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Housing in capacity crisisIs this the end of an era?

>ALEX CAVANAUGHThe Dakota StudentJust over two weeks ago, the last of the US combat troops in

Iraq crossed the border into Kuwait in what marks the end of a seven and a half year effort initiated by former president George W. Bush and completed by President Barack Obama just before his promised deadline, which is today. But now, the question that lingers is whether or not the military effort has indeed been com-pleted.

While the last of the combat troops have left, 50,000 troops will remain to assist and support the Iraqi military’s training. This withdrawal came just two days after a suicide bomber killed 60 Iraqi army soldiers and recruits outside a Baghdad army base. This event is an example of the volatility of the terrorist situation in Iraq, and while this stands as a historic event and the end of an expensive and controversial effort, some are left uneasy.

One of UND’s many veteran students, National Guard Spe-cialist Michael Walery, served two tours in Iraq, the fi rst from December of 2003 until February of 2005, and the second from June 2008 until June of the following year. Walery’s experience in Iraq was unique and insightful to the progress made, as he served both times in the same neighborhood in Baquba, which is just north of Baghdad.

During his time, Walery noticed a signifi cant difference in the situation there. “The routes that we were getting blasted on

and ambushed in the fi rst tour were not a concern in the second,” Walery said. “We had the insurgents pushed out into the boon-docks.”

SPC Walery’s mission was to ensure the roads were cleared of bombs, which gave him intimate experience with the neigh-borhood he patrolled daily and is how he noticed the area had changed between his tours. Where in his fi rst tour the soldiers had to patrol specifi c neighborhoods, in his second tour their area of responsibility had multiplied as the threat of attack had decreased.

“Most locals are in support of peace, it seemed they just wouldn’t allow terrorists to operate in their neighborhoods any-more.”

Walery compared this to the tendency people have in the US to take an active part in protecting their own neighborhoods, and he could tell that the neighborhoods were an important part of the cause. “It was great to see how the streets and people had changed,” Walery said.

It is because of this notable difference and the overall state of the situation in Iraq, with the example of the bombing on the 17th, that Walery fi nds the withdrawal “forced and somewhat tragic.”

“When the public hears about ‘combat troops’, they don’t

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UND cultural center earns distinction

DORMS Johnstone and other resi-dence halls are experiencing issues with overfi lling as this year has seen a sharp increase in hall residents.

>BRANDI JEWETTThe Dakota Student

Students living in the residence halls may fi nd themselves passing a few more neighbors in the hall-way. According to the Housing Offi ce, the number of students living in the university’s 14 residence halls has jumped about 240 people to a total of 3,008 residents this year.

“I’d like to think that students know it’s a great place to live,” offered Cindy Spencer, Director of Edu-cation and Residence Life. “They’re convenient and full of activities.”

However, some students’ residence hall experience is much different than what they hoped it would be. Due to the large number of residents, some students have been placed into overfl ow housing.

According to Spencer, a Johnstone lounge has be-come home to four young men. The lounge features all the amenities of a normal residence hall room in-

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The Era Bell Thompson Cultural Center, International Centre and American Indian Student Services provide a multitude of opportunities for cultural events, including international nights, the Time-Out week and Wacipi Powwow, among other events throughout the year.

The Era Bell Thompson Multicultural Center right here on campus has earned the distinction as one of the top 100 most active in the nation by the Association for Black Cultural Centers (ABCC).

For those of you who may be new and unfamiliar to campus, The Era Bell Thompson center is home to the Multi-cultural Student Service Center (MSS), which provides academic, fi nancial, per-sonal and social support to African Ameri-can, Asian American and Hispanic Ameri-can students on campus. It plays host to many diverse student organizations and is also responsible for promoting diversity on the UND campus.

Some of the MSS objectives include: “Foster an understanding of culturally di-verse populations by developing programs that increase awareness of other cultures and appreciations of each person’s cul-ture,” as well as, “Create a safe and wel-coming cultural center that encourages all students, faculty, and staff to become active and involved citizens within the col-lege community.”

In a response to the question on how the ABCC rated the different centers across the nation, Dr. Fred Lee Hord,

the founder and executive director of the ABCC, stated, “We made a collective deci-sion… we started from 1989 forward. We considered two very important criteria. One is the institutional membership, cur-rent or recent. The second is attendance at the [national ABCC] conference. We wanted to acknowledge all the institutions who have participated with the ABCC. Therefore the Multicultural Center has no particular numerical ranking among the top 100 selected by the ABCC.”

The ABCC has more than seven hun-dred members or affi liates in all fi fty states in the Caribbean and West Africa.

The ABCC fi rst started with Dr. Hord as the fi rst director of the Center for

Police responded to a report of a very loud party at a house near University park at around 11:00 p.m. last Saturday night and issued 104 citations after receiving no cooperation from the party-goers.

The offenses ranged from Failure to Disperse from a Noisy Party and Minor in Consumption. Offi cers arrested ten of the individuals. That weekend was especially active in terms of police calls for similar in-cidents.

>LISA CASAREZThe Dakota Student

RANKING Home of Multicultur-al Student Services and one of several diversity programs, Era Bell recognized for excellence.

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World Brief New book puts writer in jeopardy

>RENEE SCHOOFMcClatchy Newspapers

CONTROVERSY Au-thor takes on China’s premier, aware that free speech has a cost.

BEIJING—Yu Jie has picked a fi ght with the Communist Party of China, and if state secu-rity forces haul him away in the dark of night, there will be no one to stop them. It’s a risk Yu took knowingly when he wrote a book published this month that slammed the country’s prime minister as an “actor” shilling for an authoritarian government.

His challenge is a rarity in a nation noted for its rough treat-ment of dissidents, and is made all the more remarkable by the fact that Yu, an unassuming au-thor who looks like a Beijing of-fi ce worker, has no prominent family or professional connec-tions in China to bail him out of prison.

Yu’s book, “China’s Best Ac-tor: Wen Jiabao,” is now a closely watched test case of Beijing’s tol-erance of free speech. How the government proceeds against him will either stoke fears of a growing police state or provide an example of a more nuanced leadership un-happy with criticism but willing

to tolerate a certain amount.“Doing something like this is

not a joke. You have to be very se-rious; you have to know what you are doing,” said Bao Pu, the head of the Hong Kong publishing house that printed the book—which is banned in the mainland. “You have to be willing to accept the risks.”

Bao said that at one point he gave Yu a 24-hour last chance to “think about the consequences.”

Yu, a quiet man in silver-framed glasses and receding black hair, answered that he’s ready for what may come.

Many observers worry that it will include a jail cell.

In a recent interview at a Bei-jing teahouse, Yu told McClatchy Newspapers the issue was much bigger than his personal story.

“The main purpose of this book is not just to criticize Wen Jiabao,” said Yu, wearing a short-sleeve polo shirt that hung loose on his narrow shoulders and slightly rumpled slacks. “To criti-cize the top leaders of this govern-ment is the right of every Chinese citizen. If I’m not put into prison after the book was published, I hope this will encourage more people to speak out.”

Wen Jiabao is seen by many Chinese as a grandfather fi gure of sorts —“grandpa” might be the better way of putting it—a smil-

ing man who often shuttles to the scenes of natural disasters to offer condolence and support.

Yu’s book, though, is a scath-ing critique of Wen that describes him as another cog of a ruthless central government, a friendly face on a harsh regime. The di-rectness of his prose is striking in a country where dissent is seldom voiced or is so veiled that it loses meaning.

“China is a nation that is obsessed with creating gods and myths, even during (President) Hu Jintao’s era of mediocrity, they still have to create the myth of a Wen Jiabao to soothe peo-ple’s lost hearts,” Yu wrote in one

chapter.Referring to the Chinese

children who died recently from poisoned milk and poorly built schools that collapsed in an earthquake, Yu asked: “Mr. Wen Jiabao, what kind of rela-tionship do those citizens that died from ridiculous causes have with the rapid develop-ment of the country’s GDP that you are so fond of talking about?”

Yu is well aware of the po-tential costs of airing his views in public. A longtime friend

Yu Jie wrote a book recently published in Hong Kong that’s sharply critical of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

Famine now threatens PakistanEMERGENCY Food crisis looms after recent devastating fl oods in the middle-eastern country.

>TOM LASSETERMcClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON—The worst fl oods in Pakistan’s history already have swept through the nation’s most important breadbasket provinces, destroying cotton and corn crops, vegetables and orchards, and leaving many people in need of emergency food.

Now experts warn that the food crisis could expand into a long-term problem if farmers can’t get the seeds, draft animals and irrigation repairs they need for the fall planting of wheat, the nation’s most important crop.

The fl oods in Pakistan since July are one of the biggest disasters in re-cent world history. Some 17 million people have been affected, and 1,600 have been killed. Much of the na-tion’s farmland has been inundated, leaving crops destroyed and markets empty.

Pakistan’s government estimated that 23 percent of the current crop was destroyed.

“It’s making the food-insecure areas much more insecure,” said So-

hail Jehangir Malik, who’s worked as a development expert in Pakistan and for international research and development organizations and now runs a consulting fi rm in Islamabad. He was visiting Washington for work with the International Food Policy Research Institute and the World Bank.

The looming wheat crisis in Pak-istan comes as a drought and wild-fi res in Russia have cut the harvest there and have helped to drive up worldwide wheat prices.

The fl oods in Pakistan also have destroyed the logistics and transpor-tation systems that make it possible to get food to markets, Malik said. In addition, much of the stored wheat saved for seed or food stocks has rot-ted because it couldn’t be kept dry.

Poor people have very little abil-ity to store food in Pakistan, Malik said. “They are completely vulner-able.”

Poverty has been increasing, and the number of people who are land-less or have only tiny farms has been rising. Many Pakistanis think that the previous government seriously underreported the nation’s poverty statistics, Malik said.

The important cotton and wheat areas of Punjab and Sindh provinces are prosperous agricultural areas, but they also have very high poverty rates because a small number of large

landlords own the land, he said. The fl oods devastated both provinces.

Flooding was getting worse in southern Sindh province but the waters reportedly were receding in Punjab, the United Nations reported Friday.

Many areas are still under wa-ter, and it’s not clear how much of the land will be ready to plant this fall, the U.N. report said. In south-ern Sindh, it could be six to eight weeks before the soil is fi t for plant-ing, probably past the best time for sowing.

The loss of draft animals will make it hard for farmers to get the fi elds ready, the United Nations add-ed. In some places, so much silt has been deposited that it is too deep to plow and machinery will be needed. In the higher elevation areas of Khy-ber Pakhtunkhwa province, the top layer of fertile soil has been washed away and what remains is barren.

Malik said that some areas might have better soil after the fl oods, but the quality of the next wheat crop will depend on whether seeds, fertil-izer and irrigation water will be avail-able.

Much of Pakistan’s agriculture depends on irrigation, and it’s not clear how quickly the damaged canal system can be repaired. The fl oods damaged the irrigation systems ex-tensively in all provinces.

The fl oods also destroyed corn, vegetable, fruit, sugarcane and cot-ton crops. Wheat, the country’s most important crop by far, isn’t sown until September or October.

If farmers are unable to plant, a massive loss of food production in 2011 and possibly long-term food shortages could result, Abdul Wajid Rana, the economic minister at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, wrote in an Aug. 20 report.

A recent report by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service said that environmental fac-tors—such as water and food scar-city, natural disasters and the future effects of climate change —could weaken an already weak Pakistani government and help radical Isla-mist groups recruit more members.

Scientists say it’s impossible to link any single extreme weather event such as the Pakistan fl oods to climate change. Still, the fl ooding, along with this summer’s drought in Russia and other extreme weath-er events, is part of a pattern of in-creased heat waves, droughts and heavy rains in some parts of the world since 1950.

Climate researchers also report that higher levels of heat-trapping gases from fossil fuels not only will raise temperatures but also will pro-duce an increase in droughts, heat waves and fl oods in the future.

Mexico captures U.S.-born drug lord

MEXICO CITY—Mexico announced the capture Monday of one of its most sought-after fugitive drug lords, a Texas-born traffi cker accused of unleashing a wave of brutal slayings and a ruthless battle with rivals.

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, also known by the improbable nick-name of “La Barbie,” was seized by federal police agents Monday afternoon in the state of Mexi-co, the region that surrounds Mexico City, the Public Security Ministry said in a statement.

Mexican television showed a photograph of newly captured Valdez, plumper than he was in earlier known pictures and sur-rounded by police offi cers, some with their guns drawn.

Valdez served as the top en-forcer for Arturo Beltran Leyva, a major kingpin killed by Mexi-can troops in December. Since Beltran’s death, Valdez had been locked in a vicious war with Bel-tran’s brother Hector for control of the cartel’s business.

The fi ghting brought gang-land-style executions and the hanging of beheaded corpses to the previously peaceful town of Cuernavaca, a playground for the elite outside Mexico City that turned out to be headquar-ters for part of the Beltran Leyva gang.

The U.S. government had offered a $2 million reward for Valdez’s capture after indicting him for allegedly smuggling huge quantities of cocaine into the United States.

Apple unveils new iPod Nano, Apple TV

SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. took the wraps off its latest iPod media players Wednesday and also updated its Apple TV offering, an-nouncing a more compact and cheaper device that will arrive later this month.

At a media event in San Francisco, Apple showcased the company’s newest iPods. The company’s popular iPod Nano will get a multitouch screen, while the iPod Touch will get many of the features of Apple’s iPhone 4, including a high-resolution display and a front-facing video camera.

The new iPods will go on sale next week. The iPod Nano will start at $149 for an 8 gi-gabyte version, while an iPod Touch with the same memory will start at $229.

“Even though the iPod has the No. 1 market share, we’ve never rested on our laurels,” Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said at the event, calling the latest updates “the big-gest change to our iPod lineup ever.”

TOM LASSETER > MCT

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As most have probably heard, enrollment at UND is up by a signifi cant amount this year, but probably only the dorm-dwellers know that this has created diffi culties with housing this semester. While it’s great that we have more students, it’s not great that they are staying in makeshift, temporary living spaces.

Most college students have experienced the stress that entails moving in to a new place, especially as a freshman. Getting your fi nal housing assignment over the summer of your roommate(s) and dorm is exciting, but this year numerous students were contacted and asked to change their housing arrangements in an effort to accommodate more students.

This wasn’t just a few students that were miscounted for when Housing looked at all the students who wanted to live on-campus; there was enough of a discrepancy be-tween available rooms and actual students that now some are living in lounges and others have been moved to Ham-line Square (which Housing has had diffi culty fi lling since it opened). For a freshman, Hamline Square is pretty far away from the action.

Apartment style living is generally much less open and social than a dorm, and since housing requires one of the leaseholders to be 2,1 the majority of the student in Ham-line Square are upperclassmen. New students who choose to live in the dorms often do so for the social aspect, and a number of students have been denied the opportunity as the school year begins.

One student had requested to have a double as a single for this school year and was told she received it, and there-fore signed her contract assuming she was getting just that, a double as a single. However, later in the summer she was contacted by housing and asked to take on a roommate. The student said if that was the case she wanted to back out of her contract and fi nd somewhere to live off campus; she knew she had a tough semester coming up and didn’t want to take a chance having a noisy room she couldn’t study in.

They weren’t forcing it at this point, but it was made clear that it was a distinct possibility she would need to accept having a roommate. She asked if she would receive her housing deposit back if she chose to no longer live in the dorms due to the change in living situation. Housing not-so-sympathetically said she would not be getting her deposit back if she backed out of the contract. But she wasn’t backing out; she was upholding the contract, the one that she signed with the understanding that she’d be living in a double as a single.

Living in a dorm isn’t like summer camp; this is where many students start their new life as freshmen. It’s where students study, make friends and spend time alone when needed. For the price we’re paying, we have a right to choose our living situations.

dS Viewdisplaced students Many fi nd their liv-ing situations unfavorably changed.

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Letter: UND Transportation Fails On August 10 of this year, UND

Transportation inexplicably decided to no longer provide campus shuttle ser-vice to a stop that it had formerly ser-viced for numerous years.

Previously one of the busiest stops on the campus shuttle route, the stop at Sixth Ave. and 43 St. N provided shuttle service as part of their regular route to campus for the over 20 individual apart-ment buildings that surround the stop.

This service was relied on by many of the students who lived by the stop; I personally chose my apartment and continued to stay at my apartment be-cause of it. A memo dated August 10th is hardly adequate notice for those of us to prepare for a change of this magnitude while preparing for this school year.

In its Memo (that I am sure almost none of you got), UND Transporta-tion gave no reason for the discontinu-ation and stated that students can take the City Metro Bus service to campus. While the Metro Bus provides great ser-vice for the greater Grand Forks area, it only comes to the sixth and 43 stop once an hour.

Compared to the six times that the campus shuttle visited the stop, this

hardly seems like an adequate remedy. If a student misses the bus for any rea-son, the hour wait will not be suffi cient for a student who needs to get to class in a timely manner.

The student will either have to hoof it through the drifts of snow that our N.D. weather is certain to bring to get to campus or the clos-est bus stop (which can be over six blocks away depending on apartment location).

Worse yet, a student could just get frustrated and end up driving to cam-pus, which will add to the well-known parking issues. The reality is that this decision benefi ts no one. The discon-tinuation of this service is only going to end up in more upset students, delayed buses due to other stops being over-crowded, and more parking conges-tion.

UND Transportation needs to step

out from behind their desks and see the impact their decisions are having on the student body. Several hundred students have not only relied upon this service but have also made their living arrange-ments because of it.

If UND Transporta-tion does not return this service to the student body that it is supposed to serve, those of us who are left in the dust are going to grow increas-ing frustrated with the University’s inability to serve the student body effectively.

The proper step for UND Trans-portation to take is to have their buses come the extra few blocks and return service to the students who were proud-ly able to be green a take the bus years prior.

I urge you to notify UND Trans-portation and to utilize our Student Government to let them know that you want them to serve the students that make their existence possible.

Scott Brand, student

Narcissism: a collegiate trait

The subject of this column is you. However, it is not about the talented, successful, and good-looking ‘You’ (we’ll save that subject for another time). Instead, it is about the self-centered, narcissistic ‘You’ that so ar-dently insists on being the subject of this column.

As I set out on my journey as a new columnist, I invited ideas for weekly subjects from friends. I expected a wealth of provoking ideas, but I was frustrated in my attempts.

Invariably, my peers instead beset me with requests for pieces featuring themselves instead of columns ad-dressing the most pressing societal is-sues, cultural items, or current events. Few of my friends and peers had ever overtly expressed such narcissistic traits in the past, so I wrote off the fi rst few answers to poor attempts at humor.

However, as I continued to ask people for column ideas, every single

set of answers contained “me,” and usually, that item topped their list.

As this self-centered phenomenon began to manifest itself, I began to wonder if it was the mark of a much larger problem. I have often heard my generation referred to as “Generation Me,” but I had brushed the name aside as unrealistic until recently.

Now, there seemed to be a ring of truth to the unforgiving title. Were my peers as narcissistic as soci-ety painted them, and worse, was I?

My generation is more actively en-gaged in community service than ever, which arguably is a point in our favor. After all, how could doing something good for someone else possibly benefi t us in any possible way?

Unless, of course, you take into account the requirements now often posted by high schools, universities

and various academic scholarship pro-grams; that’s not even yet considering the warm fuzzies so often gleaned from activities rendered for the good of oth-ers. Yes, our actions are aimed at oth-ers, but the answer to who reaps the most rewards is questionable.

My genera-tion is also one of the most highly educated so far, as college degrees and the knowledge that comes with them become com-monplace.

Surely such an erudite generation would be smart enough to realize that there is more to life than ourselves. Yet, even some of my most intelligent friends, those tal-ented scholars, performers, activists, and volunteers, still considered them-

‘...those of us who are left in the dust are going to grow increasingly frus-trated... Scott Brand

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>eMily bUrklandThe Dakota Student

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‘[We] are at a point in our lives when it is acceptable to fo-cus on ourselves.

Emily Burklandcolumnist

friday september 3, 2010

I would like to begin this article wel-coming back to school my wonderful and doughty readers. Once again we find ourselves beginning another exciting and potential laden year at our great Alma Mater.

This year not only will you be treated to my wonderful musings on life, philoso-phy, and the benefits of cooking with too much salt, but you will also profit from the delightful insights of my little sister Erin Barta. She of course is like a smart-er, nicer version of me, but I’m older and balding…wait…

Other than that this year has seen some surprising and interesting developments; I was recently honored by being named a young leader in Grand Forks by the Grand Forks Herald. To be counted among the few that received this humbling distinction is something I never actually expected.

In reading about the other individuals in town who were included as recipients, I was inspired by their great accomplish-ments. Most notable of all the individuals is a 16 year old girl by the name of Ali.

Ali was born with a minor case of Spina Bifida. Although rare (according to the CDC about 1,500 children are born every year with some form of Spina Bifida) the fact that she was born with this disease isn’t the main point of her story. It’s what her disease led her to do.

Although, her own case was mild it still exposed her to the difficulties involved in being a child with a physical disability. And what is truly remarkable about young Ali is what it inspired her to do.

Her experience growing up with Spina Bifida led her to organize a drive to build a playground that was fully accessible to all children regardless of their physical abil-ity. This is not an easy task. Getting land, approval and cooperation from all of the relevant authorities in any large scale com-munity project can take years, not to men-tion the fact that playground equipment is really expensive.

Yet, in only two years this young lady did something that most would think was impossible. She rallied her family, friends, and business leaders, lobbied the city gov-ernment and Grand Forks Parks District (which generously donated the land), and raised the $200,000 dollars needed to buy the necessary playground equipment. On August 19, 2009 Ali’s Boundless Play-ground was opened to the public of Grand Forks in Sertoma Park.

This is the kind of passion and drive that we should all have for those around us. She exemplifies the true nature of com-munity spirit and enlightened leadership. And she did all of this before her junior year in high school.

When asked about how her disease af-fected her and led to her impassioned drive to make a difference she replied, “…Many of the problems I face are hidden to most, as I am very physically able. I did not be-gin the playground project for myself. I’m doing it for the kids like me who have a disability but aren’t as lucky as I am.”

This is something that we can all learn from. We are here to make a difference, to improve the world around us in ways that benefit our community. When I think

Teenage girl inspires

Living with the smoking ban

For those of you who have been living in a cave lately, bars in Grand Forks have recently gone smoke free. This is not vol-untary, of course, but rather an ordinance imposed by the city. It is now illegal to smoke in any bar in Grand Forks or within 15 feet of the door.

The pro-banners say the smoking ban helps to protect the health of bar em-ployees. The pro-smokers say that if bar employees don’t like having smoke blown in their faces 40 hours each week (really? That’s unhealthy?) they’re welcome to go find a job somewhere else.

Bar owners don’t like the ban, since they don’t want the government telling them how to run their businesses. This raises a valid point, and it sets a danger-ous precedent. If Grand Forks decides it can tell a bar how to operate in the name of “public health,” what else can the city council try to control?

The US Department of Transportation recently considered making peanuts illegal on airline flights, citing the fact that a few children have severe peanut allergies. This bill was without a doubt inspired by smok-ing bans, and it exemplifies how far laws

could interfere with our everyday lives in the name of “public health.” Grand Forks should make it illegal for people to step outside without a giant sombrero to pro-tect them from the sun. After all, over 2 million people are diagnosed with skin cancer annually, and my ingenious som-brero ordinance would surely enhance “public health.”

Since the smoking ban, the bar scene in town has changed. I’ve noticed a lot more asthmatics at my favor-ite (dirtiest) bars. These places used to be filled with a Marlboro soup thicker than London fog. Now smoke free, asthmatics can visit all of Grand Forks’ trashiest dive bars without fear of

suffocation. No longer are they limited to patronizing Level 10, a bar so cool it’s al-ways been smoke free, and hanging with the “Jersey Shore” crowd. On the other side, without a cigarette haze to cloud my senses, I’ve learned what the carpet at Joe Black’s actually smells like, and it’s so rot-ten I’m showing symptoms of PTSD. No more smoking in bars also means that we’ll be seeing fewer droopy, 50 year-old, chain smoking cougars hitting the town. Wheth-er this is a good thing or bad thing is really a matter of your own personal taste.

For the record, I voted against the smoking ban. But putting all of the so-cietal issues aside, my dirty little secret is

that I like the ban. Yes, it interferes with the rights of Business owners to run their bars how they’d like to. The anti-smoking groups get billions of dollars to lobby for bans like these, and most of the people who voted for it don’t actually go to bars. I know I should be opposed to the ban, but I’m just too selfish.

I like that I can visit our local estab-lishments and my clothes won’t smell like a two dollar hooker the next morning. I’m thankful nobody will ever spill an ash-tray on me again (yes, it’s as horrible as it sounds). Never again will a drunken fool lumber into my arm with a lit cigarette. Since the ban went into effect, drinking myself into a stupor has become immense-ly more pleasant. If I could just get Lady Ga Ga off of the jukebox and Pabst Blue Ribbon on tap, I’d be in bar fly heaven.

Yes, the ban will probably hurt sales and could put a few of my favorite water-ing holes out of business. Despite this, I just can’t bring myself to hate it. Simply put, I’m selfish. Don’t worry, you’re selfish too. You’re either a smoker who is staunch-ly against any anti-smoking law, an over-zealous nonsmoker who supports making it illegal to smoke just about anywhere, or you’re like me – you claim to stick to your ideals until you step into Joe Black’s and get your first whiff of that sweet, sweet carpet.

>andy kinnearThe Dakota Student

Changing surname a difficult decision

If a pirate had me walking the plank and demanded that I tell him whether I was a femi-nist or not, yes or no, without any of my typical ambigu-ity (Well how do you define feminist? What do those labels mean in a Midwestern context compared to other areas?) and if only I answered the question, he would untie the rope binding my hands and allow me to run on deck and embrace my loved ones with tears in my war torn eyes, I sup-pose I would have to say yes, I am a feminist.

This, in its most reduced form, would simply mean that I am aware of an inequality and that I work to close said gap. And, like anything else, it also means that admitting such an ideological perspective places me on the defensive to always explain the thought behind my choices and actions.

So here we go. The scoop is that I am getting married next summer to my love of [cumu-latively] six and a half years. Some may yell, “Woo hoo! Fi-nally! Tying the knot! Making it official! Can’t wait for the

big day! Taking the plunge!” But with our 21st century ap-proach to our relationship, it’s more like, “our grandparents can now breathe a sigh of relief. So, how exactly do you plan a wedding?”

On top of the fun of being forced to invite people I hate to my nuptials and having my 22 year old uterus asked when it will bear children, I am deal-ing with a very hard decision—

w h e t h e r or not to change my last name.

The en-vironment I grew up in and the e n v i r o n -ment I live in now are very differ-

ent, and they could not be more opposite in dealing with this problem. My North Dakotan family acts as though it’s not an option. “I mean, changing your name is just what you do, so, what do you mean you’re not changing it? Are you even get-ting married? You’re not insult-ing your husband like that.”

Thoughts such as these are easy to dismiss because they of course lack legitimacy, but there is no doubt that the ob-noxious factor does come in to play here. Knowing that there

>erin lordThe Dakota Student

>david bartaThe Dakota Student

dS> Andy Kinnear is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at andrew.kin-near@und.edu

‘Never again will a drunken fool lum-ber into my arm with a lit cigarette.

Andy Kinnearcolumnist

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‘My issue with this argument is that it treats the situation as a collective...

Erin LordManaging Editor

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At colleges and universi-ties across America, students are heading into the classroom, many for the first time. You’re taking part in a journey that will not only determine your future, but the future of this country. We know, for ex-ample, that nearly eight in ten new jobs will require workforce training or higher education by the end of this decade. And we know that in a global economy, the nation that out-educates us today will out-compete us to-morrow. In the 21st century, America’s success depends on the education our students re-ceive. That’s why, soon after I took office, I proposed an am-bitious goal: by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. And over the past year and a half, we’ve been put-ting in place policies to help us meet this goal.

First, we are making college more affordable. As students, you know why this matters. Over the past ten years, col-lege costs have shot up faster than housing, transportation, and even health care costs. The amount student borrowers owe has risen almost 25 percent in just five years. This isn’t some abstract issue to me. Michelle and I had big loans to pay off when we graduated. I remem-ber what that burden feels like. No one in America should be saddled with crushing debt simply because they sought an

education. And no one should be denied a chance to make the most of their lives because they can’t afford it.

That’s why we fought so hard to win a battle that has been raging in Washington for years over how to administer student loans. Under the old system, taxpayers paid banks and financial companies bil-lions of dollars in subsidies to act as middlemen—a deal that was very lucrative for them, but unnecessary and wasteful. And because these special interests were so powerful, this boon-doggle survived for decades. But this year, we said, enough is enough. As a result, instead of handing over $60 billion in unwarranted subsidies to big banks, we’re redirecting that money to upgrade America’s community colleges and make college more affordable for nearly 8 million students and families.

We’re tripling the invest-ment in college tax credits for middle class families. We’re raising the value of Pell Grants, and we’ll make sure they in-crease each year to better keep up with inflation. We’re mak-ing loan repayments more manageable for more than one million more students. Future borrowers can even choose an income-based payment plan so that you don’t have to pay

A letter from Barack Obama

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06 NEWS friday september 3, 2010

At the beginning of August, President Obama signed the Avi-ation Safety Bill. This bill stems as a response to Colgan Air Flight 3407, where a whole plane per-ished due to the captain not re-sponding in the correct way to an intense situation.

Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed on February 12, 2009 in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center. This was a Continental Connection, but under the code-share agreement, Colgan Air, a regional airline, provided the crew. Things started going bad for Flight 3407 as they were be-ing cleared to land. Shortly after, they disappeared from the radar screen.

Upon their departure, the plane’s wings had been reported as having signifi cant ice buildup. The speed of the plane was dras-tically slower than it should have been, leading the plane to stall. The cap-tain did not follow the es-tablished stall recovery proce-dure and then over road the stick pusher, which is used in a last ditch effort to lower the planes altitude to get out of a stall. There were a total of 50 people killed, includ-ing everyone on the plane along with one person who was in a home that the airplane crashed into. This was the fi rst commer-cial crash since August 2006.

This new bill that President Obama signed is aimed at not letting anything like this happen again by increasing fl ight hours that are needed before new pilots can be hired. The previous mini-mum was 250 hours; under this new bill, the minimum is 1,500 hours.

The bill does not just apply to new hires, but also to current pilots. This is not as big an issue for major commercial airlines, be-cause most of their current pilots have 1,500 hours; but the small-er, regional airlines are going to have to make sure their pilots get those hours in.

What is UND doing about this? According to William Jen-son, “We [UND] have no plans on changing the number of fl ying hours for aviation majors.” This is in part due to the cost of fuel, however, several other factors weigh into this decision.

Flight instructor Erik Hodges also gave some insight into the rise in fl ight hours. “Typically pi-lots gain their time after they get their pilot’s license though fl ight instructor readings, banner tow,

traffi c watch or aerial survey. In those jobs, you are the pilot in command, so you have to make those command decisions op-posed to making up your fl ying time as a second in command. Those decisions may be smaller, but they help you gain the con-fi dence to make those bigger de-cisions down the line before you have several other lives dependent on your decision making.”

The Aviation Safety Bill does several other things to make sure that fl ights are as safe as can be and pilots are as trained as possi-ble. One of the big things it does is set up a pilot records database. This will allow airlines to know what tests the pilot has failed and if they have failed multiple times before the airlines decides wheth-er or not to hire them.

This was an issue with Cap-tain Marvin Renslow who piloted Flight 3407 for Colgan Air; he failed multiple fl ight tests. The bill also tries to crack down on pilot fatigue which has been a big issue throughout aviation. Along with fatigue, the bill focuses on pilot mentoring and develop-ment programs.

These programs should help in the tran-sition of a young new pi-lot from a col-lege student and should help with the fatigue prob-lems. The mentors can provide an av-

enue for these new pilots to learn about ways that they avoided fatigue along with passing on knowledge about certain situa-tions they faced in the air.

This new bill will also af-fect the training that is needed to become a pilot. The FAA is coming up with simulator-based stall-recovery training for pilots to avoid a situation like Flight 3407. Along with that, the FAA is developing new rules for pilot qualifi cations and pilot training programs.

Regarding how this bill will affect UND aviation students, Dr. Jenson said, “Recent and up-coming graduates will defi nitely be at a disadvantage based on the number of hours that are now re-quired with the new bill. Howev-er, there are things that students can do to get more hours such as working as a fl ight instructor.” The good news is no other school has added more hours to their aviation program, so, coming out of college, the playing fi eld should be level.

Erik Hodges might have summed up the rationale behind the more fl ight hours best by say-ing, “Lessons learned in ground school will never have the same impact as actual fl ight experi-ence.”

New bill requires more fl ight hours AVIATION Obama signs off for safety measures that have higher de-mands of pilots.

>JEFF SCHNEIDERThe Dakota Student

DS> Jeff Schneider is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at jeff.schneider2@und.edu

‘You are the pilot in command so you have to make those command decisions.

Erik Hodgesfl ight instructor

Human rights pursuit

RESEARCH UND anthropology professor spends time in Brazil to help the Xukuru.

>STEPHANIE LIDENThe Dakota StudentHoused in one of the most rich-

ly historic buildings on campus, the Anthropology department in Bab-cock Hall promotes a curriculum that boasts to broaden any student’s perspective on global issues. In the words of Anthropology department alumnus, Kurt Schweigert, “you sim-ply can’t take anthropology without expanding your horizons.” Cultural anthropologist and associate profes-sor, Marcia Mikulak makes it her job to enlighten UND students every day, in part by sharing her experience in Brazil.

Mikulak has spent countless hours dedicated to the study and aid of the Brazilian people, most re-cently to a North Eastern tribe called the Xukuru (pronounced Shoo-koo-

roo). Her of-fi ce alone is evidence of years of study of these people and their lives. Binders and books marked “Xukuru data” line her shelves. Mikulak has been interested in Brazil since she was very

young. “I grew up in Brazil. From the

time I was three until about seven and a half, I lived there. I had a mili-tary father,” she says. Mikulak spent her early years in a Brazil governed by dictatorship. Understanding Bra-zilian culture means understand-ing the vast history of race in this place, beginning with the indigenous peoples (including the Xukuru), the Portuguese settlers and the African slaves which were imported by the hundreds centuries ago. Her interest in the Xukuru tribe began gradually as she began involvement with the people of the South American na-tion while writing her dissertation in 2000 regarding the lives and murders of lower class children.

“The work was tough. I was told that if I kept doing research [on these children and their murders], I wouldn’t survive,” says Mikulak. She studied the public massacre of Brazil-ian children who were gunned down because they were viewed as being unsightly for business owners who

NATHAN TWERBERG > The Dakota Student

hoped to attract tourists. Dealing with the reality of defy-

ing the many different governmental regimes that have held power in Bra-zil over the past several decades is not foreign to Mikulak. Her most recent project in Brazil involves the assassi-nation of a beloved Xukuru chief in the late 1990s and the former chief ’s son currently receiving death threats and narrowly escaping his own mur-der.

“Cacique (Chief) Marcos was journeying with two young men in a car when they came to a line of cows covering the road,” Mikulak recalls, “The car stopped and Marcos asked why they were stopped. Suddenly a man pointed a gun at the chief and told him he should prepare to die. The two young men tried to protect him but one was shot and the other was beaten to death. Marcos survived by climbing through barbed wire.” Marcos was sentenced ten years in prison for supposedly starting a riot, despite being a victim of an attempt-ed assassination.

The divide between the Xukuru and the government of Brazil, Mi-kulak notes, is the confl ict between land owners and the tribes that claim rights to lands taken from them cen-turies ago. “The Xukuru fought to get their lands back. These lands had been in the possession of new own-ers for three to four hundred years—since colonization...I understand these confl icts.”

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Photo contributed by Marcia Mikulak

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Christmas for listenersRADIO 94.7 changes its tune from classic rock to top 40 to please more locals.

>JOE CAtANzARItIThe Dakota Student

In an effort to bolster unsatisfy-ing ratings, a local radio station has made the transition from playing a classic rock style lineup of music to a new Top 40 style lineup. After two days of uninterrupted Christ-mas music beginning on August 23, a facet of a larger strategy designed to generate publicity and increase listenership, the former Classic Rock KNOX/Grand Forks formally made the switch to its current incarnation, as Z94.7 Top 40, at 9:47 a.m. on Au-gust 25 by playing “Let’s Get It Start-ed” by the Black Eyed Peas as its first song. When questioned about the decision to so radically change things at the Leighton Broadcasting run sta-tion, OM Jarrod Thomas suggested

that the switch was made in order to “better serve” specific demographics in which the previous version of the station was underperforming.

“[As a classic rock station], we were underperforming particularly in the 18-34 year old, the 18-49 year old demographic,” Thomas explained. “We were especially dis-satisfied with our level of listenership from the 18-49 female demographic, whom we came to feel we were un-derserving.” According to Thomas, as Classic Rock KNOX, the station was facing difficult competition from other local stations in the classic rock market, capturing only a dissatisfy-ing percentage of that market share. This was the primary motivation, Thomas explained, for the switch. “For a private-run, for profit compa-ny, we look to increase revenue, and in radio, ratings drive revenue. After surveying the landscape and collect-ing information as we did, we look forward to improving our ratings in our new form.”

Part of Z94.7’s transition to its

current manifestation included a marketing stratagem which includ-ed two days of playing Christmas music and sending dozens of indi-viduals in full Santa Claus regalia out about town to generate interest and increase awareness of the sta-tion’s switch. “The idea came from a brainstorming session,” Thomas explained. “It’s been a long time since anyone has made this kind of transition, and we thought that, you know, Santa’s in August? That’ll stand out.” In implementing this strategy, teams of Santa’s took to the streets in a seventy-two hour blitz, roller blading, holding signs and generally calling attention to them-selves.

When asked whether he feels as though the Christmas gimmick has proven a success, Thomas did not hesitate to express that he believes it has. “I definitely think we ac-complished what we set out to do,”

DS> Stephanie Liden is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at stephanie.liden@und.edu

ND grad recently appointed to SBHEREPRESENtAtIVE Melissa Bonner was se-lected as UND’s student member for 2010 term.

>XAVIER PAStRANOThe Dakota Student

Every year after graduation, college graduates go off into the world to pursue their goals and life aspirations. Taking what they have learned throughout their undergraduate career, they ap-ply these elements and skills in hopes of creating a future career or to potentially make a differ-ence in their community. UND has had many students go off to accomplish great things, and it seems that Melissa Bonner, a recent UND graduate, is doing exactly that. Because of her hard work with student government and dedication to the students, Bonner is on her way to making a difference in the state of North Dakota.

Bonner was recently appoint-ed as the 2010-2011 student member of the State Board of Higher Education. Her competi-tion consisted of two other UND graduates, Michael Lopez and Joe Moen. All three students were nominated by the North Dakota Student Association, and after applications and interviews, Gov. John Hoeven appointed Bonner as this year’s student member. With her new title, Bonner will have a list of duties to accomplish,

including staying informed on current issues revolving around Higher Education, attending board meetings, reporting to UND students about decisions being made by the board and lis-tening to students’ concerns and reporting those concerns back to the board. Her term will last one year, ending in June of 2011, and Bonner has some big goals she wants to accomplish during that time. “One thing I’m really interested in is foreign language learning,” Bonner said. “I’d like to get more students interested in taking foreign language courses.” Bonner also had something to say about the tuition rates at UND. “As a student member, I also want to try to get the state board to keep tuition rates low. That means I will be bringing the dis-cussion of tuition freezes to the table.”

When looking at the campus and community activities that Bonner was involved in, it only seemed natural that she would be working to make Grand Forks a better place. During this past Census, she was employed as an outreach worker and was a mem-ber of the UND flood coordina-tion during the spring of 2009. Through her actions and general concern for Grand Forks, it seems that Bonner is a dedicated indi-vidual who cares deeply for not only her community but also the people who reside in it.

Through it all, however, the Xukuru managed to keep kernels of their original culture alive. Caci-que (Chief) Xicão (assassinated in 1998) claimed before his death, “We are united by our rituals . . . when society recognizes and respects our identity, culture, and traditions, they begin to support our fight for our right to the land.” The Xukuru reli-gion and their ideology regarding the earth as “mother” intrigued Mikulak. “I wanted to know how they kept their identity. If they did.” That is the question posed in a good portion of her work with the Brazilian tribe. She hopes to work with the Ameri-

can Anthropology Association and Amnesty International to organize legal documents to support Chief Xicão’s son, Marcos, for his safety and for the interest of the Xukuru as a people.

“I would like to get a grant worth $500,000, $100,000 each year for five years that would allow the in-digenous people to spend it on ag-ricultural development or to develop a health system. These people find cures for many things, just in their plants,” states Mikulak.

Here in Grand Forks, Mikulak is an avid supporter of the Commu-nity Violence Intervention Center. “I hope to turn the community in to a place that would prevent violence,” Mikulak states. She would ultimately

like to see University faculty working with victims of violence by teaching them the journalistic skills needed to tell their stories to the masses. “These victims could become social activists and pair with lawyers to begin cre-ating policies from the viewpoint of the people that have experienced vio-lence,” she says.

Mikulak will be conducting a lecture open to the UND public on November 10th this semester on her experiences in Brazil. Watch for specifics on the Dakota Student date book on page two or visit the cam-pus events calendar for details.

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08 NEWS friday september 3, 2010

Becca Grandstrand is school board electCOUNCIL UND gradu-ate recently selected to serve the Grand Forks community.

>ALLEE MEADThe Dakota Student

Another year, another UND graduate making a positive differ-ence in the community.

UND graduate student Becca Grandstrand has been elected to the Grand Forks School Board. She is the youngest board member and can’t wait to bring her ideas to ac-tion.

“It’s exciting and it’s a challenge, too,” she said. “I’m seeing how I can positively affect Grand Forks.”

The elections took place last June. Nine people, including Grand-strand, ran, but only fi ve seats were available. Two new members were elected and three were reelected.

So far, Grandstrand has attended three meetings. School board meetings occur twice a month during the school year and once a month during the summer.

The most current issues facing the school board include declining enrollment in public schools, local test scores and additions to Cen-tral and Red River high schools. Grandstrand is most excited about the last issue. The high schools plan to remodel their theaters by adding more seats and having better-quality equipment. Grandstrand added that many teachers, administrators and staff are very supportive of the ad-ditions and that many students will benefi t from the additions.

Grandstrand also appreciates the challenges that participation in a school board can bring. Many of the members have differing opin-ions, but each outlook helps bring new ideas and issues to everyone’s attention. Since the board represents a large community, the members must fi nd solutions that will benefi t people from all walks of life. Mostly,

Grandstrand loves making a positive impact on the students in the com-munity.

Being involved is nothing new for Grandstrand. While attending UND, she immersed herself in ev-erything from Student Senate and the Honors Program to University Band and ballroom dancing. She also volunteered with the Circle of Friends Humane Society, the Wom-en’s Center Clothesline Project and the North Dakota Special Olympics, to name a few.

Her experiences at UND taught her many important lessons. For example, Grandstrand learned how to work with both students and ad-ministrators. Most importantly, she discovered the importance of fi nd-ing her passion and helping others by doing something she enjoys.

Originally from Warroad, Min-nesota, Grandstrand came to UND to study psychology but wasn’t sure what she wanted to do after college. One of her role models, Program

Director of Stu-dent Involve-ment Cassie Gerhardt, en-couraged her to consider higher education.

Today she is pursuing her Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and

will graduate in May. She hopes to work with students, either as a guid-ance counselor or as a dean in a uni-versity.

As far as the future is concerned, nothing is set in stone. Grandstrand said that she will defi nitely complete her term on the board, but she isn’t sure if she will run for reelection.

She and husband Tyrone, who is on the Grand Forks city council, have already purchased a house in Grand Forks, but their future careers may take them elsewhere.

Until then, Grandstrand plans to make the most of her new posi-tion on the school board.

“We all represent the Grand Forks community,” she added. “It’s important just to be involved.”

DS> Allee Mead is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at allee.mead@und.edu

DORMS> From page 1

beds, desks, and dressers but is twice as large as a normal room, allowing four inhabitants instead of two.

Some male students have found themselves living in the Hamline Apartments located by the Ralph Engelstad Arena. Moving these stu-dents back to campus is a top prior-ity for Housing. “Other students are moving into Hamline, so we need to move them out as soon as possible,” stated Spencer.

Other means to accommodate the infl ux of students included plac-ing overfl ow students into rooms that were originally contracted as a “double as a single” or “triple as a double”. The students affected by this were men as the majority of in-coming residence hall students were male. No women living in doubles or triples found themselves obligated to take a roommate.

Before roommates were as-signed, students living in double and triple rooms were sent letters offering a $400 credit to their student ac-count as an incentive to relinquish their room’s original status and take on a roommate. Spencer said in all 11 students accepted the offer.

However, this was not enough to cover the incoming number of students. As a result, students who had previously declined the offer were required to receive roommates anyway.

A sophomore living in Walsh Hall this year, who wished to remain anonymous, was not pleased when he received the news that he would no longer be living alone in his double room. “I was pretty pissed,” he remarked. “They [Housing] said I had a single room the whole sum-mer, then they threw a roommate in with me two weeks before school started.”

Many like this Walsh Hall stu-dent were not happy about an invol-untary roommate, but most under-stand that everyone needs a place to live. As of now, Housing has no fur-ther plans to place any more room-mates.

Spencer says spring semester residence hall populations are usually smaller due to students graduating and other various reasons. Students should expect to have a little more elbow room next semester but may have to just tough it out until then.

DS> Brandi Jewett is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at brandi.jewett.1@und.edu

TROOPS > From page 1

DS> Alex Cavanaugh is the Editor-in-Chief of The Dakota Student. He can be reached at alex.cavanaugh@und.edu

really understand the situation,” he said. Walery explained that he was part of a combat force that oper-ated as a police force, and those du-ties took more of a priority when they realized they wouldn’t be bat-tling terrorists in the traditional sense of combat.

“We were just walking around with the biggest sticks,” said Wal-ery. “I feel bad for the Iraqi people because they are not equipped with the proper tools or mindset to po-lice their own country properly. Hopefully the progress I have seen won’t be lost.”

Another student veteran, US Marine Corps Corporal Stephen Miller, said he supports the com-bat troop withdrawal. “We need to focus more on education and setting up school systems,” Miller explained as he gave an account of the low educational standards that he feels infl uence the country due to a history of political and ideo-logical domination. Miller agrees that there was progress made, but said that there “should be less war, and more education.” Miller served from March to October of 2008 in the Alambar province at Camp Ko-rea Village.

It appears that there is more work to be done in Iraq and the Middle East, but as Walery ex-pressed, there has been progress made.

do,” Thomas said. “We defi nitely got people talking.” Thomas esti-mates that in making the switch to Top 40, the new Z94.7 has so far experienced an increase in lis-tenership over the old KNOX by as much as a third, though, he ex-plained, it will take some time for hard numbers to be generated. “In about a year’s time from now, we’ll know where we stand demograph-ically and ratings wise. At that time we will be able to fully assess the success of the switch,” Thomas ex-plained.

In addition to the overall tran-sition to a Top 40 style lineup, Thomas explained that some per-sonnel changes have also been in-troduced at Z94.7. “Emily Stevens will be joining our team,” Thomas explained, “and we are looking for-ward to that. There will be more additions to come, as well. In gen-eral, there will certainly be some different voices at different times.”

Whether it is indicative of evolving musical preferences or simply a shrewd marketing deci-sion made during a worldwide fi nancial crisis, the decision by Leighton Broadcasting Company to phase out a classic rock station and introduce a Top 40 station shall impact the radio listeners in the Grand Forks area at large, who now have at their disposal a new station playing the hits of today.

RADIO > From page 7

DS> Joe Catanzariti is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at josepth.catanzariti@und.edu

‘We all represent the Grand Forks com-munity...

Becca GrandstrandGF School Board Member

culture&mediafriday september 3, 2010DS> Inside: Jackson C. Frank’s autumnal record sets the mood

Reining in the wind

Tucked away in Upson I, second year Me-chanical Engineering graduate student Matt Mihelish and Ph.D. student Prasanta Dey are part of a team collaborating with NDSU in building a new wind tunnel for testing the elements of the Rolls-Royce AE3007 turbofan engine, which is used in the Global Hawk, a high altitude remotely piloted aircraft. Two large tanks are flanked with a series of pipes

directing air and water and powered by a large vacuum system being used as a blower.

Best stated by Matt: “The project is aimed at developing the predictive capabilities for both transitional and turbulent compressible flows in low pressure turbines.”

ENGINEERING M.E. Department builds tunnel to test the limits of a new Rolls-Royce engine

>NIcholaS GowaNThe Dakota Student 12wIND > page

photos by: NaThaN TwERBERG > The Dakota Student

10 CULTURE&MEDIA friday september 3, 2010

Adventure race brings the painEXTREME SPORTS Ironman-like event chal-lenges competitors to struggle to the finish

>PATRICk EvAnSThe Dakota Student

Adventure racing is practiced around the world, and UND is fortunate to have a group com-mitted to adventure racing in its own backyard. Adventure races pit teams against each other in a race over some of the most dan-gerous and harshest terrain in the world. It seems odd that a group dedicated to adventure racing can survive in North Dakota, but it does.

Extreme North Dakota is dedicated to bringing the tough-est, most extreme adventure races that they can to North Dakota. Andrew Magness, the race direc-tor for the Extreme North Dakota Adventure Race, first became in-terested in adventure racing when he saw Eco-Challenge on televi-sion. “I grew up through high school and college with a passion for rock climbing and mountain-e e r i n g , ” said Mag-ness. “My brother and I saw Eco-Chal lenge on televi-sion and we t h o u g h t , ‘hey, we can do that.’” Jason Magness, Andrew’s brother, is one of the founding members of Team Yogaslackers, a nationally competing adventure race team that has won many competitions. He convinced Andrew to become involved in adventure racing. “In 2004, while I was living in San Diego, my brother talked me into doing a 24 hour race in Califor-nia, and I became hooked.”

Adventure racing is not a sport for the faint of heart. “We’re positioning this as the hardest race in North Dakota. The skills and teamwork required to complete it are not used in other kinds of rac-es. The thing we try to emphasize and what makes adventure racing different from other races is that it’s about suffering. You need to have some willingness to suffer for adventure racing. You need to be able to keep running when you have mud up to your thigh.”

END currently hosts three ad-venture races a year: the IceMan Triathlon, or END-IT, as an ex-

treme winter multi-sport race, the Spring Primer Adventure Race, or END-SPAR, is a shortened race to introduce people to the idea of adventure racing, and the Extreme North Dakota Adventure Race, or END-AR, is the original 10-12 hour race that began it all.

The Extreme North Dakota idea started in 2007. In partner-ship with Northern Heights Rock Gym, Team Yogaslackers designed the first ever course for North Dakota. It was designed to be the most punishing 12 hour ex-perience they could create. Even though the race this Saturday is the same race, the course taken by competitors is different. “The thing about adventure races that makes them exciting and both dif-ficult to plan is that each course is unique.”

This year 30 teams that are divided into teams of three person coed (the premier category), three person open, two person coed, and two person open will compete in the END-AR. “Teams don’t know anything about the course except what we’ve leaked to get them ex-cited before the morning of the race.” The race will be held on Saturday, September 4th, check-in

opens at 6:30 a.m. where they will receive their map of the course and the race starts at 8:00 a.m.

The course will be in the Red River Val-ley along the

Red River and the Red Lake River. The course won’t be a walk in the park. “Teams can take whatever route they want, but they have to reach each checkpoint. Teams will be getting very muddy and wet crawling around to get to the checkpoints.” Navigation is also a much needed skill for competi-tors. “Teams don’t have a GPS; they only have a map and a com-pass.”

Winners will be given free en-trance into the Wild Adventure Race 24 hour on Sept 17-18th near Duluth, MN. For more infor-mation on Extreme North Dakota Adventure Racing, check out their website www.endracing.com or to learn more about Team Yogaslack-ers visit www.yogaslackers.com. Says Magness: “The Midwest has a lot of great races, but we’re trying to offer something different.”

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

Musician bares it allDSMUSIC REvIEW

‘Jackson C. Frank’

>JOE LEISSThe Dakota Student School has started and already

one can feel autumn’s approach. After a long bright summer, you come here to borrow thousands and thousands of dollars for hours spent beneath fluorescent lighting in the pursuit of the thrills offered only by business writing and pub-lic speaking. Soon the leaves will darken and carpet the ground to be crumbled to bits by footsteps and time, and the significant oth-er left behind in your hometown will become bored with waiting and leave you over the phone, new lover in mind. Subzero tem-peratures will arrive delivered by weeklong blizzarding, rendering everything around you bereft of color, an incomparable deathscape inimical to human feeling. Might as well have a soundtrack. Please consider my recommendation.

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, “The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren’t and not even a graduate of the Harvard Busi-ness School can say why.” Enter Jackson C. Frank, a l i t t l e -known 60’s folk artist whose admir-ers include similarly ob-scure con-t e m p o r a r i e s Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and Nick Drake, and who by all counts is the unluckiest trouba-dour of his variety in American history. Like Vonnegut, Jackson C. Frank qua artist could reason-ably be said to be the product of trauma and conflagration. He began playing guitar at the age of 11 while recovering from severe burns inflicted by a furnace explo-sion responsible for the deaths of fifteen of his classmates. Later, he would receive exorbitant compen-sation for this accident, enough

for him to follow his dreams in Europe. However, after record-ing a self-titled album with Paul Simon in a session fraught with doubt and haunted by poverty, he was forced to go back home to America, where he was made unable to perform by depression and a thyroid condition causing incredible weight gain.

Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, he was driven to homelessness and obscurity. One day, sitting on a park bench in

New York with nothing to do, children armed with pellet guns shot him in the eye, leav-ing him blind. In 1999, Frank died of p n e u m o n i a .

Tribute was paid to him by artists of varied critical worth, from Bert Jansch to Counting Crows.

As for that record produced by Paul Simon, it is a modest and softly-stated document of Jack-son’s insecurity, laced with the sur-realism of peer Leonard Cohen, imbued with audible timidity

and melancholy. Acoustic guitar is the lone accompaniment. “My Name is Carnival” plays like a quiet nightmare where women are imposed upon by grotesque mimes and “white halos spin with an anger that is thin and turns to sorrow.”

Elsewhere, his sublimated want for oblivion is touched upon in typical 60’s folk code: “I need to touch each stone, face the grave that I have grown, I want to be alone.” Lyrics like these read a little clichéd, but it’s important to consider the time in which they were written as well as his biog-raphy. Even now, when compared with the posthumous success of Nick Drake, Jackson C. Frank has been left cold by an indiffer-ent public, probably due as much to the dearth of available material as his dreadful, dreadful luck. It’s not likely you will pull up Jack-son C. Frank on your iPod too frequently, but if you need a voice with whom to share your seasonal angst, I can’t think of anything more suitable.

‘As for [the] record... it is a modest and softly-stated docu-ment of Jackson’s insecurity.

Joe Leiss

DS> Joe Leiss is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at joseph.leiss@und.edu

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‘What makes ad-venture racing dif-ferent... is that it’s about suffering.

Andrew MagnessRace Director

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Hedges’ book still relevantNONFICTION ‘War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning’ discusses war in a realistic light

>JOSh BRORByThe Dakota StudentI was in seventh grade when the

twin towers of the World Trade Cen-ter collapsed. I remember sitting in World History class, watching televi-sion, watching the smoke vomited out from inside, and feeling a certain distance from it, as if it wasn’t real - as if it were just television. Nothing else. The event — 9/11, I should say — felt like a spectacle, like something otherworldly, because of the televi-sion coverage and the distance be-tween North Dakota and New York and the fact that I grew up in the relatively peaceful 90’s when Clinton took military action from time-to-time but never really had a war on his hands. It felt unreal because I was just a seventh grade kid and I didn’t know how to react to something that was so much bigger than me.

Being college students — hov-ering around that age of 20 — we all spent our adolescent years in the wake of that day, a wake that includes two invasions and one hell of a long pres-idency. Com-bat opera-tions in Iraq have finally ceased, as you probably well know. It’s odd to think about it this way, but we grew up with this war. It wasn’t the same as growing up with a Viet-nam, though, something that could be latched onto and fought for or protested against. The war we grew up with almost felt, at times, like background noise. Media coverage dwindled, especially in recent years, until you often didn’t hear about it at all, at least not for weeks at a time. In the last presidential election it was barely an issue. The whole conflict felt brushed aside, basically forgot-ten, and for what? In the name of television ratings? Did market testing show that war wouldn’t pull in key demographics? Focus group studies must have shown that Lohan tracked higher than bin Laden, otherwise we would have been more informed, right? It’s odd.

I feel lucky to have taken a class with Dr. Sharon Carson as a sopho-more (Film and Literature of War), because we actually could discuss what was going on in Afghanistan and Iraq in an open forum. And it wasn’t just college kids sitting around bullshitting about why we as a nation were quagmired or ranting about needing to leave; we actually had the opportunity to listen to sol-diers’ points-of-view, to talk to vet-erans about what this war was like, how it was different, and why the main media outlets only covered it sporadically.

We read a book in that class by

war correspondent and journalist Chris Hedges called War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. Hedges, while not enlisted, has been involved in several conflicts (Bosnia, Iraq, etc.) traveling with US soldiers and writing about his experiences. He has been shot at, has almost died, and has talked to enough soldiers to understand why we fight — it helps that he’s sharp, too.

Hedges doesn’t take sides in his book, a nonfiction exploration of the meaning of war, of how and why it is waged and what effects it has on the peoples involved. He simply lays out his philosophy on the mat-ter. On the very existence of war, he writes (and I hope you’ll excuse the overlong quotation), “The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for liv-ing. Only when we are in the midst of conflict does the shallowness and vapidness of much of our lives be-come apparent […] those who have the least meaning in their lives, the impoverished refugees in Gaza, the disenfranchised North African im-migrants in France, even the legions of young who live in the splendid

indo lence and safety of the in-dustrialized world, are all suscep-tible to war’s appeal.”

Hedges doesn’t stray from what he sees as the realities

of war. He doesn’t damn those who choose to fight, and he certainly doesn’t make partisan attacks. Hedg-es wants to reveal to a society often mired in conflict the truths of how war works, whether by discussing the dehumanization of the enemy or the uniting of a country in the name of nationalism. Hedges writes, “The chance to exist for an intense and overpowering moment, even if it meant certain oblivion, seemed worth it in the midst of war — and very stupid once the war ended.”

Hedges understands the drug that is battle and the addictive na-ture of the constant threat of death and injury. He understands the cul-ture surrounding war. Most of all, Hedges understands people, how we work and are moved, manipulated, deceived. He understands pain.

Growing up with a war that felt close to hidden was strange, and now, with news outlets trumpeting the end of the war in Iraq, we may al-ready be forgetting that Afghanistan is still occupied. This is one of those prime moments when war is back in the headlines. Now is a great time to pick up Hedges’ book and give it a read. Hedges writes that “human be-ings seek not only happiness but also meaning,” and in his book he voices a part of that meaning.

DS> Josh Brorby is the Features Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at joshua.brorby@und.edu

‘The chance to ex-ist for an intense and overpowering moment... seemed worth it...

Chris EdgesAuthor, ‘War Is a Force...’

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Powered by a vacuum system (working in reverse), with an out-flow of 3,700 CFM (cubic feet per minute), the air is directed into the exit flow tank. In the EFT, a tem-perature of 250 degrees is created by the blower moving the air. From there it leaves the exit flow tank into the flow condition-ing unit on it’s journey to the vane cascade. A smoother, more uniform air flow is created as it reaches the cascade where the vanes are positioned. The speed of sound is partially dependent on temperature, and with their current configuration, speeds of around mach 1 are expected.

In the cascade, four vanes are arranged, with one of them be-ing a replaceable test vane. Differ-ent vanes are used for the testing of aerodynamics and heat trans-fer. In the cascade, the lowered air pressure recreates an altitude of ~60,000 feet, the approximate operating height of the Global Hawk.

As the air exits the cascade, it moves into the inlet tank. Here the air is cooled back down to 90 degrees Fahrenheit with a sys-

tem similar to that of a refrigera-tor. Back into the blower, the air continues it’s cycle.

Currently, the wind tunnel is being calibrated using a special five hole cone probe in lieu of the test vane. To reach a calibration useful in testing the vanes, the probe is analyzing points on an X-Y axis, monitoring the air flow after it has

passed the vanes. This data will later be compared with the results of the test vanes in place.

What makes this wind tunnel special is it’s ability to simulate a low Reynolds Number, which cor-responds with the high altitude designed for the Global Hawk engine. According to Matt, “The initial work began in 2006, and

WIND > From page 9 I expect to begin calibrating the

probe in October.”Making sure all involved with

the project presently received their acknowledgement, Prasanta Dey stressed the importance of the collaboration between UND and NDSU. The wind tunnel has been an undergraduate project directed by Dr. Ames but until recently be-came a graduate student undertak-ing. The data gathered from test-ing will be analyzed at UND and compared with NDSU’s computer generated flow calculations, which is lead by Dr. Suzen. Hopefully this collaboration will help create a research center for small gas tur-bines associated with the NDUS and more specifically, UND and NDSU.

Thanks to Prasanta and Matt for taking the time to meet with and display their project. It was an interesting experience, to say the least, meeting with these young scientists.

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

‘With their cur-rent configuration, speeds of around mach I are expect-ed.

Nicholas Gowan

Originally from Fargo, ND, Bonner graduated from Fargo South High School. As an un-dergrad, Bonner kept busy by dividing her time between many campus activities and groups like Up ‘Til Dawn, Relay For Life, and Special Olympics. From 2008 to 2010, she was an active member of the North Da-kota Student Association. She

BONNER > From page 7 was also a UND student senator

from 2007 through 2008 and worked diligently as the govern-ment affairs coordinator for the UND student government from 2009 to 2010. Having recently graduated with a bachelor’s de-gree in German this past spring, Bonner has just begun work on her Masters degree in Educa-tional Leadership here at UND.

DS> Xavier Pastrano is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at xavier.pastrano@und.edu

Mechanical Engineering graduate student Matt Mihelish stands before the wind tunnel calibration set-up.

NATHAN TWERBERG > The Dakota Student

sportsfriday september 3, 2010

> Inside: UND vs Idaho preview, Super Bowl analysis, Watch the US Open!DS

>scores &schedules

UND vs Idaho 9/2 @8 pm

FootballHampton Inn Invite Des Moines, IA

Volleyball

This month the North Dakota women’s softball team will play eight opponents in the North Da-kota area as part of an exhibition season. The defending Great West Conference champions are looking to repeat. They will have a good chance of doing so with some key returning players back to go along with a talented freshmen class.

A l though the actual sea-son doesn’t start until spring, these exhibition games will give Head Coach Sami Strinz a good look at her team. Strinz is in her fourth year with UND. She previously coached at Dakota Wesleyan University and played at Loyola Marymount, where she was a three-year all-conference player.

After leaving a legacy behind at Loyola Marymount she has taken on the challenge of doing the same at UND. “When I went to Loyola I wanted to help put the program on the map and when I came here I wanted to do the same” said Strinz.

So far everything has worked out but now the next challenge for

Defending champs not slowing downHead coach Sami Strinz knows how to win

FALL BALL The UND softball team will soon begin their fall exhibition games.

>BrAnDon BeckerThe Dakota Student

Strinz and her coaching staff is to continue to win with every team gunning for them. “It’s important that we focus this fall and realize that this coming year we are going to be playing with a target on our back,” she said.

A grueling schedule ahead that could see a potential match up with Ohio St., who is ranked No. 25 na-tionally, is another reason these fall exhibitions are valued. UND will also have tough tests against Tulsa, Oregon St., and Portland St. this spring.

Last year’s freshmen class was terrific for UND as they helped pro-pel them to a conference title. The Sioux can only hope that this year’s

incoming class will be as effec-tive. Pitcher/infielder Cara-lyn Chewning is coming from Willimina, Or-egon, infielder D Jantzer is from Grants Park, Oregon,

and catcher Courtney Gonzales is from Costa Mesa, California. The returning sophomores are pitcher Emma Gronseth and conference freshman of the year Lindy Sippola.

Catcher Amber Roth is the lone senior on the team and is currently battling an injury. The softball team’s youth movement is designed so that this year’s sophomores and freshmen will be a cohesive unit when UND is eligible for post-season play in two years. “I don’t necessarily view being young as a weakness,” Strinz said. “It’s going to

work to our advantage in a couple of years when they get more experi-ence,” she added.

The Sioux only have a total of three upperclassmen this year. While UND may lack the experi-ence of a senior-laden team, they are fortunate enough to have key sophomores that played an impor-tant role last season. Sippola blasted seven home runs in her first year at UND and will provide a big bat for the Sioux the next three years. Gronseth logged a team-high 154.2 innings and also led the North Da-kota with 10 wins.

With September already here, UND will look to gain valuable ex-perience throughout the fall sched-ule that will help them try and win a second straight conference cham-pionship.

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

The North Dakota GOP party recently held an auction of a home men’s hockey jersey signed by Sarah Palin. Adam Jones, executive director of the state GOP, set up the online auction. The auction lasted for Ebay.

The jersey was put up for auction to generate popularity for the North Dakota Repub-lican Party by using the recent fame and acknowledgements achieved by the former Alaskan governor.

The state spent a grand total of $250 to have Palin sign the jersey and put it into a frame.

Sarah Palin and her family actually brought her family to Grand Forks six years ago for her son, Track, to attend a hockey camp at the Ralph Engelstad Arena when he was 15 years old. Palin eventually received a lot of press from this by proclaiming herself a “hockey mom.”

Originally, Palin was born in Idaho, but moved early on to

Palin hockey jersey sells for $5500 onlinePoLITIcS Former Alaska governor used as ploy to generate wealth for North Dakota GOP

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Alaska with her family. She even-tually moved back to Idaho and received a degree in communica-tion and journalism.

Orie Kaltenbaugh was the winner of the online auction with a final bid of $5,500. The orthopedic surgeon currently re-sides and practices in Lewiston, Idaho. According to his website, Kaltenbaugh has been in pri-vate practice in Lewsitson since 1990.

Kaltenbaugh has worked as the former trainer for Univer-sity of Idaho athletes, along with serving in the Air Force.

The surgeon has recently retired from Altru Hospital in Grand Forks this past year. Along with helping the North Dakota GOP, Kaltenbaugh is an avid North Dakota follower by having a membership in the Fighting Sioux Century Club, which requires an annual dona-tion of $110.

Other than spporting UND, Jones has no other knowledge of ties Kaltenbaugh has to the state.

Either way the GOP party of North Dakota is very pleased with the success and publicity the auction has generated for the organization.

DS>Joel Adrian is the Sports Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at joel.adrian@und.edu

UND vs Southern Utah 9/3 @ 5 pm

UND vs Green Bay 9/4 @ 2 pm

UND vs Drake 9/4 @ 7:30 pm

M&F Xc Pynn Invite@ UND9/4 @9 am

Sophomore Emma Gonseth will return to the mound for another season.

The softball team is looking for the same energy as seen in this picture.

photos by AnDY cIULLA > The Dakota Student

‘I don’t necessarily view being young as a weakness

Sami StrinzSoftball Head

AnDY cIULLA> The Dakota Student

14 SPORTS friday september 3, 2010

Thursday Sept. 2nd marks the beginning of the new season for the North Dakota football team. I recently attended a media

UND vs Idaho previewday to interview and ask questions of coaches and players. Expecting 30 reporters and 15 cameras and maybe a small buffet, I quickly re-alized that I was duped by unreal-istic Hollywood expectations.

As the interviews began, head coach Chris Mussman was able to give limited game strategy and an overview on the Idaho Vandals. “We want to be aggressive de-fensively and make sure our guys have the ability to perform.” The UND defense will have to be on

North Dakota put to the test against the Vandals

In the age of Laguna Beach, Jer-sey Shore and reality shows in gen-eral, I’m continually surprised that tennis is not more popular. It is eas-ily the most dramatic sport. One individual pitted against another—two nationalities, two personalities, two histories and two physical bod-ies with their own idiosyncrasies battling it out in a story that is the tennis match.

And because you’re all on your own, you cannot lose concentra-tion for even a point, because those points turn into games, and those game into sets, and those sets into a match either won or lost. There is no team behind you to catch you when you slip a little—you just fall. It’s a fascinating thing to watch.

Tennis is as much of a battle against the opponent as it is with yourself. The beauty of that fact is shown in the mental struggles which surface through each swing of the racket. “I’m strong, confi-dent and capable of being a cham-pion” the forehand winner seems to say. “I’m not sure if I can win this match; I’ll just see if my opponent can blow it for himself ” the slow [for tennis] 80 mph first serve ad-mits. It’s like poetry moving from the author’s head to his medium; but instead of the medium being literature, it’s simply sport. Every slice, overhead smash, aced serve, volley and backhand is full of story and meaning that can be analyzed and interpreted.

All [intentional] hyperbole aside, U.S. Open tennis contends with Wimbledon for the title of the best Grand Slam tournament of the year. While Wimbledon boasts tradition and class, the U.S. Open is the everyman’s tournament, an appealingly democratic occasion which feeds into the stereotypical (and fun!) juxtaposition between Brits and Americans. The U.S. Open, as the last tournament of the year, takes a purposely friend-lier approach to the game, which makes for an entertaining couple of weeks indeed.

Case and point: Novak Djok-ovic. He came onto the scene as a serious contender in 2007, and he quickly won over the U.S. crowd with his public, post-match impres-sions of other tennis players on the tour. Impersonating Rafael Nadal, he energetically made his way to serve and performed the traditional Nadal butt-pick before tossing up the ball.

Playing at Maria Sharapova, Djokovic demurely walked to the line and pretended to brush back his hair before performing her piercing shriek that accompanies every stroke. Becoming more seri-ous, disagreeable and contentious in recent tournaments, Djokovic has bonded with John McEnroe

FBS Men’s football team excited to try and upset Idaho at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow.

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their game as they go up on the fathomed Idaho offensive line that boasts men weighing at least 330 lbs. “If we get in a shootout situation (with Idaho), the key is for our defense to make a stop.” However, the UND returning team has experience and knows how to handle themselves in a hostile environment. “The guys from the Texas Tech trip last year benefitted greatly from the expe-rience,” stated Mussman.

The North Dakota team seems to have confidence on their side, but there still are concerns that Idaho poses. “Their tight end will give us a few matchup problems…our special teams is my biggest concern right now with two young kickers,” stated Mussman.

As the game date rolls around, the team is becoming anxious and restless. “We’re excited to get out there and hit some people,” stated senior captain Ryan Kaslowski. “You can tell in the locker room that everyone’s itching to get out there,” said running back Mitch Sutton.

Unlike the Texas Tech game last year, UND seems more evenly matched against the Idaho Vandals. North Dakota is hoping to open the season with victories over FBS teams Idaho and North-ern Illinois University.

I recently sat down with start-ing senior nose guard Ty Boyle to get his perspective on the season and what it’s like to be heading into Moscow, Idaho. “We’ve all been talking about it for a long time.” With eight starters return-ing on defense, look for the North Dakota front seven to be bruising the opponents with a renewed flame. “These are the games we have to win if we want to get to the next level.” The economics major and honor student has set some pretty lofty goals for the team and for himself. “We want to win at least one FBS game and have a better record than last year (6-5). At the end of the season, we want to be ranked. For the Idaho game, we’ve gone back to

U.S. open serves up winners and aces

TenniS An analytical approach to why watch-ing the sport is so conta-gious to your health

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at the U.S. Open, as they certainly have in common tempers and be-ing booed.

Andy Roddick is one of the biggest names at the U.S. Open, and I personally have grown to like him in the past few years. I found him especially disagreeable after his 2003 Open title, because in the simplest terms, he became a whiney little git. But then he broke up with Mandy Moore and suddenly start-ed acting like a big boy. Now 28, he is at the end of his career (tennis players retire notoriously young—the courts and motions of the game are very hard on the body), and he has little time to gain another title. He has refined his game and greatly improved his net skills, which gives him more tools in his arsenal be-yond his famous power serve. He’s one to watch, that Andy Roddick.

One of my favorite stories in the past couple years is Kim Cli-jsters. She is a champion in the true sense of the word, and she is an inspiration to women. She holds two titles at the U.S. Open and is this year’s defending cham-pion. When I say that tennis is full of drama, Clijsters is one of the best examples. Previously engaged to Australian tennis star Lleyton Hewitt, Clijsters become widely loved by the tennis community for her cordial and humble demeanor, which one certainly cannot claim for the hot-headed and universally disliked Hewitt. Speculation of an affair on Hewitt’s side hit the pa-pers, and the two split. Clijsters later married an American and an-nounced her retirement in hopes of starting a family. In 2008, she had a baby girl, but Clijsters didn’t feel ready to say goodbye to the game of tennis. She announced that she was coming back, and the U.S. Open afforded her an unseeded wildcard to the tournament, which granted her access but placed her in a very difficult draw. Nonplussed, she battled through and won the 2009 U.S. Open, making her a true inspirational story while glorifying (and proving successful) the life of the working mom. This year, we’ll see if she can continue her come-back.

This is just the tip of the ice-berg, folks. Melanie Oudin and Venus Williams are America’s big hopes on the women’s side. On the men’s side, we get to see the phenomenal trio of Andy Murray, Rafeal Nadal and the greatest ten-nis player of all time, Roger Federer (have you SEEN his between the legs shot yet?), battle it out. Some of the lower seeded players, such as Daniela Hantuchova and Gael Monfils, remain huge threats in the draw.

It should be a great tournament, so take a chance this year and turn it from the ever redundant Sports Center and indulge in the tastes of tennis. The drama has only begun.

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Head coach Chris Mussman lead his team into hostile Moscow, Idaho Thursday.

photo contributed by Alison Kelly> The Dakota Student

dS> Erin Lord is the managing/opinion editor for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at erin.lord@und.edu

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the basic 3-4 defense. We will be blitzing a lot more to cut their speed on the edges.”

Many of the players stayed back and trained at Memorial stadium just for this season. Of course with weight lifting, Boyle also stated that they “fl ipped tires and pushed cars” as a new part of their strength regiment. When asked about his senior season, Boyle stated that “it means a lot; You realize this is the peak of your athletic ability and are able to show your fi nal product on a personal level.”

Overall I believe Coach Muss-man said it best: “We know what were up against, and we’re going to go after them.” I hope that is the case. Idaho is coming off an 8-5 season with notable wins over Hawai’i and Northern Illinois Uni-versity and a victory in the Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl.

The game will start at 8 PM (central time) at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho.

Here are some fast facts before the game on Thursday. This game will be the third season opener for UND on a Thursday, and 15th time North Dakota has played on the fi fth day of the week.

The fi rst Thursday game UND played was back in 1894, the inau-gural season for the football cam-paign. North Dakota won the game 18-4 against Grand Forks city.

UND has a record of 8-6-1 on Thursday games and is currently 3-0 when opening the season on a Thursday. North Dakota will be trying to avenge their 1954 loss to Idaho. The game took place in Moscow, Idaho.

The fi nal score was 0-45 in fa-vor of Idaho. I think we all remem-ber how that one took place.

DS> Joel Adrian is the Sports Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at joel.adrian@und.edu

TEAM > From page 14 SUDOKU

Culture and Research at West Virginia University. The idea was to promote networking among Centers at an American Coun-cil for Education conference in Washington, D.C. The fi rst con-ference was held in 1989 at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., which is now the headquarters for the ABCC.

According to the offi cial web-site of the ABCC, it is an organi-zation that “Supports the work of culture centers through student and professional development, cultural relevant program as-sistance, curricular and co-cur-ricular enrichment, community outreach and engagement, schol-arship on culture centers and ad-vocacy.”

It is called the Association for Black Cultural Centers, but Hord explains, “The organiza-tion is called this because of how it got started. [For it] to be black, doesn’t mean it should be anti-anything. Is it black, yes but it’s also multicultural.”

Matsimela Changa Diop (a.k.a. M.C.), who is the Director of Multicultural Student Center on Campus, also recently stated in a recent UND press release, “We may promote and target cer-tain groups, but we’re here for the entire campus.”

As for the ABCC being on par with the Multicultural Cen-ter at UND, Hord commented, “One of the things that excited me is Dr. Diops work and con-sistency…”

He mentions that many peo-ple are unaware of some key pub-lic fi gures of African and other minority descent, who have con-tributed greatly to American soci-ety and around the world.

“A lot people don’t even know who Era Bell is and I think she is very important.” Era Bell Thompson was a student at the UND in the 1920s who went on to write two books and was an editor of Ebony maga-zine. She was recognized for her efforts to create greater understanding of race and gen-der.

Hord also mentions Latinos as being among another large mi-nority group and expressed inter-

est in possible collaborations between in-stitutions that have different minority ma-jority student body popula-tions.

“ O n e thing that I

think is very important,” says Hord is, “how does one diversify?” This seems to be done in many ways at the Era Bell Thompson Multicultural Center on campus. They offer a computer lab, con-ference room, kitchen, lounge and a small multicultural library.

The Multicultural Center ser-vices website states it’s a place that “allows students of all cultures to gather, relax, and share ideas and experiences. Everyone regardless of ethnicity is encouraged to visit the Center and take part in its activities.” Students should take advantage of the nationally recog-nized center and seize the oppor-tunity to learn more about their own culture, as well as others.

CENTER >From page 1

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

selves to be the most fascinat-ing column topic. And after a childhood of being told we can be anyone and do anything, why wouldn’t we want to continue to hear about how great we are?

In fact, the more I consider the matter, the clearer it becomes: I am narcissistic, and so are you. Yet, many of us are at a point in our lives when it is acceptable to focus on ourselves. After all, the average college student is unmar-ried and without dependants; there is no career yet to tie us down.

One of our main duties for the next 4+ years of our life is to improve ourselves in what we want to do, whether that is at thinking, performing, helping, researching or any of the other number of activities that occur in each department across campus. Perhaps there is a good reason for us to be self-centered. By focus-ing on ourselves, maybe we are merely honing one of our stron-gest tools with which to someday benefi t society.

So, here is the column re-quested by so many of you; this column is dedicated to all of the best qualities you see in your-self. All I ask is that eventually, you turn away from the fl atter-ing portrait we so often see re-fl ected in the mirror and utilize those qualities to make a positive impact on our school, our com-munity and our globe. And now that we’ve cleared that up, maybe I can get back to writing about myself.

EMILY > From page 7

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Have a safe and enjoyable long weekend!

DS> Emily Burkland is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at emily.bunkland@und.edu

‘We may promote... certain groups, but we’re here for the entire campus.

Matsimela DiopDirector, MSCC

about what Ali did within our city, I am humbled by the ef-fort and sincere desire she ex-hibits.

More than that, I am excit-ed about how she will continue to improve in her efforts and abilities as she continues down the inspirational path she has blazed.

As we begin this school year, we should all take a les-son from Ali, to fi nd some-thing we’re passionate about and make a difference.

Whether that’s running for student government, par-ticipating in student clubs or sports or organizing your own group about something you’re interested in, it really doesn’t matter.

What matters is that you do something meaningful in the context you choose.

Because if you do that than this institution and our city will become a better place to live in, and that is something worth striving for.

DAVID > From page 5

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

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while I leave for the bathroom during Thanksgiving if I choose to not change it does fuel my “oh well, I guess I will change it, whatever” side. In my other en-vironment (really only three and a half hours away and still in the confi nes of the Dakotas), people are surprised that I’m even con-sidering switching my last name.

And their hesitance is fi ne; it really isn’t the most modern thing to do. I know the gen-eral picture. Changing your last name is symbolic of the owner-ship of the woman passing from the father to the husband. What could be more patriarchal, more misogynistic? Isn’t something so overtly sexist against everything I believe?

than 10 percent of your salary each month. And if you go into public service, and keep up with your payments, your leftover stu-dent debt will be forgiven after 10 years. As part of this effort, we’re simplifying fi nancial aid forms, too, by eliminating dozens of unnecessary questions.

I’d also point out: one way we’re helping young people af-ford college is by helping them to afford health insurance. Because of the new health care law, young adults can stay on their parents’ health plans until they are 26 years old.

Second, a college education needs to be more than affordable; it needs to prepare graduates for the jobs of the 21st century. Community colleges—underval-ued assets in this country—are well-positioned to lead this ef-fort. That’s why we’re upgrading these institutions by tying the skills taught in classrooms to the needs of local businesses in grow-ing sectors of the economy.

The third part of our higher education strategy is making sure more students complete college. Over a third of America’s college students, and over half our mi-nority students, don’t earn a de-

Well, yes, it is, but I’m not one for antiquated criticisms, ei-ther. My issue with this argument is that it treats the situation as a collective, paying no attention to my individual past, present, and future; I become a slave to an awful history, and I’m given the choice to accept that history by changing my name or to rebel against it and keep my maiden name.

This type of dichotomous thinking really bothers me in con-cern to other issues, and it’s no different here. Didn’t we beat this collective thinking with modern-ism? I don’t approach other issues in my life by looking only at so-ciety’s history, so I don’t see why I should in this situation, either. It’s so deeply personal.

For example, if I had a fi an-cé that demanded my name be

OBAMA >From page 5

changed to his (not that I could ever be with someone like that in the fi rst place), there is no doubt that I would keep my maiden name, because I would refuse to submit to that patriarchy…but I am certainly not with a person like that. He agrees that this is completely my choice and is fi ne with whatever I decide.

Also, I have to consider what my last name means to me. While I have the upmost respect for my father and I would love to keep my name to carry on his “Lord” tradition, I cannot deny that my last name has been severely taint-ed by others, and I’m not proud of all members of my family. Husband or no husband, some-times I wish I had my own last name—different from them—so I could disassociate myself with a rough past.

Part of me would love that chance to seize a new last name and have a new representation. See how intensely personal this is? I have to reveal so much about my life to even scratch the surface of the issue.

That’s not to say that I don’t think the past is important—of course it is. It’s a hybrid of my life story and society’s story that will generate my choice. And, af-ter all this complicated thought, it might just come down to lazi-ness and me not wanting to have to order new credit cards.

I just hope that whatever my choice is, it can be respected and understood on both a personal and societal level.

ERIN > From page 5

DS> Erin Lord is the Managing Editor of The Dakota Student. She can be reached at erin.lord@und.edu

gree, even after six years. That’s not just a waste of money; it’s an incredible waste of potential that holds our country back. We don’t just need to open the doors of college to more Americans; we need to ensure that students walk back out of those doors with a de-gree in their hands.

Of course, that depends on students. You are responsible for your own success. But there is more we can do to remove bar-riers to fi nishing college, espe-cially for those earning a degree while working or raising a fam-ily. That’s why I’ve proposed a College Access and Completion Fund, to develop, implement, and evaluate new approaches to improving college success and completion, particularly for stu-dents from disadvantaged back-grounds.

So we are making college more affordable, gearing the education you receive to the demands of a global economy, and taking steps to lift graduation rates. Because this is how we’ll retake the lead in producing college graduates. This is how we’ll help students like you to fulfi ll your dreams. And this is how we’ll ensure that America prospers in this new century, and that we harness the greatest source of our strength: the talents of our people.

and fellow author, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in December on charges of subver-sion against the state after helping organize a petition calling for po-litical reform.

Yu and Liu had together helped start the Independent Chinese PEN Center in Beijing in 2001, a writers’ organization that of neces-sity must count Chinese in exile among its membership.

About a month before his book came out, Yu said state police took him in for questioning and demanded that he stop the book’s publication. During the conversa-tion, the police told Yu that “you may have to bear serious criminal responsibility if you insist on pub-lishing this book; you will end up just like Liu Xiaobo,” according to an essay that Yu wrote about the experience.

The 37-year-old son of retired construction engineers would have no recourse should authorities de-cide to make him disappear. After years of publishing articles critical of the government, Yu said police monitor him constantly.

Those familiar with Yu say that he’s not a reckless man, but one who’s insisted on exercising the freedoms of expression listed in

CHINA > From page 3 China’s constitution.

For both Yu and Liu Xiaobo, “they’re not going out of bounds here, they’re simply living their lives according to China’s constitu-tion,” said Larry Siems, the inter-national programs director in New York for PEN, a writers’ advocacy group that promotes free speech.

However, Siems noted that by doing so in China, Yu was “at great personal risk” and Liu now sits in prison.

Yu traces his activism to the evenings he and his family spent in 1989 listening to BBC and Voice of America radio broadcasts during the Tiananmen Square standoff between students and government troops that ended in the shooting of protesters. For Yu, a high school student in Sichuan province at the time, “all the education and values taught by the Communist Party crumbled to pieces.”

Asked whether after all these years he’s now trying to walk a fi ne line between being a dissident and being detained, Yu explained that he’s already written thousands of lines that authorities could stitch together to sentence him for at least as long as Liu.

“So I will not waste much time and energy to fi nd a balance,” he said. “I pretend that I am living in a free-speech country, so I speak out the truth.”