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Eight Michigan Tech wom-en stepped away from their

textbooks and out of their snow boots to instead don evening gowns and show-off their poise, their charm, and their wood chopping skills. The Queens competition for Winter Carnival has always been a light-hearted endeavor—judging Michigan Tech sweethearts on much more than just their pretty faces but also on their humorous, articu-late, and entertaining natures. This year the competition heat-ed up in true Winter Carnival Fashion for the Queens with the eight finalists on-stage, victors of the student vote, ready to show off their talents and prove their sponsors proud. And they cer-tainly did.

Cheers and catcalls rang from the audience as the lucky lady crossed the Rosza stage to ac-cept her frosty crown. Saturday, Jan. 30, Tech crowned Anna Uhl Winter Carnival Queen. Sigma Phi Epislon and Kukkakaupa in Hancock were Ana’s sponsors. Her talent corresponded with the theme for carnival as she demonstrated her love for Latin American dance with the help of My-Size Barbie. The games con-tinued when Brett Farve received a nod in a comedic performance by the Women’s Soccer Club and Xpressions Hair Salons’ women, Brittany Wood, whom placed third in the competition. Jazz numbers and beautiful vocal performances were also among the competitors’ many talents. Sally Sanderson, Alpha Xi Pheta and Dairy Queens’ competitor, even showed off her mastery of

a traditional winter U.P. ritual—chopping wood.

The winners of the Queen competition typically represent their sponsers and Michigan Tech by riding the zamboni ma-chine at the hockey game against Duluth. Their sponsors also re-ceive points towards winning the

coveted winter carnival trophy. They proudly represented

not only their sponsors but also Michigan Tech. With their intel-ligent, innovative, and good-na-tured performances, the women of the Queen’s coronation put on a great show. It is a great start to Winter Carnival 2010.

Anna Uhl is crowned the 2010 Winter Carnival Queen

Winter Carnival Queen: Anna Uhl after being crowned at the Queen’s Coronation. Eight contestants competed in Saturday night’s competition. Photo by Alex Cotton

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TARA SOTIRIN

Blue Key Honor Society will host its annual leadership confer-ence from Friday, Feb. 5 through

Sunday, Feb. 7. The theme for this year is “The Variables of Leadership.” Ap-proximately 125 people from all over the country will be in attendance. The participants will be engaged in a variety of leadership break-out sessions, busi-ness meetings, and Winter Carnival festivities. Blue Key Honor Society is privileged this year to have the keynote address—The Thermodynamics of Lead-

ership, presented by Dr. Terry Woychows-ki, Vice President of Global Management for General Motors. Other speakers in-clude a variety of Michigan Tech faculty and staff who volunteered their time.

Blue Key Honor Society is very grateful to General Motors who provided a gener-ous donation to the Michigan Tech Chap-ter in order to help support this year’s

conference. Special thanks and apprecia-tion are also extended to the Michigan Tech Admissions, Graduate School, Dean of Stu-dents, Housing and Residential Life of-fices, who also helped support this year’s conference. For more information about Blue Key Honor Soci-ety, the conference, or speakers, visit the Blue Key Web site at http://bluekey.students.mtu.edu/ or via E-mail at

[email protected].

General Motors supports Blue Key Honor Society’s Annual Conference

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Strutting her stuff: Amanda Taylor strikes a pose during the tal-ent portion of the Winter Carnival Queen Competition. Taylor was voted 2010 Miss Congeniality by her fellow contestants. Photo courtesy of MTU Flickr

Khana Khazaana international food booth premieres in MUB

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Diners at the Memorial Union Building on Friday, Jan. 29 may have noticed something new happening in the commons area. Two tables set up buffet style with student servers offered students a chance to taste authentic Indian food. For $6 a plate the price was right for two main dishes, bread, fruit salad, and warm spiced chai tea. For the first Friday, the pro-ceeds for the meal, approximate-ly $3 for each plate, will be sent to the Haiti Relief Effort. This isn’t the last that students have seen of this treat either—the tables will be back every Friday offering stu-dents another chance to explore palates from different cultures.

The tables were part of the new Khana Khazaana international food booth that will feature a dif-ferent international menu every Friday. “Khana Khazaana means ‘Food Treasure’ in Indian,” says Sahil Thakkar, one of the interna-tional chefs behind Friday’s menu

as well as one of the founding members of Khana Khazaana.

Sahil Thakkar and Safayat Alum are two international stu-dents who proposed the idea of international food at the MUB. To their good-fortune, the ex-ecutive chef, Eric Karvonen and Executive Director of Food Ser-vices, Matt Lean were more than willing to consider the plan. “Eric and Matt were very excited, they adapted to the project very well,” remembers Sahil, “it’s a big proj-ect but with student interest it will succeed.” The project began with trial runs last November and December that went “very well.” Surveys of students’ inter-est in eating international food and a display of the two primary chefs’ talents cemented the plan to start the food booth in Janu-ary. “Students answering the sur-vey showed more and more they were tired of the same food,” Sa-hil says, “We got such a good re-sponse and that’s what we hoped for.”

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included opening it to the com-munity and expanding it to other cultures. “We are in contact with Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Thai chefs,” says Sahil.

He and Safayat will be in charge of interviewing potential chefs and checking to make sure the chefs talents in the kitchen are up to the Khana Khazaana’s stan-dards. Many of the potential chefs have practice from cooking for International night or various cultural events offering food but quantities at the Friday afternoon

meals will be limited, typically offering around 100-150 plates. Farther down the line Sahil and Safayat would like to see the Khana Khazaana dabble in Latin American and Middle Eastern food as well.

The first Friday was well at-tended, the MUB commons packed with students, faculty, and staff. Most of the diners that day chose to try the two Indian dishes, which were both vegetar-ian, one a primarily-egg dish and the other a mix of rice.

The menu for the next Friday’s meal will be available on the MUB website: http://www.dining.mtu.edu/.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged. Michigan Tech students, faculty, and staff have enjoyed cultural food at international events be-fore but this project brings inter-national food to MTU students’ fingertips, or more specifically the tips of their forks, like never before.

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The Houghton County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a two

vehicle head on crash that re-sulted in the death of a Laurium man that occurred on US-41 just south of the Airport Park road in Franklin Township at around 10:40 a.m. on Jan. 28.

The crash happened when a Chevy minivan, driven by 40-year old Sean Fontaine from Lau-rium, was northbound on Us-41 just south of Airport Park behind an MDOT plow truck. A white-out condition occurred and the minivan collided head on with

a Pisani Distributing delivery truck. The driver of the mini-van was pronounced dead at the scene. His 46-year old wife, Terri Fontaine, who was a passenger in his vehicle, had to be extricated from the vehicle before being transported to Portage Health in Hancock for treatment of her injuries.

The driver of the truck was 37-year old Ryan Greenleaf from Hancock and was transported to Portage Health where he was treated and released.

The Sheriff’s Department was assisted at the scene by the Bos-ton Fire Department, The Calu-met Township Fire Department, Superior Service Towing and Mercy Ambulance. The accident remains under investigation.

On Jan. 31, the Michi-gan Tech Department of Public Safety and

Police Services (DPSPS) issued a “timely warning” in reference to a female student reporting an inde-cent exposure case. As she was traveling home at approximately 12:20 a.m., in the direction of the Memorial Union Bldg. (MUB) and Administration Building, the incident occurred. DPSPS and local officials are investigating the incident. They are in pur-suit of possibly a sil-

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Fatal Car Crash Indecent exposure incident on Michigan Tech campus

Ice in action: The past week has been a

buzz of activity across Michigan Tech’s campus. Student groups have participated in nearly a dozen special events.

Events are typically a winter spinoff of an already-loved past time. Events include ice bowl-ing (upper left), snow volleyball (bottom left) and the unique and unorthodox Yooper sprint.

Photo courtesy of MTU Flickr

Houghton County Sheriff ’s Dept.

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ver Subaru hatchback with a rear spoiler. DPSPS are advising stu-dents, staff, and faculty to do the following: be extra vigilant when walking during evening hours, walk in groups or with a friend (if possible), contact DPSPS for an escort (if feeling uneasy), walk in the other direction and find the closest well-lit and populated area or emergency phone if a sus-picious car or person is spotted. If you have a cell phone, call for assistance; give your precise loca-tion, and be sure to wait until the officer arrives. Anyone with any information should contact the DPSPS tip line: http://www.mtu.edu/tips/

3AThursday, February 4th, 2010Michigan Tech Lode Pulse

HOUGHTON, MI, Jan. 26, 2010 - On Saturday, Feb. 6 at 9:00pm, the Rozsa Center is proud to present the international sen-sation – comedian John Oliver in our annual Winter Carnival cel-ebration! John has been a writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart since 2006.

As a result of his huge success on The Daily Show, for which John received an Emmy Award and been nominated for a Writ-er’s Guild Award, John was asked to write and star in his own one hour stand-up special for Com-edy Central. Entitled Terrifying Times, this premiered in April 2008 and was subsequently re-leased on DVD.

Alongside long-term writing partner Andy Zaltzman, John

currently co-writes and stars in The Bugle, an ongoing series of satirical news podcasts, in asso-ciation with The Times newspa-per. With Andy Zaltzman, John has co-written and hosted the BBC Radio 4 show Political Ani-mal. Based on their satirical live stand-up show, a second series was broadcast in 2008. John has additionally written and starred in three series’ of The Depart-ment (BBC Radio 4) alongside Chris Addison and Andy Zaltz-man.

John has recently filmed a role in the brand new NBC primetime series ‘Community’ alongside Chevy Chase and Joel McHale.

“Oliver is a master storyteller, stringing jokes together so tightly that not a syllable falls out of place.” - The Onion

“John Oliver, from Merseyside to Cambridge Footlights, has been a Jon Stewart regular for over three years now. He writes great gags, he snarls, he’s hilari-

ous. He ought to come home on a free transfer - because the zeit-geist needs him.” - Guardian

Oliver hopes to stay at The Daily Show for as long as they and US immigration will allow.

Wrap up the perfect Winter Carnival Week with the funniest show of the season! Don’t miss the clever and disarmingly witty John Oliver!

Ticket prices for the general public are $25 and $20; MTU student prices are $20 and $15 (MTU student ID required). To purchase tickets contact the Roz-sa Box Office at 487.3200, The Central Ticket Office (SDC) at 487.2073, Tech Express (MUB) at 487.3308 or go online at tickets.mtu.edu. No refunds, exchanges, or late seating, please.

Sponsored by the Student En-tertainment Board (SEB) and the James and Margaret Black En-dowment.

John Oliver performs at Rozsa

Oscar nominees announcedOn Tuesday morning,

nominees for the 82nd Acad-emy Awards were announced at the Samuel Goldwyn The-ater in Beverly Hills, Calif. The announcements were made by Tom Sherak, the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and actress Anne Hathaway.

This year’s Oscars, notable for the fact that it will be the first time since the 1943 Academy Awards where more than five Best Picture nominees will be featured (there will be ten in all), will take place on March 7, 2010 at the Kodak Theatre in Holly-wood.

Among the films nominated for Best Picture were science fic-tion thrillers “Avatar” and “Dis-trict 9,” as well as expected Oscar nominees “Up in the Air,” “The Hurt Locker,” and “Inglourious Basterds.” Expanding the field to ten films did bring about some surprises though. Unexpected nominees included The Coen Brothers’ “A Serious Man,” Pixar’s latest animanted film “Up,” and “The Blind Side.”

The other award categories went more conventional. Best Actor nominees include favorite George Clooney for “Up in the Air,” Jeremy Renner for “The Hurt Locker,” and Morgan Freeman for his portrayal of former South Af-rican leader Nelson Mandela in “Invictus.” Best Actress nominees

notably include Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side” and Meryl Streep for “Julie and Julia,” por-traying renowned American chef Julia Child.

Among those nominated for Best Director include James Cameron for “Avatar,” Quen-tin Tarantino for “Inglourious Basterds,” and Jason Reitman for “Up in the Air.”

This year’s Oscars is also no-table due to the fact that it repre-sents the first real threat to Pixar’s

domination of the Best Animated Feature category. Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated feature “Fantastic Mr. Fox” has been very highly regarded amongst critics, and is seen as a viable contender for the award.

This year’s Academy Awards will take place on March 7, and will be broadcasted live on ABC. The show will be co-hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, who both were recently features in the film “It’s Complicated.”

Pulse EditorLUKE GUBLO

Comedian John Oliver: Comedy Central star John Oliver to per-form on Saturday night

Photo courtesy of Rozsa Center

James Cameron: Avatar director, nominated for Best DirectorPhoto courtesy of Angela George via Flickr

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An Education

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Inglorious Bastards

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Press ReleaseRozsa Center

Dear Sassy,I have always wanted to be a writer. However, when I

showed a short story that I was very proud of to a writing professor, they basically told me I should start over. This discouraged me quite a bit. What if I just don’t have the tal-ent to be a writer? Should I start considering other options?

Sincerely,Wannabe Writer

Dear Wannabe ,Your professor is undoubtedly all-knowing and to not give

his advice serious consideration would simply be irrespon-sible. If your short story is as terrible as your professor be-lieves, you should just throw it away and don’t look back. If you aren’t a good writer by now, you probably will never be. Pay no attention to writers such as Kenneth Grahame and Anthony Burgess who didn’t publish until their middle ages, they got lucky. William S. Burroughs and Anthony Burgess got lucky too.

It’s best you learn now that writing is an in-born skill that no amount of practice can improve or perfect. If you insist on being faithful to your dream of being a writer, you may end up a pessimistic, bitter advice columnist for some un-known newspaper.

Dear SassyI’ve recently become attracted to my lab partner. We get

along great and I think I would like to ask them out. But I haven’t asked anybody out in a while and I need some point-ers. How should I ask them and what should I suggest we do? Thanks Sassy!

Sincerely,Rusty Romantic

Dear Rusty,Your plea for advice encourages me by reminding me that

there are still a few hopeless romantics out there. The next time I see an old codger complaining about how kids these days have no sense of romance, I will tell them your story. It’s great that you want to ask this person out and the fact that you are putting so much thought into your proposal is a very promising start to your potential relationship.

The best way to ask someone out may be familiar to you. Despite its origin in elementary schools, it’s a classic, time-tested method that will ensure a clear, direct response.

Rip out a piece of notebook paper and write the following message: “Dear so-and-so, will you go out with me?” Follow this query with two check boxes (yes or no). Feel free to add a “maybe” check box for some extra charm.

Good luck and I hope I have helped you with such a juve-nile problem.

Dear SassyI have been having trouble lately keeping my commit-

ments. I missed two meetings last week and today, I com-pletely forgot about a huge homework assignment. How can I keep to my schedule?

Sincerely,Late Lucy

Dear Late ,First of all, don’t feel too bad. We all miss appointments

and deadlines every once in a while. From due dates, to lunch dates, to blind dates, anything scheduled is made to be forgotten.

The most important thing to remember when you’re feel-ing crunched for time is to cut the dates you don’t absolutely have to make. When facing a time conflict with a work meet-ing and your great aunt’s funeral, it’s obvious which commit-ment you need to cut. Family events, such as funerals, can be missed with few repercussions (unless you have strong spiritual beliefs). Missing a meeting for your job, however, could result in lower wage or even termination.

Another secret to keeping on schedule is the almighty sticky note. CEO’s and other important business people have their offices wallpapered with these handy little reminders. When you run out of space on your wall, stick them to your computer, filing cabinet, or even on your person. This tech-nique will help you to organize any unmanageable mess of appointments.

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On Feb. 6, 2010 at 6:00 p.m., Scott Michael Bennett, male-pianist

and vocalist, will be performing at the Portage Lake United Church located at 1400 E. Houghton Ave. in Houghton, MI (located next to Wells Fargo Bank). Bennett will render for the Keweenaw com-munity a variety of hymnal and spiritual song selections. Fresh-Day Music describes Bennett as “an inspirational young singer whose sincere goal is to dramati-cally inspire people of all ages to reach for a higher life with God as its [life’s] center and other people as its [life’s] focus.”

Bennett is a former member of the Grammy Award winning Phoenix Symphony Chorale and Arizona State University’s Men’s Chorus. In 2001, he was pronounced the winner of the National Young Artists’ Compe-tition in the Vocal Performance category singing two Shakespear-ean songs with full orchestral ac-

companiment. In 2002, at the age of 19, Bennett recorded and released his debut album “O Glo-rious Love,” recorded at Gaither Studios.

This album contains fresh rein-ventions of some familiar hymns in addition to some obscure songs that are favorites among Bennett’s supporters.

His sophomore album, “Come As You Are” is a deeper creation that many listeners describe as “moving” and “inspirational.” Several have shared that they were moved to tears as they envi-sioned the messages conveyed in his songs.

Scott is very patriotic and is noted for including a brief trib-ute in his concerts to the men and women in law enforcement, EMT/EMS, fire fighters, Emer-gency Services Personnel, and even our troops. He has sung at the Pentagon and sings annually for a local Veterans Day program and Sept. 11 memorial program.

Recently, Bennett married his best friend & sweetheart Heather Bennett (formerly Kincaid). Scott & Heather Bennett’s deep com-mitment to God, their spiritual

growth, and each other, continue to create a dynamic duo in min-istry. FreshDay Music continues through the new year with the Bennetts working side-by-side to inspire, hope, & share deep and meaningful messages to people everywhere through use of pas-sionate music, multimedia, and presentations.

This event is free and is brought to you by the Center for Adventist Ministry to Public Uni-versity Students—C.A.M.P.U.S. HOPE (Michigan Tech) and the Houghton Seventh-Day Adven-tist Church.

If you are interested in more information about the con-cert on Feb. 6, contact Alanna Knapp, CAMPUS Staff Mem-ber, at [email protected]. Scott & Heather are currently booking concerts for 2010 and would love to share at your church or event. Please contact FreshDay Music if you are interested in more infor-mation via their Web site at www.freshdaymusic.com.

All biography information was provided by FreshDay: inspire, hope, & share.

Music with a messageChristian musician Scott Michael Bennett comes to Houghton

Pianist and SInger to Preform: Scott Michae Bennet will preform Feb. 6 at Portage Lake United Church. Bennet’s Album features renovations of familiar hymns as well as some from his personal collection. Photo courtesy of Flickr.com

Just the FactsWhat: Scott Michael Bennett Concert

Where: Portage Lake United Church (located next to Wells Fargo)

When: 6:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

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5AThursday, February 4, 2010Michigan Tech Lode opinion

Opinion EditorELIJAH HAINES

Lode WriterDANNY MESSINGER

This morning, a plethora of bundled up, jolly families perused the

campus and marvelled at the beautiful snow statues. They wondered at their intricacies and commented on how marvel-ous it is that students willingly spend their free time on such a constructive and unique occu-pation. The kids shrieked with delight as they spotted their fa-vorite board games and video game characters being brought to life. The image of the snow statues presented on that quiet Thursday morning is a highly ro-manticized and misleading rep-resentation of a realistically cold and bitter process.

This insight into statue build-ing is not intended to diminish such gargantuan accomplish-

ments, it is merely meant to communicate the other side of the story. This story exists be-hind the smooth glazed surface and beyond the shining eyes of impressed and astonished ad-mirers. This is the story of stu-dents facing negative 25 degree wind chill and standing ankle deep in cold, icy slush, furiously stomping. This is the story of precariously balanced scaffold-ing, which threatens to fling ma-chetes and hatchets from its up-per level to the ground below at the slightest jostle.

Worse than the physical dan-gers of building a snow statue is the abuse suffered when a stu-dent neglects their hall or orga-nization’s masterpiece.

I have heard stories of power being cut to rooms and hefty monetary fines given to those who would rather stay in and do homework than hack away at a solid block of ice for hours on

end. And though being in any hall or organization obligates you to participate in statue, I can’t say I blame anyone who stubbornly refuses to face hypo-thermia, fif-ty-dollar fine or not.

This is my first year participating in a month long stat-ue. The vi-ciousness of competition is palpable, being the best is the only option, anything else would merely be a waste of sore mus-cles and frost-bitten fingertips. Although I choose to block the pains of statue building with the

prospect of completion, others resort to more potent methods to cope such as alcohol and gallons

of Mon-ster, the remains of which litter the g r o u n d a f t e r the All-Nighter.

It is truly mi-raculous that each year such t i m e -consum-ing stat-ues al-ways end

up fully completed and highly professional looking. I can tes-tify that the morale of the statue crews do not maintain such a steady trajectory in the lead up to

Winter Carnival. The first night of statue building is a veritable geyser of enthusiasm and excite-ment. The last few hours of the All-Nighter however, are a grim struggle; the last few diehards stubbornly chip away at blocks of ice in a desperate attempt to complete the statue before judg-ing.

All night they have been pow-ered by hot chocolate and deep-fried Twinkies, a remarkably en-ergizing combination.

Although I have painted a grim picture of statue building, this isn’t to say that it’s not all worth it. There are certainly rewards, if nothing else the sound sleep after the All-Nighter. The admiration of family and friends is certainly something to be considered as well. And while we could stay inside until spring, the severity and length of Houghton winters almost demand some sort of icy, arctic endeavor be undertaken.

Walking down campus be-tween classes, small clouds of smoke are seen rising above the crowd. Many of these clouds are not of condensing breath but are, rather, plumes of exhaled ciga-rette smoke. Many students are used to simply dodging others’ smoke clouds, but some students are taking a stand against smok-ing and asking smokers to “quit it” across most of campus.

Michigan Tech’s current smok-ing policy is outlined in the Michigan Tech Board of Control Policy Manual and states that “Smoking is prohibited except where permitted by the admin-istration.” Many of the entrances to buildings on campus have been designated as non-smoking entrances. However, the en-forcement of these non-smoking areas proves to be a challenge for Public Safety officers. Public Safety Chief Dan Bennett said that since the University’s smok-ing entrance policies are not an official law, they are very hard to enforce. “The strictest thing we could do is forward a name to Judicial Affairs if we catch some-one [smoking],” Bennett said. If the offender were staff or faculty,

their name would be sent to Hu-man Resources for review.

Bennett stated that “if someone was smoking inside a building, we (the police) have the authority to cite them for a civil infraction for violation of the Public Health Code…” However, since this level of authority does not carry over to outdoor offenses, officers are left with a punishment that is no more than a “slap on the wrist” from University Judicial officials. Bennett said that he hopes smok-ers exercise good judgment when choosing a location to smoke, but “if everybody uses good judg-ment, we wouldn’t need police.”

Carissa Miller, a second-year Business Management student, recently proposed a partial smok-ing ban on campus. In an e-mail she sent to Student Affairs, Miller states that she would like to “start some sort of petition or student surveys” to research student re-ception of such a ban. Miller pro-posed “allowing people to smoke where there are designated smok-ing entrances” and “in private ve-hicles” while also asking for the construction of smoking shelters on campus since she believes the availability of shelter is the main reason smokers choose to smoke next to buildings in areas that are designated non-smoking en-trances. Miller also explains that

she believes the main reason she has found initial support among students for her proposal “stems from the fact that the university is not enforcing its current poli-cies about not smoking within x amount of feet from the academ-ic buildings.”

While the enforcement of smoking entrances is spotty at best, the problem originates from the lack of an enforceable law with which Public Safety could cite offenders.

Michigan Tech needs to con-sider changing its 23-year-old smoking policy in order to en-able Public Safety to enforce the school’s existing smoking poli-cies. Perhaps the threat of a fine or a more severe judicial punish-ment would curb the number of smokers outside non-smoking entrances. Although I don’t agree with the proposed partial smok-ing ban on campus, I do agree that the existing rules regarding smoking need to be consistently enforced. I believe that the first step toward effective policy is enacting effective enforcement measures.

If officers were able to pun-ish wrongdoers with more than a report sent to Judicial Affairs, Michigan Tech smokers might think twice before lighting up next to a non-smoking entrance.

Smoke signals

Cold, hard facts A look inside the monumental task of making a snow statue

The first night of statue building is a veritable geyser of enthusiam and excitement. The last few hours of the All-Nighter however, are a grim struggle.

Are there signs that a change is neededin the Michigan Tech smoking policy?

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8Six of the final eight regular

season games for Michigan Tech will be at home, and all eight games will be against teams that they have already defeated earlier this year.

“It’s great to be at home at the end of the season,” said head coach John Barnes. “We can be resting up heading into the postseason while others may be breaking down with the wear and grind of late-season road trips.”

Of course, Michigan Tech is just fine on the road as well, hav-ing won all 12 road games this year, including 89-63 and 88-65 victories over Tiffin and Ashland respectively, the Huskies’ two opponents this Winter Carnival weekend.

The Michigan Tech basketball teams have not been home for Winter Carnival since the 2006-07 season, but Barnes is not too worried about the possible dis-tractions. “We have such an ex-

perienced team. They know that the No. 1 priority is getting two victories. After Saturday’s game, they can spend time with family and friends.”

Even though the Huskies made quick work of both the Dragons and Eagles earlier this year, the second time around poses differ-ent challenges. “We know they may try different traps or a zone defense; things to try to throw us off our game,” said Barnes. The Huskies will need to be alert and ready to go, improving on ball control and rebounding, two ar-eas that Barnes cited as areas that need improvement.

Thursday’s match-up between the Huskies and Tiffin Dragons will feature the two top scorers in the GLIAC: Mandy Jaeb, who is averaging 21 points per game, and Kate Wysocky, who is scor-ing 18 points per contest. Aside from Jaeb, Tiffin only has one other player averaging double figures, whereas Michigan Tech has four.

Fresh off a weekend in which they earned their first win in 16 games on Friday night, the hockey Huskies are still search-ing for that level of consistency that will help them earn points over the last four weekends of the WCHA schedule.

“To finally break [the 15-game slide] was big,” said assistant captain Brett Olson. “We’ve been a lot more con-sistent recently, and that’s a big key to playing well down the

stretch.”Besides consistency, the

Huskies are looking for a

little of that Winter Carnival magic to rub off on them this weekend. The Huskies have won 39 of 60 total weekends when it comes to Winter Car-nival, but only twice since head coach Jamie Russell took over the reigns.

This weekend the Huskies play host to the Minnesota-Du-luth Bulldogs, who currently sit second in the WCHA Stand-ings with a 13-6-1 record, good for 27 points. The Bulldogs, who feature the top three scor-ers in WCHA play, are coming off a split with the Wisconsin Badgers.

Friday night, the hockey Hus-kies, who hadn’t won since Nov. 13, picked up three second-pe-riod tallies en route to a 4-1 win for first win in 16 games. Unfor-

tunately, they couldn’t hold that momentum through Saturday night’s game, falling 3-2.

The Huskies will be at home for six of their final eight games, looking to double their current eight-game winning streak. The Huskies have proved they can put away lesser opponents and win in the clutch against elite opposition.

After playing four straight road games, it will be nice to see the No. 4 Huskies back in

the home confines of the SDC Gym.

The Huskies had a 10-game win streak to start the season before Northern Michigan up-set the Huskies on Jan. 2. The Huskies have a very realistic opportunity of finishing 26-1, having already defeated each of the remaining eight GLIAC opponents this season.

The Colts are just too dominant when their starters are out there (look past the losses at the end of the season) and the Saints just won’t be able to keep up. They are a great team, with crazy good talent at almost all positions, but there is no accounting for the pure dominance that this team brings to the table. Crosby IS indeed better, and Kansas reigns supreme.

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6of the final eightregular seasonbasketball games forboth the Michigan Tech women’s and men’s basketball teams will be at home in the SDC Gym.

15goals by Brett Olson of the hockey Huskies. Even though MichiganTech has struggled offensively this year, Olson is quietly in the top 20 scorers in the nation.

11Division II women’s basketball programs have a higher margin of victory than the Huskies — that’s out of 271 teams. Michigan Tech is defeating opponents by 18 points per game.

39out of 60 Winter Carnival hockey series havebeen won by the Huskies. Michigan Tech is 6-3-1 against the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs during Winter Carnival.

The Editor’s Shootout is a competition of knowledge, luck and wits between sports editor Stephen Anderson, business manager Richard Goodell, pulse editor Luke Gublo and online editor Jeremiah Baumann. Stephen won two years ago with former opinion editor Rob Devaun winning last year. This will be a weekly feature where each editor picks his winners of the three biggest games/series of the week and backs up his decisions with a short rant. THIS WEEK:Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans Saints, Pittsburgh Penguins at Washington Capitals, Kansas Jayhawks at Texas Longhorns (College Basketball)

The Super Bowl was predicated early on in the season. I have to give it to the Saints to pull off the last-minute win. Washington and Pittsburgh are both playing great but I think I have to pick Crosby and the Penguins, as he is currently the league’s top scorer. Kansas is on a hot streak and I don’t see it ending yet, as I see them topping Texas for the win.

Saints 31-28Penguins 3-2Jayhawks 98-89

Indy and New Orleans promise to provide a very good Super Bowl. With the status of Dwight Freeney in doubt at the publishing of this paper, I’ll say it will be close with Indianapolis winning. Expect Ovechkin and the Caps to knock off the red-hot Pittsburgh Penguins. Kansas and Texas are two powerhouse Big 12 programs, but expect Kansas to pull it out in the end.

Colts 34-27Capitals 3-1Jayhawks 63-59

Colts 38-30Penguins 4-3Jayhawks 90-76

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Schedules/Results

Nordic Skiing

M. Basketball (4-15, 3-11 GLIAC)

No races this weekend

Visit gliac.org for full standings

Two straight 3-0 weeks have me cautiously optimistic, but my clairvoyance hinges far too much on luck for me to boast just yet. My upset picks have been helping me out, but I just can’t see the feel-good Saints ousting the Colts. Manning will cement his legacy with a second Super Bowl victory. The Caps are on fire, and I can’t see that changing much at home. Finally, the Jayhawks’ No. 1 ranking will be in doubt after Texas makes toast of them in Austin.

Colts 41-36Capitals 6-5Longhorns 65-60

Hockey (4-21-1, 3-17-0 WCHA)

Sat. vs. Minn. Duluth, 5:07 p.m.Fri. vs. Minn. Duluth, 7:07 p.m.Minn. St. Mankato 3-2 MTU

Visit uscho.com for full standings

W. Basketball (18-1, 13-1 GLIAC)

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Thurs. vs. Tiffin, 5:30 p.m.MTU 75-58 Ferris StateMTU 75-71 Grand Valley State

Ferris State 67-63 MTUGrand Valley State 59-42 MTU

Lode WriterDAVER KARNOSKY

Sports EditorSTEPHEN ANDERSON

Sat. vs. Ashland, 1 p.m.

Thurs. vs. Tiffin, 7:30 p.m.

power play goals have been scored by the hockey Huskies this season on 119 opportunities. Justin Fontaine and Jack Connolly of Minnesota Duluth (who the Huskies play this week) have scored that many alone.

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Sat. vs. Ashland, 3 p.m.

wins in a row for Michigan Tech women’s basketball

three-pointers in a game for Zimmerman, new school record

Katie ZimmermanSenior Guard, No. 13

Opponents defeated:

Ashland, Jan. 7Tiffin, Jan. 9Hillsdale, Jan. 14Findlay, Jan. 16Saginaw Valley, Jan. 21Lake Superior, Jan. 23Grand Valley, Jan. 28Ferris State, Jan. 30

It was a special day for Ka-tie Zimmerman on Jan. 16 at home against Findlay. The se-nior scored her 1,000th career point and drained a school re-cord seven threes, bringing the crowd to their feet.

If it was not already apparent then, it is certainly apparent now that Katie Zimmerman is out of her early season rut. In Satur-day’s 75-58 victory over Ferris

State, Zimmerman scored 26 points, including a new school record eight three-point shots. She is shooting 47 percent from three-point range this season.

Her performance earned her the GLIAC player of the week honor. The Huskies have earned seven player of the week awards, with Katie Wysocky receiving five and Danae Danen adding one.

Women finally return home, prepare for Tiffin, Ashland rematches

Leading by example: Senior captain Malcolm Gwilliam nets one of his two goals in Friday’s 4-1 victory over Minn. St. Mankato

Photo by Ben Wittbrodt

Hockey Huskies end 15-game winless streak against Mankato

Huskies look for some Winter Carnival Magic against Bulldogs

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MTU 4-1 Minn. St. Mankato

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Katie Zimmerman, the Huskies most recent recipient of GLIAC player of the week honors runs up the court earlier this year.

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Today (Feb. 4): Current Huskies in the pros, list of 2010-11 foot-ball recruits, basketball game recaps, broomball game recapFriday: Hockey live blog, Hockey game recap, Broomball game recaps, Men’s tennis season previewSaturday: Basketball game recaps, Hockey live blog, Hockey game recap, Broomball game recapsSunday: Blog posts, Broomball game recapsMonday: Broomball week previewTuesday: Broomball game recap, feature articleWednesday: Broomball game recap

Broomball Power Rankings

Broomball HQGames of the weekFantASTics! (4-1)vs. Wonder Women (4-0) - Women’s 2

Headless Hitmen (4-1) vs. Sea Monsters (4-0) - E. Wads 3

Caliente (4-0) vs. The Pirate Sheep (2-0) - Off Campus 2

Baby Sheep (4-0) vs. Incognito (4-0) - E. Wads 2

Friday, February 5, 11:15 p.m., Silver Rink

Saturday, February 6, 11 a.m., Gold Rink

Sunday, February 7, 8:15 p.m., Silver Rink

Wednesday, February 10, 8:15 p.m., Black Rink

Ridikilus took it to BBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHH in a 6-0 victory. Both teams entered with undefeated records in McNair 1.

Just as the intensity of broom-ball is increasing as teams make their push for the playoffs, the Lode’s coverage is increasing with equal intensity. With the recent addition of two dedicated broom-ball writers — Mike Metzger and Matt McGuire — we will have games covered every day on mtu-lode.com/sports/broomball. With 17 of the top match-ups between tonight and next week’s publica-tion, we can assure the most com-prehensive broomball coverage on

Michigan Tech’s campus.Not only do we have the top

match-ups covered, but we also have exclusive team rankings as well. Sure, anyone can grab all the undefeated teams with the most goals scored and fewest scored against and call it power rankings, but few take into account strength of schedule for opponents and the experience of team players. The Lode does. The only thing that is missing is your involvement. Inter-act with our online coverage now!

While the three four-win teams in women’s conference No. 1 may disagree, Wonder Women looks to be the team to beat in women’s league. They

have only surrendered one goal, while scoring 27. FantASTics! will definitely need more than the one (yes, one) goal per game they are averaging now.

With four four-win teams in the conference, this mid-season match-up has huge playoff im-plications already. Both teams have scored more than 35 goals

this season, but the Sea Mon-sters have been the beneficiary of an easy schedule, struggling to a 2-1 victory in their only match-up against a winning team.

The Pirate Sheep may be fly-ing under the radar now with only two games under their belt, but they have already scored 30 goals. They defeated the 3-1

T9X by a 6-1 score, so undefeat-ed Caliente better bring their best shot if they plan to take down the perenniel broomball powerhouse.

The spin-off of the Pirate Sheep certainly follows in the same winning footsteps as its apparent superior, outscoring opponents 32-2. Incognito has

faced a tougher schedule, though, and has still only given up one goal, while netting 23. Both these teams are in the top 10 of power rankings for a reason.

Other featured games for Feb. 4-10:Classy Gents vs. Arctic Warriors, Feb. 4, 6 p.m., SilverFighting Artichokes vs. Disorderly Conduct, Feb. 5, 8:15 p.m., SilverDump and Chase vs. Mighty Mor. Pow. Mooses, Feb. 5, 9:45 p.m., SilverProgress Our Goal vs. Beach Bums, Feb. 6, 12:30 p.m., GoldSummit St. Hooligans vs. The Icebreakers, Feb. 6, 3:30 p.m., SilverSea Monsters vs. Flying Penguins, Feb. 6, 6 p.m., GoldMoose Brigade vs. Ginger Haus, Feb. 6, 6:45 p.m., BlackLa Maison 3 vs. The Knights Who Say Ni, Feb. 6, 9:45 p.m., GoldSigEps vs. Classy Gents, Feb. 7, 5:15 p.m., SilverSum It Up vs. Ridikilus, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m., BlackT9X vs. Lumberjax, Feb. 8, 5:15 p.m., SilverWe Talk Like T-Pain vs. Assassins of the Youth, Feb. 8, 9 p.m., BlackBAstille vs. Tinn, Feb. 9, 8:15 p.m., BlackSigEps vs. Arctic Warriors, Feb. 9, 11:15 p.m., Black

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Michigan Tech men’s tennis season kicks off this weekend

Season previewmtulode.com/sports/tennis

Michigan Techvs.

Ripon, Sat. 4 p.m.Lakeland, Sat. 7 p.m.

Don Fowler drives to the lane against Hillsdale earlier this year. Fowler scored 23 points over the last two games for the Huskies.

Photo by Ben Wittbrodt

Team chemistry developing but losses keep mounting for Michigan Tech men

Men’s basketball prepares to host struggling Dragons, Eagles

The Huskies ski team con-tinued a good run in the Cen-tral Super Tour this past week-end in Telemark, Wisc. Good showings from both teams is an encouraging sign as the teams will begin to prepare for the CCSA Championships which will be hosted in Ishpeming February 13 and 14. The Ski team will then host the NCAA Central Region Championships here at Tech the weekend after the races in Ishpeming.

But this past weekend saw Oskar Lund for the Men’s team have a stand-out weekend. Lund won the 10k Classic in a time of 29:28 on Saturday, and then skied to a third-place fin-ish in the 15K freestyle. The impressive part about the third-place finish is that Lund was part of a minor crash af-ter battling for the leading spot earlier in the race, and was able to race back and finish so well. Jesse Lang added to the team success with a fifth-place Classic finish and a sixth-place Freestyle finish. Sophomore Jesse Smith added to the Tech top three trio, finishing seventh and ninth in the two respective races.

For the Women, it was stand-out senior Henna Riikonen-Purtsi winning the 10k freestyle for the first time. She finished the 5k the day earlier in fourth place. Help for Riikonen-Purtsi came from senior Jenna Klein who finished ninth in the Clas-sic and 10th in the freestyle. Senior Liz Quinley finished sixth and 12th bringing up the last of the Huskies to finish in the top 10.

Ski teams improve as CCSA and NCAA Central Region Championships approach

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Michigan Tech Women’s Soc-cer team has its coach, and now has a foundation on which to build. Michelle Jacob was an-nounced as the head coach on Jan. 27, coming off an 11-7-1 record last year with Marian University. The record looks de-ceiving, as prior to her reign as head coach at Marian, the soccer team was just a measly 4-12-1. Jacob spent three seasons in the assistant coaching ranks at UW-

Stevens Point after finishing a four-year playing career at the same university. At UW-Stevens Point, Jacob was an All-America First-Team selection and the WIAC Player of the Year in 2001. While playing with the Pointers, her teams racked up a 75-15-2 record and won the Conference title all four years.

Jacob will also take on the ex-tra responsibility of being an in-structor in Michigan Tech’s De-partment of Exercise Science and Health and Physical Education. Tech will play 18 games next year, three out of conference and 15

GLIAC games. With the addi-tion of Varsity Soccer, Tech will now have 14 varsity sports.

Stay tuned to the Lode for con-tinued coverage of women’s soccer as the varsity program starts from scratch.

Michelle Jacob named Michigan Tech women’s soccer coach

Lode WriterMARC SANKO

Ridikilus (McNair 1): 4-0

Incognito (East Wads 2): 4-0

Excello I (West Wads 1): 4-1

JAX (West Wads 3): 4-0

Brute Force and Ignorance (McNair 2): 4-0

With 45 goals for and none against, including in games against strong opponents, they may prove to be the best team overall.

They are second in their division, so how are they No. 2 overall? Their opponents’ records are 9-8, one of the toughest schedules.

Even with a loss to their name, their 58 goals leads broomball. They’ll have to prove themselves against tougher competition.

They have already defeated quality opponents and they have scored 42 goals, while surrendering just one.

Having already defeated the second place team in their division, their 28 goals for and five against is quite impressive early on.

With all 15 players healthy for the first time since November, the Huskies chemistry may finally be coming together. Two road loss-es against Grand Valley, in which the team “lacked everything” ac-cording to coach Kevin Luke, and Ferris, in which the team was much improved, left a bitter taste in the Huskies’ mouths.

Michigan Tech scored 90 points against Tiffin on the road not even one month ago, and with a healthy lineup, the team is confident heading into Thurs-day’s match-up against the 1-18 Dragons. Ashland comes to town on Saturday looking for the sea-son sweep after a 73-62 victory against Tech on Jan. 9.

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CarnivalMemories

My first year of Winter Carnival, I had no idea what to expect. As a young child, my parents would bring me to the campus during this week and we would walk around, innocent and un-touched by the imprudent festivities, staring at the statues carved meticulously out of snow and ice. I had no idea there was a whole oth-er side to Winter Carnival.

There are no words to describe the chaos in-troduced to me the night of my first all-nighter. I did not even really work on our hall statue. I shoveled here and there and used the ma-chete to chop away ice and snow (merely to just say I have swung a machete in my lifetime). But as the night got later, things got crazier.

I saw a student curled up in a hole in a snowbank, sleep-ing. I had random students hugging me out of the blue. The snow trickling from the sky like dainty autumn leaves was not enough to mask the pungent smell of “courage juice”, as the Daily Bull puts it. Walker Hall looked as if it had just survived the apoca-lypse with trash scattered ev-erywhere and bottles strewn across the floor in piles. That night, I got the honor of see-ing a broomball shattered because of the intensity of the below-zero temperatures.

Walking around campus, you can feel the energy radi-ating from everyone you pass by. Kids frolic amongst the snow, guffawing and watch-ing in admiration as Tech students work hard against the All-Nighter deadline. From across Walker there is an ice bar where drinks are being served in ice mugs and next to the booth is an icy mini golf setup for those who think the ice is no match for their golf balls.

I have never had the expe-rience of participating in one of the events such as snow volleyball and ice bowling. I always thought I would be decent as the bowling ball in ice bowling, but apparently I would be too small and light. Maybe I should just suck it up and join the grundy run. They would not even know what hit them. I bet they would not even notice me at first, considering how short I am. I mean who would notice a girl running in the freezing cold amongst a gag-gle of boys in her underwear? Come on, no one would even notice. As for the human dog sledding race, I think I will survive without having been a dog pulling a sled.

In terms of statue-build-ing, I am sort of glad I do not have to participate in that this year. Last year, I don’t think I even participated that much. Just another rea-son to freeze my butt off and miss out on everything else going on around campus. I am more of an observer rather than a dedicated person of taking action.

Winter Carnival never fails to deliver a wild and outstanding week of scan-dalous tricks, mischie-vousness, and memory loss. Have fun and don’t do anything I would not do.