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This issue covers move-in day parties on College St. and Woodland Ave.TRANSCRIPT
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BY ANNE KUNKEL [email protected]
Aug. 30 was not only move-in day, it was also the first day of the rest of your lives. It marks the first day of many for a chance to explore different worlds, and decide what you want to be or accomplish. Sud-denly your life is full of endless possibilities. What are you most excited for?
“Everything, because I’ll be on my own.” Matt Onarheim
“Being on my own and new experiences. And to make it out of here in four years.” Maclaren Hall
“Change, something new.” Der-ek Anderson
“I’m going to try out for basket-ball.” Zack Haffner
“New friends.” Bebe Waller“Getting a degree in computer
sciences, but mostly getting away from a small town.” Andrew Berg
“I hope they have an outstand-ing academic experience…and that they get involved in the com-munity. I hope they get involved with everything the campus has to offer.” Chancellor Lendley Black
BY ANNE KUNKEL CHRISTIANSON and TOM [email protected]@d.umn.edu
There are many ways new stu-dents are welcomed to their next four years of life at UMD, and upperclassmen partying on the sidewalks along College Street is one of them.
As in past years, numerous par-ties filled yards and driveways along major roads around campus on move-in day Thursday. Stu-dents, many of them drinking, held up signs, played music and hollered to cars passing by.
“I was surprised to see people drinking so early, it made me ner-vous, but I felt a lot better being on campus and seeing security and
police,” said Jolene Miller, who was moving in her daughter.
One group of students hosted a party along Woodland Avenue in front of the Chester Creek build-ing.
“We’re seniors and we’ve been doing it since our freshman year, and I feel like if I were a freshman it would feel welcoming to have peo-ple out here,” said Angie Discher.
Seeing students partying dur-ing move-in day is nothing new to UMD and has bothered adminis-tration for years.
“I wish people would find ways to express themselves in a positive way,” said Chancellor Black. “We want this to be a welcoming com-munity. … We want people to keep things positive.”
But Discher said this year’s par-ties weren’t quite what they were in previous years.
“This is the fewest people I’ve ever seen out here,” she said. “It’s truly not that much fun. It is but it isn’t.”
Discher said the parties are fun for everybody and that it’s not just students enjoying their presence.
“Actually, the people who (honk and wave) are actually like over 70 years old,” she said. “It’s just really strange.”
Even some of the parents enjoyed the welcoming parties.
“We laughed at it, we went to college once too,” said Sara Onar-heim, the parent of an incoming freshman. “It’s not going to go away. It’s been here since the 80s, since we were in school.”
About two dozen other people crowded into a yard on College Street, just off of Woodland Ave-nue. Many held up signs, including one saying, “MILFs drink free.”
“We want to keep it as produc-tive as possible. It saddens me when we see comments on signs that are sexist,” said Black. “Signs like that don’t do anyone any good.”
Students said the signs are meant to be fun.
“Signs aren’t meant to be taken too seriously,” said student Jacques Beaulier, who was attending the party. “We just want to welcome students. … I don’t think they should be offended. If anything, they should be flattered. If you think you’re a MILF, come on over.”
While a Statesman reporter was at the party, three Duluth Police officers pulled up in front of the house and talked to Beaulier and other partygoers. The officers told them to turn down their music due to a complaint by a faculty mem-ber, Beaulier said.
“It’s the middle of the day and we’re just playing music right now. It’s not that disturbing,” Beaulier said. “It’s absolutely ridiculous that they’re targeting college students like this. We’re having a good time, we’re keeping it safe, we’re keeping it legal. Everyone here is over 21, we’re just having a good time. Why do we need to be targeted about this?”
Sonya Haffner thought it looked to be in good fun, but said, “I just hope my son isn’t out there next year.”
Some parents weren’t too con-cerned, though.
“You go past those party people and you see that side of college,” said Mary Thesing, the mother of an incoming freshman. “Then you come move in and see all the students helping and see the other side. It’s diverse, it’s good to see.
BY JULIE [email protected]
For many Minnesotans the end of August means it’s time to head to St. Paul for state fair food and entertainment, and members of UMD’s marching band weren’t about to miss out on the popular food-on-a-stick items.
After a long week of prepara-tion, Band Director Daniel Eaton brought the band, along with Chancellor Lendley Black, to the excitement on Snelling Avenue Aug. 25. The marching band per-formed for fair-goers at a standstill concert outside the University of Minnesota building as well as in the afternoon parade that takes place daily on the fairgrounds.
“It’s a real treat at the end of a long week to go to the fair, have some fun, and eat as much food on a stick as we can,” said Eaton, who started the marching band in 2007 and has been directing ever since. “A lot of the kids give up a lot to be at camp, and I appreciate it, so I want to give back to them.”
Aside from the two performanc-es that also included the UMD dance team and cheerleaders, band members were able to spend their day at the fair doing whatever they chose to do.
“We’ve been going to the State Fair for several years, primarily because the week before we have marching band camp from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.,” said Eaton.
The two-week camp began Aug. 15 for the drum line and color guard, and Aug. 19 for the full band.
“The kids work really, really hard, and this is sort of a team com-radery-building event,” Eaton said.
With years of experience direct-ing high school and collegiate-level marching bands, Eaton has seen
the UMD marching band grow from nearly 35 members when it
began six years ago to the almost 80 members this year. Eaton said nearly 30 new members have joined
UMD band marches into State Fair
Freshmen again greeted by parties on move-in day
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LAUREN BUDGE/STATESMANBethanie Borg, Justin Schoenherr, Ian Craig, and Joe Glaser march in the rain during the August 25 afternoon parade at the state fair.
Signs like these and many others were found along the move-in route. Thursday afternoon.
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It’s only 62 days away.A day the world will surely
remember, Nov. 6, 2012, will be synonymous with our generation. It is the day where we will have the opportunity to vote for our next president.
“Part of a college education is widening your horizons in terms of social issues and government issues, “ said Chancellor Lendley Black, outfitted in a Bulldog Wel-come Week T-shirt. “It’s extremely important that students vote.”
The last thing on any student’s mind their very first week of col-lege is voting. However, many are excited to fulfill their civic duty for the first time.
Thomas Walsh, a freshman from Appleton, Wis., although “not into
politics,” responded assertively that he was planning on voting in his first presidential election.
“A good thing of me coming so far away from home is getting to experience more points of view than what my parents would have normally given me,” said Walsh.
And that is exactly what Chan-cellor Black advises all students to do: get informed for yourself; push aside all the hype and extremism so you can vote intelligently.
“Regardless of someone’s per-spective, regardless of their politi-cal party, we hope that throughout the course of their college educa-tion they’re really deepening their understanding of what’s going on,” said Black.
The university puts a lot of focus on civic engagement. According to Black, this is reflective of the greater Duluth community, which shows a
strong sense of social responsibility and political engagement.
“If you are going to be success-ful in whatever major you choose or career path,” said Chancellor Black, “you’re going to have to have a sense of governmental issues and social issues that surround you.”
Those interested in preparing to cast their vote can follow these simple steps:
Go to UMD’s homepageClick on Campus LifeFind the “Voting Information”
link under Get InvolvedThis link will lead you to the
website of the Minnesota Secre-tary of State Office. Here, you can register to vote, vote absentee, find candidate and voting right infor-mation and more.
BY ANNE KUNKEL [email protected]
Making both students and their parents feel safe was the main goal this weekend, as extra police enforcement patrolled UMD campus and the city over move-in weekend.
“I don’t want to give the appear-ance that we need to be heavy handed,” said Scott Drewlo, UMD Police Director. “Parents dropped off their loved ones this weekend. You want them going away with the feeling that they’re OK leaving their children here.”
Three officers worked over-nights responding to emergency calls, along with one overtime offi-cer in Housing, extra State Patrol troopers, a deputy, and one extra Duluth Police officer patrolling
the campus and Woodland Avenue area. Four extra Duluth Police officers were also on duty around the city.
“We want to make it a safe and comfortable place for students to freely engage and enjoy their experience here,” said Drewlo. “It’s really nothing more than that.”
On any other weekend Drewlo said there are normally three day-time response officers, and one State Patrol that isn’t necessar-ily on campus but will respond if needed. There are no overtime shifts, and any late emergency calls are handled by Duluth City Police.
According to a press release by Duluth’s Public Information Offi-cer Jim Hansen, the extra help and overtime for the weekend was made possible by a grant from the Invitation Health Institute.
BY ANNE KUNKEL [email protected]
This 89-foot-tall sculpture can be found outside of the Swenson Science Building, right before you drive into the bus hub off of College Street. It was designed by interna-tionally known artist John David Mooney, who is most famous for his huge public sculptures.
The largest part of the statue, the moon, is 40 feet in diameter
and built to represent the late sum-mer moon known as the “wild ric-ing moon,” hence the sculpture’s name. A rice stalk—the twisted metal through the moon—with a bird perched on top completes the statue.
Because of its large size, this sculpture took two sessions to raise it up over the course of eight months. The first piece, the moon, was delivered to UMD’s campus in October of 2005. The rice stalk and bird didn’t arrive until June 2006.
this year’s band, which includes instrumentation, color guard, and managerial positions.
“You create such a close relation-ship with everyone in the band,” said Tyler Babneau, who’s been in the band for two years and is cur-rently the head drum major. “It’s the connection you get with the music and performing in front of everyone at the football games that is so awesome.”
The long days of camp include marching, memorizing music, and playing. Babneau said that during the evenings, the various sections of the band compete against one another while marching and play-ing. The winner at the end of the camp wins the band’s infamous “golden zucchini,” an actual zuc-chini traditionally given out during the band camp.
“We always incorporate activi-ties to keep it fun,” said Joe Gla-ser, a junior at UMD who’s been a member of the band since his fresh-man year and is now a captain. “We do things like swimming at Park Point or playing ultimate Frisbee to have fun. And it’s great because everyone that’s here wants to be here and enjoys it.”
Eaton said the band goes to events such as the state fair to recruit members into the marching band. UMD and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have the only collegiate marching bands in the state.
The band will be performing
at all home football games, the Port Wing Fish Boil and Parade in Port Wing, Wis., the Youth in Music Marching Band Show at the Metrodome, the Christmas City of the North Parade, and various oth-er events. When the football sea-son is over, many marching band members play with the pep band at hockey and basketball games.
“Our first and foremost goal is to provide musical support and team spirit for athletics and represent the university the best we possibly can,” Eaton said. “And play ‘The Fight Song’ as much as possible.”
For more information on the UMD marching band, visit www.d.umd.edu/~deaton/march-ingband.
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Dear UMD Students,
Welcome to Fall Semester. This will be my third year at UMD and once again I am energized as the campus comes back to life with the excitement of returning students.
Every day, I appreciate UMD’s uniqueness. For those of you arriv-ing on campus for the first time, you will notice a certain spirit here. The students are authentic. They don’t give up. They work hard.
UMD attracts students that are driven to get things done. I see their efforts in all of our colleges and schools. Many of our business and economics students are entre-preneurs. Many of our theatre majors, both undergraduates and alumni, are performing in nation-ally renowned theater companies. We have a student completing his internship in Washington D.C. in a senator’s office and a student concluding an internship to help make the City of Duluth more energy efficient. Undergraduate and graduate students are working on projects with our Large Lakes Observatory, and students in sev-eral majors are traveling the world to study and to deepen their UMD experience. These leaders join thousands of their classmates who exemplify that UMD educates stu-dents to thrive as lifelong learners and globally engaged citizens.
We also have good news about the success of our recent gradu-ates. Our Office of Career Services
recently finished a survey of 2011 graduates where over 84 percent of them responded. Of those, 93 per-cent were employed or involved in a higher-level educational program within a year of graduation. The majority of graduates who were employed were working in a posi-tion related to their field of study. See what I mean? Our students excel both on campus and as they find their way in the professional world.
This year, I encourage all of you to step outside your comfort zone. Get to know people from differ-ent backgrounds and cultures. Support UMD’s commitment to provide a positive and inclusive campus climate for all by advanc-ing equity, diversity, and social justice. Support our arts events by attending a play or a musical performance. Visit Glensheen, our historic mansion, or the Tweed Museum of Art. Attend lectures and athletic events. This fall, join me for special events celebrating our status as a land-grant and sea-grant university, including a pre-sentation on fresh water and the environment by Robert F. Ken-nedy, Jr., on November 9.
Whatever academic path you take, UMD is here to help you read critically, think independently, and communicate intelligently. Your success is important to our faculty and staff. They are here to help, so don’t be afraid to ask for assistance.
Duluth is an amazing place.
As you spend years here, you will connect with the community that surrounds you. I encourage you to embrace Duluth. Join one of the UMD student service groups and explore the many internships offered by local businesses and non-profits. Duluth will be more than a place – it will become your home. Make the most of your time here to take advantage of every-thing that UMD has to offer you.
I wish all of you academic suc-cess this coming year and best wishes for a productive and enjoy-able UMD journey.
Chancellor Lendley C. “Lynn” Black
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with joe haegBY MATT [email protected]
One of our more popular col-umns in the opinion section last school year was talking nerdy. Unfortunately, our resident nerd god has moved on to bigger and better things after graduating from UMD this past spring.
Being an ubernerd myself, I felt it was to the benefit of everyone to keep this column going. I can only hope that my nerd level is even a fraction of what Joe Haeg was able to bring to all you loyal readers.
So for my very first talking nerdy I am going to go full-on nerd with my love of WWE. I grew up on the product back when it was still called WWF. I was the perfect age of 13-14 during the peak years of the Attitude Era around 1998-1999 (for those of you who can do math, yes, I am old!).
Every Monday night was wrestling night for me. Flipping between WWF’s Monday Night Raw and WCW’s Monday Nitro, it was heaven for a newly teenaged boy. Some of the greatest storylines in the history of wrestling were in
full swing. The nWo and Goldberg were running amok all over WCW and legends Stone Cold Steve Aus-tin and The Rock were trading the WWF belt back and forth. Abso-lute nerdvana for 13-year-old Matt.
Flash forward 13 years and I am still a fan. Steve Austin has been replaced by CM Punk, Shawn Michaels replaced by Daniel Bryan, the Undertaker replaced by… well, no one replaces Taker. The players have changed, and the product is a little more watered down, but every once in a while the show can still shock me.
The Rock returning and taking out WWE’s new golden boy, John Cena, was a year-long wait that fully paid off during the main event of April’s WrestleMania XXVIII. Only the WWE can take this jour-nalist back to his childhood and suspend my disbelief so frequently.
I know that it’s all scripted and “fake.” Give me a little credit there. But come Monday, you can find me kicking back, enjoying a beverage, and getting lost in my three hours of awesomeness that is Monday Night Raw.
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Excellent journalism, re: “An investigation into sexual assault at UMD” and “UMD changing . . . .”
I enjoyed these articles very much—the research, reporting and writing. It makes sense to me that preventive education is cru-cial. The notions that education might be a «quick fix» or that it›s “not useful to teach people about policy and procedure» (referenc-ing quotes from Chancellor Lend-ley Black and Vice Chancellor of Student Life Lisa Erwin, respec-tively, from «UMD changing») seem to me to be questionable
positions when students, and pos-sibly the police, don›t really know what rape is (referencing “An inves-tigation”). If getting a girl (or boy) to comply in a confused situation saturated by drugs and alcohol is not considered to be worth the educational effort—if rape isn›t defined—so that young people, especially would-be perpetrators, come to understand the pain they are bringing to others and (at the very least) the danger to them-selves, then why should anyone make an effort to alter behavior? Why not challenge the view of date rape, read as a «situational trag-edy» for the victim (who really isn›t a victim, according to some, from your article «An Investiga-tion»)? Provide education that makes that point clear and at the same time educate young people about the meaning of the content that appears in all the women›s
bathrooms on campus. I can›t see how the victim can get past the shame and sense of having done something wrong if rape is treated as something to confess and then forget about because the way it was interpreted, it really wasn›t a crime. Meanwhile the perpe-trator, being excused, breathes a sigh of relief over a lesson learned. Wouldn›t education go a long way to prevent that? Are people trying to avoid what›s uncomfortable to hear?
Also, there was an assault of a non-student by a non-student in a non-dorm setting. Why don›t we know more? How many times has this happened on campus? Many of us work in offices during the nights and weekend. We have little infor-mation to guide us on these (new?) developments on campus, as indi-cated in the email of Aug. 29.
BY ILIA [email protected]
As the first day of school is always the same, this one is a bit different. Yes, the familiar panic churns up in the pit of the stomach and we will always flinch at the cost of one semester’s worth of books.
As the feelings are somewhat the same, this particular fall brings, for most seniors, anxiety and hope-fully a bit of motivation to get some last A’s on that APAS report.
The differences hit us in little ways throughout the day. The first day of freshman year was filled with new faces and new places. Now the word “humanities” doesn’t evoke the same feeling of confusion and
lecture halls no longer feel like you’re going into the lion’s keep.
The halls look the same as they did four years ago and everyone in UMD garb still avoids eye con-tact, but our minds are no longer focused on finding a classroom, they’re now occupied by thoughts of the future, daunting thoughts at that.
My best advice would be to relax if you don’t have your career path drawn on a map just yet, life is a journey and worry just adds pot-holes, I think us UMD students have had enough experience with potholes to know that we hate them.
This time though, it’s a bit dif-ferent. It hit me just an hour before
my first class that this was in fact, my last first class, ever. Whenever it was that it hit all you seniors I’m sure it was like a ton of bricks.
Those feelings that crept up like clockwork will never be felt again; at least I hope they won’t. What I want you all to remember is that (sing-song) we’re all in this togeth-er.
After four (or more) years of col-lege we are about to be eaten up by the real world and hopefully not spit out.
I wish you all luck in the last few credits of your college career and even more luck in the world that awaits you.
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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 B1Sports Editor / Tom Olsen / [email protected]
BY TOM [email protected]
The UMD football team has fall-
en into a pattern over the past four seasons.
After winning the Division II national championship in 2008, the Bulldogs fell in the NCAA quarterfinals in 2009. They claimed a second national title in 2010, but again exited the 2011 playoffs in the quarterfinals.
And the Bulldogs are in good position to claim a third national title this year: The American Foot-ball Coaches Association cur-rently ranks them as the no. 2 team in the country and Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference coach-es have picked them to win a fifth consecutive conference title.
“I don’t think our guys look at it as pressure,” said head coach Bob Nielson. “That’s what we want our expectation to be every year and we understand that it’s going to take hard work and improvement every day to realize that goal.”
The Bulldogs’ schedule features 11 games, all within the NSIC. Six will be at home and five on the road.
“I think the first part of our con-ference schedule is going to tell us a lot about our football team,” Nielson said. “You look at our early
conference schedule and if you believe the preseason poll, we’re playing four of the top five teams in the first six weeks of our schedule, so we’ve got to be a good football team from the very beginning.”
Last year’s graduating class was arguably the greatest in school his-tory, but this year’s team, captained by five seniors, is determined to return to D2’s biggest stage.
Chase Vogler, a fourth-year starting quarterback, will again lead UMD’s offense. The senior co-captain has rushed for more yards than any quarterback in school his-tory and is third all-time in passing yards.
“Chase is a very important part of our offense,” Nielson said. “He’s demonstrated his ability to be a playmaker and create offense. He’s the kind of guy that makes our offense go. We just need to make sure that our complementary peo-ple continue to perform around him.”
A lack of offense was an issue at times last season for the Bulldogs, but Vogler said he feels comfort-able with the players around him.
“Our offensive line is what it starts with,” Vogler said. “They’re very solid this year and I’m excit-ed to be behind those guys. And we’ve got a great group of run-ning backs and receivers and tight ends. I think we’ve got the mold to
be a great offense. It’s just execut-ing and playing smart and playing within our system.”
The Bulldogs will have some youth on the offensive line, but it will be led by senior co-captain Garth Heikkinen and senior Jake Bscherer, who transferred to UMD after three seasons at the Universi-ty of Wisconsin.
The Bulldogs will have senior Collin Stinogel and junior Joe Reichert at wide receiver, but they will be joined by a fairly young group, including Zach Zweifel and Aaron Roth, both of whom saw sig-nificant playing time as true fresh-men last season. Senior co-captain Ben Helmer is slated to receive most of the snaps at tight end.
On the ground, the Bulldogs welcome back sophomore Austin Sikorski, who missed the end of last season with a knee injury. He will be joined by fellow sophomore Brian Lucas, who ran for eight touchdowns as a true freshman last year.
The defense will feature the return of defensive end Joe Akey, who missed most of 2011 with a knee injury. Senior defensive back Cam Harper, a fellow co-captain, will also take on a leadership role.
“Our expectations are really high, especially with our defen-sive coordinator John Steger com-ing back after being gone for two
years,” Harper said. “I know his expectations for us are always high.”
The Bulldogs will have an expe-rienced defensive line, includ-ing Akey and juniors Chris Vandervest, Travis Nordhus and Kenny Chowa. But UMD will have a young set of linebackers with junior Colby Ring the only return-ing starter.
On special teams, the Bulldogs will have to respond to the loss of four-year starting kicker David Nadeau, who holds almost all of the school’s kicking records. Tak-ing over will be Andrew Brees, a freshman who was redshirted last season.
The Bulldogs, who are 52-5 since 2008, may be heavily favored to win the NSIC again, but the play-ers say they aren’t taking anything for granted.
“We’re kind of used to (the pres-sure), but we put pressure on our-selves,” Vogler said. “We don’t put much stock in a preseason poll. Preseason polls don’t mean any-thing. You just kind of go with it and it all depends how you finish. We can be first now but our real goal is to be first at the end of the year and be the best team in the conference and in the country.”
But how sweet would it be for Vogler to cap off his senior year with another national title?
“About as good as it can get.”. We can be first now but our real
goal is to be first at the end of the year and be the best team in the conference and in the country.”
But how sweet would it be for Vogler to cap off his senior year with another national title?
“About as good as it can get.”
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STATESMAN ARCHIVES
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Football team takes aim at fifth conference title, third national title
Bulldogs roll to first win The Bulldogs started off the
season in the right fashion, beating Southwest Minnesota State by the score of 45-20 Thursday night in Marshall, Minn. It was a close one at halftime, 18-13 UMD, but the Bulldogs pulled away with 27 points in the final two quar-ters.
Senior quarterback Chase Vogler went 17-for-29 with 236 passing yards and 2 touch-downs in the air.
Sophomore wide receiver Zach Zweifel and freshman wide receiver Justin Fowlkes caught the touchdown pass-es from Vogler. Sophomore running back Austin Sikorski rushed for two touchdowns and 61 yards while freshman running back Logan Lauters ran for a touchdown and 111 yards on nine carries.
BY TOM [email protected]
The UMD Recreational Sports
Outdoor Program is hosting its first-ever Sports Club (RSOP) Pre-view Week starting this Thursday.
UMD has more than 20 club sports, which are student-run orga-
nizations. Many of the clubs will be holding meet-and-greet, infor-mational sessions for interested students this week and next week.
“My goal in creating this event wasn’t completely based on mar-keting,” said Sports Club Coordi-nator Derek Donlevy, “but rather creating a welcoming environment
that removes the intimidation fac-tor of joining a student organiza-tion with complete strangers who already know each other in an activity some students may have never tried before.”
Club sports offer students the opportunity to compete in tradi-tional individual team and indi-
vidual sports like hockey and wres-tling, but also less common sports like Capoeira and broomball.
For more information and a list of sports and meeting information, visit the RSOP website at www.umdrsop.com or contact Donlevy at [email protected].
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BY TOM [email protected]
The UMD volleyball team lost
three starters from last season and 11 of the 15 players this year are freshmen and sophomores, but that’s not stopping the Bulldogs from being optimistic.
The Bulldogs went 28-4 last season before a disappointing loss in the NCAA Division II playoffs. Despite having a young team, UMD is still picked to finish sec-ond in the conference by Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference coaches and is currently ranked no. 6 in the nation by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.
“There’s going to be a bit of a learning curve for us this year and maybe we’re not going to jump out as quickly as we have the last few years,” said head coach Jim Boos. “It might take us a little time to figure it all out and get going but ultimately we want to be peaking at the right time at the end of the year and give ourselves a chance.”
For the ninth consecutive sea-son, NSIC coaches chose Concor-dia-St. Paul to win the conference. The Golden Bears were a thorn in UMD’s side last year, handing the Bulldogs their first loss after a 25-0 start and later knocking them out of the NCAA tournament.
“Games like that never really leave your mind,” said senior mid-dle blocker Kalli Lochner. “You always want to get back at them. But in our region it’s always going to be good competition, so regard-less of who we play, we come ready to play and we’re ready to get out of the region for once.”
The team includes just two seniors, Lochner and defensive specialist Samantha Hertaus, and two juniors, outside hitter Kate Lange and defensive specialist Elizabeth Benusa. Six sophomores and five freshmen round out the roster.
“We have a great group of girls helping out the younger girls and the younger girls are willing to come in and try our system and get used to it,” Lange said.
Lange figures to lead UMD’s offense this year. The Hibbing native has 854 kills in her first two seasons, including an NSIC-lead-ing 528 in 2011.
Lochner is another fixture on offense. In her first year as a starter
last season, Lochner recorded 281 kills and 97 blocks.
Beyond that, much of the start-ing lineup is not set in stone. Boos stressed that he plans to evaluate the team and start the best players.
“I’m a believer that you play your play your best six kids, regardless of who you played the year before,” he said. “That’s really what we’ve got to do is figure out who those best six are and it’s going to make for some good practices because they’ll know they’re in competi-tion.”
The team has a home-heavy schedule at the beginning of the season, including hosting a six-team tournament, but the team will have some long road trips to make later in the season. In Octo-ber, the team will have to travel to Bismarck and Minot, N.D., one weekend; and Sioux Falls, S.D., and Wayne, Neb., the next.
The NSIC is undergoing some changes this year. With the addi-tion of Minot State University and the University of Sioux Falls, the conference will hold a tourna-ment for the first time since UMD rejoined the conference.
“Instead of closing and going right into the playoffs perhaps, now
we’ll be looking at the potential of trying to get into a tournament and having to play some of those teams again for a conference title,” Boos said. “So it changes what our goals are and how it all works. It makes things a little bit more interesting.”
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BY TOM [email protected]
The UMD soccer team narrowly
missed the NCAA tournament last year, but the Bulldogs were left with plenty of optimism for the future.
Only one player, Reegan Lloyd, graduated, leaving the Bulldogs with more than 90 percent of last year’s team. Now with an experi-enced group of players, the team is hoping to qualify for its first NCAA Division II tournament since 2009.
“We’ve all played together and we’re just ready for a great year,” said sophomore forward Maureen Stormont. “We’re on same ground when we play. We love our team so much that our support system is just off the wall. We’re deep with experience.”
NSIC coaches took notice of UMD’s depth and experience, picking the Bulldogs to finish third in the conference, behind Minne-sota State-Mankato and Winona State.
Stormont says the Bulldogs are right where they want to be.
“Being voted third is a good thing for us,” she said. “It’s nice to not be first or second. We’re not going to totally have a target on our back, but we’re going to come out running. Our expectation is just to finish higher than third and I think we will.”
Stormont will be a key part of UMD’s offense this season. She exploded on the scene as a fresh-man and led the team in points in 2011. Stormont scored 10 goals and added six assists for a total of 26 points last season, sixth best in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.
“I’m not shooting to beat those numbers in any way,” she said. “My personal goal is to be a better all-around player.”
UMD’s second and third leading scorers, sophomore Jennifer Smith and junior Dani Potter, respective-
ly, will also play key roles for the Bulldogs’ offense.
Leading the defense will be team captain Kristi Mehrman, who helped hold opponents to 1.33 goals per game last season.
“I just try to lead by example and try to be optimistic about the season and look forward to every game,” Mehrman said.
Senior goalkeeper Hanna Iaiz-zo, who recorded six shutouts and a 1.30 goals against average last season, will also bolster UMD’s defense.
The Bulldogs say they’re not tak-ing any games for granted.
“Winona and Mankato are always good competition,” Meh-rman said. “All the teams we play are always big. They will all be challenging games.”
Last year, UMD’s season came to an end at the hands of Mankato in the NSIC tournament semifi-nals. Although Mankato was again picked to win the conference title, the Bulldogs aren’t forgetting what happened last year.
“During the offseason we thought about it,” Stormont said. “This year we are going to improve. We’re definitely going to beat Mankato.”
Experienced soccer team anxious to return to the NCAA tournament
Young volleyball team looking for redemption
Volleyball sweeps opening tournament
The UMD volleyball season couldn’t have gotten off to a better start. The Bulldogs went a perfect 4-0 at the sea-son opening Days Inn Bulldog Invitational hosted by Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo on Friday and Saturday.
The Bulldogs defeated McKendree University in a nail-biter, three sets to two, before sweeping Truman State, taking three of four sets from Ashland University and sweeping the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Junior outside hitter Kate Lange and senior middle blocker Kalli Lochner were named to the All-Tournament Team at the six-school tourna-ment. Lange lead the tourna-ment with 72 kills and Lochner added 42 more.
STATESMAN ARCHIVES
STATESMAN ARCHIVES
Bulldogs get first victoryThe Bulldogs came flying
out of the gate in their first game Thursday, easily han-dling Northern Michigan University, 4-0, in a non-con-ference game in Marquette, Mich.
Sophomore midfielder Jen-nifer Smith, junior forward Dani Potter, junior midfielder Sally Stromme and sopho-more midfielder Katie Schnei-der all netted goals for the Bulldogs in the victory.
UMD dominated in the shots category, 14-5, and senior goalkeeper Hanna Iaiz-zo was only required to make one save during the match.
BY BILL [email protected]
ew faces, expectations and chal-lenges lie ahead for the UMD men’s and women’s cross country teams.
WOMEN’S TEAM BRINGS
FRESH TALENT
After a commendable campaign in 2011 that featured an appear-ance at the National Champion-ships in Spokane, Wash., the wom-en runners aim to continue their success from last season this fall. With the loss of top runner Mor-gan Place, the Bulldog women face a significant challenge in replacing her position on the team, as a prov-en performer and leader.
Coach Joanna Warmington looks to the promising talent taken notice of in her new freshman run-ners. Impressed with their abili-ties, she remarks on what she has seen from them as “amazing.”
After spending time with the group, Warmington reflects on what she expects from her squad this year: “I feel we will have a different kind of team this year. I think with confidence and guid-ance from our upperclassmen, the freshmen can step in and do great things.”
One can easily observe from Warmington’s prospective outlook on the season that she trusts the foundation of her team, the core of it already established in returning
runners. A strength of this year’s team is the ability of runners to run together in a pack.
“If we can keep our top seven in a tight group with a small time spread from our first runner through the fifth, we will have a great shot at doing wonderful things” Warmington said.
MEN’S TEAM AIMS
FOR CONFERENCE AND REGIONAL SUCCESS
The UMD men look to build
on the progression they made last season and successfully transition to new runners after losing four of their top six.
Freshmen Joey Erickson and Mitch Fisher are both expected to contribute significantly moving forward. Coaching and condition-ing these fresh legs will be a criti-cal component to the success of the team this season. Coach Paul Nisius has his team focused on improving in preparation for com-petition.
“I am hoping for a top-three fin-ish at the conference meet,” said Nisius. “Our main goal is to be peaking and running our best for the final two meets of the year in late October and early November, along with the conference and regional meets.”
The men’s and women’s teams will both open their seasons Satur-day afternoon at the Oz Memorial in Minneapolis, hosted by the Uni-versity of Minnesota.
Cross country teams young, but hopeful
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 B2 OUTDOORS Outdoors Editor / Eric Lemke / [email protected]
BY ERIC [email protected]
The rope slid silently through the belay device, quivering slightly every time it became taught. It sucked up, inch by inch, the tightly woven green and black cord as the climber on the other end of it slow-ly progressed up the rocky crag.
“Maybe try moving to the left,” yelled belayer Jack Peterson to climber Kyra Harty. “That rock looks like a better place for your foot.”
Peterson, from Roseville, Minn., and Harty, from Proctor, Minn., were part of a group of freshmen that signed up for Recreational Sports Outdoor Program, RSOP’s, annual freshman trip. RSOP leads groups of incoming freshmen into the woods of the northland each year to experience everything from hiking the Superior Hiking Trail to sea kayaking the Apostle Islands. These trips are meant to introduce freshmen to each other before the Bulldog Bash weekend and let them experience a small taste of the adventures the north woods have to offer.
The two were among 12 of us that ventured up the north shore to explore the many unique climb-ing locations along it. The group was led by Nick Rorem and Taylor Moore, both of UMD’s RSOP pro-gram. The first day of the trip was traversing the face of Silver Creek Cliff, just north of Two Harbors, Minn.
The rock face itself was a layer cake of dark gray slabs. Pummeled by eons of harsh north shore win-ters and relentless driving winds, the rock had eroded over billions of years to form a sheer cliff that offered handholds and crags to only those with a keen eye.
“It’s harder than it looks,” said Kayla Docken of Owatonna, Minn.
Most of the 12 newcomers were inexperienced climbers with little to no practice scaling outdoor walls. Unlike climbing indoors, natural walls do not offer the con-venience of easy handholds and rest points. The rough rock can tear away at hands and can cut and scrape knees and elbows; the dark rock is unforgiving.
The effort was the reward, how-ever. For those brave individu-als willing to make the ascent to the top of the cliff were rewarded with breathtaking views of Lake Superior. The crystal-clear water sparkled far below as the climbers took a momentary break before the descent back down the wall.
The practice of climbing is a demonstration of trust between belayer—the person standing on the ground controlling the ten-sion on the rope and responsible for catching their climber if they fall—and the climber. Everyone in the group was told of the contract that exists between the climber and belayer and how important constant communication is.
The intricate dance of belayer and climber brought the 12 strang-ers together very quickly. Each per-son became intimately acquainted with their fellow climbers as they
learned to trust one another. When someone would become stuck on a section of wall, they would look to their partner for advice on where to place a foot or to spot a hand-hold that they couldn’t see.
The end of the first day found us sitting in a campsite in the Finland State Forest, staring into the lick-ing flames of a campfire and enjoy-ing a hearty dinner. The evening hours were whiled away playing countless games of hacky sack, and giving the slackline that had been strung between trees a try. Once darkness settled we watched shooting stars burn across the sky and looked for Cassiopeia and Andromeda as they made their appearance over the treeline.
The second day involved a hike for what seemed like an eternity into a foreboding location named “Section 13.” The routes on Sec-tion 13 involve a harrowing rappel over the side of a cliff and an equal-ly terrifying climb back up.
That day tested the courage of even the bravest soul.
One by one, each person went over the side of the cliff and made the descent down and one by one they climbed back up, always look-ing relieved as they hoisted them-selves over the edge of the cliff.
“That was really tough,” said Julian Deve of Minneapolis. “It’s as difficult as it looks.”
“That was challenging,” said Jack Forsman as he slumped against
a rock shaking out his arms after climbing.
Fellow climbers inched danger-ously close to the edge of the cliff to try and get a better view. They yelled encouraging words to their comrades.
“You can do it,” yelled Jordan Decker of Waconia, Minn.
As challenging as Section 13 appeared, it was nothing com-pared to the following day’s climb at Shovel Point, a rocky peninsula that juts into Lake Superior. Shovel Point offers the same rappel/climb as Section 13 with the added chal-lenge of rappelling down some 200 feet into ice cold Lake Superior
water.By the end of the trip, the 12
strangers that had met just three days earlier joked like old friends, smiling and laughing like they had known each other for years.
“That was pretty cool,” said Forsman. “Tough, but cool.”
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The group of climbers poses for a photo at “Section 13.” ERIC LEMKE/STATESMAN
Kyra Harty climbs a route at Silver Creek Cliff.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 B4STUDENT LIFE Student Life Editor / Kaitlin Lokowich / [email protected]
BY ANGIE [email protected]
College students are famous for trying to save money any way they can, and getting textbooks for classes isn’t any different.
Once students register for class-es, they have to figure out what textbooks they will need for the classes they are taking and how they can get their hands on them.
“The professors tell us what books they need through an order process or email and we contact our wholesale company for prices,” Jeffrey Romano said.
Romano is the UMD bookstore departmental director. He is your go-to guy for textbooks at UMD.
Once the bookstore gets the information about the books, they have to figure out how many they need for each course for the semes-ter. They get this information by looking at how many students are
signed up for the courses and also if the book has been used at UMD before. Then the textbooks become available to rent or buy in the book-store.
In the last couple of years UMD has added renting to the options students have. Students can go into the bookstore and rent books or reserve them to be rented online. In spring 2012 there were 119 titles available to rent.
“We’re hoping to expand that to more,” said Romano.
The bookstore has to have a com-mitment that the book will be used for four to six semesters before they can rent it. With books always changing and getting new editions, this is hard for some subjects.
“We send a book list to the wholesaler and they tell us which books they will buy back from us at the end of the semester so that we can rent them,” said Alice Ridgewell, UMD senior bookstore manager.
“It’s about a 53 percent dis-count,” said Romano.
In one year, from April 2011 to April 2012, the UMD bookstore rented 1,106 books. With students trying to save money any way they can, you would think more of them would be renting books.
The UMD Student Associa-tion did a survey about textbooks, which included students from every grade level. This survey showed that half of the students surveyed got their books from the UMD bookstore. Of the students surveyed, only 19 percent said that they rent their textbooks. The Stu-dent Association found that people are somewhat interested in renting textbooks and found that 45 per-cent of the students may be inter-ested in renting textbooks in the future.
UMD student Alex Culp went to buy his textbook for Reporting and Writing and saw it was available to rent. He decided he would pick
that option instead of buying it.“It was far cheaper,” said Culp.Culp said that renting from
UMD is probably a lot easier. Culp has rented textbooks from Chegg, an online wholesaler that rents textbooks to students.
“Last year I rented a book off Chegg and I forgot I rented it and sold it back to UMD,” said Culp.
The book ended up costing him the rental fee and the whole price of the book, which added up to a lot. Now Culp recommends keep-ing track of your books and taking care of them.
Students line up to sell back their books at the end of the semester, counting their cash as they walk out.
“It sucks not being about to sell it back and get the money,” said Culp, “but it saves money in the long run.”
Minus The Bear’s ‘Infinity Overhead’ Album Review
The Seattle-based band, Minus The Bear, are back with their fifth studio album and packing a punch with those post-rock tainted gui-tar riffs and progressions fans have known since the Bear’s debut in 2002. For Matt Bayles, the for-mer keyboardist who decided to leave the band to focus on pro-ducing, this is his third produced album with Minus The Bear, which subsequently is how we get “Infinity Overhead.” As expected by Minus The Bear, each track displays diverse elements, either by the introduction of distinctive rhythm instrument, like in “List-ing,” where a violin appears to har-monize with Jake Snider’s extend-ed vocals at the bridge “Sometime I forget/ Just for a bit”, or by twist-ing and expanding in the song’s structure, like after each chorus of “Toska.” The album is full of uniquely charming and origi-nal tunes, like where the “Cold Company” intro reminds me of a synth-laden Guns & Roses song and “Heaven Is a Ghost Town” has a mysterious message that the lis-tener can choose to interpret, and so on. A good song to represent the album would have to be “Empty Party Rooms,” since it illustrates every member’s talents, from the obvious features, like Jake Snid-er’s smooth, harmonizing voice being supported by backup vocals and Eric Tate’s drum rhythms, to Dave Knudson’s artistic guitar additions and the new keyboard-ist Alex Rose’s fitting and tasteful synths. All around, the album is an exciting and adventurous addition to Minus The Bear’s showcase.
Interesting fact: The name of the band originated from when a friend of the band went on a date, and replied to “how was the date?” by saying “You know that 70’s show B.J. and the Bear? It was like that… minus the bear.”
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Recommended Tracks: “Dia-mond Lightning,” “Listing,” “Empty Party Rooms,”
“Cold Company”
BY SAM [email protected]
Full-time blogger, student, and sandwich enthusiast. Part-time stockroom attendant.
It wasn’t a glorious job, nor was it particularly rewarding. But, for what it was worth, I was damn good at what I did.
When I first moved away to col-lege, I found a job at a local café as a stockroom attendant. It was fairly simple, really; all I had to do was write down how many boxes of what we had and stack cardboard cubes and rectangular prisms in
a semi-organized fashion. I never had to wrestle with inappropriate customers, argue with suppliers, or burn my fingers picking up hot bagels. I was content to just mean-der back and forth between the delivery trucks and the stockroom, organizing and singing quietly to myself where no one would judge me. And that was exactly the way I liked it.
I had just moved into my new apartment with the roommate I had been assigned freshman year, Katherine Holt. We chose to live together again, not because we were such dear friends, but rather because we preferred not to bother
with finding other companions. We knew each other’s habits. She showered at night, I showered in the morning. She cooked micro-wave meals, I was crazy about the oven. Mostly, we just kept out of each other’s way.
The only topic on which Kate and I severely disagreed was gentle-men. Her boyfriend, Lucas Cark-ing, decided that our apartment was nicer than his approximately two days after we moved in and, though he paid no rent and ate all of our food, he was our third room-mate. Had I known I was signing up to live with a man, I would cer-tainly have packed more air fresh-ener. Overall, though, Lucas was polite and relatively unsmelly, and he and I shared a sincere love for divine cuisine.
In addition to my majestic stock-room job, I religiously updated a food blog. I had a reader base of roughly one thousand regulars, plus a growing number of casual readers who refused to subscribe to my updates. When I wasn’t study-
ing and he wasn’t busy combining faces with my roommate, Lucas and I liked to travel downtown to all of the hipster haunts and find the greatest, cheapest food we could. It was on one of these pur-suits that I learned that I would be studying more than brain process-es and psychological theories dur-ing my junior year.
One September night, at approx-imately 10:15, I was searching the chilly streets for a place to find a late-night cup of soup when I came across a shivering homeless man. I dug two dollars out of my pocket and deposited them in his hand. He looked up at me and a wide, tooth-less grin spread across his face.
“You’re a pretty girl,” He rasped in a strong Irish accent. “Stay away from this area at night, eh? Don’ wan’ t’ see anything yer not s’posed to.”
I nodded politely and turned to stroll away when I heard a loud, sharp scream and saw a human-shaped object plummet to the ground in front of me and splatter.
Volunteers for the “Vote No” campagin [From left to right]: Lynn Youngblom, Katy Fredrickson, and Jamie Rosenthal greet students in Kirby Lounge for the rally.
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Over the past few months it has been tough not to notice the “Vote No” campaign signs and stickers advocating Minnesotans to get out and cast a ballot in favor of all families.
The “Vote No” campaign is sponsored by Minnesotans Unit-ed for All Families. The coalition aims to defeat the constitutional amendment on the ballot this November, which will ban gay marriage in Minnesota. According to their website the organization (mnunited.org) believes in work-ing together, bettering the com-munity, and that marriage matters to all.
“Right now, I think we’re in this really unique spot in our state to make history,” said Kate Brick-man, press secretary for Minne-sota United. “Thirty states before us have approved measures like this that basically say that same sex couples do not have the same free-doms as everyone else.”
UMD held a rally Tuesday, Sept. 4 in the Kirby Lounge, kicking off a statewide “Uniting for All Fami-lies” tour, featuring speaker Zach Wahls.
Whals spoke to the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in a public hearing on the proposed consti-tutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa. A video of his testimony posted on YouTube went viral, had more than 1.5 mil-lion views within two weeks, and exceeded 15 million views over the next few months.
“When I testified before the Iowa Legislature, I had never spo-ken out publicly about having gay parents,” Wahls said. “It was after the video sort of blew up and I started hearing from people who were like ‘Wow, this video changed my mind,’ or ‘changed my uncle or brother’s minds,’ that I started to realize there is something special here, something powerful here,
let’s use it,” Wahls continued.Wahls is traveling the state to
spark conversations among Min-nesotans about what marriage means, speaking about his moms and his family, and about the abil-ity of gay and lesbian parents to raise healthy, successful children.
“At first it was terrifying to have millions of strangers have this inti-mate look into your life,” he said. “It took a little while for me to kind of get my feet back underneath myself and really understand the resonance that this story had.”
Wahls urged UMD students to
stand up for Minnesota families and get involved in the efforts to defeat the proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Minnesota on the ballot this November.
“This is about deciding whether or not we as Midwesterners, as
Americans, want to say that a cer-tain class of people deserves a cer-tain kind of recognition and a cer-tain class of people doesn’t,” Wahls said. “This is about whether or not we truly believe that all men and women are created equal.”
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Facebook: It’s not just for stay-ing in touch with friends and fam-ily anymore. It seems like more students and professors are finding themselves “friending” each other on the social media site.
Facebook is a new way for pro-fessors and students to communi-cate and get to know each other on a more personal level.
“Social media has turned into a two-way communication sys-tem,” said Aaron Boyson, associate professor in the Communication Department here at UMD. “It gives people the chance to com-municate through a different medium.”
Most students here at UMD would say their professors have always been open and friendly with them—well, most of them anyways. Now they have taken that to another level by becom-ing friends and communicating with former and current students through Facebook. Professors are able to catch up and stay in contact with their students with whom they have connected over the years.
Some professors are even using Facebook as a teaching tool in their classroom. Students can chat about questions or assignments with their professors by using the chat feature on Facebook, and pro-fessors can even create their own group page for a certain class and hold discussions.
Recently, Facebook just launched a feature called “Groups for Schools.” People with “.edu” email addresses are the only ones who can access this new feature. It gives more privacy to both the stu-dent and professor and allows for more ways to communicate with each other.
Communication Professor Ryan Goei says he is friends with both past and present students on Face-book. He rarely searches for stu-dents; they usually will “friend” him and he almost always con-firms it. He has also used Facebook in the classroom in the past but he noted it didn’t really work well and it’s becoming less useful because of other online teaching methods like Moodle and Web Vista.
“I like caring what they are doing, what jobs they have after they graduate, and having that intimate relationship with them,” said Goei.
However, he has had to delete or “unfriend,” in Facebook terms, students because of negative or scandalous Facebook posts.
Not everyone, though, likes the idea of being friends with a profes-sor on Facebook. Some students think it is weird being friends with one of your professors and believe you should only have a profession-al relationship with them.
Anne Broberg, a sophomore at UMD, is one of those students who thinks professors and stu-dents should not interact with one another on Facebook.
“Once I graduate I would be
open about becoming friends with professors, so I would be able to stay connected and be in contact with them,” said Broberg. “I just do not think it’s a good thing or idea when in school.”
UMD does have set guidelines when it comes to social network-ing sites. They are found under the Information Technology Systems and Services. The main points of the guidelines are: make sure you keep personal information and identity private, carefully consider who you want to be friends with, whether it’s a student or faculty
member, protect your reputation and the university’s, and no cyber-bullying.
“Note that these are guidelines rather than policy, as there is no way the university could provide oversight for the entire social networking realm,” said Linda Deneen, director of UMD’s Infor-mation Technology & Library Systems and Services, who helped draft these guidelines.
Some people might ask why it’s a guideline and not a policy. Also, they might be interested in know-ing that the main University of
Minnesota campus in the Twin Cities does not even have guide-lines when it comes to Facebook and other social media sites.
“They are guidelines and not pol-icies because most social network sites are not university sites, except for Google+,” said Deneen. “So the guidelines are designed to advise people about safe behavior.”
Currently, UMD has no plans to add any more guidelines to regu-late the use of social media within the university.
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On July 8, 2012, I woke up ear-ly to practice carrying all of my belongings myself. In the weeks that led up to this date, I had spent numerous hours consolidating my possessions, researching South Africa and coming to terms with the fact that my lifestyle was going to undergo a dramatic change.
Now that July 8 had arrived, I realized that my support team (mom, good friends, Steve, puppy and 16-year-old cat) weren’t going to be around to help me lug suit-cases from terminal to terminal in the two days of travel that was now nearly upon me. Calling upon the skills I’d acquired from hours of Tetris as a kid, I carefully stacked my suitcases and pushed them slowly across the carpet of the hotel room. Pleased with my six-foot progress, I paused to admire my handiwork, only to have my suitcases tumble to the ground.
“You have too much stuff.” Came the cranky grumble from one of the double beds. Steve sat up, rubbed his eyes, and took in the struggle.
He was right, but I was stubborn. The reaction I got from friends
and family when I explained where I was headed for the next half year was more or less unvaried: dis-belief. WHY South Africa? Well, believe me, it took a lot of mental preparation—I applied and was accepted three times and only managed to go through with it the third time—but my heart was set on an abnormal college study abroad experience. South Africa is a developing country, which means that it actually has a lot of the luxuries that we, as Americans, are accustomed to. They are just much different.
I was headed to study at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, which is a city of 200,000 people in the city and over a million in the surrounding metro, all right on the Indian Ocean. My flight from Minneapolis to Port Elizabeth was 17 hours with a stop in New York and a stop in Johannesburg, dur-ing which I had plenty of time to panic and question my decision (as well as experience all of my limbs falling asleep at once and terrible, awful, airplane breakfast). Upon arrival in Port Elizabeth, the third-world aspects of South Africa were not immediately obvious.
1. It’s COLD. When I arrived in July, it was the dead of winter, which is the most laughable thing to someone who has ever expe-rienced a Minnesota winter, but South Africans do not believe in heating and the wind that whips through Port Elizabeth 24/7 goes right through the thin walls of my flat. Everything was constantly damp (my bed and blankets, my
towels, my clothes from being out-side, the carpeting in my flat) due to the seasonal rains. It was several weeks before I felt warm again.
2. People move very slowly. From the steady stream of mean-dering students I surpass on my 2 km walk to school every morn-ing, to the standard 15-minute wait for coffee. And I mean a full 15 minutes, not the “like 15 min-ute” wait we complain about in the U.S. Every single thing you must do each day that involves a service or working with other people is a huge process. Going out to eat is a three-hour event, signing up for computer lab use is a privilege that you must spend an hour running around campus to get permission for, sending a postcard home is an errand you must set aside a full half hour to accomplish and running late for class? No problem, your professor usually starts class 20-40 minutes late. I’ve learned to be so patient and so flexible. Life is slow-er here. There’s more time to appre-ciate beauty, more time to connect with people, and more time to enjoy or prepare your meals.
3. You will walk A LOT. I’m sure this is true for any international student anywhere, but in a sprawl-ing city like Port Elizabeth, every-thing is very far away. My trek to school alone is a solid 20-minute, American-paced walk. Which can be difficult to motivate for when it’s a 7:45 a.m. class or it’s so windy you cannot open your door.
4. Internet is available infre-quently and is barely usable. It was weeks before I finally got into contact with friends when I first arrived.
5. Poverty is everywhere and you
will see it. From the children in the streets begging for food and sweets to the townships where people live in shacks made of sheet metal and plastic. It’s devastating and as someone who comes from a coun-try that works so hard to cover up poverty, it’s so hard to see. I have been volunteering in the Sinet-hemba orphanage since I have arrived. The women, or “mamas” as they are called here, who run the orphanage receive very little organized help to keep the kids fed and clothed. They rely heav-ily on Christian charities and the kindness of people. The facilities themselves are little more than two shacks surrounded by a high fence. But the mamas keep the children off the street, send them to school and teach them to be good and honest. I immediately stopped complaining about my lack of hot water and inability to Skype after
working at Sinethemba. Life here is alien and some-
times difficult. I would not trade the experiences I have had so far for anything in the world, though. Living in a place like South Africa will change you forever and teach you invaluable lessons. You will no longer complain about what you don’t have, but instead appreciate how much you do have. You will see astonishing places and ani-mals and experience the inspiring beauty of a country trying to better itself to take care of its people.
I encourage every one of you to step outside of your comfort zone, and try studying abroad. If you have any questions about my pro-gram or my experiences, please email me! It may take a few days for me to respond, but I will get back to you. Until then, I’m going to hang out with sharks and giraffes and stuff. See you later, Bulldogs!
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