Brandon Pereles, a student currently working for his Ph.D in biomedical engineering, is work-ing to design a pressure-sensing device for prosthetic limbs. This pressure sensor will monitor the forces on the amputated limb, better protecting the stump from further damage. A major prob-lem for amputees is when the limb experiences uneven loading. Problems from minor irritations to the amputated limb could cause tissue death, which could require another amputation. The goal of this project is to create a “preventative tool” for the moni-toring of patients by doctors.

Pereles has been working on this particular project for three years under his advisor, Dr. Keat Ghee Ong. Pereles has been working with Dr. Ong for a total of six years. The lab’s current fo-cus can be summarized in a pub-lication by Dr. Ong from 2008 “Implantable Biosensors for Real-

The career center is putting on its annual Spring Career Fair. This fair will be taking place in the Stu-dent Development Complex on Tuesday, Feb. 16 from 12 p.m - 6 p.m. This fair will be a great op-portunity for students to meet potential employers and to obtain co-ops or internships. There will be many companies coming to the career fair including Amtrak, GE Health Care, General Electric, Epic, Kimberly-Clark Corpora-tion and the Union Pacific Rail-road. You can find a complete list of registered companies coming to the Career Fair at the Career Services website (http://www.ca-reer.mtu.edu/).

There are a few tips for at-tending the Career Fair to fur-ther your chances of obtaining a co-op, internship, or job. The first and most important tip is to dress professionally. This will be the first impression you make on a potential employer, so it is im-

Now is the time of year when students are being pressed to sign a housing contract in the dorms. However, there are other living options, like apartments and houses. It could be scary de-ciding to move off campus and many students think it is harder than it actually is.

There are a few apartment complexes along College Av-enue, and a few of them have large signs and banners listing their phone numbers for stu-dents walking or driving past. For other apartments, check on-line. There are a few downtown with even more a short drive away in Hancock.

Current students say another good place to check for open housing is the bulletin boards in the Fisher Lobby. People with open rooms, or those looking for roommates, often put flyers on those boards with their informa-tion and phone number.

Many students have also found Barkboard (https://barkboard.mtu.edu/tools/public/main/) as a great place to check if you are looking for a place to live.

Some people don’t know about Barkboard and how good of a resource it can be. It is a forum for Michigan Tech students and currently has 375 topics listed under Housing; so that could be a quick and easy way to find a room.

Another website that some students find extremely useful is the USG Off-Campus Housing website. On this site, Landlords can post available rooms or houses, as well as all of the infor-mation about their rental poli-cies and leasing options. This site has a lot of pertinent infor-mation when it comes to looking for off-campus housing.

Lastly, most students find rooms and apartments off cam-pus through their friends. Mich-igan Tech is small, so network-ing can be easy. Talk to friends who live off campus and ask if they have heard of anyone with rooms open. If they don’t know of any, chances are they know someone else who might.

Now, once you have found an apartment or house, what should you look for? One big thing is a lease. Some students rent rooms

Lydia Patch crowned Winter Carnival Queen

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Winter Carnival Queen 2011: Lydia Patch was crowned the Winter Carnival Queen for 2011. Patch performed “Not Getting Married Tonight” with two supporting singers and was represented by Douglas Houghton Hall (DHH). For a complete recap of Winter Carnival, read next week’s edition of the Lode or purchase a 2011 Winter Carnival Pictorial on Friday at the Campus Bookstore. Photos by Jacob Shuler

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In just two short weeks cam-pus will once again be host to the annual Tech Arts Festival, affec-tionately abbreviated TAF. TAF is a weeklong event hosted by the MUB Board to celebrate art, as well as to give students an op-portunity to display their work and for students to see and ap-preciate the work of their peers. The event, which this year spans from Monday the 21st until Fri-day the 25th, is comprised of dif-ferent workshops over the week as well as an open art gallery of student-submitted work. Stu-dents can submit a variety of dif-ferent works and cash prizes will be awarded to select entrants. The main show, the gallery of students’ work, will be open all week from 8 a.m to 5 p.m in the Forestry building.

Students of the artistic dis-position are encouraged to par-ticipate and show their talents. Students can register online with their ISO password at (https://www.involvement.mtu.edu/or-ganization/memorial-union-board/calendar/details/26795 ), or by emailing Auriel Van Der Laar at (amvandel@mtu.edu). Any questions concerning the event should be directed to Van Der Laar. At the conclusion of the week, judges will declare winners in addition to people’s choice awards. First place will be awarded a cash prize of $100, $50 for second, and $25 for third. The deadline for entering in the competition is February 16th.

This year TAF is host to a larger array of workshops than it usually has. There is at least one workshop each weekday over the course of the event, and two on Monday and Wednesday. The

exact schedule of workshops can be seen to the left. The in-crease in workshops available this year is thanks to collabora-tion with other student organi-zations such as the Photography Club, which is holding the “Pro-ducing Perfect Pop’n Pictures” workshop, and the National So-ciety of Black Engineers (NSBE) which is holding the Poetry Slam. Other workshops include a LEGO™-building workshop, Etch-a-Sketch, and a watercolor & clay sculpture workshop. No-table among the workshops is a food & wine pairing workshop, which offers instruction on how to select wine and food combi-nations and offers samples. TAF is funded through the student activities fee and all events are open to all Tech students at no charge –With the exception of the food and wine pairing work-shop, which has a cover charge of $2 due to the expense, and re-quires that attendees be over the age of 21 years with a valid ID.

The week concludes with the poetry slam Friday evening. Stu-dents can come and listen, read works they like, or enter into a competition for cash prizes. Stu-dents interested in competing must read original works of their own creation. Students wishing to read poetry, compete, or just have questions about the event should go to Tayloria Adams of NSBE at (tnadams@mtu.edu).

TAF has been a tradition of Tech for over ten years. The event offers students not only the chance to display and share their art but also to sell it if they so wish, and every year the MUB buys several such works to col-lect and display. Said Van Der Laar, TAF is a “great opportu-nity to learn new things and ex-pand outside of the strict science field.”

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“Producing Perfect Pop’n Pictures”February 21st 1-230pPeninsula Room (MUB)Learns the tricks of compo-sition and how to take stellar photographs with the Mich-igan Tech Camera Club!Bring your own camera!

Fishing Lure Workshop!February 21 500-630MUB CommonsCome learn the fine art of making fishing lures and take your creations home!

Lego Workshop!February 22, 500-630pMUB CommonsWe’re going to have lots of building bases and bricks for everyone to get creative with, prizes for the best cre-ations! Come hang out, re-live your childhood and take your creation home!

Etch-A-Sketch Workshop!February 23, 500-630pMUB CommonsCome out and show off your skills with the etch-a-sketch, prizes for the best designs and you get to take it home with you!

Wine & Food PairingFebruary 23 500-630pPeninsula Room(MUB)Come learn how to properly pair wine with great food and try many tasty samples! Must be 21+ to attend, ID required.

Watercolor & Clay Sculp-ture WorkshopFebruary 24 500-630MUB CommonsCome out and learn the ba-sics of Watercolor and Clay Sculpting with a beginner lesson and some supplies to take home with you and get you started on your artistic journey!

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What sort of activities would you like to see in the Lode? Let us know by e-mailing lodecom-ment@mtu.edu. This week’s Sudoku is just awesome. This puzzle might be difficult, but the Lode wants to wish every-one a happy Valentine’s day. —we don’t want you wasting too much of your brain power on this though! The answer to last week’s puzzle is to the right.

in houses without a lease and just pay rent. While it may seem OK at first, this could potentially be bad.

Without a lease, a landlord can choose to change the rent at any time, or even change the length of the agreement. With a lease, it is guaranteed that the rent will stay the same and your lease will go for a specific amount of time. With a lease, you don’t have to worry about being evicted ran-domly (unless you break a rule stipulated in the lease).

Also, some houses around here can be a little worn down. Whether it is due to age or col-lege students not taking care of it, some houses can look a little worse for wear. Landlords usual-ly collect a security deposit that they can withhold at the end of your lease if you have done dam-age to the house in any way.

In order not to lose your secu-rity deposit over something that was already there, for example a hole in the wall, take pictures when you move in. Make sure

they are time stamped too. That way, if a landlord tries to with-hold your security deposit for an existing problem, you can prove that you did not do the damage in question.

Parking can also be an issue when living off campus. If you have a car that you plan to park at your new house or apartment make sure you get the necessary permits so you do not get towed. Also, it is a good idea to plan snow removal procedures so no one gets stuck in the driveway.

One last thing to take into account is your roommates or housemates. Now that you are living off campus, there are more responsibilities around the house –like dishes and clean-ing the bathroom. Make sure that you and your roommates get along before moving in to-gether and know about the extra chores. It may be a good idea to create a non-official roommate agreement, like you would in the dorms, just so everyone is on the same page.

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The last day to drop full term fall semester classes is Friday, March 4, 2011 by 5:00 p.m. All drops must be done in person in the Student Service Center.

Drops cannot be done via the web.

Also, please note:The last day to drop track B classes (those classes that be-gin on February 28, 2011) with a refund is Thursday, March 3, 2011.

The last day to drop track B classes with no grade is Wednesday, March 16, 2011.

The last day to drop track B classes with a “W” grade is Fri-day, April 1, 2011.

According to the University pol-icy on late drops: “After the eighth week of the semester, a student may request a late drop from the Dean of Student’s Office, which will consider those requests that involve circumstances beyond the student’s control.” Extenuating circumstances considered are pro-longed illness, serious accidents and death in the immediate family or of a close friend, or similar situ-ations beyond the student’s con-trol. All requests must be made in writing. Instructions for late drops are available in the Compass Office (Wadsworth Hall, G28) or the Dean of Student’s Office (Ad-ministration Building 170). No late drops will be granted to avoid poor grades.

Again, only extenuating cir-cumstances will be considered for granting a late drop.

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portant to make a good impres-sion and be able to have the po-tential employer remember you as a professional. Another thing is to bring plenty of resumes to hand out to potential employers. A good first impression is im-portant to make, but it is equally important to make a lasting impression. Having a resume to give to a potential employer makes it easier for them to be able to remember you.

Some other important things to remember when attending the Career Fair is to be direct, give a firm hand shake, and tell the potential employer about what you would like to do with the degree you are working to-

wards and what you wish to do with your degree. Be sure to look at the full list of companies coming to the Career Fair ahead of time and do some research about the companies that may have potential employment pos-sibilities. This will show that you are informed about the company and impress the recruiters at the fair. Most importantly though is to just be yourself. Employers like employees who are confi-dent in themselves and in the work they do. These tips on how to look and act professional will help you obtain a job, co-op or internship in the field of your choice and the Lode wishes ev-eryone the best of luck!

Time Strain and Pressure Moni-toring (Published 2008),” and can be summed “passive and wireless sensor technology may be useful for long term detection of physical quantities within the human body as a part of treatment assessment, disease diagnosis, or detection of biomedical implant failures.” To that end, a paper related to the fea-tured project in this article has not been published yet but has been accepted for publication.

Pereles also mentioned during the interview that Dr. Ong is look-ing for any “motivated, hard-work-ing, and innovative undergradu-ates” to work in his lab group. “If someone wants to be in the lab and is ready to learn, then we can teach them to do the work. Self-motivation is the key though, the rest can be taught no matter what the students major or year at MTU is.” If you are interested in work-ing under Dr. Ong, email Brandon Pereles at (bdperele@mtu.edu).

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Research Focus:Biosensors, from front

Students, community and family will be given the chance to explore an extraordinary event featured by the band Somnium during the Winter Carnival Weekend on Feb. 12 at 7:00 p.m. in the Rozsa Center Art Gallery. This event will be free and open to anyone who has a craving for the avant-garde and/or a strong desire for rock music.

The theme of this performance, The After Days: A Somnium Event, will be centered on the end of society. It will espouse a mixture of original music by the band as well as a conglomeration of art and multimedia from lo-cal artists and entertainers from abroad.

With this mixture of different art media, the event will tell the story of how the audience will look upon the world before and after the collapse of society. It will give a symbolic and visual display that will lead the viewer from one idea to the next.

As Somnium musician Aaron Radzwilowicz puts it, “The mes-sage we are trying to get across in our music and art for this event is to WAKE UP! There is a lot of strange and horrible and wonderful things going on in our world.”

The performance hopes to convey the idea that the mun-dane activities of life such as go-ing to work, participating in pol-

itics, reading the newspaper, and religion will lead to this collapse.

Radzwilowicz added, “Most people are in a mental slumber because life and work and fam-ily and bills get in the way of our awareness of ourselves and our world. This show explores an ambiguous worst-case scenario where society has collapsed be-cause we were all asleep at the wheel.”

Stylistically, the band combines progressive rock, alternative and post-rock to more “effectively” tell a story. One may recall bands such as Pink Floyd and King Crimson, the key founders of art and progressive rock, who made similar ventures in their song-writing. Modern day examples that follow these patterns would include Radiohead or Sonic Youth.

When asked about the most appropriate audience, Radzwilowicz replied, “I would imagine college age people who enjoy music with meaning. People who aren’t looking for a catchy, three-minute hook.” He added, “We are looking for peo-ple who want to digest a piece of music that might be challenging at times, but is always sonically and conceptually rewarding.”

The group began as a record-ing project in 2007 which broke away from earlier bands. Most of their previous acts, such as The Vibe, focused primarily on blues and funk.

“The Vibe had achieved a modicum of small regional suc-

cess,” said Radzwilowicz. “We played all around upper and lower Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota and even got a small sponsorship deal with Leinenkugel Beer.”

After the motivation for the direction of the band was lost, the group went on hiatus for a while to look for more creative ideas. Before long, however, the group became inspired by the works of melodic artists such as Pink Floyd and began drawing up ideas.

“We wanted to do something cosmic and moving like a Pink Floyd album,” said Radzwilowicz. “That was our thought initially, but our jam sessions never really bore fruit.”

Their main inspiration, ac-cording to Radzwilowicz, came from the soundtrack of a video game that was being played one weekend afternoon.

After feeling creatively astray for so long, something about the choral soundtrack of the game inspired me,” he said. “It was just so moving to me and something about it rang true with the idea of that ‘perfect concept album’. I turned off the Xbox and began recording music right then and there.”

Somnium has made several tours ever since and continue to be a growing influence in the campaign for indie and avant-garde entertainment.

For more information about the vent, visit the Rozsa website at www.rozsa.mtu.edu/shows.

Lode WriterZACHARY PAGE

The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its 40th season by coming to the Rozsa stage for their first-ever Winter Carnival Pops Concert Saturday afternoon. The 2 p.m. perfor-mance will feature many works from well-known composers such as Beethoven, Enescu, and Ravel.

Many of the songs planned for the Pops Concert are from ear-

lier KSO performances. Those unable to attend the October concert in Calumet will have another chance to hear some of that performance’s music as the orchestra plays selections from Enigma Variations. In addition, from the December concert, selections from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Pavane for a Dead Princess will be played. Finally, a new surprise piece will end the concert.

Every year, Michigan Technological University’s

Visual and Performing Arts department selects one of the ensembles to represent the de-partment at Winter Carnival. Traditionally, the selected en-semble is the choir or one of the bands. This is the first time that the KSO has been selected.

Dr. Joel Neves, the director of the KSO, sees this performance as an opportunity to “refine and polish” some of its previ-ous works. It is also a chance to “reach out to a new audience” as many people will be visit-

ing Houghton during Winter Carnival, and the price of tickets will be reduced. It is also chance for the orchestra to relax a bit, and Dr. Neves has encouraged the members to wear yellow or black shirts for the performance (representing Michigan Tech’s colors) instead of the standard black and white concert dress.

To get ready for the concert, the KSO is taking a week from its standard rehearsal sched-ule, preparing for its regular February concert, to warm up

with and polish its selections for Saturday. It will resume its regular practices next week; the standard February concert is on Saturday, Feb. 19.

Tickets are available through the Rozsa Center box office. Prices are $5 for the general public. Student tickets are free under the Experience Tech pro-gram. This event is appropriate for all ages; however, since con-certs are recorded, parents of very young children should take this into consideration.

February 12:2:00 p.m., Rozsa Center: Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra Winter Carnival Concert7:00 p.m., Rozsa Center: The After Days: A Somnium Event9:00 p.m, Rozsa Center: Pablo Francisco

February 17:6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., MUB Bowling Alley: MUB Board Bowling and Billiards Tournament

February 18:10:00 p.m., MUB Ballroom: Tracy Ashley

February 19:7:30 p.m., Rozsa Center: Keweenay Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert

February 21-25:MUB Commons: Tech Arts Festival

February 25:7:30 p.m., Rozsa Center: Aquila Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Winter Carnival Saturday

Pulse EditorNICK BLECHA

The Rozsa Center’s final show of the day Saturday will be comedian Pablo Francisco at 9:00 p.m., sponsored by the Michigan Tech Student En-tertainment Board. Bringing a comedian to the Rozsa to per-form Saturday night is a Win-ter Carnival tradition, and this year is no exception.

Francisco is possibly best-known as the “Movie Trailer Guy,” a moniker earned from his ability to impersonate the voices of famous persons and characters, such as Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger, Mr. Magoo, and R2-D2. This ability is the driving force of his performance, enabling him to mock American addic-tion to pop culture with im-pressions like Schwarzeneg-ger as a tortilla vendor or of the Spanish-language soap operas on Telemundo, and much of his popularity derives from his ability to weave these impressions into something that resembles “an hour-long jazz riff.”

His first appearance on the national stage was in 2000 on Comedy Central’s Comedy Central Presents. He has ap-peared on MADtv, The To-night Show with Jay Leno, and Mind of Mencia. In ad-dition, he has toured with fel-low comedians Carlos Mencia and Freddy Soto. He has also done solo touring, including a nine-city Spring 2009 tour in Europe that sold almost 20,000 tickets and is in fact one of the most popular tour-ing comedians worldwide. Currently, he is working on a new one-hour Comedy Cen-tral special. His most recent special, called “OUCH,” is one of the most requested on the network. In addition, he has appeared in campaigns for companies such as Nokia and Rhapsody. His MySpace page is also one of the most visited on the site.

Tickets are available through the Rozsa Center box office, reachable at 487.3200 or at tickets.mtu.edu. Prices are $28 for students, $30 for seniors, and $32 for the general pub-lic. The show contains adult themes and language and is not appropriate for children.

Pulse EditorNICK BLECHA

Rozsa Center presents three different showsSomnium to feature an

artsy alternativeComedian tradition continues with Pablo Francisco

KSO makes Winter Carnival debut with pops concert

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5Thursday, February 10, 2011Michigan Tech Lode OPINIONEgypt conflict displays American cognitive dissonance towards world uprisings

As Americans, by now, a large portion of the population has been touched in some form or anoth-er by the power of social media. Whether it be Twitter, Facebook, or other lesser known modes, we have all come across and have been influenced by these tools.

Knowing these things, Ameri-cans insulated from the way that other people around the world might be under the impression that the uprisings in Egypt and, to a less-er extent, Tunisia was a product of the social revolution brought about by Twitter and Facebook. After all, that’s how the protests against the rigged re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran during 2009 happened, wasn’t it?

Well, certainly if you listened to the American news coverage of the Iran protests, you would have thought that it was born mostly out of the proliferation of social media. However, there are differing opinions on whether social media has had the impact that American news outlets claim it has had. The reasons for this are wide reaching, but when one actually thinks criti-

cally about social media, it’s im-portant to think of the context that social media can be used.

These three countries, having been upheld by the Western media as proof how social media is rapidly changing the way people organize, all have one thing in common: they were run by heavy-handed, totali-tarian regimes. Perhaps a good rea-son to organize, yes, but are Ameri-cans really so insulated from the re-alities of the world that we believe that every Iranian, Egyptian, and Tunisian has the same access to the internet as we do?

In an article in Foreign Policy magazine in June, Golnaz Esfari-andi suggests that perhaps the rea-son that the “Twitter Revolution” caught on in the Western media was perhaps as simple as lazy jour-nalism.

“The “Twitter Revolution” was an irresistible meme during the post-election protests, a story that wrote itself,” said Esfariandi, a se-nior correspondent with Radio Free Europe. “Various analysts were eager to chime in about the pur-ported role of Twitter in the Green Movement… Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people try-ing to coordinate protests in Iran

would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”

Fast forward to present day, and the same storylines have played out in regards to the Egyptian uprising against their dictatorial President, Hasni Mubarak. The media cover-age has been selling faux storylines and misinformation about what is really going on, starting with credit-ing Twitter and Facebook of fueling the revolution. Commentators and news anchors from all over the po-litical spectrum, from Bill O’Reilly to Piers Morgan to Lawrence O’Donnell (Keith Olbermann’s re-placement), have been selling the importance of social media to the American public.

In addition, you have the faction of Americans who are sold this with a negative spin attached to it. Glenn Beck recently was on televi-sion claiming that this revolution would lead to a “caliphate” across the Middle East. Keep dreaming, Glenn.

So, this brings us to the ques-tion: if it’s not social media and the freedoms afforded from it driving revolutions across the Middle East, then what it is that’s causing this? Did a bunch of Egyptians wake up on a morning in late January, de-cide they were bored, and decided to attempt to over throw the gov-ernment?

In reality, the answer to this ques-tion is the same that have driven most revolutions throughout the world’s history: economic inequal-ity. While America has been hit hard by the latest economic down-turn, the Middle East has suffered through very volatile commodity prices which have affected the pur-chasing power of Egyptians across most income levels. Average Egyp-tians have now lost the ability to feed themselves, something that wasn’t the case until recently.

There is one media outlet that actually has presented this angle of the story as being the predominant reason for the uprising. Al Jazeera English has been on hand to pro-vide damning accounts of the re-ality on the ground in the region. Unfortunately, most Americans do not have access to Al Jazeera’s news coverage of this event, in large part due to the American perceptions of the channel. As Frank Rich noted this week in his New York Times column about this issue, very few large cable systems carry the chan-nel.

“In America, it can be found only in Washington, D.C., and on small cable systems in Ohio and Ver-mont,” said Rich. “None of the big-gest American cable and satellite companies — Comcast, DirecTV and Time Warner — offer it.”

In other words, if you want the real news from Egypt, find the stream online. As for the average distracted American, the social media storyline will have to suffice.

In any event, history really should teach Americans this les-son. We need look no further than the revolution that began in this country in 1775, or the revolution that took place across the pond in France mere 14 years later. While there is no doubt that social media has played a small role in the Egyp-tian uprising, history shows us that there is no substitute for economic inequality as a social organizer.

After all, revolution only comes when you have nothing left to lose.

Dear Sassy, Is it just me or is there a severe lack of creativity in music and movies today? All we’re doing is playing off of whatever had been done before. Most movies are remakes of classics and pop music is always just the same old, same old. What happened to originality?

Sincerely, Nothing new

Dear Nothing,

You’re right. In the past twenty years, not a single human being has created an original movie or song. Creativity has been at a complete standstill. This is especially true with music; every-thing is just so mainstream. And we all know that if something is mainstream, it is worthless and unoriginal. We need more in-die films and bands, that produce abstract, introspective mate-rial that wows us with its inability to be understood.

I’m guessing you’re so busy showing off your beanie and flan-nel shirt that you really aren’t aware of the movie/music scene at all. You’re so obsessed with hating “mainstream culture” that you fail to realize that you are part of one of its most popular sub-cultures.

Why don’t you just go smoke, drink coffee and listen to a band that no one has heard of and stop bothering us all with your unfounded dissatisfaction of society.

Dear Sassy,

I’m very concerned about today’s youth. I just read an article in a very reliable publication that bath salts are being heavily abused by kids. I had no idea they could even be abused in the first place! I just think it’s disgraceful how our kids so desperate to use drugs that they turn to bath salts. What is happening to our youth?

Sincerely,High and mighty

Dear High,

I also read the article about bath salt abuse. The very next day, I was in a coffee shop drinking a rainforest-friendly brew and reading a little-known cult-novel, and I suddenly noticed that every other student seemed in a trance. They were disinter-ested in their surroundings and I knew immediately that bath salts were the culprit. I didn’t even consider that avalanches of homework and extra-curricular involvement could be the root of these students’ glazed expressions. No, I was witnessing the dark and dangerous world of bath salt abuse.

I advise parents to not only put a padlock on their medicine cabinet, but also on the linen cabinet in the bathroom. Parents should also be aware that many food items can be abused as well (I shudder to think how many kids have been lost as a result of baking soda snorting), so a sturdy lock on the fridge might be in order.

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He Said, She SaidWhat is your favorite book and

why?

Tyler Blumke, Mechanical Engineering, Second year

Harry Potter series. The books grab my attention.

Kendra Poszywak, Computer Sci-ence, Second year

Thr3e by Ted Dekker because the plot keeps my attention and there are deeper meanings about life hidden throughout.

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Fictitious Destiny by Britta Anderson because Britta wrote it.

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The Lord of the Rings because it can keep me entertained for weeks.

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Six Easy Steps by Richard P Feynman because it’s everything you need to know about physics.

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ing and unique for a love story. It’s full of emotion and jam-packed with

great lines that make you want to read if again and again. It’s an unforgettable

roller coaster of a story.

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With five games left in their season, the men’s basketball Huskies head into this Saturday’s matchup with the Lake Superior State Lakers looking to remain in contention for one of the final spots in the Great Lakes Inter-collegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Tournament. The Hus-kies, who lost 62-61 to the Lak-ers on Jan. 13, are currently in a tie with the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals for the seventh spot in the GLIAC overall standings with a 6-8 conference record.

Since beating the Huskies, the Lakers won four in a row before dropping their last three games. With an overall record of 13-8 and a GLIAC record of 7-7, the Lakers sit just one game ahead of the Huskies in the standings.

“I am anxious [to face the Lakers again],” said Huskies’ head coach Kevin Luke. “I want to get that bad taste out of our mouth.”

Junior guard Kyle Hunt has been outstanding for the Lak-ers all season. He averages a team-high 16.9 points and 4.9 rebounds per game. Against the Huskies, Hunt posted a team-high 18 with six rebounds. For-tunately for the Huskies, he will likely miss Saturday’s game with a facial injury.

“I want to beat the Lakers with Hunt [in the lineup],” said Luke. “They’ve had guys step up [with Hunt out], which you need in that situation.”

Senior guard Micah Hudson has also be strong for the Lak-ers in the point guard position, averaging 11.8 points and 3.1 as-sists per game. Hudson will be looking to bounce back against the Huskies, as he only had five points in their previous meet-ing.

If the Lakers lack anything, it’s a dominant inside game, as senior center Justin Williams has been the Lakers’ most effective post player, averaging 9.2 points and 5.7 rebounds per contest. In January, Williams scored nine against the Huskies.

When the Huskies faced the Lakers earlier this season, they were without freshman guard

Austin Armga, who averages 9.5 points per game.

Junior forward Mike Hojnacki, the Huskies leading scorer, will be looking to im-prove upon his eight-point out-put against the Lakers earlier this season. Hojnacki averages 15.9 points and 5.5 rebounds per game.

Sophomore forward Ali Hai-dar, who picked up a team-high 18 points against the Lakers, continues to get better with ev-ery game. Haidar has improved his scoring average to 15.4 points and 6.2 rebounds per game.

Looking ahead, the Lakers are the toughest opponent the Huskies have left on their sched-ule. After the Lakers, the Hus-kies face Saginaw Valley State, Ashland, Northwood, and Lake Erie. The Cardinals, as men-tioned earlier, are the only other playoff team left for the Huskies and have beaten the Huskies this season. The Timberwolves beat the Huskies at the SDC Gym back on Jan. 27.

In this year’s Winter Carnival series the hockey Huskies host the Beavers of Bemidji State for the only meeting between the two teams this season. This meeting will be the first between the two teams since the Beavers joined the WCHA, along with the Nebraska-Omaha Maver-icks, this season.

Team Scope:The Beavers: The Beavers are 6-12-2 in

WCHA play with their last win coming from a 4-1 at Minne-sota State last weekend. Before that win against the Mavericks, the Beavers had fallen on hard times when they were swept at St. Cloud State and lost the first night at Minnesota State. Two of the losses were close and ulti-mately decided in overtime.

The Beavers are led by their upperclassmen with five out of their six scoring leaders being se-niors. Goaltending is led by Dan Bakala, a junior who has played 15 of the 20 games and has a .917 percent save percentage and 2.56

goals against average. Whether home or away the

Beavers are finding the same amount of luck with 3-6-1 re-cords in both locations.

The Huskies: The Huskies have benefit-

ted from the return of several players to the lineup including leading scorer Milos Gordic, a freshman, but are still looking for a win in the second half of the season.

Last weekend the Huskies

were swept on the road at Alas-ka-Anchorage, giving up four goals each night in 4-1 and 4-2 losses. The Huskies had 29 shots in the weekend and sophomore goaltender Kevin Genoe faced 40.

Who’s Hot: The Beavers: Senior captain Matt Read

leads the team in goals with 15 and also has 11 assists. Read had two assists last weekend and is

second in points for the Beavers. Jordan George scored the game-winner in Saturday night’s game at Minnesota State and also had another goal on the power play, George leads the team in overall points with 12 goals and 15 as-sists.

The Huskies: Gordic made a comeback last

weekend scoring the only goal in the Huskies’ Friday night loss at Anchorage after being out for two weekends. Sophomore for-

ward Evan Witt also scored for the second week in a row, giving him his second goal of the season.

Puck Drop: The Huskies will have

home ice advantage this weekend with school spirit at its highest during the Winter Carnival celebration over the weekend. Returns like that of Gordic combined with the home ice will be a definite advantage over the Beavers, who haven’t Houghton in a few seasons. Game times will be at 7:07 p.m. Friday night and 5:07 p.m. Satur-day at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena.

Finally, after 13 years, the Packers brought the Lombardi trophy back to Titletown. This time I was not seven years old. Way to go Packers! With Datsyuk back, the Red Wings will start a dominating stretch with a win against a good Bruins team. The Knicks are playing much better this year behind Amare Stoudemire, and will pull out a vic-tory over the young Nets. Ohio State is unbeaten and led by a dominant big man in Jared Sullinger. I do not expect Wisconsin to be able to knock them from the No. 1 ranking.

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Editor’s Shootout

3players averaging at least 11 points per game for the women’s basketball Huskies: Lucy Dernovsek (12.1), Lisa Staehlin (11.3), and Sam Hoyt (11.0).

8goals scored by the hockey Huskies against the Bemidji State Beavers in four previous non-conference meetings.

4 consecutive games in which sophomore

guard Sam Hoyt scored 18 points for the women’s

basketball Huskies from Jan. 22 to Feb. 3.

61goals scored by the hockey Huskies this season. The Bemidji State Beavers have scored 59 times this season.

The Editor’s Shootout is a competition of knowledge, luck and wits between sports editor Daver Karnosky, editor in chief Stephen Anderson, business manager Jacob Veh-ring and you, the reader, via online poll. Stephen Anderson won last year and has won two of the last three years (former opinion editor Rob Devaun with the other win). This will be a weekly feature where each editor picks his winners of the three biggest games/series of the week and backs up his decisions with a short rant.

THIS WEEK: Detroit Red Wings at Boston Bruins, Ohio State Buckeyes at Wisconsin Badgers, New York Knicks at New Jersey Nets

Each week, we’ll let you the reader vote in our Editor’s Shootout online poll at www.mtulode.com/sports/2011/2/10/editors-shootout-polls-7/. The majority of the vote for each match-up will be the chosen team, and your cumulative record will get put alongside our three wannabe experts. We’ll run this feature through the entire year and see who comes out on top.

Last week’s picks:StarsGatorsPackers

Congratulations to Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers for their Super Bowl victory. That was fun to watch. The Bruins cannot be happy with playing well of late, but lacking offensive punch. I think that will bubble over against the Wings, and the Bruins will come out on top. I know better than to bet against the Badgers at home, no matter who they are playing. In the Carmelo Bowl, I can’t help but see Amare Stoudemire and the Knicks make short work of the Nets, who seem perpetually young.

Bruins, 3-2Badgers, 61-58Knicks, 90-81

Red Wings, 4-3Buckeyes, 78-70Knicks, 98-921-2 Last Week, 34-20 Overall

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Schedules/Results

W. Basketball (18-2, 13-1 GLIAC)

M. Basketball (11-10, 6-8 GLIAC)

The Red Wings lost 3-0 twice recently, but with Datsyuk back, they’ll dominate the second half of the season, as Detroit downs an Original Six team for the second time in a week. Oh how I hate Ohio State, and I think a road game against another top-25 Big Ten team is just the recipe to end their perfect season. The Knicks have been a surprise this season, and even with the potential ‘Melo trade as a distraction, they’re better than the Nets and will prove it on Saturday.

Red Wings, 5-2Badgers, 64-62Knicks, 104-97

Hockey (3-22-3, 1-18-1 WCHA)Feb. 4 at UAA, L, 4-1Feb. 5 at UAA, L, 4-2Fri. vs. Bemidji State, 7 p.m.Sat. vs. Bemidji State, 5 p.m.

Nordic Skiing

15points

per game averaged by both junior

forward Mike Hojnacki (15.9) and sophomore

Ali Haidar (15.4) this season for the men’s basketball Huskies.

Hockey Huskies welcome Beavers for Winter Carnival

Feb. 3 at Findlay, L, 100-60Feb. 5 at Wayne State, L, 84-61Sat. at Lake Superior State, 1 p.m.Feb. 17 vs. Ashland, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 3 at Findlay, W, 75-43Feb. 5 at Wayne State, W, 68-54Sat. at Lake Superior State, 3 p.m.Feb. 17 vs. Ashland, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 12-13 at CCSA Champ.Feb. 18-19 at Central Reg. Champ.Feb. 26 at Birkibeiner

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Sports EditorDAVER KARNOSKY

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Riding a five-game winning streak into Saturday, the No. 8-ranked women’s basketball Huskies will be looking for the season sweep of the Lake Supe-rior State Lakers, the only Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) opponent left with a realistic shot of un-seating the Huskies as the top team in the GLIAC North Divi-sion. The Huskies defeated the Lakers 69-66 back on Jan. 13.

The Lakers (14-6 overall, 11-3 GLIAC) have gone 5-2 since that loss to the Huskies, defeating Tiffin and Ferris State in back-to-back games. The losses came to Ashland in overtime and to Grand Valley State last Saturday.

“They have four of the top-25 scorers in our league,” said Hus-

kies head coach Kim Cameron. “Everybody can score.”

Senior guard Emily Joseph remains one of the top shooters in the GLIAC, averaging 16.0 points and 4.4 assists per game. She is shooting 39.5 percent from beyond the arc as well. Jo-seph posted 22 in the previous meeting with the Huskies.

Senior guard Nicole Marshall has also played well for the Lak-ers this season, averaging 11.7 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. She put up 15 against the Huskies, including a perfect 3-3 from beyond the arc.

“They are very strong and very smart,” said Cameron about the Lakers leaders. “We have to make sure we are sharp on all the guards.”

Up front, sophomore forward Maria Blazejewski continues to develop into a top performer. Blazejewski averages 12.8 points

and 5.2 rebounds per contest and she torched the Huskies’ defense for 17 points in their previous meeting.

The Huskies have won six of

their seven games since knock-ing off the Lakers at home.

Senior center Lisa Staehlin, who notched 20 points against the Lakers earlier this season,

continues to play well for the Huskies, averaging 11.3 points and 4.7 rebounds per game. Senior forward Lucy Der-novsek, who has struggled a bit of late, still leads the Hus-kies with an average of 12.1 points and 8.3 rebounds per contest. Dernovsek managed 16 points against the Lakers.

Sophomore guard Sam Hoyt did not have one of her better nights against the Lak-ers earlier this season when she scored only seven points. However, since then, she’s been nothing short of out-

standing, posting four con-secutive 18-point games and earning the GLIAC North Division Player of the Week

honors last week.Junior forward Lindsey Lind-

strom, who put up 13 points against the Lakers in January, hasn’t found the hoop as of-ten offensively of late, and her scoring average has dropped to 8.8 points per game. However, Lindstrom has become the Hus-kies’ top defender, and she has made life difficult for some of the GLIAC’s top scorers over the last three weeks.

Looking ahead a little, the Lak-ers and the opponent whom im-mediately follows, the Ashland Eagles, are the two toughest tests remaining for the Huskies this season. If they can get through those games unscathed, the Hus-kies will solidify their bid to host the GLIAC Tournament.

Be sure to check out our web site, mtulode.com/sports, after Saturday’s game for a detailed recap of the action.

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Women’s Basketball returns to the road to claim GLIAC North bragging rights

Sports EditorDAVER KARNOSKY

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Today (Feb. 10): Winter Carnival previewsFriday: Hockey recapSaturday: Basketball and Hockey recapsSunday: Editor’s blogMonday: Looking ahead at the GLIAC TournamentsTuesday: Feature blogWednesday: Hockey, Men’s Basketball, and Women’s Basket-ball previews, Broomball coverage

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Weekly features:

Broomball power rankings (see back page)•

previews of the top upcoming games•

extensive playoff coverage (brackets, •contests, daily previews and reviews)

Top 5 games of the week:wadsworth whalers (4-2) vs. F-Dubz (6-1)Friday, February 11, 6 p.m., Black Rink

Broomball Power Rankings

1. Ridikilus (Off Campus 2): 8-0It’s been tough to choose between Ridikilus and Redonkulous given the shared players, but being an off campus team gives them the edge.

2. MooCrew (Off Campus 3): 7-0It’s great that they’ve scored 80 goals, but it’s the three goals against in an off campus division that vaults them up to No. 2

3. Redonkulous (East Wads 3): 7-0They have by far the best goal differential (110-1), but I’m just not convinced that they can keep it up against stiffer competition.

4. DHH Super Team (DHH 2): 8-0They just keep rolling and it’s tempting to move them up with only two goals against, but it’s the weaker competition that prevents a higher ranking.

5. Incognito (Off Campus 6): 6-0I have to started judging based off playoff potential, and their win over The Pirate Sheep is hard to overlook in terms of playoff expectations.

Visit mtulode.com/sports/broomball for the full rationale behind each team’s selection in the power rankings. Please sound off on the rankings while you’re at it!

1. IceIsSlippery (Women’s 2): 7-02. Wonder Women (Women’s 1): 6-03. Snowy Senioritas (Women’s 3): 6-04. Team ver 6.0 (Women’s 1): 6-15. Queens of Citadel (Women’s 3): 6-1

Predicted score: F-Dubz 3-1

Lake Effect (7-0) vs. White House (6-0)Friday, February 11, 9 p.m., Silver RinkPredicted score: White House 4-3

Broom Dawgs (8-0) vs. O, You Betcha (7-0)Saturday, February 12, 3:30 p.m., Black RinkPredicted score: Broom Dawgs 4-3

ITK (6-1) vs. Headless Hitmen (6-1)Sunday, February 13, 5:15 p.m., Silver RinkPredicted score: ITK 3-2Black Ice (5-0) vs. BB (7-0)Wednesday, February 16, 6:45 p.m., Silver RinkPredicted score: BB 3-1

The broomball playoffs are just a week away, which is when the Lode will really amp up its cover-age. In additional to the regular power rankings and top game previews, we’ll be offering an exclusive bracket challenge, in-dividual game recaps and some more in-depth spotlight articles as well.

In addition veteran broomball reporter Stephen Anderson, the Lode has added Joe Eckstein to the broomball staff. As a referee and top-notch goaltender, his insight will provide additional credibility and depth.

Broomball coverage is by far the most popular feature in the Lode, and we want to keep it that way. If you have any suggestions regarding our broomball cover-age, or if you would like to join Stephen and Joe in covering the broomball playoffs, e-mail Ste-phen at steander@mtu.edu.

6. Broombroomzelas (McNair 2): 7-07. Sick Flo (West Wads 1): 7-08. The Pirate Sheep (Off Campus 6): 6-19. Brute Force and Ignorance (McNair 1): 7-010. Big Red Machine (West Wads 2): 7-011. Dump and Chase (Off Campus 4): 7-012. Broom Dawgs (East Wads 1): 8-013. Titans (East Wads 3): 7-014. O, You Betcha (East Wads 1): 7-015. Counterfeit Dynamite (West Wads 3): 6-016. Hancock Whalers (Off Campus 7): 6-017. White House (Off Campus 5): 6-018. Pat White (Off Campus 1): 8-0-119. Lake Effect (Off Campus 5): 6-020. BB (Off Campus 8): 7-0*honorable mentions at mtulode.com

Women’s Rankings

Last week’s broomball rank-ings had about 30 comments at mtulode.com. It’s great to see such outstanding discussion about the rankings. There was

a fair amount of shuffling of the rankings this week, but it’s really tough before the playoffs begin given that strength of schedule is now basically a useless staff.

In any case, we love to see you engage in debate about the rankings. Enjoy this final regu-lar season edition of the Lode’s exclusive power rankings:

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See above for this week’s student pollWhat is your favorite thing about Winter Carnival?

All-Nighter - 38%No Classes - 27%

Snow Statues - 19%Other - 16%

Last edition’s poll results:

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Bookstore and University Images.

Winter Carnival’s on ice traditions be-gan at the very nature of the event, in 1922 students put on an “Ice Circus” where they would perform a figure skating type show with homemade animals manned by their creators.

The event was held at the Amphidrome, which was the predecessor to the modern day Dee Stadium, and the ice show drew more people in every year, one year the show even went on the road to Marquette due to its popularity.

In 1927 the festival was renamed the “Winter Sports Carnival” and was ex-panded to be a two day event featuring a parade and a hockey game.

Due to the Great Depression, the event was discontinued in 1928 but was revived in 1934 by the Blue Key Fraternity and many of the themes we see today were in-troduced that year.

That year featured the home team against the Golden Gophers of Minnesota, and as a special show the Tech faculty played in a mini game versus local businessmen for the crowds enjoyment.

In 1926 the Huskies became the official mascot of the hockey team after a contest was held by the Lode to come up with a nickname for the hockey team, Huskies came in first place, with the Pioneers in second and the Scienteers in third.

In the 1936 Winter Carnival series, the Huskies swept the University of Michigan for the first time how even NCAA hockey was soon discontinued for two years dur-ing World War II, due to the drafting of students and a push for the war effort.

When play resumed, the Huskies came back to play strong in 1949 when they defeated the Gophers 12-4 in the Winter Carnival series.

In the 1950 season, the Huskies sent the Spartans of Michigan State home in con-siderable fashion as they defeated them 11-3 and 10-0 over Winter Carnival.

The 1959 sweep of the Wolverines gave the Huskies more than just bragging rights but allowed them to hold on to first place WCHA, which they had just joined that season.

In 1967 the tradition of a trophy was introduced to the Winter Carnival hockey series. Michigan governor George Rom-ney initiated the cup and his wife Lenore would present the team with the most combined goals the Governor’s Cup.

The Governor’s Cup was renamed the MacInnes cup in 1986 in honor of one of the best coaches in the schools history.

John MacInnes, in his time at Tech, earned 7 WCHA titles, 3 NCAA champi-onships, and won over 500 games which at the time was more than any other coach in the history of college hockey.

The Huskies went undefeated in the Winter Carnival series for 12 straight years between 1960-1972 with a 22-2-0 record.

The excellence of Husky hockey at Winter Carnival remains strong as they Huskies are 57-29-8 in the Winter Carni-val games.

Although Winter Carnival has some great traditions, the hockey game has de-veloped its own as well.

The Winter Carnival Queen is announced and showcased in the Saturday night game of the series and rides the zamboni and is now the giver of the Most Valuable Player award, and it is an unwritten tradition that the recipient kisses the Queen in thanks.

This years series will feature the Bea-vers of Bemidji State, one of the two new-est teams to join the WCHA. This will be the first time and only time the Huskies will play the Beavers in regular season ac-tion.

Schedule for this Saturday, February 12

9:00 a.m. Sleigh Rides Outside DHH

12:00 p.m. Dog Sled Rides on Campus Outside DHH

2:00 p.m. Kids’ Dog Sled Rides Outside DHH

8:30 p.m. Torchlight Parade Mont Ripley

8:45 p.m. Fireworks Mont Ripley

9:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony (semi-formal) MUB Commons

9:00 p.m. SnowBall (semi-formal) MUB Commons and Ballroom

2011

Winter Carnival Week

History of Winter Carnival

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