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Big Event coming togetherVOLUNTEER Service efforts beginning soon in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks as stu-dents organize efforts.

GOVERNMENT Student Senate passed resolution Sunday to support any future decision made by the two Sioux namesake tribes.

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The University of North Dakota is joining with more than seventy other universities to take part in a day long, student-run community service project, appropriately named The Big Event.

“The mission of the Big Event at UND is to foster good will and common goals among the students, University of North Dakota and the greater Grand

Forks community through community service initiatives,” Amy Jordan, direc-tor of the UND Big Event said.

Starting in the morning, volunteers will spread throughout Grand Forks to take part in pre-arranged service ac-tivities. Jordan explained the variety of deeds provided: “Volunteers complete service projects ranging from raking, painting, picking up garbage and wash-ing windows, to assisting at nursing and elderly care homes, organizing at non-profits and working with kids at youth events.”

Jordan added that this year there are several large tasks assigned in both East Grand and Grand Forks. “Some major projects include the East Grand Forks Parks District as well as the Fairgrounds

(where at both locations, volunteers will be picking up trash and raking). We also have painting jobs at many locations as well as helping at the YMCA youth events going on that day and visiting with residents at nursing homes.”

Jordan explained that volunteers will meet at the Wellness Center at 9:00 a.m. on May 1 to check-in and receive their t-shirt and breakfast as well as any sup-plies needed for their job site. By 10:00 a.m., volunteers will have headed out and be arriving at the service location.

“No job is too big or too small for Big Event volunteers.” Jordan reiterated. “In the past we have been able to

Student Senate saw a resolution and a number of bills come to the floor on Sunday. The proposed resolution implored Student Government to fully support any decisions made by the Standing Rock and Spirit Lake tribes on the topic of the nickname.

Co-author of the resolution Residence Hall Sen-ator Mathew Johnson believes the Standing Rock tribe should be given the chance to vote in support or in opposition of the nickname.

“They want their voices to be heard,” explained Johnson. “They want to vote on this issue.”

He and co-author Residence Hall Senator Nate Elness also added a clause saying Student Govern-ment will not take a position on the issue.

“We want to make this all about the tribes,” stated Elness.

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Student Health awardedACCREDiTATiON American Asso-ciation for Ambulatory Health Care casts approval on UND’s medical service center.

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UND Student Health Services has received a stamp of approval from the American Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC/Accreditation Association) through an accreditation. This means an outside, independent, non-profit organization has thoroughly examined the operation of UND Student Health Services and determined that it is set apart from other outpatient facilities.

The three-year term of accreditation recognizes the efforts of the staff and school to provide optimal care for the patients. “We believe our patients deserve the best, “ said Michelle D Eslinger, M.B.A., director of UND Student Health Services in a press release last Thursday.

The AAAHC visits the health center and conducts an assessment with a host of volunteer physicians, nurs-es, and administrators. The organization has set stan-dards for what constitutes quality health care, standards that are recognized even at the national level.

The process is educational for health centers, they

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Re-join the conversation: DS OnlineTECH The Dakota Student website sees big changes in form and function.

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Staying up on the latest news from UND, Grand Forks and around the country has become even easier with the Dakota Student’s launch of its new website last week. The newly redesigned site features a bold, modern look, Twit-

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ANDY CiULLA > The Dakota Student UND SPRING SPORTS 2010

With a 27 game tour for UND baseball and a football scrim-mage between UND Green and UND White, every team is los-ing veterans and gaining new blood as the flux between sea-sons will produce a new and exciting season for the fall of 2010.

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> public talk: The Department of Physics and Astrophysics is hosting a public talk by Dr. William Schwalm entitled “Anatomy of Black Holes,” at 7 p.m. in Witmer 116 with a telescope observing session to follow.

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can look at areas for improvement and see what they are doing best. “Going through this voluntary process challenged us to find better ways to serve our patients,” said Dr. Mark Christenson, MD, the medi-cal director of UND Student Health Services, in the same release.

The accreditation is support for the dedication and efforts of this campus’ student health center. “[It] signifies that we have met the rigorous standards of a nationally recognized third party,” added Lau-rie Betting, DPT, and assistant vice president for Health & Wellness.

For UND students, this means that continued health care right on campus. Not only do students ben-efit from the convenience of having Student Health Services, they now know that the quality of care is up to the standards mandated by the AAAHC.

Taxi Cab Company to keep the program running.

Next they passed a bill covering expenses for a trumpet ensemble’s July trip to Australia to play at the International Trumpet Guild con-ference. The total cost of the trip is $9,872. The bill asked Student

Government to cover costs not paid for by grants or other funds raised by the ensemble.

The third bill presented at the meeting asked Senate to fund an on-site

visit of Clean-Flo International for $2,800.

If contracted, the company would work to clean up the Eng-lish Coulee with a diffuser system.

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DS> Brandi is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at brandi.jewett@und.edu

‘They want their voices to be heard ... They want to vote on this issue.

Mathew Johnsonresidence hall senator

Former student government member and UND alumni Mi-chael Nowacki was fully in sup-port of the resolution and voiced his disproval of the tribes’ voices being ignored. “We have stupid white people on both sides arguing who have no idea what they’re talking about,” he pointed out. “It should be up to them [the tribes].”

The resolution passed unani-mously. Senate also passed the rest of the bills on the agenda, the first of which restructured the Cab Crawler financial plan. Stu-dent government will pay $4,000 a month to Red, White, and Blue

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World Brief Candidate faces stiff competition

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eLeCtorate Popular-ity, centrist politics could help Fla. Gov. Crist win Senate as independent.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — These days, the biggest buzz around the Florida Capitol isn’t whether Gov. Charlie Crist will run as an independent for U.S. Senate.

Instead, it’s this: Can he win?Political strategists say the

electoral odds are long, but if there’s a politician poised to pull it off, it’s Charlie Crist. He has universal name recognition across Florida, a moderate political brand and millions in the bank.

“Do I think there’s a scenario where he could win? Yeah, he’s a centrist, he’s a populist,” said Ron Book, a prominent lobbyist and political contributor. “Anybody who discounts him is making a mistake.”

Still, even for Crist, the path to victory is full of pitfalls in a three-way race against Republi-can Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek. No independent has won statewide in at least 50 years in Florida.

The governor, estranged from his Republican base, has until Friday to decide whether to run for the U.S. Senate as a no-party candidate. Parsing Crist’s daily hints—will he or won’t he?—has turned into a national parlor game. But even if he makes the jump, there’s considerable doubt about whether his independent

campaign would withstand a six-month race.

First, there’s the numbers. Party registration in Florida breaks down 42 percent Demo-crat, 36 percent Republican and 19 percent no-party affiliation. The remaining 3 percent belong to minor political parties, like the Libertarian Party.

The problem for Crist: With a small slice of the electorate un-affiliated with the major political parties—22 percent—he has to not only win big among indepen-dents, but get a sizable chunk of Republicans and Democrats, too.

Both political parties have well-funded organizations that pay for TV ads, staff phone banks,

pass out yard signs and help get voters to the polls. Crist would be alone.

Even though there’s no prec-edent in Florida, there’s a national example: U.S. Sen. Joe Lieber-man, Independent Democrat from Connecticut. He lost the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in 2006 but came back to win the general election as an independent. Like Crist, he was a well-known figure in his own state who had fallen out of favor with his party.

“He’s going to need consider-able crossover from both parties and a majority among indepen-dents,” said University of South Florida political science professor

Susan MacManus. “It’s not im-possible, but it’s a tall order.”

Political strategist Steve Schale calculates Crist would need around a third of Repub-licans and Democrats, plus 50 percent of independents. That would put him around the 36-37 percent mark—perhaps just enough to squeak out a slight plurality over Rubio and Meek.

A few keys, Schale said: Crist would need to win swing voters in the Tampa market, his hometown. A staunch Israel supporter, Crist needs backing from Jewish voters in South

Students at Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High Biscayne Bay Campus or “ATM,” made signs to thank Gov. Charlie Crist, who came to their school dedication, Friday, April 16, 2010, in North Miami, Florida.

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Prosecutors in Japan seek more publicity JournaLISm Japa-nese Public Office open press conferences to reporters.

>StaFF reportThe Yomiuri ShumbunTOKYO—The Tokyo District

Public Prosecutors Office in Japan has begun the process of opening its press conferences to a wider range of journalists, accepting ap-plications from freelance and other reporters to register to attend.

The move is being taken in re-sponse to instructions issued by the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, that became effective Thursday, for district public prosecutors offices around Japan to expand the lists of journalists permitted to attend their press conferences.

On Friday, the website of the Tokyo prosecutors office displayed a notice explaining the purpose of its press conferences.

According to the Supreme

Public Prosecutors Office, district offices hold two kinds of press conferences. One is regular press conferences, held every one or two weeks by deputy chief prosecutors; the other is extraordinary press conferences held when there are arrests, indictments or court rul-ings on important cases that have attracted public attention.

Regular press conferences are held, and reporters’ questions are answered, even if district offices do not have particular information to announce.

District offices decide whether it is necessary to hold extraordinary press conferences. In cases when an extraordinary press conference is not deemed necessary, prosecutors distribute written announcements to reporters.

From now on, high public prosecutors’ offices also will hold extraordinary press conferences and distribute written announce-ments.

Those eligible to attend the

press conferences are journalists for organizations belonging to the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association, the National Association of Commercial Broad-casters in Japan, the Japan Maga-zine Publishers Association or the Internet News Association of Ja-pan.

The Supreme Public Prosecu-tors Office said freelance reporters also will be able to attend the press conferences if they are judged to have sufficient journalism experi-ence.

The key point of the measure is to quickly and scrupulously publi-cize how prosecutors execute their powers to investigate and indict. In the past, prosecutors’ offices gener-ally have been reluctant to publi-cize how they handle cases, and the actions taken have differed accord-ing to the personal views of district offices’ deputy chiefs.

There have been many cases in which deputy chiefs did not prop-erly explain the reasons for declin-

ing to indict suspects. In extreme cases, indictments themselves were not even announced.

The Supreme Public Prosecu-tors Office said the change is to provide opportunities for more members of the public to access information from prosecutors’ of-fices, given the growing diversity of information tools.

The measure primarily aims to bring in Internet and freelance journalists who do not belong to press clubs.

In late March, the Internal Af-fairs and Communications Min-istry released the results of its re-search on press conferences given by government entities. Fourteen entities received the top A ranking because they allowed Internet and freelance reporters to attend their press conferences.

Three were ranked D—and prosecutorial authorities were among them because they opened their doors only to reporters be-longing to press clubs.

Obama lauds auto-sector rebound, pushes reform

SAN FRANCISCO—Presi-dent Barack Obama on Saturday blamed the financial sector for its role in the demise of the auto in-dustry, and while car makers have begun to heal, he said Wall Street still needs to be kept in check.

“Many feared we would be throwing good money after bad: that taxpayers would lose most of their investment and that these companies would soon fail regardless,” Obama said in his weekly address. “But one year lat-er, the outlook is very different. In fact, the industry is recovering at a pace few thought possible.”

He cited the strides made ear-lier in the week by the two bailed-out automakers. General Motors settled up the $8 billion owed to the U.S. and Canadian govern-ments, while Chrysler posted an operating profit of $143 million.

“The Treasury Department informed Congress that this fi-nancial rescue —which was ab-solutely necessary to prevent an even worse economic disaster—will end up costing taxpayers a fraction of what was originally feared,” Obama said.

He then went on to im-plicate bankers for their role in nearly bringing down the U.S. auto industry, due to an “absence of common-sense rules” and the “enormous, irresponsible risks” taken by financial firms.

“I once again call for reforms to hold Wall Street account-able and to protect consumers,” Obama said. “These reforms would put an end—once and for all—to taxpayer bailouts.” 11raCe > page Lehman Brothers sues Japanese firm to stop payment request

NEW YORK—bankruptcy administrator at Lehman Broth-ers Holdings Inc. filed a lawsuit with a federal bankruptcy court Friday, calling for nullification of a demand by three subsidiaries of Nomura Holdings Inc. for unset-tled payments tied to derivatives trading contracts.

The lawsuit came in response to an earlier demand from No-mura Securities Co. and the two other subsidiaries for the failed U.S. investment bank to pay them a total of more than $700 million (about 65 billion yen) for unsettled derivatives transactions.

The lawsuit was filed with the federal bankruptcy court in New York state.

According to the court docu-ment submitted by the bank-ruptcy administrator, the con-tracts were signed before Lehman Brothers went under. The admin-istrator said the contracts should have been automatically termi-nated if the U.S. firm collapsed.

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The Dakota Student’s success can be largely attributed to the dedicated staff of the past year. Alison Kelly and Michael Thomas in particular have spent a majority of their college years in the DS office creating layouts, editing pages, and completely redesigning the newspaper.

Next year’s successors have a lot to learn from the commit-ted group, as the editorial staff is being completely refreshed during the 2010-2011 school year due to the graduations, plans to study abroad and new opportunities for the previous staff.

Alex Cavanaugh will be replacing veteran Michael Thomas as Editor-in-Chief, which will hand the DS over to fresh eyes with big plans for the following semesters. Alex is an English major as well as a previous DS staff writer and Writing Center employee. Alex’s background in literature is bound to give the newspaper a new texture that is exciting and welcome.

Erin Lord will be replacing Mitch Molstad—another DS vet—as the new Managing/Opinion editor. Erin has experi-ence with opinions, as she has been a writer for the section for the past two years, one of which was spent under the wing of her predecessor, Mitch. She is an English major as well as a Writing Center employee, giving bad grammar no chance. Her enthusiasm for politics and social welfare makes for inter-esting commentary but a rather boring person.

Joel Adrian will be replacing the legendary Alison Kelly. Joel’s knowledge of mild to extreme sports gives the DS a new twist on UND athletics. He is a nursing major while actively pursuing a minor in Spanish. An avid reader of print media, the addition of Joel promises the DS a direct impact to loyal DS followers. His interests involve sports, outdoor activities and fighting bears.

Rachel Smerer will be replacing Allison Krause as the new News editor. Rachel is a psychology major who has always had a not-so-secret love of writing as well. She is currently a Writing Center employee and has past experience working as a newspaper editor. Rachel is a student in the Honors Pro-gram and hopes to have a wide variety of news stories in the coming year.

Nathan Twerberg will be replacing Andy Ciulla as the new Photo editor. Nathan is an Air Traffic Control and Com-munication major who has had a long time addiction to pho-tography. His interest began with a simple camera in sixth grade and has grown dramatically. He has worked for the past year as a photographer for the DS and looks forward to bring-ing more great images in the coming year.

Josh Brorby will be replacing Derek Scott (master of the Adobe Creative Suite) as the Features Editor. Josh is an Eng-lish, Honors, and Chinese Studies major who also dabbles in animation over at the Hughes Fine Arts Center. He has an active interest in film and fiction and often pretends to have read books he has never actually read. His passion for writing might serve as a boon for the DS, or perhaps it will lead to long, rambling, aimless, pointless, distracting lists of adjectives.

The next editorial staff is excited for the upcoming year and hopes to continue the success of the former editors. Their involvement in the DS will always be the backbone of further progress in years to come.

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Left must reestablish ideals

May Day, or International Workers Day, is perhaps the only Leftist holiday (though it falls on May 1st, it is not the same holiday as where one might ex-pect a Maypole to be danced around). In Minneapolis, many Left-leaning, or explicitly Leftist groups gather for a parade, among other activities. As May Day approaches, I’m at a loss to find much cause for celebration on the Left in the US, currently.

As the encroachment of the popu-list Right steadily gains political mo-mentum nearing the election season and Glenn Beck’s relentless onslaught on not just the Left in this country and abroad, but nearly the entire history of the European Enlightenment continues unhindered, I’m left asking, where to begin?

Unfortunately, a figure like Glenn Beck (and to be clear, I’m not one who views him as the voice of the Tea Bag-gers; I’ve talked to more than one Tea Bagger who take serious issue with his approach) needs to be taken seriously, in a few ways.

First of all, to give the Devil his due, I think that his analysis of our current political and economic mo-ment is mostly correct. That is, he is correct that increasingly power is being handed over to the few (corporate and governmental élites) at the expense of the many (for him this means the white middle class, ultimately). I think he’s right that this is the case.

I, of course, take issue with what he leaves out, i.e., his obscene racism, a far too heavy focus on the virtues of Capitalism and the terrors of the U.S. government at the expense of a critique of Capitalism itself, etc.

In short, I’m not on his side (I’m vi-olently opposed to his approach), I just think his analysis is correct at times; his conclusions (nuking the Middle East, etc.) are where he goes completely off the rails.

That being said, there are two other reasons he ought to be taken seriously. The first is that Glenn Beck, as well as the Tea Baggers as a whole may sound “crazy” to Liberals, but as Noam Chom-sky points out, the Tea Baggers are the only ones who are speaking to the con-

cerns of working people in this country. Chomsky notes that the policies that have created this backlash (and I’m not talking about Obama’s health care bill, more specifically government policies over the last half century that have in-creased military expenditures at the ex-pense of social services) have been car-ried out by Liberals and thus, Chomsky argues, Liberals aren’t going to own up to this, so the Tea Baggers are offering a solution albeit a “crazy” one; it’s still a solution, and more importantly, it’s more than Liberals are offering.

Therefore, there’s a reason people are getting behind the Tea Baggers, so they should not be ridiculed. Their concerns should be taken seriously and

then the idea would be to offer them an alternative. As Chomsky notes, “Take over your factory.”

This brings us to the current state of the Left, though I don’t think it’s as simple as Chomsky makes it sound. I do formally agree that an alternative must be created, but what alternative? Glenn Beck (as well as other heavy hit-ters on the Right) claim that Obama is turning the US into a Socialist country.

My problem is that he gets it wrong, not in the sense that there aren’t Social-ist features to Obama’s plans (there are) and not that this is not a problem (as Slavoj Zizek argues, authoritarian So-cialism is not far from being realized in the West, see: Berlusconi in Italy, Sarkozy in France).

What I take issue with is the ques-tion of how long this has been going on and how he’s defining Socialism. I think that if Obama has any Leftist in him at all, it’s with the awareness that the health care system in this country was in an impossible state—things could not go on in the direction they were going (fully privatized, explosive prices, crippling the economy to the point of (some sectors of ) big business backing

a government-run system) and that po-litically there was no solution.

So the health care bill we ended up with was a failure, but a failure in the right direction. As I argued to the Tea Baggers that I’ve talked to, when the health care system is fully privatized, corporations are totally unaccountable; there’s no possibility of any censure.

However, when the government is involved, there’s at least the (formal) possibility of accountability. So, for me, Obama’s wager was not a compro-mise with the status quo, but, at best, a formal shift in the status quo. It could backfire (and in some ways already has, see: women’s health issues going by the wayside, the potential de facto overturn of Roe v. Wade practically written into the bill), and perhaps this bill will get repealed come January. It’s impossible to know, but at least there was an at-tempt to wrest control of the health care system from corporate control.

Is this a utopian reading of the situ-ation? Yes. But the right kind of utopia. Zizek argues that it’s just as utopian to imagine that Capitalism can continue its unfettered development despite the problems of the environment (as well as other factors) as to imagine that against all current indications, a new sort of so-ciety might be possible.

I would make a similar argument against the current trends of what calls itself the Left in this country. This is es-pecially true of student movements fo-cused on big protests scattered across the country throughout the year. This sort of political tourism does nothing but, as Zizek argues, maintain the existing or-der in the guise of “doing something.” My question is what is gained by going to DC every few months, dancing in the street and coming home? A vaca-tion? Certianly not social change.

A friend and I were watching a sort of documentary about Frank Little on Saturday. Little was an organizer for the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) in the early 20th Centry. He was sent to agitate at the copper mines in Butte, Montana, in 1917. He was lynched by Pinkerton Operatives (a de-tective agency hired by the mine own-ers) the same year. In meetings with the miners prior to his death he said

>AARON WENTzThe Dakota Student

‘This cannot happen while simultane-ously maintaining the status quo.

Aaron Wentzcolumnist

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05COMMENTARYthe Dakota Student

Because I don’t relate to the most con-servative of ideals, my home here in North Dakota always keeps me on my guard—fists up, ready to combat any extremist, traditionalist views. When I meet new folks from other states and they ask me where I am from, I cringe a little bit when I give my answer, watching their percep-tion of me change from undecided to a country girl in overalls holding a bible in one hand, rifle in the other, driving my pop’s Ford truck with extra overcoats and shovels in the truck bed.

Not that a person like this is complete-ly undesirable (obviously North Dakotans don’t believe so), but I personally would rather eat tofu for a month than shoot the life out of an animal, and the only manual labor I participate in is a carefully moni-tored workout regimen (now where did I put my eco-friendly water bottle?).

But on my self-indulgent quest to act like a pretentious, elitist a-hole, I’ve real-ized that you can take the girl out of North Dakota, but you can’t take the North Da-kota out of the girl. I’ve been subscribing to North Dakotan cultural habits blind-ingly, not even realizing it.

What do I do with a day off and plen-ty of time to use at my leisure? Sure, I’ll throw in a Wire episode and read a little Vonnegut, but not before making a pan of bars (yes, just BARS, non-natives) and la-beling the pan with my name just in case I decide to share. This is of course while my roast is busily cooking in my crock-pot; hopefully I picked up enough sour cream from the store!

I used to eat like a vegetarian, never officially declaring myself one, but cer-tainly finding the value in hummus and edamame. For a few months I officially became a pescetarian, but my North Da-kota genes started kicking in, and sud-denly there was nothing I wanted more than a big slab of red bloody beef (sorry for the graphic nature of that sentence my vegetarian friends). I can’t attribute the urge to anything but my North Da-kotan heritage, because all reason tells me I shouldn’t be so excited about dead flesh. But, North Dakota tells me I should, and I have drudgingly obliged.

I also have a developed a sordid love for babies. I used to be absolutely content spending my time with adult company that behaved like adolescents, but now I am starting to truly love actual children. I even hear myself saying things like “how precious” and “what a miracle.” The cyni-cal me of last year would want to punch the touchy feely me of this year right in the face. I need to control this strange be-havior, or before I know it I’m going to be making hamburger helper for my seven children.

The final thing that reveals my back-ground without my permission is my own voice. It doesn’t matter what I am talking about, how large my vocabulary, or how hard I try to keep the letter “o” out of my speech, it will eventually crop up and betray me. “The modernists prized their avant-garde writing style, but the pohhhh-stmodernists”….ugh crap! Damnet, “o”! Why do you have to be so long and obvi-

No running from ND

Letter to an overzealous driver

Hey there, man. How’s it going? How are you? How have you been? Good? That’s good to hear. You’re looking okay; have you lost weight? Have you been hitting the Wellness Center or the Y or something? Oh that’s cool. Yeah, fast metabolism is a gift from God, for sure. How are your classes going? Ah, I get it. I know what you mean. And your girlfriend—how is she? I hear that.

You’re probably wondering why I’m writing you this letter. I mean, we don’t re-ally talk to each other much. Heck, let’s be honest, we don’t really know each other at all! I know, I know, it’s audacious to even assume that we’re friends, let alone pen pals. Yet here I am, typing away, and there you are, reading your little eyes out, enjoying another fine spring day at UND.

No, this isn’t about your latest stunt at the hockey game. That was a riot! I wasn’t offended at all by the chant, don’t worry. And those dead animals you threw on the ice? Come on, that was just hilarious.

No, I’m not writing to you about my-self, either. I’ve never been a big fan of Christmas letters, and if I was, it would ap-pear that I’ve missed that boat by months—classic me! Oh wait, that’s aright, you don’t know me—and you know I’m not too keen on rambling about myself. If you ever want to talk about personal stuff, just shoot me an e-mail, buddy.

Friend, this is about some of your be-havior that’s been going on for, well, frank-ly, almost a year – something you might not even know you’re doing, something you did last summer, last fall, and just started doing again a few weeks ago when the road condi-

tions were perfect—just perfect: peeling out around the corner next to my house.

Now don’t get me wrong, my roommates and I love a good pick-up truck. We kind of fancy ourselves car people. Each and every one of us loves a good... Engine. Pistons? Don’t even get me started. Johnson rods are pretty cool, too (that’s a thing, right?). Refilling a car’s blinker fluid is one of my favorite summer activities. When it comes down to it, nothing quite tops the sound of a roaring engine and screeching tires.

I’m sorry, friendo, I’m starting to go off track, aren’t I? You’re right, you’re right, I’m not really a car person. You might even say

I don’t know the first thing about them, or that I couldn’t tell the difference between the sound of a pick-up truck peeling out and the sound of a Honda Civic Tokyo-drifting. That’s all beside the point.

You see, every day when I come home from class, I hit the living room to study, or maybe the kitchen to hang out, or my room to just relax.

I like the ambient sounds of cars driv-ing by slowly, students walking past, or birds tweet-tweet-tweeting from atop a tree. I can get some major reading done to those sounds. However, every once in a while, there you’ll come, banshee-screaming around the corner and letting your motor

rip itself apart down Columbia Road. And sometimes, that shit can get really annoy-ing.

Sorry, I almost flew off the handle there. We’re cool, we’re cool. I know I shouldn’t be complaining about it – after all, there are much more serious things going on in the world right now, and I consider myself pretty lucky to be comfortable enough so-cially and economically to be in a position to even attend a university (you or I could have been born into child-soldiery, for cry-ing out loud!).

I am happy knowing that I’m privileged enough to be in this position, and that I should be aware of the less fortunate (to use a hackneyed phrase) and do what I can to help, to change the way things work, to get other folks to join in conversations and dialogues concerning real issues (disregard the irony of me devoting 800 words to this letter, stranger).

I worry about a lot of stuff, man. I don’t really want to complain about the little un-important BS that is, in the end, utterly in-significant. That being said, could you take it easy on the gas pedal, Danica Patrick? Could you slow down around that corner, Richard Petty?

I know you’re cool, we all do, everyone reading this thinks you’re the best, because you really are, you’re just tops, but that whole peeling out thing isn’t going to make you any cooler. You can’t really get any cool-er than the ultimate in cool, after all, and that’s you.

So take it easy, for all of us, and if ever we should meet, we’ll talk about driveshafts (I’m pretty sure those exist).

>JOSH BRORBYThe Dakota Student

Student gov’t working for UNDMy column today concerns the efforts

of the individuals at this campus who are far too often overlooked: members of student government. I’ve been at UND long enough to know that UND Student Government has its ups and downs, good characters and bad ones. Indeed, in the time I’ve attended UND, I’ve seen Student Government waste money on questionable projects championed by individuals whose intentions were morally ambiguous at best.

I’ve seen them represent everything people would use to argue that students are un-pro-fessional, ignorant, careless, and self-absorbed sycophants, interested only in furthering their resume through Student Government at the expense of truly representing UND student’s needs. Indeed, I’ve said such things in this column, because in the past these things were true.

But for the last year, these statements couldn’t be farther from reality. Not only has our Student Government been more ef-ficient, transparent, and professional than any I’ve ever worked with, but they’ve done more to represent student interests than any other group in my time here. They are arguably the best groups of student representatives to serve UND, possibly in the history of the whole school.

How do I say this? Well, first of all, it starts out with the fact that over the last five years, turnout in Student Government elections has increased more at any time in recorded UND history. This year, more students than ever before turned out to vote in the Student Government elections, beating the previous

record set the year before. Our student senators have tackled tough

issues as well, funding some amazing, well at-tended speakers and publications (including the mightily amusing Twamley Shuffle:“Read it or Coulee monsters will eat you”), spon-sored hundreds of student groups, some amazing international and cultural events, increased attendance at night life. They have organized a new student radio station, reorga-nized Student Government structure (making it much more efficient), told parking what’s what about ticket prices, completely revital-ized Emerging Leaders, and have had several instances where the meetings ran until mid-night or later.

That’s right, not only did they do a tre-mendous amount of work, but they worked, not once but several times, past midnight dis-cussing issues that affect students, not because they are paid or receive any tangible benefit, but because it was necessary in order to es-tablish what was in the best interest of the students. These people really care about what happens to those who call UND home.

Of course, leading this charge is a friend of mine who, more than anyone else, embodies the effort and leadership that Student Govern-ment has exhibited in the last two years. My friend Tyrone Grandstrand has served for two years now as the only two-term student body president in UND’s history. Now that he’s finished (and running for city council I might add) I feel it’s okay to write about how hard I watched him work for you, the student.

You have to understand, I’ve sat in Fri-day night meetings that ran until 1 a.m. with Tyrone talking about how to deal with the horrible policy that is Higher One, to better distribute hockey tickets, increase student in-

>DAviD BARTAThe Dakota Student

volvement, and to even clean the coulee. He didn’t just talk about these things, he led the fight to improve them.

As the greatest evidence of his concern for students, in my eyes anyway, is the fact that he was one of three people who were out and about at 5 a.m. taking water samples of the coulee with me when I was an under-grad. Our now former student body president waded through coulee water in the hopes that the research I was conducting would prove fruitful, providing a better campus for the students who call it home.

I’ve seen him pursue the student interest on issues to the detriment of his studies and personal life, because that is how he operates. He’s a true believer in the process, a living, breathing radical who believes as sure as the sky is blue that if students simply organize themselves and coordinate their efforts, they can accomplish the impossible.

And this year I watched him work with the amazing, intelligent, and professional members of Student Government to do what’s best for UND students. It’s going to be a tough act to follow for next year’s president and vice-president, but I think they’re more than up to the task. Good leadership breeds good leadership, and I would just like to re-mind everyone reading this to thank their stu-dent representatives and executives, who have worked so hard for UND’s student body over the past school year. In my opinion they’ve done a great job in a normally thankless posi-tion, and they deserve a bit of gratitude from all of us.

>ERiN LORDThe Dakota Student

DS> Josh is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at joshua.brorby@und.edu

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‘... nothing quite tops the sound of a roaring engine and screeching tires.

Josh Brorbycolumnist

DS> David is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at david.barta@und.edu

06 NEWS tuesday april 27, 2010

07NEWS the Dakota Student

Carnival helps homeless petsFUNDRAISER Emerg-ing Leaders organize event for the Circle of Friends Humane Society.

>MEgAN EWERtThe Dakota Student

This Saturday, the UND Emerging Leaders held their third annual Animal Carnival at the Cir-cle of Friends Humane Society in Grand Forks.

The event, which ran from noon until 3p.m., involved a va-riety of activities for children and families to raise funds for the Hu-mane Society.

Michelle Benz, a member of Emerging Leaders, says that the event was a success. “We had nearly 100 people come through, and it was a great event. The kids had a lot of fun getting their faces painted, and the parents really ap-preciated having a family event on a Saturday.

“We planned a lot of things to keep the kids busy,” Benz says. “We had games, prizes, a ring toss, duck pond, face painting, and of course, animals for the children to meet and play with. Anyone who comes in can easily get information on adopting a pet or the important work that the Humane Society does.”

Benz says that the event is im-portant for the Humane Society and the animals it houses. “When people come in and interact with the animals, those animals get so-cialized and have a better chance of being adopted into a home.”

The Animal Carnival also helped to raise money for the Hu-mane Society. “All of the proceeds from our event were donated to the Humane Society,” Benz said.

“Most of our expenditures were from the group’s budget,” Benz says. “But we did receive do-nations to help us out. The Ralph Engelstad Arena donated popcorn,

and McDonald’s donated bever-ages.”

The face painting at the event was done by an honors student who offered her services to the group. “She’s really talented,” Benz says. “The kids loved it.”

Benz says that the event was not the only one Emerging Leaders planned for the year. “We were giv-en the task of creating a commu-nity project that made a positive impact. Some of us volunteered with the elderly, the School for the Blind, or other places.”

“We picked the Humane Soci-ety,” Benz said. “We picked a pas-sion we had, and that was helping animals.”

The Humane Society is unique in its services to the Grand Forks area. “The Humane Society here has an open admission policy, and they will take any animal. Dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and other ani-mals are all cared for here,” Benz said.

“If people can no longer sup-port their pets, they can come and surrender them. This is a wonderful resource for people who are strug-gling to care for their animals and gives their animal another chance,” Benz said.

Benz hopes that the event helps to remind community members about the importance of the Hu-mane Society.

“The thing I really hope that people take away from this is how much the Humane Society does for our community.”

“I want people to know that they do such good work here by putting animals into wonderful homes and how they help and sup-port our community,” Benz says. “We got great support from the community today, and we hope that they will continue to think of the event today and consider adopting a pet.”

DS> Megan Ewert is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at megan.ewert@und.edu

Gaming on a higher level

DS> Erin is the Managing/Opinion Editor for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at erin.lord@und.edu

ERIN > From page 5

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DS> Aaron is a columnist for The Da-kota Student. He can be reached at aaron.wentz@und.edu

ous!? It’s sad that I cannot even trust my own voice; it exposes me just like everything else.

I guess I am just going to have to come to terms with the fact that I am North Dakohhhhtan, and there is no way to change the prairie blood that runs through my veins. And in all honesty, I much rather be North Dako-tan than a resident of say Texas or Alabama. We might be a ho-mogenous pool of funny talkin’ Northerners, but at least we aren’t the confederacy.

something to the effect that a union must be formed and Capi-talism must be overthrown by any means necessary.

My friend asked aloud why no one talks like that these days. He raises an important question. Granted; the Butte miners were in an impossible situation, people were dying and they had no power except their potential unity. In im-possible situations, as Zizek notes,

All around campus, if you look and listen, you can find level 1 sorcerers firing magic missiles at kobalds and hear the sounds of rolling dice.

The Official Role-Playing Club of UND, or ORC, according to former President Josh Schwab, is “a group for gamers to network. We provide space for tabletop gaming, card games and board games for all,” including not only students, but several UND staff members as well.

Beyond the usual Dungeons and Dragons, they play pen and paper role-playing games (RPGs) such as Pathfinder, GURPS, Shadowrun and Supernatural as well as card games such as Magic The Gathering, Maids and L59. Schwab says they would be open to miniature games like Warhammer, “but no one has shown in-terest.”

The vari-ous campaign groups have their own meetings in common rooms around campus, but the club officially meets every Friday at 5:30 p.m. in Gamble 325. At the weekly meetings, they often play games after taking care of business. “This last meeting we played a board game and a few people played a card game called

ORgANIZAtION ORC gives students a venue for table-top RPGs and to network with players.

>AllISON kRAUSEThe Dakota Student

Inn Fighting. We didn’t really have enough people for a D&D game so we improvised.” Schwab says they plan to continue meeting and playing through the summer.

The group is planning on go-ing to the gaming convention Gen Con in Indianapolis, Ind. August 5-8. “The estimated costs: badge, travel and lodging is $300 ... and

we have room for more peo-ple.”

To be a voting mem-ber and par-take in the refreshments provided at many meet-ings, you must

pay the $10 yearly dues, but pay-ment is not necessary to play the games.

Lacey Konrad, recent UND graduate and current staff mem-ber for the Air Traffic Control program, is a part of an Exalted campaign. She said, “Our [Dun-

geon Master] did recruiting with ORC and we attended a couple meetings, but now we just meet at the place where we game at. It’s more private and less noisy.”

She explains the Exalted gam-ing system as “more flashy, more epic [than D&D]. You can shape mountains, literally.” But the game isn’t all combat oriented. “Social skills are practically a necessity. It’s a really rich world to play in, also. It’s so rich I get gout.”

Konrad talked about the dif-ficulties of finding a location con-ducive to their games. “It is hard finding a place that is open, quiet, and unlocked. The school keeps ... locking us out of our rooms. But we have to be careful where we game too because we get pretty loud.”

If you want to join the gaming come to Gamble 325 at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays.

new ways out must be invented. This cannot happen while simul-taneously maintaining the status quo.

The student movements that are effective in this country are the ones that are taking their own universities to task. We need to start where we are and take a lesson from the old Left; social change is not gradual and pretty. It is often brutal and has a severe cost (see: Maoist groups in Nepal and India who are fighting for their survival). The alternative is to allow things to go on as they are, with results like in Arizona this week—the le-

NAtHAN tWERBERg > The Dakota StudentEric Klopfenstein rolls the dice as Lacey Konrad awaits the results. The two are part of a group that plays Ex-alted in the basement of the Smith residence hall.

gal institution of American apart-heid (people are required to carry proof of citizenship, legalized racial profiling, etc. Google : Arizona SB 1070).

The way to celebrate May Day is to resurrect the ideas that the Left is founded on—emancipa-tion, justice, freedom. This takes work and dedication, but, as Zizek points out, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

DS> Allison Krause is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at allison.krause@und.edu

‘We provide space for tabletop gam-ing, card games, and board games.

Josh Schwabformer president, ORC

08 NEWS tuesday april 27, 2010

Summer Session at UND is a great time to add a minor, stay on track for graduation, take additional Essential Studies courses or re-take a class.

There are hundreds of classes to choose from, evening and weekend too!

Early registration for Summer Session starts April 5.

701-777-6284 • summer@und.edu • www.summer.und.edu

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accomplish every project request we receive. However, we do have the disclaimer that we serve projects on a first-come, first-served basis in the event that we do not get enough volunteers signed up to complete all projects. The team leaders of each participant team are required to at-tend a team leader meeting (held the week before the event) to find out where their group will be going in addition to any other informa-tion to pass on to their group.”

UND hosted its first Big Event in 2005, and an overwhelming number of volunteers showed up. This year the number expected is much larger. Jordan explained, “This is the sixth year of The Big Event. Each year since it’s inception, The Big Event has had successively more participants completing more projects. In 2009, we had just over 1,000 volunteers. We expect to have over 1,100 this year.”

Due to the growing number of participants as well as liability reasons, only UND students, fac-ulty and staff can volunteer. The Big Event explains that “Each year, The BIG Event has gotten succes-sively bigger with more volunteers participating and more service jobs being completed. In 2009…[we] completed over 80 projects in the community.”

Initiated by Texas A&M Uni-versity in 1982, Big Event was cre-ated by their Student Government as a way to share their appreciation for the surrounding area and com-munity. Now, the idea has spread throughout the country with uni-versities expressing their thanks through acts of service.

Jordan added that even though official registration has closed, infor-mation can still be found. “If there are students that are interested in still volunteering, they should con-tact The Big Event at thebigevent@und.edu. Otherwise, more informa-tion about the event can be found on our website at www.und.edu/org/thebigevent.”

DS> Brenlee Loewen is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at brenlee.loewen@und.edu

Delta Tau Delta and Al-pha Chi Omega teamed up to host a weekend-long volleyball tournament to benefit Michael Romans of Hallock, Minn.

ANDY CIULLA > The Dakota Student

culture&mediatuesday april 27, 2010DS>Inside: Hollywood’s latest superhero venture: Kick-ass

Engineering monstersCONSTRUCT UND Stu-dents from a wide variety of backgrounds create metal marvels.

>DEREK SCOTTThe Dakota Student

What do a racecar, an air can-non and a moon robot all have in common? A lot actually. For

one, they will all be in the Me-morial Union Ballroom May 6, along with a whole lot of other awesome machines for the engineering expo. The expo starts at 10:00 a.m. and runs until 4:00 p.m.‘For an exclusive

video of the car visit the new dakotastu-dent.com.

Another thing they all have in common is that they are built by UND students. Not just engi-neering majors, as I found out, but students from all over

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photos by: DEREK SCOTT > The Dakota Student

10 CULTURE&MEDIA tuesday april 27, 2010

Finals week is looming, and for many students, that means pulling out the old quill, drop-ping an inkwell into the desk, and dashing off a few papers. The paper-writing process can be a tough one for many folks, fresh-men and super-seniors alike, so having a quick rundown of help-ful resources on campus and on the web is certain to kick-start the manic typing that’ll continue late into the night for the next few weeks. After all, getting started is oftentimes the hardest part of the writing process; staring at a blank page can be painful.

The best and possibly most convenient place to get started is the reference desk at UND’s very own Chester Fritz Library. The librarians there are friendly, help-ful, and can help you find almost any source you need to get going on that research paper. “We’re al-ways glad to help show students how to research, give them tips, and show them how to find re-search materials from the library at home,” said Janet Rex, a refer-ence librarian who works on the second floor of the Fritz.

She urges students to come and talk to a librarian if they have any questions whatsoever. She also mentioned the usefulness of the internet (and the library’s

own website). 3“A really good place to start

for a lot of papers with a lot of in-formation they can find at home is to go in and click the Articles tab and do either a general search, academic search premier, or other databases,” said Rex. “We have a lot of full-text sources avail-able to students at home.” The website, www.l i b r a r y. u n d .edu, can be accessed by all students. For those off-cam-pus, “they can use their u-mail account to get access to the da-tabases.”

Of course, the Chester Fritz Library isn’t the only place to turn to on campus if a paper needs writing. Merrifield houses the Writing Center, a place to check out for those who want a hands-on approach to a paper. At the Writing Center, trained consultants can take students through their papers sentence by sentence, word by word, and help them with pretty much anything they need.

“The mission of the Univer-sity Writing Center is to serve as a resource on writing for the university community,” reads the motto of the Center. “We help people as they seek to improve their writing by offering positive, constructive responses to their work in any genre or discipline and at any stage of the writing process.”

For students who prefer work-ing from the comfort of their own homes, desks, or (let’s be hon-est) even beds, the internet has a whole host of helpful websites, not the least of which is bibme.org, a veritable treasure trove of online sources.

Not only does the site allow for searches of books, maga-zines, journal articles and what-not, it allows users to almost au-t o m a t i c a l l y

create their bibliography right there on the web. Bibme.org is designed to help users cite sourc-es correctly and create bibliogra-phies with ease. The site doesn’t have direct links to all the sources it allows users to search for, but it does give complete bibliographic information, and that’s helpful on its own.

With luck, and with these resources at your disposal, dear reader, the paper-writing process should become that much sim-pler. Oh, and don’t forget about the library’s extended hours during finals week (open until 2 A.M.). All these resources are helpful, but the key to writing papers is just sitting down and getting business done. So don’t delay; heed Janet Rex’s advice: “Come to our reference desk!”

Don’t fear the paperFINALS PREP Campus and Internet both al-low students access to countless resources.

>JoSh BRoRByThe Dakota Student

DS> Josh Brorby is the Features Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at joshua.brorby@und.edu

‘We have a lot of full-text sources available to stu-dents at home.

Janet Rexreference librarian

projects is the Society of Automo-tive Engineers (SAE) racecar. It’s a scaled Formula One racer, capable of reaching speeds of over 120 mile per hour and built almost entirely on campus.

The project has been a pains-taking, yearlong process for all the students involved, detailing every zip tie and every inch of weld that went into production, even going so far as to compile a 150-page ex-pense report. For an exclusive video of the car in all its racing glory, visit the new dakotastudent.com.

Speaking of cool vehicles, hy-drogen fuel is also coming to cam-pus thanks to some hard working engineering students partnering with the Energy and Enviorn-mental Research Center (EERC). While the initial fuel station will be geared more toward fueling ma-chinery like forklifts, the students explained that the technology for using this to fuel hydrogen cars is, in principle, quite similar.

The Grand Forks Police De-partment is also paying close atten-tion to one of the projects. Engi-neering students are working hard and finalizing the patent on their bomb disposal arm. Personally, I hope this robot doesn’t see a whole lot of action in Grand Forks, but knowing there is one more robot keeping us safe lets me sleep a little sounder.

Some of the students are also doing their part to ensure next year’s Ralph Engelstad Arena’s hockey season will be getting one amazing t-shirt cannon. From what I saw, the machine will be more grenade launcher than cannon; the engi-neering students have constructed

a semi-automatic launcher, styled like a giant six-shooter, and fires something like one t-shirt per sec-ond. Coincidently, the Ralph was already in the market for a ma-chine to rain down cotton fury, and when the engineering students approached them with the idea, they quickly sponsored the group. Look for the machine to debut next year.

Not content with focusing en-tirely on Earthly matters, still more engineering students have spent the year constructing an automat-ed moon robot. The four-wheeled harvester will be entered in a com-petition with other universities, collecting regolith (pre-dirt stage of dirt, right geologists?) for scientists to study back here on earth.

Students involved in these projects are enrolled in a year –long program that allows them to spend the first semester in the planning and the design phase of the proj-ects, before moving onto the ac-tual construction and testing in the second semester. This year–long process allows students the time needed to create these complex machines.

However, for at least the SAE racecar, only nine months is prov-ing to be still not enough time, and next year the program will be mov-ing to a two year long design and build schedule.

For more information about engineering, or any of the projects discussed, visit http://www.me.und.edu, and be sure to check out the expo in the Memorial Union Ball-room May 6 for a chance to check everything out in person.

DS> Derek Scott is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at derek.scott2@und.edu

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Students shine at writing exhibitionNoRThWoRD Senior english majors orate home-made works to a lecture bowl audience.

>DEREK SCoTTThe Dakota Student

This past Friday afternoon, three unique students gathered in the Memorial Union Lecture Bowl to read their self-composed works. The event allows undergraduate English majors a venue for self-expression, a way to share their creative works. Northword is held once a semester; this event featured writers Erin Lord, Sara Tezel and Joseph Catanzariti.

The event started out with

an amazing buffet table of snack. Whomever is responsible for that did an excellent job. When the event started, we were greeted by Erin Lord. Lord’s story was par-ticularly relevant to North Dakota residents. It spoke about a the non-chalant nature in which we classify binge drinking, specifically citing examples from her own life, recall-ing the way her upbringing has forever altered her perception of al-cohol. The piece also talked about what it’s like to feel ostracized by ones own family, casted out for failing to maintain an adequately acceptable B.A.C.

Next came the crowd favorite,

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Kathryn Korsmo, DDS

NATHAN TWERBERG > The Dakota Student

Sara Tezel. Her piece was also in-tensely personal. Recanting a first hand account of being misdiag-nosed with depression, and being subjected to a pill regimen that ended up doing more harm then good. Tezel’s piece also spoke about losing the trust and respect of her family. It was dark, emotionally evoking and really enjoyable.

Northword ended with the third author, Joe Catanzariti. Cat-anzariti read a poem, and then read excerpts from his novel under con-struction. The novel will surely be a great read once he has it finished. The plot revolved around two friends and their haphazard adven-ture to a heroin filled coffee shop in a converted church.

WORD > From page 10

DS> Derek Scott is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at derek.scott2@und.edu

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Florida. And, Schale said, Crist can’t afford to lose the entire black vote to Meek, who would become the first African-Ameri-can candidate elected statewide.

“It’s doable, and I think he’s the only guy who could do it,” said Schale, a Democrat who sup-ports Meek. “But I wouldn’t put even money on it.”

So far, Crist has raised $10 million for his U.S. Senate cam-paign and has $7.5 million in the bank, a good start but not enough for a full-scale, statewide cam-paign.

Abandoning the Republican banner would bring swift and severe consequences. His already dwindling Republican support would vanish. His campaign staff would likely desert him. Big-dollar GOP donations would dry up.

Schale said Crist will have to rely on his strengths _ his talent for working a crowd and connect-ing with voters. “He’s going to have to lean on his likability and explain to voters how he can be effective shunning the political parties,” Schale said. “He might be the only guy who can pull this off.”

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There’s no doubt about it; Kick-Ass, as promised, doesn’t skip on the violence, profanity, or gleeful attitude it takes toward both. The comic book adaptation premiered April 16th after weeks of speculation by concerned par-ents, citizens, and do-gooders. How could a studio release a film that is, essentially, a playground for an eleven-year-old killing machine who shows no remorse? Who would pay to see this?

Plenty of folks, apparently. Kick-Ass holds no punches, and it doesn’t disappoint. The movie is polarizing, no doubt about it, daring viewers to take a side: ei-ther you’re with the over-the-top, Tarantino-would-be-proud vio-lence, or you think eleven-year-old kids shouldn’t be dropping the c-bomb and stabbing people in the face. For the people on director Matthew Vaughn’s side, the movie is an at-times hilarious nerd-fest that fans of the comic will be happy to see.

The story focuses on a kid named Dave Lizewski who spends his adolescence the way plenty of teenagers do–staring at a com-puter screen with his hands in his pants. He’s not a one-trick pony, though. Dave also enjoys reading comic books, talking about comic books, and fantasizing about be-ing a superhero in one of his many comic books.

This would probably make for pretty epic entertainment on its own, natch, but luckily for the au-dience, Dave soon decides to take it upon himself to really become a crime-fighting vigilante. He dons a wetsuit and becomes the eponymous Kick-Ass, and soon he discovers that he’s not the only superhero on the beat.

Hit-Girl (played perfectly by young Chloe Moretz) and Big Daddy (a passable Nic Cage) ar-rive on the scene to show Kick-Ass how business is really taken care of, and from that point onward, the movie delivers on the promises made by the up-in-arms. Kick-Ass definitely went out and earned its R rating (so if you have kids, shy away from this one).

The movie is a pretty faithful adaptation of Mark Millar’s com-ic, despite a few small changes. (Spoiler: for fans expecting Hit-Girl to pull out “Condition Red” near the end of the film, the pow-der is expectedly absent.) Some ar-

gue that the film fails as a parody of the superhero/comic-book movie –that Kick-Ass becomes what it is at first toying around with. The film, though, does take some cre-ative liberties near the finale that perhaps allow it to remain fully in parody mode.

I won’t drop another spoiler, though, so viewers will have to de-cide for themselves whether or not Kick-Ass keeps itself outside the realm of seriousness. One thing is for certain: the movie never fails to entertain. If you can handle blood, ultraviolence, and gratu-

itous swearing (and, lest I forget, awkward teenage encounters with sexuality), then Kick-Ass is right for you.

DS> Josh Brorby is the Features Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at joshua.brorby@und.edu

Kick-Ass delivers the goods

>JOSh BRORBYThe Dakota Student

DSMOVIE REVIEW

*****‘Kick-Ass’

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sportstuesday april 27, 2010

> Inside: NDSU-UND scheduling update and womens softball drops two versus USD, pg. 14.DS

>scores &schedules

UND: 6NYT: 11

Baseball UND: 7NYT: 3

UND: 5NYT: 11

UND: 20NYT: 19

UND: 3USD: 4

Softball UND: 6USD: 8

@ SDSU Twilight Invite, today in Brookings, S.D.

Track & Field

After a lengthy 27 game road trip, Sioux return home and ...

SPLIT SERIES

photos by ANDY CIULLA > The Dakota Student

Junior outfielder Josh Ray connects during Sunday’s 7-3 win over New York Technical. This weekend was the first time the Sioux competed at home after a 27 game road trip. Ray scored a run out of three at bats and had no RBI’s.

>TImoThY BogerThe Dakota Student

The Sioux wrapped up a four-game series Sun-day by earning a split with the New York Tech Bears in their home opening series at Kraft Field in Grand Forks. It had everything, from great pitching perfor-mances to one of the greatest hitting expositions in school history?

The Bears jumped out early and didn’t look back in the home opener, scoring a trio of runs in each of the fourth and fifth inning.

North Dakota starter Zac Salfer was dispatched af-ter four innings of work, and he was given his fourth loss of the season (2-4).

The two played a wild and crazy doubleheader Saturday, the excitement of which nearly dwarfed a historic day for first baseman Jake Magner, who hit six home runs in the doubleheader, four in the wild 20-19 victory for the Sioux in the nightcap.

Magner, who came into the day with six home runs on the year, hit two home runs in the first game that ended up almost as a carbon copy of Friday night’s game. New York Tech was all over the Sioux pitching staff in an 11-5 victory.

It was that nightcap that provided a nail-biting, seesaw battle of a game that was only made more excit-ing by Magner’s performance. Magner hit four home

runs and drove in nine runs, and his team backed him up to ensure that the historic day was not a losing one. North Dakota scored in every inning but the fifth, and they led 14-3 after four innings.

Two late rallies by the Bears would prove to keep the pressure on the Fighting Sioux. New York Tech put up two seven-run innings on the board in the fifth and seventh to keep the game close.

Three insurance runs by North Dakota in the 7th and 8th were exactly what they needed, and senior Josh Nelson’s RBI double in the eighth scored the 20th run of the game, the magic number as it would turn out.

New York Tech would get a two-run home run in the ninth to bring the game within one, but a ground-out ended the game.

Magner’s four home runs is a UND record. Five players in Sioux history hit three in a game, the last one being Anthony Brenner in 2007. Magner also broke the record for RBI’s in a game with nine, beat-ing co-holders Troy Wasiloski (2005) and Gabe Dahl (2000) who each hit eight.

Sunday was a polar opposite of Saturday night’s slugfest. North Dakota picked up their ninth win of the season largely thanks to sophomore starter David Lind (2-1, 5.40 ERA).

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Softball loses seriesSIOUX Women drop two against Great West Conference rival South Dakota Coyotes.

>DavID RIchaRDSOnThe Dakota Student

The Fighting Sioux women’s softball team met the University of South Dakota Coyotes on Sat-urday, April 24, in the final home-stand for the young UND team. Undefeated at home until Satur-day, UND’s women have been rap-idly improving to meet their tough new competition in Division I.

In their second year of D-I athletics, the Fighting Sioux have already won more games in the 2009-2010 season than they won total in 2008-2009. “We’re defi-nitely making steady growth,” said third-year head coach Sami Strinz, adding, “…the girls on the team this year know what it takes to be competing at Division I.”

Most of the depth on the Sioux roster comes from underclassmen. All members of the starting pitch-ing rotation are freshmen, with sophomore Erica Younan as the sole returner to the mound from last season.

Freshman Emma Gronseth has been especially vital to the team, leading the squad with 112 innings pitched so far this season. “Every time she [Gronseth] gets the ball we have a great chance to win,” said Strinz.

Around the field, youth also prevails. Redshirted graduate stu-dent Casie Hanson, who sat out her senior season in order to play hockey for UND, senior Kristi Alcorn and redshirt junior Amber Roth are the only upper-classmen on the team. Younan and outfielder Maggie O’Neal are the only returning sophomores, leaving freshmen to fill the remain-ing 13 roster slots.

Strinz is excited for the poten-tial of the freshman class, saying, “This group of freshmen will be se-niors when we’re finally postseason eligible.” However, Strinz added that the underclassmen have a duty to their teammates this season as well, “We only have two seniors [Hanson and Alcorn] this year; we want to let those two leave on a high note,” remarked Strinz.

Although struggling on the road with a 1-15 record, UND has managed to hold its own in neutral-field tournaments (7-13), winning key victories against op-ponents such as Houston Baptist University and the University of Tulsa. The Fighting Sioux have strongly defended their home field, putting together a 4-2 record at their home of Apollo Field.

The final homestand for the Sioux ended the 4-0 undefeated streak that UND had enjoyed at Apollo Field, with the Coyotes taking the first game in a close 4-3 decision. UND held tight to a 3-3 tie going into the top of the 7th in-

ning, led by a solo home run blast by designated hitter Kenna Olsen

( f r e s h m a n ) . USD came back at the last minute, though, ral-lying in their final inning to take a one run lead. The Coyotes retired the final three

Sioux batters in order, taking the win.

In the second game of the dou-bleheader, the final home game for the Fighting Sioux, it appeared that the game would follow a similar pace. After taking a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the 2nd inning, UND immediately allowed two runs to the Coyotes in the top of the 3rd. In the bottoms of the 5th and 6th, UND appeared to break out, with a run in the 5th and two runs in the 6th.

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A quick update on Sioux schedulingnDSU UND-Bison ri-valry renewed for bas-ketball, other sports, but football uncertain.

>BRanDOn BeckeRThe Dakota StudentIt has been years since the

Fighting Sioux have taken on former Fargo rival, NDSU. The series was discontinued in 2004, but men’s basketball is set to re-sume the rivalry this year.

A two-year contract was re-cently signed, and the Sioux will hit the court against NDSU De-cember 11 at the Bison Sports Arena.

Gene Taylor, NDSU’s athletic director, has said that it’s a possi-bility that the game could be played in the Fargodome.

The Sioux will then host the Bison in the 2011-2012 season; a date has not been announced for when the game will take place.

Summit League updateIt’s no secret that UND wants

to join the Summit League, and the recent nickname/logo retire-ment will now allow the Sioux a chance to get in.

Summit League Commission-er Tom Douple has spoken with

UND athletic director, Brian Fai-son, who has said that UND’s ap-plication will be discussed in June at a meeting of Summit League officials.

If the Sioux get in, they will play the Bison twice a year on the hardwood and in other sports also.

How UND matches up?This is an interesting question,

as the Bison have completed their five-year DI transition period com-pared to UND who will be enter-ing year three this upcoming fall. And how could we forget NDSU’s remarkable run in their first year of postseason eligibility that led to the school’s first birth in the NCAA DI tournament?

Despite losing to Kansas in the first round, NDSU has set the bar

high for UND. If the Sioux

could replicate the Bison’s ear-ly success, the program would certainly flour-ish, but in say-ing that what NDSU did was extremely diffi-

cult and rare.When December 11 arrives,

UND will be taking on an estab-lished DI program that has been playing a higher level of competi-tion consistently for a longer pe-riod of time. With that being said,

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‘It’s no secret that UND wants to join the Summit League.

Brandon Beckercolumnist

‘... the girls on the team this year know what it takes to be competing at Divi-sion I.

Sami Strinzhead coach

anDY cIULLa > The Dakota Student

Freshman second baseman Cammi Bennett collides with a USD defender in the Sioux’s 3-4 loss. Catcher Amber Roth led UND going 2 for 3 in the contest.

15SPORTSthe Dakota Student

Buoyed by this lead, UND seemed to have a win in the books. USD clawed back in the 7th again, with a surprising 3-run rally to tie the game at 5-all and take the game into extra innings. After a scoreless 8th inning, the Coyotes lit up for another 3-run rally in the top of the 9th.

Freshman Lindy Sippola led a UND comeback in the bottom of

LOSS > From page 14 the 9th with a solo home run, but

the Sioux failed to complete the comeback, losing by a final score of 6-8.

The Fighting Sioux finish the 2009-2010 season on the road, with doubleheader games at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, University of Wisconsin-Mad-ison, and a final series against the University of South Dakota to end the season—a large rivalry for the Fighting Sioux.

Before the surprising home

sweep by the Coyotes, Strinz stat-ed, “…there’s definitely a rivalry [against USD]. We’ve been unde-feated at home and want to keep it that way.”

Following the closure of regu-lar-season play, the team travels to Dallas, Texas on May 16 to com-pete in the Great West Confer-ence’s tournament.

DS>David Richardson is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at david.richardsont@und.edu

ANDY CIULLA > The Dakota StudentFreshman pitcher Emma Gronseth delivers a pitch during a 3-4 loss to conference rival South Dakota. UND went 0 for 2 in the Saturday double header.

ANDY CIULLA > The Dakota StudentSenior infielder Jabby Bakhit hustles to first base during Sunday’s 7-3 win over New York Technical.

Lind went the distance, strik-ing out four and allowing just three runs to the Bears’ lineup that had scored 42 runs in the previous three games.

North Dakota’s hitters took advantage of timely walks and hits to provide Lind with plenty of breathing room en route to the first complete game of his college career.

The Sioux scored two in the second, two in the third, and

SIOUX > From page 13 Men win two, lose two to NYT.

three in the fourth inning to bury the Bears (16-16-1, 8-4 in Great West conference play)

North Dakota (9-22, 5-7 in conference) will travel to Brook-ings for a doubleheader on Wednesday against South Dakota State, before returning home for a four-game series against North-ern Colorado this weekend.

DS> Timothy Boger is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at timothy.bogert@und.edu

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let’s take an early look at next season’s contest on the court.

UND has a tough task at hand as they are losing Travis Bledsoe and Travis Mertens, both seniors this past year. Not only will they lose leader-ship, but Bledsoe and Mertens were the top two scorers on last year’s team. Derek Benter and Chris Clausen will be the only seniors on next year’s team, which will only have four up-perclassmen and will need its young-er players to have success.

As for the Bison, they are los-ing four seniors, but will be return-ing their top two scorers. Michael Tveidt, who played an important role in NDSU’s tournament run two years ago, will be back and will certainly give the Sioux problems along with the rest of the Sum-mit League. Tveidt averaged 15.7 points last season, and Eric Carlson was second behind him with 14.8. Carlson also averaged close to seven rebounds last year as he had a stand-out sophomore season for the Bison. He and Tveidt are going to be largely responsible for the success or failure of next year’s team. It will be a tough task for UND to beat the Bison this fall, but regardless of what the score-board reads when the clock hits zero, it’ll good to see the two teams on the same court together.

DS> Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brandon.becker2@und.edu

BBALL > From page 14

In their final spring game, the UND white de-feated UND green 45-36 at the Alerus Center Saturday. Junior quarterback Jake Landry had an easy day with the help of sophomore running back Josh Murray, who compiled three touch-downs for the offense.

However, the defense came to play, as the combined totals were 72 tackles, 10 for a loss and three sacks. Leading the way for the defense were Mitch Goertz, Chavon Mackey and Garri-son Goodman with five tackles a piece.

With the strength of the Sioux relying on the defense, it will be challenged this season with the kickoff of the 2010 season against Idaho on Sep-tember 2nd in Moscow, Idaho.

photos by ANDY CIULLA > The Dakota Student

*Spring scrimmage

LEFT: Mitch Sutton evades tacklers during Saturday’s scrimmage. BOTTOM: White defeated green 45-36 dur-ing their final spring matchup at the Alerus Center.