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Friday April 26, 2013Volume 130 | Issue 50
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Christianson: Campus smells page 5
ELS program aids students page 7
Becker: Meet the profs page 4
Butz: Bats bring change page 10
The Kelleys look back page 8
New coach brings spirit page 10
UND alumnus goes far page 11
Gaspardo: Transferring page 5
Longtime dean returns to ranks
springGF set for
The Red River of Grand Forks has begun the slow process of thawing as the end of the school year nears. Photo by Caitlin Duggan.
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WATER As the snow melts, Grand Forks and Fargo face different concerns.
City targets alcoholBINGE Members of the GF community are working to address excessive drinking.
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SpRING page 6
CITy page 3
FACULTy Head of the College of Business and Public Administration will return to teaching.
Anyone who has set foot outside recently has probably seen giant pud-dles resulting from the melting snow.
These puddles appear every spring and there’s always a chance they will cause the Red River to flood. This winter has had an above aver-age amount of snow and many Fargo residents are worried about a danger-ous flood. However, experts in Grand Forks agree that the city will probably be safe.
“We have very good protection in Grand Forks,” National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Makowski said. “The effects in town probably won’t be substantial but nearby rural areas are much more likely to be in danger.”
Unlike Fargo, the city of Grand Forks has a flood protection system worth an estimated $409 million, according to the city’s website. This system includes approximately eight miles worth of floodwalls, levees along the Red River and the largest flood water pumping system in the state. The 12 pumping stations are capable of pumping up to 112,000 gallons of water per minute.
Construction of the system began in 1998 as a response to the deadly flood that had occurred the year be-
fore, the worst in Grand Forks’ his-tory. Nearly half of the funding came from the federal government while the rest came from North Dakota and Minnesota’s state governments.
“It’s been very effective for the city, much better than it used to be,” Makowski said. “The water would have to rise very significantly to war-rant a need for any sandbagging.”
In 2009, there was a significant chance of flooding. However, the flood protection system managed to neutralize the risk.
If sandbagging or other aid is ever needed, anyone can register on the Emergency Operation Center’s
The UND Department of Entrepreneurship will see a new-but-famil-iar addition to its faculty in 2014 when current College of Business and Public Administration Dean Denny Elbert returns to teaching.
“I am excited to have Dr. Elbert join our department,” Entrepreneur-ship Professor Thomas Clement said. “He is a great advocate and supporter of entrepreneurship.”
After serving as UND’s longest running dean for the last 16 years, El-bert has decided to take a faculty role as the Eugene Dahl Chair in Leader-ship and Innovation.
The Eugene Dahl Chair position was named and established by Dahl’s two sons, Howard and Brian, in recognition for their father’s longtime sup-port for UND and the entrepreneurship program.
Elbert always liked the idea of being a teacher.“Summers teaching Red Cross swimming lesson then serving as a
training officer in the Army enhanced my interest in education,” Elbert said.
The Grafton, N.D., native received both his undergraduate and mas-ter’s degrees at UND and, after obtaining his doctoral degree from the Uni-versity of Missouri-Columbia in 1976, he came back to Grand Forks in 1980 and has been here since.
Elbert served as the CoBPA associate dean from 1987 to 1990. Prior
to that, he began his UND career as an associate professor of marketing, which eventually advanced into full tenured status around 1986.
After his stint as associate dean, he ran the Small Business Institute until accepting the CoBPA Dean position in 1997. Throughout these vari-ous job placements, he consistently worked with the UND Continuing Education office — now Office of Professional Services — and various ROTC programs.
When reflecting on his 16 years as dean, Elbert found the most fulfill-ment in “working with the faculty, staff and students” at UND.
“(It’s) a great joy seeing our students launch into successful careers and live with great enthusiasm (as a result of) the right preparation,” he said.
From ensuring various CoBPA accreditations and working with alum-ni and friends on fundraising efforts, to remodeling several classrooms in Gamble Hall, Elbert has led many projects to advance the business school and its presence on campus.
Looking to the futureElbert looks forward to building the leadership and entrepreneurship
programs with his new position. “We have a very good group of individuals in the entrepreneurship
department,” Elbert said. “I hope that I can serve as a mentor in expanding the program and curriculum.”
His arrival to the entrepreneurship department will be met with a warm welcome from the current faculty.
“Along with Bruce Gjovig (the founding director for the Center for In-novation), I cannot think of anyone currently at UND that has done more to advance our department and degree programs,” Clement said. “I think he will bring a unique perspective and experience to our faculty.”
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Education doesn’t just happen in the classroom.
Two experts on alcohol abuse prevention are scheduled to speak at a local seminar called “Community Alcohol and Abuse Prevention” on April 29.
Linda Major, director of the Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Jason Kilmer, Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences professor at the University of Washington will be at the City Council Chambers in Grand Forks to share information to assist the city in its alcohol re-form endeavor.
Kilmer’s research focuses on al-cohol and drug use among college students, while Major’s studies alco-
hol abuse between college students and their parents. Major has been involved in programs at the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln that attempt to educate college students and their parents on alcohol and drug abuse.
“In national surveys of college students, the most frequently en-dorsed consequences by students who drink include doing or say-ing something they later regret-ted, blacking out and even include things like getting injured, getting
in fights or having thoughts of hurting themselves,” Kilmer said. “Other high-risk behaviors can be alcohol-related, like drinking and driving, or could be related to use of other substances or gambling.”
In 2011, Major implemented an alcohol educational pilot pro-gram at UNL created to bring an awareness to the university, com-munity and families about “high-risk” alcohol consumption. Major
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I hope that I can serve as a mentor
in expanding the program and
curriculum.— Denny Elbert, former CoBPA dean
What: Community Alcohol and Abuse Prevention seminar Where: City Council Chambers at 255 N. 4th St. When: April 29 at 7 p.m.
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DEAN FROM PAGE 1 Sarah Erickson is a writer for
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@my.und.eduEntrepreneurship professor La-
Royce Batchelor looks forward to Elbert’s “steady nature, keen eye and years of political experience to help the department navigate its next stage of growth and development.”
According to Batchelor, the de-
partment has been operating past capacity.
“The Entrepreneurship Depart-ment has had an unsteady past; un-sure of its footing and hesitant due to a difficulty budgetary and political landscape,” Batchelor said. “The cur-rent faculty have all been also full time students as well as full time faculty of a department that is bursting at the seams.
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“Dean Elbert’s (arrival) will pro-vide us each an opportunity to fin-ish our studies and teach our classes unhurried, concentrating on quality.”
In addition to contributing to the entrepreneurship department, Elbert plans to “expand fundraising and development efforts on behalf of both Army and Air Force ROTC programs.”
As a veteran himself, he hopes
to make sure UND continues to be known as a veteran-friendly campus and to further his involvement with the ROTC programs.
UND will begin the process of searching for a new CoBPA dean next
academic year. Elbert’s last official day as dean will be June 30, 2014.
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FROM PAGECITY 1worked with both college students and their respective parents for this study.
“The challenge is to create an environment that supports their decision not to drink, or create programs that prevent significant drinking once they get here,” Ma-jor said.
Major believes that alcohol abuse in college students may stem from the desire to live up to
family, media and social expecta-tions of what comprises the nor-mal college experience.
“High-risk drinking among students — including underage drinking — is difficult to combat because it’s part of the college nar-rative,” Major said. “It’s part of the expectation that young adults have, that they absorb in many ways including stories from adults they know, the media and movies. It all adds up to a picture of what they think college is supposed to be like.”
According to UND senior and
criminal justice major Chris Ekeg-ren, most underage binge drink-ing occurs among younger under-graduates and ebbs as they reach graduation.
“When people first get here, they really drink a lot. As the years pass by, they get tame and learn how to control themselves,” Ekeg-ren said. “Those who drink alco-hol significantly on our campus are mostly freshmen. It might be a problem, I don’t know, but not an alcoholic problem.”
“Research shows that one in five college students meets past-year criteria for an alcohol use dis-order,” Kilmer said, adding that an alcohol use disorder develops from either alcohol dependence or alcohol abuse. “Being at-risk for addiction is something that could occur, for example, for people with a family history of alcohol use disorders as well as those who are developing tolerance and/or spending a lot of time drinking or recovering from alcohol’s effects.”
Statistics from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism suggest that students make impaired decisions while under the influence of alcohol.
“Each year, fellow students who have been drinking assault
nearly 700,000 students, 400,000 students have unprotected sex while drunk, almost 600,000 stu-dents are injured, and some 1,825 die due to alcohol poisoning and alcohol related incidents,” reports the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism website.
Major and Kilmer’s presenta-tions may bridge the communica-tion gap between students, faculty and community members.
“It’s important that we under-stand what all of us can do as a campus community to help stu-dents make healthy choices. Con-versations like this can help,” ex-plained UND Vice President for Student Affairs Lori Reesor.
Student Conversations will take place Sunday at 6:30 p.m. in Memorial Union. Students, fac-ulty and staff are invited to attend Major and Kilmer’s presentation and open-forum Monday at 11:45 a.m. in Swanson Hall. There will be a UND Faculty session on Monday at 4:00 p.m. in Memorial Union. The Grand Forks commu-nity may attend Monday’s 7:00 p.m. session at the Grand Forks City Hall Council Chambers.
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It’s important that we understand what all of us can do as a campus community.
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LEARNING Not all educators teach the same way.
BRANDON BECKERTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
It usually takes 125 credits to graduate from UND. Assuming each class is three credits, you are going to have roughly 42 professors — you’ll likely have more — before you com-plete your degree. Some will make your life easy and others will, well, let’s just leave it at that.
Professors are generally fascinat-ing individuals. A lot of them are quirky people you wouldn’t mind getting to know over a beer.
From my time at UND, I have encountered my fair share of pro-fessors and have come up with five types you will encounter.
The professor who doesn’t use technology in a lecture
We’ve all had a professor who has chosen for some reason to teach us like we’re still in the ‘90s. A great example of this is the professor who chooses to use chalk or marker to write down notes from their lecture as opposed to an easy-to-read Pow-erPoint.
As awesome as chalk is, I prefer reading it on the sidewalks of cam-pus rather than on a blackboard. I’ve had a couple of professors teach using a blackboard and only one of them has been able to pull it off.
The biggest problem I have with this kind of lecture is you have to decipher the handwriting of the in-structor, which can be difficult, and I’m not a huge fan of the sound of chalk on a blackboard. These may seem like minor complaints, but when 98 percent of your college courses implement technology it would be nice if the other two per-
cent caught up.The professor who gets
off trackOh, how I love this professor.
You’re sitting there talking about God knows what when a student makes a comment, and 20 minutes later your professor is saying, “Now where was I again?”
This can happen to anyone, but there are some who tend to fall vic-tim to this more often than not. It usually is a story that is meant to tie into the lecture but somehow at the end of it, you are wondering what in the heck just happened.
The good news about this pro-fessor is you get to hear a lot of sto-ries. The bad news is these stories may be less interesting than the ma-terial that is being taught.
The “too smart for their own good” professor
Anyone who becomes a profes-sor and teaches a class is going to be well educated. In this case, I am speaking directly to the professor who is simply brilliant and doesn’t realize that not every student pos-sesses his or her level of intelligence.
A college setting is meant to fos-ter learning, yet at times you’ll get a professor who isn’t good at relating the material in a manner that every-one can understand.
Also in this category is the pro-fessor who is brilliant, knows it and can be quite condescending towards students. At times, this professor will treat you as if you possess the intelligence of someone out of the Stone Age.
The best way to handle this is to nod your head and smile because, at the end of the semester they con-trol your grade.
The professor who doesn’t use Blackboard
UND higher-ups, please make it mandatory for professors to use Blackboard. It makes everyone’s life
easier and it’s the best way to com-municate with students.
There’s nothing more frustrat-ing than going to class to discover a note on the door that says, “Class cancelled.” On one hand, it’s nice you don’t have class, but on the other there’s a chance you just drove all the way to campus, had to find a spot and then make the jaunt to whatever building you have to go to, just to find out you don’t have class.
A simple mass email from Black-board would have saved you a trip to campus and would have given you an extra half hour to pretend like you’ll do something productive when in fact you’ll just sit at home and watch Netflix.
So professors, do the right thing and make life a little bit easier on students. We would really appreci-ate it.
The Professor who is not like other professors
It could be teaching style or it could be personality, but this is the professor that marches to the beat of his or her own drum. Sure, this can be frustrating at times — but more often than not — I’d take this pro-fessor over a more traditional one any day.
I’m a big fan of this kind of pro-fessor because they generally have a laid-back personality. They are un-derstanding and are willing to work with you.
What I love the most about this professor is they usually possess their own abnormal philosophy on teaching. They are critical of tradi-tional teaching and are typically fa-vorites with students.
Embrace this professor because he or she is a rare breed.
Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brandon.becker2
@my.und.edu
Class comes in all stylesSome faculty have not yet embraced modern technology. The professor above chooses to use a trusty wooden pole rather than a laser pointer. Photo courtesy of lolbrary.com
Soup, canned vegetables and lots of ramen noodles; those were the main non-perishables that made up two food drives that recently took place on UND’s campus.
Hunger is a growing concern in America. With nearly one in seven families struggling to feed them-selves, food drives have never been more important.
This year, the Greek community held a large food drive during Ally Week, which collected food to be do-nated to St. Josephs social care and thrift store. The amount of food donated was enough to fill the entire bed of a pickup truck when it was ready to be delivered by members of the Order of Omega society.
Most of the Greek societies operate independent philanthropies that often benefit other communities outside of the Grand Forks area. The Ally Week food drive marks one of the first, unified efforts to help those in our immediate area.
Another large-scale food drive that recently con-cluded on campus was held by the accounting depart-ment. This food drive resulted in over 700 pounds of food being donated, including 500 pounds of potatoes. In addition to the food donated by members of the accounting department, Cargill — one of the world’s largest food distributors — pitched in a sizable check on top of other donations.
Cargill is one of the largest privately owned com-panies in the world, with over 140,000 employees in more than 60 countries. Cargill has hired dozens of UND students in the past and prefers UND alumni to nearly any other school. Their generous donation further strengthens the connections between UND and the company.
These events are extraordinary acts of kindness by UND’s student population. In the midst of financial hardship caused by tuition prices and living expenses, the student body came together to donate hundreds of pounds of food to those in need in the Grand Forks area.
Times are hard. With a stuttering economy and a long winter, the Grand Forks community has plenty who struggle with hunger and money. By donating this food, the UND community has made a sizable impact in our small corner of the world.
It says a lot about the generosity of the students who attending this school. The “North Dakota nice” spirit has found its way into the hearts of thousands of people on campus, despite varying backgrounds and demanding academic schedules.
In addition to helping those in need, the food drives represent a further strengthening of bonds be-tween the Grand Forks community and the university that calls this city home.
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The fi rst time I came to UND I was fascinated by its campus and immediately fell in love. The only problem? I was already attending another school.
Halfway through my second semester of my freshman year at NDSU, I had realized that UND was really the school for me. I fi lled out the application,
paid the fees and waited to hear back. I was thrilled when I fi nally got my acceptance letter and was able to transfer.
At the beginning of my time at NDSU, I was all about doing everything your typical freshman does. I went to mixers hosted by the dorms, hung out in my fl oor’s common area, made friends with people who lived on my section of the dorm, went to class and joined a sorority. I enjoyed a lot of the experiencesin which I was able to participate.However, it still felt like something was miss-ing. Another problem that I faced was NDSU did not offer my ma-jor. I had been misinformed and found out it was only offered through the Graduate School.
By the second semester of my
freshman year I was very con-fused; do I stay and double ma-jor so I can do what I want? Do I transfer and leave the place I have become accustomed to? I made some connections at UND and began visiting the campus more frequently. I fell in love with the university. Not only did I feel welcome here, but it had my ma-jor. By March of my freshman year, I made up my mind and de-cided to transfer.
Transferring schools is like being a freshman all over again. I had to learn the campus, meet new professors, get used to how things worked academically and expand my social circle. This was hard because I did not live in the dorms.
One of the most complicated
parts of being a transfer student is getting your grades transferred over from your previous school. This is where I had the most is-sues coming to UND. Since NDSU had a different way of doing things, it was hard to get them to line up with classes at UND.
The biggest problem I faced was signing up for an English class. One of the main differences between UND’s English program and NDSU’s English program is that you can test out of English 110 at UND. Since I had done that, it showed that I hadn’t taken the class and caused some prob-lems when signing up for classes.
Overall, transferring schools has been one of the best decisions I have made.
I ended up changing my major from Forensic Science to Communication. I am now do-ing something I absolutely love and I have UND to thank for that. I have also met some of my best friends here and have met a ton of people that I enjoy talking to.
The most important thing I have come to fi nd as a transfer student is who I really am. The wonderful staff at UND helped me through some rough times and that kind of support and kindness is unique to this cam-pus.
SAM GASPARDOTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
LOCATION Changing schools opens new doors.
Sam Gaspardo is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at samantha.gaspardo
@my.und.edu
It is early morning and you have just fi nished getting ready for an in-tense day of classes. You have just eat-
en and are feeling a bit groggy from staying up late after procrastinating.
Not to worry, the fatigue you were feeling evaporates as you step outside and into a wall of smell.
Depending on the wind direc-tion, UND either smells fresh and clean or like a sewer full of rotting po-tatoes and sugar beets.
What causes these awful odors? The name Simplot carries with it a very negative reputation. Located in the worst possible place in Grand Forks, the factory produces french fries for the fast food industry in enormous quantities. Why would any sane person locate such a facility north of Grand Forks? The prevailing winds in this part of the country are from the north, meaning the major-ity of the time, students at UND are nearly overpowered by the smell of what used to be potatoes.
It does not matter what you call it, the coulee, the UND River or hep-
atitis creek, the fact is that it smells. The English Coulee is a central
feature of the UND campus. Thou-sands of students cross it at least once per day on their way to class. On cer-tain days, in the right light and from a good distance, the coulee looks very beautiful. However, approach to within fi fty yards and it quickly becomes clear that it is nothing more than a slow, polluted stream fi lled with stagnant water.
The smells emanating from the coulee are a cross of sewage and rot-ting vegetation that no amount of Febreze can handle. You may think you are safe from the smell in the win-ter, but the overpowering stench still manages to escape through several inches of ice.
The one good thing about the coulee versus Simplot is that hepatitis creek attracts its fair share of critters. Ducks, geese, turtles and aquatic ro-dents fi nd themselves swimming hap-
pily up and down the stream. They occasionally are a form of entertain-ment for students who happen to be in the right place at the right time.
Although — with the state of the water quality — I would not be surprised that if in the next few years, we begin to see turtles with extra legs and ducks with a third eye. The mutated squirrel from “The Simpson’s Movie” comes to mind. At least the biology depart-ment will have new undocumented creatures to study.
There is no smell on earth quite like the combination of the cou-lee and Simplot in morning. We have a beautiful campus at UND, which looks great on websites and pamphlets for potential students to browse through. The problem begins when students tour the cam-pus on days when the air is rife with rotting potatoes and sewage in 80 degree weather. I know of potential students that have selected another school to attend because of the smell of the UND campus on the par-ticular day they took a tour. Many days the air is clear and the campus is in pristine condition, but on days when the air smells like dead things, the campus loses a lot of its luster.
What could be done about the awful smells? Any solution would involve huge expenditures and a lot of work.
One solution is to move Sim-plot. Aside from the millions of dollars and time consuming work, this solution would solve part of the problem. A smelly plant in the middle of nowhere means that there are no people to irritate.
A solution for the coulee would be to increase the water fl ow rate to prevent stagnant water from build-ing up. Increasing the fl ow rate would more than likely diminish some of the smells emanating from its scummy surface, but the fast rate would lower the water level and shrink its width.
No matter what complaints we have about the stenches on campus, we are stuck with them. There are no realistic solutions to fi x them so we will just have to live with them.
ADAM CHRISTIANSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
APPEAL Campus loses its luster due to its eye water-ing funk.
UND: Where you can taste its smell
Transferring for a fresh start in college, life
Adam Christianson is the managing/opinion editor for
The Dakota Student. He can be reached at adam.christianson@
my.und.edu
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According to fl oodsmart.gov, an-other factor that infl uences fl ooding is how frozen the ground is. Rain and melting snow are normally absorbed by the ground. However, this isn’t possible when the ground is overly frozen, and as a result the excess water ends up fl owing into the closest body of water such as the Red River. When the river gets too full, a fl ood occurs.
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“We currently have temperatures getting warmer and a lot of snow melting fast,” Makowski said.
According to UND geology and geological engineering professor Scott Korom, Grand Forks has received much more snow than average this year, but much less than average last year. The average amount of snowfall each winter is 40 inches.
“If conditions stay as they are, I don’t think we’ll be anywhere close to the 1997 levels, but we will likely fl ood in some outlying areas,” Ko-rom said. “Obviously, if we get a huge rainstorm coming up though, that’ll make things much worse.”
The best fl ood safety advice Ko-rom and Makowski provided is to wear rain boots as much as possible, exercise caution and be aware of the conditions. UND spokesman Peter
Johnson said there is a local fl ood safety website — fl ood.und.edu — with information on road conditions in North Dakota and Minnesota. The website also explains how to volunteer to help those affected by fl ooding.
Johnson also emphasized the dangers associated with the English Coulee that runs through campus.
“The coulee is more dangerous than people give credit for,” Johnson said. “There are some strong currents in the river. This could be especially problematic for houses located along it, such as the Gamma Phi Beta soror-ity house.”
However, the coulee’s currents have been tamed by contouring mechanisms, as part of Grand Forks’ fl ood protection system.
Because of the fl ooding preven-tion system in place, Johnson, Korom
and Makowski agree that residents within Grand Forks’ city limits don’t have much to worry about.SPRING
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Coming to a new country to get an education can be intimidating, espe-cially when English isn’t your first lan-guage. But UND offers a program that makes this adjustment easier for non-traditional students.
The ELS Program at UND was es-tablished in 2005 and is one of such programs in the U.S. that invites stu-dents from around the world to come to the United States and learn English in an intensive 12 step program.
Each step takes four weeks to com-plete. Progress depends on how fast the student learns and, taking vacation time into account, takes about a year.
“Students come here to learn Eng-lish, and then they go on to the uni-versity to pursue whatever majors they are interested in,” center director Bella Hettich said. “They establish English proficiency through the program and then they can be accepted (into the uni-versity).”
The ELS program takes in students from any country who speak any lan-guage provided they pass an initial exam. The program at UND has, on average, 75 students at any one time throughout its 12 levels. The majority of its students are Saudi Arabian and Chinese. Once they have completed the program, students continue taking classes for their degree at UND or, in a small number of cases, transfer to an-other university.
“A lot of them come and then go onto UND,” Hettich said. “They come to us because they would like to go to the university. It’s attracting them at both ends to come and study English and they can learn what the community is like and then they can go onto the university.
“When I joined in April of 2005, we had three students and since then it has grown and grown.”
The ELS students come to UND with just as much variation in their major interests as traditional students. Some of UND’s main draws for ELS students are majors in aviation, engi-neering, music and business.
“I want to get a masters in com-puter science,” Ethiopian student Enku Kebede Lemma said. “I want to do soft-ware engineering.”
Lemma has been in the program for about six months and plans to attend UND in the fall.
In addition to teaching English, the ELS program also helps students adapt to American culture by participating in events on campus and events in the Greater Grand Forks community. Go-ing to movies, reading poetry, attend-ing dances and celebrating American
holidays are some of the events that have taken place in the last few months.
“We try to integrate them into the community, we try to visit classes and arrange conversation partners for them — students from campus where the American students can expose themselves to other cultures and gain some international re-lations and skills and our students can make friends,” Hettich said. “We love to be out in the community so that
We love to be out in the community so that we can contribute to diversity and
teach people about other cultures.
Bella HettichELS center director
Megan Hoffman is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached
we can contribute to diversity and teach people about other cultures.”
Students in the ELS program have several options for housing. A small number stay in the residence halls, some find their own places and some participate in the homestay program and are placed with an American family in Grand Forks.
“It’s hard for us to recruit the home-stay families, but it’s a great opportu-nity for the American families to learn culture too,” Hettich said. “They can travel without leaving their homes. Most experiences are very positive — they become part of the family. They participate in family life.”
UND’s ELS program engages inter-national students on campus by allow-ing them to learn in the classroom and socialize outside of it.
“Before I started ELS, I didn’t do anything. I stayed home,” Lemma said. “But after I joined ELS, I go out skat-ing, sliding, we go to movies and other activities.”
Students in UND’s ELS Program attend class at O’Kelly Hall. The program can take up to a year, depending on a student’s progress. Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.
English through integration:ELS engages foreign students
Yearlong course teaches students from across the globe more than
just language skills
Story by Megan Hoffman
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From the standpoint of the of-fice of the President of the University of North Dakota, there is a lot to be proud of from the 2012 – 2013 aca-demic year.
From student research in infec-tious diseases, student intellectual property in unmanned aircraft sys-tems and growing programs in the arts and music, President Robert Kel-ley and First Lady Marcia Kelley, in a review of the year, have seen many successes and are looking forward to continued development at UND in
the future.Improvements everywhere“There are a number of things go-
ing on that are very encouraging for our students,” Robert Kelley said.
He has seen student and advisor relationships improve, graduation time spans decrease, enrollment reach carrying capacity and students be-come competitive on national scales.
“The UND brand is getting stronger,” he said. “Yeah, we’re ex-cited.”
A particular aspect the Kelleys are
excited about is the increase of hands-on learning through SCALE-UP classes that transform a large lecture hall into small work groups. Studies from the University of Minnesota have shown this type of learning to increase concept retention to 85 per-cent.
“We’re not just trying new stuff,” Marcia Kelley said. “We are trying things that have proven to work.”
Not only are the Kelleys excited about UND, but they have seen in-creased alumni excitement, especially through a recent $300 million fund-raising campaign.
“We have an energized alumni,” Marcia Kelley said. “People are re-membering UND.”
She has spoken with employees who say they would hire a UND graduate over any other college gradu-ate because of the educational experi-ence offered here.
Marcia’s involvementMarcia Kelley also sees this excite-
ment. She serves as the self-described “ears to help connect the dots.” In-volved in several committees, includ-ing advisory boards for academic pro-grams, Alcohol and Other Drug Task Force, Community of Violence Inter-vention Center, Working Wellness, the Speech Pathology department and Ski UND, she said she brings
student concerns to President Kelley.“Students talk to me in a different
way than the president sometimes,” she said.
At the national level, she is a part of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. Next year, she will be the president of the Council of Presidents' and Chancellors' Spouses and Partners.
Outside of the classroom, excite-ment is a key part of many university events that the presidential couple at-tend.
“It’s fun to try and keep a finger on the pulse of all the activities here at UND,” Robert Kelley said.
The two enjoy experiencing these things together.
“Bob and I have an incredible, solid relationship where we are best friends,” Marcia Kelley said.
Among many athletic and musi-cal events attended, the two proudly attended every home and away foot-ball game this season.
“For many people, athletics are the picture into UND,” Robert Kel-ley said. “We really have done very well and are very pleased with our athletes and coaching staff.”
Marcia Kelley is also impressed with the dedication athletes have to their school work.
“We follow student athletes not
just for entertainment,” Marcia Kel-ley said. “These really are student athletes, and we learn so much about what they give up. It’s hard work.”
In addition, she has been im-pressed with the students involved in Student Government and the Univer-sity Program Council.
“UPC has done a fabulous job this year,” she said. “Student Govern-ment has also been wonderful and shown a lot of great leadership.”
Finally, the growth of the music programs has brought UND students to nationally recognized accomplish-ments and increased the size of per-formances.
Changing perceptionsBoth Robert and Marcia Kelly
say they learn new things every day and want the university to continue education outside the classroom. One of these lifelong learning values is en-vironmental sustainability. They are extremely proud of the LEAD scale rankings given to the Gorecki Alumni Center and new Education and Hu-man Development building.
“Environmental issues are ter-ribly important,” Robert Kelley said. “It goes beyond being stewards of our funds.”
It’s also about the small things —
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EXCITEMENT UND’s first couple talk about successes in 2012-2013 and next year’s goals.
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A recent energy report showed more electricity is now used on cam-pus from information technology devices than for heating and cooling buildings. Marcia Kelley hopes to see a UND that is “powered by green” in the future and is encouraging unplug-ging unused electronics.
Challenges aheadAlongside its successes, UND
faced struggles this year as well. Rob-ert Kelley has a deep concern about the behavioral challenges with sub-
stance abuse — most often relating to alcohol. Through various offices, crime reports and student feedback, he said “this is a reality we need to recognize.”
One of the issues Marcia Kelley said is, “everybody thinks that every-body drinks a lot.” There is a concern that students don’t see other entertain-ment options or the amount of stu-dents that don’t drink.
“The reason we are here is about education and critical thinking,” Rob-ert Kelley said. “It is part of our learn-ing responsibility to be aware that we can be manipulated by marketing and advertising strategies.”
Looking to the future, the two
hope to see a new medical school and renovations to the law school, pending state funding. In addition, advancement in academic fields such as advanced nursing degrees, growth in energy technology, and renovations
of buildings are in the future timeline.At the end of the day, for Robert
and Marcia, everything UND is and will be comes down to the student.
“It might seem trite to say it’s all about the student,” Robert Kelley
said. “But that’s what a learning insti-tution is all about.”
UND holds a 7-5 record against non-con-ference opponents, (S. Oregon is in the NAIA) since the DI transition.
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Metal bats change America’s pastime
For many years, the beginning of spring collegiate baseball has been marked by the sound of a very dis-tinct metallic “ting” in ballparks all across the country.
That noise is familiar to most who have ever played or watched baseball, and it’s a part of most child-hoods — the metal baseball bat. Since their introduction to the col-lege and high school market in the 1970’s, metal bats have been masked in controversy. Some argue it de-tracts from the classic game, which has always used wooden bats. Some disagree with the high level of offen-sive production metal bats bring — some even have considered their use a safety hazard.
I fall into the category of those who feel the wooden bat is essential to the pure, classic game of baseball. While growing up, many a sum-mer was spent at Major and Minor League ballparks where the incred-ible history of the game was echoed through the crack of a wooden bat.
A UND baseball player swings a new BBCOR bat during a baseball game last spring. College has been criticized for manipulating the game with metal bats. File photo.
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Breanna Linert will be taking over as head coach of UND’s cheer and dance teams. File Photo.
New cheerleading coach signs on
However, despite my nostalgia, even I must remain open and unbiased to-wards the regulation of metal bats in college baseball.
Baseball critics have considered it too slow of a sport for most to watch and this is very evident at the collegiate level — where game atten-dance is dwarfed by that of counter-part sports like football, basketball, and in UND’s case, hockey.
With the use of the metal bat, college baseball’s pace is much quick-er than that of a professional game. Offense isn’t hard to come by and a high scoring game can keep a crowd interested and in the stands until the end. The average person watch-ing a baseball game would be more thrilled to watch a ball sail over the center field wall in a home run than a pitcher working hard through seven innings to keep an opposing team off the basepaths. You can’t fault us for feeling that way, it’s in our human nature — especially our American nature — to require instant enter-tainment and gratification.
At the height of the collegiate metal baseball bat era, teams were av-eraging over seven runs per game, ac-cording to a study performed by the NCAA. In addition, team batting averages soared to .303 for all teams. That same study resulted in the in-troduction of the BBCOR (batted ball coefficient of restitution) rule to
be applied to all metal and compos-ite bats manufactured after 2011.
Essentially, BBCOR ensures that a metal baseball bat will not outper-form its wooden counterpart and in doing so, it has drastically changed college baseball. Since BBCOR’s introduction, team scoring averages
have dropped to about five runs per game, the lowest that figure has been since the 1970’s, and team batting averages have dropped to .276.
Although the NCAA’s intentions are to ensure equality, they have heav-ily regulated what is supposed to be the purest game in America. Teams
have to change and adapt every few years to new policies and rules re-garding bats and that only detracts from playing the game.
David Butz is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be
reached at [email protected]
Last Thursday, UND Athletics Director Brian Faison announced that Breanna Linert has been named head coach of UND’s cheer and dance teams.
Effective immediately, Linert will oversee the three components of UND’s spirit squad: football/basket-ball/volleyball cheer, hockey cheer and the UND dance team.
Although she may be new to a coaching position, Linert is familiar with the legacy of which she will be a part. As a 2011 graduate of UND, Linert received her bachelor's de-gree in marketing and spent time as a member of UND’s football and basketball cheer teams from 2006 to 2008.
“It is an honor to be involved
LINERT UND’s newest cheer coach brings with her a history of the program.
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with the UND Cheer and Dance program again,” Linert said in a press release. “Cheering at UND was one of the highlights of my col-legiate career and I am excited to give back to the university through this position.”
In addition to her firsthand experience with the team, Linert also has served as the Universal Cheerleaders Association/Universal Dance Association Camp Manager in 2008 and spent time as a North-ern Elite All-Stars Competitive Co-Ed cheerleader from 2001 to 2004. She has successfully completed the North Dakota Cheer Coaches As-sociation Sports First Aid course and is UCA Stunting and Ameri-can Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators certi-fied.
Currently, Linert serves for the UND Alumni Association and Foundation as an Executive Assis-tant and spent the past year at Red River High School in Grand Forks as an assistant coach.
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“We are excited to have Bre-anna take over the leadership of these programs,” Faison said in the press release. “Our spirit groups do a great job of support-
ing our teams and enhancing the atmosphere at our athletic events and will continue to do so under Breanna’s discretion.”
Linert will be replacing Am-ber Eberhardt, who stepped down in order to spend more
CHEER FROM PAGE 10 time with family after eight
years at UND and seven as head coach.
“We want to thank Amber for her eight years of service to the UND cheer program,” Fai-son said. “She played a key role in the program’s development and improvement. Breanna was on the team when Amber coached, which we think will be important for continuity and pride in the program as we con-tinue to improve and move into the future.”
While the football, basket-ball and volleyball cheer teams have been finalized for next year, the hockey cheer team has yet to be determined. Tryouts will take place in the fall. Each team rang-es in member size and will begin practice the week before school starts in the fall.
Elizabeth Erickson is the web editor of The Dakota Stu-
dent. She can be reached at [email protected]
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Come support the UND baseball team at its fi rst home game of the season at
1 p.m. May 3 at Kraft Field.
By the age of 20, Jonathan Toews was wearing the captain’s “C” on his left shoulder and playing alongside some of the top names in NHL hockey.
In his third season playing with the Blackhawks, he proudly held
Jonathan Toews impresses NHL
UND Alumnus Jonathan Toews has already proven to be one of North Dakota hock-ey’s most succesful alumni at the young age of 24. Photo courtesy of NHL.com
SUCCESS UND alumn is being recognized across the NHL as an MVP candidate.
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the Stanley Cup above his head and claimed playoff Most Valuable Play-er honors — accomplishing what many skaters only dream of.
But the well-known center for-ward’s success fi rst came in a North Dakota hockey jersey.
Although his elite professional career may be in the spotlight, the time Toews spent at UND proved benefi cial to his hockey career. Dur-ing his freshman year, he posted 29 points and earned rookie of the week honors twice. After just two years, Toews’ 85 points in the form of 40 goals and 45 assists was a hint of what was to come.
As a sophomore, Toews served
as assistant captain for the 2006-07 season, joining linemates T.J. Oshie and ryan Duncan in creating one of the most successful lines in all of college hockey — leading UND to a second consecutive Frozen Four appearance.
Having completed two seasons at UND, Toews began his pro career after being drafted third overall in the 2006 NHL entry draft and sign-ing a three-year entry level contract.
In his fi rst game, Toews tallied his fi rst goal and strung together the second-longest point scoring streak while starting an NHL career with a point in each of his fi rst 10 games. During the 2008-09 season, Toews led the Blackhawks to their fi rst post-season tournament since 2002, with 62 points in 82 games.
Toews has continuously dem-onstrated success since his debut, posting 46 points in 45 games thus far in the shortened NHL season.
While the lockout cut much of the 2013 NHL season, Toews didn’t hesitate to execute.
The Blackhawks secured their division championship on April 13 after a season sweep of the Red Wings for the fi rst time since the 1976-77 season en route to the playoffs.
“We’re going to keep going,” Toews told the Chicago Sun Times after the victory. “We got our divi-sion, we got home ice in the playoffs and we just keep building. I think this really shows that we’re hungry and we’re motivated to improve ev-ery single night.”
Starting the season on a high note with six straight victories, Toews has contributed 21 points thus far.
With the end of the season nearing, the time to decide regular season awards is fast approaching. Toews has once again put himself in the running for the Hart Trophy, given to the league’s regular season MVP.
Similar to the Hobey Baker Award given to the top NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey player, the Hart Trophy has been deemed one of the most prestigious awards in hockey, and Toews’ name has sparked conversation.
But for now, the team is focused on moving forward.
Although their last two games have resulted in losses, Toews and the Blackhawks will ride off their successful season thus far and hope to end on a high note.
Elizabeth Erickson is the web editor of The Dakota Stu-
dent. She can be reached at [email protected]
Our spirit groups do a great job of
supporting our teams
Brian FaisonUND Athletic Director
