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BY CHRIS TEPPENtepp0014@d.umn.edu

Have you ever sat in the Kirby lounge and found yourself unable to contain your excitement? Prob-ably not. But UMD students can expect to be excited within the next year, because Kirby center is being scheduled for a complete makeover.

“It’s kind of like Pandora,” said Peter van den Kieboom. “We’re !ne-tuning the design to the inter-ests of the people a"ected.”

Kieboom is one of 20 architects working on re-designing Kirby. Everything from the lounge to the ballroom to the Greek Life building#a total of 15,000 square feet#is being stripped down and renovated. In all, there will be a 185 percent increase in space throughout the entire building.

A$er meeting with various on-campus groups and hearing input from the student body, the archi-tects created a %oor plan to com-pliment the wishes of nearly every-body a"ected by the remodel. &e main theme of Kirby’s new

design revolves around the %ow of its parts. Right now, Kirby is divided into many di"erent sec-tions. &e new Kirby is going to be designed to promote cohesiveness and interaction among students#something that many students say it currently lacks.

“It just doesn’t seem like a tra-ditional student center,” said Tim Harrity, a UMD student. “&ere needs to be more of a student union.”

“I’m excited to see what they have in store,” said Nate Ringdal, another UMD student.

Instead of simply being a place where people walk through, Kirby is predicted to be the campus’s main student center. And with a sleek new %oor plan complete with new furniture, a central !replace, and a stage for live performances, its future looks promising.

“People don’t need to be in sepa-rate boxes,” said Kieboom. “We’re going to make everything %ow bet-ter.”&e budget for the whole project

is set at $1.5 million, and is pri-marily being paid for by student service fees. However, the budget

doesn’t include things like asbes-tos removal.

Kieboom and the rest of the designers are all workshop archi-tects based out of Milwaukee, Wis. &e project is being managed by LHB Inc., an architectural !rm based out of Duluth.

Construction is set to begin over spring break, and will continue during the summer. Kieboom expects the renovation to be com-pleted by fall of 2013.

BY GRAHAM HAKALAhakal045@d.umn.edu

&e University of Minnesota is looking to ease the !nancial strain for future students with an ambi-tious new budget proposal.

Included in the proposal, the uni-versity is pushing for state funding that seeks to freeze student tuition hikes for the 2014-2015 biennial. &e U of M is looking to request an additional $14.2 million per year in state funding that would keep the price of tuition from going up over the two-year period.

“We’re asking the state of Min-nesota to partner with the univer-sity,” said Jason Rohlo", special assistant to the president for gov-ernment and communication rela-tions at the U of M.

According to Rohlo", if the state accepts the university’s request for funds, it could save the average in-state student up to $2,500 over the course of four years.

As the cost of running a uni-versity system rises each year, the tuition rates also go up in order to compensate for the changes. &e $14.2 million in the new proposal looks to cover that rising cost and keep the burden o" the students.

“Without the help of state aid, on average we would probably have to raise tuition about three percent,”

Rohlo" said. “We would not have to do that if the state was able to cover some of our costs.” &e new budget proposal comes

from U of M president, Eric Kaler, and was accepted and embraced by the University Board of Regents. &is is Kaler’s !rst budget proposal since taking the o'ce in Sep. 2011.

“We need to invest in talented Minnesota students and leverage the university’s research exper-tise to strengthen Minnesota’s economy,” said Kaler in a U of M news release. “&is bold request achieves those goals and builds the foundation for a prosperous future.”&e grand total for the U of M’s

new budget proposal comes to around $1.18 billion. &at is $96 million in additional requests from the state’s usual funding#an 8.4 percent increase. &e proposal also seeks fund-

ing for a research program called MnDrive. &e Minnesota Dis-covery, Research, Innovation, and Vibrant Economy program looks to receive $18 million per year over the biennial. &e research projects focuses on four emerging areas of study, including robotics, food security, environmental and neu-roscience.

For the 2015 year, $1.5 million would be used to forgive student

debt incurred by those who take healthcare positions in under-served areas of the state. &ose !elds include pharmacy, nursing, physician, dental, and veterinary positions.

According to Rohlo", the like-lihood of the university receiving the full package is still up in the air, as federal and state budget planners look to deal with current economic problems.

“We recognize that a lot of orga-nizations are having to tighten their belts,” Rohlo" said.

As a trade-o", the U is looking to reduce administrative costs and re-invest the savings back into university projects. If the state provides the requested funding, the university will strive to reduce administrative costs by as much as $28 million over the biennial.

ZACK WEBSTERwebst264@d.umn.edu

For years, Dr. Morris Levy’s motion capture equipment has moved from one place to another, stuck without a permanent resi-dence.

“It takes a few hours to set up, about 20 minutes to collect data, and another few hours to take it all down again,” Levy said. “It’s time consuming and a headache.”

However, in the past few years a new development happening at UMD will give not only Levy a chance to study new and excit-ing technologies, but many others from various departments around the school as well.

In 2011, UMD was awarded the Infrastructure Investment Ini-tiative (I3) in order to renovate, improve, and expand UMD’s Visu-

alization and Digital Imaging Lab, or Viz Lab.

Tucked away in the Marshall Performing Arts Center#with gray stone walls that o"set the nor-mal o"-white walls of the rest of the school#is the Viz Lab. &is lab, according to its website, is “a multi-disciplinary lab that focuses on the integration of information and emerging visual technologies and the distribution of knowledge to the public.”

Initially, the plan was to upgrade the current Viz Lab to accommo-date a new motion capture studio, but opportunity has come knock-ing and the lab has found a new space dedicated to it, to be built over the next !ve years.

Extreme makeover: Kirby editionArchitects will soon start work renovating Kirby Student Center

University seeks to stop tuition from rising

UMD’s Viz Lab gets upgraded

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BY MICHAEL SCOTT scot0459@d.umn.edu

New Year’s Day, 2013 might mark the beginning of a new recession.!e non-partisan Congressio-

nal Budget O"ce predicts that the American economy will go back into recession if the “#scal cli$” is not avoided. It also pre-dicts the unemployment rate will climb drastically to 9.1%.!e “#scal cli$” is a result of

!e Budget Control Act of 2011. !e Act itself was a creation of the last legislative ba%le over the debt-ceiling. It created a super-commi%ee to deal with de#cit reduction. !e Act included a special mechanism for automatic spending cuts if the commi%ee failed to propose legislation. Since the commi%ee failed to do this, cuts known as “sequestrations” will a$ect domestic and defense spending. Furthermore, a num-ber of tax cuts will expire in 2013,

raising taxes on most Americans. !ese include the Bush tax cuts.!e ba%le has turned into one

of raising revenue against spend-ing cuts. President Obama ran his campaign on raising taxes on the wealthy, asking them to “pay their fair share” consistently through-out the election season. It seems that taxes on the top income earn-ers will increase despite Republi-can resistance.

Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma spoke to ABC news, “We have no lever-age on that, so whether we want taxes to go up or not they’re going to,” Coburn said. “We can’t stop that from happening. But the real elephant in the room is entitle-ments.”

In fact, the real ba%le seems to be over spending cuts. As CNN explains, “Both sides agree the wealthy will pay more, so now #s-cal cli$ talks come down to how much Republicans can wring out of the White House in return for giving in on taxes.”

Raising taxes on the wealthy seems to be an inevitability, but another tax increase could hit working Americans. Namely, the payroll tax cut that is also set to expire in 2013. CNN explains, “E$ectively, someone making $50,000 will pay another $1,000 in payroll taxes next year.” !e payroll tax cut, which lowered rates from 6.2% to 4.2%, was extended earlier in 2012.&!e cut was a form of stimulus and was an a%empt to give working Ameri-cans more disposable income.

As the Tax Policy Center notes, “By itself, expiration of the two

percentage point payroll tax cut would reduce workers’ paychecks by $115 billion in 2013.”

Another major concern with the cli$ is the expiration of emer-gency unemployment bene#ts. Unemployment remains high. Approximately 2.1 million unem-ployed Americans will lose their bene#ts if the parties do not reach an agreement.

Another million are expected to lose their bene#ts in the com-ing three months. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. called the expiration, “the real cli$.”

Michigan Representative Sander Levin of the House Ways and Means Commi%ee said, “!e White House has made it clear that it wants an extension.”!e Democrats and Republi-

cans face a major crisis that can be dealt with if the two parties can reach some form of compro-mise. !e House was expected to adjourn on Friday. However, as House Majority Leader, Eric Can-tor (R-Va.), explained on Twi%er, “!e House will not adjourn the 112th Congress until a credible solution to the #scal cli$ has been announced.”

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A calm, snowy weekend brought about a quiet campus, giving campus police time to focus their e$orts on keeping roads clear and safe for snow driv-ing.!e quiet also allowed for extra

police forces to be present at the men’s hockey game both Friday and Saturday nights.

“We want a healthy university,” said UMD Police Captain Sco% Drewlo. “We’re looking to be sup-portive of positive cheering and take a stance on negative cheer-ing.”

Students in the past have got-ten into trouble for negative com-ments during games, as well as for some racial chanting.

A junior female was also admit-ted to the hospital for mental health reasons. She and her par-ents were a%ending a concert in Duluth when she started to get agitated. Her parents asked UMD police to drive her to the hospital where they met her for admit-tance.

On Sunday night campus police responded to a call from Oak-land Apartments for complaints of someone smoking marijuana. However, when they arrived, the apartment in question was empty. Canines were brought in, and the use of marijuana was con#rmed, but no citations or charges were given.

One student received an under-age consumption ticket over the weekend.

“If the university were to receive 100 percent of every-thing it has requested, that would return us to the same state fund-ing level that we had in 2001,” Rohlo$ said.

Rohlo$ made sure to express the importance of community

support. “!is legislative package depends on the students, parents, the alumni, and the general pub-lic making their voices known to their local lawmakers,” he said.!e legislative sessions will

start Jan. 8, where Minn. lawmak-ers will convene to examine the

funding proposals and maintain communication with the U. !is process can take several months.

According to Rohlo$, Gov. Dayton is receptive of the univer-sity’s needs. Dayton’s budget pro-posal is slated for release in the third week of January.

“We always have cinnamon rolls Christmas morning.”

- Maria Oropeza, sophomore

“Watching the Christmas Story with the grandparents.”

- Caiti Marks, freshman

“Making ginger bread houses with my famliy.”

- Dane Block, freshman

“My mom always has cookie day where we make nothing but cookies

and get diabetes.”

- Bridgett Clarke, sophomore

“Probably decorating the Christmas tree with my immediate family.”

- Angie Kneer, junior

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“We’ll use the space as an incu-bator of ideas,” said Levy, who acted as the principle investigator for obtaining the grant.

Levy hopes to use the space to further his studies in biomechan-ics while he shares the space with several other departments. Despite the fact the di$erent departments are working in separate #elds, Levy hopes that the information each department gathers can also be used for the other departments.

“Say the theater is working on a ballet and uses motion capture to play back the dance, and study 'aws or body movements,” Levy said. “I can use that same data to see stress in the body during danc-ing and use that data for my own purposes.”!is new addition to the Viz Lab

also opens several new options for faculty and students at UMD. Lisa Fitzpatrick, who runs the Viz Lab and organized the acquisition of the I3 grant, wants to use the new studio for any new challenges pre-sented to them.

“We are about #nding new ways of thinking and doing things on campus,” Fitzpatrick said.

!e Viz Lab doesn’t only work within the school, but within the community as well.

“We designed an interactive exhibit for the Duluth aquarium,” said Dustin !ompson, a graphic design grad student and the Viz Lab assistant. “It’s called Aquatic Invaders. Using shadows regis-tered on the screen, people can ‘scare’ the invaders away while try-ing to keep the #sh in their natural habitat.”

With the #nished lab still a few years away, Fitzpatrick is hard at work organizing the smooth con-struction of the new lab.

“I see this lab as a catalyst for things at the U,” she said.

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BY JOE HAEGhaegx027@d.umn.edu

Disney bought out LucasArts. I’m still not sure which Star Wars quote to use to describe the situation:

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” Disney is planning on making

the next trilogy in the Star Wars story. My main problem with this is that with the end of “Return of the Jedi,” the story seemed complete. !e six movies were all centered on the prophecy of bringing balance to the force and the se"ing up and bringing down of the evil empire. !e original trilogy was the core of that story, while the prequel movies established how it came to be. !e empire was a core facet to that uni-verse, and with that concluded, I’m not sure where it can go.

Another downside is that Disney has acquired more than just Star Wars in this purchase. !ey also got LucasArts, the game studio that put out a number of my favorite childhood games such as “Monkey Island” and “Dark Forces.” Accord-ing to a recent interview with Ron Gilbert, the creator of Monkey Island, Disney doesn’t sell o# its properties. Disney has also stated that it doesn’t want to make any-thing other than mobile games. So the odds of ge"ing a new Monkey Island game from either Disney or someone else seem quite slim.

“!is could be interesting. Alright, I’m in.” (“Dark Forces”)

On the other hand, George Lucas is no longer in control of the prop-erty, which might give it some room to breathe. I think a big problem with the prequel trilogy (especially “!e Phantom Menace”) is Lucas had too much control. People were afraid to say no to his ideas or to disagree with him. He didn’t get his way all the time when work-ing on the original trilogy, and it went through some huge changes. I’m not sure if the prequels had the same treatment or not. I think the expectations of the new trilogy could keep the writers on their toes. !ey’ve got big shoes to $ll from the original, and they don’t want to disappoint like the prequels. Disney will also no doubt give fans like me the un-tampered with original cuts on Blu-Ray.

As for LucasArts, maybe every-thing will be be"er in Disney’s hands. LucasArts abandoned a lot of really good games for the sake of pumping out one Star Wars game a%er another. Clever adven-ture games like “Monkey Island” and “Grim Fandango” were already abandoned by LucasArts long ago. Maybe Disney will revive them. If they don’t, nothing would be changed. !e fact of Disney’s disin-terest in making games other than for mobile devices still remains. But maybe now that they’ve got a game studio with some pre"y decent experience, they’ll let LucasArts handle the development of games. !is could give LucasArts some-thing more to do than solely pump out mediocre Star Wars games.

It is still too early to tell which direction they’ll go. We’ll just have to hope that they’ll be able to turn out good products, and I’m cer-tainly going to be rooting for them. I want quality Star Wars movies and clever games back. So, you’d be"er bring your A-game Disney; you’re our only hope.be"er bring your A-game Disney; you’re our only hope.

Lisa Erwin, PhDVice Chancellor for Student Life

I’ve been thinking about UMD’s current smoke-free campus policy.

Since I $rst arrived at UMD in August of last year, concerns have been expressed to me about problems in enforcing our smoke-free campus policy. !is issue was made more apparent a%er the UMD Grounds Department tracked lit-ter from cigare"e bu"s during one month in 2011 (the grounds crew picks up cigare"e bu"s every Monday as part of their regular

work). &Dur- ing the month t h e y tracked their

activity, UMD grounds crew picked

up 43.5 gallons of cig-are"e bu"s on campus.

Last summer, we decided to bring the

director of the National Center for Tobacco Policy, Ty

Pa"erson, to our campus. Read more about the NCTP on their

website (h"p://www.tobaccofree-now.org/).

Mr. Pa"erson’s visit to campus occurred in early October. We asked Mr. Pa"erson to address

three areas: 1) the current state of enforcement (we wanted an out-sider’s perspective), 2) whether the campus should consider moving to “tobacco-free” (rather

than just smoke-free), and 3) whether our current structure supporting the policy was e#ective. Mr. Pa"erson met with a wide variety of campus con-stituents: the Breathe Free Commi"ee, faculty and sta# (including student sta#), Facilities Man-agement custodial sta#, the Chancellor’s Cabinet, UMD Police, the Council of Deans, and the Stu-dent Association.

We’ll be publishing Mr. Pa"erson’s consulting report on the Student Life website at the begin-ning of the spring semester. In the meantime, here is a condensed version of his $ndings. 1) A%er meeting with individuals across the campus, he learned that there is general agreement about a lack of compliance with the policy, especially by students. Enforcement is largely uneven, and he found a lack of awareness about the reasons for why the policy was created. 2) Mr. Pa"erson shared that the current structure, which supports the smoke-free policy, does not convey strong institutional support. Given these $rst two $nd-ings, Mr. Pa"erson also indicated that it would not make sense to move toward a more compre-hensive policy about tobacco use.

It’s no wonder, then, that I’m thinking about our smoke-free campus policy! As noted in the Jan. 6 issue of the Statesman, we will be looking at ways to invigorate our institutional commitment to the policy. !is could include more education about why the policy exists, tying the policy more clearly to our UMD mission, values and strategic plan, and hosting honest conversation about more e#ective enforcement strategies.

Are you interested in the conversation about the smoke-free policy? Please email me &(vcsl@d.umn.edu) to let me know.

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BY MATT BUSCHbusc0115@d.umn.edu

I started at UMD in the fall of 2003 and come next !ursday, I will $nally be a graduate of the University of Minnesota Duluth.

As I near the end of my time at UMD'and the end of my time as editor-in-chief at the Statesman'I feel bi"ersweet about the whole experience. !e feeling is like when you

near the end of a particularly good book. You are excited about seeing the conclusion but it’s sad to say goodbye to everyone and every-thing you have grown so close to.

But like the end of any good

book, you are given a sense of clo-sure and accomplishment. You are then free to start a new book with a new adventure and cast of char-acters.

In my near decade here, I have seen UMD change immensely. We changed chancellors, built multi-ple new buildings and arenas, and we are now fully on Google email. Yes, I am one of those people who still remember the terrible system that was Horde. !e one thing that stayed the

same since 2003 is the people: the students and faculty that make UMD a fantastic place to learn, gain experience, and grow as a per-son.

Journalism is the fourth, and $nal, major I a"empted. I dabbled in business, engineering, and edu-cation before $nally $nding my niche.

I spent time away from UMD over the last decade as well. I spent a summer living in Austin, Tex. installing home security systems, spent three summers delivering mail for the post o(ce, and spent way too much time being a manag-er at the now-closed Blockbuster.

It wasn’t always the easiest road to graduation, but I wouldn’t change these experiences for any-thing. I have grown as a person and I feel spoiled in the friend-ships I have seen sprout because of

mypath.In the end, graduation is more

than a degree that you can put on a résumé; it is the culmination of a lifetime of education and experi-ences. It’s a part of you that will be with you for your whole life.

Literary classics have been writ-ten about great journeys. Homer’s “Odyssey” and J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” come to mind. While my personal journey may not match those of Odysseus or Frodo, what a great unexpected journey this has been. I wouldn’t change it for the world.

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Eight weekends into the sea-son, the UMD men’s hockey team remains winless in the second game of every series.

For the ! " h time this season, the Bulldogs won the ! rst game of the series, but failed to complete the sweep the next night.

UMD (5-8-3 overall, 3-6-3 WCHA) took a 4-2 victory over Bemidji State Friday at Amsoil Arena, but se# led for a split Satur-day with a 2-1 loss to the Beavers (4-8-2 overall, 3-7-2 WCHA).

“I’ll still take the wins on Fri-day and have us get in position for more than two points on Sat-urday,” head coach Sco# Sand-elin said Saturday when asked about the Bulldogs’ second-game drought. “I don’t want to change that.”

Friday’s game featured some $ uky goals for each team, with the Bulldogs coming out on top thanks to contributions from the likes of seniors Jake Hendrick-son, Cody Danberg and Keegan Flaherty, who have been notably absent from the score sheet this season

Hendrickson scored twice for UMD, earning just his second and third goals of the season.

“We did a good job moving it around, ge# ing pucks to net,” Hendrickson said. “% at was key for us tonight.”

Hendrickson scored the ! rst goal of the evening when he

swung at the puck in mid-air from behind the net and threw it at BSU goalie Mathieu Dugas. % e puck de$ ected o& Dugas’ leg and found the back of the net.

But early in the second, BSU tied it with a Cory Ward goal a" er the puck took an odd bounce o& the boards.% e game was tied until early

in the third when Hendrickson again found the net, taking a feed from fellow senior Flaherty and beating the Beavers’ defensemen. Junior Joe Basaraba got in on the scoring just over a minute later, giving the Bulldogs a comfortable 3-1 lead.

Bemidji pressured late, notch-ing a Brance Orban goal in the ! nal three minutes and outshoot-ing UMD 10-4 in the period. % e Beavers pulled Dugas in hopes of tying it up, but instead, UMD’s Flaherty scored an empty-ne# er to seal the deal.

Shots on goal were nearly even, with the Beavers holding a 23-22 advantage. UMD goalie Ma# McNeely stopped 21 shots while earning the win.

“It always feels good to win,” McNeely said. “Especially tonight when we really needed that one. % e guys played great in front of me.”% e Bulldogs had reason to be

optimistic going into Saturday’s game and they easily outshot the Beavers, but they could not ! nd much o& ensive success.

UMD put up 34 shots to BSU’s 19, but the Bulldogs could not ! nd

the scoreboard until the ! nal min-ute of the game.

A" er a scoreless ! rst period, Bemidji’s Markus Gerbrandt got the Beavers on the board with a wrap-around move that beat UMD goalie Aaron Crandall. Jor-dan George doubled the lead later in the period with a power play blast from the right circle.

With 1:41 to play and a BSU penalty, the Bulldogs pulled Cran-

dall for the 6-on-4 advantage and it didn’t take long for sophomore Caleb Herbert to ! nd the net for his third of the season. UMD continued the o& ensive a# ack, including a Wade Bergman blast that rang o& the goal pipe, but the Bulldogs ran out of time.

“Bemidji plays a style where they try to slow down their oppo-nent and jump on their mistakes, and that’s what they did tonight,”

Herbert said. “We took a couple of silly penalties and they capi-talized on them, so it’s tough. But we picked it up at the end and that’s always good to see.” Next up for UMD is a trip to Anchorage, Ala., for a weekend series with the UAA Seawolves, followed by an a" er-Christmas tournament in Estero, Fla.

BY KYLE FARRIS farri060@d.umn.edu

A" er playing as many games in San Antonio, Texas as they had in Duluth over the ! rst month of the season, the UMD men’s basketball team (3-4, 1-2 NSIC) welcomed a pair of conference foes to Romano Gymnasium over the weekend.

Hosting their ! rst contest since Nov. 17, the Bulldogs wasted no time giving the home crowd some-thing to cheer about Friday in a 66-61 victory over Minnesota, Crookston.

UMD sprinted out to a 16-7 edge in the opening minutes, dis-

playing an o& ensive rhythm that would all but disappear by game’s end. In lending the Bulldogs this early cushion, junior center Bre# Ervin dropped in 12 ! rst-half points and senior guard Jake Hot-tenstine added 10 of his team-high 16.% e Golden Eagles were also

crisp from the $ oor at the onset, hi# ing 57 percent of their ! eld goals in the ! rst 20 minutes. % e Bulldogs held a steady 37-31 lead at the break, however, thanks in large part to stellar production at the free throw line and a distinct advantage on the glass.

BY TOM OLSENolsen450@d.umn.edu

% e UMD Bulldogs and Boston University Terriers faced o& in women’s hockey for the ! rst time in program history last weekend, and neither team has much to show for the two games.% e Bulldogs and Terriers tied

twice in a Saturday/Sunday series at Amsoil Arena by scores of 2-2 and 0-0.

It’s the ! rst time since a 2007 series with Wisconsin in which the Bulldogs tied both ends of series. And Saturday’s scoreless tie was the ! rst in the 14-year history of the UMD women’s hockey pro-gram.% e Bulldogs (7-8-3) outshot

the No. 7-ranked Terriers (11-3-3) in both games, but were disap-pointed to walk away without a win.

“Obviously it was a big chal-lenge to come out today,” said sophomore forward Zoe Hickel.

“% ey are ranked seventh, and it might look like we have nothing to lose, but we expect more from us and this was an opportunity for us to get a win against a ranked team from back East, but we were kind of disappointed with a tie.”% e Bulldogs actually had a lead

late in the ! rst game, but a BU goal in the ! nal three minutes set up the tie.

UMD was trailing most of the way following a goal from BU’s Jenelle Kohanchuk in the ! rst. % e Bulldogs ! nally found the board with a Brige# e Lacque# e goal in the third, followed by a Hickel goal with just 3:40 to play.

However, BU’s Kathryn Miller scored just over a minute later, tak-ing away a UMD victory in front of 2,005 spectators in a# endance for the “Cram the Am” promotion.

Both goalies held their own, with UMD’s Kayla Black stopping 21 of 23 a# empts and BU’s Kerrin Sperry picking up 28 saves of her own.

“I feel like just keep working our bu# s o& and get more shots on net because the goalie was kind of shaky today,” Lacque# e said a" er the game.

UMD did put up more shots in the second game, but they could not get it past Sperry this time. Oddly, both goalies picked up a shutout Sunday, Sperry with 28 saves and Black with 19.

Doubling BU’s shot total while failing to pick up a single goal added some frustration for UMD. But still, the Bulldogs found some success this weekend that they can build o& of as they head into the winter break.

“I feel like we’re ge# ing bet-ter, like we’re staying more con-sistent,” Lacque# e said. “A nice sweep in Bemidji (last weekend) is good. Coming into the games this weekend we were spilling our guts.”% is was the second and ! nal

series against an East Coast team for the Bulldogs this season. % ey previously split a series against Boston College on the road.

UMD is done playing for the calendar year. % ey’ll hit the ice again for a series against WCHA rival St. Cloud State on Jan. 12/13 at Amsoil Arena.

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Northern StateAberdeen, S.D.Saturday, 7 p.m.

Minnesota State-MoorheadMoorhead, Minn.Friday, 6 p.m.

Northern StateAberdeen, S.D.Saturday, 5 p.m.

Football season may be long over for UMD, but that didn’t stop one Bulldog standout from making history this week. Senior o& ensive guard Garth Heik-kinen was presented Monday with All-American honors by the American Football Coaches Association for the second year in a row, becoming the ! rst Bull-dog to receive the award multi-ple times. During his collegiate career, the Duluth native started a team-record 54 consecutive games and was a vital cog in this season’s o& ensive machine, which scored a club-record 46.5 points per game. Heikkinen, who did not allow a single sack in 2012, was tapped earlier this fall as a second-team All-Amer-ican by Beyond Sports College Network.

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Indoor track season got under-way for the Bulldog women over the weekend roughly a 1,500-meter run from UMD’s campus.! e College of St. Scholastica

hosted UMD and " ve other insti-tutions Saturday in the inaugu-ral meet of the year at the Burns Wellness Fieldhouse.

Sophomore Chanel Miller earned top billing on the day for her performance in the 60-meter hurdles. Miller broke the Burns Wellness Fieldhouse record for the event, posting a mark of 8.95. ! e Burnsville native also placed second in the long jump and third in the high jump.

In all, " ve UMD underclass-men earned " rst-place accolades.

Sophomore Amelia Maher took the 200-meter dash with a

mark of 27.20 and sophomore Tatum Garrity secured the num-ber one spot in the 600-meter run with a time of 1:40.12. Receiv-ing second in the 600-meter was UMD junior Kate Hassing at 1:41.94.

Freshman Hannah Olson clocked in with a time of 10:55.27 in the 3,000-meter run to top all competitors and Oak Grove product Samantha Rivard laid claim to the one-mile run with a clip of 5:23.01.

First-years Maddie Schae# er and Lauren Bruha joined forces with Hassing and Garrity to set the winning pace in the 4x400 relay at 4:07.20.

UMD will depart for an extended holiday break before lacing it up again Jan. 18 for a home meet.! e men’s squad will open its

campaign Jan. 12 in Minneapolis.

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BY KYLE FARRIS farri060@d.umn.edu

! e Bulldogs (5-2, 2-1 NSIC) returned both to Romano Gym-nasium and their winning ways over the weekend, ne$ ing their " rst two conference victories of the young season.

Fresh o# a 20-point defeat at the hands of St. Cloud State in the NSIC opener, UMD found much easier sledding Friday against Minnesota, Crookston, burying the Golden Eagles 75-53.

Junior forward Hannah Ru$ en led all scorers, notching 13 of her 21 points in a " rst half dominated by UMD. In cra% ing a 12-point lead midway through the half, the Bulldogs set a tone at both ends of the & oor that would persist throughout the contest.

Although they were outshot by the Golden Eagles 40 to 44 per-cent in the " rst frame, the Bull-dogs enjoyed a 36-22 lead at inter-mission.

Ru$ en and junior guard Alyssa Kerkho# each " nished with seven rebounds, as UMD used its size advantage to amass 10 second chance points in the " rst half and limit the Golden Eagles’ o# ensive a$ ack.

“You never know how you’re going to come out and shoot,” junior forward Katrina Newman said. “So we just focus on our defense, and rebounding is a big thing for our team too.”

Crookston’s woes were com-pounded by an opportunistic Bulldog defense that collected 13 of its 22 turnovers in the " rst 20 minutes. ! e double-digit de" cit proved

too much for the visitors to over-come. With the Bulldogs shoot-ing at an improved clip of 50 per-cent a% er the break, UMD’s lead swelled to as many as 26 in the second half.

Striking mostly from the perim-eter, senior guard Courtney Douce$ e poured in 15 points and senior guard Kaiya Sygulla added 11.! e Bulldogs made it two for

two on the weekend Saturday by besting a one-loss Bemidji State team 65-50.

Kno$ ed at 10 with the Beavers early on, UMD rode a hot o# ensive hand and a smothering defense to a 15-0 run that put plenty of dis-tance between the clubs.

Newman accounted for six of the 15 by & ushing a trio of mid-range jumpers during the run, en

route to a " nal line of 21 points. Ru$ en put a bow on her 40-point weekend by exploiting the Beaver defense for 19 on the evening.

“! ose " rst " ve minutes are just like a test,” Newman said of the team’s modest start, which eventually yielded the 15-0 scor-ing parade. “A% er that, we real-ize what’s working and what’s not working and we just stick with that.”

And the Bulldogs sure had things working Saturday. ! e team held the Beavers scoreless for a nine-minute span toward the tail end of the " rst half and mounted a 32-19 edge at the break.

Playing with a commanding lead a% er intermission for the sec-ond consecutive night, UMD had li$ le trouble extending its home record to 4-0 on the year.

“We’re running the clock down and just running our set plays,” Newman said. “! ey’re the ones that are under pressure, so that’s kind of nice for our o# ense.”

Newman and the Bulldogs will round out their month of Decem-ber away from home against NSIC rivals Minnesota State-Moorhead (Dec. 14) and Northern State (Dec. 15) this weekend.

UMD was forced to rely upon much of the same in the second half, as the jumpers that had fall-en in the " rst began to ra$ le out.

Despite shooting only 30 per-cent from the " eld a% er intermis-sion, UMD led by as many as 11 in the second half. But with just over two minutes to play, the margin had dwindled to three.

Crookston, though, would draw no closer, as the Bulldogs cemented their " rst conference victory of the season by hi$ ing key baskets and free throws in the waning moments.

Any hope of a weekend sweep for the Bulldogs was dashed Sat-urday by head coach Ma$ Bow-en’s former program: Bemidji

State.In a tightly contested " rst half,

both teams struggled to " nd an o# ensive footing. Shooting just 36 percent from the & oor in the " rst 20 minutes (compared to 42 percent for the Beavers), UMD generated just enough second chance points to hang with Bem-idji.

Ho$ enstine tallied 10 of his game-high 17 points in a " rst half that, a% er eight lead chang-es, ended at 29 apiece.

Returning from the break seemingly & at, the Bulldogs

promptly found themselves behind, as the Beavers went on a 16-4 scoring binge to kick-start the second half.

“I don’t want to simplify the game,” said Bowen, who spent the previous six seasons as Bemi-dji’s head coach. “But they made plays and we didn’t. ! at’s the di# erence in the game.”

UMD failed to sink open looks as the contest wore on, and could do nothing but watch as the de" -cit grew to 21 with three minutes to play.

A wave of Bulldog buckets in

the closing seconds narrowed the outcome to a 66-55 defeat.

“We obviously have a lot of work to do,” added Bowen, who had a hand in recruiting a major-ity of the Beaver players he faced Saturday. “! is is a process that will take some time, but the kids are struggling to adapt to our system.” ! e Bulldogs will look to get

back on track this weekend, hit-ting the road for two conference showdowns against Minnesota State-Moorhead (Dec. 14) and Northern State (Dec. 15).

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It doesn’t take an expert to see that the forests are dying along the North Shore. ! e white spruce, paper birch, and balsam " r are all dying and leaving behind a vastly reshaped landscape and a drasti-cally changed ecosystem.

“You see the dying birch and you can tell something probably needs to be done with this forest,” said Molly ! ompson, the coordina-tor for the Sugarloaf Cove North Shore Stewardship Association. “All of the trees are dying.”! e Sugarloaf Cove

Stewardship Associa-tion is one of a smor-gasbord of collabora-tions all across the Arrowhead region trying to stem the tide of a quickly changing landscape. ! e forests along the North Shore are a far cry from what they were 200 years ago. And now, due to global warming and other anthropogenic sources, the forests are under threat of change once again.

You don’t have to look too far back into the history of the North Shore to discover that the landscape was once dominated by soar-ing old-growth forests plump with pines and cedars. Herds of cari-bou once roamed the wooded hills, and the forests were ripe with juneberry and bush honeysuckle. ! e late 1800s brought white

se# lers to the area. Logging, min-ing, and forest " res decimated the old stands of red pine and white cedar. With few old pines and cedars to provide seeds, most of these trees did not return along the shore. With the forests now devoid of the old conifer trees, they were instead heavily popu-lated by paper birch and quaking aspen.

It’s these forests that are now under threat.

“! e birch are ge# ing old,” ! ompson said. “Where these trees should be turning into more of a conifer forest, it’s kind of stuck at the birch/aspen forest.”

Although there are many rea-sons the birch forests are dying, almost all of them can be linked to the climate.

“Everything almost always boils down to climate change,” ! omp-son said.

Minnesota’s average tempera-ture has risen 2 degrees Fahren-heit since the 1890s, according the

Minnesota Climatology Working Group. ! is has led to dryer soils, more condensed rainstorms, and more dangerous " re conditions. ! e latest Minnesota Depart-

ment of Natural Resources report put over 80 percent of Minnesota in “extreme drought or severe drought” conditions. ! is last November was the warmest on record, and last October ranked in the top 10 warmest. All of these things are contributing to the

birch and aspen dying out, and in their place growing scrub brush like alder, hazel and common tansy.

“All of these species do best with light,” said Mike Lynch, the Cook County Invasive Team coordina-tor. “With this added light they can really establish a thick mat and essentially choke o$ any other plants that are trying to get estab-lished in the area.”

Along with the invasion of non-native plants, the lower density of birch and aspen has opened up the landscape to an abundance of the whitetail deer, which are

non-native to the North Shore. Because the deer feed on seedling conifers, the young trees hardly ever have the chance to grow to maturity.

“Essentially, what you have is a combination between an aging forest and a high deer popula-tion,” Lynch said. “So, you have a struggle for the plants to get started in general. ! ere’s a feed-back mechanism where the deer are consuming the conifers, but they don’t feed on the particu-lar invasive species … so the conifers never grow and the invasive species becomes more abun-dant.”

A study done by Mark White of ! e Nature Conservancy in 2011 examined the e$ ects of whitetails on the ecosys-tem of northeastern Min-nesota. It states%with

almost overwhelming evidence%that “elevated white-tailed deer populations are a key factor in the large-scale restructuring of north-ern Great Lakes forests away from natural variability towards more homogeneous, novel forest condi-tions.”

Basically, White " gured that the large number of deer was creating a monoculture that would eventu-ally drastically alter the ecosys-tem.

! e last 80 years of misman-agement have created a feedback mechanism that has perpetuated the growth of birch, aspen and scrubland instead of conifers. Now that these forests are faced with a dying birch population and a rapidly changing climate, it is uncertain what the long-term growth of the North Shore will look like.

Now, cooperatives like the Sug-arloaf Cove Stewardship Associa-tion are partnering with state and federal agencies to try to turn the tides in their favor. ! is, in itself, presents a host of

complications, though. With over 70 percent of the North Shore divided into private ownership, creating a large-scale management plan is di& cult. Sugarloaf started its Lost Forest program eight years ago to help provide landowners with supplies and knowledge to manage their land.

Management is not always easy, though. Deer ne# ing must protect each new conifer tree that is plant-ed. ! is is an arduous process. Normally, an individual can plant upwards of 500 trees per day, but having to put up the ne# ing enclo-

sure limits most people to about 50 per day.

Bob Callery has owned his 40 acres in Cook County for the last 10 years. Although his property is farther from the lake than others, he sees many of the same prob-lems.

“It’s pre# y obvious that the birch are dying out,” he said. “! ere are a lot more dead trees. ! e birch forest is not as a# ractive as it used to be. I’ve been seeing it for almost 50 years; that’s a signi" -cant amount of time.”

Callery started planting trees on his property before he found out about the Sugarloaf Cove Stew-ardship Association. ! e classes taught him about ecosystems and forestry, and helped him under-stand how to manage his property.

“! e Lost Forest project just gave me a lot be# er background on eventuating my property and giv-ing insight into what I want to do with it in the future,” he said. ! at future is uncertain for

the North Shore, though. As the landscape morphs, its species will either have to adapt to its changes, or disappear.

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BY KATIE LOKOWICHlokow003@d.umn.edu

With !nals fast approaching, it’s expected that the atmosphere around campus gets a li"le tense. But as the semester wraps up, the library is turning into a place to help stressed out students unwind and de-stress. For the second semester in a row, the library will be hosting a series of stress relief events and activities for students starting Dec. 10.

“Most of this stu# is just 30 min-utes long,” Kim Pi"man, a UMD reference and instruction librar-ian$and partial planner of the events$said. “%ey’re just kind of short li"le things you can do quickly so you’re not taking a ton of time away from studying, but

enough time that you can get a lit-tle more relaxed, calm down, and then be more focused.”%e events are meant to remind

students that even though instruc-tors are piling on assignments and tests, everyone does want you to succeed.

“%at’s kind of the message of these types of events: we support you,” Pi"man said. “And you’ll get it all done.”

From yoga and massage, to arts and cra&s and co#ee with Champ, the ultimate goal of the events is just like the name says: to make students feel a li"le less stressed.

“Even if you don’t take a break to do this stu#, you should take breaks,” Pi"man said. “It feels like you should just power through and study for hours on end, but in real-ity, your brain can’t focus that long you’ll just get more stressed out. If

you can take a li"le time for your-self and recharge, you’ll be able to study be"er.”

During a time when everyone is feeling the pressure, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and lose perspec-tive. %e aim of these events is to give students a chance to step back a li"le bit and take a breath.

“Take advantage of other sup-port services on campus, like go to the tutoring center,” Pi"man

said. “Go to group study things with people from your classes and get your questions answered if you still have them, and sleep.”

“%ere are de!nitely times when an extra hour of sleep will prob-ably do you more good than an extra hour of studying,” Pi"man said.

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BY KATIE LOKOWICHlokow003@d.umn.edu

%e student-run theater organi-zation Stage II opens for its second show of the season Dec. 13 in the Dudley Experimental %eatre. “No Exit,” a play by French philos-opher Jean-Paul Sartre, deals with three strangers doomed to spend the rest of their existence stranded in hell together.

“I classify it as a thriller that’s sometimes funny,” said, Derik Iverson, a senior at UMD and director of the show. %e play goes against what we

think of as the stereotypical !re

and brimstone hell. Sartre’s ver-sion of hell is just being trapped in a room with two other people, and through certain personality traits, they become torturers.

“%e beauty of ‘No Exit’ is that although it is full of heavy themes and dark subject ma"er, it is also ridiculously humorous at moments,” UMD junior and cast member Carla Weideman said. “And I love working on a show that has some meat on its bones.”%e cast of the show consists of

four people$the three characters stranded in hell$and a valet char-acter that acts as an usher through-out the show.

“Although dark, it forces you to look for the light in your own life,” Weidman said. “It was wonderful to be part of a story that’s so grit-ty and gripping, it feels like it has such an interesting world to share with an audience.”

Both the cast and the crew have put this show together in about three weeks,

“%ey’ve been making a lot of really fun choices, really making the show their own,” Iverson said. “%e cast has been awesome and the crew has been so creative and innovative with their designs. We have a lot of cool things going on.”

Because the show is running in

the experimental theater, the stu-dents had a lot of freedom to play with the lighting and staging of the show.

“%e show really keeps your a"ention,” Iverson said. “But not only that$and I want to use this word carefully, cause I don’t want to scare people away$but I think that it’s also educational. You real-ly are learning about a di#erent way to look at life from the show. But it’s done in a very kind of chill-ing way.” %is is Iverson’s second time

directing a show with Stage II. “I think that’s why Stage II is

awesome,” Iverson said. “It gives

students a chance to do what they really want to do, and you expe-rience working with your peers. Because when we get out of here and we graduate, that’s who we’re going to be working with. We’re not going to be working for faculty members; we’re going to be work-ing with people just like us. So it’s important to develop those skills.”%e show runs Dec. 13, 14, and

15 at 8 p.m. in the Dudley Experi-mental %eater. Student tickets are $5, and $3 for philosophy majors, just email Derik Iverson at ivers394@d.umn.edu, and your name will be added to the will-call list.

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!is time of year students everywhere are going to their local Savers to buy the ugliest piece of clothing they will ever get a com-pliment on.

“It’s easy and something every-one can do,” Maggie Leese, senior and history major at UMD said. “You don’t have to get a full head-to-toe out"t. All you need is a sweater.”

Leese is also an employee of the Duluth Savers, so she knows "rsthand just how hot of a com-modity ugly sweaters are. She said the store collects ugly sweaters throughout the whole year so they can provide the greatest assort-

ment of ugly sweater options dur-ing the wintertime.

“!e "rst day when they’re out on the #oor is when there are just the most hideous ones, and those always go the quickest,” Leese said.

We have the 80s to thank for bringing us the polyester-blend sweaters that sell like hotcakes when bedazzled with light-up rein-deer, poinse$ias and jingle bells that actually jingle when you walk.

But it’s because of two dudes in Vancouver that we now cel-ebrate the ugliness and humor of these once “fashionable” sweat-ers. In 2002, Chris Boyd and Jor-dan Birch decided to throw the “cheesiest, most feel-good Christ-mas party% imaginable.” It was an

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the a$ention of one stay-at-home mom in Killington, Vermont who was in search of a trade that could provide "nancial support for her two sons.

“My kids were "nishing up high school and I was looking for some-thing to sell to save up for their col-lege,” said Anne Marie Blackman, founder of My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc., in a recent telephone interview. “I wanted it to be some-thing related to Christmas and I found a high search volume for ugly sweaters.”

In 2008, Blackman created an eBay account, embellished a hand-ful of sweaters, and found her inner entrepreneur. Now she sells

thousands of sweaters and expects over eight million hits on her web-site this holiday season.

“I could have never anticipated the ugly sweater trend would grow the way it did,” she said.

Blackman humbly admits that her business is “doing really well” and that her sons’ tuitions are both covered.

One mom’s reason to help the ones she loves the most is a college kid’s reason to forget about study-ing for "nals and deck the halls. Ugly sweaters are de"nitely a rea-son to celebrate the season.

A&er he borrowed a classy sweater vest from his roommate, UMD junior Julian Kycia (shown above) decided to set aside his biology textbook this past Satur-

day night so he could a$end his "rst ugly sweater party.

“It was a blast, everyone loved my sweater,” Kycia said. “First of all, it was a nice break from school. Secondly, it’s just the time of the year. I love Christmas parties.”

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