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DSInsideTailgating community, page 3.

Christianson: Coffee an option, page 5.

Jeffries: Being royalty a treat, page 6.

Cool Runnings group, page 10.

Homecoming king/queen crowned, page 11.

Soccer holds Senior Day, page 13.

UND beats Americans, page 14.

Ohio State-North Dakota split, page 15.

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Homecoming parade Page 9

Furlong: American political divide Page 4

Football suffers late heartbreak Page 13

Students speak out about coming out

The controversy caused when NDSCS football player Jamie Kuntz was kicked off of the team

after being spotted kissing his older boyfriend has brought the LGBT community to the forefront of people’s minds. While Kuntz’s outing was involuntary, the students gathered Thursday, National Coming Out Day, to discuss the experience of coming out voluntarily to their family and friends.

Students and staff, many decked in purple to show their sup-port for the LGBT community, gathered in the Memorial Union Ballroom to listen to a panel of four UND students who all had their own story about coming out to their loved ones.

“The beauty of our coming out stories is that they have a uniqueness to them that is oh so beautiful,” panelist Jacob Thom-as said. “But they have this commonality that we all get to share and that we all get to be a part of, and that makes us a commu-nity.”

Thomas, originally from Georgia, came out to himself in March, but struggled with how to tell his parents he was gay when he grew up in the Bible Belt. His solution was a seven-minute video he filmed and showed to his parents in Georgia as he sat on the phone with them.

“That video was put on Facebook, because I decided I didn’t want rumors or he said-she said getting floating around … be-cause most of my family lives in Georgia … and I wanted them to hear it from me,” Thomas said. “Consequently that video went out on YouTube … for everybody that I didn’t even know to see.”

While Thomas came out in a very public manner — his video got 20,000 views — panelist Amanda Dukart experienced her parent’s reaction face-to-face, during a nerve-racking dinner con-versation as she waited for the right moment to break the news. She faced mixed reactions, her dad was more quick to accept the news, while her mom took a while to come to terms with the information. Now, however, Dukart says their relationship has made a recovery.

“We don’t talk about it any more,” Dukart said. “It’s just kind of swept under the rug. We have a good relationship; it’s just we don’t talk about that.”

Mason Longnecker’s experience coming out to his parents

CARRIE SANDSTROMTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

PANEL Members of the LGBT community come together to discuss their experiences.

GLBT [page 7]

Members of the National Coming Out Day Panel dis-cussed their personal stories and how to be an ally.

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Spending bills pass

KAITLIN BEZDICEKTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

APPROPRIATIONS Sen-ate approves more funding for four organi-zations and events.

SENATE [page 3]

A different kind of international relations

UND and the American Col-lege of Norway celebrated Friday at the Loading Dock the 20th anniversary of their internation-al partnership that has provided both American and Norwegian students the opportunity to study abroad.

The celebration, which was mostly a casual meet-and-greet for students and faculty, includ-ed cake, music and a speech by Krista Lauritzen, the administra-tive director of ACN.

“I’m grateful for the close partnership with the university and the professors that have come and taught in Norway,”

Lauritzen said. “(The professors) have helped our students prepare and understand the American university system.”

The American College of Norway has provided Norwegian students with a chance to finish their full degree in the United States and has given Americans the chance to study abroad in

a country different from their own.

The college has American professors teaching classes that transfer to UND because of its partnership. At this point, the Norwegian college is the only study abroad experience offered

CECILIE ENGESETHTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

PARTNERSHIP UND cel-ebrates 20 years work-ing with the American University of Norway.

NORWAY [page 12]

Students celebrate the anniversary of the American Col-lege of Norway’s relationship with UND at the Loading Dock with cake and refreshments Friday.

Gorecki Alumni Center special section inside

Student Senate passed four spending bills Sunday to fund university publications and an-nual events.

To increase the efficiency of The Dakota Student’s photogra-phy, senators passed a measure to purchase the Adobe Light-room software system for photo retrieval and editing.

“We have thousands upon thousands of old photos that we use to put in the paper,” Dakota Student Editor-in-Chief Robb Jeffries said. “Right now, it may take our photo editor about an hour or two to find an old

photo.”The bill allocated $264 for

the program, which is expected to pay for itself within the first two months. As the photo edi-tor can more quickly access pho-tos needed, money will be saved through lower wage expenses, Jeffries said.

Senators approved funding for the Air Force ROTC monthly newsletter, The Talon, through the Student Communications Funding Committee. Seven hun-dred and fifty dollars was allo-cated to print the desired copies.

“This publication is how they communicate throughout the program and attract new mem-bers to it,” Senator Aaron Hom-merding said.

Senators voted to fund the annual Monster Patrol Program which places student volunteers in the Grand Forks area to direct traffic and create a safe environ-ment for young trick-or-treaters

on Halloween evening. “We are showing Grand

Forks that we are committed to making this a safe community,” said Kylene Fitzsimmons, the public relations coordinator for Student Government.

Five hundred dollars is in-tended to pay for the program’s organization, transportation and advertising expenses.

“This is a really good way for us, as students, to show that UND cares about the communi-ty,” Senator Jennifer Vetter said. “We should definitely support this, not only with money but by volunteering our time.”

Student Government will work with the city to coordinate different locations to place vol-unteers. Interested students can sign up in the Student Govern-ment office.

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Senators allocated $5,000 to fund T-shirts for the an-nual Big Event service project, scheduled to take place late in the spring semester.

“This project organizes groups of students who spend a day doing service projects throughout the Grand Forks community,” Vetter said. “Having T-shirts brings a sense of unity to the event as all the students are dispersed in different parts of the com-munity.”

Senator Jacob Gapp said the program will help improve the university’s image.

“This is a great outreach program for this organizations and our student body,” Gapp said. “There is often a negative connotation with students on a college campus, but this is a way to bring a good face back into community with the stu-dent population.”

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TOgETHER Burgers and hot dogs represent more than just food at Homecoming.

On the field of play, two teams clash relentlessly until a winner is

crowned after 60 minutes of play. Merciless, the players must never relent as they endeavor to become champions. They must remain focused and determined if they are to succeed.

Outside of the game, people are not as subject to these same stressors. Before every UND football home game, swarms of fans make the pilgrimage to the parking lots outside of the Alerus

Center to pay tribute to their fa-vorite college team. Heeding the call to arms, UND fans storm the empty lots and occupy them un-til the clash inside the Alerus has reached a conclusion.

At the annual Homecoming game, the convergence of North Dakota fans was an even larger spectacle.

Within this motley of green vehicles and Sioux apparel a cul-ture emerges. Here, the smell of hot dogs and hamburgers cook-ing on grills permeates the air while the sound of laughter, chat-ter and the occasional passing of the marching band keep the noise level at a constant hum. In this culture, people are friendly to one another. People come here to share good times with good friends and fellow UND football fanatics.

But even here during the on-set of the Homecoming game, the North Dakota nice cannot be conquered by the rapture of

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Hundreds of college football fans gather outside the Alerus Center to talk and eat food before a UND football game.

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When I was a child, I loved elec-tion time. My parents — especially my father — were adamant about candidates and issues, and while I listened and watched the cover-age progress, I mostly just enjoyed watching the blue and red states pop up on the screen at the end of the day.

Back then I never realized what those red and blue states meant. Having been raised in Minnesota, I watched my northern state turn blue every year and was always d i sappointed even though I probably never knew or un-derstood why I cared.

Today, I still fi nd myself distracted by the color blue during election years, but it doesn’t have the same meaning it used to. The spackled colors highlighting the United States on Election Day now depicts the great divide within American politics.

As an American who fi nds the founding of our great country to be one of the most fascinating mo-ments in history, I care very greatly about the direction we are headed as a nation. The United States be-gan as a few scattered settlements dependant on a nation across the Atlantic and dynamically rose to be the most powerful country in the world. Then suddenly, within only eight years, Lady Liberty’s been knocked on her ass.

Obviously Americans are go-ing to disagree about the direction of government. We’ve had a long-standing tradition of progress and democracy, and now that we’ve hit another economic recession are we to completely abandon everything America stands for?

Are we to surrender to this aw-ful trash-talking, blame and corrup-tion that elections have somehow morphed into?

Politicians have preached for bipartisan practices for years, but it seems the more we discuss bipar-tisanship, the farther we drift away from the concept.

You know what America? I’m getting sick of the nonsense. I’m sick and tired of sitting in front of the television seeing commercials bashing opponents or skewing facts to make one candidate look better than another.

I’ve been an intense supporter of American politics for years. I’m the fi rst person to advise an undecided to get the facts and make an in-formed decision, because although they may not care who is running or what they stand for, the outcome could potentially affect their lives.

Two years ago, I found myself at the mercy of an outcome that personally affected my own life: Obama’s defense cuts. At one point, an excited member of the ROTC program and a future offi cer of the United States Air Force, I am now once more a civilian and am forced to see other members of the military laid off, scholarships cut and overall military protection declining.

Because of these experiences, I am very fi rm on my political be-liefs and what I want for my nation. But this year, I’m scared. I’m scared

about what will happen in the next ten years if we contin-ue down this path of sub-par campaigning, voter fraud and the ridicu-lous amount of money being spent on cam-

paigns when candidates regularly speak about getting the middle class back on its feet.

Government is a very important aspect of a country’s structure, and without a government whose main priority is the wellbeing of its citi-zens, that country’s structure can fall. America’s government was formed with this very idea in mind; that it would give freedom back to its people and extend rights to ev-ery man regardless of his wealth or birth.

It encouraged state rights and encouraged civilians to embrace the country as a land of free will and in-dependence.

You would think every Ameri-can would push to keep that foun-dation and see fellow Americans as allies rather than enemies … but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Yes, I am a conservative and no, that shouldn’t be a bad thing. So why do liberals see me as the ulti-mate adversary? Why do they see me as foolish and uniformed? Obvi-ously I am neither since I work for two different news publications, but liberals have since labeled my affi li-ated party with ignorance and stu-pidity.

That brand of criticism infuri-ates me. When I begin a political discussion, I never claim candi-dates of different views are stupid, dumb or idiots like people love to say about Sarah Palin or George W. Bush. I never attack a politician’s personal life or the way they speak in front of a crowd. Those aspects have absolutely nothing to do with

how they could run a country. I don’t care about how many chil-dren a candidate has or if they have a speech impediment. I don’t care if they appear gruff or if they ap-pear incredibly witty and charming; I care about the issues, and I care about the direction of the United States.

Politics itself has become in-creasingly petty, and I cannot stand when someone’s method of debat-ing attacks my beliefs and or attacks the opponent based on irrelevant pieces of information.

When someone makes a com-ment to someone affi liated with an-other party to make them feel fool-ish and inferior, it is act of bullying. Haven’t we as a nation been trying to eradicate bullying from future generations of children? And yet, as adults we consistently bully others whenever we please when politics is involved. It’s disgusting.

The media only makes this phe-nomenon worse. Every democrat in the country seems to bash the Fox News Channel. Yes, Fox News can be considered a conservative news channel, but why should that be the only channel criticized when every other news program in the country is positioned on the left side of the scale? No one seems to care that Ka-tie Couric is constantly debasing the Republican Party.

The media loves infl uencing its views over the American public by spewing information that shows candidates in a terrible light. Every news program has an agenda — not just Fox News — and Democrats who say otherwise are blind to real-ity.

Celebrities are included in this, as many of them use their popu-larity and fame to infl uence their fans to vote in particular directions by endorsing candidates, making speeches or publicly donating mon-ey to a specifi c party or campaign.

There is pettiness on both sides, and I’m not using that example to say that there isn’t … but for God’s sake, the whole trend has become ruthless and demeaning to certain groups and needs to be put to a stop.

Like I said before, Americans will probably never agree on how they want government to function, but the reality is that we are going to need to work together if we want to accomplish anything.

The next time you meet some-one who has different political be-liefs and you feel a sideways com-ment pushing its way out, swallow the urge and say something con-structive. Chances are, it’ll make you sound more informed and a more intelligent voter.

Background photo by Keisuke Yo-shimura.

CHRISTEN FURLONGTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Christen Furlong is the manag-ing/opinion editor for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at

[email protected]

PARTISAN American politics have shed negative light on cam-paigning techniques.

‘I care very greatly about the direction we are headed as a nation.

Christen Furlongmanaging/opinion editor

Disrespect crosses party lines as Election Day draws near

This past week, UND hosted its annual weeklong Homecoming celebration. With events like the ice cream social, Pep Fest and parade, the campus com-munity had a chance to get together and have fun while preparing to attend one of the biggest football games of the semester.

It’s hard to dispute that this is a fun time of the year. You get to holler at athletes and politicians, vote in a fake election to elect fake royalty (arguably the coolest thing anyone can do) and might even be able to sneak in some free ice cream on the side (wait, no, this is the coolest thing anyone can do — literally). And all the while, you’re doing it with your fellow students and being excited about it.

The structure provided by Homecoming makes it great for getting to know the people you pass on cam-pus sidewalks every day.

College campuses don’t have enough opportunities for people to connect. A campus is often a dead-zone of inter-personality; people wander mindlessly from one class to the next and from that class to bed, making eye contact with no one but the snow and cement. You might meet people in class … maybe; you might make a friend when you stumble into someone (literally). It’s random, comic and unstructured chance.

Universities have an unearned reputation as being a great place to meet people. It’s much the opposite; universities are a great place for people to build bigger walls around themselves — walls of work, homework and relaxed inaction.

It’s not because of some elegant design that you meet whomever you do; stick thousands of people into the same two-mile-wide pit and you’re bound to bump shoulders with someone. It’s a great place to meet peo-ple in that, relatively speaking, you know almost no one around you.

Homecoming is a weeklong solution to part of that problem. Think of how many people were gathered to see the parade, or swapped burgers outside the Alerus Center. You have a chance to strike up a conversation with just about anyone from anywhere, all under the pretext of being a proud supporter of the Green and White.

It’s not just the place that makes it great, it’s the events that go on inside of it. Homecoming makes UND great; Welcome Weekend makes UND great; Springfest makes UND great. But there’s always room for a greater UND. There’s always room for more events, more connections and more understanding, and it’s up to us to make it happen.

In the end, it’s not even the events that make some-thing great, it’s the great people that make them up.

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Coffee can be described as the lifeline of the college student. It’s warm, delicious and full of caffeine to help get through those early morn-ings and late nights. UND, like most college campuses, offers coffee in ev-ery dining hall and either of the two main coffee houses on campus: Ar-chives and Stomping Grounds.

On average, the annual amount of coffee consumed per capita in the United States is somewhere around 30 gallons said Napa Valley Vintners via their website, napavintners.com. It’s a safe bet to say that we would be in big trouble without it.

Americans are among the top consumers of coffee in the world and college students make up a significant percentage of that population. Nearly every college campus in the United States has at least one coffee house located close to students and UND encompasses two coffee houses on campus to provide caffeine to its stu-dents. That statistic alone shows the importance of coffee to the average college student and professor as well.

Why drink coffee? Coffee is a drink that can be enjoyed any time of day or night depending on your situation. It’s easy to make, generally inexpensive and can be left for a rela-tively long periods of time without needing to be remade. Contrary to popular belief, coffee does not stunt your growth and actually has some

health benefits to go along with that amazing aroma.

In several studies, the Mayo Clin-ic has found that coffee has shown to reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, type-two diabetes and even liver can-cer. It’s important to remember that while coffee may help prevent some of these diseases, coffee itself has no nutritional value whatsoever. Unfor-tunately, you can’t live solely off of coffee, as nice as that would be. But drinking a moderate amount a day can leave you feeling warm and re-freshed.

Not all coffee is created equal. For example, I would avoid the cof-fee in residence halls at all costs. It’s not authentic; instead it’s a mix that tastes worse than car dealership cof-fee. Who knows what’s in those ma-chines that have been sitting for what seems like days on end without being serviced. Another common issue is the source of the coffee itself. Many coffee shops are switching to fair trade coffee. This means that the cof-fee was bought from the coffee grow-ers for fair market value.

Since most of the coffee grown in the world is cultivated in develop-ing countries, a few coffee companies have taken advantage of impover-ished nations to buy the coffee for very cheap without paying fair mar-ket value. It may cost a little more, but fair trade coffee is worth the extra few cents because it means that it was purchased fairly.

Located right next to the Christus Rex church, Archives Coffee House is the place to go if you are looking for a relaxing atmosphere. The place is definitely classy, with comfortable lounge sofas and chairs to kick back and study. However, those luxuries come with a price. The various coffee

selections at Christus Rex are slightly pricier than some of the other coffee houses in Grand Forks, but the prices are not high enough to prevent cus-tomers.

Occasionally Archives even hosts live performances by local musicians for some easy listening entertain-ment. As the icing to the cake, Ar-chives also features a fireplace in the winter months, which is very nice to sit near.

If you need a quick stop with some good coffee you can always visit Stomping Grounds near the newly opened Gorecki Alumni Cen-ter. Stomping Grounds is great for a quick cup of Starbucks coffee, espe-cially if you are on your way to Ode-gard Hall.

One benefit of the Stomping Grounds is that it comes equipped with a drive through if you don’t want to leave your vehicle. If in a hurry, Stomping Grounds can be a good choice because it also doubles as a convenience store to suite your most basic needs.

All of the concerns about the negative impacts of coffee are usually overrated. The fact is, it provides a good source of caffeine without fruc-tose corn syrup or carbonation found in soda. Caffeine itself in modera-tion is completely fine and provides a way for people to get a jumpstart to their day. The only danger is be-coming reliant on caffeine but can be easily avoided by drinking coffee in moderation. The next time you need a little boost to your day, don’t reach for an energy drink or soda, instead reach for a coffee.

It’s perfectly acceptable to enter college with an undeclared major. Not everyone knows what they want to do with their lives, nor do they fully understand where their talents may lie. As the school years progress, however, we are faced with the decision to choose what we would like our education to fo-cus on.

Perhaps some of you lost souls reading this are in the difficult posi-tion of declaring a major. Perhaps some of you are wishing to change your major. Whichever dilemma you are facing, don’t fret!

CNBC news recently pub-lished an article on the highest pay-ing jobs in America. The National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago publicized the highest satisfaction jobs. These are only two lists from two sources, but they may help some of you make the difficult decision of choosing a career path.

The jobs that pay the largest sums of money tend to be in the medical, business and aviation fields. These jobs make six figures a year, and employ anywhere from about 23,000 individuals to well over 618,000 depending on the field.

The first career on CNBC’s list is a pharmacist. The yearly salary is approximately $112,000 with an employment number of around 272,000. This career re-quires a doctorate of pharmacy and a license. Two entrance exams are needed to receive the license.

Up next on the list of high pay-ing jobs are several aviation fields. Air Traffic Controllers earn around $115,000 and employ approxi-mately 23,000 people. Airline pi-lots, copilots, and flight engineers make slightly more — $118,000.

If you happen to be interested in technology, computer and infor-mation systems managers may earn around $124,000 a year.

Interested in the sciences? A natural science manager may earn a yearly salary of around $128,000. This field is quite broad, and is not limited to one specific area of study.

There are more common ca-reers on the list of high-paying jobs. A career as a lawyer would earn an individual around $130,500 an-nually. CEOs are said to make around $176,000, while doctors, surgeons, dentists and orthodon-tists have a vastly large employment number, with salaries varying from

$161,000 all the way to $235,000 annually.

However, a career is not always chosen solely on the aspect of mon-ey. If that is what drives you to a career, then by all means, take your pick! However, many people are interested in having a career that makes them feel some kind of satis-faction or gratification. If you have always wanted a career that entails a high satisfaction rate, then you might find the following useful.

Operating engineers are at the bottom of the University of Chi-cago’s research list of Top Ten Satis-faction Jobs. Apparently the ability to play in the dirt with life-size ver-sions of Tonka trucks is gratifying. Financial services sales agents come in at number nine. They work about 40 hours a week, but earn about $90,000 annually. Psycholo-gists and artists find satisfaction in their careers, as well as teachers. Special education teachers, authors and physical therapists rank at five, four and three respectively. Inter-estingly enough, these jobs all have one component in common: they tend to give assistance to others

whether it is physically or mentally.

F i r e -fighters rank in at num-ber two, while clergy members are number one. It seems as though a ca-reer in which

one gives up the most receives the most gratification. Who would’ve thought?

Keep in mind that jobs with high satisfaction rates tend to re-ceive less pay. It may not seem fair or right, but it is a simple fact. Finding a career right for you may not always be easy. Struggling through essential studies classes may be a grueling challenge, but if you are striving for your career goal then keep on trucking!

Don’t forget to regularly meet with an academic advisor, or even a professor in your desired field. If you are still undecided in your major choice, then it may be a wise idea to meet with one. Talk to him or her about your interests, what your talents include and what you want out of your career. You are in college to earn a degree and make a living — take advantage of that opportunity.

It may seem difficult, ardu-ous or even downright tedious at times. The course work becomes intense, the exams pile up and your stress level reaches a peak. Keep reminding yourself that education is important; it is your gateway to the career of your choice. There are countless people on the UND campus that are ready and willing to help you succeed. In the end, if you reach your career goals, it will all be worth it.

JOBS Searching for that desired career can be difficult for students.

MARY OCHSTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

‘There are countless people on the UND campus that are ready and willing to help you succeed.

Mary Ochsstaff writer

Mary Ochs is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be

reached at [email protected]

Job success stems from satisfaction

Ever since I was little I have liked the idea of sleeping on the top bunk, so coming to college it seemed only natural that I should loft my bed. But the glori-ous image I had construct-ed in my head of finally fulfill-ing my child-hood bunk-bed fantasy came crashing down, along with my pillow that goes plummeting off of my loft nightly.

It turns out that lofting your bed may not be all it’s cracked up to be. I learned that my very first night in the dorm, as I struggled to climb up the ladder at the foot of my bed in the dark, muscles fa-tigued from moving in and body unfamiliar with the fine motor skills needed to clamber up to my mattress.

As I lay down for my first time

sleeping in an unfamiliar room hours away from my house, my face was what seemed like inches from the ceiling and my pillow was precariously close to the head of my bed. I guess the manufactures of the lofts that are distributed to colleges across the nation didn’t think headboards were necessary. They are.

Now that I’ve had a month or so to adjust to my new living situa-tion, I have to say that the relation-ship between my loft and I has not

i m p r o v e d . When I wake up in the morning I routinely smack my face against the ceiling, and when I stand up too quick after

getting a soda from the mini-fridge under my bed, I experience the sharp cracking of my skull against the underside of my bed’s metal frame.

My mom says that most people would have learned how to avoid these painful scenarios by now. I’m assuming she means someone who hasn’t lost countless brain cells through repeated abuse of their cranium.

Of course, once you manage

to get perched on your loft you come to the realization that even-tually you will have to come down, another challenge in and of itself. Sometimes I lay awake at night muttering to myself, “I don’t have to pee, I don’t have to pee, I do not have to pee,” because I would rath-er lay in bed in pain than embark on the struggle that is climbing down out of a loft without incur-ring bodily injury.

It’s not all bad though, as with anything, are a few good things about lofts. If my roommate and I hadn’t both committed to lofting our beds we wouldn’t have been able to fit a futon, chair, mini-fridge and TV into our dorm.

We also wouldn’t be able to justify never making our beds — I swear, making a lofted bed should be an Olympic sport — and we wouldn’t have been able to bond over our shared lofted-bed trials.

So while my childhood dream of sleeping on the top bunk has come to fruition and spoiled, I can say that I’ve gained valuable skills in the process, such as the ability to retrieve my phone from my desk without ever leaving the warmth of my sheets, and I can now move on to bigger and better things.

BRUISES Bed lofts need a redesign due to space and size is-sues in residence halls.

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‘I swear, making a lofted bed should be an Olympic sport.

Carrie Sandstromassistant editor

Carrie Sandstrom is the assistant editor of The Dakota Student. She

can be reached at [email protected]

A not so lofty opinion

CAFFEINE Coffee can be a much needed energy boost for stu-dents at UND.

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Coffee: the soda alternative

Tuesday October 16, 2012 6 |COMMENTARY

Several weeks ago, one of the Dakota Student’s writers, Jaye Millspaugh, approached me with a question I never thought I would hear.

She asked me if she could nominate me for Homecoming king.

Bear in mind — or reference the photo to the right — that I am a nerd. I have been since my Dungeons and Dragons playing days starting in middle school. I was never the most popular person through my school days. Heck, my crowning achieve-ments in popularity are being elected drum major of the Pride of the North Marching Band at UND (insert “this one time, at band camp” joke here) and be-ing elected president of my fra-ternity, which also has its share of self-described nerds.

H o m e -coming king is a title that I nev-er thought would be m e n t i o n e d in the same breath as my name.

Yet I found myself among other important people on campus, like our student body president and eventual king, Logan Fletcher (who defi-nitely deserved the win), dishing out ice cream in the Memorial Union as a candidate for what is most decidedly a popularity

My time as a Homecoming also-ran

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ROYALTY The nomina-tion to homecoming court gives great ex-perience to students.

contest.It turns out that I was every

bit as deserving to be with the other nine candidates based off of my campus involvement.

Freshmen, do you want to be Homecoming king or queen anytime soon? The key is to be-come involved.

College is not about the grades you get in class. Sure, scholarships are nice, and honor rolls do indeed look good on a resume.

But, and I am a great illus-tration of this, you can make up for mediocrity in the classroom with stellar extracurricular ac-tivity. I’ll even go further than that: You will not be successful after college without getting in-volved on campus.

I don’t mean to write yet another column telling you to get out of your room and find an organization to get involved in, but involvement has opened so many doors in my life. I have post-college job offers because of my involvement at the Da-kota Student. I have internship experience I wouldn’t have got-ten without my connections in Greek life.

A shake of the right hand is more valuable than the diploma the school prints off for you, and you are wasting your money if you don’t go out and

build your own network. But, I digress.

Even though I lost, and probably by a pretty wide mar-gin, I had such a great time be-ing a candidate for king.

The thing that struck me the most about my time as a candi-

Homecoming king candidate Robb Jeffries drives a football helmet car during the Homecoming parade on Saturday. In the back of the car are Homecoming king Logan Fletcher (left) and queen Kyle Kohns. Photo courtesy of Shane Gerbert.

date was the camaraderie those running for king and queen had. When I told Jaye that she could nominate me, I expected a mud-slinging affair that has been seen in movies and TV shows, or like any political campaign.

I expected to go on Face-book and find status updates from the other candidates that read “Robb Jeffries likes to mo-lest puppies and wants Twam-ley Hall to raise parking permit prices,” or something like that. Instead, we were all pleasant and promoted voter turnout, regard-less of how the potential voter would cast their ballot.

I had a great time with the other candidates, and I hope they enjoyed me as much as I enjoyed them (shout out to

Brett Jurcak — a tie for “last place” would not have been as fun without you!).

Also, driving a golf cart retrofitted with a giant North Dakota football helmet for the parade was the most fun I have before noon in a very long time.

So, thank you to my fel-low candidates for making this past week a blast, thank you to ‘

Even though I lost, and probably by a wide margin, I had such a great time be-ing a candidate for king.

Robb Jeffrieseditor-in-chief

the Homecoming Committee for scheduling the Homecom-ing Court to fun activities and, most of all, thank you to all my friends that supported my bid for kingdom.

Robb Jeffries is the editor-in-chief of The Dakota Student. He can be

reached at [email protected]

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Campus BriefsUniversity fitness rec-ognized by AHA

UND has been named a platinum-level Fit-Friendly Worksite by the American Heart Association for provid-ing employees with the tools to eat better and get more exercise. UND accepted the award in a ceremony Monday, which was followed by the grand opening of the indoor walking paths that go through the parking ramp stairwells and skywalks.

This is UND’s fifth plati-num-level award, given for the university’s ability to fulfill the required criteria in the areas of “physical activity, nutrition, having a culture of wellness and increasing the number of employees that participate in worksite wellness,” according to a UND press release.

UND has seen a 38 percent increase in employees that par-ticipate in workspace wellness in the past year, with 1,383 par-ticipating in at least one event. UND also has 56 staff and fac-ulty who act as ambassadors as part of the Advanced Ambassa-dor Program, meaning that they invite Wellness staff to their

meetings to provide activities and information.

In addition to the Advanced Ambassador Program, UND has also put in place coaching to help employees and their spouses to make good health choices.

The Fit-Friendly award came about because of the estimated $225.8 billion that American em-ployers lose each year to health care costs and inconveniences. The program is intended to bring about positive change in this area.

NASA project to include UND alumna

UND alumna Christy Han-sen has the opportunity to expe-rience the landscapes of Green-land and Antarctica as part of her work as the project manager of Operation IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission to survey Earth’s polar ice.

Twice a year, those work-ing on the airborne geophysical project travel to the polar regions of Earth to collect data on the changes in the ice structures in the areas. They are in Antarctica from October to November, al-though they are based in Chile and Greenland from March to

May.Hansen will talk on a Google

+ Hangout from her base in Chile Wednesday to students around the world about her job.

Hansen received her master’s in space studies in 1999 from UND. After earning her degree, she worked for the Johnson Space Center training astronauts and working in flight control.

Following her work with JSC, Hansen worked at NASA’s God-dard Space Flight Center as the manager of a robotic technology payload that launched on the fi-nal Space Shuttle mission.

After her work at the God-dard Space Flight Center Hansen landed at her current job, which she describes as exciting and in-teresting.

Although she is currently happy with her current job, Han-sen says she would love to fly in space someday. Until then, she’s content with the wonders on Earth.

Chester Fritz to host Army Field Band

The United States Army Field Band will perform a free concert Oct. 24 in the Chester Fritz Au-

ditorium. The performance is being sponsored by the UND Music Department.

The U.S. Army Field Band travels all over the nation and abroad to perform for vari-ous audiences. It consists of a 65-member Concert Band and the 29-member Soldiers’ Cho-rus. Band members must all go through competitive auditions and are all professionals.

One of the pieces per-formed by the groups is called the “Armed Services Medley,” which combines the songs of of all five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.

The two bodies not only perform but also serve as music educators as part of their role as the “Musical Ambassadors of the Army.” They have per-formed for around 2,500 stu-dent musicians each year.

Tickets for the performance are free and are available from the Grand Forks Herald.

UND welcomes new faculty

Eric Plummer was officially sworn in on Monday as the new UND director of public safety/

chief of police, taking over for interim UPD chief Lt. Jeff Bur-gess of the Grand Forks Police Department.

Plummer’s job will include working with students, faculty, staff and the Grand Forks com-munity along with other govern-ment agencies in order to keep the campus safe and secure. He will also oversee the several oth-er areas including Emergency management and the University Police Department.

Plummer graduated from the University of Central Ar-kansas in 1999 and is also a graduate of the Southern Police Institute’s 50th Command Of-ficer Development Course, run through the University of Lou-isville.

Employed with the Florida Highway patrol for eight years, Plummer served in a variety of roles including homicide detec-tive and criminal and internal affairs investigator.

Currently, Plummer works at the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators as a critical inci-dent management instructor.

Monday was Plummer’s first official day at UND.

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was a little rockier, beginning in the fall of his sophomore year in high school, when he decided to tell his mom.

“It didn’t go well at all,” Longnecker said. “It was very much ‘this is a phase, this isn’t you, this isn’t OK, we’re not talking about this again’ — and so we didn’t.”

Late January, Longnecker decided to try coming out to his parents again, as he had built up a support system amongst his friends as school.

“Once (my mom) realized that I wasn’t going to drop it this time, she decided it was time to tell dad,” Longnecker said. “So I got to sit inside the house watching my parents on our back porch talk and then yell and then cry and then yell some more.”

Their relationship suffered for a year before things slowly began to turn around.

However, one of panelists was still in the middle of her journey.

“This is my story. This is my journey that I’m still very much a part of,” Gigi Glordano, origi-nally from New York, said. “So as I’m talking you can hear the shaking in my voice.”

Glordano had always been very involved with the LGBT community as an ally in her home community. At 24 years old, she thought she would have already known if she was queer. However, as she went through graduate school to specialize in working with LGBT students, her research became “me-search” as she worked on processing the information that was being re-vealed about herself. But just be-cause many — including herself — knew, she still had yet to tell some of the closest people to her.

“I say I’m still on this jour-ney because I’m still not out to my parents,” Glordano said. “We all hear messages when we’re growing up. That we all hear our parents and our guard-ians and our loved ones saying things about their opinions, and they don’t necessarily know that what they’re saying is going to impact their child or the person that they love and they’re not meaning to do it to be hurtful to you as an individual, but then when you come to a place where you think about the things that you’ve heard them say you ques-tion how can I tell them this and still expect them to accept me or love me.”

Glordano’s story touches on something that Thomas says ev-eryone who comes out will expe-rience to some extent — rejec-tion.

“No matter where we are in our coming out story, we have or we will face rejection.” Thomas said. “It happens. Hopefully it’s temporary and hopefully we move past it and hopefully the people that reject us aren’t peo-ple we actually care about. But sometimes … it’s the people that actually are close.”

However, Glordano said events like National Coming Out Day and others throughout

the year, along with individual efforts, can help create a safe en-vironment for everyone.

“We all have some privilege somewhere,” she said. “(The key is) taking that privilege and knowing when to use it for the better. We’re all in fields and we’re all entering professionals somewhere and we have the op-portunity to instill in the fields we’re going into a sense of this equality.

“I believe that there’s some-thing that you can all do in all your fields to make that presence known.”

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Carrie Sandstrom is an assistant editor for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at carrie.

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organized sports fanaticism. While it is common for fans of competing teams to harbor some sort of animosity towards one another, this was simply not the case in the unique UND tailgat-ing culture.

Where others would show resentment, UND fans showed hospitality and friendship.

Toward the back of the whole tailgating armada, the vis-iting Northern Arizona Univer-sity fans assembled into a small drop of purple in the sea of green. Hundreds of miles away from home and on the verge of playing the home team for their

FRIENDS FROM PAGE [3] Homecoming game, the NAU

fans seemed quite alienated. But here in North Dakota,

people like to make everyone feel at home.

Where the green ended and the purple began, some UND fans grilled before the game be-gan. While this is not an uncom-mon practice, what came next was astounding. The UND fans began to offer free food to the visiting team’s fans. Very quickly, fans from the competing teams could be seen chatting to each other and laughing casually as if they were fans of the same team.

NAU booster and long time fan Mary Lee Fisher said of UND, “It’s just amazing to me how nice everyone is here. They just all want to make sure you’re

comfortable and having a good time.”

Democratic senator candi-date Heidi Heitkamp was also present at the game.

“I like wandering around,” she said. “You always seem to run into people you know.”

She seemed to join in the lighthearted atmosphere as she greeted friends and offered them food while showing them hunt-ing pictures on her cell phone.

Even in the brink of a very important game, UND and its fans were able to show hospital-ity towards their competition.

Cory Remington is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be

reached at [email protected]

CULTURE&MEDIA Tuesday October 16, 2012

Pep FestPage11

Classifi edsPage 12

Homecoming parade doubles in sizeCool Runnings

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Hundreds of people — UND students and alumni, natives of Grand Forks and beyond — gathered along University Avenue Saturday, lining up from the newly opened Gorecki Alumni Center to the old Univer-sity Park to watch the doz-ens of fl oats involved in the Homecoming parade go by.

The fl oats, many of which were green, repre-sented local politicians, UND student organiza-tions, campus residence halls and more.

For UND freshman Ali Karpenko and her mother Joan Karpenko, the parade is a family tradition.

“We go every year,” Joan Karpenko said. “It’s always fun. We always have a good time.”

Ali and Joan Karpenko also attend the Potato Bowl parade every year, but they said the Homecoming pa-rade is their favorite.

“There’s more energy in this one,” Ali Karpenko said. “More excitement.”

“The ROTC is great,” Joan Karpenko added. “Very impressive.”

The Air Force ROTC cadets, dressed in service blues, had led the parade — the color guard marched down the avenue. A four-column formation followed, calling jodies or spoken

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songs used to keep the forma-tion in step.

It was their turn this year to not pull road guard. In-stead the Army cadets, dressed in their day-to-day uniforms, stood at blocked-off intersec-tions, making sure wayward vehicles didn’t drive into the parade.

Several fl oats decided to play the song “Gangnam Style” by PSY as part of their display.

As a Wellness Center fl oat drove past, the song blasting from speakers and people in referee jerseys performing its distinctive “horse ride” dance

TRADITION Number of fl oats increases by nearly half in home-coming parade.

on the trailer and the bed of the truck towing it, one of the Army cadets remarked he was sick of the song.

For Shannon Stenlund, a junior at UND studying el-ementary education, this was the fi rst year she’s gone. Swan-son Hall — where Stenlund lives — didn’t do a fl oat, so she wasn’t watching our for any fl oat in particular, just taking in the parade as a whole. She liked the parade, she said.

Along the side of the road, in front of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house, more than a dozen members of Sigma Phi and their friends were piled

on top of a grey bus, cheer-ing fl oats drove past. Sev-eral fl oats tossed handouts to them; someone would catch a button or a magnet or a piece of candy and they’d all let out another cheer.

The bus, which was bor-rowed from a friend, was go-ing to be used for tailgating at the Alerus Center later, according to Adam Heine, a UND senior double-majoring in accounting and manage-rial fi nance. Heine, who was a candidate for Homecoming king, stood on the bus’s hood, wearing his candidacy medal and cheering along with his brothers.

A fl oat for a local radio station spotted Grand Forks Herald newspaper columnist, Marilyn Hagerty, who gained media attention with her food review on Olive Garden stand-ing alone with her small bag of handouts on one of the

UND’s traditional Homecoming parade took place Saturday morning on University avenue. Area businesses and various campus organizations put together creative fl oats and threw candy to onlookers. The number of fl oats nearly doubled from last year, with 84 fl oats this year compared to about 45 last year.

(Above) Homecoming king Logan Fletcher and queen Kyle Kohns were amongst the people parading Saturday morning. (Right) Sorority and fraternities, as well as residence halls, created fl oats. Photos taken by Keisuke Yoshimura.

dividers between the east and west lanes of Univer-sity Avenue. An announcer with a microphone excit-edly shouted out her name and ran up to her.

“How’s Olive Garden doing, Marilyn?” he asked.

“It’s fi ne,” she replied.As the fl oats reached the

end of the parade route, they made slow right turns onto North 23rd Street and drove off. The Air Force ROTC cadets walked back in groups, chatting about this or that; people in Rick Berg T-shirts meandered along, gossiping about friends; people went home, the roadblocks were moved aside and Homecoming weekend continued.

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Nearly every day while the weather holds, people can be seen running up and down the UND campus.

For one group of runners, this represents the bond and friendship they have formed as members of the Wellness Cen-ter’s Cool Runnings club.

Cool Runnings is an infor-

Group thinks running can be coolWELLNESS Cool Run-nings group meets for weekly runs and de-cides on pace.

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mal organization on campus for students and faculty who enjoy running outside as a form of ex-ercise. Membership is free and is open to anyone.

The group meets in the Well-ness Center atrium at 5 p.m. every Monday, but the weekly meeting time changes every se-mester based on the group lead-ers’ schedules.

The pace and distance is de-cided by the group at the begin-ning of every meeting.

“It’s very informal,” said UND senior Justin Weber. “You just show up when you have time.”

Weber has been involved with Cool Runnings since his

freshman year at UND, but has enjoyed running since high school. He and Wellness Center fitness coordinator Stephanie Hoffman are currently in charge of keeping the club going.

According to Hoffman, the club has been around since the fall of 2009. Cool Runnings was founded by previous Well-ness Center fitness coordinator, Mandy Dockendorf and former Wellness Center employee and UND cross-country runner, Kyle Downs.

“We’re basically just a social group for runners,” Hoffman said.

Although the club is open to people of all running abilities, a

few of its members are fairly ac-complished runners according to Hoffman and bazusports.com, which lists the results of races.

Downs placed second in the Wild Hog half-marathon that took place Sept. 29 in Grand Forks. Fellow member Chad Boehn won the Wild Hog 10K race and Weber won the Wild Hog 5K race.

The club doesn’t train for specific races during its weekly meetings, but it does promote local racing events such as the Wild Hog races. A typical week-ly meeting involves running on a familiar local route close to cam-pus and within the city limits.

Running can burn over 800

calories in an hour, yet almost anyone can do it because it doesn’t require learning any new skills or buying any expensive equipment.

“Cool Runnings is actually looking for more beginners,” Hoffman said.

Only four or five people show up to the weekly meetings on average, but this number de-creases every winter because of the drop in temperature.

The club is working hard to recruit more runners, mostly via word-of-mouth and posters at the Wellness Center.

Many of the current mem-bers run with each other outside of the weekly meetings too.

“The biggest benefit we have is that we introduce people to other runners outside of the cross country and track and field teams,” Weber said. “We try to accommodate all running abili-ties.”

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

reached at [email protected]

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UND students and alumni gathered Sunday morning at the Wellness Center to take part in the annual Green Gal-lop Homecoming run.

More than 60 runners came to support the UND community. First — time race director Patrick Marcoe de-scribed the event as one that is both a fun finale to home-coming weekend and as a way to give back to UND students.

“All the money we earn from this goes back to stu-dents that work here (at the Wellness Center) or that want to work here so they can do

professional development,” he said.

The Gallop had three differ-ent runs to participate in. A 5K, 10K and 1.5 mile family run. Registration for the event began Oct. 5. Marcoe said that the 5K was the most popular run of the day.

“The 5K had the most peo-ple. We had 40 or 50 people for that,” Marcoe said. “For the 10K it was about 20.”

The circuit, which stretched from the Wellness Center to the coulee bike path and all the way back to Sixth Avenue North, didn’t take long to complete. By the end of the first hour of the run, 59 people had finished.

Enthusiasm for the event wasn’t just shown by the num-ber of runners. Marcoe also said close to 50 volunteers came to make sure the Gallop ran smoothly.

Wellness Center employee Stephanie Hoffman said this was the most people they’ve ever had volunteer for the event.

“It’s kind of an honor and now always a tra-dition to be here for the Home-coming race,” she said.

Those who finished came inside the Well-ness Center, where a recep-tion was held on the basketball courts. Runners registered to win gift certificates to Gerrell’s Sports Center, Scheel’s and GNC.

Male and female runners who placed second and third in their respective events won UND water bottles and first place finishers received UND blankets. Blankets were an ap-propriate prize to win, since par-ticipants ran in chilly 35-degree weather.

Some weren’t worried about

the cold and instead wore their pride on their sleeves — liter-ally: runners were encouraged to wear costumes to show their UND pride. Every now and then, a bright green shirt or wig crossed the finish line. Home-coming king Logan Fletcher decided the winner of the Most Spirited Award.

Hundreds of UND students gathered Wednesday night to

watch the crowning of this year’s Homecoming kind and queen.

The announcement came at the end of Homecoming’s annual Pep Fest celebration.

Candidates Logan Fletcher and Kyle Kohns received the most votes and were each crowned by last year’s Homecoming royalties.

Kohns stresses the way Home-coming brings current students to-gether with their alumni.

“This Homecoming has so many sporting events in two days, any alumni will have a good time enjoying sports games like they did when they were students at UND,” Kohns said.

Kohns also mentioned how important UND athletics has been for her.

“Looking back to my sopho-more year of college when I was still a part of the hockey cheer

team, I remember being on the ice for the starting line-up, looking up around the Xcel Energy center see-ing a sea of green,” Kohns said.

With her many individual at-tributions and involvement at the university, she also says she knows the importance of representing the school.

“The support from students, alumni and fans everywhere is so incredible,” Kohns said. “It makes

me thrilled to say I am a part of this university.”

Each year the crowned royalty donates the money raised from T-shirt sales to organization of their choice. This year it is estimated several hundred dollars were raised from T-shirt sales.

Kohns will be allocating the money received to the UND Counseling Center. She says she went there her freshman year to gain confi dence.

“I had the opportunity to suc-ceed in college and accomplish my goals because of them,” Kohns said.

She encourages other freshman to get involved. “It is always best to say you tried, then to regret never trying,” Kohns said.

Fletcher already represents UND as student body president.

“I love getting to meet and interact with so many of our stu-dents, staff and faculty,” Fletcher said. As a senior, he is planning to continue to represent the univer-sity through graduate school.

Fletcher says he knows the importance of being involved. He said that the opportunities are end-less, but it is left up to each student to take on the tasks. “A lot of times people can surprise themselves with what they’re able to do if they just try,” he said. Fletcher has been involved in several organizations on campus. He is giving theproceeds to Mortar Board, a senior honor society. They have an annual turkey basket drive where Fletcher sees the money being more benefi -cial for the whole community.

Later in the week, the two roy-alties could be spotted representing UND at the new Gorecki Alumni Center on campus, and of course in the UND Homecoming parade.

With free food, door prizes and socializing, the event held at the Memorial Union Ballroom bonded

UND crowns new homecoming royalty

Marcoe thinks the event sends a positive message to UND and Grand Forks.

“It’s about being healthy and having fun while doing it,” he said.

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SPIRIT [page 12]

CORONATION Pep Fest ignites school spirit with the crowning of king and queen.

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RACE UND commu-nity puts on spirited attire for morning run to fi nish off Home-coming week.

Cole Britton is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at cole.britton@

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The day after the Homecoming game, community members partici-pated in runs starting at the Wellness Center. The options included a 5K, 10K and 1.5 mile family run. Photo by Cole Britton.

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SPIRIT FROM PAGE[11]various student organizations and individuals with their ath-letes and royalty candidates.

The UND football, volley-ball and basketball team visited with other students and had a competition of who could pres-ent the school song the best. The football team also incorporated a spontaneous dance-off competi-tion into the night.

The Homecoming court in-cluded five female candidates, Chelsie Bickel, Sonja Collin, Beatrice Hill, Kohns and Ch-antel Thompson, and five male candidates, Thomas Connelly, Fletcher, Adam Heine, Robb Jef-fries and Brett Jurcake.

Cecilie Engeseth is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be

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Voting for Homecoming royalty took place at Pep Fest in the Memo-rial Union Ballroom Wednesday night. People stuck around to watch various routines organizations, residence halls and sports teams put together to show their school spirit. Photos by Brittany Arndt.

The votes were counted during Pep Fest and announced at the end of the event. Kyle Kohns (above, second from left) was crowned Homecoming queen and Logan Fletcher as king.

to freshman. “It’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle,”

Lauritzen said. She has been working at the

college for years and emphasized how support from the family has always been important.

“I remember one day, some of the American students stopped by and asked if they could bring my three year old to the store as a translator,” she said. She married a Norwegian and settled down close by the college.

Also present at the celebra-tion was Becky Norvang, an in-ternational student advisor for ACN. Lauritzen said she hired Norvang hoping that she one day would take over as the director after Lauritzen retires. Lauritzen also said Norvang has shown a great interest in and excitement for the UND campus.

“(The students) are my ba-bies,” Norvang said after finish-ing up her first full year as an ad-visor this past spring.

Junior Lene Matsen attended the American College of Norway her freshman year. She is a native Norwegian double-majoring in investments and banking and fi-nancial economics.

“The easy transition between ACN and UND and the afford-able tuition made it easy to de-cide on UND,” she said.

Coming from a smaller school like the American College, her biggest challenges were attending 100-level classes with hundreds of other students. “

Going to ACN, you never had more than 50 students in

your class,” she said. “Here at UND, some of the classes have more than 200 students.”

Matsen knows the impor-tance of a support system and thinks going to school in the U.S. is a thrill because she knows she can seek help if needed.

“It is very safe having ACN, because I know that they are only one phone call or email away if I need help,” Matsen said.

Because of the partnership’s success, several Norwegian stu-dents come to UND every year, which has created a Norwegian network on campus.

“Stop by archives and you will always meet someone from Norway,” Matsen said.

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Third time not a charm for footballDISAPPOINTMENT UND drops to 7-5 in Home-coming football games at the Alerus Center.

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This past Saturday, the Alerus Center filled up nicely as fans gathered to watch the home team grab a win from the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks.

The spirit of Homecoming was in the air as the football sta-dium roared to life after the Na-tional Anthem. Unfortunately for the fans, they watched as UND dropped its third straight Home-coming game, 45-38.

“It’s always tough,” UND receiver Greg Hardin said after the game. “Especially when it’s a game we could have won.”

North Dakota played anoth-er shoot-out style game against NAU.

After quickly falling 0-14 in the first quarter, UND began to comeback in the early minutes of the second quarter. A seven-yard touchdown pass to freshman receiver Jameer Jackson put the Green and White back into the game.

Soon after, an interception by UND defensive back Will Lewis and a series of penalties against the Lumberjacks allowed for UND to kick a field goal, reduc-ing NAU’s lead to four.

Northern Arizona struck back, however, marching down the field in a 14-play drive that resulted in three points for the Lumberjacks. After two time-outs late in the second quarter, North Dakota running back Mitch Sut-ton hammered the ball into the red zone with 39.5 seconds left on the clock.

The drive knotted the score at 17 going into the half. UND would start the third quarter with possession.

The third quarter began well for the Green and White. UND quarterback Braden Hanson con-nected with receiver Greg Hardin for a 24-yard touchdown pass on an eight-play drive. The lead would be short-lived, as NAU quarterback Cary Grossart hit tight-end R.J. Rickert for a five-yard touchdown pass.

Despite the Lumberjacks score, the Alerus Center shook as fans watched Hardin return a kick for 53 yards, the lon-gest North Dakota return of the night. The momentum carried on from there, as Hanson connected with Jackson two plays later for a 43-yard touchdown pass, putting UND on top 31-24.

It was at this point that NAU’s defense started to kick in. What appeared to be a promising 10-play drive by UND resulted in a 38-yard punt, putting the Lumberjacks on their own one yard line. Despite the apparent momentum in favor for North Dakota, NAU drove for 13 plays

and notched another touchdown, this one coming on a one-yard run by Northern Arizona run-ning back Zach Bauman.

Any hopes of UND produc-ing a scoring drive on that pos-session were crushed as Hanson was taken down and fumbled the ball, giving possession back to the Lumberjacks, who scored again five plays later.

North Dakota quarterback Marcus Hendrickson came in to the game as Hanson was injured during the fumble. Hendrickson put UND back into the game as he hit Hardin for a 17-yard touchdown pass. What many fans and reporters talked about the next day was the kick following

the North Dakota touchdown. Instead of sending the ball

back to the Lumberjacks return man, UND kicker Zeb Miller and the rest of the special teams unit attempted an onside kick. The result proved fatal for North Dakota as NAU recovered the ball.

UND could not stop the Lumberjacks from gaining a few first downs, which allowed them to kill the clock and win the game.

“We bounced back after get-ting down early,” UND coach Chris Mussman said. “But (we) made too many costly mistakes again to beat a good team like Northern Arizona.”

Many fans were heard jeering the North Dakota defensemen as they had difficulties making tackles and getting to where they needed to be. Northern Arizona finished the game with a total of 568 offensive yards. The Lum-berjack defense held UND to only 361 yards.

This Saturday, UND will stay in Grand Forks as they take on Big Sky powerhouse Montana. Kickoff is scheduled for 2:40 p.m. in the Alerus Center.

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North Dakota drops two for Homecoming

The UND women’s soccer team faced two conference op-ponents this past weekend. On Friday they squared off with the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks and on Sunday they played the Southern Utah Thunderbirds. Both games ended up in losses for North Dakota.

North Dakota moved to 2-11-1 overall and 0-7-0 in the Big Sky Conference with the losses.

UND and Northern Ari-zona were evenly matched throughout the first half of play in Friday’s game.

The first half of the game went well for North Dakota as they kept the score tied at 0 until the last few seconds.

However, with just three seconds left in the first half, Emily Roth of NAU scored her first goal of the season to secure

TIRED UND soccer loses both games dur-ing the campus cel-ebrations.

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the lead going into halftime. NAU came out strong in

the second half with three un-answered goals. The second and third goals were both scored by Demi Schmieder of NAU.

The fourth and final goal was scored by Elinor Priest with just three minutes left to play. The Lumberjacks went on to win 4-0 over UND.

“We made little mistakes,” said senior captain Sheri Stapf. “Other teams capitalize, so we need to hold it together for a full 90.”

The shots on goal were near-

ly even throughout the game. The Lumberjacks came out on top with 15 shots while UND had 11.

Sunday’s game was the last home game and senior day for UND. North Dakota has four seniors on the roster; Rhaya Ballon, Caitlyn Haring, Noah Mithrush and Stapf.

“It’s definitely hard being one of four seniors,” Stapf said. “It’s done now and reality is sinking in.” Stapf went on to say that, “I think it’s going to be better.”

The game started out strong for both UND and Southern

Utah. The first half was score-less, as was most of the second half.

The first goal of the game didn’t come until the 69th min-ute of play and was scored by Sydney Cook of Southern Utah. The next goal came from Mack-enzie Moreno of SUU, giving the Thunderbirds a two-goal lead.

The last goal of the game came in the final minute of play by Stacey Brinkman for the Thunderbirds. Southern Utah went on to win the game 3-0.

“I thought we played well,”

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said UND coach Kristen Gay. “I thought this was one of our better games. We just can’t find the net and struggle to do that.”

The shots on goal were con-sistent in the first half with six for UND and seven for SUU.

The Thunderbirds took control in the second half and led the shots 10 to four with the total for the game being 17-10 in favor of SUU.

The next two games are on the road for UND. They will travel to Ogden, Utah next Thursday to play against Weber State. Then on Saturday they will be in Pocatello, Idaho to take on Idaho State.

“We came out really strong, we were all pumped up to play for our seniors today on their senior game,” said freshman Taryn MacMillan.

“Once we got scored on our first goal, we just couldn’t dig ourselves out of the hole and made just a couple of mistakes that put us down three zero.”

UND running back Mitch Sutton goes up for a pass Saturday against NAU. The loss was North Dakota’s third in a row this season.

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Taryn MacMillan (in black) was able to keep pace with both teams UND played last week. The team’s shots on net have improved, something North Dakota has wanted.

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UND topples U-18 National TeamPREPARATION North Dakota beat Team USA in an exhibition game last weekend.

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North Dakota’s six goals on Friday night at the Ralph Engels-tad Arena were enough to pull off a victory over the U.S. Under-18 team as they won 6-4.

Four of the six pucks in the net were from first line forwards: Corban Knight, Danny Kristo and Rocco Grimaldi.

Grimaldi’s two goals made the freshman redshirt a respectable fit with veteran line-mates Knight and Kristo, who each also added a goal to their team’s efforts.

“I know it’s just the first game tonight, but I thought he did a good job on the left wing and hopefully we can stay together and keep building some chemis-try,” Kristo said. “He played well and generated a lot with Corban and I.”

Having three right-handed players on one line may not be ideal, but coach Dave Hakstol

will take some time to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the line to determine its cohe-siveness.

“I want to take a look at it in a sense of what small areas can be improved to improve the overall chemistry of the unit in all three zones,” Hakstol said. “It’s not just one zone of play and that’s what I’d like to take a close look at. I thought there was a lot of good there and we’ll take it one step at a time from there.”

The first excitement in the game came from Derek Forbort’s shot that entered into the corner

of the net to put North Dakota up 1-0 early in the first period.

Although that goal marked the beginning of a lead that North Dakota would have for the remainder of the game, their 19 total shots were not comparable to Team USA’s 38 shots on goal.

North Dakota goaltender Clarke Saunders stopped 24 of those shots, letting just one slip past him in the second period.

“If there’s ever a positive of giving up 20 shots on goal, it’s that Clarke really got a chance to really settle there and he had some tough saves,” Hakstol said.

“I thought he read plays very well and was sharp throughout the first period.”

The junior Alabama-Hunts-ville transfer was relieved midway through the second period by freshman Zane Gothberg, who got his chance in between the pipes for North Dakota, stopping 8 of 11 shots.

Also contributing a goal for UND in the second period was sophomore forward Connor Gaarder.

Of Team USA’s 38 total shots on goal, four of them found their way into the net, giving second

thoughts to North Dakota’s de-fensive efforts.

“We were able to make some offensive plays, but I think over-all we need to tighten up our de-fensive game a little bit,” Knight said. “I think a couple times to-night we let up a little. Too many chances in the defensive zone there, so it’s probably something we need to work on this week and get ready for next weekend.”

With 2:18 left in the third period, senior goaltender Tate Maris was welcomed by the col-lective cheering of fans as he skated onto the ice for his chance at the net. He stopped both shots on goal that he faced.

After two exhibition games, UND will make the journey to Alaska in the coming weekend, marking the beginning of compe-tition in the regular season.

“There’s still a long ways to go, but I think a couple good starting points for the team,” Kristo said. “After two exhibition games, I think everybody is ready for the season to start.”

Elizabeth Erickson is a staff writer for The Dakota Stu-

dent. She can be reached at [email protected]

Volleyball beats ThunderbirdsWINNING UND claimed victory against Southern Utah last Thursday.

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The North Dakota wom-en’s volleyball team swept their match against the Southern Utah Thunderbirds 3-0 Thurs-day.

“Every time I go up there, I swing to kill,” UND freshman Ellen Krueger said to UND In-sider about her attacks Thurs-day.

That’s just what the North Dakota women did in Thurs-day’s win over Southern Utah. The sweep was a big win that actually bumped UND past SUU in the Big Sky Confer-ence.

As North Dakota sits right now, they are 6th in the Big Sky Conference standings out of the 11 total teams in the conference.

The game started at 7 p.m. Thursday, and UND came out ready to play. During the first set the women went up with an early 9-4 lead. Southern Utah took a time out to try and slow UND’s momentum. It did little to help; by the time Utah took their second timeout, North Dakota was up 16-7.

The Thunderbirds came back, giving the women of UND only a two point lead, 21-19. UND ended the set

from there, winning the first set 25-19.

The second set began and SUU took a very short lived lead. UND got the next five points and didn’t slow very much from there. The women were up 11-7 when Southern Utah used their timeout.

The Thunderbirds would come back to tie the score late in the game at 19. The North Dakota women won the second set 25-20.

In the last set of the match, the score was close the majority of the game until North Dako-ta took a commanding lead and won the set 25-19. Lexi Robin-son notched the final kill of the match, confirming the sweep of Southern Utah. UND never let SUU lead by more than a point, in any of the sets.

“We served really tough to keep them out of system and used smart shots so they nev-er really got into a rhythm,” freshman Kayla Chezick said about the North Dakota win.

Lexi Robinson had another stellar performance, putting up her 12th double-double of the season with 14 kills and 11 digs. Other key players includ-ed Ronni Munkeby, along with Ellen Krueger, who totaled 20 kills and one error together.

Saturday, the UND wom-en’s volleyball team lost to NAU 3-0. The next game is Friday at Montana.

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UND defender Joe Gleason makes a move for the net. North Dakota‘s 19 shots on net were few compared to Team USA’s 38.

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After a series split last week-end against Minnesota State, the UND women’s hockey team traveled to Ohio State this week-end where they pulled off yet an-other split against the Buckeyes.

In previous meetings be-tween the two teams, North Da-kota has won the last four out of five games played in Columbus.

“We’ve got to keep getting better and go in there,” UND coach Brian Idalski said in a press conference on Wednesday. “And we’re going to have to com-pete a little harder right from the moment we step on that ice on Friday night.”

Ohio State went into the series undefeated, expecting to

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continue their streak.Scoring opportunities pre-

sented themselves early as the Buckeyes went up 2-0 within the first 10 minutes of the first pe-riod. They continued the trend into the second period, where they put another two goals past North Dakota goaltender Shelby Amsley-Benzie.

Junior goaltender Jorid Dag-

finrud replaced Amsley-Benzie in the net for the third period, making key saves to keep a vic-tory within reach.

Tania Eisenschmid’s slap shot from the point on a power play early in the third period gave North Dakota its first goal of the game while a second pow-er play goal by Jocelyne Lamou-reux just 1:13 later narrowed the

gap again.The team continued to skate

strong in the third period as sophomore Andrea Dalen put another goal in the net to bring the score to 4-3.

With an empty net and an extra skater, UND needed one more goal to tie the game, but Ohio State’s empty net goal gave them the edge.

Although they outshot the Buckeyes 35-20, North Dakota’s 5-3 loss motivated them to step up in Saturday afternoon’s face-off.

With just 40 seconds left in regulation, Jocelyne Lamoureux scored her second goal of the game in the empty net, giving North Dakota a 2-0 victory over undefeated Ohio State.

In her eighth career shutout, Dagfinrud stopped all of Ohio State’s 12 shots on goal.

With a No. 6 ranking in both the USCHO.com and the USA Today/USA Hockey Maga-zine polls, North Dakota has improved its overall record to 2-2-0.

The team will resume action the weekend of Oct. 19-20 when it takes on the St. Cloud State Huskies.

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Jocelyne Lamoureux helped her team with two goals against Ohio State. UND is 4-1 against the Buckeyes in the last five meetings. Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.

North Dakota hosted the Ron Pynn Meet last week. UND runners fell to NDSU.

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This past week, North Dakota hosted the Ron Pynn Cross Country Invitational at Ray Richards Golf Course. While individual members of the teams fared well, the overall victors of the match were the runners of NDSU in both men and women’s competition.

Horace, N.D., native Nate Peterson grabbed the third place spot for UND with a time of 26:16.0 in the men’s 8K. However, it was not enough to claim the win. The men put up a total score of 40 points, while NDSU posted a score of 18. Bison sophomore Brett Kelly finished in first place with a time of 26:11.8.

Junior runner Sam Sac-coman was the next runner for UND to finish, grabbing the seventh-place spot among dual-runners with a time of 26:33.4. Individually, Sacco-man finished in 10th place

among 63 runners.The points posted by the

women’s team were very simi-lar to the men’s; UND put up 41, while NDSU posted 17. Lindsay Anderson was the top runner for North Dakota, com-pleting the dual-running with a time of 18:00.3, and finishing seventh individually. NDSU runner Heidi Peterson finished in first place with a time of 17:37.7.

Sophomore Erin Wysocki had a time of 18:28.2, finish-ing in sixth within dual compe-tition and eighth overall.

Along with the runners themselves who competed, sev-eral UND Alumni participated in the event. Louise Ronner-mann, a 2012 UND Letterwin-ners Association Hall of Fame inductee, was one of the par-ticipants. Arjan Gelling partici-pated for the men.

This was the only home event scheduled for North Da-kota. The next event is the Big Sky Conference Champion-ship, scheduled for Oct. 27.

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