April 30, 2013

Tuesday April 30, 2013Volume 130 | Issue 51

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Ochs: Evaluating evals page 6

ROTC places sixth page 9

Millspaugh: In with the new page 4

UND art exhibits at Empire page 11

Volunteer event goes big page 10

Thome throws shutout page 13

Track takes to road page 14

Christianson: Up in the air page 5

Senate transitions for fall

UPD gears up for Springfest

Policy limits on-campus alcohol sales

PREP End-of-year fes-tival makes extra work for officials in charge of safety and security.

SWITCH Senators and executives hand over ther positions to the new members.

RESTRICTION Business-es leasing land from UND can’t have alco-hol as a focus.

From left to right, UND students Brandon Dorn, Travis Lollar and John Miller enjoy the weekend heat wave. Warm weather is predicted to continue with highs in the 40s and 50s the rest of the week.

Springing into warm weather

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UND may be a dry campus, but some private businesses on its land are still allowed to serve al-cohol.

These businesses include the Ralph Engelstad Arena and the recently opened Albatross Sports Grill and Golf Club. They are able to do so because alcohol is not their primary focus; they are not bars or nightclubs.

“I do have to have my alcohol sales at or below a certain percent-age of my total sales to remain in compliance with UND,” Al-

batross owner Andrew Krause-neck said. “According to my lease agreement, they would have the authority to terminate it if I was not in compliance.”

Krauseneck is leasing Alba-tross’ building and land from Capital Ice LLP, who had signed the original lease agreement with UND. He and a representative from Capital Ice both had to sign the agreement, which mentioned the alcohol sales policy before Al-batross opened its doors in 2012.

This policy is the same at all higher education institutions throughout the state and was cre-ated by the North Dakota Univer-sity System.

According to its website, al-coholic beverages can be sold on leased land so long as “service of meals” — not alcohol — is the main focus.

Krauseneck claims that this

policy is in place so that UND can maintain the focus around a restaurant and not a bar on its property.

“Their goal is to maintain the integrity of their land and to ensure that the area surrounding

Springfest is fast approach-ing and University Police De-partment is gearing up for what is sure to be a busy day through-out the city.

Saturday, Springfest — the celebration that takes place the day after Reading and Review Day — will take over University

Park, weather permitting. If the event goes on as scheduled, UPD is set to work in conjunction with the Grand Forks Police Depart-ment, the Grand Forks Sheriff ’s Department, as well as the North Dakota Highway Patrol.

“We work in conjunction with the city on a daily basis,” UPD Chief Plummer said. “Not only the city, but the county of Grand Forks as well.

“We provide a certain num-ber of officers to help not only police the park but also the com-munity around the park in con-junction with them.”

All of the UPD officers are cross-sworn with the city of

Grand Forks, allowing them to have jurisdiction within the en-tire city of Grand Forks. UPD covers the campus district in Grand Forks, which consists of the entire campus as well as University Park.

Plummer is gearing up to participate in his first Spring-fest, having just come to UPD in October. His past experience working spring breaks in Flori-da gives him insight into what to expect from Springfest.

“You have some of the same issues that come up. Typically

campus doesn’t turn into an all-out bar or club scene,” Krause-neck said.

Display restrictionsAnother aspect of the policy

regulates advertising and exterior signage of these private businesses,

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of consumers say the availability of alcohol at a restaurant impacts their decision to go there

of customers also order food when they order an adult beverage

In 2011, alcohol sales at restaurants increased 4.9Total sales of alcohol at restaurants in 2011 was $93.7 billion

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regarding their alcohol sales. This was a big reason why Krauseneck didn’t stick with his restaurant’s original name, “Albatross Eatery, Alehouse and Golf.” Exterior sig-

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The final Student Senate meet-ing of the school year waved goodbye to the old and welcomed in the new by sharing final words, thanks and advice.

In remembering his two years of involvement, Governmental Affairs

Shane Gerbert attributed 27,214.2 miles of travel and 67 trips to his posi-tion.

“I started this position two years ago as a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed gentleman,” he said. “I had a simple vision: To be the voice for the students in places where it was needed, not heard well, or at all, as well as be pro-active at finding solutions to fixing it.”

Gerbert said he found his success through teamwork and encourag new senators to work together, “I hope those miles meant something,” he said.

Outgoing Student Body Presi-

dent Logan Fletcher reflected on the past and encouraged new senators to do their homework and challenge one another.

“I’m really excited for the oppor-tunity all of you will have next year,” he said. “In your positions, you are exposed to a lot of information that gives you a unique perspective. Rep-resent your constituents but don’t be afraid to use that information for the best of the student body.”

Fletcher and former Vice Presi-dent Eric Watne praised the work

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FROM PAGE 1of University Program Council and the Student Organization Funding Agency.

“You have two standing commit-tees who do phenomenal work for Stu-dent Government,”

Watne said. He reflected on his three years of involvement which he said is an experience he can’t take back.

“This is an opportunity you will look back on and say ‘I am so happy I did this’,” he said. “You should come into these meetings with a certain amount of respect. You are a profes-sional organization, make sure you act like it.”

Watne concluded saying both he and Fletcher would be available in the future to assist senators and executives if needed.

Sen. Jacob Gapp also offered his future help as he left the Senate on Sunday, “Don’t be afraid to reach out to us old folks, we have a long standing strong dedication with this organization and don’t be afraid to utilize that”, Gapp said.

In his five years of involvement, Gapp helped create the Student Or-ganization Funding Agency and wrote much of its constitution, along with also serving as its chairman. He has served as senate parliamentarian on the Senate and chaired subcommittees while also serving positions at the state level for the North Dakota Student Association. In reflection, he said he values the relation-ships he has developed.

“Do not let what happens in the Senate chamber affect what happen with relationships outside this room,” he said. “These are some of the most driven students.”

Outgoing Sen. Jake Osterman said it is important to get involved within the Senate position.

“If you are feeling bored this sum-mer, parli-pro books are nice, and do a little research on what’s been done in the past,” he said. “I love my UND Student Senate, and I’m going to miss it.”

Several senators will serve another year and provide experience for the 2013 - 2014 year.

“Don’t be afraid to ask questions,” returning Sen. Adam Swigost said. “You

need to speak up for your constituency and don’t be afraid”.

Sen. Sean McClain, also returning, agreed with the importance of repre-senting constituents.

“You are here to represent people other than yourself, and you need to keep their interest at stake,” he said.

Returning Sen. Alan Oberg en-couraged senators to always inform constituents despite feedback, “five out of 1,000 is a good response,” he said. “Finding new ways to talk to constitu-ents is essential”.

The last item of business for the old Senate was to approve the new execu-tive team. The following students were approved: freshman Matthew Kopp was approved for Chief of Staff, senior Abi Nadeau was approved for Treasurer, freshman Joe Kalka was approved for Public Relations, junior John Mitzel was approved for State Governmental Af-fairs and junior Ross Lien was approved for Local Governmental Affairs.

Next, the 2012 - 2013 senators left their seats and the 2013 - 2014 senators replaced them. The first item of busi-ness was to elect new members for po-

sitions specific to meetings. Oberg was selected for Senate pro tempore, Sen. Johnson was selected for parliamentar-ian, and Sen. Derek Labrie was selected for sergeant-at-arms.

New senators were placed in three subcommittees and chairpersons were selected. Sen. Brian Tschosik will chair the Judicial subcommittee, Johnson will chair the Appropriations subcommittee

and Oberg will chair the State and Lo-cal Subcommittee.

This was the last Senate meeting of the school year. It will resume again in Fall 2013.

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

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nage mentioning alcohol, such as the word “alehouse” is strictly prohib-ited.

Although Albatross does have beer specials and mentions its avail-ability of 16 different beers on tap on its website, it is not allowed to adver-tise them anywhere else.

“I can’t place an ad in The Da-kota Student for student beer spe-cials and I can’t promote pitchers of beer specials on the radio or in the Herald,” Krauseneck said.

One exception to this rule is the alcohol advertising on the Ralph En-gelstad Arena’s digital board on Co-lumbia road. The arena’s agreement was one of the first used and the rules

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for private businesses have changed since then, according to Krauseneck.

Since the arena opened in 2001, it has always sold beer and wine to the general public, including stu-dents who are of legal drinking age. However, these students are not al-lowed to bring their drinks into the student seating section.

Ralph Engelstad Arena Conces-sions manager Jerry Robinson stated in a 2011 article on athleticbusiness.com that he has yet to see any alco-hol-related incidents at events in the arena.

The article explains that con-trolled alcohol sales in college sports arenas throughout the U.S have ac-tually created a safer environment for fans because there isn’t as much pre-game binge-drinking.

“I think the university respects

the fact that we’re not out to make every dollar,” Robinson said. “Our ultimate goal is that everybody has a great experience here and too much alcohol will ruin that in a heartbeat.”

Despite the rules regarding alco-hol sales, hockey games at the Ralph Engelstad Arena are still very popular with students, and Albatross has also had a lot of success so far.

“I realize the downtown bar scene has grown to be a main at-traction for many college students,” Krauseneck said. “However, we now offer something as a unique and pos-sibly very convenient alternative for many students.”

Jaye Millspaugh is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at jaye.millspaugh.2@

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The bar at Albatross (above) opened in December.(below) The Organ Bar at the Ralph Engelstad Arena.Photos by Keisuke Yoshimura.

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COMMENTARY DSVIEWAlcohol

Restaurants Regulations put unfair burden on local business and do nothing to prevent binge drinking.

Tuesday April 30, 20134

YOLO: The motto of stupid criminals everywhere.

I’m not a stupid criminal, but I do believe that YOLO isn’t a bad philosophy, if done responsibly. To put it in more intelligent terms, I believe in the importance of try-ing new things, stepping out of my comfort zone and not being afraid to take risks when the situation calls for it.

I believe that I’ll never reach my full potential if I don’t YOLO responsibly sometimes.

I grew up right here in Grand Forks. Based on my observations of life and the culture in this town, the social norm for females is to graduate high school, get a nursing or elementary education degree from UND or East Grand Forks’ Northland Community and Tech-nical College, get married, have a baby and buy a house in the same neighborhood as their parents, all before turning 25.

While there’s nothing wrong with that path — we need nurses and teachers as much as we need newspaper columnists — I can’t imagine prioritizing my family before my career and never expe-riencing life outside of my small hometown.

When I was in high school, my original plan after graduation was to save up a ton of money and move to New York City. That hasn’t happened yet. Although, I’m graduating from UND in Decem-ber and will be applying for jobs in

or close to large cities all over the country, then moving to the first one to hire me.

If I had a dollar for everytime someone asked “Won’t you be scared to be somewhere new and away from your family?” I’d prob-ably be driving a Ferrari.

I love my family as much as the

next person, but I also realize that I wouldn’t make it very far in my career if I planned my life around living close to them.

My dream job is to write for a fashion magazine or website. Grand Forks is way more into Ugg boots and black North Face sweatshirts than couture and Fashion Week, so living in a large city is a necessity.

I’m aware of the risks involved with moving somewhere unfamil-iar. I most likely won’t know any-one and it will probably be a bit more expensive than living here, but I accept those risks because I’d rather have my dream career in an awesome city than be safe but bored here.

Finding a job after graduation isn’t the only time when it’s im-portant to try new things. College presents plenty of opportunities to YOLO responsibly.

Throughout my four years here, I’ve encountered my fair share of parties that I wanted to attend, even though I didn’t have friends

willing to go with me, plus plenty of attractive guys who I wanted to get to know but thought might be too popular for a girl like me. If I wouldn’t have pushed myself to just go to the party alone and ask the hottie for his phone number, I would’ve missed out on some great experiences.

Some particularly interesting highlights include the time I went to a frat party with no one and nothing but my vodka-filled sippy cup, giving a random guy a foot massage for half an hour, climbing to the roof of O’Kelly, my semester in sunny Nevada and when I got convinced to join Toastmasters, the club I met my boyfriend in.

If I wouldn’t have been brave enough to try new things, I wouldn’t have such silly party sto-ries and I’d probably be single.

It’s unfortunate that many peo-ple aren’t braver. I’ve met plenty of people who rarely leave their bed-room and expect me to text them so they aren’t bored and plenty of girls who won’t even enter a public bathroom alone.

At the end of the day, what re-ally matters is that each person is happy with their life, even if that means playing Call of Duty alone in their bedroom all day or buying a house next door to their parents — whatever floats their boat. I just wouldn’t be happy living my life that way.

I’m fascinated by the rest of the world and there’s nothing I want more out of my life than to experi-ence it all. I’ve gotten used to being thought of as crazy or weird for my decisions, but I know the direction I’m headed has been worth it so far. So go on — YOLO, responsibly.

I believe that I’ll never reach my full potential if I don’t

YOLO responsibly sometimes.

Jaye Millspaughstaff writer

Jaye Millspaugh is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be

reached at [email protected]

JAYE MILLSPAughTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

LIFE It’s never too late to ex-perience some-thing new.

YOLO, but responsiblyThis image is of an African Kiwano melon. It tastes similar to a watered down guanabana fruit. Would you try it? Photo courtesy of pursuitofhippieness.com.

After hearing about the limitations on alcohol sales at the Albatross, we, the editorial board be-lieve the restaurant is receiving unfair treatment as a result of the current regulations.

These limitations restrict amount and strength of alcohol and that can be served on any given night by restaurants leasing university land. Alba-tross has a class three liquor license, meaning that they are only allowed to sell beer and wine.

Many restaurants and bars rely heavily on the revenue generated by alcohol sales. The limita-tions on the types and amounts of alcohol that can be served definitly put the business at a dis-advantage.

Although the restaurant is in a great location — only a short walk away from the Ralph En-gelstad Arena — some potential customers may be put off by the fact that the restaurant is not allowed to serve as wide of a variety of alcohol as other restaurants in town since they have limita-tions on the strength of the alcohol they can serve.

While limitations on alcohol may seem like an effective at preventing customers from getting overly intoxicated before hockey games, it makes little difference when you consider the fact that the Ralph Engelstad Arena is allowed to serve un-limited amounts of alcohol all night long.

Furthermore, Albatross is located only a few blocks away from Happy Harry’s Bottle Shop, a liquor store within walking distance of the Ralph Engelstad Arena, that gives customers another al-ternative to get their fix.

Although we do not condone binge drinking before hockey games, these restrictions on liquor sales at Albatross will in no way prevent it from happening. If people wish to be intoxicated at the arena, they will without a doubt be able to do so.

By restricting sales at Albatross but not hold-ing the Ralph Engelstad Arena to the same expec-tations, the policies are harming the local business while having no impact on the amount of drink-ing on campus, particularly before and during the hockey games.

Any restrictions in intended to limit drink-ing and lesson the amount of public intoxication must be consistent across the board.

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The time has come. The time for me to write my farewell and end my time with the Dakota Student after five years.

Coming into college, I was set on becoming a sports journalist. A couple weeks into my freshman year, I got an opportunity to re-port on UND sports when former editor-n-chief Alison Kelly took a chance on me.

I hadn’t written for my high school newspaper and had no other writing experience outside of some online work I had done. However, seeing as the DS is a learning op-portunity for students, I was fortu-nate enough to get a trial run.

That trial run turned into a permanent role for me and for four years I would cover everything and anything related to UND.

After serving as an intern re-porter at a community newspaper

in Crosby, N.D. this past summer, I was burnt out on reporting. Instead of reporting on a game that took place, I wanted to create.

Allowing me to implement my humor, personality, thoughts, opinions and random babblings, all of which make writing fun for me, brought me to this section of the pa-per.

So one last time I get to do that in this space, and one last time I get to write to you all. To close out my final column I wanted to go over the things I’ll miss the most about UND when I graduate in August.

It’s been real. Yoga pants/leggings

Fun fact: College women loooooove yoga pants and leggings. I love seeing college women in either — it’s a win-win.

I don’t know when this whole leggings craze took off, but it’s come to a point where when I see a girl in jeans, I do a double take — I can’t blame women for wearing them ei-ther because I wouldn’t want to wear a tight pair of jeans.

In order to see what all this was about, I tried on a pair of yoga pants a couple weeks ago. I learned two things: the first being that I need to hit the gym to work on making my

legs not look like a woman’s, and the second being that when I get married and don’t have to try anymore, I’m totally purchasing a pair made for men.

Now fellas, I know I stroke the curiosity within you and you are go-ing to want to run home right now and try on your girlfriend’s pair, but I caution against doing that because when she walks in on you trying them on it’s going to be more awk-ward. Jan Orvik’s weather-related emails

Just kidding. Welcome Weekend

There’s something about Wel-

come Weekend that always gets me. Freshman year it was about meeting new people and doing new things.

Every year after, it was about see-ing people I hadn’t seen all summer and letting loose before the semester started.

After hibernating for the sum-mer, campus wakes up and breathes life into Grand Forks.

It’s also the only time of year I’m excited for school, and that’s only because I’ve been out of school for a few months and forgot what it’s like. A month into the semester I realize I was an idiot for ever wanting school to start back up as I’m crying in my beer at bar close over all the stuff I have to get done. The student section

Oh, how I will miss you. There’s nothing more depressing than going to a game at the Ralph and NOT be-ing in the student section.

You see all these students having a blast, being dumb, acting silly and you feel like you are missing out. I enjoyed being one of those students, and now I will be relegated to having to act like an actual grown up at a sporting event.

Man, getting old sucks. You

Yes, you, the one reading this right now. I thank you for taking the time — for picking up this paper and taking five minutes to read this.

Without you, I wouldn’t be doing this.

The vast majority of you are faceless to me and I will never know you — or know you have even read my work — but it doesn’t matter to me. I have enjoyed being able to express myself in this space to you twice a week for the past two semes-ters.

I’ve been thinking of how I would want to close my final col-umn for some time now, and I came up with an answer to a question I’ve never been asked.

“Brandon, why do you write?” to which I would reply: “I rarely re-ceive feedback from articles I write, but when I have, when someone you’ve never met takes time out of their day to email or call to tell you what you wrote meant something to them, you realize you have had an impact on that person. That is a feeling you can’t recreate. It is spon-taneous and wonderful, and that is why I write.”

Since the end of the semes-ter is in sight, there may be some students who are anxiously an-ticipating a summer vacation.

With the winter we have been having, hopefully the va-cation in question will be to a warm location. Here in Grand Forks, we are as far as you can get in the U.S. from a warm, tropical location. Therefore, vacationing UND students may need to take to the air to get to where they want to go.

Since 1978, there have been 160 bankruptcy filings by airline companies. Some of the reasons for bankruptcies include rising employee benefits and pension obligations that leave no room for company profit. Other rising expenses include America’s cor-porate tax rates — the highest in the world — and the drop in oil production in the U.S. resulting in skyrocketing fuel prices. Poor leadership and scandals have also hit the airline industry as well.

This has led airline compa-nies to extract every penny pos-sible from their customers in the form of ridiculous fees and in-convenient policies.

One of the oldest and most despised fees that airline com-panies charge is for extra bags. Instead of simply limiting the number and size of the bags a customer can bring on a plane, airlines charge $25 to well over

$50 for each additional bag. Granted, additional bags are a hassle to load onto a plane and may use up a little more fuel in flight, but $50 per bag is ridicu-lous.

A new and extremely irritat-ing policy some airline compa-nies are adopting requires fami-lies that want to sit together to pay extra fees. This is no more than a scam to leverage families traveling together to cough up more money. If you were travel-ing with children or elderly rela-tives, would you let an airline company randomly assign them to seats — potentially next to weird strangers?

More examples of airlines screwing over their customers are extra fees to use certain luxuries such as internet, in-flight movies and airport food. Conveniently,

there are many products that can only be purchased inside the air-port. However, once passengers have entered, they are now stuck paying absurdly high prices for food and drinks — much like what stadiums do.

The worst issue with airlines is when there is a problem and

It’s almost that time of year again, the time we have all been waiting for — summer break. Most people are packing up and getting ready to head back home for the summer, but there are a few of us brave souls who choose to stay in Grand Forks.

Some people choose to stay here to take summer classes. Some stay to work and some stay just because they want to. I am one of those stay-ing in Grand Forks to work.

Now, some people might be wondering, “Why on earth would you voluntarily stay in Grand Forks for the summer?” As someone who is from the Twin Cities, I asked my-self that same question.

As I stated before, the main rea-son I am staying in Grand Forks is to work. Yes, I could go back to the same job I have had for the past few summers, but I am ready for some-thing new. Plus, I will be able to keep this summer job throughout the school year too.

This is going to be my first year staying in Grand Forks for the sum-mer and I’m excited about it. I see it as bringing a new side to my inde-pendence. I am really starting to be on my own and relying less on my parents.

Another perk to staying in Grand Forks this summer is I get to

be near all of my close friends I have met at school. During the summer it’s weird to be away from the peo-ple you are used to seeing everyday. Instead of road tripping to Grand Forks once a month, you can just see your friends whenever you want.

Also, to some people’s disbelief, there are fun things to do in Grand Forks in the summer. For the 21+ crowd, there is always downtown where you can enjoy the weather and not freeze walking from bar to bar.

For those younger than 21, there are also many other fun things do. For example, there are a few places that offer tubing down the river; they might not be in Grand Forks but they are a close enough for a day trip. There is also a Frisbee golf course here that is a lot of fun to spend the day at. When all else fails, you can grab a blanket and have a picnic.

You can also plan fun road trips for the summer with your friends to places like the Twin Cities to go see a Twins game or spend the day at ValleyFair. If you are feeling more ambitious, you can go further and make a week out of it.

There also is nothing wrong with just spending the day laying out in the grass and enjoying the sunshine.

If you plan on staying in Grand Forks this summer, make the most out of it and enjoy your time before we’re back at the old grind in the fall.

FAREWELL A distinguished career comes to a conclusion.

BRANDON BECKERTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

RELAX Grand Forks over the summer is not that bad.

passengers are stuck on the air-craft while it sits on the tarmac.

There have been many in-stances of passengers being stuck on a plame for between six and 12 hours without adequate wa-ter, food and air conditioning. Passengers have been prohibited from exiting aircraft and could be arrested if they tried to leave. Forcing a paying customer to sit for six hours without enough food and water in a hot aircraft is criminal, and has resulted in hundreds of lawsuits from angry customers over the years.

I can understand the ratio-nale behind charging extra for extra bags since the added weight means additional fuel consump-tion by the aircraft. I can even handle at least some of the high prices of airfares because I would rather have a properly main-tained and safe aircraft to travel in. But when ticket prices are already extremely high, airline companies should at least al-low their customers to sit next to family and friends. Also, the risk of being stuck on an aircraft for hours on end always makes me a little nervous.

If I ever have enough money to afford to buy a plane ticket, being stuck on an aircraft for hours will be in the back of my mind — as ridiculous as it sounds. The extra fees and frus-trating policies by airline compa-nies have made routine air travel difficult for the average person. As much as I want to fly to a destination, the costs involved make it practically impossible for me to afford to buy a ticket on a college student’s budget.

One of the oldest and most despised

fees that airline companies charge is for extra bags.

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Campus after classes end

Airlines crash and burn

Lessons learned attending school

In order to see what all this was

about, I tried on a pair of yoga pants a

few weeks ago.

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BUBBLES UND students tire of repetitive forms.

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We’re to that point in the se-mester again: the time when we have to fill out class evaluations. In theory, this seems like a great way to get feedback — it’s our chance to grade the professor. Even though these evaluations are given with good intent, the questions we’re required to an-swer are inadequate.

On these class evaluations there are two kinds of sections. The first section is the infamous “bubble answers” where we rate the course on a scale of one to five. The second section contains short answer feedback.

It would be far more benefi-cial if these evaluations would be specifically tailored. For exam-ple, each acidemic department

should have its own evaluation — there should be different types of evaluation sheets for different subjects. Science class-es should have their own specific evaluation with questions and the English department should have theirs, etc. This would al-low students to provide more course specific answers.

In addition to separate evalu-ations for separate subjects, eval-uations should be shorter. I un-derstand the university wants as much feedback as possible; how-ever, as a student, I know how tedious it is to sit there and fill out 26 questions — questions we barely know how to answer.

I know for me, when I’m asked how a course has “en-hanced my learning,” I’m not sure how to respond. Sure, I’ve learned things in the class but is that what it’s asking me? Or is it asking me if the class has made me a better learner? These ques-tions just aren’t tailored to stu-dents.

Another thought that crosses my mind: Do the teachers ac-tually read these evaluations?

They all tell us that they don’t see them until the summer, but do they actually use the feedback we give? It seems to me that pro-fessors use the same PowerPoints

and course materials for years. I’m not entirely confident feed-back from these evaluations is put to use.

The part of the evaluation I do like is the short answer sec-tion. It actually lets students voice their opinions instead of picking from a list. The freedom to write what you think about the course is extremely helpful. In my own words, I can say what

has helped me and what has been an issue. Students have opinions on their classes; whether they are good or bad opinions, feedback is important. Being able to write just a few short answer questions about the course would prob-ably be better feedback than the evaluations we currently fill out.

I asked my friends what they thought of the evaluations. They asked to remain anonymous, but they did have a lot to say about them.

“If I like the teacher and class then I just put highly satis-fied answers all the way through. Same if I don’t like them. I just put highly dissatisfied for every-thing.” One said.

She also said the evaluations are way too long. Another friend of mine, has similar thoughts.

I think the evaluations should be more class specific. I don’t understand why we have one generic evaluation for classes that are completely different. It just doesn’t make sense to me.” She said.

I don’t think we’re the only ones who think this way.

The final part of the evalu-ation I wish was different is the last question. It asks if you’re classifying the course as helping with critical thinking, quantita-tive reasoning or several other types of learning. The problem is, most students have no idea. They don’t know what qualifies a class to be considered “quantita-tive reasoning” and so they end up filling in a random bubble.

When we filled out these evaluations in my chemistry class a few days ago, my pro-fessor said the final question is the most important. It got me thinking: If students aren’t even sure what this question is asking, how can we answer accurately? It would be helpful if there were a description for each type of learning. This way, students would know which type of learn-ing the class they are evaluating falls under.

Evaluations are great, and feedback is important for im-provement. I simply have my doubts as to whether the univer-sity’s method of evaluation does its job. Different evaluations for different subjects, shorter evalu-ations with more tailored ques-tions and more explanations on the evaluations are all changes that would help improve the feedback students provide.

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your alcohol issues, your drug is-sues, your public disorderly type issues,” Plummer said. “Not only those, but you have your emergency medical issues that can come up when you put people outside at an event in a small area. Injuries hap-pen, life happens, heart attacks hap-pen. People get sick. We have to be able to manage those issues as well.”

Lieutenant Tracy Meidinger has been with the UPD for 18 years and and is no stranger to Springfest. What started as a way to celebrate for those graduating has turned into a community-wide party.

“Specifically what the UPD does is try to have a good presence out there so we are very visible and hopefully as a deterrent try to keep everybody from making that poor decision,” Meidinger said. “We real-ly concentrate our efforts on univer-sity property, from the edge of the

park westward. There’s a lot of walk-ing back and forth to the residence halls, the Greek houses, and some of the other close communities.”

Plummer made it clear that the UPD will be doing its best to prevent issues that can arise in the neighborhoods close to University Park.

“There’s a quality of life issue too, because you’ve got families that live in the community surrounding University Park,” Plummer said. “I think sometimes that gets lost in

translation for people that are com-ing in to Springfest. We try to main-tain a higher quality of life for those families that are there 24/7, not just for a 24 hour Springfest period.”

Over the years, the problems have moved from mainly being in-side the park and spread out into the surrounding areas. UPD has also adapted to accommodate to these changes and found what wotks best for them.

“We increased visibility. There’s going to be lots of law enforcement out that day, we’ll be highly visible,” Meidinger said. “With Grand Forks PD, the Sheriff ’s Office, UPD we all have extra people on. We’ll have a lot of uniformed officers. We’ll have patrol cars, bike patrol and some underage plain clothes officers in and around the park.”

Springfest is an opportunity for students to celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of summer, and Plummer believes it

can be done in a fun and consider-ate way.

“People want to have a good time at Springfest,” Plummer said. “People want to be able to celebrate the end of the spring semester. Let’s do so in a thoughtful and more re-sponsible manner.”

Because of adverse conditions at University Park, the decision will be made today whether the park will be the location of Springfest.

Rhombus Guys owner and event planner Matt Winjum told the Grand Forks Herald that Town Square in downtown Grand Forks is an alternative location for the event, if the park does not work out. If town square is not available, the event will be cancelled.

University Police SUVs parked by the UPD office last week. UPD is one of the bodies that will be helping with Springfest security this year.

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CULTURE&MEDIA Tuesday April 30, 2013

UND’s ROTC excels at West Point

Many miles up the Hudson River in New York, huddled in a clearing of Appa-lachia country forest, lies the storied Unit-ed States Military Academy, commonly known as West Point. Grey battlements and fortress-like structures rise stoically above the forest and river and the halls of West Point have been walked by some of our country’s greatest leaders.

Last weekend, the voices and move-ments of many military groups from all over the world echoed across West Point, as 58 teams assembled for one of the most diverse and far-reaching military competi-tions in the world — the Sandhurst Mili-tary Skils Competition.

The UND’s Fighting Sioux Battalion of Army ROTC (Reserve Offi cer Training Corps) competed and came away with sixth place overall in a performance that was a personal best for the ROTC program.

“I felt this year we were the most pre-pared we had ever been,” said UND ca-det Jon Giuliani, a two year participant of Sandhurst. “We knew what to expect and we spent all year getting ready for it.”

The road to qualify for Sandhurst as an ROTC team is a process the UND has tra-versed many times in the last several years. The push to compete in Sandhurst begins

when classes start in the fall and UND ROTC begins to assemble what is known as its Ranger Challenge team. Ranger Chal-lenge is a localized competition that is held within UND’s brigade. Army ROTC in the U.S is divided into eight brigades, each one crowning a victor at the end of the fall’s Ranger Challenge competition to represent the brigade at Sandhurst.

This past fall, the UND Ranger Chal-lenge team took fi rst place at a regional competition in Camp Ripley, Minn. In do-ing so, the team moved on to the Brigade Ranger Challenge competition held at the University of Kansas, and placed fi rst there. As the top school out of the nearly 100 within its brigade, North Dakota became one of eight ROTC programs to compete at Sandhurst for its third year in a row.

“The competition was really physi-cally challenging, especially with all of the running that it demanded,” Giuliani said. “When it was over we ran close to 21 miles and a lot of that was up the mountains (of West Point) and across really harsh terrain.”

To prepare for Sandhurst, the Ranger Challenge team practiced at 5 a.m., fi ve days a week with additional practices on some weekends. Team members endured challenging workouts to prepare them-

selves physically while also practicing the military skills that were featured in the competition. This regimen began in late August when classes began and only ceased when the team left for the competition in mid-April.

The challenge of qualifying for Sand-hurst was only a prequel to the strenuous nature of the competition itself. North Da-kota’s cadets arrived a week before the com-

petition was held in West Point to familiar-ize themselves with the course and train on.

The actual competition was held on April 19 and 20 and UND hit the ground running.

The opening event at Sandhurst was ri-fl e marksmanship. North Dakota scored 58

UND Fighting Sioux Battalion Army ROTC team takes sixth at the Sandhurst Military Skills

Competition held at West Point.

Story by David Butz

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Main photo: UND’s ROTC prepares for competition. Above: UND ROTC members pose with necessary supplies for com-petition.Photos submitted by Anna Ferris.

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Big Event helps make big differenceVOLUNTEERS Students and community mem-bers came together to help Grand Forks.

Building upon a vision for a better tomorrow, more than 1,000 UND students and their families gathered Saturday at the UND Wellness Center to volunteer for the eighth annual Big Event.

Through facilitated commu-nity service projects, the Big Event promotes harmony between UND, its students and the city of Grand Forks. Participants ranged from the everyday student, siblings, fraternity and sorority members and commu-nity members.

Last year, more than 1,200 people participated in the Big Event servicing more than one hundred 75 locations in the Grand Forks area, according to the Big Event website.

UND freshman Cassandra Sav-age was seen picking up garbage and other debris near the Red and Red Lake rivers of East Grand Forks Sat-urday morning.

“I wanted to help volunteer and all my friends were doing it,” Savage said.

With a half-full garbage bag Sarah Hartenstein, a UND medical lab major removed waste in an East Grand Forks park for the Big Event.

“I just wanted to do a good ser-vice project and help out,” Hartens-tein said.

Aaron Minar, 10, of Lake Agas-siz Elementary was among the Big Event volunteers assigned to clean up the Red and Red Lake rivers. Minar helped remove beer and soda cans, cigarette butts and snuff tops near Minnesota’s riverbanks.

The Big Event also drew return-ing volunteers such as UND Sigma Nu fraternity members, Sam Muel-ler, Matt Wilson, Matt Grounds and David Jackson. For two years in a row, Mueller, Wilson and Jack-son have been involved with the Big Event. Last year, Jackson volun-teered for a ranch in Grand Forks.

“Today we are just trying to help out the community and make it a better place,” Jackson said.

Saturday marked Grounds third year volunteering for the Big

Event. In previous years, Grounds had completed community service

for the elderly and individuals with autism. This year, Grounds and his fraternity brothers walked the edge of the Red River removing trash.

“It is a great way to stay in shape,” Grounds said.

Sophomore Ashley Bolsis was a first-time volunteer for Big Event. Bolis had been thinking about par-ticipating in the day since last year and this weekend joined her friends in volunteering.

“I wanted to do it last year but didn’t have anybody to do it with me,” said Bolsis. “Today we are out at the parks, picking up garbage, making sure everything is cleaned up.”

UND senior and second year Big Event volunteer Josh Hobbs cleaned out gutters, washed win-dows and completed yard work for the elderly this year. Hobbs became acquainted with the Big Event via word of mouth. “I had a co-worker that was doing it and he thought I would be interested as well,” Hobbs said.

UND junior Jordan Erickson climbed roofs for this year’s Big Event. Erickson, who was a Big Event newbie, cleaned gutters and trimmed bushes alongside Josh Hobbs.

“I wanted to volunteer last year but I had to work,” Erickson said.

This year, Erickson made it a priority to participate. Not only was Erickson able to help others for the Big Event, he also found that he could spend quality time with friends like Hobbs.

Emily Hoeper, a UND Junior, joined the Big Event for the first time Saturday because her friends had signed up. For Hoeper, being able to do community service with close friends made it more appealing

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Students pose together during their volunteer hours on April 27, in Grand Forks.

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Today we are just trying to help out the

community and make it a better

place.David Jackson

Big Event volunteer

to volunteer for the Big Event. Hoeper completed yard work

while socializing with university buds.

“I mainly washed windows,” Hoeper said. “Some of the guys were up on the roof taking some of the leaves out of the gutters.”

UND Senior Austin Dhuyvet-ter volunteered with Hoeper. For Dhuyvetter, an English major, the event has created lasting memories, strengthened friendships and forged new bonds.

“I think it is really awesome to see so many students enjoying doing service on a beautiful spring day,” he said. “It was organic, all organic, guys. We got to help two sweet old ladies with their gutter work, some spring-cleaning and window wash-ing. One of them made us some treats. She was a darling. We are go-ing to go back this summer and see if she needs any summer stuff done.”

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Art exhibit features vintage photosPICTURES New display at the Empire Arts Cen-ter showcases photos from past to present.

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Visitors to the Empire Arts Center on April 23 noticed some-thing different upon entering, most notably that they had been taken 45 years into the past.

The entryway featured images of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 visit to Grand Forks and speakers played

the hits of the 1960s for the second exhibit of the UND Art Collections at the Empire Arts Center. The col-lection is on display until May 18th.

The exhibit featured works from UND’s own collection by artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns, from the years 1960 to 1982. Exhibit curator and UND art design department chair Arthur Jones teaches a class this semester about that era, but he chose these works for a different reason as well.

“It’s a strong area within our collection,” he said. “Some of the major artists that we have in the collection of the 20th century come out of that period.”

While the exhibit shared works

by world renowned artists, it also featured two works from UND alumni Peter Lockrem and Eunice Renee Kuhn, who said she was awe-struck to have her name included next to some of the greats.

“I am honored and humbled,” Kuhn said. “I would never have guessed that some of my student work would be included with fa-mous artists like Lichtenstein and Warhol. It’s amazing to me. I’m just awestruck.”

Jones took the chairman posi-tion in 2003. Two years later, he was appointed director of UND’s art collection by then-president Charles Kupchella. As director, Jones wanted to make the collection

more than just art.“I tried to revamp it,” he said.

“Refocus it on goals related to edu-cation and community cultural en-richment, which is what brings us downtown because this is actually feeding some culture to the com-munity even beyond the campus.”

“I think it means a great deal to the community. For one thing, it helps to integrate the univer-sity’s vast holdings. We have a lot of things at the university that can really enrich the community far be-yond simply the campus and I think this gives us an opportunity to do that.”

UND president Robert Kelley attended the event and agreed with

West Point) and across really harsh terrain.”

The opening event at Sandhurst was rifle marksmanship. North Da-kota scored 58 points to take first

Jones’ idea of using art to connect the university with the rest of Grand Forks.

“I think this is a great example of our Exceptional UND Outreach and connecting with our commu-nity and providing quality of life for all of us in the community,” he said. “The art design program is looking for ways to exhibit our collection here at the university, so what bet-ter way than to bring it down to the Empire? People enjoy what it is that has been curated by the campus for many years but hasn’t been exhib-ited like this.”

place in the event. The other events held that day included pistol marks-manship, land navigation, grenade throwing and an obstacle course. UND ended day one of the competi-tion in first place.

“We felt like we could win it at the start,” said UND cadet Michael Buhl. “After the first day it only reinforced

that thought for us.”UND came away from the second

day of events with 16th in the wall climb, 23rd in reconnaissance and surveillance and 18th in the obstacle course.

Once the final tally was counted, it was the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst’s Blue team that came

away with the victory with scoring 650 points overall. Penn State’s team came in second overall with a final tally of 618 points, while North Da-kota found themselves in sixth place with 561 points.

“We thought we had first place,” Buhl said. “Even though we didn’t win, it was still something we were

very proud of. As we thought about it upon leaving, we realized what an honor it was to compete against so many teams from across the world and what it meant to represent UND in front of them.”

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The attendance of North Dakota hockey games can be traced to the dedication of loyal fans.

UND led NCAA Division I men’s hockey in home attendance in 2012-13 with an average of 11,592 fans in 21 home games — remain-ing the only program in the country to average more than 10,000 fans at each home game.

On March 2, during North Da-kota’s last regular home game against Bemidji State, 12,177 fans filled the 11,634-seat arena, marking the sec-ond-largest in program history and

yet another sellout crowd — as was the case for 12 of 21 home games.

The school record of 12,189, which occurred on Feb. 9, 2002 against Minnesota, was just 12 fans away from being broken.

“We have the most dedicated fans in college hockey,” UND coach Dave Hakstol said in a press release last week. “It is a privilege to go to work in front of them every Friday and Saturday night.”

This year marks an improvement from last year’s second place finish in home attendance while remaining the leader in total attendance. Team awards

Last week, the team concluded its season by voting on a series of team awards.

Claiming one of the most valu-able honors, Corban Knight was voted the team’s most valuable player and received the Jeff Anderson Schol-arship Award.

Highlighting his season were his

spots in the Hobey Baker top ten list and All-American second team while posting a career-high 49 points with 16 goals and 33 assists. He is also the first player to string together back-to-back 30 point season’s since Min-nesota Wild star Zach Parise did in 2002-04.

Senior Andrew MacWillian was awarded the Archie Krum Memorial Athletic scholarship, given to the play-er who demonstrates leadership quali-ties, high academic standards and ath-letic excellence. As the team captain, MacWilliam was named to the third straight Academic All-WCHA Team and was NCAA West Region All-Tournament Team selection. He ap-peared in 42 games where he racked up a career-high 13 points.

The Tom Hoghaug Memorial Scholarship is awarded to the fresh-man who demonstrates initiative, character and responsibility. This

Softball road trip filled with potholes

Hockey season highlighted

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HONORS The men’s hockey team conclud-ed its season by voting on team awards.

BASEBALL North Da-kota split a four-game series in preparation for first home game.

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A UND softball player swings at a ball as the team returned to action last weekend after missing 10 games due to cancellations from weather conditions. Photo cour-tesy of UNDsports.com.

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SOFTBALL UND out-scored 40-4 in three-game series against Idaho State.

The UND women’s softball team finished up a rough road trip this past weekend when it faced Idaho State in Pocatello, Idaho.

The team was finally able to play some games after having its previous 10 cancelled because of weather and poor field con-ditions. The games did not go as well as planned, as all three end-ing in losses.

The doubleheader Friday re-sulted in a 10-2 loss and a 19-0 loss, while Saturday’s game did not end up any better with a 11-2 loss.

The key challenge of the weekend was UND being outhit and outscored on the scoreboard.

“The other team hit way bet-ter than we did,” UND coach Eric Oakley said.

The team couldn’t find a way to step up at all in either of the three games this weekend. Idaho State was able to stop UND’s of-fense from scoring and also break down the efense so it could score as well.

In the first of the three games, Idaho was able to start with the

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North Dakota splits series

UND senior forward Danny Kristo was named to the U.S. national team for the Interna-tional Ice Hockey Federation World Championshp. Photo Courtesy of UNDsports.com

The UND men’s baseball team continued its 2013 campaign with a trip east for a four game series with the New York Institute of Technology, ending the series in a split.

With the weekend’s action, UND improved to 4-8 in the Great West Conference (13-17-1 overall).

North Dakota kicked off its road trip with a 5-0 victory over NYIT on Friday night before los-ing a 2-1 extra inning duel Satur-day morning and winning 16-1 Saturday afternoon.

Sunday afternoon, the Bears salvaged a split in the finale of the series after a six-run inning pro-pelled the team to a 12-5 win.

“We put ourselves in a big hole early and were never able to recover from it,” UND coach Jeff Dodson said about Sunday’s game. “We settled down a little bit on the mound, but never did make the adjustments at the plate and didn’t get any big two-out hits.”

North Dakota tied the score at the top of the second while the bottom of the second yielded six runs by the Bears to move ahead to a 7-1 advantage.

After scoring two in the third, NYIT answered back to score runs and claim a 12-3 advantage. UND scored two additional runs, but they weren’t enough for a victory.

Friday, UND starter An-drew Thome stole the show as he blanked the Bears through a com-plete game shutout to give North Dakota the series opening win.

On the mound, Thome scat-tered five hits through nine innings pitched while striking out four and yielding only two walks. With the huge win, Thome improved to 3-5 on the season and lowered his ERA to 4.14.

North Dakota managed five runs in the second inning off of just seven hits as UND’s bats fell quiet after the early game offensive outburst. Matt Wehrli went 2 for 4 to snatch the only multi-hit perfor-mance of the afternoon for UND, while Jeff Campbell picked up two of UND’s five RBIs in the game. Kris Kwak, Tyler Follis and Jacob Threlkeld each picked up an RBI apiece to finish off North Dakota’s offensive output against the Bears.

NYIT struck back the next morning with a 2-1 win over the Green and White. Tyler Ruemmele (1-4) went the distance for UND on the hill despite taking the loss. pitching seven complete innings while yielding just five hits and striking out six.

North Dakota’s only run in the game came in the first inning off the bat of Taylor Peterson, who knocked in UND’s lone RBI of the game. The Bears pushed across a run of their own in the fourth. With the score tied after seven in-nings and neither pitcher blinking, NYIT scratched a run off Ruem-mele in its half of the eighth and sent the Bears home happy in the second game of the series.

Saturday afternoon, North

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Last weekend, the UND men’s and women’s track teams sent split squads to the Drake Al-ternative meet hosted by Gusta-vus Adolphus and also the Triton Invitational in San Diego.Drake Alternative

Freshmen Hailey Brinkman and Bethany Shultz led the team in individual results in the Drake Alternative meet. Brinkman took fifth in the triple jump with with a leap of 10.71 meters, while Shultz claimed a fifth place finish in discus with a throw of 41.09 meters.

Sophomore Jessica Lynch rounded up a sixth place finish in the 5K with a time of 19:10.52 and freshman Kaylee Roelike crossed the line of the 800 meter race at 2:27.39 for a sixth place finish. Sophomore Ashley Fedie took sixth in high jump with a leap of 1.57 meters.

With a personal record time

of 15 minutes, 4.68 seconds, Sam Saccoman completed the 5K as runner up and jumped over the previous record of 15:10.47

Freshman Jimmy Evers won the 110 meter hurdles with a 14.94 second finish, marking the second best time in the Big Sky. Evers’ teammate John LeClerc took fourth with a time of 15.26.Tritan Invitational

One day after qualifying for the USA junior national cham-pionship, freshman Molly Griep achieved a personal record in the shot put, throwing 13.35 meters.

Marking a second-best finish in the Big Sky this season in dis-cus, Shawn Johnson threw 52.80 meters to claim a personal record. In addition, his 16.35 meter throw in shot put was enough to claim fifth place.

Freshman Zachary Olson also threw 44.68 meters in the discus.

The team will return to ac-tion Monday at the Cobber Twi-light meet in Moorhead, Minn., before the NDSU Tune-Up on May 3rd and the Big Sky Con-ference Championship on May 8-11 in Portland, Ore.

Success at dual meetsRECORDS Several athletes set personal records in track and field events.

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Twenge threw a nice game and had some nice

offensive preformances.

Jeff DodsonUND coach

Dakota exacted its revenge for the morning’s heartbreak in the form of a 16-1 offensive shelling of NYIT. Pitching and offense were firing on all levels as the Green and White picked up their fourth con-ference win of the season.

Alex Twenge ensured that the Bears’ offense would remain silent all afternoon as he held NYIT to just one run over seven innings pitched while allowing just six hits and one walk and striking out eight. The win helped Twenge

improve to 4-1 as a pitcher on the season.

“The guys loosened up in the second game today, taking the pressure off the first game.” Dod-son said. “In the second game, Alex Twenge threw snother nice game and had some nice offensive per-formances behind him,”

North Dakota picked up offen-sive contributions from all over the lineup as it peppered the Bears for eight runs in the middle innings before exploding for another seven

runs in the ninth inning. Taylor Peterson led the charge

for UND after he went 2-4 with five RBIs, including a home run. Patrick Vandoorne led the team in hits on the afternoon after going 3-5, while five other UND starters had multi hit performances.

With weather improving in

Grand Forks, UND will look to begin its first home stand on May 3rd against Texas-Pan American in a four game weekend series.

lead and keep it throughout the game without UND scoring back until late in the game, but by then it was too late and there was a fi ve run lead.

The second game did not go any better for North Dakota, as Idaho scored early as it tallied up runs on the scoreboard and UND wasn’t able to get a comeback go-ing. The fi rst two games were shortened to just fi ve innings each.

In the third game, UND was able to get on the scoreboard fi rst. The game went six innings, and UND was able to hang on to a 1-1 tie until the fourth inning when Idaho State scored and took the lead, which it never gave up, and won 11-2.

“We kept it close early, but made some costly mistakes to put it out of reach,” Oakley said. “Credit to Amanda Johnson and Caralyn Chewning for fi ghting hard to make something happen.

“We just need to be more competitive.”

UND will look to rebound from these games as it will fi nish up regular season play this week-end. The team will be at home against Portland State in a three game series with a doubleheader Friday starting at 2 p.m. and fi n-ishing up with one game Saturday.

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some costly mistakes to put it out of reach.

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year’s award was presented to fresh-man Colten St. Clair, who skated in 40 games and scored three goals and seven assists.

Leading all WCHA rookies and claiming the No. 3 spot nationally

with 36 points in 40 games, fresh-man Rocco Grimaldi was named the team’s Rookie of the Year after leading all freshman in the nation with 147 shots on goal.

Junior Dillon Simpson received the Most Improved Player award after appearing in all 42 games and leading UND defensemen with a career-high

24 points with his fi ve goals and 19 assists.

The Coaches’ Unsung Hero Award was given to senior Joe Glea-son after he set a career high 18 points with fi ve goals and 13 assists while playing in 41 games this season. Glea-son was also a WCHA nominee for the Derek Hines National Unsung Hero Award.Awards for Kristo

The Cliff “Fido” Purpur Award, is given to the player who exemplifi es hard work, determination and creat-ing excitement on the ice.

With his 52-point national sec-ond place tie and WCHA-leading 26 goals, senior Danny Kristo was the recipient of the award. This season, he was a Hobey Baker fi nalist, fi rst-team All-America and College Hockey News Player of the Year.

Kristo was also awarded the Virg Foss 3-Star Award for the second con-secutive season, given to the player who received the most 3-star voting points from print media following home games.

In addition to his success within the team, Kristo was named to the U.S. national team for the Interna-tional Ice Hockey Federation World Championship that will take place in Helsinki, Finland, and Stockholm, Sweden, May 2-19.

He fi nished his collegiate career with 68 goals and 93 assists in 157 career games for a total of 161 points.

After the conclusion of his senior season, Kristo signed a contract with the Montreal Canadiens and ap-peared in nine games with the Mon-treal’s American Hockey League affi li-ate, the Hamilton Bulldogs, where he collected three assists.

Kristo will use his new experienc-es and look to learn from old ones as he represented the U.S. at the IIHF Under-20 Championship in 2009 and 2013 and is a product of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program.

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