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Thursday, February 7, 2013 ndsuspectrum.com Vol. 116 Issue 34
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Trendin’ BisonBig city fashion invades rural area
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SERVING NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1896
International AcclaimNDSU art student’s piece chosen for Egyptian exhibition
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INSIDETHIS ISSUE
A documentary pro-duced in part by the NDSU Library’s Germans from Russia Heritage Collec-tion recently won an Aurora Award.
The documentary titled “At Home in Russia, at Home on the Prairie” re-ceived the Platinum Best in
Show award in the historical category of this year’s Auro-ra Awards. This is the com-petition’s highest honor for television documentaries. In 2012, only 27 documen-taries in the United States were presented with this ac-colade, according to a Uni-versity news release.
Michael M. Miller, direc-tor and bibliographer of the Germans from Russia Heri-tage Collection, and Bob Dambach, director of televi-sion at Public Prairie Broad-casting,
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NDSU Library’s Germans from Russia Documentary Receives Aurora Award
“Their stories share a life of hard work, perseverance, deep religious faith and willingness to adapt to the new land and American society.” - Michael Miller
STEM Building Projected for 2014Morgan RichertContributing Writer
Logan CurtiContributing Writer
University Punishments Pending for Softball Players Charged with Harrassment, Delivery of Alcohol to Minors
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Two NDSU softball players have been officially charged with varying misdemeanors in relation to incidents of alleged hazing that took place at an off-campus party on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 2012.
These allegations derive from a team initiation party where new players were supposedly forced to consume alcohol, including “beer-chugging contests and forced shots of liquors,” according to a Jan. 28 article released by The Forum.
Former player Cassidy Szeredy has been charged with a Class A misde-meanor of harassment and a Class B misdemeanor of disorderly conduct. Sophomore outfielder Alexandria Sobrero is charged with a Class A misde-meanor of delivery of alcohol to a minor.
In an announcement made in December by head softball coach Darren Mueller, appropriate actions were and still are being taken by the coaching staff. Sanctions include game suspensions between three and ten games. The girls were not allowed to participate in any team activities throughout the initial investigation.
University Punishments continued on page 3
Construction in Store for NDSU
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Plans for a new building on campus include state of the art space for science and technology instruction and research.
Governor Jack Dalrymple has backed plans to build a science, technology, engineering and math-ematics building at NDSU as a top priority in budget proposal.
NDSU President Dean Brescani discussed the possibility of gaining a new building on campus with the governor and the appropriations committee. Dalrymple has the building second on the wish list of buildings to be completed. Brescani is enthusias-tic about the project with full support of the $29.6 million project.
NDSU’s growing numbers of students, waitlist classes and expansion of spaces for faculty have
contributed to the need for a new building to fit the size of the school. The new STEM building will address the needs of classroom and laboratory sizes, according to the state funded capital request form.
“The project would 1) provide state of the art safe space for science and technology instructions; 2) allow for better use of existing space to support research and teaching areas; 3) support the top priority of all colleges, deans and senior academic leadership; 4) align with the goal of academic quality education, and training and re-search,” according to the request form.
The graduate program rooms, lab spaces and class-rooms have been formed into one, due to student in-crease and outdated buildings to supply the appropriate equipment for research.
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When you think of class, a regular session usually consists of walk-ing into the classroom, sitting down and listening to your professor’s lecture. At NDSU’s downtown Renaissance Hall, Figure Drawing class is nothing like what is expected. On the first day of class, the profes-sor Amy Smith told students to take off their shoes and socks. At this moment, the class felt very uncomfortable, especially because it was their first day. After their shoes were taken off, they were told to draw their feet. Being in front of people you do not know can make anyone feel uncomfortable, especially when you have to show your feet. How-ever, moments like this help people grow out of their comfort zones. Never expect what is expected.
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by: Mataya Armstrong, Spectrum Staff
PHOTOSPOTLIGHT
Professor, Amy Smith instructs the figure drawing class to draw their feet.“This building is rated
two out of the typical seven that the governor has on a list of priorities,” Robert Lauf, executive commis-sioner of Governmental Re-lations and Intercollegiate Affairs, said. “This is the first, brand new building NDSU would be receiving in a while.”
Lauf said the building project is less likely to be-gin next year and would probably begin in two years.
“The building will sup-port a spectrum of majors at NDSU, including agri-culture, biology, chemistry, engineering, exercise sci-ence, mathematics, nursing [and] pharmacy,” the report
stated. The expansion will help students, faculty and
staff relocate to expanded space for learning.
Some of the build-ing’s features also include streaming video capability, modular open frame
seminar classrooms, bi-ology and physics teaching labs and possibly a student commons area.
The other top project priorities on the state fund-ed list include the Ladd-
Dunbar complex renova-tion and Crop Quality/Food
Science faculty replace-ment. The low-rise lava-tory renovation, Memorial Union Food Court redesign and Nutrition, Dietetics and Hospitality Laboratory are all under renovation for the list of non-state funded capital requests.
More information on the location for the new build-ing will be released on a later date.
Estimated Costs of STEM Building Construction $24,460,000 Contingency $1,850,000 Planning, Permit, Insurance $1,700,000 Demolition and Disposal $100,000 Institutional Work $50,000 Other $25,000 Hazardous Material Abatement $15,000 SubTotal $28,200,000 Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment 1,400,000 Total $29,600,000
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“If legislators approve the governor’s recommendations, the renovation could begin in summer 2014.”
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are the two execu-tive producers of the film. Dona Reeves-Marquardt and Lewis Marquardt of the University of Texas at Aus-tin are the primary research-ers and scriptwriters.
“At Home in Russia, at Home on the Prairie” is the story of the Kutschurgan-ers, a group of Germans who farmed wheat and other agricultural products in the fertile Kutschurganer Val-ley of South Russia, accord-ing to the NDSU Library website. Descendants of the Germans from Russia who settled these areas of North America told the stories of their lives in the breadbas-ket of Russia, as well as their lives after settling the prairies of North Dakota and Saskatchewan.
This documentary places one’s own family story in a wider human narrative of what it means to be a Ger-man from Russia today, as stated on NDSU’s Library website. It emphasizes how Germans from Russia tend
to have a sentimental attach-ment to places, whether it is their homeland, farms or houses.
Miller, who has been a faculty member at the NDSU Library since 1967, was born in Strasburg, N.D., which is primarily a settle-ment of Germans from Rus-sia. Growing up, he learned to speak both English and German in his home.
“This interest devel-oped in my youth to learn more about my ancestors, who had immigrated from near Odessa, Ukraine (then South Russia) to North Da-kota in 1889 and 1893,” he said.
“At Home in Russia, at Home on the Prairie” is the seventh documentary from the Germans from Russia series. The entire docu-mentary series has been produced through the efforts of Prairie Public Broadcast-ing in conjunction with the NDSU Library’s Germans from Russia Heritage Col-lection.
An eighth documentary for the series is in the works as Miller seeks to continue his work in preserving and documenting the rich heri-tage of German-Russians.
“Our eighth documen-tary will be the story of the Germans from Russia who immigrated to South America – Argentina and Brazil,” Miller said. He will
visit southern Brazil in April and Argentina in the fall for filming and interviews.
The Aurora Awards is an independent and interna-tional film and video com-
petition for commercials, cable programming, docu-mentaries and industrial, instructional and corporate videos.
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“I am extremely disap-pointed in the actions of our athletes,” Mueller said in his official statement. “We pride ourselves on a disciplined program, and their behavior does not represent the stan-dards and expectations that have been set. We will work with the athletic department and University personnel to further educate our athletes in making better decisions.”
According to the exten-sive Student-Athlete Hand-book, hazing includes “any action or situation, on or off campus premises, that intentionally or unintention-ally endangers a student for admission into or affiliation with a student organization or group.” It is stated in the handbook that the “forced
consumption of any sub-stance” falls under this cat-egory.
Since student athletes are placed in the public eye much more than the rest of the student body, they are expected to abide by both the Code of Student Behav-ior as well as the Student-Athlete Code of Conduct. This means, according to the Student-Athlete Hand-book, that if they are faced with criminal charges, they “may answer separately to three different jurisdictions for the same set of circum-stances.” The University is allowed to take action against the charged student athlete at any time before, during or after their trial.
Due to student privacy
laws, specific information cannot be released at this time regarding the softball players or their pending tri-als.
If an NDSU student finds themselves in a similar situ-ation as a new member of an organization, or is feeling any peer pressure to drink at any time, there are use-ful resources on campus. One can always contact the Campus Police at 911 in the case of an emergency or at (701) 231-8998 for non-emergencies that must still be handled right away.
The Counseling Center also provides countless ser-vices that are always free, confidential, and open to ev-ery student on campus.
“I’m suspecting if a
person is experiencing haz-ing, there is often alcohol involved…and there are often other activities in-volving humiliation. The alcohol is an important is-sue, but the emotional issues are important, too,” Marlys Borkhuis, Assistant Director and Counselor at the NDSU Counseling Center said. “[Resisting peer pressure] can be a very hard thing to do, especially if you feel alone in your voice.”
No Bison is alone in their voice, and the Coun-seling Center exists to prove that. Numerous counselors can be contacted at (701)-231-7671 or in Room 212 Ceres Hall.
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Josie EyersHead News Editor
Monday’s cover story ‘Women in Combat’ contained a number of errors. LTC Santiago Bueno’s first direct quote reads correctly as “... I want the person ...” rather than “ ... I want the Soldier ...” Furthermore, a portion of the quote at the end of the front page is incorrectly repeated on the third page, where the story continues. The Spectrum apolo-gizes for these errors and any confusion they have caused.
CORRECTION FROM MONDAY
MATAYA ARMSTRONG | THE SPECTRUM
A vintage photograph stands in one of few display cases in the Germans from Russia collection nestled in the library.
The audience of the 87th annual Little International can expect intense competi-tion and entertainment at the 87th, said Nick Austin, Little International manager.
Approximately 180 com-petitors will participate in the events sponsored by Sad-dle and Sirloin, the largest student organization on cam-pus with over 300 members. Little International, com-monly referred to as Little I, consists of showmanship competitions in beef, dairy, sheep, swine and horse, as well as public speaking, ham curing, hippology and art competitions.
“Competition is al-ways tough. We have a lot of really talented students,” Austin said. “Novices will have a lot of fun, too.”
Austin, a senior in crop and weed science, said events will also keep the au-dience entertained.
“We have what we call pooper scoopers, and their job is to entertain the
crowd,” he said. “So they will be telling jokes and they will probably do a couple pranks.”
Saddle and Sirloin also names an Agriculturalist of the Year, who is honored at a Hall of Fame Banquet. This agriculturalist has “dis-tinguished leadership skills in agricultural industry and possess traits members seek to exemplify,” according to the club’s website. This year’s Agriculturalist of the Year is Lyle Warner, a sheep producer from Baldwin, N.D.
Warner received “glowing reviews” from Saddle and Sirloin club members during the nomina-tion process, Austin said.
“It’s a pretty huge hon-or,” Austin said. “As a club, we look at it as one of the more important things we do for the entire year.”
Warner will speak at the banquet and before the showmanship finals.
“He’s a well-spoken guy, and I think he’ll be a lot of fun to listen to,” Austin said.
The run-in for Fri-day’s showmanship finals will be one of the high-
lights of Little International events, Austin said. As the lights turn off in Sheppard, an atmosphere of excitement blankets competitors and the audience.
“It’s kind of like when they turn off the lights in the dome before football games,” he said. “The atmo-sphere is really something special.”
Intense competition may not be as entertaining for the Little International competitors, who spend many hours preparing for the event.
Dan Donnelly, a junior in agricultural economics, was the Overall Champion Showman in last year’s Little International competi-tion.
Little International competitors spend many hours preparing for the event. Donnelly said he put in 20 to 30 hours preparing for last year’s competition.
This year he is serving as the Little International beef superintendent, which involves overseeing students who are showing cattle, co-ordinating arena events and organizing preparations.
He advised other com-petitors to stay calm while showing their animal.
“Don’t get too worked up,” he said. “If you are not calm, then your animal can sense that and they are not going to be calm, and you will both be on edge. And the judge will be able to see that… He’s going to know that you are not very well prepared.”
But staying calm during competition isn’t al-ways easy.
“It can be nerve-racking, especially when you get into the finals,” Don-nelly said. “It is do or die time, and every detail you mess up on counts.”
Donnelly explained that judges look for several main things in each animal class. He said every animal should be clean, trained, well-prepped, and clipped. Com-petitors must also be aware of how they present their animal to the judge.
“Overall, you must pres-ent your animal to the best of your ability so that the judge can see all the positives of your animal,” Donnelly said.
Showmanship Competitors Prepare for 87th Little International2012 Overall Champion Showman Lends Advice
LITTLE I EVENTSLittle I Events Schedule
Feb. 8, 2013
8 a.m. – 4 p.m.H and FFA Livestock Judging
Contest at Shepperd Arena8 a.m. Hippology Contest at Horse Park8:30 a.m. FFA Agriculture Sales Contest at
Memorial Union9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
H and FFA Crops Judging Con-test at Bison Sports Arena
9:30 a.m. FFA Small Animal Care Contest
at Memorial Union2 p.m.
Contest Awards at Shepperd Arena
5 p.m. Hall of Fame Social at Ramada
Plaza Suites6 p.m.
Hall of Fame Banquet/Meal at Ramada Plaza Suites
Feb. 9, 2013
8 a.m. Showmanship Preliminaries at
Shepperd Arena8 a.m.
Photo Competition at Loftsgard Atrium
9 a.m. Ag Engineering Show at Ag En-
gineering Building12:30 p.m.
Alumni Luncheon at Loftsgard Atrium
6 p.m. Showmanship Finals at Shepperd
Arena11 p.m.
Dance in the Chips with “Dude Walker” at Shepperd Arena
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What it is and How it Affects Your HealthMold:HEALTH TALK
With the recent discov-ery of and concern about mold growing
in NDSU’s Churchill Hall, questions have been raised about how the fungus can be harmful to one’s health. Most of the following information comes from the Center for Disease Control’s informational online database.
Finding and Identifying MoldThere are more than 100,000 spe-
cies of mold worldwide. This fungus is related to yeast and mushrooms and is often used interchangeably with the term “mildew.”
The Weather Channel’s website defines mold as “microscopic organ-isms that produce enzymes to digest organic matter and spores to repro-duce,” which, when disturbed, can be discharged into the surrounding air.
When trying to identify mold, look for clusters or specks of black, white, or green, or rely on your sense of smell to recognize its musty odor.
How Mold Affects Your HealthIndividuals are affected by mold
in different ways. Nasal stuffiness, wheezing and irritation of the skin and eyes can occur.
Allergies and asthma can be wors-ened, and infection can transpire in people with weak lungs or immune systems.
More severe reactions are flu-like, including shortness of breath, vomit-ing, fever, dizziness, headaches and fatigue.
Decreasing Your Exposure to Mold
Mold enjoys growing in conditions that are warm, damp and, as a result, humid. However, mold can grow year-round in both indoor and outdoor en-vironments.
While shaded, damp areas are the prime location for mold growth out-side, places inside your home with higher humidity levels—like the bath-room or basement—are most suscep-tible to mold contamination.
It is best to avoid facilitating this type of environment in your place of residence and to be on the lookout for any outbreaks.
Take shorter showers, turn on fans and vents to circulate air, and try not to turn the heat up to tropical tempera-tures.
One way to know if it is too hu-mid in your home is if you are experi-encing excessive sneezing, itching or coughing.
According to Dr. Michael Ruff of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, “humidity promotes mold growth and dust mite population growth…both [of which] are significant indoor allergens and can set off allergic sensitivity and can trigger rhinitis and asthma.”
Actions to Take if You Discover Mold Where You
Live Do everything in your power to
keep the humidity and temperature down.
Properly ventilate areas of high humidity, including cooking, laundry and shower spaces.
Notify your hall director, landlord or a professional service with experi-ence in mold extermination if you do find mold.
If the infected area is small, re-move the mold by spraying it with bleach. Make sure to wear protective eye and hand-wear, and open windows for ventilation.
TRENDIN’ BISON
Christopher Tonsager shows off his New York City inspired outfit near the NDSU downtown campus located in downtown Fargo.
LINDA VASQUEZ | THE SPECTRUM
Victoria Dinampo, a junior ma-joring in Apparel and Textiles has always had an eye for the latest trending styles. Her passion for fashion was her inspiration for beginning Trendin’ Bison. Trendin’ Bison is a column in which she spots students on campus displaying their personal fashion inspirations. Every week, she will choose a student on campus and share their style tips here. For everything fashion follow the trend guru’s blog on Tumblr at http://trendinbison.tumblr.com/
Big City Fashion Hits NDSU Campus in F-M Rural Area
Christopher Tonsager
is a senior majoring in Psychology. He enjoys playing basketball and listening to electronic dance music. His urban style stood out as he was heading to his organic chemistry class...
Story by Jessie Battest
Who is your style icon? 2. How do you decide what to wear in the morning.
3.What are your style staples? 4.What’s your favorite classic piece?
5.What decade do you draw the most fashion inspiration from?
6. What’s the best thing about your style?
7.What trend is your favorite at the moment?
8.Where do you like to shop?
9.What’s the easiest accessory to make an outfit fashionable?
10. Why do you dress the way you do?
“I dress the way I do because I like to look presentable, but still look comfortable at the same time.”
“I don’t really have a style icon, but I like looking like a New Yorker. Taking their style and then applying it to my wardrobe.”
“I just wear whatever I feel like wear-ing but I still try to look presentable.”
“V neck shirts.”“Cardigans.”
“I prefer the modern look.” “I usually just dress casual but at the same time look professional.”
“Belts.”
“Skinny jeans.”“H&M and Express.”
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AT NDSUFrom the popular Facebook group
We can’t resist taking pictures of NDSU!!
-Giovanni Vazquez
I suppose our campus is quite photogenic... -Blake Hagen
Best park job I’ve seen in a long time -Brandon Montgomery
Crossword Puzzle: “CAPITALS”
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“I think they can turn the heat down at the library....i’m legitimately sweating.#NDSUProblems” @lauranels1
“The walk of shame: the walk back from the printer re-alizing you forgot to look at the computer number.#NDSU Problems
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“I’ll risk getting an-other parking ticket if It means I don’t have to walk to class in this cold. #NDSUProblems”
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Looking for a motiva-tional TV series to get you off the couch and back at the gym? Well folks, the popular reality series ‘The Biggest Loser’ is back and full of new surprises.
The season returns with 18 heavily overweight adult contestants, ready to get their lives back in healthy order. However, the show’s focus is not solely on adulthood obesity, but rather includes another growing pandemic, childhood obesity.
To stir things up a little, former personal trainer Jil-lian Michaels (who many regard as drill sergeant with a heart of gold) returns to the ranch after leaving the show at the end of Season 10. Mi-chaels joins returning train-ers and fitness experts Bob Harper and Dolvett Quince in bringing awareness to and combating childhood obe-sity, featuring kid contestants for the first time ever.
According to the Cen-ter for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 17 percent of the nation’s youth ages 2-17 are obese. The number has tripled since 1980. Featuring children this season, the show hopes that kids struggling with their own weight issues will be inspired to change their life-style habits around through learning how to get active and eat healthy.
The show’s contestants are divided into three teams, each with a corresponding
color (red, white or blue), and personal trainer. Each team/trainer has a child participant who competes and partici-pates in the team challenges and activities, but are not subject to elimination, un-like the adults. The children spend time both at home and on the ranch. With the help of their trainers and nutrition professionals, the children will learn about living and eating healthy at home, all the while transforming their lives throughout the course of the season.
The trainers take on a more aggressive and in-your-face approach in work-ing with the adult contestants to shed the weight. However, their approach is quite the opposite with each of their paired child contestants. Mi-chaels, a former overweight child herself, explains that the purpose of bringing chil-dren onto the show is not to tear them down and back up again, as the case for most of the adults. Rather, the em-phasis is educating children and getting them excited about exercising and eating healthy, that it doesn’t have to be a miserable experience, or involve spending two hours lifting weights every-day.
If you’re looking for an eye opener of the reality of our weight issue in this coun-try or some natural motiva-tion meds to get rid of that queso dip still sitting in your belly from last Sunday’s Su-per Bowl Party, then tune into NBC on Monday nights at 8 p.m. for an episode of ‘The Biggest Loser.’
Bored? Dismayed? Unex-cited? If the winter blues are too much to handle, there is one show in town that will chase them all away, at least for a few hours. Neil Simon’s “Rumors,” the very definition of farce, has arrived at The Stage at Island Park and has set the bar very, very high for the remainder of 2012-2013 theatre season in the F-M Area.
What is so great about this play? Nearly everything. A farce, a feel-good and a fantastic show, “Rumors” has everything to please even the most hardened of sense of humors. It has mystery to co-incide with its mirth, making for exceptional entertainment when combined with a very capable cast.
As the lights go up, the very first scene finds husband
and wife Ken and Chris Gor-man (Tom Gillen and Leslie Lekatz) trying to handle a sit-uation of enormous sensitiv-ity. Invited to the anniversary party of the deputy mayor of New York and his wife, the Gormans are thrown for a loop when their host is found shot in the head upstairs while his wife is nowhere in sight. The Gormans try their best to cover things up to avoid pub-lic scandal, but are further put to the test when the second couple arrives.
Lenny and Claire Ganz (Evan Christie and Kayla Rice, two actors worthy of a spinoff show all their own) have trouble of their own as well, involving a crashed BMW, whiplash and a fat lip. From the very start, these two claimed the audience’s hearts, garnering laughs for their outrageous New York accents, witty one-liners, and their “discrete” side conver-sation about the tennis club trash-talkers.
Bill Lucas and Kellie Pi-fer arrive as the Cusacks, a doctor and TV chef who suf-fer sudden onsets of angry outbursts and back spasms, respectively. The Gormans and Ganzes manage to keep the Cusacks in the dark about their hosts until after Glenn and Cassie Cooper (Jeremy Ellsworth and Crystal Cos-sette) arrive, two characters that proved to be very super-fluous indeed.
With all the couples in-troduced, Act One ended on an entertainment peak. The fibs and fabrications told by the first two couples to cover up the absent hosts were ri-otously funny. If those little white lies were not enough, the struggles of Lenny Ganz to open a bag of pretzels and the sudden deafness of Ken Gorman brought Act One to a bombshell of a closing.
As Act Two unfolds, all eight guests are now aware of the situation surround-ing their hosts, and are con-
templating what to do next. Hearts really start to race as the cops (Taylor Schatz and Emma Baardsen) come on the scene and start snooping around. After heavy avoid-ance of the real answers, the partygoers begin to run out of options, but are eventually pulled from the fire by the ef-forts of a cool-headed mem-ber of their own company.
A fantastic farce, “Ru-mors” is a must-see this the-atre season. Anyone who likes, loves, hates or berates theatre will leave with a smile on their face after seeing this show come to life. If unsure, just go down to The Stage to see if all the talk about “Ru-mors” is true.
“Rumors” continues its run at The Stage at Island Park from Feb. 7 to 10 with three shows at 7:30 p.m. and a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $16 for adults, $12 for students and seniors and $6 for children.
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‘Rumors’ Chases Away Winter Blues in Solid Gold Production
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It’s often said that art is a universal form of communi-cation. That concept will be put to the test now that one NDSU student’s artwork will reach farther than any-one expected.
Mataya Armstrong, a Fargo photography enthu-siast and junior year col-lege student majoring in the Fine Arts, will see her class project reach international recognition. Her piece, which is titled “Pardon Me French”, will be one of several displayed at the El Minia University in Egypt.
Armstrong was intro-duced to the art of lithogra-phy as part of her printmak-ing class under Professor Ken Kapplinger. The artist explained that of each meth-od of printmaking, lithogra-phy was the medium that most caught her attention.
Kapplinger encouraged all of his students to apply for the show. The exhibit in question is known the Student International Small Print Show, or SIPS, and is currently on its second run. However, even with her in-terest in the medium Arm-strong never guessed what was about to happen.
“Lithography is my fa-vorite process over all the other printmaking process-es,” she said. “I feel very successful with my work and I never thought it would
go this far with my work.”Armstrong drew inspira-
tion for the magic realism of her piece from cloth-ing, the media and the so-called “hipster” sub-culture, which is often associated with what she says is an
anachronistic styling much like the handlebar mustache featured in her piece.
Of the many prints Arm-strong has made during her time printmaking, she feels that the mustache-focused “Pardon Me French” is her
strongest sampling.While the drawing itself
only took about three days, the entire lithography pro-cess took two weeks.
Armstrong admits that she has something of a fascination with elaborate mustaches, even going as far as wearing clothes and necklaces proudly display-ing the elaborate facial hair.
Those familiar with the lithography process will know that it is particularly well suited for the style con-veyed in this piece.
According to the artist the dirty, black and white aesthetic was capture by etching with a grease pencil on an aluminum plate. This lends it a look not unlike a turn of the century photo-graph, but with the creative freedom to ignore reality.
As such, the “subject” of the piece has no face to in-terfere with the aforemen-tioned, resplendent mus-tache.
Lithography was not her first introduction to art. As was previously mentioned, Armstrong is a great fan of photography and an artist in her own right.
Those skills will no doubt help on her chosen path of becoming a design-er.
“[Lithography] ties into artistic abilities like draw-ing,” she said. “Drawing is almost a required skill for designers who want to work in that field.”
When asked about her plans for the future beyond graphic design, Armstrong took a moment to think.
“I wish I could go to Egypt to see my work,” she laughed. “But that probably won’t happen.”
Drawing and photog-raphy remain on her list of priorities, but despite her early success it seems that her stint in lithography is just about over. At the very least, she hopes, this will serve as a bright spot on her resume.
Whether that’s true, and whether or not she’ll ever have the chance to visit her piece in Egypt is unclear. What is clear, however, is that she has been given an opportunity to communi-cate a piece of her talent with the rest of the world.
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From now until May 19, interested art fans will be able to check out the Plains Art Museum’s latest exhibit featuring pop art legend Andy Warhol.
The exhibit, Andy War-hol: Creating Myth and Icon, will consist of a na-tionally renowned collection of Warhol prints owned by Wesley and Missy Cochran of La Grange, Georgia.
The pair’s collection is comprised of 36 screen prints including two of the artist’s final series. “Cow-boys and Indians” features Warhol’s renditions of such bygone icons as Ted-
dy Roosevelt, Geronimo, Custer, Annie Oakley and John Wayne. Meanwhile, “Myths” focuses on such heroes of popular fiction as Superman, Dracula, Mickey Mouse and Santa Claus.
Megan Johnston, the Plains Art Museum’s direc-tor of curatorial affairs and interpretation, was quite enthusiastic about showcas-ing the famous artist’s work in the showcase’s press re-lease.
“We are thrilled to bring such an iconic artist as Andy Warhol to our community,” Johnston said. “Warhol is a household name, from his images of Campbell’s soup cans to cultural mainstays like Jackie Kennedy. He embraced consumer prod-
ucts and commercialism, transforming commonplace objects into artistic icons of popular culture.”
The exhibition will not only feature the Warhol’s creative works, but will fea-ture an interactive portion as well.
Museum-goers will be able to take part in several activities such as a Warhol-centric iPad app and a “fam-ily friendly guide.”
For those unfamiliar with the iconic American artist, Warhol was the lead-ing figure of the Pop Art movement during the 1960s.
At the time, Warhol was known as a famous pop art-ist, band promoter, filmmak-er and publisher. And while it’s perhaps less relevant to-
day than during the 60s, he was also quite revered for his infamously wild parties.
His most famous works include his renditions of Campell’s soup cans and other seemingly mundane real-world objects. He was also responsible for the fa-mous, multicolored images of The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley as well as other pop culture icons.
While the exhibit will be running from now un-til May 19, those that wish to take one the free exhibi-tion tours will need to do so at 5:30 p.m. on the sec-ond and fourth Thursdays of each month, according to the Plains Art Museum’s website.
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Mataya Armstrong’s “Pardon Me French” will capture modern irony and classic aesthetics in Egypt this year.
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From the trenches of the energy debate to the fox-holes of the battle for sus-tainable communities, the war rages on in more places than can be counted.
And much like Napo-leon, Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler all found out, a war fought on multiple fronts against multiple en-emies is a loss waiting to
happen. While the energy industry, the mining indus-try, the automobile industry and land developers all op-pose the environmental lob-by separately, environmen-talists must face all comers at once.
My last issue deplored the state of North Dakota to refocus its energy devel-opment on the sustainable and abundant renewable re-sources it has available. And while the battle between renewables and fossil fuels rages on, locked-in trench warfare as unmoving as the forces at the Marne, I will turn my focus northwards, to the battle being fought in the pristine wilderness of Alaska.
By now, we’ve all heard
of the tar sands region of Alberta, where giant mining operations are tearing down the boreal forest and rav-aging pristine ecosystems in pursuit of low-grade oil resources. We’ve seen pic-tures of the largest tailings dams in the world, holding back square miles of toxic waste from being dumped into healthy and functional rivers.
The sights are horrify-ing, and one can only hope, after viewing them, that no other such place exists on earth.
Though there are, of course, other such mining locations that have already destroyed and degraded their local ecosystems, we have the opportunity to halt efforts to re-create these scenes in the headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Here, two large mining conglomerates are propos-ing to build an enormous gold and copper mine, with earthworks that approach some of the largest in the world today. The industrial activity being proposed is massive beyond reckoning. What is being named Pebble Mine will produce, over the course of its lifetime, 10 billion tons of contami-nated waste – that’s 3,000 pounds of toxic sludge for every single human being
on earth.Not only will the earth
literally be blasted and pul-verized into an unrecogniz-able, uninhabitable form, but the 10 billion tons of waste created have nowhere to go. The mine proposals include a series of earthen dams, called tailings dams, to hold this waste in place – perceivably, forever. These dams would be some of the largest structures on earth – many of them proposed to be taller than the fabled Three Gorges Dam in Chi-
na. Now that you have a de-
cent visual of the proposed Pebble Mine, allow me to set the scene for the pristine setting of this environmen-tal atrocity.
Bristol Bay, Alaska is home to the world’s larg-est sockeye salmon fishery. The streams and rivers that run from the headwaters – where Pebble Mine is pro-posed – down to the bay are used each and every year by millions of salmon for spawning. These salm-
on provide life and liveli-hood for animals and hu-mans alike; from bears and wolves to seals and whales, the salmon are a keystone species whose loss would devastate the ecosystem.
The fish also provide life to the native subsistence cultures of the region, na-tive tribes who have lived in much the same way since their ancestors settled in the region millennia ago. Be-yond that, the fishing and tourism industry stands to take a devastating blow
from the mine, essentially eliminating what is now a thriving and sustaining form of revenue.
With the stakes this high, the need to stop the devel-opment of Pebble Mine has never been higher. Look to the next issue of The Spec-trum for a plan to stop it.
Nathan is a senior ma-joring in landscape archi-tecture. Follow him on twit-ter @nwstottler.
Not everybody likes beer, but if the number of bars in Fargo is any indication, those of age who don’t like it may be the minority. Ever since turning 21, I’ve been interest-ed in the variety of different beers that are available. Go to J.L. Beers or Happy Harry’s and you will see ales and bocks, stouts and lambics, EPEs, IPAs, and more; talk to your friends and you may find that some of them brew their own from kits that are read-ily available. This wouldn’t have been possible thirty years ago, and hadn’t really become a possibility until mi-crobreweries gained traction with the increasing popular-ity and interest in craft beers.
After the Prohibition era, Americans worked to create a feasible system which con-trolled how beer is sold and to whom in order to distribute the regulatory power to com-munities and individuals and tailor liquor sales to the needs of a community. The three-tier system was the method chosen. Under the three-tier system, brewers are not al-lowed to sell their product directly to consumers; they must go through a middle-man who, in theory, distrib-utes beer according to the de-mands of communities.
From these middle men, individual stores distribute beer to consumers within the confines of local law, dictat-ing the costs of selling such profitable yet potentially abused product by levying taxes, requiring licensure and mandating limited open and close times. These re-strictions are meant not only encourage responsible use of alcohol, but also ensure that the demand met is that of the community, not solely the pri-vate interests of the industry.
However, this system was quickly exploited. While brewers couldn’t own or sell directly to wholesalers, they could influence them, and they have and continue to do so. In return, wholesalers are inclined to serve the in-terests of a particular brewer, and access to the interests of wholesalers and to local stores are effectively blocked off to brewers who refuse to bribe wholesalers or lack the resources.
Pale lagers were the es-tablished beer of choice be-fore Prohibition, and this trend continued when the 21st Amendment reinstated alcohol’s legality. Brands like Anheuser-Busch/Budweiser, Miller and Coors had revert-ed to other products to stay in business. Brewing beer became easy once again, and between the pre-Prohibition advance of iced railcars to increase a beer’s area of dis-tribution and the rise of beer advertising, these became
dominant brands. Where once 40 regional brewers of pale lager existed in the beginning of the post-Prohibition era, only Budweiser, Miller and Coors remain.
The profit that resulted from this spawned another trend which, for a time, killed the notion of American beer: the search for more efficient ways of creating more beer, faster than before. For some, this strategy failed miserably. Schlitz was once a famous and respected brand of beer, famous for the slogan, “If you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer.” However, when its popular formula was al-tered from the time-tested standard by the introduction of cheaper adjuncts, such as rice, and a higher-tempera-ture, faster brewing process instead of cold slow-brewing, the brand lost status and was given the cultural connotation of being a bargain brand.
The “Big Three” have done something similar, but their early adoption of heavy advertising saved them. Now, beer companies are signifi-cant sponsors of almost ev-erything televised or written. This encourages consumers to act economically on the basis of brand recognition, rather than determine what they would actually demand. Anheuser-Busch, the largest brewery in the world, cur-rently spends nearly a billion dollars on advertising a year. And as if it weren’t enough to be able to generate more
revenue than smaller brewers could ever hope to think pos-sible, the recent phenomenon of consolidation further en-ables this exponential growth.
Towards the end of the 1970s, when President Jimmy Carter lifted laws on taxed home production of beer, enthusiasts in home-brewing began to create a wider vari-ety of beers, which weren’t previously available in Amer-ica. These small brewers be-gan their own startups once awareness of and demand for craft beers, filling the vacuum of customer demand left by watered-down, mass-pro-duced pale lager.
In my native Minnesota, brewers like Cold Spring, Surly, Schells/Grain Belt and Summit are big players in the bar scene. Big brewers saw their slice of a pie, itself made smaller by competition with wine and spirits, decreasing further still. Growth in their products became less, even stopping and reversing direc-tion. Advertising would not sway the minds of this new market segment. Realizing the trend towards a wider va-riety of beers being demanded by consumers, acquisition of these brands through buyouts and consolidation became the logical next step.
Joshua is a senior major-ing in sociology and philoso-phy.
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Pebble Mine: An Alaskan Nightmare Part One - The Stakes
“The industrial activ-ity being proposed is massive beyond reck-oning.”
The Power of the Big Beer IndustryHow It’s Changed and Why It Matters to You
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Have you ever watched that video that shows that you could sing just about every popular song from the past 30 years with the same chord progression? Okay, maybe not every song, but a good chunk of them. If you haven’t, it is exactly what it sounds like. Three guys sing every song from Don’t Trust Me by 3OH!3 to Let It Be by The Beatles all while never changing key.
While this is highly im-pressive and awesome to watch, it makes me weep for what is becoming of music, or, what we consider good music. Is it just a coinci-dence that the songs every-one knows are all the same on paper? I’m going to go ahead and say probably not. In my opinion, the people who make popular music
today are only interested in making money and a reputa-tion for themselves.
How much easier it is to do that than to use what is already proven to be loved by everyone? It’s like a for-mula for success. Only today we just add a lot of cleavage, or lyrics about cleavage, and ta-da! Number one album. How creative of them.
I think that’s why there are phases of popular artists. There aren’t any revolution-ary breakthroughs in any genre really, because we’ve heard it all before. It’s a song we all know deep down, so it’s not as exciting or new.
For the artists who don’t follow in those footsteps, there is less of a reputation being made. Not that they aren’t worthy, but because people just don’t listen to them. They aren’t playing the game the right way so they stay in the shadows, shamelessly adding Fs and B flats to their chord progres-sions with not so much as a twitter following to see it.
Truth is, there is a lot of music out there that isn’t played with E B C# A over and over again that most people never listen to. And really, they are the artists. They are the ones who are actually creating music, rather than plugging new words into a song everyone has heard before.
There was a beacon of hope at the 2012 Grammy awards when Bon Iver won best new artist over Nicki Minaj. I was so full of hope then, and I am now. The face of popular music is chang-ing. Artists like The Lum-ineers and Mumford & Sons are now on the radio almost as much as Taylor Swift or Katy Perry.
I do enjoy an occasional Lady Gaga or Justin Timber-lake fix, but if that’s all you listen to, it’s like going your whole life only ever eating one kind of cookie and never trying the ones you’ve never heard about. There’s a lot of good music out there. You just have to listen for it.
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I think it’s about time I give a thorough rundown of donating plasma. I’ve been a “regular” donor for three years now and have no plans of giving up the extra cash that gives me a little more flexibility on an already tight spending bud-get. My friends and family have given me weird looks when I explain to them that
a primary source of my monthly income comes from donating twice a week. The side effects are miniscule, if any…okay, maybe some initial bruising on the arm when I was pricked my first couple of donations.
But I will argue that it is a safer alternative to do-ing Pracs studies. I’ve done Pracs studies before, and the side effects I’ve experienced firsthand are not worth liv-ing in a human equivalent of a research lab for rats, teased with a $1200 com-pensation check. No, plasma is nothing to that extreme. It doesn’t involve putting mystery medications in your body and then looking at the effects. The process takes roughly an hour and half of your time twice a week. The payoff: You’re saving lives (yay!) and getting paid at the same time.
To the curious, non-plas-ma donors out there who are wondering what a typical
donation is like, especially those of you who are teeter tottering the idea of giving in to this lifestyle, I’ll begin the donation process with step one: picking a donation center.
There are two plasma centers in the F-M area: Bio-Life Plasma Services and Talecris Plasma Resources, both of which are viable do-nating centers. Other than being operated by two dif-ferent companies, the ex-perience is pretty much the same at each center. I should note, however, that Talec-ris pays its donors in cash, while BioLife compensates its donors with a debit card that accumulates with each donation. Choose whatever center you prefer. Note: I donate at Talecris, so from here on out, my written ex-periences of donating are fo-cused on Talecris rather than BioLife.
Your first donation typi-cally takes two to three hours, due to the fact that a mandatory physical is in-cluded. After reading the donating manual, answer-ing several “yes” or “no” questions, and successfully passing the basic physical, a phlebotomist will check your arm veins and deter-mine which arm you will use. It all seems very cum-bersome and overwhelming at first, but this part is all a one-time ordeal.
Next, your weight, vitals, hematocrit and protein lev-els are checked over. These numbers must all be within a certain range, or you will be deferred for a certain num-ber of days. This part of the process is routine every time you donate, so make sure you’re getting enough pro-
tein in your diet. You’re almost there! Af-
ter signing off on the “high risk assessment poster” that becomes ingrained in your memory after repeated vis-its, you will find a nice, comfy bed where a phle-botomist will prep your arm, and inject a needle the size of a coffee stirrer straw into your vein. It sounds brutal and may sting a bit at first, but I don’t even feel it any-more when they prick me. Why? Because I have accu-mulated a nice lump of car-tilage around my vein. Call me sick, but I don’t mind the feeling of being pricked (Hopefully I haven’t lost all of my readers by this point).
Once the needle is in, sit back, relax and enjoy one of the center’s complimentary movies showing in any di-rection your bed is facing, or catch up on some reading. I personally use this time to read for leisure.
At the end your donation, which varies from person to person (it takes me roughly 35 minutes), it’s payday! Seventy-five dollars of hard cash is yours if you donate twice a week, $25 your first donation and $50 your sec-ond.
There you have it. Per-haps this was a bit more informative than what you bargained for. Nonetheless, most plasma donors will testify that the overall expe-rience is rather simple and harmless. Oh, and did I men-tion you’re saving lives?
Jeff is a senior majoring in environmental design.
Saving a Life One Needle at a Time Donating Plasma isn’t Something to Fear
“The payoff: You’re saving lives (yay!) and getting paid at the same time.”
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“Herd’s Hunches”
SAM HERDERSports Editor
Just a day before signing day, the news broke out that two redshirt freshmen were dis-missed from the NDSU football team. Coach Bohl said safety Marcus Brantley and defensive end Chuks Amaechi are no lon-ger on the team due to violation of team rules. Not many details have surfaced, but Brantley was charged with minor in pos-session. Other infractions are probably involved, considering a minor doesn’t typically get you kicked off the team.
Now, it is never good to hear players getting kicked off the team. There were a few last year and several players leaving the team this year. Four players have now left the 2012 recruit-ing class. Brantley, Amaechi and then Sam Hahn and Jacob Davis left the team earlier this year. Sophomore brothers De-shawn and Deveon Dinwiddie also left the team before the playoffs started.
Typically, many fans begin to worry about all these play-ers leaving and begin to look deeper into it. Not only is tal-ent leaving, but questions on the character of some players and why some are leaving are also brought up. Brantley and Amaechi, both from Arizona, were highly touted recruits. Many were looking forward to the contributions they could provide next season.
These fans need to relax before they begin their panicky rants on the Internet. Yes, the Bison lost two skilled players and yes, the dismissal of play-ers doesn’t look good to the
public.The fact is, not every player
the NDSU coaches recruit will turn out the way they expected. First year of college and a thou-sand miles away from parents-- some players have a tough time adjusting to that. Player dis-missals occur every year for the Bison. That doesn’t mean peo-ple should question the recruits NDSU is bringing in. Not every player will be as disciplined as the others.
Two more scholarships have opened up. Despite the negative circumstances, the Bison have more options for the next year’s incoming freshmen. And that brings us to yesterday’s sign-ing day. All the players look good on paper. Championships, awards and accolades are lit-tered on each of these players’ resumes. The chances that ev-ery single one of these players will stay on the team are, unfor-tunately, doubtful.
Every recruit the Bison bring in is a risk. The coaches just don’t know how well the young men will adjust to the college life. For the 2012 re-cruiting class, four players are already off the team. Maybe there will be more, no one real-ly knows. But we do know this: the ones that are cut out for col-lege football will figure out the formula to be successful.
The freshmen next year will learn that, while others won’t. That’s college football and ath-letics in general. Fans never en-joy hearing about a player leav-ing the team. But before you hit the panic button and begin posting on the web or ranting elsewhere, just remember that the players meant for college athletics will stay. And those players will have more of an ef-fect on the team’s success than the players that leave.
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The Bison wrestling team has enjoyed a surpris-ing amount of success this season. At the heart of the Bison’s accomplishments has been junior, Steven Monk. The 165-pounder has been making noise on the mat this season, posting a spectacular record of 28-3.
The brutality of wres-tling makes it one of the toughest sports around and only the strong survive. Monk credits his work ethic and dedication to the vast amount of success he has been experiencing this win-ter. The hours spent in the confined wrestling room up-stairs at the BSA have paid off for the nationally ranked wrestler.
“It feels good. I have
come a long way since my freshman year,” Monk said. “Just seeing the improve-ments I have made and all the hard work pay off, it’s great to see that.”
The improvements have been aplenty for Monk. He posted a respectable 26-9 re-cord his freshman year, but his season was ended in the NCAA West Regionals. The following year was even bet-ter. Wrestling at 157-pound division, Monk posted a re-cord of 36-9, pinning 13 of his opponents. Monk’s per-formance was good enough to advance him to the NCAA Championships where he went 3-2 as the 12-seed, falling one win short of All-American honors.
When asked about his goal for this season, he smiled and responded by saying, “Obviously, to win that national title.”
Monk wasn’t always tossing around division I wrestlers left and right, this All-American kid from Wausau, Wisconsin got his toes wet in all kind of ath-
letic competitions at a young age.
“My parents put me in a youth club when I was young because, you know, I was try-ing all different kinds of sports,” Monk said. “My dad wrestled in high school, he was the one who introduced it to me.”
Thankfully for the Bison, his father steered him in the right direction.
Monk put together quite the resume while in high school, wrestling for his hometown Wausau West High School. He currently holds the Wisconsin state re-cord with 202 wins with 102 of them coming in the way of pins. Monk was a highly profiled recruit after winning the state tournament in 2009 and is easily one of Bison wrestling head coach Roger Kish’s better signings.
“They called me in af-ter a national tournament, actually the Fargo National Tournament here, and said they wanted to bring me up on a visit,” Monk said. “I liked what the coaches had to say. They made it feel like they wanted me here, and that’s what I wanted. The school had everything I needed.”
The physical and health education major has grown up in front of eyes and is now a real contender for one of the All-American spots this season.
“It would mean a lot,” Monk said. “It would show me what hard work can do and dedication. Hopefully it can carry over to these other guys so they can see what can be done if they put their mind to it.”
Monk is ranked No. 6 nationally at the 165-pound weight class and is enjoying
an undefeated 15-0 record in the team duals. He is coming off one of his most dominant victories on Sunday, defeat-ing his UNI counterpart, 14-1.
The No. 25 Bison fell to 20th ranked UNI Panthers Sunday, 21-15. Monk says his team still has a ways to go to reach their ultimate team goal.
“We want to be there with the best teams in the nation and getting ranked 25th here is a start,” Monk said. “We just gotta keep working our way up.”
The happy-go-lucky Monk isn’t the only wrestler on the team enjoying the na-tional attention this season. Senior Trent Sprenkle is currently ranked No. 10 in the nation at the 125-pound weight class with a 22-4 re-cord.
When asked if he could take his teammate Sprenkle in a match, Monk laughed and said, “Yeah, he’s a little bit smaller than me, but he’s a tough kid though. I mean, he wouldn’t back down.”
Monk and the rest of the Bison team can enjoy the moment for now, but realize the real work is still ahead. The Bison have three team duals remaining before the conference championship March 9 in Wyoming.
There is no doubt Monk will be ready as he sets his sights on that All-American honors, as well as, the Na-
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PHOTO COURTESY | NDSU ATHLETICS MEDIA RELATIONSSteven Monk takes a 7-2 decision over Boise State’s Holden Packard in a dual meet on Nov. 16th at the Bison Sports Arena in Fargo.
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The No. 25 NDSU wres-tling team dug itself a hole through the first five match-es against No. 20 Northern Iowa on Sunday. The Bison were down 14-4 to the Pan-thers at the start but attempt-ed a comeback and gave the crowd a reason to hang around the arena.
The Bison rallied to within 18-15 going into the heavyweight match, but the Bison couldn’t complete the comeback. A 4-1 decision by Northern Iowa’s Blayne Beale over Evan Knutson was enough to give the Pan-thers the 21-15 dual victory.
The heavyweight match was tied 1-1 with only 35 seconds remaining; Evan Knutson lifted Beale and nearly threw his opponent for the takedown, but Beale kept his feet and scored a takedown of his own to seal the 4-1 decision with riding time.
The Panthers (8-3) won six of the ten matches and had three major decisions. Trent Sprenkle (125), Ste-ven Monk (165) and Kallen Kleinschmidt (197) all won their major decisions for the Bison.
Sophomore Kurtis Jul-son posted a 3-2 decision over No. 19-ranked Cody Caldwell at the 174-pound spot.
Sprenkle scored an 11-2 decision over Ryan Lauch at the 125-pound spot for an impressive 97th career vic-tory to open the dual. UNI rattled off four straight wins, including major decisions by No. 13 Joey Lazor at 141 pounds and David Bonin at 157 pounds.
Monk, ranked No. 6 in the country, improved to 15-0 in duals for the Bison this season with a dominant 14-1 major decision over Jarrett Jensen at 165 pounds. Monk has a stellar 45-6 re-cord in his last 51 matches.
Kurtis Julson used a takedown with 33 seconds remaining in the third pe-riod to knock off the No. 19-ranked Caldwell, 3-2.
No. 6 Ryan Loder recorded a 10-0 major decision over Mac Stoll at 184 pounds to set the score margin at 18-11 in favor of Northern Iowa. Kallen Kleinschmidt quick-ly responded with a 12-3 major decision of his own at 197 pounds to keep the Bi-son’s hope alive.
This dual was the Bi-son’s eighth of the season against a ranked opponent.
NDSU (7-8, 2-0 WWC) hosts two Western Wrestling Conference duals in the Bi-son Sports Arena this week-end. The Bison host Utah Valley on Friday at 7 p.m. and Northern Colorado on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Bison Wrestling Comeback Stopped by No. 20 UNIPace MaierContributing Writer
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Kallen Kleinschmidt, a senior wrestling at 197 pounds, won a 12-3 major decision over Taylor Kettman of Northern Iowa.
The NDSU Student Ath-lete Advisory Council and the NDSU Athletic Department are spearheading a campaign for a fellow Bison athlete, and they are asking #BisoNation for some help.
Hanna Linz, a senior member of the women’s bas-ketball team, has experienced a recurrence of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system.
Linz was first diagnosed in April of 2010 and was able to win her fight through che-motherapy and radiation.
Linz has learned her can-cer has returned, and instead of being able to complete her college basketball career, she will be in and out of the hos-pital.
The student athlete coun-cil, led by Nathan Anderson and Nate Mattson, are lead-ing the charge to assist Linz in fundraising efforts. The fun-draising campaign they have started is called “Bison Nation Helping Hannah.” A fund has been set up at Gate City Bank in downtown Fargo to accept contributions on behalf of Linz and her family.
Donations to the fund can be made by either mail-ing or delivering a check to the downtown Fargo Gate City Bank, or any other Gate City Bank branch. The check should be made out to the Hannah Linz Fund. The ad-dress of the Gate City Bank in downtown Fargo is 500 2nd Ave. N., Fargo ND, 58102.
A free will offering, called Hoops for Hannah, will also be conducted at all of the home athletic events.
Linz, from Watkins, Minn., played in 100 games for the Bison since the start of the 2009-10 season, averag-
ing 6.5 points per game. She was the only NDSU player to start all 31 games last season, finishing the year ranked 12th nationally in three-point ac-curacy at 39.9 percent. Linz is No. 2 all-time at NDSU in three-pointers made, with 156.
Linz has been just as suc-cessful off the court as well. She is a three-time selection to the Summit League All-Academic Team with a 3.81 GPA. Linz plans to complete her education at NDSU and graduate with a degree in nursing.
Below is a list of events and fundraisers dedicated to help Linz and her fight.
Hoops for Hannah: Free will donation at each home Bi-son athletic event until March 2, 2013. (Basketball, Track and Field and Wrestling)
The Battle of the Cents-es: The ambassador organization in the college of pharmacy, nursing, and allied sciences and the college of engineering and architecture will be raising money in Sudro Hall, Memo-rial Union, Renaissance Hall and the Engineering Complete Feb. 11-15. As a competition to raise money towards the charity, change counts as pos-itive for the organization and cash bills count as negative. The college ambassadors will be giving out buttons to those who donate. The two organi-zations will have a celebration dinner on Friday, Feb. 15 from 5-7 p.m. at the West Fargo Happy Joe’s to announce the winner and how much money was raised.
Feb. 23: A raffle at the 7 p.m. women’s basketball game. Buy a $5 ticket from your favorite Bison athlete for your chance to win a Bison gift, including autographed footballs, volleyballs, sweat-shirts and more.
Feb. 26: A raffle at the 7 p.m. men’s basketball game. Buy a $5 ticket from your fa-vorite Bison athlete for your chance to win a Bison gift, including autographed foot-balls, volleyballs, sweatshirts and more.
March 4: Free will dona-tion at a Spaghetti Feed and Silent Auction sponsored by Blue Key and the Student Athlete Advisory Council – NDSU Alumni Association – Time: 5 - 8 p.m.
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Hannah’s Caring Bridge site: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/hannahlinz
Bison Nation Helping Hannah Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/ BisonNationHelpingHannah
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