. I would rather see a scale from one to 10,

which rates overall satisfaction with the course/professor and the remain-ing portion of the sheet left as open space to write comments and provide suggestions.

How often do students simply fill out same answer for each bubble question and leave within 30 seconds of receiving the form? Maybe, if the questions were not all generic, stu-dents would put more thought into their responses.

The time taken to fill out the standard bubble questions is wasted.

Instead, let the students get straight to the point with their griev-ances and responses, and then let them get on with their day. The modi-fied form I’ve proposed would provide much more specific information to

professors in regard to how they can better connect with students than see-ing bubbles that answer generic ques-tions with no explanation of why the student filled in the chosen answer.

Many students do not bother filling out the evaluation forms. In-stead they rely on websites like rate-myprofessors.com or word of mouth to determine who they want to take classes from. The evaluation forms are mainly for professors, not students. Once those bubble sheets are handed in, the results seldom see the light of day. Websites like ratemyprofessors.com provide real time feedback from students, which can then be shared with other students around the world at the touch of a few keys. The evalu-ation forms are only used after a stu-dent has completed a course and are of little use to students prior to taking said class.

What was done manually in the past is now done electronically. I be-lieve course evaluation forms should follow the trend. Thousands upon thousands of evaluation forms are filled out each semester. That is a lot of paper and, for a campus that is try-ing to “go green,” UND still uses an enormous amount of resources on re-cording and tabulating course evalua-tions. Completing course evaluations online would make it much easier to work with results, no paper would be used and students could fill out evalu-ation forms remotely.

Would they actually complete them? It would depend on the person; however, how many students cur-rently choose to not fill out the cur-rent form?

The current course evaluation form works. Does it work as well as it could? No. With some minor changes the required forms could be much more useful to both professors and students.

Adam Christianson is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at adam.christianson

@my.und.edu

ADAM ChRISTIANSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

FORMS Course responses don’t give students or professors valu-able informa-tion.

Instead, let students get

straight to the point with their

grievances and responses, and then let them get on with

their day.

Adam Christiansonstaff writer

At the end of each semester, students are asked to fill out a course evaluation for each class they are enrolled in. The evaluation includes general questions which require a bubble to be filled in indicating to what degree one agrees with the statement. There is also space provided fore students to write additional comments. Photo courtesy of divorceny.com.

College is a place to learn. Not just a place to learn how to write a paper in less than four hours, but how to be a responsible individual.

Coming to college, students are forced through a transition almost as brutal as the transition from middle school to high school. They are plucked from the sheltered environment of enclosed hall-ways and protective teachers and dropped down in the open-aired quad where they must, for the most part, fend for themselves. Freshman college stu-dents might not have the scrawny bodies and acne-ridden faces as their high school counterparts, but they are just as confused.

Somewhere during this transition, there is also a shift in the way alcohol is addressed. At some point in the high school-college transition, the taboo is lifted on alcohol consumption. While in high school the message delivered is simply, “don’t drink,” college students are told it is up to them to drink responsibly.

That message is being lost in translation.In the middle of unpacking their suitcases, fig-

uring out where Witmer hall is and learning the importance of always carrying their UCard, stu-dents forget to figure out just how to drink with the same amount of maturity they are expected to show in other aspects of their life.

This has to change.Whether you’re drinking legally or not, drink

smart. It is up to each individual to learn how much they can personally handle without having to get carried home in the early hours of the morn-ing.

Thursday, a group from UND met with the Grand Forks City Council Service/Safety Commit-tee to discuss measures intended to lessen binge drinking in the area, including capping drink spe-cials.

While we understand the motivation behind these measures, the editorial board does not think that measures without education will bring about a reduced binge-drinking rate. Even if bars make it harder to get drunk for the sake of getting drunk, students can still binge drink on their own. Except when on their own, students are more likely to be unable to find help should a problem arise.

What would be more effective than regulating businesses is putting time and effort into different informative campaigns and actually talking with students — not just at them — about drinking in a responsible way.

If we want to change the way students approach drinking, then we have to change the way we ap-proach the subject.

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Yes, Virginia, there are quiet hours.

However, they might as well be called yell, blast your mu-sic and be obnoxious as all get down hours, because frankly, that would be more accurate.

Fellow dorm dwellers, I am a lowly freshman. I grew up in a household where the loudest thing after midnight was our cats occasionally coughing up a hairball in some remote corner of the house or the wind rus-tling the tree branches outside my window. So coming into the loud culture of what one could only call a dorm with a bustling nightlife, has been quite a cul-ture shock.

One of the first things our hall did after moving in was dis-cuss the quiet hours that would be put in place each night. The verdict? Shut your traps at 11 p.m. on weeknights and 1 a.m. on weekends.

Well, I slink home from work every night except Mon-day after 11 p.m. Upon opening the door to my floor, I have been greeted with pumping jams of, what I can only assume was a Call of Duty tournament with movie-theater quality surround sound and some of the loud-est, highest-pitched arguments about who’s dating who I have ever been unfortunate enough to encounter.

I have lain awake at 2 a.m., listening to the girl next door have a very good time with a gen-tleman friend, despite the vibrant pink earplugs I had jammed into my ears.

And, because of the close proximity of my room to the stairs, I have heard more than one slightly intoxicated individ-ual clatter noisily down a flight or two in the wee hours of the morning.

At the rate things are going, it’s almost a better, more peace-

ful sleeping environment during the day.

I don’t want to come off as a scrooge. I’m not. In fact, I would say I’m generally a fun-loving person. Except for when I’m a sleep-deprived demon from the underworld. That’s when stuff get’s real.

I’m not saying the good times have to end when quiet hours begin. I’m not even saying the good times have to go down a few decibels in volume. I am saying

the good times have to be some-where other than across the hall from me when I have two mid-terms and a speech the next day.

I understand for some that living in the dorms is the equiv-alent of having a sleepover with your besties every night of the school year. But for us crazy in-dividuals, living in the dorms is simply living in the dorms.

In case I haven’t made my-self clear, when quiet hours come around, it’s time to lower your collective voices to a dull roar. Or at least quiet down enough so the folks down at NDSU can’t listen to your latest playlist.

No, my fellow residence hall members, it is not cute to pound on my door whenever you get back from your last party of the evening.

It is not original to jostle noisily with your friends while making your way up the stairs.

And ladies, I guarantee, you’ll be a lot more successful at sorting out your men, cloth-ing and rumor problems with a solid night of sleep under your belt and preferably a more pri-vate location than a communal hallway. May I suggest a sound-proofed room?

So when 11 p.m. rolls around, put in your headphones, turn the volume on your video game down to a level that isn’t causing permanent damage to your eardrums and tell your pals you’d be happy to continue this disagreement in the morning because it’s quiet hours. And that’s just how it goes.

LOUD Late- night ruckus makes get-ting some shuteye hard.


Carrie Sandstrom is the manag-ing/opinion editor of

The Dakota Student. She can be reached at carrie.sandstrom

@my.und.edu

Quite some quiet hours

Spring break 2013 is upon us. Some of you will venture off to some warm locale, get a nice tan and enjoy a break from Grand Forks. Others will remain here.

These poor souls need to be in our thoughts.

Entertainment is hard to come by in Grand Forks. Outside of drinking, going to the movies, at-tending sporting events and the oc-casional concert, there isn’t much to do.

Spring break may be the worst time to be in Grand Forks as a stu-dent. It’s a ghost town — just like in the summer except without the warm summer weather.

If you’re stuck here over break, don’t worry. I’ve come up with a few ideas on how to improve your spring break experience — GF style. Also, I’ve included some tips on how to make your friends who are off sitting on a warm beach with a cold beer in hand jealous.

As always, follow my advice and you won’t be disappointed (not guaranteed.)

Stage a partyEven though a large portion of

the student population will have bolted, there are always a few who stay back. These are the people you need to get in touch with. Make a Craigslist ad pronto to get the word out that you’re throwing a fake party.

You want to keep this hush-hush so none of your friends find out you staged a party. That would be almost as embarrassing as having a fake online girlfriend — cough — Manti Te’o.

Hopefully, you can round up a gang of people. Once you’ve got at least 10 people, go to a place and fake rock out. Grab empty beer bot-tles out of the dumpster and throw them all over your place. You could also get a couple empty pizza boxes out of the dumpster too to add to the scene.

Now that you have the décor of the party down, take staged photos in which you pretend like you’re having a blast. Get photos of people “passed out” to show what a kick ass time you had; then load them to Facebook the next day.

Another option would be to have an actual party. That seems incredibly easier and more fun. Plus, these are people you met off Craigslist — what could possibly go wrong?

Go to the Red Pepper — everyday

Sure, Las Vegas or Miami Beach would be nice, but you know what those two don’t have? The Red Pep-per — the only thing people miss about Grand Forks when they’re gone.

This is where you will find peace and serenity over break. When you’re bored, go to the Pepper. When you’re lonely, go to the Pepper. And of course, when you’re hungry, go to the Pepper.

By going to the Red Pepper multiple times every day, you will become increasing disgusted by it as the week progresses. But just know while you’re on your 20th grinder of the week — choking it down be-cause you can’t handle the taste any-more — someone hundreds of miles away is unable to fulfill their Pepper craving. You will have won.

Go outJust because you’re in Grand

Forks doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. Head out for a night on the town. Stop by Joe Black’s and enjoy being able to hear yourself having a conversation while not having to worry about getting elbowed in the face every five seconds.

Go to Gilly’s or Level 10 and embrace the less crowded, possibly even empty, dance floor. This will be a great chance for you to perfect the Harlem Shake or come up with some new dance moves. In the de-serted bar, you won’t feel nearly as insecure.

The dance floor will be all yours

and, even if it isn’t, you aren’t going to know anyone anyway because all your friends will be in Cancun tak-ing shots of tequila off of each other.

Hey, you just might make some new friends too who will include you in their spring break plans next year — although, probably not.

What you’ll actually do over break

We all know you’re going to sit inside your house or apartment if you stay in Grand Forks over break. You’re already looking forward to not showering for a week and only leaving home to go to work and eat.

Your day is going to consist of Facebook, Twitter and Netflix. Fri-day night will roll around and you’ll consider getting off the couch, tak-ing a shower and going out and do-ing something, only to click play on another episode of whatever you’re watching.

Then you’ll say to yourself, “Eh, I’ll do something tomorrow.” But you won’t because that would re-quire getting ready and too much effort.

How do I know this? Because I’ve spent a spring break in Grand Forks.

Making your spring break grand in GFFORKED Stu-dents stuck in town for break have a few options.

BRANDON BECKERTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brandon.becker2

@my.und.edu

Just because you’re in Grand Forks

doesn’t mean you can’t have fun.

Brandon Beckerstaff writer

Surviving the slumpTIRED Gar-nering end-of-year mo-tivation can be tough.

SAM GASPARDOTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Sam Gaspardo is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at samantha.gaspardo

@my.und.edu

Spring is slowly creeping on to campus — the weather is get-ting warmer, snow is melting and spring break is right around the corner. But an increase in tem-perature can lead to a decrease in student motivation.

Like most students, after spring break I have a tendency to get spring fever and stop tracking my grades and start tracking days until classes are done. I tend to lose most of my motivation to do anything school-related because all I can think about is enjoying some summer weather after being stuck inside or freezing most of the year.

Sadly, there is no cure for lack of motivation, however there are

many things a student can do to try and boost their drive.

One way to improve moti-vation is by rewarding oneself. It may sound silly, but it works. One thing that I do to get moti-vated is by telling myself if I get so much done I can have a TV break, or if I study hard enough — and it shows — I can treat myself to something for getting a good grade. Even something as simple as setting a dollar equiva-lent for time spent studying can work. In the end, you can decide on a reward for reaching a certain amount.

Another way to find motiva-tion is by studying with a friend. You can keep each other in check and help study by quizzing each other or helping each other with homework. Studying with a friend makes hitting the books fell a little less painful and it can even end up being fun.

Since most students want to get outside when the weather is nice, why not bring your books with you? Lying outside on a blan-ket or relaxing in lawn chair lets you enjoy the nice weather while

getting some studying done. Plus, you have the perks of taking in the warm sun and boosting your energy by soaking in the vitamin D!

In the midst of trying to mo-tivate yourself to keep going until the end of the school year, it is important to remember that it is also OK to have fun. In order to break up study time, go out with friends and do something you enjoy. By taking a break you’ll be able to come back to what you were working on with a fresh per-spective.

As the year winds down, don’t let yourself wind down too. Just because the weather is nicer doesn’t mean professors are done teaching. As we all know, the clos-er to the end of the year it gets, the more work professors like to pile on.

Don’t get burned by grades at the end of the year; stay motivat-ed and you’ll be able to enjoy the sun when summer rolls around.

I have lain awake at 2 a.m., listen-

ing to the girl next door have a very good time with a

gentleman friend, despite the vibrant

pink earplugs I had jammed into

my ears.Carrie Sandstrom

managing/opinion editor

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MARY OCHSTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Mary Ochs is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be


I can’t help but notice the alarming number of college-age in-dividuals who don’t know how to cook. It is slightly disheartening. Everyone should be knowledgeable about cooking — at least about the basics.

I grew up in a household that made almost everything from scratch — I know my way around a kitchen. My family ate a home-cooked meal together just about every night. On the rare occasions we went out to eat, it was never to a fast food chain. A take-and-bake pizza or a family-owned Mexican

restaurant were our go-to outings for something different. Because of this, I guess I never understood why some people my age are inex-perienced with cooking or baking.

For me, cooking is enjoyable. I am defi nitely a fan of spending a day home alone, turning on some tunes and making dinner. When I’m home for winter break, I bake dozens of cookies, breads and pas-tries for the holidays. Baking is just something that everyone in my family has come to enjoy.

Living in the dorms, I don’t exactly have many options as far as food is concerned. Basically, I’m at the mercy of whatever happens to be served at the dining centers on a particular night. It’s truly a shame.

I know I’m not the only one who gets sick and tired of Wilker-son food. I would love it if I had space and time to be in my own kitchen and make a meal for my friends and I.

When the subject of food comes up, I rarely hear people talk about what they like to make. Ob-

viously everyone knows what he/she likes to eat, but making some-thing is entirely different.

It baffl es me that some are still clueless on how to cook noodles or brown hamburger. At this point in our lives, we should be able to do more in the kitchen than simply make Ramen or heat up Easy Mac. Because let’s be honest, those really aren’t true foods.

Although it’s convenient to have a dining center close by, I still can’t help but long for my own kitchen. I plan to move off campus next year to an apartment where my friends and I can bake whatever we want.

It’s a mystery to me how some people are perfectly content with not knowing how to cook. Some people are just fi ne with eating fast food on a regular basis or popping open a bag of chips. Don’t get me wrong, these things can be nice for a party or a quick food stop with friends — but for every meal? Don’t you crave a good hotdish or pot roast?

For me, it is much more re-warding to spend a little more time cooking so I can actually enjoy my food. I’d rather put in the quality time to get the quality food.

It’s basic things like boiling wa-ter and seasoning meat that are im-portant to know. It may not have dawned on many people that these are basic skills for living somewhere without a dining center. Without even the basic skills, how do you plan on making meals in the future? Surely you can’t plan on eating out every night or buying TV dinners. Personally, I think that is both dis-gusting and a waste of money.

The quality of food is impor-tant to me, but I think the method of preparation is even more impor-tant. When you spend time with your family or friends making food, it creates a lot of memories. I re-member days making cookies with my grandma — especially licking the spoon — as some of my great-est childhood memories. My sisters and I spent a lot of time growing up in the kitchen. Now, when we come home from school, we always fi nd new recipes on Pinterest we are anxious to try out. I can’t imagine my family being any other way.

I understand that not all fami-lies are like mine. I’m aware that

some families never had time for a sit-down dinner. That is disap-pointing to me. Dinners together are what bring the family closer.

I hope more people my age gain the desire to learn how to cook. It is a skill that can never go to waste. If you are one who hasn’t had a life of homemade foods, then that is a shame. I’ve always loved dinners with my family. There has even been an occasional food fi ght — much to my mother’s dismay.

But in all seriousness, I fi nd it saddening so many people my age today are unable to cook. Not only does it give you great food and use-ful skills; it’s a form of bonding.

TVs, computers, cell phones and so many other things have gotten in the way of direct com-munication. Cooking and eating meals together are just one example of what heals that loss of commu-nication. Obviously technology is great, but there comes a point when it overtakes our lives and we become, too, absorbed in it.

Maybe this is something to discuss over your next family din-ner…

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MOVIES FROM PAGE 1

ALCOHOL FROM PAGE 1

Carrie Sandstrom is the managing/opinion editor of


@my.und.edu

Jordan Rodgers is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be


I figured they were the ones who would like to be renting movies,” Homstad said.

Now, the machines have been up and operational for almost eight months. Homstad tries to update the machines weekly, but it all de-pends on what new releases come out.

“I try to get the latest releases of each week, as long as there is a de-

cent volume of sales,” Homstad said. Out of the three machines, the

one located in the community cen-ter is stocked with a few more kid friendly movies to cater to the fami-lies in the area.

Renting DVDs via Homstad’s machines requires only a credit card and the ability to follow on-screen instructions, much like the popular RedBox machines, although Hom-stad emphasized that DVD for ND is not affiliated with the RedBox franchise.

Daily DVD rental is $2 plus tax

and daily Blu-Ray rental is $2.50. According to Homstad, 75 to 100 movies are rented from each ma-chine each month. Once the user has finished watching the movie,

they can return it to the same box from which they got it.

Homstad and his wife work to-gether on the project, with Homstad physically stocking the boxes and his wife, Jan helping update the kiosk information to reflect changes in DVD selection.

“I have to be on the ball with (my wife),” Homstad said. “Because if I don’t get something done, I have to hear about it.”

Although Dining Services is in charge of the contract, its involve-ment with the machines is only as

a liaison between the students and the company, should the need arise. Refunds and machine maintenance are done through Homstad and his wife, with Homstad noting that when one rents a movie, they can enter their email in the kiosk to note any dissatisfaction, request a specific title or genre or to leave other com-ments.

effects of alcohol consumption.According to Health and Wellness Promotional Director Jane Croeker, the reforms are not a way to stop drinking all together but rather a way to promote healthy understanding of the consequences of alcohol.

University and city officials gath-ered Tuesday night for the second of three public forums centered around alcohol reform in Grand Forks. The forums have also served as a way for students, faculty and residents of the community to hear the ideas each party has to offer.

An issue frequently brought up in reform discussion is that there is little offered in terms of entertain-ment for young people below the age

of 21. “They want fun things to do

that don’t involve drinking,” Croeker said.

Although UND offers UPC Af-ter Dark, it does not happen every Friday and Saturday as did Nightlife. The funding for Nightlife was given to the University Program Council who then created UPC After Dark. The events put on at UPC After Dark are alcohol-free.

Conversations about potential reforms were originally founded in academic concerns at UND because of the impact alcohol has on student success.

Studies have found that “one in five students have had alcohol impact their success,” according to Croeker.

UND is now requiring freshmen to go through an online alcohol edu-cation course. The course is intended

to teach students “to use, not abuse” alcohol.

City reformAt the city level, the reforms are

looking to limit the number of events centered around alcohol, such as the annual Springfest, various happy hour specials at local restaurants and bars in addition to the numer-ous nightly drink specials that can be found around town.

“Drink specials facilitate over consumption,” said Croeker; and as of right now, North Dakota ranks No. 1 in binge drinking according to the 2010 UND Health and Wellness Data Summary Report.

The reforms won’t cut out drink specials completely.

“The city is simply trying to look at the problem, frame it, and focus on the negative consequences of high alcohol use that comes along with binge drinking and underage use,” Croeker said.

The forums have been increasing awareness, but slowly. According to Healthy UND Coordinator Brianna Crawford, only 100 people on cam-pus came together for the reforms.

Currently, non-students who drink underage are given minors in possession and then merely fined and ticketed unlike UND students who

are also required to take an educa-tional alcohol course. The city is at-tempting a reform that would require underage residents facing minor in possession charges to take a similar course.

According to Croeker, reform feedback has been positive but UND Health and Wellness is still looking for students to come out and discuss their opinions and ideas for positive ways for students to have fun without alcohol.

I try to get the latest releases of

each week.

Richard HomstadDVD for ND owner

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CULTURE&MEDIA Tuesday March 5, 2013

Roller derby girls remain on track

From an outside perspective, roller der-bies may seem like just another source of entertainment — women in kneepads and helmets smashing into each other on a race-track. But by taking a closer look at them, one can see why the sport has branched out all over the world, even to places such as North Dakota.

Forx Roller Derby, the league that coordinates roller derby bouts in Grand Forks, was founded in May 2010 by Cheryl Lawson and Kelly Gray, according to their website, forxrollerderby.com. The site also states that the organization “contributes to the community by volunteering at and donating to local charities and fundraisers,” which Madi “Mad the Impaler” Whitman of the Sugar Beaters can attest to.

“We donate to a charity at every bout that we’ve had,” Whitman said. “We pick one for each bout and often have an oppor-tunity for that organization to have a pres-ence there and explain what they’re about.”

While Forx Roller Derby hasn’t chosen a charity for their first home bout June 1, their last bout at the Alerus Center raised $2,070 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Whitman, who hails from Bismarck, says the league is a nonprofit organization, with all money made from events and fundrais-ers going toward charity or back into the league. One expense the league needs to pay for is to use the National Guard Ar-mory in Crookston, Minn. as its practice space.

Building relationshipsTeam members within Forx Roller

Derby must attend a certain amount of practices, and Whitman says practices take place three times a week.

“We do off-skates calisthenics, we do lots of endurance drills, we do lots of drills where we work together and we do a lot of scrimmaging,” she said.

As with most team sports, practices build camaraderie between members of the team, an aspect of the sport that Whit-man, who has participated in Tae Kwon Do and archery in the past, had never experi-enced. She says like many, she has “fallen really hard for the sport,” despite being the youngest member of the team.

“People who have left the league usu-ally don’t necessarily want to,” she said. “There are a lot of bonds there that I haven’t experienced before.

“It’s just a really welcoming commu-nity. It all adds together to create something

that I think is unique.“I owe all my roller derby skill to ev-

eryone in the league. You really have to work with other people in order to be suc-cessful.”

Whitman’s role on the team is jam-mer, the skater who passes members of the opposing team to score points. Her team-mates include blockers, who help the jam-mer through the pack of skaters and pivots, who tell the blockers where to skate.

Although Whitman acknowledged the rules of roller derby are kind of compli-cated, but the learning curve is the same as with other sports.

The first time I saw it I was like, ‘What is going on here?’” she said. “If you were to walk into any sport, you wouldn’t really know what was going on if you’d never seen it before.”

Whitman says that there are “around 20 girls in the league,” but teams can only have a roster of 14 dur-ing a bout. The first bout of the 2013 season is at the Fargo Civic Center, where Forx Roller Derby will square off against the Fargo Banshees, followed by a bout against the Iron Range Maidens in Grand Rapids, Minn.

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Polar Plunge puts people in chilly pond

Participants jump into the pool at Choice Health and Fit-ness Saturday afternoon for the fourth Polar Plunge.

[SERIANNA HENKEL] THEDAKOTASTUDENT

OLYMPICS Annual fun-draiser attracts teams of donators to get wet for a cause.

For most people, the thought of jumping into a freezing pool of water does not sound pleas-

JAYE MILLSPAUGHTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

ant, but others are actually “freezin’ for a reason.”

Grand Forks hosted its fifth annual Polar Plunge at Choice Health and Fitness Center Sat-urday as a fundraiser for North Dakota’s Special Olympics chap-ter.

According to the chapter’s website, anyone who raises at least $75 for the Special Olym-pics is awarded the chance to jump in the freezing cold pool at any of the five Polar Plunge events scheduled throughout North Dakota, but the individ-ual at each event who raises the most money will receive a free iPad mini.

“This is my first time plung-ing and I just wanted to say I did it, plus the Special Olympics is such a great organization,” Po-lar Plunge participant Farrah Thoreson said.

The plunge itself took place

outside and the pool had a tem-perature of exactly 32 degrees. Some of the event’s volunteers had to scrape ice off the water’s surface before the pool could be used.

This year's Polar Plunge at-tracted a large and diverse au-dience with people of all ages, races and mental capabilities. A few of the plungers even wore costumes, including Thoreson, who dressed as Princess Peach as a member of “Team Mario Kart.”

Polar Plunge fundraisers happen all over the U.S. but Grand Forks’ first Polar Plunge took place in 2009 after UND’s chapter of Students Today, Lead-ers Forever decided to organize the event, according to North Dakota Special Olympics Presi-dent and CEO Kathy Meagher.

“Although STLF no longer does anything with the event PLUNGE page 11

other than sending volunteers to work at it, if it weren’t for STLF, we probably wouldn't have a Po-lar Plunge,” Meagher said.

North Dakota’s law enforce-ment was also a big contributor. While law enforcement agencies all over the country contribute to their respective Special Olym-pics chapters, Border Patrol of-ficer Michael Peterson has a personal connection to the cause since his son has an intellectual disability.

Peterson’s son is eight years old, which is the minimum age that kids are allowed to compete in the Special Olympics. His fa-vorite sport is bowling.

Connections like these are what attract many of the vol-unteers to the cause, and Grand Forks’ Polar Plunge had a large amount of volunteers running

Photos courtesy of Chester Beltowski

Forx Roller Derby season begins next month with same ferocity and passion as it’s had in previous years

Story by Cole Britton

Tuesday March 5, 201310|

APPEALS FROM PAGE 3on student senate meetings in the past. Why would he say something like that in front of a student sena-tor who would obviously know that is false and wouldn’t hesitate to file an appeal?”

Another appeal was filed by the Vetter-Wagner campaign after a com-ment made by Dorner during Thurs-day’s debate. “In tonight’s candidate forum, Alex Dorner said, ‘I was just wondering if you did anything other than Student Government and filing appeals against our campaign,’” Vetter wrote in the appeal. “This comment was absolutely inappropriate. This is slander.”

According to the Code of Stu-

dent Government Elections, slander is defined as the “act of making a defamatory assertion expressed in a transitory form, especially speech.” Slander is classified as a serious of-fense, which can be punished by a fine of no less than $50, restitution and or any non-monetary penalty deemed appropriate.

“My comment may have been too opinionated, but not inappropri-ate,” Dorner said in a response letter. “Also, inappropriate and slander are not synonyms as she suggests in her appeal. I was, and still am, genuinely curious as to if she does much else.”

The final two appeals both re-lated to the Dorner-Bahl ticket’s Twit-ter usage. Only one appeal focuses on an actual tweet coming from Dorner, which was retweeted by the Dorner-Bahl campaign account.

“On Tuesday, Alex Dorner (@Dornskeet) tweeted, ‘Tonight a member of UND Student Gov tried to disqualify me in front of every-one during a debate and got burned #WorryAboutYourCampaignPlz,’” Vetter wrote in the appeal.

In a response letter to the ap-peal, Dorner argued that Vetter was misconstruing his usage of the word “disqualify.”

“The word ‘disqualify’ was being used in the sense that she was trying to make out to everyone at the debate that I am not qualified to be Student Body President because I don’t have as much experience as her,” Dorner said in the response. “It was not that she was trying to get me kicked out of the debate or the race for that matter. Ev-eryone who went to the debate knows that is what I meant.”

The second Twitter-related ap-peal submitted on Thursday came after the Dorner-Bahl campaign Twitter account “favorited” a tweet from McAllister which said, “@UNITE_UND hates @UNDsports. They just said so in the debate. Vote @DornerBahl4UND to help cheer on our teams! #GOUND.”

“It is not against any rules to sim-ply ‘favorite’ a tweet,” Dorner said in a response letter.

In both circumstances, Vetter ac-cuses the Dorner-Bahl campaign of libel, which is defined in the Code of Student Government Elections as “the act of making a defamatory state-ment expressed in a fixed medium.” Under the code, libel is classified as a serious offense.

If the Dorner-Bahl campaign is found guilty of all three serious of-

fenses that have been brought against them, they will be charged with an egregious offense.

The appeals hearing for the five appeals submitted on Thursday was Monday morning.

ReactionsFlash forward to Friday after the

debate during which Dorner and Bahl sat in the audience in black suits with green ties. Their chairs and mi-crophones in the front of the room sat empty throughout the forum.

“Landon and I thought our par-ticipation in the debate would lead to more appeals,” Dorner said.

Friday morning, Dorner and Bahl spoke with legal counsel.

“The volume of appeals coming from the Jen and Shawn campaign has become so negative that we feel they are harassing us and abusing the appeals process setup by the Elections Committee,” Dorner and Bahl wrote in a letter to the elections committee. “We are currently seeking legal coun-sel in filing Defamation of Character charges against Jen Vetter and Shawn Wagner; who have been notified. We are taking their harassment of our campaign very seriously.”

When asked about the volume of appeals filed, Vetter explained that her ticket writes them as the incidents occur.

“No one goes into an election planning on having this level of it be-ing personally involved,” Vetter said. “What we have realized is it comes to a point where if we asked them to stop, they wouldn’t.

“We’re really not looking for punitive punishment. We just really would like them to stop attacking us.”

Coverage of the appeals hearing Monday will follow in Friday’s issue. Deadline for this article was Sunday evening.

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gher said. “It gives Joey a chance to also talk to their mom about basketball.”

The North Dakota Special Olympics chapter is currently in basketball season. It runs until March 14, when the state cham-pionship tournament in Minot will begin. After that, the sports of the season will be track and field, swimming, gymnastics and power lifting.

Another popular Special Olympics event is downhill ski-ing, a sport in which Grand Forks has produced a world champion.

Tommy Mikkelson, 22, North Dakota’s Special Olympics Athlete of the Year, won a gold medal at the 2013 World Winter Games, which took place in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Despite the 19-hour

airplane ride, he had a great time competing.

“It was pretty exciting and I got to meet new friends. My fa-vorite part was coming home after winning,” Mikkelson said. “It’s a really good organization and thanks to everyone who helps out.”

Mikkelson also loves to play soccer with his friends and cousins because it's a sport that everyone can play, with or without mental disabilities.

Last year’s Special Olympics state championship soccer tourna-ment took place in Grand Forks in September and received lots of help from volunteers, according to Meagher. Approximately 70 per-cent of the volunteers were UND students and faculty.

“It’s just a very uplifting at-mosphere and everyone is so ap-preciative of the volunteers,” Mea-gher said.

the event.“I’ve been volunteering for

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“One example is if, say, John-ny is able to call his mom and ex-citedly tell her about stuff he did on his basketball team, his brother Joey who is mentally disabled doesn’t have to feel left out,” Mea-

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Forx’s first home bout against fellow Forx Roller Derby skaters — the Red River Syrens — is ex-pected to draw a modest crowd.

“We tend to have a lot of our bouts at the Fido Purpur Arena,” she said. “The ones we’ve had at the Alerus during the winter, those tend to bring in around 1,000 people, and then the ones in the summer, it’s more like sev-eral hundred.”

People come to events such as these to see what roller derby bouts are like, and skaters like Whitman intend to show them.

“A lot of people hear about roller derby and they’re en-thralled by it because you have a lot of women who have tat-toos or wear fishnets and then they play a sport on roller skates where they hit each other,” she said. “Everything is so outside of the norm that it kind of piques peoples interest and they come and check it out.”

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POINTS UND clinches home-ice in the WCHA playoffs after a three-point weekend.

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On senior night, nothing would have been more fitting than a win for the six UND men’s hockey players who have called Grand Forks their home for the past four years.

But that’s not the way it hap-pened.

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In a week of basketball that saw milestones and high flying play, the North Dakota men’s basketball team picked up two wins over Portland State and Eastern Washington to clinch a berth in the Big Sky Confer-ence tournament.

At Portland Thursday,

HUFF UND junior guard drops 35 as the Green and White cruise past EWU

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North Dakota downed the Vi-kings 74-66 to garner their tenth conference win of the season and then repeated those efforts Saturday afternoon in Cheney, Washington to beat the Eagles 78-74.

With the pair of victories, UND improved to 11-8 in Big Sky play (14-15 overall) and gained further separation while retaining third place in the con-ference standings.

North Dakota picked up big performances — cruising to its 10th conference win on Thurs-day night. Junior guard Aaron Anderson reached the milestone mark of 1,000 career points,

joining the ranks of teammate, junior guard Troy Huff — who reached the mark earlier this sea-son. The duo became the first ever North Dakota teammates to do so in the same season.

Huff paced all scorers Thurs-day night with 18 while Ander-son added 16 of his own to reach 1,000. Junior guard Jamal Webb netted 11 of his own points while freshman Shane Benton added 10.

“This was a total team ef-fort,” UND coach Brian Jones said, “We came out with a pur-pose and did a great job from the start in this one.” Adding to that effort, Webb found his

teammates to tally seven assists on the night while senior Mitch Wilmer had seven rebounds to lead the Green and White to a win.

After the first half, UND was able to net a 28-25 lead while struggling to shoot just 38.5 per-cent from the field. However, that turned around in the sec-ond half as North Dakota came out strong, draining 56 percent of field goals while hitting 42.9 percent of three pointers and 75 percent of free throws.

UND was able to hold off Portland State for a 74-66 win in the second half and knock the Vikings down to a dismal 5-12 WINS page 15

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North Dakota rolls to 3-point weekendSaturday, North Dakota

strayed from Friday night’s 4-2 victory over Bemidji State and skated away with a bitter 2-2 tie. Although one point was all that UND earned for the weekend, it meant much more.

“One point, a great perfor-mance and a high level of pride for our senior class,” UND coach Dave Hakstol said.

The outcome was more than a reflection of the way the teams handled the puck it was about honoring the players who, for the last time in the regular sea-son, emerged from the locker room of a world-class arena to be

greeted by passionate fans.“I thought we played hard

and, in a lot of respects, we ex-ecuted well,” Hakstol said. “The only thing that stings is not be-ing able to get the two points, especially on senior night. But that’s not going to take away from any of the things that come with senior night and our ability to honor those six guys.”

Tight battleThey were determined to

fight for points, but a strong Bemidji State held the Green and White to minimal chances.

“It’s always tough playing against those guys,” senior for-

ward Corban Knight said. “The way they play — they really pack in defensively so it’s always a grind against those guys, and that was definitely the case to-night. It was a hard fought 65 minutes and low scoring hockey and not a lot of chances.”

Trailing 2-1 as the clock ticked down in the third period, UND was unsure if it could make a comeback. When Jordan Schmaltz shot the puck from the slot and ripped it off the post and into the net at 8 minutes and 30 seconds, a spark of mo-mentum triggered both teams to battle for the last goal.

But when the buzzer sent the teams to overtime, neither could execute.

With Friday to lean on for support, the sting of a tie could not be shaken on a night where the entire locker room wanted to see the seniors go out on a high note. With a matchup against Minnesota State Mankato next weekend, North Dakota knows all four points are crucial.

“Obviously Friday was a good win and tonight was pretty emotional with senior night,” Schmaltz said. “Unfortunately,

UND beats Vikings and Eagles on the road(8-17 overall) record on the season.

North Dakota remained strong through Saturday af-ternoon as it rode a huge per-formance from Troy Huff and officially clinched a berth in the 2013 Big Sky Conference tournament.

Huff scored a career high 34 points in the season clinch-er against Eastern Washington and helped UND garner a win-ning record in their inaugural season in the Big Sky.

North Dakota started out hot behind Huff as he pro-

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but we’ve got to go into Manka-to weekend and get four points. That’s the bottom line.”

Crucial pointsWith a clinch on home ice,

North Dakota will still look to improve its current WCHA standing from a 33-point tie for second with Minnesota.

However, with points at a premium and very few of them separating the top contenders, each and every hockey game has become a must-win battle.

“After tonight, I don’t think I know where anyone is right now,” Knight said. “It’s crazy how tight it is right now and it’s definitely really important for us to have a big weekend next weekend and try and solidify the top spot in our league.”

While the race to claim a home ice spot in the WCHA tournament still hung in the air, a rush of emotions about wheth-er or not they were ready to leave the Ralph prompted a definite response in regards to one last time in the building the seniors spent countless hours in.

“I think I’m not ready to be done with this place yet,” Knight said. “I definitely want another weekend.”

One last timeAnd one more it will be. For

one last time, the seniors will play in the Ralph in front of a roaring crowd, in hopes of ulti-mately finishing what couldn’t be finished in their past three years.

The race is tight, but Hakstol sees North Dakota’s place in the standings in a different manner.

“We’re healthy and we’re playing well, and I think we’re hungry to get better,” he said. “I haven’t looked at the standings in a long time and I’m not going to start now.”

But what he does see is the greatness in the six seniors who have served their university.

“I can’t do it justice at this point in time,” Hakstol said. “My thoughts and feelings about this group center around the word ‘pride.’ They’re tremen-dous ambassadors for the Uni-versity of North Dakota, and I can’t think of better ambassadors for our hockey program.”

With his humble personality, an ever-present smile and tears in his eyes, Knight found it dif-ficult to come up with words to describe the feeling of departing a place where so much time was invested and so many memories were made.

“It’s tough to explain,” Knight said. “Putting something into a program for the last four years and it’s coming to an end, so it’s definitely an emotional time for all six seniors — so it’s tough to explain.”

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UND women fall in � nal home gameLOSS North Dakota fails to make a fi nal push against Eastern Washington.

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The UND women’s basketball team played its last regular sea-son home game Saturday against Eastern Washington. Looking to send off its two seniors, Nicole Smart and Carly Rothfusz, with a win, the team fell short — losing to Eastern Washington 67-58 at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center.

Both were team captains and strong leaders for the team. Smart is from Ada, Minn., and is major-ing in visual arts, while Rothfusz, an Eden Prairie, Minn. native is pursuing an elementary educa-tion degree. Both were honored with applause as they walked off the court the last time.

“You got two seniors still, they got one more game left in their career, you know it would be nice to go out on a win, end the year right with a W,” UND

coach Travis Brewster said. “Big Sky is defi nitely out, there’s no ifs, ands or buts about that, and you know there’s some kids that need to prepare to get themselves better for next year.”

The game started out relative-ly close with Eastern Washington taking the lead and UND stick-ing close behind. The game was physical with both teams fi ght-ing to win to help their playoff situations. Eastern Washington controlled most of the fi rst half, at one point going on a big 8-0 run against the Green and White.

UND, however, refused to give up and fought back with Josie Dillon — making two three-pointers in the fi rst half to help out the scoring.

North Dakota seemed to be a little off its game in the fi rst half.

UND had foul trouble once again and that didn’t help its case as the game continued. The fi rst half ended with Eastern Washing-ton in the lead 37-27, but there was hope with Dillon hitting a three-point shot right before the half to get within ten points.

The second half did not start any better for UND as Eastern

Washington made six straight points. The offense for North Dakota started to pick up as the second half went on, but Eastern Washington’s defense was able to shut down the Green and White. Madi Buck was held quiet with just seven points in the game, as the Eagles were successful in their defensive efforts.

Just as EWU started to get comfortable, momentum shifted to North Dakota, and the pace quickened as the clock ticked to-wards the end of the game.

Eastern Washington was able

to capitalize on UND’s fouling effort to pull away with the win.

UND has one more game left this season as it will take on the Southern Utah Thunderbirds next Saturday in Cedar City, Utah. With no playoff chance, the team will look to claim the win for pride and end its inaugu-ral Big Sky season on a high note.

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A streak of success has held strong thus far, and there are no plans to alter it.

For the UND women’s hockey team, a playoff sweep against Minne-sota State at Ralph Engelstad Arena last weekend was enough to punch a ticket to the Final Face-Off.

In the seniors’ last game in the Ralph, Monique and Jocelyne Lamoureux showcased their team’s success.

Skating shorthanded in the middle of the third period Saturday didn’t stop North Dakota as Mo-nique Lamouruex’s wraparound goal sealed a hat trick.

And she wasn’t finished yet.With a total of four goals, Mo-

nique Lamoureux claimed the No. 2

UND advances to Final Face-OffMONIQUE Lamoureux becomes the WCHA’s second all-time lead-ing scorer.

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spot on the WCHA all-time scoring list with 263 points — trailing only her sister, Jocelyne Lamoureux.

“I don’t think you could have asked for more production out of a game,” Monique Lamoureux said. “I thought we played a good team game. We finished on our chances, lot of shots and contributions all the way around. So I thought it was a good weekend. We knew we wanted to come out and get a couple goals

early, so to come out and do that as a team was huge for us.”

And the end of the first period, the scoreboard revealed a 5-1 ad-vantage for North Dakota. Jocelyne Lamoureux struck at 3 minutes and 50 seconds of the first, followed by her sister Monique Lamoureux.

Josefine Jakobsen added a goal on a backhand shot skating down the zone and the twins followed with another set of goals.

The Lamoureux twins were in-strumental in North Dakota’s 8-1 defeat of Minnesota State; and with a combined six goals and four assists, the duo went out on a high note. As the seniors took their last lap around the rink, they lifted their sticks to salute the fans that have supported them for the past four years.

“We took the last lap as seniors

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duced the team’s first 15 points of the game while helping UND to a 24-10 lead to start the opening sev-en minutes of the game. Of those 24 points in North Dakota’s open-ing run, 20 were owned by Huff who also knocked down a trio of three-pointers and finished with 24 points in the first half. The Eagles were able to respond to UND’s hot start and finished the half, trailing just 38-31 at the halftime buzzer.

Anderson came out with a strong 18-point showing as he, along with Huff, took the brunt of UND’s scoring — netting 52 of North Dakota’s 78 on the after-noon.

Jamal Webb and Mitch Wilmer had big performances off of the boards as both tied to lead the Green and White with nine rebounds against the Eagles. Webb was once again able to find his teammates as he accounted for half of North Da-kota’s assists, dishing out 10 of the team’s 20 total, while Aaron Ander-son added seven of his own.

Although several UND players had huge performances in the past week of basketball, the real accom-plishment was North Dakota’s suc-cess in its first season in the Big Sky Conference.

“I’m so proud of this bunch because they continue to find ways to win,” said UND coach Brian Jones on the season, “Now we have clinched a berth in the postseason tournament and will finish with a winning record in our first year of Big Sky play.”

North Dakota will wrap up its regular season with a home game against Southern Utah on Saturday. Game time is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Betty.

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together and it’s sad that it’s over,” Jocelyne Lamoureux said. “We’re going to be away the rest of the season and hopefully we can make some good things happen. But right now I’m just going to try and take it all in and just appreciate everything I’ve got here while I’ve got it.”

Solid effortCurrently on the most success-

ful run of program history, North Dakota hopes to see its persistence continue.

“It’s almost been a blessing in disguise,” UND coach Brian Idalski said. “It’s really focused us every shift, every detail. Needs to be extraordinary and we need to make solid decisions and we have. They’ve really risen to the chal-lenge of that and obviously we’re on the best roll in program history and want to keep it going.”

North Dakota’s lone penalty of the game came in the third period, an improvement of its average of 13 minutes per game. For Jocelyne Lamoureux, a last trip to the pen-alty box was not in her agenda.

“That would have been fi t-ting,” Jocelyne Lamoureux said with a laugh. “I’ve really been working on that. I don’t know if it’s old age or getting wiser, so that’s something I’ve improved on and it’s nice being able to kill our own penalties and not be in the box watching.”

Instead, the team capitalized on its chances, putting 45 shots on goal and holding Minnesota State to a minimal 23 on the way to vic-tory.

On a carryover from Friday’s 6-1 win, the effort put forth Sat-urday showcased North Dakota’s talent.

“It was a great effort,” Idalski said “They were highly motivated. I thought the whole team did well. We just did a solid job for 60 min-utes and it was a great way for our older group to go out and (make) a couple memories there with the lap.”

Taking care of businessUND is anticipated to face

Wisconsin in the fi rst round of the WCHA Final Face-Off next week-end in Minneapolis.

With a single loss separating it from the end of the season, the team knows the importance of claiming a victory over its next op-ponent.

“We know that if we don’t win, we’re done,” Monique Lamoureux said. “It’s one and done for us right

now, so we’ve got to take care of business, getting back to the grind-stone and focus on Wisconsin — focus on beating them. Right now that’s what’s between us and going to the national tournament.”

They know what they want, but North Dakota is ready to face off against a team who might want it just as bad.

“You’re always looking around corners and preparing,” Idalski

said. “We assume that Wisconsin is going to advance, and we’ve got to take care of business and that’s who we’ve faced. In the WCHA, every game is tough and when you play each other fi ve games plus, there are no secrets.”

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UND senior defenseman Monique Lamoureux etched her name in the history books last weekend, becoming the WCHA’s second all-time leading scorer.

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