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Turning on the faucet, filling up a glass and drink-ing clean water; this is a reality for most because of infrastructure built by civil engineers.

“That just kind of blows me away. You don’t think about the whole process be-hind what it takes to get you clean water,” said Leslee Storlie, an NDSU graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in environmental en-gineering.

The American Water Works Association partners with organizations that can sponsor scholarships for stu-dents who actively research to improve water infrastruc-ture and technology.

Storlie won a $5,000 scholarship sponsored by MWH Global, a consulting, engineering and construc-tion firm of wet infrastruc-ture because of her research at the Moorhead Water Treatment Plant, said Nicole Lang, the communications manager of MWH.

“Leslee demonstrated a superb work ethic, strong academic achievements and a commitment to addressing the water issues facing soci-ety,” Lang said. “We believe her future work will result in her building a better world.”

Storlie researches the formation of bromate, a compound formed when ozone is used to disinfect water for consumption at some water treatment plants including MWTP. In large doses bromate could be a

carcinogen. “My research project

is to determine when [bro-mate] forms, why it’s form-ing and to try and minimize how much is being formed. It’s pretty interesting and an up-and-coming topic in the drinking water field,” Storlie said.

Storlie applied for the scholarship last January when her supervisor at the Moorhead Water Treatment Plant handed it to her and suggested she “give it a try.”

“At first I was kind of nervous about it,” Storlie said. “It’s a national scholar-ship, not just a state scholar-ship or something local. It’s the whole United States.”

The scholarship was competitive and required a resume, three letters of rec-ommendation and a thor-

ough explanation of her edu-cational plans and research methods.

The AWWA has several sponsors for scholarships. Storlie says 10 to 12 stu-dents were accepted across the U.S., each with a dif-ferent company sponsoring him or her.

“Every applicant had something to do with safe drinking water.” Storlie said. “Why your research is rele-vant to the industry and why it would help.”

Storlie said in her appli-cation that she was excited to be involved in an industry that makes such an impact on every person, every day and that she thinks green op-tions will open up more pos-sibilities in the field.

“My career goals include designing systems that will

make life easier and safer for all kinds of people, but at the same time do less harm to the environment,” Storlie wrote in her scholarship ap-plication.

The scholarship winners were awarded the scholar-ship last June at the Water Industry Luncheon at the ACE Conference in Dallas, Texas.

“We got to shake the hand of the president Ameri-can Water Association and the water practice leader of MWH Global,” Storlie said. “And I got a nice plaque and took a nice picture…no speech or anything, but I had to walk across the stage in

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Leslee Storlie, a graduate environmental engineering student, strives to make a difference in the water industry through her research. She wrote about the importance of water in her scholarship application, “The water we have today is the water we had yesterday and the water we will have tomorrow.”

NDSU graduate student winds $5000 scholarshipResearch at local water treatment plant gets engineering student recognized for building better world

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1st-day enrollment increases for 7th consecutive yearHannah Dillon

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The first day of class set a new enrollment record on NDSU Campus for the sev-enth consecutive year.

The first-day enrollment total was reported as be-ing 14,319 August 22. This count encompasses all stu-dents enrolled at the univer-

sity, including international and graduate students.

This is a rise from the first-day enrollment of 2011, which was 14,240 students, according to a press release from NDSU University Re-lations.

According to enrollment reports on the registrar’s website, this is a big jump from 2003 as well, when just 11,143 students were offi-cially enrolled at NDSU.

“This represents a pur-

posefully moderated rate of growth,” President Dean L. Bresciani said in a press release. “NDSU continues to be the choice of students who want a traditional full-time college experience in a demanding research univer-sity environment.”

Out of the 14,319 stu-dents that enrolled at NDSU, more than 3,000 of

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Official Fall enrollment totals are always a little different than the first-day enroll-ment numbers. Either way, the amount of campus members is increasing with each year.

The Newfangled The-ater Company is accepting submissions for Festival of Movement, this fall’s small show.

The Festival of Move-ment is designed to show-case student talents involving movement in any way. Stu-dents can create an act that emphasizes movement in a unique way and submit their act online to the NTC board.

Justin Heim, a senior pur-suing a musical theater de-gree and chair of the NTC, originally wanted to put together a choreographer’s showcase. The NTC board broadened Heim’s idea to in-clude all forms of movement.

“I see people around cam-pus doing interesting things all the time,” Heim said. “There are so many talented people on campus.”

Movement can include anything from unicycling, to juggling, to stilt-walking, Rachel Geinert, a senior ma-joring in English education and theater and vice chair of NTC, explained.

Heim and Geinert were both involved with planning the Festival of Movement for the NTC’s small show.

Each act will have a four-minute time limit to show as many acts as possible. No microphones will be provid-ed, as performers are encour-aged to “use their voice to emphasize the movement,” Geinert said.

“We didn’t want to set too many parameters,” Heim said. “We left it open to en-courage creativity.”

Also, one member of each act must be a registered student at any Tri-college university.

“We really want this to be a showcase for the entire campus and the tri-college,” Geinert said.

After the NTC board col-lects all submissions, they will do a preliminary screen-ing of the acts. Two weeks following, they will do an-other mid-way screening by audition.

Heim and Geinert en-courage students to submit acts “just for fun.”

“If you have the skill, why not show it off?” Gein-ert said.

The goal of the NTC is to involve

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front of a lot of people. That was nerve-wracking.”

The $5,000 scholarship can be used to offset costs for equipment, lab materials, textbooks or anything that would help with the student’s research project.

Storlie earned a B.S. in civil engineering in May 2011 and will complete a Master’s degree in environ-mental engineering, a sub discipline of civil engineer-ing this May.

As an undergrad she was involved in the NDSU chap-ter of American Water Works Association/Water Environ-ment Federation and served as the Vice-President in the 2011-2012 school year.

One of their projects was “Expanding Your Horizons,” a program that brings middle

school girls to NDSU and teaches them basic classes in math and science to get them interested in these fields at a younger age.

Storlie said her interest in civil engineering was first sparked in a similar program. As a high school student she attended a weeklong engi-neering session for women interested in engineering at Michigan Technological University.

The field of engineering does not have many women in it Storlie explained, though she has noticed more women now than when she arrived at NDSU six years ago.

Though there has been an effort to get women inter-ested in these fields, Storlie said that it is important to keep conservation and sci-

ence in the curriculum for all students because there is so much to learn in this boom-ing industry.

“The worth of water is not quite known yet,” Storlie said. “We have a lot of wa-ter, but the technology to use that water is not quite there or takes a lot of money…it needs a lot more research from students like me and young professionals to make the water treatment possible and safe.”

Another project Storlie did with the AWWA/WEF was an attempt to design a system to recycle water used in hydraulic “fracking” for oil.

“A lot of water is wasted in that process,” Storlie said. “We looked at a project to recover that used water and

then clean it and then reuse it instead of just disposing of it. That’s definitely a huge up-and-coming topic especially with western North Dakota being so close.”

These projects and stu-dent organizations helped Storlie be a candidate for the scholarship. She encourages students to get involved and let experiences lead your fu-ture.

“Don’t be afraid to get involved, get your feet wet,” Storlie said. “When you fill out scholarships you need that kind of stuff to build a nice resume and build a por-trait of yourself for where you want to go and where you’ve been.”

scholarship continued from page 1those are new students to

the university, nearly 2,500 of those are freshmen and about 750 are transfer stu-dents.

The number of freshmen has increased by 1.2 percent since last year, while transfer students have increased by 7.7 percent.

There are also approxi-mately 1,000 international students, 1,900 graduate stu-dents, and more than 8,000 returning students.

The first-day enrollment report also states that about 95 percent of all students are in traditional classes. This means that most students are taking classes that are offered in a classroom with

face-to-face teaching and communication.

Official enrollment counts will be taken four weeks into the semester for a more accurate reading of the student body.

Jobey Lichtblau, director of admissions, said that the first-day enrollment numbers only differ slightly from the official census counts. These records will be available to the public on Sept. 18.

View the accompanying graph to see official census counts of past years.

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the NDSU student body in their productions.

“The Newfangled The-ater Company belongs to the entire student body,” Geinert said.

The NTC’s small shows in particular demonstrate people outside of the theater department taking an interest in theatrical performances.

The idea is “theater for and by the students,” Heim explained.

Theater offers opportuni-ties to explore ideas and top-ics that cannot be explored through any other means, Geinert said.

“The point of the New-fangled Theater Company,” she said, “is to bring to life

the things that young people living in the world today want to explore.”

Each year, the NTC puts on a small show and a main-stage show. This year’s main-stage show is titled “The Transdimensional Cou-riers Union,” and will be pre-sented in April.

Those wishing to sub-mit acts for the Festival of Movement can find the online submission form at https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=w1ZK-PPxGRy-Fq68J-QgGRA.

Deadline for submission is Sept. 5.

For more information, visit the Newfangled Theater Company Facebook page.

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A new team-taught the-ater class teaches students to use performance to explore personal identity and com-munity issues.

When theater professor Lori Horvik, assistant direc-tor of civil engineering, Mat-thew Skoy, assistant director for service learning and civic engagement and Hall Direc-tor Tim McCue sat down to discuss a way to combine theater with social justice, it resulted in the creation of a brand new class: Theater 199 Change U: Identity and Dialogue.

Theater 199 is not a tra-ditional theater class. The course focuses on getting; instead of taking on a dif-ferent identity on stage, stu-dents will learn about them-selves to express emotion and create change.

According to the new course’s syllabus, Theater 199 is designed to “help stu-dents explore characteristics of identity and difference through self-reflection, ar-tistic expression and critical analysis.”

The course’s main focus is to recognize a student’s own identity, as well to ad-dress issues related to iden-

tity that exist in the commu-nity.

“We look at social inter-est in the community and try to match students with areas of interest where they would feel passionate to have a voice through theater,” Skoy said.

Skoy feels that the class will benefit NDSU by let-ting students learn about themselves and by teaching them to identify social issues while being challenged and supported along the way.

The class will be split

into groups and will focus on different social issues.

“Say one issue is home-lessness, maybe. Through performance and theater, they’ll act out different sce-narios to create an awareness for the NDSU community,” Skoy said. “Instead of a fi-nal exam, they’ll have a final performance in front of cam-

pus.”

Skoy is excited about the different way of teach-ing and learning that Theater 199 offers. He is excited to be team-teaching the course and serving his students, he said.

“As we serve these stu-dents, I’m excited to learn from them as well and give back to the community as much as we can,” Skoy said.

Though Skoy is excited for the new class, he rec-ognizes that it will have its challenges.

“A lot of students taking this class might not be the-ater majors, or maybe this is their first theater class, and to tell them that their perfor-mance is going to be in front of campus or in front of a larger audience might scare them a little,” he said. “But it’s about encouraging them to step out of their comfort zone to really share with the community about different social issues.”

Skoy mentioned that campus-wide performance dates would be announced later.

“There’s more to come,” he said. “We’d like the entire campus to be there to en-courage the students.”

The NDSU Women’s Club will soon kick off the new academic year by show-casing all the club has to of-fer.

When the NDSU Wom-en’s Club originated in Janu-ary of 1920, members con-sisted of the wives of faculty, as well as some female fac-ulty members. The goal of the club was to help with so-cial functions for the NDSU president and his wife.

Originally, an invitation was required to join the club. However, in 1977, member-ship was opened to all uni-versity personnel, including graduate students.

Since then, membership has opened up even further.

“[For] over 90 plus years, NDSU Women’s Club has broadened to now embrace anyone who supports the aca-demic mission of NDSU,” Judy Petermann, the Wom-en’s Club’s president, said.

Affiliation with NDSU is not required to join the club.

“We encourage students, as well as faculty, faculty spouses and staff to try a sample of the full array of what NDSU Women’s Club offers these days,” Sandy Huseby, the communications coordinator for the club, said.

The NDSU Women’s Club offers several activities and other avenues for mem-bers to get involved.

The club hosts three ma-jor events throughout the year during the fall, winter and spring. These events fea-ture speakers from around the community to talk on any

number of issues.For example, NDSU

alumnus Tracey Moorhead, executive assistant to the president of Concordia Col-lege, will speak about the Na-tional Book Awards on Sept. 10.

The club also takes an ac-tive role in philanthropy. The club has co-partnered with

organizations like Habitat for Humanity, the United Way school backpack program, A Women’s Perspective at the Hjemkomst Center and the Waterford and Edgewood Vista, explained Huseby.

Special interest groups within the club include Book Club, Midday Meetup, In-ternational Women, Valley Gardeners, Sewing group, and the Poetry and Writing Group. Members can get in-volved in volunteer and ser-vice groups as well.

Every year, these interest groups change and evolve, and new groups are added every so often, Huseby said. For example, a film club is working on becoming a full-fledged interest group within the club.

“We are a vibrant, multi-generational, multi-interest club,” summarized Huseby.

The club also furnishes annual scholarships. The

scholarships are funded by a percentage of membership dues and donations to the scholarship fund, Huseby said.

The club announced its of-ficers for the 2012-13 school year on Aug. 15. These offi-cers are selected by a nomi-nating committee.

The NDSU Women’s Club is open to any and all women in the community and members range from college aged women to those in their 80s. Huseby and Petermann both encourage students to join.

The membership fee for students is $10.

For more information about the NDSU Women’s Club, visit http://www.ndsu.edu/diversity/resources_for_women/wwwndsuedudiver-sitynsuwomensclub/ or their Facebook page.

The NDSU Women’s Club kick-off meeting will take place at 7 p.m. on Sept. 10 at Concordia’s Knutson Campus Center.

Blue Cross Blue Shield offers a new student-based health insurance plan that prepares students to protect their health.

Student Blue Health In-surance is built to fit the lifestyle and budget of col-lege students, according to a BCBS news release.

Even if the concepts of deductibles, coinsurance rates and co-pays seem con-fusing, health insurance can financially prepare students for any health issues they may face.

Many college students are under the age of 26 and may still be under their par-ent’s health coverage. How-ever, Student Blue provides an option for college stu-dents who are either over the age of 26, not insured under their parents or dislike the policy of their parent’s cur-rent coverage.

“Having health insurance in general as a young adult is a good thing to have,” Judd Wagner, member of the BCBS marketing team, said.

“It isn’t like having auto insurance and hoping you don’t have to use it… Not many college students have an extra $1,600 around [if they get sick].”

Comprehensive ben-efits through Student Blue include “routine physicals, contraceptive services, pre-ventive screenings, flu shots, immunizations, $25 co-pay for office visits, $10 co-pay for prescription drugs, free access to online wellness tools, coverage for nutrition related services and cover-age for intercollegiate sport injuries,” according to the BCBS website.

Coverage starts at $62.50 per month for one student.

“The price of $62.50 per month in comparison is a really good bargain,” says Wagner.

BCBS has coverage in 100 percent of the hospitals in North Dakota and 85 per-cent in hospitals across the nation.

Student Blue offers a $100 deductible, which means after the PAYER pays the initial $100 of the bill, the insurance kicks in to cover 80 percent of the re-maining bill.

The plan’s coinsurance max pay is $2,500; once

the medical bill reaches this amount, the insurance pays 100 percent of the bill, up to $500,000 per year.

Choosing a health insur-ance plan involves discern-ing and weighing the risks of how often medical visits are needed.

For some it is better to go without insurance and just pay out-of-pocket for prescription drugs or medi-cal visits because the cost monthly for insurance and the deductible may both be more expensive than just paying out-of-pocket.

This student-based health insurance plan requires eli-gible undergraduate students to be enrolled in at least sev-en credits per semester with-in the North Dakota State University System or online. Students must also be under the age of 65.

Students will have until the end of September to en-roll in the Student Blue plan.

Representatives from BCBS will have an infor-mation booth on campus for the rest of the week, where they are also holding an iPad giveaway drawing.

For more information about Student Blue, visit http://www.studentbluend.com.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield offers student-based insurance plan


A representative from Blue Cross Blue Shield explains to a student in the Mwmorial Union about the new Student Blue health insurance plan, which is designed to fit the lifestyle of college students.

New theater class explores personal identityTheater 199 Change U: Identity and Dialogue

“We look at social inter-est in the community and try to match students with areas of interest where they would feel passionate to have a voice through theater.” --Matthew Skoy

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NDSU Women’s Club announces officers, kicks-off new academic year

“We are a vibrant, multi-generational, multi-interest club.” - Sandy Huseby, NDSU Women’s Club communica-tions coordinator

NDSU Women’s Club 2012-2013 officers:

President: Judy PetermannVice President: Yvonne

CondellSecretary: Ann Rathke

Treasurer: Sherbanoo AzizMembership: Noreen Thomas,

Verlaine Gullickson Interest Groups: Beth Berg

Communications Coordina-tor: Sandy Huseby

Program Coordina-tors; Christel Hull, Mile-

na Marinov, Miska Jarvinen-Bergdahl

Historian: Carol Hall Ex-Officio: Tatjana Miljkovic

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Disclaimer : You do not need to be an art major to complete this painting proj-ect. An even better disclaim-er: You do not need to be an art major to paint anything.

Most college students do not have the money to pur-chase brand new furniture to decorate their apartment or house. Most of the time, the furniture college students own came from whatever their parents did not want.

These hand-me-downs could include things like a bookshelf, dresser or coffee table, and they are probably older than their owners by a few decades.

Instead of chucking an outdated piece of furniture in the trash and splurging on something new and expen-sive, try spending a couple bucks to make that unlovable piece of home décor look fresh and funky.

All of the items I used to transform my old wooden dresser into a whimsical mustard-yellow masterpiece came from a quick trip to Walmart that ended up cost-ing me less than $30.

I decided to paint each dresser drawer a different color, which gives it an om-bre look that goes from light-er shades to darker shades. However, I did not feel like spending $50 just on mul-tiple paint cans for each of the different colors. There-fore, I purchased one can of white paint and one can of dark mustard yellow paint and mixed them together to create the shades in between.

Here are the few simple steps toward transforming an old wooden dresser from mom and dad into your bed-room’s statement piece.

Step 1: Shake it.The great thing about

Walmart is that they will mix the shade of paint you want at no extra cost to the can of paint. I was able to grab a col-or swatch and my half-gallon of paint and head to the paint counter where the employee then shook my paint to the exact shade. However, be-ware: If you don’t use the same brand of paint as the color swatch you chose, your mixed paint will most likely not match the desired color you wanted in the first place.

Step 2: Sand it.The only way paint will

stick to a smooth wooden surface is to sand the wood down before applying the paint. I purchased sandpaper with an abrasiveness of 100 medium. This allows you to gently wear down the finish of the wood just enough to take away the shine. Once you are done sanding, wipe down all surfaces with a slightly damp cloth to re-move the wood debris. This would also be a good time to remove the drawer’s knobs to keep from getting paint on them.

Step 3: Mix it.For the ombre dresser

drawers, you will need a few extra plastic Tupperware containers to mix by hand the different paint colors that are in between the lightest shade and darkest shade. Simply mix each of the paint colors together until you reach the desired shade. Each drawer should be a different color, so mix accordingly. Also, do not make too much of a mixture of each color (about one or two cups) because not much paint is needed to cover the drawer’s faces.

Step 4: Paint it.Before you begin paint-

ing, make sure your floors are covered up by placing a few garbage bags underneath

the dresser as well as each of the drawers. Using the light-est shade of paint, cover the entire dresser as well as the drawer faces using smooth, consistent strokes with your paint brush. Once you have painted the entire dresser as well as the drawer faces, let dry for one day (or at least five hours if you are in a hur-ry). Once the paint has dried, apply a second coat only to the dresser.

Next, paint each of the drawers a different color that you mixed by hand. Let dry for another day. If needed, apply a second coat of mixed paint to the drawers for add-ed richness. Once everything has dried, screw the knobs back in the dresser and reas-semble the drawers.

You could place the draw-ers in the dresser going from lightest shade to the darkest shade to get that true ombre look, or you may place the drawers in the dresser going from every other light and dark shade for added dimen-sion.

Step 5: Love it.It will be hard not to love,

especially since it cost less than $30 to do.

What you will need:1/2 gallon Color Place

semi-gloss paint (Antique White) $10.97

1/2 gallon Color Place semi-gloss accent base paint (Rich Curry Gold) $10.97

3M general purpose sand-paper (100 medium) $2.17

2 large paint brushes (clearance) $2.50

Garbage bagsOld TupperwareTotal cost: $26.61

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Throughout your career as a student, you may have heard that three hours of studying should accompany every hour of being in class. Although this might seem like study over-kill, you will reap major benefits in the end. However, without proper study techniques, you might find that resorting to unhealthy habits or skipping out on studying altogether is the “better” route.

As a short guide to healthy studying, here is a list of seven tips to help get you on the right track:

Noteworthy note taking Before you even think

about studying, prepare by taking detailed notes, wheth-er you type them on a lap-top or write them in a note-book. If you are looking for helpful tips on how to take good notes, academictips.org outlines several note tak-ing techniques. To help your brain retain the information, try writing in columns in-stead of rows, using a variety of pen colors, or re-writing your notes during your study sessions.

Know your style Learning comes in sev-

eral forms. Visual learners remember what they see, auditory learners remember what they hear, tactile learn-ers learn by touching (i.e. doodling while they listen)

and kinesthetic learners learn by doing or by being hands-on. Figure out how you learn best so that you can apply your specific style to your studying.

Take time to time manageAccording to the Ameri-

can Psychological Associa-tion, about “75 percent of the general population expe-riences at least some stress every two weeks.” Stress is a major part of our society; keep your levels under con-trol by practicing healthy time management skills. Schedule study sessions by writing them in your planner during appropriate hours and for realistic blocks of time, and try not to procrastinate when it comes to turning in assignments or studying for a test.

Figure out your study preferences

Get in the zone. If you like to hear background noise, go somewhere to study that’s less remote than the library, for instance. Study with friends if they help to motivate you. Walk to the nearest coffee shop if the scent of freshly brewed coffee and baking cinnamon buns helps you relax. Listen to music while you highlight your notes, or choose “your” spot in the quietest corner of the least populated build-ing on campus to get in your studying zone.

Craft corner: Health Talk:DIY painted ombre dresser 7 steps to building healthy study habits


A simple and inexpensive way to give old furniture a fresh look is to simply apply a few coats of paint.

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computer or read your text-books can have a huge im-pact on when, how and where you choose to study. Comfort is key, but making sure the muscles in your back and neck are not having to endure extra strain is equally, if not more important. Staff mem-bers at Mayo Clinic stress the importance of good posture, stating that practicing poor posture “can lead to fatigue, back pain, headaches and other problems.”

Ready...break! Take time to take a break

in between subjects or hour-ly blocks. Treat yourself to a light snack, go for a short walk, or call a friend to chat. Also use your ten-minute break to check your texts or social networking sites so that you are not tempted to do so while in the middle of a study session. Creating healthy study habits is easier if you give your mind and body a break.

What you’d least expect: exercise

Believe it or not, exer-cise, nutrition and sleeping patterns all play roles in how easy or difficult it is for you to study. Being active regularly (eating a nutritious breakfast, lunch and supper), and get-ting an adequate amount of sleep each night is important for your body to stay alert and for your mind to retain and recall information while you are studying.

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With the first football game approaching this weekend, it’s always a must to display your school pride. However, why not show your Bison gold and green in a fashionable way? You might be thinking, “How do I make a normal NDSU shirt fashionable?” Well you have come to the right place. Here’s how:

Bison RockchickFirst, put on your favorite

pair of skinny jeans or shorts. Take an old NDSU shirt, lay it on the floor and create sev-eral one-inch vertical slits along the bottom. Grab each one-inch slit and pull it up about three inches. This will create a bohemian look with an edgy feel (that’s what you want). Now take any denim vest and wear it over your created shirt. For the rock

look, you’ll have to wear a gold statement necklace with mini rhinestones in it. You can find those at Forever 21, Wet Seal, Vanity, Express, Macy’s or JCPenny. Finally, take a black headband and wear it over your head.

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Grab any old NDSU shirt you may have. First, cut off the top neck and shoulder area creating an over-the-shoulder piece. Next pick out your favorite leopard skirt making sure that it is not a fitted one, but a skirt that has volume and flow. Tuck in the shirt with the leopard skirt aligned on the hips. Purchase two (of each) green and gold bead necklaces. Put one of each wrapped around your wrist. This will cre-ate a bright accessory piece that creates the illusion of a bracelet. Finally, grab your favorite pair of boots and add a leopard clip bow to your hair to finish up the look.

Fashion Geek ChicMaking a spin off normal

preppy geek wear, put on a pair of mustard skinny jeans. Grab an old green NDSU shirt and cut the sleeves off. Then cut of the neck area created a U-neck top. Be-fore putting on your new Bi-son shirt, wear a striped tee underneath with white and either black or gold stripes. To make the outfit complete, add gold suspenders and wear your favorite pair of sneakers.

Bison football games are the best place to display your creativity when it comes to making a Bison pride state-ment, so don’t worry about what others will think of your outfit. Make it yours!

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Mike LiudahlContributing Writer

The football atmosphere in the FargoDome was once an awkward transition from hosting games at Dacotah Field, but over the years the enthusiasm from the fans has matched previous years’ intensity.

After Mike Luidahl grad-uated with a degree in uni-versity studies from NDSU in 1997, he returned to NDSU for a second major and is currently studying broad-cast journalism. With years of wisdom and real world experience under his belt, he hopes to enlighten the stu-dent body by rewinding back to NDSU experiences from back in the day and describe how it differs now in his col-umn entitled “RewiNDSU.”

With the 2012 football season opener soon under-way, the anticipation associ-ated with Saturday’s events leading up to the game and the kickoff itself is building.

Minus only a handful of bumps in the road, the Bison have displayed a tightening togetherness for more than a century and their supporters continue grow in numbers as well as passion. It’s still all about the game, but the en-tire celebratory experience has evolved into something that many other universities can only dream of.

“The biggest difference by far is the intensity,” said Al Frabricius, Bison defen-sive lineman on the 1968 and 1969 national champi-

onship teams. “Today the athletes are together on Fri-day afternoon, they have a team dinner, break down film and even have some fun together.”

“Back in 1969, after the team meal, I basically went back to my fraternity house and we hung out.” Fabricius added. “We didn’t have near the intensity that there is to-day and game day was pretty much the same as we pre-pared ourselves for the game mentally.”

As indicated on gobison.com, 1969 was the last of a

twenty-year run for the loca-tion of Dacotah Field at the spot where the Bison Sports Arena now stands. The short move west to where it still exists was followed by a seating capacity expan-sion in 1972 from 10,000 to 13,000. This would com-plete the new stage where both the team and their in-creasing number of loyal fans would enjoy five more national championship sea-sons over the next 20 years.

“When I came back (to Fargo) in 1981, Friday night was nothing more than may-

be socializing with friends,” said Fabricius, who is also a long-time Team Maker. “Now it’s a frenzy to get all your tailgating stuff or who are we tailgating with, what time are we gonna get out there, and what time does tailgating open up?”

Due to an even higher degree of success shared by players, fans and alumni, the expectations for game day had risen as well. Staying true to form, the Bison foot-ball program had outgrown its facility once again after only a couple decades of use.

The next jump not only took Fargo’s big game in town across the street, but also set it up indoors.

Despite the adjustment being a bit awkward at first, it would eventually become home.

“When the dome first opened up, we lost our foot-ball attitude. It became a very sophisticated crowd and it was like going to a movie where everybody just sat and watched the game.” Fabricius said, “It was re-ally weird because nobody yelled, nobody screamed and there just wasn’t a lot of noise from anybody includ-ing the student body.”

Perhaps this phenomenon could have been attributed to the notion that fans were reluctant to do anything that might desecrate the new house. Or, maybe the mod-ern facility full of unprec-edented amenities was more the attraction than what was going on down on the turf over the first few years of its existence.

“It almost became to be a fashion show where the guys wore sweaters with slacks and the girls were all look-ing pretty too,” said Fabri-cius. “Now, who cares; it’s Bison football and we’re back to maybe somewhat of what it was like at Dacotah Field. Now there’s a lot of noise and we’ve learned to be football fans again.”

Fabricius mentioned that

a little bit of tailgating did go on at Dacotah Field, which remained about the same into the 2000s. But, that too has gone through a notice-able renaissance in recent years. The pregame party really gets rockin’ on the dome’s east side where the parking lot has been more than doubled for this season.

I doubt that any current NDSU student who cares about football or school spir-it needed encouragement to secure a ticket for the Rob-ert Morris game this week-end. Unfortunately, maybe just as many that got one were also turned away. This was rarely much of a prob-lem between 1992 and the present, however, a student section constantly packed with raucous rooters clad in green and gold just might be the new reality for years to come.

The institution known as Bison football seems to go through a positive transfor-mation about every 20 years and we appear to be living in the middle of one right now. Even if you can’t get into the barn on Saturday, I urge you to take in the atmosphere surrounding it.

That alone will most likely give you a good taste of what Bison pride was like in years gone by and what it has been built up to today. The march is and always will be on!

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The box office showed some very surprising results last week. No one film per-formed especially strong, but while one film proved to be an unexpected failure, another proved to be ‘inter-esting’ success.

For the most part, the numbers look fairly par for the course with the loud, dumb “Expendables 2” tak-ing in $13.5 million as well as the number one spot for the second week in a row.

Coming in at a consid-erably lower second place, “The Bourne Legacy” con-tinued to bring in unexpect-edly low numbers. This puts the film at a total of $113 million at the box office overall and with a $125 mil-lion I wouldn’t be surprised to see the first “Bourne” movie without Matt Damon to be the last.

Meanwhile, further down the list we see that the Jo-

seph Gordon-Levitt vehicle “Premium Rush” just barely broke into the top 10 in its first week at number seven. This is something of a sur-prise given the actor’s cur-rent momentum after “The Dark Knight Rises”, which even after weeks in the-aters remained steadfast at the number five position. It seems no amount of careful timing could save the movie from its own underwhelm-ing trailers.

Something that was much less of a disappointment (for it’s creators, at least, and not for my faith in humanity) was“2016: Obama’s Ameri-ca,” which came in just un-der “Premium Rush” despite only showing in a third of Hollywood operated movie theaters.

Based on the book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” by Dinesh D’Souza, “2016” is a political documentary claiming to predict Bar-rack Obama’s future impact on the United States. Un-surprisingly, the film has been reviewed quite poorly by most major film critics, while faring much better

with conservative political commentators. It is not cur-rently playing in any Fargo-based theaters.

While it didn’t make the top 10, the long delayed horror film “The Appari-tion” also managed to sur-prise. Despite poor reviews and only showing in 810 facilities nationwide, “The Apparition” broke into the number twelve spot with $3 million.

Overall, we’ve seen a very steady decline in box office numbers as the sum-mer blockbusters have be-gun to wind down.

Next month, we have Karl Urban starring in “Dredd”, the second adapta-tion of the comic book series “2000 A.D.” Early reviews of the film have been quite promising but only time will tell if the franchise’s popu-larity has survived the film’s abysmal predecessor, “Jude Dredd” which starred Syl-vester Stalone.

Gordon-Levitt will also get a second chance next month as the primary star in the time travel/assassin/mob film “Looper” directed by

Rian Johnson.

DC Comics and Warner Bros. have unsurprisingly decided to cash-in on their own superhero team-up film with the Wachowski broth-ers now rumored to be di-recting.

Attempts to make a film adaptation of “The Justice League of America,” a su-perhero team-up comic fea-turing Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and other DC stalwarts, have been struggling to get off the ground for decades. War-ner’s inability to start a tent-pole franchise (as evidenced by the failures of Superman Returns and the attempt at a Green Lantern film) outside of Batman has largely kept public interest at a mini-mum.

Now, Zack Snyder helming the new Superman movie “Man of Steel” and Nolan’s Batman universe finally giving way to what-ever Batman reboot is no doubt on its way, “The Jus-tice League” seems like it may finally come together.

But whom will Warner place in charge of such a massive endeavor? Screen-writer Will Beall, whose

only work of note includes the unreleased mob film “Gangster Squad” and writ-ing the as yet undated “Le-thal Weapon 5” has been hired to write the script. And while no director has yet been confirmed, that hasn’t stopped rumors sur-rounding the important role from circulating, as always.

Earlier this month, actor and director of “Gone Baby Gone” and “The Town,” Ben Affleck, was rumored to have been placed at the helm of “The Justice League.” This theory was then promptly shot down by Affleck in an interview 24 Hours Vancouver.

“I’m not working on the Justice League. One of the problems with entertain-ment web sites is that they need to fill pages, and that’s how rumours get started.”

Affleck further added, “Justice League sounds re-ally exciting, but it’s not something I’m working on.”

According to the film website Moviehole, Lana and Andy Wachowski, mak-ers of “The Matrix” trilogy as well as the upcoming “Cloud Atlas” are in talks with Warner to handle “The Justice League.”

The site states that War-ner is “apparently jazzed with Cloud Atlas, and love

that it’s as much a spec-tacle as it is a showcase for the immense ensemble in-volved, so it makes sense the W’s are under consider-ation. Justice League needs to be as big on character, as it does bells & whistles, and the Wachowski’s could probably offer that.”

The Wachowski’s do have some experience with comic-to-film adaptations, bringing a toned-down ver-sion of Alan Moore’s graph-ic novel “V for Vendetta” to the big screen. They also tried to make a movie based on DC hero Plastic Man a few years back, but were unsuccessful.

Moviehole does warn fans about the prospect of the brothers taking over the project. The site points out that the Wachowski’s “defi-nitely like to work at their own speed, and definitely like to do their ‘own’ thing as opposed to being merely one ‘cog’ in a venture, so I can’t see them jumping through hoops to pull the strings on a ‘we want it done now’ large corporate state-ment like this. Still, exciting possibility nonetheless.”

The “Justice League” film is slated for release sometime in 2014.

The “streaming video game service” OnLive un-derwent major changes last week after losing almost fifty percent of its staff.

Rumors began to circu-late earlier this month that the cloud-based gaming service was in the midst of laying off its entire staff. De-spite technically refusing to make an official comment on the speculation, a company representative did make a statement to Joystiq after being asked whether or not the layoffs were really hap-pening.

“We don’t respond to ru-mors, but of course not.”

That turned out to be not entirely true. During a staff meeting, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman announced that OnLive in its original state would be restructured into an entirely new company. This means that each of the com-pany’s 180 to 200 employees were terminated with ben-efits packages to extend to the end of August.

Immediately following the announcement, it was re-vealed that OnLive had been bought by an unnamed third-party investor and would be restructured into a new com-pany.

Less than 50 percent of the company’s employees

were offered invitations to the new, restructured entity. An anonymous source fol-lowed up this announcement by also telling Joystiq that he estimated the conversion rate was closer to 20 percent. According to Joystiq, those that were invited were said to be “management and se-lect members of the opera-tions and engineering teams required to keep the service moving forward.”

Furthermore, any em-ployee could receive stock options in the OnLive brand by helping the transition of the restructuring. How-ever, according to the same anonymous ex-OnLive em-ployee, the stocks would be entirely worthless as the

company is “nowhere near going public.”

Reasons listed for On-Live’s financial troubles are speculated to be the compa-ny’s $5 million monthly op-erating costs as well as low active user numbers. While the company at one time boasted of having two mil-lion accounts, the average number of concurrent users was much, much lower with only about 1800 OnLive members active at one time. For reference, the average number of concurrent users on Valve’s digital download service, Steam, is closer to three million.

Multiple offers to pur-chase OnLive had been made previously, including at least

one from Hewlett-Packard. However, it was widely stat-ed by many OnLive employ-ees that Perlman had been hoping for a purchase offer in the range of $1 billion.

Joystiq’s source contin-ued to comment on Perl-man’s hopes after Sony bought OnLive’s major cloud-based gaming com-petitor, Gaikai.

“Steve got all excited when Gaikai got acquired, because it kind of validated everything we did.”

He continued by saying, “So all of a sudden, Steve was like, ‘When the time is right, we’re going to hit them with our patent because we’re not going to let some

two-bit company ride our coattails.’”

For any OnLive members curious as to what will hap-pen to any games or products they may have purchased, it has been confirmed that all games, apps and devices will continue to operate. This includes the desktop-based service as well as all OnLive consoles.

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This summer, I was blessed with the opportunity to spend five weeks studying in the fantastic city of Lon-don. As luck would have it, I even got to spend the first week and a half of the Olym-pics in the city. The atmo-sphere in London during the games was unlike anything I have experienced before.

Though hosting the Olympics was seen by most Britans as a great honor, and an unmatched opportunity to show off the best of Britan-nia to the world, there was a fair amount of controversy and grumbling as well. The original bid for the cost of the London games was £2.4 billion, but by the time the games were over, the final cost soared to nearly £9.3 billion.

This enormous sum came from both private and public sources. The cost of putting on the games themselves was shouldered largely by corpo-rate sponsors. However, the cost of building the Olympic park and re-developing the East End was funded with public tax money. As a result, many Londoners looked du-biously upon such frivolous spending, questioning what good it would do for Lon-don outside of the short two-week event.

This undertone of mal-content was not helped by the fates of the most recent Olympic host cities. Beijing has had enormous trouble finding uses for its Olympic venues – the famous ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium is currently being used as a Segway ob-stacle course – and Athens, the site of the 2004 Olympic games, has seen its Olympic park to fall into complete

ruin - images of it’s venues conjure up thoughts of post-apocalyptic movies.

When London won the bid for the 2012 Olympic games, a black cloud of doubt followed not far behind. Lon-don, however, learned from its last two predecessors. Its spending was only a fraction of Beijing’s, and its planning was far more integrated into the existing city than Athens. Many Olympic venues in London had pre-determined uses for the post-Olympic city.

Unlike Athens and Bei-jing, London already had a multitude of existing ven-ues available for usage: the O2 for gymnastics, Wem-bley Stadium for football and Wimbledon for Tennis. Furthermore, all constructed venues outside of the Olym-pic park were made tem-porary, including the sand volleyball courts at Horse Guards Parade and the eques-trian grounds in Greenwich.

Still, whether the Brit’s spending will pay off has yet to be seen. It will take some time – perhaps another four years – before we will be able to tell if the London model is one for future Olympic cities to build by. Until then, the current process of hosting Olympic games ought to be scrutinized.

With so much money wasted, certainly a better system could be assembled; a system in which the money invested by the people pays large dividends for them in the future. Because the world can only take so many Athens games, where a two-week event brings down the economy of an entire coun-try.

Nathan is a senior major-ing in landscape architec-ture. Follow him on twitter @nwstottler.

All right yah whelps, lis-ten up and listen real good. I’ve got a lot of knowledge to impart to you all and not a lot of time to do it in. First off, upperclassmen, be nice to the freshies. It’s still their first few weeks of school and they have a lot of high school left in them that they need to let out. Let the administra-tion do their thing and crush their souls; they’re far better at it than you’ll ever be. That way, they’ll be nice and ten-der by the time mid-semester rolls around. If, after that time, the first years are still acting like idiots, I have no qualms about you laying down the law. If you still have it, go ahead and look at your freshman ID photo. . . you were just as big of an idiot back then too - so was I.

Secondly, freshman, a small consortium of the up-per classmen and I have got-ten together to bring you the

following public service an-nouncement. One: the rea-son we can single you out is because you all wear those stupid yellow lanyards. . .dis-card them and put your keys on an actual key ring and your ID next to your driver’s license. It’s just as important on campus as a license is in a car. You need it for books, printing, to eat with a meal plan, to work out and to get back into your Residence Hall. It’s less easy to lose if you store it in your wallet or purse. Not to mention that unless you’re really good with numbers, Murphy’s Law states that you will for-get that 7 digit ID number at the most inconvenient of times. Also, take an after-noon and learn about the reg-ular routes between buildings on campus. Those walkways between buildings are going to be REALLY nice come six feet of snow. The adminis-tration isn’t going to

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Over the summer, I worked as a ride operator at Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America. Yes, it is as awesome as it sounds. The people there are great to work with, and the at-mosphere is vibrant. Some-times, if a child is too short to ride by themselves, but doesn’t have an adult to ride with, I get to ride along, es-sentially being paid to ride a rollercoaster and scream as loudly as I like for two and a half minutes. How cool is that? Eat your hearts out.

I love almost everything about my job. However, no job is perfect, and for all that is good with it, mine is unfortunately no exception. Customer service is always a mixed bag. Most people are pleasant to deal with, but coming across individuals who I would readily clas-sify as “stark-raving mad” is not a rarity. When I share this with those I talk to about my job, they guess that I’m

referring to the kids. It’s not the kids, though- it’s their parents I have, by far, the most difficult and frequent issues with, and I never cease to be amazed by this.

Amusement parks have very few rules. If you pay the price of admission, listen to directions, do the activi-ties offered and try not to be overwhelmingly unpleasant, you will probably have a fun time and be happier for it when you leave. For some reason, many people have a terribly difficult time follow-ing what seems to be a fairly reasonable and straightfor-ward set of directions. As a result, they leave absolutely miserable at a place where that shouldn’t even be pos-sible. As soon as one ex-ample of terrifically asinine behavior has dubbed itself in my psyche as the greatest standard of stupidity, which is humanly possible to con-ceive, another soon takes its place and I fear more in-tensely than before for the future of mankind.

I have personally been the object of a variety of in-sults, including “minimum-wage power-monger,” all

after calmly explaining to a guest that they cannot do everything they want to. Recently, after I informed a woman that she couldn’t keep her hat on board, she cried loudly enough for ev-eryone in line and on board to hear, “I’m a f*****g can-cer survivor! I don’t have to do anything!” Every single day, there is someone who insists that their child, who is too short to ride, must ride because “he really wants to,” “he has Asperger’s,” or “it’s her birthday,” even though nothing good would come of it for me if I allowed it. Every issue with a guest that I’ve seen could have been avoided if they had chosen to use some common sense. However, for whatever rea-son this escapes them, and an otherwise undemanding situation gets blown out of proportion.

It sometimes seems that growing older doesn’t al-ways mean getting wiser. You need only look so long before some instances will demonstrate this; examples are everywhere. One of my co-workers once told me, “I didn’t know that people like

this existed outside of TV shows.” That grown men and women, many of them partially educated, could act this way is something I don’t think I’ll completely understand this side of life. I couldn’t expound on the causes with any accuracy or completeness, but what I can say is that common cour-tesy is easy to forget, matu-rity notwithstanding. I am often guilty of this, as well. Whatever the problems, the solutions are easier to point out, simple to carry out and worth the time to rehearse. I have had the good fortune to get to know a number of students on this campus, and I’ve liked the vast majority of them. They listen politely, have good things to say, ask good questions and are will-ing to help you out in a bind. We need more people who perform these small courte-sies. It is living out these kin-dergarten lessons that make this a better university.

Joshua is a senior major-ing in Sociology and Phi-losophy.

The advent of reality tele-vision is as old as most new freshman at NDSU. Reality TV itself is inherently voy-euristic and often a guilty pleasure. To each their own. Yet, the newer drive of real-ity TV shows on addiction and mental illness “Inter-vention,” “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” and the new-est- “Addicted” bothers me because they are inherently exploitative.

This is not supposed to be a complete indictment of these shows and people who watch them, but merely a deeper examination of this social phenomenon. Like most things, it is complicat-ed. Let me elaborate.

These shows are posi-tive in that they provide free treatment for addicts and their families. They also pro-vide mainstream exposure to addictions and mental ill-nesses that were formerly taboo topics. It can be reas-suring for people personally struggling with addiction or trying to intervene with a family member to know that they are not alone.

Yet, these addiction real-ity shows are more problem-atic than helpful. They gain

profits at the expense of very sick people. The shows feel a lot like staring at the scene of a car wreck. People often do not stop and gawk at a devastation out of ill intent, but out of curiosity. It just saddens me that we find en-tertainment through other

people’s suffering in such a manipulative manner.

Specifically, producers of addiction reality shows manipulate participants by asking them to be in a “docu-mentary on addiction” and do not mention the interven-tion itself. Producers prey on people in the throes of their addiction when they are most vulnerable.

Some might argue that producers’ manipulation is necessary in order to get sick people help and would likely decline an intervention. But it is despicable to me that it reduces real, live suffering human beings to caricatures for entertainment and shock value. This would be bet-

ter served in a soap opera or drama.

Think about how you would feel if a film crew was following you at your worst moments. I cringe at the thought of a film crew following me down through the trenches of my addiction. Some addiction counselors and defenders of “Interven-tion” have countered that an addict seeing themselves at their worst point can be a motivator in recovery and prevent relapse.

I disagree. These are painful, haunting times. Ad-dicts deal with enough pain without being filmed for mil-lions of viewers. They deal with shame, humiliation, and guilt combined with the physical effects of withdraw-al and re-building a sober life.

Moreover, “Intervention” and other addiction reality TV shows primarily focus on the shock value of showing addicts using drugs or alco-hol, family drama and fight-ing. The addict’s experience at treatment and in recovery is basically an afterthought, often skimmed over in the last minute of the show. If people relapse, it is perceived as a failed intervention, not part of the ongoing road to recovery. That saddens me.

Also, these shows are of-ten used for educational pur-

poses at addiction treatment centers and for psychology classes. This is problematic because shock value tac-tics, such as showing omi-nous statistics and someone shooting up, are proven to be ineffective in preventing drug use and especially ad-diction. Once addicted to a substance, people lose the ability to make rational deci-sions and it becomes merely a physical need. Scaring people and making them feel guilty does not help.

Instead of seeing more depressing stories about the abyss of addiction, addicts and their families need to know there is hope to live without substances. “Ce-lebrity Rehab with Doctor Drew” is a more positive re-ality addiction show because it offers hope through show-ing the process of treatment and people dealing with the ongoing daily battles of ad-diction.

Recovery is complex and intensely personal, and the path is different for every-one. I cannot help but shud-der when I see these things merely reduced to entertain-ment. I guess that is show ‘biz itself. Cue the ominous, dramatic music here.

Tessa is a senior major-ing in English.

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Speaking of which, GO TO CLASS. I don’t care if it’s Calculus 2 at 8 in the morning and you have no idea what’s going on. Keep showing up. You’re not go-ing to get it if you stay in bed, and you certainly aren’t going to get it if you’re on Facebook all the time. Be-lieve me, I’ve been there and done that. Your persistence will pay off, even if it is only in the form of a C. This is especially important if you have English courses, they have a rule where they can and will auto-fail you if you don’t make it to X number of classes over the course of the semester.

Parallel with going to

class, you must study. Learn the names of the people you sit next to in class and fig-ure out if you have similar thought processes. They might be able to explain to you what the heck that per-son up front is prattling on about. Take time out of class to review material, and not just the week before the test. Do it daily. Just a little bit every day helps. And be-sides, you never know when that university physics group is going to turn into a student organization that takes over a sizeable portion of the stu-dent union.

Speaking of how you spend your time, yes, you are here for school first, but find an organization and get involved. Not just any or-

ganization, it doesn’t count if you’re not at least semi-passionate about what they represent and how they carry themselves. Don’t just “fit in,” that’s not good enough. Strive for high ideals to make yourself, the campus, and the world around you a better place.

And, finally, when you’ve learned all that you can learn, and touched all the lives around you that you possi-bly can, and you are a senior with graduation just around the corner (OMG MAY!), take a look at what you have wrought over the course of your time here at NDSU and remember one very im-portant thing: be nice to the freshies.

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If none of you have heard, there is a football game this weekend. The Bison open their highly anticipated sea-son Saturday against Robert Morris. The game, sold out for the last month, is going to be one of the most memora-ble openers in NDSU history. Whether it’s the expanded tailgating section, the new Astroturf making its debut, the national championship banner being revealed, or the 2012 Bison team coming out of the locker room after the countdown, the Fargodome will be electric all day. Af-ter all these shenanigans are done, it is game time. NDSU returns many faces that will be recognizable to fans. How-ever, there are several play-ers who will be seen making plays that fans may need to check their program for. I’m here to help. Here are my top five players to watch for Sat-urday against Robert Morris.

5. # 34 Grant Olson Many fans are familiar

with the name Grant Olson, but some may not be used to seeing him on the field. Stricken by injuries last sea-son, Olson was limited in his contributions to the team. Considered the heir apparent of four-year starter Preston Evens, Olson now has the chance to showcase his talent as he mans this talented de-fense at the middle linebacker spot. Fans should expect to see #34 all over the field Sat-urday.

4. #59 Joe HaegAs a redshirt freshman,

Joe Haeg has the shoes of All-American right-tackle Paul Cornick to fill. As a walk-on at NDSU, Haeg’s name will not be recognizable to many fans. Craig Bohl and his coaching staff, however, found promise in the six-foot six-inch, 280-pound lineman. Pounding the ball and protect-

ing QB Brock Jensen are es-sential for the Bison to have a successful year. Haeg will be a big part in making sure that happens.

3. #2 Brendin Pierre After seeing playing time

his freshman year, Pierre did not hit the field once last year. Academic problems led to a suspension from the team. However, Pierre is back, and Bison fans better prepare themselves for possibly the best set of cornerbacks in the FCS. Pierre’s talent may be close in comparison to pre-season All-American’s Mar-cus Williams. Robert Morris will try their best to avoid Williams and that means Pierre will see plenty of ac-tion in his first game since the suspension.

2. #82 Zach VraaThe former Mr. Football

player from Rosemount High School, Vraa has battled col-larbone injuries during his time at NDSU. Now healthy, Vraa is ready to show Bison fans how big of a target he can be at wide receiver. NDSU is in need of a downfield threat after Warren Holloway gradu-ated. Vraa, with incredible leaping ability, will be seen making plays deep into the secondary and should be Jen-sen’s number target in the red zone.

1. #23 John CrockettI’m sure almost all Bison

fans have heard Crockett’s name during fall camp, but literally no one has seen him in a collegiate game. Crockett has sat out the last two years due to academics. Now, the playmaking running back is ready to electrify the Far-godome after quickly being named the No. 2 back behind Sam Ojuri. Being recruited by almost every Big Ten school, no one should question his talent. Once Crockett has fully shaken off the rust, get ready for the best duo of run-ning backs NDSU has seen in a long time.

The NDSU volleyball team has yet to find the win column. After losing their first two games of the sea-son at the Northern Illinois Invitational, the Bison were swept by Wichita State to close out the tournament on Sunday.

The last time NDSU has

started 0-3 was back in 2005.Wichita State was con-

stantly on the offensive, only trailing once after the open-ing point of the second set in their 25-18, 25-6, 25-23 win. NDSU could not find a way to fight back when they trailed.

“Right now, we’re look-ing to find out who our lead-ers are,” said head coach Kari Thompson of the strug-gles. “We’re going to need all three of our leaders, our

seniors, to step up. That’s not saying they can’t physically have a bad match, they still have to lead when they’re not having a great match themselves.”

For the Bison, it was freshman outside hitter Jenni Fassbender who shined, hit-ting .429 with 11 kills. Cath-erine Yager had 22 assists and Andrea Henning made 15 digs for NDSU.

One bright spot for the Herd was sophomore middle

hitter Carissa Whalen being named to the all-tournament team after hitting a team-best .388 with 11 blocks in the in-vitational.

NDSU has a week of practice before competing in the Hampton Inn and Suites Northern Colorado Classic. The Bison are set to play Air Force, Oklahoma and North-ern Colorado next Friday and Saturday.

Quotes courtesy of GoBi-son.com

The Bison soccer team battled hard in Moscow, Ida-ho but could not finish the game. NDSU was knotted at 0-0 with the Idaho State Van-dals until the 70th minute of the match.

The Vandals pulled ahead with two goals in the final 20 minutes to take the 2-0 win.

Chelsea Small of the Van-dals found the back of the net first followed my teammate Breanna Wilson 14 minutes later.

Jill Flockhart assisted Small who accumulated four shots and three shots on goal during Sundays match.

Wilson ended the game with three shots and one shot

on goal. Wilson’s goal was aided by Katie Baran who made the cross allowing Wil-son to tap it in.

NDSU Senior Holly Christian came close to put-ting the team on the board. She led NDSU offensively with two shots and one shot on goal.

Idaho led significantly with a 24-4 in totally shots. NDSU followed close behind in corner kicks with a 7-6 ad-vantage.

North Dakota State’s freshman goalkeeper Sierra Bonham made her second straight start making six saves in the game.

NDSU will wrap up its season-opening five-game road swing with a match at Drake University on Sun., Sept. 2. The home opener against Bemidji State is slated for Fri., Sept. 7, at 4 p.m.

Coming from small town Belfield, North Dakota, my view on sports is different from many people. Due to the small numbers in my high school, many oppor-tunities were wide open for me to succeed in many dif-ferent facets of life, includ-ing sports. My chances to participate in these things are greatly decreased now that I have moved on campus, but my expectations of these sports remain the same. One sport that certainly brought attention to North Dakota State has been football. Football is a passion in my life, so seeing NDSU win the national championship against Sam Houston State was certainly a thrill. Going to this year’s football games is certainly something I look forward to.

However, there is a wide range of other sports that have seen a great amount of success. NDSU’s volleyball team ended last season with a record of 26-9 and a Sum-mit League championship, and have been predicted to win it yet again. In basket-ball, the men’s and the wom-en’s teams both finished with a winning record at home and are looking to improve on last year’s performance for NDSU. The men’s base-ball and women’s softball teams also won their Sum-mit League championships and have each already been picked to repeat. There are countless other sports that have experienced an incred-ible amount of success while representing the green and gold.

These achievements, however, are not what I an-ticipate most from sporting events at my new home. Back in Belfield, sports were not only seen as a physical activity, but as a social one

as well. If somebody wasn’t out on the field, they were cheering from the stands or helping with concessions. It was a group effort and every-one at school had a helping hand in our teams’ victories, and no piece of the puzzle was more important than the next.

I expect the same camara-derie here in college. I hope every fan sees how impor-tant they are to helping teams win, either by volunteer-ing to help out for the team away from the competition, or just cheering as loud as they can during it. Making noise during a football, vol-leyball, basketball or almost any other game can often be the difference between a loss and a win.

All-Pro quarterback Drew Brees knows how important each and every person is for a team. After breaking the single season passing record, he gave a televised speech in the locker room. However, he never once talked about

himself. He only talked about what his equipment managers, teammates, fans, coaches, trainers and owners did. “I want all of you to be proud of this because it’s all about you,” Brees said. “It’s not about one person.”

I look forward to this same sort of thing from the athletic program at NDSU. When I first decided that I wanted to go to school here, I knew that the odds of me be-ing recruited to play football here were about the same as a Lamborghini falling from the sky being in my name and fully insured. What I fully wanted though, and still do, was to go to an abundance of games covered in green and gold and ready to cheer. I also trust that any team that I go to watch will play like a sportsmanlike team and put on a show at the same time. Most of all, I fully expect my fellow students and my-self to, as a whole, help our teams compete and continue to win.

In 1999, a young cyclist rose to fame after beating the slim odds of cancer survival and winning his first Tour de France title. Today, that same cyclist rises again, but this time, for a whole new reason.

The year was 1996, and a young Lance Armstrong, age 25, was diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer, which had eventually made its way to his lungs and brain. With little chance of survival, this determined young man set out to defy the odds that no one had ever imagined of achieving. In 1997, Armstrong formed a nonprofit cancer support foundation called the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Two years later, he would go on to win his first Tour de France

title and continue to win them for the next six years.

In recent days, Lance Armstrong has made the news again. This time, how-ever, it is not because he won another Tour de France title to accompany his seven oth-er wins. The United States Anti-Doping Agency has charged Armstrong with us-ing banned substances and prohibited blood transfu-sions to gain a competitive edge. Because of these al-legations, which Armstrong has refused to fight, the cy-clist has been stripped of all wins from August 1, 1998, to today (which include his seven Tour de France titles). Armstrong has also been given a lifetime ban from the sport he became so famous for participating in.

While participating in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Armstrong’s teammate Tyler Hamilton had tested positive for blood doping and had

been suspended twice for us-ing performance-enhancing drugs. Having been stripped of his gold medal from the Athens Olympics, Hamilton claims that Armstrong had used a blood-boosting drug while winning his first Tour de France title in 1999.

During an interview, Armstrong made the fol-lowing quote: “I have been subjected to a two-year fed-eral criminal investigation followed by Travis Tygart’s [USADA’s chief executive officer] unconstitutional witch hunt. The toll this has taken on my family and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today - finished with this nonsense.”

Over the years, Arm-strong claims to have passed every drug test that has been given to him. There is even proof that would show Armstrong has been passing these tests. If this is the case,

then why is the USADA still attacking the famous cyclist? If he’s been passing the tests, then why is it such an issue now, when it has been a year since he retired from the sport? Is it because there have been many other cyclists that have been test-ing positive for using perfor-mance-enhancing drugs? Or is it because Armstrong won the most prestigious race for a cyclist seven years in a row, a feat that one could consider almost impossible to achieve? In the end, no one may ever know the real truth.

In the past, there have been many athletes who have shined in everyone’s eye as a hero of their sport, only to be brought back down due to positive drug testing. So what do we as fans have to look forward to if this may be, in some cases, the ultimate outcome of their athletes’ shining reign?

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Game day. The one day of the week that doesn’t make you second guess why you decided to come to col-lege in lil’ ole Fargo. Just the thought of it gives you that ball of nervous energy in the pit of your stomach. Well folks, that day is almost here.

I would be willing to bet most of you remember your first Bison football game. Whether you were a little kid, walking bright-eyed into the FargoDome for the first time or an overly, en-ergetic freshman stumbling into your seat in student sec-tion, you never forget when you first caught Bison fever. A lot of you were born with it. Growing up in rural towns around the area with no Di-vision I football program for miles, you were brought up

in the Bison family. Some of you are like me, tracing your roots back to the “cities” plagued with a horrendous football program residing in Minneapolis. Deprived of a good college football up-bringing, we less fortunate were raised without a sense of “Our Team.” That is until we caught our first glimpse of the Thundering Herd.

Mine was two years ago. I was a freshman spin-ning my wheels at a techni-cal school in North St. Paul, worrying too much about baseball and women to gain the importance of academics and where it might take me.

To my luck, I had arrived in Fargo at an interesting time. The Bison were a sput-tering team with no sense of direction coming into the game with a 4-3 record, sit-ting the bottom of the Mis-souri Valley Conference which they had joined just two years prior.

The Bison were set to square off against confer-ence opponent Indiana State. I didn’t know what to ex-pect as I walked through the gates, entering the Far-goDome for the first time. Immediately, the sea of gold that filled the Dome took me off-guard. The rabid chants coming from the student section, the pure, raw sense of school pride. It was some-thing I have never felt be-fore.

After finding my seat in a crowded student section, it took me approximately 2.7 seconds to join my, for at least that day, fellow Bison family root on our boys we admired so dearly.

The fact that I fell for this team during the Mohler-era would have been a mira-cle in itself. But what really caught me off guard was the feeling I had exiting the sta-dium. The bond I had cre-ated with the Bison program

in those three short hours had surprisingly stuck with me. Long after the game was sealed by a Daniel Eaves pick-six, I felt the urgency to want more.

More is what I got trans-ferring to NDSU last fall riding alongside the team as they were crowned FCS champions for the first time, and it was truly a special mo-ment for me.

Coincidentally, the Indi-ana State game sent the Bi-son on a tear for the rest of the season as they got their first taste of FCS playoff ac-tion. Realistically, I know it had little to do with me at-tending the “turn-around” game, but I couldn’t help but feel I was a part of some-thing that unseasonably warm Saturday in late Octo-ber. It was just one of those perfect days. A day you only experience living in lil’ ole Fargo.

There’s no question you’ve heard the buzz go-ing around campus. With the Bison football season opener this Saturday night at the Fargo Dome, everybody’s talking football. Coming off their national championship season, the football team will kick off the 2012 year against the Colonials of Robert Mor-ris. But who is Robert Mor-ris?

Coming out of the North-east conference, the Colo-nials were a whopping 2-9 last season. Their defense gave up just under 28 points a game to opposing offenses, while their offense struggled to average just over 19 points a game. With stats like those from last season, you have to wonder what kind of firepow-er the Colonials are capable of this Saturday, if any.

The Bison however, are a different story. Fresh off a 14-1 record complimented with trophies, rings, smiles and memories, NDSU steps onto the field for the first time in 2012 to defend their National Championship. In 2011, the Bison averaged just over 31 points a game, while giving up under 13 points a game. As you can see, the Bi-son not only have firepower on offense, but on defense as well. But with offensive weapons like DJ McNorton, Matt Veldman and Warren Holloway all gone, the Bison will have to look elsewhere on offense.

That being said, three big stars from last year also re-turn on offense for their ju-nior seasons with the Bison.

Quarterback Brock Jensen, running back Sam Ojuri and wide receiver Ryan Smith all look poised to carry on the success from last season into this season. Sprinkle in some impressive junior offensive lineman like Billy Turner and Tyler Gimmestad, just to name a few, and the Bison offense looks locked, cocked and ready to fire on all cylin-ders once again.

On the defensive side of the ball the Bison will surely miss the inside linebacker presence of Preston Evans and the contributions of safety John Pike who were both lost to graduation. But there’s no need to dwell Bison fans, as plenty of firepower remains. Junior corner back Marcus Williams is coming off his All-American season and is set to be a part of an impres-sive defensive backs crew in-cluding sophomore Christian Dudzik, junior Colten Heagle and Andre Martin Jr., who is an impressive senior cor-ner back that just transferred from Missouri Valley Confer-ence for UNI. Add returning pieces like Grant Olson, Kyle Emanuel, Leevon Perry, Cole Jirik, Ryan Drevlow and the MVP of the National Cham-pionship game Travis Beck to the puzzle, and the Bison look arguably even stronger on defense this year.

As an avid sports fan here at North Dakota State, writ-ing this story gives me goose bumps. I was in Frisco, TX last year to see our Bison take home the trophy and I’m more ready than ever for Bi-son football to be under way again. This Saturday night at just a couple minutes past the 6 o’clock hour, everybody will be up for the kickoff, be-cause THE MARCH IS ON!

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