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“Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require all voters to present valid photo identification to vote and to require the state to pro-vide free identification to eligible vot-ers, effective July 1, 2013?”

On Nov. 6, people will be answering this question address-ing the proposed requirement that all Minnesotans provide govern-ment-issued photo identification to vote.

The Voter Photo ID Law is a political flashpoint of this year’s general election. The basis of this law is to ensure a registered voter is actually who they say they are and they’re not committing voter fraud, according to a PBS article by Suevon Lee.

Although there have only been a small number of cases dealing with voter fraud, according to Lee, the question of whether or not further precautions to combat voter fraud are needed will be the decision of the people come November.

Proponents of the amendment say vote “yes” to protect the vote, while opponents say vote “no” to protect democracy. Both are bat-tling over voters, campaigning to educate them before reaching the polls.

“There are a few groups of people that will be directly affected by this,” said City Councilor Patrick Boyle in a recent telephone inter-view. “Students are number one.”

Echoing the concerns of Boyle, other Duluth city officials held a news conference addressing their concerns over the proposed voter photo ID amendment. Mayor Don Ness, St. Louis County Com-missioner Frank Jewell and City

Councilor Sharla Gardner ralliedy-against the mandate, urging com-munity members to “vote no.”

Roughly 1,000 students, specifi-cally those who are first time vot-ers and/or out-of-state, would be disenfranchised because they lack a proper photo ID, according to Boyle.

Representing students at the conference was Bridget Ideker, a UMD graduate currently enrolled at the College of St. Scholastica.

“As students, we’re moving all the time,” said Ideker. “My per-manent address is my parents’ in southern Minnesota.”

In past elections, Ideker was able to vote under the current state stat-ute by just using her drivers license, although not enclosing her current address, along with proof of cur-rent residency (e.g. Minnesota Power bill).

Now, this is where the water gets muddied.

Although simple, the wording of this amendment is the cause of most debate between challengers and supporters.

Proponents and opponents interpret the amendment differ-ently, especially in regard to “valid photo identification.”

Opponents, like Greater MN Counts, claim the unknowns, like what types of ID the amendment would qualify as “valid,” would remain unknown until the legisla-tion enacts in the summer of 2013.

In a recent Star Tribune article, one of the amendment’s leading supporters, Senator Scott New-man, said changes will be made to clarify the legislation’s language and ultimately “restore confidence” in the election system.

Those, like Ideker, who lack the government-issued photo ID have

options:They can receive a “provisional

ballot,” meaning a voter can cast their ballot on Election Day but must provide documentation in order to get the ballot counted within a certain time frame before the vote is actually counted.

Many question what this would mean for Election Day registration.

The League of Women Voters highlights flaws within the provi-sional ballot, stating that the voter would have to travel to their local election office within a few days after the election to provide a val-id photo ID. In the case of Ideker, this would mean she would have to travel back home to southern Min-nesota to prove she is who she is.

“How do we (students) have time to get these documents when we are working, in clubs and in class?” Ideker said.

However, supporters say it isn’t this complicated. Protect My Vote, the official ballot committee estab-lished to pass the Minnesota Voter ID Amendment, says any photo ID along with proof of residency will work.

Until the legislation either fails or passes, it is unclear whether Ide-ker and students like her will be able to vote with what she has or if she will need further identification.

The debate also gets fiery when trying to decipher what the pho-to ID amendment would mean for voting same-day, mail-in and absentee.

What is clear, though, is that this amendment has a price.

Citizens could pay for the docu-ments needed to get an ID, like a birth certificate that costs $26 in Minnesota, according to Greater MN Counts.

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Students comment on Voter ID

“I can see why they’d want to do that, for fraud, but for students it would be a hassle.”

Lauren BergJunior at UMD

“I do agree with that. You should have your ID. You get a lot of vot-er fraud if you don’t.”

Scott UrbanSophomore at UMD

“I think it’s silly, you have to have your cur-rent address on your license. I’m not really against it, it’s just hard for students to have their addresses.”

Bri EttestadFreshman at UMD

“I think it’s just going to turn out with less people voting. From what I see for no par-ticular reason, it seems like a tool to get people not to vote.”

Ryan JuddSenior at UMD

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Based on legislation vetoed in 2011, the Minnesota Association of County Officers estimated a state fiscal impact exceeding $32.4 million in the first year.

“This amendment would be lessening the impact of everyday citizens,” said Duluth Mayor Don Ness at the conference beside community members in opposi-tion of the amendment.

Currently, states are jumping on the restrictive voting law band-wagon, as polls show many are in support of legislation similar to that which Minnesota faces.

So far, 17 states require that IDs presented at the polls on Election Day must show a photo of the vot-er, according to the National Con-ference of State Legislatures.

How are students in Minnesota projected to vote on this amend-ment?

A recent Minnesota Pub-lic Interest Research Group (MPIRG) showed that 53 percent of the students surveyed were like-ly to vote yes, 34 percent likely to vote no, and 12.3 percent unsure how they will vote on that ques-tion.

BY TOM [email protected]

Hundreds of UMD students lined the hallways of UMD Mon-day afternoon and Tuesday morn-ing waiting to fork over some mon-ey.

More than 500 students wait-ed in line for hours to get men’s hockey season tickets, according to sports information director Bob Nygaard. The line started in the Sports and Health Center and stretched through Weber Music Hall, Humanities, Bohannon Hall, Montague Hall, the Education building, the Engineering building and Voss-Kovach Hall.

The tickets were first come, first serve, meaning the first people in line got the best seats available.

“We figured if we’re gonna pay for season tickets, we want to get lower deck tickets,” said UMD sophomore Brandon Iams, who was first in line. “So we decided to turn it into a big event.”

Iams arrived with some friends at noon Monday – 20 hours before

tickets officially went on sale.Some students brought along

televisions and game consoles to help pass the time. NHL 13 was the game of choice for many wait-ing in line. Continuing the hockey theme, another group of students planned a midnight showing of the film “Miracle.”

“We were originally supposed to go at like 10 o’clock tonight, but there were already 30 people posting up,” said UMD freshman Michael Kalwasinski, who arrived at 2:30 p.m. “My roommate came in and was like, ‘Come on, let’s go!’”

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BY GRAHAM [email protected]

Green Party presidential can-didate Jill Stein visited the UMD campus Thursday, Sept. 13, to hold a town hall meeting in Kirby Stu-dent Center, where she delivered a message that there are more than just two presidential candidates to vote for this November.

Approximately 50 people, including students, faculty and citizens, were in attendance to hear Stein share her positions, and ask questions on a range of topics, from Green Party policy, to cam-paign strategy.

Stein is the 2012 Green Party nominee seeking the office of the president of the United States. Her name will appear on the ballot in 40 states, including Minnesota, as well as a write-in candidate for five others, which could theoretically give her enough electoral votes to be a contender this November, however it is unlikely she will see enough to take the White House.

Stein spoke and took questions from the crowd From 6 until 8 p.m., and stuck around afterward to talk and take pictures with her supporters until nearly 9 p.m.

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BY SHANNON [email protected]

Students returned to UMD and were surprised to see a newly remodeled lower-level bookstore. Although some students may have been unaware of the renovation, many were pleasantly surprised to find a different layout with some new features.

“The old store worked fine, but this layout might help organize traffic more,” senior Kelly Kuklok said. “It got really backed up last year.”

The renovation features a new entrance and store layout, more retail space, a bigger technology area, and better lighting.

Jeff Romano, director of UMD Stores, said the remodel has been in the works for the past three years.

“It was a combination of looking forward to the future and fixtures falling apart,” Romano said. He added that the old bookstore was not energy efficient.

The last renovation to the lower-level bookstore was in 1986, but the upper-level bookstore was ren-ovated eight years ago.

“(The lower-level store) kind of got put on the back burner,” Roma-no said.

Because of the store’s location they were not able to expand the store outwards, but they were able to make a lot of changes.

“We wanted to do the best we can with the space we had,” Roma-no said.

Romano thinks the main advan-tage of the renovation is flexibility. The store is now equipped with movable fixtures and cash regis-ters so they can be repositioned if need be.

“The flexibility allows us to do so many things and expand where we need to,” Romano said.

Romano was also very excited about the new technology area of the store, which features a bigger demo area for students to try out both Apple and non-Apple prod-ucts.

“The renovation gave us the opportunity to turn this section into our own little Apple store,” Romano said.

One of the main differences from before and after the remodel is the lighting. Before the renova-tion the store was a lot darker.

“Last year people didn’t even know we were open since it was so dark in here,” UMD Stores employee Alexis Crotteau said.

Dan Hanger from Fox 21 news referred to the store as “the dun-geon.”

“It definitely doesn’t look like a dungeon anymore,” Crotteau said.

All the lights in the store are now individually programmable. Romano said this will allow the store to do different things with the lighting and be energy effi-cient. For example, the store will now be able to have different lights on throughout the day to feature different products.

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vice desk was moved from the front edge of the store to the center.

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“The atmosphere is a lot more inviting,” senior Joe Rizzardi said.

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Junior Graham Shurson dis-agrees with Rizzardi and thinks the store remodel was unneces-sary. However, he likes what they did and said the store feels a lot more open.

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and the last fixture was moved into the store the day before this year’s freshman class arrived. UMD Stores is still working on getting display monitors up and running, as well as a conference room in the back of the store.

The million-dollar renovation was completely funded by the rev-enue that has been generated from the UMD Stores over the past 26 years. Therefore, it did not have any effect on students’ tuition.

This week is the grand opening of the store. There will be multiple events going on this week, some of which include vendor giveaways, Coca-Cola product sampling, informational booths, and draw-ings for prizes. Students and fac-ulty can enter to win prizes until Sept. 21.

BY ERIC [email protected]

Over the weekend 12 students were issued underage consump-tion tickets, three students were sent to detox and one underage student was arrested for a D.W.I.

On Friday night, a report of criminal property damage was reported to the inverted pyramids outside of the Kirby Student Cen-ter. Officers responded to a report of intoxicated students in the Oak-land Apartments. The students were found to be extremely intoxi-cated and were issued underage consumption tickets and one was sent to detox.

Around 3 A.M., a report of sus-picious activity near MPAC found

two non-student suspects, a male and a female, that were thought to be dumpster diving. When one of the suspects was questioned he said that someone had given him permission to dig through the dumpster but could not remember who it was. The male suspect was arrested under an unrelated war-rant.

Early Sunday morning, an underage student was cited for drinking and driving. He was issued a D.W.I. and an underage consumption.

Drug paraphernalia was found early Monday morning outside of Montague Hall. The syringes that were found were thought to con-tain heroin residue.

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Duluthians come out for the fall festivities at Chester Bowl on Saturday.

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BY JOSH [email protected]

In a testament to spirit in the

backlash of June’s flood, thousands of Duluth locals stormed Chester Park on Saturday for its annual Fall Fest.

Although the festival is free to attend, most people approached with $2 in hand. They dropped the bills in volunteers’ buckets marked with one bolded word: Donation.

“Around two-thirds of all people donate,” said Thom Storm of the Chester Bowl Improvement Cor-poration (CBIC). “The funds this year go to the Chester Bowl Ski Program.”

Park programs such as the ski program run every year, but the 2008 recession forced the city to cut funding. Instead, the programs now rely on donations partly derived from the festival, and vol-unteering from community mem-bers.

After the flood, the need for such volunteers skyrocketed.

In the backdrop of the festival lies the ski mountain, where one can see where trees had snapped and earth had torn—eroded in parts, clumped in others.

One merchant shop at the festi-val hung a sign that read “All pro-ceeds go to Chester Bowl Flood

Relief.”“The area was worse before,”

said Mary Ann Harala, a teacher at Condgon Elementary and long-time volunteer at the CBIC. “It was ruins. There was—still is—a lot of work to be done after the flood, and the spirit of the community has really exploded to do it.”

Harala noted how, on a morn-ing some days after the flood, they expected only 200 volunteers to repair the Chester Creek picnic area.

500 showed.“They moved rocks and dirt, and

dug up torn trees and planted new ones,” said Harala. “500 people working in synchronicity like that, and all of them volunteering. It’s a wonderful thing.”

The festival in this way functions as a special medium for communi-cation, “because it’s entertaining,” said Carol and Dennis Kolari, two Duluth residents. “We’re talking about the issues, but it doesn’t feel like it.”

The issues to which the Kolaris refer are not only related to the flood. As merchants auction food, jewelry and other miscellany, political tents inform on an array of topics from religion to educa-tion funding.

“This is one place where you can voice your opinion on a topic and

propose a solution,” said Dennis Kolari.

Children’s laughter rose from the spinning playground carousel. Families in twos, threes and fours

formed lines for hot dogs, kernel corn, cheese curds and cotton can-dy. They were all smiling.

“That’s the beauty of the festi-val,” Kolari said. “People may not

realize how much they’re giving to the community just by being here.”

Annual fall festival benefits Chester Bowl flood relief

Andrew Brooks, visiting pro-fessor in UMD’s department of computer science was the man who helped bring Stein to cam-pus. There were no current cam-pus organisations for the Green Party at UMD, so Brooks had to sort through a pile of paperwork, as well as pay a fee to the school, to allow Stein to speak.

“It was a combination of cir-cumstance and wanting to get the Green Party going again, in Dulu-th,” Brooks said.

Student efforts are underway to bring a Green Party group to UMD. Jim Ivey, Minnesota Green Party campaign organizer, gave an introductory speech where he made sure to express how impor-tant a campus organization will be for the future of their party.

“(College students) are getting screwed more than most,” Ivey said in an interview. “It’s impor-tant that we have a presence on campus to keep interest for the Green Party. We’re not just look-ing forward four years, we’re look-ing 5,000 years. ”

Stein’s campaign is centered on what the Green Party is calling “The Green New Deal.” Accord-ing to Stein’s website, “The Green

New Deal is an emergency four part program of specific solutions for moving America quickly out of crisis into the secure green future.”

The four issues the program addresses are: economic equality, environmental (green) business, financial reform, and election reform.

“We call these solutions a Green ‘New Deal’ because they are inspired by the New Deal pro-grams that helped us out of the Great Depression of the 1930s,” according to their website.

Among the issues Stein dis-cussed was the topic of third-party viability and the spoiler stigma.

“To launch this idea that some-how it’s God-given, it’s an act of nature that there are only two parties, that just turns logic on its head,” said Stein in her speech. “We are a diverse society, we have diverse political opinions, and we deserve a diversity of choices.”

Stein reiterated this point in an interview.

“That fear campaign has basi-cally silenced the voice of the pub-lic interest,” said Stein. “To just go along with the lesser of two evils, that doesn’t move you forward.”

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I am an alumnus of UMD and I have been proud to say I graduated from here. The four years I spent here are a very important part of my life and gave me so many memories and friends. I am also an alumnus of Beta Lambda Psi, in which I truly did make lifelong friends. I am writing this letter to stress to all students, male and female, some very important lessons.

I was informed that a dear friend of mine, whom I consider to be like a little sister to me, was at a party in Duluth with people she gradu-ated high school with and who now attend UMD. She was a victim of a horrendous prank. There were some girls there that had spent years putting her down in high school. Now they decided to mess with a food allergy she had. The girl was intoxicated and did not realize what she was agreeing to and went into anaphylactic shock. Lucky for her there was a young man at the party who knew to get her epi pen. He found a way to get her to the

hospital, though no one would let him call an ambulance. They were afraid of getting minor consump-tion tickets—not afraid that this girl could die. The girls that pulled the prank later went on twitter and tweeted about what they had done, referring to the victim as a B*%^&.

I hope students can see this event as a lesson to never attend parties without a close friend who can watch out for you and keep track of how much you drink. Do not put yourself in an unsafe position or place. Keep an eye on your friends and never leave someone under the influence alone.

I also hope that students learn that when someone’s safety is involved, their life is more impor-tant than a ticket. Most cops won’t even distribute tickets when they are called to help.

You are now in college and are now adults, which means your actions will haunt you for the rest of your life. The actions of the girls could have had legal repercussions, but the victim and family decided to allow them to hopefully learn their lesson. They didn’t want this to ruin the rest of their lives.

This also shows that what you post online can get you into trou-ble. Many hear of students getting suspended from sports for posting pictures of them drinking, which goes against team “no drink” poli-cies. This post was public and could have gotten them in much more

trouble than not being able to play a sport. I personally see this post as a way to brag about their actions, though neither the post nor their actions were appropriate.

As an alumnus I am very leery on donating money to scholarship funds that could go to students who do these kinds of things. I believe in integrity, honesty, and decency. I hope students like this do not ruin opportunity for other students.

DANIELLE BLAESER


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Voter ID has divided our political parties. But what do the American people think? Ameri-cans already feel their politicians are corrupt along with the entire political system, including the elections. But there are steps that can be taken to prevent election fraud. One of those steps is requir-ing photo identification.

The amendment would require voters to present valid photo iden-tification when they cast their vote. This law has been champi-oned by Republicans and criti-cized by Democrats. Yet another issue where there is division in our political system. While there is an argument to be made for both sides, the facts are a little clearer. Voter fraud exists, but requiring voters to present photo ID would not completely eliminate it. There are various cases of voter fraud—not all of which can be solved with requiring every voter to present a photo ID.

Requiring photo identification is just a step in preserving the integrity of the electoral process in America. This is important. The United States of America has been able to maintain a democra-cy where we elect representatives, senators, congressmen, and presi-dents by the people casting a vote to elect them to office. Voter ID is just another way to preserve this right and help aid in the accuracy of it.

Here is where the argument becomes distorted. While the Democrats will have people believing that Republicans want to suppress voter turn out by requiring photo identification at the polls, that is simply not true. Republicans want every American to have the opportunity to vote, they just want to eliminate fraud.

The Republicans are projecting the idea that requiring citizens to present voter ID will eliminate voter fraud completely. It won’t. Sadly that is probably never going to happen. Voting and holding elections is a complicated process with millions of people involved. Requiring photo ID when a per-son casts their vote is just another way to ensure the process is done accurately.

How both political parties frame the argument of having to show

photo identification in order to cast a vote will get brutal like most all issues in politics do these days. The Democrats will say the mean old Republicans are trying to suppress the minorities from vot-ing because minorities tradition-ally vote democratic. This is sadly where they will lose the argument because Americans are smarter than that. The Republicans have a better case. People want honest elections. They do not want illegal aliens, dead people, animals, or Mickey Mouse voting in an elec-tion. Sadly there have been voter fraud cases concerning all of these. There is too much at stake when any sort of venerability is allowed in the election process. Americans are tired of hearing about the end-less cases of voter fraud.

When most Americans vote, they have to present a valid driv-ers license. So if it were required would it suppress voter turnout? The Democrats say yes and the Republicans say no, but what do the American people think? They want honest elections and belief in the system in which elects people to govern the United States of America.

This should be a state-by-state issue, not something the federal government takes on to further divide our country. States who have issues with voter fraud should take steps to prevent it. States where voter fraud is almost non-existent should be more focused on other issues. If both sides would put partisan politics aside and actually make this a biparti-san issue, it could be resolved. It should be taken out of the hands of the federal government because they have enough to worry about and let the states decide. Requir-ing photo identification should be a state issue, not being contested at the federal government.

Requiring voter identification is not the most important thing on the minds of Americans, although it is important. Americans are far more worried about jobs and the state of the economy than about being required to present photo identification when voting, which most people already do. But don’t be fooled, they are paying atten-tion. Americans all want accurate elections because it is the basis of a successful democracy that makes for a successful country.

BY SATYA [email protected]

Around January of last year, I performed my perfunctory habit of dusting off my tumblr dashboard. Somewhere inside the slosh of random posts, there was an inter-esting cache of poster images, all headed with the same title: “My Strength Is Not For Hurting”. Vari-ous posters of couples stared at me, blank-faced and heads-held-high, all recounting generic situations where sexual assault was a statis-tical likelihood but not a reality. In the community of the tumblr-fanatics/online-magazine-shifters/Oprah-followers these posters were in danger of going viral.

The countless re-blogs of the images were perpetuated by a relentless, but severely scarce por-tion of the population, apparently known as “tumblr-feminists.” This particular niche greeted the anti-rape movement with outcries of “at last!” and “finally!” and gener-ally voiced their much-exasperat-ed relief at encountering a sexual assault prevention campaign that directly holds males responsible. And the long-awaited nature of the response is hardly exaggerated.

As often is the case with Way-zata High School’s sterling public-school academics, our mandatory health class was nothing if not sat-

isfactory. In the day or so we spent on sexual assault, we were bar-raged with statistics on how many women are raped, how often the act is done by someone we know, and how likely it is that drink or drug is involved. We were also given personal advice by my health teacher—one that models her own actions: whenever we (young girls, older girls, all girls) go out by ourselves in the night, be sure to remove any ponytail holder or styl-ing equipment that keeps the hair up; statistically, it’s overwhelm-ingly used by men as an anchor in cases of assault.

Obvious problems start to arise here: how bizarrely paranoid would a girl have to be in order to adjust her hairstyle according to how dark the night is? How unrea-sonable would someone have to be to expect her to? And what number of allusions comes to mind with the imagery behind the wisdom “keep your hair down”—because really, it’s rife with subjugation. This specific advice earns consid-erable more scorn from students, but there’s only a sliver of differ-ence separating this advice from what our parents and our teachers dole out to us: don’t leave your drink unattended (rohypnal), don’t go out after dark (violent assault), don’t drink excessively/do drugs (some-one will take advantage). There’s

a vaguely insulting strain in this advice, a set in which “don’t keep your hair up (a male will grab it)” fits in quite nicely—it’s the implic-it, undisputed acceptance that all girls, once sentient, have an obliga-tion to preempt and protect them-selves against sexual attack.

What’s most worrisome about accepting this responsibility is that it splits the blame. It leaves a sliver of judgment aimed at the victim. Circumstances become relevant. In recounting the story, descrip-tions of drinking or of deciding to step out at midnight become tokens of culpability. The recount then transforms into admission, and in the slip there widens a crack just large enough for the aggressor to slip through, earning a waiver based on the strange thinking that if the victim wasn’t taking every precaution, they were issuing some sort of invitation.

Emotionally, it creates pain-ful confusion in the minds of the victim. Socially, it allows for offi-cials to look past the atrocity of the crime and instead focus on the actions of the victim—which should remain irrelevant. Educa-tionally, it’s regressive. There’s an overlooked absurdity in request-ing possible-victims to be forever aware and somehow combat the future actions of a future aggressor.

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It’s unreasonable in the pure breadth of possibility they bid the girls to anticipate, and it’s offen-sive in how it neglects the respon-sibility of the attacker. It seems incredibly inappropriate that in a seminar devoted to deterring sexual attack there is no direct address to males—no statistics on the percentage of rapists that are convicted (though that might

be because the number is a little depressing), no advice on how to properly assess a situation to understand when it is consensual and when it is rape. The current discussion is totally one-sided, ridiculously heaving the entirety of the responsibility onto the possible victim to avoid getting attacked, instead of warning the possible aggressor against attack-ing.

The current system, however, has various defenders, most of whom huddle under the banner of “pragmatism.” The idea is that the current education is tailored to be effective, if not morally sound. By teaching females how to evade sexual assault, there is more control given to the victim. Then will come the argument: let’s face it, if someone is going to rape another, sitting through an ethics lecture in class probably isn’t going to stop them. (And for this last concern, I’d like to say that to believe this would be to discredit the point of education and even parenting—what do parents and teachers do if not talk at us and demonstrate, so we can change, evolve, learn.)

The problem with these argu-ments is that they spar mostly on the assumption that the alterna-tive to the status quo is another extreme: tell women to totally disregard concern for their own safety, and start wagging your fin-gers at men saying ridiculously, “and remember, don’t rape!” The reality is a different story. Practi-cally, teachers will likely be able to budget their time so they can cover both the offensive and the defensive in decreasing rape sta-tistics. And, pragmatically speak-ing, we can trust common sense (and maybe a small lecture of bullet point tips) to aid most girls in keeping themselves safe—if the constant reminder from their mothers via phone won’t do the trick.

But frankly, I don’t believe that much of this should be necessary. The problem with such a commit-ment to practicality might be that it strives to work inside the cur-rent conditions, however unjust, rather than striving to defeat them. And it might be a personal-ity fault, but I’m happy to tout my rights, which includes the right to leave a drink without fear, walk at night without paranoia and gen-erally not be expected to predict and then correct the mistakes that strangers would make. It’s not to say that I believe I shouldn’t take any precautions—it’s that I believe taking precautions is entirely my choice, not my obliga-tion. The distinction is small, but incredibly significant.

The strange liability that anti-rape campaigns have endowed on women has been acknowledged and answered with the (tumblr famous!) My Strength poster campaign—which features lines such as “My strength is not for hurting, so when she was too drunk to decide, I decided we wouldn’t”—and the Take Back the Night rallies. It’s a slow mov-ing transformation, but it’s start-ed, with the intention of actively teaching not to rape. After read-ing the recent Statesman articles, it seems our college has difficulty meeting the bare minimums of sexual assault response. My disapproval here comes from a fairly clear place. I believe a class-room discussion of sexual assault should not begin with a question for the girls: “how do you wear your hair at night?”

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 B1Sports Editor / Tom Olsen / [email protected]

Football AugustanaMalosky StadiumSaturday, 6 p.m.

Soccer Southwest Minnesota StateMalosky StadiumSaturday, 1 p.m.

Sioux FallsMalosky StadiumSunday, 1 p.m.

Volleyball Sioux FallsRomano GymFriday, 7 p.m.

Southwest Minnesota StateMarshall, Minn.Saturday, 3 p.m.

Schedule

A look at the week aheadfor UMD Athletics.

All events are subject to change.

BY NICOLE [email protected]

She’s done it again.

Junior volleyball player Kate Lange was the first person at her high school to reach 1,000 kills and is now one of just 16 to have done it for the Bulldogs.

“It’s an amazing feeling,” Lange said. “I looked at all the names on the list after I got it and some of those girls I grew up watching, and one, April Hansen, I was lucky enough to play with, just to be a part of that group, it’s a great honor.”

The 1,000th kill happened against the Uni-versity of Minnesota Crookston Golden Eagles on Saturday, Sept. 8. Lange said she was focused on the game and didn’t realize that she hit the mark until she saw the crowd standing and a teammate explained what was happening.

“I was completely oblivious,” she said.The overall record of 1,847 kills was set by

Vicky Braegelmann in 2007, and although Lange said she is not currently thinking about breaking that record, she is sure to climb the list this season and next.

The individual accolades keep on piling up for the outside hitter. Not only is she a part of the Bulldogs’ 1,000-kill club, but she has also been named 2011 First Team All-American, UMD Bulldog Classic MVP two years running

and was recently named Northern Sun Intercol-legiate Conference Player of the Week.

But the individual awards mean little to Lange compared her team’s success.

“It’s a great honor, and yes the award is in my name, but it’s really in UMD’s,” she said. “It’s our volleyball program’s award. It’s great to be recognized for it, but it’s the school, our club, being recognized for it. I can’t hit the ball if it’s not set to me, and they can’t set it if someone else can’t pass it. It’s a lot of the team stuff for me still.”

Ranked No. 3 in the nation and holding a perfect 11-0 record this season, the young team looks prepared to make a run for the NCAA Division II national championship.

But the ladies know that nothing is guaran-teed.

“Team goal, always, national championship. It’s always in the back of my mind,” Lange said. “I think we still have to take it one game at a time, we can’t get too far ahead of ourselves. We are a younger group so we’re still trying to figure out some things and we just gotta work the kinks out and get used to playing with each other.”

Lange said she is thinking about a future in volleyball after life at UMD.

“It would be great to go on and play, but in the U.S. there aren’t too many opportunities for that, so if it was it would have to be overseas,” she said. “I guess a lot of it has to do with how

my body holds up. I do want to be a college coach one day. I have a coaching minor and a psych major so any way I can combine that.”

No matter what she chooses to do in the future, Lange will always have her place in the UMD record books and her name is not one that will be forgotten quickly by UMD volley-ball fans.

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BY BILL [email protected]

The No. 2-ranked Bulldogs flat outmatched the Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bears Saturday in St. Paul.

The UMD offense throttled Con-cordia for 70 points, scoring touch-downs on their first ten drives, en route to a 70-24 victory.

Central to the success moving the ball was senior quarterback Chase Vogler, who completed 22 of 26 passes for 396 yards and three touchdowns. It was a career day for Vogler, the finest of his perfor-mances as a Bulldog statistically.

Vogler’s accuracy and effec-tiveness early this season has his teammates and opponents taking notice. Easily observable is the increased productivity and cohe-sion the offense has demonstrated under Vogler’s leadership. The Bulldogs’ 675 total offensive yards on the day set a school record for most yards in a single game.

On the receiving end of Vogler’s stud performance were Joe Reichert, who caught a touchdown pass, and Zach Zweifel, who gained 85 yards on five catches.

The offense kept the ball moving and spread it around, rushing 55 times for 365 yards in the contest among eight different ball carri-ers. Vogler paved the way with 100 yards on a dime and two touch-downs, followed by running back Austin Sikorski who ran the ball 11 times for 71 yards and two touch-downs.

On the other side of the ball, the UMD defense contained its oppo-nent.

After the Golden Beards enjoyed moderate success on offense in the first half, the Bulldogs made adjustments during halftime that brought Concordia State’s prog-ress to an immediate end. The unit allowed only thirty yards during the last half of play. A comfortable lead enabled back-up players to spend significant time on the field.

It was all around a valiant per-formance from the Dogs who yet again have shown they are a force to be reckoned with in the NSIC.

Fans can be a part of the action this Saturday when UMD wel-comes Augustana to Bulldog ter-ritory.

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Cole Toepfer, men’s UMD cross-country captain races Carleton’s Marcus Huderle to the finish line at Saturday’s 8k.

Kaelyn Williams, a freshman on the women’s cross-country team, runs strong only yards from the leader at the two-mile-mark. Williams finished seventh with the time of 22 minutes and 50 seconds during Saturday’s 6k race at St. Olaf.

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The UMD cross-country teams, competing at their second meet of the season, put up a strong show-ing Saturday at the St. Olaf Invita-tional in Northfield, Minn.

The men’s team finished third among the 22 competing teams while the women placed fourth out of 24.

Senior captain Cole Toepfer again paced the men, finishing fifth out of 295 competitors in the 8k run with a time of 26:04.6. Sophomore Dan Nielsen placed eighth in that race, posting a time

of 26:15.1.NSIC-rival Minnesota State-

Mankato won on the men’s side with host St. Olaf taking second.

On the women’s side, freshman Kaelyn Williams led the Bulldogs for the second week in a row, cross-ing the finish line seventh in the 6k race with a time of 22.50.0.

Host St. Olaf took the victory in the meet with Mankato and Car-leton College placing just ahead of the Bulldogs.

The cross-country teams will be in action next at the Griak Invita-tional hosted by the University of Minnesota on Sept. 29.

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The Bulldogs volleyball team got its first taste of NSIC action last weekend.

Friday night featured a 3-0 sweep of Northern State. The Bull-dogs dominated the match hitting with an attack percentage of .385 while holding the Wolves to a mod-est .082. Two Bulldog attackers led the way with double-digit kills and the team collected 54 digs. Sopho-more libero Julie Rainey led the back row with a team-high 17 digs.

“It’s always nice to get the first one out of the way,” head coach Jim Boos said, talking about the impor-tance of conference play.

But things got a lot tougher Sat-urday night.

UMD clashed with No. 22-ranked Minnesota State Uni-versity Moorhead, its second-ranked opponent of the sea-son. And it was quite the battle between the Bulldogs and Drag-ons.

It was a rough outing by the entire team. Despite committing many mistakes throughout the game, including 12 service errors and four blocking errors, the Bull-dogs managed to slip away with a narrow victory in five sets.

It was the first time in eight matches where the Bulldogs didn’t

win in straight sets. UMD opened up the first set and set the pace early on, winning 25-19. Then, the tables turned and Moorhead fired back in the second set to draw even.

“Moorhead stepped up their game in the second set and we didn’t respond well,” Boos said. “We were getting pushed and we just broke down. The serv-ing wasn’t good. The ball control wasn’t, either. It was an all-around rough night.”

It started to go from bad to worse. It seemed that the Bulldogs would fall behind two sets to one.

After gaining a slight 8-4 lead, the Bulldogs went into a slump and fell behind 20-24 with the Dragons serving for set point, and control of the match.

Boos called a timeout and imme-diately provided the jump spark the Bulldogs needed as they rallied for six straight points to steal the set 26-24.

“I challenged them to not be pushed around but be the aggres-sor,” Boos said. “I don’t like losing in our gym and with the help of some Moorhead errors, we took advantage and stole the set. From there, we settled down a bit and played better defense.”

UMD lost the fourth set 20-25, but took an early lead in the pivotal fifth set and took charge from there on out.

Four Bulldogs had at least 10 kills in the match. Junior outside hitter Kate Lange leading the way with 29. She also had nine digs. Freshman middle blocker Monica Turner and sophomore middle blocker Maddy Siroin helped lock

down the defense, stuffing the opponents a combined 10 times.

“It’s always nice for them to learn these lessons with a W, than doing it with an L,” Boos said.

Volleyball opens NSIC weekend with a pair of victories BY TOM OLSEN

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A pair of 2-0 conference losses this weekend has dealt a serious setback to the UMD soccer team’s NCAA aspirations.

The Bulldogs suffered losses at the hands of Winona State and Upper Iowa on the road Saturday and Sunday.

With the losses, UMD now sits at 1-4 overall and 0-3 in the NSIC. The Bulldogs had high hopes for the season and were picked to fin-ish third in the NSIC, but are now one of four teams in the conference without a victory.

The weekend got off on the wrong track for the Bulldogs when they dropped a close game to Win-ona. The Bulldogs and Warriors fought hard, but the Warriors put up two goals in the final 23 minutes to sink the Bulldogs.

The two teams were knotted in shots, 11-11, although UMD put eight on goal and Winona put only five on goal.

Looking to rebound the next day in Fayette, Iowa, the Bulldogs were outplayed by Upper Iowa.

The Bulldogs again lost by a 2-0 score, but they faced a barrage of shots – 21 total – from the Pea-cocks.

UMD will again look to get in the win column against an NSIC opponent this weekend. The Bull-dogs host Sioux Falls and South-west Minnesota State this weekend at Malosky Stadium.

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There was no warning. The sin-gle goose slid silently over the trees with its wings already cupped. A slow start to the morning had my hunting partners and me standing up unhidden and in the open. I saw the bird at the last second, already decoying to our small spread of floater and full body goose decoys.

We were hunting an old over-grown gravel pit that we had found north of Duluth. It was Labor Day and class was starting the next day, but after a slow weekend of hunt-ing south of the Twin Cities, we wanted to test our luck in the north woods. We had been scouting the pit for weeks and knew that a few geese had been using it as a roost and a loafing pond.

“Right here!” I frantically whis-pered as I dove to the ground. My

gun was 10 yards behind me in the spot where I should have been sit-ting. But peeking back I saw my partners, Alex Wolf and Chris Wolner, already crouching with guns in hand. The goose banked in harder and hit the sweet spot; front and center.

“Kill’em, guys, kill’em!” I called. Shots rang out and the lone goose hit the flooded gravel pit’s water with a loud smack.

After watching around 40 geese fly out from the pond a little before sunrise we expected that we would have some action later in the morn-ing when the geese came back from feeding. The first goose confirmed that we were in the right spot, so we decided it would be a good idea to stay down behind the natural cover we were using to hide.

As we chatted about the first bird of the morning we suddenly heard the distinctive honk of a fly-

ing goose. Glad that we had some warning, we glanced behind us to see a trio of geese headed in our direction. “Here’s three, headed our way,” I said as I brought my goose call to my mouth. With a few clucks and moans from the call the geese cupped up and started bark-ing back at me excitedly.

As the geese grew closer the lead goose lowered from the bunch and centered up as the pair started pumping their wings. “We better take this single,” I called. Our shot guns again rose and another bird was added to our bag.

While awaiting the next flock of geese to wing our way we all real-ized what an unnatural feeling we were experiencing. The sun was breaking over the trees and it was actually hot, too hot! Most of us think of goose hunting in freezing conditions where we need to wrap up in every piece of warm clothing

we can get our hands on. But, early season goose hunting

changes the rules and stereotypes. We were feeling the complete opposite. Hiding from the sun as much as I could, all I wanted to do was take off my one T-shirt and put some 50 spf on my already red hot, burning neck.

“It’s really crazy what we do to hunt these birds,” I thought to myself as I huddled in my small patch of shade, sweat dripping down my neck. A loud honk from behind us quickly pulled our minds off of the heat. Looking back we saw a pair of geese just above the tree line winging right for our little hole.

The pair knew exactly where they wanted to be. Cupping their wings at the first sight of our decoys, the now-silent geese glided down over the water.

“Take ’em, boys,” I called as the

geese hovered at 20 yards.A few quick shots and the birds

were flopping on the water.After retrieving our birds we

decided that it was time to call it a day. Shirts quickly came off as we picked up our birds, decoys, and boat and headed for the truck. While making the short trek back we realized that we had killed four of the only seven geese we had seen since we had loaded our guns.

Early goose hunting in the north woods is definitely a challenge. Small numbers of geese and the heat can make the hunting very slow. But hard work scouting these birds will pay off with successful hunts; and having success on such a tough day feels so much more rewarding.

“Four out of seven geese,” I chuckled as I started the truck. “Now that’s scrappin’ for north woods honkers.”

Scrappin’ for north woods honkersGeese fly in formation as the sun sets on a fall evening. RACHEL KRAMER/CC

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BY DYLAN [email protected]

In the modern era, we have many different ways to obtain food. There’s the local restaurants, the grocery stores, the fast food chains and even pizza delivery services among other things. But Duluth is somewhat spe-cial in this regard. Duluth has some-thing not many places have. Duluth has something a little more... mobile.

It is known as the Chow Haul, a local food truck that is constantly on the move. Its appearance has become a source of interest. What is this food truck? Where did it come from?

Keith Burgess, one of the people running the truck, relates the gen-esis of the Chow Haul.

“We tried to open a restaurant,” Burgess says.

He says that after a long period of research, his step-father came forward with an idea: why not rent a food truck? His stepfather even offered to fund the project to help them along. And so, the Chow Haul was born.

Of particular interest is the menu itself. Burgess says that the menu is not a static thing, and that it is con-stantly shifting. This is due in part to the supply. The Chow Haul works with local restaurants and the local butcher to get its supply, and so whatever is available at the time is what ends up on the menu. It is all across the board when it comes to food.

“I have more zucchini than I know what to do with,” Burgess says.

He adds lightheartedly that cus-tomers should expect to see zucchini on the menu for a while.

Burgess explains that the Chow Haul is usually out and about in Duluth Tuesday through Saturday. Anyone who wants to check it out only needs to look up their Face-book page or Twitter feed, where they post where they are going to be and for how long. Sundays, Burgess says, are more geared toward events. They serve dinner every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Lunch is served on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Burgess is only one of three people

who work the Chow Haul business. Another is Samara Heim, who typi-cally works the window and is the driver of the Chow Haul.

“I’m pretty good at parallel park-ing ‘The Beast,’” Heim says.

Heim says that the Chow Haul is a lot of work, but she really enjoys the job and meets a lot of new people.

“I had worked in restaurants for over 10 years,” says Heim.

She says she did such things as dishwashing, serving and even man-aging. She joined up with Burgess and one other to begin their search for a new venture, which ended with Burgess’ stepfather offering to fund the Chow Haul.

“Keith and I had been looking for a business venture for some time,” Heim says.

So what’s next for Burgess and Heim? Well, if what Heim says is any indication, people can expect to see the Chow Haul around for some time. Heim speaks very highly of the job, going so far as to say that she would never trade this job for any of her old ones.

“I think it’s amazing,” says Heim.

BY ABBY ROSEN [email protected]

Every day, countless Christmas sweaters, plaid blazers and Zubaz pants are snatched up in thrift stores by people looking to take a little bit of the past home with them. Nick Prueher and Joe Pick-ett took secondhand finds to the next level when they started the Found Footage Festival in 2004. This unique festival experience will be coming to the Zinema 2 on Sept. 20 for a one-night, once-in-a-lifetime show.

Prueher said he and Pickett had been making a documentary called “Dirty Country” and they needed money to complete it.

“We applied for grants but just

didn’t get any. So we thought, ‘How can we make some money and fin-ish our documentary?’” Prueher said. “We thought, well, we have this huge collection of found VHS tapes, and our friends seemed to like it. So what if we just rented out the back of a bar in Manhattan and show our clips and make it a com-edy show.”

The two men started collecting videotapes in 1991 after finding a McDonald’s training video at a store in Wisconsin. Since then, they continued to build their col-lection of found footage from garage sales, thrift stores and dumpsters all while building their careers.

“We figured we’d have friends of friends in the audience. But people really latched onto it for whatever

reason,” Prueher said. “This was in 2004. I think it was just at the right time. This was pre-YouTube, and people hadn’t seen anything like it.”

Pickett is a writer and director and Prueher has worked for David Letterman and written for The Onion and Entertainment Week-ly. With such jobs in the comedy industry and a solid collection of clips behind them, the show is guaranteed to bring more than a few laughs.

“Since we grew up watching bad television and videos and making jokes about it, it’s sort of the thing we trained our whole lives to do,” Prueher said. “It’s the thing we’re most uniquely qualified for.”

Pickett and Prueher will pro-vide the commentary for the show,

blending “Tosh.0” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” into a fresh live theater experience.

“A lot of times the videos just speak for themselves and we don’t need to say anything,” Prueher said.

This year’s festival features a wide variety of clips from across the country, including a 1986 video about ferret care found in Minnesota last year. The illustri-ous lineup also features tapes like “The Sexy Treadmill Workout,” a woman obsessed with craft spong-ing and a special group of clips from classrooms in the 60s and 70s curated by Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks.

“This is stuff that you can’t see anywhere else, including online,” Prueher said. “These are videos

that we physically found. I think a lot of people think, ‘Oh it’s funny YouTube clips.’ But it’s stuff that you can’t see on YouTube.”

The Found Film Festival has sold out hundreds of shows across North America and been featured in The New York and Los Angeles Times. Though the show will only be in town for one night, the FFF can be found twice a week on The Onion’s A.V. Club website as well as in the documentary “Winnebago Man” and in the new book “VHS: Absurd, Odd and Ridiculous Rel-ics from the Videotape Era.” Tick-ets are $10 and can be purchased at the door or in advance at www.foundfootagefest.com.

Food on the move

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BY ELIZABETH [email protected]

Have you ever wondered who Cina is, and why you are walking through his hallway on the way to class?

Cina Hall was built between 1958-59, costing $800,000, and was originally named the “Social Science Building.” In 1958 it was renamed Cina Hall, in honor of Fred A. Cina. A father of three from St. Louis County, Cina served the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1947-62 and 1963-68. While in the House of Representatives he advocated for UMD, as well as supporting other legislators in Duluth and the Iron Range.

Besides serving in the House

of Representatives, Cina served in the navy during WWII, was a municipal attorney on the Iron Range, and served on the board of regents at the University of Min-nesota.

In his later years Cina became a lobbyist, although his lobbying career was not without contro-versy. In the early 1980s he was accused by the U.S. Steel Corp of ethics violations. Cina had threatened punishment of U.S. Steel Corp, unless the company dropped its lawsuit contesting 1982 property taxes.

The hall at UMD is not the only piece of property named after Cina. An elementary school in his birthplace of Aurora, Minn., also bears his name. A successful man, Cina lived until the age of 76.

What’s in a name?[ ]Fred A. Cina

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construct their own ideas and feelings of the songs, which in a way seems daunting seeing as how Marco Benevento throws

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BY SAM [email protected]

For a moment, I just stood root-ed to my spot, unable to move. The air became eerily still and silent. Even the kind-hearted Irish man had stopped mumbling to himself to stare at the scene. It must have been gruesome. I wouldn’t know; I had my eyes squeezed so tightly shut that I could hear a high ring-ing sound in my ears.

I opened my eyes after a second, making sure to avoid the undoubt-edly sickening sight on the side-walk in front of me, and looked up. At the top of the business admin-istration building stood a slim figure. It could have belonged to either a man or a woman, as there were no additional distinguishable features. The figure and I stared at each other for what couldn’t have been longer than a few seconds,

then he or she disappeared beyond my line of sight.

The rest of the night was some-what of a blur. I somehow man-aged to get myself home and in a very hot shower, and I never found any soup to fill my now churning belly. The scalding spray helped me come back into myself, and I reminded myself of the positives; I was alive, I was still me, and I had returned home safely. But, some-one else hadn’t been so fortunate.

As I stepped out into the steam-ing room and toweled myself off, I silently prayed that I had witnessed a suicide, and not a murder. Even so, I should have called the police. I should have stayed with the per-son to see if he or she was alive. I definitely should have kept an eye on the person at the top of the building. Maybe the mysterious, androgynous figure could have provided some kind of assistance.

But, there was nothing I could do about it anymore. It was over.

I pulled on a T-shirt and a pair of shorts and numbly found my way to my bed. I needed a good night of sleep. I would deal with all of this in the morning. Maybe I’d tell someone what I’d seen. Maybe I’d see a report about it on the news the next morning. The police had to have stumbled across the bro-ken person by now, right?

But, as much as my exhausted eyelids wanted to slide closed and put the entire terrible night behind them, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something else was wrong. Like a character in a horror movie, I slowly peeked out from under my covers at the window, where I caught a slim, shadowy figure scampering down the stairs of the fire escape.

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